griff: we will be watching, hillary vaughn, great reporting from manchester, new hampshire. anita: turning to president biden's midterm messaging, he has a busy campaign schedule leading up to election day, he will swing through illinois and pennsylvania before ending weekend in new york. lucas tomlinson at the white house north lawn for us with more details on this. lucas, does sound like the president is getting out quite a bit this campaign season. lucas: he sure is, anita, but he's busy avoiding the battleground states such as new hampshire such as we heard from hillary. will be going to pennsylvania later today and speak in deep-blue california where he visited a while ago where he reignited his war on fossil fuels. >> also not cheaper to generate electricity from wind and solar than it is from coal and oil. literally cheaper. we will be shutting the plants down all across america and having wind and solar. lucas: w west virginia democratc senator fighting back, they ignore the severe economic pain the american people are feeling in rising energy costs. comments like th

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hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary.he now bankrupt crypto exchange ftx, sam bankman-fried, is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by investors claiming he and high-profile celebrities like nfl quarterback tom brady, nba star steph curry, broke the law and caused consumers to suffer more than $11 billion in damages. now lawmakers on capitol hill are looking where all the money went. >> they need to be held accountable. i think a whole lot of them have to explain what they have done. reporter: bankman-fried was not just a crypto king but also a democratic megadonor. this election bankman-fried was largest donor after george soros shelling out 3million dollars this cycle. 92% of those donations going to democratic candidates. do you think lawmakers that got donation's from ftx's founder should give the money back? >> i don't want to get into that. as a matter of fact both sides and democrats an republicans received donations. thank you. reporter: liz. elizabeth: hillary vaughn, thanks for your reporting. brian styles

hillary vaughn joins us now from capitol hill. hillary, does ticketmaster have more problems right now than just fans irate in not being able to buy tickets when they wanted to? >> reporter: they do. it's not just taylor swift fans that think ticketmaster may be in their villain era after many swifties were not able to get tickets. lawmakers now on capitol hill say what happened is a system o. congressman david cicilline who chairs the antitrust subcommittee says the doj, who has an antitrust probe into the live nation/ticketmaster merger, should break them up if they can't fix it. >> either impose if additional conditions to restore real competition in this marketplace or unwind this transaction so that no longer will customers be taken advantage in this way and prices be outrageously high. >> reporter: but others don't think congress needs to pass few antitrust laws, just enforce the ones already on the books. >> i do think we have strong, strong antitrust foundational rules in place today, and that's up to, you know, folks like

first we go to fox business correspondent hillary vaughn live on capitol hill with a breakdown of thosers. hey, hillary. >> good morning, griff. government funding runs out december 16th and spending hawks say the best thing that congress can do before the holidays is keep the budget as is. not increase spending in this new budget because they say it will make inflation worse. the committee for responsible federal budget warning with inflation surging and debt approaching record levels policymakers should avoid worsening the deficit and should pledge to add no new debt for the rest of 2022. policymakers are considering an end of the year fiscal package that would make things much worse. calculating all the current spending wishes on the table the budget the democrats are writing behind closed doors could add 585 billion to the debt in the first year potentially adding as much as 1.5% to already high inflation. democrats who are out of power in the house in the new year think raising the debt ceiling and passing a budget are the two things they can do before republicans take charge. >> i

hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with the latest. hillary?d evening, jackie, well the new twitter boss elon musk hints he is willing to give users a peek behind the curtain about what went down that led to twitter censoring the hunter biden laptop story on their platform in the critical days leading up to the 202 election. musk replying to a twitter user request release all internal discussions that led to the censorship in the interest of transparency. musk tweeting back says this is important to get the public trust. jack dorsey said they were wrong to censor the story which at the time they said violated the hacked material policy. several news organizations have verified it as legitimate, cbs knaus the latest to do so. republicans on capitol hill eyeing the majority in january they will use the oversight powers who at the fbi warned this was quote, russian disinformation and investigate the former intelligence officers that signed a letter saying that. >> former high level intelligence community officials signed a letter saying this was a

hillary vaughn is live with more. he new twitter boss, elon musk said he's willing to give user as peek behind this curtain to detail what went down to censoring the hunter biden laptop story. musk indicating that this is necessary to restore public trust. former twitter ceo jack dorsey admitted that they were wrong to censor the hunter biden story, which they said at the time violated the company's hacked material policy. two years after that, the "new york post" broke the story, several news organizations had verified it as legitimate. cbs news is the latest to do so. now republicans on capitol hill eye a majority and will use their oversight powering to dig into who at the fbi hit the story and investigate the intelligence officials that signed a letter saying that. >> we should investigate. we should subpoena everybody that signed that letter. former high level intelligence community officials that signed a letter saying this was all russian disinformation. turns out it wasn't. turns out that that was a lie. if peo

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary? reporter: good evening, liz.the house they will have leverage and they say they plan to use it to force democrats to trim the fat of their bloated budget and not allow any new government spending without budget cuts. democrats promise they won't give in to any pressure to make cuts but they want a compromise. senate majority leader chuck schumer said he is willing to work with republicans to avoid a government shut down looming over the holidays and fund the government. democrats also claim that republicans want to put social security and medicare on the chopping block, to cut spending but the committee for a responsible federal budget says the priorities should be stopping new spending and social security and medicare can remain untouched. if the debt ceiling is not lifted the federal government would default on its bills and that's a problem if the bill collector is a foreign government like china. liz? elizabeth: hillary vaughn, thank you so much. good to see you. joining me now education department official a

hillary vaughn is on capitol hill this morning. f information are we talking about, do we know? >> reporter: internal discussions that led to the decision to censor the hunter biden laptop story on twitter before elon musk took over. he is making it clear now that he is in charge freedom of speech is a major priority. that includes coming clean to what steps led to them censoring the hunter biden laptop story on the platform in the critical days leading up to the 2020 election. musk replying to a twitter user's requests releasing all internal discussions that led to the censorship in the interest of transparency. muck indicated he will. tweeting this is necessary to restore public trust. jack dorsey admitted they were wrong to censor the hunter biden story which they said at the time violated the company's hacked material policy two years after the "new york post" broke the story, several news organizations verified the story as legitimate. cbs news the latest to do so. now republicans on capitol hill eyeing a majority in january sa

fox business correspondent hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the latest for us. hi, hillary.his is another blow to president biden's student loan bailout that he planned. the eighth circuit court siding 3-0 with republican led states asking the court to table the student loan cancellation due to ongoing litigation. now the department of education student debt relief website has this message up, saying alexandria ocasio-cortezs have issued orders blocking our student debt relief program. we're not accepting applications. we're seeking to overturn those orders. white house press secretary careen john karine jean-pierre saying they're. advocates from student loan forgiveness from day one like senator elizabeth warren insists president biden has the authority. and insists that this helps working people. >> there is no doubt that president biden has the authority to cancel this debt, but, there are trump appointed judges playing politics instead of applying the law. republicans are trying to make sure nobody gets any help at all, no matter how much they need it. democrats are out

let's go to hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more about twitter and apple. >> good morning, apple ceo tim cook will be coming to capitol hill this week to meet with republican lawmakers. we have confirmed he will be meeting with the incoming chairman of the house judiciary committee jim jordan and the incoming house energy and commerce committee chairwoman kathy mcmorris rodgers focused on antitrust but questions will apple's relationship and cooperation with the communist party of china to crack down on 0 covid protests might come up as republicans look to launch an investigation into joe biden's john -- son hunter's relationship with china. >> in the case of hunter biden, it sure appears -- let's get the facts, he has an inappropriate relationship with communist china. what is his relationship? what's joe biden's relationship? how does that impact american policy? >> elon musk is promising to release internal company files at twitter that detail what led to the censorship of the hunter biden laptop story as the white house says they're keeping an eye on musk leadership at twitte

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary? reporter: good evening, liz.urchase of twitter may be the next big techtarget here on capitol hill as senator chris murphy tweeting he wants a national security review over the purchase n.o.w. that saudi-based investors have a majority stake in the platform tweeting this. we should be concerned that the saudis who have a clear interest in repressing political speech and impacting u.s. politics are now the second largest owner of a major social media platform. there is a clear national security issue at stake and cfius should do a review. the"the washington post" is reporting the treasury department is figuring out if it has legal authority to launch a prone. white house officials discussed a possibility of a national security review over the purchase. the fbi apparently looking into counterintelligence risks surrounding the deal this spring. "the washington post" reports that large foreign investors would have access to confidential information about twit arer's finances an possibly its users sparking major conce

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sandra: art hillary vaughn on the ground force and sale and paid thank you hiller, john. thirty-seven let's bring in byron york chief political correspondent and fox news contributor. let's take 30,000 foot view of the senate. rick scott on thursday he predicted this for tuesday night, listen in. >> right now i think where 52 plus. herschel's gonna win, i think we have a real good shot basically tied 52 plus the governing majority for them what you say? >> that he is a partisan no doubt a lot of republicans are getting more confident these days. and they gain is you got to hold what you have and get one or two of theirs. republicans hold what they have it. wisconsin, ohio, north carolina and even pennsylvania which is the big one where they could lose a seat that they currently have. but the pickups are feeling better and better about two. nevada, arizona, georgia, and then we just saw this report from new hampshire, they've actually become somewhat confident about that. and a month ago they did not think that at all. >> that is fascinating. i was some of the key states w

hillary vaughn in new hampshire with more. hillary? >> hi, neil.just with senator warren in durham rallying college students to try to get out the vote. warren encouraging them to vote for senator hassan. this race has been around winning over independents and moderates in this final stretch to election day. so i asked senator hassan how having a progressive fire brand like warren by her side does that. >> how does having a progressive like senator elizabeth warren here on the campaign trail with you help you leading up to election day to win over moderates? >> you just heard her talking about getting out the vote. she's a great fighter for families. >> would it be helpful to have president biden here? >> the president of the united states is always welcome in new hampshire. >> politco just moved the race from lean democrat to toss-up. retired general don bolduc has been eating in to senator hassan's lead. she's been feeling the heat in the polls and is calling in the cavalry. marty walsh and transportation sake pete buttigieg will be hitting the t

hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with the latest. hillary. reporter: good evening, jackie.vely approving some people for student loan bailouts even though the lee galty of president biden's plan is up in the air. education secretary miguel cardona writing in an email to some people applied to get some of their student loans paid off this, we reviewed your application determined you are eligible for loan relief under the plan. we sent the approval to the loan servicer. unfortunately a number of lawsuits have filed challenging the program blocked our ability to discharge your debt at present. while weigh wait for the supreme court to decide whether or not the president can follow through on his promise to pay off millions of peoples student loan debt republicans in the house are not waiting for the supreme court to decision. they say they will use their oversight power once in the majority to look into the timing and rollout of student loan relief. the top republicans on the house budget and education committees telling the office of management and budget to preserve records

hillary vaughn. reporter: there were some bots in there. david: okay. that's extraordinary. y much. turning to fox news contributor sean duffy on where all of this is going with nine kids, sean, i get you got swifties in there don't you? >> i do but my old campaign manager used to be a big swifties too, but you know, look at ticketmaster, as a customer, as a fan, they take advantage of you. i think they take advantage of the artist and the venues and it's a monopoly and it's a real problem but also, i mean, they were supposed to deal with this problem of the bots. the bot problem existed and that's why they had fans verify themselves. well that didn't seem to work and i guess you have just everybody angry and now what? congress steps in, the doj has already been looking at them, to take another closer look at them david: but you know monopolies can suck but government intervention can make things worse, right? >> but sometimes, how do you get rid of monopolies? so i'm kind of stepping over a line, but there's points where you need government to come in and go listen we might

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hillary vaughn in new hampshire where all of a sudden we have a contest for that senate seat. at is the latest out there, hillary? >> in this final stretch, this senate race is a dead heat. republicans see a shot to flip the seat. it all comes down to turnout. new hampshire secretary of state tells me turnout is strong and steady. they expect it to be record-breaking for a mid-term election. republican candidate retired general don bolduc has chipped away at encum -- incumbent maggie hassan. her closing message is that democracy is at stake. >> are you concerned if you win by a small margin, he won't concede? >> he's been working to cast doubt on the election, which is an insult to the people of new hampshire. don bolduc is casting doubt is disturbing. we're going to keep standing up nor the people of new hampshire and for democracy. >> today caps off a two-year campaign marathon for general bolduc. he said after two years of talking to granite staters, it's clear inflation is the number 1 issue. he said he will respect whatever new hampshire voters decide tonight. >> we're ver

let's go to fox business' hillary vaughn live in manchester, new hampshire, with the very latest therehi, hillary. >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, this race is a lot closer than democrats thought until be. remember back in the primary a lot of outside money from democrats came into the primary to boost don bolduc because democrats thought he would be the easiest one to beat in the general. it seems like they underestimated him though because in the polls it's clear that the retired general has been eating away at incumbent democrat senator maggie hassan's lead in the polls. in this race is statistically could be to a dead heat. so hassan has been bringing in some backup from next door, neighboring state massachusetts. hassan campaigning today with a member of president biden's economic team, labor secretary marty walsh, and former boston mayor who was here in his personal capacity. and yesterday she campaigned with progressive massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. how does having a progressive like senator warren here on the campaign trail with you actually help you leading up to elec

hillary vaughn on capitol hill. thanks. twitter's ceo elon musk is clarifying policy on censorship.ts: his new rule is freedom of speech but not freedom of reach. negative hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized so no ads or other revenue to twitter. kathy griffin, jordan peterson and babylon bee reinstated. decision about allowing former president trump back on the ballot form has not been made yet. some software engineers have left twitter there are concerns the site could crash a concerned elon musk himself has dismissed up next, one republican, one democrat as we do every week we will search for common ground. first beyond our borders tonight. north korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile with potential ability to strike a u.s. mainland the weapon landed near japanese waters. the country's second major weapons test this month that showed such range. u.s. officials say it will take all necessary measures to guarantee the safety of its territory and to protect allies in south korea and japan. a turkish court orders 17 suspects remain jailed in connection with a de

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hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. rail union to reject the deal the president thought he brokered between railroad union leaders and railroad companies making the possibility of a crippling rail strike more likely even though the offer on the table comes with a lot of cash. the deal includes 24% wage increase for workers, including a thousand bucks on average immediate payout for employees. maria bartiromo talked exclusively this morning with the head of the second rail union to block biden's deal who says the bump in pay is not good enough for a lack of sick leave they want in the deal. >> our members, railroad signal man rejected this deal because they need sick time. it is an issue for more than one organization. you have two more, the two largest organizations are still out there. they still have to ratify it. if we care it to the end that is what we'll do. reporter: association of american railroad the claim that railroaders don't get sick benefits is not true, saying this in a statement. while statements have be

first, to hillary vaughn live in str stratum, new hampshire today. hi, hillary. >> hi, martha. senator maggie hassan said she's not surprised it's a close race. she's no stranger to a nail biter. you mentioned she won by just over 1,000 votes the first time she ran. this time her opponent, don bolduc has eaten in to her lead leading this race neck and neck. fox digital caught up with senator hassan. her closing message to undecided voters is that democracy and abortion rights are on the ballot. today caps off a two-year campaign marathon for the general. we caught up with him today. he tells me he's put in the time and he is confident it will pay off. hes will says this election boils down to heating and eating. we asked voters today after they voted what was the number 1 issue on their mind that impacted their vote. >> womening reproductive rights would be pretty much first and foremost. >> protecting the rights of women. also keeping my eye on social security at my age and medicare. >> i'm not happy with prices of heating and gas and food. >> the big issue is the economy. it'

hillary vaughn is with us cover ing this story. hillary? good morning, what's the latest?g, ashley. well the biden administration is proactively approving some people to receive this student loan bailout, even though the legality of president biden 's plan is up in the air. education secretary cardona writing in an e-mail to some people that applied for that relief, "we reviewed your application and determined that you are eligible for loan relief under the plan, we have sent this approval to your loan servicer. you do not need to take any further action. unfortunately, a number of lawsuits have been filed challenging the program which have blocked our ability to discharge your debt at present. while they wait for the supreme court to decide whether or not the president can follow through on his promise, to pay off millions of people's student loan debt, the white house insists that president biden does have the legal authority. >> he's optimistic. he's an optimistic person. we are confident in our legal standing, if you will, as you know, it's up to the supreme court and

fox business correspondent hillary vaughn has details tonight on capitol hill. ng, bret. it only took one week for a crypto currency empire worth 3 # billion dollars to crumble and run out of cash leaving at least a million of it investors with no way to get their money back. today, the founder of the now bankrupt crypto exchange ftx sam bankman-fried is being slapped with a class action lawsuit claiming he and high profile celebrities bike nfl quarterback tom brady and nba star self-curry broke the law and consumers $11 million in damages. victims are spoking out after the "wall street journal" reported that bankman-fried dipped into customer accounts and spent their money. >> ftx is the fraud. lied to everybody. >> now lawmakers on capitol hill are looking at where all the money went. they need to be held accountable. awful lot of them have to explain what they did. >> bank man freed was not only a crypto king he was a second largest donor after george soros to democrats. shelling out more than $37 million this cycle. 92% of the donations going to democratic ca

hillary vaughn on capitol hill. what is the problem with tiktok?ncerns over the app tiktok. tiktok is currently under a national security review by u.s. officials who are deciding if the app can be divested from its parent company, beijing-based bytedance, to an american company to continue operating here in the u.s. from what carr has seen though, it doesn't sound like he's sold on the idea. he told axios this: of i don't believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban. there isn't a world where you can come up with sufficient confidence on the data that you could have sufficient confidence that it's not finding its way back into the hands of the chinese economy. the council on foreign investment in the u.s. is in charge of reviewing the deal. a tiktok spokesperson is disputing carr's comments saying they have protections for u.s. user data as well as vetting for content moderation systems saying this: commissioner carr has no role in the confidential discussions with the u.s. government related to tiktok and appears to be expressing

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the latest. hi, hillary.er: cheryl, elon musk made it clear he is not happy how the company handled content moderation in the past. promised to release internal company files that led to the censorship of hunter biden laptop story. moments ago he blasted how twitter in the past has broken public trust. he tweeted this, twitter failed in trust and safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections. twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed but not everybody is buying that. the white house says they are quote, keeping an eye on musk's leadership at twitter and republicans are outraged by the idea. >> that is offensive to me. government is going to go after someone who wants to have free speech? what do they have to look at twitter about? do they want to go more after the american public about whether they can have an opinion on something? i think they should stop picking on elon musk. >> reporter: and democrat the on capitol hill are also leery too of elon musk's twitter takeo

we've got you covered in each and every one with hillary vaughn in new hampshire, we have jeff flock looking at the developments in pennsylvania, connell mcshane in georgia. let's first kickoff with hillary and what she's seeing in manchester. hillary? reporter: hey, neil. when it comes to inflation in this race, this has boiled down to two big issues. the cost of things like energy, how to heat your home, and the cost of things like eggs, how to eat. we were in peterboro new hampshire yesterday with deputy ran candidate don bulldoc, it says due to the rising cost of eggs $1 will be added to every order with eggs this is something voters are see seeing everywhere they go and his opponent senator maggie hassen is to blame. >> she thinks she represents the values? well, the values isn't by inflation. it's certainly not having eggs so expensive now that it's added to the bill. reporter: hassen wrapped up a weekend with democratic all-star s and made the case that what's at stake is abortion rights and democracy, saying both of those are on the ballot but when it comes to inflation, she s

let's go to hillary vaughn at reagan national. hillary? how many more people are paying this?say are people paying this year to visit their relatives? we'll kick this one off with the price tag of our holiday trip home. reporter: exactly, lauren. well this holiday, a lot of travelers are not getting away from inflation. on average people are paying about 100 bucks more for domestic flights than they did last year, and they are feeling the pinch. >> yes, it's very expensive so you have to sort of splurge a little bit especially if you're bringing this then it's like an extra 250. >> crazy, yeah, for me and him, 1,500 total. two tickets. >> that's crazy. >> that's the most i've paid for a domestic flight ever. i think our ticket we're going to atlanta and it's about $600 when it's usually half that price. >> they were more expensive but it was time for us to go out so we bit the bullet and we're excited to go to the bahamas. reporter: but high prices are not eating into anyone's turkey day travel plans. most travelers, more travelers are expected to fly this year than last. tsa

hillary vaughn on capitol hill.gs, selling sped up a little bit, corner of wall and broad. expectations are in about hour 1/2 the federal reserve will announce fourth straight 3/4 point hike, something called the overnight bank lending rate. that seems to be baked into the proverbial credit quake if you will. what we're not clear on the direction on the part of the federal reserve from there. at the december meeting it will be included to increase rates as much? some say maybe not. they're factoring in a half-point hike in december. that is the people who bet on this sort of stuff. we have all sorts of data that they have room to go on more hikes, including some startling news on the private payroll front that declined unexpected 239,000 in the latest period. expectations were a whole lot less. that 10.7 million jobs are available in this country. hardly an a people -- anemic number. stay with us. i'm so glad we did this. i'm so glad we did this. i'm so glad we did this. i'm so... ...glad we did this. [kid plays dru

>> bret: hillary vaughn in new hampshire. one to watch. hillary, thanks.ther very tight senate contest is in ned in what used to be a reliably blue seat occupied by one of the top democrats in washington. but that could change next week. correspondent alexandria hoff shows us tonight from las vegas. >> republican nevada senate candidate adam laxalt is on day three of his bus tour across the state as polls show him in a dead heat with democratic incumbent senator catherine cortez masto. >> going to every single community to make sure that everybody understands your vote matters. >> cortez masto has kept a lower profile this election cycle, seeking to retain the seat she won in 2016 when senator harry reid retired. but the democratic machine rebuilt is at risk of coming undone. >> our vote count, it matters. we need to stay blue. >> barack obama. >> this week former president obama held a rally in las vegas alongside cortez masto. >> we know, we can't trust laxalt when it comes to a woman's right to choose. >> like cortez masto, laxalt served as nevada's att

fox business correspondent hillary vaughn is on capitol hill for us, with what it's going to take to get this debt under control. that's the million dollar question, hillary. reporter: the trillion dollar question, jackie, and that's because republicans, if they manage to secure control of the house, say they will have leverage and they plan to use it , to force democrats to trim fat from the bloated budget and say no to any new government spending that does not come along with cuts elsewhere. the u.s. right now owes more than $31 trillion. that's about $93,000 of debt, for every american that debt is growing by the day. it's just getting more expensive to pay off, as interest rates are rising. democrats promise though, they will not give into any pressure to make cuts, but senate majority leader chuck schumer says he's willing to work with republicans to try to avoid a government shutdown looming over the holidays and fund the government. >> there are a lot of things but debt ceiling is something that's important but the number one thing we have to do when we come back in the lame du

hillary vaughn, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: john, now to pennsylvania, dr. oz and john fetterman heading to the polls. more than a million people had already cast their votes in that stays. so, how is turnout looking, bryan, hello. >> hey, sandra, good afternoon. turnout is good and steady and every vote counts in a close race between oz and fetterman. not only is it close, it could take days before we know the winner. this is a live look, a web stream showing mail-in ballots being processed in philadelphia. that looms large here. under the law, counties had to wait until 7:00 a.m. today to begin sorting mail ballots and must work overnight until the count is done. initially philadelphia said they could be finished counting mail ballots by wednesday morning but now it could take days to complete after the board of elections voted this morning to reinstate a security procedure to try to catch double votes. another key factor is undated or incorrectly dated mail ballots. the pennsylvania supreme court ruled these ballots should not count. yesterday the fetterm

could get complicated after records show he gave millions to democrat campaigns and their causes, hillary vaughnmore on this. hi, hillary. >> hi, good morning, martha. ftx crypto exchange founder gave millions of dollars to democratic candidates, campaign committees and political action groups making him the democratic party's second largest donor according to open secrets. bankman fried handed over $37 million to democratic causes and pledged to spend a lot more . in may he said in an interview he would give up to $1 billion in the general election to democrats if former president trump were running. now the money has run out and top democrats on capitol hill want answers. senate banking committee chairman brown says they need answers and he thinks ftx should testify to explain the collapse of his crypto empire and where the money that was spent came from. >> for two years the regulators, until the biden administration, the regulators invited them in. these crypto companies. and we've seen the damage they've caused. we will aggressively do oversight here. they need to be held accountable. i thi

hillary vaughn with fox business has that story. od afternoon, arthel and gillian. government funding runs out december 16. spending hawks say the best thing could do is keep the budget as is. the committee for a responsible federal budget warning with inflation surging, policy makers should avoid worsening the deficit and pledge add no new debt for the rest of 2022. policy makers are considering an end of the year fiscal package that would make things worse. the group estimating the budget that democrats are writing behind closed doors could add $585 billion to the debt in the first year and increase inflation by 1.5%. democrats out of power in the new year think passing a budget is the one thing that they can do before republicans take charge. >> we don't play games with the budget. i hope we don't play games with the debt ceiling. that just adds -- contributes a very complicated climate to any economic issue. i think we'll get the budget done. >> some republicans are pressuring mitch mcconnell's new budget before christmas and fre

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with the details. at big chunk of change makes bankman-fried the second largest donor for the democratic party after george soros according to open secrets. he handed over $37 million to democratic causes and pledged to spend a lot more. back in may he said in an interview he would give up to $1 billion in the general election to democrats but now that money it seems has suddenly run out. there are big questions about if the money bankman-fried used for campaign donations came from customers on his crypto exchange and top democrats on capitol hill want answers. >> we will aggressively do oversight here. they need to be held accountable. >> i think an awful lot of them have to explain what they've done. >> some republicans are wondering how the security exchange commission, who is in charge of oversight, overlooked this. >> this is huge. you are looking at scandals to the level of madoff, right? this is something that could be highly criminal activity. this whole operation just to funnel more money to de

hillary vaughn has the story. tell me about the fight coming over the debt ceiling.me more. >> reporter: stuart, there is. republicans officially secure control of the house and one of the first orders of business is to not green light any new government spending or lift the debt ceiling unless democrats agree to cuts to make room in the budget for more. the u.s. owes more than $31 trillion and about $93,000 in debt for every american. that debt is growing by the day and getting more expensive to pay off as interest rates are rising. speaker pelosi and president bind say democrats won't give in to any pressure to make cuts and claim that republicans want to put social security and medicare on the chopping block. >> and the republican cans not use it as leverage to say, we'll only lift the debt ceiling if you'll reduce the benefits for our seniors and others on medicare and social security. it will see what they contend they want to do. our best shot i think is to do it now. >> reporter: but the committee for responsible federal budget says there's a lot more fat to b

hillary vaughn in manchester, new hampshire. o us, please, what the split-ticket strategy was. >> reporter: stuart, so far about 50,000 split-ticket votes here in which means they voted republican for governor, backing chris sununu, but democrat for senate, backing maggie hassan. if everyone who voted for governor sununu had voted for bolduc, he would have been in the heed right now. the lead right now. showing that voters who were willing to vote for the gop were still skeptical of backing general don bolduc. so democrats' big bet paid off. democrats outside new hampshire spent millions boosting bolduc in the primary because they thought he would be the easier candidate for hassan to beat. that paid off. for republicans who feared that bolduc was too controversial to win and flip the seat, their nightmare came through. bolduc ran a marathon two-year campaign focusing his campaign on kitchen table issues; rising costs like heating and eating. he conceded last night. >> maggie hassan has won. this is not a loss. we woke a lot of p

hillary vaughn is at reagan international airport. hillary, are you seeing long lines there? long lines that are bothering travelers, but a lot of travelers are dealing with high prices. so holiday travel is not a vacation from inflation. this year americans are paying on average almost $100 more per ticket than they did last year. >> we had to pick out another weekday, you know, so it wouldn't be as expensive. >> they were more expensive, yeah, but it was time for us to go out. we're excited to go to the bahamas. >> it's very expensive, so you have to sort of splurge a little bit, especially if you're bringing this, then it's an extra 250. >> reporter: but that isn't slowing down turkey day traffic in the terminal. more travelers expected this year than last. tsa estimates they'll screen about 2.5 million travelers today and sunday, the two biggest travel days around thanksgiving. the tsa administrator says that's a close to pre-pandemic levels. airlines say they are staffed up to meet the demand in prepared airlines for america which represents the major carriers saying, qu

hillary vaughn is live at ronald reagan national airport outside washington. >> well, there is a lotthis thanksgiving. high prices is not one of them. holiday travel is no escape from inflation. this year americans are paying on average almost $1 hundred more per ticket than they did last year. that isn't slowing down turkey day traffic in the terminal. tsa estimates they will screen 2.5 million passengers today and sunday the two biggest travel days around thanksgiving. we expect to be busier this year than last time and close to pre-pandemic levels and we're prepared to handle the increase in travel volumes. airlines have stepped up to meet the demands. airlines for america, the major airlines saying more than 2 million people are taking to the sky each day. carriers have made significant changes to improve operations including proactively adjusting schedules and hiring aggressively. u.s. airlines have more employees on board than pre-pandemic. pete buttigieg says he is watching to make sure that travel headaches that erupted over summer with massive delays and cancellations don't

hillary vaughn has the story on capitol hill. hillary. liz, ftx founder sam bankman-fried is taking incoming from everybody. not only is the fbi in talks to possibly extradite him from the bahamas, to bring him to the u.s., investors that got fleeced are suing him in a class-action suit. both senate and house committees announced hearings into ftx fall from grace an bankman-fried is finally speaking out. his question, f regulators. bankman-fried unloaded his real thoughts what wrong saying this. f regulators, they make everything worse. they don't protect customers at all. lawmakers disagree. the top lawmaker on the house financial services committee they need to act because the regulators dropped the ball. >> current regulators in this current a administration is not doing anything to protect consumers. in fact made things worse. reporter: bankman-fried admitted he mistakes not ones you probably think. telling a reporter a biggest single f-up was filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. liz? elizabeth: here is steve moore. democrats are not ret

well, hillary vaughn is on capitol hill this morning. w the justice department is opening an antitrust investigation, but now democrats want a hearing on the ticket fiasco as well, right? >> they do, ashley. and ticketmaster is going on the an apology tour for the system that left many fans empty handed. they're trying to fix bad blood between themselves, the top star and her fans. a new bar that has been set by demand for the eras tour, once we get through there, if there are next steps, it will be done so accordingly. we know we can do more to improve the experience, and that's what we're focused on. ticketmaster saying it was a combo of bot attacks and just a lot of fans leading to unprecedented traffic on their site, 3.5 billion total requests, 4 times what their previous peak was. based on that volume, swift would need to perform over 900 stadium shows, a show every single night for the next 2 and a half years for everyone who tried to see her lye. but it -- live. but it may be too late too late -- too little too late. congress nancy

we begin in new hampshire where you'll find our hillary vaughn on what has turned out to be a real battle. hillary? >> hi, neil. this race has boiled down to two major issues, the cost of energy and the cost of things on food. things like eggs. we were at a diner stop in new hampshire with republican candidate don bolduc yesterday. this sign was on the door of the diner. it read due to the rising cost of eggs, $1 will be added to every order with eggs. this is something that voters see everywhere they go here on top of the high gas prices they pay every time they fill up. senator hassan says she pushed president biden to release oil from the strategic petroleum reserves and that should have bought oil companies time to produce more. i asked her if she backed biden's threat to hike prices on oil companies if ney don't bring prices down. >> is that the answer, higher taxes to lower gas prices? >> at the end of the day, the oil companies have to have some incentive to serve their customers. they have a strangle hold. the hope was that the oil companies would use that time was to actually beg

hillary vaughn with details on that. hillary. reporter: hi, david. that's because ftx crypto exchange founder sam bankman-fried has given millions to democratic candidates, campaign committees and political action groups, making him the second largest donor for the democratic party after george soros according to open secrets. bankman-fried handed over $37 million to democratic causes. he pledged to spend a lot more. bang in may bankman-fried said in an interview he would give up to a billion dollars to the democrats in the general. the money has run out. there are big questions if the money sam bankman-fried used for donations came from customers a top democrat on capitol hill wants answer. >> we'll aggressively do oversight here. they need to be held accountable. i think that a whole lot of them have to explain what they have done. reporter: but some republicans are wondering how the sec, who was in charge of oversight, overlooked this? >> this is huge. i mean you're looking at scandals to the level of madoff, all right? this is something, somethin

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fox business's hillary vaughn is live at reagan national, keeping an eye on the hustle. hillary. >> a lot of travelers showed up today expecting the worst and that actually may have made things a little bit better. the longest wait times at major airports just over half an hour, but this thanksgiving, travelers are not getting a vacation from inflation. this year americans are paying on average almost 100 bucks more per ticket than they did last year and they are feeling it. >> we had to pick out another weekday, you know, so wouldn't be as expensive. >> they were more expensive, yeah, it was time for us to go out, so we bit the bullet and we are excited to go to the bahamas. >> very expensive. so you have to sort of splurge a little bit, especially if you bring this, and then an extra 250. >> but high prices are not eating into anyone's turkey day travel plans. more travelers are expected this year than last. tsa estimates they will screen 2.5 million people today and sunday, the two biggest travel days around thanksgiving. the tsa administrator saying that's close to pr

. >> sandra: maxine waters was asked by hillary vaughn, a question, if you are a democrat who receivedm this guy or his firm, do you have to give it back, and here was the question potioned to maxine waters. >> do you think some lawmakers that got donations from ftx's founder should give the money back? >> i don't want to get into that. both sides, democrats and republicans have received donations, thank you. >> one republican. bozeman from arkansas. >> sandra: so -- >> they shouldn't have to give it back. i'm going to take her position on this. >> sandra: you are something today, larry. >> why should they have to give it back? they took the money, and celebrities, now the politicians who will get fingered will be very embarrassed and think twice taking money from people like this. what law says they have to give it back. i don't like this, don't get me wrong, but i'm just saying what you don't want to do here is set weird precedence, you follow my logic. what you do want to do here is apply some reasonable regulation. now, the problem with giving it to the sec right now is gary gensle

fox business' hillary vaughn is live in manchester, new hampshire, with the very latest on that race.illary. >> reporter: hi, eric. well, this race is a lot closer than what democrats were hoping for and what republicans even thought was possible. republican retired general don bolduc has been eating away at incumbent democrat maggie hassan's lead in the polls, and this race is down to a dead heat. so d.c. democrats have been flying in to hit campaign trail. hassan campaigning with a member of labor secretary marty walsh who was here in his personal capacity and yesterday hassan campaigned with progressive senator elizabeth warren. how does having a progressive like senator elizabeth warren here on the campaign trail with you actually help you leading up to election day to win over moderates? >> you just heard her talking about getting out the vote, and she's a great fighter for families. look, i continue to talk about my work across party lines. i will work with anybody on both sides of the aisle to get things done. >> reporter: bolduc told his supporters that warren does not instill