can see there it is in its completeness, only slight damage on the fringes. this contains songs that didn't make it into the book of psalms, but speak about king david. >> for now, visitors can experience the rich history of judaism through the museum's thousands of current exhibits. just in time for hanukkah. >> hanukkah is about the freedom that the maccabees brought when they brought new light back to the temple. and in some ways, we're in a world right now that needs new light. but even this can give hope that maybe someday we can get back to that concept of light being all around the world. >> absolutely remarkable pieces of history over there at the museum of the bible. happy hanukkah to everyone who is celebrating tonight and beyond that is it for us today. thank you for joining us. i'm shannon bream, wishing you and yours a happy and healthy 2025. it's going to be great. we'll see you next week and next year for fox news sunday. >> this is a fox news alert. former president jimmy carter

has died at the age of 100. hello everyone. i'm lisa boothe, along with guy benson, sarah carter and doctor marc siegel. and welcome to a special two hour extended edition of the big weekend show. carter, the longest lived american president, devoted much of his post-presidency to helping others. carter and his late wife, rosalynn, founded the carter center in 1982 to advance human rights. he traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, observe elections, and advance disease prevention. fox news anchor bret baier takes us a look back on the life and legacy of jimmy carter, the 39th president. >> i, jimmy carter, do solemnly swear. >> after the political trauma of watergate, jimmy carter's 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, in 1924 to peanut farming parents, carter attended the naval academy, earning the rank of lieutenant. in 1946, he married rosalynn smith and returned to plains in 1953 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 am a candidate for president. when he announced plans to run for president in 1974, carter was largely an unknown, but he managed to win his party's nomination and edge out incumbent president gerald ford by just 2% of the popular vote, one of the closest margins in recent history. president carter's greatest triumph came in 1978, when he brokered marathon diplomatic talks between israel's menachem begin and anwar sadat of egypt. the

resulting camp david accords ended years of fighting between the two countries. >> we've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking. stop cursing and start praying. >> the 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, 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 were mistreated. >> in 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 after he left office than while he was in it. despite countless controversial statements in recent years, including calls for the u.s. to legitimize the terror group hamas, which is openly committed to the destruction of israel, he helped convince the haitian military dictator raoul cedras to relinquish control of the island nation to elected leader jean-bertrand aristide. he monitored elections in nicaragua and helped end a standoff over inspection of nuclear facilities between the u.s. and north korea. carter was often 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. to end its trade embargo while challenging fidel castro to institute democratic reforms. later that year, the former president won the nobel peace prize for 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's aides said they had no knowledge of the plot against him. in the 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 the isolated country, arguing pyongyang was ready to talk and that the u.s. should come to the table. carter didn't hesitate to criticize the only other living president to be awarded the nobel peace prize, denouncing president obama for carrying out widespread drone strikes and warrantless wiretapping. he also said the obama administration waited too long to respond to the rising threat of isis. just months later, carter announced he had melanoma that had spread to his liver and brain. tackling the diagnosis with a measure of faith and fortitude through his cancer treatment, the former president remained active, continuing his charitable and religious activities. >> i don't know what the results will be, but i'm ready for whatever comes. >> months later, he was declared cancer free. he continued to hammer away at his charitable work with habitat for humanity all the way into his 90s. >> i feel like we always get more out of it than we than we put into it. although we work

sometimes very hard and overwork on occasion. >> and in one of his last major public appearances, made a show of bipartisanship, joining four other living presidents at the funeral service of george h.w. bush in 2018. second chances james earl carter thrived on them. >> i've had a wonderful life. i've had thousands of friends and i've had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence. >> and over time, americans developed a renewed appreciation for a man who resoundingly lost a reelection bid. this gentleman farmer from plains, georgia, who rose to become the 39th president of the united states. in washington, bret baier, fox news. >> now we're awaiting remarks from president joe biden will go live when we have those. but first, leaders from around the world are reacting to the death of president carter, including a written statement from president biden and president

elect donald trump. lucas tomlinson has more on their condolences. live from saint croix on the u.s. virgin islands. >> well, good evening, lisa. we are awaiting that statement from president biden here in saint croix. he should be speaking in the next few minutes. but in the meantime, we do have that paper statement issued from the white house. i'll read earlier from president biden. it says in part, quote, today, america and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian over six decades. we had the honor of calling jimmy carter a dear friend. but what's extraordinary about jimmy carter, though, is that millions of people throughout america and the world who never met him thought of him as a dear friend as well, with his compassion and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil rights and human rights, promote free and fair elections, and house the homeless, and always advocate for the least among us. he saved. he lifted and changed the lives of people all across the globe. he was a man of

great character and courage, hope and optimism. we will always cherish seeing him in roseland together. the love shared between jimmy and rosalynn carter is the definition of partnership, and their humble leadership is the definition of patriotism. and just in the last few hours, we also have from president elect donald trump, as you just showed there. if we can just bring that back, lisa, it says, quote, from president elect donald trump. i just heard about the news about the passing of president jimmy carter. those 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. the challenges jimmy faced as president came 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 and i are thinking warmly of the carter family and their loved ones during this difficult time. we urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers. and notable lisa, that president carter is the first president of united

states to graduate from the u.s. naval academy after serving aboard a number of surface ships, including the uss mississippi, a battleship, he transferred to the submarine forces. he was a protege of admiral hyman rickover, the father of the nuclear navy. he had slated then-lieutenant jimmy carter for promotion, but in 1953, when carter was a lieutenant, he thought he was destined for a career of naval service. his wife, rosalynn, loved the navy, didn't want him to leave. but when jimmy carter's father died, when earl carter died in 1953, jimmy carter made a difficult but noble and honorable decision that was to go back to plains, georgia and take over the family business. the peanut business, of course, that helped launch a political career that took him to the heights. as president elect donald trump said to a very exclusive club. it's also notable that president joe biden was the first to endorse jimmy carter. one of the first. he was a 35 year old senator in 1980 when he warned him that ted kennedy was going to try to primary him. so certainly one of the reasons here on vacation

in saint croix, president biden could have just issued that statement. he's on his way to give some remarks tonight. lisa. >> thank you, lucas. appreciate it. joining us now by phone is the executive editor and anchor of special report, bret baier. hi, bret. you know, jimmy carter leaves behind a complicated legacy. he's known to be a good man, as we just heard. a humanitarian loved god, loved his wife. but his presidency is marred by foreign policy and economic failures. how should we remember jimmy carter? well. >> good evening. i think his most memorable moments for post-presidency happened in all that he did to serve and in his life, his service. so maybe remembrance of service. obviously, his post-presidency has a different tinge to look at. and his the habitat for humanity. he built 4000 homes

on four different continents. he wrote 32 different books and was a prolific author. obviously went from peanut farmer, but also a baptist preacher who continued doing sunday school with his church down in georgia late into his his 90s. obviously, he's the oldest u.s. president and dying at 100. his his wife, rosalynn, dying at 96, in 2023. so his post-presidency, i think, is where a lot of people are going to remember jimmy carter, because you're you're right. his his presidency was marred by not only high inflation, but 14 months of hostages being held in iran that were released the day he left office. >> bret, it's guy benson. i want to talk about the earlier part of his life, which spanned a century, which is really incredible. the american story

of jimmy carter is exceptional. and you look at his service in the navy, which lucas tomlinson just mentioned. you look at the love affair with his wife that lasted decades. they were married in 1946, and they were married until she passed just last year. i mean, before he became president, this was an outstanding american life, was it not? >> it was. and, you know, it was the quintessential politician, small town who identified who the country could identify with. he went from a peanut farmer in plains, georgia, to become become georgia's governor. and in that way make a footprint there. that caught the eye of the democratic party overall, to the point where he was a contender against gerald ford. and he kind of came out of nowhere early on. but in the end, was the guy that because

of all his past being a u.s. navy veteran, being wearing and talking about his christian faith openly was a very attractive thing at that moment when gerald ford was was running. >> bret. doctor siegel, great, amazing package. the only thing you didn't mention in that package in the post-presidency was his fight against guinea worm, where they had 3.5 million cases in 1986 and 2022, was down to 13 cases because of his work and the work of the center and of course, his fight against melanoma, which you did mention convinced the world that it was okay to take immunotherapy for melanoma. what do you have to say about these things? >> well, yeah, i mean, listen, doc, you nailed some of those those things and they are part of his his past, the blueprint that makes up jimmy carter. and it's some of his successes. a lot of times politically, they talk about, you know, in the

history books, a lot of his failures and some of the challenges that he obviously faced in, in reelection. but but he did do a number of different things. and those are two big ones when it came to health. >> brett barrett, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. now let's bring in georgia congressman buddy carter first. we're also okay. just we'll start off saying no relationship congressman to the late president. we've talked a little bit about the national legacy of jimmy carter. but you both hail from the state of georgia. he was a state senator first, then governor of georgia. how will the state of georgia remember the late president? >> well, i think they'll remember him very fondly. we're very proud of jimmy carter and the work that he did along with his wife, rosalynn. and we're very proud, particularly of his post-presidency. and the carter center has done such an outstanding job. and, you know, while he did have some, some, some victories, if you will,

while he was in office, the camp david accords, infectious diseases, as you just pointed out, all of those were good. you know, his presidency overall was not the best. but we in georgia are very, very proud of him, particularly because of his stance on faith. you know, he brought faith to the forefront. and, and faith is very important to us in georgia, particularly in south georgia. and i he may be remembered more for his faith than than for his politics. >> hello, congressman. it's so nice to have you on here. you know, one of the issues that i want to talk about with president carter was what he had to deal with globally, i mean, many of the same issues. and chad pilgrim, our colleague, brought this up earlier, many of the same issues that he dealt with as president. we're dealing with now, whether that is iran, whether it's the panama canal, a lot of the same global issues. and i know that, you know, we can have our differences. democrats, republicans. but what were the lessons learned from jimmy carter that president elect trump can take from at this

point in time? >> well, i think president trump understands. and in fact, in his message, he alluded to the fact that, you know, it's a difficult job and these are difficult decisions. i remember in his book, keeping faith, jimmy carter said that every decision he ever made was a difficult decision. all the easy decisions had been made below him. if it rose to that level, it was a difficult decision and i could feel just, you know, how difficult it was for him when he was serving in that position. but, you know, again, his faith, i think, is what carried him through and helped him to make a lot of these great decisions. >> congressman buddy carter, thank you. we appreciate it. we're also following another fox news alert. a team of u.s. investigators is assisting the probe into the plane crash that killed at least 179 people in south korea. so what went wrong? fox report anchor and licensed pilot jon scott joins us to discuss that next.

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plane veered off the runway and collided with a concrete fence. joining us now by phone is fox report anchor jon scott, who is also a certified pilot. jon, thanks for your time here tonight. when you look at that footage and you're starting to read more about this terrible accident, i think often people hear a phrase like, oh, it skidded off the runway and they don't expect a death toll like the one that we've seen. what sticks out to you about this case and this incident? >> this is it's a combination of terrible bad luck, i think, and perhaps some bad resource management in the cockpit. and i hate to blame the pilots. and it's going to be up to the investigating authorities to finally decide what exactly went wrong. but a couple of things i spoke to. i've flown the boeing 737 800 simulator, so i know something about that plane. >> and i've spoken to a friend who has thousands of hours in it. he says even if you lose

your engines and your hydraulic gear, you can pull three levers in the cockpit and the gear will drop down automatically under the weight of gravity. so the force of gravity. so they should have had landing gear. i don't understand why they didn't. it's a mystery to me. the other tragic thing is that the localizer antenna at the end of the runway was built on what looks like a reinforced concrete wall that's maybe 4 or 6ft high. i don't know why they have such a robust structure. they could have made it out of wood. they could have put poles all the way to the ground. but that hitting that concrete wall is what tore the plane apart and created the fireball. >> hi, john, this is sarah carter. i'm curious what the next steps will be. i mean, as far as the investigators and what role will boeing play in that investigation? what will they be asked of? >> i'm sure boeing will be

involved in the investigation, but it's really up to the investigating authorities in south korea to decide who they want, you know, to bring in. i'm sure the u.s. government, you know, the ntsb will offer its help. and it might they might accept that. but boeing also will offer its assistance. but whether they will accept that, that's totally up to the south korean government. >> john, i want to ask you, doctor. >> sorry, i just have to i have to quickly jump in here with a fox news alert. president joe biden has now come to the podium in the u.s. virgin islands, reflecting on the death of president carter. let's listen. >> today, america and the world, in my view, lost a remarkable leader. he was a statesman, a humanitarian. and jill and i lost a dear friend. i've been hanging out with jimmy carter for over 50 years. it dawned on me and i had countless conversations with him over those years, and i

always would be proud to say that he used to kid me about it, that i was the first national figure to endorse him in 1976, when he ran for president. it was an overwhelming reason for it. his character. what i find extraordinary about jimmy carter, though, is that millions of people all around the world, all over the world, feel they lost a friend as well, even though they never met him. and that's because jimmy carter lived a life measured not by words, but by his deeds. just look at his life. his life's work. he worked to eradicate disease. not not just at home, but around the world. he forged peace, advanced civil rights, human rights. promote a free and fair elections around the world. he built housing and homelessness for the homeless with his own hands and his compassion and moral clarity. clarity lifted people up and changed lives and saved lives

all over the globe. jimmy carter was just as courageous in his battle against cancer as he was, and everything in his life. cancer was a common bond between our two families as of many other families, and our son beau died when he died. jimmy and rosalynn were there to help us heal. jimmy knew the ravages of the disease too well. he lost his father, his brother, his sisters to this terrible disease. so when jimmy was diagnosed, we did our best to comfort him. we met with him down in plains. we met with him and we talked and shared our beliefs that as a nation, we have the talent. we have the talent and the resources to one day end cancer as we know it. if we make the investments. he believed that like i do. i'll always cherish having seen jimmy and rosalynn carter together. theirs was a love affair for the ages. i will miss them both dearly. do take some solace in that. our kids

are saying it, that they're united once again. we're going to remain forever in our hearts, but they're together again. the entire carter family, on behalf of the world, the whole nation, we send our whole heartfelt sympathies and gratitude, our gratitude for sharing president carter with us for so many years. you know, jimmy carter stands as a model of what it means to live a life of meaning and purpose, a life of principle, of faith and humility. he his life dedicated to others. you know, he was like my dad. he thought that he'd say, joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it's about dignity. your dignity by being able to look your kid in the eye and say, honey, everything's going to be okay. he believed, as i do. and many of you do, that. that's absolutely possible. it's within our grasp to do that. it's not that hard. and his life. and his life. he served the nation in the navy. he led

the state of georgia. he became president and a beloved statesman all over the world. but to know his core, you need to know he never stopped being a sunday school teacher at that baptist church in plains, georgia. today's world. some look at jimmy carter and see a man of a bygone era with honesty and character and faith and humility. it mattered, but i don't believe it's a bygone era. i see a man not only of our times, but for all times. someone who embodied the most fundamental human values we can never let slip away. although sometimes it seems like it is. we may never see his like again. we'd all do well to try and be a little more like jimmy carter. you know my mom, you've heard me say this before. he used to say, bravery lives in every heart. and someday it will be summoned. every time it was summoned. he stepped up every time, politically, personally and morally. and you

know everything. the one thing i admired most about him, he thought and believed. and he really did believe this. and i do as well. everybody deserves an even shot. no guarantees. just a shot. everybody deserves a shot. and you know, i he gave an awful lot of people a chance. so as i said, i was an admirer. i consider myself a friend. kept in touch with him and. i was going to tell you a story his son told me. but that would be inappropriate. maybe he'll tell you. but. about he. i think he's happy. i think he's happy with rosalynn. >> so the president, as you think about your post-presidency, is there anything about jimmy carter's time after leaving office that inspired you for the years

ahead? yeah. >> 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 of hearing 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, and he believed it. >> sir, what is your fondest memory of jimmy carter? >> i have a number of them, i guess. maybe my fondest memory of jimmy carter was when he. he grabbed me by the arm and said. i need you to help me in my campaign. and i said, i've only been around a couple of years, mr. governor. he said, no, he'll make a difference. and i said, i'm not sure it will. he said, no, it will. when i endorsed him for president, i told him why i was endorsing him and that it was not only

his policies, but his character, his decency, the honor he communicates to everyone. and but he was also very, very he and rosalynn were very kind to jill and me when we lost our son, beau. they were there for us. and i don't know, it's a. i think that what jimmy carter is an example of is just simple decency. simple decency. and i think that's what the rest of the world looks to america for. >> so what members of the family have you spoken to? >> i think i've spoken to all the children. there may be some i just got off the phone with. i think there were, you know, how many on the phone, but i think and i've spoken to some of the friends of the family that are helping with the services, and my team is

working with his family and others to see to it that he is remembered appropriately here in the united states and around the world. there's a process going going through that will take a little time to set up this. i announced earlier today we're going to do a major service in washington, d.c, on behalf of him. but that's a that's a formal procedure that's underway. so i'm sure we'll be talking a lot to the family between now. and my main contact is chip. >> thank you everybody. thank you, president trump. president carter, decency, decency, decency. >> everybody deserves a shot. everybody. can you imagine jimmy carter walking by someone who needed something and just keep walking? can you imagine

jimmy carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk? i can't, i can't. you know, i think at the end of the deal here is that one of the reasons why we look to buy the rest of the world for the bulk of our, our nationhood, we've laid out what our values are. we've said we believe it's not just in the declaration. we hold these truths to be self-evident, but there's a feeling the rest of the world looks to us, looks to us, and he was worth looking to. well, thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. that was the president of the united states reacting to the death of one of his predecessors, the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter, dead today at the age of 100. biden, speaking movingly, at times very

personally, about jimmy carter. he called him a statesman and a humanitarian, a friend of his for over 50 years, biden said he referred to the 39th president as a man of character and courage. he made reference to that very long marriage between president carter and his late wife, rosalynn. roughly 77 years of marriage. and he said that jimmy carter led a life of meaning and purpose, faith and humility, and the word that he came to over and over again was decency. in describing the man, jimmy carter, who we lost and were mourning here today. and to that point, lisa boothe. i want to bring it out to the table. you told us a story, a personal story that someone in your family had an interaction with jimmy carter that i think plays into what we just heard from joe biden. >> yeah, i was talking to my dad before the show like i normally do, and he was telling me a story about how he was flying from d.c. to atlanta, and jimmy carter was on his flight, and jimmy carter was known to fly commercial with his wife. and so my dad said, what he did is he went all the way through the flight and shook hands with everyone on

the flight that wanted to shake his hand. also took selfies with everyone who wanted to take a picture with him. and my dad said that he thought to himself, you know, this man is a class act. what a classy thing to do. and so, you know, of course, we want to remember that legacy of him being a good and decent man and wanting to be with the people. >> that's such a great story. and it also shows the complexity of politics, right? i mean, we could be after each other one minute and then the next minute something tragic like this happens, and it gives us a moment to reflect on our nation and the people that have served this country. like president carter. it allows us to put our differences aside and find that kind of common ground, i think, where we all connect and that's such a beautiful story. and, you know, guy, when you talk about their marriage, i mean, 77 years. i mean, that's that's just unbelievable to me. like you'd never see that anymore. so this really is a moment to remember all the good things about president carter and that. and i think, doctor siegel, what makes our nation so great? >> you know, i've talked to the carter center a lot. i've done

a lot of work with them. and the first question i ever asked them is, what role does president carter play here? and they said, he's our friend. he's involved in everything. and guy that is not a photo op. when he's banging those nails into those houses. that's what he did. he was hands on just like on that plane all the time. >> and he did that into his 90s. yeah, right. he was out building homes for poor people around the world into his 90s. that is just amazing. and, you know, sarah, i can't help but think about the faith aspect of this as well. jimmy carter, a devout baptist, a sunday school teacher. i think it's inextricably linked to that decency that we keep hearing about. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, and i think that that faith is part of the american people. it's like you said, you know, in his 90s, he's building homes. it gives us hope for all of us. you know, like we're going to get older, get older with grace and do your best no matter what. >> joining us now by phone is former white house deputy chief of staff under president george w bush and fox news contributor

karl rove. karl, you go back to when he was president and you were starting out in those days. tell me what you think president carter's legacy is. >> well, first of all, i met him when i was in my early 20s, and i happened to be walking through the old washington national airport in 1975. and he he was walking through the airport as well, carrying his suit in a suit bag over his shoulder. and i introduced myself as a young staffer at the republican national committee. >> and he chit chatted for a few moments and talked about his bid for the presidency. >> he was going to run for president, and he gave me his business card as governor of georgia and asked me to keep an open mind with, you know, sort of a laugh in his voice. >> and i wish i'd kept that business card, but you today talks so much about his decency, and this was a reason why he was elected president. the country was bitterly divided. our prestige had been

hurt in the aftermath of watergate. people did not believe in the presidency. and here was a man who of enormous faith and character, who promised to restore honesty and dignity to the white house. and he did. and it was a reason that the american people turned to him a relatively obscure one term governor of georgia. and he beat gerald ford, who succeeded richard nixon in the white house. after nixon's resignation. and he did that. he did restore our confidence in the presidency. now, he did some remarkable things. the peace accord between egypt and israel, the deregulation of america's airlines and telecom and railroads and other things that have been hidebound for years. and he and he did play a remarkable role in reestablishing an emphasis on human rights. his talk about the dissidents in the soviet union, and about the right of all people to live in freedom,

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>> this is a fox news alert. former president jimmy carter has died at the age of 100. fox has told the former president is expected to lie in state at the capitol rotunda before a funeral at the national at the washington national cathedral. joining us now by phone is fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> chad, well, we're thinking that the former president will lie in state in the capitol rotunda around january 6th, january 7th. >> usually, presidents who passed on, they lie in state in the capitol rotunda. 12 presidents have lain in state in the capitol rotunda. the last was president george h.w. bush. >> that was in december of 2018. there are some exceptions to that rule. richard nixon did not lie in state when he passed away in 1994. some of his family members did not think that he would be. some people thought that people might come and attend. this would not be respectful, respectful to the former president. and the same

with harry truman. he did not lie in state, you know, either, but pretty much most modern presidents, they lie in state. and what they usually do is this is a big ceremony where you have usually a horse drawn carriage bringing in the casket. they lie in state. there's usually a lot of dignitaries, foreign leaders who come to celebrate the life of that president. i mean, i was certainly there when president reagan died in 2004. and you had, you know, leaders who are very emblematic of that period. you know, margaret thatcher, who was the prime minister of the united kingdom, mikhail gorbachev, general secretary of the soviet union. come. and so we would expect some sort of a similar demonstration, this time with president carter. i will say that there might be a little bit of a complicated situation, because january 6th is when they are supposed to meet in a joint session of congress in the house chamber to certify the electoral college. and they have deemed this to be a national security event. and if you're dealing with that, and

now they have to wrestle with, are they going to allow the public to come into the building, you know, to give their respects? that's usually what they do. or do they delay that by a day or two or does that look a little bit different? we just don't know. but this will happen sometime, probably just after the first of the year. >> president elect trump's day one plans for america might be in jeopardy if a house speakership battle delays his certification. current house speaker mike johnson faces a tough road ahead. house democrats say they're united against him, and at least one gop congressman has said he will not vote for johnson if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker. >> they're kidding themselves. we can't get anything done unless we have a speaker. >> there will be no democrats available to save him or the extreme maga republicans from themselves. >> i'll vote for somebody else. >> i'm going to keep my options open. >> we just got to make sure that we get the best person for

the job. >> i'm losing confidence with each day. >> johnson has to do his best to start finally showing that he's going to do what he says and not just continue to try and make deals with hakeem jeffries. >> all this is going to do is delay us. it's going to delay the certification of president trump's election. it's going to delay the start of his of his first 100 days in office, which is the most important. >> fox news correspondent. fox news correspondent matt finn is live in west palm beach, florida tonight with the latest. hi, matt. >> hi, sarah. this friday, january 3rd, when the republican controlled congress reconvenes, it has the constitutional obligation to select its next speaker of the house. the current speaker, republican mike johnson, needs a majority, 218 yes votes. as chad pergram always says, it's about the math. however, indiana republican congresswoman victoria spartz says she's not sure who she'll vote for. kentucky congressman thomas massie says he will not vote for johnson, and there's speculation pa representative scott perry could challenge

johnson. now, you may recall back in 2023, the house took several days to vote on a new speaker in what's considered a worst case scenario if the house does not have a speaker on january 6th, it would not be able to certify november's election that donald trump overwhelmingly won. today, president elect trump took to truth social to slam the previous speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, for raising the debt ceiling, writing the extension of the debt ceiling by a previous speaker of the house. a good man and a friend of mine from this past september of the biden administration to june of the trump administration, will go down as one of the dumbest political decisions made in years. there was no reason to do it. nothing was gained, and we got nothing for it. a major reason why that speakership was lost. now, california democratic congressman ro khanna says he's not worried about this speakership vote. today. he told fox news he believes november's election will be certified. >> we're going to certify the election. i plan to show up to the inauguration. it's not

about president trump. it's about honoring the american people. and we've got to get past this thing that everything has to be partizan. you know, when i put forward a proposal of common sense on h1-b reform, i had people on my side saying, why are you doing that, ro? let the republicans fight, let them destroy each other. fighting. that's the wrong approach. we're americans first. we've got to be solution oriented. the american people just elected donald trump. >> now, two legal experts published an op ed suggesting how democrats would be able not to certify president elect donald trump on january 6th. it's just a theory that has been floated around. back to you guys. >> thanks so much, matt. guy, what do you take what do you make of this? i mean, we were talking about this before the show. he can only lose one vote. i mean, mike johnson, this is going to be he's between a rock and a hard place, and so is the president. if he can't get the speaker back. >> yeah. so the math is chad

pergram talks about is 220 to 215, right? a very narrow majority, at least on paper, but with some of these absences. right. with some of these vacancies, three of them, that gets your number down to 217. so it's 217 to 215. there's no margin for error whatsoever. so i understand some people making noises about keeping their options open. what option are we talking about. is there any viable option other than speaker johnson. and if there's going to be a long, protracted issue here, not only could there be a complication, as we just heard, involving the january 6th certification, there could be a real threat to president elect and then president trump's agenda once he takes office. and that is something that he is going to be, i think, very adamant about. he wants this drama behind him by the time he takes the oath of office. >> absolutely. because he wants day one to start getting work done, and he can't get work done on day one if they don't get this taken care of. you were talking about cory mills. we were joking around about that. here's the other name he

is, but he is the other name of someone that's not all in. >> mike lawler from new york now is saying, let's get this over with. what guy is saying? but a lot of the hesitation comes from the bill, from that spending bill, which included $100 billion in defense aid, to disaster preparedness aid, which didn't necessarily need to be in a bill that was intended just to keep the government open. and that got president trump incoming. president trump off. but we need a speaker. guy is right. we need a speaker. >> kicked it down the road. right, lisa? i mean, they kicked the cr down the road now. now what happens come january if we can't get mike johnson back? >> well, and it's a tough time because you're talking about mid-march. that's going to be within the first hundred days of president trump's presidency. and he's got big things he wants to do. so that does give democrats some leverage in trying to renegotiate that at that time. because, look, we have majorities in the house and the senate, but they're not large and they're not filibuster proof in the senate as well. so that's going to create that's going to give democrats some leverage and create some complications. i will say i've

worked on capitol hill when john boehner was there, and also for a little bit when paul ryan, there's always going to be grievances against the speaker. but what we saw when kevin mccarthy fought for his life with those 15 rounds before getting the speaker's gavel in 2023, they're very specific policy demands that were taking place, capping discretionary spending and a motion to vacate, making it easier to remove the speaker. i've not heard those specific demands with speaker johnson here. i think there are legitimate concerns with him, particularly the way that he handled the cr and sort of not being forthcoming with his fellow republicans. you know, i had congressman, some congressman joked that i didn't even know i was getting a raise originally. right. so that's not good. you want to have open communication and transparency, but, you know, we're about to find out. >> so if you're a betting person guy what do you think you have to or out? >> i think you bet on johnson because there is no alternative that really makes any sense. and i think a big difference between sort of that drawn out mess that we saw with kevin mccarthy and this time was that was during the biden administration. right. so we

had divided government, a democratic president this time around, the president will be or incoming president will be donald trump, and he will not be some shrinking violet on the sidelines. right. he's going to want, as we've been talking about, a at least somewhat functional house of representatives, at least nominally controlled by his party up and running by the time he wants to start getting some of these bills into the ether. >> so maybe trump, president trump should come out and speak then maybe at this point. >> yeah, well, that's the other thing. johnson should go down to mar-a-lago or get invited there. >> well, and there's also this. and real quick, i'll say even republicans had a trifecta in 2017. they failed initially to repeal obamacare. and that was with a large margin in the house. and we're talking about small margins here. so it's going to be interesting. well, now to this, with just 22 days left until president elect trump returns to the white house, mexico is taking steps to prepare for his mass deportations by launching an app that allows mexican migrants to alert their relatives and the nearest consulate if they are detained by u.s. immigration agents.

meanwhile, we're continuing to see more heartbreaking scenes unfold at the border. you're looking at two migrant kids right there who have been abandoned. they're only five and nine years old, both from el salvador. during the biden administration. we've even seen babies being thrown over the border wall. sarah, obviously, i've got to start with you on this. you've spent so much time at the border. what have you seen? >> i mean, this is enormously frustrating for me because these children, we see them every single day and i would see it personally. i would talk to them. there were so many times i ran into children that were being brought across the rio grande, you know, by a smuggler with only a little number in their pocket and saying that they're trying to reach a mother or a father. but i got to tell you this, lisa, one of the biggest issues i have with this are a lot of parents that are paying for these smugglers or families or people that we don't even know. we don't even know if they're the appropriate guardians, if these children are being abused, but they're not being charged with crimes. if you and i let a criminal take our child across three countries, you

know, and then expect that child to not be harmed, i mean, we would probably be talked to by authorities. we might be arrested. but that doesn't happen under the biden administration. they were hand delivering these children to people that they didn't even know where their appropriate guardians. so and they weren't even charging the families that were paying for these children to come across the border with smugglers. so to me, i mean, that's a crime against humanity. it will obviously stop under president trump. this is something that tom homan has made a priority. i just spoke with him the other day. it said it's going to be one of the top priorities to not only locate the children that have been lost in our country over 350,000, but to ensure that those children are no longer delivered to criminals, i think all of us came from immigrants at some point, but we came here legally and we are supposed to have borders. >> this is a public health crisis as well because diseases are spreading around the country as a result. i love the tough talk coming from tom homan and president trump, and

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humanitarian efforts after leaving the white house and received the nobel peace prize in 2002 for advocacy on human rights and democracy. fox news anchor bret baier takes a look back at the very long life and legacy of jimmy carter. >> i, jimmy carter do solemnly swear... ... >> squeaky clean background to demonstrate a new way of doing things in washington he began his presidency on a frigid january day 1977 walking instead of riding the length of pennsylvania avenue from the capital to the white house. at the first president ever to do this. born in plains, georgia, 1924 to peanut farm parents, carter attended the naval academy earning the rank of lieutenant. in 1946 he married roselyn smith and return to the points 1953 to run the family farming business. it was there that carter

developed an interest in politics. he was elected state senator 1962 and governor in georgia 1970. when he announced plans to run for president in 1974, carter was largely an unknown, but he managed to win his party's nomination and edged out in common president gerald ford by 2% of the popular vote, one of the closest margins in recent history. president carter's greatest came in 1978 when he brokered marathon diplomatic talks between israel's -- and the egypt code to the result camp david accords in ended years of fighting between the to countries. >> they have to stop crying and start sweating, start talking and start walking. stop cursing and start praying. >> delay '7 is a time of oil shortages, high unemployment and

double-digit inflation. carter worked diligently to solve the problems that the economy slipped into a recession. then an event to dominate the remainder of carter's presidency, iranian militants captured and held 52 american embassy hostage in tehran. enabled to negotiate their release, carter ordered a rescue mission which ended in disaster, eight servicemen died when helicopters collide in the iranian desert. >> americans and iran were mistreated. >> in 1980 voters rejected carter's bid in second term and to add insult to injury at the day he left office, the american hostages in tehran were released to the new reagan administration. carter returned to georgia and through nonprofit carter center remained active in efforts to promote peace ar around the wor. his efforts were successful, and he guarded more respect after he left office then while he was in it despite countless

controversial statements in recent years including calls for the u.s. to legitimize the terror group hamas openly committed to the destruction of israel. he conducted to relinquish control of the island nation to an elected leader and he monitored elections in nicaragua and helped and a standoff over inspection of nuclear facilities between the u.s. and north korea. carter was often seen with a hammer in hand building homes for the poor as part of his continuing support for the habitat for humanity project. he rode countless books, including one book of poetry and a man more. 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. to end its trade embargo while challenging fidel castro to institute democratic reforms. later that year, the former

president won the nobel peace prize for decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts. during a trip to the middle east in the summer of 2009 and alleged assassination plot by al qaeda linked group was uncovered though the president's aides said they had no knowledge of the plot against him. in the summer of 2010, carter traveled to north korea successfully a release of an american citizen who had been sentenced to hard labor after allegedly entering the country illegally. upon his return, carter had a comprehensive peace treaty with isolated country arguing pyongyang was ready to talk and the u.s. should come to the table. carter did not hesitate to criticize only president with the nobel peace prize announcing president obama with widespread drone strikes and wireless tapping. he said the obama administration waited too long to respond to the rising threat of isis.

just months later, carter announced he had melanoma, it had spread to his liver and brain. tackling the diagnosis with a measure of faith and fortitude. through his cancer treatment, the former president remained active, continuing charitable and religious activities. >> i don't know what the results will be, but i'm ready for whatever will come. >> months later he was declared cancer free and he continued to hammer away with his charity work with habitat for humanity all the way into his 90s. >> i feel like we get more out of it then we put into it although sometimes we work hard and overwork. >> one of his last major public appearances made a show of bipartisanship joining four other living presidents at the funeral service for george h.w. bush in 2018. second chance is, james earl carter thrived on. >> a wonderful life of thousands

of friends and i've had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying assistance. >> overtime, america has developed a new appreciation for a man who reads handedly lost a reelection bid. this farmer from plains, georgia, who rose to become the 39th president of the united states. in washington, bret baier, fox news. >> anchor for that. leaders across the country wrecked into the death of president carter including president biden and president-elect donald trump. lucas tomlinson has more on st. croix in the u.s. virgin islands, good evening. >> good evening, guy. president biden interrupted his vacation not only to issue a statement about jimmy carter's passing but also made a statement within the last hour. this is what he said. >> never give up hope and i mean it from the bottom of my heart.

so much negativism as there. i know you are tired of hearing me say it over the last four years, but folks, there is nothing beyond our capacity. nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. i mean it, i mean it. he believed it. >> president-elect trump issuing a statement earlier saying, "i just heard the news about the passing of former president jimmy carter. those who have served as president understand this is a very exclusive club, and we can only relate to the u norma enormous responsibility of leading the nation. the challenges jimmy carter has faced at a pivotal time in the country and he did everything to empower the lives of all americans. for that we owe him a debt of gratitude. we are thinking of the carter family and loved ones during this difficult time and we urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers. it is notable that presi

president biden 20 years younger than jimmy carter and spoke earlier about he was the first senator to endorse jimmy carter when he ran for president in 1976 and later as 35-year-old senator in 1978. he was the first to warn jimmy carter that ted kennedy was going to try to primary carter. it is notable, guys, history could have turned out different and of course iranian hostage siege and the u.s. embassy in tehran played the carter administration 444 days until president ronald reagan took office and president carter had ordered rescue operations to rescue those 52 americans in tehran. very different situation, by the way, and went and when seized just weeks after the failed u.s. rescue. irene terrorist group seized iranian embassy margaret thatcher newly elected

prime minister ordered special air service to put an end to that siege after six days have list iron lady so you have to think how history could have been different but one thing for sure, president biden and president carter who many see both as failed one-term president is an economy that failed them. president biden certainly felt moral obligation not to just issued this statement but interrupt his vacation st. croix. lucas. >> worth mentioning their friendship there for 50 years that he enjoyed from former president jimmy carter. with us now and as i recall a gap fox news correspondent david spunt. 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, guys, good to be with you well. i did know president carter and i knew him because i was a reporter and first job in

columbus, georgia, two years ago in plains, georgia, where he lived his entire life after he left the white house was in that market. we 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 and interviewed him several times. just a gentleman, someone that after he became president could have gone anywhere 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 in graduate from the naval academy. he taught sunday school and that is how i got to know him by attending sunday school services at the baptist church which eventually turned into an interview that he taught sunday school for decades and

led me people and smile and talk to them about bible verses and got to know them that way. that was very notable and humbling. >> this is sara carter. i hi have a question regarding president trump's statement he just made. he said to, you know, this is a very exclusive club, and these are a lot of challenges 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 post-presidency? a lot of people look at his presidency very critical of it but they look at post-presidency and say, look at how much he did afterwards that made such a difference and also that type of relationship we see between the presidents. >> certainly notable, sarah. this is someone after he became president, he decided to go back to plains, georgia, and it is

not unusual for a president to go back to their home state or where they may want to go after they leave potentially the most stressful job in the world. however, jimmy carter continue to help eradicate a disease that plagued the continent of africa for years. he built homes for habitat for humanity. he traveled the world and helped with north korea to secure the release of a hostage. this is someone who worked in his 80s and 90s. i believe the last time i saw him was 91st birthday party in plains, georgia, in person. via a mutual friend afterwards. but he was great. this is right after he announced he had brain cancer. he beat that and hung on to be 100 years old. the relationship that he had with mrs. rosalynn carter was truly incredible. i told the story earlier. she was born in 1927 and he was

born in 1924. joe his mother was a nurse. i believe helped either deliver or cared for rosalynn carter's mother so jimmy carter first met rosalynn carter in 1927 when she was obviously where they got married many years later. but he was with her until she took her last breath in 2023, november 2023. quite a story. the point is he kept in touch with other presidents but it wasn't about keeping in touch with other presidents but being back in his roots in plains, georgia, and helping with habitat for humanity at the carter center and traveling. the man worked nonstop. >> david spunt, thank you for those reflections in your personal experience with 39 president, jimmy carter who passed away today at the age of 100. with us now to further discuss jimmy carter jimmy carter and look as he specifically is fox news senior political analyst brit hume.

it is great to see you in as you look back on this extraordinary life that span a century, what comes to mind? >> he had a long and consequential life to be sure. what i remember most because i was a reporter in washington at the time, we have quite a difficult presidency. is not politically speaking a successful presidency. he encountered inflation so great the new federal reserve chairman who he appointed paul parker raised interest rates rarely if ever seen before appeared to the economy slid into recession and people were totally disenchanted with the economy and with the president that they felt was responsible for it. that was very much into his loss in 1980 as did the situation wwith the hostages and iran who had been taken as mentioned and ultimately taken for 444 days.

try as he might, carter could not get them out and as noted, released the day ronald reagan took office. so he left the presidency and beaten badly by ronald reagan in 1980, but there was a major and very consequential achievement with enormous credit, in my v view, camp david accords between israel and egypt. i remember they were hammered out at camp david under his watchful eye. and out of egypt, people talking about camp david accords, they should be called the jimmy carter agreement because he worked so hard to get it. of course, that was a real breakthrough that agreement between israel that stands to this date and major achievement, indeed. >> lisa boothe here, we heard president biden speak earlier and jimmy carter's first presidential endorsement in 1976. what is so interesting, they are so many parallels between the

man, their presidencies and electoral offices. >> there are, indeed. and i think at this moment, i know a lot of democrats and liberals think president biden had an enormous consequential president say, he did not achieve, in my view, anything on the scale of camp david accords. he does not have anything like that 2.2. but president biden was affected so strongly as president carter by the economy and particularly the plague of inflation. it could be argued successfully that president biden by expanding he and his party engaged in early stages of his presidency, those things were responsible for the inflation. i'm not sure carter failed to solve that he was not as responsible what happened in his term 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 kind of got a reputation for

being mean. he was pretty tough when he resisted the challenge from president or senator kennedy. people were going around saying down deep despite his religious faith, which was real and despite his character he was at a mean streak. i met him once when he and gerald ford, of course, the man he beat for presidency, they were out on the electorate circuit doing debates. i moderated one and carter could not have been more charming. remarkable. took both her hands in his and incomparably friendly. >> brit hume, we appreciate your time this evening and those thoughts and some 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 at the age of 100.

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♪ ♪ >> one democrat is slamming hert own party after they passed over ao.c for 74-year-oldta kegerald connolly on the oversit committee. take a listen. >> we are really stuck in herhi ngold ways of doing things, whih is you get there by seniority. g if you get there longer, you get the post. i don't think we fully sit there and say who may be best equipped for this moment? >> speaking of seniority, biden reportedly said he think he awould have be trump and regrer dropping out of the 2024 race. i don't know. i know you have a point to make on this and we are all shocked when he said that, but what do yohatu think? do you think he would have won? >> if you look at the real clear politics average when joe biden dropped out hekn was doing worse than donald trump then trump against kamala harris. there was an argument to be made joe biden might have done better

in states like pennsylvania or michigan that kamala harris was disconnected from those. but regarding the comments about today's democrat party, aoc and more progressive wing of thet party have consumed the establishment democrat party. today's democrat party and you look at the crazy things like green new deal or men and women's sports and mutilating children's bodies in b the named transgenderism. so those policy ideas are the ones that have taken over. democrats didn't have a message problem this election cycle f objection of these ideas and has nothing to do with age but objection of ideas. they wan a yt a younger crowd be have the squad and that is what america was voting against just like lisa said appear to green new deal, woke ideology and all of this was turning off the majority of americans and do you think this wasur. about age so much t

ppolicy? >> i think nancy pelosi obviously believed that aoc in that perch would be a liability for the party because she was ind working the phones behind te scenes to boost connolly.a i don't think it was a generational solidarity thing. we want to win and making aoc and hard left peopleeopl even br base as of the policy, pelosi g decided waivs not a great ideani given what happened at the election. i wanted to say something about biden these reports are plausible for sure hausie is sa, "i would have won this thing" he was forced out. this inos not something he wantd to do but fantasy. at that debate june 27th after t the first 20 minutes, thehe election was over. >> it was done. >> the democrats understood that which they went with a flawedav ealternative that jill biden would not have gotten better over the campaign but he would have gotten worse in the margins would have been morethe damaging for the democrats if he

had stayed end.ss >> absolutely dr. siegel, what about the health issues?just he just wasn't healthy enough. he was not healthy enough to run again or be president. i don't think he should have been an office. >> that is the element in the room. i agree with everything guy saip a, the democratic party haven. t gone off the rails in a wokeave physician. but the real elephant inthei the room and every american ising thinking this, what were you doing for four years? dr. marc siegel was saying 2020g doesn't look right and he isn't speaking right. left with four years theand office when we don't knod what was going t on behind the scenes. americans don't like things being hidden from them so they thatwill not vote for that grou. >> don't believe your lying eyes and we don't believe it, cheap m fakes. exactly.tate jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states has passed away at the age of 100.ng

hundreds t of dignitaries, world leaders sending condolences and sharing their memoriesir of the former president. former speechwriter formi president george w. bush joined us next on this extended the addition of "the big weekend show."

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has to lie in state at the capitol rotunda for eight days. joining us by phone iowa senator, chuck grassley. good evening, and lender., >> how are you doing? >> great, chuck. what is your remembrance of jimmy carter? >> well, i think compassionate, simple decency, humanitarianismd and i think he restored decency to the white house after nixon's resignation. i think he will be remembered most for cape david accords. most people won't think of that, but that is what i think of because it i brought peace that still exist between israel and egypt. i was extended to jordan. i think it opened the door for the abraham accords under trumpt so that four other arab nations

even though it is not a peace agreement, relative peace in business arrangements with israelhink. 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. well he was president of thel united states, i didn't have a personal relationship with him. formal events at the white house, but after he was president, he asked me to go to nicaragu toa with him to monitot the elections at that particular time. i forget the year of that, but i couldn't go because of things going on in washington, d.c., at that time that i couldn'hatt go with h hime.e but he called me personally and asked me to do it. of van and 2008, he called me and asked me to participate in t

groups gathering in atlanta.nd i did go there and speak. i had a personal conversations m with him and his wife. he has a very decent person.s so >> senator grassley, sara carter here. it is so nice to be able to talk to you about this because you have that relationship with president jimmy carter.av one of his legacies will behe camp david as you mentioned, but what are the lessons learned from his presidency?ing many of the same issues we areus facing today are very similar f global issues he faced during hiacurins presidency.ha >> i think most of what he lost the presidency on was thingsly b that can't be completely blamed for. emb the arab oil embargo was driving up the price of gasoline. we had the iranian american

hostages being held.in we had direct invasion of afghanistan. and then we had runawayte inflation that was instigatedd t decisions 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 thatit led to the hyperinflation that carter got .4. >> senator grassley, lisa boothe herete, you were firstd electeo thee house 1975 just befores carter took office as president. what was it like to serve in congress during that period of time? >> well, as a freshman congressman and i was there for lesix years, four of them whilee waass president, think we had se

things that normally would assign to a democrat accomplishing a great deal of the regulation. i mean, you think trump's will r do some deregulation. but the big things of doing the regulation of thofe airlines ane the trucking industry and the railroad industry, that isent directly instituted by the carter, byy president carter ana his cabinet at thabit particular time. and we still are benefiting from that as consumers today. pet when you hear about carter being the worst president beforu biden, you wouldn't think any of those things would come. oug but i think he ought to be given credit by consumers today wherec some oisf the decisions he madel deregulation. >> senator grassley, great to have you with us tonight.u we f appreciate it, sir, thank l

for your years in the senate, god blesbls you. >> god bless you. >> let's bring in former speechwriter wal michael gersonn hume wrote an amazing: 2015 for the journal called missing jimmy carter.ca talk to me about that. >> well coach i'm not so sure i want to be held to where i was ten years ago. i was never a fan of the jimmy carter. it was firmly ingan the rack and camp. i thin k reagan delivered what e had to. . ii remember the gas lines andl remember the inflation and irent look back at my parents putting six kids through college with a inflation and it was crazy. i remember at the overseas disaster with a hostages andley iran.ng but as senator grassley says, looking at jimmy's jimmy carter's record, there is a little more there and he's often compared t bo joe biden bt

jimmy carter did deregulate thee airline industry and i believe the little in finance as well. that was a big step for america. also when he realized his hetakes, inflation, appointed in 1979 called to the fed. the tight money when running for reelection, you really don't want tightd money. i think that was the decision that put the country ahead of him. at the same time after theimmy soviets invaded afghanistan and jimmy carter said he was shocked by the move, he started kind of the breakdown of the soviet empire e we know for later. so we has real achievements and some real moves that put the country ahead of its own you interest. >> they'll, it is guy benson and you look at the numbers10 associated with jimmy carter 100

years of life and 77 years of marriage and 444 days of thatis crisis t that really consumed te latter part of his presidency and weighed on him history has shown and a lot of writing about that time. when you looyok back and startig to assess not just thema politician, but the man himself as well on a day likell,e this,o do you think of? what comes to mind? >> i think he has well-meaning individual who took his faithnii seriously and had a lot of issues. i tend to not agree with him, you know, specifically foreign policy issues like the middle east. they seem overly hostile to israel. e with not sure i agre that. i'm saying he had a difficult time as president a lot because of his policies, but did start to reverse them at the very end. he didn't get credit for it but hehe started to reverse them. we had a very rich life. 77 years of marriage is nothing to sneeze at.

i married like 33 years and people think that is a big achievement.ven and i'm not even halfway there to what jimmy carter had. so, he also went back to live where he grew up like returning to the plow. he is a very complicated man with a complicated story. he did a lot in his life and he saw a lot. >> bill, i appreciate you joining us. by the way, that: you wrote youe ddid talk about his mistakes and shining the limitation treaty. you're right about that too. really great to have you want and thank you for joining us tonight. say >> thank you, doctor. officials ma dowy say crime is r but thece nypd reporting a recod 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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>> new york city cops are experiencing a record-breaking number of entries. according to "new york post" analysis of nypd data, 4,600 assaults on cops reported in the first nine months of the year. s it is the most since the department began keeping track 2,016th and 85% jumped since 2020. over the last year, we have seen criminal migrants and illegal aliens brutally attacking police officers. at least one cop to code decades on the job telling "the new york post" this, a lote migrants assault cops andt regular citizens. sara, we firstffic have police officers having to deal with the aftermath of george floyd riots and the crim afte that took plan after that't. now this, they can't get a break they are too it is a crime wayd. because the biden administration purposely opened up the borderso sord to have an open border poly e tthat allowed people to come o our country embedded, people we could not even that and the people we were bringing in h border patrol met all

of the known cutaways that got into this country that o disappeared into the fabric of america and came into new york city by the tens ofi thousands.u the roosevelt hotel. i cannot tell you, lisa, how many times i went to new york to cover stories and i would be de ttalking to security outsidef the hotel, and they would say you can imagine what is going o' in there.ap we have serious issues oe.f rape and burglaries and trapping others into their hotel rooms. that is the reason they kepthey reporters out and kept people out of the hotels. also, not just new york city, but i would love to see the istats across the country in g roareas where we saw large grous of migrants just being left in cities, especially sanctuary cities where the police had too face it on their own. they didn't have the help of the city.es >> does this give trump political cover when he moves

ayfor deportations?ta question market is a lot harder to say criminals should stay in the united states. >> yes, he was elected to do this. the fact it is hard tot, i get americans blood boiling faster than watching someone who has no right to be in this countrys assaulting a police officer. was it wasn't one thing here or cherry-pick an accident here about over and over again. and sara, it was not a coincidence so much happening hered.e it happene pd because of the a policies. illegal immigrants sayinryg thee was a sanctuary policy in new york and i will go there anu the word gets around, you can commit other crimes and they will put you right back on the streets. of course, they will show up. >> this is why president trump iso so adamant with claudia sheinbaum and you will takehe peoplem back and repatriating them back to your nations and b takeac them back or we will hold you accountable.ci thatal could be financially, economically and not leave that, there isissu a health issue.

>> this is part of the public health crisis because the other part of the story is they are homeless. i interviewed them outside of s thare roosevelt hotel and theyec don't have food, medication, and they become violent. theythey are violent when crossg thhee border andn then they are violent in new york and other cities against cops.'v by the way, you see them buzzing around on scooters, too, leading people with scooters they get. as guy says, it is something that get your blood boiling tha they are attacking policein officers who aregs trying to kes things safe ano.d overworked als >> absolutely, when regular citizens are under threat likely sell in th ise subway, it isn'te infuriating and absolutely wron. shelter systemhi which is absoluteltey overflowin >> the white house ig s respondg idento the photos released showg biden and his son, hunter during

2013 tri tp to beijing. here they are with president xi. they also met with hunter's chinese business partners. p these photos prove the president was not telling the truth about this all the time. i mean, this is so infuriating.t >> i did not know he was on the part of that company.th >> i neverei discussed my busins or my son or daughter's business. >> i never discuss anything with my son about having to do withvs ukraine.sc >> ius have never discussed with my son or brother or anyone elsn anything to do witesh their>> tbusiness, period!he >> that is straight from biden't mouth. the white house as this trip which occurred a decade ago is old news. house republicans already wasted years and millions of taxpayers dollars provin wasg the presideh waiss not in business with his son. it is past time to call it a day. house oversight committee james comer is warning the deep state.

>> how many people in the federal government knew that joe biden was a lying? the cia knew and the irs new anh the fbi knew.at iothe need to be held accountab. the national archives, not onle did they sit on those picturesye and only release because of a lawsuit, they have to explain themselves why they obstructed the investigation? i want to work with kash patel. ithi want to work with all the w trum whep cabinet secretaries we we can holeepd the deep state actors accountable because the american people have lost confidence in the government. >> you know, james comer is absolutely right when it comese to this. n lisa, one of the big issues is the nationalpect security aspecn this. we have a presiden ot sitting in office conducting deals with u president xi and adversary of the united states with his son,d you know, making money off of this i. by the way, maybe you can answer this question, but he actually pardoned people within the chinese government, a man in

particular connected to the family at president xi who had 1 more than 10,000 photos of children that he sexually abusee and on his laptop. he pardoned this person. so i think there is a lot to be said here and should be a full-fledged investigation. >> 100%, we know he sold america t but what did he sell besides foreign policy decisions based ton many that went to wind the biden family pockets. romania, china cogic has expanded, russia and china as well. it infuriates me that president trump faced an impeachment over having conversations expressing concerns with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and alsop f infuriates me trump paste investigations with accusations he was in bed with russia when the biden family hat been in bed with russia. >> reporters could not report on it. "the new york post" was having a

difficult time.et >> listen, i can't get past the ukraine point and the point trump did up getting a tech for this but burisma holdings, when he was vice presiden vict and went vice presmac and signed byo obama to keep track of ukraine.i nghunter biden is getting paid $50,000 to work with burisma holdings with no background whatsoever. who believes in the united states that he was not>> incurring influence their? nobody! >> $50,000 a month.ve >> we even had people come and testify, tonbobuy bobulinski, as whistle-blower on the family. >> it is so insulting to see this statement from the white house where they like, deny, life coach at night and im the photo, well, old news. until that drives me crazy. pwe played montage from president biden and i will add two more on the presidential debate stage in front of tens f millions. we set the laptop was not real s

and his son made no money fromse china, falls and falls. hotly falls and falls 51 plus icernine intelligence officers t signed off saying that was russian intelligence. president trump coming into office and the most important thing he can do right now is to remove that ts security k clearances of those knowingly lied about this issue, whether that was hunter biden's laptop and others within thee bureaucracy, but that the fbi, cia, nsa that absolutely knew they were lying. >> americans rightfully distrusr their government. the government has given ustr ample reason to not trust the government covid, joe biden's s health, family business dealings lied about that so what d president trump needo,s to do in mass transparency as you areest. pointing out. be honest and put it all out there and let us know.oint >> great point, lisa. don't go anywhere a special 2025

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majority can for the first time in many years, the leader of the party in the u.s. senate will not be mitch mcconnell anymoreoh but john thune of south dakota. a new era in the senate for republicans. how woul is d that luke or be similar or different? it is important to hit the ground running and startthos nominating those judges immediately to fill vacancies. they were spent a lot of damage by biden and the democrats the past four years. now theyg can rubber-stamp r qualified, gooead conservative judges. that is something that can get going day one. >> i think they will have their eye ons f that for sure. my big story 2025, the ongoing crisis at the southern borderhoh and the migrant children goneta missing after crossing into thte united states. if there i ts anything i can sa, will be the biggest story of the year. as tom homan, the border czar puts forth a policy that president trump has assigned him to do, i think right alongside that with deportations will be

finding these 350,000 plusn children that have been lost by hhs into the fabric of ourco country anund finding them and rescuing them. to even ifne c it is only one cn we have got to do it and live on principle. that does it for us. we will see you next week in. remember to always dvr if your. can't catch us l ... and then you say it's wrong. you know i can't go on believing for long. but you know it's true. it's. you only want me >> we begin with a fox news alert. tributes rolling ifr