the lama, handsome lama. heather: that wraps it up for us. hope you have a great day and fox & friends start now. >> thanks for joining us. heather: bye. >> it's already a short week. we just came back yesterday. it's thursday. you only have one more alarm clock. january 5th, my name is ainsley ainsley earhardt, have you seen video yet. a special needs man being tortured an being beaten. the attackers screaming racist and antitrump remarks, watch. ainsley: that video right there streamed live on facebook. steve: man, oh, man, we are going to talk about.

trump's plans to dump obamacare. >> the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. >> the republican plan to cut health care would make america sick again. steve: this morning mr. trump firing back at democrats with a new slogan, we are going to share it with you. brian: we know donald trump as big plans to build the wall, but who is going to do it? actually build the wall, this morning the sheriff who is offering up his inmates, think about that for a second while i urge you to please get dressed because your mornings already better eventually with friends. ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: this is a fox news alert. hard to watch. streamed live on facebook. disabled man tied up, tortured, he was forced at knife point to say f donald trump, he was

kicked, cut on the scalp and hospitalized after he was force today drink toilet water. brian: this took place 3400 place in west side of chicago where so much violence is taking place, just add this to the mix. the video shot and up loaded by a woman named brintly, you hear her voice. she thought it was good to put on facebook live. they are under arrest and that young man is still in the hospital. ainsley: that young man was bound, gagged, beaten and took a knife out, they cut his hair with the night which then cut the scalp. they cut the shirt open with the knife. one of the people there according to article was smoking marijuana and took the marijuana blunt and ashed it in his scalp where he was cut. steve steve it is hard to watch but nonetheless it is an important story and here is 17 seconds of it.

[inaudible] steve: the woman britney, she didn't realize, i'm posting it on facebook live. she apparently has been arrested along with three others. here is the other thing that we left out of it so far, the special needs victim was white. the attackers were all black. obviously it beg it is question is this a hate crime, here is what the chicago super ib tentent said yesterday. >> it's sickening. it makes you wonder what would makes individuals treat somebody like that. i've been a cop for 28 years and i've seen things that you shouldn't seen in a lifetime but

still amazes me how you still see things that you just shouldn't. >> is it a hate crime? >> we are still investigating it. if the evidence -- >> they act like they just kicked over garbage cans and ran away. appears to be a hate crime. there's an investigation. if the chicago police came back, yeah, you know that special needs guy who they made drink the toilet water, those people who were african american, it was not a bias crime. they were doing something stupid. they came back and said that, that would be shocking. ainsley: i agree with you. when i heard him say that, it sounded politically correct. kids will be kids. could you imagine doing this to

a human being? brian: a kid you know. they know the kid. ainsley: one of the suspects met this guy, the special needs victim, met him in the suburbs of chicago, kidnapped him, brought him to a house for 48 hours, 30 minutes of that on facebook streaming live. they let him go eventual i, the special needs boy, police find him disoriented, they pick him up and going to investigate at this house to grab those four suspects who were streaming it live and they made the connection. this is the kid that was involved in that after interviewing and talking to him. countlessin the hospital. shootings, it's out of control if you watch 60 minutes on sunday, you see cops that backed out of the area. we can't discuss it. we are not getting back up from the administration. donald trump weighed in, if the mayor can't handle it, he has to call for help. the mayor met with president elect. everything is happening there.

i want your reaction, we all want your reaction. ainsley: we interviewed one of the pastors and he said, we need more jobs in chicago, that's what president-elect trump can do. and i'm thinking, jobs would be great for everyone but this goes back to the home, where are the parents? we were raised -- you don't treat individuals like this? they are human beings. steve: extraordinarily it happened on tuesday and police arrested people wednesday, yesterday. now there's an investigation. it sure looks like a bias crime, a hate crime to all of us, what about you, e-mail us at fox & friends.com. brian: it was all over the place. recking of politics, 115th congress is back to session for a second day. yesterday was all about obamacare and the president of the united states who is going to be retired from do you --

doing that job, he ha has advice to the representation of the house and senate when it comes to obamacare, relabel it trump care and use this term and look for it everywhere now, i'm sure it came from the white house, i'm sure the president itself, let's make america sick again. nancy pelosi was saying it, chuck schumer was saying. there's peril. there's a way to do it and not to do it. donald trump tweeted out that he knows there's danger there. ainsley: he's so funny he's not politically correct at all. calling them clowns, the dems own the failed obama disaster with poor compleg and massive premium increases like in arizona. deductibles are so high that it practically is practically useless. don't let the schumer clown out of this web, massive increases of obamacare will take place this year and dems are to blame for the mess.

it will fall -- what does it say? fall on its own weight, be careful. steve: schumer's clowns. to brian's point, hey, you might not think it works but it's best we have, don't change anything. watch this. >> it would make america sick again and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. i see the president elect who is tweeting again this morning. he said republicans shouldn't let the schumer clowns out of his web, well, i think republicans should stop clowning around with the people's medicare, medicaid and health care. republicans in congress are again like the dog who caught

the bus. >> if you're a senior, you know medicaid almost half of medicaid is about long-term health care, you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. ainsley: i would invite my mom to move in the guest room. i would love for her to move in. grandma used to be in the guest room and now with obamacare she moved out and now she will have to move back in? >> the family is going to have to replace bandages and pay cash. steve steve obamacare simply does not work. my daughter is on obamacare. she's been on it -- ainsley: does she like that? steve: everything she pays for is out of pocket. if she has a catastrophic illness, it would kick in but here is the thing, she and many people who work in her business are reluctant to go to the doctor because it's all out of their pocket, so for them it

does not work and the democrats do not get that. brian: sometimes firefighters show up in a house and it's burning and you can't stop it and you let it burn to the ground, do you let it burn to the ground and say now i will stop again, get blamed for it because you touched it last. ainsley: republicans don't have a plan, they are going to repeal and replace. they do have a plan. paul ryan has been working on the plan. we are going to have a medical doctor and congressman, we are going to have him on the show. brian: i want tom price's plan, paul ryan's plan. he's got to pick this one and also talk about repeal is one thing, replace is the other. a timeline how to do it. joe coming up later. i'm not going to the president's meeting and i'm disappointed that the vice president doesn't call me. they did get in touch.

my job is to get 8 to 10 democrats to work with republicans to fix it. we will see where it goes. ainsley: president obama is going to hold a meeting trying to get democrats to prevent republicans from repealing and replacing. that's the meeting that joe decided not to go to. steve: busy day here and a breaking story about gitmo. ainsley: president obama pledging to close gitmo before he leaves office and four dangerous terror suspects are heating from gitmo to saudi arabia. first of 20 detainees to be released from now and inauguration day. the obama administration ignoring calls from president-elect trump to keep what he calls extremely dangerous detainees off the battlefield. national intelligence report from july shows staggering 30% are confirmed to -- or suspected of returning to terror. tanasian refugee just arrested and accused of supporting isis-inspired mission at the christmas market in germany.

police storming a home in berlin to arrest 26-year-old, they believe he helped anís amiri, the two of them had dinner the night before the attack. amiri was shot and killed by police in italy four days later. did russia meddle in the election to help donald trump win? james, director of national intelligence, marcel, under secretary of defense for intelligence and the nsa chief, mr. trump's slamming accusations of russian involvement, tomorrow he is said to hear briefings with the fbi and cia. we know mr. trump has big plans to build that wall. we heard about it. >> we are going to build a wall, okay, believe me. we are going build a wall. we will build a great wall. >> now we have an idea who might help build it. bristol county, massachusetts, the sheriff there thomas now

offering to send inmates to build that wall, he says using inmates for massive infrastructure projects would save taxpayer money and those are your headlines. what do you think about that idea? >> in california we had a sere of floods, every single time they would see prisoners in jump suits. ainsley: that's the way it was in north carolina, you saw oriental -- orange suits cleaning up the trash. steve: democrats are not going to like it. ainsley: ladies, shield your eyes, it is extremely offensive. steve: very. ainsley: new target, stallion. >> that's my nickname.

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steve steve -- well, we are just two weeks away from inauguration and president elect is proving once again he's not doing business as usual and plan to go shake-up the intel agencies. ainsley: live from washington, d.c. with the latest for us, good morning, garrett.

>> good morning, has been outspoken in criticism and skepticism in the u.s. intelligence community but he hopes that will change once he takes office in part by possibly revamping the intelligence agencies. there are ongoing on how to depoliticize the intelligence community particularly at the senior levels. trump insider told the wall street journal the view from the trump stream is the completely politicized. they all need to be slimmed down the focus will be on restructuring the agencies and how they interact. and with 15 days until inauguration, the transition team continues to fill out the administration's roster. yesterday it announced a trio of deputy chief of staff.

nomination of veteran wall street lawyer to lead exchange and commission. omarosa has been named as director of communications for the office of public liaison. amazing, 15 days to go. >> brien: the fbi concluded that the russians hacked in, the fbi never asked, never asked for the access to the computer servers that were evidently breached by a john podesta. ohio would you do thorough investigation. they might have used a third-party in order to analyze, how is that okay. ainsley: all they needed was the word password. steve: maybe they just hacked into it.

>> brien: is obamacare working for you? liberals think so. >> it wouldn't make america great again, it would make america sick again. >> sorry, we are back. it's actually the opposite, he's here next. steve: the university that came under fire accused of covering christian symbols when president obama spoke there is back in the headlines, we will tell you why as fox & friends rolls on live from new york city.

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ainsley: a few stories making headline right now. prestigious university dedicated resource against president-elect trump, the public event is cosponsored by the school's philosophy department, nearly a dozen protestors and a black lives organizer plans to speak out against mr. trump. police running wild in kentucky. frederick douglas high school forced to ditch stallion mascot after online petition called it sexist and inappropriate for female teens, the school will keep the horse theme but will let students pick a new name. steve. steve: okay, thank you, ainsley. meanwhile the vice president elect promising swift action in obamacare, getting rid of it. fs is to repeal and replace obamacare. we are working on a series of executive orders that the president elect will put into

effect to ensure that there's an orderly transition during the period after we repeal obamacare. steve: but how would that work and what does congress think? let's talk to texas representative doctor, works in congress, good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning, i'm still just a regular guy, thank you. steve: you are still a regular guy. we are looking for straight talk regarding this. the democrats make it sound like, these republicans are going to blow up everything and 20 million people aren't going to have health care, that's just a lie, isn't it? >> i don't want to -- that's a little strong. steve: that's not true, is it? >> they shouldn't do, correct. steve: so the big question and what they're doing right now is they -- we are going to run some sound on this a little later on is they're pushing kind of a scare campaign so the people are

going to be afraid that the insurance they've got, they are going to lose, that's not true either u is it? >> no, and you know, there's a way to do this correctly and carefully and i think the president elect yesterday what he tweeted out, be careful. that's a good ammunition for us to bare in mind. remember when obamacare started, they weren't so careful. i was one of the 5 million people who lost perfectly high-deductible healthcare plan. so, yeah, do be careful. one of the things that really strikes me is i talk to people about this and i have for years, is they are tired of someone up in washington, d.c. messing with their insurance and to tell you the truth, wasn't of the things that i would really like to do, we've got to move more of this activity back to our states, that's where it belongs, that's why health care wasn't in the constituteution and it was a tenth amendment issue and our states are much more cable of

doing with this on a more individual basis. we don't need more government, we have a big enough government. it gets bigger as obamacare becomes stronger and stronger but the people become weaker and weaker. steve: i tell you what, yesterday while mike pence was talking to members of his caucus on capitol hill, chuck schumer was sound-biting across the i'll talking about -- actually taking donald trump's make america great again and turning it onto its ear. doctor, listen to this. >> the republican plan to cut health care wouldn't make america great again, it would make america sick again and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. republicans would create chaos in the health system because they're stuck between a rock and a hard place and have no idea what the tout in place at the affordable care act. steve: that's what the democrats are pushing right now. okay, they're going -- republicans are going to blow up obamacare and it's going to be a

while before they come up with some other plan b or plan c or plan d, you've got a plan right now, don't you? >> well, yes, there are a number of republican plans that have been out there for a while. i introduced hr345 -- hr35, expansion of health savings accounts which, i think, a good idea, it's not perfect for everyone but for heaven sakes we ought to give people the option to do what they prefer to do. we forget that access to insurance is not only access to care and when i had an unsubsidized policy a few years ago, i had a big deductible at $6,000. you have a kidney stone at 4:00 a.m., so the coverage issue is a myth. the functional uninsured number in this country is really quite

high. steve: donald trump has made it very clear, he thinks that everybody in america should wind up with health care. are you of that opinion as well? >> look, it is the responsible thing to do for -- for fathers, for mothers to have health care for their children, for their families. it is -- it is risky to depend upon your government for that. steve: sure. >> you do need to make those provisions yourself. that is what this country was built upon. it wasn't built upon the available to us from whatever governmental source. however, please i do understand this and i recognize this and i've dealt with it throughout practice life, safety net programs are important. even if you did not do a thing with obamacare, you still got massive issues that are dead ahead of us in this congress, state insurance fund runs out of money on september 30th, we are

going to have to deal with that like it or not. look, let us fix this thick rather than running out of money every two years. let's give the states the flexibility that they've been asking for, they have been demanding in conjunction with providing the money to them. steve: sure, thank you very much, congressman. we know that you have a busy couple of days in capitol hill. thank you, sir. >> thank you. steve: you bet. almost coming up on 6:30 here in new york city. more of the shocking video out of chicago area of a special needs man being tortured for being white apparently, live on flays book, the attackers, four of them, 18-year-olds, what punishment, should they face, we will talk about that next? well, just wait until you hear about what virginia has planned. that's straight ahead ♪ ♪

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laura: four people behind bars in chicago after that facebook live video was uploaded showing the torturing and yelling and i trump remarks. all the attackers 18 years old. what should happen to them? how did it happen? an attorney and former prosecutor and republican strategist. your reaction to what you saw. >> i have never seen anything like this. when i started thinking about it. it is attributable to the celebrities the mainstream

media. >> >> we shouldn't support this. in terms of what you just witnessed, legally, what is this? >> video is completely admissible. assault, simple assault, felony assault on the kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping, provable hate crimes, aggravated kidnapping, x felony, up to 30 years. >> you to listen to what police commander kevin dunn says as he tries to minimize what happened. the level of a hate crime? >> we are still investigating. of the fact guide us to that direction certainly we will

charge them appropriately. kids make stupid decisions, they are legally adults but they are young adults, they make stupid decisions. did beyond the stupid decision, any kid passing young age beyond 8 or 9 years old should not be doing anything like that. there is no excuse. it is not a child thing. laura: kids make stupid decisions, you would not label that a stupid decision, that is torture 48 hours, doing horrible things. >> they thought about that and what they were doing, the fact that they filled it 48 hours, they picked someone they knew that they knew they could pick on. there are a lot of pieces to that premeditation. steve: you are brooklyn guy but the inner-city mentality. is there a sense in chicago that white people are to blame for the number of murders and

violence taking place? >> a lot of people on the left and right saying it is a huge economic depression, you look at the economy. they are trying to blame people like trump, the wealthy, people in the mainstream. when we look at it it is failed policies for decades. >> how do we get a hold of chicago is break the game got use legal laws. >> federal government goes after state government, look at the giuliani and michael bloomberg. they did bring the homicide rate down 80% over a 20 year period. steve: is there an answer to

changing the structure for something that has gone so bad? >> it has to start in the family, social media has a lot to do with it. if you listen to what they are saying they bring the name of trump up and the hard. they don't have a real connection with those. >> it is the club, it is a family. >> there should be no tolerance. it does start in the family. parents, whether the family is broken or not, should be no tolerance. >> for generations, we have the patience of generations? >> it is terrible. steve: it was good to see you. let's go to heather now with other breaking news along with the story we just covered. >> surveillance video of a police ambush, two police

officers responding to a walmart, as they approached the suspect suddenly turns and opens fire on officers. one police officer shot in the face. another hit twice in the chest. he is knocked to the ground. the suspect is killed as he reaches for his gun but those officers are going to be okay thankfully. we call this the bathroom bill 2.0, lawmakers in virginia proposing a bill that would make transgender people use bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate in public buildings. that takes the north carolina bill one step further, it would require schools to notify all parents and students who want to be recognized as the opposite sex. don't mess with this pistol packing granny. the texas woman turning the table on an armed man by grabbing her own gun. she says she was about to watch tv at home when the guy broke into her house, grabbed the gun,

changed the desk. >> i tried to kill him. anybody breaking and i'm going to kill him. he is going to kill me or i am going to kill him. >> reporter: the would-be robber is on the run. take a look at this two on earth expected this return? employee at the gap feeling their manager's wrath after giving a full refund for a church -- a shirt that was 17 years old, the manager posting this angry memo in the store in an attempt to hunt down the culprit employee. this is from the summer of 2000, 17 years ago. our return policy is 45 days. a lot of folks taking -- shock the store software was able to accept that return. somebody must've really needed that money. maybe it wasn't an employee.

i don't know. the computer allowed it, they should give them their money back, tried to return something that was 17 years old and had the receipt and the tags were still on it. >> probably $4. to extreme weather. deep freeze setting in as the western states. >> this video from lake superior temperatures so-called it appears steam coming off the water because the water is warmer than the air. in utah a school bus going off the road. thankfully nobody was hurt. ainsley: janice dean is tracking the storm. >> a lot of whether to cover into the weekend including snow in the south. we could have more snow in north carolina by the end of the weekend than in new york city.

you can see the cold air has gone as far south as the deep south and it will continue with wind chills, in some cases-20-30 ° across the northern plains, in a stormy weather pattern. across the west, heavy rainfall, heavy snow in the mountains, flash flooding and the jetstream sunk as far south as the gulf coast, that is our travel pack for some storm systems, winter weather advisories included across the south, including alabama, georgia and the carolinas, winter storm watches in effect. we see folks, where are you from? >> northern virginia. reaches what are you doing today? a birthday? >> my 60th birthday today. >> reporter: you look fantastic. you want to say hi to anybody at home? >> to amy and my brother in the hospital. >> reporter: who is this young man? >> her husband greg. >> reporter: thanks for coming up so early on "fox and

friends". >> we are big fans of "fox and friends". >> reporter: happy birthday. back inside, it is cold out here. what a good husband bringing his wife to new york for her birthday. steve: a fox news alert right now. breaking news, reports of a fire on an oil platform in the gulf of mexico. we have some details, we will share that with you and two minutes. ainsley: we know how liberals feel about the president-elect's pick for attorney general. >> over the course of his career, part of why he remains relatively anonymous low-level backbench senator for his entire time on capitol hill. is not in charge of anything. ainsley: rachel is not a fan. law professors on the attack urging congress to reject jeff sessions but do they have a case? here to tell us is judge andrew napolitano. his ruling next. steve: all rise and go here comes the judge.

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at this time. this is very reminiscent of the deepwater horizon disaster in 2010 that left 11 people dead. we will keep you posted with more information on this breaking story. ainsley: 1200 loss will professors sending a letter to congress opposing the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general saying in part nothing in senator sessions's public life since 1986 has convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal district court judge. steve: can they stop him? judge andrew napolitano, you have seen a lot of confirmation processes. is displaying the groundwork for a lot of turbulence? judge napolitano: es and we will watch it live starting next tuesday! as each side gets to present witnesses in favor of senator

sessions with those against him. i have known him for ten years and interviewed him a dozen times, we probably had a half-dozen private conversations about all kinds of things, the most recent about the election of donald trump. this is a white, conservative, republican senator. the best way to attack him is to call him a racist. he may have said racially insensitive things. and there is no racial insensitivity in the last 30 years. in the public life of the senator. ainsley: should someone be held accountable for something they said 30 years ago? judge napolitano: if they have repudiated it? no. there are people who think you can't change, this is someone who has changed.

we were talking during the break about two prominent democrats appointed by fdr, senator robert byrd represented west virginia for 30 years and the grand wizards of the ku klux klan. in their adulthood became very prominent members of the democratic party and had successful political non-racially motivated careers. same thing is happening with jeff sessions and the law professors. i understand their mentality. can't see that people will change. steve: the family involved in this case decades ago is going to endorse jeff sessions as attorney general. ainsley: when senator sessions was chief federal prosecutor in alabama and prosecuted an african-american political activist for election fraud, he got a conviction, proved to a jury this person rigged the outcome of an election.

the left went crazy because the defendant with african-american. senator sessions said i don't care about the color, they rigged the outcome of the election is a violation of federal law and the jury agreed. >> what did he do wrong? ainsley: what do you do wrong? judge napolitano: picked something that was popular at the time. >> they go for 60 in these nominations? >> i don't know the answer to that but i have spoken to members of the judiciary committee who believe he will be confirmed and confirmed quickly. here's an interesting question. does he get to vote for himself? democrats are saying he should not be able to vote for himself. that is absurd. steve: we should do your own interview and move closer. happy new year to you. ainsley: bernie sanders is

trying to make a huge spectacle out of president-elect donald trump on the senate floor and social media having a field day with this. >> having a little fun with a photo up by dabbing. how does dad react. we are going to ask him. we will talk to the congressman next.

steve: a congressman's and stealing the show earlier this week. shortly after the spontaneous pose the boy's father congressman roger marshall tweeted just so you know, speaker ryan, he is grounded. >> roger marshall joined us now, congratulations, how does it feel to say congressman? you worked so hard to get there. >> my family worked so hard, thousands worked so hard. we are very proud of our lineage and excited to be here. >> you are an obstetrician down from where i grew up, tell us, what was your son doing? what is happening behind the scenes as we watch the official

photograph of paul ryan? >> people coming through this cattle prod of swearing-in, an official photo with speaker ryan, i heard tao texting back and forth with the bible in his hand, he got his hand up in the air and the speaker and i looked up and he had to sneeze, no idea what he was doing and still didn't figure out until an hour or two later what happened. >> what did you say when you look back, 300 men, countless kids don't get what dabbing is. did you know what he was doing? >> i did not know what he was doing but after all the football games, and incredible football season this year, the record is 11-numtwo, great group of kids and coaches and they would do the dabbing business. i didn't know it had a name.

i thought it was a superhero code, i had no idea. ainsley: it shows that we don't know what teenagers are doing and he is 17 years old, doing that and speaker ryan thinks he is sneezing. why did your son do this? the best among football players? >> i have a feeling -- >> was the grounded? >> the grounding between him and me, a presidential pardon. there is a hashtag -- [leap] ainsley: we lost them clearly. it is a great story. we got him back. ainsley: the hashtag is what you >> free talent.

steve: congratulations, representing the first congressional district of kansas. we need tax reform, replace obamacare and the military. >> i'm in on all those. >> top story, shocking video. the police commander -- young and stupid. president obama with detainees from gitmo, telling usama bin laden on that comedy hour. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. he also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves.

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ainsley: good morning to your family. january 5th. i'm ainsley earhardt. it is a fox news alert. at this hour a fire burning on a oil platform off the coast of louisiana. we have breaking details. steve: that is not good. shocking video of a special needs man being yelled donald trump remarks at him. >> believe, bleep, bleep. [laughter]. steve: cops have forepeople and

they say the young people are dumb and stupid. brian: president's plan to obama care. >> the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. >> the republican plan would make america sick again. brian: i get it. this morning. donald trump, president-elect firing back already. turns out he uses twitter. mornings are better with friends. ♪ steve: thank you very much for joining us on this thursday. we have a busy show today. ainsley: gosh we do. so much to cover. start off with the breaking news off the coast of louisiana. brian: there is heather to tell us what is happening. reporter: we're getting new information in our newsroom. the coast guard reporting a fire on an oil platform in the gulf of mexico. the platform is 80 miles of

south of grand isle, louisiana. it is still burning at this hour. we're told four people were evacuated and that they have been forced to jump from the platform into the water. fortunately no injuries have been reported just yet. again this is a breaking story. we're still working to confirm all the recent dethis reminiscent of the deepwater horizon disaster in 2010 that left 11 people dead. we'll follow it. near disaster of a air force training exercise. engine falling out of a b-52 bomber mid-flight and sending debris below. this happened near minot air force base in south dakota. the pilot landed the plane. no one hurt. the b-52 is cold war air bomber, one of oldest in our nation's fleet. did russia help president-elect donald trump win?

james clapper is slated to testify, direct are to have national intelligence and the under secretary of defense tore intelligence and nsa chief, mike rogers. mr. trump slamming accusations of russian involvement. he is set to hear evidence in a briefing with the fbi and cia we'll follow the story. singer rebecca ferguson says she is now accepting president-elect donald trump's to perform at nomination. the former x-factor uk contestant says, there is one catch. she will do it only if she performs strange fruit, which is controversial anti-racism song made famous by billy holiday. listen. ♪ strange fruit from love trees ♪ >> no word whether or not the inaugural committee will accept that or not. keep you posted. those are the headlines.

brian: where did you get the video, did you have it in your office? >> i have her on betamax. ainsley: called youtube, brian. brian: i didn't know. i had no idea. i went to blockbuster. steve: meanwhile another fox news alert. the video is hard to watch. a group of teenagers, four 18-year-olds accused of torturing a disabled special needs man. ainsley: the vicious attack happened in chicago. it was streaming live on face books as the thugs were screaming racist anti-trump remarks. >> [bleep], donald trump [bleep] brian: we want to find out the latest on this story. live in chicago with the disturbing details. matt? reporter: good morning, brian, ainsley and steve, everyone at home. the chicago police have the four attackers in custody. they're expected to be charged. these four african-american suspects tied mentally

challenged white man up, tortured him, forcing him to curse donald trump. here is portion of the hard to watch video. >> [bleep] donald trump. [bleep]. [bleep] [laughter] [bleep] >> goof. [bleep] oh, man. >> this not fun, y'all. reporter: rest of the video is too graphic on air. they cut the man's scalp and forced him to drink in a toilet and held him at knifepoint and foressed to speak against donald trump. he was let go and found wandering in the cold. these suspects wanted it to be scene. the torture happened as a young female broadcast it live on facebook. essentially meaning millions of people could have watched it in real time. detectives say the mentally challenged victim appears to be in the late teens and early 20s. they believe he met

acquaintances in the suburbs and drove him into the city in a tell loan vehicle. this is what chicago police and legal anists had to say. >> do you think this rises to level of a hate crime? >> this still investigates it. if the facts guide us in that direction we'll certainly charge them appropriately. >> kids, i shouldn't call them kids. they're legally adults. they're young adults and they make stupid decisions. >> it is way beyond a stupid decision, especially any kid, probably passing very young age of eight or nine years old, should never be doing anything like that. i mean, there's no excuse. it is not, it is not a child thing. reporter: there is talk whether it rises to the level of a hate crime. if it does the attackers face 30 years in prison. we're following this, brian, ainsley and steve, we'll keep you updated how the attackers are charged.

brian: thanks a lot, matt. more focus what is happening in chicago with the 762 murders. cops staying out of the area. there needs to be federal attention. donald trump tweeted about this on monday. steve: he did. whether or not it's a hate crime, the cops say as they always do, they're investigating but it sure looks like one to us. meanwhile we have breaking news. donald trump is already awake on the thursday morning and he is already tweeting. just about five minutes ago he tweeted out, the democrats led by head clown chuck schumer -- brian: i think we have a new -- steve: keep in mind he says he likes chuck schumer. led my head clown chuck schumer knows how bad obamacare is and what a mess they are. instead of working to fix it they do the thing political thing. in fact obamacare was a lie from the beginning, keep your doctor and keep your plan. it is, dot, dot, dot. ainsley: time for republicans

and democrats to get together to come up with a health care plan that really borks, much less expensive and far better. brian: that is a little bit different than repeal and replace. that is what joe manchin talks about, fix it. that is a little different. most conservative republicans say rip it up and do a brand new plan. ainsley: you're saying fix it is different than repealing and replace? brian: yeah, you're not saying fix obamacare. you can come up with a slogan. repeal it and replace it. joe manchin -- ainsley: i think it is same thing, absolutely different. steve: keeping things people like. ainsley: right. steve: preexisting condition thing. ainsley: you're covered until 26. brian: then you're fixing it. keep things people like an than the whole -- ainsley: republicans are not happy the way it is right now. they're going to change it. they want everyone to have health care. not to worry. you will still have health care and keep it affordable and keep what everyone likes. call it whatever you want.

brian: you can't keep what everyone likes, you need more financing for that. you need billions of dollars to keep kids on up to 26 years old. steve: sure. ainsley: why we voted on the congressman to find a way to do that. steve: one of the congressman who is working on a plan is dr. michael burgess from the great state of texas. he was with us earlier. he reminded us one of the reasons it doesn't work is the gigantic deductibles. he knows it personally because he has been on obamacare. >> we forget that access to insurance isn't always access to care. when i had unsubsidized obamacare policy a few years ago i had a big deductible, $6,000. kidney stone at three a.m., you have $4,000 emergency room hard to pay, is specially folks that have trouble covering cost of a into the tire. the coverage issue is myth.

uncovered number is really quite high. brian: a handful of democrats might feel threatened that donald trump won in their states, is there any indication they will work with them? because yesterday they came up with two slogans perpetuated by the president, make america sick again and the other, the other slogan was, in terms of repeal and replace -- i even forgot the second one. ainsley: i don't know what it was. steve: it is a pr campaign to make people think they will lose their insurance. republicans have been on and donald trump said everybody will be covered. more on this a little later on. meanwhile a special guest with us. ainsley: rob o'neill, the man tn who killed usama bin laden. you are a former navy seal. >> i was a navy seal. that was another part of my life and one of the great parts. ainsley: 59 is prisessers in are left there. now he says he will release four.

>> he wants to release four now. 26 are declared for release to four countries, italy, u.a.e., oman and saudi arabia and he wants to get 19 more before he is out of office. one of those things he said he would do during a campaign promise. for some reason this goes along with throwing match over your shoulder whatever you're leaving. no reason for him to do it to make it different cut for donald trump, president elect trump to keep it open. there is no reason for this. these people are not good people. there are 26 are forever prisoners. not charged with anything. we know we can't let them go. steve: they have to keep them somewhere. >> somewhere. there is no reason. i don't know the reason. steve: it is politics. he said on day one he would close -- come to the last day and he still hasn't done it. how bad are the four they are about be released? >> the ones left are the worst of the worst.

based on politics we say they can be declared, look at ideology of the people. they want to take over the world. this is sharia law. they are not good people regardless where they go. if they go to prison in saudi arabia they will radicalize more people. they mean religion of peace, peace making everyone under sharia. that is their radicalized version. this is not politics. this is what they want to do. their livelihoods. they will accomplish through death. brian: president obama says it's a symbol and reason for these guys to attack us because we have gitmo. >> brian he is saying that, the only reason it is a symbol we make it a symbol. we bring it up. they have forgot ben it. steve: that is not the reason they're killing us. >> that is not what they're doing. they're fighting for the caliphate over in syria. al qaeda is over there. they're smart enough not to attack turkey. isis isn't. isis will stab you in the front. al qaeda waits for the back.

they're basically the same part of it. they're not ininspired by one of our prisons we have in the carat bean. ainsley: that is such a spin, isn't it? i would think if anything they would be scared to be locked up in gitmo? >> gitmo is nicer than where they came from. they have like 23 hours a day in the yard where they can do everything from seek counselors to play games. computers and movies and books. all kind of good stuff. i have been to afghanistan, pakistan. there are pretty bad spots over there. ainsley: they're going back out to fight again, right? the majority of them. >> right now when they come back, more and more streed credit. they come back and this many years there. they're back and they're leaders. these are generals. the people,. steve: they're heroes. >> 30 days notice before they are released the president obama proven he doesn't care about that releasing five guys for bowe bergdahl. they go to helmand province. they're responsible for killing marines. every everything from bodyguards to making ieds.

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♪ steve: president-elect donald trump now planning on perhaps revamping top u.s. intel agencies once he enters the oval office. this move comes after trump has publicly dismissed our spy agencies assessment of the russian hacking. so what would it take to restructure these agencies? here to weigh in is fox news contributor gillian turner who worked in the white house security council under president's bush and obama. now she works for us. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: so what the stories are today, sounds like donald trump is saying look, some of these agencies have become politicized. they're way too bloated. let's slim them down. do you have a problem with that? >> there is always room for improvement. streamline something a good thing especially with government

but my caution here i think it's a little bit earlier how you want to tear everything down before he has gotten in there and really worked with folks. meaning, have some of them, some of the agencies or at least the top tier at the agencies become politicized? probably. but i think working with these folks for a while president-elect trump would come to see the vast majority of them are really great americans, civil servants doing this for their career. they protect our nation for a living. steve: sure. go back what, a month ago, john brennan runs cia, came out and said okay, cia investigated and we are sure russians hacked into the dnc to help donald trump. then you have got the fbi and the dni, mr. clapper coming out saying, we don't think so. so it does look political. >> and the american public got a little glimpse behind the curtain on that one. historically the intelligence agencies are always jockeying for position and power.

that was part of the reason why the odni, office of director of national intelligence was created for the first place to try and -- they were going to come on to the scene, be the top dog and coordinate with all the other agencies are doing. they have had some successes. some not successes. there is obviously room for improvement. steve: donald trump is a businessman. you know, he is coming in. he will run this new big thing. and if you look at, i think it was about, no, it was in 2010, the obama administration was talking about slimming down intel agencies. they have gotten so bloated. this is way too big. so he is just, for some people, looking at him, they might just say well, that is a good businessman running a more streamlined operation. >> yeah, but you do have to make sure you're cutting out the right things. one of the sound bites i've been hearing this morning is president-elect trump is saying what he wants to do is get rid of a lot of folks working in the intelligence community in

virginia and put more operatives out in the field. steve: why not? >> it sounds good but the reality we have more intelligence than we could, from various intelligence streams, geospatial-intelligence, human intelligence, we need better analysis capabilities, not more information. that is what you get when you send more guys out into the field. steve: okay, that sounds like they have 100 guys in the police station but only 10 guys walking the beat. >> yeah, but sometimes, right, i mean, analogy with law enforcement is, there is some overlap but not entirely. steve: yeah. >> so i get what you're saying, this is different though. we already have inundated with information that we'll never get to. so we need better data analysis. steve: absolutely. we just don't need the data politicized. >> right. steve: that's bad. gillian, thanks very much. >> thank you, steve. steve: remember when macy's banned stores from selling trump merchandise? this morning why that could have

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driven by terror threats and hillary clinton possible presidency but she did lose. ainsley: permanent mitt. brian: how do you say it? steve: some say "fox & friends" trends. ainsley: what is trending on social media this morning, steve? steve: let's turn to carley shimkus with "fox news headlines 24/7" on sirius xm. >> good morning. steve: bernie had something blow up. >> big poster board visual aid on senate floor, against republicans plans to repeal obamacare. a big trump tweet he brought to the senate floor, one trump sent out in may 2015, said i was first and openly potential gop candidate stating no cuts to soes security, medicare and medicaid. how come they copied me. how do you think social media responded? with a little bit of fun. they changed the giant poster

board to a meme. yes, just tweeted this. if a dog could wear pants, how would he wear them? steve: front or bottom or back quarter. >> those are things everybody wants to know out there, right? maggie wrote this chart bernie brought to the senate floor is wild. it is interesting. steve: what is that thing. ainsley: it is what? >> sting i do believe. gavin says, bernie teaching everyone a valuable lesson. monorail equals one rail. steve: bernie has a town hall couple days. >> yes, cnn town hall set to happen on the 9th. steve: set your watch. ainsley: in white house there was moving truck. a lot of people going crazy. >> out with the old, in with the new. moving truck outside of the white house. you acquire a lot of stuff in eight years. social media responded to this with elation. silas says, what a beautiful

sight. two weeks. maria, writes, can't happen soon enough. susan says, finally after eight very long years. he isn't moving too far. brian: there is huge party on friday. jay-z will be there. bradley cooper will be there. oprah will be there. steve: we didn't get invited. brian: not yet. i have to check my email. steve: speaking of celebrities. there is a big telethon, right? >> hollywood taking boycott of inauguration a step further. they're gathering together for a telethon, called a loveathon set to air on facebook live. jane fonda, james lee curtis, judd appa tau, christopher guest. tim robbins. proceeds go to planned parenthood, aclu and climate change. brian: celebrities are not going to the inauguration and they need something to do. >> although these names?

ainsley: liberal organizations. aclu, planned parenthood. brian: i love this theme, a brand new app to bring clinton supporters and trump supporters together? >> guess what it is called? hi from the other side. very appropriately named. willing participants get paired together. they will be given a guide so they can have a productive conversation together about politics. so do you think it will work? steve: no. >> i don't think it will work but e for effort, right? they're trying. steve: but it is on an app. you're not really talking anyway. you're yelling in caps. >> they hope that they could have in-person conversation. ainsley: at least they're trying. keep it positive. thanks a lot. >> thanks a lot. steve: go be on the radio. >> i'm going. ainsley: also trending this stop story. sickening video after special needs guy being tortured for being white. [bleep] donald trump. [bleep] [bleep]

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[bleep] donald trump. [bleep] what? [bleep] [bleep] goof. i'm. steve: fox news alert. four people behind bars after that disturbing facebook live video surfaced showing four african-americans torturing and yelling anti-trump remarks as a white special needs man. all of the attackers 18 years old. they are in custody at this hour. ainsley: that's right. how should they be dealt with? here to give us his take, fox news contributor and executive director of the black sphere, kevin jackson. thank you so much, kevin, for being with us. what was your reaction when you saw this. >> it is horrible but you understand now why there was an undercurrent for trump, of trump voters that didn't say anything. they were very silent. i talked about a time at a party and a lady came up to me and whispered are you for trump. she knew i was conservative. and i said yeah, absolutely. i said it openingly but many

people too afraid to say that. the election results sort of depicted exactly what you see there. if you were for trump you might get bet down. irony, ainsley, what the left wanted to promote, what could happen to you if you were a hillary supporter. the trump people were the bad people. the sad part about all of this, there are people in america who are cheering these four goons that beat this kid up. brian: we heard van jones night of the election, after hearing results called it a white lash. is there is sense in the black community pushing back on barack obama and this is example of that? >> well, it is a good question, brian, but the answer, i can't speak for the black community in that respect, but i will tell you, the results were in. it was a free and fair election it came out as it came out. i put it to you anyway, were there any incidents that happened after barack obama was elected? the answer was no, because conservatives would never do something so heinous.

particularly to a kid who has special needs. tell you what, take on somebody, one of our navy seals that voted for trump. see how the outcome would have happened for those four folks. steve: absolutely. we don't know he was targeted specifically he was a trump supporter. we do know he apparently knew one of the four troublemakers. brian: they went to school together. >> they went to high school together. somehow they went from the suburbs in a stolen vehicle back to the city where he was tortured like that. here is the larger question and the police chief was askeds, yes or commissioner out in chicago whether or not it rises to the level of a hate crime. they said look, we're investigating that right now. kids do stupid stuff. but it sure looks like to me, and to many, like a hate crime, doesn't it? >> well, i don't believe in hate crime. i think crime is crime. this kid was absolutely targeted because he was white. but this isn't -- steve: that is a hate crime? >> it's a crime.

and i don't believe we should make a distinction but the bigger picture is, this is not isolated. there were many people that were targeted with trump. as we found out through wikileaks, people caing actual disturbances at trump rallies were democrats. this isn't isolated. quite frankly i wouldn't be shocked to learn there are others. ainsley: kevin something bothers me that you said, some people could watch this and are cheering. talk about a hate crime, these kids had hate in their heart for an individual who has special needs. that makes it even worse. they shouldn't do this to anyone, but this guy can't defend himself. yeah, he is not a navy seal like you were saying. what is your message to people watching that might be laughing and cheering this on like you say? >> well, you know, this type of activity was fomented to me by the leftists and the obama administration. they set the narrative that people that voted for trump or support trump or white folks in general need to be hated.

trump is sort of a referendum on obama for his color, when trump was a referendum on obama for his policies. and you know, we've got democrats that are already saying they're going to be obstructionist against trump. is that racist? no, they disagree with his policies. nobody conclude the congressional black caucus being racist because of trump's policies. i accuse them of being racist because they are racist. that is a whole different subject. i hope people in america wake up and stop this particular nonsense. what makes this more heinous because of the kid they a attacked. they knew he could not defend himself. brian: thanks so much. >> my pleasure. ainsley: what happenedded to golden rule. others? ainsley: love others as you love yourself. steve: something went haywire out there. ainsley: maybe it is in this case, determine a hate crime and race-related thing. these are human beings. you have to love everybody. brian: one thing we have a interest ilks did on this story,

one big story to another. to do that, we often as history will tell us toss to heather nauert. for that type of story. >> that's right. brian: some things are the same. >> good morning, brian, ainsley all of you as well. shocking new surveillance video released of a police ambush took place in chandler, arizona. two officers responding to reports of a trespasser at a walmart. they approached the suspect, he opens fires on those officers, as he suddenly turns. one police officer was shot in the face. the other hit twice in the chest. he is seen returning fire as he is knocked to the ground. suspect was killed as he reached for his gun. both officers thank fullly are okay. do you remember when macy's the department dissed president-elect donald trump and banned his products from his stores? that may have been a huge mistake as he would say. that department store is now cutting more than 10,000 jobs and closing 68 of its stores.

macy's blaming the rough holiday season and more people shopping online. seattle socialist using taxpayer dollars to protest donald trump's inauguration. city councilwoman here. now writing a letter to residents to promote and organize a quote, resist trump occupation rally inauguration rally in seattle. it is scheduled for january 20th. the same day as inauguration. the letter calls trump, a right-wing, anti-worker big got. okay. how about some jobs. we just got back here in the united states. as far as late excuses go this is pretty good one. a german guy living near frankfurt. he opens his door to go to work only to find a brick wall covering the doorway. the guy was forced to break down the wall to get out of his house. police are investigating. they don't know if it was a prank, a dare or act of revenge. that is a great idea. that is awesome!

somebody laid ad bunch bricks. brian: did they build a house next door? >> probably put bricks in his doorway. i love that. steve: three little pigs. >> it is hysterical. brian, your brother would do something like that. brian: do that and the electric. if ainsley needs anything else done takes care of it. ainsley: he came over to my apartment, do you need anything else? absolutely. can you move in. brian: hard to believe, he could buy a car, build a car, build a house and do electric and i can barely get the door open on my house. i have no idea. >> the original guys really botched it, trying to save money. you're like, call my brother. i call his brother. he fixes the whole thing. now we're good to go. steve: meanwhiles talk weather. extreme weather and deep freeze setting in. heavy snow slams the western states. look at that. ainsley: check out this video. this is lake superior. temperature is so cold there is steam coming off the water. that is what happens when the

water warmer. brian: than cold air. you're not even the weather person. in utah, school bus sliding off the road. luckily no one was hurt. senior meteorologist janice dean looks at all the things and thinks all are significant to have as the lead-in. janice: i'm outside because you guys don't have to be. ainsley: taking one for the team, janice. janice: i will bring back the leg warmer every single color. i don't know if they're back but i will bring them back. it is cold out here, 27 in new york. with the windchill feels colder than that courtesy of our friends in canada. this cold air is as far as south as the gulf coast. that is the setup, my friends, for perhaps some southern snow. some forecast models, six to eight, 12 inches of snow in parts of the carolinas this weekend! so that is significant. you can see the cold air. in some cases windchills minus 20, to minus 30.

it is dangerous out there. we're watching potential for this big winter storm could potentially bring ice and snow across the southeast. that is the big headline we head into friday and saturday. we will track from the fox news extreme weather center. back to you. steve: i love the way you, canadian claiming -- ♪ canada janice: i have to give credit where credit due. >> thank thank you very much. brian: canadians never complain about the cold. ainsley: do they know anything other than the cold? brian: i think they have seen the sun. steve: coming up on this thursday, former attorney general eric holder has a new job. his goal to stop president-elect donald trump from making california great again. with can he really do? california congressman darrell issa next. good morning, congressman. you're coming up. brian: we know trump has the big plans to build that wall. guess who so going to do it?

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steve: all right, we have quick food headlines for you. and the first one is about taco bell. taco bell is the latest fast-food chain to go natural, saying it is getting rid of all artificial ingredients, reduced sodium and offering lighter choices. don't worry for those who still want to indulge in crunch wrap supremes, you still can. even though taco bell is now very healthy. girl scout cookie fans get ready for new flavor. troops selling smores treats, celebrating 100th anniversary, including a cookie graham cookie and crunchy graham sandwich. you can place the order now. one of them. brian: stop yelling out, ainsley. california lawmakers calling for hail mary in the fight against donald trump.

democrats hired former attorney general, yep, under president obama, eric holder as the legal counsel to advise the legislature on potential challenges with the trump administration. they clearly expect conflict. this man who has been involved in a lot of conflicts. joining me california congressman darrell issa who just won his election. congressman, what do you think california wants out of eric holder? >> he is proving willing to lie to congress, so that is a good start. this is the only attorney general, the only cabinet officer ever held in contempt for refusing to comply with the law. so, he is a bad choice but, apparently it is more of a political statement. millions of dollars, taxpayer dollars spent on somebody who probably shouldn't have a law license any longer. brian: california went heavily for hillary clinton. the people of california, many of which are citizens there are nervous about donald trump. what are they most nervous about and what do they expect eric holder to fight for? >> well i think they were, they

were nervous about trade. california is a big need to trade to survive state. obviously the immigration issue. what i find interesting is, i was there a few wednesdays ago when those tech leaders came to meet with donald trump and to a person, including elon musk, they walked away seeing somebody who really does understand how to help their businesses do better and help them bring jobs back to america. so, i think, getting to know donald trump is getting to read, if you will, understand differently what california will get out after trump administration which would be good. brian: you would know. you were from the business world with unbelievable success to politics as donald trump is doing now. now you're on the move right away with this new term for you, and for the 115th congress. you are introducing a bill to stop outsourcing of u.s. jobs and to reform highly skilled immigration visa program. tell me about this. >> well this is one of the things those tech leaders actually asked donald trump for.

they said they needed more of the best and the brightest to fill those top positions that off then they can't find enough americans for and that is exactly why we need to reform the system. this is a bipartisan bill where, what we're doing is keeping the same numbers, 65,000 slots a year, but eliminating those companies who would game the system which unfortunately includes companies like disney, university of california, southern california edison, which actually brought in lower-skilled people who have displaced american johnson. so that is what the reform is all about. brian: congressman, you're part of the answer when it comes to immigration reform. forget comprehensive. do it piece by piece so we get a look at it, correct? >> exactly. each of these elements are very different and fixes are different. if people work together we can fix a lot of these problems including making guessworker programs work, which is why, if more than anything else, we have the problem we have. brian: i think you can get democrats on board with this, because they see a need to keep

highly-skilled workers here especially after putting them into our colleges. congratulations on your victory. see you soon. >> see you soon. brian: 12 minutes before the top of the hour, president obama desperate to save obamacare big time, president-elect trump desperate to replace it but with what? dr. nicole safir is here with what a gop plan could look like. there are many. we still have these guests straight ahead, newt gingrich and democratic senator joe manchin, what did he talk to vice president-elect yesterday and why didn't he talk to the president? ♪ i have asthma... ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine,

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steve: now the answer to the "fox & friends" trivia question, who played betty draper on "mad men"? january jones pictured. she is 29 years old. our winner, claudine from virginia. getting a copy of brian's latest book, thomas jefferson and the trend poly pirates. ainsley, over to you. ainsley: thank you, steve. president obama and leaders going head-to-head over the fate of obamacare. republicans vowing to make sharp changes and scrap the current law. listen to this. >> first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. we're also working on a series of executive orders that the president-elect will put into effect to insure there is orderly transition after we repeal obamacare. >> what does immediate repeal without immediate replacement mean for you and your family?

here to weigh in is radiologist dr. nicole sapphire. thanks for being with us again. >> good morning. ainsley: you heard mike pence saying wants to repeal immediately where, we all heard that and know that. what if they repeal and don't have immediate replacement, what happens? >> without a doubt something momentous brewing in washington now. come january 20th, something will be done to repeal obamacare. whether executive order by donald trump. that will be a little more symbolic rather than substantiated because majority of repealing of aca will need to be done by legislative action which already started. we introduced a budget reform which will begin the process of repealing the aca. to be clear, that is not necessarily going to be repealing the aca but by removing funding, we're going to accelerate the downward spiral that the aca already is in what will happen essentially without the penalties and mandates, there is no guarranty on the subsidies and tax credits.thereg insurance companies in the

marketplace are going to quickly be pulling out, leaving patients with fewer coverage options and worst-case scenario we could have a collapse of the insurance market which would potentially lead us to possible bailout from federal level. ainsley: wow, that is pretty scary. so as a physician, you talked to your patients and dealing with cancer, you don't turn patients away i'm sure. you're dealing with obamacare. what in your opinion does congress need to change it, make it better for everyone and american people? >> well the good news we're not starting from scratch. we have seven republican proposals already ready to go right now in what we can doreplace the affordable care act. part of it is we need to be giving states a little more individuality. we're a diverse nation, what is working in california are some of the provisions of the aca next door in arizona the patients are drowning in skyrocketing premiums in unsustainable system. so we need to -- by having block grants when it comes to medicaid

and other provisions you will give the states a little bit more freedom to use their diversity in how the funds should be. in terms of a big change from the republican proposals as opposed to aca, what we're going to be doing, you will see premiums based on age, not necessarily on income. ainsley: 22-year-old will not pay what a 6-year-old pays? >> and they shouldn't. they're not needing medical care the same way. ainsley: can it be sustainable, but if the 22-year-old is not paying the 6-year-old pays they're losing money. >> who is losing money? ainsley: the government or obamacare. >> this is all the intricacies the government is trying to deal with right now. under affordable care act the young 20-year-olds are not enrolling. we're far below where president obama thought they would be. they're not even enrolling. people who are enrolling are the sick and more elderly and everyone is paying for it. ainsley: right. >> what we will see in a lot of republican proposals is the popular provision of the preexisting conditions, i mean there will be a caveat to it.

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ainsley: good thursday morning to you and your family, it is january 5th, and i'm ainsley earhardt, we start with a fox news alert, there's a fire burning off the coast of louisiana. the breaking details we have those for you in just a few moments. steve: we do and shocking video streamed live on facebook. a special needs man tied up, tortured while his attackers go on a racist antidonald trump rant. we're going to tell you what we know about them. the outrage boiling over coast to coast. brian: plus the possibility of

an obamacare repeal. >> it would make america sick again. >> make america sick again. is that what the republicans want to do? brian: yes and what they think is going to happen with our grandparents is also something interesting. but one democrat is not buying it. senator joe. sat down with the president and sat down with the president-elect instead. your mornings are better because you chose to be with friends. that's us. ♪ ♪ steve: hi, everybody welcome to studio e on this very busy thursday. we've got -- listen, the bookers have been working overtime. we have former speaker of the house newt gingrich. brian: how do you know? steve: he's right there. ainsley: good morning to you. we were all watching that

disgusting video of the four people in chicago that were brutally torturing a special needs boy, bounding, gagging, beating him. if you haven't seen the video, we're going to play it for you. it's disturbing. listen to this, and we'll talk to the speaker about it. [yelling] steve: so you've got four african-american 18-year-olds who were holding this man, torturing him, and then you've got this special needs guy who is white. it looks like a hate crime because in addition made them drink toilet water and all sorts of disgusting things. what do you make of what's going on here? >> well, i think that there are has been a dramatic rise in racial tension under president obama.

and under the former attorney general. i think a lot of their approach heightened that racial tension. and i think we have to oppose white racism. we also have to oppose black racism. and if this had done to a african-american by four whites, there would be no question it's a hate crime. so let's be clear about this. we're right at the edge of a terrible period, which i know president-elect donald trump wants to avoid of having deep, bitter division in the communities in a way that makes america very hard to govern. but look at chicago. there have been nearly 4,000 people shot in chicago with no effective response from governor emmanuel. no effective response from president obama. and i think people feel that they're really alienated from their government, and you have no one to turn to, and you end up with this really destructive, and i think frightening kind of development. brian: yeah, and this is the

apologetic police commander trying to justify, trying to make sense of this act. ainsley: downplay it a little bit; right? brian: yeah, listen to this. >> we're still investigating. and if we -- if the facts guide us in that direction, then we'll certainly charge them appropriately. >> kids make -- i shouldn't call them kids, they're legally adults, they're young adults, and they make stupid decisions. >> look, can you imagine if four 18-year-old white males had done that to an african-american with disability? would you have the police going, oh, gosh. we're not sure what's going on. number one, it should come down like a ton of bricks on these four individuals. we need to send a message to the country don't do this. we don't care whether you're white or black. we don't care what your excuse is. we're not tolerating this.

brian: you know in the inauguration, their band wants to come, and they said "yes" and there's huge backlash on the president not to go to the inauguration because there would be backlash on donald trump, who they have labeled a racist. >> right. and i think you have to understand on the left this war -- that's what it is. it's a constant fight. i look at the tv commercial of the hollywood celebrities saying obstruct. stop. whatever. nobody on the left. and this is why senator schumer is in such a box now. nobody on the left concedes that donald trump is the legitimate president of the united states. nobody on the left is going to roll over and let the conservatives change the supreme court, change the health system, change the tax code. so this fight's going to go on every single day until they finally get worn out and defeated. but they're not defeated yet. this is the top of the first inning of the game. steve: great point. i don't remember anything like this when barack obama was nothing rated eight years

ago. meanwhile, mr. speaker, donald trump is up and tweeting already with some breaking news. and he's talking about obamacare. first up, the democrats led by head clown chuck schumer know how bad obamacare is and what a mess they are in. instead of working to fix it, they do the typical thing and blame. the fact that obamacare was a lie in the beginning. keep your doctor, keep your plan. it is time for democrats and republicans to get together and come up with a plan that really works and less expensive. what do you make of the president-elect singling out head clown chuck schumer? >> well, i actually approach it a little bit differently. i'm doing a newsletter today that will be on foxnews.com about schumer senator no. because he's said no supreme court nominee, no this, no, that, no, the next thing. and i think that's a terrible position for chuck to be in. schumer and chuck have known

each other for many, many years, and i think the president frankly just wants to shrink him. and i would say to senator schumer if you look what happened to jeb bush or hillary clinton, you should be very worried if donald trump decides to focus on you because so far the track record is pretty good. that he can define you a lot better than you can define him. ainsley: we know donald trump's slogan was make america great again. but now the democrats are saying because he wants to repeal and replace obamacare. now they're saying this about that. here's chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. >> it would make america sick again and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. i see the president elect was tweeting again this morning. he said republicans shouldn't let the schumer clowns out of his web. well, i think republicans should stop clowning around with the people's medicare, medicaid, and health care.

republicans in congress are, again, like the dog who caught the bus. >> if you're a senior, you know, medicaid, half of medicaid is about long-term health care. do you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. >> a lot of us like our grandparents in the guest room. but we wouldn't have any problem with that. ainsley: if my grandmother would here, i would gladly invite her in the guest room. brian: they do have a plan, and it's push back and led by the president. newt. >> well, i thought you were going to show me the president again. look, understand where they're coming from. first of all, what nancy pelosi said was a lie. there's nothing republicans are going to do that's going to change long-term care under medicare. there's nothing going to do except strengthen medicaid by giving the governs more flexibility, more ability to manage it and make dollars work. this is a liberal democratic

lie. what's amazing is they have been losing ground consistently starting with the election of 2010. they're now the weakest they've been in modern times as a party, and they can't learn a new script. they're coming with the same language, same attitude, it's unbelievable. brian: but donald trump even cautions yesterday. he says mass will take place with obamacare this year, it will fall of its own weight but be careful. so he's saying to republicans don't make this trump care and don't allow them to label you because he sees some peril as other conservatives do on how to repeal and replace. do they have a right to do this and have a right to worry how it's done? >> absolutely. you can't have 15- 20 million people worried about whether or not they're going to lose their insurance. you can't have people with cancer worried whether or not they're going to have their next treatment. so the republicans have to build a bridge to a healthier,

better system. and that bridge has to be clear to the average american. it can't just be clear to some policy wonk. it has to be step by step. here's how you're going to be taken care of. and if they do that, i think they're going to be golden. they're going to be in great shape. steve: let's see what happens. mr. speaker, thank you very much. happy new year. >> take care. thank you. ainsley: nice to see you. thank you. heather has some breaking news for us this morning. >> i certainly do. we're following important news out of the gulf this morning. a rapidly continuing story that we're continuing to follow. right now the u.s. coast guard battling a raging oil platform fire. this is about 80 miles south of louisiana. no injuries or water pollution have been reported at this point. of course, this reminds a lot of us of the 2010 deep water horizon disaster that left 11 people dead, millions of gallons of oil spewed into the gulf before it was all over.

we'll keep you posted on any developments. four more dangerous terror suspects getting out of gitmo. the detainees now headed to saudi arabia. 16 more will be released before inauguration day. the obama administration now ignoring calls from president-elect donald trump to keep what he calls extremely dangerous detainees off the battlefield. national intelligence report from july showing a staggering 30% of detainees are confirmed or suspected of returning to terror. and president-elect donald trump making more key additions to his staff, including the former contestant on the apprentice. she's now been named as director of public communications liaison. >> he wants to connect with americans, he wants to hear what their issue are in the community. and we're going to fight for them. and my role is to go into the communities and continue the essentially the work that i was doing on the campaign and with the national diversity coalition. >> mr. also tapping

wall street lawyer clayton as security and exchange commission. and we'll keep following more. and queen elizabeth nearly shot and armed guard not telling a british newspaper that once upon a time that queen elizabeth decided to take a late night walk around the palace but thought she was an intruder and almost shot her. fortunately he did not. the queen said it's okay. and next time she would call first and she's just taking a stroll around the palace. >> 3:00 in the morning and, you know, the guy says my one regret. one time, i almost shot the queen. ainsley: she was trying to sneak out. that's what happens. steve: do a lap. ainsley: going to a party. brian: you see the whole different side of the queen. she was almost taken out in a baseball game. do you remember that? steve: that was a movie. this is real life. ainsley: did not know where you're going with that. brian: leslie nielson. we know donald trump has big

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steve: got a fox news alert for you right now. president obama making his final push to close gitmo. in less than 24 hours, four more detainees who were listed as extremely dangerous will be released to -- it looks like saudi arabia. this all coming after president-elect donald trump has announced releasing any more detainees. so why is president obama insistent on closing gitmo? here reaction the man who killed osama bin laden rob o'neill. well, i think we know why he's insistent. it was a campaign promise. he said obama did. i'm going to close it. well, that didn't happen on day one. >> it has been a campaign

promise, and he did say he was going to close it the entire time. for some reason, it's obviously political reasons he wants to make it as difficult as he possibly can to keep it open just having as few people. steve: how bad are they? >> these are the worst of the worst. steve: they're going to go back in the terror business. >> they definitely are. based on a lot of political reasons that they can be released doesn't mean they're good. and the countries they might release them, the only one is a nonsunni country is italy, the other being saudi arabia and united arab of emirates. and if they're going to go to a prison, they're going to radicalize there. i've seen guys like this before on the battlefield. and it's not like we went to the wrong house in afghanistan and then all of a sudden we sent one to guantanamo bay. it would be a lot to get them and interrogated them and

tactically questioned is and whatever politically correct thing we're calling it. and then they send the worst two ones to guantanamo bay. nobody goes there by accident. steve: no kidding. there's another story floating around and tomorrow, donald trump is going to wind up intel briefing on whatever happened with the russians and hacking and whatnot. and now there's report out that it sounds like he wants to revamp the way the intel community works. the story is it has become too bloated and way too political. way too politicized. and you know because you've worked with guys from the cia. >> a lot would even use the word spy, and they left the agencies because people there were being promoted baste on quota, not performance. it's too much of a politically correct atmosphere, office, some group protecting the homeland. you know, doing the stuff that they see on the cool movies that are made about them. it's not necessarily like that. i've seen some of the best there, and i've seen some of the worst.

and a lot of them are there just -- even like a lot of them are not sharing intelligence. some agencies are not sharing with others because these are their targets or babies or sources and they don't want to share them because they want their office to have the credit. steve: well, the cia had john brennon after the election said russia helped donald trump be the president of the united states, and then the fbi came out and the national intel said we disagree with the cia. so it does look political. >> it does look political and the fact that they're saying it out loud like that is political. there's nothing behind the scenes, one of the heads call the other and head talk to them about that. there's no reason to get tv and said he said, she said, and we lost because of this. steve: so do you think donald trump is onto something? >> i do, and, by the way, he's appointing generals to spots the national security counsel, the department of homeland security. he's putting people that realize that homeland security is about homeland. it is -- countries sometimes have borders.

sometimes we protect our own, sometimes there is nationalism, and they're putting people in the right spot that the protect the people. all people. all americans. steve: sure. well, we used to have borders. >> thanks very much. steve: all right. coming up on this thursday, you may want to forget everything you've heard about kids and peanut allergies. this morning, there are new guidelines that every parent needs to hear. and president obama met with democrats yesterday to try to save his signature legislation obamacare. but one democrat didn't show up. why? well, senator joe mansion, he's the guy that didn't show up. down with republican and said he'll explain that with brian nt

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ainsley: we have quick headlines now. one of washington d.c.'s most prestigious universities dedicating school resources to a eight out against president trump. cosponsored by the school's philosophy. nearly a dozen professors and black lives matter organizer planning to speak out against donald trump. and the police officer running wild in connecticut because frederick high school to ditch its mascot. calling it sexist and inappropriate for female teams. the school is going to keep the horse theme but will let students pick a new name. brian, are you offended? brian: yes but i'm going to change gears, ainsley with your permission. president obama desperate to change his legacy and signature health care law. yesterday on capitol hill. but one top democrat was a no-show. senator joe mansion.

he met with vice president elect joe pence, and they exchanged phone numbers. he came to explain why. senator, as a democrat, do you think it was your duty to meet the president? >> well, first of all, i think it was counterproductive. we are where we are. we have the affordable care act, some people call it obamacare. we have it in place. there's a lot of things that need to be repaired, and we have to start working on that repair in a bipartisan manner. to come up the last hour of the last administration and start pitching with why we should hold the line, that didn't make any sense. that's counterproductive to me. and on the other hand, i have to say my republican colleagues it was counterproductive just to talk to the republican caulk i say. so i said i'm not going to be hypocrite. i'm going to see if now vice president elect mike pence would meet with me. so i made a phone call, he said sure. we set i happen a meeting for around 2:15, 2:30, and we exchanged phone numbers and

said we'll keep in touch, see if there's a pathway forward. because if they have the numbers and 51 is all it takes to repeal, they will repeal. well, we have to start fixing immediately. i wish they wouldn't repeal. i wish we could all sit down, brian, and work piece by piece. people shouldn't have to buy a product they don't want to is too expensive. on the other hand, president-elect trump said i don't want people thrown off. i don't want people with preexisting conditions not to be able to buy it or children thrown off. so with that being said, i think there's a framework for us to work with. brian: right so, in other words, if they repeal and say in two years we're going to work on a replacement within two years, you won't walk away. even though you don't want to use the word repeal, you'll still deal, and you believe you could bring if i'm correct maybe up to ten democrats to work on this with you? >> well, it's going to take that many, yes. we're going to have to work.

and i don't think we had an option. i don't think we were sent here to have an option of what we wanted to work on and what we didn't. when you have a challenge, a social challenge, everybody should pitch in. it shouldn't be politics as usual. the other thing that scares me. i've been trying to work for three years just getting the minors health care benefits. a solid fix to pay for. we've been three years getting that. so it gives me doubt we'll be able to come together. you can repeal it with 51 votes, and here's what i said to my republican friends. the democrats passed it 2009. i wasn't there. they passed it with no republicans. all democrats. and it's been divisive. now, my friends on the republican side are going to repeal it with no democrats. that's just as bad. so why can't we start working together? you shouldn't have your premiums go up 20, 30%. that's ridiculous. there should be other market plans. i put plans forward. i think there's a lot of good friends on the republican side

that are willing to fix this. brian: we know nationwide premiums have gone up 32%. as you point out too, 59% of west virginia have coverage that didn't have coverage. so you see that number, and you say, well, it's not helping my state just to throw this thing in the street. however, when you see senator schumer come out and say make america sick again and let's call it trump again, do your eyes roll how am i ever going to get the democrats work with republicans? >> well, i've been around this town for six years now. and i've seen the horrible rhetoric come from both sides. and everybody is trying to make their position and find their in each. niche. the bottom line is we have to have adults in the room, eight to ten democrats work with republicans. republicans have to hold the line. we have to find out if we can

find the pathway forward. chuck schumer has been very gracious to me, very good to me allowing me to reach across and giving me that permission. saying fine. you'll be my go between guy and see if there's a pathway forward. i'm not giving up. i'm never going to give up. brian: but, senator, that shows change. when you started reaching out, you never got invited to the white house. chuck schumer seeing you reach out and saying keep it up. >> well, chuck knows me well enough. we've been very good friends, and he knows i work across the aisle and, yes, he has absolutely said i want you to build that rapport from the president-elect trump and his administration all through with paul ryan and his leadership and with mitch mcconnell and his leadership. i have a good friendship with all of these people i'm building more and more relationships. i'm an honest broker. we talk about things we think we can do. it takes a tweak here, a little movement here. sometimes you can't get there

and if we can't, rerespectfully disagree. i'm not going to call people names or ridicule them. i'm going to say fine. let's live to fight another day. brian: right and some day we're going to have to zoom at that camera and see seven or eight other democrats. >> they will. brian: we zoom out right now, i just saw joe mansion. senator, thank you very much. >> happy new year, brian. brian: same to you. meanwhile coming straight ahead. we know donald trump has plans to build a wall but guess who's going to do it? he's going to open up his prisons and send his inmates out and ask them to come back. and what really hand the hours after the boston marathon bombing? we have a new movie taking us behind the scenes, and it's a hit. >> this city when it comes to terrorism, everyone wants to talk. trust me. that's not letting boston work for us. >> superstar director peter burg join us live.

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label this terrorism, things change. it's not a local investigation, it will flip stock markets, it's politicians, knee-jerk reactions, antimuslim backlash. there's no take back. i've been through this before. >> we will call what we already know it is. it hit chicago, new york, washington, what happens then? >> the accusations are going to come no matter what we do. ainsley: you watched it live as it unfolded here on fox. but now a new movie is giving a whole new perspective on the boston marathon bombing and an inside look at the incredible four-day manhunt for the terrorist responsible. >> we need to release those pictures. >> if we release the photos now, we're out of control. we force these guys to react. >> gentlemen, if i may. right now, boston's working against us. and you have a. this city, when it comes to terrorism, everybody wants to talk. look, you have a lot of people talking, but they're

talking about the wrong peopl people. that's not letting boston work for us thanks looks great and joining us right now is the director and filmmaker, the former police commissioner ed davis. >> good morning. steve: peter, why did you want to make movie? because so many people know the story about the brothers, they played the pressure cooker bombs. but there's so much more. >> certainly one of the reasons was once i met commissioner davis and his counterparts at the fbi, i was so impressed, mark wahlberg was so impressed that the fact that this horrible event happened. that the community did a remarkable job of taking care and making sure our injured were taken care of. but commissioner davis had the job of basically getting the call from the president saying ed, we're really horribly sorry this happened. but you've got to go solve this. and the encourage and the ass

whooping that the boston police department put on others more than i can convey, we spent a lot of time talking about the negative aspects of police. what these men did in boston was incredibly spiring to me and mark wahlberg. steve: we were on air a lot of it during the manhunt time, and there would be time it would look like false leads and they would go into houses with fences, and it would be wrong, what board you in the final cut? >> they definitely get it right. this was a very complex undertaking that involved multiple agencies, within 102 hours, we were able to run these guys down and get them off the street either kill or capture them. so that was our responsibility. the officers that were out there that were actually in the field had a tremendous sense of urgency. they got an enormous amount of detail into this movie, even some things that i didn't know. so i was very impressed with it.

and then in the final analysis, the stress that happened between the agencies was really -- that was the only problem that we had. steve: what do you mean stress between the agencies? >> well, this problem of releasing the photos. so some people wanted to do that. some people wanted to keep it a secret and try to catch them without anybody knowing. so there was some stress around that. but the truth that was the only problem we had in a very complex and difficult week. ainsley: peter, it's going to be a hit. we lived through this. we want to see the movie. you're responsible for so many great movies. lone survivor. what's about these true american stories that attracts you? >> for me, real heroes just beat anything hollywood can convey, you know? he's better looking than jason borne, he's stronger than batman and spider-man, it's legit. he's better looking than john good man also.

but these guys inspire me so much. these cops really do inspire me. it's about privilege to be able to show the other side of it. and there's also guys like danny mamang who is this 22-year-old chinese immigrant. this kid saved new york city. the brothers had gotten away, they were in a car full of bombs, they were driving to time square and this 23-year-old chinese immigrant had the encourage and -- it's an extraordinary story. very few people know about it. >> he was carjacked. >> he was carjacked, he got away, and he literally saved. >> who remembers your code? steve: we are nonmovie makers here, and i believe jfk used to tell a story, you're using a posse character here. tell me about it and why was it important? >> i think something we spoke about, there was something we call stolen valor. and that's one person did more than he did. and we certainly didn't want to do that. and ed made sure that it

wasn't one cop who kind of saved the day. i joke about jason borne. there was no jason borne. it was a true team experience and that team effort. steve: so mark wahlberg played that character that didn't really exist. >> no. he plays a compilation of two different police officers. one who was there at the beginning during the bombing and another who was very involved in the apprehension. so we sort of combined those two characters. ainsley: you actually sat down with the people that lived through this the commissioner and other individuals. you met with them in order to write. >> we were like roommates. commissioner made his entire department open to us, the current commissioner billie evans was there. i mean, we were on the set with these extraordinary men and women every day, and we would defer to them if we thought we weren't getting it right and ed, you know, was unhappy. we would shut it down until ed was happy, you know? steve: wasn't there a story about an fbi agent who kind of

turned things around when he realized, he spotted one of the brothers or both of the brothers in some of that video that was released. >> yeah, talk about that. how they were able to determine. >> the team the experts in the fbi in boston were really crucial to this. they kept looking and looking and looking. and what they saw was a bomb go off and everybody look to the left but one person looked to the right. and that's what made them zero in on that person. he was looking for his escape because he was about to set off the second bomb. >> he had been watching thousands of people just over and over watching that explosion. and to have the ability, the -- to be that sharp, to see his head turn was extraordinary. steve: so did you reach out to the one still alive and -- >> we did. we reached out to dzhokhar tsarnaev he's on death row, we reached out to him, he responded once, his lawyer shut that down.

we also reached out to katherine russell, who is the wife of a the brother, and she put it down. she's an intriguing part of this film also. >> we have questions about that wife also. >> that's right the san bernardino wife also. ainsley: yeah. >> it's interesting. we don't say that she's guilty. but it's very hard to understand how she could not have known living in this very small apartment with these two brothers. >> honey, what are we doing with all of these bombs in the house? >> you would think. ainsley: tragic story but now you're watching the big screen. you signed up for the police force and now here you are. john good man's playing you. >> it's a surreal experience. steve: well, we're going to be watching. the movie patriots day is in selected cities now. goes big on january 13. >> thank you so much. >> coming here is you guys

getting me all amped up. steve: the dunkin' donuts coffee. ainsley: guess who's watching your movie? our viewers. they love your american story. >> once you leave. >> he's got one. he's well connected. >> i've got them on speed dial. ainsley: do they really work? >> all right. ainsley: thanks, guys. >> absolutely. steve: okay. good. all right. coming up. we know donald trump has plans to build a wall. but we always asked who is going to build this wall? well, there's a sheriff with an idea. he wants to use his prisoners. ainsley: buying a house is no longer a smart investment. that according to a brand-new report. is that true, though? our property man bob is on that next. want powerful relief. only new alka-seltzer plus free of artificial dyes and preservatives liquid gels delivers the powerful cold symptom relief you need

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ainsley: good morning to you. welcome back to fox and friends. a few quick headlines to bring you right now. we know that mr. trump had big plans to build that wall. >> we're going to build the wall. okay? believe me. we're going to build the wall. we will build a great wall. ainsley: well, now we have an idea of who might be called upon to build that wall. bristol county, massachusetts, the sheriff there, thomas now offering to send state inmates to the border. hodgins says using inmates for

mass infrastructure projects would save taxpayer money. everything we know about preventing a deadly peanut allergy may be wrong. that's according to new guidelines from the national institutes of health, saying exposing your child to peanuts before they age of 3 may actually help them from developing the allergy. now, for year, scientists believe keeping peanuts from younger kids was safe. and those are your headlines. we'll see you back in a little bit. steve: thank you very much. is owning your own home still a part of the american dream? well. >> will new data shows when adjusted for inflation, increased by less than 1% per year in a 100-year time span. steve: well, that kind of sounds good; right? so is owning a home really worth the investment? joining us right now with his take is the host of the property man. right here on the fox news channel, bob. good morning to you. ainsley: good morning. >> happy new year. steve: you know, why would we even be discussing home ownership is risky? because for decades now,

people have thought, well, if i own my own house, i have a little financial security, a little stability, things like that. >> yep. yep. it's not the fact that you don't have stability, steve, i think it's more that people are overreacting as to is this really a good way to go? is it something that's going to be a nest egg when you get older? and apparently the experts are saying that it only is actually maybe a little ahead of inflation and obviously that has been slow, although now it seems like it's moving a little bit. and so as a result, people are saying is it really a risky business? is it risky to buy a home? is it what you think you believe it to be? and in some cases, the answer has been based on history "no." ainsley: if you do buy a house, what's the by-product of that? >> well, first of all, i think we have to understand that if you're looking to buy a home, i always tell people, ainsley, don't look upon it as an investment for yourself. this is something we're going to raise your children, your family, it has memories, it's

part of your life. particularly when you're raising, you know, small children. so as a result of that, when you go to look for a home, don't always think "well, this is just an investment for the next 20 years." this is your primary residence. this is where you want to live send your children to school, church, things like that. you have to look at the overall picture. not just making money on your home. steve: so if it's not about it's going to be a great investment and in 20 years, 30 years, we're going to be able to have a giant nest egg, are you suggesting that people should rent or lease instead? they should put their money in the stock market. what are you saying ultimately, bob? >> well, look, i mean, for me, the long-term for the market is always good because if you're patient with the market, you're going to make money. you have to have a certain personality not look at it every day and kill yourself. rent, steve, is big. rent has been big since the forecast crisis. some people will look at it and say, look, if i'm paying rent, i don't want to have to

worry about this, about that. remember one thing. if you're paying rent, you are paying that owner's taxes, that owner's homeowner's insurance. it's all there, but it gives a flexibility, steve. so there is a different mind-set in this country and the millennials, by the way, although they want to own, they don't really have a big problem about renting because they're in that point in their life where careers change, they move a lot, that's what rental brings to you as a perspective person that ultimately end up owning a home. ainsley: the bottom line what's really best for you and your situation and the city you live in. thank you, bob. great to see you this morning. >> thanks, ainsley.steve: all r. ainsley: coming up these celebrities just can't get over the fact that donald trump is going to be the next president, and they have a plan to stop him. >> trump pursues racist. >> sexist. >> antiimmigrant. >> antiworker. anti-semitic. >> antienvironmental policies. >> we demand that you vigorously oppose him. ainsley: really? is it going to work?

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>> to the extent that trump pursues racist, immigrant. antiworker, anti-semitic. >> antienvironmental policies. >> we demand that you vigorously oppose him. steve: wow it seems hollywood or what's left of hollywood just can't get over the results of this election. ainsley: in a new psa, celebrities are begging congress to oppose president-elect trump before he even moves into the white house. steve: they say they represent the majority of the american people. really? well, here to weigh in is daily caller reporter caitlyn collins. caitlyn, hollywood just can't get over the fact that donald trump won fair and square. >> yeah, they're very upset about it. in this psa, we have sally fields, steve, rosy perez, and they are begging members of congress to block donald trump's supreme court nominees, to oppose anything he does while president. because they say that a majority of americans didn't want him to be president. which is not true. but this video was created by

humanity for progress, which used to be called humanity for hillary, and they changed her name after she lost. it's this pro hillary social media campaign that targeted donald trump throughout the entire election. brian: both said donald trump is not my guy. but the rest of the country felt differently state by state. now, the celebrities aren't sitting down. they're putting pressure in the entertainment world not to show up for donald trump's inauguration. but they're also doing their own thing. they have a telethon on facebook live on inauguration day to raise money. >> yeah. this is just another sign of celebrities striking out because their candidate didn't win. so they're going to have this three-hour telethon to raise money for organizations like planned parenthood and aclu while donald trump is being nothing rated. and this is just a way for them to lick their wounds because they're really upset that the candidate they complained for and fundraised for and threatened to leave the country if she didn't win, and she still lost. and they're upset about that. they think that their opinions have a lot of sway over

americans. ainsley: well, and we're wondering if they really do. do you really think that donald trump cares about this, caitlyn? >> i don't think so. i think he's made it really obvious that he didn't need celebrities on his side to win. i mean, hillary clinton had every single celebrity beyoncé and jay z came out and performed for her and donald trump had hardly any, and he still won the election. made it very obvious he doesn't need them. >> sure. and i think it's driving hollywood crazy that before the election, they said don't vote for him. people voted for him. hollywood's realizing, well, maybe they're irrelevant now when it comes to politics nationwide. >> exactly. i think everyday americans are smarter than this. they don't need to be lectured by celebrities in hollywood. they can make their own political judgments. ainsley: yeah, they're two cities that i don't think cares about. new york city and l.a. brian: right i think the outcome's smart. he'll tap into the heroes of the world. this who have fought for the country. ainsley: heroes. brian: highlight the veterans. >> exactly. steve: thank you very much.

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>> well, donald trump has sent out two tweets in the last 20 minutes about the intel community. >> he says he likes saying i'm in agreement with julian assange, wrong, i simply states who he states. it is for the people to make up their mind. >> to make up their own minds as to the truth.

media lies to make it look like i'm against intelligence when, in fact, i'm a big fan. >> there you go, donald trump very busy this morning. thank you very much for joining us. we'll be back tomorrow same time, same couch. >> friday, yes, friday. >> bill: thank you, fox news alert now. a tough story to begin this morning. alleged kidnapping and torture. a white teenager with special needs tied up and beaten as a group of young african-americans calling out donald trump and calling out racial slurs. i'm bill hemmer, welcome to "america's newsroom." >> martha: i'm martha maccallum. this shocking story breaking in chicago and we want to warn you this video is very disturbing to watch. it shows an 18-year-old victim who was tied and gagged. the suspects put a knife to his throat at different points in this video. they make him drink