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It's about to get better. Coming up on tonight's show, we got James Woods, maybe the finest actor in the country, speaking out about what's happening in California and a certain candidate and so much more. You want to make sense of what's happening on the off-year elections and see what it means for the midterm elections for both parties. And Congressman Wesley Hunt wants to be the next senator from Texas. Can he beat Cornyn?
And what's the deal with what's going on in Minneapolis as well as Venezuela? We'll ask the Congressman about that. But first, it's time for the most impactful monologue in America. Dare I say the fastest. I know everyone's wrapped up right now in the midterms, but before we know it, it'll be presidential race in 28.
And the field is wide open on both sides.
Now, to a degree, every candidate will be untested, right? But judge by their past experience to project what kind of president they would be should they win.
Now, history used to give us losers. Leaders whose qualifications spoke for themselves. For example, Dwight Eisenhower, a rookie politician, yes, but no one questioned his ability. To lead, right? The guy won World War II.
He planned and supervised the most consequential military campaigns of that legendary battle, LBJ. You might not have voted for him, didn't like his stand on Vietnam, whatever. But he held some important jobs, roles in government, before he got the job. I mean, for example, he was a congressman, he was a powerful senator, and of course, vice president. Case in point, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood store.
Union president, two-term governor of California, ran and lost once for the nomination. He was perceived by everyone to be ready, even if you didn't vote for him. And then case in point, George W. Bush, successful oilman, Texas Rangers owner, popular two-term governor of Texas, he was perceived to be ready for that presidential leap. Won twice.
Even Barack Obama, yeah, a short Senate career, but even his naysayers could not deny the raw talent, even though he was really young and still is. And then there's President Trump. He had a 40-year business career, a TV star, a vision for the nation. He might not have gotten your vote, maybe he did, but you knew he would not be overwhelmed by the office. That is why I can't wrap my head around how Gavin Newsom is suddenly the frontrunner to be the nominee on the Democratic side for President of the United States in 28.
Look at this, look at these headlines. New York Times too. In fact, despite years of negative stats, Newsom's numbers for popularity are going up in California. His favorability rising from 46 to 56 in November. Why?
The only thing he has done in the last six months is, let me see, attack Donald Trump. How does that help the people of California? I mean, his track record's abysmal. You know, people are leaving the state in droves. And it's a beautiful state.
I'm talking about hundreds of thousands. Homelessness that he promised to solve boomed under his reign.
Now, the engine of global entertainment, Hollywood, practically stalled out on his watch. Many they're making moves not only outside his state, they're actually leaving the country. And speaking of the country, the cost of living in his state is the highest in the nation. Highest, crime rates spiking, often linked to Propositions 47 and 57, which he supported. And his green obsession destroyed the state's oil industry, closing all but a handful of refineries.
Now they've got the most expensive oil in the country, and they've got to get it from Iraq, setting gas prices sky high. If you want to dig deeper, his time as mayor of San Francisco was nothing to brag about. It was riddled with high-profile personal scandals, like an affair. He talks about that, and an admission of a drinking problem. Despite all of this, Newsom got the chance that many don't, an opportunity as devastating as it was to erase years of ineptness and bad policies.
When the palisades were burning to the ground, when there wasn't enough water, there weren't enough firefighters. It's less than a year ago. What did he do? Nothing. He pretended like he wasn't responsible.
This is an issue, and by the way, persists in California because of the acuity of the new realities. Hot's getting hotter, dry's getting drier, wet's getting wetter. What the hell does that mean? His management was all-encompassing of his entire political career. All talk, no action.
You would think that resume with the back of that baseball card, he'd be automatically disqualified from being President of the United States. Instead, somehow, he's an automatic qualifier. Politics, ladies and gentlemen. or upside down. This country used to reward proven ability, competence, results.
Now, a bad record could propel you to becoming a rising TV star if you look the part.
Now, I'm not saying he'll get the nomination. Early leaders often fade. Just ask Howard Dean. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House?
Yeah, by the way, he lost. But with a state the size of the small country, his record should be a red flag, not a golden ticket. Let's bring an actor, maybe the best in the country, James Woods. He's experiencing the consequences of those California fires personally. His house may have survived, but you know who didn't?
It was not able to get his neighborhood back.
So let's bring in James Woods now. James, great to see you. Did I overstate Gavin Newsom's competition? Thank you, Brian. Thank you, sir.
Did I overstate Gavin Newsom's competence or understate it?
Well, I I think you have to you have to frame it in the situation that the Democratic Party finds itself in these days. They have no leader. I mean, Kamala Harris, AOC, all these people, I hate to use the expression because it's used so often, but they're a clown show. And nature aboard is a vacuum.
So, as what happened with Howard Dean, this slick grifter, Gavin Newsom, whose record is atrocious, but people don't pay a lot of attention to the fact. He's filling in the slot, basically. But as fruit farmers always say, early ripe or early rotten. And this guy will make a lot of noise right now, and his polls will go up. And we've seen the polls.
Donald Trump had an 8% chance of winning in 2016 and wiped the floor with Hillary Clinton, who was a shoe-win. We know what it's going to be like. Look, you cannot. look at the state of California. A perfect example, one of the most beautiful cities in the history of this nation, San Francisco.
Had to have the notorious poop map so that tourists would not find themselves wading through human waste and used heroin needles as they walked the streets of this once beautiful city because this man couldn't find a way to stop that from happening unless a foreign leader was coming. A foreign leader was coming and said, Well, we've got to clean it up for our guests. You always have to clean it up for our guests. But our citizens, our taxpaying, hardworking citizens, look, If Donald Trump didn't exist and there were no illegal aliens, criminals voting, dead people voting and so on, the Democratic Party would have about a 5% chance of putting anybody in power anywhere except the bluest of the blue states and cities. That's a fact.
Hey, James, not only does he believe he can win, he put out a book to show the humble side. Listen to a little bit of it, but as he brings it to life to promote it, watch. A lot of people look at me, the stark white shirt, the blue suit, and yeah, the gelled hair, and they think, oh, I know this guy. I know this guy better than I'd ever want to know him. I get it.
This is a story of a kid who always felt like he wasn't quite enough. This is a truly vulnerable book. I hope that whatever your opinions of me are, the openness, the honesty I felt in writing this and living it will resonate. Really? Do you feel it is is he beginning to win you over?
As my beloved grandmother used to say, between a thief and a liar, I'll take a thief because you can catch a thief, but you just can't catch a liar. This guy. is the most lying grifter hypocrite. Ever In American politics. And he has just a slick image to prove it.
He's just a snake-eye salesman. And you know, the bottom line is. I think Elon Musk When people love him and hate him, But one thing I love about this guy, and I love Elon Musk, because one of the things that he did. I was in Twitter jail when it was run during the dark days of Dorsey, when the President of the United States was actually censored from speaking during a presidential election, former President of the United States at that time, during a presidential election when the Hunter Biden laptop was buried from view. And he spent his money that he has earned all his life through his genius and expertise.
to free Twitter and make X A World Forum of Free Speech. But you know There are problems with bots and all that stuff, and it's being cleaned up. But I have to say, just having the possibility to research what Gavin Newsom has said. And done, and we all know it, you know, screwing his campaign manager's wife, and you know, all the, you know, admitting he has a problem drinking, all of the horrible things this man has done to the state, blaming the fire management failure on climate change, that boogeyman that has worked forever. You know, look, it's really simple.
Our house did survive. And I like to say, by the grace of God, and because we followed fire department guidelines, we cleared the brush on our hillside. We terraced our hillside with fire-resistant railroad ties. The house next to us didn't do it, burned down. The house on the other side of the house, on the other side, every house down the street didn't cut their brush, didn't cut their brush, didn't cut them, burned down.
Every day. That Sarah and I, my wife, my beloved wife, would drive past this area just about 12 houses from where we live. On the hillside, there was brush. And I said to Sarah, Well, that's where the fire is going to start. And she said, I know.
I said, No, but it's really serious, Sarah. They haven't cleared that brush since the 1978 fire because that little piece of land there is controlled by the state. And they're protecting a plant that is literally a weed. And that's where the fire started in our neighborhood, which was the most egregious part of the fire. And Jane, tell me why?
Because they didn't clear the brush. And how many times did President Trump say that? They had fires during his first term, came out, and they just dismissed it. And again, he has a problem taking any input from President Trump. But look what Ezra Klein of the New York Times said, and this got to get you really crazy.
He says Newsom has become, without a doubt, one of the Democratic Party leaders at a time when the party is desperately looking for leadership. And as a Californian, someone who has watched and covered Newsom for a long time, he has surprised me. He's experimenting, trying something new. He has a feel for the moment, not just in politics, but also in how attention, how in how you get attention. How it all now works.
Does it scare you that he looks the part changing? Yeah. Let me tell you, Brian, you know, this guy has a feel for other people's wives and other people's money, okay? If you took this guy and shook him upside down, you'll say, oh, that's where most of the fire relief money went. Oh, I get it.
You know, that's where the train to know where money went. That's where the homeless billions of dollars of graft went. You know, except, of course, for the $2.5 million they gave to the first partner when she wasn't with Harvey and was with him. Then she was, of course, the first partner.
Sorry, I can't resist.
Sorry. You did. You do.
Now I know this guy is just a nightmare. If you're a Californian and you've lived through it, if you're a tax-paying, hard-working California citizen, you love Gavin Newsom. If you're one of the 20 million military-age invaders that came across the border under Joe Biden, who was saying through his mouthpiece, Majorca, that the border is secure when this army was coming through, then, you know, or you're a criminal, or you're a welfare queen, and you're going to love. Gavin Newsom. If you're a dead person and you want to vote, then you're going to love Gavin Newsom.
Let's hope that. But if you're a hard-working, tax-paying citizen, you are not going to want this guy. If anybody had any doubt that James Woods handles his own Twitter feed, The doubt is removed because you do sound. That's why you got millions of followers, James. By the way, nobody's a better actor than you in this country, still at the top of your game.
We really appreciate you joining us today to kick off the show. Thank you. Brian, you're the greatest. Thank you so much. You know anything about Miami, you know it's heavily Hispanic, heavily Latino.
Latinos have absolutely gone up and said, you know what, I don't like what Donald Trump is doing. I mean, just look at Donald Trump's net approval among Latinos. In February, it was minus two points. Not too hot to trot, but not that bad either. Look at where it is now, minus 38 points.
That is a shift of 36 points in the wrong direction. What you see is these huge shifts in these heavily Hispanic neighborhoods of Miami against the Republican nominee. Just a snapshot from one city, very unique local election. But Miami just elected its first Democratic mayor in nearly three decades. But Republicans caution against reading too much into a low turnout, nonpartisan race in a city where GOP voters have overwhelmingly backed President Trump at the national level, at least up until recently.
Still, the result is drawing attention as the administration presses forward with tougher immigration enforcement. Are these related at all? How messaging is landing with some Hispanic voters? I'm wondering, even as Republicans continue to post strong numbers nationally.
So, to break all this down, to talk about what the big picture is, as well as what the midterms might look at, judging by how the off-years and special elections have gone, is your thoughts about the Miami election and some of these off-year elections. What are you reading into this? Oh, good to see you, Brian. I'm not reading much into Miami. The off-year elections have gone very well for Democrats, but the Miami election is a very small electorate.
I mean, we're under 40,000 votes there. Congratulations to Eileen Higgins. She's the first woman ever to be the mayor of Miami, and she'd been on the county commission there for eight years and is a very fine candidate and a solid campaigner, and everybody knows her. But I had lunch on Friday in downtown D.C. with a Miami savant who is up from down south for the week.
And they had literally nothing about her. They knew nothing about her, because it's such a small dot of population.
So correlation is not causation. It is true that the president's poll numbers with the Latino community are down. He's got to improve those because of cost of living next year. But I don't want to put it on the market. I don't want to put it on migration.
Okay, you don't. You don't think it's the overall cost of living. Do you th when people say it's over-aggressiveness on illegal immigrants, you say there's nothing to that? I don't believe that you can draw a straight line from being aggressive on migration to the negative number. I do think you can say that prices drive everybody's numbers down, and the Biden inflation is enduring, and it's indeed gone up 3% year over year since President Trump won the election.
But gas this week in Texas, $2.55. In Oklahoma, it's $2.35 a gallon. Out in California, it's $4.50 a gallon, and that's the median. It's higher than $5 a gallon. A lot of Latinos, a lot of Hispanics in California, they pay that once a week.
So I think the problem with all of his numbers is the cost of living. It takes a while for the tax cut, middle-class working tax cut to kick in in January. The checks won't show up until April. The Social Security tax cut, the taxes on tips will show up. He's got a lot of time to make those numbers come around.
However, on migration, he gets a lot of bad ink, a lot of bad ink on that. But most people are very glad that the border is closed. Talk to me in the ear. Again, I. I'm pretty optimistic about next year, and I'm not worried about Miami at all.
It's just too small of a data sample to care. And I will talk to you in a year. Susie Wilde said this about the campaign strategy. Even though he's not on the ballot, she essentially wants the chief of staff to put him on the ballot. Listen.
And put him on the ballot because so many of those low-propensity voters are Trump voters. Yes, they are. And we saw a week ago Tuesday what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active.
So I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again. He's certainly a turnout machine.
So the midterms will be very important to us. He'll work very hard to keep the majority. And I think J.D. Vance is going on the road this week, too. Your thoughts about the President acting like he's on the ballot, even possibly having a Republican convention in the summer.
I love it. And by the way, I'm glad that Susie Wiles is out on camera. She's the most powerful woman in the world, I think. I think she actually has got the president's ear on everything. She knows what she's doing.
She's politically very adept.
So when she says the president's going to be on the belt, that means he's going to be on the road doing the rallies, doing the Trump thing. The vice president's very good. They're going to be back on social media. And again, you give this economy another year to kick in with the tax cuts, to kick in with the interest rate cuts that are coming out of the Fed far too slowly. Economic growth will catch up.
That's why it was so important that reconciliation pass in the summer so that it had a full year to work into the economy.
So the retirements aren't where you would be if you saw Republicans running for the exits or a few Republicans who are retiring. The Senate map looks very good for the Republicans.
So I know Democrats want us to panic, but they got to worry about Jasmine Crockett being their leading face going into 2026, as the president said this week. She's their new face, and that's great. Great.
So I'm just not that worried about 2026 yet, Brian. I am glad to hear, though, that the President and the Vice President will be out on the road very, very often, very, very soon. And I hate to tell you, I watched the whole thing. He loves it. I guess, and not if he has to do it every day, but he loves going out there with the people.
The most important thing about those rallies is when the guy came up and talked about overtime, no tax on overtime, and the woman came up and talked about as a waitress, how she's not going to pay taxes on that. Real life stories behind the numbers. You, Ewitt, thanks so much. Oh, good to see you, Brian. Merry Christmas.
Back at you and your family.
Meanwhile, coming up, the latest on Minnesota's massive Somali fraud scandal. What did Walls and Omar really know? But first, division over the Venezuelan boat strikes is escalating. Congressman Wesley Hunt is here with what we all should think about it. Also, I want to meet you in person, February 14th, Fort Myers.
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Okay, no huh. And good evening, I'm Trace Gallagher in Los Angeles. We have breaking news coming into the Fox News channel. You are looking live right there at Los Angeles. This is actually the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, where authorities are telling us a couple of hours ago they went into a home that is owned by the actor, producer, director, and political activist Rob Reiner.
And inside that home, they found two dead bodies. One is a male, 78 years old. The other is a female, they tell us around 68 years old. Rob Reiner, we can tell you, there has been no identification, but Rob Reiner is 78 years old. His wife, Michelle Singer-Reiner, is around 68 years old.
But again, the police have not given us any kind of identification. It is important to note that in the two hours that they have been in the house, that they found the bodies, there has been no word from. From anybody in the Reiner family at all. We know that robbery, homicide for Los Angeles police were the first ones on scene. There were investigators also on scene, but again, the police have not given us any type of information, except for the fact that they found two dead bodies in there.
There has been no identification at all. I want to bring in Bill Daly, a former FBI. And Bill, you've seen a lot of these types of investigations. When you see this on its face, you know the home is owned by Rob Reiner in Brentwood, which is a neighborhood in Los Angeles. What do you take away?
This apparently, it certainly appears to be some type of investigation, homicide, something nefarious. What's your takeaway here? Yes, Trace. It appears that there's something untoward going on here. Apparently, there were some reports that firefighters were called to the home around three point thirty p.m.
local time. To provide medical assistance. But it's unclear as to who may have called or who may have summoned the authorities to the address. And that, therefore, kind of opened up this further what appears to be an investigation going on. You know, it is certainly a tragic weekend here in the U.S.
between what's happened up at Providence and Brown University, and now hearing this type of news. But I could tell you is that knowing how the Los Angeles Police Department works, and particularly the homicide division, they're certainly very skilled and adept at these types of investigations, and we'll quickly kind of get to And if you circumstances that may have caused the deaths. And I think we've also seen traces that there's a lot of technology out there today. to be able to track movements of people. And that was certainly used in this this past weekend in the Brown University, where they used real time cell data to be able to see movements in and around a location.
So perhaps as they start to look through this, we hopefully will get some answers real soon. And on that point, Bill, it's important to know that this is, those who know Los Angeles know that Brentwood is a very upscale neighborhood in Los Angeles. Those who are familiar with the fires last January would know that Pacific Palisades was devastated. Brentwood is right next to Pacific Palisades, and there were some homes in Brentwood that also got damaged.
So, when you talk about the investigation, we would assume the home that is owned by Rob Reiner would be filled with all types of different mechanisms like cameras and so on and so forth, and have pretty extreme security there. I'm wondering if you find it unusual, Bill Daly, that we have not heard the police talk about any suspects so far. Very quickly, if you can. Yeah, and I think Trace, falling into what you just said is that typically homes like this, and I've seen a number of these prestigious homes, that they do have close-circuit camera systems themselves, they have alarm systems, they have panic buttons, they have a variety of things that could potentially come into play and help detectives understand the timing and perhaps who else was in the residence at the time, whether this person is the one who may have summoned them and called and perhaps someone departed, or were they still there when the police arrived? We're still details to follow.
A lot of questions in this. We can tell you if you just joined us, there have been two dead bodies found: a 78-year-old male, a 68-year-old female, in a home that is owned by the actor-director, a political activist Rob Reiner. We will keep you up to speed on the breaking news coming out of Los Angeles. I'm Trace Gallagher, live in Los Angeles. Uh So tonight, Washington is on edge over President Trump's boldest move against Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, seizing one of the largest oil tankers ever captured, $80 million worth of oil.
And this may just be the beginning, as the U.S. is reportedly preparing to grab more. But even a CNN analyst is shrugging this whole thing off, says the move is routinely expected. We've been seizing Iranian oil tankers in the past. We also, according to the law that I've read, that oil is up for forfeiture.
So we could keep that. We've kept Iranian oil in the past.
So I actually think that this is less controversial in terms of law and sanctions and what has been disputed or not disputed. I think this is actually a pretty check the box case. Un CNN. Unbelievable, right? This comes after more than 22 strikes targeting suspected Venezuelan drug boats, killing just about 80.
So, what should our next move be? And what do we want the outcome to be? Let's be joined right now by Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt. He's vying for the Republican Senate nomination. He's a West Point graduate, spent eight years in the Army as an Apache helicopter pilot, 55 combat missions in Iraq, with two additional deployments in Saudi Arabia.
He understands the magnitude of international conflict. Congressman, welcome your thoughts about the next step with Venezuela.
Well, first of all, I love what President Trump is doing. I love what Marco Rubio is doing. I love what our Secretary of War is doing. And they are fulfilling their oath of keeping Americans safe. And what I really find hilarious is watching the left and Democrats sit here and defend narco-terrorists and these people that have killed Americans to the tune of 8 to 10 million that we could even count or know of.
Enough fentanyl has poured into this country to kill every single American five times. And so the fact that we had a former president that did absolutely nothing about it, and now we're seeing this administration take kinetic action to keep Americans safe is exactly what I offer my services for in this country. This is exactly what I fought for. And again, the next steps for this, I believe the president is a president that wants more peace. He doesn't want these long-standing quagmires with all these other countries.
All these endless wars. And so, again, he's being strategic right now. And how do we choke these people off by hampering their ability to fund these terrorist organizations, to fund these narco-terrorists? And at the end of the day, Venezuela is a country that's attached to a gas station. If you cut off their gas supply, then they can't kill Americans.
It is genius. And we're able to do this without putting boots on the ground and having a sustained operation that runs for generation to generation.
So, again, let's see this playbook play out. But now that we put this kind of pressure on them economically, I can assure you they're going to bend at some point because we have a lot of runway and they do not. And the answer is: you have a government ready to go. She just, this very courageous leader won an election and just found a way into Norway to accept a Nobel Peace Prize. And she says she has a plan ready to go.
Should he go?
Now, does the President feel the pressure to get him out by Christmas? Because he basically said his days are numbered. You know, the way President Trump operates is he's not a person that feels very much pressure. He's the guy that puts pressure on his opposition.
So it's going to be up to them what is going to be their pain threshold. How much pain do they want to feel? And the president is very good at finding these pressure points to ensure he gets the outcome that he wants and gets the outcome that's in the best interest of Americans. And so, again, I don't want to put a date on it. That's up to the president.
But what I will say is this: whenever you're one of these narco-terrorists and you're in this boat and you're looking up, you might eat a missile for lunch. I can guarantee you that's going to stop what you're doing and rethink how you are going to arbitrarily murder and kill Americans. And we have an administration that's going to stop you. Right. I want to get your opinion on this too, because this is a growing scandal.
The Treasury Department now investigating Minnesota's massive Somali fraud scandal. Donald Trump brought this to the attention like this is something brand new. This is not brand new, and it's been being worked on, but he made it white hot. And very dangerous. When I speak up, It brings Donald Trump's petty vindictiveness to Minnesota, and this is all about.
Coming and attacking us. He didn't know anything about this. He doesn't know how a Medicaid program works. The only thing he knows about it is he's going to double the cost over the next week. This clown is blaming Trump for a massive scandal when this state not only didn't do anything about it, they cracked down on the whistleblowers.
Congressman, this is big. This is out of the world, the words of a true beta. At the end of the day, if you're going to blame President Trump for everything, even the ills of your own state and the mismanagement of those medical funds, let's be honest here. This is your fault. And this is Ilan Omar's fault.
This is the federal government. It's also the state government, family Minnesota. And he sat there and really admitted it. And the idea that they're going to break Trump in this, and President Trump has been the president for about 10 months now, is pretty ridiculous. This has been going on far before President Trump even got into office.
But keep in mind, Brian, this is their only playbook. They are still on the Blame Trump playbook. And what they are still forgetting is that just one year ago, we won the House, we won the Senate, he won the presidency overwhelmingly, and they are still reeling as to how they are going to move forward. Again, this ship is rudderless. They have no leadership, and the only thing that they could do is blame Trump even for their ills and for their own missteps.
And just for people at home to understand, 86 people charged, 90% are Somalis, and it's growing. The types. Of program they abused, feeding our future for the people who are homeless and indigent, housing stability service programs for the poor, and autism programs for children. That's what they built, and the tune of at least a billion dollars. This is going to be huge.
Treasury is all over it. Lastly, your career move. You want to get the Republican nomination to ultimately be the next senator, Republican senator from Texas. John Cornyn has that seat. Ken Paxton's going for that seat.
Why does Congressman Wesley Hunt want that seat?
Well, because again, it's time for a new stage of leadership here in Texas. The United States Senate is not a retirement community, and John Cornyn has been serving in that seat for 24 years. By the time he would finish up this last term, should he win, he'd be in his 80s, and it's just time for people to move on. Look, we need a true conservative here in Texas, somebody that stood with President Trump on day one. I was the first person in the country to endorse President Trump.
I am a young freedom fighter, somebody that served this country in line of combat. This is exactly what we need moving forward, and I'm giving my best years of my life to do that. I'm in my early 40s, so I can continue the Trump agenda even after he is gone. This is the whole point of this, brother. It's time for change, and time for somebody in Texas that can win the primary, win the general.
It won't cost us a dime. And guess what? We now have Jasmine Crockett in the race. And I would love, love to see that matchup. You think you could win?
Okay. Brian, not only can I win, sir, I will win. Congressman, thanks so much for your service, continuing to serve in Congress. Best of luck with the next step in your career and have a great holiday. God bless you.
Have a Merry Christmas, brother. Thank you. No move.
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With the DJ spinning that country's song, come on, come on, come on. This is a Fox News Alert. I'm Marianne Rafferty live in Los Angeles Brown University in morning tonight after a mass shooting on campus. Hundreds gathering in Providence, Rhode Island to remember the two people killed yesterday afternoon in an engineering building during final exams. Nine others were injured.
Police arrested a person of interest early this morning and say they're not searching for anyone else at this time. The FBI is saying geolocation services helped them arrest the man about 20 miles from the university. He's not being identified. Police also recovered two handguns. Investigators say the shooter fired more than 40 rounds.
All classes and final exams at Brown have been postponed. Flags in Rhode Island are at half staff. President Trump is offering his condolences to the victims. We are expecting a press conference regarding this shooting shortly. I'm Mary Ann Rafferty, now back to One Nation.
Media moments that matter. Yup, it's time for our favorite segment. This week I gave my TV guide to subscription, really, and my VCR, all the cords, and my tape stock to the host of Fox News Saturday Night, Jimmy Failer. Jimmy, how about it? I'm going to need you left in the green room, right?
I left it in the green room. You know what else I left? What? A bill for electricity. Do you know how inefficient a VCR is in this day and age?
Don't question the magic behind it. I mean, it worked, but Jenny's gone. I'm back on the market, apparently. We got like an $800 electric bill because it killed me. Are you ready to do this?
I asked you for three segments. Were you able to get it off your tape? No, no, I got three. While Jenny was packing the U-Haul, I managed to get three and write them down. Are you ready for the first one?
So the Golden Globes nominated pretty much every woke liberal podcast in the world. First ever podcast category. They've never had a category before, but they didn't go out. And you'd think in the inaugural address, you'd go with the people who put them on the map. Look at her.
Call her daddy. All right. Which is the one common. Alex Cooper, yeah. Alex Cooper, Mel Robbins.
Up first, armchair expert with Dak Shepard. Good hang with Amy Pohler. I'm not disparaging them. I'm just telling you, BK, if you had the major league all-star game this summer and you only brought out Anthony Volpe from the Yankees, people might be like, Is this really the all-star game? 1-800 Aaron Judge.
He's out there. I mean, there's not one conservative on this. And Joe Rogan, who is by far, he was the first, and he's right now the most popular. Of course.
Nowhere to be found. And whenever they run that scam with, we didn't want to do anything politically charged. They just did it out in Portland last week with the Christmas tree lighting. They're like, we consider Christmas politically charged.
So let's bring in the free Palestine lady to leave a chance. Nobody believes you guys.
Well, listen, I think it's a great category. You and I have podcasts. We were not nominated, but we are not surprised as a people. Amen. The good news for me is I dress like a waiter, so I'll probably get in.
Next story, here we go. Kentucky Democrat, this is so embarrassing.
Okay, this is Sarah Stalker. Right. I believe we probably have a Sotch. She says she feels bad about being a white female while defending DEI. Watch this.
Embarrassing. I'm gonna be honest, I don't feel good about being white every day. For a lot of reasons. Because it's a point of privilege. That I get to move through the world in a way that so many of my other colleagues and friends and family members in of the community don't get the privilege to do.
And I'm just a female, but just a woman, just a white woman. Yeah. If I was a white man, I would be functioning from a point of even greater privilege. I think we're missing an opportunity when kids. Yeah.
When kids have a moment to reflect about how the color of their skin. does and does not allow them to move through the world. What did we just watch? Do you believe this? I mean, it was almost unbelievable.
You almost don't have to say anything after. It's such performative stupidity. And what she also doesn't get is we've moved past it. Nobody cares. Like, I know that was a thing in, like, 2020, check your privilege.
But now she's invoking gender and the wokeism. Nobody wants to hear a country song called Stand By Your Them.
Okay? Be a man, be a woman, move on. But scary thing is, that's an educational meeting. It's a board of education meeting, and she wants kids to learn to apologize for their whiteness. Embarrassing.
The only upside for her is she's now the leading nominee at the podcast awards at the Government State. All she needs is a contract. All right, well, here's my favorite whatever. We really did save the best for last.
So Seattle has its World Cup pride match. It wasn't enough that they were hosting the World Cup. They wanted a pride match. What could go wrong? What could go wrong?
Two words for you. Egypt and Iran. Two players. Their view on gays is positive or negative. If you have a gay marriage in Egypt, they don't play here comes the bride.
They play here comes the cop. That's a big problem for you.
So, this is unbelievable.
So, I guess the whole city dresses in pride, even people that aren't gay, to salute it. But these are two, these ironically, are two cultures that don't do it. I was reading the Daily Mail, and they say the Egyptians and Iranians have asked Seattle to be a little less gay during this year's celebration. I mean, could they adhere to this? Can you be a little less gay?
It really is like the worst placement ever. Imagine you were having an AA meeting in Mardi Gras. These things just don't work, man. It was a random draw, proven point. No one could say this game is fixed.
Nope. All right, it's going to be exciting. The game within the game. Jimmy, I cannot wait to watch next Saturday night with you because last show was so great. I want to see if you can top it.
They're going to get there. All right, and also check Jimmy out. Jimmy's on tour at foxacrossamerica.com. Look at those dates. It's going to be fun.
You don't want to miss any of them. See all of them.
Meanwhile, straight ahead. Thanks, Jim. You're the best.
Meanwhile, Americans' pockets are getting screwed. Squeezed, but Trump has a fix that if the administration's own Joe Lavonia is going to be here talking about things in the Treasury, your Treasury. Love me, mama, like a wagon. All right, it's that time of year again where Americans are seeing their dollar signs, high prices on necessities in some cases, utility bills going higher in some cases. It's affecting a lot of families across the country, so much so that Trump's handling of the economy has fallen to its lowest numbers in the polls since he became president the second time.
He said 31% of adults approving of the economy. It's down nine since March. But the administration had said from the beginning they're going to fix this mess that they inherited, and Trump isn't taking his foot off the gas. We were a dead country one year ago. We were dead as a doornail.
We were going down the tubes. And now, with the hottest country anywhere in the world, there's nobody close, the Democrats go out. Prices are too high. Yeah, they're too high because they caused them to be too high. But now they're coming down.
And I have no higher priority than making America affordable again. That's what we're going to do. And again, they caused the high prices and we're bringing them down.
So how exactly is the President going to do it? Let's ask a guy who has an extremely important job. He is at the Treasury Department where he's the counselor to the Secretary of Treasury, and that's Scott Besson. Joe Lavorna, welcome, Joe. Appreciate you being with us today.
Thank you. So what's the game plan to getting those poll numbers up in terms of dollars and cents? What can we expect in 26 that should give Republicans optimism?
Well, to answer your question, what's the administration doing, Brian? President Trump has pursued an abundant energy policy where he's allowed energy companies to produce energy. And what that's done is it's lowered gasoline prices nationally to under $3 a gallon, which is a four and a half year low. That puts money in people's pockets. And then, of course, all the illegal immigrants, the millions of people who have left, what that's done is it's freed up shelter.
Shelter costs now are coming down quite dramatically. There's a BLS series that shows these rents across the country are falling at an 8-9 percent annual rate.
So you've got abundant energy, you've got falling rents. That will push inflation lower. And the President's right. This inflation has been embedded because of four years of very pro-inflation, anti-living standards policy. That's reversing.
And then, of course, Brian, as you know, with the Working Class Families Act, Tax cut that the President passed in record time in July, the administration is doing things to lift wages. They are lifting wages by encouraging companies to invest, which raises productivity, encourages companies to build through the full expensing of factory structures. And last but not least, the no-tax on tips and overtime, that is going to raise after-tax wages.
So the administration, led by President Trump's efforts, is really doing everything to boost worker pay. And when do you think we're going to see it and feel it? First quarter, second quarter? Because I understand when the tax returns come back, people should be kind of happy. It looks like there's going to be additional $100 to $150 billion worth of returns.
On average, people getting an extra $1,000 to $2,000 back.
So we would feel that, I assume, if you file early around March, May, right? Yes, that's exactly right. Secretary Besson's highlighted that the refunds are going to be at least $100 billion, and there's going to be more money on top of that people will get when they change their withholding rates. They will feel that in the first quarter. The good news, Brian, is that what we are seeing is the CapEx boom related to President Trump's policies is going to then.
Give us much stronger jobs early in the new year.
So, a combination of the tax policies and employers becoming more upbeat. We are seeing very good consumer spending.
So, that tells me there is confidence in the system. We should start seeing this early, and that inflation rate, as the President mentioned, will come down.
So, Joe, what I was wondering from your perspective, When are we going to see interest rates come down to buy a house? We watched the Fed cut rates and we expected to cut, let's keep your fingers crossed, again the next time they get together.
So when are we going to start seeing the interest rates go down and maybe make it unstick the housing market?
Well, thankfully, because of President Trump's policies, Brian, we've seen interest rates, long-term interest rates, which determine mortgage rates, they have come down from where they were at the beginning of the year. They've come down a lot from where Biden was back in 2024. If you look at the markets, they're saying the Fed should be cutting interest rates. We understand President Trump's frustrations with the Fed because the Fed has been kind of grudgingly cutting rates. Chair Powell even effectively has mentioned as much.
When our policies continue to have a more forceful effect on lowering inflation and raising people's after-tax incomes, you are going to see that affordability and housing pick up. Rates come down next year, housing affordability become much more affordable because, as you know, under President Biden, it was at an all-time low. Right. And gas price is currently at a four and a half year low for everyday people. And we like to see for the truck drivers, we'd love to see diesel come down.
We'll see if we can get that done. Thanks so much, Joe. Always appreciate your insight. A lot of pressure on your shoulders leading up to the midterms. You welcome it.
Joe Lavornia, thanks so much. You got it.
Meanwhile, now to your sneak peek of the week. How about starting here? Former special counsel Jack Smith to sit for a deposition about his investigation into President Trump. Got to find out some details why they needed to tap everyone's lines and look into their personal stuff. Plus, Fulton County DA, Fonnie Willis, also set to testify about her prosecution of Trump.
I don't know if you heard a little bit of controversy with that. And then you got two hearings that might catch your attention. One, of course, is the deadly consequences of President Biden's Afghan parolee program. Sadly, we saw that right in Washington, D.C. And the other is about AI and examining the future of cybersecurity.
It matters a lot.
Meanwhile, don't forget, round one of the college football playoffs. We'll see how that goes. Remember, Notre Dame not in it. Don't forget, follow me on social media. I got Rumble, Instagram, X, and Facebook, all rolling.
Culper Club, exclusive, where I'm really on locals. You can find out there. More One Nation in just a moment. Don't move.
And a little bit of chicken dry. Come here. On Friday night, a pair of teens that fit just right. And Before we go, this ESPN analyst Troy Aikman is done with the NCAA's NIL system. The former Dallas Cowboy quarterback, the Hall of Famer, revealing that he once sent money to an athlete that transferred from the school at UCLA where he went.
Just one year later. Never a thank you. Watch. There's got to be some accountability and responsibility on their behalf. To have to stick with a program.
I gave money to a kid, I won't mention who. I've done it one time. At UCLA? Never met the young man. He was there a year.
He left after the year. Uh I wrote a sizable check. And he went to another school. Uh, I didn't even get so much as a thank you note, you know, so. It's one of those deals to where I'm done with NIL.
Can you believe this? What kind of player perspective would blow off a Hall of Fame quarterback who went to that school, not even called to thank him, and Let alone meet him. By the way, the best broadcaster, best color guy in the entire NFL.
So that just to me is mind-boggling, but it's not surprising. Think about this: the coaching carousel, there's absolutely no loyalty between what's going on with this playoff and the lack of system around it. I call on one thing I've never said before: actually, governmental regulation. Let Joe Manchin and Nick Sabin come together, college teammates, and put together a structure. Guess who else wants it?
College football. The mercenary coaches, the mercenary players. Yes, the ratings are high, but not for long. It's essentially minor league pro football. That's it for us tonight.
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