did plan is funeral with his family and this is all part of it. it matches previous president spare the one thing he didn't let happen as he refused to let his remains be transported back to georgia after the funeral and burial via train. instead he will be flown back. tonight people will come in and pay their respects in the capitol rotunda starting at 7:00. >> martha: brett a thank you very much for joining our coverage we look forward to seeing you tonight. thank you at home for being part of this it's been a busy day. we had a very wide ranging press conference from the incoming president car president-elect on the trumpet today we watch the funeral the 39th president jimmy carter as we continue the story. we will see you back here tomorrow have a good afternoon everybody i am martha maccallum. we will see you next time.

>> ceremony to begin shortly as the funeral procession arrives at the u.s. capitol to owner the 39th president of the united states jimmy carter as he lies in state. we will be taking you back to the capital as the procession unfolds. president-elect donald trump holding a wide-ranging news conference today as he has had to take the oath of office less than 2 weeks from now and he's already taking a lot of folks to task. let's get right to nate foy live in west palm beach and you were about to fire off a question in that conference as well. >> president-elect donald trump made several headlines during the news conference today. easterner by announcing a 20 billion-dollar investment in u.s. data centres. notably he did not rule out the possibility of using american military force to acquire the panama canal are greenland. take a look at this.

>> we need greenland for national security purposes. the panama canal is vital to our country. it's been operating -- operated by china and we gave the panama canal to panama. we didn't give it to china and they've abused it. >> donald trump jr. and several trump representatives landed in greenland today for what's being called a personal visit as trump purchased -- pushes to purchase the country. they threaten to use economic force rather than military force to facilitate a possible merger with canada as well. >> get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like. would also be much better for national security. we are spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it. hundreds of billions a year to take care of canada. we lose in trade deficits. >> outgoing canadian prime minister justin trudeau posted

there is not a snowball's chance in that canada would become a part of the united states. trump said both canada and mexico will need to make concessions on trade and immigration enforcement or else there will be hit with tariffs. trumps that if mexico doesn't stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country he will rename the gulf of mexico the gulf of america. as far as domestic policy and getting his agenda pushed through congress, you mentioned my question. i asked if he prefers a single bill strategy for reconciliation or a two-term approach. -- to bill approach. he recognizes that a 2 bill approach could help prioritize the border security need. >> live in west palm beach for us. to... he's got more on all of this for us. firm messages from the president-elect today showing he means business day 1 when he gets office.

what about canada, what an interesting exchange that was. >> the sooner... this rather bizarre rhetoric. the united states does not want to have canada as part of it. we do not want to dilute itself. with 40 million canadians, very different political culture and outlook you really think that having california plus which is in many ways what canada is, do you really think that's going to be helpful for the united states? it isn't. all of this presumably is part of his rhetoric that he's building up as part of his negotiating tactic. he wants other countries to be more open to u.s. trade. he keeps talking about u.s. subsidizing canada. we buy things from them.

when you go to the store you are not subsidizing the story you are -- they are giving you services in exchange for what you want. he's right about many of the problems other parts of the world, whether it's very unfair competition. some of those countries in europe have very unfair practices. they should bring pressure to change those practices and canada can do the same. i think this is part of this ramping up the rhetoric and the expectations. ramping up the fears and some of these countries. it's a very unorthodox approach but it might actually be effective. >> talk about gulf of america. the 51st state of canada. he was talking about being in play about negotiation tactics making it very clear he was, that all of this is part of that. i want to throw to this because he said this multiple times.

all will break out if hamas hostages are not released in return by the time he's in office. >> if those hostages aren't back , i don't want to hurt your negotiation, if they are not backed by the time i get into office all will break out in the middle east. and it will not be good for hamas and it will not be good for anyone. >> he's choosing to send a very strong message there. >> he's throwing down a challenge i think many people expect that maybe hamas, it's a ron who calls the shots here, they will say we don't want to take a chance that donald trump may do something where all will break loose. he's crossed the line by -- he's issued a redline that we talked about in diplomatic terms. if iran doesn't tell hamas to

release their hostages by noon on january the 20th he's going to have to do something. remember when barack obama issued his redline way back when in syria when they were using chemical weapons. they say if they do that than the u.s. is going to respond and they didn't and it was the most disastrous diplomatic decision that an american president has made in the last 20 years because he didn't respond having laid down the redline. trump has laid down a redline saying make sure those hostages are released or in going to do something. he has to do something. if they don't release the hostages. they may think maybe they were released some of them. maybe they release 50 or 75. and then they almost taunt trump and present trump at that challenge of saying we haven't released all the hostages what are you going to do and then he will have to make all hell break loose.

>> 6 times he said that if those hostages are not returned. great to have you here. to washington were the remains -- the remains of president jimmy carter are being carried. the casket will be carried inside where carter will lie in state until his funeral services on thursday. we will hear from vice president kamala harris and... and others as they were in broom -- remember the 39th president of the united states. >> you know in the past 24 hours that it was a pretty bad snowstorm here in washington so it's very snowy and very cold. there are some questions about whether are not people would come out tonight to pay their respects but i think you can see here and live pictures that people are lining the streets of pennsylvania avenue. they are bundled up. a few folks here with their snow

coats on and winter coats on and there cameras out waiting for the arrival of jimmy carter and his family. even though the weather has been bad, this emotional moment that we are expecting, this iconic moment were the remains will be taken out and then moved along the steps of the capital. you can see the honour guard is already in place. i can tell you that the senator -- the vice president-elect j.d. vance is inside and vice president kamala harris motorcade also came through a short while ago. we will see his body carried up the capitol steps behind me. his 11 grandchildren serving as honorary pallbearers will be there as well and the rest of the family standing on the steps to receive him in that very emotional, a beautiful moment here the capitol before he's taken inside the rotunda. i'm told to expect today and tomorrow to be very

straightforward. the families of these presidents get a big book which has all of these different options for how to conduct the state funeral and historians tell me nancy reagan picked basically every option in the book for the funeral of ronald reagan. gerald ford's family preferred a much more scaled-down version so carters will probably follow in line with his friends in keeping things to a minimum here today. his casket will be carried and sit atop the same... that the president lincoln was placed upon in 1865. we don't know much about whether a lot of it -- the original what is still part of this but it is the same that president lincoln laid upon all those years ago. we will hear from mike johnson and john thune and vice president kamala harris. they will all deliver a eulogy for president carter. of course these things are not

political. this 1 definitely will not be but it's interesting request by the family when the body of president carter is inside the capitol rotunda and those are marks to begin. they want to the podium to be set in front of the statue of gerald ford and that is a nod to the deep relationship those men had. a bipartisan friendship and a message to everyone watching about the importance of bipartisan and ship in today's time. we are awaiting dispossession to come through and part of it has arrived here behind me. the motorcycles are arriving now here at the capital behind me so shortly we will start to see the family and jimmy carter -- jimmy carter's casket arrived as well. >> very chilly day there in the capitol. think you very much.

we will get back to you shortly. a close friend of the late president now, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations ... thank you very much for being here as we watch this very obviously incredibly moving ceremony that we've been watching for the last couple of hours as we watch them make their way to the capital on foot i want to get your thoughts on this moment as we do know this was a man of faith who believed that was what drove him in his personal life and professional life as well. >> it's true. everything about jimmy carter from the very beginning, the thing that you were aware of was the sincerity of his religious commitments. >> a beautiful scene that we're all taking in there in washington. i want to share with you a quote from jimmy carter. on exactly that. my faith demands, this is not

optional, my faith demands i do whatever i can wherever i can, whenever i can for as long as i can with whatever i have to try to make a difference. i about his grandson jason joining us yesterday saying that he believes that's what he would want his legacy to be. to be a man scene for putting faith into action. >> actually right after he left for washington, i was over at his office with habitat for humanity. they were trying to decide were to make an announcement that he was going to start trying to build houses around the world and it turned out that the only place that was vacant was my backyard. so he came over there with habitat for humanity. we maybe announcement. my baby daughter who was then a

student at duke university and graduating in june decided that she went up to him and said she would like to go with him. it turned out to be uganda which was not a place that i wanted her to go but she stayed a year and did very well building houses and teaching school. >> taking in the scenes together as so many are turning in all over the country to watch this. jimmy carter is the first and only former president to have lived to the age of 100 years old. he was preceded in death on november of 2023 by his wife of 77 years. the former first lady rosalynn carter. he's the latest former president to lion state in the u.s. capital. the last was george hwd bush in december of 2018. carter graduated from the u.s. naval academy and served as a simmering officer before leaving the navy to run his family's

peanut farm. it was a very proud man of his military service as well. >> he was. he was more than just unable officer. he was a graduate of annapolis. he was selected by an admiral for over 500 students to be his deputy and helping the united states develop the first nuclear navy. he was an nuclear physicist as well as a peanut farmer. but he didn't talk much about his physics. >> former... joining us right now as we do watch. let's listen live in washington.

♪ ♪ >> as we continue to watch these live images out of washington at this hour, we all remember the late jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states.

i want to bring in brett bear. thank you for joining our coverage here. we know that carter will lie in state at the u.s. capital shortly and we are also reminded that the family has made a special request for the rotunda ceremony. they want the podium to sit in front of the gerald ford statue as people make their remarks throughout the day and the evening tonight. the family says this is a nod to the deep and close personal friendship that carter had with president ford, calling them an odd couple as they were sometimes known, underlined that bipartisanship in the way that the family wants carter to be remembered as reaching across the aisle. >> that's the ultimate common ground as you look live inside the capital. that's where abraham lincoln was laid on after his assassination. the history there is quite something. it's going to be a packed house. you will hear eulogies from vice president kamala harris,

speaker mike johnson, senate majority leader john thune. it will be packed with a current state governor and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. this has been really worked down to the minute and those decisions by the family, including by the late president carter who becomes the 13th president to lie in state inside the capitol rotunda. tonight after the ceremony it will open to the public and as we saw in 2018 with the late george hwd bush there will be a long line of people despite the snow here in washington, d.c.,, who come to pay their respects to the 39th president of the united states. >> we were talking a moment ago with the ambassador about his career in the navy and his time in the navy and how he knew at such a young age that it was where he was destined to be. he was 5 years old that he knew he wanted to go to the naval academy and he sure did.

he was the only president to graduate from there. his father was an army man in world war i but he said he had a favourite uncle in the navy and that's what inspired him. >> it was great to hear andrew young. he's also the 55th mayor of atlanta. he was my mayor when i grew up in atlanta so a lot of history going back there and his relationship with president carter. really special. he was a submariner. he thought that his career was going to end in the navy and that maybe he would have a long naval career and then retire in hawaii. his family farm was going under after his father passed and he went back to georgia to take care of the peanut farm. it was the humble roots that really he used as a political effort to say to people this is a new generation. this is the turning of the page if you will from watergate and vietnam. it was really successful.

it's what the country wanted and it's what the country needed. that feeling of humility from their leader. there will be critics of his policy choices and all that he did in office but as you look at this day this is about remembering 1 of the leaders in a very small group of people. >> they state that carter's casket will enter the capital from the east where he was inaugurated in january 1977. the last inauguration to take place in the east front rather than the west front. that began in 1981. >> think about this. we've had 2018, george hwd bush. 2004, ronald reagan. it is striking that you look at all the details...

the air force base just as it arrives here at the u.s. capital right outside the steps there will be another 21-gun salute has they arrived there and the casket is moved with its pallbearers that include the carter grandchildren. walking with the casket into the capitol rotunda. >> his grandchildren would serve as honorary pallbearers. he is set to lie in state there. let's watch this and listen and together.

>> you think about those that will be present today. his beautiful family there to remember him. his grandchildren as we just mentioned, honorary pallbearers. they will be participating in the ceremony. a special honour guard will be present consisting of... the chief of staff of the army, the chiefs of the marines, naval, staff of the air force, space operations, command of the coast guard. all will be there to honour the late president jimmy carter, our 39th president. >> it was something i said last hour that part of his pushing back on the grandeur of the office was he started by saying we're not not going to play hail to the chief when i enter a room and he banded at the beginning. to hear it being played at the

u.s. naval memorial was quite something. eventually later in his presidency he decided that may be the american people wanted that element of it, some part of it for the presidency so he kind of put it back and play. i assume you will hear that to in the capitol rotunda. the people who are gathered here , there's not many lawmakers who have served back then but there are people with connections tangentially to the 39th president and the family because of all of his work after his presidency, especially with service and habitat for humanity >> i want to go to a story you shared earlier. they were sharing their thoughts she was membrane his work and

legacy. she called it 1 tireless work, selflessness and service to his nation and neighbours. he won the presidency, he sought to unite americans and gila fractured country. the effects of his advocacy on issues can still be felt today. you were sharing earlier, they are making their way to this next ceremony there on capitol hill. you were talking about the moment he announced that he would run for president on december 12th, 1974. he announced his candidacy for president of the united states. he won the nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 democratic national convention and was elected november second, 1976 and it was that moment when he decided to tell his family that he was going to run for president. >> he said i'm going to run for president and they said president of what because they didn't think that the governor of georgia who was a

state senator before that and a peanut farmer before that and a sunday school teacher, was up to that big office. it turns out he was and that campaign was all about going back to the centre of humility, of service, of believing that the country could get past watergate and get past vietnam. it did, but it's interesting that you mention about being in front of the statue of gerald ford. you think about this. this is the ultimate bipartisan nod. he was clearly a partisan person, a person of the left. the left was thriving. after his presidency, it wrong in the era of ronald reagan and a much different look at what the country should do in the minds of american voters.

it's much like the turning of the page that's happening now. and american voters made a decision in november and we are seeing that ideology shift and we will see how it plays out in the trump administration part 2. >> so many of our memories of the late president are with his wife rosa lydon, noting that they were 77 years. there were some interesting notes about how they met. he was the first president born in a hospital. he's first saw his wife when she was an infant in 1927 jimmy's mother was a nerve and took care of her mother. the nurse then brought jimmy as a 3-year-old to see little rosa lynn. they knew each other basically their entire lives as we do see the family making their way up the steps and inside.

>> it is just so striking about the first president born in a hospital. also received the nobel peace prize in 2002. finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts.

>> you are watching live the arrival ceremony at the capital of the late president, the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter.

this will be followed by a service in the rotunda wear members of congress will then pay their respects. he will then lie in state from 8:30 tonight until thursday morning when his state funeral will take place at the washington national cathedral on thursday which has been declared a national day of mourning. that bear is also watching this and join your coverage now. >> there is a dichotomy here, the pomp and circumstance, remembering a leader of the country. also remembering some of the criticism we've heard in recent and l that happened.istration there were serious setbacks. the soviet invasion of which changes the whole dynamic about negotiations with the soviets. then the seizure of u.s. hostages in iran.

the u.s. embassy staff. that was the dominating news story for the last 14 months of his administration and it doesn't end until finally the 52 americans are released the same day carter leaves office and ronald reagan is inaugurated into office in 1981. and continuing inflation and the problems with the economy. all of that said, a lot of people look at his time as someone who was as a person, a solid man who was trying to do something in his words, compassionate, competent is what he ran on. the compassionate, even his critics agree with. the competent is where they lay fault. but today the people inside this rotunda will remember his service to the nation and the

positive things that happen through his administration among them, vice president harris who just the day finished her certification of the electoral votes, presiding over a joint session of congress where she had to deliver the news that donald j. trump had the necessary electoral votes to win. there's a lot of history and it will continue inside the capital in a very heartfelt ceremony that these eulogies on all sides will lay out for the -- for the 39th president. >> you think about some of the similarities to today because listening to some her worked inside the administration looking back at the time for the economy then and how they felt like some of their successes in the job market and the gdp growth that they were able to see during that time really was taken over by the fact that people were living through

historic inflation and there's no doubt his term was plagued by a very rough economy with rampant inflation and an energy crisis. they will point out that some of that was already bad when he took office. there were long gas lines and double-digit inflation and this was -- these were the biggest challenges among many during his time in office. >> look at this shot in front of the capitol with the sun and clouds. it's amazing. you are right. he did have a lot of those push box, especially economically. on foreign policy in the middle east, the camp david accords in 1978, bringing egypt and israel together. you got full diplomatic relations following on the work of nixon and others with the people's republic of china. and started to negotiate a

nuclear deal with the soviet union that kind of fell apart after the soviet union invaded afghanistan. so there will be successes that are talked about outside the rotunda. but it was a different thought about how government should work and it was much more big government. much more expansion of go much like we saw in 1981, americans voting another way in this day. >> noting what we're about to see in the history of it, a grand total of 34 people have lain in-state, that includes 12 presidents. the late president carter becomes the 13th to lie in-state. the last president to lion state was the late president george wh -- george h.w. bush in december of 2018. we are about to see that happen. we watched it -- watch this and we will be right back with our coverage.

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>> you are looking live on capitol hill as former president and the late jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states, set to lie in-state inside the capitol rotunda. we've been watching the ceremonies throughout the afternoon. they are on the hill for us. welcome to you. share your thoughts. >> we are waiting for this 21-gun salute that should happen sometime as they take president carter's casket and march it up to the east front of the capital. i it's interesting that he was the last president to have his inauguration on the east front of the capital. it faces away from the national mall.

it was change the west side because it's more telegenic and here he returns for the last -- last time. i've seen instances where they've had a state funeral coming up and they've actually had a fake casket and they been carrying them up the steps. this riderless horse that you may have seen on the plaza there of the capital. that's rather important. that's very symbolic in a funeral of this nature. the reason being is they take all riderless horse and they put the boots in the stirrups backwards and that is to signify and a mosh to the dead and they did that in this case here today you were talking about how long it's been since president carter was in office. the dean of the house of

representatives, he swore in mike johnson last week. he was elected in 1981. the only person who was still in the congress who was serving when carter was in office is chuck grassley. he's... the most senior majority member of the senate. he moved to the senate in 1981 as carter became president but he was in the house from 1975 to 1981. the other thing about the ceremonies that i find striking is how quiet the capital plaza will get. it's a windy day in washington. we have wins about 30 miles an hour and you will hear this clanging of the flag that is above, right in front of the capital. and then how silent it will be when he lies in-state. even though sometimes later tonight they will have hundreds of people starting to circulate around the casket, the only

thing you hear, it echoes throughout the capital because it's so quiet, it's the clicking of the heels of the honour guard standing watch over that casket between now and when he leaves the capital on thursday morning. >> we know that some of his grandchildren are the honorary pallbearers. 1 of which we are seeing on screen. i had the honour of speaking with them yesterday. and just shared some beautiful memories of some very personal memories. of what it was like to have him be your grandfather with the things that he was currently teaching his children. just some personal stories that he was able to share about president carter taking his children out to fish and some of the simple things that he was able to do as a loving grandfather. >> j.d. vance, the vice

president-elect, he's here on capitol hill today and he has 3 small children and he's brought them over to the capital to see the ceremony. i believe we are getting close to the salute here and they should be moving this casket pretty quickly. that will be dramatic to watch as they carry that casket up those steps. i remember with president ford he debt asked mike each dot it was bitter cold. and just a bitter cold day here in washington. a lot colder than it was now. i remember with president reagan in june of 2004. i was standing on constitution avenue and it was a hot day. some of the members of the honour guard passed out. i remember some but he passed out because they were standing there for so long waiting for the caisson to come up

capitol hill. that was a striking moment because here came the caisson and there were all these people gathered and there was a spontaneous applause honouring president reagan. there was no q, it was the national -- natural thing to do. we will have some moments like that but right now it's a moment of solemnity as they take is casket. we see some of the family members coming down the steps and that's why think we're getting closer to that 21-gun salute and then they will take the casket in. the other thing that's happening, it's starting to get dark in washington. i don't really remember these happening this late in the afternoon. we're going to lose a lot of sunlight here in washington, d.c., soon. this is a very... we honour these leaders in the capital. remember some people who they'd in-state, the longtime senator

from hawaii. 1 night there was a woman who i knew was an aide standing barely over to the senate side. there were some tourists passing by. she was absolutely sobbing thinking about her former boss. you see moments like this. i remember waiting to get into the capitol rotunda for the reagan funeral and i'm standing by what is now john dunes office and there was the general secretary of the soviet union and also margaret thatcher and they are standing right across from me. they had come to pay their respects. if you think about the 1980s really changing the world in the end of the cold war it was all about reagan, gorbachev and margaret thatcher.

none of them are with us anymore right now. we are going to have a couple of eulogies delivered here. we will have very black who is the senate chaplain. he suffered an injury and wain the hospital for several weeks and is back in the senate. he will deliver the invocation. the house chaplain will eventually deliver... but we will also hear from others.

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>> sandra: obviously we saw nancy pelosi there just a moment to go. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh, and others. we are going to hear from vice president kamala harris kamala harris, senate majority leader jon thelen, has, house speaker mike johnson, other to remember the 39th president of the united states y members continue to make their way in. chad, you're still us. let us know more about what we are about to see as a country says goodbye to the former president carter. >> this will take a couple of minutes to actually get the casket over. we talked about this wooden platform that was built for the first state funeral that they did in the rotunda. it was for abe lincoln in 1865. you're looking at some bipartisan senators, john barrasso, elizabeth warren the democrat from washington. excuse me, for massachusetts, to the left. that is muriel bowser, the mayor of washington, d.c. there will be a moment where

they bring the casket in to the rotunda, right in the middle of the rotunda. the house and the senate, they don't do anything political inside the rotunda. it is reserved exclusively for events like this. as we said, the last president to lie in state was george w. bush in 2018. >> sandra: so this will be the beginning of the rotunda service inside the u.s. capitol. the vice president of the united states will be delivering a eulogy at this lying in state ceremony for the former president, jimmy carter. then the vice president, second gentleman, will be presenting a wreath on behalf of the executive branch, and after the conclusion of this ceremony, the public will obviously be able to eventually say their goodbyes. as we look live on capitol hill. it's been a beautiful day of ceremonies leading up to this moment where he will be

remembered by so many who have been touched by his life and his legacy, and the history that he leaves behind here in the united states of america. growing up in georgia and making his way through the naval academy to the white house. the country will remember the 39th president of the united states of america. we are going to watch and our coverage will continue right here on the fox news channel. the 39th president, jimmy carter. we say our final farewells there at the u.s. capital. let's watch together