Is the Gaza Ceasefire Deal in Jeopardy?
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Is the Gaza ceasefire deal in jeopardy? I'm Dave Anthony, Fox News. The only thing that is predictable about the Middle East...

It's that it's unpredictable. Ruby Hensanite was killed in the Hamas terror attack that triggered the war. His body is among the four Americans believed dead that Hamas still holds, along with three others who are believed alive and could be released. But Fox's Jonathan Savage reports. The Israeli cabinet is meant to meet today to approve the long-awaited deal that would end fighting in Gaza and bring the hostages home. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now says that meeting won't take place.

He's accusing Hamas of reneging on parts of the agreement, and he won't convene the cabinet until Hamas backs down. Trump envoy was involved in the final talks, but in a farewell address last night from the Oval Office, President Biden took credit for the ceasefire deal. He says they worked on for months, and while the president touted the job he's done...

He also issued warnings. And Fox's Peter Doocy reports from the White House. This is a president, Joe Biden, who wants to be able to say, I told you so. The audience for his scripted remarks last night was less people watching in primetime and more of a gamble that the things he was talking about will come true. This is a dangerous concert. And that's a dangerous concertation of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people. The dangerous consequences.

If their abuse of power is left unchecked. Four more Trump nominees we questioned at the Senate this morning. Joining Pam Bondi, who's in line for Attorney General, is there for day two of her confirmation hearing at the Senate. A sheriff's deputy is being mourned in Brazoria County, Texas, where a gunman shot Jesus Jesse Vargas, then fled. Hours later, Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz says they found him hiding in a dumpster. A bad guy shot.

Our deputies returned fire. And he died in that dumpster, the dog being treated for injuries. The winds are calmer around Los Angeles today in the battle against wildfires that have burned down thousands of homes and building at least 25 people killed. America's listening to Fox News. I'm Ben Domenech, Fox News contributor, editor-at-large of The Spectator, and editor of the Transom.com daily newsletter. I'm inviting you to join in-depth conversations every week on the Ben Domenech podcast. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcast.com.

We mentioned the confirmation hearings. Here's more on the four who will join Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi at the Senate. Today's schedule of confirmation hearings before Congress gets started with a session for Lee Zeldin, who has been nominated by the president-elect to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

The former New York congressman will appear before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessant, is expected to take questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee. Bessant, a billionaire money manager from South Carolina, served as one of Trump's central economic advisors during the campaign. Other hearings are scheduled for Interior Department nominee Doug Burgum and Scott Turner, Trump's pick to lead housing and urban development. Tanya J. Powers, Fox News.

Fox News. Days before President-elect Trump returns to the White House, 52% of people in a Fox News poll say they approve of how the transition's been going. 59% support the Trump plan to deport illegal immigrants charged with crimes, part of a vow to carry out mass deportations following a record surge of illegal border crossings. Some American families who've lost loved ones...

They're going to lose some money, too. As the government claws back payments they shouldn't have gotten. One U.S. Treasury official calls it the tip of the iceberg. More than $31 million reclaimed as part of a five-month pilot program using a Social Security Administration database of death records. Congress authorizing the effort in 2021 by giving the Treasury Department access to the so-called full death master file for three years from December 2023 through 2026.

Treasury projects it'll recover a total of more than $215 million improperly sent to dead people. The incoming Trump administration is putting an emphasis on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government, but it's not known yet if they'll try to make the Treasury's temporary death file database access permanent. Lisa Brady, Fox News. On Wall Street today after a massive rally, stock futures are mixed. Up for the Nasdaq, but down for the Dow. I'm Dave Anthony, and this is Fox News.