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bret? >> bret: all right, garrett. thank you. ♪ >> bret: president-elect trump takes office in 36 days and he is setting his sights high among his promises and predictions today during a lengthy news conference in florida. a richer, stronger america than ever. up to $2 trillion in saving on his infamous from trimming the federal government and budget. the creation of millions of jobs. the golden age of america has begun. correspondent griff jenkins is in west palm beach, florida tonight with the latest. good evening, griff. >> griff: good evening, bret. it was the president-elect's first press conference since the election. wide ranging tackling a number of issues for over an hour. he began with the announcement of $100 billion investment in japan's softbank ceo and he noted the number of business leaders now coming to visit him this time at mar-a-lago. >> with the biggest difference is that people want to get along with me this time. >> softbank's ceo is just the latest in the string of billionaires making the trek. >

bret? >> bret: c.b. cotton in new york. ♪ >> bret: there are new questions tonight about mr. there may be prosecutions ahead for people involved in an alleged cover-up of the coronavirus pandemic origins. earlier this week a house committee issued its final report and it concluded the virus was man made. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight with the latest. good evening, chad. >> bret, good evening. partisan division split the committee about what sparked the pandemic and who deserves blame. republicans conclude the virus came from a lab. some scientists dispute that the intelligence community is split. >> and it is clear from our two final reports that as the select subcommittee concludes we are leaving with dinner impression what is we did or did not find. >> convinced that covid-19 did not come from nature. >> finding the lab leak is the most likely origin scenario that the chinese communist party was conducting dangerous research and this type of dangerous research was supported by

bret? >> bret: okay, chad. a lot of moving parts. we will stay with it for breaking news, thank you. meantime the federal reserve has cut its key interest rate by a quarter third cut this year. policymakers are signaling a slow down next year, projecting quarter cut twice 2025. earlier today federal reserve chairman jerome powell. >> inflation itself is way down but people are still feeling high prices. and that is really what people are feeling. the best we can do for them and that's who we work for is to get inflation back down to its target. >> >> bret: the decision led to a brutal day on wall street. the dow was off 1123 today. its 10-day losing streak the longest since 1974. the s&p 500 was down 178, the nasdaq sank 716 today. let's get some analysis now top stories larry kudlow fox business. good evening. it wasn't a good day. good evening, i say to you. but it was not a good day. on the markets, why? >> no, it wasn't a good day. look, the dow has fallen 2700 points. the last 10 tradi

bret? bret. >> bret: c.b., thank you. let's get analysis from paul mauro.aul, thanks for being here. take you back to the arrest of what police are saying is this person of interest and how that goes down to altoona, pennsylvania and mcdonald's worker there who spots him from a picture without a mask. pretty amazing. >> it is. the police department did a lot of things very right here. first of all, they put a lot of resources into this. think were able to trace his steps and they managed to find that needle a haystack of that photo of him with his mask down. apparently very cognizant keeping that mask on. you see it in the photos that are in the taxi, et cetera. but at one point he takes it down. they got that. and that was key. the other big decision they made here was to publicize it. sometimes you don't publicize in these cases and i have been in involved in things where that's a real conundrum. do owe put it out nor not put it out. person you are looking for all over the news looking for me. they made that call here. result 34589ly that looks like the d

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bret? >> bret: alicia, thank you. time and patience running out among some republican lawmakers over the coming government funding deadline. several lawmakers walked out of a meeting with house speaker mike johnson today in protest of his plan. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight with the fallout. good evening, chad. >> bret, good evening. we are still waiting for text of an interim spending bill it. contains $100 billion in aid for the hurricanes, plus extra money for farmers. house speaker mike johnson says the bill is not a congressional christmas tree decorated with christmas ornaments. >> you said in september no omnibus. how is this not another christmas tree at the holiday dollars. >> it's not a christmas tree. >> chad: we have members downstairs they called this a cram down. they said it was garbage. your own members calling it that. >> i got a couple of friends who will say that about any end of year funding measure. this is not an omnibus, ok

bret? >> bret: jacqui, thanks. breaking tonight, former president bill clinton is in a washington hospital. the 78-year-old was committed to georgetown university medical center for testing and observation after developing a fever. spokesman says he is in good spirits and grateful for the care he is receiving. tonight, we take an updated look at how the department of government efficiency or doge is already issued acting with congress. saw it with that 1500 page spending bill. democrats are now calling elon musk a shadow president, something president-elect trump pushed back on hard this weekend. senior national correspondent aishah hasnie has details tonight. good evening, aishah. >> bret, good evening to you. no one truly knows how doge will effect congress next year. but the first came as you mentioned with government funding and elon musk ruffling a lot of feathers on capitol hill. >> i don't think we're witnessing the start of an oligarchy. i think we are fully here we're not going to have 4 a.m. raged billion

bret? >> bret: alexis, thank you. the trump transition and president biden's truth problem. but, first, we go live to western north carolina where residents are still homeless two months after hurricane helene with winter weather fast approaching. >> we need somebody to be here to help us. we have people here in the motel that do not have homes. i mean, their complete home was washed down the river. and most of us here do not have place to live right now. ♪ it's more than paint. it's more than cleaning. that's the thing we'll never forget. for belfor, it's your memories. it's your life's passion. it's your home. belfor, restoring more than property. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (vo) whether your phone's broken or old, we've got you. with verizon, trade in any phone, any condition. and for a limited time, get iphone 16 pro with apple intelligence. get four, on us. on any unlimited plan. only on verizon. traditional coffee sucks, despite my expression. no, that wasn't a question. my brow girl had traditional coffee this am and then she cras

bret? >> bret: david, thank you.ome of president-elect trump's cabinet nominees are courting senate democrats. defense secretary pick pete hegseth is one of those making the rounds on capitol hill. meanwhile, these are heavy days for the incoming president. here is senior national correspondent aishah hasnie. [cheers and applause] [opening bell] >> president-elect trump becoming the first president to ring the bell at the new york stock exchange since ronald reagan in 1985. >> i think we're going to have a tremendous run. >> trump was also named "time's" person of the year as he laid out his top priorities like hands out january 6th pardons in the first hour and and acknowledging his challenges like bringing food prices down. i would like to bring them down, he says, it's hard to bring things down once they are up. on the hill trump's nominees fighting for quick confirmation. his pentagon pick pete hegseth creating distance today with the maga movement to squeeze g.o.p. senators who may vote against him. >> sorry. go

. >> katie: hey, bret have. a food show. >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier.sident trump eyes u.s. expansions eyeing the panama canal, greenland and canada again. it is not a good holiday for some victims of hurricane helene. meet a few people trying to help there. fascinating intelligence unit maize up of some extraordinary individuals >> bret: but, first, breaking tonight, a u.s. official tells reuters there are early indication as russian ant antiaircraft system may have brought down a passenger plane in kazakhstan. dozens of people died in the fiery incident. employ to open transparent investigation. stephanie bennett is following the story tonight from london. good evening, stephanie. >> good evening, bret. today's speculation is mounting over what caused this crash in the first place. and today we are hopefully getting near to some of those answers. four sources in az erbaijan of knowledge of the investigation tell reuters the flight was downed by a russian air defense system. experts were quickly concerned after seeing this damage, in particular, the ho

bret?is wife says that he did recently receive some threats, according to various reports. we will have to see if this is related to his job. it looked pretty personal according to investigators, bret. >> bret: alexis mcadams in new york. alexis, thanks. the two billionaires charged with cutting billions, perhaps even trillions from the federal tab are explaining their plans to lawmakers. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy head -- they will head president-elect's new department. senior national correspondent aishah hasnie is on capitol hill with the latest on this. good evening, aishah. >> aishah: bret, good evening to you. house speaker all very productive although vivek ramaswamy and elon musk didn't have a whole lot to say to reporters other than everyone is welcome to join doge. >> elon, do you want to see democrats here? >> elon musk welcoming democrats to join doge as he and vivek ramaswamy walk into a closed door meeting with house republicans today, to introduce president-elect trump's n

bret. >> bret: tray jinxed in today mass cocks thanks.rget for the upcoming trump administration's budget cutters doge's it's failed its seventh audit and struggling to keep up with china. jennifer griffin takes a look from the pentagon tonight. >> i think we're in the middle of a big shift right now and a lot of us are hoping there's a revolution coming where we put in more competition and shock the bureaucracy. >> reporter: a clash looms at the pentagon of those who believe the next war will be won using f 31 fighter jets and aircraft carriers versus silicon valley text start ups who want to i can bra um up the lumbering bureaucracy. >> this is a multi head monster that we have to prepare for multiple theaters. we'll need industry. >> reporter: so far, president-elect trump's new defense department's team includes businessman john fay lin an art collecting philanthropist with no military seniors to lead the navy and steven fineburg another trump donor and billionaire ceo who previously owned dine corp-1 of the defense contractors who se

. >> bret: all right, jessica, looking for rabbits. >> jessica: stay on it, bret. >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. coming up on "special report" the indictment for a man accused of sitting a new york city subway rider on fire. we will bring you there groups and rough weather ahead on one of the biggest travel weekend of the year why does president-elect trump want to get rid of daylight savings time is there a hung tore pass it in congress? we will bring you that story but, first, breaking tonight. we are learning new details about president trump's relationship with our neighbor to the north top canadian officials at trump's estate in mar-a-lago today. set to discuss border security and trade. this comes, of course, after the president-elect said he would cut taxes for f. they agreed to join our country as the 51st state. west palm beach, florida. good evening, matt. >> matt: good evening, bret. president-elect trump has been egging on canadian prime minister justin trudeau saying canada should become our 51st state and trudeau should become its governor. je'kels aside there seem

bret? >> bret: just on the -- as we wait for speaker johnson here, chad, logistics. they tried to get this vote, it fails. and then logistically get a rule on this bill? >> conceivably right now we are told that some republican members of the rules committee would be a no vote so if you can't -- you can't put a piece of legislation on the floor if you don't have a rule that dictates how you may the game on the floor. so if you can't get it out of the rules committee. you can't debate the bill. they are at this cul-de-sac you have to get it on the floor. the only way to do it treat as suspension and that's two thirds requirement. they can go around the rules committee. the bar is higher than that we don't have a precise number because you don't know how many people are going to vote. that's why, bret, i'm always showing you my little charts that i have here. this is my two thirds matrix here which will demonstrate what they need. we are ready for that vote some time this hour. >> we're going

bret? >> bret: lydia, thank you.the hunter biden pardon and the president-elect's pick to run the fbi. post the foreign leaders going to mar-a-lago. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. accused of shooting orthodox jewish man multiple times is dead tonight. the cook county sheriff's office says cd mohammed be a daly hanged himself in his jail cell. he was charged with injuring the jewish man as he walked to a synagogue in october. that victim survived. fox 11 in los angeles as governor gavin newsom convenience the state ledges tu at a temperature for emergency session aimed at the so-called trump proofing of california. the state is considered a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, abortion procedures and transgender transition treatments for children. >> this is a live look at minneapolis from fox 9. one of the big stories there tonight. acdc will kick off first tour in nine years in the twin cities, u.s. bank stadium first stop stadium tour. scheduled for april 10th. tickets go on sale f

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my colleague bret baier takes a look at deals in playoff teams, bret? >> bret: thanks, mike.ound an estimated $150 million in nil funds. usings data from media and technology company on three we analyzed nil spending across ncaa football. tonight, we take a closer look at how some of the deals have helped these playoff teams. [cheers] >> bret: the game of college football has changed in the last five years. [ ♪ ohio. [cheers] >> bret: name, image and likeness profits have coincided with a longer season, increased revenue and higher stakes. >> if you want to win your nil has to be almost as good as your team does. >> bret: for the people who say devil's advocate, these kids are performing. the colleges, the ncaa, tv making a lot of money on their backs of their performance so why not get paid? >> exactly. we have been for it forever. i have been for it forever. the problem is the ncaa never really wanted to get into that part. and what has happened over the years is more and more money has come into these universities. >> bret: republican alabama senator and former college foo

bret: thanks, aishah.als say china is the most active and persistent cyber threat to critical american infrastructure. but it has not always been that way. tonight we hear from outgoing cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency director jen easterly about how threats from china have evolved over the last two decades. >> i don't think full proof system it. should be very difficult to get in. >> when a group of internet hackers testified before congress in 1998, it was one of the first warnings of the cybersecurity threats to come. >> can you track that back and locate the people that are not of goodwill thrrget is not a tremendous amount of information as to where things came from just that they came. >> bret: by the early 2,000s, china was already work hacking u.s. government entities. but the public was unaware one string the information titan reign started as 2003 and targeted the departments of state, homeland security and energy. >> have you walked cybersecurity threats evolve just in your time

also competitor for leadership geopolitically. >> bret: and its space. >> and its space. >> bret: chinaing own space station. >> china launched an dior bitted a pair of short-term space labs between 2011 and 2018. the first part of china's current space station heavenly palace was launched in 2021. >> it is essential that for practical leadership and soft leadership we see china and what it does in space. >> bret: you are saying if china is the only permanent space station up there. that that is a threat to us. either national security threat or a threat overall? not so much national security. but what happens to soft leadership. we can't do 24/7 research. you lose that soft leadership. >> it's a story line which many americans are familiar. the american made space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft. it launched like a rocket and landed like an airplane. >> the president of the united states. >> in 2004, president george w. bush announced a new space initiative which included retiring the shuttle by 2010. and conducting the first manned mission on a new spacecraft no late

i'm rich edson in for bret baier. we take a look at the medical breakthrough that could change the future of organ transplants. bret baier examines a little world war piece of history and subject of a new movie. ♪ ♪ but we begin tonight with the passing of former president jimmy carter. the 39th president and longest lived american president in history died at age 100 at his home in plains, georgia sunday. more than a year after entering hospice care the peanut farmer and former georgia governor elected president in 1976 in the wake of the watergate scandal and vietnam war. carter endured a ham bling defeat after one term and redefined life after the white house as a global humanitarian. the nation is mourning we have new details on how the former president will be honored. correspondent jonathan serrie starts us off tonight from carter's hometown of plains, georgia good evening, jonathan. >> jonathan: good evening, rich. funeral services will begin on saturday, january 4th and run through the 9th. they include violat

at this point, bret what does hh have to lose? >> there is not a lot of political downside for the lose. capitol hill people expectedke this. it is baked in the cake as far the politics. wea will hear about the sound of fury for a couple of days in reaction. it may, in fact, take oxygen out of the room for the focus of th elect nominees. when that process starts, it will be full-court press when ii comes to this. >> there was a bell ringing inil the back of my mind and it was bill clinton who pardon his half-brother, roger, on cocaine charges. >> there you go. >> i knew some time in our lifetime. >> did we ever figure out who brought cocaine to the white house? can we get to the bottom of that? >> i wonder if this frees up hunter to go to the pardonlint business. this is what roger clement wasn doing running around pardoning kash patel in the process. but i think what bret said and as shannon said, the new cycle, it keeps moving on. at this happen on a sunday. might take it as if i were a w democrat, oui would not be happ. about t

. >> bret: omg malls are totally back.pping in stores about as much as their baby boomer grandparents do. fastest fastest kellyanne would you go back to the mall? >> kellyanne: hundred percent jersey girl plus living exclusively on line is boring living offline is better. >> bret: yes. jessica could you be a mall rat >> jessica: yes and i didn't grow up near malls and when i went to college i went to the king of prussia mall and i thought it was heaven on earth. >> bret: jesse >> jesse: you have to try clothes on not return them and reeboks them. >> bret: what would johnny do? we don't have time for that. martha. >> martha: i grew up in new jersey at the pa ram mass park mall taking the bus when i was with friends i understand it but i don't want to go back to the mall. >> bret: you're point and click. >> martha: absolutely >> jesse: what about returns martha? >> martha: also a pain but. >> she has a johnny. >> bret: we went to the girls who would never date us because we didn't have cars >> jesse: johnny should do your re

we'll send it back to you. >> rich: thanks, bret. leader hakeem jeffries speaking right after that house bill passed. >> working class americans all across the land successfully stopped the billionaire club which wanted a $4 trillion blank check. by suspending the debt ceiling in order to enable them to cut social security. cut medicare and cut nutritional assistance while providing massive tax breaks wealthy, well off and well equity requested. this is a victory for the american people. >> we have successfully advanced the needs of everyday americans but there are still things to be worked on and we look to that fight in the new year. happy holidays. >> let's bring in our panel here. "the washington post" columnist and american enterprise institute senior fellow marc thiessen, fox news political analyst juan williams: we were chatting about this earlier. >> rich: looking for a fight next year, too. do so with less leverage, marc. debt limit increase. that's the only. >> marc: out of power in the senate and the white house. the unifi

bret baier, thank you for being with us today. >> bret: i will do the show from capitol hill today. >important stuff. we will see you and some of the people you're talking to. we'll catch at 6:00. good stuff, thank you. okay. >> bret: you bet, see you. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: well, the cincinnati bengals had a late game win against the cowboys last night. watch this. >> bill: i don't think any team is easy to beat. i don't think we were supposed to -- >> dana: dallas botched a blocked punt giving the ball back to the cincinnati bengals in the final two minutes. last night's win breaks the bengal's three-game losing streak. did you stay up? >> bill: i did, actually. made it to midnight. >> dana: big fan. midnight? >> bill: the game went until 11:30. they tried something new with the nfl trying to pull younger people with the game. homer simpson throwing a td pass on monday night football. they would try to mimic it by way of animation. i'm thinking artificial intelligence had to be involved. >> dana: that's fun. i love it. >> bill: bengals win, 5-eight and still alive in the nfl

. >> bret: continue following it. thank you. ♪ >> bret: finally tonight a special day. >> see the joy in these kids when they truly believe they are going to the knot pole to see santa claus. if we could live life through the eyes of a child. think like a child, forgive like a child. love like a child. that's what we get to see. >> bret: united airlines taking more than 100 kids serious health issues fantasy flight to the north pole the flight was 45 minutes long circles the denver airport. taken to hangar transformed. the santa and mrs. claus pretty okay thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for "special report" fair, balanced and still unafraid. here is laura. >> laura: good evening. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. thanks as always for joining us. a real president answers questions. that's the focus of tonight's angle pop quiz how many hour long solo press conferences do you think biden has held in the past year? if you answered zero, you were correct. wel

bret again thank you so much.ing up here on "the big weekend show," the democratic party completely separately now and modern day politics in a bit of disarray, the far left hungry for some new blood in the ranks. but they're finding a little bit hard to change their ways, we'll discuss that coming up. force factor amazing ashwa reduces stress and anxiety, improves sleep, boosts cognitive health, and supports weight management. why? amazing ashwa contains clinically studied ksm-66 ashwagandha. rush to walmart and find amazing ashwa from force factor. >> one democrat is m slaying her own party after they passed over aoc for jerry conley to represent them on the house oversight committee. take a listen. >> we are really stuck in our old ways of doing things which is you get there by seniority and so if you've been there longer then you get the post and i don't think that we fully sit there and say, who may be best equipped for this moment? sara: speaking of seniority biden thinks he would have beat trump a regrets d

glis bret baier we appreciate it.ow let's bring in buddy carter first we're also -- okay, just we'll start off saying no relationship congressman to the late president. we've talked a little bit about the national legacy of jimmy carter but you hail from the state of ghast he was a state senator first then governor of georgia. how will the state of georgia remember the late president? >> well i think they'll remember him very pongedly. we're very proud of jimmy carter and work he did along with his wife roseline and we're very proud particularly of his post presidency and carter center has done an outstanding job and you know, while he did have some, some victories you will while he was in office camp david accords, infectious diseases as you pointed out all of those were good his presidency wasn't the best but we in georgia are very, very proud of him particularly because of his stance on faith he brought faith to the fore front and -- and faith is very important to us in georgia particularly in south georgia. and he

follow me on instagram at bret baier also on x the same at bret baier. happy to be on capitol hill tonight. our thanks to the speakers office thanks to joe manchin and chad pergram. thanks for inviting us into your home be in coming days another place in washington. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. ingraham angle is coming up now. ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone. >> i'm laura ingraham this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. as always, thank you very much for spending time with us. my angle in moments. first, the ivy league grad accused of murdering united healthcare ceo brian thompson shouted and actually wrestled with police today as he was led into court. [shouting? >> [the intelligence of the american people. >> inside the courtroom, 2 #-year-old luigi mangione in ju3 he may have suffered some sort of back injury. he was posting an x-ray on his social media showing numerous screws being inserted into his spine. some of the writings that he had. he was discussing the difficulty of sustaining that injur

in washington bret baier fox news. rich: fox news contributor karl rove. you look at this life started politically 1976. came out of nowhere when the election that year. last reelection resoundingly in 1980. do you think that's perhaps it for public service and a life in public. he had an incredible run after that. i really a remarkable life. lex absolutely. he was the 39th president in the 38th american to occupy the office. as bret pointed out in his report the ups and downs in the life of compassion and service that he led at left office in 1981. that marks the life of this remarkable person. >> you talk a little bit about that life. he gave a bible study at baptist church on as a local reporter in savannah nearly 20 years ago. and attended one of the services attended the bible study. the former president to take photos with him that's a pretty jimmy carter story. >> i met him as a young man in my early 20s walking through the washington national airport and there it was carter turning the bag over her shoulder of the student. i intr introduce myself a

. >> bret: all right. one take wonder. that means it's going to be a good 2025. >> that's right. >> bret: we have a lot of plans for big things and we are going to do it fair, balanced and unafraid. >> mike: beautiful family. they grow up fast. tomorrow on "special report," part two of bret baier's series on name, image and likeness in college sports. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 eastern, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thanks for watching "special report." i'm mike emanuel in washington. i will be back here tomorrow night. merry christmas, happy hanukkah "the ingraham angle" is up next. have a great night. ♪ >> welcome to fox news channel channel west point holiday show i'm sandra smith. coming to you from the grounds of the united states military academy at west point, new york. west point is america's oldest military post and one of our country's most fabled o universitiesne. tonight, we will not only get to explore the rich history of west point but we'll also get to enjoy the music of the army'

in washington, bret baier, fox news. >> bret, thank you for that. leaders around the country and across the globe are reacting to the death of president carter, including president biden and president elect donald trump. lucas tomlinson has more on this. he's live in saint croix in the u.s. virgin islands. good evening. >> well, good evening, guy. president biden interrupted his vacation not only to issue a statement about jimmy carter's dying passing, but he also made a statement within the last hour. this is what he said. >> never give up hope. never give up hope. i mean it from the bottom of my heart. so much negativism out there. i know you're tired of hearing me say it over the last four years, but, folks, there's nothing beyond our capacity, nothing beyond our capacity. if we do it together. i mean it. i mean it. and he believed it. >> and president elect donald trump issuing a statement earlier saying, quote, i just heard the news about the passing of president jimmy carter. those of us who have been fortunate to have served as president unde

joining us now by phone is the executive editor and anchor of special report, bret baier. hi, bret. you know, jimmy carter leaves behind a complicated legacy. he's known to be a good man, as we just heard. a humanitarian loved god, loved his wife. but his presidency is marred by foreign policy and economic failures. how should we remember jimmy carter? well. >> good evening. i think his most memorable moments for post-presidency happened in all that he did to serve and in his life, his service. so maybe remembrance of service. obviously, his post-presidency has a different tinge to look at. and his the habitat for humanity. he built 4000 homes on four different continents. he wrote 32 different books and was a prolific author. obviously went from peanut farmer, but also a baptist preacher who continued doing sunday school with his church down in georgia late into his his 90s. obviously, he's the oldest u.s. president and dying at 100. his his wife, rosalynn, dying at 96, in 2023. so his post-presidency, i think, is where a lot of people are going to remember jimmy carter, because yo

you know, iran is pretty basey with what is going on at home. >> bret: hopefully busier. >> bret: that's right. panel, thanks so much. always great to be here. >> jessica: happy holidays. >> bret: president-elect trump rings the opening belfor the new york stock exchange. we are going to do it fair, balance and unafraid. "the ingraham angle" with laura starts right now. >> laura: good evening. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. thank you for spending time with us. privileged and radicalized that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura: all right, investigators tell us that they're trying to piece together the chain of events that may have led former high school vac particular torian luigi mangione to become a suspected murderer. his baltimore upbringing was privileged. his family was considered real estate royalty in the city. they were close knit, known for their generous support of causes like saint jude children's research hospital. through their private family foundation which right now has about $4 million. so what went wrong for this young man seemin

. >> bill: let's bring in bret baier to get more on this. good morning to you. this is mike rounds, the senator from south dakota with dana and me yesterday getting nominees confirmed. >> i think republicans want to see president trump get his team in place and very quickly so that he can hit the ground running. there will always be a couple folks that will ask difficult questions. as long as these folks have got the right answers, sit down and visit in advance have a good -- i think they have a good shot of getting them all through. >> bill: a couple things. not only bill's reporting a moment ago. "wall street journal" said desantis was on an earlier list of potential secretary of defense candidates. that was going around there in mar-a-lago. you have the hegseth matter out there. you have kash patel at f.b.i. what are you hearing from florida on all of this now, bret? >> bill and dana, good morning. first of all, the desantis thing is real. this is coming from the president-elect himself we're told. multiple sources saying he has talked about it and he had tha

i think what bret just said were moving on that's what shannon said. the news cycle it keeps moving on. this happen on a sunday. my take is that if i were a democrat i would not be happy about this. they want to be talking about the presidents appointments they do not want to be talking about this kind of thing. is this another example of j joe biden not playing ball at the democrats? during the campaign he seemed to be going off on his own and people said it maybe is because they took him out pretty was not happy with nancy pelosi was not happy with kamala harris and the other democrats was this joe biden going rogue? do you think he talked to democrats about this or is this a surprise to people like nancy pelosi? >> it was pretty sound that is going to happen i think. not that he had the advance briefing of the democrats before this comes out. but i think there was a sense president biden was going to do this will be interesting to see the tiktok of who he told this was going to happen. listen, this is a sunday night at the end of a holiday weekend.

i think what bret just said were moving on that's what shannon said. the news cycle it keeps moving on. this happen on a sunday. my take is that if i were a democrat i would not be happy about this. they want to be talking about the presidents appointments they do not want to be talking about this kind of thing. is this another example of jo je biden not playing ball at the democrats? during the campaign he seemed to be going off on his own and people said it maybe is because they took him out pretty was not happy with nancy pelosi was not happy with kamala harris and the other democrats was this joe biden going rogue? do you think he talked to democrats about this or is this a surprise to people like nancy pelosi? >> it was pretty sound that is going to happen i think. not that he had the advance briefing of the democrats before this comes out. but i think there was a sense president biden was going to do this will be interesting to see the tiktok of who he told this was going to happen. listen, this is a sunday night at the end of a holiday weekend.

columnist bret stevens says he's done with never trump.gues that much of the fear spout filed the left is overblown and counterproductive. ben domenech joins me now. this is "the new york times," ben, the bible of the democrats. is the media starting to warm up to trump in what do you say? >> well, stuart, you may not know, but about eight years ago i stood across a debate teenage from brett stephens debating donald trump's rise. i was advocating for the position that it was the failure of america's elites who were to blame for that rise. he was taking the opposite position. and so i feel personally gratified by reading this this morning in the "new york times." [laughter] and i appreciate bret for coming around in terms of his acknowledgment of so many of the different attributes that elevated trump and the failure wheres of elite leadership -- failures of elite leadership over the past several decades even in america. and that's something i think more and more people are waking up to. st one of the reasons why i think this second term is

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. >> bret: his last show today on fox. really going to miss neil. a true gentleman, a trailblazer in our business. and i have been dog to him for years here on this airwaves. and he is a true friend. i wish him all the best. tomorrow on "special report," the next sentence in the government funding drama. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. can you follow me on instagram and x at bret baie thanks for enviolating us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. we wish neil the best. laura is up next. ♪ >> laura: welcome to washington. my angle in moments. congress' pork filled spending bill went from 1500 pages to 116 pages. in just hours. and tonight even that appears to have failed. go live to capitol hill where fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram. i have been watching you, chad, this is the super bowl for you every prechristmas. it seems like this is what we are always doing. what is the very latest that you can tell u

. >> bret: there you go. that is one week, hard to believe one week. monday on special report we'll discuss robert f. kennedy's trip to capitol hill seeking confirmation of health and human services secretary. please join shannon bream for fox news sunday her guest senate judiciary committee thom tillis and committee member john heims. if you can't catch us live set your dvr 6:00 p.m. on the east 3:00 p.m. on the west coast both have drones this weekend apparently. follow me on instagram and x at bret baier exclusive behind the scenes videos and photos. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight and every night. that's it for this special report, fair, balanced and still unafraid. the ingraham angle starts now. ♪ >> i'm jason chaffetz in for laura ingraham and this is a special edition of the ingraham angle. president elect trump just told biden what he should be doing about the drones. we'll give you all the details. but first, donald trump is riding high while the democrats are scrambling to make sense of november's election. trump has united the

in washington bret baier, fox news. >> we'll be right back. .ee and half minutes to go until we send it over to "varney & company". final thoughts from the all-star panel as the opening bell approaches. todd piro? >> the giants won, were not doing the giants were doing h1b. cheryl: the cowboys lost to the eagles. >> let's get to the visa stuff i'll repeat it again. all positions are right and wrong and i disagree with marcus and i disagree with you ej to a certain extent. i don't want to see the fight amongst the republicans now three weeks before they ultimately take over because you want to go into the season clean and to understand this is an argument we need to have how many workers, should we have the workers, what's the minimum wage at these could be paying, these are all good questions to ask. i don't like the fighting especially are there major stories or what about the mike johnson battle and makes the republicans look disorganized and with a promise the american people that things are going to get back to normal, working to be clean an

have a great night, everybody. >> bret: bear mace is tough stuff, judge

hey, bret. >> bret: hey, dana, judge wants specifics. she wants to know exactly where it is.

. >> bret: animals are great. good evening. i'm bret baier. the u.s. supre

bret stephens is a really significant figure. i know him well.ervative columnist for "the new york times," he was a never trumper. he's coming around and he says the movement is tired of being talked down to, that they are stupid. member those words. mandate. misinformation. misinformation and the pandemic implied we know and you don't know. the targeting of trump. all that ended up working against people. i think trump patterns himself deliberately after teddy roosevelt. he, walk softly, but carry a big stick. bret stephens also says, his foreign policy is effective in the first term but cautious on the other point stevens made that i love we are going to talk about later in the show, who was in the white house for the last four years? america is furious about that. what was going on with biden? he was hidden behind the scenes. nobody knows who the president has been. anger is a result of that. >> calling people stupid and evil was up poor electoral strategy and lost big. from the very beginning when trump was painted as a threat to democracy ca

>> bret: that's all right. listen, thank you so much, panel. merry christmas, happy hanukkah. >> thank you, merry christmas. >> merry christmas. ♪ >> bret: special day for a young girl wrote a letter to santa asking him to help her mom instead of bringing toys. according to the nonprofit asked for mom to get a job. spinal disease to go away. bills to be paid off and mom to get a car. the group reported that letter on facebook and donations came pouring in. tomorrow take a look at nihl and first college football playoff. that's it for this "special report." fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts now. ♪ >> raymond: i'm raymond arroyo. victims a time when we recall the characters in the nativity. the holy family, the wise men, the shepherds, leave it to joe biden to resurrect the one character none of us asked for. king her rod. today with a stroke of his pen, joe biden embraced the her rod principle. rewarding murderers while ignoring the innocence and their families. he commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 federal