♪ ♪ people around the world pausing to remember former president jimmy carter. who died earlier today at the age of 100. hi everyone i'm guy benson here with lisa boothe and sara carter and dr. marc siegel here with extended edition of the big weekend show. carter was the 39th and longest lived president of the united states were known for humanitarian efforts after leaving the white house he received the noble peace prize

in 2002 for his advocacy on human rights and democracy. fox news anchor bret baier takes look back at the very long life and legacy of jimmy carter. >> after the plilg trauma of "watergate" jimmy carter squeaky clean baptist background appealed to many americans. as if to demonstrate there was a new way of doing things in washington he began his presidency on a frigid january day in 1977. walking instead of riding the length of pennsylvania avenue, from the capitol to the white house. the first president ever to do this. born in plains, georgia, many 1924 to peanut farming parents carter attended the naval academy earning rank of lieutenant and married rosalynn smith and returned to plains to run the family farming business. it was there that carter developed an interest in politics. he was elected state senator in

1962 and governor of georgia in 1970. >> i'm a candidate for president -- >> announced plans to run for president in 1974, carter was largely an unknown but managed to win his party nomination and edge out incumbent president gerald ford by just two percent of the popular vote. one of the closest margins in recent history. president carter greatest triumph in 1978 and brokered marathon diplomatic talks between israel and egypt. the resulting camp david accords ended years of fighting between the two countries. they've got to stop crying and start sweating. stop talking. and start walking. stop cursing. and start praying. >> late 70s were a time of oil shortages, high unemployment, and double digit inflation. carter worked diligently to solve these problems but the

economy slipped into a recession. then in an event that would dominate the remainder of carter's presidency iranian militants captured and held 52 american embassy employees hostage in tehran. unable to negotiate their release, carter ordered a rescue mission which ended in disaster eight american servicemen died when their helicopters collided in the iranian desert. >> americans in iran -- will have mistreated -- >> 1980 voters rejected carter's bid for a second term. and to add insult to injury, on the day he left office, the american hostages in tehran were released to the new reagan administration. carter returned to georgia and through his nonprofit carter center, remained active in efforts to promote peace around the world his efforts were successful. and he garnered more respect in recent calls for the u.s. to

legitimatize terror group hamas which is openly committed to the destruction of israel. he helped convince haitian military dictator raul to relinquish control of the island nation to elected leader. he monitored elections in nicaragua help end standoff over expectation of nuclear facilities between the u.s. and north korea. carter was seen with hammer in hand building homes for the poor as part of his continuing support for the habitat for humanity project. he wrote countless books, including one book of poetry and a memoir. in may 2002, carter took his first but not last trip to cuba. the first american president to visit in more than 40 years. he called for the u.s. toened its trade embargo while challenges fidel castro to institute democratic reforms. later that year, the former president won the noble peace prize for, quote, his decades of

untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts. during a trip to the middle east in the summer of 2009, an alleged assassination plot by an al qaeda linked group was uncovered. , though, the president aids said they had no knowledge of the plot against him. in a summer of 2010 carter traveled to north korea successfully securing the release of an american citizen who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor after allegedly entering the country illegally. upon his return, carter advocated the need for a comprehensive peace treaty with isolated country arguing pyongyang was ready to talk that the u.s. should come to the table. carter didn't hesitate to cite criticize denounces president obama for carrying out widespread drone strikes and warrantless wiretapping. he also said that obama administration waited too long to responds to the rising threat of isis. just monthings later carter

announced he has melanoma that spread to his liver and brain tackling the diagnosis, with a measure of faith and fortitude. through his cancer treatment, forger president remained active continuing his charitable and religious activities. >> i don't know what results will be but i'm ready for whatever comes. >> months later declared cancer free. he continued to hammer away at his charitable work with habitat for humanity all the way into his 90s. >> feel like we always get more out of it than we put into it although we work sometimes very hard and -- overwork on occasion. >> in one of the large major appearance he is partnership joining four other living presidents at the funeral service of george h.w. bush second chances james earl carter thrived on them. >> i have a wonderful life and thousands of frensdz and i've

had an exciting and gratifying existence. over time americans developed a renewed appreciation for a man who resoundingly lost a reelection bid. this gentlemen farmer from plains, georgia, who rose to become the 39th president of the united states. in washington, bret baier, fox news. >> bret thank you for that leaders reacting to the death of president carter including president biden and president-elect donald trump lucas tomlinson has more on this he's live in st. croix and u.s. virgin islands. good evening. >> well good evening guy. president biden interrupted his vacation not only to issue a statement -- about jimmy carters passing but he also made a statement within the last hour. this is what he said. >> never give up hope. never give up hope. i mean, it from the bottom of my heart. so much negativism out there.

i know you're tired to hear me say it over the last four years -- but folks, there's nothing beyond our capacity. nothing beyond our capacity. if we do it together, i mean, it. i mean it. he believed it. guy: and president-elect donald trump issuing a statement earlier saying, quote, i just heard the news about the passing of president jimmy carter thoughts of us who have been fortunate to have served as president understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the greatest nation in history that challenges jimmy face as president come at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all americans. for that we all owe him a debt of gratitude. melania are thinking of them during this difficult time and urge everybody to keep them in their hearts and prayers and president biden is less than 20

years younger than jimmy carter first senator to endorse him and later as a 35-year-old senator 1978 he was first to warn jimmy carter that ted kennedy was going to try to primary carter and it is notable guys to have history perhaps could have turned out differently, of course, the iranian hostage siege in the u.s. embassy and tehran plagued the carter administration for 444 days it did not end until president ronald reagan took office, and president carter had ordered a rescue operation to rescue those 52 americans in tehran. very different situation, by the way, in london when iranian embassy was ceased in 1880 weeks after that failed u.s. rescue iranian arab terrorist group ceased iranian embassy, and margaret thatcher newly elected prime minister she ordered sas in there to put into that siege

after six days it was successful with boosted her iron lady credentials you have to think how history could have been different. but one thing for sure, president biden, president carter who many see both as famed one term presidents, it was the economy that failed them and president biden certainly felt a moral obligation not only to issue this statement but interrupt his vacation in st. croix and offer words to the american people. guys. guy: lucas thank you he was mentionings a friendship that he enjoyed with former president jimmy carter with us now, is our colleague here at fox news justice correspondent david spunt and david good evening to you it is my understanding that you knew former president carter on a personal level. tell us about that. and how you believe carter will be remembered -- >> hi guy it is good to be with you i did know president carter i knew him because i was a reporter my first job was in columbus, georgia 20 years ago

and plains georgia where he lived his entire life even after he left the white house. was in that market and used to watch our television station so he would call in and ask football scores on friday nights for local high schools, and give football scores that he had been to games and whatnot. i got to know him almost 20 years ago -- interviewed him several times, just a gentlemen someone that -- you know after he became president could have gone anywhere he wanted in the world but decided to go back to plains, georgia. he and rosalynn carter as you heard in bret baier's piece married in the mid-1940s, jimmy carter was only president to go and graduate from the naval academy, and he taught sunday school, and that's how i got to know him by attending his sunday school services. at the baptist church which eventually turned into an interview, but he taught sunday school for decades, and would meet people and smile, and talk

to them about bible verses and got to know them that way, and to me that was very notable and humbling. >> hi, this is sara carter i have a question regarding president trump's statement that he just made and he said you know, this is a very exclusive club, and you know, it is a very difficult -- these are a lot of challenges that are met with being the president and running one of the most if not the most powerful country in the world. talk a little bit about maybe how president carter is as far as an example, you know, post presidency a lot of people look at, you know, his presidency. and very critical of it. but they look at his post presidency they say look at how much he did afterwards that made such a difference and also that type of relationship that we see between the presidents. >> certainly notable sara great question. i mean this is someone after he became president he decided to go back to plains, georgia, it is not unusual for a president

to go back to their home state or go after they leave potentially the most stressful job in the world. however, jimmy carter continued to help eradicate any disease that plagued the continent for africa if or years built homes for habitat for humanity he traveled the world. he helped release -- went to north korea to secure release of a hostage this someone worked into his 80s into his 90s i believe the last time i saw him at his 91st birthday party in person i kept in touch -- via a mutual friend afterward. but he looked great, and this is right after he announced that he had brain cancer, and beat that. and he hung on and he hung out to be 100 years old, and the relationship that he had with ms. carter rosalynn carter was truly incredible. i told a story earlier -- and she was born in 1927 he was born in 1924. his mother lilian carter was a

nurse. and i believe helped either deliver or care for rosalynn carter's mother so jimmy carter first met rosalynn carter in 1927 when she was an infant, and you know they, obviously, got married many years later but was with her until she took her breath last year november 2023 quite a story. but i think the point is that he kept in touch with other presidents. and kept in touch -- but it wasn't about keeping in touch with the presidents it was about being back to his roots and being in plains, and helping people with habitat for humanity and carter center and traveling and always working the man worked non stop. >> david spunt thank you so much for reflections and personal experience with our 39th president jimmy carter passed away today at the age of 100 with us to further discuss jimmy carter and his legacy specifically fox news senior political analyst bret, it is great to see you as you look

back on this extraordinary life that spanned a century -- what comes to mind? >> well it was -- he had a long and consequential life to be sure. what i remember most because i was a reporter in washington at the time was that he had quite a difficult presidency. and it was not politically speaking a successful presidency. he encountered inflation on a scale that was so great that the new federal reserve chairman whom he appointed paul found it necessary to raise interest rates to levels rarely if ever seen before. the economy slid into recession. people were totally disenchanted with the economy, and with the president who they felt was responsible for it. that was -- that fed very much into his loss in 1980 as did the situation with hostages in iran who had been taken as has been mentioned for ultimately taken for 444 days. try as he might carter could not get them out and as has been

noted released the day ronldz reagan took office. so he left the presidency, he was beat bannedly by ronald reagan but there was a achievement enormous credit in my view that was the camp david accords between israel and egypt. i remember they were hammered out after camp david under his -- under his watchful eye and of egypt said afterwards when people talking about that they be called to accords you know they should be called the jimmy carter agreement because he work sod hard to get it that was a real break through that sangdz to this day a major achievement indeed. >> you know, lisa boothe here we heard president biden speak earlier he talked about how jimmy carter first presidential endorsement in 1976 what is so interesting there's parallels between the presidents and electoral losses.

>> well they are indeed -- and i think you know, at this moment i know a lot of democrats and liberals think that president biden had an enormously consequential presidency, he did not achieve in my view anything on the scale of the camp david accords. so he does not have anything like that to point to. but he was -- you know, president biden was affected so strongly as was president carter by the economy and in particularly by the plague of inflation. it can be argued i think pretty successfully that president biden by the spending that he and his party engaged in in the early stages of his presidency -- those things were responsible for the inflation. i'm not sure while carter failed to saw and not sure what happened in terms of the economy as president biden certainly was. i might add a personal note if you don't mind -- there was a stage in president carter's term where he got kind of a reputation for being mean. you know he was tough when he

resisted the challenge from president -- from senator kennedy and people were going around saying that down deep that the despite his faith which was real, despite his commitments and character that he was at a mean streak. well i met him once when he and gerald ford, of course, the man he beaten for the presidency were -- therm out on the lecture circuit doing debates really discussions i moderated one and introduced him to my daughter. he carter could not have been more charming. remarkable -- took her both her hands in his -- he was friendly. >> all right bret we really appreciate your time this evening. and those thoughts and some really good perspective on a night where a lot of americans are thinking about the life and, of course, now the legacy of america's 39th president of the united states. jimmy carter who passed away today at the age of 100. bret again thank you so much. coming up here on "the big weekend show," the democratic

party completely separately now and modern day politics in a bit of disarray, the far left hungry for some new blood in the ranks. but they're finding a little bit hard to change their ways, we'll discuss that coming up. force factor amazing ashwa reduces stress and anxiety, improves sleep, boosts cognitive health, and supports weight management. why? amazing ashwa contains clinically studied ksm-66 ashwagandha. rush to walmart and find amazing ashwa from force factor.

>> one democrat is m slaying her own party after they passed over aoc for jerry conley to represent them on the house oversight committee. take a listen. >> we are really stuck in our old ways of doing things which is you get there by seniority and so if you've been there longer then you get the post and i don't think that we fully sit there and say, who may be best equipped for this moment? sara: speaking of seniority biden thinks he would have beat trump a regrets dropping out of the 2024 race. i don't know. lisa i know you have a point to make on this. we are all kind of shocked when he said that but what's -- where do you think? do you think he would have won, yes or no? >> if you look at the realclearpolitics before biden dropped out worse against donald trump than -- than, you know, trump against kamala harris. i mean, there was an argument to be made that maybe joe biden would have done better and states like pennsylvania --

or michigan. that kamala harris was disconnected from those. but you know regarding the comments about today's democrat party, i mean, aoc and more progressive wing of the party they've consumed the establishment democrat party. i mean, today's democrat party you look at some of the crazy things like green new deal or men and women sports, and mutilating children's bodies in names of transgenderrism so policy idea are ones that have taken over and you know, democrats didn't have a messaging problem or anything like that they've been saying this election cycle this was rejection of their ideas and what they stand for. >> nothing to do with age but rejection of ideas and they want a younger crowd but we have the squad. and the squad was what america was voting against. just like lisa said green new deal, woke ideology all of this was turning off the majority of americans guy, do you think this is -- i mean it is a non seq. -- it wasn't about age.

guy: i think nancy pelosi believed that aoc in that perch would be a liability for the party because she was working the phones behind the scenes to boost conley. i don't think it was like a generational solidarity thing it was we want to win. and making aoc and some of the hard left people even bigger faces the party, i think pelosi decided it wasn't a great idea given what happened in the election. i want to say one thing about biden the reports that they're plausible for sure that he's out there saying oh i would have won this he was forced out, obviously, this was not something he wanted to do. i do think it is fantasy that -- debate on june 27th after the first 20 minutes the election was over. >> it was done. >> if he stayed in the race -- >> democrats went with a flawed unimpressive atty in kamala harris but joe biden would not have gotten better over the course of the campaign. he would have probably gotten worse. and i think that the margins would have been more damaging for the democrats he would stayed in.

sara: what about the health issues even democrats have come forward and said look he just wasn't healthy enough. he was not healthy enough to run again and he wasn't healthy enough to be president and shouldn't have been even in office. dr. siegel: that's the elephant in the room and i agree with everything that lisa and guy said that democratic party has a woke direction they don't have their leadership but the real elephant in the room is every american is thinking this. what were you doing for four years -- marc siegel was saying in 2020 he doesn't look right and not walking or speaking right so we're left with the word four years in office, when we don't know what was going on behind the scenes. american people don't like being lied to they don't like things hidden from them so they're not going to vote for that group. sara: american people were told don't believe your lying eyes and we didn't believe it. lisa: cheap fakes. exactly. sara: jimmy carter the 39th president of the united states has passed away at the age of 100. hundreds of dignitaries world

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capitol rotunda for eight days joining us no i by phone is iowa senator chuck grassley good evening, senator. how are you chuck? >> very good. >> tell me what your remembrance is of jimmy carter? >> well, i think that adjectives like compassionate, simple decency, humanitarianism -- i remember i think he restored decency to the white house after nixon's resignation. i think he'll be remembered most for camp david accords, maybe most people will think of what -- but that's what i think of because it brought peace that still exist between israel and egypt. it was extended to jordan, and i think it opened the door for the abraham accords under trump. so that for other arab nations even though it is not a peace

agreement, relative peace and business arrangements with israel, i think we have a safer middle east coming up because of what he started then. i don't think he gets credit for those things. but i sure give him credit for it. and while he was president in the united states, i didn't have personal relationships with him except formal events at the white house. but after he was president, he asked me to go to nicaragua with him to monitor the elections at that particular time. i forget the year of that. but i couldn't go because the things going on in washington, d.c. at that time. that i couldn't go with him. but he called me personally and asked me to do it. and then in 2008, he called me and asked me to participate in a

meeting of diverse baptist groups gathering in atlanta, and i did there, go there and speak and i had personal conversations with him and his wife, and he's a very decent person. >> senator grassley sara carter here nice to be able to talk to you because you have that relationship with -- had that relationship with president jimmy carter. one of his legacies will be camp david. as you mentioned, but what are the lessons learned from his presidency because many of the same issues we're facing today are very similar global issues that he faced during his presidency. >> well i think most of what he lost the presidency on was things that he can't be completely blamed for. oil embargo driving up the price of gasoline, we had the iranian american hostages being held, we

had the russian invasion of afghanistan, and then we had run away inflation that was instigated by decisions of the -- of the federal reserve board. and the inflation that the fed was fighting was really caused by nixon four years before when he did a stupid couple of stupid policies that led to the hyperinflation that carter got blamed for. >> senator grassley lisa boothe here you were elected just before carter took office as president. what was it like to serve in congress during that period of time? >> well, as freshman congressman and i was there for six years, four of them while he was president. i think that we had some things that we would normally assign to

a democrat accomplish a great deal of deregulation. i mean, you would think of trump is going to do some deregulation. but for the big things, the deregulation of the airlines, and of the trucking industry, and the railroad industry, that directly instituted by president carter. and his cabinet at that particular time. and we still are benefiting from that as consumers today, but when you hear about carter being the worst president before biden, you wouldn't think any of those good things would come. but i think he ought to be given credit for by consumers today for some of the decisions he made on deregulation. >> senator grassley great to have you with us tonight. we really appreciate it, sir. and thank you for all of your great service all of these years in the senate. thank you for joining us.

>> god bless you good-bye. >> let's bring in former white house speech writer bill on the editorial board of the wall street journal. bill you wrote an amazing column in 2015, for the journal called "missing jimmy carter" talk to me about that. >> not so sure i want to be held to words -- i wrote ten years ago, but look, i was never a fan of jimmy carter. i was firmly in the reagan camp, i think reagan delivered what he had to. i remember the gaslines, i remember the inflation. i look back on my parents putting six kids through college with inflation ranging it was crazy. and i remember, you know, i remember the overseas disasters, hostages in iran but senator grassley says, looking at jimmy's record jimmy carter's record there's a little more half there. he's often compared to joe biden. but jimmy carter did deregulate

the trucking and airline industries, i believe little and finance as well. that was a big step for america. also, when he realized there were mistakes, inflation, he appointed 1979 paul to the fed. and the tight money is, you know, when you're running for reelection, you really don't want tight money. i think that was a decision that put the country ahead of him at the same time, at the soviet invaded afghanistan and jimmy carter said he was shocked by the move, he armed so he started -- kind of the breakdown of the soviet empire that we know for later. so he has some real achievements and some real moves that put the country ahead of its own interest. >> bill it is guy benson you look at some of the numbers associated with jimmy carter. 100 years of life, 77 years of

marriage. 444 days of that crisis that really consumed the latter part of his presidency i think really weighed on him a history has shown in a lot of writing about that time. when you look back and you're starting to assess not just the politician, but the man himself as well on a day like this, what do you -- think of? what comes to mind? >> well i think he's a well meaning individual took his faith seriously. had a lot of initiatives. i tend not to agree with him. specifically his foreign policy initiatives, like the middle east, they seem overly hostile to israel, so i'm not sure i would agree request -- with that. i'm saying a difficult time as president, a lot because of his policies. but he did start to reverse them at the very end. he didn't get credit for it but he started to reverse them he had a very rich life. you know, 77 years of marriage is nothing to sneeze at. i'm married like 33 years and

people think that's a big achievement. [laughter] and i'm not even halfway there to what jimmy carter had. so and he also went back to live where he grew up like since returning to the plow. so he's a very complicated man. with the complicated story and he did a lot in his life and he saw a lot. >> bill i really appreciate you joining us by the way that column you wrote ten years ago you talked about his mig mistakes and admitted them also righting the treaty huge thing and you wrote about that too great to have you on. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you doctor. >> you bet officials may say crime is down -- but the nypd is reporting a record number of injuries this year. why some officers are blaming migrants for the violence, you don't want to miss this. don't go away.

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number of injuries. according to new york post and analysis of nypd data 4600 assaults on cops reported in the first of the year and first they began keeching track and 85% jump since 2020 and over the last year criminal migrants and aliens brutally attacking police officers. at least one cop with more than 2 decades only the job telling new york post this, a lot more migrants assault cops than regular citizens. you know, sara we first had police officers having to deal with the aftermath of the george floyd riots, and the crime that took place after that -- and now this. they can't get a break. >> well it is a crime wave because biden administration purposely opened up border so policy to have an order border policy and that policy allowed people to come into our country and vet it people we couldn't even vet the people that we were bringing in that were passing through border patrol. but think of all of the known

got aways people that got into this country that just disappeared into the fabric of america. and then came into new york city, by the tens of thousands, the roosevelt hotel, i can't even tell you lisa how many times i went down to new york to cover stories there and i would be talking to people security outside of the hotel and say you can't imagine what is going on there. we have serious issues rape. we have burglaries, we have people that are -- trapping others into their hotel rooms and that's the reason why they kept reporters out that's the reason they kept people out of the hotels and also, they -- it wasn't just new york city. i would love to see the stats across the country. in areas where we saw large groups of migrants just being left in cities especially sanctuary cities where the police had to face it on their own. they didn't have the help of the state. >> does this give trump political cover when he does move for deportations because it is a a lot harder to say no criminals should be staying here

in the united states. >> yes. he was elected -- he was elected to do this. and the fact, i mean, it is hard to get i think an american's blood boiling faster than watching someone who has no right to be in this country assaulting a police officer. right and it wasn't one thing here or a cherry picked distinct there but over and over again and sara i think you're exactly right it wasn't a coincidence that so much of it happened but because illegal immigrants are say there's a sanctuary policy in new york i'm going to go there, and the word gets around, you can commit other crimes. and they'll put you right bang on the street, of course, they're going to show up. >> this is where trump is adamant with mexico and others saying look you're going to take people back, we're repatriating them back to the nations and you're going to take them back or we're going hold you financially economically and not only that that -- >> there's a health issue -- >> part of the public health

crisis because other part of the story is they're homeless i've gone with lawrence jones and interviewed them that sara is talking about. they're homeless they don't have medication they're angry, sleepless, and so then they become violent. they are violent when they're crossing the border and then they're violent in new york and other cities. against cops -- and by the way, you've seen them buzzing around on scooters too. they're hitting people with these scooters that they get. and as guy says it's really, really something that gets your blood boils that they're attacking our police officers who are trying to keep things safe here and overworked also. >> when regular citizens are under threat like on the subway it is infuriating and absolutely wrong. we have a shelter system here by the way -- which we can't it is overflowing because of this. >> absolutely doctor siegel now white house is finally responding to photos that were released showing biden and his son hunter during a 2013 trip to beijing. here they are with president xi.

they also met with hunter ice chinese business partners these photos prove president was not telling the truth of this all the time. i mean, this is so infuriating. >> i did not know he was on the board of that company. i've never discussed my business or their business my son's daughters -- >> i never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having to do with ukraine. >> never talked -- >> never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else and them dealing with their businesses, period. >> that straight from biden's mouth the white house is now saying, quote, this trip which occurred over a decade ago is old news. house republicans already wasted years and millions of taxpayer dollars proving that the president was not in business with his son. it is past time to call it a day. house oversight committee chairman james comer is now warning the deep state. >> how many people in the

federal government knew that joe biden was lying the cia knew, irs knew, the fbi knew. they need to be held accountable not only archives sat on pictures and released because of a lawsuit and thref to explain themselves as to why they objected our investigation. i want to work with kash patel with all of the new trump cabinet secretaries, that where we can hold the deep state actors accountable because american people have lost confidence in the government. maria:sara: comer is right absoy right when it comes to this. lisa one of the big issues is the national security aspect of this. we have a president sitting in office that was conducting deals with president xi, and adversary of the united states, with his son, you know, making money off of this. and by the way, i mean maybe you can answer this question. but he actually pardoned people within the chinese government a man in particular connected to

the family of president xi who had more than 10,000 photos of children that he had -- that were sexually abused children on his laptop on his laptop he pardoned this person so i think there is a lot to be said here and there should be a full fledged investigation. >> 100%. look we know that he sold america out. but what exactly did he sell besides access foreign policy decisions were based on the money that went to line the biden family pockets we're talking about countries like kazakhstan, ukraine, russia, enemy nations like russian and china as well and infuriates me that trump president trump faced an impeachment over having conversations expressing these concerns with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy also that trump faced investigations with accusations that he was in bed with russia when the biden family had been in bed with russia. >> reporters couldn't report on this new york city post was having a difficult time -- >> right. right. listen, i can't get past the

ukraine point and the point that trump ended up getting attacked for this but burisma holdings -- when he was vice president, had biden was vice president he was assigned by obama to keep track of ukraine. right? and hunter biden is getting paid $50,000 to work with burisma holdings a gas company with no background in that whatsoever. who believes in the united states that he was incurring influence there biden directly nobody. guy: over 50,000 a month. >> a month. sara: people come and tony bobulinski was a whistle-blower on that point. guy: where they lie and deny, lie and deny and then here's the photo like well it is old news. it is just the gulf that drives me crazy. we played the montage of lies from president biden i would add two more on the presidential debate stage in front of tens of mlgs he said the laptop wasn't real and from russia and son

made no money from china, false and false. >> not only false and false but 51 plus nine, you know, intelligence officers, that signed off saying that that was russian intelligence. and you know, president trump is coming into office and i think the most important thing that he can do right now is to remove the ts security clearances of those that knowingly lied about this issue. whether that was hunter biden's laptop and others within the bureaucracy or nsa that absolutely knew they were lying. lisa: americans rightfully distrust their government government is getting ample reason to not trust the government between covid lies about joe biden's health, biden family business dealings, lies about that. so what president trump needs to do and we hope will do is mass transparency put it honest. let us all know. >> so great. great point don't go anywhere, a special 2025 edition of the big four is next.

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♪ ♪ welcome back to the big weekend show. it's time for a special 2025 edition of the big four. our predictions for the biggest stories that you should be following next year. i'll go first. my biggest story for 2025 is the new golden age of america under president-elect donald trump. >> i can probably proclaim that the golden age of america is upon us. it's going to be a golden age. since we didn't have a short while ago. >> golden age indeed. as much is a selection was a rejection of kamala harris and democrats it was about four donald trump to help republicans heed the mandate is for donald trump, not them and they work to move his agenda through congress. aren't dr. siegel you are up.

>> my big sword for 2025 the road to making america healthy again. now, ignore it when president trump is a mcdonald's hamburger. for the rest of us teasing them for himself to help, we have to change our food because food is medicine. if you eat the wrong food you will end up with problems like obesity which is over 45% of american adults right now. that leads to the diseases i treat in the office of high blood pressure, diabetes, we have to stop this now. got to the chemicals out of the food. we have to eat food that is healthy or bread that is what rfk junior is trying to do if he gets approved. i am all in on this. okay, guy? >> my story is the incoming republican congress. we talked a lot about the drama and the house on the speakership and all of that. that's going to be extremely important. we have addressed that over the course of the long show tonight. i want to focus briefly on the u.s. senate. republicans will have this 53 --

47 majority. for the first time in many years that leader will not meet mitch mcconnell it will be jon the thune of south dakota a new era in the senate for republicans how was i going to look? how is that going to be similar or different? it's really important to hit the ground running for the republicans. start nominating this judges immediately to fill vacancies. there's been a lot of damage on that front by biting and the democrats these last four years. now the republicans and start rubberstamping, qualified good health i judges that something that can get going on day one. >> and think everyone is going to have their eye on that, that is for sure. here's my big story of 2025, the ongoing crisis of the southern border and meet migrant children who have gone missing after crossing into the united states. if there's anything i can say to everyone is this is going to be the biggest story of the year. as tom hellman, our borders are put out puts forth the policy president trump has assigned them to do, i think right along the side that with the deportation is going be finding

these 350,000 plus children that have been lost by hhs into the fabric of our country. finding them and rescuing them. even if it's only one child we've got to do it. we've got to live on principal. that does it for us. we will see it next weekend remember to always dvr if you cannot catch us live. happy new year, "sunday night in america" with trey gowdy is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪