The President Prepares To Pass The Baton...To His Predecessor
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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 8th, 2024. I'm Jared Halpern. President Biden prepares to pass the baton to his predecessor. I think for him, one of the legacy issues he wants to get done is getting the hostages out of Gaza. We speak with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Breen.

I'm Jessica Rosenthal. The president-elect has promised mass deportations and a whole new handling of the border. So how might the logistics of all of this work? Reality is deportations will only be one element of what will ultimately be a multifaceted plan. And I'm Joe Concha. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown. ♪

President-elect Trump will be sworn in for a second time in 73 days. But between now and then, President Biden says his team still has a term to finish. Let's make every day count. That's the responsibility we have to the American people. Look folks, you all know, setbacks are unavoidable. But giving up is unforgivable.

setbacks are unavoidable. Giving up is unforgivable. The president spoke for the first time since election night from the Rose Garden, congratulating the winner, consoling his vice president, and calling for unity at the end of the campaign. Campaigns are contests of competing visions. The country chooses one or the other. We accept the choice a country made. I've said many times, you can't love your country only when you win. You can't

Love your neighbor only when you agree. Something I hope we can do no matter who you voted for. You see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans. Bring down the temperature. President Biden says the election results should also lay to rest questions about the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent. And it can be trusted.

Win or lose. Over the next 73 days, legal cases against President-elect Trump also need to be resolved. He is still charged in two federal cases over 2020 election interference in retaining classified documents and is scheduled for sentencing this month in New York.

This is the one where he was convicted on 34 counts in which critics felt like it was completely political in nature, this prosecution. Shannon Bream is the anchor of Fox News Sunday and the host of the Live in the Bream podcast. There's still so much to go with that case. Yes, next week, Judge Marchand is supposed to give us his decision on...

the decision that came from the supreme court their outline for immunity for official acts of a president that's what mershon's been looking at for the context of this case now will he come back next week and say that immunity really doesn't cover what happened here in new york or it does to some portion that's the first thing we're supposed to get from him and then you're right sentencing on the 26th if he if the case isn't thrown out on the immunity grounds

Now, in the interim, we've had this election. We did. It touches on federal issues like the DOJ, and we can talk about those federal cases. But it doesn't, I mean, the president could not pardon himself. Now, president-elect couldn't pardon himself from a state case. So, Mershon, who, as you know, as we covered the trial, did not make most decisions in favor of President Trump. What does he do now?

I'm fascinated to see what we get from him next week. Yeah, because we, and I do want to talk about the federal cases too, but that's a little bit more cut and dry because there is longstanding Justice Department funding

rules that you do not prosecute a sitting president. So the expectation is that Jack Smith would end both the D.C. case dealing with January 6th and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as well as the case down in Florida over the documents. Right. Those are essentially going to go away. It would appear so. I mean, now that President Trump will be the president again come January 20th,

Yeah, the DOJ is likely to Jack Smith is probably, you know, looking for ways off ramps where that goes. You know, President Trump made no secret of the fact that he wants Jack Smith gone for all the understandable reasons. But it's quite likely that the DOJ before President Trump gets there, you know, finds a way to wind down these cases.

So I think that essentially, however it happens, they will go away and they won't be prosecuted. Would those be decisions that would be made directly by Attorney General Merrick Garland?

You got to think so, although, you know, they always say special counsel is completely independent and they can do what they want to do. But DOJ has never prosecuted a sitting president. So it would seem that they realize these cases aren't going to go anywhere. Do we keep expending manpower and government resources on them? Do we wind them down before President Trump gets in and essentially is able to, you know,

maneuver his way to ending these cases in, you know, another way. What about the Hunter Biden cases? What happens to those? So he's still waiting on sentencing on both of those federal cases. And there's been a lot of talk about, you know, President Biden was so clear when repeatedly asked

whether he would take care of that person, whether he would pardon him. And we've talked about that, you know, like nearly every parent out there would understand if an outgoing president said, you know, I have the power to protect my son from going to prison. He's got his life on the right track. Now, I think most Americans would be like, OK, we get it. You pardon him. But he was so adamant about it.

which I found very surprising that he would not intervene in those cases. So we'll see what the sentencing is. I got to think if there's any jail time involved, how could you not when you have the power to save your son from going to prison? How could you not do that? But those sentencings are to come. Maybe it's probation, maybe maybe it's fines or some combination of things. But the president still retains the power to if he wanted to take care of wrapping up those sentences for his son before he'd leave office. The president elect could pardon Hunter Biden.

Well, that's the thing, is that you wonder if it would be an olive branch to, you know, half the country that is very upset and dismayed by the results of Tuesday night. What if you, as one of your first things as president, said, I'm going to wave this wand and this is going to be gone for the Biden family? I don't think President Trump is going to lose the people who were with him. The MAGA crowd is with him. I don't think that's something that would cause any attrition for him. And he doesn't have to run again. He's never running for office again. Right.

So it would, I think, though, go a long way in a lot of people's minds to kind of trying to heal up some of the divides. Let's talk about the Justice Department moving forward. During the course of the campaign, one of the big arguments that...

President-elect Trump and so many of his surrogates made was the weaponization of the Justice Department. Now, there are an awful lot of Democrats who are worried about that now coming the other way, given the talk about the enemy within, talk of retribution, and

Do you expect that to be one of the first decisions that the president-elect makes, maybe naming who he wants to be the attorney general? And what sort of influence can a president have over what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department?

Yeah. And you remember you saw the friction with him with one of his attorney, Attorney General's Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who did not in the Russia probe and all of that stuff. Yeah, right. And he many times felt like Jeff Sessions had pushed to should he wanted Jeff Sessions to be more defensive of him to really run interference for him.

But the AG is supposed to be independent because if they have to call out the president for unlawful activity, they got to be the person to do that and have the spine to do it. And so we saw how much he pressured Jeff Sessions and how Jeff Sessions on many of these things just simply batted him away, did not respond, didn't answer him, trying to maintain that independence and autonomy as attorney general. So he won't be calling Jeff Sessions to come back as attorney general.

But you see how it works when somebody is unwilling to cross a line for the sitting president. So it'll be very interesting to see. Again, he's a one-termer. He doesn't have to run again. And I think he's going to make very bold picks for some of these positions, knowing that he has a Senate that is going to confirm mostly, probably nearly everyone he picked. So I think that this president is going to feel very emboldened to say, listen, I

I did better than I did with a number of groups and built this multiracial, multiethnic, working class coalition of people who told me they want me back in this office. I've got the Senate, maybe I get the House too, so let's get something done. So there is pressure on them now because they've made big promises, whether it's about the border or the economy or anything else.

It will only be them that has to answer to the electorate in the midterms if Republicans are controlling everything. And, you know, usually in the midterms, the president's party gets really beaten up. Let's talk about the next three months. President Biden is still President Biden until January 20th. There is not a lot.

think on the domestic legislative agenda he's going to be able to get done. But presidents do have a lot of deference in foreign policy. I have seen reports that and not even reports. I mean, I've spoken to national security officials and others, and they've made no bones about it, that they are going to try and get as much of the Ukraine money out the door as possible. Right. Mm hmm.

What else do you expect from this president over the next three months? So listen, he has made a lot of big promises about ending the Ukraine conflict, about helping to wrap up what's going on in the Middle East. These are really protracted big problems. He does listen. He's been criticized for having a relationship with Putin.

for having some positive things to say about him. But he also very much views him as somebody who does not have American interests at heart. And I think at the end of the day, President Trump is the whole America first, you know, candidate. And that's where he's going to go. Now, I have always thought what he has telegraphed is that in getting this Ukraine Russia conflict ended, which, yes, hundreds of thousands of lives are being lost through this thing.

it would require some acquiescence of Ukrainian territory to Putin to say, like, we're done. But obviously critics worry that if he knows he can attack and get something out of it, like with Crimea, like with the latest war on Ukraine, will it not embolden him to act further?

But I think at the same time, there are concerns about how much further you let this go when it is costing lives, when it's costing a ton of money that, you know, there are a lot of Americans who are growing weary of how much we've sent to Ukraine while they are with the Ukrainian people. We have serious fiscal problems here. So it'll be very interesting to me to see how he gets. What does President Biden do in the next three months in trying to I mean, because that I mean, because that's really the only leverage he's not going to be able to get much done.

Right. That's over. But he still has an awful lot of discretionary spending that Congress has authorized for Ukraine, for the Middle East. He is still going to make some international trips. I imagine he will try and

I mean, does he have to try and like calm nerves in Europe? What does he do over the next three months? Well, you know what? I think for him, one of the legacy issues he wants to get done is getting the hostages out of Gaza. Right. And getting some sort of ceasefire there. I would think that he and his team are going to pour everything, not that they haven't been, but everything they've got left.

at that. I think he wants to be able to leave office saying, we got these people home, we got this thing solved. And with Sinmar out of the picture, and with Israel having really decimated Hezbollah leadership, and many other of their enemies,

It would seem like a good time to get back to the table because Senwar seemed to be for a lot of people, you know, the sticking point wouldn't take yes for an answer in many of these negotiations. So I think that the Biden team believes something there is doable and he would love to leave office having gotten those folks home and wrap that thing up. If you think the politics are contentious in this country, you should take a trip to Tel Aviv.

Not exactly an unfractured, undivided country on that strategy. Some political tensions happening in Israel as well. We will save that for another podcast. What do you, I mean, I can't even, do you, have you started planning Sunday yet? Yeah, you know, when I saw you in New York, you know, we were still didn't know how this was going to go down. I think that was Monday, right? We had no idea what was happening yet.

We had no, yeah, we had no idea. We didn't even know when we were coming back to DC. Exactly. Like where we were going to sleep the next five nights and whether we're going to be chasing court battles around the country or what was going to happen. Um, listen, Sunday's usually the minute the show's over. We start working on booking the next show. Um, so we definitely had some threads out, but, um, we had to wait for the dust to settle. So now that it's very clear how America felt Tuesday night, um,

You know, we're working to try to book somebody from the Trump transition team or one of the leadership folks that he's going to have to talk about the agenda, to talk about how you get that done. And obviously, Democrats, too. We not only want to hear, you know, how they're going to try to stand things up on Capitol Hill, what their plan is.

But kind of their postmortem, where do they see that they missed the mark with so many different groups? And there have been some Democrats to come out and bravely call out the party and say, listen, we really missed it with working class folks. We missed it with, you know, women with the margins that we thought we're going to have all these other things. So we hope to have a talk with them about how they move forward. And who's the leader of the Democrat Party?

party now that's a great question because there's a lot of criticism now being leveled at president biden did he wait too long to get out um that decision a lot of hand-wringing was 106 107 days enough time uh did he you know that yeah it seems to be a party um very much in transition right now and where do they go um yeah great questions we will uh be watching on sunday shannon bream always appreciate our chats get some rest this weekend you too my friend safe travels thank you

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A historic win for former President Donald Trump as he wins a second term in the White House. Now President-elect Trump is the second president in history to be elected to non-consecutive terms. Join me and my all-star panel on the Brett Baier podcast with co-anchor of the story, Martha McCallum, editor-at-large of The Spectator, Ben Dominich, and co-host of The Five, Harold Ford Jr. Available now on foxnewspodcast.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

This is Joe Concha with your Fox News commentary coming up. One of President-elect Trump's promises on the campaign trail was not just about the border, but about handling migrants who are already here. He's promised mass deportations, like at one of his final campaign stops at a rally in North Carolina. He said he may use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.

And if they come back into our country, it's an automatic 10 years in jail with no possibility of parole. The now president-elect had said he would ban sanctuary cities. Under Kamala, America is a sanctuary for criminal illegal aliens, and I will immediately ban all sanctuary cities in the United States of America.

During the campaign, we learned that there were more than 400,000 convicted criminals who are on immigration customs enforcement non-detained docket, including 13,000 convicted of homicide. Either way, the border, immigration, sanctuary cities will be a big focus

of a second Trump administration, but the logistics of things like mass deportations remains to be seen. It was such a top concern in this election for the American people. Charles Marina was a senior advisor in President Obama's Homeland Security Department. As it's tied directly to their safety and security and that of the country.

Yeah, we hear things like mass deportations. The reality is deportations will only be one element of what will ultimately be a multifaceted plan. Deportations, to be realistic,

would need to focus in a prioritized manner on national security threats, criminals, those that have overstayed visas, those that have failed to show up for their immigration hearings. And that's how it should be prioritized, to think that we have the resources in this country to find 10 to 15 million people who have entered the country illegally is just not realistic.

I also expect that there's going to be significant engagement with our international partners, something that's been missing the past four years. I expect pressure to be put on Mexico, for example, to immediately restore remain in Mexico, as well as other countries along the migration path in Central America, for example. The U.S. gives a lot of aid to these countries. Mexico, for example, is our number one trading partner.

So I expect President-elect Trump to come in, use money as a key negotiating tool, as he has historically done, and say, look, if you're not going to be a part of the solution to this problem in this hemisphere,

then we may withhold U.S. aid. We may add tariffs, for example, to things coming from Mexico into the U.S. And lastly, I expect the president-elect to address sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities receive hundreds of millions of dollars in public safety federal grants.

And yet they thumb their nose at law and order on a daily basis. They don't work with ICE when those in the country illegally commit crimes. But Charles, didn't we go down this road in the first administration and there was a whole legal fight over it and it ended up that you had to tie federalism?

to the specific issue at hand. It couldn't just be like, well, all federal funding to you, regardless of the issue is pulled. It had, so they ended up tying it to like cops grants, right? And law enforcement related funding. It sounds like they would be limited in scope to some degree.

It would be limited in scope. You would not have. You're absolutely right. You would not be able to withhold all federal grants going to these cities and states that claim sanctuary status. However, it can be very targeted to things related to public safety.

Since, you know, what sanctuary cities do fly in the face of common sense when it comes to working with officials from ICE, for example, to get very dangerous people prioritized for deportation. You know, you're going to see programs like secure communities make a comeback to 87 G, which was used by the Obama administration and the Trump administration.

This is where they take advantage of the 800,000 state and local law enforcement officers on the ground that when somebody in the country illegally is encounter committing crimes, they're immediately turned over to ICE or deportation. I also expect a lot of the technology to go away, like the CBP one app.

which has been highly criticized and rightfully so as some type of concierge service for those wanting to come into the country illegally to exploit claims of asylum to make their way into the country. I expect that to go away. And I expect overwhelming support for the men and women of both CBP and ICE to finally be allowed to do their jobs. I expect to see in

an implementation of a layered approach to security again down at the border. That means continuing to build the wall, expanding technology, and again, allowing the men and women of CBP to do what they signed up to do. Charles, the big thing that the former president has said that's received a lot of attention and pushback is when he says he will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

He said it most recently before winning the election that he would use it to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil. I've done a little bit of reading. Can can this be enacted or used without a declared war?

Yeah, that's a great legal question. I like to think that the program I just mentioned, Secure Communities, would greatly enhance the capabilities of the administration. Obviously, to enact what you just mentioned would require review by the Department of Justice to see if, in fact, it could be used. I get the point that the

president is making, and that is some very bad people have been let into the country, tied to the cartels who have never been as powerful as they are now because of the policies of the last four years. You know, we have this fentanyl crisis here in the United States, which is going to require engagement and

and handling of not only the cartels, but also of China, who provides the overwhelming majority of the synthetics used to produce this drug.

So there's a lot that needs to be done. The administration is gonna hit the ground running. They have no choice. They're gonna have to walk and chew gum. They're gonna have to do a lot of things at once. And exploring some of these, what I would say unique laws and authorities may be one of them. But I think the message here is that President Trump is not gonna leave anything on the table. He's gonna leave it all on the field.

in terms of getting these very dangerous people out of the country. It's got to be done. We know we're vulnerable, not just criminals, suspected terrorists.

And look, we've got a caravan coming to the United States right now through Mexico. Ultimately, that is keeping an eye on the clock right now because they know things are going to change. And now is their best chance to get into the country. Do you anticipate if he doesn't find success with Mexico?

some of the ways in which he promised he would do this, that he would, to your earlier point, use things like tariffs. I think he said that he would put a 25% tariff on everything imported from Mexico if they did not stop influx of migrants and drugs. So if you can't do it one way, you do it another way.

Yeah, I do. I think there's a lot of ways to implement an effective strategy to address all these. You know, the U.S. government has a lot of means at its disposal as part of a strategy. As we know, President Trump sometimes likes to negotiate out in public.

He's a big fan of what I call the information campaign. I expect that to continue as he stands up the office of the president-elect, the transition office, and is talking about these policies, making appointments to his cabinet.

at places like the Department of Homeland Security and DOJ. And I also think we're going to see a new approach to how the cartels are being handled. And I think that'll be part of the demand to Mexico is, look, if you can't handle this situation on your own, we're more than happy to help you. It's impacting hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.

And look, at some point in time, the problem of the cartels needs to be handled. They have morphed beyond just being criminal organizations. They operate like terrorist organizations. And we need to bring some of the tools that we use to fight terrorist organizations around the world.

State government might have something to say about this. I saw an interview with Massachusetts Governor Healey and she said that they would use executive power to block the Trump administration if they tried to do any of this, if they tried to do a mass deportation program. Might his efforts meet legal action or meet states that just simply refuse to cooperate here?

They anticipate that they will certainly get some pushback on what he wants to do. Sanctuary cities have proven that they will go above and beyond to provide a safe haven, not just for those in the country illegally, but those that go on to commit additional crimes, which is no way to keep the country safe. Flies in the face of common sense when it comes to homeland security. But yet they will...

in my opinion, some legal challenges to whatever it is that the president tries to do. But that's why you go after the money. If you recall, during the Trump administration, he briefly withheld money from New York City.

along these lines of their sanctuary status. And very quickly, New York City changed some of their policies. So money has a way of changing positions rather quickly. A lot of this money is used to fund law enforcement, it's used to fund counterterrorism. But look, if they're not looking out for the overall safety and security of their citizens, then why should they be receiving all this federal taxpayer money?

Charles Marino, former Department of Homeland Security advisor during the Obama administration. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, Jessica. And now some good news with Tanya J. Powers. A shelter dog who was rescued from North Carolina after Hurricane Helene has returned the favor, saving the lives of his new family in Pennsylvania. After the hurricane's devastation, Gabby Bannon said she wanted to do something to help. I

had been watching like news coverage and just seeing the devastation of what was happening and I said you know I really want to do something. So she and her husband volunteered to drive to North Carolina with an animal rescue group delivering pet food and other necessities. While they were there they loaded up 35 shelter dogs from the Humane Society to bring them back to Pennsylvania to find them homes. One dog in particular had an immediate effect on Gabby. I

I took him out of his kennel and it was just like there was something special about him. She adopted him, named him Rusty, and he rode back to Pennsylvania with them to his new forever home. A couple of weeks after Rusty joined the family, he did something extraordinary, saved their lives.

Gabby was asleep in a second floor bedroom when Rusty started barking and pacing. I was wearing a long sleeve sweatshirt and he jumped up and started tugging at my sleeve and he wouldn't stop. She knew instantly something was wrong. When I opened my bedroom door, there was smoke everywhere.

like filled the hallway. She got her two-year-old, six-month-old, and the pets out of the house. It was a small kitchen fire that she was able to go back into the house and put out, but she says it could have been a whole lot worse if Rusty hadn't acted so quickly. I don't like to think about what that would have looked like, but, you know, potentially we could have been trapped upstairs. She says she'll be forever thankful for him. It's almost as if he was meant to come into our lives and meant to...

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What's on your mind? Donald Trump's improbable, historic landslide on Tuesday night showed us why the so-called free press is dead and buried. Everywhere from CBS to NBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC to The Washington Post to The New York Times and countless others like Politico and The Atlantic were all in on defeating Trump with overwhelmingly negative and oftentimes patently negative

dishonest coverage and they failed miserably judging by the result.

Here were some of the headlines that we were privy to the days leading up to the Kamala Harris defeat. Washington Post, quote, another night at Madison Square Garden. How Trump's rally echoed one Nazi rally in 1939. Uh-huh. New York Times, Harris and Democrats lose their reluctance to call Trump a fascist. How about Politico? Meet the sleeper conservatives who could help fulfill Trump's promise to be a dictator on day one.

the Atlantic. Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. All right, you get the point. Overall, according to the Media Research Center, Harris received 78% positive coverage despite running the worst campaign we have seen in our lifetimes, while Trump

only got 15% positive coverage across ABC, NBC, and the CBS Evening News. Yet the guy won by a landslide. Go figure. Talk about a disconnect with the public.

But what this also shows is that the media's influence with the public is not only non-existent, but may even be repelling readers and viewers to view Trump as a sympathetic figure being bullied by a press that has lost not only all objectivity, but also its sanity. I'm Joe Concha.

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