. >> martha: a head-spinning kickoff. >> america's decline is over. >> martha: from terminating federal diversity programs to deporting immigrants on military aircraft, president trump aggressively begins his first week back in office with a blitz of executive actions. >> all illegal entry will immediately be halted. >> martha: this morning, our sunday exclusive with new border czar, tom homan. if they have been here 30 years, if they have a job, if they're working on a farm, they should be scared? >> if you are in the country illegally, you got a problem and we're looking for you. >> martha: abc's matt rivers on the border with american troops and michigan's new democratic st senator, elissa slotkin, responds. >>> presidential power. trump pushes the limits of his authority, hardenpardoning more 1,500 january 6th rioters. >> these were people that actually love our country. >> what happened to backing the blue? >> reporte >> martha: so what's legal and what's on shaky ground in these orders? chris christie and preet bharara on what's next. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> mart

. >> martha: good afternoon everybody on martha maccallum, these are the images front and center, telling the story today, absolute catastrophe in southern california being described by people there as hell on earth? deadly wildfires, officials say there -- these are 0% contained ripping through loss angeles co., you have thousands of acres that are rapidly burning and you see them on the map here, los angeles, the palisades fire, clear stretch of inland. these incredible images of burning car as about to get a look at, it looks like a movie set but it is very real. it is apocalyptic. look at this, this is california, two people so far reported dead, those numbers likely to rise given the devastation, the bars are growing as we are coming to this afternoon at 3:00 eastern, listen to this... >> that is your entire life, you don't get that back. the memories are gone. >> a sick driving through hell itself down here. >> martha: she does not know if your mother is, okay,, you to put yourself in these people's shoes, or chief correspondent jonathan hunt live on the ground in pacific palisades,

martha? >> martha: thank you alexis.bring in stephen miller, white house chief of staff for policy. at tavi with us. so much happening so quickly but let me me get your thoughts on something we just mentioned in the intro which is that the trump administration is taking steps to deputize u.s. state and local law enforcement to work with ice. how would that work and clearly there will be some cities where they will refuse to do that, right? >> this is an example of how president trump is unleashing a vast and broad array of federal statutory authority to secure the homeland. authorities that congress has enacted that exists in statute that have never been used before. the secretary of homeland security has the authority to deputize both federal law enforcement as well as state and local law enforcement and the national guard to conduct immigration enforcement activities. the secretary of homeland security has already used the authority to deputize other federal law enforcement including all the law enforcement branches at

martha. >> martha: all right william thank you.'s bring in michael shellenberger ran for california governor 2022 has an independent after leading the democratic party. michael you see the pushback and people saying any criticism of the response is unmerited, that climate change has a big impact on what happen here. what do you say to all that? >> i think you just need to listen to the firefighters and the fire chief themselves as the year reporter indicated just then there was no predeployment. there weren't enough quitman or apparatuses are fire engines. i was told 100 need to be repaired. they had half as many firefighters as they need. about to publish my story with my third whistle-blower and this person is telling me they also lowered the standards in order to graduate more women as part of their der program and it's a problem because it meant for example they need three people instead of two to deploy a ladder so that puts an additional strain on the human resources so there's of the no doubt in the minds of the firefighters

martha hughes. is considered one of the brightest exponents of the women's cause in the united states. pretty high praise her position gave her gave rise to her popularity within utah territory where she became the first female state senator anywhere in the country. and that's an amazing feat. she served to a term there and she used her position for the good of others in the legislature. martha led the effort to establish a state board of health and she introduced bills to establish a school for the deaf and blind. she wasn't when she wasn't in office, she was running her practice and she had a lot going on and as the youngest head surgeon at the newly established hospital, which is an female medical institution, she used her skills, talents and experience to serve others and all grateful that she did. it's to our disappointment that we don't know more about her and that she didn't. we don't have more of her writings as, history records, some of were burned at her request. she was humble, too. appar

. >> here is martha. >> martha: all right thank you brad and sandra get afternoon everyone i'm martha maccallum and this is the story. so president trump with a warning for vladimir putin and the war in ukraine for payback and consequences. the president posting on true social short time ago i'm going to do russia whose economy is failing and president putin a very big favor. settled is now. settled this ridiculous war or it's only going to get worse. let's get this war which never would have started he says if i were president over whether we can do it the easy way are the hard way and the easy way is always better. it's time to make a deal. no more lives should be lost he said. with me now former secretary of state and cia director mike pompeo. a treadmill contribute or. always good to see if. thank you for joining us. obviously during the course of the campaign cocked president trump said, you know, we can do this very quickly within days. now he is talking about a slightly longer time frame but wanting obviously to get this negotiation started quickly. what's your response to what

hello david. >> high martha.dent trump trump reacting in realtime president-elect trump reacting in realtime to the three-page order from the florida judge eileen kennan saying the department of justice cannot release a two volume report that contains a lot of information about him. it is something his attorneys do not want released and here is his reaction. >> he wanted to do a report just before i take office probably so he will do like a 500 page report and it will be a fake report just like the investigation was a fake investigation. >> reporter: appointed late 2022 by -- he is spent more than $20 million on two prosecutions one involving allegations of dried overturned the 2020 presidential election and the other from taking classified doctrines to mar-a-lago for both cases never maid it to trial peer the two-volume report will first be transmitted to attorney general mary garland who will look it over and see if there should be any reductions. this is now on hold per judge kennan's order as he did with prev

martha. >> martha: thank you so much.e is president-elect trump on what will happen if a deal to free the hostages, the envoy on this is not done before takes office and an mar a lago where he cannot watch this. watch. >> we want to get the hostages back for israel and for us. we do have people that are hostages being held and i will just say it again, if this deal is not done with the people representing our nation by the time i get to office, all is going to break loose. >> martha: from the israel policy form saying what does all hell to pay look like? trumps messages to hamas to release the hostages has been a direct and blunt as possible. less clear they write on what options he has to back up the threats of hamas does not comply. with that we bring in nathan sales former ambassador at large in coordinator and senior fellow and security initiative in middle east programs. great to have you with us. your thoughts on the reporting on the israeli journalism outlet and what president trump said, he wants them back by a we

. >> martha: good afternoon everybody in martha maccallum, that "the story" this hour after 467 days, kidnapped on october seventh and then held in hamas tunnels and statehouses, dozens of hostages are now expected to be freed over a period of time in a trade for 1000 palestinian prisoners as israel and hamas appeared to have reached the cease-fire d deal. bad and saying to the american hostages will be part of the first wave of releases. three of them are believed to be still alive, 20-year-old alexander, 36-year-old and 65-year-old keith siegel. nearly 100 hostages are still believed to be in gaza and 63 of them by the most recent count available through intelligence are believed to still be alive it. we have seen some a that have happened at the course of this horrific process and grieving families that surround them, president-elect's trump, very close friend to the incoming president, and very instrumental in the final days of these ta talks. leaving with prime minister benjamin netanyahu over the meeting, by his side in monolog last week as trump warned thomas what would happen

martha. >> martha: that's very exciting. three hours and 45 minutes?'s old is new again. i'm taking the eagles, can i jump the horse here? >> martha: okay. i don't want to wear an eagles shirt. that's what happened last time. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: a fox news alert. president donald trump is keeping one of his key cpa

martha? >> martha: what a sad story from that young man. thank you. los angeles mayor grilled by a reporter after millions of residents wrongfully received evacuation warnings on their phones. bass and the governor receiving criticisms over the state and the preparedness of the wildfires. watch this. >> what are you doing to earn back people's trust and make sure the mistakes don't happen again. >> i think that was addressed at the beginning of the press conference by kevin. >> reporter: i would like that from you. you are the top official here. >> let me be clear i am going to spend every moment i can making sure i am in as many areas as possible. >> martha: we heard the conversation with president biden on that and senior national correspondent reporting live from los angeles and he has been out their covering the fires first hand. william, what do you have this afternoon? >> i want to tell you what the phone thing is about with the alerts. when the county wants to evacuate you get allowed alert on your phone and a text that says get out and the fir

we know we will, martha, back to you. >> martha: nate, a couple of questions as we think about this meeting between eric adams and president trump. we also remember tom homan, the new border czar, sitting down with eric adams in new york. i guess with this momentum, with these two meetings, i wonder if there will be more to come in terms of similar meetings with democrat mayors in places like los angeles or maybe even chicago as we see the obvious need for border security that was reflected in the november election day. >> martha, you can certainly look at the two democrat leaders and think they may be setting an example. you think of mayor adams specifically and in lake omicron arrested and charged with murder for lighting a woman on fire in the subway. adams came forward and told the nypd to look into a federal person charge as a way to sort of get around new york city's sanctuary laws. and with john fetterman coming at the first democrat senator to visit mar-a-lago, that sets a precedent in congress as well. trump not only appealing to the base but trying to work across the aisle. >> mar

"the story" with martha. >> we've got a nice snow storm going on. i am martha maccallum. this is "the story." >> donald j. trump out of the state of florida has received 312 votes. 226 votes. this announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected, president and vice president of the united states. >> martha: that is how it is done. president-elect trump's victory is certified exactly two weeks before he will be sworn in, in the inaugural on january 20th for the second time which is only happened one other time. very big -- vice president harris carrying out her duties and what "the new york times" called an awkward task of certifying the vote that she lost although it has been done before by al gore and richard nixon in similar situations. trump reportedly watched it all as you would expect at mar-a-lago today feeling "pure of indication" as he should. it was a resounding electoral win. that is the way it works. let's bring in our panel. fox news contributor, national review editor. hosts "

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. >> john: i'm john roberts the story with martha begins now. >> martha: live continuing coverage thank you john and sandra i'm martha maccallum good afternoon everybody this is the story it's been the story all week. fast and devastating wind driven fires continuing to wreak extraordinary havoc on los angeles and the entire area along the coast. this stunning image you are seeing at mount wilson california, "'s antennas are crucial to communications for 911 calls cracked television transmission and signals and information to everyone in the area and right now you can see they are threatened by the fire and that could cause a truly immense loss if they were to crumble or catch fire. the size of cities like san francisco or boston picture all of boston, if all of boston were wiped out by a fire, think about it for those of you on the east coast that's what they are dealing within los angeles. the sheriff of los angeles saying frankly we don't know how many lives have been lost at this point. >> bro that's a house. >> god protect this house in the name is. protect this neighborhood god in

martha. >> martha: it will be fascinating and so important. peter, thank you very much.e white house. joining the noun member of the senate met with president trump on sunday senator kennedy welcomed. always good to have you with us. you know, this whole question of one big beautiful bill as he just heard the speaker talking about the other day i sat down with majority leader senator thune and had asked him about what this is going to look like since all three -- you have all three branches right now this is what he said. >> there is been other times when one party had the house and the senate and white house and often people look back and say why didn't they get it all done win they had all three? >> us here in the senate the president and his team we're on the same page and that's a function know how to figure out how to make everything work in a way that enables to get to the finish line. >> senator welcome again for what does it look like to you and will it be different this time? will there be a lot of republican paragraphs given the leverage you have right now? >>

something you visit all the time. >> all the time. >> martha: watch this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> martha: all rightlike i'm reliving my childhood. the song swept the nation in the 1980s. >> i think we also look at a bigger problem. one of the things president trump needs to thank about what america that was brutal. everyone was clapping on one and three. wow we are going to fix that we are come together we are going to fix that. >> martha: can you help? i don't know. maybe i can help. we need a rhythm. a cabinet member. >> a trolls pain on board. >> because trump is better. a little something different. tyrus thank you. great to see you as always. coming up the billionaire entrepreneur with an active offer on the table to buy a ticket to. we will talk to frank mccourt next here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max! with dupixent, stay ahead of moderate-to-severe eczema. as you welcome the feeling of touch with clearer skin

martha. >> martha: i have been asking about that for quite a while, thank you.to senator cotton and a second but mike johnson is speaking right now and let see what he's talking about. >> we talk about conditioning the aid that will go there to policy changes. i think that is a common sense notion that is supported by the vast majority of people who do not want to subsidize crazy california leftist policies. that are dangerous for people. what the terms are and the details of that we will be working out but entwined in all of that is the concern about election security in california and voter i.d. is a matter, most american people see the value in and it will be something we try to do in advance. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> i am not sure and i will get ahead of the president regarding negotiations with venezuela or el salvador or any other country, i would just say that we will be dealing with this in the same manner that we did with columbia and that is every nation around the world, venezuela is a good example. the president noted that they open their prisons

martha. >> martha: all right thank you aisha. on capitol hill a lot going on there and meanwhile in other parts of the country it is like night and day. dramatic change of course a literally two days into the trump 2.0 presidency fox news embedded with ice and boston witnessed first-hand the apprehension of scores of migrant violent offenders many of whom had been picked up by the police for these criminal defenses and who are then released due to sanctuary rules. these are just part of hundreds of arrests that are going on across the country right now as they target the worst first. watch this. >> targeting some extremely violent offenders today. >> we are targeting very violent threats to our community. >> martha: this is part of pete's right along the presidents homeland security advisor stephen miller telling jesse waters last night that what we are witnessing is just the beginning. >> in the coming days you're going to see a massive scale up enforcement activities all across the country to dismantle these criminal networks.

martha. >> martha: thank you, peter. >> bill: good question at the end. we're also awaiting a senate vote to confirm sean duffy as secretary of transportation. that should go through. expected to get bipartisan support on that vote. after the commerce committee voted unanimously to advance his nomination. yesterday the senate voted to confirm scott bessent as treasury secretary. one of his big jobs will be working with congress to extend the trump tax cuts and that will not be an easy lift in d.c. this year. 12 past now. there is this. >> i think it's -- we have a president that prioritizes american national security. how we can make sure americans at home are safe. >> bill: president trump signs a stack of e.o.s to shake things up at the pentagon and scrap what he calls woke policies there. wants to end them all. orders a u.s. version of israel's iron dome as well. we'll show you that and talk to joey jones about it in a moment coming up. >> dana: the fat trimming begins in washington after the administration is reportedly putting a temporary stop on all

maccallum she has got the story and our continuing our continuing coverage martha. >> martha: indeedra.

. >> martha: indeed. let's bring in dana again and harold is still with us. you know, dana, one of the things that we haven't talked about that i think is worth bringing up is the j.d. vance story. writer of "hillbilly elegy", you know, very, very troubled childhood. at one point he tried to leap out of the car to save his own life. his mother was there today. and he put himself through ivy league schools and now is the vice-president of the united states and he's the third or second youngest, i think, serving the oldest president. >> and he is a millennial, so they just skipped right over a generation "x" and harold and i are offended. we got to step up our generation game. the other thing about him is that he is a rock star who is happy to be number two. and i think that's a very interesting situation. because he will be a very good executor of getting through a lot of things that president trump wants done. he'll be able to rally the troops. i think he'll be a lot more active. for example, if president trump says, i've named j.d. vance to handle this parti

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the tax, martha is right. i think you will hear more of a discussion of being on a path to a balanced budget. i will put the word path in there. the tax debate and how we extend these tax cuts is where you will see the fiscal argument. there is talk about doge. republicans always want to plus up and spend more on defense. if you are out there and watching and a big fiscal

in 1802 after martha washington death. and what's really remarkable about this is that the family members preserve it as it was in the 19th century was really popular, cut up textiles and to divide them up and give them away as gifts. and you can see a little bit of has actually been done. you see, there's a little cut out there, but this piece was seen as such precious relic that the family preserved it and it's here us today. it's been conserved and said it was most recently on at the metropolitan museum art for their exhibit on fashion and it's it's a really object that rarely goes out on view. it is it every all textiles are light sensitive and you can see that with this particular piece it's faded to this more brown color but it was a beautiful reddish color that you see there which is an ordinary color for these business suits that you would have seen. and there's a little bit of moth wear on it. would you expect a piece of wool from the 18th century? but it was really kept in a trunk and kept preserved as well as po

i'm the martha washington chief curator here at george washington's mount vernon, and i'm going to bering with you george washington's inaugural coat that's made of wool from the hartford woolen manufacturing. this is the coat that george washington was wearing when he was sworn in as the nation's first president on april 30th, 1789. it is an incredible object that has a number of really wonderful stories about it. the piece itself is made of wool, wool broad cloth, which would have been the cloth that most coats were made out of in the 18th century, for wearing outside. washington was sworn in at federal hall on that day in 1789. and it was an outside event, so he was on the piazza there or the loggia that's right in front of that building. this piece has an incredible history because it represents washington really wanting to support american manufacturing. it is made of wool from the hartford woolen manufactury in hartford, connecticut, and the story behind this piece is really significant, because before during the american revolution -- before the american revolution, the history

martha washington. they don't do anything with this property. they shut up the house and they just kind of sits here. when george and martha get the property, they auction off everything out of the house and they start to rent the property. well, you know what happens when you start to rent properties and nobody wants to care for this big, elaborate garden if they're a renter. and so we believe that pretty soon after or it starts getting rented out that the garden starts to fall into disrepair and one of the renters is a man named joseph kidd. joseph kidd is a handyman around town. he does all sorts of things, including plumbing, work. all right. if we go back to our statues there, read three words, statues. what does a plumber need for his trade? it is stated that joseph kidd melted down apollo and venus and turned them into gutters for houses around town. so okay. pretty soon we feel that really no one had an interest in this garden except for john cost us. and so it fell into disrepair. the house was

. >> martha: thank you, bret. it was interesting the transition he made from the intro to saying, but first we must be honest about the challenges that we face. and that's where he talked about an america that has been stumbling to respond to emergencies in our country that has failed our children in education and other things that he wanted to be very clear eyed about as he takes office. >> i feel that he was being a pragmatic optimist, saying that we will get there. and we will do all of these things but it's going to take us a minute because there are things that are so bad in our country right now. you know, his triumphant return to the presidency was because of a repudiation that the voters gave to the biden years. and it was kind of interesting to think, wow, biden and harris are sitting right there. and there are things that he would say at his rallies that he said right there in front of them. it's not that they hadn't heard it before. there's a sting there. however, i think what he showed is that he is go

with martha, they were sealed.because the conviction have been vacated so must the evidence that helps to convict michael. i remember when i got back to new york city that night the first person i e-mailed was susan riley who was the prosecutor, one of the prosecutors in that case it was a huge help to this book. just enormous. she was the one who had arranged for me too have such easy access to that stuff. i said to her i just got back from the courthouse i was told they're going to seal all of this up the monday after thanksgiving but that was five days away. she said i had no idea that was about toas happen. she thought it was catastrophic. she's that hope when this is all over you or someone will sue because this case is of such historical importance that evidence should be available to any future biographer, writer, historian who was look at it. c1 mary richardson candidate lived from 1959 until 2012. you describe her in the book as stylish, explosive, alcoholic. >> the alcoholism according to her therapist to

if he can, he can take a real slim republican majority and do a lot of things with it, martha. >> martha: i think you're right about that and i think that the president this time around, i think he wants people to like him. i think it bothered him in the first four years that he met so much resistance and opposition which turned into impeachment efforts and all the rest. but i think about him chatting at jimmy carter's funeral with president obama, and i think that he maybe in a moment where he wants to win everyone over. and we saw what happened on november 5th. we saw that movement across the country towards a more conservative nation in little bits and sections and latino and black and young voters. so i think he wants them all at this point. i think you have ten senators who are democrat senators in states where trump won and watch those individuals in arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania because they understand what the voters wanted. i think in the speech you will hear about the revolution of common sense is what we're learning will be a theme in this speech. i think it is an i

the tax, martha is right.nk you will hear more of a discussion of being on a path to a balanced budget. i will put the word path in there. the tax debate and how we extend these tax cuts is where you will see the fiscal argument. there is talk about doge. republicans always want to plus up and spend more on defense. if you are out there and watching and a big fiscal opp, the tax debate is where we will see this play out. host: i have heard some republicans talking about dynamic scoring a lot more. can you talk about that? guest: basically, there is a school of thought that if you extend current tax policies, not new policy, it doesn't count. it doesn't exist, basically. it doesn't count against your future debt or deficits. if you could wave a wand and do it that way and make it look good, the reality is the money is there. so, a lot of this debate will get very weedy between congressional budget office scoring and dynamic scoring. because we are just extending current policy, we don't need to worry about its

the tax, martha is right.nk you will hear more of a discussion of being on a path to a balanced budget. i will put the word path in there. the tax debate and how we extend these tax cuts is where you will see the fiscal argument. there is talk about doge. republicans always want to plus up and spend more on defense. if you are out there and watching and a big fiscal opp, the tax debate is where we will see this play out. host: i have heard some republicans talking about dynamic scoring a lot more. can you talk about that? guest: basically, there is a school of thought that if you extend current tax policies, not new policy, it doesn't count. it doesn't exist, basically. it doesn't count against your future debt or deficits. if you could wave a wand and do it that way and make it look good, the reality is the money is there. so, a lot of this debate will get very weedy between congressional budget office scoring and dynamic scoring. because we are just extending current policy, we don't need to worry about its