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a lot of news this sunday so far. more on that in a minute. welcome to "america's news hq" so far. i'm leland vittert. gillian: i'm gillian turner. the russian investigation into accusations from the trunk transition team of special counsel robert mueller investigators inappropriately obtained tens of thousands of e-mails. garrett tenney has the latest from the white house. reporter: well, transfixed on the the transition team accusing robert mueller of bad behavior and how it obtained the e-mail suggesting investigators may have violated the fourth amendment top lawmakers transition team claims in august requested tens of thousand that is the government agency with

office space and e-mail services at issue is through the material and data but wants to. the government property should be acceptable to line for spent officials put it belongs to them and shouldn't have been handed over without consent in as much as predicted by president privilege. in short, since the gsa improperly provides the special counsel's office, and the ptt, presidential transition team have not only been reviewed privately by the special counsel office about notification, they have also been misused publicly. special counsel office pushing back in a statement said we have obtained e-mails in our ongoing criminal investigation we have security. the account owner's consent and on the sunday shows, a number of democratic lawmakers say despite the new revelations or accusations they continue to

have full confidence in special counsel robert mueller. >> i do not at all believe that mr. mueller has been compromised or hitting investigation. i think he is beyond reproach. >> is spending the week and a camp david and members of the cabinet during phone calls with leaders including russian president vladimir putin. he spoke earlier today and we are waiting to hear more details from the white house about just how the conversation went. gillian: life in the white house. thanks for the report. leland: congress will allow the president to make good on its tax reform before christmas promise. scheduling capitol hill this week aired caroline shively has the trump administration is defending the bill, but also getting ready for bed today that her a lot. >> today on "fox news sunday," treasury secretary stephen mnuchin took on critics. >> the reason we are lowering

the top rate is because we are getting rid of lots and lots of deductions and there's a big part of the country that has date and locals. as a matter of fact complaining about taxes going up on rich people in new york. it's just not the case that there's all those taxes going to rich people. reporter: democrats campaigning against republicans next year who voted for the bill pointing out the corporate tax rate it slashed from 35% to 21% in its permanent while individual cuts expire in 2025. they don't buy the republican argument delivering the business tax that will inspire companies to innovate more, hire more and pay workers more. democrats point to estimates that will add almost a trillion and a half dollars to the deficit over a decade. what if they're wrong? here's democratic team wind dancer. >> god bless i hope everything you are saying happens in places like ours, but the reality of it if i was then congressman george bush said we are going to cut

taxes for the wealthiest people in the country and i'm not mad at rich people at all. i want private sector people to invest into places like youngstown. what i am saying that this isn't going to do it. reporter: a one-time incentive to bring home profits overseas in countries with lower tax rates. if the works that could be trying to dollars act to the u.s. they've talked a lot about. thank you. gillian has some more reaction. the final push for tax reform this week. they'll give it a sustainable boos. david schweikert serves on the house ways and means committee. he joins us live with more. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. gillian: want to run a couple stopped by you. the latest quinnipiac poll tells us 55% of american voters

disapprove the gop tax plan as it currently stands. perhaps more damaging, 16% of the voters say they believe this tax plan will reduce their taxes and 65% say only the wealthy will benefit from the plan. would plan. would you say to that? >> at some length and surprise they are worth when you consider the hysteria coming from the left. vote, and in 1886 reagan tax bill had only an 18% favorability that they had passed. the difficulty for many of us on the ways and means committee as we've been grinding out making the math work, the left has been campaigning against a serial make-believe numbers. if you actually look at things like the tax foundation another nonpartisan groups, this is going to be really good for the economy, but also really good for the hard-working middle

class. gillian: congressman, the last thing you will hear, one of the voters in your district in others it may be a part the 65% that say they believe the wealthy benefit disproportionately higher here than the poor. what poor. would he say to those folks that make them feel more confident? >> i wish i had an elegant way to say you are wrong. if you have some time this weekend, a lot of the tables, even some online calculators where you can cast are available. moments before we went on the air, some friends who were absolutely positive they would go up in a sending a text message saying we just redid their calculation and they are getting $3000 this coming year and reductions. they went from being very fearful to now just deleted.

i think as the facts in the actual mechanisms were put together get better in the and they moved away from the hard left propaganda. let's be brutal. for the democratic party for the republicans to have a big success that rose society's economy, that grows our economic vitality, it's bad for them politically, but great for our country. gillian: congressman, i want to ask about the timing on this. what does this look like now? important senators on the senate side that john mccain and senator cochran dealing with health issues who do you think the senate will carry out the vote earlier this week or this week at all? >> i sure hope so. we are trying do something is mechanically. think about this at how many guests as you have the beginning of this year that dot the fact we do big primary rate of the u.s. tax code.

they thought it was fantasy and here we are. we are going to do a couple of mechanical things at the house would need to vote first on the conference committee report. that way there will be a little less dull inaction available to the democrats in the senate and the senate and i will the senate annulled the affair to a couple senior senators suffering health issues. trip to have your colleagues feel about the last-minute concessions that were scrambled on the senate side to get the majority to vote in favor of it. talking specifically about confessions of senator rubio in the child tax credit tiered >> great question. the nature doing complex legislation. for many of us who is always a balance of what was very pro-family and as you know, many struggling with the demographic crisis. just not having enough children in our country. will this policy increased birth rate? actually very controversial area of study.

if they brought the votes on board. >> do think that would be a good thing if it did increase the birth rate for americans? >> we definitely need it. social security and medicare are basically pay-as-you-go programs. today's workers pay for today's retirees and if you have a society that birthrates have sort of collapse in 25 years, we don't have enough workers. there's a lot of moving parts here. what is great about the tax reform is we know status quo hits the wall and 15 to 18 years because he amounted that we are building up the status quo. if we can grow, we have a chance to get through. gillian: congressman schweiker, we have to leave it there unfortunately but hopefully we can have you back. thanks for leaving us out. we wish you the best. train to democrats in both chambers remain unified in opposing the tax plan and while

that won't keep it from happening but that hasn't stopped them from pounding away at it as republicans continue to support. congressman row from the great state of california, nice to see you. thank you. >> thank you for having me on. we'll start with the previous question. i'm sure you are things you see. you have 30 seconds. >> this tax plan is going to be great from the technology companies in my district. they will get a huge tax break, but it will do nothing for forgotten americans. americans in youngstown, and basically companies will go buy back their stock. the billionaires who founded the company is will get richer, but there's no requirement to create jobs or invest in the community. >> i don't think congress can write a lot demanding people create jobs. difficult to demand people

create jobs. what is the better way to incentivize businesses and so you get to keep more of the money you make. >> well, we could have the picture used in and said if you want to get this tax break you need to commit investing some of the money in communities left behind. need to commit to hiring americans in those communities. you need to commit to opening up manufacturing plants. >> your issue with this, you would support this tax bill if it were not for the way repatriation is tax. is that what i'm hearing? >> what i was supportive they were geared towards the middle class and working class. i would support, for example, earning tax for people making under $100,000. give them a tax break. >> they are getting a tax break. the biggest drop in weight is on the middle class.

marco rubio giving the poorest of americans a larger child tax credit. the money the government is engaged in refining. they are just writing checks to low-income people. why not try to support this? you said it's going to be great for companies in your district could conceivably hire more people come to spend more local restaurants. what's the problem? >> if you look when we did this before, that is not what happening. but the company said it bought back their stock and gave more money to dividends. and so, it is good for the very, very wealthy and the executives. i'm not disputing that. >> is a huge number of people, huge number of america's middle class that owns stocks. folks with their 401(k) will see an increase in their wealth as well. what the problem with that? >> i actually don't dispute this will potentially help the stock

market or the investor class of those americans of dividends. i will try to be fair with that. but it's not going to do is talk to forgotten americans. train to the quote, unquote forgotten americans, however you want to define not, how we've been having more money not in their pockets not going to help them? >> this isn't going to put money in their pockets. train to the yes it is. congressmen, increasing the child tax credit, increasing the refunded amount to folks who don't even pay any taxes that would get money from the government is going the tax rate on the middle class, doubling the exemption. how is that not giving them more money? the maggots actually increasing certain taxes and getting rid of the state and local taxes. it effectively makes no difference. >> for some it does. the tax breaks getting to

120,000 is a few hundred bucks at most and then it goes away after certain amount of years. congress getting all the tax breaks. leland: if you have a philosophical difference about this and say there shouldn't be any tax cut to the wealthy, that is a moral argument of the factual argument just doesn't add up. they're thousands of dollars to come back to middle class families. when republicans are saying that come independent that is the look at that, nonpartisan commissions and calculators that show average families in oklahoma and ohio get an extra couple grand in their pocket, they are just all wrong. the airline. >> no, every independent group, conservative liberal group with the vast majority will go to corporations. trade to buy of course the

biggest tax cut by sheer dollar value will go to the people who pay the most taxes. >> you know the tax cuts for the middle class will expire and they are a fraction. here's what i would've supported. leland: you've got 15 seconds. >> a tax credit for working class families that 10,000-dollar pay raise for 100,000. they would spend their money and grow the economy. that's a philosophical difference. the tax cut should go the executive with the middle class or working class. i'm for a plan that says it the working-class or middle-class. train to the democrats become the majority faith can take that up. appreciate you joining us. all the best. thank you. obviously this is a long debate and they will continue. want tax reform on our sunday show right after this show.

"fox news sunday" chris posted, treasury secretary steve mnuchin could the treasury secretary has been a big proponent of this bit of of this. he will talk to alabama senator elect doug jones about his recent election and what he plans to do in office. exciting stuff. >> at least nine people are dead and more than 50 have been injured in a suicide bomb attack in a church in pakistan. officials said two suicide bombers launched an attack on a church for hundreds of people were attending services inside. security forces managed to take out one of the attackers, but the other attacker made it inside after being wounded by police on the scene. police are still searching for two additional suspected accomplices who also managed to escape. iss has now claimed responsibility for these attacks. train to fox news alert is to apply alert is a look live at a

funeral procession for the firefighter killed battling the massive thomas wildfire in southern california. the fire continues to burn today. officials say it early to go to coral &-ampersand dad thursday from smoke inhalation. hundreds of people as you can tell are lining the street as his writing makes its way from the torah county down to san diego. survived by his pregnant wife in their 2-year-old daughter. and when we come back, live to the ground to check on the site against those fires are will carr, live on the ground when we come back. plus, and out of this world delivery. the international space station getting a care package ahead of chris ness. we will break down when the president comes lawyers about how robert mueller's investigation with the thousands of e-mails.

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gillian: the international space station got a special out of this world delivery today just in time for the holidays. astronauts on board usage at robotic arm to join the space x cargo capacity and from cape canaveral on friday. read on packing thousand pounds

of goodies including replacement parts, food and even some nice that they'll use for experiments up there in space. who knew. train to maybe a christmas tree or a nod. president trump's transition team says e-mails obtained by special counsel robert mueller were essentially the poison tree in determining representing triumph for america row congress saying the services administration's unlawful production of triumph for america's internal records is exacerbated by the special counsel's failure to preserve and respect the legal privileges attached to a large number of those documents. here to help break it down for us what this might mean to a friend of the show, get the assistant attorney general rob driscoll. good to see you. noteworthy that this was a letter sent to congress not a motion filed in court. p. argument, political argument?

>> mainly pr argument. frankly i've read the letter and not particularly persuasive they mueller did anything persuasive unusual in these documents. >> they are essentially arguing attorney client because they're working for the transition team. therefore, there should be privileged documents not accessible to mueller that a subpoena, maybe not to mueller at all. does that fly? >> a bit of a murky area when you're working for the government, the clients generally are government. the transition the same unique legal questions but in reality they wanted to preserve documents they should talk to gsa explicitly beforehand, made some kind of argument to them they shouldn't be released. at this point they know the horse is out of the barn. leland: this is the mueller steam has written about a

statement. as brief as most of the statements are coming out of office and we obtained e-mails in our ongoing criminal investigation or appropriate criminal process, when you say murky area, is that murky in a way because the transition folks weren't government employees, but e-mails all resided in government servers? >> when i read that statement, the owner of the document would say is gsa. gsa computer, server and they went mass. alternatively could have gotten some kind of, but this case they asked about it. leland: let's assume for the mueller trumps attorneys are right or decide they are ready. could this be a problem for any investigation to put a kibosh on those? >> even if they were privileged

documents by setting up things like that, they might have issues. generally, mueller steam will be able to work around this. i don't see any court decision coming in the transition team finding anything in court either. leland: serve another pr work continues by trumps team and you talked about that as well. as much as the pr war. always good to see you. we will see before christmas. gillian: california wildfires turning toward some of the most expensive homes in the country. will carr is on the ground over there. what can you tell us at this hour? >> you can hear the helicopters in the distance and the fires of burning, threatening 18,000 homes and buildings right now. by the end of the day could be the largest wildfire ever in california's history. a live report coming up next.

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leland: a fox news live, live pictures of the funeral procession of a firefighter killed while battling the massive thomas wildfire in southern california. 32-year-old corey iversen passed away, burned to death and suffered smoke inhalation as well fighting a fire that is still a control. will carr on the ground in santa barbara county, california. day 12 now of this type. the firefighter's been able to get a better handle on the sellers a lot of control? >> leland, the good news compared to what they were yesterday in the hillside santa barbara county. continuing to burn. smoke billowing up into the air but they've calmed down firefighters doing a good job.

40% contained take a look at what we are seeing. >> that is creating a major challenge for the firefighters here in the ground. you can see them up with fire engines in front of houses. doing structure protection, everything we can to make sure the homes in this neighborhood to stay safe. jumping on top of the flames and that is the big challenge for the fire crews on the ground. being there yesterday. making sure the homes and buildings in this area.

still in a red flag warning until tonight still certain part of southern california with the wind gets about 50 to 60 miles an hour today. as the fire continues to burn like it has over the past few weeks or so, only 3000 or 4000 more acres in california's history of mcu another helicopter go overhead. leland: we've seen them do preventative airdrops. will carr on the ground. thanks to you in your team. stay safe out there. >> you bad. gillian: the republican tax plan a christmas present but critics contend it's only get for the nation's wealthiest special interest groups. is this republican plan guaranteed to make it congress? to break it down as niles damage from the hill. thanks for joining us.

you say if the legislation is passed this week it's undoubtedly a political victory for the president said that it's unlikely he will be in effect from this passage in the 2018 midterm elections. why? >> basically the concrete and if it from the package will become apparent to the taxpayers with a 2018 returns at the start of 2019 south evidently of the elections. in saying that, there is the point the republican leaders in congress can get legislation through, so that's an epic achievement and could also generally help this idea that there are things they can deliver. >> latest polling from quinnipiac earlier this week tells us 16% of american voters think the gop tax plan will reduce their taxes while 44% of

americans believe they will increase their taxes. the point being they are not going to be reaffirmed for correct it until 2019. what do you think the president -- why the rush in this instance? is it about getting it done the first year? >> that's part of it for any president that's more beneficial to get it done in the first year. also the president would argue indirect benefits. we are talking about direct benefit to taxpayers. but if there's a more indirect boost scene in the economy, that could help the strongest cards president trump has recognized the economy has been performing robustly for his first year in office if it is increased further in a more general sense then that is something from which he could reap political benefits. gillian: the president trumps card with unintended is doing

well. employment is the stock market is doing well. that's a long-standing problem. at least since the great recession in decades before the wage growth does not been as rapid as it has been for previous generations of americans. also the economic theories as to why that is so. clearly president trump grew a lot of support from people with modest incomes. so if that can be altered and their personal financial situation, clearly that will be able to benefit and if it doesn't happen. >> the wage issue doesn't fall on the president's shoulders. i want one quick answer about the timing of the bill. do you think it's going to become the law of the land this week despite the fact we've got

some senators who are -- we don't know if they'll be able to make senator mccain. >> obviously those two gentlemen are suffering from health issues. the motivation on the republican side is to get this done as soon as possible because they would like to get this ill for christmas. >> digs for joining us. >> still to come, how firefighters do with a massive fuel crash. plus good president trump been wiped out by a government shut down? here's what the treasury secretary had to say. >> i can't rule it out but i can't imagine this occurring. we can't have a president shut down in front of christmas. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how.

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jerusalem as the capital of israel. the council announced the tomorrow to resend that decision. it doesn't specifically mention president trump or the united states, he does insist any decision on the status of jerusalem would have no legal effects. diplomats say the resolution will likely be vetoed. >> they hope to celebrate their tax cut when the democrats to keep the government from shutting down before christmas. recent quinnipiac poll 33% say they would blame republicans for a shut down. 29% blame democrats. 21% say they would blame president trump. joining us now, ted harvey to defend the president and radio talkshow host, good to have you as always. is it time for democrats to take

a stand here and get some type of deliverables from the republicans. >> absolutely. republicans cannot afford, but they also stand to win a short-term deal, say three weeks. delegate doug jones then with a little help firms to use bannon to have even more power. a short-term deal and the numbers start to fall in our direction. >> interesting. they try and come up with some type of victory when they see the administration and congress passing a tax reform bill. but they are fighting for is a shut down government which would hurt all americans across the country. that's the legacy they want have going into christmas. it would be a lot achieved their

heads. >> 33% say republicans in congress. 21% will blame the president. do the quick math. that's 54% of americans say republicans would be to blame. that's a different than the scenario you put forth. >> right but they have the bully pulpit. he plans on the democrats for shutting down the government. he would have the last day in this debate and the american people blame the democrats. >> reporting that is part of the president's calculus and is willing to push harder on this. an important picture and you know the last time we went through this. not showing up to the oval office and president trump stage a photo op where he had empty chairs. do democrats run the risk of not being seen as being willing to

work together if they hold out again like they tried to this time and failed. >> i don't think so. number one the democrats had some political success. virginia, new jersey recently in alabama. they are feeling as are feeling as strong as far as their basic concern moving into the midterms number one. number two, they realize republicans want to tout success. they want to grow how wonderful their tax cut is that it would be a disaster to get their tax cut in at the same time have to argue that they had both houses of congress in the white house and they can keep the government which of their argument down of the wonderful job they've done a tax cut. leland: it seems as though your argument if your chin and the president thinking here, dad he will be able to use his unique ability to persuade and to his unit only pulpit to shift whatever blame he wants to focus on republicans back to the

democrats. >> you bet. the democrats underestimated what the president's abilities are when it comes to going directly to the american people and having his message be delivered. in the end when he has every single republicans supporting moving forward, but he doesn't have supported the democrat, double blow back on the democrat can fall back to christmas because they know what a shut down the government in half people not have jobs and paychecks coming and going into christmas. >> fair to say a lot of underestimated the president of the different issues to bear on this may. ted garland, appreciate you guys being here. thanks so much. gillian: an incredible story of survival.

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everyone involved is expected to be okay. gillian: russian president vladimir putin was on the phone earlier today with resident trout. putin wanted to thank the president for providing crucial source intelligence that helped stop a potential terror attack inside russia. join us live from new york and nationally syndicated radio host an analyst bob sexton. thank you for being with us. i'm so excited you're the perfect guy to have on the news. >> thank you, gillian. happy to be here. so far it sounds like the kremlin has confirmed the white house has confirmed the call to place. put and reached out to president trump to thank him for providing this intelligence terror attack. you sense any juicy nuggets out of the story? would you make of it?

>> bolthole dynamics at play here. for one, remainder of the fact regardless of any particular diplomatic spat that we may have with the country in this case russia over the russia collusion story, there is going to be a u.s. hand in counterterrorism against global jihadist wherever we can have it. we will do whatever we can to help nations across the board fight against the scourge and we know that there was a jihadist plot. they're pretty been disrupted and attempted off against the west and america. this is an opportunity here for all of us to be reminded this is a civilization against barbarism on the specific russian front. this is a reminder of the u.s. and russia can work together on some issues. look, very important disputes of the russian government. a lot of problems with vladimir putin and most folks in this country are quite familiar because of the new cycle the last year. it extends to the middle east, brainiac on the eastern ukraine.

gillian: it sounds like you are saying we have some core, and interest areas when it comes to national security prerogatives. is it matter whether rush is an adversary or a life not in the united states interest to have terrorist running amok inside the country. i want to change really quickly to hear your thoughts on president trump in the fbi who you say the president is not involved in this sort of war in the intelligence community, but rather a few specific senior officials whose deals have become politicized. is that right? am i killing, and the thinnest in the beginning about the so-called view president trump hasn't the intelligence community that is really earlier in the year really pushing back against some senior-level folks who have been leaking to the press and in some cases leaking information intentionally meant to be damaging against trump and his top people. he's not calling out the 99% of folks who are showing up every day in the intelligence

community and working to do things like stop terry s. country terrorist plot around the world. that is that the intelligence community is up to them at the fbi, senior individuals that have now come to light been particularly anti-trump, the same dynamics come and 99% of the fbi is engaged in one-person efforts human trafficking, kidnapping, all the things there seems to be a small group at the very senior level doj and fbi specifically anti-trump. >> can the president still succeed without those key members of the intelligence community giving them his support, by which i mean doesn't he rely in the same people to get information that he will eventually make policy decisions based on? do you see a path forward for the president without eliminating all of the senior heads of the intelligence community? you make when you look at the relationship the president has

with director pompeo, it is quite strong and when you see the way the president has tremendous trust and general mattis from the pentagon and department of defense, or a place as the national security cooperation is obvious and going very well. in terms of some elements that were leave behind from the obama administration or even particularly partisan, i would hope they would put the mission, which is defense of this country in making sure they take on national security threats ahead of any part of agenda and what we seem to last week or so i don't think we can say that from the department of justice and at the very top ranks of fbi and doj there has not been part of the metal thing -- meddling. gillian: got to leave it there, that sounds like there is some hope we can right the ship in the new year is a great time for change. maybe that is true for the intel community. thanks for joining us. >> absolutely. great to see you. merry christmas. leland: back with the uss little

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there you go. i do not see any christmas decorations. but i am sure there are some. >> have nice american flag decorations. >> is the sixth night of hanukkah, right? >> yes, happy hanukkah! >> i'm chris wallace. republicans released their latest tax plan. will congress send to the president to sign before christmas? >> this is will relief. it gives people a simpler system and a fair tax code. >> as gop leaders push their measure to overhaul the tax code, we will discuss the bills prospect and what it means for you. the secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin. then, democrat, doug jones, wens and -- wins the race