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crews in los angeles race to contain out-of-control wildfires as 16 victims are confirmed dead. how more strong winds are threatening the progress. rachel: plus. punker to prayer after tragedy, while standing in the ruins of their home after finding their mary statue was still standing intact. ♪ charlie: and we are just over one week from trump's white house return. the top priorities and executive orders expected on day one. the final hour of "fox & friends weekend" starts right now. will: a fox news alert, the death toll in california has risen to 16 with more than 100,000 people across la still under evacuation orders.

rachel: officials fear it could get worse as strong winds continue to fan the flames. charlie: fox weather correspondent marissa torres is in santa monica. marissa, what can you tell us. >> reporter: good morning, you guys. so we're here at one of the blockades, one of the many blockades that does not allow residents to head further into santa monica, west towards the palisades. this area has been shut down since tuesday. the palisades fire erupted on tuesday morning, people leaving within minutes with nothing other than what was on their bodies and they haven't been able to return since then. there's been a lot of frustration because some people know their home is okay but they're not able to get in. it's not safe. the national guard came in thursday and friday and they've been set up here. it's been a challenging week. yesterday the big concern was that we had an expansion of evacuations into encino,

boyfriendwood and mandeville canyon. other crews were on the front lines to see the water drops that were being performed. the water was significant in terms of taming some of the flames. we also had retardant that was being dropped down to help protect some of the brush that hadn't quite burned. 24 aircrafts in total being used for the palisades fire. a lot of that wound down into the day and in the early morning there were night aircraft flying and performing some of the drops. that's just the air support which of course is critical. the winds were able to be tame enough to allow them to fly and then you took it to the ground where we also had a lot of brush control. you had firefighters on the ground that were using axes and chainsaws in order to clear away the brush in order to protect some of the homes, a lot of the homes. we know unfortunately some homes did succumb to the flames. we have perspectives of the fire you're looking at from brentwood. the fire still burning, i'm curious to see from cal fire

when we get an update at 8:00 local, 11:00 a.m. eastern, in terms of acreage. we know just over 23,000 acres has burned and 11% containment. we'll see how the winds did treat the fire overnight. it's been gusty. we saw the gusts around 20 to 30 miles an hour to the santa monica mountains. the higher in elevation, the stronger it will be. if the winds can remain calm enough to get these aircraft up in the air, we'll see if they're able to do more work. la fire department actually did release video as well and we have that this morning of some of the helicopters that were flying through the santa monica mountains over the fire doing that very necessary work in order to save these homes. it is so crucial right now because we're not done. we're in the midst of a santa ana event, not as intense as what we saw earlier last week but it is enough to maybe provide oxygen to some of these flames. you talk about monday, tuesday, wednesday, a more moderate to

strong santa ana event. we have to watch the palisades. we could get gusts of 40, 50 miles an hour if not stronger than that. higher in elevation, the winds intensify. i want to mention the eaton fire. this is an area of 14,000 acres that has been destroyed. the eaton fire burning through the san gabriel mountains. the good news for folks watching that fire, it's a little more shielded from the typical santa ana winds so the hope is this won't be aggravated as much as the palisades fire. we have to get through monday, tuesday, wednesday with no rain in sight for right now. maybe by friday. it's going to be a tough go of it over here in the la area. will: there was a fascinating video that came up on social media that showed air traffic control with planes and helicopters making their way to a reservoir to fill up with water and how that has to be controlled and how busy it is. you talked about the eaton fire. you mentioned when it comes back

to the palisades fire, encino and brentwood. do you have any sense right now where they're pouring resources in terms of all of the helicopters, all of those planes, to now dump water. are they flooding all of the fire fighting to any particular neighborhood or area? >> reporter: so they're definitely switching to the more eastern side of the fire where we have the expansions in the communities you mentioned so moving from west to east. so in terms of support, we have 3700 personnel assigned to just this fire. each fire has assigned personnel and this one certainly is the largest fire so it has the largest personnel. but they really did focus on those communities yesterday. we were in the mountaingate community which overlooks mandeville canyon and everybody was evacuated there but you could overlook into the canyon and see just all the air support. unfortunately, you have homes within the canyon and they were most vulnerable and we did see some of those burn but yeah, i'd say the eastern side right now, up to the 405, mull holland

drive, those are the air yeahs they've been focusing on so we'll see what changes today. we'll get that update from cal fire and then our plan as of now is to rotate into those areas still of concern and we'll see how these flames responded to some of the winds we had overnight. will: okay. thank you so much, marissa. great report. the thing that stands out about that as the fire fighting efforts move as she said east, west would be malibu and it's a little less dense than when you go east. so encino, woodland hills, sherman oaks, around the 101, 405 you're talking about brentwood. we're talking about stopping it now. if it reaches further east it's denser population areas. rachel: we've been looking at the destruction all weekend long, we think about for example laken riley what happened to her, the pain is so much more because that person who killed laken riley shouldn't have been here, right. it's the same feeling i get here

where like this didn't have to happen. it is very predictable given all of the weather conditions we've laid out, given the terrain, what they know happens when you don't clear underbrush, when you don't manage your forests, and so many pieces of the puzzle whether it's the leadership, whether it's the environmental groups that sue, if you try to clear that brush or do something to manage the forest, there's so much that i hope that when this clears up people can start to evaluate and maybe rethink the way they run this. this is a beautiful state. it really is. charlie: it truly is paradise and obviously amid the unspeakable destruction and sadness, there are some inspirational stories. earlier we spoke to the heppen family who lost everything, lost their home. the family had been there for 40 years, 37 years, something like that. will: this is the eaton fire.

this is altadena, they returned home to almost everything gone. charlie: yeah. but found this one statue of the mother mary and began singing, we talked to them earlier today. .♪ [singing] ♪ >> it was healing for us to get onto our property. we set up a prayer to the sacred heart of jesus and we sang that special song that our entire family has known for decades to the blessed virgin and it was a remarkable thing. g>> we're going to pavement we're going to thank god that we're safe. we have entertained a lot for years. we welcomed -- we feel very

strongly in the virtue of hospitality so i wanted to pray and say if we can do it again, that would be great and then the song kind of came about on its own. i just want to be grateful as much as i can for what we've had. charlie: how humbling is that to think about in that situation what they're focused on is their gratitude which is kind of amazing. rachel: yeah. we're off safe. all safe. we're all here. our faith endures. they said also a statue of saint joseph survived. jackie talked about when she looked at the home it wasn't the stuff in there, she said we really believe in the virtue of hospitality and she was thinking about how many people she hosted in that home and offered their christian hospitality to. what a beautiful message and these are people, they're going to be okay. you know, you look at that and you go they're going to be okay. i read an article also about them and they said their message

to people was go find a church. go deeper into your faith because obviously that's what's holding them up. will: incredible footage when you see the sky behind them there. we talk about it, they mentioned it, going back -- i encountered this story several times when someone loses everything, she said it's healing to go back to the spot where the home no longer is but was and charlie you said this it's healing because you hear the same thing over and over, gratitude. that's the overwhelming emotion. not loss. yes, loss. but gratitude. rachel: yeah. they had to go through barriers. they went through the barriers. they said sorry, i know it wasn't legal but we needed to go there. they only took their adult children. charlie: the instruction is in all things to give thanks. that's in all things. which is a pretty heavy thing to think about. and obviously you could -- this was not the herd family or duffy

family. rachel: these are pros. charlie: who know how to sing. one of the things that they told us was that they had a little studio, music studio because they like to sing and when they went back, when they couldn't find anything, they found the statue. another thing they found where their music studio was was a cow bell and they all started laughing. rachel: which would be the only instrument i could play. [laughter] charlie: the ability to see something like that and start laughing, another reason why they're going to be -- rachel: yes, yes, this family is going to be okay. i think they're inspiring others to see the silver lining in this horrible tragedy. what a beautiful, about tabule thing they offered -- beautiful thing they offered the country. fox corporation donated $1 million to the red cross for california's wildfire relief efforts and these efforts by the red cross will help provide safe shelter, hot meals, emotional support and other aid and

resources. charlie: you can dough late in donate to theamerican red crosst go.fox/redcross or scan the qr code on your screen right there. why is that hard to say? why am i always the one that has to say it. will: i don't think you. the qr code makes it easy. you can dough lat donate to the. rachel, you brought up it's predictable and to some extent preventable. you can help control a natural disaster's devastation. that's been proven in florida by governor desantis. governor newsom said he's struggling to get straight answers, criticizes some for blaming while doing the same himself. he made time to show up on the obama br os podcast. >> i want to know the answers. i'm the governor of california. i want to know the answers. i've got the question by i can't

tell you how many people, what happened. i want to get the answers. i want to get straight answers. i watch the press conference, i met with some of the leaders. we had my team start talking to local leaders. >> you weren't getting straight answers from local leaders. >> i was getting different answers so for me that's not -- when you start getting different answer, i'm not getting the actual story. and they're assessing. you need a little bit of grace. we're in an emergency environment everything else. i want to determine the facts. no one has patience, in the weaponized, back to the grievance of trump, everyone else. there's immediacy. in lies travel the proverbial world. it's hard to get the facts out there unless you have the backing of those facts and you can communicate them and that's what we're trying to achieve. charlie: that's a pretty smooth move there to say let's not politicize things and then have a podcast where you just sit and politicize everything and try blame other people. rachel: it's so impossible for

him to say he -- listen, even if he didn't have eyes to see what was happening because in his own state with the weather conditions, what the for effort forests arelike, what the unders like, he blew up a dam that the state needed in order to allow native americans to fish for salmon. their water levels are not where they can be and they're running water off into the ocean because they want to save a smelt. look at this. some people -- we've been talking about this. insurance companies don't want to cover people in california. why? part of it is because it's high risk. they also -- these insurance companies aren't dumb. they know that the fire hydrants aren't full. they know the brush isn't being cleared. they understand that this is a high risk area and so they wanted to raise rates and california said no, they passed a bilker you can't raise rates so they said we're out of here so i mean, even those things should tell you we have a fire problem and we need our people to be safe and we also need them

to be covered by insurance in case of emergency and he has done nothing to do that, to solve that. will: it's such an illustration in misplaced priorities. the purpose of governance, the reason we pay taxes is you cover things like this. honestly, that's it. basic services, emergency response. that's why you pay taxes. when your government as has been illustrated in california is constantly focused on other priorities like dei, climate change, we played a video of the water chief saying her primary reason she took the job was because of equity, then you realize you live in a place that doesn't understand the basics and doesn't have priorities. i almost laughed saying this. you can walk and chew gum at the same time. you're not walking. you're falling on your face. so your priorities are focused on chewing the gum, on doing all these other issues, while you're not getting the basics. rachel: how much of it is on a philosophical or political level, this is a one party state

so there's so much corruption because there's no competition. right? charlie: it's 100% that. when you don't have those argument, you don't have the debates, everybody gets lazy, everybody sort of does what -- we haven't gotten into a lot of this. i'm sure -- i don't want to get ahead of it. we don't know all of the facts yet. a major question that california should have figured out a long time ago but probably even now is the whole idea of not putting their power lines under ground, the technology for putting power lines under ground has exploded especially over the past 10 years. you can do it. i know that there are probably lots of people that have environmental concerns about it. but whether you're talking about losing power to pumping stations or talking about the power lines actually -- you know, with the santa ana winds causing the wires to bounce and drop sparks

down, that right there -- again, we don't know how much they played an impact here but that's a really -- that's a pretty common sense solution that doesn't get reached if you have a one party town and they're all beholden to the same special interests. rachel: and the environmental groups are paid by all kinds of -- they're nonprofits that get money from powerful people. absolutely. think about you want to save the smelt but now you have wolf and deer on fire and look at this and 16 people dead. so you know -- yeah. charlie: incalculable destruction. turning now to your headlines. as fire hydrants continue to run dry the california wildfires, one pacific palisades family got creative using a hose attached to a pump and a generator to use their own pool's water and save their home. >> all the credit to our father

who about three, four months ago was so adamant about having one of these for fire season and this season he just -- he had a feeling, he said we have to be a little better prepared and there's no doubt in my mind that the setup that we had was what saved our house. charlie: that great american family also says they were able to assist their neighbors in saving their homes. rachel: is that the greatest story to come out of this? it's amazing. charlie: so awesome. so awesome. in other news, special counsel jack smith resigning from his position at the justice department, the move announced by doj officials over the weekend, it's expected ahead of president-elect trump's inauguration and comes as the president-elect's fight to block smith's final report on the criminal investigation into trump continues. greenland's prime minister said he's ready to talk to trump over his ambitions to have the u.s.

acquire the world's largest island. the hill reporting, quote, the prime minister was asked during a press conference in cope hey again on friday if he was in touch with the president-elect. he said no but added we are ready to talk. trump has described u.s. control of greenland as an absolute necessity. and those are your headlines. will: back to our top story, 16 victims confirmed dead and more than 1,100,000 remain evacuated. how strong winds are threatening a rapid response, next.

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rachel: we are back with a fox news alert. at least 16 people are now dead in the devastating california wildfires and it may get worse as strong winds are threatening new areas of la this morning. griff jenkins joins us now from pacific palisades. griff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rachel. those winds are starting to pick up as the sun is rising over the apocalyptic scenes of the homes and buildings charred and decimated like the one behind me. entire neighborhoods are destroyed. the palisades fire, 11%

contained. some 25 times the size of central park there in new york. the eaton fire, the other fire they're following, 15% contained after claiming 14,000 acres. meanwhile, on the ground and in the sky the firefighters battling areas like mandeville county, trying to stop the fires from coming down the canyon and threatening densely populated areas like brentwood and it's emotional story after emotional story. we heard from one homeowner who talked about why he chose to stay behind to fight for his home. listen. >> i'm here because i chose to stay behind when the fires hit. i saw the fires coming down. i did everything i could to stop the line to save my house to help save their houses. it was an experience like no other. imagine you're seeing flames out in the distance, smoke going up, ember flying down. your front yard's on fire, palm

trees lit up. it looked like something out of a movie. >> reporter: and rachel, as the sun comes up we're starting to hear the sound of more helicopters getting up so we can hopefully get a better look at the situation from the air. meanwhile, in less than two hours, we expect a press conference update from la's mayor, karen bass. rachel. rachel: thank you, griff. well, president-elect trump is blaming california's green policies for making wildfire conditions worse. he's been sounding the alarm on this since 2020. >> go to other countries in europe, austria, finland, numerous countries and i talk to the heads. they're in forests and they don't have problems like this. the head of austria tells me, you know, we have trees that are much more flammable than what you have in california. we never have forest fires because they maintain their forests. you could revert water up into the hills where you have the

dead forests where forests are so brittle. they have tremendous water out there, they send it to the pacific because they're trying to protect a tiny fish which is in other areas by the way called the smelt. rachel: environmental progress founder michael shellenberger joins us now. michael, i feel like donald trump's been talking about the dangers and more importantly the solutions to california's wildfire problem more than gavin newsom. >> yeah, it's really great to be with you. i mean ex it's really incredible. it's a situation of complete incompetence. there is no reason that the firefighters ever should have run out of water. we're about to publish an exclusive story, we had a whistleblower come forward that told us that the major reservoirs, the second largest reservoirs the firefighters had access to next to the big fire in pacific palisades it was empty of water. it should never have been emptied of water. that's where the firefighters ran. if it was full of water as it should have been the firefighters would not have run out of water, they might have

been able to stop that huge fire but beyond that, we know that on january 2nd the national weather service warned of extreme fire conditions and the next day they held a press briefing emphasizing that. the day after that mayor bass flew to go guana on a vanity junket. the former chief of staff, the former governor said in those moments they would fly the planes around with water ready to douse any fire. the governor did not do that. the buck ultimately stops with him, incompetence, from the head down. incompetence starts at governor newsom, mayor bass, they are not focused on the extreme risk even though we've known about it since 1961 when the bellaire fire was. we'll see more information come out that shows how much incompetence and failures occurred to link to this disaster. rachel: there's clearly incompetence and failures at the

leadership level but there's also this other factor which is just the environmental policies and the donors and the radical environmentalists would are driving this. ted cruz talked about this a little bit. listen. >> what are the policies that have exacerbated it? i really would put them into three different categories. number one, the mo management of pubpublic lands and forest management. number two water policies and california's insane policies on handling water that sadly are making the crisis much, much worse. and number three, policies directly impacting firefighters and in particular the city of la's decision to slash the firefighter budget. rachel: so much, michael, to go over but i'm fascinated by all that ted cruz said but also by the fact that gavin newsom and karen bass get money from the

environmental radical -- radical environmentalists who fund those groups, also fund their campaigns. >> that's absolutely the case. i think that's maybe the biggest factor. i'll tell you one big thing that should have occurred that they didn't do is you need a desalination plants, also water recycling plants, but desalination plants like israel has with separate lines to be able to pump the water into the reservoirs, refill the reservoirs so they would have never run out of water. it's insane that the firefighters ran out of water. that never should have happened. that was completely foreseeable. there have been many warnings of such a thing in the past. that's the main issue for the governor. he is the guy in charge of this. secondly, the mayor. they don't have the desalination plants which is complete madness. the ocean is right there with all of that water ready to be dedesalinated and pumped into te

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char>> welcome back too what ia mild fox square out here. winter is on the eastern half of the country. out west, we continue to be focused on the wildfires across southern california. that's where i'll begin with the wind forecast over the next couple days. there's where the wildfires are. unfortunately, those are some of the areas where the winds are the highest. winds gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour in baby blue, darker blue, 60 to 70 miles an hour. this will linger into monday,

tuesday and wednesday. on the east coast there was a big winter weather maker the last such he'll days. as of right now, only snow level is lingering around the midwest. speaking of the midwest, before i throw it back in, you're sneaking away from me. get back over here. cincinnati you said, right, and you have family who watches all the time. if you do that, then you goat say hi to them. >> thank you. hi, dad. hi, kathy. from new york city. i hope you've dug out of the snow and i love you so much. thank you. >> that was beautiful. all right. hi, dad, hi, kathy and charlie, hi to you as well. throw it back in. charlie: very nice. thank you, thank you, adam. >> running away from me again. charlie: i don't blame her. can you blame her? >> no, i don't. charlie: eight days until president-elect trump takes office, an envoy in europe is putting nuclear iran on notice. >> i understand the global threat of an iran and especially a nuclear iran, the question is

how do you achieve t the objectives, from the united states a policy of maximum pressure must be reinstated with the help of the rest of the globe, that includes standing with the iranian people and aspirations for democracy, the good and immediate news is the world will soon have an american president who truly understands change. charlie: our next guest was at the same conference and warns the commanding regime their time is up with trump taking office. fox news contributor and former trump secretary of state mike pompeo joins us now. mr. secretary, great to see you this morning. starting no new wars in the last administration, president trump and you were an integral part of all of this as secretary of state, managed to project the strength that put iran in a box and they're out of the box now. >> charlie, that's right. one of the great things that will happen in just a couple of

weeks is that the united states again will lead in the middle east. we will deliver a set of policies that keep not only the israelis safe, not only our gulf area friends safe, and the american people save without the risk of sending tens of thousands of our men and women to fight in that place. we knew the regime in often, you iran, youcouldn't cut a deal wi. we knew if we were friends with israel we would move the embassy to jerusalem. we knew if we took out of the leader ship, general qassem soleimani, we could defer iran from aggressive behavior and we denied them the wealth of billions of dollars in wealth that contributed to what happened on october 7th. those warriors who attacked israel had the money that the biden administration permitted them to have. they were wealthier, richer. president trump i'm convinced will deny them on that money and resources. charlie: it's extraordinary to

look at how things changed in the next four years where you have joe biden who has been part of washington for five decades, their entire stance of apology and weakness, you know, i don't even know how sort of calculate the amount of damage that was done by that. >> charlie, it's hard to do the math but you're exactly right, whether it was the abysmal failure, the tragedy in afghanistan when we had 13 of our young soldiers killed, countless injured as well, when we had chinese spy balloons flying over our country, people sometimes forget about this and you see what happened in the middle east with one of the greatest atrocities of the last decade that took place on october 7th. this is all a result of failed american leadership. we'll be back on the world stage in a way that is serious, is thoughtful. it will put america first, put our interests first, we'll get it right encountering the chinese communist party. much will change here in just a

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will: right now, la fire crews still racing to control four out-of-control blazes, scorching nearly 40,000 acres and more than 12,000 structures. uncontained fires could hurt the flow of energy in the region and beyond. sunday morning futures anchor maria bartiromo joins us now. this is an angle that not a lot of people are covering. we're thinking about the loss of pow bpower for homes. you lose often electricity when you have natural disasters. you're looking at something more, the flow of oil and gas in california. maria: absolutely, good morning to you. this is a critical part of the u.s. economy and of course any of the oil and energy related infrastructure that is affected by these fires will have an impact across the country. los angeles is a huge comism it's critical to the -- economy. it's critical to the gdp and broader economy. anything happening in california will have an impact broadly

speaking but the really serious, more significant impact i think is the regulatory backdrop in california and the regulations that drove out the insurance industry, the regulations that drove out businesses and individuals because of an increasing number of rules and regulations tied to the climate change agenda and higher taxes. these are the policies that drove so many businesses and people out of there. this morning we're talking about the three failed policies that devin nunes, former california congressman, believes led to what we're seeing take place today and that is the timber industry, the logging that the governor apparently was against doing, the grazing for the farming industry that, again, the governor was against doing, getting rid of so many animals in terms of the cows and the sheep and the grazing that need todd be done and the water. water storage. devin nunes has been following this for years as a california

congressman and we know that president trump also tried to talk with governor newsom about changing some of these policies. it's timber. it's water. and it's grazing. these are the issues that we're covering today. yes, it's going to have an impact on the oil industry but even more than that, commodities broadly speaking, will. will: yeah. back to the oil industry for just a moment. i think it's 60% of california's oil is refined there in los angeles and long beach which by the way isn't under threat of fire. 40% of the west coast energy. but you bring up three policies which we'll have to watch sunday morning futures to hear about that broken down in the way you did. ted cruz laid out through and he had a fourth which led toen competence in f fire fighting or budget cuts. maria: you don't want to point fingers at such a detrimental moment in people's lives. you have to go back to tori ins of the fire and try to understand what could be done

differently in future. that's what we're talking about this morning. devin nunes one of my guests this morning as well we're talking about now the emergency funding that will be needed for california. joe biden has already signed off on an emergency package for california but we're going to see more of that. this is going to land in the 119th congress' lap so we're talking with two critical senators this morning, senator bill haggerty from tennessee and roger marshall from kansas. we'll also talk about the plans to execute president trump's agenda and the salt lawmakers are also critical here. mike lawler was at mar-a-lago this weekend, last night with president trump where president trump did make the case to change the tax strategy in this upcoming reconciliation bill. we'll takee with mike lawler about the salt and whether or not these new york and california congressmen are holding the entire congress hostage to reinstating the state and local tax deduction in the tax plan that is the salt.

candace cameron burre, we're talking with her, the home she grew up in has been destroyed. she's going to talk to us from on the ground in california to tell us what's going on specifically right there and i mentioned devin nunes, the head of trump media. he was a california congressman for a long time. one of the things that got him into politics was the policies of california. so knows better than most in terms of what should have been done and what could be done going forward to ensure this disaster doesn't repeat. we'll talk about that this morning. will: california has been a petri dish and social experiment that needs to be analyzed. maria: exactly. see you in 10 minutes. will: trump's white house return is eight days away, the top priorities and executive orders suspected on day one, next. dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ♪ ♪ ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye drop

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will: we're a little over a week out from inauguration day and president-elect trump is planning 100 executive orders with a focus on the border set for day one. will: madeleine rivera joins us live from washington with the details. madeleine. >> reporter: hi, good morning. president-elect trump is reportedly planning to roll back many of president biden's executive orders while putting his own in place. the border is top of mind for

trump. on the border, axios reports trump could reinstate title 42, the policy which allowed for my grants to be quickly removed because of the public health cries civiles he could further enforce a law that allows agencies help with isis tasks and wants to continue building the border wall and set up facilities to hold migrants. trump is getting ready to wield his executive powers. senate committees are preparing for a slew of confirmation hearings this week. defense secretary nominee pete hegseth's hearing will be happening on tuesday. homeland security secretary nominee kristi noem's hearing is expected on wednesday. marco rubio's hearing is scheduled for that day. >> trump is so far ahead of where he was eight years ago. with regard to cabinet nominees we have 13 confirmation hearings coming up next week which is ahead of the pace we were eight years ago and by the end of the

month in 2017 president trump only had about three cabinet members fully confirmed and passed out of the senate. we're going to have three times as many completely passed out of the senate this time in 2025. >> reporter: more hearings could be placed on the calendar ahead of donald trump's inauguration. other hearings to watch is trump's attorney general pick pam bondi and robert f. kennedy junior. will, rachel and charlie. charlie: thank you, madeleine. another thing that jason miller told jon scott last night that i thought was interesting, one of the reasons that trump is in such a goodboe significance is because he can -- good position is because he can go back to the policies that were undone by the stupid keck test executive ordee biden and you deal with the border and oil and gas. rachel: in california you have groups that will sue and try gum up the system. will: you get the sense they're coming out --

rachel: strong. this is the benefit of having someone that's been through it, knows what he's up against and has beat it before so i love they're super prepped and three times the number of nominees hopefully get through and i think they're ready to hit the ground running. will: i would say we did the segment a little earlier, we had the conversation with bill brown, retired navy seal. watch that tuesday during leg hegseth's confirmation, there will be an outpouring of support from war fighters on the mall in d.c. and sitting behind him in the confirmation hearing, the numbers are approaching over 200 that will be there on the mall and in hearing room. rachel: that's amazing. charlie: that matters to sitting members who are going to make that decision and so many ways donald trump is a different dude this time than he was eight years ago and like you say, he is so much better prepared for it. rachel: it's going to be an interesting week, no doubt. will: more "fox & friends" moments away.

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♪ baby, you a song. ♪ you make me want to roll my windows down -- rachel: it's been a tough show, a lot of serious news, but we've also a had some bright spots and silver likes. was it the going withing -- the family with the pool pump? charlie: and, you know, if one family can find gratitude in the rubble and ashes of their home, then we all can find gratitude. will: absolutely. rachel: what a wonderful way to leave us on a sunday, charlie. good job. i'll will grateful if you too. have a good sunday. go to church. ♪ ♪ maria: good sunday morn, everyone