>> anita: president-elect trump's top priorities include closing down the border. welcome to another hour of "fox news live." i'm anita vogel and griff, a merry christmas. >> griff: merry christmas. hour two again here we come. it is christmas. the news continues. trump is also bound to bring back federal executions after president biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row. the move dhru by partisan backlash. senior national correspondent aishah hasnie has the latest from washington. merry christmas aishah. >> merry christmas tell you about. good afternoon. present electron is spreading his christmas in palm beach. he is truth social ring up a storm. apparently ragging on this holiday. least according to texas lieutenant governor dan patrick who posted this on x saying that trial and he where working today on securing the border

specifically chatting about those border wall panels and the state's lawsuit to stop the action of those usable panels so a little bit of border right there. mayor walker trump a special envoy to ukraine and russia tweeting about the surprise russian attack on ukraine's energy infrastructure. writing that the u.s. is worse off than effort to bring peace through the region. of course this will be o one of for his foreign-policy test for the incoming president. and mark is now reportedly setting -- spending $1.5 billion to boost its security and quinnen after trump indicated that he is interested in purchasing the allen. and mark's defense secretary, though, says that this was already planned, already integrates, timing was just coincidental. but trump comments have certainly sparked some tensions between washington and copenhagen. back here at home, you are correct. griffin, anita. trump is bound to seek the death penalty for foreign affairs after president biden commuted nearly 40 sentences. trump reading on truth social as soon truth social as soon as i'm

ag not rated i will direct the justice department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect american families and children from violent crime an murders and monsters. we will be watching his truth social to see if he makes any policy n news today. i think he is still at the golf course. >> griff: you never know. there's always time. thank-you. n.u. >> anita: yeah, you got to stay on her toes there. are read gavoka house speaker mike johnson's holdover, the chamber, is really at risk here. for his allies are calling on president-elect trump to throw him some support after the spending bill battle resulted in calls for new leadership. senior, congressional correspondent chad pergram is in washington with the very latest on this drama unfolding. chat pods. >> and need to get afternoon. it is always a numbers game in congress and the math is working against max johnson right now. when the house convenes, for the new congress next friday,

johnson can only lose one vote and remain as speaker. the house begins with 434 members. so johnson must give 218 votes. republicans only have 219 members. >> i would not want my johnson's job being the speaker when you have such narrow majorities and a half such a diversity of opinions of republicans, unique, republican house members, it is very difficult to try to come to a consensus. >> it is important to know that the person with the most votes does not win the speakership. the winner must secure an outright majority of our members voting for someone by name. president-elect trump is said to be disappointed with the outcome of the spending bill. that is why some republicans helped mr. trump gives johnson a powerful endorsement. >> a lot of this is polycentric and i don't intend to get caught up in it and the american people gave him a mandate. we need to back president roberts and a

presidential is going to back towards it, i'm sure that he will be the speaker. >> democrats suggested they would block republicans from ousting johnson in the spring. that is after he avoided a government shutdown and passed aid for ukraine and is well. but this time, and johnson is on his own. >> i think that is a real risk. and it will be no democrats available to save him or the x-prix of republicans from themselves based on the preaching of a bipartisan agreement that reflected priorities that were good for the american people. >> now, here's the biggest problem. at the house has paralyzed until it looks a speaker. it took three weeks in october 2023 and 5 days to begin the new congress last year. in a holdup also blocks lawmakers from certifying the electoral college on january 6. >> anita: well, okay, chad pergram, thank you so much thank you so much for other live

report. merry christmas to you? >> griff: meanwhile, democrats are dealing with issues of their own. lawmakers and strangers alike. winning the party needs to find a new identity if he wants to avoid a repeat of its election day losses. here to play in is a christmas local panel, breeon alignment, correspondent for the federalist and megan hayes is the former white house structure of message planning radius thank you for being here. and megan, i want to start with you. lisa smith, democrats charges, in a pretty smart thinker in the democratic party was pretty harsh on her own party writing this in the new york times. saying, democrat brand is in the toilet. it continues, the democratic plan is in the trail to many of the democrats who succeed in the cycle are best for over performers. francis, people who ran against the democrat party ran one the best way to win as a character is to run against your own party. it is that bad.

megan, is it that bad? what do you make what is happening? >> i think that word and the folks are onto something. i do think that the democrats are going to have to find a little bit more of an identity back to where we used to be and a party for the working class, i think that the country told us that the election that they were more moderate to democrats are and the way the party is moving. so i think that if democrats want to win or want to win intimate terms or in 2028, they are going to need to move more to the middle and be more of the party of the working class like we used to beach several years back. >> griff: breonna taylor a relatively independent democrat perhaps more in the mold of the old blue dog democrat now leaving congress. senator joe manchin had this to say about his former party. listen here. >> i'm not a democrat in the form of what the democratic party has turned itself into. the initial grant.

absolutely not. to brand got so bad. the dean grant has been so malign from the standpoint of it is toxic. >> griff: bianna, toxic? >> yeah, he is saying with most democrats said two of this election cycle is that they believe the democratic party, the democratic party left them. and it feels as though the democrat party look at the past few decades. they've put the wrist policy you could commission and a double down on the campaign on it, right? stay to base this military industrial complex. they brought in liz cheney, a warmonger. the white house turned around and said, the economy is great and we're not in a recession. we're going to redefine it and they shoved all of these's actual perversions, this antifamily, anti-god's agenda down everyone's thoughts. and that is not what the democrats wants where. they were the party like megan said of the working class, none of that line with what they put out this election cycle. >> griff: you know, megan, breeon has a great point. it is pretty clear that the

democrats failed to sort of read to her room, if you will get to know where the american people where. but you are perfect just right now as a former biden white house messaging planner, what should that message be now for democrats as they approach the midterms? >> look, they need to move through the middle. them a, need to see, we care more about you and the cost of groceries that we do about some the social issues. we can't protect the social issues, some of them are progressive, believe in the if we are not in power. you cannot win without being in the middle. so i think the democrats need to have a strong method of caring about the economy, caring about border security get caring about these issues that moderate democrats believe in and going back to being a party for the working class. that is always where the backbone of the democratic party was and a knee to return year and a will not win. >> griff: can they gets there velco megan west you have seen the power of aoc, the progressive squad has really had more influence, i think you could arguably say that progresses have ever had. they just had in the last

four years. >> i think that they can get there but i, but i think that the republicans are going to do some of them, some papers here because they are also fractured here and they are also moving farther to the extreme right? so i think that the republican party will be democrats and pavers here. but i do think that democrats will have some opportunities to have some big wins especially in the house by compromising on some of the economic policies that are going to come out in the next two years. but i but, i mean, they do have an opportunity here to work with republicans and get that moderate economic policies passed. to i got to leave it there but quickly, breeon a car do you agree? will it be compromised. >> i think democrats will be the ones that have to compromise. republicans, despite meghan's poured, they are not moving to the far right. they are more in the middle. lower in immigration, keeping climate -- crime down. that is not a policy that is far read. the way they are proposing to do it is pretty in the middle which is what voters showed up in the entire country. >> griff: it is going to be a an exciting new year for sure.

we watch in washington. biennale i mean, meghan hays, thank you for taking time. merry christmas, and happy holidays to you. >> merry christmas. >> griff: anita? ♪ ♪ >> anita: utr details emerging after an azerbaijan airlines plane crash in kazakhstan. police for 38 people are now confirmed that. the rush of brown paint had 63 passengers and five crew members on board. hershey's aviation watchdog says the plane veered off course after hitting a flock of birds. forcing an emergency landing. azerbaijan's prosecutor, general's office has lodged a criminal investigation into the crash. grass-fed. ♪ ♪ >> griff: anita, roughly half a million ukrainians are spending christmas in the bitter cold after a massive rush and strike. russia party ukraine's energy sector with more than 70 missiles and 100 drones and what ukrainian president president zelenskyy called a "inhumane and

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>> griff: the search for answers continues after weeks of mysterious drone sightings across the country. nate foy is live in app new york city newsroom with the latest picnic, however how are officials reacting? >> reporter: it depends on who you asked whether it be the state or the federal level. more issues and frustrations at the state level. but that one thing they all have in common is nobody knows what is going on, grace. the fbi and dhs admitted that they are following up on roughly 100 credible tips and possibly unexplained drone flights. federal and state authorities continue telling people, don't worry about it. despite pictures from far hills, new jersey and other towns that show what appeared to be drones like this one. new jersey state police told fox news that this investigation exposed vulnerabilities in our

drone defense. all the ceo of an electronic work for company says that it is working with the pentagon to develop and deploy better technology. speculate we do not have the ability to domestically prosecute to attack, and actualy protect ourselves against drones swarms. the reason is mostly policy. not being able to take the systems that we have available and employ them domestically. >> and here's the thing, grace. when the technology is the point, right now, taking turns down is a federal authority which governor phil murphy in new jersey state police are hoping to change. >> i think what we are looking for is that authority to be delegated in certain circumstances to both state and local law enforcement. >> so congress is now looking to protect americans from future drone threats. one pill that is being considered would increase state or local counter drone authority and another would impose a ban on two chinese drone manufacturers in the mainstays. the drones are, of course,

bringing spine concerns. but also the possibility of a swarming drone attack, which requires better technology on the homefront. >> we need to get the right technologies floated, are you not? populations, kinetic sky missiles, that is not going to work on a domestic front. this has to be for burton. it has to be a five alarm fire that we are facing right now. expected growth, the british military is showing up in weapons technology that beams radio waves at drones. it is caught a radiofrequency directed energy weapon. it can be mounted on any vehicle and disable drones from up to mile away by destroying their onboard electronics. u.s. military is investing in similar systems that will soon be deployed overseas. will. will send it back to the ucalgary of. >> griff: probably can't come soon enough. they will/for us. and dave, thank you. merry christmas. >> griff: you got a gyu, 20. from the firm on this mystery,

let's bring in the spencer rattler kupferman pentagon official and seo at the heritage foundation. great to see you again. merry christmas to you. so, unique olivia kim these drone settings began on novembe. other than the government telling us there's no threat had nothing to see here, what have we learned about them? >> not enough. and merry christmas also. the truth of this matter is that these types of sightings go back even here further down around langley and virginia naval facilities in my home state of virginia. so we still don't have answers. this current series of sightings goes back to me november. and what we can allow to happen is no answer to persons. we need to know where these are coming from, how they are being operated, and of course, we need to put in place better countermeasures. >> anita: yeah, locating and on that note, first i want to put up some numbers of the widespread drone activity that we have here in the u.s. take a look at this. so overall, there are 1 million

drones lawfully registered with the faa. one middle class. about 8,000 registered drones flying in the u.s. on any given day. that is a lot of. and 5,000 plus reported sightings in the past few weeks. and about 100 related leads that the fbi is following up on. now, i want you to take a listen to the nypd counterintelligence chief on imposing more restrictions on these drones. take a listen. >> i think that there should be flight restrictions permit flight restrictions around critical infrastructure and other sensitive locations. it would make things safer for everyone. >> anita: okay casselle restrictions are one thing. but that doesn't really tell us anything about who is operating these drones and what i find a low confusing is the vast amount of intelligence that the u.s. military has, i mean, we all know it was just four years ago or so that the next that the next it's miller time under the first trump administration check out qasem soleimani and iranian

military official, a world away from us because we knew exactly where he was. we targeted him. we took him out. that is how good our intelligence is. you mean to tell me they don't know who is flying these drones? that is very hard to believe. >> well, increasingly looks like incompetence but also i think born out of a lack of leadership and i think there is capabilities. there is a means to take these things down safely and in a controlled manner and there are a lot of tools to be able to identify how these are being operated. they can be operated via satellite communications able to wake up which is very frightening when you think about the sep size drones that still no one knows who or what they were or who or who was operating them over northern new jersey. so it is an urgent problem. trying to set up no-fly zones is really not getting out of it because of this problem. the inability to exercise leadership and to use authorities that are -- already

exists and capabilities that we do have cancer put an effective countermeasures, to identify who is operating these drones and from where. >> anita: yeah, okay, quick answer here. with president-elect from coming in, he has made statements like we should shoot these things down. if you expect a change in policy? and you expect we will get closer to finding anything out once he takes office? >> well, perhaps even better, we are probably going to seek demonstrated leadership. that seems to be we saw that in his first term. we have seen in the absence of leadership and chaos the last few years. when you don't have that. parts of course, taking down the drones, unique is shooting them down out of the sky, needs to be very judicially exercise because we don't want to make the problem worse. but clearly, and i think what has been most absent is leadership. and i think after januar january 20th, we're going to see that change. >> anita: yeah, bryce brand,

real quick, do you think the government knows? i'm just going to ask you point-blank. >> yeah. >> anita: you do? >> well, i think the vast majority of these sightings are aircraft company sightings. some of them are obvious. they may be operating an authorized manager. purchase when you're looking at it from a distance, it could be misconstrued. but the hundred sightings they call out for, i think the government for the word. that they don't know because this has gone on for well over six weeks. and it is extremely embarrassing. so i will take them at their word on this that they on this that they don't know what they are dealing with. >> anita: all right, well, we will see. brent sadler, thank you so much for your thoughts on that. >> hey, merry christmas. >> anita: schweers? >> griff: ideator, an alarming number of migrant children missing under the biden/harris and restoration. we will discuss what is being done to address it, next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> what's up, everybody quick. i am brison rockcliffe, part of -- i'm from wilson, north carolina. i want to shout of my there and wilson, fayetteville, and also my mother's side of the family in augusta, georgia. >> griff: over to are looking live at the miserymap for all flights clearly of the u.s. as you can see, things are

pretty clear in the skies and at the airports. at least for the time being. but severe weather across the south could disrupt the trip home for millions. in the was closed, bracing for a line of storms expected to bring heavy rain and snow at higher elevations. anita? >> anita: well, griff, a stark reality looms as families come together to celebrate the holiday season. tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children are unaccounted for. potentially left vulnerable to predators, sex trafficking, and harsh working conditions. brooke taylor is in dallas. book to what is being done to address this tragic issue? >> well, didic, incoming border czar tom homan has said from has made it clear he laid out three priorities that he wants him to focus on. so one, securing the border. to go to the deportation, the mass deportations and 10, three, locating these young unaccompanied children who have simply just vanished.

this is becomes a sight just all too familiar to the border patrol agents and also texas state troopers right here. this is just a few days ago. an 11-year-old boy from mexico in eagle pass with a note with an address in kansas. the surge in unaccompanied minors reaching alarming levels especially during the ea early years of the biden administration. the question becomes, where did they end up? earlier this year to inspector general report revealed ice lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors. 32,000 failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from the fiscal years 2019 to 2023. leaving them vulnerable. >> that is why these children are forced into sex trafficking, labor tracking to the exploitation of these children and when they come across the border. >> and as we get ready for a new administration to take on this task, the holder has admitted that fighting is messing with kids is going to be a massive

change. he said here to focus their resources on funding the sponsors who interact in these manners, especially trying to track down those who are not properly vetted. >> now, whistle blows in hhs say many of the sponsors were not even fingerprinted. so. so i guarantee some of this information is going to be fraudu >> and the texas dps tells us that right now, the eagle pass sector is where they are seeing they are seeing the must unaccompanied minors. he might remember that devastating video just last month. a young 20 -- two-year-old girl with nothing with back deeper in it with her mom's address and something that i found interesting lieutenant oliveras, you just heard from there, i there, astrologo how do crackdown on these unaccompanied minors. he rented one solution. part of this small piece in this massive problem is criminally charging parents that are in the united states for putting their young children in these dangerous situations. anita?

>> anita: yeah, that could yeah, jacobe a start. so sad to see these kids with notes with their addresses and it is really just unbelievable. brooke taylor, thank you so much for that live report. good work on that. griff? >> griff: anita, california part of democratic governors, gavin newsom is reported considering a plan to help illegal immigrants and their families threatened by to lead trump's mass deportation plan. let's bring in the juan portillo former acting ice director former u.s. border patrol chief and deputy cbd commissioner. you have done it all and you are perfect to address this issue. merry christmas. and thank you for taking time. i want to go right to california's perhaps the list of the blue states. that is going to vowed to push back and trying to hinder tom homan and the incoming administration's efforts to improve mass deportations. here is what governor newsom has to say about it. listen here. >> co-opting local law enforcement to make them federal immigration is not something consistent with the law in the state of california. it was upheld by the federal

courts. not too many years ago. by trump administration that try to assert that that was an unconstitutional act as -- sb 54. it turns out on the basis of their actions and the federal courts education, that indeed is not. >> griff: wrong, what are your thoughts? is this going to be a big hindrance to tom homan's efforts? >> merry christmas scott grayson. and thanks for having been kept inviting me. yeah, this will be a problem for the men and women on the frontline who will be charged with doing these deportation efforts. is always better to have state and local cooperation, and it just makes you wonder, similar gavin newsom kohou, you know, as generational wealth, he is never going to compete with anybody from the third world to get a job in the state of california. for taxpayers, people who can't or leaving california in droves. the rich people are staying -- the rich people i came off thing behind and now they want to make a haven for a century for people who come into the country illegally and are also

committing crimes against the citizens of california. i wonder if he has the same kind of energy for working families in california were kids who need to is in excellent schools or the burden on taxpayers, in a, at 13 plus%. up to 15% for state income taxes. i wish he had that kind of energy and recruiting for the cameras for working people in california who don't want to be there and that once the half to stay are staying for the rich elite are going to be stuck with what is left behind which is essentially lawlessness and a sanctuary for illegal aliens. >> griff: so wrong, getting a little closer look at what reportedly is in this flame politico has laid eyes on it. you right back cal fire's quandarius. a draft of the plan obtained by politico proposes the creation of an immigrant support network comprised of regional hubs to connect at-risk individuals, their families and communities with community systems such as

legal services, schools, which you mentioned, labor unions, local governments, et cetera. it is. it is one of the first indications of how immeasurable estate is thinking about ways to oppose the trump administration on immigration as democratic leaders struggled to find their fighting on the pivotal electoral issue. and it raises the question, ron, did governor gavin newsom have democrats not learned the lesson of where the country was when it came to the border crisis? >> obviously not. people voted for donald trump and in large parts of california. they want to see the border controlled. they don't want criminals in their communities. they don't want thousands and thousands of an enemy -- -- aliens all over the country and the state is proposing an infrastructure to far federal immigration law to the tune of about 15 million -- $16 million in taxpayer resources, a state that has 10 times that in deficit. right? they owe $68 billion and they want to build an infrastructure to file federal law and further

reduce the quality of life in cities like san diego, los angeles, and san francisco. these are destructive policies. and it incentivizes the cartels to bring people into california. it incentivize the criminal element and the cartels who will have their way with the citizens of california if they keep going in the direction that they are. >> griff: let's talk about those criminal migrants, run, because as i often try to explain sometimes in reporting on the border that border patrol is on the border. ice deals with the interior in the case of removing criminal migraines. you have done both of those jobs and understand how it works. how difficult in a state like california will it be to go in and identify the criminal migrants that pose the greatest public safety international security risk and get them and get them out? >> yeah, it is difficult to identify them. you need to the safety arrest them. and then put them on a path for removal. the best way to do that is to

the institution of a jail. a state jail or a local jurisdiction that holds somebody who is in the country illegally and then broken a law and that committee. the safest way to take them into custody if they are here illegally is in this jail senate. no cars on the streets. no cars being pulled over. no knock on doors or businesses. you are putting the final and at risk. they are very good at what they do. they are very dedicated individuals. i wish them all the best in this efforts for importing more people than they've ever done before. but without the state's cooperations, is going to be harder for them to do it. and so we're going and so we're going to pay they do a safely because i know they can't do it effectively. >> griff: ron vitiello, as always, thank you. thank you for taking the time as always for us. execute, merry christmas. >> griff: merry christmas. robert muluk are coming out of home videos are back on the rise and beating expectations. is this a sign of things to come heading into the new year? we will discuss if it is time to buy a house. ♪ ♪

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>> griff: it is the time of year to toss out the old and get rid of all of that holiday wrapping paper. for years, people have pushed to turn america into a trash this is artie burns so far those efforts have only ended up in the bin. william his life with more. hey, william, merry christmas. >> same, great. where christmas packaging ends up depends on us. 75% of u.s. households have access to recycling bin only have actually use it. when recent, lousy consumer education. in many areas, recycling is not economical or profitable. so what can you do? well, number one, most people are well-intentioned but a lot of stuff still ends up in the wrong way and. >> it goes back to education and enforcement. we have to get people to recycle

into a better job at it. >> reporter: some states are better than other. the national recycling rate is only 32%. >> americans consume a lot more material between thanksgiving and new year's as much as 25% more than average. >> paper is recycled that was followed by aluminum, glass, and cardboard. plastic, at least, according to the ppa. just 13% as recycle. the rest is in the landfill. >> there is a huge number of on tap recyclables. a lot of plastic. a lot of plastic. >> the problem is there's so many different kinds of plastic, making it more difficult and less available to recycle. >> lisa green is the work in progress in the united states. >> they have an answer. a report that uses a.i. to sort what is recyclable from what is not. >> it is a pepsi. and it tells the tells the robot want to put where. >> that is important because if the waste stream is contaminated, white paper or cardboard coated glass or

aluminum cans, those items can't be recycled. so who's to blame for the situation? well, the government did a lousy job educating the public. consumers are careless, and industry labeling is misleading. just because you see a triangle on the bottom does not mean that item is recyclable. so the bottom line is cardboard glass aluminum those are fine. when it comes to rapping, no ribbons, no tinsel. or ordinary wrapping is okay. but nothing that is kind of gregory liked his. when it comes to plastic, no plastic film and no bubblewrap. when you look for that triangle, graph, look for number one or two. almost everything else is going to end up in the garbage or go to a landfill. back to you. >> griff: fascinating stuff. and very helpful. william la jeunesse live look at thank-you. and the lack? >> anita: aall right, welcome yu data shows that home sales are rising faster than expected. the national association of

realtors found that home sales jumped nearly 5% just last month. medicine venture partner and chief strategy officer mr michel is here to discuss all of this. mitch carr merry christmas. happy holidays to you. >> same to you same to you, anita. >> anita: i like that quinn tyler. so i guess this is pretty good news. they are saying this is the biggest gain since november of 2021. home sales of 6.9%. over the last over the last year, too. but take a look at the interest rate. let's put that up on the screen. on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, it is sitting right at 7%. now, i guess if you look at the big picture and the last 30 years or so, it still looks relatively low. but over the last 10 years, this looks high. >> right, we have had a really reprogram homebuyers to realize that a 7% mortgage is actually a normal. by historical standards. old people like me had our first mortgages at 13%. so we think 7% is a bargain.

but the fact of the matter is that you know, many of the younger generations who are first-time homebuyers have to get used to the fact that 3% mortgage is probably gone forever. and i think as they digested that reality and the elections behind us, people are more optimistic about the future. we've seen exactly what i predicted, which is the housing market coming back. >> anita: yeah, well, i guess maybe buyers are getting used to that read, write, because home sales are coming back. if -- is it surprising to you, though, given the fed cutting the interest rate, three times in the last year that these rates for, into a mortgage rate is not lower than it is? >> yeah, the charge with that is that the fed is cutting short-term rates and as the economy looks more robust longer term rates which are generally higher than short-term rates that you start to go up. it is the natural course of the

efficient market. so that is exactly what is happening. i think the fed could cut more and we may still see that you know, 30 year fixed rate mortgage stay in that you know, high-sticks is still low eight range. and that is to be expected. but i think there are a lot of people on the sidelines waiting for the fed to cut, hoping that interest rates were going to drop. and when they realize that they did not because they do not want to see that house that they were looking at slip away. >> anita: do you think this is a trend that will carry over into the new year, given what you just said, that there could be more interest rate cuts that buyers will feel a new sense of confidence as they look at the real estate market and decide, hey, maybe it is a good time to buy? and it is certainly good news for homebuilders, right? 's back right, 100 percent. i think the homebuilders are, you know the giving up. we have got unique a big picture of a shortage housing in this country. there are about three to 5 million households that have been formed in the last 15 years from which we have not created

new supply. and we only have, you know to four minutes of supply of existing houses on the market. so what we have seen in this period of rising interest rates, we have mostly seen something unusual, which is home prices are going up simultaneously. so i think that what you are going to see is 2025 being a year where home prices continue to rise and the volume of home sales taking up at the same time. >> anita: and what you expect to change with the incoming trump administration? i know a lot of people are hoping these salt deduction will come back, the state and local tax deduction, that is a big deal for people. can you chase quigley explain that? >> yeah, there's two pieces of state local tax. but the other in which people forget about our property taxes which are state and local taxes, mostly local. and that is gone as well. and a significant separates the two of them, the income tax piece is very political. the property tax one is not as political and i think if he

could bring back the deductibility of that, i think that would be another shot in the arm for the housing market where you find that, in a, people get a little bit of the tax break for buying as opposed to renting. >> anita: and if you were advising first-time homebuyer, would you advise them that might be a good time to buy a house in the new year? >> , and what i would advise is take a look at new construction opposed to existing houses and was the reasons for that is the price of new homes used to be about 15% higher than an existing one, and now they have naturally leveled off to be about the same. and when you buy a new house, you get warranties with hits from the homebuilder. you buy an existing house, sometimes you have a problem. so my advice to age first-time home buyer is take a look at a new house because it is better to have a warranty than a headache. >> anita: and a brand-new house that no one has ever lived in this before, right? [laughs] >> exactly. is actually. >> anita: all right, thank you so much for that advice.

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>> as the war continues in the middle east the region marked christmas with celebrations in jerusalem, the west bank and gaza. chief foreign correspondent is in tel aviv. >> anita, griff, good afternoon.

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