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get a hold of these wildfires, an update from los angeles county fire department is hour. first america and the world watching as president-elect donald trump's crucial national security picks are fighting to get pushed through while a hostage deal could be very soon over there. first to the high drama capital -- on capitol hill. jennifer griffin is there with the latest. >> i've sat through a lot of these confirmation hearings and never have i heard one that got so heated right out of the gate. at first when pete heads -- pete hegseth arrived there were shouts of usa from the vets who had turned out to support him. but that's when the fireworks began. questions about allegations about the way he has spoken about and treated women in the wake of accusations of sexual assault,, financial mismanagement and the abuse of

alcohol. >> the totality of your own writings and alleged conduct would disqualify any service member holding any leadership position in the military, much less being confirmed as a secretary of defence. >> a small handful of anonymous sources were allowed to drive a smear campaign and agenda about me because our left-wing media in america today doesn't care about the truth. all the well-to-do mr. chairman was to destroy me. and why do they want to destroy me? i'm a change agent and a threat to them. >> then there were questions of not one but two veterans organizations that he oversaw. >> in fact according to public reporting, an independent accountant reviewed the organization's finances and discovered evidence of gross financial mismanagement. >> what are you afraid of, you

can't answer this question, yes or no did you need an audit. >> some of the most heated questions came about his statements that women should not serve in combat. he said today women can still serve in combat but standards cannot be lowered. >> quotas to have a certain number of female infantry officers are listed. that disparages those women. >> commanders do not have to meet quotas, they do not have to have a quota for women in infantry. you cannot denigrate women in general and your statements do that. >> then there were questions of the geneva conventions and whether he would follow any order. [simultaneous talking]

>> that sounds to me that you won't comply with such an order. you will shoot protesters in the leg. >> he can afford to lose just three republican senators. about is scheduled for early next week. >> thank you very much. let's go to general... you're reactions to the fireworks. >> it was standard political point scoring. one of the challenges with congress operating in this way is we don't actually talk about the issues. sure we want to find out if he is qualified and he doesn't have any background issues but that came back in the fbi report. i think it's a good start to actually have a conversation about the challenges. things like the rapid pull out of afghanistan or any of the other things like secretary austin basically being awol and really get to the

issues of the last four years. that would've been much better use of time. >> in this political theatre that we watched and jennifer was right about how fiery it was, does either side score points? i think the idea is there are three g.o.p. both that can be lost. who is all of this aimed at? i think it's the american public but there has to be three potential votes that all of this theatre had to be aimed at. >> you look at what has come back in terms of his record and i think how does he avail himself today and hearings. he was very polished, very professional, answer the questions. i didn't see that he made a single mistake. the only thing that i see coming out of this is he's going to be

confirmed. i don't see any of the republican senators not voting to confirm because he does have a pretty solid background. so really what you are going to see is a bunch of talking points for tonight's newsreel. >> one of the points he made, i want to get your thoughts on this. today we have a 44 four-star generals and it's starting to feel that our military is unlike anything else. participation trophies. there's something to be said about the leadership but strong leadership is in their. >> if you think about it what we had in 1986... created all these regional combat and command. that's all -- that's wear a lot of the growth comes from. it's created a lack of prioritization. we have all of these different regions that we are trying to resource. we don't have enough resources.

i slimming that down and focusing on a more centralized control would be much better for the united states. >> another issue, our adversaries. the drumbeats are building louder and louder. we know the closer relationship with china, ukraine, russia rather. bringing back accountability and the warrior culture, how important other messages that not just for the american public but to potential adversaries who may have ideas on their minds right now. >> one of the things the president has focused on is this importance of nuclear weapons as a strategic deterrent and his ability to prevent war. the other thing is it really -- you got to it today. it really affects recruiting will me have a military that's not really merit-based and

totally focused on that. it's one of -- the u.s. military is one of the bright spots of our society in terms of integration and it always has been. you are starting to see the recruiting numbers arise because i think we went away from that in the four years of the biden administration. i think it's important for messaging for our adversaries as well. >> i spent a lot of my childhood own army bases. i know what you are talking about. thank you for your service and for sharing your thoughts with us. this thing is highly partisan. where do you said heading, the boats maybe done but there are things that are happening right here right now that will play out later on right? >> if you look at this just as a political exercise, we are actually trying to define a good

secretary of defence so that's really important. if you look at it as a political exercise i do think a number of the points that were covered today would probably resonate with the republicans and the independence who recently elected donald trump president. there was a lot of talk about women in the military. women or about 18% of the u.s. military. the question of standards. there was a particular exchange between pete hegseth and senator tom cotton was a veteran himself. about keeping standards of performance for combat roles. allowing them all to be open to women by keeping the standards at a high level. i think that's the kind of thing that will resonate pretty well with independent voters. my feeling is that with those 53 republicans, unless something big changes, he's on a path to confirmation.

>> he said that women make amazing contributions and he tied it to military standards and readiness which is really critical right now. it does feel like in some ways this was echoed of what we saw during the presidential campaign the one-sided you are mistreating women, the allegations, the baseless allegations in many cases, verses are we actually prepared, how do -- how do you do the job. the line is so amazing isn't it. i thought it would go away at least on the democratic side. they would say that doesn't work right now. americas moving in a different direction. >> i think it was interesting that a lot of the earlier hearing did focus on at least some policy things if you include women in the military. before it got to what you call

character issues with egg seth. as i watched democrats not score points on the policy issues i thought they are going to have to get pretty down and dirty and boy did they. one of the chief down and dirty inquisitors was senator tim kaine of virginia who was hillary clinton's running mate in 2016. it was really rough suggesting that egg seth had done all sorts of things wrong. my guess is it didn't score a lot of points. >> thank you so much, appreciated. the question is will he have the votes. jim banks who was in today's hearing, he's coming up. first to the middle east. fox is live in tel aviv with the very latest.

>> a cease-fire deal between israel and hamas could be just hours away. an israeli official described this as a critical time period, adding that all sides are close to an agreement. negotiating teams are still meeting in qatar to determine the final details. them spokesmen address the continuing talks saying this. >> what can be confirmed is that the drafts have been delivered to both parties. yes the obstacles to the main contentious issues between the two sides have been overcome and yes discussions are now underway regarding the final details. >> we are gathering more information on what is contained in the draft of this agreement. phase one will include the least -- the release of humanitarian hostages innmak 33 are among that list and most are assumed to be alive. the details of the phase two would be discussed to get the remaining hostages out along with the bodies of those killed.

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of residents up to now. >> i think we all sympathize and want those answers as well. thank you very much. the question is what's in store as the winds pick up. they are tracking from the weather center. >> the worst of this is across those same areas. those yellows are elevated, the reds are critical and those are aware they are really picking up and the humidity is actually quite low. levels down into the teens, it's bone dry so that's when to be very easy to ignite and very easy to spread fire. currently they are not awful, we are seeing gusts at 30 miles an hour as far as we see but the risk is still out there.

>> it is all stretched across portion of northern -- northern los angeles county and it's really dry and even though it's not presuming now the forecast is for those winds at times to gust on through there. it lingers into your wednesday forecast as well. pretty much everything here in this red area you were talking about critical fire weather were the winds will still be high. some of the spots we are seeing those fires, even if you are outside of the area wear you are seeing the fire, the air quality alerts have continued to be of concern and spreading a little bit further south getting into los angeles, irvine, a little further south. this is a little bit more long distance. as we get into saturday, for the first time in quite some time we are looking at a few light showers possible. this is not going to change the fact that it has been very dry across southern california for

quite some time but it's when to be a little bit of a break and more humidity in the air. at some thing they're looking forward to. >> thank you very much. we will be getting an update from the los angeles county fire department later this hour. first after the hearing, the voting. will pete hegseth have the support. jim banks is here. plus the full court press to get trumps tax cuts through. a news conference just moments away, what's being done to stop a major tax hike on the way. if you have heart failure or chronic kidney disease, farxiga can help you keep living life, because there are places you'd like to be. (♪) serious side effects include increased ketones in blood or urine

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leaders will be making the case to extend the trump tax cuts. there on capitol hill with the latest. >> republicans might be on their own to try to renew trumps tax cuts that expire at the end of the year. democrats today said the government cannot afford to let millions of americans keep more of their own money. >> would you advise your client to ignore their credit card dead are there mortgage debt are their property debt? and take on more debt at they couldn't sustain it and then complain about the debt they arty have? would you tell your client to ignore the debt they have? >> no. >> the same democrats that are concerned about the national debt today weren't so concerned when they supported nearly 6 trillion in knew and unpaid spending under president biden. they heard from small business owners say that trump tax cuts have been critical to their livelihood and frankly they can't afford for their taxes to

go up win these expire. >> it allows us to bring in revenue, grow our country, it's critical. a grew our economy, grew people out of poverty and helped in every sigel demographic possible. guess what companies and businesses do? they employ people. what a novel concept. they just want more money for the government so the government can employ people. >> it's going to be part of the broader budget package that congress is putting together. mike johnson saying his goal to have the houseboat on this package by easter and have the entire package sent to the president's desk before memorial day. let's get to mike kelly. this debate goes back so far

we've got history on our side going back from reagan. when people keep more of what they earn, the money circulates in the economy, it touches more hands. when businesses keep more they create more jobs and you have to make the case over and over don't you. >> the facts can be a difficult thing as you know. any time we allow the american people to keep more money the government says you are cutting what we have to work with. we are always going to be on the side of the hardworking american taxpayers. we look a policy that was undoubtedly off the charts. we have more revenue coming in. we have big sums of money coming in we find a way to outspend that. we are going to do -- be working with the 47 president the -- president of the united states. we are going to be on the same page with him. all we need to do, let's call

the plane and let's break huddle and let's have a big game. >> the big effort here, you touched on it. it's the spending part. last week we got the first quarter of the new fiscal year, outlays... the deficit went up 200 billion more than a year ago and i think people understand that the more money our government takes in the more they spend. a really doesn't even come down to tax policy so much as discipline. why do we have to spend so much money as a government, the ability for them to real that in, everyone is desperate to see it happen. >> i don't think anybody should serve in a public office unless they've gone through the private sector are lost their job at least once. all of a sudden you understand what excessive spending means. you understand when my

credit card has reached a limit, what i should start to do is pay it down. i shouldn't say would you increase my spending amount. we are out -- so upside down and a lot of what drives it is politics. a lot of what we do is based on what we've been doing historically for too long. we've got to get it under control. every penny we invest they should see a return on, not somebody coming back and saying that was nice that you did that, we are going to leave you a bigger bill. >> the lawmakers who feel like i will come home... we've got to usher those folks out. that comes back on the voters. we vote for those people. the me you about this situation. is a tug-of-war going on right now. how much of an impediment could that be for the larger picture? >> it's going to be an impediment. i don't know how much.

what we're looking at right now is the incoming 47th president of the united states is setting up where he would like to go, what we need to do. we are going to work in concert with him. as you know when we didn't... we did it with republican only votes. there was not one single democrat that voted for that. we know how that works, the question is how do you message it to the people who pick up the tab and that's hardworking american taxpayers. >> no tacks on tips, we are rooting for those waitresses and the folks working on tips only, house that looking? >> i the president clearly stated how it should work. i have friends that do that and i live in a district wear our average annual income is $54,000 when i tell people laugh -- they laugh.

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>> will defence secretary nominee pete hegseth when confirmation? member of the armed services committee jim banks. thanks for joining us. that was a good old-fashioned donnybrook. when the dust settled how does it look now? >> pete hegseth hit a home run. he had a lot of momentum going into the hearing. he's got even more coming out of it. the democrats were trying to get

a gotcha moment. they struggled landing blows against pete hegseth. i walked out of that hearing and it wouldn't have mattered it would've -- if it would've been lloyd austin or any other person sitting there. just because he was donald trump's nominee the democrats made up false accusations with unverified rumours and tried to use that against him but he swept it all aside, focused on the issues, focused on why it's important that the next secretary of defence gets to work right away to clean up the mess at the pentagon. he's the man for the job and i'm proud to support him. >> you made a similar point earlier, the calm are he was in the more he focused on the issues and policies, the more visibly upset the democrats became. to the point it became somewhat embarrassing, the american public has told us how they want lawmakers to act, what we want the agenda to be and all the

stuff they were talking about that's gone in the rearview mirror. that's what we are focused on in terms of healing the nation isn't it? >> look it over the last four years what happened to our military. brokenness is weakness. what the democrats have done at the pentagon is made our military less equipped and ready to go fight and win wars. we have a big recruitment crisis and in the afghanistan debacle had a big impact on america's role in the world. the respect that we have around the world. 75% of american -- of veterans in america do not look favourably on what this administration did in afghanistan and how they pulled out the 13 heroes that lost their lives in the aftermath of that. he understands we have to go in and get rid of all the di training and focus on lethality and training and equipping our

soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines to fight and win wars. he proved he's ready to do the job, that's why we have to confirm him right away. >> how important that he's focused on the boots on the ground, so to speak, and not the elites, the sort of central casting that's given a succession of folks who get to run this department and sometimes they look good on paper but to your point the execution has been awful. >> he's a decorated combat veteran. you will be the first secretary of defence from my generation that served in the military after 9/11 because of 9/11. he represents a new generation of leadership. that's why donald trump picked him. he's unconventional, a still communicator, he went to princeton and harvard. has degrees from both of those ivy league institutions. more important than all of that is the attitude. it's the priorities that he's

going to bring to the department of defense and that's why we need him now. the committee is going to gather right after trip donald trump takes the oath of office. they are going to meet, we're going going to confirm it out of the committee and then we will go to the floor i hope immediately and confirm him and scent him to the pentagon to do his job. >> i love the idea that this in administration is hitting the ground running and you've done a great job as well. thank you very much, appreciated now to the tale of two special counsel reports, why one of them is ripping into the current president on his whale the door, plus an update from the top spokesman for los angeles county fire department as new threats prompt even more evacuations.

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>> special counsel david weiss blasting president joe biden in his final prosecution report. the other report involving president-elect trump. >> two special counsel reports that have been in the making for two years released seven hours apart.

no kidding in the final week of this administration. david weiss taking to task comments made by president biden after he pardoned his son hunter biden. the special counsel charged hunter biden with gun crimes in delaware and tax crimes in california but those prosecutions now history after president biden issued those pardons for his son. special counsel weiss bit back ... in doing so not have taken the occasion is an opportunity to malign the public servants at the department of justice based solely on fourth -- false accusations. hunter's attorneys saying what is clear is that the investigation and hunter biden is a cautionary tale of the abuse of prosecutorial power. criticizing david weiss. jack smith and his report on president-elect donald trump, release just after midnight. smith resigned as special counsel last friday just a few days after semitic the report to

attorney general merrick garland. they gave the green light at midnight specifically because of a hole from a trump-appointed federal judge. while he never got to take donald trump to trial, the election interference case in d.c., the alleged election interference case in d.c. whatever resulted in a guilty verdict. smith writing the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial. the report was divided two sections. we are only going to see volume one released by this justice department. volume two deals with the classified documents case that also never went to trial but merrick garland, only on the job says a few more days, says he will not release volume two because president-elect trump's two former codefendants are facing active prosecution and they say that would tip the scales of justice and would not be fair to them if that was released.

>> thank you very much. so why now,'s what is he thinking taking from these findings. it's fascinating but there's a cautionary tale here also and i that they had on that. he blasted biden over the pardon. talked about how the president maligned the entire organization. i thought another part of this was the broad coverage of that pardon suggests it's almost a defect owe admission of something illegal happening over a period of time. >> the broader lesson to take away from this is what a disaster the special councils have been. both of them. even though the one in delaware did get two convictions of hunter biden. we shouldn't forget that this special counsel also dragged his feet and left behind some of the more egregious violations because they happen to long ago. never really got to the bottom

of hunter biden, how he brought the money end. there is tantalizing suggestions in the report that hunter was trading on his last name. he was doing work for these foreign companies when he had no skills or nothing to add. instead the special counsel went after tax evasion and the gun charge so with president biden giving out this pardon, he ends up squashing all of the investigation into something that looked much, much worse than what we've seen so far. >> law fair is a term i don't know that most folks in the audience had heard of three or four years ago. i'm wondering if it -- if you think it's a word that can go back in terms of the political it -- politicize asian... it took a hell of a beating the last couple years. do you think we've seen the end of it?

>> we talked about that on your other show what we should really take away and understand about the second prosecution against donald trump. for the first time in our history, the justice department when after a former president and maybe importantly, the major candidate for president of the opposition party. 's had never happened before. that's what we mean. using prosecution to try to influence the election. to try to knock out donald trump if you read the smith report that was just released right after midnight today, you don't come away with any confidence that if this came up again that democrats wouldn't try the same thing. he shows no regret are second-guessing. he thinks he could've prosecuted donald trump if the supreme court hadn't stopped him. that doesn't show someone who's learn the lessons of what a disaster this law fair campaign was. what we are left asking is after

you read that report what is going to stop this from happening again. let the elections decide who will be president, not prosecutors and juries. >> thank you so much for your expertise, always appreciated. back to those wildfires, they are picking back up and impacting efforts to put down threats. an update from los angeles county, therefore department is next. ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪

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>> charles: california crews working to fight back the wildfires against a resurgence and the santa ana winds. los angeles county fire department spokes woman, captain sheila kellaher. i saw you said fingers crossed mother nature the cooperate. how does it look now? >> so far, she's cooperating,

what we're worried about is this evening. the winds will kick up. they are saying maybe 45 mile an hour gusts. that's something to be concerned about. on any normal day if we don't have the fires, we would be fully staffed up ready for the red flag conditions. a big concern is the places that haven't burned. we are ready for deployment here. on this fire, we have everybody in place and pretreated the hills. we're in a good position to handle what happened. >> charles: i know volunteers have come >> all over and other countries. are you okay with all the tools you need right now? >> we do, we have all the tools we need. we have over 5000 firefighters on this fire alone. 540 rigs. 140 dozers and water, we are

fully ready to go. they have been working super hard the last seven days. it's pretty incredible. the other people working hard are putting up the power lines and trying to clear things out and get the grid and infrastructure back together. >> charles: it's been a heroic effort to get people home or what is left of their homes. real quick, we talk on this network and the business channel about ai and technology. we are talking about the wind says that are predictable. as a most mortem, do you think there are ways to figure in on this. i am readying 1800 articles about santa anas taking over. this has been happening since the beginning of time in california. how do you mitigate it next time? >> i think a big thing what we're going to have to do is when we think of rebuilding, you build so you really build within

the confines of mother nature. that's building materials, different watering systems. the different technology that safeguards your house. i remember they really learned a lot about bracing for earthquakes and we have done a great job where buildings roll with the earth as opposed to be rigid where they collapse. as they grow and keep moving, if people want to live in the urban wildlife interfaces, they have to think about how they rebuild in those areas. >> charles: captain, anything else you want to say? >> just thank you for the outpouring of support. the human spirit is just incredible. we feel the love. there's tired crews out here. we have been going for seven days straight. they feel the love and it's

really appreciated. >> charles: containment, we're talking about the unpredictability about the winds. if we get lucky, we can wind this thing down soon? >> that's what i see. if that wind cooperates. if it doesn't, it may push us back a couple days. that will put in extra work as we work on the fire front. you see the last two days the wind lied down and we put in incredible work where we put the containment up as well as the eaton fire. yeah, it's going to come, we're good at this part. we're really good making sure we get our arms around it and it's coming. >> charles: evacuations, is everyone evacuated where they need to evacuate or are there areas where people should be getting out? >> yeah, right now, everybody is in a good position. we will watch the wins tonight. in the evacuation orders come up, i feel southern california is on alert, especially those in

the wind-prone areas. we know where those are. we live there and know that. they are ready for it. off we go and let's hope. but the big thing is people are still not allowed to go back in. we are working hard on the repopulation effort where they will ultimately get back in. >> charles: the nation is rooting for you and praying for you. thank you so much, it's been a heroic effort. >> charles: folks, thank you for watching. catch me weekdays on "making money". you have to watch my show on thursday. it's a special town hall unbreakable investor, i will be talking about the new guilded age meeting the new mckinley era. wait until you hear about history repeating itself and the prosperity all of us can enjoy. in the meantime, here's "the five." >> hello everyone. i'm dana