he has the wind on his back right now. gregg: you know what they say about the wind, it will change on a moment's notice. keeping. charles: lou dobbs is next.

residents seen freezing temperatures. no relief in sight. we'll have a full report straight ahead. we begin with our top story. evidence continues to mount of widespread corruption conclusion at the fbi and a growing course of lawmakers say it's time to clean house. >> you look at peter strzok. if he's going to say it's his job as an fbi agent to prevent a certain candidate from getting elected and creating an insurance policy, that's somebody you don't want to have power. anybody who turns up in that situation, they should get another line of work. >> i was so overwhelmed when i saw the conduct mr. strzok and mr. ohr and mccabe were

engaged in. for an agency with so much influence over americans' lives they have to be purer and pure. gregg: republican congressman matt gates joins us. congressman, pleasure to have you with us. you are quoted as saying you believe there was extreme bias in favor of hillary clinton. by that, do you believe that people within the fbi deliberately and for political reasons cleared her in the email case notwithstanding incriminating evidence she broke the law? >> i believe there were people at the highest levels of our government in coordination. i believe there was an fbi piece and a department of justice piece. certainly the tarmac meeting

highlights the extension to which you had high-level coordination. the good news is this congressional oversight is creating the transparency and creating change. andrew mccabe just announced his retirement. bruce ohr devoted. the more the american people learn about the pro-hillary bias in the investigation of the clinton foundation and the anti-trump bias that my grade from this team over to the mueller investigation. the more we start to see change and the more the truth comes out. gregg: how about the exoneration statement that was originally composed by james comey, the fbi director. in the original version he finds hillary clinton broke the law. somebody changed the language to absolve her. who did that?

and isn't that obstruction of justice if they did it for a political reason? >> the elements of obstruction of justice would be met if you had senior officials changing this statement prepared by james comey. that is the definition of obstruction of justice. there is a team of people that appear to have been involved in the drafting of this exoneration statement. james comey was involved. there were drafts sent around to other people. we'll get to the got tomorrow of who had their nantd cookie jar as hillary clinton was held to a different standard. she got special treatment because she was a asked for president. and people at the highest levels our government were helping her. gregg: .you have any evidence that would demonstrate that? >> we are in the process of

taking confidential witness statements. last week we had andrew mccabe before the committee. after giving that sworn testimony andrew mccabe decided to end his career at the fbi and retire. there were inconsistencies with statements others made. we look forward to getting to the bottom of that. there are the mccabe emails that are evidence there was special treatment. is there an email from andrew mccabe that shows hillary clinton will get special treatment? >> there are emails from andrew mccabe to other people at the washington field office. normally the field office would handle this case. but mccabe sends out an email saying hands off. the normal process won't be followed. instead we are getting a small group of people together at

headquarters to make these decisions. that's a kropt process and departure from the normal procedures and it reeks to high heaven of influence. gregg: did they do that to clear her path to the presidency? if she had been indicted under the original comey statement she weren't have been president. but it cleared the path for her. was that the reason? >> i think we still have more fact gathering on that question. but is that it was her status as a candidate for united states that put her on a different track of justice that would apply to any other american. no fbi director going forward should have the power to treat one person differently as a consequence of their candidacy for public office and particularly the please dency.

what you've been pointing out night after night is the bias that favored hillary clinton open migrated over to the mueller investigation. and you see the same people involved in clearing hillary clinton now persecuting the president with no evidence of collusion and they're clouding the great work that we're doing. gregg: is it clear to you that people within the fbi, maybe the department of justice launched in 2016 an investigation of donald trump into collusion with no evidence of collusion, instead they relied on a phony dossier to do it? and was that an effort by them to sort of -- an insurance policy in case hillary didn't win, we'll frame donald trump for wrongdoing which doesn't exist. >> well, that is the $64,000 question. and i don't think it's a coincidence that you had real connections, real bribes being paid to the clinton foundation

to facilitate the uranium one deal. you've got the dnc paying a company to pay russians to tell lies about the president that's real collusion. gregg: she said it didn't have anything to do with the uranium one. do you believe her? >> absolutely not. the fbi director, bob mueller, has a key role in that process. the last report from the congressional researcher service that went through this process highlighted circumstances where people at the fbi and the department of state would typically raise concerns about this type of transaction and that didn't occur here. that raises a lot of questions and it's not a rare coincidence that at the rare time the deal was approved, you have the clinton foundation taking hundreds of millions of dollars from people with direct contact with the kremlin. we've got to find out whether the whole fake phony narrative about the president and russia was created to distract the american people and distract congress from the very real

connection that you had with the dnc and the clinton campaign and russia. gregg: i'm out of time but you have absolutely no confidence in the fair objectivity of robert mueller and his team? >> the american people don't have confidence. that's the harvard poll that shows 54% of americans believe there's a conflict of interest. it's time for the attorney general to step up, end the investigation and call it the sham it is. gregg: and appoint a special counsel to investigate comey, clinton, and mccabe, the whole lot of them. >> that's what has to happen. if it doesn't, this could happen again in the future with another presidential candidate, another political figure. they could get treatment that wouldn't be afforded any other american if we don't not have a special counsel. what this entire experience has proven is that transparency is the greatant dote to the lies that have been told about the clinton administration, the

obama administration and now being told about the trump administration. gregg: matt gates, thank you for beings with us. happy new year. >> thank you. gregg: former president barack obama has made it clear me will not go quietly and had spent the last several weeks reeling against trump style politics. today, obama caking a not so vailed shot at trump's use of twitter. our correspondent traveling with the president has the report. reporter: while president trump relies on twitter this holiday vacation, his predecessor is warning about the dangers ff former president obama advised world leaders on using social media. >> all of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet. one of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. they can be cocooned in information that reinforced

their current biases. reporter: president trump relies on twitter to get his message out. he used the platform this week to ask republicans towork with democrats on health care, promised greater economic growth because of the tax law and complained the investigation into russian collusion in the tbeen election is tainted. president franklin roosevelt harnessed radio, president obama bypassed the white house press corps to speak with the americans. president trump communicates with the world through twitter and he aseumedz office promising to use social media wisely. >> i'm going to do very retrained, if i use it at all. i'm going to be very restrained. i find it tremendous. it's a modern form of communication. reporter: though he's relied on it to communicate his policy positions and drawn criticism for retweeting anti-muslim propaganda, arguing with a college basketball player and goading north korea's armed

dictator into an escalating exchange of threats. his tweets prompted questions of his cabinet and whether the president's twitter account is officially united states policy or undercuts his senior diplomats. >> there's a lot of unexpected things that happened to us in the world of diplomacy. we know how to adapt to that open work with it. don't view it adds an obstacle or hindrance or assistance. whatever the president chooses to express, he expresse expressd then that's information to everybody, unincluded. reporter: the president used twitter to criticize his attorney general. in july he wrote that attorney general has taken a weak position on hillary clinton crimes. chief of staff john kelly denied the president's tweets make his job harder as he says it's not his place. >> i read in the paper i've been a failure at controlling the president. i'm a failure at controlling his

tweeting. reporter: in july the president defended his twitter use on twitter, quote, my use of social media is not presidential. it's modern day presidential. make america great again the national archives has requested the white house preserve all of president trump's tweets, even the ones he deletes. gregg? gregg: thanks very much. we're coming right back with much more. stay with us. republicans are gaining momentum heading into the midterm elections while the democrats struggle to accomplish anything at all. >> they've done nothing this year. i don't think that's going to resonate in 2018. >> the republicans reign victorious in 2018 we'll take that up next. and the president could soon sign an executive order targeting the crippling obamacare mandate. we'll take up president trump's battle to end the obamacare nightmare. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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gregg: well comeback. a big honor for president trump. israel's transportation minister today announcing the country will name a new train station near jerusalem's western wall after the president. the move comes weeks after the trump administration announced it was recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and in fact moving the u.s. embassy there. as for the president himself, fairly quiet day. visited firefighters at an unscheduled stop at the west palm beach fire department. the president thanking first

responders for their service. he promised to keep righting the economy next year. >> we've broken 84 times this year, the stock million hit 84 times since we won the election in november of last year. so that's something to be plowed of. the stock market goes up, that affecting everybody. gregg: joining me now, washington times editor, charlie hurd. great to see you, merry christmas all of that. you wrote a column that said it really is a merry christmas for most americans who work for a living and pay taxes. >> i think the key to this is that you have democrats even now pinning all of their hopes on the economy tanking next year and people not benefiting from everything that donald trump and the republicans accomplished

here. but if this works out the way so many people predict that it will, the way the president predicts that it will in terms of boosting the economy, i think that republicans are going to be in a much better situation going into the 2018 elections than it looks like right now. gregg: nancy pelosi doesn't agree with you. >> i take that as a compliment. gregg: she's a wonderful member of congress that said of obamacare that we have to pass it to see what's it in. the dumbest statement made by any member of congress. and that's something something. now she called the tax cut bill the worst bill in the history of the united states congress. would you like to correct her? >> i just find that kind of amazing, especially for somebody whose party, by her own career, has been completely defined by playing racial politics. when you think of some of the laws that -- the odious laws

that congress has passed in our history affecting african-americans, indians, all kinds -- the japanese americans during world war ii and she's going to say that cutting people's taxes is worse than all of those things? i don't know how anybody takes her seriously. i don't know why she is still in a position of power. i mean democrats ought to put her to bed. she should be the insurance policy that insures that republicans never lose control of the house. the problem is republicans can be so dumb they still manage to sometimes lose control against somebody like that. gregg: you pointed out she seems to be forgetting the fugitive slave act, the espionage acts, the alien registration acts. i'm thinking nancy isn't that steeped in history much less knowledge of anything. >> yeah. and more to the point, she

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absolutely where republicans now hold a seat where they're absolutely going to face a very very tough climate next year. gregg: right. >> but again, if the economy is humming and doing well, all bets are off for all of these other places around the country that this national poll is picking up. gregg: right. >> you know, anti-gop support. gregg: i really am going to send nancy your column. it will give her a nice break from reading her usual archie comics. great to see you. be sure to vote in tonight's poll. do you believe president obama's shadow pressdy is under mining trump administration overseas and should end immediately. cast your vote on twit esh. follow lou on twit wer, like him on facebook and follow him on instagram wall street, the dow gaining

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gregg: welcome back. residents o of erie, pennsylvana digging out, this as frigid trumps across the northeast, much of the country with bitter cold forecasts for new year's eve. fox news chief meteorologist is live in the weather center with the latest. i knew it was cold today as i was walking to work and half of the people were wearing full ski masks, just the eyes and that was about all you keuld see. >could see.>> it's going to get. we're not done with this yet.

65 inches of snow in erie, pennsylvania just since christmas eve. the cold is certainly in place. this is the current windchill. 0 is what it feels like in fairbanks, minus 3 in cleveland, minus 7 in chicago and minus 4 in kansas city. you feel colder in kansas city than in fair. banks, alaska right now. these are the air temperatures. and you notice right here. this is the spine of the rockies. the air spills right down there. western parts of colorado and texas, oklahoma, a little colder. obviously the coolest air is as you go a little farther off to the north. minus 19 is the air temperature in interfalls. we call it the icebox of america and last night they broke a record for the cold temperature of the day. windchill feels a little colder than that. and this is going to stick with us for the next couple of days. down towards the south we've got some rain and keep in mind i think saturday into sunday we're

looking at a snow system here across parts of the deep south. but right now we're talking about the lake effect snow. the wind direction, wind eang l has changed here across the great lakes. we'll see it die down and then later on in the weekend pick back up. temperatures today were certainly told. tomorrow maybe a tiny break across the north. new york city getting to 20 degrees for a high. boston 13, we warm up a couple of degrees on friday and take a look at saturday, the bottom drops out again here, minus 17 for a high temperature in fargo. and then sunday, gregg, here we are the last day of the year, high temperature in little rock, 26 degrees, atlanta 36. these are daytime high temperatures. so when the peach drops in thrantatlanta you'll be below 0. daytime highs in new york city 19 degrees. at night when the ball is dropping, probably around 10 or

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gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for lou dobbs. south korea predicting that north korea will hold talks with the united states in the new

year. now that rosy prediction coming as the trump administration takes new action targeting north korea's nuclear program. fox news senior foreign affairs correspondent has owsh report. >> there are new moves against north korea, specifically against two top aides of kim kim jong-un involved with that missile program. strong sanctions coming from the u.s. treasury department. coming after sanctions last week. north korea branded those as an act of war. comes amid talks from a south korean government sergeantcy that north korea might be willing to negotiate with the u.s. in 2018, still at the same time south korea setting up a new unit to deal with north korean nukes and there are no indications that either side would be willing to talk in the near future. meanwhile, there are new concerns about north korea's suspected biological and chemical weapons program. doctors have detected in the

body of one of the north korean soldiers who defected to the south, anthrax antibodies that could indicate that that soldier and others were vaccinated against and possible handling the deadly biological weapon. remember just this past year it's alleged that north korea was behind the death of the estranged brother of kim jong-un in the airport. it's known that they have stockpiles of the stuff. new concerns we're seeing this week about possible radioactivity coming from the nuclear tests of north korea and that country is definitely going to be a focus of attention in the coming year. gregg: greg, thanks very much. joining me now, retired u.s. army lieutenant robert mcguinnness. author of the book "the deeper state." thanks for being with us. >> thanks, gregg. gregg: is diplomacy with north korea destined to fail if for no

owe reason previous agreements over the last several decades with pyongyang failed because they lie and cheat? >> well they do lie and cheat, gregg. i don't think any of us want war. clearly they have 60 years plus of doing exactly that. it would seem to me, as president trump wisely said, that most negotiations do fail. now what he's tried to do is work with president xi and vladimir putin that have influence in north korea and trying to put pressure on them to in turn slow the train of ballistic missile and nuclear development. but the train continues to move predictly. i'm going to be right on this. they'll continue more missile tests. they'll try to, you know, refine their guidance system, their w warhead that would deliver some type of nuclear oar biological agent on a ballistic missile and

they'll probably do some sort of atmospheric test. that's what they've said and i think they've been pretty good at predicting their own future behavior. and not very encouraging, quite frankly, but that's the reality we face. gregg: at some point in time if they keep firing off these missiles, would it be wise and prudent to use a system, for example, and start shooting them down? >> you know, 2009 i said on this network that we should do that because i had every reason to believe, because i've been studying this for 50 years, that they would do exactly that they've done. they've continued to proliferate, to improve and thanks to the russians they have an icbm that works. and now according to the japanese newspaper they're trying to load anthrax in some sort of warhead if they can figure out how that works. and as your reporter indicated, they've recently had their six

nuclear tests and of course it's creating all sorts of havoc. i think they have, within the year, a workable nuclear weapon. i think they have a significant chemical inventory and i also believe they have a biological inventory which they've tested unfortunately on former p.o.w.s and we've seen this evidence over the years. this is not a regime to take lightly. the president has not done that. none of us want war, but at the same time we do not want a hydrogen bomb on top of ne new k city. gregg: can we take out their battery of a artilleries at arty dofnt reigdon't rain death on te nearby? >> i understand how well dug in they are. and how obedient their soldiers

are. now what would be nice is to see some sort of internal disrupti disruption that would remove that. they're on a short leash. i think they would fire that on seoul and devastate much of the city given the opportunity we can use the b-2s, the f-22s and our own artillery to suppress it. i don't think we can defeat it totally. but we have to think about pre-emptive as an option. and of course the only alternative is containment. and containment of an unpredictable rogue regime like this is going to be very very difficult in the future. gregg: and maybe work with a fairly rational leadership during the cold war among the soviets. but these people are not rational. we'll have to leave it at that. lieutenant colonel bob mcguinnness, great to see you. up next, the house intel committee issuing a new subpoena

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gregg: the house intelligence committee has subpoenaed an associate of arizona senator john mccain over his connection to the discredited trump dossier. mccain institute senior director and former director met with the dossier's author, chris fer steele in london last year and returned to the u.s. with a copy of the dossier that he gave to senator mccain who handed it over to the fbi. joining me now to talk about it, judicial watch president, tom fitton. the fbi already had it. they had it six months earlier. this guy went over there in november and came back with the dossier and gave it to mccain, gave it to the fbi and the fbi had it since july of 2016. in fact it formed the basis for

launching the trump-russia investigation. >> yeah. the obama fbi had been working with the clinton campaign for months already on the dossier. let's be clear here. cramer went over and met with someone who had been on the payroll of the clinton campaign at the dnc who had hired this gentleman through their law firm. they basically used a cutout law firm to hide from the american people the fact that they were paying this gentleman, and then he allege allegedly went to rusr communicated with russian to get dirt on donald trump, placed there by the russians to make everyone upset and had no basis in reality. you had hillary clinton hiring someone to work with russian intelligence and who's under investigation? donald trump. gregg: how come nobody has brought charges against the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc who paid for this because

that's against the law under the federal campaign election act? i don't get it. >> yeah, the payments were disguised. you think someone would be asking questions about this. but the problem is the special counsel is evidently relying on this dossier as an excuse to keep his investigation going. so he'll unwilling to take a look at its origins and it is the fruit of the poisoned tree and this is why rod rosenstein, his nominal supervisor in the justice department -- we have a republican form of government. mueller is supposed to be answerable to someone. rosenstein is the guy. if he's not going to exercise the authority and oversight, then the president should direct someone else in the justice department to do it. gregg: he won't do it because he has a disqualifying conflict of interest, not to mention mueller's two conflicts of interest. >> this is why, gregg, sessions should unrecuse himself. he was scammed into recusing

himself to keep him out of the russia investigation and he needs to come back in and take control fully of this justice department. i guarantee you, there's no other activity in the justice department demanding as much resources as mueller's investigation. gregg: i want to get your reaction -- i talked to congressman matt gates at the top of the hour. he's seen an e-mail from andrew mccabe, who was involved in the hillary clinton case of the fbi, deputy director of the fbi. it's an e-mail from mccain saying that hillary clinton will get special treatment. what do you make of that? >> well, it's confirmation of what actually occurred. the fbi did give her special treatment. look at the collusion investigation. the targeting of trump rather than clinton. of course mrs. clinton was protected in terms of refusing to hold her to account for

destruction of evidence. mishandling of the classified information. the fbi was fooled of eabt trumpepro-hillclinton people. gregg: it was an conspiracy to clear clinton and frame trump? >> well to target trump. and when you see fbi officials at the senior level talk about having an insurance policy in case trump is elected, that's the sort of corruption that we don't expect to see in american federal law enforcement. i don't think you could go back even to watergate and find something as outrageous as that. gregg: always good talking to you, tom. thanks very much. >> you're welcome. thank you. gregg: roll the videotape. watch as this daredevil performing bike the tricks 250 feet in the air atop a ferris wheel in vienna. don't try that. he didn't use a safety rope oar anything else for this spectacular death-defying stunt. coming up next, the left

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(news anchor 2) all lanes on highway 50 remain closed at this hour. (news anchor 3) the stats are in and this city leads with some of the worst traffic, with the average driver sitting in gridlock the equivalent of three days a year. for every hour that you're idling in your car, you're sending about half a gallon of gasoline up in the air. that amounts, over the course of the week, to about 10 pounds of carbon dioxide. growth is good, but when it starts impacting our quality of air and quality of life, that's a problem. so forward-thinking cities like sacramento are investing in streets that are smarter and greener. the solution was right under our feet. asphalt. or to be more precise, intelligent asphalt. by embedding sensors into the pavement, as well as installing cameras on traffic lights, we will be able to study and analyze the flow of traffic. then, we will take all of that data and we use it to optimize the timing of lights,

so that traffic flows easier and travel times are shorter. and sacramento is just the beginning. with advances in cameras, sensors, and network speeds, we have the ability to make cities smarter, and happier. what excites me about this technology is that we're using some of the most cutting-edge machine-learning, and ai, to help solve the most fundamental challenges that cities face around the world. who knew asphalt could help save the environment? (lani) and the possibilities are endless. gregg: in our online poll we

asked if there was any reason andrew mccabe should be given full retirement benefits from the american taxpayer. 95% of you said no. the media attacks on the first family reaching new low. this time over a dead magnolia tree. news week published an article titled "melania trump removed a 200-year-old tree from the white house." it failed to mention the tree poses a risk to people passing by and has been held up by artificial means for years. so, rachel, arborists, arborists have gone to her and said we

have tried every way we can to save this tree. dead branches are going to fall, fan people are going to get killed and of course "newsweek" doesn't mention that. off course not. even other members of the meefd yeah tweeted out another b.s. story from "newsweek." nbc called it out as misleading. all of these fake news stories are undermining their credibility. and stupid stories like this, easy to prove their wrong with stories they want to keep at bay because there are other things they want to talk about. greg: :media bias on full display against the first lady.

favor point, dent you think, nick? >> the communications director nailed it. this was a despicable disgraceful attack on the first lady. it was an awful effort by news week to paint her as something she is not. we know "newsweek" last year had to issue 50 different corrections. they slightly improved this year with only 20 corrections. but it's very clear news week is a purveyor of fake news, is full of left-wing bias and contribute together problem that the mainstream, lame stream media must have with every day, hard working men and women. gregg: if you listen to the media they have pronounced republicans are going lose both

houses of congress. here are the fundraising numbers. dnc had as of december 1, 6 about 3 million. the rnc has a whopping $40 million. >> the dnc also has a credibility problem. there was so much corruption. donna brazile wrote about it. we saw the rigging of the system. i think a lot of democrat donors are energized about that. but they are not ready to let go of their wallets because they don't trust them either. gregg: the first beneficial impact on the tax cut law isn't felt by americans next year, how will that affect the mid-term election. >> i think without a doubt it's fair to say the momentum is on the side of the dem kratle

coming out for the mid-term election. they are energized. they lost spectacularly the presidential election. ever since then they have been crying and wailing like babies and sissies. but what we are going to see in the lead-up to the mid-term election is american society whether they like to what the president has done, that includes tax cuts, whether they like the cultural impact that it's having. my money is on the average american feeling the benefit of what president trump has delivered. and therefore that leading to a resounding victory for republicans in the mid-terms. greg: a lot of time between now and then. infrastructure, daca immigration, healthcare, a whole laundry list of things the president wants to do.

he has the wind on his back right now. gregg: you know what they say about the wind, it will change on a moment's notice.thanks for. i'm gregg jarrett in new york, have a good evening. kennedy: president trump back on his so box pushing a big government agenda. does anybody still listen? should fbi director christopher wray resign or stand up to the president. entitlement reform should be a rallying cry for republicans, so why is mitch mcconnell dragging his back feet? former president obama sat down with the world's favorite ginger and waxed on and on about the internet and sold his version of thinly veiled