>> up in your grill, that's right. hope you had a great weekend, everybody. how was your thanksgiving? >> at ten. how about you? >> i agree. well-deserved. >> see you tomorrow. >> fox news alert, new records for the markets with the dow just touching an all-time today high. 23 6:30 one right now. joining the s&p on the nasdaq composite, if the dow keeps this up, it will be the 61st record close under president trump, clearly melissa francis did some shopping over the weekend. >> melissa: i did. >> jon: now that's fox news alert on the battle for tax reform with the president about to hold a key meeting. good morning to you, i am jon scott and good morning to you. >> melissa: good morning, i melissa francis. did you have a great thanksgiving? me too. we are life on capitol hill as

members of the senate finance committee now get ready to head to the white house or they will have lunch with president trump and vice president pence. >> jon: the president who just returned from the winter white house in florida tweeting this. "back in d.c., big week for tax cuts and many other things of great importance to our country. senate republicans will hopefully come through for all of us. the tax cut bill is getting better and better. the end result will be great for all." kristin fisher live at the white house now. >> this is truly a make or break moment for republicans on tax reform. president trump has promised tax cuts by christmas and in order to meet that deadline, the senate likely needs to vote on its version of the tax bill this week. just a few moments ago, the white house director of legislative affairs mike short says he's hopeful that they will be able to meet that deadline and vote on thursday. >> of course, we are working to satisfy all the members in the senate so we can get the most

yes votes as possible. but we feel very good about this process and the members are looking to give us a "yes" vote because i understand how important it is to get tax relief for middle income families. >> today, president trump will be sitting down with five members of the senate finance committee, the committee's chairman and five other republican senators will be heading to capitol hill to address senate republicans and make his final push, for tax reform. in case you had any doubt how big a deal this is, how important this is not only to present trump agenda but to all republicans, listen to senator lindsey graham explain it as only he can. >> we will get there because failure is not an option when it comes to the republican party cutting taxes. every republican senator, the fate of the party is in our hands as well as that of the economy. the economy needs the tax cut in the republican party needs to deliver so i think we will get there. >> failure is not an option.

at the same time, you have this mounting legal battle over who runs the nation's top consumer watchdog agency grid over the weekend, the director in an obama air over pointy resigned naming the woman as acting director. but the white house is saying he can't do that. only the president has that power so they need budget director mick mulvaney to the post, someone who's been very critical of the agency. sue last night, the top attorney at this cfpb is now siding with the trump administration so there is a great deal of uncertainty. who gets the job, who gets that office, get that parking space? we know that mick mulvaney showed up this morning for work. he's been there since early this morning, so remains to be seen that there is certainly a mounting political and legal battle brewing here at the same time that this white house really just want to be focused on tax reform and getting that done by christmas.

>> jon: food fight at this espp. keep us updated. senate republicans sounding hopeful that they will get it done. >> we are still looking through all the aspects. i can imagine that we will not support this as a whole and in the senate, i'm still working on some specific parts of it. what i call it that backstop to be able to make sure that's in place and other aspects of it. this will get done. we have got to get this done for the nation. >> melissa: joining us now is mainstreet columnist for "the wall street journal" and former chief speechwriter for president george w. bush. thank you so much for joining us. they are at the moment where they got to start doing the vote counting and we are seeing a little bit of what they do in washington which is making some deals. we can have this, we can have that. one that a lot of people didn't notice necessarily, senator lisa murkowski was a possible know.

she wrote an op-ed about how she was a "yes" because she liked the repeal of the obamacare mandate but part of the revenue to pay for what's going on is coming from opening up her territory and something that she wanted. you think that was a deal and were there more deals to be don done? >> sure, and i think this is how legislation is made. it's made with all sorts of deals. i think this is also what separates it from the obamacare repeal. no one understand what that bill was. republicans and really defend it or explain it, so it became the narrative with the democratic narrative here depriving all these people of insurance. so think a lot of it republicans were nervous. i detect certain issues are looking at. there's a lot of room for compromises i think it's going to get done. >> melissa: you see people raising their hands like lisa murkowski did. who had been no and then he indicated that what was

bothering him was he didn't think the deduction was big enough for that small business passed through that's important to him did when he has some company on that front. you think he can get to yes and how with a work that out? >> i don't know what the actual deal would be to get the ron johnson yes. i would hope so. my principal is the perfect is the enemy of the good. this is move the ball down the line? i think it does and there's a good argument so i think there's two arguments. i think the economy really needs it. if you want to deliver for the american people, they need the growth that gives them more choices of jobs, fatter paychecks, and all sorts of opportunities. what republicans needed as everybody pointed out, they flopped on obamacare and they're going to go into these races next year if they don't have this delivered. it's a big problem for them. >> melissa: they can only lose two in the senate and they lose

out some hopefuls of surprise but they could get. do you think joe manchin is really one of those? he is listed as may be. because i hate to say yes, that there possibility because in the end, i think the democrats so frequently disappoint, they don't come around to what they know is right. i think if we got 51 or we got all 52, then we might see some democrats climb on board. >> melissa: interesting. >> is going to be very difficult for a democrat to be the vote to pass that. i think in his or her own party, that would be a really difficult position to be in. >> melissa: one of the big hanging point that everybody's talking about is a state and local tax deduction, but i don't see a lot of intended for republicans to give on that because it doesn't seem like it would help them get any votes. >> at least not in the senate. i'm not sure there are any senators from sort of high tax states. there are a bunch of the house and the california delegation mostly came around. republican delegation even

though they have a lot of state and local taxes. so again, i think these things could be done and you don't see people drawing lines in the sand saying i'm definitely not going to do this. there's a lot of room for movement around the edges that will satisfy people and i think they want to get it done and i don't think they're afraid of the argument the way a lot of them were afraid and obamacare repeal. >> melissa: the democratic talking point right now is that you're going to raise taxes on middle-class people if you look at the fine print of that argument, they're talking about in 2027, a lot of these cuts expire, when you have that fight with the democrats, that discussion i should say, is a make those cuts per minute which is a funny argument coming from democrats first of all. >> i'd be all for that. but we see no i think, 51 votes in the house for ronald reagan's tax cut.

this is one of the problems of the democratic party. they've turned away from economic growth as a principal. they just sort of take it for granted and don't care about it and i think that's a bad place for them to be. >> melissa: if this passes and you voted no in either place, does it become an albatross? >> i think it could. i think it could become an albatross. right now, the narrative is republicans are not doing anything, they are failing on their promises. if they pass this, a lot changes both politically and economically. >> melissa: you're always so smart and safe will thank you for joining us. >> jon: meanwhile, some new fallout from the sexual-harassment scandals on capitol hill. congressman john conyers announcing he stepping down from his post as the ranking democrat on the house judiciary committee. that's a big committee. as the house ethics committee investigates allegations that he sexually harassed aides. two congressional correspondent mike emanuel life from capitol hill with more. >> good morning, under intense

pressure to step aside from that leadership position on the judiciary committee. but top house democratic leaders didn't want to look like he was pushed. >> john conyers is an icon in our country. he's done a great deal to protect women and violence against women, the right wing is no praising him for that and he did great work on that. >> john conyers is the longest serving member of congress and has been accused of rubbing and touching former staffers. he admitted a $27,000 sediment to one staffer and attorney for conyers said last week, congressman conyers has no plans to resign but he did announce he would step aside as judiciary committee top democrat and issue this reminder, "i'm grateful to my colleagues who have called for due process before weighing judgment. i would urge them to continue to do so for any number accused of wrongdoing. basic fairness requires no less. then there's minnesota senator al franken, who did some

local media interviews with minnesota outlets hoping then he could return to work. >> this whole thing has been embarrassing and has been difficult. this is what i'm doing, i'm taking responsibility. i apologized to the women who have felt disrespected and to everyone i've let down. >> a key senate republicans as the ethics committee should do its work looking into the al franken matter. >> i don't know all the facts. i don't think all of those are public yet. i do think all of this is difficult as it is in some respects for our society is really important. because i think it will end up changing people's attitudes and changing our culture. >> there's also a push here under way to try to make it easier for folks on capitol hill to file sexual harassment claims and to make sure that any settlement is paid for by the lawmakers and not the taxpayers.

>> jon: mike emanuel on capitol hill, thank you. >> melissa: tens of thousands of tourists stranded in bali. interrupting volcanoes causing a travel nightmare. just how long could people be stuck there? plus, michael flynn signals he may be cooperating with the special counsel's russia probe. our media panel explains how this could impact to the wing. listen to one high-profile attorney give his take. >> there's no doubt about it the general flynn was involved in the trunk campaign early on so should he decide to cooperate with the prosecutor, he could give insight into what was taking place, what meetings and what was happening during the trunk campaign which is potentially what the special prosecutor is looking at.

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>> jon: president trump dismisses reports that his former national security advisor michael flynn might be cooperating with the special

counsel's russia investigation. the president tweeting yesterday "is the day i took office, all you hear is the phony democrat excuse for losing the election. russia, prussia, russia. despite this, i have the economy booming and i've possibly done more than any ten months president, make america great again. for more, let's bring in our panel. oh, man. you can tell it had a few days off. media reported for the hill. senior politics writer i want to start with you because the president clearly is still resentful of the russia coverage, and you point out that he has gotten more than perhaps his share of coverage in that zone. >> i think we are at that point now or in 2017, we start looking back on media coverage of this administration in its first year in one big theme is obviously russia. you look at a poll that was done

by bloomberg over the summer, and it showed that this was only seen by 6% of american voters as being the most important topic to them behind the economy, health care, terrorism, immigration, even climate change. so i think he sees it as being too skewed in one direction in terms of russia in the investigation. obviously it should be covered, there are three different investigations going on but mostly, and analysis last month will be your focusing way too much on president trump the person instead of the policies that he is trying to implement or he is proposing. this is what i mean. 75% of coverage of this president is based on his character and leadership, only one quarter of policy which is the thing that actually affects people's lives under the previous administration, under president obama, that was a 50/50 split where it should be. now our priorities have been more in terms of covering president trump in terms of psychoanalysis and also concentrating on the story that even though it is important, it isn't as important nearly to people at home as other things

like the economy of terrorism. >> jon: previous presidents have complained when the economy goes south, they get all the blame and if it goes north, they don't get much of the credit. this president is taking a lot of credit for the economy but it is true that things are booming right now on wall street and elsewhere and the media don't seem to be giving it all that much coverage. >> i think that is the best card for the president to play. is the economy. i think that's what his supporters .2 regularly. you can always argue about the media coverage and how you would apportion economic coverage to assess a special prosecutor investigation but i think to his tweet on the economy, he didn't really address the substance of the development with michael flynn. this was a top ally of his to the campaign, his appointed national security advisor has basically signaled we are cutting off ties, we are not going to talk to you about the

investigation anymore. i do think that is an important story given that this would be if there was a charge launched against mr. flynn, that would be the highest ranking official in the trump administration, even higher than paul manafort who was his campaign manager for his campaign chairman, i should say. if michael flynn was his national security advisor, that's a very high ranking position in the administration. >> jon: reportedly, president obama told president-elect trump not to hire him. >> probably true. i think in the court of public opinion, paul manafort is the michael flynn's are seen as less than up to standing at this point. i think were trump supporters have a problem with all of the coverages that they still don't see any connection to the president himself. i get that you could flip flynn and you could flip me in a fort and maybe get to that point but to this point after 13 months basically of talking about russia, we still have yet to see even a drop of evidence in terms of going actually to the president.

so if somebody else, but the president survives, is that a big story? yeah, but is it monumental in the way the coverages presented? i'm not so sure. >> jon: again, i come back to this time and again, but in the election, 2012 election, president obama chided mitt romney for calling russia our greatest geopolitical flow, and there was kind of a collective yon in the media. now all of a sudden, russia is front and center in the biggest item out there. >> it is for sure but let's also point out the second track on this. the president has taken -- put aside the investigation into whether there was collusion. the president has taken a completely different approach to russia than we have seen prior presidents. he has somewhat of an affection for vladimir putin, which is different than president obama, from even going back to president george w. bush. this is a different tactic, so that's part of the reason why

you are seeing an additional amount of russian coverage because of what the president is coming out of the president's own mouth. i would also say the special prosecutor, if they don't -- if they don't prove any collusion, if he's got nothing to hide, should he embrace this and say little carts while they may? this is the investigation, let him have two years, let him have three years and he's not going to find anything and then say we had an independent arbiter look at this in my hands are clean. i think that could be beneficial for the president of their proven there wasn't any collusion. >> jon: he has said many times that there was no collusion, but you're right, little proof from robert mueller would certainly help the white house. thank you very much. >> melissa: verdict watching the murder case that dropped the sanctuary cities debate into the national spotlight. when jurors now about to get back to deliberation, how close are they to deciding the fate of

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standing here and everything is closed. i got the information very late. >> jon: how you get all those people out of there without airplanes? that's a good question. the volcano has a history of major eruptions for the last one killed more than 1,000 people. >> melissa: just in on a murder case that turned the national spotlight on the sanctuary city debate with the jury now minutes away from assuming deliberations on the fate of the illegal immigrant deported multiple times who stands accused of killing kate silent. live in san francisco, what do you expecting today? >> these jurors have been repeatedly admonished by the judge to avoid all media coverage and not to discuss the case with anyone, so after a long holiday weekend with friends and family, these jurors are probably anxious to start their first full day of deliberations and reach a verdict in this high-profile case.

they're having to weigh mostly circumstantial evidence to decide whether the shooting death of kate steinle in july of 2015 the san francisco peer was an act of murder or a tragic accident. nobody actually saw the shooting and there's no direct evidence that the defendant, 45-year-old intended to kill steinle. he didn't know her. if there was no motive, and the fatal bullet ricocheted off the ground, striking her in the back some 90 feet away. that is the same distance is between home plate and first base. defense experts says there's no way to intentionally shoot someone with such a skipped shot and with that ricochet the bullet would have missed steinle by about 78 feet. he claims he found the gun wrapped in a t-shirt under a bench and that he didn't know it was a gun when he picked it up to see what it was. but prosecutor diana garcia argued there was intent to kill. the defendant was just a lousy shot. she claims that he brought the gun onto the pier concealed in his clothing and was playing a

secret game of russian roulette. garcia argued that evidence proves he showed reckless disregard for human life. the requirement for conviction of second-degree murder. the jury cannot consider his legal status for the fact that he was protected by san francisco's sanctuary laws. there was no testimony about any of that during the trial. the deliberations will continue until 7:30 eastern time, 4:30 pacific. >> melissa: one to keep an eye on for sure, thank you. >> jon: "time" magazine sold in an all cash deal backed by billionaires with strong political interests. a live report on that head. plus, republicans are remaining optimistic on tax reform after the house passed their version of the bill but there's opposition from both parties in the senate. our political panel he is in. >> if we want to get the economy growing at a faster rate creating better paying jobs and raising wages in this country, we need to get this tax bill across the finish line.

>> jon: just in on capitol hill, full steam ahead with a tax bill on a vote on the senate version of the bill expected this week. several republican lawmakers still withholding their support but the senate number says he's not worried. >> i believe it will pass. i think that in the end, we have members who are expressing what are legitimate concerns who have ideas about how to make the bills stronger and better and we

are certainly open to those and we are going to have an open process on the floor of the united states senate where people can offer amendments. those amendments can get debated and voted upon. it will be plenty of opportunities to change the bill in the direction some of our senators want to see. in the other hand, we need to get this accomplishment. this is a goal that we've had for a long time, the tax code in this country needs to be changed up or going to be competitive in the global marketplace. businesses are not competitive today. >> jon: let's bring in our panel. richard fowler is a fox news contributor and radio talk show host. john giordano is a partner at archer and former deputy counsel to the presidential transition committee of president donald trump. so government, you just heard senator john through their sounding pretty optimistic but there are a lot of g.o.p. senators who have expressed their reservations about this bill. what is your prediction? >> is interesting listening to

that. some like somebody checking off the list of christmas things to buy. got to get us a compliment and here's the problem with this bill. it creates a $1.5 trillion deficit that's going to be on the shoulders of millennials like myself that's what makes this bill problematic and that's why they're going to have problems getting the votes they need to pass it. one was in particular that folks should watch for is john mccain who voted against the bush tax cut for that same reason and that it exploded the deficit. republicans have to find a way to even make this bill deficit neutral or faced death of this bill by their own party. >> i've got to stick with you for a minute because a lot of democrats don't seem to mind deficits or deficit spending as long as it's voted in by democrats. >> but we are not the problem here. republican votes and republican bill. they're having a problem in their own party. getting the deficit hawks to

come off the bench and vote for a bill that will explode the deficit according to the congressional budget office. >> jon: how do you see a? is it going to explode the deficit and is that worth it? >> i don't see that excluding the deficit. this bill is going to be a win. it's going to be a win for businesses, hardworking american families, going to be putting $5,000 back in the pockets of hardworking americans through a combination of pay cuts, pay raises, and tax cuts. >> so the congressional budget office is wrong is not going to create a $1.5 trillion deficit. stick with more important here is what is going to do for american families. >> jon: let him answer, richard. >> is not only going to put money back into the pockets of hardworking american families, it's going to level the playing field for american businesses through tax cuts. to bring you business tax down

to 20%, it's going to allow us to compete on the global competitive market. this is a win for all. >> jon: the argument among many republicans is that you cut taxes, you boost business activity, you create jobs. does that create more wealth and that create more tax and therefore more tax revenue? >> i agree with that. if you cut taxes for the middle, you create more discretionary spending, that expand the economy. here's the problem with this particular tax bill that the tax cuts are going to go to the middle. yesterday on one of the sunday shows, lindsey graham had that same argument great he said by 2020, the tax cuts for the middle class will expire. so these individuals are going to have the most money to spend in the most money going back into the economy. millionaires and billionaires when they get a tax cut are not going to go out and buy a new car take the kid on vacation. only middle-class families and working families do that which is what primes the economy.

this notion that we are going to get two or 3% gdp from the tax bill which is not tax reform but think is problematic at best. >> jon: talking about on the senate side doubling the standard deduction for instance. that's a pretty healthy tax cut for anybody who has children. >> absolutely. it is a significant tax cut. circling back on what richard was saying, he mentioned a business presence. this tax plan, this tax plan is going to add 1 million jobs rid of the house plan is going to have 1 million.jobs to the economy. over the next several years. as far as a christmas present, this is why the president is saying he's going to give the american people a great big present for christmas in the form of tax cuts.

>> this is alternative facts to say this tax cut is going to create 1 million jobs in the next couple of years. i think the economy and the current state that we are in would create 1 million jobs is the next coming years. created 200,000 jobs this month alone. just because we are going to have jobs, we've had jobs for almost the past ten years. so basing it on a tax bill i think is problematic number one, number two, the idea that you think there was going to increase the standard deduction but for folks who live in high tax states, people in new york, people in maryland, people who live in california, they're seeing their taxes go up because they're getting rid of the tax deductions pretty well, it's going to benefit some, it will hurt a lot of others which is why republicans have a huge problem getting this bill through their own party. even donald trump knows that which is why he's meeting with republicans today. he's not meeting with democrats. he's meeting with republicans because he needs their vote. >> jon: last word.

>> i believe the center echoing he said this bill will pass. this will get past, the american people realize it's not only important for themselves and their family but their businesses and allowing us to compete on the competitive global market. >> jon: richard fowler, thank you. >> melissa: is new information on the rival media group marist corporation will pay nearly $2 million worth of financial help the conservative billionaire koch brothers. live from new york with more on this deal. >> good to see you. the steel obviously highlights ever changing media landscape. we have magazines consolidating in the digital era because they want to expand their readership. also bring in the millennials. this mirror the time deal raises a lot of additional questions. first, now that the conservative koch brothers helped fund the deal with $650 million

investment, will they influence the editorial? meredith says no and the brothers won't even have a seat on the new company's board but certainly will help to make you feel possible in a deal that values time incorporated at $2.8 billion. better homes & gardens under one roof. we should also point out that meredith owns some local tv stations. so meredith obviously thinks there's untapped value in combining the companies and it could have something to do with some of time incorporated's high-profile issues, for instance, a name to donald trump i'm a person of the year in 2016 and recently the president tweeted that he rejected this year's award because he was opposed to the magazine's process picking it's winter. time has refuted the president's claim. i know you know this, melissa. people mag just named blake shelton 2017 sexiest man alive so the point is the magazines are still very much a part of our national conversation

despite revenue that continues to fall. and these companies continue to miss wall street expectations. >> melissa: to make a joke here about the sexiest man alive but we are not living in that climate right now so i will keep that joke to myself read >> text me later. >> melissa: thank you very much, see you later. >> jon: i like blake shelton. i do know that i call him. >> melissa: careful, john, careful. save yourself. >> jon: russian president vladimir pugh and lashing back at the united states about why a new law he signed might cause problems for u.s. media oversea overseas. meanwhile, a toy drive turns into chaos as shots rang out. what turned a holiday fund-raiser into a night of terror? >> that's when we heard everybody yelling and running, so we ducked and try to get awa away.

>> jon: a man is that after shots ring out at an arizona toy drive causing chaos and terror for people at the annual charity event. police capturing the suspects earlier this morning. witnesses identified him fleeing the scene after firing several shots at the 27-year-old victim. the victim was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead. police are investigating the suspects possible motives. >> melissa: russian president of vladimir putin signing a new law over the weekend of allowing russian authorities to label american media outlets as foreign agents. many view this as a direct response to what moscow was calling unacceptable behavior by the u.s. after u.s. intelligence officials accused the kremlin of using their own media organization to influence u.s. voters with the u.s. presidential election. joining me now is former u.s. intelligence officer andrew peek. thank you for joining us. what's your take on this?

>> this was always the concern about targeting russian outlets like rt which is backed by russian intelligence services that they would go after our government owned media stations like the voice of america, like radio for europe and into which we invest far more than the russian government does into theirs. the reason it was still a good idea to go after outlets like rt is that even if they cut down on radio free europe and voice of america, you're still 1,000 u.s. channels like fox that beam into russia that was sort of get across america's message of democracy, liberal values, and the basic masters of the u.s. government want to promote a broad. the russian government really doesn't have a similar private-sector outlet. >> melissa: when i was going down on the details of what was included in this, like that comeau's voice of america, radio free europe, it wasn't any of the major news outlets. and what impact would it have on

voice of america if they had to register as a foreign agent? >> i think would be a hassle more than anything else. unfortunately for a lot of government owned entities, of course are not as nimble as private entities and so complying with local regulatory regulations and changes in local laws were really causing disruption in those services probably that will impact them more than it would impact fox. >> melissa: i wouldn't be surprised if someone took on the case pro bono hours represented them on that front on a moral ground thing, one of them to still be able to get into russi russia. it's a very interesting for people in her audience out there it is i follow them on twitter, it doesn't look like on the surface that it is an arm of the russian government, but that's what it is. you're kind of seeing the propaganda that president butte wants to put out. it is different then the voice of america which doesn't put out but the president dictates to

them to do. isn't there a difference? >> there is. that is precisely the case we would make to the russians. in their defense to be totally fair to them, that is probably a pretty tough case when another country is saying our state run stations reflect our values, but yours reflects your kind of grubby geopolitical interests. but in fact, that's actually true. i was to reflect our values. resident trump is not on the phone with the voice of america telling them what he wants to run. and by contrast, putin probably is. >> jon: interesting also to see this going back and forth when they were so many complaints in the last trip. this move kind of shows that they feel like they are getting pushed around on this, that they are frustrated with the response of their getting from the meddling in our election. they don't feel like they did it and insert eye roll, know where we stand on that. but they're trying to make a

statement that they don't like being labeled and that way. >> absolutely. the russians will always play tit for tat with us in these diplomatic kind of fdic games. when we try to shut down the consulate in san francisco, they will always retaliate by cutting down one of our outlets in russia. in general, except for this example, in general that hurts us more than them because they're more closed society. so there's a lot of outlets for russia into the united states. there's a lot of interaction russians have with the united states and there really aren't that many but the u.s. into russia. we don't have a lot of people over there. it's much harder for u.s. citizens to get access to russia than it is for russians to get access to the u.s. so this is a little bit of a special case. >> melissa: we are free country. thank you, appreciate your time. >> jon: the british whales are welcoming and american addition to their family. why the upcoming nuptials over a break from centuries of

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>> it is monday and we are busy. coming up on "outnumbered," congress is getting back to work facing a jam-packed agenda before years end. top of the list, the president meeting with members of the senate finance committee in the next hour as he calls on republicans to get her done. so can they get her done? >> that is the question back to work for senator al franken as well and congressman john conyers as each faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. this has congress faces big pressure to change the rules and make the system more transparent. is the culture on capitol hill changing? all that plus or hashtag

#oneluckyguy, top of the hour. happy monday. >> with meghan markle, it's introducing a whole new dimension to the modern monarchy. an actress with a mixed race background which is absolutely brilliant. >> jon: there are celebrations across the pond today. the royal palace says prince harry and actress meghan markle are engaged. and they will marry in the spring. harry's father prince charles making the announcement this morning ending months of speculation over the couple's future. benjamin hall is alive in our london bureau with more. >> this is the announcement that everyone in the u.k. was waiting for. not just for the last two days and rumors have been swirling here in the country not just the last two years when this relationship has been ongoing, not even the last decade about prince harry became known as the most eligible bachelor in the

world. that is now over the announcement has been made official. prince harry formerly introducing his princess to be, american meghan markle to the press. showing off her engagement ring with his design by here using some of his late mother mrs. diana simons. with that then lied to the british throne is often spoke about how he would love kids and hope to share the pressure public life. and now he's found her. she is three years older than harry and grew up in los angeles. she became famous for is for her lead role in the new legal drama suits. it won't be her first marriage. in 2011, she married a film producer but the pair divorced two years later. the couple appear together in public for the first time back in september at the closing of the games and orlando, an olympic style event. they met in the summer of 2016 through mutual friends. frankly, marriage like this have been unthinkable a generation

ago. she is mixed race, she is a divorce, she's catholic, and she's american. but the royal family is modernizing and changing today. this is a story of the prince and the hollywood star. back to you. >> jon: she's catholic and american. thank you, benjamin hall in london. >> melissa: president trump remaining defiant, doubling down on his support of embattled alabama senate candidate roy moore as many republican lawmakers call for more to step aside. will the president change his mind?

>> harris: my faith in my fellowman is restored. wednesday day before thanksgiving, i leave my wallet on the commuter train. to put in a lost and found report, i hope to get it back, somebody, whoever found it adopted in my mailbox. everything's there, all the credit cards. >> it wasn't close?

they had to make the drive. spinner they had to make a drive. >> there are good people out there. >> think you will ever you are, they didn't leave a note. >> thank you for joining us, 22 starts right now. >> sandra: fox news alert, president trump is about to have lunch with members of the senate finance committee as lawmakers return to capitol hill with a past agenda. tax reform at the very top of the list. this is "outnumbered." i am sandra smith in here today, harris faulkner. post of kennedy on fox business, kennedy. democratic strata just in fox news contributor jessica tarlov and today's #oneluckyguy, former trump hispanic advisory council member and fox news contributor steve cortez is here and he is outnumbered. we'll go back to everybody on the couch, happy things giving weekend everybody. happy cyber money. >> harris: happy spending money on gifts.