jillian: makes you more attractive. rob: going to wear this on a hot date. >> wait, time-out. you are going to wear this on a date you said. rob: pockets are here. see you go. janice: it's a back door. ♪ ♪ ♪ promise me no promises. ♪ na, na ♪ just be careful ♪ promise me no promises. steve: hi, issue, live from new york city and you are looking at studio f here. we're on the mezzanine level and it is the 15th day of december. that means victims 10 days away. ainsley: even though the song says no promises that is a proposal mills. christmas is around the corner. i hope you will get all your shopping done this weekend. pete: ainsley earhardt's favorite day because it's friday. and it's free shipping day

today. if you are going shopping on the internet. you are likely getting free shipping wherever you go. steve: if you are like me you are still shopping. ainsley: a lot of websites will say we can get it to you by christmas. steve: if you do it today. ainsley: today and the next few days. steve: we will do that as soon as we get done with next three hours. pete: we can multitank. steve: pete is in today brian is thought california. ainsley: selling some books? steve: doing his books. fox news has received some documents that show that months before they even talked to hillary clinton they were doing their best to, essentially -- it looks to an outside observer that they were editing the evidence to essentially exonerate hillary clinton. you've heard in the past about how initially the first round it was extremely or grossly negligent. ainsley: which is a criminal standard which could result in criminal charges. that was softened. also, whether she was hacked. it looks a little

suspicious. pete: a lot of this has started to add up to feel suspicious. we have heard previously that james comey wrote that famous exoneration memo of hillary clinton months before she was interviewed. steve: two months. pete: before many people were interviewed. we are hearing from senator ron johnson because they have pushed to get these documents is what the original version comey draft letter looked like versus what comey actually said. that's a new development we have this morning presenting more evidence. ainsley: if you were making that statement it was going to change the election and change the course of someone's life, you are going to go through it with a fine tooth comb and do it properly. that's what i assumed he did. the question is though was he doing this to water it down because he was a fan of hers? based on other things in the fbi it just seems so shady. many people have questions including senator ron johnson. he will sent a letter to the current fbi director to chris wray. he said it looks like these i had did its appear to change the tone. for instance, the gross negligence was changed to

extremely careless. then another. steve: we have the graphic right here. ainsley: okay. steve: what comey's statement originally said about gross negligence. quote, there is evidence to support a conclusion that secretary clinton and others used the private email server in a manner that was grossly negligent. that's the criminal negligence with the respect to the handling of classified information. but, instead what he said was given that combination of factors, we assess reasonably, likely possible that hostile actors gained access to hillary clinton's private personal email account. so, in other words, they were trying to say she was probably hacked and that was reasonably likely that hostile actors, they wanted to do that instead they changed it to it's possible. pete: it's possible. it's actually a six or seven page document posted on multiple sites. look at the comparison from what was i had did ited from what was actually said. we ever talking about

reducing hillary clinton's culpability in the scandal. removing references to the intention community. because when you start talking about the intelligence community that raises suspicions about what really was the intelligence level, classified, very classified. they downgraded as you said the likelihood that spies had penetrated clinton's secret server. they took out a whole paragraph that talked about how unsecure it was. then they also deemphasized the shear volume of the emails. when you look at all those edits put together. and you know who was behind that edit and a lot of those edits peter strzok. you look how politically behind minded they were. how much they hated trump and loved hillary clinton and then you look at all those chings it, doesn't change. it doesn't feel like forensic examination. steve: two months before they interviewed hillary clinton and two months before they interviewed all the other people. newt gingrich, former speaker of the houses there is some problems here that somebody has got to get to and fix immediately.

>> you have here assess pool of corruption covering up for the clintons in a way which i would have to say as a historian is unimaginable. i do not know of any point in american history where you have this level of a system of corruption. at every level, this is undermining our system of justice. it is violating the law. it's very likely all of these people will end up going to jail. it's time for the attorney general to step up to the plate and do his job. he has no excuse as somebody who i know believes in the law. he has no excuse for hiding. he has to set up a clinton investigation. evidence has to set up an fbi justice department investigation. this is his obligation under the law to enforce it and to protect the american people. steve: well, victoria toensing who used to work in the reagan department of justice is going to be with

us in five minutes to talk about how there is something going on at the fbi and at the department of justice. pete: some people are calling for a special counsel. newt gingrich is being even more aer is tia saying it shouldable our own attorney general. this justice department does not need to recuse itself from looking at what the clintons did. that's not their dirt. that's dirt of a previous administration that could have been politicized. it's time to stand up and really find out what happened. more and more of the american people feel that way as well. ainsley: yesterday there was talk that marco rubio might not support the tax bill that they are hoping the senate and house are hoping to get on the president's desk before christmas. the president is saying that's not drew. he definitely thinks rubio is going to be on his team. the reason he was possibly thinking about voting against it doesn't include the child tax credit. steve: it does but just not enough. ainsley: doesn't include enough. correct. steve: right now it's at $1,100 in the republican plan. keep in mind, it was about two weeks ago it sounded like it was going to be

$2,000 per year per family. he wants more. look, at the 11th hour, this is how they negotiate. he is saying okay, 1100 is not enough. some people behind the sceengs are saying okay, mr. florida senator, what's your snub? pete: we hear reporting now from our own chad pergram the bill has moved in rubio's directions inside conference and it is, i believe, locked. it's not close to locked, which means the house and the senate have come to a complete deal for the exact same language because that's what's required for those bills to then go back to the house and senate and vote on that exact bill. you know what i haven't heard a lot about is whether the individual mandate is included in there or not. steve: it is. ainsley: if you don't want to be a part of obamacare, you don't have to be and you are not going to be penalized. steve: one thing did i read this morning the president, when he was campaigning, he was talking about how he would like to get rid of the johnson amendment. and the johnson amendment keeps churches and religious folks from essentially

talking politics from the pulpit. there had been some suggestion they would get rid of that with this. but, at the 11th hour they have decided you know what? even though he wants it, it's going to cause much trouble. ainsley: excuse me. i have to talk. pete: you like most of america are struggling through something right now. ainsley: i don't know what it is. i feel great, it's just my voice and my throat. steve: that little passage right there we have got to pause because i got a cough. that's going to wind up on the internet. somebody is going to take a little bit of that. steve: the reason we mention that is because well, as of yesterday, the internet he coulded according to many members of the media. cnn as we know it that's just mouth it. because by a party line vote 3 to 2 the republicans in charge of the fcc essentially got rid of the obama era net neutrality standard.

pete: obamacare moved in 2015 to basically treat the internet as a utility. the government says that opens the deal up to a great deal of regulation. they have done a nice job calling it net neutrality. there is points on both sides. both sides in his administration did did on jimmy kimmel had though this to say about net neutrality. >> fcc did something an absolutely despicable today. voted to put an end to net neutrality. this is the rule that says everyone gets equal access to the internet. a big company or somebody selling crocheted owls from their house in the midwest. as long as they are telling us they are doing it now. internet providers will be able to slow down or block web traffic to any website or streaming service they like which benefits of the big tell con companies and does the opposite for all of us. thank you president trump. thanks to you and this jack

hole you appointed to run the fcc. big corporations are about to take full control of the internet. merry christmas, everybody. ainsley: explain all this for you and your family. steve: it's a little complicated. all you have to do is before net neutrality, the internet working fine. this deregulates it and returns essentially big parts of it to the free marketplace. ainsley: what it would do. democrats are up in arms about this because it prevents someone like a comcast or someone like a big internet company from charging different prices gengsding on the market. they might charge an area that makes a lot of money than they would. steve: charge netflix more if you are going to stream more. this ultimately helped google and netflix. now essentially they are saying the big internet companies charge more. ainsley: this takes the government out of it less

government. less government for the free market. >> i wonder if jimmy kimmel got his talking points from chuck schumer. steve: did he? pete: become an organ for the democrats. goal to the "wall street journal." did a nice job laying out why this changes all about freedom as you talk about. deregulation, opening up a space. it opens up for innovation and things that trump administration have been -- believe have been stifled under so-called net neutrality. so, a lot of debate will continual. we get to ask the man himself who jimmy kimmel called an ajack hole. you always win an argument when you call people names. steve: i had to look that up just saying. it's 6:11 in new york city. jillian: happy friday. we made it get you caught up on headlines this morning. this is a sad story. we now know the name of the first firefighter killed while battling the wildfires raging through southern california. he leaves behind a pregnant wife and 2-year-old daughter evey.

the 32-year-old was part of a team on the front lines trying to maintain the thomas fire when something went tragically wrong. no other details. president trump red tape. white house thursday to show how many they have exploded since 1960. during his campaign, trump promised to you slash two old regulations for every new one. yesterday he said he has done even better eliminating 22 for every new one. >> we're here today for one single reason. to cut the red tape of regulation. never ending growth of red tape in america has come to a sudden screeching, and beautiful halt. >> president trump has said so far he has cancelled or delayed more than 1500 regulatory actions. senatoapril ryan claims sanders didn't make her own

thanksgiving pecan pie. she baked a new round of pies for the press. >> i look at this as a reset. reach out to all of us not just to me. >> i can't believe you would question my. >> girl, bye. it was a joke. but at the beginning it was a joke. so what can you be from the south and can't cook. a lot of people can't cook. >> ryan didn't even end up eating a slice. at least sarah sanders went out there and said you want some pies. steve: we didn't know until yesterday it was a joke one of april's tweets said this is not a joke. pete: i think it's possibly the end. ainsley: did you lose sleep over it last night? jillian: i did. i was up all night. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. we talked about james comey's comment on the hillary clinton scandal. were they watered down? our next guest has inside information on the scandal and she says we ain't seen nothing yet. pete plus, christmas cancelled in jesus'

hometown. and, of course, president trump is being blamed for it like everything ♪

steve: brand new documents revealing former fbi

director james comey email probe was watered down. next guest says it wasn't just a simple edit but all part of a deep state plot to keep president trump out of the white house and get hillary clinton elected. here to explain former chief counsel for the senate intel committee and the attorney for that fbi informant in the uranium one probe victoria tony'sing. >> good morning. good to be here. steve: who is behind this? >> well, let me just tell you that these events that we have been seeing over the last year but now recently are just terrifying because it's really threatening the integrity of our justice system. we now have facts that show us it's very clear that top officials at the comey fbi and the obama justice department are r. harbored such animus towards donald trump they hachesd a blazen plot to do two things. one to corruptly clear clinton of crimes. steve: before the election. >> before the election and they did that in july 2016.

and then to frame donald trump and his campaign staff on the so-called russian collusion. steve: also before the election. but that has continued to ride up until this day. >> yes. because they also wanted to affect the presidency. see, i mean, we didn't know about peter strzok's texts but now we know -- we are seeing a context for this. the animus. let's go back over the clinton investigation, who did comey put in charge of it? peter strzok. he had to know strzok's animus towards donald trump. and then we what a farce that investigation was. they didn't even open a grand jury. now, no serious investigation goes without a grand jury. steve: they watered down the language two months before they interviewed her. >> gave immunity to five of clinton's aides why was that? they didn't have a grand jury. flick of a wrist. steve: apparently now we also learned the department of state agreed to never allow any of her personal

emails to ever see the light of day. >> to see the light of day. and comey is writing this memo. he says he had to do it because the tarmac meeting. the tarmac meeting didn't occur when he was writing this memo. steve: i know you are the attorney for the uranium one informant. some day we will have a conversation about what he is going to tell folks. there are a lot of people who work for the fbi who might be watching right now who have a story to tell. >> yes. i really want them to come forward. you have such a wonderful agency. don't let these people destroy it. come forward. steve: you are looking for whistleblowers. >> we are. and go to any lawyer and come forward. you don't have to come to me. but come out, break it out. go to somebody, please, people in the fbi. steve: victoria toensing joining us on this friday. thank you very much. straight ahead a fox news alert. this is chilling, santa next to, that's right, a box of dynamite in times square.

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ainsley: quick headlines this morning starting with a fox news alert. isis making another christmas threat. the terrorists now calling to set washington, d.c.'s national cathedral on fire. isis propaganda like this might have inspired terrorist suspect akayed ullah. is he accused of setting off pipe bomb in new york city subway system on monday. and a new york woman is accused of donating to isis, sending $60,000 in bit coins. the feds say that she bought the online currency using stolen credit cards.

officials saying in total she sent $150,000 to isis. she was arrested while trying to join the terror army in syria. steve: look at that with light saber in hand the most anticipated move of the year blasting theaters today. "star wars" the last jedi. the latest installment of the stars saga has fans of the franchise excited. but is it out of this world? here with his review is fox news contributor kevin mccarthy who apparently not in line to watch the movie because have you already seen it. what are you wearing? [laughter] >> good morning to you. good morning to america. i want to say i'm wearing an r 2 d 2 suit. steve: of course you are. >> i'm a 33-year-old grown man on national television wearing r 2 d 2 suit. i'm very happy about in this morning. i'm a massive "star wars" fan. i grew up on this franchise. i absolutely love the most

recent ones the force awakens by j.j. abrams. this particular version is directed by ryan johnson. this is now episode 8 the last jedi. i'm going to break this review down in positive and negative. i will say to the audience there will be absolutely no spoirms in this review. this is a spoiler-free review. on the positive side, the action seens are absolutely amazing. this movie contains one of the greatest "star wars" themes i have ever seen in the franchise. so much so that i was in the theater with grown adults and we were all cheering and geeing out beyond belief. this scene is a fight scene. it will blow your mind. the performances incredible. i love adam driver as kylo dresden. i love kelly wawrn. the cinematography. he makes classical effects and cgi masterfully. those are the positives for the last jedi. now we have to get to the

negatives; unfortunately we have to get to the negatives here. in my opinion the first act of this movie is way too slow. did i not like the direction they took luke sky walker. in my opinion at the end of episode 7 we see this scene when ray walks up to leukemileukemia luke skywalk up. hes did not need to be a grumpy, unnecessarily comedic character. that was a really, really poor direction in my opinion to go with that particular scene. also, it just didn't feel at the end of the movie i wanted to see another episode. at the end of episode 7 i couldn't wait for 8. steve: how many stars. ainsley: you really like it. how many stars? >> i gave it a 3.5 out of 5. it's a stylish "star wars" film not a great "star wars"

film. it's 2 and a half hours. you will enjoy yourself. i just didn't love it as much as the force awakens. i will say empire strikes back. new hope. return of the jedi, force awakens and then this movie. steve: buzz feed list. pete: seen all of them. steve: kerry fisher did. >> she did complete all her production on this film, steve. i don't know what's going to happen with episode 9. i will say she was supposed to be a part of episode 9 but she did not obviously shoot those scenes. episode 8 she did complete before the release date. steve: okay. r 2. thank you very much for joining us live today. ainsley: thank you, kevin. these directors need to hire him to come and say watch the movie and tell me what you like and don't like and we will change it because he is such an expert. pete: he does do a nice expert. ainsley: he married a movie critic, too. pete: he married the perfect person. she was the get away driver

for a cop killer. now this domestic terrorist could get out of jail early citing bias. ainsley: president trump on verge with a major victory with historic tax cut. but, when will you see the result and how much extra cash are you going to get back? your questions are going to be answered next. steve: but, first, happy birthday to our own griff jenkins. is he celebrating a very special birthday to him you know him you lo him. he has 47 candles on that cake today ♪ ♪ video-game dance music

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from our family to yours... may all your wishes come true this holiday season. ♪ rocking around the christmas tree ♪ at the christmas party hop ainsley: that is the president and first lady.

that is their christmas card this year. isn't it beautiful? steve: it is the shot of the morning the president and first lady unveiling their first ever official christmas portrait. pete: don't call it a holiday card. ainsley: is he bringing christmas back. steve: he has. the lady standing with many christmas trees. ainsley: looks like they are holding hands. there is haven't pence with his wife karen. steve: also taking part in the holiday tradition unveiling their first ever official christmas portrait. ainsley: beautiful. pete: working hard to make america great again done trump showing eric's son in the oval office. his mother laura posting own family photo as well. lots of fun christmas photos in the white house. steve: we want to see your christmas cards. email them to us, friends@foxnews.com.

and we're going to try to put on as many as we can on this friday morning. ainsley: that's right. merry christmas to you. pete: creative. ainsley: better chance of getting on, right? ainsley: let's hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us. ainsley: do something fun. ainsley: should. >> i agree. ugly christmas sweaters coming up. jillian: we will get you caught up on the news you need to know this morning starting with this. former apprentice contestant omarosa man got out. the chief of staff told her she was fired in the white house situation room where electronic devices are not allowed. the new revelation comes after she said. this. >> where are the pictures or videos? if i had confronted john kelly who is a very formidable person, it would garner enough attention for anyone in the room to at least take a picture or a video. jillian: sarah huckabee

sanders defending the white house saying the president likes omarosa and thanked her for her service. a domestic terrorist is suing the state authority board of parole claiming a bias. she was unfairly denied parole in april and treated as a symbol of crime rather than an individual. clark was the get away driver in the deadly 1981 armored truck heist where a security guard and two police officers were killed. new york governor andrew cuomo commuted her service last december making her immediately eligible for parole. christmas now cancelled in the town where jesus christ grew up and president trump is getting the blame. the muslim mayor of nazareth, israel announcing that a number of christmas events will not go on. he says president trump has taken the joy out of the season after recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. fox news contributor pastor robert jeffress reacted. >> look, the tendency of any culture is to become more secular as that happens unbelievers feel empowered to come out of the closet

and share what they really believe or what they don't believe. jillian: the events are traditionally major tourist attractions. children's nativity play take as turn after the sheep steals the baby jesus. watch. ♪ lord jesus ♪ i ask thee to stay. >> swipes the baby jesus from the manger before dancing on stage with baby jesus. mary is like i'm not having. this so the two start wrestling over the doll before the congregation breaks out in laughter and the adults have to intervene. i love that story. it's one of my favorites. >> we used to go to a live nativity every year in minnesota. and something always goes wrong. ainsley: you wants something to go wrong. pete: it's fun. steve: meanwhile, we were making fun of kevin mccarthy with r 2 d 2 suit earlier. i think she wins, it's

janice dean in a lightup ugly sweater. janice: i love christmas. pete: it's not that ugly. i kind of like it. steve: can we turn down the lights? janice: anthony is knot at his lighting fixtures because he is operating my maps. there we go. nicely done, anthony. so my clicker doesn't work for some reason. engineering if you are around my flicker doesn't work. come see me. janice: anthony, are you ready. 21 in cincinnati. 25 in chicago. let's move those maps, anthony. past 24 hours lake-effect snow across the great lakes and some rain over the gulf coast. anthony, modify it in for me to the northeast, will you? there we go. here's the deal. we have a blast of snow coming later on this afternoon. anthony, advance that map for me and i'm going to show that you blast of snow coming around 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. there it is in new jersey parts of delmarva, long island up towards new england. there it is 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. just a blast of christmas for you. a blast of christmas for

you. and yea, anthony, everybody. [cheers] janice: nicely done my friends. ainsley: i love your energy, janice. it's friday so exciting. we might get snow here. better and better. janice: jingles by the way. jingle all the way. steve: thank you. ains. steve: republican party promises big tax bill will be passed everybody has a christmas present for americans. it passed. what does it mean for your wallet? ainsley: a lot of have you been emailing your questions we have founder and cpo of dan gel trudy and company. he joins us now with answers. good morning to you, daniel. >> good morning. ainsley: first one comes from tom and he says how many tax brackets will there be? >> right now we have seven. the house wanted to take it down to four. senate says no we like it it's seven. so it looks like we are going to stay at seven at

this point. rates will be lower. pete: rates will be lower. >> but still seven brackets. pete: income brackets different? are they just lowered at every bracket or could you be moved into a different bracket? >> no. they have shifted as well. with the point of trying to bring everybody down just a little bit. pete: got it. steve: what's the final verdict with the state and local tax deductions, larry emailed us. >> well, all of us have had our fingers crossed on this one, all right? steve: salt states. >> what it looks like the final plan is going to be, $10,000 of salt deduction. however, it's not going to be limited just to real estate taxes. that's what the talk was. now they're going to allow that deduction 10,000. it could include real estate taxes, income taxes, sales taxes. so a little bit of flexibility there. steve: you had a suggestion we were talking earlier before we started the program and you suggested if you could prepay next year's property taxes, do because then you can deduct them

this year at the full amount. >> that is a possibility. so what we were talking about is individuals are cash basis taxpayers. which means if you pay for something in a certain year, you would get the deduction in that year. so, with real estate taxes being limited or knocked out, depending, you could potentially prepay 2018. however, that's a gray area because the irs could turn around down the road and say that's tax avoidance. steve: of course. >> because the motivation there is not to pay the tax. steve: the moat ration is to help the federal government. pete: get that money in there. all in how you spin it what does the tax bill do for seniors? all she hears about is middle class. >> so seniors per se are not cankd out anywhere right here. what it really comes down to is income levels. so, if you're a high income earner, and you're a senior,

your age is not relevant here. so, it really is based upon your income levels, not your age. ainsley: but if you are on a lot of medications and a lot of seniors are, aren't there some tax breaks for that? >> there was talk that the medical deduction was going away, which would have really hurt a lot of people, particularly seniors. however, that deduction is back as far as we know right now. so that's a good thing. steve: you know, i was watching one of the other channels yesterday, and the wrap on the tax plan for the republicans is that it's just a great big give away for the wealthy. is that true? >> no. it's really not true. it's particularly not true if you are a high income earner and a high tax state. it's definitely not true. i know the president was talking about this is going to be a big fat christmas presence. a lot of people are getting caught particularly high income earners. ainsley: do you mind sticking around because a lot of people have questions.

confusing for a lot of people that don't know what's happening. pete: send in your questions friends yacht foxnews.com. i will email a few. ains president obama lied 18 times and president trump already lied 103 times. guy benton from town hall.com is going to answer next. steve: some lawmakers think they have the answer, bring in the united nations. pete: bring in the blue helmets. steve: to chicago ♪ want your bad romance ♪

terrorism task force, the newly approved ban will look for ways to reduce chances of an athaksin larr to the deadly halloween attack here in new york city on the west side it involves installing more barriers while cracking down on truck rental requirements. the cook county commissioner wants the united nations to send peace keepers to help face what they call genocid genocide. >> we're being disseminated by the violence that we see here in chicago. i mean, this is really a genocide. steve: there have been 644 homicides in the windy city so far this year. all right. pete, over to you. pete: thanks, steve. well, the "new york times," which the president calls the failing "new york times" has a handy chart for comparing so-called falsehoods between president trump and obama.

the "times" counting more than 100 lies coming out of the trump administration so far. as for president obama he only lied 18 times in 8 years. yes, that's what you are looking at. is this the media bias always talking about. join us is editor of town hall dot gospel come guy benson. this was in the opinion section of the "new york times." but for my opinion there is not much difference between the news opinion and the opinion section anyway. how could -- what does this analysis say to you about the way they view this president? >> well, look, it does not take a lot to convince me that president trump makes stuff up a lot. i think particularly when he is going off the cuff he sort of grabs any piece of information that he thinks might help his case regardless of how true it may or may not be. so i'm open to information that tells me that trump is unique in his disregard for the truth. but then i look at this chart from the "times" and i have to laugh out loud. the idea that president

obama lied 18 times in 8 years of his presidency is preposterous on its face. one of the fact checkers is politifact. that is a well-known left-leaning organization. they are infamous of fact checking republicans more often. they are infamous for finding technicalities to claim that republicans aren't telling the truth when, in fact, the core of what they said was true. politifact is left-leaning for sure. they counted 98 lies from president obama over 8 years. and that's politifact. so, for the "new york times" to say oh, forget 98, it's only 18, the way that they get to that number is saying if you like your plan, can you keep it, that counts once. even though the president said it over and over again. dozens of times lying to the america people. >> keep our healthcare if you wanted to. doctors, cost curve down. premiums down for everyone. these are additional lies about obamacare that don't

count in the chart. it doesn't count sort of the scope of the lie either. so, i mean, this is really bogus science-looking data to try to make it seem like oh my gosh, trump lies order of magnitude. >> several orders of magnitude more often than truth teller, george washington reborn barack obama who can never tell a lie. it's ridiculous. peter peter "the washington post" fact checker has how many pinocchios. day after benghazi he said act of terrorism. not on the list. how much of this comes down to ideology. the times likes what president obama says so they give him pass. >> they give him the benefit of the doubt maybe that wasn't lifetime achievement i was looking at plift fact and "the washington post" lies about benghazi, deficits, keystone pipeline, v.a. scandal, foreign aid, abortions, lots of lies about mitt romney in the campaign. fisa courts, obamacare, the list goes on and on, i think the "new york times," the people who work there for the most part love obama and

hate trump. they also know what their audience wants. their audience wants to see a chart that says donald trump lies all the time obama virtually never. not true. pete: see your town hall.com to point out how many times obama lied vis-a-vis how many times trump lied. >> thanks for creating a task for me, pete, i think it's worth it. pete: this is what we do. >> my pleasure. pete: one man has the answer for gun violence give up your gun for groceries is that a good idea? from hack attacks to smart watches and even uber. kurt the cyberguy is here with the latest tech successes and failures of 2017. it's that end of the year list time. we will bring it to you once again ♪ your every move or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

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ainsley: epic fail. >> $700 juicer. the deal here was you would spend $700 on this juicer and it would also come with this packaged fruit. so the fruit, the idea was that it wouldn't make the juice machine dirty. so easy put this thing in there and pop it in there like those coffee pods and found out that you could just squeeze the bag over a glass and get the juice out just as well and just as quickly. ainsley: people spent 700 bucks on juicer. popped the bag in there and squeeze out the bag in a cup. >> which you could do with your hands. $150 million for the investors. and juicero. uber coming under fire and topping the loser list this year mainly because of a lot of privacy issues that he this have had. they had a software program they were caught using to evade law enforcement called gray ball. also they have employee records that were stolen

they have squashed the idea of a big hacker that broke in that got not only write rider's data. their ceo was fired this year as well. the winners this year though, they are pretty big. remember that the apple watch came out. about 2015. you had to have your phone with it now you don't have to. so it's a cell phone. it also now much longer battery life. and it will now detect whether you have a heart problem coming. and then the other big winners this year is smart home. alexa has really taken off in that whole area. and then also, the big winner, facial recognition. so now with the new iphone 10 you will start seeing that everywhere in 2018. it's going to be enormous. ainsley: you don't have to put a password in it recognizes your face and

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for every one new regulation we have eliminated 22. >> i can't believe you would question my ability. >> girl, bye. it was a joke. in the beginning it was a joke. ♪ i get knocked down ♪ but i get up again ♪ you're never going to keep me down ♪ i get knocked down. >> i love the fact that sarah huckabee sanders took the four pies in and said look, it turns out did make them. revealed april ryan the correspondent, says just joking about it. twitter different. >> she said i am not joking. >> yesterday she was joking. nice it all come together for christmas. >> with friends. if that were your good friend you didn't make that can i joke around with you guys. if you are a reporter in the

white house press briefing room and you haven't really gotten along. fake by? all had you to watch is the adversarial relationship april ryan just gone after sarah huckabee sanders. doesn't look like they are going to make up over pies. steve: just dawned on me #fake news is actually #bake news. right? pete: he will be at the comedy club here in manhattan. giving stand up. steve: you know, it's not funny at all what we're talking about is going on in the department of justice. but it looks like there are certain people about a year ago who edited the evidence hillary clinton so she could be president that's what it looks like to a lot of republicans. ainsley: obtained these documents. looks like it proves there have been multiple edits when james comey had to exonerate hillary clinton two summers ago in 2016

while she was running for president. it looks like there was more than one edit. we have been hearing a lot about grossly negligent edit. there were more than that. pete: we knew james comey wrote exoneration letter before they interviewed her or anyone else. steve: two months. pete: we knew the fix was. in they already cleared her before they did the full investigation. now, what we're getting, senator ron johnson has released a letter that shows sort of one version and then the version that james comey gave. showing not just on the grossly negligent, which is a huge part of it, because that would be the level of criminality. there is 4, 5, 6 other places where they watered it down to make it look less bad for hillary clinton. steve: they thought she was hacked by hostile actors. anyway, keep in mind, we do now know that peter strzok, the guy who was texting his girlfriend and hates trump, he is the guy who took out grossly negligent, this was the original passage, we're going to read it to you and then you will hear what james comey actually said that day. originally they wanted to

say there is evidence to support a conclusion that secretary clinton and others used the private email server in a manner that was grossly negligent. and that is criminal with respect to the handling of classified information. this is what he wound up saying. >> although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. pete: big, big difference there. steve: is that doesn't sound nearly as scary and bad. pete: another line that was left out. original version said this is especially concerning because all those emails were housed on servers not supported by the full-time security staff like those found in departments and agencies at the u.s. government. other references to the intelligence community, to the likelihood that spies had penetrated those servers, that references to

the volume, the number of emails. all of those things removed from the original version to the version that james comey talked about. and, again, peter strzok and others involved in that editing process feels like clinton partisans got their teeth into this to water it down. which hurts not just, you know, it wasn't just about taking on president trump. i mean, bernie sanders and others would look at that and feel like she was exonerated preemptively. ainsley: people were so worried about classified information being gathered by other countries and hack into her account and learn information that would put a lot of our mental and women's lives at risk. something that was in the original wording was reasonably likely that hostile actors got access to hillary clinton's emails. steve: right. ainsley: they changed that to it's possible instead of it's regionably likely. steve: anything isable to. the way they had it the first time why did they change it? it looks like they were putting their thumb on the scale. victoria toensing who used to work at the department of justice she is outraged what is going thereon now. listen. >> these events that we have

been seeing over the last year but now recently are just terrifying. because it's really threatening the integrity of our justice system. we now have facts that show us that it's very clear that top officials at the comey fbi and the obama justice department harbored such animus towards donald trump that they hatched a brazen plot. pete: you look at the time line it looks reversed engineered. the original document looks like something based on facts. where she is indicted. looks like over the course of two months the political folks stepped in and said time to water it down, time to dilute it. that's exactly what most people feared. ainsley: senator johnson that's his big beef and he sent a letter to the fbi. to the current director. and he said it just appears that you are trying to change the tone of this. to be more favorable to hillary clinton. steve: and ultimately it was. however, they thought she was going to win.

pete: that's right. steve: if she would have won, we would not have known any of this stuff, but donald trump won. and he is trying to figure out his department of justice, his, although there is so many holdovers. there are a number of republicans in congress who would like to see a special investigator look into the investigators. however, there are a lot of republicans who also feel that the independent counsel -- rather the inspector general michael horowitz who has a staff of 500 at the department of justice, he has got it covered. they feel great confidence in what he is going to find out. he is the one information gathered peter strzok was communicating with never trumper girlfriend lisa page at the department of justice. >> also communicating we need a backup plan if this guy wins a lot of smoke that points to the fact that they were ready to push russian collusion if trump were to win. ainsley: yesterday the fcc voted to end net neutrality rules on the internet. they repealed that.

it's been in place for the last two years. protected consumers against bad behavior from internet providers. for instance have you comcast. largest internet provider. have you verizon. and 30% of everyone who has the internet. they just have those companies might have a monopoly on it. 30% of people who had the internet don't have a choice. there is only one company that they can choose from. they are scared they are going to raise rates. steve: right. you know, if you looked at cnn.com yesterday. you saw that what they did was the end of the internet as we know it. [laughter] steve: you know what this fcc did was, the obama administration created essentially a new public utility with the internet and had the fcc regulate it. and there is a lot of regulation. keep in mind, before they came along, free enterprise seemed to be going just fine. and now what they have done is cut the cord on the regulation. pete: you are right. this is about government control from the obama administration versus free enterprise i there was a great tweet that ted cruz put out about this that laid it out really nicely.

put it on the screen. reminds us a lot of this freaking out is for nothing. this is -- he starts with a snowflake who is believing the online propaganda might read omg without net neutrality the internet is gone. then an informed observer says you know, the fcc issued that net neutrality rule in 2015. the internet grew up wonderfully free from government regulation and this restores the status quo. then the snowflake replies oh, never mind, there was internet before 2015. if you believe in freedom and free markets, then you believe innovation flourishes there. opportunities flourish there the more government gets its k4ru67s in. when have we ever seen the government say i have got some control. now i want less. government is always going to want to regulate more and more. internet is one of the very few free space that we have. that's what the trump administration is trying to restore. ainsley: jimmy kimmel weighed in on this last night. pete: wonderful. >> federal communication commission the fcc did something absolutely

despicable today. they voted to put an end to net neutrality. this is the rule that says everyone gets equal access to the internet. a big company or somebody selling crocheted owls from their house in the midwest. now, as long as they tell us they're doing it now, internet service providers will be allowed to slow down or block web traffic to any website or streaming service they like which benefits the big telecom companies and does the opposite for all of us. thank you president trump, thanks to you and this jack hole you appointed to run the afcc. big corporations are about to take full control of the internet. merry christmas, everybody. steve: i don't think he liked it. actually, the way the obama administration regulations were written, they benefited google and netflix and things like that. now they are just cutting the cord on the regulations saying essentially, that your internet service provider, whether it's comcast or via owes, whoever you get your internet from, they would be able to charge somebody who uses a lot of internet like netflix,

charge them a little more and then say netflix would add another buck on to your bill. pete: the question is who do you want to be in control a government regulator making that call or private business making that call. ainsley: a lot of people don't know what the heck net neutrality is. we will ajit pai the guy who jimmy kimmel. steve: the guy honed the internet yesterday. ainsley: we're going to ask him all these questions. he used to work for verizon. we will find out what this means for us the consumer, versus the big companies. pete: when i can no longer log onto the internet? tomorrow, the next day. steve: we would ask you for email but we understanding it's been shut down. ainsley: the end of the internet. jillian has more headlines for us. jillian: good friday morning to you and to you at home as well. we want to tell you about this story coming out of california. we now know the name of the first firefighter killed while wildfires ravaging through southern california. corey leaves behind pregnant wife and 2-year-old daughter evey. 32-year-old was part of a team on the front lines trying to contain the thomas

fire when something went tragically wrong. no other details have been release you had. a dangerous faux pas between american and russian fighter jets nearly clyde colliding over syria. two russian planes flying in agreed off limits area. u.s. air force jets firing flares meant to send a strong warning known as head butting. one russian plane flew almost so close it almost crashed into an american jet. the whole incident lasted about 40 manipulates. nfl quarterback marcus mayor oat that apologizing to the media because his mom told him to. the signal caller was brief with reporters after sunday's loss. it was the first thing he brought up with them this week u. >> i was rude and inappropriate and, you know, i just want to say i apologize for that i got an ear full of it from my mom. that's how i was raised and, you know, i appreciate you guys. i understand. jillian: for what it's worth the reporters said they were not offended. i never met him but by all

accounts everyone that have met him stopped up all around nice guy. ainsley: he has a good mom. pete: not. ainsley: he didn't say much after he lost the game. jillian: you know, having a bad day. steve: you don't want to talk about it. pete: imagine you had a bad show and had to round that corner. ainsley: his mom said you have to be more plight. i like his mom. steve: no kidding. president trump on the verge of a major victory getting his tax plan pass you had it is hoped by the white house two. lawmakers demanding last-minute changes. will they get what they want? what do they want and who are they? deputy white house press secretary hogan giddily joins us from the white house. pete: supposed to deliver $800,000 inheritance check. instead he got 32 bucks. not a great return of investment there. we will bring it to you ♪ go on ♪ take the money and run

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ainsley: president trump one step closer to putting tax cuts in your stocking this christmas. is he getting push back from republicans.

pete: with a vote expected next week senators marco rubio and mike lee are demanding last-minute changes to the child tax credit. steve: joining us now with his comments deputy white house press secretary hogan gidley who, yep, he is wearing a coat. he is on the north lawn. good morning few to you. >> good morning, y'all. steve: republicans have a tiny little advantage in the senate they need every one of their men and women to vote yes. it looks like can't really count on bob corker. and now marco rubio has got a problem. apparently he wants more money for the tax credit. right? >> it looks like that at this point. but, look, the president has worked with senator rubio to actually double what they had started out with the number was a lot lower. it's gotten a lot higher because of the talks we had with senator rubio. we hope this tax bill actually gets to the president's desk because it is largest tax decrease, tax cut we have seen in about 30 years which is extremely exciting for us. we would expect that most republicans get on board with actually giving people their own money to keep.

ainsley: hogan, what's senator lee's beef with this? why doesn't he want to support it. >> i'm not sure. the negotiations are ongoing. obviously, we are trying to get this through before christmas, as you just mentioned. we want tax cuts for christmas here at the white house. we want the american people to be able to keep more of their own money. this tax bill does that obviously the president's three main areas of concern were the tax code was just too big. it was too bulky, it was too confusing. that's been addressed in this bill. we wanted tax cuts for the middle class, the president demanded that he has got that and also bringing down the corporate tax rate. something else the president has demanded. all those things are in the bill and we hope to get the bill to the president's desk as soon as possible. pete: a lot of expectations on that, no doubt. we have got to get your comments on a second topic as has well. new documents showing that then fbi director james comey and others including potentially peter strzok watered down his remarks. you recall there was the early will i draft that james comey put together that exonerated hillary clinton before she was even interviewed. now we are getting more evidence out from senator

ron johnson that there were series of edits to really water down the statement and exonerate hillary clinton. do you have any plans? does the white house have any plans to have the doj look even further and more aggressively into how hillary clinton was treated? the president is supportive and has full faith and confidence in ranking members of the doj and fbi. however, it is troubling. deeply troubling that the revelations have now come to light that there is extreme bias against this president with high up members of the team there at the fbi who are investigating hillary clinton at the time. and we're a little concerned at what we are seeing here. obviously those text messages give us quite a bit of pause and should be -- opening, an agency that should be quite frankly unbiased. steve: you are right about that. it doesn't look that way to some. hogan have a nice weekend. >> thanks. merry christmas y'all. pete: moving on one mayor has the answer to gun violence, trade in your guns

for some groceries is that a good idea or a fair trade? you bet kevin jaxx has something to say about that and joins us next.

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get your hands on subway's $5-foot long. it's coming back next month. the "new york post" is reporting 400 franchise owners have signed a petition against the deal. they say it's tanked their profits in years past. steve? steve: people love the value. all right, ainsley, thank you. meanwhile, two police officers in st. louis shot on thursday. they are lucky to be alive thanks to their bullet-proof vest. but violent crime in that area is said to be getting out of control. peter peter now the mayor has a controversial idea. a plan. she says she is telling people to hand over their guns in exchange for free groceries kevin jackson is a fox news contributor and he joins us now with his reaction. kevin, you have a home in st. louis. you live there. recently. here is some numbers from 2017 alone about the killings in st. louis. i think we can put them up on the screen. the number of murders year-to-date 197. 185 of those murders carried out with firearms. most of the violence as i read up on this as well is black-on-black crime. young black men killing other black men.

kevin, it sounds like a unique idea. hey, turn in your gun and you will get some groceries in exchange, will something like this work? >> to be surpassed only by hug athug, pete. do you remember that? pete: yeah. >> they did hug a thug in philadelphia or some other liberal utopia. st. louis is going to have the fattest criminals in the land they can brag about that with the chamber of commerce. what an a asinine idea. when you look at the demographic of this where have you these young black men ages 20 to 29 are the biggest victims of these crimes, and the unsafe neighborhood that have been created by mayors like lied da and in the case of st. louis, mayor slay before her. you know, these ideas that these -- i call them leftist busch with a cocktail sippers want to try as opposed to addressing the real issues of fatherless homes and, you know, the

business development that needs to to be going on in st. louis. they are not doing that they decide hey, we will fatten up our criminals. maybe they will get so fat they can't commit these crimes. steve: if somebody on the right suggested this, the left would scream they're trading safety for food. >> yeah. that was one of my talking points, steve, that, you know, if the donald trump said let's do this, they would say exactly that they would call it racism and they would say, you know, they are starving these people in order to get their guns. so that they can no longer protect themselves. look, it's a matter of perspective. the facts are, st. louis is probably geometrically more dangerous than chicago. and we're constantly talking about chicago. steve: sure. >> constantly talking about areas like detroit. instead of the mayor actually doing something to address the problem, getting these kids in vocational programs, really working on the issues and quite frankly, working on the societal issues leftism that creates these environments

where the rye crime areas, they are trying these types of ideas. by the way, these things never work. these corroboration don't turn in their guns. steve: the buy back programs? >> yeah. the buy back programs don't work. what they do send up bringing in these guns that don't work. pete: criminals don't turn in their guns ultimately. the mayor says we can't incarcerate our way out of this situation. it doesn't sound like buy back programs have been effective either. >> not at all. the sad part about that is that comment that we can't incarcerate. you know, you are exactly right. don't put everybody in prison. but how about we actually do reforms societal reforms that keeps fathers in their homes and creates economic opportunity for some of these youngsters? steve: all right. kevin jackson today joining us from phoenix. kevin, have a good weekend. pete: appreciate it. steve: have a good weekend. >> do you. steve: a man is accused of posing as a decorated veteran. there he is right there.

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♪ shake it up ♪ shake up the happiness ♪ wake it up. ainsley: that is so cute. steve: looked like a stock photo. we asked to you send us your christmas cards and we got a bunch of them. ainsley: that is just precious. we got email from debra. she said this is her grand baby's first christmas. steve: that is a great picture. pete: that is a great picture. ainsley: he is in awe of the

christmas tree. brian: email from gayle. she says merry christmas from mark and gayle is that real or photo shopped? steve: email from the arnold family. they are celebrating landon's very first christmas. ainsley: merry christmas little landon. >> that is a few years ago. steve: rachel campos duffy. >> that was from a few years ago. i sent them a bunch of olders ones. ainsley: you have a few more kids added to the pack. pete: do you do that every year. >> i do. usually there is a baby. although just two days ago we tried to do it with the baby, baby jesus not cooperating. there was a doll. baby jesus started pulling hair. ainsley: that would have been a cute card. >> i might include a few pictures. steve: did you just say you haven't done your christmas card yet? it's the 15th of december. >> there is a tradition in

my family of sending them out late. go figure. ainsley: you have a good excuse. how many children at home? >> 8. pete: welcome. we will be together this weekend. rachel: we will be together this weekend. ainsley: you are hosting this weekend. omarosa calling it quits yesterday or being fired from the white house. what's the story here in the media is going to town with this calling her a villain. >> i don't know why she left. how she left. she says she is going to talk about it in her new book. i would say the an animus of the media the way the media has jumped in to talk about somebody she is not a big huge. steve: why do they hate her? >> she is a former democrat first of all. let's make that clear. she was on al gore's campaign. she did support the president in a very strong way. was very loyal to him. there is a very special punishment for minorities who are either conservatives or now trump supporter. if you are a trump supporter and think you have had it

bad, imagine being hispanic or black the punishment from the media is so much worse. steve: we have a montage of about a minute so you can see exactly what she is talking about. [laughter] >> oh, angela. bye, girls. bye-bye, honey. you have never represented the community. you are skin, we don't own you like score are a. goodbye, good riddance, goodbye. >> she said to me i hope you find some joy in your life. well, today i have found it. >> today trying to keep a straight face here. how big a loss is omarosa to this white house, nic. >> she didn't have a real job in the first place. no one can figure out exactly what heir duties were in the first place. she has gone from having a fake job to non-fake non-job. >> she is really pariah in the african-american community. she has always been the villain. and her job as the director of outreach in the african-american community was almost a slap in the face. >> so nasty to so many women

and some women of color. >> she says she has a story to tell. i'm sure she will be selling that story. >> yeah, she will. bye felicia. steve: bye felicia, that line from the movie. >> that is a famous line from the movie. she says i'm going to write this book. i have never liked this idea of aides and consultants going out and writing books. as a political spouse i can tell that you candidates are at their most -- their whole families are vulnerable and exposed during this campaign process, especially with donald trump being first time candidate in this last race. so i feel like it's using access that you were given as a privilege. we saw nicolle wallace, i think, as somebody who really cashed in and tried to rebrand herself that way. i think it's crass and tacky. i wish we would leave those books to the journalists and that consultants and aides close to candidates would treat their job with the same respect that a lawyer, for example, or a doctor would in terms of protecting the privacy of their client. pete: a lot of confidence

involved. >> they have access to your family. they see you squabbling with your kids or your husband. it's kind of -- it's really, i think it's really not very -- steve: once you leave a job you need a new job. yesterday a lot of people were talking about hey, sounds like paul ryan wants to leave after this congress is over. although they have said he is happy. >> by the way, i will just say this before we get on to paul with omarosa, i know she thinks writing this book might rebrand her. once you are complicit in the trump campaign, ivanka will learn this, too. you will never be allowed back into that cool club. if that's the goal of omarosa's book to get back in, they will never let you back. you might as well stay with your new conservative friends because you will never be allowed back. in regarding paul, my husband spoke to paul yesterday after all these rumors. can i honestly tell you i have not had this conversation with my family at all. i am laser focused on tax reform. if you know paul, that's absolutely true. i will tell you again as a

political spouse, families have the conversation about should we keep doing this all the time. because it is a very stressful job that involves a lot of separation. and it's a lot of hardship on the family. so, your family would be discussing should we. it happens all the time. mexico will never share that because it's such an honor to serve that you don't want to seem like you are complaining about the separation. privately between members, between spouses, between families, that conversation happens all the time. it doesn't mean anything. pete: i mean, politico listed dozens of aides say not one of them heard that he would stay. but you are saying it's wide open at this point. if he gets tax reform passed it's a huge. you could drop the mike. >> is he a policy driven person. he still believes that our entitlement system is in trouble. and it could cause the ruin of our economy. steve: heconomy.steve he has more to do? >> has he more to do. as long as the majorities are there he can get it

done. ainsley: the house seems to like him, right? >> listen, there are always going to be people. steve: the house freedom caucus not crazy about him. >> not crazy about some things. i think they wish that he would give more control back to the committees. there has been some discussion about that. i actually agree with that. steve: i think the freedom caucus is not on board with the cr that's going to fund the government. and i think they are going to vote no at this point. >> right. but there is always going to be tension, that kind of tension when you are in a majority and have you that wide of a -- you know, members from such wide background and states. but, listen, he is widely respected and loved in that conference. i have actually been in the conference meetings. i have been allowed in because of sean. and he is loved and respected. there is no question about it. steve: there you go. ainsley: you are lovered and respected here. you are coming back tomorrow to host the show. >> yeah. pete: saturday and sunday. all 8 hours. so be there with us. steve: we'll be watching. get to work on that

christmas card. >> i am. i am. on it. steve: right now looking like easter card. ainsley: i did mine a few days ago. i will tell where to go. pete: jillian have you done your christmas card? jillian: no. not going to. merry christmas everyone. no cards this year good morning to you at home. i'm just being honest. all right. a crime against our nation's heroes. a new york man accused of stolen valor. reginald wright claimed he served 25 years and special forces green beret with a purple heart which got him into go gallis field access and giants. guardians of the green beret shows his military record shows he only served about seven years. never saw combat and spent most of his time as a driver. no word on if he will face charges. north korea may have accidentally shown a photo of its first atomic bomb. the photo, which appears on the wall in the background on the state tv broadcast shows former leader kim jong kig

jong il inspecting a device. if that doesn't scare you, these comments from former basketball star dennis rodman might. he sat down with stephen colbert speaking candidly about his bizarre friendship with kim jong un. >> i don't see how people can sit there and say this person is a mad man. he probably is but i didn't see that. >> rodman claimed during one of his five visits the dictator says he doesn't want war. dramatic florida deputy saving a man thrown from his jet ski. take a look. by the time he reached the man he was floating face down and unconscious. >> are you all right? are you all right i gotcha. i gotcha hang on. >> wow, the jet skier suffered a deep cut on his chin from the crash but is expected to be okay. thankfully. that's a look at your headlines, guys. frightening scene there. ainsley: but is he okay?

>> steve: thank you. right over our shoulder i can see out window janice dean is with a bunch of people. janice, something you can see from where i am you are near a giant dog. janice: yes. i was going to save that until the end. the dog actually does not talk. but i have someone who will talk for the dog. hi, what's your name? >> i'm grace bench founder of the grace bench communities alliance. >> who is this. >> the main character of the book, he travels the country giving books away. janice: oh my. >> ourntion newest book celebrates police, fire and rescue i know sean is a firefighter and have you -- we would love to give this. this is for you for ainsley. ainsley: let's do the weather real quick. hang on. janice: okay, let's do the weather real quick, okay, otto hang on. otto doesn't work. 21? new york. 12 in cleveland. cold across the northeast. i want to mention if you are traveling today across the northeast, we have a big blast -- not a big blast but a quick blast of snow that

could cause some problems on the commute later on this afternoon. there it is. over new jersey and philadelphia and new york city, very pretty for christmas. but it could cause some problems on the roadways. okay, how are you guys doing? do you have anything to say to pete, steve, and ainsley? >> merry christmas. ainsley: merry christmas. janice: fantastic. we love everybody, including stuffed dogs. ainsley: tell her thank you for the book. that's so sweet. our kids will love that. steve: don't talk a talking dog would be a story on its own. pete: i better start talking now, too. plus, it's bill of rights day. do people really know what's in the bill of rights? >> can you tell me what the bill of rights are. >> nope. >> can't name any of them. >> you can't name one of them? i think you can. >> freedom of speech? >> whoa. pete: rob schmitt here to tell us what it is like to talk to people on the streets of new york. ♪ you're an american man ♪ we coming to your town ♪

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♪ ♪ steve: today is bill of rights day, but how much do americans know about that key portion of our history? ainsley: co-host of "fox & friends first" rob schmitt hit the streets to find out. and i have a feeling. [laughter] rob: we didn't do very well as you might expect. there is the constitution. we have all of these amy's. the bill of the rights is the first 10. how many can you name? most people didn't do too well. let's take a look. rob: can you tell me what the bill of rights are. >> nope. rob: come on. yes, you can. rob: the bill of rights are which 10 amendments of the constitution. >> slightest idea. can't name any of them. rob: you can't name one of them. i think you can. >> freedom of speech. rob: first one. >> right to bear arms second amendment. rob: freedom of speech,

freedom of the press. >> religion freedom of religion. now i get it. >> i can give you first two, first is freedom of speech and the second is right to bear arms. rob: is it interesting to you that a lot of people don't know a single one. >> a lot of things interesting interest me where they get news and politics is straight offline which is really sad. >> i think i'm capped. rob: right there, man. rob: in all fairness he is a school teacher he got four of them. did he better than anybody else. spoke to two guys from london. the one guy knew right to bear arms. newsroom for the right to bear arms. the other guy said i have no idea. he says i plead the fifth. you know one of them. because of that's fifth. steve: the fifth amendment. rob: let's go and list them out here. we have a full screen graphic we want to show you fancy and nice. okay you have got religion, bear arms, no courting of

soldiers, a bunch of legal ones. 10 amendment. pete: it restricts the powers of the federal government. the federal government doesn't have explicit right it goes back to the state. ainsley: no quartering of the soldiers. >> they can't stick soldiers in your house and force them to stay with you. probably more of a during the revolution i'm sure. steve: happy bill of rights day. rob: if you didn't know it's bill of rights day it's holiday, too. ainsley: first 10. steve: thank you, rob. coming up in the next hour, fcc commission ajit pai on that controversial net neutrality vote, controversial i should say for some. pete: to some, yes. president trump hosting several families at the white house. explaining why the tax bill is vital to americans. they all took their turn at the podium. one of the families said he is confident tax reform will help the average guy. bishop leon benjamin is live next. ♪ beautiful day

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♪ ♪ ainsley: president trump promising giant tax cuts for christmas. surrounded by families who are going to benefit from those tax cuts. >> we represent a cadre of many families across the nation, african-american families, urban communities, and families all across need this now. and it's time for a change. and it's time that we recognize that our president is making good on his promises. ainsley: that is bishop leon benjamin of new life harvest church and he joins us now with more on why he is supporting tax reform. good morning to you, bishop.

thank you for joining us on this friday. >> good morning. it's good to be here. ainsley: it's great to have you, god bless you. amen. so why do you say that this is great for families? tax reform? why are you a big supporter of the president? >> oh, this is so simple. i call it the win, win, win principle. it's going to win for my family. we are going to get a refund of about $3,000 or more, which will allow us to pay our bills off. i got two kids in college. pay that off. and even invest some in our investments and as entrepreneur, you know, we can expand even our business. it's going to win for my church because we pray for the president every tuesday. we have a prayer ministry called united to pray. we can do more of giving and as opposed to going to make a living. and then thirdly, work for our community because now more jobs can come in with this tax cuts as entrepreneurs. we can hire more, expand. it's just a win, win, win. that's three wins. that makes a win for the

president. a win for the congress. and the win for america. ainsley: bishop, how did you meet the president? what did he say to you on wednesday when you were at the white house? >> he was first and foremost he is just a down to earth person. he was glad to see us. i met him before on the campaign trail as a surrogate. opened up in the campaign for him. good to see him but he was so inviting. he talked to my children. he talked to my wife. it was just so good to be there. it was an honor and definitely an extreme pleasure just to have my whole family there. ainsley: you told our producers yesterday that you have had some negative outcry from people in the black community. tell us more about that. what is your message to them because you clearly support the president. >> yeah. you know, there always is going to be some cynical people. we got called some names, you know, uncle tom, coon, those names are not needed. my thing is. this we need to pay

attention to the positive and minimize the negative. and that's what i choose to do. you know, they are always going to be there. but i'm glad that this tax reform has a chance to pass because it's about manifestation now. it's about showing america that the president is staying good to his promises. so, let them be out there, but it's hard to complain when you see the stock market going up like it is and the economy increasing. you know, the numbers just don't lie. ainsley: thank you so much for being with us. what a beautiful message. thank you for what you do for your church and for praying for the president and for our country. you have a beautiful family. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much for having us. god bless you. ainsley: god bless you too, bishop. a new report is questioning the credibility of the fbi and the doj. is it time to investigate the investigators? fox news correspondent at large geraldo rivera weighs in at the top of the hour. there he is. hey, geraldo. ♪

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steve: brand-new documents stating former fbi director on the hillary clinton probe was watered down. >> extremely careless. >> really taking of our justice system. what a farce. >> fcc vehicle code to overturn the obama-era regulations supporters call net neutrality rules. >> it is not the job of the government to be in the business of picking winners and losers in our economy. >> president trump one step closer to putting tax cuts in your stocking this christmas. but he's getting some push back. >> senators marco rubio and mike lee are demanding last-minute changes. >> that makes sense. senator ruby will be there. we're doing well on the tax front. >> we would expect that most republicans would get onboard for giving people their own money. ainsley: president trump cutting the tape literally.

>> one, two, three. >> for every new regulation, we have eliminated 22. >> i can't believe you would question my ability. >> it was a joke. but at the beginning, it was a joke. ♪ ♪ ainsley: doesn't that remind you of home? i love new york city, but i still have one foot. geraldo, you know what i'm talking about. >> i do. ainsley: you go home, you introduced us to your family. >> home is very important to me. particularly when you have a large family. my dad was one of 17 children. and we just found out. i did an accessory.com that we're 10% native american. i mean, i had no idea. this whole life, and we're 10% native american.

people started making cracks about how i was born. ainsley: you're an eighth decade? you look great. >> a lot of wear and tear lately. steve: geraldo, here's a request he. during your eighth decade on this earth, have you ever seen so many people question whether or not they can trust the department of justice and the fbi? because now apparently new documents fox news has obtained shows that two months before hillary clinton was even interviewed last year before the election and what they knew the outcome of that was going to be, they were already trying to exonerate him. >> it's a historical reference first. it reminds me of the early 70s. it reminds me of all the churn around president clinton and what the investigation was and the department of justice. steve: and he was a sitting president. >> absolutely. this is interesting because here with all the pressure ron

comey on the election as the election is approaching. all of these allegations that president trump then candidate trump made sense to his campaign about hillary clinton and the e-mails and so forth. on the fbi was in the rare position of almost determining the outcome of the election and what was their first impression. their first impression was that she was grossly negligent. why is that important? because gross negligence. steve: that's what they wrote. >> it is the entry-level criminal copability. in other words, if you're grossly negligent, it's possible that you're guilty of a misdemeanor in terms of handling the server and the e-mails and so forth. but as he approached his public proclamations about it, it was reduced from gross negligence to extreme carelessness, which is not a crime. so it was a very, very significant move. a deescalation of the fbi very critical appraisal of hillary clinton and handling her e-mail. it exonerated her and

propelled her candidacy until he got involved again until later on when he found another computer and more e-mails and had to investigate it just a week or so before the election. >> peter stroke and others had shown to be partisans. everyone is allowed to have their own political allegiance but were involved in that writing. ultimately it lands on the desk of james comey. but is it worth going back investigating the investigators? >> that's the most part of the question, pete. that if it isn't bias, it is at least extreme inclination to favor clinton over trump. which is distressing when you figure these are the same people investigating president trump with russia gate and so forth. to me, though, this is what we should be concentrating on.

despite the expenditure of $8 million and all of these smart people, what have they come up with? people point to the indictment of paul manafort. sure. but that was about business dealings that predated president trump's candidate. he had nothing to do with president trump. they pointed general flynn. michael flynn and his plea to lying to federal investigators. again, that is about general flynn. that's not about president trump. so where do we sit this morning? we sit in a place where despite all of this effort and all of this bias with absolutely nothing with the collusion with so-called russia's -- steve: geraldo, there is collusion. it looks like there's collusion between equilibrium's department of justice and the clinton campaign. >> whether or not it is, steve. whether or not it is specific cooperation or.

>> newt gingrich is saying it's time to investigate that. that's where the real collusion is. >> do we care about the 45th president of the united states being a success or not? are we going to continue to look backwards and all of this crap? we can now encourage this president to get his tax plan passed. ainsley: you also want to hold people accountable if they do things wrong and shady. >> i care much more about shouting from the rooftops. there's no more there. at what point do decent people say enough? the problem with special prosecutors period, and that's why i absolutely oppose the appointing of another special prosecutors to renew these controversies that we've been talking about this morning. they are self perpetuating. they are funded, they are empowered, and they tend not to know when to stop. when to quit. at what point do you say. okay. i did it. here's paul manafort. he was a crook. and now let the president be the president. >> but to ainsley's point, if

you really want to restore faith in the fbi and the justice department. then you have to strip out that bias. and say trump's innocent, and we're going to sweep the rest of the stuff because we want to move on. it doesn't restore faith to anyone who used the justice department as a weapon. >> when was the last time -- when was the last time in anyone watching now. when was the last time you saw our special prosecutor say okay. i've done it. this is the job. we're finished. i found what i found. i didn't find what i find. let's go on. goodbye. it never happened. just like a city job. nobody ever creates a city job because you get paid, you get a pension, you get taken care of, you get dental, eye care. no one ever quits a special prosecutor. >> speaking of a city right over here port authority beginning of the week we had a guy try to blow up a bunch of people on the subway. thankfully, he was not successful. he got into our country by

chain migration. so if your family had 17 kids, all of them can come in, all of the grandparents can come in. what do you think about it? >> well, first of all, i was absolutely agonizing over not being in new york on monday. i was in cleveland, our new home. and i felt so much for time square a block away, and it was awful what happened. and thank god he was an absolute bumble bum that he blew hideous own belly. i want them all to end that way. on the issue of immigration, i think the visa lottery has outlived its usefulness. i think that when you compare the visa diversity lottery recipients, winners with the dream act students, for example. talking about groups of immigrants. one is absolutely unvetted or only vetted after the fact.

the other is so vetted that you know whether they have a cavity or not. you know exactly where they were born. you know exactly what they were doing. exactly where they are now. the dream act is exactly the way immigration should happen. the visa lottery, why this whole concept of winning? it's not about gambling. it's about immigration should serve, yes, a humanitarian. but it should also strengthen. that's why i can't for the life of me people here going to stanford. they get a graduate degree in some kind of digital science and then we send them back because their student visa is expired. that's the guy i want to keep. i want to keep that guy. >> should chain migration be significantly curtailed? because some in minneapolis where we've had serious terror issues. the entire city is coming if you don't have -- >> and covered mogadishu from the ground, it's a place that's not going to breed

law-abiding. it's a crazy violent place. but chain migration, i think you have to be reasonable about it. if a dad comes, he should be able to take his wife. but a guy comes. i mean, his auntie, uncle, nephew. steve: where do you draw the line? is it four people or 40? >> it's the core family, you define it in a reasonable way without getting stupid. i think the uncle and the nephew and cousin and so forth, it absolutely the concept. i'm a very, very fierce pro immigration advocate. i think the country is strengthened by it. i think our diversity is our strength. but we also want to bring people that add to the pot. you want to bring in the people that have -- they're going to make the google. they're going to make the factory, invent a new gadget.

that's what i want. i want it to be the unique place, the shining city on the hill. but i don't want to be so naïve that we create a place where we hurt ourself. ainsley: thank you, geraldo. >> i couldn't miss it. ainsley: you're in the city for the weekend? >> yes. ainsley: we'll have to get together. i'm glad you're back. steve: another party i'm not invited to. >> you and kathy are always invited. steve: thank you very much. we were just talking about terror and, of course, jillian joins us with fox news. >> we do have a fox news alert. isis threatening americans again this christmas eve and the latest propaganda now calling to set washington, d.c.'s national cathedral on fire. this after the terror army shared a picture depicting santa claus with a box of dynamite in time square. that image may have inspired terror suspect who's accused of setting off a pipe bomb in new york city subway system on monday. president trump visiting the fbi national academy in

quantico, virginia today. the commander-in-chief set to leave in an an hour. his appearance coming less than two weeks after claiming the agency's reputation with quote in tatters. as we learn about the potential conflicts of interest in the russia probe. slipping away from a popular nativity scene not once but twice. before police could wrangle her on a busy interstate. well, with guess what? broke free again winding up in a parking garage. the church not taking any more chances. has been replaced with a smaller cow named ginger. and i have to give a shout out, guys, with the philadelphia police department because they have so much fun on twitter. you start your day with being a cop is a tough job and then

at least i don't have to do that again, they say. and then they had to do that again. i love the picture of the cow, though. like, hold my beer. >> i'm out of here, the cow says. this is not my job. ainsley: we need to add a cow to the major scene. i have camels and donkeys. i have sheep. i need to add a cow. >> maybe stormy's available for you. ainsley: no, i don't want a live one. i need a little figureene. >> without being a bummer about it, that plot to burn the national cathedral. ainsley: yeah. >> i mean, the odds are the kinds of things will happen. we have to respond them vigorously, everybody has to react to it in a positive, neighborly, patriotic way. but i fear that is our future. >> travel safely. ainsley: president trump one step closer to putting money back in your pocket with a historic tax cut. but there are some republican

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steve: republicans work to get their bill across the finish line in congress. >> so can they do it and what the bill do? ainsley: here to weigh in stuart varney, host of the "varney & company" show on the fox business network. >> yes, it will go through because i can't believe the gop will say "no" at this very, very late stage. and, yes, it will give us growth in the economy next year. and tens of millions of people will get a higher paycheck in february of next year. there's our answering your question. what else do you want to know? steve: marco rubio. because he wants more dough in the child tax credit. stuart: here's what has happened. they've taken money away from big businesses. about $100 billion spent over a ten-year period and marco rubio and senator lee want a piece of that 100 billion. so they're saying i want more in that child tax credit and i'm not going to vote "yes"

until more. steve: right now 87 billion. >> it's sausage making at the very last minute. you also have senators corker and flake still publicly worrying about the deficit. but they're not saying i'm voting "no" because of the deficit. and you do have john mccain of mississippi. they are not well. john mccain is in the hospital. you have to be on the floor of the united states senate to cast a vote. so there's some element of doubt there. some element of doubt. >> corker also ill as well. stuart: correct. steve: he's expected next week. >> when push comes to shove at the very last minute, i just can't see the republican party say nope, we're not going to do it. we've come this far but just can't do it. steve: one other topic. you are antiregulation to begin with. yesterday the president made it very clear he had suggested that for every new regulation, he would chop two away. yesterday he announced that so

far for every new regulation, he has chopped 22. stuart: this is wonderful news for the animal spirits of capital i am of. now, if you're just about to start a business or running a small business, the last thing you want is red tape around your neck filling out this form. asking for that permit. you don't want that. you just want to get on with the business of hiring people and making a profit. well, the president has removed that burden from a lot of small businesses, and i think it has done the economy a power of good. ainsley: i will never forget when president rolled out what looked like santa's list just to get through build a highway. and by the time you get to the bottom, some of these businesses have gone out of business, and you have to start all over again. stuart: i have a farm in up state new york and if you get a rock within 20 feet of a stream on your property, you have to get a permit to move

it and environmental impact study to remove the rock. he got rid of the rule. thank you. steve: stuart, thank you very much. meanwhile, what is this net nutrien neutrality thing and did it end the internet yesterday? we're going to talk to the scc chair next let's get the big guy in place. the ford year end sales event is here. i can guide you in. no, thanks , santa. i got this. santa: uh, it looks a little tight. perfect fit. santa needs an f-150. that's ford, america's best selling brand. hurry in today for 0% financing

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>> the federal communications commission, fcc did something absolutely despicable today. they voted to put an end to net neutrality. this is the rule that says everyone gets equal access to the internet. a big company or somebody selling crocheted owls from their house in the midwest. now, as long as they tell us they're doing it now, internet service providers would be able to slow down or block web traffic to any website or streaming service they like, which benefits the big telecom

companies and does the opposite for all of us. i just want to say thank you, president trump. thanks to you and this jack hole you appointed to run the fcc. big corporations are about to take full control of the internet. so merry christmas, everybody. >> that's comedian jimmy kimmel turned spokesman for chuck schumer the democrats sounding the alarm after the fcc voted to overturn an obama identify are a internet regulation known as net neutrality. ainsley: the move causing some on the left to paint an even dire picture with a cnn headline reading quote end of the internet as we know it. so is it the end of the internet? steve: well, let's talk to the chairman of the scc. joins us from our nation's capital. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. thanks for having me on. steve: yesterday when it was appealed, exciting day there at the scc. somebody called it a bomb threat and all sorts of

worry. what is jimmy kimmel wrong about this? >> he's getting everything wrong about it. the free and open internet we had prior to 2015 is the one we're going to have going forward. and that kind of name-calling and hysteria is disappointing, but it's not surprised. those who have said the internet as we know it is about the end as people send e-mails, check on their twitter accounts, post on facebook, and the like. we have a free and open internet going forward and the fcc and the ftc going forward are going to make sure that happens. >> boil this down for us because it feels complicated because one says net neutrality looks fair and equal. yet, what you have done has opened it up to a free and open intent. simply put, what are people missing. what does this boil down to? >> what it boils down to is should the government micromanage how the internet works? for 20 years before 2015 starting with president clinton, we decided "no." we wanted to have a free-market approach in which innovators could innovate and consumers could benefit. and the results speak for themselves. companies like facebook and amazon and netflix and google

became global giants precisely because the government wasn't involved. that is the light-touch framework to which we are returning, and that's part of the reason why i think so much of this hysteria is simply misplaced. as we will see going forward, getting this regulatory system right means better, faster, cheaper internet access to all americans across the country. ainsley: so i heard earlier that 30% of america only has one choice when it comes to their internet choices. so does this mean that those companies -- they're not going to start raising rates on those families, are they? >> two different points. number one to the extent that lack of competition is an issue, and i've seen that for myself in parts of the country. the solution is more competition. not heavier government regulation that makes it even harder. number two, the fcc and federal trade commission are going to continue to be cops. so if there's any company or internet service provider that enacts competitive way, we will take action accordingly.

steve: okay. here's what i want to know. is my internet going to slow down? my internet is okay. it's a little high. is it going to slow down? what's it for me? the average consumer. >> and here's been a lot of misinformation. think about how far we have come the starting years until these rules were adopted in 2015. we went from 28k modems to gigabit fiber. so going forward, the internet is going to speed up, we're going to see better and faster and cheaper services all across the board, and that's exactly what these rules, which were after all the clinton-era rules that served us so well are calibrated to do. >> if we stayed with president neutrality and there was a president clinton, what type of regulation could we see? >> there's no question that that kind of fcc would have heavily regulated the internet even further. they would have ban, for example, free data offerings by wireless companies where

the wireless company will say you can stream data, your music, video and the like exempt from any data limits. they would have banned that and probably got into price regulation, which is essentially the government deciding how these businesses are going to operate. so there's no telling how far they would have gone. it would have been limited only by their own imagination. ainsley: you're a smart guy. you went to harvard. you're a general council for verizon. you have jimmy kimmel calling you names. what did you think of that? >> i think it's unbecoming of the seriousness of this debate but, again, it's not surprising. those on the other side have literally nothing other to pedal than hysteria and misinformation and fear than the light-touch approach that we would have for the internet'san existence. given what has transpired over the last several weeks, i'm not surprised at all. steve: before you go, the headline over at cnn, end of the internet as we know it. is that accurate? . >> it's not accurate at all but, again, that's part of having a free country.

people can say anything they want and in some cases, they literally do. >> they sure do. you're right. steve: well, we have grown to love our internet. we don't want to get it messed up and if you say the prices are going to go down in the future, we like that idea. >> we do. thank you for your time this morning. appreciate it knowledge. ainsley: thank you. >> you bet. ainsley: that makes me feel better. steve: go down, competition, that makes sense. >> government out of the way. ainsley: all of that hysteria for nothing. >> the internet is not over, folks. she was -- ainsley: that world wide web, it's going to be a big thing. >> might add a w. super world wide web. that would be an s. not a w. now this domestic terrorist could get out of jail early citing bias. steve: plus, happy national ugly christmas sweater day. janice is putting the finishes touches on her ugly sweater, and she has help from our neighbors the rockettes. ♪ video-game dance music

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ainsley: time for the shot of the morning after a girl steals the sheep too. >> swiping the mini-jesus before dancing with it. steve: swiping the baby jesus just is never good. but mary wasn't having any part of it and wrestling over the doll before the congregation breaks out in laughter and the adults have to intervene. ainsley: that is so cute. >> my goodness. ainsley: that is the best video. >> every child nativity ever. meanwhile, it's that time of year, though. grab the most festive and

obnoxiously ugly or awesome christmas sweater you can find because today is national ugly christmas sweater day. steve: that's right. founders of uglychristmassweater.com. how did it start? >> basically, it started as people wearing their grandmother's old christmas sweaters and then turned into a popular pop culture so that thing fred, is yours the most popular? like the ones in the christmas story. steve: and then you got merry christmas, you filthy animal. which is line from home alone. i have news for you. mine isn't very bad looking at this point. what happened to this? ainsley: funny. oh, no. what's your is that? ainsley: that is so cute. >> how are these things topped year after year? because they become so ridiculous. >> yeah. they're more ridiculous the better, i

guess, now. steve: how much is something like this? >> that one is 39.99. ainsley: so you can also do custom sweaters; right? brian: that's not ugly at all. >> what about do it yourself? >> we do have do it yourself sweaters and custom sweaters. steve: i like this so much. ainsley: what is yours? >> i'm an elfy. #elfy. >> are those on the website? fox and friends? ainsley: we can make these; right? >> so we have our own customizer where you can design your own, custom sweater, and that's what we used to design that. >> the greatest christmas

movie ever. christmas vacation and, of course, the jelly of the month club. the gift that keeps on giving. ainsley: i just bought that video online. elf. steve: okay. it started with grandma's ugly sweater but then it started to take off how many years ago. >> started in 2012 and then started to take off of that. ainsley: you had to buy this url a long time ago. >> correct. we bought it in 2011 and each year it has grown significantly. steve: it's that foresight if people bought bitcoin at a dollar in 2011. it would be rolling right now. >> ugly christmas dance party now? >> i do have to get to news, guys. steve: we'll get out of your way. >> fox news alert. mark your cardinal, guys.

just announcing prince hairy have officially set their date. on may 19. the british royalty proposed to the american actress just last month. a domestic terrorist is now complaining of bias. judith clark is saying she was denied in april and was treated as a symbol of crime rather than an individual. lark was the get away driver in a deadly 1981 armed truck highest where a security guard and two police officers were killed. new york governor andrew cuomo commuted her sentence last december making her immediately eligible for payroll. christmas now canceled in the town where jesus christ grew up and president trump is taking the blame. muslim mayor of israel announcing that a number of christmas events will not go on. he says president trump has taken the joy and joy out of the season after recognizing jerusalem as israel's

capital. fox news contributor pastor reacted. >> as that happens, unbelievers feel empowered to come out of the closet and share what they really believe or what they don't believe. >> the canceled events are traditionally major tourist attractions. >> the white house press secretary making amens, at least for now. according to reporter ryan who didn't make her own thanksgiving pie. sanders baked a new round of pies for the press. >> i look at this as a reset. a reach out to all of us. not just to me. >> i can't believe you would question my ability. >> but at the beginning, it was a joke. you can be from the south and can't cook. a lot of people can't cook. >> ryan didn't even end up eating a slice. girl, bye.

there you go. ainsley: everyone's going to want ainsley's sweater. ainsley: they should sell them. you can design your own. fox and friends sweater. steve: people can send us pictures. your ugly christmas sweaters. >> the show's almost do it. so we'll do it for the weekend. steve: your questions about the new tax fill filling up our inbox one from jason asks electromagnetic take-home pay increase with those cuts? our account animal daniel is back answering your questions next. ainsley: plus, they are here to help us kick off. the radio city rockettes. they join us live coming up. happy friday. when you have a cold...

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their own hospital instead of being taken to the nearest one. so i guess if it's not life-threatening, pick your hospital and do it for 30 bucks instead of 300. ainsley: well, your e-mails are pouring in about what the tax bill means for you and your family. steve: this guy's been busy. cpa and founder. once again joins us with some of the answers to your questions. first up, dan. we got an e-mail from phil who asks how will long-term capital gains be taxed? >> no change there. so the percentage that was being used before will continue for long-term capital gains. that was one of the ones i was hoping that they would drop down because lowering the capital gains rate has been known to stimulate economic growth. they decided to leave it alone. probably gets that label of tax break for the rich. that's why they stayed away from it. >> interesting the things that actually drive the sausage making of the bill.

pete: e-mail from michael saying will i be able to write off the interest from my mortgage? >> so your mortgage won't change. with any new mortgage. right now deductibility up to a million dollars. that is going to be lowered to 750,000, which was an exact meet in the middle between the house and the senate bill. ainsley: now, this is from jason. what's the bottom line? as a middle class american, electromagnetic take-home pay increase with these cuts? >> really hard to say the bottom line. but if i had to make a call, middle class are going to get a tax cut. specifically, if they are not itemizing. because those rates are coming down. they're going to have more money in their pocket in -- pete: standard deduction compromised in this bill? >> yes, it is. steve: one of the most unfair taxes i think is the death tax and allen e-mails what

happened to the state tax in the current bill? >> death taxes not going away. in this case married together; right? so what they've done is currently if you are -- for an individual a little over five million. ten million if you're married in terms of not paying tax up to that amount of assets. they are doubling that. so we are going to go to about 11 million and 22 million. so significant raise with the -- before the death tax kicks in. pete: interesting. got an e-mail from stacy. says my husband travels for her job. will the new tax law deduct current travel expense deductions? >> travel expenses will remain deductible. so in this particular case, if he's being reimbursed for his travel expenses by the company, the company will still be able to deduct those. however, meals and entertainment going away. that's a big one. no more deductions for that. ainsley: really? steve: got to live it up before the end of the year. ainsley: got a few weeks. thank you so much.

can all right. coming up, they're here to literally help kick off the holiday season. the radio city rockettes join us live. next. steve: look at that lady in the middle. but first, let's check in with bill hemmer on what happens on the channel in 12 minutes. >> good morning. merry christmas on a friday. we're getting ready, guys, for a very interesting moment. president trump to speak at a fbi ceremony. amidst all of this special counsel matter, the questions about fbi credibility, we'll see what he has to say then. also, are republicans in trouble for future elections? the head of the rnc will answer that question live today and meet the veterans who are getting the help they have waited for this holiday season sandra and i will see you shortly top of the hour. 12 minutes away

pete: as we wrap up this friday of fox and friends for you. first $846,000. that's how much an inheritance check is worth that ups is accused of choosing. now offering the canadian man an apology and $32 refund for shipping. >> but he did get his check back. pete: he did. a little late for christmas. plus, zero dollars. free shipping for friday. hundreds of receiptingers like the ladies clapping at kohl's and walmart are waiving shipping and guaranteed delivery by christmas. plus, five bucks. that's how much it will cost to get your hands on subway's $5 foot long, which is coming back next month. also worthy of applause. but the new york post reporting more than 500 franchise owners petition against the deal. changed their profits in the past. if you sell a $5 sandwich and

can't pay $5, that's a problem. ainsley: a christmas tradition here in new york. the rockettes performing in radio city -- in the radio city christmas spectacular. >> and here to help us kick off the holiday season, four of the most radio city rockettes. we have jackie and cory and bailey. >> thank you. ainsley: how long have you been in the rockettes. each of you. we'll start over there with you. cory. >> at years. ainsley: bailey. >> six. ainsley: and jackie. >> first season. yay. ainsley: loving it? >> love it. ainsley: who will. >> what do you think is the most exciting thing for the audience to see? >> that's a tough question because there's so many throughout the show. you have a lot of interactive scenes, especially one that's a really big crowd pleaser is when we're all dressed up assenters and enter in through the house and surprise people

in the audience. that usually gets a lot of cheers. >> tell us something about the rockettes that people don't know. >> in the click climb, we don't actually touch each other. so we have thelution that we're touching each other. when we're hooked up. we have imagine kicking, we do up to 300 kicks a year. ainsley: hold your what? >> your core. >> what is that? [laughter] pete: and you have to be in good shape. how many performances total will you do over the christmas season? >> we do about 100. 10. ainsley: 107 shows seven days a week. the girls will have the evening. >> do you have a favorite you would like to do? >> i would have to say my favorite number is the pray to the wooden soldiers because it has been in the christmas spectacular since the origin 1933. ainsley: that's the one where you fall like dominoes on each other; right? >> yeah. even though it seems simple on stage, it takes an incredible amount of

precision, which is what the rockettes are known for. >> are you going to teach me a little bit? >> yes. >> dying to learn over here. ainsley: i will say this too. i love they have a live nativity scene. i was shocked by that. i thought so liberal we're not going to do a christmas message. i love that. and you have the santa that comes on you the in the 3d video and all the kids get the 3d sunglasses. >> this year we have a completely new, completely immersive experience whether you're sitting in the first row or third mezzanine, we have new projections that go from the first arch all the way to the back of the house. so you feel like you're in a snow globe. >> can i audition? . >> we're i can show you crossing of that right knee. exactly. a step on the right.

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>> we asked you to send in your christmas photos. look at this family all dressed in their green and red pajamas, adorable. >> this family celebrating their past year together. >> kathleen, this photo. celebrating piper's first

christmas. >> so cute. >> janice, you are ready to be a rockettes. >> mom, i danced with the rockettes! >> bill: awaiting a speech from president trump speaking during a graduation ceremony at the f.b.i. academy later this hour. this speech coming in the midst of the heated debate over the bureau's credibility the president, gop and hillary clinton. we'll take you live to f.b.i. headquarters once that begins today. also today, here we go again because there is more drama now surrounding the fate of the republican tax bill. the text of that bill is now closed. lawmakers hope to vote early next week. a question at this hour, is every republican in the senate on board? as you know, every vote counts. it is that close at the moment.