aishah hasnie fabulous appreciate it. >> you got it. larry: we'll get back to one big beautiful bill. but i want to talk about political failures keep running california. that is the subject of the riff. now look first, the night meyer in california is a natural disaster no one can control the santa ana winds, my own brother and his wife who live in hollywood had to evacuate. thankfuly, the hollywood fire of the contained and they have returned home. but with catastrophic fires like this, there are no heroes, always better to be safe than sorry. unfortunately, however there is a good deal of evidence that suggests that the blue state, california politicians have made the tragedy worse. official fail to properly refill his rose viewereservoir there of no fire in hydrants and mayor of los angeles cut the fire department budget, to preserve an obscure fish, the smelt, governor newsom cut the water flow that never got to southern california. also in defense of this obscure fish, take a listen to president trump on smelts. >> very sad, i hav

senior national correspondent aishah hasnie on capitol hill tonight with the latest. od evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. catch him a few seconds senate republicans tonight. president-elect trump just went to go pay his respects with melania trump to former president jimmy carter. he did take a question as he walked in. he said that it doesn't matter if it's one bill or two bills, he says that he is going to get his agenda done that we are going to get a result. he is currently tucked away in g.o.p. leader john thune's office. that is where we're expecting him to leave momentarily to walk into this meeting with all senate republicans. and, bret, this meeting is incredibly important tonight. as you know house speaker mike johnson is moving forward with president trump's idea for one bill and after this meeting. the question is can senate republicans sync up with the house and get on board? >> as he honors the past, president-elect trump is also eyeing the future. trying to wrangle congressional republicans to get moving on his agenda. >> can you convince senat

i just learned that from our reporter, aishah hasnie. he's rollup sleeves and hands on and will call you if he doesn't like something and wants to get something done. that's going to be a welcomed change. he's an executive and has an agenda and knows what he wants to do, and he'll get it done. you know, we all work together in the first term, we've seen it. this going to be even bigger and more interesting if you ask me. this was vintage trump calling in right at the last minute to turn that thing around. >> president trump is an executive as you say, a ceo, but he's also a negotiator and collaborator ask&people see that and intuit that. larry, there's hopefulness we can pick off a couple democrats in the house, maybe a john fetterman in the senate and some others saying you know what, i didn't vote for tax and jobs cut act -- sorries jobs act the first time but it's benefited my district and helping small businesses in my state. what's all the anti-fracking and fossil fuel and lng permit stuff and i'll take a look at that now. i'm heari

aishah hasnie, wonderful stuff. appreciate it very, very much. folks, we'll get to one big beautiful bill and political failures that is running california and that's the sucket of the riff. my brother and his wife live in santa ana and contained and they've returned home and coming to catastrophic fires like this, there's no heros and always bet tore be safe than sorry. unfortunately however, there's a good deal of evidence that suggests that the blue state california politicians have in fact made the tragedy even worse. officials failed to properly refill reservoir and consequently there was no water in the fire hydrants of several key neighborhoods. the mayor's office cut the fire department's budget, and in order to preserve, i guess, in order to preserve an obscure fish called the smelt or had their own reason for cutting the budget, governor newsom cut the water flow and never got to southern california also in defense of this obscure fish called smelt, meanwhile take a listen to president trump on smelts. >> well, it's very sad because i'v

aishah hasnie live on the hill. thanks.dent biden has signed an executive order to address growing energy needs for artificial intelligence. the initiative calls for leasing federal sites to host ai data centers and new clean power facilities. the order also requires companies leasing the land to purchase certain amounts of american-made semiconductors determined on a case-by-case basis. ♪ we're just days away for the deadline of the chinese owners of tiktok to divest or face a government ban here in the u.s. tonight, we're learning about the possible way out of the confrontation. and it involves an already controversial figure in the coming administration. fox business correspondent grady trimble has details tonight. good evening. grady. >> good evening, bret. with that potential tiktok ban looming the chinese government is trying to come up with a plan b while many of the app.'s users are also looking for a new place to spend their free time. the "wall street journal" reports chinese officials discussed letting elon musk

fox news aishah hasnie is joining us live. how come you get the florida beat? reporter: well, i love it i am so happy to be be here. the weather is glorious and president is in good spirits a ran into him by ha happen chance, and i asked how is he feeling, he said he had a great week and looking forward to speaking to house republicans, i am told by senior g.o.p. source, the remarks at 5:00 will try to unite the republican conference behind his agenda, he wants to get it done as quickly as possible, here is speaker mike johnson talking about what we can expect this week. >> some d big decisions will be made, and align with senate and our colleagues there and move forward on that. reconciliation process, and other issues that are upon us. reporter: so this is the first time that president trump is hosting full g.o.p. house conference, s since becoming president, he met with smaller key groups in mar-a-lago a few weeks ago, one was house freedom caucus, he prefers his one big beautiful bill, they have pushed forward a two separate bill track, we'll see if his rem

larry: all right, aishah hasnie thank you so much. >> let's reelect speaker mike johnson to move the trumpian blue color boom agenda at warp speed, that is the subject of the riff. >> this past monday, president trump issued a i tendorsement for reelection of speaker mike johns joption. johnson on truth social, mr. trump wrote: mike has my complete and total endorsement. maga. all right, then next day, on new year's eve, walking into his gala party at mar-a-lago, mr. trump reiterated his support for speaker johnson. >> support speaker johnson, i think we're going to have a great time in washington. i think we're going to get great support, he is the one that can win right now, people like him, almost everyone likes him. larry: all right, so and add former speaker newt gingrich to list of johnson endorsements who said republicans should not waste time with an ugly floor fight. and g.o.p. needs to get behind the p speaker. >> so any number of republican luminaries have endorsed mike johnson for speaker and with pleasure, let me add my name to the list, he is a pro growth supply cider s

. >> emily: aishah hasnie lived on capitol hill with the latest, good morning. >> good morning to yous. 11:00 a.m. is when 118th congress will adjourn and then about an hour later, 119th congress will come in and readjourn. that is when the fun begins. we will see if mike johnson can hang on to the gavel. as of this hour, the mass is not napping and the numbers are not there for the speaker. i republicans are entering into congress with a slim majority. we talk about all the time the numbers 219-215 and all democrats to vote for leader hakeem jeffries. they will not vote for mike johnson which means he can only afford to lose one republican. right now there is one republican official no vote, that is thomas massie. multiple undecided voters and people who don't want to say how they are voting until they vote actually takes place. joe johnson walked me through what is going on yesterday. watch. >> one day before the election, why are you so excited? people talking through process changes they want and i'm open to that and i think tomorrow will go well. >> johnson has the meeting privat

larry: more on that later, aishah hasnie. as trump reverses joe biden's foreign policy failures, he needs true warrior pete hegseth by his side, that is the subject of the riff. so pete hegseth will appear before senate arm services committee tomorrow. as president-elect trump's nominee for defense secretary. now before anyone saying that word about his nomination, they should read the hot off of press story from fox news digital. which reports how spectacular his military evaluations were. incredibly talented, battle proven leader, quote, unquote is one description, much decorated veteran, former fork fox news host described outstanding leadership skills during the course of his military services that is deployment to guantanamo bay, iraq, and afghanistan, and having taken charge of his platoon days before deployment in iraq, he led his platoon through 5 months of combat, and ranging from air assault raids to defense of a forward operating base. the evaluation goes on describe how his platoon remains physically and mentally

first up, ice news aishah hasnie live in doral, florida, and keeps getting the best assign el pasos in the florida sunshine. good, high supra aural headphones. tell us how -- go ahead, aishah, and tell us how difficult it is to be done there. reporter: i'm a very lucky girl, larry. we're making news and house leadership is down here and pushing the message of unity and president trump wants to unit the republican conference and don't have a big margin in the house and can't afford to lose many republicans and that message not really being received by every single house gop conference member. i talked with chip roy not in doral about skipping this one out. watch. >> asking me to spend money to sit in a resort without doing our job in washington and the plan we put forward and you've not no plan. we have a plan. leadership says we don't have the votes for that plan. show me that. reporter: house freedom caucus, larry, offered up a two bill plan to accomplish president trump's goals to pass border security, rate the debt ceiler -- raise the debt ceiling first, and then expand the tax cuts

larry: aishah hasnie, appreciate it as always. president trump knows how to use the tariff weapon and that's the sunt of the riff. the president of columbia thought he was going to prevent president trump from deporting criminals back to their home country and mr. petro turned back the u.s. military deportation flights midair. but then president trump told him to pound sand and threaten to destroy the economy with a 25% tariff that's rapidly gone to 50% but guess what, president petro changed his mind. he offered to send his own government's plane to pick up the columbian illegals and bring them back home himself. mexican president sheinbaum first refused to cooperate with president trump's deportation plan and has his remain in mexico executive order. now, after a 25% tariff threat, suddenly mexico has welcomed a total of four plane loads, with presumably plenty more coming. it may be used to deal with unfair trading practices oracling the boarder and restoring national security and may even be ending the russian ukraine war. col

the senior national correspondent aishah hasnie is on capitol hill. ah, good evening. >> trace, good evening to you. that's right. lawmakers are frustrated after they came out of a closed door briefing with the fbi this morning. lawmakers sources are telling us that the fbi admitted to these lawmakers that they had zero intelligence on jabbar before this attack happened. they were not trapping him because they didn't know anything about him. this despite the fact that jabbar was claiming to have joined isis before this summer, this past summer and also posting five separate videos on facebook basically declaring his affiliation or support for isis. now, folks on both sides of the aisle tonight say that it is time for a change. >> we can tell you things and people are going to say why didn't facebook alert the fbi and that's a fair question. the fbi is more interested in tracking down people protesting the election. went after pro-life protesters, parents holding their school boards accountable. that's a misallocation of resources based on this administ

>> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill. aishah, thanks.igital rights groups are slamming the u.s. supreme court over its decision to unanimously uphold the federal law banning tiktok if the china-based parent company doesn't sell. the measure goes into effect sunday unless tiktok is sold. the justices said the risk to national security posed by tiktok's ties to china overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app. or it's 170 million users inside the u.s. let's get details and reaction tonight from alexandria hoff. good evening,. >> good evening, bret. tiktok is not expected to disappear many from phones. not available. updates won't be available. making it unusable unless the president-elect steps in. >> i am processing things one day at a time tiktokers acting with grief and hope. >> lifeline will be thrown to the platform and 170 million american users. this after the supreme court upheld the law mandating tiktok divest from its chinese parent company or go dark in the u.s. by sunday. the justices writing in part, congress has dete

aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. thanks.taking steps to ensure migrants coming from some countries do not face immediate deportation he is extending what he calls temporary legal status for nearly a million immigrants inside the u.s. these are people from places such as venezuela and sudan. the order extends protection for deportation -- from deportation another 18 months. president biden the white house announcing he will deliver what is being called his farewell address to the nation next week. the white house says the speech will take place wednesday, 8:00 p.m. eastern. you can see that here on fox news. up next, the panel on the politics of the southern california wildfires. ♪ ♪ you'll get better when you're not blamed for a condition you can't control. ♪ you'll get better when your pain isn't minimized, dismissed, forgotten. we will never stop trying to get better. because when medicine gets better, all of us can get better. ♪ carl: believe me, when it comes to investing, you'll love carl's way. take a left here please.

the great fox news senior national correspondent aishah hasnie joins us live on capitol hill with more. great to see you again. reporter: elizabeth good evening. apparently the man who helped to close the deal for speaker mike johnson tonight in those final moments was donald trump himself. sources are telling us the president-elect who is in mar-a-lago right now apparently was on speaker phone with both reps the two hold-outs that voted against johnson right in those final hours after they voted against him, and we are told that he said this to them. "it be disrespectful to americans who voted in a historic presidential election to have the speaker's vote go to a second and third ballot" and it be disrespect full to me. he ended with this , and said we have a lot to do, let's get to it. apparently it worked. in an exclusive interview trump tells us a great honor to have helped this process has brought the gop conference closer together. now, johnson secured the gavel in the first round. not without a little drama though. we saw six republicans who refused to vote for him and three rep

senior national correspondent aishah hasnie has details tonight from capitol hill. >> aishah: bret, goodng to you. fox is told tonight at least three republican senators could vote no on pete hegseth, the defense secretary nominee. and that's mitch mcconnell, susan collins, and lisa murkowski, possible nos. and that would mean the vice president j.d. vance would have to come back here to the senate and break a tie. but, first, the senate has to get through another nominee who is tied up in what republicans are calling a democrat delay tactic. >> democrats chose last minute obstruction. >> aishah: tonight a full-fledged battle is in the senate over president trump's nominees. democrat senator chris murphy holding up a vote for cia director pick john ratcliffe by enforcing the 30-hour debate rule. >> this debate time, this day gives all of my colleagues the time to carefully review the record. >> aishah: but the senate intelligence committee, which murphy does not sit on, already debated ratcliffe's qualifications. >> voted for ratcliffe. >> all but three democrats voted with republicans t

aishah hasnie is doing the same from capitol hill. hi, aishah. >> bret come i'm try to keep track on some of these members we are following carefully, some of these holdouts, folks that were undecided, and like you said, thomas massie is going to be a "no." no one else so far has voted against johnson, no one else has put up a different name but things are getting a bit suspenseful at this hour because there are a few members that have been passed over. they decided not to vote. the first one was andy biggs. this is a big one. he did not say anything. he did not say johnson, did not see anyone else's name. he is apparently leaning on the back rail of the house floor right now. he has been one of those noncommitted folks. he wanted to talk to johnson privately about the budget, but regular order, and we didn't know how he was going to vote. we still don't. the clerk will come back to him at the end of the alphabetic order roll call and then ask him one more time, and then we will find out where his vote lies, but andy biggs was the firs

larry: all right, aishah hasnie, thank you very much for that update. quickly reelect speaker mike johnson in order to move the trump blue collar boom agenda at warp speed and that's the subjected of tonight's riff. this past monday, president trump issued a ringing endorsement for the reelection of speaker mike johnson and he'll be here in just a moment. on truth social mr. trump wrote and i quote, "the american people need immediate relief from all the destructive policies from the last second-degree ministration and speaker mike johnson is a good, hard working, religious man and he'll do the right thing and will continue to win. mike has my complete and total endorsement. maga". then the next day on n new years eve walking into his galla party at mar-a-lago, mr. trump reiterated his support for speaker johnson. take a listen, please. >> i want to give support to speak eric johnson. i think we're going to have a great time in washington, and i think we're going to get great support. he's the one that can win right now. people like him. almost everybod

aishah hasnie joined us this morning. freezing there today, really freezing what is inauguration ceremony going to look like indoor. >> holland warm and comfortable for everyone attending quite a few people at the capital even though it's been moved indoors in all the thousands of people who had tickets for outside won't be able to attend, there's quite a few hundred that are here, 602 philip the capitol rotunda we are watching the live camera feed of whose filing and we saw nordic leader mitch mcconnell walking with his wife elaine chao and were waiting to see who else walks in we will see the trump family sitting inside of the rotunda people who had tickets to the platform and it was originally outside we will see the tech ceos as well and perhaps new york city mayor eric adams with a last-minute invitation this morning from the trump transition team and he accepted the invitation. he is presumably on his way if not here already. we are also told there will be a vip group and that would include kevin mccarthy and potent

we will follow all of that aishah hasnie live on the hill. aishah, thank you.resident trump is criticizing the last minute preemptive pardons by his predecessor as a bad precedent. the new president has issued about 1500 pardons of his own covering the 2021 capitol riot participants which has sparked its own criticism here in washington. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department with that tonight. >> at least the cases that we looked at, these were people that actually love our country. so, we thought a pardon would be appropriate. >> president trump late today defending his decision to pardon some 1500 people charged and convicted with storming the u.s. capitol on january 6th, 2021. the president also commuted the sentences of 14, including leaders of the proud boys and oath keepers. and he may go a step further. >> maybe it will stay that way or it will go to a full pardon. >> stewart rhodes released overnight the former oath keepers leader was serving 18 years for seditious conspiracy. >> president trump did the right thing by letting these guys

senior national correspondent aishah hasnie explains where things stand on capitol hill. >> tonight,own legislative agenda. fox has learned trump has invited key house republicans to mar-a-lago later this week to talk about extending his 2017 tax cuts. passing no taxes on tips, addressing border security and energy and raising or eliminating the debt ceiling. trump will personally meet with freedom caucus members who want to cut the deficit and lawmakers from states like new york to prize state and local tax breaks. trump says his preference is to put it into one what he calls one big beautiful bill but is he open to splitting it into two. >> i'm open to either way as long as we get something passed as quickly as possible. >> some republicans fear one monstrous package will cause delays and risk national security legislation. >> if you are a tax-cutting person which i understand and you are holding the border bill hostage, i think that's the dangerous thing. >> trump transition team is also urging congress to pick up the pace on confirming trump's nominees. pointing to last week's te

>> bret: aishah hasnie live on the hill. thank you.he pentagon's inspector general is faulting lloyd austin for not informing the white house incapacitated due to cancer treatment last year. the staff says austin told them to keep his hospitalization a secret. he denies saying that the report also says no one on the staff knew of the seriousness of austin's condition. up next, our new fox polls on president-elect trump's approval. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around this country are covering tonight. fox 5 in new york as new york governor kathy hochul announces every subway station in the city will have a uniformed officer on the platform from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. she made the statement during her state of the state address. she says about 750 city police officers will be deployed with 300 others in the cars themselves. fox 59 in indianapolis with news that the nfl's colts will play a game in berlin next season. it will be the league's first at the city's historic olympic stadium. the date and opponent have not yet b

more to come as soon as i find out. >> julie: aishah hasnie, thank you so much.ocus" now tammy bruce, fox news contributor joins me now. you were on the air on "outnumbered" when the story was unfolding. the most alarm part of all of it there would be information of other people, other suspects that were involved. that it wasn't an isolated incident. that it was in fact a plan greater theory behind the planning in all of this. it is surprising to hear the f.b.i. saying this man acted alone. >> it is. but also in the beginning they also said definitively as you have been discussing that there is no -- this was not terrorism. but what we know now that everyone was aware of an isis flag on that truck and yet the first statement from the f.b.i. was that this is not terrorism when the mayor was open and transparent saying it was. i have oh he seen the video that they used to say there were more people involved. and it is individuals looking in a case that was sitting in the street opening it, it happened to have some i think blasting caps in it and not knowing what it

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but first, fox news' aishah hasnie if live on capitol hill. shah, trump meeting with the congressional leaders, how'd that go? [laughter] >> reporter: well, it's still ongoing, and we actually have a picture up at the white house waiting for these folks to come out of the oval office. i was in the elevator, larry, with some of these folks from senate gop leadership as they made their way to the white house a short while ago x they seemed to be in good spirits. this is probably a temperature check by the new president to find out if they're still on the same page as him, to get his agenda done, that big, beautiful bill. he probably wants to know where they're at with that and how quickly that's going to get done because as of right now leadership is on the same page, but there are some conservatives out there, larry, like the house freedom caucus that want a two-bill pass. so that could push those tax cuts that everyone really wants to get done quickly, that could push that to a later date. you've got other republicans saying, look, we've got to

. >> brian: aishah hasnie, you might have some weekend hours coming your way. >> ai >> ayesha: it will happen without the -- later tonight and looking at possibly two defections from the gop, that is main senator susan collins and senator murkowski, both voted no, that is good indication that is how they will vote today. collins cites lack of experience and murkowski says it is lack of experience and the allegations. john thune said it wasn't a big surprise to him. >> we will have more conversations with them. i tell senators, your vote is your vote, be with the team when you can, don't ever surprise us, don't tell us one thing and do something else. we try to make sure we have everybody pull together. we have a president came in with big mandate. >> ayesha: if democrats and republicans can't come to an agreement, we are looking at a 9 p.m. vote. democrats are forcing republicans to sit through 30 hours of debate for each and every single nominee. sometimes there is no debate going on. yesterday cory booker read a p poem. it is why it took so long to confirm john ratcliffe as cia direc

liz met with republican senators and senior national correspondent sent aishah hasnie and has news here. aishah's coming to us live from capitol hill with the latest. what's happening now? great to see you. reporter: hey, elizabeth. we have breaking news here on capitol hill. i can tell you that vice president elect jd vance will be stepping down as senator as early as tonight. our sources are telling us that republicans will now have 51 members because, of course, west virginia governor justice has not yet been sworn in and he's still in west virginia so the numbers have gotten even slimmer for republicans in the senate as they try to move forward with planning out trump's agenda. on that note, a source tells me that last night it appears that the president elect was able to convince senate republicans to move forward on his agenda with this one big, beautiful bill as he likes to call it. to be prepared however, to split it into two in case things get bogged down. here's the president last night. >> whether it's two or one, the end result is the same. reporter: energy policy and expand

that is where we find aishah hasnie. >> the public mourning has come to an end, the hearse is sittinge family is about to arrive at the capitol hill to escort carter's casket to national washington cathedral for this state funeral. it's been a busy day with people from all over coming to pay respects. last night president-elect trump with melania trump visited capitol hill rotunda where carter was laying in state. the two paid respects and had previously visited with the family, who is staying next to the white house. we saw lawmakers like sonia sotomayor, even garth brooks and his wife visiting to honor the late president. visitors stood in line through the night to say farewell. we will see the casket be removed from lincoln catafauk. his grandchildren are serving as honorary pallbearers today. they will head to the washington cathedral. we are expected to see all five living presidents. president biden will deliver the eulogy today. interesting note, you will hear tribute written by president gerald ford,s ford and carter had a close personal friendship despite their political diff

capital before trump is sworn in in less than 24 hours fox news senior national correspondent aishah hasnie more from capitol hill. >> good evening. tonight the trump transition team is swatting any claims that this inauguration was moved indoors due to security concerns rather than the weather. the incoming white house press secretary karoline leavitt tells fox that that is totally false. security is at an all-time high in washington, no credible threats but you can see concrete blocks and miles and miles of non- scalable fencing is up around the capitol complex, fox has told officials are erecting a geo- fence to gm any nefarious communication or drone activity. again no credible threats at this time the capitol police are on the lookout for loan actors. >> the biggest threat for all of us remains the loan actor. while president carter was lying in state we had to loan actors show up at the capital. one trying to bring in knives in a machete. the threat of the loan actor remains the biggest justification for us being at this heightened state of alert. >> final preparations are also underw

aishah hasnie is on capitol hill, what do they want to know?> the questions we have that they want to know what the fbi knew and what they missed. this is happening over a telephone call with of the fbi and members of the house homeland security committee and senate homeland security committee and louisiana delegation and they are getting briefed by assistant director of the fbi's counterterrorism division, david scott is members are telling me they have a lot of questions starting from on the ground, massive security concerns about those bollards that were not functioning. are there other people involved? is there a risk for more attack? did the fbi note anything about this guy? are they tracking get him? did they simply miss him? >> the last four years the biden administration has been derelict in its duty, the congressional republicans, in the house and senate we have asked dhs under the biden administration about the correlation with terrorism and wide-open border coming here in droves and setting up potentially terrorist cells ringing the

aishah hasnie is on capitol hill. it is all about the math. not for it but we may have a democrat who might vote for him. >> reporter: fetterman voted against the first initial procedural vote yesterday. we might see that we only have two republicans that vote against pete hegseth which means he would have enough votes to finally get confirmed as trump's new secretary of defense. right now the way things are going if democrats or republicans don't come to a time agreement we could see this vote at 9:00 p.m. later tonight. these are the two senators that probably will vote no because of the vote they took yesterday. lisa murkowski and susan collins, citing lack of experience, past allegations. with two people out on the republican side, expect all democrats to vote no, pete hegseth is about to get 50 one republican votes he needs without vice president j.d. vance. yesterday the senate confirmed john ratcliffe as donald trump's cia director, a 74-25 vote, big bipartisan showing for him. he was sworn in shortly after. you might wonder why things

senior national correspondent aishah hasnie has details tonight from capitol hill. >> aishah: tonight, president trump's pick to lead the pentagon is headed to a confirmation vote. after clearing a critical test vote today with 51 republican yeas. alaska senator lisa murkowski and maine senator susan collins the only two republicans to vote no. in a lengthy statement on x, murkowski says hegseth's past behavior, including multiple incidents of infidel at this quote demonstrates a lack of judgment that is unbecoming of someone had who would lead our armed forces. notably collins did not cite past allegations as her reasoning, rather hegseth's lack of experience and perspective. >> we will confirm him, whether it's vice president j.d. vance breaking a tie or with 51, 52, or 53 votes. we are going to confirm pete hegseth. >> without a time agreement between democrats and republicans hegseth's payable to confirmation vote won't happen until late friday night. >> nomination is confirmed. >> it's why john ratcliffe's confirmation for cia director finally happened today with bipartisan suppo

aishah hasnie on capitol hill and does mike johnson have enough votes? reporter: we don't know yet, ashley. i'm waiting for speaker mike johnson to leave has office momently and walk past here onto the house floor as the 118th congress will adjourn and get ready for this speaker vote. we're expecting him to pass us here momentarily and i'll try to shout a question and ask him how he's feeling. the math is not very good for him right now. right now there's at least one republican no vote. that is thomas massey, but fox is also told there could be 12 up to 27 other republicans that could vote for someone else. again could because they called all change their minds when they get on the house floor and we won't know till the vet begins at noon and we're waiting for that. we're waiting to see the house floor adjourn the 118th congress. what we'll see first is they'll take a quorum call to assess who is here to vote and expecting everyone to be here today and nominating speeches for speaker and if everyone shows up, ashley, the magic number is 218 to win. now,

aishah hasnie on capitol hill joining us. what about trump's other nominees?gs are progressing not at the breakneck speed here's moving that first 24 hours, wanting congress to move with him at the quick speed but things are progressing and we could see more confirmation hearings later this week and maybe one later tonight. first i want to talk about kristi noem, she was reported out of her committee last night with a bipartisan vote which means a confirmation vote could be coming shortly for her. pete hegseth favorably voted out of committee but this was a party line vote, no democrats voted for him. while it is possible to see a confirmation vote this week democrats could try to delay this forcing the 30 hour debate rule. the cia nominee john ratcliffe favorably reported, ratcliffe had democrat support him, expect more for him, he could be confirmed later tonight. lease stefanik is testifying at her hearing for you and ambassador right now. she has widespread support especially for her support of israel. this will be an easy one and we are watching tulsi gab

aishah hasnie is there.e law on unity, what say you. >> we will see about that he tried this in mar-a-lago maybe the weather and doral will help the senior house gop source that is the goal of this week to get everybody on the same page. like i said a few weeks ago not too long ago trump invited these folks in the house gop conference in mar-a-lago to talk about the beautiful bill that would include everything including expanding his tax cut, border security and energy legislation but the house freedom caucus continue to divert from speaker johnson's plan by lobbying for two separate bills with tax cuts in the latter bill then you have a group of republicans that want salt cap lifted and another with massive massive offsets. >> i feel like were getting pretty close to being there there is not one person that is going to get absolutely everything that they want in this bill. i think we have to get the bill right. if we get this bill right we can truly change the trajectory of this country for the next 15 - 20

. >> ainsley: aishah hasnie is live inside the capitol building. morning to you, aishah. >> aishah: good morning to you guys. if there is no time agreement between democrats and republicans and it sounds like there is not going to be, then we could see this vote happen just about 9:00 p.m. later tonight. and we are expecting two senators, republican senators to vote no on pete hegseth. of course, those are alaska senator lisa murkowski and maine senator susan collins. they both voted no on a very critical procedural vote yesterday. so we know that they are not going to vote for him today. collins cites lack of experience. murkowski citing lack of experience and past allegations. with just two out, hegseth is expected to get the 51 votes that he needs. that is without vice president j.d. vance. yesterday, the senate finally confirmed john ratcliffe as president trump's cia director. 74 to 25. quite a big bipartisan showing there he was sworn in shortly after the senate, you guys, is moving at a snails pace right now as democrats are forcing republic

aishah hasnie joining us from florida. what's on the agenda at the conference today aishah?rt good morning to you well vice president jd vance is supposed to speak with republicans later on today. i can tell you that last night, president trump acknowledged that he does not have a wide majority in the mouse so he understands they cannot lose three or five republicans even less than that. unfortunately, though, not everyone showed up here to this annual issues conference where they are pushing unity. i'm told about 170 out of 218 members are here. some folks are saying that's the best they've really ever had, however, they are missing critical negotiators key players like chip roy and andy biggs, and so that is also on the minds of members here. how are they supposed to be unified if hay don't have key negotiators here in the same place. now this was the first time last night that president trump addressed house gop conference in person since becoming president. he laid out his goals to about expand tax cuts pass border security, pass energy legislation, raise the debt ceilin

is here for his first interview since being recognized as senate majority leader but first to aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. you are dialed in big time on capitol hill. are we looking at any potential drama today with this vote? >> there could be, you never know with this house. i can tell you i have seen a lot of families here and kids of these representative-elects. they are here to watch their moms and dads become the next members of congress. there is a lot of uncertainty in the air right now. we don't know what will happen in the next few hours here. right now there is at least one official republican no vote. thomas massie. speaker mike johnson can't afford any more defections. we do know, fox is told there could be upwards of 12 to even 27 republicans who might vote for someone else. might i want to put a big emphasis on that word. we won't know until the vote begins around noon today. johnson has been meeting behind closed doors with these hold-outs talking about everything from the way the house works to even cutting the deficit. congressman boebert threw something out there l

aishah hasnie on capitol hill. that is a big lift.ill republicans get it done. >> good morning. it is a heavy lift. an ambitious plan with a delicious timeline as well. speaker mike johnson wants to get this done by the first week of april. the big beautiful bill as the president-elect likes to call it. he's taken the president-elect every measure to get it done. fox has told that trump has invited several house republicans to mar-a-lago later this week to talk about his plans among the invitees or new york republicans who stewart, one include state and local tax breaks are out of soap as they like to call it. republicans planing to galveston including border policy through the process called reconciliation, that means it's filibuster proof, you only need is a majority in the senate to pass it. has to pass through the house first we speaker mike johnson faces a very narrow majority. conservatives who are hell-bent on cutting the deficit. he is optimistic he can get this done. >> we will be working long hours making sure every republic

aishah hasnie with the very latest. reporter: yeah, everyone wanted to go down and have face-to-face time with the president elect and sources telling me that the president elect used his personal charm to send a message of unity to house republicans who came down to visit with him. house republicans who could tank his agenda, watch. >> i think the president's message is that we need to remain unified as a republican conference and work in lock step together, we can get this country back on track. reporter: so, trump met with fiscal hawks in the house caucus and more centrist republicans in the main street caucus and could potentially be a fight over state and local tax deductions and watching that closely and trump told lawmakers from new york, energy and california to go back home and try to find a fair number for lifting the salt cap. >> he agrees the cap on salt needs to be lifted. it did have a negative impact on states like new york. they're the highest property tax counties in america. so the combination of taxes

aishah hasnie on capitol hill. what does it cover? reporter: hey, stuart it.everything president trump wants but pushes tax cuts and all important tax breaks for folks in the country and pushes that to a second bill. the first bill allocates about $100 billion for border security and up to $200 billion for defense over the course of four years. it would also raise the debt limit by two years, about $4 trillion. again, that's a big one that the president elect wants. the second bill is what includes the trump tax cuts, and the question that everybody has is how are they gob that pay for all of this? they say they will repeal biden policies like those ev tax credits and funding for the irs and student loan relief plans. it will also, again, do a lot of things, it will just split up into two and what one of the house freedom caucus members say is the reason why they're pushing this. >> i think the strength of the two bill plan allows us to bank wins early and especially when it comes to border security, which this administration prosperitied we'd do on the first

i'm aishah hasnie in for bret baier. a new years massacre.ederal officials have identified the driver who they say intentionally rammed a pickup truck into a crowd in the french quarter in new orleans early this morning. at least 15 people are dead tonight. dozens more injured and we have new video right now showing the moment of the attack but a warning. what you are about to see is graphic and disturbing. so, please take this time to look away if you do not want to watch. [scream] [siren] >> aishah: frightening moments, a disturbing scene there the suspect here is shamsud-din jabbar, is he a u.s. citizen from texas and an army veteran. he was killed in a shoot with police. tonight the fbi is investigating this as an act of terrorism and they say an isis flag on the truck that he was driving. they also found weapons and potential explosive devices inside the vehicle. and more potential explosives around the french quarter. the most troubling part about all of this tonight is that the fbi says the new orleans attacker was not acting alone. th

aishah hasnie is on capitol hill where the two terror attacks have triggered major questions from congress the terrorist violence that's rattled americans. aishah. >> reporter: that's right. good afternoon to you, liz. lawmakers, who were on this private call with the fbi this morning to get a private briefing on the new orleans attack tell me that the fbi has told them that these two incidents -- the las vegas and new orleans incidents -- are not connected. but some these raw makers are -- lawmakers are privately telling me they don't believe that. >> hard to believe there's not a relationship there. the fbi kind of said mixed things on the call. as of right now, they think jabbar had acted alone, but they are looking for possible co-conspirators. and i think the reality is the investigation just has to have time to take place. >> reporter: so lawmakers are also frustrated about the fact that they learned today that the fbi did the not have any indication, anything about this suspect from new orleans. they missed it. the fbi told lawmakers they had zero intelligence on him before the atta

aishah hasnie, senior national correspondent, on capitol hill. >> i keep looking over to my left because i'm waiting for speaker mike johnson to leave his office and head to the house chamber floor any moment now. he is still the speaker because what's interesting -- i don't want to read too much interest this. something strange has just happened. they were supposed to adjourn the 118th congress at 11:00. that hasn't happened. they just recessed. so technically speaker johnson is still the speaker and they haven't started the process. remember, once they adjourn the 118th congress they have to go into the speaker vote. perhaps there are still conversations happening in the speaker's office that they've delayed it a little bit. so far walking into this vote, the map is not mapping for speaker johnson now. at least one no vote. one official no republican, that is thomas massie. fox is told there could be between 12 to 27 republicans who might vote for someone else. might is the word i want to overstate here that they could change their mind when that vote begins at noon. so again we're wat

fox news senior national correspondent aishah hasnie has new action on this , joins us live on capitol hill with more. aishah good to see you. reporter: so this is president-elect trump really taking matters into his own hands. much like what we saw last week with the speakers race where he got on the phone and closed the deal to of course reelect mike johnson as house speaker. he is looking at his legislative agenda and basically getting involved personally and giving that personal touch, so you're right. he has invited a key group of house republicans to mar-a-lago later this week and they are going to talk about a variety of things on his agenda, extending those 2017 tax cuts. no taxes on tips. border security, and figuring out what to do with the debt sealing. now trump will personally meet with freedom caucus members. these are the folks who want to cut the deficit fiscally conservative folks and lawmakers from states like new york who prize state and local tax breaks. now trump says his preference is to put all of this into one "big beautiful bill" we hear it a lot. kudlow says i

aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill today following this for us. >> good morning. that call is happening now. there are members of the senate homeland security committee as well as the house homeland security committee with the call of the f.b.i. as well as the louisiana delegations from both chambers. there are a ton of questions. i've been talking with some members this morning and they have a lot to ask of the f.b.i. we're told they will be briefed by the assistant director of the f.b.i.'s counter terrorism division, that is david scott. and members want to know foremost on the ground more about the massive security concerns particularly about the breakers that weren't functioning at the time and allowed the suspect to drive onto the sidewalk and bourbon street. more widely speaking here, they want to know if it is connected to isis, are there other people involved? is there a risk for more attacks? the number one question, though, they are hoping to get answered is did the f.b.i. know anything about this guy? were they tracking him? or did me miss this complete

aishah hasnie joins me now, who becomes his replacement? >> reporter: good morning.earing a lot of names including vivek ramaswamy but the thing is there's no official shortlist. i wouldn't put money on any of these names. governor mike dewine of ohio has the authority to pick vance's replacement and he has been keeping his options close to the vest. he was down in mar-a-lago when donald trump last night as trump held this big governor's dinner and here is what he said about the process of picking vance's replacement. >> i will have an announcement probably next week. i'm looking for someone first of all who will be a worker in the u.s. senate, someone willing to run in two years and turn around and run two years after that. >> reporter: announcement next week. republicans will briefly be down to just a 51 member majority in the senate and that is because west virginia governor jim justice hasn't been sworn in yet. of that will happen potentially next week. every vote will count as trump pushes his ambitious agenda, both chambers working toward that one big beautiful

. >> ainsley: first we will go to aishah hasnie who is also inside the ruffle rotunda where trump will be sworn. in hey, issue sexual harassment. >> thank the lord for it. i was out there 10 minutes and i thought no way i'm glad i'm inside. thank you president-elect trump for bricks us all inside. we are much safer in here. it's going to be a jam-packed day here at the capitol. not only are we going to see the swearing in inside the capitol rotunda. the president-elect soon-to-be president is going to sign a bunch of executive orders here into capitol. actually senator chuck grassley's idea to hit the ground running before he gets into the white house. we are told he might actually sign even more executive orders at capital one arena. we are learning more, you guys this morning about what he is going to say in his inaugural address. he will talk about ushering in the golden age. he will talk about biden policies. how those policies hurt every day americans. he will talk about the economy, immigration two key topics that he won on in november. and then he will lay out his plan, includin

we'll keep monitoring that, and aishah hasnie joins us how from capitol hill. >> and john ratcliffe'st the station, and they can bring in pete hegseth's train, and this is not the confirmation vote today. that will happen tomorrow. the vote we are seeing right now is overcoming the filibuster, and the threshold they have to meet is a simple majority. 51 votes. it's a critical vote for pete hegseth. because it will tell us how his final official confirmation vote is going to go. talking to senators, and talking to republican senators, it sounds like they have the 50 that they need. i spoke with chairman of the armed services committee who is in charge of pete hegseth's confirmation, roger wicker, i asked him do you still have the 50 even though you lost lisa murkowski on pete hegseth. he said yes. they do believe they will have the 50 to get through this. now will they have the 51 that they need? we don't know that yet. again they could lose susan collins, as well, they could lose mitch mcconnell. if that is the case and they lost 3, they will have to bring in vice president j.d. vance