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>> new details are emerging about the possible cause of an airplane crash that killed 38 people in kazakhstan, as we learn sources with knowledge of the investigation are reportedly pinning the blame on russia. hello, everyone. i'm anita vogel and bill, great to be with you in person today peered. >> bill: great to see you. hope you had a great holiday. certainly had a good one, myself. sandra smith and john roberts have the day off. this is "america reports." several media outlets reporting investigators are focusing on russia's air defense systems as a possible cause of this crash. this flight was on its way from azerbaijan capital of bakhu, to the southern city of grozu. ended up diverting impression because extend. >> anita: stephanie is live in london with more of this. stephanie, what is the feeling on the ground? >> azerbaijan held a national day of mourning today, traffic stopped at noon, and they also held a national moment of silence, but speculation is

really mounting and theories are swirling as to what caused this crash in the first place. now we are learning new details, four sources in azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told reuters that the flight was downed by a russian air defense system. experts were quickly concerned after seeing the damage, particularly the holes in the plane's tail section, which could indicate that it came under fire from russia while fending off a ukrainian drone attack in the region. aviation security firm osprey flight solutions also thought the same thing, saying you ukrainian drone strikes have already hit grozny and neighboring areas this month alone. one source tells reuters that the planes communications were also paralyzed by electronic warfare is systems, but adds no one claims it was done on purpose but they expect russia to confess and their aircraft took off from baku on wednesday morning and was due to fly to the russian city of grozny, that the air airline initially said it was diverting because of

heavy fog. a surviving passenger told russian tv he believed the pilot tried to land twice before the third time something exploded, they claim, and the plane was redirected to an airport across the caspian sea in because extend where it landed short of the runway and quickly burst into flames. of the 67 passengers on board, 38 were killed, the rest, 29, all suffered injuries. >> when the plane crashed, my wife was sitting next to me, and i haven't seen my wife since the crash, and i don't know where she is. >> the flight data recorder has been recovered. the president of azerbaijan and a kremlin spokesperson initially said it was too soon to speculate and russians aviation watchdog claim to the plane was diverted because of a bird strike. well, nato is no calling for a full investigation into what caused this crash. anita? >> anita: all right, stephanie bennett live in london for us, thank you.

>> bill: also oversees, israel and hamas now pointing a finger at each other over delays in a cease-fire agreement. in the meantime the idf is ramping up their air strikes on the northern gaza strip and also launching retaliatory air strikes against houthi militants in yemen. chief foreign correspondent trey yingst joining us live from tel aviv. so trey, what are you hearing about these air strikes in gaza? >> yeah, hey bill, good afternoon. today the israeli struck back against houthis inside yemen. explosions rocking the capital of sanaa. the israelis say these strikes that targeted the main airport in the city in addition to power plants were in response to continued ballistic missile and drone attacks against their country. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu oversaw the strikes alongside his chief of staff and is really defense minister israel katz. >> interpreter: we are determined to cut office terrorist arm of iran's axis of evil. we will persist until we complete the job.

>> the strikes come as today marks 447 days of war between israel and hamas has diplomatic efforts continue to reach a cease-fire agreement. reports indicate both sides are accusing the other of adding conditions or changing positions as it relates to the ongoing conversations, being facilitated by the qataris and egyptians. egypt's foreign minister spoke about the negotiations this week, saying this. >> interpreter: certainly at the heart of the arab cause was most importantly the palestinian cause and the catastrophic conditions in the gaza strip and the efforts made by egypt, in cooperation with qatar, to quickly reach an agreement stipulating an immediate cessation of the israel aggression, a cease-fire, and a full and unconditional access to aid to the gaza strip. >> while these conversations take place, israel is conducting strikes against gaza. overnight, five palestinians were killed while in a van marked with the word "press." the israeli military claim they

were members of islamic jihad while initial photos of the group showed them previously working as journalists. right now there is no end in sight for the war inside gaza but there are hopes that if an agreement is reached, it could bring those hostages home and ultimately provide an off-ramp or escalating tensions in the region. bill? >> bill: and trey, you are as dialed in is anybody out there. is it your sense that a potential cease-fire agreement is weeks away, months away, if anything at all? >> so we are likely looking at weeks. the israelis have been going back and forth with these negotiators, mostly in doha, qatar, and their accusations against israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he is adding conditions to the deal. at the end of the day we are going to see an agreement that shows israeli hostages released for an unspecified number of palestinian prisoners, among other key agenda items that hamas is demanding, like access to the northern part of the the gaza strip for palestinians and then also humanitarian aid to rebuild gaza once the war does ,

so there is a lot of moving parts here. the qatari's do appear confident that a deal is around the corner, but we have been here before so i will have to wait and see what these negotiating teams are going to come up with. bill? >> bill: hopefully it can get done. trey yingst live in tel aviv, doing a great job as always. stay safe out there. >> anita: all right, let's go ahead and bring in texas republican congressman pat fallon to talk a little more about this, and the reporting that iran is getting closer and closer to stockpiling more and more uranium, and that is bad news is that is the lead up to the building of a nuclear weapon. congressman, thank you so much for joining us today. let me ask you, what are you hearing about that? >> well, you know, unfortunately with the biden administration, what they did was enabled iran to make billions of additional dollars. when you l look at president trp and forcing the international sanctions on iran, they were only able to sell about -- just under $8 billion worth of

exported oil, is iranian oil. under joe biden when they didn't force and sanctions, they were making $43 billion and you could sell a lot of discord, mayhem, and mischief with the $35 billion and of course also advancer nuclear program. >> anita: and, you know, given all the blows that iran has taken recently with the decimation of hamas leaders and hezbollah leaders, does it seem like the iranian leaders and the mullahs feel backed into a corner and that this is the only option they have? there are reports that they have built up their stockpile to 60% purity of uranium. 90% is needed for a nuclear weapon. so that is quite scary. >> oh, it definitely is. listen, iran, any do, is the largest state sponsor of terror in the world. they are intent and bent on exporting their version of

governance, what is a theocracy, and they want to destabilize the region, and they have done a very good job over the last several decades. no one is trend to back iran into a corner. they are trying to. in syria and yemen and destabilizing other partners. they were directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not a thousand american troops in afghanistan and iraq. >> anita: i want to take a listen to something that former secretary of state mike pompeo said about his efforts under the first trump administration to dissuade iran. take a listen. >> we worked to put enormous economic pressure on regimes so they had no capability to build out that weapons program, that brought nuclear-based program that the world so fears, because iran with a nuclear weapon on october 7th would have been a fundamentally different problem set for israel in the middle east and for the united states. >> anita: yeah, no kidding.

quick reaction to that? >> no, he is absolutely right. look at these rogue regimes, these axis of evil like north korea and iran. nobody is going to invade. and no one is looking to. to sit there and say north korea feel threatened by the united states, south korea, is absurd, since the arm assisted 1953, they haven't been attacked, and neither iran -- hd relationships with the united states until they had a , fair honest and open elections, you can see point, 70% of iranians want a different government, they just can't get it because they are being ruled by the barrel of the gun. >> anita: yeah, no kidding. quick come about another 15 seconds here, i want to ask you about this plane crash in because extent, it was a azerbaijan plane. there reports it is being pinned on russia, that this was a russian activity, perhaps a missile hit the plane. quick reaction to that, what are

your thoughts? >> it does appear that way, and the problem with moscow is you can't believe a word they say. you can tell when a regime like that is lying when their lips are moving. that's at least, looks like now, but we will wait and see. >> anita: they have the flight data recorder so we are going to learn a lot there. congressman pat fallon, thanks so much for coming in today. great to see you. >> thanks, anita. god bless. >> anita: you too. so bill, a lot there. scary to think that iran is building up there uranium stockpile. because, you know, if they feel backed into a corner, then, you know, those people don't operate like we do. >> bill: they have looked pretty weak on the national stage recently, right? they had a hamas leader in tehran get assassinated by israel, launched hundreds of missiles at israel with little to no damage, certainly don't want trump economics, try to assassinate him, fbi has foiled several plots, they are lashing

out and looking for somewhere to go. hezbollah has been defend, hamas has largely been wiped out, so we'll have to see what happens s ahead but they have been pretty neutered on the national scale. >> anita: yeah, and a whole new chapter taking place in january. >> bill: absolutely. >> anita: all right. ♪ ♪ >> we are going to have so much oil and gas and other things, you won't know what to do with it. you will say, please, president trump, stop, we have too much, the prices are going to low. >> bill: president-elect donald trump promising americans relief at the pump, but some energy execs are pushing other strategies to try to fire up the industry. >> anita: and trump announces his pick for panama ambassador as he slams the latin american country for overcharging the u.s. to use the panama canal. is a showdown shaping up over the famous waterway? >> bill: bill mcgurn joins us on all of that coming up next. hey guys, come on! time to eat. time to eat. i don't want this.

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♪ ♪ >> anita: welcome back. lifting regulations and boosting oil production here at home are key parts of president-elect trump's energy agenda. but some energy producers seem hesitant to embrace the potential rollback of red tape. fox businesses grady trimble is live from the white house, and greedy, why would that be? >> well, anita, it is the big oil companies who say they don't actually mind the regulations and fees, but they are the ones who can afford to abide by those regulations and pay those fees on the industry. the smaller companies tell fox business that they are welcome to these changes under the incoming administration, and president-elect trump argues these cutting back, this cutting

back of red tape will actually lead to more oil production in the united states, and thus lower prices for everyday americans. >> we are going to have so much oil and gas and other things, you won't know what to do with it. you will say, please, president trump, stop, we have too much, the prices are going to low, sir. i will direct every cabinet secretary to cut ten old regulations for every new regulation, which i did last time. >> so, despite president biden's green agenda, the u.s. set another record for crude oil production this year. president-elect trump says he plans to expand it even more. energy executives and governors from oil-producing states like alaska hope that trump will ease drilling regulations and enact more tax incentive's, permit interstate pipeline, and programs for drilling on federal lands and offshore areas. trump also expected to lift the paws on some exports of liquefied natural gas or lng.

the head of one of the largest lng exporters in the u.s. tells "the wall street journal," even with the restrictions, the biden administration placed on the industry, "we still have global emissions that are skyrocketing." he says that's because of other country's use and production of coal and other fossil fuels. he goes on to say people are reassessing how we got here in the conclusion they are going to get to is we need to build more of everything. anita, that certainly seems to be the plan under this upcoming administration, and we should also point out there is optimism about trump's energy policies outside of just the oil and gas industry, but in other industries, as well, because a lot of business leaders argue that if you lower the cost of energy, it leads to lower prices of food and basically anything that needs to be produced or shipped, so we will see what happens when trump is inaugurated in less than a month, anita. >> anita: yeah, that was his whole platform on the campaign trail -- >> ended work. >> anita: more energy

production would bring prices down and drill, baby, drill. we heard that so much. we will see if that comes to pass peered grady trimble live at the white house for us, thank you. >> bill: and for more on this let's bring in bill mcgurn, a fox news contributor, "wall street journal" editorial page board member, and former chief speechwriter for president george w. bush. bill, thanks for coming on today. you are a man of many hats. we've heard trump say repeatedly on the campaign trail that he believes the best way to reduce inflation is to unlock american energy potential, as anita just said, drill, baby, drill, we heard that on the campaign trail over and over again. here's what he said on sunday in terms of what he plans to do immediately upon taking office. >> i will sign day one orders to end all biden restrictions on energy production, terminate his insane electric vehicle mandate, cancel his natural gas export ban, reopen anwr in alaska, the

biggest site potential anywhere in the world and declare a national energy emergency. >> so let's say he does all those things he just said. in your opinion, how long would it take for americans to start seeing results when it comes to prices? >> i think we would see results fairly soon because the prices are also in anticipation of what is coming. a very pro-growth heartening agenda. you don't need to subsidize what you want, that's the biden administration's mistake. they punished the vehicles that americans want to buy and the fuel that they would buy, and they subsidized the stuff we don't want, and it led to all of these inefficiencies. grady was right. the big companies don't mind so much and it reduces competition from smaller entities. we should have it all of the above strategy, which it sounds

like is exactly what president trump is initiating, and i think we will see any of prices right away, and expansion of the economy, and also, you know, with our reserves of some of these fuels like natural gas, we can help our allies. >> bill: and speaking of those reserves, president biden, he lowered our strategic petroleum reserve levels to think the lowest levels in 40 years, since 1983. he really wanted to get those gas prices down for the american public. it was a controversial way to do it. so do you think this is going to be a priority, one of trump's priorities, once he takes office, to get those levels back up? because we are actually going to need that if there's ever a big emergency. >> i think he will. if the industry expands as i think it will, it won't be that big a problem. the bigger problem is getting production in the works, getting it moving, and getting the fuel to where people can need it, at a price they can afford.

the market does this very well, and joe biden's administration interfered at every step of the way. >> bill: let's talk now about panama. it's been in the headlines quite a bit. obviously trump has been saying he is considering wanting control of the panama canal back to the united states, the u.s. headed over to panama in the 1990s. trump feels panama is overcharging for its use and china has too much influence. let's say panama says no, which it sounds like that is what they would say, what options would trump have to get that control back, short of essentially invading a country? >> well, i'm not sure he really wants control. it's very hard to tell with donald trump what he really wants and what he is saying as a negotiating tactic. it seems to me, it sounds from what he is saying that what he wants is lower prices for american ships, and no chinese influence, which is a real and legitimate concern. so we will see how they behave.

i don't know that they are necessarily charging americans unfair prices. what my information is that everyone pays the same price. but may be trump is hearing from one of these people who send their ship through the canal. but i think it is more a negotiating ploy. i don't think anywhere really thinks we are going to invade panama. >> bill: maybe it's a little more of "the art of the deal," as we are used to seeing with the president-elect. bill mcgurn, thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. >> anita: the holidays after hurricanes. how one group is helping families in north carolina rebuild in the aftermath of helene. >> bill: at is democratic disarray grows, another candidate now throwing her hat into the ring to lead the party. former democratic presidential candidate marianne williamson joining us next. we'll be right back. >> i don't think they saw themselves in the dnc. i don't know what we were doing

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>> bill: welcome back. we have cannot just 25 days to go until a new administration takes over and president biden is very quietly ending the year with a vacation in st. croix while president-elect donald trump is laying out his blueprint for his campaign promises. alexandria hoff is joining us live in washington today, and alex, certainly doesn't seem like we're going to see a whole lot of president biden in these final weeks, does it? >> yeah, bill, we really haven't for the last few weeks. aside from merry christmas, the messaging of 46 and 47 couldn't have been more different yesterday. the president's departure, as i was saying, not really a departure from what we have been seeing the last few weeks, aside from the mass clemency announcement and some appearances on holiday circuit, president biden hasn't weighed in on much. yesterday the president made a reflective post, riding, in part, for the last time as your

president, it's my honor to wish all of america a very merry christmas. president-elect trump, he shared well win wishes too from mar-a-lago and then took a more active approach to messaging. one begin merry christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of china who are lovingly put illegally operating the panama canal. panama's president has denied beijing holds any control over the canal, but china does invest heavily and own two ports. trump has advocated for reclaiming possession. yesterday trump clocked in again it announcing county commissioner kevin marino cabrera as ambassador to panama, which he also feels has been ripping off the u.s. with shipping fees. then on the hot topic of icy greenland, trump shared an additional holiday message to "the people of greenland which is needed by the united states for national secured he purposes and we want the u.s. to be there and we will." in trump's first term he expressed interest in greenland with denmark's prime minister serving then and now that the island is not for sale.

this is interesting, talk of the push potentially being strategic posturing by trump, prompting the danish government to increase defense spending as it has, all while russia has been attending to claim territories near greenland, and all of this, bill, as another person has the job for the next 25 days. >> bill: yeah come and alex come it kind of feels like the transition has already happened. biden has been m.i.a. and trump asserting and some on the national stage. we will see how that ends up the next few weeks. alex off, thank you. ♪ ♪ >> anita: challenging days ahead for democrats. the party struggling with a disenchanted base after losing control of the senate and the white house. with no clear path, they are hoping new leadership can redirect the party. former 2024 democratic presidential candidate marianne williamson announcing today she is entering the race for dnc chair, and she joins me now. marianne, it is great to have you here. happy holidays, hope you had a good one. >> happy holidays to you.

thank you so much, it is lovely to be here. thank you for having me. >> anita: oh, of course. the democratic party, as i mentioned, is said to be in a state of disarray. one will no democratic strategist liz smith said the brand is in the toilet. so can you take your plunger and do something there? what do you think? >> yes, i can. what we need to do is transform this party. what we need to do is look in the mirror. and what we need to do is to rebuild the frayed bonds of affection between the party, the democratic party, and particularly the working people of the united states. there has been a mass exodus from this party. people just aren't feeling it, and there are reasons come in many cases, why people are feeling it. so what i have seen from people who are running for the dnc chair, has to do with external fixes, has to do with data analysis, has to do with fundraising, has to do with field organization, has to do with a 50 state strategy.

what i want to address is the psychological and emotional factors that not only have to do with repairing our own relationship with the people whose votes we need, but also with countering the extraordinary adrenaline rush, collective adrenaline rush that donald trump has created. you know, the maga phenomenon -- >> anita: but marianne, let me ask you, what about the messaging? you are talking about the mechanics of what goes on behind the scenes, but what about the messaging to the american public? what needs to be changed there? because clearly that didn't work. >> but the point i am making is yes, we need different messaging, but we need more than different messaging. we need policies and soulfulness behind the messaging. the democratic party at its best is an unequivocal advocate for the working people of the united states. that needs to be the messaging. and the messaging needs to be everything that goes with that. if we are an unequivocal advocate for the working people of the united states, then we are dealing with the fact that

70-90000000 americans are either underinsured or uninsured. we are dealing with the fact that one in four americans live with medical debt, and over half of our bankruptcies are medical bankruptcies. we are dealing with the fact that people are selling their blood plasma in order to make it. we are dealing with the fact that we have not yet raised the minimum wage over $7.25. we are dealing with the fact that people's children have asthma, people's children are suffering from all kinds of diseases because of toxins in our food and toxins in our air, so the messaging has to be actually speaking to what people are going through. when i have heard people talking about so far is we need to talk about kitchen table issues. what i want to talk about is how many americans can't even afford the kitchen table. >> anita: yeah. i want you to take a listen to, this is the former democratic leader of the california state senate gloria romero, very powerful politician here in the state of california. listen to what she said about the party.

>> i believe that in history, we are seeing a major inflection point, the complete collapsing of the democratic party. there are no certainties in politics in america, and we have seen parties come and go. this party refuses to recognize that it has lost its way. it's a chapter. it's gone with the wind. and basically we are seeing the end of it. >> anita: whoa, the collapsing of the democratic party. quick reaction to that, please? >> the fact that in the 1970s the democratic party started taking corporate money. of course it has been co-opted. it has been co-opted by insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, big food companies, big chemical companies, big agricultural companies, big banks and financial institutions, big oil, and defense contractors. this woman is absolutely correct. there is a matrix of corporate power that is holding our government hostage. it has turned washington into a system of legalized bribery. we have always known that the

republican party stands for market solutions and being in bed with the corporations. the democratic party is supposed to be a counter to that and the democratic party over the last few decades has tried to have it both ways and this is what has gotten us. the american people no longer feel the working people of the united states no longer feel that the democratic party has my back, and that is what we need to repair, and that is what we will repair should i be elected the dnc chair. >> anita: want to just put up on the screen very quickly some other folks in the race for the dnc chair. there is martin o'malley. he is the former maryland governor. we have ken martin, the dnc vice chair, and ben wikler, democratic party of wisconsin chairman. and a few others. there they all are. so you have some competition there. but we will see how it goes. thank you so much for coming on today and giving us your point of view. it is always a pleasure to talk to you. >> thank you so much. >> anita: okay. bill? >> bill: california governor gavin newsom is reportedly drafting some plans

to try and resist president-elect donald trump's mass deportation plans, so how much could that end up costing california taxpayers? we got leo terrell on deck coming up next. >> this is destructive leadership shown by gavin newsom, and it is not what people voted for. it's not what the people of california need.

♪ ♪ >> bill: welcome back. three people were shot, another was stabbed come at phoenixes airport yesterday at christmas. it happened at a restaurant near a security checkpoint. one woman suffered life-threatening injuries and police say it all started with a family fight. >> we are still combing through who and what, everybody is. what i can say is all five individuals that are involved in this incident are all known to each other. no community members or visitors

were injured outside of this group of individuals. >> bill: yikes. officers detained to people at an airport parking garage nearby, but so far no charges have been filed. anita? >> anita: well, bill, a terrifying moment on a busy new york city sidewalk. a taxicab jumping the curb and crashing into a christmas day crowd, hitting several people. our cb cotton is live at herald square in manhattan. cb, so scary. how does this scene look right now? >> hi, anita. yeah, the chaos all unfolded at this curb it. take a look behind me. you can still see signs of the crash. people are walking over, as. >> you can see the broken car glass right there. it's unclear what speed the taxi driver was going, but the posted speed limit is 25 miles per hour, so that could have saved lives. police say the taxi driver had a medical emergency when he jumped this curb behind me and struck at least six people.

a good samaritans wife was one of them. >> my wife got hit kind of up on her b back shoulder. knocked her to the ground. made sure she was okay, and then noticed the car had come up, i think the building pretty close when it hit. >> his wife and at least two other women on scene refused medical treatment, but three others were taken to the hospital in stable condition, including the taxi driver and the 9-year-old boy. the good samaritan says when he tore off the caps fender to get to the child, he was shocked to discover the boys mom. >> she was talking to her son, smiling, trained to help keep him calm. the little boy was amazing. so unbelievably tough. he made a comment to me, he said this is the worst holiday ever. but no tears. >> so the good samaritan says the injured mother and son were

visiting from australia, auntie called the boy the toughest 9-year-old he had ever met. as for the investigation, it is still ongoing, but this crash mewhen the nypd was on high alert following the christmas market attack in germany, where officials there say saudi arabia national drove his suv into the crowded market, killing five people. anita? >> anita: i'm sure that was on everyone's mind when that happened, but thank goodness for that good samaritan, and it does sound like it could have been a lot worse. cb cotton my for us on the streets of new york city. cb, thank you. bill. >> president biden: >> bill: in a surprise to nobody, california governor gavin newsom is busy planning ways to defy president-elect donald trump. he is reported laken considering potential plans to shield illegal immigrants and protect them from mass deportation. cicivil rights attorney leo terrell is a fox news contributor kind enough to join us today. great to see you and hope you had a great holiday. excited to talk with you because i know you have a lot to say

about this one so let's talk about this reported plan that newsom and his staff have come if we can pull up, "politico" got their hands on on this report. a draft entitled immigrant support network concept 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, labor unions, local governments, et cetera. leo, a lot of words there. bottom line, governor newsom does not have to cooperate with i.c.e. but at the end of the day there is nothing he can do to stop i.c.e. from coming into california cities and stopping mass deportations so what is even talking about with these plans? >> thank you for that question, bill, and happy holidays. let me be very clear. governor newsom is not a lawyer. someone needs to get him the constitution. and some supreme court cases. want to be very clear with

viewers. 35 years of practicing law. immigration is a federal government responsibility. the supreme court has said exclusive responsibility. you cover the border, bill. battles between president biden and the white house and texas. governor newsom can't do nothing to stop president trump president trump and tom homan. if he had a plan, bill, why don't we go to court? because he has no standing. this is nothing more than political grandstanding. this is nothing more for a guy to try to pretend to be relevant. he is irrelevant. and the american people spoke on november 5th. they want illegals deported. the federal government have the legal right to move illegal immigrants out of california and america, and governor newsom can't do absolutely nothing. >> bill: leo, we are both california guys. we know the state has not exactly been the best steward of taxpayer dollars. sounds like they want to spend more to help illegal immigrants.

here is what a former border patrol chief had to say about some of these tax dollars. take a listen. >> this is a state that has some of the highest income taxes in the country, some of the highest sales tax in the country, and got a $68 billion deficit, billion with a b. he is going to use taxpayer resources to protect who, exactly, people who are in the country illegally, who broke the law to be there. >> bill: leo, how do you see that going over with california taxpayers? >> i'll take exactly what is happening. november 5th, 40% of california went red. they went to trump. this state, notwithstanding the socialist democrats, moving towards a purple color in this state. all governor newsom can do, bill, is to give illegal aliens taxpayers dollars to help them prevent the legal action of the federal government, not good news for you, i want people to understand this, the state of california, governor newsom,

cannot harbor illegal aliens. they cannot obstruct justice. this is a no-brainer. the federal government has absolute control over immigration. and again, i cannot say this enough. gavin newsom is trying to run for president in 2028 by playing games in a wordsmith and trying to get people to think he is protecting illegal aliens peered i say that with 100% certainty. >> bill: last one and then we to run. california gets a lot of tax dollars, that bullet train, an absolute disaster come hasn't done anything yet. if gavin newsom follows through with plans to defy president trump, do you anticipate trump will pull federal dollars from a state? >> yes come along with the help and the assistance of elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. the federal government holds that bullet train hostage

because it will not have a chance to progress without federal taxpayer dollars, so those federal dollars provide a tremendous care it for gavin newsom to comply with helping the services remove these illegal aliens from california. >> bill: leo terrell, great to talk to you as always, my friend. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> bill: . >> bill: anita? >> anita: former senator bob menendez is seeking a new trial, saying his corruption conviction should be thrown out. could he get his way? criminal defense attorney mark eiglarsh is up ahead. >> bill: christmas is over, so are you may be looking to return a few gets you didn't like? well, get in line. i holiday returns this year could be a record breaker. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> anita: well americans are tapping the brakes on buying big cars as prices and interest rates climb higher, putting a focus on smaller, more affordable models. fox businesses max gorden is live at a dealership in

thousand oaks, california, just west of los angeles. so max, what kind of cars are people looking at? what is popular? >> hey there, anita. pedal to the metal for small cars and manufacturers looking to cash in. right now week car dealership in thousand oaks taking a look at some of their small car offerings. this of course is the honda civic, pretty familiar to a lot of folks, a pioneer in the small car segment. this one right here going for about $27,000. over here we have a relatively new offering. this is the honda hr-v. it goes for around $31,000. it is a subcompact suv. according to edmond, sales of compact cars and suvs as well as subcompact suvs sword in 2024. compact truck sales shot up by more than 30% in 2024 compared to just a year ago. our experts say 2025 will likely be another hot year for small cars. expensive right now but the average price of a new car

sitting at $47,000. still come edmond says consumers shelled out slightly less for new cars in 2024 compared to last year. the average transaction price for a new vehicle was down .8%. meanwhile, the market for some larger trucks and some suvs has softened. large pickup sales went down in 2024 and midsize suv sales fell 2.3%, in-line with the trend of consumers looking for cheaper rides. >> they are going to look at vehicles that are a little more what we call pedestrian. those are vehicles that are affordable and get you from point a to point b, they have some good elementary tech in it. get great miles per gallon or mpg. but are not vehicles that are going to 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds. >> while small cars, trucks, and suvs have caught the attention of price conscious consumers, could get slept with tariffs. present from proposing a tariff on those manufactured in

mexico. $3,000 more for one of these vehicle if the manufacturers continue to make the myth in other countries. you don't have to look farther than stickers. this manufactured in mexico. pacific we were talking about earlier was put together in canada. two examples of models that could be impacted by tariffs if they go into effect. anita? >> anita: $47,000 for the average new car? is that what you said? >> yeah, pricey. that is what i said. cars are pricey right now. inflation, manufacturing costs all contribute into this. >> anita: not everyone needs to go 0 to 60 in four seconds, right? >> yeah, absolutely not. >> anita: max gorden, thank you so much for that live report. good to see you. bill? >> bill: going to need a lot of christmas cash in the stocking for that. no easy fix for democrats in disarray is a new administration prepares to take over.

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