living in britain would understand. gregg: how unusual that the church of england would be political. i m lauren: breaking news this morning, caught red-handed. president trump calling out china. >> demanding answers, congressman deafen nunes blasting doj to produce antitrump dossier documents. lauren: it is the final trading day of this record-breaking year on wall street. let's see how we end 2017 on a high note, dow futures up 35 points, and yes, 25,000 is in sight? >> oil trading above $60 a

barrel. 60.12 a barrel. lauren: in europe this is how stocks are trading this friday morning. mixed bag. cac down 4 in paris. >> markets were close nod south korea, nikkei lower by just fractionally. lauren: too little too late the so-called fix apple is calling for your iphone. fbn:am starts right now. lauren: it is 5:01 a.m. in new york on friday, december 29th, good morning, i'm lauren simonetti. lea: good morning, lauren, i'm lea gabrielle in for cheryl casone this morning. last show of the year. it is, indeed. lauren: let's begin with strong words from the oval office, president trump is criticizing north korea and china after the

country reportedly and here is the image spotted illegally selling oil to north korea obviously in defiance of un sanctions against the north, trump spoke to new york times, he says his position on trade with china has been soft and hopes the country would help end north koreans nuclear program but now trump says, quote, oil going into north korea, that wasn't my deal. and he tweeted yesterday, caught red-handed very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea, they'll never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen. as for china, they say they have been strictly enforcing the un sanctions. separately president trump told "the new york times" that he thinks special counsel robert mueller will be fair in investigation of possible collusion between trump's team and russia. lea: joining us leet colonel danny davis, senior fellow for defense priorities, nice to see you, danny.

>> appreciate it. it's a rare sampling of what u.s. spy satellites have seen. can you think we will see more of this? >> i don't know if we will see more. that certainly is enough. whole red-handed information there. it's not a minor issue. certainly useful, i think, for diplomatic pressure. lea: how else can the u.s. motivate china to do more, this is sort of public shaming. >> here is what we have to recognize. china has their self-interest, russia that is self-interest and very often they diverge from ours and any time that happens, we need to put pressure back in specially on public record saying they will take certain actions, but what it does in my view highlight that is we can take care of this on our own, we can't rely on other people, deterrence is what we have in our hand with our military and our diplomacy that we can work as much as we can with the

nations. our deterrence is what's going to really keep news driver seat here. lea: you make such a good point. keep the nuclear triad strong and continue to work military. what about economic restrictions and further sanctions against chinese companies? >> you know, i think that's a bit of a slippery slope because we don't want to do anything that will damage our own economy and our own relations with them but you certainly can't let it go by without any actions, when you have something like that you have to be firm in response and something measured an commensurate with our own interest. lea: president trump told new york times that the mueller information into collusion, quote, makes the country looks very bad and puts the country in a very bad position and for russia discrediting the u.s. is the name of the game, do you think that it's time to move on from this? >> you know, i think it is, if there's something there, if they have information, by all means

present it, but if they don't, nothing after a full year, you have to stay, it's time to move on and take care of issues that really do matter to our relations with russia. lea: thank you, nice to be with you this morning. >> thank you. lauren: more attacks against the justice department, house intelligence committee devin nunes slamming doj as well as the fbi saying they failed to produce documents relating to dossier, subpoenaed information relating to dossier in august but hasn't received it yet, house majority leader kevin mccarthy says he understands the frustration. >> when you sit back and you look at what has happened, the lack of response, congress has responsibility of oversight, they have been ignored, they have been delayed, they have been refused to send people in to have hearings, to be questioned. lauren: congressman nunes is demanding that all records be

provided to the committee by wednesday. lea: apple is making amends for admitting to purposely slowing phones. lauren: i bet they wish they didn't admit to that. tracee: following eight class actions and backlash from many apple users, apple finally apologizing for controversial move to slow down older phones saying it would not internationally shorten the life of any apple product or degrade the user experience to bring customer upgrades, apple said it's taking $50 off the out of warrantly replacement for the next year bringing the cost to $29 for anyone with an iphone 6 starting in late january. a new software update will also hit early next year. that should help with battery life but not everyone is satisfied with apple's apology, a group in france latest to file

criminal complaint for the slowdown iphone's, the charge carries the punishment of up to two years in prison and 5% to have annual turnover. lea: image problem going on. a lot of people traveling for the holidays, i want to ask you about tsa, it sounds like they have been pretty busy this year. >> they've reached a new record here. this is onset to create a new record, confiscating nearly 4,000 firearms from travelers, in 2017 surpassing records that last year by nearly 17%, the report that is have led the nations have been dallas-fort worth international airport, jacksonville international and george bush interconty in any eventual, both texas and georgia allow people to openly carry handguns with a permit. most of the guns have been found in carry-on bags.

lea: the question is whether they are getting better at catching them or more people are carrying them. tracee: more people have been traveling. lauren: the number is up. tracee: jack in the box taking aim in california, half servings of curly fries and mini churros and small drink, the price is 4.20, by april 20, 4-20 which is also known as weed day. we will leave that there. [laughter] lauren: it did sounded appealing. i like the small portions of

different items. lea: sampler. lauren: thank you very much for bringing it. tracee: thank you. lea: deadly fires sweeps through apartment building in new york city claiming the lives of 12 people including a baby. >> people were screaming, fire, help. >> this is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century. lea: mayor bill de blasio warning that new victims could be found as investigators search the building in the morning. united airlines passenger bumped for first class seat is firing back at congresswoman who took it. latest on war of words, you're watching fbn:am.

lea: welcome back, let's get you caught up on what's happening now. new york city hit by residential fire last night. the fire spread through every floor of a five-story building, it happened in the bronx within matter of minutes killing 12 people. investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fire. alabama declaring doug jones winner of u.s. senate election,

the state certified jones' win after judge rejected republican roy moore last-minute request to delay certification. the first democratic senate victory in alabama in a quarter century. and united airlines passenger whose first-class seat was given to congressman sheila jackson lee firing back at democratic lawmakers accusation of racism. gene mary saying, quote, i could not see who had boarded the flight, i didn't even know who she was. that's what's happening now, lauren. lauren: coming up. millions of americans getting ready to ring in 2018 in new york city. >> we are ready to have a great celebration and i want to emphasize what you heard from the commissioner, there are no credible and specific threats against new york city at this point in time. lauren: still the city is take nothing chances. we will tell you about the unprecedented security cautions that are in place and from new york city to las vegas, what you need to know for your new year's

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lauren: got your new year's plans figured out? only two days away from ringing 2018 and new york already gearing up for the big night. this year's main concerns are security and the freezing cold weather. >> fox news bryan llenas in time square in the heart of all the action. >> nypd says this will be the most secure this event has ever been and specified, there's no specific or credible threat against time square or new york city on new year's eve.

>> you will see increase in heavy weapons, bomb squad personnel, rad logical detection teams and our technology to include over 1,000 cameras in and around the area of time square for the event. >> among the extra security, they'll be uniformed police officers in every single hotel overlooking time square, response to worst mass shooting in las vegas, also dog sniffing out bombs in the air and on people. sand trucks positioned along time square to prevent vehicular attacks and also more emphasis on rental trucks and cars to do so as well. there ought to be multiple checkpoints for people that are coming out here. they are expecting a million on sunday night all this as preparations continue. the ball is set, the numbers are also set and yesterday was good ridden's day where people got to write down the worst memories of 2017, rip it and tear it and

move onto 2018, frigid temperatures are expected. it could be 11-degrees as the forecast which could make it the second coldest day ever on new year's eve in new york city, as far as temperatures, officials say it's up to people that they want to come out here. they do expect hundreds of thousands even a million people to be here there are no other precautions being taken other than extra ambulances on site as hyperthermia are threat in this weather, lauren, lea. lea: former member of national joint terrific task force. >> good morning. >> we are seeing the massive presence of law enforcement, can you share with us, though, what we are not going to be seeing, what's happening behind the scenes to keep people safe? >> to begin with, i could assure you that new york city will be the safest place on planet earth come new year's eve, the preparation for this actually

begins weeks after the prior new years, begins after action reports, it begins with an analysis of some people who were arrested that you never saw last year with intelligence information-gathering over the past year, so the things you will not see are all those things such as the intelligence and information gathering, there are tremendous amount, probably over a thousand undercover agents, undercovered detectives that will be on the streets. obviously you will see uniform personnel that will act as deterrence but the key here is what you don't see is what is really important and the most, what's very, very important, if you see something, say something. we have said that over and over again and i've also added something else to that, if you send something, send, let someone know. lea: you mentioned new york will

be the safest place on earth and clearly such security presence, if you see something, say something, there will be celebrations around the country in smaller cities that are softer targets because they will not have as much as law enforcement presence. are you concerned at all about the smaller cities being better targets? >> well, i could tell you that the -- since we've had the creation of joint terrific task force in every state and in every county in many states, all of that intelligence information is being widely shared. i'm not too concerned about the smaller towns as i used to be because i know now that the fbi, the greatest law enforcement agency on the surface of this planet. i mean, they work very hard in sharing a lot of information at times like this, so i think we could rest easy knowing that we are in good hands. lea: you mentioned jttf, can you help us understand the role of the jttf and helps protect the

smaller cities? >> sure, i was one of the first military intelligent officers that was assigned to the joint terrific task force in fbi headquarters and there was little information sharing, cia, fbi, now with the creation of the national joint terrific task force in early 2000's jttf have grown all over the country and information and intelligence, that, for example, a police department may get in los angeles will go to new york, new york will send it to every police agency in that state no matter how big or how small. so this is very important that -- it actually keeps us safe. lea: real quick, we have about 10 second, i want to ask you, that keeps us safe when we have the intelligence, what about the lone wolf, the ones who aren't connected necessarily that we wouldn't have intelligence on? >> we will never be able to paren everything, there's always a crack that somebody might go

through. as long as people are vigilant and they see something, send something, say something. lea: thank you very much, steve rogers. >> happy new year. lauren: have plans? what are you doing for new year's eve? lea: i'm going to miami. i'm getting out of cold weather, what about you, lauren? lauren: nothing. somebody give me an idea. [laughter] lauren: coming up the department of justice as well as the fbi, they are under fire for fail to go turn over subpoenaed documents about that antitrump dossier. >> congress has the responsibility of oversight, they have been ignored, they have been delayed, they have been refuse today send people in to have hearings. lauren: griff jenkins with the details on the new demands for answers, it has been a record-breaking year on wall street, all you have to do is check 401(k) to see, we will take a look at the highs and the

lows and what's ahead for 2018, you're watching fbn:am.

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lauren: breaking this morning, caught red-handed, president trump calling out china after report that is the country is illegally selling oil to north korea, what the trump administration is expected to do next. lea: demanding answers, congressman devin nunes blasting the doj and fbi for failure to produce antitrump dossier documents, the brand-new deadline he gave the mueller team to produce all of the records. lauren: final trading day of 2017, spectacular year for investments, futures this morning are looking good. dow is up 43, nasdaq is up 10. lea: and oil trading back $50 a barrel again, oil is 60.14, up by 30 cents. lauren: in europe, stocks

trading relatively muted there. the ftse -- lea: nikkei in japan, down fractionally. lauren: so many markets have done well this year, we will take a look at the highs and the lows and what's in store where you should be putting your money in the new year, fbn:am continues right now. lauren: it is friday december 29th, 2017, one of the final days, good morning, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti. lea: good morning, i'm lea gabrielle. house intelligence committee devin nunes blasting the justice department and the fbi saying that they have failed to produce documents related to an antitrump dossier. lauren: griff jenkins in washington with the details,

hey, griff. >> good morning, lauren, lea, this wouldn't be the first strongly-worded letter around washington but it is telling, may make for fireworks in the new year, chairman nunes is slamming the department of justice and fbi for failing to produce documents for subpoenas issued four months ago concerning the so-called trump dossier. at this point, it seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. nunes is demanding those documents now by january 3rd next week along with witness lists, he's clearly frustrated with the agencies stalls or slow-walking his request and sentiment shared on capitol hill, kevin mccarthy weighing in. >> there are a number of informations going on here but the lack of cooperation, the questions raised by individuals in the doj and also within the fbi and inspector general doing the own investigations with the

emails came out forward, i think we will have to clean some areas up and i think you have to have transparency. >> this comes as president trump sat down with new york times reporter who asked about the mueller investigation, the president telling him that he has confidence in mueller saying, quote, i hope that he will be fair, i think he's going to be fair and based on that there's been in collusion. it follows change, guys, fbi and doj where we have seen former deputy general bruce ohr remoted and peter strok removed and baker reassigned and deputy andrew mccabe expect today retire early next year. my hats off to our colleague john roberts who obtained this letter exclusively yesterday. it's going to make for a very busy perhaps next week, lauren, lea. lauren: what a mess tat justice

department. griff, thank you. lea: winning bid to buy a stake in uber. lauren: tracee carrasco joins us on that and other headlines making news this morning. for uber this significantly devalue it is company from a prior valuation in tracee: this is about a 30% decrease, the deal values uber at $48 billion, that is less than what it was previously valued at $68 billion, but soft bank did win bid to buy major stake in uber at steep discount. own about 15% of uber and other members of soft bank's bidding group, they'll own about 3% of uber, as part of the deal soft bank plans to invest $1.25 billion into uber. lea: let's talk about amazon. amazon has been killing it this year, there's something big going on today. >> the holiday deals aren't not just day, today is digital day on amazon.

lauren: if you need to shop some more. treys treys if you didn't get enough shopping for the whole month of december. digital downloads, e-books, movies, music, tv shows, all of that, for example, 60% of wonder woman on amazon video, 33% off of games like sonic forces and civilization 6, 75% off selected e-books, so this is also great for amazon because they can cash in on all the shoppers who got those gadgets for christmas. lea: good time to start gets things on the digital devices so you can bundle up and watch wonder woman. lauren: if you got a gift card or console. i am feeling lucky, friday and sat night that we have basically never seen in history. we are talking about the lottery. two jackpots.

tracee: let's start 2018 a little richer. mega millions and pow herbals have jackpots of more than $300 million right now and friday's mega million dollar jackpot, $306 million, the powerball jackpot tomorrow night saturday, that's $384 million, so get out, buy your tickets, let's make some money here. [laughter] lea: chances of winning no so high, we should get together and buy tickets. lauren: 1 and 292 million. tracee: more of a chance to getting hit by lighting. lauren: two times. lea: i definitely would like to win the lottery than that. lauren: 2017, speaking of the lottery, many people feel they hit the jackpot if they invested in the stock market this year, joining us to take a look back at 2017 and look ahead to 2018 because a lot of folks are saying, the s&p 500 up 20% in

2017, how do you top that, melissa, arian at mv financial join us now to look into their cristal balls, good morning, melissa, we will start with you? >> good morning, what a year it was this year for the market, the market is the winner this year, let me tell you. some kind of catalyst for the market to have pullback and there could be some type of geopolitical event but right now smooth sailing, the market had the best year that it has ever had and everyone has been talking about it all year, i'm telling you the market had the best year it ever had this year. here is why, it made more brand-new all-time highs than it ever has, it had more follow through, bearish stock was quickly brought up. two pullbacks on march and

august that could have technically bought the market into pullback or rally, i don't know what today brings, we won't know until 4:00 o'clock, the market might close and make another brand-new all-time high today and that would be more confirmation that in 2018 we will move higher. lauren: which would be for the dow 72 record highs and we are about 163 points away from 25,000, light volume, we will see some wind dressing, but anyway, it could, let me bring you in, besides geopolitics, could something like messing up some trade deals or what are the catalyst that you see that could pull down this market? >> sure, well, we are overdue for a direction no doubt about that, but black swan is really

the only thing i could see derailing or a grate change in the fundamental picture as long as earnings continue to stay strong, i think the money will continue to fly in from the sidelines, we are at the late stages of bull market, i don't see anything changing in the fundamental all picture. we have shrugged every worry and we will continue to see that happen. it's been a strong economic picture or stronger one, so more of the same. lauren: earnings are expected to grow 12% next year. if you take a look at the dow and the winners and losers this year, a lot of folks are saying, if you look at the beaten-down stocks, ge being down sharply two years in a row, that for instance is a stock to buy in 2018? >> i would not buy ge right now, i'm sorry to say it. it's a lovely company, however, the fact the stock is in down trend, technically speaking you don't buy stocks that are in down trend, you buy stocks that are strong, one of the biggest

winners is facebook, facebook flows at 115 and brand-new all-time highs, facebook moved 50%. the market moved over 20%. facebook moved 50% in a year, facebook is a good buy. lauren: isn't it expensive? i will add microsoft to that, four tech funds in the s&p 500. this is what a lot of people own. you keep buying or do you say, all right, they pulled up recently, minus amazon, maybe we sell them in the new year? >> i would hold. it's always a good strategy, right, to buy the losers and sell the winners but at this point the companies will remain strong, there's no reason to sell. generally, you want to have a good ray of different sectors and stocks in your portfolio, you want to remain discipline, now is not the time to make

fundamental changes like we talked about, things are looking good and remain the same. is there place for ge and companies that are in a downward trend or doing poorly, sure, when you buy them, that's anyone's bet. lauren: you guys are optimistic for me. i'm trying to play devil's advocate. is this a sector beaten up in close to buy in the new year, melissa? >> well, i would say that anything it's in the down trend and you're talking an the cheap. the problem is that when something cheap, it could keep going down, down until it rides back up again. so you don't want to buy something and then go down before it goes up. the idea to buy something and then go up right away, different oil stocks have been doing better than others, you have to pick and choose, i think, which

ones you go for. i think the tech stocks are the ones that you want to focus on. you better to have less size and quantity if you're a long-term investor, it really shouldn't matter because you're driving it out for the long haul, if you're a trader, you're in a day or two, that's up to you, depends what your time horizon is. lauren: what about bitcoin, arian, that's a good way we can all make money in the new year, right? [laughter] >> you keep hearing about it, don't you? >> we are not recommending to our clients to buy bitcoin. we have a lot of questions on it. i'm personally saying away from it. everything looks rosy and you hear about success stories, again, we are here for the long-term growth and participating in market growth and bitcoin is just a little too speculative and too much crazy about it. lauren: we hear about all the hackings and everything else, governments around the world are warning against in crypto currency market. all right, melissa, arian, good

to see both of you. happy new year and even better 2018, hope to see you then. >> well, coming up today is the last business day of the year and it could be the last chance americans get the prepay their property taxes for 2018, that's if they and local authorities can figure it out. blake berman will have those details and move over luke skywalker, a new jedi in the galaxy. >> i like him. >> that's awesome. ohio grandma lighting up the internet. lauren: she's good. lea: you're watching fbn:am.

lauren: all right, good morning, let's get you caught up on what's happening now. rose marie, the actress made famous in show, has died at age 94, film and broadway actress had running career in entertainment. passed away at her home yesterday afternoon. well, the trump administration has struck down rules proposed by the obama administration that limits fracking and other oil and gas drilling practices on government land. companies would have had to disclose the chemicals used in

fracking, environmental environmentalists who want federal regulation says it propose risk to groundwater, the rules were supposed to go into effect back in 2015 but then wyoming judge blocks them at the very last minute, industry groups praising the decision, arguing that the rules would be duplicating state laws that are already in place. all right, star wars might have found itself another jedi. >> no. >> no. [laughter] >> you get -- [laughter] lauren: you get. the ohio grandma celebrating christmas by playing star wars augmented reality video game. i'm impressed by the grandma putting jedi master skills to the test, clearly was not aware of grandma's skill with the light saver, the video going viral and has been viewed

thousands and thousands of times. i think it's the voice that she uses. lea: my grandma is 99. lauren: can she do that? lea: i don't know, i think she could have fun with it. lauren: when is she 100? >> january, she's coming up on a hundred. lauren: happy early birthday. lea: today could be the last chance for homeowners to pay pretax but still a lot of confusion whether payment wills qualify for deduction, more now from blake berman. >> irs tried to create clarity but in the process what they really might have done is created more confusion. the irs says 2018 property tax repayments can be made, quote, under certain circumstances and boil it down to two factors, first streaght forward, make payment by year's end.

property taxes that have not been assessed prior to 2018 are not deductible in 2017, translation there, if your municipality hasn't put forward your 2018 tax bill, you could be out of luck. the tax foundation thinks this is outstanding issue and could be headed toward litigation, if you happen to end up on the wrong side of prepayment, it's not like you're losing money. >> at worst if they didn't make the payment, they simply provided interest-free loan. this is a one-by-one situation where tax adviser is best advice. blake: potentially this could bring amt into play for some people, there are, though, potentially big tax savings for those who decide to load up their deductions in 2017, the bottom line from everyone we have talk today from the irs on down, if you are considering making these prepayments, either talk to your local tax official and in many cases as well as

talk to your accountant. back to you in new york. >> all right, blake berman. lauren: brand-new push to refund fans offended by the nfl protests. fantasy football paying forward back to running back that actually help today win. jared max with those details. we will be right back.

lea: indiana lawmaker wants to indianapolis colts to pay the price for player protests. republican congressman milo

smith filed legislation that would require the colts to refund fans who are attending games that are upset by the players kneeling during the the national anthem. proposed bills isn't breaking any laws because doesn't restrict players from kneeling, would require colts to refund fans who want the money back. i don't think it's likely that will happen. lauren: tbd. a lot of football news to tell you about in addition to that, we are also talking about controversy in basketball. lea: we are, jared max here with the highlights, hey, jared. jared: happy final friday on 2017 as we move forward. the stories connect this morning between football and basketball. folks have been completing all nfl season about calls maid by officials even after instant replay reviews and the nba, a lot of grumbling by the league's greatest stars about poor

officiat, initiation g. boston against houston. only two referees instead of three, one of the officials injured his back before the game. celtics made comeback from 26 points down. not enough, celtics win by a point, 99-98 after harden says you can't have two officials on nationally televised game. on thursday action kicked off with the military, at the u.s. naval academy, indianapolis dominated behind the play, back up quarterback who ran for five touch downs, navy makes it four wins in last ball games, ran 111 yards, two touchdowns. totaled 450 yards on the ground. they beat virginia, lea. lea: go navy, whoa! jared: battled back against

stanford, stanford, win it 39-37, finished the season 11-3, the game-winning field goal. number 17 oklahoma state took care of 22nd rank virginia tech. threw 150 yards, pair of touchdowns, cowboys now three straight ten win seasons. washington state and that was in the holiday bowl, 42-17. new york giants will hold conference of hiring of general manager. spent 15 years in the giants organization, he will replace jerry reese recently fired, spent four years as general manager for carolina panthers, presided over three division titles. question, what's more important to the jacksonville jaguars, fans or sponsors.

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lea: banner year for the u.s. markets but could still lag international stocks, riva gold from the wall street journal joins us now with more. good morning, riva. >> good morning, certainly would not doubt that it's been a pretty good year in the u.s. but international stocks or at least the msci world stock index that looks at global stocks outside of the u.s. is actually doing even better, that's up 24% this

year thanks to a really, really synchronize growth story around the world from a pretty steady high-growth in china, cross merging markets as well as rallies in textures in hong kong, rise in commodity prices and in general sense that international stocks, compared to u.s. are still relatively cheap and that's made them attractive investment this year. >> copper, you are talking about metals, up 30% this year, speaking of 2018, what are the concerns that investors are looking at that can derail the rallies? >> i think the number one question is wage growth and broadly what that means for inflation, one of the reasons we've had such a fantastic year it's been that inflation hasn't picked up. even though the fed has been slowly raising interest rates, central banks around the world

have still been providing market with a lot of liquidity, number one thing to watch is inflation, i think. lauren: riva gold thank you, we really appreciate it. happy 2018 to you and we will see you then. lea: thank you for watching us, we will send it over to mornings with maria with cheryl casone. cheryl: good morning, i will see you a little bit later, lauren. good morning, i'm cheryl casone. i'm in for maria bartiromo. it is friday december 29th, top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. homeowners across the country are beating before the law limiting state and local deductions go into effect on january 1st, why the last-minute effort might not pay off for some homeowners. looking at markets, last trading day of 2017, it's a strong