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it would be a signature achievement for the trump administration. most-watched, most trusted, and most grateful you spent the evening with us. good >> emergency. >> a couple cars that are not safe enough to search. we know there's nobody alive in. >> they were tipped over on their side. >> with the strategy we are calling for a great reawakening of america. a resurgence of confidence and rebirth of patriotism, prosperity and pride. >> if your family of four making $55,000 you pave 0 in federal tax. for all of america to get
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stronger and more competitive. ♪ heather: a little cold water always wakes you up when it is dark and early in the morning. you are watching "fox and friends" first on tuesday morning. let's get to a fox news alert. a passenger, the amtrak passenger train derailed in washington state plummeting onto a highway below and it was speeding, three people dead at this hour is the fbi combs through the horrifying scene hunting for new clues. live in dupont, breaking
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developments from overnight. >> reporter: investigators with the ntsb, national transportation safety board arrived overnight and will spend the first full day coming through the wreckage to try to determine why 12 passenger cars and a locomotive jumped the track some of them landing on the busy freeway below, you can see the wreckage is still here and one train car dangling over the trestle. it will take months, up to a year to determine an official cause, no question his train was going too fast and loose using data recorder investigation, federal investigators confirm the train was traveling 80 mph in a 30 mile-per-hour stone. 50 over the speed limit when it derailed. we are hearing the chilling first moments after the crash when the conductor called in to report it. >> emergency, emergency, we are on the ground, we are on the
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bridge. on the freeway. the ems asap. looks like they are already starting to show up. >> reporter: the derailment left three people dead. it is unclear if their bodies are still in the medical records, 72 victims were treated, two listed in serious condition, a baby on the train escaped unhurt and many survivors praising by standards who rushed in to help. and to help save lives. donald trump is expressing his condolences and saying this accident shows why are soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be approved quickly. the associated press is reporting this happened on newly finished tracks, not a real with maintenance problems, local
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officials expressed their concerns about the new passenger line going so fast and so close to traffic and pedestrians. heavy cranes being used to lift cars and semi trucks out of the way. there are delays, on many hours, this is a main artery between canada and mexico and the governor has declared a state of emergency so they hope to get this part of the freeway through today. >> especially since that ribbon-cutting on friday. thank you, claudia. america is going to win, that is a quote from donald trump unveiling his first national security strategy, and
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fulfilling his promise to put america first. >> we have dealt isis one devastating defeat, a campaign of maximum pressure in the north korean regime has resulted in the toughest ever sanctions. with this strategy, a great reawakening in america. a rebirth of patriotism, prosperity and pride. >> the four principles of the president's strategy, restricting immigration, pressuring trade partners, building up the military and increasing the united states global influence, the strategy highlights russia and china as rivals and challenges north korea and iran nuclear weapons program. we talk about this a little later. andrew the cable coming face-to-face with intelligence committee today, a closed-door meeting expected to focus upon
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peter strzok's anti-trump bias, and email investigation. chuck grassley calling for the case removal, grassley claims he is biased after his wife ran for virginia state senate seat backed by clinton associates. the senate intelligence committee postponed its meeting, ties to fusion gps after documents surfaced related to the hearing, later this week. historic tax reform on the horizon, the gop voicing donald trump's tax bill today, griff jenkins in washington dc with what we can expect, the countdown has been going on for a wild. >> reporter: we are at the finish line in the rest of the country is later today in the
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house and senate will vote on the tax bill with leaders like the house's kevin mccarthy optimistic the traditional senate holdouts like susan collins on board. >> a tax cut. if you are making $55,000 you pay 0 in federal taxes, this is an advantage for america to get stronger and more competitive. >> this will provide tax relief. >> reporter: there was concern the bill was in jeopardy with john mccain from arizona, one defection, there is only one defection. arizona's other senator, jeff flake. >> other issues. >> high tax states like new york. dan donovan. >> the salt deduction don't
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satisfy the needs of the people i represent that will give tax relief on the backs of new yorkers. >> reporter: the democrats will vote for it, nancy pelosi calls it, quote, a gop tax scam that is a frankenstein's monster of giveaways to the wealthy. vice president mike pence postponed the trip to israel to be on hand in case he needs to break a tie in the senate vote. one more thing as well besides tax, the shutdown of the friday deadline, most think they will get a temporary bill passed. heather: all that punting, always happens. have a great day. the tax overhaul labeling at as a payout to america's wealthiest. >> they keep pushing it because it is a payoff to their big
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donors. >> bills in the house and senate are disgraceful. >> the hispanic chamber of commerce it is shameful the left is letting politics get in the way of relief for hard-working americans. >> great news for american business. the potential to finally passing critically needed tax reform. we haven't seen meaningful tax reform since 1986, our americans, small businesses desperately need the help and it looks like it might happen. american small business driving economic growth, creating two thirds of all new jobs in this country and we need tax reform which i want to urge our friends
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in congress to fight the urge to let perfect become the enemy of good. this is a good tax bill, this is good for american business, good for the american economy, good for the american people. we need to get behind this thing. >> democrats plan to stand side to side with faith leaders and health advocates to rail against today's vote and we will be following that closely. a man arrested after ramming his car through a gate at an airbase in britain, a check point security guard opening fire after their warnings were ignored. the man's car coming to a stop at the airbase which is used by the united states air force, not clear at this hour but authorities say this is treated as trespass, not terrorism. trying to help isis, just landed and iraqi refugee 16 years
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behind bars. authorities say omar wanted to join the terror group as a soldier and by maker confessing his possible up two houston malls with a bomb detonated by cell phone in 2014. the 25 iraq was granted legal permanent residents back in 2011 and is accused of coordinating weapons training with another iraqi refugee planning to fight for isis in syria. the us confirming north korea was the mastermind behind the largest cybertech in history. the wall street journal reports the communist country pulled off the worldwide hack earlier this year, that is kidnapped 230,000 computers including those at hospitals and 150 countries and cost $4 billion worth of damages. delays stretching into another day, not entirely unexpected
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after that crippling workout at the world's busiest airport them in the video shows the extent of the electrical damage that left hartsfield jackson international airport in the dark, nearly 11 hours. still working to make those repairs, 1400 flights were canceled leaving thousands of passengers stranded, the biggest travel weekend of the year. we will get that back on track, john mccain appears to be in good spirits saying he will be back on capitol hill very soon. the 6 term arizona senator saying thanks to everyone for your support and words of encouragement, i'm feeling well and looking forward to returning to work after the holiday. that is good news to hear. the 81-year-old was hospitalized for a viral infection as he battles brain cancer. he is expected to miss today's historic vote on tax reform.
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the time is 12 minutes after the top of the hour, donald trump telling the world it is game on. >> a strategy i'm announcing today declaring america is in the game and going to win. >> our next guest was there for his historic speech and says it was one of his most personal ones yet. a huge swipe at the right, she says the patriotism is perverted. a holiday headache in the making, the record number of people hitting the road for christmas. ♪ ♪ i'll be home for christmas ♪ >>
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my mom was afraid of the water. something she did not want me to feel. swim lessons changed my life. thanks mom. visit usaswimmingfoundation.org, to find, get or give a swim lesson. heather: donald trump unveiling his national security strategy stressing america have strengthened economic security, rivals like china and russia on
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notice was what message is he sending the rest of the world to give the director of advocacy and policy at the independence fund, bob carey, was at the president's address and joins us with his perspective. thank you for taking the time to join us. let's begin by going over the four principles that were in the national security strategy, number one protecting the homeland, advancing american prosperity, preserving peace through strength and enhancing american influence. do you consider one more important than the other? >> peace through strength is the most important gum you cannot advance national security without the capacity to do so. our military has been gutted, underfunded and unable to reach out and do what we need it to do because it is stretched too thin and too far. heather: it is a marked
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departure. >> the previous administration looks at the world in terms of rules-based international order and our own national security interests to those of the broader international community, the trump administration said that power derives from strength and individual nation states and we should build our national security strategy off of those. heather: he said there are no in the international order as well. >> the previous administration compose an international democratic norm everyone would abide by and a lot of the problems are because of that approach towards international security. heather: we have some threats we are facing today and focusing on the america first idea goes along with eliminating the north korea threat, promoting fair
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trade along with immigration, chain migration crackdown. >> all these are a marked departure from the previous administration and even the bush 43 administration and highlights this president has invested personally in this national security strategy. i don't know any other president that made a rollout speech on national security strategy and he's personally invested in it and brought principles from his campaign to what he is the united states should be order and those are marked departures from the previous administration
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and foreign-policy community from the norm of everything we have done so far needs to be perpetuated. heather: he says america first, protect us here in the homeland, we appreciate it, have a great day. fox news alert muslims will return to being masters of the world, quote and a threat from isis as they take aim at the u.s. army and their families, the terrifying new plot just uncovered and bombshell claim isn't going away, the trump transition team says robert mueller improperly got thousands of emails. what does that mean legally? are criminal charges possible? good morning, todd. ♪
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heather: andrew mccabe facing the house until committee amid new calls for his removal as the credibility of robert mueller's russia collusion case is called into question once again, the trump transition team thank the special counsel improperly obtained thousands of documents illegally. what does that mean? are criminal charges possible? here to discuss is "fox and friends" correspondent and also a lawyer. you will answer these questions and tell us what is going on, begin from the start. >> at its core this is a battle between the trump transition team who says these are our documents, they shouldn't have been given out versus robert
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mueller's team who argue anything that ends in dot.gov is property of the government and they can do what they want. heather: not even ask. >> what makes the situation intriguing is the timeline that exists, there's an individual whose name, richard becker, general counsel, general services administration according to trump transition team members there was an agreement if any request was made by the government for trump transition team emails, he and his gsa wouldn't give the trump transition team a heads up, and if you want to fight it you go fight it. that gentleman passed away and -- i believe june, august 2017 there was an actual letter, not a subpoena from the mueller
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team, the gsa saying here you go, here are the documents. heather: the did someone replace this individual? >> the guy that was under him took the lead, a career individual. heather: he started skipping the step of informing the trump transition team. >> a result this letter from the trump transition team lawyer says this is a violation, make sure there were no privileged documents and what i anticipated this will end up in a court and the argument the trump transition team, anything you are required, anything they led to in terms of interrogation is fruit of the poisonous tree, you can't use it in the subsequent prosecution in the mueller investigation. if it ends in dot.gov no expectation of privacy. heather: the they will try to argue this with an agreement,
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not a legal necessity. >> i with a won't even say there was any meeting of the minds. i think it will end up in court of law. heather: thank you, appreciate it. in the next half hour turns out the obama administration undermined the us government to protect the iran nuclear deal, stunning new report that was just revealed. morgan ortegas has congress needs to get to the bottom of this. and some protests leader colin kaepernick has been out of the league all year but wants to get back in the game. ♪ coming home ♪ coming home ♪
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hinge on the floor like a pinball. >> start flying towards me. heather: the amtrak passenger train that derailed in washington state was speeding before it plummeted to the highway below. you are looking at live shots where the fbi ntsb are on scene coming through the horrific crash that left at least three people dead, 100 others injured. the train was going 80 mph moments before the steep curve where the speed limit is only 30 mph, fell off the track, falling over like dominos and the first trip on the roots, in the northwest. your sons will return to you in coffins, a new thread from isis targeting the u.s. army and
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state department. the terror group claims it hacked into the government system obtaining addresses vowing to send assassins to employees homes, bombings and terror attacks, the footage declared muslims will return to being masters of the world. the first ever us police officer convicted of trying to help isis faces 60 years behind bars. the former dc transit officer, nicholas young allegedly sent undercover fbi agents posing as isis hundreds of dollars in gift cards to fund messaging account for improvement, telling and isis recruit how to travel overseas undetected. he was on officials radar since 2010 and was arrested in 2016. charlottesville, the police chief stepping down weeks after a scathing report on how his
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department handled the deadly riots. alfred thomas faced months of criticism after a report called his response to the white supremacist rally, quote, slow footage. james fields is charged with first-degree murder after allegedly driving a car into a crowd of protesters killing one person. here is a big story, a scathing report accusing the obama administration of undermining an elaborate dea operation aimed at taking down hezbollah's drug trafficking network in an effort to ultimately secure the 2015 iran deal. who worked to publicly designated the visual terrorists for the united nations, thank you for joining us. to break this down, project cassondra and it allows the dea to governance the terrorist
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group was mapping $1 billion in drugs and weapons but they wanted to do something about it. >> it wasn't just the dea, not just that that was in the government and allies, this was a project that spanned many years of the obama administration. hezbollah is an iranian backed organization wreaking havoc around the world in the middle east but in june of this year the federal authorities arrested hezbollah agents for working to attack the united states so hezbollah is a terrorist group that has been in the region for a long time, incredibly well-funded only by the iranians but the fact they have money laundering around the world to fill their costs.
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jillian: why would the brakes be pooled on all these organizations and how would it tie into the success or failure of the iran deal? >> in the political reporter was not a few disgruntled agents, the political officer said he interviewed dozens of people, very extensive research and they didn't offer explicit proof the obama administration stopped these prosecutions, former treasury official testified these prosecutions were slowed down to make room for the iran deal. this was not the first allegation they were doing things to placate the iranians to get the deal through but this is the first time we have seen dozens of former federal intelligence analysts coming forward to think this was politically motivated to stop
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the terrorist group. heather: congressman to the interest of these revelations are shocking and infuriating, american soldiers were bravely fighting isis terrorists, the obama administration reportedly was protecting hezbollah terrorists who were funding themselves by traffic in illegal drugs, no wonder president obama couldn't bring themselves to call them radical islamic terrorists. >> the nuance the congressman doesn't get right as isis, hezbollah and shia, two very different factions, hezbollah is fighting in syria, hard and she iranian backed hezbollah fighters coming off the battlefield could wreak havoc continue to wreak havoc in the middle east and could attack here. what does the administration need to do? a congressional investigation in this place former cia director john brennan needs to go before congress and testify he was --
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heather: the result being possibly what? what can happen now? this has already occurred. >> the trump administration can put a new focus on hezbollah, a new focus to counter iran, new strategy for the middle east, they are probably starting to do this, put an interagency task force together to target hezbollah, go after their financing and money laundering, trafficking cocaine. heather: appreciate you joining us. defying the trump administration it is willing two illegal immigrants must be allowed to get abortions, the white house is responding to that and the collusion tables turned remember when jill stein dined with russian president vladimir putin? congress does and they want some answers to this. american drunk on dunkin, coffee this holiday season, you want to hear this. ♪
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heather: the trump administration taking its battle over illegal immigration and teen abortion to the supreme court after a federal judge ruled two pregnant immigrant teens who entered the country illegally must be allowed to undergo the procedure, the girls in federal custody in different states, arrived as unaccompanied minors. if you cannot play for them by for them, colin kaepernick once to buy the carolina panthers, the hip-hop mogul with -- he wanted to buy the team and colin kaepernick says i want in on the ownership, let's make it happen. then says he would sign the disgraced quarterback if -- despite the panthers already
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having former mvp cam newton. gerri richardson selling the team after being accused of workplace misconduct. a fox news alert, are you tired of winning yet? the tao -- >> win after win. you people are going to get sick and tired of winning. heather: the tao broke another record. tracy is here with the numbers, winning, winning, winning. >> reporter: we did break another record on wall street yesterday, the tao has climbed 5000 points, yesterday here is how we end the day up 140 points to close at 24,00792. we are getting very close to 25,000, not that long ago that we reached 24,000 so we reached a lot of milestones capping off a great year on wall street.
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a lot has been fueled by the optimism of tax reform, the latest surge from that optimism and expected to see a bump which is propelling the markets. heather: a record number of people traveling for the holidays, we hear this every year. >> aaa saying the number of people traveling is up 3%, but in total biplane, automobile, train, 107.3 million people will be traveling from the summer 23rd through january 1st. most of those people will be traveling by vehicle, driving somewhere. heather: another indication people are feeling confident about the economy. >> strong economy, lower gas prices, fueling people driving. heather: if you're traveling to dunkin' donuts and a beer. >> not quite. dunkin' donuts teamed up with the brewery in massachusetts,
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created dd dark roasted peru, the first ever beer to be made using the dunkin' donuts chain coffee beans so you have to go to this brewery in massachusetts and beer will be served december 21st and proceeds, duncan and the brewery will be donating $11,500 to a local food bank him you can drink it for good cause. heather: appreciate it, 15 minutes until the top of the hour, sarah silverman taking swipes at the right, she says patriotism is perverted and christmas 6 days away, not done shopping for the little one in your lives, we got you covered, toys under $100 next. ♪
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heather: patriotism is perverted according to sarah silverman who is taking game at donald trump and his supporters. kelly wright in washington dc with more on this story. >> reporter: here is the buzz on sarah silverman, she loves american but said in this interview with vice as a nation we are so divided that we can't even agree on the facts of what we are fighting over. having said that silverman, the host of her own show on who, i love you america, is creating quite a stir with her comments of the current state of the nation, silverman adding in her interview, patriotism is perverted because of the
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president's childish view of america first. she went on to say we are not on the same page of what it means, to be patriotic is love your country, being a citizen, having a voice, being e pluribus unum, how perverted is it to go from we are 12 we are number one which is such a childish idea. silverman claims donald trump is partly to blame for what she calls perverted patriotism saying this. silverman also believes conservatives, and liberals in america have created two kinds of patriotism but she had they are more alike than they are different. she blames the differences between the two groups on the media. silverman opining we are just cutting our news from outlets that are telling us different types of stories. a new poll shows 65% are proud to be american but only 37%
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liberals agree. to get fewer comments to find out what you think and here's the question we are asking, when did patriotism become a partisan issue? shouldn't we all be proud to be americans? send comments by facebook, twitter or instagram and we will share some of them in the next hour. heather: i am sure people share their thoughts on that one. less then a week until christmas and if you are looking for the perfect gift for the little one in your life we have the hottest toys for 2017 come of the christmas season and here to show us what they are as editor-in-chief of the toy insider, thank you for joining us. >> a lot of fun, great toys for kids of all ages. heather: my first race car. >> we have a deep version and a ferrari version, the steering wheel is easy to use, the youngest kids ages 2 and up, simple remotes.
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heather: use this and the car drives around remotely. >> a little horn you can honk, supercute. heather: than we have laser -- >> 81 race car, kids are going to build these like legos. compatible with most -- going to build these, light them up like this. it comes with a base, led lights. heather: that is very cool, superfun and what is this? >> these are very popular, don't know how much you know about them but if you can see that, cooler and better so we love that, they come in these adorable flying packaging. heather: that is inside.
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>> cute little pet and each pet comes with a little friend, sweet scented. heather: good for adults for stress. >> officially they are not. heather: everyone is talking about this. >> we have these, we brought ray, poe, others are available, these are available for all ages, younger kids can play with them but older teams and adult love to play with them. heather: the room decor. karaoke, have you heard of joe joe's singing sensation and what this karaoke machine, from the kids, is you attach this to your tv she is known for her bows kids love to wear, attach it to the tv, lyrics will appear on your tv screen and it is
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lighting up -- >> this is bella, one of the most interactive dolls we have ever seen, very expressive, a little spoon, she has a pacifier, recognizing this. >> that is amazing, lots of fun, very interactive. drones. >> huge always. this is the angler. this is from alpha group. look how cool this is. he is really easy to control, automatic takeoff and landing with the push of a button.
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heather: okay. lots of ideas for folks if you haven't had time, take these into consideration, thank you, appreciate it, glad to have you back, time is 8 minutes until the top of the hour and donald trump junior fired up on twitter after his private testimony was leaked, more on that ahead, stay with us.
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heather: remember when jill stein was defending having dinner with vladimir putin? >> let's be clear, that was a conference in that picture didn't begin to circulate until after the election. not like it was a public relations bomb. heather: the green party presidential candidate is being investigated by the senate intelligence committee for possible collusion with russia. they both feed reports the committee has requested documents from her campaign. she has been under scrutiny since sitting with putin at a moscow dinner hosted by state-funded russian news outlet rt. house republicans are trying to plug the leak after private testimony from donald trump junior was secretly fed to the media. paul ryan and minority leader nancy pelosi claim cnn began reporting on the russia probe
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testimony as trump junior was being interviewed, as it was going on. house members want leakers removed from the investigation and disciplines, trump junior weighed in on twitter saying, quote, when leaks are happening during testimony how can americans assume other national security secrets aren't being leaks from a major intelligence committee for some free airtime later? you can see donald trump at walt disney world at least his robot. >> above all to be american is to be a nazi, to believe we can always do better, the best days are still ahead of us. heather: that is a robot, disney unveiling the latest and a medtronic addition to its hall of presidents attraction. the hall officially reopens today after an almost year-long trance formation. that is amazing what they can do. "fox and friends" first continues and i will see you back here tomorrow. >> we are coming around the corner to take the bridge, we
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went on the ground. >> is everybody okay? >> i am still figuring that out, we have cars everywhere. down onto the highway. jillian: tuesday, december 19th. deadly train derailment, three people killed and 100 others injured after a passenger train going three times the speed limit plunges onto a busy highway. we are live on scene with brand-new information. rob: the largest revamp of the us tax system in decades. who is in and who is out for the crucial vote that is happening today. >> what you can't -- thank you for coming. jillian: meet the 5-year-old boy who saved christmas from the grinch. "fox and friends" first continues right now.
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