hillary vaughn drew blood. >> jeanine: hillary vaughn is my hero. she had one after the other after the other. how disappointing -- and that is a very soft word -- is that the head of apple is literally taking a position that the chinese government -- the only cover -- the only country in the world that wants to limit airdrop -- so protesters can invade that policing by the chinese communists and communicate with each other. once they are identified as protesters, they are taken and beaten and we never hear from them again. for tim cook to not answer a question, when it is so antidemocratic and it's all about the money for him. to watch the opposite of that with twitter -- we are now learning that twitter is involved in the election, or was involved in the 2020 election, and was putting certain information higher up or suppressing certain information, and then -- on top of it. united states government is in the business of suppressing free speech, and they are doing it for political purposes, and that is just plain wrong. >> jesse: and elon musk sai

hillary vaughn at the white house with more on the story of ftx. hillary? >> reporter: good evening, liz. sam bankman-fried has changed his mind. he now has agreed to be extradited to the united states. sources telling fox he should be back in the u.s. as soon as tonight and is expected to be released on bail but ultimately that is the judge's call. bankman-fried showed up in court today reportedly appearing disheveled, kept his head in his hands, shaking his knees during the proceedings. bankman-fried will soon be here in the u.s., democratic campaign groups he gave millions of dollars to are weighing their options looking to give back about a million dollars in donations. the democratic party's three top campaign groups say they are setting aside the campaign cash from sam bankman-fried. the dnc saying this, quote, given the allegations about potential campaign finance violations by bankman-fried we're setting aside funds in order to return the $815,000 of contributions since 2020. we will return as soon as we receive proper direction in the legal proceed

hillary vaughn went after tim cook, good for her asking questions what are you going to do about china and abuses there? that was reports they will start to move production out of china, not completely, looking at india, vietnam, iphone production could be coming out of india, right now 85% comes out of china, it is called iphone city, where all the protests were. that is one issue. you could do airpods and max out of vietnam, that is reports anyway. tim cook has a problem, he didn't look good when hillary vaughn went after him, pregnant, he was stone faced, look at his face, looking down, looking away stone cold, he has a big pr problem right now and you can't support human rights abuses and go to sleep and feel good. >> ashley: a few years ago, he actually said if you stay sileents, you are compliant and he is staying silent. >> cheryl: that was summer of 2020 in the middle of protests rocking this country, but he is silent when hillary vaughn asks what is happening in china? 300,000 workers are in iphone city. >> griff: he will not even talk about the relationship between apple and

hillary vaughn. >> hi, neil. well, celebrities are used to the spotlight, not necessarily the holt seat. but one celebrity that was a paid endorser of ftx's crypto exchange was found -- testified here on capitol hill because lawmakers are looking for answers from ftx's star-studded rolodex of celebrity endorsers that sam bankman-fried shelled out millions to. there's a class action lawsuits of paid faces that got paid to endorse ftx including shaq and kevin o'leary and tom brady. crypto doesn't get a free pass because it's shiny and bright or its tv campaigns were witty and featured famous people especially when so many consumers are at risk of losing hard earned money. that's before we consider how crypto has ushered in a new dimension of fraud. >> o'leary said he was paid $18 million to be a spokesperson for ftx. he had about a million invested in ftx and 10 million in tokens held in ftx wallets. everything is gone. he says he tried to get answers from sam bankman-fried about where it went. >> i simply called s

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with a look at what's buried deep in the text. hillary. >> hi, john. this rush to get congress home before christmas means a lot of pork is in the spending package, they don't like but they will vote anyway because they don't want the shut down. earmarks, the taxpayer dollars for pet projects in tdistricts are back in a big way. 7,000 in the bill, adding up to $15 billion total, like things like $65 million for the restoration of pacific salmon populations, 3 million for bee friendly highways, 3.6 million for michelle obama hiking trail, 3 million for lgbtq+ museum in new york city, 200 million for gender equity action fund, and 300,000 a year for the continuous plankton recorder. >> all the democrat priorities seem to make it in. 98% of all democrat earmarks, over 3,000 of them have made it into the final package. why are we paying for the pet projects when we have real problems in our country? >> there are some republicans, though, who cashed in on the return of pork. senator john thune and elise stefanik secured funding, and de

hillary vaughn on capitol hill this morning. hillary, china's lack of transparency is a big concern as always. reporter: yeah, especially as they drop their sow row covid policies and come companies aren't sure they can trust if there's another bad outbreak in china they'll tell the rest of the world about it and some companies are ramping up testing for covid and four people traveling from china and italy started testing out travelers from covid to china and tried to get the european union on board and eu rejected plans to do that. here in the u.s., testing for travelers for china will start january 5th and president biden approving of the country-specific testing requirement and in the past he called trump's travel restrictions targeting china xenophobic. >> this is no time to talk about tram's record of -- trump's report of hysteria and xenophobia and leading the way instead of science. >> some are skeptical that testing two days before traveling are enough to keep potential outbreaks at bay and testing two days before travel

hillary vaughn, thank you. joining me now bianco research president and the european union passengers from china is unjustified and two flights from china to where do you come in from the mandating of travelers from china. spring of 2020 and it was sick people leaving china and foreign nationals to visit china and for the rest of the world and china basically reporting on who's sick and the world's got a reason to be skeptical about china and keep them at arm's length relationship and i'm not surprised this is happening. lauren: it was a complete 180 by beijing and i hesitate to ask but i'm curious your reaction, should we close the border temporarily with china? >> i don't think we need to close the border with china, but i think, you know, i'm primarily a financial analyst and from that perspective, i think what you're going to find is this complete 180 in wall street believes that everybody will go back to work in china and working overtime and making iphones and everything else and they'll flood the rest of

hillary vaughn reporting for fox business live on capitol hill. hillary. >> good morning, rich. this applies to anyone who works on capitol hill. if they have a government-issued cell phone and have tiktok on it, they have to delete it immediately. this tiktok ban just applies to government devices right now but could be the first step towards a broader ban. >> spy on americans and the algorithm they are spying on our data is wrong and ban it from all government devices should be step one. >> tiktok spokesperson blasting the move saying this, it is troubling rather than encouraging the administration some members of congress decided to push for politically-motivated bans to do nothing to advance the national skufrt united states. tiktok is trying to convince government officials they aren't a national security threat and get the nod to stay operational in the u.s. while still being under chinese ownership as part of its parent company bytedance. the app is drawing concerns for a recent scandal where bytedance employees inappropriately accessed u.s. user data to track some tiktok

. >> sandra: first, john, to hillary vaughn. musk says more smoking guns are on the way? >> exactly right, sandra. he gave access to these internal documents from twitter to another reporter, we expect more bombshells as soon as today. but the revelations has republicans' heads spinning. new details show to what not only led to the hunter biden laptop story censored, but some others banned in 2020. >> seeing executives not just twitter but also facebook come forward and admit that they were influenced by people from the democrat national committee, from the fbi, and even people from the biden administration. prior to elon musk, twitter was a wholly owned sun subsidiary of the committee. >> and request twitter take action against certain accounts, saying this by 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. one would write to another, more to review from the biden team. the reply would come back handled. both parties had access to the tools and the trump white house put in requests but the system was not balanced because it was based on contacts and d

hillary vaughn, thank you very much. meanwhile there is this story, apple reportedly speeding up its plans to move some production out of china. that would be a major step. fox business's susan li is here now with the details. susan? >> reporter: think of moving production or accelerating that decision to move production out of china, mostly to india and also vietnam as well. so, this is according to the journal reports. in order to accelerate this move instigating by the anti-lockdown protests in where the largest majority of. they lifted citywide protests. as a result of many reason of disruption and shutdowns, reports saying shine, apple could lose six million of high-end iphones over the important holiday shopping period. you have wait times out of five to six weeks which is the longest any iphone introduction in 15 years according to the latest analysis. apple warned and lowered the production guidance this quarter as a result and china's covid zero policies have been a rethink for apple and their executives not to

fox business's hillary vaughn is live on the story on capitol hill. hillary. >> hi. elon musk is promising that twitter 2.0 will be better. he says it will be more even handed when patrolling content on the platform and republicans have been concerned that social media sites like twitter are unfairly biased against them. the top republican on the house oversight committee says they asked twitter to preserve any communication between twitter executives and the dnc or the biden administration and they are hoping to get some answers. >> i think elon musk knows that there are other stories that twitter was told to suppress that affected conservatives in a negative way and helped democrats. this is something that's wrong. this is the government directly interfering with free speech especially conservative free speech. i think elon musk wants to set the record straight. >> some democrats want the old twitter back and so does the european union threatening to ban twitter if elon musk does not follow a checklist of rules and stop what they consider an arbitrary approach to r

fox business's hillary vaughn is here with more on that. hillary? >> reporter: edward, this latest release of internal twitter company files show that both administrations under former president trump and president biden tried to insert politics into science and censor things that were not in their favor. as a result some doctors and scientists who had opposing views on covid were banned. independent journalist david is reporting on files, both trump and biden administrations directly pressed twitter executives to moderate the platform's pandemic come tent according to their wishes. he also said in my review of internal files, tweets labeled misleading, taken down entirely sometimes trigger account suspension and differed from establishment views. the biden administration flip-flopped whether they were involved. former white house press secretary jen saki admitted to the participating with the company and current press second their karine jean-pierre said they were. >> we are in regular touch and those engages with the senior staff and members of ou

for more on the tiktok ban and what could come next, hillary vaughn joining us live now from capitol hill. hillary, what's going on? reporter: hi, kelly. for now members of congress and their staff are banned from u using tic tock on their work -- tiktok on work phones but not personal devices and only applies to government smart phones but some lawmakers want to do more to get tiktok off all u.s. smart phones. >> they're using all kinds of technology to follow and trace us, bio-metrics and everything they can see on our phone and where we search, everything. it's really important that we keep the chinese communist party in check and keep and prevent them from continuing to reduce the balance at a mass rate. reporter: a tiktok spokesperson pushing back against the ban saying "it's troubling that rather than encouraging the administration to conclude its review of tiktok, some members of congress decided to push for politically motivated bans that will do nothing to advance the national security of the united states". tiktok is trying to convince the united states they're not a nation

hillary vaughn covering it from the white house. a lot to get to. >> good morning. this latest twitter files dump shows how close and constant communication was between the f.b.i. and twitter. at one point the f.b.i. was even demanding written answers from twitter over statements they made about propaganda on the platform that even made twitter executives uncomfortable. matt taibbi says the contact between twitter and f.b.i. was constant and pervasive as if it were a subsidiary saying between january 2020 and november 2022 over 150 emails between the f.b.i. and trust and safetyy chief at twitter. agencies and even state governments flagged social media contact for action. one internal email between the f.b.i. national election command post sent the san francisco field office a long list of accounts that may warrant additional action. then f.b.i. agents passed that list to twitter higher ups and twitter replied with what accounts and tweets were suspended or deleted. republicans eager to take control of the house majority in january say they'll use their subpoena pow

hillary vaughn has the latest on capitol hill. hillary? >> reporter: liz, the rush to get congress home for christmas means a lot of pork was stuffed into the spending bill a lot of lawmakers don't like but some had to vote for to try to avoid a government shut down. the return of so-called earmarks where lawmakers request your taxpayer dollars for pet projects in your districts are back in a big way. there are over 7,000 special spending projects in government funding bill, adding up to a whopping $15 billion overall. spending taxpayer cash 65 million for restoration of salmon populations, bee-friendly highways 3.6 million for a michelle obama hiking trillion. 200 million for a gender equity and quality action fund. over 400,000 for equity training for teachers. and 300,000 a year for the continuous plankton recorder. >> why are we paying for all these little pet to projects when we have real problems in our country? >> reporter: there are some republicans who have cashed in on the return to pork. senator john thune and congresswoman elis

hillary vaughn has the very latest for us. hillary? >> reporter: lauren if you're a member ever congress or a congressional staffer and you have tiktok on your work phone you have to delete it immediately. this tiktok ban applies to government devices so it is not stopping lawmakers, congressional staff from using tiktok on their personal devices. some lawmakers want to do more to get tiktok off of u.s. smartphones. >> this is just a first step. they're using all kinds of technology to follow and trace us. biomet tricks, everything they can see on our phone and where we search, everything. it is really important that we keep the chinese communist party in check. >> yeah. >> keep them, prevent them from continuing to do surveillance at the mass rate. >> reporter: a tiktok spokesperson is pushing back again the ban saying this, it is troubling rather than encouraging the administration to conclude its national security review of tiktok, some members of congress pushed for politically motivated bans, that will have nothing, do nothing to

tammy: reminding everyone that the great questioner in the hallway was our own hillary vaughn with fox news. griff: that's right. tammy: impressive. griff: plus straight ahead, we are live on the ground in idaho where police are looking for a killer weeks after the murders of 4 university idaho students. tonight there are new concerns from one of the victim's fathers, that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ they let you see any doctor who accepts medicare, without a referral. and pay in-network costs, at home or traveling, when you see doctors in the unitedhealthcare medicare national network. take advantage of $0 copays on hundreds of prescriptions, now with no deductibles on most of them. in fact, last year our medicare advantage plan members saved an average of over $7,700. enjoy a free gym membership, too... with access to premium gyms nationwide. as always, you can count on unitedhealthcare to help you get the care you need, when you need it. we can even help schedule appointments or find a specialist. enrollment ends december 7th. call unitedhealthcare or go online today. we make it easy to enr

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary? >> reporter: good evening, liz. elon musk releasing a stash of internal company documents showing what led to not only hunter biden laptop story being censored and other accounts and tweets were banned at the request of political parties like the biden campaign in 2020. independent reporter matt taibbi who bottom the couples it was routine for high-profile celebs and biden campaign to request twitter take action against certain accounts saying this, by 2020 requests from requested actors to delete certain tweets. more review from the biden team, the reply would come back handled. the reporter noted both parties had access to this. in 2020 the trump white house also put in requests but says the system was not balanced and it was based on contacts, democrats had more ways in with twitter hq than the gop did in terms of the hunter biden laptop story internal company documents even those at twitter were not sure their hacked materials policy excuse was going to hold. liz. elizabeth: thank you, hillary vaughn. great repo

hillary vaughn on that for us. john, it targets the very people the biden administration says they are going to leave alone, looks like. >> john: appreciate the point that the congressman was making there, but as i pointed out to him when we did the interview, if you bought a taylor swift ticket at face value and you resold it, there's no way you are going to lose money on that. >> sandra: i mean, that's unbelievable. did you get in on that, by the way, any taylor swift tickets? >> john: i did not, i saw taylor swift back in the day in atlanta at the phillips arena when she opened for keith urban. she opened for keith urban. >> sandra: way back then. >> john: it was a great concert, too. biden administration sending hundreds of millions of dollars to ukraine, but now we are learning they refit them so ukraine cannot fit them with missiles to hit russia. >> sandra: a new york city councilman is dumping his party and joining the gop. he says it's the party that has actually left him, not the other way around. we'll a

hillary vaughn, following all of that. art laffer with us the former reagan economist and economic svengali. art, markets are tumbling today, reversing all of yesterday's gains, now looking at possibility that the fed will look probably at this third quarter gdp report and conclude, given the fact that it was running at a 3.2% clip, versus the 2.9% expected, that tightening will go on and on and on. do you think that's right? >> markets may be correct on today's move because of that. that's very possible but what's really important here, neil, is that market has been coming down, down, down, down, down for a long time and not only is it coming down, it is grossly, it's decline is grossly underestimated because we're looking at nominal stock market, rather than the real stock market. if you were able to take this from year-and-a-half ago, would you have to knock another 10%, 3,000 points off that market just to get it in adjusted for the real decline in value of american assets. this is a long secular decline in asset value

hillary vaughn, thank you very much. with that we bring in congressman, republican congressman warren davidson of ohio. congressman, good to see you. you heard hillary's report. let me begin here. esg investing a violation of antitrust laws? >> well certainly can be. clearly we have not changed the legal definition of fiduciary. so you know, a fiduciary has an obligation to take care of the funds and provide the best return. they act on behalf of the shareholder, not on behalf of the stakeholder that is the whole idea they can shift the definition to stakeholder capitalism to make the firm focus on political agendas rather than returns for investors. lauren: let's switch over to sam bankman-fried. he is expected to enter a plea deal next week. he appears in court, i believe its on tuesday. if he cooperates with prosecutors, congressman, is there a way to use his cooperation, use what he admits as a way to stop crypto fraud in general or am i being completely pollyanna about this whole situation? >> yeah. i don't think he

james: thank you, hillary vaughn. joining us to house foreign affairs, congressman mark green. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, james. james: the federal government executive branch employees can't use it. house staff, u.s. house staff can't use it. bunch of state universities have banned it. does this largely in your view address the potential national security threar it really need to be banned as mr. rubio ask suggesting? >> james, thanks for having me on. you know you just had tom homan talking about our southern border. we've got a big problem with our fourth border, our cyber border and one of the key aspects of that is data mining. data is the new oil in this economy and any country that wants to control its population or control other populations, other people, the more data the better. and so, yes, i think tiktok is a problem, as long as it is connected to bytedance in china, it has to conform to chinese security laws which mandate the data is shared with the ccp. any use of ticktok is a threat to the national security. james: do you worry about, if there

james: thank you, hillary vaughn. joining us with reaction is congressman darrell issa from the house judiciary committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. before we get to this esg stuff, i do have to ask you the president apparently not a surprise but signed that disasterous omnibus. any thoughts as we embark on this new taxpayer spending disaster? >> well i think he should be proud of the fact that there are many billions of good, well-spent dollars out of 1.7 trillion. if you look at the downside, the downside is there are hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary spending there that is in fact going to have us be in a recession and still have inflation when that shouldn't be the case. government is in fact the reason we have inflation. recession is what is being used to cure a disease caused by excess spending. you know president biden is celebrating hundreds of billions of dollars of excess that wasn't necessary and shouldn't have been in this bill. james: okay, sad news. now more sad news. sorry to be a

bill. >> bill: hillary vaughn from the hill. more to come on that right nouchlt >> dana: let's bring in marc thiessen former speech writer to george w. bush. andy mccarthy has this headline. we haven't talked about this yet. how the f.b.i.'s nod and wink got social media to censor the post hunter biden reporting. andy goes on to say the players know exactly what they are doing. they say enough to endorse the lie but leave themselves room to deny that they did so and then they think we're idiots. marc. >> well, ask yourself a simple question. why is the left so freaked out about the fact that elon musk has taken over twitter? they control every other social media platform except for tiktok which is controlled by china. it's not like their monopoly have been broken but musk has the receipts and now has the information that he can put out to show that there was a systematic suppression of conservative speech and a systematic manipulation of the american electorate. he has the evidence. that's exactly what happened. these are the sa

hillary vaughn joins us now from capitol hill. hillary, did they say why they were spying and they just admitted to it like that? >> reporter: good morning, lauren. they were trying to get to the bottom of a leak, so they were trying to figure out if any of these journalists had contact with some of their employees. but comes as tiktok is trying to convince u.s. regulators to approve them and that they are not a national security threat to users and also trying to dodge an all-out ban here in the u.s. "forbes" reports some of their reporters were being secretly surveil adly tiktok's parent company, bytedance, who accessed their ip addresses and user data, trying to see if their paths crossed be any of bytedance's employees. a tiktok spokesperson telling fox the misconduct of certain individuals who are no longer employed at bytedance was an egregious misuse of their authority to obtain access to user data. this misbehavior is unacceptable, we will continue to handle our access protocols which have already been significantly improv

hillary vaughn has a story from capitol hill. >> good evening james some countries are ramping up covid testing for travelers in china, france announcing travelers from china to france have to show a negative public test before flying as china drops 0 covid lockdown policies in the world still doesn't know if they can trust china to let the world know if there's a other bad outbreak, italy has tested all travelers from kobe to china. the u.s. testing travelers from china will start january 5, president biden approving the country specific testing requirement even though in the past he called trump's travel restrictions targeting china xenophobia. >> this is no time for donald trump's record of hysteria xenophobia and fear mongering to lead the science. >> experts are skeptical testing is enough to keep bad strands out of the country and potential outbreaks at bay testing two days before traveling means someone contest negative one day but be positive two days later when boarding the flight to the u.s. republicans say this is a charade because no mandatory testing happening at the southe

hillary vaughn, thank you. joining us congresswoman kat cammack from house homeland security and grover norquist, president of americans for tax reforms. merry christmas. ukraine is in the fight for its life. it is fighting for its freedom. it is getting $45 billion more, congresswoman. they are asking for where are the checks and balances? there was inspector general for afghanistan spending. how come we don't have one for ukraine? we don't know if it is going towards ukraine's defense. >> that is the crazy part, liz. you factor in $45 billion going to ukraine in the omnibus package that takes us up $100 billion. americans here at home demanding accountability on our southwest border. crime is rampant. historical inflation. litany of issues we're paying for at the behest of this administration, no one can tell us where this money is going? my heart breaks for the ukrainians, absolutely. every american deserves to know where every single dollar has gone. we need that now before we pass another $47 billion to uk

hillary vaughn on the fallout at the white house. hey, hillary. reporter: neil, headed into the holidays, americans say the biggest issue on their minds right now. according to new "fox news" polls out last night 42% of americans say the economy is the most important issue facing the country right now. 81% say that is because they think the economy right now is in poor or fair condition. not a good grade for president biden who has put the fed in charge of getting inflation down. yesterday fed chair jerome powell announcing they are hiking interest rates again while admitting inflation is not anywhere close to where it needs to be, so more rate hikes are ahead. this as democrats in congress are trying to shove through a 1.7 trillion, massive spending package to fund the government just two days before christmas. >> the fed is continuing to fight against the biden administration because whatever reason jerome powell is not factoring in perhaps this excessive spending. all the while trying to curb supply of money. they're adding 1.7 trillion. that's

hillary vaughn from capitol hill, appreciate it. we'll be talking to arkansas governor asa hutchinson in the next hour on this decision to ban tiktok from state issued devices but now to the irs. delaying the controversial income reporting requirement for u.s. gilling workers. we're talk -- gig workers. talking about the 600-dollar threshold for financial companies to report individuals to the irs. the former chief council of economic advisors and the drift author, kevin hassett joins us. regardless whether this suppose into effect the irs is buying an option to harass americans. why do you say that? >> we know the irs has done it before. just like the ticktock story you guys talked about, it is not a good idea to have government tracing where people are, every little transaction. back in 2013 they had an enemies list at the irs. lois lerner the person who coordinated the enemies list held in contempt of congress harassing using irs power to harass conservatives. right now what they want to do, recall that they have got 75 or 85,000

>> hillary vaughn, thanks very much. up next, the panel with a friday lightning round. later a special holiday message from bret baier and his family. first, here is what some of our affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in new york as five people are injured when a fire breaks out in the engine room of a staten island ferry boat. it happened last night. happened after crew members were taken off the vessel. it happened yesterday mentor was a passenger on the plane. the will pilot was taking to the hospital. mentor was mayor from 1963 to 1967. and this is a live look at miami from weather stem. one of the big stories there tonight, santa claus gets in one more dive before his big work day. the jolly elf was spotted touring marine life in the florida keys. national marine sanctuary thursday with an un underseas scooter and help from an aquatic elf. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ning and the grass is green ♪ ♪ i'm way ahead of schedule with my trusty team ♪ ♪ there's heather o

hillary vaughn has the story on capitol hill. hillary? >> reporter: good evening, liz, technically these are not new taxes but ultimately you could pay more in taxes with these new reporting requirements. under the new rules the irs wants to know whenever you get more than 600 bucks in goods or services in payment app like zelle, paypal and venmo. you have to report it to the irs because of income. this is new rule in president biden's american rescue plan changed the reporting requirement from 20,000 total in gross income from the appses to $600. now some democrats are having buyer's remorse and want to change the rule retroactively. >> i don't agree with it. say you actually got a taylor swift ticket somehow miraculously. say you resold it because you couldn't attend a concert, so you actually experienced a loss. >> reporter: if you were using the apps to run your business, likely already reporting this as income to the irs. this really impacts average americans that were using these apps to get a little extra cash on the side. liz. eli

let's go to hillary vaughn on fox business live on capitol hill. you didn't get any answers yesterday. >> no, i did not, dana. but apple really is not the only company that has come under scrutiny for their coziness with china. tiktok now has as well because new reports that china is using tiktok to push videos attacking u.s. politicians and forbes reports that these tiktok accounts are being run by the propaganda arm of the chinese government. they have gained millions of followers and tens of millions of views. china is getting what they want, a captive audience to push videos that attack u.s. politicians to drive divisiveness without clearly disclosing the people pushing the videos are affiliated with the chinese government. tiktok says they're working on a policy to fix this problem but say it is not an issue unique to their platform, similar content posted to youtube and facebook. they said we plan to introduce our state controlled media policy as part of our continued focus on media literacy as we previously confirmed the global roll-out incl

>> bret: hillary vaughn on capitol hill. thank you. repairs have been made and power restored in central north carolina after shootings damaged electric substation equipment over the weekend. authorities are looking for the culprits there and for the people responsible for vandalism at sites in the specific northwest. experts are warning of more problems in the future. here is correspondent david spunt. >> federal law enforcement sources tell fox news physical attacks on power grids across the country are on the rise. even before the weekend attack in north carolina, where authorities say someone opened fire at a rural substation. the lights are now back on for thousands in moore county. >> a lot of hardship that way the elderly, people with medical condition. >> fox news has learned the fbi is closely working with officials in oregon and washington after several power stationsy vandalized late last month. the power supply itself not affected unlike in north carolina earlier this year homeland security officials warned these plants wer

claims despite claims that this was protected. >> rich: hillary vaughn live from capitol hill. thank you so much. >> julie: we have managed to avoid a government shutdown for now. but a closer look at the $1.7 trillion government funding package reveals a trove of lawmaker pet projects. let's bring in former national republican congressional committee communications director matt gorman and former communications director and senior advisor to democratic senator joe manchin jonathan kott. thank you for coming on. matt, let's talk about the 1.7 million government funding package heading for the finish line to avert a shutdown. it is chock full -- i mean full to the top of the barrel, of pork barrel politics. is congress trying to ram this tluth ahead of a winter storm that we've been talking about that could keep them snowed in in washington, d.c. for christmas? >> you give them too much credit about the winter storm. they just want to get home. this was preventable. we knew it was coming. they extended the funding two weeks ago. it was on the horizon for a while. like a college

>> bret: hillary vaughn live on capitol hill. hillary, thanks. let's talk about china and other national security matters. joining me here at the reagan national defense forum, "fox news sunday" anchor shannon bream and chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin. good to see you guys in person. nice back drop here. >> gorgeous. >> bret: china is going to dominate, i think, the topics that they are talking about here. obviously ukraine as well. but china, shannon, this survey, do you think the u.s. has a clear strategy for managing its relationship with china? yes 27%, no, 54. national defense survey. which country do you sees a the greatest threat to the u.s.? china now 43%. it goes back and you can see the different years. it's dominating the discussion about national security. >> it is. and you have the report from the pentagon this week to congress that talked about the number of ballistic missiles that china is now testing. the growth of their nuclear program. their obvious posturing with regard to taiwan there written creasing co

fox business's hillary vaughn is here with the very latest. hillary? >> hi, charles. we are expecting more bomb shells to come out from these internal documents that elon musk made available to two different reporters. what has been already released is quite astounding. new details showing how the hunter biden laptop story was censored on the platform but how other accounts and tweets were deleted and banned at the request of political parties in 2020. the independent reporter that got the documents reporting that it was routine for high profile celebrities and biden campaign to request that twitter take action against certain accounts saying this. by "2020, re-quests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. one executive would write to another, more to review from the biden team. the report would come backhandles." both political parties had access to this. the 2020 trump white house had access to content. but it was not balanced. democrats had more ways to complain than the gop. >> twitter is doing one team's bidding before an election, shutting down dis

elizabeth: hillary vaughn great reporting as always. welcome back to the show, house financial services congressman french hill. congressman, your reaction to that report. are we now in a danger zone? we have able-bodied citizens they can make more money by not working when there are 10 million job openings? what do you think of this report? >> liz, merry christmas, happy hanukkah to your viewers. absolutely, this tells the whole story of taking the pandemic, turning it into a spending spree, expansion of the welfare state by joe biden and democrats in the house and senate. let me mention one other things compared to your report. you can get your mortgage paid or rent paid without showing harm from the pandemic as a result of the american rescue plan. basically no strings attached. that is what the democrats did to so many of those pandemic programs. they extended them, they expanded them to more people across the country. elizabeth: we've got a new study that forecast 100 million people will be on medicaid next year. here's the thing,

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the latest for us. hillary? >> reporter: good evening, jackie. elon musk is promising twitter 2.0 will be better. that their approach to patrolling content own their platform will be more even-handed. republicans are looking forward to that who have been concerned that social media sites like twitter are unfairly biased against conservatives but some democrats want the old twitter back. so does the european union who has threatened to ban twitter if elon musk does not follow a checklist of rules and stop an arbitrary approach to reinstating banned users. senator elizabeth warren also has a problem with how things are being run at twitter hq with musk in charge. >> elon musk is doing just fine. >> reporter: but do you think users have a right to freedom of speech even if what they're saying is wrong or offensive? >> i think that one whom human being should not decide how millions of people communicate with each other. doesn't make that difference who that is. one human being should not go into dark room by himself, oh, that person gets heard from,

we know that apple has has 74 billion reasons to ignore hillary vaughn and that's the amount of money that it generated in china last year. dagen: it was very stark listening and seeing that and hillary's amazing to very poignantly confront cook thahat way. but to read it. if you read a transcript and just the lack of response is so stark and really speaks to he has no answers. but we all bear some responsibility for this because we're all walking around with this. and i don't know -- i don't have answers either in terms of where we go but these are made in china and so our money indirectly is not just going to apple but supporting the communist party indirectly. i just have to say one quick thing. with brock pierce, he kept referring to aaron sorkin. aaron sorkin is a writer and a director. it's andrew sorkin who interviewed sam bankman-fried and i have a lot to say about crypto and know regulation but i just had to correct him becauses that's not who interviewed sam bankman-fried yesterday or this week. maria: i know. i know, chris. i know that it was andrew sorkin. dagen: again, li

hillary vaughn in fact has the very latest from d.c. hillary? >> reporter: hi, charles. sam bankman-fried is rethinking his decision to be extradited to the u.s. he is behind bars in the bahamas right now. but earlier today he showed up in court to request to see the indictment against him before agreeing to be removed to the u.s. reports that sam bankman-fried appeared disheveled in court, kept his head down, and hands shaking his niece during proceedings. bankman-fried considers options, democratic campaign groups he gave million to are weighing their options looking to give back a million dollars total in donation. the democratic party's three top campaign groups are setting aside campaign donations from him. the dnc saying this, given the allegations around potential campaign finance violations by bankman-fried we're setting aside funds in order to return the 815,000 in contributions since 2020. we will return as soon as we receive proper direction in the legal proceedings. "the new york times" reports that federal prosecutors in manhattan are also pouring over bankm

a shout out to hillary vaughn. he was at the state dinner with the lead table with joe biden. as he walked through capitol hill to meet with political leaders, he refused to answer any questions from hillary vaughn at fox news that did a great job asking four really fantastic questions while walking down the hallway with cook surrounded by his security apparatus in some way. he just sat there stone-faced and refused to answer any questions. that's what media should do. hold the powerful accountable. >> martha: hillary is great at that. thanks, clay. >> thank you. have a great weekend. >> martha: you too. sam bankman-fried the founder of the crypto firm ftx reportedly lost billions of dollars in investor money, but is still living at his multimillion dollar home in the bahamas. he can't be extradited to the u.s. unless he volunteers to come back at this point. he hasn't been formally charged with any crime. >> how concerned are you about criminal liability at this point? >> i don't think that -- obviously -- i don't think that i have -- i think the real answer is that's not wha

hillary vaughn is on the story today, and hillary? is this adding more fuel to the push to ban tiktok? reporter: ashley, it is, and forbes reports that these tiktok accounts are being run by the propaganda arm for the chinese government. these accounts have gained millions of followers and tens of millions of views so china is getting what they want. a captive audience to push videos that attack u.s. politicians to drive divisiveness, without clearly disclosing that the people pushing the videos are affiliated with the chinese government. tiktok says they're working on a policy that would fix this problem. a tiktok spokesperson telling us , "we plan to introduce our state-controlled media policy and corresponding labels global ly next year as part of our continued focus on media literacy, as we previously confirmed the global rollout will include china state media." but tiktok is not the only one in the hot seat over coziness with china. apple ceo tim cook was on capitol hill yesterday meeting with lawmakers, many who voiced their con

vaughn caught up with him. >> hi mr. cook to support the chinese people right to protest? if you have any reaction to the factory workers that were beaten and detained for protesting and covid lockdowns? do you regret restricting airdrop access the protesters used two evaded surveillance from the chinese government? do you think is problematic to do business with the communist chinese party when they suppress human rights? maria: well the ceo of apple not taking it, no answers from tim cook. joining me senator marsha blackburn from tennessee. it's great to have you this weekend. thank you for being here. you have done so much work in studying and trying to enforce the law in the face of the chinese communist party. what is your reaction to corporate america enabling the ccp to gain ground in the move by apple? >> it is very disappointing to see this move by apple. but it's really not surprising. we've been very frustrated with us-based companies that have continued to make products in the province with weaker slave labor

hillary vaughn has been following the story and joins me now live from capitol hill. hillary, what exactly is their plan of action? >> good morning, ashley. they're promising to investigate once they get in control, republicans on the house judiciary committee promising to investigation esg and idea that investment groups takes investment, climate, and social impact into consideration before investing into an entity and lawmakers think before doing that could be a violation of antitrust laws and six republicans write ago letter to climate investment groups questioning them over esg policies saying, no matter how firmly a company or its executives believe in the goals of esg, that belief does not excuse anticompetitive agreements or unlawful conduct to advance progressive policies and idea behind esg is that it protects investors from volatility and risks of investing and bloomburg reporting that in 2022, the ten biggest esg funds posted double digit losses in early december including b blackrock's fund and all performing and lagging behind the s&p 500. republicans say

hillary vaughn is in washington dc this morning. hillary, exactly what content was suppressed? reporter: hi, ashley. this latest release of internal twittedder company files shows that both administrations under former president trump and president biden tried to insert politics into science and censor things not in their favor and as a result some doctors and scientists that had opposing views on covid were banned. independent journalist david reporting on the files tweeting that both trump and biden administrations pressed to suppress the content according to their wishes saying in my review of internal files, i found continueless instances of -- countless instances of tweets triggering counts of suspicion because they veered from cdc guidance or differed from establishment views and flip-flopped on whether or not they were involved. general psaki admitted to routine ingaugement at the time by karine jean-pierre is putting distance between the white house and tech giant. >> we're in touch with the social media platforms and those engagements happen through members of the seni

but today fox's hillary vaughn asked lawmakers about lying at twitter. they didn't seem too concerned. watch this. >> about the twitter files, if it turns out the fbi did mislead twitter executives to think that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation, should those people be be held accountable? >> much ado about nothing. >> what about censoring information on a media platform? >> again, i don't know what you're talking about. anything that undermines democracy threatens the security of the american people should be reviewed. >> the twitter files, and if you have any concerns they were able to suppress the hunter biden laptop story just a few days before an election. >> tucker: well, speaking of lying, it's happening right in front of us. it has been more than a month since paul pelosi was attacked in his home on a friday night in san francisco. the assailant, a hippie nudist, a right wing extremist, despite being a black matter lives fan. paul pelosi didn't seem afraid of depape. in fact he opened the door for the cops himself. what happened