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it has become underpriced. financials there is also opportunity. liz: energy, tech, financials. [closing bell rings] dow jones up 114. that is a record. s&p, all-time record close. that will do it for the claman countdown. we'll see you tomorrow. david: i don't know about you folks. we're not tired of winning. history on wall vote as the dow ends the day with another record close. glad you could join us. i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis this. is "after the bell." more on the market movers, here is what else we're covering in the very busy hour ahead. a real horse race. it is decision day in alabama. polls close in four hours from now in highly controversial special election. will voters pick roy moore to carry out president trump's agenda in d.c.
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an elect a democratic senator for the first time in 20 years? we're live on the ground. attempting to kill innocent americans in the name of isis. new details on the new york city bombing suspect who is now charged with terrorism as the white house says, a change in immigration policies is needed. try to get a tax bill on the president's desk by christmas. last-minute negotiations are currently underway in capitol hill. we have the latest details on the final version of the republican's plan. david: let's pray for that. this is the new record for the dow. 67th record under president trump. do they ever get blase about all this, nicole? >> absolutely not. they have the 25,000 hats ready. this is the 84th record close for the dow since the election. loving it, great for folks at
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home, 401(k) as, eye as. i asked a few traders what do you think about the question, is there a crash coming? people were asking me that last night. the feeling ultimately that earnings were doing well. consumer confidence, jobs report, and the economy and earnings are doing better fundamentally. now the tax plan. goldman sachs hitting all-time highs. visa, boeing. goldman up 3.0% and bowing gaining 2.3%. that is up 3.8%. positive comments from jpmorgan. there is a look at oil. oil down 1.2%. u.s. out put is one concern. that the u.s. has been pumping it out likely next year at record high. the other, the major oil pipeline, one of the most important in the world over the north sea, that cracked, they were worried that could be a disruption in supply. as a result we saw a little
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pullback in oil. the rest had up arrows. back to you. david: i'm not discouraged when the price of oil and gas goes down. it is all good news for me. nicole, good to see you. thank you very much. melissa siresarah sanders wrapping up jam-packed press briefing. to break it all down. that was, blake, spirited entertaining one. we watched it live. reporter: lots of questions about the tweet to kirsten gillibrand. white house saying no means was the tweet sexist or sexually suggestive. it started when gillibrand suggested president trump should resign the new york senator, because of renewed sexual misconduct complaints in years past. the president took to twitter this morning say of gillibrand, she would come to my office begging for campaign contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them. gillibrand took offense to that part.
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>> it was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice. i will not be silenced on this issue. neither will the women who stood up to the president yesterday. neither will the millions of women who have been marching since the woman's march to stand up against policies they do not agree with. reporter: press secretary sarah sanders that the president was not implying any sexual in any way. only someone could see it that way if their mind was in the gutter. the president was referencing the president, tainted financial campaign system. listen. >> he is not alleging anything. he is talking about the way that our system functions as it is. that politicians repeatedly beg for money. that is not something new. and that comment frankly isn't something new. reporter: by the way, on policy we do have stuff out of the white house today, melissa. we are expecting tomorrow the president to talk about tax reform and give what will be viewed as his closing argument on tax reform.
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a senior white house official telling me today, that the feeling here es they believe the negotiators up on capitol hill could wrap up the negotiations and come up with a final package at some point potentially by tomorrow. melissa? melissa: i love it. all of sudden we're living in victorrian times. no one can say anything. apparently none of these people watch hbo or showtime or listen to sirius radio or any of that. blake, thank you. david: as blake said there is serious stuff going on. the house and senate are working around the clock to morph their tax bills into one great bill to put on the president's desk before christmas. are they going to make it? here now republican congressman jody hice from georgia. member of the house freedom caucus. thank you, congressman for coming in. if the democrats -- we're focused on alabama, all of us political nerds. in the democrat wins in alabama, you guys have 10 days to come up with a tax bill to put on the president's desk before you lose
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a republican in the senate. can you make it in 10 days? >> one word. absolutely. that kind of thing puts more pressure to get the ball across the finish line. absolutely, yes we'll get it done. david: from the previous segment there is a lot of nonsense going on, a lot of serious investigations. you guys have been working hard with the senate to come up with a single bill to put on the president's desk. what are the biggest sticking points at this point? >> one of the biggest ones for me, there is a couple of them, let's get this thing started immediately. we don't need to let it go out into 2019. david: let me explain. the senate wants to delay corporate tax cuts until 2019. a lot of people say if you delay it, delay the effect of tax cut, we could go into recession or come down into the economy. >> that is nonsense. talking tax cuts. let's get the ball rolling
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immediately. so that is one sticking point. another big one that i personally am watching is the language dealing with the johnson amendment, which has been just used horribly against the first amendment for non-profits and churches. that language is in the house bill, not in the senate bill. i'm hopeful that will go across. either way the debate, it is on the table. it is going full time around the clock. we'll get something coming out of, a report going both to the house and senate. i feel very confident it will be the greatest tax cut in american history and it is goings to be good for individuals and misses. david: let me talk about rates first. first the corporate rate. president says the 20% is non-negotiable. some people say it will come up to 22%. what do you say? >> i say what part of non-negotiable does anyone understand? stick with 20%. we want to be globally competitive n order to do that 20% is where we've got to be so let's stay there. david: the top personal rate.
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every great tax cut in american history, whether the '60s with jfk, the '80s, with ronald reagan, brought down the top marginal tax cut. that empower ad lot of entrepreneurs to come up with new ideas, work overnight to get businesses started. we don't see much of a change in the top rate. is it possible it could come down? >> i hope so personally. there is a lot of folks that disagree with me on that point. some tremendous fear somehow those who are wealthy may not get a tax cut. look, as far as i'm concerned any and every hard-working american ought to have a cut in their taxes. it helps everyone. that is certainly one of the issues in a major debate i'm sure taking place in the conference right now but personally i hope it will come down. david: congressman, one final question, something not about taxes, all the investigation about what the justice department was doing during the election, how a lot of people that were never trump percent working hard, working with folks
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outside of government like fusion gps to avoid trump get into the white house the should we have a special counsel, new special counsel to investigate what is going on at justice? >> why wouldn't we have one? we have president who has special counsel every time he sneezes. people like hillary clinton repeatedly involved in scandals and misconduct, and somehow lady justice is no longer blindfolded with someone like hillary. time that justice served across the board, no one is above the law. that is foundational principle everyone as americans cherish. if that disappears, it is bad news for everyone. we have to get serious about equal justice under the law. and i believe this is an area where we've got to begin and keep the investigation going or actually started in this case. david: congressman hice, thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. thank you very much. david: melissa. melissa: bring in today's panel. gary kaltbaum from kaltbaum
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capital management, james freeman, "wall street journal," they are both fox news contributors. james, start with you, what did you hear there? what do you think the final version of the tax bill will look like? >> i like two of the priorities he sketched out, keeping the corporate rate down to 20%. that is really the key to make us competitive. remember you have state and local taxes on top of it, if we want to get to mediocrity, no better in the world, we have to get to 20%. he also talked about lowering the individual top rate. as david mentioned really how most successful tax cuts have gone across the board, benefits for everyone, more incentives for everyone. let's hope they go that way. melissa: gary, what do you think? >> well, something happened today that is really important. boeing's stock was up over 60 dow points because they're raising the dividend and they're buying back a ton of stock. the reason being because corporate rates campus down, profits go up. they can afford to do it. that is what the market has been betting on. they better get something darn
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good done. as far as the other part of the equation, those privileged few, the job creators, they should get tax cuts. i don't understand why they don't take the top tax rate down and help them out. i think they're very wimpy on that. i wish somebody would stand up and do something about it. take it down to 35. take the fire. it will be great for the economy though. melissa: james, the problem is what gary said is was the democratic knock on this plan. if you lower taxes and buy back stock and increase dividend that doesn't stimulate the economy. >> i understand investors are thrilled about boeing, they will get money back, but what we're seeing really encouraging finally after this sort of investment desert of the obama years, capital investment is coming up in the united states. you may see it as boeing as well but you're certainly seeing it across the economy. i think this bill gives companies even more reason to invest in the u.s. melissa: yeah, gary, that's the other reason why you would see
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boeing's stock going up. people will go buy planes. now that they have more money they will sell more planes. if the corporate tax rate is lower, airlines will get new planes. >> all the administration can do is set the conditions for the economy and people to thrive. melissa: yeah. >> my opinion -- melissa: amen. >> for years was the exact opposite. lower taxes does that the rhetoric is so much better for business over just in the last year, it is by no accident the markets doing what it is doing. speak to all corporate chieftans. speak to small business owners and tell you the exact same thing. they feel better. when they feel better, they do more things, hiring, expanding and that turns into a virtuous cycle. i think you're getting it here. melissa: government, get out of the way. set up conditions for businesses and individuals to thrive and get the hell outs of the way. i think what you just said, gary. end on that night. that was fantastic. david: that note is music to my ears.
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absolutely -- reagan said government is the problem, no not the solution. president trump's legal team wants to take a deeper look into the alleged corruption at the justice department and the fbi particularly after that bombshell report on fox news last night. coming up jordan sekulow from the american center for law and justice is here to explain. melissa: out of control fires in southern california. how firefighters are working to contain the flames. the moment of truth in alabama. a few hours left for voters to make their choice between roy moore and doug jones next. guy benson from town hall. com sounds off on the -- townhall.com on sounds off on the race and impact it will have on the president's agenda. that can't be true, can it?
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david: the race is on in alabama. highly-anticipated results of special senate election in the heart of dixie hours away. our own hillary vaughn live in montgomery, alabama, with latest on the republican candidate, roy moore. hi, hillary. >> hey, david. polls close in just a few hours but republican candidate judge roy moore is already looking ahead to after tonight. he says he is ready to take on the political insiders that he says are trying to keep him from resuming his senate seat if he were elected tonight. roy moore galloped to the polls to cast his vote. that is part of his election day tradition. rode with his wife kayla on his lucky source, sassy. if washington insiders try to block him from taking his seat he is ready to face off with mitch mcconnell to make sure he is sworn in. if not, moore says that move would not only be
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unconstitutional but sis that would actually be, the senate trying to overcome what he calls the will of the people. this is constitutional issue. like i said, the al pages -- allegations are to the true. i'm not avoiding that. that is a fact. further than that is not constitutional. reporter: moore's opponent doug jones says he shouldn't be so confident he is going to get off the hook with this but moore says and told supporters last night he thinks all these sexual harrassment allegations are going to be resolved after voters head to the polls tonight. take a listen. >> all this mess is going to be over tomorrow. if you don't believe in my character, don't vote for me. reporter: and so, it night, we will see how voters decide about these allegations.
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moore says, that their decision will show up in the results to night. david? david: we got it all covered right here on fbn. hillary, great stuff. thank you very much. fair and balanced go to jeff flock. he is live covering the doug jones campaign from birmingham, alabama. hi, jeff. reporter: might be dangerous advice there from roy moore for folks not to vote for him if they don't trust his conscience or trust his character. i am in a african-american community here in birmingham. this is of course a community that is going to be very important for doug jones to turn out the vote. not a lot of support for roy moore in the african-american community. doug jones though, not so bad. getting ready for the fight in washington, roy moore, because he feels real food about the momentum that has been building here and they are turning out the vote. take a listen. >> we feel very good, exuberant. we feel so good. i don't think roy moore is going to win this election.
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reporter: never before, david, have i seen some people, particularly in this african-american community who may be disabled, who have to go to a lot of troubles to get to the polls, can you see that, laurie? they have come all day. here in alabama, the place, voting rights act, home of the voting rights act really. people, particularly in the african-american community work very hard to get the vote. and today, they say, it is a time that we exercise it. one last thing i will leave you with. that is, one last comment from doug jones. he was asked if things don't go well tomorrow, or today, would you support an ethics investigation in the senate against your opponent? here is what he said to that. >> i'm not going to answer that question. i mean, look, that is not going to be me. first of all i don't think we're going to get that. you know, in alabama we have come so far with too many things. and there is this saying. fool me once, shame on you.
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feel me twice, shame on me. alabama will not let that shame happen again. reporter: well they already let roy moore be removed from office twice which some people would see as a shame. we'll see what happens tonight. as you say, fair and balanced coverage on the fox business network all night. may be. david: from the sun, it is cold at least the sun is out that will get people to the polls. jeff, good to see you, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here to react, guy benson, townhall.com, political editor, fox news contributor. i'm glad, guy, on the record yesterday saying i didn't believe any of the polls at all. now they have come in and they're all over the place. what do you think about that? >> well it has been fascinating. the last three polls of the race included our own, "fox news poll," has him down, hem being roy moore down 10 points to doug jones. then there is an emerson poll has roy moore leading doug jones by almost the same margin, up by
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nine. monmouth university has it exactly tied at 46. that is really extraordinary to seat range of possible outcops tonight. look, my gut is that there is a plausible path for doug jones to win this race tonight. he need high african-american turnout. he need women to turn against roy moore. he need a lot of republicans to cross over or stay home or write someone else win. if that happens, stars align, doug jones could be the next senator. i will believe it when i see it this is still alabama, deep, deep crimson red state donald trump won by almost 30 point just last year. the fact it is even close is extraordinary. but my suspicion is that tonight we'll see a close you relatively comfortable moore victory but we'll see. melissa: what is the fallout from this in sense who wins if roy moore wins? i heard somebody saying earlier it is a win for donald trump because he has thrown his weight behind him. it gives him street cred, you
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want me on your side. it's a loss for most republicans every ad has roy moore in it. what is your analysis, who wins and loses if roy moore wins? >> if moore wins it's a short term victory for the republican party and for president trump because they will have that vote still intact, that alabama senate seat in their column. but i think longer term, the last thing that i think younger conservatives like myself want to see is people like roy moore as a face of the republican party. i think that is what the democrats are going to actively attempt to push. that whole narrative. highlighting roy moore, i think they will take republican support for roy moore and president's support for roy moore, bring that to independent districts, districts with a lot of suburban women and moderates. i think that he's the type of character who might be able it squeeze out a victory in a place like alabama but he could be an albatross for the party more generally. so it is definitely a mixed bag.
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i talked to a lot of republicans in this city who believe that it is sort of a no-win situation for the republican parity. lose the seat, you have lost a seat and that complicate as lot of stuff in terms of the trump agenda. win the seat, then what? what do you do with roy moore? how do you prevent the democrats from having a field day hyping this guy? melissa: interesting. guy, thank you so much. we will see. >> we'll see. my pleasure, melissa. melissa: see you later. david: terror in the heart of new york city again. the attack as bungled as it was in times square, raising new questions about immigration policies. why the white house says the president's new immigration proposals could have kept the suspect out of the u.s. zuhdi jasser, the founder and president of american-islamic forum for democracy coming right up. also, searching for answers. details on the suspect's anti-trump facebook posts. have you seen that? what it all means for the investigation. ♪
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melissa: terror suspect charged. the 27-year-old bangladeshi native indicted on five counts of federal terrorism crimes. in addition, authorities finding an anti-trump facebook post written by the suspect prior to the attack as well as hand-written notes in his home bashing the united states. here from times square is connell mcshane. connell? reporter: well, melissa that handwritten facebook or that written facebook page note that you referenced there came right before the terrorism suspect, akayed ullah came to midtown man hat to try to carry out yesterday's attack and in it he specifically mentioned the president saying, trump, you failed to protect your nation. that is one of the things that we're learning about this suspect. of what we're learning coming in a federal criminal complaint. we'll talk about that in a moment. first let's look at federal terrorism charges this man is now facing. they include providing material
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support to a terrorist organizations. using weapons of mass destruction. the homemade pipe bomb he said to have brought here, destruction of property, fire, explosives and misuse of a destructive device. the acting u.s. attorney here in new york in the southern district adding to all of that in terms of what led up to all of this. >> in terms of the timing, what's in the complaint is that he had been planning this particular attack for two to three weeks and that he built the bomb a week ago. it does allege going as far as back as 2014 he began getting radicalized. reporter: we also learned in that federal complaint about some items that authorities found in his home out in brooklyn. they included wires and fragments, christmas tree lights and multiple screws consistent with the type of screws found here at the scene of the bombing. essentially a bomb-making kit if
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you will. they found a passport in his name, that had a number of hand-written notations in it. among them, i'm quoting from the hand-written notation, oh, america die in your rage. oh, america, die in your rage. clearly this was a man who was insent carrying out a crime that would be more harmful than the one he was able to carry out. now he faces federal charges. melissa: connell, thank you. david: pretty stupid, putting it in his passport. can you man? here to react, bill daly, former fbi investigator. despite the fact he has been lawyered up, mir ran dazed, he -- mirandized, talking to investigators he says he was acting alone. do you believe that? >> right now it appears no one was connected directly with him at the scene. i would suggest, david, living in small apartment, brewing in screws, small pieces pipe, christmas trees right were used as attempted detonation of this
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device, other people may have at least known of his behavior, if not directly complicit at least knowingly. david: that is why the fbi, your former colleagues at the fbi, taking some of his relatives, some in school, according to his lawyer, one as young as six years old out of school, talking to them without a lawyer present or anything. do you think that was fair, if it was done as the lawyer described? >> well, i think in a case like this, you have to fully grasp what is happening in the situation. who else might be involved. other people out there mobile at the time, who maybe looking to commit similar types of acts. so i think in the public safety's best interest, no matter how old they are, where they are to -- david: i do too. >> to find out they're aware of any other plans or other people he might be involved with. david: the problem is, since he has been lawyered up and he was mirandized, i wonder if they apply standard to this case maybe you shouldn't in a terrorist case?
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maybe this is, the way they're investigating, the way they're lawyering this guy up, the way you deal with a criminal, bank robber, not necessarily a terrorist who might have a conspiracy at hand? >> well i think, first of all when he is arrested they will read miranda rights here in the u.s. that is start procedure. david: why people like lindsey graham he should have been taken to gitmo, not dealt with as common criminal. >> that is certainly another discussion, how these people handled it, but at the moment, law enforcement effort in new york, between fbi, nypd, other agencies. they need to quickly respond. do things all like they did. find out who else may be aware of his plans. who may have been some way complicit in it. our best interests we do that right away, no matter their age, where they are or station in life. david: we do know that he was a regular attendee at a mosque that was nearby his home in brooklyn. we know who was at that mosque, who the imam was there.
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how does the fbi, it is a very tender situation now with all of the laws in place, because of the fact he is not in gitmo and is going to be tried here, how does the investigate a religious institution like a mosque and a religious person like an imam? >> first of all, david, fbi is doing a great job reaching out to the muslim community, getting people who are conducting services, who are involved in religious side of their faith, to be helpful to the fbi. so i think overall we've done a very good job as a nation to do that in very respectful way. whether here in new york or out in california, all places in between. i think we've done a good job. that is really only way to technically do that. technically, meaning there is a very ernest way protect the nation readily from those people. because of some threats being made that law enforcement may be allowed to go in and put someone in place it hear what is going
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on. we saw that going way pack to even the first 1993 world trade center bombing informants involved with the religious community. that is certainly not something they have used across the board. david: surveillance were taking place in certain mosques in question in the new york area has been stopped, partly because of lawsuits. there is a question whether this mayor would ever continue something like that again. bill daly good to see you. melissa. melissa: move over, robert mueller. the trump administration is pushing for another special counsel to investigate the investigators themselves. jordan sekulow coming up to break it all down for us. david: plus wildfires ripping through california. firefighters struggling to contain all the flames. we have an update for you coming next. [vo] when it comes to investing, looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. it can provide what we call an unlock: a realization that
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the wind stayed away. bad news for people that live here. this is what you find on the ground he have where. that is why masks are worn by everybody. firefighters and those live here still doing work here in carpenteria. for most part firefighters made incredible head which because there has been no winds. still very low humidity. still a lot of fuel to be burned. but the fire for the most part in areas inaccessible by truck, by for truck. they have to wait to come down the hillside and cut fire lines. firefighters saying this is about 30% contained. they're cautiously optimistic moving forward. this is the number one fire in the western u.s. that matter only fire left burning in california. in california, i'm adam housley, back to you. >> adam, thank you. david: los angeles fire department confirming the skier ball fire was scudded by illegal cooking fire in encamment in a brush area near the san diego freeway. the fire so far has burned more
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than 400-acres, destroyed six homes and damaged 12 others in the bel-air community. the fire is 85% contained. >> that is amazing. we have breaking headlines from secretary of state rex tillerson. tillerson saying that the u.s. is willing to come to the negotiating table with north korea without preconditions and china is fully implementing north korean sanctions. president trump would like to see beijing cut off oil supplies. the secretary going on to say the u.s. simply can not accept a nuclear-armed north korea. david: wow that is big news. melissa: really is, if it pans out. president trump calling for the end of two immigration processes following the attempted bombing in new york but would that help to stop homegrown radicalization ? zuhdi jasser has the answer.
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>> a secretary record attack in two months in new york city. law enforcement officials revealing the attempted suicide bomber got no the u.s. what is called chain migration. essentially he had extended relative who is a u.s. citizen which allowed him to come to stay. president tom saying today that process is about to change. >> lottery system, chain my -- my my greiges. we have tremendous support. it will be ended. melissa: bring in zuhdi jasser, founder of american-islamic forum for democracy. everybody does this would have prevented this attack, it wouldn't have prevented this attack. what do you think about chain migration in general? do you think this is good idea or a backdoor for people not being vetted enough? >> for nuclear families it makes sense you want to bring your
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kids, your parents, beyond nuclear families. i have family in syria but i'm realistic that america is an idea. being genetically related to somebody, or in extended family does not prevent them from islamism, or wahhabiism or. so there is no way a rational human being, a rational american, approaching our policy can that just because they're families we should accept them. the first filter need to be idealogical filter. melissa: i was talking to a counterterrorism expert earlier today saying that i have heard people talk about that maybe we need to go into mosques more and try to figure out where people are being radicalized or encourage others to raise a red flag. his response, this is really happening on the internet t would be better to monitor sites that people are going to. if somebody like this man was, being radicalized online, going
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to places where you're learning to create a bomb, going to different sites about isis, to go out and talk to them. even if they don't listen to you, you're alerting people in their home, in their community, please keep an eye on this person. he is about to do something really terrible. what do you think about that? >> there is no doubt that our biggest liability, melissa, has been the fact that we haven't had a idealogical approach to the enemy. that needs a whole of government approach. so it include looking at public footprints on the internet. where are the adherents publicly to islamist sue premmism, the world view of islam? where are the conspiracy theorists of muslim radicals? anti-semitic, homophobic, misogynists all that footprint can be monitored. like we do good police work, we should go in public places like a mosque, whatever, not allow identity politics, whether our
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cops on beat or online, understanding that communities that have ideases that are precores -- precursors to the radicals. melissa: that is great advice. we have breaking news. david: involves something close to our heart. taxes, we're getting word now, tomorrow, 3:00, 4:00 during this time, we'll hear from the president and his final push for tax reform. we were getting details just with james freeman and taxes from the corporate and individual side may come down from what you've heard adam shapiro is here with the details. adam, what have you heard. reporter: from what the conference committee agreed to still has to be scored. corporate rate, 21%. fox news reported this earlier, it would be between 21 and 22. it will be 21%. proposal of top rate of individual, 37%. remember originally the house wanted 39.6.
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the senate was at 38. but now we're proposing 37% on top individual rate. the pass-through rate would be 20% reduction from a filer's top rate if you're using pass-through income as business owner. mortgage interest you are able to deduct interest up to $750,000. the way to describe this. these are the current parameters agreed to within the conference committee, but it has to pass what they call the byrd bath. it has to be scored to make sure it passes parliamentary procedure in the senate. trying to confirm how many brackets. don't have that yet. david: this is terrific information. adam, thank you very much. great reporting job. appreciate it. just a preview of what we're going to see tomorrow. again, sometime between 3:00 and 5:00 tomorrow the president will come out with the details. looks like they're actually doing some work on lowering tax rates inside beltway. melissa: good for them. calling for a second special counsel. stunning revelation into the
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melissa: more breaking news coming out right now about the final tax reform bill. go back to adam shapiro in d.c. adam? reporter: melissa, we were talking about the different tax brackets. house originally wanted four. the senate would go with seven. conference committee still hashing this out. it is looking like it will be seven. that has not been finalized. we have reached out to both house ways and means as well as senate finance. they will not comment on all of this. but our source which is very close to the conference
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committee, again has confirmed with us on the table right now the parameters of that 21% corporate tax rate, 37% top individual rate and looks if it will be seven brackets. back to you. melissa: wow, adam, thank you. david: meanwhile investigating the dope -- deep state. president trump calling for a second special counsel to probe the fbi and department of justice behind the russia investigation. after last night's bombshell report by fox news, a now demoted doj official who met with fusion gdp, the firm behind the anti-trump dossi air is married to a woman who worked for fusion gps during the 2016 election. here now is jordan sekulow, american center for law and justice executive director. jordan, this goes beyond conflict of interest. this looks like a conspiracy of justice department officials trying to keep him out of the
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white house. >> that is what the president trump's legal team, not to investigate bob mueller or investigating the russia-trump issue but investigate the entire justice department and the fbi. this goes back to way before there was ever special counsel reported. this goes to begins of the campaign. as you pointed out, bruce ore, at the justice department as we speak, got demoted from associate attorney general position but still at department of justice, had secret meetings, secret meetings with glen simpson from fusion gps the author of trump dossier and author of so-called dossier, christopher steel. we find out from james rosen his wife is the russian expert -- david: for those who don't know, we should clarify. fusion gps is aer. >> group. what they do smear individuals for a rice. it was paid by the dnc and hillary campaign.
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the smear was against donald trump. that is what the trum dossier was. they worked with russian officials in the past. fusion gdp worked with people very close to putin in russia in order to smear people against putin. that is a whole another story. my question, should anybody associated with the justice department have their spouse be working for an organization like fusion? i mean this is a dangerous organization? no if they do, they better keep it very separate. this couple did not. so his wife is reported, set up these meetings. he did not report these to his superiors. that is why he has been demoted. i'm not sure why he hasn't been fired yet this is bureaucrat. this tells you the problem is not just with political appointees and holdovers from the obama administration. these are bureaucrats in washington, d.c. working alongside, we believe, if a special counsel was to investigate this, people like peter strzok dismissed from special counsel mueller's team
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for anti-trump tweets and statements. another lawyer dismissed there. these people were all there during the clinton investigation. they were all part of the team investigating russia before there was a special counsel. they are the folks who put together the fisa warrant. david: a lot of people don't like using the term deep state. i understand it sound too conspiritorial? how else can you describe this, quickly? >> i wouldn't use that term ever before, david, until we started looking into this and realizing the extent of the bureaucracy, not even political appointee holdovers, but the bureaucracy there to undermine this president. it is ultimately an attempted coup, an attempted coup by these officials. david: we have a hard break. we'll have to leave it at that we'll be right back. >> thanks, david.
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>> okay. so i've got to tell you as a horse woman for years, i had a problem with roy moore riding this horse. are we going to show the video? david: show it. it's not a video.
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>> not even close. and he's not on the horse. david: since he's not on the video, i do have something for you. look at this, ladies and gentlemen. it doesn't hurt it's an advertiser on fox business. melissa loves bacon. today'sher birthday. happy birthday. melissa: you're so sweet. thank you. risk and reward. liz: decision day in alabama. polls closing in less than three hours for this highly-charged senate race between republican roy moore and democrat doug jones. win or lose, republican leaders say roy moore is a problem for them. we will bring you the news on this too close to call race throughout the show tonight. and new york city terror suspect now facing federal charges, including life in prison. and now this. the family of this failed suicide bomber. their outrage saying they're inconvenienced by police officers questioning them. the 27-year-old, he's a bangladeshy national, he

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