♪ [national anthem] > we are getting our first look at the final version of tax reform legislation agreed to by house and senate negotiators. >> overall $1.5 trillion tax cut. the biggest in over 30 years. >> i think that we are going to be in a position to pass something as early as next week, which will be monumental. >> bombshell new report on the hill claiming that attorney lisa bloom may have tried to set up paydays for women accusing president trump of sexual misconduct. >> reports the president's attorneys will meet with special counsel robert mueller next week. the president just called the fbi's actions on the russia probe disgraceful. >> if you look what's gone on with the fbi and the justice department, people

are very, very angry. >> america's top diplomat told world powers north korea must earn the right to negotiate with the u.s. >> we will continue to hold north korea accountable for its reckless and threatening behavior. >> the president of the united states has your back 100 percent. >> i will fight for you and i will never ever let you down. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is how we do ♪ yeah do we like that ♪ this is how we do, do,. pete: welcome to "fox & friends" on this saturday. ed henry requested that song. [laughter] ed: i so love katy perry. rachel: not as much as ed. ed: put out we were coming back. they didn't care we were coming back but rachel. pete: thanks for being here.

rachel: thank you. pete: how is christmas in the duffy house? rachel: it's coming together slowly. try doing that with 8 kids. pete: i do a lot of internet shopping as well. ed: congressman duffy is going to have to get back to work next week. early christmas present overnight. a tax cut deal. pete: they have actually been working hard, ed. we will go right to that fox news alert. the christmas president the pree president promised. we are finally getting a look at what the deal reveals. rachel: took some compromise to get there. ed: who is in? who is out? doug mckelway joins us this morning. good to see you. >> good to see you. a t. now it appears that the tax cut and jobs act is headed for passage next week. the house expected on tuesday the senate later in the week. assurance came yesterday when senator marco rubio gave a thumbs up make concessions make up to 14 hurricane dollars of the

child tax cut available refund to lower and middle income families. late yesterday senator bob corker also stepped on board, probably ensuring senate passage. also probable yes votes if they can make it back to vote are two hospitalized republican senators thad cochran of mississippi who has cancerous lesion that was removed from his nose and senator john mccain, of course, hospital lied with thized withthe side effects of chemotherapy. seven tax brackets but reduces rates for five of them. new rates start at 10% and then rise to 12, 22, 35 and 37%. corporate rate reduced 35 to 21. provides sweeping tax deductions to other businesses lowering their effective tax rates from 30 pentagon instead of 39.6%. repealing obamacare individual mandate. mainly step to gospe g.o.p. of

unraveling the law. graduate school tuition waivers. >> everybody's lives will be better off under tax reform because of the tax relief families get. >> and house speaker paul ryan added in a statement the conference committee took the best ideas from the house and the senate plans and made an even better bill. the tax cuts and jobs act now only two votes and a signature away from becoming the law of the land. democrats as you would expected to be unanimous in their opposition. >> god bless wealthy people. i'm glad we have them. but they don't need a tax break. it's average middle class people and people struggling to get to the middle class who need those breaks. >> the business tax cuts would be permanent but reductions for individuals would expire in 2026 saving some money to comply with the senate budget rulings. that's it in a smut shell,

guys. should happen next week. ed: doug mckelway appreciate the details. pete: not quite the postcard that kevin brady and others talked about but still a big win. rachel: i would say paul ryan is absolutely right. the final bill is better than the individual house bill, than the individual senate bill. i really think they did really take the best of both and put it there. nobody is going to be happy. tax reform is hard. if it was easy it wouldn't take 30 years to do it. ed: to your point chuck schumer says this is not going to help the middle class at all. guess what marco rubio pushed hard in the final negotiations to get a child tax credit bumped up to 14 $1,400 a year not the rich low tore middle class families who don't pay any taxes at all and were not going to get that credit because they were not paying taxes. they don't make enough to pay taxes now they are going to get credit. pete: let's not mince words this is a huge win for president trump and the g.o.p. when you set a red line at

20% and you actually get it at 21% in washington, that's amazing. and then the repeal of individual mandate for those true believers out there, it's about time and i'm glad they didn't ful full fumble that football at the last minute unraveling that law. ed: dow had 6th record close of this year. i bet it beats that early next week. and if the economy takes off in part because of this, remember, not a single democrat has voted for it. pete: that's a really good point. republican campaign ads might remind them of that. rachel: by the way, democrats would have killed to have this economy and it's only going to get better from here on. pete: a big conversation, a lot of revelations it week at the fbi inside the special counsel. frustrations that there appears to be a lot of evidence of bias atop the former fbi under barack obama. well, the president had some things to say on the south lawn yesterday about that before going to talk to new recruits at the fbi. some say he had different messages. others think differently.

take a listen. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi. but, we're going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. it's very sad when you look at those documents. when you look at what's gone on with the fbi and the justice department, people are very, very angry. >> with me as your president, america's police will have a true friend. more loyal than anyone else can be. the president of the united states has your back 100 percent. i will fight for you and i will never ever let you down ever. ed: right there he is talking to the folks who are going to be the new fbi agents coming up. we will be on the front lines of fighting whether it's organized crime, dealing with all kinds of crime all across the united states. not just these kind of high profile investigations in washington. you can just split it out and say look i'm behind the

people actually fighting to make america safer. counter terrorism, for example. a big one. clearly for the fbi. but still criticize the leadership and the senior people who look like they were rigging the investigation in favor of hillary clinton. rachel: remember, it's probably the boots that were alerting or whistle blowing about the political activity going on with the suits at the top. pete: that's exactly right. some people are saying that he is talking out of both sides of his mouth. i think it's the exact opposite. rank and file want to know when they pass those investigations up it's going to be tweeted in a political way. if you can drain the swamp at the top you are empowering the agents at the bottom. ed: what are the agents themselves actually saying? sarah carter, first-rate journalist has been talking to them. here is what she said. >> talking to field agents today, a number of field agents and retired fbi agents. and they hav they have the same sentiment as president trump. remember, people want to

criticize president trump. what we have seen on the seventh floor is something we have never seen before. people have said this over and over again. never seen this type of behavior within the fbi, which is so blatant. you know, sean, what was even more interesting to me was they were telling me they were at an event, all of these field agents, and some military officials were there and they said everybody was worried about russia collusion with trump. instead, what we're seeing is fbi seventh floor collusion with clintons. and that's how they're feeling. pete: speaking of seventh floor collusion with the fbi. james comey crypt particularly taken to twitter. this is what he tweeted yesterday. he said the citizen's safety lies in the prosecutor who serves the law and not factional purposes. robert h. jackson former touring supreme court justice. ed: i tweeted him yesterday he probably is never going to respond. how can you say it's about the law, serve of the law,

24 hours, mr. comey, after it was revealed all of those i had did its to his statement exonerating hillary clinton. pete: his preexoneration. ed: drafted a couple months before hillary clinton was even interviewed. peter strzok we learned, important development this week. not just the anti-trump text from peter strzok who was the fbi agent leading hillary clinton investigation. pro-clinton as well not just anti-trump. he was the guy changing james comey's statement to make it seem more innocuous. pete: on so many levels. ed: and not criminal for hillary clinton. james comey is out there saying we need to follow the law. rachel: he has been sending weird cryptic. pete: bible verses. rachel: seems to have a lot of time on his hand. he is worried about information coming to light. had never come to light had hillary been elected. pete: very, very true. doesn't he feel like the win

you are debating and losing the debate he starts going to weird quotes. you are actually getting creamed on the merits. ed: someone who writes failing on the top of the "new york times." pete: i don't have one yet. my failing "new york times." ed: speaking of hillary clinton. of the longest book tour ever. pete: i wasn't tracking its longevity. ed: yes you were. pete: i get updates on my phone. here is a tweet from hillary clinton yesterday returning home after the final week of the book tour for 2017. this was the last copy of what happened that i signed at our final signing in seattle with her peeps. a terrific journaly that this has been so far. thank you to all who came out and told me your story. ed: she said so far. sounds like it might keep going. pete: what does that mean? rachel: let's take a look at some of her greatest hits on the tour. >> there was this really perfect storm. you had -- and we will get to this -- the enormous

impact of the russian theft of emails. of the release of them by weeks. >> you are still blaming others more than yourself. >> i don't blame others. >> the determining factor was the interconvention by comey on october 28th. >> lesson is you can get away with attacking america. this president and administration are not going to hold you accountable. >> he was willing to play, let's not forget, islamophobic politics, homophobic politics, sexist politics. >> what are you going to be for halloween? >> i think i will maybe come as the president. >> we have got to get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. if i had been on president or on earth 2 where i am, i would have an independent commission. pete: it never ended and finally coming to an end. rachel: so much denial in that amazing the lack of intraspeculation she has had over this book tour. ed: you are right. the best part of the clip was that one journalist from britain saying so you are blaming others?

that sums up the tour. pete: it's true. the best part of the clip is she is not president and real tax cuts are going to be passed on capitol hill. rachel: we dodged a bullet. ed: he is super excited. pete: we have heard the names bruce ohr and peter strzok and andrew mccabe who are they in the russia probe. huck sexton will break it down. ed: a college near and dear to my heart. pete: really bad, guys ♪ santa baby ♪ so hurry down the chimney tonight ♪ thinking outside the box! at helzberg diamonds. while supplies last.

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we are breaking down the key players you need to know in the fbi and doj's presidential russia probe that has turned back toward clinton ties. here to investigate the investigators. it's important sometimes you have to investigate the investigators. former cia sexton. you are hearing about how clinton ties are troubling. you have bob mueller awant to special counsel. james comey cryptically tweeting as the former fbi director whose leaking of certain information triggered the bob mueller probe. other names become household names but can get lost in the mix. break down the fbi and the doj and. so ties to the clinton camp. >> phil we should understanding we are talking about a whole bunch of democrats here, at least 8 that are involved here in the investigation and really in the various investigations who are established democrats, ties to the clintons, ties to democrat political activities and so that's a necessary context for all the rest of the discussion. pete: a lot of that income

passed in the anonymous folks on mueller's team. let's start with andrew mccabe. >> andrew mccabe is believed to be somebody involved with the handling of the fusion gps contact. we don't know the full story there just yet. pete: sure. >> we know his wife was running for office. has ties to terry mcauliff. a lot of money came in from democrats there he has been involved in the hillary clinton email investigation. he has been involved now with the mueller probe. so he is an important knowed of contact for all of these different individuals. pete: you say potentially referred to. we believe he is referred to in text messages as the one who may be part of the reverse engineer hurting trump. >> out of the most damaging text messages from peter strzok. and this was big bombshell from this week. the ones that referenced a possible insurance plan also against trump's election. this is the individual by the way who wrote profane things about the president. he also said that he thinks the president is an

imbecile. he mentioned conversation in andy's office about an insurance policy if the president won. we think the andy was the andy mccabe we just showed you who would have been at the very top of the fbi. pete: absolutely. he led the clinton probe into the server. statement clinton's culpability with the email server as well. move over to doj and andrew weissmann. >> weissmann is interesting because mostly he seems to be very politicized very senior member on the doj side. instead of being an fbi investigator. he praised sally yates who did that act of grand standing, deciding that it was up to her whether or not she should do her job as acting attorney general with regard to the travel ban. he sent her an email saying that he was so proud of her. pretty clear democrat left bias coming out of andrew

weissmann. again, when i mentioned democrat donation. really one of the only things in common with almost these different individuals, democrat donations. pete: maxed out donor. >> fusion gps individual demoted they are saying reassigned. night wanice way to say demoted. he met with fusion gps. big problem if you are looking for honesty. pete: as much as you clarified i'm so confused the web is so wide and deep this is why there are so many questions whether this can be unbiased investigation at all. >> this is like a deep state family tree in action here. keep an eye on it. pete: well said deep state family tree. buck sexton, stick around: former congressman jason chaffetz weighs in on what his colleagues came up with just ahead. just a few hours, wreaths will be placed on thousands of veterans graves across

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cruise. ship doctors slated this morning are treating them with over-the-counter medication. the cruise line saying it is working on intense cleaning procedures. and president trump calls on mccain's wife to check on back in the hospital. republican senator was diagnosed earlier this year with an aggressive form of brain cancer. pete: we wish him the best. rachel: absolutely. pete: today marks the 26th year of wreaths across america when they will pay tribute to veterans. ed: will be laid at 100 additional locations across america all states placing around, listen to, this 1.5 million wreaths at the graves of our fallen heroes. but they can't do it alone. they need your help. so joining us now to discuss

is corporate development and community relations director for wreaths across america. bree kings burry. good morning, bree, it's so remarkable what do you the relationship we have had with you here at fox news. we first want to salute you but we want you to also talk a little bit before we get into what our viewers can still do before christmas comes to help. what have you already been doing? >> well, thank you so much for having me this morning. you know, a day that we can honor our veterans is a great day for us and we are fired up this morning. your viewers have been so wonderful. you know, "fox & friends" and fox news have really stepped up for us. you know, again this year. so we really want to thank you for all that you all have done for us this year. we truly couldn't have done it without you and you pushed us over the edge again this year. pete: what is the true symbolism and meaning of what you do. why does it matter so much to remember these men and women who have left us? >> well, for gold star families, we know that memorial day is just not one weekend, you know, in may.

memorial day is every day for those precious families. and the holidays are special difficult time for them. so we want to come out to arlington and our other participating locations and, you know, it's a celebration of life. you know, today we are going to come out and say the names of our fallen. and we place that wreath, we say the name of that person because we believe that, you know, when a service member, you know, when he or she dies, that is really the first death. the second death is the last time someone speaks their name. it's not a marathon. we are not trying to hurry and get this finished this morning. we want to really take our time, place the wreath, say the name out loud and really, you know, our mission is to remember, honor, and teach. and it's so important that we earn their sacrifice every single day. >> if people want to volunteer, is it too late. i know you are doing this today. but i believe there is another opportunity which is

the removal of the wreath. >> yeah. absolutely. this morning if anyone in the d.c. metro area wants to volunteer at arlington love to have you gates open at 8:30. we have locations throughout the country. we have a little over 1400 locations this year. if anyone is interested in volunteering, it's certainly not too late. you don't need to sign up. it's free. it's a great way to teach your children about service and sacrifice. rachel: it. >> go to our website at wreaths across america.org to find a location near you. pete: if you are waking up in your bathroom this morning. but you are watching you can still go on wall streets across america.com and find a local area and help. >> i got my sweater and boots on i'm ready to go. come out and join me. rachel: if you can't help you can donate to the organization. ed: now there are hundreds of thousands. we salute you and thank you for letting us help in a small -- any small way we could. thank you so much. >> thank you so much and

merry christmas. rachel: merry crirges bree. ed: many americans are brushing off the botched terror attack this week. was it a dry run for something everyone marger. a former cia station chief says it looks a lot like the build up to 9/11. we will have that. rachel: plus, republicans pushing for a second special counsel to look into the fbi/doj clinton collusion. attorney general jeff sessions says he's not so sure. does jason chaffetz agree with that? we're going to ask him next ♪ ♪ what i want, you've got,

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♪ >> special counsel. >> that responsibility and it's clear is to provide the highest possible, professional standards of law enforcement that we can provide to the american people. so, peer going to take seriously the concerns that have been expressed. rosenstein has testified before the congress again just yesterday. and we want to be open with them. >> so is he for it or against it? i'm not sure can i figure that out right there. jason chaffetz, seasoned slorn might help sort it out. what is the evidence with the attorney general. the evidence is out there of all kinds of problems at the fbi and the justin department. and he seems to be

hesitating on the ideas of a second special counsel. >> i have got to tell you and it pains me to say this a little bit. but i don't think the attorney general is up to the job that he is doing. he is absent from. this the reason there is a special counsel is because he had to recuse himself from everything. and i just, my own personal opinion, i think it's time for the attorney general to go. because you need leadership there, some deep systemic problems there. i don't think there should be a special counsel. how is the first one working out, right? that's not going so well. i put a lot of weight on michael horowitz, the inspector general, they have 450 employees working for the inspector general. they have been working on this in a year and a half. you haven't heard leaks. i think think will come up in the most definitive report in the january, february time frame. ed: i hear what you are saying up to the last part. these inspector generals as you know they play stall ball. a year and a half? look at peter strzok with the text messages. how does he still have a job at the fbi?

why hasn't the attorney general or the inspector general. >> they can't fire them but they can provide the information. that looks like that happened in the june, july time frame it goes back to the attorney general. at the department of justice can a person with this bad of record go into human resources. i mean, that's unbelievable. pete: attorney general recused himself from the russia investigation. why would he have to recuse himself into the investigation into the investigators? >> i don't know. but i sat with the attorney general while i was still in congress i spent more than an hour. they won't provide fast and furious documents. they wouldn't prosecute brian pagliano: i issued a subpoena for him to testify before congress he didn't show up. we wanted him to be prosecuted the attorney general looked me in the eye and said we are not going to do that. the it guy for hillary clinton. i have a laundry list of things that the attorney general will not pursue and he can't run the department

of agency. rachel: people are scratching their heads. i heard lou dobbs saying he thinks the deep state must have something on him because it makes no sense why he hasn't acted in these cases that seem so obvious to the american people that there is corruption and they need to be investigated. >> to push back on your inspector general, i have had work with michael horowitz through the years. trey gowdy. i totally believe in the organization. you don't hear the leaks. when they come out with the report, soup to nuts, everything from the tarmac meeting director comey and his firing, everything in between. they are the ones that unearthed the 10,000 text messages, that all became because of the inspector general. ed: i hear you, but are they going to do anything about it? >> there is a conflict because once you shine a light on it, you have to have the department of justice prosecute the department of justice. and you need a strong attorney general to do that. and i don't know that we have one right now. pete: maybe end of the day for that for sure there is a

lot things happening. a big refingts conference committee come out with their report what the tax bill will be in the house and senate. as a conservative, what's your take away of what republicans are going to look to pass mere? >here? >> i think this is a huge win for the united states of america. a lot of back and forth and very open process. democrats are in a terrible position, right? heaven forbid that the american people be able to keep their own money in their own pockets i think they will unanimously vote against it hats off to brady and orrin hatch. this is a compromise. i'm sure there are certain parts people would want to change and things i would want to change but the reality is more than a trillion dollars will be saved and put back into the american people's pockets. that's a huge win. rachel: you have been in the house for along time. talk about what this means for paul ryan. people really under estimate how much brain power and years of brain power have gone into this tax plan and into this win for the g.o.p.

>> paul ryan is the policy wonk. he has always wanted to attack the structure reform needed to get this country moving in a growth format. this has got to be a huge positive moment for paul ryan. hats off to him. because he always wanted to be the chairman of ways and means to do. this he didn't get to do that very long. when he finally does, he should take a victory lap on it got to make the vote happen. by the time you get to wednesday, then look out because by the end of the week it gets really ugly for the house and senate because funding the government is not going to be quite so easy. ed: if this helps the economy take off not a single democrat. pete: are they secretly worried. >> what do the democrats stand for at this point? they have nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. they don't have a national leader. they don't -- they are opposed to allowing people to keep their own money in their own pockets. what do you run on if you

are a democrat? i don't think -- i don't know that they have a message against the presidents with a zooming economy. people's paychecks going up. the company they are working for is going to be doing better. they are going to reoperate billions of dollars bacrewe.>> rachel: it's good for whatever party made that happen. >> we even say merry christmas now. we got the full package. rachel: merry christmas to you and thanks for coming by. ed: thank you. april. rachel: turning now to your headlines u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson telling north korea must stop missile testing and return to negotiations. >> north korea must earn its way back to the table. the pressure campaign must and will continue until denuclearization is achieved. rachel: the u.s. coming face to face with the rogue nation at u.n. security

council meeting. tillerson adding that the united states does not want war. but we are prepared to defend ourselves. an nfl team is now investigating its owner for alleged workplace misconduct. the carolina panthers acknowledging that founder jerry richardson is facing accusations. the nature of the allegations, however, have not been revealed. the league is declining to comment. decking the halls with nothing? a troop of minnesota pushing for students and the faculty to make this season around campus more inclusive. in a memo warning b. deck door core rations of san that christmas trees and wrapped gifts red and green colors claiming they are not appropriate. calling the memo a, quote, conversation piece to facilitate dialogue. those are your headlines. ed: it's minnesota.

what is mr. pete going to say about it. pete: my head is exploding. would they do the same thing for ramadan? would they onkd muslim students by saying doints display what you're proud of and your religious holiday? why against christians, santa, a christmas tree? what was the other way ones i can't remember. ed: not even green and red. rick? wearing a red tie. rachel: you can't wear red. you are wearing a red ty. rick: this is the color worry afraid of. cold air across canada. getting close here down towards the border. it's going to retreat this week a little bit towards the north. that's good news. we will see a bit of a warm-up. so cold around the northeast and the great lakes currently it's obviously really chilly. snow moving across the mid-atlantic to the northeast yesterday. now we have another clipper system we talked about that last week, pete a clipper system coming down across parts of the great lakes.

bring more snow and lake-effect snow throughout the day today. seeing rain across east texas and outiest fire conditions get worse. winds kick up. unfortunately fire conditions and wind conditions extreme. pete: i hear raspiness in your voice. rachel: i think it. rick: what were you saying? pete: besides the upsides there are down sides. what would you recommend for rick to help him? rick: yes, please. rachel: lemon, honey. ed: need some more time. pete: any time you want to give me more time i will take it good man, rick. appreciate it. many americans are brushing off the botched terror attack in new york city this week. but was it a dry run for a larger plot? a former cia station chief says it looks a lot like the

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ed: the damage from the attempted attack on new york city bus terminal this week may have been minimal but the threat still looms big time. while many americans off the botched attack it reveals the dry runs used by terrorists in the past. joining us now is the former cia station chief who served in moscow, iraq, and pakistan, daniel offman. daniel, you are such an important person for us to talk to this morning because it's remarkable to me in a good way that just a few days after this attempted terror attack, rachel it, seems like most americans,

including myself, frankly i forgot this just happened a few days ago. i already moved on from it in a way that can be good, that we are not sitting here in fear but on the other hand, are we taking this a little lightly? >> yeah, well, you know, my first thoughts after this botched attempt by akayed ullah was back to 1993 when ramsey yousef targeted the world trade center unsuccessfully. and then, of course, we saw eight years later al qaeda went back to the same target. new york is at the epicenter for terrorists and al qaeda and isis as a key target for them. and while the means of delivery might be a little bit different, we have seen some changes over the past 10 years in terms of command and control and the use of cyberspace, you know, they keep going back to the same target. and that's of concern to me. rachel: daniel, we have seen recently with isis that they have been giving messages that they are targeting christians. they are targeting christmas

markets. they are targeting crurches. i'm here in new york for the weekend. i love to go to saint patrick's cathedral. it's one of my favorite things to do on here. should i be worried? >> one of the ways we defend ourselves is by all of our citizens being really vigilant. there is probably three things that we need to be doing. one is collecting intelligence from overseas so that we ensure that those overseas threats aren't visited on our shores. sixdly or our state and local law enforcement need to penetrate the networks here and be aware of when individuals travel back to places with rising levels of islamic extremism. ullah was in bangladesh in september. it's unclear at this time whether he was being radicalized there or planning this attack. then of course our citizens need to be aware of things. and if they see something, they need to say something. rachel: what should i look for? say i'm in a crowded subway or mass at saint patrick's cathedral. what am i looking for? >> it's almost like it's a very expansive list of things that could cause you concern and i think all of us should trust our

instincts, really. that if you see something that doesn't look quite right and sometimes people who are carrying, in this case, law was carrying a pipe bomb, that might be some pieces of that may be visible. but at the end of the day, it's just important to be looking around you and being aware of what's going on. ed: daniel, i have got 15 seconds. the president. let's bring him into this. in the campaign he promised to take the fight to isis. he seems to be following through on that. what we are left with are these terrorists who are basically just going to youtube to try to learn how to do this. and then the bomb doesn't work, thankfully, basically. >> right. ed: is that a result in part of what the president is doing in terms of taking the fight to them? >> well, the president has effectively taken the fight to isis and absolutely eliminated their physical geographical ungoverned space. that's important. but one of the differences between yesterday and today is that now al qaeda and isis, they are no longer seeking a direct attack as they are seeking to inspire them through cyberspace.

and so that makes it extremely challenging for us to detect these attacks. it does put the onus more on our state and local law enforcement as well as our citizens to be aware of potential for attacks. ed: daniel hoffman, merry christmas to you and thank you for coming in with this important information. rachel: thank you. ed: we know people are divided when it comes to politics but what about being a proud american? not everyone is so proud. we have the numbers and they will stun you frankly. rachel: christmas is nine days away. still need a gift for dad? kurt the cyberguy has some ideas like that "star wars" drone. ed: pete likes it ♪ santa claus is coming to town ♪ he's making a list ♪ checking it twice (vo) the best gifts come with a special box.

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>> going to put a smile on the face right out of the box no matter. what. ed: you and your whole family all year long. pete: keep going. >> 129 bucks. bed, bath and beyond is where we found that one. of course, bring your coupon. this is the very latest apple tv. this is the 4 ktv from apple tv that has hdr. high dynamic range. we are talking about the most pixels, 4 k. four times the pixels on your tv. hdr means the pixels are really spectacularly. ed: puts your tv on steroids? >> it does that the background apple now famous more on the apple tv. you can see the texture in the snow. you can see the shadows of the snow on a mountain scene. it's unbelievable the resolution. rachel: if dad has a lot of mix tapes? 80's, rock? >> bring back the mixed tape. found that on amazon. 8 or 9 bucks for the mix tape. for 35 bucks you will put another smile. this is studebaker.

rachel: this is what a cassette player looks like. pop the tape in and boom, bring back your favorites. ed: leopard and kiss. rachel: i thought you were more manly than that. >> 35 bucks how do you gong wrong with that we leave stuff everywhere. there is slim tile and original tile made. these are little devices that are blue tooth. put them on things that you own. keys are a great location. i have one in my wallet. i have one in a bag that i bring around. and if you lose it, it will ping, it will find another person that has tile, it will tell you where to find it that whole pack is about $49 for the holidays as well. all of these are reviewed online cyberguy.com. hit us up on facebook on "fox & friends." pete: appreciate it, kurt. >> merry christmas. we have seen nfl players kneeling for the national

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tax bill recently revealed. ed: overall this is a 1.5 trillion-dollar tax cut, the biggest in over 30 years. >> i think that we are going to be in a position to pass something as early as next week, which will be monumental. >> the bombshell new report on the hill claiming that attorney lisa bloom may have tried to set up paydays for women accusing president trump of sexual misconduct. pete: a lot of revelations this week fbi inside the special counsel. the president had some things to say on the south lawn yesterday about them before going to talk to new recruits. >> if you look at what's gone on with the fbi and the justice department, people are very, very angry.

>> with me as your president, america's police will have a true friend. >> speaking of hillary clinton, the longest book tour ever. pete: longest book tour ever has apparently come to an end. >> you blame others more than yourself. >> i don't blame others. the determining factor was the intervention by comey. pete: 26th year of wreaths across america when they will pay tribute to u.s. veterans at arlington national seam tear. >> we want to come out to arlington and our other participating locations and it's a celebration of life. ♪ ♪ ed: hometown proud. pete: i don't know about that. i'm just glad to be here with this duo. ed henry, rachel campos-duffy. awesome to have you both here. rachel: thank you. i'm so excited about this tax reform because i'm happy for america and the economy.

but i am more happy that it saved christmas for me because they are getting it done by next week. that means i was calling it operation save your marriage to sean. i told him get it done. pete: get it done so you can come home for christmas. rachel: it looks like they did. ed: man working around the clork for us is doug mckelway. we will go to the fox news alert. the christmas present that the president promised almost delivered. this morning getting first look at the final tax bill that was laid out in this deal late yesterday. rachel: the stage is now set for a passage next week. but it took some compromise to get there. pete: what's in it and what's out? doug mckelway is live in d.c. with that. >> it was not until late yesterday afternoon that we heard a collective sigh of relief from republicans on both sides of pennsylvania avenue and a loud rumble from democrats. assurance came yesterday when senator marco rubio gave a thumbs up after he won some concessions that would make up to $1,400 of the child tax credit available as a tax refund to lower and middle income

families. hold out bob corker also came on board. so now the tax bill is headed for apparent passage. the house expected to vote on tuesday. the senate after that. ways and means committee chairman kevin brady said everybody's lives will be better off under this new bill. >> i think maybe the most important element people aren't yet thinking about is this april 15th, when you file your taxes, that is the last time you will file under this monstrous broken tax code. >> and president trump tweeted late yesterday great job, kevin. we are all proud of you. democrats are nearly unanimous in their opposition and frustrated that they as the minority were shut out of the process. they don't believe that all americans will be better off under this bill. >> tax reform bill is a disaster. it helps the wealthiest, most powerful corporation and individuals and it hurts the middle class. >> now some details.

the final version of the tax cuts and jobs act keeps seven tax brackets but reduces rates for five of them. the new rates start at 10% and then rise to 12, 22, 34, 35 and 37%. current tax rate 387 to 35%. lowering the effective tax rate 30% instead of 39.6%. a few details for threw guys. should expect a passage late week midweek. ed: you see the sunrising just behind him above that capitol dome. maybe there is a little bit of hope they are going to get some stuff done. rachel: morning in america. pete: the individual mandate will be repealed. the government can't tell us to buy something. pete. ed: you are right. under cover part of this. rachel: two for one punch. pete: i wish it wasn't seven wrackets it should be one. we will talk to herman cain

he had a 999. corporate tax rate will likely bring jobs back to america. which makes electoral prospects even better for republicans as well. > rachel: i have to say kudos to marco rubio. controversial on the child tax cut. no surprise i like the child tax credit. you know what? donald trump rode to the white house on the support of the working class. and i think that marco rubio saw, look, for 8 years, the working class has been battered and we're going to give them some relief. i think that's a good thing. ed: you know what? this week we saw a big shift meanwhile in another major story and the whole investigating the president and what's really going on inside the fbi. you had those text messages from peter strzok. you know, the anti-trump message. pete: the dossier. meeting with fusion gps bruce ohr. >> james comey and changes to a statement exonerating hillary clinton. the president has been watching that the president is furious about it. he was going to speak to some new recruits in law enforcement yesterday but, before he did, look at this

contrast. before the event where he is ripping the fbi and then at the event trying to say look, i have got your back though. watch. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi. but, we're going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. but i it is very sad when you look at those documents. when you look at what's gone on with the fbi and with the justifiable department. people are very, very angry. >> with me as your president, america's police will have a true friend. more loyal than anyone else can be. the president of the united states has your back 100 percent. i will fight for you. and i will never ever let you down, ever. pete: well, a lot of people have pointed out, you can hold both to be true. in fact, both can reinforce each other by cleaning out the swamp of leadership that looks politicized. you are empowering the rank

and file fbi agents. law enforcement to actually fight crime and do their job in a way that's a political. rachel: liberals look at this and say oh my gosh he looks schizophrenic. pete: talking out both sides of his mouth. that was my liberal impression. ed: that was fretty dramatic. rachel: the boots get it in fact, i read reports when they found out that trump was coming to speak that they all cheered. so, you know, nobody can question that this president loves law enforcement. he has been behind them 100 percent. but when he says i'm your greatest defender, i'm fighting for you. i'm behind you 100 percent. who cannot believe that? he has been 100 percent behind. ed: on top of all the revelation we have talked about. the text messages. the situations with james comey started out as maybe it was grossly negligent for hillary clinton to have that email server, which could be criminal and then it gets watered down and then, of course, she doesn't face charges. look at bruce ohr at the

justice department. pete: big one. ed: demoted because he didn't disclose to top officials his meetings with fusion gps. pete: his wife worked for them. ed: that put together the dossier that led to a lot of this investigating. jeff sessions, the attorney general, the president previously called him the beleeringed a.g. was pressed by a reporter does this mean there will be a second special counsel. >> would you consider such a special counsel? >> well, our responsibility, and it's clear, is to provide the highest possible, professional standards of law enforcement that we can provide to the american people. so, we're going to take seriously the concerns that have been expressed. rosenstein is testifying before the congress again just yesterday, and we want to be open with them. pete: people will say he recused himself from the russia investigation because it was looking into the campaign which he is not

supposed to do. why does he seem to be preemptively recuse could you seeing himself and the justifiable department from looking in obvious aspects where political bias could have been, may have been used and worth looking at. take bruce ohr and his wife again he not only met with fusion gps before the election but again after the election. for what reason? ed: peter strzok with the text messages. he gets reassigned. where do they put him? in h.r. at the fbi. he is teaching other people what to do? pete: jason chaffetz had pretty strong opinion on the future of the attorney general. take a listen. >> it pains me to say this a little bit but i don't think the attorney general is up to the job that he is doing. he is absent from this. the reason there is a special counsel is because he had to recuse himself from everything. and i just, my own personal opinion, i think it's time for the attorney general to go. because you need leadership there, some deep says sim mick problems there. rachel: i think so many conservatives are just scratching their heads thinking about a.g.

sessions. they are going is he incompetent? does the deep state have something on him? why is he not doing what seems so obvious which is investigating this kind of corruption. pete: he has got a great reputation in washington. so if the fear looks like i'm going to impugn my political ponts and look political. what an opportunity to say no, i'm going to do an unbiased investigation, which is what the department of justice is supposed to be blind. the fbi is supposed to be blind. i'm going to do this right there. is enough smoke that there might be a fire. i think he would have a possibility to redeem himself. ed: we will see. i covered him a long time when he was a sneamplet always saw him as someone with integrity. there is still time for him to go through all of this and follow the facts and see where it goes. rachel: does he look like somebody who is on his way out, maybe? ed: the problem with pushing him out if the president wanted to do that? who is he going to get to replace him. think about chuck schumer and the democrats and how they're going to block whomever you put up there. rachel: right. ed: because of everything that the attorney general is in the middle of. i think that's ultimately why the president is so

frustrated he had one shot at the beginning when there was a little bit of goodwill to pick the attorney general who was going to do a strong job. and he obviously has gone back and forth. the president yesterday at this fbi event, we should say. had a vote of confidence for jeff sessions. doing a good job. rachel: he said that but i think he has buyer's remorse. pete: we will see. speaking of buyer's remorse of your own country. a poll we found. rachel: good segue way, pete. pete: this is my favorite story of the morning. a thousand respond dents of liberals and conservatives. and they asked is it completely accurate to say you are proud to be an american? that number strikes me as low. 65% of conservatives say proud to be american. 37% of liberals say they are proud to be an american, which is astonishing low. i wonder where they would be where they would be proud. then they broke it down by patriotic brands for conservatives and liberals. so check this out. rachel: this is fascinating, actually.

pete: incredibly revealing. for conservatives, national rifle association. your own truly here. fox news channel. chick-fil-a, the republican party and i have been to hobby lobby lately. it's like a religious experience. rachel: don't go on sundays because they are closed. ed: patriotic brands for liberals, democratic party, the u.s. supreme court, interesting, planned parenthood. rachel: that's a scratcher. ed: the nfl and yes, pete, your favorite. pete: the kneeling nfl, planned parenthood, the top abortion group in america and the organization that the president calls the failing "new york times." rachel: you wonder why this country is so divided? look at that divide. it's just stark. pete: go ahead, ed. ed: what do you think? friends@foxnews.com. what do you see brands patriotic. pete: which brand did they

miss or nail besides fox news channel. we will take that one. rachel: i believe operatism ipatriotismis taught. pete: we do live in two americas. the american flag. will poll is fascinating. hopefully we will do a whole hour on it. ed: we continue to break down, meanwhile, what's in the final version of the tax bill. critical for your wallet. next guest developed his own plan when he ran for president. >> continuing to pivot off the current tax code is not going to boost this economy. this is why we develop 999. ed: you heard that number before. does herman cain think republicans got it right this time? we will ask him live next. pete: i'm sincerely intrigued. this world war ii veteran getting in the christmas spirit one dance at a time. the viral dance video that will have you smiling all morning long. his t-shirt asks got freedom? ed: that's patriotism. that's a proud american.

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godfather's pizza and 2011 presidential candidate herman cain. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. pete: republicans taking a victory lap and rightfully so. your plan had 999. this one still has seven brackets. it may not be as simple as you wanted but is it a big win for republicans it's not 999 but it's fine, fine, fine. and here's why. [laughter] there are about 16 moving parts to the republican plan now, i could go through all 16 or i could go through nine. i won't do that reason i say this is still a food plan because they got all of the big issues right. even though it's seven brackets. he every one the rates at each bracket went down except for three. that's good news for individuals. number two, job creators, businesses, i know a lot of people are demagogue, calling this a give away to the rich. no, it's not. job creators had a big win.

that is great. so that's going to help spur the economy. and then the biggest thing that they did right was to repeal the tax penalty on not having health insurance. the democrats said you have to buy health insurance even if you don't want it. and if you don't buy it. and you don't want it, you got to pay a penalty. so they have repealed that ridiculous demand. i think this plan is bold, compared to where we are today. rachel: mr. kaine, it's rachel campo cam duffy here. i think you are right it's fine, fine fine with me. i think something that's not talked about a lot is the obamacare repeal mandate repeal. and as a businessman you know that will have a big impact. talk to us a little bit about that. here is what you don't hear in the mainstream media. last year nearly 8 million

people chose 9 to buy health insurance and chose to pay the penalty. think about those 8 million people. most of them are people that are the poorest and they said i can't afford to buy it. i'll try to pay the penalty. the republican plan has removed that penalty so people will have a choice as to what they want to do with health insurance. i agree with you, rachel, that is a huge win for the american people. >> herman cain, i think we should have had you on at 9:00 a.m. you are good any hour. [laughter] thanks, buddy. >> thanks a load, ed. merry christmas. rachel: merry christmas, mr. kaine. >> merry christmas to all of you and your families. ed: we just heard what herman cain thinks about the tax plan. what does donald trump's former campaign manager think? i think i have an idea. corey lewandowski coming up with details. pete: why some on the left are now labeling jingle bells as racist.

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pete: welcome back on "fox & friends" this saturday quick headlines for you. isis inspired killer gets the death penalty for beheading his coworker who was a grand mother. elton attacked her at oklahoma food process plant in 2014. assaulting multiple others as well. 33-year-old told police he believed his actions were following the quran. investigators are also finding an isis flag in his car. quite a tip off. and a computer search history of isis beheadings. just connecting those dots. and border arrest on the

rise on the trump administration. the u.s. government announcing a 7th straight month increase of putting people in handcuffs or denying entry. in nosey, that number riching just o'er 39,000. up 1% from october and more than double the nearly 16,000 stopped or arrested in april u and the state department is now tracking reports of blackouts and injuries related to potentially tainted alcohol at mexican resorts. first you couldn't trust the water now you can't trust the alcohol. the agency now under fire from lawmakers for underplaying the risk to american tourists. an ongoing investigation by the milwaukee journal sentinel identified more than 120 cases. rachel: there is a christmas controversy brewing over this classic holiday carol. listen up. ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle all the way ♪ o what fun it is to ride.

rachel: boston university professor claims jingle bells is rooted in racism. ed: wow, professor saying the racial history of the song has remains hidden behind its local and seasonal affection. black face and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed of from its history. carol swain is the author of abduction thousand liberalism steals our children's hearts and minds. what a better book title than stealing christmas from our families? what if the world is going on? >> academia, we get rewarded for coming up with ideas and the more extremes. we know with jingle bells it doesn't matter how it was originally performed, what matters is that it transcends time and race and place. it's a christmas classic we all love it. why take it away? rachel: absolutely. pete: why the reflexive desire in academia but to go

back to the decisive origins or things that divide us as opposed to trying to point towards the things that bring us together? >> it's part of this whole leftist agenda that i tied to cultural marxism to destroy america as we know it. and for some reason, race has always been used, keep stirring the pot, instead of pushing for racial reconciliation, what we really need in this country. the political left and sadly the universities, they seem to have -- i mean, they helped create this environment where we send our young people to college. they get politicized. they may be indifferent to race. they see everyone the same. once they get on the campus. get involved with the ethnic studies programs. then you get hatred. and that shouldn't be. ed: what about this growing trend of parents taking kids to political events. i live around the washington area. all kinds of anti-trump

rallies. people are allowed to speak out against the president whether it's democrat or republican. they bring their kids. they wear these hats that i can't even describe what kind of a hat it is. they are pink i will say that have their kids hold up signs that say all kinds you have impairment and all kinds of things on the signs. you might have a 5 or 6-year-old holding up the sign. >> some of the children are as young as 2. i don't think parents should use their children as political props. and i think that it's irresponsible for any parent to put that child in a situation where there's a potential for danger. if the child is old enough to express a desire to attend a rally. then that's one thing. but to take a child into a situation like that is irresponsible, i believe. rachel: as a parents i may not agree with the opinion of a anti-trump rally and i would never put a pink hat on my kid. but i mean it's parents who teach their kids values and about ideas. i mean, i have a political

spouse. my kids think parade are for passing out political literature. they don't know it's for fun i do think there is a role for parents in educating their kids about issues u. >> parents should educate their children with values and principles that shame their character. i don't see how taking a child to a protest rally and i know there have been some teachers that have taken a whole classroom to a rally, a protest without parental permission. rachel: that's right. there was a teacher that took a class to a field trip to a sex novelty shop. i talk about that in my book. there is something very, very wrong. there is something that i think we should all be concerned about a lot of those children when they get old enough to think they will rebel what their parents have ton to them. pete: one thing to go to a parade and another to go to social justice and read to

your 1-year-old a is for activist. this is liberal indoctrination. >> it is. i find in college that the young people they come and they have memorized all the answers to all the politically correct issues of our day. they think they know everything. and only the conservatives get challenged. pete: carol swain, we appreciate you coming. >> in thank you. rachel: abduction. >> how liberalism steals the hearts and minds you have our children. rachel: i love the title. >> thank you. ed: let's save jingle bells. rachel: it's happened again, another hidden camera found spying on a family. this time on a cruise ship. the left is calling president trump crazy for the criticism of bob mueller's investigation. is he not on to something? corey lunged here to weigh in on that and much more next ♪ rocking in the u.s.a. ♪

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>> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi. but we are going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. it's very sad when you look at those documents and how they have done that is really really disgraceful. you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. it's a very sad thing to watch. ed: let's bring in corey lewandowski the former campaign manage tore donald trump. corey, i think what he is saying in part is when they

rebuild the fbi it's going to be huge, not just big. you know better than anyone. author of let trump be trump author david bossie. in all seriousness, moving forward here, this was a pretty dramatic week, corey in terms of how the narrative has shifted in terms of fbi problems, with the anti-trump text, the james comey changes in the hillary clinton exoneration statement. it's pretty dramatic. >> well, it is dramatic. what it shows is unfortunately the deep state is very real. if you remember, it wasn't that long ago james comey was sitting in front of congress telling them that he was leaking information to the media so that it could be used against this administration. there has been no accountability for that whatsoever. and you also have to remember that you have got one fbi agent who is part of the, you know, significant part of the investigation into the clinton administration where he changed the rules, changed what it should say on the final outcome, interviewed huma abedin, interviewed cheryl mills, never accused them of lying. never brought them up under oath but the rules are

different for mike flynn and that's what i think president trump is concerned about is those individuals and, look, that fbi agent who also, i think, was having illicit affair with an attorney over there is now with the human resources department. where is the accountability in the deep state? ed: i wants to correct one quick thing you said clinton administration when you mental the clinton campaign. >> i meant the clinton kabbalah. ed: last time you said that on the show you got a lot of grief. >> ed the reason is i saw crooked hillary at book signing i was doing. she came in. she asked the question what happened and i said let trump be trump happened. ed: you had that line ready to go. rachel: latest tweet he wrote was the citizen safety lies in the prosecutor who serves the law and not factional purposes. a quote from robert h. jackson, former attorney general. tell me what do you make of all these cryptic tweets

from former director comey? >> well, you know, as you think has been widely reported now james comey signed a nice book. i think he has $10 million coming to him based on his time at the fbi. he is trying to get some credibility back. this is a man who sat in front of congress and had to change his testimony on multiple occasions. this is man who has testified under oath that he took information he receives as the director of the fbi and gave it to a law professor to make sure that was put out to the public. that is a crime. i don't understand why the justifiable department has not gone after james comey and he is trying to keep an image of a holier than thou when is he a person who has lied to congress and gave out information and is not being prosecuted. pete: cryptic, poetic, bible verses. what is he alluding to that he is higher that he is above all of this and everyone else is playing in the mud? >> i think he is trying to keep himself relevant in this day and age right now.

and people are talking about him, which is going to be great for his book sales. look, when you get a 10-million-dollar advance on your book, you are supposed to be a government employee. this is everything that has been wrong with the deep state. james comey is the deep state. we have seen it look, 99.9% of the people that work for the fbi are great americans and do their job. but james comey is the head of it has been a complete failure u. ed: you mentioned hillary clinton before. went back and forth and had a little fun with that she says she is wrapping up out book tour. i want to give you sort of what rachel called earlier the greatest hits of the longest book tour ever. this was from the ellen show. watch. >> i'm trying to stay in a really positive frame of mind. i always say when people ask how are you? i said well as a person i'm okay. as an american i'm really concerned. >> do you think that he's really going to last four years? >> well, you know, i can't -- i can't answer that i can't predict it. when they push through this tax plan, it's going to hurt so many people. you know, look, it's going

to help a lot of really rich people. that's who they care about. that's who their donors are but it's going to hurt, i believe that it really does come down to both the investigation that's going on and to whether republicans will decide that they have to put our country before their party. and i hope that enough of them will decide to do that. pete: apparently the democratic party doesn't have rich donors either. i mean, has she changed her tune at all over the course of a year? will she ever? >> she is never going to change because they are still in denial at the clinton campaign that they ran the worst campaign probably in american miss history. they had four times as much money. they had all the resources because the system was rigid from the democratic party. she cungts win because she couldn't find wisconsin on a map. you know, it's amazing. hillary clinton had the opportunity to lay out what her vision was for america and it was summarily revictoria's secreted because the people wanted a change agent. she was not a change agent. what we see now is donald trump is getting his tax

package done, which he pledged on the campaign. it's a promise made. look, hillary clinton may not like the tax deal because maybe she has to pass her taxes. she has made her money off the backs of the taxpayers for the last 25 years. pete: hopefully they close those loopholes in the tax plan. rachel: at the risk of people saying in the audience she looks good in leather. >> i saw her close up in person and she didn't look good then. rachel: i tried to end on a positive note. >> let trump be trump, hillary u that's what happened. that's a positive note. rachel: thanks, corey. ed: corey lunged, thank you. rachel: turning four to headlines, the u.s. army special forces are now responding to one of their own. anonymous person alleging to be a quote green beret posting a harsh letter online the group's regular georgia's and credibility is slipping. military leaders say they are aware of the letter but stand by the unit's

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he tells his story raising money for the organization. that, my friends, is an american hero. ed: that is really awesome. rachel: those are your headlines. pete: rick, give us your impression. >> rick: that was all for you. it is still cold outside right now. this isn't going to last very long. we will start to see a warmer pattern move in this week. if you have been annoyed by this cold here, it hasn't been that bad. it certainly is december here. it should be a little bit chilly here. we are also going to see at love moisture pulling in across parts of the south in through texas. get ready. that will set up the stable for a lot of rain across the south for a lot of this week. all right, guys. pete: come on over. we have help for you. viewers have noticed your voice. and endless source of wisdom for those of us in need. >> they are. pete: couple emails come in. jack daniels, hot tea with lemon and honey works all the time. rick: i like it.

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you know, throughout my time being alive. you know, okay. one that comes to mind is i remember obama saying to cheering crowds that planned parenthood offers mammograms and other services to women. that they quite frankly don't. right? this is why he often repeated at campaign trail and at events throughout his tenure. the other thing that was really interesting they counted the big whopper that obama liked to tell all the time if you like your insurance you get to keep it they only counted it one time on this lie chart despite the fact that he said it a lot of times. montage and mashups of him saying it over and over again for hours at a time. so, you know, i think it's just very clear that this is a lie. and just very clear the double standard between the way that the media covers the obama administration and the trump administration. it's just very different. i mean, the american people are not stupid, right?

they see the media having crushes on obama and pretending like he only told 18 lies in eight years. every single day that donald trump is in office they act like their hair is perpetually on fire. this is why a majority of the country thinks that the media fake news because the "new york times" gave us this great example. rachel: you bring up a great point when you talk about obamacare. that's a lie that disrupted a fifth of our economy and healthcare and just recently we saw congress said that obama administration was misleading, which is double speak for lying about uranium, which is palm material that can get in the hands of terrorists. trump lies about crowted sizes, obama lies about this. i mean, they don't even categorize it by, you know, which lie actually impacts the lives of the american people. >> right. yeah. and i mean i remember being told that climate change was the worst, most imminent threat to my personal safety for a long time. and i think that that is just not true. yet, you know, he only

supposedly lied 18 times throughout his presidency. i mean, this is just ridiculous. pete: politifact alone counted over 90 false statements if you add what "the washington post" does checking as well all the pinocchios they gave obama well over 100 even with the open source research that the "new york times" failed to do. bree peyton, thank you for your time. rachel: thank you, bree. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. pete: he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee is adam schiff the leaker on capitol hill. two new suspicious tweets coming up. rachel: still need a gift for outdoor, bass pro shops has deals. like 50 bucks off a fishing reel and others. ♪ so very nice ♪

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still in denial. hillary clinton had the opportunity to lay out what her vision was for america and it was summarily rejected. ♪ ♪ ♪ money, money, money. pete: we think ed just likes to join us every time he comes back he demands more money, benefits. ed: guess what? the president delivered. we're getting a tax cut. everybody is getting a little bit more in their paycheck. pete: we all do. thank you rachel campos duffy. rachel: it was cold outside. i live in wisconsin but i'm originalfully arizona. i still get cold. pete: my view is being from minnesota the more you are in a cold place the less you want to be cold. i don't believe you build up resistance. ed: you can walk like a mile downtown without ever going downtown. rachel: mall of america.

pete: football stayed jump all soft. big news g.o.p. in conference has come to a final plan for a tax reform bill that is anticipated to be voted on in the senate and the house early this week. we are learning now just this morning the new details of exactly what was passed. ed: seven tax brackets. rates are going down for five 6 those brackets. the corporate tax rate, this is a big one, 35% all the way down to 21%. the president says that will spur a light of economic activity. and big-time repeals obamacare's individual mandate. also retains the deduction for medical expenses, exemption for grad school tuition waivers. there is also the child tax credits, rachel, you have been talking about this morning that marco rubio said we have to keep that in there for the lower and middle class folks who democrats keep saying this bill is not going to then them when in fact there absolute of details in there that will. rachel: had marco rubio not got his way on, this even though i think the economy is going to do better, having this specifically for

working class parents, people battered over the last 8 years under the obama committee. i think marco rubio did something really important so you couldn't get hit on the republican side for saying that, you know, it was just for the rich. pete: fair enough. those talking points are going to come from the left. marco rubio a good guy he doesn't deserve credit for tax bill. donald trump does for ramming it through. rachel: and paul ryan. pete: mitch mcconnell finally figured out. ed: your buddy. pete: little bob corker going to vote for it lisa murkowski, susan collins, john mccain, all the holdouts from the past and marco rubio all held out until the end it will pass with 51 or 52 votes when it is voted on. rachel: mitch mcconnell getting a bad wrap. he is the one that stuck that repeal individual mandate in there and it survived the conference and it's still there. pete: you got to give him credit for that couldn't get the skinny bill passed of

the repeal. they got the mandate repealed which so many conservatives hate about the bill. say what you want, this is a victory for republicans and they are betting it will improve the lives of americans which only improves the electoral prospect for republicans. ed: a vote as early as monday, perhaps in the senate. tuesday in the house. could slide to wednesday. but bottom line, by the end of this coming week, you may see a final deal that the president can sign into law by christmas. who better to taste test all of this than the guy who used to run godfather pizza. he also wanted taxes. he epghted the rates for corporations, for individuals, to come down to 9%. didn't quite get there. but what does he think? here he is. >> if not 999, but it's fine, fine, fine. they got all of the big issues right. even though seven brackets. every one of the rates at each bracket went down except for three. that's good news for individuals. i know a lot of people are

demagogue, calling this a give away to the rich. no it's not. job creators had a big win. that is great. biggest thing that they did right was to repeal the tax penalty on not having health insurance. pete: respond to this as well. the market was betting on this passing now that it looks like it will pass. the market could continue to rise. ed: a few weeks ago we had democrats oh this is for the rich saying the president has no legislative victories in year one. this is a disaster. republicans are going to lose the house and the senate. rachel, this needed this. rachel: this is going to be rocket fuel for already incredible economy. i think the homework for the republicans, if you will, will be to make sure to explain this to young people. we have seen polling coming out that young people think socialism is just fine. they have just survived the obama years. we already hear democrats trying to say that the economic success we are seeing right now and we will see after these tax reforms is all because of obama.

pete: sure. rachel: there is going to be education that's needed. this is what a free market economy looks like. this is what happens when you deregular great the economy. you get these kind of result. pete: economy takes off and you mentioned rocket fuel and not a single democrat, pete in a single chamber votes for it how can they claim credit in the mid terms. pete: one of the other criticisms of this president has been how can he get things done when he is tweeting? as tax reform has moved forward, the president has continued litigation of the politicization inside the fbi and the doj. yesterday, on hills way to a swearing in ceremony of fbi agents. and he made some comments on the south lawn. now, some have made it look like they are contradictory. we will let you decide. take a look. we will rebuild the fbi bigger and better than ever. it's sad when you look at those documents. >> when you look at what has gone on with the fbi and the justice department, people are very, very angry.

>> with me as your president, america's police will have a true friend. more loyal than anyone else can be. the president of the united states has your back 100 percent. i will fight for you and i will never ever let you down ever. pete: i think as we have made earlier in the show, both can be true. you can indict the politicization at the top while also supporting the boots on the bottom. and, frankly, the same applies in the military. if you are pulling triggers on the battlefield. you topghts know that your generals are doing all the right things for a political reason that's not happening you wants that to change. rachel: a lot of boots on the ground run happy not just with the politicization at the top but the damage that's been done to the reputation of the fbi because of this. and by the way, when the president says i'm with you 100 percent to law enforcement, i'm going to fight for you. he has a lot of credibility whether you are a police officer in a small town, you

know, in michigan or you are in the fbi, no one can question in this president loves law enforcement and has been standing behind them whether it's, you know, fighting back against what kaepernick did wearing socks and all the other things that have happened. he has always had the backs of law enforcement. ed: pete talked about militaries in the military. generals in investigative realm would be people like james comey who took a hit this week in terms of their credibility. have you another investigator in democrat adam schiff who is running the democratic side, the minority side of the house intelligence committee investigating russia. put out some interesting tweets yesterday. first one, i'm increasingly worried republican also shut down the house intel committee investigation at the end of the month. he added it appears republicans want to conduct just enough interviews to give the impression of a serious investigation. so here's the point. why did he preemptively do that? is it because he is feeling the heat in recent days that adam schiff has been doing

two things. one, appearing on tv a lot. which is fine. we do that he has a job to do which is actually get to the bottom of this. rachel: right. ed: and focus on the facts. he has been on television pontificating number one. and number two. pete: narrative is important. ed: other way to control the narrative is by leaking information. adam schiff has been accused of pouring out all kinds of information, sensitive information from the intelligence committee and, in fact, when donald trump jr. just a few days ago was testifying for hours before adam schiff's house intelligence committee, while donald trump jr. was still testifying behind closed doors, word was leaking out about what he was saying behind closed doors. how does that happen? pete: no cell phones allowed in the meeting of adam schiff left. after he left. information seemed to make its way out into the public. ed: here is what donald trump jr. is saying. i talked to someone close to the president who told me that donald trump jr. at the end of this several hours of

testimony comes out, finally gets his phone. he and his lawyer and they have all these messages saying "new york times" are saying. this cnn is saying that what in the world is going on behind closed doors. they are frustrated because they believe what was going on is donald trump jr. was doing what he was supposed to do, which is raise your right hand and tell the truth. give your testimony. and adam schiff was leaving the room to maybe leak information and set the narrative and make donald trump jr. look bad even if he was actually telling the truth. rachel: why the way you mentioned tweets. it wasn't just a couple tweets. there was literal tweet storm. i think it really shows that adam schiff has a lot riding on this narrative. he has stake you had career on russia collusion u year and a half and how many millions of dollars into this investigation with not one peels of evidence showing collusion between trump. >> counterpart devin nunes has been vindicated. vindicated. ed: he was investigated but turns out he didn't do

anything wrong. pete: poll from the group ear to the ground polled 1,000 americans and asked them simple questions about patriotism. here is one response. is it completely accurate to say you are proud to be an american? 65% of conservatives which strikes me as low, but 37% of liberals would say that they are proud to be an american? ed: i bet that number is people hate the president so much i'm proud to be an american. can't celebrate blind hatred of the president from what it means to be an american. pete: i wonder what that number was two years ago tied to barack obama? rachel: poll was interesting looked at brands. what are the top patriotic brands for conservatives versus liberals. conservatives nra, chick-fil-a, republican party, fox news and hobby lobby. ed: liberals democratic party. u.s. supreme court. pete: we have chick-fil-a. go back to that let me previously. patriotic it's the democratic party, go on, ed.

ed: democratic party, u.s. supreme court, this is what liberals say are patriotic brands, planned parenthood, the nfl and the "new york times." so, liberals are saying in this poll that they believe planned parenthood, the nfl with all kneeling and the "new york times" that's what patriotism is about. rachel: so shocking i have toil other brands on the liberal side i have i get. planned parenthood i don't associate with that patriotism. maybe that's out divide. ed: if only the supreme court was about fidelity to the constitution. i can't talk with chick-fil-a in my mouth. the reason they like the supreme court because it is legislated from the bench and brought so many of the progressive ideals they have. ed: we asked you what you think. i'm shocked that neither group listed the u.s. military. great point. rachel: great point. pete: than macy a given for conservatives. rachel: how county nfl be considered patriotic when they are allowing protests during the national anthem. that is the least patriotic.

ing in with the nfl i think they are losing some of their patriotic branding because of what kaepernick. pete: of course because those on the left it's patriotic if it's against america. ed: what do you think about john emailing us his top patriotic brands budweiser. ralph lauren. pete: folds of honor and. ed: and ford motor company. i think general motors. folds of honor. rachel: that's all-american, man. pete: budweiser bought by a foreign company. maybe coors light? keep them coming foxnews.com. what do you think? president trump says the visa lottery program allows the worst of the worst into the u.s. including the failed port authority bomber. dr. sebastian gorka says the president is absolutely right. he joins us next. ♪ [vo] quickbooks introduces rodney.

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pete: welcome back. president trump slamming chain migration and the visa lottery saying it's allowing the worst of the worst into the united states. >> do you think the country is giving us their best people? no. what kind of a system is that. they come in by a lottery. they give us their worst people. they put them in a bin. but in his hand when he is picking them is really the worst of the worst. congratulations, you're going to the united states. okay. pete: here to weigh in fox news national security strategist and former deputy assistant to the dr. sebastian gorka. doctor, good morning. thank you. here are additional numbers on chain migration u in 2017 alone, 99% of the more than 12,000 immigrant visas were family-based as opposed to merit based. how do we change the system the way the president has talked about? >> very simply, by using his

leadership to fix a completely bankrupt and broken immigration system, peter. i mean, this is insanity. i just got back from australia, which has one of the strictest immigration systems in the world. you have to prove, not only are you thought a threat to the nation of australia, but you have to prove through merit-based analysis that the job you wants cannot be done by australians themselves. so nobody calls australia islamophobic or racist. why can't we have a system like that. the idea, for example, with the diversity lottery that somebody in kazakhstan or bangladesh can spin a wheel and if their number comes up they get a green card, that's russian roulette for america and it must end. rachel: i think there is a misunderstanding people hear the word extreme vetting, for example, they think this is some new thing that president trump. my mother is an immigrant and when she became an american citizen or applied to become an american

citizen, they interviewed her mom, her sisters, people she knew in her home country of spain. it's not a new concept. and when we talk about the lottery system, tell us how the recent terrorist attacks that we have been experiencing and especially under this new administration how that might help move forward the way we start to think about immigration in this country? >> right. so you are absolutely right. i'm an immigrants myself. you need to have pack ground investigations of the people who want to come to america. they have to demonstrate they love this country. they're not coming here for some ulterior purpose. the idea that this person came through chain migration the latest new york attacker or the other prior new york attack, remember the bicycle path one just a few weeks ago? rachel, that individual came here and then spawn soared more than 20 other people to come to america. that's just insane. we can't fix this because we simply have to remove those

policies put in place by the obama administration. think about the fact that the state department, peter, isn't allowed to look at your facebook postings when you apply for a visa. that's insane. pete: doctor, can these two things the lottery program and chain migration that can be done through executive action and what needs congress? >> it's very clear if you look at the municipal court's decision. the constitutional rights to decide upon the metrics for immigration into this country lie with one person. and it's not a judge in hawaii. it lies with the president of the united states. so through executive action. you can't fix everything. but most of the problems that we have inherited from the obama administration can be fixed out of the white house, peter. pete: of course, the problem there is they could be undone by subsequent administration. maybe congress can act as well. dr. sebastian gorka, thank you. >> merry christmas. rachel: merry christmas. pete: doubts are rising about robert mueller's russia probe. can attorney general jeff sessions rew. drawl his recusal and take an active role in the investigation investigation?

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rachel: some quick headlines for you, an isis inspired killer gets the death penalty for beheading a coworker who was a grandmother. alton nolan attacked her at oklahoma food processing plant in 2014. and he assaulted others as well. the 33-year-old told police he believed his actions followed the quran. investigators also found an isis flag in his car and he a computer search history of isis beheading. and in addition to that, a racist letter from prison reveals that dylann roof has no remorse for murdering

nine african-americans at a charleston church. in an interview airing tomorrow on 60 minutes, a former white supremacist wrote him in prison only to hear quote traitor, have you really cashed in, haven't you. i know you won't be, with you but you really should be after shamed of yourself. and president trump calls john mccain's wife to check in on the arizona senator who is back in the hospital. mccain is dealing with complications from his cancer treatment. the republican republican senats diagnosed earlier this year with aggressive form of brain cancer. we wish him well. ed: thanks, rachel. president trump slamming the russia probe calling the investigation a democrat hoax. >> there is absolutely no collusion. i didn't make a phone call to russia. i have nothing to do with russia. everybody knows it. that was a democrat hoax. it was an excuse for losing the election. and it should have never been this way where they spent all these millions of dollars. ed: with those doubts about the russia investigation is it time for attorney general jeff sessions to withdraw his recusal and take a more

active role? here to weigh in harvard law professor and the author of trumped up alan dershowitz, good morning, professor. >> good morning and happy hanukkah and merry christmas to everybody. ed: same to you and everyone in our audience. i wonder, professor, let's break this down into several parts. first of all the recusal. when jeff sessions recused himself way back at the beginning of the year, it wasn't just about russia, it was about the entire 2016 campaign as you know because he played an important role. the first senator to endorse president trump as a candidate. could he unrecuse himself? >> he could. the law certainly allows anybody who has radio could you seed themselves to change that if there are new developments or new circumstances. one of the new developments, of course, is that ron rosenstein should recuse himself he is a witness. obviously, if there is any investigation of obstruction of justice, for firing comey and there shouldn't be, that

a constitutionally protected act, but if that is part of the investigation, then rosenstein is a key witness. he wrote the crucial memo and so you now have the deputy who is in a position of a conflict of interest, even more serious than the attorney general so that would be a circumstance that he could consider. i don't think he is going to do that. i think he's now safely away from a line of fire and probably he won't change his mind about that. but he could. lawfully he could do that. ed: you are a long-time democrat. a long-time republican we had on the show last hour jason chaffetz had this to say about jeff sessions. i want you to react. >> it pains me to say this a little bit but i don't think the attorney general is up to the job that he is doing. is he absent from this. the reason there a special counsel is because he had to recuse himself from everything. and i just -- my own personal opinion, i think it's time for the attorney general to go. because you need leadership

there some deep systemic problems there. ed: i spoke to an advisor who told me inside the white house they can't believe that the attorney general hasn't done anything at least with peter strzok, for example. i mean, the justice department overseas the fbi. how could anti-trump texas messages, pro-clinton text messages be out there and yet this guy still has a job at the fbi? >> well, i agree with that. i think he should have recused himself immediately as soon as as he was asked to join the investigation because he had written these horrible messages and nobody who expresses views like that can be seen by the public as unbiased in investigating people who he has expressed such views about. i don't think that he belongs in government anymore after expressing those views and continuing into the investigation. but the attorney general is in a tough position because broadly, this is within what he has recused himself of.

look, i think sessions would like to get out of the role of attorney general because his position has been so deeply compromised. i think the president would like to see him out of that role. but i don't think either wants to take the action. i don't think the president's to fire the attorney general. i'm not sure the attorney general wants to quit. so we have an uncomfortable situation where the president has a cabinet member who he doesn't have complete faith in. now, we don't know what else sessions is doing in the justice department. he may be doing a good job outside of the limelight of the russian probe. we just don't know enough to know that. ed: last question. i want to ask you about something else important. any time somebody at fox news or anybody on capitol hill raises questions about peter strzok and these text messages, anti-trump messages, the situation at the justice department with bruce ohr, a top official who did not disclose that he had ties to fusion gps and potentially the dossier, they say oh, this is all about attacking rornghts

mueller and the special counsel and his credibility. isn't there a separation here, professor, where it may not be about mueller. it may be about just bringing actual oversight and truth and justice to the fbi and the justice department which is separate from robert mueller and get to the bottom of this so that we know both the clinton and trump investigations are just being done fairly? >> i agree with that i think what mueller should do to avoid all suspicion is he should bring on to his team an ethics expert. a former judge, somebody who is beyond reproach. i don't think we need another special counsel looking for criminal conduct as you know i'm strongly opposed to the callization of political differences on either side. but to bring in an ethics expert like mike mukasey or louie, former head of the fbi, former judge or some other retired judge, democrat, republican, to give him ethics advice to make sure that we don't see a recurrence of these problems and to make sure

that the investigation goes forward without any conflicts of interest, bias, or even the perception of bias. when you are going after the president of the united states and people in the white house, you have to be caesar's wife. you have be beyond reproach. there are too many people today who are doubting the investigation. ed: so much noise around. this professor, thanks for actually bringing some facts to the table. happy hanukkah and merry christmas as well. we look forward to seeing you soon. >> thank you. ed: still ahead, more evidence this morning. the rock, yes, the rock is seriously considering a white house run? is this for real? and fired fbi director james comey again sending those cryptic tweets just as the president addressed his former agency. what in the world is going on here? the man with the answer, former secret service agent dan bongino here to analyze in the house next ♪ walk this way ♪ walk this way ♪ (vo) the best gifts come with a special box.

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[applause] a message our men and women a in blue have been wanting to hear aening lo time. dan bongino, former secret service agent. former nypd officer and host of the aptly named dan bongino show. >> the host of dan bongino show. that's amazing. ed: what do you think about the president just stepping forward amid all the criticism and saying, you know what? i have got your back? >> that was the right move. this has been a black eye for the fbi. but having been a secret service agent and although i had left after the whole columbia debacle and all of that it was tough. i remember sitting with my kids after the fence jumper happened secret service you really blew it i left three or four years ago. it's tough. you can thank the fbi right now because there is a terrorist in jail. some internet pedophiles being investigated right now because of the unbelievably

passionate hard work. but, guys, that does not absolve a couple of high level managers from the mistake they made. it should not at all reflect. pete: you were talking, dan, before we came live here how deep that mistake to put it kindly is in the fbi. >> guys, i mean, have you two senior managers in the fbi spawntsdz cybil for the two bigges big responsible for e egg two biggest investigations. donald trump and conspiracy theory and talking about insurance policy? insurance policy against what? ed: during the election. >> during it election u rightfully so by the way. if that was an email about barack obama in 2008, this country would have rightfully exploded. an insurance policy against the sitting president? was it a joke? we don't know. but how is it not a news story? maybe the biggest news story. rachel: media focused almost entirely on they are anti-trump tweets or exchanges between the two

people finn. the lawyer and peter strzok and his lover. the real story is this insurance plan. it sounds like a conspiracy or a plot well organized perhaps. ed: meaning if he gets elected we in the fbi have to do something. >> think about, this right? this is a topic very sensitive to me. i left my job in the secret service. i didn't retire. i resigned because i had strong political opinions and i ran for office. did my thing. fine. there is nothing wrong with a political opinion at all. there is something wrong with plotting to take action to take down a duly elected president or at that time a candidate. this is a really big deal. this isn't about political opinions u it's about potential action to potentiallier eradicate a presidential candidate from winning an election. ed: did that lead the fbi to say well, we want to put a thumb on the scale and make sure hillary clinton does not face criminal charges and oh, if donald trump gets elected, let's open the door to the surveillance of general flynn and others and

let's make this russia investigation a big deal? >> yeah, it does. one of the key questions and i have heard at love liberals they say oh, so what? have you strong political opinions, you don't like the clintons, i'm thought investigating the clintons. i'm a conservative commentator. i don't have the power, literally with the federal government to take your freedom or god forbid use you have force sanctioned by the federal government. they have a monday monopoly on power. that doesn't frighten you that the federal government is talking about a potential two senior agents representing you and your flag talked about an insurance plan? rachel: why isn't the a.g. doing anything? why isn't sessions doing anything about this. ed: i see dan smiling. i want to talk about this. rachel: it doesn't make any sense. >> let me throw something out at you here. i said this on my show the other day. i think the a.g. is doing something. having done some of this stuff in the secret service intentional disinformation campaign, don't you find it a little odd that the three fake news stories that the deutsch bank, the mike flynn story and the done trump jr.

wikileaks story. ed: brian ross. >> don't you find it odd that the mainstream media hack outlets that reported on that got the same fact wrong? how do you think that happened? do you think there is a mistake. >> i think there is something going wrong in the a.g.'s office. there is a storm coming. >> leaking a fake story to you and real story to you to see owho leak leaks it first. the fake fact when the september 4th don jr. thing did it i know did you it because i only gave it to you and not you. don't be surprised at all. rachel: there is another story that maybe the deep state has something on the a.g. and that's why he is not acting? >> i don't know jeff sessions personally. i know people who know jeff sessions i will tel tell you he is a choir boy. pete: america has a new political philosopher his name is james comey. he has a twitter account. he has been tweeting all of these innuclearous quotes and bible verses. he recently tweeted this saying the citizen safety lies in the prosecutor. who serves out law and not

factional purposes from a former attorney general supreme court justice and chief nuremberg prosecutor. what do you make? >> who is this guy robert frost? was it motley crue don't go away mad just go away. just please go away. he writes this stuff. cryptic tweets. i'm just thankful that james comey is gone. listen, with all due respect for the man's service to the country, no question at a minimum there were suspicious things going on when he was in charge. i'm not going to throw out any more toxic words like that. at a minimum what he did tarnished the image of the fbi. and the release of that speech all the sensitive words changed. all the words that would have hurt hillary clinton? pete: written two month before. >> before they interviewed her. incredible. ed: you said don't go away mad just go away. hillary clinton book tour is almost over. >> the hillary clinton, the

only book ever where the question and the answer is on the same front page of the book. what happened? hillary clinton, that's what happened. you happened. i mean, she ran the most inept, incompetent presidential campaign possibly in the history. rachel: and the most well-funded. >> four times the money and she still got her lunch eaten in the electoral college. she ran for governor of california she would have been fine. she got wind out everywhere else in the country. pete: what happened, hillary rodham clinton happened. >> question and answer on the front of the book. rachel: always great having you here. >> i love it. pete: the left claims president trump is trying to soften his tone on russia this morning. defense secretary mattis is firing back. ed: mad dog mat at this time. first, more socks depicting officers as pigs. now collin kaepernick is sparking, yes, a new wave of outrage by visiting some of the country's most dangerous inmates u the head of the corrections officer union says this actually puts lives at risk u he joins us live next hour.

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ed: big screen to the oval office the rock once again fueling rumors about a run for the white house. the pro-wrestler telling he would 100 percent think about running for office it would realistically be 2024 due to jam-packed schedule. sorry, bro, i have got to wait. i can't do it right away. in land far far away, getting sneak peek of the "star wars" moe. balgram base in afghanistan getting a rare opportunity to watch "the last jedi." the installment will be shown in syria and iraq through christmas.

pete: where do you get your mask in afghanistan? ed: pretty cool. pete: next story caught our eye, general mattis, there was a "the washington post" report extensively laying out how the trump administration -- alleging the trump administration has not been strong on russia. secretary mattis, our secretary of defense slams that report saying that he has never been given guidance not to be tough on russia. take a listen. >> i have no reservations nor has the president ever evidenced any push back when i bring up russia and national security contest. and obviously this has come up whether it be in syria or nato and all the other places where have you heard me speaking, excuse me, about this. the, you know, the intel people i have not seen this shyness including the white house. ed: there have you it from a

man who knows a lot about national security i'm in the room with the president and is he tough on russia. pete: if you read the whole "the washington post" people it was mental to disparage the president. he only wants positive coverage. only seeking to soften our stance. how do we know that's the difference between what we see and the president sees. he calls it fake news. rachel: how does the media know? where do they come up with this? pete: there a lot of anonymous sources. ed: from journalists. pete: journalists and anonymous sources. never feels like these so-called journalists are coming at the story to be fair. they are coming at the story with a narrative about this president being too cozy with russia and then trying to jam the facts into it that's what mattis is pushing. rachel: as a journalist. pete: not a so-called journalist real journalist. rachel: when you have a piece like that come out in the "the washington post." and mattis completely refusing. what does that do to the credibility of that paper? ed: it raises real credibility questions, you're right.

because he is somebody who is in the room. look, he serves at the pleasure of the president. you have people at "the washington post" say well, of course he is going to say that he works for the president. i would push back and say, yeah, if he were a political person like say was the head of the rnc talking about their fund raising, that's a political person. that might be one thing. they might shave the truth. general mat disis not something who has ever been accused of shaving the truth. if anything he errors on the side of being blunts, direct, truthful and just telling it like it is. so if he is saying behind closed doors the president has never told me go easy on russia. i would take his word for it more than any anonymous source out there. pete: that's a great point. it's all part of this idea that this administration, the whole russia thing has become such a fervour that the ability to reimagine a relationship with russia if that was ever possible has become almost impossible. rachel: imagine if the trump administration had signed over the uranium one. pete: oh my goodness. pete: all the money would have been kicked back to trump tower.

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rachel: drinking when you come up with these ideas somewhat is happening in the crassic process. >> we are brothers. we have decided when we have thought of a few ideas. [laughter] our sisters help out with a few ideas also. this is a great one. this is kind of a trump themed sweater. no more happy holidays. pete: i see the x is through the happy holidays, merry christmas. rick: do people put in an order of what they want to say and you make it like this "fox & friends weekend." >> they can actually put in their observe pictures and designs and create a sweater based on that. rick: i will tell you it's really comfortable. rachel: they will really soft. that's what i like about them. ed: it's going to be huge. we have the president right there. could you do a what happened one for hillary fan out there? [laughter] pete: it's an idea. give me a kick back. >> they asked me to stay on this segment one condition you give me the ugliest one it has and has to be a

medium. i'm from new york. i wear everything too sizes too small. a medium it's a large and the rest of the country it's a large. in new york have you got to wear everything two sizes too small. pete: what is the website again if folks want to check it out? >> ugly christmas sweater.com. pete: not ugly christmas sweaters it's ugly christmas sweater.com. how many different styles. >> 90 different styles and customizer. rachel: not too late to get one before christmas. >> not too late. pete: great idea, ed. >> we love it. pete: securing enough votes to secure their tax plan. what does it all mean for your wallet? we will break it all down next. ed: guess who else has ugly sweater geraldo rivera? he joins us next. >> that's a beautiful sweater. rachel: that's a nice one actually. >> look at that ♪

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>> we're getting our first look at the final tax bill that was laid out in this deal late yesterday. >> it's not 999 but it's fine fine fine. i think this plan is bold. >> the bombshell new reports on the hill claiming that attorney lisa bloom may have tried to setup pay days for women accusing president trump of sexual misconduct. >> a lot of revelations this week at the fbi inside the special council. the president had some things to say on the south lawn yesterday about that before going to talk to new recruits. >> president trump: look at what's gone on with the fbi and with the justice department, people are very very angry. with me as your president, america's police will have a true friend. >> speaking of hillary clinton

the longest book tour ever. pete: has apparently come to an end. >> i don't blame others. the terming factor was the intervention by comey. >> a world war ii veteran becomes a viral sensation, dancing for his upcoming 95th birthday. ♪ any way you want it that's the way you need it any way you want it ♪ pete: welcome to fox & friends this weekend the first three hours of the show are scripted we do the fourth hour any way we want to open it wide open. ed: that's why i'm here. rachel: the wildcard. ed: if you want to throw out the script bring in geraldo. so the president a lot of people were skeptical a couple weeks ago. can they get a tax cut deal? let's briefly run through seven tax brackets, reduce rates for five of them corporate tax rate, 35% to 21% and also, i think this is big.

repeal the obamacares individual mandate. they failed geraldo to repeal and replace obamacare and a lot of people rightly said president might end his first year without a major legislative victory. that would be bad for republican s heading into the midterms now they got this deal that could be big for them. >> geraldo: right i think in that regard the fact that this is legislative achievement of historic proportion it is a very good thing. the bill itself, you know i'm not crazy about it. the obamacare mandate repeal, i think is another way of choking the obama legacy by squeezing its become. it will take much more time to happen and won't affect as many people but still you'll uninsurn insuring people who now get to choose whether or not they buy it? >> geraldo: it's great. pete: but now you have more money. >> geraldo: the law penalizes people that sleep under the

bridge whether they're rich or poor. ed: it doesn't penalize them any more. >> geraldo: i think this is and i also deeply appreciate what senator marco rubio did in increasing the child tax credit, eight children my goodness, five children. i mean, this is a real deal, helping low income and middle income people, so i salute marco rubio for holding out and i salute the republicans for having enough flexibility to embrace it, but what is this? this is essentially a big bet on our philosophy. we have now unleashed the corporations, the american corporations. this is a corporate tax bill by and large. we have unleashed the fury of the american enterprise system by reducing that rate down to 21 %. now let's see if it can really happen. now let's see if we can get them to put that in more wages? ed: are they going to put that money in pockets or keep it? pete: or will the companies stay do you have a sense of if companies will stay, come back? rachel: something has already

changed. ed: i hope and i remember that conference a couple of weeks ago where they asked for a show of hands and very few hands went up that people would be spending more money because the rate has been reduced on investment rather though were going to put it in dividends but i'm betting some of that money at least some of it will go to energize the corporate economy right now is steaming. i mean you look out there, the crowds all over the place. i really do believe that there is a shot that the old trickle down reagan-esque philosophy has legs and it will work, but this is basically a corporate tax. rachel: you've got to admit the president is not getting enough credit for the economy. >> geraldo: i totally admit that see when i talked to him and i want to tell him every single day, what does james say? it's the economy stupid. it's the economy, ladies and gentlemen. the american economy is thriving and this president has presided

over this, i mean, president obama certainly did his part. he got us out of the depths of the bush recession but now, president trump has taken that mantel, accelerated the pace. jobs, hundreds of thousands of jobs every month, unemployment down so basically to full employment, wages finally trickling up. i really do think that america the golden age is now and i want him to emphasize that and emphasize the role he has played , everybody watching, everybody watching there's a 401 (k) has made money in the trump presidency i don't care what you think of the president he's done a magnificent job. rachel: i'd say the economy did okay under obama. >> geraldo: another point on that side. pete: well this president has also indicted the so-called russian collusion, they did it again yesterday on the south lawn saying there's never been any collusion but this week it seems the collusion has turned in the other direction where it

seems the fbi at the top levels a lot of more than troubling pieces of information whether it's text messages or versions of different speeches given two months later we had former congressman jason cave it z on the program earlier he talked about whether or not the attorney general jeff sessions is doing enough about this we will play his sound and get you to comment, geraldo. >> it pains me to say this a little bit but i don't think the attorney general is up to the job that he's doing. he's absent from this. the reason there's a special council is because he had to recuse himself from everything and i just my own personal opinion i think it's time for the attorney general to go, because you need leadership there, some deep systemic problems there. pete: mccain, orr, weisman, all of these people who looks like they've been playing political games who will look into it? >> geraldo: let me take the sessions piece of that first. i don't want the president messing around with jeff session s right now. i think that jeff sessions will rise to the occasion. it was clear he was conflicted. it was clear he had to recuse

himself, i think under the law whether the president hated that choice or not, it was clear that sessions did the right thing and how the rest of the department other than this 3% that's obsessing about president trump and russia, how the 97% of the justice department is running, i would argue, i haven't heard anything bad about the basic justice department. i mean, there is the 3% many of them political appointees. pete: very powerful. >> geraldo: it is a powerful 3% but i've known president trump since 1976. he has one tactic in life. a strong defense is a good offense so he's going after, he's chopping up those four guys you just showed. he took these text messages, he's ramming it down their throat. these guys now are hiding in corners. i think that russia-gate is on its last leg that's my opinion and i encourage that. there's how much longer do we

have to clog the dead horse of collusion that exists in the minds of president trump haters. no one has shown between president trump and vladimir putin in the campaign okay, dude you plant that wikileaks thing and i'll do this and no one has proved anything like that. you've got flynn going down because he lied to the fed's. one thing you never do you never tell a falsehood to a fed even if he doesn't make you raise your hand, you are walking off the cliff and manafort was a crook before the president hired him. pete: in this case the haters are at the highest levels of the fbi and the doj and we now know that. at what level should justice spin its head back toward them? >> geraldo: i think it's a great point but i'm a lawyer. i go to court. i know that if i go to judge o' leary, i'm going to get a different result than if i go to judge ramos. i know that because that's what forum shopping is all about. you've got that one thank god you've got the hang them high judge and thank god you've got the liberal judge and you're the defense attorney. that's what forum shopping is

they have opinions. these people have opinions just because they're in the justice department doesn't mean they don't have political opinions. he has neutered every one of them. rachel: but can the democrats let it go? they've invested so much time and money into the narrative. >> geraldo: i think that's a great point. the more the democrats insist on the same old song, it's just like the mariah carey "all i want for christmas" you hear it 25,000 times, a good song starts with oh, not this song again. rachel: i still like that song geraldo. >> geraldo: wait another week. i think the democrats are really on a very short timetable and i think this thing is going to peter out and i want them to accelerate the process for their own good. they better get positive because that's the beauty of the tax bill. the republicans aren't complaining now they're doing. what are the democrats doing other than complaining schumer and pelosi? ed: something you have disagreed with the president on sometimes is immigration. >> geraldo: you think?

ed: we wanted to get to the more controversial part but in all seriousness yesterday when talking at quantico to the upcoming fbi agent here is what he said. >> president trump: terrorists have struck in the streets and subways of new york city twice in a few months, both terrorists came to our country through the disfunctional immigration system that we are correcting and rapidly and one came through chain migration, chain migration the other visa lottery. they have a lottery. you pick people. do you think the country's giving us their best people? no. what kind of a system is that. they come in by a lottery. they give us their worst people, they put them in a bin, but in his hand when he's picking them is the really the worst of the worst. ed: so geraldo, you just gave the president credit for the economy and said that the russia

narrative is an old song so we've got two down. we going to go for three? do you agree with him a little bit that at least there needs to be-- >> geraldo: i agree with him a little bit but let me use this occasion as you probably expected i might to put it in the the argument for the dream students. these are kids who came here who have been so totally vetted that they know more about the dream act student than they do about the four of us sitting on this couch. pete: you said this a bunch of times it's a fantastic pivot everyone does it all the time but this is not about dreamers. >> geraldo: and i'm with you all the way just concede that to me that the dream act is extremely vetted. the day is long passed where the united states needs to jump start diversity. you look outside in queens in new york city there's 144 thank ages spoken. we've got diversity more than any nation honored. it is our vitality it is our energy. we don't need a lottery system

to make america more diverse. we are diverse. what we want is the next guy that's inventing google. what we want is to keep the stanford graduate student who comes from bangladesh or from england, he gets an a plus in physics with some digital science, we want to keep that guy. we don't want to throw him out when his student visa is expired let's get rid of the visa. rachel: would you be okay tying an end to chain migration and end to the visa lottery system that you agree is bad to daca? >> geraldo: what a great question and my answer to that is yes but not outloud. okay? you do this and i'll do that, so let's just let these kids okay, let the word pass that the kids are cool, let them stay and the thing about chain migration also , my dad is one of 17 children was one of 17 children. i mean, if my dad came in, well he was a citizen obviously from puerto rico but if he came in from mexico, could he take all 16 of his siblings?

i think that chain migration should be the core family so you get rid of the visa lottery system and make chain migration the core family those are two big gives that could make people who now say the dream act is cool, some cover. pete: you say diversity is our vitality couldn't the president say our commonality is our vitality? >> geraldo: but look at how people come they speak 144 languages in queens. but you can bet your bottom dollar the vast majority 99% speak english too. ed: geraldo got to 2.5 not 3. there you go. coming up we just talked about it stocks hitting record highs as 2017 winds down. could the gdp grow to 4% in the new year? the president predicted that people laughed. pete: one of the most patriotic brands in america according to liberals the democrats, the kneeling nfl and planned parenthood. does that sound all-american to you? diamond and silk have a message for the left, coming up.

pete: welcome back republicans move closer bringing americans a christmas gift with tax reform. ed: this as the dow jones industrial average notches, yes its 69th record close of the year that happened friday. rachel: could we see the gdp growing to 4% in the new year? well here with us is fox business reporter. with regoing to see it? >> you know, that we'll see because the new york federal reserve, they just raised their outlook for the fourth quarter to nearly 4%, 3.98% just last week they said that it would be around 3.92% so that's a great indicator there; however looking ahead to 2018, for the first quarter they said it would just be about 3.15% that's what their

outlook is but i want to get back to the records that we saw yesterday on wall street. as you said the dow hitting its 69th record close of the year. we haven't seen that since 1995. one more and we will break that record. the s & p 500, nasdac also hitting records yesterday as well and i think, you know, optimism is really fueling what we are seeing in the markets. ed: seems like we were going to have another record close either monday or tuesday because of the tax cut deal. the deal came in after the markets closed friday at 4:00. >> reporter: yes absolutely but toward the end of the day as we started seeing optimism grow and the anticipation grow and we did see those numbers because thursday, we saw quite a dip on the dow. we lost about 76 points after senators came out with some doubts about tax reform. ed: let's break it down because people are trying to make sense of all these numbers let's shift from the actual markets to the tax brackets.

what do people need to know about how the brackets are changing? >> as of right now we're looking at the tax brackets we do have seven. the republicans said they wanted to get down to three or four but we're sticking with seven and as far as the bill, it would drop today's 39.6% top rate on individuals to 37% and then the standard deduction used by around two-thirds of households that would be nearly double to 24,000 for married couples. pete: while they cut the tax rate from 39.6 to 37 they reduced the amount of income to hit that threshold so it was a million dollars now as a married couple you hit it at $600,000 so it will increase revenue and taxes on some folks earlier. >> of course we're seeing corporate tax cut. ed: big cut 35% down to 21. >> yes so i think that is also going to give a temporary boost to the gdp and what we'll see looking ahead. pete: hopefully temporary and long term. rachel: staying would be nice. >> absolutely that's the hope. ed: thanks for coming in. pete: appreciate it. ed: you've heard the names bruce

orr, peter strzok and andrew mcc abe, but what are their roles in the russia probe? well pete has this map and he's going to break it down. pete: it's the family tree of the deep state. plus, first he wore socks and now colin kaepernick is parking a new wave of outrage visiting some of the country's most dangerous inmates? the head of the corrections officer's union says this puts lives in danger. he joins us next. to most people, i look like most people. but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief for moderate to even severe fibromyalgia pain.

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rachel: some quick headlines for you, an isis-inspired killer gets the death penalty for be

heading his co-worker. he attacked her at an oklahoma food processing plant back in 2014. he also assaulted others. the 33 year old told police he believed his actions followed the koran. investigators found an isis flag in his car and a computer search history of isis beheadings. and the ex-wife of slain nba player is charged in connection with his murder. sharra wright was arrested last night more than seven years after his body was found in a tennessee field. the arrest coming days after her being indicted. the cold case reopening after investigators found a murder weapon in mississippi last month and you're looking live at arlington national cemetery where wreaths across america is honoring every fallen hero thanks to your donations after the group's appearance on fox & friends, wreaths across america hit its fundraising goal this year placing a wreath on every single grave of the heros. prison guards outraged over

colin kaepernick's visit to inmates. the former 49ers quarterbacker known for kneeling during the national anthem speaking about police brutality and social justice at the detention center in new york. ed: we're going to take it here because the president of the corrections officer's union is slamming the visit saying it will insight violence and put officer's lives actually in danger. elias is the president of the correction officer's ben ever e lent association and he joins us now and it seems like colin kaepernick just keeps digging a deeper hole. well either he's digging a deeper hole or the mayor is digging a deeper hole because basically the corrections officers are the police of the jail and the mayor thinks invit ing colin kaepernick and rappers and things to talk to inmates is going to change their behavior. pete: but he's making them look like the bad guys so when you bring in someone to your prison that says the police or the

corrections officers are the bad guys how does that improve relationships? >> it does nothing to improve relationships. like i said before, we have a mayor that's out of touch and his answer to the violence that's going on in the city jail s is to bring in celebrities and he does that to keep the attention off the fact he's been a failure in last four years when it comes to violence inside the new york city jails so i expect more from him but obviously maybe i shouldn't. ed: i understand you're upset with the mayor so you've got your differences. >> that's basically where--ed: fair enough but what i want to press is defined as when you say that this is the visit would actually be dangerous to the officers how can you back that up? >> well, basically look at the people that he's inviting. these people are people that these inmates are watching and entertaining themselves before they come to jail.

to his credit, he didn't say anything wrong. actually, he said good things about corrections officers, but at the end of the day again, i don't want to let the mayor off the hook. i'm not going to let the mayor off the hook. ed: you think bringing colin kaepernick in will sort of insight some of these prisoners against the officers or is that too far? >> i think well i think that's too far but i also think that the mayor does nothing. you have 2000 corrections officers who have been assaulted guys? 26 stitches across their face, what is bringing colin kaepernick to riker's island going to do to help us to reduce that? if anything, it's going to do what you're saying. it has the potential to make it even worse. pete: let me ask you what should they be doing and who should they be bringing in instead? >> maybe they should bring jeff sessions. maybe they should bring in somebody to investigate whether or not the increase in the violence against corrections officers has something to do

with the mayor's elimination of segregation that something that correction officers have been able to use over the years to keep the violence down inside the jails. bringing colin kaepernick or car mello anthony who didn't have anything good to say about corrections officers isn't going to do anything to reduce the violence against new york city corrections officers. we're the police of the jails. we're responsible for maintaining law and order and we have have a mayor who wants to jet set around the country and bring these people into maybe, you know, portray themselves as somebody whose doing something good. ed: on the flip side of this the president of the united states was talking to some young rising law enforcement officers and said i've got your back. that kind of message does that resonate? that's the message, the only message that a mayor of new york city should give. i mean, that's the only message that there is. we're looking for a mayor to stand up and say "i have your back." maybe we should see if we can get the president of the united states to give him a call and give him some pointers. pete: that would be fantastic.

why is there still thin under appreciation of what the men and women in uniform do? >> i think it has a lot to do with being out of sight and out of mind. you can't ignore police officers wherever you are in this country they're very visible. you can't ignore firefighters. you see them every day. usually the only time you see or hear anything about a new york city correction officer or correction officer period is when something goes wrong or something goes foul inside a new york city jail, but i mean, i just need the message to get out there. we need these consent decrees that the mayor had instituted and put into place is tying the hands of new york city corrections officers and further endangering not only our lives but the lives of the inmates and the other civilians and people who find ourselves behind bars. ed: good point. we appreciate you coming in. pete: thank you, sir appreciate your time. thank you very much. pete: well still ahead, it's not just ratings and attendance any more. now, the anthem protests are impacting chicken wings. ed: wait that's where we draw the line. we've got to figure this out and

hillary clinton closes the books , literally, on her what happened tour. bringing us excuses like these. >> the enormous impact of the russian theft of e-mail, the intervention by comey. ed: she said she wasn't blaming anyone but then said said that. diamond and silk are here to reflect on the greatest hits from the hillary book tour, next hello mom. amanda's mom's appointment just got rescheduled - for today. amanda needs right at home. our customized care plans provide as much - or as little help - as her mom requires. whether it's a ride to the doctor or help around the house. oh, of course! tom, i am really sorry. i've gotta go. look, call right at home. get the right care. right at home.

rachel: the other side knew they had to tear me down and i made mistakes and they took advantage of but they also engaged in this really horrible relentless prosecution of me and they used online media , social media, to carry those messages, and they were aided and a betted by the russians. pete: aided and a betted by the russians. ed: russia russia russia. pete: look whose here with us. diamond and silk. trump supporters. phenomenon in and of themselves. we love having you. >> you guys are like stars. rachel: you're like stars. >> oh, thank you, thank you so much. ed: what do you think about the hillary clinton book tour? >> well listen, it ended before it started. everybody knows what happened trump happened and it's sad she don't even realize that he happened. he won and that's what we appreciate. pete: someone said earlier the

front of the cover is both the question and the answer. what happened? hillary clinton happened was she not just a terrible candidate? >> she didn't have the message and didn't resonate with the american people and that's why she lost and if she runs again today she will lose it again today. >> most definitely. rachel: one of the things i like about your story is that it seem s that you're supporting trump but trump supports you guys. he has not forgotten you is that right? >> well do you know what? president trump, we love him because first of all, he's our president. he's our friend and we will always have his back. we're very loyal. >> that's right. rachel: he's loyal to you too. >> he really is. it's a win-win situation. >> he's also loyal to all americans just for him to be here, he could be living his good life but he decided to put that on the back burner. our first lady melania trump loaned her husband to americans, to the american people so that we can go ahead and make this country great again. ed: you're talking about

something also about a basic respect of the president that doesn't seem to be there. i have a friend who calls me every week or so and says why don't you guys mention on the air how at the very beginning democrats boycotted, there were empty seats. they didn't even sit down to pay him the respect of watching the swearing in, hearing his inaugural address you can agree or disagree. this is america. >> that's right. ed: at least sit there and show the man respect. >> well it's so sad how the left , how they do things. they're very disrespectful. when obama was in office if any of this was going on when obama was in office people would have lost their jobs and careers but now oh, it's so fun now to do this but they're going to reep what they sew. you may not pay what you owe but everybody is running around in this country being disrespectful to this president and the white house you're going to reep what you sew. pete: we're starting to see that with the fbi being exposed for looking political. rachel: americans are we've been talking about on the show pete loves this, about patriotism in america and so this poll says

that 55% of conservatives say they are proud to be an american , 37% of liberals say that they're proud. they also measured who says they want to live in a country and i believe it was 5% of conservatives said they want to live in another country and 20% of liberals want to live in another country. what do you say to those? ed: do you want to buy them airline tickets? >> railway, ship, however you need to go. >> if you don't love this country, this is one of the greatest countries on earth. we have freedoms that other countries don't have. we're not being controlled by dictatorship. if you don't like what goes on here, you can go but once you go , don't come back. >> that's right. don't come back. >> get your head but don't you come back. >> that's right. pete: earlier on we had chick fail a because for conservatives the top five patriotic brands from the same poll they said when they think patriotism, conservatives think into are a, chick-fil-a, fox news channel and hobby lobby which i love and check out four liberals,

democratic party, the supreme court, planned parenthood and the kneelers in the nfl-- >> planned parenthood? these people want to be equal and we want women rights but you kill children you want babies killed that's what planned parenthood and they have no more credibility. that's not being patriotic period. rachel: it's weird isn't it? pete: what does it say about our country and maybe the democrats and liberals do this president? >> i think the liberals are trying to destroy this country. they want us to live in a third world country we don't want socialism, i don't want global ism. listen i don't want that kind of stuff. i want to be an american here in our country. i want to live free. i want to be happy and help this president make america great again, greater than we've ever seen it before. >> and it was also stated people will bow down to president trump once he's president and look like the nfl got the message. rachel: i love what you're saying by the way i always said i want to send bernie sanders supporters on a trip to cuba i'm

with you on that. ed: can i tell you a story? i met these guys in washington and i said oh, my god this is diamond and silk they're such big stars they put their hands up and said nice to meet you. who the heck are you? >> [laughter] ed: that's a true story. >> [laughter] we know you. ed: we love having you on the couch thank you and merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. rachel: and subscribe to their youtube channel. >> diamond and silk, everything diamond and silk.com and go get your christmas ornament. rachel: diamond and silk christmas ornaments? yes. pete: we've got to bring this on the show tomorrow. >> done and done. pete: thank you guys very much. so you've heard the names bruce orr, peter strzok, andrew mccabe , but who are they and what are their roles in the russia probe vis-a-vis their ties to clinton? ed: pete has a theory. pete: a few people do former cia officers break down the key players. ed: plus still need a gift for the outdoorsmen in your life?

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ed: we've got weather out there as always, americans in the midwest and northeast waking up this saturday morning to snow. rachel: my husband and the kids are waking up to snow and freezing temperatures rick. give us a check of the weather. >> eight kids. rachel: he's still in shock. >> i was down on this other side of this big crowd and somebody said it's my birthday. >> yes, it's my birthday. i'm 60. and i'm from charlotte. hi, guys. >> happy 60th. she said it i didn't say how old you were. you said it congratulations we're glad you're here.

happy birthday. take a look at the weather maps as you are waking up this morning, it is chilly but not that bad really for this time of the year in fact we'll see a bit of a warmup coming this week across the northeast we'll have more lake effect snow going a big lake effect snow week especially down across parts of lake erie and ontario get ready for some more today down across the southeast, notice that moisture coming in from texas in towards louisiana throughout the day today, some of that will be heavy and that's going to be the trend that we have for this coming week a lot of moisture coming in across much of the southeast a little bit of a drought so that's actually not bad news in towards the northern plains starting off certainly chilly but overall these temperatures around 15-20 degrees above average for this time of the year and out across the west, we are going to see the fire danger kick up again, especially across parts of central california today. all right thank you everybody. >> [applause] >> what a good crowd pete back to you. pete: rick thanks a lot transition with all this talk of investigations it's hard to keep track of whose who so we're

breaking down the key players you need to know in the fbi and doj's presidential probe. here to investigate the investigators former cia officer buck sexton. so the president insisted no russian collusion. what has started to materialize as they looked inside our highest of intelligence and investigative agencies there may have been collusion against this president a lot of names we're becoming familiar with right now >> it certainly looks like a partisan apparatus that's been put together to look into various investigations, the hillary clinton e-mail investigations which we know she got moore the benefit of the doubt from and now the donald trump russia collusion. pete: bob mueller the head of the special council, james comey former fbi agent got him appointed let's go through the other names in the last couple weeks andrew mccabe. >> well andrew mccabe was believed to be the central guy for handling any contact between the fbi and fusion gps, fusion gps of course produced the dossier we'll get back to this because there are other individuals tied in here but he's also somebody whose wife

was running as a democrat has ties into terry mccullough, somebody that people believe is tied in with many of the different figures here and also is clearly a partisan. pete: and very very powerful in this entire context. now you talked about those anti- trump text messages he was referred to. those came largely from peter strzok and lisa page. >> right, so in the worst of the text messages because just saying something bad about public official--pete: he said a lot of. >> when i was a cia analyst occasionally you'd say something about somebody in government you'd disagree with but that's not what we're talking about with this individual. he said there might have been an insurance policy in case trump won and he mentioned and i' office in that text and people say maybe that andy was acting fbi director andy mccabe, which would raise questions about how high up that possible insurance policy dare we say conspiracy went. pete: potentially on russia a lot of involving a dossier who knew what and when and what was leaked including wiretapping of

political opponents. another name that popped up time and time again andrew weisman. part of the reason he's so significant he's bob mueller number two. >> here you have an incredibly powerful individual in the doj spectrum who was clearly on the side of sally yates when she did something very in subordinate when she stood up and was grand standing refused to implement trump's travel ban so partisanship. pete: she was resisting and he was saying good job. >> exactly she did something everybody i know whose career doj said that was not okay, not cool by the way supreme court looks like it agrees with trump on the travel ban. pete: bob mueller's number 2 on the dnc was also at hillary clinton's victory party that turned out not to be a victory party final was bruce orr, this is the big development. talk about bruce orr. >> well bruce orr was demoted recently because of his contact with fusion gps. fusion gps produced the dossier and the dossier may have been the basis for the entire russia

collusion investigation so the fact you have somebody that's a senior doj official demoted for his ties to fusion gps whose wife was involved and oh, by the way andy mccabe, acting fbi director may in fact have been quarterbacking the information about fusion gps that still has to be verified incredibly concerning ties here as we said pete this is deep state family tree. pete: deep state family tree. nellie ohr, she was an expert on russia married to bruce ohr. he met with the fusion gps folks not just before the election but also after that dossier would have been discredited if anyone looked into it. also these anonymous names plenty within the mueller probe who have given significantly. >> also one note you have so many people clearly democrats or have ties to the people party among the senior investigative officials doj officials. how many pro-trump people? let's be serious pete they couldn't find one guy who maybe wrote a check to marco rubio at some point when you look at the

donations from all these different individuals it's so clearly one-sided so obviously partisan. pete: absolutely. buck thanks for breaking it down you still need a gift for the outdoorsman in your life? well bass pro shops got you covered and you can even win a free set of wheels find out how, next.

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rachel: all right some quick headlines the nfl protest causing yet another casualty this time the chicken wing industry. henderson farms one of the country's largest producers of

chicken reporting slumping sales this year due to less interest in football, and there for, buffalo wings. this has caused the cost of chicken prices to plummet by 28% since september, another reason to be mad at the nfl, and taking selfies might be more serious than you think. >> first, let me take a selfie. rachel: a new study says if you are selfie-obsessed you might be suffering from selfie-itis? a real mental health condition researchers developing different levels of the disorder including borderline, acute, and chronic scientists saying posting more than six selfies a day on social media is chronic selfie-itis. pete: otherwise known as being in love with yourself. ed: yes. all right if you're looking for last minute christmas gifts for the outdoorsman in your life bass pro shops has got you covered. >> back with the hottest deals, alan tredwell.

you've got to love these blankets are warm. >> i'm so glad to be here at bass pro shops we feel like we have the best experience with santa out there so bring the kids down let them sit on santa 's lap and tell them what they want for christmas. >> it's basically babysitting so you can go and shop right? that's exactly it so these fleece throws. we have great gift ideas you talk about awesome stocking stuffers for anybody on the list those are less than $9 so you can get them for anybody. rachel: and they're soft and wonder wonderful. >> we introd you as saying for the outdoorsman in your life. >> exactly for the ladies on my list this is a go to. the natural reflection sweaters and card it begans are on sale 40% off great for the ladies. >> what kind of sizes do you got in those boots because my shoes aren't working here. >> these boots are awesome especially in this weather here 100% waterproof and will keep your feet warm with several different styles lace up, zip up

, awesome boots 40% off. so this is on my list. rick knows what it is. at home make your own jerkey, de hydrate your own fruit and $50. definitely on my list right now. >> can't make up your mind there's always a gift card. you have some of the best because people say they never expire. >> they've been rated number one since 2010 so go to bass pro.com and get a bass pro gift card and let the sports man or woman get what they want. rachel: and bring the kids because you have santa and free pictures. >> so this is a 2018 toyota cam ray and toyota is the official partner of bass pro shops who got together and we're going to give away two of these cars in the next weeks to come. tomorrow we're giving one away and december 24 we're giving another away so come to the store, register somebody will win one might as well be you. >> do you have to go to the

store to register? >> yes. pete: i don't think i've seen a toyota like this. >> these things are awesome a 3.5 v6 engine over 300- horsepower it's an awesome car. awesome car. ed: wow and look at the sun roof there. >> love it. everything. >> santa's wonderland going on now. thank you very much. ed: be right back. ♪ when heartburn hits fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites.

pete: i don't get it the coldest day is the biggest crowds. ed: they're all fired up. >> it's december and everybody is in new york. ed: we want to thank everybody from bass pro shops, the same gang will be back tomorrow we've got a big show you won't want to

miss it. rachel: come back tomorrow. pete: in the meantime join us at fox & friends.com. ed: we'll be talking more with bass pro shops. >> the birthday girl really came just to see pete. rachel: [laughter] >> dagen: surging with the unveiling stocks soaring to new highs as republicans finalize a bill to make taxes lower, but someone here says that it's something else, already being cut, that has our market and our economy full of cheer, as we head into the new year. so what is it? hi everybody i'm dagen mcdowell this is bulls & bears. bulls & bears this week gerri b. smith, jonas max ferris, john layfield along with emily j and jessica. welcome to everybody so gerri b. , what's already on the chop ping block boosting this economy and stocks? >> all that government red tape, dagen, that we struggled to get through every single day. let me give you a couple of numbers that