revolution from reagan to trump trump." makes a great christmas gift, and i say christmas and that's all the time we have. shannon bream is up next. she has a great show on tap. fluency of the sisters will pray for us too. here's what's coming up. the fbi under fire from the president's own party. >> there's got to be something more. it can't just be text messages. >> shannon: a heated hearing with fbi director christopher wray. jim jordan joins us live with the inside scoop. >> i will be resigning as member of the united states senate. >> shannon: "in the coming weeks" rather than immediately. could al franken be looking for cover? stirewalt investigates. the so-called mike pence rule comes under fire from the left even after an avalanche of sexual harassment allegations continue. we will debate what the

vice president's former spokesman. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. from al franken to turn frank's come allegations are turning into resignations. we have brand-new developments. senator franken, democrat, says he is resigning soon, raising questions about why the delay and who will fill the critical minnesota senate seat. commerce min franks, a republican, has just resigned among us scathing goodbye from paul ryan. ed, let's start with the developments on trent franks. >> he was one of the first tea party members in the house of representatives. he is somebody who's coming out tonight saying he and his wife had problems with fertility. they wanted to have a child command is basically acknowledging that may be a

couple of his female staff members were asked to be a surrogate mom. that's backfiring on him tonight. putting out in his statement, "due to my familiarity and experience with the process of surrogacy, i clearly became insensitive as to how the discussion of such an intensely personal topic might affect others. i recently learned that the ethics committee is reviewing inquiry regarding my discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates, making each feel uncomfortable. i deeply regret that my discussion of this option and process in the workplace caused distress." the other interesting angle is that speaker paul ryan is being very aggressive tonight and suggesting that he force this resignation and that a few days ago this was practiced with -- brought his attention he acted quickly. "last wednesday that speaker was brief and credible claims of misconduct by representative

trent franks. he found the allegations to be serious and requiring action," the speaker. what is significant is you've seen a sharp contrast to how nancy pelosi initially handled the john conyers situation. she was on nbc's meet the press calling conyers an icon, doubting the accounts of some of the women who would come forward against conyers. now in contrast, speaker ryan deciding to move swiftly and basing to help force the rags the of trent franks. >> shannon: different resignation, we knew or believed this was coming today with senator franken. >> with more than 30 democrats calling for his resignation, the surprises came when franken delivered a speech that started

out with grace and ability but he infuriated some of the left by failing to apologize to any of the women involved. on the right, there was a collective eye roll, maybe more anger over franken's suggesting he was willing to take his medicine but then trying to deflect attention and responsibility from himself with some parting and perhaps cheap shot aimed at both president trump and republican senate candidate roy moore. >> there is some irony in the fact that i'm leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office and a man who has repeatedly prayed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. >> franken did not really leave today, merely saying he will resign in the coming weeks. the democratic governor, when

franken goes him is likely to appoint the female lieutenant governor to the seat as a placeholder while others run for the seat at the end of 2018. >> shannon: all right, for the special election, a lot of names being thrown out there. >> franken barely won his seat in the first place, extremely close race. norm coleman is getting a lot of buzz asked whether he might get in. tim paul anti, onetime presidential candidate, former governor of minnesota, on the democratic side, one big-name is congressman keith ellison. he was blocked from becoming dnc chair in part because of writings in his past that seem to praise louis farrakhan, the anti-semitic head of the nation of islam. ellison said "i commend the brave women who have come forward to share their experience of sexual harassment and assault. their courage is immense and has sparked a long-overdue national

reckoning," he says. a wild card could be former fox anchor gretchen carlson who hails from minnesota and helped kick off the national connotation on sexual harassment. she told cnn today "who knows" when it comes to whether she major politics. she has already been rumored to be a candidate for a senate seat in new england. carlson tweeted she is not running for senate from connecticut. not saying she will rule out politics in general. >> shannon: this could get interesting. ed henry, thank you. fox news politics editor chris stirewalt joins us. i'm going nancy drew on the senator franken thing. when he said he was going to resign in the next few weeks, i was like, what? i think he's waiting to see them roy moore gets elected, and if he does and they don't quickly move to get rid of him, he's going to be able to stand there

and say why should i leave? >> all things are possible. it's written that all things are possible. however, i would say in the case of al franken, his perfectly awful speech today will do nothing to encourage his fellow democrats to give him a second look if he decides to try to stick around. democrats obviously won't be upset about the fact that franken's room raising the accusations against president trump or roy moore. al franken was about to say "ii don't deserve this." you are doing this to me and he was basically saying i'm the martyr here and this is unfair and how dare you do this to me. that's not really taking it for the team. just send a letter. that's all you have to do. send a letter. i hereby resign.

and it's done. instead, he had to keep it going. i wrote if he was still working for lorne michaels, they would've cut this get shorter. >> shannon: he was talking today, not admitting to things. this has been hard time for me. seemed a little bit off. republican or democrat, everything they've gone through, you think you would save these women were offended. i'm stepping away. >> you want the platform, you want to go down there and speak. talk about the republicans, jeff flake gave it a shot when he announced his retirement. you want to swing for the fences. you don't get up there and play small ball like franken did. >> shannon: high number of celebrities and people on the left were very upset about this. that midler tweeted "the democrats are always ready to dump one of their own.

i can remember many cases where democrats did not force one of their own out. the speaker got tough with trent franks and said goodbye. >> we have all learned lessons from the 1990s, just not hairstyles. the lessons democrats learned from bill clinton and defending him was that they ruin their credibility a lot of things. you know who deserves a lot of credit today is the house speaker. even before nancy pelosi was moving against the creep caucus on the democratic side, we now know that in fact ryan was moving against franks. he still has the blake farenthold problem and it's going to continue to be a problem until blake farenthold leaves under his own steam. i'm sure that's what ryan wants. ryan demonstrated i'm in the game too. see you democrats have a

congressman. he says she knew about his allegations. he raised money and backed my reelection. >> it is my fault you are still here so i get to stay. >> shannon: creep caucus, do they have an official twitter account? >> shannon: we will get t-shirts made. >> shannon: i want to know who is in it. minnesota governor mark dayton says he will make an announcement about frank interest placement within a few days. what if he doesn't resign? this person's name is going to be out there. who is in the running, more on that in a few minutes. the divide in washington, not the one we witness every day, new developments tonight concerning allegations of anti-trump influence inside the fbi and the justice department. james rosen drives us tonight with an exclusive investigation.

>> good evening. until wednesday morning when fox news started making inquiries about him, bruce ohr held two jobs at the justice department. he was and remain structure of the organized crime drug enforcement task force. stripped of his title of senior deputy. ousted from the office because according to senior officials, ohr withheld his previously undisclosed meetings with two shadowy figures. the committee has uncovered that ohr met with christopher steele, the former british spy who authored the anti-trump dossier. and that ohr met with glenn simpson, founder of gps, opposition research from the paid mr. steele with funding from the hillary clinton campaign in the democratic national many. the dossier was given the fbi in july of 2016 around the same time donald trump excepted the g.o.p. nomination. former fbi director james comey has described the dossier as a

collection of salacious and unverified material about mr. trump and his associates. republican lawmakers want to know whether the democratic funded dossier was used to obtain a warrant for fisa surveillance on carter page. during a hearing this morning, republican jim jordan of ohio but the question bluntly to the new fbi director, christopher wray. >> the democrat national committee and the clinton campaign which we now know where one of the same, paid the law firm who paid fusion ups who paid christopher steele who then paid russians. to put together a report we call a dossier full of all kinds of fake news, national inquirer garbage. it's been reported that this dossier was all dressed up by the fbi, taken to the fisa court and presented as a legitimate intelligence document, it became the basis of granting a warrant to spy on americans.

i'm wondering. i'm wondering if that took place. >> our staffs have been having extensive interaction with both intelligence committees on our interaction with the fisa court. it's an appropriate setting for those questions. >> they do motion of bruce ohr follows similar revelations this week about peter strzok, the fbi official removed from the staff of special counsel robert mueller in july following discovery of anti-trump text messages. strzok has played critical roles in three cases. the clinton email interrogation, the dossier, and the russia probe. >> shannon: we are joined by jim jordan. you had a busy day today. do you think you will get the answer from the fbi about whether the dirty dossier was used as a means to get a warrant

to track the trump administration. >> i'm convinced it was used. they can prove me wrong and present the application. nothing preventing them from doing so. we have jurisdiction over the justice department. show us what you took, not what the court has, what you took. became the basis for securing warrants. show us the documents. see when you have numerous requests for all kinds of answers. >> the speaker and devin nunes and the intel committee, they are all pushing but we need the information because each day we heard about mr. ohr, we know about peter strzok. each and every day, something new comes out which reinforces this belief that you have the fbi working with the clinton campaign to go after the other party's nominee. that is not supposed to happen in this great country. it's not supposed to work that way. you had this dossier which

was -- clinton campaign paying fusion gps paying christopher steele paying russians for a bunch of baloney they turn into an intelligence document. they get a warrant to spy on americans. really? potentially christopher steele was also, it's been reported, paid by the fbi. all this goes on and peter strzok is dismissed from the mueller team. he ran the investigation. it starts to point to this idea that the government was working with one major political party to go after the other party's nominee and that's not fair to mr. trump, president trump. that's not fair to, it's not how it's supposed to work. >> shannon: do you think you will get an opportunity to question mr. strzok? >> i hope so. my guess is his fingerprints are all over this application. he was the deputy head of counterintelligence at the fbi. he's probably one of the key guys and all the applications they go to the fisa court. i want to question him. we have mr. rosenstein next wee

week. there are lots of questions. give us the documents. prove us wrong. >> shannon: one of your colleagues across the aisle said these attacks and accusations about the fbi are politically motivated. >> i predicted these attacks on the fbi will grow louder and more brazen as the special counsel does his work in the walls closing around the president with evidence of his help section and other misdeeds. >> shannon: is that with the tough questions are about? >> they're going to grow louder because. think of peter strzok, head of counterintelligence at the fbi, ran the clinton investigation. he is the guy who changed the exoneration letter from director comey from gross negligence which is a crime to extreme carelessness. he interviewed mike flynn. he gets picked by bob mueller

and then gets kicked off for text messages. come on. there has to be more. if you kicked everyone off who is anti-trump, there wouldn't be anyone left on the mueller team. >> shannon: do you think it's fair? i want to put up a poll from cbs asking people whether they think it's a justified investigation. there's a higher number of people who think it's politically motivated. 48% say they think that's actually what this russian investigation is about. >> doesn't surprise me. people with common sense can look at this, all we learned with mr. ohr, mr. strzok, the dossier and the clinton campaign. all we've learned. i found we were supposed to be investigating possible coordination between the trump campaign and russians to influence the election. >> shannon: have you seen any? >> no. we know the clinton campaign paid russians to do what? influence the election. americans are sharp people, common sense.

this doesn't add up. each and every day we get more information which confirms something's wrong here. something smells bad here. let's get the answers. the best way to get the answers is for the fbi to give us the application. >> shannon: we were expecting the resignation of senator franken today. were you surprised by the resignation of your colleague, congressman franks? >> we were. trent is a good man. did not know about this. i haven't seen his statement. he told us on the house floor tonight that there would be a statement. i will take a look at his statement and talk more with him next week. >> shannon: a lot of concern with multiple cases out there. thank you for making time for us. good to see you. come back anytime. a government shutdown averted for now. the house and senate passed a temporary spending bill that means the government will be funded through december 22.

if the president signs the measure as expected. tops and russian leaders went to the white house this afternoon. he emphasized bipartisanship. will keep you updated. a long-term solution. new tonight, justice department announcing its launched a federal investigation into planned parenthood. the doj will look into the organization's practices regarding fetal tissue and whether planned parenthood profited from selling it. the dod is seeking unredacted documents from the senate judiciary probe in 2016. the investigation was launched after undercover footage from a pro-life group the center of her medical progress went public. that group says the video shows planned parenthood officials negotiating over the sale of fetal parts. the census bureau has its list of the most wealthy counties in the nation. top five richest outside the nation's capital.

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>> shannon: roads and schools are closed. buildings are burning. thousands of people are under new evacuation orders is four major wildfires burn across southern california. adam housley has the latest. he's been tracking these fires on the front lines. good to see you tonight, adam. >> where we are near ventura,

the only good news is there's no wins. that's not the case for other parts of southern california. everything is very dry. we are in a red flag warning until midday saturday. behind me, this is one flank of the fire which has been burning since monday. that's when the santa ana winds came through with very low humidity and burn down a couple hundred homes through the area of ventura. the city of ventura and then burned up and towards ojai, threatened the town of carpinteria today, on the way to santa barbara on the 101 freeway. you can see the embers falling down the hill. that's a good sign because if there was a wind, you would see embers in the air. that's where fire spreads quickly. it can spread 15 miles, like we saw on monday, and a manner of a short time frame. we have new fire today, two new fires. one in riverside county, the

other one in san diego near camp pendleton. 18,000 people had been evacuated. it's called the lilac fire. pictures coming in tonight show this one is moving fast in the westerly direction towards more populated areas. strong concern there. firefighters come in from all over the west. i have seen fire trucks here from northern nevada which is a good 10, 11 hour drive. aid is coming from everywhere. looks like a river of lava coming down the hillside. off the 33 freeway purchased outside of ventura on a hillside. we saw three or four other locations like this as you move towards the town of ojai which is probably 15, 20 miles up the road. the firefight continues in southern california. it's not going to let up anytime soon. red flag alert remains through

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vice president pence is planning to visit, was no exception to the hostilities. the city of ramallah, which is the headquarters for the palestinian president, also saw its share of violence. that city today experienced palestinians throwing rocks at israeli troops. they also burned tires in the streets. it is really soldiers fired rubber bullets, water cannons, tear gas. in hamas-controlled gaza, thousands marched denouncing the decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. the leader urged supporters to take part in a new intifada. demonstrations took place in jordan. king abdullah, a u.s. alley, has criticized the declaration. the king met with the palestinian president to discuss the u.s. position and despite the negative response to president trump's announcement, israeli authorities are hoping other countries follow the lead of the united states,

recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. benjamin netanyahu reflecting on the president's decision today, called it historic. >> over the millennia, you can actually cite a few significant milestones. yesterday's statement by president trump i think is such a milestone. >> in a few hours, many palestinians are going to attend friday prayers in observance of the muslim sabbath. many palestinians are off work today and there is concern here in israel that there could be an escalation in the number of anti-israeli and anti-u.s. protests on the streets. shannon, israeli authorities have deployed reinforcements to the west bank, anticipating a possible spike in violence. >> shannon: a new day there.

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>> shannon: al franken was a comedian in 2008 when he beat norm coleman. there were legal challenges. nine years is a long time and a lot has changed in minnesota but does the republican standard chance of winning even by a small margin? we have the communications director for the minnesota voters alliance. >> hello. >> shannon: what are the odds a republican could walk in and have success? >> i think it's entirely possible. we are dealing with statewide races. it wasn't that long ago that we had a republican governor, tim pawlenty. his name has been floated. >> shannon: it will be filled and it is often that person, they spend a few months there, they have the name recognition, take on a little bit of the

incumbency. technically they are the incumbent. the campaigning for the seat i thought would've started by this point anyway. it's not that far out. >> well, that's true. one year from now is a very, very short span of time. i think it's interesting that all of this, everything happening in the press right now with senator franken, our supreme court case in minnesota for access to election data stems back to the 2008 election where al franken sort of won against norm coleman. norm coleman had won by over 700 votes. after months of recounting, franken came out on top of my 312 votes. our research proved over three times that number of ineligible persons participated illegally influencing the election. >> shannon: that was one for the history books but it really was. hard to believe it's been nine years. he talked today about having

this great opportunity, honorable representative people, his brilliant, creative, hardworking state. he said whoever holds the seat will inherit the challenge. we will see that will be. i want to talk about your supreme court case. this is a case about whether you can wear political apparel at or around polling places on primary or general election day. up to a $5,000 fine, up to a year in jail. tell me what is political apparel question what did you get in trouble for? >> t-shirts, buttons, at that time. the way the law is written in the way the policy by the ramsey county elections manager, secretary of state at the time margaret g.

they gave judges discretion to determine what represented political speech and what didn' didn't. that gave an election judge the authority to harass, intimidate, threaten prosecution to a voter. we have found the policy to be abhorrent, extremely dangerous to the first amendment and voting rights in the country. now we are pleased that the united states supreme court has seen fit to take up the case. >> shannon: you have a handful of justices interested in weighing in. we will be there when the cases argued. thank you for your time. good to have you. with the pence rule have prevented sex scandals on capitol hill? numerous whole profile. is the media giving the president ammunition? we will investigate.

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>> shannon: welcome back to "fox news @ night." president trump loves to label much of the mainstream media fake news and when they make mistakes, it only bolsters claims. bloomberg issued a correction to a bombshell report about

deutsche bank and trump's financial records. the first version said robert mueller "zeroed in on trump's records." the correction says this subpoena seeks information on affiliated people. "the new york times" ran an article highlighting k.t. mcfarland contradicted herself. she is the former deputy national security advisor. the times heavily edited the article. a new article appeared. despite the avalanche of sexual harassment allegations rock in the nation in almost daily basis, the vice president continues to be mocked for what has become known as the mike pence rule, the belief that men should avoid spending time along with woman they aren't married to. >> apparently he won't go out to dinner with a woman, we've heard, unless his wife karen is with him. he won't attend any event where booze is served without her either. what is he afraid of?

>> shannon: others argue that policy could keep a lot of people out of trouble. with us to debate it, marc lotter and leslie marshall. great daddy with this. -- great to have you with us. i want to read an article from yesterday. "not feeling comfortable in the presence of woman is a general habit of insecure man. for them, a woman is a object." >> this is another attempt by liberal writers and leftists to mock people of faith who might observe things differently than other people do. the pence rule is basically guidelines mike and karen pence set up at the beginning of their marriage to show commitment to their marriage.

when you look at their three decades plus of a strong marriage, the fact that they are so much in love with each other. they have raised three amazing children. >> shannon: leslie, you are not a fan of this policy. >> what he and his wife decide to do is fine. my husband and i have been married 21 years. i think my husband is having dinner with a woman and there is probably wine on the table. i'm fine with it. what they decide privately is fine. i don't think it will affect the problem because the problem doesn't have to do with being alone with a woman. quite frankly, this is why in some countries overseas they force women to wear burqas so men won't see the outline of their bodies. is this what we are going to resort to? >> shannon: okay, i think that's a few steps past what we are talking about about not spelling time alone with women. i don't think we are going to burqas. speak on the line is a person who is going to harass a woman

or assault a woman doesn't need to be kept from that behavior. it's a pattern of behavior. we have seen and hollywood. we've seen it in our industry. we've seen it on capitol hill. we've seen it across the board here and worldwide. if somebody has the pence rule, i don't think it's going to stop their behavior. quite frankly i think it's difficult in this day and age when more women are in various aspects of business, politics included, to conduct business. if the vice president needs to meet with a cabinet member who is female, he has to bring his wife to the meeting. that to me -- >> that's ludicrous that it's not even true. the vice president has business meetings with anyone it's necessary to have business with. i can tell you having served in his office and worked for him for a number of years, his deputy chief of staff, his top national security advisor and my successor as press secretary are

all very talented, dedicated women who i am sure do not feel like they are being held back but are being supported and promoted by vice president pence. >> shannon: i want to ask you about a second topic. the president is going to be at the mississippi civil rights museum dedication saturday. "trump's attendance and his policies are an insult to people in the civil rights museum." they say "we encourage all mississippians and americans to visit the museum." they say they just can't share the stage with him. >> another example of democrats engaging in the politics of division. president trump is made it a priority to great jobs for all americans, to cut taxes for people living paycheck to paycheck. a single mom making $30,000 a year with tape $700 on the president's tax cut plan. he's talking about investing in the cities and infrastructure,

and this is an opportunity to bring people together. even if we disagree on policy. it's disappointing they are using this as an opportunity to divide. >> shannon: we are out of time but leslie, is in a missed opportunity to be together on something like this? >> no. congressman lewis has fought for years for civil rights. he's an african-american. i'm not. i don't know the plight or the offense that's been taken by so many actions of the president. it doesn't have to do with policy. it has to do with reaction to people that have fought policies they are against, whether it's take a knee or lawsuits and his casinos or in his apartment buildings in new york. the list goes on. there's been anger from the african-american community towards the president, prior to him to be president and currently. >> shannon: they won't be together but i'm glad you were together tonight. moments caught on camera and

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>> shannon: most of the russian athletes will not be there but what about the u.s.? doubts about whether the u.s. olympic team is going to south korea for the 2018 winter olympics. leland vittert is here with the latest. >> as of now, they are going. it seems as though it was an open question, the white house spent the day clarifying whether or not they will go to south korea. update from sarah sanders, press secretary. "the u.s. looks forward to

participating in the winter elements in south korea. the protection of americans is our top priority. we are engaged with the south koreans and other partners nations to secure the venues." part of that security includes massive u.s. and south korean war games and while the footage may not be a great promo for attending the olympics, it's designed to send a message to the north of american power and resolve. nothing says american projection of power like a pair of b-1 bombers flying from guam. there were supposed to be a pai pair. as we reported last night, there was one. the other one was stuck on the runway in guam with mechanical problems. the pentagon tells us had it not been a training mission, the second bomber would've been able to fly. the olympics is supposed to be about everything but war, as pope francis said about bringing us together as one human family. gold medalist lindsey vann made it clear her performance this

winter will be about something else. >> i hope to represent the people of the united states, not the president. >> would you and accept an invitation the white house if you win gold. >> absolutely not. >> sponsors, we reached out. we haven't heard back. a number of folks on twitter are expressing their thoughts on vonn statement with #boycottred bull and open end. >> shannon: thanks for giving us updated. lightning strikes and a christmas tree is born. where did that happen? next. this is a power plant. this is tim barckholtz. that's me! this is something he is researching at exxonmobil: using fuel cells to capture

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on thursday. it's beautiful. polish pope john paul ii began the tradition of putting the tree in st. peter's square. most-watched, most trusted and most grateful you have spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i amam shannon bream. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." amid the flurry of sexual assault allegations, there is one important one you may have missed today. a woman named courtney morris told "the washington post" by john conyers once propositioned her for sex while driving her home in 2001. when she refused, she says he brought up the disappearance of former intern chandra leavy who was killed in washington that year. essentially she claims invoking the threat of murder. at that point, morse said she got out of the car and ran awayh we should point out she was only 20 at the time. conyers is the longest serving member of congress, he announced his resignation this week.