morning. steve: you think so? starting with president biden mixing up the names of world leaders again on the heels of the scathing special counsel report essentially went tout say i m okay and then he said this. the president of mexico, ceci did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. steve: he is not the president of mexico e is the president of egypt. joe says he knows exactly what he is doing despite what he just did. brian: at least he didn t say mubarak. brian: trump wins nevada and virgin islands. ainsley: bahamas beach resort two kentucky moms say they were assaulted. the hotel says the surveillance footage isn t adding up. lawrence: fox & friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. and on this friday morning, we start with a fox news alert. the special counsel investigating president biden s classified documents case is not going to seek charges against the president and that s partially b
coming up this hour, home free. the emotional homecoming as the first group of hostages released by hamas are united with loved ones. a second set of hostages is expected to be released any moment now. we will have a live report of what is happening in the region and whether this fragile truce between israel and hamas can continue to hold. shock and awful. congress prepares to return next week, and nearly reach revealed interview highlights the extreme and shocking views of knew how speaker, mike johnson. even comparing abortion to an american holocaust. we ll have more on that in his mar-a-lago meeting with donald trump. later, sounding the alarm. a call for conservative leaders to stand up for donald trump s assault on the constitution. judge michael bedyk joins me live to a new legal movement to counter the danger of a second trump presidency. all of that and more is coming up. any moment now we are expecting news of yet another release of hostages by hamas in exchange for
Jeff goldberg is following the trump transition for us. What is the latest . Jeff certainly a big day today. Donald trump nominated former president ial candidate and republican rival rick perry to head the department of energy. You may remember perry is the individual who famously could not remember the name of the Energy Department during a debate in 2011 when he was talking about the Government Agencies he would eliminate. Trumps pick for secretary of state is getting more attention. Since donald trump named Rex Tillerson as no, maam fee nominee for secretary of state support is coming in from establishment figures. We couldnt be more grateful that someone of Rex Tillersons proven leadership and accomplishment is stepping forward to serve the nation. Jeff but critics have questions about the deep ties to russian president Vladimir Putin established through john mccain says the c. E. O. Has led a company that is funded efforts to deny climate change. They have been part of an effort
[radio communications] one minute you can go all the way around. [helicopter noise] whoa, geez [radio communications] were moving, were moving ahhh [explosions] no no no no [clock beeps] welcome back to the state farm postgame show. Curt well, two years ago matt ryan got a new head coach in dan quinn. He was brought to atlanta from seattle to try and replicate on the field the defense the seahawks had. So far the student has beaten the teacher head to head. Dan quinn gets the win. Hes with pam oliver. Pam you set your team up for this. How nice is it now that its happened . I know you have more work to do. For this city and for our fans, the connection, you feel it, so its awesome for them. We get to have a playoff game at home, its because of them so we are so pumped had to it. We knew this would be a hard battle and it for sure was. Those guys are as tough as they come. We knew it would be tough and it was. Pam emotional for you . It is. Mainly for our team. I know what weve put into
Times. A recent abc News Washington post polls shows his favorable rating is 45 work 54 having an unfavorable opinion. Joining me now with a look ahead jeffmorrows inauguration, greenfield and joining us from los angeles, president ial historian john meacham. Im pleased to have each of them here on the program. Kathleen, i begin with you, youre in washington, what is the mood of expectation there . Kathleen it promises to be rainy tomorrow, if trump is wise, hes got about 900,000 umbrellas printed with trump on them or make America Great again. Everyone is trying to guess what the president elect is going to say. Especially as he claims to have written it himself. As for the 60plus democrats who are not going to attend the inauguration, im curious to see who fills those seats and most of the action is going to be on the mall with all the protest groups coming in. I think theres Something Like 90plus, including all of those that dont require a permit because there are fewer than 25 to t