secrets classified documents and fast forward nine months later and biden white house knew and covereden was in decline from day one. we're joined by liz peek and the media cover it had up and biden's own cabinet officials stopped reaching out because they couldn't get through to him. who ran the white house? >> the b team, liz. that's the problem. i'd like to blame the b team for the fact that the foreign policy disaster ditto and the reality is joe biden running about ththings and probably wouldn't have been any better and this is joe biden's legacy and his entire presidency was built on a lie. we knew it and knew he was mentally unfit for the job. he was mentally unfit for the job and everyone in the white house is complicit and the media dealing with this. liz: there's a foreign bill and biden was missing in action on this. the question is all of biden's decline and the coverup on america and chief lloyd austin and national security officialss and top members of congress could not reach biden during the afghanistan crisis. representative adam smith, he could not reach biden is bide

liz: joe the "wall street journal" out with this bombshell report the biden white house right from thestart covered up biden's decline, that they knew they were working with "a diminished biden" that white house aids kept meetings short with biden and tightly controlled media access and any access to biden. they acted ago-between flags to stop any embarrassing public interactions involving biden. everything became way more scripted and buttoned down. >> yeah, scripted is a perfect word to describe the biden presidency in general, right? he hasn't done one press conference this entire year, liz. that shows you he can't speak outside of a teleprompter, outside of a script and the fact these aids did this and tried to get him over the finish line before that debate exposed him in june, boy, i guess they wouldn't think of the future of the country now were they just about their own power and selves. liz: it's something. wow joe concha we look forward to reading your next column thanks for joining us. >> merry christmas, bye. liz: okay reports of a peaceful transition greatly exaggerated. t

white house. liz: i just want to break down one final point about how this biden white house has been accused of repeatedlyalso trying to blame the trump white house. listen to chairman mccaul today. watch. >> the taliban was not in compliance with the agreement when the evacuation was ordered and your own senior advisor said that the doha conditions were "immaterial." immaterial to the evacuation. that speaks volumes. liz: biden and his team tried to blame trump in the agreement and there were contingencies that said biden could get rid of the agreement if the taliban violated and al qaeda came back in the region. the u.n. security council did the exit anyway. final word. years after president trump left the white house they continued to blame president trump for their failures in afghanistan. it's 100% in the lap of joe biden and his administration. liz: yeah, he was at the wheel steering the ship. congressman stuebe, thanks for joining us. >> any time. >> we're also securing our border. >> we have a secure border. >> we're going to secure the border and do the work. liz: well they did not secure the bor

biden is reportedly going to do more pardons but greg, politico reports biden white house aids are sayingo account the specifics and details of the cases of criminals he let out of prison, that he's granting these commutations based on a broader set of parameters. it's about getting positive headlines, as pardoning the most of any president. what do you think? >> well, it shows the idiocy of their rationale, evoking nothing but negative headlines of condemnation. you know, it's worse than that. i think joe biden and his white house confederates are seizing every chance to sabotage the incoming president out of spite, out of anger, and they want to handicap trump in the outset but also want to punish americans for putting him in office, so what are they doing? well selling off a border wall materials for a nickel. they are offering another round of student debt forgiveness that is blatantly illegal, favors to the union being handed out like candy, spending taxpayer money like drunk on sailors and this cements his legacy as the worst president in american history. liz: he just, biden just l

white house. i can attest to that. finish. elizabeth: okay. a former top bidento show to it. she got shut down by trump adviser jason miller for trying to claim lawfarety not exist in the biden white house. we've got multiple people saying, yeah, it did. we're going to show you the sound of that takedown. liz peek is going to take it on. also this story -- >> what was the purpose of you raising your right hand? what was the purpose of that? that's crazy. you are many violation of the constitution, the u.s. constitution, the law of the land, the supreme law of the land. elizabeth: chicago residents have had it, they're in a world of pain from biden's open borders. rising crime, gangs, taxes going up, chaos. trump border czar tom homan is going to ride to the rescue. he says chicago will be ground zero for the first deportations of illegal aliens. and he says he'll prosecute if anyone trying to stop it. that chicago resident you just saw speaking out is here to respond. but first, let's check in with dagen and brian to see what's coming up on "the bottom with line

i president biden leaves the white house?— president biden leaves the white house?se? i don't think the resident white house? i don't think the president will _ white house? i don't think the president will do _ white house? i don't think the president will do anything - white house? i don't think the president will do anything big. | president will do anything big. x i expect him to send them beforehand. we don't know what trump will do. has said in ukraine that russia started, in 24 ukraine that russia started, in 2a hours, everyone knows that is a campaign promise and will not happen. the conflict is far more complicated. there are 3—piece clients floating around in washington. moscow has rejected them through its proxies. it says these are a nonsense. nobody knows how to get them to come to the table, to stand on. moscow thinks it is willing. why should it come to the negotiating table? all eyes are on donald trump and what he has when he says he will be able to negotiate with his friend, vladimir putin. meanwhile, a united states military official has said that

so this is a really hypothetical conversation, but it is one that is taking place in the biden white house yeah, hypothetical. and also very real at the same time. it's great to see you. great reporting as always. thank you so much coming up for us, the killing of unitedhealthcare ceo has sparked a flood of reaction online, some of which has been described as morbid glee about insurance companies and people angry about insurance companies and being denied medical claims. even in the face of we're talking about a murder of a husband and father here. so this is all also now putting into the spotlight the need and review of executive security. that's one focus we're looking at ahead and why kash patel trump's pick to lead the fbi is thrilling followers on the conspiracy theories of the conspiracy theory group qanon patel has dipped his toe into this qanon world a bit over the years, has flirted with it on truth social, there's a q account whether or not it's the real q, i'm not going to get into. >> are you vicki walker like so no so like everything else, you have to have fun with it i had th

the white house and biden himself _ president. the white house and biden himself had _ president. white house and biden himself had been - biden himself had been insistent for years that he would never intervene, but his duties as a father have out written that and he did not want his son to go to jail. in these two cases, one a gun jarred on the other a tax evasion charge, and so i think that it will be interesting to see the reaction from republicans and democrats. he is a lame duck president and so he was going to have to do this one way or another in the eyes of family members, but this is shocking news in washington at the end of his term.— the end of his term. what do ou the end of his term. what do you think _ the end of his term. what do you think about _ the end of his term. what do you think about his _ the end of his term. what do | you think about his argument that he felt he didn't have a choice, because of the prosecution was unfair? well, they have _ prosecution was unfair? well, they have previously - prosecution was unfair? well, they have previously said - prosecu

that was from one former biden white house official. what would biden foreign policy.east pause some of these conflicts? >> i don't think that would diminish it. i think it would just show that biden has been working towards getting to some sort of a peace agreement in israel, which no president has been able to get to over the last 70 years. and the issue in ukraine i mean, donald trump said he would sell that on day one, so we don't actually have to wait 100 days, he must have some super secret plan on day one he will solve. so, we can sort of push that aside and just say he will get rid of that these are complicated matters and i hope donald trump can come in and bring some peace and stability. but i don't think he will be able to because they are just difficult issues that we don't want to get bogged down in and we are not fighting these wars. we are doing it from, you know, a position of strength, but distance. we don't want to be involved in that we don't want to send american troops in there we want to do it from, you know, far away but doing it with influence.

former biden white house communications director. and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign. welcome to all of you. good morning. good morning jonah. man, that walk down memory lane of trump on the world stage. i mean, that's what we are heading back to as as biden steps off. >> yeah. time is a flat circle. uh, i think they're working on cloning donald trump right now. so he can be president through 2065. um, because it just feels like this is just this is not going to end anytime soon. >> kate bedingfield, how do you see what the president did here with this pardon in terms of the big picture for his presidency here? i mean obviously he did this on a sunday night and then he flies off to africa right as donald trump, as we just outlined, is about to step back on to the world stage and his party here at home has not exactly been kind to him. yeah. >> look, i think the idea that that biden has somehow opened the door for trump to do things that he was not otherwise going to do is completely ludicrous.

because for years, the biden white house, kamala harris, joe, everybody across the board said the border secure in the border was closed. everyone on earth knew they were lying, illegal immigrants from all over the world, over 180 countries were pouring into mexico, walking into the u.s. unvented and now as biden is leaving people, they continue to pour into the country in record numbers. right now they are unvented of course. mark my words here, i'm very serious and i pray to god i'm wrong, biden and harris' horrible legacy will be far worse when one of these unvented illegal immigrants that they have allowed into this country, we have known terrorists in the country, carries out a terror attack on our country. and i know what is going to happen. it is not when, it is when, not if. and if that happens and i pray i'm wrong, i pray to god i'm wrong, they will have more blood on their hands, a lot more. now this is a nightmare waiting to unfold. and the images have been horrific. illegal immigrants under bridges, living in tents, sleeping on sidewalks, pouring across the border by the thou

this comes as we learn shocking new details about how the biden white house cocooned and protected a diminished commander and chief. reporting comes from this expose in "the wall street journal", the report that quote, there was limits over who biden's spoke with -- biden spoke with, and limits around the sources of information he consumed. the president of the united states limited out of necessity by unelected handlers, let that sink in. senior advisors were off and put into that some administration officials and lawmakers thought that biden himself should occupy. who has been running the country over the past four years? that is the question. the president's diminished status was so bad that meetings with democratic lawmakers, powerful secretaries like lloyd austin and treasury secretary quote, were infrequent, in fact,, they cancelled meetings altogether. if biden was out of it. some leaders had a hard time getting the president's ear at key moments including out of the u.s. disaster us pullout from afghanistan. as you will remember, we lost 13 heroic americans at the abbey gauge

kind of a friend of the biden white house. they said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table. so you are all deceived. that is nbc, sp seven ally. how the money taxpayers footed for a hotel for migrants went to a foreign government. your money, next. ♪ ♪ if you're a veteran wife, homeowner, and the family bookkeeper, you're the first to know when high rate debt is stressing your budget. but your family's service has earned you a big advantage. the va home loan benefit. with the lower rate newday 100 va cash out loan, you can pay off high rate credit cards and car loans. that's real money you can use to take care of your family and home. (ominous music) (bubbles rising) (diver exhaling) (music intensifies) (diver yells) (shark roars) - whoa. (driver gasps) (car tires screech) (pedestrian gasps) (both panting) (gentle breeze) - [announcer] eyes forward. don't drive distracted. >> harris: charles payne just leaned in epically. [laughter] well, we

biden and how he's doing. he's an old man. and i would sort of brush them off because what i would say is there is no obvious evidence that he's declining. the white house the people around joe biden were absolutely adamant not suggesting anything asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental or both decline was offensive. how could you. it's age shaming. i think that impacted me at some level. >> jesse: he didn't want to age shame. don't trust anybody who lied to about biden. these are just the start. after the inauguration the books, the gossip, the dirtiest secrets will all spill out and kamala might be the one doing most of the talking. a senior fellow at the hoover institution. this isn't groundbreaking to fox or to vdh. i everybody knew it but it's coming out now, why? >> i don't think it's too cynical to say that these reporters who participated in this cover-up are now adjudicated these last 40 days that biden cannot help them, by complicity in this lie they will be rewarded, he has no power to help them and he has no power to hurt them. if they know finally tell the truth. this was the greatest presidential fog and deception

they are already reports that nathan wade, met at the biden white house.s the fall out of this? >> well i think the american public has a right to know exactly the extent to this lawfare. remember, in the alvin bragg records keeping case, matthew angelo came from the doj all the way down from manhattan. you don't go from the number three law enforcement person in america to manhattan's district attorneys office. this rico case is so complex there's no way fani willis thought of that case on her own even with nathan wade. liz: the other thing too this report that jack smith spent $50 million on his cases against trump. $50 million? whose profiting here? >> well obviously, jack smith is profiting here. remember, he is a political operative okay? he's not really a lawyer in the way a lot of people think about it. remember he got rebuked by the supreme court of bob macdonald and john edwards. he was there to harm president trump politically and he manipulated the law to do it and luckily president trump won, but when we this happens and you take a step back, w

white house today. the president held an event to mark world aids day. we're going to have our first visual of bidens scheduled to department the white house in this hour, to make his way to andrews air force base, to then fly to angola, where he's scheduled to be for the next several days. an important foreign overseas trip. so, reporters will certainly try to ask the president before he boards air force one, about this development. it will be interesting to see whether he takes those questions. but one thing, i think, is important, also here jonathan, as we look at both the legal and personal in this breaking news story. one is that the pardon language itself, is very important. and i think one they think that has been overlooked, this is not just a pardon for those two specific cases. the cases on gun charges nwhichs hunter was found guilty. and the other tax-related charges in california, where ultimately, hunter biden pled guilty. the pardon is for any and all crimes committed. starting january 14 through december. a period that begins and includes just months before hunter biden joined the boa

's before we got to go, a shocking new report on president biden's diminished mental state and when the white houseg it up. ♪ ♪ >> jeanine: who is running our country? that's the question everyone is asking after a bombshell report from "the wall street journal" blew the lid off joe biden's declining mental state and how the white house has been covering it up, right from the very start to. according to the journal, signs commander in chief was diminished stretched all the way back to the first few months of his presidency, with aids adjusting his schedule noticing and becoming tired if they want longer and he started making mistakes. so they kept meetings short and started controlling who he spoke with. like a good lapdog, the media aided and abetted the cover up. remember this lunacy? >> if you if you can't handle the truth. this version of biden intellectually, analytically is the best biden ever, not a close second. >> jeanine: i'm not even good to ask a on that. they say -- the 50 sources say they noticed in the first few months he couldn't handle things but do you remember using covid as an e

i think the biden white house was well aware that this was going to be a controversial decision and ingside the decision ofjoe biden from campaign groups welcoming the move but also from some of the friends and family of some of those that were murdered by some of these people on death row saying that they also supported the decisions to commute some of the sentences. however, that was not universally welcomed. the daughter of one of the people whose mother was murdered set as a result of this decision, joe biden and his supporters had blood on their hands to use their words. had blood on their hands to use theirwords. so had blood on their hands to use their words. so a very divisive issue. the latest gallup poll suggest around 53% of americans support the death penalty in murder cases so it is very divisive and clearly donald trump has firmly stated his case that he plans to bring back the use of the death penalty and if he can he is keen to expand it as well. making that clear on the campaign trail. pope francis is launching a specialjubilee year for roman catholics in a christmas e

biden was kind of like an aging king. white houseffers hid headlines from joe, and they wouldn't let him see internal polling where trump was winning. they rehearsed with biden on how to get off and on the stage, even if it was obvious, and they tried to stop him from making gaffes that could, quote, upset the world. order. jesus. for four years, we've been asking who's running the country? we know it's not biden. it was his staff. the only thing biden cared about was looking like he had it together. biden's team tapped campaign cochairman jeffrey katzenberg, a hollywood mogul, to find a voice coach to improve the president's fading warble. everything the press said trump is dishonest, egotistical, crazy, tired. it's actually what biden is. and they covered it up. we had a corpses staff running the white house for years, and the democrats and the media hid it until debate night. now they're saying, i'm sorry. >> as a reporter, i have a confession to make. i should have pushed harder earlier. for more information about joe biden's men

and former the gun official will join us a few moments on that were sing on to say how badly biden the white houseon his son and he just did that lawmakers say biden is effectively admitting coming to corruption and trump was to clean it out first, look who's here and were saying merry christmas was coming up in the bottom line summa congressman cases smith on the biden pardon in the big tax head in the fair share talk think that on posted you know this plane is now getting paid leave for climate change i know it sounds crazy emmanuel talk all about that. >> and on sunday boy getting a pardon from his daddy and while joe biden himself is also a beneficiary of that part and talked to the irs whistleblowers, gary chamblee and joseph zigler put at risk wasn't worth it top of the hour. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. it's odd how in an instant things can transform. slipping out of balance into freefall

the white house says it's the largest act of clemency in one week ever. it comes after president bidener. let's go to nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa. what do we know about who's receiving these pardons? >> reporter: we knew that president biden was listening to advocates on specific cases. the white house is announcing that president biden, as you mentioned, is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who the white house says was placed under home confinement during covid and have all reintegrated into their communities and their families. the president pardoning 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes, that includes drug offenses. we don't know too much about the specific cases except for that the white house says it includes a list of veterans, health care professionals, as well as teachers. the president says many of them would have received lower sentences if they had been tried in today's courts. he adds in a statement, quote, america was built on the promise of possibility and second chances and ana, the president says his administration is going to continu

just want to rewind the tape if i can, how we got here was in january or february of 2021, joe biden's white houseice department to keep david weiss on as u.s. attorney, to continue this investigation and they did so, i didn't talk with them about it, but they did it to avoid the appearance of impropriety. so that is where we are now, at the end of his term, we have pam bondi, as you mentioned, one of those individuals, the former florida attorney general who is going to be the nation's top law enforcement officer who is an election denier, that is even beyond the pale of the conservative, or beyond the actions of the conservative attorney general, william barr. if you are joe biden and you are looking at all of these pieces coming together, he did the right thing. and one last thing, i know we are tight on time, imagine if donald trump, if his justice department said they were going to investigate their own son, they would not have done what joe biden and his justice department did, donald trump would have burned down the justice department before they would have kept on an obama era attorney gen

last june but in public, biden and his white house team decided to purposely and consciously lie to american people repeatedly saying he would not pardon hunter biden. that was the game plan all along. what do you think? >> yeah, i'm not shocked at all that was the game plan. i think this just adds to the evidence that democrats will do and say anything to get elected. of course it wouldn't sound good if then candidate joe biden said he was going to pardon his son. it wouldn't have helped out kamala harris either if joe biden had been honest and forthright and transparent about his plan to pardon his son. this was all about getting elected. of course that failed so i think joe biden now on his way out of the white house, he's going to do what he needs to do to protect his family and himself as well, but i also think that he is sending a message and a very loud one to the democrat party that threw him under the bus and kicked him to the curb. he doesn't care this puts democrats in a tough spot. he doesn't care this hamstrings their ability to criticize donald trump. he is angry in my

but maybe the biggest lie of all was about the border, because for years, the biden white house, mayorkas, kamala harris, joe, everybody across the board, they said the border was secure and the border was closed. everyone on earth knew they were lying. illegal immigrants from all over the world, over 180 countries pouring into mexico, walking into the u.s. unvetted. and now, as biden is leaving people leaving, people continue. they are pouring into the country in record numbers right now. unvetted, of course, mark my words here, and i'm very serious and i pray to god i'm wrong. biden and harris horrible legacy will be far worse when one of these unvetted illegal immigrants that they have allowed into this country, we have known terrorists in the country, carries out a terror attack on our country, and i know it's going to happen. it's not when it's not, it's when it's not. if and when and that if that happens and i pray i'm wrong. i pray to god i'm wrong. they will have more blood on their hands, a lot more. now, this is a nightmare waiting to unfold. and the images, they have been horri

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i think the biden white house was well aware of this would be a controversial decision, and in some wayst that they issued a bunch of statements alongside joe biden's decision from campaign groups welcoming the move, but also from some of the friends and family of those murdered by these people on death row, saying they also supported sentences. however that was not universally welcomed. the daughter of one of the people whose mother was murdered said that as a result of this decision, joe biden and his supporters have blood on their hands, to use their words. this is a very divisive issue. the latest gallup poll suggests around 53% of americans support the death penalty in murder cases. it is very divisive. clearly donald trump has firmly stated his case that he plans to bring back the use of the death penalty, and if he can he's keen to expand it as well. host: the former u.s. president bill clinton has been released from hospital in washington dc after being admitted for a fever yesterday. mr. clinton's deputy chief of staff said the former president was grateful for his exceptional c

now, this comes as we learned shocking new details about how the biden white house cocooned and protected a diminished commander in chief. now, the reporting comes from this exposÉ in the wall street journal. they reported that, quote, there were limits over who biden spoke with, limits on what they said to him, and limits around the sources of information he consumed. the president of the united states, limited out of necessity by unelected handlers. let that sink in. the report notes that, quote, senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought that biden himself should occupy. so who has been running the country over the last four years? that's the question. the president's diminished status was so bad that meetings with democratic lawmakers, powerful secretaries like defense secretary lloyd austin and treasury secretary janet yellen, quote, were infrequent or grew less frequent. in fact, they canceled meetings altogether. if biden was out of it and, quote, some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president's ear at key mome

megan hayes former director of message planning for the biden white house and kristen soltis anderson, republican pollster strategist and cnn political commentator. welcome to all of you. i would be remiss for not mentioning that it's wednesday so we're wearing pink it's wonderful to have both of you here. kristen, let me start with you on hegseth and how this is looking because it does seem like what's coming out of mar-a-lago in the last 24 hours has really changed in tone. i think what lindsey graham is on the hill saying about him is pretty significant. your sense of whether trump is really willing to go to the mat. as we learn more about pete hegseth, when apparently he didn't tell them a lot of this and he could have. so my sense is that republican senators want to get to yes on as many of these choices as possible. >> they are not relishing the thought of a fight with donald trump. and frankly, matt gaetz, who had been nominated for attorney general and then withdrew that was going to be, i think, the spiciest fight of all of them. so with him then stepping down i wonder to wha

strategist and cnn political commentator, and megan hayes, democratic strategist and former biden white house director of message planning. i wonder shermichael, it seems like the thinking from trump world is that if they can get pete hegseth to at least to begin the process, get to a confirmation hearing, then he's going to be good to go. but i wonder if there is some jeopardy in the confirmation hearing and what could come out in it that could, uh, risk his nomination. >> i mean, if if something else comes out, in addition to the allegation that we've covered for weeks or just how he responds to it, how the questions that he's asked that it's going to be so high profile, what do you think? i think he's going to find i think he's going to respond fine. i'm not worried about that. i mean, the guy understands messaging. i think that's a part of the reason trump selected him. he was a host, and i'm not saying that he was a host to diminish why i think he could lead the department of defense, but he does know how to communicate and communicate well in front of cameras. and so i suspect after hav

isaac dvir, cnn senior reporter megan hays, former director of message planning for the biden white house, and brad todd, republican strategist and cnn political commentator. welcome to all of you. megan hayes look you, you know, many of our viewers have gotten to know you, but you really do know this family. you worked inside this white house for a very long time. can you help us understand how they got to this decision? because i have to say i've talked to some people who thought the president wouldn't get there because he was concerned about his legacy. obviously, something really changed. >> yeah, i'm a little surprised i didn't actually think he'd get there until much later when the last couple months of his term. but i do think with some of the nominations that trump has put up, i think it probably caused a little bit of worry for him. but also, i think people have to remember the president has lost two children already and he does not need to lose another one. to more political, you know, witch hunts that the president is calling them. he doesn't. he worries about hunter going to j

so i understand why the biden white house is doing this. i understand why this is now a conversation, because the president elect is making comments, basically saying he is going to attack these people. >> lulu, do you think it would be smart of them to do these preemptive pardons, or would it be wrong? >> i'm i'm not a believer in the preemptive pardons because i think what ends up happening is donald trump distorts what we consider to be acceptable. and no one has ever done a preemptive pardon before. it would be really pushing the boundaries of what the norms are. he constantly does that and just in a comment already they're having this reaction. he hasn't done anything kash patel hasn't been actually put into into power yet and so i do think that democrats and republicans who might be targeted probably need to calm down. i agree with michael that i don't think that this is spurious. it it may very well happen, but i think this idea of preemptive pardons and putting biden in that position, i don't think it's wise. >> i mean, i think the

protects his father and attempts to sweep away alleged crimes and corruption committed during biden's white house 10 year. well, i don't think there was ever a change of heart. i think he always planned to pardon him if he was in this position. and you know, it's quite obvious. this is a part of a bigger issue. this pardon means that all the way back to 2014 any previous crimes, he can't be adjudicated for. so this not only clears and biting it clears a 100 by new clears by. so this is to protect all that corruption, right? and, and so here you go, but you know, they have parker see the st simonian sway corinne at those white house press briefings. i would say no, no, he's not going to win all the time. they knew very well. as you know, i can tell you from personal experience working for biking, he honestly believes that there's the law for everyone else and the law for him. and this is an example, rory of a 2 tiered just the system right here. yeah, yeah. his place plain to see isn't atara. i mean, it's, you know, it's one of the angles that people are talking about is in a personal button. pard

white house in the last six months. it had largely been an argument that was left to the president an hunter biden's allies. so for now after this pardon decision has been made for the white house to adopt those arguments about the fact that they feel the justice system in some ways was tilted against hunter biden, i think is a noteworthy development that speaks to the whiplash many are feeling at this moment considering the denials we had been hearing from the president an his team up to this point. >> and betsy, any thoughts on how this will be seen by historians? what do you think this could do to the president's legacy? >> undoubtedly historians will look at this pardon and say that for many, many months, the president and the people of the highest levels of the white house were not telling the truth about his view of this prosecution of his son. that's the way -- that's going to be a koda to every single historical reference to this pardon not just controversy about the substance of the pardon but raising serious and grave questions about the white house's honesty regarding the president's thinking. the

now, that's in direct contradiction to president biden's white house, which filed its own brief arguing tiktok's ties to china pose grave threats to national security. let's bring in cnn's alayna treene, who is live in florida, for us. elena, good to have you. so trump signed an executive order the last time he was president that effectively banned tiktok. what is he saying now that's right. >> he is changing his tune now. and what he said in this brief filed last night is essentially that he is urging the supreme court to put a pause on that controversial ban on tiktok, arguing that such a delay in its implementation would allow his incoming administration to try and work out some sort of negotiation with the app to ultimately save it from being banned. now, again, this relates to the law that congress approved earlier this year. biden signed it that would ban tiktok on january 19th, just one day before donald trump is set to be sworn into office. and essentially, it says that if tiktok does not divest from its chinese owner, bytedance, that the ban will go through. now, what the supre

potentially help because it shows there certainly wanting the same outcome but it is still this white house and the biden white house driving the train on these negotiations. neil: how do you expect the second white house run is going to go? you covered him and have respect for you, fair and balanced report, allegiance to know side. having said that, you have had your arguments at press conferences. as for this go around how do you think it will go? the way the president-elect handles the media at a second shot? >> good question and a lot of people asking it. i don't know the answer. having covered him, donald trump likes to engage with reporters. i suspect we will have better access in a trump white house than during the biden years. which is no big surprise, president biden didn't do a lot of press conferences. he took questions from reporters but wasn't a regular presence in the briefing room. donald trump didn't discover the white house briefing room until he was in office but once he did during the covid pandemic, i suspect we will have questions, that is something the media welcomes and donald trum

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a lot about these reports that biden thinks he should have stayed in the presidential race and he would have won if he did. not everybody in the white house shares that view, according to "the wall street journal," which says that "the belief that biden could have won is not widely shared in the white house. the more common view is that the party would have suffered a larger electoral defeat and lost even more congressional seats had biden remained the nominee." ." biden departing st. croix after five days. waking up on the island, giving what many call that disastrous debate performance in june. some wonder how he could have stayed in the race. the debate had shades of gerald ford's debate blunder -- "no soviet domination in eastern europe." both of them dealt with hostage crisises of course, a reminder that americans are still being held captive in gaza today. recalling the days following his debate, biden said he was staying in the race. >> unless they came back and said there's no way you can win. me. no one is saying that. no poll says that. >> 1000%, in your words, see you on the ballot this november? >> unless i get hit by a train.

you might be wondering where the current president is in all of this and the white house says that president biden has been in touch with leaders schumer and jeffries who by the way have yet to weigh in on the latest proposal from republicans. the white house says it is speaker johnson's fault that this has come down to the wire. he's weeing request the way it went down between conversations with house minority leader hakeem jeffreys and he's questioning if it's a republican bill or democrat bill in oppose on x we'll see if that throw as wrench into things. >> there's a promise for the bill and march 14th or around the first reconciliation will. college a second they might not be able to cash in on that propses to cut spindling by -- promises to cut spending by by $2.5 trillion over the course of several reconciliation bills that won't be mentioned but those are propses. i dent know -- promises and i don't know if those check cans be cashed. >> i don't think it'll be in writing, larry. it's a handshake agreement and see how it plays out down the road. larry: grady trimble, thank you very much. fol

white house over the past four years. if you talk to reporters who sit inside that briefing room they're frustrated with the lack of access and transparency from the biden thing their access to the president and the transparency will increase when president trump is back in the oval office. we saw that in his first term and often brought the press into the oval office when signing bills. i can expect it will continue when he returns to january. >> dana: reporters are ready to lace up their running shoes. that's the pace that you guys run. thank you. >> bill: it has happened again. nfl star has had his home invaded. joe burrow becoming the latest pro-athlete to have his house ransacked. what we've learned about that and what's behind the new crime trend in america. there's an old saying in the navy that the toughest job in the navy is a navy wife. and if you've made the deployments and you've been the wife at home, or you've been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. the newday 100 loan allows you to borrow up to 100% of your home's value. so if you're in a situation where

watchdog called for suspending biden's $400 billion energy loan program warning of the dangers of rushes $22 billion out before trump takes office. back at the white houset focus with just weeks left in office, the biden administration is pushing for $4.5 billion more in student loan forgiveness. >> >> president biden is back at the white house after several days in delaware. he did not comment on the latest funding package. vice president kamala harris has put off her california holiday travel in case her vote is needed to break a tie in the senate. bret? >> mike, the "wall street journal" is out with this lengthy report on how the biden white house functioned with the diminished president biden in charge. what's the reaction to that? >> yeah, bret, a deep dive into how could he advisers insulated president biden from cabinet secretaries, even allies on capitol hill. noted that president biden has good days and bad days and sometimes decisions were put off if he was having a bad day. it also talks about how could he lawmakers had a hard time reaching the president at critical stages, such as before the botched afghanistan withdrawal. bottom line, it sa

>> yeah, fred, the white house, certainly eager to again to make good on promises that president biden himself made. he promised that he would visit africa during his time in the white house. and this is a long awaited trip. this trip was originally scheduled for back in october. biden had to postpone that trip due to the two hurricanes that were hitting here in the u.s. now, while he's there, he will be meeting with angola president. he will be giving a big speech. white house aides say they'll talk about the partnership and the strength that the relationship has amounted to. but he also will be talking about, given the growth of china in the region the investments in infrastructure, rail corridor system that the u.s. supports. so certainly, again, this trip potentially we do not know. but potentially one of the last of his time here at the white house, a broad trip a foreign trip, a moment that president biden is eager to secure his legacy fred. >> all right. sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. thanks. all right trump's return to the white house is rattling nerves in taiwan thanks to

biden turned out not to be true. the press secretary does not think the white house has a credibility problem telling us that when presidentiden gives his word as a biden, we should still believe him. aishah? >> aishah: okay. thank you. peter doocy live at the white house. well, america's job market added 227,000 workers in november. last month's hiring growth was up considerably from a meager gain of 36,000 jobs in october. the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.1% in october to now 4.2 in november. the dow lost 123 today. the s&p 500 gained 15. nasdaq jumped 159. those are actually both record closes. for the week, the dow was down 6 tenths of a percentage point. the s&p 500 up one. nasdaq surejt surged 3.25. shannon bream handing by in california. what some of our fox affiliates are covering for us tonight. wfxt in boston a city counselor fernandez anderson corruption charges. authorities say she was having financial trouble when she hired a relative to work on her staff and hatched a kickback scheme. she was arrested today. fox 45 in baltimore reporting a federal judge ruled that the u.s. naval academy may continue to

joe biden will leave the white house, and this will become part of our political history and folklorete house correspondent m.j. >> lee gives us more background on what may have influenced president biden to pardon his son since the president ended his 2024 campaign over the summer. >> the context here of course, is that president biden and white house officials have been asked multiple times whether the president would pardon his son now that his time as president was limited to a handful of months, and he and his aides repeatedly said he wouldn't do that because of his deference to the judicial system, the reason he was asked that question repeatedly, though, is because in many ways, it was a difficult thing for folks to understand this idea that as president of the united states, you are uniquely positioned to save your son from spending time behind bars of, you know being able to clear your son's name so why not? i think was essentially the question that a lot of folks were curious to have answered as the president continued to insist that he wouldn't do this. and if you look clos

attorney in delaware under donald trump and joe biden and the biden white house made the decision to keep him on to continue the hunter biden investigation and long before merrick garland was confirmed as attorney general. that was a biden white house decision. david weiss was the prosecutor. they investigated the case. the reason hunter biden is facing prison time, by some accounts he was looking at three years in prison based on the tax and the gun convictions, is because he and his lawyers walked away from a no jail time plea deal and they didn't like it because it didn't give them immunity from different kinds of conduct and they were concerned that he could still be prosecuted under trump administration. so he went to trial. he lost. he pled guilty and he was in a serious predicament which is probably one of the reasons that joe biden felt compelled to pardon him and spare him from prison. people are very concerned that what this does is it normalized donald trump's world view that the doj is not on the level, that it's politicized, that it's not nonpartisan. that is the big conc