ha ha, happy tuesday everyone, i am tom shillue in for greg gutfeld who i m told is busy fighting extradition. so before we get to the news, i thought it might be appropriate to look at some of the new year s resolutions from some famous names and faces. for example, president joe biden, his new year s resolution? continue to cheat death. hunter biden. find that envelope i left somewhere in the white house. commander the dog, eat more salads and fewer secret service agents. kamala harris, to resolve to make resolutions for the new year, because it s new and it s a year. [cheers and applause]. i might add stop laughing, that might help, too. the custodian who cleans the senate judiciary room. three words, use more bleach. brian kilmeade, i will continue to be the butt of greg s jokes. and finally randi weingarten, add 40 pounds to my bench press. she ll make it. on to the monologue. so i m looking over tonight s headlines trying to think of the perfect story to start the s
sean: welcome to special edition of hannity. i m patient safety it s in for sean. we hope you are having a wonderful christmas season. we begin with that is back in 2004 during the testimony to the 9/11 commission, lisa rice said the terrorists were at work with us but we were not yet at war with them. now a dark chapter of american history is repeating itself thanks in part to president joe biden. every week, there are and more attacks against our troops abroad. on christmas, three american service members were injured. one critically after a drone attack in iraqi. biden did order a retaliatory strike against the terrorist facility. but so far the response has been extremely limited. there have been more than 100 attacks against u.s. troops carried out by iranian proxies. since the beginning of the war in gaza. a conflict start by hamas barberic october 7th attack against israel. and it is now ongoing because hamas refuses to agree to a permanent or temporary cease-fire
claudia: welcome back to a special edition of fox news live. former president donald trump asking a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal case alleging he interfered in the 2020 election. the president and his legal team claiming absolute presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. welcome to a brand-new hour of fox news live. merry christmas, i m claudia cowen. i m rich edson. trump s filing with the u.s. court of appeals in d.c. comes one day after a big setback for special counsel jack smith. the u.s. supreme court refused his request to fast track his immunity claim for trump. the case hinges on whether president trump was acting as president or a candidate. his strategy is to run out the clock and he has a lot of tools to do that. and he may be successful. the issue here i think everyone agrees that there is something called absolute immunity for your official functions, if you are performing an official function the president has immunity and
welcome to inside politics. i m phil mattingly in for dana bash. the friday before christmas is supposed to be slow, but there s no shortage of major news right now, including a new report about pressure the then president put on officials in michigan after the election. but at any moment, the supreme court could announce whether it ses fast tracking a a decision on donald trump s claim he s immune from prosecution if i for trying to you are overturn the election. i they want a quick decision to move forward with the trial. trump wants to delay if as much as possible. we start things off with katelyn polantz in washington. what s so striking here is it may seem procedural, but my goodness, the stakes here could not be higher. reporter: they are. i can t risk getting into the weeds on this. but it is a really big deal. that became so apparent in the way that the justice department wrote about this issue to the supreme court yesterday. they wrote that this issue of presiden
executive action on the border crisis as shocking scenes like on the screen become too often. you are watching fox and friends, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. the numbers are staggering, 200,000 crossings just this year. todd: the biden admin strigz just closed both crossings this week while illegal activity reign supreme. carley: alexandria hoff has more from washington. alexandria: timing of the letter coincides with influx you were just talking about. in appeal to the president yesterday, speaker johnson wrote southern border of our nation is being overrun and border protection is at a breaking point. i urge you to take executive action to stem the record tide of illegal immigration. speaker johnson called on the president to end catch and release and see a grant parole on case-by-case basis, instead of a sweeping role and see president reinstate the stay in mexico program. the white house says they are doing all they can. it is not unusual, this im