Maria welcome back. Good friday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im Maria Bartiromo. T i hop yoi hopeyoure having ay morning. Time for the hot topic of the hour democrats reportedly panicked of the strength of third party candidates, some say its the single biggest threat that helped put trump back in the white house. The Democrat National committee establishing an official commit the at this to counter third party candidates. President bidens team shielding biden from the press during a Campaign Event yesterday in michigan. Watch this. Can you take a few questions . Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you. Back to the car. Thank you. Maria thank you, thank you, get out of the way, thank you, no questions. A ashley, what do you sunshine. Do you suns think . I think it surprises many people. Its sad but its what we have. Maria thats what they have to do, cheryl. Were looking at a complete repeat of biden 2020. That campaign a is just on repeat. Mar
red sea as the risk to u.s. troops grows by the day. the u.s. navy helicopters destroy three iranian-backed houthi boats after they attacked yet another shipping vessel sunday. this marks the latest of roughly two dozen houthi attacks on international shipping since november. the u.s. navy because the ongoing assaults reckless, but says there are no signs of them slowing down. happy new year, and welcome to a special edition of fox news live. i m rich edson in new york. and i m anita vogel in los angeles. happy new year to you. the white house says the u.s. was acting in self-defense when it fired upon those houthi-operated boats. they say it s an all out effort aimed at preventing a wider war, that critics warn it is not the time to be on defense. this idea that we are just going to play defense, waste all our missiles, which is the benefit of the chinese and iranians, let the houthis fire at will not stop without any consequence, that s got to and now. anita: retire
the tentative agreement signed, sealed and ready to be delivered to congress for a vote later this week. the challenge now is getting both sides of the aisle to agree on it. good morning. i m griff jenkins. hour three. julie: a three-hour tour. i m julie banderas. welcome to a new hour of fox news live. some details. it raises the debt ceiling for two years while rolling back discretionary spending and capping any increase in spending for the next six years. both biden and mccarty taking their respective victory laps. president biden: no one got everything they want but that s the responsibility of governing. and this is a deal that s good news for i believe you will see for the american people. the agreement prevents default for the first time in our nation s history. the language on an agreement with the president that is worthy of the american people. it doesn t get everything everybody wanted but in divided government that s where we end up. it is a very positive bi
turn, do it anyway. in queens yesterday the crowd did just that. several crowd members took issue with rep alexandria ocasio-cortez s stance on immigration and funding for ukraine. we should eliminate the debt limit in the united states because of the constitutional [applause] you voted for. [shouting] are you going to stop this war, that s my question? let the veteran speak. alex: attendees of the conference did come to her defense. things change over time. alex: the congresswoman did wrap it uptaking photos with supporters and she released tweet afterwards thanking everyone who came out to the town hall stating we had such a f, and as you mentioned those who did lash out were let away by security, we will send it back to you. griff: end of that tweet, see you next month. can t wait to see what happens then. alicia. alicia: florida governor ron desantis officially joining 2024 presidential race as the gop field fills out. with us today is ashley davis, former j w
our country. maybe if you just oppose the republican party and you never want it to win another election, you are cool with that. but we will go deeper. that s coming up later tonight. i will explain more. i wanted to tell you off top, it s special. i hope you will stick around for it. the top story right now, it relates to the accountability crisis on the far right and another chunk of the gop as long as it s tied to donald trump. it involves, of course, all the different ways that there are boundaries in american life. others may wish they weren t held accountable this way. it is the lies that hurt donald trump and the lies that caused the insurrection and the lies that george santos was peddling that are getting smacked down in court. today, congressman santos dodging criminal prosecution in brazil after surrendering to authorities this week in new york. he pled not guilty on those 13 counts. he is claiming it s a witch hunt. that was new york on wednesday. now he confesse