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borrowers went more than alone repayment was cash. everybody always likes cash. "fox and friends" first continues, i will see you after christmas. have a merry christmas, goodbye. >> thursday, december 21st, breaking overnight pedestrians purposely plowed down by an suv in australia. what we know so far. >> i always say the most massive but it is the largest tax cut in history of the country, merry christmas, america. >> donald trump and republicans pass their tax reform plan just in time for christmas, live in washington with what you need to know about this major legislative win. >> millions of americans hitting the road and skies, to make the trip home a big headache, tracking what you need to know.
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"fox and friends" first continues. ♪ ♪ up on the housetop ♪ yeah yeah ♪ up on the house tap ♪ up on the house top click click click ♪ jillian: closer to christmas. take a live look outside the studio, pretty nice, reindeer lit up. rob: the warm weather gone too. jillian: you are watching "fox and friends" first on thursday morning. heather: breaking news breaking overnight. heather: jillian: a driver intentionally gunned down pedestrians with an suv in melbourne, australia. >> a deliberate act. however we do not know the motivation and in these early
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stages of the investigation. rob: we don't know if this was terrorism at this point. two men in custody this photo showing one of them being dragged out of that vehicle by police. jillian: it happened at 4:4:05 pm near the main train station used by 100,000 people every day. the victims standing there. >> a preschool age child suffered serious head injuries, witnesses say bodies went flying as they were hit, the driver running the red light going 40 miles an hour and never hit the brakes, it does sound intentional. we will keep you updated. the show goes on this morning. while you were sleeping south korea firing warning shots as another soldier defects from the north korean regime. the southern troops shooting 20
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times as northern guards looking for that defector along the border. this marks the fourth north korean soldier to escape to the south just this year. brand-new images of joint military, joint american military drills with south korea soldiers wearing night vision goggles and gas masks to capture north korea's nuclear weapons. jillian: donald from fulfilling his promise getting congress to pass the tax reform bill, the first and biggest legislative achievement, democrats are not happy. rob: griff jenkins joins us from washington, two different stories coming out of this thing and how democrats plan to retaliate. >> reporter: revenge is best served cold, that can come at midnight tomorrow night. the president says this all means jobs. >> bringing the entrepreneur back into this country, getting
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rid of all the knots and ties and ultimately was does it mean? it means jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. >> reporter: not ethical democrat voted for the tax legislation calling it corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich and the retaliation can come in the form of republican scrambling to meet a deadline to fund the government passed friday. some demanding republicans reauthorize health insurance for low-income children by invoking charles dickens's tiny tim. >> what we are doing here today is saying wealthy americans, big fat christmas present for you. tiny tim, we are taking your crutch away from you. >> like tiny tim, they find their future in danger because the greed of those with power, the cruelty that is in the heart of the tax scam. >> reporter: policy sent a letter to all democrats urging them to vote against the
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continuing resolution because they feel their voices and input are not being heard. there is a lot in this, disagreement over the reauthorization of the surveillance act, disagreement over other things. the prospect of sending government workers home for christmas without a paycheck is a daunting one but steve mnuchin says that is not going to happen. >> it is highly unlikely there is a government shutdown, the right thing to do is let short-term funding and deal with these issues in january. >> the house rules committee take this up at 8:00 am in a few hours, separating the disastrous bill, they may would to get that out of the way first, when we first saw there wasn't going to be shut down friday, it is looking like it could be a possibility. jillian: thanks.
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not a single democrat voted to reform the american tax code despite the reports showing overwhelming number of americans stand to benefit from it. rob: 80% to 90% will have more money in their pocket, kellyanne conway says democrats can trash talk the bill all they want but probably won't like what voters have to say next year. >> there is a vibrancy, you saw it on full display, the president really calling out by name the leaders in the house and senate, there were no democrats there because none of them took the opportunity to give tax cuts to job creators, middle-class families and they are going to have to go home this christmas and next year and explain why this is a tax cut for the rich, you had major companies say they will give bonuses and charitable contributions to their employees or those employees, hard-working men and women, the rich, a huge opportunity, a great deal of explaining to do, none of them
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could admit individuals and employers in their states and congressional districts would benefit from this. >> live on "fox and friends" at the top of 7:00 am. jillian: here is what it would look like for you. essential services that include defense, national safety and security would stay up nonessential department like education and the epa would close. nasa, the national institute of health and the smithsonian would shut down, so with national parks and monuments, social security, medicare and medicaid programs never shut down at the postal service would still deliver. >> andrew mccabe's testimony raising more questions than answers, congressional investigators exclusively telling fox news his 8 hour grilling conflicted with previous witnesses, mccabe saying he could not remember
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when he learned democrats funded the anti-trump russia dossier even though there are signed documents that prove he knew about it. the house intelligence committee is issuing new subpoenas on justice department and fbi personnel for next week. >> the horrific tour bus crash the left we americans did being blamed on the driver, you can see this video, mexican prosecutors say he was negligent and speeding when the bus lost control, hit a tree and flipped on its side. we have been learning new information, passengers heading to the mayan ruins, two hundred americans in the family, anna and her son killed along with his grandmother, daniel shaman. the massive power outage could cost delta airlines $50 million. the airline app ceo is
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expressing anger to the airport for taking so long and pledging reimbursement. delta estimates the 1400 flight cancellations caused 25 to $50 million in lost revenue. georgia power says we will give you more information in a second but georgia power does say there's an update on that and got it for you right here. georgia power says the 11 hour outage with an electrical fire, the newest information as far as that goes. rob: the latest twist in the virginia house race as the winner might be picked out of a bowl. we are not kidding about this. democrat shelley simmons losing her 1-vote lead against republican david yancey and that is when you know every vote counts as a 3-judge panel declared the race a tie. following a ballot in question, voter filled in the bubbles next to both candidates. this race is a tie in the state
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senate. the board of elections will likely pick a winner at random after all this. republicans will hold control of the house by one seat so it is an important race in the state of virginia. jillian: space lago ceo elon musk revealing the falcon heavy, he hopes the 230 foot rocket will take people to the moon and even mars. it is set to blast off on an unmanned mission from cape canaveral next month on the same launchpad as the saturn 5 apollo 11 moon rocket. the world's most powerful rocket, 27 merlin engines with a $90 million price tag and the boosters will try to land at cape canaveral but the real kicker, he plans to send his roadster on board to mars. rob: we will talk about -- it
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shows how critically important vidar. it has been a couple years. what does the weather look like >> we started panicking, the northern half of the country looking at teens and 20s and 30s but winter definitely here. what are the travel plans? we have a system through the rockies. a lot of snow falling in this region, a core of energy sweeping the country. as it moves that direction it will bring travel troubles. future radar, pay attention to massive snow, thunderstorms friday may cause travel concerns in the southeast. by saturday that pushes off the east coast. friday and saturday, some travel -- i don't even have a word for it. jillian: it is one of those
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days. rob: travel around christmas and a few days after. jillian: 11 minutes after the, two months and the gunmen opened fire in a texas church. one congregation is taking matters into their own hands. what they are doing to keep members safe this christmas. rob: two campaigns with two different messages. >> we are transferring power from washington dc and giving it back to you. >> between tweeting and golfing, how does he get anything done? rob: lee carter is here with the best and worst messaging of 2017. jillian: the mom who accidentally baked her elf on the shelf. rob: that is not good. good morning. ♪ ♪ i met a man who lives in
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rob: from politics and natural disasters to viral incidents it has been a year of historic moments, in good and bad ways. you to rank the worst and best messaging moments, lee carter, thanks for coming on this morning. we start with the good, put our best foot forward and talk about a very good messenger, the president and the inaugural speech. >> today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, from one party to another, we are transferring power from washington dc and giving it back to you, the people. rob: what did you make of that?
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>> this inaugural address was controversial. a lot of folks focused on the negative but the american people responded to this message of returning the government to the people. it is one that people keep coming back to no matter what controversy comes. this was one of his top moment of the year. rob: the hurricane in houston, texas, ripped those areas apart. i saw it firsthand, jj watt came through for the people of texas. >> very tough to watch our city get hit by such a bad storm and not be there to help in the recovery, the process. what i do want to do is start fundraising.
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and how to rebuild. jillian: this was extraordinary. he set a goal and not only achieve that goal but raised $35 million, this is what people love to see, unification, hit out of the park, and helped the people and earned a lot of respect. >> $35 million. absolutely fantastic. let's go to the worst. hillary clinton complaining. >> apparently my former opponent is obsessed with my speaking out. apparently there was another, somebody told me, tweet today. honestly, between tweeting and golfing, how does he get anything done? i don't understand it. maybe that is the whole point.
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jillian: hillary clinton for a while after the election came through and people felt she was really human and more likable than she was on the campaign trail and and she started campaigning and revisiting, so much criticism about this, let's just move forward and didn't help and her polling numbers came to the lowest they have been yet. rob: a very big moment that shocked a lot of people, airport police officers dragging a customer off of a united airlines flight in chicago. there is the moment. jillian: what is worst about this, the crisis response, took four times, and the crisis
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response gone wrong. cost them a lot. rob: rip them off the plane with police, that drives people crazy. thank you so much, we appreciate it. jillian: 20 minutes after the hour, republicans passing sweeping tax reform and send rosie o'donnell off the rails, cold hard cash the comedian was offering to derail the whole thing. hillary clinton refusing to let her election loss go but there is one number she is not going to want to talk about. hey, man. oh!
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by millions of dollars, the rnc took a $.2 million, a record for november in a non-election year, democrats trailing by $2.5 million taking less then $6 million, building on the october fundraising totals when the rnc raced $5 million more than the dnc. strong numbers for republicans, hillary clinton could soon ask what happened to her popularity, her approval rating at an all-time low and she is not even in office. a new gallup poll finding only 36% of adult in this country have a favorable view of the former presidential candidate down 5 points since the beginning of the summer in june. gallup says her ratings have gotten worse if she keeps trying to explain and make excuses for how she lost the election. jillian: it may never end.
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did you ever dream of running away and joining the circus as a kid? the greatest showman is in theaters and told the story of how pt barnum became the founder of the greatest show on earth. exclusively sat down with the star, how did it go? >> the father of modern show business, hugh jackman, tough gig. tell me all about the latest movie. ♪ >> the greatest showman, the greatest movie of the year. obsessed, ran to the soundtrack this morning. >> i would never have listened to this. i can listen, i love it when
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they have done. not a big musical fan. >> i think i have an idea. >> this is a passion project for several years. i do passion project. at the beginning of my career. greatest showman and original movie musical. so blessed to be able to do it. i pinch myself honestly. it resonates. for me, the scene is the song this is me, chokes me up every single time. not only is it about accepting other people but accepting your self, who i am. i am not going to spend my time trying to be somebody else.
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>> never made a difference trying to be someone else. ♪ lookout ♪ here i come ♪ >> my favorite movie of 2017 hands-down. jillian: you said that in the last break, really. >> something for the entire family, download the soundtrack of the music is infectious. i have been running to it for two weeks. jillian: thank you, appreciate it. a bombshell scandal taking a new turn. former democratic it aid linked to hezbollah. the recruiter her broke the story react. from foe to friends, alec baldwin may be changing his mind about the president, still to come. ♪ nothing in this world i can do ♪ a brother ♪ you've got to get in there, like...
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jillian: more on the fox news color, terrifying moment is a raising suv plows on pedestrians in melbourne, australia. rob: authorities calling this a deliberate act. kitty logan live with the latest. >> reporter: police saying this was an intentional act, they arrested the driver and the second man in that vehicle. 14 people were injured when that suv drove into pedestrian areas just as people were leaving work. this is an area in central melbourne, the intersection is a busy shopping area packed with christmas shoppers, many businesses around there, plenty of people coming and going, witnesses say the vehicle ran a red light driving 55 to 60 miles an hour and did not try to stop.
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pooled the two men out before police arrived with a were arrested. several of the injured have been taken, one child is said to have a serious head injury. no one knows, many similar attacks in the past in berlin, barcelona and issued a threat online to say first and biggest legislative achievement of 2017. >> we repeal obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate which was terrible. and that was a primary source of funding of obamacare.
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>> the obamacare individual mandate repeal, as republicans praise lower taxes and higher wages democrats continue to paint this as corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich. nancy pelosi sending a letter urging members to vote against the continuing resolution by the house gop that funds the government until january 19th, they are set to meet today at 8:00 eastern time, 21/2 hours from now. the president and republicans delivering on a key campaign promise with the tech support package. although the bill does minimize the hedge fund benefiting carried interest loophole requiring investors to hold their positions for 3 years instead of one before selling off the bill did not get rid of that loophole. white house economic advisor gary cohen said the white house and delivered on other measures. >> delivered four key
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initiatives. we laid out taxes, talked about middle-class tax relief, lowering business taxes, simplification, repatriation. those were the president's four key principle that he delivered all four. we talked about getting rid of many loopholes which if you look at what we achieved, getting rid of many loopholes, we didn't get rid of them all but we are excited about what we did get rid of. jillian: health care will wait until january, donald trump wants congress to get to work after the holidays by passing bipartisan legislation to fix obamacare. white house official expressed confidence republicans will overcome opposition in the house, conservatives have been fighting over two proposal to fund crucial subsidies, stabilize individual markets and help lower premiums.
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a car dealership busted as a money-laundering operation with possible hezbollah connection. the owner is the same man who was paid 7 million taxpayer dollars to provide services to democratic members of congress. helped the dealership have all the markings. >> had inventory, to buy a car, across the street. the different dealership, ukrainian connections, hezbollah dealerships, all the markings of a suspicious company. jillian: has not been charged for crimes around the dealership. rob: indiana church creating a security team keeping members safe during sunday services, 10 officers who are congregation members will carry guns, and 10
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locals, a close eye on the doors, new strategy starting next month before the texas church shooting in november where 26 people were killed during the service. jillian: donald trump giving the media a piece of his mind telling them to stay for a prayer during his cabinet meeting. >> i will ask ben carson, you can stay if you want because you need the prayer more than i do, you may be the only ones, good solid prayer and they will be honest, is that possible? jillian: everyone bow their head in prayer, carson prayed against divisiveness and thank god for america's economic prosperity. countdown to christmas with days ago, retail giants like amazon working around the clock to get you all here just in time. >> todd pyro live inside the amazon prime hub, with more on this mad rush to get this done.
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>> reporter: this place is intense. i will bring in stephanie landry. how wild is it for you guys? >> our super bowl, we are superfocused, really excited to deliver for customers and there is a lot going on. >> i am a procrastinator, amazon prime now up, one to to our delivery, some other part of the country, how do you deliver on that? >> we have a lot of options especially for prime members. amazon.com, to find out the options available to them. if you are in one of 30 cities, and 11:59 on christmas eve, literally until then. >> reporter: i have a scanner in
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my hand. pretty massive. an interesting grouping, use the word interesting 13 times. the cohost sweater mixed with garlic power. how does your system work? >> to show off the product, bought online, and don't care where it was. and algorithms in the back end running around grabbing orders and that is where efficiency occurs. we are maximizing space, and crazy from the outsiders perspective. it is really efficient. >> the crew gets here at 6:00. if you remember black friday, i got you items, didn't ask your
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opinion but got you items. this warehouse at my disposal, i will hand the like to stephanie and you will tell me what you want and i will run. >> reporter: i have no idea. rob: i want the air jordans i ordered from nike. >> reporter: air jordans for jillian. what do you want? jillian: i like to be surprised. >> reporter: see you later. >> you got me that ugly christmas -- jillian: 39 minutes after the hour. have you noticed your older iphone is running slow? we have all experienced fat. apple under fire. sweeping tax reform, rosie o'donnell as really interesting
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numbers. and you have some company, according to aaa, 107 million people the last week of 2017 making it the busiest holiday season for travel on record. if you bought a plane ticket it was a little less expensive because holiday airfare is 20% cheaper this year than last week if you plan to bring presents for your loved ones plan ahead. packages that are flagged during the screening process, tsa agents will unwrap your gifts if they don't think something is right. if you're hitting the road traffic is expected to be busy today. looking at security line things are moving along fine but lots of travelers hitting the road this morning at laguardia airport. rob: sweeping tax from past but before republicans did it rosie o'donnell went off the rails offering $2 million to two
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different people to derail this entire thing. jillian: twitter says that is illegal. carly shimkus on serious xm 115 with the reaction. >> rosie o'donnell has $4 million to burn. rosie o'donnell took her anti-trump campaign to the next level by offering two republican senators money in exchange for their no vote on the text from bill, she took the twitter saying how about this? i promise to give $2 million to senator susan collins and $2 million to senator jeff flake if they vote no, i will not kill americans or the superrich. she wants both senators to direct message her to continue that conversation. we now know that plan did not work and is illegal to try to bribe politicians to sway a vote which a lot of people picked up on that on social media.
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bill says that used to be, bribery. another twitter user says i hope criminal charges are filed against her. because she is a comedian she can say i was just kidding. >> that alec baldwin suddenly like the president? >> according to his brother i don't the baldwin brothers are coming to your log and singing christmas carols together this holiday season. stephen baldwin who is an avid trump supporters calling out brother alec and avid trump opponent over the tax reform bill telling the hollywood reporter calling it now with the amount of money alec is going to make with the new tax cut i bet he votes for trump for reelection, just saying. i think he might vote for trump for reelection to keep his gig on saturday night live. and on twitter said well said stephen, sweet taste of hashtag winning and twitter user saying he is the smartest of all the baldwin boys, referring to
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stephen, he hasn't talked to his alec since the 2016 presidential election. destroyed their relationship. rob: let's talk about mark zuckerberg. >> media watchdog named mark zuckerberg their 2017 missinformer of the year because of the misinformation and fake news on the social media site during the election into today. media matters employee matthew gertz set on twitter facebook is the most powerful force in journalism, the center of fake news infrastructure why mark zuckerberg is 2017 miss informer of the year. one twitter user says one of the reasons i deleted my facebook account. they don't have problems with
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the amount of people on facebook but they continue to have a problem with misinformation. rob: an annoying site. >> i do a lot of social media but it is contentious. rob: if you haven't been very outraged it is because carly hasn't been here. >> i must apologize. rob: still shopping for christmas? how about this? jillian: nordstrom turning heads with a t-shirt dress that will set you back $1000. brian, you always tell people to get dressed. is that appropriate? >> i have a little bit of rope around my waist, thanks. let me tell you there is not much to talk about except the government shutting down, except an analysis on the biggest tax-cut in 30 years, a major standoff, the rest of the world
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happy? rob: big red ornament on 49th and sixth. jillian: if you are heading home for the holidays you are not alone. wave is here to help. rob: tracy is here with how the popular gps apps is trying to make the trip easier. >> reporter: they have been busy crunching numbers, analyzing driving data and finds tomorrow, friday december 22nd, between 3:00 and 5:00 will be the busiest time on the road and now the latest day of travel will be christmas day. that might be the best day if you are traveling. other data to make the trip easier, 61% increase to grocery stores, avoid those areas. 130% spike in people going to
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movie theaters on christmas day so maybe stay home and stream something on netflix and new year's day not so busy after all, you don't have to rush to beat the traffic. jillian: why do i phones die so quickly? jillian: apple confirmed what we speculated for so long, your older iphone is a lot slower and this is a deliberate effort on their part to keep that lithium-ion battery going because it is older. this is what apple had to say, lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demand in cold conditions, have low battery charge or as they age over time. this isn't an effort to get you to buy the newest latest iphone. rob: they won't admit anything. are you kidding me? this is hilarious.
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kfc japan and low smell chicken. >> in japan they have come up with a way to create low smell kentucky fried chicken because people want to we did on the train but not be rude to fellow passengers so kfc figured out a way to make it so it doesn't smell. jillian: ever been to japan? >> i have not but they are very respectful, very nice there. rob: i heard it is a crazy place. the mom who accidentally baked her elf on the shelf. no kidding. ♪ st relief in every bite. st relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites. at bp, everyone on an offshore rig depends on one another. that's why entire teams train together in simulators, to know exactly what to do before they have to do it. because safety is never being satisfied.
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♪ shake it up ♪ shake up the happiness ♪ wake up the happiness ♪ come on ♪ it's christmas time. rob: some reindeer and red christmas lights fox news sixth avenue and midtown manhattan, good morning to you. we are coming up on christmas. i think it's the first day of winter, too. time for the good, the bad and the ugly. christmas just got brighter for some of our military families [applause] a nonprofit organization paying off $2,000 worth of gifts on layaway for 12 families at fort bragg in north carolina. jillian: next the ugly. white t-shirt dress $1,000. already sold out in some sizes. isn't that pitiful.
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rob: that's ridiculous. the holiday season is over for this cell phone. texas mom posting photos of elf when he decided to hide in the up. i will is jill wide we hide in the oven? rob: i don't know. but is he okay. he made it out of there. >> it's the largest tax cut in the history of our country. it's always a lot of fun when you win. [laughter] if you work hard and lose, that's not acceptable. >> when the american people start to see more in their paychecks in february, i really do believe it's going to sell itself. >> this is a fox news alert. a car crashing into a crowd of pedestrians outside the busy slender street station in melbourne. >> it is a deliberate act. >> lawyers are readying fresh subpoenas after tuesday's seven hour interrogation deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. >> clock is ticking for congress to reach an agreement to avoid a government shut down. >> it's highly unlikely that there is a government shut down. >> i guess it's very
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