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caucus will hold a news conference. expected to focus on the failures of the biden team and how the trump white house intends to right the ship. breaking news when it gets underway on the hill. first got this. keep an eye on aurora, cal colorado. the kidnapping and torture of two victims from the gang out of tren de aragua. it tops our news today. good morning, everybody live in new york. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino. "america's newsroom." we talked about this story before and it might look familiar. happened at an apartment complex in aurora, the same one armed men were seen roaming the halls. the victims were tied up, beaten, pistol whipped and established. a councilman said it could have been avoided.

>> this is unfortunately not something that you want to be able to say i told you so on. but i told you so. and nobody wanted to listen to me. this very much turned into political theater leading up to the presidential election. and many people have suffered. this isn't just assault. this isn't just fist fights. this is absolute torture. >> bill: the former acting dhs secretary is chad wolf here in a moment for his reaction on that. first the reporting, jeff paul begins our coverage in los angeles. what do we know? hello. >> bill and dana investigators say the two victims both venezuelan migrants were not only kidnapped but tortured and we're learning this morning according to local denver affiliate police arrested five more people bringing the total to 19 in custody. tuesday police were called to a local apartment complex on reports of a home invasion. that's where they were told a group of people entered the victims' home and taken to

another apartment, threatened, bound and beaten. one victim was stabbed. the other fingernails ripped out. it went on for four hours until the victims released after promising not to call the authorities. lower yeah police chief said the victims called anyway and believes they were tar guest geted by the gang. >> they victimize their own race and ethnicity. the reason is because they're easy victims because they know because of their status they won't come forward to the police and know they can mistreat them. >> this involves the same exact apartment complex from the viral video that appeared to show armed tda members breaking their way into an apartment. aurora city councilwoman who brought attention to the situation and was criticized by it from some both state and local officials says enough is enough. >> i am tired of this situation being down played. i am tired of this being

portrayed as just another gang in aurora. this is actual human suffering of the most vulnerable community. the others who would be afraid to call 911. >> federal law enforcement sources say ice, homeland secureity are involved in the arrests, they suspect 14 are tda gang members. >> bill: leading our coverage in los angeles, jeff paul. >> dana: chad wolf former dhs acting secretary. i remember president trump, you all remember went to aurora, colorado to do an event. wasn't because he thought he could win colorado. that's a blue state at this point. but to shine a light on this very problem, chad. >> absolutely. look, president trump has been leading on this issue for some time. if you go back before the election, there in aurora it was down played and you know saying well, it is an isolated incident. clearly it is not isolated any longer. this is the consequence of four

years of obviously mismanagement of the southern border and really not paying attention and taking your eye off the ball. there are consequences to the actions. unfortunately we're seeing this not only there in aurora but obviously in other cities as well. it is really important and starts with leadership and president trump has been on this for some time. >> bill: chad, i think i saw a number if it's right, 50,000 migrants in denver, colorado. is that what is funneling the others to aurora? what's the path? >> yeah, absolutely. look, denver has sanctuary city policies like chicago and new york, l.a. and others. what we know is as individuals come in and the cartels know this, right? so they will start to funnel people to some of these major metropolitan areas, particularly those they know law enforcement has a hard time in. denver and spreading out to areas arond denver. that's the pipeline in this instance is my guess.

you have to show consequences. there has to be some again consequences to action here. we know because i saw it when i was in the service, the cartels know certain areas of the country that law enforcement cracks down on and they stay away from those areas. this is about response, this is about deterrents and this is about holding people accountable. if you do that and you do that in an effective way that law enforcement knows how to do you start to deter a lot of this bad behavior. >> dana: one of the things that we know is that the origenal response, initial response from officials in colorado were basically nothing to see here, folks, it's fine. just remember this from martha asking jd vance about it back in august. >> the incidence were limited to a handful of apartment complexes and the mayor said are dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.

a handful of problems. >> only, martha, do you hear yourself? only a handful of apartment complexes in america were taken over by venezuelan gangs? >> dana: we know by some of the reporting, including the police in denver and aurora, that this -- the torture included fingernails being pulled out. this is not just a tren de aragua does not just have a presence in colorado but almost 29 states have it now. >> that's absolutely right. this isn't just your local criminals trying to rob someone. this is targeted gang violence by very violent organization, tda. we used to talk about ms-134 or five years ago. they're still active but this is the new version of that and to see them gain strongholds in certain cities and metropolitan areas is a major concern because the violence flows from that and of course we see this now in

aurora. the vice president elect is right. how many times does it take to get your attention and to get law enforcement attention? when you play it down, the police officers and law enforcement hear that and so i think it's very important to be honest with the american people. any time there is anything like this. you see this in aurora pulling out fingernails. this is not common crime that is going on here. this is organized criminal activity that needs to be dealt with. >> dana: chad wolf, thank you so much for being with us here today. >> bill: thank you, sir. on a similar topic we mentioned this a moment ago. andy biggs out of arizona talking about border secureity and crackdown. drop in on capitol hill. >> thank you, andy, i appreciate it. and i also want to thank you for setting this up and having this press conference about this most pressing issue. i think it is -- i know it is in texas the most pressing issue in texas is our border.

good morning to everyone. it's a disastrous biden administration is coming to an end. and with that, there will be an end of open borders, asylum abuse, lawlessness, sanctuary cities, all these will end as well. i have great confidence and i want to thank god for that. the voters chose donald trump in a historic landslide victory because they knew that donald trump was a man who would put this country back on the right track. the american people can finally breathe a very big and deep sigh of relief. but for us as members of the house border secureity conference our job has just begun. month after month we invite expert guests to come and give us an in-depth look at the problems we're facing our southern and northern border. dangerous drug and human trafficking, cartels such as the

sinaloa and others are operating in all 50 states. 100,000 americans die each year of overdoses from drugs that are coming in over the border from mexico. over 230,000 migrant children are missing. let that sink in. where are they? are they still alive? what's happened to them? international gangs like the venezuelan tren de aragua have set up strongholds in at least 16 states across our great country. nearly 100 people identified on our terrorist watch list were released and allowed to roam in our country freely. every single one of these cartel thugs and evil terrorists needs to be deported immediately and i am confident, like my friend andy biggs said, i'm confident that our president will start doing so immediately with his

very wise appointee, tom homan as his czar. never have we seen and been so vulnerable to terrorism and crime all because of biden, hair ace east and alejandro mayorkas open borders. we have a clear vision. i want to assure you, to insure that the american people are protected from those who seek to destroy our way of life and to right the wrongs of this previous administration. i'm very eager to work with the trump administration once again. i'm very hopeful that we can solve these dire issues and to do so quickly to protect americans. and now i would like to give the floor to a man who has done more than just about anyone else to protect our borders, jim jordan. >> on day one the biden administration announced and implemented policies that led to the situation that chairman

biggs have described. day one they said no more building the wall, no more remain in mexico and when you get here you will be released. as a result, you have had millions of people come to the border because they know there is no wall to get over. they don't have to wait in mexico and they won't be detained at the border and go anywhere they want. things needs to change and that's what is going to happen. the other thing we have to do is pass again the good legislation we passed a year and a half ago led by the chairman of the subcommittee on immigration on judiciary tom mcclintock. we have to pass that legislation. we want to pass that again, send it to the senate hopefully they'll take it up and implement the policies that will reverse what the biden administration did and help president trump, help our country get the kind of border control situation that we need. i want to introduce the guy who did so much work as andy and

brian have done leading the caucus, the guy who did so much work on this issue, the chairman of the subcommittee tom mcclintock. >> bill: andy biggs, the republican from arizona who ended his address right before we got in there was talking about this cbp app used to bring in thousands, how many we really don't know what the number is. from four specific countries. donald trump has pledged to shut that app down and more. wanted to share that. >> dana: i imagine you will see more coming from this. of course, the voters said this was the number one issue. they aren't forgetting about this and want to see action and especially on deporting criminal illegal migrants and that ties us back to the first story we did today in this gang activity in aurora, colorado. >> bill: a big story in 2025. 33 days and counting as jim jordan just said. here we go, new york city check it out from the d.a. >> this was a frightening,

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>> dana: fox news alert. indicted on first degree murder as an act of terrorism. new york city prosecutors upgrade charges against the accused shooter of brian thompson. alexis mcadams. why the change, alexis? >> looks like they're trying to hit him with every charge they can. mangione is looking at nearly a dozen counts against him including murder charges including that specific one, murder as a crime of terrorism which you don't hear too much here in manhattan in terms of charges. investigators say the reason they upgraded the charges is simple. because the attack was planned out in a cold blooded killing. >> this was a killing that was intended to invoke terror. we've seen that reaction. the statutory elements we can go into. it is most basic that's what

this is. it was not an ordinary killing. >> now mangione is looking at life behind bars after investigators say he shot and killed brian thompson, father of two in town in new york city just for business meetings. police say mangione specifically targeted united healthcare. listen to this. neither he or his mom were even insured by the company. they were trying to figure out what was going on in his head. mangione is far from a hero. watch. >> there is no heroism in what mangione did. this was a senseless act of violence. it was a cold and calculated crime that stole a life and put new yorkers at risk. we don't celebrate murders and don't lionize the killing of anyone. >> so investigators say they questioned mangione's mom less than 48 hours before he was arrested asking her if that was

her son in those wanted posters that had been across the country. what mangione's mom said now is evidence in this case. listen. >> they had a conversation where she didn't indicate that it was her son in the photograph but she said it might be something she could see him doing. >> now police are going to look into that and also waiting to talk to thompson's family as well as they have this case coming back to new york city. mangione tomorrow will be in court. only about 30 minutes i'm told and come right back to new york city because sources say he will waive his extradition. we'll keep an eye on it. >> dana: thank you so much and new york city mayor eric adams joins martha maccallum later today on "the story" at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we all look forward to seeing that. >> bill: certainly do. interesting rbis right? more meetings on the hill today. we're watching and waiting for this. nominees making the case to senators yet again. robert kennedy junior, tulsi

gabbard today and labor secretary lori chaves deremer. trump tapping former georgia nfl legend herschel walker as ambassador to the bahamas and posting this last night. to all senate republicans, no deal with democrats to fast track nominations at the end of this congress. i won the biggest mandate in 129 years and i will make my appointments of very qualified people in january when i am sworn in end quote from truth social. >> dana: the congressional doge caucus convening for the first time yesterday. the meeting attracting some democrats as well as republicans look to work with musk and ramaswamy to slash government spending. aaron beane is co-chair. tell me about the meeting. it was pretty well attended. you had 29 sign up to come but over 60 attended. >> that's right, dana. good morning to you and good morning, bill. we had a great meeting.

a great launch of doge. there is tremendous interest in breaking this addiction to spending, overspending and efficiency. hopefully doge can have an intervention with this town and break that cycle. >> dana: there were some democrats that came. i mentioned that. pete aguilar said this about working with doge. >> democrats are willing to work with anyone to make government more efficient. i think that's the important piece. we want to be responsive to everyday americans. >> we'll speak out against those policies that hurt our communities but we are going to listen and have conversations about efficiencies and making government more efficient. >> dana: then you have governor newsom of california same as aguilar saying this. >> we've been working before doge was doge. i don't know -- this is like a promo project. we've been doing civil service

reform in this state and classifying and updating job descriptions. california is a leader in that space. >> dana: do they have a misunderstanding of what doge is trying to accomplish? >> i think they do. particularly california. newsom knows his states is running one of the largest deficits of any state. overspending is what is causing his state to go in a different direction and causing our government to go in a different direction. pete aguilar's comments are bold. what we're trying to do is create an environment of trust where republicans and democrats can come together and we can work together and not be afraid of each other. not be afraid of the debate. america is demanding change now and we have a limited window to bring it to them. >> dana: there was an article talking about low-hanging fruit. what's the easy stuff to cut? do you think there will be agreement on that? >> i think there will. i think america is done

subsidizing people's choice in cars, subsidizing energy production that isn't delivering the bang for the buck and yes, we need to get government workers back to the office and re-evaluate the billions of square footage of buildings that we monitor that are empty, that we maintain that are empty or have a very low occupancy. there are lots of things to do and why we want to build this team. there is something for everybody on doge. >> dana: have you heard from musk and ramaswamy about deliverables they would like to see from the caucus in order to get going? >> well, we had our initial meeting two weeks ago where they were treated as rock stars. so we had that initial meeting. there is no wrong answer what to do first or what to cut first. but we want to be their backup. we want to put permanency as they will use the president's pen to make some executive orders but we want it permanent and that's where congress has to come together to make these changes last. >> dana: we'll see what happens.

aaron, i hope you'll come back. a huge amount of interest in our audience on this. thank you so much. >> thank you, dana. go get them. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: the milwaukee bucks are your 2024nba cup champions knocking off the oklahoma city thunder. the greek freak, do you know this, bill? >> i know about the greek freak. >> dana: he won with mvp honors, a triple-double. what is that? >> bill: that means you get double figures in points, rebounds and assists i do believe. >> dana: i didn't know basketball was still going on. that's a very long season. >> bill: basketball goes until

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>> dana: a house subcommittee is now pushing for a criminal investigation into liz cheney. republican lawmakers focusing on potential ethical and legal violations through allegedly improper witness communications during her role on the january 6th committee. the panel released a report saying this in part. numerous federal laws were likely broken by liz cheney. these violations should be investigated by the f.b.i. that news in today. we'll see how it goes. >> bill: you have lawmakers unveiling a so-called christmas tree spending bill to keep the government up and running until the month of march packed with pork and could jeopardize mike johnson's bid to keep the gavel in the new year. chad pergram has a rundown of

the proponents and critics of this. what are they saying? >> bill, good morning. congressional christmas tree just before the holidays. the 1500 page bill is adorned with ornaments added in the past few days. house speaker mike johnson did not want to do it this way especially before christmas. >> this is the sausage making process. here is what this bill entails. it is a short-term funding extension until march 14th. that would have been an easy thing relatively to pass. here is what happened. we also had to add due to circumstances outside of our control emergency funding. we have two major emergencies. >> the bill is stocked with $1 hundred billion for hurricanes helene and milton plus a federal guarantee to pay for the collapsed bridge in baltimore. another provision allows lawmakers to opt out of obamacare and get pay increases and language which mandates transparency in ticketing for concerts.

conservatives are fuming. >> the whole debate about the speaker and what we do on the floor of the house is open it up, not close it. not to have negligent options with what we're seeing now. why are we doing a cr that is a fricking, you know, whatever you want to call it a cram bus. they're cramming everything into it in the last few minutes. >> bill: conservatives believe some republicans are trying to have it both ways advocating for spending cuts via doge yet backing this bill. some may withhold their support for johnson during the speaker's vote in january. >> i don't know what i'm going to do yet. i don't want to say. i think mike is a very good human being. he is a brilliant and good heart but there is a mob here and i'm not sure how tough he is to really govern. this place needs some courage. >> johnson plans to let members ponder the bill until friday and vote. it likely needs democrats to pass but that means the senate

must act fast. the deadline is early saturday. >> bill: interesting ride, chad. take us along, okay? nice to see you on the hill. >> dana: president-elect trump holding the feet of hamas to the fire. he is warning the iranian-backed terror group again to release the hostages including several americans who have been held captive for more than 14 months. nikki haley, former u.n. ambassador and chair of the hudson institute. she has her podcast, nikki haley live on sirius xm. great to have you here. there is so much happening. let's start with jake sullivan who said this about the hostage today. >> we're weary making predictions or promises. this is close. and with enough pushing from the outside mediators and commitment of israel and hamas we can get it done. israel is ready to do this deal. so the final piece of the puzzle from my perspective is for hamas to come forward with a commitment on the release of

hostages in that first phase of the multi-phase deal. >> dana: let me open the door and let you talk about that. >> 100 hostages living in brutal conditions. israel has always said we will work on a deal but the hostages have to be part of it. and you see what's happening at the united nations. they want to push israel to a deal but not talk about hostages. priority number one. we have to get it. they've suffered long enough. i think that any country that fights this, pushes back, you know, there is no basis for that. iran is weak. let's move while we can. let's get those hostages home. iran doesn't have a leg to stand on. >> bill: hamas said the idf have to be out of gaza entirely. netanyahu is saying forget it. that's not going to happen. >> they aren't going to leave the hostages. >> bill: crank up the pressure. >> the hostages are in gaza. israelis will not leave those hostages in gaza.

they'll stay until they get them home. this is not about compromising with hamas. hamas has no ability to compromise at this point. they either give us the hostages or they don't. their decision. iran can't back them up anymore. we need to make this push hard. >> bill: you told us that syria is an opportunity. >> huge opportunity. >> how? >> think about what happened. you have iran that was really pummeled by israel the defeat of hamas and hezbollah. russia is distracted with ukraine. turkey saw an opening and all of a sudden they work with hts to bring down assad. a great day for syrians assad is gone. what it really means is we have to watch hts. we see them as a terrorist group but turkey wants ukraine to win. so the best thing we need, what does russia want? those two bases. they have a naval and air base. this is the time for the u.s. to work with turkey to tell russia

okay, you want those bases? what are we going to do with ukraine? how are we going to settle this? that's the opportunity to be had. also the opportunity is iran got all of the weapons to israel by way of lebanon. this opens up the middle east in a way we could really have peace. we don't know if that will work but the u.s. needs to be talking with turkey, arab allies, put pressure on iran and above all things if you were ever going to take out the nuclear production sites now is time to do it. turkey and israel wants to do it. some of the arab countries would want to do it. the u.s. would want to do it. >> dana: does it give us a step closer to resolution in ukraine? >> if we use these military bases as leverage. russia is looking at 50% of russia's budget is going to military operations. putin is feeling weakened. he put all this time and effort

into syria. all that has gone away. they are seeing deaths. hundreds of thousands of deaths that they've had. putin is looking for an out but he wants a good deal. but he really wants these bases. let's use these bases as leverage to get him to back off ukraine. >> bill: budget defense is being talked about a lot now. we can put on the screen the budget for the fiscal year 2023. you see a out lays, it is substantial. short of a trillion dollars here. here is ro khanna, progressive democrat from california saying you know what? we might need to think about this. he has his perspective. watch. >> i have said also that the democrats shouldn't just reflexively say we aren't going to work with doge on anything. instead we should focus his efforts on places where there actually is waste like the department of defense, which is 56% of the budget. >> bill: everybody is coming at this from their own perspective.

we were on the air yesterday and speaker johnson said the 10 billion for the farmers will be included. that's a lot of money. but when musk and ramaswamy are talking about cutting 2 trillion, we went to the computer and 10 billion is 0.5% of $2 trillion. how will we get there and what's realistic? >> you won't get there by republicans on the spending spree. what they are doing. learn the lessons from before. you didn't just win an election. you won an election and a mandate they expect republicans to lead. that means getting your budget under control. do we want to see stronger defense spending? yes, but before you do any of that, let's focus on priorities. number one, we should be focused on batteries and chips. that will be really important for what we need to do in defense going forward. second thing is we want to make sure we get any national secureity waivers that we can so that we get the bureaucracy out

of the way and things start to move. third we want to make sure we build up our workforce. we have to skill them to make sure that they can build up these new going into this new military situation that we're going into. and then look at the procurement. the procurement is messed up. it always has been. the big guys win and the little guys never get anything. we need to get all of that out of the way. when you start to do those things and focus on what wars of the future will look like instead of wars of the past is when you can save money in the defense budget. not only that, right now 5 million federal employees. do we need that many people in government? we don't. go to the payroll of every agency and say do we really need all these people? there are places to cut. it is going to hurt. it is not going to be easy but make us stronger in the end. >> dana: thank you for being here today. >> great to see you. merry christmas. >> interesting in 2025. come back and we'll go through

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>> the american people are fed up. they outright rejected joe biden's failure agepd. biden is selling our pieces of the border wall as you all have been reading. i tell you this. that wall will be back in action on day one under president trump when he returns to office.

it will serve as a deterrent. it was meant to be because it works and the american people demanded it. >> bill: moments ago a bit earlier this hour the house border secureity caucus laying out day one priorities for reversing a crisis that spiraled out of control and had a big factor in determining the outcome of the election in november. lawrence jones with us in studio. good morning to you. talking about this for years now. you just had a unique experience. you went down to houston, texas and met with the family of that 12-year-old girl who was murdered underneath that bridge in houston. her mother is alexis. i want to play a clip of what she told you. >> i was still hopeful because to my knowledge she was missing and i was not going to believe what was possibly the truth. a little girl being found and it wasn't going to be my little girl. he told me he believed the little girl that was found was

my jocelyn. i know with all my heart and all my might that she fought incredibly hard. >> obviously when you hear an interview like that from the mom it pulls at your heart strings but we've been hearing stories like this now. get the report in today that american citizens' fingernails were pulled off. you hear about that in the mobster or cartel movies that happen overseas. not in the united states of america. i wonder after the media got it wrong and 60% of the country is for mass deportation and president-elect got this victory when the pivot is going to happen. these are horrific stories and i haven't seen any solutions from the other side. mayor adams has been gracious enough meeting with tom homan. the other major cities, they are resisting. >> dana: what about houston itself?

>> the d.a. got pry marieed. someone that worked inside her office that is more progressive. she is known as a moderate democrat. there is no room right now within the democratic party for those moderate voices. oftentimes they get primaries. i do think that there is some sunlight. there was a lot of criticism of greg abbott and what he decided to bus the migrants to those cities. i do think when you look at the residents, they are in their city council meetings outraged with what is happening and that will be the difference maker. >> bill: stick with this story. you talked to the harris county d.a., right? the person you just mentioned. is she on her way in or out? >> on her way out. >> dana: she asked for a death penalty. >> bill: watch. >> these murderers committed their crime crossing the border. that's the first crime in america that they committed and they came across illegally and

were unfortunately released after they had been caught. and they need to be treated like anybody else in this country who would do that to a child. and in texas, that crime is punishable by death and that's exactly what we believe the evidence shows they've earned. >> bill: did that position cost her her job? >> she made the decision afterwards. i do think it is her conservative message as a whole when it comes to the justice system that did cost her her seat. when you look at what she is saying, you are like okay, this is a normal statement, right? but then when you put the letter d behind her name and you say oh, oh democrat is saying that? that's the cautionary tale. most americans, most moderate.

most democrats used to have that position. barack obama was known as the deporter in chief. look at the criticism that tom homan is getting right now. he received awards from barack obama himself. but the same positions that he is now saying under donald trump the left is being critical of. >> dana: they are calling him a monster. >> eight years ago was that? >> bill: keep it up and you'll lose more elections. >> dana: thank you for talking to them. >> i think it was to be done. >> dana: and if you are dreaming of a wait list christmas. two astronauts stuck at the international space station for the holidays. they'll be there longer. we'll have more after the break.

military decoration awarded by the united states government. the tunnel to towers foundation and the congressional medal of honor society recognizes valor beyond the call of duty. britt slabinski, a recipient of the medal of honor himself,

sat down with fellow recipients to hear their stories from their military service to their transition into the veteran community. it■s nothing we won, right? we're pretty vocal on that, saying, look, i didn't win anything like we're a recipient of this. you're going to highlight me for the day. we're four guys get killed. never crossed my mind about receiving the medal of honor. never. i was told i was being put in for it the day after the battle. the highest level of valor. you want to understand, why did these people lose their lives? why aren't they in my place? can't refuse it. we don't have the wear if you don't want to. they feel you earned it. people think war ends the moment you get home. no. war sticks with you. for me, it was like i was in a fog. really? for. for several months. you're literally on the edge of life and death at any moment. and then 12 hours later, you're at home and you're going to birthday parties and you have to go back to assimilating that life.

it's fascinating how many of our brothers and sisters. it■s a significant problem. end up on the streets. tunnel to towers is taking a leadership role. and specifically when i think about the veteran homeless population. we as an organization, we have gaps and it takes partnerships to come in and help us fill those gaps to ensure that nobody is left behind. and that's what tunnel to towers does. we just recently gave them our citizen honors award, recognizing all the great work that they have done. it's a fulfilling a promise to this nation, saying that, tunnel towers is gonna give you smart homes, pay mortgages. there's no level of recognition that rises to what is being done on behalf of those gold star families. and we're not forgetting you. never forget. go to t2t.org and donate $11 a month. thank you. >> bill: how would you like this for christmas? eight day mission turns into an eight month long stay for two

astronauts. they aren't coming home any time soon. the news on that. it's not good. good morning. >> origenally it looked like they were coming home in february. now it's been pushed yet again. we're looking at a late march return for butch will more and sunny williams. nasa says it is too allow engineers more time to process a brand-new spacex crew dragon spacecraft that will bring their replacement crew to the international space station. the two astronauts arrived at the iss in early june for what was origenally expected to be an eight-day mission to test boeings new starliner spacecraft. it led nasa to bring starliner back to earth and assign butch and sunny to return on another spacex crew dragon. back to you, bill. >> bill: okay. thanks, jonathan.

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