biden: i don't have a full brief on that right now. i'm not going to comment on that. >> do you have an update on austin tice in syria and whether or not he's -- pres. biden: the answer is i'm not going to respond to that because that's an ongoing issue. you know my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad and i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> one question on pardons and commutations. can you give us a sense of what of their pardons and commutations you are considering in your last 10 days? pres. biden: the answer is no because two things. one is that it depends on some of the language and expectations that trump broadcast in the last couple days here as to what he's going to do. the idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks should be policy related to his well-being is outrages but there's still consideration of some folks but no decision. >> have you decided what kind of role you will have post-presidency, sir? do you plan to speak out after you leave washington or will you follow mo

i do not give biden a f. ve this country a f because they are putting him -- putting this man back in office who killed so many of our loved ones, of which none of these people seem to care about anymore. that is my statement. host: next is david in south carolina on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. i will try to make two quick points before you cut me off. since we have new genders, i am going to create a new grade, e. i give him an e minus because of the controlling of the strategic petroleum reserve. i want to make quick points. mostly to independence -- independents and democrats. we have seen obama's transformation of america has its roots in the establishment of identity politics where race seems to matter as much as anything else. and another is we have established the reversal of jfk's call not to ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for the country. it has now become where washington, d.c. is expected to take care of lunches and babysitting. that is probably not thou

i do not give biden a f. give this country a f because they are putting him -- putting this man back in office who killed so many of our loved ones, of which none of these people seem to care about anymore. that is my statement. host: next is david in south carolina on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. i will try to make two quick points before you cut me off. since we have new genders, i am going to create a new grade, e. i give him an e minus because of the controlling of the strategic petroleum reserve. i want to make quick points. mostly to independence -- independents and democrats. we have seen obama's transformation of america has its roots in the establishment of identity politics where race seems to matter as much as anything else. and another is we have established the reversal of jfk's call not to ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for the country. it has now become where washington, d.c. is expected to take care of lunches and babysitting. that is probably not th

biden. he simply just to threatened. so ihink people in that category need our assistance and our solidarity, and i would hope that there are some things that could bring us together where we can work together in a bipartisan way. for example, i know that president-elect donald trump seems to be very proud of the fact that he won the popular vote this time. he didn't win the popular vote in 2016, but he won it by more than 3 million votes i know joe biden was proud that he won by more than 7 million votes in 2020. how about we get everybody together and say it's time for us to start electing the president of the united states the way we elect representatives, senators, governors, mayors, everybody else, whoever gets the most votes wins? let's use this as an opportunity to get beyond all of the problems with the electoral college which is an accident waiting to happen every four years? that is something we could do. another thing is to ban stock trading by members of congress . the floor of the senate and the floor of the hous

thank you all very much, i appreciate it. pres. biden do you believe california will get the aid it needs further and --from the next administration? >> i'm not in permission -- i'm not in position to answer that question but i pray to god they will. just clearing the debris. you saw what happened when we were dealing with hurricanes that occurred from north carolina to florida. the cost of the debris cleanup is gigantic, gigantic. the cost of replacing the housing is almost exponential. we don't know what it is but we know one thing we have to do, we have to stay with it. we have the capacity to do it. anyone that gives you a number now has no idea what the hell they are talking about. >> mr. president, can you update us on the hamas hostages and what you think of the incoming administration's efforts and ultimatum? pres. biden: i can but i'm not sure it is appropriate now. we are making progress. i met with negotiators today. i think what is going on right now in lebanon where we finally have a president, he is a first-rate guy. i spen

, like a cute disease, when i'm in a particularly bad mood i call it bidenism. i think on the others, we see from trump 1.0, it is not a strict adherence to reagan's principles, but it's a pretty good 21st century adaptation, and it really worked for everybody. i will bring it back to number three, but igniting the private sector and the kind of balance across all income distributions and per capita labor and growth that we had, i thought was phenomenal. that's number one. number two, i think, as an economic historian and someone who has been in markets for 40 years, i actually think i'm starting to look like it now, but i think we are also at a unique moment geopolitically, and i could see in the next few years that we are going to have to have some kind of a global economic reordering. something along the line of new bretton woods, or if you want to go back, something back to the treaty of versailles, there is a very good chance that we are going to have to have that over the next four years. and i'd like to be a part of it. i have studied this. i think it's

during his presidential run saying this about trump on the eve of january 6th. >> president joe biden: ihat he did was a genuine threat to democracy. >> just today trump accused biden of trying to make the transition as difficult as possible and also told that biden is not the same man he was 25 years ago saying he has gone to quote, radical and left. >> trace: live for us in new york, thank you. the common sense department hears the media say a lot of ridiculous things but today was exceptionally ridiculous. a cohost of the view, not exactly beacon of common sense said the january sixth 2021 is among the worst moments in american history. alongside the holocaust, world were two and slavery, common sense would reviewed that sentence -- rebuke that reference. the second number 50 million is an estimate of the number of people killed during world war ii and the third number, is how many years historians believe slavery lasted in america, we are not arguing that january sixth was not an ugly day, but america has seen horrific days and the question is does one compare to 9/11? the legacy med

continuing that is really what is needed right now, and i want to thank you once again. pres. biden: the vice president and i have initiated every federal agency from the department of defense on, every federal agency, to be part of this. and the other thing is, look, you know, i think you're getting a bad rap. i know you're getting a bad rap about these fire hydrants don't have enough water in them. give me a break. give me a break. what this is all about is the utilities understandably, what they did is they cut off power because they're worried about these high tension lines coming down and causing more fires in the wind, right? when they do that, guess what? they shut off the power that controls the ability to pump the water. and so now they're getting generators here. i mean, this is complicated stuff. they're going to have a lot of demagogues out there trying to take advantage of it, but you're doing the right thing. we're going to get it done, god willing, and i say to the people of southern california, god bless you, stay strong, stay strong. we're not going anywhere. we're

i love you guys! when joe biden referred to me as a domestic terrorist, i could have cowered in fear. that day, that public servant poked the wrong momma bear. you think i was a bull at school board meeting? i was just getting started. tafanely afraid to speak up, stand up, rise up, raise up. [ cheering ] it's hard, i've paid the price. the standup is to be hard but i want you to keep hope. sometimes we're called by god to do thee hard things. it's not one i ever anticipated and nobody uses that and i'm grateful for all the haters and grateful for the entire experience. yep, i moved out of california. i don't have to pay for gavin newsom to eat at the french flown reigns leading anymore. the beautiful state of tennessee is mydr home. ita don't even have to pay state income tax. yeah, and i don't have to turn my neighbor in for not wearing a mask. i'm close to my family, uncles, cousins, my nieces, my children get to spend time with their grandparents on a regular basis. it's a gift i would have missed out on had i k

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i know this is critically important to both president trump and presi president biden. i think president trump made it very clear to hamas as well as to our allies in qatar and egypt that this needed to happen. it needed to happen quickly. so i think a lot of work has gone into both administration spiritual i think this is a moment for all of us to acknowledge that. but we need to get this deal completed. i know israel is working through a few things. but at the end of the day, getting this done is of paramount importance. >> sandra: absolutely. many will be looking at the timeline of getting to this point. president biden talking about that just a moment ago stating, these were the conditions of the deal he put together back in may. when asked the question what changed? perhaps that is answered and that israel peace where it talks about the meeting that was between benjamin netanyahu and steve witkoff led to a breakthrough hostage negotiations top aide president-elect trump doing more to persuade the premier in a single set and then outgoing joe biden did. arab official

i think it's important to president biden that he preserve a legacy of strong support for israel duringi think congress will be only too enthusiastic to get on board with that. so, yes, i think that's very likely to happen. i wonder if you think, however, that this is the right time because you will have heard calls here in the united states, including internationally as well, to suspend military backing for israel due to the number of civilians killed in the war in gaza. so do you think that this is the right time to approve that sale? well, i don't think it makes that much difference, honestly, because if biden didn't do it then trump was certainly going to do it. so it'sjust a matter of whether president biden wants to sort of take credit for this last gesture of support for israel before he leaves office. but i don't think there's any question that the money was going to go through, one way or the other. but there is also the question of optics — leaving aside the question of when those weapons actually go to israel and are used on the ground, the message that is being sent to netan

biden, i think sorry, biden, i apologize. >> i think fetterman i don't know why he's going down there. and i think he has been he was elected by a very strong, progressive base in his state. and since his election, really after the midterms, he has become more and more centrist. and that was not the way the people who elected him in pennsylvania expected him to govern and particularly go down to mar-a-lago. i do think, though, what he is doing, i don't agree with it, but i think what he is doing is he is seeing his state. he is seeing that there are pieces of his state that he also represents, that are run the gamut in the political ideology. >> and he that's what he said. and he wants he wants to be reelected. >> that's what he wants, not just pieces of his state. i mean, look at pennsylvania between 2016 2020 and 2024, there's been a huge shift over toward republicans voter registration. republicans are now a net 205,000 more republicans registered in the state than there were back in 2019. the state is changing. he knows that he is not. >> can i just say one more thing? to the poin

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with that, i will turn it back to the president. mediacom -- pres. biden: look, i've had a chance to speak with a lot of elected officials including senators and congressmen, and i want to be clear that one of the reasons i've asked this group to get together is that they control the agencies that are at the federal level to get things done. we are in a situation where the u.s. forest service cheap -- chief will provide an update on the fire situation to discuss how the u.s. fire service -- u.s. forest service is assisting los angeles in the state of california with fighting the wildfire, including the action his team has taken to suppress new fire starts. chief, why don't you fire away? >> thank you, mr. president, madam vice president. i consider california my home, so it is great to be here to talk about this traumatic situation that we have. forest service and the department of interior are actively engaged in supporting the response to the wildfires in southern california. there are four major fires that we currently have going on. the for service is

i think biden there's no love lost between biden and trump. and i think biden and his final days is using some opportunities to take shots. he seemed to be making comments when he was eulogizing, um, jimmy carter and saying different things about how, in ways that seemed like they were digs at donald trump's character and leadership. but the other is also how donald trump handled the new orleans attack, saying, oh, we're not going to jump to assumptions. and so i think that this is also just a few last shots that he gets to take as president for the incoming president. >> i would just say the reason that joe biden won the democratic nomination back in 2020 was to stop donald trump. he was seen as the most electable candidate. he was elected back in 2020 because folks want to stop donald trump, who's going to be the president. and, you know, like 15 days. i think it's going to be donald trump. the bottom line is this joe biden failed, failed at the number one reason that he won the democratic nomination back in 2020 and was elected in 2020, and

you have input on this deal deal, do you support biden pocket the deal. if so, why? >> do iiden in support preserving american companies. i support preserving and making jobs but would diminish traders in the administrations get involved in business it's a delicate balance, they have to look full-circle and american steel needs capital. how are they addressing the fact that they're getting need a certain amount of capital to continue working because of were not preserving jobs if they start shutting down mills. >> 's. political nationalism. that's the only thing that is going on. u.s. steel needs capital. where did they get from is not japan? >> exactly, this again is the administration not looking full-circle. what happens when they do this this is where we start to see costco up again. from a developer standpoint we can have construction costs continue to increase. whether tariffs, immigration, insurance. all of these costs are pushing the cost of housing away from people that need to afford housing. that is a problem we've had to scrap a couple of projects because of the

you think biden was trying to send a message with this list? >> yes but iost presidents do print going to surprise everybody by saying i think it's good hilary clinton got this award. not a lot of novelist and fiction writers get the award but the the hilary clinton campn financing created or the greatest works of fiction in living memory and the steele dossier. despite it being total fiction in enthralled the prince and the intel community and federal law enforcement for years i applaud her for that work of fiction i'm excited about the work she does in the future on her totally fictional presidency. >> is going to go somewhere else but i've got a lot marie say something because really came in hot this morning i love it. my friend mary catherine brought the 2025 energy up. all presidents do this for donald trump gave medal of freedom one of his top donors pretty gabut he gave it to a buf sports athletes and people like tiger woods this is what presidents do. there are number of people like josÉ andrea's across the political aisle who may be a critic of the

i understand there's descent cooperation between the trump administration and the biden administration on these big foreign policy issues and i hope for all our sakes this is true. you know when a marriage breaks up and there's a separation and they can't leave the house because they don't have enough money so the husband is living in the basement and now he's moving out and she's just counting the days and than us. >> greg: judge, reminds me of a pathetic villain in a movie. the movie is over and he lost. the credits have rolled. people have left the theater and he's still there going what do i do next? i thought i did a great job. >> judge jeanine: the fact is he's still saying i could have beat trump and kamala could have beat trump. kamala lost to trump. the man is a mess. they were two things i come away with having read this. he's delusional. said he reclaimed american global leadership and put our adversaries in a position of weakness. who is he talking about? if he wants to talk credit for the destruction of hamas, i will not let him do that. it is netayahu for the slow walking

now let's turn it around and look at biden. ithat 54% of americans believe biden will be remembered as a below average or poor president. those numbers remind me of richard nixon in the 1970s. history won't be kind on biden, is it? >> no especially if trump has a good first year biden will be one of the least favorable presidencies in american history. stuart: what is biden's approval rating, in the 30s? >> 39%, fluctuated to 49%, 41%. if trump has a first year in recollection favorability. stuart: don't suppose there's any polling done, to block trump, and i suspect it is unpopular. >> it is unpopular just like the prosecution is against trump were unpopular. and to dampen that, not received favorably. stuart: trump has the wind behind him pushing him forward. he's popular, correct? >> trump has all the strong footing he needs to execute this mandate, day one. stuart: you know what you are talking about, come and see us again soon. bill marr appalled when a guest on his podcast suggested trump won because of bigotry. what is tha

joe biden himself, heatede interviews in which he said i should have never dropped out, i am the onlyhave beat him, believing he could have beat biden again. and if that isn't believable. >> jesse: happy jan-teenth harold. >> harold: good to be back. congratulations again, you're starting to look more and more like a great data, starting to sound more -- >> probably not. [laughter] >> harold: i think todayha president trump has every reason to celebrate. you thin.k about four years ago where we were, you had to watch why things, he had trump elected rumpagain, you have an acceptanf the results, first congress witn vice president kamala harris lost the race overseeing the proceedings. happy with that, i'm not happy with the outcome but i'mco happy withnt the peace of the transfer of power. i am done with joe biden in this regard, the races over, talking about him for many ways for democrats, i think he is more accomplished. he would be thougs of differently in 40 years, andu if he has any doubt about it, think about what people were saying on this day four years ago about donald trump.

i can tell you that the pardons, the commutations that joe biden just made were abhorrent to me. absolutely abhorrent. taking people off death row. i looked at the facts in many of those cases and they were so troubling to me. i don't know what process you intend to implement but i would love to study that with you. sen. coons: we talked positively about your experience and mine with drug court, veterans' kowrkts mental health courts, there are some things we will continue to disagree about and other things i hope we can work on together. thank you. sen. lee: thank you, mr. chairman. ms. bondi, as you're aware, criminal justice reform has been an important part of my role on this committee. i worked for the better part of a decade with senator durbin, chairman grassley, senator whitehouse, senator cornyn, senator booker and others who passed the first step act which president trump signed into law in december of 2018. the first step act, as the name implies, was intended to be the first of multiple steps, much remains to be done, including with the implementation of the first step

i recited these words -- some of president biden's favorites a -- by irish poet haney. as i reflect on his time in our nation's highest office, i think it's only right to use these words again. over the course of his long service to this country, president joseph biden has been the source of hope and an author of history. and just as haney observed, he became one of the rare leaders who have made hope and history rhyme. america is better for it. over the decades i've another president joe biden, he's proven to be one of the finest public servants america has seen. he worked and put himself in positions to give back to this nation. when it came to i can making decisions of consequence on issues that mattered most to the american people, joe biden put america first. through immense personal tragedy, through setbacks and obstacles, president biden has taken the strength and wisdom he lev -- learned from his family, held steadfast to his faith and gave people reason for hope. his record as a senator while serving as vice president under barack obama and while sitting behind

this is biden's legacy what i just described. >> martha: you said you pointed to netanyahu ignoring bidennd the trip that you just took us on and what president biden did or said and did what they wanted to do and just closing what this. we have to go but i'm grateful to you for being here. the chinese military ended 2024 with as a prize unveiling with two, six generation after they said a record amount of warships into the waters around the self-governing democracy of taiwan which beijing said is core to its core interest so we will see where it goes from here. general thank you very, very much. always good to have you with us. >> great talking to you. >> martha: tomorrow incoming national security advisor and former congressman response to what we just heard about the way the biden administration outgoing views the hot spots around the world. we heard from jake sullivan whose job would step into as the national security advisor to the president and have more of his thoughts coming up tomorrow. tune inferred that on tuesday. are you looking for a walk-in tub, for you, or someone you love

this will be over and while the president is optimistic that we are on the brink of a deal, i spoke to a former bidentration official last week told me i don't think there is ever going to be a deal. netanyahu doesn't want it, hamas doesn't want it. this could be a long trail end or we could be on the brink of a real resolution that reads innocent people and sends them home. >> do you think there is a biden doctor and when it comes to foreign policy? if so, what do you are the contours of that? >> the biden doctrine in many ways is the american post-cold war experience that we are reliable, we work with our allies to constrain adversaries, we have an open hand to bring people back in. the most important thing the u.s. can do is be a predictable friend. to me, but we have seen with the trump reelection is the sense of america saying that is too expensive, too inefficient. people take advantage of the u.s. and we need to be more selfish. i think the biden doctrine, after 50 years in the foreign policy community, we advance our security by being a better friend and being less selfish. we will see what a

these people have known joe biden their entire political lives. i know joe biden. you all just please defend me a little more? >> well, it's not worth defending him, though. at every turn in the last year and a half, he has taken the path of the most indulgent turn for himself rather than the good of the party by pardoning his son, by running again, going to rome for one last trip. he is not exiting in a way that i think reflects well on his party. and democrats are deeply, deeply unhappy about it, and they should be, frankly. >> hurt democrats november to try to tell the american people something they could see with their own eyes wasn't true. >> but it's not true that the president doesn't have the mental acuity. >> of course it is. american people saw that for themselves in the debate. >> he can at least put a sentence together. the president-elect is the one i am concerned about because i recently spoke to the president. let me say this thing about the democrats. with friends like these, okay, the democratic friends that joe biden has had, i do think that he un

trump also opposes it, but particularly on biden -- i codon't understand it seems that nippon steel would, they will close down and layoff workers big time without that investment from nippon steam. style. steel. joe biden has memory problems he thinks we're living in 19 35 not 2025. they are a check again china this is point, i love talking about this your show, i know that donald trump watches for president, we want japan to have this take control of this st steel, they will remanage it but the jobs will stay in pennsylvania, if we don't do the deal, the best winner will be china who is trying to takeover the whole steel industry in the world, this is good for jobs, good for workers, good for investors, it is good for america. and donald j. trump who you have been alongside him more than i, he is greatest negotiator, i am donald trump to come in negotiate a good deal, and let's get it done. larry: david malpass, what do you think about nippon-u.s. steel story. >> president biden made wrong decisions at i've each time they are presented, you think afghanistan, ukraine and israel, and las

i appreciate it. >> do you trust california will get the aid they need in the next administration? pres. biden: i am not in a position to answer that question. i pray to god they will. >> do you have a sense of how much this will cost? pres. biden: the truth of the matter is no one can tell you that. for example, just clearing the debris -- you saw what happened when we were dealing with the hurricanes from north carolina to florida. the cost of the debris cleanup is gigantic -- gigantic. the cost of replacing housing is almost exponential. we do not know what it is but we know one thing we have to do -- we have to stay with it. we have the capacity to do it. anyone who gives you a number now, they have no idea what the hell they are talking about. it is a big, big number. whoa, wait a minute. >> can you update us on the hamas hostages and what you think of the incoming administration's efforts and ultimatum? pres. biden: i can but i'm not sure it is appropriate now. we have made some real progress. i met with negotiators today. i think what is going on right now in lebanon, and they finally h

i asked him if he thought president biden could serve another four years. ly and there is soul-searching going on in the democratic party. what did you ask about leader schumer. >> i was surprised when you asked about mental acuity he didn't push back. is the president all of the way year. unequivocal answer is yes. he's doing the onand the mental a cue sit there. there is a conflation of two things there. it's his mental capacity and serving another four years as old as he is, but those are two separate things in my opinion and these people that have known joe biden for their entire lives and i know president biden and he's, like, can you all defend me a little more? >> he has taken the path for the turn for himself rather than the good for the party by running again, by pardoning his son and by frankly, some of these choices for the medal of freedom and going to rome for one last trip. he's not exiting in a way that i think reflects well on his party and democrats are deeply, deeply unhappy about it, and they should be, frankly. >> i've heard democrats, to

how do you assess those chances of a breakthrough before president biden leaves office? i~ office? i mean, you're talking two weers- — office? i mean, you're talking two weeks. even _ office? i mean, you're talking two weeks. even if— office? i mean, you're talking two weeks. even if you - office? i mean, you're talking two weeks. even if you had i office? i mean, you're talking two weeks. even if you had a | two weeks. even if you had a deal tomorrow, two or three days, you're talking about a limited release of hostages — probably 30 or so. the women, the elderly and men over 50. in exchange for hundreds of palestinian prisoners and a six—week ceasefire. even if you could get that deal, chances are they will be no hostage release, given how difficult it's been for hamas to identify where these hostages are, those are living and dead, until donald trump assumes the presidency. so who knows. is it beyond the realms of possibility that benjamin netanyahu was waiting for donald trump in an effort to reward him, given the fact he is persuaded that trump will be much less restr

has world gotten safer and more secure under four years of joe biden? i argue, no, and cheerily the american people -- clearly, the american people said they didn't feel like this is a more secure and safe world under joe biden because we don't hear are from him, we don't see him. [laughter] we have questions about his capabilities now. and i think that speaks to the fundamental safety of the country even if this did not specifically have to do with illegal immigration. howard: in fair ifnd, he has appeared on television a couple of times since this happened -- >> reassuring no one. [laughter] howard: liz, what's to your take, let's look at the other side, journalists and commentators going after donald trump for trying to make this about the border as he did in a follow-up post. >> well, yes, after it'd been proven -- howard: after we all knew. >> -- texas, beaumont, lives in houston. and, yes, somehow radicalized. listen, pundits on the right and left should point out any incorrect information no no matter whom it is coming from. obviously, president tr

trump staff are keeping track of all the craziness and executive orders coming out of the biden administration. i the biden administration. they screw up all the way to the inmate. if you look at the executive order saying japan company cannot buy the steel company, they cut and pasted language from a real estate deal with china in a real estate order. they are not even getting their executive orders right which is why it makes it easy to sue t them. for consequential as this movement continues to grow. to state reps down in florida switch from democrat to republican. you just had in pittsburgh a prosecuting attorney go from democrat to republican. what you are seeing is that momentum bill. as you start looking toward the trump administration why one reconciliation bill that those three big things. if americans thought to jonathan's point we were doing enough on energy, they would not have voted for donald trump. they don't believe that. that is why we got 312 today. >> john: what happened last week when biden gave the presidential medal of freedom to george soros. nikki haley didn't like it alte

i think the biden administration deserves a lot of credit for putting forward this plan and pursuing it. and now that both both the incoming administration is working, maybe there's added pressure. but i think it's a mistake to say this is trump's victory. this is about getting the hostages released because it's the right thing to do. >> john. that's not the way the public is going to see it. it's not the way they're going to. >> i'm not saying let's not do that right. that's the thing. it's like maybe we come above that and it's like they come home. i think the other big important piece of this deal, to your point, is that there's peace, there's a ceasefire component to this also, because there are a lot of people in gaza that are also there. their homes have been devastated. so we need to bring stability back to that region. it is something that has definitely fractured parts of the democratic coalition. but if the hostages come home, if families, i hope they are alive, i hope they are healthy and safe. we don't know their conditions, but i don't. i agree with scott on this. like i

why was hunter biden on the board. >> i don't know. probably not. >> so let's go talk about his time ons the board. remember he joined burisma board april 2014 while united kingdom hadn an open money laundering case against bury and its owner on august 20, 2014, 4 months later ukrainian prosecutor general office initiates money laundering investigation into the same oligarch. this is one of 15 investigations too burisma and the oligarch according to public statement, made by the current prosecutor general. on january 16, 2015, prosecutor, owner of burisma, on whose hunter biden set on his board, on theco country wanted list for fraughted. while hunter biden -- fraud. and aou british court orders that owner 23 million dollars assets be unfrozen. why? deputy asistani secretary kent testified to it. >> someonete in general prosecutor office of ukraine shut the case, issued a letter to his lawyer, and that money went poof. paid a bribe to make the case go away that is our strong assumption, yes, sir. >> that prosecutor irwas out, shokin wa

i guess my question is, have you heard from the biden administration and i am struck by your, your, your your comparing yourself and hunter biden and i wonder if. well, let me just tell you, michael cohen on national tv, we have a conversation. i don't necessarily think that's your best way to go get a pardon. i mean, hunter biden is the president's last surviving son. but your point your other point, why i do think is somebody's son also, by the way, agreed. you are somebody's son. but i mean, to be very clear, you're not the president's son. and he pardoned hunter primarily because that is his son, i think i did not ask the president this directly. i want to be very clear, but your point about the fact that there are many other people who are in the ire of the president elect who could be in danger like yourself, i do think is a strong one. >> and it is, and it's a reality. you know, you have to take donald trump for his word when he turns around. so far, everything that he said that he intends to do, he actually intends to do, and he has been doing it one by one by one. now, it may no

how will the hunter biden pardon be viewed historically? >> ifear that the hunter biden pardon will also. >> taint president biden's legacy in the future. >> the blanket nature of the pardon, the fact that it was a contradiction of a promise he had made during the campaign on his overall legacy, biden said, quote, i hope that history says that i had a plan on how to restore the economy and reestablish america's leadership in the world. at the moment, joe biden is remembered by most americans as not having completed the job that he started. i think over time, joe biden will be remembered for a great first two years. >> the president also seemed to half joke about his age at one point in the interview, saying the only advantage of being an old guy is that he's known every major world leader for a long time, wolf. >> brian todd reporting. brian, thank you very much. and to our viewers, thanks for watching. erin

joe biden has obliterated his own party. i can't see any segment of his a presidency that has been anything other than an unmitigated disaster. well, thanks so much for data thing into all those issues with us this hour. it's been a pleasure seeing you and talking to political on the list. i'm radio talk show hosts mister garland next. thank you. thank you. now in the just stays away from the end of the bite and era, the u. s. main stream media appears to have had a pet fee of sorts when it comes to reporting on the war in gals that cbs has published interviews with the former white house officials, who should lights on the direct link between us on the supplies to israel. i'm the devastating debt told in the end the fragments of us bombs next to massacres of, of, to mostly children and that's the devastation it's been over whelming, we, children, these rallies were using those bonds. in some instances, to target one or 2 individuals in densely packed areas, what is happening and gaza would not be able to happen without us arm

i am done with joe biden in this regard. the race is over. m in many ways for democrats, i hope he does not mistake what i am saying. i think he is more accomplished and be thought of differently in 48 years. if he has any doubt about it, i would say the president who is still the president, think about what people were saying on this day for years ago about donald trump. you're unlikely to be elected president again. you certainly have an opportunity for that legacy to be thought of in a very different way. he should not mistake himself either. people thought he was going to be a transitional president. people thought he would stay for years and move on. when he could not come up with a great set of ideas and a great vision for what the country could look forward to for the next four years even when he passed it onto vice president harris, democrats did not fare well. i look at that as the pbc election. prices, border, and culture. we lost all three of those. it is inherent in incumbent upon democrats now to root for this president and work w

but there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when i heard the way that biden was negotiating i said you are going to end up in a war and it turned out to be a very bad war and he could escalate. that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now. my view is that it was always understood. in fact, i believe that they had a deal and that biden broke it. they had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to ukraine and everybody else, but that biden said no, you have to be able to join nato. nobody knows more about nato than i do. years ago when i first started this, i didn't know too much about nato, i got it right anyway. i'm the one that got in, the secretary-general is your two weeks ago saying that if it work for me, nato wouldn't even exist right now because from countries that were paying their bills at that time, 28 countries, 20 of them were not paying their bills. 21 to be exact. they weren't paying. or they were paying a very small portion. and i raised over $680 billion. that was the number he gave. by saying if you don't pay we are not going to pro

biden believes he could have won. he believes it was wrong he was pushed out. ie, they said biden's own internal point had him losing 400 electoral votes. this revisionist history that they are trying, i don't think it is going to work and i'm not sure all of the things that president trump and his team will find when they get there. >> jesse: greg, can you believe he said i don't know if i would have lasted for years, but how selfish -- >> dana: take your money. >> greg: he puts pulliam in lame duck, to make more accurate, replace the d with a f. an ungrateful old who's who should never have been president, period. we said he was incapable. he shouldn't even have been vp for obama, which was because the democrats were so racist they had to put an old white guy with a young black man because they were scared he would be turned away. i don't care about joe. let him ramble off wherever he goes. i am still waiting on the great journalist assuming responsibility for uncovering the greatest cover-up, political cover-up of our time, joe biden's mental state. that needs

after hiding from the press now snapping at them. >> president biden: i know more world than any of you made in your god [bleep] life. >> jesse: made a good point, all these relationships biden had with world leaders, what good are to do? could not stop russia from invading, or mexico, or china from spying. now he is just lurking around. >> president biden: i said a big mistake mike said i made a big mistake, joe, i should not have said what i said. but you know what he said? he said i should have never said what is said about that, about the monkeys. he said it was wrong for that, i want to take it all back. people can change, you have to know, you got to talk to them. things can change. >> jesse: biden just told that story to new members of congress. the moral over the story is that old white racists can change? wisely telling that story? they don't know! but he kept going. >> president biden: by the time the form of the united states senate, he had a case file, had more african americans in the statute is in any president has, more. he had an illegitimate child with a

i wasn't aware of the mens rea issue, yes. chair grassley: senator klobuchar. sen. khroe by champion: thank you very much -- sen. klobuchar: thank you very much -- >> president biden: i can announce a cease-fire. a hostage deal has been reached between israel and hamas. more than 15 months of conflict that began with with hezbollah's brutal massacre on october 7, 15 months of terror for the hostages, their families, israeli people, more than 15 months of suffering by the innocent people of gaza fighting in gaza will stop and soon the hostages will be return home to their families. the elements of this deal were what i laid out in detail this past may. which was embraced by countries around the world and endorsed overwhelmingly by the u.n. u.n.security council. the deal is structured in three phrases. phase one will last six weeks. it includes a full and complete cease-fire, withdrawal of israeli forces from all the populated areas of gaza, and, and the release of a number of hostages held by hamas, including women and elderly and the wounded. i'm proud to say americans will be part of that hostage release in phase one as well. the vice president and i cannot wait

in the final days of the biden administration. >> yeah, dana, i mean, think about the fact that we have been covering this story and this conflict for well over a year, and for the majority of that time, president biden and his white house and administration officials have been working really nonstop to try to get a second cease fire in place. and they had been until this point, completely unsuccessful at times. there were moments when it was made clear that the will wasn't there from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. there were other times when it was clear that hamas was in no position to come to the negotiating table, even, and we have followed those conversations and the negotiations at every step of the way. and, dana, it is for certain that the one thing that made the biggest difference in getting us to this point, finally, of an agreement on a cease fire, is simply the fact that donald trump is about to take office. now, i just want to be clear to our viewers, of course, the current administration, the biden administration and its top officials have been taking the lead

or i don't know -- this. >> you know the rapidly ris rising -- in with the, with, i don't know -- [laughter] joe bidenthe only person i know who quits talking in the middle of a sentence because he's finished. [laughter] like the dude ascending on the team on second down. that's not okay but the media didn't miss it, they strategically ignored it on purpose because they wanted to help the democrats when inclined you are the problem if you dare bring it up -- look at this. >> start your tape right now because i'm about to tell you the truth and asked you if you can't handle the truth. version of biden intellectually, analytically, is the best biden ever. not a close second and i've known him years. if it worked the truth, i wouldn't say it. >> sure you would. like how you get something that wrong and will have a job? imagine you were a matchmaker and you said to the woman, this is the most compassionate o.j. simpson there's ever been. [laughter] as you if you can't take it. [laughter] it doesn't work out, he's easy to break up with trust me. but i'm just saying. the truth is, it wasn't wrong because it