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martha? >> martha: trey yingst, thank you very much. with that we bring in the former deputy assistant that secretary of defense for strategy in the first and administration. good to have you with us today. obviously you are seeing this handoff get started, the white house and the naming of a new nominee as israel ambassador. i guess the question is can, our talks possible between iran and president trump, and what could it potentially yield in terms of the israel-hamas situation? >> great to be with you, martha, and i think that is a great question and it is important you brought up "the new york times" piece, which is showing the iranians to respond to president trump's excellent message of peace through strength. they are already anticipating what is going on. some people say the iranians will never negotiate, they will never back down, that is not true and i think israel has demonstrated that including with its recent attacks on iran's surface-to-air missile defense systems and some of its ballistic missile production. so what exact

bret and martha?ght. >> martha: thank you, garrett. >> bret: throughout the night harris faulkner getting real time reaction from real voters as results unfold with voters' voices. they will be talking about the issues that drove them to the polls. harris, great to see you, good evening. >> harris: great to see you too, bret. it is so exciting to finally be here this night. welcome to voters' voices. we have a live audience of americans making their voices heard throughout the night. i'm your host, harris faulkner. we are witnessing a race for the white house like no other. we know that former president donald trump and vice president kamala harris put 7 particular states in focus. and in those battleground states, if you live there, you know it has been intense. voters are telling me all about the tidal wave of campaign ads and polling experts trying to dig in and learn how they voted and why. that's because in recent years those states have been key in determining the next president. but voters all

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bret and martha? >> martha: long night in milwaukee.ecision desk can predict that vice president harris will win delaware, the home state of president biden and there is the look at the race to 270, that makes it trump 195, harris 113 at this hour. and we have another call to makes a well. >> bret: in a key governor's race fox news can project republican kelly ayotte will become the next governor of new hampshire. she defeats joyce gregg and that was a close race for a while. kelly ayotte will win there here are a couple other results we are getting as democracy 24 coverage continues. it will be on the screen all night long. ♪ ♪ the next president of the united states is... lord, to you we entrust our communities, our leaders, our president, our country. we give it all up to you. jesus, we trust in you. amen. here's why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine, like google, but it's r and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browsel but it blocks cookies and creepy ads th

. >> martha: i'm martha mccallum. tonight is the night americans across the country are voting. first major poll closings are now just moments away. image number, of course, is 270. that's how many electoral votes are needed to clinch the u.s. presidency. race is centered on seven battleground states. and in them are 93 votes that are toss-up. they are up for grabs. and they are more than enough to put either candidate over the top, and that will start to play out just minutes from now. >> bret: georgia is the first battleground to close its polls. the secretary of state there expects to have results tonight. the biggest prize of the night is arguably pennsylvania. polls close there at 8:00, but, a technical glitch in one county is prompting officials there to extend voting hours. in fact, officials have extended voting hours at precincts in several battleground states at this hour. more on that in a moment. >> martha: really, one of the early stories here is the early vote numbers, and they are absolutely astounding. more than 84 million americans cast their votes early. many o

. ♪ ♪ >> martha: good afternoon everybody and martha maccallum and this is the story, it is a historic in our nation's capitol, president-elect trump shook up washington as a "distributor "returns to the oval office. meeting with president joe biden, only one other president heard after four years away, welcome back. >> president biden: mr. president-elect and former president donald, congratulations. we will have a smooth transition , make sure you are accommodated once needed, welcome back. >> mr. trump: thank you very much. not a very nice world but it is a nice world today and i appreciate very much a transition that is so smooth as it can get, i really appreciate it, thank you be nine thank you. >> martha: in the oval office reported screaming questions and the president-elect, nodding their heads, president trump sort of goes, yeah,, these guys. sitting nearly two hours, president trump, they "enjoy distinguish other "talking about ukraine and the middle east, he was very gracious as the president-elect, saying that the oval office is beautiful and i certainly look forward to com

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bret and martha, back to you. martha: thank you.ome democrats are saying north carolina is on the edge. i don't think they're fully agreeing with sean. >> with north carolina? >> bret: may make t-shirts. >> not joust saying north carolina but north carolina and georgia will go donald trump tonight and i'm as confident in that prediction as any i've ever made. bret: wow. okay. bill hemmer tracking that. are we backing that up on the wall? bret: sean, you're right about that in north carolina. >> i've showed you this county last hour. this is anson county, 47% african american population. sometimes in these elections where you're seeing an outcome, that hasn't happened in 100 years. something just happened for the first time since 1876 in north carolina, and a republican won this county for the second time since the 1870s. so i just like something to stick in the back of your head and think about. well, that was a data point along the way. you guys mentioned the blue wall. go ahead and we're moving toward the central time zone and tal

martha: if all right.e just ask you, i mean, my chain with the democrats kind of went dark too. when's the last time you've got an update? >> reporter: well, they're responding to us, but what we ask, what we -- the answers we get are, like, let me check on this. literally, i asked how many people are in this crowd, what's their connection to the vice president, and that was an hour and a half ago. the person responded let me check, working on it. i checked back, still working on it. how do you not have this answer? this is the harris campaign. but they are in wilmington. it's a glaring reminder every once in a while that this apparatus was really thrown together in just over three months, guys. breath if breath jacqui heinrich at the harris campaign headquarters in d.c. thanks. martha: let's check back in with mike tobin in wisconsin. we want an update on what is going if on with these machines, has the voting stopped as they try to troubleshoot on this equipment, and what does it all mean? >> reporter: w

martha: thank you, aishah.ret: let's check in with jacqui heinrich at the harris campaign headquarters in washington d.c. >> reporter: hey there, guys. it's quite a different scene a out there compared to where aishah is. i should note that at. harris: we don't have harris campaign officials a because they're all in wilmington tonight. we're trying to get a sense about who was invited to this event, how many thousands will be here, who's in the crowd. but i am hearing from people close to the vice president sort of watching these reports come in, they started tonight very anxious about georgia,9 and the first batch of data they're getting is feeling -- leaving them feeling pretty buoyed about it. a source close to the vp says they're seeing really high turnout in the metro atlanta area and as of a short while ago, they had a 10 plus point lead among women showing up. and also they noted that black turnout was slow the start, but it is the finishing strong. and they attribute that the to their get out the the vo

martha?thanks very much. >> bret: that being said, let's bring in senate minority whip, i don't know thune. thanks for the time, senator. first, let's get your take on this election and what you take from it. >> i think it's -- the take away is issues matter. what this biden-harris administration has done enabled by these democrat senators on the ballot and house members have led to high prices and open borders. the american people said enough already. we don't like this kind of leadership. we don't like people flocking across the southern border and creating problems. we don't like groceries at 21% increase over when biden-harris took office and gasoline up 40%. those are the issues people voted on. people voted for change all across this country. you look at demographic groups that voted for president trump. this was a decisive convincing win and a clear mandate that the american people are looking for a different direction. we intend to give them that. >> martha: senator thune, martha macc

i am martha maccallum, and this is "the story."ning streak to wrap up this week. a lot of bankers happy about the incoming trump administration and the impact they think it will have on business on liquidity, on peoples ability to invest. dancing in the street is how jamie dimon put it after president-elect trump's win. we are waiting to see who he will pick for the very important role of treasury secretary and his other top economic advisors. extremely important. fox business host larry kudlow who has served in that capacity twice in u.s. administrations joins me now" shark tank was quote's -- reporting live from the white house on all of this. hi, edward. >> there's a lot of jockeying for the top spot of the treasury department and a lot of leaks out of wall street about this guy is on top. this candidate is on top. "the wall street journal" saying there's been conversations that been described as possibly being the treasury pick until the fed chairman needs to be replaced. the top economic advisor to president trump. i've heard

bret and martha, back to you. >> martha: we welcome sean hannity to the panel.n, you are watching this along with us tonight, and you say you have some significant takeaways already? >> i have a lot of takeaways. obviously you guys have gone over the issues and what is important to people and what they have been telling all the pollsters, exit polls, et cetera. i am looking at this from a different perspective. to me, it is a numbers game. i was on with dana and bill hemmer earlier today and made the point going into each day that kamala harris and her team had a numbers problem, and the numbers problem was, they didn't have anywhere near the votes or the percentages of votes that they had in 2020 when it was biden and harris. that is a math problem you have to overcome with unprecedented day-of voting which democrats are not used to doing. i've checked with a lot of people i trust, a lot of people i think have a lot of knowledge. in individual states, it rains, long conversations with him. he feels the turnout was so massive for republicans in the lead out to t

it is very likely this whole thing could wrap up by day's end, martha. >> martha: thank you very muchfl to the nation's capital taking a big step forward. senate panel has approved a bill to give d.c. the control of the site where rfk stadium currently is. but not without obstacles. one senator pushed for a tribute to the team's original logo. todd piro. mural bowser and commanders want to get ahold of rfk stadium inside the city limits unlike northern stadium and make it a new home for the commanders saying unlock the potential of the rfk campus put it into affordable housing, world class recreational facility and economic opportunity for district residents and visitors alike. but this logo here is at the center of a dispute. montana senator steve daines was balking signing off on this because they wanted to throw the old logo into the dust bin. >> a lot more than just where is john roberts and his family watch the next game, in maryland or dc? what is at issue is a negotiation that steve daines has been having with the league and team to make sure that a member of a tribe in his hom

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hi, brooke. >> hi, martha.pass getting an exclusive look at this happening in realtime. right now there is buoys in the river stretching about 1,000 feet. governor abbott's goal is to add 1,000 feet more of these buoys sending a strong message to the biden administration. we'll get into that in a second. we take you to live footage now of our drone. on top of this happening in realtime you can see the cranes starting to carry those buoys into the river where they will be anchored into the ground now. between these buoys they have metal blades making it difficult for migrants to get over them. in 2023 when we saw a record number of migrants crossing here illegally, abbott had the national guard start to install these buoys here. the biden administration sued texas calling this a humanitarian disaster and putting the migrants at risk. abbott firing back and said texas has every right to defend its borders. he has not added any more of these buoys since 2023 until right now. you are looking at it again. this summe

ma martha. >> martha: joining me is james blair. you're over 35 years old.f young professionals in this team. and let's jump right in. i just want to ask you a little bit about what peter just reported on. you know, in terms of the treasury secretary job, is howard lutnik the treasury secretary pushing to become treasury secretary and did that backfire on him? >> i don't think i will comment on the president's considerations for personnel. what's important is the president is making great picks. he's fortunate to have many people from the private sector and elsewhere interested in serving his administration and helping deliver his agenda throughout the federal agencies as we're seeing with these nominations. really he has many great choices to pick from. so far he's made excellent decisions. he will continue to do so. whichever decision he chooses to go in will be an excellent choice. he is reflecting the agenda he ran on in selections for the cabinet. that's exciting about this. it will be a great decision no matter what. >> there's a lot of excitement arou

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martha: yeah.f things about the senate because remember that a vice president harris said that she was open to ending the filibuster if it meant that was what was necessary the to restore roe v. wade. there was also discussion -- not hammered too much on campaign trail, but the idea of making puerto rico and d.c. states has been kicked around for a long time, possibly expanding supreme court. so these are ideas that i think in many ways were galvanizing to a lot of voters. and we're seeing what's happening in the united states senate, so if this continues -- well, we know now that there's a majority, so at least in the short term, those things won't happen. bret: we'll continue with our panel. we have some more raw vote total coming in as as a lot of raw numbers as the race for 270 continues. could we make some more calls coming up? you'll have to come back. ♪ ♪ independence, with that declaration, america was born. inspired by a belief in the god given rights of every human being, and in the good

. >> john: i'm john roberts the story with martha begins now see you tomorrow. >> martha: she does look amazing she is a trooper and a great employee. great person jillian way to go five more weeks hang in there i remember the feeling bear good afternoon i am martha maccallum and this is the story. so there is so much going on at the place you now see on your screen as president-elect trump at mar de lago turning those transition wheels, building trump to point of and they will get to work in dz just over 2 months from today -- 2.0. carolyn levitt will join us exclusively with a look at what to expect next in terms of news coming out of the transition but first a lot of intrigue today over the newly formed the department of government efficiency tasked with cutting waste out of the government. you've got tech titans elon musk at the helm keeping what they are calling a tragic and entertaining leaderboard of the most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. here is the job description if you want to work at d.o.g.e. quote we don't need more part-time idea generators they say we need s

go for it, martha. >> martha: let's take a look at pennsylvania which is tightening up considerably.the presidential race and the senate race. show us with going on there. >> bill: you are exactly right about that. it's about half of the vote being counted. remember the chart to show you a moment to go? the chart i showed you a moment ago, they can't do mailing vote in pennsylvania. it tends to be more democratic. as we saw in 2020, we are seeing that again in 2024. you have about a 1.4 margin. raw votes just shy of 50,000. let's go for a spin, shall he? philadelphia, let's start there. it is number one -- come on, let's go here. all right, here we go. this is the kind of margin you expect to get in philadelphia. you got eight or ten voters that are democratic. so joe biden is well over 80%. it's interesting, right? she is just a tick below that right now. does philadelphia vote the way that milwaukee votes? we saw that difference in the lock in a short time ago. it is philadelphia going to vote differently than wayne county in detroit? we are waiting to get that income as well. thes

they do. >> martha: they do say that. let's go to jacqui heinrich at the harris campaign head quarters in washington. jacqui, we spoke about your reporting a short time ago of pretty dire moods. at least three people very close to vice president harris. >> yes. there were some more colorful words than that even that i wouldn't ever dare send over e-mail. overall, the sense that i'm getting from multiple people close to the campaign, close to the vice president, is that the vibes are very bad. those three sources believe that her path is narrowing so much that it would be very difficult to overcome. right now the campaign though is still maintaining that none of her paths to 270 have closed even when i pushed them on the north carolina race call and said, you know, can you update that? they said as jen o'malley said, the clearest path is the blue wall. so what we're hearing from sources, the exit polls that they have been watching, they're saying -- they're accurate. she would need to outperform, turn things around and wha

i was martha, martha, martha. >> you didn't give a name. what did you prefer? any one of the ones i said >> i wanted to be dakton or cig. there's not a lot of gregs greg morgan, greg brady. >> yeah. but that's a character. get with it, martha. >> all right. what do you have to buy, even though you have many of them. i'll go to you, martha? >> what do you have to buy, even though you have many of them? shoes. >> typical cliche of a female. i should be surrounded by smarter women. >> oh, please. >> we have to protect these women. >> they're fine people. >> are you drinking bleach again, jessica? >> i injected it straight in, because you told me to i'm an ab obsessive of toilet paper. >> really? >> yeah. we have great storage. we will have it, and i will still buy it. >> i dream about toilet paper. >> it's so good. >> you can never have enough. >> nope. >> nope, not at all. judge, what do you think? >> shoes, bags, jewelry. >> bags, chocolate? >> jewelry. >> jewelry. did we ask you yet, jessie? >> electric bentleys. collection in a garage. you can never have enoug

martha: thank you very much. head back there if the former president trump is about to take the stand and speak there. so we're going to keep a close eye on that. 1 a.m. in new york. polls have just closed in alaska. the fox news decision desk says it is too a early to call. trump has a lead in our fox news voter analysis, so we will get you back to alaska when we have a little more data to report there. bret: and there you see, 248-216, the electoral college map. we are waiting on the blue wall which could be a red wall. you just heard from darren shaw, and i think that data and the way he laid it out there and their decision making really kind of lifts the curtain to how these guys operate based on our fox news voter analysis which, again, was to 120,000 voters that a rolling poll and then the raw vote total that they came in. alex hoff is in pennsylvania. we'll check in on the ground there. alexandria. >> reporter: hey, good to be with you. yeah, the crowd here in bucks county, they are excited by some trends

>> martha: extraordinary.much garbage there is and how much spending, imagine having a job you can never be fired from and most people don't even have to show up for work five days a week. really this goes back to trump's appointment of supreme court justices because two huge decisions came out of that. you had the west virginia versus epa decision and the chevron decision. a lot of people thought what are they doing, what is this all about? this is what it was all about, because these agencies have so much power to put regulations on you, to charge you more to do things, basically to make their own laws -- but now they are on the chopping block. >> judge jeanine: the supreme court cases you refer to are cases that literally - take the power away from people in middle management in government who think they are going to control business in this country. they are going to impose all of these regulations. they are going to decide whether or not you are going to drill, start a business, what regulations you've go

. >> martha: aishah, thank you very much. we will keep a close eye on trump headquarters as we continue to give you some more updates on what's going on right now. we don't have a call for any new states at this point. we are waiting for montana, waiting to get a look at the sheehy race and we have new guests on the panel we want to get to. let's welcome them in. >> bret: as we get ready for the top of the hour we will make some new calls at 11:00. >> martha: then we'll get right to you guys. wow, time is going so fast. there we go. >> bret: it is now 11:00 p.m. in new york, and four west coast states have just finished voting. the fox news decision desk can project that vice president harris will win california, the golden state. 54 electoral votes, the biggest prize, more than any other state in the country. >> martha: fox news counsel project that harris will win oregon, adding eight more votes to her electoral college vote. harris will also win washington, and other reliably democratic state. >> bret: but the former presi

kamala harris. >> martha: and she will decide on election day. >> i will decide that day. >> martha:t is exactly what it will come down to, george, on election day, these undecided voters, whether they vote at all or head to the polls. >> george: great report. thank you all very much. we'll be right back. wow, this charmin ultra soft smooth tear has wavy edges that tear so much better. i'm starting to get tearied away. designed with smooth tear edges, charmin ultra soft smooth tear has wavy perforations that tear so much better for a smooth more enjoyable go. plus it has more cushiony softness than ordinary squares. try charmin ultra soft smooth tear. voted #1 product of the year. - bye, bye cough. - later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season. want to get the most out of one sheet? grab bounty. (♪) bounty is made to be stronger... ...and more absorbent. so, while ordinary brands can't hold up,

martha. martha. martha. martha. pam. remember? martha. martha. martha.n't give me another name. mem mem mem mem mem. martha. you didn't give us the name. what name would you have preferred? jennifer. susan. any one of the ones i said i was always like i wanted. i, i wanted to be dack like dack rambo like dak prescott. yeah. just the name dak. any kind of sweet or stig. stig. stig. yeah. like a really raw name. greg. there's not a lot of famous greg's. yeah. you know greg morris. greg evigan, greg brady, greg brady. yeah, but that's a character. martha. get with it. is. what's wrong with her? all right. what do you have to buy? even though you have many of them? i'll go to you, martha. what do i have to buy? even though i have many of them? oh, shoes are typical cliched answer from a female. i should be surrounded by smarter women. oh, jesse, please, greg, we will protect these women, whether they like it or not, whether we like it or not. oh. feeling good? feeling. i feel so much safer now, don't you? yeah, totally. there are fine people on both sides of

the story with martha starts right now. >> martha: thank you. afternoon.artha maccallum and this is the story. the fbi says they have proof that iran ordered a very specific hit on now president-elect trump and that the ordered it unlikely no coincidence october seventh the day of the massacre in israel. they say the same team plotted to kill iranian-american journalist is believed to be identified not by them but believed to be identified as masi alina who we'll speak a moment. there's 3 suspects facing charges. 2 of them arrested in new york. the third is believed to be on loose and living in iran. and will join us exclusively with the what they know about this plot was she has learned an republican congressman michael walters former green beret commander standing by with his reaction 12 this and what a trump administration will look like in terms of our relationship with iran. but first justice correspondent has had a very reporting live from washington. >> reporter: good afternoon. the man they're looking for on the running now a 51-year-old allegedly

. >> martha: it is exciting. good afternoon, everyone. this is the story, it is the eve of an election that even the most seasoned poll watchers and forecasters are throwing their hands up. it is absolutely uncertain in terms of where this is going. trump is going to speak in a few minutes. this is the second of 4 rallies today in three separate battleground states. it is a fast-paced final run through. he is about to speak in reading, pennsylvania. he won the state of pennsylvania in his surprising upset in 2016 on election night. in 2020, lost it by about 80,000 votes. he wants to reverse the clock on that scenario. pennsylvania is the only state vice president harris is focused on today. scranton, philadelphia, and pittsburgh at 8:30 in the afternoon. what does the signal about the campaigns and the focus in their final hours. these are the last opportunities they get to reach out, touch voters and hope to pull themselves over that line. let's go to alexandria. we expect trump in about 10 minutes or so from now. >> let's talk about str

bill and martha for being re. so many big, historic moments in the last few days we're all sharing together. >> bill: stay nimble. >> harris: we're ready to go. harold, john, katie, thank you very much and we'll be right back, stay close. with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! —uh. —here i'll take that. [cheering] ensure max protein, 30 grams protein, 1 gram sugar and a protein blend to feed muscles up to 7 hours. ♪ have you compared your medicare plan recently? with ehealth, you can compare medicare plans side by side for free. so we invited people to give ehealth a try and discover how easy it can be to find your medicare match. this is pretty amazing. i can go on a vacation with this money. i have quite a few prescriptions. that's why people call us. we're going to compare plans, and i'm gonna try to get you as much bang for your buck as possible. that's great. this one here covers all your prescriptions, your doctors as well. oh, wonderful. i have a hard time with this

martha, back to you. martha: steve harrigan, thank you very much.he delay on the tv, they just saw -- [laughter] we have kellyanne conway, jesse watters and jessica tarlov. some things you're watching? >> hamilton, indiana, 70 of the vote has flipped back to the president trump. lowden county, virginia -- loudoun county, v, is going to spring -- virginia, is going to swing to the right. you understand why karl rove of said it could be tight in virginia. fayette, georgia, +2, harris will have to do well there to compete in georgia. also as pennsylvania closes its polls, bret, i think it's worth noting, martha, that this is the political malpractice that she didn't pick josh shapiro -- bret: we've got a -- >> -- jewish-americans. i think we'll be talking about that. bret: we will look lot at pennsylvania. election night in america just getting started. >> we are seconds away from 17 states plus washington, d.c.. including new hampshire, illinois, tennessee, florida. plus, the critical battle groun- >> if we win pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. it

martha maccallum is coming to set right now. i caught her in the gap and i know the audience can see me looking in this direction because i also have guests in studio. just real quickly and again we're waiting for president biden to come forward. this idea that there wasn't maybe some cohesion behind the scenes and the comments made. i argued, i don't know if they cut donald trump the same way they cut kamala harris. they were such a distraction snooty late stretch. >> bill: kellyanne has great insight on this and shared it a moment ago. i think the story is just beginning. the comments from linda lee were quite telling. some of which you played there. they are going to throw some arrows at each other. some are suggesting that joe biden should have gotten out more than a year ago. i never thought that biden even entertained that possibility. i think one of the remarkable things about this campaign, harris, is that biden went ahead and committed to a debate on the 15th of may and trump jumped on it. now we have this debate in the

martha. susanna and but now i want to again turn it over to america's best parks mayor, london breed. [applause] >> okay phil, i'll give you that raise you always wanted. [laughter] he called me america's best parks mayor, but i grew up in this city and i remember what these parks used to look like and how i got splinters going down those slides and broken swings and all the scars i probably have on my body came from damage in our park system. [laughter] that doesn't happen anymore. well, not as much as it used to. that has a lot to do with phil ginsberg and his incredible leadership. [applause] we have a extraordinary leader, a champion who believes in parks and more importantly, he has a amazing team of the people who work in the administrative park of rec and park, but also our gardeners, the folks who clean our parks, the park rangers, like the staff of rec and park they go above and beyond to make these spaces inviting, beautiful, clean and safe and there is no better park system in the

. >> i hi, martha. >> good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. this is the story on election day 2024. the first polls will close a few hours from now in an election that is guaranteed to make history one way or the another. will america elect its first female president in vice president harris which would also be the first south asian american to hold office in the united states or will former president trump complete one of the greatest political comebacks in history and become just the second president in our history to serve nonconsecutive presidential terms? last one was quite some time ago. 1893, grover cleveland was the last to do that. a live look now at what we all love to see on election day. people lining up and getting ready to vote across this country. chicago, we've been seeing long lines. some places don't have long lines at all. both campaigns will join us to give us their take on turnout so far today, how their candidates are feeling heading into the final hours. let's kick things with our great panel. brit hume, mark thesen, and robert wolff, former economic adveadvis

martha: thank you very much.here if the former president trump is about to take the stand and speak there. so we're going to keep a close eye on that. 1 a.m. in new york. polls have just closed in alaska. the fox news decision desk says it is too a early to call. trump has a lead in our fox news voter

the bobullhorn is gone, martha. they are not listening. >> martha: i saw it was shock.re continuing the language of basically fascism and how do we fight back. one thing i thought was interesting though is that this election no one is disputing the outcome. which i think is very healthy for the country. one commentator on msnbc said we lost this election and it had nothing to do with russia. [laughter] just to be clear. >> bret: clean break. >> martha: that's refreshing. >> brit: the legacy media made it easy for democrats not it face up to what the voters were saying to them in 2016 and certain elections since including last night. and what -- if the legacy media would start facing up to these things and reported it, we would democrats would have easier time waking up to it. >> bret: thanks, panel. appreciate it. ♪ >> bret: finally tonight, a special day. >> voting can be a stressful time for a lot of the people. we also want to celebrate everyone doing their civic duty and coming out to vote. so we thought what better way than bringing some puppies out to the polls. >

i'm jillian turner in interest martha. this is "the story". members of venezuela's alarmingest criminal gang have been arrested in a new york city drug and gun bust including stashes of marijuana and semi automatic weapons. this according to new york post reporting today.o new york post fox confirm it is suspects appeared in this video from aurora, colorado back in august. it shows armed men knocking on apartment doors just minutes before a fatal shooting there. we have retired nwpd inspector paul moreau with us in a moment. first we're reporting out the details from new york city this afternoon. >> hi, jillian, nice to see you. i just confirmed with ice that these two men are indeeds members of the violent venezuela gang. another law enforcement source also confirmed that they were arrested this week here in new york city during an ongoing homeland security investigation. the pair somehow made their way from colorado to nearly 2,000 miles away here to new york city where they were committing credit card fraud, violence and selling heroin and

martha, thank you. >>> now, to the economy tonight. president-elect trump says he will impose 25% tariffs on day one against our neighbors canada and mexico. tonight, mexico says it will slap a tariff on u.s. goods in exchange. trump pointing to the border, fentanyl, and illegal immigration. but tonight, this question here, who pays for these tariffs? u.s. companies bringing the products into the u.s. pay the tariff at first, and then sell those products to u.s. shoppers. so, will those costs be passed on to consumers? here's terry moran tonight. >> reporter: in a statement that rattled markets worldwide, president-elect donald trump declared that on day one of his new administration, he will impose the most sweeping tariffs in recent history, targeting america's nearest neighbors and biggest trading partners. "i will sign all necessary documents to charge mexico and canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the united states, and its ridiculous open borders," trump posted on social media. "this tariff will remain in effect until

what's their concern, martha? >> martha: well, i sure have.se farmers in the central valley which provides 25% of the nation's food supply are concerned about mass deportation. they want a secure border, but it's estimated half of the crop workers are undocumented and these farmers say if they're rounded up, they will not be able to find workers to replace them, and that could dramatically affect their crops and food prices. >> gio: martha raddatz, as always, we thank you. and tune into "this week" later. martha speaks with senator-elect elissa slotkin of michigan, about the many losses for democrats in the 2024 election, and martha will speak with tony gonzales who represents the longest border district in texas about trump's campaign promises on immigration. whit? >> whit: gio, now to the wildfire threat in the northeast. high winds and dry air also fueling the danger in several states this morning. somara theodore is here tracking the latest on that. somara, we can still smell the smoke outside here in new york. >> somara: yeah, whit. we st

>> martha moxley was 15 years old. she had the misfortune to have recently moved into a very wealthy gated community in connecticut called belhaven. among her neighbors were relatives of ethel. ethel kennedy married to robert kennedy. martha's body was found the morning of halloween in her own yard. and those descriptions come from the autopsy report and the crime scene photos that i examined in the courthouse in connecticut right befored thanksgiving. i want to say was 2021. 2020 or 2021. her mom who was still alive and lived in new jersey. the path to tell you what was done to martha was classic overkill. it was the kind of crime that's committed by somebody who knows the victim well and has alive rage towards the victim. when michael skakel was finally put on trial for the crime years and years later and the lot of the evidence as well came from the sutton report which parts of it were on line. my copy of the report came from the late dominic papers which are housed at the university i believe in texas. he had the f

. >>> martha versus netflix. martha stewart slamming a new documentary on her life that she agreed to take part in. >> it's a good idea. builds it into something really fine and profits from it. that's basically my story. >> what stewart says she does not like about the finished product and how its oscar-winning film maker is responding this morning. >>> time to rewind. most americans set to enjoy an extra hour of sleep this weekend. we will dive into the never-ending debate over daylight saving time and where the push to end it now stands. >>> those stories, plus you got to laugh. >> is that teej -- strategery. >> we will celebrate 50 years of political humor on snl. >> are we not doing the talent portion? >> five decades of spot-on impressions and jokes bringing together both sides of the aisle. >>> and flying high. >> rodgers under pressure, one-handed, caught! touchdown! >> the jets pick up a much-needed win over the texans with help from the catch of the year. >> from the end zone. and wilson! he has the bal

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