the square in paris. he went on to break the world's slack line record. yikes. rob: was he attached? we have got to figure that out. we have got to look into it "fox & friends" starts now. see you later. >> at least three mainstream media reporting errors this last week prompt ago twitter attack from the president. major lies written and forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed. >> all eyes on alabama as republicans look to keep seat. >> degrade your opponent. >> voters in alabama want to seat make america great again agenda pushed through more so than the allegations going back and forth he said, she said. >> most destructive wildfire got bigger. scoirching 250,000 acres. that is larger than the city of new york. >> gives pittsburgh the

lead, again. 39-38. >> mccoy in to the end zone and buffalo wins it. ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ you know i'm in it for the party. steve: live from new york city, it's the world's number one cable news show. come on in. ainsley: come on in. we are two weeks away from christmas. steve: we have the coffee. we are ready. brian: by the way that is steve and ainsley's philosophy i'm here for the party. i'm here to do work. that's how we're different. ainsley: let's pretend it's friday. brian: you pretend every day

is friday. ainsley: i do. i like my life. brian: that's a general statement. steve: we are working at a news channel and luckily there is a lot of news. delighted you would join us today because we have a great story to tell you all about coming n just a moment you will hear that first, our top political story, all eyes are on the state of alabama one day before their special election for the u.s. senate. ainsley: republican candidate roy moore has president trump on his side as he is denying all the sexual misconduct claims. and his opponent is launching brand new attacks. brian: yep. griff jenkins is live in washington, d.c. with what is at stake win or lose. hey, griff. >> good morning, guys. it is come down to the wire in the heart of dixie as alabama voters are waking up to this robo call from president trump making a final push for roy moore. >> get out and vote for roy moore. his vote is our republican senate and it's needed. we need roy to help us with

the republican senate. we will win and we will make america great again. >> moore, who has been running as an outsider, was noticeably absent from the campaign trail this weekend and avoided reporters. called into radio show defiantly denying allegations against him and attacking the republican establishment who refuse to support him. >> the republican establishment actually wants jones in there because they think they can beat him in two years without a contest. and, of course, the democrats want jones in there for their vote. >> meanwhile, jones barn stormed the state with outside help from establishment democrats like new jersey senator corey booker and took a shot at moore accusing him of hiding. >> what kind of public servant hides and goes only into enclaves and doesn't address the media? i'm going to be as accessible after this election as i am now. >> and jones began running ads featuring alabama's other senator richard shelby

who said he wasn't voting for moore writing in another republican candidate. moore maintain as slight lead in the polls. and tonight plans a massive rally featuring none other than steve bannon. it will be exciting to watch. brian: interesting, griff. exciting to watch. the president knows for all practicality purposes he needs that vote. 51 votes makes everything very tough in the last of his first two years before the mid terms. however, you wonder in the big picture if the sexual allegations will actually allow the republican party to put their backs against the wall for the midterm elections as if he would be the poster child for sexual misconduct. ainsley: we will find out. tomorrow is the big vote. steve: we will. we have pastor jeffress coming up shortly from dallas. he says there are a lot of republicans in alabama who would like another choice. but are going to vote for this particular guy, judge roy moore. they are going to hold their nose and do that because they are worried about the

issues. brian: that's a great point. if this came out and he still beat luther strange, this happened in the primary purpose, that's one thing. but it came out after the primary. so the people of alabama ares who tableg to these candidates. steve: and according to what griff just said, the people of alabama by a slight, what, 3 or 4 points right now, our favoring roy moore. brian: in the last poll. steve: we will see. over the past few days, the president and the press. ainsley: is he fed up with all the fake news. this was his latest tweet. he was talking about all the fake news from all the networks. he is done with it he has had very little discussion of all the purposefully false and defamatory stories put out this week by the fake news media. 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. steve: what's he talking about? well, "the washington post" had to apologize. one of their reporters dave

weigel he had put out a picture and said that that place down. ainsley: florida. steve: pensacola was not filled up. it was indeed. brian ross got suspended for a week. mollie hemingway says the real scandal is how the media are continuing to push the russia thing. >> this is the pattern for so many of these stories. this is not the first time it's happened to cnn. it's not even the first time it's happened this week that a major story blew up like this. at some point you have to start asking maybe the real scandal is how the media fell for this russia/trump collusion mentd and how they have been involved in perpetuating that. brian: i put that on my private twitter. i apologize to the president. i didn't put it to the "the washington post." why would they do it to begin with because it's inaccurate. it was way before the actual event. ainsley: hours before the president showed up and showed the arena half full. brian: i would like to see report for the president. if one of these organizations came out and said a story that was too positive for the president

and had to walk back and said it should have been more negative, i apologize, then i would see fair and balanced erroneous behavior. steve: sometimes as we know, being in the press for a very long time, you have got to wait until you have a got a couple more people who have verified the story before you rush out with a smoking gun. ainsley: i do think it's more than an honest mistake. if you know the president is going to be speaking in a few hours, then you post the picture of what the arena looks like. like taking a picture weather forecast team comes out in the nfl like hours before and say no. inaccurate. in other news rod rosenstein was appoint as special counsel back in may after jeff sessions recused himself. now he going to be testifying on capitol hill. it happens this friday in a few days before the house judiciary committee. steve: he is the deputy attorney general. here's the thing going on right now, there are so many reports from the republican side of the aisle.

robert mueller special counsel team riddled from the political left. andrew weissmann. one of his deputies, he went to hillary clinton's victory party. peter strzok emails he exchanged with lover. there is peter strzok right there. the guy who handed out gross negligence jeanne rhee. represented the foundation. and it goes on and on. and it looks like it's stacked with murderer's row of people on hillary's side. brian: christopher was appointed by the president to run the fbi. it doesn't mean he goes by the president's agenda. is he a guy he looked into his background and said would have to get fresh eyes on this and straighten out the higher ups in the fbi if they need to be straightened out. i was stunned by stonewalling last week. lead editorial in the "wall street journal" talks about christopher wray not answering any questions on capitol hill. most of which is the fight

that application. it was done before you got there. fusion gps material to get it when it comes to all these people with their obviously pro-clinton views showing up at a party praising sally yates, why are you not curious to get to the bottom of this. instead it was stonewall after stonewall. i'm wondering if rod rosenstein who could make christopher ray come forward with the application to see if they are using opposition research to take down president trump or to get information on him or used it in the past if he is going to do anything. so that's going to be the question. will he be forth right? he is also appointed by president trump. steve: chris wray, what he said was, it's a great question. i can not answer it because there's an inspector general who is going to come out with -- he's going to have the answer to all that stuff. just hold on and you will have the answer. brian: the "wall street journal" says that is not true. the bottom line is you don't have an inspector general to stop an investigation.

you have a judiciary committee who asks you a question. give them the answer. ainsley: yeah. instead of pleading the fifth. did the dossier lead to surveying the president while he was candidate trump at the time? that's the question that you want to know. meantime hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us? jillian: that's right. good monday morning to you guys and to you at home as well. the hunt intensifying for whoever is behind a string of freeway shootings. police in detroit says the same suspect or suspects are playing russian roulette on interstate 94. opening fire four separate times. one driver was hit in the leg but is expected to be okay. authorities are looking for a silver or gray car seen during the shootings. they are also beefing up police presence in that area. while you were sleeping, the most destructive wildfire raging in southern california just got bigger. scoimping 230,000 acres. that's larger than new york city. the massive inferno forcing brand new evacuation orders in santa barbara. hurricane force winds fueling the flames, making the fifth largest wildfire

in state history. six out-of-control blazes still burning across california at this hour. and it could get even worse. there's no rain in the forecast at all this week. new overnight, the u.s. military making a bold show of force launching missile tracking drills as tensions with north korea run high. the two-day joint drill with japan and south korea simulate detecting and tracking down potential ballistic missiles in the waters off the korean peninsula. this comes less than weeks after the rogue nation fired its longest range missile yet. potentially capable of reaching anywhere in the u.s. the white house calling out palestinian leaders for refusing to meet with vice president pence. they cancelled the meetings after the u.s. recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel. the vice president's press secretary saying, quote: it's unfortunate that the palestinian authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region. egypt's coptic church also

refusing a meeting with the vice president when he leads overseeoverseas later this mont. a lot of news this morning. steve: thank you. ainsley: alabama has the most evangelize voters in the country. will they be able to reconcile their faith in god and vote for moore. robert jeffers is here in dallas. he is coming up next. brian: football neerls kneeled during the national anthem and put a fist up in the air. did it actually happen? ♪ go slow. ♪

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♪ steve: all eyes on the state of alabama on the eve of a special election down there. republican roy moore currently in the lead as he denies accusations of sexual misconduct that lead, according to the real clear politic average. ainsley: the question will it be enough for evangelicals in that state to put their faith in him and roy moore? joining us to weigh in is fox news contributor pastor robert jeffress. thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you this morning. ainsley: there is not anyone who is going to be for child abuse or all these allegations that all these women that have come out against him. as a female i have a big problem with the fact that he is running. however, i understand the issue that you have to put the party first because his

opponent is -- most of these republicans dislike the establishment. they dislike the media. his opponent has an extreme view on abortion. how do you justify it as a christian? >> well, look, for me, as a christian leader, the issue is not about politics or party, it's about morality. and, look, christians, above all people, have a zero tolerance level for any kind of child abuse. jesus said it would be better to have a mill stone tied around your neck and cast into the sea than to harm a child. but here it is the evangelical dilemma. in alabama about this election evangelicals can choose roy moore who vehemently denies the very serious allegations of child abuse from 40 years ago, or they can choose doug jones who openly and proudly embraces the most extreme example and kind of child abuse abortion. doug jones has said in interviews that he favors no restrictions on abortion, meaning that if a woman decides she doesn't like the jerngd of her unborn child,

she can get rid of it or in the 30th week of presidency she decides she doesn't really want a child, she can kill that child. that is not only horrific, it's barbaric. and i believe it is doug jones' horrific, barbaric views on abortion that will cause evangelicals in the end to vote for roy moore. steve: pastor, i saw an ad from there jones down in alabama that ran over the weekend. and he says he is not for late term abortion. but he is for abortion. and you are saying that evangelicals are going to vote for roy moore. they are going to hold their nose, essentially and vote for roy moore over abortion. that's what you are saying, right? >> i think that's what it comes down to for many evangelicals. by the way, steve, in his interview with chuck todd on meet the press, he said absolutely no restrictions on abortion. he later on said in an interview that he was only pro-life after the child was born. so, i believe he may be

backpedals a little bit. but you know what his real view is steve, look, and ainsley, the reason this is important. this is not just hypothetical theoretical talk. the next senator from alabama is going to play a key role in confirming president trump's conservative judiciary. these judges will make life and death decisions about children. that's why those who are really concerned about children and the future well being of children may put that ahead of roy moore's alleged past. steve: pastor, out of curiosity, what are you doing in washington today? >> well, actually, i'm looking forward to seeing the president a little bit later in the day today. some faith leaders are going to be talking with him and, look, we are so excited about this president. and all he is accomplishing. the jerusalem decision last week, what he is doing in appointing conservative judges. he has a groundswell of continued support from evangelical christians. and we love what this president is doing for america.

ainsley: okay. pastor robert jeffers is the pastor of first baptist in dallas. if you are in the area check it out. it's a great service. thank you so much, pastor. great to see you. >> thank you. ainsley: coming up flags that honorable our brave police officer. we will be talking about that. this morning one state is trying to make sure they never get them taken down. steve: a grouch conservative college students kicked out of campus college shop because they wore maga hats make america great again. >> wearing hats that completely violate. take it off or you are have to go. steve: so maga stands for nazi. one of the students in the cap joins us next. ♪ in the good old days ♪ ♪ when heartburn hits fight back fast with tums chewy bites.

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brian quick headlines now, police could finally get the public attention they deserve. in ohio end bans on the thin blue line flags. prevent homeowners and associations restricting displays meant to honor officers. proposed bill comes after retired sergeant was forced to take down his flag at his condo complex. and one of the teenagers seen torturing a disabled man in the video stream live on facebook. you remember. this will not spend one day behind bars. >> donald trump [bleep] brian: thanks to a plea deal britney covington was sentenced to 200 years of community service and four years of probation, avoiding a 23 year prison sentence. the judge in chicago says he doesn't think jail time would benefit the 19-year-old. three others have yet to be

sentenced. i'm done speaking. steve: meanwhile, listen to this. a group of conservative college students kicked out of their campus coffee shop because they were wearing make america great again caps. >> i don't want people like you supporting this club. >> well then you should be. >> don't want people like you supporting our club. you are wearing hats that completely violate the -- take it off or you have to go. >> fascism, nazi, okay? ainsley: the student manager of that coffee shop said that the hats violated the safe space policy even though the school says there is no such of a policy. they don't have a safe space policy. brian: one of the students booted from the coffee shop joins us now. he is a correspondent there aaron spring. aaron, set the scene for us on that day. did you sense in there that there might be some confrontation? >> when we walked in we got a lot of the looks. a few gave us the middle finger. we patron nice them.

president of the coffee club. all of a sudden anybody make america great again has to leave. freedom of speech and supporting our president, especially a president who at one point attended fordham university for a couple of years. ainsley: let me set the stage. you were talking during the commercial break. you pay. this coffee shop is on your campus. have you every right to be there. your campus discount have a safe space policy. the club dedicated that to be a safe space. you walked in with a american flag hat not a maga hat. represents everyone in america. they had a problem with that. they are calling you a fascist. >> they called people in the make america great again hat fascist. ainsley: what did you do. >> i stayed. i'm from new york. that's what we do. couple people said you have to go to. you were with them. this is american flag.

we are not going to leave and we are not going to be treated as second class students anymore. we will standing up for our right to free speech. ainsley: fordham put out a statement you went viral. there is no safe space policy as ainsley just said nor one that excludes any members of fordham community from any public spaces on the basis of their political views. the university is still investigating the incident. and students who may have violated university code of conduct will be met with the appropriate student conduct process. so it sounds like the people who threw your people out could actually be on the hook for that what's interesting is you told me before the show that a lot of -- a majority, you said, of the students at fordham are conservative. >> yeah. to it seems everybody i talk to is conservative. i was actually at fordham university today and a lot of people come up to me and said hey, you are the guy from fox. thank you for doing what you are doing. thank you for raises awareness. i cannot thank campus reform.org for bringing

attention to this issue. our i. brian: do you regret your decision to go to fordham? >> not at all. i think this is a great thing that happened. now we can really, you know, advocate for free speech and push the university to continue to fight for conservative students and get their free speech recognized just as much as liberal speech. brian: a parent out there having to choose a school cost $50,000. steve: 70. brian: $70,000 and bark up that money and from a conservative household are at least one that wants to be open-minded. do you question why they would question should they send their son or daughter there now? >> i don't personally blame the university. i think they are taking the appropriate action in at least trying to sanction this shop. but i do think college kids and parents need to take a look at the political environment of their campuses. because this is, like i said, conservatives are treated as second class students on campus. we need to raise awareness

about that. steve: when you say deleted as second class students do you mean by either students or faculty as well. >> i would say by the other students. steve: faculty is fair. >> i would say so, yes. it's academia. you will have a liberal bias of course. i have never seen someone's grades impacted because they were conservative or liberal. steve: good. >> do you see liberal bias in terms you can't even say things on campus. you can't wear a make america great again hat. brian: what's your major. >> accounting. brian: if you were history or science you might see it there. >> it's definitely possible. i have taken few american history courses where the generalprofers were to the leftf lennon. ainsley: what does the american flag mean to you. >> the american flag represents freedom and basically our rights astins to exercise the bill of rights and to live in a country that is free and basically live the life that we want to live and pursue and it's up to us to continue to recognize that. steve: ever going back to that coffee shop?

>> i mean, it's possible. you know, if they change their leadership and if they change their policies, i would be happy to go in and talk to some of the liberals in there and have an open dialogue. ainsley: you are tolerant of them. >> i'm extremely tolerant of them. everybody has the right to their own view and free speech. i will tolerate that as long as you are respectful. ainsley: what a nice young man. thank you. steve: steve meanwhile, coming up on monday, it's the video everybody is talking about this morning. a teenager breaking down in tears because he had been bull idea in school. >> if you are made fun of, don't let it bother you. just stay strong, i guess. it's hard. ainsley: bless his heart. the overwhelming response from athletes and a listers, all kinds of celebrities are on his side. including us. now that we are big celebrities. but we love him.

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[cheers and applause] steve: how great is that? those are the choirs of the navy and west point national anthem on saturday. the great tradition. ainsley: what happened? brian: i spilled my coffee that's why on new set we have hardwood instead of carpet. ainsley: don't let that take away from the great video we just played from the army-navy game. brian: toss back to steve. steve: army ultimately won making it two years in a row. when you look at that awe-inspiring demonstration of operatism wit patriotism. not one person kneeling. ainsley: only game on earth where people playing are willing to die for the people watching. brian: right. you also have a situation

where on sunday 16 different players decided to protest the national anthem in some way, shape, or form. and the snow added to the ora. it was sold out wherever you went if you were army or navy you were happy or sad. steve: let's listen to the end once again. [cheers and applause] steve: i love that. brian: i wonder if they use real ammo in the cannon. ainsley: we have to talk about this story. kimberly jones is a mother and poste posted this video of r son on facebook who is a middle school irin tennessee. he gets bullied so badly she gets calls. momma come pick me up i don't want to go to lunch because i'm too scared. brian: this is every parent's nightmare taped her son keaton as he expressed what was going on. >> just out of curiosity? why do they bully? what's the point of it? >> innocent people finding a way to be mean to?

it's not okay. >> what did they say to you? >> called me -- they make funnel of my nose. they call me ugly. they say i have no friends. >> what did they do to you at lunch? >> poured milk on me and put clothes. >> is it just you? >> yep. >> or other kids too that feel that way. >> they do it to other kids, too. >> how does that make you feel? >> why do they do it to me? why do they do it to other people because it's not okay. people that are different. don't need to be criticized about it. it's not their fault. but if you are made fun of, don't let it bother you. just stay strong, i guess. it's hard. but, probably get better one day.

steve: that is so raw and so real and it has touched so many people. over 20 million views there. and so many celebrities have come out in support of him. the tennessee titans invited him to a game. the university of tennessee is going to go to his school to say what a cool guy he is. brian: one of the toughest guys on the planet. dana white who is president of the ufc and took that from nowhere to everywhere saw that and said. this thank you for helping -- he wants someone to help him find his family. he wants to help them out. he tweeted this out. ainsley: he said meet keaton jones, a very smart little boy who is being bull idea at school. this video is heart breaking. i want to bring keaton to vegas and hang out at ufc headquarters. steve: done trump jr. saw that and tweeted this out. this boy is incredibly brave and the video really got to me at dana white. if he takes you up on your offer to see you at ufc headquarters in vegas. i would be honored to host him and his family at our

place if they need somewhere to stay. brian: it's amazing the school system let it get to this point. i can imagine when the story is unveiled how many times the mother was called. dana got such outpouring. thank you for trying to help me find keaton. 1,000 percent greatest response post. this kid is special and we all feel it dying to meet him. hopefully they meet him today. ainsley: great lesson for every parent to learn. replay that video. find it on website and let your kids watch it and see how every mean thing they say to a kid it really affects them. if you have ever been bull idea it's the worst thing in the world. most ofs have you experienced that who are these kids pouring milk on him. and who are kids throwing bread down his shirt. they need to be pulled into the principal's office. they need to be punished. this is unacceptable: brian: i'm sure the mom picked um. if she got to the points they were taping it

together. steve: he asked her to turn on the phone shoe she could record it. she put it on web page. 20 million views. somebody had started a go fund me page for his future education. right now it is up to $47,000. ainsley: i bet he feels good though today knowing is he supported and loved and has friends. steve: a left friends. 20 minutes before the top of the hour. jillian: he is the coolest kid at school. the other kids just don't know it yet. ainsley: they do now. ains. jillian: good morning to you at home. a serial killer serving life sentences for murdering seven people says he is even more victims. in a letter to a sout south carolina newspaper. more bodies that haven't been found. blue it off. rescued a woman chansd inside storage container on his property in 2016. police believe there could be more victims in florida or outside the country. agents patrolling the border

catch illegal imgrant wanted for escaping mexican prison. fugitive on the run sings last month has a criminal history of kidnapping. he has been deported back to mexico. five other illegal immigrants caught with the fugitive now being processed by immigration authorities in arizona. new york city mayor bill de blasio is making crime pay with gift cards as part of a new taxpayer funded effort to make the court system more user friendly. criminal suspects are asked to take a survey about the judges. prosecutors, even the courtroom's temperature. in exchange, they get a $15 dunkin' donuts gift cared. the entire program cost $800,000. a look at your headlines, guys. steve: america runs on dunkin' and apparently so does the court system. thank you very much. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. ainsley: janice, i thought but this weekend we got snow. janice: i always said until i'm 100 years old i'm going out on the first snow fall and perform the season's first snow angel. ainsley: i saw it online and here it is.

janice: we have it right now apparently. let's take a look. is it happening? steve: look at that. janice: here is my husband. it's not bad, you can see the grass because would he say only got three or fowfer inches. i'm going to be a kid at heart until i'm 100 years old. ainsley: you should be. janice: i got my necklace from jones beach. jones beach christmas lights. ever out there a beautiful festival and get these lights. quickly, here are the current temperatures. cold enough for snow in new york. snow as far as south as north florida. we are set up for a wintry pattern across the midwest, the great lakes, and the northeast. we have this clipper system diving across. going to be bring quite a bit of snow across the great lakes over the next 12 to 24 hours. will we get snow here in new york city tomorrow? i don't think so. but north and west of new york, definitely seeing some snow. again, we are in to this trough pattern which means the potential for snow, guys, not only this week but in to christmas week as well. so we might have a white christmas here in the

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ainsley: comedian chelsea handler facing backlash after tweet ago viral video attacking the white house press secretary sarah sanders for her appearance. watch this. >> hey, y'all, it's me. sarah huckabee sanders. my face is a big fat biscuits. our great president was kind enough to take me to a sephora and he said to the employee. see that fellow right here, make him a woman. i know what you guys are thinking she is only 35? i get it. i got my dad's old face. ainsley: how can liberal feminist claim to champion women's rights while they are attacking a woman for being a conservative and they are attacking her looks? here to react is republican utah congressman mia love. thank you so much, congresswoman for being here. what's your reaction to this? can you believe this is happening this day and age? >> this, to me, is just like adult bullying. if we see what's happening with our kids in school? that video that just came

out, i mean, i am raising three children. and i have to -- you sit there and see how adults behave and you wonder why children are mimicking what adults do. she is absolutely objectifying women by doing this. i think that it's absolutely inappropriate. ainsley: she defends it this is what she is tweeting. this woman, talking about sarah huckabee sanders, deserves to be taken down. she is pure evil. what is so threatening about sarah huckabee sanders who is a spokes personal at the white house? >> well, it's kind of what i deal with all the time. they wants women involved. they want diversity, yet, if you think for yourself, if you think differently, if you are a conservative, that's not the kind of diversity. so, they feel like they need to take down conservative women. ainsley: you have been through. this what are you experiencing? >> all the time. if you think about it. even in my district, they have gone out and gotten someone who is outside of my district to run against me

because of what i stand for. and that is for conservative policies. they got a white, middle aged male to go after the one diverse woman that we have in the republican party. i find it really -- it's divisive politics. when you are asking for diversity instead of helping us recruit more people of color. more women. it's just let's go after them. ainsley: i feel like i have gotten to the point in my life where i don't want any more negativity. i don't want to watch someone on twitter that is so nasty and mean. there is so much love to go around in other parts of the world. i don't have time for that what's your message for chelsea this morning? >> i would say to chelsea that behaviors have consequences. and that not only are children looking at what you are doing, but if you are going to be on tv, and you are going to be some sort of an example, a role model, you should exempt phi what we want america to look like. and how we want america to treat each other. i think we lost the fact

that we have to be nice to each other that there is some sort of civility in respect. even if you disagree with someone, have you no right to go out and be as horrible as she was being in this video. i'm actually proud of sarah and what she has been able to do, being a strong woman in a strong position. that doesn't happen very often. i want her to do her thing. ainsley: i know we need to stick together. we are americans. we are women. >> that's right. we are americans. we are women. we have something to offer and we need to make sure we stick up for each other. ainsley: thank you, congressman. thank you for being with us. kellyanne conway and steve scalise both here live in the next hour. and it's about to get wild. we have got leopards and tigers in our green room. they are coming into the studio. good thing they are small. right? that's next. ♪ ♪ keyboard clacking ]

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tiger cub, right. >> bengal tiger. ainsley: what's his name boone? >> this is gideon. he will rub up against your leg. a lot of exploring. ainsley: you are boone. >> four months old right now. not very big but he is going to get really big. brian: what should we know about him. >> what we need to know and let people know about him. steve: adorable. >> like a big puppy. steve: what age is he going to want to chew your hand off. >> he won't want to, he doesn't know better. they get so big and strong fast. they don't realize their own strength. ainsley: what age is that? >> is he going to grow up 250 pounds maybe bigger. ainsley: one-year-old. you have to put him in a cage. >> steve: here goes that cat. tonight big cat's week on nat geo. do you have a favorite. >> our cat here in the united states. one of my favorites. ainsley: what a beautiful

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ainsley: he is fed up with all the fake news. this was his latest tweet. major lies written and forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed. a stain on america. steve: all eyes on the state of alabama. republican roy moore currently in the lead as he denies accusations of sexual misconduct. >> it's also part of a scheme of political parties today to degrade your opponent. >> those who are really concerned about children and the future well-being of children may put that ahead of roy moore's alleged past. >> the most destructive wildfire raging in southern california. just got bigger. it's scorching nearly 250,000 acres. that is larger than the city of new york.

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the news of the day. first. steve: straight to top story. all eyes on alabama one day before the state's special election for the u.s. senate seat. ainsley: republican candidate roy moore has president trump on his side as he is denying all the sexual misconduct claims and opponent launching brand new attacks. brian: heck of a battle as the voters go to it polls. griff jenkins with a poll with what the alabamaians have to make. >> alabamaians indeed. here we go in the heart of dixie, guys. just hours to go. alabamaians are waking up to a robo call calling jones a liberal puppet of nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. moore who was noticeably absent from the campaign trail this weekend avoided reporters but called in to a radio show yesterday defying the allegations against him and attacking the republican establishment who refuse to support him.

>> the republican establishment actually wants jones in there because they think they can beat him in two years without coon test. of course, the democrats want jones in there for their vote. >> meanwhile jones barn stormed the state with help from outside democrats like corey bookie an booker who accud jones of hiding. >> what kind of public servant hides and goes only in to enclaves and doesn't address the media? i will be as accessible after this election as i am now. griff: ultimately had will come down to this choice that fox news contributor pastor robert jeffress said in our last hour. take a listen. >> evangelizes can choose roy moore, who vehemently denies the very serious allegations of child abuse from 40 years ago, or they can choose doug jones who openly and proudly embraces the most extreme example in

kind of child abuse, abortion. >> now, moore has a slight lead in the polls, guys. tonight he plans to close out his campaign with a major rally featuring none other than steve bannon. it will be interesting to watch. >> see what kind of jacket he wears. probably the bomber jacket. steve: griff, thank you very much. kellyanne conway is going to be with us in just a couple of moments, we hope. but, first, we have some other news with jillian. jillian: bomber jacket is so in right now. brian: only one he has. jillian: good morning to you at home. the hunt intensifying for whoever is behind a string of freeway sheeghts. police in detroit say the same suspect or suspects are playing russian roulette on interstate 94. opening fire four separate times. one driver was hit in the leg but is expected to be okay. >> authorities now looking for a silver or gray car seen during the shootings. while you were sleeping, the most destructive wildfire raging in southern california just got bigger.

scorching 230,000 acres. that's larger than new york city. the massive inferno forcing brand new evacuation orders in santa barbara. hurricane force winds fueling the flames. making it the fifth largest wildfire in state history. six out-of-control blazes still burning across california at this hour. it could get even worse. there is no rain in the forecast at all this week. new overnight, the u.s. military making a bold show of force launching missile tracking drills as tensions with north korea run high. the two-day joint drill with japan and south korea simulate detecting and tracking down ballistic missiles in waters off the korean peninsula. this comes after weeks after the rogue nation fired longest range missile yet potentially capable of reaching anywhere in the u.s. it was action packed week 14 across the nfl. the philadelphia eagles wrapping up the title 43-35 win over the rams. happy with that the star qb could be done for the

season. leaving the third quarter with a knee injury. he will undergo an mri today in philadelphia. it's like so bittersweet. ejected seattle seahawks player clinton jefferson tried climbing into the stands charging and opposing stands who thro threw things at him. snowy scene in buffalo. you could barely see the field. by the way why were they wearing white uniforms in the snow in the bills beat the colts 13-7. you couldn't see anything. seriously, like so many people this morning are like oh congratulations about your eagles. but -- steve: somebody people didn't see 14 players took a knee. jillian: not during the army-navy game. brian: they wouldn't even see what happened. steve: looked like old school football. jillian: it did. ainsley: that guy who went

after somebody who threw something at him didn't get them. steve: are joined by kellyanne. >> philadelphia eagle fans there you go. steve: kellyanne, we did a story griff did a story about roy moore according to real clear politics average. he looks like is he 3 or 4 auto head right now. mr. is jones. why what was the calculation behind not saying he could go out and campaign for him. at the 11th how about the president made it clear in pensacola his guy. >> i don't think the president could be more clear how he feels about this race this is the president now. made it very clear he wants that vote in the united states senate. the president has said a vote for lower taxes. secure borders. certainly less regulation. isis in defeat around the globe. the president has made very

clear how he feels about this race. he also said it's up to the alabama voters to decide. we respect the rights of voters in every state to decide who represents them in the united states senate. i know nobody looks like in the poll, i'm out of the polling business now. nobody has cracked 50%. one of the undercoverred stories of this race is what will be the effect on the alabama voter with respect to how much money has been spent in this race? there is a tremendous spending advantage for doug jones. and the president knows that as well. he sees that but there is probably. this president getting involved and the vice president getting involved special elections has spun victories. they are 5 for 5. i'm just surprised that the democrats haven't had more of a footprint in alabama. i think if they had polling showing doug jones ahead they would be crowing about it and feeding the media or most of the media about it. they just haven't. they had a couple people down there. but, really, they have spent money on this race. but they really haven't had

super stars, power hours going into alabama. say how they did in georgia 6 for that race where he lost election. brian: there is a theory laura ingraham brought up and others that the democrats want roy moore to win to make him the poster child for bad behavior next year in the mid terms. how do you feel about that possible plot? >> so, here is what voters focus on and we all know. you don't need to be a pollster 28 years to note following. including the own media's polling that are pushing that point. media polling show it's taxes, economy, heck, immigration, national security, prosperity. accountability. transparency. every single issue that this president and vice president are working on every single day behind me. voters know this is the paycheck president. they saw those numbers on friday. noble can that i can that away from this president. that the economy is

absolutely booming. the stock market is up. he has created trillions of dollars of wealth since he got here. since he was elected. we have the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years. lowest unemployment rate among hispanics ever, folks. lowest unemployment rate we have had among african-americans and teens and women. you can't argue with the facts and the figures that motivate people to go to the polls. i don't know why the democrats, i mean, i do know why. they have nothing else to say. what are they going to do next year say hey, not a sings gel one of us voted for tax decreases. not a single one of us wanted to roll back regulations that are hurting property owners and taxpayers. not a single one of us when we could, stand um for the moms and dads and moms and pops in the tax code did that. they are for porous borders. they have what they call isis determined enemies in the jv team. and so we want their help. but what in the world are they going to run on other than this next year. i think voters are smarter than that.

ainsley: kellyanne, what was your response then. talking about all the statistics that president trump has done, when president obama spoke at a summit the north america climate summit in chicago last week. and he said he is taking credit for this booming economy. and sarah huckabee sanders i believe the word she used was laughable. what's your response? >> regrettable and false, obviously. if the obama economy is what americans wanted, then hillary clinton would have won his third term. they rejected obamaomics. look at the statistics. we had 2% or less growth on his watch. this country for decades until 2007 got about 3% or better growth g.d.p. on average. and when he got here, we settled for less. and people are tired of settling for less. under president trump, we have had 2 consecutive quarters of over 3% g.d.p. we're going to be close to 4%. we had hurricane spending in there, rightfully so. and yet still had a quarter. you see the anticipation and

expectation of a massive tax cut for the middle class and for our job creators. that is spurring economic anticipation manufacturing confidence. small business confidence. it's all up there. steve: you are not going to hear that on the mainstream media. >> obama is not the president. why can't he talk about something else? i can't believe the democratic party has wasted a year talking about the 2016 election and occasionally the 20020 election. what in god's name? what do they have to show here? this will drive the haters crazy this morning lying in bed watching us. everybody says what are the trump accomplishments? those are lengthy and we'll be putting them out soon. here are the democratic party's accomplishments, go ahead and make it viral, haters. these are their accomplishments, they talked about 2016 and 20020 the whole year and it doesn't mean anything. they have to go home now and face their voters when i had a chance to cut your taxes. when i had a chance to make our national security more robust, i looked the other way because of petty partisan political differences. let me make very clear this

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is on to noon. people like jamie diamond said you better north trade it i'm going to fire you. he knows what he is talking about. >> i think this is a speculative bubble which ends in tears. that's my opinion of this thing. ainsley: not for the winkle boss brothers. they made a lot of money. >> they are supposedly the first billionaire bit coin people. they think it's going to a multitrillion-dollar market. okay. that's their opinion. look. brian: it's a global digital currency. >> what you are buying essentially is a computer entry, and the value of that computer entry is based on supply and demand, not on the price of gold or the full faith and credit of the united states treasury. the price has gone crazy. started trading on future exchange yesterday 6:00 p.m. eastern time. yesterday afternoon starts trading. goes up 10%. trade something halted. can't handle the volatility. brian: on sunday? why on sunday?

>> it's a global market. steve: completely unregulated. >> they are trading on this exchange is regulation to some degree. it is dangerous. can you establish all different prices on different exchanges. that's the problem here. steve: stuart, here's the thing. so many people looking at, you know mom and pop got some money. 10 people on our show investing 10 odollars or $100 in it. month ago $9,000 and $17,000. they want to have it when it goes to 50. >> if you have 100 or $200 or $2,000 that you are quite prepared to lose, okay. chuck it into the gambling casino, why not? but. ainsley: only buying -- >> -- let's give you perspective here. what you are buying into is essentially a new and very disruptive technology. even if it crashes, it's not going away. the bit coins of this world are here to stay they are a

crypto currency, nobody understands them. new medium of exchange. brian: will restaurants ever take bit coin. >> some do. but at the moment it's not being used as a currency. it's being used as a speculative computer entry which they hope will go straight up in value. brian: bought new dollars. ainsley: i understand the whole coin is $15,000. >> current price moments ago $16,411 to be precise. ainsley: good luck, brian. go invest. brian: sounds like a seinfeld episode. steve: you would not put a nickel in it. >> i don't. i think it's a bubble. if it crashes it could hurt the overall economy. brian: he is the star of varney and company featuring him for three hours. relish in it. >> thank you very much. brian: 10 minutes before the top of the hour and 40 minutes before the top of the hour and two hours and something else until

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♪ ainsley: here's some news by the numbers. first, 3,800. that's how many pounds of cocaine a self-propelled semisubmersible vessel was trying to smuggle into the u.s. the coast guard intercepted the drugs in international waters near texas. next, 2. that is how many players are now elected to the baseball hall of fame. jack morris. brian: all right. ains antsz and allen trammell helped to win in 1994. helped win with toronto and

minnesota how many men lose wedding rings by insurance company in u.k. only 14% of women admit to losing their brings. brian: i don't take them off. ainsley: that one looks like it's engraved. brian: and it's lost. steve: should be easy to get it back to the owner then. parents no doubt that raising children can be challenging. steve: okay. that's a cartoon. ainsley: now in making children mind without losing yours, our next guest has the tips that every parent needs. joining us now "new york times" best-selling author and parenting expert dr. kevin leman. dr. leeman, your book is great. i love the title.

how do reraise our kids without losing our minds? >> the key is to to try to be authoritative parents. most of us grew up with authoritarian presidents. brian: there is a president. >> get that look off your face or i will change it for you. steve: that's authoritarian. >> permissives walk five feet step into them. mellowed have you chosen to go to bed yet? ainsley: have you choivel to go to bed. >> my father would say 8:00, he would point. if you didn't move you want to go to your own power or ricocheted to bed? the point is you are going to bed. the midpoint is being the authoritative parent. and that's a tough place. brian: how do you do that? >> your 14-year-old has an attitude. she is mean to everybody. 10 minutes later mom, would you drive me to the mall? no. the kid will come out what do you mean you always drive me to mall. >> i don't feel like driving to you mall. you had attitude all morning. i asked you to do this. you didn't do it. that kid will apologize. they will con you.

and the parent many times well, she did apologize so i guess i will run her over there, bob. no. steve: don't cave. >> don't cave. your yes be yes, your no be no. action oriented discipline that's what you want. steve. brian: that's an example. >> another one kid doesn't clean room hire sister to clean it for him but give the sister allowance. reality become the teach tore child. this isn't rocket science. i'm not that smart. this can work it works. when i talk to ypo groups. business groups. principles i share with them making children mind without losing yours in the birth order book. it works. action oriented and then learn to respond rather than react. brian: in what way? what do you mean by that? >> single mom, 9-year-old having breakfast. living in 2 bedroom parliament. -year-old says mommy, i want a pony, a pony? a pony? she got a deep voice. a pony? where did you get that idea

from. i am telling you if a bird had your brain he would fly sideways. where do you come up with those things. the doctor says hey, brian, you responded to the medication, respond something good. reaction to the medication is bad. so, 9-year-old, using same situation, mommy, i wants a pony. wow, can you imagine having your own pony? can you imagine riding down to school in the morning waving at the kids at the bus stop? 9-year-old says yeah, but mom, we live in a 2 bedroom apartment we can't have a pony here. he will figure it out. don't look for trouble. kids say stupid, dumb things. look at them and go wow. brian: so do adults by the way. >> i'm telling you it works with husbands. when a husband says something really stupid my advice to women is go look at them and go wow, fascinating. you can be thinking you are an idiot. just don't say it. steve: one of the things that parents do i have seen over my 30 years of raising kids is a lot of parents constantly praise their kids thinking that's going to help them but that does not

help them all the time. >> well, when people read in making children mind that lehman says praise structure with children. they think i have a screw loose. five a's come home on report card. here is your traditional authoritarian based parents five a's. i'm going to call uncle jack and aunt martha. we are so excited. honey, i'm so proud of you. here is $20. now people say hey, lehman, what's wrong with that. let me give you a better way. wow, five a's. all that hard work you put in really paid off. congratulations. high five. steve: less pressure. brian: also have you made it about them. not about you. you are calling you want to brag because you are a good parent. >> parents will pay kids for grades. really. let me ask you all a personal question this morning. would you. how many of have you gone potty this morning? steve: huh? >> potty, have you gone potty this morning, steve? steve: what does that mean. >> give you m and m for going. we fabricate all these

stupid things. ainsley: how do we poet train them? steve: he is talking about us. ainsley: don't do the m and m. i have been told. >> in front of steve. ainsley: we will talk about it in the commercial break. brian: fascinating. ainsley: i could listen to you all day long. live. this. brian: right now everyone has a parenting crisis at home having breakfast. ainsley: that's true. steve: new book is called "making children mind without losing yours." >> we have seen the enemy, steve, they are small and they're unionized. [laughter] steve: thank you, sir. ainsley: thanks, dr. leeman. it is the video that everyone is talking about this morning that young boy breaking down in tears, the middle schooler about being bull idea. steve: the response internationally has been overwhelming. your emails are coming up next. >> it's not okay. people that are different don't need to be criticized about it. it's not their fault.

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steve: now time for news by the numbers. it is more than 20 million views. what we are talking about is kimberly jones who is the mother of a young boy, you know, he would come home every day and he would say yeah, they bull idea me again. she decided she was going to turn on her phone on friday and she did. as her son, keaton, explained how the bullies at school are really getting to him. >> just you are out of curiosity why do they bully? what's the point of it? why do you enjoy making innocent people, finding a way being mean to them. it's not okay. >> what do they stay to you. >> they make fun of my nose. they call me ugly. they say i have no friends.

>> what did they do to you at lunch. >> poured milk on me and put bread down my clothes. >> is it gist you? >> yep. >> or is it other kids too that feel that way? >> they say it's other kids, too. >> how does that make you feel? >> why do they do it to me isn't enough why do they do it to other people because it's not okay. people that are different don't need to be criticized about it. it's not their fault. but if you are made fun of, don't let it bother you just stay strong, i guess. it's hard. but, probably get better one day. steve: 20 million views of that video. there is a go fund me page.

up to $50,000 so far. ainsley: so hard to watch as a child. if you are a parent even if you are not a parent a human being watching that. we were all middle schoolers, we were all bull idea at one point to actually pour milk on someone. who can do that? picked up bread and put it down his shirt. who are these people? we need to find out who these kids are. and get to the principal's office. they need to be told. i'm sure they feel terrible today. brian: is he going inside the mind of why would you do that because we're different? it's not our fault. he is also doing that for other kids that are being bullied. stay strong, i guess. dana white sees this. and he is in charge of the toughest strongest most lethal weapons on the planet ufc. he has reached out. he wants everyone to help him find keaton because he wants to invite the family. he said meet keaton jones very smart little boy who is being bull idea at school because he forwarded this video.

this video is heart breaking. i want to bring keaton to vegas and hang out at ufc headquarters. ainsley: he is the smart one to recognize people are different. we are all god's children and it's okay to be different. you don't have to be the most popular person, the most prettiest person. we all have strengths in different ways. steve: after dana white tweet thrad out. donald trump jr. tweeted this out. this boy is incredibly brave this video got to me at dana white. if he takes you up on offer at ufc headquarters. i would be honored to host him and his family at our place if they need somewhere to stay. ainsley: brought to me to tears that school should be investigate wanted for allowing this to happen. steve: if this was my kid this my new job would be camp out daily at that school until these people and the people allowing had are punished. brian: we have got to get the back story here. this from cartha. i bless all the people who

came to this little guy's side. i would love to see coverage of him staying at don jr.'s home or hotel and then hanging out with other celebrities. that would be great. steve: dale earnhardt jr. said add me to your long list of friends, keaton. snoop dogg said keaton has a friend for life. that love is the only way to beat hate. have you got justin bieber and scooter brawn. the entertainment world and a lot of athletes have all said this kid is cool. he is our friend. ainsley: i wonder if this will be something we will see more and more of to combat bullying. parents doing this so that their kids filed loved. as a parent if your kid -- would you put this on video? brian: might be desperate. sounds like they are desperate. ainsley: i agree. good idea. brought to light this issue we all need to be talking about it parents at home need to show it to their middle schoolers and say this is what happens when you mean to someone. steve: whether or not the mother has talked to the school in the past my kid is getting bull idea every day

and you are not doing anything. had it up to here. we don't know. we are going to try continue to variety them on the program for an appearance in a couple of days. we will keep you posted. everybody wants to meet keaton jones. brian: other thing would be great if people were inspired to not watch the bullying. you see the bullying going on and keep walking. hopefully students will stand up for him. jillian: students are young and trying to be cool or do what their kids try to do. they're the people that need the message and wakening right now. it's sad. ainsley: kids shouldn't laugh at someone else. pour milk on them and to do that. that's a different level. steve: evil. jillian: that's a good word for it get you caught up on headlines this morning. annual at this american protests erupting overnight in indonesia as muslims react to the u.s. recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. protesters burning american flags and images of president trump. meantime, the white house calling out palestinian leaders for canceling a meeting with vice president pence later this month. the vice president's press

secretary saying quote it's unfortunate that the palestinian authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region. jury selection begins today in the trial of the first u.s. police officer to ever be accused of terrorism. nicholas young, a former washington, d.c. cop, is accused of buying $250 in gift cards to send to isis and giving them to an undercover agent. he was arrested in a government sting last year after being under surveillance for years. young's lawyers claim he was entrapped by the fbi. olympic skier lindsey vonn pulling out of a world cup race after injuring her back on saturday. the gold medalist says she is focusing on getting healthy for the winter games. this happened 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 world. and i don't think there are a lot of people currently in our government that do that.

jillian: vonn also says she won't visit the white house if she is invited. a look at your headlines. ainsley: that sparked a lot of outrage online. and it's still going. steve: it is, indeed. thanks, jillian. 19 minutes before the top of the hour on this monday it is warm in the studio. i think it's a little chilly out on the streets of new york city. that's where j.d. is. janice: rub it in. look at the crowd keeping me warm. you know those ugly christmas sweaters. i love crazy christmas hats. here is two weeks. what do you think? [cheers] janice: all right, let's take a look at the maps real quick because it's cold. do you guys like the cold? [cheers] janice: seasonal, all right. absolutely. 30 in cleveland. cold as far as south as florida. 45 degrees in tampa. we do have this pattern setting up where we have got the wintry weather across the great lakes and midwest and northeast. we have a chance of snow not only tomorrow, ladies and

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from the fire department of new york that there was some sort of a bomb in midtown manhattan near 42nd and 8th avenue where the port authority bus terminal is. we do not know if it exploded there are reports the station -- the port authority bus station has been evacuated. bomb squad is on the scene. we have a crew on the way. we will have an update as soon as we get it. so, anyway, it looks as if they found a bomb over by the port authority. ainsley: pretty scary. port authority where the buses from different parts of the suburbs come in onto our city. brian: that's probably one of the busiest times you could do it. so, that would be the maximum pay off for a would be terrorist. steve: all right. meanwhile, more on that in a moment. >> but right now let's bring in republican louisiana steve scalise it's an honor to have you in new york.

>> i'm not sure what that is about. my prayers go out to anybody injured in this. new york police department, fire department. >> they are the best in the business. brian: we understand a bomb squad has been dispatched over there right away. they are the best. and they can act authoritatively. you have a lot to accomplish in 10 days. you have got to fund the government. you have got to fund the defense department. reform tax reform. compromise. first off on tax reform, where are we now? >> we are right now in a conference committee. so the house and senate passed two different versions of the same, roughly the same bill that's going to ultimately reduce taxes for families and get the economy moving and create jobs. and so the confer res both in the house and senate have been meeting through the weekend. combing through a lot of the final details where there is disagreement. hopefully in the next few days we will see the final framework. get a bill well before christmas on the president's desk. ainsley: is obamacare repeal part of that.

>> individual mandate repeal is going to very likely be part of the final. brian: you embrace it because it came from the senate. >> we passed it in the house many times. the senate had trouble in the past. the senate did pass the repeal of the individual mandate in their version of the bill and we want to keep it in the final product. that's going to help a lot of families to improve this healthcare system that's just devolving under obamacare where people are seeing massive double digit increases. let's get this in the final product of the bill signed by president trump. steve: there's a story on drudge report right now, i believe it's the "wall street journal" that shows that some high income business owners could actually face marginal tax rates over 100 percent. >> that's not going to be in any final version of the bill. right now i think they were trying to take some extreme worse case scenario of something in the senate bill that is kind of a fictional -- regardless of that, every tax. steve: that's not going to be in. >> there every tax rate will be cut. in our bill, no matter what tax rate you pay, if you are

paying taxes, your tax rate is going to go down. and you are going to see families on average get $1,200 more back in their pocket. brian: state and local taxes. a lot of republicans in big states like new york. high tax states like california upset. susan collins is going to be a stumbling block in the other chamber. here she is yesterday. >> i always always wait until the final version of the bill is brought before us before i make a final decision whether or not to support it there are major differences between the house and senate bills. and i don't know where the bill is going to come out. i also, obviously, care very much about amendments that i i was successfully getting in the bill helping middle income families. brian: are you worried? >> she voted for the senate bill. i think she going to like the final bill even more. this bill pushes a lot more tax relief to middle class families it works on making our country competitive

again. we have the highest tax rate in the industrialized world. what that has mental is erosion of middle class. really good 60, 70, $80,000 jobs leaving our country and going to ireland and other places. we are working on bringing those jobs. steve: has the president been helpful on taxes unlike healthcare which in the senate he was told by michigan don't bother helping, i got this covered. >> president trump has been incredibly helpful every stipulate of the way. the day released the bill in the house the president had us over to the white house and fully elm breasted cutting taxes for families. he campaigned on this. i'm going to cut tax rates across the board. is he following through on yet another campaign promise. he has been great to work with. when this gets signed by president trump, this is going to be a generational achievement. we still talk about the 1986 tax cuts under reagan. you will be talking about these trump tax cuts and how it got our economy moving again. and it's going to be something that families are going to really look back on a year from now, five years from now as a great

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steve: reporting errors about president trump and inaccurate. cnn had to back pedal and abc suspended brian ross their correspondent after a botched exclusive about former national security advisor michael flynn. this as the "new york times" published a guide to the president with the headline inside trump's hour-by-hour battle for self-preservation detail his twitter and diet coke habits. have the recent media mistakes and missteps proven

the point the president makes about their bias? here to weigh in is senior editor for the federalist and fox news contributor mollie hemingway. molly, media had a really bad week last week, didn't they? >> it's been a really tremendously bad week in a tremendously bad year. there has been such like beat to get this russia-trump collusion story and so many of the of the stories have had to be pulled and corrected some turn out to be no big deal. you north seeing a lot of intraspeculation on media about whether the entire story is the problem and whether that belief in that story has caused some of these errors which all seem to go in one direction against the president. steve: sure. but the media is giving the president ammo, i told it you was fake news, see. and you got this, and you have got "the washington post" correspondent who tweeted out the picture where it looked like nobody showed up pensacola and the place was packed. >> right. it seems sometimes like the media and donald trump are in a distonguesal

co-dependent relationship. but, yes, absolutely the media are giving ammo to donald trump. he has figured out that people are very trust straited by media mistakes, media narrative pushing and by a general bias problem that they seem to have no interest in correcting. he exploits that frustration that people have. and then they fall right into it by continuing to makerrers on very important stories. steve: you know what it is? you know a lot of members of the mainstream media want the smoking gun. they want to be the one who does it to the president. >> and they keep saying that they have a smoking gun which turns out to be a random email from an average american releasing publicly available information. so maybe instead of pushing for a smoking gun, they should push for the truth of the story. and in this case it seems like the truth of the story is not that russia and trump colluded to steal an election that was rightfully hillary clinton's. but maybe that everyone has been participating in a somewhat frustrating information campaign about a russia collusion narrative. the scandal is that the media have participated in that story and pushed that

story gotten some things wrong on that story. that's a troubling situation for our media to be in. steve: molly, thank you very much. meanwhile, fox news alert, new york city has confirmed an explosion near the port authority. latest in a minute.

steve: it's 8:00 in new york city, and we start with a fox news alert. that is a live look in midtown manhattan at 48th and -- 42nd and 8th avenue where the fire department of new york now confirming an explosion near that site. reports of some sort of a bomb near the port authority. this is all happening at the height of rush hour. apparently the explosion was 7:25 this morning. the police, as you can see clearing out several subway lines beneath the station. there are reports that areas surrounding the station are also on lock down and evacuated. a bomb quad is on the scene.

we have a crew on the way. as you can see, we have live pictures there as well. brian: we have a situation if you're local, and you travel here, you'll know. the a, c, and e lines have been evacuated immediately. there are reports of a enormous blast. the nypd staying some reports of some kind of explosion. abc is also saying it was a pipe bomb. ainsley: so we haven't confirmed there was a bomb yet. we are hearing reports of a explosion. there are reports of maybe a type of bomb. we'll know more if this story develops. i used to live -- this is the first department on this block, and i lived there until i could find my footing here in new york. it's a very busy area. if you haven't been there, what happens is all of the buses that come out of new jersey that come into the city. a lot of people commute from the suburbs, a lot of buses come from long island, stat onisland, they come in and drop people off in the

morning. also, it's christmastime. you have so many tourists here, more tourists during any other times of the year. and they were also when you go downstairs, when you enter into the bus terminal there, all the subway lines connected. this is 42nd street. this is time square. it's extremely busy. steve: but this time of morning and the explosion was apparently at 7:25 this morning as the police apparently, you know, they're trying to figure out what happened. mainly, the port authority is the input where all the people from new jersey who are coming in on the buses get off and then scatter throughout new york city. my daughter is actually in the bus lane right now waiting to -- ainsley: what is she saying. steve: well, she said apparently the phones are jammed. she said apparently people are getting a lot of phone calls from their loved ones to make sure they're okay. apparently on the bus she's on she said according to somebody on twitter, there was a bomb and

shots fired. we have not heard that. she was saying people on the bus are terrified because they are in the lincoln tunnel, and then they come out of the lincoln pneumonia new york at the port authority, and they have heard these reports that apparently some sort of a bomb went off there. brian: when you go on amtrak, there is some type of security. they'll see you, they'll walk you, they'll eyeball you. you have to go through and hand in a ticket. not in this situation at the port authority. not obviously with the subways. sometimes abstractly they'll have different bag checks. sometimes you'll see cops there. maybe they got an alert or trying to throw off a would-be terror attack. but when you talk about the port authority, you talk about something that you just had a lot of the surveillance that you do, you see you don't understand or it's not transparent. ainsley: everyone's on high alert in new york this time of year and especially after 9/11, you look at all of these police officers that do such a good job. we've seen other emergencies since and hopefully this is --

this will not take the lives of anyone. hopefully no one is injured. we just don't know any of that information right now. brian: the port authority, by the way. we're talking about 42nd and 8th. we're not talking about pen station. steve: no. brian: and we do say this. when you talk about a busy station, this has for you people on average going through every day. steve: right. every weekday. so as you look at that headline there near time square, it's a couple of blocks away from time square. but nonetheless, it is one of the major hubs here in new york city for transportation. and 7:25 in the morning, maximum time of people. if these stories are true, these reports are true, there was some sort of a bomb, we do not know whether or not it it had been planted. we don't know whether or not somebody had it on them, we are just seeing incidental reports as the cameraman backs

up over by the westin hotel over there by 42nd and 8th avenue. so much is not known right now. but as you can see, the police are moving the press back, obviously, to establish. ainsley: not too far where we're located right now. we're on 47th street. this is 42nd street. but you can see all of the blinking lights and the billboards because you know if you've been in time square, that's what it looks like. this is a very heavily-traveled traffic area, invariably christmastime. brian: when i went downstairs, it's much easier to hear as far as to hear the sirens on the city is very reminiscent when there have been other. the time square bomber or other things happened. ainsley: when you went downstairs, what do you mean. brian: when i went downstairs to do the interview, i was talking to steve scalise, you could hear the blaring sirens. but also in the big picture, if this is what it seems to

be, some type of terror attack, this would be the second one in a month. and i'm talking back to ray kelly when he said all of his year, he said i think it was at least 8, there were 13 separate attacks that were thwarted that we never heard about. it seems if this is, in fact, what indications are, this would be the second one in a month at one of the most trafficky times in one of the busiest times for the number one city in america. steve: sure and ultimately as is always the case when it comes to these kinds of events, the obvious goal is to simply terrorize people and something like this happening on the 11th day of december just a few weeks before christmas in one of the busiest parts in new york city is terrifying. dan bongino joins us right now. he used to be with the police department of new york city. a secret service guy as well. dan, as you look at what's going on athe 42nd and 8th avenue, what's your

observation? >> well, a couple of things, steve. we know it's roughly rush hour in new york. we know it's a transportation hub, given the port authority terminal there on the west side, and we know it's holiday season. those are three very suspicious factors because it's not a secret that isis and other terrorist groups have targeted transportation groups. if you think of a city as a body, they've always targeted transportation whether it's airlines, buses, or trains because those are the blood vessels of that body and, again, three highly-suspicious things that leads me to believe that it could, in fact, be a terrorist. ainsley: so, dan, the mayor has just been briefed on everything. i'm certain he's going to have a press conference this morning once he knows more information. what's happening right now? what's going on? because as an nypd detective, secret service, what's going on behind the scenes right

now? >> well, one of the first things they're doing is create an evidence-free pathway. if this was a pipe bomb, there have been some reports about that, they're going to need the fragmentation, they're going to need what type of explosive was used. these are all pieces of evidence that are going to be necessary to reverse engineer this potential crime here and see actually what happened. it's tough. i mean, when you're talking about a bomb, the fragmentation on a pipe bomb could be pretty severe, depending on what type of explosive was used inside this. so that's the first thing you want to do. and secondly, you want to make sure that this is the only attack. as we've seen in the past here, you know, there's no guarantee that this is the only one. i can almost guarantee you right now the nypd is at a heightened state of alert at other trains, buses, and airports telling their officers obviously, nobody panic here but give a second look to anything that may be suspicious right now.

brian: well, one gratuities event is that there's a firehouse right around the block, so they're able to get there quickly in a time that you just live in gridlock at this hour. they might be able to get there on foot, even though i do see trucks there. and it is quite loud in midtown, manhattan at this hour. and you're getting multiple -- different reports of different types of explosions. can you give me an idea of the hierarchy? the nypd control but the fbi also has a bureau here along with various different secret service. who's in charge? >> yeah. you know, in the movies, brian, you see it all the time it used to be the feds. i was a secret service agent and a nypd cop, so i've seen it from both sides. guy shows up with the federal agent badge and everybody clears the way. that's just in the movies. not in the real world. the nypd is a great police department. they work together. if it is terrorism, the fbi will always take the lead.

but that doesn't mean that the nypd has a diminished role. it just means it's more cooperative, especially in a big city like new york and l.a. where you have a really professional police department. it doesn't work otherwise. steve: right and, dan, as we look from the chopper shots as they look down in the time square area, and we do understand that apparently multiple ambulances were requested. you know, my daughter goes in and out of the port authority twice a day. and over the last six months, there have been so much security inside the port authority, that is reassuring. but i'm seeing on twitter right now, including abc 7 and their network as well, they say that a possible pipe bomb was detonated in a passageway below ground level at the port authority. there are other reports that apparently one person is in custody. there were a few injuries. police have obtained video and

are confident it is contained. >> yeah. the injuries part, obviously, has everybody concerned. when you see that type of emergency medical response to the scene. but, steve, at that hour -- i mean, you all know new york ainsley, steve, brian. you've been there. i've been there 1,000 times. these are such densely-populated areas. if you have an explosion of any time. i mean, if you had an m80 firecracker go off, you're going to hurt somebody, and that's these terrorists' sick thinking. so i'm not surprised to see that. i think everybody is praying right now that the injuries are minimal or hopefully that there's not a significant death count from this. but it would be very difficult not to injure someone at that location, and that leads me to believe there's some terrorist implication. ainsley: dan, we're just that he didn't nypd that a suspect is in custody, so this does appear to be not an accident.

>> yeah, and if there's a suspect in custody, we also know it's not a homicide bombing as well. and i believe in cases like this, this is a good thing. i mean, you get to the motive, you get to what type of support network this person may have had. and, guys, for future attacks, this is all information that really helps. one of the problems with these homicide bombings, obviously, is, you know, he kills himself or she along with the rest of the people, and you never get to the bottom of what actually happened, you know, so you can be proactive in the future. brian: so we understand the nypd is prepared very soon. but, of course, if this suspect -- if, in fact, it is true and the initial reports sometimes are, sometimes aren't that we have him in custody and he or she is alive, this would be the second one in a month. dan, how do you explain that? we should be getting better at this. we shouldn't be getting more vulnerable at this or have we just been dodging bullets for the past ten years?

>> you know, brian, the bad news, and it pains me to tell you this is that these types of attacks, these low logistics, low-planning attacks whether they're using small arms to shoot in the crowd or whether it's a pipe bomb, they are nearly impossible to prevent like fire techniques. if you're an arsonist and you don't get advance to stop it, there's no way to stop it. what are you going to do for the port authority? they don't screen people on the way in. ainsley: will that change do you think? will that change? >> i don't know if it's possible, ainsley. i really don't. i mean you set up magnetometer points, and then what's the blac black and white zone? steve: one of the police sources twitter i was looking at, apparently the person involved in the detonation of the device.

the device is reported it went off prematurely. that person is in custody but injured and may have been wearing some kind of suicide vest. >> yeah. well, that's certainly a terrifying wrinkle to this. and that would explain why they have a suspect in custody. largely as we have seen with these attacks in the past historically is the murderer and the terrorist kills themselves as well. there's no interest in escaping from the scene. and when you said that they had somebody in custody, i was a little puzzled now that that explains it that it may have been, in fact, a detonation in advance of what this person wanted. and that explains a lot. and wonder if it's a real vest or a fake vest. you've seen that as well before. steve: surely. and you know what, dan. with a quarter of a million people going through the port authority in new jersey at that location every weekday. on this, the coldest day of the year, a lot of people are wearing big coats.

and you know what would be easy to conceal if you had some sort of explosive device strapped to your chest because everybody's wearing a big coat today. >> yeah, that's an excellent point. you're absolutely correct. i remember being in the secret service doing events in the northeast in the fall and winter, and you have a guy that shows up in a park in a 99-degree day. everybody obviously stairs at him. but someone wearing two parkas in new york city on a day like today where it's 30, 40 degrees is not going to elicit any suspicion at all. it's a really good point. brian: hold on. we have our own rob schmidt who is at the scene and got a signal up and is able to take in what's happening and give us the latest information. rob, where are you exactly and what are you seeing? >> hey, brian, yeah, we're at 43rd. i'm standing at 43rd and 8th,

so this is where the port authority is and all the buses come into the city. this is a major subway station here. so it's really an epicenter of how people get into the center, and it's monday morning and rush hour people come in. so this, tsks, would be a place where somebody who would want to inlitic a lot of damage. we're only about ten blocks from you guys there in midtown. i ran over here as soon as we heard the initial report from the bureau. right now we're going to go out what this is. there was a huge response, but there wasn't just a lot of panic. so it was interesting to see all of these police and firemen here and everybody responding to this but then getting here and just standing around wondering what had happened. i walked into a deli over here trying to get some kind of basic information of what happened. i asked the guy did you hear anything? did you feel the explosion? did you feel the rumple? because i know the subway runs right underneath the blue line. and i said did you feel or hear anything? and he said he didn't.

so i'm not sure exactly what this is. obviously, this is a maze of systems underneath new york city. but it could be something very small that hopefully did not inflict a lot of damage is what we were hoping. but i'm seeing a number of stretchers over here to my left that the fdny has brought in, but they're not moving them downstairs yet. they're just standing there and waiting. so i think it's all happening me beneath me right now. ainsley: when they blocked off the streets, how did you get in? did you get in with your news credentials? or did they just let anyone come in? >> no. i slid in before it developed into what it is now. it's now 42nd and 8th, that intersection is completely blocked off and that's where the port authority physically is. where all those buses come in and all the people come through. i'm at 43rd now because they pushed me back. but, yeah, the subway lines i believe right now are suspended, and i know there's major delays on buses coming in because the whole operation

runs out of the station. so it's a mess. but hopefully there's not a lot of damage and not a lot of casualties in this or injuries in this, it's what we're all hoping for. and right now it does feel even though there are has been this massive response, there is kind of a very lackadaisical attitude by first responders. there's not a lot of running around or panic at the scene. just a lot of people here. steve: absolutely. so if you're just tuning in, police confirmed that pipe bombing of some sort at the port authority near the subway. suspected bomber is in custody. sounds like two people are hurt, including the suspect. now, here's the thing, rob. the port authority, which sounds like the target is how tens of thousands of people get into new york city. is the port authority closed? and does that mean people who are on the rail lines heading in are on trains that are stopped? because my daughter is in the lincoln tunnel right now trying to come to work, and her bus is not moving. so where are people going to be going? >> that's a great question.

and, you know, the tunnel, the lincoln tunnel comes right in there too. spits you out at what? 40th street and 9th avenue or something like that. so she's going to be coming into the thick of this as well. i don't know if the port authority is closed. i don't think it is. i think that they're going to try to work around this thing because you've got, you know, hundreds if not thousands of buses and trains and everything comes through. a lot of it comes right into this area here. so this is really how new york operates. ainsley: i'm not sure if they will, rob, let them in. based on what we saw after 9/11, dan bongino is worried about other attacks that might have been planned, i bet that they're not going to let the buses come into authority authority for that very reason. >> what i saw from the nypd is that they were expecting delays on port authority and that the subway had been suspended. so i think that it definitely had more of an impact on the subway. brian: hold that thought for a second. we're just getting recent footage from inside the port authority. you know, there are reports that there was a wild stampede after the explosion actually happened. let's look at this video

together for the first time and i'm not sure if you'll hear anything on it. but with everyone with an iphone, let's listen. steve: see, what you notice there is we were told there was a stampede inside the port authority as soon as they started to evacuate. and you can see some people in the background actually taking off. ainsley: it looks like the people would know. you see it looks like a police officer running. maybe he just got word. it looks like the other people were not in a big hurry. so maybe they didn't know at that point. brian: yeah, i know steve scalise special -- his secret service did not know anything, except for an explosion at port authority, and that was ten minutes ago. ainsley: we are being that you would, sarah huckabee sanders i can read it on twitter. she's saying potus has been briefed on this situation. can we bring back in dan bongino? because he was secret service. what's happening now at the white house when the president is notified, what happens

next? do we have any of them on the phone? >> yeah. the white house you have the national security team, obviously looking at if this is some type of terror incident it looks like frighteningly so. and that's obviously the primary question right now, ainsley. the investigation is secondary to triaging your needs to making sure that this is the only attack. you don't want to preemptively declare that everything's over and then god forbid you have another explosion say down on a train station of whatever, downtown manhattan somewhere. obviously saving lives is paramount, and i bet there's some heightened state of alert right now, and this is the kind of thing that the president is briefed on, in my opinion, immediately. everybody stops, everybody rushes over. steve: surely. let's bring in sebastion. he's an expert at terrorism. he joins us right now from our nation's capitol.

sebastion, as you look in, what appears to be your observations what appears to be a pipe bomb or a suicide vest near the port authority of new york city? >> well, good morning, steve. i reached out to my contacts at the fbi -- the bureau, the nypd half an hour ago, and they were already on level three alert, which is one of the highest levels of alert. but as your coverage shows, they have responded. the first responders are there. the professionalism is clear. but there isn't that heightened level of a very serious attack having already occurred. the initial reports is that it was a failed bomb attack but the individual is in custody. so now it's going to be a question of deploying the investigators to find out who this individual is, were they part of a broader conspiracy? but the facts remain the facts. new york is one of the most seductive, important targets for any jihadi organization, whether it's an international one like isis or whether it's

somebody who has been recruited domestically in the united states, and they've said again and again and again. al-qaeda and isis in their magazines, in their internet publications, you want to affect as much damage. so what do you do? you look for the highest concentrations possible of unarmed civilians. and the port authority would be a classic potential target for groups like al-qaeda or isis. brian: so on top of this when the president comes out and says i'm going to be moving our embassy in jerusalem, there's a reaction in israel and throughout the middle east and lebanon. but do you think there's also an increase of security here, especially with the united nations blistering our ambassador over the last few days? and then, of course, the location of so many other important people? >> yeah. there probably is, and that's really sad, brian. i mean, think about it. we just reaffirmed the fact that jerusalem is the capital of israel, and we have to

worry about violent outbreaks in the rest of the world. during my time at nypd, anything related with judaism whether it's synagogues or israel embassy was always a target that required extra nypd and federal government attention. it's really sad, but it's a valid question, and i think you're right. nouns. maybe this did have something to do with it. i'm sure isis if they do claim credit will say it did just to make sure that they get the fundraising capabilities off of it as well. steve: let's bring in rob schmidt. once again, he's just about a -- well, we just lost his signal. i was going to ask him about the port authority being open, and we have just been told that apparently it is still in operation. however, one of the entrances is closed. i'm getting a report from my daughter apparently the bus is moving, and she's getting closer to it. it will be interesting to see what happens when she comes out of the lincoln tunnel. there you can see the chopper view down at 42nd and 8th avenue.

and as you can imagine, the traffic in new york city on the west side is horrific. brian: dr. gorka, i always understand we see these terms, but the attack is contained. there seems to be one person in custody. i know israel has always lived by the decree of get things back to normas quick as possible. a bomb attack, get the bus out of there, you know, you clean up the streets, get people back on the streets. do we have the same philosophy when it comes to post attack security if it is indeed post attack? >> great point, brian. israel really has got this issue down, whether it's shopping mall or whether it's anywhere. a bus station that has high concentration of civilians. there's a heightened level of security at all times. metal detectors outside their key areas. what we need to do, brian, in this incident whatever happens to be the case just reinforces the key reality. this administration is

crushing the jihadis in the middle east. but we as americans must understand that the front line in this war isn't in a desert 1,000 miles away. the front line is when you leave your house in the morning. it is everywhere. it can be a discotheque in florida. it can be a christmas party in san bernardino. it could be a bicycle path in new york. so the see something say something isn't a catchy bromine, it is something that all americans should live by. we don't change our lives and give in to the terrorists. but you could stop a attack or save lives if you see something suspicious. whether it's a package, whether it's a person wearing clothing when they shouldn't. just be alert to the world around you. don't walk down the street staring at your mobile fun as so many people do. steve: dan bongino, we just got word from former commissioner bill bratton.

ainsley: yes, he's saying that this was an isis-inspired attack. what do you make of that? >> wow. well, i'm not surprised. i mean, you have the three big indicators there. the transportation networks they've always targeted because of the psychological impact upon the community after the attack. guys, everybody uses a car, a bus, a train, or a plane. we're not superman. we don't fly. we have to use these devices. they've always targeted transportation. rush hour, you want the most amount of people, maximum impact. new york city, maximum press coverage, big target. those three things i mean, led us to believe earlier that there was some nexus to terrorism. brian: if this is an isis-inspired attack, and we do indeed have the bomber in custody, we have to be able to question him before he lawyers up in an international setting, not in a police setting. don't you agree? and is the administration ready to do that? >> i think the president is. brian: not with the bike path

bomber. we turned him over to authorities. >> yeah. but i don't think that was the white house's call. but, look, you know better than anybody. you wrote the book on the tripoli pirates. if this turns out to be an isis-connected or inspired plot, this is somebody who is at war with us, even if they're the representative of a nonnation state. the idea that we treat them like a bank robber, and we mirandaize them, we give them all the rights of a u.s. citizen committing a crime is just absolutely insane. we are at war with global jihadism, and they should be treated as illegal combatants just as we did under the bush administration. brian: i hope we snap out of it and do that. we do have a report of the bomb. it was found on a subway platform. steve: that's where it exploded, which would suggest that they were trying to get into a train car, which could have had devastating consequences. let's go to rob schmidt who is near the location where just

about a block away from the port authority. rob, we received word from one of our producers that the port authority was open but now it sounds like it's closed again. >> yeah. great request he. i'm about a block away from the port authority. another stream of cars coming through as they move through here. the scene is ever expanding at this point. they keep pushing people back and bringing in more first responders and stuff like that. but i would say this is probably -- i would argue this is one of the busiest intersections in manhattan right before everybody gets to work. you can see all of these firemen here waiting to go in or do whatever they have to do, and this has been a huge response. but if you were trying to pull off an attack, which now we learned from the former commissioner, the former police commissioner as he says it was isis inspired, this would be the place to go. grand central or pen station. but this is a huge area where people come into the city east of long island and everywhere else. so this is a major place for

people to come in. ainsley: rob, we're learning now the mayor is saying that -- rob, the mayor is saying that this is an active crime scene. you can see all the police officers coming through too. i can't help that you have steve's daughter trapped in the tunnel. she's on a bus coming through new jersey coming into new york city, which is about two blocks from where you're standing. but now where there's a lot of traffic and gridlock in the city, you know what we all do here, we don't want to take taxis, we want to take the subway because it's faster, and you can avoid the traffic. now nobody is going to want to take the subway because we're worried about this. >> well, yeah, it sound like this happened on the platform of the subway, which would be the 8th avenue line, which is the way a lot of people in the west side get up and down and through the city. and that, of course, is going to be a packed platform on a monday morning, and that's when these types of things happen, and it's why people now are scared of crowds, scared to go into places where a lot of people are at because it's where they it. a year and a half ago or so we had the guy mow down i think

eight people or injure even more than that. kill eight people and then the chelsea bomber that set off that bomb near a dumpster and injured a number of people there in chelsea as well. so we're seeing moving towards this new realm of just one guy, you know, builds a, some kind of bomb and uses it, and it's a scary reality now. you never know who it's going to be. brian: we do have a report now that there's just one person injured, thankfully, according to the fdny. steve: in addition to the bomber. brian: and it's not a life-threatening injury. so we learned moments ago that the bomb was actually on a subway platform and earlier we did have reports that the bomb went off prematurely. so i don't know if that plays into the story line as we try to piece it together. and as you see with these officers there, that is not unusual to be found at all the

major thoroughfares here. pen station, grand central station, and now port authority. that is not atypical for a average new york day. so we're going to continue to follow all of that. >> as i come up here, i've noticed just more and more as i go through the city, you see officers armed with, you know, aks and ar15s standing outside subway stations on just regular days. so you're just seeing as this all escalates as the threat becomes more and more apparent, you're seeing the police having to escalate their game as well. and you see guys lifting arms with rifles and looking like they're going into war standing in new york city. steve: oh, i know it. and, dan bongino, we are looking at some video that has been posted to twitter, and we hope to share it with our audience in just a moment. but it does show people on the platform and the walkway and there is a lot -- it does appear there's smoke. it does appear there's people running on the platform, that is to say, and, oh, my goodness. i'm looking at it right now. you can see exactly the moment

it goes off. so the one thing about the port authority, dan bongino, is there are cameras everywhere, so they'll be able to figure out where this went off. and also, where the guy got on and, you know, ultimately where he's from. >> steve, that's what makes these sick terrorists different. you know, when i was in the secret service, one of the big concerns about an attack on the president was identifying ingress and egress. in other words, how is the bad guy going to get in and how is he going to escape? well, that's not a problem for these bad guys. they don't care about the cameras at all. it's helpful post investigation after the attack, but they don't really care. and just let me say as well. thank god this thing apparently went off before it got into the subway. remember, an explosive, the damaging effects aren't just the shrapnel, it's a pressure in a contained tube like that, unbelievable the damage it could have caused.

brian: bring me through how this could have taken place. you know there's cameras everywhere, and they're going through where this guy came from and backing it up. so if they get to the explosion, they get to the people, they decide whether it's going to be contained, when does the fbi come in? when does the police commissioner step back, if taut? and most importantly, how soon can we get to the bomber to find out if there's another bomber coming through? >> there's no doubt in my mind someone's talking to him right now, brian. the bureau is in this thing the first -- the minute that they get the 9-1-1 call. now, the way it would typically work is they work in conjunction with an nypd terror person. but they already know each other. there's a task force in new york. it's not, like, hey, bob, this is tony from the fbi, they already know each other. so they're already at the scene sharing the exact same bit of information, and ask you the right question. one of the first questions you ask right now is are you

alone. and you're hoping you get an answer. these guys obviously aren't the most cooperative most of the time. brian: but i hear, dan, right after the attack is when they're most vulnerable when they are scared or injured, that's when they talk the most in theory. >> no. no. yeah, that's the real world. you're right. that is theory. but it's the real world as well and the reason why is a lot of these cases, this guy expected to die. he thought he was going to get his reward in his afterlife and what's he doing now? he's sitting in the back of a nypd police car getting interviewed. so, yeah, of course he's. ainsley: dan, let's recap for the people just joining us because it is 8:35, people wake up in the country at this time. there is an explosion at the port authority, 42nd and 8th, time square where all the buses come into new york and leave new york for the suburbs.

there are a lot of subway lines underneath port authority. so it is very, very busy. you have rush hour, port authority, and christmastime. a recipe for disaster if you're an isis identify inspired terrorist that commissioner bill is the case here. the mayor is on the way. the president has been briefed. it is an active crime scene. the port authority is closed as authorities are there making sure there are not any other bombs that are hidden there in the subway. this did apparently explode on the subway platform. if you're jumping onto the subway right before you jump on, there's the platform that everybody waits. lots of people would be waiting this morning, and that's where the bomb allegedly went off. so, dan, if you're coming to new york, if you're watching this, and you have a vacation scheduled because it's very busy, it's christmastime or if you're here in new york or you are a new yorker, you have so much experience as an nypd officer and a secret service agent. what do you recommend? >> well, i guess the pc thing to say always is don't let

this alter your plans. frankly, i wouldn't let it off your mind. but that doesn't mean we have to go around living with horse blinders on. sebastion gorka made a great point. how many times -- you and i have both done it. you walk down the street of new york tweeting in the middle of traffic. not that we shouldn't do that once in a while, but keep your head on a swivel a little bit. it doesn't hurt. i and i always say to people always have a plan. when you're in the red zone, and your body instantaneously goes into a adrenaline dump, you're going to panic for 20 to 30 seconds before you get your head together. how have you thought of every spot you'll do it, and you won't have that fog in 20 or 30 seconds. brian: gotcha, dan. now, meanwhile, the governor's on the scene. some of our reporters are getting pushed further away. so rob is penetrated in that zone and able to give us the latest information. and i do want you to factor in

this. these moments are so critical but not just to get to the would be bomber. the right person questioning him in the right way that that is the way to disarm and get the most out of a terrorist. how do we do that in new york city? >> well, look, new york city after 9/11, brian, became one of the world's -- not the country's. one of the world's preeminent counterterrorism institutions. it's only under mayor de blasio that they've been potentially weakened when it comes to their program. but, yeah, it is the profession, the person with decades of experience like dan on the street working these kinds of cases who should be in the room and who should be extracting the most relevant information as soon as possible. is there a secondary attack? is there the so-called bad samaritan ploy being deployed as well? but, again, let me go back to what dan said. every american, you don't have to carry a badge or a gun,

needs to have a plan. if you are involved in an incident that involves terrorism, you need to remove yourself from that incident. you need to flee. if you can't flee, you must hide. if you can't hide, you must fight. whether it's a fire extinguisher, your bare hands, everybody has to resist these people and understand that we will not be seeped. it is the sheep that are the best target for terrorists but everybody must be prepared to react. don't walk around. think about these things. think about what are you going to do if you're discovered in an active shooter incident, if you're involved in an incident of this nature, what is your plan b? steve: right. as i mentioned a moment ago, there is a twitter video that is circulating that is purported to be the moment this thing went off, and it does appear according to the associated press now apparently the device was strapped onto the person, and

it does look like it was some sort of suicide device, perhaps a vest. our correspondent laura is near the scene. laura, thanks for joining us. what can you tell us from your point -- she'll be with us in just a little while. sorry about that. dan, let's go back to you for a second. with the ap saying that this was a device strapped onto the person, what does that tell you? >> well, that obviously fits the terrorist motive there to detonate while on the person, which would kill the terrorist as well, creates no need for an escape path. creates maximum carnage, and the benefit the sick, tragic benefit, steve, of having one of these explosives strapped to you is you are the explosive. you can walk it into a zone crowded and densely packed with the most amount of people. you can make sure you're on a subway car. there's no reason to have to engage in any kind of remote

detonation as would happen before the suicide bombing. so that's the worst part about obviously the attack attack. ainsley: rob is down on 42nd and 9th; is that right, rob? what are you seeing now? >> 42nd and 8th, guys. yeah, we're seeing the same situation. a lot more police officers have shown up. we understand the mayor is going to come down here in a little bit to talk about exactly what happened here. and as you said, we have one reported injury and that's of a victim, and they have the suspects here in custody who reportedly had some more serious injuries to himself and otherwise. it sounds like this was a port in new york. one of the busiest parts of the city at 48th and 3rd right near time square. this is the hot spot for a lot of people. hundreds of thousands of people come through the city right here in this area every

day. so this is a big target. it's monday morning. it's the morning rush. and that's what we have right now and secure the scene. brian: there's a little bit of a discrepancy, says it happened outside the car on the ground and now the ap reporting that the device was strapped. so it could have fallen off the body, was strapped. just trying to put together the language to see exactly what it was. initial report also said the initial, initial report that it was a pipe bomb. steve: ap is according to their twitter, law enforcement officials tell ap that man had explosive device strapped on when it exploded in new york city subway. brian: right so that's it, dan. so we find out that he had this strapped on, it was at the port authority. so you figure that that's the

biggest bus terminal in new york city and maybe around. as that goes and in your mind if you're thinking how do i prevent that, there's really nothing. there's no metal detectors getting on a bus, nobody pats down, there's nobody even eyeballing you. >> yeah. the depressing news about this, brian if you don't break up these operations through preoperation intelligence, what we used to call in the secret service, you know, shaking the trees. getting good sources in the communities to make sure the tips come down, and you break these up in advance, you know, you're correct. there's very little that you can do. setting up magnetometers every place in new york city is not practical. it also creates unsecure zones and what do they do? they walk right outside the magnetometers where people are lining up and don't it right there. good point.

ainsley: sebastion, what does it mean if this guy has the device strapped on them or a woman. we don't know if it's a man or woman. and it explodes prematurely it seems like based on reports and injures that person and injures one other person. but i'm sure when they plan an attack like this, they're planning to wipe out hundreds of people or if not dozens of people at one point. what does your experience tell you that this device was strapped on him and didn't do much damage? >> remember, let's be careful here. all initial reports have to be dealt with very cautiously. but this could be a redo of the time square bomber. a failed device. in that case, the individual drove an suv full of improvised explosive devices into time square, and it burnt rather than detonating. the person the capacity to build the device was subpar,

and it didn't properly detonate. as these people pointed out, needs to be inside that vehicle to create mass carnage. we've seen this in israel, the bus stations. we've seen this in the uk during the attack. if this did detonate before they entered the vehicle when they were on the platform, this is a failed explosion. and this is a gold mine. if this person is alive, and we can interrogate them now, that is a potentially gold mine for this. brian: sebastion, you have to think about all the businesses that will be hurt because people won't frequent there and the stock market right downtown is going to respond globally and locally to this. so in a way, at least temporarily, the bombing was successful to a degree, which brings him getting the third degree. we need to find out more quickly. i haven't heard a thing about the bike path driver since he

was taken into custody. he has since lawyered up. this has to be a national event and international attack, even if he turns out to be an american; correct? >> oh, absolutely. but, brian, whatever the consequences are negatively for the stock market, they will not last. why? because we have a different president, a different commander-in-chief. isis is on the run. the physical caliphate has steesed to exist whether it's in mosul, whether it's in syria, whether is in raqqa. so we have finally after january 20th taken the fight to the jihadis as opposed to the last administration which said this is a generational threat, and we just have to get used to it. so we will bounce back. new york is one of the greatest cities in our great nation. it will bounce back as well because we are going to -- as the president said, they will be eradicated. brian: all right. thanks. hold on. steve: let's go out to our

correspondent rick leventhal who has new information on the scene. rick. >> good morning, guys. just got here. obviously there's a lot of confusion and investigation going on with the nypd. you see some heavy weapons teams over here as well. what i have been told by law enforcement sources as there was, in fact, some sort of explosion below the ground apparently in a pedestrians walkway at the port authority destination of that vicinity of 42nd and 8th avenue. there were reports of a suicide vest also a pipe bomb. there was an incident, some kind of explosion and the suspect, the person who detonated that device, i'm told was injured when that

exploded. the person who set off this device either with a switch of some kind or a cell phone or handset it off is, in fact, injured and is, in fact, in custody. i have his name. i don't want to release it just yet. but he is a 37-year-old man from brooklyn. that's about all i want to say right now so i can talk to another law enforcement source. brian: why, rick? you just want to make sure it's the right guy? >> yeah. and i want to make sure it's okay to, you know, say his name on tv. steve: sure. >> but the police has his name, and that's the most important thing. the investigators know who this guy is, so they're going to be talking to his residence and family and friends and figure out who and he is why he might have come down here with an explosive device that according to police did, in fact, detonate. but perhaps it detonated early. ainsley: a guy from brooklyn. do we know is he from brooklyn originally? did he live there just temporarily? >> he has a foreign name.

i'll go that far. steve: all right. brian: rick, you've been in. >> i can't tell you exactly where he's from, but has a foreign name. brian: you've been in nypd headquarters. you've seen those screens and what the nypd has their eyes on. from your best estimation, they could almost put this whole movie together immediately; correct? they have port authority covered. >> absolutely. and they're the watch list. what i cannot tell you is whether this individual was, in fact, on any kind of list. but they're going to know that very quickly now that they have an identity. they're looking into that, obviously, whether he was known to them, i don't know yet. but clearly, they're now trying to figure out exactly who he was and why he did what he did. the good news here, guys, is apparently he may have been the only person injured. if there are other injures. they may be minor.

but what you're seeing behind me is a shut down 8th avenue in rush hour. every avenue is packed, a lot of the side streets are closed, traffic is at a virtual stand still and none of the trains are running in port authority area. so it's a nightmare for anybody trying to get to work this monday morning and certainly a tough scene for these first responders as well. steve: indeed. all right. hey, rick, the new york post is reporting that the suspected bomber had wires attached to him and was armed with a pipe bomb. i know that's something confirmed by you and a battery pack. he was taken into custody. that's -- it was what you have been told; right? >> well, it is, steve. there were early reports with a suicide vest and wires strapped to his body. so it may very well be that he had a detonation device or

some sort of subdivision, and that may have been what people were seeing. and as you know, early reports can often be wrong, and that's why we're going to be careful here. brian: rick, from what you know, how quick are they over his residence in brooklyn at this very moment? >> oh, within minutes. within minutes. they've gone to his property. we saw this happen on the west side highway, you know, reports came out that it was a gun incident, and he was shooting people, and he run them down with his truck. but he did have a couple of fake guns, a pellet gun and trade gun. but they went to the home depot and traced it to a second home depot. they went to his home and talked to his family and friends. that happened within minutes. and that's no doubt happening right now here in manhattan and also in brooklyn and anywhere else. any other addresses that's

connected to this gentleman. now, we have a member of the nypd telling the pedestrians to clear the streets because they need this room to work. brian: wow. they keep backing you up more and more instead of narrowing down the site, they're widening it. >> well, they often do expand scenes if there's a concern of, you know, more incidents. i don't think that's the case here. i think they're just trying to get a truck through here and clear some traffic. this seems to be pretty well locked down at this point. i think they know -- they obviously know where it happened, and they're trying to just get all the evidence and information out of that one location. brian: hey, rick, we do find out -- more information. let's see if this mirrors yours. we know the 30-year-old has been in the country at least

seven years. ainsley: according to bill bratton, who is the former commissioner of new york. thank you to your reporting. i know you're anxious to get more information. let's talk to dan bongino and find out, dan, based on this latest information, what's going through your mind? this guy 37 years old. he lived in brooklyn, bill says for seven years. a new york brooklyn resident. >> yeah. well, the first question here is what was the motivation? i mean, was he vacuolized into some isis ideology online? these are the big questions. if he did come here, how did he get here? was he here legally any if he came here legally by which process? these are important questions. hey, one more quick thing. i think some of the confusion that we're hearing now about the suicide vest versus the pipe bomb. it would be a little bit unusual to put a pipe bomb on the vest. pipe bomb is something you typically leave behind.

he may have had both, and that may be some of the confusion in the reporting. brian: i just wonder if the other story is going to be unusual. the reaction to the would be explosion. some stubborn reports that there was somewhat of a stampede. can you imagine that? if anyone has been through these reports, you can't run. that would be a small miracle if there are no injuries. >> yeah. brian, that's new yorkers. you know it. i mean, you guys are there all the time. i was just up there with you. i've lived there my whole life. they're an unbelievably resilient. god bless the big apple. really. they're really tough people up there, and i wish they didn't have to be so tough all the time, but this has been forced upon them, and they almost always rise to the challenge. god bless them. steve: you were listening to rick's report regarding the person they regard as a suspect apparently has been in the united states for the last seven years.

what are your observations? >> i've been following the reports on the internet and social media. there is talk now that the individual is connected to bangladesh, so he has some south asian connects. i've also watched the video from inside the terminal. if that is truly the cctv footage of the incident, it does, in fact, look if this was a premature detonation because the individual was walking down a passageway with just a few other commuters when the device detonated and then injured him, and he is seen in the video on the ground after the detonation. so if these are confirmed, then we are the -- then new york is blessed today. the good lord has blessed new yorkers because this attack was not executed as intended. and maybe.

steve: if this did detonate prematurely, this goes back to something we have talked about on this program and channel for a number of years and that is some of these people who have evil intentions ultimately are bad bomb makers. >> yes. absolutely. and this does look as if this is somebody who came recently from a war zone. that's one of the most serious threats the nypd, the fbi, the cia has that you have an individual who has been in an insurgency in syria or iraq really learned how to build ieds and learned how to build fully automatic weapons, comes to america and then uses those skills to affect. hopefully -- it does look like it's not one of those individuals. this is an ammeter had to learn those skills online or secondhand and was not as good building these devices. brian: a lot of a lot of times the bomb makers, the genius,

the mule or the would be sacrificial lamb is the person who is dull enough to go pull it off. >> that's what happened with the shoe bomber. exactly, brian. we know that the shoe bomber, he did not build that device. that device was built for him. but he failed to detonate it successfully. so this could be a redo of the shoe bomber. brian: thank you, dr. gorka. recap where we are right now. ainsley: the suspect in port authority explosion had a device strapped on his body. so we got word probably about an hour ago, maybe a little bit more that there was possibly a suspect down in port authority where the subways are underneath the road where the a, t, and e lines meet and someone had a -- some sort of a bomb strapped around their body, and it prematurely exploded. so all of this information is just coming in now. we know the president's been

briefed, the mayor, and there's going to be a press conference this morning. steve: apparently it happened at 7:19 this morning. the port authority has been opened and closed and my daughter sally who was stuck in the lincoln tunnel for about a half an hour i understand finally made it to work. apparently travelers into and out of new york city are able to make the trip. brian: we know that there's -- steve: i was just going to add one more thing, brian. bill bratton, of new york city's police department says it appears to be an isis-inspired event. brian: we know the suspect is 37 years old, according to our reporting. we know law enforcement officials are scurrying we imagine to brooklyn where he's from. we also have reports that he has been in this country at least seven years. there's a new york post is saying that it went off prematurely. the bomb malfunctioned leaving the bomber alive and in stable condition. he was also found to be on a walkway with few people around him in one of the places that

port authority where few people would be around. so all indications are it could have been a lot worse. but the reaction from the explosion has not been uncovered yet because there are reports not from the ap that there was a stampeding response, which is understandable. ainsley: can you imagine? because you're underneath the ground. people trying to get on and off the subway. people trying to get into the city it's monday morning. also christmas, it's rush-hour traffic. so if this is happening, people are running for their lives probably screaming bloody murder. we're going to learn more information. but this is a very heavily-trafficked area. if you've been to time square and been to new york, this is just a few blocks down to the south of time square. steve: that's right. the president of the united states has been briefed

>> bill: nypd confirms one person in custody. there is a press conference expected any moment now with the mayor and governor. we await that and also await new information, brand-new week and we start with this. good morning. >> sandra: good morning to you, bill: here is what we know so far. they responded to an explosion this morning at a tunnel linking the port authority to the 7 subway line. a