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-Senator Tuberville stands down on blocking military promotions

-White House interns mocked for making demands of President Biden

-Who are the winners and losers of the fourth GOP debate

The fourth Republican presidential debate saw no shortage of fireworks, including plenty of name-calling and personal jabs among the participating candidates. Here are some of the top five moments…

1. Ramaswamy calls Haley ‘fascist'

2. Haley and DeSantis continue their months-long spat on China 

3. Ramaswamy holds up a sheet of paper accusing Haley of corruption – Christie calls him an "obnoxious blowhard"

4. Haley grilled by debate opponents, social media over record on trans issues

5. Christie lays into DeSantis on question about former President Donald Trump's age

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Former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron argued that it is "nonsense" that Ukraine is failing in its effort to defend itself against Russia.

Cameron, who now serves as the U.K. foreign secretary, spoke with Fox News' Jennifer Griffin at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday to discuss Russia's invasion and questions about continued U.S. support for the war effort. Cameron argued that funding for Ukraine stimulates the U.S. economy as well, pushing back on Republicans who have been increasingly skeptical of the cause.

Cameron argued the funds going to Ukraine "are being used very effectively," citing Ukraine's successes in downing large portions of Russia's helicopter fleet and sinking its Black Sea naval vessels.

"As long as you don't cross the red line of NATO soldiers fighting Russian soldiers, we should be doing everything we can to support a sovereign, independent nation to defend itself," he said.

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Cameron also argued that it is "nonsense" that Ukraine's counteroffensive has failed to drive Russia back in its invasion.

"Look at what the Ukrainians have done. They have taken back half of the territory that Russia stole. Yes, it's something of a deadlock on land at the moment, but I understand that the Ukrainians just the last week have pushed the Russian navy back right across the Black Sea. In the process they've sunk about a fifth of the Black Sea fleet," Cameron said.

Nevertheless, Republicans in Congress remain deeply skeptical of sending additional funding to Ukraine. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., issued an ultimatum to President Biden earlier this week saying that no Ukraine funding would move forward until significant changes have been made at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked billions of dollars in additional security aid to Ukraine on Wednesday, again citing a lack of progress at the border.

"Legislation that doesn't include policy changes to secure our borders will not pass the Senate," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., explained in a Wednesday speech. "The situation unfolding at our southern border on President Biden's watch is a crisis of historic proportions."

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a bill Thursday to safeguard U.S. schools from foreign adversaries' influence. 

The legislation, first obtained by Fox News Digital, prohibits higher education institutions, their faculty and staff from establishing or maintaining relationships with specified individuals, or undercover foreign adversaries, referred to as "covered persons." 

Additionally, universities would be required to develop and enforce policies that necessitate faculty and staff disclosure of such relationships, along with guidelines to prevent these connections or identify existing ones. Institutions owned or controlled by these covered persons would eventually lose eligibility for federal funding.

"The integrity of our schools is one of the most basic guarantees that we should give to our students. Current federal policies to protect our students from adversaries are incomplete and disappointing. The U.S. is being infiltrated through its educational institutions," Rubio said in a statement. 

"This bill aims to close those gaps, securing a robust defense against malign foreign influence in our classrooms," he added.

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The bill comes as the bipartisan, bicameral U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission sent its annual report to Congress last month. One of its 30 recommendations requested that the House and Senate "address China's state-sponsored influence and interference" within U.S. education. 

Rubio's bill doesn't stop at higher education; it also targets K-12 schools. States receiving administrative funds for schools must create rules stopping school staff from having relationships with identified foreign adversaries. The secretary of education also has to report these relationships to Congress each year, and private schools run by covered persons won't be eligible for federal funds.

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For educational institutions receiving gifts or contracts from foreign sources, the bill would reduce the minimum value for reporting such gifts or contracts from $250,000 to $50,000 and expand reporting obligations to include faculty and staff, not just the institution.

Exemptions from foreign agent registration only stand if the activities don't further a foreign government's political agenda and compliance with these rules becomes a prerequisite for federal funding. 

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is cosponsoring the legislation. 

In September, a congressional hearing entitled, "Academic Freedom Under Attack: Loosening the CCP's Grip on America's Classrooms," explored alleged CCP influence in American schools through Confucius Classrooms, whose stated purpose is to promote Chinese language and culture. They have been described by the National Association of Scholars as "a smaller version" of the Confucius Institutes.

In July, Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting indoctrination in the classroom, said it uncovered disturbing evidence linking Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-sponsored financial entities to American K-12 schools.

The findings were detailed in a report dubbed "Little Red Classrooms," which was sent to 34 governors, key lawmakers and committee chairs.

Fox News' Brian Flood and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report. 

Ambassador Nikki Haley faced sharp criticism at the final GOP primary debate off 2023 on Wednesday night as her surging campaign was slammed for what her opponents say is a record that is not conservative enough and weak on social issues like ESG, transgender policies, and free speech.

"Nikki Haley she caves any time the left comes after any time the media comes after her," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in the debate during an argument over transgender bathroom bills and how each of them approached the issue as governor.

"You killed it, I signed it, I stood up for little girls," DeSantis said, accusing Haley of not doing enough to push bathroom bills as the two went back and forth on previous statements and positions.

Haley was also slammed by her opponents for not being conservative enough on ESG issues, meeting with supporters of ESG and taking money from Democrat donors. 

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Vivek Ramaswamy, who accused Haley of playing "identity politics", criticized Haley for meeting with BlackRock’s Larry Fink, a proponent of ESG.

"One of Nikki Haley's largest supporters, Larry Fink, the king of the woke industrial complex, the ESG movement, the CEO of BlackRock, the most powerful company in the world, now supporting Nikki Haley," Ramaswamy said, adding that her campaign launch video "sounded like a woke Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ad talking about how she would kick in heels at the first debate."

"I took $2 billion away from BlackRock," DeSantis said. "We took action. This ESG, they call it environment, Social governance. And again, Nikki is meeting with all these people. They want to use economic power to impose a left wing agenda on this country."

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Haley has previously criticized "stakeholder capitalism" writing in a 2020 Wall Street Journal op-ed that it "retains the word capitalism but abandons its meaning."

DeSantis and Ramaswamy both promoted the idea that Haley taking money from liberal donors, including a liberal mega donor who gave her super PAC $250,000 this week, would make her beholden to those donors in the future.

"Nikki will cave to those big donors when it counts," DeSantis said.

Haley was also criticized over her record on free speech related to her previous comments saying her administration crackdown on anonymous accounts online.

"It's something that's important, and especially given how conservatives have been attacked and they've lost jobs and they've been canceled," DeSantis said, pointing out that the authors of the Federalist Papers used pseudonyms. "You know, the regime would use that to weaponize that against our own people."

Ramaswamy piled on and said her position was "more dangerous than the Democrats."

"You're lying," Haley shot back. 

Haley also faced similar criticisms on social media during the debate related to her perceived coziness with liberal donors. 

"What’s not fine is Nikki Haley caving on every issue that matters most to Republicans," political strategist David Polyansky posted on X. "She has sold out parents, conservative principles and our party in order to side with her Democrat donors."

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Haley, whose campaign was the top search on Google on debate night, dismissed many of the criticisms from her opponents at one point remarking that they were "jealous" and they "wish they were supporting them."

Haley addressed the criticism that she would be beholden to liberal donors and ESG supporters in one of her debate responses. 

"As much as Ron says that it's not true," Haley said. "But when it comes to these corporate people that want to suddenly support us, we'll take it. But I don't ask them what they support. They ask me what my policies are and I tell them what it is. Sometimes they agree with me sometimes they don't."

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Haley spokesperson Ken Farnaso said the attacks on her in the debate were a sign of desperation. 

"This is the sign of a desperate, losing candidate, and Ron DeSantis is both losing and desperate, "Farnaso said. 

"Everyone knows Nikki was the conservative, outsider governor in South Carolina. She took on the establishment and Barack Obama—and won. She cracked down on illegal immigration, implemented E-Verify, opposed Wall Street bailouts, protected life, cut taxes, expanded Second Amendment rights, and signed the first anti-BDS bill in the country. The more Ron DeSantis loses, the more he lies."

House Republicans are approaching the new year wary about their slimming majority in the wake of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announced exit.

McCarthy, R-Calif., said he would leave Congress by the end of this month after he was ousted from the speakership two months ago. It comes on the heels of the House expelling scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y. 

House Republicans will only be able to lose three votes on any legislation to pass it without Democratic votes for the first several weeks of the new year, until special elections bring new members and change the margins yet again. 

"I mean, we’re operating on razor-thin margins here," Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., told Fox News Digital. "Between God, gravity, indictments, and retirements, we're one day away from losing the majority depending on what happens."

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GOP Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore, R-Utah, conceded that the numbers were tight but argued it was not much different than their current situation.

"It's tough to operate in a four-seat [majority], it's tough to operate in a two-seat [majority]. We've got to be judicious in what we get done, and do something that we can all get behind," Moore said.

However, others echoed Garcia’s concerns that the slim majority would mean that any single member's absence is consequential when the House is in session.

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Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern, R-Okla., said he did not believe it would make a difference "from a policy standpoint," but he added, "I just think from an attendance standpoint, it’d be hard."

"What are we going to be governing by, one vote? It's always a concern when people get sick, they get injured. It makes the whip’s job measurably more difficult with a narrower majority," said Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C.

A special election will take place to replace Santos in mid-February. California Gov. Gavin Newsom must set a date for an election to replace McCarthy.

That means House Republicans are likely to stay on thin margins through their Jan. 19 deadline for funding part of the government.

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Conservatives like Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, urged GOP leaders to resist giving Democrats concessions to pass legislation until the numbers in the House change.

"It's gonna be tight…We've dealt with it before, though, and I think that Speaker Johnson is doing an excellent job of keeping everybody together. And, frankly, I think people will realize how important it is to stay together," Self explained.

"What I do not want to see is bills put on the floor that pass with more Democrat than Republican votes. No, that is not a way to govern."