can affect anybody. >> ainsley: tell the story o you and your mom. parents weekend and someone stopped you. >> yes. i was at the air force academy. my sister-in-law goes there and i was sitting in the library. a young cadet and mom came up to me and asked if i was miss america. i said yes. they told me she was really on the fence and didn't think she would accept her appointment and she saw me win miss america and realized she didn't have to sacrifice parts of her personality in order to join the military. i thought it was so special. >> ainsley: you have done it all. we're proud of you. congratulations and i wish you all the best. sorry for your loss but you will be a great wife one day, every man out there will want to date you and you will be a great mother. god bless you, thank you for your service. >> thank you so much. >> bill: nice story, good morning. it is signed, sealed and

delivered. congress certifying donald trump's election victory. he is wasting no time trying to reshape washington. large part of america. good morning, that's where we start on tuesday. i'm bill hemmer live in cold new york city. the winds are blowing from the north today. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." not as cold as you advertised this morning. this call in the morning early on be prepared. so i had all the gear. it is not that bad. >> bill: you are prepared. >> dana: this is true, thank you, boy scout. kamala harris presided over the process of naming president trump as the president completing that process. of course she was the vice president. this is the the moment she formally announced her own loss. >> donald trump of the state of florida has received 312 votes. kamala harris --

[applause] kamala harris of the state of california has received 226 votes. [applause] >> bill: so we have not seen that many times in modern political history. it happened yesterday. meanwhile republicans turning their attention to passing the trump agenda. president-elect and speaker johnson want to fit it all in one big bill. some senators favor splitting in two bills. >> dana: the president-elect says he expects congress to pass his agenda one way or the other. >> i favor one bill. i want to get everything passed. you know, there are some people that don't necessarily agree with it. i'm open to that also. my preference is one, beautiful bill. border will be secure. start it immediately.

tom homan is central casting will do a great job. that whole group will be fantastic. >> bill: analysis on all this in the wings is former house speaker kevin mccarthy. the reporting in washington, peter doocy starting us off. good morning to you. >> good morning. democrats are starting to give a little bit of ground as trump tries to get his first choices for key cabinet spots through. the snow delayed meeting with tulsi gabbard and top democrat on senate intel is on for today. most democrats are declining to meet with most trump appointees. that's something. pam bondi is getting backed by justice department alum who served both democratic and republican presidents. this letter signed by more than 1 hundred lawyers reads in part it is all too rare for senior justice department officials, much less attorneys general, to have such a wealth of experience in the day-to-day work of keeping our communities safe. the president-elect's personal lawyers are working overtime

already today filing motions hoping to block special counsel jack smith from releasing his report about the mar-a-lago documents case. the case is dismissed. smith's reason for wanting to release it still are not known this morning. while the president is here in d.c. for jimmy carter's funeral, he is planning to talk to senate republicans. it is one thing to talk about having a mandate and using unified control of congress to pass big things. it is another thing to figure out how to actually do it. that is tomorrow, bill. >> bill: thank you. devil is in the details somewhere in there i do believe. talk to you soon. >> dana: former house speaker kevin mccarthy is sitting with us. mike johnson and what he thinks. >> the senate has a different thought of it than the house. we have consensus around this idea. we'll get this mission accomplished. >> dana: reconciliation is one

of those washington words that basically if you can get into the weeds quickly. for mom and dad at home what do they need to know. >> if you want to pass anything in the senate you normally need 60 votes. when you have one party control of the house and senate you can do reconciliation with 50 votes. it's how democrats did obamacare and tax bill. it only lasts for 10 years. why it is important in the senate they have the byrd rule. you can't write the bill as you want. you have to pass the parliamentarian. why the senate has a different belief for the house. for the first time in history the majority in the senate is larger than the house. the house lost seats and watched the speakers race. interesting thing will happen, two more members of the house leave and that takes time to fill the seat. when johnson said he wants it done by april. april 1 is the vote in florida. the seat for stefanik won't happen until after that.

he has no room to spare. i agree you need one bill because if you take two it's harder to pass in the house. senate is okay. remember the this from the knowledge of doing a lot of bills. if you make a bill too big it collapses on itself. they have to focus, this is all about the tax bill. economy comes first. the tax bill will change, right? those members in new york and california worry about salt. it has to change. when you change salt it costs more money. the president wants to change no tax on tips. that costs money. so it is no easy play here but jason smith was right. the chairman of ways and means. a big victory for him. he has been advocating early on when the speaker wasn't taking a position to do one bill. >> bill: the easiest way to follow it is what the senator is saying the republican side is tell us what you can do in the house. get that done first and then we can take up that measure on our side. >> people want to do the border.

rightfully so. the president can do a lot administrative there. i believe the border is a disaster. use disaster money for the border. you normally have a 9 month honeymoon. one or two members saying no can stop the whole thing. >> dana: punch bowl news talked about trump and the house freedom caucus and said that the house freedom caucus is home to some of the trumpiest members in washington and willing to defy trump at times. the hard liners are sometimes comfortable banding together and bucking trump at least when they have strength in numbers. is this what you mean by collapsing on its own weight on the republican side? >> if it can't pass the house. if all democrats say no and two republicans say no, can't agree, want something different in the bill, then all your taxes go up. you have to solve it by the end of the year. the pressure is on. but i disagree with that.

the house freedom caucus is not the most trumpian place. the people that went against trump the strongest are in the house freedom caucus. they campaigned against trump. they campaigned to the very end against trump. ralph norman was nikki haley all the way. chip roy was against trump all the time. so the real trump support is in the caucus. so when house freedom caucus says they are conservative. they aren't, they don't want to vote for anything. by not voting for anything raises your taxes. >> bill: you will hear lot about what joe biden is doing in the final days as president. truth social. trump says biden is making it as difficult as possible to executive orders on the green new scam and other money-wasting hockss. the orders will be terminated shortly and we'll come a nation of common sense and strength maga. how much can he reverse once he is in office?

>> if it's by executive he can reversal of it. it can take time if you have to go through any reporting and let the public have some say. but the president biden is doing a lot of damage right now. watch what he just did when it came to energy policy. we're in a competition for the world to whoever can capture ai and quantum. whoever does that will lead the next century. we have to expand our grid. god has blessed america. we need all the above. all the energy to be able to go forward. he is walling us off giving an advantage to china. watch time and again. it is like he wants to punish america because he got pushed off the ballot. not a democrat thing, it is a punishment to america because he is upset how the bidens were treated and one thing i will say. i never agreed with kamala harris on pretty much anything but i want to give her kudos how she handled yesterday. for anybody on any side that was probably a tough day. she was professional and did

something that was difficult and i give her credit for that. >> dana: indeed. great to see you, happy new year. >> bill: come back soon. want to take you outside now. it is chilly. >> oh my gosh. >> bill: that's kansas city now. ice on the road. tough to see sometimes. they call it black ice. it blends in with the asphalt and you can't tell the difference in the color. i've been a victim of that, too, by the way. deadly coast to coast winter storm leaving millions of americans with hazardous roads, power outages, travel delays. snowfall totals climbing again. multiple inches of snow. another major storm in the forecast. fox meteorologist kendall smith live in kansas city, missouri where they will dig out for some time. how goes it today in k.c., kendall?

good morning. >> good morning, bill, good morning, dana. it is cold out here to say the least. we're sitting at zero with a windchill of negative 7. all the snow around me you can see. the first major winter storm of 2025 blasted a 2 thousand mile swath across the country from the pacific northwest through the plains where i'm located and eventually all the way to the east coast. it brought heavy snow, crippling ice and thunder snow to the area. i got to experience that thunder snow live on sunday morning. take a listen. we're heaping to see the most in the way of sleet. heavy freezing rain south of highway 50. putting this in perspective for folks. oh my goodness, we officially have thunder snow, wow, pretty exciting. thunder snow is rare that don't occur very often. it is spectacular when it does. the main precipitation type is

snow as opposed to rain. it brought impressive totals. now the cleanup that's left over and the bitterly cold temperatures. >> bill: kendall, thank you in kansas city. hoping for the best. maybe a bit of a warm-up soon. thank you where it's zero degrees. >> dana: that's cold. >> bill: in kansas city. remember this from the summer? watch. >> she was assault and beaten and killed and american life was stolen by a criminal alien set free by this administration. >> bill: big story in the country and georgia. the house set to revote on the lakin rile' act. >> dana: is the biden-harris administration talking to the

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>> dana: fox news alert. "wall street journal" reports the biden administration is in talks with the taliban to exchange americans detained in afghanistan in return they would release a high-profile prisoner alleged bin laden associate held the gitmo. biden transferred 11 yemen prisoners to oman to start new lives. >> bill: a lot to follow on that story. more coming up. could be the dawn of a new era for canada. prime minister justin trudeau announced he will step down which might open the door foe resetting the trade relationship with our northern neighbor. kevin oh lear owe born in montreal is here. trump said the united states can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies

that canada needs to stay afloat. justin trudeau knew this and resigned. if canada merged with the u.s. there would be no tariffs. i don't know if they will be the 51st state. you know this subject well. what's the buzz in canada based on this now, kevin? >> so i was in mar-a-lago over the weekend and had a few moments with the president-elect and i asked him if he would consider the fact that trudeau on saturday when we were talking rumors were he would resign. in fact he did. i said why not stand down on canada for the next couple months while they elect a new leader like you were elected with a four-year mandate. the new guy is doing what is equivalent of red sweep of canada. they'll wipe out the liberal party completely and then have two leaders with four-year mandates and let the negotiations begin. the trade deficits primarily on energy.

alberta alone does 185 billion of energy into the u.s. but we're the largest partners together on earth. there is a lot of good things about that relationship. canadian people are intrigued with trump's suggestion not to give up sovereignty by a stronger economic union. low hanging fruit. combining currency. giving a couple of seats the bank of canada to the fed and eliminating tariffs on milk and dairy and any east/west, north/south. a lot of opportunity between the two countries. i know trump knows that. whether my request fell on deaf ears, i don't know. i would very much like to see just a pause while we get the new guy in place and we go to work. i think -- i'm an investor on both sides. >> bill: you see a shift going on out there. i know you watch the markets in u.s. and canada and overseas. you can see a bit of an adjustment. i don't know if you heard what

van jones said. i want to roll it. watch. >> i don't understand why anybody is mad at trump about this. i'm serious. if trump wants for canada to become the 51st country it would be a huge blue state. >> bill: might be right. let's push that to the side for now because what is happening in the market is something you follow very carefully. bitcoin is on a tear. are those who have always been skeptical like jamie dimon about to be proved wrong or will dimon will be proved right when an terrorist act is committed and they trace the funding for the act to bitcoin and the whole thing collapses? what is the fate as you see it now? >> terrorist acts have been around since the beginning of time and funded by various currencies including bags of the

american dollar. i don't think that will trigger a change in what is occurring on digital currency. they have a lot of potential. we need regulation. jamie dimon is a smart guy. i have a lot of respect for him but he knows what matters are his clients. they want allocations between 1 and 3% for their portfolios. he will give it to them. he would prefer if it was done through a regulatory platform that he was compliant with. so we need the new administration to come in and put those rules in place so we aren't debating whether a theirium is a commodity but the potential of digital currency should be owned, controlled and developed by the united states of america. in the case of stable coin of the u.s. dollars, these are all facts. so we have been held back by

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death. alexis mcadams is live outside the courthouse in brooklyn, new york with more. >> this story captured so many people's attention not just in new york city but across the country because they couldn't believe this happened on a new york city subway. we are talking about a guatemalan migrant in the courthouse behind me in the matter of an hour or less to face a judge after investigators say he used a lighter to start a woman on fire sleeping on the subway, watched her burn and ran off. look here. this is who we're talking about. investigators say he used a lighter to set the woman on fire on the subway. not only did he start the fire but fanned the claims with his jacket as she burned. these surveillance images show him at the crime scene but he says he doesn't remember the attack telling police he drinks a lot and reportedly was known to smoke spice, which is a synthetic form of marijuana. the woman who died was

identified as this woman. we want to show you her picture. this lady lost her life. they had to take days to try to identify her because she was so badly burned. she grew up in new jersey, her high school year book photo and remembered for her smile. at some point she became homeless and living on the subway asleep. the 57-year-old was attacked by the defendant. overall subway crime is down. the nypd plans to add hundreds of officers to monitor the subway system. the mayor knows something has to change. >> nothing is more horrific than watching a person burn to death on our subway system. we know how individuals feel when they are shoved to the tracks for no reason at all. we know how it impacts us and we have to continue to show the visible presence of our men and women in their uniforms.

>> the defendant is in custody. because of sanctuary laws new york city, ice could not get a detainer on him. back to you. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: it is the talk of the town right now. that is the the rails. off the rails, subway crime cranking up. jamar banks, okay? he was arrested in connection with back-to-back stabbings here in new york. he had 80 prior arrests on his record, 80. this is hawkins accused of shoving a man in front of a train charged with attempted murder and assault. these are some of the examples we're seeing lately. swing here and say hello to paul mauro, retired nypd inspector founder of ops desk.org. you have been in the city more than us and you know it as well as anyone. the head of the transportation authority in new york, she suggests this is just like part of our imagination now. watch. >> last year we were actually

12 1/2% less crime than 2019, the last year before covid. there is no question some of these high profile incidents, terrible attacks have gotten in people's heads and made the whole system feel less safe. >> bill: here is the the "new york post" cover. oh get rail. when he says they've gotten in people's heads, i follow new york crime for decades. i've never heard of a human being being set on fire on a train and left to burn alive. >> one of the things that he just doesn't want to cop to here is the fact that the defendant shouldn't have been on the subway system to begin with. four of the five d.a.s said they won't prosecute theft of service. in other words, fair jumping, right? this is why. that thing alone was the broken windows policing that brought that city back from the brink. right now the new york city subway system looks like a tunnels under gaza.

don't you love when they gas light us. no crime in the new york city subway system. people are being burned alive. murders in the subway. stick to the subway system. murders, 25 year high. assaults are up over 2019 well into double digits. 50%. what that doesn't quantify is the feeling of menace and anarchy because every other car has a homeless in it screaming at the ceiling. you constantly feel either in danger or just uncomfortable. you are constantly watching your back. we see the videos of people being pushed onto the tracks and we're being told by the head of the mta it is all in our minds? what a terrible optic and message to send at the same time they're instituting congestion pricing to push us all into the subways. >> dana: is there a way that they could have done something to give us more confidence about the subway system? the fare jumping thing bothers me. it is always somebody who is up

to no good. it's not like someone stealing bread. they are getting away with it. everybody swiping their card. is there something that can be done to your point. they fixed it before. is there an easy fix? >> one simple thing would do it. ready? prosecute fare jumping. that's the lynch pin of broken windows policing. not everybody who fare jumps is an arch criminal. every arch criminal coming into the subway system doesn't pay the fare and that's how they got thousands of guns out of the systems. robbery crews out of the systems. they jumped the turnstile. you have the ability to stop them arrest them for -- you find a gun and gets them into the system. it is not prosecuted. alvin bragg's day one memo said outright i will not prosecute this crime. that's not prosecutorial

discretion. which is what they all hide behind is individual cases you make a judgment that this is better to go this way instead of that way. not to take an entire statute off the books. only the legislature can do that. our prosecutors in this town have decided that they are judge, jury, the whole she bang. as a result our subways look the way they do. >> bill: 2025 they're telling us crime is down 5%. we put numbers on the screen there. murders up 80%, rapes up 25%. that's for new york city and the transit area. are they right to say that crime is down? >> they are gas lighting us again. it's at a high since 2002. i can show you the charts. we can play with numbers. we all know that. the bottom line is talk to new york city residents. they see the conditions of the streets. most property crime is not

reported. the vast majority of property crime is no longer even reported. most violent crime is not reported anymore, okay? >> dana: because no one will do anything? >> they don't feel like anything will happen. they don't want to antagonize repeat perps who they have to face the next day. i reported you and now you are back. i reported you for stealing the toothpaste and you are back the next day and angry. they don't want the insurance issues in the stores. if you keep reporting insurance goes up. this is what really kills me. $750 million the mta lost in fare beating. 750 million. that's their number. yet they are instituting congestion pricing to raise $5 hundred million. if you just let the system work the way it is designed to work and we use the laws on the books, you wouldn't be in this congestion pricing boondoggle that is so unpopular it will

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>> dana: fox news alert now. you'll see in an hour and 17 minutes. did you see how i can that? president-elect will hold a press conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern at mar-a-lago. lots of news will be made and drive the day. stay tuned for fox news for that. we'll give you details if anything comes beforehand. judge merchan denies trump's request to delay a sentencing

hearing set for friday 10 days before his inauguration. let's bring in andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney. call for number one, please, the prosecutor's reasons why the sentencing should not be delayed. they say trump is currently not engaged in any official presidential functions. that his arguments are patently meritless and there is compelling public interest to proceed with the sentencing. i'm not sure about that last one in particular, andy. give us your take. >> well, the last one is the only important one, right, dana? the public interest here i think was pretty emphatically underscored in the election result. that don't mean that new york progressive democrats don't have an interest in having president-elect trump branded a convicted felon before he enters office. the only reason to do this especially given that merchan is basically saying to get trump sentenced he is willing to say there will be no jail, no

probation, no fine sentence. the only reason they are in a mad rush to do this is because under the law, until a person is sentenced, the judgment of conviction is not entered on the public record. so this is all about making trump a convicted felon. >> dana: can trump's legal team do anything to prevent this? >> they are trying. what they need to do and they are doing it is go to superior courts in order to get them to intervene to put off the sentencing. their theory is because part of merchan's -- the post trial merchan that he denied a big part has to do with immunity under supreme court precedent, immunity is something that should be fully litigated, including on appeal before anything additional happens in the trial court. sentencing would be a big additional step.

their argument to the appellate courts in necessary and if necessary to the federal courts is trump should be allowed to fully appeal the immunity aspects of judgment merchan's ruling before he gets to do anything else in the case including impose sentence. >> dana: do you think they'll be successful? >> i would say -- i give them about a 60/40 shot. i give them better odds, dana, if it were not for the fact that i think insidiously what merchan has done is made his ruling late friday afternoon and wants to sentence trump first thing friday morning. so as a practical matter he has given them a very small window of time to find a court that would intervene. >> dana: i'm sure president trump will get a question about that at 11:00. on the trump legal side of things they want to block special counsel jack smith's report from coming out.

here is a letter from trump's lawyers. a sentence that says if smith is not removed then the handling of his report should have deferred to president trump's incoming attorney general consistent with the express will of the people. can you explain to people what's going on here and what might happen? >> it's really outrageous. smith wants to file a final report in the mar-a-lago case which has been dismissed by the district court on the grounds he is not a valid special counsel. the justice department dropped their appeal with respect to trump on that. so that's the law of the case. if there is anything in life that doesn't need to have a comprehensive report filed, it is the mar-a-lago prosecution, which has been the subject of multiple, extensive narrative indictments and voluminous litigation in florida. the idea that he needs to file a report with garland, which garland can then publicize to the world on the precipice of

trump coming into office, when this case has already been extensively litigated and the government is lost is just ridiculous. >> dana: much more to come on this today and through the next couple of days. we'll be in touch with you and checking you out at national review. thank you so much. >> bill: all right. so the message was get back up. that's what president biden said to the people of new orleans yesterday after the isis-inspired attack killed 14. his administration promising more federal resources to protect the city before the super bowl and before mardi gras. big jobs. garrett tenney is live in new orleans with more. >> this trip by the president and first lady was offering condolences on behalf of the nation and started by visiting the growing memorial here on bourbon street to lay flowers and offer a prayer before heading to a church nearby where they met with some of the victims' families as well as two of the injured officers who were injured in a shoot-out with the

suspect that ended his rampage. >> president biden: i know events like this are hard, the shock and pain is still so very raw. my wife jill and i are here to stand with you. grieve with you and pray with you, let you know you are not alone. >> the white house has announced it will send additional resources to the city to help secure next month's super bowl. homeland security will have a much greater presence than initially planned and state officials are pushing to take on a larger role with the frustration of the city ignoring warnings to secure the french quarter against this very kind of attack. louisiana's attorney general is ordering the state's bureau of investigation to conduct a full review of the security failures from last week. >> i think it will dissect everything that led up to this

event. all of the planning, all of the organizational subdivisions and agencies and operations in new orleans that were involved or not involved that maybe should have been involved. i think we have to look at the problems there holistically and see what kind of dysfunction is occurring and fix it. >> the department of homeland security has upgraded the terror threat warning for mardi gras to the highest level and sending additional resources to secure that event as well. >> bill: that's a big deal. thank you. >> dana: house republicans are about to hold a news conference that will be the first of the new year. what are their plans to pass the trump agenda? perhaps in one giant bill. we'll monitor that for news. detrailing doge. how lawmakers and lobbyists have made it nearly impossible to cut government waste. >> if there are real proposals to do that, then democrats

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flight. not the way he wanted it to go. >> bill: we'll have fits and starts until we get it right. move to this. the department of government efficiency, doge setting its sights on big spending cuts. it will be a challenge. something lobbyists and lawmakers have a history of going against. what are you thinking is possible, william? >> doge wants to drain the swamp, right? many in washington like the swamp because it is a dark bewildering place if taxpayers knew how congress wasted money we would say know. >> you don't want more government. you want less. >> ronald reagan tried. >> we know the difference between the baby and bath water. >> i'm not a profane guy but you have to cut through the crap. >> obama's bipartisan commission failed to cut spending and

truman tried in 47 and roosevelt in 1905. can doge succeed where others failed? >> 2 trillion is a huge cut and they don't understand what they are getting into. >> watchdog groups identify billions in waste. 1 hundred million to promote tourism in egypt. 33 million for research monkeys and bio fuels consumers don't want. >> the answer in washington when a program doesn't work is create a new program. cbo found 5 hundred billion spent on expired programs. the gao uncovered $4 billion in overpayments. >> the major problem is -- >> i think it's important to get bipartisan support behind these issues because that's the only way you have enduring change.

>> doge critics say unless they tackle entitlements and defense they fail. that's not true. the dollar saved is one lesson they will take from you. maybe embarrassment will work where consensus hasn't. turning rhetoric into work in washington. >> bill: we'll watch it on the way. nice to see you on the way. thanks. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: it's called black monday. jackson is cutting loose doug peterson. at least five teams are in the market for a new head coach. now i understand what the woman next to me was talking about at the nail salon last night. all this stuff how it was like a bad day in football and everybody was getting fired. >> bill: it's what happens when your teams don't do well. >> dana: how are the bengals? >> bill: they le