do you like karine jean-pierre? >> oh, my gosh. [laughter] >> biggest fan. chel: what do you think of the story, karine jean-pierre saying she has the best team in the business. she posted this on x with a picture of her team. she says here's to the best team in the business. i couldn't do it without you. >> this is called smoking your own product. [laughter] >> this is -- you know, so i covered the white house over much of the past 20 years and i have to say -- and we've had some rough ones. >>> .we've had some okay ones. we've had some really great ones. rachel: kayleigh mcenany. >> one of the best. this team and her in particular has to go -- will go down in history as the most ridiculously, absurdly under -- i mean, completely unbelievable, not -- no credibility. she never knew anything. she didn't pull off that she knew anything. she went out there and faked it every single day and what's really amazing about it is that these people, you know, she pulls this off and she still fails even though she's got the entire press basically in her corner, willing a

that's what turn people most off about karine jean-pierre and jen psaki.lly when you're working for joe biden that the toughest job on the planet to make that guy to make his or could look at. teasley with the lowest approval numbers that we sing quite frankly since jimmy carter and richard nixon. two weeks to go watch out for the pardons. thank you for joining us. senator chuck schumer pushed back when asked if he misled americans about biden's cognitive decline. >> we did not. what let's look at president biden. he had amazing record use a patriot. becca did not end there, we have the full tape and you will see it. u.s. steel and nippon steel suing president biden for blocking the deal. a full report on that is next. ♪ as we went on the market. one hour's worth of business. this is a monday morning valley, the dow is up 230 points, that would be a half a percentage point. the nasdaq. strong, 1.7% 347 points. nippon steel is suing president biden over his decision to block the deal, lydia hu joins us from pittsburgh read what grounds are they suing? >> go

a member of the outgoing team is karine jean-pierre, the press secretary for president biden.this on social media -- charlie's beside himself already. [laughter] here's to the best team in the business. i couldn't do do it without you. sort of wonder how she would be without them. rachel: wow. charlie: exactly are. no, she couldn't. guy: and, look, in fairness, when you're doing a tough job, and she has one, and you have that camaraderie, you want to pay tribute to the people you work with. but this sort of has the same vibe as someone on the chicago white sox putting out a team photo and and being, like, what an amazing group -- they lost 121 games in chicago this past season. that's the baseball equivalent of this press if shop. i understand that president biden didn't give them much to work with, right? it's very hard to speak on his behalf and defend him. but with all respect, she is uniquely bad at this job. charlie: and she has the entire press corps almost exclusively behind her. they're doing her work for her, and she still is a complete disaster. rachel: that's why i

brian, our very own peter doocy shared a warm moment with white house press secretary karine jean-pierreast exchange with one another. i think you've seen it, but let's look at it again. >> reporter: thank you, karine. [laughter] if i don't see you again -- >> i, well, you know -- >> reporter: -- in the briefing, thank you for, you could have stopped taking the hard questions years ago, and you didn't. so we appreciate it. >> over two years, my friend, this is, let's say, one last dance. i don't know how i'm going to fill my dance card. how will i fill that void without you? [laughter] >> reporter: you tell me. [laughter] you tell me. so -- >> start some rumors many in here, i guess. [laughter] if. >> he's getting red too. stuart: you know, brian, they have a cupid of contentious relationship. but i think that's a nice way to go out. what say you? >> it is. jen psaki, i thought, was very -- there was a lot of sparring there too, i thought it was a classy way to go out, and it was good that she kept on calling on him and vice versa. you know, the it's just a shame there weren't more peopl

meantime, that very same note, karine jean-pierre was at least attempting to ask the following question> thank you guys. thank you everybody. >> white supremacy -- terrorist threat in the united states. >> trace: no answer to that. karine jean-pierre is not having it. >> no. what's unfortunate is it's one thing if it's an msnbc talking point where we know a lot of people aren't watching. but it's another one it's influencing policy. we know the biden administration devoted a number of resources to going after what they viewed as the biggest concern, white supremacy. you think there are limited resources when you are allocating that money, those people to look into something that at this point there's not a lot of reason to think is a concern for crime in america. you are taking those resources away from looking into people who likely are going to be terminals, we have no idea who's coming across the border so unfortunately this is the position we are in. >> trace: that's exactly right. go after the parents, not the terrorists. kamala harris leading the pledge of allegiance, watch. >> pl

white house press secretary karine jean-pierre says it's the best in the business, her words. secretary of state anthony blinken tells the new york times that he and biden made the right calls on afghanistan, ukraine and gaza. two news items on the president. biden angrily brushed off reporters when questioned about his age, he said is no more world leader than anyone he met in your old didi life. he gave out freedom metals, the recipients included hillary clinton, the radical george soros and the soccer player lionel messi did not want to receive a metal wall and sent no one's looking out for him. two weeks to the inauguration, the first full week of trading at 25. a massive storm that hit 60 million americans. a lot going on monday january the sixth 2025. "varney & company" is about to begin. stuart: i think the song is about me, i'm back to two wonderful weeks of vacation. >> you look relaxed. >> i feel relaxed. it is nice to get back to normal to a schedule of getting on with life. >> this is the week to do that. here we go, congress will count and certify the results of t

geoff: karine jean-pierre, thanks again for your time this evening.ur live coverage of the president's address right here on pbs at 8:00 p.m. eastern. president-elect donald trump is still several days from re-entering the oval office, but some of his nominees for cabinet posts were in senate committees for one of the busiest days of confimation hearings in u.s. history. from the nation's top diplomatic post, to a top spy, to the country's top law enforcement officer, the hearings ran the gamut from cordial to confrontational. amna: we start with president-elect trump's picks for secretary of state and director of the cia. florida senator marco rubio would helm the state department, and former congressman john ratcliffe would run the cia. they went before senators on the foreign relations and intelligence committees this morning. >> i get bilingual protesters. it's pretty cool. >> as you know, that is a first year perk. reporter: president-elect donald trump's choice for u.s. secretary of state, senator marco rubio, sailed relatively smoothly through

everyone knows tomas he for sure -- >> we will take you live to white house briefing where karine jean-pierre will be fielding questions from reporters live on c-span 3. >> the president and first lady will grieve with the families and community members impacted by the tragic attack on january 1st. they will meet with local and state officials on the ground. the president has been extremely focused on ensuring that everything possible be done to complete this investigation and ensure the safety of the community and provide any and all federal assistance to support state and local officials. since wednesday, the president has held regular meetings with his homeland security team to receive the latest information on the investigation and convey the need to do everything possible to complete this investigation and keep the american people safe. the president has also spoken to the mayor of new orleans and the governor of louisiana to offer support to both the state and local officials, whose teams are in close touch with their teams, and as the president said earlier today, you heard in moments

we expect karine jean-pierre to gaggle aboard air force one. >> brian: thanks. >> lawrence: if he wanted to be secretary of state, he should never have run for president. he is letting us know what is happening, i understand election is over, he is still president right now. >> brian: his philosophy is george constanza, whatever he said, we should do opposite, remember opposite day. then we would have successful foreign policy and he would, too. blinken said i have no regrets about withdrawal from afghanistan. is he an idiot? no one should take a bow after he pulled out of iraq. in comes yiern to iraq and they have not left and we had to go back in and had presence there. craziest thing i. you would think that is his exit interview. the timeline of new orleans, fbi making up ground after giving terrible information. they got the grown-ups in and explained what happened. during the bush years into obama years, we were all over this terrorist. if there was somebody who traveled to egypt and went to a terr terrorist section of egypt, that is where al qaeda was born, stayed a mongst, they wo

i asked karine jean-pierre in the briefing yesterday if the president still feels white supremacy is the -- >> [inaudible] >> thank you, everybody. >> -- the greatest terrorist threat to the united states? >> reporter: i asked the same question of president biden on thursday when he arrived back at the white house. he also didn't answer that question. so we are minutes away to president biden awarding 19 people the presidential medal of freedom. we'll see if the president speaks about the rampage in new orleans and any other news that might come out of the event, but certainly a star-studded event at the white house. a lot of big namesful. molly: absolutely. and james goodall as well -- jane goodall as well. lucas tomlinson, thank you for keeping an eye on it. griff? ♪ griff: president-elect trump is spending the weekend at mar-a-lago after successfully if pressuring his party to preserve pike johnson's speakership. -- mike johnson's speakership. nate foy has more. >> reporter: hey, griff. president-elect donald trump and his team are working to fill out the leadership apparatus in w

karine jean-pierre got questions about it at the podium and she was like, and she said the president while he disagrees with the ruling, he respects the supreme court has this authority. there are people out there who will say why? as in the game change? i think it's change but not in that respect. if we start ignoring the laws, the loss agreements will have about how this is how we operate and if we ignore the laws and allow the loss to bully discarded and ignored, there is nothing holding our society together. laws can be changed and sometimes laws are wrong. segregation used to be legal. people who looked like michael and i and the laws were wrong so we had to changed them and they needed to be challenged. the answer is not disregarding but the incoming president of the u.s. of america believes the answer is to disregard. he does not believe the answer is to abide by. >> i guess it depends on if he likes the ruling. he's in favor of the immunity ruling issued by the supreme court and deploys it in every possible way including civil cases pending against him. i think he picks and c

press secretary karine jean-pierre will be joined by national security advisor jake sullivan.itor the briefing throughout the hour, and if they get to the point of asking some pertinent questions now, not only about the fire situation which we know is paramount because, you know, fema is part of that. they're part of that leadership. but all the rest of the things that are going around the world with just six days until inauguration day. we'll tap in if we need to, and we'll watch it stem to stern and bring you the headlines. one week away from inauguration day, and less if we're counting by hours, which i am. president trump is sending a message of unity to house republicans ahead of his new administration, and vice president j.d. vance spoke with fox news on sunday for the first post election television interview about how trump is preparing to clean up the quote/unquote dumpster fire left by the biden administration. and first, we a go to west palm beach, florida. >> it's been a busy weekend with president-elect trump in mar-a-lago, and at his estate, and somewhere behind t

as the biden team winds down, we've heard from two senior officials, ca karine jean-pierre and told theme's to the best in the business. i couldn't have done it without you". you have to have credibility, kjp has none. she assured reporters that biden would not pardon his son hunter, he did. biden had done more to secure the border than anyone else she said, that's non-sen. she called it a cheap fake when he wandered off. she had a tough job defending a failing president. but to say her team was the best in the business, that's a very big stretch. then there's antony blinken, america's top diplomat and sat with a lengthy interview with the new york times. on the afghanistan debacle, he said biden ended the longest war in our history. come on, man, we were run out of town. on rush cha invading ukraine, he said he and biden navigated the situation to keep us away from direct conflict with russia. does he think russia would have invaded if we had not shown weakness in afghanistan? in gaza, he said the administration wanted to make sure the conflict would from the spread and it did. biden's

. >> scott has joe biden, kamala harris or karine jean-pierre ever lied? >> i don't know. what are you talking about? i know where you're going. i mean, that's not the point. you know, donald trump stands up at the podium every day, and your speech is about the truth. >> and one thing about biden that has always vexed republicans is that he spends a lot of time talking about him being the center of truth and the restoration of the soul of the nation. and yet he and his people spend a heck of a lot of time undermining that very talking point up to and including this year with the massive cover up of his own condition. and so i'm just lied to the american people doing covid, right? >> how about that? i mean, drink bleach, right? i could go on and on that it's not as bad as the flu. i mean, all of those things. >> and the reality is you're doing it right now. >> 500,000 people lost their lives because the president wasn't honest with the country. >> about the dangers of covid. are you saying the virus was listening to donald trump? >> lies have consequences. >> and that is i

. >> karine jean-pierre gave her last briefing. it happened after israel-hamas released a cease-fire deal. karine: good afternoon, everyone. this is a good day. you all have just heard the terrific news from the president that after 15 months of war, israel and hamas have reached a cease-fire and hostage deal. this deal will halt the fighting in gaza, serve much needed humanitarian assistance to civilians who have been living in dire conditions and will reunite the hostages, including americans with their families after more than 15 months in captivity experiencing unimaginable suffering. over the past few days president biden spoke with the leaders of israel, qatar, and egypt to push negotiations forward and reach the resolution we announced today. the process has been steered out of the west wing at the direction of the president by national security adviser jake sullivan and driven through completion to relentless diplomacy by middle east coordinator brett mcgierke who has been negotiating day and night in doha. i will note brett

. >> white house national security adviser jake sullivan joins press secretary karine jean-pierre at the daily briefing. foreign policies successes of the biden administration and priorities for r the transition to the in coming trump administration. the briefing is about 50 minutes. press secretary. >> hi, today, the biden-harris administration is approving boar roars who have had their student debt approved to be canceled by the administration to over 5 million people. these 150 billion borrowers attended school and cheated and defrauded their students. 61,000 borrowers with permanent disabilities and 6,100 public servant workers. our administration passed to reduce the burden of student debt, holding bad actors accountable and fight on behalf of students across the country. today's milestone is not just a number. it is life-changing debt relief for 5 million people and their families have more breathing room to buy homes, start small businesses, save for retirement and much more. now, turning to the latest in california wildfires, president biden and vice president harris convened

outgoing white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, she struggled to answer question, who's goingemocrats when biden leaves office. watch her response. >> reporter: so -- [laughter] a week from now it's all over. >> yes. >> reporter: between next monday and 2028 -- >> 2028? >> reporter: who's the leader of democratic party? >> oh, my goodness. wow. that is, honestly, that is for people much smarter than i, to make that assessment, that decision. i do not have a -- i cannot predict the future, so that is not something that i'm going to do from here. >> reporter: so no leader of the party. >> that's not what i said. >> reporter: well, it's not president biden and it's not vice president -- >> i'm regretting this right now. [laughter] stuart: why don't you chuck your idea into the ring. who's going to lead the democrats? >> this is a trick question. the donors. that's who's going to the lead. she said somebody smarter than her? no, not smarter, it's somebody richer than her. that that's who picked the last nominee. that's who bumped biden off the ticket. apparently, the democrats tho

press secretary karine jean-pierre just wrapped up her daily press conference, and her message to reportersrescribed's decision to block the u.s. steel and nippon steel merger was not, according to her, about slighting japan, one of the u.s.' biggest allies, but about keeping a business of great national security importance in u.s. control and and u.s. hands. president-elect trump has also said he would have made the same decision, but as u.s. steel now warns mass layoffs will follow and the stock is tanking 5%, what happens next? grady trimble is live at the white house with more on the decision. grady. >> reporter: hey, liz. president biden says he is blocking this deal because he says steel production that powers u.s. infrastructure, the u.s. auto industry and, importantly, defense should be controlled by a u.s. company. here's part of the statement he put out in this morning announcing that he's rejecting the deal. he says, this acquisition would place one of america's largest steel producers under foreign control and create risk for our national security and our critical supply chains.

>> well, karine jean-pierre is right, stu, in the sense that we have not seen joe biden this alive atduring his four years in office. i mean, he's really been active and really busy like we've never if seen since 2021. but, of course, to your point, the goal so to harm the country in the midwest vindictive fashion possible -- in the most vindictive fashion if possible. why else would they be selling off border wall for pennies on the dollar unless it was out of spite and to hurt trump in why else would they ban offshore drilling knowing trump wants to, on day one, drill, baby, drill? why else would he commute the death sentences of, what, 37 of 40 inmates on death row? i mean, this is so small,s it is so petty, it does nothing for the well-being of the unite. zero class, zero integrity, and joe biden will exit as one of the most unpopular presidents we have ever had at least since carter or nixon. stuart: joe, i want to bring you back in just a couple of minutes. i've got another issue for you. meta just announced major changes to its censorship policy. that's what i'm going the call

. >> with a week to go karine jean-pierre defended biden from the argument that voters want to see himat long and does it from their heart and soul because they believe this country deserves so much more, i think deserves some respect. >> critics note biden is leaving with war in ukraine and the middle east in china on the rise. in fact, today jake sullivan acknowledged when it comes to china's threat from artificial intelligence, it is emerging. bret? >> bret: mike emanuel live on the north lawn. mike, thank you. let's bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume. brit, good evening. you heard mike's report there. your thoughts on the legacy that president biden leaves behind when it comes to foreign policy. >> well, he made some pretty extravagant statements about how much better off we are all around the world. some of what he said is true there are strengthened alliances in asia groups u.s.a. part or combined bulwark against china's expansionist ambitions around the rest of the world much more troubling picture. the withdrawal from afghanistan is entirely reasonable to say e

for all of the people in the media media admitting they got it wrong, that they admitted what karine jean-pierreg -- howard: sharp as a tack. >> that is so interesting because a supermajority of the american people and a majority of democrats as far back as a year ago, months before the debate performance, said in the polls that they had serious questions about joe biden's ability to continue doing the job. so if most of the american people saw this, why didn't the media see it? that's the question. howard: it was democrats who ultimately pushed biden out. liz, do the media have to take some responsibility on this? because they kept quoting biden aides and associates and dems as saying, oh, he's at the top of his game, and that was flatly untrue. >> by july of last year, you saw chuck todd say it was an open secret among many of the cabinet members for a couple of years, jonathan martin of politico came out and said the same thing, in july of 2024, well after we started to see the exhibitions of these behaviors and this mentalling cognitive decline or very obvious slowdown. but, yes, indeed, the

i mean, we have watched karine jean-pierre day after day, has she ever admitted joe biden has a madee biden done that? and then there are politicians who claim everything they do is, quote, perfect. [laughter] jimmy carter was willing to admit that he wasn't perfect. and he wasn't perfect. he made some real mistakes, there's no question about it. but i think we can do a little bit more with politicians in our time who take a step back and look at the direction they're on and kind of figure out maybe they should go in a different direction. paul: kim, the current president, president biden, when paying tribute to president carter, spoke about his character and integrity. and there's no question in my mind that when one of the reasons he won was because he was, he was overtly religious and tried to live that way. and i remember the scandal in 1976 when he merely admitted in an interview, he said i've had lust in my heart, in my heart, and that was a scandal at the time. [laughter] so i think that has stuck with americans from his presidency whenever you think about the policies. >> yea

apparently karine jean-pierre is. >> he's going to have an opportunity to speak to all of you. you're going to hear from him many times in the next 17 days about his thoughts about his presidency. i'm going to let him speak for himself. he's had a historic presidency. he's done more in one term than most presidents have been able to do in two terms. and that is a that is just the facts. that is what we've been able to see. >> unfortunately for biden, 17 days won't be nearly enough time to erase the historic cover up of the president's mental acuity from the minds of americans. you saw the videos, you heard the speeches. when you had questions, they said you were crazy. remember, all of it was just cheap fakes. democrats didn't just gaslight you over joe biden's health. they did it on immigration, crime and the economy, too, which led to a generational shift away from the democrat party driving away even the most diehard liberals. >> when you're affected day to day by quality of life issues and all you hear from the democratic party is shut up. >> no, it's not happening. and if

and with just days left of the biden administration, white house press secretary karine jean-pierre tookfinal podium. the podium, i should say, one final time. >> the give and take that happens here is incredibly healthy, and it is part of our democracy. >> i have been honored to partake in it with all of you. well, most of the time i've been i've been honored to take it. but in all seriousness, seriousness, um, i also said at the first briefing, i would not be here today if it were not for generations of barrier breaking people before me. i do want to say thank you to president biden and first lady doctor biden for this incredible opportunity. as i said earlier, standing at this podium, behind this lectern, serving the american people and this administration has been an honor of a lifetime, and i will be forever grateful. >> jean-pierre first took over as press secretary in may of 2022, after serving as deputy press secretary. the first black woman and lgbt, lgbtq person to be the white