i'm buddies with dana white. that's my guy. how's the country doing? the country as a whole, you're hitting me with political questions right now. we're at the red carpet. are you proud of joe biden? are you proud of the president? get out of my face. i got him. >> thankfully, johnny didn't completely burn our relationship with mario. he's here to make his triumphant primetime return as the unofficial prince of christmas. access hollywood host and star of the new film once upon a christmas wish. mario lopez is here. how are you doing? >> i'm doing well, my man. i didn't know that was your guy right there. i'm right in the middle of the carpet. guy having a good time. he's hitting you with hard questions on the carpet. oh, my. you know, i don't like to alienate anyone. i want everyone to watch me. that's very smart. and not change the channel. >> that's very smart. and you could have hit him. that's fine with me. >> i try not to be violent. >> it's okay. i tell that to anybody. just hit johnny. all right. so when you're doing these red carpets, i mean,

i am buddies with dana white. that is my guy. >> reporter: how is the country doing?ting me with political questions right now. are you proud of the president? >> get out of my face. >> jesse: thankfully johnny didn't xreetly burn our relationship with mario. -- completely burn our relationship with mario. he is here to return to be the prince of christmas. star of the new film once upon a christmas wish, mario lopez is here. how are you doing? >> i didn't know that was your guy right there. i was on the red carpet having a good time. >> jesse: he was hitting you with hard questions on the carpet. >> i don't want to alienate anyone. >> jesse: that's very smart. you could have hit him. that's fine with me. >> i try not to be violent. >> jesse: i say that to anybody. just hit johnny. when you are doing these red carpets, you have been doing this for a long time. do you know the people that you interrogate? >> i pretty much try to have a good time and a conversation. and they end up divulging more stuff than they want to. i don't try to get a sound bite i am a fan of ent

willing to come forward and talk about their experiences with the president and with this white house. >> dana: madeleine rivera is live at the white house with more. >> the silence from president biden is especially stark as the government barrels towards a shutdown. no comments from the president about this issue. the press secretary is filling the void. karine jean-pierre saying on thursday republicans are doing the bidding of their billionaire benefactors at the expense of hard working americans. she goes on to say that president biden supports the bipartisan agreement that house speaker mike johnson hammered out with democrats to keep the government open. nbc reports the white house has been coordinating strategy with democratic leadership in congress but white house officials believe that this is ultimately a problem for president-elect trump and republicans to solve after he encouraged them to sink the initial deal. as the president keeps a low profile president biden's decline had been apparent in the early months of his presidency. he became tired and interactions with cabinet members

charles: budweiser went to the trans-woman in a bubble bath drinking beer, now they are in bed with dana whitef each other. they are thinking budweiser is thinking of doing some sponsorship. have you seen that? two huge guys smashing each other in the face. charles: a fox show. it is not. neil: is it on tiktok? charles: it is not for the faint of heart. not a fox show. my phone is lighting up. neil: its our lawyers. charlie, have a good time. speaking of every thing, taking up the issue of its future. what is going on? >> two hours of arguments are scheduled for january 10th, nine days before this potential ban on tiktok could go into place and the supreme court declined to put a pause on this diverse orban laws that could lead to tiktok going dark for users across the united states starting on january 19th. and after that, after january 10th, what we expect is the court could rule on the free-speech issue and whether this law violates the constitution or it could temporarily pause the law and that decision could come within days. the timing is significant, january 10th, looks like it would be

when you saw him at mad sore square garden with joe rogan, dana white, rfk, tulsi gabber and you haveeople like elon and bill akman david sacks i've a wide disparityl of people who want this to worki and i think it will work if the keep disciplined andth their ey on the ball and i think they can do that. >> raymond: yeah. victor trump brought up the panama canal yesterday. listen to this. i want youg r reaction. >> we're being ripped off at the panama canal like we're being ripped off everywhere else. principles both morale and legal of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed then we will demand that u theni panama canal be returned to the united states of america in full, quickly and without question. i'm not going to stand for it. >> raymondma: of course, pan ma officials argie saying you're n taking an inch of this land you're not giving it to trump. also greenland he if you want post that the ownership and control of greenland is absolutely avict necessity. victor why is trump talking about this? what's the game here? >> i think he's trolling. i think he's sending a me

you think dana white, joe rogan. these are people who professionally fight or comment on fights for a living, and that is not an accident because watching people fight is primordial he entertaining. >> that is a great insight. andrew manantz, thank you so much. >>> still to come, concerns about the information environment are as old as the republic, even older, but is this something new happening? feels like there is. next. feels like there is. next. shopify built the best converting checkout on the planet. like the just one-tapping, ridiculously fast-acting, sky-high sales stacking champion of checkouts. that's the good stuff right there. so if your business is in it to win it, win with shopify. >>> we look back at different areas of democracy and find people were worried about how voters got their information basically every step of the way. they also worried about how new technologies might change that at different points from early questions about how the universal franchise would work among populations that were

and so this is why this president took this action. >> dana: 0 regrets. white press secretary defending the president's decision to pardon his son, hunter amid a storm of criticism from both republicans and democrats. reporter shouting a question to the president about the controversial move. he got this response. >> mr. president, why did you change your mind and pardon your son? ♪ >> dana: that's what you call saved by the trumpets. joining us now is axios reporter hans nichols. i won't play the flashback. we all know karine jean-pierre and joe biden both were saying for months he would not pardon his son. he knew that he was going to be asked this question and repeatedly he said no. now they act surprised that somebody would suggest that they are lying? >> well yes, but they don't have a better position. they have to hugh their line and make the point the president believes in the justice system but has a preemptive idea it wasn't going to be as good under trump and maybe hunter biden would be subject to more legal scrutiny. there are two conversations takin

later i started my new show and i have had just a blast having conversations with people, from dana white is my dear friend even if i call him the wrong name, to rfk junior, nicole shanahan, to sharon osbourne, mayim bialik who is super liberal and talk to me anyway. that has been missing in our country for all these years, conversations. i was afraid to not give my opinions because what happens? then you are going to be tagged as a right wing nut job. you know what? i noticed every single time i gave my opinion and those on my show did, michael rappaport, who is very far left and ended up voting for donald trump because of what the biden administration did not do with israel, when you look at the facts it is easy and i realize that every time someone spoke up and gave our true opinion, your numbers go up because we are all desperate for the truth and for people to be their authentic selves. through my show i got to interview lara trump. what a blessing. i am upset with her and i do not think that people truly understand the difference she made in this country. they saved this country. th

like you think dana white, joe rogan. >> yeah. >> these are people who professionally fight or commentcident. because watching people fight is like primordially entertaining. >> and that's a great, great insight. andrew, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> still to come, concerns about the information environment are as old as the republic, even older. but isn't there something new happening? that's next. something new happening? that's next. cleaning that grs with dawn platinum... and not even scrubbing. —well, fluff my feathers. — [giggle] it cuts through the slimy stuff better than their old dish soap, removing 99% of grease. that's why only dawn is trusted to save wildlife. my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. now i have skyrizi. ♪ i've got places to go and i'm feeling free. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ control is everything to me.♪ and now i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi helped visibly improve damage of the intes

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previous track record when he was president and in all likelihood there could be award from the white house. >> danathe family wants to sue daniel penny civilly. would you want to sue the government officials for not protecting jordan neely and not keeping him in jail when he should have been and then he maybe wouldn't have been in a subway on drugs causing a commotion. >> bill: new clues in the murder of this united healthcare ceo brian thompson. over the weekend police released photos of a person of interest captured by the front camera of a new york city taxi cab. investigators believe the suspect has skipped town and might be headed or could be in atlanta by bus yet again. they also say they found what could be a gray backpack dumped in a wooded area of central park. remember he took the bicycle into the park. inside the backpack was a jacket and stack of monopoly money but no gun. scuba divers scouring a pond where he may have ditched the weapon. the f.b.i. is the lead on this case and we'll try to follow everything that we can starting today again. >> dana: rich edson will tell us a little mor

>> dana: inexcusable. the white house says give us credit for the record setting.nt the history making and it was a first and that rather than the point. it is like they still cannot understand why they lost so much credibility. >> bill: this is scranton, pennsylvania, right? where joe biden was born and lived until the age of nine. here is a mother who was ripping on the judge after she lost her son. watch. >> my son's life, my life, multiple lives, there are so many kids that have lost their life not just my son. so many kids still struggling. i want to see his name removed because that's just another slap in the face, another injustice on top of all of the grief that everybody in this community has already endured. >> bill: that woman is sandy and she does not have a chance to see her son again. he committed suicide. >> dana: i don't know if that's possible for them to pull it back once delivered and paperwork turned in i don't think you can pull it back. we can see and something to look into. it is quite disgusting and no excuse to say they didn't have time to

it would be up to the white house to control how the agencies operate. >> dana: aishah hasnie is followingis from capitol hill. what will happen in the next two hours? >> good morning, dana and bill. welcome to congress. this is how it works here. back and forth a lot of it. the house floor is now open and members are starting to walk in. there is still an ongoing huddle going on in speaker johnson's office between the house freedom caucus members that did not vote for the skinny pr last night. the trump-endorsed one last night. they are meeting also with president trump's nominee for omb director russell bot. he is in the room as well. we haven't seen j.d. vance enter the room but he is being represented by voss. i'm being told at this hour that there is a deal. a temporary fix to avert a government shutdown and a vote will happen as early as 10:00 a.m. today. it does not appear to include the debt ceiling provision that trump called for because again they weren't able to get the house freedom caucus members to agree to that. as of 1:00 a.m. last night president-elect trump wasn't moving

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. >> dana: several bombshell reports revealing how the white house dealt with a president in decline.lus a government funding bill that's longer than moby dick. trump and his doge leaders tanking it. lawmakers looking to avert a potential shutdown. >> i saw what you saw. it is a multiple vehicle pile-up. i knew as soon as i saw the bill it was going to be trouble. the thing was as big as a costco. could go up with the stock market lock in your gains? and when the market goes down, you don't lose anything. forward with your money. never backwards would have that investment strategy, that product actually existed? good news! it does! if you have at least $100,000 to invest, get your investor's guide and see if it's right for you. israel, the birthplace of our faiths for christians and jews. that christmas morning, wise men brought gifts from outside the holy land. but in this year of war, this holy land and her people are living in fear. many of the elderly are alone and suffering. like the wise men or wise women, would you open your heart and give a special holiday food box to someone

dana: we'll see. thank you so much. >> bill: from the white house let's go to capitol hill.h arrived a moment ago meeting with senator rand paul and after that he will have -- start a series of meetings with democrats. he talked about that a moment ago. let's check that out. >> i understand you are starting to meet with democrats today? >> nice part is there is nothing political about the d.o.d. and make sure politics is not a part of it. meeting with democrats like republicans is a huge part of our approach. >> bill: there we have it as the meetings commence today on the hill and we'll see what comes of that. >> the one narrative that clearly emerged from this election that the american people want us to work together to solve problems on their behalf and in particular drive down the high cost of living. >> dana: democrats begin to pick up the pieces following their election day losses and the dnc getting set to select a new leader. ben wickler is among those in the race and he will join us to outline his vision for the party. plus workers in deep blue d.c. get ready to ret

white house as christmastime. it is one cherished place. >> dana: very special indeed. after thanksgiving. harris faulkner takes you through the next hour. here she is. >> harris: breaking news. where do you g

nice to see you from the white house. >> dana: congressman jeff van drew republican of new jersey were in a briefing yesterday and you had said that you believe or heard that it could be from iran. pentagon said it is not the case and so i wonder if you had put in china, would they be forced to respond as well and we narrow it down by way of guessing game. >> they've been incredibly stupid and weak with this. here is the point. we know they are not backyard drones that some hobiest is using. they're more sophisticated and not a commercial company in the united states. we're a full decade behind china is with drones. the government says it's not them. who is it? i had credible individuals who have high security ratings and they came to me and again these are dependable, credible individuals that have security clearance that felt they wanted to clear the air. they were in essence whistleblowers and said they believe there is a real possibility it could be iran. that there could be a ship out. not right on the coast of new jersey. not right there but the drones as sighted by the coast gua

i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." what bothers me about this for the white house press secretary. you always have power. you have a choice of what you will say. you are not a powerless person. the fact she made the decisions she made and -- she got put in a position but she has made it worse by rubbing the spot on the wall. also maintains d.o.j. is not politically biased. "new york post" summing it up as the insanity defense. >> bill: all this underscoring donald trump's promise to clean up the department of justice. this as republicans go scorched earth on president biden. >> after saying he wouldn't pardon his son he turns around and does the very thing. lie at the start, lie at the ending and a terrible four years in between. >> we had sworn testimony, joe biden knew all along what was going on and he lied when he said he wasn't going to pardon his son. >> apparently rock bottom has a basement. >> dana: senator mike rounds is here. let's go to madeleine rivera at the white house. >> good morning. the president in angola this morning ignored more questions

dana: it's gorgeous. >> bill: all mostly white. gasoline in ohio when i left yesterday was dropping to $3.06 a gallon. .06 when i was leaving. that's a good thing. >> dana: end of the holiday weekend. >> bill: that's our tree and it is beautiful. we salute that. historic snowstorm blasting the northeast from michigan to new york. some folks are seeing three to five feet of snow. oh my. there is more to come. fox weather storm specialist mike seydel is in mayville, new york south of buffalo. how goes it, mike? good morning. >> good morning, bill. and good morning dana. this will put you in the holiday spirit. we've had nearby 4 1/2 feet of snow and still coming down. another band moved in. this is your work-out this morning, guys. trying to walk through this. look at this. it is about three feet plus. it has settled since it started midnight thursday. literally hasn't stopped. a little improvement on the road. we had sun earlier and the snow stopped. now that we've got another band, look at that. 394 slushing up. good news on 90. they opened up to commercial traffic at 2:00 a.m. this morning. 90 is open

garrett tenney, thank you in chicago. >> dana: for more on this is incoming white house counselor to the president alina habba. congratulations on the appointment. a great job for you to get your head around all of this. you have to look at it from a big picture point of view. when garrett tenney runs a clip of the woman saying i used to love going to the park, those are the people you think about when you are fighting for the policies even if it is going to be difficult some days in the messaging. >> that's, of course that's true. difficult messaging is not something we're unfamiliar with or president trump is. we have to make clear the one thing dana that is that we're doing this for the american people. as tom homan said we're trying to clean up the streets, get on board. eric adams is a perfect example and i can't believe i'm saying that. he said look, you can cancel me. this isn't about politics. this is about safety, security and the people that i was voted in by to support and protect and defend. and that's what we want to do. we have to correct this so people feel safe going

white house. all of that creates a new level of challenges. >> bill: thanks, jonathan. breaking news. >> danave breaking news in the morning. >> bill: we had a lot of it. >> dana: thank you so much. we appreciate you. so there is this, there is the possible government shutdown. how to deal with that. lots more to come all day on fox news. harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: before even taking office president-elect donald trump is

dana: have a safe trip. it's beginning to look a lot like christmas at the white house. before we go we want to show you this. this afternoon first lady jill biden will officially unveil this year's decorations. looks pretty. a preview. the theme is a season of peace and light. display features nearly 10,000 feet of ribbon and more than 28,000 ornaments. it's the last christmas for the bidens at the white house. >> bill: i've always thought 350 million americans should have the opportunity to walk through the white house as christmastime. it is one cherished place. >> dana: very special indeed. we have a lot of news for you on monday after thanksgiving. harris faulkner takes you through the next hour. here she is. >> harris: breaking news. where do you go if you just pardoned your convict kid and your last name is biden? president biden is about to land on the african continent in angola. still won't be far enough away to escape from the lies he has been telling the american people. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." biden's presidential pardon not

dana perino is here, america's newsroom coanchor and white house press secretary got great to have a n on the border, has his own political issues at home, what's going on? >> dana: i think for justin trudeau it is too little, too late, all those things are good what you are the prime minister, should have been doing that beforehand and i don't think it's it's well with canadians because his popularity is pretty much it where it leaders around the western world are in the toilet basically. they are underwater when it comes to their approval, they have spent way too much on dreams and their health care systems are not up to par, not that ours is great but certainly better than what they have and under the weight of all those woke policies, the extra spending, to voters and all of these countries are saying and out of! france, germany, looks would happen in the u.k. it did not just happen to the liberal government, the entire conservative government got throughout in the u.k., any incumbent is in trouble. so justin trudeau, he goes to mar-a-lago and been much mocked by president trump,

white van. everybody saw one. >> dana: my dad called me about that one, too. >> bill: he did. are you okay? good. so a country superstar entering a plea deal. today's hemmer celebrity news. what do we have? morgan whaleen appearing in court after throwing a chair. >> the chair landed on broadway three feet from where officers were standing placing them in danger of death or body had bowly injury. >> how plead. >> conditionally guilty. >> the judge reduced the charges from felony to misdemeanor. mo morgan whelan. >> dana: he was fortunate it didn't hit somebody. >> bill: talented guy, dumb decisions. >> dana: he was in my spotify number four. check this out. bill belichick making his return to coaching. jim gray on the news that's making shock waves. ( ♪ ) my back got injured very bad. i was off work for about a year. i heard about relief factor from my wife. i took it every day, three times a day, for three weeks. look at her and i said, "the pain is gone." and she said, i'm glad it helped. i said, "no, you don't understand. it's gone." you, too, can feel better every day with relief factor

white people, i think i have to respond. so i wrote a letter to black people. >> harold: you should write a letter to him. >> dana: oh, dear -e. this letter is in response to jamaal bowman's letter to whites, but first, some housekeeping. we love harold. [laughter] >> harold: please don't put me in -- >> jesse: thank you for sharing harold with us. he is an absolute delight. bowman, on the other hand, is too racist to serve on a jury into anti-semitic to serve in congress, and i feel bad for him. and i'm sure he would like me if we met but that's probably not going to happen so please talk to him. and after that, let me know any whites you want me to talk to, and i'd be happy to do it. i have some whites in mind. [laughter] thank you so much. >> judge jeanine: end it there, jesse. >> jesse: but in all seriousness -- [laughter] the judge is absently right. this man was a ticking time bomb. brasgg should be recalled and anybody who lives in this area, never been on a subway, you are underground, in a prison cell, and you are going 50-60 miles an hour, and if some guy comes on there and starts threatening, there is nothing many

dana perino. >> bill: good morning. hour two lifting off now. bill hemmer. good morning. the mystery deepens, not solved entirely yet. the white house describing the drones as lawful and not a threat to any of us but many questions remain. the biden administration will brief the house intel committee behind closed doors on the hill a bit later today. >> dana: this as president-elect trump on the front page of today's "new york post" saying there is something strange going on. >> the government knows what is happening. look, our military knows where they took off from, if it's a garage they can go right into that garage. they know where it came from and where it went. for some reason they don't want to comment. and i think they would be better off saying what it is. our military knows and our president knows. and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. >> dana: nate foye is live in elizabeth, new jersey. is there more, nate? >> we're all waiting for answers and perhaps we'll find them today with the white house briefing, the house intelligence committee at 2:00. see what comes of that. president-elect donald trump

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. >> dana: the protestors said daniel penny is free because he is white.ill challenge alvin bragg. she was on "fox & friends." >> alvin bragg came into this office with his day one memo which was wrong in so many different ways. he is ending his term now with this daniel penny case, right? this will be his legacy that he tried to prosecute a young man with no criminal record who served his country honorably and who did what many people in the subways would hope, which is to be a brave young man and step up and try to protect people on the subway. >> dana: that sentiment is also part of th here. anyone who rides a subway. there are many of them. a lot of people in new york want to work and get there on time and not bothered by this kind of thing on the subway. >> the jury was asked how often do they ride the subway? all if not most were occasional to every day subway riders. and so you just have to ask the average new yorker what is the subway like and they'll tell you it is pure chaos. i think the crime statisticians pretend crime, it is so complicated. is

white house. i'm phil mattingly in for dana bash. let's go behind the headlines and inside politics.are just 27 days away from the dawn of the second trump administration. once donald trump takes the oath of office, his party will control the white house, the senate and the house. trump's policy ambitions are equal parts aggressive and transformative, an agenda that should theoretically be attainable with unified control of the executive and legislative branches. but as we saw during last week's spending fight, threadbare majority's divergent intra party goals, well, they can serve as a reality check of sorts for a president elect. at the height of his political power, raising a major question here in washington can trump and his party overcome those hurdles in the months ahead? we start things off with cnn's steve contorno, who joins me now, steve. president-elect trump's inauguration. i think it's just a couple of weeks away at this point. how are those first 100 day plans taking shape? >> phil, we still have a lot to learn about how trump intends to execute his policies that he wa

white house. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm julie banderas. dana and bill are off today. you have jenkins and julie. >> griff: great to be with you this holiday week. president-elect trump is throwing down some big markers on the world stage adding the panama canal to his list of foreign policy demand over china's growing influence in the region. the canal originally built and controlled by the u.s. shortens the distance that ships must travel from the atlantic to the pacific. it can save ships up to 22 days in travel time and 72% of ships passing through the canal are going to or from u.s. ports. >> julie: let's go to jackui heinrich. >> the president-elect the u.s. is being ripped off having built the panama canal and signed a treaty for use of it under president carter. now ships pay levies as high as $5 hundred thousand per passage. the president of panama said every square meter of the panama canal belong to panama and continue to be the sovereignty and independence of our country is not negotiable. trump replied we'll see about that with an image of american flag pl

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white house. all of that creates a new level of challenges. >> bill: thanks, jonathan. breaking news. >> dana: i love breaking news in the morning. >> bill: we had a lot of it. >> dana: thank you so much. we appreciate you. so there is this, there is the possible government shutdown. how to deal with that. lots more to come all day on fox news. harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: before even taking office president-elect donald trump is flexing his influence over the republican party. it is his party. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the incoming president joined his doge, department of governmental efficiency, the co-chairs for that. he joined them to push for major changes to congress's current spending bill. it was supposed to be a little continuation into the new year and then they would work on it more. no, it is like an omnibus. the thing is huge, 1500 pages. doge is making it very clear that they are serious about slashing the waste that lawmakers put into bills. overall. musk posted about this particular bill. this bill should not pass responding to vivek ra

. >> dana: fighting will likely reverberate across the middle east. alex hogan has more from tel aviv. hi. >> the white house says it is trying to prevent isis from taking advantage of the power vacuum currently in syria and prevent any weapons left behind by the assad regime from falling into the wrong hands. u.s. centcom car eid out 75 strikes in syria. isis leaders and bases, israel struck suspected chemical weapons sites and destroyed long range rockets and missiles in syria as the idf enters the buffer zone in the golan heights with a sees fire agreement in syria. assad's family ruled over the country for 50 years. there was an offensive that began two weeks ago. the opposition forces are taking advantage of how russia and iran and hezbollah were all distracted with conflicts of their own. these allies even acknowledged the shocking pace of this defeat. >> [speaking foreign language. >> he said it was a surprising inability of the syrian army to counter the move. the rebels are a coalition of groups banded together with the strongest member being hts. the u.s. has designated as a terror group. the

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if you go down this street dana, and then turn right, you are looking front and center at the imposing, beautiful south korean national assembly. all of these white busses that you see on the right, they hold about two dozen police officers so how we started here, we have the conservative president of south korea. yun sun stunning the nation. earlier tonight addressing south korea on television and saying because of his words, paraphrasing here north korean elements within government and within communist sympathizers within government he was declaring martial law but how he was declaring martial law and what specific elements that entailed remained unclear. stunning. so many people, so whole. multitudes of protesters came a couple of yards behind us to the national assembly to say, we got to cancel this. we have to overturn this declaration of martial law. and that is exactly what happened. members of the opposition party, the liberal democratic party were able to come back and vote by a simple majority in the legislature to overturn martial law. still astounding to say here in south korea so, dana, in terms of what happens next we're going to se

white male, all in block. he crossed the street. then i called 911. yeah. maybe someone else already called. a guy, he was here, this corner the whole night. >> dana: yeah. >> who was on the corner? >> the guy that shot the guy. >> dana: all right. we have the two big stories. let's start with the daniel penny case. judge jeanine, you can tell us your interpretation of what the jury asked today and the decision to send them home once again. >> jeanine: okay. i'm very impressed with this jury starting with the first question that the jury came back with. that was a question as to the criminal charges, how they related to the facts and the defensive justification. so they knew right away what they had to do was create some kind of umbrella. these are the parameters which were working. justification, of course, is a defense but it's not a defense that the defense has to prove. it's a defense that the people have to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt. the next group of questions had to do with issues that i think are extremely telling as to where this jury is going. and the last group of questions had to do with the medical examiner that i've been ver

>> dana: i have thought that occurred to me and let me use my words to see if i can get can get about. when the robert hur report came out there was fury from the whitegarland let it go out. i have to wonder if merrick garland made sure it went out, so that he at least would have been like we are trying to tell people, this is what was happening. one of the things in the article is that they scripted his interactions with his defense secretary lloyd austin, no wonder he had no idea lloyd austin was missing in action for three weeks, they never spoke anyway. if they did it was a script. it's not a call center, he didn't have a way to communicate directly with his treasury secretary. no wonder they never talked about inflation as a problem for americans, you are the chief of staff saying it was a high-class problem. then you think those historians who would visit the white house including writing speeches for joe biden, telling him you could be bigger than fdr. they were trying to have historical analysis, they were trying to make history with somebody who could make his own decisions. think of these people also. any linsky of "the wall street journal"

white vos but black voters in detroit didu ranot come out so what is that about? >> laura: it is called the economy. at them and that, nothing. joining us katie pavlich and dana syndicated host, dana and katie, great to have you one. i'm howling laughing because please don't change the policies. >> they claim they have ate messaging problem bullt they har a reality problem. they cannot continue to tellover americans what they arec experiencing illegal immigration and running overer public safet running over apartment complexes down the road or communityst clogging up the school system, medical system. they cannot keep telling people thatbe is not happening when clearly a price to pay. we will be interesting to see what it willthy hochul, we wille with i.c.e. because we havean thousands of hardened d criminas coming to our country and virtual signaling and that tolerance preaching for the last couple of years is destroying their communities and americans are victims of it. our people are holding us accountable. spain went the budgets are destroyed, 13-year-old migrant and friends basically assaultin tourists in new york andk we horrific case. i want to play th

white house jetting off to than st. croix for vacation as president-elect trump works through the christmas holiday preparing for his arrival into the oval office. good morning, i'm riched son. bill and danare off. >> i'm aishah hasnie, merry christmas. "america's newsroom." there are just now 25 days left in president biden's term. rather than make the most of his remaining days in office, he is eager for a final bout of relaxation, where else but the u.s. virgin islands. >> in 2023 he vacationed there and in 2019 he was there as he prepared for his first challenge to donald trump. this year's getaway will book end a year that brought significant challenges to the president overseas war, crisis at home, inflation, immigration and dropping out of the presidential race most notably. >> aishah: president trump is laying the ground work for policy plans and stacking his cabinet. alexander hoff is live in studio with me now with more. >> the president's departure is not a departure from what we've been seeing the past few weeks. you've seen it on capitol hill. many are wondering where he is. aside from mass clemency announcements and appearances on the holiday circuit president biden hasn't w

dana here. >> i do. they have given me phenomenal advice. >> brian: i'm sure you don't need advice from him. >> let's hear it, brian. >> brian: donnie snow had radio show before going to the whiteas your are prerequisite. he said because the president told me george w. bush i could be in the meetings. i didn't want it relayed to me what was happening. i had to be there do you have that type of guarantee? >> absolutely. yes. i have a direct relationship with the president trump. i can call him. he will answer. i have been working for him now a couple of years. so he is a great boss to work for. when you ask him a question he tells you the truth. >> steve: this is going to be such a change of pace for the last four years. when the people in the briefing room ask actually questions they get something read out of binder and it is not sometimes accurate and sometimes it's a flat out lie. >> yeah. absolutely. there has certainly been a lack of transparency over the last four years if you talk to reporters off the record. they will tell you they are excited about president biden will be back in the oval office because they know how much access they had to him and his press secretaries

and it is a white christmas in new york city, where you can expect today and for the rest of the week in your neck of the woods. hi everyone, i'm jessica dean in for dana bash today. let's go behind the headlines and inside politics. reporter. up first for us today, the resistance. 26 days until donald trump's inauguration and a total republican control of congress in washington and at the white house. for democrats, that means a race to put together a playbook for being the opposition. so we want to spend some time talking about the party out of power and their emerging plans to win it back, and to discuss it all with me. our mary panel of reporters. merry christmas to all of you. cnn's isaac dovere, marc caputo of the bulwark, stephanie lee of bloomberg and cnn's steve contorno. it is great to have all of you here with us. isaac, i want to start first with you, because you've done a lot of reporting on the democrats, as they do try to find a way out of kind of this existential crisis that they're having. where do they go from here? >> well, where they go, it seems like necessarily is to the states and to the democratic governors who are in power, obv

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dana griffin has more. >> reporter: newly released video shows the heart stopping moment this high-speed passenger train slams into a fire truck in delray beach, florida. video shows the red and whitearm down as the fire truck crosses the tracks on the wrong side of the road. writing on x, for everyone's safety, never drive around crossing gates when they are down. zach thrasher was on the train. describe the moment of impact. >> it was intense. pretty violent. i remember seeing the cargo train go by us and immediately afterward, it felt like a slight break and the impact immediately after. >> reporter: federal and local officials are investigating. the saturday morning crash sending 12 passengers and 3 firefighters to the hospital. >> three firefighters were transported. two of them were deemed critical at the scene. they have since been upgraded to stable condition. >> reporter: the video does not show the impact but the mingled fire truck shows how brutal the collision. >> it was a loud crash and the moment i heard it, i knew it was a train and nothing else. >> reporter: witnesses tell nbc news the fire truck bypassed the crossing gate after a freight train with through the inte