bureau, here to catch up with aishah hasnie. >> hi, mentor. >> nice to see you in person. >> john: intoring lately. >> you were born in pakistan but moved to the u.s. at a young age. midwest gal. >> i'm from indiana, southern indiana, you can get sweet tea and peach cobbler. i feel i'm a midwest gal, i shoot trap, soccer for my high school team and grew up with southern values i take seriously. >> john: first real job in broadcasting. fort wayne. >> fort wayne, i stayed there seven years and then you scooped me up to new york city. i was terrified as a midwest gal but got into it. >> john: and then you moved down here to washington, d.c., took on one of the hardest jobs in journalism, and that's covering capitol hill. >> you have to have patience. and you have to know everyone. so many topics to cover, like covering the white house but with so many more people, you have to know their aides and their teams, and so it does take a while. i think the best thing that happened for me and honestly, the worst thing for the world was the fall of kabul, that happened the weekend that i moved h

shannon: we await their decision, aishah hasnie, reporting in washington.is time for the sunday group, coanchor of "america's newsroom" in the five on fox news, dana perino, chairman of gopac, david bella a media critic and host of the "mediabuzz" welcome to all of you. let's start with the omnibus, they got it done just in time before leaving kim strassel, didn't reflect well, and for set out to describe a once admirable institution to decline, its members passing off the laziness, secrecy, cowardly nest and success it would be hard to compete with this week's senate show, dana, the white house is celebrating say they got a lot done in the lame-duck session and the prodigies of compass ms.. >> the big spending bills are always the ugliest part of washington it's disgusting sausage making but this is how it's done. one thing to be clear for everybody, the bills are drafted over a couple of years through the entire congress. in this case, you have two members of the senate as the chairman of the appropriations committee and ranking chair with democrat and re

aishah hasnie is here with it now. ing to you, david, from a rainy atlanta georgia and here ahead of this runoff it's turning out to be looking like it's having to be a very, very tight race, just like the general. no clear favorites in the most recent polling here, as both campaigns are desperately trying to get out the vote. so, senator warnock just wrapped up an event with the afl afl-cio, the union association as he holds a narrow four-point lead over walker in a recent aarp georgia survey. noticeably missing, david, from the campaign trail self-president biden. -- president biden. he was from 1200 miles away in boston on friday. the white house says the president's message resonates with voters no matter where he is. i asked the incoming president forbe for the georgia afl-cio if she wants to see president biden in the final days especially after he is the one to ask congress to force the labor agreement between rail unions and employers this week. watch what she said. >> i think that we've done a good job of the s

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correspondent aishah hasnie joins us tonight. good evening, aishah. >> rich, good evening to you.relatively brief thread writer says both the trump and biden white house is, quote: directly pressed twitter to moderate covid content. you, however they saw fit and that the platform oftentimes complied. >> today's newly released twitter files focus on the pandemic. how the government tried to control the narrative. writer da david says the trump white house came looking for help from the tech companies to combat misinformation about runs on grocery stores. but there were runs on grocery stores. he also reveals twitter monitored the trump white house sharing an email exchange where twitter's former deputy general counsel jim baker asked why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid misinformation policy. twitter's former head of trust and safety yoel roth replied that the tweet was simply an optimistic statement. once the biden administration came in, zig says -- focus on anti-vaxers accounts. >> anti-group at twitter. >>

>> bret: aishah hasnie live in georgia in kennesaw, thanks.p officials have certified the midterm election results there. that action opens a five-day window for formal election challenges. republican gubernatorial nominee kari lake is expected to file a lawsuit after weeks of criticizing the administration of the election. the administration run by democrats. the results show she lost to democrat katie hobbs by about 17,000 votes. up next, talk of a bipartisan deal for a framework on immigration reform. where is that going? frustration from the parents of the university of idaho students massacred three weeks ago, we will bring you there as well. >> we just have no information family it's tough day after day after day. ♪ e to be a careful steward of the things that matter to you most. i promise to bring you advice that fits your values. i promise our relationship will be one of trust and transparency. as a fiduciary, i promise to put your interests first, always. charles schwab is proud to support the independent financial advisors who are pa

aishah hasnie live in washington. thanks very much. okay. let's bring in media buzz host howard kurtz to talk about this. great to see you, howie. like aishah said, the new omnibus bill comes for a ban on government devices because we know they're looking at personal information. gorden chang with more. >> tik tok is owned by byte dance. it's a chinese company. they're under a compulsion to spy. no matter what protections we build in, byte dance is under that compulsion to commit espionage. very to recognize that. >> chinese companies have a compulsion to spy. what do you think about this? >> there's a history to this international mystery, which is donald trump tried to get tik tok banned on national security grounds. let's face it. this business about barring it from government devices is just a fig leaf to make it seem like the government is doing something because any government official can go home and use his or her personal iphone to get tik tok. they couldn't get it through. so they settled for the other opportunity. if reason this is

aishah hasnie is at the capital. was the reaction? note that for a while, democrats and republicans, vast majority of lawmakers on the hill do support sending more aid to ukraine, although we are seeing a growing number of voices on the hill calling for mode oversight into the dollars we are sending and here's why. one year into this war the us is by far the biggest contributor to ukraine, directing more than $60 billion so far with another $40 billion expected to pass any day in this omnibus package. are public and senator josh hawley said lack of oversight is why he did not attend the remarks last night. >> i didn't go to the speech because i didn't want to be part of a photo up asking more money from the united states government when they haven't given an accounting of what they spent, we spent $100 billion in blank checks. there is no accountability whatsoever, no oversight whatsoever. >> reporter: remember gop leader kevin mccarthy who by the way will have a slim majority if he become speaker next year, recently said when republi

aishah hasnie, thank you. south carolina republican congresswoman nancy mace, she voted against this trillion dollar spending bill. nancy, help me out a little bit. what aishah said there, kevin mccarthy is threatening to not hear bills sponsored by senators as a way of retaliation, if you will, because they voted with it? parse out the politics for me here. >> well, i think that there's a lot of frustration and anger with house republicans the way i went down last week. talking about a 4,000 page bill crafted behind closed doors, does nothing but pour gasoline on the fire that is inflation. my son turns 16 today, birthday dinner tonight, he's going to want money for his birthday. that does not mean i'm taking out loans from family members and giving him a credit card with federal limits. neither should the government. lack of responsible spending, don't get me started on the border. it's devastating what they are going to do. >> william: water under the bridge, right. the bill has been passed, it will be sign

now aishah hasnie is covering something more gargantuan. aishah? studio. can you pick it up? >> neil: impossible. it's amazing. >> 4,000 pages. the 1,000 that reagan was holding, nothing compared to this. you're right. not a lot of time for lawmakers to even sift through and read what is in the bill. you have lawmakers trying to get out of here and get back home before the storm hits and get back home to families for christmas. look, we're in a waiting game before the senate starts to vote. so let's sit down together and take a look at what we found inside this 4,000 page bill. okay. you the taxpayer are about to pony up $850 billion on defense spending and $770 million on defend spending and that includes $45 billion in ukraine aid, 45 billion for disaster relief, billions for programs authorized but the jobs act, the chips act and the pact act, which is for veterans. the electoral recount act in response to january 6. that's in this bill, too, in response to the tik tok ban on government devices. a lot of pet projects, too underneath hitten in th

aishah hasnie. we'll speak with brad raffensperger, what he makes of this and the significance of this final senate contest. meanwhile to jacqui heinrich. the president showed up in arizona today about 100 miles from the border. no visit to the border. what is the latest there, jackie? >> no visit to the border, no visit to georgia. we've been asking about it. not really good answers on either front. the president has never visited the southern border since taking office. he's previously said that he didn't have a whole lot of time to get down there. he's going to be in a border state today, yet edepartmently the issue isn't important enough for his time. >> why go to a border state and not visit the border? >> there's more important things going on. >> that comment drew immediate fire from border state lawmakers. >> how the hell would he know? he hasn't been there. it sure is something that is pretty critically important to the people of texas and to the immigrants getting abused and dying. >> in r

first to aishah hasnie who is live for us in washington. aishah, good afternoon. >> good afternoon to you, trace. as the white house continues to blame republicans in congress for not passing immigration reform, democrat congressman henry cuellar of texas tells mes that an unfair assessment since the administration has the power to change policy today if it wanted to. >> without due respect to the administration, i agree, we need to do immigration reform. but they can change the policy by having order at the border where they can say they did it for the venezuelans. honestly, i think the homeland security department is struggling with some of the more progressive white house staffers. i hope homeland wins this particular fight. >> cuellar is responding to republican criticism that there was lack of border funding in that 1.7 trillion omnibus bill that he and his democratic colleagues just approved. take a look, trace. $60 billion was allocated for homeland security, which is a $3 billion upgrade from last year but doesn't keep up with inflat

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aishah hasnie is live. >> good afternoon. the white house continues to defend its decision for the trade. they said they never had an avenue to bring paul home saying he was in fact never a part of russia's calculus in this trade because of the espionage charges that were filed against him. they have been treating him very differently in russia. the 52-year-old veteran is not set to be released until 2036. paul's brother david, who supports greiner's griner's release, by the way, is pushing for more attempts to get paul out. >> he's, i think, pretty shattered. he was getting his hopes up and we had our hopes up he'd be going home. planning where he would live and he's got list apartment in the states in the last four years and thinking about the future and not being able to think about the future as concretely is going to be hard. >> democrats are saying presidents from both parties had to authorize really tough trades over the years, but republicans say handing over the man once called the "merchant of death" and leaving pau

aishah hasnie on that. aishah? >> good way to put it, neil, always very clever with your wording there. we're getting so close to a -- some kind of a ban on tik tok. we're inching closer to it. it's stalled right now in the house. i'll give you a commercial break to try to figure out what is holding it up. so how many vaccines have you given to people? me? about 1000. walgreens...millions. no way can i miss her big debut. with your booster, i think you'll be there. for every twirl. i got a shot so my sister won't get sick. way to go, big bro! so while we're here... ...flu shot, as well? let's do it. when you need to talk vaccinations, our pharmacists are here. ♪ ♪ i was born on the south side of chicago. it has been a long road, but now i'm working for schwab. i love to help people understand the world through their lens and invest accordingly. you can call us christmas eve at four o'clock in the morning. we're gonna always make sure that you have all of the financial tools and support to secure your financial futu

aishah hasnie live in atlanta. ♪ >> protecting all of us from enemies both foreign and domestic, some of the world's most powerful and influential military and political leaders are in california this weekend for the reagan national defense forum. what are america's responsibilities on the global scale? details next. ♪ ♪ ua chip in your windshield... trust safelite. this couple was headed to the farmers market... when they got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service the way you need it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ [music plays] if your instinct is to help. ♪ then clearly you care. ♪ you have what it takes to be a care professional. home instead. apply now. bryan: the nation's national security leaders have gathered at the ronald reagan library outside los angeles this weekend to discuss challenges here at home and abroad. the ongoing war in ukraine and america's military capability are ju

>> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill. thanks.p next, why iran is planning to execute a former professional soccer player. we will bring you that story. here's what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. wbbd as two police officers are killed while responding to a welfare check. the woman suspected of shooting them also died. the shootout erupted at the -- as the officers were speaking with the woman who was sitting in a parked car it with an underaged girl outside a motel. and this is a live look at boston from wfxt our affiliate there one of the big stories tonight outgoing massachusetts governor charlie baker will be the next president of the national collegiate athletic association. the ncaa. baker has served as the top executive in the state since 2014. he is a former basketball player at harvard. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ take a load off ♪ energy demands are rising. and the effects are being felt everywhere. that's why at chevron, we're increasin

back to you. >> aishah hasnie reporting live from the white house. thanks aishah. soccer writers graduate wall died earlier this morning while covering the world cup in qatar kitty logan has more on that. >> has died in qatar covering world cup for the 8th time. he died early on saturday while covering quarter final match between argentina and the netherlands. he collapsed suddenly at the stadium where he was working fellow reporters called for help and a spokesperson for the world cup says grant was given emergency medical treatment on site and then taken to hospital in ambulance where he later died. the cause of death is not yet known. but he has been suffering from poor health for several days. graduate rates for sports illustrated for many years and then launched his own website he loved game helping boost popularity of soccer in america and he also wore a rainbow t-shirt to u.s. opening game and defiance of world cup guidance. he was briefly detained before being released. graduate was only 48 years old. his wife has spoken of her shock and offered thanks for

aishah hasnie in atlanta where almost 2 million people have voted ahead of this run off election day. but we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening to you, bret. today in georgia, on election day, the president's absence was only outsized by his absence on the southern border in, yet, another visit to a border state. >> na na, no no, i don't know. >> in phoenix president biden struggled to articulate the private company's semiconductor manufacturing investment that he ranks as more important than the illegal immigration crisis unfolding less than 200 miles away. his explanation for once again skipping a border visit while visiting a border state. >> more important things going on. >> infuriating republican lawmakers. >> how would he know? he hasn't been there. and it sure is something that is pretty critically important to the people of texas and frankly to the immigrants that are getting abused and dying. >> some democrats rushing to biden's defense. >> i don't care if he visits the border or not. he

fox news's aishah hasnie on capitol hill with more. reporter: elizabeth, good evening to you.to seeing some kind of a ban on the social media app tiktok but right now senator josh hawley's bill, which would ban tiktok on all government-issued devices is stalling in the house. it passed in the senate last night by unanimous consent but right now house speaker nancy pelosi will not commit to bringing this bill to the house floor before the end of this congress. >> she should make it a priority. let's not hide behind, she can do anything she wants. do it on the suspension list if she wanted to. she should make it a priority. reporter: while his bill stalls a separate bipartisan bill which seeks to ban the popular app outright was just introduced. senator marco rubio and representatives mike gallagher and roger krishnamoorthy are leading a charge to ban all transactions of any social media company in or under the influence of china, russia, several other foreign countries of concerns. chairman of the intel committee senator mark warner, maybe there is a way to keep tiktok around a

aishah hasnie with the latest. aishah: good afternoon, four points right now separating herschel walker from senator raphael warnock and not a lot of time left to make up that gap. here in loganville, walker will be joined by pretty important people here. tim scott and john kennedy are joining him here on the campaign trail here one day after walker told politico that he has not been avoiding the press in the same politico interview he did mix-up the house and senate when answering another question. now despite a series of abuse and abortion allegations, walker has managed to stay neck and neck with warnock in all the recent polling here. in fact, he told maria bartiromo just this morning that he is in good spirit heading into election day. >> i feel pretty good, you know, we are having record turnout and i think right now people got to get out. they've got to vote. december the sixth, people get a chance to voice their opinion. you can't sit on the sideline anymore. if you want to change, go out and vote and voice

maya millette lisa: i am here with aishah hasnie, joey jones, what is untapped to us? aishah: we got new surveillance images the reveal more about what happened when those university of idaho students were stabbed to death while they slept. the murder mystery may be unraveling tonight. joey:you may be surprised the education system is going work, college students demanding pay for their grade and going to class. raymond:they are taking a stand on tick-tock as a national security risk, new research reveals how harmful the apps is to kids and 2 thirds of them are using tick-tock every day. aishah: they are trying to make the citizen's for a process more work by making it easier, the citizenship test will be multiple-choice. 3 years ago "fox and friends" celebrated what it means to become an american at the first naturalization ceremony on fox square. >> i will perform work. >> i will perform work. >> of national importance. under civilian direction when required by the law. and that i take this obligation freely. without any mental reservation. or purpose of evasion. so h

congressional correspondent aishah hasnie live in washington on what lawmakers want to see next. >> reporteri spoke with texas democrat representative henry cuellar who is reacting to the republican criticism he is getting over the fact that there was not enough border funding and that $1.7 trillion omnibus. the chrysostom he is getting her passing, him and his democrat colleagues for passing this giant omnibus bill that got approved last week, listen to what he said. >> and homeland, there's more money, added under donald trump and i would like to make that emphasis. i would like to sit down and work out a consensus with other democrats, other republicans to try to come up with a consensus but first thing you got to do is come to the table. >> the congressman did admit the crisis at the border is worse today under president biden than it was under the former president. and that government funding bill, $60 billion for homeland security which is a 3 billion-dollar upgrade from last year but not keeping up with inflation and on top of that only from of that money we see $60 million going towa

. # aishah hasnie is live. >> reporter: he looked really dispointing as he made that speech. >> i wanto thank all of you. >> reporter: didn't add up. senator warnock taking the stage to accept the victory a short time after that. >> you endured the rain and the long lines -- and you voted and you did it because you believered as i do that democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea. >> reporter: trace, voter turnout here may have been the deciding factor in this race. more than 3 million people voted in this run-off but a whopping 1.9 million people voted early. that favored democrats about 57,000 votes. walker faced a series of attacks to his character even though he had governor kemp on his side this time who outperformed walker. walker spent 2-1 in advertisements of what had been the most expensive race. all of t trtp tthis t trtp ttthis culminating toni once again turning blue and sending a democrat in the senate. >>> president biden was nowhere to be found during the run-off. he did not talk about the border because he said, quoting "there are more important things go

aishah hasnie is following it all from georgia. aishah? >> hi, charles. good afternoon to you.s right. so the president is trying to help senator warnock fund raise but he's doing it up in boston, massachusetts. no plans yet to come to the actual state where the election will be taking place. jacqui heinrich asked the president today why he wasn't heading to georgia. he got a little confused about where he was actually going today. watch. >> mr. president, why aren't you going to georgia to help senator warnock? >> i'm going georgia today -- not georgia. i'm going to help senator warnock. i'm doing a major fund raisener boston for the -- for our next continued senate candidate. senator. thank you. >> so you might be wondering what in the world is going on? the a.p. is saying that the warnock camp asked the president to go to massachusetts. the administration says the president will go where he needs to go and his message resonates no matter where he is. herschel walker held an event in woodstock with lindsey graham. he has a tough issue ahead. he has to win over 200,000 georgia

first to aishah hasnie live in kennesaw, georgia. hi, aishah. >> hey, martha.n to you. look, we're coming to you live from a very, very rainy atlanta, georgia where both of these candidates are really trying to get out the vote as much as they can. they really do need every single voter to turn out for them tomorrow on run-off day. senator warnock has surrogates fanned out across the state and herschel walker has former president trump holding a telerally later tonight. here's the senator reacting to that. >> he's donald trump's hand-picked candidate. and he was recruited by donald trump. i think the people of georgia deserve a senator that is going to work for the people of georgia not any former president or current president. >> now, a recent cnn poll has warnock leading walker by a very narrow four points. we have already seen record voting numbers for this run-off, martha. 1.8 million georgians voting early or by absentee ballot. that's a quarter of active voters in the peach state. and if voter turnout is also high tomorrow, election officials tell us tha

aishah hasnie live in atlanta. she's been watching this state very closely. today is the big day. shah. >> hi, martha. i might as well move to georgia. i've been here this long watching this race. it's been a cold, foggy, rainy morning in parts of georgia, which of course we know could impact voteser turnout, which is so important. here's how both men were feeling as polls opened this morning. >> i'm feeling good. i feel very good about the outcome. i think the early vote was good. so i think we're going to win this election. i'm feeling good. >> the trust is my opponent could still win this election. he could. there's a path. more of my voters tend to vote in the early period. more of his voters tend to vote on election day. so if you haven't voted by all means vote. >> yeah, there's a path, martha. that path is high election day turnout to combat the nearly 1.9 million early and mail-in ballots, which is usually favor the democrat candidate. georgia early voting for this run-off broke single day records three times last week. the total, martha, was still close to a 40% drop compa

. >> i'm aishah hasnie. "the story" with anita vogel starts right now. >> thanks, john and aishah.n for martha maccallum. right now on "the story," the city of paris in flames and police under attack after a shooting in a busy neighborhood kills at least three people and injures several more. the developing details on this just ahead. and breaking just moments ago here at home, the house lining up with the senate

all right, we've got griff jenkins coming up, aishah hasnie coming um. two full hours and what's at stake. fox news continues after this. >> honoring tradition, and they're laying wreaths at the graves of 400,000 heroes. these are live i am packages of the wreaths in place at sacred ground. welcome, i'm griff jenkins in washington. hey aishah. aishah: hey, griff. and in addition in arlington, they're laying wreaths at 3400 additional locations in all 50 states at sea and abroad. it's an incredibly important day and what i love about these images that we're looking at, griff, right now are all the children that are part of this. parents, mothers and fathers bringing their kids out to really experience this in person and to teach them the value of freedom and how important these fallen heroes are to our country, our future. griff: and those wreaths didn't just show up, they came from maine, the tradition started back in 1992 when the worcester family, decided they had addi additional wreaths where mr. worcester visited. and it went on for years and then an

but first to aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. hi, aishah. >> martha: hi, martha. hawley's bill still has to get through the house. today house speaker nancy pelosi told reporters that she has not committed yet to bringing his bill to the house floor before this congress is over. watch. >> we'll leave here today for what is on the agenda now. i don't know that that will be on the agenda next week. let's see. but it's very, very important. >> some states are banning tik tok on government-issued devices. brian kemp just joined those governors announces his own ban today. meanwhile, senator marco rubio and representative mike gallagher have put forth a bipartisan bill that goes a step further than senator hawley's bill. this will ban all transactions from any social media company that is run through adversaries like china, russia or iran. >> it's a national security threat but it's a direct threat to our way of life. it's allowed them to interfere in mid-terms, this company should be banned. i don't know why they're allowed to operate in the united states. >> chairman

aishah hasnie on the controversy it is creating because it doesn't look like a done, deal, does it?> reporter: it is not a done deal, neil. there are a lot of critics kind of scratching their head, why does congress do this every single time, cram it right at the end, everything they want, all the goodies? we are expecting the senate to take its first procedural vote today sometime about this afternoon around 2:30 p.m. and they need to get this done to get it over to the house before the december 24th deadline. so it is 4,000 pages long, not a lot of time for lawmakers to look through it. we looked through it. take a look at some of the biggest headlines we found. the bill includes $45 billion in ukraine aid, 40 billion for disaster relief. also some funding for programs authorized by the infrastructure an investment jobs act, chips act and pact act for veterans. electoral count reform act win is bipartisan in here. so is senator josh hawley's tiktok ban we were talking about. that bans tiktok on government devices. what is out the safe banking act would have allowed marijuana busin

. >> i'm aishah hasnie. "the story" with anita vogel starts right now. >> thanks, john and aishah. good afternoon. i anita vogel in for martha maccallum. right now on "the story," the city of paris in flames and police under attack after a shooting in a busy neighborhood kills at least three people and injures several more. the developing details on this just ahead. and breaking just moments ago here at home, the house lining up with the senate voting to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill. that's trillion with a t, folks. republicans calling it a terrible christmas gift for americans already feeling the pain from high inflation. listen. >> we're two days away from christmas. the christmas season is a season of giving. but in congress, it appears the season of giving will line the pockets of democrats special interests and stick the hard-working americans with the tab. >> in moments, new york republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis. but first to senior congressional correspondent chad pergram reporting live from capitol hill where all of the action is happening today. chad? >> a

i'm aishah hasnie. >> i'm rich edson. "the story" with gillian turner is in for the next hour. . >> thank you, aishah and rich. good afternoon from washington. i'm gillian turner in for martha maccallum. we're awaiting word from the supreme court on title 42. any moment, the justices set to issue an order ending the border policy or keeping it in place. if it does end, border agents say they expect a new surge of people across the southern border worsening what they say is an overwhelming crisis. the "new york post" is reporting that cbp is building a makeshift facility near el paso in anticipation of title 42's end. we have fox news coverage. matt finn is live at the border and peter doocy at the white house. we'll bring in rodney scott who says this is a national se

aishah hasnie is following this race closely, she's in atlanta. >> reporter: hi there, eric.a, georgia, where it has been raining pretty much all day. look, this is setting up to be a very tight race much like the general election with no clear front-runner in any of the most recent polling which means that both of these candidates are out there, they're stomping the ground, and they're trying to get out every single vote iser they can find. take a look, this was senator warnock at an earlier event today with the afl-cio. and he holds a very narrow 4-point lead over his opponent, herschel walker. noticeably missing from the campaign trail, eric, is president biden. now, biden hasn't announced a visit to georgia to campaign for warnock yet. instead, he was up in boston, massachusetts, yesterday helping to fundraise for the candidate. now, the white house says the president's message resonates with voters no matter where he is in the country. i got to ask the incoming president of the georgia afl-cio if she wants the president in georgia in these final days especially after he

but first, congressional correspondent aishah hasnie live in washington with the latest. >> hi there,good afternoon to you, anita. i just spoke with henry cuellar reacting this afternoon to some harsh republican criticism that there wasn't enough border funding in that $1.7 trillion omnibus that he and his democratic colleagues just approved. watch. >> homeland there, is more money than we added under president trump, and i would like to make that emphasis. but certainly i would like to sit down and work out a consensus with other democrats, with other republicans to try to come up with a consensus. but the first thing you have to do is come to the table. >> he did admit the crisis is worse under this president as opposed to former president trump. here is a look at what's in that government funding bill really quickly here. just $60 billion for homeland security, which is a $3 billion upgrade from last year, but it's not keeping up with inflation. and of that money, only 60 million is actually going to hire more cpb officers, a whopping 800 million is for the fema shelter services fo

we begin with aishah hasnie on the politics at play and the growing blame game on all of this. vening, aishah. >> good evening to you, bret. it's not just republicans. tonight texas democratic representative help beery cuellar tells fox the white house can and should do more to stop the flood of migrants while also fighting off criticism that congressional democrats didn't do enough to secure the border when they had the chance. >> i think homeland security department is struggling with some of the more progressive white house staffers and i hope homeland wins this particular fight. >> congressman henry cuellar sharing his frustration over the lack of white house action on the border. one day after president biden didn't give much indication he would do anything different. >> the court is not going to decide until june apparently and in the meantime we have to enforce it. but i think it's overdue. >> the administration is still relying on a year old homeland security plan while blaming republicans for not passing immigration reform. >> it's not immigration reform. it's border se

fox news aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with more. aishah?, we are getting so close to some kind of tiktok ban here on capitol hill and yet we are still so far away from seeing that happen as time is running out, really, here on the hill so let me start with senator josh hawlly's bill that would ban tiktok on all government devices nationwide. that got through the senate, went through the senate by a unanimous consent vote and speaker pelosi today though sort of hinting that it might stalin the house by not committing to putting it on the house floor for a vote, before the end of this congress. watch. >> we'll leave here today for what's on the agenda now, i don't know that that will be on the agenda next week but let's see , but it's very very important. reporter: and as you mentioned, some states have already banned tiktok on government issued devices. georgia governor brian kemp joining those governors announcing his own ban today meanwhile senator marco rubio and representative mike gallagher have put forth a bipartisan bill that takes th

aishah hasnie on the significance of all of this. >> reporter: very important to point out that the vast republicans do support more funding for ukraine. they are 1000% behind ukraine and its fight with putin and russia but there are a growing number of voices to the right who are calling out and concerned about oversight of the money we are spending so right now nearly a year into this war the us is by far the biggest contributor to ukraine approving $60 billion with $45 billion expected to pass any moment. some senators like josh howley didn't even attend the speech last night. >> i didn't go to the speech, when they haven't given us a single account for anything they spoke to. >> reporter: gop leader kevin mccarthy has a slim majority, recently said reason republicans take control of the house, will not be writing anymore blank checks. here's his reaction to fox moments ago. >> i thought he gave a good speech, why would we, whatever funding we give anything farouk committee. >> are you concerned about not having their support? >> i'm worried about the american public. >> reporter: sta

maya millette lisa: i am here with aishah hasnie, joey jones, what is untapped to us? ew surveillance images the reveal more about what happened when those university of idaho students were stabbed to death while they slept. the murder mystery may be unraveling tonight.

griff: indeed, aishah hasnie in the middle of it, thank you. jacqui. jacqui: elon musk is releasing new information on twitter went out of its way to censor bombshell reports on the hunter biden laptop scandal in the days leading up to the 2020 election. alexandria hoff joining me onset with the latest. alexandria, this is a big story and a lot of information that you have condensed into a report for us here. >> more to come because elon musk says the second round of this twitter drop of the documents is going to be expected for today and he's also going to do question and answer question with that. musk believes documents under prior leadership twitter worked with democrats and then candidate president biden's team in removing posts from users from the platform. he shared company communication with writer matt who then turned the information into a lengthy twitter thread. it was released last night. now included screen shots, extraordinary steps to remove reporting on hunter biden's laptop by marking the story unsafe and utilizing a tool reserved for

fox team covering now, jack keane is standing by by aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill.skyy convince his critics? >> well, we'll wait san see. but i can tell you first and foremost it's very important to note here the vast majority of democrats and republicans bipartisan do support more funding for ukraine, more ukraine aid, which is actually now being passed in that big omnibus, about $45 billion happening right now on capitol hill. but you are right, voices on the right are growing when it comes to calling for more oversight into the spending that is going to ukraine, in fact, some republican senators, including senator josh hawley did not even bother to attend zelenskyy's speech as democrats brush that off. >> i didn't go to the speech, i didn't want to be part of a photo op asking for more money when they have not given accounting on anything they spent. >> good for him. >> nearly one year into the war, the u.s. is by far the biggest contributor, approving 60 billion so far and another 45 billion right now. gop leader kevin mccarthy will have a very slim majority if

aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. maller scale bill that passed in the senate last night, aishah. >> that's right. that was josh hawley's bill that seeks to ban tiktok on all government devices. passed by unanimous consent in the senate but might be stalled in the house because speaker pelosi just told reporters today that it may not be brought to the floor as important as she thinks it is, she doubts they will have time to take it up before the end of this congress. the hawley bill, talk about that, first. that was passed in the senate last night but it appears it's turning out to seem that some senate democrats gave consent to this bill without even really knowing what was in it, watch. >> no. i don't -- i haven't seen what they have done, i want to go see. >> unanimous consent. >> i want to take a look. >> ok, nevertheless, marco rubio and mike gallagher now have put for the another bill that goes a step further here to ban all transactions from any social media company that is run through adversaries like china, ru

aishah hasnie is live in washington with more on all of this, great to see you, merry christmas and happy holidays. >> afternoon to merry christmas as well congress may be out for the holidays but this bill is still causing major aftershocks here in washington. in the last minute -- the massive $1.7 trillion government funding bill also called the omnibus, 18 senate republicans and nine house republicans help democrats pass this bill and they really were applauding the 800 billion in defense funding, democrats taking a victory lap. >> many senate republicans knew that this package was a bipartisan deal, they think them for their willingness to work together in delivering for american people,, quite frankly i find these endless increases in defense spending your after year to be appalling. >> others say what's appalling in this bill is all pork and they blame their colleagues for rushing through this process right before christmas and here is representative pat fallon on "sunday morning futures" this morning. >> $3 million for a be friendly highway and $3 million for lgbtq museum in new yo

aishah hasnie is lye on the north lawn. >> reporter: hey there, alicia.ite house still defending its decision here saying that hay did try, they made the efforts to try to get paul out, but really they said there was no avenue to get him out of russia and here back home. they say that russia was never open to handing him over in prisoner swap because of the espionage charges against him. the 52-year-old veteran is serving a sentence until 2036. paul's brother david, who supports griner's release, was on fox this morning, and he is pushing for more afelts to get -- attempts to get his brother home. >> he's, i think, pretty shattered. he was getting his hopes up, i think we all had our hopes up that he'd be going home. he's lost his apartment in the states in the last four years, and he was thinking about that future and i think not being able to think about it as concrete hi is going to be hard. >> reporter: democrats say presidents from both parties have had to authorize tough trades over the years, but republicans say handing over man once dubbed the mor

all right, we've got griff jenkins coming up, aishah hasnie coming um.l hours and what's at stake. fox news continues after this. >> honoring tradition, and they're laying wreaths at the graves of 400,000 heroes. these are live i am packages of the wreaths in place at sacred ground. welcome, i'm griff jenkins in

fox news' aishah hasnie investigating that in washington. >> hi, edward.t up with henry cuellar this afternoon who is responding to all of this republican criticism that there was a lack of border funding in the 1.7 trillion omnibus, the government funding bill that he and his democratic colleagues just passed before christmas. take a look. that bill includes $60 billion for homeland security. the entire department. which is a $3 billion upgrade, edward, from last year. it is not keeping up with inflation. of that $60 billion, only $60 million will go to hiring a cbp officers and a whopping $800 million is for sheltering migrants. that's a $650 million jump from last year. cuellar told me that it's more funding than the funding dhs received under former president trump. >> would you have liked to have seen more? >> you know, of course. i would like to see more. but we do need to have cooperation from republican friends. they need to come to the table. >> so in the meantime, the white house continues to blame those republicans in congress. last night karine

welcome to "america reports," i'm aishah hasnie in washington. >> i'm rich edson. border patrol agents are taking drastic steps to prepare for the worst. in just a matter of days, built a massive tent in the el paso desert bigger than a football field to handle the expected overflow of migrants if title 42 is lifted. >> and "the new york post" puts it "welcome mat" for illegal immigrants. >> chad wolf is standing by, but first matt is live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. matt. >> rick, so far today our crews have seen four different migrant groups cross into the united states. standard procedure along the southern border. the surge is not slowing down and did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. sources felling fox news, 16,476 encounters between december 23rd and 25 at the border. 2,150 of those migrants were expelled under title 42, but 14,326 that were released into the united states. here is the vice president for the national border patrol council responding. >> i mean, you are releasing 14,000 people, that just does not make any sens

aishah hasnie with developments on capitol hill concerning well, tiktok.tiktok is the talk of capitol hill right now. last night, i don't know if you heard it was a pretty big deal, the senate passed a, senator hawley ban on tiktok on all government devices last night by unanimous consent. huge deal, but, speaker pelosi on the house side just told reporters she will not commit to bringing this bill to the floor because she thinks that there is not going to be enough time to tackle it. in the meantime, neil, we're learning that some senate democrats may not have even known that this was happening in the first place, watch. >> tiktok? >> no. i have not seen what they have done. >> it was by unanimous consent. >> i will take a look. reporter: sounds like they didn't even know this was on the floor for a vote. we're trying to get to bottom of that. meantime this gallagher-rubio bill out there a little different. it will take the ban a step further. it would stop all transactions from any special media company out there run by adversaries including china, russi

shannon: lucas ahmanson reported for the white house thank you very much great now to aishah hasnie andeorgia. what are voters saying about the possible changes to the dnc calendar? >> a good morning to shannon. i can tell you georgia democrats are really grateful for the committee's decision here but in fact the group writing this the decision reflects the democratic party commitment to diversity and inclusivity. we are grateful for the recognition but all this comes of course is democrats on the ground are trying to reelect income but senator raphael warnock who currently holds just a narrow lead at four-point lead over republican herschel walker in recent polling. despite a series of abortion and abuse allegations run the football star right now million 8 million georgians of savard cast their ballots early, shannon is voters of the stakes are high in this race. if warnock wins senate democrats already have the majority as you know, gain some wiggle room h here. but senator joe manchin in cures that cinnamon hold right now. it also opens up a pathway past two years if walker wins the