and google, we're up against the closing bell. [closing bell rings] matt roddy, 3 billion in assets. we'll put them up on lizclaman.com. head over to david and melissa, "after the bell." david: happy friday to all of you. stocks are down for the day, but for the week major averages ending the week much higher for the second week in a row. i'm david asman. melissa: happy friday, david asman. david: thanks goodness. melissa: we have all the market movers for you but here is what else we have coming up for you this hour. a flury of activity at trump tower today as new administration takes shape. he announced three key appointments in charge of national security and enforcing the law. mortal enemies. more details behind donald trump's controversial meeting with mitt romney and the democratic congressman calling on president obama to pardon

750,000 illegal immigrants so they can remain in the country once trump takes office. you will want to hear about this one. >> he. david: i am indeed but first back to the markets. the dow endings slightly in the red with disney, american express, and nike among some of the biggest drags. gold is taking a beating. sorry for the gold bugs. phil flynn, price futures group, fox business contributor watching all the action at cme. adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange. adam, all major indices adding higher for the week. who are the biggest movers? >> talk about the russell 2000, all that glitters is not gold. small caps having wonderful run another lifetime high and record close, fifth straight record close. small caps doing very well. when you look at dow, s&p 500, nasdaq up for the last two weeks even though we're closing down today. some big winners today, mcdonald's, they're up 5% at close. goldman sack up.3% cisco systems

down 3.5%. disappointing earnings. walmart, warren buffett and berkshire decided to sell off a big stake in walmart. down 3.6%. boom, they're out. nasdaq hit intraday high and pulled back. jdd.com up 9% and the rest you can see right there? melissa: thank you, adam. gold tumbling for the second straight week, the worst two week span in more than three years. phil, where do you think one ends, dare i ask? >> i don't think it will end right now. we held $1200 an ounce today. it looks very tenuous. hard for gold to rally, melissa, when you see what bond yields done. the treasury yields best week since 2001 for heaven's sakes. dollar, decade high. really when you look at that it is difficult to be long gold. let's talk about oil real quick.

oil closed higher despite the fact we have strung dollar and rising yields. part of that is progress made on opec, non-opec decision. one of the big bullish things happened, iraq basically said opec is getting closer. they were one of the ones that squashed the deal at the last meeting. they say they're getting a lot closer. they're optimistic a deal will get done. that brought oil higher. but at end of the day it sold off. why? u.s. producers, raised rigsby 19 rigs, closed higher but not as high as we were. back to you. melissa: phil, thank you very much. david: who listens to opec anymore? opec for goodness sakes. let's get back to the stock market. major market averages are higher after donald trump won last week's presidential election with the nasdaq and russell 2000 each touching lifetime highs as well. this is coming as the u.s. dollar which phil was talking about hitting a four 1/2-year high. that's why gold is going down so much. joining me for reaction,

veronica daguerre of "the wall street journal," and jack hough, senior editor at "barron's." today and yesterday the markets are kind of taking a break. is this a temporary break on a way back up or what? jack? >> i don't think it's a temporary break. let's not go too bonkers combining our politics with our stock investing. if someone out there i about trump being president, things we'll get better economic growth, great. that won't necessarily translate into higher stock market returns. keep in mind, that the stock market has had a dramatic rise while obama was in office. it is trading 18 1/2 times earnings. you're getting this much earnings growth right now. so it is not necessarily that you're going to see rampant gains from every day here on in the stock market. i would caution you look at one ticker, dry ships, drys. this is shipping company no longer paying its debt. there is speculation about bankruptcy. all sudden went from $4 a share

before the election, trading over 100 this past week. that is crazy. let's be more sensible. david: ask veronica to make a prediction, what is more likely before christmas, dow 20,000 or dow 16,000? remember we'll probably have a rate hike between now and christmas? >> it is tough to make a prediction at this point only because there is still a lot of uncertainty. yes we know trump is president-elect. however we don't know what his actual policies will be once he is in office. what we're seeing in the market now, they're looking what is right in front of them. looking at this possible interest rate hike which is most likely, looking at lower regulation, lower taxes. all that is really good for the market short term, however, when we hear more about what he is actually going to do with trade and what actually congress will let him do in terms of taxes, we'll get another adjustment in the market. it is too soon to make predictions other than the fact expect, investors should expect volatility especially as he gets

into office. if he goes on twitter on a twitter rant again. melissa: you know there is all that president-elect donald trump is taking credit for ford's decision to keep their kentucky plant from moving to mexico after a phone call with chairman bill ford. the company though says they were never going to move it across the border in the first place. you know, jack, i mean, i think this is the first time politician has ever taken credit for something that he didn't actually do, to try to tell voters i'm here for you. never happens. >> we're living in post-fact america, melissa. you're being old-fashioned here. the facts don't matter as much anymore. i'm glad if we're moving beyond bad-mouthing ford. let's remember that this is the company that didn't go bankrupt during the great recession. ford has plenty of jobs that they kept here in the u.s. they have some jobs overseas but let's keep in mind it is not that clear-cut. just because you're making cars overseas doesn't mean you don't have u.s. jobs tied to components for the cars.

melissa: whole reason why they got all the attention because they were planning on two building new plants in mexico, $2.5 billion, adding 3800 jobs. they were going to invest further another 1.6 billion in mexico in small car production in 2018. only reason why they're not moving jobs, even though it cost less and obviously opening new plants here, they're not getting rid of the existing jobs here because they can't under union contract. it doesn't mean that that is not their intention to do that because they're opening new plants down there. they're not sin-free in this and maybe veronica, it is an opportunity to step forward and try to make some kind of deal with donald trump? >> it could be an opportunity. we'll see what he actually enacts when he gets into office. if you're ford from a press standpoint, what they did was smart. they didn't go out and correct the president-elect what he said. they said you know what? we'll let him have this easy win, perceived win, now, before his term starts and hopefully get that goodwill started with

him, reset the relationship with the president-elect. that way they are no longer the target of attacks, et cetera. melissa: they did mutter his criticism was infuriating and frustrating. there was a little muttering off to the side. complaints. he doesn't notice that. it is all good. thanks, guys. david? david: what will the fed do under trump presidency and what will trump do to the fed more importantly? peter barnes sat down with dallas fed president robert kaplan who was supporting a pro-growth plan not unlike president trump's plan. take a listen. >> spending other economic policies, structural reforms. so, i think that is a good thing. we'll have to assess these individual policies and see what's actually implemented, but i think if there are things that actually help improve the path of growth and improve employment, then i think it will give us a little more operating room as we head into 2017. david: as i just mentioned the fed's next key meet something in december where the likelihood of

a rate hike stands around 92%. melissa, remember last time they raised rates the markets did take a tumble but it's a different world now. melissa: you said they wouldn't raise rates before the election. you were right. david: we were both saying that. gold, remember. melissa: all right. this hotel will not leave the lights on for you because they don't have any. 200 room, five-star hotel abandoned leaving taxpayers on the hook for $85 million, right? unbelievable. we're going to bring you the disturbing details. david: outrageous. democratic congressman calling on president obama to pardon hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants so they can remain in the country once donald trump takes office. melissa: and president-elect trump tapping alabama senator jeff sessions to be the next attorney general. he is faced some challenges in the past but will the senate sign off? we'll see. we'll talk to michael mukasey. former u.s. attorney general under president george w. bush.

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david: security measures still very high at trump tower and traffic near gridlock at president-elect donald trump as he prepares to make more appointments to his cabinet. connell mcshane standing by outside of trump tower with the very latest. how does it look now that he's left? port maybe things calming down a little bit. traffic is moving along well if you like that report. people trying to walk home from work what have you, motorcade rolled to the west on 57th

street off of fifth avenue, heading out to new jersey where the president-elect has a big weekend planned as i'm sure you know. we'll talk about that in a moment. before he left new york he did make news with the appointments. senator jeff sessions for attorney general and retired general mike flynn, national security advisor. a post that does not need senate confirmation. cia director would. congressman mike pompeo, congressman of kansas up for that. that is news of the day. his final meeting of the day which went a little longer i think some anticipated, why we only saw the motorcade rolling a short time ago, was with governor mike huckabee. rumored for certain jobs within the administration or possibly as ambassador. talking to a senior source inside of the trump transition we can't confirm anything was offered to governor huckabee. he did briefly speak with reporters after meeting. here is the governor. >> i'm happy what i'm doing. my job right now is to listen to the president-elect.

it is his job to make the decisions. whatever decisions those are that will -- again that is not for me to disclose. only person giving out jobs in this build something president-elect donald trump, not me. and you know, i respect any information about what our meeting is about really should come from him. reporter: should come from him. we haven't heard from the president-elect after any of these meetings characterizing how they have gone. one of the most anticipated meetings he had to date would be the one set for tomorrow. we'll show you a live look at trump national golf club in bed minister, new jersey. they await the arrival of the president-elect this evening. at golf club he is meeting with i'm sure you heard the 2012 republican nominee mitt romney. david, you and i were talking a little it about about yesterday, what they might talk about. would he be offered a position and all the speculation about secretary of state an on and on. we just don't know right now. we know the meet something supposed to take place at

1:00 p.m., 1:00 in the afternoon. stay tuned throughout the weekend if anything comes up. david: we have one of mitt's closest aides coming up in a minute talking about what he might be offered or what he might or might not take. melissa: can't wait for that. david: good to see you, connell, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: joining us on the phone, michael mukasey, former u.s. attorney general under george w. bush. you had the job so you know it well. that is why we brought you on to talk about. let's tackle the issues first in terms of what hurdles he may have. instantly the knock against him the other side is pulling out, not new, in fact very old. some 30 or 40 years ago when he said, you know, referred to an african-american federal prosecutor, that man says as boy. that he said that the clue ku klux klan was fine until he found out they smoked pot. he said that was a joke. is that enough to sink him? >> no.

it is not enough to sink him and shouldn't be. the remark about the ku klux klan where two klansmen, smoked marijuana and killed someone and he made sure that they were prosecuted in state court, but it was capital punishment. they faced possibility of the death penalty or life in prison without parole which the federal government did not have. in the course of discussion about that he made this kind of jocular comment and maybe, you know, one may question the taste i suppose but he meant nothing discriminatory by it. he said, yeah i always thought the klan was fine until i found out they smoked pot. the notion of a pot-smoking klansmen was an oddity then and something of an oddtive now. to judge a man based on that is ridiculous. melissa: obviously enough to sink him last time around. in the meantime under reagan when he was trying, nominated for a federal judgeship and was

denied due to a lot of back and forth. talk about the issues. you had the job. he served on senate armed services committee. senate judiciary committee. he was a u.s. attorney general. does he have the right experience and what do you think of his positions? >> he is outstandingly experienced and outstandingly well-qualified. he seen it -- he was on the committee that oversaw the department, had oversight over the department i served and got to know him then. he is very close to the issues. he knows what the mission is of the department and very much committed to it. as you point out he had the experience of being u.s. attorney so he knows it from the field standpoint. he couldn't be better prepared. melissa: in terms of having held the job what do you think is the biggest challenge today? is he up for that challenge? >> the biggest challenge is to get your arms around what it is

going on the inventory of cases, what the priorities are. figuring out what the priorities are of the president-elect and putting things in line with those priorities. some of it involves deciding which cases should be brought, which cases should perhaps not be brought. and part of it involved allocation of resources. that is in large measure what the job is about, the first job is to find out what it is that is going on there. in fact today -- people went to the department, to start that process. melissa: boy, when you talk about the ordering of cases based on the president's priority does make it sound like it is more political than we all think it is. that is interesting perspective. thanks for coming on. >> it is not bringing particular cases. i don't mean prosecute this person or that person. i mean where you put the resources. do you put it into immigration enforcement or put it into medicaid fraud enforcement or do you put it someplace else. that is inherent in the job. melissa: no, i understand

completely. thank you, sir. thanks for your time. we'll see you soon. david: president-elect trump putting one conflict to rest before taking office. sources say a settlement involving allegations of fraud at the now-defunct trump university has been reached, melissa, for 25 million bucks. melissa: wow. the high cost of riots. how one lawmaker is looking to hold protesters accountable for quote, economic terrorism. that is interesting. plus the president-elect is heading to new jersey for a little r and r this weekend but trump is getting ready to go face-to-face with an old rival. >> say, wait, wait. isn't he a huge business success? doesn't know what he is talking about? no, he isn't and no he doesn't. >> when mitt started raising his head a few months ago, i was very strong. i said, mitt romney should not run. he is a choke artist.

david: hopefully setting their differences aside, president-elect donald trump meeting with mitt romney tomorrow afternoon in new jersey leading some to speculate whether the former massachusetts governor is under consideration for a cabinet position. the meeting taking place only eight months after the vicious dispute during the primaries. i'm sure you remember. let's play it back. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> he was begging for my endorsement. i could have said, mitt, drop to your niece he would have dropped to his knees. he was begging. >> there is plenty of evidence mr. trump is a con man, a fake. mr. trump has changed his positions not just over the years, but over the course of the campaign. >> mitt is a failed candidate, he failed. he failed horribly. david: wow. here now, ryan williams, former romney spokesperson. ryan, how in the world after all that, can they come together and

agree to work together? >> well, look, i think it's, issues raised during the campaign have been litigated. donald trump won. he is our president-elect and people are willing to put it behind them. from knowing governor romney he cares about the future country. he wants to see president-elect do very well. he reached out to him after the election and followed up with a meeting this is good sign president-elect trump is even reaching out to some of his sharpist critics and meet with them. david: sharpest critics is nice way of putting it. they're both business people. a lot of politicians, don't get, business people can work together with people you might not necessarily like sometimes better than politicians can. >> i agree with you. i also think governor romney has perspective having gone from a businessman into government he can share with trump. you can't snap your fingers and make things happen as you can with a company.

ceo, legislative body, government moves slowly. it can be frustrating for ceo types like tru. david: secretary of state which is the main position, they have to have similar views on things. i'm wondering about russia. remember during the obama-romney debate when mittcaught a got of grief when he said russia was number one problem in the world. donald trump talking about how we can maybe work with russia to kick isis out of the middle east. might they disagree or come to agreement on that? >> i think there are differing views between the two men on russia. although, if, if romney or anybody else were to become secretary of state, they would provide their advice and counsel to the president. but at end. day the president makes decision on direction of foreign policy to this country. i don't want to get ahead of myself what governor romney would do as secretary of state, anybody serves under president trump no matter what their views would have execute strategies as president he lace out.

david: that that's what you have do at this point. rush limbaugh came out with interesting idea, caught my attention, that mitt is turnaround specialist, that is what he did. that is what he did with the olympics. that is what he did with business. no institution in the government is more in need of a turnaround than the va, the veterans administration. if he was offered that job and trump said look, nobody can do it like you could probably do it, would he take that job? >> i don't know. i know governor romney is committed to public service. he wants the country to succeed on any level. i assume any offer would give for any position he would review it. david: he wouldn't think that would be too small? >> he is committed to public service. he would consider any offer and will to be provide advice whether in the administration or on the outside. david: i got to say, somebody who has a son in the military right now, that is probably the biggest problem we have in government but i, i think it is an intriguing idea. ryan, thank you very much for

coming. appreciate it. >> thank you. david: melissa. melissa: that is a brilliant idea. he is a turnaround guy. put him in charge of a failing institution. david: talk about a fail institution. melissa: that is what private equity does. where mitt romney made his name. brilliant idea. fake news and election, bogus stories performing better on facebook. some are speculating the phony headlines could have influenced voters. oh, no! howard kurtz, the host of "mediabuzz" weighs in. democrats panicking as house minority leader nancy pelosi faces a challenge for her top position. the future of the democratic party. >> we're beginning to discuss areas we might move forward on together and, that is what the american people want us to do.

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david: breaking news. facebook is higher after announcing a share buyback. on friday afternoon it is unusual for a stock to move. it is up about 1%. the company was authorized to repurchase up to $6 billion of class a common stock. the repurchase program will go into effect the first quarter of 2017. melissa: democrats in disarray on capitol hill and new faces stepping up to the plate. minority leader nancy pelosi will face a challenger for the top democratic position in the house. fox news's blake burman is in d.c. with the details. i mean it is the year of the challenger but wow, taking on

nancy pelosi. hmmm. reporter: the year ofchallenger, the year of the unknown and year of a lot of things. it might end with this, tim ryan trying to unseat nancy pelosi. think about this crossroads for a second. tim ryan started in congress 2003. that was the same year that nancy pelosi began her run as the leader of house democrats. now it is ryan who is calling for a change at the top. democrats as you know in the house they have lost more than 60 seats dating back to 2009. the congressman ohio is pointing to his rust belt root as one who could potentially reverse that trend. >> we have the lowest, smallest majority since 1929 in our caucus. if you take state and federal officials, democratic officials we have the smallest number since reconstruction. that is not a call for doing something differently i don't know what is. reporter: last time pelosi face ad challenge was after the 2010 landslide. her opponent was only able to cobble together 43 votes.

pelosi appears confident she will be able to with stand any challenge. here she was yesterday. >> let me just say, as i said without even asking anybody for a vote, i have over 2/3 of the caucus supporting me. reporter: all pelosi or ryan needs a simple majority of the democratic caucus to become house minority leader. after last week's election, melissa, house democrats now hit the pause button on their leadership election. it will take place at the end of the month. that gives them next week, thanksgiving off. time to sit back, reflect and then figure out what to do going forward. melissa: i mean it is going to be a very interesting one to watch there. she sound very confident. we'll see. >> she is. melissa: blake, thank you. david: so the future of the democratic party is looking uncertain to some as ohio congressman tim ryan as you saw is challenging nancy pelosi to be the leading democrat in the house. ryan saying, quote, under our current leadership, democrats have been reduced to our smallest congressional minority

since 1929. keeping our leadership team completely unchanged will simply lead to more disappointment in future elections. here now to weigh in where dems go from here, former democratic congressman and fox news contributor dennis kucinich. great to see you, dennis. >> good to be with you. david: you were judged in politics like everything else on your performance. that is a pretty lousy performance. isn't it time for a change? >> well, first of all the, the democratic leader is different than whoever is at the top of the ticket. actually, the members of the democratic party are affected by top of the ticket. in this election the top of the ticket did not run as strong as she hoped to, in key states. the democrats didn't pick up as many seats as they would have liked to. when president obama was in, his first, at end of his first two years, democrats lost seats. you know, first of all that is number one, top of the ticket. number two, states redistricted

years ago and republicans paid a lot more attention to organizing at state level and being able to get control of redistricting within the state and draw the lines to favor republicans. as a matter of fact republicans have an advantage, principally because of redistricting. david: i think, dennis, forgive me, i think you're losing sight of the forest for the trees if you don't mind a metaphor here. pelosi, a lot of people say is playing to the wrong crowd. you come from fly over country and that is the part of the country that voted for donald trump. that is the part of the country a lot of people say the democrats are missing with pelosi at top. listen to charles krauthamer. i know he is conservative but listen to what he says about this. play the tape. >> it is beginning to dawn on them if you keep saying global warming is the biggest problem for our country, for our century, while people are losing their jobs and their dignity, in the midwest, you are not appealing to people. david: so his point is, this is the kind of issue that appeals

to san francisco and nancy pelosi's constituency but it is not what interests the rest of the country. >> california still has automotive, aerospace, and shipping interests vital to our national security, just as ohio used to have in great supply until nafta, china trade. truth of the matter the democratic party by and large, executive branch, congressional branch, did not pay attention closely enough to the economic issues that affected people at a local level, like you know the job issues. david: that's right. hold on a second, you're repeating what krauthamer is saying. you're saying they should get off of some of these other issues, climb at change and focus on issue, just getting a job, bringing merving back. >> unless republicans are breathing air that is different from democrats, environment is issue for everyone, and actually, it is a way to develop new technologies that help prime the pump economy and put america in the lead worldwide.

we can not walk away from the environmental issues. it is not either/or. profits are going up the smokestack. david: right. >> we have to find a way to have both. and i'm saying that the democratic party needs to go back to the old-time religion, rebuild the infrastructure, put millions of people back to work, save our strategic industrial base, steel, automotive aerospace. david: gracious in defeat. 1929. that is the last time that you have had a you group in congress as small as is now. something has to be done if you will survive as party, dennis. >> we democrats like to think of 1932 as operative year. david: dennis kucinich, always optimistic. good to see you. appreciate it. >> thank you. melissa: tackling facebook's news problem. buzzfeed found top 20 election related articles from hoax sites, they were liked or share 20 times more than top 20 from

legitimate news sites. howard kurtz, fox news media analyst. we love having you on. this is click bait. headline comes on the side, bizarre, catches your attention, something like for example, this is one that the pope was endorsing donald trump. people click on it, and then if they like it or share it, howard, do you assume that they think it is true? >> i guess some think it is true or some want it to be true. i don't know who knew phonies news could be so popular. not defending everything the mainstream media put on internet. facebook has a real problem. nice to hear the stock is up. facebook has credibility issue because it hasn't done anything. it is a challenge for mark zuckerberg to do something not to allow canser of fake, phony news. this is made up stuff, melissa, to spread into everybody's news feed. melissa: absolutely. some people said, how can you tell the difference between what is fake and real? there is so much opinion out there, that sort of thing. we're talking about things

factually incorrect. like the idea that the pope endorsed donald trump. that either happened or didn't happen. it didn't happen. this fake news article said it did. it was shared. what the could facebook do about that though? how do they create an algorithm that sorts out for stories that are factual -- i'm not really sure, i don't know, i mean i don't know that much about algorithms but i know enough. that seems like it would be hard to sort? >> i think it is going to take actual human beings. melissa: no! stop it! >> facebook already had a bias problem. it fired its whole staff that dealt with trending topics after acknowledging, zuckerberg acknowledging a lot of conservative news, news from conservative news sights was knocked out from trending topics. hard to come up with arbiter fair and balanced you won't get into hyper partisan news which might just be aggressive opinion but not completely made up. but one thing facebook could do

would be to verify sites and when there are sites just in the business -- people make money off this, in the business of making stuff up to get facebook advertising dollars, maybe those sites don't get a check mark the way legitimate news organization. melissa: not bad. there is solution out there. they will figure it out. this guy josh barrow i guessworks for msnbc, i didn't know who he was. i guess i'm not as freaked about fake news as most because i think the public has always been ill-informed and stupid. he sound like jonathan gruber of obamacare fame. people really appreciated him. but a lot of journalists feel that way. they think the public is ill-informed and stupid as this gentleman does, howard? >> i always think it is dangerous to sort of blame the readers, blame the viewers, you know. obviously some people are trafficking in this stuff because facebook is platform for sharing but i think something could be done and i really think, mark zuckerberg maintains this fiction he doesn't run a media company, just a platform.

he runs the most powerful media companies in the world. debriefing money from advertising on some of these sites. melissa: i will remind everyone not to forget to catch howard kurtz every sunday mourning on "mediabuzz," 11:00 a.m. on fox news. he is the best. david: i don't think we work for the media we're interested in that show. melissa: it is good stuff. it is juicy. david: securing trump tower. why keeping the president-elect safe is costing retail stores a pretty penny even though the mayor doesn't seem to get on to that. plus committing economic terrorism. details of the proposed bill that could put anti-trump protesters behind bars. [shouting] ncluding this little . and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i asked my doctor.

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about security around trump tower causing luxury retailers to lose foot traffic because of protest and security along fifth avenue. despite that the store isn't closed. tiffany is in frequent communication with the new york police department, u.s. secret service regarding safety and security along the perimeter of our fifth avenue flagship store. fox news's rick leventhal outside of trump tower with the very latest on security measures. rick? reporter: david, no question, all these extra officers and check point having an impact on local businesses but we just learned this afternoon that the security precautions we're seeing here on fifth avenue and surrounding streets will remain in place until at least the president-elect moves into the white house in january. city officials point out this is the first time in decades that a new york city resident has been elected as president of the united states. in this case he just happens to live one block south of one of the busiest intersections in america. so traffic problems continue on

fifth avenue. that will cause problems for local businesses. two lanes will remain closed hire. surrounding streets will remain closed. barricades remain in place. 50 extra officers were added to traffic detail in the immediate vicinity alone and other track call deployments. >> we'll have our explosive detection k-9s, specialized units like critical response command and strategic response group and main clothes officers and countersurveillance teams working hand in hand with the intelligence bureau and partners in the federal government, specifically the secret service. reporter: the police commissioner says that new york city residents are the most resilient in the world. they can handle any changes but always tough to move through this part of town. it is much, much more difficult now. we're told normally would be 400 people walking on sidewalk in front of trump tower. now 10 to 12,000 an hour. they're not shopping but in most cases they're stopping to take photographs.

businesses report declines of 20 to 50% in some cases in this area. there is no relief in sight. the city understands the concerns of business owners. trying to do what it can to help. but these security precautions will remain in place at least the next 65 days. >> we understand the number one imperative here is safety and security. we owe that to the president-elect, his family and his team. that is important for all new yorkers. so that will be the most important consideration but we believe we can balance that with a number of measures. reporter: of course david, retailers count on this time of year, this holiday season to buttress sales. the mayor is asking people not to drive into the city at all for the next couple of months, not just because of gridlock from the holidays but also because of gridlock caused by the president-elect at trump towers. david: yesterday he said he doesn't care about what happens to the stores. it boggles the mind. rick, thank you very much. melissa? melissa: so when protests go too far. one republican lawmaker for

anti-trump protesters to be charged with economic terrorism. washington state senator doug erickson, quotes respects the right to protest, when it endangers people's lives and property it goes too far. fear, intimidation and vandalism are not a legitimate form of political expression. he has propose ad bill that would go after not only the offenders but this is the issue, it also, the people who fund them. violators could face five years in prison and $10,000 fine or could be both. but it is important, this is not just protesters. when they're doing damage to property, economic terrorism. david: we know that george soros in the past funded groups affiliated with some of these proat thers. new demand from illegal immigrants. of the last minute effort to avoid deport take under president-elect donald trump. ♪

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melissa: illegal immigrants want a pardon. house democrat calling on president obama to pardon nearly 750,000 dreamers. this amid growing fears undocumented immigrants will be deported under president-elect trump. here now noelle nix pour, gop fundraiser, jessica tarlov, democratic strategist. noelle, in some ways i feel like president obama did this he would do donald trump a favor. he wouldn't have to look down the barrel of making this decision when they talk about ripping people away from their families already in this country who want to become citizens. he wouldn't have to make the decision, right? >> right. melissa, actually that is a very, very good point. it is a tricky situation. as you guys know, trump built his claim to fame on the platform of immigration reform. so you have got to realize with talk of the wall and the talk on

being very firm on deportation, actually you're right. obama going ahead and doing this would relief him, but, i'm not so sure that it is something that obama can actually do on that measure. might be something that better left to congress to do. and you have also got to remember that since he has said this, now that he is president-elect, he has started to soften just a little by the stating he wants to be firm but he also wants to be fair. and maybe this is the place where he could be more fair. david: jess -- melissa: jessica, he hasn't just started to soften, in the final leg of the campaign we want to deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes. >> yes. melissa: but for people here, we'll see where we are, type thing. so i'm not really convinced these people are necessarily in jeopardy anyway? >> no. but we can understand why there is concern. melissa: you think they're in jeopardy? >> i'm not really sure. as you said, trump has gone through some iterations of his

immigration stance we don't know where he will come down. we're talking about the two or three million criminals, he says they are illegal aliens and committed crimes here. he is also using the word suspected, which is different than convicted. there is concern there that he could just wake up one day, actually, it is everybody on a visa overstay. that is a violation, right in i mean that is illegal to overstay visa. maybe you're just here in the first place. melissa: talking about people committed violent crimes. >> he talked about suspected gang members and drug dealers. melissa: you think the president should do this. >> i don't know. i think it would be great congress do it, send a signal. over 60% of the americans believe these people here should have pathway to citizenship. it would be a nice olive branch to the other side, d.r.e.a.m.ers are not my target. i'm after the guy who killed kate steinle. >> said that though. >> acts like that and congress to back i am on it. melissa: noelle, real quick, do you think is it possible he

would do that? >> i don't know. this will be a telltale situation. i will tell you something funny. obama deported more than george w. bush and clinton. many people don't know this. they're firing back at trump deportation guy. >> he is the deporter in chief. obama cared about the law. melissa: we'll come back to discuss it. >> thanks, melissa. david: nearly 85 million of your tax dollars spent on a new hotel in afghanistan. even afghans can't check in. details coming up. ♪ music for your retirement,

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they call the whole thing troubling management practices. they did it before they have a gas station. and then after the inspector general than what happens. risk and reward starts right now. see make president-elect trump already facing controversy. we have a retired lieutenant general mike flynn has been tapped for the national security advisor. mike pompeo cia director. is that for attorney general jeff sessions coming under intense scrutiny. we have more names coming up. mister trump could be considering for top people. we also have governor nikki haley.