"Sending A Message": Shannon Bream On The Trump Transition
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I'm Maria Bartiromo. I'm Greg Gutfeld. I'm Tammy Bruce. And this is the Fox News Rundown. Friday, November 15th, 2024. I'm Jared Halpern. President-elect Trump is already running into potential roadblocks with some of his cabinet picks. With some of these picks, he's definitely sending a message, I think, inside his party and out. We speak with Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Breen.

I'm Chris Foster. What happens to the electric vehicle industry when President-elect Trump takes office? By the government stepping back a little bit in allowing the marketplace to work, I think electric vehicles have a brighter future than they did before the government tried to force feed them down the American people's mouth. And I'm Kennedy. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown. ♪

The Senate is in the personnel business. That's a lesson I learned early on in my time covering Congress. The upper chamber has the unique role of advising and consenting on all members of the president's cabinet and hundreds of other positions in the executive branch. We will do everything we can to process his norms quickly.

get them installed in their position so they can begin to implement his agenda. Senator John Thune will lead the Republican majority in the upcoming Congress, succeeding Mitch McConnell, who has served as GOP leader for nearly two decades. Nominees already put forward by President-elect Trump could spark bitter confirmation fights. And calls from the president-elect for recess appointments without Senate votes are on the table, Thune says. I've said this, and I mean it, that we expect a level of cooperation from the Democrats.

to work with us to get these folks installed. And obviously, we're going to look at explore all options to make sure that they get that they get moved quickly. But even some Republicans have balked at some nominees. I mean, on the day that John Thune is elected the first GOP majority leader in what, 17 years to be the new guy. He also gets a present from President Trump, who says, and by the way, I've chosen Matt Gaetz to be my attorney general.

And you're going to have to shepherd that through Senate confirmation. Shannon Bream is the anchor of Fox News Sunday and the host of the Live in the Bream podcast. That was a jolt to the system, certainly here in Washington. And it's, you know, raised this conversation again about recess appointments and whether, you know, President Trump, as he told all of the folks that were vying for Senate GOP leader

that he expected them to be open to this recess appointments situation, which is kind of controversial. Well, because it's the Senate giving up its constitutional right to advise and consent. Exactly. The question of Gates, though,

Specifically is whether or not we think it even reaches a confirmation vote. Just based on kind of the first 24, 48 hours, there have been several Republican senators who have expressed either outright opposition or at least a healthy dose of skepticism. I

I think that's a good way to put it. Sort of shell shocked, I think, would be how some of them appeared to respond when stopped on Capitol Hill and asked about this. And, you know, it's kind of rare for people to get to a Senate confirmation, to get to the floor, to get to the vote and not actually get through. It usually falls apart somewhere on the way to the floor, whether they withdraw or they don't make it through a committee or, you know, there are all kinds of ways that can happen.

So you've got to wonder what the deal was with Gates, now former congressman. We know that he had this ethics situation, which you've tracked and followed there on Capitol Hill. That was it appears coming to a head. And that could have been a real issue for him or not. We don't know what the findings were, but the belief was they weren't going to be positive.

So, you know, he dodges that for now. But I think that he would have to know if he goes through a traditional Senate confirmation process. It is not going to be an easy one, but he likes a fight. So he may actually sort of look forward to that jousting back and forth. Should he make it that far? I guess the question more broadly is.

What is the strategy? I mean, if you have these these confirmation or these nominations that are going to be challenging confirmations, does that run the risk of really hamstringing an incoming administration if you kind of have nominees that are immediately rejected by a Senate controlled by your own party? I mean, that's a risky gamble, isn't it?

It is. But I think that President Trump is trying to send a very clear message to Washington that, as you and I know, in 2016, I won't speak for you, I didn't think in spending Election Day with them that they thought they were going to win. I think President Trump not being a politician, per se, did not have any idea what the swamp was going to be like and how tough it was going to be on him.

From within his own party and from the opposing party, he has a different mindset this time around. He is very determined. He knows the game now. And I think with some of these picks, he's definitely sending a message that

I think inside his party and out. Is the message kind of a test of loyalty, a test of how strong his influence is, especially in the Senate ranks, which has been over the last eight, nine years, less MAGA-y, I guess, if that's a word, than House Republicans?

Yeah, and I think, listen, both on the House and Senate side, there are some fractures in the parties, and that's clearly the case within Republican circles as well. How much power will establishment control versus these new MAGA voices? And I think that, you know, we saw this play out in the Senate majority leaders. You know, now it's going to be the majority leaders race. You had Rick Scott, who has been a very loyal ally to President Trump and much more of a MAGA type voice.

Make a run for it. Did better, I think, than the last time around, possibly, that he made a run at going directly at Mitch McConnell. But you saw that Thune and Cornyn had to both signal that they are on board with President Trump's plan and that they intend to be, I think, pretty loyal foot soldiers in pursuing those things. But they are people who also spent a lot of time on Capitol Hill before MAGA was a thing.

And it'll be interesting to see if there are places they break with the president, whether it's over a nomination they think is a step too far. We'll see. The other challenge for any majority leader or any party leader in the Senate is, you know, making sure that you put your members in the best opportunity possible.

There are a lot of Republicans in the Senate that are up in two years. They have a pretty challenging map. That makes this even a tougher needle to thread for Senator Thune. It is because if you are putting them up to really difficult votes,

things that cause them to have to take a public position on something that's very controversial, you know what will be used for or against you. There'll be some voters out there if you vote for, say, for the example of Matt Gaetz as AG, who will love it and say, they really are with President Trump. They're totally MAGA. We can trust them. And others who will say like,

wait, when you had an opportunity to take a vote on a very difficult, controversial nominee, you know, you did or didn't fall in line. It is definitely going to be a litmus test for voters, for these folks who are up in 2026. Let's talk about some of the legal challenges that are sure to give rise. President-elect Trump has talked kind of about immigration, the border as being the number one issue, the number one concern. He has said

named Tom Homan is this border czar, this immigration czar who is going to lead what has been described as the largest deportation operation ever. Are federal courts likely to stop that? Is there much that federal courts can do? Obviously, immigration has always, whether you're a Republican or Democrat, whatever you're trying to do, seems to always be tied up in the courts.

Yeah. And remember SB 1070 out of Arizona years ago, ending up at the Supreme Court when there was this debate over who can enforce federal immigration laws. Arizona wanted to do some of its own work saying, listen, the feds aren't doing it. Federal courts have ruled on this stuff. Supreme Court's ruled on this stuff many times.

When it's coming from an administration and you're taking executive action, the first stop is absolutely going to be federal court. A lot of immigration groups out there say, you know, they've already got their lawyers lined up. They're drafting things. They're getting ready for what they think will come from the administration. But there were a lot of things that Trump administration had in place when he left office. As we know, dozens of those things were repealed by the Biden administration.

Listen, the administration this year brought back some things regarding the border that actually have impacted the flow and dialed back those numbers a bit. So this administration has acknowledged, obviously, there's executive action that can be helpful and be legal at the same time. But I would imagine these immigration rights groups and lawyers are looking at Stephen Miller and Tom Homan saying, "We're gonna be very busy, 'cause this stuff is automatically gonna go to court."

And you can have a federal court that's a district court somewhere that's amenable to the arguments of these immigration groups. Maybe it's out in California, the Ninth Circuit, that kind of thing. But they can issue nationwide injunctions that shut down the entire program across the country. So listen, given the language the Supreme Court has out there about how the feds are the ones who have the power to run federal immigration policy,

I would expect that some of these things will take time, but the Trump administration is going to feel very much like they've got the legal wind at their back, although court battles take time. Speaking of the Supreme Court, some pressure on justices from both ends of the ideological spectrum to maybe retire in the next couple of weeks, months. Do you expect any major announcement?

Listen, I think just from a logical standpoint, when people say like, oh, does Justice Thomas or does Justice Alito want to go in a couple of years while Trump is president, while Republicans have a comfortable...

though tight margin in the Senate. And they're the signals we're getting from both of those camps is like, don't talk to us about that. We do not have plans for that. We're just, you know, doing our work. And this is a lifetime appointment. You know, Justice Sotomayor, there was pressure starting months ago for her to consider stepping down. She's only 70, which is I was going to say she's not like the Supreme Court year. She's not like that. Oh, no, no, no. This is the middle of the Supreme Court.

know age spectrum over there um to get to get on the court at the age of 50 or so is considered like super young spring chicken situation so um you know i see her during arguments and she seems like she always has like she's completely engaged she seems physically well she's open about the fact that she manages diabetes but she's very aggressive about taking care of herself and i think much like justice ginsburg she resents the public calls for her to go anywhere

So, you know, sources close to her tell Fox that she's not considering it. She feels good. She's doing her thing. You've even got, you know, Dick Durbin, one of the top Democrat leaders in the Senate, saying, you know, we this conversation is ridiculous. How in the world you would get this done now if you're trying to do it between now and Christmas when you've got government funding and all these other lame duck things to get done?

You know, a lot of people think it's just way too risky of an experiment. Yeah. I mean, to do a confirmation during the lame duck period would be pretty unprecedented, I suppose, as much as we use that word lately. Let me finish with this. And that's just kind of a broader discussion that I imagine you'll have Sunday is what Democrats try and figure out what happened last week.

Yeah. And I think that there's a lot of soul searching that's still going on. Of course, I think I think it's like any shock to the system. You know, it takes time to kind of come to grips with the reality. And then there's going to be a lot of as we saw the first week or so, a lot of finger pointing, a lot of blame. The Harris versus Biden, you know, camps and all kinds of debate within the party that I think they're really just kind of starting to.

that autopsy on exactly what happened. And I wish I could tell you, but shortly I will be able to announce who we've got on from the Democrat side this week. And I think that there'll be a very interesting voice on what happened and where they go from here. And we will be watching on Sunday. Shannon Bream, always appreciate our chats. Have a great show. The pleasure is mine, Jared. Thank you.

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The electric vehicle industry and infrastructure to run it has had billions of federal dollars flow in during the Biden administration. Today, if you want an electric vehicle with a long range, you can buy one made in America.

If you want one that charges quickly, buy American. You want one that's fast in the quarter mile, buy American. President Biden at the Detroit Auto Show in September, he announced in May 100% tariffs on EVs from China and more tariffs on Chinese-made components. President-elect Trump has said he'll be even tougher on China and that he will undo some of Biden's electric vehicle policies.

like tougher emission standards and offering tax subsidies, and the goal of having half of all vehicle sales be electric by 2030. I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one.

Thereby saving the U.S. auto industry from complete obliteration, which is happening right now, and saving U.S. customers thousands and thousands of dollars per car. Trump at the Republican National Convention in July joked later during the campaign that he has to be for electric vehicles because Tesla founder Elon Musk endorsed him. And he said before he's not against EVs or hybrids, but they're not for everyone. I think it's opened up a new world of the electric vehicle because it's

We finally are starting to realize that electric cars were never meant to completely replace the internal combustion engine. Phil Flynn, Fox Business contributor and senior account executive at the Price Futures Group and author of the Energy Report. They're not for everybody. You can't get the government to force people to buy cars that are less efficient, don't work for them. That was never going to work.

But now by the government stepping back a little bit in allowing the marketplace to work, I think electric vehicles have a brighter future than they did before the government tried to force feed them down the American people's mouth. Was this a cart before the horse thing? I mean, do you think that the infrastructure is clearly not there? The technology maybe isn't there in some people's eyes. Did the Biden administration just try to do too much too soon with this?

They have, right. I mean, they have this false perception about the electric cars, right? They thought, oh my gosh, all we have to do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is get rid of those nasty internal combustion engines and replace them with electric cars. That sounds great on the surface, but when you look at the reality, it doesn't work, right? Because number one, you have to produce millions of electric cars each

And to produce those cars, it takes more carbon emissions, almost three or four times as much to produce them than it does an internal combustion engine. And the infrastructure is there. The power grid couldn't handle a million cars. And most people in many parts of the country, having an electric car just doesn't make sense. For example, if you live in a cold weather climate and you have to drive a long way,

you might get stuck on the road and not be able to move your car.

Or if you're in New York City, where the heck are you going to charge them, right? You can barely find a place to park, let alone charge a whole bunch of new cars. So, you know, this was a fantasy. Now, having said that, I think the electric car, it's an amazing thing, technology, mainly because of Elon Musk. He invented the electric car. Yeah, there's electric cars before him, but he was the only person that really made it viable and had a business plan that was viable before.

And he's proven that. Right. And so the electric cars, I think, are going to play a big part. But we have to remember, they're going to have to live harmoniously along the internal combustion engine. And I think that way, with the government getting it out of the way, it will actually be a big plus for the electric car and the internal combustion engine as well. Well, Elon Musk has become.

you know, something of a shadow vice president, no offense to JD Vance over the past few weeks. Do you see anything coming out of that relationship in terms of the electric vehicle industry?

I think it does. I think it transforms it and it transforms it for the better. Right. And, you know, and listen, J.D. Vance, you know, he might be in the shadow when it comes to electric cars and efficiency. But J.D. Vance is an amazing guy as well. But listen, Elon, you know, I go back to Elon Musk. You know, I always tell people.

If you remember when Elon Musk started Tesla, right, people laughed at him, right? They're saying, yeah, electric cars, you know, the people in Detroit that failed to produce electric cars for generations were snickering like, yeah, OK, go ahead. You know, we'll see how many electric cars you can sell. But but he did transform that industry. He made it so viable that the people that were his critics all of a sudden say, hey, we've got to get every car.

company on the planet to start making these things. So, um, I think he can do the same thing in government. You know, why people are skeptical of, of Elon in government, um, you know, trying to make it more efficient. Um,

he's the type of guy who can do it. He can look at things in the government, where there is waste, get rid of it, because we know there's waste there. Everybody knows it. You know, the question is, you have to call it out and end it. Back to the electric cars, you know, I believe that the electric car industry is in its infancy. I think there's going to be technology breakthroughs and generations to come, but they're not here yet. But if you allow the market to work

more organically, right? And if you offer incentives to rebuild the infrastructure, come up with technologies, it's going to create a much better product that people actually want to buy as opposed to, you know, the product that we were trying to force people to buy. I think we might have talked about this before, but there's almost, there's kind of no such thing as a bad car anymore. You don't hear about lemons. I mean, even the

you know, the base model cheapest car is a pretty solid piece of machinery. It really is. And, you know, I think, you know, to be honest with you, I think the U.S. industry got forced into that during the, you know, the 70s and the 80s during the oil embargo. You know, we used to make a product that they would spit out of Detroit and, you know, they didn't really care and safety features. Oh, that was, you know, you want to pay for that? Who wants to pay for that?

But I think they've learned. And if you look at the competitive nature of the auto industry today, it's probably more competitive and cutthroat than it was before. And these people realize, especially with the Internet and reviews and the way people share information, that if you're putting out a bad product,

everybody is going to know about it and you're not going to be able to sell that car. So there's no doubt that the quality has gone up and that comes from competition and it comes from transparency. And I think that's been great for the industry. Just getting back to the change in presidential administrations. One thing, Joe Biden has made electric vehicles a big part of his domestic policy and a part of his foreign policy in regards to China.

The two biggest things, I suppose, are the tax credits and the emission standards. And those will presumably be rolled back, right? Right. And, you know, and again, we don't believe that the tax credits and the emission standards were net positive for the industry. And that's been proven, right? Right.

because these auto industries with these tax incentives and all the money spent by the federal government, by the Biden administration to get American automakers to start churning out these electric cars failed miserably, right? This was a major, not just a political mistake, but a business mistake, right? They weren't thinking these things through, right? And so it

If you're in business and you come up with this big master business plan and it fails and you lose billions of dollars, your shareholders are going to demand a change. And that's one of the reasons I think we got a change in Washington. And we went back to the Trump policy because these policies were not only not working, they were actually hurting the average Americans. You know, and you think, you know, the reason why the union workers split.

flipped and went totally in on Donald Trump because they realized, hey, we're making electric cars. This is supposed to create these millions of jobs. I'm not seeing it. You know, I'm getting laid off because they're not selling these things. Right. I think when you look at the

The, you know, the competition between China, the U.S. and Biden administration, well, the future is competing, you know, with China to produce electric cars. And it's like, no, the future is producing electricity and data centers. That's the future. So they absolutely misjudged.

where the global economy is going. It's not electric cars. Electric cars are not going to drive the economy of the future. It's going to be data centers. It's going to be artificial intelligence. It's going to be things that's going to require a lot of energy. And energy, which means if you're going to compete, you better start working on the electric grid because you're

it's woefully inadequate. So instead of wasting money on some electric car fantasy, we should focus not so much on the cars that use electricity, but providing an electricity, not only for electric cars, but everything else that Americans are going to need and want to compete in

in the economy for the next, you know, 25 to 50 years. Gas prices, Thanksgiving coming up, finally coming down, I suppose. Is it supplies, demand? For all you people, yeah, all you people, you know, going over the river, through the woods to grandmother's house. I feel bad because I don't want to ruin it for everybody because everybody thought, oh, Thanksgiving, we're going to see gas below $3 a gallon right on Thanksgiving day.

And I think we're going to get close, but I don't know if the national average is going to quite make it. You can kind of blame California because they always screw up the national average, right? You know, but, uh, interestingly enough, I mean, we got data, um,

today from the Department of Energy that actually shows a gasoline demand surge back this week. And it's been very strong. And if you look at gasoline inventories, they're below normal. So for gasoline to go below $3 a gallon national average before Thanksgiving, it's going to have to be perfect.

We might get close, but I don't know if we're going to quite, you know, see 299 on that national average. Phil Flynn, Fox Business contributor, senior account executive at the Price Futures Group and author of the Energy Report, too. Phil, thanks. Thank you. A lot of fun. Thank you so much.

And now, some good news with Tanya J. Powers. Abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been honored in several ways in the past few years, with plans to put her on the $20 bill, naming a Chicago elementary school for her, and a bronze statue that's been ordered by the city of Philadelphia to go on display in 2025. But this week, on Veterans Day, she was posthumously awarded the rank of general in a ceremony in Maryland.

Tubman was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, and the formal event at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park made her a one-star brigadier general in Maryland's National Guard. She escaped slavery in 1849 and settled in Philadelphia, establishing the Underground Railroad Network, leading other enslaved black women and men to freedom.

Tubman was a scout, a spy, and a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War and helped guide 150 black soldiers on a gunboat raid in South Carolina. The reading of the official order on Monday was followed by a symbolic pinning ceremony with Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece, Tina Wyatt, who hailed Tubman's legacy, calling her a selfless person. Tonya J. Powers, Fox News.

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Subscribe to this podcast at Fox News Podcasts dot com. It's time for your Fox News commentary. Kennedy, what's on your mind? One of the most satisfying aspects of a Trump win, regardless of how you voted or where you stand on the political spectrum. Well, it's the hysterical reactions and it's not just the chuckleheads.

MSNBC who continue to lose their minds. And by that, they are giving us daily gifts of their insanity and inability to cope. But certainly they're not the only ones.

The most interesting group of election hysterics has to be the radical feminists who are following in the footsteps of a South Korean movement known as 4B or the Four Nose. Various reasons, according to New York Times reporting, there was a movement to shun dating, sex, marriage and childbirth.

saying no to all four of those societal pillars because somehow it's going to make you a better and happier person. So that's what radical feminists have decided to do to culturally appropriate a movement they don't really understand and become a bunch of angry and hysterical man-haters. So now they're taking themselves out of the dating pool. And at first I was like, wow, you guys are a bunch of shrieking knobs.

And then I realized that they're really doing everyone a favor. So, and some of these radical feminists are also shaving their heads. So they are letting men know very clearly who the nut broads are among us. So they just, they can go ahead and stay away from them. If you think that throwing yourself into that stinky swamp of,

and Miss Andri is going to help you and help society, then go ahead and do it. Take yourselves out of everything and just go be lonely cat ladies that J.D. Vance actively despises. I'm Kennedy, host of the Kennedy Saves the World podcast. ♪

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