the office place? >> yes. david: that does it for "bulls and bears." we'll see you again next time. >> the president said he would shut down the government to increase funding for border security. >> i want to be chris tall clear, there will be no additional appropriations to pay for the border wall. >> at the end of the day there will be ways we need to insure we get to the over $25 billion for overall border security. >> it's done. >> president trump has been focused on protecting american communities. that's what we'll look at while the democrats continue to push forward an open border agenda. liz: president trump is right, knock

it off with the rate increases, federal reserve. they have wiped out the increase in the dow. that t-shirt air cannon of subpoenas the democrats are aiming at trump could backfire. the president ripping into democrat leaders for claiming you can have good border security without a wall. that's as democrats are saying to pelosi and schumer. google is shutting down its censored search engine for china. democrats in an uproar. a federal judge ruling obamacare is unconstitutional. but the democrats' answer to that is we'll sock you hard in the wallet and it's way worse

than obamacare. james comey back on cap til for a second grilling. but he slams president trump hard for calling michael cohen a rat. we have all the ways comey undermined the rules and broke protocol. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. the dow plunging more than 500 points in advance of the feds' meeting wednesday. the dow last 3,200 points since october. that's when fed chair jerome powell said yes we'll raise rates. wall street is saying president trump is right, blame the feds. the economy is not strong enough

to withstand this destructive path of higher rates. the clock is ticking on a partial government shutdown. blake bushman is in washington, d.c. with -- blake burman is live in washington with the latest. reporter: i'm told president trump does not want a one or two-week continuing resolution. that would punt the issue further into the holidays or the beginning of the next congress. the white house continuing to stand by the president's threat that he's willing to shut down the government over funding for the border wall. >> what we need to do here is find ways to get to that $5 billion for these physical barriers along the border. this is a moment where we'll be negotiationing with congress to get more funding. and that's what we'll be looking at this week. reporter: the president wants $5 billion for the wall. democrats are offering less than

that for what they call border security. ther tweeted any time you hear a democrat saying you can have good border security without a wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line. if a deal is not hard out by friday evening, then roughly 25% of the government will be shut down heading into the holidays. liz: paris still burning, france still rioting after five weeks, despite concessions from president macron. protesters threaten to come out in canada against justin trudeau. we have breaking news. all this as france plans to pay for its problems by slapping our internet and tech companies with

a new tax come january 1 to pay for all that. gregg palkot is in paris with more on the chaos there. reporter: authorities did so well containing the protest saturday they are considering their next move. out on the treat riot police on foot, vehicles, horses, cornered and boxed in the protesters and prevented a replay of the horrendous violence we witnessed the saturday before. they want to clear out the so-called yellow vest protesters. 8 were killed. this is where the protest started a month ago, amid anger over a hike in the gas thanks government said was to combat global warming. there are hundreds of grassroots protests dug in nationwide, and they are not budging. only in france.

now the police want to go on trike. two important unions representing the national police, they are calling for a job action wednesday. they are telling their members to block police stations and only respond to emergency calls. they claim the government of emmanuel macron has not paid them for overtime in policing the riots and their budget is set to be cut next year. no wonder macron is calling an emergency session of his cabinet tomorrow. he's by no means out of the woods. liz: a federal judge in texas ruling obamacare unconstitutional. democrats plan to break the glass and launch socialist bernie sanders, single payer, medicare for all. that could ad $32 trillion to the nation's debt for 10 years.

it's why chuck schumer is talking about single payer. >> you have democrats trying to blame republicans, republicans trying to blame democrats for the rising healthcare costs. the ruling sent healthcare stocks down along with the rest of the market. obamacare is on life support and will likely face two more court battles. the democrats blaming republicans. republicans saying the affordable care act was flawed from the start. arkansas is one of the 20 states that sued. the attorney general said 75-inch televisions were $3,000. now you can find them for under $1,000. so healthcare should not be this expensive. >> every bit of technology we are able to lower the cost on

except for healthcare which is skyrocketing out of control for buying prescription drug medications for people not table to afford them. particularly people on fixed incomes. reporter: a statement from the department of health and human services says the trump administration stands ready to work with congress on policy solutions to provide insurance choices, better healthcare, and lower costs while continuing to protect individuals with preexisting conditions. next year democrats will have to come together with republicans in the house, then that bill would have to get passed in a republican-controlled senate. liz: letting get to "new york times" columnist betsy mccaughey. >> their residents want to be

able to buy more kinds of health' insurance instead of the one size fits all obamacare. this is on the books in the appeals process and nobody knows how lit turn out in a year or more. the trump administration is using deregulation to achieve what these states went to court to get. putting states in the driver's seats to allow their residents to buy all kinds of health plans. in 2010 obamacare took over and made a one size fits all the federal plan. but many states have way to the lower costs. the trump administration says let the states sell short-term plans. they are available for three years. they cost 80% to 90% less than

obamacare. he wanted to close the exit ramps so nobody could get out of obamacare. but many states are offering them. they don't include maternity care or preexisting conditions. but for a relatively healthy middle class person who can't get a subsidy to for obamacare, this is the answer. some states dominated by democrats are outlawing those plans because they say it's junk insurance. they know best rather than the consumer, and they say they are not going to let on resumers have any options except obamacare because they want to prop up the system even if it means denying their own residency options. the trump administration is

taking away all the constraints so that states can say to their own residents, here are several options for you. you don't have to be uninsured. so we'll see lots of deregulation. and as we do, we'll see health insurance become more affordable for the middle class. the middle class is the new uninsured class in america. they are the ones take it on the chin. and the democrats aren't even listening to them. barack obama before enrollment ended said you can buy obamacare for less than a cell phone bill. he wasn't talking to the middle class because the democrats don't care about the middle class anymore. liz: will you be able to buy health insurance across state lines? >> perhaps. but you don't have to buy all those extra benefits it's an outrage. we are living in the healthcare

gulag here in new york. i am looking forward to the day it does go away. liz: betsy mccaughey, thank you so much. the dow closing down 508 points. the fed will meet wednesday. wall street is saying president trump is right, you don't need to raise rates. knock it off. oil settling below $50 a barrel. gas prices down 68 days in a row. now, is the media only focusing on the negative when it comes to the first lady? coming up, we have a fiery debate on that between a democrat and republican. is a border wall worth a

government shutdown? neither side blinking. more on that after the break. stay there.

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i.c.e. i.c.e. reportedly arresting nearly 160,000 illegal aliens this year alone. that's the highest in four years. nearly 2/3 were either convicted criminals or they face pending criminal charges for crimes like sexual assault, robbery, or drunk driving. >> convicted murderers and convicted sex offenders, and those are just ones we know of. we hear those numbers are huge. i think we should consider the fact that there are so many more who were not convicted in their own country. have gone the away with it here. that tells you how many people, democrat leadership want to shut

i.c.e. down. they are first responders for the nation. liz: the 2020 is far away. he's eager to go on offense. here is democrat chuck schumer. watch. >> president trump should understand there are not the votes for the wall in the house or the senate. he's not going to get the wall in any form. we are going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration. liz: is the border wall worth a government shutdown? >> the border wall shows the president is following through with the promise he made to the

american people. he was elected with the pry 345eury message of border security and illegal immigration. i'm glad he's doing it now. a lot of people in government say this an awful thing. non-essential services would be shut down. people still get paid. they still get social security checks. liz: there is an area of the news that goes under reported. the families of victims of illegal immigrant crimes. they keep telling us democrats ignore them and never talk to them. >> joshua went to school and a class-mate asked him for a ride home. we found out at the you trial that the intent was to murder josh for his truck. he beat him in the head with a closet rod until it broke.

he strangled him, tortured him, set him in a field and set him on fire. >> an illegal immigrant hit him from behind going 120 miles an hour. >> because this all politics. the democrats see people something to maneuver with as collateral damage weren't larger political statement they want to make, and this is part of why the president was elected. these are kind of a forgotten group of americans. kate steinle brought this to the forefront during the election. but bad things happen in life. we understand that. imagine it being awful when this happens and with someone who shouldn't have been here in the first place. americans know it should be a priority. in addition to the personal family security issue, the

president should begin to remind people of this, why he's doing this. this is about internal security for the country. the democrats don't want to address that, and they will have a problem for the next few years. any shutdown for the government, they are arguing effectively for the status quo. the president and his supporters are arguing for more security. clearly there is chaos. liz: british prime minister theresa may sets january 14 for a vote on the brexit deal. the original vote was set for last week. it was postponed after the minister admitted it may lose. the e. coli outbreak is spreading to cauliflower. the veggies that were harvested

the end of november. the states affected dew new york, new jersey and illinois. the movie aqua man raking in a quarter billion before it even opens in the u.s. it made a huge splash in box offices overseas. coming up. back for round two. former fbi director james comey testified on the hill. we have catherine herridge with an update on that. to the media bashing the first lady melania trump again and again and again. what's going on here. what are they ignoring? our power panel will debate it next. state right there. ♪

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d.c. visiting children and reading them a christmas story. the day before she had flown out to an aircraft carrier to visit with the military and thank them for their service. and before that she was the a toys for tots. the consistent negative coverage mrs. trump gets is not fair. liz: she wrote a scathing op-ed defending the first lady. first lady has gone to hurricane hot zones, she has visited shooting victims at parkland and las vegas. she has gone to the center of the opioid crisis like west virginia. let's go to our panel. the tradition in d.c. is not to go after any member of the first family, including the first

lady, including michelle obama, including melania. they cannot do things like pass legislation. is the media mission an opportunity to cover the great work melania is doing? >> what's happening is when melania trump was asked by hannity what do you think are the greatest issues faced the thugs far, she said it's the media, and that really turned people off. that's not the answer you give when you are the first lady. liz: i understand what you are saying, i understand. but i think the first lady understands that issue you just raised. let's do it this way. let's show how the media is going after the first lady. >> she has adopted this we is me attitude. >> you would think in her rare public appearances that some

terrible wrong has been done to her in this country. i have been surprised by that air of grievance she carries so publicly. >> first families get a lot of attention reported on on the news all the time. >> she continues to whine about a situation she is part of. it's a great honor to be the first lady. liz: the tradition of d.c. of not going after the first family. they are off limits. here is melania speaking on "hannity." watch. >> what is the hardest thing you have to deal with? >> i would say the opportunists who are using my name or family name to advance themselves, comedians to journalists to performers, book writers. liz: wendy, finish your point. >> i believe you take the higher

road. you are the first lady of the united states of america. when you ask that question you don't make by the yourself, you make it about country. >> i think many members of the media are confused. she isn't look for sympathy. she is strong and independent and standing up for herself. in modern america i thought that's what we wanted women to do. standing up and defending herself. pointing to the good work instead of her problematic shoes or hair the press wants to focus on. liz: kelsey you think it's okay for the first lady to say i'm going to fight back and point out the good things i have been doing, right? >> absolutely. it represents a strong and independent first lady as a role model with girls watching her. >> she has to make sure she exudes that and her husband exudes that.

liz: wendy, are you acknowledging all the good things the first lady has done for the country. >> what i'm trying to say is been when she does the good things. liz: do you acknowledge it. >> the media focuses on the negative things her husband does. she needs to relay the same message to her husband as well. >> i think the media needs to step up its game. no one should be holding melania accountable for what her husband does. liz: a fox news poll shows people are increasingly feeling hopeful about the direction of the country. 51% said they are hopeful. that's up 10% from last year. former fbi director james comey back on the hill for a grilling from republican lawmakers. the democrats are getting ready

to hit president trump with a t-shirt era of cannons. it could backfire big time.

liz: the #metoo movement exploding back into the public eye. this time it's cbs les moonves. >> this time last year he was the king of broadcasting. the most of powerful highly paid broadcaster brought down by the #metoo movement. people thought he would get his severance. but they were trying to look for a way to deny him the money.

some of the charge were pretty nasty. they were older stuff, prehis current contract. so they had to find something largely contemporaneous, they said lie together board. he denies it. they don't care about paying this money if they have to do it in court. they expect him to sue them. optically that's better for cbs if they have to shell out money in an arbitration that looks good for cbs. that was the play here. die my him. let him sue us. if we have to shell it out. it looks better than paying him $120 million. that was his game plan from day one. i was on fox news and i was among the first to report that he was unlikely to get the money, and they were look for

something contemporaneous in how he dealt with the investigation. liz: can he sue to get money? >> arbitration. we are contract employees, we can sue, too. i would say 99% of the contracts in a talent contract and broadcast contract have an arbitration clause. if you fight over the terms of the agreement you have to take it to arbitration. liz: this is pretty ugly stuff. >> they are really nasty. but they predated his current contract. i think the current contract was dated 2012. those allegations were 2007 and even further back. so you have to find a contemporaneous thing. the real thing is the separation agreement. i read it. it allows for some leeway in releasing the findings of the

probe. that will be -- liz: this means it's going to get nasty and dirty. wow, what a story. you are going to come back, right? former fbi director james comey facing another round of questioning. catherinequestioning.her -- cate herridge was along reporters questioning comey after the hearing. what did he say about the bureau's handling of the investigation? catherine: about a dozen fbi executives who served with or beneath, directly beneath the former fbi director james comey have been fired, retired or have just left the bureau and reassigned. fox news asked comey whether he takes any of the blame for the damage to the bureau's credibility. let's listen. >> no. the fbi's wrep takes has take

and big hit because the president of the united states has lied about it constantly. and a lot of good people who watch your network believe that nonsense. that's a tragedy. that will be undone eventually, but that damage has nothing to do with me. catherine: he took a dig at fox news in the process of that response. inspector general for the justice department found director comey's actions were inyou border that during the clinton email case because he took over the recommendation not to the file criminal charges. we asked him about the memos he drafted of his conversations with the president. you recall he leaked at least one of them to the "new york times" to kickstart the special counsel investigation. our information is at least one of the memos contained classified information. and when he shared the memos

with his legal team there was a class ifified containment operation by the fbi to mop up information that should not be out there for others to get access to, liz. liz: you have been breaking so many stories about this catherine. judges and attorneys general have said his behavior was inappropriate when he held the multiple press conferences about the hillary clinton email server. his response to the liking of memos and spilling of classified information. the other thing that came out was friday, a redacted memo was shown to president trump in 2017. did that memo that the president saw at that time, did it reveal that the democrats funded the steele dossier?

catherine: i am look to one side. late friday evening the fbi as the result after freedom of information act lawsuit posted to its website this half live redacted version of the memo that comey briefed to the incoming president trump in january of 2017 about the anti-trump dossier it's heavily redacted. but there is a section you can read about the british spy christopher steele who put the research together for the dossier. and it refer to the individuals who funded that project as private clients. and it was well understood it was the dnc and the clinton campaign. folks at home will have to decide whether that was an honest representation hoff was behind the dossier and opposition research or if this was an effort to shield the political roots of this information from the president and others. liz: it's important journalism

you are doing, catherine herridge thank you. we have darrell issa, congressman from california. i am not sure if you heard. catherine: rrp. >> i did. liz: it's a heck of a story. >> what's important is the timeline. comey tricks the president by giving him half the story shortly before he's sworn in. he then comes back a few days after the president is sworn in and the president asks about general flynn in that's conversation. comey does not tell him they recorded general flynn on a wiretap, b, they entrapped general anyone into saying he didn't have a conversation they already had reported while telling him he didn't need a

lawyer, thus entrapping him, and they don't tell the vice president or the president, with the sworn constitutional officers that their national security advisor has lied to the vice president and in fact had done this. so this is all comey. this is telling the president a half-truth, which is a lied before he is president, then not telling him social absolutely needs to go. the president of the united states needed to know he needed to fire general anyone for lie together vice president that day they discovered it, or if not then, three days later in they never told the president, and that's another reason to fire comey. liz: can you come back on the show so we can cover this some more in full? >> sure. i have got another book right now. but i understand. you came up against it. liz: we have a heavy breaking

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liz: it's no secret democrats plan to hit president trump and others in his administration. but here is another secret. it may just backfire. let's bring in the guy laughing next to me. judge andrew napolitano. >> i have a picture of those t-shirts. liz: harriet meyers. there were subpoenas fired at the george w. bush administration. fast and furious. the same with eric holder. subpoenas fired at the obama

white house came to no fruition because obama left office. can the president stymie the subpoenas. >> short answer yes. congress has legitimate oversight over many executive branch functions, and they can inquire into those functions including getting documents that are not public. that's congress' argument. the president's argument is we are co-equal. you are not superior to me and i'm not superior to you. if you want something, go to court. the court won't require me to surrender it to you if it's going to be disruptive to my branch of government. whether he has to taste up or keep it. but can he drive them crazy while they think they are driving him crazy, yes. liz: then the democrats go into

2020 with no legislative victories. >> the democrats are torn between legislating and investigating. the more moderate ones want to legislate. they want to find common ground so they have something to crow about. pelosi has a foot in both camps. liz: we have more on the breaking news coming out of google. the intercept has been all over this story. it's reporting that google dropped its censored search engine, project dragonfly. >> project dragonfly was an effort to gather the search preferences of a couple much billion chinese people. and this project was kept secret from the executives in google who the ceo you showed

non-testifying last week feared would be against him. once the word got out, the google executives and the rebelled. you are monitoring the search practices of the chinese people to help the government. we don't know if whrit regenerate or what the fallout will be. our friends at the intercept once they reported this and used names, going the shut this project down. >> google's argument is our job is to return money on equity. they are paying as you fortune. why do we care where it comes from. liz: they have to get into china somehow. >> google is arguing you should be happy we are in there. you should be happy the government likes us and wants to

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>> welcome back. moscow reportedly using venezuela to reflect its military muscle right in america's face. reportedly working to build a long-term presence on one event as well as caribbean islands. last week russia sent toa clear message when they sent two almost in venezuela before they were sent back home. likely in response to the white house push of a nuclear treaty. with is now a fox news contributor, lieutenant colonel adam west. what is your conclusion to this? >> it is good to be with you merry christmas. without the doubt we've been down this road before with russia. of course it was also the cuban missile crisis appear there looking for someone that will

provide patronage. and militarily expend themselves. i think it's more of their economy is fragile enough and again this is the reason why this was exploiting resources and also we should continue to have a strong military footprint there. one of the things we need to look at doing is how do you escort some of their ukrainian cargo ships through the black sea, through the straits into the sea which russia tried to choke off. >> will that escalate the issues there? >> i think the most important thing is that letter maple and cannot take this so far because you know, the soviet union collapsed economically because they tried to keep up with us militarily. when you look at the expansion and design he's been the middle east not talking about sending the long-range bombers into

venezuela. his economy cannot sustain that. i think it gives us a great gap by which we can exploit him. >> we think about what's going on with russia and the economy, i think your point is well taken. lieutenant colonel, there's another development tied to the russians, separate from that. reports tonight that the russians are working with the chinese on this experiment to actually heat a layer of the atmosphere and this could have military applications, right? >> without a doubt. i think that is what the real alliance that we have to be concerned about between china and russia. it is very interesting. you see what china is doing with their military islands in the south china sea. no rush is trying to do the same in our hemisphere. they have increased their intrusion into the higher atmospheres and also with cyber as a new front for warfare against united states of america. and again, a means by which they can economically try to attack us as well. >> colonel allen west, thank you for joining us tonight.>> my pleasure. >> we had a jampacked newshour. thank you for having us in

your home and thank you for watching. lou dobbs is next right here on the fox business network. have a good evening.♪ ♪ [music] ♪ [music] >> good evening everybody. our top stories tonight, red storm rising. both russia and china continuing their dangerous encroachment in the western hemisphere.still going on notice by the national left-wing media. d.c. lawmakers, even the presidents national security apparatus.instead of trying to thwart the rising threat in those nations, the state department meeting with the taliban, trying to broker a deal on afghanistan. negotiating with terrorists and what is likely to be a futile effort to end what is been to this point, a never-ending war. ar