katie frost, maria cardona, mark preston, stick around. we're going to bring you back in a few minutes. we'll talk about some of these executive orders we're expecting to see, and we're going to see a lot of them, at least as far as what we've heard so far. so stay close. meanwhile, we're going to bring you up to speed on a few other stories, including trump is claiming full credit for the gaza ceasefire hostage deal and at his rally on in dc on sunday, the president elect said the agreement between israel and hamas happened as a result of his, quote, historic electoral victory. now, the first stage of the deal played out sunday in tel aviv, the scene of an emotional reunion between the three freed hostages and their mothers. and look, hamas and its allies are expected to release over 30 hostages over the next six weeks for what is expected to be the first phase of a potential multi-phase ceasefire deal. these were some of the scenes, of course, as freed hostages were reunited with their family after years at this point in captivity, nearl

with us today, republican strategist katie frost and fox news contributor, richard fowler. you for being here. let's deal with judge merchan's sort of fight continuing with trump. not surprisingly in the least bit, he's been on a bit of a social media tirade. [laughter] i think the most recent one, there's never been a president who was so evilly and illegally treated as i. i'll start with you, katie. is this a problem just ten days before the inauguration, or is this really going to be sort of one and done, and they're going to get to to an appeal and it sort of goes away? >> i would say it underscores what president trump has been talking about all along. you know, when people -- when he first came out of these prosecutions, that really propelled him, in my view, back to the forefront of the political landscape. because people realized it was just another lie that the left had been telling us. they were saying, oh, donald trump's going to weaponize against his enemies, and they spent the last three years doing that to him. they said joe biden was -- the. [inaudible] and h

national security experts on the attacks, plus arthur aidala, amanda litman, cari champion, katie frost and joe walsh. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do. good evening. i'm abby phillip in washington, in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about terror at home. tonight we are learning more about a pair of attacks that shook the country to the core and reminded us once again that safety is never a granted. cnn has just obtained this exclusive video just hours before the suspected attacker took a car and plowed through the streets of new orleans. he killed 14 people in that attack. this video was taken just after midnight. you can see there a man putting what appears to be a white pole with a black top into the bed of the truck. the fbi says that they found an isis flag in that vehicle. the fbi is also putting out these new images of the man. pictures that show a blue ice chest containing what law enforcement officials have labeled improvised explosive devices. the fbi says the suspect acted alone here, that he had a remot