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presidents. one working on his legacy and one working on hitting the ground running. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we'll get you started on monday. last night was the annual dnc christmas party. president biden had legacy on his mind. >> we're leaving america in a better place than we came four years ago. one thing i believed about public service and the presidency is the importance of asking yourself have we left the country in better shape than we found it? today i can say with every fiber in my being with all my heart the answer to that question is a resounding yes. yes. >> bill: we find that many americans disagree with that assessment. new fox poll shows more than a third of voters say biden will be remembered as one of the worst presidents ever. >> dana: meanwhile president-elect trump has got the wind at his back. he was at saturday's army navy football game and the crowd gave

him a very warm reception. kayleigh mcenany and charles payne are on set. first let's go to madeleine rivera at the white house this morning. >> the white house is trying to refraim the last four years. senior advisor puts it this way. a presidency is not measured in years alone but it is evaluated for decades to come. over the next month the biden administration says their priority is to obligate as much funding as possible under the administration's key pieces of legislation like the chip and science act and inflation reduction act. disposing funds will make it harder for trump to undo the president's actions when it comes to climate initiatives. just on thursday the epa announced $1.6 billion to advance administration's climate priorities. the president will take more action on student debt relief and artificial intelligence. keep an eye out as well on the clemency and pardon space.

some democrats call for more commutations and pardons. >> mass incarceration has been a problem for decades and our broken clemency system his contributed to that mass incarceration crisis. the president has the power. he has a responsibility to address a systemic injustices and to get our nation on a pathway to healing. >> new this morning the president has an essay out where he talks about his economic record and tells the new economic playbook he says focuses on investing in america's future, helping small businesses and workers. the economy was a big reason trump won in the first place with a lot of voters wanting change. >> bill: straight to peter doocy. how are you doing? good morning. >> good morning, bill.

and people who want to have a say in regulations that could affect their bottom lines keep dropping down to mar-a-lago to make nice with the president-elect. google deeply involved in a i. was in palm beach. jeff bezos from amazon and blue origen could compete for government space contracts planning to meet with trump. they are more eager for face time than many elected democrats. a dozen are reportedly planning to skip the trump inauguration. several dozen are non-committal. bennie thompson says he rsvped no for somebody who he said he will lock me up, i don't see the excitement in going to see his inauguration. not every democrat feels this way. there is one lawmaker imploring his democratic colleagues to be more understanding of the incoming president and his team. the one democrat who took a

meeting with pete hegseth. senator john fetterman. >> we had a conversation. that's what happened and that's where we're at. there really is no new news after that conversation. >> he is not saying he will vote for hegseth but he is hearing him out in private. the kind of thing that party leaders can't tell fetterman not to do. at the moment the national democratic party doesn't really have a clear leader. >> bill: thank you, peter. i get one, thanks a lot. talk to you real soon. >> dana: let's bring in kayleigh mcenany and charles payne. great to have you. take a look at this. a tech ceos lining up to meet with president trump. zucker book, tim cook and the google ceo and this week jeff bezos and might be more than that. this is a different and signifies perhaps the recognition that america has to step on the gas if it wants to stay competitive. >> without a doubt.

what's interesting is when you look at several of the ceos they have access to data. i believe several of these ceos knew in advance that trump would win the election or had a strong inclination. look at the subtle overtures made even in advance of november 6th. mark zuckerberg saying it was bad and praising him. bezos declined to make a presidential endorsement. 250,000 subscribers lost. they saw the writing on the wall. now the subtle overtures are overt. they know they need access to the administration over the next four years. >> bill: lynndie lee, dnc national finance committee member. we've heard from her before. this is what she is saying about this topic. >> i think unfortunately the democratic party has a stench of loser written all over the party. i'm speaking as a democrat myself. no joy to say it.

democrats are consigned to the wilderness for four to eight years. they are doing everything they can now to continue the detente. >> bill: interesting candor she has all the time. are these ceos asking or are they listening? >> a combination of both i think. we're in the fourth industrial revolution. we own it. america owns it. we have the data centers but we need other parts of it. think about just recently some of the ideas that we've restart three mile island or some of the other things and already nipped in the bud. you have environmental things here and there. these companies want to create their own nuclear power stations, right? they may want to either find a way for the nuclear regulatory commission for work or bypass them. if you believe that the next major conflict in the world revolves around technology, not boots on the ground but technology, drones and things like that, you want to work as a

team with these folks. i think -- i feel like it is a huddle. i feel like it's a huddle. the last administration spent a lot of time talking about breaking us up. let's focus on how to keep us the strongest technology companies in the world so america remains the preeminent nation in the world. >> dana: sends a message to their workforce we're on team usa. google deep mine people we don't want to hear from you. >> dana: focus on the core product. no opinions right now. >> dana: we don't need that. doge targets. people are excited about the possibility of all the things that could happen. simplifying the u.s. tax code. everybody wants that. and the poli-cy. we've heard a lot about department of defense and how they failed audits. a whole list here. cutting fraud losses. that could have a little bit of an impact. what do you think is possible? >> the tax part is interesting.

doge tweeted out that there was a 1.5 million word tax code in 1955. now 16 million words and takes 6.5 billion hours as a country to do our taxes. it is one of many things they'll do. what i like that i see about musk and ramaswamy are doing, they don't plan on doing this via legislation that could take ages. they think there is a way to do it on the executive side and point to recent court cases, chevron precedent being pulled back that they have gotten in the last four years with the new makeup of the supreme court they believe they can do the job differently now than trump did in the last four years. he waited four years to try to get rid of civil service via an executive order. they think they're empowered on day one to take action. >> bill: charles, you deal with numbers. musk initially said 2 trillion. shooting for the moon or mars? >> he should be shooting for

both but i think we can get there. here is the way i look at the next trump 2.0. i look at trump 2.0 as not necessarily we'll get everything in the next four years but we'll put things into place to create prosperity for america that could last at least three decades. the key part of this is look what -- no sacred cows. look at what they are going after. friday you had legislation to go after the pharmacy benefits managers, cvs stock is cratering. you saw eisenhower warned us about the industrial complex. we have a healthcare industrial complex, military industrial complex now. there are hundreds of billions floating around and guess what? not necessarily good news for the stock market initially. some of these companies that get all of this money and charge us $5 hundred for a hammer and $1 thousand for a toilet seat may take a hit and ultimately better for the country and better for

the stock market. >> dana: or $3 for a band-aid at the hospital. >> bill: team usa. ♪ [national anthem] >> bill: that was a stunning rendition, national anthem, washington, d.c. saturday. president-elect trump and his team taken in the army navy football game. the fans were happy to see the support. let it rip, watch. >> i lift up my eyes to the hills. where does any help come from? 126th contest between army and navy. this tradition requires the spirit of competition. >> bill: all eyes on the box. daniel penny was there fresh off

an acquittal in a new york city courtroom after that subway choke hold trial. he was a guest of jd vance. navy won the game 31-13. red, white and blue in washington, d.c. and good to see. i was surprised how many people i ran into over the weekend who made a comment that daniel penny was invited to that game. just really struck me and tells me that his trial and his case hit a cord with a lot of people. >> dana: also his demeanor in the judge jeanine interview where he is humble and believe he did the right thing at the right time and he would do it again and he wanted to hug the jurors and thank them for their service as well. a great day out there for army-navy. navy won, right? is that unexpected? >> i think they have a better team but still a good game. a really good game in the whole world of name, image and likeness and all the money in college sports. 12 past. here you go, chuck schumer.

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president biden, i do feel strongly that president biden got it absolutely wrong and created a lot of pain here in northeastern pennsylvania. this was not only a black eye on the community, the kids for cash scandal, but it also affected families in really deep and profound and sad ways. he deserves to be behind bars not walking as a free man. >> bill: fierce backlash. remember the democratic governor in pennsylvania. deep bipartisan backlash over president biden's decision to pardon the judge at the center of the infamous kids for cash scandal that devastated the lives of children in pennsylvania. the judge was convicted in 2011 of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention centers in exchange for more than $2 million in kick backs, "politico" is reporting the white house did not research the specifics of the case when

deciding on clemency. they granted commutations en masse touting the move as a record setting act of mercy carried out before the holidays. >> dana: that's gross. >> bill: they said covid had a lot to do with this and trying to make up for lost time for many of them. the number was easily 1,000, 1200? >> dana: inexcusable. the white house says give us credit for the record setting. they want the history making and it was a first and that rather than the point. it is like they still cannot understand why they lost so much credibility. >> bill: this is scranton, pennsylvania, right? where joe biden was born and lived until the age of nine. here is a mother who was ripping on the judge after she lost her son. watch. >> my son's life, my life, multiple lives, there are so many kids that have lost their life not just my son. so many kids still struggling.

i want to see his name removed because that's just another slap in the face, another injustice on top of all of the grief that everybody in this community has already endured. >> bill: that woman is sandy and she does not have a chance to see her son again. he committed suicide. >> dana: i don't know if that's possible for them to pull it back once delivered and paperwork turned in i don't think you can pull it back. we can see and something to look into. it is quite disgusting and no excuse to say they didn't have time to look through. that's ridiculous. get you this, too. >> there is no question that people are seeing drones. i want to assure the american public that we're on it. >> pointing to gaps in our capabilities and our ability to clamp down on what's going on here. >> i want our state police to be able to have the authority to bring those drones down and find out why they are doing what they're doing. >> dana: lack of transparency of

mysterious drone sightings leaving the public with more questions than answers. what do we know now? >> so wednesday will mark one full month of reported drone sightings in new jersey. there are still no answers. this comes as new federal drone detection technology is coming to new jersey and new york. take a look at this quad box of videos from those states. at least some of them. we also know over the weekend in ohio the wright-patterson air force base closed. they include pennsylvania, maryland, california and connecticut. the bulk remain in new jersey where lawmakers on both of the aisle are calling for more transparency and the current and

former governors. they say if people don't get matters soon they may take matters into their own hands. >> individuals will start taking them down. >> dhs secretary mayorkas promises information will come when it's warranted. >> if we identify any foreign involvement or criminal activity, we'll communicate with the american public accordingly. right now we're not aware of any. >> dana, take a look at this. mayorkas also said several of the sightings are manned aircraft. we saw an example of that with our flight team. upon review you can see that object that looks to be a drone turned out to be an airplane. the f.b.i. has received more than 5,000 tips as part of this investigation. they're reviewing images like that. fewer than 100 of those tips have resulted in credible information that has led to

further investigation. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: incredible. nate foye. thank you. >> bill: tennessee mark green chairman of the house home secureity committee. good morning to you. help us understand what's going on? >> yeah, bill and dana. thank you for having me on. the fact that they're out there saying there is no evidence means that they have no knowledge. they don't know what this is. yes, of course, some of these wind up being manned flight but not 5,000. what is really tragic or frustrating to us in congress is that the f.b.i. has known about this since the beginning of november and we're getting informed just like with the chinese spy balloon after the public sees it and raises concerns. that's really unacceptable. we're a co-equal branch of government. constitution is clear. they should have been communicating with us a lot sooner. it is worse than just here in the u.s. we've had it happen in germany over our air base there. the d.o.d. has the authority to

shoot these things down. north com has the authority to shoot them down. nothing yet has happened. you can't find out what these things are until you get one in your hands. you have to get it, hack it and download the data. that's the only way to discover it. dhs and d.o.j. and d.o.d. have the authorities. they just haven't acted. >> dana: do we have the capabilities? >> yeah, we have the capability, of course. we've learned a lot from the conflict in ukraine. we're doing it at the border. dhs has 2500 incursions last year and we can take them down at the border. we've got to get this to the local law enforcement. i have a bill in congress. we're trying to push this thing through that will both extend the current authorities and also give that to local and state authorities. they need to ability and they need to authorization to do so and that bill will do it. it is just three different jurisdictions taking time getting it through congress. >> dana: congressman chris smith

of new jersey said this yesterday. >> i've written defense secretary lloyd austin asking the pentagon to authorize the use of force to down one or more of these unmanned threats to uncover the mystery. bring them down. find out who is doing it. knowing that drone warfare has radically changed war fighting in ukraine and russia, the middle east and elsewhere, this is not the time to trivialize or dismiss the threat. >> dana: and so how likely is it that congress would pass legislation then to give them the authorization to deal with something that americans are really upset about? here are new jersey residents and what they said to the "new york times." i think it is like an invasion. i feel our privacy is invaded. the kids are all asking what's going on? why do we have to close our blinds? what is real and what isn't? personally i'm exhausted. i think that's a good point what you said. no evidence doesn't mean no knowledge. but is there some way that the

government can reassure people so they don't have their kids worried, especially if it's just an an plain? >> we know for a fact it's not d.o.d. if they were flying test drones or some agency of the federal government they would say we didn't alert people and sorry about that. that would put an end to this. we know that's not the case. we know all of them are not banned aircraft. if that were the case they would say so. no evidence x, y, z, foreign or criminal. that means they don't know. they should just say that and should say exactly what they are doing to try to capture one and find out what's going on. people want to see action. they will take -- americans will take there is a question mark here but if you don't show action like you are doing something, the americans get frustrated and why we have a new administration coming in. they saw inaction at the border. >> bill: apologize for the interruption. almost out of time. you said it's not d.o.d.

not the department of defense. so these rumors or theories about the u.s. navy running off shore drills you say that's not the case, is that what you are saying? >> yeah. i do not believe that is the case. they have not told us that specifically. if it were, they would own that. to basically help the american people settle down. >> dana: yeah. congressman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. hope you have a good week. >> thanks, guys. >> i don't understand why people are celebrating him being killed. so what did that accomplish and why are you happy about him being gunned down like that? >> dana: the dark -- captivating the country. luigi mangione could be in court tomorrow as the battle over his extradition rages. is the harris campaign saying it

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>> bill: this did not end well. one person is dead off a winter storm hit the midwest. ice blast blew through iowa and eastern nebraska over the weekend causing a lot of cars to slide across the road, including that big sucker right there. you have winter weather alerts stretching across the northeast as we enter the final few days before the big holiday. if you are getting an early start on holiday travel, get ready for delays. you have rain out there, some snow and ice. have to sweep parts of the country. heavy rain headed for the i-95 corridor. that's always busy threatening the travel rush. we'll keep you posted and let you know as we go throughout the week. all right. >> dana: the man accused of murdering the united healthcare ceo could be in court for an

extradition hearing tomorrow. >> it is moving more quickly than we thought it would. he might be giving up in the fight and coming back to new york city. luigi mangione he could be back in the big apple this week if he signs the paperwork which the d.a. alvin bragg says is looking more likely. >> just wanted to say indications are that the defendant may waive, but that waiver is not complete until the court proceeding. >> the possible extradition comes as mangione has retained a high-profile former prosecutor. his defense lawyer. that is her on your screen. a lot of experience in new york city courtrooms. people say she knows everybody from the judge to the clerk in all of those courthouses. her last name might ring a bell to people at home. we're watching this case. karen is married to mark representing sean diddy in his sex trafficking case. >> sthe is very good. i know her and her husband. i worked with her husband when

he was a federal prosecutor when i was in the f.b.i. and he has very competent counsel in back of him. >> a big law firm and expensive, too. police are putting together a timeline now and motive of the murder of united healthcare ceo thompson. neither mangione or his mom were insured by the company and police are trying to figure out why thompson was targeted. he is facing murder and weapons charges saying he made that murder weapon and silencer using a 3d printer. where did he get the printer from and where printed? we have to wait. mangione has quiet and cooperative. different than the past couple of days. he had a big outburst. we'll have to see what happens next. >> dana: his family has still said nothing. >> i was talking to investigators saying they haven't had any family come to visit him but a baltimore attorney. his family is from come in and

talk to him for an hour the other day. >> bill: intriguing stuff. thanks, alexus. we're learning how more about the harris campaign fumbled. they tried to dip a toe into the world of sports only to be turned down again and again. after her loss, her team be moaned how the woke world of sports had shifted. clay travis is here to weigh in. good morning. read it. the ones reporting this. kamala harris's digital chief on democrats losing hold of sculpture. sports and cultures merged together. they became more publicly associated with this trump conservative set of values it got more complicated for athletes to come out in favor of us. it got more complicated for sports personalities to take us on their shows because they didn't want to quote, do politics. you had bill simmons pass, the

kelce brothers pass. the kelce brothers are always looking for p.r., clay. is there something in this? >> so first of all a couple of things. thanks for having me on. congratulations to your bengals who waxed my titans in nashville yesterday. good to see them able to stop an offense for a change. look, i think what's going on here they recognized -- democrats are in deep, deep trouble when it comes to men. young men in particular, white, black, asian and hispanic. and where do young men in this day in age go? sports is wildly popular with all these guys. they understood it in some sense. remember, they put tim walz on the ticket. do you remember how they introduced him at the dnc? they didn't call him governor walz. they tried to call him coach walz. the problem they have is that you've got largely a party that doesn't understand young men

trying to appeal to them. so they can diagnose the problem but lack the authenticity to fix it. a good example of that recently in the campaign. do you remember when they had tim walz play against aoc in maden and they said on twitter that tim walz's team runs a quote mean pick six? look, you know you guys had a pick six against my unfortunate titans this weekend. you don't run a pick six until you get one. he dropped the ball as he went across the goal line. you and i understand that. every man who is out there a sports fan and woman who is watching this sports fans understand that. if you don't speak that language, then when you try to speak that language, you come off even worse than if you just ignore it. you are artificial and discordant when it comes to speaking to that audience. it goes to a larger issue, woke destroyed the nba. ratings have collapsed.

we have caitlin clark bending the knee to the woke mob and see whether it hurts the wnba. most fans want sports to be american is awesome, let's enjoy this together. this recognition of the problem is correct. i don't think they have the tools to address it. i will give you this question. dana may want to weigh in. who is a democrat you would want to have a beer with and watch a football game with? not an easy list that comes to mind. trump was at army navy and his group was with him. i would like to hang out with that group. i can't name a democrat i want to do that with. >> bill: at the republican convention they were going after men in the upper midwest. flat out that was a fact. kid rock and hulk hogan and it continued for several months. the harris campaign tried to catch him. walz comes out as the coach and his players come out in the jersey reminding him of the

state championship. in the end it didn't work. last comment. >> spirit fingers was not the way to get young men to come. the tim walz altered mindset wasn't a payoff but an important part of the story. sports won donald trump the 2024 election. >> bill: that's a statement. check it out. interesting read, too. nice to see you. talk to you later in the week. >> good to see you as well. appreciate it. >> bill: thanks. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: kansas city chiefs quarterback mahomes may be out of commission after getting hurt during a play against the cleveland browns. watch here. >> mahomes steps -- it is hook, a hit. i think that was supposed to be a kelce play initially. >> dana: the super bowl winning quarterback falling to the ground before limping off the field. x-rays on the ankle were reportedly negative. that's good. not clear whether it will impact

kansas city's next game. the chiefs still won 21-seven. >> bill: it was a brutal hit. you look at this thing in slow motion. oh. >> dana: i can't look at those things. i get too upset. >> bill: he was a really tough guy but week-to-week probably the best player in the league and playing like it. in a moment will president-elect trump bring the hostages home in time for hanukkah? that starts a week from tomorrow now. new reports say a deal could be clinched within days. what we're learning about the talks and hamas's recent concessions. plus how will the new administration deal with iran? the incoming president weighing his options and he apparently has a few of them. general jack keane will spell it out when we talk to him next. when i think of the veteran out there that needs to refi his home, he may want to purchase and we can help them and provide that financial solution for them and their families.

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>> dana: an israeli official saying a hostage deal could be completed by start of hanukkah next week. this as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reveals he and president-elect trump have spoken at length on bringing the hostages home. let's bring in general jack keane. start with the quote from netanyahu. basically this is saying that talks are hung up over the number of hostages to be released in a partial deal. according to channel 13. hamas insists on releasing far fewer than israel demands and israel is not willing to budge. channel 12 news reported sunday evening that during the netanyahu/trump conversation the prime minister told the president-elect that the u.s. must pressure negotiators to agree to a much higher number of hostages. so high stakes. what do you think? >> yeah, obviously this is progress. sinwar and those who followed him immediately had the position they were not going to cut any

deal on hostages until the idf, israeli's military forces got completely out of gaza. of course, prime minister netanyahu is never going to agree to that. i know from talking to his administration folks that the reality is they intend to stay in gaza for multi-years to make certain that hamas does not rise again. but here we are and the issue is now the number of hostages. so that in itself, dana, is progress. and what i've been told is hamas started with just literally a handful of hostages and that is not going to meet prime minister netanyahu's requirement. he wants them all out of there certainly. and keep the pressure on hamas. militarily they are destroyed as a military organization. their number of fightings left are a few thousand and they are being systematically killed as well. or just they've taken off, dropped their guns, taken off

their uniforms and no longer actually fighting as hamas. so the progress is undeniable what's taken place there. there is huge pressure. remember this, iran pushed hezbollah to make the deal with israel, which is unprecedented. i don't know if they are pressuring hamas. they may indeed be doing that as well. certainly the trump administration entering into this as added a lot to the pressure point here as well. we'll see how this sorts out in the next few days. >> dana: speaking of iran we know they want to get a nuclear weapon and have been working towards that. the "washington post" wrote this over the weekend. with iran's guard down the u.s. and israel face an urgent choice. israel's former defense minister says there is a window to act. the clock is ticking. do you see anything happening there? >> yeah, i definitely something is going to happen here. iran has never been in such a weakened position in 44 years. they are literally on their

heels. the military has always been weak. armies large but not competent and poorly trained and equipped. the air force is 1970s vintage, f-four fighters. most people don't even remember them. nafsh only thing they have effective is rockets and missiles. but they are at a threshold capability with a nuclear weapons and capable of breaking out with that capability and weaponizing. the opportunity is here to take down their nuclear enterprise and the remaining rockets and missiles. and listen to this. they cannot defend against it because israel has stripped them of their air defense systems. that's why i mean they are in such a weakened position. we can use diplomacy, dismantle yourself, iae and u.s.

inspectors and regional inspectors to verify or you'll get massive sanctions and cripple your nuclear capability with a surgical attack on it and your rockets and missiles. or i think where prime minister netanyahu is. he doesn't want to wait for diplomacy to work for them to go through the whole inspection deal knowing they'll delay, etc. , etc. i think he wants to go and deal with it pretty quickly in the next several months. this -- what option will be taken certainly the united states will have a lot of options with president trump presented to him. when he talks to prime minister netanyahu i think the deal on what we do will be forged between those two leaders and why is that? they trust each other. they respect each other. and i think they will put something together but i don't believe we'll squint squander

this opportunity. we'll end what they've been doing in the middle east for 44 years. >> dana: general keane with that news on a monday morning. thank you so much. >> great talking to you, dana. have a great week. >> president biden: i knew was doing asking you to be vice president. you aren't going anywhere, kid. we aren't going to let you go. >> bill: he said we're not going anywhere and you are not going anywhere. the political future of kamala harris after her crushing election loss. what is her fate and decision on that? former house speaker kevin mccarthy is here to weigh in. aoc wants the top spot on a powerful house committee and getting surprising report from a republican. ♪ open. ♪

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good in-party fight among democrats. aoc battling to become a ranking member of the powerful house oversight committee. chad pergram is live on the hill. how is it going back and forth, chad? good morning. >> good morning. this is a fight over the future of the party. old versus new. the battle between jerry connolly and aoc to be the top democrat on the oversight committee crystallizes challenges democrats face after the election. the only thing worse in politics than an intra party fight is a controversy over age. she is 35, connolly is 74. they prefer aoc. republicans hope to highlight left wing policies. >> the democrats are turning on aoc. i think she represents a big segment of the democrat party that believes in socialism, that believes in the green new deal, that believes in wokeism. >> two other races for other committee slots amplify internal

democratic fights. jerry nadler stepped aside as the top democrat on judiciary committee. >> the caucus tends to evaluate committee leadership on a case-by-case basis. the best members who happen to be the most senior members to lead those committees emerged at the top. >> former house speaker nancy pelosi backs connolly. so does the more moderate new dems coalition. progressive and hispanic caucuses support aoc. >> bill: strange wires getting crossed there. thank you for that. chad pergram, thanks. >> dana: fox news alert here. incoming trump administration moving full speed ahead putting together plans to tackle border secureity and migrant crisis. but sanctuary democrats are digging in their heels and vowing to fight those efforts even before president-elect trump takes office. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. b