Scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. Im Edward Lawrence in for neil cavuto. This is a Special Edition of your world. The first of 2023. More on the tax hikes in just a moment. First to chad pergram where the Leadership Drama is unfolding. Chad . Edward, its been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but theres five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. Kevin doesnt have the votes. Theres more than five people. Youll see that as we go into the election on january 3. There was 36 people that voted against Kevin Mccarthy on the conference vote. Mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. They demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speakers election in the middle of the congress. He agreed. Some members still have reservations. Rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. You think the package has moved any votes to yes . Yes. What will you do if you dont have 218 on the first ballot . If theres no clear winner, the house must vote again and again and again. It took three days in 1923, two months in 1856 to pick a speaker. The house is paralyzed with no speaker. They cant even swear in the members. Al some point, reality sets in. Until you elect a speaker, nothing else happens. You cant investigate hunter biden or cut the budget or do anything. This goes on too long, the republican brand gets really damaged and the base gets really demoralized. Mccarthy needs an outright majority of all members voting for a candidate by name. Not the most votes. But twice in the 19th century the house changed the rule on the fly to elect a speaker after it struggled for weeks. Edward . Chad, before you go, are through any other names bubbling up if mccarthy cant win the first vote . Andy biggs the republican from arizona will get votes in the first ballot. Were told the republicans that oppose mccarthy will bring out some other candidate. They have not announced who that person is. Its hard to see how they could compete with Kevin Mccarthy. Chad, thanks for being all over it. Appreciate it. A divided congress is expected to put a pause on the taxing and spending. But the Group Americans for tax reform says households need to brace for what just kicked in. It sees new taxes from democrats Inflation Reduction Act driving up your energy bills. Despite this, the president s Pledge A Goon to make anyone less than 400,000 a year to not be impacted. Here to discuss this, steve moore and oil analyst phil flynn. The first is a 6. 5 billion natural gas tax that could drive up the average familys Natural Gas Bill by 17 . Phil, to you. Is that a cost that will be passed on to all americans, not just the rich ones . Not only will it, its happening right now. Just in the anticipation of these new taxes, were going to be producing less natural gas. Were seeing less investment. That is already driving up costs. If youre at home and you tonight like your heating bills, get ready. This is just the beginning. Once President Biden starts pushing through his new 1. 7 trillion Spending Bill, antifossil fuel bill, the cost for every morn will go through the roof. I want to bring in steve here. The president is playing word games. Hes not going to raise taxes on americans less than 400,000 a year and put taxes on natural gas. The irs is changing the thresholds. That will hit more middle americans. Not specifically a tax increase but all americans will be paying more. You Better Believe it. Look, the most important tax, edward, you havent mentioned yet, which is the inflation tax. That is basically when prices go up, thats a tax on every time you go to the Grocery Store. Its like a sales tax of 7. 1 that americans paid this year in terms of higher prices at the gas station and Grocery Store. I went to the Grocery Store the other day. I felt the impact of that. The sneaky ways that Congress Wants and the Administration Want to raise taxes. One of the things theyre doing that is really controversial and hit the middle class is this 60 oh any transaction you make of 600 or more would be invested by the irs. You have to keep paperwork, you have to keep track of the transactions. By the way, its normal for people like the three of us that buy things 600 or more. Not just millionaires and billionaires. Yes, this will impact the middle class in a big way. I spent 600 on a plumber yesterday. So phil, theres been no change in policy on the energy side of this. So no matter how painful or how low the poll numbers have been getting for this president , you expect the same course in 2023 . You know, i think we will. You know, when you see that senate and Minority Leader mcconnell meeting with President Biden in front of a bridge on the Infrastructure Spending shows that the parties are still not against all of this spending. Listen, Everybody Knows we need Infrastructure Spending. This type of willynilly spending to try to rebuild the infrastructure and penalize fossil fuels in favor of Alternative Fuels which are more expensive are only hurting the american people. This is the type of policies that creates economic delays. You discourage production, encourage higher taxes. That means people have less jobs and less opportunity. Yeah, i want to get to this just quickly, steve, before we move on. We discussed last week the president signed 5. 8 trillion in spending since being in office. The Green New Deal was seven trillion in spending. Democrats have succeeded. Where is the green utopia and the stable economy . This is supposed to be a stimulus economy. What were seeing at one point Gasoline Prices went up to as much as 6 a gallon. The home heating costs, many people are estimating could double or triple what you normally pay. Its another form of taxation. When you looked at those statistics, edwards, that just put on the screen about the difference between how much wages went up for workers versus inflation, the Heritage Foundation says that is about a 4,000 increase in costs above inflation for what the Average American. The Average American makes less than 400,000. Eating a lot of money there. Steve, phil, great debate. Well continue this in to the new year with neil. Happy new years. Its a major travel day and now theres major delays due to a Computer Glitch in florida. To Charles Watson in atlanta with this developing story. Charles . Yeah, good afternoon. So the faa says that the issue is due to an air Traffic Control system failure that is currently being resolved. Meantime, the problem has led to hours long delays for Air Travelers that are trying to make it in to florida. The faa confirms to fox news that a Computer System known as eram en route Automation System that regulates the flow of traffic in to florida is at the center of this. According to wtvj, the radar caused a nationwide ground stop of all planes headed to and from florida. That ground stop has since been lifted, but there is a lot of traffic up in the skies. So the faa has slowed the number of flights that enter into florida airspace so airports can better manage the congestion. At this hour, the miami area appears to be affected the most according to flight aware. Miami international is experiencing delays of anywhere between 1 1 2 hours to 1 hour and 45 minutes with about 134 delayed flights as we speak. Ft. Lauderdale international is seeing delays in about the same time frame as miami international. Orlando international is also seeing some disruptions. Considerably shorter with delays now sitting anywhere between 30 to 45 minutes. Tampa international appears to be doing well considering the situation. It posted on twitter that miami air Traffic Control is having some issues at the moment, but almost all flights in and out of tpa are unaffected. So at this hour, you know, folks are facing a lot of delays. You heard it, anywhere between 1 1 2 hours to 1 hour and 45 minutes. The faa says the issue with that Computer System is being worked on right now. Boy, what a frustrating Holiday Travel people for folks heading with the Holiday Destinations and now this as they try to make it back home. Charles, its a mess flying in to miami on a good day. I can imagine what its like for folks at the airport there. Thanks, Charles Watson in atlanta. Fresh attacks in ukraine ramping up. President zelensky not backing down. Where does the former independent senator Joe Lieberman see the conflict going . Hes next. And live in moscow, idaho where the suspect in the College Murders will be heading. No sign of a Murder Weapon. 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We know there was a lot of blood at the scene. We know police bagged the hands of the victims, some of whom had defensive wounds to preserve any potential dna from the ill canner. Kohberger didnt have a criminal record so his dna was not in the federal database. This is where Genetic Genology is used. We speak with a pioneer in the field who helped police solve 250 cases by analyzing 1 million genetic markers each time. You do that piece by piece by piece. Each of us has a unique family tree, unique set of ancestors except for full siblings. If we have new data and enough matches, we can narrow it done to just one family and often just one individual. The Police Investigation is far from over. Now theyre trying to answer the question why. They searched his Office Yesterday where he finished his first time in the criminalology ph. D. Program and a teaching assistant. They searched his apartment and police are still getting help from the public with four new tips since his arrest. Police departments believe the person in custody, which would be kohberger is responsible for the crimes. Were continuing to investigation and looking into all aspects. He has been named as our suspect and we believe hes the one that is responsible. Late yesterday, kohbergers broke the silence to the family. They said kohberger plans on waiving extradition at a hearing in pennsylvania. If that happens, he could be flown out to idaho as soon as tomorrow night. At the earliest, he would be in court with the charges being filed wednesday. Thats when that document that probable cause affidavit would be unsealed. Thats when we would get information on what led police to arrest this guy. Andrew . Dan springer, thank you in moscow, idaho. A couple busy days for you. Lots of Unanswered Questions still. The read now on this case from Forensics Expert joseph scott morgan. We heard about the Cell Phone Data saying that brian may have been following some or all of the victims. Kohberger is eager to exonerate himself. What kind of things will have to piece this puzzle together if police dont have a Murder Weapon . Just the dna tie back. Thats solid gold. If they can put him inside of that residence just from his genetic signature and if he removed anything from that scene and went to that car his car, theyve been looking for for a while now. That car, i want people to understand how important this piece of evidence is. That car was a rolling crime scene. If it was used as a conveyance from the scene in moscow, he got in the car and went back to his apartment, we can pretty accurately say that he was probably drenched in blood. He was super saturated. Four victims that were stabbed. There was a lot of blood. We dont want to talk about that but thats the reality of it. He would have transferred that evidence to that vehicle. The fact that he was Still Holding on to this vehicle, they found this vehicle in pennsylvania. He traveled across the country in this thing. Very important piece of evidence there. So what would what do you have to say about the dna . So much dna evidence has been collected for this. You talked about how messy the crime scene was. How do you determine what is vital and what might have been there from before the crimes happened . Yeah fantastic question. We know the occupants there. Two individuals were spared. We have the four that were in dwelling the house that lost their lives. And any intimate partners that were associated with the residence that lived there, their dna would have been harvested as well. Then after all of the dna at the scene is collected what is important is you eliminate those that you know and you look for those unknowns. Who do you have among the samples that are unknowns. This place has been stated to have been a party house. So youll have like touch dna. Its fragmented dna. Im talking about rich dna sample that comes from any body fluids. Doesnt just have to be blood. It can come from sweat, semen, fecal matter, skin. I think beneath their nails may rest the answer. I want to get this in in the last 30 seconds. Hypothetically, lets say that Police Arrested the right person and hes a criminalology ph. D. Students. Does that complicate because the case because he knows the inside of the system and how this works . He might know some about the inside of the system. He doesnt know much about Forensic Science. Those are two different studies. Anything that he knew about Forensic Science is something that he learned peripherally. He might have an interesting criminal behavior. At the end of the day, its not going to save whoever did this from the science. Thanks, scott. Coming up, Border Patrol agents not getting a break over the holiday weekend. First to ukraine. The capital city of kyiv has been rocked withe days in a row. Nate foy is there. Edward, three russian air strikes in three days. 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People are not ready to give up any territory and theyre angry that the strikes continue. Russia has launched four strikes in the past five days including three strikes in consecutive days. Actually today its ukraine that is landing the most deadly strikes. In the east part of the country, killing at least 63 mobilized Russian Service members. Russia says the number of killed soldiers is 63. Ukraine says it could be up to 400. Russias Defense Ministry says they used the Himars Rocket System in this strike. The kyiv regime struck with six u. S. Made himars multiple Rocket Launchers of one of the united of the Russian Armed forces. Russian air Defense Systems shot down two himars missiles. Edward, thats one of the four regions that russian claims to have annexed. This comes after russian launched over 20 missiles new years eve. Two people have been killed in that strike. Dozens more have been injured. Take a look at this next video. On new years day and this morning, russia launched a new wave of iranian made drones right about at midnight each night. Ukraine says last night they shot down all 41 drones and shot down all 45 drones the night before that. President zelensky says ukraine can expect more drones to come. Listen to, this. We have information that russia is planning a protracted attack using drones. Theyre probably banking on exha exhaustion. Exhausting our people. Er with learning about a Ukrainian Drone strike within russia. They knocked out pow other the surrounding region for 12 hours but its since been restored. Back to you. Stay safe, nate. Edward meantime the State Department is warning about chinas ties to russia after russian president Vladimir Putin held a Video Meeting with chinese president xi jinping. Joe lieberman is here to discuss. Senator, how concerning are these conversations for you . Well, they are concerning for me. Im really glad the State Department has warned the chinese that these are risky conversations for them that they dont really need. What i mean is, if they go too far in giving russia more than verbal support in their invasion of ukraine, such as giving them military aid or doing anything that would violate current u. S. And european sanctions against doing business with russia, we will slap china with more sanctions. Thats the last thing that they need as they try to deal with post zero covid Policy Crisis in their country. Edward senator, would this president really slap sanctions on china . You lump in the fact that the russian president said he will meade face to face with the chinese president in the spring. China is buying more russian oil than ever. Has this administration, do they need to stand up more to china and say cut it out . Well, i think the Biden Administration simply has to do that. I think they will if the chinese get more aid to the russians, particularly associated with ukraine. Incidentally, as you know, theres strong bipartisan support in congress for doing whatever we can to support the ukrainian Freedom Fighters is what i call them against the russians. Theres also bipartisan support to take action against the chinese. I tell you, in one sense, putin and xi need each other. Theyre two communist country leaders that are going through a hard time both because of their own decisions. Putin because of his unnecessary invasion of ukraine and xi because of his zero covid policy, which created havoc in his country that people rose up against him. The passionate pursuer here is putin of xi. Xi has the most to lose from a close relationship with russia and putin. China is a great country. Putin and russia are declining power and xi would do best to break as far as he can from russia. If you read the transcript of that recent phone call between the two of them, its clear that putin words about the relationship are a lot stronger than were positive than xis. Theres a good reason for that. Edward so in the last 30 second or so, why do you think then that the sanctions dont seem to be having an effect or at least not getting the russians to back off . I think that yeah, i think the sanctions are having an effect, although the russians are able to end end some of them are in regard to their oil sales because they are selling more to china and to india. But the real reason here is what started this war. Putins dream of recreating the russian empire. It was no need to invade ukraine. Its one of those cases where he clearly has shown how weak the Russian Military is. They cant win on the ground, so theyre killing people from the air. Weve got to help the ukrainians defend themselves. Putin just cant its the old story, when youre in a hole, its good to try to get out instead of digging yourself deeper. Putin cant see that logic. Edward thanks, senator. Thank you. Thanks, edward. Happy new year. Edward Happy New Year to you, too. For every day, americans was a last year for stocks. Billionaire investor ken fisher says all is not lost in 2023. Hes here next. And youre looking live at the white house. President biden returning from winter break where he signed another 1. 7 trillion in spending in to law. Jacqui heinrich is all over it. Jacqui . Edward, republican critics say that bill will only worsen an already fragile economic recovery. You will not hear that from any Administration Officials planning to promote bidens past spending he got through under democratic control of congress. Just as he enters this new phase of his presidency. A bunch ofs made up work, way back when. Its our turn now well make it up again. Well build freelance teams with more agility. The old way of working is deader than me. Well scale up, and well scale down before youre six feet underground. Yes, this is how, this is how we work now. Edward job back from his winter vacation. Hes set to deal with his divided congress. To Jacqui Heinrich in st. Croix with the latest. Jacqui . Hi, edward. President biden dodged questions here in st. Croix about his agenda for the new year. He just landed back at the white house. Hes talking to the press. Well play that as soon as we get it. Its tougher for the president to pass the legislation that he was able to get through undemocratic control of congress. So the white house is planning to highlight his past achievements and also effort more bipartisanship with the gop. Spokesman andrew bates signals as much would be coming in a yearend memo. He said President Biden has been explicit and eager to keep working with his republican colleagues. He goes in the new year with his hand outstretched ready to keep putting country ahead of party. Biden will start with a trip to kentucky touting the fracture law with mitch mcconnell. Other officials Pete Buttigieg and Vice President kamala harris. He will also fan out later in the week to do the same thing as what some might say laying the ground work for a 2024 run. The white house is framing his past challenges as progress made. In a memo saying american ends 2022 better positioned than other Major Economies with solid growth, a Res Silient Labor Mart and when Prescription Drug laws take effect this month. Annualizedheadline inflation has moved from 11. 3 over the first three months to 3. 7 over the last three months. But the administrations critics see 2022 much differently. Day. What we havent seen is a shift in tone from this administration. Sure, thll go to saudi arabia and beg for oil. Theyll take with venezuela. What we need to do is unleash american energy. If we do that, we can unleash prices at home. Critics also say the 1. 7 trillion Spending Bill that the president signed while he was here in st. Croix will also only worsen the very fragile economic recovery. So not a lot of change in terms of where the two camps are positioned heading into the new year, edward. Thanks. The president did answer one question as he went into the white house. He talked about the kentucky trip that he has coming up wednesday. Well get that later on. Thanks. Now to wall street. Ahead of the first trading day of 2023 testimony, investors more thankful than ever to leave 2022 behind. Our next guest wants to be plenty surprised. Lets get the read from ken fisher. Why do you think well be surprised in this coming year . Well, first, edward, thanks for your time today. Why be surprised . Because expectations are low enough that it doesnt really have to be a great year to have a great stock market. As i said in my Christmas Day New York Post column, this year is 2022, the closest year to 1966 that you can find in history in terms of all of the specifics that had people concerned including a historical standards minor bear market, bottoming in october. Fourth quarter positive with an average midterm quarter of 6 . Thats all exactly what weve had this year. And in fact, then 1967 was a bull market, 24 . But you cant really find the first half of the third year of a president s term that has been negative ever in the history of the superior 500 ever insurance september for 1938 going to world war 2. 1939. Excuse me. And the fed keeps doing what theyre doing stupidly thinking that its going to fight inflation but raising rates, not understanding that the Control Mechanism is supposed to kill lending. Lending continues to be robust because the Bank Cost Bases are so low. Edward i wanted to ask about that. The feds rate hikes and tightening have been leading the markets. The fed is predicting two more or three more smaller rate hikes. Will the fed drive the market again next year in 2023 and are we near the bottom then for the markets about mid year . I believe the Market Bottom is october 12. We had a 6. 4 Fourth Quarter in the s p 500. The market is flattish since june. People have a hard time accepting that. The fact of the matter is, what the fed does doesnt work in the Fourth Quarter as they raised rates. The day they did things and markets tended to react negatively. Overall, the positive Fourth Quarter as they raised rates. They dont get the notion that they cant kill off lending do ugg what theyre doing because intermediate loans can be done at 6 plus with a cost base for the banks that is almost nothing today. Theyre awash with near zero cost bases. Deposit base zero costs or near zero cost is the highest its ever been. The deposit base is 36 higher than it was at the end of 2019 precovid. The banks are going to keep lending. 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All they demonstrated that because they have taken no steps to implement any policies that would make a difference, theyre showing that they dont care. They would rather people stream across the border the way theyve been doing it, overwhelming our resources and preventing Border Patrol agencies from doing the job in the field. Its gotten to the point that processing has been the priority all year and for a good chunk of last year as well. Agents that happen to be in the brush chasing people that illegally crossed will get a phone call from their supervisor saying stop what youre doing, get back to the station to process people that turn themselves in. You know, its interesting. Since october 1, theres been a Record Number of encounters at the southwestern border according to da that that fox news obtained. Another record this Biden Administration says that Vice President has been working on the root causes of this. She was named Border Czar In March of 2021, about 21 months ago. Have you seen any progress on the root causes . No. At this point, we saw that you dont have to go to the root causes to stop people from crossing the way theyve been doing it. The federal government has had decades to solve root causes. Theres been no change of it. If they cared about Border Security and they still wanted to let people in to request asylum, they could do that and let Border Patrol agents do their job. Instead, their policies are around letting people cross and pretending that theyre trying to do something. Edward the latest data that fox obtained, the agented observed 240,000 gotaways since october 13. I heard it could be a Million People total that have gotten into this country without being stopped. You know, what will it take to address the issue . That is a National Security issue, isnt it . Thats right. If agents are back in the field doing their job, youll see that number come down dramatically. Were expecting december to see over 70,000 gotaways. Thats just what we know about. Theres a huge group of people that we never see because were not out there and a bunch of other people that were sure that they crossed but were not sure. Its no way to know how bad it is. The numbers that we see are ridiculous. John, doing yeomans work on the border. Thank. Happy new year. So to new york city. The suspect if the times square Machete Attack charged with Attempted Murder today. He tar getted police officers. We dig deeper in to what happened next. Ill remember that chapter of my life forever. We laughed, we cried, we protected that Progressive Home auto bundle day and night. We were all of us dazzling. Like knights sworn to protect our kingdom. We knew it wouldnt last forever, but. Thats what made it special you know well be back tomorrow, right . Yeah, but itll never be today again. [ groaning ] just get on the bus, flo Type 2 Diabetes . Discover the ozempic® trizone. 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Side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. Join the millions already taking ozempic®. Ask your Health Care Provider about the ozempic® trizone. Been the man accused of attacking police with a machete near times square on new years eve charged today with Attempted Murder. Foxs own david spunt is here with the latest. Edward, members of Law Enforcement plan for every possible scenario for big events like new years eve. This is unique because the suspect was known prior to the attack. I want to be clear the fbi through the joint Terrorism Task force is working very close with them to determine the nature of the attack and we will run every lead to ground. Trevor bickford praise the Islamic State in the past which concerned authorities in the past few weeks. This attack occurred at 10 00 p. M. On new years eve blocks from times squares security checkpoint. Bickford pulled out a machete style knife. Three injuries. He was sent to the hospital after an officer shot him in the shoulder. On new years day, investigators visited his home near portland, maine. A lot of people stunned by this news but right now the priority, edward, his for authorities to investigate and see if they will classify this as an official act of terrorism. Suddenly a scary situation, good news, edward, all three of these officers expected to make a full recovery. Edward stunning no one was killed. I appreciate it, david spunt, thank you. If the suspect was on the fbis radar, lets turn to former fbi investigator bill daley on why the red flags were missed. What do you think happened . Hi, edward. People put on a watch list, theres kind of a hierarchy. People who present an immediate threat and those people who present perhaps more distant threat. It means that they are there and if the name comes in to some other investigation, they may raise the profile of that person up. In this case, i believe what happened last summer when his relatives, some relatives called authority saying they were very much concerned about his behavior. Perhaps it was looking at various sites but certainly talking about a radicalized view and they notified authorities. Edward what is the Tipping Point for an fbi investigator to say we need to act on it . Certainly if theres any connection about any other individuals known or suspected of Terrorist Activities or if the profile does pop up on either social media or other platforms where people may go to gather information or communicate about Terrorist Activities, those type of things that would raise the profile up. A broader view here is the fact that there are people still in this country, no matter what we have gone through here with covid and gone through with the challenges of the past couple years, terrorism and terrorism globally hasnt retired. There are people out there looking to commit acts, whether this person is found to be a lone wolf type of individual or not remains to be seen. But there are people out there. People as we know, about 100 or so have been stopped at the border, not to say those people coming across who were on a watch list. Edward in the last 30 seconds, people might wonder and why the fbis putting resources and tracking parents and board meetings or attacks on a house of someone who supports a Prolife Movement but holds back on Something Like this. David, i wouldnt say theyre taking resources out of domestic or International Terrorism and put things into other resources or other investigations. I dont want to have people been misled to that point. This is in fact many people are put on lists for various reasons. It depends on where they fit on the list of the reasons why theyre on the list kind of gives them a level of attention that may or may not be required. I appreciate it. Thank you for your insight. The first of 2023. Hope you have a good one. Thanks for joining us. Neil will be back tomorrow. In the meantime, you know what, the five starts right now. Judge jeanine hello, everyone, i am judge Jeanine Pirro along with Jessica Tarlovd jesse watters, dana perino and world heavyweight champion tyrus. Its 5 00 in new york city and this is the five. Welcome to our new years special. Its been a busy year for usr fo here on the five, covering all the big stories. We have covere