done he chose fish over people. so he has got some questions to answer. >> bret: all right, ben, quickly. >> on behalf of my forrester parents i will just say this is why you need a clear underbrush that's not a political statement. it's a policy statement. clear underbrush. stop with the environmental crap that prevents you from doing it. >> bret: guys and leslie punish you best. sorry we didn't have more time a lot on this show breaking news. thank you so much. have you back. "special report" staff surprised me with a video on instagram and x at bret baier looking back. i took over for brit hume as the anchor "special report" 16 years ago tonight. quite a ride, fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" is now. >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham this is "the ingraham angle" from washington as always thank you for joinin 4

hours in southern california. devastation catastrophe as far as the eye can see. multiple wildfires are still raging. >> the house next to mine is still on fire. so i'm going around begging anybody to come put out that fire to protect my home. >> because there is no water. >> there is no water pressure. i'm begging anyone to help put out this fire. >> laura: the l.a. county fire chief says that they don't know how many have died. according to ktla the body of one of the known victims, 66-year-old victor shaw was found on the side of the road with a garden hose still in his hand. these losses are difficult to comprehend. >> all the stuff that is here is replace cybil. people are not, so very lucky. >> so happy the family is the most important thing. >> pretty close. i don't know what i'm going to

lose it's weirdly like you really find out what matters to you. and you have to evacuate. >> let's go live to the pacific palisades where fox news correspondent matt finn has been all day long and he is standing by. matt? >> hi, laura, the latest tally that we have right now there are six fires burning in the l.a. area. a new one just began a short while ago in and around the woodland hills area. that's moving pretty fast. mandatory evacuations associated with that one. i'm altadena which is 25 miles east of the palisades, east of the pacific coast highway. and you could see all of the destruction here. it gives you an idea of how widespread the fire damage is all across l.a. county. i just spoke with a gentleman whose home has been reduced to rubble, what is on your screen right now. he said he grabbed his father's military flag and that was it because he thought he would come back to a home. but he said he has lost everything and, of course, there is a countless number of these

stories all across l.a. county right now you could see the smoke the fires all around us in the altadena area today. natural gas still pouring out of some of these properties. we are hearing booms in the distance. the fire here in the altadena area grew substantially today. to 13,000 acres. 4,000 to 5,000 structures impacted here. fema was in the palisades area. they will be here in the altadena area shortly back to you, laura. >> laura: matt, thank you very much. that believes us to profiles in incompetence. that he was the focus of tonight's angle. >> if you are an l.a. resident and looking for reassurance and looking for reassurance from your mayor and it was last night, well, this is what you heard. >> right now if you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available.

all of this can be found at url los angeles together is how we will get through this. >> laura: i watched that live. that woman is actually the mayor of the city that is burning down you cannot make this up. six fires raging across the region. karen bass tried her best to sound more convincing. >> we need to help others. help our neighbors. and, first and foremost, we need to stay united. we need to stay strong. a united l.a. is the way we will recover, is the way we rebuild our communities. >> laura: i will translate for you. stay united for her means don't ask me any questions. again, it's nice sentiments, right? at a united? was she united? united with her constituents when she skipped town for guana despite clear and early warnings

of severe wind conditions that experts warned could trigger fast moving fires? >> in times of crisis, we wants -- we need elected officials in place whom we respect and trust. even if we didn't vote for them. but that requires those officials to demonstrate managerial talent and thoughtful preparation. mayor bass showed neither. which was obvious in the q&a. >> my crew and i arrived shortly after it started. and for several hours, we watched as hundreds of homes in the neighborhood burned to the ground. we did not see a single fire engine. we watched as good samaritans guided traffic. what explains this lack of preparation? and rapid response. >> let me just say, first and foremost. my number one focus is that we have to protect lives. we have to save lives. and we have to save homes. rest assured. >> but that did not happen. >> rest assured -- let me

finish. rest assured. when that is done. when we are safe. we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked. what didn't work. and to correct or to hold accountable anybody, department, individual, et cetera. >> laura: et cetera. we don't need a postmortem. we already know what her party's policies and priorities have been. and americans can see for themselves what having no water contributed to over the past 72 hours. the people are just totally shell shocked. theyi have so many friends thate in the area. one of my dearest said out of the 11 out of 23 families in her granddaughter's class. 11 of them lost their homes. 11. think of the emotional trauma to children and of course to adults. and the property damage? look at this view down the pch in malibu?

now, the homes there worth in the millions as we know, all the iconic businesses, gone. the cost to restore these areas could top now $50 billion. i bet it's more. making this the costliest fire in u.s. history. and i know the trump administration will make rebuilding these communities a top priority. because that's what america first is all about after all. now, of course, the liberals in charge out there, have other ideas of what to put first. and it wasn't the safety of taxpayers who pay their salary. >> can you address the criticism now over the budget issue and the slashing of $17 million from your budget. >> i think if you go back and look at the reductions that were made, there were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation. >> more firefighters on the frontline would have helped. >> it's most important to understand that we were in tough budgetary times, everybody knew that. but that the impact of our

budget really did not impact what we have been going through. >> this woman really thinks we are as stupid as she is. we are supposed to believe that she, karen bass is worried about spending about budget tear restraints it's true the city had a million dollars budget deficit. why right after her election did she move to fast track her city's sanctuary city status that would tsholl millions of dollars out the door to illegal aliens? why did she do that? no mope for extra firefighters but she pushed to spend $1.2 million for chargers on streetlights to establish better climate equity. how about $2.1 million for equity and inclusion programs for the fire department? now, this is the kind of woke nonsense that you can expect in any city, frankly that's run by the far left. got a democrat mayor, got a city council without any republican

representation, and les you think her deputy could help in this firestorm, think again, meet brian williams her trusted number two who was placed on leave while he is being investigated by the fbi for making bomb threats which we had his photo up there. along with droughts, mud slides, fires, california suffers under the self-inflicted plague of horrendous leadership. their idea of protecting the public doesn't prioritize preparation for natural disasters. do you know what it prioritizes? resisting trump. >> california governor gavin newsom announced he is calling for a special session of the california legislature to, quote: safeguard california values in the face of an incoming trump administration, specifically he says he wants to bolster california resources to, quote: protect civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action and immigrant families.

>> laura: of course. that's a priority. newsom asked lawmakers for $25 million to fund his lawsuits and other legal action to resist, to stop donald trump. that's their priority. and if governor newman thinks he will parlay his wildfire management skills into national office? well, i think this clip may come back to haunt him. >> what is the situation with the water, obviously, in palisades ran out last night in the hydrants. firefighters on this block they laughed because there is no water in the hydrant here. >> local folks are trying to figure that out. i mean those hydrants are typical for two or three fires. maybe one fire. you have something of this scale. again that's got to be determined by the local. >> laura: maybe he should go into acting he kind of looked the part. see him with that jacket and hat. yeah. let me be clear. everybody knows how much i love california. it's where most of my family lives. no one deserves the type of

incompetent dei-obsessed leadership that has produced such disastrous results. not just this wildfire management, but everything else that happens in california. so we must do better. and i believe president trump and his team will be part of that solution. the angle expects to see a whole of government approach here. including support from republicans on capitol hill. talk to john thune in a few moments. got to rebuild l.a. got to take every possible federal measure to prevent this sort of bungling from happening again. these people are fellow americans. we're not going to desert them. i look forward to 2028, when president trump will welcome the world again to the l.a. olympics. i was there in 1984. in 2028 has got to be amazing. and then we can all take pride in the rebirth of this great american city. and that's the angle. joining me now is dr. hamadei, a board certified doctor and

scientist and joe paul lick. breitbart editor-at-large. both have had to evacuate due to these wildfires. joel, now, liberals will say this is just -- this is natural disaster. this climate change. and bringing up all these issues of water or cuts to the budget. that's just -- it's not the time or place. well, 24 hours after evacuating, what do you say? >> well, even if you believe that climate change is the reason that we're having more wildfires, you need to prepare for more wildfires. and it's clear that our state government has not been doing that. we were not prepared with an emergency plan for evacuation. our mayor was out of the country. our governor doesn't have a clue. the residents had to help each other. and it is a miracle that everybody, at least in pacific palisades was able to evacuate alive without injury. when you go into the neighborhood -- and i have been

reporting from there for the last two days for breitbart news. the scale of devastation is unimaginable. and you were just reminded over and over again how amazing it is that people survived. that's because people helped each other. they gave each other lifts. neighbors put fires out at each other's houses if they could. people had to step up and take leadership. and the reason i believe palisades will be rebuilt better than before, is because of that character. that's the palisades spirit. our government was completely awol. >> laura: newsom found time though to attack trump during this crisis. watch this. >> president-elect chose to attack you, blaming you for this. >> it's -- one can't even respond to it. this guy wanted to politicize it. i have a lot of thoughts and i know what i want to say. i won't. i stood next to president of the united states of america today and i was proud to be with joe biden and he had the backs of every single person in this community.

>> laura: dr. hamadei, again, he looks the part. is pointing out the failures of, i guess trump in talking about this. but, what about the performance here, given what joel's neighborhood has gone through, which is devastation, you can see it in some of those videos and what so many people now tonight are facing, and children are facing? >> >> laura, thank you. and first my heart goes out to joel and so many friends of mine. i know over 100 people at this point who have lost their homes and whose children are in a panic. my own are in great distress right now. we are comforting them and teaching them that this is going to be okay long term. that said, this is something that should never have happened. this could have been gavin newsom's rudy giuliani moment after 9/11 where he stood up strong and tall and commanded a force and reassured the people and said i am in charge and we are going to take care of things. instead, what did he do? one photo op. after another, not only did he start attacking

trump while claiming he is not making this political. he is galling in that special session of the state legislature to authorize $25 million of spending in money we don't have not to take care of the wildfire victims. but to trump proof california. take care of a president or attack a president who hasn't even taken office yet. this is not just tone deaf. it is criminally negligent. he has demonstrated to the nation that he is absolutely incapable, out of touch and simply just does not care. he stopped even pretending to care at this point. and that is what is really concerning right now. we are hearing for the first time people who really loved newsom. the few remaining people who supporting him says he needs to go. >> laura: residents are growing more furious by the moment. one woman confronted gavin newsom today. watch. >> will you tell me -- i'm not going to hurt him, i promise. >> literally talk to the president right now specificaly answer the question for what we can do for you and your

daughter. >> can i hear your call? because i don't believe it. >> i'm sorry. there is literally -- i have tried five times that's why i'm walking around to make the call. >> why is the president not taking your call? >> because it's not going through. >> laura: joel? >> it's not about the president. it's about gavin newsom and his own administration and we have prioritized the wrong things in our leaders in california. gavin newsom has spent more time on transgender surgeries in red states than he has spent on wildfire prevention in his own state. we have a number of other problems as well. we have a fire insurance disaster because gavin newsom's administration artificially capped the price of insurance. resulting in companies leaving the state people in poll sadz losing their policies. never disaster looming because of his administration we have to

stop prioritizing identity politics and cultural issues above saving lives karen bass ran for mayor in 2022 against rick caruso. i'm the real pro-choice democrat. he implying he was not pro-choice enough. rick palisades mall is the only structure still standing in the village. he could protect property and life and obviously karen bass cannot. >> laura: dr. hamadei, joel both of you have thank you and to all your friends and family stay safe. our prayers with are you. fox support families impacted by the wildfires. your donation really does help the red cross to respond and to help people recover from this horrific disaster. so visit go.fox/red cross to support these efforts. or just scan that qr code you see on your screen. now, just ahead, the dems never really believed their lies about trump and we have proof. plus, breaking news on trump's sentencing.

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♪ >> laura: this is a fox news alert. the supreme court has just denied president trump's application to stay or halt his sentencing in that manhattan case, which will now happen tomorrow. it was a five-four decision with

justices thomas, alito, gorsuch and kavanaugh dissenting. that means amy coney barrett went with the majority, jonathan turley will join us in moments on that. but, first, it was just two and a half months ago remember obama was trying to find his old magic on the trail warning america about trump. >> donald trump's former chief of staff said that trump told him he wanted his generals to be like hitler's generals. good rule of thumb is don't say you want to do anything like hitler. >> laura: just stupid, vicious and hyperbole. he never believed it which was obvious today. if you watched the carter funeral where former president obama chatted up president-elect trump. kevin corke, what was it about

this interplay that is blowing up social media? >> what is interesting they said, they told you danger to democracy they didn't believe a minute of that politics makes for strange bed lows. today that was obvious and full display. presidents trump and obama down right chummy. >> laura: laughing. >> laura: laughing with hitler. >> danger to democracy. i believe it. sure you do. those unfamiliar. listen, there are routine protocols that happen at events like this. dig that tears like presidents and their families they greet each other in the green room if they will before they are ushered out to their perspective seating in the sanctuary. so when you see them shake hands or don't shake hands. don't overthink it. that's not to say they don't show affection for or maybe even disdain for each other in public. check out the frostiness between the first lady joe biden and the

have. p kamala harris, we are talking subzero, side eye, funeral frost bite. funeral frost bite. yeah, girl. much to the chagrin and frankly embarrassment of those president biden appeared to dozen off during the funeral national wake by the first lady. will michelle obama. not there the only first spouse to miss it. she apparently had a scheduling conflict, laura. some say it was an extended holiday in hawaii. >> laura: is that what we are calling hawaii now? we have other obligations. yeah, like maui and. >> laura: bush came in. he did walk right by trump. did he that cool bush thing right by trump and did the punch obama. they are buddies. trump, you know what? winning is the best revenge. trump just -- he won and i

think -- it doesn't feel -- >> when you look at that picture real quick twice elected. twice elected twice elected and, yep, twice elected. there you go. >> laura: all right. kevin, great to see you. myfriend. >> thank you. >> laura: moments ago the supreme court denied trump's to sentencing in hush money case which will happen the sentencing tomorrow. for reaction to this jonathan turley, george washington university law prof. professor turley, let's start with you. the court doesn't like to intervene in what may be considered political matters. your take on this and then i will tell you what i think the court should have done. >> well, this is what some of us predicted when the appeals were just began. merchan really played this perfectly. and i say that not as a plaintiff's exhibit. that he knew that he was giving

president-elect trump very little runway. by which to take an appeal off. he also knew that appellate courts generally prefer for sentences to be finalized. to say review the case as a whole. and he played those two cards. to guarantee that he will be able to sentence president trump tomorrow when that occurs ultimate mandate for president trump. affects of lawfare on our political system. president trump will go in as many on the left want him to go in as a convicted felon. for many people in this country he will go in as someone who was the victim of lawfare. this was the most outrageous of the cases. it was built on a really not a novel but an unprecedented theory. one that even the democratic

senator from new jersey recently called bs completely invalid. that's the mandate he will give going into office. >> laura: we will get to charlie in just a second. when you look at this though, one of the justifications for not granting the application for the stay was that it wasn't a real inconvenience to the presidency because there is not going to be jail time. it will be there but it won't be really inhibiting his work as president. four justices disagreed with that only one who didn't who was one of the republican nominees was amy coney barrett. john roberts the other one. amy coney barrett voted with the majority. so there were a core four who believed that this was significant enough to say huh-uh, not pulling this nonsense. >> that's right.

and the division on the court reflects how troubling the case is overall. what this trial level judge has done in manhattan is to hold a presidential candidate first now a president-elect to his courtroom on a short leash his case one of the issues most concern with voters. and it obviously is an equal concerned a at least among four justices. >> charlie this case such a tragedy. extraordinary cases allowing the go forward normal course to the appellate. we have serious problems facing this country. president trump doesn't need one more thing to deal with. that's my view i think they saw what it was in the dissent and unfortunately five that disagreed. look, i guess it was a close

call according to professor turley. >> charlie: important point whether you voted for donald trump or not part of those 59%, 06% of americans. pollsters they're hopeful we can move in a positive direction. wait a minute, we got all these problems? this is not anywhere in the list of problems that i have of course in this particular case as professor turley pointed out. the real damage was letting the case go forward in the first place. that's what the real damage occurred here gagging somebody running for president runs counter to everything that we believe n terms of free speech and running robust campaigns in this country. and, of course, donald trump won. and he beat all of it and this is just a reminder, i think, for a lot of people of what crazy

prosecutors did and tried to do to try to thwart the will of the american people. and the american people looked at it and said yeah, we don't care. we are not going to be confused about this. we are going to stick with the issues we care about. and, you know, the issues in this case are not one of them. >> laura: alvin bragg was out today crowing about the case how important it is for the country, professor turley. i would also argue that judge merchan by issuing this unconditional discharge in this case also kind of implicitly in my view admits this is ridiculous. i'm sorry unconditional discharge but is he a felon. this is preposterous. i think the court should have done away with this. i think the court got this one done. i don't say it just because i support president trump. i do support the presidency though. >> i'm not surprised by chief justice roberts.

he often experiences sticker shock when it comes to institutional issues. he doesn't want to get the court ahead of the politics at the moment. this is fairly consistent, i would say, with his past rulings i say that because i truly believe that what motivates him is the court as an institution and he doesn't want to see the court at these critical moments making this decision but the problem with what is happening in manhattan is that this is the rawest form of lawfare at the end of the day have you case that was a dead misdemeanor that was zapped back into life with this novel theory and then turned into this mountain of felonies went before a judge due process. we don't know what the jury decided as to the underlying conduct in the case. i was in that courtroom so was i

i was in belief. >> laura: a abuse of judicial power in the united states. that's what it was. apparently five justices on the supreme court who think this just has to go through its normal course. are we surprised, jonathan by amy coney barrett? this or not? barrett has been playing a centrist role on the court. often voting with the left of the court. she is sort of carving out her own voice and own place i don't want to condemn her for it. >> laura: no it was a thoughtful decision. >> what she did here consistent with what appellate judges do. they prefer overwhelmingly to have these. >> laura: process. >> completed have the sentence in so they can review the whole case. they hate interlocutory appeals they hate these things coming up

in partial form. she is consistent in that regard. >> laura: well, any time you say interlocutory appeal on "the ingraham angle" it's time to take a pause. panel, i thank you. thank you, jonathan. i just got cle credit for that thank you so much. >> thank you. >> laura: confirmation hearings for trump's cabinet nominees begin next week and the democrats are already trying to derail them. axios is reporting that chuck schumer is telling his party, get this, to create fireworks at the hearing. he wants revenge for what he calls republicans spending four years attacking the democrat brand. >> if republicans use their new majorities to make life more expensive for the working families of this country, if donald trump and republicans use their new majorities to push the same old g.o.p. policies of tax cuts for the very rich. cuts to healthcare, tribunal down economics, democrats will fight back. >> laura: was that a punch he did there? i think that was a little punch.

senate majority leader john thune, it's been a long time. it's great to have you on the show. thank you so much for joining us. leader thune, it's now the new year, new congress. and it's the same resistance from the democrats what is your plan for the senate to combat nominees including pete hegseth who they want him in place on day one. >> right. we are going to ground them down. national security especially are critical to the country. really important that we get them done and get them done quickly. schumer and the democrats are probably not going to cooperate. you would think after the election they might have learned their lesson. they did a little bit today. they got religion on the laken riley bill. we had 84 votes on the senate today to get on the bill. we will obviously have to try to process it next week. i am hoping that he will come to their senses and realize that the election drubbing that they took was a message to the american people. >> laura: didn't sound like it. fireworks, elizabeth warn going

out there and saying she is essentially going to make trouble for pete hegseth bringing in, you know, she is going to ask lots of questions. >> she is demanding, i think answers to 72 questions. advise and consent. i get that are you confident that hegseth, start with him is going get through the senate? >> i think, again, i don't try to prejudge these things until they go through the confirmation hearing. but i think he has got a path. and i think he has done really well in the meetings he has h my meeting was good. he talked about his vision for the department. focusing on the war fighter and got great experience not only as a veteran but obviously very smart guy. and the so, i'm hopeful. >> laura: senator, i know you said a couple days ago that your relationship with trump is evolving. i hear that word -- a little red flag there. and you want to get this to the same distinction, you said. what does that really mean? it's really diplomatic. but, i just think of it this way. without him on the ticket in november, i don't see that the republicans would have had either the house or the senate

majority. i mean, maybe they would have but i don't think so. so, shouldn't the president's priorities get deference here considering what he did to boost the entire republican party? >> yeah. no doubt about it he got 77 million votes. he gave us a 53 senate majority and 53 seat majority in the united states senate. so he is driving force behind everything. the people in this country gave him a mandate. we intend to deliver on that mandate. i describe my relations with him it's really good. i try not to overstate it because i know somebody might go to him and he might say something else. >> you backed tim scott. other folks backed other people big deal. you backed tim scott initially. lots of people have come along to understand the party a different party. >> totally different party than the time i got into politics. president trump has brought to the table constituencies. coalitions. groups of people that never were

voting republican and they now are. >> we have great opportunity that doesn't come along very often and sometimes doesn't last very long to get some really good things done for the american people thanks to president trump and his leadership. so we're working closely with him to answer your question. >> laura: an evolving relationship. all right. okay. >> i'm just trying to be -- i'm a very conservative. >> laura: two bills versus one bill. people watching this goes what does that even mean? president trump has stated and probably still has. once republicans get their tax cut, a lot of trump's other priorities, whether it's tariffs or maybe cutting ukraine funding are going to go by the wayside is he concerned about that. do you think you can get 51 votes if there are two bills for some of these other well, more unusual priorities that the president has, unusual compared to the old republican guard? >> well, i think that -- yes. and, actually what you describe

ask an argument for doing two bills. if you are going to do the tax piece of it. some of the other things. that's probably going to be happening later in the year. i mean, i think we can do some things right out of the gate. like the border. border security. which is a huge for the president for all of us. on energy and on military readiness, increasing our defense budget. all off set. but do that get a quick win. and then focus on the broader debate about taxes and some of the other issues that you mentioned. including spending cuts. which i think we have an opportunity historic opportunity to do something about. >> laura: are you worried that without significant spending cuts that a year from now, a year and a half from now. jay powell cease these numbers are going up. budget deficit is going up. he raises interest rates. this country is thrown into recession and republicans get wiped out in the mid terms? that's what i am worried about. >> right. >> laura: without real cuts. i know washington never wants to cut. i know you are a fiscal conservative but we have seen

spend going to up across the board. >> yeah. i think what you have to do and i think the reconciliation is great opportunity to do it. slow the rate of growth. you need growth in the economy. you need pro-growth policies on the tax side regulatory, energy policies all things that we care about that we want to do through reconciliation as well. slow to the rate of growth particularly in some of the mandatory programs. the entitlement programs. that's something that congress hasn't been able to do for a long time. i think the president has the mandate. i think members in the house and the senate republicans both want to get this done. i think it's important because if we don't, you are right. it's a train wreck. it's a fiscal train wreck. we can't control monetary policy but we do control fiscal policy. >> laura: you all going to be making a trip out to california republican leadership to embrace those people out there it's a horrific situation. >> it is it's unfortunate and again this is a function of governance and management. conservative governance, conserving management. i feel really really sorry. my heart goes out to those lost

their families and people who have lost property. it's devastating. >> laura: bring california home. that's what i say. california is a wonderful state. it doesn't deserve what it is getting right now. senator, thank you very much for joining us. >> laura, nice to be with you. >> laura: evolving relationship with you and trump. thanks so much. >> laura: and it's evolving. coming up, california's twisted priorities, more on that. because they are turning deadly. and that's next. ♪ we're here with chris counahan of our local leaffilter. so chris, tell us how leaffilter is different from every other gutter protection on the market.

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♪ >> laura: all right. this is a fox news alert. president-elect trump is meeting now with republican governors at mar-a-lago. he has just started taking questions from the press. let's dip in. >> yesterday in washington. which of your nominees do they think are going to have the hardest time getting confirmed. >> we had a great meeting with almost every republican senator. i would first it was a love fest. i believe i will let you know in about an hour. [laughter] this is pretty much a love fest. the governors aren't exactly chopped liver, right? this is a group of people that have done a phenomenal job. and especially when you see what is going on in los angeles look at the way they have run their states it's incredible. i talk about it all the time the top 25 states. i don't believe we have any in the list of crime. so, every one of them is democrat-run state.

we want to get along with the democrats. i'm trying to be nice. we are going into a new term. it's going to be a great time for -- i'm going to call it the golden edge. i believe we have a chance at the golden age of america. i have to tell you look at the crime it's all on the shoulders of democrats and the way they ran their states. same people same everything, but you people these people in those states you wouldn't have crime like that at all. >> peter: we have been watching over the last couple of weeks a lot of ceos, including some censored you four years ago have been coming down here basically to kiss the ring. did think cha they change or diu change. >> well, maybe we have all changed. i think they have gained a lot of respect. they looked at the mandate we got. as you know we won the popular vote as i said. we won all seven swing states. well, if trump would win -- i had to win three. because i had a lot of early voting going on. and we had to win three and we won all seven. we won them by a lot. we didn't win them by a little.

we won them by a lot. we won the popular vote by a lot. i think that had an effect. i think it's also like let's get something done. you look at what happened with facebook today and yesterday what they announced. that was a big concession from them. i mean, they went from the -- i call them the unlock boxes. they call them lockboxes. i call them unlocked boxes because they seem to be unlocked a lot of times. you went from the unlocked boxes into a statement yesterday that is really talking about free speech. what a difference that is. and so we appreciate that. but, i think they have gained a lot of respect. we have had everybody, jeff bezos came, bill gates came. mark zuckerberg came. many of them came numerous times. the bankers have all come. everybody is coming. i haven't had anybody saying anything bad about me. i'm not used to it. but,. [laughter] a lot of it is respect. i think they respect the republican party. the republican party has become a much bigger party. it's become a party for the

worker. you know, if you look at all of the union votes that i got and when i say i, it's really all of us together because it's a whole thing. but, we won the teamsters. we did great with the auto workers. we did -- you know, all heavily union. and nonunion states we won by a lot. florida is an example. we won by millions of votes. highest vote ever gotten and so it's been a great period of time. >> a ton of world leaders have called you as well. we understand still no call with putin. is that a day one or week one. >> he wants to meet. and we're going -- we're setting it up. president xi, we have had a lot of communication. and we have a lot of meetings set up with a lot of people. some have come, but i would rather wait until after the 20th. >> peter: when you say meet with putin or meet with xi. do you want to have some kind of a summit or come here. >> to be determined. but, president putin wants to

meet. he has said that even publicly. and we have to get that war over with. that's a bloody mess. soldiers are being killed by the millions. i looked at some very graphic pictures yesterday. the soldiers that are being killed. you know, it's a flat field. the only thing that stops a bullet is a body. these are very very very frat land. soldiers are dying and dying by the hundreds of thousands and not to mention the towns and cities which were largely demolished and a lot of people. big surprise and very unpleasant surprise how many people were killed in that war. it's much higher than the press is reporting. you know, when a building comes down. these are big buildings. two and three blocks long. different kind of construction. long and not that pal in many cases. about you they are 20 stories. when a building like that comes down and they say nobody was

injured. no, no. a lot of people were i would can. i think the numbers are going to be much higher. and that's a war that would have never happened if i were president. and it's a war that i'm going to try really to stop as quickly as i can. the number of people dying on daily basis and i get the reports every single day. and largely soldiers at this point. but the number of people, both russia and ukraine, it's staggering. >> peter: when you threatened tariffs on canada a couple weeks ago. justin trudeau rushed down here and wanted to major nice. he is on the way out. is that what you wanted. >> i didn't think he was going to quit. you probably saw the numbers. look, i called him governor trudeau because they should be the 51st state, really. would make a great state. the people of canada like it. they would pay lower taxes. they have virtually no military. they have a very small military. they pay less than 1%. they are about the lowest payer in nato. they are supposed to pay much more. they haven't been paying.

a lot of them a lot of problems. and i was with wayne gretzky i said wayne would you like to be the governor of canada? i can't imagine -- i can't imagine anybody doing any better than wayne. wayne was not too interested. but,. [laughter] but i think he probably would have liked like statehood. is he a great one we call him the great one he is a great hockey player. i will say this. i think, you know, it was stated pretty strongly a couple of weeks ago about canada and people lawched and now they are all saying well, it's very interesting. we are subsigh dyeing canada $250 billion a year. we have massive deficits. they have taken about 20% of our car business. i would rather do it here. we could put tariffs on. we don't have tariffs on them yet any other states that does

cars and we have a lot of them. we don't need canada for that we don't need canada for lumber because we have big forests that we have not utilized. in some cases they are protected, which i can take that protection off. take down a tree and grow a better tree that's pretty common. we don't need anything. we don't need their fuel or energy or oil and gas we don't need anything that they have i said to trudeau why a are we subsidizing you $250 billion a year? he said i really don't know. and i said well, i don't know either. i said what would happen to canada if we didn't? he said canada would be obliterated if that happened. i said then canada should be a 51st state. and that's where we are now. >> peter: story kind of disappears out of very suddenly. do you have any idea whatever happened to the drones? >> what happened to drones? >> peter: you said you knew --

you thought the government knew what happened to these drones. >> i don't know they are over bedminster a lot. i'm going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration. because i think it's ridiculous that they are not telling you about what is going on with the drones. it's not only with me, glen was telling me today in virginia they have drones all over the place, too. and nobody is reporting it. one quick comment we are home to the largest naval base in the world and quantico and we house a lot of the seal teams and have a huge national security infrastructure. and now for two years running we have had drone incursion over secure airspace and we still don't know why. i think that's absolutely unacceptable. i think president trump and the new leadership coming in, i think will work diligently to understand who is behind this

what we do to stop the surveillance of our infrastructure. >> i can say this while we were dealing with a terrorist attack in new orleans, we had drones being flown over our nuclear reactors in louisiana. and we brought that attention to them. we have been asked the faa the ability to mitigate drones. it's signature on some brew cratsd' desk. that's real. >> nobody knows. they don't want to talk about it. go ahead, governor, you were going to say? >> i was going to say we have drones in wyoming flying over our infrastructure as well. it's incredibly frustrating that we not only have no way of knowing what it is but nobody knows how to deal with them they don't want to talk about it. that could be us sending drones. i hope that's the case. us doing it and doing research and maybe they don't want to talk about it from that standpoint. i hope it's not an enemy. we will find out on the 21st. the day after give me a little

time for the inauguration. shortly after we will give you a report on it. tell you exactly what it is. they know and it's very strange that they aren't talking about it. peter, thank you very much. does biden do -- i mean does he do this kind of a news conference? >> peter: this is my longest ever interview of a president. >> yeah. well, the longest ever before this was one question and rush you out of the room. thank you very much. thank you, peter. >> laura: went to the test pattern. that's a new one. all right, joining me now, kevin o'leary, chairman of o'leary ventures after that wide ranging conversation with steve doocy's son, of course, peter, who was the pool reporter at mar-a-lago tonight. kevin, trump spoke a lot about canada becoming the 51st state. now, i know you met with president trump in the last few days. your reaction to what you just

heard? >> i always tell everybody and you know this with certainty. i have been listening to trump for 12 years. everybody has. he is bombastic. is he controversial. and you have to learn, as i have, to differentiate the signal from the noise. so, there is a lot of noise in that. it's -- ha ha, it's interesting. it's controversial. but, the signal is there is an economic opportunity. and, you know, when i try and buy a plant or equipment and i go in to a state and i'm going to buy a manufacturing facility and they tell me it's worth $200 million. i say it's worth 20 million. we don't need your equipment here. and there is a rat running around in the boiler room and all that it's negotiating. i get it. i do it all the time myself. really what we are talking about. we talk about that deficit trump mentioned # hundred billion dollars. 188 billion is just the energy

coming out of alberta. alberta has more oil than all of the united states. that's a union right there. i mean, that's an opportunity to do something incredible to strengthen both jurisdictions. then you talk about the currency, why isn't it common? we are trading all these commodities in u.s. dollars anyways. if you ask canadians hey do you want to sell your sovereignty, your identity, your passport, the answer is no, that's what the poll was. if you ask them if they want to explore an economic union that makes the strongest jurisdiction on earth, yeah, they are interested. i don't have to listen to pollsters. i have 10 million followers i asked them myself. they are interested. they want to hear more. that's what we are talking about. i think trump has an interesting idea on economic union. that's the signal. disregard the >> jesse: kevin, we have to talk about tiktok. because i know that you are

interested >> laura: if this deal actually does not go through where china gets to keep it through bytedance, and interesting shenanigans going on behind the scenes about this. but you have a group of investors that you believe have the funds to purchase tiktok. tell us about it. >> yeah. i mean, it's a very simple binary outcome. we're going to have that hearing on friday, and the justices are going to decide whether they're doing hear this case based on free speech. the company has claimed there's no buyers that will buy without the algorithm. frank mccord and i put that in the market and we've made them an offer about six hours ago and said, look. we'll buy it without the algorithm. the justice says no, there is a buyer. so if the justices say, look, we're going to throw it back to the kind of executive, we're not to hear the case. it's not about free speech. the people have decided congress bipartisan basis has told you to shut it down

by the 19th or sell it. xi erases $32 billion of american institutional money like that. [ snaps fingers ]. i think that's going to make a lot of people unhappy and have a much harder time to raise money in the future. just because he has a bad hair day. or the only viable option is frank and my offer which gives them a stay of execution for 90 days. if biden says, look there's a viable buyer here. because now you've got it, and he gives him 90 days, the next day, four hours later we're dealing with trump so i'm going to mar-a-lago again on the weekend. we've got to deal with donald. i need his help. >> laura: all right. kevin, we'll be watching. it's great to have you on as always. thank you very much for joining us. >> l. that's it for us tonight. continue to pray for the great people of california. follow me on social media. jesse is next. >> jesse: welcome to "jesse watters primetime." tonight -- >> what is the situation with the water obviously in pali