dow up 80. it's remarkable, this undeterred advance. no matter what happens, seats come and go on the bluster with north korea on the back and forth about who controls the party or not. buyers are still out there, convinced tax cuts are too. "the five" is next. ♪ >> greg: i'm greg gutfeld with kimberly guilfoyle, marie harf, jesse watters and, she cliff dives from a teacup. dana perino. "the five" ." it is the news that shocked the political world. amoroso is out. we go to white house staffers for a response. very emotional, apparently. what exactly happened last

night? we have tape of how it might have hung folded. >> omarosa, you wait outside. i didn't call for you yet. >> i have been running around for weeks. >> life is full of problems. omarosa has to go. you are fired. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here. >> greg: no, thank you. doug jones wins. roy moore loses. and al franken keeps his pajamas on. there are those on the right or bummed because republicans lost, it makes it harder to fulfill trump's agenda. to them, i say relax. the silver lining is bigger than the cloud. no referendum on trump. it's a referendum on a state election that made all of us squirm, including you. you can tell by trump's polite tweet after he was relieved not to have this albatross around

his neck. the party must get to work and find a real candidate to unseat jones. here's the good news. the only reason we have the selection was because donald trump won. it's true. imagine it's october 2016 and a genie offers you this deal. you can win the white house, change the political landscape, dump the clintons but you will lose a senate seat in a year. wouldn't you take that deal? of course he would. sure, the republicans blew the primary which got us this mess but it could be worse. you could still have that seat but under hillary. as for you, doug jones, stop grinning and open your mind. you are already a lame duck. a lefty in alabama is like a popsicle in a sauna which is why you nearly lost to the most flawed candidate ever. saved by republican write-ins. grab lunch with the president. you already have something in common with him.

your opponent sucked. let's get to the big news. omarosa. dana, devastated? >> dana: i've only met her once. i don't really know her but i would like to know the story behind why she left. >> greg: i don't know. jesse, what network is she coming to? >> jesse: not this network, i don't think. we are hearing new she was escorted out of the white house by armed security because she issued some vulgarities to general kelly and claims credit for the trump election. "you can't fire me. i got trump elected." >> greg: there is always somebody nobody likes. nobody could get along with omarosa. >> jesse: that was dana in the bush years. [laughter] >> greg: she was like, i am friends with trump. i have a hall pass.

>> marie: he had a team of misfit toys with him during the campaign. a lot of republicans didn't think he would win. she was someone who worked for him when almost no one else would. she got rewarded with a white house job which a lot of us or sort of concerned about. >> dana: the woman from chicago, they got in fights. >> greg: kimberly, would you like to talk about omarosa or the election? >> kimberly: all of this. >> greg: is this a blow to the trump administration? >> kimberly: believe me. they are like, d- how many days for her to go? no surprise. the only shocking thing is she lasted this long to be quite honest. she has a bone to pick with everybody. issues from the minute she was there. >> dana: didn't she have a big

wedding party there? >> marie: there were stories about how she would leave pairs of shoes all over the west wing. she would wear them to meetings and then leave them there. >> kimberly: i think they are happy about this. >> greg: obviously the bigger story, dana, there's a lot of finger-pointing. shouldn't the republicans be incredibly relieved? >> dana: i was like you are like me. look on the sunny side. >> greg: always plugging your book. >> dana: i take issue with a little something. i think the write-ins were something that i think you have to hand it to the democrats on the grassroots in terms of turnout. >> greg: you are agreeing with steve bannon. [laughs] >> dana: that that that democrats had good turnout? that's obvious. if steve bannon agrees with me on that, it's like agreeing this spider is blue. >> greg: is that really blew? i don't know. fake news. jesse, doesn't make it harder to

implement trump's agenda? >> jesse: no, i think they have the votes for tax cuts. democrats did not win. roy moore lost. if i was a democrat, i wouldn't be excited about barely beating it candidate who was credibly accused of molesting little kids. i don't think that is something you want to hang your hat on. jones had no mandate either. he's going to be a lame duck. in two years, he's going to be beaten by normal republican. he might as well caucus with the majority. this guy, no one wanted him to win. i don't think the republicans cared about the seat. they didn't spend money there. they didn't campaign there. everyone pulled their endorsement. this guy was a fringe candidate, a rural guy who was a bomb thrower, and the suburbs didn't turn out for him. roy moore came strong, came to play, he won black women, he won independence. you have to tip your hat. i don't blame mitch mcconnell.

mitch mcconnell picked the right horse, luther strange from the jump. so did donald trump. mcconnell has been warning about these bomb throwers in the senate races, the -- shannon engel, the witch. we can see this coming. i think it's good for the republicans. >> greg: trump picked the right horse. moore has to leave on a horse. let's roll some tape. >> i think it's important for the country to get it right, not because we lost a seat. a lot of republicans feel differently. they are happy with the way it turned out but i would have, as a leader of the party, would have liked to of had the seat. i will tell you that to me it's very, very just very important to get this vote not because of that but because, and i don't know what the vote will be. i don't know exactly the final. we have a margin of 2 plus our

great vice president. i think we're going to get the vote. >> greg: i get from this that it's about seats and about people. i can tell he was in that broken up about it. >> kimberly: no, but he's a businessman. you've got to move forward. okay, this is a bad deal, didn't work out but he's probably thinking i picked the right guy to begin with. we wouldn't have -- be having this conversation if luther strange was in it. it was shocking, the fact that the race was as close as it was. given all the news and people were calling for him to drop out he was down by how many percentage points. i think what the president is focusing on his good messaging which is, let's unite the party. would have been great if we had it. but i'm focused on the american people and getting tax reform through. he's done. that's in the rearview mirror. >> greg: what do you think

about jones? is he going to remain as liberal as he is perceived to be? like i said, a popsicle in a sauna. he's not going to last long in alabama. he's going to have to move, right? >> marie: i think he will caucus with the democrats. i think the democratic party feels pretty good after last night. i think you are overlooking a real political reckoning that's happening in the republican party going into 2018. midterms are historically bad for incumbents. donald trump and the rnc went in behind this candidate. and moderate republicans crossed over in pretty big numbers. they didn't just write in nick saban. some of them did. some of them crossed over and voted for democrats. white women, young voters. if the republican party doesn't take this result seriously going into 2018, i think they will have some problems. >> greg: is marie saying don't listen to bannon?

>> marie: i am. >> jesse: he doesn't share all the blame. he got in after moore was up by double digits. listen, this guy's national p.r. spokesman had a brain freeze on national television yesterday. he said gays should be in jail. he said muslims couldn't serve in the united states congress. and he was drenched in scandal. this is not a normal republican candidate. the fact that he beat him by a hair, i don't get speaks well for the democrats. >> marie: the rnc chose to back him after these allegations came out. they need to decide and 2,018th if they are going to support candidates like roy moore or support establishment candidates. >> jesse: i think it's clear they are going to support nonroy moore candidates. >> dana: there's a phenomenon that's interesting. when obama was running for election, he won and he was fine and he could help bring people along. if he's not on the ballot, that

it's not so good for that party, for the democrats. i think this is happening with president trump. he wins and he has a majority but if you look at the special elections that have happened since, if he's not at the top of the ticket, even if he's campaigning, even supportive and tweeting about you, it's not working. the generic ballot for the congressional races in the midterms are not good for republicans right now. there is a 15-point gap in the poll today. you can make up a little bit of that with the tax reform bill of the economy continues to improve but i think marie is right. there is something different happening this time. >> jesse: there is some work to do. >> greg: definitely. should moore pursue legally what happened and politically? if he believes he is innocent, should he be like o.j.? find the real killer? >> kimberly: interesting comparison. >> greg: the only one who came to mind. >> kimberly: if it's important to him he shouldn't try to clear his name. i don't know where he goes from here, to be quite honest.

but again, i can't believe he did as well as he did in the polls and obviously democrats, we talked about yesterday, it's going to be about turnout and getting out the vote in the democrats have always been skilled at doing that. whether it is presidential elections or local congressional races. >> greg: they got lucky with this candidate. >> dana: a5 to one advantage in terms of registered republicans over democrats. i think it is remarkable he won. i think the naacp deserves credit for their grassroots organization in alabama. it was amazing. >> greg: on that note, two fbi officials on mueller's russian investigation exchange anti-trump text. we have those messages. we have them. exclusive. next. you can't predict the market.

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♪ >> dana: of a man who appointed robert mueller a special counsel appeared on capitol hill today to address concerns from lawmakers about anti-trump bias affecting the russia probe. congressman trey gowdy was fired

up while questioning rod rosenstein earlier. >> what in the hell is going on with the department of justice and fbi? this agent in the middle of almost everything related to secretary clinton and president trump sent grow clinton texts, anti-trump text to his paramore. then he went off on trumped supporters saying he could smell them at a walmart in virginia. this is who we were told we were needed to have an objective, impartial, fair conflict of interest free investigation. what happens when people who are supposed to cure the conflict of interest have even greater conflicts of interest and those they replace. >> robert mueller and rod rosenstein, accountable and we will assure no bias is reflected in any of the actions taken by the special counsel or in any matter within the jurisdiction of the department of justice. >> dana: rosenstein's

testimony came after fox news obtained text messages from two investigators, disparaging president. catherine herridge has more. >> deputy attorney general was here on capitol hill defending the special counsel robert mueller and the integrity of the russia probe but it was really a series of texts that garnered all the attention. let's take a look at the first one. it's from august of 2016. this is a text message from fbi agent peter strzok to the fbi lawyer lisa c21 and he writes "you laid out a path in auntie's office that he couldn't get elected." we believe that's the deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. he is at the center of the inspector general's investigation. his wife took over $700,000 in political donations from democrats for a 2015 state senate race. agent strzok continues "we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy."

we understand this particular text is the focus of congressional investigators and other governmental officials because it speaks to the possibility of a conspiratorial coordination. the next one which you mentioned, august 2016. you can see agent strzok talking about going down to this walmart in virginia and he says "i could smell the trumped supporters." he is diminishing these people. the fbi lawyer responds that she is having lunch with a friend and we hate everyone. we hate everything, she writes. this is in a peak period of the campaign. it's also shortly after the clinton email investigation was closed for the first time by the fbi they have just opened the fbi's russia counterintelligence investigation. even if you go back a few months, take a look at this final text. this is from the spring. you can see there does seem to

be this anti-trump sentiment that's expressed by the fbi agent, calling him an idiot and then using the f-bomb to talk about candidate trump. the final point, if i could come of this agent peter strzok is one of the most senior counterintelligence agents at the fbi. his job is tracking spies and blocking espionage directed at the united states. one of my contacts said to me today it was really in some ways unbelievable that he would have such bad tradecraft to be so sloppy to send these types of sentiments in thousands of text messages to someone he worked with. this was alone surprising in itself, dana. >> dana: thank you so much for your help today. we will check in with you tomorrow. one of the things congressman nadler said today, he's a democrat, he said this is no big deal because they were just expressing what a majority of americans were thinking at the time. so it's not a big deal. okay, this is on government

issued technology. government issued phones. this is how we know about these things. they are also involved in these investigations. inappropriate. >> kimberly: catherine made the point he was senior at the fbi and in terms of counterintelligence, it's quite shocking and surprising he would be so sloppy and conduct these kind of conversations and show such blatant bias against the president when he's supposed to be involved in investigation. i think it goes to the core of the credibility, the integrity of the investigation that this is someone you had who was blatantly bleeding out vitriol about the president. and about people involved with him and how is it in any way proper for him to be involved in an investigation like that? >> dana: eventually mueller comes on, finds out about this through the inspector general and fires the guy. but you have a theory, greg. >> greg: number one, these are fun to read. they really are but we have to

admit so are our texts about our coworkers and people -- is this the next thing? granted, i don't work for the government but i always feel creepy. when you are talking to somebody like this, you can swear and you can talk bad about whoever you want because you have to have that ability but i believe the bad tradecraft comes from having an affair. that always amped up the intensity of the bravado of the language. "i'm the only one who can stop trump. i will do it." like he was the hero. it's part of that initial foolish euphoria of an affair. still, it doesn't taint the objectivity because it was so intense. having said that, we all kind of do this stuff when we are texting. i will say trey gowdy, that's his best look yet. he is like half vampire, half he we lewis. he's got the glasses in the loose tie. he looks fantastic.

>> dana: and to use the word paramour. >> kimberly: you are fired up about it. >> dana: one of the reasons, when you're getting clearance, security clearance, i think the first, second, fourth, eighth question about infidelity. >> marie: it is about whether you can be blackmailed, outstanding debt, foreign contacts. >> dana: and if you are having an affair. >> marie: this was clearly stupid. i think we can all agree on tha that. i don't like the insinuation that some of the republicans brought up today in the hearing that everyone who works on this investigation somehow biased. rod rosenstein made clear his agents can have personal political opinions. the ig is looking into whether it impacted their work but there is no evidence that it impacted their work yet. let's let the ig dig into it. let's get the rest of these patriotic fbi agents who do their jobs, republicans and democrats, the respect of doing

their job. >> kimberly: that's a fair statement. we've talked about it. there are so many incredible men and women that are very dedicated agents that do their job, take it seriously, and haven't engaged in any kind of impropriety. that's why you have to root out the bad ones. dana, martha maccallum is going to have trey gowdy on tonight. >> dana: all right. we have to give jesse the last word. >> jesse: surprisingly i think it's more damning than you. smoking gun evidence that both investigations anti-trump and hillary were corrupt. if you have the lead fbi investigator saying hillary is great and praising her and i can't wait until she wins, while investigating hillary, that's not good. so they close the book on that deal after exonerating her and giving her a softball interview. open up an investigation into trump and what do they say about trump? he's an idiot. f trump. it is like joy behar is leading the investigation into donald trump. the worst part, and i don't know if we got to this, this guy is

saying it's his job to protect the country from that menace. we can't take the risk if trump wins? we have to have an insurance policy? he is the lead contact. wait a second. to me it sounds like this guy believes he, as a counterespionage official, feels like it's his duty to derail a duly elected president of the united states for partisan political purposes. that's a massive scandal. and then mueller showed poor judgment picking him for the team and then stacked the rest of the team with clinton donors and other trump haters. i think the entire investigation is tainted and now we know there is bias and motive. >> dana: okay. >> greg: that one point is the most important point. he is suggesting he would be doing something. >> jesse: we don't know that. >> marie: there is no evidence. >> jesse: the ig is going to look at it. >> marie: i thought you said "we know. ." >> jesse: he is prepared to do

something to save the country from trump. he has an insurance policy. the conspiracy theory is written by your guy. >> dana: we are going to move on. president trump always has the media is grossly biased against him. is he right? you are going to see next. when you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, the unpredictability of a flare may weigh on your mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go, and how to work around your uc. that's how i thought it had to be. but then i talked to my doctor about humira, and learned humira can help get and keep uc under control... when certain medications haven't worked well enough. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb.

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untrue stories, hence my use of social media, the only way to get the truth out. much of mainstream media has become a joke!" >> jesse: the media has been consistent covering the president, consistently biased. 90% negative. now the last three months, 90% negative. juan always says we do this segment every three months. the president's job performance has been rough. we have a travel ban rejected, couldn't repeal obamacare. we are in charlottesville, all that mess, special counsel. i think every fair-minded person can agree with the last three months the president has performed much better. kelly has straightened out the white house personnel. great recovery efforts with the hurricane. the asia swing was a good success. and the stock market and gdp have been astonishing.

and no collusion proven yet anyway. so why is it still 90% negative? i think it's pretty obvious. they hate him. >> kimberly: marie, what do we say? can you defend the mainstream media? >> marie: i think the media has done something wrong in the last year and they have done something great. they broken big stories, provided information to the american public. this should focus on the evening newscast, those three networks. didn't look at newspapers. >> jesse: that would make it 95%. >> marie: i say it is like the chicken and the egg. president trump is called the media the enemy of the american people. on the campaign trail, he routinely went after reporters when they ran stories he didn't like. so he's not ever expressed anything but disdain for them. it's not surprising that this would end up being negative. i have also said they need to do better because of that. they are under such scrutiny, the corrections, the wrong stories hurt journalists and i think that's a problem. >> kimberly: dana, these

numbers are pretty consistent with what we've seen in the pas past. >> dana: i don't expect it's going to change necessarily. i think it's working for those networks. everybody in media, everyone sees subscriptions are up, ratings are a. social media engagement is up. that is true for the networks that i think this type of thing works and the president's favor. he has a rock solid base of support. they love to hear about this. they all believe it. they think the media is terrible. so he repeats it, in a way, to actually bolster his base. >> kimberly: greg, what can he do to fix it? >> greg: what is the narrative we keep hearing? journalism and media is under threat. even president obama compared the trump administration to hitler because no one was standing up. the media has never been more invigorating under donald trump.

he has made media great again because he has woken them up from their own obama, from eight years where they did nothing. they couldn't do anything. they weren't doing investigative journalism because they didn't want to hurt their leader. now what's happening is trump has made the media better. i said as a couple days ago because every mistake they make validates his opinion that it is fake news. they have an extra incentive not to screw up because if they screw up, trump looks better. so they are actually becoming really, really good at their job after basically hibernating for eight years. >> dana: he is also out all the time. every day. he is driving the news from early in the morning until late at night. there is more news to cover. that might actually be fitting into these numbers. >> kimberly: he also said he has no choice. he has to take social media himself to be able to get the messaging and the truth out. this study actually supports the idea that he is doing that tried to get his version, i guess,

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>> marie: showtimes hit show "homeland" has been known to craft story lines that mirror real-life headlines and it appears the producers may have taken the same approach for season seven. here's the new trailer. what do you think? >> more than 200 individuals are detained in the investigation surrounding the attack on president kane nine days before her 90 ration. >> nobody dreams of taking down criminals inside their own government. >> in this room, it is madam president . they have tried to assassinate

me and i am the one under investigation. >> the country is in free fall. you're acting like it is me off my meds. i will hunt you down. i will kill you. >> marie: the focus of this season, people in the intelligence community trying to stop eighth radical president. dana, i am coming to you. we both used to watch this show and we stopped. i stopped because i think it got dark and weird. >> dana: i stopped when they started being synthetic to terrorist. that was enough for me. initially i really did like the show. >> marie: it was good but this new trailer, greg, what do you think? >> greg: my favorite tv show right now is trump tv. i haven't watched "homeland" into years because i don't need the fake reality. i already have it. the trump white house is a combination of "homeland," "24," and "the apprentice." this is the same show that

couldn't do isis because they felt the evil wasn't sophisticated enough. they needed a gray area. for them, a proxy for trump is easier to do than a proxy for isis because they don't get yelled at by their friends in hollywood. >> marie: they had planned on hillary clinton winning. they made this female character president. and then they had to turn her into a tyrant. >> jesse: turn her into one? >> marie: always have to bring it back to hillary clinton. they had to change the season at the last minute. >> kimberly: they don't see gender, do they? they just see trump. it doesn't matter. maybe i would watch just to see, although like greg said we see this playing out everything the day. you have to look at what's going on right now with these investigations. the text messages and the inherent bias in the corruption, lack of integrity for the investigation. people have a specific mission, like moving on target to take down what they perceived to be a tyrannical president.

>> marie: i watch tv to escape from the crazy things happening in the country. if you wrote a script about 2017 before it happened, none of us would believe it i don't think. i watched tv for happier shows. >> jesse: i can only afford basic cable, so i don't get the premium channels. i am hearing that peter strzok is going to make a guest appearance come on of these rogue cia agents taking on the president. wishful thinking from hollywood. they want this to happen, so they write it. >> marie: we remember claire danes from "my so-called life." >> jesse: i told you that in confidence. >> greg: who was her boyfriend? >> marie: jerry -- -- jared lehto. >> kimberly: he has moved onto other things. >> greg: he has a glassy eyed

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♪ >> jesse: it's time for a very special edition of mom texts. we have a special visitor in studio for this installment, my mom. dr. watters. as many of you know, my mom is a liberal democrat and sends me texts critiquing my performance.

[laughter] >> jesse: my mom is a celebrity. she is in the green room and everyone says i heard she is in the green room. can i meet her. many are complementary of you, dana. greg, when she says her name correctly, she does think you're interesting. >> greg: people are surprised you were born. you came from human beings. >> jesse: does this humanize me? >> greg: barely. >> kimberly: goodness gracious. >> jesse: here is a special one. someone is going to like this one. my mom is your biggest fan. >> dana: thank you. >> greg: do know what that

says about you, dana? >> jesse: you might remember this from two weeks ago. that was santa skydiving. >> dana: so upsetting. i think kimberly will like this. do you really do that? >> greg: our eyes roll with love. >> jesse: that's what my mom says. i don't even want to read the

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♪ >> greg: time for "one more thing." >> jesse: there is a beautiful and touching moment last night of the sacramento kings basketball game. two kids, kings fans, were led out into the middle of the court, blindfolded, picking it's a promotion. it turns out their father was returning from afghanistan. they were surprised. >> you are going in the right direction! you are almost there! ♪ >> ♪ i'm coming home, i'm coming home ♪ ♪ >> jesse: u.s. army sergeant first class sean sullivan. kings game. >> dana: that will be a great christmas. >> greg: dana, speaking of great christmases, don't screw

this up. >> dana: if you were on twitter, you probably heard of this guy. texas supreme court justice just confirmed by the senate to become a united states court of appeals judge for the fifth circuit. the vote was 50-47. he was the 11th federal appeals court nominee to be confirmed by the senate this year. they're going to vote on a couple others. president trump will have made, hit a record of how many conservative justice appointments. >> greg: he could have a tv show. >> dana: congratulations to don willett. he was great on twitter for a long time. he's a great judge. >> greg: k.g. >> kimberly: thank you so much. time for kimberly's royal dues.

yes indeed. backed by extreme popular demand. >> greg: no one is demanding it. >> kimberly: i am every day. this is fantastic. prince william, harry attended the last jedi premiere. this is combining royal news with "star wars" news. apparently they are big fancy you can see pictures. look at how cute they are on the red carpet. neither his wife or the fiancee were there. i don't know why. looked like a lot of fun. it was a black-tie gala benefiting the royal foundation charity. apparently there's a rumor that they recorded a scene playing stormtroopers when they visited the set. royal officials are mum. >> dana: kimberly, do you watch "the crown?" >> kimberly: i do sometimes. i need to be more dedicated to it. >> dana: when you have time, you will quite enjoy it. >> greg: why watch it? we beat these people so we don't have to talk about royalty

anymore. >> kimberly: you are always trying to ruin my segments. >> greg: maybe i am jealous. >> kimberly: i hate these people. boo. fashion news. boo. >> greg: i have two. go to foxnews.com/podcasts. i've got a fantastic interview with the great walter kern, one of the best writers in america. we talk about trump's effect on the media, we talked about the election from last night. we talk about so many different things. he has a fantastic writer. he wrote the book "up in the air," made into a movie with george clooney. old friend of mine. he wrote a book called "thumb-sucker." that became a movie. i'm going to ban a phrase today. i'm tired of this phrase. problematic. >> jesse: where is richard fowler? >> greg: i hate this word. somebody who doesn't have an

actual judgment on whether something is right or wrong will say problematic. you will see a student go up before a school administrator for doing something they don't like but it's not wrong, so they will just say "we find your actions very problematic." and you are supposed to say, is it wrong? no, it's just problematic. if anybody tells you something you did is problematic tell them to shut the hell up. you could punch them but i am against punching. >> dana: that would be problematic. >> greg: marie, you have a lot of time. stretch it. >> marie: my home state cleveland browns are 0-13. last season they were 1-15. a die-hard browns fan who is a ohio sports personality and also a friend of mine from high school has organized a parade if they go 0-16. he is getting all this national

media attention. he has a gofundme page where he's raised over $10,000 to pay for the parade. if they win again, the money will go to the cleveland food bank. it's a win-win. the browns, their last home game is this weekend against baltimore. they're all offensive lineman is keeping the faith. he said "it's our last home game of the season coming front of the home crowd. they have supported us the last couple years even though we haven't been great." >> greg: they should spend less time kneeling and more time practicing. am i right, america? that was my fox news take. if they stopped kneeling and started actually practicing. >> jesse: very problematic. i think the eagles have got this even though we are going with a backup quarterback. i still have faith. >> marie: either way, cleveland browns. if they lose, we get a parade. if they win, the food bank gets

the money. >> greg: i like that. i think we are about done. >> kimberly: give bret the extra time. he will do something meaningful with it. >> greg: set your dvrs. never miss an episode of "the five." my favorite bear, bret baier. >> bret: i miss you guys. parceling would come allegations of conspiracy from two people on the special counsel investigating him. the president makes the closing argument for tax reform and we will look at what happened in alabama as a senate seat slips away from republicans. this is "special report" ." good evening. welcome to washington. i am bret baier. the man in charge of the man investigating president trump says he has seen no reason to fire him. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is defending special counsel robert mueller as shock waves reverberate through washington over a series of text meag t