one of my favorite scenes is when he picks the gum off of the subway, which santa specifically said do not eat the gum off of the sidewalk. all right, "happening now" now. >> jon: at those two have me wiping a tear off of my eye. president donald trump opening up about the russia investigation. good morning to you. i am jon scott. >> heather: and i am heather childress. happy new year in advance. >> jon: and happy new year to you as well. >> heather: in fact, in this "new york times" interview, demanding immigration reform, and a message to democrats. saying that he has faced robert

mueller, and he will eventually be cleared of any wrongdoing. we are in west palm beach, florida. it looks pretty nice there, rich. >> it is beautiful here. the president to sitting down with a 30 minute interview with "the new york times." he claimed multiple times there was no collusion between his 2016 campaign and the russian government and it denied that the russians helped him in that effort. the president said "i did not deal with russia. i won because i was a better candidate by a lot. i won because i campaigned properly and she did not. she campaigned for the popular vote, i campaigned for the electoral college." he was also asked if he believed whether the justice department should reopen the investigation into hillary clinton's the deleted emails. it to that, he said i have the absolute right to do what i want with the justice department, but he wants to stay out of that. he then turn to international matters and to china, again responding to the reports that

originated in south korea that china had illegally provided energy to north korea. it to that, china denied it. he said "i have been soft on china because the only thing more important to me then trade is at war, okay?" he is suggesting that he has gone soft on trade on the trade issue so that china can go after north korea, and if that changes in that relationship will change. he said that democrats could have gotten a better deal on the tax law if they had negotiated. also switching to domestic matters in congress, talks about immigration in a tweet this morning. this is separate from the interview. he said "the democrats have been told and fully understand that there can be no daca without the desperately needed a wall at the southern border." the ridiculous lottery system, we must protect our country at all cost. the president has been urging over the last couple of days via

twitter and other venues that democrats and republicans should work together on the 2018 agenda. he wants a a $11 trillion infrastructure. he will speak with the senate in the first weekend of the year in camp david to talk about that agenda. >> heather: you never know when he is going to open up and just give a full on interview like that. it's so good for "the new york times" were getting it. >> jon: lets dive a little bit more deeply into that now. "there has been no collusion, but i think he is going to be fair. the only thing that bothers me about the timing, it is a very bad thing for the country because it makes a country look bad. it makes the country looked very bad, and put the country in a very bad light, so the sooner it is worked out, the better for the country."

chief washington correspondent for politico. happy new year to you. >> and you too. >> jon: is this a case of the president trying to work the case a little bit? he has been accused of doing that. >> he spoke about collusion i think 16 times and that the portion of the transports that "the new york times" put out. but it is a word that he threw around a lot, saying that there was no collusion for anything that he was involved in, but there was collusion for what the democrats were involved in in the 2016 election. it is sort of a word stripped of meaning in the way that he is talking about it. what he is clearly showing is that he is frustrated by this investigation continuing and wishes that it would be wrapped up, saying that it is bad for the country. people can debate that. it certainly hasn't been good for him politically. all of the time and effort that has been put into thinking about this investigation and wondering about where it is going to go.

>> jon: all, it is true that everything we have learned up to this point, the indictments that have been brought up so far, don't tie up to the white house really at all. there is a case of lying to an fbi agent, and there is michael flynn with his business dealings. same with paul mena ford. but nothing that ties directly to the campaign. >> we just don't know enough to make any real assessment of it. we do know that michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi and his office in the west wing as the national security advisor to president trump, so that does go to the white house. the question is whether that was just michael flynn or whether there is more coming to it. one thing that has been thought about by a lot of people analyzing this is that michael flynn is a pretty big fish in this investigation and was giving a plea deal for a pretty small charge. that would seem to point to the fact that bob mueller thinks that there is more that he can get out of michael flynn.

that there are ways to play that forward and maybe go after a bigger target and more information. >> jon: of course, the fact that his attorney general recused himself from the entire thing is part of the reason that we have a meal or investigation. the president seemed to express some frustration about that. "i don't want to get into loyalty, but i will tell you that i will say this holder protected at president obama. it totally protected him." that is from "the new york times" quote. is that bitterness? that jeff sessions should have never recused himself? >> that does seem to be the thing that he keeps coming back to. that would not have precipitated the need perhaps for a special counsel to be appointed, and also puts it so that it is the

number two in the justice department, rod rosenstein, not to jeff sessions himself. about that being said, the appointment of mueller was precipitated by the firing of jim comey and everything that happened there. so it is not such an easy line to just to say well, if jeff sessions ahead and recused himself, it would not have been. >> jon: you have to be looking forward to 2018. >> there has been no shortage of news, and i don't think that any of us are expecting that to stop it. >> jon: thank you. >> heather: it fox news alert for you now. at 12 people are dead, including four children after a fire ripped through an apartment building in the bronx in new york early this morning. the mayor is said that this is in fact the deadliest fire in a nearly 25 years.

>> this is the worst fire tragedy we have seen and that this is city in at least a quarter of a century, based on the information that we have now, this will rank as one of the worst losses of life to a fire in many, many years. with that story, david miller is live for us with the latest details. >> authorities now say that the cause of the fire was a 3-year-old who was playing with the stove and a first-floor apartment. he fled along with the boy and his sister. the apartment's front door was left open, and that is one thing as it turned a tragic. >> this fire quickly spread up the stairs. a fire travels up the stairway, acting like a chimney. it took the fire so quickly upstairs that people have very little time to react. they couldn't get back down the stairs. those that tried, a few of them

perished. >> the fire also spread because residents opened windows, creating an abstract. among the 12 that are four children, the youngest was a 1-year-old. four people remained in critical condition. firefighters arrived on the scene in little more than 3 minutes. about 170 of them worked in subzero temperatures to save lives. people who lived in the building and nearby said that the five-story apartment house became an inferno. the fire commission said that this was new york's most lethal fire in 25 years. authorities are still trying to learn if the smoke detectors had been working. heather. >> heather: i did not know about opening windows, all of that information that is just so sad. thank you, david lee. >> jon: in the meantime, the head of the house intelligence committee blasting the department of justice and the

fbi for failing to turn over documents related to the anti-trump dossier. congressman nunez suggesting that's the fbi and justice department should be investigating themselves and demanding all records by januar january 30. >> heather: well, a place of worship turned into a scene of carnage. ten people killed outside of a church in cairo. just the latest deadly attack targeting at egypt's christian minority. what we know a government aboue government, next. our panel is unpacking president trump's major points ahead. from the moment you met you wanted to surround them in

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>> jon: a fox news alert. a violent and deadly attack outside of a church in egypt. at two gunmen on motorcycles

opening fire on crowds, killing ten people, including police officers. this is just the latest incidents of violence against christian christians in egypt. we go live to london with more. >> yes, we are looking at another attack on the christians in egypt, this time around the holiday. they were armed with assault rifles, a lot of ammunition, possibly explosives. they shot up the front of the church in a southern neighborhood of cairo. police were on the spot. they killed one, they were chased down, and among those killed were police as well as worshipers, including among the injured were women, and children. there is no claim of responsibility so far, but they are said to be a known jihadist, an egyptian branch of isis have

a claimed responsibility for attacks like this in the past. this is a another blow for the president of egypt. he has made this a major policy of his administration. a strong supporter of those policies, but since 2013, he has cracked down on. terrorism in egypt has only grown. 100 christians have been killed in a number of attacks in the past year or so. they are the largest religious minority in egypt, but isis has been mostly active on the egyptian sinai peninsula, but as we have seen today, possibly elsewhere. cairo, alexandria. also at the scenes of attacks by isis or jihadist. the you have to believe that the security will be doubled up now.

>> jon: and the police were unable to protect them this tim time. greg from our london bureau. aggregate, thank you. >> heather: well, back at home, worn out from that "new york times" interview with president trump. end of the president says that he wants to work with the democrats on a deal to protect the so-called dreamers. immigrants who came in as children illegally with their parents. but the president said that he still needs to hold up his campaign promise. "we can do a great infrastructure plan through bipartisanship appeared and we can do on emigration and daca in particular, something that could be terrific thereby partisanship appeared but i would not do the plane without a wall because we needed. we need the wall." so we bring in our panel. amy holmes is a political analyst, and doug jones is also

a fox news contributor. thank you both for joining us today. >> thank you. >> heather: so "the new york times" looking out again in this exclusive interview. the president has talked very clearly about areas where he feels that there is room for bipartisanship appeared it is an agreement from both sides. do you agree with them, amy, i will start with you. it can both sides come together on that? >> boy, that is a tough one. and nancy pelosi, the leader of democrats in the house, she says that the democrats are going to try to take this on with dreamers by the end of the air, and she felt on that promise. in fact, a lot of groups don't believe that the democrats really want to find a solution, that they would rather have an issue going into 2018 to campaign against republicans. but i think it should be a bipartisan issue. most americans agree, we need border security. we also need -- most americans agree that we need a compassionate approach to young people who came here through no

fault of their own, not of their own volition. they grew up in the united states, and so they are very much a part of our country. there needs to be proper compassion to address that. >> heather: dugger, the democrats agree to to the spending bill forward, that they have to reach by january 19th. they were upset with democrats who agreed it to do that's moving forward because they didn't want daca to be a completely separate issue, so how will this impact democrats moving forward? >> well, it is complicated. i think democrats would do better to have a clean continuing resolution on the budget and on the debt, and it to do the kind of deals that they president describes. look at, this is a giant step in the right direction that we should be completely positive. not point fingers retrospectively budget proactively saying if you can get a deal on the daca and some sort of border security, we will be stepping forward. i would take it a step forward

and say hopefully, comprehensive immigration reform, but even if we don't do that, if we get a deal there, we come up with a way to do the infrastructure through some sort of public-private partnership, we are way ahead of the game, and it will be a win-win for both parties. >> heather: but combining immigration reform, funding for the border wall? in exchange for allowing these dreamers in the daca to stay here. >> i think when you have bipartisanship and both sides get something that they want, both sides win it, and frankly come the democrats have moved too far to the left. just get them back to the center. if you ask me whether this is a positive for the democrats, i would say it is a huge positive, and it would be the first step, as i indicated, to a broader agreement. the democrats want to retake the house, and the only way that they can do it is to win

districts that were very competitive or donald trump won. >> heather: how do you think about this in terms of the midterm elections coming up? they said "that g.o.p. congressman said to them that this is a president a defining moment in terms of what happens with daca and immigration reform moving forward." >> remember that emigration was one of the number one issues that got president trump into the white house. he has an obligation to deliver on that campaign promise, which was very popular among his voters. we saw illegal border crossings of dropping specifically. in terms of putting this together, where you get the real sticking points is the president's insistence on ending chain migration. we have not talked about that. that is something that the democrats have been a very strongly opposed to.

they like chain migration. some would say that it is sort of cynical, self-serving electoral points, but in terms of how does this play out in 2018, a lot of it has to do with turnout. and in 2018, he tends to be older voters. a little bit more conservative leaning, but again, also remember that in the first midterm, that president it generally looses seeds in his own party. >> heather: in terms of chain migration, it is a problem that has to be discussed. for every two new immigrants to the u.s., they bring in about seven foreign relatives within them, so the numbers just continue to increase. thank you both for joining us. we appreciated. have a great new year, bye-bye. steel and speaking of the new year, preparations are underway. we are in the heart of times square. looking at what the nypd is doing to protect partygoers who want to brave the cold. a live report as of next.

>> heather: welcome back. el frank and i said that he will continue to make his voice heard after he leaves office next wee. >> here is my promise to you. i may be leaving the senate, but i am not giving up my voice. we still have a lot of work to do together on issues ranging from net neutrality to climate change. >> heather: probably not too surprising that franken made those remarks as he was saying good-bye to his supporters into minneapolis yesterday. the former "saturday night live" cast member -- his successor will be sworn in next wednesday. >> jon: will come of the nypd

stepping up security for new year's eve and light of recent attacks in the city. safety is of course a top priority, but this year, and added concern. the cold. bitter temperatures expected. it could be the coldest new year's eve in decades in new york city. still, about a million people expected to be in times square to watch the iconic ball drop at. so, how cold are we talking about, brian? [laughs] >> well, we are talking about a 10 degrees. that is the forecast from the national weather service. that means that the windchill is going to be below zero, and people are out here for hours. sometimes 12 hours trying to get the best spot to see that ball drop. when bill de blasio was asked about the weather yesterday, this is what he had to say. >> i admire people who want to stand there many hours in the cold. that takes a special

personality, but the fact is it will absolutely be safe, as you can hear from the preparations. but i tell you this much, if you are going to venture out, bundle up, where long underwear. bring at hand warmers. all of those basics. take the weather very seriously. >> if the forecast holds true, this will be the second coldest new year's eve in new york city history. the first ball drop in at 1917 was at a 1 degree here in new york city, and then this would be the coldest since 1962. but look at, you are pretty much on your own in terms of preparation. let's take a listen. we spoke about whether or not they are going to brave the temperatures. >> i couldn't do it, i actually don't understand how they do it. >> no, we are flying back home. we decided not to put up for the fight with a cross. >> no, i think it is more fun to do it in the cold actually. because yeah.

>> more fun. [laughs] that is 25 million pieces of confetti that will drop it. and some of those confetti messes actually have messages written about people's wishes and 2018. as you can see, tours are throwing it around and playing with it here. so already, the festivities are beginning. >> jon: will come of the good news is you are only a couple of blocks away from our mothership here. so if you get called it, you can come to the office for some hot chocolate, okay? >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> jon: why are they testing the confetti? are they wondering if gravity still works? >> heather: have you ever been out there for new year's eve? >> jon: you know, no. >> heather: you know? i did it the first year that i moved here. >> jon: crowds in cold weather are not necessarily my favorite. >> heather: you have to do it once, just once. it to say that you did it.

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>> heather: well, a bonfire in connecticut ends with a death of all two dozen horses inside. investigators believe that the

fire started overnight. it started in a storage room in the center of the area and was smoldering for hours. right now, police say that the fire appears to be an accident. >> jon: a part of president trump's extensive "new york times" interview we were telling you about a moment ago focuses on what the president believes he will win a second term in the oval office. he says that the media, which he often criticize, will play a big role in making it happen. the president of saying "another reason that i'm going to win another four years is because knoop's television, all forms of media will tank if i am not there because without me, ratings are going down the tubes." radio talk show host and emily scheier, a journalist who has appeared in "the new york times," "the washington post," and "the daily beast" as well. emily, let's start with you. what do you think. would it ratings tank if we don't reelected donald trump?

>> i think that the big issue with the sentiment is that it goes against his sentiment that he has been pushing, that the media's out to get him, that the media is actively thwarting his success. you can't logically say that the media needs him and that the media wants him to be reelected while constantly making it your favorite punching bag. soon tammy, what do you think? >> well, look, he is the world's best troll. i laughed out loud. let me just to suggest that yes, since 2016, the media was out to get him. we were assessing the nature of the impact the media would have, and clearly what we are finding out is that they are not having any impact on him. he has in fact loving this job, he is committed to it, and he is realizing the fact that he is able to get his message out beyond them and above their heads, so this is really the ultimate trolling in a telling of liberals that the media, in their obsession with him, are

only hurting themselves. they are actually helping him by exposing themselves and their biases. so he is accomplishing things on a few fronts in addition to reminding the american people that the american media is not what it used to be. they use to control the narrative. they use to control what we thought was reality, and those days are over. so i think it is pretty funny, and he is doing a great job at. >> jon: the choice of the venue was interesting here, emily, because there is probably no media outlet that he has criticized more than "the new york times." he has called it a fake news and so forth, and yet, he gives them at this big wide-ranging end of your interview. why them? >> that is a curious question. i think that is why the interview took so many people by surprise. but to the point, it's presupposes that he has had a successful year. the fact is his popularity numbers are tanking, and even with how the house and senate is

on his side, he struggles to get even basic legislation pushed through. perhaps, he is reaching out to "the new york times" at the end of the year to suggest that he has been more successful than he is, that he has had more success with the media then he has, and it has not had an impact on him. but it is clear that even with the house and senate on his side, he has struggled to get anything done this year. >> jon: speaking of fake news, let's talk about this. in a blogger, the facebook organization says that by showing these articles, rather than a disputed flanks, we can help give people a better context and understand what is false and what is not. it will be crucial to our success over time. this is because facebook was trying to flag articles that's they deemed to be fake news, tammy, and all of a sudden, people were clicking on those things like mad. >> yes, this is what is interesting about this idea. a facebook thought that we were all waiting for mommy to tell us

what we should read and what we should do, and it's made us more curious about what they were saying. but the answer to what you might think is bad news or bad information is more. more information, more context, more speech. so it is interesting that facebook finally got to that point, that individuals are going to make up their own mind. we understand the nature of what is going on. we realize we are not going to get perfect information and that some people, god forbid, may lie to us, like politicians and a journalist. and we know these things. this has always been the answer. when there are attempts to censor, of course, civil libertarians like myself argue that's the answer is not to stop or segregate, but to bring out more information and have more of a conversation, and even when it comes to the president as an example, just as a touchback to that last segment, his approval ratings yesterday match the barack obama's approval rating,

despite efforts by media to control the nature of what americans think is happening. if so, we will now discern what works and what doesn't, and i am glad that facebook finally realized that. >> jon: but it is not just politicians who are known to issue lies. the russian government was sending out propaganda in this last election. >> yes, i can't completely agree with tammy that it is very difficult. we don't want facebook in the position of policing legitimate media sources. the problem is that facebook admitted that 150 million americans were exposed to content is generated by propaganda sources, and to the issue is when a russian agent is disguising themselves and are media sources to spread false information. that is what facebook needs to grapple with. we don't want facebook policing people's political opinions or a conservative editorial commentary. that is not the problem. how do we deal with it when

russia and other foreign agents are infiltrating the system? that is a very serious question and one that's they will be dealing with for many years to come. >> jon: a fellow named it barack obama may news this week. 15 minutes of fame when he sat down with britain's prince harry in which he seemed to criticize his successor. what did you make of that? >> well, look at, i like the royal family. i like them better when they don't talk about politics, righ right? and the british don't want them to talk about politics either, and i want harry and his soon to be new wife to be very happy, but she is an american a liberal who doesn't like the present. it is disappointing that he is moving into this kind of framework. but it is not surprising for barack obama, who has been effectively downsized. he wants to be relevant, as it barack obama having fun, talking to prince harry. he is changing world.

so we need to look at this more in an entertainment framework. the ex-president, barack obama, always like to television and being honest and having some fun in that regard. so perhaps, this is his way of attempting to feel relevant, so i think that we have got our own dynamic here that is much more interesting and much more relevant. >> jon: they are friends, emily, talk about dealing with a friendly reporter. prince henry harry and barack a are friends. >> i would have not expected him to deliver a particularly hard-hitting interview. i thought it was interesting that he did not name call, which it seemed to echo his wife's words. she never called out of president trump. that has been their style since he has been running. he just seem to continue it with his interview with harry. it was a softball interview. >> jon: all right, emily

scheier, tammy bruce. we will have you both back. >> heather: well, apple wants your trust back after admitting to slowing down your iphone on purpose. we will tell you what the tech giant is it doing to try to make amends. >> i have an older apple. i have noticed it is slower. i don't know if it is my imagination or if it is part of what they did to their software. but does it surprise anybody? you know, how do you get people to buy your new products? life happens.

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in an effort to try to do what we can and to create obstacles to people trying to carry out some of these attacks that we have seen throughout the nation and around the world. >> jon: police are warning up the parade goers to expected more traffic >> heather: it is always beautiful. well, apple is now apologizing for micromanaging the performance of older phones. the company is coming under fire in recent weeks after users notice that their phones were slowing down, and now, they are trying to make it up to customers. hillary vaughn is live up for us and our los angeles newsroom. apple said they did it for us, it was all for the consumers. >> that's right, that is exactly what they are saying. they have admitted to slowing down older iphones, but that could have huge implications for them down the line. to be clear, apple was apologizing not for a hardware flaw or glitch, but a decision they made to tamper with users

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>> heather: welcome back to "happening now." more on the interview with president trump. the pressure of the rogue regime to abandon its nuclear weapons. here are some more excerpts from that interview. he has been soft on china because the only thing more important to me then trade is worth. oil is going into north korea. that was not my deal. my deal was that we have got to treat them rough. they are a nuclear menace. we have to be very tough. adjoining the now, a former cia analyst. director of analysis on sanctions and illicit finance. a thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. all right. so, in this "new york times" interview, the president talks about the china, and he is referencing these u.s. spy images that show, at least according to this report from a

south korean newspaper that chinese that ships have transferred oil to north korea about 30 times since october. that isn't part of the deal, he is right, so what needs to happen next? >> well, i think what this shows is that there is definitely a difference between what china says they are doing in regards to sanction, and which they are doing on the ground within the water. this is a really good example of the need for more sanctions, targeted sanctions. this ship was first reported by south korean authorities about a month ago, and it was after the u.n. security council resolution that said the country had it to identify suspected north korean illicit activities and impounds those vessels that the south koreans actually took action. so this is a sign that there should be more of a crackdown on the north korean ballistic activity. >> heather: it is not the

first time that china hasn't shown to be soft on sanctions that have been imposed. >> absolutely. you know, china has a pretty lengthy history of really colluding. china is responsible -- they trade with north korea for about 90% of their trades, so china is a key enabler of the north korean regime getting funding. this has happened with oil, there was a bandit -- i'm sorry, this has happened with cole, china has allowed it to occur, so this is not something new. i think again, it is a sign that more sanctions actually are needed. >> heather: you and when you talk about more sanctions, it is because we are running out of time. it targeted sanctions, but stuff has been tried before too, by a president trump. he has done this to a chinese bank and company.

that was just back in june. that obviously did not work then. >> well, i say it is a drop in the bucket. evening sanctions as a game of deceptions, so sanction countries, they figure out a way to get around sanctions coming into the way that you come about that is by going after the networks. the deception is, as we pointed out, the ship to ship transfer. that is a method so that the train can happen offshore, but there are companies, chinese companies that are involved in that shipping activity, so those companies have to be targeted. you can't just have a sort of broad sanction regime without targeting the actual company, actual individuals that are involved. >> heather: and there are a couple of things that china does not want. they don't want a huge humanitarian crisis on their border with north korea, when it comes to cutting elevated to north korea. that is one of their big concerns. also, having a huge military

presence from the u.s. they're on their border as well. >> and you know, i would like to say the next step does not have to be getting us to the brink of war. really, the next step is getting at north korea also china where it hurts, which is in the pocketbook. if you look at what happened with iran sanctions a few years ago, it was one its cost other countries. and something similar has to happen. so it is really companies, the banks that are involved with this sort of trade that need to be targeted. >> harris: >> heather: you talkt the pocketbook it, in terms of china, in this interview, president trump went on to talk about the trade deficits. and the numbers are staggering. he said we have a trade deficit of $350 billion, minimum, and that does not include the theft of intellectual property, which is a another 300 billion. so there is a lot of money to lose. >> well, yes.

there is a long list of complaints that we can and should launch at china for which they are doing in terms of business practices, and this is just one part of it, so there needs to be a reckoning with china. how they do their business, and how they are not living up to their part of the bargain. >> heather: one of the very first things that president trump talked about on the campaign trail was china. thank you so much for joining us. have a great new year. >> you too. >> heather: and we will be right back.

>> an 18-wheeler carrying $50,000 worth of avocado going up in flames. it spilled 40,000 pounds of avocados across the road and catching fire. no one was injured in the crash we're happy to report. the cause is under investigation. it's hard to get a good avocado this time of year.

>> a melted one at that. what can you use that for? something. >> warm guacamole, i guess. good to have you here. >> happy new year. >> the same to you. "outnumbered" starts now. >> this is a fox news alert on president trump's saying again there is no russia collusion. telling "the new york times" that even if there was collusion, it's not a crime and that he thinks robert mueller's probe only makes the united states look bad. this is "outnumbered". i'm kennedy. here today republican strategist lisa boothe. editor of town hall.com katie pavlich. former deputy spokesperson for the state department is marie harf and joining us for the first time assistant editor for the editorial page at the "wall street journal" james freeman, fox news contributor and welcome to the show. >> good to be here, it is