conversation. thanks for joining us on the daily briefing. he i'm dana perino. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon in los angeles, 3:00 in washington. 10:00 p.m. in jerusalem and four big stories are developing right now. a major policy change from president trump. >> i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel. >> shepard: the move comes with consequences. and american embassies around the world are already bracing for trouble. we have coverage from washington, israel and beyond. also, the president's son donald trump jr. meeting with the house intelligence committee. lawmakers expected to ask him about his communications with russia before the election. and some democrats turning on al

franken after another woman accused him of inappropriate behavior. more than two dozen senators telling him to step down. senator franken promising an announcement. in alabama, the republican senate candidate roy moore also facing new backlash from senators in his own party. the president is still standing by him with days until the special election. and flames are destroying tens of thousands of acres in southern california right now. homes and businesses burning to the ground. the worst december fires ever recorded in los angeles. news is breaking from coast to coast and around the world. so let's get to it. first from the fox news deck this afternoon, president trump today reversed decades of u.s. policy. he defied warnings of widespread demonstrations and violence and concerns of world leaders to side with our ally, israel.

this afternoon from the white house, he announced the united states officially recognized jerusalem as the capitol of israel. he says it's time to acknowledge what was already obvious. >> this is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. it is also the right thing to do. after more than two decades of waivers, we're no closer to a lasting peace agreement between israel and the palestinians. it would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result. >> shepard: this move lets the president make good on a campaign promise. he says his decision would help advance one of the other promising brokering the ultimate deal between israel and the palestinians. and then there's muslim leaders. they're saying this will do the opposite. the palestinian president says

today marks the end of years of peace agreements. mahmoud abbas is warning about dangerous consequences. he says the president's decision is a declaration of withdrawal from the peace process. leaders from key middle east allies including jordan and saudi arabia oppose the move vocally. but the israeli leaders are praising the president's decision. one senior official called it bold and natural. the president says he's directing the state department to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he said that process could take a few years. either way, the state department ordering government staff avoid jerusalem's old city and the west bank after widespread calls for demonstration. a turkish political group shared this photo of crowds in istanbul. fox news cannot authenticate it. but there's three days of rage in palestine to protest the president's decision. hamas has threatened an uprising

if the trump administration goes ahead with the plan. jerusalem contains sites considered holy to christianity, islam and judaoism. rich edson is live at the state department. first, john roberts is live on the north lawn. john? >> it's an interesting issue when you take a look at it. going back to 1972 when gerald ford said he thought it would be a good idea to move the embassy and later when he became president. he said it's probably not such a good idea. congress overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis passed the law to move the embassy in 1995. president clinton did not sign the law. it went back to the house and senate and became law automatically. there's the waivers and deferrals that have been signed the past two decades. as you pointed out, president

trump the first u.s. president to make good, a long-standing policy to move the u.s. embassy and taking special steps during his speech today to try to placate fears around the world to say that this changes nothing. the united states is still absolutely committed to pursuing peace between israel and the palestinians. listen to what the president said. >> the united states remains deeply committed to helping facilitate a peace agreement that is acceptable to both sides. i intend to do everything in my power to help forge such an agreement. without question, jerusalem is one of the most sensitive issues in those talks. the united states would support a two-state solution if agreed to by both sides. >> the president went on to say this does nothing to change the

issue of final status talks. it doesn't do anything to change borders. in fact, the white house as portraying this as a measure that could speed up the peace process. a number of the u.s. allies including turkey are having no part of this despite assurances by rex tillerson at a nato meeting today that the united states is still committed to the peace process. turkey's foreign minister, that was also at the meeting said this. listen here. >> it's going to be a grave mistake. it will not bring peace but instability. >> how will the muslim world respond? >> not only the muslim world but the whole world is reacting. the whole world is against it. >> the whole world is against it. a grave mistake. the white house is saying let's not rush to conclusions here again. this changes nothing in terms of what actually happens on the ground. this has been longstanding u.s.

policy and for a long time jerusalem has been the capitol of israel. the white house is saying coming up with a peace plan -- this is a little news given to me earlier -- within the next few weeks to a next few months they'll have a peace plan in place. when that comes out, then let's see some reaction to world leaders. >> shepard: at the same time, president trump is calling for calm in the region. >> there's a concern that if the united states declares jerusalem to be the capitol of israel, maybe israel might make moves for a land grab, for lack of a better word, on some of holiest sites in the world. the president urged things to stay the same and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he would leave things the same. >> i call on all parties to maintain the status quo at jerusalem's holy sites, including temple mount also

known as haram al shareef. >> we're profoundly grateful for the president for his just decision. i also want to make clear, there's no change whatsoever to the status quo with the holy sites. israel will always ensure freedom of worship for jews, christians and muslims alike. >> not sure if that is going to allay the fears brewing right now. the president will be sending the vice president to the region really at the smoothing out exercise here to calm the fears of people in the region that this could have any kind of negative impact and will try to sell this idea that this could be a positive in the long run. shep? >> shepard: thanks, john. protest against the president's announcement have already begun. look at gaza city in the gaza strip about 45 miles south of

tel aviv. protesters burned u.s. flags and israeli flags. as i reported, palestinian leaders called on people to take to the street. they said president trump's move is dangerous to peace and instability. 17 countries and the palestinian authority have come out against the move. rich edson is live at the state department. rich? >> secretary of state rex tillerson just said the president has made a bold move here complying with that 1995 law or the plans to do so which requires the united states is move the u.s. embassy to tel aviv to jerusalem. every president since has pushed off that decision. the secretary says the department will begin surveying sites for a new embassy in jerusalem, though he acknowledges that planning will take some time here. there's a lot of planning to do. officials say some state officials did push or advise against this decision. it's unclear whether the secretary of state counselled one way or the other. the state department refused to say. publicly the secretary of state

is on board. in a statement, secretary tillerson said president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capitol solidifies their longstanding position. one of the arguments against the president's decision, it removes impartiality for the united states to broker peace between the palestinians and israelis. secretary of state rex tillerson is in europe and he was asked about that. >> the president's very committed to the middle east peace process. he has a team that he put in place immediately upon entering the white house. that team has been working very diligently on new approaches to the peace process. they've been engaged in a quiet way with many in the region around that process. >> despite the skepticism, the secretary says he firmly

believes there's an opportunity for lasting peace, shep. >> shepard: and a warning, i understand, from the state department to our embassies? >> yes. warnings that went out internally and publicly. state department feeds in london, jordan are warning american citizens to be vigilant because of protests because of this decision. secretary of state says he's asking those that disagree with the decision to protest peacefully. there was according to officials a plan that went out coordinating federal agencies, a security plan, and the secretary says he believes robust one is in place. they're watching. >> shepard: thanks, rich. three other major stories coming. the fires in los angeles destroying property for miles. the russia investigation with a new whistle-blower against mike flynn. and the tide has turned on minnesota senator al franken with a wave of his fellow democratic senators calling for him to step down. there's just been another one within the last 30 minutes.

now senator franken tells the world he has an announcement to make. what is that? the news is coming up from the fox news deck on this wednesday afternoon.

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wrote in the atlantic magazine that she believes all the stories about franken because franken groped her at a media matters party in 2009. the party for the first inauguration of president obama. there's no word yet from al franken. this new claim as the walls come caving in around the minnesota democrat. he's set to make an announcement tomorrow. earlier today, another woman accused him of sexual misconduct. more than two dozen members of his party have called for him to step down. a dramatic day for democrats. while republicans have issues of their own with their candidate, roy moore, in alabama. more on developments there in just a moment. first, senator franken. politco reports today a former democratic congressional aide says al franken tried to kiss her after a taping of his radio show. that happened in 2006, three years before he was a u.s. senator. the woman did not give her name.

when she refused franken, he said it's my right as an entertainer. franken says that is categorically not true. today alone, more than two dozen democratic senators -- in fact, the number is 28 have called for franken to resign. kirsten gillibrand is the first to post about him today. she wrote on facebook, while senator franken is entitled for an ethics review, i believe it would be better for our country that that kind of treatment is not accepting by stepping aside to let somebody else serve. this comes as congress is asking for more face call about sexual conduct claims. and the feds announced $17 men have gone for sexual harassment settlements. a bipartisan committee is asking

details of those payments to go public. peter doocy has more live on capitol hill. >> and we haven't heard yet anything, shep, from the senate minority leader, chuck schumer about whether or not he thinks franken should stay or leave. the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell over there in the upper chamber just came out with a statement where he says this in part. "it appears that senator franken has lost support of his colleagues and constituents. i do not believe he can effectively serve the people of minnesota in the u.s. senate any longer." now, some of the democratic senators were talking about franken and saying they think he's going to resign. they expect him to resign tomorrow. nobody knows for sure. we don't know where this announcement will take place, whether here in d.c. or minnesota. but they're very much -- more sure of themselves when they say what they want him to do. >> senator franken's conduct was wrong. he's admitted to it.

he should resign from the senate. >> we've learned that the democratic senator from massachusetts elizabeth warren talked to franken and told him to resign. the other democratic senator from minnesota talked to him but have not told us what it's about. >> shepard: peter, republicans are staying the course on roy moore generally, right? >> they are. sources at the rnc said they cut a check for $170,000 that they sent on down to boost the effort in his home stretch of the campaign, which has six more days to go. as far as we know, president trump still planning to go on down and hold a rally a few minutes away, 15 minutes away from the alabama state line in pensacola, florida on friday night. the last several weeks there's been on capitol hill bipartisan scrutiny on a democrat accused of sexual misconduct, al franken and a republican candidate accused of sexual misconduct,

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>> shepard: 22 minutes past the hour now. voters in alabama haven't elected a democrat in more than a quarter century. with less than a week to go, the race between the democratic candidate doug jones and the republican candidate roy moore is a statistical toss-up. that's according to the real clear politics average of the polls which shows roy moore with 48%, doug jones with 45.7. the two candidates held rallies last night as they try to

mobilize voters before tuesday. steve bannon introduced roy moore and he framed tuesday as a vote on the status quo. >> in referendum, are we going to take this country back? or are we going to let a bunch of elites that have pillaged this country over the last 30 or 40 years, are we going to allow them to win? >> bannon's former boss, president trump, showed more support for roy moore this week. jonathan serrie was at the rally and his in birmingham this afternoon. jonathan? >> hi, shep. at the rally, roy moore pledged to fight the washington establishment if he's elected senator and to support the president's agenda. also at the rally, he talked about some of the unexpected challenges he's faced in this highly competitive race. listen. >> if you knew what kind of battles's been fighting, you wouldn't want to be where i am. in fact, if i wasn't here, i

wouldn't want to fight those battles. when god puts you there, you have nothing else to do but to stand. >> steve bannon said moore's democratic opponent doug johns is the personification of hillary clinton's policies but he also backed establishment republican figures that have been critical of moore, including mitt romney who accused him of hiding behind his religion. shep? >> shepard: what is doug jones up to today? >> doug jones also held a rally. during the rally, hi suggested that electing roy moore to the senate might frighten away business because of his stand on high profile social issues. doug jones spoke with reporters while visiting a campaign phone bank. he said that al franken should resign amid allegations of sexual harassment which jones

described as a nonpartisan issue. >> i applaud the women that have come forward against roy moore, and i think it's time that those women be believed just like the woman coming out against senator franken. >> meanwhile, the moore campaign has received two boosts this week. first of all, the restoration of funds from the rnc and also the president's official endorsement, which came earlier this week, shep. >> shepard: jonathan serrie live in birmingham. it just got worse for harvey weinstein. six women are suing him. comparing his supporters to an organized crime group. attorneys for the women filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in new york today. they're asking to represent dozens if not hundreds of women who say harvey weinstein assaulted them. the parties in the lawsuit claim

an alliance of companies and people became what they call the weinstein sexual enterprise helping him hide his sexual misconduct. a lawyer for harvey weinstein says the producer never committed sexual assault. donald trump meeting -- donald trump jr. meeting with the house intelligence committee today. they're asking about the trump tower meeting. trump jr.'s communications with wikileaks about hacked democratic party and clinton campaign e-mails. we're live on capitol hill coming up from the fox news deck and just crossing from associated press, dateline los angeles, the city council just voted and los angeles will be the nation's largest city with recreational pot after a vote to license sales next year. january 1 in los angeles, you can smoke'em if you got'em. your brain changes as you get older.

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>> i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report. more of today's headlines. british investigators say they have busted two terrorists that were planning to assassinate theresa may. one of the suspects in court today. the prosecutor says they planned to set off a bomb near her office on downing street in london and go after her with a knife and a suicide vest. u.s. and south korean forces sending a warning to north korea. a supersonic bomber joined hundreds of war planes in south korea. this comes days after the north korea tested a new long range missile. and the associated press reports that people in cuba heard a metal sound before reporting hearing loss.

the news continues with shepard smith after this.

>> shepard: there's breaking news in the russia investigate on two fronts this afternoon. first, there's word president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn texted a former business associate while the president gave his inauguration speech. a plan to build nuclear power plants in the middle east was good to go. that's what the top democrat on the house oversight committee released in a letter earlier this afternoon citing an anonymous whistle-blower. michael flynn was looking to partner with russian to build two dozen power plants in the middle east. he pleaded guilty to lying to the feds and agreed to cooperate with robert mueller's investigation. also today, donald trump jr. testifying on capitol hill behind closed doors to the house intelligence committee. investigators along with a special counsel robert mueller

are looking to russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether any members of the team colluded with the campaign. vladimir putin and the white house have said there's no collusion. catherine herridge on the top stories live from washington. catherine? >> shep, donald trump jr. has been in a secure facility just over my shoulder here outside the house intelligence committee room. he did four hours of testimony this morning. right now they're on a break. the guidance we had, if it went beyond two hours, it could be anywhere in the neighborhood of ten hours and that's not unheard of. we heard from the senior republican, the democrat, just a short time ago. >> do you have a comment so far? >> not at this point.

thank you. >> right now they're not commenting publicly. what we learned is that democrats have been pressing donald trump jr. on this june 2016 trump tower meeting. he was there with the president's son-in-law, jared kushner and paul manafort and this russian lawyer. democrats are really trying to nail down the timeline here. the meeting was only 17 minutes and the russian had promised compromising information about hillary clinton, but then steered the conversation to trying in some way to lift these anti-russian sanctions. what we're expecting from the republicans behind closed doors to try to press donald trump jr. about what he knew about the timing that day and any kind of association between the russian lawyer and fusion gps. we were first to report here that she met with glenn simpson from fusion gps. >> shepard: katherine, back to

inauguration day michael flynn is said to have sent a text. help us understand this. >> elijah cummings, the senior democrat on the house oversight committee put out a statement two hours ago. if you look at the statement, there's a summary of the information that was brought to him by what was described as a credible partner. flynn volunteered to him that he received some text messages from mike flynn about 11 hours into the ceremony and that they were good to go, a quote, "good to go" on the nuclear project in the middle east that required russian cooperation and the business associate said that russian sanctions were going to be ripped apart by president trump. we're still waiting for some kind of comment from the republican chairman of the government oversight committee, tray gowdy and whether he wants to listen to this whistle-blower, have them in for an interview and seek

on-the-record testimony about the chain of events. what's not clear to us is whether this information was known to the special counsel when mike flynn made the guilty plea on friday where he admitted to lying to federal investigators about a conversation with the russian ambassador and the extent to which they discussed sanctions. i can tell you from what i know about this investigation, mueller's team had access to all of flynn's records, texts, phone calls, you name it. so i'm not sure it's a surprise to them, but certainly it's a surprise to the committee here on the hill. >> shepard: catherine herridge in washington. thanks. let's go to tom lobianco who covers the russian investigation for the associated press. this flynn texting what do you think of it? >> another big piece we're seeing here. remember this dynamic with the mueller investigation. oftentimes as catherine pointed out, we're finding out things that they probably knew about

for months if not longer. these are all key pieces that we're finding out. again, here's flynn now a co-op rating witness, finding out that he seems to have some guarantee or at least according to this whistle-blower, there was a guarantee that they were going to rip up the sanctions on russian. it raises more questions. the big question is who else inside the trump administration, inside the transition knew about all of this? we've saw some of that in the court filings with flynn. that's really if big question a lot of us are pursuing right now. >> shepard: on the matter of don jr., donald trump jr. testifying today, if you're that committee, why do you have him in there? >> well, you need to find out more about that that june 2016 meeting. every time these investigators go in there with a top level witness like trump jr., they're always operating on what they know and also what they've

discovered and what we've discovered as well. there's big questions about the russian lawyer. there's questions on who is telling the truth here. i think there's another dynamic at play, which we have to be aware of. that if you tell congressional investigators one thing and tell mueller investigators a different thing, you could be setting yourself up for trouble. we know from watching flynn in particular that mueller's team is ready to go after people for the smallest thing they can get them on. >> shepard: remember when that meeting in trump tower was said to be a nothing burger? they didn't remember anything about it? that's the reason they didn't report it? it wasn't that long ago. >> that's right. it's not a nothing burger. one of the very interesting dynamics of this is that it appears that russian operatives, russian agents, whatever you want to call them, were trying to get in touch to the trump

campaign through multiple different venues. we saw that with papadopoulos. so there's a big question what happened inside that meeting. what else did they talk about in there. >> shepard: thanks, tom, a reporter for the associated press. thank >> thank you. >> shepard: president trump says a government shut down could be days away and putting the blame on the democrats. >> it could happen. the democrats are really looking at something that is very dangerous for our country. they are looking at shutting down, they want to have illegal immigrants in many cases, people that we don't want in our country, they want to have illegal immigrants pouring into our country. >> shepard: democrats say obviously they do not want illegal immigrants pouring into the country, but they are asking for protection for the dreamers. hundreds of thousands of immigrants that came to the united states as children because their parents brought

them and they don't have documents. the top democrat in the house, the minority leader, nancy pelosi responding to the president in writing, "president trump is the only person talking about a government shutdown. democrats hope the president will be open to an agreement to address the urgent needs of the american people and keep the government open." because of senate rules, the republicans need votes from the democrats to pass a spending by by friday to avoid a government shut down. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill for us. mike, where does it stand right now? >> shep, there is activity this hour on the house side of the capitol. the rules committee is meeting to prepare a government funding extension for the house floor. lawmakers are expected to vote on a two-week government funding extension. when it gets to the senate side, mitch mcconnell is urging his colleagues to help him in passing this. >> by sending the short term funding provision for the president for his signature will ensure that the government

remains open while bipartisan discussions continue with our colleagues in congress and the white house on a long-term funding solution. meantime, it's important to recognize that this bill doesn't have any contentious provisions. >> of course, sometimes controversial items are attached to pieces of legislation. the majority leader signalling that won't be the case with a government funding extension. >> shepard: mike, gop leaders are working to pass their tax bill. how is that progress? >> action on the senate floor this hour. 51-47 vote to go to conference with the house to work out differences. the top democrat on the financial committee is blasting the bill. >> whatever product comes out of these negotiations is still going to raise taxes on millions of middle class americans and drive a dagger in the heart of the affordable care act. why? to pay for yet more handouts to

faceless multinational corporations. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi joining in ripping the tax reform package. shep? >> shepard: thanks, mike. wild fires in south california are incinerating everything in their path. high winds race across the landscape and thick smoke chokes the sky. we'll show you one of the hardest hit areas and see how fire crews are fighting the flames. the santa ana winds are blowing and parties of belaire are burning. we're live in l.a. coming up.

>> shepard: look at this. insanity here. look at this video. this is driving down the freeway. i believe in just a second, you'll see an overhead sign -- well, this isn't it. that's the hills in los angeles. unbelievable scene in the belaire neighborhood where

people are racing to escape the wild fires. flames are obliterating everything. hundreds of firefighters are battling. we have system video and images in our slide show this afternoon. these are the worst fires in the month of december in recorded history. this home in ventura about 60 miles north and west of los angeles, people climbed on roofs to watch it burn. firefighters say the flames there have scorched more than 50,000 acres. this is people racing away from their -- with their animals from the smoke around them. this is sunland, about 15 miles north of los angeles. here's another home burning. this in ventura. completely destroyed like so many. here an rv burning in the front. behind, this is a garage and all of this was a house up in flames in minutes. this for standing on a hill where the fire scorched the earth leaving nothing.

will carr is in los angeles. will, looks awful. >> absolutely, shep. this fire sparked around 5:00 a.m. it quickly exploded. ran dangerously close to i 405, a major thorough father. then it raced up the side destroying six homes. when we get here, there were flames shooting out of the roof of this home. there's active flames inside. you can see the garage. looked like the flames punched holes in this garage and into this home. this is one of the most devastating wild fires ever in california's history. this is december. that used to be outside of wild fire season. now wild fire season in california is year round, shep. >> shepard: are they telling people aside from get out what else to do? >> well, people got text alerts. the best thing you can do with the santa ana winds is have a

plan. the other thing people can do, there's a law called 100 feet of dispensable space. people are not supposed to have shrubs or trees close to the house. the embers can get close to the home. but time and time again, people are not following the law and that's when you see a lot of homes that can be lost, shep. >> shepard: thanks. live in los angeles. updates throughout the day and evening. more on the dense fires after the break, a look at the forecast and an update on a california -- from a california fire official. the santa ana winds are the problem. when do they die? keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicks, keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicking ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicking ] [ keyboard clacking ] ♪ good questions lead to good answers.

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>> shepard: the fires are insane out west. emergency officials warning. that's the hollywood sign there.

is this live? this is a still picture coming in. in the center, the tiny white line, that's the hollywood sign. look at the smoke above it. no clouds. all smoke. winds are fuelling out of control wild fires there. rick reichmuth is live. santa ana, when does it stop? >> about friday we'll see things come down. winds have increased the last hour or so. they will increase through the evening hours. we have elevated fire danger across southern california. and we have this high pressure. this is how this works. high pressure across the great basin pushing offshore winds. dry air mass coming from the desert regions. that moves across the mountains and into the valleys. gets funneled down. the air compresses as it sinks in and heats up. so anyplace in those canyons, that is where those winds will once again probably be getting in towards the 50 miles an hour range. this is throughout the night tonight. dark blues are winds over 50

miles an hour. gusts probably higher than that at times going all throughout much of the day thursday and thursday night. we finally begin to break down just a little bit on friday. worth noting, we're at the beginning of fire season across southern california. we had so much rain last your and caused the dormant seeds to bloom and now we have a lot of dry brush here. we're at the beginning of the season. rough couple days to go. >> shepard: thanks, rick. let's go to cal fire for an update. lynn, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> shepard: have you ever seen a december like this? >> we have. back in 2003, we were sending folks out over thanksgiving and into december for the same situation. >> shepard: where is the worst of it today, lynn? >> we're still dealing with the larger fire in ventura county, the thomas fire. they're keeping a close eye on that as the winds are picking back up as rick mentioned.

that's a huge concern today. the other fires are very important, but we have to be very careful and hope there's no new fires that start. >> shepard: i'm realing about belaire. >> yes, that's one that broke out this morning. we don't have a lot on that. it's a dynamic situation. once again, threatening a beautiful area and beautiful homes and historic places. >> shepard: how many different locations is it, lynn? it's hard to keep up with. >> it is. the way the winds move, they start to the north in ventura, santa barbara counties. that's where the first fire picked up, the thomas fire. as the weather conditions move further south, we started to see the fire in los angeles county. that's how it goes. we're expecting more winds further south heading to san diego tomorrow. >> shepard: thanks, lynn, from cal fire. do you have the people and the resources you need? >> we do have a lot of resources. fortunately governor brown bolstered our fleet the past

couple years. we have additional engines available and kept our staffing up to help out. >> shepard: live pictures on our screen from fox 11 in the south bay. all the best to you, lynn, and everybody at cal fire. looks like a long season. thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: we'll be back with a look at when an american president tried a brand new way to speak to the nation and it happened on this day in history.

>> so it's time for lie to start a new streak. he gets his job back this sunday. the giants new interim head coach steve spagnola announced the decision today. he will start against dallas sunday at met life in new jersey. the g-men will look to improve on their 2-8 record. worst in the nfc east. this is after the giants canned

ben mcadoo and general manager jerry reese. this is after eli manning was benched after two mvp rings and two super bowl wins. the fans weren't happy. they went nuts in the stands. all of the people on the radio exploded. so they fired everybody and brought eli back. listen, a rule in life, don't mess with the mannings. just let them do it. it will be perfect. on this day in 1923, calvin coolidge became the first president to give a speech on the radio. he was speaking to a joint session of our congress. "the new york times" reported that the sound quality was so clear that listeners could actually hear the president turning the pages. coolidge was the first president to have his inauguration broadcast on the radio after the first presidential speech hit the airwaves 94 years ago today.

should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. the dow is down about 30. "your world" with neil cavuto begins now. >> neil: thank you, shepard very much. i wonder if nfl commissioner roger goodell is invested in the markets. not that he has to be to make some doe. we can tell you and our charlie gasparino is confirming that the nfl commissioner just signed a contract at an annual salary of $3.5 million guaranteed, but with other benefits and incentives could balloon to $50 million in total compensation. again, we hope to have charlie gasparino with us shortly to detail this. all of this comes at a time the nfl has been under fire and a ratings drag on this whole sit-down, stand up, kneel down during the national anthem and the back and forth