rebecca grant, welcome. >> welcome and happy thanksgiving to you. >> mike: happy thanksgiving, thanksbetween israel and hezbollah said he consulted with president-elect trump's team and let's play him. >> once i believe that we were really in the final stages of an agreement, i did check in with president-elect trumps senior national security team to make sure they knew what we were after here. and i think i can an agreement in the interest of israel in the interest of lebanon, but is clearly the security of the united states. we felt that way and they did as well. >> mike: how helpful is the cease-fire to the incoming trump national security team? >> i am really glad the cease-fire, and it shows that israel won anna has below lost. what the trump team to get out of this is the fact that hamas is more isolated. and frankly, israel's success village strategic campaign in lebanon was a really sharp setback for iran as well. it does clear the docs a bit. there is a lot to see. it takes a little bit of the pressure off u.s. military forces. we have had marines and amphibious groups close

rebecca grant good to have you on thank you. jon: domestically pennsylvania race for u.s.ate is heading closer toward a recount and to the courts. the race was called and the republican challenger dave mccormick on the left of your screen. democratic incumbent bob casey refuses to concede. controversy is a growing over the counting of disqualified ballots. madeleine rivera has more on this. heads towards a one million-dollar recount the question now is which of the votes should be counted question before the election pennsylvania supreme court ruled mail ballots without the proper signatures or dates could not be included in the official result. this week democratic officials in sand several county election boards defy the ruling. the montgomery county voted to count 501 sets of ballots on thursday in bucks county democratic commissioner made this argument. when voting to count contested ballots. >> precedents by court does not matter anymore in this country. people violate laws anytime they want. so for me if i violate this law it's because i want a court to pay attention

national security expert rebecca grant spoke about the challenge of president biden's lame-duck statusn peru, where she will be given the honor of a state visit and not receiving that honor in either country. >> biden even in the last weeks of his presidency has to really hold firm on presenting the united states as global leader and top economic partner for other nations attending these meetings. >> reporter: we are awaiting president biden's visit with xi jinping in peru. likely their last face to face meeting since biden leaves in january. griff: it will be interesting to see what transpires in that meeting. for more on biden's meeting with xi let's bring in foundation for defense of democracy senior vice president for research, fox news contributor, keith kellogg. thank you for joining us on a saturday. a big meeting, president biden spoke about this saying it is likely his last such meeting and trip. listen here. >> president biden: this is likely to be my last trilateral meeting, i am proud to have helped building this partnership. it is built to last. that is my hope and expecta

the were faster then biden didn't that was defense expert come up rebecca grant bond why biden got stucke and china xi jinping is in the front and center in the spring it return to an internal, bob the author of many books including out of this world is divided we stand it when you make of all of this girl is you back on. >> present kamala harris was on the offense and south america and first day back and now that g20 and unfortunately, missus south america and the balance of world see see is mr. biden's announcement from will belong to the back rope and headed bit mrn right next to xi jinping making it very clear we are running thanks but unfortunately, especially in south america, we have been dragging our tail you know president xi jinping sign for the weekend with through and g20 coming he is really all this was of great things with the south americans and they have a trading percent by 26 and percent of the last two decades and i mean, they are really in a big way, his eyes of 40 ports help build in the 11 tracking stations this a lot. liz: guess a lot of china we could big push the

arthel: let's it bring in a national security analyst rebecca grant.rrently vice presidentt of the lexington institute. let's start here. qatar has asked political leaders to leave the gulf country. is this a negotiations employee or real frustration? and also without qatar in the mix what happens? >> it is a fr pride sign of frustration. simply has not agreed to anything at all in months and months and months despite engaging hard. the political office in qatar was set up in 2012 and the obama era its goal has always been to try to be a communications channel. what i see is the whole middle east nozick president-elect trump is going to be the new sheriff in town. qatar is going to take a step back. they will be willing to reengage later on. but right at the moment nobody wants to look soft on hamas with the changing landscape about to happen in the u.s. arthel: speaking of the landscape changing let me hear a quote from an article on he spoke three times with a trump in recent days here is a quote, these were very good and important conversations. we

the governor will grant a reprieve. the rebecca nurse will not be executed, presumably for appeal. then it goes away. all we know is some salem gentleman lobbies the governor and it's taken away and she's executed july 19th with about half a dozen as one of half a dozen women. what could have been the first acquittal. and this turning point isn't in august. it's more criticism. the court. court meets again. we have about another half dozen people executed, men and women. this time again in september. the court will meet again another round of executions, about half a dozen men and women. and then giles corey is pressed to death. the nurse family then on to sticking up for rebecca. sisters accused of witchcraft. sarah cloisters and prior to her marriage after her mary steve will be accused and also executed. that's september of of witchcraft they stick together sarah cloy side of the three sisters is the only one who will survive and she survives because. her case hadn't come before the court yet when the court shut down the court is shut down by. the governor, it's the same who set

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grant. and roland says thank for the answer to. we're going to ask rebecca to unmute and ask her question question. hi there. thank you so for such a wonderful lecture, just absolutely loved it. i cannot tell you i'm so thrilled to read your book. thank you. i have always. i come from horticulture and ecology perspective and i've always i've always thought of as perhaps more of an energy like and i'm like an energy that animates matter literally and and really should be more the focus of physicists as one of the energies of, the universe and especially as you were talking about enter p and life and the and the sort of the way that life as an organizer. again i just keep going to this idea of life as an energy and i wonder what you think about that and if you could say a little bit more about entropy and life as well. sure. yeah. i mean, no doubt that, you know, i was saying, like, we don't have the consensus of life yet and we certainly don't have that beautiful, succinct equation that would explain life, the sort of a fundamental phenomenon. and so scientis