kirstin: and toy trains. kelly: we have to take a look at it. a joy to work with you as always. america's news headquarters continues. kirstin: thanks for joining us. ♪ >> a legal battle is brewing in washington as donald trump count the office of management and budget director to be head of a second federal agency. welcome to a brand-new hour in america's news headquarters. >> a busy weekend on this holiday weekend. mick mulvaney is gearing up for double duty as acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau after richard cordray announced an abrupt end,

cadre appointed a different successor. caroline shively in washington with the details, the president can name who he wants but that may not be the case. >> federal vacancy reform act but under the dodd-frank act created a bureau, and acting successor. richard cordray who was head of the bureau, named his chief of staff as acting director citing dodd-frank. cordray has gotten billions in settlements from financial service companies for wrongdoing. some watchdog groups targeted republicans and the banking industry who say he has overstepped. english, his successor, would likely follow his lead. can he do this? democratic senator elizabeth warren thinks so tweeting the

dodd-frank act is clear, there is a vacancy, the deputy director becomes acting director. donald trump can't override that. it would just be temporary. donald trump will have a new permanent head of the agency. the senate has to confirm it. julie: leland: that is beside we are seeing politically. mick mulvaney, doing a lot of work on the budget, he called the agency a sick, sad joke so it begs the question why would he want the second job? >> critics say to get it. he has been a critic of the bureau. in congress in 2014 he called it an example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody. under cordray, it has been aggressive with the agency pushing hard for penalties, in a conference call the white house says mulvaney will take a commonsense approach to leading

staff, most certainly taking it in a different direction and a few minutes ago republican congressman, the head of the financial services committee sent out a statement calling the bureau a rogue agency and looks forward to working with mcilvain it to change it. a big question that will explode monday morning. leland: a question how this gets resolved and who decides, the president taking and collective action. appreciate it. we will be watching. laura: lawmakers facing a to do list upon returning to capitol hill following their thanksgiving break. congressional leadership meets with donald trump tuesday to hammer out the end of the year agenda. on the list tax reform, a budget bill and averting a government shutdown as both parties disagree on how to protect dreamers, this as midterm elections are 12 months away. live in washington with all of this, molly. >> reporter: a lot swirling in washington, tax take center stage when congress comes back

to town, the senate will work on and possibly vote as early as thursday on past legislation, the house passed its bill and some democrats say they need more time at the table to get a better bill. >> this bill 0 hearing. dealing with very complex economic issues. you have to understand the implications of each of these issues. >> they are ready to go to conference committee with their senate counterparts to hammer out a compromise but they say they are ready to fulfill their promise to voters to cut taxes. >> very determined, never in my 3 years as a member of congress seen our majority party more determined to do some things and i am seeing with this. >> reporter: donald trump looking for a legislative victory, tax or for men's

funding for the border wall and meet with top house and senate republicans and democrats tuesday to push his priority. a larger group and senate republicans figure out a strategy going forward on tax reform coming up in the coming weeks. timing is key, midterm election next november, some campaigns underway and the president, republicans and democrats all want legislative successes to take to voters. laura: thanks for keeping a tab on it. leland: donald trump said he would drain the swamp if elected, washington post reported a byproduct of robert mueller's investigation is draining the swamp and it appears to be sending shockwaves through the nation's capital, not as it relates the russia investigation, the deputy managing editor for the weekly

standard joins us a great conversation, glad to have you back. you start with this and think about the people mueller has gone after or appears to be going after, gaetz, manafort and mike flynn insight. none of those relate to election collusion. as you think about it but prior bad acts with nothing to do with the trump campaign. >> reporter: it is about time somebody looked at this, a little strange it is robert mueller doing it given he was supposed to be looking at russian collusion but politico, paid propaganda for foreign governments is one of the most underreported secrets of washington and it is great that robert mueller is looking at this because people have rarely been prosecuted for breaking the law in this regard.

that is why people were so surprised by the paul manafort and gate indictment. a lot had to do with them failing to register under the foreign agent registration act. that is something you hardly ever see prosecutions for. if people find out you didn't register like you were supposed to, do this now. leland: since 1938 or 39 when this law was put into effect to stop nazi sympathizers you had less then ten prosecutions of it at law firms in washington make hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions of dollars a year telling people how to get around fara. are there shockwaves? are people worried about this? >> reporter: that is what i am hearing. people are hearing from people, it has been rarely prosecuted but with robert mueller going after people at the top, people

are starting to worry and i expect to see mike flynn possibly get in trouble for this. keep in mind he didn't register he was doing work on behalf of the turkish government until after he did. this is the guy he was sitting in on classified national security briefings while trump was a candidate and working for governments like turkey and russia. the american people want to see transparency in government. if they knew how much was going on behind the scenes they asked for lobbyists and media figures to be transparent as well. julie: leland: people would be disgusted if they knew a lot of things to go on in washington and that is why you do such good work exposing it. the last part of this as relates to the mueller investigation, a lot of criticism by republicans that it is a witchhunt, has no purpose. you are learning the law of unintended consequences, looking at russian collusion, it could

turn out going after a number of people republicans hate including tony podesta and the podesta group. >> this is a bipartisan issue because you have people on both sides engaging in this and getting millions of dollars from foreign government, tony podesta had to leave the podesta group and the podesta group looks like it is no longer an entity. governments that are usually paying people to do pr work for them are not good people. governments on the up and up don't need a secretive pr campaign to get their views across. governments people are working for our unsavory characters and it is unintended consequence, something once robert mueller start seeing stuff that is illegal or has been mishandled he can't turn a blind eye to it. drain the swamp, he may find no russian collusion but people from the left and the right in

trouble for what they have been up to. leland: i ran into the ukrainian government manafor it were working for, people who believe in our ideals for sure, thanks for joining us. >> reporter: great discussion. laura: fox news alert, the number of dead in the egypt mosque attack rising to 305 victims including 27 children and dozens of others hurt when islamic militants detonated bombs and then fired at worshipers as they were running for their lives. amy kellogg is live. >> so difficult to imagine you can kill 300 people in a mosque and say you are doing this in the name of islam. no one has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack but authorities in egypt

said they found isis flags in the vehicle of the attackers and there's a very active affiliate of isis in northern sinai where this happened, 305 people killed, 27 children, 30 terrorists, 100 were injured, the killers drove five jeeps, set cars on fire around the mosque so people couldn't escape, set off grenades and opened fire in that mosque. there were reports that there was a bomb as well but they shot at people wildly as they fled. it is first time, isis claimed it beheaded one sufi cleric last year. a man who was 100 years old. it is mystical, they are peaceful people and groups like isis consider them heretics. friday's attack has been condemned by many groups from hamas to residents of cairo.

>> translator: especially if you are muslim how can you reach this point? you say your muslim and defending islam and you are attacking a mosque? why are you fighting? what are you fighting? >> reporter: retribution has happened some airstrikes, targeted vehicles used by attackers in areas where they live. sinai has been problematic for a while, there was a crackdown on smugglers, many said to have radicalized in egyptian jails, there are few prospects, the government heavy-handed dealing with radicals has been controversial but the egyptian president faust to fight them with absolute strength. the eiffel tower usually sparkly in the evening, period of darkness last night in remembrance of the victims. this is egypt's deadliest attack in modern history and the

country has declared three days of morning as they sadly have the process all of this. leland: 300, so hard to wrap your mind around that. laura: more on that throughout the show and how it relates to israel. the pakistani government has called on the army to help control the riots spreading across several cities in protest over a recent change in the blasphemy law. 200 were injured including dozens of police officers, the violence issued a countrywide blackout of all tv news channels and social media platforms. >> translator: what the government did, the whole world will view this as an alarming development and should condemn it and will affect pakistan globally. >> the government saying the move was necessary, live coverage of the protests were

simply inciting more protests. leland: navy identifying sailors lost at sea, the missing men his plane crashed on wednesday coming up. small business saturday, how you can get more customers to check out your business coming up straightahead.

>> amid the high, black friday and cyber is a mama the america have small business getting their share of holiday shopping dollars, small business saturday. carman out on the streets of queens from fifth avenue but no less busy. >> a story a book shop busy from the beginning when it opened up at 10:00 a.m. it was started by american express to help struggling small businesses in the years after the recession. that recession really hurt small businesses, 40% of the jobs lost during the recession lost during small businesses, let me pause for a second train going by in local listeria, american express helped promote shoppers to go to

these small businesses before the holidays, lexi sees two or three times more shoppers at a bookstore on small business saturday and is really a big help. listen to what she told us. >> when buying things for the store, keep my money local, bank with local banks, shop at a local hardware store when we need supplies for the store. that is incredibly important for communities keeping tax base here, good for schools and local jobs and little by little and increasing national conversation about the importance of that. >> american express has promoted this day putting it out there to let people know go to your small business today, spend money, don't spend it all on cybermonday and black friday and it has helped, the number of

shoppers who have come out today has risen from 77 million to 112 million last year. as well as when we talk about the money that has been spent has also risen up to $15.4 billion last year. more people understanding the importance of shopping small, they need all the help they can get. if american express does this they love it. a lot of places, double loyalty points,

diversified financial consultancies, welcome to this big day for small businesses. as we heard in brian's report there are a lot of benefits for small business saturday, when is how these mom and pop operations reinvest in the local economy. >> job creation, most people don't realize, think jobs are created by big institutions. the majority of jobs created year after year is by the local small business owner. laura: in terms of job creation what benefits do you see? >> we focus on job creation, hiring people from the local community, culturally hiring people from their own cultures to serve as their client base. most of the money they are in stays in the community, local real estate, and their homes, rent local properties including

commercial space revitalizing the bowl for small business. i would like you to shop every single day, not just small business saturday but businesses prepare all year long for this. >> this is the super bowl but the connections they make today can last the entire year. local restaurant and local grocery store, financial services business, looking to make connections with the consumer, your client, that connection can go on and on and word-of-mouth is powerful in this. laura: in the news all year long, unemployment rate, closed

stock market is high and tax reform. talk about the momentum of that going into this one day. >> we look in the press and the amazon creating a second grand headquarter, billions of dollars being passed around. imagine if they were focus towards a small business owner around the country, imagine the benefits and cascading effect of these benefits. a lot of talk in washington about job growth and economic growth and keeping it here in the us. it has to start at the local level, shop in your local boutique, go to the local restaurants, shop in a local grocery store. laura: i am sure the small businesses, we all hope that happens for small businesses but how do you get people to keep coming back? the transformation of the

industry in general? >> one thing this small business can do is personalized service. they don't have a marketing budget or door buster that can give away product to get someone in the door so they have to create that connection with the consumer, that relationship with the client walking in the door specializing whether it is food products, specializing services they supply, creating that relationship as i call it that the last throughout the year. laura: social media helping. >> small business can be more competitive. in the old days they were disadvantaged. they have a good competitive advantage. laura: $112 million spent last year, incredible growth, we hope to see more of that. >> we have to keep it going, get out and shop local. laura: you believe and go shopping. i will look forward to hearing

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>> never boring with this white house, after 6 hours spent at his trump international golf club down the street in west palm beach the presidential motorcade has returned tomorrow lago, donald trump did golf 18 holes but the white house will never confirm or deny that, nor would we find out, it would not have beaten yesterday's for some. the presidential motorcade drove to jupiter to trump national golf club, tiger woods, dustin johnson, the white house is not letting the media should any of these golf outings other than the motorcade. cameras of not shot much since the president has been in town. the only public viewing we have had of the president and first lady was here was thanksgiving morning, when there was a coast guard quarter at riviera beach.

donald trump's last week came from time magazine man of the year, time magazine called to say i was going to be named man, person of the year like last year but i would agree to interview and a major photo shoot, probably no good and took a pass. thanks anyway. here is corey lewandowski on "fox and friends". >> why should we be surprised? the mainstream media never wants to give this president the credit they deserve, the stock market is through the roof, better than a year ago, who else could be time magazine man of the year, our president, donald trump. >> reporter: on his upcoming tuesday in dc donald trump's meeting with the congressional leadership, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, senate minority leader chuck schumer and nancy

pelosi, that is primarily preventing a federal government shutdown next month. they have until december 8th to pass a short-term budget extension. on december rates the money runs out. laura: phil keating, thanks for that report and check back with you as the weekend goes on. leland: what happens could affect the 2018 midterms and a number of senate republican candidates and republicans distancing themselves from mitch mcconnell who failed to push through donald trump's legislative agenda. joining us to talk about it is the president of district media group and fellow for the heritage foundation and todd calloway from the great state of missouri. and the founder of pine street strategy, great to see both of

you. how does a sitting majority leader who has been reelected to that spot a number of times become the punching bag for his own party? >> look at one of the reasons donald trump won, because people were tired of establishment. here you do have a career politician, mitch mcconnell has been in the senate three decades, worked on the taxpayer dime for 50 years and when people are tired of politics as usual he does become a person people use to run against. here's where i have a caveat, talking about midterms. as long as republicans have a legislative victory, tax reform is what they are pushing for, senator mcconnell is able to do tax reform, maybe even healthcare reform, could be talking about this in a different way because what republicans need our legislative victories. >> democrats do everything they

can to prevent that. >> presumably but the problem is we get an ill-conceived tax bill that should take 10 to 12 years to craft the underpinnings, we would get something to get a legislative victory. >> back to mitch mcconnell. democrats seem to be gleeful almost about this. >> mitch mcconnell is unpopular but all of congress is unpopular. just a price of leadership, this comes with the territory. leadership are the ones personified in the court of public opinion when talking about an unpopular congress, that is the burden mitch mcconnell has chosen. i would warn senate and house would do well not to align

themselves with the steve bannon wing of the republican party who are polarizing at best and at worst are aligned with some extremist elements of our society. leland: it worked for roy more to it ally himself with steve bannon. it brings up an important question. you heard a little bit of a defense of mitch mcconnell which is where democrats want to do, could be a deathknell for republicans. >> democrats hedge their bets carefully when it comes to tax reform or the budget, they want to win on some of these because republicans do have the house and the senate but we have to take into account any time you have republicans in leadership if you are not able to pass anything you are the one who will be held responsible. for quite a few years president obama was the man they ran against, hard when you are trying to push things forward and not be again sing.

leland: republican were named the party of no, now they have to be the party of at least yes or get to 50 yeas. here is what the mcconnell's thinking is, josh holmes in an interview with liquor dismissed conversations about the leader's future as a fun beltway journalist story written every election cycle and noted mcconnell won six leadership elections, unanimously, you can argue about the story driving reality or reality driving the story but does this become a self-fulfilling prophecy and impact each mcconnell's ability to whip the votes he needs. >> a lot has changed since donald trump did when and you have to look at senator mcconnell's current colleagues like jeff flake who dropped out because he knows he can't win in arizona. there is a different climate across the country. people are tired of politics as usual. i don't think mitch mcconnell should dismiss this. you have growing support for

people to ask him to step down from leadership. leland: that has been discussed but for someone from the republican caucus to rally along, a merger taking on mitch mcconnell. final word here. for democrats who have their own problems with a far fringe of their own party to the left, how do democrats prevent that far left wing from making it impossible to capitalize on republican missteps? >> i disagree that is something democratic party is facing because if it were -- let me finish. leland: there is not a challenge to democrats from the left >> if i could finish, you see a real challenge in michigan, a real challenge for claire mccaskill on the left in missouri, no such thing exists. the questions, are the democrats going to get a proper turn out

to win in the general, like doug jones in alabama. there is no serious threat on the left real democrats. that would be -- on the primarys. leland: you hear a lot of democrats always talk about how they have to protect -- >> claire mccaskill in missouri. >> too far to the left. >> in michigan. leland: you are entitled to your opinion. the polls say something different. another panel discussion coming up. laura: donald trump responding to the deadly mosque attack in egypt, what he is hearing about terrorist ideology and the path to defeating it coming up.

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laura: donald trump renewing his call for the travel bannon border wall after the mosque attack the guild 300 in egypt. the world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat the militarily and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence. joining me is gordon shane, author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world. unfold, 305 dead in this, to talk at the children, what do you think of donald trump's

tweets? >> he was correct when he talked about militarily defeating the terrorists. the egyptian president said what we need to do is brute force. and portion of syria and iraq and because of that you have incidents like the one in egypt but over time, the -- isis is going to lose its allure because it lost militarily. laura: as we track the movements of isis things might be settling down some regard. you mentioned losing their

footing, we have the mosque attack, what do you think the story is as far as the power and strength with isis, where are we really? >> we are winning but we can't declare final victory, you no longer have the big caliphate or what looks like a nationstate. this will metastasize, you will see fighters through egypt and europe and the united states but these are not going to have the same force, people will die and that is something we will try to prevent but isis is not going to have that same allure and when it doesn't have that allure the attacks will shrill. laura: we listen for the words of the president and when we hear things like he wants to crush terrorist with military means what does that look like in terms of military personnel? what exactly are we talking

about? >> we will have more military personnel in syria. the dispute is how many we have, as many as 7000s, that number may have to go up and we have to do these things. in january when president obama set isis was the jv, we reduced our footprint in iraq, isis became a real threat in establishing a caliphate that looked like it had a lot of territory, control a lot of money, oil and the rest of it and only through military action were we able to shrink that along with the countries we were working with so we have more people fair. we don't want to do that. it is politically unpopular when presidents to politically popular things these threats grow. >> how do you think the president's word on terrorism is playing out when he condemned the mosque attack in the united states will stand with egypt in

the face of terrorism, how does that translate into action? how is it perceived? >> it will be taken very well and saudi arabia it will be taken well. countries are not going to like it, they fuel terrorism with their links with hezbollah. if you are not a friend of the us you will not like the president's tweet. a lot of people would like to see this as we do this by making sure people love us but that is not the way to deal with it. the way to win is on the battlefield, kill the enemy, capture them or force them into retirement, that is an unfortunate reality but that is the way it is. laura: what was your reaction when you heard the news on the mosque and you heard what happened and the numbers began to rise, this great number of 300? >> it is horrific and we never get used to it, regardless what happens, you see children and the rest of it, this will shake us to the core as long as it

continues, has to stop. laura: we will have some resolution and some answers as we move forward, thank you for being with us. appreciate it. leland: authorities charge a suspect with capital murder in the shooting of the texas state trooper, the funeral to come, officials say the man on the left shot damon allen during a traffic stop outside dallas, opened fire while alan was walking back to his patrol car, and went on the run being arrested 100 miles away, first-time attacks trooper has been shot in the line of duty in a decade. laura: sexual harassment allegations continue to pile up, the consequences, some powerful

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laura: prospect of carjack or in southern california is in custody after a standoff with police, he climbed on his roof after fleeing the scene and refusing to come down for six hours. they were told to lock their doors and hunker down. the suspect was not armed and no one was seriously hurt. leland: more allegations of sexual misconduct coming out every day on capitol hill, a congressman and senator and senate candidate in hot water. the entertainment world grappling with new allegations. marianne rafferty is in los angeles and this will only get

bigger. >> reporter: the resolution is meant to get lawmakers attention when it comes to these allegations in light of sexual harassment claims against senator our franken. multiple women have come forward with claims of harassment including groping and unwanted kidding. senator franken announced an apology after two more women came out with accusations. franken said québec i learned some of those encounters i crossed the line for some women and i know any numbers too many. the house resolution is aimed at driving that point home. robert brady of the committee on house administration says, quote, we cannot tolerate any dissemination of harassment in the workplace or have a system that protects offenders. the committee will vote next week, it is expected to pass but they are wondering why it is taking so long to implement. >> it is amazing congress is just now doing this and you

should tell members of congress who should be successful people in our society not to grope people with whom they work. >> we have to wait to find out the results of the vote on the resolution. leland: that is capitol hill, now the media entertainment. other prominent figures, more names this weekend. >> reporter: lawmakers are not alone with these accusations, last week prominent news anchor and host of cbs this morning charlie rose was fired and had many journalism awards and honors suspended. cbs and bloomberg terminating their contracts with rose. than the roy more campaign in alabama plagued with allegations but he is maintaining his innocence, holding a rally monday, the first since november 16th where reporters were told not to ask questions

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