welcome to this special edition of hannity . i m pete hegseth in for sean. and we begin with breaking news just moments ago, maine s secretary of state. her name is shannon bellows. all you have to do is remember that for 15 minutes. that s how long her fame is going to last. she just unilaterally she just unilaterally presidential primary ballotllot in pending appeal. why did she do that? sh the way he inflamed his supporters back january of 2021. well, here she is palling joe around with joe biden a few months ago. but i m sure, political bias had nothing to do with her decision. st s it just so happens that she was, one of the three biden electors in the state of maine in 2020. she s not a lawyer. never graduated from law school. but right after her announcement, she rushed straight on to msnbc just a few minutes ago to brag about her election meddling. trump now has five daysp to challenge this bizarre decisionhas fi maine s superiorz court. the trump campaign sa
principal on this kind of case. that s coming up later. we will learn things. we will fact check. i invite you to stick around for that. that s later. the speech you may have heard about is landing tonight around 7:00 p.m. eastern, inside of an hour. president biden s first ever address from the oval office. we have heard him from the white house before. this is a thing we in journalism and white house junkies keep track of. this is in the views of the biden team, a positive that they are summoning the grandeur of an oval office address, the first several years in to talk about breakthroughs on debt, the economy and the new jobs report. that s 7:00 p.m. eastern tonight in joy s hour. we will cover that. you will see the president and the reaction. we have that. as for this moment, our lead story is what we are learning about the clear lid blowing off a key part of trump s dewith this report that everyone has been talking about all week, that he himself said he knew things
in northern gaza and starting new offensive in the southern part of the region. idf is moving into the southern part while the u.s. tries to help the two sides bring an end to this war. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro, a lot going on that we will start feeling at home, we ll get into it with cory mills in a moment. carley: first trey yingst has an update from tel aviv. trey: israeli forces say they are close to completing high-intensity phase of this war in gaza. much has been in gaza jabalia neighborhood where troops from 551st brigade evacuated a group of civilians in a building. weapons were found at that school according to idf. difficult fighting taking place in southern gaza. death toll is rising with total of 137 killed since the ground operation began. they discovered new tunnels in gaza city used by hamas leadership. take a listen. from this infrastructure, they other than able to move and
outfront next, the war coming to russia. putin and his forces on defense as the kremlin vows to exterminate ukraine. plus, republican kari lake still obviously won t accept she lost the race for arizona governor, giving a keynote speaking slot at the upcoming georgia republican convention. why? well, a top georgia election official who publicly rejected trump s claims of election fraud and bravely so is outfront and china s brutal campaign against its own people now at a boiling point as chinese officials take on mosques around the country. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront, the war inside russia. there s a bold, new front in the war and it is on putin s territory. a russian official just this hour announcing that russia s air defense system shot down several ukrainian drones over western russia. that s just this hour. right? earlier today smoke rises over belgorod. new video in from there. you can see on your screen, belgorod is the russian
everyone. welcome to this special edition of sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. merry christmas to all on this christmas eve this morning. coming up, my exclusive visit with cardinal timothy do hand at the historic e st. patrick s cathedral, i was able to tour the historic can cathedral with the cardinal. he has a message for all of us this christmas. but first, america s safety. new data on who and how many people are flooding the u.s. border or. the implications to cities and citizens across the country with wisconsin senator ron johnson on the senate homeland are security and budget committees. then, election interference from joe biden s henchmen to communists in china. john ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence and former u.s. attorney, on the impact of tipping the scales against political enemies. plus, 2024 presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy and his wife, dr. apure v.a. is, weigh in on colorado s supreme court decision and the road ahead.