madeleine rivera. >> madeleine: promising to undo president biden's action. planning to ban offshore oil and gas saying it could cause damage to places we hold near and unnecessary to meet our energy needs. here is trump's reaction. >> they talk about a transition, we want to have a smooth transition, they are making it really difficult. they are throwing everything they can in the way. they are giving out trillions in nonsense in green new deal crap that isn't worth a damn thing, it is negative for the country, not positive. >> madeleine: the president is using his -- what can the trump administration do? first option is get congress to act and change law and issue another executive order and wait for the lawsuit to play out in court. energy advocates are weighing in. >> premiere energy producing region in the world. we have been producing a million barrels of oil in offshore region since 1997, almost at peak level. we cannot be confined to two small areas in gulf of mexico, we need to find new discoveries to be able to produce energy for american public. >>

. >> ainsley: madeleine rivera is in the hearing room ahead of today's proceedings. >> madeleine: in about an hour this room will begin filling up with people. defense nominee pete hegseth. former and current members of military. democrats will have tough questions for pete hegseth. they will press him about his qualifications and leading the largest agency. his previous comments. and despite serving in the army, hes he is bring the change the military needs. hes the defense department will achieve peace through strength, politics should play no part in military matters. 53 53-47, pete hegseth can cross without a single democratic vote. this is a test how well republicans can stick together. >> we don't need a general from the pentagon, we have tried that. we need a drill sergeant. he will be ripped. he will be demeaned, he will be talked about, but we're going to get him across the finish line. >> madeleine: chuck schumer says it will be a chance to hold nominees accountable for their actions. repub republicans spent four years attacking and we need to return the favor. here is how

. >> todd: madeleine rivera joins us. >> madeleine: l.a. mayor karen bass is on defense, she was out of the country when the fire spread on tuesday. she had traveled to gony for inauguration of the new president and did not come back until tuesday. she was peppered from questions about the city's respond. >> we did not see a single fire engine. we watched as good sas mayor tans guided traffic. there was fear and a lot of confusion. you were out of the country at the time. what explains this lack of preparation and upon raid respond? >> let me say first and foremost, my number one focus and focus of all of us here with one voice is we have to protect lives. we have to save lives and we have to save homes. rest assured -- >> that did not happen. >> rest assured, let me finish. when that is done, when we are safe, lives have been saved and homes have been saved, we will do an eshg valuation to look at what worked, what didn't work and to correct or hold accountable anybody, department, individual, events events. >> madeleine: bass was asked ab

. >> carley: madeleine rivera is live right outside the hearing room, good morning. >> madeleine: good morning. th things could get testy when pete hegseth appears before the armed services committee in a few hours. democrats are expected to grill pete hegseth on number of issues, his qualifications, expressing concerns if he would be able to lead the federal government's largest agency. pete hegseth called out woke military arguing efforts for dei has weakened the nation's readiness. expect democrats to question him on that and press him on financial mismanagement and sexual assault allegations against him which pete hegseth has denied. >> is someone with pete hegseth's history really the person we want at the helm in an important dangerous situation like that? is that really in the best interest of american safety? that is something senators should ask themselves. >> there has never been a nominee for an office of such serious consequence who is so unqualified and unprepared. >> this man is not qualified to run an appleby's, let alone department of defense. madeleine rivera pete hegs

rivera is live in washington with more. >> madeleine: good morning, carley. senate has a packed schedule this week. trump team looks to move quickly on the nominees. doug collins is up first then comes pete hegseth who will appear before the armed services committee. there are concerns about sexual assault against pete hegseth, which pete hegseth has denied. wednesday, homelane security nominee kristi noem, pam bondi, marco rubio and cia director nominee john ratcliffe will appear for hearings that day. senate democrats see the process as first attempt to get nominees on agenda. republicans say trump should have deference as he builds his inauguration. >> number one goal for senate is to get his team in place. i met with just about all of them. as whip, my job is to make sure they get across the finish line, get on the job and president trump deserves a team. >> madeleine: dates yet to be set are for tulsi gabbard, health and human services, r.f.k. and fbi director kash patel. kennedy and tulsi gabbard have backtracked on some of their ideas. a paperwork prob

madeleine rivera. >> madeleine: the president is getting blowback for this moment, watch. >> madam vicei know you are directly affected so you fire away. no pun intended. >> indeed, thank you, mr. president. >> madeleine: taking federal disaster seriously and surging more resources to the area including planes and helicopters and says federal government will cover the entire cost of the respond in the first 90 days. bass 1776 million budget cut would not have impacted what they experienced last couple days, calling winds and fires unprecedented. it was warned. lawrence. >> lawrence: thanks, let's check in with dana perino for what is coming up. >> dana: come to my office, i misya. >> lawrence: you got a surprise for me? a calendar? >> dana: happy new year to you. rip roaring friday morning, the wildfires, reality sets in on the most devastating natural disaster and spleem court action with supreme cower denying president trump's request. trump appears virtually this morning. and will china be forced to sell tiktok? we will see you at 9:00. he looks down at his queen, and says... (in atr

and lisa, what did judge merchan decide as he was looking at the evidence and whether madeleine westerhout hope hicks made a difference in the verdict? >> well, and there were some other official acts evidence as well. for example, donald trump tweeted repeatedly from his time in the white house about michael cohen. that was evidence that the prosecution used at trial and evidence that the supreme court said has a presumption of immunity attached to it. because most presidential communications can be characterized as within the scope of your duties. but that having been said, merchan considered those arguments, as you noted in a motion to vacate the jury's verdict, and what he said was there was enough left over. even if you were to scrape all of that off the table. the jury had so much evidence to show that donald trump participated in this falsification of business records with an intent to commit or conceal another felony, that being of a conspiracy, essentially to promote his own election, that it wouldn't have mattered if hope hicks and madeleine westerhout hadn't testified that neith

charlie: thank you, madeleine.scott last night that i thought was interesting, one of the reasons that trump is in such a goodboe significance is because he can -- good position is because he can go back to the policies that were undone by the stupid keck test executive ordee biden and you deal with the border and oil and gas. rachel: in california you have groups that will sue and try gum up the system. will: you get the sense they're coming out -- rachel: strong. this is the benefit of having someone that's been through it, knows what he's up against and has beat it before so i love they're super prepped and three times the number of nominees hopefully get through and i think they're ready to hit the ground running. will: i would say we did the segment a little earlier, we had the conversation with bill brown, retired navy seal. watch that tuesday during leg hegseth's confirmation, there will be an outpouring of support from war fighters on the mall in d.c. and sitting behind him in the confirmation hearing, the

. >> ainsley: madeleine rivera is live in washington to tell us all about it. >> madeleine: good morningation of electoral votes is expected to look a lot different than it did four years ago. despite the fencing surrounding the security complex officials aren't expecting rallies or violence. vice president kamala harris will oversee the count certifying the victory of president-elect trump who she has called existential threat. not the first time a vice president has had to preside over his own defense. former vice president al gore did the same in 2001 sealing his loss to former president george w. bush. today's exercise routine wrapped up in about an hour or. so the senate then turns to one of the biggest items on his plate, confirming president-elect trump's nominee. here are some of the confirmation hearings to watch. tulsi gabbard, trump's pick for director of national intelligence, secretary of defense nominee pete hegseth. health and human services secretary nominee rockette f. kennedy jr. kash patel who trump has chosen to lead the fbi. lori chavez trump's choice to head the dep

. >> brian: madeleine rivera is in washington. >> madeleine: there is a chance hearings could turn contentiousformer georgia congressman doug collins trump's choice for veteran affairs up first tomorrow morning then defense secretary pete hegseth who will appear before armed evers ises committee. he will be questioned about financial mismanagement and sexual misconduct charges against him. he has not been charged with a crime. on wednesday, kristi noem, attorney general nominee pam bondi, and sia director john ratcliffe are set to appear for hearings. dates have yet to be set for director of national security tulsi gabbard, house and human services, robertf kennedy junior and kash patel. the confirmation process will test how well republicans can stick together. >> brian: thanks so much, that is going to be fireworks this week. everyone looking at the fires in lsz, beginning tomorrow, pete goes first, i think doug collins and doug burgum will be layups. they will look to score on pete. my source came out great and passed him before. he met with 40 senators before christmas and over 50 now and

hey, maddy. >> madeleine: good morning, guys.could see fireworks in this room defense secretary nominee pete hegseth appears before the senate armed services committee in a few hours. don't expect democrats to go easy on hegseth. they are expected to press him on a number of issues including his qualifications, previous comments on diversity in the military and the financial mismanagement and sexual assault allegations against him which he has denied. senate minority leader chuck schumer also sees the confirmation hearings as a chance to hold president-elect trump's nominees' feet to the fire. holding them accountable for trump's agenda. axios schumer told top democrats in a private meeting this month, republicans spent four years attacking the democratic brand and we need to use the hearings to begin returning the favor. several republicans think pete hegseth veteran army national guard served active duty in iraq and afghanistan will ultimately be confirmed. >> i am strongly supporting pete hegseth for a couple reasons. we have

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my dear friend madeleine albright and i used to have a robust conversation about her concept that the u.s. is an indispensable nation and i would say to her madeleine the future requires that we be partners and we stop thinking of ourselves as the singular leader of the global scene but an important leaderd and we to demonstrate leadership of a different kind of leadership, leadership that is about listening and i used the term strategic empathy and that we spend more time listening and understanding the needs and aspirations in red-lined of other states and other people and developing responses to those that are less hubristic and they demonstrate a little bit of humility and global affairs while still wanting to be a very active global problem solver and that's huge for americans and huge political shift. it's not going to happen quickly better pass to happen and it will happen if all of us in the think t tank world keep this debate alive. and i don't mind being challenged at all and i think it's healthy and constructive but we have to have that conversation. i see my colleagues jum

hey, maddy. >> madeleine: hi, guys, good morning. expected to be grueling for defense secretary pete hegseth even republicans have admitted just as much. here is how today is supposed to go. there are 27 members in the senate armed services committee. each of them get seven minutes to ask questions in a first round. that's more than three hours of questions if you do the math. and there could be more questions in a second round. democrats are expected to ask hegseth about his qualifications, his previous comments on diversity in the military. and the financial mismanagement of sexual assault allegations against him, which he has denied. still, in his opening statement; hegseth, a veteran with the army national guard. served in iraq and afghanistan promises to bring back what he he said in part the defense department under donald trump will achieve peace through strength unlike the current administration police cars should play no part in military matters. some republicans have been touting hills military credentials. >> we don't need

. >> todd: madeleine rivera has details. >> president biden is signing and says the move will protect 800,000 acres of land in california, bans drilling and mining on protected lands honoring tribes that consider the area sacred. president-elect trump is planning to undo this action. >> it's ridiculous, i will unban it mldz. what is he doing? why is he doing it? we have oil and gas at a level nobody else has and we'll take advantage of it. when i see somebody say he will ban 625,000 acres, he does not know what that is. >> president is using hiss his authority and it would require an act of congress to reverse it. president biden is doing other things, 11 detainees from yemen are being trans ferred from guantanamo bay to ohman. none of them have been charged with crimes during two decades of detention. >> todd: thank you. illegal migrant accused of setting a woman on fire in the subway and watching her burn to death is due in court today. the migrant is accused of torching the sleeping woman and fanning the flames as they engulfed her. he was removed from the u.s. and illegally re ent

rachel: madeleine rivera joining us live with more. reporter: good morning. president elect trump's new york criminal case ended with no restrictions and he gets ready for his inauguration a little more than a week from now and presiding judge juan merchan sentenced to unconditional charge with no fines, jail time or probation and only lawful sentence short term orientation give trump. >> the considerable indeed and extraordinary protections forded by the chief executive is the factor that overrides all others. they do not reduce the seriousness of the crime or justify its commission in any way. rachel: trump becomes the first president to take office with a felony conviction on his record. >> he attended the sentencing virtually and he called the sentence a setback for the american court system. >> it's been a political witch hunt and it was done to damage my reputation. this has been a weaponization of government and called it lawfare. never happenedytike this and never happened in our country before. >> his new york case is only one of four criminal indict

madeleine rivera is live with the latest details. >> the trump team wants the senate to move quickly.hedule of hearings for now. the choice to head the department former georgia congressman is up first tuesday morning. his defense secretary pete hegseth will be closely watched that day. he will be appearing before the senate committee. elizabeth warren wrote a letter last week with more than 70 questions. she plans to ask about the allegations of financial mismanagement and sexual assault against him previewing how democrats may approach the hearing. he has denied the allegations. >> there is not a job that is more serious and more critical to our national security and secretary of defense. we need a qualified individual not job and he just does not seem to have the qualifications. >> on the republican side keep an eye out for senator joni ernst. promising a fair hearing but did not commit to voting. the senate majority whip is signaling sum up of -- optimism. >> a distinguished record of service in the military. every senator gets to speak for themselves and they will do that the mee

madeleine rivera is in washington. hey, maddy. >> good morning, brian.entious. senate democrats say this is the first time to hold the nominees accountable for trump's agenda. former congressman doug collins choice to head veterans affairs up first tomorrow morning. then comes defense secretary nominee pete hegseth appearing before the armed services committee. democrats will likely question hegseth about the financial mismanagement and sexual assault allegations against him. hegseth has denied any wrongdoing and he has not been charged with a crime. on wednesday, homeland security secretary nominee kristi noem, attorney general nominee pam bondi, secretary of state nominee marco rubio and cia director john ratcliffe are all set to appear for hearings. dates have yet to be set for trump's other choices like director of national intelligence nominee tulsi gabbard, health and human services secretary nominee robert f. kennedy jr. and fbi director nominee kash patel. trump's team wants the senate to move quickly on his nominees, the confirmation process tes

stuart: what have you got, a madeleine? >> madison! i had guinea pig in ecking what door.nd of tasted like chicken, and i would have it again. stuart: ashley. ashley: oh, boy. i had rocky mountain oysters when i lived in montana which are actually bull's testicles deep fried and salt and pepper put on them, i'm still in therapy over it, and i'll leave it at that. [laughter] stuart: you should. lauren: wow. stuart: from you could witness any historical event firsthand, which one would you choose? madison? >> i think i would have to go with washington crossing the delaware. we've seen the pain painting, but to be there on the boat, how cool would that be? stuart: not bad. lauren? lauren: woodstock. i wasn't alive in 1969 -- stuart: you had to to tell us that. lauren: a million people, three days of doing what they did. stuart: my child friend here. [laughter] ashley, what have you got? ash 1966, wembley stadium with, england actually won the world cup. the first and last time. so that would be interesting to watch. stuart: i would -- yeah. i watched it with my dad, and that

my dear friend madeleine albright and i used to have a robust conversation about her concept of the u.s. as the indispensable nation. i would say, the future requires that we be the indispensable partner and that we stop thinking of ourselves as this singular leader of the global scene. and we have to demonstrate leadership but a different kind. a leadership that is about listening, and i use the term strategic empathy in the paper. we spend more time listening and understanding the needs, aspirations and redlines of other states and peoples and developing responses to those that are less hubristic, and that we demonstrate a little bit of humility and global affairs while still wanting to be a very global problem solver. that is a huge mind shift for americans and huge political shift. it is not going to happen quickly but it has to happen and it will happen if all of us in the nonprofit think tank world keep this debate alive. i want to be debated. i don't mind being challenged at all. i think that is very healthy and constructive, but we have to have that conversation. brian: i see my

. >> madeleine: president-elect trump and republicans are likely going to be addressing their reconciliationtrategy. some republicans like the house freedom caucus two track process moving toward the border and second bill covering taxes and spending. tax though prefers one big bill. that's based on the calculation that given the narrow margins in the house, house speaker mike johnson will likely be able to deliver one package instead of two. besides focusing on reconciliation bills republicans are preparing a number of packages for president-elect trump to sign. this is a new congress, so any bills not signed by president biden must be reintroduced and passed again. some of the bills that were reintroduced would require proof of citizenship and voter registration and deportations for migrants found guilty of committing sex crimes. the house is expected to vote on the laken riley act today. the bill would in part require ice to issue detainers and take custody of migrants who committed theft crimes. >> it's an important bill. i mean, we have seen so much violence against people who committed

this is a representing one of like one of the personages a woman named madeleine maria de la concepcion riva neira, who is a madre maria, who is a cloistered nun in, cusco. and according to the viceroy of that is the head of the government in peru. she is personally responsible for all of the problems in the vise royalty of peru during the 1780s, including one night at the largest colonial uprising of the 18th century. now she's not personally responsible for that, but she is closely connected to, all of them. and this this is what love. so this picture is in the cellar. lot of her convent is the chapter house. that is where where the most sort of solemn room of the convent where they do their their elections. and so it has geometric patterns on the ground on the bottom sort of register then above it at eye. it has a whole series of these scenes aristocratic life and i think she sees herself as this. she comes from this prominent cusco family and then above are these very big images of. but you really don't see the images of save all you see as these images of aristocratic life, you kno

i've been on a trip like that with madeleine albright. she was president clinton's of state and she go to north korea. after i went and negotiated with the north koreans. and i don't have millions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars in fact, i've never given $1 to the north koreans. so don't know who wrote that newspaper article, but it's obviously written someone who's either deliberately misleading readers like you or just doesn't know what the facts are. the email is there any one president that has been more influential to you in your ideas, commitment, in your writings, and as you lead the nation as you the nation? well, i wouldn't say writings. my favorite president in this century and the one one in my lifetime has been harry truman. and harry truman has had more impact my life than any other particular president. i served under him as a submarine officer. he my commander in chief and i inherited some of his one particularly concerning civil rights. harry truman was a was my preeminent hero on civil rights when i was stil

madeleine, let's start with you. you know, i've just gone through the list there, medium and long term interest rates rising, inflation going up, the pound going down, growth dead. and we've got some more figures coming out tomorrow haven't we. >> yes. there will be more inflation figures covering november coming out tomorrow. but it's clear that the market is expecting those to be less positive than we've seen in the inflation figures recently. everyone will remember, of course, that after liz truss's mini—budget, whether or not you believe that it was caused by the mini—budget, inflation rates jumped very high, causing a lot of mortgage pain for people. it's not looking like it's going to jump that high again, but we are expecting a little uptick. >> why do you say that? it's not very far away is it. it's i mean it's more of a slow motion thing than it was. >> yeah. it's definitely not a pretty picture at the moment. and there'll be a lot of concern in the markets that rachel reevesis in the markets that rachel ree