. >> ainsley: peter doocy joins us with details. >> peter: we were told about this bill that forces a company to sell tiktok. it is clear, communist china is on the chopping block. you know who said that? marco rubio. not necessarily shared with the incoming president who huddled with tiktok ceo shou chew at mar-a-lago yesterday. >> we'll take a look at tiktok, i have a warm spot for tiktok, i won youth by 34 points and there are those that say tiktok had something to do with it, had an impact. we're taking a look at it. we won youth. republicans are always 30 points down. >> peter: tiktok's parent company must sell tiktok by january 19th. trump can issue a one-time delay of the sale january 20. policy makers he's hiring want it sold. x owner elon musk would stand to benefit financially by a competitor tiktok disappearing from the u.s. market. musk's doge group will meet today on capitol hill. >> we are working on trying to separate the pile of government waste, what can executive branch do on their own by declaring agencies need to be more efficient. we have to have legislation so we

peter doocy, welcome. >> thanks, howie. of after four years of following biden around? >> the transition itself is a lot different because i remember in to 2017 i spent a lot of time in new york city and in palm beach, and there were these nominees coming in for tryouts or hopefuls coming in for troyouts. and four years ago in wilmington, peak covid, they drew those little circles for us to sit in at a theater in wilmington. and he was out this a fair amount. it seems like the president-elect right now is taking advantage of a break. he's already been there. he knows that a press pool is going to be on him every day, 24/7, in january whether he likes -- howard: seems to be running the country. [laughter] >> well, there's that too. but he's able to run the country right now kind of on vacation. this is like a vacation until next month. and it seems like he's taking advantage. howard: president biden occasionally called on you and once apologized for insulting you. but in the last couple of years, it seemed like he didn't rea

unbelievable, peter doocy from west palm beach, getting a very good tan. larry: "wall street journal" and main street doing the trump dance that is the subject of the riff. so, small businesses and middle american families doing the trump dance. take a look at whopping confidence numbers hot out of press. small business confidence registered largest one month game in 39 year monthly history of the survey. soaring after the election. middle class working folks are expecting their financial situation to be better off a year from now, jumped to highest reading since february of 2020, that was just before the pandemic. that according to a new york fed survey. on top of that big business starting to do the trump dance. business round table published quarterly survey. based on responses from the ceos of 1 p 56 firms, their confident index jumped to highest level in 2 1/2 years, since month expectations of sales and capital spending and employment all improved. guess what? seem like folks are looking forward to lower taxes and regulations. guarantee, consumers ar

. >> john: peter doocy with congressional plans to fund the federal government and how much power doeswield even that we is not in office. do we begin with aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. you must have a caught there on the hill because i don't think you have had a chance to get home yet. >> no, i am in the basement now and i don't know what that tells you but they are at a turning point and there's been a lot of movement in the last hour or so. bc members filing into this closed-door g.o.p. conference meeting where g.o.p. leadership is going to present to them what they have cooked up inside the speaker's office. there has been a variety of emotions walking and but congressman maria talk us was frustrated and felt like membership was completely left out. she doesn't know but they will present today. a lot of folks finding out details from the press, realty and optimistic about this. according to steve scalise, it is a good plan. let's take a look at the plan together. this is what they have come up with, they want to have three votes on three separate issues. the first is to fund

. >> ainsley: peter doocy is live in washington with the latest. >> peter: odds of government shutdownr 70/30 ch according to chad pergram. >> this is a -- sandwich, we have been forced in this position. we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. peter doocy on truth social donald trump posted, sounds like ridiculous resolution is dying fast, one of the most unpopular parts is raise for lawmakers. >> members giving themselves a pay raise, do you deserve a pay raise? >> that is news to me. good news. >> people look at performance of congress, why give them money? >> what about media? >> we are not paid by public money. >> i know you are not, you are getting the same paycheck, what is going on? >> peter: when hakeem jeffries posted, this will hurt working class americans they claim to support. elon musk wrote back, you, jeffreys seem to think the public is dumb, they are not. speaker johnson needs plan b after trying to promote a this time yesterday. >> we control one half of one third of federal government, democrats are still in control. we don't normally like short-term stop fundi

this dance in just a moment with congressman wesley and senators and mike crapo and up land and peter doocy live again in west palm beach, florida. peter, what's cooking down there? reporter: larry, here in the palm beaches today we're feeling the push and poll of biden foreign policies and president trump for the president elect says about foreign policymaking headlines and biden team has control of the situation reel. >> we have the ability and have had conversation withs appropriate officials in the incoming trump team, particularly about a what's going on in syria and what's going on in ukraine and middle east writ large. those conversations have happened and they're still happening. reporter: meted with the next national security adviser michael walt well and president hoping to get more mileage out of the now infamous dinner with justin trudeau and joked, in private, if the economy can't survive without ripping off the u.s. in the tune of $100 billion, then canada should become a state. we have this from trump, it was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with governor, justice tr

thank you, peter doocy. all the sudden it's the hottest story of the day and about a bunch of missteer yous drones -- mysterious drones flying over the state of new jersey and confirmed 11 don firmed sightings overhead since november 13 and not confirmed or turned out to be airplanes. state police and state homeland security minutes before the broadcast, they've witnessed 50 drones following their ships off the coast. crean jean-pierre being backed up by the defense department that's saying that's not foreigne adversary president biden made aware of this and it's reassuring and new jersey congressman didn't pose a significant intelligence threat and strongly advised president biden from shooting them down. if you recall the pentagon was repeating this as the chinese spy balloon flew over montana and the dakotas including our nuclear missile sites and then it kept flying across the country until the pentagon finally shot it down off the coast of south carolina there are their denial about the ha harmlessness

coming up later, and senators eric schmitt and tommy tuberville waiting in wings but first fox news peter doocy live from west calm beach what is happening there in palm beach. reporter: if i came from a different country or planet, i would want to go to new jersey too. my home state, but here in palm beach we're tracking confirmation fights over trump's picks, there is nothing they can do if republicans stick together they think that trump and his allies have been executing a successful pressure campaign that pressure is the reason that none. the bad stories about pete hegseth for example forced h-- him out. >> if the fear of donald trump and his -- for retribution were less there is no question this nomination would go down. reporter: corey l. >> said there is no resource we will use to go after those senators. elon musk has threatened primary challenges to people that vote against president trump's picks and "wall street journal" said that building america's future, outside group running half million of ads running pete hegseth and h heritage in ads and all this toward kash patel. >> do you

>> bret: peter doocy just outside mar-a-lago. ter, thanks. ♪ >> bret: also breaking tonight, the jury has concluded its deliberations for the day in the case of the marine veteran accused of killing a subway rider who was threatening other passengers. correspondent c.b. cotton is outside the courthouse in new york with the latest. good evening, c.b. >> good evening, bret. that's right. deliberations are done for the day and jurors will return tomorrow to weigh daniel penny's fate. the judge told the jurors that to find penny guilty on the most serious charge, second degree manslaughter they have to believe the prosecution has proven three things: that penny caused the death of jordan neely, did so recklessly and was not justified. during closing arguments, prosecutors said it's quote, obvious that jordan neely died because of penny's restraint. they told jurors that even if they think daniel penny started out with good intentions to protect other subway riders, good intentions can turn bad. and they reminded jurors their only task

first, we have peter doocy down in florida where it's not quite as warm as some people thought it would be. peter, what the do you have? reporter: not quite as worm? it's like 70. and overcast. i love it. we're reminded that a president elect cannot conduct foreign policy but donald trump is certainly trying to apply pressure on america's adversaries where he can. he posted a little while ago on truth social in part, if the hostages are not released prior to january 2025, the date i proudly assume office of president of the united states, there'll be all hell to pay in the middle east. that kind of pressure has already yielded some results. the threat of tariffs on the neighbors if the border security was not tightened up, prime minister justin trudeau, according to canada's daily globe and mail, offering to deploy helicopters and drones to beef up security and canadians are saying that's what this weekend's mar-a-lago trip was all about. >> the public threat and posting was monday evening and then we were at his residence in florida talking about that exact context. reporter: trump all

peter doocy in west pompeii thank you.'s bring in public affairs senior vice president alexa henning and former house oversight committee chairman, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. welcome to both of you. jason, to you first, the washington time headline says the following, "west point apologizes for administrative error claiming hegseth was not accepted at the academy. outcome on, jason, west point gave false information to a far left media site and stood by it for a while while this thing kind of, you know, seeped into the bloodstream and then finally said we were wrong. what is going on here? >> that's a total embarrassment. isn't it amazing how it always goes one direction. it always gravitates in that direction. pete hegseth, the more you get to know him, the more you look at his background, the more qualified you understand he is. same with kash patel. they've got substance behind what they've done in the past and that is what i think both should be confirmed and should do so with every republican supporting them

senior white house correspondent peter doocy has that part of the story tonight from west palm beach,. >> peter: the president-elect pressure campaign working. he wanted fbi director gone wray says he will be. >> are you going to fire the current fbi director christopher wray who you appointed? >> well, i can't say i'm thrilled with him. he invaded my home. i'm suing the country over it. he invaded mar-a-lago. i'm very unhappy with the things he has done. >> now the pressure shifts to the senate. >> i'm sure the pl cket will be weighing in, trying to influence his republican colleagues. >> peter: trump ally corey lewandowski claims there will be no resource we won't use to go after those u.s. senators who go against donald trump's cabinet picks or other nominees. the world's richest man says he will branch roll primary challenges to republicans who vote against trump's wishes posting how else? there is no other way. the conservative group heritage action just went live with $150,000 worth of ads in nine states. part of a $1 million buy promoting trump picks in states represented by ke

>> neil: peter thachg for peter doocy at the white house on that.he president-elect but donald trump getting the big invite to be in paris this weekend for the commissioning of the notre dame. donald trump will be there. jackie heimrich always there. jackie? >> an other heads of state will be there. it comes after trump threatened tariffs on mexico, canada and china. last night he said the fox nation patriot awards, countries will respect us again. we expect more of that talk over the weekend. we are watching to see what happens next with the president-elect's nominee to lead the pentagon after a fraught week on capitol hill. more on that soon. free select tool when you buy select tools and batteries from our top brands. so, perfecting the holidays... oh, you're good. is easier than ever. lowe's knows how to help you holiday. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy.

peter doocy joins us from washington. hey, peter. >> peter: when i got to the white house four years ago with president biden, he was walled off because of covid. they didn't want him to get sick. but then he stayed walled off and now the "wall street journal" has this item with the headline how the white house functioned with a diminished biden in charge. and it comes with this quote: if the president was having an off day, meetings could be scrapped all together on one such occasion in the spring of 2021, a national security official explained to another aid why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. quote: he has good days and bad days and today was a bad day, so we're going to address this tomorrow, the former aid recalled the official saying. the president showed natural signs of aging but key allies always stuck their necks out to say no big deal. >> right after the debate, you insisted that president biden is extraordinarily strong. given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the american people

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peter doocy, how is the president-elect working to free the hostages? >> sandra, good question.ants to be top man in jerusalem is giving us a better idea what the president means with a warning to hamas to release the hostages or else. when donald trump says they will have hell to pay if they don't let the hostages go, i think hamas is taking it seriously. if joe biden gets credit for it, i don't care. appeared to what character is a family is getting out. >> the biden team would gladly take credit considering current president had a cease-fire deal that something he could still get down before retirement. then there is this from last night. >> where you seek prime minister benjamin netanyahu with cease-fire deal? >> i have spoken to him again. >> do biden benjamin netanyahu still strain so outgoing national security advisor still. >> we are weary about making predictions or promises but this is close. the final piece of the puzzle from my perspective is for hamas to come forward and neck forward with the release of hostages in the first phase of the multiphase deal. >> that is

fox news senior white house corps responsibility peter doocy, excited to a talk to him, he joins us liverom the white house. peter, good to see you. >> reporter: you too, liz. it's not just bernie sanders. in fact, some billionaire businessmen who think the president-elect might be able to help them improve their bottom lines or at least navigate tricky government contracts have nice things to say too including jeff bezos. >> i'm actually very on the optimistic -- op mystic this time around that we're going to see -- i'm very hopeful about this, his, he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. and my point of view, if i can help him do that, i'm going to help him. because we do have too much regulation in this country. >> reporter: more props for trump from bernie sanders. he tells business insider many of the things he did during the campaign were really ugly. on the other hand, he's a very smart guy. sanders added he's absolutely right to call for the first independent awed debt of the pentagon in over seven years. and hen there's john fetterman who says he sees trump

bret. >> bret: peter doocy live on the lawn thanks. >> the down down 86 today the second consecutiveoosing session the second longest since 2020, the s&p off a fraction the nasdaq gained 24. the s&p down two-thirds for the week the nasdaq was up a third. up next, we have a report from damascus serious on the first day of friday prayers since the overthrow of the ra judge. >> first covering tonight, fox five new york a bird strike disables an engine shortly after take-off from laguardia airport the pilot was forced to land at jfk airport. no injuries reported, the federal aviation administration says bird strikes are increasing but it is unusual that the aircraft is forced to make an emergency landing >> fox 21 in colorado springs is skiing icon lindsay vaughn announces she will return to world cup racing next weekend. the 40-year-old is attempting a comeback. she will participate in a pair of super g events in switzerland >> and this is a live look indianapolis from fox 59 one of the stories there the peak of the meteor shower considered the most reliable annual meteor shower, gemene

senior white house correspondent, peter doocy.reak for you. >> we have a better vending machine at the bureau than the white house. jacqui can tell you about that. >> john: para snacks all over. speak with the fruit is free and i didn't realize that. so they are these arguments before the supreme court about tiktok -- that is a good transition -- it will be januare justices don't rule quickly and tiktok on by parent company, it will be banned nied hayes after their argument. >> jill biden is trying to get rid of it quickly so president trump cannot save a platform widely used. however, it has to comply with american security standards and have asked to be a national security threat and president trump understands all of that. he will examine that. >> republicans hoping to clarify what they hope happens. they claim they don't want to prohibit americans from using tiktok forever about spyware and data mining here. >> none of tiktok's ownership should be directly related to the ccp. we know tiktok utilized as a tool. here is a secret

peter doocy, thank you very much, indeed. adam johns, forecast.ktok's going to be allowed to continue to do what it does, because the fact is it's not doing anything differently that's not already being done by the likes of instagram, facebook, alexa in your home and on and on and on, right? stuart: but china's communist party is picking up all that information about a -- >> well, yeah, guess what? so is amazon. so is google -- stuart: but there's a difference between amazon, google and the chinese communist party. >> i mean, is there really? if. stuart: yes, there is. [laughter] >> okay, fine. one group is a group of companies, and they're using that that data to figure out how to sell you stuff, and the other is effectively a foreign country. we don't know what they're doing with that information, and it's a little unsettling. i can understand a case where government employees are told you cannot have tiktok on your phone. fine. absolutely right. then you don't have the chinese peering into the homes of government officials. i'm okay with that.

peter doocy, thank you. but up or start paying up. terror threats get world leaders to the table. let's get the read from a guy who knows a lot about making deals. kevin o'leary, "shark tank" investor. you are on my house morning at night. totally obsessed really love to watch you make a deal. is this proved that this is how you get deals done, kevin? >> yes, it is an important development. you know, china, mexico, and canada are completely different in this respect. we know with certainty we are going into nafta 3 negotiations. trump is smart about this. he is engaged both leaders in both countries. they are different problems in each place. canada is a huge trading partner particularly in energy. a huge percentage of energy imparted in the u.s. gives its energy independence comes from canada particularly from alberta, saskatchewan, and british columbia. that is part of that of the negotiation of nafta three. a complexity in the canadian situations is this. justin trudeau is wildly unpopular in canada. he has been there a long time f

but first up, above all, fox news' peter doocy, he's down there the in west palm beach, florida, where it's the not quite as warm as maybe some people thought it would be. peter, what ya got? >> reporter: not quite as warm in it's, like, 70 and overcast it's great. [laughter] warmer than d.c. and, you know, as we're down here, larry, we are reminded that a president-elect cannot conduct foreign policy, but donald trump is certainly trying to apply pressure on america's adversaries where he can. he just posted a little while ago on truth social in part, if the hostages are not released prior to january 2025, the date i proudly assume office of the president of the united states, there will be all hell to pay mt. middle east. in the middle east. and that kind of pressures has already yielded some results. the threat of tariffs on our neighbors if the border security was not tightened up has prime minister justin trudeau offering to deploy helicopters and drones to beef up security, and the canadians are saying that's what this weekend's mar-a-lago trip was all about. >> the public threat

peter doocy live from the white house briefing room, and karine jean-pierre and democrats reaction toe of president trump's picks. but first west palm for us, hi, bell appeared. >> sandra, good afternoon to you. president-elect trump biggest con pain had to deal with the border and the illegal immigration and he just announced he wants rodney's got to be customs and border protection commissioner to help deliver those promises. now cpp commissioner is extremely important position and oversees all of border patrol and oversees all of the ports of entry in the country. that is where a large majority of fentanyl smuggled in the united states. during the first term, in a short time ago on fox with you guys, he said he will help carry out plans for mass deportation and consequences for illegal immigrants. >> we just need to deport these people. sanctuary's sanctuary cities will be nowhere off-limits and l basically empower dhs and in my case cpp to do the job america cured them to deal. >> in the meantime, trump backing pete hegseth to rally republican support on capitol hill all week long

will be in meetings this week ands peter doocy joins us. >> peter: when ceo of soft bank shows up, heed to come with a commitment for $100 bil billion. a lot of ceo level meetings have been subtle. go google's and amazon's jeff bezos will be at mar-a-lago soon. regulations for ai and space projects. president-elect made a rare trip out of florida or new york to maryland for saturday's army-navy game. daniel penny was there, and tulsi gabbard was there, so was pete hegseth and ron desantis, rumored to be backup if pete hegseth does nat make it through. lindamcnann, will meet with senators and r.f.k. jr., hhs pick has 25 meetings lined up with senators. the thing that could be tricky to navigate with republicans, long history of being pro-choice on abortion. key republicans will want commitment that he will not expand abortion access, that is what this week is about. back to you. >> steve: peter, at conclusion of many president's terms, they say, i was able to create x million jobs, president-elect trump is not president yet and you mentioned unveiling $100 billion in investments in the

peter doocy all over it in washington. >> peter: trump critics have been dismissing gang crime in aurora months later, find out that is not true. 14 gang members are in custody after bursting into a residence po pistol whip and remove the fingernails of two victims. >> nobody wanted to listen to me, this turned into political theater leading up to the presidential election and many people have suffered. this is not just assault or fist fights, this is absolute torture what these people have been going through. >> peter: colorado, a sanctuary state, 7.9 million illegal aliens reside in sanctuary states, counties and city. there will be a press conference a to-do list once trump takes office and there is no way for anybody to deport everybody president trump wants to deport, a new plan is taking shape, require illegal migrants to wear monitoring bracelets while they wait to be deported. part of the argument is it is $150 per day for detention facility, $8 a day for the gps jewelry. >> brian: we'll see where that goes and they'll be in power soon. thank you, appreciate it. with a week to go

peter doocy on the doocy side of the couch today with carley shimkus -- carley: hello, guys. , we could have just done this in d.c. and had carl are ey, there would be no snow. griff: it is very important, because snow kicks us off, and i am representing the kilmeade side. a gingerbread house competition, for which you have experience, so i've got to bring underdog kilmeade side up. peter: if decorating ginger bread cookies is a doocy family tradition. the dough is probably already out in my mom's kitchen. carley: it's resting. the dough needs the rest. it's snowing outside in new york city. we just showed that beautiful shot of pennsylvania where it's coming down there too. i didn't know there was a bath in pa -- griff: a ski resort in pennsylvania. pennsylvania has great skiing, by the way. my wife's from near pittsburgh, and everything year we would -- every year we would go home there, the hills are a little smaller, but, you know, it's snowing, so they're ready to do. carley: it's the saturday before christmas which means it's an extra special weekend morning. we hope you

peter doocy joins us from washington. peter?peter: good morning, the tech ceo with the most to gain from a mar-a-lago meeting with chao chew he runs tiktok and license its chinese owners sell it, tiktok is banned here in the u.s. on january 19th. on january 20th, can extend the deadline for that sale and it sounds like he is open to it. >> we will take a look at tiktok. i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok. because i won youth by 34 points. there are those that say that tiktok had something to do with that. tiktok had an impact. and so we're taking a look at it. we won youth. republicans are always 30 points down in youth. >> peter: remember, the tiktok ban had to do with bipartisan concern that the chinese owners are mining data from u.s. users to use for reasons unknown. another very interesting dynamic to consider here. tiktok is a main competitor to x, owned by trump's new pal, elon musk. trump really seems to value musk's opinion on things. we don't know what kind of influence musk has here. musk doge is the talk of th

peter doocy has more.t to know who is who in the tech industry but look at the guest list mar-a-lago. >> the president-elect does not have real responsibilities yet so he only has to focus on things he wants to focus on, like this press conference with the ceo of softbank that looked like art of the deal book signing. >> president trump is a double down president. i am going to have to double down. 100,000 jobs. >> would you make it $200 million, i said? [laughter] >> how can we afford to do that? all right, $200 million. $200 million investment. >> it is a great sale. >> the next negotiations about tiktok, the tiktok ceo at mar-a-lago and the platform to be banned in the u.s. january 19th if not sold by the chinese parent company. the republicans and democrats voted to ban it in concerns about they shared china data mining that those concerns not necessarily shared by the incoming president. >> i have a warm spot in my heart by tiktok because i won youth by 34 points. there are those that say tiktok had s

i am carley shimkus with peter doocy. good morning.the doocy side of the couch this morning. brian kilmeade, how about the snow behind us. coming out, having snow. it is officially here. christmas is here once it snows. >> and a big fake reindeer. carly:the first time i walked in i thought there was an animal. peter:the snow israel. when i was coming in at 4:forty. there was a big snowball fight happening in times square. carley: really? peter:a real mix of people who were out last night. carley: times square before the morning. was it a fun snowball fight or hostile one? peter:somebody standing on top of an escalade throwing snowballs. that could be -- ways mayor adams? that would be a good photo up. behind the guy coming in. carley: you could see it in the back of us and todd said something i never heard before, i hope it snows on christmas but i don't want a lot of snow. i want mood so nobody ever heard that phrase before? just means a nice snow globe type snow. griff: i will get to this later but santa decided i was good this year

peter doocy at the white house. which democrats are giving trump and his team some credit?l, there's progressive democrats and then some that think he can help their bottom line, including jeff bezos. >> i'm actually very optimistic this time around that we're going to see -- i'm very hopeful about his -- he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. and my point of view, if i can help him do that, i'm going to help him. we do have too much regulation in this country. reporter: more prop for trump from bernie sanders and business insiders and he said many of the things he did during the campaign were ugly but he's a really smart guy and absolutely right to call for first independent audit of the pentagon in seven years. and john fedderman seeing trump and hunter biden not all that different. >> i think it's undeniable that the case against hunter biden was really politically motivated. but i also think social security a true that the trial in new york for trump, that was political as well too. in both cases i think a pardon is appropriate. reporter: the curre

peter doocy live at the white house. well, america's job market added 227,000 workers in november.ast month's hiring growth was up considerably from a meager gain of 36,000 jobs in october. the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.1% in october to now 4.2 in november. the dow lost 123 today. the s&p 500 gained 15. nasdaq jumped 159. those are actually both record closes. for the week, the dow was down 6 tenths of a percentage point. the s&p 500 up one. nasdaq surejt surged 3.25. shannon bream handing by in california. what some of our fox affiliates are covering for us tonight. wfxt in boston a city counselor fernandez anderson corruption charges. authorities say she was having financial trouble when she hired a relative to work on her staff and hatched a kickback scheme. she was arrested today. fox 45 in baltimore reporting a federal judge ruled that the u.s. naval academy may continue to consider race when evaluating candidates to attend their school. this comes after the u.s. supreme court barred civilian colleges from employing similar affirmative action policies. and take a look

. >> brian: peter doocy is live in washington, d.c. peter? >> peter: r.f.k. jr.'try walk down the hallways senate office building with 25 microphones in his face. there is a lot of interest into different ways that the access to vaccines could change if a man long reported of being skeptical of vaccine side effects is in charge of health and human services. >> mr. kennedy, what's your position on the polio vaccine? >> what you said previously about the polio vaccine. >> do you support it? >> yeah. i support it. >> peter: kennedy has a fan in bernie sanders at least when it comes to kennedy's position that the food supply is contributing to obesity and by beats in the u.s. sanders is not ruling out a meeting with kennedy and he is not yet signaling how he'll vote. >> no, i think is he going to be much less radical than you would think. i think he has a very open mind or i wouldn't have put him there very much less radical. but there are problems. i mean, we don't do as well as a lot of other nations and those nations use nothing. and we're going to find out what th

peter doocy is in washington. peter? >> peter: one of the top agenda items today for the house border security caucus is going to be expanding the use of ankle and wrist monitoring bracelets that ice knows here illegally but can't deport yet. republicans are going to argue the g.p.s. jewelry is a lot cheaper than locking all these illegal immigrants up. 8 bucks a day for a bracelet vs. 150 bucks a day for detention. they might need to order a few million of these things if the plan moves forward. according to the center for immigration studies, 7.9 million illegal aliens are residing in sanctuary cities, counties, and cities. this is becoming unsustainable dangerous problem for aurora i colorado where 14 suspected tren de aragua gang members are in custody after allegedly invading an apartment and torturing two people. police say at least one victim was pistol whipped, a council member there says at least one victim had their fingernails ripped off. >> i am tired of this being portrayed as just another gang in aurora. th

. >> lawrence: peter doocy joins us live from washington with the latest. >> peter: good morning, officialsincoming trump team think they found a way to track illegal immigrants they want to deport that is cheaper than a holding cell. g.p.s. ankle and wrist monitoring bracelets. the cost for that is about 8 bucks a day compared to $150 a day for a spot in the detention facility. the transition team hasn't yet explained how they plan to track down 11 million people to fit them with g.p.s. trackers but, this is a top agenda item for the house border caucus which will have a press conference today. the key data point coming to us for the center for immigration studies, 7.9 million illegal aliens are residing in sanctuary states, counties, and cities. this is becoming unsustainable and dangerous problem in aurora, colorado, where 1 suspected tren de aragua gang members are in custody after allegedly invading an apartment and allegedly torturing two people. police say at least one vic was pistol whipped. a council remember says one victim had their fingernails ripped off. >> i'm tired of this be

peter doocy joins us live from washington with the details. hey, peter. >> peter: good morning.e got a list of 25 senators. r.f.k. jr. plans to meet with on capitol hill this week. is he, of course, part of the most famous family of democrats in our nations' history. yet, none of these 25 senators are democrats. instead the strategy for the transition team seems to be shore up the right flank. minimize republican defections and try to keep the focus on improvements to things like the food supply and not on past controversial statements about fancies that would be unhelpful during a confirmation. while officials are going through the consent and advise into a box that the president-elect two miles away a fedex deal saturday spotted with tulsi gabbard and pete hegseth and ron desantis widely reported as the defense secretary backup if the hegseth pic doesn't make it. daniel penny was in there, too, less than a week after a jury that could have sent him to jail didn't. and then a few hundred miles south,tech billionaires keep popping up at mar-a-lago hoping for trump's blessing for

. >> bill: straight to peter doocy. how are you doing? good morning. >> good morning, bill.nd people who want to have a say in regulations that could affect their bottom lines keep dropping down to mar-a-lago to make nice with the president-elect. google deeply involved in a i. was in palm beach. jeff bezos from amazon and blue origin could compete for government space contracts planning to meet with trump. they are more eager for face time than many elected democrats. a dozen are reportedly planning to skip the trump inauguration. several dozen are non-committal. bennie thompson says he rsvped no for somebody who he said he will lock me up, i don't see the excitement in going to see his inauguration. not every democrat feels this way. there is one lawmaker imploring his democratic colleagues to be more understanding of the incoming president and his team. the one democrat who took a meeting with pete hegseth. senator john fetterman. >> we had a conversation. that's what happened and that's where we're at. there really is no new news after that conversation. >> he is not say

and peter doocy joins us live from washington. hey, peter. >> peter: good morning.g to republicans is that despite his long record of being pro-choice. and skeptic of some vaccines, is he not going to stop anybody from getting vaccines that they think will help them and he will not stop republican efforts to roll back abortion access. although, just crossing in axios, unnamed trump advisers are aware of the possibility now that the pro-life movement could, as the article describes, flex its muscle to sink kennedy. the transition team has 25 meetings lined up for r.f.k. jr. all with republicans, no democrats on the docket yet. we are also hearing that at some point this week linda mcmahon, the education secretary pick will be on the hill starting her advise and consent process. the cabinet dynamic on full display in a suite at the army-navy game in maryland this weekend. tulsi gabbard was there. so was pete hegseth. and so was ron desantis, believed to be a hegseth replacement if his own confirmation doesn't make it. president-elect and vp elect vance posed with dani

i keep thinking of peter doocy asking joe biden if he had any connection with his sons business and he said no, the pictures proved that he lied to the american people for four years. >> thank you very much. we appreciate you coming on. happy new year. >> happy new year. thank you. >> president jimmy carter has passed away at 100 years old. his son confirming the news yesterday, calling his father a hero who brought people tog together. and say no national correspondent steve harrigan is live in atlanta. >> jimmy carter died at age 100 in plains, georgia, surrounded by family members. in recent years, he had a number of health problems, including melanoma. he was being treated by hospice for the past two years. we have heard praise from world leaders and ordinary people coming up here to the carter center, flowers, paying respects. we asked some of them what jimmy carter meant to them. >> he eradicated diseases, built houses for folks that needed a house. we have a terrible homeless, and housing situation in georgia, the united states. if everybody did what he did, maybe we wouldn't ha

peter doocy is live in washington to begin the day today. >> president-elect trump says he is already working the phone looking for status updates on the two wars that will be raging on his inauguration day, gaza and ukraine. >> i won't comment on the putin question. i will comment on bibi. we had a very good talk. we discussed what is going to happen. i will be very available on january 20th and we'll see. as you know, i gave warning that if these hostages aren't back home by that date all hell is going to break out. >> the president-elect also gauging ways to manage the competition with china despite xi apparently declining an inauguration invitation. >> i would say that if he would like to come i would love to have him but there has been nothing much discussed. i have had discussions with him, letters, etc. , etc. , at a very high level. we had a good relationship until covid. covid didn't end the relationship, but it was a bridge too far for me. >> the trump team is working to figure out how to deliver on the election winning promise of a better economy and while announcing a $1 h

peter doocy is live from washington with the details. hey, peter. >> peter: lawrence, good morning.icans are going to say that trump's election win gives him a mandate so they should do whatever he wants with cabinet picks then they have to do whatever he wants with a continuing resolution. trump was quiet about it until this. it sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive continuing resolution plus is dying fast. and now it's this. >> this is a [bleep] sandwich. i don't know how to say that. we are being forced into this situation. they could have done a stand alone. they knew it put positions in a position to support it damned if we do and damned if we don't. least popular positions is a pay raise for congress. >> members are giving themselves a pay raise. do you guys deserve a pay raise? >> well, that's news to me. it's good news. >> people look at the performance of congress and say why should we give them more money? >> what about the media? think about that for a second. >> we are not paid by public money. >> i any you are not. half of your listeners are not there

peter doocy is live in washington with all the details for us. eter. '. >> peter: the vice president elect j.d. vance didn't leave the speaker's office until almost 10:00 p.m. late enough that vance's son who was with him was in his pajamas. working on a plan b to avoid a government shut down, saturday. >> this is a [bleep]. i don't know how else to say that we are being forced in this. they knew it would put members in this position to support it. we are damned if we do. damned if we don't. >> peter: pressure red like this on truth social. sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive continuing resolution plus is dying fast. and one of the things that made it so expensive, raises for members of congress. >> members are giving themselves a pay raise. you guys deserve a pay raise. >> that's news to me. it's good news. >> people look at the performance and say why should we give them more money. >> what about the media? think about that for a second. >> we're not paid by public money. >> i know you are not. half of your listeners are not

president trump should officially declare peter doocy is not a stupid son of a. ooh, doocy versus trump. this could get very flavorful. doocy versus caroline leavitt, blond on blond action orders. this is my world. and welcome to hannity. >> and tonight, more shocking footage of the unidentified flying objects in the northeast, including from new jersey's very own u.s. senator. even new jersey's governor now is sounding the alarm, but still no answers from your federal government. we've got the details coming up in just a moment. also, as donald trump's department of government efficiency is now planning to slash government waste, fraud and abuse and regulation, we'll check in with senator rand paul for a preview of his annual, well, festivus report. he calls it. anyway, prepare to be outraged how your money is being spent by your government, your hard earned tax dollars. also tonight, a former north carolina stripper now finally telling the truth. krystal magnum, remember her 18 years ago? well, she was in the duke lacrosse case. she is now totally admits now sh

. >> martha: so senior white house correspondent peter doocy reporting live where the transition talks>> reporter: the president-elect is suddenly very popular with tech c.e.o.s. e elon musk down here the most. mark zuckerberg has dinner with president-elect trump. also, showed him how meta's new ray ban sunglasses work. >> zuckerberg has been here about his desire to be a supporter of and participant in this change that we are seeing all around america. business leaders, c.e.o.s they want to be a -- an element, a supporter of, a booster of making our economy prosperous, delivering for american workers. >> these meetings are friendly but also appear to be transactional because big tech companies are spending billions developing a.i. that will some point very soon, during trump's next term be regulated by the u.s. government. >> i think, yes, at some point, when it is the what form it should be, i don't know when that will happen but any technology of this magnitude i would expect there to be legislation at some point. >> the story argues fascinating. donald trump use facebook to win in

. >> dana: peter doocy, thank you so much. >> bill: want to take you to new orleans now.id fire crashes causing a near 50-car pile-up. >> dana: this happens down there with the fog. >> bill: shut the bridge down for seven hours. 30 people went to the hospital. no life threatening injuries, they blame the pile-up on you guessed it, dense fog. new orleans. >> dana: before we go, it is lit across one texas -- stunning holiday show breaking records for its 5,000 drone display that featured santa, turkey, gingerbread houses and snowman. the f.b.i. was not called apparently. they said these are actually drones that we know what's going on. that's pretty cool. looks good. i don't know. >> bill: we could drone on but we won't. >> dana: two in a row in one segment? i don't know if that's allowed. eric adams on "the story" at 3:00. i'll see you at 5:00. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: the painful effects of biden's

peter doocy's with me this morning.inating to see trump negotiating to get more money out of it. he's taking his -- a page out of his own book, with the the art of the deal." >> reporter: he is. and president-elect trump also says he's already working the phone looking for status updates on the two wars that will be ragingen on his inauguration day in gaza and in ukraine. >> i'm not going to comment on the putin question, but i will comment on but bi. we had a very -- on bibi. we had a very good talk. we discussed what is going to happen, and i'll be very available on january 20th, and we'll see. as you know, i gave warning that if these hostages back home by that the date, all hell's going to break out. >> reporter: the president-elect is also gauging ways to manage the competition with china despite xi apparently declining an inauguration invitation. >> i would say that, if he'd like to come, i'd love to have him. but there's been nothing much discussed. i have had discussions with him, letters, etc., etc. at a very h

white house, kjp blasted fox's peter doocy for suggesting that biden was in decline.ewsom laughed off the idea that he should take a cognitive test. chuck schumer said he talked to the president several time as week and his mental acuity is great. it's as good as it's been over the years. that was simply not true. it begs the question, who is running the government? biden was just not up to the job so who was calling the shots? the postmortem on the failed biden presidency is about to begin and it'll be brutal. third hour of varney starts now. stuart: well, look who's here on a friday morn, steve hilton himself. what should happen to the people that deliberately covered up the truth? >> that's exactly the right question, stuart. i have a very clear answer. this is now evidently the biggest political scandal in american history. it is now clear that for the last four years, america has had a puppet president. that is obvious from what we're now hearing. not just his public interactions were scripted, his private, one-on-one conversations with senior cabinet officials,

carley shimkus, peter doocy, griff jenkins. griff: good! santa claus -- carley: you know, he's to done it a couple times. peter: why is he stressed? griff: because he's got to the fly all over the world -- peter: and there's drones in the sky. carley: that's right! extra crowded up there. so how you doing? how you feeling? peter: doing great. i'm ready for santa. carley: yes, of course. last night was really cute because it was the first night that my husband and i read 'twas the night if before christmas to my son, so that's a special memory. griff: that's good. i thought about doing a little shopping for my family, but the streets of new york -- if you thought new york was dead, that's not true. carley: packed out. griff: there was a million people on on the -- peter: why do you need to go shopping? we have a 10-foot-tall advent calendar, scat the end of -- and at the end of every show -- griff: i felt bad about shoplifting from that, but if it gets bad -- peter: they'll never know. carley: yesterday's gift, e saw rick reichmuth walking o

>> listen, we go down this roady dand obviously confronted president biden and peter doocy did numerous times about whether he was on the speakerphone and whether he knew about the businesses.s there was always this denial, but look, much of what we saw came out from that laptop, whicd obviously confirmed to be accurate suggested much more knowledge than he ever let on.e i don't think republicans will spend a lot of time in committees after inauguration going backwards to biden. i could be wrong, but i think they have a lot of big things tg do on the trump agenda. >> lisa boothe here, i was going to ask a question further about the pardon outside of the scope of the tax charges and the gun charge is specifically. does this insulate joe biden potentially from the road leading to him? we know irs agent stepping forward saying they weretial previously awarded those roads to get too joe biden benchmark does this rod pardon and insulate and protect joe barton? >> may be, that is a greate wi point. we will have to look at that and i agree it is pretty sweeping i you look at the entire pardon

peter doocy is here. no, i'm. >> never mind. >> here come the professionals. oh, yeah. >> yeah. >> right up. what do we do with that? hang it on the tree. don't hang it on me. >> i really can't stay, baby. >> it's cold outside. yeah. >> you are the worst tree decorator i have ever seen. but you're such a handsome man that we'll take it anyway. >> how about it? >> she is taking place to the top of the tree. one. two. >> three. yay! so. there it is. >> and now it's time for a sing along. you ready? we wish you a merry christmas. >> we wish you a merry christmas. we wish you a merry christmas. and a happy new year. merry christmas everybody. >> what a great way to kick off the holiday season. up next in our all-american christmas tree lighting, we have a very special fan mail friday with your favorite fox news host. but first performing i'll be home for christmas from his christmas classic album is our friend gavin degraw. gavin. is. i'll be home. >> for. christmas. >> you can count on me. please have. snow and. mistletoe in. presents. >> by the tree. >> on chris

. >> steve: white house is in angola and peter doocy is at mar-a-lago.ventually they are going to meet and it's going to be good. >> brian: angola bureau. >> steve: charlie, thank you very much. >> lawrence: to another fox news alert. closing arguments in the manslaughter trial. manslaughter trial against daniel penny will be. chanley painter outside the courthouse. >> good morning guys. just a fewer hours. five men, seven women will return to this courthouse behind me for will the all important closing argument. we do know here the defense will go first. >> prosecution will have the final word. and over the last several weeks, the prosecution has called more than 30 witnesses in its effort to prove that 26-year-old daniel penny went too far. recklessly placing 30-year-old jordan kneelfully a chokehold on a new york subway train for nearly six minutes, causing neely's death. and while eyewitnesses testified during the trial that neely who was homeless, on synthetics drugs and mental illness caused them to fear for their lives. after he entered the subway