♪ ♪ >> time now for "one more thing." nicole; >> nicole: happy to 106 celebrating fireball. she longevity always have fun and keep moving. happy birthday. >> i will be on the ingraham angle tonight. please tune in for that. a special opportunity to return home for the holidays. sergeant came home from south korea. loved to see those stories. and we are out of time. so, happy holidays, merry christmas, that's it for us. have a great night. >> hey, katie, i love those stories, too. thank you.

>> katie: hey, bret have. a food show. >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. president trump eyes u.s. expansions eyeing the panama canal, greenland and canada again. it is not a good holiday for some victims of hurricane helene. meet a few people trying to help there. fascinating intelligence unit maize up of some extraordinary individuals >> bret: but, first, breaking tonight, a u.s. official tells reuters there are early indication as russian ant antiaircraft system may have brought down a passenger plane in kazakhstan. dozens of people died in the fiery incident. employ to open transparent investigation. stephanie bennett is following the story tonight from london. good evening, stephanie. >> good evening, bret. today's speculation is mounting over what caused this crash in the first place. and today we are hopefully getting near to some of those answers. four sources in az erbaijan of

knowledge of the investigation tell reuters the flight was downed by a russian air defense system. experts were quickly concerned after seeing this damage, in particular, the holes in the plane's tail section which could possibly indicate that it came under fire from russia while it was depending off ukrainian drone drone attack in the region. off spray flight solutions also thought the same thing, saying ukrainian drone strikes have already hit that part of russia this month. one source tells reuters that the plane's communications were also paralyzed by electronic warfare systems on the approach into grozny but ad adds no one claims it was done on purpose. expects russia to confess to this. it was due to land in grozny but diverted across the caspian sea to kazakhstan because of heavy fog. the airline initially had said the plane hurdled toward the ground landing just short of the runway and then burst into

flames. there was also footage circulating on social media showing oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling as people prayed just before the plane crashed. of the 6' on board, 38 were killed. >> when the plane crashed my wife was sitting next to me. i haven't seen my wife since the crash and i don't know where she is. >> today as enter ba january held a national day of mourning for the victims. the flight data recorder has also been recovered, no information from that just yet. president of asker baon and a kremlin spokesman said it was too soon to speculate while the aviation watchdog said it was did he verted because of a bird strike nato is calling for a full investigation into this crash, bret? >> bret: stephanie bennett in london. stephanie, thank you. >> >> gaza's health ministry says israeli strike has killed several palestinian journalists

outside a hospital in the gaza strip. israel is going after iran backed houthi rebels. >> trey yingst is in tel aviv with the latest. good evening, trey. >> trey: bret, good evening. ongoing conflict between israel and iran backed houthis is heating up with new israeli strikes today targeting the yemeni capital of sun and a half as the secretary general of the world health organization was visiting. >> smoke rises from the yemeni capital of son that. israel on the offensive. striking multiple houthi-linked targets. >> we are determined to cut off this terrorist arm of iran's axis of evil. we will persist until we complete the job. >> this wave of strikes that reportedly included dozens power plants was in response to multiple ballistic missile attacks on israel. by the iran-backed group.

>> this is our fourth strike in yemen and we are not finished yet we are capable of much more. >> with the war of attrition developing between israel and the houthis, the battle between israel and hamas has now reached day 447 overnight israeli airstrike targeted central gaza killing five palestinian journalists that the israelis claimed had ties to islamic jihad. the strike was the latest in a series of bosomings that continue to target the gaza strip. along with ground operations that have gone after the tunnel network beneath gaza. diplomatic efforts have expanded in recent days as qatari and egyptian negotiators try to bring israel and hamas together to reach a cease-fire agreement certainly at the hart of the arab palestinian cause and the

catastrophic conditions in the gaza strip and efforts made by egypt in quooption sillsly qatar to reach an agreement. >> there is hope in israel that during the incoming trump administration, more pressure will be applied on hamas to allow the israeli hostages being held inside gaza to come home, bret? >> bret: hey, trey, what seems to be the sticking point in negotiations this time around? >> there are a number of logistical issues that have to do with the movement of palestinians inside gaza and number of palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages. broader level both sides are looking to save face and claim victory in the negotiations, bret? >> bret: trey yingst in tel aviv, trey, thanks. ♪ new action to president-elect trump to expand influence and possibly territory once he takes office. his christmas day message

included references to the panama canal, greenland and canada. fox business correspondent grady trimble is at the white house with the latest tonight. >> tonight, reaction to president-elect trump's christmas day claim that the chinese military is operating the panama canal fijt press conference today jose moreno saying there is absolutely no chinese interference or involvement in anything that has to do with the panama canal there are no chinese or any other world power at the canal. trump has floated retaking the critical waterway if keeps overcharging u.s. shipping companies and the u.s. meter to use it an idea democrats are criticizing. >> we have a treaty with panama. we have a free trade agreement with panama. we are no more going to take back the panama canal than panama is going to come in and try to take the mississippi river from us.

>> but, republicans agree with trump. >> i think it's more than just the fees charged to the panama canal. there is a concern that china is becoming more involved and choke point for world trade and, again, we gave it to panama freely and i think prematurely but we should insist that china not have a major role in how that canal is run or restricting access to the canal. >> even before taking office, president-elect trump is putting world leaders on notice. in addition to suggesting canada could become the 51st state, the incoming president has also discussed taking control of greenland for national security purposes mark says it will boost spending for the territory $1.5 billion. calling it an irony of fate that the announcement comes after trump's comments. >> and as president-elect trump prepares to move into the white house in just 25 days, the current president is out of town, president biden and his family arrived in st. croix in

the u.s. virgin islands this afternoon. he will be there on vacation until the new year. bret? >> bret: grady, while on the campaign trail, the president-elect promised to lower promises by expanding u.s. oil and gas production. what's the production forecast for the new year? >> so there is an excess supply of oil globally right now and the international energy agency expects a surplus in 2025 as well despite the biden administration's agenda. actually set a new record in 2024 president-elect trump plans to break that record and expand oil production again in 2025. bret? >> bret: grady trimble live on the north lawn, grady, thanks. the dow gained 29 for its fifth straight positive finish. the s&p 500 was off 2. the nasdaq lost 11 today. we have reported about leaders in some cities and states vowing

to oppose president-elect trump's immigration reform. tonight, the other side. there are leaders in other places around this country who are welcoming the trump approach. correspondent brooke taylor shows from us dallas. these are some of the illegal migrants had to pick up in the last few weeks. after they were released from jail. they were let out on bond and ice was either not notified or their holds ignored. that lineup includes ruiz, arrested by boston ice agents a few days ago. he was wanted on felony charges of assault and battery of a child. ice allowed bond and ruiz was released free to roam the streets despite immigration detainer that ice be notified ahead of time. terry garrett didn't want this hang in his community, which is why he says his jail is part of what is known as 287 g.

>> our goal is to try to keep our community as safe as possible. and this is one of those programs that does that. we want to make sure we participate in it and do it the way it should. >> the program, which has been available to jails for decades, allows local and state lawmakers at the jails to partner with ice. specially trained officers are then given some federal powers and can ask inmates about their immigration status which they can't currently do. the jail then flags ice, but it is then up to ice to decide whether to issue a hold or pick the suspect up there was an increase prior to four years ago. involved in the program since 2016. the last four years there has been significant drop in the number of holds that ice would put on. >> law enforcement agencies and 20 other states are part therefore program but under a new trump administration, more are expected to join.

bret? >> bret: brooke, thank you. a vigil held this afternoon for the unidentified won who was burned to death inside a new york city subway train, civil rights and religious leaders hosted that event. an illegal immigrant from guatemala has been charged with murder and arson. up next, how to stay healthy during the holidays and what to try to avoid at this time. first, beyond our borders tonight, at least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high security in prison mow zem bic's capitol after a rebellion. the police chief says 33 prisoners died. 15 others were injured. the christmas day escape occurred as widespread post election riots continue to engulf that country. kidnapping 230,000 people many

wept as they placed flowers as tsunami victims are buried. >> this is a live look at seoul, south korea, courtesy of earthquake. main opposition party submits a motion to increase the country's acting leader over reluctance to fill constitutional court. this comes rebellion charges against impeached president yoon stemming from short lived martial law decree earlier this month. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ you can go your own way ♪ go your own way ♪ ♪

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♪ >> bret: an oregon based pet food company rerecalling frozen food following the death of a house cat. testified positive for bird flu. no human cases linked to that incident. people in contact with the cat are being monitored for flu symptoms. the center for disease control and prevention cdc says whooping cough is surging in the u.s. there have been 33,000 cases reported this year. that is about six times more than last year. let's talk about what is out there. how to avoid it during the

holidays. dr. marc siegel is professor of medicine at new york university langone medical center and a fox news contributor. good evening, doc. i tell you this holiday season is just like every other one. it's sometimes dangerous when it comes is it disease, sickness, what about the whooping cough? >> whooping cough worries me a bit, bret. because in very young children you get that whoop and it causes hospitalization. you get pretty sick. but the real issue here is that adults are spreading it because adults are not getting vaccinated against it's called the t dap vaccine pertussis, whooping cough. less than 30% of adults keep up to date on that. means getting a booster every 10 years. coming outside of pandemic, viruses and bacteria spreading that were contained during the pandemic. pertussis is a bacteria. can i treat it with an anti biotic but the problem is it looks like a virus. it is very hard to tell the

difference. you get a dry cough, you get congestion, i only realize it's probably pertussis when it lingers and lingers. if i figure out early enough i treat with anti-do i bye 00 particular. the best protection is to get that vaccine. kids under the age of 7, 90% are vaccinated we need a bit more than that vaccine and early treatment. >> bret: you know, doc, we just did that story about the bird flu and cat in oregon a lot of headlines, california declaring an emergency. we see another story about cats and blizzard flu from the "new york times" and again pet food just mentioned that recalling. the cases around the country in all livestock there is 193 confirmed in 17 states. so what are we looking at here in bird flu exposure concern about bird flu fred in cattle

population and cows. gavin newsom called it a public health emergency. 650 herds in california. before we were talking about paltry, about chickens and turkeys. the reason pet food got it by the way that pet food was raw turkey. s how it spread into there. raw frozen turkey that's why the pet got it. it's another population now. it's in cattle. people that are milking cows are getting it. so that's why you are seeing over 60 cases over the past year. here's what reassuring, bret. that literally it is not spreading human to human. you have to have close contact with either an infected cow or an infected bird or paltry to actually get it. that's reassuring. we need to track it very carefully. >> bret: tracking number of years covid stuff and obviously everybody handled things differently but what is your suggestions for the holidays arranged disease and trying to stay healthy i know number one

prescription you know love kindlessness. be kind to people when you are traveling, don't get angry. don't take it outs on your neighbor. if you are kind you are not won't your blood pressure go up spread less viruses. when you are othan plane well hydrated, wipe down surface fats, again, don't get angry at the person sitting next to you if he happens to be leaning a little bit in your direction. the hepa filters will take care of the viruses, you take care of the kindness we will work on it, doc, thanks. sealing seeing you don't have to work on it. happy new year. >> it appears the taxi driver who crashed into a crowd today in manhattan was suffering medical emergency. the 58-year-old driver jumped the curb striking people. people taken to the hospital life-threatening injuries. unclear what speed. posted speed is 25.

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what president-elect trump really wants remains unclear. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram joins us live from capitol hill. >> geeive, bret. a boost from the incoming president can help mike johnson obtain the speakership. there are four to 10 republicans who might oppose johnson. when the new congress starts next friday. johnson allies want clarity from president-elect trump. >> auto i fully support mike johnson and i think if president trump does endorse him that he

will be the next speaker answered deserves to be the last thing we need right now is another situation like we had two years ago with kevin mccarthy mr. trump said last week he would become speaker if he was quote tough on the spending bill. it's now believed that the president-elect is disappointed in johnson. of the head of the powerful house freedom caucus is following mr. trump's lead. >> i think the president realized if he is going to get his agenda through a very narrow majority in the house, is he going to need strong leadership at the top and he is evaluating whether that exists. before the last couple of weeks i was in his corner. >> lawmakers are suffering from political ptsd. it took five days to elect former speaker kevin mccarthy. the house burned three weeks before settling on johnson in 2023. >> i think we are all too familiar with what happened last year and 15 rounds with former speaker mccarthy.

you never know who that person is going to be. i don't think the speaker is worried about january 3rd. january 3rd will come and we will see what happens then? internal fights could hamstring the g.o.p. agenda. the candidate with the most votes does not necessarily win. the speaker needs an outright majority of the entire house. that's 218, republicans begin with only 219. bret? >> bret: chad, the math on the senate side, senate republicans starting the year with only 52 senators instead of 53, why is that? >> well, incoming west virginia senator jim justice will not be sworn in until january 13th. he is currently the state's governor. a resignation by justice would prompt a revolving door of interim governors until governor elect patrick morrisey is sworn in. >> there won't be anything happen really until when president trump takes office. i don't think that within west virginia needs to have four

governors in 10 days. >> this means that justice ranks last in senate seniority. at least until someone is tapped to succeed vice president elect and ohio senator j.d. vance. bret? >> bret: okay, chad, thank you. marianne williamson becoming the next democratic national committee chair. she says she will seek to reinvent her party. >> there is a major corporate power holding our conference hostage. the democratic party is supposed to be a counter to that the democratic party has tried to have it both ways. the american people no longer feel the working people of the united states no longer feel that the democratic party has my back. >> bret: williamson warns president-elect trump's political accomplishments should not be under estimated. this is a difficult holiday season for many victims of hurricane helene, still, still without their homes. tonight, we look at one organization on a mission to

help. correspondent danamarie mcnichol reports from our southeast bureau. >> one person passes it effects everybody. >> green mountain, north carolina is still mourning the loss of steven and alayna ayers a couple in their 30's who died in their home during the catastrophic flooding caused by hurricane helene. operation anchor has made it their mission to rebuilding their home. >> unfortunately, christmas is not the happy holiday for them this time. >> but their leg gays will bolivia on. once completed the lieutenants will become a safe haven where families who lost their own home can live. >> all the destruction, house after house, piled up. >> the small mountain town lost 27 homes. and they are desperate for help. operation anchor plans to continue rebuilding the community. >> we're going to save the old post office. >> when we run out of money, we got splice and we will figure out how to make it to the jobs and we will figure out how to keep repairing. we might not build a house but we can repair a house. that's what we will do. we will keep going.

steven lambert vice president of the group says 1400 square foot home costs $42,000 for the foundation and shell. supplies are being donated. but the heart of the project is the emergency labor done 100 percent by volunteers whether they have experience in construction or not. >> you still got people that we have to build houses for that still have a $200,000 loan on the house that washed down the river. >> he says most didn't have flood insurance. >> i don't know how many families in the country could afford to rebuild without no help. you have to understand these people are getting absolutely nothing. >> lambert thinks it will take about three to four years to get this community back to normal. he says they are looking for people to sponsor families directly and operation anchor can help make those connections. bret? >> bret: danamarie, thank you. up next, the amazing story of a group of people using unique talents to help countries build intelligence capabilities. we will bring you that first, what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 10 in phoenix where police

are investigating a shooting and stabbing that happened at sky harbor airport last night. officers found a group of people involved in a fight which escalated to one person pulling out a handgun. one adult female and two adult males suffered gunshot wounds no. arrests have been made yet. fox 31 in denver as the father of jonbenet ramsey says he plans to meet with the bolder police department chief in colorado next month. john ramsey will bring a representative from an independent genetic genealogy research lab. is he pushing local authorities to allow an outside lab to test crime scene evidence from his daughter's unsolved 1996 murder case. and this is a live look at a cloudy and rainy dallas. we can barely see it from fox 4. one of the big stories there tonight. 463 flights are delayed, 260 canceled. can you see why at dfw, dallas-fort worth international airport a line of thunderstorms moves across parts of texas. the national weather service predicted the system could bring

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>> bret: ukrainian military intelligence says north korean troops are suffering heavy losses in the fighting in russia's kursk region. facing difficulties as a result of ukrainian attacks. north korea has sent up to 1,000 troops to help with russia to help with 3 year long invasion there russian president vladimir putin says his country is striving to complete the conflict in ukraine, putin adds that russia is open to slovacian proposal to host peace talks with ukraine and putin has said and said it again today he will be ready to meet with incoming president donald trump. as we mentioned earlier, israel's prime minister has an urgent warning to iranian backed houthis, who have been firing drones and missiles at his country for months. he says we will find you just like israel targeted hamas and hezbollah. and weapon sites inside syria. tonight chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports on a special unit in the israeli defense forces that can

see over the horizon. now the u.s. is employing the same secret weapon with enormous success. >> when israel's mossad pulled the trigger, managing to decapitate most of hezbollah's senior leadership with exploding pagers and when israeli war planes dropped more than a dozen 2,000-pound bombs. on the building where hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah was meeting with his senior leaders. a little known unit of the israeli defense forces played a key role in labeling and mapping the data used to track these targets. >> i won't put in the details what they were involved in but generally speaking, they were involved. >> unit 9900 diverse soldiers on the autism spectrum to find mistakes in computer code and look for the proverbial needle in a haystack. >> unit 9900 is the intelligent unit that is responsible for all the satellite images, any kind of image, plane image, drones,

whatever. >> a veteran mossad agent founded watching the horizon. a subunit of 9900 which trains israeli soldiers whose autism would have barred them from military service in the past. >> i won't use secret weapon. good people are doing what they have to do. >> american tech entrepreneur peter can't read about this special israeli intelligence unit and realized the u.s. also has a large under utilized neuro roy diverse population who aren't allowed to serve in the u.s. military pattern hyper to focus in technical environment. and these soldiers wer exceptional almost like super powers. >> he started enabled intelligence help the u.s. government data needed to train ai language models elaborate process where people spend hours in front of a computer recognizing patterns. >> two to three thousand times

faster going through the data and 95 hers accurate when the market is 75%. much more accurate. we have a lot of folks working at shipping fulfillment centers or works as baristas, now they are like a lead geo spatialist because they're really good at it. >> outside washington, d.c., his team can scouring satellite images labeling russian warplanes and iranian surface-to-air missile sites among other classified targets. their clearances allow them to work inside this scif, named for harry potter's chamber of secrets. >> cody is working on a geo spatial -- these are satellite images, i believe this is russia. and he is an know tailgating airplanes, what is he going to do. place a box around it bounding box says okay that is like a meg 29. the computer, the ai will learn from that. >> how do you the shape of the

engine we label it like. so and we do this for every object that we see. we label it differently. >> cody hart has been with the company for four years. before that, he worked in a deli. >> when were you diagnosed as neurodiverse? >> oh, my, that was when i was in 3rd grade. >> did you find over the years that people under estimated you or treated you differently? >> yeah, all the time. especially since i was, you know, put into what they called special classes at the time. it was hard. people looked at me differently for a lot of different things. >> how has this job changed your life. >> we get treated like people with respect. with this job i was able to afford a car. i have my own health insurance. keeping me very focused on exactly what we're doing and who we are doing it for. it's really exciting. >> so, in this module, we're going to learn about 12 specific pieces of russian aircraft. >> kant's team runs boot camp

one week data labeling courses for with autism each month. >> one on one edge of the wing second clip on the other edge of the wing. >> legally blind. >> enough to sight in the left eye and some in the right. >> tell me what you are doing here. >> so here i am checking out sam sight. >> a sam a surface to air missile. >> we have launch pads and i'm labeling each individual part and the whole sam sight. >> do people under estimate you when you were younger duer to your disability? >> they still under estimate me even though i'm grown. >> on cody hart's desk he keeps models of objects that remind him of his childhood. >> ninja turtle. >> spiderman and super heroes. >> yeah i love super heros. >> you are a super hero. >> you are a super hero. >> i wouldn't go that far i'm just doing my part. >> jennifer griffin, fox news. >> bret: great stuff.

up next the panel on the house agenda and speaker uncertainty. before we head to break, former chairman and ceo of time warner chairman of citigroup and ceo of the los angeles clippers dick parsons has died. parsons was known for helping troubled companies navigate tough times. he also worked for new york mayor rudy giuliani's campaign. dick parsons was 76.

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demand that the panama canal be returned to the united states of america. >> this is what donald trump does. he stirs chaos. sometimes it has strategic value for him because it distracts from other things he doesn't. sometimes it seems completely bizarre. >> trump is a master at negotiation. it's a shot across the bough. it was not on anyone's radar until president trump tweeted it. and now it is. >> well, this all stems from a truth social that was reignited on christmas day. this is from president-elect trump. merry christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of china who are lovingly but illegally operating the panama canal where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago. always making certain that the united states puts in billions of dollars in repair money but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything. also to governor justice trudeau of canada who citizens' taxes

far too high if canada was to become our 51st state their taxes cut by more than 50%. businesses immediately double in size and militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world. likewise to the people of greenland, which is needed by the united states for national security purposes, and who want the u.s. to be there and we will. all three of those places have pushed back in some way, shape, or form not knowing how far to go down that road. let's bring in our panel. "the washington post" columnist and american enterprise institute senior fellow marc thiessen, morgan ortagus on sirius xm. founder of polaris national security. and robert wolf, ceo of 32 advisers, former economic adviser to president obama. okay, marc, what about this and how these countries are reacting to what the president-elect is saying? >> well, first of all, this is reaganism come back. it was ronald reagan who famously said we built it. we paid for it, it's ours. so the panama canal. >> this is a throw back to

ronald reagan's 1976 campaign for president. but, look, joe biden just landed in st. croix virldz. do you know where we got the virgin islands we bought den denmark. if we can buy denmark we can buy greenland, why not? >> some people saying there will be an invasion by the u.s. i think that there are a lot of people saying this is about trade deals and deals to be made. how do you see it? how is capitol hill seeing it, do you think? >> i mean, listen. you know, president trump always is negotiating. there are tolls, being paid in n. a very transparent way. but he wants the u.s. to get the best deal. we have the largest economy. we have the most export-import going back and forth in shows shipping leans between the my preference is he focuses on the middle east and the

ukraine-russia as opposed to greenland and china. but, not china i mean greenland and the panama. but he must see something going on with the chinese in panama brought this front and center. i would like to see where this is really going. >> bret: i think is he going it walk and chew gum on a lot of international fronts. here is kevin o'leary on the canada part of that equation. >> think about the power of combining the two economies. erasing the border between canada and the united states, and putting all that resource up to the northern borders where china and russia are knocking on the doors. i like this idea and at least half of canadians are interested. the problem is the government is collapsing in canada right now. i don't want him doing it for me so i'm going to go mar-a-lago i will start the narrative. >> bret: maybe kevin o'leary is the negotiator. morgan, what do you think? >> shout-out to the people of al

alberta been all over social media saying they are interested in joining the united states. i think this is probably much more about the fact that justin trudeau's government is in trouble. he has had ministers resign. he has to have an election by october. and it feels a little bit like president trump is sort of like with the cat nip in front of justin trudeau teasing him a little bit too much with these tweets. but, in all seriousness, when you look at both the artic, really important discussion with both canada and greenland. i went to the artic minute steering. we know the artic is being weaponized by russia. there is geopolitical competition happening in the artic because of climate change. president trump is trying to make us a maritime nation again. i have written about this extensively in the last year. what we need to do to make the u.s. navy great again. when you look at commercial shipping, for example, look at what has happened in the red sea with the houthis at least 25% of the trade that used to transit there has to be diverted to other ways.

so it's putting pressure on places like the panama canal. so the only way for us to truly be a great nation to restore a maritime credibility both in commercial shipping and with the u.s. navy. so i think the president, the president-elect is highlighting something incredibly important and fundamental to our national security in both the artic and the maritime space at large. >> bret: yeah, and china is very active in panama. let me turn to capitol hill. >> exactly. >> bret: raised concerns about johnson. republicans had spoken to the president-elect in the weeks before the shutdown showdown airing grievances and raising reservations about johnson's handling of layer isous issues and his management of the house g.o.p. conference the showers said. take you back to december 10th when i asked him this. >> are you worried at all about your january 3rd election as speaker? >> i'm not. we have a unified conference. i have talked with every single individual at great length and all of us collectively are ready

to using our football met for. run it up the kneeled. to say do that cohesion in your team and all that predetermined and it is. i think we will have a smooth transition. >> it has not been smooth and the balance of power, mark is, very tight. in fact, it's 220 to 215. they will lose three because of matt gaetz, elise stefanik, mike waltz. so you are look at 217, 215. you know, and this is going to be a bumpy ride. does he hold on? >> well, the last thing the g.o.p. needs is to bring out the circular firing squad again. the last time they went through this it was 22 days of chaos. mike johnson emerged after multiple attempts by other people to take the job. so, you know, donald trump has a very ambitious agenda. he brought in millions of new voters by promising to taxes on tips. taxes on social security. taxes on overtime. he has promised to secure the border and build the border wall. hire thousands of ice agents to carry out massive deportations. to say do that you have got to

pass a budget reconciliation bill in the first 100 days that funds all of that he doesn't have time for dysfunctional house to be shooting at itself. figuring out hot next leader is going to be. they need speaker johnson to stay in the job, let get the election certified. come right out of the box at the start start on january 20th and have the most productive 100 days in presidential history. >> robert, you think johnson stays on? >> yeah, i see it differently. i mean, one, he lost 38 votes from on the reconciliation without the democrats it doesn't pass. the two most important people is one, president trump, if he doesn't support johnson, it's no chart at all. and number two is hakeem jeffries. without the democrats johnson is not getting reelected that's how he got his speakership and that's how the reconciliation got passed. the freedom caucus, they are going to at least two or more. so i think we're kind of kidding ourself that there is a unified caucus as he said to you on december 10th when he missed 38 votes and didn't get done what

president trump wanted him to get done which was the debt ceiling. so i think this is going to be a lot going on. >> bret: a lot happened between december 10th and spending bill that cr. last word, morgan? >> i think robert hit the nail on the head. what matters is who is in that position? do they have president trump's support. and it's got to be somebody who can do business with him. mike johnson has been able to do it. but this has got to be a leader that legislature's can trust to get deals done with president trump. that's what they're looking for. especially with senate control. there is really only like 18 months to get anything done. because then you start fighting again for the next election. so it's time to hit the ground running and passing legislation and not spending time fighting. >> bret: okay. panel, thanks so much. >> thank you. ♪ >> bret: finally tonight a special day. on behalf of the president.

dr. biden, vice president harris, and the seconds gentleman, i wish you all a happy hanukkah. >> hundreds gathered for the national menorah lighting held on the eclipse outside the white house with alejandro mayorkas in attendance. the world's largest menorah certified by guinness world records was also lit in new york city yesterday. it was the first time since 2005 that the first day of hanukkah fell on christmas day so happy hanukkah tomorrow on "special report." how president-elect trump is bringing new life to the crypto-currency industry. we will bring you that remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east. 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this special report, fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" with katie pavlich starts now. ♪ >> katie