>> "the faulkner focus" is aishah hosni next. >> aishah: thank you, guys, fox news alert right now. new york city officials are set to hold a news conference any moment here. they are going to talk about security measures as the city gets ready to ring in the new year. a million people packed times square for this big celebration. safety is paramount and front and center. welcome, i'm aishah hasnie and this is "the faulkner focus." the countdown to 2025 is on. thousands of barricades are in place right now. confetti has been tested and law enforcement already out in full force in new york city and its members are vigilant. nate foye is in times square for us live there. nate, how does it look out there? >> the excitement is building ahead of tomorrow, aishah. as you mentioned, any moment now we expect to hear from the nypd commissioner and new york city mayor eric adams to explain exactly what the city is doing to insure that the million people who come here tomorrow new yorkers and people from all over the world are going to enjoy themselves and be safe in the process. nypd is on h

. >> aishah: adam klotz live for us. thanks. >> trump is a master negotiation. we want to control our southern border and we want a fair pricing on the panama canal. it is a shot across the bow. it was not anyone -- on anyone's radar until president trump tweeted it and now it is. >> aishah: that's true. president-elect trump putting the world on notice floating plans to take over the panama canal and greenland. some trump allies will tell you he is serious. others call it maybe an act of negotiation. byron york is from "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor. he is doubling down on this. he did over the christmas holiday. he is not walking away from it. even though the owners of these two pieces of land are not keen on it. what is the strategy? what's the play here? is this just a negotiation tactic or is he for real? >> this is an act of negotiation. there is no doubt about it. but it creates doubt in the minds of the other side. is trump really going to do this? if he doesn't do this, would he do something

aishah? >> aishah: a scary situation, alexis, thank you.resident-elect trump will travel to france later tonight for tomorrow's reopening of the notre dame cathedral. you'll remember that iconic structure was badly damaged in a fire five years ago; however, his press secretary says mr. trump is not moving from his choice of pete hegseth for defense secretary. senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is in west palm beach, florida tonight with that part of the story. good evening, jacqui. >> jacqui: good evening, aishah. sources close to the president-elect believe that the tide has turned for pete hegseth and he is better positioned for confirmation now than he was a few days ago. they say president trump is 100 percent behind him. but, news that ron desantis, another contender for that spot will attend the army navy game next weekend with trump is fueling continued speculation about a possible swap. >> contrary to what many in the media are reporting, there has never been a wavering in the optimism and confidence from president tru

. >> i'm aishah hasnie, merry christmas. "america's newsroom."here are just now 25 days left in president biden's term. rather than make the most of his remaining days in office, he is eager for a final bout of relaxation, where else but the u.s. virgin islands. >> in 2023 he vacationed there and in 2019 he was there as he prepared for his first challenge to donald trump. this year's getaway will book end a year that brought significant challenges to the president overseas war, crisis at home, inflation, immigration and dropping out of the presidential race most notably. >> aishah: president trump is laying the ground work for policy plans and stacking his cabinet. alexander hoff is live in studio with me now with more. >> the president's departure is not a departure from what we've been seeing the past few weeks. you've seen it on capitol hill. many are wondering where he is. aside from mass clemency announcements and appearances on the holiday circuit president biden hasn't weighed in on much. he made a reflective christmas post writing for the

aishah. >> aishah: grady trimble, thank you. >> rich: another brazen attack in new york city. groups of bystanders in plain view of a double stabbing at a train station. why people in the big apple are refusing to step in and help victims of violence. plus an emerging crackdown on migrant crime. how some border cities are leading into trump's immigration agenda. >> historic number of criminal aliens walking the streets because this administration's policy and sanctuary jurisdictions. lacks immigration enforcement. ice has their hands tied. mayorkas has given them priorities they can't arrest an illegal alien unlegals he is convicted of a serious crime. this is on this administration. mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season. >> rich: some municipalities are vowing to resist the incoming trump administration's immigration policies. others are jumping in to help. border czar tom homan is promising to crack down on criminal migrants and one program could help. brooke taylor is live in dalla

aishah? >> aishah: greg palkot, thank you very much.ns appear ready to spend big in the new year, despite a massive surge in credit card debt. we'll take a look at the state of the economy next. first though, beyond our borders tonight, russia launching an aerial attack on ukraine striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones. the ukrainian air force reporting at least three explosions in kyiv. missile debris fell in the capital and so far no reports of any casualties. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu leaving the hospital, despite his doctor's orders. he left to call on unruly coalition partners to fall in line and back his government 2025 budget after hard line rebels threatened to pull support for the bill. netanyahu was in the hospital recovering from prostate surgery. and this is a live look at auckland, new zealand, one of the big stories there -- of course all across the globe tonight -- communities around the world welcoming in 2025. spectacular light shows, parades, fireworks all over. iraq la

aishah, great to be with you in the studio. >> aishah: good to see you back in d.c. lot of time in new york. glad to have you back. "america's newsroom," welcome. trump is wasting no time laying the ground work for his very ambitious second term agenda. he is reportedly taking meetings over the holiday break at mar-a-lago with top canadian officials talking about border security and trade. >> griff: encounters at the u.s. p canada line increased by 631% with nearly 200,000 migrants getting caught. >> aishah: let's get started. matt finn begins coverage from west palm beach, florida. good morning to you, matt. >> good morning, aishah. canadian prime minister justin trudeau made a now famous visit to mar-a-lago in west palm a few weeks ago which president-elect trump joked at a dinner together that perhaps canada should become our 51st state and trudeau its governor if canada can't fix the immigration and flow of drugs here into our country. president-elect trump has threatened to impose sweeping tariffs against canada to the tune of 25% on canadian goods. trudeau has

hi, aishah. >> aishah: good morning, lawrence.m keeping my eyes on the speaker's office down the hallway from me because there might be some activity in the next hour. i will tell you about that in just a second. first i want to get to what president-elect donald trump thinking right now. it's not moving from his position after the boo bill imploded last night. he actually up at 1:00 in the morning writing this on truth social. take a look. he writes congress must get rid of or extend out to, perhaps, 2029 that ridiculous debt ceiling. without, this we should never make a deal. remember, the pressure is on whoever is president. now, despite trump and elon musk endorsing this 100 page skinny cr 38 house republicans still voted against it. they said they did not offset raising the debt ceiling. they were not happy with that johnson needed democratic voters but leader hakeem jeffries came out last night and he said he wasn't going to play ball. >> musk-johnson proposal is not serious. it's laughable. extreme maga republicans are driv

good evening, aishah. >> aishah: bret, good evening to you.rump's defense secretary nominee, pete hegseth is vowing to not drop out of this nomination process, even as multiple g.o.p. senators are still on the fence about him. >> are you looking forward to your meeting with president trump tomorrow? >> peter: it's not on the schedule right now. we are staying on capitol hill and meeting with senators. >> aishah: pete hegseth telling fox news he is staying in washington for now. to continue courting senators despite reports that he was planning to visit mar-a-lago on thursday to speak directly to trump. hegseth is battling allegations of sexual misconduct and a drinking problem, both of which he denies. he says he is not backing out. >> peter: make sure we are putting the war fighters first. that's what donald trump asked me to do. >> aishah: today, hegseth met with g.o.p. leader john thune and incoming armed services chairman roger wicker said hegseth offered to stop drinking all together if is he confirmed. >> we will see what the investigati

>> we'll see. >> aishah: so now it's all about leverage. who has it? and there is always a chance chuck schumer puts together his observe clean funding billing to try roll the senate republicans. senate works slow and could still see a mini shutdown. we have no idea what is going to happen the next few hours here. >> brian: aishah, in your estimates, when that vote went to the floor, was there a sense -- >> -- no. >> surprised by the outcome or knew it was dead. >> people knew it wasn't going to pass when leader jeffries came out and said democrats would not be voting for it. we knew there would be people like chip roy, thomas massi and some others that weren't going to vote for it. you know the house republicans have a slim majority. what we did not expect, no one saw coming, i'm not sure if speaker johnson even knew that it was going to be such a high amount of house republicans. once it started shooting up toward the 20 and 30 nos that's when you knew this was not good. >> steve: aishah, the 38 republicans who voted no. they had a good reason. they

>> bret: watching all of it, aishah.emocrats trying to shake things up, too, within their own ranks. >> aishah: that's right. exactly. we are watching this generational power struggle hang right now when it comes to who is going to sit in that ranking chair in those powerful committees. for example, congressman jamie raskin is challenging jerry nadler for ranking member of the house judiciary committee. aoc is actually eyeing the ranking chair on the powerful house oversight committee. and representative angie greg and jim costa vying to out david scott. it goes to show that democrats are trying to decide whether or not they need fresh blood to take on the president-elect and his maga allies here on capitol hill. bret? >> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill. thanks. president trump is getting plenty of attention with recent declarations about getting hostages home and imposing tariffs on foreign goods if certain things don't happen. his team, meanwhile is settling another touchy subject with the justice department. seni

>> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill, aishah, thanks.ome members of congress are getting additional information about the drone sightings in new jersey and other states now. but many are not satisfied. still, this comes as the pentagon once again insists whatever they are, the drones are not theirs and are not believed to be dangerous. that's from the pentagon. correspondent nate foy has the latest tonight from elizabeth, new jersey. >> we were not given any evidence that there was anything neff fair russ. >> today the house intelligence committee received a classified briefing on mysterious drones over 11 states. >> the truth even in the classified settings is less exciting than people imagine it to be. i think it's inaccurate for the biden administration to say they are absolutely sure there is no problem here. they are not absolutely sure. >> federal officials maintain there is no evidence to suggest the drones pose a threat. >> why does it have to be a classified briefing if these are just hobbyists drones. >> i can't tell you specif

>> just a little bit. >> let's bring aishah back in the conversation.t executive orders january the 20th. what are the exceptions? >> aishah: i think we are going to see a lot. he did 14 the first time around. i'm seeing reports upwards of 25. north of that. we will see a variety of things he has teased executive orders about the border. we could see him restart construction of the border wall. i'm interested to see if he reassigns or assigns the mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations because that could really open up a whole variety of things that he could do with that after that, perhaps even sending troops down to the border. so, i want to focus on the border. but then trump has promised that day one he will issue pardons. i know he has been going off on president biden for his pardons. this one is going to involve the january 6th reuters and so it will be interesting to see who he pardons there. who he least behind there and then of course you will see some movement on energy. but what is interesting -- this will be interesting to you, chad

>> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill. aishah, thanks. defiant defense secretary nominee back on capitol hill today to meet with the senators who may decide his fate when it comes to his confirmation. pete hegseth is fighting allegations of misconduct and whether president-elect trump will stick with him is the big question both in mar-a-lago and on capitol hill. senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is in west palm beach, florida tonight with the latest. good evening, joining. >> jacqui: good evening, bret after another day courting support from estimate republicans, little movement forward or backward for trump's defense secretary nominee. meantime, president-elect has been conspicuously quiet online. >> we don't take anything for granted. we are going to earn those votes. >> jacqui: sources tell fox it's hard to gauge with pete hegseth is headed. joni ernst fired up the base to fire more support. >> doesn't sound like have you gotten to a yes. if that is the case it, sounds to me as if the hearing will be critical for his no

good evening, aishah. >> bret, good evening to you. no one truly knows how doge will effect congress next year. but the first came as you mentioned with government funding and elon musk ruffling a lot of feathers on capitol hill. >> i don't think we're witnessing the start of an oligarchy. i think we are fully here we're not going to have 4 a.m. raged billionaire also elon musk how we tackle very complicated and important issues for our country. >> some democrats are calling elon the shadow president. republicans are also grappling with new dynamic 34 # bucked trump on very important vote. texas congr congressman tony gos putting it this way. >> we have a president, a vice president, a speaker. it feels as if elon musk is our prime minister. >> unelected. >> he has a voice. large part of that voice is a reflection of the voice of the people. >> aishah: there are plenty of welcoming disrupt business as unusual on the hill. >> i don't see the shah today president. i do welcome his involvement. he brings a level of transparency that most

he knows the heimlich maneuver. >> aishah: do you? >> rich: i have but never done it before. >> aishah: you have to teach me. i need to learn how to swim and learn the heimlich maneuver. i live alone and my deepest fear that i choke and die alone on a grape. >> rich: learn both things. >> aishah: good to be with you. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> julie: president-elect trump is not backing down to get tough on immigration pledging to mass deportations on day one. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm julie banderas in for harris, some democrat-led municipalities are vowing to be the quote resistance to an incoming trump administration's immigration policy but others are leaning in to help with some counties being granted limited ice powers. incoming border czar tom homan said he wants to talk and meet with all mayors about the importance of working together. >> president trump and i have said out of the gate public safety threats are our priority. help us get the job done. everybody -- it shouldn't be a partisan issue. everybody should

aishah hasnie in d.c. aishah, many thanks.ing more tonight about the illegal immigrant from guatemala charged with murder on the gruesome death of a woman on a subway train. correspondent alexis mcadams reports this evening from new york. >> this is especially coming in the news right now for so many people came to new york city for the holiday season, they are hearing about this horrible story. we are talking about a migrant accused of lights a woman on fire and watching her burn alive. he was in court this afternoon. we have some new photos of that. e murder and arson. the judge sitting in brooklyn hearing those charges after investigators say he used a lighter to start this woman on fire and watched it while she slept on a new york city subway. authorities have not yet identified her. she appears to be homeless. but the reason it's taking a while, mike, because investigators say she was so badly burned so it's been difficult to id her. hours after police say this all happened. kathy hochul posting this on social media. sayi

good evening, aishah. >> aishah: bret, good evening to you.ennedy made news out of the gate by saying he is all for the polio vaccine. but his past and more event comments could turn into landmines for him through this confirmation process. >> mr. kennedy, do you want to revoke any vaccines? >> r.f.k. jr. walking into the first of nearly two dozen meteorologist with republican senators this week. as he vias to become the next health and human services secretary. there are major concerns tonight about his views on vaccines. a recent report revealed in 2022, kennedy's lawyer, tried to revoke fda approval for the polio vaccine. kennedy told reporters today he is all for the polio vaccine. >> i support it. >> president-elect trump also adding from mar-a-lago that he does not want kennedy to revoke any vaccines. >> no. i want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks. we're going to find out a lot. i think he is going to be much less radical than you would think. i think he has a very open mind or i wouldn't have been him there. >> kenned

>> bret: aishah hasnie on the other side of capitol hill. aishah, thanks. >> mr.peaker, thanks for the time. >> welcome toe capitol hill, i'm glad you are here. >> bret: we're has been to be be happy to be here. >> bret: we talk about the ability to herd the cats. >> it's tough to do. it seems it's tougher for republicans sometimes. now you have a majority that is really slim. heading in after the election, 220 to 215, but you are going to lose three. so 217 to 215. president-elect trump says he is going to promises made, promises kept. how do you keep those promises with that majority? >> we are absolutely convinced that we can keep those promises and we are excited to do it. there is a real -- among republicans in congress right now. we have a new president, a new day in america. president trump is coming into the white house with a big mandate. i think that extends to us as well. >> bret: the "new york times" writes it this way if all democrats are present and united in opposition to a measure mr. johnson won't be able to afford a single defection on the house

aishah hasnie is there. aishah? >> hey there.borasso of wyoming. it's interesting because rfk jr. told us today he would be open to meeting with democratic senators, reach across the aisle but it sounds like there might be some democratic senators who aren't so willing to meet with trump picks. watch. >> i've asked if they've been outreach to democrats, and there has been. in some cases that hasn't been responded to by the democrats. >> so trump's nominee for health and human services secretary is meeting with a whopping nine senator today. on abortion, kennedy appears to be telling senators that he will fall in line with president-elect trump's policies and stance on this. on the nation's food, he told senator tupperville that farmers will not lose their livelihoods. those who have yet to get some face time with him still have some questions particularly about abortion but so far he says it's going pretty well. >> how are the meetings going? >> really productive. really good. >> so there you have it. a busy, busy day for him. he

larry: all right, not sure i agree with that but, aishah hasnie we appreciate it. so, trump tax cuts 2.0 can't wait. that is the subject of the riff. during trump years, and first presidential term, real average weekly wages, take home pay, rose over 9%. during the biden years, take home play plunged fl 3. 6% for his 2er7 term, median household income in trump years rose 77,000. that is precovid. during mr. biden's term, median income rose only 1 p1,000, the numbers take home pay and median income, have a lot to do with mr. trump's landslide election victory. these were kitchen table issues for mr. trump's working class majority that spanned all races cut into democrat former coalition, economy ranked first in every poll, working folks losing money and they can't afford gasoline or electricity or new cars or new homes, color plays no role it is about the economy, more than enough people remember how good they had it during the trump years and doorly bur -- during the biden-harris years, sooner president trump can restore the blue collar boom the stronger his politi

aishah hasnie, we will watch that game as well, aishah, thank you. >> john: president biden with lowks wrapping up his final days in the white house. former deputy white house chief of staff karl rove. i want to put the fox news poll up. biden approval rating 41% and that is lower than trump, obama, clinton a little higher than bush. but at the same time we have biden and as you saw at the beginning of the program, jared bernstein's angle of, everybody was talking down the economy and president trump but much better than he said it was. we have stats about that. >> i think this is indicative of the problem facing the biden administration. the national federation of independent business represent small business owners and long been a survey among small business owners. they expect the economy to improve. the latest survey up 21 points and the biggest sense 2020. good time to expand up eight points and the biggest sense the best member since 2021. expects sales to rise and again 2,018th the best in three or four years. and the next six months, six-point them the best in the last three

howard lutnick and mcmahon are here on the hill. >> martha: thank you very much, aishah hasnie, veryeresting times as we watch these nominees try to build relationships ahead of the hearing process which will begin in a couple of weeks. thanks. despite billions in taxpayer dollars to the pentagon and military intelligence it seems no one knows who is flying the drones here in new york and over new jersey. how is that impossible? there are a lot of them up there in the sky. whose are they? what are they doing? congresswoman nicole malliotakis says after the chinese bible in incident there's no -- for this reason people are demanding answers. >> you can see how low they are. it's like right above the trees. i think i counted about three. here comes another one. they seem to also follow each other. they go in the same direction. i'd like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans, because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100 percent of your home's value.

all right, aishah, thank you. aishah hosni on the hill. nice to see you. >> dana: president-elect trump not telegraphing his thoughts on iran. why he is keeping his cards close to his chest. >> bill: new reports democrats are concerned about the fate of the house foreign affairs committee under incoming chair brian mast. why would that be? he is here to respond to that coming up and more. >> dana: business leaders are betting big on trump. the president-elect is holding court. >> one of the big differences between the first term -- the first term everybody was fighting me. this term everybody wants to be my friend. i don't know. my personality changed or something. israel, the birthplace of our faiths for christians and jews. that christmas morning, wise men brought gifts from outside the holy land. but in this year of war, this holy land and her people are living in fear. many of the elderly are alone and suffering. like the wise men or wise women, would you open your heart and give a special holiday food box to someone here in israel thi

aishah hasnie is there live for us. hello, aishah. >> center, good to see you. creating quite a bit of commotion here on capitol hill as he takes meetings to try to gain more traction and support from the senators that are so critical for him to get confirmed. as of about 20 minutes ago, he told reporters that he is not withdrawing his name. he says he spoke with president-elect trump, and trump told him to keep fighting. watch. >> that's what donald trump asked me to do. "your job is to bring a war fighting ethos back to the pentagon. your job is to make sure it is lethality, lethality, lethality. everything else is gone." everything else that distracts from that shouldn't be happening. that's the message i'm hearing from senators and that advise and consent process. >> that process continues today and it is a critical day for hegseth. he met with john thune, roger wicker, and he will also meet with senator joni ernst. she is a sexual assault survivor and a female combat veteran. he needs her support as he faces allegations of sexual assault, which he denies, a

aishah hasnie if joins us this morning.uess the first question is, does johnson have enough votes, do you think, to remain speaker? >> reporter: i've got to say, the gavel has to be on top of his christmas wish list because when congress left town last week, he did not have the votes to become speaker. house republicans will have a very slim majority, 219-215 in that new congress, which means johnson can really only a afford to lose one republican. right now he's got president-elect trump's support, that's a big deal, but as many as 38 members bucked trump last week over that government funding bill, and they could do it again. congressman thomas massie has announced he will vote for somebody else. congresswoman victoria spartz says she's undecided and the biggest problem is probably freedom caucus chairman andy harris. that could open the door to other freedom caucus members revolting as well. johnson's predicament follows the his deal with democrats on that saw 1500-page government funding bill which was later derailed by

back to you. >> sandra: aishah hasnie on that, aishah, thank you. >> cricket as a senator and crickett as crooked. i'm not surprised that i assume he would. he doesn't stick to his word on that you. >> i personally think the biden family is a bunch of crooks. if he doesn't -- >> john: laying on the sweeping pardon of hunter as biden defends his decision claiming the justice department targeted hunter because of his last name. to "the new york post" with a front-page headline "insanity defense." jason smith house and ways and means committee and led the investigation into hunter biden. here we have a pardon and karine jean-pierre said the reason for the president felt like he had to pardon his son was because the justice department was targeting him politically. listen to what she had to say. >> he also believes war politics infected the policy and a miscarriage of justice. he believes his son was unfairly targeted. he said with his political opponents have done to my son, his words, cruel and enough is enough. >> john: i mean not to mention biden was saying all along he has faith in t

>> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill.hanks. >> aishah: got it. >> bret: word applications for unemployment benefits higher than expected preceded a down day on wall street. the dow lost 234. the s&p 500 was off 33. the nasdaq fell 132. we are getting new polling information tonight about what registered voters are thinking and feeling following the november election. we i brought you some of that last night. new nobody's tonight. two 30's of those surveyed said the economy feels like it is getting worse for their family, just 29% say it feels better. 39% believe the economy will get better in the next year. 37% think it will get worse. president biden's approval rating checks in at had 41%. that compares to 47 at the end of the first trump administration. president obama was at 57. george w. bush 34. bill clinton was at 62%. up next, new details emerge about the suspect in the murder of a healthcare insurance executive in midtown, manhattan. that story continues. first, what some of our other fox affiliates arranged the c

aishah, what big meetings are going on there today?, i've got my head on a swivel here because any moment now we could see the defense secretary nominee pete hegseth walk right behind me and into senator john fetterman's office, a democrat, and it should be no surprise, fetterman says, that he is meeting with hegseth because as he puts it this is a very important position, defense secretary, and he should be talking to whoever is nominated for that. as you know, fetterman has already backed another republican nominee, that is elise stefanik for u.n. ambassador, so this comes as no surprise for at least the senator. here is what pete hegseth said earlier about this upcoming meeting. watch. >> the nice part is there is nothing political about the dod and we are going to make sure politics is not a part of it, so meeting with democrats just like meeting with republicans is a huge part of our approach. >> and it's not just hegseth. outgoing democratic majority leader chuck schumer met with howard lutnick. he describes trump's commerce secr

aishah a, thank you so much.t's good to see you. >>> okay, let's welcome former economic adviser to president trump, look whos' here, the one and only steve moore. steve, we love having you on. if you could sit tight, we want to the read this tweet from historian neil ferguson, and i quote: german and french governments fall, bashar al assad flees syria. he says there's an economic chain reaction happening. bitcoin rallies, the russian currency weakens, china flies deeper into deflation and iran's reeling. what do you think of neil ferguson on the trump agenda? >> well, look, i think there's no questions -- question that trumpism is starting to invade the whole world. i think you're going to see kind of populist revolts against big era government in europe, in the u.k., in france, in germany. it's so amazing, trump isn't just popular here in the united states, he's, he is popular all over the world world with citizens when want a return to people power, if you will. and so i think this is good for the economy. i

>> "the faulkner focus" is aishah hosni next. >> aishah: thank you, guys

senior national correspondent aishah hosni is getting ready for a busy week again. good morning. how are you doing on the hill? >> getting ready to chase him around on the hill. a jam-packed week for rfk junior, his team tells us he is prepared and energized for this week. set to meet with senators on the finance committee overseeing his confirmation and get one-on-one time with the incoming health committee chair bill cassidy. right now he is meeting with republicans. so kennedy's make america healthy again to improve america's food system will gain traction. already is including support from senator bernie sanders. his views on vaccines and his views on abortion may raise some concerns about his ability to oversee the hhs and its enormous budget. a recent report revealed that kennedy's lawyer tried to revoke fda approval for the polio vaccine. mitch mcconnell last week, who by the way contracted polio as a childish uday a warning saying efforts to undermine public confidence if proven cures are dangerous. the trump team, bill, is trying to clarify. >> rfk junior said let's have

all right, aishah hasnie, thank you so much. christmas to you. >> merry christmas to you. >> john: that's the republican side of the aisle. now this, strategists are sounding the alarm after the democrats brutal november loss. experts admit that branding is "in the toilet," adding when the strategy is to go against the party. senior political analyst juan williams. here's what "the new york times" wrote after a chat with democratic strategists. "the democrat brand is in the toilet. the democrat brand is in the toilet. many democrats who succeeded this cycle are best over performers in house races are people who ran against the democratic party brand. the best way to win is a candidate is to run against your own party, it's that bad." republicans ran with trump and won. democrats who ran against the party won. democrats who ran with the party to some degree lost. what does that say? >> i think what it says is the incumbent party here, the democrats, the biden administration represented the status quo and people were saying we wan

senior correspondent, aishah hasnie, what are the two man saying about their big plans questioning. >nter they have a lot of plans they will be sharing with lawmakers today. elon musk told reporters this morning, i think we should spend the public's money wisely. he will share his ideas when he meets with house g.o.p. conference in a couple of hours but before that, we will hear from house speaker mike johnson who will take the podium behind me and speak to reporters about what we can expect. earlier this morning vivek ramaswamy on the senate side. he met with the senate d.o.g.e. cop is led by joni ernst. he and elon musk are laying out the plan to cut government waste. and reduce workforce and cut $2 trillion and spending and close down entire agencies and one could actually be the consumer financial protection bureau. they want to do all at this, sandra, two years july 4, 2026. elon musk indicated one way to cut back is to lay off or fire federal employees who do not come back to the office. >> i think most recent statistics that i saw only 17% of the federal workforce is in the bui

. >> aishah: donald trump spends the weekend in france. we will be covering it for you.alk about his first foreign trip as president-elect. and also, please join shannon bream for "fox news sunday," her guest are retired lt. general h.r. mcmaster, florida congressman cory mills and massachusetts seth moulton. thanks for watching "special report." i'm aishah hasnie >> laura: good evening. i'm laura ingraham. thank you for watching. my angle in moments. first, this is a fox news alert. the jury in the daniel penny trial has gone home for the day. and the manslaughter charge has been dismissed after the jury was deadlocked. but the case isn't over. fox news correspondent c.b. cotton is outside the court with all the details. c.b., what can you tell us? daniel penny's fate hangs in limbo until monday when they come back to deliberate criminally negligent homicide a charge that carries the potential of up to four years in prison. jurors came back twice today, deadlocked on the most serious charge, second degree manslaughter. this evening after lots of debate between defense a

aishah hasnie is on the hill with said plan. good morning as we begin a new hour. will there be a vote this hour? >> good morning to you. remember i said there was going to be a 10:00 a.m. vote? it is 10:00 a.m. and nobody is on the floor because this vote is now in question and we're not sure exactly what's going on. they are also huddled up inside speaker johnson's office meeting with the house freedom caucus members, the folks that were the hard nose last night. he is also meeting with trump's pick for omb director the nominee russell vogt is in there a representation of the president-elect. i have not yet heard a concrete answer on how long this potential clean cr might be. that might be the hang-up right now that they are discussing inside the speaker's office. what i can tell you at this hour about the clean cr we've been hearing about all morning it will be a continuation of the budget that we are under currently. how to fund the government. there is no debt ceiling attached to this. that was the big ask from donald trump. they would kick that basically to t

do we begin with aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. must have a caught there on the hill because i don't think you have had a chance to get home yet. >> no, i am in the basement now and i don't know what that tells you but they are at a turning point and there's been a lot of movement in the last hour or so. bc members filing into this closed-door g.o.p. conference meeting where g.o.p. leadership is going to present to them what they have cooked up inside the speaker's office. there has been a variety of emotions walking and but congressman maria talk us was frustrated and felt like membership was completely left out. she doesn't know but they will present today. a lot of folks finding out details from the press, realty and optimistic about this. according to steve scalise, it is a good plan. let's take a look at the plan together. this is what they have come up with, they want to have three votes on three separate issues. the first is to fund the government and that would happen through a clean cr and basically continuation how the go

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good morning to you, aishah, how goes it? >> good morning.ike mar-a-lago 2.0 in the senate now. there are so many cabinet picks here making the rounds. we're off to the races this morning. homeland security nominee kristi noem is here today. she will be meeting with senator rand paul later this afternoon. if she is confirmed she would work closely with tom homan, the border czar and they will try to secure the southern border. probably the most -- one of those cabinet picks that has the most eyeballs on it. trump's defense secretary pick pete hegseth meets with two senators this week who could tank him. lisa murcowski today, susan collins tomorrow after a bit of progress yesterday with senator joni ernst who says she will support hegseth through the process, still not a yes, though, bill. it is the company line now. here is what he told me after their second meeting yesterday. >> did you feel confident leaving that room that she would support you? >> it was a great meeting. it was a great meeting. >> will you have another one? >> whenever she

. >> aishah: good evening, welcome to washington. i'm aishah hasnie in for bre

>> i would never speak for her. >> aishah: as i support pete through this process i look forward to aaring based on truth and not anonymous sources. she did not outright say if she will vote for him though. hegseth is among a slew of trump nominees courting senators today. >> the meeting is going wonderful. >> and answering tough questions about their experiences and their past. >> my own views and experiences have been shaped by my multiple deployments. >> trump's nominee for director of national intelligence tulsi gabbard is facing scrutiny over a meeting with now former syrian leader bashar al-assad. and for this comment. >> do you believe that assad is a war kr58? >> there is evidence that he has committed war crimes. he should be prosecuted as such. >> senator mike rounds telling fox he does see a path forward for gabbard's confirmation but says the process won't be easy. >> they are going to be tough, because this is a case of where people will ask her questions about her knowledge of the intelligence community about the information that's out there. and they will ask her about

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aishah hosni watching it for us. good morning, aishah. >> good morning to you, bill. so we are about to see rfk, jr. walk into senator capito's office. his first meeting of a very busy day for him. the third day on the hill out of four. and he has been telling reporters that his meetings have been really productive. that's what he says publicly. privately, bill, he is really having to answer some tough questions with senators about a variety of topics. everything from processed foods, high fructose corn syrup and abortion. this is what he told senator tommy tuberville about his stance on abortion. >> i asked him i said in the past you've been pro-abortion. and he said well, you know -- both he and trump came to an agreement. roe v. wade is gone. gone back to the states. let the people vote on it. >> okay. so kennedy has also expressed a desire to meet with democrats and there are a few that want to meet with him. incoming gop leader john thune said some democrats aren't responding to invitations from some of trump's cabinet picks. labor secretary nominee deremer makes

larry: aishah, talk about tax cuts.'m very interested and hearing things that i don't want to hear. i'm going to riff on it in just a minute. they're going to put the tax cuts off till the back end of the year, which could be a big problem and he won on the economy and we're hoping for a repeat of the blue collar boom, et cetera, et cetera. what do you know about that, if anything? reporter: they want to put off what they can and tackle first what they can. when it comes to tax cuts, they think they can get to it later and not something they need to tackle immediately where something like taxes or no taxes on tips and could tackle in the first 30 days, but it sounds like they're joust trying to focus on whatever they can get across the finish line as quickly as possible just to give him some victories right out of the gate. larry: thank you,'hawaii trump tax cuts 2.0 can't wait and that's the subject of the riff. during the trump ye years and ft presidential term, real average weekly wages. aka take home pay rose over 9

. >> dana: aishah hasnie is following all of this from capitol hill. happen in the next two hours? >> good morning, dana and bill. welcome to congress. this is how it works here. back and forth a lot of it. the house floor is now open and members are starting to walk in. there is still an ongoing huddle going on in speaker johnson's office between the house freedom caucus members that did not vote for the skinny pr last night. the trump-endorsed one last night. they are meeting also with president trump's nominee for omb director russell bot. he is in the room as well. we haven't seen j.d. vance enter the room but he is being represented by voss. i'm being told at this hour that there is a deal. a temporary fix to avert a government shutdown and a vote will happen as early as 10:00 a.m. today. it does not appear to include the debt ceiling provision that trump called for because again they weren't able to get the house freedom caucus members to agree to that. as of 1:00 a.m. last night president-elect trump wasn't moving from his position to include th

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. >> harris: senior national correspondent aishah hosni is on the hill today. aishah. >> he is getting a pretty warm welcome from conservatives and senate republicans here on the hill. he just walked into his second meeting of this morning into senator langford's office. i trow i had to ask him questions about food dyes and gender affirming care for minors. topics he is passionate about. has opinions on but he hasn't taken any questions since he arrived here on the hill. i also attempted to ask him about his stance on abortion, his personal stance as that is something that could be a concern for some deeply conservative republicans. here is what he said, watch. >> mr. kennedy what is your personal stance on abortion. tell our viewers about abortion. >> so again not really answering much. yesterday, though, he did tell reporters that he is all in for the polio vaccine. >> do you support it? >> yeah, i support it. >> that comment comes amid a report that his lawyer tried to revoke fda approval for the polio vaccine a few years ago. senators he has spoken to so fa

aishah hasnie on the hill with all of the excitement going on. so we are going to have more on the -- duo making a big stage in washington. we will speak with senator rand paul carr david asman, lake travis always in. what about this idea that only one% of federal employees whose taxpayer dollars paid their salary actually show up at their job in the buildings five days a week? an extraordinary finding we will dig in with great guests coming up later this our. >> elon -- how do you win over people that say -- don't have any power? >> how do you convince people who don't want to cut spending life, diabetes, there's no slowing down. each day is a unique blend of people to see and things to do. that's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day. say christmas. christmas! when you want gifts to express a lifetime of love - we've spent a lifetime crafting them. harry & david, 90 years and still sharing. >>> okay breaking a moment ago we have new remarks from president-elect

aishah hasnie joins us from capitol hill.ed on a new plan at 10:00 this morning or has it been delayed? >> reporter: stuart, good morning to you. things change here by the minute, so this morning it sounded like we were going to have a 10 a.m. vote, now it's sounding like we might not. a member just came over and told us he has no reason to to believe that it's actually going to happen at 10 a.m. he thinks there are certain members in the republican conference that don't want the vote to the happen, so we're waiting and watching. that meeting between speaker johnson, house freedom caucus members, people who voted no last night to that skinny c.r. and trump's o to mb director nominee, russell vought, is still ongoing. and if you're wondering what the hang-up is, gosh, we don't know for sure, but i have not heard a concrete answer yet on how long this new plan for a clean c.r. would be. so that the might be the problem that they're inside if discussing. speaker johnson walked in this morning saying they had a plan, there will b

aishah hasnie is there. aishah, is rfk making any progress?t, good morning to you. he would say so, and so would the transition team among some conservative republicans too. her all for him. they are all for him. it doesn't appear that that he has the votes yet, but there are, certainly, some republicans out there who just want to see this process play out, want to see the background with checks for a number of these candidates and then get to a hearing, and then they will commit to a vote. we're not there yet. just waiting for him to pop out and head into a meeting with senator tillis. he's got a busy day ahead. rfk jr. is open to meeting with senate democrats as well. in fact, we've got some video if we can put it on screen of him shaking hands with senator fetterman told. he was walking into his first meeting of the day when senator fetterman popped out and shook his hand. it was a cordial meeting, so we'll see if he adds fetterman to his very busy schedule this week. he's, again, expressed openness to meeting with democrats. but incoming g