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Hey, I'm Ryan Reynolds. Recently, I asked Mint Mobile's legal team if big wireless companies are allowed to raise prices due to inflation. They said yes. And then when I asked if raising prices technically violates those onerous two-year contracts, they said, what the f*** are you talking about, you insane Hollywood a**hole?

So to recap, we're cutting the price of Mint Unlimited from $30 a month to just $15 a month. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. $45 upfront payment equivalent to $15 per month. New customers on first three-month plan only. Taxes and fees extra. Speeds lower above 40 gigabytes per detail. I'm Jillian Turner in for Shannon Bream. President-elect Trump picks a top ally to shake up the Department of Justice after his first pick drops out.

Pam Bondi has always shown that she is tough, she is smart, she is absolutely a great pick, and she's going to be a fantastic attorney general. Florida's first female attorney general, Pam Bondi, an outspoken defender of Trump, replaces Matt Gaetz, who withdrew his name from consideration after failing to launch on Capitol Hill. This as Trump's team pushes GOP senators to fall in line behind the rest of his cabinet picks. Republicans armed with a new majority gear up for a political trifecta in the coming year. John Borossi.

Barrasso, who will be the number two GOP leader in the Senate, joins us live. And Senator John Fetterman on Democrats' efforts to confront the Trump agenda and where he sees common ground. Then...

President Biden approving a major weapons shipment to Ukraine and giving a green light for long-range missile strikes as Putin escalates threats against the West. Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz outlines the new administration's plans to handle that crisis, as well as growing tensions in the Mideast, China and North Korea.

All this, plus new details on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's bold plan to slash $500 billion in federal spending. Our Sunday panel debates the reforms the two are planning for the new Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. All right now on Fox News Sunday.

Hello from Fox News in Washington. Let's kick off with the headlines right now. AAA is predicting a record 79 million travelers are going to hit the roads, the rails, and take to the skies this week for Thanksgiving. Stormy conditions are forecast right now for the West Coast early on in the week with wintry weather in the very busy Northeast Corridor by next weekend.

And this at a U.N. summit this weekend, the U.S., Europe, other leading nations as well, reached an agreement to triple their financing for climate change projects in the developing world to $300 billion by 2035. This pledge comes after President-elect Trump has vowed to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, something President Biden had joined by executive order back in 2021.

And this, Israel says a rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates Thursday has been found and he was murdered in a, quote, heinous anti-Semitic incident. Israel is vowing to seek justice for his killers. In a moment, we'll talk with incoming national security adviser, Congressman Mike Waltz. But first, let's turn to Brian Yennis for the latest on the Trump transition. He is in West Palm Beach today. Hi, Brian.

Hi, Julian. Well, less than three weeks after winning re-election, President-elect Trump has chosen all of his cabinet secretaries, including the man tasked with following through on his tariffs plan. President-elect Trump tapping billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Besant as his pick for Treasury Secretary. As the administration's top economic official, Besant would be tasked with implementing Trump's tax cuts and raising tariffs on foreign goods, a strategy he defends.

Donald Trump is a free trader at the end of the day, and it's a strategy escalate to de-escalate. The pick comes despite Elon Musk publicly criticizing Besant as a business-as-usual choice. Trump's now completed picking his cabinet secretaries, tapping America First Policy Institute founder Brooke Rollins as his agriculture secretary, pro-union Republican Congresswoman Lori Chavez de Riemer as his labor secretary,

And Project 2025 co-author Russell Vaught to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance now taking meetings on Capitol Hill in an effort to ensure Trump's picks survive Senate confirmation. Sexual assault allegations have complicated the path for his defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth. Appreciate all the support and I look forward to a

A good process. And forced former Congressman Matt Gaetz to drop out of the running as attorney general. Just hours later, Trump choosing former Florida AG Pam Bondi as his replacement. Senate Republicans underscoring the importance of getting Trump's picks confirmed. We're going to have to give him a lot of clear runway to get his agenda through. That first hundred days is going to be vitally important.

Now, other tough Senate confirmation hearings could include for Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services. Jillian. All right, Brian Yannis in West Palm Beach for us. Thank you. Let's go now to Alex Hogan with a look at the war in Gaza from on the ground. The incoming administration obviously is going to have to tackle that crisis as well as the war in Ukraine beginning day one. She's in Tel Aviv today. Hi, Alex.

Hi, Jillian. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressing confidence that the war could end as early as next year. We've heard former President Donald Trump say that he could end the war within one day. Well, Saturday, Zelensky notes that he believes the war will end faster when Trump takes office. I also want to see the proposals of the new president of the United States of America. I think we will see these proposals in January, and I think we will have a plan to end this war.

For now, new threats of escalation. Russian President Vladimir Putin warning that Russia will start mass producing the hypersonic ballistic missile that it fired at Ukraine Thursday. Moscow says it fired the Oreshnik missile on a military facility in Dnipro in retaliation for Kiev's use of U.S. and British long-range missiles deeper into Russia.

Putin claims that several of these missiles fitted with conventional warheads could be just as devastating as a strike with nuclear weapons and that U.S. air defense systems would not be able to stop it. European leaders this week sounding the alarm that this weapon changes the stakes of the war. NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks on this on Tuesday. Meanwhile, here in the Middle East, new fallout over the ICC arrest warrants.

For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his former defense minister and one of the leaders of Hamas.

The warrants accusations against Netanyahu include starvation, crimes against humanity in Gaza. President Joe Biden called it absurd, stressing that there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas. This was the first time that a sitting leader of a major Western ally has been accused of war crimes by the court. And at least 20 people are dead and more than 60 are wounded after Israel's latest strike Saturday on a building in Beirut. That is according to officials in Lebanon.

According to a lot of the conversations that we're hearing and seeing, there are continued efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. And U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held talks with his counterpart on this just yesterday. Jillian. All right, Alex Hogan in Tel Aviv for us today. Thank you.

Joining us now is Florida Congressman and incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. He is the first combat decorated Green Beret ever elected to Congress. Congratulations, sir, on your new appointment. National Security Advisor is a tremendous job. It's going to see you working every single day just down the hall, maybe 100 feet or so from the commander in chief.

So let's go ahead and dive right into foreign policy, the big topics of the day. President Biden, as you know, this week approved Ukraine's use of U.S.-made long-range missiles in Russia, which they immediately deployed. Russia then responded by using a new kind of experimental ballistic missile with multiple warheads. Take a listen to the Pentagon.

This was a new type of lethal capability that was employed on the battlefield. So that's certainly of concern to us. The modern air defense systems in the world and the anti-missile defenses created by the Americans in Europe do not intercept such missiles. Congressman, was this a good move by the Biden team this week? And how concerned are you about this new Russian weapon on the battlefield?

Well, thanks, Jillian. Thanks for having me on. Look, this is a clear escalation. And the concern has been where is this escalation going? This was in response to, in large part, to North Korea sending troops. We've now responded by allowing these strikes deeper into Russia. I want to be

clear that they are hitting things like supply depots and airfields and pushing the Russian offensive back. They're not going all the way to Moscow or St. Petersburg, but where is all of this escalation going now? South Korea, uh, is talking about somehow getting involved. Uh, and president Trump has been very clear about the need to end this conflict. And so what we're, uh,

need to be discussing is who's at that table, whether it's an agreement, an armistice, how to get both sides to the table, and then what's the framework of a deal. That's what we'll be working with this administration until January and then beyond. And I also want to be clear on one thing, Jillian. Jake and I, Jake Sullivan and I have had discussions. We've met

For our adversaries out there that think this is a time of opportunity, that they can play one administration off the other, they're wrong. And we are hand in glove. We are one team with the United States in this transition. That is good to hear, certainly. The president, President Biden, also seemed to reverse one of his own policies this week when he authorized Ukraine to use anti-personnel landmines

in the ongoing ground war. He is getting fiery, fierce pushback now from human rights groups who are saying these landmines are now going to lie in wait to kill and maim civilians for years to come. Take a look at this from Amnesty International. One of their top officials says it is devastating and frankly shocking that President Biden made such a consequential and dangerous decision just before his public service legacy is sealed for the history books. What do you think?

Well, these mines are the type that you can turn on, turn off. They're smart mines. But at the same time, it does, it is a step towards somewhat solidifying the lines. And we also needed to stop Russian gains. So there's a number of factors involved there. But again, one

One side escalating, the other side escalating. This needs to be within a broader framework to end this conflict. It is, Jillian, it is just an absolute meat grinder.

of people and personnel on that front. It is more like World War I trench warfare. President Trump is incredibly concerned about the carnage that is taking place there. And again, how do we restore deterrence and how do we bring peace?

We met with the European NATO Secretary General. The Europeans will clearly be a key part of that. All of our allies and partners need to be carrying this burden going forward. And, of course, our energy policy will be a key component with Governor Burgum and his National Energy Council and how the United States is blessed with, as the president said,

you know, with with oil and gas that we can be using not only to our economic advantage here at home, but as a leader around the free world. Surprisingly, we have not heard from the president elect himself on this escalation in the in Russia's war in Ukraine this week. I say surprisingly only because he tends to weigh in on pretty much everything these days, either in person or on social media. Do you know what he's his reaction is?

Well, the president-elect has been very concerned about the escalation and where it's all going. If North Korea has made this move, we have made a move. Russia has now responded. Iran is involved. South Korea is thinking about getting involved. Our allies have now extended the range of their missiles as well. So we need to bring

bring this to a responsible end. We need to restore deterrence, restore peace and get ahead of this escalation ladder rather than responding to it. So on that note, as you well know, let's turn to Israel real quick. The Biden team has always insisted that a negotiated end to the war in Gaza is the only way forward. But we also know that the president-elect and his top advisors often feel that

These sort of swift military victories are the better way to bring about the ends of wars. How do you see the conflict in Gaza and more broadly in the Middle East coming to a close?

Well, look at the strength and the grit that the Israelis and Prime Minister Netanyahu has shown. Hezbollah, with the Pager and walkie-talkie operation and ongoing strikes on their leadership, is completely on their back foot, not only from a military standpoint, but from an economic standpoint as well. Hamas has been devastated. Iran is incredibly exposed at this point. So

I think now is a moment to craft some type of arrangement that doesn't just put a pause for future October 7th, but truly brings stability to the Middle East, sets the stage for what we saw just a few years ago with the Abraham Accords. I mean, Jillian, we had peace deals being signed on the White House lawn just four years ago. Look at where we are today.

I am confident President Trump and his leadership and the team that he is putting around him will get us back to that point in pretty short order. I want to ask you about the NSC, the National Security Council in particular, which you are about to helm. In any given administration, it tends to have between a couple of hundred, maybe 400 members.

officials on the staff, not very big, but has an outsized role in policymaking in Washington, determining U.S. foreign policy across the globe. What's your, you know, coming in on January 20th, what is your number one top policy proposal that you're going to be focused on? Well, I'll just tell you, I'll just tell you from my approach, President Trump has a mandate to execute these policies that he has outlined and to continue to

the great policies he had in his first, uh, in his first term. I think in the past, too many people have tried to kind of conform the system, uh, or, or have tried to kind of conform him to the system. Uh, I'm going to conform the system to the best I can to his style, to his decisions, uh, and to his mandate. Uh, number one, uh, number two, uh,

For example, we were just talking about the Middle East. Well, a key component of that are Americans being held hostage. And we need to start imposing costs for those that hold hostages rather than reacting and seeing benefit. And number three, the border, the Western Hemisphere, working with that team to get it under control.

The cartels need to be on notice. Mexico and our partners have to take some ownership here. And then broadly in the Western Hemisphere, we have the energy, the food supply, the critical minerals that we need to keep our economy the most powerful it is in the world.

And finally, on China, that is going to be much more of a conversation about the strength of our economy, the strength of our markets, how to bring those supply chains back home from critical minerals to energy to pharmaceuticals in that competition. And President Trump is going to lead the way on all of those issues. Well, sir, we certainly look forward to seeing you at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue come the new year. Thank you for taking time with us for our Sunday show interview since the nomination. We appreciate it. Thanks, Jillian.

Republicans are gearing up now to take control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in the new year. We're going to ask incoming Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso about the GOP's legislative game plan and Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania how Democrats are plotting their path forward now in the minority. We'll also get their reactions to President Trump's new cabinet picks and the Senate confirmation battles that lie ahead. Stick with us.

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Welcome back. The incoming administration suffering its first major setback this week with the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Politico playbook noting, quote, Senate Republicans were the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back here. They back channeled to Trump and his advisers about their concerns. They made clear that Gaetz was unlikely to get confirmed. It shows that the Senate GOP might actually be a soft check on the leader of their party when they feel like he is going too far.

Joining me right now is incoming Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso of Wyoming. Sir, congratulations on the new leadership posting and thank you for being with us this morning. You do your party now has the baton, a mandate, as a lot of your colleagues like to say. What's your top tier policy priority for the start of the new Congress?

Well, I agree, Julian. It is a mandate to get things done, to govern, not to grandstand, to take action. We need to take action on what the American people are most concerned about, which are high prices and an open border. So our priorities are to get prices down, to secure the border and, of course, to retain America's and regain America's strength in the world.

On day number one, President Trump can take executive actions and they can do that to shut down our open border and to open up our shut down oil rigs. What's so important, though, and you just had this in your last interview about the dangerous world that President Trump is finding as he enters the Oval Office. Our enemies are much more dangerous, aggressive, menacing.

and powerful than they were when he left office. So it's critical for us in the Senate to make sure that on day one, President Trump has confirmed his national security team so they can all hit the ground running. Having a problem with the audio there on the senator's shot. We're trying to get him back up for you. We're in the midst of talking to the senator about his new policy proposals for the incoming president.

But for now, we're going to move on. I think we've still got Senator Fetterman with us now. I think we're going to move on to him until we get Senator Brasso's feedback. Democrats are hoping to find new footing in the wake of crushing electoral losses earlier this month. Here's Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan on the Democrats' very real struggle right now.

They ought to be thinking about the meaning of their party right now. That party had stood, I think, on three pillars. One, it was the party of the little guy. The other is that the party, it was the party of anti-war. The other is it was the party of very generous spending. But the Trumpian Republican Party has taken those issues, at least for now.

So let's bring in Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman. Sir, very excited to talk to you. Thank you for jumping in when Senator Brasso's feed has gone down on short notice. Noonan there offers the perspective that the Trump GOP has sort of usurped some of the founding cornerstone pillars of the Democratic Party. Do you think she has a point?

Yeah, well, one area where we kind of lost ourselves was the border. And I've been on this network, you know, months, months ago saying, hey, you know, it can't be controversial for our party to have, be pro-immigration, but we need a secure border. And when

we ask or demand people to not believe what they see and see those kind of numbers that that's not a problem. It's like, well, then you lose about that 100%. I've tried to describe it. You have up to 300,000 people encounters per month. And I put that in perspective with Pennsylvania. I'm like, that's

That's the size of Pittsburgh showing up in one month. It's like, what's going to happen for those folks? If we want them the American dream for those people, how can we possibly deliver that? Where do they go? And we can't pretend that that's not a significant issue, and we've got to address that. So another issue like that, I don't think that's about endless wars. I think there are

two very just wars. I think Israel, for example, that's a very just one. And now I've never supported a ceasefire, and that was the right thing. I said I was going to follow Israel. And since they refused to have that ceasefire, they have eliminated and broken Hamas and Hezbollah. Hezbollah was supposed to be like the ultimate badass in the Middle East, and now they were just a

is just, you know, they really can't fight about anything. So that's been a significant development here. And now also, I'd like to point out, Israel had blown up their nuclear weapons lab as part of that too. So, and with respects for Ukraine, Ukraine was invaded and...

And for me, for me, it's about standing on the side of democracy. And I was very supportive about that aid. And I don't understand if the other side would now stop delivering that kind of aid. That's a that's a disagreement. But I've been very, very clear supporting Israel and Ukraine. You have, sir. And while you're on the topic of Israel, your colleagues voted down this Bernie Sanders bill this week to stop supplying weapons to Israel.

The incoming administration is touting their foreign policy national security team as the most pro-Israel in modern history. Wondering if you agree with that. Yeah, no, well, I mean, it was a pleasure to vote a big no on all those threes with my colleague from Vermont. I don't understand why anybody would bring that to the floor. But, hey, if they want to go down, you know, 80 percent,

18, 19, that's up to you. But in terms of the incoming administration, I actually like what I see in terms of being a very, very strong pro-Israel through that. And I fully support that through that too. And when the administration will change, my vote and voice won't change either. That's going to follow Israel through that. And they have made a magnificent, a magnificent kinds of progress

on the process of generating longer-term peace by destroying Hamas, Hezbollah, and just demonstrating that Iran really doesn't have the kind of capability to deliver any kinds of damage. You indicated, Senator, this week, at least it seemed to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that you're open to supporting two of Trump's cabinet nominees so far, Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and Dr. Mehmet Oz for...

for the CDC. Is there anybody else on his cabinet list that you think you might get behind? And then on the other side, is there anyone on your sort of over my dead body list?

Yeah, well, and again, of course, I'm a fan of my colleague from Florida, and I'm going to enthusiastically going to vote yes for Senator Rubio. And then, you know, with Dr. Oz, I mean, everybody understands that we ran in the same cycle, and it got kind of ugly, and I don't have any kind of bitterness, and I just expressed I'm open to a dialogue to hear what he has to say about these things. I'm not sure why that's controversial to say, hey, I think I saw a great –

from Bill Maher, he just said, I'm not going to pre-hate. I'm not going to pre-hate a lot of these things. And I'm not going to pre-hate this. I'm going to have an open conversation for anyone that I'm open to having part of that conversation. And there's some people that I just couldn't be able to vote for that. And there's some that might be able to enthusiastically vote yes. And like my Senator Rubio or Stefanik,

or actually there's a fantastic labor, a labor nominee as well, too. In fact, a Democratic colleague from the House just texted me and saying, hey, I think she's I think she's really strong. And I think that's a great candidate. So I think there's good things there and there's some things that I can't vote for. But that's what happens when the other team wins. And I don't understand why it's controversial to say, hey, we're going to engage in that conversation.

But I also would remind my side that, you know, in the Senate, we're at 53 to 47 with the new administration. So they're going to have the votes at the end of the day. I think you're talking about Congresswoman Lori Chavez, Doremer for Labor Secretary. They're a clear nod on the Trump administration's part to, you know, pro-union sentiment. When you look ahead, Senator, more generally speaking now at your party's future, is there something?

Does a clear Democratic leader or a pool of new generation leaders emerge for you? A lot of folks have thought maybe Hakeem Jeffries, but now that, you know, they lost the House, I don't know if he's still in play. No, I mean, I'm I don't look for for like a leader in my party. It's just like, hey, we're just going to keep doing what we're doing here for me personally in the House and in the Senate. So, you know.

I just want people to understand, you know, before before the election, I tried to describe that if if Trump wins and if we don't show up now, it's he's going to get the House and the majority. He's going to have them in the Senate, which that happened.

And then now you have the Supreme Court is now in a position with a 6-3 strong conservative slant. So they're going to be able to, you know, a lot of things. And now if I wouldn't be surprised if Trump moves to drop the filibuster, you know, and the Senate as well, too, because they will have two years. They'd have two years to essentially run everything through.

Senator, we love talking to you. Thank you for coming on with us as always and look forward to seeing you on Capitol Hill in the new year. Oh, thank you. Great to be here. Thanks. Let's go and bring back in now Senator from Wyoming, John Barrasso. Sir, sorry, had some audio technical issues there, but it's great to see you back.

Let's pick up where we left off with you a moment ago. You tweeted this week after meeting with incoming President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, that, quote, we had an excellent discussion about the need for America's military to remain the best in the world. I look forward to Pete's hearing and a vote in the Senate in January. I bring this up because you mentioned a confirmation hearing. I'm curious if maybe you're now becoming sort of

inclined towards confirmation hearings rather than the recess appointments that the leadership has agreed to for the incoming president.

President Trump has made wonderful choices for his cabinet. It's a complete list. These are people that are going to work to get America back on track across the board. And every one of them is going to have a hearing, a fair process. And then what they're going to have is a timely vote in the United States Senate. We want to get that cabinet in place quickly.

What we know is that in the past, when President Obama came into office, when President Clinton, they had most of their cabinet in place by the end of January. We plan to do the same thing with President Trump. A number of us have actually been meeting with some of the nominees. I've had a number of meetings this week.

We're coming in, actually, the Republicans in the Senate take over on January 3rd. We've had meetings already with some of the nominees, and we're going to have hearings early so we can get his team in place when he takes the oath of office on January 20th. Any dates in mind for the to kick off these hearings so far or not yet?

Well, after we come into the majority, we'll move ahead. But the president has made excellent choices across the board. This is a group that can get America back on track and also help drain the swamp. President Trump, when he was there the last time, was a little slower than nominees, much faster now. These are people who are fighters. They're going to be fearless in draining the swamp. They're going to get the country back on track.

Let's talk about energy. The incoming president has made domestic drilling sort of the centerpiece of his economic agenda.

agenda for growth looking ahead. We know that him and his incoming energy secretary, Chris Wright, have indicated that they would like to see sort of the rebirth of the Keystone XL pipeline. A lot of folks, though, are saying it might be something that's easy to talk about, not so easy to accomplish. Here's Jane Klebe, the chair of the Nebraska State

Democratic Party. She says they can try, but they'll be starting from scratch. When the federal permit got revoked, we didn't just celebrate. We went all the way through the court system to make sure that the easements were returned to landowners. Do you still, sir, hold out hope for the promise of a Keystone XL pipeline, or is this more lip service on the part of the incoming team, uh,

to get the drill, baby, drill mentality in action again, as President Trump says. Let's take a look at the big picture. If you want to actually lower prices across the country, energy is the place to start.

And energy security is national security. It's economic security. We have massive amounts of energy in this country. I'm in Wyoming today, which is America's energy breadbasket. The last four years, Jillian, these radical climate elitists, what they've done is put a noose around the neck of American energy.

And what we need to do right now is get that news removed, and we're done with the election of President Trump. But this is the reason people have been playing 20%, 30% more to heat their houses or to fill up their gas tank. And the people that the president has nominated for energy, they know how to take the handcuffs off of American energy and get the American energy economy pumping again. The sooner we can get them confirmed, the better it's going to be to get prices down. Look, I'm heading to the Persian Gulf.

for Thanksgiving with Wyoming National Guards. What we need to do is use American energy. We shouldn't be dependent upon sources around the world. Your past guests talk about that. We have strong, hardworking American energy workers here. They do it cleaner, better than any place else in the world. They're ready to get back to work.

Senator, the incoming president this week floated the idea or the possibility of using the U.S. military's might to help implement his mass deportation plans for illegal immigrants. He wrote on Truth Social True in response to reporting that he is prepared to declare a national emergency and use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program. Some of your colleagues pushed back on that.

on this idea, Rand Paul and Kevin Kramer. We're wondering if you think it's a good idea.

Well, I support the president. We have a national security crisis in this country right now because of our open border. And when he declares it a national emergency, he can appropriately use the military. There are over 10 million illegal immigrants in the country right now. We are talking about drug dealers, people in criminal cartels. These are folks who have actually been murdering, raping, poisoning American citizens. When you take a look at the president's

magnificent victory, the decisive victory, it's, I think, because people were scared about all of these people in the country illegally. People want to feel safe in their own homes.

So when you take a look at the president and President Trump saying we're going to do mass deportations of these illegal immigrant criminals, three out of four Americans support that. And yet we still have some of these big city mayors and governors who unbelievably are more concerned about the rights, the so-called rights of illegal immigrants than they are about the safety of their own citizens. We have to make America safe again. And what the president is talking about is the right thing to do.

Senator, we're out of time. We have to leave it there. But thank you for taking time with us today. It's wonderful to talk to you as always. We wish you the best in your new leadership position and happy Thanksgiving. Coming up next, we're going to take a closer look at how billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy plan to trim the fat here in Washington. Our Sunday panel joined us on that. They're also going to weigh in on Trump's fight to shut down the ongoing criminal cases against him. That next. Hey, hey.

Welcome back. The future Trump administration now taking firm shape. The president elects nominating more candidates for key positions nearly every day. But are they going to make it to the Senate confirmation process? It's time to bring in our Sunday group. We've got Bloomberg managing editor for the U.S. economy and government, Mario Parker, Molly Hemingway, editor in chief of The Federalist, former 2020 Biden Harris surrogate Kevin Walling and Josh Kraushar, Jewish insider, editor and

Mario, let's kick off with you. We saw Matt Gaetz's sort of failure to launch in the Senate this week. Do you think that the tanking of that nomination pretends badly for any other of Trump's cabinet picks in particular? Well, there was a school there was a school of thought that there wasn't room enough for Gaetz's nomination. Pete Hex's nomination, Tulsi Gabbard.

RFK Jr. So there are some sources within the Trump campaign saying that they understand they needed some cover for some of the other nominees. The other part of it is that... The more controversial tier of votes. Exactly, the more extreme or controversial of the picks. Now, the other school of thought is that they're just more palatable than Gates was. Gates had been in the chamber for a while. He had made some enemies within Congress as well. Some of the history that some of those other nominees just don't have.

Just a few enemies. Molly, Democrats now seem, though, to be freaking out about the nomination of Pam Bondi, not because of any...

in her past, but because they say she's very well qualified for the post, she's competent, and she's likely to have success implementing the president's agenda at DOJ, maybe even winning some Supreme Court victories on his behalf. And it's not just Pam Bondi, but some of the other people who have already been named at the Department of Justice who people understand those are very serious people who are aware of the serious problems at the Department of Justice.

which over the last eight years has been involved in the Russia collusion hoax and trying to do a soft coup on President Trump's first term, then also running those very political prosecutions, not just against President Trump, but against other prominent Republicans or even low-level Republicans, and really destroying the reputation of the Department of Justice. But

All of these cabinet picks do show that they're not surprising to anyone who followed Trump during the campaign. He promised to make some serious changes to where there were corrupt agencies and where there were major problems, whether on the border or in foreign policy or at the Department of Justice. And so people are have reason to be excited about some of these picks as well.

Josh, let's talk about Doge, because that's all anybody, at least in Washington, seems to really care about right now. You got Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk coming in hot with all these proposals, but they are already starting to kind of scale back and make some concessions to reality with their plans for the government agency this week. They started out committing or

saying they wanted to slash $2 trillion from the federal budget. They have since kind of brought that number in an op-ed this week down to around $500 billion. What do you think that signals? Well, look, they have very ambitious plans. You wouldn't expect any less from Elon Musk. But the reality is, and the history of Washington suggests, that anyone who tries to come into government with a scalpel and try to cut a lot of the fat and waste finds that they're facing a big

bureaucracy. And this is going to be one of the most important tests for Donald Trump coming into office. Can he tame the bureaucracy? I think the majority of the American public understands that government is very slow, sclerotic. I think that was one of the, you look at the outcome of this election, there was a backlash to the legislation.

lack of credibility and effectiveness in government institutions. But boy, Elon Musk doesn't necessarily have the ability to run every agency. He's going to have a commission. He's going to have a lot of connections with the White House. But

I think the history would suggest that he's going to have a lot more challenges than his optimistic op-ed would suggest to The Wall Street Journal. Kevin, they also seem to be realizing that in order to make any of these cuts or most of these cuts, they're going to rely on congressional input and buy-in. They've set up now these two subcommittees in either chamber to focus on helping them push their agenda through. Do you think there's a lot of hope?

for the Doge crowd or not really? Yeah, Jillian, I really don't think so. You know, you've got a $6.5 trillion budget. $4 trillion is mandatory spending. That's Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. That leaves about $1.5 trillion. Half of that is defense spending. So obviously, as you point out, they've lowered their expectations in terms of

the amount of money they're going to cut. This is not a serious effort. Look at who they put in charge on the House side. Marjorie Taylor Greene, right, who's now the head of this Doge subcommittee. If you were really serious about it, you would put a serious lawmaker with budgetary experience. She hasn't served on a committee, you know, during the Democratic years in charge of the House.

So I don't think this is going to be that much of a serious effort just looking at the people on the House side. You know, it's interesting to hear how Democrats are fighting this effort to increase the efficiency. I'm not fighting it. I was just saying I would love to see someone other than Marjorie Taylor Greene. We can all agree there's a lot of waste in spending, including the $7 trillion that Donald Trump added to the debt. So people in D.C. constantly say they agree with it, but they do very little to actually fix the problems. This was a very important election where you had 50%.

50 percent of the country in the face of unbelievable opposition in the media and other establishment entities say that they wanted to have serious change at the federal government. It is almost impossible to fire a poor performing federal employee no matter how bad they are. And you're seeing a lot of Democrats say, oh, this isn't serious and this is ridiculous. I think

If the Democrat Party wants to actually achieve greater success electorally in the years to come, they're going to have to start showing that they are part of the solution to the problems that Washington, D.C. has been causing for the rest of the country. I'm just saying if you want a serious effort, don't put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge of it.

Might be unfair. And also, all the people who are supposedly serious, whether at the agency level or in Congress, have been doing a really bad job for decades. One of the things you're seeing in the cabinet picks and also in these congressional committees is a feeling that maybe some fresh blood, some new ideas, people who have the courage to take on these things might be more effective than the failures that we've seen in previous decades. Mario, there's also thinking that rather than focusing on spending cuts, the Doge team might instead focus on...

and maybe loosening some restrictions and increasing oversight into government contracts, they can certainly make those kinds of public-facing inroads. Yeah, and that would be the low-hanging fruit, right? You saw that in an op-ed this week. They kind of hinted at that, Eli Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, talking about some of the, again, the low-hanging fruit that would be available just through what they classify or characterize as over-regulation of government, the heavy hand of government as well.

All right, panel, stay with us. We'll be right back. Coming up, we're going to take a look at President-elect Trump's foreign policy agenda, including his plans to bring about an end to the war in Gaza. Stick with us.

Weight loss now is a moment to to craft some type of of arrangement that not doesn't just put a pause for future October 7th. Truly bring stability to the Middle East, sets the stage for what we saw just a few years ago with the Abraham Accords.

So welcome back. That's incoming National Security Advisor Michael Wallace outlining the Trump administration's second Trump administration's top priorities for the Middle East. That cabinet is liable to reshape U.S. foreign policy across the globe. We're back with the panel now. Josh, what do you think the likelihood is that Trump is going to stick with this proposed ceasefire plan as the best outcome here versus...

Going in hard on behalf of Israel and trying to get a quick military victory. Based on all of his actions, it seems like, and Mike Waltz's interview earlier, it seems like there's going to be a much more unequivocal support for Israel from this administration. You just look at some of the appointments beyond Mike Waltz. I mean, rhetorically and in terms of weapons and aid. Well, and also taking on some of the international bureaucracies. We saw this week the International Criminal Court offering,

issued an arrest warrant against Bibi Netanyahu and the former defense minister. You have the UN always trying to pressure Israel in the international court. Uh, that is something that Biden rejects, but I think you're going to see actual action, maybe sanctions, uh,

from the Trump administration, not tolerating that kind of international pressure from a lot of the rogue states and a lot of the bureaucracies against Israel. But, you know, look, this is one of the more pro-Israel teams. It's very consistent with what Trump put together in his first term. There was a lot of question on how much desire Trump would have to try to end the war quickly, as he said on the campaign trail. It does seem like he wants to give Israel the tools it needs to defeat Hamas and defeat Hezbollah. Kevin, I asked...

The incoming national security adviser, if he, you know, buys the Trump team's claims that this is the most pro-Israel cabinet in modern history. Here's what he said. So we don't have that bite. But essentially, he said, excuse me, we we we had response from Senator Fetterman to Walta's claim. Sorry. Let's take a listen to that.

In terms of the incoming administration, I actually like what I see in terms of being a very, very strong pro-Israel threat. And I fully support that. It's surprising to hear him throwing weight behind Trump nominees at all, frankly. Well, and I echo what Senator Fetterman said. Right. And he obviously supports socialism.

Senator Rubio as secretary of state, who has been staunchly in support of Israel. Elise Stefanik at the U.N. holding the line there, especially on the Security Council, where we know this is going to be an issue going forward in the next couple of months and even years. So this is a pro-Israel cabinet. Certainly it's a continuation of what we saw with the Biden administration as well, that, you know, you got a lot of grief from the left side.

flank of my party for being too supportive of Israel, President Biden. So that continuation is important and that bipartisan support for Israel is critically important as well. Molly, so far, Trump has prioritized appointing, I mean, in the sense that he did very quickly, nominating officials to the UN, to NATO, to represent his administration. Do you think

that is an attempt to participate in those international organizations as the U.S. always has? Or do you think there is more of a hope that they can be disruptors? Well, I think, again, in the campaign, you saw the border and the economy being big issues, but also foreign policy. It was one of President Trump's

major successes in his first administration. We've seen what's happened in the world globally in the four years of the Biden-Harris administration. And so you're seeing a desire to return to that strength that was there the first time around, which is why it's so fascinating to look at what's happened with the Biden-Harris administration in Ukraine. We had an election just now. We had a choice between the Trump policy and the Biden-Harris

policy and it was the Biden-Harris policy was rejected. And yet Biden then authorizes the use of long range missiles to go into Ukraine. Putin responds with an attack of his own. This type of escalation during a period of transit transition is grossly irresponsible and something of a scandal, given that we just had an election in which the Biden-Harris administration was rejected in part because of their foreign policy. Would you agree with that, Mario?

Well, I think the Biden administration, from what our reporting shows, that they're just trying to give Ukraine a little bit more of a leverage ahead of Trump coming in. Right. The long range missiles, the landmines, forgiving debt as well, with the expectation that maybe even though Trump hasn't articulated how he will end the war, that perhaps there are semblances in what J.D. Vance has said in terms of the

territory that Russia has already seized, maybe lines being divided along those parameters. All right, panel, thank you so much for joining us. Great to be with you this morning and happy Thanksgiving coming up later in the week. So coming up, we've got a special preview of the second episode of Fox Nation's new show. It's called Martin Scorsese Presents the Saints. We're going to bring that to you next. Welcome back. This is a live look at the Fox Square Christmas tree up in New York City right now.

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