fm headlines, i do a daily >> alabama senate candidate roy moore speaks out against allegations of sexual misconduct. >> it's inconceivable somebody wait 40 years and less than 30 days before general election come out and make allegations. >> we are going to speak to the american people and cut right through the fake news media. >> mistakes are precisely the people that should trust the media. >> flag is down. touchdown but a flag thrown. into the end zone. buffalo wins it. [cheers and applause] >> incredible.

♪ ♪ heather: good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first "s begin with top story. all eyes on alabama, the state's critical elections hours, gop candidate roy moore setting record straight one last time as as opponent launches brand-new attacks. griff jenkins live with what what's at stake? >> that's right, we are coming right to the wire but this morning they are waking up to robo call from president trump, final push for embattled republican roy moore. >> get out and vote for roy

moore, his vote is our republican senate and it's needed. we need roy to help with the republican senate, we will win and we will make america great again. >> roy moore was absent from the campaign trail and avoiding reporters but called into a radio show to finally deny all allegations of sexual misconduct against him in an attack that the republican establishment who has refuse today support him. >> the republican establishment actually wants jones in there because they think they can beat him in two years without a content and, of course, the democrats want jones for their vote. >> meanwhile doug jones barn stormed the state with cory booker who flew to join him on the campaign trail. jones took a shot at moore of not being accessible to the voters. >> what kind of public servant

hides and only go to known place and i'm going to be accessible after the election as i am now. >> jones received support from mark ruffalo and pat oswalt but moore remains slight lead and plans to close campaign tonight with large rally featuring among others steve bannon, we will see what happens. heather: all right, griff jenkins live this morning. south korea and japan as north korea warns that war is on the way. let's get to amy kellogg with the very latest on that, good morning, amy. >> good morning, heather, this isn't the first time that north korea has threatened this and, of course, when the idea of a possible naval block aid slowed to keep banned goods from ceeching north korea, pyongyang said that would be another

declaration of war. so this isn't new and the between u.s. and south korea, missile-tracking exercises are taking place between japan, south korea and the u.s. in response to last week's exercises, north korea said that this meant outbreak of war was an established fact. u.s. ambassador to the un. >> if north korea does anything to destabilize us or allies, we absolutely will utterly destroy them. yesterday two tremors deteched believed to be aftershocks. yesterday we got a glimpse of kim jong un, though, in fact, he

was born in the soviet union. finally, heather, the antinuclear weapon's group that won the nobel peace prize this year and was given the prize yesterday had a groom morning that total destruction of humanity was one impulsive away, heather. heather: thank you very much, amy, appreciate it. >> now to fox news alert back here at home, police reveal connection in four three-way shooting. hunt intensifying for whomever is opening fire on drivers among interstate 94. the hail of gunfire started last thursday. that driver shot in the leg, drivers targeted in more shootings saturday and managed to escape injury. also while you were sleeping, most destructive wild fire raging southern california,

250,000 acres, larger than the city of new york, new york city, massive inferno forcing brand-new evacuations orders in santa barbara, fifth wild fire in history. still burning all across the state at this hour and could get even worse, we are told. no rain in the forecast at all this week. let's pray for all those people out there. the pressure rising as paul manafort and rick gates head back to court this morning, prosecutors expect today provide manafort's lawyers with a collection of records, roughly 2,000 of them as hot which are the most important to do defense team. that's what that means. special counsel robert mueller indicting trump aides on conspiracy, foreign lobbying. president trump hitting the links in florida with lindsey graham but doing some work, talking tax reform, republican senator joined at west palm

beach as house and senate work together to join their separate tax bills, hopefully it's what they are trying to do. spectacular golf course, great day of fun playing with president trump, this as representative mccarthy say that is the gop is making great progress in the fight for tax reform. >> every step, what's happened with the markets, how many times have we set a new record in the stock market which i will say based upon the move we did with regulation and tax -- >> historic tax reform bill on the president's desk by christmas. countdown is on. action-packed week 15. eagles logging, in the fc title with win over the rams but their star quarterback could be done for the season. that's not good news, carson leaving in the third quarter

with knee injury and undergo mri today and ejected seattle seahawks player tried climbing into the stands charging at opposing fans following loss to jackson jill jaguars and yelling as things were being thrown at him and sunday might football coming to the wire, pittsburgh steelers claiming and snowy scene in buffalo so much snow that -- look, you barely see the field but the bills beat the colts 13-7. that is actually awesome. looks fun. a woman who live streamed the brutal beating of disabled trump -- president trump supporter is off the hook, why she won't spend a single day behind bars? >> don't let it bother.

heather: this is so sad, middle school student breaking down about being bullied. viral video catching eye of a-list celebrities. president trump putting fake news on notice with real facts about the booming economy and guests to explain why consumers and businesses are more optimistic than ever even if the mainstream media ignores it.

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", president trump slamming the fake news media for refusing to cover the economic boom under presidency with consumer confidence at its highest, unemployment at its lowest in nearly two decades, by the way, shouldn't this be headline news, here to explain

what the mainstream media is not covering, chair of the program and finance of finance in king's college brian brendberg. this is actually good news. we can take a look at the numbers in terms of consumer confidence, highest in 17 years. and unemployment the lowest it's been? >> you look at consumers and businesses, confidence levels tat highest levels we have seen, in decade 17 years people feel optimistic of economic future and that's not getting a lot of coverage in news media. >> we had the number of jobs created just in november 28,000? >> strong number, strong number in manufacturing, things are trending well on a number of fronts here, people feel good as they look to the future, they feel wages are going to go up which they will, that's been lagging a little bit. they feel job openings and we look at how people are spending

their money which i think is a good indicater of how people feel, they feel very good, they have optimistic about how things are going. >> you know who feels that things are not being covered appropriately, look at what he said, things are going really well for our economy, subject the fake news spends as little time as possible discussing market hitting record high, unemployment 17-year low, the companies coming back to usa, really good news and much more to come. another tweet talking about getting closer and closer on the tax cut bill, you can read what he had to say there. >> the news media, pundits like to pay attention to poll numbers, i'm an economist. i think that's a better indicater of how they feel. heather: you're an economist, we will listen to you. >> the president is right, people are voting with their dollars and does deserve the credit for that. he has set a positive tone, we want jobs back here, economic

growth, people are feeling that and responding to it and you're seeing it in job numbers. heather: set tone before he even came to office, something that he campaigned on and that's what we see happening. >> right after the election to high levels, they thought they were going to relief on things they needed relief on. they wanted fewer regulations. heather: with the tax cut plan to come house and senate to come to an agreement, how do you think it would impact numbers? >> i think it'll promote strong numbers in the year ahead. they have to get this done, he's promised a lot and set the right tone but they have to deliver now, they have to keep deregulating, continue to cut tacks, that's going to be important to sustain this, we have a good start, first quarter, heather, a lot of game to play. he in congress need to make sure they finish the job they started. >> he can't do it himself, he

has to have cooperation. >> the president has to act, they have to be on the same page, focused and disciplined on the agenda, 2018 would be a yet pri good year. we have seen them fall down on health care, they can't do that with tacks. >> shape up to be a pretty good year but we have the people on twitter and social media, doomsday is coming, enjoy it while you can. >> the future is unknown. you can always claim the sky is about to fall, all the economic indicators are pointing to continued strength, the only thing i would like to see is wage gains, with tax cuts and more economic growth you'll start to see that as well. heather: brian, thank you so much. we always love the good positive news, appreciate it. time now 16 minutes after the top of the hour and president trump putting fake news on blast calling it a stain on our nation but according to mainstream media it's a good thing.

>> mistakes are precisely the people should trust the media. process of bringing truth the life. heather: okay, does fake news make you trust the fake news media more, we report, you decide. >> we have to go. heather: college students kicked out of so-called safe space coffee shop for wearing make america great again hats, one of the students who call the height of hypocrisy joins us live next. cannot live without it.

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>> i don't want people like you supporting this club. [inaudible conversations] >> you are wearing hats that -- >> all of you have to go. >> fascism. heather: well, a group of conservative college students kicked out of their campus coffee shop for wearing make america great again hats, they violated the so-called safe space policy. you heard some of the conversation there. campus reform correspondent aron spring was one of those students and joining us live. thank you for coming in early this morning. >> my pleasure, thanks for having me. heather: we were discussing whether or not you can wear your hat here but apparently the coffee shop you can't, is that what you were told? >> well, yes, the people who were wearing make america great again hats were told to leave

because they were wearing a make america great again hat after bought coffee, they were kicked out, a few people try to attack me for my american flag hat. i'm from new york and i stand my ground. it's a student-run shop and on the university campus. pride itself in being a safe space and saying that all are welcome to coffee shop so long, of course, you the same views as those who run the coffee shop, so it seems. heather: when they mentioned safe space, there are specific groups that they talk about being safe to come there, right? >> well, not specifically but in terms of who is not welcome are, i guess, people who support donald trump and people who support the make make america great again movement as we were directly quotes assaying we violated the safe space, apparently it's not a safe space for those types of people.

heather: i understand that they have safer space rules, they have do not make assumptions due to someone's gender, experiences, no racism, no sexism, no home -- homophobia but you can't be conservative, right? >> a lot of people in there are very nice, some of them were open-minded and welcomed us but the people who ran it and the president specifically of that club did not tolerate us and as you saw they kicked us out, they called us nazis, they were not tolerant of our view simply because we were conservatives. heather: they did give us a statement, there's no university safe space policy nor won that excludes any members of foreign community from spaces on basis of political views, the university is still investigating the incident and students who may have violated code of conduct will be met with appropriate student conduct process, does that satisfy you?

>> to some extent, i appreciate that fordham did that but overall i think it's up to groups like campus reform and people such as myself to continue to fight because in reality conservatives on college campuses are treated as second-class students and we need to rise up and fight for our rights. we have every right to as american to express this. heather: isn't that part of the reasons students go to college, young people go to college to be open to different and bearing viewpoints to learn from each other, seems like that's not happening these days more and more. >> no, absolutely, i think you are right. seems like the loudest voices are the most radical specially the far left. many liberals are tolerant on campus but like i said, the loudest and the most radical are the ones who seem to be running things and the ones who are treating us as second-class citizens and seemed to be getting their way and frankly quite ridiculous. heather: thank you for coming

and bringing this to attention, let us know what's happens. >> thank you very much for having me. heather: one of the black teenagers torturing disabled man live on facebook, remember this, one of the folks will not spend even one day behind bars. >> fuck donald trump. heather: this is crazy, britney sentenced to just 200 hours of community service and four years probation avoiding a 33-year prison sentence, the judge saying that he doesn't believe jail time would benefit the 19-year-old, the horrifying attack happened in chicago stream lived on facebook sparking nationwide outage, three other suspects charges have yet to be sentenced. message of support after young man crying over being bullied and gone viral.

>> if you are made fun of, you don't let it bother. they suck i guess, hard. heartbreaking, tennessee middle schooler say that is students call him ugly, they pour milk on him because he looks a little different. celebrities are reaching out. add me to your long list of friends keaton and dana white offering to bring him to vegas and bringing him to ufc headquarters, if keaton accepts the offer, i would honored to host family if they need some place to stay. the #i'm with keaton is trending. heather: a lot of us with you, keaton. democrats trying to hold the federal government hostage to

protect dreamers but president trump says no way. >> they are demanding amnesty as a condition for funding the government putting our national security at risk, we cannot allow it. heather: democrats really take it this far or are republicans once again playing politics, our panel up next to debate it.

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", 40:30 on the east coast. president trump taking war against fake news media to a new level, calling for firings after string of major reporting errors are exposed, scalating war of words, good morning, todd.

>> he wrote, very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the fake news media, they are out of control, correct reporting means nothing to them, major lies written and forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed, a stain on america. all right, here is the timeline, first abc news correcting a brian ross report that accuses donald trump of donald trump making contact with russian officials and then cn, in that said donald trump and donald, jr. had received e-mail allowing them access to hacked documents from wikileaks before such documents were publicly available and finally, washington post reporter dave issued an apology to president trump for tweeting a photo of an empty arena prior to a trump rally in florida that had been taken hours before the event started. nevertheless some argue that

misreporting actually bolsters trust in the media, take a listen. >> mistakes are precisely the reason why they should trust the media. precisely occur in their effort, overzealous effort to be fair to the president. >> prompted donald trump, jr. to tweet out the following, so this week is precisely why people should trust the media, question mark, question mark, question mark. have you lost your mind, mainstream media happy getting narrative out there and forgetting about the truth, only did so with people large enough platforms to call them out, sadly, most don't have that. heather, the fake news conversation not going away. >> all right, todd joining us live, we will continue that conversation i'm sure. thank you. >> thank you. heather: we want to know from everyone at home, what do you think, does misreporting bolster trust in the media or does it hart it?

weigh in on facebook, send us e-mail to "fox & friends first".com. president trump taking a stance on far left to push immigration agenda. >> democrats in congress not only oppose efforts to stop illegal immigration and crack down on sanctuary cities, now they are demanding amnesty as a condition for funding the government, holding troop funding hostage and putting our national security at risk. we cannot allow it. >> so are democrats putting party ahead of the american people, here to debate former chief of staff to senator mike lee boyd and former candidates for chair of the dnc and fox news contributor, thank you both for joining us very early this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, heather. >> is the democratic party stone walling when it comes to immigration?

>> absolutely not, heather, i think when you look at the, you know, original inception of the dream act decades ago and all of the conversations we've had about comprehensive immigration reform for anyone to say that there's a stalling, there's a real need for us to move forward and to stop using especially these dreamers as a political football as we have seen from this administration and as we have seen from previous administrations. i think these young people who no no other country by the united states of america who many of them have served in our military are wanting to contribute more than they already do to their communities, they need an answer. heather: nobody disagrees with that, right, boyd, even president trump gave them six moptsz to work something out in terms of daca and here we are.

>> leadership problem from both left and the right. one thing we know for sure, e-mail boxes is going to be flooded from emails from the left and the right with this issue. the problem is we are not having the real discussion, we are allowing the voices on both ends of this debate and it's one of those that, i think, should be done on the floor of the senate not connected to a spending bill, not connected to a continuing resolution but let's debate it on the merits because as you said, jamil would agree, this is something that we can get together on, these are people who have a lot of uncertainty that are getting political football back and forth as we go along and i think it's time to have a real conversation about immigration and how we really move the whole thing forward, not just the dreamers but broader things as well. heather: 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who have taken advantage of the daca program which is the deferred deportation program that barack obama created back in 2012, do

you agree there in terms of opening up the debate, having a public debate and taking this away from the spending bill? >> i think that on one hand we would hope that this would be able to have a discussion and decision outside of the spending bill but, heather, we have to be realistic here, this is politics and right now you've got republicans that control every single branch of the government and when you have the leader of the republican party really being the one who is standing in the way of getting a dream act passed -- heather: how is he standing in the way when he gave them six months to come to some sort of agreement? >> he didn't need to pull the program away under -- pulled the foundation and any sort of sense of stability out from under their feet. there certainly could have been a better legislative way of dealing with this and democrats have to, you know, use the only leverage that they may have on

this issue, that's how politics works, i hope that we can have both sides come together on this and we have to keep in mind this is not a fringe issue, this is something that john mccain was a champion on, one of the original champions and dozens of republican who is agree with this legislation. heather: including president trump who just wants something worked out in terms of allowing them to stay, but perhaps not a direct path to amnesty, that's where i believe there's discrepancy in terms of what people should think should happen. >> again, we have to quit tieing it to all the other things. every time we preat artificial cliff, we create massive bills that nobody reads and we can do better. we have to expect more from our politicians than what we are getting right now.

we have to expect more an not less. heather: expect more. that's a good way to end this. appreciate it it this morning. >> thanks, heather. 20 minutes until the top of the hour, white house hitting back at palestinian leader as protests rage after u.s. recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel. we are there live up next. >> i hope to represent the people of the united states, not the president r. >> and olympic skier made headlines finish bashing the president, now could trip to games be in jeopardy altogether? last-minute shipping deadlines for making sure they make it by christmas, that's up next

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", bitcoin hits wall street with a bang.

futures of the digital currency surging more than 20% during market debut on the chicago board options exchange. well, the trading was so hot it had to be halted twice and then it crashed the market website. bitcoin's value started at $15,000 at days in, it was more than 17,000. and don't expect anything pricey under the tree this year, apparently instead you might actually get something like this. >> one-year membership of the club. >> clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year. heather: jelly club. new poll report that is many americans are pinching pennies and only 53% will buy a gift costing $50 or more and let's say that maybe they think they won't get a raise at work. and fox business alert for you, companies working overtime helping you and santa getting

gifts by christmas. if you're still shopping, you want to pay close attention to important deadlines, tracee carrasco from sister network fox business is here with everything we need to know to get all of our packages to where they need to be. tracee: that's right, workers at the u.s. postal service will be busy doubling as santa's elves over the next two weeks, if you want to make sure packages and holiday cards get to loved ones in time, we have a list of shipping deadlines and you want to make sure you check it twice. this thursday the 14th, deadline for retail ground shipping, saturday the 11th for military priority express, next tuesday the 19th, first-class mail and greeting card, next wednesday the 20th, priority mail and if you really want to push it, the 22nd is the last day for priority mail express. now the week of the 18th through

the 24th is expected to be the busiest mailing shipping and delivery week, the postal service is delivering packages on sundays in most major cities and anticipates delivering 6 million in this december. christmas falls on monday this year which you may need to budget more time for packages to arrive and don't forget to check deadlines for ups and fedex because they'll like lie be different, heather. heather: just as busy. tracee, thank you so much, appreciate it. heather: time now 15 minutes until the top of the hour and president trump following through with yet another campaign promise. >> i told you that we would be saying merry christmas again, right? [cheers and applause] heather: new poll shows that america wants to put christ back in christmas, our next guest pastor claims why the country is focusing on faith once again.

heather: welcome back, the white house warning palestinian leaders about being too quick to walk away from crucial middle east peace talks with vice president mike pence. this is as protests continue to rage as the united states recognizing jerusalem as the capital. good morning, david. >> good morning, heather. this was another weekend of protests here not just in the region but throughout much of the muslim world demonstrating against president trump's jerusalem declaration. more than 150 palestinians were injured in clashes with israeli troops on sunday but overall intensity of violence seems to

be diminishing come -- compared to what took place, demonstrators took to the streets denouncing president trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital, outside of u.s. embassy in lebanon, tear gas to prevent from entering, protestors gathered outside the u.s. embassy there. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu meeting, the u.s. is trying to bring a new peace proposal to the table and reaffirm his support for president trump. >> i think what president trump has done is put facts squarely on the table, peace is based on reality, peace is based on recognitioning -- recognizing reality. >> mike pence is expected to visit the region.

it's unfortunate that palestinian authority is walk get away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region but the administration remaining undeterred in its efforts to help achieve peace and our peace team remains hard at work putting together a plan. the u.s. vice president, heather, plans to meet with the egyptian president as well as attend session of israeli parliament. back to you in new york. heather: david lee miller live for us this morning, thank you, david, appreciate it. well, president trump in the meantime calling for more religious values during the christmas season and now more americans apparently are agreeing. take a look at this new poll, 68% of americans feel christmas should be more about jesus with just 18% wanting more santa, so are we seeing a shift in this? here now to weigh in is the

pastor of infinity bible church in the bronx, thank you so much for joining us. >> so glad to be on. heather: what do you think about that? >> hey, jesus is a hero again, like he's always been. you could see with the culture right now morality is on the rise, we are taking on the issues of women, different things like that that you see and there's no better character for morality than gentlemen sis christ so i think a lot of people are looking at that and saying, man, we need to bring jesus back and this is a great time to do it. heather: what do you attribute the rising numbers to? >> i think, you know, it's a couple of issues, i think that over the years we have watched jesus be persecuted in schools, we don't want you to mention him, we don't want you to say anything about him, don't say merry christmas, happy holiday, i think they just push too far where right now you could see jesus on the rise, he's on the rise in films, he's on the rise

in people's lives, everywhere ago everybody has nativity scene on their lawn. that's a beautiful thing for our nation. heather: does that go hand in hand with morality? >> i think it totally does. i mean, we are looking at so many people that we thought were really, really great men that are unfortunately being pulled down for a lack of morality so it's a good focus to say, now, who is a fan that lived a credible dynamic life, served others, poured our life for others, cared for women and did all the other things that we desired, nobody better than jesus. heather: that's great, i can't even follow that up. next topic, well said. salvation army is being criticized. holy doughnut tieing with salvation army and criticized

because salvation army discriminates against the left - lgbt community? >> this happened in portland that has the naked race, 10,000 people running naked down the street. this is interesting place for cry for something like this. one of the things that i can say, salvation army is a church, people forget that has an arm to serve the nation, but one of the things -- i used to work for salvation army years ago, when they go, they never ask somebody what do you believe, do do you believe the way i do, no, they say you need help, we are here to serve you, i worked at a group home where i watched the salvation army serve people from every different backgrounds, lgbt, whether you are on drugs, whatever they, they welcomed you in, they loved you, so i don't know, holy doughnut wants to serve people around the world and serve the poor, salvation army could be a great partner for that.

heather: salvation army did issue a statement and say they do not in fact, discriminate. we will see what happens with that. >> you too. christmas green. you're doing it. heather: come back, appreciate it. time now six minutes until the top of the hour and president trump putting fake news on blast call it a stain on our nation, according to cnn it's a good thing. >> mistakes are precisely the people should trust the media. process of bringing truth to light. heather: does fake news make you trust more? stay with us.

heather: welcome back, olympic skier lindsey vaughn pulling out of race after injuring her back, she's focusing on getting healthy for the winter games just days after trashing the president. >> i hope to represent the people of the united states not the president. i want to represent our country well and i don't think there are a lot of people currently in our government that do that. heather: vaughn also says she will not visit the white house if invited. and week 14 in the nfl and players still not giving up

protests, at least 16 players kneeling, sitting or raising a fist during national anthem on sunday. and the impact is now pretty evident as the prices plummet to unimaginable lows. tickets for buffalo bills game is as low as $2, my carolina panthers, $7, tickets for even the stadium's worst seats could cost you over 100. finally president trump railing against what he calls the fake news media following a series of reporting errors, the cnn pundits argue that misreporting actually bolsters trust in the media. your comments, of course, pouring in on this one, i never trusted them in the first place for years, all they have reported are cover-ups and lies, swrudy on facebook posting most of the media lie, i take their stories with a gain of salt and then ron on facebook writes t

truth has lost its importance, ratings are more important than facts. thank you so much for joining us, give us more of your comments, keep those coming in. "fox & friends first" continues right now. >> it's inconceivable that somebody would wait 40 years and then last than 30 days before the general election come out and make allegations. >> live report on high-stakes special election. rob: president trump railing against fake news like never before but according to one major news outlet, mistakes are why you should trust the media. the reaction to that one pouring in online.