after being shoved. the attacker will spend two years behind bars. jillian: leaving friends in dark polices at garth brooks concert, you see what we did? the emergency lights kicked on and he took the stage. rob: i'm sure they did, "fox & friends" starts right now. >> president trump takes to twitter and takes aim at the justice department, the fbi. >> you have fbi agent dismissed who very clearly had a bias when he was investigating hillary clinton, has a bias when he's involved with the president and now that bias is known by everybody. >> the clock is ticking as the house and the senate face two major deadlines passing historic tax reform and avoiding a government shutdown. >> the economy is going to go. >> president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser making rare public appearance. >> we are here to serve the

country. >> the nfl's multimillion dollar donation aimed at stopping anthem protests isn't going very well, at least 25 players either sitting, kneeling or raising a fist on sunday. >> aclu in western beverly hills giving kaepernick reward. ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: when i came in, brian, rachel campos duffy had music. [laughter] >> she came with radio. >> i also stole steve's notes. [laughter] steve: where are my notes? dr. saphier said i think rachel

took them. >> thanks for having me here today. i've been here all week, i have to tell you i really am impressed with how early you guys get up everything. it is a new thing for me. well, i haven't done it since i was nursing, now you know what it's like to nurse. [laughter] brian: almost very similar but i imagine what you do on a daily basis at home is a lot harder than what we are doing here. what you did for eight hours over the weekend, are you ready for three more? >> i'm ready for three more. steve: good to have you. congress facing another road block pushing tax reform to the american people. brian: unbelievable we are in the final lap. some democrats threaten to make sure the government shut downs. >> griff with the latest, griff. >> good morning, rachel, brian, steve, a spending bill to keep

the government running past this saturday to send to the president's desk, but that maybe easier said than done. there are significant differences between the two versions, the duration of cuts, delays in corporate rates, elimination of state and local deductions, already one senator susan collins despite voting for senate's version, there's no guaranty she will support what comes next. >> no, i mean, obviously i want to see what comes out, i believe that the amendments that i added on medical expense deductions, on property tax deductions, on helping requirement security for public employees improve the bill. >> on that spending deadline democrats are holding out for a deal on daca as budget director mick mulvaney say that is simply holding the government hostage. >> it's funny to see now that the republicans are in charge, this just sheds light that the appropriation, spending system

is broken when any little group can sort of hold the government hostage. we need to get beyond that, i think that we will, we won't see a government shut down. >> two jobs comprehensive spending bill and historic bill and we will see congress is in till next friday the 15th, guys. steve: thank you very much, griff. republicans on the verge of a big win. house to start process. when i came in i asked her about her husband sean duffy, where was down there. >> he has to come in now because they are going to vote on this so they can go to conference. brian: face nate to go see who will be -- a lot of stuff written on the margin with the senate. does that have to get passed through the conference in order for them to vote when it goes to

all of congress, so it's going to be fascinating week because we have to do this thing called funding the government, the latest thing is called the republicans going for two weeks, let's just -- let's just extend it for two weeks and then for something more long-term in terms of funding projects that both democrats and republicans want. steve: just like last time. meanwhile, rachel, you had a busy weekend, the president of the united states is taking on the fbi. it was revealed that -- remember robert mueller who is the special counsel, he has had the reputation of stocking his team of attorneys with a bunch of people who love hillary clinton, well, as it turns out, they had essentially fire from the special counsel investigation a fellow by the name of peter stroke, fbi agent and turns out, he's a trump hater, he was corresponding with his girlfriend, a woman he was having an affair with -- >> also fbi, attorney in the

fbi. steve: prohillary stuff, they had to fire him which cast a paul over the whole captivity. >> kind of noticed -- this guy was a lead investigator. he's not a small guy. steve: hillary, russia. >> hillary, russia, when the house intelligence committee david nunes realizes he's not there, they have questions. steve: where did he go? >> fbi hid for months why this guy was not there. steve: make him appear in front of the house intelligence committee and as the fbi has been stone-walling him. you can speak to andrew mccabe and you can speak to mr. stroke who was having an affair with someone named linda page who was actually now moved over to human resources. >> he's been moved. brian pulled off the case and

the only thing i thought over the weekend, i will say this, you wonder if he's the only guy. is he the only one with the antitrump bias doing the interviewing and you can understand where the president can get frustrated, he just wants law and order, he doesn't want people with an agenda specially with so much at stake. steve: he wants it to be nonpartisan and that's why the president tweeted this out, after years of comey with phoney and dishonest clinton investigation running the fbi, its reputation is in tatters, worst in history but fear not, we will bring it back to greatness and then as it turns james comey himself started tweeting over the weekend. i want the american people to know this truth, the fbi is honest and the fbi is strong and the fbi is and always will be independent and he had done that, he retweeted himself. brian: he went onto say, if i have to i will give notes to

mine after fired. >> i think that what it calls into question all the investigations, you know, this peter stroke was in charge of interviewing hillary clinton, remember, he was also -- >> on the weekend, july 4th weekend, on that saturday. >> that's right. he was also in charge of the dossier, somebody leaked the conversation between comey and the president about the dossier which gave permission to the president to go with fake news story. a lot of people are wondering whether it was peter stroke. >> and so now when you look at that, you understand the reluctance for a lot of people in washington, d.c. who has been watching this to think this is a fair investigation. ultimately, shapiro said it's all about trusting government, do you trust knowing that they had an fbi agent that hated the president running the investigation. >> one of the problems here is that we know that james comey

was letting clinton off with nothing with a slap on the wrist, another fbi agent working on that particular case was biased against president trump. it's certainly a problem when we have no trust in any of the institutions. the president is at war with doj. right now no one trusts any member of any institution and that means that you're just going to side with the people that you feel best about, the people that you agree with most on policy. brian: there's so many fbi agents doing work for not a lot of money and never get any praise, and knowing the president, he's not going after them, he's going after a lot of the people at upper end during comey years. >> the deep state. brian: that seem to have a bias going into something that matters in the future of the administration. oh --

steve: now to crack down on sanctuary cities, they will hold local lawmakers essentially responsible for some of their action ifs they violate the law up a million dollar fine and five years in prison. that's really something. brian: congressman rokita, getting the cities to not be sanctuary states and having the judges stop the justice department from keeping back funds because they are violating the law. steve: right, we will talk to kelly an connecticutway. in the mean tile jillian with headlines. jillian: good morning, our set is so festive. we do have breaking news starting with fox news alert, u.s. and south korea kicking off largest ever joint air exercise as tensions reach a boiling point with north korea. starting today more than 230 fighter jets and nearly 12,000 u.s. military personnel will take part in five-day effort,

the joint drill comes after one week after north korea tested its most advanced missile that maybe capable of hitting anywhere in the u.s. man charged in connection with the death of a 3-year-old girl will face a judge today, earl, live-in boyfriend accused of hiding the body in the creek. he has a long criminal history and claims to be the last person who saw the child alive. it's not known how mariah died or who is responsible for her death. president trump heading to utah today to announce plans to shrink two national monuments, bears ears national monument created by president obama last year expected to be reduced by 85% and the grand staircase national monument could be cut in half. the announcement coming months after the president ordered interior sect recover ryan zinke to review monuments since the

90's. it's not going very well. at least 25 players either sitting, kneeling or raising fist on sunday led after the league pledged financial support to causes. meanwhile gronkowski could be suspended. gronk apologizing right after the game. >> i don't really believe in taking shots like that, i just want to apologize to white. >> white suffered a concussion, the patriots won the game 23 to 3, but, hey, you know what, he owned it and said i'm responsible. brian: if he's frustrated what about the rest of the league, they are up by 20 points and they're frustrated, please. steve: he would like to do a do-over. jillian: i'm frustrated and doesn't mean that i'm going to hit you guys. brien: you have no right to do

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steve: republican lawmakers demanding answers as fbi agent is pulled from mueller probe and role in clinton investigation under review after he was caught sending antitrump and prohillary texts. republican congressman from florida ron desantis, he's been leading the charge into two clinton probes joins us live now. >> good morning. steve: peter stroke, one of the lead investigators of the mueller probe, he had been involved in the hillary e-mail thing, the mueller probe with russia, turns out he hates trump. >> if you look at the hillary probe, remember all the things that were curious about it. comey drafts the letter, company ration left two months she's

interviewed and all the crazy immunity with no use of grand jury, comey edited statement to extremely careless. they bent over backwards not the make a case against hillary. with the mueller probe, they are finding anything on anyone. when you see the lead investigator on both of those was partisan for hillary and antitrump undercuts legitimacy of investigations. steve see we want our fbi and department of justice to be nonpartisan. now it looks because of inspector general at the department of justice apparently unearthed the texts between peter stroke and the woman he was having affair with and suddenly it hits the fan. >> the thing is the special counsel was not up front about this, this happened months ago and just now the news is finally hitting. devin nunes has been trying to

get information from doj and the fbi for months and they've stonewalled every step of the way. so if you're just trying to search for truth, why are you stonewalling the answer that is the american people deserve? steve: sounds like they will provide to congressional leadership interviews with this guy, peter stroke, also andrew mccabe who is wife ran for congress in democrat in virginia and handler, fbi handler of the fellow who did the trump dossier. i think we are finally able to connect dots unless people start taking the fifth? >> they have shown the pattern, okay, we will comply and then the compliance isn't quite 100%, maybe half. we need to make sure that we get all the information and i think devin has been very clear, we will hold you in contempt if you don't give us the information that we are entitled to. we need to pursue the contempt if they don't give it to us. steve: abc was promoting and had the smoking gun, on friday morning they had the news alert with brie -- bryan ross,

collusionish, but as it turns out, he told mike flynn to contact him after he won. >> right, we don't even know, now senior transition officials. there's nothing wrong in presidential transition to reaching out to other countries and the main reason they were doing it was because the obama administration was pursuing antiisrael resolution at the united nations, look, we are going to have a different position on this, maybe wait until we get into office. there's nothing ight mate about doing that. steve: for the people looking in so far no there there even though some of the democrats on sunday shows were talking about we are really close. >> none of the indictments or pleas have had anything to do with collusion during the campaign, nothing at all and so that tells me there's no there, there. steve: meanwhile we have been yet getting a lot of questions about taxes and health care like this one from viewer steve, will repeal penalty tax people have

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steve: all right, now time for quick headlines for you. all bets are off in washington today because the supreme court to hear case that would legalize sports gambling nationwide. right now the only state that allows it is nevada. new jersey voters approved sports gambling in 2011 but several proteams sue today stop it. estimated $150 billion are illegally weigherred on sports every year. now to fox news alert cvs is buying aetna for 69 billion

bucks, joining forces could make it cheaper and easier for americans to get medication and health care. we will keep you posted. brian, rachel. brian a lot of questions from republican house and senate, we are not experts to tell you the details. >> here to answer some of those questions dr. nicole saphier, thanks for coming. >> good morning. >> first question comes via e-mail from someone named peggy, no, the tax is not part of this bill, however, -- i'm sorry, i'm sorry. will this plan roll back businesses providing health insurance that took effect under obamacare? >> the answer to that is actually no. it's not part -- >> thank you, you want to continue? it didn't specifically roll back the taxes on insurance companies. the insurance companies are going to benefit from corporate tax decreases as well as

improvements for small businesses so they will be seeing help in that way. it does not specifically take away that tax as implemented in the affordable care act. >> we have to see a final bill sign intoed law because they have to merge -- steve says this, will this plan repeal the penalty tax individuals have to pay if they are unable to afford health care, that's a huge one. >> that's a stark difference between house bill and senate bill and although it does not do away with the requirement to have insurance, it does away with the fine, so therefore people are no longer going to be financially penalized for not having health care and that is a big deal. brian: think about this, these exchange are going more and more expensive, deductibles are going higher and higher and you say i can't afford that, then take a penalty, that's a horrible cycle. >> you have people that can't afford health insurance and now you're penalizing them and having them pay more money because they can't afford health

insurance, these people are suffering, this is a big win for them. there were some late-night, early-morning handwritten amendments in the margins to make sure that we are stabilizing the market share, the marketplace for this, but this is a big win for the gop in this tax bill if it is able to get out of the senate. in the past the house has not been able to repeal the mandate. whether or not they will get that out this week, i'm not sure. >> my 86-year-old uncle relies on deduction for assisted living expenses to be able to afford at assisted living facility, will that be the case? >> and this is also the number two big difference between the house and the senate bill, being able to deduct your medical expenses and although 9 million people really use this when they file tax returns, of those 9 million people makes a difference, specially senior citizens, people who are disabled or long-term assistant

facilities, the senate bill, yes, you are able to deduct medical expenses and makes it even better, no longer do you have to reach the 10% threshold, they've dropped it down to 7.5% and that's a big deal and help a lot of people. brian: this e-mail is from a man, steven says this, how will the new tax bill affect medicare? >> that's a great question and although there's nothing specifically in the bill, changing medicare, there is going to be a trickle down effect, whenever you introduce more deficit to the budget, it's something that called pay as you go kicks into action and that essentially is you have to cut and some of those cuts come to medicare, medicare is capped at 4% cuts, however, they can do away with that, if they write into the bill saying this does not inpluid pay go, that won't necessarily happen. medicare as it is right now is

on unsustainable path -- paths, i'm sorry. we do need to make some major reform changes to our medicare system regardless. brian: i heard the president over the weekend, it's going to be welfare reform and medicare reform right after this gets done. >> and that is so important. >> if you do it bipartisan, he doesn't like poor people as opposed to let's work on this. >> the only way to get out of this, to get something together right now is to have bipartisan support. they will need support to give away with pay go. whether obstructions or move forward, we will see. thank you guys for having me. brian: president obama has been out of office for a year but apology tour continues, kind of. >> temporary absence of american leadership on the issue. brian: we are out of the paris agreement. that's temporary, maybe not. he's still saying sorry. >> that's right, the nfl can't

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brought in dan bongino to celebrate. [laughter] this company was started in a dorm room at the university of pennsylvania back in 2003. >> right, and they deliver cookies. of course, great place to deliver cookies, is a dorm room. steve: why not? brian: over a hundred locations, you place your order in 30-45 minutes -- >> that's how fast they go. steve: they're giving customers free chocolate chunk cookie with every purchase. joel, if i give you, this will you make sure nobody else -- >> sure, yeah, nothing will happen to them. steve: nothing! brian: i guess we'll cue in ourselves for the next half hour. dan bongino is here, former secret service agent, so, dan, what a week. you talk about even a weekend, i would say, friday the taxes and in between friday the flynn

deal. how much trouble is the president in? >> you know, he's in a lot of trouble, but he's in a lot of trouble for not so obvious reasons. i don't think the president did anything wrong, but he's been subjected to the most dishonest, disgusting and disturbing political witch hunt in american history. think about how this entire thing's been set up. byron york has a killer piece in the washington examiner today about the logan act. this started with the logan act. brian: never before prosecuted. >> brian, the federal equivalent of jay walking. it's against the law because no one's ever been prosecuted for that. but logan act, never before, and that started this entire thing. this is a witch hunt, nothing more. steve: the big headline for a lot of people is, you know, we'd heard that robert mueller had a bunch of democrats, lawyer, investigators on his team, now as it turns out one of the top investigators at the fbi who was

involved in the hillary clinton e-mail server and russian collusion case is a trump hater, he was exchanging texts with his girlfriend who worked at the fbi. >> and if you read some the reporting, i think it was james rosen who wrote the piece at fox news, there are sources in the fbi who were deeply troubled by this who said, hey, there's documentary ed that this guy's -- evidence that this guy's been involved in everything. if this entire thing was due to a guy at the management level of the fbi who somehow got ahold of this dossier and used it as a pretext to -- what are we, in a third world republic right now? steve: that's deep state right there. >> it looks like it's real. >> will this undermine, are they going to go back and look at the hillary clinton investigation? does this undermine mueller investigation on flynn, on trump? what have we got here? >> you know, rachel, i don't

understand how this mueller investigation at this point has any credibility left. i mean, where's the scheme? andy mccarthy's been doing great work at national review. he writes this piece that says, where's the scheme? show me the money. so far we've had three investigations, you've got two fibbers, flynn and papadopoulos, arrested for fibbing. steve: well, you can't lie to the fbi. >> but the point is are you using it because it was a crime of national interest or using it to shake down flynn, which is what i -- brian: which is papadopoulos too the, i got you on in this unless you wear a wire and talk to these people. there's collusion that people are supposed to be looking into when he was a candidate. what flynn is talking about and what people are talking about is the period of time when he won the election up until he got the job. that's the brian ross story. what happened in that gap is

different from looking into what happened in august and september, and nothing has come up in august, september, october, november that shows the russians were working with the trump campaign to win or tilt an election, right? we're just talking about that period in between. >> you know, really i'm not trying -- i don't mean to make light of this, but the hysterics around this case are incredible. russian collusion to win and alter an american election was the entire premise of the democratic -- brian brian right. >> now all they have is this was this allege collusion after they won -- how do you collude to win an election after you won the election? brian: right. and the obama administration, they saw no problem, didn't put any sanctions on til after the election on russia, then says it's the equivalent of a 9/11. really? that equivalent that you knew about in september, did nothing for four months? >> mark toner, the spokesman for the obama administration is actually on tape saying, yeah, we know flynn's meeting with

them, that's their business, they're the transition team, that's what they do. brian: and what mike flynn did was they said, listen, did you talk to russia? no. turns out they've got -- basically, if he said yes, there's no problem. so there was no reason for him to lie. what happens is a lot of times if you're not doing anything wrong and someone asks you, you say to yourself no one's going to believe -- and there's a theory that mike flynn didn't remember because he was on vacation at the time that he got this call. >> i feel for flynn, i do. lying to the fbi is a crime -- >> and he was a little shady with the dealings with turkey, let's be honest. >> i'll bet if he could go back and do things differently, he would. the only point i'm trying to make is my experience as a federal agency have never seen a serious crime charged with, you know, you only charge 1001 lying

to the fbi when you literally have nothing else to do. steve: so what does that tell you? >> that tells me we have nothing. someone told me the tip of the iceberg, okay, we've been hearing this for a year. brian: for him to have gotten that sweet of a deal, he has to have promised everything else j. brian, everything else is leaked, including the fact that president trump wears pajamas watching "fox & friends." [laughter] i'm not kidding. brian brian that's a violation of my act -- [laughter] >> the killm persian -- sue steve eye-opening appearance on "fox & friends." 20 minutes now before the so much the hour, and gillian's got other headlines. >> that's right. i'm sorry, i track the cookies, but i'm not really sorry.

germany warning of brainwashed isis women and children return home from syria. the government seeing an increase of citizens as the terror group's presence in the middle east crumbles. germany offering nearly $4,000 to migrants to go back home. there are about 115,000 reject asylum seekers in the country but many can't be deported for humanitarian reasons. the v.a. under fire for hiring doctors that put our nation's heroes at risk. an iowa city hospital hired a doctor with a revoked license last year that left a patient paralyzed and another dying after surgery in wyoming. that doctor has resigned. the same report found hospitals in oklahoma and louisiana hired workers with sexual misconduct sanctions and felon convictions. the v.a. is now taking a closer look at all past hires. a brand new push to get a clinton back in office, a

politico writer thinks chelsea what have what it takes to run for senate in cotton. suggesting she has the best chance in the family to win in their home state since she has good name recognition. cotton could replace pompeo at the cia if he's tapped to take over for rex tillerson as secretary of state. what were you asking siri over there? [laughter] steve: a dan bongino question. >> this is what happens, guys, on live tv. [laughter] steve: that's all. thank you, gillian. congress gets back to work today on tax reform later this morning after a big win over the weekend. senator shelley cap toe voted for the bill. what does she see in the future? does she want any changes? we're going to ask her. ♪ ♪ it was tough getting out there on stage.

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♪ rachel: all right, congress getting back to work on tax reform after passing the biggest cuts to your taxes in decades. steve: but as the u.s. house and u.s. senate head to conference, there are still big differences to reconcile to deliver a bill to america by christmas. brian: and we don't even know who's going to be on the conference committee. gop west virginia senator shelley capito joins us now. of course, this weekend you did vote for it, and the question is what's the ultimate thing going to look like. senator, you guys are on a bit of a high right now, but no time to high-five. >> no. but we are at the 10-yard line. we are on the way. i mean, i think we moved the senate bill to look a little more like the house bill so we could iron out differences, i think, in an easy fashion. some of the major differences are pretty much gone. steve: what's your biggest concern? >> well, time is always a problem. i think the more time that goes,

the more likelihood that one member or another may find a certain thing they don't like. so i think we need to be compact here, we need to have a good conference, listen to ideas and move it forward as quickly as possible. rachel: so liberals are on the attack, and no surprise. they're invoking jesus, the bible, isn't in the height of hypocrisy? these are the same people who promoted and supported obamacare which hurt people's religious liberty, forced the little sisters of the poor to, you know, choose between insurance and their religious conscience. >> well, you know, if i could just respond to that, i live in a state the, west virginia, over the last eight years during the obama administration our economy hit the tank. i didn't see people coming out calling it, you know, in a religious way how horrible this is that people are out of a job and can't work. rachel: right. >> so i think what we need to keep focused on is getting this economy moving, getting peek back to -- people back to

work -- rachel: you're so right. millions of people fell into poverty, and people never talk about that. steve: here's what chelsea handler said, what the republicans did last night is sickening, so for all the religious beliefs you hold, rewarding the people who fund your campaigns must be somewhere in the bible. she kind of touched on the same thing that "the new york times" did as well where this bill is just a boondoggle for the rich. >> i disagree with that wholeheartedly. i live, again, in a state that's very middle class, struggles economically. 83% of the people that file in west virginia use the standard deduction, use the child tax credit. those are doubled. steve: in the new bill. >> in the new bill. and that's right at the working family. brian: as we look at the two differences, we have a full screen with some of the bullet points and how you guys gotta work it out, where's joe manchin on this? joe manchin believes in a lot of the things that passed in the

senate. have you talked to him -- >> absolutely, talk to him a lot. it's a small state, and i've known joe manchin for years. i was disappointed that he didn't vote with us, but there's still time. brian brian anything that stands out, if i was to pick out one thing that the house or the senate has that you think will be the sticking point, what do you think it'll be. >> maybe the estate tax, i think that's a negotiable event. i think all the rest of those are -- brian: workable? rachel: more winning! >> yes. we're going get this across the finish line. steve: senator, thanks very much. brian: coming up straight ahead, we'll talk with diep january feinstein who says the walls are closing in on president trump. >> i think what we're beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. brian: well, the life-long democrat alan dershowitz says

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steve: and this holiday season instead of spending money on a gala, they are turning to social media with a series of videos to maximize every charitable dollar they receive. executive director tina joins us right now live. good morning. >> good morning. steve: for the folks unfamiliar with birth haven located in new jersey, what do you do? >> it was established in 1985, and we have an independent nonprofit maternity shelter. we operate a 24-hour, seven day a week pregnancy crisis shelter, and the moms have diseased to carry -- decided to carry their pregnancy to turn, and many times they're left without a home or a place to stay as a result of that choice. rachel: how long can they stay after they give birth? >> up to 6-8 weeks after their baby's delivered, but they can also apply for an extension, and we do accommodate month to month extensions. rachel: can i just say that

you're doing this over the holidays? the whole meaning of christmas is about a homeless family and an unexpected birth. so tell people how they can actually donate. >> okay. so i just want to also say, too, that our to moms are so courageous. they -- we're always amazed by them time and time again. they have, you know, their families have turned their backs on them, the father of the babies have walked away, and the need for birth haven is real. rachel: absolutely. >> for them to have a safe place to sleep at night. we would like to ask if anyone is interested in donating, go to birthhaven.org, and we are work on a 12 days of hope drive right now. and so with this drive we are working on the 12 amateur videos so that you can have a connection with all of our clients. steve: sure. now, one of the things as is the case in the charity business is you have a lot of events, they're very successful, but then a lot of the money has to pay for the event whether it's a

gala or a fundraiser, whereas with this way with the social media, so much more of that money goes directly to help the moms, doesn't it? >> right. that's our ultimate goal, to have 95% of the proceeds or more go to our operational expenses in order to house the mothers and their babies, and so that's our, you know, when you have an in-person event, you have 40-50% of the cost actually goes to the expense of gala. rachel: right. i think this is the new trend. steve sue yeah. rachel: why have the gala? give the money, have more of it go directly to the clients, as you say, and this is a really worthy cause. steve: so if anybody's watching and would like to donate, go to their web site, birthhaven.org. tina, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you so much. steve: all right. happy holidays, merry christmas. rachel: merry christmas. steve: it's just a couple of minutes before the top of the hour. still a huge show. alan dershowitz, kellyanne conway, kevin mccarthy and

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♪ ♪ steve: the president of the united united states is taking on the fbi, demanding answers as an agent is pulled from the mueller probe after he was caught sending anti-trump and pro-hillary trump. >> when you see the lead investigator was a partisan for hillary, it undercuts the legit haut macy -- legit macy of those investigations. >> passing tax reform and avoiding a government shutdown. >> what we've got a is aichtion where this economy is going to grow. >> president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser making a rare public appearance. >> we're here to serve the country, and we'll look backing and say did we push as hard as we could on the issues we care about. >> the nfl's donation aimed at stopping anthem protests isn't

going very well, at least 25 the players sitting, kneeling or raising a fist on sunday. >> the aclu giving former quarterback colin kaepernick a courage award. >> we all have an obligation no matter the risk to stand up for our fellow men and women. ♪ ♪ steve: well, let's talk midtown funk from midtown manhattan, it's fox and friends, and look who's in for ainsley, it's rachel campos duffy. rachel: thanks for playing bruno mars, that's a good way to get you going. steve: you mean god? [laughter] thank you, god, for bruno mars. [laughter] she's here in new york city alone because your husband is down in washington, going to vote on stuff.

rachel: he's going to vote on going to conference and hopefully more winning. brian: and the senate and the house are working extra to try to get something done, they also have to fund the government. there's only one man who knows, give general since -- grif griff jenkins, he's been tasked with the main objective is to tell us what is going to happen and what's at stake on capitol hill today. >> reporter: we'll see what happens, guys, good morning. the clock is ticking, and the objective, brian, is super clear: deliver historic tax reform legislation to the president's desk by christmas by agreeing upon a final bill between the house and senate versions. there are differences to hammer out, like the number of tax brackets, the repeal of the individual mandate and the elimination of state and local deductions, already one senator -- susan collins -- says there's no guarantee she'll support the conference bill despite just voting for the senate's bill. >> no, i mean, obviously i want to see what comes out.

i believe that the amendments that i added on medical expense deductions, on property tax deductions, on helping retirement security for public employees improved the bill. >> reporter: and they have one other problem, they have to avoid a spinning deadline by this friday to keep the government running with democrats holding out for a deal on daca, but majority leader mitch mcconnell says he's confident it won't be a problem. >> there's no emergency. the president's given us until ma to address it -- until march to address it. i don't think the democrats would would be smart to say they want to shut down the government. look, there's not going to be a government shutdown. it's just not going to happen. >> reporter: so clock runs out this friday on the spinning bill and next friday on that conference bill on tax reform. one option folks are talking about, guys, is the house could just say, all right, senate bill's good, let's just do it. they could get that done by tomorrow, but my guess is it won't happen that way.

brian: yeah, i don't think so. [laughter] steve: all right, thank you very much, grif. we're going to talk to kellyanne conway, she's going to be with us just about a half hour from now, we're going to talk about taxes and all sorts of stuff, because it was another busy weekend with. we're also going to talk to her about this, how the president of the united states is taking on the fbi after it was revealed over the weekend that apparently one of the top investigator fbi agents, a fellow by the name of peter stroke, was involve in the hillary clinton private e-mail server case. he was one of the agents who interviewed her. he was also in on the russia collusion -- rachel: the dossier. steve: and as it turns out, he's a trump hater because the inspector general at the department of justice found some of the text messages he was sending to his, the woman he was having an affair with -- rachel: his lover. steve: anti-trump stuff, pro-hillary. you can't do that when you're supposed to be nonpartisan. brian: robert mueller must have known about this on some level

before he named him to the investigative team, yet he didn't mind having an anti-trump guy on the team doing the investigating. isn't it enough having democratic donors on that list, they had to go the extra mile. i've got to ask you, do you really think he's the only one? do you think he's the only fbi agent in a prominent position that seemed to have a pro-hillary, anti-trump bias? rachel: no. and i think that's why they were so secretive about it. they actually demote him into the h.r. department months ago, and devin nuñes, from the house intelligence committee, thought that was fishy. he knew this investigator had been moved off the case. this guy was a really big figure in all of these investigations, as you mentioned, steve. so he tried to investigate, he got stonewalled. i think part of the reason is exactly what you're saying, is that there is more there. and letting those people in the house intelligence committee know that for more investigation to see if there were other

pro-hillary, anti-trumpers out there. steve: and we've seen some stories from administration officials about how mueller has stacked the decking with a bunch of pro-hillary, indiana-trump people -- anti-trump people in the investigation giving donations and stuff like that, but it all comes down to this could only be one guy because he's so key. when you look at it, apparently this guy, this peter stroke guy, was central to the issue of finding intent whether or not to prosecute hillary clinton in the, urn the gross negligence -- under the gross negligence statute, and he's the one that said there's no gross negligence there because she did not intend to break the law. is really he was so critical on the hillary thing, and now we find out he was critical in the russia collusion case, but he's been fired from. that now he's working in personnel because he broke the rules. ryan brian he did that interview, and james comey didn't think he should be there. you know he's anti-trump, and we

also know that james comey drafted his conclusion before the investigation was done. so if you look at the president of the united states, you can understand his frustration which is why he tweeted this out today, last night that's causing a bit of an uproar. steve: he tweeted: after years of comey with the phony and dishonest clinton investigation and more running the fbi, its reputation is in tatters, worst in history. fear not, we will bring it back to greatness. and comey responded with his own tweet: i want the american people to know the truth, the fbi is honest, strong, and and independent, that is a retweet that he sent out -- rachel: sounds pretty defensive to me. and let's not forget mueller himself, i've never understood this. look, i'm not a law enforcement expert or a prosecutor, but it seems to we when your buddy is running the investigation and comey, just like this investor, is involved in every single one of these incidents. he's the one that drafted the

letter that you talked about prior to her being interviewed. another thing i find really interesting about what's going on, very early on representative nuñes from the house intelligence committee was calling out what he thought were unfair things going on. he was calling out the deep state. deep state and democrats went after him. really hard, sidelined him, tried to discredit him, and in some ways had to take a backseat. brian: he did take a backseat. rachel: he did. and i wonder if this new information is going to restore his reputation. brian: we understand when we started the show now mccabe, the former deputy fbi directer and stroke are now going in front of the intelligence committee to finally get these questions right to their face. and he's been asking for months even with chris, with ray -- wra in charge, he budget giving this guy up. steve: the top republican leaders in congress had been saying, hey, the fbi, the doj,

they're stonewalling, we're going to subpoena them. now they're going we're going to bring them up in front of you, you don't have to do that. congressman iran desantos of -- ron desantos of florida, he's troubled by the fact that there could be a partisan in a nonpartisan job. >> if you look at the hillary probe, remember all the things that were curious about it. comey drafts the exoneration letter two to months before she's even interviewed, all these crazy immunity clauses, comey edited his statement from saying grossly negligence to extremely careless. so it was almost as if they bent over backwards not to make a case against hillary. with the mueller probe, they're just scorching the earth finding whatever charge they can find on anyone even having nothing to do with russia collusion. so when you see the lead investigator was a partisan for hillary and was anti-trump, it undercuts the legitimacy of those investigations. brian: so the president did say about the fbi as you mentioned

before, and it's got a lot of people bent out of shape because 99% of the fbi is honest as can be, but you don't want to broaden, you know, take a swipe at the whole bureau. >> sure. >> steve: we're talking about management. brian: the president should have tweeted out to the management, name those guys. i just don't want all of them caught up in their dishonest. it's their sense at the breakfast table that the prime minister just called them dishonest -- that the president just called them dishonest. rachel: and it could have been those good fbi agents who alerted someone about -- brian: right. exactly. steve: anyway, it looks like things are going to be revealed. rachel: yeah. steve: now these guys are going to go up to congress and do some talking and maybe finally we'll have some answers. rachel: that's right. steve steve it is 7:10 in new york city, and gillian's back with more headlines. >> let's get you caught up,

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absence of american leadership on the issue. >> his comments coming after president trump pulled the u.s. out of the paris climate accord for economic reasons. that deal was signed under the obama administration. the college playoff football scene is set, and alabama once again sneaks into the final four. defending national champion clemson is number one followed by oklahoma, georgia and alabama. this despite the crimson tide not winning its conference championship game and ohio state, who won theirs, was bumped off the final spot. this will be the third straight year bama will face off against clemson on new year's day. brian: i just hope it doesn't affect their studies. [laughter] steve: they'll be great games. rachel: they will. brian: this time clemson goes in as favorite. steve: 7:12 in new york city on this monday morning. democratic senator dianne feinstein from california says the walls are closing in on president trump.

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do you see a case for obstruction buildingsome. >> no, i don't. and i think if congress ever were to charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under article ii, we'd have a constitutional crisis. you cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power the fire comey and to tell the justice department who to investigate, who not to investigate. that's what thomas jefferson did, that's what lincoln did, that's what roosevelt did. we have precedents that clearly establish that. when george bush, the first, pardoned casper weinberger in order to end the investigation that would have led to him, nobody suggested obstruction of justice. you need clearly illegal acts. with nixon, hush money paid. telling people to lie. destroying evidence. even with clinton they said that he tried to influence potential witnesses not to tell the truth. but there's never been a case in

history where a president has been charged with obstruction of justice for merely exercising his constitutional authority. that would cause a constitutional crisis in the united states, and i hope mueller doesn't do that and senator feinstein simply doesn't know what she's talking about. when she says it's obstruction of justice, to do what a president is completely authorized to do under the constitution. brian: so let me get specific, for example, going up to the chairman of the senate intelligence committee and saying to senate burr, hey, guys, can you wrap this up? where are you at with this committee, can you wrap this up, is that an obstruction? >> of course not. the president has the authority to speak to congress, and congress has the power to say, no, we have separation of powers. you can't have obstruction of justice by each party exercising their authority. look, the president could have pardoned flynn if he were really thinking about trying to end this investigation. he would have pardoned flynn and then flynn wouldn't be

cooperating with the other side, and the president would have had the complete authority to do so, and flynn never would have been indicted, never would have turned as a witness against him. so i think the fact that the president hasn't pardoned flynn, even though he has the power to do so, is very good evidence there's no obstruction of justice going on here. brian: right. i think you need people -- some channels are hoping to see this -- >> oh, i think this is hope over reality. brian brian yeah. >> and the other thing they're claiming is that by the president trying to influence foreign policy during his transition, for example, by having flynn talk to the russian ambassador, kislyak, and say please either vote against the u.n. resolution or delay the u.n. resolution, somehow that's wrong, that was the right thing to do. brian: gotcha. >> i think he did absolutely the right thing by trying to stop the president lame duck from tying his hands. brian: professor, thanking so much -- thanks so much, appreciate it. joining us from miami.

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billion for hurricane recovery efforts. and finally, 160, that's exactly how many skiers hit the slopes dressed as st. nick this weekend, the santa clauses in wen mae to -- western maine to raise money for nonprofit groups in the area. steve: that is cool, thank you, ma'am. rachel: the nfl's multimillion dollar bribe to stop players from protesting is backfiring, at least 25 sitting, kneeling or raising a fist during sunday football games. brian: this comes after the nfl agreed to pay $90 million many hopes of stopping the protests. steve: our next guest says it's just a big political stunt. joining us now is the national spokesman for the committee to defend the president amanda head. amanda, what do you mean that close to a $100 million payout. is just a political stunt? >> good morning.

thanks so much for having me. so this was basically a bartering tool that the nfl used in a more casual sense, they said, okay, we're going to donate this money if you guys, please, please stand, okay, guys? please stand. and they kind of got the shaft all the way around because, as you said, 25 players were still kneeling or some sort of, you know, fist in the air or something yesterday. the nfl players are basically saying, yeah, we'll take your money, but we're going to kneel on it. rachel: in my opinion, social justice causes is sort of code word for marxist causes, organizations that just encourage minorities and inner city kids to think they're victims versus empowering them. >> yes. and that victimhood mentality is number four on my list. i was going to talk about the top three. [laughter] the top three problems that i feel are the most important in the black community, which i don't think any of this $90 million is going to touch, it's

black on black crime, it's the fact that three out of four children born in black communities are born to single-parent households and also the exceedingly higher dropout rate. these are the things they ought to be addressing. but i really don't think much of this money is going to go towards that. if you want to take it one step further for these players, if they want to do something more specific, you know, this was predicated on police brutality, and that's been carried throughout the entire season of this. so, all right, players, so why don't you drop out of the nfl and join law enforcement. they're not going to do that because that would require them to remove themselves from the pedestal from which they pontificate to us average americans pretending that they know better than we do. brian: what's your reaction to the aclu naming colin kaepernick, giving him a reward from it? he actually showed up. here are his comments. >> we must confront systemic

oppression as a doctor would a disease. you identify it, you call it out, you treat it and defeat it. we all have an obligation no matter the risk and regardless of reward to stand up for our fellow men and women who are being oppressed with the understanding that human rights cannot be compromised. in the words of frederick douglass, if there is no struggle, there is no progress. brian: do you agree with, do you agree with what he's doing? do you put it in frederick douglass category? >> i don't. and, you know, unfortunately i'm not really surprised by this. i'm disappointed by him continuing to be awarded for his prostrate behavior, to use a biblical term there. but it's not really all that surprising because the aclu is not really known for diversifying their pool of, you know, people who receive awards. rachel: amanda, frederick

douglass also said it's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men which goes to your point that this would have been better, this money would have been spent better going to programs that help build up the black family which is so broken right now. >> yeah. we need two-parent households, you know? all of these black players, you know, i know they like to hold pop culture figures up as well as other athletes, so tupac shakur did an interview in the '90s where he talks about how he would have been a much different and better man if he had had a father in his household. and at the root of all of this, it comes down to the breakdown of the family. steve: amanda, thank you very much for joining us to talk about your op-ed and so much more. rachel: still ahead, an illegal immigrant off the hook in the death of kate steinle for now. but what about the sanctuary cities protecting him? the acting director of i.c.e. tom ohio man here -- homan here to answer that. steve: and abc suspending

michael ross for his report on michael flynn that had some giddy on friday morning. >> -- steve: wonder if she's going to have a retraction today. we're going to talk to kellyanne conway, counselor to the president, about that. straight ahead live from washington d.c. ♪ ♪

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for the members -- rachel: on tuesday i'm going to the white house. you guys aren't the only ones invited. brian: she's going to a ball. rachel: they didn't call yours a ball? steve: we had a ball! let's bring in kellyanne conway. >> good morning. what's going on? >> the house bill has it at 20%, we're very comfortable with those two provisions. we'll see what the house and senate do in reconciliation, but the president wanted it to be 15 percent, remember, he was the one saying take it all the way down because he knows that would unleash even more prosperity, more jobs, more wage hikes. so it's at 20%, we're comfortable with that and let the senate and the house do their business now in

reconciliation. brian: let's talk about with the department of justice and fbi, what's going on now. the fbi was not cooperating with the house intelligence committee because they're trying to find out about this investigator, not only former acting director mccabe, but this investigator, stroke, who evidently was at the the interview with hillary clinton on july -- that july 4th weekend over a year ago. so now we find out that he has an antitrump agenda pro hillary and was in texts. this is one of our leading fbi agents. do you sense, kellyanne, a one-and only fbi agent with an antitrump agenda. >> it's so disturbing and troubling because you're right. he was at the heart of the hillary clinton investigation. we know that she lied a lot of times. we know that she deleted 33,000 e-mails and a lot of

americans say she was not honest or trustworthy. that's why she lost. and then you hear people saying when will she be held accountable? but this is what frustrates people and now this revelation that a antitrump fbi investigator was involved in the hillary clinton interviews. as the president says is now starting to make a lot of sense. and, of course, this is in the shadow or the context of never-ending investigations here of the trump transition of the trump campaign of possible collusion which, of course, the president said as recently as saturday simply does not. so it's very frustrating to many law-abiding americans who look up and always see a double standard. always see special exceptions for hillary clinton. the clinton campaign don't exist anymore, which why they're not taking millions of dollars. but it's very disturbing to

folks and who knows if there's more -- i'm glad they took action and got rid of this guy because a lot of damage has aalready been done. we're also seeing now more information being released about that famous tarmac meeting that wasn't just about golf and grandchildren we would imagine between then attorney general lynch and president bill clinton. the only president of clinton we'll ever have. people want to know so you talk about golf and grandkids for the first three minutes. what was the rest of the conversation that lasted for nearly an hour. so there's many people right now who watch people for a living and type what we talk about that they can't just stop talking about hillary clinton. because she never goes away. now we find out that the fbi had pro-hillary antitrump people at the heart of the hillary investigation. very troubling. >> kelly, we just found out on friday kelly ross, filed a

very bombshell report saying that michael flynn was going to be working or testifying against the president and then we come to find out that it's fake news and the conversation they were talking about after he was elected or put in place. tell us about that and any expectations you have that the apology and the suspension of brian ross is going to get the same attention that the fake news bok shell did. >> it's getting no attention. even if his own network. "they" a tip sheet and the headline says reality check. and i said wow. abc news is going to admit this grievous error that lasted for hours and hours before it was quote clarified and then subtracted but that has famous false report and

actually, that false report was still here when you had the press report on friday. i worked forks eventually without pay is enough. every network, the cable station, the mainstream media has obsessed that the democrats on capitol hill, they've done nothing this year. the only accomplishment the democrats have this year is holding up the stop resist and russia, russia, russia. so it's not enough because the other 14% of americans have a favorable impression on the media and brian ross was not pushed back on the anchor either. there's one male anchor left, and i was disappointed because he's a responsible journalist. he should have pushed back and said wait a second. breaking news here because that doesn't make any sense. steve: right. kellyanne, then candidate donald trump during the campaign told michael flynn go start dealing with the russians and then came back

and said, well, he told them to do that after he was elected. but he saw the tweet from the president how many people lost money in the stock market because of that? >> and it's a great point because that was noted by many mainstream journalists. we always say things sometimes that are something -- the word not and the fact is this wasn't just a slip of the tongue. the market moved because it was about donald trump. the essence of the phony investigation. and let me say one other thing. we offer to have a guest on abc news on the sunday show. adam schiff, the democrat went about 10 our 12 things of that nature to hypothesize.

you can't get the -- msnbc didn't even cover the kate steinle murder verdict. not a single minute, even according to your graphic. in the evening moscow they might have thought to cover it. brian: kellyanne, real quick before we go. john said over the weekend that he tweeted for the president. does that happen a lot where other people tweet for the president? >> yes. well, yes, in terms of the lawyers. the lawyers are the one that understand how to put those tweets together. i was with the president on saturday all day, frankly, and i know that what he said is correct. what he says is that he put it together and sent it to our director of -- on social media. and i think it's very important. i went back and reviewed the whole testimony of sally gates when she testified earlier this year to congress. to exchange senator graham and others. so i would commend everybody go back and look at that

because she makes very clear in foreign testimony what she did say and what she didn't say. to the white house council. and this is an active investigation but i will say we were promised collusion from the campaign. we were promised results from 70,000 votes from these three states were all because of russia, russia, russia. and now they're going in the other direction and this president says that it's a shame that anybody lied to the fbi and that there's no collusion. steve: all right. kellyanne conway on the north lawn of the white house. i hear the helicopter approaching on the south lawn. the president's leaving in 18 minutes kellyanne, thank you. >> merry christmas to you. brian: thanks, kellyanne conwayy anne. 18 minutes until the top of the hour. still ahead. but now what about the sanctuary city's protecting him? tom here to answer and maybe have breaking news on this. >> that's right. plus, our greenroom is going to the dogs. we have the tip to keep your

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isn't it? your biggest concern is other sanctuary cities and the fact that these cities are using judges to push back on the president's push to deny federal funds for those cities who have these illegal sanctuary cities; correct? >> yeah. you know, isn't that ridiculous? let's think about this for a minute. sanctuary cities. they're suing the department of justice to get their funding from the federal government. so they want to fund sanctuary cities to keep illegal aliens in but they don't want to fund the border wall to keep them out. >> you look at the democrat that has been ho-hum, i think they think this is a good strategy for winning over minorities. i happen to be a minority director. i don't think this is a good strategy. minorities want safe communities. even if you're an illegal minority hispanic. you don't want to be conflated with these felons, these violent felons. >> absolutely. i've been doing this 34

years. these immigrant communities, they don't want criminals in their streets either. and as far as push back on this president, let me tell you something. under this president, this president has done more for security than public safety than any of the six presidents i've worked for. just since his leadership in january, border crossings are at a 45-year low. now, that's not ate coincidence. that's because this president is letting men and women of border patrol and ice do their job. the border isn't open to illegal activity. steve: well, when he was a candidate made it very clear that we're going to build that wall and who knows who's going to pay for it ultimately. even though sairg mexico would but there are a lot of people in congress who don't want to give him the money and a lot of those people are republicans. >> well, look, people need to look at history here a little bit. they built the wall -- i was in the border patrol in san diego when they built the wall. and worked in numbers dropped. it worked in arizona in

el paso. every place they put the wall up, illegal crossings went down. why wouldn't the country not want a wall to help the public and national security? it's a wise investment. brian: tom, what i think is it also underappreciated is the message sent. how many people want to take the quest getting here if they're going to be sent back? so they don't want to make the trip. it's impossible to calculate but overwhelmingly a factor. >> well, look, that's another negative effect of sanctuary cities; right? sanctuary city do a lot of things. none of them are any good. sanctuary cities are alien smuggler's best friend. you don't think these alien smuggler organizations are using sanctuary cities as a selling point? hey, we're going to get you to chicago or san francisco. another thing these sanctuary

cities do. they're lying to the immigrant communities. they say they protect immigrant communities and approximate improve your relationship to local law enforcement and immigrant communities. let me tell you something. if i can't get a bad guy inside of a county jail, i'm going to get get them, which means i have to go to the neighborhood or the home. where i'm going to find other illegal aliens that weren't even on my radar. so what these policies actually do is put more illegal aliens on my radar. so it's all a big lie about sanctuary cities in the community. >> and it's not just humans. we know there's a big human drug problem that's destroying communities across america. >> well, let's talk about that. another thing they do is entice people to make that journey across the border and continue to bank roll the very criminal authorizations smuggle guns and smuggle narcotics and smuggle aliens. steve: well, you would know because you're the acting director of ice. >> thank you for having me. steve: coming up on this

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steve: the president of the united states is taking on the fbi after the mueller probe was caught sending antitrump and pro hillary texts. >> when you see the lead investigator for both of those was against trump, it undercuts the illegitimate of those investigations. >> they all laughed at us, and it's a big deal. >> congress after passing the biggest cuts to your taxes in decades. >> we are at the 10-yard line. we are on the way. >> what we've got is a situation where they're going to grow. >> the nfl multimillion-dollar

donation to stop anthem protests isn't going very well. nearly 25 players raising a first. >> i grant you at the moment we have a temporary absence of american leadership. ♪ ♪ brian: go for a carriage ride in central park, we added a few horses. we wanted to get you there a little bit quicker. >> and a few beers. steve: ladies and gentlemen, those are some of the world famous clydesdales, they are launching a nationwide tour to kick off the holiday season with a stop right here on our applause at fox and friends. those are beautiful. we saw them last year out during the debate in st. louis at the hq. they are really something. brian: and, by the way, every

christmas, seems to be a little humble but that's how you get to work during christmas. that's what you demand. i'm happy with sedan car. steve: look who's with us today. ainsley is off. she'll be back tomorrow, and we have rachel. brian: and you have a ball to go to tomorrow night and a family to raise. >> and now you convinced me to get a dog too. brian: i did. >> i have eight kids. brian: you have eight kids and worry about adding a dog. that's nothing. steve: wait until after christmas because the kids can pull down the christmas tree because the puppy can pull it down. >> if i get a dog, it won't be a puppy. there's enough poop in my life. steve: there's enough poop in my life. brian: let's talk about what's happened over the weekend. about friday and when mike flynn cut the deal in order to get a reduced sentence and talk about admitting that he lied to the fbi. people are talking about what

about this probe? how clean is it and what can we expect an honest investigation? and then this revelation comes forward. not only were people wondering about the link with patrick mcbe a, who was the acting director of the fbi because his wife was a contributor to governor terry. steve: running for congress. brian: yeah, democrat. people worried about that. now we find out one of the lead investigators has been removed from this case because he just so happens he has antitrump, pro hillary texts. steve: well, this particular guy was one of the main guys. he was -- >> not a small player at all. steve: no. no. no. he was there for the interview of hillary clinton over the fourth of july weekend, which ultimately exonerated her. he was in charge of figuring out whether she had intent to break the law. oh, nope she didn't, he said. but then we discovered that he was apparently having an extramarital affair with a fbi lawyer and the inspector general of the department of justice has revealed some of the information, and he had

the antitrump pro hillary texts. >> i mean, just imagine. you're the president of the united states, your entire, you know, presidency thus far has had this cloud over it, and you find out that the people leading the investigation, the lead investigator is an antitrump pro hillary person and so this is why he has been tweeting about this. brian: and as i mentioned before, it's hard to believe that he is in the lunchroom himself. he never interacted with other people. steve: one of the lead guys. that's what's troubling. brian: there are others. steve: mr. comey has said, and you look at mr. mueller as well. kellyanne conway says these fbi probes have clearly had a left-leaning tilt to them. listen to this. steve: it's so disturbing and troubling because you're right. he was at the heart of the investigation in a hillary clinton. we know that she lied numerous times. we know that she deleted 33,000 e-mails. we know that a lot of america and majority of americans in our polling said that she was

neither honest nor trustworthy, it's part of why she lost. and yet you do hear people constantly asking when will she be held to account? i know she has a pretty bad state of not living and working behind me here. but this decidedly and definitively antitrump investigator was involved in the hillary clinton interviews as the president says is starting to make layoff sense. brian: and now we're going to find out what he's going to say to the house intelligence committee and hopefully there won't be a leak. he will just say this is what we found out. i want to see mcabe and stroke in front of us and see what they gave up. appointed by president trump with what's the problem? well, after these revelations, now they're finally going to go up and speak now. well, they answer all the questions. steve: that's a great point because -- >> plead the fifth. steve: i wouldn't be surprised if they plead the fifth. given in mind this stroke guy

didn't get fired. which some people would say you can't do that what you do. but instead, they put him in the personnel department. he's now in hr, so he's stilt working for the fbi. >> definitely demoted. steve: absolutely. but they're keeping him in place. >> right. but i think the big question is. okay. so they interview peter stroke and whoever else might have had a bias there. but what happens to the investigations that they close or pass onto hillary clinton. steve: sure. >> we know she deleted e-mails. we know she did a bleach bit on themself. there was an actual crime there that they just said, well, we're not going to do. brian: no intent. steve: when you look at this, though, it's like there was a part of the sin as a referee. maybe they should reopen it. maybe they should reexamine it, given the fact that he was a trump hater. brian: not that i want you to explode with complications. but i happen to believe that he was involved in possibly recommending the fusion gps dossier be used as an

investigation tool into the trump campaign. which, by the way, is an opposition research job hired by the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton's which, by the way, was one in the same. so is he using a dossier to investigate donald trump which has not been progressive any of it correct. steve: one other thing about this guy, it sounds like he was also involved in remembering the smoking gun at the end of the campaign was the laptop. the anthony weiner laptop. he's the one who cleared the laptop in record time. steve: right. and don't forget back to the dossier, which i think is important because it really spear headed -- opened up this investigation. a lot of people are wondering if he was the fbi agent who leaked the meeting between comey and the president, which gave the press really the permission to start talking about this dossier, which they didn't until that happened. brian: and do you think he's actually going to say, oh, yeah, that was me? oh, yeah, that was my idea. >> we'll never know, and this

really makes the case for the president who says this has been rigged. i've been treated differently than hillary clinton and this was an investigation in search of crime. and so i think that, you know, this is an interesting weekend for the president. he is definitely discrediting the fbi. i know that you're upset, brian. you know, it's bigger than that. but still. i think this makes his case for them. steve: meanwhile, on friday morning, our big story was the fact that illegal alien who killed kate steinle was not found guilty of murder. not even manslaughter. and now given the fact that it was a sanctuary city and san francisco did not release him back to the ice people they've been they were waiting for him, there's a congressman from the great state of indiana who wants to take aim at the sanctuary cities and in particular the law-makers and hold them criminally responsible when bad things happen. up to the extent of a million dollar fine and up to five

years in jail. brian: so the mayor in a major city that has a sanctuary city that allows illegal criminals to stay there and illegals to be there could go to jail? that's what they're looking at? >> or face a fine of a million dollars. steve: man, oh, man. tom who is the acting director of ice right now had this to say about when he heard the steynly verdict and the impact of the sanctuary cities on this nation. >> it sickened me. this isn't the america that i grew up in for a city to knowingly release a public safety threat back into the public is just ridiculous. sanctuary cities, they're suing the department of justice to get their funding from the federal government. so they want to fund sanctuary cities to keep illegal aliens in. but they don't want to fund a border wall to keep them out. to me, that's backwards. steve: this also supported kate's law which did pass the house. i'm sure your husband voted for it. but it is waiting for the

senate to act on it. brian: meanwhile, nine minutes after the hour. i'm waiting for jillian for the fact that we pass onto to you the latest breaking news. >> the whole time i acted. let's get to this fox news alert because we do have some serious news. president trump now throwing his full support behind alabama gop senate candidate roy moore ahead of next tuesday's special election. the president tweeting quote democrats refusal to get even one vote for massive tax cuts is why we need republican roy moore to win in alabama. we need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, border wall, hilt pro-life va judges second amendment and more. note to jones a pelosi schumer puppet. the president's endorsement comes as more numerous allegations of sexual misconduct from decades ago. also breaking right now, brand-new video of the u.s. and south korea kicking off their largest joint air exercise as a boiling point

for north korea. more than 200 fighter jets and 12,000 military personnel will take part in the five-day effort. comes just one week after north korea tested its most advance missile that may be capable of hitting anywhere in the u.s. embattled congresswoman will learn her fate today. the former democratic representative from florida was convicted of 18 federal fraud and conspiracy charges in may after using a fake charity for poor students as a personal plush fund. the group received about $800,000. served 20 years in prison for each conspiracy charge and three for every tax conviction. the children of a fallen officer who was shot dead in an ambush attack get the ultimate christmas present. a brand-new home. nypd officer was gunned down in the bronx while sitting in a marked car back in july, leaving behind three kids. her oldest daughter joined us on the show shortly after

losing her mother. >> we're taking it day by day and, of course, there is the wave of emotion that come up when, you know, we're -- when the reality starts to settle in that we won't see her again. >> foundation helping raise $900,000 to buy a three-bedroom apartment for the kids. they plan to move in by christmas. how amazing is that to be able to give them that amazing gift? brian: that organization has gone so far beyond 9/11. steve: we understand the children are going to come on the program to tell us about the new house. >> that's great. awesome. steve: jillian, thank you. brian: 12 minutes after the hour has been telling us this. steve: abc news talking about suspending michael flynn but our next guest says not so fast. brian: and it's the question every hard-working american wants the answer to. will tax cuts come for christmas, and will they help me?

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>> abc news investigative correspondent brian ross suspended without pay over his botch report of michael flynn. steve: in a statement, abc says we deeply regret and apologize for the serious error we made yesterday. the report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process. is the mainstream media ready to turn over a new leaf. let's talk to fox news contributor and senior of the medalist, molly hemingway. molly, good morning to you. >> good morning to you. steve: so this guy comes out with a story that's not true. tanked the market. and it would be one thing if he does not have a record of having some big mistakes, but i famously remember after the aurora theater shooting, he's the one who connected the shooter as being one who backed the tea party. >> brian ross has been punished by taking the entire month of december off by having a big mess up on a big

story. not doing a good job with the clarification. having trouble that it was actually a full retraction and just like you said, this was not the first time. i mean, brian ross has a history of making pretty serious mistakes. there was the tea party incident where he blamed a tea partier for the aurora, colorado shooting and also said saddam hussein was responsible for the attacks on washington, d.c. also was involved in another bad story about toyota's accelerating. so he has this history, and it's not just that these bad stories affect people's lives or cause the stock market to tank, they also really affect media credibility, and that's why he and his organization should be far more careful. >> right. and abc did apologize. they issued an apology. they gave him that suspension. but my question to you is are they really holding themselves be accountable? or are they being held

accountable by the tweets that's being put out? >> well, they're certainly not being held accountable? like politico had a headline that secured abc news for faulty news reports. everybody should be upset. fullbacks, trump critics should be most upset because that totally plays into the hands about the problems of media credibility. steve: and the way that nbc presented it friday morning as this is the definitive smoking gun. it's going to link the president of the united states when he was a candidate, he told michael flynn to go talk to the russians before the election. turns out it was after he actually won. molly, are you keeping track of the number of smoking guns that would end the presidency of the president? >> so this is why it's not only absences. in general, you saw a lot of media coverage treating it as disgusting policy with foreign leaders is treasonist. it's flatly not treasonist. it actually wouldn't be treasonist if it weren't during the campaign. it's particularly not when the

incoming administration laying ground work. and yet you saw this coverage like there was something very nefarious about doing this. that's an opinion. not news. and it would be nice to see people having a little bit more calm and restraint. steve: if there's something there, we know how washington works, we would know about it now, wouldn't we? >> we've had this investigation going on for a year. and it's to find out whether there was treasonist activity to steal the election. because we haven't found anything close to that is an understatement. and the media has not done a good job about being skeptical about this investigation or thinking through the implications of how it got started too. steve: all right. molly, thank you very much for joining us. >> merry christmas, molly. >> to you too. steve: still ahead on this monday. even a little bit more trouble at the va. a hospital-hired convicted felons to treat our heroes who needed it most. are you kidding? nope. got the story coming up. >> and it's the question every

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brian: today congress getting back to work on tax reform after passing the biggest cuts on your taxes in decades. but as the house and senate head to conference, there are many differences to reconcile to deliver before christmas. so what do we expect? here to weigh in house majority leader kevin mccarthy. leader, i know you're very pumped up about this after what happened with the repeal and replace. but have you named your conferenceees yet? >> no. we will vote today. and the house was not supposed to be in session today. we were coming in tomorrow. but i called us back because we wanted to act decisively

and get this done. so we will have a motion to go to conference today, vote on that tonight, and we will name our conferencees. the senate will do the same this week, and we will get to work on the differences. there's not a lot of differences, but there are some. and we'll come to a common ground and get it done. brian: it was over 400 pages, but we drilled down to these bullet points that the people at home will appreciate. some of the seven differences with the gop tax bills. now, you just told me during the break that the one thing you will grab during the senate is the aca individual mandate repeal; correct? >> yes. i think that's very positive. i mean, remember what that is. that punishes people for not buying something that they don't want. so why would you tax them on that? and that's been able to pass the senate. brian: and will say, hey, that's fine with us and won't have any problem. so that's done. now, on the top three, you're at 39 still. they dropped to 38. what are you thinking? >> i would actually like to go lower on a personal basis.

i don't think you should punish people for being successful. but they have seven rates. we have four. we'll work that out. i would always go to a lower rate. brian: right. you said on the amt. the alternative minimum tax, you say that there's an issue there. tell me what your problem is. >> well, in the house, you eliminate it. think for one point here. if you're in california or if you're in new york, that's a real punishment as you go forward. and we eliminate salt and one of the arguments was we'll eliminate the alternative minimum tax. i think that has to be repealed out of it. but the senate also put it in when it came to corporations. that would also eliminate if you kept it in there the research and development benefit that you're getting on the tax credit going forward. so i think the amt has to be eliminated all together. brian: wow. now, the president talked over the weekend about possibly in order to get additional revenue, putting the corporate tax cut, which is going to be significant regardless, up to 22%. he needs some more freed up money for a marco rubio and

others who want more money for child tax credit and mortgage interest credit. >> well, one thing i think -- that's showing how good this president is. he is actually showing that he's going to get a deal done because he's telling us i'll be flexible. i just want to make this thing happen. but we're both at 20%. i think that makes america more competitive. and if you look at the report, keeping it at 20% actually brings $4,000 into the household. so the individual wins on that, i would like to try to keep that low. brian: all right. so we'll see that. and we'll see if that can stay at 20. the president originally wanted 15. real quick on the seven brackets as opposed to the four brackets. where could you tell our audience to look for as you try to compromise on that? >> well, i always think the simpler the better. but, to me, the most important thing is where that rate number is and where that income-level is. so if i had to go for a higher number of brackets but a lower rate, i think i could get lymph now, there's another major story out there today,

which is, of course, where is mike flynn coming in and taking a plea? what does it mean for the big picture? then we find out about an fbi agent who did the interview with hillary clinton who released the 35,000 e-mails and said there was nothing there when they found anthony weiner's laptop, was part of the mueller investigation. it turns out they found in texts, him texting his feelings of hate towards donald trump and plus for hillary clinton to a woman he's having an affair with in the fbi. so as this comes out, he's now removed and put into human resources. what can you tell us about mr. stroke? >> well, that raises a lot of questions and remember, it's not the fbi looking at this. the house has an investigation and the senate does, and they all should be separate. the house intel committee under chairman nunez actually requested and subpoenaed to communicate with this individual just back in august, and he has never been

before them. it's interesting because this person is so critical in one interviewing hillary clinton and coming to that conclusion. why do they even start this investigation? we now know this dossier is not true in the aspect and paid for by democrats. it just raises so many more questions that i think people need to come forward in this investigation and follow through if they've been subpoenaed to answer them so we get the real answers. brian: do you agree with the president that there's been a lack of trust for -- under james comey's fbi and that's going to change under him? >> well, remember what we found at the very beginning when they started hiring people for this investigation. we found that even in the fbi, they've been political. and they were giving money to many democrats. and now this report comes out, and by read somewhere that aig, our investigation was looking into -- looking at all those individuals and that report's coming forward.

i think that's where they found this fbi agent sending those e-mails. so i think what's most important, let's have the independent investigation in the house and the senate and also have people come before them. brian: when are you guys going to be done in the house. >> for a tax? we're going to be done very quickly. brian: i'm talking about the investigation on this. >> well, i think that would be a question for the intel committee seeing how much more. but if they can't get get the individuals before them, it makes the investigation go on longer. i think people would want to wrap this up already. brian: majority leader kevin mccarthy optimistic he'll get something done by christmas and already telling us there will be a compromise. >> tell rachel hi. brian: i'm thinking of somebody else. all right. thanks so much. appreciate it. >> all right. take care. brian: still ahead, even more trouble at the va. this time a hospital-hired convicted felons to treat our

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steve: this is a fox news alert. that is air force one. they're waiting for the president of the united states. he's apparently flying via marine 1 right now to joint base andrews. he's going to take off shortly for salt lake city where later on today he's going to tour the church of jesus christ reform square. also, he's going to give remarks at the utah state capital, and you will see that live at 2:40 this afternoon.

brian: free sum it up that president obama expanded and much of many people, and there was a few protests yesterday a few 1,000 people showed up that said leave all of this stuff alone. meanwhile, going to be at the center of things too. there's a big decision for mitt romney to make to see if he possibly might run for senator because he's anticipated that many people believe that senator hatch will retire this year among the people that don't want to see that happen is steve bannon. he said i don't want mitt romney to run for that. republicans still having some issues. steve: something else the president is going to do this afternoon when he goes to salt lake city is he's going to tour a place called the bishop storehouse, which is a food pantry-like location, which is set up like a grocery store. so we are waiting for marine one out of joint base andrews. it's interesting. the president of the united states as he emerged from the southportco just moments ago

did stop and make some comments to the press regarding the stock market he feels is going to take off. he feels bad for michael flynn, and he went back and repeated something a number of times, and that is hillary clinton lied repeatedly during the campaign. brian: and the president was tweeting la this morning as well. basically the same themes over and over again. and he said get ready for your 401(k)s. there is something that the stock market took a surprising and unwanted beating. since apologized, and he has a month suspension that the market dropped. he said expect after this weekend hearing the details of this tax plan and the fact that the conference committee and the house is coming early, look for the market to rise. steve: anyway, he just emerged from the white house. let's listen in. here's the president about five minutes ago. >> doing something that the state of utah and others that wanted to be done for many, many years, it will be one of the great events in this

country for a long time. so important for state's rights and so important for the people of utah, and i know a lot of you are coming out for people with me. the stock market i think is going to have a very big day based on the massive tax cuts that we're very much in the process of getting approved. but based on the vote we had last week, the stock market is doing unbelievably well. the only thing that hurts it is fake news, and there's plenty of that. i know you're coming with me, a lot of you, we'll have plenty of time to talk today. . >> mr. president, when did you find out that mike flynn lied to the fbi? >> well, i find badly for general flynn. i feel very badly. he's led a very strong life, and i feel very badly, john. i will say this. hillary clinton lied many times to the fbi. nothing happened to her. flynn lied, and they destroyed his life. i think it's a shame.

hillary clinton on the fourth of july weekend went to the fbi not under oath, it was the most credible thing anyone has ever seen. she lied many times. nothing happened to her. flynn lied, and it's like they ruined his life. very unfair. thank you very much. >> when did you find out he lied to the fbi? brian: michael flynn, he put up a great point. we've had a chance to meet lieutenant general michael flynn. many of you haven't. don't know anything about him. just hear this negativityity about him. he's an incredible guy, done a tremendous amount for the country. and in this book, he talks about how you can't trust the russians. how can be on the same page. linkage and other things is a huge leap. and for those of you, he has not had a chance to defend himself. steve: well, he's already pled guilty to lying to the fbi. >> he did. steve: and that's the problem. remember, it was lying to the

fbi is the reason that martha stuart wound up going to jail. >> i would just say -- there's marine one right there. >> i would just say if i was president trump, i would did exactly what he did and bring up the economy. liberals, the obama administration would have killed to have the economic numbers that donald trump and really doesn't get enough credit for. and he's right. consumer confidence is up. jobs are up. all of these great numbers. you're going to see this go into overdrive. brian: that's why i hope we get the investigation over with so that we can start focusing on. >> what people care about. brian: yeah, and this whole soap opera on the sidelines is instructing everybody. steve: but it's not a soap opera to know the news today that apparently an fbi agent by the name of peter stroke hated trump and that it was evidenced by some tweets that he sent to his girlfriend, and he was one of the guys in charge of the hillary e-mail server and the russia collusion thing and suddenly, got fired when mueller found

out about the text messages, and that is why the house started calling for the department of justice to explain. hey, why didn't you fire that guy anyway? brian: yeah. >> good question. brian: according to reports, the president's in there, and that is air force one. meanwhile, janice is on something from the 1800s how a president might actually travel. steve: in a beer wagon? >> i have the best segment of the morning, possibly of the month. possibly of the year. you know the iconic clydesdales as a symbol of buzz wiser's brand, and they are about to kick off a national wide tour. this is a bucket list for me. joining us live is senior director monica. along with the general manager of the clydesdale operations. that's jeff napper. >> yes. >> jeff, first of all, tell us about the product. do you guys love the product?

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hospitals in oklahoma and louisiana hired workers with sexual misconduct sanctions and felon convictions. the va is now taking a closer look at all past hires. steve. steve: thank you, jillian. a shocking verdict clearing an illegal deported five times for kate steinle in the city of san francisco. earlier today, the republican lawmaker threatening officials who shelter illegals for a million-dollar fine. here for a fair andualed debate this morning, we have mark and the director for senate, good morning to both of you. >> good morning. steve: mark, let's start with you. when you heard the kate steinle verdict that he was not found guilty of murder, were you shocked? >> i was shocked. i was live on martha's show. i predicted it would be a guilty verdict.

but then what i learned after the fact will be okay with it. it was not the verdict that i was going to get. it's not the one that might supported under the law. but i respected because it's 12 people independently and collectively found that the state just didn't prove the charges. that the possibility of the gun just going off which sounds ludicrous to me, was a reasonable hypothesis. it was, but we weren't in that jury room. that's the thing. steve: and it's a head scratcher. well, now local officials in sanctuary cities being held responsible for these aliens who were not deported and do bad things. what do you think about that idea? >> remind the listeners a situation where someone beats their wife in jail and then identifies that person as an illegal immigrant, asks the jurisdiction to hold that person for just up to 48 hours, and then they're going to come in and pick them up and deport them. and the jurisdiction says, no,

as a matter of policy, we're going to release this person to the public. and that's the outrage. and so that's what this law is trying to address. the craziness at the city and county level sometimes. most counties do cooperate, i should point out. steve: yeah, mark, one of the things that's so frustrating regarding sanctuary cities is some of these municipalities just decide which laws are going to enforce and which ones they don't, and that's frustrating. >> it is. i understand it. i think, however, that this bill probably won't sustain constitutional muster. what i mean by that is you've already got a judge, william of california, did the jury reach a verdict judge who found that the law proposed to cut off funding from the feds to locals who don't follow whatever the immigration laws the feds want them to is unconstitutional. it's unduly coercive. so i don't think this is going to happen. and here's the other thing. you're making cities actually more unsafe. there's a reason why our local law enforcement are saying we don't want this.

you're eroding the confidence and the sacred relationship that they build up with people there in the city. steve: all right. steven, i'll give you the last 30 seconds. >> 90, 99% of local jurisdictions want to cooperate because they know what makes them safer. it's only in these areas where pressure groups can capture or push for these crazy policies of legalizing or releasing people who are in the country illegally. it's nuts. steve: well, the congressman from indiana is going to do it later today. we'll ousted where it goes from there. steven and mark, thank you very much for joining us tad. >> thanks for having me. steve: coming up on this monday, how about a bottle opener made for a 50 caliber bullet made by a veteran family. meet the husband and wife behind the business coming up next. but first, let's check in with sandra and find out what's happening at the top of the channel. >> steve, good morning. more after president trump called out the fbi questioning its credibility and top investigators are being

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