there was very special. >> well, and congratulations again. and keep in mind, dr. siegel's advice, get rid of grudges. >> absolutely. >> let them go. >> good point. >> aim arthel neville, he's eric shawn. they're the docs. merry christmas. investigators are trying to determine who put a fake bomb on board an air france flight bound for paris from the african island of mauritius. one passenger describes what happened on board. >> the plane just went down, slowly, slowly, slowly. so we just realized something was wrong. we didn't know what was happening actually. and so we said we had to land in mombasa because we had a technical problem. >> fallout from last night's democratic presidential debate, including hillary clinton's claim we are, quote, where we need to be in the fight against isis. we'll put that and more to the test with our political panel

and fox news military analyst, general jack keane. >> the northeast finally sees some white stuff this weekend. janice dean joins us with the nation's weather as millions of americans travel home for the holidays. welcome to "america's news headquarters" from washington. i'm shannon bream. >> nice to be with you. nice to be you at home. i'm leland vittert. thank you for spending your sunday with us. and a fox news alert. suspicious device discovered in the bathroom of an air france flight is now a hoax. that's according to the airline's ceo. but there is still a lot of questions about what appeared to be a fake bomb made from cardboard, paper and a timer evidently found in a bathroom that caused a packed paris bound flight to make an emergency landing in kenya. paul is following the story from johannesburg.

hi, paul. >> we understand that air france officials are asking the french national prosecutor to investigate today's bomb scare. so many questions. among the questions, which need answering, is what is just a stupid prank or was security procedures being tested by terrorists. air france flight 463, a boeing 777, was several hours into a flight overnight from mauritius to paris, france, when a passenger reported seeing a suspicious package in one of the airplane's bathrooms. the pilots requested an immediate landing at mombasa, in kenya, on africa's east coast. 459 passengers and 14 crew used the plane's emergency chutes to leave the aircraft as quickly as possible. no one was injured. bomb disposal teams removed the suspicious package. six passengers are still being questioned about the package. i've seen a picture of this dummy bomb. and it looks real. there is a large digital clock on the top and some wires going from that to what looks like several sticks of explosives,

taped together. the question, how could such a sophisticated fake bomb get through security at mauritius airport and get on board and why in midflight did the passenger put it in the plane's bathroom. air france insists they check the bathroom before takeoff and it was empty. this was a french plane, coming from a resort island, popular with french tourists and was en route to the french capital paris. the question, was this a sick joke, or a trial run by isis who may again be targeting french interests because of france's attacks on islamic state in syria. leland? >> obviously in light of what happened over egypt, out of sinai and russian jetliner, everyone had a lot of reason to be concerned. paul following the story from johannsburg, thank you, paul. >> military planes dropped leaflets warning residents of ramadi to evacuate the city within 72 hours, a sign of imminent air strikes. the city fell to isis and the

recapture would be a turning point for the u.s. and its allies. air strikes will not be enough. retired four star general and fox news military analyst jack keane joins us now. always good to see you. >> good to see you, shannon. >> last night, this took up a lot of time of conversation during the democratic debate. i want to read something that hillary clinton said, former secretary of state, she said with regard to isis and syria, we're finally where we need to be. we have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis, which is a danger to us and the region and we also have a u.n. security council resolution bringing the world together for political transition. are we where we need to be with isis or syria? >> not even close, unfortunately. the president has a strategy where he believes it will take many years, several years in fact, to defeat isis. and he refers to strategic patience. and he says isil will eventually be defeated. the reality is that isis, shannon, is executing the global strategy. and they kill people in lebanon, turkey, in france, in the united states now, they brought down a russian airliner and they'll

keep doing that. so that the multiyear strategy has got to be shelved. and we have got to have a sense of urgency and resolve to bring this to an end as quickly as we can. that's where the major policy shift has to be taken. and the sooner we get on with that, the better in terms of the safety of the world and american citizens. >> most seem to agree that just striking from the air is not going to get the job done. there is agreement about where you go beyond that. last night, senator bernie sanders talked about he doesn't want any u.s. troops on the ground. he says it has to be muslim troops on the ground. hillary clinton is different in saying that special operators could be there, but doesn't want to see combat troops on the ground. how does this work in the long-term, this really truly eviscerating isis. >> i think in iraq, i don't believe we need combat troops. i think what we do know, we need considerably more advisers, trainers and tactical air controllers on the ground. i would triple them to something in excess of 10,000.

we're moving special operation forces in there, that's a good thing. so that makes sense. but we definitely need more troops in there, yes, not in a combat role. in syria, we're not going to have troops on the ground in syria in any consequential way. we will not be able to put together an air coalition, shannon, until such time as we bring the war to an end in syria. they will not participate on the ground against isis until we do that. that is why so many observers are criticizing the administration for not establishing a safe zone, for not establishing no fly zones, which would move the war to a political termination in most of our viewpoints. that's what we need. and then you can put together an arab coalition to deal with isis, maybe even including the turks put skin in the game which they said they would do and limited u.s. participation of a few brigades. no one has been talking about large commitment of u.s. forces. >> so what i hear from you is you think it is the opposite strategy of what we heard from senator sanders last night, who

kept saying isis is the number one threat right now, ignore the assad issue, get isis under control or eviscerated and then we'll worry about assad, but we can't deal with that issue right now. you have to tackle both at the same time. >> yes, you do. you have to put a priority on actually bringing the civil war to an end. that's really where we need to be. and frankly, the only reason russians are there is because assad was in a precarious situation that the rebels had been gaining on him, largely underreported over the last year. we have got to shift that momentum again in favor of the rebels to bring this to a political conclusion. the vienna talks are not going to get us there because secretary kerry is already made a major concession saying that assad's removal is no longer a condition for a cease-fire. that is staggering. what that means is the rebels keep fighting, won't be a cease-fire. >> more there is instability there, the more bad actors will be able to exploit it. that's without debate.

great to see you. merry christmas if i don't see you before. >> merry christmas to you. >> leland. >> three victims of the san bernardino terror attacks were remembered by family and friends yesterday in southern california. in a service for sierra claiborne, relatives recalled her bright smile and demeanor. nick was remembered for his devotion to his faith and to his wife. and michael russell's funeral, family spoke about the love he had for his six children. the services were the final public memorial services for those killed in that massacre. just a day after a bitter feud erupted between their campaigns, hillary clinton and bernie sanders hit the debate stage last night with martin o'malley. the focus was on the issues like terrorism and national security. and clinton is taking some heat on those to the.

ed henry is in manchester. >> -- had been all this hype leading up to this third democratic debate in new hampshire about maybe the gloves would finally come off, bernie sanders, democratic socialist senator, might push back, especially hard, as the front-runner hillary clinton as well as the democratic national committee amid his charges that the dnc has been coddling the front-runner in part by what he believes to be an overreaction to these charges that his campaign staffers went inside the clinton playbook, basically, went into an area of a democratic voting database that they were not supposed to be to do some snooping and downloading and taking basically to -- alleging there was outright theft of secret clinton information on voters and their patterns and what not. that in the end, though, is something that sanders apologized for and tried to move on from, just as he did with the e-mail issue, you'll remember, back in the first democratic

debate back in vegas. national security also was front and center and this comment from hillary clinton is something that republican carly fiorina jumped all over. >> we now finally are where we need to be. we have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis, which is a danger to us as well as the region. and we finally have a u.n. security council resolution bringing the world together to go after a political transition of syria. >> incredible, honestly. somehow a u.n. resolution about syria puts us where we need to be. i think it is a reflection of hillary clinton and barack obama's belief that our foreign policy gets set by others. this is what leading from behind means, i guess. >> you can hear there republicans like carly fiorina trying to make sure that the comments by hillary clinton get a lot of attention, but that is an open question, given the fact this is the second straight democratic debate that happened on a saturday night, the charge being that the dnc has been

trying to keep these debates in the dark, not get as big an audience as those week night ones here on fox news channel and other cable networks. the bottom line is the very next democratic debate will be in mid-january on a sunday. shannon? >> all right, we'll be watching. we know you will be too. thank you so much. democratic presidential hopefuls aren't the only candidate taks taking on donald trump. the gloves are coming off. kristen fisher here with the latest attempts to dethrone the donald. >> no one is doing that more so than jeb bush right now. for a candidate who used to have a hard time going after someone like donald trump, jeb bush is finding his voice. at the debate, he call ed trump the chaos candidate. yesterday, he called him a jerk. and today jeb bush finally confirmed what many people in washington had already guessed, that he feels liberated by speaking out against trump. >> to a certain extent it is a little liberating to be able to

post up against a guy who is not qualified to be president. he now has come out saying that putin is a strong man and a great guy when he's trying to destabilize our relationship with our allies. he's not a serious candidate. >> trump may be the clear front-runner in the republican primary, but not so much in a hypothetical general election matchup. >> donald trump can't beat hillary clinton. i think it is very clear and she doesn't want to run against me because i can beat her. because i will fight her at -- force her to fight on ground that she will lose on. i will reveal to the american people over and over and over again the clinton way. say what you have to say to get elected. lie as long as you can get away with it. >> but among republican primary voters, trump is more dominant than ever. he has 39% of the vote.

his closest competitor ted cruz, 21 points behind. marco rubio in third with 11%. everyone else in single digits. trump's dominance in the polls is something that "saturday night live" had fun with during a skit last night on the republican debate. watch. >> listen, if we work together, we can stop donald trump. if you combine my numbers with yours, yours, and yours, we would almost win. >> now, the candidates still have some time to change voters' minds. the iowa caucus is 43 days away. that's one state where trump is not the front-runner and ted cruz is the candidate with the clear advantage. >> we'll see who comes out on a cold february night in iowa. thank you, kristen. >> thank you. quick programming note on fox news sunday, you saw part of the interview, a couple of clips, chris wallace with carly fiorina for an exclusive interview at the top of the hour right after "anhq".

an unusual stretch of spring-like weather snapped to an end for some new yorkers spending their sunday digging out from piles of snow. it blanketed parts of western and upstate new york, that's beautiful. after cold winds moved across the warm great lakes, nearly three feet of snow fell in some places. but dreams of a white christmas may not come true. temperatures are expected to hit the mid-50s this week. new york is not the only place seeing snow. kids in fargo, north dakota, happy to get enough powder to open a favorite shreddi isleddi. things were not so fun in other parts of the state this week when snow left thousands without power. will snow be a problem for millions of americans getting ready to hit the roads and the skies this week? janice dean is tracking the weather forecast. i think she has a forecast i am going to love.

>> there is your disclaimer. shannon will stay tuned until the end of the forecast when i bring her the best forecast possible for christmas eve. first, let's talk about the west. they have been seeing storm after storm after storm and this weekend is no different. we have another storm moving in. yet another monday and tuesday. so this is typical of an el nino year, seeing tons of rain and mountain snow for the west. and we're going to continue to see this in some cases several inches of coastal rainfall and several feet of snow in the mountains, which is great news for the skiers out there. this will also help with the drought. so look at the forecast precipitation as we head into wednesday. many inches of rainfall, that's going to cause flash flooding, possible mudslides and again feet of snow for the mountains. there is your future radar. we'll see a couple of storms t. also energy from that western storm bringing some showers and thunderstorms for parts of the gulf coast, tennessee river

valley, ohio river valley as we head into tuesday and wednesday. now, ahead of the frontal system, warm southerly air coming up towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. we are going to shatter records christmas eve. 70 degrees in new york city. that will be a record. 75 in atlanta, georgia. that would be a record. 75 is the forecast for washington, d.c., santa should be breaking out his hawaiian shirts on christmas eve, shannon. look at these temperatures. incredible. so we were talking yesterday, leland, about maybe ice cream for the reindeer as opposed to hot chocolate and cookies. what do you think? >> yeah. exactly. and, listen, you and i know, january, february, march are still coming. so i say we enjoy it while we can. right? >> absolutely. and how many years have you been going like this with all of the wintertime forecasts. >> exactly. that's usually how they come back to me on camera. this time, this face.

different emoji. >> yes. i love it. >> i will see you on christmas. merry christmas. thank you, janice. leland. >> what emoji did the democratic presidential hopefuls have on yesterday? we'll find out. and our political panel will break down if the debate changed anything on either side of the race. plus, congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with bipartisan support before heading home to the holidays. that doesn't mean everyone likes the deal. congressman mo brooks will be here and we'll ask him why he voted against it among others. and the homework assignment that triggered a backlash so fierce, schools were closed for a day. we'll tell you what the difference between teaching religion and teaching about religion is. >> there was no trying about it. the sheet she gave out was pure doctrine. i have asthma...

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three of them, have positions that the overwhelming majority of americans agree we should continue to make sure that we can keep americans safe, help them reach the middle class and make sure we can help people achieve the american dream, rather than roll back progress as the republican candidates wish to. >> this is the same party that had a candidate get up on stage, the leading candidate, hillary clinton, and talk about isis is where we want them. think about that, america faces great threats now in a leading candidate the democratic nominee just out of -- said isis is where we want them. that is insane. >> that was the dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz and sean spicer with post debate analysis. did the debate change anyone's standing or anybody's mind? let's get to our fair and balanced panel. this is pete snyder and chris

cospinas. two plus hours of them mixing it up a little bit. does it move the needle for anybody, up or down? >> probably not. i thought it was one of those status quo debates. i think all the candidates did pretty well. no real mistakes or anything that somehow would change the fundamental dynamic of the race. not to mention the fact when you talk about a few days before christmas, i'm not sure that viewership was record-breaking. >> is that part of the plan? that's some of the criticism from the republicans saying they're hiding debates on saturday night, at a time when nobody is going to watch them, they're buried so that hillary clinton doesn't stand any public challenges. how do you respond? >> i don't know if it is part of the plan. personally i think it would have been better to have more debates and more high profile. on the other hand, it hasn't served the republicans really well. didn't have record-breaking coverage in terms of debates, but in terms of highlighting the extremism of the candidates and trump's interesting statements

and political logic, i don't think necessarily more viewers helps you when you're saying some pretty crazy outlandish things. >> he's one of the ones when we look at head to head polling, he doesn't do well against hillary clinton. there are other republicans who do beat her. the margins are very tight and we have -- lifetime in politics before we get past the primaries and to the general. you saw sean spicer refer to something hillary clinton said that got attention from last knight. want to play the sound bite where she talks about having isis in a syria situation where we want it to be. and we'll get pete's reaction. >> no. we now finally are where we need to be. we have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis, which is a danger to us as well as the region. >> so she talked about having both the strategy and a diplomatic channel that is going on now and says that puts us where we want to be. >> shannon, she simply isn't living in reality right now. to say we actually have isis where we need them and where we

want them right now. the entire democratic field doesn't have a grasp at all on how to deal with isis. the white house -- >> does the republican field have a better strategy? >> i would take any republican candidate. and -- >> who will be stronger versus this president or hillary clinton against isis? absolutely. every single -- look, americans -- >> people think by a wide margin that he's the best person to deal with terrorism. he's talk ing tough. >> i think marco rubio would be strong. i think ted cruz would be strong. i think every single one of our immense field that we have would be better and more grounded in reality than hillary clinton right now. >> do you think it would be helpful to the republicans to have a field whittled. you use the word immense. three democrats for two plus hours and you hear a lot from them, clearly hillary clinton is the front-runner there by 20 plus points. would it help the republicans to have a field whittled at this point? >> i'm a free market person, a

real conservative, so let's let them fight it out. i believe the best ideas and the best candidates will win. i tend to be an anti-establishment guy. i like to have someone who is centered with the grassroots and has policies that can advance our country forward. we have four or five candidates, all which of would beat hillary clinton. >> chris, obviously, i was going to be the first contest. is there any real challenge to her at this point? are the debates helping to refine her. saturday night, not many people watching, to get her ready for the general. >> i think there is a couple of ways to look at it. in terms of the democratic race itself, senator sander has to pull an inside straight. has to win iowa. has to win new hampshire, just to have a chance to shake up the fundamentals of the race. the problem is he walk s into south carolina and i don't think that she can be beaten and i think the race takes over. that's assuming he can win both. i don't think he can. the other part to it, in terms of setting herself up for the

general, i think these have helped. but the reality is republicans are doing more damage to themselves in terms of changing the dynamic of the race. you saw it in the fox news poll. you have a candidate that is so out of touch, so extreme in terms of rhetoric that he's isolating so much of the country, including republicans that donald trump is, you basically you strengthen the other side that is what is happening now. you have a republican party really kind of torn apart and until they figure it out, it makes democrats' job that much easier. so thank you. early christmas gift. >> i get a feeling the democrats want donald trump to be the nominee, constantly hammering him. the only gop name that came up last night and repeatedly. i think he's a good foil for their argument. >> you're right. in fairness, the republicans want donald trump to be the nominee. that's why he's leading in the race. >> in the polling, though he's far and away ahead in all of the polling, he's also at the of the list when you ask for voters who is the one person you would

never vote for, what do they do with that, what does the gop do? >> i think what chris said would be true if we're talk ing about the democratic field, who they have no choice beyond hillary clinton. they rigged it that way. we have a myriad of choices beyond donald trump. i think if donald continues to do damage to himself, as he has over the past two weeks or so, he's going to sink. we have a lot of folks who can beat hillary clinton who will rise. and you see that happening with rubio, with cruz, with christie. >> well, yeah, they are all making game make ing gains, but no one is getting near trump. >> thank you, both, for coming in. >> thank you for having us. >> pop or smash. a brand-new addition, that's coming up. not all lawmakers are in holiday spirits heading home for the break. the budget deal left some house republicans sour. we'll talk of congressman mo brooks comes up live. >> the reason we think the

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in the philippines, giant electric lanterns sparkle in the sky. they're synced christmas carols and each takes a while to make. it draws thousands of villagers and tourists. it has become a hallmark of the local economy. beautiful. congress passed a 1.1 trillion ldz spending bill just before heading home for the holidays. it funds the federal government in 2016. the bipartisan agreement still has bipartisan complaints. 95 house republicans voted against the bill. including them alabama congressman mo brooks who joins us now from back home in alabama. congressman, paul ryan worked very closely with nancy pelosi

to get this pushed through. did the freedom caucus get sold out by paul ryan? >> some of our members voted against this legislation, primarily because it is just once again an example of where the washington establishment betrays the american people generally and our kids and grandkids particularly by increasing our debt by tens of billions of dollars. that debt burden will be pushed on our kids and grandkids to pay and that's not right. >> we had representative king on from iowa, one of the fellow nays in this vote. he said that voting for this bill would have been a violation of his congressional oath of office to uphold the constitution. pretty strong words, you agree? >> i don't know the analysis that steve king may have used and i haven't looked at this legislation in the context of the constitution. but steve king is a very knowledgeable individual and when he says something like that, i'm sure he's got a sound

basis for it. from my perspective, it betrays the american people, because it increases the likelihood we'll have an insolvency and bankruptcy that would debilitate the united states of america. very, very dangerous, the financial path we're on. look at greece. their unemployment rate is 25%. for the life of me, i don't understand why their elected officials in washington who want to put america not only on the same path, but in the same position as greece. now, another aspect of it that is really damaging is that it pretty much undermines the ability of american workers to, a, get jobs and, b, when they get those jobs get them at wages that they can use to support their families. they have another surge of foreign labor taking jobs and suppressing wages for struggling american workers, just not the right thing to do. >> there was a discussion earlier that the other option of -- rather than this bipartisan bill was a government shutdown. do you feel as though house leadership caved too quickly and went the bipartisan route? was there more to be gained from

the white house on issues that are important to folks especially inside the freedom ca ca caucus? >> they try to coerce congressman and senators into implementing bad public policy. it is not like we don't have a december every year. we do. and we can start our work in january, february, march and complete and fully fund the government early rather than late. the house and senate leadership and the white house they want this kind of catastrophe scenario sitting there to use that as a coercive device to force bad decisions under the threat of government shutdown. easy to avoid a shutdown if you have the right representatives and right senators making the right decisions. >> you got 95 nays, but not enough to stop the votes. is there anything folks in the freedom caucus and your constituents can do to try and keep this from happening in the future if they so choose? >> well, quite frankly, we need help.

the house freedom caucus is 40 members. if the american people want more financially responsible elected officials in washington, and the house, and in the senate, and in the white house, if they want border security, the american people, they have to start electing a better batch of congressmen and senators and presidents. >> joe manchin, the democratic senator from west virginia, was saying the same thing, when it came to the debt. i'll shift gears as a litt s s here. the takeoff with ted cruz country christmas tour. i will not make you say that five times fast. but i'll ask you this, donald trump had a huge rally in alabama, big, big numbers, tens of thousands of folks turned out. is ted cruz going to get those numbers in alabama this afternoon? >> i don't know that any republican that has the entertainment aspect that enabled them to draw such huge crowds as donald trump. but in the state of alabama, i base this on my judgment as

having served in public office for 30 years in a variety of different positions, in alabama, it is down to two people, donald trump and ted cruz. just as ted cruz has overtaken donald trump in iowa by as many as nine points, i anticipate you'll see the same kind of surge for ted cruz in the southeastern states, not just alabama, but the southeastern states because of our common sharing of values, the kind of values that made america a great nation. ted cruz is spot on and right there. >> well, this is all starting to get pretty real as we head into iowa and down to the south for the s.e.c. primary. come back and talk to us again, sir. >> my pleasure. thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you. a homework assignment involving islam triggers an intense backlash at one school district. where is the legal line when it comes to teaching about religion in public schools? >> shocked that it was sent home. shocked that that was in the school. shocked it is happening here in our small town.

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i will not have my children -- who indoctrinates them with the islam religion when i'm a christian and i will stand behind christ. >> that was kimberly herndon,

outraged after her ninth grade son came home with an assignment that involved practicing calligraphy and practicing a phrase. there is no god but allah, the first verse of the koran. she said her rights as a parent were violated and others are coming out and supporting the teacher, saying this was a lesson about different world religions. >> hopefully parents can do nothing about it, frankly. the whole thing seems a bit outrageous to me. we are -- our country is based on the notion of pluralism. our constitution is based on the notion of religious freedom and pluralism. and that means we can learn about in a comparative religion class, different religions without teachers being threatened with being fired.

so that's my strong perspective on this. >> i know in addition to being a fine criminal defense attorney that you are -- you do work for the aclu out there in colorado. if a school in boulder had sent kids home with a homework assignment to trace out in hebrew, for example, i am the lord thy god, thou should have no other gods before me, you wouldn't have a problem with that? >> no, i wouldn't. i mean, indoctrination is one thing. but this doesn't come close to that. that's the dividing line. education versus indoctrination. so if a teacher was preaching it if a preacher was pushing kids in any way to accept it, that would be different. here the teacher was making a point out of a workbook used by other schools that calligraphy can be complicated and difficult and that was the lesson she was trying to show them.

i don't see how that approaches indoctrination. >> there say student saying we learned about all different cultures and she was a great teacher, referring to this teacher, miss laport here. the question being, is that if thome sort of real outrage by parents, which they had here, and they go ahead and try to fire her or move her to a different classroom, does shes have a cause of action against this high school? >> i think she does. she was using a workbook and curriculum accepted by the school. it would be different if she had gone out on a limb and was teaching things that she wasn't supposed to or hadn't been given prior approval. but to approve of this workbook and this curriculum and get fired for it, i think it raises to a cause of action on her

behalf. hopefully that doesn't happen. as you said, my understanding is there is lots of students and teachers pushing back against this, as they should . >> well, 2,000 folks joined facebook group supporting laport. on the other side, you had a lot of parents angry, even the sheriff getting calls, those kinds of things, had to cancel class on friday, holiday concert and weekend sporting events as well just because of the outrage this has caused. dan, thank you for your insights. >> my pleasure. >> all the best. same sort of topic, the hospital banned christmas greetings from public areas. that's why they get the annual ebenezer award, the lowest honor of the year to the salem va. the decision was later reversed. if other religions could also be represented, but it still lands them on the becket fund's naughty list. get ready for an emmipic bae

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