>> chad: oh, no.ng that bourbon is a distinct american product and can be made in all the american states and funny, a few years ago, mitch mcconnell invited chuck schumer to school at the mcconnell school of government at the school in louisville, and brought him a bottle that was made in new york city, and mcconnell said oh, no, no, no, it's only in kentucky. >> sandra: only chad would have that answer on the fly. a walking encyclopedia. thanks so much. >> john: appreciate it. catastrophic storms pummelling the northeast leaving dangerous flooding. evacuation and thousands of people without power. we are live near a river in maine which hit records, levels, rather, not seen in decades. stay with us. i hear it all the . people tell me they'd love to buy gold. but because it's gold - they think it must be complicated. it isn't. not with rosland capital. with rosland... the entire process from start to finish is built on one concept... one... keep... it... simple. rosland capital - a trusted leader in

, chad, thanks very much.nathan: rich, bring in kerri kupec urbahn, fox news legal editor and former counselor to attorney general bill barr. kerri, great to see you. is this the correct decision from a legal standpoint from the michigan supreme court, according to michigan's electoral laws? >> kerri: i certainly think so. the fact that judges could single handedly unilaterally remove the opportunity for an entire block of voters, here republicans who want to vote for trump, remove that from them, strikes me as remarkably, it is unprecedented but not the way we do political or justice in this country and so they did make the right call and interesting to see if the supreme court getting involved now that we have dueling decisions from colorado and michigan. >> jonathan: as you look across the country, kerri, the states with active litigation are trying to prevent former president donald trump from getting on the ballot in 2024. it's pretty remarkable. he's that's got one victory today in michigan. he's going t

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how close is this vote going to be, chad? don't really know because this is only the ninth expulsion vote in congressional history here. this vote at least on the clock is scheduled to go five minutes like soccer. they usually have stoppage time takes 7 or 8 minutes. the thing i want to direct you to on the screen. if you see them hit 290 votes, that's 2/3 of 435, the bar to expel a member of congress. it is all about the math. the reason that they may be able to expel him with fewer than 290 votes is that we don't know how many people will actually cast ballots or if you have a present vote. somebody voting present. george santos voted present a couple of moments ago on the unrelated vote. the only one to do so. in 2002 you had a democrat from ohio who was expelled. the last member who was expelled. he did not vote on his own expulsion. he was expelled and left. i will hold up something here. this is a chart i have with me that i keep when they need 2/3 for various bills. certainly expulsion. we have not done this in 21 year

returning and the other part going to chad. therefore , it is clear from these reports that france's presence in the region is not considered completely finished, because a part of them in chad is also the headquarters of french forces to fight, as they say, terrorism in the region in esh. you had hints, but i want much more details from you. i would like to ask in these years, which is not a short time, more than a century, at least the french have a presence in niger, their purpose may be many, what happened to the french since the berlin conference that was held in 1885 and dividing africa between the colonialist countries , he entered niger and put niger as his share. of course , his military presence was not the same as in previous years. it has been 10 years since he deployed many military forces in niger under the pretext of fighting terrorism and created a military base. why, what was their main motivation? oil has been discovered in this country and the chinese are extracting oil. during these years, france was making

merry christmas, chad. >> chad: merry christmas, julie. they engaged late in the talks and now discussions are on pause until wednesday. that means if they are able to get a deal, congress will not wrestle with this until well into january. >> and the problem is that chuck schumer in the senate refuses to do entering anything on their side. they could have passed a bill, and then we could have had a discussion and reckon side the differences. it wasn't until ukraine funding that they wanted to maybe start conversations. >> some proposed securing ground on border security because parole is posing a problem, grappling with people who crossed the border illegally. >> this is a real challenge. the justice department operates the immigration courts with immigration judges, and they are essential to a fair and efficient immigration system. >> chad: and there are some whether he happens are resistant to any border security pact at all. that's why it's a challenge to forge a deal. the figures of illegal migrants crossing into the country are stagg

chad wolf, thank you. good to see you. joining us now is executive editor of common sense society is chris bedford and hill political reporter julie manchester. we love you guys and are fired up over this. more news coming, first to you, julia. elizabeth: that's alarm inside the white house and axios saying biden insiders are tooled to run and president biden is in denial about that . what do you think about that, julia? >> biden's handout ling of the economy and situation at southern boarder and independents and republicans hitting back on him on the issues and that's being re-flecked in the polls and there's also a lot of discontent within the democratic party itself. the generational divide among the more established moderate democrats and progressives. do you see that divide over biden's age wanting someone younger and fresher to lead the party but also over the war in ziti reel and gaza and you have a lot of progressives and younger democrats and think biden has taken too harsh of a stance in that war and they want hi

. >> anita: chad, how are trump's republican rivals responding to his legal issues? >> chad: vivek ramaswamy wants gop candidates to withdraw from states who refuse to place mr. trump on the ballot. >> republicans can protect ourselves, i've led the way in doing it, by saying any state that removes donald trump from the ballot, none of us should be on the ballot because that then takes states like colorado out of the gop primary which stops them from engaging in this kind of election interference. >> chad: the colorado gop is appealing the ruling to remove the former president from the ballot to the supreme court. >> dangerous theory has been replicated throughout the country as challengers try to find a judge or court to give credence to this theory. many of us believe that it's fundamentally wrong from historical and legal perspective. >> chad: ramaswamy is embracing former president trump, presenting him stefl as like the former president, he has done what they call the full grassley, reference to gop iowa senator chuck grassley. he visits each of the state's 99 c

peter doocy live at the white house, but chad pergram live on capitol hill with the latest. >> chad: good afternoon. the vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry gives house investigators more power to summon witnesses for depositions, many republicans finally jumped on board. >> this administration has been holding us up saying there is not a formal impeachment inquiry, we are not going to give you paperwork, not going to let people testify, so that excuse is gone as we pursue what's happening here. >> chad: former doj official lesley wolf, they want to know why she let the statute of limitations expire before investigating burisma. they say parameters of the investige not clear. >> they don't know why they want to impeach him. the floor debate, a range of different reasons, they don't know. almost reached the verdict before they have held the trial. >> chad: the house could soon vote to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress. democrats contend republicans are focussed on impeachment, and failed to find successful policy solutions. >> it's shameful but that's the reality that we

. >> i want to bring in megan and chad gregory. they are the parents of oxford high school shooting survivor keegan gregory. thank you all for being here. what an emotionally charged day i'm sure for everyone in the community. it happens to be nationwide as well as we were all tuning in to see this sentencing today. if i can begin with you megan. eethan crumbly now has become te first person to receive live without the possibility of parole. i'm wondering does this sentence bring you closure, do you have a reaction to what this feels like tonight? >> i don't think closure would be a right word. i'm not sure closure will ever happen especially for the poor families. for our second, it gives us a little bit of a sigh of relief. but i'm not sure that we could ever feel completely -- complete closure until our kids were safe, and i don't know how you even explain it. if if our kids were, what's the right word? >> whole again. >> whole again. be the same. we're is changed. all of the kids in the community are forever changed. i think it

speech of effort is now, former acting dh as secretary chad wolf and suzie luskin to reaction to thepress fbi director ray, when else lawmakers to discover the fbi was targeting traditional catholics, fbi surveillance in march this. >> many parishes having onto, to talk to acquire directors for heaven sake. [inaudible]. >> no i don't know the answer to the question as soon as i saw, it was aghast i had withdrawn. >> you were aghast really did you fire the people who wrote his. >> no,. >> if you fire anybody involved in a. >> senator if you will give me a chance to answer your question yes or no any votes in a a heart that you not fired anybody and you advised them and they were admonished and they are respected supervisors were told to engage with human resources division to ensure that deficiencies are addressed as for i feel much better the vincent event without food sweetie what you think it was going on here. chad: i don't think that the fbi director is really understanding the seriousness think of us but salute and presenter holly was a big deal at a civilly sweeping under the r

>> bret: chad, thank you. coming up in our "common ground" segment, we will speak with florida democratic congressman jared moskowitz and ohio there are some 8000 set off friday from southern mexico to the us border. a self-described exodus from poverty. the president of the united states must help us as we are migrants . migrants come not just from mexico, el salvador, 7,000 russians and 35,000 chinese. >> you can stop this crisis tomorrow if you wanted to. >> over the christmas holidays, agents encountered more than 35,000 migrants. over the last three months. that number topped 730,000. a city the size of denver. >> how do you stop it? you actually enforce the law. the law clearly states in the statute when somebody enters he will liely without proper documentation they shall be detained. >> the biden administration doesn't see it that way. >> look. we should all recognize as long as america is the land of freedom and opportunity, people are going to try to come here. >> today most migrants receive humanita

>> chad: here is what i would tell you. what we are seeing occurring along the border when you have 10,000, 11,000, 12,000 apprehensions per day, it is catastrophic what we see in those images and it's hard for me to say that strong enough. border patrol has been overwhelmed, they are extremely overwhelmed. we have no idea unfortunately who is entering this country. so, we need all the measures in place today and to be clear, the biden administration, secretary mayorkas, can stop all of this and address this all differently tomorrow if he choose to. he continues to talk about needing new authorities from congress. he has all the authorities he needs today to put an end to what we see along that border. they simply won't use the authorities they have, and that's -- it's terrifying because americans and american communities are paying the price for their indecision. >> jacqui: i want to ask you before we run out of time, you talk about resources being overwhelmed and there is a counter argument to the new texas law and sherif

maria: chad we will be watching all of that thanks very much chad wolf joining us today coming up aiy fox business ashley webster live from plant city florida with more on ai ashley. next. . . ♪ to the music, ♪ , ♪ . . you want to be able to provide your child with the tools or resources they need. with reliable internet at home, through the internet essentials program, the world opened up. fellas, fellas. that's how my son was able to find the hidden genius project. we wanted to give y'all the necessary skills to compete with the future. kevin's now part of this next generation of young people who feel they can thrive. ♪ ♪ evolution of artificial intelligence changing the way we live work, every day lives including how we get from point to point. fox business ashley webster on the road this morning in plant city florida with firsthand look how trucking company is using a.i. ashley. reporter: good morning to you, maria king of the road right now 18 wheeler towards tampa you are right artificial intelligence changing so many aspects of life that is true for the trucking industry ai so

chad, thank you so much. i appreciate that.rr, republican from kentucky joining us now. congressman, to chad's point, it looks like a way off, can we get a deal done on the board instruct her >> we need to get a deal done, but i agree with my colleague that this trip by secretary blinken and secretary of homeland security mayorkas, is really a photo op, it's not real. if they were serious about securing the border, why are they fighting republicans so hard on hr2 and refuse to reimplement trump policies like remain in mexico policies and get serious about real asylum reform and they don't want to do it. and the three years of biden administration and and this administration refuses to follow the homeland. ashley: i'm going to switch subjects for you and they're vowing to stop anyone from "splitting taiwan from china in any way. says"the motherland must be reunified. do you see china invading taiwan during joe biden's presidency. >> there's a removal of deterrents and the projection on the weakness of china and cross trade invas

chad pergram, chad, thank you. >> chad: thank you. >> rich: the presidential election year is days awayed might not happen on the campaign trail. david spunt with the latest. >> former president donald trump making a late saturday pitch to a federal appeals court hoping the judges will throw out charges relating to attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. in the filing, trump's team calls his criminal indictment unlawful and unconstitutional. writing president trump has absolute immunity from prosecution for his official acts as president. the indictment alleges only official acts so it must be dismissed. the filing comes a day after the u.s. supreme court failed to fast track the case a blow for special counsel jack smith who wants to take trump to trial on march 4th, one day before super tuesday that date is expected to slide. >> his strategy is to run out the clock. >> trump's former attorney bill barr tells fox news that absolute immunity may not extend to the former president. >> what was the function he was performing when he was doing these things after the election?

good evening, chad. >> chad: mike, good evening. first the house wanting information from the son.hen the house turning to an investigation of dad. the house just voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry for president biden. the vote 221-212. the house could have been on firmer legal ground enforcing its subpoena for hunter biden to appear for a deposition today had the impeachment inquiry already been in place. instead, hunter biden skipped out. >> all we're trying to do is get the needed people who have been blocked or refused to cooperate to come in and testify under oath before congress. >> chad: the house lacked the votes to initiate the investigation for months, but moderates from swing districts finally climbed on board. democrats accuse their colleagues of a fishing expedition. >> i want to give james comer some credit because after 50,000 pages of depositions and secret hearings and closed hearings, i think if we give him enough time he is going to prove that hunter biden is joe biden's son. >> republicans say it would be malpractice not to investigate further. >> the dem

senior correspondent chad -- chad pergram explain. >> reporter: a truce with european trade negotiatorsering 50% up charge on american spirit including bourbon and whiskey, destined for the eu on january 1st. >> bourbon is growing all over the world, the whole industry has picked up the last 5 to 10 years. it's a good market for us. >> reporter: us distillers drowning in their own whiskey river, restricting them from selling to the eu. >> devastating potential impact on us in bourbon business and, for example, corn growers. >> reporter: virginia democrat tim kane was stunned to learn how the virginia distiller sells to europe. >> these tariffs are killing us. i thought you sold, 40% of our product at that point is for export. >> reporter: stable like jim beam are prominent overseas, tariffs inhibit boutique distillers from selling whiskeys to europe. >> a real shame american whiskey has gone into europe and europeans realize there's more to whiskey. >> reporter: shelving the tariffs doesn't help. most bourbon is age three years so market volatility makes it hard to project how much just

presence of the french in the region is not considered complete, because a part of them is in chade chad , where the troops are stationed. french to fight, as they say, terrorism in the region. the french from that berlin conference that year it was held in 1885 ad and africa was divided between the colonialist countries, he entered niger , he made niger his share, of course, his military presence was not the same as in previous years. it has been 10 years since he deployed many military forces in niger under the pretext of fighting terrorism. established a military base. why was their main motive? their main motive was to loot the natural resources of niger. niger has very, very large amounts of uranium, gold, coal, and recently oil was discovered in this country and the chinese are extracting oil , which means that niger is actually a country. it is rich like that a country usually has the eyes of the colonialists on those countries . during these years, the country of france used all the mines, resources and facilities of niger as an almost totalitarian country . he was dealt with by

>> leslie: chad pergram and jason chaffetz eluded to this, chad pergram, comer could have called on thef arms had he showed up. hunter biden appeared on the senate side, they could not take him into custody. supposedly david spunt reporting if things move forward and go into this inquiry, take into account that hunter had offered this written letter to congress he would come in and answer public questions, which is one word he used there when making his statement. a lot going on there. >> emily: talk about capital, not the capitol, but capital of biden abiding by the law. will that engender him to the american people? not divorced from potential for impeachment investigation here, why didn't he just show up and say no comment, plead the fifth and say, i show up, i respect government, this defiance intensifies the feeling that bidens get away with everything they feel they can. >> leslie: andy said hunter biden's attorney is one of the best legal minds in washington, d.c. hunter biden did not wake up and say i'm going to defy this, no, his lawyer instructed him what to say, written, a sc

. >> i want to bring in megan and chad gregory. they're the parents of oxford high school shooting survivor keegan gregory, and also attorney van johnson representing families in the civil suit against oxford community schools. thank you all for being here. what a very emotionally charged day, i'm sure, for everyone in the community. it happened to be nationwide as well as we all were tuning in to see this sentencing today. if i can begin with you, megan, ethan crumbley now has become the first minor to receive an original sentence of life without the possibility of parole. now, i know your child was a survivor, but you're among a community of people where everyone was not as fortunate. i am wondering does this sentence bring you closure? do you have a reaction to what this feels like tonight? >> i don't think closure would be the right word. i'm not sure closure will ever happen, especially for the poor families. for us, i think it gives us a little bit of a sigh of relief, but i'm not sure we could ever feel complete closure unti

so chad pergram says it is all about the math. how is the math now, chad?e jamal bowman will be censured. the 27th member of the house of representatives to be censured. there are a number of present votes on the board now. we're trying to filet the vote in realtime. susan wild from pennsylvania who is the top democrat on the ethics committee, andy harris, a republican from maryland here, we also have glen ivy voting present right now. they need a simple majority. it is not expulsion like we had last week. a simple majority. the fact they had a majority vote 216 members to 201 and one voting present susan wild yesterday to not block, to not table this censure resolution, that's why this is going to pass and we'll see this cross that threshold. just a simple majority that they need. not necessarily 218 as we know right now. they are at 434 members after the expulsion of george santos. kevin mccarthy is still a member now but he did not vote yesterday. >> bill: two things here. if he is censured he goes on the floor of the house and they read a statement. i d

>> well good to see you, harris, chad is correct. under the constitution article one section five clause two the house has the right and ability to govern members including up and to expulsion. that being said, for me without a conviction, despite a i'm concerned about setting a precedent. people in new york district would be left without representation. so while we have so many issues to contend with in our government, i felt that it was inappropriate to deny those constituents in his congressional district their right to representation. elections have consequences but they have a right to have their voice heard in the people's house. >> harris: one of the things he has been very vocal about is supporting israel throughout its war against the blood thirsty terrorists of hamas who killed innocent citizens on october 7th in israel. that war continues and he has been very vocal and very emotional about that issue. that's one of the voices now as republicans like yourself get together and try to figure out next steps for israel from a c

c chad, your response to that?e, i've been with igor almost his whole life and the fact they are saying he's not slowing down and no change. i don't know who made that dec decision, it is not true. he is almost seven, he is past his prime. his body is aching, he's worked hard and done his time. he deserves to be home with the family, be comfortable and just live the rest of his life happy. >> todd: danielle, what are amazing things igor has done not just for your husband, for a lot of people. he protects the city and has had many apprehension, he is a narcotics dog and rescued people on different occasions, he's saved chad's life. he is my husband's best friend, igor knows no onel. >> todd: there is fear that igor wouldn't fit with another family. can you speak to that? >> he has lived with us five and a half years and only listening to chad. you can train somebody else to say the commands, but igor will not respond to somebody else that way. >> todd: do you think the chief understands the bond between a conine and

fpublic is ruby but all these theories and modalities all comes from jodi. >> reporter: his eldest son chadvideo that raised concerns among many of her followers. >> what you guys didn't know was chad didn't get any room. he didn't get anything. he was sleeping on the floor in the family room. >> reporter: records indicate police responded more than a dozen times in the last few years as early as 2018. a recently released 911 call made in september 2022 by franke's own daughter shari alleging neglect and concern for others in the home. >> hi, miami name is shari favree and my siblings were living in springfield and they have been left alone for four or five days. >> reporter: questions remain whether franke will lose custody of her children. his estranged husband filed for divorce following her arrest and has petitioned the court for full custody of their four younger children. for now, both franke and jodi hildebrandt remain in jail and franke awaiting sentencing in february and faces a maximum of 60 years in prison. when we come back, a bit of an upswing. the story that's tonight's night

>> mike: chad pergram live on the hill, chad, thanks a lot. ♪ ♪ >> mike: just in time for the holidaysious strain of covid is driving up cases. jonathan serrie is in atlanta tonight to tell us about it. good evening, jonathan. >> good evening, mike. it's called jn point 1 and accounts for 44% of all new covid cases in the u.s. according to figures updated just today by the cdc. that's up from 21% in the previous week because of rapid increase some believe this more variant may be more containing just or perhaps better at evading our immune systems. it does not appear to be making people sicker than previous variants. in fact, hospitalization rates for all covid strains are less than half what they were this time last year. although gatherings over christmas and new year's have expected to drive up infections. >> well jn 1 variant is spreading very, very rapidly. fortunately the current updated vaccines to provide good protection against severe disease. the need to be hospitalized and it will protect you from dying. what's wrong with that? >> in addition to updated vaccines and new rese

joining us now, former acting secretary, chad wolf. chad, the numbers are staggering. we are possibly going to be on pace and won't know until we get there, but we may actually see a 300,000 or something close to it by the time december comes to a close. what do you make of it? >> well, griff, it's truly remarkable the numbers that you are, you know, that you just reported on, but again, month after month after month and this administration, those numbers continue to grow worse and worse, so it's almost regardless what the biden administration does, what they say, the trips to mexico that they take, nothing seems to be working because fundamentally, they don't understand border security and what it takes to secure that border. their strategy has been failing for the last three years and it's going to continue that way and those numbers are just illustrative of that. griff: you talk about the meeting in mexico. let's go to that because that was really something that i thought possibly we would get a readout or learn that there was some deliverable that mexico was going

chad pergram joins us now.had, this could open up a whole set of possibilities here. >> chad: we, we are just getting this, fragmentary right now, what the supreme court has said they are not going to hear this on an emergency basis, meaning it's not going to be something that's going to be fast tracked. this will go through the court system the regular way, to a federal appeals court first, there will be oral arguments there, determine what the judgment of that court is one way or the other, and probably appeal by both sides, either side, depending on the verdict there to the supreme court. so it might take a while to go through the federal court and if and when it goes to the supreme court. the things that are immediate, there was a deadline in early january for the colorado folks to determine whether or not president trump was going to be on the ballot and one would wonder how does this affect things down ballot in colorado. i would point out probably one of the most competitive house races in the country is

joining me is cnn meteorologist chad myers. chad, great to see you on this christmas eve. wow, that looks like a lot of nasty weather in the midal /* middle of the country. >> only 134 planes according to flight aware have been canceled today. with all this weather, from minneapolis down to new orleans and houston. 2,000 flights have been delayed, but only 134 actually said no, we're not going. in all honesty, this area is in a dreadful drought. they're saying you had 364 other days to rain. did you have to pick christmas eve? here we go. we'll take the grain when we can get it and not look back. there will be areas with 2-4 inches. could cause certainly ponding on the roadways. some of those highways could be flooded for a time. something else that's going on. an awful lot of wind. you talked about the snow. a blizzard warning in effect for parts of nebraska. winds will be 50. it's going to be snowing like crazy. it's not going to stop for the next couple days. moving ahead to tomorrow, noon, still raining from minneapolis -- it's raining from minneapolis to the gefl coas

chad. thank you. tentatively ruled elon musk must testify again for the securities and exchange commissions probe over his $44 billion twitter takeover. the judge rejected arguments by musk's attorney that sec officials do not have the authority to issue subpoenas. the agency is examining whether musk followed the law when filing paperwork purchases of twitter stock and whether his communications in relation to the deal with misleading. >> bret: u.s. government appears to be increasing use of artificial intelligence this comes despite dystopian warnings what could happen if a.i. does not behave. here is correspondent mark meredith. [barking] >> from tracking american's sea lion population to analyzing how people cross the border, a new gao report finds the federal government is using artificial intelligence and plans to expand its use even as the technology develops in real time. >> a.i. has massive potential to change the way the government does business. >> researchers say of 23 federal agencies, na

. >> julie: chad pergram joins us now. >> chad: good afternoon, bellows contends mr. trump chose to light the match which triggered the riot, unclear if 14th amendment was designed for this. >> people that framed that and wrote that knew what insurrection was, civil war where 600,000 american citizens died, the drafters of this ratified it in all states. it is ludicrous legal joke. >> chad: political adversaries are coming to his defense. >> it really opens up pandora's box, this will not be legally sustained by the u.s. supreme court, but there will be different legal cases front and center. >> getting booted from the ballot in maine is more important than colorado, maine splits electoral votes. mr. trump secured one of maine's votes in 2020, there is now effort to impeach bellows. >> maine voters, made of citizens and not -- >> democratic maine representative jared golden said he voted to impeach the president, but says he should be allowed on the ballot unless found guilty of insurrection. julie. >> julie: it is unconstitutional. >> kara: they will be able to parad

chad pergram lays it out for us. >> chad: the legislative lift is prodigguous, rush to complete a border deal to unlock aid for ukraine and israel in shadow of not one, but two potential government the shutdowns. >> winter recess is important for the senate. >> chad: bipartisan talks resumed after christmas. >> i will stay for however long to get this done. doubtful the sides can forge an agreement right away. a collision with the january 19th funding deadline could pulverize border negotiations. house speaker johnson opposes a cr, that could be the only option to avoid shutdown. it will save tens of billions of dollars, but won't help us. >> devastating for the military, interim bills squeeze the pentagon the most. >> the cr is unacceptable. >> there is impeachment, holiday recess could persuade leaders to impeach the president after talking with people back home. constituents want to know what is going on here, is our president for sale? >> the house is considering holding hunter biden in contempt of congress. the border could overshadow everything feeling the heat to deal with waves o

we will go now to chad pergram who will explain all this in washington.u. >> the michigan supreme court upheld decision by lower court, the court held does not give election official leeway to judge eligibility of candidates for the ballot. president trump called it a gambut to rig the election. michigan is more important than colorado in 2024. it is a swing state. michigan could determine the presidential election. michigan was close in 2020, president biden beat president trump by 85,000 votes, but many in the muslim community are upset with president biden. it was imposed on confederates after the civil war. >> molly: great point, chad pergram, your insight proosht appreciated. tammy, the efforts have largely been unsuccessful across the country. your thoughts on what hammed in michigan and colorado? >> tammy: colorado, there have have to be a statement about what is appropriate. with the state elections effectively, presidential election, electors, it is a federal resort and federal government has interest in how to works. i think for colorado, newsom

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chad: is great to see. -- it is good to see.ook, you have spacex and blue origin, both founded in 2002. both have similar ambitions and similar funding. bezos continues to fund heavily into blue origin with another couple billion dollars this year , which brings his total investment into the company somewhere around $10 billion, which is slightly more than what spacex has raised. but if you look at the two companies and what they have achieved, spacex dominates the launch market. they are launching almost 100 times this year. they are taking nasa astronauts to the space station. lots of high-profile classified missions for the department of defense. they are in pole position to land nasa astronauts on the moon. meanwhile, blue origin has new shepard flying and they have big aspirations and interesting things in the works, but 20 years later, you would like to see some of those things start to come online. bezos is confident in their larger orbital vehicle will come online next year so next year should be pretty big for the compa

in washington chad pergram fox news. >> those tough from chad right there.ongress a spring in thf princeton university associate research scholar lauren wright too. thank you so much for h gi him s timeless new year's weekend. we really appreciate it. republicans have this razor thin majority be the red wave that so hope for the last election did not come around for his chatters reported their 18 republicans representing districts biden won wondering the 2020 presidential election. there were a lot of competitive races your thoughts on the map of the house and what it looks like the republicans or democrats? >> it is always competitive. chad is right close elections. most consensus seems to be there will take back the senate and the house why is that? >> the senate there are a few seats. montana, ohio, west virginia this one democratic incumbent leaving joe manchin's when one who can win there. conservatives outnumber liberals by more than two -- one on the house site of trump is the nominee that will also make it more difficult for the moderates to win. unl

senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live in washington. chad. >> mike, good morning.alks took a brief pause for the holidays. negotiators have a long way to go. asylum remains a sticking point. so is parole and even migration numbers. there is worry even a change in the law will not stem the flow. >> we're going to need an enforceable law, one that's enforceable over the president of the united states's attempt to make policy changes and say that his hands are tied. that is going to be difficult. difficult to put something in that says it is an impeachable offense not to secure the border. >> some republicans are leery of any immigration deal but democrats are wary, too. they worry about cracking down on migrants trying to escape political oppression and then there is the demand for high-skilled workers in the u.s. >> immigrants play a very important role in the technology industry. so many come to the united states to be educated here. but once they are educated, if they cannot get a green card, they have to leave. >> now the bigger concern is how the border surge co

>> rich: chad pergram.ou. >> let's get reaction to this story tonight from townhall.com managing editor spencer brown. you know, spencer, here's the stat it radio here. 70% of federal employees still working from home, more than two-thirds of federal moiees are still teleworking at least occasionally even as calls for in-person work have pushed agency leaders to reconsider their pandemic work era policies include according to an annual survey conducted by the office of personnel management. should we care about this? >> well, yeah, i mean everything the federal government is doing is ultimately at the expense of the american taxpayer so it's not just a case of a company maybe not utilizing work space well it's a case of the taxpayers are playing to keep all these offices cleaned, heated, air conditioned, all these things the lights are on but nobody's using them that's a huge waste and at a time of polarized funding, it's a really easy way to look at it and say if you're not using 70% of your office space o

in the meantime chad pergram is watching all of this. we were not sure what to expect, chad, and i don't know if anybody had this on their bingo card but it is what it is for the moment. what's happening? >> we had a sense a couple of days ago that hunter biden was not interested in appearing for this closed-door deposition. he was under a subpoena and there was a letter sent by abbe lowell to the committee chairman james comer, the republican of kentucky saying i'm willing to show up on that date but i want to appear in an open hearing. of course, james comer knocked that down right away said the subpoena is not for an open hearing, it is specifically for a closed-door deposition. and then democrats tried to turn it around and say immediately james comer and others on the committee must be afraid of having hunter biden appear in an open session. they don't want this. that's not what they wanted to do. james comer immediately countered by saying this is what we usually do and similar to what democrats did in their impeachment inquiry of

i've got to know if you're a dad brad, a chad, or you're like my daughter who saw a little bit of the taylor swift. >> she's running around going, i'm a swifty mommy. oh, that's funny. this is a tough story for me because, as you know, wardrobe doesn't want m ae talking about cookies ever again because none of my jackets. abo >> but as far as the taylor thing goes, the patriots fans freaking out because the team account tweeted at her. her the teamsthe patriot should be doing is asking her to play quarterback. they're terrible. they use all the helpght they can get right now. but as for the commentno f orabout dad's and chad's, the controversy is somet of people feel like this is like a slight of white guys, which i should warn her, if you're going to start insulting whiting whit e people, they will make you the mayor of boston. so be careful on that one.obviol >> okay. but the bigger issue is obviously, she's dating a whitnge guy, travis kelce. most sports fans are a little tired of the antics. >> but i think the brittany mahomes thing is very emblematic of brittany mahomes loves the

cnn's chad myers joins us right now from the weather center. hi, chad. merry christmas. >> merry christmas, danny. the rain is now going to be moving into florida and all the way up to minnesota. so this is a top-to-bottom kind of storm. severe weather possible across parts of florida, heavy rainfall in places that really need it. and then, this is going to turn into a blizzard into parts of nebraska, south dakota, and even kansas. in fact, blizzard warnings are posted there already. difficult travel across i-80, 76, i-90. now, it's a long drive across those interstates, and i take that from experience. but that's a foot of snow in parts of south dakota. that's a lot. and then the rainfall here across parts of the mid-atlantic states. so now let's get to it. 6:00 tonight, it's raining from chicago all the way down to florida. move you ahead until tomorrow, and this is where people are maybe driving back home. i-95 going to be wet. 75 as well. and there's your blizzard back out, even getting some snow to denver and maybe even in the mountains. we'll take

back to you. >> john: chad pergram on capitol hill. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: john, and to add to the list, we are right now waiting the white house any moment now the briefing is set to begin, all of this after hunter biden skips his closed door deposition with the house oversight committee. following his fiery statement to the press outside of capitol hill slamming maga republicans and defending his father claiming president biden was not financially involved in his overseas business dealings. david spunt reporting live from capitol hill, more on that as we await the white house press briefing. david. >> david: hi, sandra. had hunter biden shown up today on capitol hill, he would have been in this room behind me right now for a closed door transcribed deposition, it would have been under oath. hunter biden did not show up today, the subpoena called for him to be here at 9:30 answering questions from republicans and democrats, instead he showed up outside of the capitol. we do have some video of an empty hearing room showing his name tag, sh

chad pergram on capitol hill. chad, what could her testimony mean for the president's son?we have an audio problem there. let's see if you can open the channel of communication to my good friend chad pergram. he's moving his lips, can you hear me? >> reporter: i hear you now. while leslie wolf was an assistant u.s. attorney for delaware, republicans believe wolf put the chi kibosh on the understood -- hunter biden investigation. she's talking to house investigators now. >> we want to ask her questions about all that, and maybe most importantly why the invest decide -- can invest decided to let the tax years 2024, 2015 when the bulk of the income was coming in to hunter biden, why they let the statute of limitations lapse for those years. when you get into burisma, it does, because this is the ukrainian energy company that paid him so much money. >> reporter: expect more depositions in the coming weeks now that the house formalized an impeachment invest. the difference is that moderate gop members who represent swing districts were willing to vote yes. they resisted an impea

but as for the comment about dads brad and chads, the controversy is some people feel like this is aght of white guys, which, i should warn her, if you're going to start insulting white people, they will make you the mayor of boston. so be careful on that one. okay. but the bigger issue is obviously she's dating a white guy travis kelce. most sports fans are a little tired of the antics but i think the brittany mahomes thing is very emblematic of she loves the spotlight and was in it before taylor came among along and this is if you can't beat them join them and despite knowing a lost of dad brads or chads she's going to keep making them. >> there. >> artificial intelligence creeping into our daily life one company called ai zip have mick cheaps that can be incorporated into everyday life ceo said technology helps make life safer and more intelligent using the example of a refrigerator. this is for you jimmy telling you the nutritional value of your food and sneakers that tell you if you ate too much during christmas and adjust the cushion for your weight. >> yeah. i mean, who wants

chad: it is important in the fact that they are getting back to flight after 15 on's.the safety system kicked in. the capsule shot away from the booster stage and solved that. blue origin is very careful. the faa had to check things out and make sure they are ready to fly again, but 15 months is a long time. they do things methodically and carefully. the fight would be a big test, no people on board. they will demonstrate that the system works again. guy: space x is successful, keeps having successful launches, keeps taking the next step. feels like a different proposition to this one. we already are in the winnowing process. we have seen version departing. are we about to see more? how viable is the project we are looking at? chad: the only reason we are talking about space as an investment category -- it is only recently because the that's becoming category because of the falcon nine vehicle. it has reduced the cost of orbit. since they first brought their first customer, we have seen investments in nearly 1800 unique space companies. the falcon nine that takes human

chad myers unless the weather center. chad, where's the bad weather and where's it heading next?ll in south dakota, nebraska, kansas, colorado. that's the worst of it. what's happening right now is that the sun is setting. even though the sun on these pictures, you can't see it, it's actually warming the ground a little bit. when that sun goes away and the roads are a little bit wet, that wet becomes ice. so that's the black ice we are going to see tonight in this area toward the west. it is slowing down. the storm is now cut off from the moisture source. we call this a low pressure system that is kind of just swirling around. i like to call it a ho ho. you get the idea. there's not any additional moisture getting into the storm so there won't than much additional snow. there will be ground blizzard conditions. we still had over a foot of snow in spots. now it's just blowing around, it's just going in all different directions. so even though some spots have picked up a foot of snow, as you saw, there was a three-foot drift, then you could see the driveway. that's how it's been go

chad myers, thank you so much.e following breaking news out of israel where the idf now says it accidentally shot and killed three hostages in gaza. we're going to israel for a live report after a quick break. ststay with cncnn news cenentra.

chad, how are the next few days shaping up? >> reporter: well, wet for new york city, boston, philadelphia today. and also low clouds. although i'm very surprised. according to flight aware, only 140 airplanes have been canceled so far today. out of thousands and thousands in the air at this point. now, a couple thousand, 3,000 are delayed a little bit. that's typical when you have full flights and everyone is trying to get on the same flight at the same time. sometimes it takes 10 minutees to get the door closed. there's the rainfall in new york. the rain in pittsburgh and now the storm that made the snow in nebraska, colorado and kansas, it's winding down. it's lost its moisture and energy. there could be one to three inches of snow. it's over st. louis tonight. at sunset, that could be a problem. the moisture and energy shifted to the east. that's where the rain will be. there's a slight risk of even some flooding from pennsylvania and new jersey. the delaware water gap and then there you see the light snow along the mississ

larry: well put, chad. this christmas and a lot of rumors about that and this other chap bill johnson of ohio retires, he'll run a local college in ohio. the gop -- >> youngstown state. larry: thank you. gop will have a majority of one in the house. >> it'll be a bit more than that because brian higgins, a democrat from buffalo will also retire over the winter to run an arts organization in western new york but as i always say, larry, it's about the math. this is constantly a moving target. in fact just before santos was expelled, they swore in a new republican from utah, celes t te molloy and only had a few days in the house before the expulsion of santos today. larry: chad pergram, thank you very much. another big story to report on. big day on wall street today and yesterday was another big day on wall street, and we have none other than gerri willis to give us a report. gerri, what are you cook something >> yeah, larry. markets pulling ahead and all three major averages finishing higher today and s&p up

here to explain is chad morgan later, senior portfolio manage -- and sderot city, the managin partner and d.c. l.a., managin partner. also cnbc contributor. he's gonna be our guest host for the hour so he'll be weighing i throughout the course of the hour this is going to be an interesting discussion maybe chad, we'll start with you on this, just how good of year one of the. and do you think there's any chance it continues in 2024? >> so, first, happy new year t all. yes, i think that the market can continue to hit higher highs. that is on the back of a stron economic growth, stron earnings growth. yes, evaluations are quite hig with a learning sealed of 5% but you had that pivot tha basically -- and we think it will continu into january, february, an march. >> talk to us a bit about what you're feeling here into the new year >> i do think valuations are stretched. the key here is the market i so dependent on the fed. because that was the pivot for equities to actually go up and i think you're not gonna get multiple expansion, yo have to have earnings growth and we still have some geo