[national anthem] ♪ >> yeas are 51 and the nays are 49. the tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. >> this is a great day for the country. >> the stench rising in this chamber. >> there was not a single democrat who thought this was a good idea. so we're going to take this message to the american people also a year from now. >> the illegal imgrant acquitted for murder in the shooting death of a san francisco woman is now the subject of a federal arrest warrant. >> it's time for this country to get its head on straight. these cities should not be protecting criminal aliens. >> flynn pled guilty to making false statements to the fbi about his contact

with russia. >> there is nothing in this indictment that moved the ball significantly in terms of any crime associated with collusion. and the trump white house. >> secretary of state rex tillerson is laughing off reports that he is about to lose his job. >> >> it's laughable. ♪ ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ it's a beautiful day. pete: beautiful morning. not day. beautiful morning. start with the morning and move through the day. rachel: beautiful cut tax. ed: it's a big beautiful tax cut. rachel: good morning. ed: good morning rachel. rachel: thank you for having me back. i love doing this show. ed: i landed in new york. fly here, past midnight reading my email as i arrive in new york city vice president pence was arriving

at the capitol. i felts there was semitri. alivening for work. pete: why do they do their work at 2:00 a.m. why can't they get it done normal time. big news at 2:00 a.m. you know about, this obviously. rachel: yeah. ed: let's get straight to that fox news alert. there is a lot happening overnight while you were sleeping and ellison barber has all the details on the tax cut. good morning, ellison. >> good morning to you. a big win that republicans in the senate got just by the skin of their teeth. they narrowly passed this bill with 51 votes after a number of last-minute changes and deals to convince some of those skeptical republicans. some of the changes were literally hand written in the margins of the bill. that frustrated many democrats who say this entire thing was rushed through. some key changes to the senate bill, again, this was to convince holdouts like maine's susan collins and arizona jeff flake keeping

the al termive minimum tax to provide more revenue and allowing property tax deductions up to $10,000 like the house bill and keeping the medical expense deduction for the next two years. all democrats voted against the bill. the only republican no came from tennessee senator bob corker, who had concerns over the impact to the national debt. >> i'm totally confident this is a revenue neutral bill. i think it's going to be a revenue producer. as we have said over and over and over again, the 1.5 trillion-dollar deficit only to be filled, only requires us to grow .4 of 1% over the next 10 years. >> this bill slangted toward the wealthy and powerful and tax increases on middle class citizens. >> the house has approved two different bills before this gets to the president. they need to come to an agreement and merge the two pieces of legislation. that starts when they go to conference. the house is expected to vote monday night to go to

conference and then we'll see where this goes from there. the senate bill is expected to hold more weight in conference than the house bill. 13 republicans voted against the house bill. the senate has less available votes to lose. so keeping them on board is of course very important. pete, rachel, ed? ed: ellison barber, as if we thought the process was other you are right. this is the just the beginning. they have to work out of the differences. this is a lot further than anyone believes. 24 hours ago the mainstream media was cheering there is chaos. of the president may not get his tax cut. getting it through the senate something they could not do on healthcare. this is a bill deal. pete: one dissenting vote little bob corker. senator little bob coworkerrer bob cork everywhere. the president tweeted about this book. he said we are one step closer to delivering massive tax cuts to working families across america. special thanks to mitch mcconnell and chairman orrin

hatch for sheparding the bill through the senate. look forward to signing a bill, final bill before christmas. the devil is in the details. they got to get through a conference committee but a big step. raach ramp it is step. rachel: there is a big step. the house doesn't like the senate bill quite yet. i was hoping they would be able to work it out and maybe skip that conference. that's not going to happen. >> look, i mean, a few weeks ago part-time were really saying we need to change mitch mcconnell. this is the moment where you see where experience and understanding how to navigate the legislative process and making all these big ego snearnts senators happy to get this cobbled together. big moment for mitch mcconnell. pete: ego senators very important. ed: house members are great. you know those guys. rachel: i'm a little biased i think they are more collegial and act like a team. senators are their own thing and i think you'll see in

this bill the reason why this bill isn't as clean and as simple as we all want at this point is because of senators. ed: corporate tax rate going down from 35% down to 20%. we have got that graphic right there. the individual tax cut part of this though i think is fascinating because the joint committee on taxation take a look at this, 60% of households are going to get a tax cut. 8%, less than 10% of u.s. households will pay more. 80% of families making 50,000 to 75,000 per year get a tax cut of at least $100. why do i specify those numbers? you heard schumer, we played it there. ellison had it, he said this is all for the wealth yansd powerful. 80% of people making 50 to 75,000 getting a tax cut. how is that geared toward the wealthy and powerful? i thought that kimberly strossel in the "wall street

journal" had this piece yesterday talking about how democrats in the bush administration reached across the aisle and actually voted for tax cuts. it wasn't that long ago. 2001 president bush's tax cut had 12 senate democrats on board. 28 house democrats. right now zero in both cham buyers. now, he this will have a chance. pete: do you think maybe on the senate vote once it's obvious it will pass. ed: yes. pete: potentially a few democrats. ed: you may see a joe manchin. you've got clair mccaskill in missouri they are facing voters in very red states. are republicans going to get anything done? they're going into 2018 empty-handed. the narrative could flip if they get this done. the democrats are going into 2018 not voting tore fax cuts. rachel: listen, there is a loft confusion on the left as you mentioned, ed, this is for the corporations. this is for the rich. you are hearing the republican message how it helps working families. i know you guys out there

have some questions. we've got an expert here to help explain some of the intricacies of this bill. ed: going to answer questions every single hour. rachel: write in your questions we will answer them on the show. pete: friends@foxnews.com. pay more pay less? >> it's amazing to watch the way in which washington writes rules that apply to all of us as if oftentimes they don't apply to them. in this case it will apply to all of us. this all matters to us. rachel: it does. ed: absolutely. pete: rates matter. ed: president trump's justice drooped hammer on kate steinle's killer by issuing an arrest warrant. the not guilty verdict absurdity. jeff sessions on ca with tucker last knight vowing to do everything possible to going

after not only this criminal but also crack down on sanctuary cities. watch. >> it's time for this country to get its head on straight. these cities should not be protecting criminal aliens. people that come into the country unlawfully, then they commit another crime. and then they hide that individual and don't let them as they did with zarate turned over to ice agency. >> tucker: so the killer is being deported? >> that will be his ultimate fate. we are confident and we are going to do everything possible to ensure that happens. although there are some potential other charges that could be brought against him. before being deported and released, we think he should face every charge that's proper to be brought against him. you can sure our department of justifiable is works right now to bring any charges that are appropriate. >> i'm fascinated by the fact that the attorney

general of the united states when asked by tucker is he going to be deported yes or no he says we want to look at it in fairness to the attorney general. he is saying let's get him on other charges. why? so that's great. crack down. because if we deport him there's a good chance he is going to make it back. so we want to throw him in prison for a while. wait a second, what the attorney general of the united states is say going we deport this illegal immigrant, there's a good chance he is coming back. that just shows you even the attorney general cannot guarantee we are going to keep this illegal immigrant out of the country. it's remarkable. rachel: this case is making the case for president trump about border security. if we send him back he will come back. people are outraged. i talked to friends of mine across the country after this verdict. all of them cannot understanding how you this happened and he is not still in jail. pete: that's true. because laws should matter.

borders should matter but they don't. speaking of something that ed was very excited about. i have been dying to see what ed is going to say. the liberal media is giddy about the fact that general flynn has entered a guilty plea in the investigation of the special counsel. ed: lying to the fbi. pete: lying to the fbi. listen to what the media has to say about this. take a listen. >> there aren't many more dots after mike flynn, right? your dots go to kushner and then the president. there really are no other dots here. >> this is a case that reaches directly in to the heart of the trump administration. in to the oval office. >> people now who have believed that the president sort of loose way with information and fact was his best defense now thinks that the president is in danger and exposed. >> i do agree, this is a big moment where if you are on the fence you start to think jeez, is this whole thing going down? is it watergate?

pete: watergate, he had ed? ed: i knew watergate was coming. pete: lying to the fbi is no small deal. ed: no. pete: i get that it doesn't connect the dots to the president colluding with russia, which is what the media wants. rachel: he is also lying about something that is legal which is in the transition it's legal to talk to other countries, including russia. pete: thank you. ed: why did he mislead the vice president michael flynn. pete: thought he could glades it over. ed: the fbi sits down with you and you have a chance to clear record. you by mr. it doesn't that suggest you are hiding something else? pete: discussion you are just like. ed: why lie to the fbi? pete: i don't want to be in this position. the reality, he is not hiding some nefarious plot, he's hiding. ed: don't know what he said because is he now cooperating with the special counsel so we have to see where it goes. where i agree with you is that the media should not take this and run to watergate immediate yachtly.

they did that with march for the as well. that's what's fascinating. after the man ford situation -- manafortsituation. run to the door. this is it this goes directly into the oval office. we got the details into the manafort it goes directly to 2005, 2006. this is more serious though because michael flynn was actually the national security advisor. pete: after he got elected. rachel: for 20 some days he was fired for lying by the put himself. i think really what the crime here in my opinion for trump is he made a bad choice. he had been warned that flynn was not the best choice. a lot of politicians make that decision early on as a new candidate, as a new president. pete: no one trusts the media u coming up it, happened again, illegal immigrants accused of a vicious crime. now we are learning he was deported 20 times. yes, you heard it right. 20. how did that happen?

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>> breaking news, abc news brian ross is reporting michael flynn promised full cooperation to the mueller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate donald trump directed him to make contact with the russians. yes! >> the celebration, although abc news actually had to correct that specific story. we will get to that mainstream media absolutely giddy with excitement over michael flynn's plea deal with the fbi. pete: are they celebrating too soon and what does this really mean for the russia investigation. rachel: joining us for reaction fox news contributor charles hurt. hi, charles.

>> how are you all? ed: basically have you the mainstream media. same thing they did with paul manafort a few weeks back. is he indicted and you heard, i remember it broke on a friday night and following monday he is indicted. he goes into court, manafort. and on friday night you had on cnn had you karl bernstein and david enter began saying various ideas this is going to the office. walls are going in. manafort it goes back to 2005, charlie. >> like listening to the football. they also did it with the russian dossier they are like we finally got him. they also did like 20 times during the election. the problems here though are these: first of all, this is a crime that was created by the investigation itself. it has nothing to do with the trump campaign or the trump administration or the transition team. nothing to do with any of that stuff it all has to do with the investigation itself which i would argue is above this investigation

to begin with. the second thing is that bob mueller, basically he put immense pressure on mike flynn to get him to this point. he threatened to put his son in jail. he threatened to bring financial ruin to his family, to his wife. you threaten to put my son in jail, you threaten my wife with financial ruin after i'm going i will tell you anything you want to know. i will tell you this moon is made of meat loaf. anything you want. ed: i will turn on pete in a second few that to me. >> are you kidding me? i would turn on anybody. pete: what is the avenue of approach to connect this to the president? is there any? >> this leads to a whole another huge problem that what mike flynn is talking about are conversations he had with the president after the election. if you want to collude to rig the election, the collusion has to happen before the election.

not after the election. it reminds me of that great scene in butch cassidy and the sundance kid where they finally go straight bolivia, they are going down the mountain and protecting the mine owner who keeps getting held up with the payroll. and he looks around and they are trying to see where the -- morons, they have morons. they don't rob me going down the mountain. i don't have the money. they rob me when i come back up the mountain from the bank. same thing here, bob mueller is a moron. rachel: listen, we are discussing this all morning. we really appreciate your insight there, charles. >> my pleasure. rachel: we'll be back. ed: we appreciate that meanwhile, some breaking news. a device packed with nails found at christmas market days after isis called for the murder of be in the people. the chilling details that you can't miss coming up. pete: and it's happening again, collin kaepernick

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us live now. good to see you. >> thank you for having me. ed: collin kaepernick in the news then. "sports illustrated" giving him the muhammed ali award for courage that he is a hero. >> well, i can say unequivocally i believe "sports illustrated" got it wrong on this one. i can think of a number of folks who have done great things. and it would have been nice for sports illustrated to use this platform to elevate someone who brings us all together. that's the reason why i got into the military to begin with. pete, i'm sure you understand, there are some things out there figurer than us. and when i left home in 1999, enlisted for a year, i worked my way into west point. i graduated from west point in 2004. i became a ranger qualified apache pilot and flew 750 hours combat over baghdad operation iraqi freedom 2007-2009. it's there when you are fighting for iraqi freedom and you look to your left and your right and you see

something like our flag which unites us, it's not about black, white, yellow, red. it's about red, white, and blue. those things that unite us, that's what makes us truly great as a country. pete: john, tell me this though it's all true. tell me why when you go to washington u. will be different than everyone else that's sung that tune and gone there. you will say okay, when i'm faced with a tough vote or difficult decision, i'm going to make the tough call, even if it means some criticism from a lot of people? >> i have been making tough calls my whole life. for half my life from the time i left for west point from the time i went to business, from the battlefield to the board room it's not about doing what's convenient. i'm running because i truly believe it's not about our convenience. it's about being obedient. it's about putting one foot in front of the other and executing and getting the job done. accomplishing mission to be for our people all across the country go. to website john james for senate.com.

you can learn more about my history and i truly believe that past performance is the best judge. we don't need more lawyers and millionaires and certainly don't need more career politicians. we need more leadership in washington. rachel: i read your background and something that very much interests me. have you something in common with my husband who was a member of congress have you democrat parents. ed: how was thanksgiving? rachel: what are you doing to win them over my mother-in-law had during the last election had a huge bernie sanders sign and teeny tiny jetty for congress sign. what are you doing to win them over? >> i'm sticking to the values that they taught me. my father was born in 1941 in starksville, mississippi. lived directly across the street from mississippi state university couldn't go there because is he black. but because he refused to accept victimhood as his destiny, because he worked his way up with one truck, one partner and himself, in this country you can work your way in to the

legitimate economy if you refuse to make excuses. i believe that from the toughest situations he served in the military as well. is he a vietnam veteran. he has served his country honorably. i truly believe in the state of michigan and all across the country we have the opportunity to broaden the g.o.p. tent to not just include the old guard but to broaden our tent to include millennials and minorities. folks who are actually conservative who haven't had a republican -- ed: last night overnight we are talking about this tax cut that passed. if you win the g.o.p. nomination you will take on democrat debbie stabenow. any time she wants to come on the show and tell her side we would like to have her on. she voted against the tax cuts last night and i haven't seen her pushing kate's law. this illegal immigrant basically gets off killing kate stein crack down on sanctuary cities. why hasn't that gotten through the senate yet and would you support it? >> i would absolutely support kate's law. i would absolutely support defunding sanctuary cities.

logic might be tough for some of our friends on the left to grasp if you z. federal funds u those putting lives on the line to protect us, to protect americans from criminals, we're not talking about those who immigrated here legally. we are talking about folks who have done the wrong thing and forcing them to pay the consequence. ed: john james speaking out. >> i appreciate it. pete: thanks for being here. it happened again, illegal immigrant accused of a vicious crime and now we're learning he was deported, get, this 20 times? yes. you heard it right. 20. how did that happen? ed: michelle obama wanted to make school lunch healthier. more broccoli. no one is eating it until now actually. we will tell you what just changed. rachel: your questions about the tax plan filling up our inbox like this one from

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pete: a fox news alert. the senate passing the g.o.p. tax bill last night 51-4 clearing the way for the first major tax reform in more than 30 years. pete: early thi ed: final vote coming before 2:00. >> no bob corker the only republican opposing the bill not a single democrat supporting it. the senate though will now have to reconcile this bill with the house version before sending it to the president. so the bottom line is there is still a lot of confusion about what's in, what's out. that's why we are so happy to bring in daniel, cpa based in nearby new jersey here. good morning, welcome. we appreciate it. what do you think, first of all, we have a lot of questions out there. but just big picture real quick. what do you think is the most important thing that's in there for our viewers? >> i think the big thing right now is the corporate tax went through. 35% down to 20%. that's big. that's going to be a big stomach columbus for the economy. and i think that was the primary focus of this tax bill. because things got a little

muddy on the individual side corporate they stayed the course. rachel: when you get those corporate rates down when the econom economy grows it's gd for everybody. how will this benefit someone like myself. this is one our viewers, that works full time but makes less than $50,000. >> i don't think for a person like that there is going to be very much change. when you are talking about making $50,000, investor not -- he is probably not paying in that much in tax to start with. so, if i had to guess on that one, that's probably a break even under this plan. pete: doubling the standard deduction helps, right? >> yes. can you only get back what you pay in. that's the point. unless there is some tax credit there. ed: something lost in this debate you are right a lot of people making less than $50,000 a year are not paying any taxes. >> that's right. almost half the people are not paying any federal income tax to start with. pete: got an email from paul. will the alternative minimum

tax be repealed under this plan? >> it was supposed to be but it's back. the reason it came back is during the horse trading, they needed to pick up more revenue. now,. >> all about the rules, right? >> all about the rules. rachel: and the senate. >> and the senate. this is really a big hit for high tax states. why? the whole game that was being played hereby is we are getting rid of the state and local income tax deduction. but, don't worry, because we're going to take away the alternative minimum tax. now they put it back in. so, now you are going to get hit twice if you are at that level. simplification by the way. ed: new york, connecticut, new jersey that could be a big hit. >> that's correct. ed: stock market has been raising. are there changes for capital gains tax. >> there are no changes for capital gains. that's one of the things you talk about when you really want to stimulate the economy. you bring down those capital gains rates. they did not do that so

everything is going to stay the same. rachel: let's get another email in from one of our viewers. i run my own business as a sole priority. i make about $150,000 a year doing it as llc. will my taxes go down to 20%? >> well, it's not going to be a mirror image of what's going on with the large corporations. what they're going to do with those pass through entities is if $150,000 is what has passed through is going to be, they are going to allow a deduction for 23%. so he will pay tax on the balance of that number baled upon the new individual rate. whatever comes out after reconciliation. ed: individual rate comes down you may have a little cut but you are not going down 20%? >> correct. pete: one more question from philip. what will the effect on retired folks' income taxes from iras and retirement. >> retirement income tax is not going to change. this is really just the

function of where they fall in terms of their taxable income. so it's just going to be subject to the new rates. has nothing to do what the source of that retirement is going to be. pete: do you like this bill? >> i like it on the corporate side. i think they made it really complicated on the individual side. we're not going to be filing on postcards. ed: that's what the president promised. >> i don't see it especially with the alternative minimum tax back. ed: good news for chpa because a lot of people will be hiring. >> i hope. so. ed: he is coming back on the show. come back in the next hour. pete: keep your questions coming friends@foxnews.com. rachel: turning now to headlines a chilling blast from the past across hawaii. [siren] rachel: that siren blaring for the first time since the cold war. an effort to prepare people for a possible north korea nuclear attack. earlier this week, the rogue

regime tested a missile that says can hit anywhere in the u.s. officials believe people in hawaii would have less than 20 minutes to find cover if a missile were launched at them. a mexican illegal immigrant who was deported 20 times gets 35 years in prison for he is, yale assaulting two women. sergio martinez was freed from a portland jail weeks before the separate attacks. despite isis request to hold him. martinez told his victim's family in court he would, quote, see them in hell. ice says once his 35 years are up he will be deported again. nbc won't be giving matt lauer a 30-million-dollar payout. the "new york post" reports his lawyers wanted the network to pay the remarntiond of his contract after firing him over sexual misconduct agencies. executives say matt lauer violated his contract he won't be paid past his last day of work.

laura has taken two younger kids to the netherlands, their native country. michelle obama wanted to make school lunch healthier but no one is eating it until now. that's because regular chocolate milk is back on the menu. my kids are so happy. the u.s. department of agriculture publishing a new set of guidelines. eating obama era rules for all public schools starting july 1st it, will allowed flavored milk with 1% and relaxed sodium limits and whole grain. pete: she took away chocolate milk? ed: kids are celebrating everywhere. rachel: they don't get it at home. only place they get it is as school. pete: well done. the doj issuing an arrest warrant for kate stein's killer. next guest says there is one thing we need to could to make sure he gets deported. and doesn't come back. steve cortes is on deck for that next. ed: plus, it could be a revolutionary treatment for

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their own hands. putting out an arrest for her killer. zarate. ed: the arrest warrant was issued a day after a san francisco jury found him not guilty in kate steinle's murder. how did we get to this point? what's the political fallout? rachel: former trump hispanic advisory committee steve cortes joins us now. steve, this has been a crazy week. this verdict has a lot of people up in arms. tell us how you think this is going to effect border security and the daca issue that we have coming ahead. >> right. rachel, i think a lot of us are shocked and very dismayed obviously at this jury verdict. i will say as americans the jury system sometimes we have to deal with this. it's just the reality of our legal criminal justice system. however, what we don't have to deal with is absurd policies from liberals that serve the interest of illegal immigrants over the safety of american citizens. and if san francisco weren't a so-called sanctuary city and i hate that term because there is no sanctuary for

kate stein or for the cops and innocent people have to deal with these known, dangerous illegal immigrants. no sanctuary for them. i call them outlaw cities. if it weren't an outlaw city and they did what they were supposed to do when they had him in custody zarate if they turned him over to ice he would have been deported again. here is an important point too i say again. because he previously had been deported five times. obviously our deportations haven't been eeffective. we need to keep deporting and particularly dangerous people. we also need a wall. we need border security once and for all on our southern border. ed: steve, i want to get to that let's listen to what the ice director said on the question of the wall. >> i'm 100 percent behind building the wall. let me tell you something about president trump. since he has been in office, he has allowed ice and the border patrol to do our jobs. the numbers just came out a few days ago that the illegal crossings on the border at 45-year low. that's not a coincidence. that's because this

president has let the officers do their jobs. the wall workedful when we had built it in san diego. it worked when they built it in arizona. worked in certain parts of texas. every place they built the wall it worked. snubs dropped significantly nil legal crossings. why would we not want the wall? ed: steve, when he lays it out like that, why would we not want to keep illegal immigrants out of this country and what you were saying a moment ago about the notion, you know, that we shouldn't have sanctuary cities like why is there even a debate in this country? who wants to have sanctuary -- it's unbelievable. and so rachel alluded to this a moment ago. you have the daca negotiations, end of the year budget talks between democrats and republicans. before the stein verdict we heard democrats have the you were hand in terms of keeping the children of illegal immigrants in this country and republicans have no negotiating power. has that changed now because will the wall, will tough border security be part of those talks? >> well, it sure better be. listen, i'm pro-damascusca.

i do think the people brought here as children are a different category of illegal imgrant. i disagree with some my friends and colleagues within team trump who want everybody deported. i don't agree with that having said that too. it we need to do immigration on merit not on family relationships. i would like to say director homan in the tape you played there is an amazing man and leads an amazing force of people in ice who are doing hard, dangerous work every day to protect us. far too often the left-wing politicians, mainstream media try to demonize them, try to make them look like they are some sort of storm trooper force. nothing could be further from the truth. they are doing hard work. if they tell us they need a wall, we need wall. we need to pay for it and build it and respect them

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latest and fastest wireless charging. pete: how much? >> i don't want to mament price because every carrier is different. you are going to get. you will find deals though this time of year. rachel: talk about samsung. >> this teeny tiny here is a hard drive. >> my hard drive used to be this big. >> look how tiny this is now. this is great. your handbag, take it on the go. you think that your computer is already full and you need a new commuter computer. the truth is you need to offload at love the data. rachel: those portable drives start 129 and go up from there. super fast to get songs off and on there. and photos and things like that. pete: how about this guy right here. >> routers at home are probably the oldest things in technology in your house. pete: that's true actually. you are right. >> name this is the best why why router system from your home orbi from net gear. these are so easy. you just plug these in

rachel right here. these. >> i was curious about this. >> you just plug and go. pete: that's a router. >> expands. add to it. >> tell us more about this tab bret. >> so, len november ovo tab 4. to easy to use. this is geared for entertainment. touch screen inside this beautiful screen. great price point. rachel: what is this. >> this is the home assistant on the side. speaker turns into voice activated speaker. pete: you don't say sire to this one what do you say. >> that's actually alexa powered. rachel: this is a hair dryer, it looks very crazy,. >> it's $400. it's $400. you better get a good hair dryer. what do you think? we're standing here and can you still see this. you will see all this stuff the cyber guy go to our website. rachel: how much will it

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the yeas are 451. the nays are 49. the tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. >> the president tweeted last night we are one step closer to delivering massive tax cuts for working families across america. special thanks to mitch mcconnell and chairman orrin hatch for shepherding the pill through the senate. >> the illegal immigrant acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a san francisco woman is now the subject of a federal arrest warrant. >> it's time for this country to get its head on straight. these cities should not be protecting criminal aliens. >> mainstream media absolutely giddy with excitement over michael flynn's plea deal. what does this really mean

for the russia investigation? >> this is a crime that was created by the investigation itself. it has nothing to do with the trump campaign or the trump administration. >> "sports illustrated" giving him the muhammed ali award for courage that he is a hero. >> "sports illustrated" got it wrong on this one. it's not about black, white, yellow, red. it's about red, white, and blue. ♪ ♪ ♪ ain't no stopping us now ♪ we are on the move. pete: if you are ed henry or rachel campos-duffy nothing will stop you. good morning. ed: good to be here. pete: 7:00 on the manhattan. the rest of america waking up. stay in bed. watch us, hang out with us no. need to get up. ed: the president said we would get tired of winning. pete: we are not tired of winning. that's where our fox news alert comes from this morning. a major victory on capitol

hill for president trump and the g.o.p. overnight. the senate narrowly passing the most sweeping changes to our tax coat. ed: the final vote coming before 2:00 a.m. this morning. rachel: ellison barber is live in washington to break down the bill. >> it was a big victory. it's not over just yet. the house and senate have now approved two different bills before this makes this it to president trump's desk. they need to come together and make an agreement on the bill. merge of two of them. that of course starts when they go to conference. the house is expected to vote, to go to conference monday night. so here are some changes to the senate bill. one is keeping the alternative minimum tax to provide more revenue. another allowing property tax deductions up to $10,000. and then keeping the medical expense deduction for the next two years. republicans passed this with 51 votes. many of those changes were

last-minute and meant to convince holdouts like maine senator susan collins. mike pence seemingly convinced arizona senator jeff flake with promises related to immigration. >> i have been saying unless we can get started on immigration reform, and that starts with daca. that's the easy, should be the easy part. so i have been talking about that to the vice president quite a bit and others. and got a good commitment to work on daca quickly. >> some of the changes were handwritten in the margins of the bill adding to the frustrations of democrats. ultimately every democrat voted no. >> as we have said over and over and over again, the 1.5 trillion-dollar deficit only to be filled, only requires to us grow four tenths of 1% over the next 10 years. >> this bill is slanted toward the wealthy and powerful and reigns tax increases upon millions of middle class citizens.

>> only run republican senator voted against this bill tennessee's bob corker. he had concerns over the impact to the national debt. pete, ed, rachel? pete: thanks, ellison, appreciate it. one step close her to giving american families an amazing christmas gift. president has been talking about this and nay sayers in the media saying thought going to get this done. republicans are going to be empty handed led into the election. rachel: republicans knew their butts were on the line that always gets them going. pete: president tweeted about this last night about 2:00 a.m. he was up. were you? i wasn't. now we are bringing it to you. we are one step closer to delivering massive tax cuts for american families aacross america. special thanks to mitch mcconnell and chairman orrin hatch for shepherding our bill through the senate. look forward to signing a final bill before christmas. so, i mean, we cannot understate the importance of

this passing. listen, it has to go to conference. they have to pass another bill for it to be law. but, the senate has been in its own way for a long time. as the president says, little bob corker, still voted against it don't know why. senator bob corker did not vote for it. purported conservative, not voting for tax cut. so he has his own impediment. they passed it and to get it into law could be a huge boost to the economy. ed: you know what caught my eye maria bartiromo was interviewing the chairman for wall street week. even before the tax cuts passed, he talked about how this economy is coming back strong. watch. >> i think the economy is clearly coming out of crisis mode. there is more optimism. governments that come in recently are not any more impressed by the crisis. they are looking forward to change to our economies. and the economy i is doing the best it has. this is the first imf meeting did not revise down

their forecast but revised it up. good times are now. pete: that's before the tax cut pass. rachel: we still have to go to conference and president's desk. but, if this passes, we have already seen an economy on overdrive. i think it's going to be even more. and i think the president comes to this with a lot of credibility. i mean, he has done a lot of things on his own to get the economy where it is right now. pete: on regulation. rachel: on regulation u. pete: pro-business president. if you have a pro-business policy that ultimately incentivizes companies to stay here and not leave, that has a game-changing effect. ed: what's actually in the latest version. you heard ellison saying they were writing in the margins and making changes before the vote. not everybody knows. we have a cpa breaking it down for you every hour this morning. friends@foxnews.com what is your specific question? we will get your specific

question. they should pay me a bonus. pete: have to deal with it called the pete bonus. ed: what's on the back page. pete: what's on the front page? ed: russia, russia, russia. pete: flynn pleads guilty. inquiry. rachel: thehad him plead guilty on this day to cover up the tax? pete: maybe. i'm saying the so-called mainstream media which is not mainstream at all they are all left wingers. they love this headline because it distracts against -- look at that that's perfect, russia, russia, when will russia end? are you russian? ed: let's ask a russian limbaugh. >> mueller did the deed on the right day. mueller did the deed to sweep the tax cut deal off

the table and to tick everybody off. this is, in john omar continue's opinion the swamp banding together. the establishment coordinating its efforts to continue to destroy trump and muddy the waters. the tax bill is going to pass. as far as mcconnell and ryan are concerned, none of this today is a legal problem. it's a bit of a political problem but it doesn't present any legal problems to them or their tax bill. the tax bill is going to pass. but i don't have any doubt that the timing of this thing today may not be coincidental because look at all of the news it swept off the front pages and look what it put back on the front page. trump colluded with the russians to steal the election from hillary. pete: so what of the news we have today proves as rush said that trump colluded with the russians?

ed: there is no new evidence of collusion. that's where this started. pete: nothing. ed: i agree with you this sort of grand conspiracy pushed by democrats is not there yet. where i will differ with you, and where i think you should open your ice a bit, okay. with all due respect. pete: they're open. okay? ed: the one time national security advisory, i get he was there like a week and a half, he was inside the white house. not just the campaign like manafort. pete: after the election. ed: after the election is he in the white house. in the oval office with the president. briefing him on the most sensitive national security matters and he lied to the fbi. that is a federal crime. now, of course. it doesn't prove collusion but it raises some real questions about what michael flynn was hiding. you would agree. pete: sure. it was after the election. if anyone asks him to reach out to the russians, that would be a reasonable request for the national security advisor. ed: tell the finn this is a reasonable request. pete: after the fact listen, the guy is like feeling defensive, not telling the truth. it's a crime.

ed: right. pete: it is what it is. it doesn't prove anything. if you turn the channel, you will watch people this doubt this dot this dot to russia. don't change it because they will be all russia, russia, russia. like the headlines of all of our papers this morning. it proves nothing but people are going to go spastic about it. rachel: we already knew flynn had a shady past. his relationship with the government of turkey. i'm surprised he wasn't charged on that by the way. pete: he made a deal. rachel: i will say -- that's correct. i will say. this i think russia, russia, russia. presents some problems for the democrats. the more they focus on russia, russia, russia, the less they are focusing on wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan and really figuring out, really doing some soul searching to figure out why they lost the election. they did not lose the elections because of russia. they lost the election for a bunch of other reasons including immigration, including of the economy. ed: jobs. rachel: this is continuing the neurosis there.

pete: what you are admitting though is that the so-called mainstream media is in cahoots with the democrats. rachel: of course. pete: for a narrative that may benefit the democrats. ed: interestingly, by lying to the fbi, michael flynn now hurts himself as a witness potentially president trump or anyone in the white house because if robert mueller comes forward and says michael flynn is cooperating and saying that donald trump told him to do this. well, you know what? michael flynn lied tout fbi. committed a crime. when do we believe him? it actually hurts him as you a witness if he turns against the white house. that will be interesting. pete: you are right. he is in a tough spot. he has made a deal clearly. nothing he has said or will say will indict this white house. rachel: listen, if there was something on trump, i'm absolutely convinced we would have known by now. pete: the failing "new york times" would have it on the top of their paper but they don't. they did the best they. ed: kate stein case is still front and center.

pete: coming up in the kate stein case one reverent -- reveered reverent. turn the other cheek on sanctuary cities, listen? >> i pay my taxes as a citizen to my local government to protect local taxpayers. and those taxpayers include undocumented americans. pete: don't tell that to our next guest whose son was killed by illegal immigrant. ed: heart breaking and story we have been following for years. jesse ventura's lawsuit against the widow of "american sniper" chris keil and his estate this morning. we have a brand new update and it's big ♪ don't give up ♪ you got a reason to live ♪ canned forget ♪ we only get what we give ♪ hello mom.

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♪ pete: we are back with a fox news alert. the doj putting out an arrest warrant for this man, jose garcia zarate the illegal immigrant deported five times and acquitted in the kate steinle case. jamiel shaw jr. joins us now with his reaction. jamiel, so your reaction to this verdict for a lot of people, it's academic, for you it's purge. >> yeah. you know,. pete: what was your reaction? >> i expected it. i remember telling people he is going to walk. they are going -- they are going to make him a sacrificial lamb so to speak. he will be the one that

so-called takes down trump. that's all they cared about. i figured it i talked about it on my show. i wasn't surprised. when i heard about it i was driving down the street. i heard it on the radio. i just figured that was, you know, it was going to happen. but, still, you know, it pissed me off though. it was no big deal. it pissed me off like they don't care about us. and this piece of garbage they act like he is so innocent and kate steinle's family is mourning forever. rachel: jamiel, tell us about your son. >> he was a good kid. i started working with him in sports. i was determined to get him a scholarship. he played baseball, basketball, football, two baseball seasons a year. winter, summer, two basketball seasons. played football, ran track. playing golf. i was trying everything. i just was determined that i had to get him to college. and, you know, i had to get

him to the promise land. 18 was my goal. i got him to 17 and two months. all that hard work. rachel: it's such a hard. >> all that hard work for nothing. rachel: so many families. this is what we are learning about. i want you to take a look at this clip last night from referenced ryan he willer the executive director of define american. let's take a look at this clip. >> i think where we start getting into really troubled waters is when we, you know, talk more about sanctuary cities and relationships between local governments and federal governments and somehow make this more about immigrants and immigration as opposed to this really tragic and unfortunate case. in leviticus it says treat the immigrant as a citizen among you. i pay my taxes as a citizen to my local government to protect local taxpayers. and those taxpayers include

undocumented americans. pete: jamiel is he citing legit can you say i get it but in the end you are saying legal status matters. >> he knows that. that's why he is talking mumbo jumbo because he has on his collar he thinks he is an expert. they always want you to walk a mile in their shoes. walk a mile in our shoes. how about he gets in a casket. we will bury him for a while so he can see what it feels like to be dead. you think it's all good that we are so -- i don't care about illegal aliens, you know. my son was murdered. he was walking down the street in america. he actually thought he could do that and he was wrong. he was shot dead by illegal alien on his third gun charge. we hear people like that want to turn the other cheek? why do we have laws have you illegal aliens in the gangs on their third gun charge and then we are supposed to be okay with our family members being dead? why don't he jump in a casket and see what it feels

like. pete: incredibly powerful. you are saying so much of this is resistance to trump. >> oh, yeah. that was the main thing, you know. people down there in the jury, they are all activists, left wing nut jobs. you have the prosecutors. same way, pete. in l.a. it's the same thing. i wouldn't go for it we had to get rid of two prosecutors. we had to change judges. i had to pretty much say i'll burn the city down if you guys don't try to do that. they did the exact same thing with kate steinle but they couldn't get away with it because the district attorney was a conservative. rachel: did you get a death penalty for him. jamiel your story is powerful. so grateful you are telling it such an important time. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. thank you very much. keep up the good work. rachel: now, first lady melania trump the target of sickening attacks over the white house christmas decorations. pete: yes, of course. rachel: take a look at this comparing it to a horror

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♪ ed: good morning again. quick headlines and a fox news alert. the fbi making an arrest in connection with to the disappearance of toddler mariah woods. authorities say earl the boy friends of mariah's mother is in custody facing several charges including concealing of death, burglary and obstruction of justice. police say evidence gathered during the probe has them believing mariah is dead. they have yet though to find her body. police making two more arrests in the brutal ms-13 murder where the victim was stabbed yes over 100 times. three people in total now

facing murder charges for the september killing in maryland. as many as six other suspects still believed to be at large, actually. cracking down on the dangerous ms-13 gang has been a top priority for the trump white house. and tampa police now confirming the mcdonald's manager whose tip led them to a suspected serial killer will receive $110,000 in reward money. yes. delanda walker alerting police yesterday howell donaldson a coworker left his bag with the gun inside. linking the gun to four killings. rachel: melania trump up veiled this year's christmas dock core rations critics went on the attack. a columnist writing for vanity fair is it safe to assume we have some clarity what she has been up to when she is not traversing the great wall of china or making an appearance at the turkey pardoning ceremony. maybe. and online some are comparing the christmas

decorations to a total nightmare. begging the question, is there a first lady double standard? here with us today is andy oak, the author of unusual for their time. on the road with america's first lady. he joins us now. so is there a double standard here? >> good morning, rachel. nice to be with you. it's not uncommon or unprecedented to criticize a first lady. but it's very unusual to go after her about christmas decorations. i find this highly, like i say, it's unusual. it's almost -- i can't even imagine when it was done before. vogue magazine last year with mrs. obama's decorations praised her and rightfully so. they were gorgeous. they were beautiful. this year vogue puts out like the top meals destroying melania's decorations. and it's unfortunate because it's christmas. and everyone is supposed to be happy and enjoying things. i think melania's decorations are as beautiful as michelle's were. they are both fantastic.

rachel: vanity fair has a bone to pick with melania. they didn't put her on the best dressed list she is the most beautiful first lady since jackie o. very early in the first christmas at the white house with the obamas, they were trying to do an inclusive theme and thought about eliminating or not putting up the nativity scene which has a long and store idea history in the white house. this year the trumps are saying merry christmas on their cards. so, there is a difference in how the first ladies approach it but you are saying that you think this has maybe to do with the trump resistance movement? is that what you're thinking? >> well, you know, first ladies get a lot of heat for their husbands. this has been going on since the very first administration with the washingtons. it's just this new feeling of just going so public about it and being vicious about the attacks and having it carry over to christmas

is where i have the problem. rachel: i thought she looked pretty angelic going through those trees. people say they were gaudy and, again, the online comments have been off the hook. >> yeah. you know, from what i read, these trees and these branches are very popular now. and i thought it looked like a winter wonderland. and the colors they chose were good. and hanging the wreaths on the outside of the white house which hasn't been done maybe ever before but not in recent history with the red ribbons. i think she has done a beautiful job and i think the white house looks spectacular for the holidays. rachel: andy, i'm actually going to be there on tuesday i'm the wife of a congressman so we're invited to the christmas party there on tuesday. i will get to see this up close and personal. i will be able to compare to what i saw under the obama years. i'm sure it's hard for things not to be beautiful at the white house. really quick question. how much involvement do the first ladies have in actually making the

decisions or is it their team as far as the decorations at the white house? >> well, each first lady is different. but they all are very involved around the holidays. the first christmas tree in the white house was the harrison administration. it was upstairs in the second story for the family. then lowe was the first one to move it downstairs and make it public. jacqueline kennedy has chosen a theme. she has the first first lady to choose a theme. this has gone fairly con sis tently through every administration since. and the first ladies are directly hand in hand involved with their staff to put together these beautiful decorations for the country and world. rachel: listen, thank you, i love christmas decorations. i can't wait to go on tuesday. thanks for sharing your insight with us. thank you, andy. >> safe travels down here. weasel see it. rachel: you got it coming up, the ladies on "the view" jumping for joy over michael flynn's plea deal. >> michael flynn promised full cooperation to the mueller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate donald trump

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♪ >> the yeas are 51 and the neys are 49. the tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. >> i was trying to get midnight i was covering the tax cuts before that but dan bongino is not tired of the winning. i can tell you that. i have got to tell you i was looking at the hill newspaper online there is a report that 6,000 tax lobbyists were working on this bill in d.c. the swamp was trying to preserve whatever little goody they could but in the end the president looks like he prevailed. >> yeah. he did. this could be a huge win if

the senate and the house can coordinate, get this on the president's desk. this is going to be a huge win. listen, guys. for eight years we were subjected to the liberal economic ideology. more spending, more government, more taxes and finally, finally it looks like the train is turning around and headed back towards the freedom station. the economic freedom station here. more money in your wallets is going to be fantastic. it's a great development. pete: dan, do you believe that these two houses the house and the senate and we know all about that are they going to be capable of coming together on something actually agree on and put on the president's desk. >> you know, pete, they damn well better or i'm serious this party is toast, at least in the short-term. they had one big promise over the last, what six, seven years we are going to repeal obamacare. and they blew it they faced planted right forward head meet desk, boom. they absolutely need this. and let me just tell you, pete. i'm not an economist by trade. i was an mba student i was a

finance guy. but i love economics. i'm telling you we are on the verge of something super special here. i was watching rachel yesterday on the five. i think it was rachel who said something like don't make the perfect enemy the good. great line, of course. you are right it's not a perfect plan but we are on the verge of something very special here if this gets passed. you will see some solid economic growth. rachel: don't forget, dan, mitch mcconnell snuck in that repeal the obamacare mandate as well in there if that survives, we may get two for one punch there. >> yeah. keep in mind the individual mandate, rachel as you guys already know was really a tax on poor and middle income folks in america. you know, 90% of the individual mandate tax, the obamacare tax was paid by people making $75,000 a year. this was a major wallop to american wallets. if we get rid of that, too. this thing is a gold mine.

it's not great but it's going to be very, very good for americans' wallets. ed: outrage still about the kate steinle verdict. not guilty in that horrible, horrible murder. and the bottom line is you have got the attorney general saying look, we have got an arrest warrant out there. we are going to crack down on sanctuary cities. mayor ed lee of san francisco doubles down. san francisco is and always will be a sanctuary city. how do you react to that? >> you know, this is really horrible. i mean, how do you read this story about this father, this poor father who is literally cradling his daughter as her aorta was severed by zarate after he fired this weapon. she dies, ms. steinle, of course, this beautiful, talented, one young woman by all accounts. instead of saying what went wrong here and clearly it was the sanctuary city policy that allowed this person to stay in the country and commit this crime, what do you do? you double down on stupid?

is this really -- is this where the modern liberal movement is now that political victories matter more than anything? even the life of your own citizens and the safety on their streets. i mean, this is really unbelievable. pete: you call it doubling down. isn't exactly where they're? if identity politics, racial politics are your platform, where else do you go? >> you don't have anything else, pete, because your entire political agenda, i mean, really their campaign sign should say, you know, power first, citizens second. liberals that is because that's all they believe. in everything with them is about control. and even if they have their -- what was it break a few eggs and some communists -- have to break a few eggs to get an omelet. sadly though that breaking of a few eggs means people will die. sanctuary cities are not safer, contrast to what liberals tell you all the time. that is nonsense. those are garr gage statistics. sanctuary cities are

becoming very dangerous places. look what's happening in l.a. where they have double digit spikes crime rates. it's insane. pete: dan, i opened up my failing "new york times" and the g.o.p. is scam bring to pass the tax bill. wall-to-wall flynn pleads guilty will aid inquiry. general flynn talking mueller investigation. a lot of people in the media very excited about. this we'll play one of them. joy behar had this to say about what could they possibly be? listen. >> breaking news. abc news brian ross is reporting michael film promised full cooperation to the mueller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate donald trump directed him to make contact with the russians. yes! >> never mind that they corrected the candidate part, dan, as you know. they later had to walk back that this happened in the campaign. it actually happened after the campaign. still could be trouble. he lied to the fbi. let's not forget that

dancing in the streets some people in the media. >> this is the -- by the way that joy behar scene of her like -- someone, please, i'm begging you, we have a loyal listener, a viewer base here. someone make a people out of that. just, please. because it's so indicative of media bias. guys, here's the story -- only a liberal would believe that you could collude to win an election and then make contact with your fellow colluders after you won the election. ed, the candidate part of that that they got wrong, that they made contact with trump as a candidate and oh no later after he won. that's the whole story. that's like saying head line, breaking news, man robs bank, clarification, man makes withdrawal from atm. the whole story goes out the window. the clarification guys wasn't the story. ed: the stock market literally was taking a nose dive because of the abc news report which was false.

>> brian ross who put that out there and abc, they left that up, i think it was for about six hours or so that tweet. i show joe concha tweeted out he said look, this thing was retweeted 21,000 times or something, the story. and then the clarification was only retweeted a thousand times. you know that old line a lie travels around the world. that was dangerous stuff. ed: i want my money back. dan bongino, i appreciate it. rachel: thanks, dan. turning to your headlines, police officers risking it all to save the life of a man trapped in a burning car. >> got him out. rachel: officers in illinois responding to a hit and run accident finding a car fully engulfed in flames. police dragging the man to safety after he refused to get out. the 71-year-old driver was fleeing the scene of an

accident when his car hit a concrete barrier. two officers were injured. the estate of "american sniper" chris keil and jesse ventura agreeing to dismiss the former minnesota governor's defamation case. ventura was awarded $1.8 million in a 2014 claim that he said keil defamed him in his book "american sniper." the decision was overturned on appeal. kyle, the deadliest sniper in american history wrote that he once punched ventura who maintained it was a lie even after kyle was murdered in 2013. now we have all heard the same that chicken noodle soup has the power to cure a cold. well now a new study proves it really does help. researchers from the university of nebraska finding that the soup contains anti-inflammatory agents that can ease the symptoms of colds. the study also found that the aroma, the spices, and the heat from the soup can clear sinuses and decrease your congestion.

get to making that noodle soup. pete: it has placebo effect. rachel: i wonder if it's homemade or canned. pete: homemade better. minnesota style. ed: give us your thoughts on the chicken soup friends@foxnews.com. we want your recipe. we also want your tax questions. what does this do for people who live on retirement and rely on social security and medicare. we have expert back to answer your questions. rachel: most important question of the morning. why are there goats on our plaza? a "fox & friends" tradition coming up ♪ working for a living ♪ working ♪ working for a living ♪ living and a working ♪ i'm taking what their giving because i'm working for a living. ong us deserve some laughter.

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i what does it mean for you your questions fill up our inbox. rachel: daniel joins to us answer some of your questions that we were hoping tax bill would eliminate the need for you. here is email for one of our viewers. will teachers still be able to deduct costs for the supplies they purchase for students? schools cannot afford to provide it chalk and et cetera. >> good news for teachers. originally it was $250 of out of pocket costs that they would be able to deduct. it's been doubled up to 500. teachers willing to take money out of their own pocket. pete: the idea was simplifying the code generally speaking. is this code simplified or made more complex? >> it's a little bit simpler but overall people are not going to be able to get rid of the tax preparer so

quickly. pete: that's why we are getting emails. nancy said i'm retired living in upstate new york, what does this tax reform do for people living on retirement and relying on medicare and social security. >> not going to be any impact on somebody living off retirement savings. whatever tax rates they are falling into pretty much either way will stay consistent or pay a little less. ed: what about obamacare? did the bill still include, this comes from dominic, the elimination of the individual mandate from obamacare? if not, why not, by the way people are also asking about medical deductions. so what happened is that the individual mandate has been repealed. it's gone. why did they do that? because it was going to free up between 300 and 400 billion in this tax plan. but what's going to happen as a result of that, individual mandate going away, the people who are still buying insurance, their premiums are going to

go up. so what this bill does is it's giving them a two-year extension to still be able to deduct medical costs. two year period. then it goes away. rachel: all right, we have another email question from bill. he wants to know when are the new tax brackets passed in the senate bill. >> the senate bill is going to have seven tax brackets. similar to what we currently have. pete: what about one? [laughter] >> on the other hand, the house bill has four. so this goes to reconciliation. when you talk about simplification, seven tax brackets, not so much. so that's where we are now. ed: maybe in conference it will get down to five or six. we will see. we have you next hour and the hour after. your questions are very important. we preached it, dan. >> thank you. ed: next up, mainstream media celebrating michael flynn's plea deal. aren't they forgetting another big controversy in washington? sara carter is here to refresh their memory. what about unmasking? that's coming up.

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gives people a picture of their animal and recipient so you know where your money is going. darren has offered to give the first 100 goats a duplicate from his company life seasons. ed: goats for the old goat. sounds offensive. >> i turned 60 several years ago. and i'm an old goat. in fact, administration of health calls me the old goat when i show up there goats for the old goat. jim. we have beautiful hearts we sell too. made my women somebody killed in front of them. ed: how do people get them? >> go to our website goats for the old goat under shop and there they are. pete: tell me what a goat does for people. we don't think about that. >> i have been to south sudan many times. i have looked at a lot of organizations. the reason i really like her nonprofit organization because 100 percent of it goes to the people we have been there and delivered a goat to widows and orphans.

we only do female goats that's because of the nutrition they get from the milk and a goat will deliver two kids a year. and that pays for a child's education every year. it's the gift that keeps on giving. >> we saw these kids with the telltale red hair malnutrition. when we went back after we gave out 400 goats. none of the kids had it. we know president trump watches us. so buy a goat, mr. president. rachel: absolutely. you heard it here. ed: need to touch their heart you say how d do you do it? >> you give a goat and you get a picture with your name on it. darren makes sure that happens. we are the only -- we are the only animal group that does that. >> for the first 100 people that donate a goat or go online and get a goat my company life seasons will donate an additional goat for that cause. >> all of us have someone on our list that has everything. we don't know what to get them. >> get a certificate right away or a heart, too. and then about three months

later you get a picture of your goat and the recipient. ed: this is such a wonderful thing to do. >> i was going to get everyone on my list bit coin. >> now get a goat. >> so it's $60 for a goat. >> you can buy a partial goat $10 then your picture will be shared. rachel: also a great idea for schools. my catholic school is always looking for al project. classrooms. >> great idea. ed: he ellen rattner we appreciate it. darren peterson. thank you. >> thank you. ed: some are blaming sanctuary cities for illegals. should we blame the employers. ed: rachel with her 8 kids. rachel: i hope it's clean. >> hey, welcome ♪

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trump administration. >> first lady melania trump unveiled this year's white house christmas decorations. critics went on the attack. >> it's not uncommon or unpress dentinged to criticize a first lady. but it's very unusual to go after her about christmas decorations. ♪ ♪ ♪ making me faster ♪ making me a little bit bigger ♪ making me smarter. pete: i tried to read the sign. i couldn't read it america couldn't read it one of the ladies out there. pete: we will try again. ed: one of the ladies out there said her family wanted her to go see good morning america she said no i love fox news. rachel: that was a great crowd out there. ed: it's like america comes to us. pete: like the island of manhattan is insane. all liberals they don't care but. you come here and visit and you join us on the plaza. you bring america to us. ed: they came all this way and disappointed your tie is

so short today. rachel: well, there were a lot of ladies out there that wanted a picture with pete. pete: rachel campos duffy and ed henry. my tie is too short. ed: we have a big fox news alert this morning. rachel: major victory for president trump and the g.o.p. overnight. the senate narrowly passing the most sweeping changes to your taxes in a generation. pete: the key vote finally coming just before 2:00 in the morning while you were sleeping. ed henry was up because he is the intrepid reporter. ed: got here in the middle of the night so i could be on "fox & friends" with ellison barber bright and early getting all the details. good morning, ellison. >> good morning. ed henry is insane. republicans, however, are celebrating this as a win. it really is not over until the president signs a bill and there is more work before that can happen. the house and senate have two different bills they need to go to conference next.

that's where they will try to come to an agreement and merge the two bills. look at some of the changes the senate made to their bill very late yesterday. keeping the alternative minimum tax to provide more revenue. allowing property tax deductions up to $10,000 and keeping the medical expense deduction for the next two years. republicans passed this with 51 votes. many of those changes were meant to convince holdouts like maine senator susan collins. vice president pence seemingly convinced arizona senator jeff flake with promises related to immigration. i've been says unless we can get started on immigration reform and that starts with daca. that should be the easy are the pa. so i have been talking about that to the vice president quite a bit and others and got a good commitment to work on daca quickly. >> some of the changes were handwritten in the margins of the bill. that added to the

frustrations of democrats. ultimately every democrat voted no. >> as recently as this week the republican leader and others claim that this bill would not add to the deficit. we know now that even under the dynamic scoring method the republican party asked for and received this bill would add a trillion dollars to the deficit. >> this is a revenue neutral bill. i think it's going to be a revenue producer. the 12.5 trillion-dollar deficideaf -- 1.5 trillion-dollr deficit requires us four tenths of 1% over the next 10 years. >> only republican to vote against this was tennessee's bob corker. pete, ed, rachel? ed: thanks, ellison. rachel: not a big surprise on corker. pete: really? ed: feuding with the president. there is a lot of debts being piled on here. republicans say there will be economic growth that will

wipe that out we will see. pete: suddenly chuck schumer cares about debt and deficit. under barack obama the guy spent and taxed his way to oblivion. ed: president just jumping in minutes ago tweeting the biggest tax bill and tax cuts in history just passed in the senate. now these great republicans will be going for final passage. thank you to house and senate republicans for your hard work and commitment. the key there is that the president has had this sort of uneasy relationship at times with republicans on the hill. now they are coming together on taxes. rachel: we hope, right? there are some things that the house does not like that the senate put in there last minute to kind of get this thing going. so we will see how they come together. i think there is a lot of momentum there. there is a lot of political implications if they don't pass this. ed: you said last hour their butts are on the line. rachel: they are. pete: they passed the individual mandate in the senate. you could get a two-for.

real tax reform and repeal of the mandate. ed: pete is on the trump train this morning. dan bongino says choo choo time to hop on board. listen. >> for eight years we were subjected to the liberal economic ideology more spending, more government, more taxes and finally, finally it looks like the train is turning around and headed back towards the freedom station. it's not a perfect plan. but we are on the verge of something very special here if this gets passed. you will see some solid economic growth here if they can agree and get this thing through. pete: point here listen, you like the fact that republicans have acted and done something they said they would do. the devil, as always, is in the details. send us your questions friends@foxnews.com. how will this bill senate or house bill affect your wallet, your future? because that's what really matters here. that's what republicans should care about. you could pass something and have a preference. but like obamacare, it fails, then your hides are on the line. pass something that matters. that's what should be on the

minds you have all republicans. rachel: absolutely. i think this bill is an opportunity, i think, for the republicans to show what a free market pro-capitalist economy looks like. we have had 8 years. i love dan bongino's quote there where he talks about the freedom train. the economic freedom train and so not perfect bill. but definitely a bill that is about free enterprise. ed: look, big news on the tax cut. and, yet, what the media was mostly focused on yesterday was all about general mike flynn. and robert mueller and the investigation. we go back to russia, russia, russia. there is news there. because he pled guilty. pete: russia, russia, russia. ed: pleading guilty to lying to the fbi. some in the media was not turning it into news story but a big happy dance. watch. >> there aren't many more dots. >> right. >> after mike film, right? your dots go to kushner and then the president. there really are no other dots here. >> this is a case that reaches directly into the

heart of the trump administration. into the oval office. >> people who have believed that the president sort of loose way with information and facts was his best defense now think that the president is in danger and exposed. >> i do agree, this is a big moment where if you are on the fence you start to think jeez, is this whole thing going down? is it watergate. pete: thank you former republican never trumper wallace giddy about the latest bread crumb that may tie this white house to russia which has always been insane to begin with. they are returning with this like it's armageddon. ed: nobody as excited as joy behar: like oprah came to "the view" yesterday and gave everybody a new car or something. rachel: that's exactly what i was thinking about when i saw it you get a car. you get a car. ed: key to the mueller suv. joy behar, watch it. pete: roll it. >> breaking news, abc news brian ross is reporting michael flynn promised full

cooperation to the mueller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate donald trump directed him to make contact with the russians. yes! [cheers and applause] ed: you know what is incredible. pete: yes! ed, stop talking. happy dance. ed: quoting a brian ross report that abc ended up having to walk back after the stock market, i don't want to say crashed but took a nose dive and it's been on a great run all because it was like wait a second, this is about the campaign. as she said. no it isn't. brian ross had to pull that back and dan bongino weighed in on that. listen. >> only a liberal would believe that you could collude to win an election and then make contact with your fellow colluders after you won the election. ed, the candidate part of that that they got wrong that they made contact with trump as a candidate oh no, later, it was after he won. that's the whole story. that's like saying headline, breaking news, man robs bank, clarification, man makes withdrawal from atm.

i mean the whole story goes out the window. ed: that was great what he said. rachel: kind of ereminds me during the campaign remember when rachel maddow said we got him on the taxes. i really think they are really running the risk here of -- the kind of elation and giddiness that you saw yesterday. you know, the charges that came against flynn don't really lead to the original purpose of this investigation which was to find collusion during the campaign process. pete: absolutely. ed, you follow. this you are a reporter. i respect that. ed: here we go. pete: you read axios, the playbook, all the inside baseball stuff. i do too. is there any evidence here that this is new evidence that there was any collusion. ed: no. no evidence there. pete: speak truth here. ed: no, there is no evidence that there was collusion in the campaign. that's where the investigation started. is it a problem though that michael flynn lied to the fbi? yes. walls he covering something else up? my point is we don't know as

a reporter. we should stick to the facts. there are people on the left who are doing this happy dance saying this is watergate and they don't know that they said that after the manafort indictment. pete: why do they keep doing it, ed? ed: people are cheerleading the president falling. there is no other way to say it. i would on the other hand say this to follow the facts. trump shouldn't say there is nothing here. when you lie to the fbi there is a crime. rachel: the president didn't lie to the fbi. ed: no. but his national security did. rachel: who he fired. i mean. ed: yeah. rachel: he lied to the vice president. mike flynn has a problem with the truth. that's why he was fired. i live in the campaign world. i'm a political spouse. one of the biggest rookie mistakes that a candidate makes and it happens all the time. you will see it all the time. they end up hiring the person on the campaign. the campaign manager to run their office, for example. and a lot of times there is a loyalty thing. that person got to you

victory but they may not be the best person to be on the job. what i find most troubling on the trump side you probably shouldn't hire michael flynn and he did. i think that's the mistake he made. ed: i agree with everything you said. if barack obama's susan rice gotten caught lying. rachel: she did, she did. lots of times. ed: let me if it please initial. she lied on sunday talk shows, yes she did. did she lie to the fbi? pete: maybe. ed: she lied to the fbi pete hegseth should be doing the happy dance. pete: i don't do the happy dance for lies. rachel: only crime i see is the unhavocking. i believe susan rice was involved with that. that's something i wish muriel would take up. pete: there is a lot going on. you are going to see a lot in the media. be careful what you hear and

listen to ed henry. he will be your fair and balanced barometer. ed: pete to do the happy dance. america is waiting for when the investigation ends quietly. pete: again, as you said, no evidence, no collusion no, nothing. the unmangegs is the closest thing to truth we have had so far. ed: what do you think? email us at friends@foxnews.com. meanwhile, this illegal immigrant accused of vicious crime, now we are learning he was deported 20 times. yes. you heard it right. 20. how in the world did that happen? rachel: and we told you about the mainstream media celebrating michael flynn's plea deal. but aren't they forgetting about another major controversy in washington? sara carter is here to refresh their memory coming up next. ♪ ♪ i switched to geico and got more! more savings on car insurance!? they helped with homeowners, too!

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cheered over the news of flynn's plea. are they completely ignoring controversy like susan rice unmasking. here to weigh in is sara carter. so the so-called mainstream media which is of course completely left wing they went nuts yesterday about this flynn news. put it in context for us you could see the reaction. this was a long time coming. people had suspected. if they were going to get flynn on anything they would get lieutenant general michael flynn on possibly not giving all of the information that he had to the fbi, which is what he pled guilty to. and it was a very low count. we didn't have any information there that showed any kind of russia collusion. and as ed said earlier, we

have to wait and see whether or not there was anything beyond that was there a reason why he withholding some information or will he come out eventually and just talk about everything? we what we do know, pete, in the beginning before he was revealed. before his conversation with ambassador kislyak was outed in "the washington post," if that they were watching him. right after president trump was elected, there was an intensified increase in unmasking people, apparently associated with the trump campaign and then with the trump transition team by the obama administration. that's something they failed to touch on. that's something that needs to be investigated because we know now fisa section 702 ends on december 31st. they will push it through for reauthorization. there needs to be a full investigation into the extent of powers within these agencies. and how those powers have been extended to government officials. rachel: we talked about the

liberal media. but, if flynn -- i'm sorry, if mueller does not go after and expose or charge someone on the unmasking, how does that undermine his credibility in the entire investigation? >> well, rachel, i think this is what is going to happen. we know that the department of justice is now looking into 27 leak investigations. that's incredible. that's much higher than what we had thought. so that's a good thing. they are looking into that. i think the second part and i don't know how this is going to play out. i think definitely muriel should be looking a -- mueller should look at who leaked the name with ambassador kislyak. why was his name unmasked. we still haven't understood. we knew there was a fisa on kislyak. what about michael flynn? how did they know it was that number specifically they needed to unmask and look at that conversation? that's interesting to me. i think there needs to be a full investigation either by the inspector general of the intelligence community.

they really need to see how far this has gob. and within the obama administration particularly why they were unmavericking at such a high frequency. including united nations ambassador samantha powers. rachel: right. >> who had over 200. rachel: ben rhodes. >> that's right. pete: a lot of this came to light because someone was unmasked, potentially illegally. keep your eye on the ball is what you are saying? >> that's right. keep your eye on the ball. and just look at all of the bits of information that has come out. i mean, i said just now. united nations ambassador samantha power over 200 unmaskings. i can tell you pete and rachel after talking to so many people in the intelligence community, that is not common. rachel: sarah, have you been on, this following the leads wherever it goes. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. rachel: coming up, some are blaming sanctuary cities for harboring illegals like in the case of kate steinle.

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pete: welcome back. quick headlines and a fox news alert. a german christmas market is evacuated after police find a device full of wires and nails nearby. police safely destroying the package in a controlled explosion but authorities now believe the christmas market was not the intended target as they search for who sent it. the country has been on lie alert after isis issued a threat against christmas markets. as of course they would do. just last year, 12 people were killed in a deadly truck attack at christmas market in berlin. and more breaking news, the fbi making an arrest in

connection with to the disappearance of toddler mariah woods. authorities say earl kemring the boyfriend of mariah's mother is in custody and several charges concealing of death, burglary and obstruction of justice. police say evidence gathered during the investigation has them believing unfortunately mariah is dead. they have yet to find her body. and a 70-year-old woman behind bars accused of making an explosive, making an explosive at her neighbor's senior community center to ricin. the fbi says betty miller was planning to take -- to one day take the deadly poison herself but wanted to test it out on her neighbors at her vermont retirement community. no one was seriously hurt. not a good idea over to you. ed: a fox news alert. meanwhile. attorney general jeff sessions taking aim at sanctuary city policies in the wake of the steinle verdict. here he was with tucker.

>> time for country to get its head on straight. these cities should not be protecting illegal criminal aliens. they come into the country, commit another crime and hide that individual. the federal government and president trump is crystal clear. we are doing everything possible to get these cities to reverse these policies. ed: is the steinle case the proof america finally needs to change its sanctuary city laws and build the border, the wall the president is talking about to prevent illegal immigrants from entering in here to debate, attorney and vice chair of the republican party and reuben, syndicated columnist. i want to start with you first hamid because it's interesting to me that you hear the attorney general there talking about it's time to change these sanctuary city policies. what's taking so long? >> well, california has been coddling sanctuary criminals for many years now.

in fact, we are turning into an actual sanctuary state on january 1st thanks to recent legislation. there is this narrative that we are talking about your cleaning person or, you know, innocent people who are fleeing persecution and what have you that might have been the case in 1980s. we had civil wars going on in central america. but today, you know, we have nafta, we have better economic conditions in mexico. and these are really economic my grants and, again most of them are not criminals. there is no defense for san francisco and other 300 cities in the united states coddling these people and, in fact, releasing them into our communities and conspiring against the federal government and the citizens to do that. there is absolutely no justification for that. i hope this spurs some action but, frankly, i'm not hopeful. california is actually going in the opposite direction. ed: reuben, you come at this more from the left. you say there is no such thing as a sanctuary city. didn't we see this play out? there is.

there are sanctuary cities and the one in san francisco is disgusting what's happening now. how can you say there are no sanctuary cities? >> because i have been covering, ed, of the immigration issue for 25 years. because i have covered it not from new york or d.c. but from dallas, phoenix, and san diego on the front lines. and because there is no city in america where you can go as undocumented immigrant to avoid immigration law. just like there is no? i america where can you go to avoid paying your taxes. the very idea that you have as the other guest says 300 cities and somehow in those 300 cities immigration agents are not going in every day and rounding up people, they are. including my city of san diego. we are a sanctuary city. today there is a very brisk business going on with ice agents rounding up u. up and deporting illegal immigrants 365 all year long because this whole idea of a sanctuary city has been poorly reported over the years by media. unicorn of the immigration debate doesn't exist. a fiction created by the left to pretend that localities can push the federal government around around tell it what can could.

it's never been a that way. ed: you say deportation doesn't work people just keep coming back. doesn't that prove we need a law and tougher immigration laws? >> i can only tell you this. i have been down to the border, i have talked to border patrol agents. supervisors and people on the line. they have never once asked for a wall. they ask for things that don't look so sexy. bumper sticksers like better roads, better surveillance, tunnel protection equipment. we ought to give them what they want. the idea of a wall though people go over around and under these barriers. and it will always be an opportunity to get around them. so say the border patrol agents. what do i know? i'm listening to the cops with the badges and guns they are the real experts. ed: ha recovermeet what about the employers? what responsibility do they have. >> obviously the employers who employ the illegal aliens are a problem. they are not the main problem here with regard to this type of a crime wave. you know, the united states federal government has not been enforcing the everify laws and the other laws that prevent employers. here is san francisco just to talk back to reality, you

can't go to any restaurant in this city and get a meal without having been touched by somebody who is here without authorization. we need the federal government to step up. border enforcement includes not just rounding up people as reuben said actually creating a wall and keeping us safe. that is the most basic tenant of a government's function just to keep its citizens safe. what we need here is putting the rights of the citizens and legal residents of san francisco and our country ahead of those have broken our laws to be here. ed: putting the citizens first. imagine that. harmeet and reuben, appreciate your time. >> thank you. ed: this illegal i will i will t also accused of a vicious crime he was deported 20 times. heard that right. 20 times. how did that happen. while rachel is here with us her husband is home with the 8 children. congressman sean duffy and the whole family. they are live next ♪ i love my small town world ♪ i love a country girl

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there they are at the reception. rachel: look at that gorgeous dress. she looks amazing. pete: he proposed to her in times square which went viral online. that's so romantic. pete: a wedding befitting that proposal. >> there i am on the far left. which i'm never at. kilmeade, doocy, cav vin. >> ainsley is in there, too. >> ainsley is there. >> you were at the wedding. >> everyone is coming together. pete: it was a ton of fun. like a "fox & friends" reunion. that's why i'm only about 75% this morning. ed: a.j. and nicole congratulations. wedding, marriage, leads maybe to a couple kids? rachel: maybe they will get 8, too. i'm kind of nervous this segment is coming up. usually when sean picks me up from the airport when i have been away. the kids look like orphans like he doesn't dress them. ed: he doesn't feed them? rachel: look what they are doing this morning. hey, guys. can they see me?

hi. it's early there they look tired. >> we did our best to get up and get ready without you here. hopefully we look presentable. we have some kids i don't think they fit in the shot here. pete: i'm counting them 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 yeah you got them all. rachel: surprise they are not in pj's. a for sure. >> they didn't want their classmates to see them in pj's on "fox & friends." ed: that's pretty okay what's on the agenda. mom is away u everybody going to be playing. getting the christmas tree? what are you doing this weekend. >> when dad cooks it's cereal and milk this morning. rachel: i'm the cook in the house. >> go get our christmas tree. we are like a week or two delayed but that's okay. so next weekend is christmas tree. kids have hockey today, some birthday parties and dad is just going to cart everyone around as a one man driver without rachel here. pete: get them in the

minivan. rachel: we have our 18-year-old who can drive, which is huge. you get some help, come on, sean. >> got to tell you as we were looking at the tax plan this morning. patrick and i i don't know if you can see patrick tax reform. and they gave me very good feedback at 18 months. rachel: does he like the senate plan? pete: from the sippy cup. >> mas out of him. i'm not sure if that is good or bad. rachel: can i tell you what it's like when i come home about an hour or two before i land. i have that layover. it's like cat in the hat. where they are all trying to put the house back together before mom comes home. sean is about the house when he is in charge. >> rachel keeps a very tight ship here. it's very clean. house sparkles. that's not the way i run it. so, the house is a wreck. before rachel comes in i'm yelling at everybody hey, listen, pick up, sweep, wipe

counters. rachel: it's t. is like cat in the hat the kids told me. ed: that's awesome. >> us against mom when she comes home. ed: congressman we won't let you go without one question about the big development overnight you kind of alluded to it a moment ago. now this senate tax cut has to go to a conference committee. i know it's hard to answer with all the kids climbing on you. what's going to happen next week? >> listen, we're digesting this senate tax plan right now. my biggest concern is the alternative minimum tax that now is going back into the bill. this is part of the simplification. and listen, the whole salt issue. the state and local tax issue for high tax. members of congress, when you amt and remove their ability office. local taxes, this is going to be punishing for them. we have some real problems. i know the senate really hasn't committed to going to

conference. i think they are going to have to. we have to work out some of these finer points of tax reform. i have got to tell you, in one moment, ed, i'm like the senate is doing a great job passing tax reform. the next one the senate always fails. they can't get anything done. it was heartening last night they got their act together and actually passed the bill. i'm excited though i do think we have to tweak out some differences. pete: sean, we showing you a visual of you with all your kids and rachel's kids. all there. how much perspective does that give you vis-a-vis other members of congress not working family with kids in wisconsin. how important to you is it that this code responds to working people? >> i heard the stat that, you know, most -- half of americans are $400 away from financial or economic crisis in their home. and so if you have a family that makes $59,000 a year. they pay about $1,700 a year in taxes. under our plan they would pay 400. they are saving over $100 a

month. it's a 75% reduction in a family's federal income taxes that they pay. i mean, this is powerful stuff. but not only that pete, when you start to grow your economy, when american businesses are able to reinvest and innovate, that means there is more jobs for american families. when the liberals say it's all about corporations and big business, well, guess who works there? guess who gets opportunity there it's families like ours that get the jobs or get companies to compete for our labor which makes us do better. that's why i'm so excited about the tax plan. i think the economic growth is going to be profound. pete: i think. so lucky charms for everyone. no wheaties or cheerios. treat cereals for everyone. rachel: you guys get to have lucky charms today. >> give them a little sugar high here. you know what that means. exactly what that means. rachel: chocolate milk. it's the trump era now. >> we have chocolate milk now in schools. it's fantastic. we're all going to drink

milk again. rachel: finally. it's the dairy state. thanks, sean for waking up early with all those kids. i love you guys. i will see you soon. don't pull her hair, patrick, i'm seeing that. ed: uh-oh. rachel: i think i'm going to have to reclean what they clean. turning to your headlines and a fox news alert. new proof of just how serious the north korean nuclear threat is hawaii now testing its warning sirens in preparation of a possible attack. [siren] that is scary. that's the first time the people in the state of hawaii have heard that sound since the cold war. it comes after the rogue nation tested a missile it says can hit anywhere in the u.s. officials believe people in hawaii would have less than 20 minutes to find cover if a missile were launched at them. a mexican illegal immigrant who was deported 20 times

gets 35 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women. sergio jose martinez was freed from a portland jail weeks before separate attacks despite isis requests to hold him. martinez told his victim's family in court quote see them in hell. iconce his 35 years are up he will be deported again. house minority leader nancy pelosi calling on nevada congressman reuben kewan to resign. accused of making unwanted advances 2014 campaign. pelosi releasing a statement saying she believes the women's claim encouraging the congressman to step down. republicans meanwhile are divided on texas congressman blake farn holt who is accuse of using taxpayer money to see you lens a staff that he allegedly harassed. now, hunger called in a 20 year army vet was going to

answer. the problem was the staff the south carolina waffle house he went to were sleeping on the job. so, what did alex do? alex bowen says he took matters into his own hands, jumping behind the counter and making his own food on the grill. he even cleaned up and came back the next day to pay. as for the sleeping employee, waffle houses he has been suspended for a week. that's a funny story. those are your headlines. pete: that's a great move. they are all asleep. i'm going to make my own eggs. pete: i do love waffle house legitimately. ed: probably should do a diner segment from there. pete: we should do a diner segment from there. ed: the murder of kate steinle call out the president. >> let me just remind them that they are themselves under investigation by special prosecutor. ed: what did the american people think about that? we have the brand new dials testing it out next.

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download the new words with friends 2 today. ♪ rachel: it was a busy week in politics and nobody is closer to the pulse of the american people than our next guest lee carter. she a pollster and partner at maslansky and partners. she has put together this week's biggest moments to text on the dial. i love. this you get an idea where the american people are at. >> it's so interesting. rachel: this was a very controversial, much talked about clip. let's play this one with nancy pelosi talking about congressman conyers. >> we are strengthened by due process. just because someone is accused, and was it one accusation? is it two? i think there has to be. john conyers is an icon in our country. he has done a great deal to protect women. rachel: what do these dials tell you. >> what they tell me is that

republicans and independents are not buying this message. they gave it d minus. democrats gave it a c minus. this is really a hot button right now. people politicizing it do it at their own peril. this is not a republican or democrat issue. this is about right and wrong. people are across the board tired for people standing up for people in their party not necessarily across the board. this did not help nancy pelosi at all and certainly didn't help conyers. rachel: or probably the democratic party. here is another one. this is trump calling elizabeth warren pocahontas on talking about obviously her claiming to be a native american which we know she is not. let's see how this grades. >> you were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahontas. but, you know what? i like you. because you are special. rachel: i'm kind of confused because i have to say a lot of republicans that i know

really like that he called her out on this. what do these lines tell you? >> what the lines are telling me a lot of republicans do, in fact, appreciate that he is calling her out on this but this wasn't the time or place. republicans and independence gave it a c plus. democrats gave it an f. they were on the floor. you couldn't even see them. what we heard from folks, look, it's important that the president calls people out when he is supposed to. there is a time and place. this place is about honoring the native americans. this wasn't the place to bring tum. so a lot of folks felt it was a little bit tasteless. it didn't ruin the moment as it did for so many democrats who are saying this is the worst thing ever but a lot of people thought not his best moment this week because he had a lot of good ones. rachel: let's go to the next one. this is the lawyer for zarate, the man who shot kate steinle and here he is slamming donald trump right after the verdict. >> for those who might criticize this verdict, there are a number of people that have commented on this case in the last couple of

years, the attorney general of the united states, the president, the vice president of the united states. let me just remind them that they are, themselves, under investigation by special prosecutor in washington, d.c. >> i suspected republicans and even independenc i independe this spot. >> democrats gave it a b overall. they absolutely agreed with this and said look, you can't cast stones when you are under investigation yourself. really, wire a country guided and can you see that in how these play out. rachel: very insightful information thanks for coming on. >> great to be here. rachel: coming up, more than 58,000 names are inscribed on the vietnam memorial in washington, d.c. today a special event will honor these fallen heroes. baseball hall of famer cal ripken jr. and admiral lynch are leading the charge in this and they will join us

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pete: more than 58,000 names of those who gave their lives are endescribed on the walls of the vietnam veterans memorial in washington, d.c. and today, a special event is planned to commemorate both of 35th anniversary of that memorial and the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war. ed: joining us now from the national mall two wonderful great americans thomas lynch executive chairman of new day u.s.a. and new day u.s.a. supporter and baseball iron man himself cal ripken jr. i'm a baseball fan myself so i'm geeing out. thank you for your service to our nation. tell us a little bit about what's happening there today. >> well, i'm chairman of new

day u.s.a. a mortgage lending company. we do v.a. home loan owns so we are very veteran centric. this is not unusual for us. our team at new day we give back all the time. we are known as the company that comes down to the mall regularly to wash the monument. the disabled veterans of world war ii the women's veterans. we do this but it's particularly meaningful today being the 35th anniversary since the dedication of the memorial. and i, myself, have nine classmates from the naval academy on that wall and a high school buddy. in fact, one of the guys on the wall was my fellow linebacker from naval academy when i played back in the 50's and early 60's. it's very meaningful for us to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. pete: absolutely. cal, people know you from the diamond. you are invested in this as well. why does this matter so much to you. >> i was looking for something to do early morning. and good response to that

admiral lynch said i have something expressly for you. new day is in the business of assisting veterans. it's in their culture. and i'm a partner with new day u.s.a. and i'm very proud to be here for a lot of reasons. but also to bring tribute to those who served this country. i just wonder if i have the skill to actually wash the wall correctly. we will find out very shortly. ed: you are a man of many skills iron man cal ripken himself. we appreciate you joining this great effort and admiral lynch many across the country our viewers know about your background. we appreciate both of you and what you are doing. good luck today. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. pete: thanks, gentlemen. appreciate it? >> all right. let's get to work. [laughter] pete: send a photo of cal cleaning. that guy has mad skills, exactly. coming up, alan dershowitz, david clarke both here live. big show. don't leave us. ♪ may your path see the sounds ♪ on the ground ♪ carry on ♪

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> air force one getting ready at joint base andrews to fly right here to new york city where the president is doing a little bit of republican fundraising, yeah, big bird is headed this way. >> if republicans are able to do something, they've already doubled fundraising evidents of democrats in this off year but if they pass something, prospects get even higher. we will watch the president and his movement. >> that's right. we have a fox news alert. pete: while you were sleeping a major victory on capitol hill for president trump and gop. the senate narrowly passing sweeping changes to your taxes in a generation. >> the key vote coming finally before 2:00 a.m. >> live in washington to break

it all down. >> good morning to all of you, this was a big win for republicans, a win by the skin of their skin, narrowingly passing the bill and a number of last-minute changes. >> the tax cuts and job's act as amended is passed. [applause] >> some of the changes included keeping the alternative minimum tax to provide a more revenue allowing a property tax deductions up to $10,000 and keeping the medical expense deductions for the next two years. many of those changes were meant to convince a holdouts like senator susan col license, vice president pens seemingly convinced a holdout arizona senator jeff flake with a promise to work on immigration moving forward, daca specifically. lisa murkowski was a question mark for a while but she came

around. >> incredibly important for our country when we think about the growth opportunities that now stand before us. >> some of the changes were actually handwritten in the margins of the bill, a number of democrats pointed to that as evidence that this bill was rushed through, when it came time to vote, every democrat voted no. >> as recently as this week, the republican leaders and others claimed that this bill would not add to deficit, we know now that even under the dynamic scoring method, the republican party asked for and received this bill would add a trillion dollars to the deficit. house and senate approved two different bills. they still need to go to conference and emerge the two. first step is set for monday. ed, rachel, pete. >> thank you. so interesting to see how chuck

schumer has really became a deficit hawk. he's so worried about it and then we have corker who did not vote for this bill who -- i mean, does he not believe as all republicans, i thought, believed that cutting taxes grows the economy -- >> we were talking about this in the break. the president calls little bob corker, maybe there's a personal feud. if you're concerned about the deficit and ted wouldn't all ted cruz, mike lee would grow against the bill. corker clearly has a personal issue. >> it's going to blow a bigger hole over the next decade. republicans, you're right, are pushing back and say, you grow the economy, that's not going happen. the president thinks he knows how it's going to play out. he's up early this morning tweeting the biggest tax bill and tax cuts in history, now

great republicans will be going to final passage, thank you to house and senate republicans for hard work. more positive tone then when he's needling people like bob corker. a lot of people in the media, republicans are going to end the year with no victory. >> the question is are the great republicans truly great. the question is conference committee. that's a generous term but if they actually pass it and pass it in each house as well. you know this -- >> yeah. >> i don't think the house is a problem, what comes out of the conference but goes back to the senate. >> so much of the last-minute wrangling, people writing things on the edge to have bill, last minute, this is what senators did, they have big egos, if they had handed a cleaner bill, the house -- we wouldn't have to go to conference. the house would have signed it

off and be done. the rules of the senate, the egos of the senate seem to get in the way of, i think, a bill that would -- >> looking at my phone because we have breaking news. >> i thought you were bored. >> the president showed at the top of the hour, air force being fueled up ready to go, coming to new york city for fundraising, the president spoke to the media before getting on the plane, number one, he touted the largest tax cut in history ever passed, beautiful he called it, business tax, corporate tax, all the way down to 20 ter and now -- 20% now going to house and senate. big news that i want to get to, he was asked about general flynn, president said, no collusion, these are rough notes, absolutely no collusion, frankly last night was one to have big nights, but clearly trying to get it back to taxes, what do you think about flynn? we will see what happens the president said, he's not worried about what general flynn will tell the special counsel.

we hope to turn that sound. others are pushing the leaks. yesterday they timed it according to rush limbaugh to overshadow the tax cut. i'm not worried he said. >> he's not worried because he hasn't been worried because there's been no collusion, the media has run with the the narrative, russia, russia. i can't even say it. >> russia, russia. >> the media, you saw this, ed, they went wall to wall on this being one of the new things, a new detail that proofs collusion. listen how the media framed it and we will take a listen. >> there aren't many more dots right after mike flynn, the dogs go to kushner and then the president. they really are no dots here. >> this is a case that reaches

directly into the heart of the trump administration, into the oval office. >> people now who have believed that the information loose way with information and facts with his best defense now think that is the president is in danger and exposed. >> i do agree. this is a big moment where if you're on the fence, you start to think, is this whole thing going down. >> breaking news bryan ross reporting michael flynn offered full cooperation to mueller team and prepared to testify that as a candidate donald trump directed him to make contact with the russians. [cheers and applause] >> believing the bedtime story that you were told. it's like winnie the pooh was real. it's amazing to watch the hysteria. >> it was not real. it was fake basically. flynn, the fact that he played guilty is real and republican wills have to deal with that. but the report that she was getty -- flynn was going to

cooperate with robert mueller and president trump directed him as candidate. they walked that part back. >> what does that do to the credibility of nbc. it already got retweeted. >> it's not just abc. this is a report that had a big impact. i wasn't just joy baher holding up. the stock market took a nose dive. go look at fox business and their twitter account in terms of what was happening yesterday right after the bryan ross report. market took a hit o, my gosh, maybe there is evidence that there was collusion during the campaign. abc walks it back. >> fake news that gets retracted still affect it is narrative. i get it. when you get it wrong --

>> people make mistakes but this is a big one. pete: wall to wall with it, you change the narrative. he was colluding with the russians, no he wasn't at all. suggestion to national security advisers which anyone would do -- >> every administration does. pete: obama administration did they we wanted to take into approach with vladimir putin and russians for better or worse, nothing wrong with that. very different than the headline. >> this morning we had dan bongino, let's take a look at what he had to say this morning about this. >> only a liberal would believe that you could collude to win an election and then contact with fellow colluters, the candidate part of that that they got wrong, oh, no, later after he won, that's the whole story, that's like saying, headline, breaking news, man robs bank, headline, man makes withdrawal

from atm. >> they initially called it a clarification and then under pressure people on social media, wait, it's a correction, this story was wrong. >> i didn't hear that part, that's fascinating. >> i mentioned a moment ago -- you are in the news business, how does that happen to go from it was collusion or to correction, how does that happen? >> i wasn't there to bryan ross' interview, a source close to general flynn is saying he's cooperating and he is prepared to testify x, y, z that candidate trump told flynn to go out there during campaign and reach out to russians. and then it sounds like people in the flynn camp as this took on a who i will new life of its own they were reaching to abc, no, that's not what he's going testify. they said, well, he's still going to testify that president elect trump pushed him to reach

out to the russians. as you say, that's more normal. you're about to constitute a government. >> that's not illegal. >> whomover. it's a clarification. no it's not, they had to say it's a correction. marine one, the president just spoke to reporters, we will get that tape in a moment at the white house and then got on marine one, marine one has landed at joint base andrews, we will get a glimpse of the president live in the morning, maybe we will talk to reporters or maybe not. pete: he's coming our way. >> in these remarks, the president was saying, look, there is no collusion, there was no collusion, he's not worried about what general flynn is going to testify to and that's what's important. >> that's what he said from the beginning. >> the idea general flynn has something on the president, maybe jared kushner and that this is -- i'm not putting words in the mouth, people were saying we played some of the clips that this is leading us to a

watergate-style scandal and they are simply saying before the facts. >> millions and millions of dollars into -- maybe it's tens of millions of dollars into this investigation at this point, this far along in the investigation. if there was something on president trump -- and the amount of leaks, wouldn't we already know? >> we would have known about it. president trump is about to board marine one here. >> coming off marine one. quick break and on the other side of the break, you will see the president live. a once daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis.

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pete: moments ago, that is president trump, he arrived at joint base andrews in marine, he's leaving marine one and on his way to air force on the way to new york city. >> on his way to new york city for fundraisers that would not be going very well had the

senate not voted in favor of tax reform early this morning at 2:00 a.m. pete: new momentum for the president as you see, he's up early every morning and active every morning but smiling his face, probably believes the fact that at 2:00 a.m. last night the senate passed, 51-49. i was celebrating at a wedding. [laughter] >> too much winning, i'm tired of winning. the president is not tired of winning, he's boarding air force one on way to new york city. traffic will be held up here but for good reason, there is the president of the united states waving to folks assembled at joint base andrews, thanks for joining us at "fox & friends" while media deal about flynn

cooperating. >> there aren't many more dots after mike flynn. your dots go to kushner and then the president. this is a case that reaches directly into the heart of the trump administration. >> but it's not actuallies a big of a deal than what you think. >> he lied to the fbi but what he did was not actually illegal and more importantly the conversations happened during the transition team. >> let's bring harvard law, dean of that school for a long time, life-long democrat. author of trumped up. please make sense of this for us, counselor. >> well, the last thing any prosecutor wants to do is to have to indict primary witness for lying because if you indict your witness for lying, it really means he's not useful as

a witness, he has no credibility. i'm sure the prosecutor was diego to indict him for some scheme or conspiracy but there is nothing there and he had to finally come down and indict him for lying which makes him a useless witness. this is not show of strength by the prosecutor but show of weakness, they have nothing on anybody above a flynn and flynn made the terrible mistake about lying about something, he could have told truth about. perfectly lawful for somebody to do during the transition and so i think it really reflects the weakness not a strength in mueller's prosecution. pete: professor, your perspective is different, if he cut such a deal, he must have the goods, he must be dishing on the trump white house, you're saying actually what's happened here is a demonstration that there is probably not much there. >> well, i've been saying

different things than most other commentators from the very beginning and i think i've been proved right over time. if they had anything more serious, they would have indicted him for it but they couldn't indict him under the logan act that no longer exists. the act that says, you can't negotiate a foreign power if you're not in office. he did that, he would be guilty of that if the logan act were in effect but hasn't been used in over 200 years, there couldn't be a conspiracy, collusion is not a crime, making the deal with the foreign power is not a crime, they maybe political sins but they're not a crime. only lying to the fbi which is the worst possible thing, the prosecutor can bring to witness. theyma use him for documentary but no good as witness because he's sold himself to protect his own son and he's prepared not only to sing but perhaps even to

compose and exaggerate. if i'm a defense lawyer, i have no trouble destroying his credibility on the witness stand. >> what does this do for mueller? he has a huge budget and investigating for how long? how long, pete? >> long time. what does this say about the whole state of the investigation and his credibility? >> well, it shows that she's going on the domino theory. one domino at the time. you go for the low-hanging fruit. forms of essentially political jaywalking and squeeze them and hope that maybe they'll give you information that would lead to somebody higher up but in the end, it's hope over reality, so i would not say this is a day for celebrating for the prosecution in the mueller office. >> thanks for joining us. get on your plane now.

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> getting off marine one. he's now aboard air force one heading here to new york city where he will do some fundraising but as we mentioned before he, you know, left the white house, he was getting on marine one, he talked to reporters and made first comments on general flynn pleading guilty and lying to the fbi. >> are you concerned about what michael flynn might tell the special counsel? >> no, i'm not. what has been found is no collusion, no collusion, there's been absolutely -- there's been absolutely no collusion so we are very happy.

>> do you standby michael flynn, sir? >> we will see what happens. >> as he said from the beginning, say what you want, talk about what you want, there's never been collusion, there's been the talking point from the beginning and from him that's the true. >> we have not yet seen anything from this mueller investigation that presents otherwise. >> let's present sheriff david clarke, long-time supporter of the president, we want to talk about the kate steinle case, media -- some in the media jumping for joy at the idea that michael flynn is turning on the president and this is going to be watergate. >> typical dc political theater. look, mike flynn has his problems but this has nothing to do with the trump campaign or the trump administration and the thing that bothers me is this is a huge dye traction from the issues that the american people demand that their government work on and it's not russian

collusion. >> sheriff, in other news, the doj put out arrest warrant for kate steinle's killer because ultimately he was found not guilty which a lot of us followed closely. what do you make of most recent developments and what should people take away from it? >> a lot of moving parts here. first of all, it is the most important responsibility that federal government has to protect united states citizens and the fact that congress and both parties will not fix broken immigration system is advocation of responsible. i'm glad that jeff sessions has issued a warrant. they will get this right. the feds do a better job at prosecuting, that's why i don't like any of these cases like this in the state courts, they can't be trusted or do this effectively, if we had federal issues that pressed the united states attorney's office to got involved, any capital cases, murder cases shouldn't be tried when it involves and illegal

alien, it shouldn't be tried in state court and should be tried in federal court. until congress fixes the broken immigration system, it has to start with ceiling the border. build the damn wall. you can see all the individuals, a guy was deported 20 times in return, border is not keeled. you don't build a wall as president trump wants, these guys are just going to keep coming back. >> sheriff, you're a fellow wisconsin, the sheriff of milwaukee, you and i both know that the broken immigration system is having a huge impact on rural communities and even in milwaukee on drug -- the drug crises that we are seeing in our country. i talked to a judge up in northern wisconsin recently who says there are stamps from the cartel on the drug that is they are confiscating up there. can you speak a little more about that because i don't think people understand that the drugs are coming across the border because we have not secured it are killing our communities.

>> sure, one of the big reasons why we have to seal the border, it's also illegal drugs, illegal weapons that are coming across the border. every state is being affected some to worst degree like texas, arizona, california. far north as wisconsin and all throughout the united states. at a state level and local law enforcement level we have to count on the federal immigration system, ice, customs and border control to help us because once these things get through the border and disbursed through the united states, it's tot. >> we have dealt with kneelers, narrative, commissioner roger goodell, the nfl saying, releasing recently that they are committing $90 million to

so-called social justice causes in response to the nfl kneelers, is this sufficient, is it a good idea, what do you make of nfl donating on behalf of what colin kaepernick started? >> it's a dumb idea. the nfl can do what they want to their money, it's fine, private money. when i hear social justices causes, interpret that as antipolice, liberal activist causes, how about money for scholarships for kids so we can get kids out of failing k-12 public schools and get them in education so they can compete for jobs in 21st century, how about a fund for crime victims, we are always hearing about criminals. the nfl is talk about criminal justice reform, what is the preoccupation for criminals for heaven's sake, what about victims of crime, another black eye for the nfl. look, they need to hire a good pr director to get them out of this situation that they are in right now.

>> sheriff clarke, thanks for coming in. >> my pleasure. >> smoke pot? yes, the army wants you. granting waivers, off limits once you're in the military. falling in line with nationwide trend, eight states and washington, d.c. have now legalized recreational use of marijuana, more than 500 waivers have been issued this year up from 191 last year, three years ago no such waivers. >> meanwhile chris kyle and jesse vent you area awarded $24 million after claiming kyle defamed him in his book american sniper, the appeal. >> now michelle obama wanted to

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pete: welcome back, your emails have been pouring in to "fox & friends" with questions about the tax bill would be for your wallet. >> that's right, cpa donald joins us with some of your answers. >> and we have a lot of questions. dotti, how would this help my small business? we hear about corporate tax rate being cut to 35% to 20, what about small businesses? >> small businesses will also get a tax benefit here because if pass-through, llc, they are

going to get favorable tax treatment. in the senate bill they are going to give you a deduction for 23% of your pass-through income. >> is that as a result of ron johnson's efforts? >> he held out until he got favorable treatment to put s corporations on a playing field. >> when you buy equipment, they will let you write more of that off. >> immediate expensing which would be helpful for small business. >> what about the status -- this is another one of simplifying the filing of your taxes, this is what they promised, this person says i hope the postcard simplification was not a casualty of all the last-minute negotiations? >> to be honest with you, i think the postcard ended up being a prop. i don't -- >> that makes me sad.

>> it should be real. >> that went away with last-minute horse trading last night before 2:00 o'clock in the morning to get this done in the senate. i think they threw the postcard out. >> for the majority of americans it will be a postcard, won't it? >> it could be. i think we are talking primarily simplification. >> got it. another question from marcela e-mailedtous, can you still deduct interest paid on mortgages or rental profits? >> on rental profits that is a normal part of your business expense, so that interest will remain deductible, what we are talking on your primary residence, there was talk of not allowing deduction on interests when the mortgage principal is above 100,000, that's been moved to a million now. >> okay, a big everyone, no matter where you are what you're making or small business or just individual, what is the effective date of tax changes, you're 2017 filed or 2018 year

filed in 2019, this is why we call you in. >> effective january 1st of 2018 so this is all going to go on your tax return for april of 2019. >> so the money you made this year -- >> nothing changes for this year. that's right. >> if it's not postcard size the one guy who really like that is is guy, we need to bring in is a cpa. >> thanks, buddy, we appreciate you coming in. >> now, turning to news, first lady melania trump the target of sickening attacks over the white house christmas decorations. take a look at this. comparing it to a horror movie, would they have done this to her if she was a democrat? >> can i answer that? >> no. [laughter] like men's sherpa-lined buffalo flannel shirts for under $20. plus visit basspro.com for daily cyber week specials

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>> all right, i will try to get to the headlines without being bit, back to quick headline when first lady melania unveiled christmas decorations an critics went on the attack, some are going out on what she wore and what she decorated. wonder if they would have done the same to her if she had been a democrat? one of the harshest -- >> it's very unusual to go after her over decorations, like i said, it's unusual. it's unfortunate because it's christmas and everybody is supposed to be happy and enjoying things. >> that's right, one of the harshest critics vogue call decorations very, very white. [laughter] >> i'm impressed because you read all of the headlines.

[laughter] >> her name is wally, 6'alligator about to go on a road trip to florida, first she's making a stop at "fox & friends". >> here to tell us more eric the reptile guy calendar, what is this? author of madagascar live. tell us about the journey. >> first of all, the journey started because i've been doing animal for 21 years, i've known this one since i was 19. after in captivity it's better for them to be free because it's just a feeling, i started feeling she would bellow looking for other alligators. connect kids to nature but outdoor, not encouraging kids to have pets, that's the deal. >> kick-starter campaign.

>> america, everybody, donald trump, everyone go on there -- >> he's got money. he can do it. >> go to kick-starter campaign. >> you go to kick-starter, bring live science to children worldwide. children in america are lagging severely in science. it's important to be able to connect to own nature. >> the one in your hand has been jumping around. >> two years ago, the guys were only this big, they were small. [laughter] >> you know how we got them, a boy in the bronx got one, granmai got one, it was a lizard. >> is he going to get peed on? >> he might, but i don't know. [laughter] >> do they bite? >> what do we not know, you're friendly with the alligator, i'm not. what do we not know about these things? >> these alligators are only 3 year's old, this is 23 year's old. she should be as big as the

table at least but when you put animals in captivity like this, a lot of times the growth is suspended. [laughter] >> my boy is moving. >> i'm trying to be cool about this. >> it's like human years. 23 year's old. encouragement is to keep them in the wild and, you know, my alligators actually have a huge turtles. you want to see the huge turtles. >> are you attach today this gator? >> i am. i would like to read her a poem, deal walli, i miss her so much. >> it's the right thing to do. >> every springtime she would bellow for another alligator. i feel bad for her h.

>> she needs to go back. >> it's perfect. she will go to sanctuary first and then after sanctuary she will go into the wild. >> sanctuary city? >> no. [laughter] >> the swamp. >> our kick-starter campaign is to bring animals back to the wild but show to kids in america. >> good luck with the campaign. >> thank you for bringing them on. >> more "fox & friends". >> we will keep them under control

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