bret: all right, dana. the christmas spirit has officially kicked off. i think dana had the hots for santa. i m not sure. fantastic here. a beautiful night. good evening. i m bret baier. we re going to get to some news now. oare negotiators getting close n a deal for release of some of the hamas hostages? we will get bipartisan reaction from the heads of the house foreign affairs committee. as former president donald trump dominates the polls, can he scratch off one name from his vice presidential list. we will bring that you story. and what could be the busiest thanksgiving travel week on record could get even tougher with a major storm system coming. bret: we are live in the plaza outside fox news world headquarters in new york. part of the christmas festivities here. hoped you enjoyed the lighting of our christmas tree. it s a great fest every year. they are also celebrating tonight at the white house where president joe biden turns 81. that fact causing him so
downtown to testify on the stand himself in his civil fraud trial 10:00 a.m. eastern awaiting that departure at trump tower. there is a possibility we ll hear from the president before he goes inside the courtroom. we ll cover that as it develops. first, however, democrats at each other s throats on israel. america s support for the war fracturing that party. hope your weekend was joyous. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. congratulations on the bengals. you have a lovely outfit on today. dana: compliments are out of the way. a growing number of democrats oppose president biden s support for the israeli war effort. you can see it in the polling. infighting is even spreading to the president s own re-election campaign. bill: also dividing the democratic base. look at this scene in washington, d.c. on saturday. thousands of pro-palestinian protestors flooding the capital wanting the u.s. to pull funding out of