kaepernick for help because not enough kids interested in take a knee protest. the school is threatening expulsion. rob: "fox & friends" starts right now. see you later. >> tonight, ladies and gentlemen, you took the right road. >> doug jones, the first alabama democrat in a quarter century to be elected to the united states senate. >> we have shown not just around of the state of alabama, but we have shown the country the way that we can be unified. >> part of the problem with this campaign is we have been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. it's not over and it's going to take some time. thank you. >> 10,000 text messages between fbi agent peter strzok, who was taken off the mueller investigation and strzok's alleged mistress, an fbi lawyer named lisa paige. >> in giavasis the last two

months, we have seen two terrorist attacks in new york city. carried out by men who were here as a result of failed immigration policies. >> the lottery system and chain migration. we are going to end them, fast. ♪ ♪ ♪ i just want to feel this moment ♪ oh ♪ i just want to feel this moment. steve: hey, come on upstairs. ainsley: good morning, everyone. it's wednesday. middle of the week. steve: thank goodness. and today is the day of our "fox & friends" christmas party. our holiday party. ainsley: we are all excited. we usually do bowling today we are doing karaoke. are you going to sing? steve: listen to your voice right now. i want to hear that. ainsley: i can't sing normally. steve: that's why brian kilmeade had to leave the house he hates karaoke and

in his place is todd piro. todd: my doggy foster parents are here to take care of it thank you, steve and ainsley. ainsley: glad to have you on the curvey couch. alabama spoke yesterday. steve: they sure did. an upset in alabama for the republicans. democrat doug jones pulling off a win against republican roy moore in that special election to fill the senate seat left vacant by now attorney general jeff sessions. todd: moore says it is not over. ainsley: jonathan serrie is live in montgomery alabama with the latest for us. jonathan? >> good morning, ainsley, steve and todd. ordinarily the republican candidate would be a shoe n the solidly red state of alabama. allegations of sexual impropriety against republican roy moore completely changed the dynamics of this race. and you have doug jones, the democrat, becoming the first member of his party to be elected to the u.s. senate from alabama in 25 years. >> this campaign has been

about common courtesy and decency and making sure everyone in this state, regardless of which zip code you live in, is going to get a fair shake in life. >> but roy moore who rode to the polls on horseback yet to concede the race. hoping moore's vote count would come within half a percentage point of jones which would trigger a recount. >> i really want to thank you for coming tonight and realize when the vote is this close, that it's not over. and we still got to go by the rules about this recount provision. >> but with jones coming in with 49.9% of the vote to moore's 48.4, which is a 1.5 point difference a recount appears unlikely. president trump weighed in on twitter saying congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a

very big factor but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great and the republican also have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends. and the president may have a point when it comes to those write-in votes. alabama voters cast nearly 23,000 write-in votes which was larger than the marginal of victory. and in advance of this election, many republicans were saying i can't vote for a democrat, but i'm going to write in a conservative other than roy moore. bark to you guys. steve: all right, jonathan seare, thank you very much. keep in mind a lot of people down in alabama wrote in the name of lee they're strange. he is the guy currently holding the seat temporarily until a new senator is seated. donald trump supported luther strange in the beginning. said roy moore could not win. but here's the thing. donald trump and steve bannon essentially were at loggerheads over this particular seat because steve bannon wants to drain the swamp. he feels mitch mcconnell is the swamp and mitch

mcconnell supported luther strange so in turn he was going to support the other guy, judge roy moore. ainsley: jones caught a break in all these allegations came out against judge moore. the environment was really bad. the story, i felt like, was just horrific. it was hard for women especially to go to the polls and vote for him even though the allegations were just allegations and even though it happened so long ago. this was not a referendum on trump. i feel like it was a referendum on harvey weinstein. >> i don't want to be polyanna piro here still 51 g.o.p.es and 49 dems starting in january. also, here is a few other take aways. unless doug jones wants to go completely scorchesd earth with liberal policies, he is a democrat in alabama which is called a republican in the rest of the world. let's not forget he has to answer to his constituents, a majority of which voted for him who are republican. let's go look at some key issues here. immigration, do you think alabama people want open borders?

b, do you think in terms of welfare reform, which is one of donald trump's big ticket items for 2018. do you think alabamaians don't want welfare reform. i'm being polyanna piro here. steve: he is going to vote exactly as chuck schumer tells him to. will. ainsley: absolutely. todd: in 2020 after sessions. steve that's what they were saying about clair mccaskill and states that donald trump won. we will be talking about that all throughout the morning. doug jones a big winner in alabama. is there a bias at the fbi and particularly at the mueller investigation? it sure looks like it. remember, we telling you about peter strzok this guy who had a girlfriend who was one of the attorneys on the mueller case. they sent 10,000 anti-trump emails, text messages back and forth. fox news yesterday obtained 375 of them. turns out they hate trump.

ainsley: they hate him. they worked at the fbi. they worked on this investigation. here are some of those text messages. this is from lisa paige the girl. god trump is a loathesome human. then he says yet he might win. he says he many win which i guess means he might win. then he says good for hillary. omg, he's an idiot. god, hillary should win. 100 million to zero. >> that was the day after the republic can debate here on fox. here is another one from august the 6th. i will tell you what we will do, ainsley. you play page and i will pay strzok, okay? guilty. ainsley: maybe you are meant to stay where you are because you are meant to protect the country from that menace. steve: thanks. it's absolutely true that we are both very fortunate and, of course i will try and approach it just that way. i just know it will be tough at times. can i protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps. ainsley: that is so shady. i understanding they are

allowed to have their political opinions, they're dating and sending their opinions back and forth. but when she says i'm so glad you are a part of this investigation because it's your job to save our country and he says yes, i'm so fortunate i'm a part of this investigation. that's how i'm reading it. steve: take a look at this passage. this is the day of the final district attorney bait. he says i am riled up. trump is an f.ing idiot. is unable to provide a co-heernght answer. todd: there you go. you got to play actors today. underlying issues if these individuals are in the bob mueller team, should bob mueller be leading that team or should we have a special counsel to investigate bob mueller? take a listen. >> at the end of the day, you have to say how is this allowed to continue? why are these people not terminated? do you know what the answer to that is people don't like when you say it, it's the deep state. it's the bureaucrats.

todd: there have been a number of individuals on our air who say look, i'm not at that point yet, a number of major republicans who say bob mueller really have a boy scout and give him the benefit of the doubt, allow him to do this investigation. at the end of the day, as somebody who went to law school and law school basically 20% on one side and 20% on the other side. 60% of people who love the game of law, you can't tell me that bob mueller can't find somebody in that 60% who says i am willing to join this investigation, be nonpartisan and do the best job i can for my country to uncover the truth. ainsley: keep in mind those text messages apparently i'm being told before the investigation. before the mueller investigation? those are his opinions. steve: both of them are off the case. he wasn't fired from the fbi. he was put in h.r. and she was removed from the case as one of mueller attorneys and has returned to investigating things at the fbi. but i tell you what, it's not just that case where it looks like there is a trump

bias. look at the media bias of president trump in the last three months. the media research center did a survey and found that 90% of the coverage on abc, nbc, and cbs on their evening news was anti-trump. ainsley: look at the month of september. 359 negative stories to 31 positive ones. october, 435 to 41 positives. and then november, 320 negative stories and only 33 positive stories. these are statements from reporters and nonpartisan sources. todd: we say this all the time on this couch, you don't have to like the individual at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. but at the end of the day, as a journalist, you have to be objective when he has done something right. and you can't say that the stock market, which is above 24,000, a trouble in nobody is really ever seen before, nobody has ever seen before, period, have you got to give the man credit for that. ainsley: make it equal. each if you have people on that give their opinions try to make it fair and balanced. steve: it's the nightly

news. there shouldn't be any opinion. it should be just this is what happened today. ainsley: those days are long gob, steve. steve: those are the days of walter cronkite. that's the way it was. 6:11 in new york city. and jillian joins us in studio f. jillian: i will give you headlines of the morning. good morning to you at home. north korea vowing to beef up nuclear arsenal as nations around them wash them it's time to stop. kim jong un telling scientists he wants to increase the quality and number of deadly weapons. secretary of state rex tillerson says now is the time for diplomacy. >> we're ready to talk any time north korea would like to talk. and we're ready to have the first meeting without preconditions. it's not realistic to say we are only going to talk if you come to the table ready to give up your program. they have too much invested in it. jillian: last month north korea launched its most advanced missile yet potentially capable of striking anywhere in the u.s. president trump signing a

$700 billion defense policy bill to support our nation's heroes. >> with the signing of this defense bill, we accelerate the process of fully restoring america's military might. we need our military. it's got to be perfecto. jillian: the bill includes money for core ebb pentagon operations wells funding for oversea missions and defense and new equipment and pay raises for troops. there is a catch, congress must now roll back a 2011 law that restricts defense spending at $549 million. >> we have bad elm brays here and we'll get them out. jillian: ice arresting more than 130 illegal criminals in new jersey wanted for violations. attorney general jeff sessions is again blasting the city of baltimore for its sanctuary policy. baltimore is one of dozens

of jurisdictions in the u.s. that prevent local police from working with ice. that's a look at your headlines. i will send it to you guys. steve: you are right. a lot going on. thanks, jillian. ainsley: first he wore socks depicting officers as pigs and now collin kaepernick sparking new outrage. putting lives at danger. steve: robert mueller's investigative team the president's attorney say it's time for another special counsel. but our next guest from the "wall street journal" says let mueller keep digging. he will explain coming up. ♪ how do you like me now ♪ remember the time ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪

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has a long business card bill mcgurn joins us live. good morning. >> good morning. steve: look at lead story in politics where 375 of those text messages between the fbi investigator and lawyer they hate trump. it makes the case somebody should be investigating the investigators. >> look, even mr. mueller recognized that because he took the guy off the case. i mean the question is was the agent -- he was having an affair with a fbi lawyer also on the case there are conflicts of interests all over the place. i would like things investigated but the proper place is the will representatives of the american people. steve: mueller went in front of congress and say i would love to tell you but yahweh have this investigation going on. >> incredible assertion. for this. look. i start with the mantra that special prosecutors corrupt

and independent prosecutors corrupt absolutely. so i'm against the special prosecutor to begin with that's why the answer for these people if president trump fires mr. mueller now it will look like he has something to hide. i think mr. mueller's team is doing a lot to discredit itself. i would let that go. second for some people in congress along with mr. trump's lawyer are calling for a special investigator, basically for the special prosecutor. steve: right. >> i think the probable is someone doing something unaccountable way in the darkness, that the answer is to throw another one on top of the heap, i think that's incredible. congress first of all president trump could declassify a lot of this information. the president is the ultimate decavalier. steve: what would you like him to declassify? >> i would like him to declassify to start with what the fbi knows about this steele dossier and particularly was it used by the fbi to gain fisa warrants to listen in on

trump's team. we don't need all the details but did the fbi use it. if they did use it, did they have any doubts about the veracity of the information. steve: the fbi director says i can't divulge what's in that fisa warrant. >> which is nonsense. can he say whether the dossier was used an the president's team should be out there trying make as much of this as public as possible. presumably mr. trump has an interest in transparency if he is telling the truth that there was no collusion and no obstruction if congress isn't going to get answers, cut off funding to the fbi. >> congress can do a lot it has the power of the purets. it has the power impeach. it has the power to hold people in contempt and in fact jail them until they testify. i think congress blue it on lois learner and they are paying the price now. no one takes them seriously. steve: you are right about that. read all about it in the "wall street journal." thank you investment. >> thank you. steve: after that botched

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so far no arrests. stories are deadly asalt weapon, actually. after explosion subway. experts warn a drone attack could be yes, sirred. as the technology becomes more more reliable and the pay load becomes larger for these devices which can you buy easily on the internet, the problem is that we have nothing on our arsenal to stop them from coming. in so it's really a problem. >> here to discuss store that of drone warrior. elite soldier's inside accounts of the hunt for america's most dangerous

enemies. brett velicovich. bret, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: when we had this terrorist strike a couple days ago in new york. this guy took the homemade pipe bombs, strapped it to himself and went into that tunnel over by the port authority and detonated it but, and so ultimately he is in the hospital because he almost, you know, got burned up pretty bad. but ultimately for a terrorist who wants to inflict damage on new york city, they could put a couple of grenades on a drone and they wouldn't even get hurt. blast radius. the fact is isis has proven this is effective tool on the battlefield. it's been nearly two years since we saw the first commercial use of a drone in iraq where isis fighters took explosives, strapped them to a drone and dropped them over coalition forces.

and terrorist groups are looking for tools like this to conduct attacks domestically. and so with the availability of cheap consumer drones. it's not a matter of if this will happen but with when. >> that is so scary. government to stop a drone? the fact is the u.s. government has yet to embrace this technology, there are a number of different devices that are being built that can actually counters this drone threat, even the manufacturers themselves know that this is something that they need to fix. there are systems out there that groups like the port authority, nypd should be using and putting these devices in their commands center that have the ability to detect drones within a 5 to 10-mile radius, have the ability to determine the trajectory of them. where the pilot is that's actually operating them. then there is also a number of systems, some that we have shown on your program

before that have the ability to jam the signal of those drones and actually stop them from conducting a mass casualty attack. steve: i know here in the new york city area. the port authority is so concerned about drones they have stopped selling them near the airport because there was a problem out at jfk. bret, tell us a little bit about geo fence. what is geo fence? could that help? >> sure. so geo fencing is the technology that's used to essentially act as a virtual fence or perimeter where the drone is actually unable to fly into a particular area. some of the manufacturers that have developed drones will put we did offensing into the software so a drone is unable to fly in a particular area. receive steve that sounds great. >> it's great when it's used and there are methods, potentially to hack that and that's why you do need a layered counter drone approach if you are going to take on this strategy. but, in new york city, in particular, it's a no fly zone but the geo fence around that city is not like it is in washington, d.c. if you tried to fly say a

drone some of the drones you are showing right there on the screen into washington, d.c. you would actually be blocked from flying it over those locations. that doesn't exist in new york city. that only really exists around the airports. so have you the ability to fly around particular spots and conduct these attacks. that's a dangerous thing. geo fencing is something that needs to be more prolific to counter this threat. ainsley: it will be. this is something new. thank you so much, bret. >> nice to see you. steve: straight ahead on thissens with, he kicked off the national anthem protest. he wore socks depicting officers as pigs. now, collin kaepernick is sparking a new rage of outrage. he put their lives in danger. ainsley: ladies, have you ever felt like this? >> 39 years old. gets a little blue and he acts just like a baby. >> oh, okay. ainsley: turns out our men aren't faking it, ladies.

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national guard which today is celebrating 381 years in existence. ainsley: wonderful. some of them were there at the subway bombing kept our country safe and city safe. so grateful for what our men and women who serve our country do for us. steve: because here in new york city, a number of national guardsmen are posted permanently to places like the poverty authority. my daughter, who takes the bus in from new jersey every day sees them. always says thank you. thank you for your service. ainsley: she does? i love that. todd: they have their hands in some things that make our country better. ainsley: if you are not familiar with what they do we will talk to them and find out what their duties are and how they protect you and your family. steve: in the meantime there are about 50 of them here. we have to all be quiet for a second because jillian is going to join us with the news. jillian: that's right. just a couple seconds here. get you caught up this morning. outraged over collin kaepernick's surprise visit to inmates at rikers island. the quarterback known for kneeling at the national anthem speaking out about

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this isn't the first time he is hinted about getting on the ballot. he previously said the people's president has a really nice ring to it we will keep you posted. how about this in the proof the man flu may not be just a myth after all. >> 39 years old, he gets a little flu. and he acts just like a baby. >> oh, okay. ainsley: now there is science to back it up. canadian researcher claims men have a weaker immune response when it comes to viruses and colds. as a result, the symptoms are worse and they last longer. and we all feel very sorry, guys. steve: i knew it i knew it. [awe] steve: there is the man flu. ainsley: they are babies. there is a reason we have the babies. we deliver the babies. y'all can't handle it. steve: have you special immunity. ainsley: we're just stronger. steve: janice dean is outside. janice you are upstairs. janice: because it's cold

outside. and we brought the national guard here inside as well because that's how cold it is. and we're going to say happy birthday to them in just a moment. look at the wind chill. right now it is about 10 degrees, what it feels like with the winds in new york city. that's why we are inside. 13 in new york later on. watch this. this is the forecast wind chill as we go through the next 12 to 24 hours. we just have shot after shot of cold air moving in. this is friday at 4:00 a.m., still in the teens in new york city. so, you can see we have got that cold air pouring in and the chance for snow tonight and also as we get into the weekend. because the cold air is in place. we have these clipper systems moving across the great lakes and. we might get a little bit of snow in new york city. it's a quick move but blast some nau snow in here and out of the way. temperatures will be remaining cold through friday, saturday, sunday. a little bits of a warm-up as we get into monday for the northeast. here is the forecast for today. snow across the great lakes. midwest down wind of those great lakes we could get several inches of snow.

northern rockies looking at snow here. central plains look good today. really nice today. still breezy across southern california the fire threat remains elevate you had into the weekend. all right, steve, ainsley and brian. big birthday today. ainsley: that's right. janice today is the u.s. national guard's birthday. they turn 381 years old. steve: they look good for 381. today we are honoring them on this special holiday. todd: joining us now general joseph and major chris cefner and many members of the national guard. first of all, congratulations on your big birthday. >> thank you. todd: i have to ask, why don't you tell us all the things that you do as national guard members. steve: i don't know if we have fluff time. >> you probably don't have enough time here. we are deployed all over the world army and air force keeping america safe. we were over there thanksgiving serving turkeys in afghanistan and kuwait and all over the middle east. we do the war fighting mission. as part of our army and air

force every single day. additionally as many of you know as we take care of response and we are the governors in state response force to work with the first responders and the emergency responders when hurricanes happen. steve: what about the fires out in california. >> last friday i was in california. we have almost 2,000 national guardrail out there working with emergency responders and cal fires. responders helping save people's lives i flew in a c-130 that dropped fire retardant. you need skill sets practiced by the national guard. ainsley: why did you enlist and what does it mean to you to be a part to serve our country. >> it's a great honor to serve our country. really, i enlisted because i thought that service was something that i wanted to do to give my life to. now at this level i get to help shape other soldiers and airmen in their service as well. steve: that's terrific. tell us about empire shield.

>> empire shield is a mission that our new york national guardsmen do to assist local authorities here in new york city. steve: those are the guys and gals who were posted at the port authority a couple days ago and let's into action as soon as the bomb went off, correct? >> yes, sir, they did. they were there right at the points of attack, if you will. to assist local law enforcement. >> steve: they have been on duty since 9/11. >> there is 800 of them. colonel pete reilly. commanders of air force shield. have you seen them at port north. grand central station and airports and stuff. they were right there embedded when the bomb went off the other day. ainsley: take it microphone and tell us about the men and women. >> very proud of all the men and women joints task force empire sheelgd. they responded right away when the attack happened. five soldiers with their weapons drawn along with port authority police and nypd. they were able to secure the area. when they evacuated the bus terminal they did very well.

all the bridges and tunnels in new york city. steve: airport. i see you every week. >> ever go through jfk airport see joints task force empire shield. go through laguardia you will see them. if did you go through grand central, always very proud of them. keeping us safe. serving their country, their state. steve: it's fantastic. todd: 450,000 men and women in our national guard nationwide, right? it's an amazing number. >> big part. >> 350,000 army. 105,000 airmen. big part. >> i have somebody right here. what's your name. >> major jack wolf, ma'am. >> what made you get in the national guard. >> essentially i joined up shortly after september 11th. i lived here in new york city since 1999. and it's been fantastic opportunity and i thank everybody here and obviously thank you for having us. steve: okay. >> saved 500 nominee hurricane harvey. in unit right here.

janice: god bless you. thank you for what you do today and every day. steve: national guard turns 381. [applause] steve: we were talking about the port authority and how you have been guarding out there. new report suggests the port authority attack shows the isis threat is evolving not eliminated. how does the president's terror strategy get rid of them once and for all? that is coming up. ainsley: corey lewandowski, david bossie michelle malkin are all here and come up to talk to you and your family. stick around. ♪

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steve: all right. some quick headlines for you. first up a wanted thief in a santa hat. watch right there. caught on camera, terrorizing homes in the hollywood hills. you can see the grinch breaking through a back window helping himself to jewelry and anything else he can get his mits on. police say he has hit two

houses in the lavish area so far year. this the festival of lights. hanukkah officially kicking off celebrating the dedication of the holy temple in jerusalem. president trump tweeting wishing all of those celebrating hanukkah around the world a happy and healthy 8 nights in the company of those they love. hundreds gathering for the national menorah lighting right there just across the street from the white house. all right. ainsley? ainsley: thank you, steve. now to a fox news alert. the 27-year-old bangladesh man accuse of setting off a pipe bomb in new york city on monday is facing federal and state terrorism charges. this as washington examiner article shows the isis attack evolving and not eliminated. how does the president terror strategy get rid of the caliphate once and for all? joining me now to weigh in on there is fox news foreign policy. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. ainsley: how do we get rid

of the caliphate once and for all? >> rye hope that issue is addressed in the upcoming national security strategy which i believe the national security council is issuing on monday. i would suggest the following. we have to understand that although isis has been largely but not completely defeated in iraq and syria. i believe there are a couple thousand isis fighters still in those two countries. that the isis organization is moving to other areas. it's in libya, in the sinai peninsula, it's in afghanistan. even the philippines regrouping. and it is moving away from a kind of command and control center with a big islamic army to inspiring sleeper cells and lone wolves. and that the attack on the west will be much greater, perhaps than it's been now that it doesn't have the land mass it had many

mornlts ago. understanding the threat is evolving is the first step. and that although it has suffered great military blows, and perhaps some ideological blows because some of the potential true believers now doubt the organization, since the caliphate does not exist, but there are others who are inspired by it. and we have got to include in our national security strategy a way of identifying lone wolves and developing a counter narrative that makes the ideology unattractive to people who are in crisis themselves. ainsley: what about the chain migration? yesterday the president was saying we are going to end it. the president wants to break chain migration and diversity visas. what are your thoughts on that? >> it's a complicated issue. i'm an academic. i'm a professor at carnegie melon and fellow at the hoover institution at stanford. and, you know, foreign students are so important to

who we are. and our great educational system. but at the same time, i do think we need better vetting processes for those coming from countries that have, you know, deep ties to extremism. and that does not mean that the united states closes its borders. but that we more sharply and smartly try to defend ourselves and think critically about who we let into the country. ainsley: the president has said that let them in on merit based system. point system. i think some of those students that you talk about will definitely be let. in thank you so much for being with us. great to see. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. this illegal immigrants was deported three times. now is he charged with murder. how does this keep happening? and did you know nearly 75% of parents help their kids out with money. so how can you give them their financial freedom? rachel cruz has that plus she is answering all your emails coming up next. ♪ we are family.

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steve: new study found that nearly 75% of parents help their adult children financially. todd: what should you be doing to make sure your kids are heading for financial freedom? here with the answers is ramsey solutions personal finance expert and author of "love your life, not theirs." racial cruz. thank you for being here. first of all, annual amazing title. i think that underscore what is people need to do with their lives. don't worry about everybody else. worry about yourself. >> that's right. love your life. not everyone else's. tunnel vision. focus on yourself. steve: rachel, we are going to be talking about parents

who have adult children. this is a little different than the situation you are. in you just had a baby. you are returning to work. first time, congratulations on the little girl. >> yes. thank you, steve. i know, girl number two. even our dog is a girl so can you pray for my husband. steve: indeed. all right. here is a letter from christie in utah. she writes: rachel, what are your thoughts on charging adult children rent? my son works and makes decent money. he saves some money but also spends a lot. i will want him to start acting like a responsible adult. is charging rent is a good first step? >> well, christie, i would say your first step actually needs to be figuring out when he is going to move out. so i find a lot of adults that are living with their parents, there is no communication around the move out date. put it in writing and say hey, in 12 months, 18 months, six months, this is when you are going to move out. make sure he is on a budget and really work on w. him on that foundational money principle so when he is out on his own is he going to be okay. if they are there too long.

yes. make uncomfortable. charge them rent. don't do their laundry. pay for food and that kind of thing. > todd: my daughter is $30,000 in debt unfortunately. i cosigned on her car and borrowed for her student loans. she unable to make the payments so i make payments for her. she has agreed to get on a plan. where do i start? >> oh, guys this is what you never cosign a loan. the reason the bank wants a cosigner they don't trust the person they are lending money to is going to pay them back. a lot of people are usually on the hook with it liz is feeling that right now which i hate. i would tell her to sit down with her daughter and figure out a plan on paying this off. and so the budget is a great place to start and figure out where to cut expenses and for her daughter to put extra payments on the debt. you want to list out your debt smallest to largest. i'm assuming her car loan is probably less than student loan. pay that off first. also tell her if she want to go to rachel cruz.com to find a financial peace university class in her

area. it's a 9 week course. great foundational principles to learn. steve: one final question from angie in georgia. paraphrase. 24-year-old daughter living on her own debt free. she pays for everything except her car insurance and the family pays for that. what do you think about that? >> well, i would say this is a example of someone very response cybil. not enabling bad behavior. not putting a strain on the parents financially keep her on the insurance. steve: just like that. good enough. rachel, once again congratulations on the baby girl. >> thanks, you guys. good see you. todd: and good luck to your husband. steve: coming up on this wednesday. corey lewandowski and david bossie are going to be joining us. we have plenty to talk to them and michelle malkin about. todd: plus, these blind folded kids had no idea christmas was about to come early. the awesome surprise you won't want to miss. stay with us. "fox & friends" returns at the top of the hour. steve: i think i know who that is. ♪ ♪

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immigration policy. >> the lottery system and chain migration. we are going to end them, fast. >> from the big screen to the oval office, the rock once again fueling the rumors about a 2020 run. >> seriously, would you run? >> i'm seriously considering it, yes. ♪ ♪ ♪ we were raised on it ♪ worked hard and played on it. ainsley: good wednesday morning to you and your family. thank you so much for waking up and watching us. steve: as you wake up on this wednesday morning, look who is in for brian. brian is on assignment and todd piro joins us live on the curvey couch. todd: it is awesome to be here. i love going to the diners but every once in a while it's nice to be on the couch and not eating 3,000-calories. ainsley: you were at diner yesterday in alabama on the election. the votes were coming in last night. that's what we are going to

talk about. it is upset in the state of alabama. democrat doug jones coming out on top against republican roy moore in that special election to fill the senate seat that was left vacant by attorney general jeff sessions. steve: but judge moore refuses to concede saying this race isn't over yet. it's too close to call; according to him. todd: jonathan siri liv sir sere live from montgomery, alabama. >> good morning todd, steve and ainsley. dowling jones is the first democrat to win a senate election in alabama since 1992. this is a solidly red state with his rerepublican opponent facing allegations of sexual. >> alabama has been at a crossroads. we have been at crossroads in the past. and unfortunately we have usually taken the wrong fork. tonight, ladies and gentlemen, you took the right road. [cheers and applause]

>> but roy moore who rode to the polls on horseback has yet to concede the race. his campaign hoping moore's vote count would come within half a percentage point of jones, which would trigger a recount. >> what we have got to do is wait on god, and let this process play out. i know it's late. we can't wait and have everybody wait until after 11:00. but the votes are still coming in and we are looking at that. >> but with jones coming in at 49.9% of the vote to moore's 48.4, a 1.5 point difference. a recount appears unlikely. president trump weighed in on twitter saying congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great and the republican also have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends. and you know, what the president is saying about these write-in votes being a

factor. it's entirely possible the margin of victory was so narrow many republicans were saying that while they couldn't vote for a democrat they were going to write in the name of a conservative other than roy moore. a total of 23,000, nearly 23,000 write-in votes cast in this election. back to you guys. steve: jonathan serrie live in alabama with the very latest. thank you very much. we should know by the end of this week, next week who exactly those write-in were for. i would suspect a lot of them were for luther strange. he is currently holding the seat that was vacated by jeff sessions. keep in mind, president trump went down to alabama for a big luther rally to rally him around the folks during the primary over roy moore because the presidents had said that roy moore couldn't win and as it turns out he was right. ainsley: mitch mcconnell also was supporting luther strange. both of them wanted him to win. the president just tweeted about it. he said the reason i

originally endorsed luther strange and his numbers went up mightily is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. steve: one of the other things remember a up pell months ago. luther strange sitting in congress right now was supported by the g.o.p. establishment and mitch mcconnell. and to many republicans, especially steve bannon, he represents the swamp. they wanted to drain the swamp. rather than support the g.o.p. candidate, the establishment candidate in luther strange, steve bannon went 100 percent behind this guy. ainsley: this is what happens when republicans don't stick together. democrats are good at that they are good at sticking together and being loyal. have you this division amongst the establishment. and steve bannon people. and so, you know, neither side is winning and the republicans lose as a result. but also this was, you know,

all of these sexual allegation allegations against roy moore. a lot of women that were going to the polls, you said yesterday, people were holding their noses they go to the polls. it's really hard as a female and go to the polls and vote for someone. even though allegations were so long ago and even though they were just allegations. after harvey weinstein they are just hard. this is a referendum on harvey weinstein not on president trump. todd: even that said, it's not that much of a win. less than 2 points as it stands now. take a look at the balance of power as it stands in the senate next year when mr. jones is presumably sworn in. it will be 51 republicans. 49 democrats. and that begs the question what is going to happen on issues. it seems to me there is a premium on getting tax reform officially done before the end of the year. next year we worry about things likes infrastructure and welfare. steve: let's worry about what's going on at the fbi. you know there is a special investigator. robert mueller's team looking into the possibility of collusion. well, remember it was a couple weeks ago it was

revealed that that guy right there, who was pictured priester strzok, he was removed from the mueller team and people are going why, exactly? because he was placed at h.r. well, it turns out he was having an affair with a government lawyer who is also on the mueller team last year. by the name of lisa page, and they had exchanged 10,000 text messages, right? in the text messages it was revealed that they were anti-trumpers. well, fox news obtained 375 of them yesterday. and we have got some of the exchanges. ainsley: i'm going to play lisa page and you are going to play peter strzok. todd: i want to play. ainsley: first of all i don't like using the lord's name in vain but she does. these are from her. i'm quoting her. she writes god, trump is a loathesome human. he writes. todd: mr. strzok write yeah he may win. they wrote many in the text but we think they meant may. oh my god he is an i had jot. god, hillary should win.

100 million to zero. steve: in another passage and this was on august the 6th, as it turns out, page said. this. ainsley: and maybe you are meant to stay where you are because you are meant to protect the country infantry from that menace. todd: thanks it's true we are both very fortunate. of course i will try to approach it that way. i know it will be tough at times. can i protect our country at many levels. not sure if that helps. steve: one more between lisa page and peter strzok. and this was just before the election after the final debate. debate. todd: mr. strzok writes i am riled up. trump is an idiot unable to provide coherent answer. steve: also one we are including and that's from lisa page to her boyfriend. so, look, you say you text on that phone when we talk about hillary bowers it can't be traced. you are going -- you were jusventing because you feel bad that you are gone so much but that can't be helped

right now. so ultimately they were thinking hey, we are in the fbi. this might become public some day. let's use another phone. todd: how slowly did they arrive at that that really calls into question. they are just intelligence. ainsley: they are entitled to have their own opinions about politics. when they are sharing them like this and saying things like they have, they had this duty to the country. steve: they are involved in the investigation. ainsley: it just seems so shady. we asked what you thought. tony on facebook says this whole thing stinks to high heaven. it's obvious to us all on both sides that d.c. cannot handle being impartial to get the truth. i mean, i heard on fox last night that we just need to end this investigation. either end it or start it over. many other people weighed in on this, too. steve: lori on twitter says isn't anyone else tired of all the liberal interference in our justice system. stop playing politics and look for real crimes. if there was collusion surely all these highly qualified agents would have hard proof by now. todd: melanie on facebook writes facebook

steve: you know, there are some who are calling for an investigation of the investigators: but we had bill mcgurn on from the "wall street journal" about an hour ago and he said let mr. mueller do his job because clearly he is trying to be unbiased because he, you know, he threw both those people off the team. we are learning all these things about other people and rod rosen steenel himself the guy who appointed mr. mueller as the special investigator is going to be up on capitol hill. he is going to be in the hot seat later today. ainsley: all right. we will hand it over to jillian who has more medicine lines for you and your family. jillian: a lot of news happening today. good morning to you guys. north korea is vowing to beef up their nuclear arsenal as nations around the world warn them it's time to stop. dictator kim jong un telling scientists he wants to increase the quality and number of deadly weapons. but secretary of state rex tillerson says now is the

time for diplomacy. >> we are ready to have the first meeting without precondition. it's not realistic to say we are only going to talk if you come to the table ready to give up your program. jillian: last month north korea launched most advanced missile yet capable of striking anywhere in the u.s. this serial killer says he didn't do it. howell donaldson iii entering a written not guilty plea in court. is he facing charges in connection with four murders over six weeks in the seminole heights neighborhood. police say he has admitted to owning the gun that fired the fatal shots. prosecutors must still decide if they will seek the death penalty. congress choosing to not act on the iran nuclear deal, putting the decision back in the hands of president trump. in october, the president announced he would not certify iran's compliance with the nuclear deal. that decision triggering a 60-day review period during which congress could have decided to slap tougher economic sanctions back into

place. president trump has called the deal unfair to the u.s. this is the best christmas present these kids will ever get. austin and brook sullivan called to the center court at the sacramento kings game for what they throughout was a contest with the mascot. but it turned out to be so much better. ♪ i'm coming home i'm coming home. jillian: kids totally shocked to see their dad army sergeant don sullivan. how sweet. he just returned from 8 month tour in afghanistan right in time for the holidays. those things get me every time. steve: me too. right there. todd: net just of those they are so amazing. ainsley: nba gets it right. whole crowd. how you cannot stand for the national anthem when you see something like that. the whole crowd went wild. steve: thank you, jillian.

ended on a high note. ainsley: he is home for christmas. steve: he is indeed. turns out failed port authority bomber taunted president trump on facebook before he almost blew himself up. retired marine johnny joey jones lost both of his legs in a bomb blast in afghanistan. he is here to react to that next. ainsley: one season ticket holder is so fed up with the anthem protesters is he now suing the team. do you think he has a case? ♪ ♪ ♪ when heartburn hits fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites.

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in afghanistan and he joins us now from atlanta. thank you so much, joey, for joining us and thank you for your sacrifice. >> absolutely. thanks for having me. ainsley: you are expert at this. what exactly went wrong? >> well, from the information we're getting, which isn't fully and complete and there is some conflicting evidence here, but it sounds like he used some sort of black powder which in and of itself is a low explosive which means if you ignite it, it will burn quickly but you need a container to create overpressure and an explosion. and it sounds like the container itself mall amongst functioned there was a weak spot probably where the caps of the pipe went on and that broke before the overpressure was created allowing any form of explosion. if he did use black powder and match heads which it sounds like he did, those are low explosives. they literally just burn but they burn really quickly. they don't create overpressure like you would get from a high explosive and even the home make like imodium nitrate black powder or match heads or low

explosives you need a container to create effect. ainsley: if this was bad chemistry what would have happened if it was good chemistry. how serious could this have been? >> depends on size and scope of the objects and main charge and whats it made of. we take all explosives and compare them to tnt. two pounds of tnt that explosive effect is the same as a much larger poundage of c 4. weaker than tnt. the most common homemade explosive ammonium nitrate. looking at the diameter couple pounds of ammonium nitrate. flattened out his body will absorb half the explosion which would be good obviously for the people around him. he wasn't very good at making bombs and it sounds like a low order. sounds like the container did not do its job in holding the explosion long enough to create overpressure. so, he gets f on bomb making

and a on keeping people alive. ainsley: you fought overseas so we don't have to fight here at home and we can prevent things like this from happening here at home. you actually lost both of your legs fighting for our country and then have you guy this guy that comes in with a chain migration program and they found a note in his passport o america, die in your rage. what is your response to how are you on country is louing people to come in because they are a relative not vetted some people might say. >> i think the idea of a lottery system or chain migration being how we choose people to come into this country it's risky to say the least. i think we have amazing place here and for generations we fought and died and sacrificed. i know a little bit about that to make it this way. we just want to make those who come here understand that and appreciate it and want to buy into it. if that's through a better vetted system. overall of migration. you can be pro-immigration and also pro-national security. that's the stance i take. and i hope that our

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$200 how much tip he left on $17 breakfast diner in arizona. anonymous man leaving a note on his bill wishing the staff merry christmas. each worker got 200 bucks. that is awesome. >> so nice. finally number one. hurricanhurricane irma top sear. slammed into the coast back in the month of september. that is some of the news. todd: hit of the grammys with make america great again dress. steve: she has found her own way to make america great again. ainsley: here with exclusive announcement joy villa. joy, what is your big announcement? >> good morning. my big announcement is that i am officially launching my exploratory committee into a congressional run for the state of florida. i'm looking from everywhere from jacksonville all the

way down to miami. steve: congratulations. so you want to go to washington. what's your platform? obviously having talked to you before, you are out to drain the swamp, right? >> that's right. i mean, have you looked at congress lately? in the news we see that they're getting nothing done. they are a house of cards that is tumbling. i mean, healthcare reform they couldn't get done. immigration they can't get done. they are not working with the president, which means we need to put new people in, we need to vote fresh blood. in and we need to really make america great again where people are going to work for the aims of the president, not lobbyists, not washington elitists. todd: joy, i have to ask this, hollywood, as you may or may not know are not very pro-trump. not very pro-republican. how do you think this is going to impact your singing career? >> well, i'm working on my second album now. so i will get that out before i officially launch my campaign, if i were to run. right now we are looking to all the areas. we are polling. we are seeing what's going

to work. and hoping to scare some of those rino. >> rinos that are there to watch their back. we cannot afford to lose any congress run runs in 2018. i kno hollywood doesn't like me. i made my own money. hit number one on billboards amazon without hollywood's help. i'm hoping to appeal to the american people and really to get this swamp out of here and good people who care about america back in congress. i think florida deserves good representation. ainsley: joy, it's amazing what happens to your life and genuine and true to yourself. you were very bold wearing the trump dress out in hollywood on the red carpet. isn't it amazing how that dress took you to number one on, you know, amazon and itunes. >> yes. ainsley: now you are exploring the possibility of running for congress and changing our country and trying to make it better. >> that's right u that's right. that's what this is about.

being an artist, i come from a creative standpoint. i see solutions where i think a lot of people don't. i'm not a part of hollywood elites. i'm not a part of washington elites. i'm part of the american populist population. and i truly want to back up the president. i was at the white house the other night. and i got to see the president at the white house christmas party. ivanka actually pulled me aside and said i really want you to run. we need more strong women to back up, you know, what america needs. so it's looking good. this congressional possibility is looking more and more like a reality. and i'm proud to dive into it. steve: back on october 27thth the president tweeted to good luck @ joy villa to enter the wonderful world of politics. she has many fans he writes. good luck on the exploratory committee and figuring out if you are going to run down in florida. if you do win, you already have the election night dress. it's ready. >> it's pretty wonderful, exactly. can you go to joy villa.com or bring joy to congress if

you like to donate and check out what my issues are. and it's time to get something done in congress. ainsley: now you need a joy villa dress. >> that's right. ainsley: since he was running you wore his dress. steve: bring joy to congress. >> thank you, ainsley and steve. thank you guys. ainsley: thank you, joy. steve: straight ahead on this wednesday, numbers don't lie, new study says 90% of the media's coverage on the evening news of president trump in the last three months has been negative. shocking. corey lewandowski, david bossie say it's proof trump is right. both of them live next. todd: plus, have you guys seen this pick? hilarious hidden message from this baby. yes. of the baby is sendin sending hidden messages from santa's lap it is going to make your morning. don't go anywhere when "fox & friends" returns ♪ he knows when you're awake ♪ he knows when you've been bad or good ♪ so be good for goodness sake

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♪ ♪ i got america faith. steve: live from new york city and washington, d.c. is "fox & friends" for this wednesday. thank you very much for joining us. a lot to talk to corey lewandowski and david bossie co-authors of "let trump be trump" soon to be a big best seller i have a feeling. i read it this weekend. >> thanks, steve. steve: everybody is talking this morning about text messages between the two fbi agents who had been on the mueller probe but then were kicked off by robert mueller. as it turns out they were real trump haters to begin with. and, you know, they had inappropriate things to say about everything. we are learning this because a letter was sent from the doj last night to bob good let who is the chairman of the house jewish area committee because they have rod rosenstein in the hot seat today. corey, as you look at these

text messages. what do they prove to you? >> well, steve, what this proves to me is that there is a true deep state out there. there are people who do not support this president who continue to serve in the government. and, look, these were career government officials. number one, what no one is talking about these two were having illicit affair between the two of them. number one. number two, this person who sent these text messages is still working for the fbi and they have taken the person and moved them to the human resources department. i don't understand it, steve. how does this continue to occur. >> so they can hire new bad fbi agents. i mean, this guy has to government he can't stay as a member of the fbi. ainsley: what do you make of the media bias? obviously many people are wondering if there is bias in the fbi. but then there is also bias in the media because, according to the media research center, think documented all year long the media coverage and highlighted september,ing on the, november. look at that everything in red are the negative stories. the green you can barely

even see are the positive stories. this was abc, nbc, and cbs. in september they had 359 negative comments. 31 positive. in october 435 negative. 41 positive. and in november 320 negative. 3 positive. what do you make of this? because they are supposed to not be biased. this is the evening news. >> well, this is what the president has been fighting for almost two years now. the buyer campaign he fought these type of numbers. this type of bias in the media. during his first year in the white house he has had to do the same thing. you look at just this past week, abc news, cnn, "the washington post," and others have had to disavow stories by their reporters. they have lied to the american people, set up a narrative that is false about this president. and then they have to retract them. and of course they retract them on page, you know, 98 in a small paragraph. but the damage is done.

and that's why this president has to fight back. that's why he uses his twitter so effectively. and that's why he speaks past the media, directly to the american people. todd: even though it seems a lot of republicans you will hearsay i don't want him to do that. there are a whole bunch who says he needs to do that. get to alabama. doug jones won the alabama senate seat or so it appears. what does this mean for the future of president trump's agenda? a settled debate between steve and i. i think that doug jones may sort of have to be a republican because is he in alabama and democrat in alabama is like a republican. steve says he is going to be a schumer shoe. what say you, corey? >> i have to agree with this steve on this one. he is a very short-term senator. you will get a good conservative run against him and take that seat back probably mo brooks or somebody like that will come in and step. in that is a seat that should have been held by a republican. he was a fundamentally flawed candidate. the republican was. he had a lot of problems. he was not the candidate

that donald trump supported or endorsed in the primary. what you have to look at is the president has now congratulated the new victor and unlike some other people in the election, he has accepted the election results. hillary is still yet to have accepted those election results. the president has done the right thing. but i don't think you are going to see a conservative joe manchin type democrat in that seat in alabama. ainsley: david, how did that happen? how did he become the candidate? have you many people now are blaming mitch mcconnell for supporting the establishment and then that allowed roy moore to get on the ballot. >> well, this race, you know, came down to very few votes. and i -- so i do put blame on a lot of the folks that pulled out their support and then came back in late. we needed to have a republican in order to be able to help this president with his very aggressive agenda for the american people. and why he got elected. now, you know, the democrat has won. but i have got to tell threw is blame to go around. but this president didn't

support this candidate in the primary. you know, he kind of played the hand that was dealt to him. so, we wanted a republican to get up here to help him in his senate agenda. buff, you know, the elections and the people of alabama have spoken. steve: and the republicans still hold a slim majority in the u.s. senate. all right. corey, let's talk a little bit about this. david just mentioned the president's agenda. mr. trump is going to be giving a speech later on today. he is trying to push taxes across the finish line. what have you heard is going on in the senate? >> >> steve, what you are going to find very close to getting this bill con. it looks likes a early as monday or tools of this exnext week there could be a vote in the senate it could then go over to the house for a vote. either tuesday or potentially wednesday. we could have this on the president's desk for a signature before christmas. wouldn't that be a great christmas gift? it would be the biggest tax cut that our country has seen ever. the largest tax cut that we

have ever had. relief for small businesses. relief from middle class americans. and it is a campaign promise that he made. and is he following through on. and i think that you are going to see it on the president's desk in the beginning part of next week. probably a week from today he will be signing this. todd: let me ask you this final question. do you think there will be on some concessions to republicans in states where you have a situation where they cave to those individuals so that those republicans don't lose in 2018 or are they just going to say guys, you're on your own. we still think we are going to carry the house even if you lose? >> no, no, no. this is a work in progress. and i think that they are clearly trying to figure out whether they have to lower the individual rates to get some of those folks along. whether it's increasing the corporate rate by a point or two to get the salt issue taken care of. and make sure that there is

money there to pay for it but they are going to get this bill done. the republicans in congress are working. you know, incredibly well together, both in the house and senate and conference is working hard. this president is excited. i think that we're going to see this by christmas. this economy, which is booming, booming over the last 10 months is just going to take off once this tax reform package is passed. steve: pretty soon i think we will see some details. corey and david, we thank you very much for joining us from our nation's capital. i'm sure both of you would say new book called let trump be trump be the perfect stocking stuff for this christmas and holiday season. >> we agree, steve. >> we agree. ainsley: put in a box if it doesn't fit in a stocking. steve: thank you. todd: i did lose a bet to sing now i have to sing whatever he wants me to sing. steve: tonight is karaoke. ainsley: are you a singer? jillian: no. i can't sing. i can't dance. ainsley: that makes two of

us. jillian: i can't do anything fun. talk about headlines this morning. illegal immigrant who was deported three times now charged in a cold case murder. juan flores already serving time for illegally reentering the country. he could now spend even more time behind bars. the mexican citizen is accused of shooting and killing jose munoz at auto shop back in texas in 2007. police got a tip will the slaying last year. they found comparisons between flores and physical evidence at the murder scene. new orleans sangt season ticket holder suing favorite nfl team over national anthem protest. the fan says he paid $8,000 for tickets but only went to one game. the lawsuit claims players who stay in the tunnel or take a knee prevent his family from enjoying themselves and that the boos from the crowd make for a bad family environment. he is asking for a full refund. a toddler has the best reaction to sitting down for a picture with santa.

instead of smiling or crying. he uses sign language begging for help. i bet he didn't know that though. his mom tweeting the photo that quickly went viral. her son samuel is by the way now 13 years old. he was just about a year when this photo was taken in utah. it's so great that she reposts it every year. i think that's hilarious. ainsley: she was teaching him sign language and he said help? ainsley: debatable whether he did that on purpose. ainsley: we are all teaching our kids sign language now. my daughter will say please. and she knows how to say more and thank you. that's awesome the mom did teach him. steve: anyway this many years later it's gone viral. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. janice dean you were talking about how cold it was outside. janice: it is so cold. steve: only one personal behind you it's so cold. janice: i have this christmas hat that's really long so i can put it over my mouth if i need to. who are you and what are you doing here? >> i'm scott mckay and i'm

out here fighting the cold to see janice and the "fox & friends." janice: oh my gosh. where are from you? >> i'm from louisiana. >> born and raised? >> born and raise dollars. >> what do you think of this 10-degree wind chill. >> colder than home. janice: where is your family. >> two boys in the hotel room still sleeping. janice: bring them out we have a circus later on. big story today it is really cold out. current temperatures 20 in new york. with the wind chill feels like 10 degrees. there is your 24-hour temperature change. 20-degree difference from what it was here in no. lake effect snow moving on in and little bit of a quick snow across the northeast. when are you leaving back for louisiana. >> leaving sunday. jab january it will warm up a little bit. say hi to your family real quick. >> hi, everybody. janice: back inside. i'm coming in, too. steve: i don't blame you. it's cold outside. coming up on this wednesday, just hours from now deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will be grilled, on capitol hill. what can we expect?

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steve: the dallas police department is facing a shortage in police officers. the chief there says millennials are partly to blame. >> we have nights, weekends and holidays and those are some of the things that are not necessarily attractive to the millennials who want all days off and to be the chief in six months. so we recognize that that is a challenge for us. >> steve: no kidding. to increase interest, chief renee hall is even looking at eliminating some of the automatic disqualifiers like past minor drug use. is lowering the admission requirements the right idea? here to weigh in is former police officer, investigator, and crime and justice expert vincent hill. vincent. good morning to you. look at the kids today.

they don't want to work the weekends and don't want to work at night they want to be chief by six months' service. >> yeah. >> well she is absolutely right. job quick gratification and promotion and things of that nature. she is right. it's not a 9 to 5 job. it's very stressful. there is no #care bear in policing. it's a very stressful job that i really don't believe millennials are even prepared to do. steve: that's a problem. recruitment right now is down. what do you think about the suggestion that some police departments might have to actually lower the hiring standards? >> well, listen, steve, chief hall is in a very tough spot. she is the new top cop. crime suspect 4% for violent crimes in her city. other cities in texas are 90% lower in crimes overall. he is in a very tough spot. however, i really don't necessarily agree with lowering the standards of hiring recuse because police

have to be held to a here standard of those they are have to protect. any time you start lowering the standards you get what you pay for. steve: you suggest for instance what she should do there in texas she should go over to some of the military bases like fort hood, shepard air force base, places like that and make a pitch there because those people who have already dedicated their lives to public service would be a great fit in the police department. >> yeah. absolutely. fort hood is only three hours away. shepherds air force base is only 4 hours away. i personally went to the police academy just two weeks after getting out of the military. out of the army. i was a top recruit for the police academy. i was prepared mentally. i was prepared physically to do the job of policing. so, i would stress hiring better qualified candidates, going out, doing recruitment at military bases where you are going to get qualified candidates willing to do the job. steve: exactly. willing to do the job and

understanding what the job is. it's tough these days. vincent hill, we thank you for joining us today with your point of view from atlanta. >> you bet. steve: hours from now deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will be grilled on capitol hill. what can we expect? catherine herridge is live in d.c. next. first on this day in 2000, al gore conceded the presidency to george w. bush after weeks of legal battles in florida. steve: and in 2003, iraq dictator saddam hussein was captured by the american military after spending nine months on the run. and in 1989, billy joel, number one with this song. ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ steve: well, just a couple hours from right now, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will be in the hot seat over alleged political bias at the department of justice. apes ain't and in a plot twist, he will be hearing it from both sides of the aisle. todd: fox news chief intelligenccorrespondent cathere herridge. >> we are expecting the deputy attorney general to face aggressive text messages sent at the height of the email into the a russian investigation. we understand rod rosenstein will be pressed why the justice department and fbi have apparently thrown up block after block when it comes to providing records and testimony about the surveillance of trump campaign associates as well as the degree to which the fbi relied on the unverified trump dossier funded by the dnc and clinton campaign to

obtain the warrants and that's key because the president's political appointees are now running both departments. and the fbi director was pressed on a lot of these issues just last week. >> did fbi pay for a dossier on the president? >> questions about the dossier are something that are better taken up in separate settings. >> did bob mueller recruit people to his probe that had a bias against the president? >> i can't speak to how director mueller's staffed or recruited for his team. >> we are also expecting questions on the stalls of deputy director andrew mccabe who was at the center of the justice department email probe. also fbi agent strzok who sent the anti-trump text and reassigned to the russia probe. status of another fbi agent point man for the british spy who put together the anti-trump dossier. on the anti-trump text, if you analyze these texts in the context of the major milestones and the email and russia probes. they really appear to be cast in a different light.

if you look at these texts from late july and august, they really come at a critical time. this is when the clinton email probe was first closed and it's also when the fbi reopened or rather opened the counter intelligence investigation into russia. so i would encourage people to look at these texts and look at them sort of as a second layer of analysis with the time line and the major events so they can understand the context in which they were sent, guys. steve: excellent point, catherine, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. steve: for folks who would like to look at all 375 released by the department of justice. they are on our website foxnews.com. ainsley: president trump taking a step what he just did for our troops is coming up. todd: michelle malkin joins us live at the top of the hour. don't go anywhere. "fox & friends" returns on a wednesday morning. ♪ might as well jump ♪ jump ♪ might as well jump

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>> they have shown not just around the state of alabama, but we have shown the country the way that we can be unified. >> doug jones the democrat becoming the first member of his party being elected to the as you say senate from alabama in 25 years. >> it's not over, and it's going to take some time. thank you. >> in just the last two months, we've seen terror attacks in new york city. as a result of failed immigration policy. >> 375 of the text messages between those fbi officials who worked on the mueller probe. we read them. and as it turns out, they hate donald trump. >> the talk of the grammys.

steve: well, now the holiday outsider has found their own way to make america great again. >> i'm officially launching my exploratory committee into my congressional run for the state of florida. ♪ ♪ ♪ shake it off. i shake it off. i shake it off. steve: happy birthday, taylor swift. she is 28. ainsley: 28 years old. she has so much success at 20. brian: wait until you're 30. ainsley: i like her style. i like her new music. steve: and she was actually here on fox and friends either when she was 13 or 14 years old playing right there on the applause. ainsley: do you like the ol old taylor or new taylor or both? >> e-mail us. steve: we have the fox news alert and the biggest upset in

alabama last night. democrat doug jones coming out on top against republican roy moore to replace seat of attorney general jeff sessions. >> but this race is not over yet. ainsley: jonathan live for us. jonathan. >> good morning, steve, ainsley, and todd. you know, those allegations against roy moore were probably the biggest factor in changing the partisan dynamics of this race. you have doug jones becoming the first democrat elected to the senate from alabama since the year 1992. listen. >> we have shown not just around the state of alabama but we have shown the country the way that we can be unified. [. [cheers and applause] >> but roy moore who road to the polls on horseback is yet to concede the race hoping the count would become half a percentage point of jones, which would trigger a recount. >> we also that know god is

always in control. you know, part of the things -- part of the problem with this campaign is we've been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. we've been put in a hole, if you will. >> but with doug jones leading more than 1.5 points, a recount at this point appears unlikely. the vote tally also includes nearly 23,000 writein votes. president trump tweeted congratulations to doug jones on a hard-fought victory. the writein votes played a very big factor but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great and the republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends. now, because doug jones has been set to from the unfinished term of jeff sessions who left to become attorney general, jones faces reelection in 2020.

so not a lot of time to prepare for that. back to you guys. >> jonathan live for us in montgomery, alabama. jonathan, thank you. hey, guys, who you know predicted this? one donald trump, and he tweeted this. the reason i originally introduced luther strange and his numbers went up mightily is i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the debt was stacked against him. steve: yeah, i'm reading a lot of stuff online this morning, and he said the biggest loser is steve bannon. the one who had been pushing judge roy moore because luther strange currently has the job sitting in for jeff sessions was supported by mitch mcconnell and steve bannon felt exactly that mitch mcconnell represented gop establishment, he was part of the swamp, wanted to do that. so that's why he pushed roy moore, even though the president originally had supported mr. strange. and then once it was clear last weekend that roy moore was within the margin of

error, maybe a little ahead, the president came out and gave the full-throated endorsement because he didn't want the democrats to take that seat. ainsley: you want to do what's best for this party but also allegations against this guy that made it a little shady and a lot of women out there were yes very concerned if these allegations were true. i know it was a tough time ago. but people going to the polls holding their nose because it just didn't smell right. steve: because alabama hasn't voted a democrat since 1992. ainsley: so much going on. steve: well, as we just heard from jonathan, cory lewandowski said, look, a democrat's in that seat right now. but it won't be for long. listen. >> he's there for a couple of years. you're going to get a good conservative run against him and take that seat back. probably mo brooks or someone like that. that's a seat that should be headlight by republican. he was a fundamentally flawed candidate. he was not the candidate that donald trump supported or

endorsed in the primary. but what you have to look at is the president has now congratulated the new victor and unlike some other people in the election, he has accepted the election results. hillary is yet to accept those election results. so the president has done the right thing. steve: so the president has done the right thing, and they say that this guy won't be in the seat much longer. it is a deep red state. a republican will run and win. that's their prediction. >> everybody's talking about this. those anti-trump texts revealed fox news has obtained messages from that agent. ainsley: the guy right there. >> there he is. involved in the mueller probe. well, here they are. and i read them at 7:00. you read them at 6:00, steve. peter struck again. steve: i will be the voice of struck and ainsley will be the voice of page. paige says. and the fbi investigator says yet he may win.

good for hillary. omg. he's an idiot. god hillary should win 100 million to zero. and then during some of the midsummer on let's see that would be august the 6th, paige said this. ainsley: and maybe you're meant to stay where you are because you're meant to protect the country from that menace. steve: and he says thanks. it's absolutely true that we're both very fortunate and, of course, i'll try to approach it that way. i just know it could be tough at times. i would just like to protect my country at many levels. not sure that helps. ainsley: and goes on for that part of the investigation. steve: and he says i'm riled up. trump is an f'ing idiot. unable to provide a coherent answer. now, keep in mind, peter struck, this is the guy who was involved in the hillary clinton e-mail server thing and clearly it looks like earlier liked her much more than donald trump. he's the one who changed the language. he was involved in

interviewing michael flynn. he was at all of these important things in the fbi investigation of donald trump. exonerating hillary clinton and clearly, they hate trump. >> what i keep coming back to, and i just don't understand how bob mueller could select or have these individuals on his team that are so polarized. steve: but as soon as he found out about it because the inspector general is doing an investigation, he bounced them. brian: and that's good. that's good on his part but how do these individuals get in that position in the first place? i have to think that out there while we all have our opinions, and we can't hide from our opinions, you don't have to put them in your fbi text and e-mail phone and, you know, you need to be smarter than that if you're in this position. nevertheless you have to find somebody -- there's so many people out there as a lawyer who would be willing to take this on who aren't as polarized who aren't as. steve: in washington, d.c. most of the people who are part of the government are democrat. >> great point.

ainsley: a lot of people are mad about that. correction officers are mad about this because colin kaepernick made a surprise visit to rikers island, which is an island here in new york where a lot of inmates are housed in the jail. steve: the jail. ainsley: so he goes there to speak about police brutality. he's talking in front of the prisoners about police brutality and the officers, they were so upset. steve: that's right. and, in fact, one of the organizations that supports the police, the union says that's crazy to me to have someone like colin kaepernick talking about police brutality. it was insulting for me to be there. in the inmates eyes, we are the police when they are locked up. and here's the thing. apparently they said when the invitation was issued, they said the message of the visit was going to be of hope and inspiration. but as it turns out, it was about police brutality and racial inequality. ainsley: well, and he's the guy who wore the pig socks not

supporting police. >> as you might imagine, a number of of you on facebook and twitter and e-mail land are speaking out about this. samantha on facebook wrote have him spend a few days as an officer or military overseas and see if he learns respect. ainsley: give him prison guard and he might change his attitude. i think we should all stop giving this guy the time of guy. steve: and what is kaepernick solving by this? all he does is feed the division. a statement by the corrections officer association. that's the correct organization. this will only encourage inmates to attack correction officers at a time where we need more protection. once again, correction officers found themselves caught in mayor de blasio's political congame. ainsley: who invited him? steve: good question. >> how many times have we heard on this couch on air here at fox news channel people saying why doesn't he use his platform for good? this is another opportunity, and it looks like another

fail. steve: well, the cop superiors says he showed up yesterday. jillian has some news. >> he's been talking about social injustice for almost a year now. crazy. anyway, let's talk about north korea because this is serious news we want to get to. north korea vowing to beef up the nuclear arsenal as nations around the world warn them it is time to stop. dictator kim jong-un saying he wants to increase the quality and number of deadly weapons. secretary of state rex tillerson says now is the time for diplomacy. >> we're ready to have the first meeting. it's not realistic to say we're only going to talk if you come to the table ready to give up your program. >> last month, north korea launched its most advanced missile yet potentially capable of striking anywhere in the u.s. president trump slated to make his final sale pitch on tax reform. surrounded by families and military personnel at the white house this afternoon.

the speech comes as house and senate republicans hammer out last-minute details pushing to get a bill to's desk before christmas. a final vote koop next week. also happening today, an announcement on who will replace outgoing senator al franken. minnesota governor mark date john, a democrat will purportedly choose his lieutenant governor democrat tina smith. this falling an avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations against franken. he still hasn't officially resigned, but he claimed he will step down in the coming weeks. the 2018 rock 'n' roll hall of fame were just announced moments ago. ♪ ♪ new jersey rock icon bon jovi highlighting the class of 2018 also making the cut dire straight. ♪ ♪ >> new wave group the cars

moody blues soul singer and powerhouse are all part of the 33rd ceremony which is set to take place in april. there you have it, guys. ainsley: bon jovi. that's fun. steve: jillian, thank you. meanwhile, the botched subway bomber here in new york city got to the united states through chain migration. somebody in his family got invited in and brought the whole family. and the president attorney general now vowing to end chain migration. but our next guest says the fix lies in congress' hands. >> and is the rock cooking up a presidential run? well, he just dropped a big hint. the answer to that question. ready to rock question mark? fox and friends returns keyboard clacking ]

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terror attack here in new york city by that guy as we learn the suspect entered the united states on bangladesh on a chain migration visa. apparently his aunt or uncle got in, brought the whole family, including him. emigration statistics show 25,000 people have came in. we highlighted 2011 because that's the year he came in. executive director of the center for emigration studies. mark, you say chain migration and then again this diversity lottery program that the last terrorist for new york came in on, they both have to end and end now. >> yes. because they actually when you put them together, make up the majority. the large majority of each year's new green card recipients. and, you know, what they represent is that immigrants

themselves are coming to america. the lottery, which is how this guy's uncle got here in the first place is literally a lottery. it's random whoever sends in an application, they draw their names randomly and presto, you get to come to the united states and and once that uncle. it turns out it was an uncle. once he got citizenship, he was able to sponsor under our chain migration system his adult brothers and sisters. so in this case his sister was this dirt bag's mother was sponsored, she came in with her spouse, all of her children, including this guy who was an adult when he came here. he was 20 years old and yet he was covered by this special chain migration category. steve: sure. here is another jaw-dropping statistic narc. in 2017, 99% of more than 12,000 immigrant visas were family-based. look at that. so 99% of the folks who came in were all part of the chain migration. >> right. it's basically our

nepotism in immigration where last year's immigrants decide who next year's immigrants are going to be instead of using some kind of yardstick where we say, look, you're a rocket scientist or whatever you are, a doctor, and that's why we want to pick you because you will be able to help finishing move here. >> right. and one of the things that you say is family immigration brings in low education, low skills, high cost to the taxpayers. i'll give you the last 20 seconds. >> yeah. absolutely. not because every relative who comes in is poorly educated, but we're not screening for that, so we end upbringing in lots of low-skilled people that don't help the country in the long run. >> well, let's see what the country does because the ball is in their court. mark, thank you very much. >> all right. steve: an incredible act of sportsmanship. a marathon runner collapsing at the end of the race.

but one team made it a finish for the ages. both of those runners. join us next.

ainsley: we have some quick headlines for you. the archdiocese of washington, d.c. is keeping their fight for faith alive. it is now appealing a judge's decision to block christmas advertisements on city buses. the ads were turned down for being too religious. they urge people to quote find the perfect gift for the pictures you see there on the right-hand side of the three wise men. a commission clearing the way

for the ten commandments after a man plowed through it in 24 hours after it was put up in june. ainsley: a pneumonic meant will include four concrete posts for protection around monument. it goes up in a few weeks. steve: meanwhile, a high school senior is getting national attention after she showed us what true sportsmanship looks like. >> as the team was finishing the final two miles of a marathon as part of a real a team, a fellow runner went downfall after fall, she stopped to help the woman to the finish line so she could win the women's division of the bnw dallas marathon. steve: joining us now is chandler herself and the woman who helped her cross the finish line. chandler, good morning. glad to bring you two back together.

chandler, tell us what was going on with you in about the last two miles. >> oh, man. so the last two miles i could start to feel my legs giving out from beneath me, but i had to keep going from about 200 meters from the finish line, i could see the finish line. steve: tell us what's going on right there. >> that's when i felt like 1,000 knives were stabbing into my quads all at the exact same time, so they would not. they wouldn't -- they gave from underneath me. ainsley: and this isn't your first marathon. how many marathons? >> i've run nine marathons, and that has never happened before. ainsley: you are a trouper. had to work in a hospital because so many patients from the bombing were at your hospital, and you worked a 12-hour day. >> so you're watching this happen. why did you do what you did? >> well, i just reacted with compassion for another runner. i mean, it's something that anybody would have done. even if it's a complete

stranger. that's just what you do. ainsley: even if it affected your time? because by stopping, it affected your time. >> right. right. so i competed in a relay, so i only two miles. she ran the entire marathon in a incredible time. so clearly, she's the winner here. steve: as she helped you up, she pushed you across the line first. >> yes. she did, and she has an incredible amount of sportsmanship and just kindness and, you know, she saw what was happening, and she wanted to help me out and i think that's so inspiring for all of us that we need to all see kindness like what she did for me. ainsley: when you got up to run, did you think you were going to be on national television? >> no. i just wanted to come home and run my hometown marathon. i'm from rock wall, texas, which is outside of dallas, so i came home to see my family

just before christmas break. i'm actually not going to be able to go home for christmas this year. because my parents and i are going to climb mount kilimanjaro. steve: what a family. of course. that's how you do it. >> so i decided to come home this weekend to spend time with my brother and his family and his kids, so i decided to run a marathon when i was home, and i had no idea that this would happen. steve: you know, doctor, had you fallen in new york -- or there are a lot of places in this world that somebody would not help you get up. >> it's the southern hospitality. ainsley: real quickly, what did you learn from this? >> that it's so easy to make a difference in somebody else's life. i mean, my parents have always taught me to do random acts of kindness on the daily. but i didn't quite think it would be this easy to make a difference in somebody else's life. like, you can literally just pick someone else up when they're down. ainsley: and you literally did. steve: and then you pushed her across the ignition line

first. >> she's the winner here. >> and this medal, it's really cool. steve: can we go ahead and look at that? there we go. >> it does the thing. thank you so much for having me. ainsley: saving her running, and you're saving lives in the hospital. all right. thank you very much. meanwhile, on this wednesday, the president and attorney general vowing to end the chain migration visa program, which allowed the port authority bomber to enter the united states. michelle says it should be a top priority c. she's going to join us live next. >> and when is she not happy? she's really happy right now, and that's because singing is good for your health. we've got the scientific proof. work it, janice. work it. steve: it looks like she dipped into the eggnog.

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>> the failures of our immigration system are also a national security issue. in just the last two months, we've seen two terrorist attacks in new york city. carried out by men who were here as a result of failed immigration policy. the diversity lottery, which makes no sense and has never made no sense and chain migration. steve: there you have the attorney general of the united states and the president of the united states as well calling for the end of the diversity lottery program and chain migration. this is something that michelle, host of michelle investigates on crtv has been talking about for years. ever since you wrote that book invasion. and now, michelle, we had another reason why to examine

it after this guy came into the country from bangladesh after his uncle won the lottery. >> yeah. it is crazy so many years after 9/11 we continue to hand out like candy visas, which is such a precious commodity. i mean, there are millions of people around the world who are clamoring to get in here the right way. and the fact that we still do it randomly tells you how much insanity politically incorrect insanity has set in. i mean, it was just seven weeks ago with the truck jihadist who also got in here through the diversity visa lottery and also benefited from the chain migration insanity that we had people saying, oh, yeah, we've got to get rid of it. we've got to get rid of it. and i'm so exacerbated, my friends because i've been calling for the end of this program for the last 15 years. 15 years ago, it was a visa lottery winner through his

wife who denied asylum and stayed in this country because of the golden ticket that his wife won, walked up to the israeli airline counter and gunned down two people. and back then, we had bipartisan agreement. yeah, we've got to get rid of this program. it makes no sense in a world of jihad and a world where every last one of our immigration enforcement agencies is completely overwhelmed. we should value citizenship and entry into this country much more than we have been and both parties have shrugged their shoulders. there have been legislative builds, stand alone builds to eliminate the diversity visa program for the last 15 years. they've gathered dust. the safe act before the house judiciary committee in 2011 stood there doing nothing. we have the raise act which would have eliminated the visa lottery program. it's been gathering dust. how many more people have to die or be threatened before we get rid of this stupid? ainsley: michelle, will anything change thunder

presidency? >> well, look, we've had president trump call very forcefully for the end of this program. it is up to congress, and i think what people, what voters what about taxpayers need to do is have a lobby that's effective as the dream act lobby. look, you have all of these republicans now running around pressuring paul ryan to have a, quote, unquote, daca fix. they think it's more important to have a daca fix than to protect 700,000 illegal animals rather than getting rid of these programs that are ruining americans' lives. >> attorney general rod rosenstein testified amid more discoveries of the anti-trump bias on bob mueller's team. let me ask you this. is he going to be able to answer anything? or is this just going to be a series of, you know, i can't answer that. i can't answer that. are we going to learn anything today? >> i think the question answers itself, todd. i think you've got it exactly right. and this is why people are so

frustrated. how many hearings do we need to have to confirm what's already obvious that we've got these tentacles of these pro obama hillary operatives who have hijacked our intelligence operations for their own political partisan ends. and, you know, we've heard the question in washington and public debate, well, why doesn't president trump fire rod rosenstein and all of these people who who have been infiltrated and hijacked these agencies? and my question is why don't these people step down? why are they still in power? get rid of them. go away. steve: well, it's -- it will be great watching it, and it will be on the channel here late this morning because last week we heard from the fbi director all of those things you're asking me about i can't answer them because we've got this inspector general who has an vegetation of. so that was a dodge there. but rod rosenstein is actually

the boss of the fbi director. he knows all the answers. if they have questions and oversight, he should answer. >> yes. he should. but, again, i think what we're going to see is the hearing process. i mean, how many hearings have we had on this? i think it's good that we're getting the disclosure and now there's going to be a lot of inpatience for the inspector general's report to come out. so it's not so much focused on the bias of all of these text messages and, you know, all of the people who are in bed with each other literally or figuratively between fusion and the democrat party and hillary white washers and enablers and rewriters. but it's this larger question of why was the inspector general looking at these text messages in the first place? there had to be a lot more

going on here to obtain those in the first place. steve: it looked like somebody dropped a dime on what was going on, and he had to look into it, and that's how we got where we're at today. ainsley: thanks, michelle. >> you bet. you too. >> send it over to jillian with the day's headlines. >> that's right. good wednesday morning to you guys. let's begin with this. president trump signing a 700 billion-dollar defense policy bill to thwart our nation's heroes. >> with the signing of this defense bill, we accelerate the process of fully restoring america's military might. we need our military. it has got to be perfecto. >> the bill includes money for poor pentagon operations as well as funding for overseas missions and missile defense and new equipment and pay raises for troops. but there is a catch. congress must now roll back a 2011 law that restricts defense spending at $549 billion. from the big screen to the

oval office. the rock once again fueling rumors about a 2020 run. . >> seriously, would you run? >> i'm seriously considering, yes. >> well, the pro wrestler turned movie star telling ellen about his possible career change. not the first time he has hinted about getting on the ballot. he previously said the people's president has a really nice ring to it. so if you're feeling under the weather, you may need to sing it out. ♪ ♪ ♪ taking it on baby, now. scream and shout. >> experts say when you sing, your body releases endorphins, the happy hormone. it also decreases stress in your brain. spreading those endorphins can add years to your life and singing can combat pain and relief anxiety and depression. so i guess it's good we're

doing karaoke later today, guys. steve: i was going to say that. today's our christmas holiday party. coming up on this wednesday, he dedicated his life to defending our nation. now this navy seal is fighting for our country by running for congress. who is he? what's his story? that's next.

ainsley: he dedicated his life to serving our great nation and now that navy seal right there has decided to serve his home state of texas. retired lieutenant commander dan crenshaw announcing his bid for congress to replace retiring republican congressman ted poe. crenshaw was medically retired a year ago after a ten-year career in the navy seals. so what can his military experience bring to awashington? retired lieutenant commander kershaw joins us now. good morning to you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. pleasure to be here.

ainsley: the pleasure is all ours. you clearly have been through so much, and you went through a lot in afghanistan for our great country. tell us about your military service. >> well, started back in 2006, you know, after a fractured leg, i made it through initial seal training. first stop was fallujah then again to iraq in 2010 and are a mady. and third employment in afghanistan is when everything changed for me. got hit by an ied blast. six months into deployment i was blinded, lost my right eye. i was able to walk it off to an extent. but i was put into a coma for about five or six days and, again, woke up completely blind and through a few miracle surgeries, i was able to see again and recovered and deployed twice more. i went out with the intelligence community on subsequent deployment. ainsley: that's amazing. so how many total deployments? five? >> five. the last one was to

south korea. ainsley: so how are you going to take that military experience to washington? >> one of the more credible institutions, and i'm going to take that credibility to one of the most least credible institutions right now. you know, i'm a seal, and i'm always looking for the next way to protect and defend the american people, and that's not just from foreign enemies. that's from overtaxation and regulation and threats to our freedom. i think we lack a little bit of leadership. we lack a definition of what that even means. you know, for the seal teams, i knew that guys were not going to follow me into the depths of hell and across field full of ieds just because i had some authority over them. they needed to believe it. so you had to inspire people. you have to make people want to do things they never thought they could. and i think we could use some of that in washington. we could use some courage. don't lay to the american

people. don't tell them what they want to hear. tell them what they need to hear. and just never quit. >> what will be your focus? >> well, i look at the world around us and the president needs our help. he needs people in congress who have credibility on the issues. north korea is on the brink right now. that was my last deployment. i understand these things. i don't need to be brought up. and we need something better than just talking points. in the next eight to ten years, we're looking at another north korea possibly with iran. we're fighting terrorism on all fronts, and i would love to see a president that we have right now not talking about timelines. he's not obsessed with troop levels. he's just talking about the mission, and that's what we need, and he needs people in congress to back that up. ainsley: lieutenant crenshaw, we wish you all the best. let us know how it goes, please. god bless you. thank you for serving so many tours too. you're incredible. hero.

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>> morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. rod rosenstein will take questions under oath. he was appointed the special counsel robert mueller. we have a lot on this today. the morning after alabama, the fall out after roy moore's defeat. a ton of analysis on that today and what is in the tax plan as of this morning? we'll find out from kevin brady. big morning. sandra and i will see you in nine minutes. top of the hour here in america's newsroom. >> thank you very much. it is an all-new concert experience for the whole family.

cirquo musica. steve: and here is the creator with some of the actors. it is pretty darn cold out here. >> it is. steve: but nonetheless, they are circus performers. we're going to have three rings of excitement right now. >> we are. so it combines the greatest music of all time with the greatest circus performance around the world. and what's interesting about this show is that it has a live orchestra on stage performing great holiday hits with these cast. so has great fetus of strength and skills. steve: let's watch it all right. cue the music. here they are, ladies and gentlemen. let's get out of the way. ♪ ♪

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florida, tennessee. their website is cirque musica.com for tickets and information. >> thank you for having us. >> that's it for today. see you back here tomorrow. >> bill: good morning, everybody. political upset in the deep american south. former federal prosecutor, the democrat doug jones repeating republican roy moore in last night's special election. the first democratic senator in alabama in 25 years. they were separated by a razor thin margin that went deep into the night. moore is not conceding. it is 9:00 in new york, 8:00 in alabama. good morning wherever you are today. i'm bill hemmer live inside of "america's newsroom." >> sandra: what a night last night on sandra smith. doug jones shocking the nation defeating roy moore by roughly 21,000 votes in one of the reddest of red states. jones' margin of victory is the same as how