larry: sandra smithed. you think that the president of mexico was watching the colombia. >> do you think? i think this goes to your message of put them all on notice, a strong message and successful he was able to operate in real time for the world to watch, people saw what happened, and they think if they mess around they will get messed around with, it showed effective negotiating strategy that this president promised american voted ires, this is what they wanted. larry: a lesson learned for d canada we have pictures of google maps. gulf of america. mount mckinley is restored. we don't have pictures? i thought we did. >> ap came out said they are not changing. >> still calls things by their names they gave up 30 years ago. i will say, this is important, name mexico did not come from a aztecs, it was named by p spaniards. aztecs did not have a name for the gulf of mexico, if trump is renaming it, he is not taking it away from a native population, saying, it our gulf. we should call it gulf of america. >> w

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hello welcome everybody i sandra smith this is "your world". more on that action in a moment. but first hillary vaughn is following this part of the story for us on capitol hill. >> high, sandra. trump a pick for secretary defended trump tax cuts today saying that ultimately if the trump tax cuts were allowed to expire the results would be a mass of middle-class tax hike. he also said this is a pass or fail mission and if the tax cuts were to expire failure could mean economic calamity. he also warned congress that they're spending is out of control and that is part of the reason he decided to leave his private life or politics also so young that the government does not have a money problem they have a spending problem. >> is there any billionaire rich enough for you to support a tax cuts going forward? >> i think it is unwise to single out any. >> rich people. >> any individual. you have three people on top. mr. elon musk musk, mr. jeff bezos, mr. zuckerberg, almost worth a trillion dollars the three billionaires who you listed. >> they made the money themselves. >> many conce

i'm sandra smith in new york. it's great to have you here today. >> bret: i'm bret baier in washington. they uncovered a massive tunnel connecting new mexico to el paso. it's believed to be used by the cartel equipped with lightening, ventilation, making an easy pathway to snuggle people and drugs. >> sandra: we'll have a reaction but first let's get to brook taylor live from el paso, texas. what's the latest out there? what are you seeing? >> sandra, what we just learned, that troops and border patrol agents are out here about to get some much-needed help because fox has learned from a u.s. official that the pentagon will be sending 1,500 troops along the southern border. they are going to go to different areas but right now we're in front of a known dangerous mountain, completely controlled by the cartel, and they decide what and who goes across this border. border patrol agents earlier this month discovered a massive tunnel connecting mexico to el paso. shocking video from inside shows just how sophisticated it

. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in new york and calais headlines all over the country show migrant crimesthe rise during the biden administration,, weapons, drug trafficking surge now and experts a last-minute move by the white house could give the e stream. >> john: retired i.c.e. agent victor ability to react. but first fox team coverage, cb cotton shocking details of the latest migrant bus to new york city. >> john: brooke taylor reports on concerning race and sex trafficking tied to trafficking. broke. >> john, these victims are facing so much, and just don't know who to trust. we went to a safe house in texas. the bob's house of hope. they focus to make sure these victims have therapy, education and ultimately a safe space. many of the victims have been traded by their own families who traffic them here. >> heartbreaking images of minors at the southern border have become too familiar, allow clutching nothing but a piece of paper. office of inspector general report reveals i.c.e. lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors in the last few years. >> i don't think there is

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welcome back as "america reports" in the second hour and i'm sandra smith and new york.y must be listening to people who don't want that censorship, john. >> i think a lot of people looking at incoming trump administration and saying, you know there is a new sheriff in town and we better change our ways. just like x meta-t's community notes model that allows other users to fact-check post. meta-plans to lift restrictions on political content which conservatives say has a bias against. >> sandra: fox team coverage to pick up the sour martha maccallum standing by to give us her thoughts and jus. >> john: this is grady trimble who is here to say how the president-elect is reacting to all of this. he seems to like it. he seems to get that change is a stamp of approval. tell the press conference this morning and hid this afternoon. he says meda has come a long way. he also says direct response to remarks he made to mark zuckerberg, who by the way in making this announcement acknowledged his company censored a lot of harmless content and fact-checkers have political bias. hail

and that is coming un, and heading to the second hour, and i'm sandra smith, good to be with you. john. >> john: there's more to come, and i'm john roberts in washington. deadly gang members, deadly suspects, criminals and those with lengthy rap sheets, and i.c.e. is calling a worst-first approach. nearly 500 arrests have been been made since the raids began. >> sandra: and the new york post covering it with "the i.c.e. man cometh," and paul mauro is standing by in our studio. he'll have l live analysis. >> first, bill melugin has been riding along. what is unfolding? >> i.c.e. is incredibly surgical, and they build intelligence on the targets for a week or two and learning when and where they'll be, and they go out and grab them. it's usually all over in a minute or so, and we got to see that firsthand and embedded exclusively with i.c.e. here in boston yesterday. take a look. >> good morning, everyone. >> reporter: it's a frigid 5% fin the predawn hours outside of boston where this elite i.c.e. team of officers is briefing on the targets for the day. >> targeting extremely viole

smith retired a few weeks ago. we're not sure exactly where he is writing about the rest of his team and with the prosecutors are far in their career prosecutors sandraail from 2010 -- date house and want answers. the fact district attorneys recommended by your shape and not surprising because the term seven years in his palace telegraph problems with the jack smith team. is a bit surprising these prosecutors were outright fired. told to get out of the building. since they are career prosecutors, they are afforded civil service protections and usually they may be reassigned to another part of doj what is not clear if they will sue to get their jobs back. and fugees spokesperson tells fox news acting attorney general where attorney general where can we make this decision because he did not believe these officials could be trusted to faithfully implement the president's agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the person. demodemocrats on x center princs of unity or in part to make in regard to embracing these principles, you seem intent on upending them and return us to the pace of the infamous its system of the 19th century. but with t

here's "america reports with john roberts and sandra smith." >> president trump, did president biden leave you a letter? >> president trump: he may have. don't they leave it in the desk? i don't know. oh. >> what's in there? >> president trump: it could have been years before we found it. >> trump revealing the text of that letter, former president biden left him in the oval office in a fox news exclusive. this just in. hello and welcome, everyone. i'm sandra smith in new york and, brett, it's great to have you today. >> john roberts is off today. this is america reports. president trump previously described this letter as very nice, even inspirational as he now reveals to the public what president biden wrote for the very first time. >> sandra: detailing biden's best wishes for his family as he shares hope for prosperity, peace and grace over the next four years. >> peter doocy has that exclusive. he's life from the white house lawn with more on that. good afternoon, peter what was in the letter? >> pete: this letter that we know president trump did not open right away, i had a chan

i'm sandra smith in new york.ust heartbreak for all of those people that are affected by this. >> john: definitely, but the fact they are getting water bombers and six aircraft and helicopters to attack the fire with winds subsiding is good news. i am john roberts and this is "america reports." time lapse footage captured with uc san diego show how quickly the palisades fire erupted yesterday afternoon. you can see the hillside smoking and how it is ablaze. it almost looks like the kona bay volcano there. folks given erupted evacuation warnings without no prior notice. look how quickly he had routes. >> sandra: people had to flee from their cars and that let's them and then i think that highway. but of course, emergency vehicles need to get through so now bulldozers working to clear the roads and shove the cars to the side. >> john: wow, it is close to apocalyptic movie. william la jeunesse in malibu with the flames to continue to burn along the pacific coast highway. i have been where you are standing many, many

." >> sandra: i am sandra smith in new york.nter the winds are going to be everything to walk in the coming hours and days. expected to anticipate tomorrow with wind gusts up to 75 miles an hour. i could both allow the fires to gain strength and ground planes that have been offering crucial air support. the fires have scorched more than 40,000 acres of land since starting last week. the largest one is still 14% contained. >> john: we will speak with a couple who washed their home burned down via their ring camera and try to figure out what is next. we will talk to it l.a. county fire official for the latest on the ground. >> sandra: chief correspondent jonathan hunt's love for us in pacific palisades good what are you seeing there today? >> i think it is safe to say that hundreds of thousands of people across los angeles and the surrounding area are today preparing there go bags. people who had probably never thought about doing such a thing as of last week. but in the wake of last week's destruction of an area like this, an urb

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sandra smith madison is in new orleans with the latest details. >> hi. investigators are combing through evidence in multiple states to figure out why this happened and authorities do not believe this suspect acted alone. it has been only 24 hours since 42-year-old shamsud din jabbar plowed a rental truck into crowds of people, killing at least 15, injuring dozens and traumatize ing countless people. we've been speaking to witnesses, this may be difficult to hear. >> just traumatic parts of human nature, what anyone is capable of, like bodies managing ed editoreled and strown, unrecognizable. >> blessed to be alive, grateful, but you are not happy. >> fbi says there was isis flag and multiple ieds in the truck jabbar was driving. how did the texas-born u.s. citizen become radicalized? fbi is carrying out a search warrant in houston that is believed to be jabbar's. joint terrorism task force are expected to clear the area soon, we are told there could be explosives inside of the home. we are expecting to hear from officials, state and local, at some point

i'm sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports." here's the very latest that we have from los angeles officials on the palisades and eaton fires, the two biggest. more than 27,000 acres have burned and both fires, according to the latest update, are still at 0% containment at this hour. and more than 2,000 buildings have been destroyed. >> john: our jonathan hunt is live in pacific palisades. as we see, the entire neighborhoods have just been reduced to ash. >> sandra: jonathan, what exactly are you seeing out there right now? >> reporter: well, sandra and john, we're seeing a very different day to yesterday. yesterday was a day of terror. it was a day of fighting. it was a day of struggling simply to survive for many people. today is more a day of reckoning and a day of recognition of exactly what this fire did and as you take a look at this one home in the heart of the pacific palisades, that is the end result for hundreds and hundreds of homes. our crew brian alman, and i, have personally seen hundreds of homes destroyed in exact

. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in for bill hemmer this morning. raids taking place nationwide happened all over this weekend and in chicago border czar tom homan personally taking part in ramped-up enforcement efforts in the nation's third-largest city. 956 arrests across the u.s. on sunday alone. illinois governor says he is on board with deporting violent criminal migrants but standing in the way of certain efforts. >> we will stand in the way of an unconstitutional order and stand in the way of them breaking the law in illinois if they are not following federal law. if they show up with warrants to take people away we'll hand them over. we also have a law on the books in illinois that says that our local law enforcement will stand up for those law-abiding, undocumented people in our state. >> dana: people that live in chicago might be surprised there were all of these people living amongst them. >> it was a massive operation yesterday, dana. border czar tom homan was personally on the ground here and tells fox news yesterday's sting resulted in

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

jesse watters along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, sandra smith greg gutfeld. 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. >> ♪ ♪ we are getting the dirtbags off of the streets.id >> theen dirtbags deported with the new dhs boss suiting up in ice gear getting up at 2:00 in the morning joining federal agents as they begin their first illegal immigration raids in new york city. as illegals were chargedav wite. kidnapping and a refreshing change from shopping for menswear while a crisis is ongoing. president trump's new white house press secretary levitt laid the smackk do down on liberal reporters who were confused about immigration laws. >> can you tell us numbers. company have a a criminal recor. >> all because the y illegally broke nation's laws i know the last administration didn't see it that way so it's a bigat culture shift in our nation call somebody to breaks immigration laws are criminal but that's what they are. >> if they broke our nation's laws they are criminal. >> reporter: president trump's crackdown is a stunning success is border ag

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

i'm sandra smith in new york and i.c.e.y a thousand arrests in chicago yesterday, and not the only agency getting involved, and at least 11 of them are playing a key active role, and dea agents in colorado say they arrested 50 people in a party hosted by venezuela violent gang tren de

i'm jesse watters along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, sandra smith, and greg gutfeld.is 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> in new york city this morning, getting the dirtbags off the streets. >> jesse: the dirtbags are being deported. president trump new dhs boss kristi noem suiting up in i.c.e. gear, getting up at 2:00 in the morning and joining federal agents as they begin their first major illegal immigration raids in new york city. removing the worst first. illegals who have been charged with kidnapping, assault, and burglary. it's a refreshing change from the days of mayorkas shopping for high-end menswear while the crisis festered under his watch. president trump new white house press secretary caroline webb and in her first briefing and eying the smack down on liberal reporters who are confused about our immigration laws. >> can you just tell us the numbers, how many have a terminal record versus those were just in the country illegally? >> all of them because they illegally broke our nations laws and therefore they are criminals. as far as th

i'm sandra smith and bill, great to start the day with you. bill and dana are off today. >> bill: i'm bill melugin. this is "america's newsroom." they said jabbar was 100% inspired by isis. his half brother claims his radicalization for the attack. a glimpse into more of his upbringing and a new look what's inside of that suspect's trailor in houston. team fox coverage. brooke tailor is covering the investigation in texas but first to new orleans where garrett tenney is standing by live. good morning, garrett. >> good morning to you. fox news learned in the wake of this attack the f.b.i. and dhs have issued a warning to police across the country to be on the lookout for the potential of copycat attacks. to be clear, this is really fairly typical after events such as this one and we are told that this specific bulletin doesn't include any specific intelligence of a specific copycat event that they are concerned about. but here in new orleans investigators are learning a lot more about this suspect. what they are learning is that in the hours le

. >> sandra: i am sandra smith. "love story" with martha maccallum stretch right now. >> hello, everybody. this is "the story" as we head back out to the west coast where the winds pick up in california. watched some of these reactions to what homeowners are seeing on the >> at night i scream and cry and sometimes my wife tells me to be strong. i can't be strong. >> i don't know anything. i don't know my future. i don't know what we will be able to afford and what we won't be able to afford. what will have to do is to get my life normal again. >> this is a lemon i salvage from my lemon tree. i'm going to make lemonade out of this. i'm going to rebuild. >> martha: range of emotions. take a look at what's going on right now on the ground in this graphic that shows what is contained. not a lot. the palisades fire 14% contained and we heard the winds are expected to increase. close to two dozen people are missing, 24 at least, 24 confirmed have lost their lives in the horrific fires that have changed the landscape of th

i'm sandra smith in new york and john, it's just hard to believe how little they've been able to contain at this point. >> john: it is. and they're going to have to check missing person records with addresses and then sift through the ashes to make sure that nobody got caught in the fire storm and left behind. a lot of work ahead of them even after they begin to get the fire itself under control. i'm john roberts in washington and this is "america reports." stunning, and i mean, stunning aerial footage shows the scope of the destruction left behind in the wake of the wildfires. homes that were filled with memories now just nothing less -- nothing more than rubble and ash and it's not just a block or a street. it's block upon block, entire neighborhoods simply gone. >> sandra: of course, now we're taking a look at some of these before and after images. satellite images. one of them showing a series of homes along the pacific coast highway burned to bits by the palisades fire. >> john: meanwhile the eaton fire continues to raze thousands of acres further east. this image showing the destru

. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. a busy weekend for ice. the agency arresting nearly 300 illegal immigrants on saturday alone and nearly 1,000 on sunday. ice also lodging nearly 800 detainers which means there is probable cause to deport and according to border czar tom homan it is only the beginning. >> you will see the numbers steadily increase nationwide as we open up the app. it is concentrating on public and national security threats. that's a summarily population. we'll do it on a priority basis. as the aperture opens more arrests nationwide. >> dana: we get a look how the deportations are being carried out. agents loading criminal migrants onto a military plane there. the flight penult for their country of origin. >> sandra: one south american leader tried to turn away the threats but quickly reversed that policy after a fierce response from president trump. more to that as we go to peter doocy. what a weekend it was, peter. >> sandra, this weekend for a few hours at least the columbian president was really dug in against president t

. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. the story with martha right now. >> martha: all right thank you john and sandra good afternoon everyone i am martha maccallum and this is the story. we are now four days away from president-elect trump making his return to the white house and they are getting ready to attack their day one priority as they are deep into this preparation and we expect a very aggressive rollout vary quickly. we are told that there will be as part of that a lot of executive orders that will be ready to be signed likely on day one related to everything from the border to the potential future of tiktok in america. this is getting an a norm is an amount of attention meanwhile we are seeing a series of good by messages from the current president biden. he is speaking at the pentagon one last time as commander in chief. we saw him in the state department and last night we saw him speaking at the white house and president-elect trump's secretary nominee promising a change agent with regard to the leadership of t

i am sandra smith very good to be with you. >> john: i am john roberts. it is revealed he made two scouting trips in new orleans prior to the attack. the fbi also saying he planted explosives around the city howards before carrying out the deadly attack. >> former fbi special agent nicole parker is here. she will react in moments. >> john: live in new orleans at the very latest on the investigation. we are learning that louisiana's attorney general has launched a new investigation into the attack. >> ordering the bureau of investigation to launch a full review of the security plans that were in place and new years including much of what we have been reporting on including the security recommendations the city had received and seemingly not implemented. on the equipment that it had available to prevent this kind of attack but did not use. as that review gets underway, the fbi is releasing a lot of new information in its investigation including the international travels of shamsud din jabbar. the bureau says shamsud din jabbar flew to cairo, egypt, and spen

watch the motorcade john it's been a pleasure to be with you thank you so much for joining us i'm sandra smith. >> martha: >> john: i'm john roberts as we watch the motorcade coming up salem parkway to the district of columbia it should be there in a few minutes per clip send it over to martha maccallum she has got the story and our continuing our continuing coverage martha. >> martha: indeed, thank you very much john and sandra. at afternoon everybody i martha maccallum and this is the story peer president-elect trump will move back to the proceedings for former president jimmy carter who is going to lie in state and the capital. earlier today we got a glimpse of the incoming president taft president-elect trump as he stood at the podium at mar de lago for well over an hour and took on a wide range of questions. at one point he brought his friend steve wyckoff picked from the middle east envoy up to the podium. in this moment it really showed how important the issue of the remaining hostages in gaza over the next couple weeks and what happens prior to the inauguration with regard to these ind

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

i am sandra smith and this is "your world." we begin on the ground with new orleans. what are we now learning? >> sandra, we are here on bourbon street which is back open to the public 36 hours after that pickup truck plowed through crowds right along the stretch crashing just one block. a short time ago, we saw city vehicles that were coming and installing barriers right where this crash happened to block any type of thing like this from happening again. that is something officials have committed to do days ahead leading up to the super bowl in new orleans next month. today, we are learning a lot of new bits of information both about this attack and the suspect. shamsud din jabbar and what he was doing in the hours leading up to his rampage. during that time, the fbi said shamsud din jabbar placed two ieds in coolers in different parts of the french quarter. posting videos on facebook where he said he joined isis before the past summer and he originally planned to hurt his family and friends, but thought that wouldn't generate news headlines focused on the "war betwee

i'm sandra smith. this is "america reports." , great to have you here today. >> sandra, good to be with you, as well. i wish we were starting the year on better terms. bill melugin in for john roberts. you are taking a look at new orleans, the famed french quarter, the city hosting tens of thousands of football fans in town for the big sugar bowl and that city is still a high alert at this hour, here's what we know so far, the fbi now says the suspect, shamsud din jabbar, acted alone and was in fact inspired by isis. agents have recovered three cell phones and two laptops come and right now, they're scrubbing through his digital footprint. >> sandra: they are also saying that the suspect posted five videos online right before the attack. jason williams is the district attorney of new orleans parish. he will be joining us in moments to discuss efforts to secure the city just hours ahead of that football game, 3:00 central t time. >> bill: we begin today with brooke taylor live in houston, texas, were fbi agents just searched a hom

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. >> sandra: indeed i'm sandra smith and this is a 30.king foreign policy and laying out plans to bolster the u.s. economy as republicans in congress strategize how to quickly carry out trump's ambitious agenda. peter doocy live in washington. he was taking it all in with us, hi, peter. >> he has seen enough mexico's efforts to stop the flow of migrants across the border are so lackluster, he doesn't think their name should be attached to the world's largest golf. >> we are going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. , which is a beautiful ring. to that covers a lot of territory. to the gulf of america, what a beautiful name. but it is appropriate, it is appropriate. >> president-elect trump reacted in real time when a reporter told him that judge aileen cannn florida was blocking the release of the jack smith report on the mar-a-lago documents case. the president-elect said that is a big story and he said that is very good news. he was also joint for a few minutes by middle east on dwight's has negotiation

come join sandra smith and me at the top of the hour for "america reports."in just under 1. >> president biden only has two weeks left in office and he is still attacking trump. ♪ ♪ >> do believe he is a threat to democracy? >> i think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. >> moments later, he lashed out with profanity and reporters. >> my being the old president, i know more world leaders than anyone of you have met in your whole [bleep] life. >> his picks for the presidential medal of freedom award for the nation's highest civilian honor to the two of his democratic allies, hillary clinton and georg george soros. house speaker mike johnson said biden's "ending his term in disgrace." some argue he addled his entire term with disgrace. in particularly unpalatable. >> honestly, i think we are starting to get a glimpse into his post-presidency. if you saw the way he lashed out i reporters cursing at them. after they leave office, they have time to reflect. people might ask about their term. president biden, if using anything he doesn't want to hear, yo

along with john roberts come i'm sandra smith, and for now here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybodym jesse watters along with katie pavlich, harold ford jr., dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ it's the series finale for dark brandon. president biden giving a bitter and divisive farewell speech from the oval before he shuffles off into the delaware sunset with hunter. >> i want to win the country of some things that give me great concern. this is a dangerous -- that is the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people. and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. today, an oligarchy is taking shape in america of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy. americans are being buried under an avalanche of miss information and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power, the free press is crumbling, hitters are disappearing, social media is giving up on fact-checking. the truth is smothered by allies, told for power and for profit. >

i'm john roberts, come join sandra smith and me at the top of the hour for "america reports" in 9 minutesmer cnn host don lemon is at it again, and choice words for the hosts of msnbc's "morning joe" after they talked about being civil with president-elect trump. >> if they acquiesce seemingly publicly what does it mean in the broader sense of the structure, of the fabric of our society? you have to indicate to the american people that this is not normal. grining with someone who has those -- you have called a fascist over the last couple of years, and the last months, that's not normal. if someone disrespects my loved one, i don't have to smile in their [edited out] face. and they're going to know it. these are the very same maga people who have called and donald trump has helped promote, calling michelle obama, a man. i'm not smiling in your face if you're calling my sister or my mother or my wife or girlfriend a man. [edited out] you. >> i didn't know he was related. >> okay, so, i know -- this -- you used to watch him. which is funny for me. and i know it's for the entertainment value

we are watching the breaking details, hello, welcome, sandra smith in new york, welcome, john periods boom in friday's events we like to collect around here john roberts and this is "america reports." israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu postponed that kevo accusing hamas going back on parts of the deal for last-minute crisis or more concessions. once approved, of the cease-fire to go into effect sunday. it would release dozens of hamas prisoners in exchange for palestinian prisoners are rather hostages in exchange for palestinian per his nurse held in israel. >> sandra: another barrage of air strikes on gaza overnight and chief correspondent trey yingst is live for us right now from hostage square in tel aviv. what is the latest, trey? >> beebe received a statement from the top benefits of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that hamas went back on aspects of the deal. despite reports, israel media tonight does not appear those gaps bridged but right now there is no deal. hamas willing to accept the agreement on the table last night. we do know the region is waiting fo

welcome to the second hour of "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith. bill and dana are off today. bill, great to be with you. >> bill: a lot happening in the upcoming hours. i'm bill melugin. securing the gavel could be a lot easier said than done. speaker mike johnson is looking to hold onto his title. with republicans holding a narrow majority, johnson can only afford one single gop defection and several lawmakers are still uncommitted. >> sandra: it could delay the trump agenda. jim jordan is encouraging republicans to fall in line. >> november 5th the american people said secure the border, bring down prices, bring down crime and stop the weaponization of government against we the people. the best way to get it done is to come together today, unite behind speaker johnson and start working with president trump to accomplish what the people told us to do. >> bill: john thune is here for his first interview since being recognized as senate majority leader but first to aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. you are dialed in big time on capitol hill. are we looking at any potential d

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i'm sandra smith and this is america reports and the coverage of the wildfires continues and five are still burning more than 34 thousand acre of land and 10,000 acres of structure. that number yesterday was around 2,000 structures. the death toll doubled overnight rising to at least ten now. 153,000 people are currently under evacuating orders and millions of people received evacuating warnings in error. officials don't seem to know why. >> there's extreme amount of frustration, anger and fear with regards to the erroneous messages that are sent out through the wireless emergency alert system across l.a. county. we have every technical specialist working to resolve this issue and to find the root cause. >> fox weather correspondent robert ray is live in malibu, what is the latest you are seeing there? >> yeah, sandra and everyone look behind me on the pacific coast highway in malibu. as far as you can see, destruction. you hear the signs of the fire departments going by, there's thousands of personnel on the ground. this is a place famous around the world. malibu and it is in full de

i'm jesse watters, molly kayleigh mcenany, harold ford jr., sandra smith, and greg gutfeld.s 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ more stupidity and stunning incompetence from california's democrat leaders as five devastating wildfires ravaged los angeles for a fourth day. officials somehow finding new ways to make the situation worse after a laundry list of blunders. from l.a. mayor karen bass, skipping town to africa despite knowing her town would burn, to greasy gavin newsom faking a phone call with biden when confronted over wi-fi or hydrants were running out of water. >> harold: need to now calling for an investigation into the water pressure loss. you should also look into this disturbing report from the "l.a. times" that claims a major pacific palisades reservoir was off-line and empty when the fires broke out. the last thing people in l.a. needed was a false panic. but thousands of their phone started buzzing last night with this emergency evacuation alert. turns out it was an error. and meant for people in a different fire warning zone. top officials t

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i'm sandra smith in new york and i.c.e. racked up nearly a thousand arrests in chicago yesterday, and not the only agency getting involved, and at least 11 of them are playing a key active role, and dea agents in colorado say they arrested 50 people in a party hosted by venezuela violent gang tren de aragua. >> we found drugs, and multiple drugs, and found quite a lot of money and several weapons, as well, and in addition 40 -- approximately 50 people had been detained by i.c.e. and transferred to the i.c.e. detention facility. >> john: in minutes we will speak with joseph humire, who has written a detailed report on how to take them down. >> sandra: but right now, more from chicago. how are the operations unfolding out there and where are they headed next? >> well, sandra, there was a major operation here in chicago yesterday. tom homan was on the ground and a dhs official tells me the next stop is going to be new york city, and tom homan tells fox news that yesterday's sting removed multiple national security threats from

. >> sandra: we'll keep watching thank you for joining a same sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts we'll see you again tomorrow. the story with martha begins now. >> martha: all right we have a lot of breaking news this afternoon, i'm martha maccallum and this is the story. breaking right now the senate voting to advance pete hegseth's nomination for defence secretary. a couple of steps that are in between on this as you just heard john roberts mention its a test vote. we had a word that senator murkowski of alaska we'll be a nobody of course it would take at least three no votes which it doesn't sound like they have in order to even need j.d. vance as vice president tie-breaking vote bear but it doesn't sound like it will be necessary a this point he is clear the hurdle that is the main hurdle before this vote for secretary of defense. i should also mention we are waiting for the swearing in of john radcliffe. thanks are moving a bit faster today as we see movement on t this. we expect to see a swearing and as sort -- cia director as you remember he of course was rector of nationa

. >> i'm sandra smith and you are looking live at washington. and we're going to see the jarring moment the aircraft collideed and a warning that this is hard to watch. and that is the spark and that is when the collision took place. when you saw it blow up in the sky, the american airlines flight was coming from wichita, kansas, and it was making its final approach into reagan national airport, and as we know now, 60 passengers and 4 crew members were on board, john. >> john: you know, the black hawk that it collided with was on a training flight with three crew members who had a combined 1500 hours in the air, and the transportation secretary sean duffy recently confirmed said everything leading up to the crash was completely routine, and the flight conditions were also clear. it was breezy but nothing that commercial aircraft or army helicopter couldn't handle. >> what we do know, and pilots who are reminding anyone who has flown through the area before, this is an incredibly congested area and there is limited airspace to maneuver should the

i am sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports."e president harris will preside over these proceedings certifying the outcome of the election that she lost to donald trump your two weeks from today, trump will be sworn in as this nation's 47th president. live on capitol hill as we watch this together. >> john: good afternoon. the election was wrapped up in november, but nothing is final until congress certifies the electoral congress result during a joint session of congress. with both the movement dictates that the vice president in her capacity as president of the senate "open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted." that is what happens today. >> in just a few minutes, senators will head over to the chamber to count the electoral votes and certify the election of donald trump and j.d. vance as president and vice president of the united states. >> they have carded the electoral votes into the cha chamber. they go through each state alphabetically. lawmakers could challenge electors. that requires a petition compr

sandra smith new york and here we go.it is happening quickly here, john. >> john: the train has left the station and rolling faster and faster. i'm john roberts and washington and tromped to beef up security in a series of executive actions after stepping into the oval office. his orders made good to crackdown on immigration and raising migrant crime scene under the biden administration. the move comes the same day border agent is shot and killed during a traffic stop in vermont. near the northern border with canada. >> sandra: we have paul perez hhear, hear to react to just that, but first let's get to brooke taylor live from el paso, texas. how are migrants at the border responding to transit media executive actions? >> you know, sandra, we are seeing a difference in 24 hours here at the border pier to the most obvious difference is president trump and think the cd migrants to easily book appointments on their cell phones and stay in the united states until their court dates. critics have really called this program a co

i am sandra smith in new york. can hardly imagine what all of these people have been and continue to go through, john. >> john: nor can i make, winds later on today. i'm john roberts and washington. this is "america reports." the national weather service issuing red flag warnings were severe fire conditions all the way through wednesday with wind gusts reaching as much as 70 miles per hour in some areas. l.a. fire officials warning earlier today those high winds coupled with low humility in dry conditions will keep the fire threat in l.a. at a "critical level." >> sandra: they could further complicate efforts to get the fires under control. at least 24 people have died and dozens more are still missing. >> john: we kick off our coverage for you this afternoon on "america reports" with griff jenkins who has live in malibu admitted that his devastation. >> good afternoon, john. someone who has spent a lot of time in california, you full well know what the national weather service putting out a particularly dangerous

welcome everyone i'm sandra smith and this is your world. ill take you first to tel aviv where we have the latest from there with trey yingst. >> good afternoon sandra forges six to seven days into the war between israel and hamas is cease-fire agreement has been reached. a court -- according to the qatari foreign ministry this sunday it will go into effect. at which point hostages will begin to come out of gaza. phase one will last for 41 days and see a total of 33 hostages released from hamas captivity, some of them are alive and others are dead. today in the streets of tel aviv demonstrators celebrating with mixed emotions understanding that in response to this deal the israelis will have to give up hundreds of palestinian prisoners and some of which convicted of murder. inside the gaza strip also sees a celebration i was been speaking with civilians there who said they have mixed feelings about the agreement they are happy over but also questionable images with hamas gunmen in the streets of gaza's major population centers and indication

i'm sandra smith in new york. bret, great to have you with us today. >> bret: thank you, sandra. it's history. i'm bret baier in for john roberts. this is "america reports." republicans hold a historically narrow house majority. the 119 congress. mike johnson from louisiana, hakeem jeffries the democrat from new york. the math is tricky for johnson because several g.o.p. hard-liners are on the fence about supporting him. only two defections from his party could take his chances, or at least could cause another ballot. this is the first ballot. it is alphabetical. and now they are getting into democrats and republicans, we know that one republican lawmaker has already said he will vote no, thomas massie, so we watch and wait and listen. aishah hasnie is doing the same from capitol hill. hi, aishah. >> bret come i'm try to keep track on some of these members we are following carefully, some of these holdouts, folks that were undecided, and like you said, thomas massie is going to be a "no." no one else so far has voted against johnson, no one else has put up a different name but th