well, those conditions could possibly be we come now to the robert bush austell rate of the exchange of from no trouble. professor, do god would have us believe that such exchanges. amelia must have 1st to say of little real consequence. this is not the noble understanding of such notes. i'm very important in each task to relations. but he says this for a reason. as we shall see, south africa instituted proceedings against israel on the 29th of december. and this long recital deputation let it sit on the 21st of december sofa has sent a note of the battle to israel, raising its concerns about genocide in gaza. the application for the states that israel has not responded directly to south africa's knows about. this is incorrect. israel did indeed respond fast, very day informing south africa, that's a note for both has been forwarded to capital on such a response was expected shortly. so if i could confirm the next states they'd have received the message on the 26th of december, the director general of israel's ministry flower. and it says, proposed to his counterparts in the departme

bush and robert wolf, fox news contributorer economic adviser to president clinton. interesting developments as we look at the top of this race. president biden doesn't seem to be going anywhere, a lot of speculation he might drop out. he gave his second campaign speech at the south carolina ame church. on the trump side, he's obviously in first place in a gop race. karl, i'll start this with you. he's concerned. he wants his caucus goers to show up. both top frontrunners know what is at stake here. how do you see it, karl? >> smart decision by the former president to encourage his people to show up. he's ahead with 51%, 32 points ahead of number 2, which is in the real clear politics average desantis. nikki haley at 16. this is an average of recent polls stretching weeks and months. it does under estimate where nikki haley is. but president -- former president trump says don't take it for granted after months of saying i'm 60 points ahead, he's saying the right thing, lower you're expectations. we're in a fight. vote. really important for him as he closes off the ca

it was a 5 to 4 decision that sochi justice john roberts, the george w. bushy coney barrett, a trump appointee, side with the liberal judges on the bench. in response, republicans have doubled down. abbott issued a statement on wednesday claring that the federal govement has broken thecompact between the united states and stes. following that, 25 gop governors released a joint stemt of solidarity with abbott for stepping up to protect american citizens from historic levels of illegal migrants and terrorists entering our country. then, of course, donald trump got involved demanding that republican states send national guard troops down to texas hoping to start a confrontation with the federal agents. so far, ten states have obliged. and some gop figures are doing more than just deploying soldiers. but this week, oklahoma governor not only called on republicans to ignore the supreme court, but he openly mused about whether the situation could erupt into a civil war. joining me now are krish o'mara -- and texas state senator roland gutierrez. it's great to have y

let's bring in ari fleischer, former press secretary for george bush and robert wolf, fox news contributorsk you about the maine situation. any speculation on what governor desantis may be saying in new hampshire? >> no. i wouldn't try to guess. i've been on campaigns. there comes a moment that you have to listen to the candidate and see what they want to say. obviously i think the chances for governor desantis are diminishing. let's wait and hear what he has to say. >> martha: with regard to the ballot issues, the president's attorney echoing somebody that he has said in the past about potential bedlam if he is taken off of the ballots in these states. a, you know, what do you think about that? to you think in some ways that it would be chaotic if the frontrunner for the gop were pulled off of ballots in two or more states? >> i don't think former president trump should be taken off of the ballots. i think the supreme court will not take him off of the ballots. they will rule against maine and colorado and it will be based on the idea that the eligibility requirement was not met for color

it was george w bush and i forget robert the correct sir. and you can't forget that ronald reagan gave them all and missed in 1986. so it's not, it's very interesting to watch republicans now complain about an issue that they were part of creating leak steve allen. i really appreciate your join me appreciate your analysis will have this long as obviously these same topics are going to come up until election day a 2020 election year can only loosely be compared to one from election year during war. time voter laws were amended in the name of public health and safety. male and ballots were mass produced. dropbox voting was actually allowed in longer, early voting. periods were all put in place. all of this which helped to not only give more opportunity for those to exercise their right to choose the next president, but to do so with it out in the day during our health. most of those policies have been terminated with the selection cycle and the return of in person campaign rallies have a place to stay in your car and a halter horn, and support

trump nominee amy coney barrett and bush nominee john roberts joined with the court's majority against. now, while the barrett and roberts votes here were disappointments, now, remember the real villain here is joe biden and alejandro mayorkas. their policy is to allow nearly every migrant into america. every migrant who gets across the border can stay i mean, pretty much everyone. and this lawsuit against texas should effectively end any future negotiations with the biden white house on the border. senator marco rubio joins me now. senator, i saw your tweet earlier today. why should any republican be working on a border deal with these people given what their obvious goal is here and it's not enforcement. >> first of all, there are things we need to do like improve our asylum process being abused and broken and completely reformed. got to get rid of parole program also being abused. 300 percent increase over how any other president used it in the past. all those things are legitimate and should be fixed. the problem is this, the laws have to be executed by the executive branch. and we

first question would be, do you think knowing the court as you do that chief justice roberts is going to avoid a bushgore decision on this? and try to decide something with due process, perhaps that there's been no charge of insurrection, or something, to try to get an exit ramp for the court? >> i do think he's going to want to avoid a divisive decision like bush v. gore. he's going to want to avoid the decision that splits 6-3 with the six republican appointees an three democratic appointees in disscent. i don't think he's going to be eager with that with insurrection. so there may be technical ways to avoid the issue by calling it a political question, say, by saying congress has to enact legislation before the courts can act. but it's a tricky, tricky thing. and i think it's quite unwelcome at the court. but at the same time, this question really would seem to need an actual resolution. and i think it's more likely than not that the court hears the colorado case and decides it pretty quickly. >> and let me ask you about immunity, and the former president saying that he has immunity from jack smit

firms that have advocated for war with iran uh and "and that includes all kinds of bush era, neocons and and people like robert kagan and and victoria newland as well, but francis townson, all these people, joe leberman, all of them are pressuring for a war with iran. now is this, is this bombing a a prelude to that? i don't know, we we don't know what this is, because the saudis bombed yemen for seven or eight years trying to take out all..." their weapons systems and they failed, they didn't do any, those those weapons are well hidden, deep underground, the the houties knew this would be the response, there was a high chance that something... like this would happen, this stuff is hidden and protected, us, this is, this is not an organized response, they don't know what they're doing, they don't know how to stop this, and if the huties now are including uk and us ships, anybody involved in this this coalition um to attack them, they potentially can shut down the gulf, their power is being vastly underestimated by uh by the empire, by the us, and that may well be what happens, now the potential for escalation

, former senior communications adviser for tim scott for america, and aide to both jeb bush and mitt romney. robertm sure all too well. trump was asking illegitimate questions about president obama's birth certificate and intentionally repeating again and again, barack hussein o ba ma. do you think what he's saying is just noise or something that need to be called out? >> i think it's probably a bit of both. i think anybody that is going to campaign like this needs to be called out. as you said, this started ten years ago, fifteen years ago. this is the tried and true donald trump playbook. i also have no doubt that he's trying to throughout out different things on truth social to create issues and distractions and whatnot to try to get through new hampshire with a victory. this always has to be called out. this isn't how anybody should be campaigning in either party for the nomination let alone the presidency. >> a lot of people are looking at this, eugene as kind of a political strategy, right, a two-fer, rallying his base, weakening the candidate he now sees as his biggest threat, but is there s

so i want to remind you of whatt robert gates former secretary of defense and national security advisor and a bushistration was asked on "60 minutes." you wrote in your book that joe biden "he's been wrong on every major foreign policy andjo national security issue over the past four decades." robert gates was asked, look i think he's got a lot long pointing out a position everyone of ronald reagan's military programs to contest the soviet union. when he was the senator on the foreign relations committee and ronald reagan trying to build up the mood militarily and the muscle of our military to confrontonal them all over the n chour hemisphere and north afria and of course in parts of new york, iran was opposed everi step of the way. biden is a disaster. a disaster. and it's notster just biden.as antony blinken was his staff arh on the senate foreign relationss committee. he was director of the committee when biden was chairman. john mccain come as i put it out before went to the senate i floor 2014 and did something he never did before. it was extraordinary because he and biden were close.to b bar

what is the likelihood that chief justice roberts will try and avoid a political decision like bush v? >> there are competing scholars about the applicability of the 14th amendment to bar donald trump, and it says anybody that engages in an insurrection is not eligible to hold office, and it seems clear on its face, but there are tricky views at play, and for example, is the president an officer of the united states? it seems obvious, but it says who has taken an oath to support the constitution, and the president swears an oath to protect, preserve and defend the constitution. that's a potential off-ramp for the textlists. so then it's not self executing, and i think one of those ways out seems most likely to me. whatever they do, they need to decide this case quickly because all of these states need to print up the ballots for the primaries. >> what a complicated situation. barbara, thank you for sorting it out. the book, can't wait, "attack from within" upcoming. >> thank you. >> you bet. >>> coming up, new details about what israel is planning for gaza after the war, the war again

roberts. this comes a little over 20 years since bush versus gore. only one of the justices from that decision remains on the court, that is justice thomas. a number of the justices, however, participated in that challenge for one of the parties. and so the memory of that is still lingering. it was deeply divisive for the court. it was embodied when ruth bader ginsberg ended her opinion with i respectfully dissent and removed the word rerespectfully. it was divisive for the court. roberts would like the cup to move from their lips. i don't think there is an alternative here particularly with maine coming in. now, there are some argument that can be made. it was a very clever way that colorado structured this decision. if they run out the clock at the supreme court trump's name will remain by default and colorado can avoid review. i hope they won't do that. i hope they will put an end to this theory that is deeply destructive to our democratic process. >> bret: good morning. you have democrats speaking out in opposition of the ballot bans. you have so

robert, and each of yu know well, former of the cia, yu former secretary of defense under george w bush and barack >> we're coming close to the end of our time. robert, the each of you know well. former secretary of defense, former cia, for george w. bush and barack obama. he had an article that referred to the united states as a dysfunctional superpower. he said that china and russia firmly believe the united states is in irreversible decline. it's made evident by what secretary gates has political polarization and domestic disarray. he added that this function has made american power erratic, unreliable, autocrats to place dangerous beds with potential catastrophic effects. do you all agree with his assessment? is pretty dire. if so, what is the military's proper role to reverse the dysfunction? >> i agree. the military's row is to achieve a degree of, that cautions any autocrat to think that democracy is weak right now. if you get your job description going into any job in government, secretary of defense i assign myself the job to keep the peace for what passes one more year, one mo

that we are watching right now, i want to remind you of what robert gates former secretary of defense and national security advisor in a bushdministration was asked on 60 minutes, you wrote in your book that joe biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. and robert gates was asked, he said i think he got a lot wrong pointing out biden's opposition to everyone of ronald reagan's military programs to contest the soviet union. when he was a senator on the foreign relations committee, when ronald reagan was trying to build up the military, trying to take on the soviets, not so much militarily but economically but to muscle up and confront them all over the world in our hemisphere and north africa and of course imparts of new york, biden was opposed, every step of the way, biden is a disaster, a disaster and it is not just biden, anthony blinken was biden stafford through all of this on the senate foreign relations committee, he was director of that committee when biden was chairman. and john mccain as i pointed out before he went to the senate floor in 2014

and robert weiner, a democratic strategist and former spokesperson for the clinton and bush administrations? in the iowa caucuses? >> it's so blown out of all proportion, andrew, and thank you for having me again. it's been since april, since we last talked. so good to you and talked. so good to see you and hello the audience. saw hello to the audience. i saw a picture audience, so picture of your audience, so it's all it's blown out of all proportion. uh, you've got 50% of the vote, half of the people in iowa, half of the republican in iowa, half of the republican in iowa, half of the republican in iowa voted against him. and 31% of the entrance poll said that they would not vote for someone who was convicted in a felony . so what's he got? we got felony. so what's he got? we got a lot to work with. and, uh, you take the fact that the, uh, lagging indicators of the economy, biden stopped a recession. we stopped a recession. we stopped a recession that everyone said was going to come. and he , uh, and going to come. and he, uh, and you have all these judges that are going to do excoriating

robert, when you look at the last five iowa caucus winners within the republican party, only two went on to become president. george w. bush and donald trump. so iowa is not the end-all be-all, is it? >> reporter: that's exactly right. this is just the beginning. and nikki haley especially is looking to new hampshire as a place where she comes out of iowa with a pretty strong showing, she can maybe even get an upset there. and some of the biggest republican donors in the country tell me behind the scenes that they're ready to pour millions behind her candidacy if she starts to show some momentum. jericka? >> all right. robert costa covering it all for us. thank you. >>> tonight israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu struck a defiant tone marking 100 days of war against hamas in gaza. he vowed to keep fighting despite growing uncertainty about the outcome and international alarm about the rising death toll. today thousands rallied in tel aviv, demanding the government do more to bring home those hostages still held by hamas, believed to be at around 105 hostages. as for civilians in gaza, war has been catastrophic for th

robert, when you look at the last five iowa caucus winners within the republican party, only two went on to become president, george w. bushnd donald trump. so iowa is not the end all, be all, is it? >> that's exactly right. this is just the beginning. and nicarkki haley especially i looking to new hampshire as a place she comes out of iowa with a pretty strong showing. she can maybe even get an upset there. some of the biggest republican donors in the country tell me behind scenes they're ready to pour millions behind her candidacy if she starts to show some momentum. jericka? >> all right, robert costa covering it all, thank you. >>> tonight israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu struck a defiant tone marking 100 days of war against hamas and gaza. he vows to continue to fight despite growing uncertainty about the outcome and international alarm about the rising death toll. today thousands rallied in tel aviv, demanding the government do more to bring home those hostages still held by hamas believed to be at around 105 hostages. as for civilians in gaza, war has been catastrophic for the territory. cbs' charlie d'agat

you've got chief justice roberts who is like unless i've got unanimity, i want no part of it because it will make them look more political. bush v. fgore is still embed he had in the court. but they could also keep their hands clean and say look, we don't think you have immunity. they could decide not to review the case. so lower court stands. so just well, they said that so we'll go with it. i think though this is a very important question. that is why trump is there. he is kind the attitude i'm not scared, i was there in new york, i'll be there at the appellate court. this is not where you normally see a defendant in an action. but they will be asking questions to your point, but those questions are really also for themselves. judges are trying to ask questions to try to persuade or ask and influence their other people on the bench. they may ask a lot of questions to appear skeptical. they may want to appear as though, which they are supposed to be, and i hope they are, objective. but at the end of the day, they will try to pick apart the arguments on both sides. they might already have an idea what the constitution says or

courts public perception, and bush versus gore, regardless of the wisdom or lack of wisdom, affected how the public saw the court, in you can be certain that chief justice roberts is thinking about how he can craft what these decisions are in a manner that number 1 doesn't touch the instruction question and resolving it on political points and speaks with one voice that does not appear to be a partisan body. >> appreciate it. >>> israel's military >>> more than -- struck those, and the toll it is taking on nonot just hamas b but the cicivilians ththat are livining gagaza, stay w with us. >>> topping the worldly, fierce fighting and deadly airstrikes throughout gaza, especially the city in southern gaza that is now the epicenter of the operation to root out us. united nations says gaza faces the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded, famine is right around the corner, adding that hope has never been more elusive. jeremy diamond reports on the relentless bombing and unimaginable suffering, we must warn you some of the images we are about to show you are disturbing. >> a child's lifeless body carefully pried from the rubble. causes civil defense says thi

me to discuss, robert gibbs, former obama campaign senior adviser, and white house press secretary under president obama, and mark mckinnon joins us. former advisor to both george w. bushu bush and john mccain. mark, it's fair to say that -- but is it important enough to turn down an incredible deal for republicans on the border crisis, just to placate trump, and rob biden of a win? >> well, as mitt romney said, it's appalling. and for an issue that republicans have been banging the drum over and over to say, it's a crisis on the border that is affecting americans every day, and to suggest that the crisis can be conveniently put off until november for political advantage, for trump, is just pure hypocrisy. and it just, once again, sends the message that all trump really cares about is himself, and gaining political advantages. and doesn't really care about what is affecting americans on the border, or elsewhere that are being affected by the border problem. so, it is all about what helped helped trump, and -- the country. >> robert, the two top issues for republicans, we've heard, is the economy and the border. the economy is clearly doing well. so, is that why trump w

cheryl: former bush 43 white house official and strategies founding partner ashley davis and fox news contributor 32 advisor founder and ceo and economic advisor to president obama robert a warning as we began to hear from the voters today. robert i want to start with you the question is iowa which is not the best predictor of who the eventual primary candidate is going to be but on the other side new hampshire will be a very different story, compare and contrast those 240. >> spot on if you look at the last seven republican iowa caucuses, i think two went on to win the gop primary. when it was five out of the last seven even the last three gop caucus winners none of them went on to win the primary season. what i'm looking for is more of an expert in what trump does. if he comes into under 50% because it is more of an income that candidate that means 50% didn't choose him. , if you look at his coming in number two and if you look at nikki haley she is all the mojo going into new hampshire, no question about it. cheryl: to pick up on robert's point, with chris christie bowing out with anti-trump republicans the thinking is for new hampshire are going to go over to nikki

me, robert gibbs, former obama campaign senior adviser, and white house press secretary under president obama, and tim miller, contributor to the bulwark and former communications director for jeb busher gibbs, i turn to you first. that is a big to-do list, with serious tasks, especially in an election year. how do you see any of this playing out? >> well, look, you've got one of the most historically unproductive house sessions in history. >> by design. >> right, well, right. you've got now a smaller majority on the republican side. you've got a months worth of work before deadlines that congress usually gets done over nine month period of time in a normal year. so i think for anybody to expect a different outcome than what we saw in 2023 in that historically unproductive congress, for anyone to expect anything different is crazy. i think we're heading to a partial shutdown, gridlock on capitol hill for most of the year, and really, a perilous situation involving money for ukraine, israel, taiwan. lots of stuff is going to back up here and it's not going to be pretty. >> tim, one of the major x-factors here is the new speaker mike johnson and how he's gonna lead to caucus. do you t

robert gates, who you know well, former head of the cia and former secretary of defense under george w. bush and barack obama, and in a much discussed recent article, referred to the united states as a "dysfunctional superpower." he said that china and russia firmly believe the united states is in an irreversible decline, as made evident by growing isolationism, growing polarization, and domestic disarray. he added, dysfunction has made american power erratic and unreliable, allowing risk prone autocrats to place dangerous bets with potentially catastrophic effects. do you all agree with his assessment? it's pretty dire. if so, what's the military's proper role in reversing that this function? >> i do agree with it, and i think the military's proper role is to achieve a degree of lethality, that cautions any autocrat to think that democracy is somehow weak right now, pand i assigned myself. you get your job description when you go with any job in the government. as secretary of defense, i assigned myself the job of keeping the peace, or what passes for peace, one more year, one more month, o

bush race. obviously affected that race. there's a lot of people that think this could affect this race to amy's point. there is jill stein, there is cornel west, there is robert no labels is that you have so many independent candidates and not all independent voters are alike. some of them are more like anti-trump moderate republicans and some of them are left wing progressives that don't like joe biden. so, the notion that you'll have one no labels candidate that can consolidate all the voters that just don't like joe biden and donald trump is pretty fanciful. that's really the challenge. you need a score card for all the independent candidates not all of them are going to appeal to all different types of voters. >> bret: well. we will follow it all. it's going to be fascinating if they do get in. panel, thanks so much. ♪ ♪ >> bret: and finally tonight, a special day. >> my support twice and was in and out of hospital for years. he fought for his life and now is cancer-free. and on his way to his honeymoon in jamaica. [cheers] >> bret: that's pretty cool. haley louvelle asked if she could slip a note. he was diagnosed stage 4 cancer 0206789 after battling th

but i wanted to ask you about this, robert, and each of you know well, former of the cia, former secretary of defense under george w bush and barack obama in a much discussed recent in foreign affairs, referred to the united as a, quote, dysfunction oil superpower. he said that china and russia firmly believe united states is in an irreversible decline as made evident by what secretary gates called growing political polarization and domestic disarray. and he added this has made american power and unreliable, practically risk prone autocrat to place dangerous bets with potentially catastrophic. do you all agree with gates's assessment? it's pretty dire and if so, what's the military's proper role in reversing that dysfunction? i do agree with it. and think the military proper role to achieve a degree of lethality that cautions any autocrat to think that raucous democracy is somehow weak right now and, i assign myself, you get your job when you go into any job in the government or civilian as secretary of defense, i find myself the job of keeping the peace or what passes for peace. one more year, one more month, one more

roberts will want -- to. >> that i think is an important distinction, because i think the supreme court does understand, although they could find a ways around that too. but remember, bushre, -- . but that said, i think that is exactly correct. but the other thing i think about this is, it's not, he is not articulating a broad layout of political principles, he is talking about himself. and not only is he talking about himself, i think very strongly this threat that the republic is going to be torn apart by prosecutions as reprisal, is an explicit threat to prosecute joe biden. like, 100%, it is not clever, it's not subtle. he is saying i will, that is the purpose of this entire enterprise. i stay out of prison, i will go after my political rivals. >> you know that issue came up in the d. c. circuit when one of the judges said if we go along with what you are proposing in government, won't there be this problem of enormous number of prosecutions of former presidents. and the governments answer was, that's been the law. that is the understanding, and guess what, that hasn't happened. >> zero for. zero >> exactly, and the only reason it is happening now is because we are

bush in 2000. frankly, one of the most important cases it may ever take. beyond that, tell us the role of how you see chief justice roberts this and what strategy or consensus building he might try to use. >> well, the court, as you know, is embattled. it is going through a rough period. its public approval ratings are down. it's been the subject of ethics scandals. this is not a case the chief justice is eager to have. but it is probably unavoidable. the question needs a national solution. his impulse will be trying to avoid doing damage to the legitimacy of the court, which is 6-3, republican and democratic split of the appointees on the court, and would give rise to. i think he'd look for consensus. he would look for something incremental, something technical. there are, as we've been discussing, off-ramps. there are ideas that congress has to act first or that it is a political question. i think the chief justice will want to find a way, not to give trump a victory here, but to tell the american public that it is not -- the court is not taking a position on the question of whether he engaged in insurrection, but proba

remember that bush gore race in 2000, you know, we know that the third party candidates can really make a difference in a negative way. but the truth is if you look at, for example, robert he will have a big effect. maybe one or 2% with the other candidates. but, again, we haven't even run the race yet. if you look at what's happening, people are just now beginning to pay some attention. but they don't know who the republican nominee is gonna be, even though we are all saying that trump is running ahead. so, i don't think that they've had a chance yet to truly measure what it will mean, the two visions, one against another. so, i think once joe biden is out there, actually running against donald trump directly, we're gonna see a significantly development for the present. >> governor pritzker, there is been inter democratic consternation reporting, which i know is that most frustrating thing for a campaign to hear about, and to have reported on, and to have respond to. but i'm gonna ask you to respond to it. is there a reason to worry? have you had any worry about whether or not the biden campaign is being nimble enough, aggressive enough, acting early enough, well funde