>> the deputy fbi director andrew mccabe is set to retire in the coming month after he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits. president trump reacted on twitter and in one priest said this. fbi director andrew mccabe is to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go. >> these people don't think they're doing anything wrong. they think their job is to protect democrats. finally, someone is paying attention. >> breaking news coming federal judge at the seattle with a partially lifted trump administration traveled them. >> happy holidays to the soldiers and families in the

united states army throughout the world. >> an absolute privilege to be here with freedom providers. we can never take it for granted. >> let's be very clear here. die hard is great christmas movie. ♪ train to merry christmas eve to america. anna: fabulous to be here.

>> this was always planned. pete: can you turn up the volume on this? this is my favorite christmas song. this is aaron neville. ♪ >> it's great. he's got that little waiver in there. >> you can write a sin as well. we are going to hear your favorite songs as well. train two and a little bit of news. merry christmas. staying thanks for sticking with us. as i've mentioned my big news yesterday at the washington news first reported and others have subsequently reported the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe is reportedly set to retire next year. he's been on capitol hill testifying seven and half hours

of testifying reports of conflict team messaging. très decent controversy surrounding that appeared apparently made the decision to retire when he gets to get his benefits. he gets his pension and you'll be done. train for the president with reading about this because he's been very angry with the leadership of the fbi and reacting to the news reports, how can fbi deputy director, the man in charge, leaking the given $700,000 but clinton puppets boring investigation. he goes on, let me explain what that is first which is andrew mccabe as deputy director of the fbi under james comey back in 2015 and his wife is running for the state senate of virginia. half a million dollars in

campaign money to flow into her campaign ended up losing anyway. the money came in for my pac for terry mcauliffe, whose close to clinton. ed: andrew mccabe is helping oversee. >> is as mentioned to peak earlier, he waited for the benefits to kick in. that aspect of this commit andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go. we shall see what happens. pete: no one never get tired of the federal government. they would take time out to collect a pension benefits we'll pay for. the same is known as andy in the text. between peter strzok and his girlfriend lisa paid talking about an insurance policy should donald trump get elected. >> you can remember we went into his office. there's no way he's going to get

elected, but i'm afraid we can't take this risk. the other one is like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you are 40. this is in real-time during the 2016 campaign. mccabe is deputy director helping to oversee this investigation. his wife is getting money from clinton palace earlier the year before. peter strzok is the lead agent overseeing the hillary clinton interview, helping to rewrite james comey's exoneration nation before she was exonerated in a couple months before she was even interviewed. all of the senior people at ties to the clintons. >> more broadly speaking come as so many people shuffled around, moved, lost their jobs at the trent dossier investigation, so various people at either left their positions are here we are talking about a potential retirement. >> the chief counsel to be

leaving as well. not even to mention the doj come every summer, all the things there as well. some might call it draining of the fbi swamped if you will come if there was pardon affiliation dj krishan adams on the program earlier had this to say about the "politico" and doj and fbi and who they like to protect. listen. >> people need to understand these people in the fbi and doj don't think they are doing anything wrong. but the president is referring to andrew mccabe's wife running for office in virginia with a load of money from terry maccallum, the governor who was also under investigation by the fbi. that i must return that money in virginia. they can keep it. these people don't think they are doing anything wrong. they think their jobs apparently is to protect democrats. it's good to finally have a president who fights back against bureaucrat because they've been getting away from

that for a very long time. train for chuck grassley has been asking questions of andrew mccabe about reports that he used his fbi e-mail to promote his wife's campaign which could be a violation of politicking on using federal resource. >> someone like to point out the irony. >> without some folks on our program the last couple weeks who have predicted that this exact type of the shakeup was going to happen. listen to sarah carter in trey gowdy. >> this is a big investigation. they have been running polygraphs on people within the fbi, looking bleaker developer information will come out. there's going to be a shakeout. >> were supposed to interview andrew mccabe yesterday. all setup and ready ready to go in at the last minute he can't come tuesday. he's going to come next week.

i'll be shocked if he comes next week. i'll be a little bit surprised to be still an employee of the fbi this time next week. trying to imagine james baker, of the fbi being reassigned. somebody accused of leaking the dossier to a reporter early jan, unverified information about a candidate donald trump. trey gowdy is talking about andrew mccabe's closed-door testimony with various committees and whatnot. interesting because we learned last week into mccabe said behind closed doors among other things that he couldn't recall the details of when he learned about the dossier and whether or not the fbi helped pay for that dossier. these are big questions become a federal tax dollars to help collect mr. ben donald trump is a boomerang in. >> the timeline to the fisa court is actually spying on the trent campaigned in the run-up

to the election. pete: you couldn't recall dozens and dozens of times which he was investigated by the f. b. i. but not under oath. >> secretary hillary clinton are crooked, whatever the president uses. in this particular case she was not under oath. it is the mo of someone who might know something that they can't give up to say i do not recall. a lot of concerns behind the scenes testimony and where that could lead to. >> turning out now to the headlines. the department of homeland security now following a shooting spree against pennsylvania officers a terror attack could a confirmed chain migration let the suspects into the country. i commend almonte who arrived two and a family pizza was shot dead by police after injuring a state trooper in a gunfight on friday pretty sammy telling abc news he was a chicken but not a

terrorist. earlier this month another man who came in for chain migration tried to set up a bond in a new york city subway. a federal judge partially lifting present trends refugee band to open the door for spouses and children already in the country. the judge says it restores the refugee program to where it was in october, requiring extreme fighting of refugees for 11 predominately muslim countries. anatomy claiming victory in the arms forces. a west point cadet. [cheers and applause] and is intercepted. chipping the puck to his teammate, the army eventually scoring the game-winning touchdown and two-point conversion beating san diego state 42-35. pete: when the armed forces. not too bad. good morning.

ed: i feel like you have a little biased. some of our christmas pics from when we were kids growing up. their idea. i think in superman. >> that's a good look fair. ed: this batman. i knew batman was coming because my mom found these pictures yesterday. the plastic on the couch. there is molly. >> my little brother john, looking adorable as he always did. he was a good kid i've been told, the sweet child. we are pulling it off. tree into big smile, love it. 1981 and about one and a half. a couple years ago my boys, that is gunner on the left. that is me in afghanistan in kabul. i've got my wake on the front of

the santa hat. that is us at the afghanistan behind me. another photo from iraq a share from 2005. that's also me with a snowball at a place that shall remain nameless after the photo. >> where he guided, yeah. he went down. a lot of military members here. if you have pictures of when you were deployed in a combat zone are also in the military, we would like to share them all morning long. >> friends,@fox news.com. pete: even better. we'll share them throughout the morning. ed: we are excited. stick with us. pete: first he turned california into a sanctuary state. governor brown as a christmas present for president trump. hardening immigrants were

convicted felons. pete: they voted no on taxes that they pay the price. 10 senate democrats who may not survive 2018. next. ♪ ...so he got quickbooks. it organizes all his accounts, so he can see his bottom line. ahhh...that's a profit. know where you stand instantly. visit quickbooks-dot-com.

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i used to maybe give a little. then i got so much back. ... i used to have cancer. please give at cancer.org. ed: every single democrat voted against president trump's tax cuts in the house and senate, so will they pay price in the senate we've got 10 democrats heading into the 2018 midterms. how would the president make them pay up? talk show host tony katrin indiana on your show a lot. let's go through this bit of vulnerable senate democrats were vulnerable before this vote. here are the 10 states like indiana joe donnelly. walk us through some of these, who you think will be really facing it. >> is not who i think guys who

are. claire mccaskill in 2012 doesn't get canceled the person she's running against page it is not at issue. she's going to go up against a guy named josh holly. as long as the other republicans clear out of the field, the attorney general who made the promise that he wasn't going to run for higher office and just find his way. now he's doing it. the guy to be. >> her home state of indiana. >> had come again there are no moderate democrats because none of them voted for the tax man. talking about how it might be helpful. but he's not moderate. he thinks obamacare can be fixed and subsidies to answer. luke messer at todd rokita in that race and they are going to pummel him. they will be the most ugly race and all of america. >> joe manchin, west virginia. he's the most likely person to vote for the tax cut. didn't do it. >> i don't think he's an issue.

the conventional wisdom on joe manchin is wrong. he may be a democrat in the state and may have a governor from democrats or republicans, but the name is off the chain. >> he's going to survive just fine. >> the president had high hopes of north dakota, and they think it's highly personal for president trump. prater on the stage, the good women comment and now she didn't go for it and voting for this tax code. i think it is going to be personal with president trump and you will see him in north dakota a lot, like to see him in ohio law. ed: no doubt about it. sherrod brown in ohio. on election night democrats were stunned that donald trump one and if they donald trump wants to prove it's not a fluke beauty goes back repeatedly. josh mandel lost in 2012 to sharad around. talking about a guy who's on the

left. >> from beginning to end peer president trump will want to be a lot of say to those people and the guy who kept talking about you, never forgot about you. >> a lot of these democrats, brown is not a moderate democrat, but donnelly, why can't you go for something largely going to the middle class will help businesses. what is the excuse? >> the answer is 40-33. the alabama special senate race from a 40% of the people voted strongly opposed to president trump. 33% voted strongly in favor. what does that mean? he is the motivator of this made terms and joe donnelly has to ask himself where are the voters? are they in their strong antitrust place? >> 2018 and beyond could be more supreme court nominations after 2018 who controls the senate is a major dealing.

>> democrats have not done a good job of looking to forward if anything. check should would've gone so strong against a guy like neil gorsuch. >> w. a b. c-20 94. ed: top secret government information. now he wants to protect your data with more spying? the family of an elite navy seal , giving to the families of other heroes. what a remarkable legacy. ♪

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molly: put headlines. robert miller telling hundreds of links at norway there's a were coming. according to military.com, he's predicting russia or the pacific to be the focus of any upcoming conflict. visit north korea told the u.n. sanctions an active war threatening to punish those who support it. first you heard california into a sanctuary state coming out jerry brown has a christmas present for president trump protein 132 people including a pair of illegal immigrants. both men from cambodia convicted felons here in the u.s. good one for stealing a car and the other on a weapons charge. >> welcome back to "fox and friends" paid a powerful story in this christmas season. gold star parents honoring the memory of their elite navy seal

assigned. her father was killed in 2011 when his helicopter was shot down in afghanistan. he just celebrated his 30th birthday left behind two young children. now his life and legacy are the inspiration behind operation 300, nonprofit organization that has adventure camps and provides mentorship for children who lost their fathers as a result of military service. a great cause in the season of giving. aaron's parents carry's parents caring and believe i've join us now to tell us all about it. did you not vote for being here today. obviously for your son service and sacrifice. if you would come to remind who he was. >> it was a member field to six, but most importantly a son, brother, father and husband and when he left this earth, have radically shifted a lot of lives and there was a lot of damage control to be done and we realized that we realized up with something that's happened a lot in the last 16 years of war and terror. trade to ultimately come to his

children, how are they going to grow up learning the things he would've instilled in them. not just his kids, but the kids of so many. >> era's wife would express that concern, who would teach them things that god would've taught them. he gave tara, oldest daughter, terry the inspiration to come up with something. you know, we have over 7000 men and women who've lost their lives in the last few years in this war on terror and they've left behind a lot of kids and family members enhance operation 300. trade to operation 300 lives on as part of their legacy. tell us what adventure camps are. >> the kids come in on a friday and they stay through sunday and they do things that kids, boys and girls would've done with her dad. they failed, fish, sheriff's department comes out in the

shooting. we have 20 twos built on the same frame as the a or 15, so they are shooting guns just like their dad did. where the competition with that, archery, or spreading. pete: the moms come in, they do pull out her stuff with other members of the military who volunteer their time to be with them and the mothers are able to go for a weekend. >> we literally pamper them and put them in this hotel at west palm beach and they get to spend a week and at the beach, but most importantly they bond with other women in the same circumstances. i can't come in the kids are having miraculous bonding experiences being around other kids at the same sort of lasix. in law think i shifted into a culture they've been apart of. trade your christmas looking for inspiration. how can folks help operation 300? >> first-come about our website, operation 300.com.

everything we do is done by donation and donors and volunteers that the kids come from all over the country. pete: full disclosure, i've known them through years. they speak passionately and powerfully about their son until he was, but ultimately they are about giving back to this country and others who have lost sons or daughters. if you are looking for an investment in this year, it's a perfect place to put it. operation 300.com. boots on the ground, real values kind of thing for the kids who have given the most and have an opportunity to be affected by continuing the legacy of their fathers. billy and karin von, thank you, both. merry christmas. an awesome organization. still ahead from us and that isn't the only one with a naughty or nice list. we will tell you who is getting the president did -- was getting a president and who is getting a

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♪ too weird to say about his grandma got run over by a reindeer? it kind of obvious. molly: above the christmas songs today it was that one? >> i'd pay good beef, michael in las vegas. >> has the offending, not starting right now. molly: he's having a great time out there right now. trade your friends@fox news.com. transfer may be some friends piled up under the trees. molly: just put them out there early them out there early and they can look at that. pete: area below calling to my grandmas street to peek into the

kids. i feel bad about it. train for a document giving the gift of experiences rather than material goods around the holidays, christmas and so there was a study done about gift giving them 40% of shoppers plan to give gift cards event tickets, other intangible gifts. i like to do that, especially with my son. he loves the nba. going to a real cool game, not when it's obvious in washington where we live. go to another city. you're giving away the secret. that kind of thing is something he couldn't figure out. you can write down you just go disco and all of a sudden you run into people, the game goes into overtime. you just don't plan for it. spontaneous. pete: it's great spontaneous. true to its grave. with young kids come you can see

so many toys. we don't need this comments bunch of trinkets broken in two weeks and sometimes you give all these kids then they are still crying. they wanted something and you didn't get it in there like you are ungrateful. >> era.dad, okay, got it. four years ago you got one wooden train and that's what she got christmas. you're lucky you got 15 our friend. let's get back to the true meaning of that. molly: they open it going on a trip then that's not to build up, too. turning now to your headlines. shots fired at a mall.

shoppers running for the exits as officers in florida clear the mall in miami. after hours of shooting there were unable to fight any evidence. police figure out what exactly struck panic. the mall will reopen the scoring for shoppers. top executives calling it quits after degrading e-mails about former contestants remain public a few days back. the majority of the e-mails written by the ceo now gone. the 23rd teen winner was among those who criticized in the e-mail with dozens of former miss america signing petitions, asking the leadership go. funeral services held for firefighter named corey iversen. the 32-year-old died of smoke inhalation and burns battling the thomas wildfire we've been talking so much about in california. he leaves behind a 2-year-old

daughter, ev and a pregnant wife as well. >> my husband left this earth not just a hero, but in my eyes he left us a superhero. today i will add one more vow to you, my love. head out to you to make you proud. firefighters still battling which have now become the largest in california history. >> god bless, corey iversen. pete: will toss it over now to rick. reporter: a little bit further over here. wind chill of baker lake, canada. minus 61. four years ago come you don't know this. i came to see the northern lights and it minus 63 windchill. >> is kind of be like negative 100. up in the air, probably minus 90, something like that.

we don't talk about that as much as we should. so that cold air is up there. it's going to be fighting here at the northern part of the country the next couple days behind this one system that came through his site yesterday. the tail end of the cold front across georgia, the panhandle of florida as well. snow this morning moving in across parts of the great lakes and that is going to be the story that moves send off a short today across parts of new england. get ready for white christmas anywhere anywhere you see that stored. >> about 20,000 people live. >> how do you deal with minus 46. >> opus of pictures up and show you. about 10 seconds at a time. train for a thank you, rick. molly. pete: politics at the dinner table.

the holidays not always easy. a doctor in the house here to help you and your family stay safe and hope in this christmas. dr. marc siegel, thank you for coming in. i'm so delighted. i'm always delighted to hang out with you. these topics we are going to talk about are really something everybody can relate to. you want to see your families at christmas, but sometimes it can be nerve-racking. >> bali, eight out of 10 people are under stress at this period of time. social media expectations, and a beautiful christmas tree still decorated you can't wait to get together with people you haven't seen in a long time. huge political battles going on. liberals hating conservatives. conservatives firing back. molly: where's the love? >> here's my first first prescription drug book first prescription drug book for which you love to begin with. stop the political fighting. find someone you like in your

family. talk about something else. try to find a point of agreement. molly: the point of agreement. can you give that less than two numbers in congress? >> democrats and republicans both wish this recovery. i don't think it's necessarily the way it's always betrayed. >> what about indulging in the holidays? i'm looking forward to the food may disturb and he makes. >> first of all, do your exercise usually do before and after, do before and after. don't say i'm going to eat now. putting it on hold. drink a lot of water. keep the amount of alcohol you have down. something i want everyone to be aware of. be aware of people with ties. there's a huge flu season reaching. >> i don't break the tie.

you're not like sara sanders who makes all of her pies, by the way. there's a lot of viruses. flu viruses. right now the flu season is raging in the south of southwest if you haven't had your flu shot, you can still get it and it's easily transmitted at these family gatherings. one of her worst seasons on record. watch out for that. molly: they are just more likely to pop up during the holiday? pete: of some of it is stress-related. more heart attacks pop up right now. people are shoveling snow who haven't picked up a shovel and two years. have her child do it. handle up -- handoff to your kid. don't do things physically are not used to doing. when you're out on the road, look out for the other guy. even if you are well rested, the other guy may be weaving lanes.

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motion, sound, vibration and light for personal security reasons. that's annoying, to pick a presidential challenge coin going under a truck makeover. taking a hands-on role to redesign the very golden italian for president handout as mementos. among the changes the u.s. amounted e pluribus unum replaced by make america great again and 13 as representing the 13 states are gone. the eagles face is not pointed left. points. pete: is christmas closing in, who made the nice list next year in who's getting a lump of coal in their stockings. trade for invasive santa, the managing editor here with her fix. much, much different than santana in every way. very happy, very jolly. who tops your list of who is

naughty? >> the nfl takes the cake for 2017. they refuse to stand for anything and now everyone hates them. it they alienated their fans and they showed that they really have no spine when it comes to a bunch of players trying to run the show. >> you also mentioned hollywood. >> so pretty on the outside. of course they say they stand for women's rights in with harvey weinstein and everyone else has proven they are nothing but rotten on the end tag. i'm going to deliver them a beautifully wrapped fake president fall of coal. they want to put journalistic integrity in lieu of attacking the president. pete: they have managed to discredit themselves. transfer is going to get that nice list, but i feel like pete wants to weigh in.

pete: no, she's such a doll. >> definitely choosing his 37 million daddy brought to to the hurricane harpy relief and all of the americans who came by boat to prop who came together in the year that was so divisive to prove americans can still help other americans. >> within the tribe cabinet, the u.n. ambassador is somebody seen as a rising star right now. >> absolutely. she spends all of her time dealing with those who don't like what we're doing. she's strong, tough, articulate and absolutely represents america of the best way possible and she deserves a big present this christmas. molly: at the top of our nice list of the military. >> absolutely. they protect us every single day and that is something that should always be in the nice list. pete: we are offering them the sportiness on "fox and friends" as they always do.

thank you very much. vicky hailey had to be had to beat you up there with so many people on the naughty list at the u.n. still had this morning, mike huckabee coming dan bongino and sarah carter all leverage here. was home alone two, lost in new york at christmas classic for years and now you can do it just like kevin. >> mr. mccarthy, your very own cheese pizza. pete: resent our very own kevin to new york. we've got the highlights next. these >> these tada!

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>> home on two, lost in new york has been a christmas classic for 25 years. pete: now for the anniversary, the plaza hotel offers the kevin mcallister asked periods. >> and offers the key. we center very own kevin mccarthy to see what it's all about. looking good is always on this christmas eve. tell us about this. >> good morning to you. this was an amazing experience. i went to the plaza hotel, were home alone two loss to new york was filmed and this is the video i had to prove it. watch this. >> families in florida. i'm in new york. >> kevin! >> i'm here at the plaza hotel. i'm not kevin mcallister, but i'm cabin maccarthy, close enough. it was still right here at the plaza hotel.

i'm wearing a ridiculous suit. people are staring at me, so i'm going to get out of here. >> , and help you? >> if a reservation for maccarthy. >> we don't have a maccarthy. we do have a mcallister. >> outworked as well. i'll take that. >> welcome to the plaza. >> thanks for having me. >> this is insane. a $40,000 a night suite. this is where they actually filmed home alone two, lost to new york. >> this is one of our finest meats commissary. >> while, just for me. >> here's the cool thing. they are offering homeland to austin or experience for $8.95 a night in a period of backpack and all the drawings on it in the paint can.

a map of what kevin did throughout his adventures in home alone two and also a newspaper here. but listen, i'm wondering where my ice cream is. >> two scoops, sarah? >> to? make it three. i'm not pregnant. >> mr. mcallister. >> mr. mccarthy come your very own cheese pizza. >> this level comes with the package in the plaza and it takes you around to a lot of locations but that takes place. excuse me, i'm looking for someone it's either 25 years ago, last name trump. >> excuse me, where's the lobby?

be that down the hall and sarah left. >> isn't down here and -- been around here in a very long time. >> 25 years since the release. a huge experience out here in the basement of the plaza hotel. over here in the photo booth and re-create the famous scenes in the film. all i have to say now is -- molly: guy was great. >> i have to say it's kelly the producer and that was really great to work with. it's one of my favorite films of all time. the greatest city on earth good on the back at 9:20 this morning. ed: did you ever find that trump guy? >> i haven't appeared on the back of there today. if you're watching him on the chew at the plaza.

>> kevin mcallister. ed: all right, more "fox and friends" coming not.

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>> deputy fbi director in the mccabe set to retire the coming months. president trump reacting on twitter and 135 days. and her mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go. >> these people don't think they are doing anything wrong. they think their job is to protect democrats. finally, someone is in attention. >> the department of homeland security now calling a shooting spree against the pennsylvania officers a terror attack is a confirmed chain migration. but the suspect. >> happy holidays to all the soldiers and families in the united states army throughout the world. >> great to be here with you and all the great soldiers.

>> $640 million. >> let's be very clear. diehard is a great christmas movie. >> thanks to the teamwork in the west point cadets. these ♪ >> advance south carolina. -- anthony from south carolina. pete: authority heard great favorites. pete: now is the time to play it. e-mail friends outside fox news.com. have you got all your christmas shopping done?

>> i'm pretty close. i've got five more minutes. we've got a little time. we want pictures. pete's favorite song, make america great again. >> make christmas great again. we've heard he got pouring in. thanks to their new -- the good that peanut under the tree. molly: joanne pictures of her son cody with the massive christmas tree. shawn sent this one. he said here's our soldier deployed in the middle east. we love and miss you, gabe. we've been asking you to send pictures of soldiers deployed on this christmas holiday or any other holiday. we are certainly remember the troops today that are not here as we enjoy a cozy and comfy christmas eve. >> the president was busy in

florida to reading about a shakeup at the fbi. the president saying among other things, how could fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, the man in charge along with james comey of the funny how a clinton including 33 dozen illegally deleted e-mails be given $700,000 by clicking puppets during investigations. he's referring to any mccabe has been powerful back to the comey days at the fbi come is still there is number two. he oversaw the hillary clinton investigation on his wife is running for office in virginia over half a billion dollars in campaign contributions. obviously very, very close to the clintons. how can you oversee an investigation. >> a lot of time on capitol hill this week before various committees. we will see where that ultimately leads. not happy with what he had to say behind the closed door.

>> number two would be acting director. he is now the number two as well. the one referred to as andy talking about an insurance policy should he get elected. bluford conflict the message is coming out and some were predicting he might not make it for the week. >> he wants to wait it out until the spring if the tension gets all the benefits. >> the president tweeting mass. fbi director andrew mccabe racing the clock with 90 days to go. if he does retire. pete: wants to make sure he walks away with the pension you paid for. if he was involved as some suspect he may be in substantial

politicization atop the fbi, you should be able to walk away. a lot more questions to be asked. >> this is about the president pressuring the fbi's leadership, trying to push them aside because he's worried about what they may have on hand. adam schiff is frankly on tv beating up on the president more than a train behind closed doors working on big issues. the fbi would set a dangerous precedent if it forced a dedicated career public servants in capitulation to trumpet white house pressure. the president has removed one top fbi later over russia. mccabe would be another. >> coming down hard on republicans as well talking about this idea about pressuring washington and political ramifications. >> talking about the failing "new york times," nowhere in the print edition. you have to go online for adam goldman, this so-called journalist reads like a

left-wing miss is, but every miss coming he talks about highly intelligent andrew mccabe is, how he's beyond reproach and it's got respect for standing up against trying. i'm sure this guy is in a lot of good things, but ultimately we've got other names that were the fbi shakeup is coming from. he was part of god in places like "the new york times" treating it for what it could be. >> democrats are trying to say it's about politics. james comey fired by the president. andrew mccabe retiring james baker reassigning peter strzok who after the text messages reassign human resources department that is a little odd. number two, james baker of the general counsel accused of leaking details from the dirty dossier of the president that was then that was than what the nice for these investigations. here's why it matters. the fbi is supposed to be

nonpolitical. it is supposed to be fighting crime, making sure we are safe. by the way, there are hundreds, thousands of fbi agents who are working on counterterror as we speak. not just around christmas and new year's in new york city. all around the country, all around the world, dedicated public servants. this is about the leaders from james comey come intra- mccabe and others who clearly were involved in partisan politics. intra- mccabe in addition to his wife in this race, he was using allegedly as fbi official e-mail account to promote her campaign. you obviously cannot do that. these are the people investigating. molly: talking about the reshuffling of james baker. this is the general counsel is the general counsel read a novel these investigations. this is really a significant person at the fbi, someone brought in by james comey. trade you this is done. andrew weissman who went to the

hillary click that tory party. still the number two special counsel. the so-called investigation. you talked about andrew mccabe as well put him in a campaign t-shirt. his wife is running. i understand that it but the idea of where the money is coming from but he supposed to be investigating the clintons. it just doesn't look good. we have to remember how many there are in the fbi. a lot of americans feel like we're finally draining the swamp. not the bottom, but at the top so officials during the great work dude in in a way that's totally nonpartisan. they are retiring because the truth is likely coming out. >> they retiring because they are getting pushed out. or they getting out because they know a lot more is coming. >> turn out of your headlines for the department of homeland

security because pennsylvania officers a terror attack. a chain migration, let the suspect into the country. the egyptian national ox meant hamas he arrived here at a was shot dead by police after injuring a state trooper in a gunfight friday. his family joined abc news he was a chicken, but not a terrorist. earlier this month another man who came into the u.s. through chain migration tried to set up a bomb in the new york city subway. a federal judge refugee band, the decision up to the door for spouses and children of immigrants are in the country. the judge says that restores the refugee program to where it was before the president did not cover requiring extreme vetting of refugees from 11 predominately muslim countries. the marine's top general not telling hundreds of millions in norway there's a war coming. according to military.com, his predicting russia to be the

focus of any upcoming conflicts. this is north korea, calls it an act of war. the wrote nation to punish those who supported. tiger is getting into the christmas spirit as they prepare for the peach bowl against central florida. take a listen. the molly: come on, that is really not bad. the football team belted not silent night in assisting the coach with the popular temptations version of the iconic song. they actually sound pretty good. trade today hit the high note really well. some of them can really sing there. pete: spot if i just came out at the most strange holiday songs

are all you want for christmas is u.s. at the top of the list. ♪ ♪ molly: it's about christmas cookies. ed: away tradition all. here's my favorite. ♪ , let us adore him be >> come let us adore him the

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pete: it plays in department stores everywhere. trade for what is your favorite? fred@fox news.com. we have two hours and 47 minutes left. you've got the longest play. trade to president trump to live in that big cut for christmas. we will ask the former press secretary to the vice president mike pence next. molly: up us, this one from our viewer michelle. use your smartphone to get the perfect picture. coming out. the ♪

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>> is deceived and for spending time with family. that is cool. probably not taken with a smartphone. you will use it to take those perfect pictures. >> let's ask for that tips to get the pictures we can show on television. good morning and merry christmas. this is the time you're hanging out at home taking a holiday pictures. you take them around a the tree, dinnertable, breakfast. it is the time and the number one tip for photos i have regardless of a smartphone you

are using is simply tap the screen to get focus. we were just talking. pete was here earlier the last couple weeks ago and nobody was in focus because i didn't bother until the very last one where it took my time to tap it. it's an amazing, simple, it anything. >> your christmas tree lights and some are dark. >> some people think some bright shiny object in the intifada then take a picture. in our business because they're too hot hot or the light is too bright. so it drowns us out. make sure that the light is way up there is not behind you. >> don't have your flash on if you don't need it. >> if you can do natural light, today's smartphones come in their upright for taking pictures about flash. >> yesterday you told us the one weather out than i did that it

was going to rain. and it rained. what about the camera app? >> they are great. it'll take you way for the moment. the snapchat is about snapping a moment. this one is called color pop into 3-d cad and you could download this and you can take what would be a normal picture and turn it into a work of art is simply making it a black-and-white, putting the pop of color and went area of the shot becomes an artistic expression of your holiday. >> we were talking about lighting. >> leave them off. if you commit the flash off, turn it off. the ideal thing is to find natural light that works the best for you. photos without a flash always, always look better. >> you can put lenses on phones. even an older phone you might want to get to allow you to wide angle or zoom in.

they really have outstanding lenses. the number one storage that i would do is google photos. they are nailing it. when it comes to google photos, organizers better than any app. >> there's also nothing worse than when you go for the great photo at the storage bowl. >> it is enough for you just go to the website. it is free. pete: merry christmas. great stuff. president trump delivering a big beautiful tax cut for christmas. former press secretary for vice president pence. next. >> christmas has gone to the dogs? get into the holiday spirit with some awesome photos. sinister dog christmas photos. molly: can't get enough. the ♪

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molly: sundays by the numbers paid 126 million people at the store saturday before christmas. next, 97 million is how many americans are hitting the road traveling to their holiday destination. finally number one, amazon's bestseller list this christmas. pete: president trump finishing up the earth his first major legislative victory signing a start tax cuts for americans. >> the bottom line is this is the biggest tax cut reform in the history of our country. i do believe we are going to have a lot of bipartisan work

done in either we start with infrastructure because they really believe infrastructure can be bipartisan. ed: the man who might know, vice president mike pence joins us now to weigh in. merry christmas to you. >> good morning, merry christmas. we heard all about infrastructure. chuck schumer a year or so ago during the presidential transition after the campaign talked a good game about these new yorkers who are going to work together. he and the president-elect back then, now president of the united states on infrastructure and this is in the new york and a lot of other states needed yet we've heard very little about it. >> let's hope he referred a lot of talk about bipartisanship but we haven't seen much under president trump. the democrats are all about process. this is the opportunity as well as as well as immigration and we'll see if can get it done. two big priorities coming up early next year.

>> one of the reasons they are willing to work is because they're always willing to spend our tax dollars. how would she be able to ensure the infrastructure is laser focused and it includes the wall, which a lot of trunk supporters believe needs to be a part of it. >> the wall will be more on the immigration side when it comes to infrastructure, we need to get the money to the state and local units of government. the military needs. i've worked almost my entire career and if you got any governor or mayor, they can tell you what the needs are in their states. we need to make sure the federal government does align to partner with them come these innovative strategies for them originally from and where i am right now. these are the options we have and the president will get it done. >> one-way democrats may come around is not just bipartisan outreach, the political fear. we did a segment about ken democrat in states that president carried in some of them carried big time whether

indiana or west virginia, is there going to be a political price for senate democrats to talk to good deed with infrastructure. i'm in favor tax cuts. let me see it and they all voted no. >> absolutely a price to pay. senator joe donnelly in indiana or claire mccaskill, you have to explain to the american people when they're looking at bigger paychecks, more money in their pocket, while you stood against this president, why he did not come alongside and work with president trump and take money away from them as opposed to the president is putting more money in their pocket. not a good place to be in. pete: is there just as much if not more political on the right side. if you said you want to resist this president. we want to impeach him if he were prepared on infrastructure bill, you are complicit. your neighbor and his accent and it got potentially a primary challenge. even more pressure to resist

this? >> well, in states you highlighted earlier, the key is not to necessarily be standing away from the president. your best chance of getting reelected is standing alongside the president. even a democrat, working with the president in areas like tax cuts come immigration, infrastructure, that's your opportunity to say you could represent the best interest of your stay. at the end of the day, people are voting democrat, republican. they are voting what is best for their hometowns, families, pocketbook. he is lined up so that the best interest of the american people in so far always got from democrats is the list. trade do outside this want there may be spending the holidays with family and friends. we wish you a merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you guys, too. pete: coming up, major shakeup at the fbi. andrew mccabe who is and he reportedly retired after being grilled on the hill.

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harvested a charlie brown tree. aptly named. very sweet. >> this is a favorite of one governor mike huckabee, who looks like he is a boy there. a little tiny tree. little, little mike huckabee. he's got the tide. good morning and merry christmas. >> yeah, tried to find some photos utterly humiliating. >> you are smart. you've got one from afar. he didn't get any photos that were too embarrassing. we want to talk to you. >> there you go. these kind of turned in. we know you love music. is that one of your favorite things? >> it is. back when i thought i was going

to be the fifth beatle. they never called and i was sitting at the top most of my childhood waiting on a phone call. pete: we are sad about that but that was fox news game. when we have a story like this, you've got democrats in a mess as the president scared about what the fbi has on him. trying to force people out and a lot of people do mainstream media not to get into the details which is an andrew mccabe's wife got over half a million dollars in campaign contributions for people close to the clintons will governor he was overseeing the quote, unquote investigation of e-mails. >> and it gets worse papers or also in the justice department, his wife is working for fusion gps, financed by the dnc and hillary clinton campaigned for they heard christopher still to come up with the phony dossier that may have been in fact the basis for the entire russia

investigation. if so, the investigation was based on an absolutely phony concocted piece of information. this is just a horrible situation. add to that, peter strzok, lisa page inside the fbi texting 10,000 text messages to each other, making me wonder, what were they doing for work because it sounds like they were just texting each other on our time. the whole thing, let me just quickly say this is not about the politics of who they are for or against. is there a double standard at the justice department for if you have a certain political leaning, you get away with things. if you don't, you end up like mike flynn in u.k. charged did if that's the case, it's not just rotten in denmark. something is rotten in d.c. it has to be cleaned out, fixed in totally purged. traders that is the case and a lot of people now call him

andrew mccabe because he was referred to during god has peter strzok and lisa page professor look further into this, he wants to just retire with tension benefits in 90 days, but how should folks be held accountable should we find that there is a true douglas entered? >> this would seemingly be an early retirement perhaps. >> well, you shouldn't hold people in the enforcement branch to a lesser standard or they ought to be held to a higher standard. after all, someone has the power to investigate and prosecute me, that they do things that are in fact prosecutable, shouldn't they be held to these the same standard if not perhaps a higher standard? of course they should. most regardless of their political views would agree to that. i don't care democrat or republican and they use their official office as a means to punish their political enemies,

they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. that's what it comes down to. i assisted in totally is based on a blind justice system that does not care what a person's personal views aren't. it's either right or wrong. >> democrats have been trying to say you and the president and others are rushing the fbi, bashing the field agent trained to prevent a terror attack. >> that is totally untrue. in fact, the rank-and-file field agents need to make sure leadership at the top of their organization is held accountable. otherwise, we do need the work they do. look, 99% of the people, fbi, rank-and-file of the men and women of integrity and honor who do their jobs without trying to put their thumb on the scales. but when they are led by people who were playing political games with the entire agency and the constitution come you cannot let that go by.

pete: you are a great friend of the show and someone asked u.s. or rapid by 17, what does governor mike huckabee nodded messes for 2017? some of the folks who've been talking about on your naughty list. >> mine would include andrew mccabe, for ohr, peter strzok, chuck and nancy. better than the old road runner cartoons. those are the folks on the nautilus. on my nice list, my two dogs who makes me laugh every day, my wife, family, six grandkids and of course president trump and i will even give the republicans in congress a little bit of a kudo for finally getting their promises delivered. i think that's a wonderful christmas gift to america and most, almost every american family will start seeing a better paycheck regardless of where they are in the income scale and that is really welcome christmas news. pete: i like the family at the

top of the list, just above the dogs. >> hang on, i'm not going to let this go. sorry to raise this as a negative topic, but i've got to do it. very serious allegations about something else rot in washington. does your daughter baker on pious? i want a yes or no answers there. that's what i want. >> yes, the answer is yes. i can tell you i've tasted them. let me tell you, she better be making some at christmas. or things will get really nasty. >> sara sanders, you are on notice. take those pies. >> merry christmas to you and our headlines now. now turning to radicalize inmates and prison. showing other prisoners videos of osama bin laden and teaching them to make bombs. the injured 30 people last year

after planting a pressure cooker bomb. he is facing life in prison when he is sentenced next month. he turned himself in for it or go merger within four years later. eugene delonghi admitting to this kind on its own after walking into an n.y.p.d. station and confessing to the stabbing of a homeless man in a bronx park. he had up on police records now charged with murder. senator rand paul getting made to the spirit. >> the tradition of festivus begins at the airing of grievances. i've got a lot of problems with the people. now you're going to hear about it. molly: i want to wish donald trump a happy festive festivus. we told them to take the day off. on the same subject.

a major airing of grievances with my friend, senator harry reid. we argued about taxes, worked on repatriation together. how is it that you never told me about the aliens. >> the ufo investigation. deep stuff. christmas can't come soon enough. living loving under stress in the pictures on instagram. some of these dogs are dressed like reindeer and this one looks like he was helping santa out in the workshop. this one just wanted to go for a sleigh ride. if you dress your dog yet, please e-mail us the pictures, friends at ein fox news.com. great baby photos. >> how do you make toys? >> you don't have dogs, p.

as so many pictures of my dogs in christmas attire. take a look at the weather map what's going on this morning. everybody get ready for some cold air. temperatures across the northern rockies but the actual air temperature with a little bit of wind. feels like minus 19. this will be with us this coming week by getting even colder. today, across the mid-atlantic towards the northeast. the next snowstorm coming in into tomorrow with coastal areas likely just rained down across the south. the storm moves on through with a few snow theories. guys, back to you. >> we will be talking to the

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pete: well, big story. the president taken in the near trends, fighting after they reported the president behind closed doors at the very negative things to say in the context of the immigration debate. one quote from anonymous sources is bad 15,000 people to america this year in the president grumbled they all have a according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was asked about it by a different person there. the convoluted sourcing. >> unnamed sources once again. once they never went back to africa. the two officials once again

unnamed who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation the office. pete: anonymous sources largely secondhand. only a few. not very disciplined bursting. the white house pushing back so hard, calling it fake news bit later on in the article in "the new york times," officials from multiple officials up to 10 strenuously insisting mr. trump never used the word to describe people from other countries are several participants told the times reporters that they did not recall the president using those words and did not think he had come up at the two officials who described the comments related them to others at the time. >> trying to say they heard it, sounds like secondhand that someone in the room told other people after the meeting. talking to those people anonymously if they know deduced the president said that, even though the white house produced kenyan officials and others on the record. molly: understandably the white

house is pushing back strongly. sarah sanders naming names here, general kelly, general mcmaster, secretary tillerson, all of their senior staff actually in the meeting denied these outrageous claims in this post that intel engineer times with print the lies that their anonymous sources anyway. >> here's the take away. we don't know who said what to whom and when, but the take away is the point of "the new york times" and the reason the president called them feeling as they want to paint the president as a racist. "the new york times" on christmas eve, the point is to say reshaping immigration does it because he's a racist thing you can see why the white house is so frustrated with what is not news, but agenda, but basically meant to disparage the president. >> the time saying they are adding context to the debate. this is why the president is so vehement about this subject of

immigration. this is what he's really saying behind closed doors. >> timed with the overall immigration issue as well. continued inaction on not, two-way and. >> it's not because the motivation is defense of america, love of america. allegiance of assimilation. all those things he talks about. they put that in a box and say he talked about a because these are racist. ed: you agree if he didn't say these things it would be problematic. pete: they are pushing back. of course, yes. he wouldn't want to say these things. i wouldn't say these things. you shouldn't say these things. but he saying he didn't say these things. molly: there is argument that there's been evidence he cited. now are going is discussing this happens or not. now it's out there. meanwhile, santa claus is coming to town in other news, beginning

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molly: at is a christmas tradition, tracking and as he begins his journey across the globe. where is he now? trent u.s. air force general for joins us live from the norad command center. you're hunkered down, we are told you're getting so many calls from kids about this. but it's no great now, where's

santa claus? >> so, santa has let the carroll islands. he's on his way to russia. you can see our folks here talking to all the kids from around the world to see where santa is. pete: wow. tell us, he use google maps? so many choices. >> no compass and say he is really a lucky kind of guy. he's got radars that he can use to make aircraft that help them out. most importantly, he's got rudolph with the red nose that can guide him around the world. he can deliver the presents on time. >> i couldn't help but notice the antennas in russia. are you insinuating santana is colluding with the russians. ed: this could be breaking news. a big deal. >> let me just tell you there are wonderful children all

around the world. santa's job is to deliver presents to everybody. so far he has delivered over 525 million presents. already, starting only a couple hours ago. >> santa loves all children. he's not delivering any subpoenas. >> when is he coming to america when can we expect him in the states? >> outcome is so here's the deal. we need to make sure our children are in bed by 9:00 because santa will deliver presents between 9:00 and midnight. i like to tell everybody make sure kids are in bed by 9:00, cookies out for santa come the carousel for the reindeer and something extra special for rudolph with his red nose so he can continue his journey past. trade for kids, you've got to get to bed early. dan bongino coming up live,

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♪ >> the deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe is set to retire in the coming months. president trump reacted on twitter and in one tweet said this: "f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full begins the. 90 days to go?" these people don't think they're doing anything wrong. these people think their job is to protect democrats. >> they shouldn't hold people in the endorsement branch to a lesser standard. they ought to be held to a higher standard. >> the department of homeland security is now call a scooting spree against the pennsylvania officers a terror attack, this as they confirm chain migration let the suspect into the countr. >> happy holidays to all the soldiers and the families and

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it's christmas eve and we're excited to be here on "fox & friends" on this sunday. molly, great to have you here. beautiful green dress. festive. >> we've been asking you, send in your photos, the dogs who are dressing up, the kids, more important than the dogs. annie sends this shot of her granddaughter under her -- i just want to make that clear -- under their decorated tree with, yes, a nativity scene, and they just look beauti.ul molly: do know shares this one of her finished tree, the dog, d dober, waiting for the santa. pete: before he did that he was drinking water under the tree. drinking dish for dogs. this from j.j., a photo of his son adenoid in iraq. good man. thank you for his service. we've been asking you all to keep sending in your emails of really anything related to christmas but we're looking for

military members, deployed soldiers, marines, anybody, send it in, friends@foxnews.com. >> some of our brave men and women serving all around the world and we salute them understand just the holidays, all year around. i think it's important to connect it to the big story this morning which is the f.b.i. because we also have a lot of brave men and women who work in the f.b.i. they work to keep us safe. they're working on counterterror missions now. they're fighting crime literally in the streets of america every day. but there's a problem right now with the leadership at the f.b.i., and that is something that the president's been tweeting about all morning, we've been talking about it. pete: president tweeted yesterday, "how can f.b.i. director andrew mccabe the man in large along with leaking james comey of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her the pub emails be given $750 $750,000? raising questions about political ties looking to help

his opponent. if you look at double standard how she was treated in that investigation with her emails and looking it looks like things we've seen in text messages, trying to take down -- molly: and there's a lot town pack here but really the breaking news regarding andrew mccabe is he could potentially be retiring in just a couple of months, the washington post initially breaking he was considering that retirement when his benefits come in. he had a very busy week on capitol hill spending a lot of time behind closed doors -- >> getting grilled. that's the big question, who is andrew mccabe? we've seen all the various officials at the f.b.i. justice go by. this is the number two at the f.b.i. under james comey, stays on now under christopher wray and the important point is that his wife takes in over half a million dollars in campaign money when she was running for the state senate in virginia back in 2015. you see him there campaigning with her. and as this has come out with the text messages involving other f.b.i. people, they're human beings, they are allowed to have politicize views, this is a free country, you should be

able to say, "i'm a democrat, i'm a republican" but the question is does it bleed into your work, are you doing fair, impartial investigations? the point about the wife is not that she was running for office but that she got half a million dollars from campaign money from a pac associated with terry mcauliffe, the democratic governor of virginia who is very close to the clintons. what happens after that race? andrew mccabe is overseeing the f.b.i. investigation of her email server. does that not seem a little odd? pete: absolutely and she bleach bits deleted emails to hide them and we don't know how forthcoming she really was in interviews because she was never under oath. she said she forgot so much of what it was, and she goes to exonerated for that, james comey writes it two months before the exoneration, all of it stinks and a lot of people call him andy mccabe now because he was referred to in those text messages from peter strzok

talking about potentially an insurance policy -- >> meeting in andy's off.ce pete: if president trump gets elected. think about if you connect a few of those dots how rotten it really looks. that's why it matters to so many people. molly: the president weighing in on t.is pete: the pension matters on this, too. molly: he tweeting f.b.i. director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits, 90 days to go. >> abuse that washington post story said that basically there had been speculation in washington, just came from there obviously that after these two sessions where he was grilled, andrew mccabe by two different house committees for over seven hours each time about what he knew about the dossier, all kinds of different things we can get into that he might be trying to get out the door but the washington post saying he wants to run out the clock 'til the spring and then he gets the full pension and that's what the president is jumping on and the other thing here is what mike huckabee said the last hour, the bottom line is the president is under investigation, we can't leave that out, the special counsel is looking at why did the president fire james comey, you know, what is there, does it

connect back to the russia investigation? well, mike huckabee is saying, wait a second, there's a double standard. >> this is not about the politics of who they were for, who they were against. here's the issue: is there a double standard at the justice department where if you have a certainly political leaning wicketing away with things, if you don't you end up like mike flynn and you get charged. if that's the case then it's not just rotten in denmark, something is rotten in dc and it has to be cleaned out, fixed, and totally purged. pete: the big question will be how much the so-called mainstream media covers this. if you open the new york times this morning it's nowhere in the print edition, a bunch of other stuff on the cover but bottom line is "andrew mccabe is beyond reproach, so much respect" this reporter andrew goldman, i don't know him, but it reads like a standard democrat. the frustrating part is you don't feel like you're getting the straight story and it almost

takes the president's tweets and some truth-tellers, investigative reporters like sara carter who's been on this and has revealed details -- ed: said there was gonna be a shakeup coming. the democrats are saying, though that the reason why some of these officials are leaving is that there's political pressure from the president. the push-back from the president side says no, they're leaving on their own because they've got something to hide. we're going to see. this stuff is it coming i tell you, . molly: and there's a long list of shifting things at the f.b.i. turning now to headlines, the department of homeland security is now calling a shooting spree against pennsylvania officers a terror attack. this as they confirm chain migration let that suspect into the country. egyptian national alafti was shat dead by police after injuring a state trooper in a gunfight friday. his family telling abc news that he was quote "a chicken but not a terrorist." earlier this month another man who came into the u.s. through chain migration tried to set up a bomb in a new york city subway

subway. miss america ceo and two top executives now calling it quits, this after sexist and degrading emails about former contests were made public. a majority of those emails written by ceo sam haskell, 2013 winner mallory hagan were among those who were criticized. she joined dozens of former miss americas in signing a petition asking the leadership to step down. first i turned california into a sanctuary state. now governor jerry brown has a christmas present for president trump, pardoning 132 people, including a pair of illegal immigrants who committed crimes while here in the u.s. both men from cambodia were picked up in immigration sweeps in october. one has been convicted for stealing a car, the other on a weapons charge. and the baltimore ravens inching closer to a playoff berth. they win over the colts. >> flacco throwing, outside, wide open and the touchdown.

max williams. molly: baltimore able to hold on off a late game push from indianapolis, winning 23-16. in the nfc the minnesota vikings earning the first shout-out in yearly a quarter century, beating the green bay packers 16 16-0 on the frozen tundra of lamb bowl field. >> my no-kneeling minnesota vikings are 12-3 and the super bowl is in minnesota this year. don't forget that. could be a gift for me. ed: one of the questions we're asking about gifts, how many gifts should you be giving to your kids? there's a psychologist who says four is the magic number. pete: this is a big debate that i think happens in a lot of people's households. this psychologist is saying under the influence four gifts that you give, you should give one that the kids want, one that the kid needs -- molly: there's your socks. pete: there you go. one can read. and one emblematic of generosity generosity. as a parent you do have that balance, you want to give them because you love them, but you

don't want to spoil them eit.er molly: what about the comparative pressure like the tooth fairy, one tooth fairy gives 20 bucks. ed: 20 bucks? what kind of tooth fairy you got got? rick wants to weigh in on that. just taking 'em out. jeez, yeah, of course. pete: let us know, friends@foxnews.com. what is the right number of gifts to be giving your kids. ed: if you listened to pete at six o'clock, i don't think they should get a lot of gifts, one gift. whoa, how old are you, buddy? but interesting one that you can read. that was a fair one, certainly a good thing to get kids reading for sure. all right so it's cold out here especially cross parts of the northern rockies and northern plains. get used to it. a pretty active storm pattern, be ready for much of your travel home if you are going back home this week and into much of the next week as well. it's cold out there, windy also, wind chills are very cold and

this is this next system dropping here across parts of the central plains and that's gonna pull out across parts of the east and tonight and tomorrow. make for a white christmas, also more moisture coming across parts of the midwest coach, which is also goons. this -- good news. very cold air with this one, and as this storm moves in throughout the day today, you'll notice they go 'til about 10:00 p.m. tonight, christmas eve, snow falling interior pennsylvania, interior new york, down across the appalachians, and the big cities probably just rain. molly: boston will get a little bit of a white dust. >> mostly rain. molly: the wintry mix, that is the worst, that is the worst. >> it's a letdown always. pete: that's the right time to bust out your weatherman umbrella, right? >> thank you. yeah. it is -- you can just print that out, get a gift certificate.

pete: there we go. molly: the iou which is always great when you can't get something right away, the iou under the tree. pete: we all know liberals hate the republican tax plan. >> doesn't have much stuff in it for the middle class, working americans, i think. >> they suck. they all suck. pete: what happens when you tell those same folks it's bernie sanders idea? >> oh, it's great, we love it. pete: find out coming up. ♪ i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

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for the rich people to get a break and having to pay the tax. >> the middle class is gonna get hit pretty hard here. >> they suck. they all suck. pete: that's liberals here in new york reacting, as expected when asked about the g.o.p. tax bill. molly: but watch how the reaction go when filmmaker amie horowitz tells them it is a bill drafted by bernie sanders. >> if you're making $50,000 or less, most family of four will not pay any taxes at all. >> okay. that's a good plan, yeah. >> double the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000. what do you think about that. >> a good thing. >> take out a mortgage for more than three-quarters of a million dollars, you're gonna end up paying more on taxes with that. >> i can definitely side with that. ed: here to discuss what he witnessed that dramatic change, ami horowitz. i'm a little bit reminded a couple days the cbs morning program had three middle-class families on to talk about what they think about the trump plan and they seemed surprise to learn that all three families

said, we're gonna save money. >> that's the entire point of this video, right? is that i think republicans did a horrible job with the narrative and shaping and framing of the discussion around these tax cuts. every time i saw people on other networks say this is a tax plan -- a giveaway for the rich, i wanted to throw the tv out the window. it's a total talking point. and it's totally wrong. the vast majority of all the tax cuts are going to the middle class and the lower class and in some cases the rich gonna end up paying more because in some ways this is actually entitlement reform. a lot of these deductions that rich people were getting like the mortgage tax deduction which goes away for larger homes or the "salt" reduction -- ed: state and local taxes where taxes are out of control because you're funding these state and local governments where you're spending money everywhere. >> the absolute winners are the middle class and lower class and the republicans did a horrible job making that argument. pete: i gotta ask you frame it

as bernie sanders bill, they then like it. did you tell them this is actually president trump's tax plan? >> i did and i thought they would get really upset at me but the truth is the vast majority of them were actually very thoughtful about it and say wow this is either the first time i agree with republicans or i need to get a closer look at this if what you're saying is true, this really changes my perception. ed: in fact we have a clip of that. let's play that reaction. >> what if i were to tell you that that's all the republican tax plan? >> is it? >> what if it was. >> is it? >> it is. >> but why aren't they showcas showcasing those aspects of it then? >> they should be, right? >> this would be the first time i would say the republicans might be doing something right. >> well, he's wearing a hat that says "hella." so the republicans have done a bad job of selling it, but in general people on both sides are phony about only supporting things that are put out by people they like president the liberals are saying anything

donald trump likes they hate it no matter. >> right. and frankly to be fair that goes a lot for republicans as well, if this was an obama plan, they wouldn't love it. so i think part of it when you do societal basis to start to try to take away the politics and the partisanship out of the discussion and really work on the meat of the discussion as well i think we can do t.at molly: one of the challenges is one side is refusing to take part in the discussion and as we've talked about some of the talking points you can almost hear people saying, they say this is only for the rich, then how do you kick that off? >> the way to do that is to really walk through why this benefits -- democrats claim they are the flag bearer for the downtrodden. we have to show them why this is great. ed: great work, ami horowitz. we're staying on the f.b.i. story. deputy director andrew mccabe will reportedly retire after being grilled on the hill. the president not so happy. dan bongino not so happy either. pete: and n.s.a. leaker edward snowden exposed top secret

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♪ pete: welcome back. for some quick headlines. the military will now be required to allow transgender people to enlist starting on january 1st. the u.s. court of appeals denying the trump administration administration's bid to put that requirement on hold. the issue now could end up before the supreme court. and north korea describing the latest sanctions placed on the country as, quote, "an act of war." the rogue regime threatening punishment to those who supported the measure. united nations voted to ban nearly 90% of oil exports to

north korea in response to the country's latest missile test. ed? ed: all right. major shakeup at the f.b.i., deputy director andrew mccabe reportedly gonna retire early next week, as soon as next week or maybe in the spring? molly: possibly by march? ed: yeah, after being grilled on the hill next week and our next guest says his position is only getting more tenuous from here. molly: joining us now to explain host of the dan bongino show, podcast, and former secret service agent dan bongino. merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you all as well. thanks for having me. ed: dan, i want to clarify that, you know, he's leaving as early as next year, andrew mccabe, and the democrats are trying to spin this as the president is putting political pressure on the f.b.i. leaders while there are people in the white house saying "hang on a second. this is about people who were too close to hillary clinton that were trying to get out while the getting out is good." yeah. well, the democrats make me laugh, laugh like a sad clown on this one.

you know, we used to be able to count on democrats when potential government abuses of power were highlighted. now we can't. what do i mean by this? guys, listen, i was a federal agent. the awesome power of the federal government to take your life, your reputation, and your money absolutely terrifies me, and it should scare you too. when we have an an investigation against any american citizen, the president included, that may have been initiated due to political bias -- we still haven't seen any evidence of russian collusion, keep that many mind -- where are the democrats on this? why aren't they highlighting attention on this, too? and, you know what? i applaud the president for using his twitter to defend himself. this may very well be a political witch hunt, and he deserves to call attention to it just like any other american citizens being potentially targeted here. pete: dan, you know, i mean, where could this lead? and the implications of andy mccabe 'cause he's the one who was referred to in those texts as potentially talking about insurance policy should president trump get elected. ed, as we've laid out all morning the ties to his wife and the political donations from clinton back donors, if this is

true, i mean, is this something where something more serious than a retirement could possibly happen? i mean, is he just trying to get out as quick as he can? >> well, i think the key question here is going to be, what was the insurance policy discussed in andy's office as the struck-page texts indicate? was that insurance company insurance policy -- this is the key question, guys -- was that insurance policy the use of the dossier to initiate fisa warrants against carter page and trump operatives? remember, that dossier was not verified. matter of fact it was jim comey, the director of the f.b.i. himself, and i'm quoting it here called it a salacious document after the fisa warrants had been issued. think about what that means. if that was used, the dossier, to spy to americans and then later on the f.b.i. director himself said it was salacious and mccabe was -- may have been involved in that? you have a really big problem if

that was the, quote, "insurance policy." and you may be looking at a congressional investigat.on molly: another issue, there's been a dramatic shuffling there at the f.b.i. and these two most recent announcements of the potential andrew mccabe retirement and also the re reassignment of james baker, whose the general counsel, i mean, these are two very significant players. i mean, what does this mean when you see these big players getting put in different positions? >> yeah, let me just say first, this is -- none of this is in any way an indictment of the working men and women of the f.b.i. that cannot be said enough. they are the greatest law enforcement agency in the world. i've worked with them. having said that, guys, listen, this is a powerful, powerful law enforcement agency. they can destroy your life. listen, if you're a terrorist, you deserve to have your life destroyed. but there are some people out there starting to question what happened here. these are fair questions. if america loses faith in the f.b.i., the most powerful federal law enforcement agency in this country, we're gonna be in a really, really dark place. a housecleaning has to happen right now or we're gonna all be

in a lot of trou.le pete: wait, didn't somebody write a book, "what happened?" yeah, hillary clinton, she happened. the question and answer on the cover of the book. she happened, that's what happened, hillary clinton. like a forest fire, the clinton. pete: of course. you've drained the swamp at the top. it's the guys at the bottom that do the hard work that care the most about that, at the f.b.i. >> they do. and i still hear from people in the rank-and-file, and they're horrified by all this. guys, listen, i was a secret service agent. i had very political inclinations i knew couldn't correspond with continuing my time as a federal agent. not looking for a pat on the back from anyone but i left i gave up my retirement and everything else. if you're committed to and politics not law enforcement, then get the heck out of law enforcement and get into politics. i mean, listen it's a fair deal to ask. ed: dan, we've got 30 seconds but another important thing we don't want to get lost here over christmas, the department of homeland security putting out this report suggesting that chain migration is letting terror related suspects into the u.s. this is a serious subject that's

not being talked about. molly: and we just saw about it one that got in in harrisburg, pennsylvania, in which a number of troopers and police were targeted. >> chain migration is a disaster folks. it allows a geometrically growing number of people to claim an american citizenship. american citizenship is not a global right. american citizenship is something to be valued. we need to value the people coming in. they need to add value to the united states. this is a ceremony proposition. this is a bunt, a ground ball most americans understand, that's a winning issue for trump by the way, getting rid of chain migration. pete: great stuff. dan bongino, before we let you go, you've got a photo for us i think of the family on this christmas eve. there we go. molly: aw, these are the best. >> like my daughter there? she's a ham for the camera. ed: just like her old man, he's a ham. molly: beautiful family. merry christmas. >> you know it. merry christmas. pete: thanks a lot. molly: coming up, seats taken, one united airlines passenger shows up for her flight to texas

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christmas. molly: merry christmas eve. that is beautiful. pete: that's right. you've been sending in your photos from deployed overseas. this-from trish her husband matt is on a six-month deployment but still found a way to be on the family christmas card. molly: that is so clever. it's lovely. here's one from billy back in 2009 when he was deployed in iraq as well. ed: well done. a festive spirit there. this is june's nephew. he's deployed in the middle east right now. molly: managed to find santa. ed: found santa in the middle east, and we're thinking about you it is not just over christmas of course but all year around, but especially a christmas. pete: santa finds his way. my first sergeant was our santa. that was my christmas card. ed: come on! pete: that's a real christmas card from iraq in 2015 in baghdad. we had just captured a bunch of weapons, that ak being one of them. ed: how did you get it out, go down to the post office there?

pete: digital. peace on earth. ed: thank you for your service, everybody in our audience. and sending in tows photos, friends@foxnews..om molly: turning to your headlines headlines. a woman accused -- sorry about that guys -- a woman accused of -- united airlines of giving away her first class seat to democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lee. the woman says the crew told her that the sheet she bought from washington to houston was already taken despite her having receipts. when they gave her economy seating she spotted lee in that same first class seat and she snapped april photo. united denies giving the congresswoman preferential treatment saying the woman canceled her fli.ht pete: she may have a lot of miles, the congresswoman. molly: there's potentially a picture to be taken in a lot of different places. a crabby customer's complaints over his dinner landing him in trouble with the florida police. the man calling 911 twice after eating all of his food, but then criticizing the size of the meal meal.

>> i was just speaking to the dispatcher and i was telling him crabby seafood and i ordered something that was so small -- >> okay, i need you to call back on a nonemergency line. >> really, he ate the evidence. he didn't want to pay up. stewart police issuing him a summons for misusing 911. ed: should be more than that. molly: just hours before christmas, packages need to be delivered, upset is turning to accounts, hundreds of them, officers, other employees, pulling out the stops, joining that last minute dash the company says online shop shopping no joke has contributed to seasonal manpower. ups doesn't particularly deliver on spinning. of course today is a sunday but is making some exceptions to.ay pete: so they're riding along with the drivers to help out, with that much volume. molly: no end of the work for the weary out there this holiday season. ed: rick has been working around the clock as well. take a look at the weather. >> hi, guise.

we have had some big troubles yesterday. today not as bad, but you will notice some more delays that are gonna be going on across parts of the ohio valley, a little snow system dropping in, and that's gonna bring us some travel delays throughout the day today. we're also gonna be watching for snowfall, accumulating snowfall through the day tomorrow, interior sections of the northeast, the i-95 corridor, big cities primarily a rain event. the cities not seeing snow but eventually we will get it across the interior sections. temperature-wise take a look at your christmas day temperature, it's gonna be chilly out there all the way down across parts of the deep south. ed: looking for some last minute dinner ideas for christmas eve and christmas day, watch a guy who marks his territory with a dice this size. molly: more to my house what he has been serving up is chef david burke, the executive chef of both tavern 62 here in new york city and blt prime.

david burke at the trump international hotel in washington, d.c. great to have you here. >> good to be here. ed: everybody sees something like this and they're watching at home, it looks awesome, but david burke is awesome. i can't do this. so how do you make it manageable so you can do something cool? >> couple of simple things we did and we did a couple of fancy things to represent what we're doing at both of our restaurants for the holidays. the simple things are deviled eggs. molly: i always -- those never look that beautiful. >> well, cut the other way, opposite way so they're easy to grab and fried onions on it and a little bit of spicy like a ranch with chipotle in it. we'll get to the prime rib in a minute. here's what you can do. just crack an egg, empty it out, clean it out, and fill it with eggnog. you can crack it with a small scissors. the christmas beef, i took spices, coffee, cinnamon, black pepper, juniper, some winter spices, roasted prime rib, we

dry age our beef in a salt roof, and my chef friend gave me this, and we roasted, you know, nice and slow. ed: this is like the flintstone. molly: that is sliding right through. it's amazing. >> this goes in for about two and a half, three hours. all depends on temperatures. slow and low for prime rib, i think. you know, and then the blt pop popovers, we stuffed them with surf and turf so you get that option. and there's a steak sauce here you might want to try. pete: you said a-1 taken so your sauce is called b-1? ed: a-1 was taken. ham is very important? >> y.ah, molly: where's the snapple there is. >> here's the crackling pork shank. we made a plum sauce with cranberries. you may be surprised because that is a german style dish. we did it in asian flavor. beautiful. mashed potato bar, blt prime.

ed: squash? >> squash with sweet potato. ed: what about dessert? >> dessert, baked alaska with pomegranate, apple tart, christmas cookies. and this is a simple thing for home, peck an waffles, whipped cream, berries, almonds with portrayed sure. ed: i bet the b-1 sauce would be good for that. molly: that's a beautiful cake. can you shop that up and share it? ed: are your restaurants open tomorrow? >> open tonight in about dc, tavern 62, blt prime in dc, tomorrow we're open, new year's eve we're open, dc has a great buffet tomorrow. and i'll be kind of jockeying back and forth. ed: gonna try to find you for dinner. >> see you down there. merry christ.as pete: coming up. she called this weeks ago.

>> they are looking for leakers and a lot more information is gonna come out. i think there's going to be a shakeup. ed: and guess what? the shakeup is happening. sara carter, she predicted it, she's here to react to deputy director andrew mccabe reportedly retiring. that's coming up top of the hour hour. plus, a lot of news in 2017, but a lot of stories fell under the radar including one about president trump, not about all the diet cokes. we got something else. we're looking at the most under underreported headlines of the year next. ♪ merry christmas, yeah, ♪ merry christmas

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they say are personal security reasons. and the new presidential challenge point undergoing a trumpian makeover. the commander-in-chief taking a-hands-on role we're told to re redesign the very gold medallion that presidents hand out as mementos. among the changes the motto e pluribus unum replaced by make america great again. the original states are also gone, pete. pete: i -- ed, as you said. ed: well, it's been -- pete: it's been quite the year for breaking news, good and bad but a lot of stories have still managed to fly under the radar. molly: in case you missed it our next guest is here to break down the stories that may have been swept under the .ug pete: joining us now with her picks of the most underreported stories of 2017 freelance writer and press assistant for senator rick santorum, lauren appell. thank you for being with us. when you say underreported i should caveat that, them have

been covered extensive at fox news challenge or fox business, but the mainstream media may not have given it the notice they should. what's the first one? >> good morning. first of all, the tremendous economy, you know, just with the president's tax cuts just passed this week, but however, the tax cuts just with the release of the tax cuts that he -- he talked about passing the tax cuts before and with the roll back of regulations, that started to fuel the economy a long time ago. and that started to roll back president obama's failed economic policy and his economic legacy. and that was nonexistent. there was no growth under president obama, and even his treasury secretary, jack lew, said, you know what, folks, get used to it, this is the new normal. you're only gonna see 2% economic growth from now on every year. and that's just not the case. under president trump just in the first year alone we saw two consecutive sessions of 3% economic growth.

molly: and it's hard to talk about that angle of the story without talking about how the stock market is doing. >> absolutely, the stock market. and the media doesn't want to report that but if you have a requirement account for if you have a college savings account you've got more money in your account now than you did before president trump was elected. you're doing much better off. they don't want to report that. molly: and also iraq's liberation from isis. i mean the destruction of the physical caliphate. >> absolutely. you know, isis three years ago, they sent out a five-year plan that they wanted to have complete worldwide domination. and in just under a year under president trump, their capital has been completely overthrown, their terrorist apparatus has -- structure has been dismantled, it's being dismantled, and they're still a threat for sure. however, you don't hear the media talk about all of the military success that we've had in iraq or that we've had in other countries.

and president obama calledizes a jv team. meanwhile, they want on to be a worldwide threat. pete: lauren, if i were to change the channel to certain quarters of the fake news media, how much would i be hearing positive or negative on the the democrat party today? >> that's very interesting. you know, the democratic party is in complete disarray. if you look at it, think about in last year how much -- how many solutions have they put forth in terms of problems that real americans face? none. all you've heard from the democrats are russia, you have heard racism, and you have heard war on women, and they've all been directed at president trump and trying to take him down. they've offered no real solutions to any problems that american face. meanwhile, president trump is over here putting forth solutions to problems that americans face, he's winning left and right, the democrats aren't offering any solutions, they're just offering more rhetoric. we don't know if they're the

party of nancy pelosi or elizabeth warren or bernie sanders, but we know for sure that they're not the party of john f. kennedy anymore because not a single democrat voted to lower any of your viewers' taxes and the media is not reporting that. pete: lauren, thank you very much for this insight, and merry christmas to you. appreciate it. >> thank you all very much. merry christ.as pete: all right. well, president trump taking on a familiar foe, 89,000 he's labeled the failing new york times. how the white house is firing back after a story they say is just not true. molly: plus christmas is a time for gift and family but what's the true mean of the holiday? father john with a christmas message next. ♪ do you hear what i hear? said the little lamb to the shepherd boy nacho? [ train whistle blows ] what?! -stop it! -mm-hmm. we've been saving a lot of money ever since we switched to progressive. this bar is legit.

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molly: the true meaning of christmas. it is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot this time of year but what does it really mean. ed: here to break it down for all of us on christmas eve day, religion contributor for fox news, father jonathan morris. each person obviously is able to come to their faith in their own way but what message do you like people to be thinking about? >> it's true everybody can come to it in their own way but there's also historic fact that you can't decide whether or not it existed, didn't exist, whether it happened or not and that is jesus of nazareth was born in bethlehem. that's a fact, and that's what christmas is. now, of course as christians, we believe that jesus of nazareth was also the son of god. he came for a reason. he came to redeem us from our sins. so that's where the faith comes in. but we can't say, "oh, i don't believe in jesus." well, jesus was a historic figure. he lived. he died. he was crucified.

and the faith comes in of who he was and what he meant. molly: you know, clearly story is told, everyone's familiar with the story and it's told in the new testament, of course. if you were gonna read one of those books right now, which one for the christmas season would be a great one? >> well, matthew, mark, luke, and john, the gospels. molly: you can't pick one, huh? >> the very center of the gospels is the person of jesus. and people could ask, and i think this is really the meaning of christmas, well, why did he have to come? if you believe that he's the son of god, why did he have to come? try to picture it like this. if you are a mother or father of a lot of children -- in my family there's seven of us -- and if all of the siblings are fighting and killing each other and hating each other and what would you do as a parent? you would do anything in order to bring peace and to give them a chance to redeem themselves. and as christians, we believe that's exactly what god, our father, did. look at the world. we're fighting. we've been doing it for

thousands and thousands of years years. and god, our father, says, "you know what i'm gonna do? i'm gonna do something crazy. i'm gonna send my only begotten son into the world so that whoever believes in him might not die but have abundant life. pete: we're gonna be unwrapping real presents, waiting for santa claus, how do you put real meaning into christmas? >> i'll tell you what my dad did did. when we would wake up at christmas morning they would stand up at the top of the story stairs in the midwest, not like new york city where you have two floors, and run down the stairs to look at the presents under the tree. and he said wait let's go over to the creche, let's go to the manger scene, and he would kneel down and all of us would kneel down and he would lead us in prayer. to see your dad pray like that -- ed: leaves an impression. >> a huge impression, especially because we were like "how long is this gonna take?" but we never forget.

ed: speaking of how long it takes we've got some commercials to do. i'm sorry to interrupt. merry christmas. >> molly, merry christmas. ed: we have a lot more coming up including sara carter. she predicted the f.b.i. shakeup shakeup. what does she know now? next. ♪ it's the most wonderful time of the year. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood.

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molly: i bet there are a lot of people with their favorite. we also have a lot of photos coming in and we want those coming in as well including this is johnny's grandson, meeting santa and getting a large christmas stocking as a gift. molly: that is a big stocking. gail from alabama sent us this one it's her little christmas angel she says, macy's, talking to santa for the first time i think there we go. the other one -- pete: this is the little angel. the other one is tanya. can we go back to the previous photo? her husband is deployed from turkey and we'll get these photos right. molly: there he is. pete: deployed in turkey and we've emphasize photos from military members. ed: well our producers are hitting the eggnog a little early maybe. molly: we could be somebody's angel. ed: president trump this hour in fact has got the mediacoming into mar-a-lago because it is happening it looks like right there, we see a live picture doing a video teleconference

with members of the military. let's listen ill real quick. president trump: welcome to you, and all of the nighthawks. there is more than # hundred isis and taliban targets in five separate countries and was recently awarded both the line backer and trophies an amazing achievement and a very unusual one to get both. thank you very much. for the united states coast guard who has done such an incredible job in texas and florida and puerto rico, they've had plenty of work right here and we want to welcome captain matthew wadley, and security unit 309 stationed down in guantanamo bay, this unit does outstanding work in providing expeditionary anti-terrorism and force protection around the

globe. in fact, we saw your tireless efforts in action as you know, our great rep national convention and you know, many republicans are very happy but i have to tell you the people of florida, texas, and lots of other states are even more happy what a job you've done, the coast guard saved thousands and thousands of lives. almost it's unbelievable when i looked at the chart when i saw the number of lives we've saved so so so i want to congratulate the coast guard for having done an incredible job because we celebrate this most precious holiday we're grateful for each of you spending this christmas away from your families and defend all of our families, our freedoms and our flags. every american heart is thankful to you and we're asking god to

watch over you and to watch over your families, as we open up the discussion i know some of the men and women under your command are able to join us and perhaps ask some of the questions, so we're going to be speaking with the people of the media and asking them to leave, enjoy yourselves. have a great christmas and we're going to do some very personal questions before these great people and myself so we want to thank you very much for being here and if i don't see you have a great holiday and a great christmas thank you very much. pete: well that was just moments ago president trump at mar-a-lago in west palm beach, florida he said he's grateful for each of you, we remember you in our prayers talked about freedom and family and flag and it warms my heart having been deployed multiple times during christmas and the holiday season you want to know the

commander-in-chief and folks back home remember you and are invested in what you're doing because you you are there defend the freedom. molly: he was thanking them for what they've done and accomplished in guantanamo bay one of the locations so he got a lot of flack after thanksgiving for doing something very very similar so here he is thanking them and keeping praise as well. ed: he even turned to the media and said merry christmas. yesterday we were talking about reporters complaining about access to the president. i covered a lot of presidents both parties and this is a tradition not something donald trump started about calling each branch of the military and thanking them but usually we get like a printed read out an hour or so later saying the president called these troops, right? in this case, this president is letting the press come into listen to him the president talk directly to the troops. now theophano couldn't say for the q & a portion but you have that access. we're getting that live picture at mar-a-lago so you want to talk about access to the president there he is right there and we saw it play out on fox. we've also seen the president

using social media this morning talking about the fbi. he's not happy. here is a tweet that's actually from yesterday. he had more this morning, how the fbi deputy director and use mccabe the man in charge along with leaking james comey of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her 33,000 illegally deleted e-mails be given 700 grand for wife's campaign by clinton puppets during the investigation and also went on to talk about how mccabe is now racing the clock to retire with full benefits because of that washington post story. molly: 90 days ago he could be retired as soon as march when the benefits kick in if that is his ultimate choice. pete: this after he's sorry to cut you off. this after he spent seven and a half hours in front of two committees on capitol hill answering questions about the text messages referring to an insurance policy what did he do when overseeing the clinton investigation a lot of smoke and both republicans and democrats want to get to the bottom of was there political influence inside the top layers of the fbi.

ed: someone who knows more about this perhaps than anyone is a brand new, we're unveiling right now, fox news contributor and investigative reporter, sarah carter. first of all, what a wonderful christmas present for us to have you now in the fox family, so welcome. molly: and congratulations. >> reporter: oh, it's a wonderful christmas present for me as well merry christmas eve to all of you i'm very excited about this. ed: very quickly we ran out of time because we went to the president live we want to get to the breaking news but we also want to hear from you because you've been on this program predicting there was a shakeup at the fbi. you have democrats now saying this is about the president putting political pressure on career people. you've been suggesting in your reporting not commentary but actual reporting that there's a lot more going on break it down for out viewers so they understand why this is so important. molly: and any surprise mccabe may be leaving? >> reporter: oh, i don't think it was a surprise to me at all. we've been looking at these stories from earlier on this year all the way back into march when stories broke mccabe was under investigation for the

hatch act and questions about him filing his expenses and the fact he's possibly left out senator grassley asked for this from the justice department nearly 700,000 dollars that was donated to his wife through committees when she unsuccessful ly ran for state senate in virginia so there were a lot of issues mccabe was dealing with and then to top it off we find out he didn't recuse himself from the server case as was suggested. he recused himself a week before the presidential elections so he was highly involved in the clinton server investigation and then later, we find out peter strzok was texting to lisa page about mccabe himself saying look , you know we have an insurance policy i wonder if andy's insurance policy will work here so there is a lot of questions. the how far, how deep andrew mccabe as deputy director was involved in these investigations and whether there was any obstruction at all and believe me they are still investigating this and i think that's why we're seeing this rollout at

christmas that mccabe is moving towards retirement and that's why we see president trump tweet ing out 90 days left but remember there's still an ongoing investigation in the justice department and they're looking very closely at this. the inspector general is going to be looking at money cake, looking at james baker whose left it fro his position as general counsel of the fbi and there are many others like peter strzok, bruce ohr at the justice department and his involvement and lisa page. so there's a lot of questions here that still need to be answered. pete: the democrats ed has been saying have suggested he may be pressured out of the fbi because they've been involved in these russia probes or is he feeling the heat as you mentioned there may have been wrongdoing it's time to get out? >> reporter: i certainly think pete, he's feeling the heat. he's feeling a lot of heat. the heat isn't just coming from the inspector general but ongoing investigations within the justice department from within his own fbi. remember the fbi and i've been saying this for months now, they were polygraphing a lot of people within the fbi out of

concerns for leaks. not just within the fbi but within the justice department and i was told that right after he testified before congress just recently he didn't show up to work the next day. molly: how are things inside the fbi as the shakeup continues and these major individuals like the general counsel being reassigned as this all unfolds? >> reporter: well molly i think what we're seeing right now within the fbi there's a lot of concern. i think there's a lot of hope within fbi agents i've been talking to them both retired and current fbi who are hoping that this shaketemperature will cleanup the seventh floor of the fbi and that's those high level officials. we know the field agents are doing everything they can to continue their work and they're doing it with pride and they're very proud of their agency and they're very proud of the bureau but there was a lot of concern that over the past eight years, there was a lot of month lit it think station of the fbi and i lot of politics happening on that 7th floor they were not proud of and actually they felt inhibited from speaking about.

ed: sarah i want to drill down on something you said a moment ago about andrew mccabe not showing up for work i believe after he had done this testimony maybe he took the day off maybe he was feeling the heat but there was a report by cnn on friday suggesting and i underline the word "could" that in his testimony in private, mccabe suggested that he could back up james comey's account that the president wanted a loyalty oath. we've seen other reports suggesting wait a second, mccabe couldn't remember when he learned about the dossier all kinds of things he couldn't recall that seemed highly suspicious. what do you know about all that and is there something to him not showing up for work or something more going on here? >> reporter: well i think there's something more going on here. remember when he testified the only thing that we saw that came out that he was actually able to prove within that dossier was that carter page had gone to moscow that was it. he wasn't even able to say what he was doing in moscow in those meetings so the dossier itself, the only thing we know for certain, was that carter page

went to moscow and that's a huge issue especially for members of congress. they're saying did you use the dossier to get this, what's going on here? now as far as backing comey he wasn't in that meeting with the president as far as we know, so it wouldn't be firsthand knowledge. it would be very interesting if he had something if he does, i mean, let everybody know about it. apparently, i personally talking to the sources i've spoken with haven't seen anything to back that. that doesn't mean there isn't anything there. but it just means that there isn't anything public yet to back what he's claiming or what cnn is claiming. pete: briefly we only have about 10 seconds left here you predicted a lot of things correctly what could be coming next? >> reporter: i think we need to really watch closely the inspector general's investigation. i think the inspector general is going to reveal with the justice department quite a bit. not just including mccabe but i think others within the fbi and within the justice department. i any it's going to be surpris ing even to me. i think it goes much deeper than

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>> the pressure is mounting on isis and it is time to finish it >> everything we do well have an effect. >> we're seeing enemy movement for sure.

>> you're good. ed: what a christmas present for us as we mentioned sarah carter is now a fox news contributor all over this fbi story. pete: first day on the job so we'll make you work over time. sarah carter, thank you for being here. it's fantastic we just got more reports that the attorney general sessions and the doj will be directing prosecutors to ask fbi agents for more information and investigation on the dormant look into the uranium one deal, so we're going to take a harder look at this. what does it mean? >> reporter: of this is incredible. remember attorney general jeff sessions said they would look into this and we saw the deputy director also said that they would be looking into this.

now this is what's very important here is that they're going to be asking the fbi agents who are involved in the uranium one case way back when they're asking them questions about the informant, about what was going on at the time, about the reasons why they chose to prosecute something one way and not the other. they're going to be looking at deputy attorney general rosenstein's involvement in the case. i think this is going to be very important. they're also going to be asking the informant questions i believe, so this is going to expand way into the new year. now remember the informant is preparing to testify before congress and he's actually really ill. i wish him a very merry christmas eve. he has leukemia. he's been undergoing chemotherapy so it's very very important that he speak, that he be able to speak to congress and share his story, and they're going to be looking at corruption. now, what we know is that in 2010, when they approved the uranium one deal, when they approved it they had already known for months beforehand there was extensive corruption

within the russian nuclear arm. they already knew there was extensive corruption within its subsidiaries so what they want to know is how did this get passed? how did the uranium one deal get passed if there was all of this corruption that was forthcoming and a lot of that coming from the informant who had spent nearly six years working with the fbi, so this is going to be these are very important questions. molly: where is this in a timeline of effort as far as the attorney general's office is concerned, is there reaching out to the fbi agents just beginning or something just kicking off and we'll see more of this in 2018? >> reporter: yeah, molly i think what they are going to do is this has been ongoing since the stories broke its been moving forward slowly. it seems like to the public but behind the scenes, people have been talking to congress, to all of the committees that have been involved, the house intelligence committee, the senate judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee so people have been talking to these different committee members and also discussing the same issues with the fbi and the justice

department. now, publicly i think it's going to move a lot quicker in the coming year. we're going to hear from the informant at some point in time. they're going to be talking to the fbi agents that were involved. the prosecutors are probably going to start building a dossier of evidence trying to look and see what was happening then and why did the uranium one deal get passed so i think a lot more answers will be forthcoming particularly january and february. ed: a lot big stuff coming in 2018 we know you'll be all over it sarah carter i'll make you a deal for christmas we'll give you tomorrow off but then calling on you a lot right after christmas. >> reporter: okay, it's a deal. ed: coming up we've got a lot more coming. molly: merry christmas movies are coming out the reviews are in for the christmas week box office kevin march car think will tell us just which ones deserve the tinsel or the coal. ed: we have a peace picture of him serving overseas from christmas. coming up your photos and a special tribute we want to send to our brave men and women in uniform. ♪ make my wish come true, all i

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molly: some headlines the department of homeland security is now calling a shooting spree against pennsylvania officers a terror attack. this as they confirm chain migration led the suspect into the country. egyption national arrived here on a family visa, was shot dead by police after injuring a state trooper in a gun fight friday. his family telling abc news he was a "chicken" but not a tar or it's. and a federal judge partially lifting president trump's refugee ban the decision opening the door for spouse s's and children of immigrants already in the country. the judge said it restores the refugee program to where it was before the president's new

director in october requiring extreme vetting of refugees from 11 predominantly muslim countries, and ryan reynolds might want to stick to making movies. his wife posting this picture of the actor's christmas cookie skills on instagram. >> [laughter] molly: oh, well, she wrote ryan reynolds made christmas cookies and he is very handsome and we will show that yes. the deadpool star commented on her pictures saying "i wanted to be the first person to bake christmas cookies using only a hammer." he may be the first. ed: you weren't here yesterday molly but pete wore the same exact socks yesterday with a red and green one. molly: he switched them out? pete: i switched them out. molly: exactly the other red and other green one. ed: talking about fashion forward we've got the man for you home alone two lost in new york has been a christmas classic for 25 years. molly: now for the anniversary the plaza hotel offers the kevin mcallister experience for $895

and up. pete: we sent our very own kevin mccarthy to see what it's all about kevin merry christmas good morning. merry christmas to you and this is an absolute honor and i went to the plaza hotel where home alone 2 lost in new york was actually filmed and you have to understand growing up as a kid these films meant so much to me so to be able to recreate these scenes was ban absolute amazing experience. check out the video to prove it watch this. >> families in florida, i'm in new york. >> kevin! >> mom it's okay it's okay i'm here at the plaza hotel. i'm not kevin mcallister, but i am kevin mccarthy and we'll give you an amazing tour of home alone 2 lost in new york filmed right here at the plaza hotel, i'm wearing a ridiculous suit people in here are staring at me so i'll get out of here. >> how may i help you?

>> yes a reservation for mccarthy. >> we don't have a mccarthy. we do have a mcallister. >> that works as well i'll take that. >> welcome to the plaza. >> thanks for having me. >> this is insane. this is a $40,000 a night suite at the plaza hotel where they actually filmed home alone 2 lost in new york. >> this is one of our finest sweets sir. >> wow, huge bed just for me. >> now here is the cool thing they're offering a home alone 2 lost in new york experience for 895 a night and up and here is some of the cool things you get with this. you get this backpack with the drawings on it, the paint cans the dvd from home alone 2 a map of what kevin did throughout his adventures in home alone 2 and also a newspaper here but listen , i'm kind of wondering

where my ice cream is at. >> two scoops sir? >> two? make it three. i'm not driving. >> mr. mcallister? your very own cheese pizza. >> all right this is amazing i'm in the limo now that comes with the package here at the plaza and it essentially takes you around to a lot of the locations where home alone 2 lost in new york takes place. excuse me i'm looking for somebody i saw here 25 years ago last name is trump? >> excuse me, where is the lobby down the hall and to the left. >> thanks. you haven't been around here in a very long time, sir. >> can you let him know kevin is looking for him? i can not leave its been 25

years since the release of home alone 2 lost in new york. they have a huge experience down here in the basement of the plaza hotel and you can go in the photo booth and recreate some of the famous scenes in the film and all i have left to say now is ahhhhh! pete: well done sir well done. molly: you definitely had a good time. ed: you can get that experience and go to the plaza's website and check it out. we've got all kinds of movies we want you to take a look at as well. >> this is a huge time of the year to run through the films ju mangi, the sequal to the classic film with robin williams , i really enjoyed this movie and it's a lot of fun. it's not as great as the original film but it continues the story and it's an interesting way to look at the story as well. video game fans will be excited about it and next up is the post this is the new film directed by steven spielburg starring tom ha nks, a very timely important

film directed by steven spielburg, and they're incredible in the movie i gravity 4.5 out of 5 one of the best films of the year next up is the greatest showman. a great case where you have music that is better than the overall film. the sound track is a 10 out of 10 and i listen to it all of the time and i wish the music was as good as the sound track and i gave it a three out of five, solid but not great and then finally pitch perfect 3. listen i loved the first one. the second one was okay, the third one unnecessary and a bit unforgettable i gave it a 2.5 out of 5. if you're interested my star wars review go to twitter which is kevin mccarthy tv i'll tweet out my links to that film but i didn't love star wars and i'm curious to hear what the viewers thought as well. molly: i loved star wars it was epic always epic. ed: really? molly: loved it. actually it's the first movie i've been to see since the baby was born so maybe that's part of it i was out of the housesitting in the movie theatre.

>> i love the force awakens i'm a big star wars fan. i liked the new one but i didn't love it but my reasons are i'm interested what people think if you read the review. molly: you blasted through those kevin thank you so much merry christmas to you guys. coming up an incredible story just in time for christmas. a 911 hero donating the gift of life to a stranger 3000 miles away. ed: 6% of americans are still shopping on this christmas eve. i think the number is bigger in new york. they're flood the streets we'll help you get a gift with seconds to spare with a lovely escort.

♪ please come home for christmas ♪ molly: this is please come home for christmas by bon jovi of course a request from john from nevada. pete: thanks john love it. ed: you've also been asking for deployment photos of brave men and women overseas from christmas. her husband cody is deployed for christmas this year but they still found a way to make their christmas picture happen with a little bit of split screen magic i guess. molly: this one from bill pictured in christmas 2009 while deployed in iraq. it was a big group shot. pete: you find a way to get a christmas tree. molly: and squeeze some presents under there too. pete: i've been sharing photos

of my own. this was our first sargent in iraq, he's a total animal, a great american, american hero. ed: animal in the best sense. pete: in every best sense. he's playing drunken santa. he came and showed up with presents too. we don't have to show that one again. ed: the gun show. pete: that's right he motivated everybody by showing up with presents and even went out of control in his santa uniform. ed: that's awesome. rick also has very somebodied photos. merry christmas and rick is outside finally i got a peak during the break. molly: you are surrounded. >> look at that guy, look at my dad. pete: good looking fella. >> my dad turned 80 this year and that was at his 80th birthday party. >> happy birthday. >> well back in march. >> thank you. >> you guys been waiting here for a while. are you having fun? >> we're having a blast.

>> you know it's christmas eve aren't you supposed to be at home somewhere? >> we will be soon. >> so new york for christmas eve >> yes. super excited. >> and christmas day it's good. you can go to a david burke restaurant to eat. take a look at your weather map show you what's going on. it's a lot nicer here than across the northern plains and rockies it is minus three actual air temperature in denver, feels like minus 22 when you put a little bit of the wind in there and that cold air is going to be here the next number of days get ready including across parts of the northeast a storm moves in tonight it's going to bring rain along the coast, snow across interior sections and some of that snow will pileup maybe about over six inches or so. that's the storm right now it's across parts of the central plains, bringing snow to the chicago area. merry christmas there, pete sending it to you inside. pete: rick you said upwards of negative 90 at the north pole for santa claus. >> exactly. pete: wow it is christmas. rick thanks a lot. >> merry christmas, i love you.

pete: well turning now to your christmas headlines. miss america's ceo and two top executives calling it quits. this after degrading e-mails about former contestants were made public. a majority of those e-mails written by ceo sam haskel. the 2013 winner was among those who were criticized and she joined dozens of former miss americas in signing a petition asking the leadership to step down. and another story, a firefighter who had to be pulled from the rubble of 9/11 on the bring of death now giving the gift of life to a total stranger 3000 miles away just in time for christmas. retired hero kevin shay donating his kidney, a california school teacher with a fatal disease. his own life hung by a thread during the 2001 terror attack suffering a broken neck. he was the only survivor from his crew. the pair connected after the surgery finding out they were both native new yorkers. what a hero then and now.

and when it comes to great christmas movies, most people don't think of die hard. >> it's christmas eve in la. >> we'll see what santa and mommy can do. pete: it is but it happens during christmas is it a christmas movie or does it have to be about christmas? well it sure sounds like a christmas movie to congressman steve scalise and he agrees taking to social media to settle the argument once and for all. >> let's be clear. die hard is a great christmas movie. it happens during christmas. bruce willis does a great job of saving christmas for all those people. pete: steve scalise pulling his followers 64% say yes, die hard is a christmas movie. well god bless steve scalise hope he's doing well. christmas can't come soon enough for these decked outdoings people all across across the nation sharing pictures of their pets on instagram and now you guys have been sending in

pictures to us of course these two buddies bundled up with their scarf and sweater well done next to the tree. this pair posed with christmas bows in warmer conditions it appears and these two decided to get a little fancy with christmas collars and ties. look at that. [laughter] look at those ties and those are apparently your hard hitting christmas eve headlines. molly: [laughter] pete: molly and ed over to you. molly: it is christmas eve and if you're someone whose still looking for the perfect last minute present, do not panic our next guest put together a list and she checked it twice to help you find some really great last minute gifts. ed: joining us now is lifestyle expert lemore suss. good to see you. >> hi so christmas eve down to the wire and so a lot of people are still shopping so the first thing you'll want to do is go to a place that will have a local of gifts for a few different people you're still shopping for you don't have a lot of time to go to a bunch of different stores so first thing we have the ninja kitchen system for the person that likes smoothies, the

multi-purpose toolkit for the casual diy-er, or dad and the google home mini which is great. and it's only 29.99 and you can get all these at lowe's so it's a great one stop shop and you can really just pick up everyone that you're still shopping for. molly: and for the perhaps the crafter in your life? the hard core crafter? >> yes the hard core crafter so this is the cricut explorer and you can get it exclusively at joannes and what i was telling you about this is a printer prints, this cuts so any kind of shape that you need you can do it on paper, on vinyl this is one of my favorite gifts to give and to use. teachers would be great, moms, crafters and if they already have this machine just get some of the accessories as well. ed: molly loves star wars. >> the star wars lover so this is the game that i got at staples and look how cute it just does the star wars theme.

and it's like the regular game. molly: get out of town. ed: can molly keep this? >> and stocking stuffers, the band aid brand has star wars bandages so really cute and a really great stocking stuffer. ed: what do we have here? >> personalized gift cards so a lot of times gift cards are great to give but maybe you know that someone likes something so based on their hobby so you like yoga or swimming or gaming, so these are from ebay and what you do is you buy a personalized interest gift card and it links to a shopping page cure ated based on that interest so if you're worried that person has like a gift something already then they can actually choose their own gift. molly: everybody likes a gift card. ed: everybody needs a toothbrush >> so these are stocking stuffer s so over here this is the arm & hammer spin bush paw patrol with the dual action technology it's great and my mom saw these and wanted to take them for my brother's kids but i was like no i need them.

here we have the limited edition dry shampoo trail pack. molly: never used this stuff. >> i love it and now they have the minis all year around but the trail pack and what's nice is here, i've taken a lump of coal and the charcoal beauty products so i have the pore penetrating bar, the mask. ed: we love it thanks for bringing that to us. molly: it was wonderful thanks for joining us we appreciate it. >> merry christmas. molly: fbi director andrew mccabe will reportedly retire earlier next year as soon as he's eligible for a full pension but will he actually get those benefits? trish regan weighs in next. ed: plus steve amerson is here with a christmas eve performance trish great to see you. trish: good to see you. ♪ a wonderland of snow

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molly: a major shake um at the

fbi deputy director andrew mccabe who spent two days getting grilled on the hill last week now reportedly set to retire as early as next year as soon as he's eligible for full benefits. pete: trish regan is host of the intelligent report on the fox business network and joins us now to react. trish: good morning merry christmas to you guys. pete: you've been following this story very closely. what are the big takeaways here? trish: what i simply do not understand is why no one in washington seems to understand conflicts of interest and this gentleman clearly had a conflict of interest because his wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars from clinton folks, people that were backing clinton for her campaign, and this it just gets to over and over again we talk about these conflicts of interest and money in washington and you can't even really have the appearance of that because just the appearance alone is not good and you just wonder how mccabe could have run that investigation into her e-mails

when, you know, his wife was benefiting. ed: robert is looking at this like is donald trump really getting a fair shake number one and was hillary clinton, did she get preferentialp treatment? trish: whether she did or she didn't, it's the appearance of it and that's just wrong. the ethics committee should have never allowed him to run that investigation period. this is why you know we talk a lot about uranium one as well as being another case of just things looking bad. how is it that bill clinton was able to get $500,000 from the russians shortly after that deal was approved for a speech? it does not look right. he shouldn't have been allowed to do that. ed: and to the clinton foundation. molly: what do you say to the people that make the argument these are investigators that can set any political bias they may have aside and do with their investigation? trish: look everyone has a little bit of bias right? we're all human beings. you can't entirely put aside your bias and even if you could the fact that your wife is

benefiting from people that are close to hillary clinton and now you're running the investigation into her e-mails even if you cohen tirely and i don't believe you can, it doesn't sit right with the american public and these investigators they need to clear a certain bar and this to me is a basic. pete: should be an even higher bar if you think about it. well trish folks can hear more from you in about 11 minutes you're hosting for maria on sunday morning futures. trish: we got a lot we'll talk about the tax plan and what that means for the economy the good stuff. pete: oh, yeah that tax plan. ed: been thinking about that lately. i heard something about that. trish: well you know what? i want it all, right? so it's very good but there are some little things, little loopholes that some folks got away with within the private equity industry that don't make me too happy however i would say it's going to be very good for the american economy and very good for the stock market very good for business. ed: well it's an early christmas present for all of us that normally we get your wisdom

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pete: well we can think of almost no better way to end this christmas eve broadcast than with a song from steve amerson. steve take it away.

♪ come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you ♪ ♪ our cheeks are nice and rosie and comfy cozy are we ♪

♪ our cheeks are nice and rosie and comfy fozzy are we ♪ lets sing a chorus or two, come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you ♪

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ed: photos keep coming in from brian he writes my daughter and son-in-law have another six months on their year car long deployment. pete: god bless them. molly: this is jake deployed in germany until june. pete: that's awesome they found their way over there. this is finley, in san antonio and his mom writes he's clearly not getting it. ed: keep those photos coming friends@fox news.com because molly will be back here. i'll be live starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. pete has the day off. pete: a special four hour fox & friends on the christmas holiday

molly: it is going to be epic. rick plans? >> no i'll be in pajamas. ed: merry christmas everyone. pete: merry christmas to all of you today and thank you for making christmas great again. trish: good morning and merry christmas everyone. president trump and congress settle in for the holiday break after passing historic tax reform. is infrastructure next? reports surface of a big retirement at the fbi and north korea starts talking tough again , hello everyone i'm trish regan in for maria bartiromo and this is sunday morning futures. tax reform is done and it looks like infrastructure will be the president's next big push. he wants bipartisan support but will democrats play ball? i'll talk to former congressman jason chafits, also embattled deputy fbi director andrew mccabe may be gearing up for retirement what's that mean for the allegations of