i do know that byron york has just joined our coverage. byron, jump on in as we start to hear from some lawmakers shortly and some speeches as we head towards a second ballot. >> well, the republican party in the house has just voted 216-3 to make mike johnson the speaker, and johnson loses. it's a really crazy system. i think one thing that is different from a couple of years ago, 2023, when you have the agony of kevin mccarthy, is the fact that donald trump is the president-elect. back in 2023, there was no republican president. there was no republican president-elect. there really wasn't a clear leader of the republican party. and now we know donald trump is that leader and that he wants mike johnson to be the speaker, so we have seen less, actually, opposition to johnson then we saw to mccarthy back in 23. >> bret: let me interrupt real quick, byron. congressman-elect norman and self are now in the front of the chamber. if they change their votes to johnson, see if we can listen. [gavel sounds] >> the house will be in order. >> mr. nor

and byron york.appy new year, byron, the bidens on the way out. on the way out, the last vestiges of weaponization and lawfare and jack smith, and merrick garland. i can't read it in the morning it is either too compcomical or aws awful or stupid, don't they know they have been voted out of office. >> you may want to skip news reports tomorrow when donald trump is scheduled to be sentence in manhattan alvin bragg case, the last gasp, we know judge merchan wants to do this for symbolic reincreasons, there is no sentence he could enforce. the final act, in this act of lawfare, the president will begin appealing it, after that. but, you know, i think what is extraordinary, this appapplies to law ma lawfare, we have seen a change in last 5 weeks, a lot of excesses of wokeness and anti-trump have been fading a little bit, maybe they will come back in full string, i don't know. but they have been fading for last 5 weeks. >> you know, charlie hurt, go to this donald trump, putting his or beginning to put hi

[laughter] brian chief washington correspondent fox news contributor byron york.s like pete is going to sail through at this point. do you see anything that contradicts that statement? >> no, i don't. i think that hegseth's really strong performance yesterday really united republicans behind me -- behind him. and i have to say some of the questioning at that hearing, particularly by senator kaine, the democrat from virginia who was hillary clinton's running mate in 2016 some of the ugliest questioning i have ever seen in a senate confirmation hearing. i think the question maybe from the hegseth hearing is whether democrats are going to try that with anybody else. certainly might with the more controversial i don't think we will see that going in front of the senate today. >> brian: pam bondi, sean ratcliffe, credit wright, russell vought. people pointing out bondi two days of hearings. you think they will go for her and try to look at her florida record? where is she vulnerable in their eyes? >> i think she could face some of the tougher questioning of the group t

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howard: joining us now, byron york of "the washington examiner," a fox news contributor who covered thefor us as service the unfolding. byron, i've chronicled many of these hill battles, but on this one the numbers kept changing. it was 216-3 at one point. did you find it confusing to cover at times? this. >> absolutely. i mean, there were moments when everybody on the air at fox was trying to figure out what was going on, and it was -- howard: me too. [laughter] >> -- that difficult for everybody, and this was, by far, the closest ever. we've had close ones before but not like this. howard: well, my initial reaction when donald trump explicitly endorsed mike johnson who was the compromise if choice to keep the gavel was this'll be a slam dunk, it's over. and yet you had all these people who didn't vote at first and so forth, and you reached a point where the president-elect was making calls that the day to wavering members, at one point interrupting his golf game. >> that's what made the difference. i mean, if you look back just a couple of years ago, january 2023, to the ordeal that k

bring in our panel byron york chief political correspondent of "the washington examiner."hew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute. bee spend a lot of time talking to victims though are trying to put together their life. what is left. and 10 people have died. but there is -- there is going to be a lot of fallout politically and in those communities about what happened and didn't happen. >> absolutely, bret. after hurricane katrina hit new orleans we often forget there was huge political shakeups in louisiana. new orleans lost population. all political geography changed in that state and city. i expect something to happen similarly to los angeles and to california. you know, disasters do happen and we can't predict them. what we can do is make sure our politics are right so that we're in the best position to deal with them and to recover from them. when you look at some of the conversations we have been having about california's forest management, about its water management, about its insurance markets. about basic competence, i think you can draw a direct

for more unless a spring in bayreuth york fox news contributor, byron thanks for being here. you. when it comes to this at trial, the american public got to see this thing play out every day. every network was covering the details live every minute, every hour for the got to see the facts of the case for the still elected donald trump he swept every single battleground state. what does that say to you? >> you have just given donald trump's latest and most powerful argument to throw this whole thing out but basically what trump is saying now judge merchan is a county judge in a state does not have the authority to burden and sentence the president of the united states. it does not work that way. you just heard greg say formally, legally trump needs to be sentenced to be formerly known as a convicted felon. there are couple of possibilities trump one just for the whole thing out for the prosecutors originally said why don't we delay the sentencing until after trump is president in 2029? that way it will be hangover said the whole time he was president of the united states but t

joining me now alex marlow, breitbart editor and chief byron york washington examiner chief political correspondent and fox news contributor. byron, it's clear that trump is going to waste no time and start issuing executive orders. i think within the hour of his swearing in is what i understand. but, biden thinks it's now a threat to democracy that we apparently have a new president? >> you know, we have been seeing a lot of anger from joe biden and at the risk of being a psychiatrist hereby. look i think he is still extremely angry at the way his presidency is ending especially being forced out of the democratic race. we have gotten some new reporting. >> laura: we will get to that soon, byron. don't spoil it for us because we are going to get to that new reporting. buff the idea that you are going back to this failed failed ghearmt is he pushing didn't work in the election. threat to democracy, autocrat, dictator, subtext clearly of what he was saying there. are you shocked that they apparently having v. nothing new. >> absolutely not shocked at all. i was a little surprised early

. >> bill: byron york joins us now. good morning. read a line from "politico." you can tell us how you interpret this. the headline. trump's d.o.j. already feels like a wholesale politically inspired demolition. the quote. it feels like a non-violent war. it's just wild. everybody is sitting ducks these days and these people have no power or control of the situation. people are just in a state of shock and devastated. it is unlike anything i've ever seen. the question is it retribution or the right move under trump 2.0? >> as far as these jack smith lawyers are concerned, this is an absolutely unique, unprecedented situation. until very recently, these lawyers were working to indict, to try, convict and imprison the current president of the united states. and they were privy to the legal strategies of the prior administration to do that. it's an extremely weird situation and it seems really kind of a prudent idea that they should actually leave given what has gone on. now, david spunt just suggested there will be a civil service fight and they are going to treat

here to weigh in is fox news contributor, byron york. byron, well . >> good morning.ght. he is running the show now. >> he's been running the show for a while. you know, it happened when they went over to paris for the opening of notre dame -- steve: right. >> -- and the world leaders started treating donald trump like the president of the united states. and he has been effectively the president since then. steve: and, you know, we've seen a bunch of democrat tech moguls lining up as well because they're e senator if business people. it's like, okay, he's going to be president for four year, i've got to work with him. >> they tend the get really good seats at inaugurations. [laughter] it's the zuckerberg, bezos and musk, three richest men in the world are all going to be together at the inauguration. steve: and this afternoon the m starts at 3:00 over at capital one. some of the speakers include upcoming president. donald trump's going to talk, j.d. vance is, elon musk, hulk hogan, dana white and charlie kirk as well. >> the last time we saw hulk hogan pulling off his

byron york titled his column disoriented democrats still don't know what hit them. excerpt.nt trump does are popular, then across the board democratic resistance will serve to make democrats unpopular. some democrats see the problem and want to pick their spots to criticize. others can't help themselves. the party still has to figure out how to address the new president's successes. some democrats want 100% resistance. watch. >> we are going to fight. make no mistake about that. >> we are going to fight back against donald trump's anti-climate and anti-environment agenda. >> this executive order will be unconstitutional. >> our immigrant community will not become a political fight. >> we will fight back against donald trump's hateful agenda. >> harris: others are taking a different take or have a different take. senator john fetterman here. >> he has been doing essentially what he actually campaigned on. for me there are things i will agree with and disagree with but i'm in the business of finding wins for pennsylvania and the nation and engaging the president i see that as

joining me now, alex marlow, breitbart editor in chief, and byron york, washington examiner chief political correspondent and fox news contributor. byron, it's clear that trump is going to waste no time and start issuing executive orders. i think within the hour of his swearing in is what i understand. but biden thinks it's now a threat to democracy, that we apparently have a new president. >> you know, we've been seeing a lot of anger from joe biden. >> and at the risk of being the psychiatrist here. >> look, i think he's still extremely angry at the way his presidency is ending, especially being forced out of the of the democratic race. you know, we've gotten some new reporting. >> we're going to get to that soon. byron, don't don't don't spoil it for us because we're going to get to that new reporting. but but the idea that you're going back to this failed democracy experiment that he's pushing, that didn't work in the election like he's a threat to democracy. he's an autocrat. he's a dictator. that was the subtext, clearly, of what he was saying there. are you shocked that they have the

we have a couch in new york city. byron, thank you very much. congratulations.t's easier on your family too as a governor. >> he would have to move total what sigh. >-- to tallahassee.>> it's bf year. >> we're working out the family's programs here. >> they solved everything. >> are a seminole. >> i'm old flood ' blooded all the way. >> coming up on 9:15 here in washington, d.c. and a fox news alert. three israeli hostages are set to be returning home as that cease fire agreement between israel and hamas is finally taking effect. >> chief foreign correspondent trey yingst joins us live from tel aviv. trey, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hey, guys. after 470 days of war, the second cease fire agreement in the conflict went into effect this morning. we are following these minute by minute updates here in hostage square in tel aviv just a few moments ago there were cheers throughout this square because people could see on the local news that the red cross was headed into gaza to start the transfer of these three israeli hostages. the entire country glued to tel

larry: more react to pete hegseth triumph today, joining us now house members byron donalds of florida, claudia tenney of new yorkome are california thing to do. i thought pete was a hit, great, i thought democrats just don't understand they are not in control of government any more. david: >> i thought highest great, i didn't see all of it i was in a meeting it looked good. he was very poised. he answered questions fairly, they were trying to ahim personally, he will be a great secretary of defense, looking forward to having hem confirmed and looking forward to january 20 like never before. larry: claudia, you said you were in ways and means committee, did you can cut my taxes today? >> we're trying. to get tax cuts and jobs act renewed. we're fighting democrats on that too. larry: byron good to see you happy new year you to both. >> happy new year. >> you know just on this point, i thought hegseth was brilliant, his knowledge of job of soldiers, and of combat warfare was incredible. i thought democrats you know, this -- they don't understand that they are not controlling the government. they don't have white ho

we have florida congressman byron donald's, i live in florida. i used to live in new york, i left.s a hard goodbye. no questions. do you know they follow you to florida and count the number of days that you are there. by the way i am more than double the amount needed. why do they do that? they chase you out and then they chase you for your money. >> they are spending too much money, they don't respect the taxpayers and you are just a means to the end for the marxist leading people that run new york state. >> sean: i live in the free state of florida. let's talk about what donald trump has accomplished in just the 30 whatever hours he was president so far. pretty transformational. the next part was probably going to take you guys and congress and people in this room to get that done. >> donald trump isn't playing around. even from his speech when he took the oath of office it was clear not just to us in the capitol rotunda but to everybody around the globe that this is a time for seriousness, at the time to get the job done. for us to move his agenda we're going to have to get into

we have florida congressman byron donald's, i live in florida. i used to live in new york, i left.t was a hard goodbye. no questions. do you know they follow you to florida and count the number of days that you are there. by the way i am more than double the amount needed. why do they do that? they chase you out and then they chase you for your money. >> they are spending too much money, they don't respect the taxpayers and you are just a means to the end for the marxist leading people that run new york state. >> sean: i live in the free state of florida. let's talk about what donald trump has accomplished in just the 30 whatever hours he was president so far. pretty transformational. the next part was probably going to take you guys and congress and people in this room to get that done. >> donald trump isn't playing around. even from his speech when he took the oath of office it was clear not just to us in the capitol rotunda but to everybody around the globe that this is a time for seriousness, at the time to get the job done. for us to move his agenda we're going to have to get

byron donalds. i live in florida. i used to live in new york. i left and i left. it was a hard goodbye, no questions asked. do you know they actually they follow you to florida and count the number of days that you're there. and by the way, i'm more than double the amount needed. so pretty much double. why do they do that? they chase you out, then they chase you for your money. >> because they have unfunded liabilities. >> they're spending. >> too much money. they don't respect the taxpayers. and you're just a means to the end. for the marxist leaning people that run new york state, i served in the legislature, i can tell you that. >> yeah, but i live in the free state of florida. one of the best decisions i've made. all right. let's talk about what donald trump has accomplished in just, you know, the 30 whatever hours he's been president so far, pretty transformational. and but the next part was probably going to take you guys in congress, you people in this room to get that done. >> i mean, it is transformational because donald trump isn't. >> playing around, ev