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this wednesday afternoon, democrats are celebrating their first big win since president trump's stunning victory a year ago today. including governors races in new jersey and virginia. a key swing state. now the president is blasting the candidate he once supported in virginia for not embracing the trump brand of politics. last night the democrat ralph northam beat ed gillespie. ed gillespie is the former chair of the democratic committee. he refused to campaign with president trump at all. he did adopt many of the president's positions, especially for the end of his campaign, including tough talk on immigration, support for protecting confederate statues and opposition to the nfl players kneeling during the national anthem. the president tweeted ed gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what i stand

for. don't forget, republicans won four out of four house seats. with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win even bigger than before. president trump was referring to special elections in kansas, montana, georgia and south carolina. republicans did indeed win all of those. they were also states that president trump carried by wide margins. still democrats won statewide elections in virginia. most notably, they made major gains in the house of delegates. in fact, with some races still too close to call, the democrats could take control. as i reported, a democrat also won the governor's race in the state of new jersey. phil murphy beat the republican kim guadagno. polls show chris christie is historically unpopular in that state. john bussey is here for the "wall street journal" newspaper. he's also a brand new fox news

contributor. welcome to the family. congratulations. >> thanks. >> i looked at it and said it's notable what happened in the legislature down in virginia. the house of delegates they call it. what was your take? >> yeah, that's hugely important. the down ballot appears to be going democrat. they have not decided yet. it's been hugely democrat gains in the house of delegates. also, a 9 percentage point win by northam. this is a decisive win. what happened here, looks like -- remember, this is a purple state. democratic previous governor. so it's not unusual for democrats to win and remember also that off-season elections, you get swings in the electorate. mid-terms they tend to go the other way as well. with what is happening down ballot with the wind, you saw an

energized electorate. those people that turned out for hillary clinton turned out more in this election. millennials, minorities, college-educated women, suburban women. these were notable upticks in turnout. the engagement was driven by -- if you look at the exit polls, people that feel that trump was not doing a good job, anti-trump and those people turned out with greater intensity than those people that thought he was doing a good job and might have voted for the republican contender. >> brit hume, chief politics analyst, had a comment on this last night with tucker. listen. >> looks like that the political gravity, the unpopularity of donald trump and the off-year election with a first time in office has won this race for

ralph northam. >> the unpopularity of donald trump. he didn't campaign with him but didn't fully embrace him. he didn't campaign with him. but it got brutally ugly from both sides in that race. went down into a place that is an ugly part of america. >> it's unfortunate. and gillespie, was trying to attract trump voters. the democrats have not found a message yet. >> or leader. >> a message that effectively reaches out to noncollege-educated white voters. they haven't galvanized yet. there's no question that what you saw in the intensity factor and the engagement factor last night could inform what happens in the 2018 elections. you don't want to go too far in saying that. could be a warning flare for republicans. it's something that they're

keeping in mind as they progress on tax policy, elements of tax policy that the democrats might seize on to get -- >> shepard: we no longer do exit pollings at fox news because they didn't work. we have a new model on how to do this and we're calling it election analysis. our pollers spoke to a lot of people. the most important thing for people was healthcare. there it is. healthcare and the economy. the economy is good in virginia, especially in the suburbs. >> one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. >> shepard: and government employment driven. so the economy is not a bad thing. they tried to campaign on it in the negative. in healthcare, if healthcare was your most important issue, 72% of people went for northam, the democrat. 27% went with gillespie. obamacare is popular and they want more of it. >> uncertainty about healthcare and uncertainty of how am i

going to insure my family in the coming years. when you have an issue like that top of mind, you're inspired to go out to vote. in maine, we saw an expansion of medicaid. there's more engagement on the issue of healthcare that the republicans will be having to look at and say our failure to address this in some kind of effective repeal and replace of the affordable care act is coming back to haunt us. >> shepard: we did some internal analysis. our analysts here in house took a look at the big picture and what it means. you saw the tweet from president trump today. i want to put that back on the screen again if we can, what the president said in the wake of the loss by ed gillespie. ed gillespie worked hard but didn't embrace me. on and on. it was the analysis of those that do the analysis in this building that that hurt the president, that that was a mistake on the part of the president. that that is already being

talked about on capitol hill and down the road that will be a problem for the president. >> so is the president going to embrace his opponents in the republican party and others in the republican party or is this kind of comment going to inform other republican candidates that are wondering themselves, should i go the trumpian policy way when i go back out to try to win my next election or divorce myself from that. am i going to benefit more by standing alone or is it better for me to look like i'm within the camp of donald trump. this would suggest that it can cut both ways and cut both ways badly for gillespie. he tried to align himself. didn't work in the electorate and rejected by the president after the election. >> shepard: the immigration issue went for democrats in virginia. they also made a big issue of confederate statues in virginia. i went strongly on the republican side. they want to keep them up.

but they did not, according to the analysis afterwards, they didn't vote on that matter. they voted on healthcare and voted on economy. on those matters, the democrat was the winner. >> that's true. that showed in the exit polls. all of these other issues, again, are part and parcel of how the voter views the president. in both virginia and in new jersey, a majority are unhappy with the president's performance. you've seen his popularity polls beginning to drift downward. the other issues may not have registered in the exit polls but are registering in the consciousness of voters. are they happy with the president, like what he's saying? they don't like the bickers or the tweets or don't they? >> no, no, seems to be the answer. the anti-trump crowd, the never trump crowd, they came out in larger numbers. that was a difference in virginia. interesting to watch. sign of things to come? we'll see. voters are fickle. it is a wake-up for a lot of

people on the hill. good to see you. thanks. president trump warning north korea, don't underestimate the united states because times have changed. >> the regime has interpreted america's past restraint as weakness. this would be a fatal miscalculation. this is a very different administration than the united states has had in the past. >> shepard: the president gave those words and the rest of that speech to south korea's national assembly. he said the united states will defend itself and its allies, so do not try us. in modern parlance, don't come for me. the president is in china, north carolina -- north korea's biggest friend. china sees north korea as a buffer. that is important to china in a big way. in this speech in seoul,

president trump called out china saying cut the cash flow to kim jong-un and his regime. john roberts is travelling with the president and live in beijing tonight. john? >> more on that to come later on today when the president meets with president xi. the president arrived late afternoon beijing time, early in the morning in new york. the first part of the visit given over to ceremony. the president having tea with president chi and watching the opera at the forbidden city and then having dinner. before leaving seoul south korea, he gave the speech at the national assembly. at the same time, he played good cop and bad cop and laying out an extensive indictment of what he portrayed kim jong-un's criminal behavior and ruthless dictator ship there, warning him in stark terms not to mess with the united states and its allies by continuing to develop a nuclear weapons program. let's listen to more what the

president said. >> the weapons you're acquiring are not making you safer. they are putting your regime in grave danger. every step you take down this dark path increasing the peril you face. >> so there was the bad cop version of that. then the president flipped to the good cup version. some diplomats that dealt with north korea and really what kim jong-un is looking for is an off ramp from this crisis and a way to get out of his nuclear weapons program and developing relations with the united states. perhaps because he was in south korea, the president of south korea, wants the keep tensions down on the korean peninsula or whether it is a genuine opening, the president offered, i wouldn't say an olive branch but did offer an off ramp to kim jong-un. listen here. >> despite every crime you have committed against god and man, you are ready to offer and we

will do that, we will offer a path to a much better future. >> the president offering north korea a path to a better future. president moon from south korea did the same thing in a press conference the night before. what did north korea think about this? here's an official statement. the u.s. most oust the lunatic old man from power and withdraw from once north to get rid of the abyss of doom. shep, they didn't take too kindly to the speech. lindsey graham and madeline albrig albright, both said they thought it was a good speech. shep? >> shepard: john, what do you expect to hear from the president while in china? >> there's not a lot we'll hear. he has a restricted bilateral meeting in five hours with the president. that could be just the two of them. and then interpreters and an

expanded bilat where the security people come in and talk about the way forward on north korea, talk about the way forward on trade. and then they have statements only, shep. won't be taking questions because the chinese have said no questions. and then he may meet with putin, by the way, in vietnam later this week to try to get more help from russian on north korea. shep? >> shepard: john roberts live in beijing as president trump visits there. there's concerns about what happens to his twitter account. activists say china is the worst in the world on internet freedom. details on that ahead. , the unpredictability of a flare may weigh on your mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go, and how to work around your uc. that's how i thought it had to be. but then i talked to my doctor about humira, and learned humira can help get and keep uc under control...

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term. while twitter is blocked, other services are allowed. but for the president, it is a bit trickier. first off, president trump has a secure phone meaning some of the functions have been disabled to prevent it from being hacked. for him to tweet involves a sophisticated network of people and technology. the white house says here, that's his way of communicating directly with the american people. that's why he tweets. why not? i'm sure we have the gear aboard this airplane to make it happen. so far, the president's tweets have been standard. he lashed out at north korea saying noco has interpreted america's restrain as weakness. this will be a fatal miscalculation. don't underestimate us or try us. and then the president praised his hosts. on behalf of flotus, we were

treated to a great evening and looking forward to joining you tomorrow morning. it's worth noting that all of china's wireless networks are thought to be entirely compromised by china's state security systems. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher, thank you. twitter is doubling the amount of characters that most people can use in their tweets from 140 characters to 280. that's the word from the social media platform. they started testing the move in september. twitter found that they reported that more people were more satisfied when they could use more characters. like it's cream that way. german officials seem to be happy about it, too. they're known for having tongue twister names for their laws and the governor's foreign ministry announced they can tweet about legislation. here's the german word for that. that's the word for labelling

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>> shepard: more now on the president's ongoing trip in asia

and his warning to north korea not to try us. josh letterman is here, foreign affairs reporter. good to see you, josh. >> hi, shep. >> shepard: it's been a bit of a roller coaster on how we handle the north korea issue. the president seems to be on course. >> well, he's doing his best to try to address different constituencies. different audiences that have different messages they want to hear from the president on north korea. when he was in south korea where president moon has talked a lot about the need for dialogue, trying to get to some type of peace agreement with north korea, you heard the president gently float the idea that there was a resolution possible for north korea on this, if they're willing to come to the table. now that he's in beijing, we can expect a tougher tone. more of a focus on here's the things that we need to apply maximum pressure economically on the north korean regime. >> shepard: is there a chance to get something out of china in this case with the understanding that china needs north korea to

be a sort of buffer to a unified korean peninsula? >> well, we have to give the trump administration credit for getting a lot from china already as far as ordering north korean businesses to shut down in the near future in china and some restrictions on energy flows between the countries that came under a u.n. resolution. there's more that the u.s. wants from north korea including -- and from china like shutting down the guest workers, cutting off all the trade that goes over the border. the u.s. has to be super careful that they do not push china to a position they're not comfortable with, which would be the north korean regime collapsing and a lot of instability for china along its border. >> shepard: what is the concern level that the north koreans might try something, test something while the president is on this trip? >> right, well, the north koreans have said they're less

concerned about what trump is saying and more concerned about the actions. the actions along this trip include several aircraft carriers and other u.s. military equipment that's been moved in as a show of u.s. military force. oftentimes north korea responds by doing something provocative themselves. if they were to try to conduct a test or do something else that they won't accept this harsh action from the u.s., that would ratchet up tensions very quick limb and force trump to respond to that while he's in asia. >> shepard: chase, josh. the trump administration set to track down on business with cuba. the new rules would make it tougher for americans to travel there aside from educational purposes. they will bar u.s. companies and tourists for dealing with a long list of businesses tied to the cuban government, including state-run hotels, shops and rum

distilleries. this is part of the roll back of the obama policy which is called a one-sided deal. breaking news right now. mike pence set to arrive in texas following the deadliest mass shooting in state history. a gunman killed 25 people including a pregnant woman during a sunday church service. white house officials say the vice president will meet with victims and local law enforcement. we're getting a look at video from moments after the shooter crashed his car into a ditch. here it is. it's from the man that says he drove after the gunman at nearly 100 miles an hour. johnny langendorff said another bystander, stephen willeford jumped into his truck after shooting the gunman and told him to chase the killer. langendorff said he called the cops during the chase to tell them the shooter's location. let's get an update on the investigation now. matt finn in southerland springs, texas. all the names of the victims have been released, matt.

>> yes. shepard, that list reveals the name and age of the person shot. some family members lost several people. for example, there's six victims with the last name holcomb, including crystal marie holcomb and a 1-year-old, noah holcomb. there's teresa and ricardo rodriguez, both in their 60s. children ages 5, 7 and 9. in the end, some of these families have had an entire branch removed from their family tree. >> shepard: new information on the recording from inside the church as this was happening. >> first baptist church records their sunday services as many churches do nowadays. deputies and authorities say they were recording a video this past sunday during the massacre. some authorities have seen it say that the shooter first targeted the audio and sound

people handling the recording of the video and the shooter shot people including children in the head. survivors say he went after anyone making noise, also children. shep? >> shepard: matt finn on scene for us. we'll go back when the vice president arrives. we're learning the gop's tax plan may cost more than lawmakers originally predicted. a house committee is hashing out the details for a third straight day. a think tank that reported originally made a mistake in its analysis is out with a corrected update. that think tank widely respected on both sides of the political aisle and we'll have those reports in the bottom of the hour after news headlines. that's next.

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pull him over and it turned into a shootout. the officers' injuries are not life threatening. espn has reported that china has let three basketball players out on bail after shoplifting. the players are accused of stealing sun glasses from a luxury designer store near their hotel. sheriff deputies in oregon got a call that a woman was screaming for help in an apartment. when they showed up, it was apparently just a pair named diego. the parrot was fine and didn't need assistance. the news continues with shep after this.

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the cbo is estimating the republican tax plan would raise the national dead by $1.7 trillion over the next decade. a live look on capitol hill where they're talking about it. a house committee debating changes to the bill before it goes to a vote. the fox business network's gerri willis is here. it's interesting when you're out of power you talk about the deficit because the other party is doing it. it works for both parties. the republicans have been screaming about deficits for eight years and now they're trying to add to the deficit. it's comical. >> $1.5 trillion over ten years. it means that our total national debt would be 97% of gdp. >> shepard: that's close. they say trickle down is going to fix it. that's what they say. >> to debate on this, we have 16 amendments from democrats. all 16 have gone down. they're continuing to debate that right now. if you listen in on this, they're tired because yesterday they were yelling so much at

each other. now this time around, they're kind of tired and quieter. >> shepard: there's been a lot of disagreement when it's going to be ready for committee. >> right. >> shepard: that's the next step. committee. >> right. so we're expecting the senate to pick it up and waiting for them to put out their bill. when does that happen? when the ways and means committee gets done. when does the ways and means committee get done? when they go over the amendments. that question is still open. could happen by the end of the day. probably tomorrow. it's an open question. people are debating it and telling our reporters different stories. >> shepard: the other thing that it could cut is a deduction for education like student loan interest. no longer deductible. what else are we going to do to the millennials? >> yeah. now you can't deduct the interest -- >> shepard: seriously? we're putting this on young people trying to get educated? >> lots of people are getting hit. >> shepard: seriously? those are the people --

>> coverdale accounts, gone. this is for educational expenses along the way. trying to roll people into other kinds of accounts. a savings of $65 million. you'll see people start to complain about this. >> shepard: what about this think tank? made a mistake in its calculations. is it out with the new? >> yes. what they're saying now and they have said a lot of things that aren't right, what they're saying now is people -- 7% of americans would face a tax hike in the near term. 25% would have a tax hike in the long-term. i said that wrong. 7% would have a tax hike and 25% the long-term. so unlike what the republicans are saying, everybody he get a tax cut, not true. they're saying some people will get a hike in the short term and certainly in the long-term. >> shepard: so taxes are going up. >> for some people.

>> shepard: the deficit is going up. >> a tax cut doesn't tell you about everybody. it's not very definitive. it confuses a lot of people. this thing is more complicated than a russian novel. >> shepard: it's a simplification. are you not listening? you can put it on a postcard. pay attention. >> shepard: see the shining sea. especially for higher income people. so many things are changing. >> shepard: if you're all for it, pay attention to it. >> it's big. >> shepard: bigger than the room. >> so in trouble with my sources because of you. >> shepard: did you just tell the truth? >> yeah. >> shepard: you're good to go. in this room, truth is good. always. fear not. >> so much for the postcard. >> shepard: bye. breaking news. guess who is tweeting? rand paul is tweeting about his condition now after he said his neighbor attacked him after he was mowing his lawn.

a medical update. six broken ribs and a new x-ray shows a pleural effusion. sometimes referred to as water on the lungs. the story is that he's mowing the lawn, up on the john deere or whatever it is and he gets off the thing and he has noise cancelling headsets on. the neighbor from 17 years comes over and tackles him. breaks all of these ribs. at first they say he's fine, everything is fine. >> not fine. >> shepard: not fine at all. if the neighbor comes over -- still, the changes haven't gone up. he's a united states senator, water on the lungs and six broken ribs and the guy is out on bail. things don't make sense. >> we're not getting good explanations. everybody is looking for answers. >> shepard: somebody is going to find out.

something else happening. breaking news now on the vice president. he's arriving in texas to meet with some of the victims of the church massacre there. he is just about to come off i suppose air force two. he's landing at joint base san antonio. it's about a 40 minute drive or so from southerland springs where the shooting happened. the president will meet with victims in san antonio at a hospital and meet with law enforcement and later tonight speak at a memorial service. just can't say enough about what a horrifying experience this has been. we'll be right back. (avo) when you have type 2 diabetes, you manage your a1c,

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part of oval office operations. one politco reporter described schiller managed the president's mood, his diet and what triggers him and what soothes him. he said friends and advisers had to go through him to get certain information on the president. let's turn to rachel bade. when schiller left, that was a big surprise to a lot of people in the know around president trump. >> yeah, absolutely it was. i think house investigators by talking to him yesterday basically are showing that how deep they are willing to go in terms of penetrating trump's inner circle and talking to his closest staffers. schiller is not a household names but he was trumps body guard for years. we heard he was so close in fact with trump that he would at the white house make mcdonald's runs to get him cheeseburgers because the food was not good enough for the president. so he would bring that back.

former trump white house officials would slip him articles in memos that they wanted the president to see because they knew in doing that, this guy had trump's ear. so the president would get to see the stuff. so in talking to schiller, house investigators basically want to hear what he has heard and being so close to trump for so long what sort of things does he know about trump's connection to russian, if anything. >> this carl ikahn news is developing now. one more person from the president's inner circle being questioned through this broader investigation. >> yeah, that's right. we hear a lot about russia investigations. >> shepard: this is separate. >> yeah. this is conflict of interest. so basically investigators want to know if this trump adviser used his position in the white house to benefit himself with what you're not allowed to do,

frankly. he basically helped change ethanol standards. he owns an oil refinery. so he was benefitting from the change. the question is how many hands on activity did he have in writing the new regulations. we'll find out and how much money he potentially could have made by the changes. >> anything new on michael flynn? >> drip, drip. >> shepard: did he flip? to we know? >> we don't know. mueller keeps everything behind closed doors. what you can see right now is things are heating up between the indictments last week and news about papadopoulos and house investigators bringing in folks very close to the trump orbit. you can see that things are heating up quickly and we're going to probably see a whole bunch of russian news in the coming weeks as republicans try to get their tax bill through. >> shepard: rachel bade from politco. thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: hotel rooms going

for $100,000. not in some luxury resort in dubai but in the deep in the heart of texas. get'em aggies! first fox extreme weather alert. finally feeling like fall. that's not true. adam klotz, feels like winter. >> yeah. we're looking at an arctic blast taking you to canada. negative 41 degrees. that's your windchill. currently temperatures widespread, closer to the 50s. it's going to be cooling down. here's the futurecast. this is the windchill temperatures. dropping down in some cases to single digits. that stretches into the center of the country and continues to move farther and farther off to the east. we're looking at high temperatures thursday and friday getting just absolutely frigid stretching a again to 30s, 40s and in some cases the 20s. that continues to push its way to the east and you're looking the east coast there into the

40s. this is an absolute high. daytime high, 36 degrees in new york city for you friday. again, the whole country. taking you back to thursday morning. you're looking at 39 degrees in new york city. it's not just in new york city. stretching down to 41 degrees in dallas. we're looking at winter-like weather around the corner. more "shepard smith reporting" after the break. ♪

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matching program to stop it from happening. australian officials say this is a limited pilot program and they say three other nations are taking part. the united kingdom, canada and the united states. stand by for leaks. uber putting out plans for their flying taxi. looks like a small plane and a helicopter. officials say they would like to start testing the taxis by 2020. folks should be able to order them before the end of the next decade. for costs, order an air taxi could be the same price as an uber x. there's plenty of obstacles and uber is working with nasa like air traffic systems, anybody. officials say they hope to make flying taxis into another form of mass transit. yes, we all saw the jetson's. and google is taking drivers out of vehicle now. the cars are on public roads with an employee in the back seat that is not able to stop

the car and not able to steer it. which is -- makes it great to have that person in the back seat. just maybe somebody to talk to, consult about the weather. so driverless. where is this? >> this is outside of phoenix. a big step for self-driving cars but in a small area. the weather is nice. it's predictable. streets in places like chandler are grid-like and not that much traffic. still big news. families that have signed up for waymo's voluntary driver less car testing series are going to be able to order these to their house like an uber or lyft and hang out with a waymo employee in the back. they can stop the car but they can't steer it. the car goes to the side. anybody in the back seat of one of these cars we do it. while it's scary, if you read

the safety report, makes you more afraid of human drivers. 94% of accidents are caused by human error. they have lasers and they can see around and over cars. they're hoping to make this actually a much safer way to get from place to place. >> shepard: how bad does bama beat state? >> i hope bad. >> shepard: according to the school's website, a one-time donation of $100,000 will allow you to stay at the hotel on any day for the next ten years. of course, you have to rent it. you get your name engraved on the door. "wall street journal" reports more than 750 aggie alums expressed interest. the inn at ole miss is not $100,000. i mean, it's nice. i love the place.

$100,000 is steep. how about alabama? >> i know they have some hotels. i haven't heard of it and i didn't get the offer. >> shepard: back in a minute.

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>> shepard: today in 1910, a man from idaho patented the insect destroyer. better known as the bug zapper. when a bug got between two parallel wires, lights out. this man's device used a thin transparent wire to better draw bugs to the light inside. he said it made the zapper nice tore look at so people can put in show windows. now many people consider bug zapper as must-have for the back yard after the man secured the rights for the prototype 107 years ago. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything

on fox news channel. have a fantastic wednesday afternoon. "your world" with neil cavuto is next. the markets today don't know what's going on. they're like kind of flat. we'll see. cavuto knows. >> neil: well, you know, democrats are dancing as voters choose more spending. this was the big scene last night among victorious progressives. so why aren't the markets worrying about this? hi. glad to have you. this is "your world." neil cavuto here to report on what seems to be the day after fallout for liberals back on parade. forget about focusing on what happened a year ago today. the real story, what happened one day ago and what it could mean in the days ahead. voters giving signals that they're okay with spending. >> they are giving that signal, neil. you just covered in virginia, a