but meloni and trump have been public about their relationship and mutual appreciation for each otherthe past and she, obviously, is one of the most conservative prime ministers in europe right now and those in the trump camp believe she will become the go to ally for the president-elect in europe, especially as he sort of has taken an adversarial and hostile approach to some of our european neighbors and neighbors in the western hemisphere, although the role that meloni is going to be playing might not necessarily be a welcome one for her in terms of being that person who is going to mediate the relationships between trump and others as he applies pressure on some of her neighboring countries as well as trying to dramatically alter the role that nato -- that the u.s. plays when it comes to nato and nato countries in terms. support for ukraine and its war with russia. but again, meloni is the latest on the list of fairly conservative leaders who have paid visits to mar-a-lago, including former prime minister viktor orban of hungary, who, you know, as we know has been a champion of a l

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italian prime minister giorgia meloni. why do you think he sees all this benefit in working with these figures on the far right? most tech guys are libertarians. what is it about the far right. these are his views ? >> i think you said it right there. giorgia meloni friendship which has developed over the last year, looks to be profitable for elon musk. is much as elon musk is this trolling, talk radio host of apolitical influencer, he is a businessman. there's always an angle and his rocket company spacex is trying to sign these big deals with various countries to offer satellite internet services. bloomberg reported earlier that there's one in the works. 1.5 million 1.5 billion, excuse me, potential deal with meloni. musk is trying to strike when the iron is hot. it is unclear whether the trump/ musk playbook will work in europe. >> he's throwing his weight around in britain and picked a fight with right wing reform party leader nigel who is a long time confidant of steve bannon and donald trump. what is going on there?

trump's campaign posted a picture of him with giorgia meloni on social media. this is not the only meeting the two leaders have had recently. last month, meloni dined with trump and billionaire elon musk in paris during festivities to mark the reopening of the notre dame cathedral. meloni will meet with president joe biden when he's in rome later this week, and we are going to unpack all of that with natasha linstad, who is a professor of government at the university of essex here in the united kingdom. she joins us now from colchester. natasha, there's so much to unpack here, but i do want to begin with that visit by giorgia meloni to to mar-a-lago, because it certainly seems as though a lot of european leaders are trying to create ties with donald trump. but at the same time, it also seems as though he's meeting with european leaders who are similar inclined as himself. what do you make of it? >> no, definitely. >> we're seeing a lot of symmetry between trump and particular of the far right leaders in europe, and there's been definitely a rise of both leaders

so meloni posted on x after the meeting, saying that she's ready to work with trump, while trump called her a fantastic woman who has taken europe by storm. secretary of state nominee senator marco rubio and incoming national security adviser michael waltz also met with meloni last night. trump is focused on his cabinet picks as well. trump's choice for director of national intelligence, tulsi gabbard, will meet tomorrow with senator mark warner, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. defense secretary nominee pete hegseth will face the senate armed services committee on january 14th. trump's busy week ahead includes his sentencing and his new york criminal trial. on friday, judge juan merchan indicates he's leaning toward no jail time, fines or probation, which has trump aide corey lewandowski saying, why is the sentencing happening at all? >> this is a farce of a of a whole trial. this is a farce of a sentencing. look, the bottom line is this case should have been dismissed a long time ago. >> but democratic california senator adam schiff says he thinks judge merchan s

the meloni friendship which has developed the last year looks to be profitable for elon musk. host of a political influencer, he's a businessman. there's always an angle and musk's rocket company, spacex, is trying to sign these big deals with various countries to offer satellite internet services and bloomberg reported earlier this week there's one in the works, 1.5 billion euro potential deal with meloni. i think musk to some extent is trying to strike when the iron's hot. i think it's much less clear whether the kind of trump-musk playbook is going to work in europe. >> he is also throwing his weight around in britain. he even picked a fight with right wing reform party leader nigel fer aj who is a long time confidante. >> tommy robinson who again neonazi far right who he thinks should take over, he's not going to become prime minister. i don't think it's all about money. he may get this contract with italy. he's not backing a guy who is in jail. so tommy robinson in britain is in jail because he's lied about a syrian refugee. it gets too complicated. nigel said i don't wan

now in terms of the case of meloni.he doesn't see musk or trump as a threat to her italian policies that are based on making things in italy and supporting italian companies. and she's hoping that this relationship will only strengthen italy. now, as far as trump is concerned, i think he tries to to forge these types of relationships that ultimately the ultimate goal is really to weaken the european union and possibly also nato. he is an anti internationalist. he is, you know, anti-globalization and he's against these international institutions or these intergovernmental institutions as well. and so i think that's what's what's often driving these types of partnerships. >> yeah. it's really interesting you say that because there was there was no readout or anything of that meeting. the only thing that we heard, and this came from the italian side beforehand, is that they said the main topics were going to be ukraine, the mideast trade and and of course, that italian journalist who is currently being held in in iran. but

. >> over the weekend the next case, italy's prime minister giorgia meloni made us a prime minister withhe president electron. jessica is back with us, he has a beard. it suits you. you look as old as me. >> i'm sorry i know your mom is watching. >> you and my mom. >> italy giorgia meloni. >> speaking to my mom, viva italia. i look at this meeting i did not get attentive press but it was historic. i think prime minister maloney is a conservative almost as important as da vinci was to italy. in this meeting, she took office and she came in and she was elected in 2022. italy has been a mess the board has been a mess, she was elected against what everybody thought she came in and is instituting trump -like policy. for trump look at somebody like prime minister maloney and look at her as being a bridge a better relationship with the european union in 19 trillion-dollar gdp, the u.s. has a $28 trillion gdp this is going to bridge the gap and hopefully other countries will spain, france will come on board and we will have a more conservative europe. >> i gotta talk to you about apple the stock

. >>> and giorgia meloni has met with trump at mar-a-lago.t for dinner days before the current president joe biden is due to visit rome in the final scheduled trip. meloni said she was ready to work with america's next president. >>> in the u.s. politics, house speaker mike johnson says president-elect trump would like to pass one big beautiful bill using reconciliation including border security, energy and tax policy. republican lawmakers had been split over whether to try to pass one or two bills using the reconciliation process which suspends the senate's 60-vote thresholds for proposals related to tax and spending. these comments came after johnson narrowly won speakership after two members voted against him. i'm pleased to say leslie, the director of u.s. and america's program at chatham house is joining us today. leslie, first and foremost, i would like to look at the re-election of mike johnson as the speaker. i just would like to understand how are you reading the reversal in terms of voting, in terms of support for mike johnson? any

well, new this morning, italian prime minister giorgia meloni visited florida to meet with president elect donald trump this weekend at mar a lago. and photos from the italian government show both world leaders speaking to each other, according to multiple reports, meloni planned to speak with the president elect about the war in ukraine, trade issues and the middle east. florida senator marco rubio and representative mike waltz were also seen at mar a lago. maloney's visit comes after an italian journalist was detained last month by iranian police while reporting in tehran. tomorrow, the 119th congress, along with vice president kamala harris, will certify president elect donald trump's win in the election. monday's congressional session is expected to be less eventful than january 6th, 2021. as required by the constitution, the session is a routine event every four years. vice president harris oversees the process as the president of the senate. once votes are certified, president elect trump will be inaugurated on january 20th. meanwhile, president biden, leading a ceremony for th

he's got all these world leaders clamoring to meet him at mar-a-lago, and the latest was giorgia melonid there with donald trump at the white house. she's an important leader in europe. and she definitely wanted to be -- she's met with elon musk many italy. i've seen that before, but now she's at mar-a-lago -- charlie: and they met again at notre dame for the opening of the cathedral. rachel: elon musk -- charlie: yeah. rachel: some people thought there was a little bit of love, some -- with elon and meloney. charlie: and it looked like president-elect trump was playing match maker a little bit. rachel: oh, was he? really? i love this! how did i miss that -- i only saw video of meloni and elon musk together in italy, and i was, like, there's a connection. charlie: yeah. it looked like sparks were flying. guy: you're take your match making to international levels now, heads of state -- [laughter] major business titan it is. the thing that's interesting about this is mar hag go has become almost -- mar-a-lago has become almost like this de facto white house over the last couple of weeks w

meloni is scheduled to meet with president joe biden during his visit to rome this week. plus, oral arguments start friday in the supreme court in a case that could decide the future of tiktok in the united states. they'll begin just days before the legal deadline, which says the app must be sold off or banned in the u.s. the wildly popular social media app is owned by a chinese company, bytedance, and right now tiktok is refusing to separate from that company. now, president-elect donald trump first considered banning tiktok during his first term in office, but now he says he opposes the ban. and amit huron, ceo and chairman of cybersecurity firm tenable holdings, has passed away after a battle with cancer. before joining tenable, huron founded netwitness, a threat detection platform, and in 2003, he was named director of the national cybersecurity division at the department of homeland security. known for his insights on cybersecurity, khan frequently appeared on cable news, including an interview just last year on cnn about the u.s. government's potential ban on tiktok

as the italian justice minister has been in talks with meloni about this situation. so the company you're wanting businessman is still uncertain, but what's clear is that a while the west had suggested that solace arrest was a strategic move by to have on her release appears to contradict this narrative by the wes instead, the west has moved to detain albany as complicated on these diplomatic relations as the country 6 to balance its elias with the west and its historical ties with different. yeah, very interesting data and then how much clear i faxed to you. i'll see if it was one i use very thank you for that updates all rights. as far as ease uh, working around the clock to create a dead battery and search for potential victims on the powerful escalade that spoke to. but now at least a 120 people were killed. another 180 ended in that incident. here is a serious here report on the rescue efforts. holding to the latest, the press briefing. as for now, she don't has to provide over 12000 personal from various levels of emergency rescue teams. and the social rescue f

those who were elected who you may not approve of, the likes of donald trump, javier milei, giorgia meloniti—democratic to infer...? well, i suppose the inference from it is that people elected the wrong leaders. no, i think people can elect whoever they want. what i'm looking at is a creep towards authoritarianism and fascism and pushing further and further to the right. and i think what these people are believing and the erosion of human rights — this is a global thing, this idea of being able to protest or speak up, or having any way of kind of countering what is happening. like i said, this is a film based on a feeling and also personal experience. i'm, you know, my family is from india. i've been to india. i've seen what's been happening to muslims in india. i've spoken to journalists from there. i'm a film—maker, but my work has come out of the research, of interviewing and speaking to people who are actually experiencing things, like rana ayyub in india, being in brazil when making senna, and seeing the rise and the want for a strong man to come along. and this was pre bolsonaro. i

one thing is for sure, giorgia meloni is sticking around. at the g7 meeting, she was the standout. jonathan: joe biden is still the president, just to reiterate that. his latest decision has gotten some controversy. president biden blocked knipe on steals takeover of u.s. steel. they intend to challenge the order. this coming from richard haass over the weekend. it is bad economics in foreign policy. it encourages protections elsewhere and undermines what has been a defining alliance approach to the world. it is a stain on bidens legacy. lisa: many in the markets have trusted this to be serious when it comes to deals that are being done and actually protecting the u.s. from natural security concerns. nippon steel will have a press conference tomorrow. the wall street journal gets to the point this morning about that push and pull between bidens domestic advisers concerned about the union jobs in pennsylvania versus those like secretary of state antony blinken on the fact that you might be damaging relationships when it comes to japan. how ar

except with meloni of course was there. he was hosting her on saturday night.u to listen -- given what you just said about how big of a story this is in canada to what trump said today about the relationship to hue hewitt. >> we're the united states. we're not canada. we have all the lumber in the world. all i have to do is free it up a little bit. and we have more lumber than they do. we have everything. we have all of the gas and oil and everything that you need in terms of energy. we have more than they do. we have everything. we don't need anything from -- why are we subsidizing them 200 million -- >> i think you got their attention. >> definitely gotten their attention. but the united states and canada are each other's biggest trading partners. and so i think when he threatens this, people may look back in his first term and say, well, he didn't go as nuclear then as he was pledging to do. what is going to happen now? >> i mean, you know, canada is paying attention to this because they're the ones in the crosshairs. the reason it's a case that the world is

saturday night, trump met with giorgia meloni.republicans later to discuss a reconciliation package that could impact taxes and regulation for big tech. >> let's certify this election. congress needs to immediately g beautiful bill that needs to make its way to president trump's desk as soon as possible. >> democratic massachusetts senator elizabeth warren posted on x, "it's no secret well apple's ceo is sucking up to donald trump. republicans are planning more corporate tax cuts that would give apple $2.7 billion in handouts. this quote the relationship between seems to be improving. donating an amazon prime will also stream trump's inauguration coming up in two weeks. >> sandra: live in florida, thank you. >> we need a presidential declaration of disasters so that we can continue to prepare for the super bowl and mitigate the experiences that we endured during the terrorist attack on new year's day. >> john: louisiana governor joining us moments ago as we are learning more about the suspects action in the new year's eve attack a

. >> i think kamala and doug collett quits and i think elon musk runs off with giorgia meloni in italy." >> jimmy: it is 3 minutes until america celebrates the new year and it's like, another thing, you [bleep] canucks! 2010 if i was looking up for you. would you not say? >> yes. it's looking amazing for the situation. are you talking predictions? we might find out that fauci and gates are driving those drones. >> jimmy: that's why the drones are 6 feet apart. it's not good! the situation those things. a couple things about the show, fox saturday night will have a live studio audience. [applause] it's not fair that we only get to offend the people at home. we get to offend some people in the studio. i predict -- and this has never happened before -- trump is going to go to the white house correspondents' dinner. because now he's making nice the second time around. i think he's going to be smart and let me host. you know i? straight up, gutfeld is obviously the bigger name but he can't see over the podium. so you throw me on there. and i have taylor austen dye and her man, then, i went

we know a top chinese adversary will be there instead in his place, italian prime minister giorgia melonit there to the inauguration. argentina's president javier planning to attend and brazil's former president receiving an invitation as well. trump preparing for 100 executive orders right after the inauguration on day one upon taking office. joining me heritage foundation and heritage action president the author of dawn's early light taken back washington to save america kevin roberts back with us. good to see you, thank you for being here. the inauguration is going to be a big event, a lot of foreign leaders want to be there and right after he swore again he'll go right to the oval office and start with his pen on 100 executive orders, what do you expect this to be. >> i expect the first minutes after president trump being sworn in to be the beginning of the golden era of america as he's been saying in we've been saying the last few years that heritage i think in the executive orders to be specific you will see great substantive rollback of the american administrative state which stand

. >> hargitay's wing man for much of the journey was christopher meloni who played her partner elliotey are involved, they're not going to be forthcoming with the motive. >> i have someone who might. >> in the spring of '99, you and chris get in a room together and dick wolf says, that's it. did you feel that way, too? >> absolutely. it was sort of once-in-a-lifetime experience. sure as hell wouldn't drive to queens to save your ass. >> yeah, you would. >> i knew quickly we had this kind of magical chemistry. chris and i are polar opposites in terms of who we are as people, and yet there was this ying yang. so when they paired us i was like this is done. >> the 60-year-old hargitay was born in southern california to actor and body builder mickey hargitay and star actress jane mansfield who died in a car accident when mariska was just 3. in high school, hargitay was an athlete and a beauty queen. she got serious about acting while studying at ucla. what were your early days as an actress like? >> i would do an audition, i'd kill it, and then i would go back and i wouldn't do as well on

maria: giorgia meloni at mar-a-lago this weekend with president trump, no doubt talking about the threatse, global stage. what are your thoughts here in terms of the terrorism element and getting president trump's national security team in place? if do you have confidence that all of his cabinet nominees will be confirmed? >> yeah, yeah, i do, and i want to do them sooner rather than later. when president trump left office, we had the most secure border in american history. the caliphate was destroyed, isis was destroyed and iran was in a box, we killed soleimani, the iranian revolutionary guard leader. the last four years have been a frigging disaster. they rolled back every policy that worked on the border. they went back into the iran nuclear agreement giving the -- maria: what about the confirmations? >> and -- yeah. the confirmations, do 'em now, do 'em quick. get 'em all done in january, february. we feed our team on the field -- we need our team on the field. we need fbi director, attorney general, we need 'em all. we gotta get it done. we're under attack here. we're at war. maria:

story from the normandy anniversary are where joe biden appeared to be wandering off, and giorgia melonie minister of italy, had to pull him back? he was wandering off and going off in the middle of what was supposed to be a big photo op. so, come on -- howard: yeah. it wasn't just fox, it was all of these democrats saying, oh, no, you're unfairly using the video that somehow the white house provided. and, robby, let's me switch to something because -- let me switch to something. veteran cbs reporter jan crawford had this to say about biden's now-obvious mental decline and the press' role. roll it. >> that would be, to me, joe biden's obvious cognitive decline that became untechnology the in the televised debate -- we should have yesterday whether he was fit for another four years which could have led to a primary. howard: well, good for jan crawford. robby, was the press covering for joe biden, or was it shielded if from biden? >> i mean, biden's staff tried to keep him at arm's length from the press, but they needed to do a more dogged job of pursuing this question because for all of t

had a chance to meet giorgia meloni briefly.hat he said and what the future looks like. >> it was a fantastic meeting. and, like you said, we actually started off the meeting talking about wildfires for several minutes. you know, those red and yellow planes you showed on the screen i used to personally fly those. aircraft, we don't have enough planes and firefighters. president trump is committed to put our first. we are not going to put the asian smelt fish first. not going to wrong headed. we are going to make sure protect communities wildfire from coast to coast. we discussed panama canal. that's been top of news lately. like you said a national security priority. we lost 38,000 lives. spent, i don't know, how many billions of dollars in today's money building engineering feat changed the face of the globe. we have to be able to move our ships from the atlantic to the pacific. free commerce. china controls that canal. they have been taking advantage of it. violating the treaty obligations about time we take it back and suppor

but the president elect is getting some cover from allies like italian prime minister giorgia meloni,views his comments as a warning to china and russia rather than threats of military force. >> when he does something, he does it for a reason. so let's ask ourselves why he is using a forceful way of saying that the united states will not stand idly by. >> but with trump scheduling a face to face meeting with vladimir putin, there are concerns that he will stop supporting ukraine, essentially enabling a russian victory. >> no responsible leader would let putin have his way. >> trump says he's also floating the idea of acquiring the panama canal, either through diplomacy or force. in london, alex hogan, ktvu, fox two news. >> the last unemployment numbers of president biden's term are in how they compare to expectations as the country prepares in december. the labor department reports 256,000 new jobs were created last month, far surpassing estimates. health care was the biggest sector for hiring. the unemployment rate in december ticked down to 4.1%. president biden took some credit fo

but the president elect is getting some cover from allies like italian prime minister giorgia meloni,ts as a warning to china and russia rather than threats of military force. >> when he does something, he does it for a reason. so let's ask ourselves why he is using a forceful way of saying that the united states will not stand idly by. >> but with trump's scheduling a face to face meeting with vladimir putin, there are concerns that he'll stop supporting ukraine, essentially enabling a russian victory. >> no responsible leader would let putin have his way. >> trump says he's also floating the idea of acquiring the panama canal, either through diplomacy or force. in london, alex hogan, ktvu, fox two news. >> people who spent hours scrolling or making their living on tiktok or watching for what could be the end of that app here in the united states. next on the nine, we'll get some insight from a tech expert as the u.s. supreme court is weighing in days ahead of a possible ban. then people who have pets and other animals are facing extra concerns. in the southern california wildfire zo

new this morning, italian prime minister giorgia meloni visited florida to meet with president electonald trump this weekend at mar-a-lago. photos from the italian government show both world leaders speaking to each other, according to multiple reports, maloney planned to speak with the president elect about the war in ukraine on trade issues and the middle east . florida senator marco rubio and representative mike waltz were also seen at mar-a-lago. maloney's visit comes after an italian journalist was detained last month by iranian police while reporting in tehran. tomorrow, the 119th congress, along with vice president kamala harris, will certify president elect donald trump's win in the election. monday's congressional session is expected to be less eventful, of course, than january 6th of 2021, as required by the constitution. the session is a routine event every four years. vice president harris oversees the process as the president of the senate. once votes are certified and the president elect will be inaugurated on january 20th. new this morning, united airlines passengers w

number three on the list is the post-fascist prime minister of italy.iorgia meloni.she'd be this very authoritarian figure. she's really balanced that out with the pragmatism and sort of steady leadership. she's number three on the list. i think the fact that we have seven eu countries that now have far-right representation in their governments, she's going to be a key contact, i think, for our incoming administration and that entire continent, frankly. another interesting political person on the list is susie wiles, who makes her debut at number 72 on the list. >> there you go. >> mika, you question why, you know, somebody like susie wiles takes on this campaign. i think what she brought to donald trump's campaign is steady leadership. the chaos and disorganization we'd heard in years past, past elections, went away. she's worked for republicans across the idealogical spectrum. i think it is very interesting to see what steadiness -- >> she will be very interesting to watch. i totally agree. fascinated with that. maggie, there's someone unexpected in the number 100

big win for giorgia meloni there and blue origin, the rocket company founded by billionaire jeff bezostand down on an attempt to launch its first orbital rocket overnight. the launch had been scheduled to take place from cape canaveral, florida, between 1 and 4 a.m. eastern, but the company had to repeatedly reset its countdown clock before eventually postponing altogether. this was thought to be the long anticipated debut of bezos challenge to elon musk's spacex. at this point, no new launch date has been set. they have to fix the clock. john. yeah, they will is a problem. if the countdown clock doesn't work, how do you have a countdown? that's right. ten. nine. eight. >> seven. six. >> that's such a key feature of any of these rocket launches will be to know when to go. but of course, we expect they'll reschedule that as soon as they can. shifting to other news now, vice president elect jd vance is taking a stance on whom he thinks should and should not receive presidential pardons for their actions during the capitol riot on january 6th, 2021. vance made some new comments during an

this was a lame-duck lineup except for giorgia meloni, who basically greeted everyone. like they were going there to kiss the ring of this new leader of europe. emmanuel macron is there but he's been dealt a huge blow domestically. she's the only one left in the list of leaders. jonathan: governor carney might be interested in throwing his hat in the ring. you were 20 points behind the conservative. why would you want to get in now? just wait, have the election, watch it fail and then jump in. lisa: it shows how much the u.s. is a template and what you should and should not do. maybe trudeau is trying to avoid a kamala harris situation. you don't give as much time to a potential candidate. how much big of a gap can you close when you have momentum on such a level on the conservative side? jonathan: erik nelson joins us now. welcome to the program. there has been a clear and obvious shift against the comforts and towards conservative leaders. what are the consequences going to be? erik: who would have guessed it would be the bastion of political stability, the g7? not ex

meloni spends times with donald trum? ~ , , meloni spends times with donald trum?i spends times with donald trum? , �*, ., trump? absolutely, it's no coincidence, _ trump? absolutely, it's no coincidence, i— trump? absolutely, it's no coincidence, i don't - trump? absolutely, it's no coincidence, i don't think l trump? absolutely, it's no i coincidence, i don't think that the deals have been going on. seeing that she's built up a good relationship with elon musk, and now the surprise visit to mar—a—lago resort. it really does show just visit to mar—a—lago resort. it really does showjust how keen she is to cement herself as the interlocketer of europe and the united states really going forward. and this is a very interesting deal that appears to be on the verge of being struck between italy and spacex. it's a $1.5 billion deal, and it would mean that spacex provide secure telecommunications for the italian government. and, of course, in the background to all of this, is the threat of tariffs on european union goods. and, of course, we've already heard when this tari