you a healthy and prosperous new year. i'll see you on fox business. >> president trump says the world is watching iran as demonstrators risk their lives protesting against the islamic regime in that nation. we'll go live to winter white house with more than that. leland: and thousands of confidential e-mails of huma abedin at least four marked classified. now from the state department, we've got the highlights. gillian: and just moments from now, the giant crystal ball in times square will do a test run. expected to be one of the chilliest on record. our adam fox is monitoring everything from the extreme weather center.

what can you tell us about tomorrow? >> arctic air is piling up in the center of the country and that's going to be sweeping towards new york city. it's going to be a cold one. all of that coming up on america's news headquarters. ♪ >> welcome to america's news headquarters from washington d.c. live. i'm gillian turner. leland: nice to be with you. perhaps you're enjoying the weekend indoors as cold as it is. a lot of news this weekend. president trump still on violation vacation, and dropping a bombshell about the growing anti-government protests in iran. our own steve harrigan live in west palm beach as the president is in the last days of his vacation. hi, steve. >> leland, some back and forth between the united states and

iran coming on the heels of three days of protests across a number of iranian system. it started as economic anger and spreading to anti-government protests as well. 11 p.m. the president tweeted the following, many reports of peaceful protests by iranian citizens fed up with regime corruption and squandering of the nation's wealth by sponsoring terrorists abroad. the world is watching. that tweet by the president drew a sharp response from iran's foreign ministry, in a statement read out on state television, iranian people give no credit to the deceitful and opportunistic remarks of u.s. officials or mr. trump. those protests and anti-government and protests, nothing scheduled officially on the agenda, he was seen this morning in a white golf shirt. despite the weather here, 60

degrees and overcast, he may be playing golf again mere at the winter white house. leland: steve harrigan there on duty. back to steve if the president has anything to do about iran or anything else. gillian has more. gillian: and iran quoted iran's spokesperson saying the iranian people give no credit to the deceitful or opportunistic remarks of the u.s. officials or mr. trump. breaking it down, a white house reporter for "the washington post." josh, thanks for being here on this busy tweet storm weekend from the president. so, i want to break down this iran tweet first. president essentially saying iranian citizens have every right to protest and they should be allowed to do so. the regime should not interfere. now, it struck me reading this, this sounds an awful lot like what president trump used to say

when he was in office. what do you think? >> to illuminate the challenges for the president, what can you do, go after sharp rhetoric, go after protesters and at the end of the day you have limited options. the president struck a different tone than president obama on the nuclear deal. and the justice department is looking into whether the obama administration did on the deal and relations with hezbollah. at the end of the day, there's not a lot the president can do, but monitor. gillian: and draw distinction between the iranian opposition and that's the position that he's come around to on this issue. i want to switch tacts quickly. this is tweet storm saturday. the president tweeted a poll about his approval ratings. he said while the fake news loves to talk about my so-called low approval ratings, fox and

friends showed my rating as of december 28th was approximately the same as president obama's on the same day in 2009, which was 47%. what do you think about that? >> the president lives to cite the rasmussen poll and often shows him higher than other polls. the president's approval ratings have been historically low. they've offered in the 30's and low 40's and they've slipped and slid here and there, but the rasmussen poll shows him higher and the president cites internal polls from the rnc which poll more about his base, what his voters on the campaign trail still think of him and to a large degree most remain with president trump. his overall numbers are not very good. that said, his base numbers remain fairly high. >> it sounds like you're saying this rasmussen poll is nice, but

we can get this more accurately from other polls. >> we know the president is a connoisseur of polls, reading polls every day, the tracking polls, and polls of candidates in different states and wants to know what is this governor doing or how is this senator doing. fascinated with what they say and tweeting about that. >> what about foreigners? ste is he concerned about what people around the world think about him? >> i think it's mostly domestic politics. even on the foreign stage, it's been an eye toward back home. he's often defending domestic politics when he's thinking of what to do in other countries. gillian: we've got 48 hours left in 2017. looking forward to 2018, it's shaping up to be, with the mid terms, it's going to be a tough, tough up-hill battle year for

the white house in terms of implementing the rest of its agenda. you say in "the washington post," that chief of staff john kelly is cognizant of this channel and doing everything he can to prep the white house and gear up for it. you think his first big move is going to be sweeping staff changes inside the west wing. can you break that down for us? >> after a defeat for the virginia, and in alabama where roy moore lost, there's concern from the white house, 2018 the president's numbers not great. and it's hard in a mid term election for the party in power to keep the seats. the white house is trying to bolster those, and bringing in new people ab to the fold, trying to get a strategy with outside groups and super pacs and trying to put together a cohesive effort to keep the current status quo or to stem any losses. >> it sounds like they'll get the internal house of cards in line before they get out to the

mid terms. you've got to put it there with "the washington post." thanks for joining us. be sure to watch fox news sunday. dana perino will be filling in for chris wallace. and take a look at listings for time and channel. media buzz at 11 a.m. eastern time. howard kurtz and his panel and how the media covered president trump's first year in office. >> well, woo we thought we knew about team clinton's classified e-mails? no, the state department releasing e-mails from the laptop of huma abedin's estranged husband anthony weiner, at least four of those classified. and untangling what is a tangled web. hi, garrett. >> we're talking 2500 e-mails we know at least five contain classified information and a lot of the viewers remember it was

these e-mails that prompted former fbi director james comey to reopen the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails two weeks before the election. most are scheduling, talking points with world leaders and a lot of them heavily redacted, particularly those later marked classified. however, this exchange from november 2010, talking points for a phone call with saudi arabia's foreign minister at the time, largely to warn him that wikileaks was about to publish sensitive u.s. diplomatic cables leaked by former army private bradley now chelsea manning. and saying i deeply regret the upcoming wikileaks disclosure and the kind of information released details of private conversations with your government on iraq, iran and afghanistan and i speak your help in preventing wikileaks from undermining our mutual

interest. a. that was forwarded by huma abedin from the laptop of her husband anthony weiner. that lead to weiner being charged with a minor. and there are calls for the justice department to reopen the investigation into clinton's e-mail server. >> anyone else would have been prosecuteded ap this is why the justice department needs to get its act together and reevaluate what james comey did and loretta lynch did in terms of giving hillary a get out of jail free card. >> and there was testimony that abideen didn't know what she did, and there was not intent. as others point out, intent is not a requirement under the charge under the espionage act. leland: thank you, garrett

tenney. gillian: returning to russia, increasing criticism over what many republicans see as political bias tainting the process. and nunez says, at this point the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. and they believe that robert mueller will be fair with him and how he handles the investigation. alison barber joins us with more. >> let's start with that document of devin nunes. he said there were a number of delays and discrepancies as they've spent subpoena requests and that the fbi and doj now have until january 3rd to turn over all outstanding documents relating to the subpoenas. and closed his letter as gillian says, it seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. for weeks now, republicans have criticized the fbi and doj, some

like florida representative matt gates say it's time to fire special counsel robert mueller. republican leadership isn't going quite that far. >> the integrity of law enforcement is paramount and needs to be carried out without any politics or any bias. but i understand the frustration because when you sit back and you look at what has happened, the lack of response. congress has a responsibility of oversight. they have he been ignored. they have been delayed. they have refused to send people in to have hearings or to be questioned. >> democrats say republicans are engaging in thinly veiled efforts to discredit mueller and the investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign. >> we're here today on behalf of at least 171 members of congress who believe special counsel mueller is doing a great job. we're here today -- [applause]

>> on behalf of at least 171 members of congress who believe mr. mueller's investigation should and must continue. >> president trump told the new york times earlier this week that the russia investigation makes the country look bad and that, quote, the sooner it's worked out, the better it is for the country. the times reporter who had this sit-down impromptu, a 30 minute meeting with president trump insisted-- or said that president trump insisted 16 times there has been no collusion discovered in the russia investigation. however, he also said, he thinks mueller will be quote, fair. gillian, the tweet you referred to, russia came up again and he referred to it as a hoax. he seems to have said a lot of din things about russia and the investigation of late, but at times contradict each other. gillian: thanks for that reporting. leland: back to the issue of the fbi, many in congress outraged by the doj and fbi stonewalling

their investigations into the agencies. francis rooney of florida taking the criticism, shall we say, to a new level. >> i would like to see the directors of those agencies, saying we've got a lot of great agents and lawyers here and those are the people i want the americans to see and know the work is being done. leland: joining us now congressman rooney of florida. shockingly folks at nbc and cnn had quite a reaction to your words. take a listen and we'll get your thoughts. >> congressman, you just called the fbi and doj off the rails. fundamentally, how is that something you're okay with talking about here? how does that not sort of undermine the work that these agencies are doing? that's a pretty broad brush you're painting with. are you sure you want to be throwing a word like purge around? >> that all happened before the devin nun

devin nunes letter we heard about from barber. have you been vinndicatevindica. >> i think a lot of us have been saying the same thing. senator nunez and grassley-- and it's the ends justifies the means, and looking at president trump's campaign during the campaigning. we've got to find out. what's the insurance, in quotes, andy's office. why are they stonewalling in they don't have anything to hide. leland: it brings up the question, if there was no special treatment given to hillary clinton and if there was no, i'll use this word broadly, if there was no attempt by members of the fbi to try to perhaps undermine the trump election efforts, why stonewall giving these documents? why stonewall the ig report and the ig investigation? what options does congress have?

what's the next step congress can take to, as you say, get to the bottom of it? >> well, i think if they don't produce those documents on the 3rd of january they should be held in contempt. i think if mr. rosenstein and mccabe don't go back and testify about what was being referred to in you wiall of those meetings the dossier and they could be held in contempt. they need to testify under oath. leland: we've got separations of power here and congress has the oversight and conceivably, you had a republican attorney general in jeff sessions, where does the inflection point come here? you're talking about contempt of congress. does that mean possibly sending these guys to jail? what does it really mean? >> i suppose it's most logical extension, i don't know exactly how contempt works, but i would like to see attorney general sessions investigate from inside these agencies and get to the bottom of what were they doing? why was a guy like bruce orr,

high ranking governor official-- >> you support a second special counselor you believe that many horowitz, who found out about the peter strzok text is enough. >> i think they came up with other corruption within the two organizations about sexual abuses and things, maybe they could do it for the attorney general. you had this orr guy, a government official during a presidential campaign meeting with opposition research people for hillary clinton. leland: all right. i want to get to, next to the to-do list for congress. you're in florida back in your home district. a little bit warmer than up here in washington. but you guys are coming back the second week of january. you only have a couple of days before the next government shutdown deadline. in every time we get up to this, republicans and democrats alike kick the can down the road and many would argue the american

military suffers by extension, the american people suffer. when does this stop? >> well, i would sure hope we stop it right now. we've had two successful short-term cr's, basically add juring to put the priorities in place ap-- >> quickly, would you be willing right now to say i won't vote for another short-term cr? has it gotten to that point yet? >> it's getting pretty close. i want to see what the leadership comes up with when we get back. the house passed precipitations bills. speak are -- speaker ryan passed. leland: we hear from from house members, it's not us, it's the senate. >> thanks for having me on. leland: stay warm in florida, put on sunscreen. happy new year. gillian. gillian: we're learning more about the victims of the deadly blaze that killed 12 people at

an apartment complex in the bronx late thursday evening. officials say that a toddler playing with the burners on a kitchen stove sparked what ultimately became one of the deadliest fires in new york history in the past decades. two of the victims are 56-year-old maria batize and her eight month old baby granddaughter. >> couldn't escape, my sister and the baby eight months old and the smoke-- what happened with the baby, is the baby okay? >> no, the baby granddaughter passed away. >> something that's especially chilling for new yorkers like myself to hear. at least 20 escaped and managed to survive. including maria batiz's daughter, the mother of the eight month old infant who

perished. leland: the massive crystal ball in times square just about to be tested. and tough new words from president trump on china and north korea and trade. a closer look at the tensions between washington and beijing. and a man loses his life after being targeted by pranksters half a country away. how this 911 call started a chain of events that led to his death. >> i'm thinking, pouring gasoline all over the house and i might set it on fire. >> we don't need to do that. >> do you have my address correct?

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>> extreme bitter cold weather

has taken hold of much of the northeastern united states. so how cold is it? well, weather observers conducted this classic experiment in the state of new hampshire at mount washington. and they emptied a pitcher of boiling air, and it instantly turned to snow. it's freezing boiled water. it can cause frostbite in as little as ten minutes. a new system is coming in. adam klotz, should we stay home? >> unfortunately, you should be sitting on your couch. it's going to be frigid across the country. the current temperatures are going to settle further into the country and move farther to the east. you're looking at the northern plains and these are the current temperatures in the negative

teens and negative 20's. you add in the wind and you typically see the temperatures colder. that's what you're getting, wind chills into the negative 30's, the negative 40's in some of the spots ap that's enough that you'll be freezing boiling water if you pour it out in these areas. absolutely frigid. farther to the east, what we're paying attention to, folks as you know, there's been snow falling from pennsylvania up to new york city, getting to the washington area, it's right along the coldest air. so it's back behind the system and it means even colder air is on the way and if you're on the east coast and you stepped outside, you already know, yes, it's frigid right now. here is our wind chill forecast, yes, the coldest air is back off towards the west and it's going to be on the move and settling around 16 degrees this afternoon. and i'll put this into motion for you and you see that settling in this direction and the negatives begin to pile up and taking you there into midnight and monday.

this is new year's day, 10 a.m. and it feels like the entire region, negative, 10 to 15 and in st. louis, where you don't see weather quite this cold and that's what you'll be dealing with for folks in times square. a lot of you, if you need to do it, bundle up. right at midnight. the actual temperature, and watchings negative 2. maybe you should stay on the couch. gillian: i'll take it as a yes. you don't have to confirm or deny. leland: brevity is the soul of wit. and kim jong-un's regime, and next step with north korea, how china fits in. with iran, the world is watching, says the president, as peaceful demonstration and the

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>> day three now of anti-government protests in iran, and we're now hearing that the government itself is staging massive rallies to try and get its citizens on board for their side. kitty logan live from the london bureau with the latest on this, now, about eight years after the green revolution began. hi, kitty. >> hi. well, yes, this was fate and they were scheduled to take place all over the towns and cities. according to the iranian state news agencies, they were

pre-planned ap and meant to mark the 2009 rallies. there were 4,000 on the streets of tehran and demonstrations carrying flags and banners supporting the supreme leader about you reports of other anti-government protests starting up again for a third day running, some of those in tehran, social media posts showed an anti-government gathering, a small one outside tehran university, with people there chanting anti-government slogans and unverified video on twitter appears to show some of the demonstrators being arres d arrested. and they were reportedly outnumbered by pro government counter demonstrators. put in a bigger picture. there have been spontaneous protests around the country in recent days like this one on friday. and these are not huge, but they've sprung up in several places.

they started against rising prices, basic food and other shortages, but the protests have quickly turned political with chants heard against the government and some people angry, apparently, about the iranian government's involvement in other conflicts such as syria, iraq and yemen and social media is showing several of the protests ending in violent clashes with police. according to authorities at least 50 people have been detained so far and iranian tv is saying that most of the people have been released. and they're saying this is illegal and warned against using social media for organizations other demonstrations. president trump has called on the iranian government to respect the rights of the people to protest. that tweet was condemned by iran's government. political protests fairly rare in iran. they're facing high unemployment

there. >> and as kitty pointed out, there's a back and forth now between the united states and iran and big questions now the united states will respond to the potential economic crisis in iran. perhaps how to take advantage of these protests, as the iranians continue their mischief across the middle east. and big differences in how the trump administration is dealing with this, from how the obama administration dealt with it in 2009 and next hour, we'll break that down. gillian: thanks, leland. president trump called out china via twitter and impromptu with the united states, cited evidence of chinese ships offloading to north korean ships. and promised to increase the pressure to the north as beijing continued to deny any wrongdoing. here to help us analyze this, is tom brogan from national review. >> thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you.

gillian: you had in the national review, a poignant message for the president, you said, quote, dear president trump, china is playing you. can you unpack that for us a little bit? >> it was the washington examiner. gillian: i'm sorry. >> used to be national review. no worries. the main take away is that if you look at what president trump's relationship, he obviously has a close personal relationship with xi jinping, the chinese leader, but at the moment it seems one-sided that china pledges to do certain things, but in this case of this oil smuggling, in the case of facilitating north korea financial flow and capital into pyongyang and also in terms of activity in the region and constructing islands in the south and east china seas more broadly, there is a failure to put as much pressure on north korea as perhaps they are pledging and there is also this thought in china that president trump is malable, and able to

control him more than he's able to influence them. gillian: on that point of this interpersonal relationship, let's call it, the relationship between president trump and president xi and the way it plays into the broader relationship between the united states and china, i want to pull up another tweet from the president earlier today, he said, look, i like china and i like him a lot. reference to president xi. when i campaigned i was tough on china in terms of trade. if they're helping me with north korea, i can look at trade differently at least for a period of time and that's what i've been doing, but when oil is going in, i'm not happy about that. again, he's alluding to the importance of his personal relationship with president xi and essentially arguing that that really does greatly affect the broader bilateral relationship. do you agree with that line of thinking? >> there is-- i think there's potential there, but i think president trump needs to show more physical

concern and one example that he could use would be to put on sanctions on a number of smaller chinese banks. frankly, i don't think it would have huge influence until you get to the larger financial institutions, but as a first step it would signal, i think, to the chinese, look, we are seeing the reality in terms of what you are doing or what you are not doing, more precisely and we're responding in a way to try and change that calculus and i think that's something the president could do quite quickly and should do. gillian: what about, you mentioned, you know, the economic ties that bind our countries for lack of a better way of putting it. lots of talk that we're gearing up for some kind of a trade war with china. china says they're going to offer foreign government a tax break, to persuade them to say in china. this is in response to the u.s. trade bill. are we looking at a trade war?

>> you look at president trump and he seems to have backed away from that. because i want help with north korea. gillian: and that might change-- >> might change. frankly the threat that north korea poses, with the ballistic missiles and warheads. chinese eports to the united states and the rest of the world tend to be low valued and things they import from us are higher value and vietnam could offset some exports from china in a sort of trade war situation, i think that the chinese would back down quickly, i think we have more economic leaders, but, of course, that's easy to say sitting here and not in 1600 pennsylvania avenue. gillian: and which ones do we pull for maximum, which of the levers do we pull at any given moment for maximum effect. it seems like the president says, i've given you the benefit

of the doubt for my first year in office, but not more unless you make-- >> and he's dealing with different acts, recently giving arms to ukraine and that shocked people because people thought, some people thought he was very pro russia. gillian: tom rogin, washington examininger, we'll have you back soon. >> thank you. leland: live pictures right now from a very cold and perhaps even snowy, dare i say, times square, ahead of the massive new year's eve celebration. brian llenas, braving the cold. they're testing the ball, we understand. have you seen the ramp up in security ahead of tomorrow night? >> leland, that's right, they just tested the big ball behind me, you can take a look at it right there. there's the big switch that will cause that ball to go up. it takes about two minutes for the ball to rise and then drop

at 11:59 p.m. on new year's eve night and take a full minute for it to fall and 2018 will be here. this crystal ball has over 2600 crystal waterford triangles, specifically made for this ball. it's literally, six tons, is how big this ball is. 12 feet in diameter and they've been doing this type of times square celebration for over-- this will be 114 years now. it used to be an iron and wood ball and just, you know, weighed about 100 pound or so, 700 pound or so, a beautiful ball that will drop in times square. they tested it because the world will watch it, a billion people watching to bring in 2018. this is some of the preparations going on all week and they've tested the confetti, 25 million pieces of confetti here in times

square and they've turned on the lights, the 2018 numbers, and good riddance day and wrote some of their worst memories in 2017 and shredded them in hopes of a better 2018. and on top of that. security is on the mind of everyone. two terror attacks over the last two months here in new york city, so, obviously, security is expected to be and will be tighter than it's ever been for this event. and the dogs are sniffing out for bombs in the arren a people. and police officers and observation routines, all in the hotels and office towers overlooking in response to the las vegas shooting. obviously the worst in u.s. history. everyone in times square will be checked at least twice while they're held up in these pens in the frigid weather. it's not just here in new york city, las vegas has upped their security given the shooting that happened on october 1st there,

over 350 national guardsmen are watching around las vegas now in the strip. obviously, just to help people feel secure, but also, there, because of what happened and the elevated risk, given what we've seen here in new york city. so, they've done that in vegas as well. you know, boston and philadelphia, san francisco, all of these cities have upped up their security with extra sniper and observation teams and police officers on the ground. the test has happened, you see the big switch. the big ball is 12 feet wide and beautiful indeed. it's snowing, we're about 350 feet above the air and that rises-- jimmy, if you go up, maybe. it's up in the air and begins the decent sunday night. the temperature 10 degrees on sunday night. the second coldest new year's eve in new york city history. we will be here for you and so will over a million crazy people who decide to be out here for

ten-plus hours to watch the whole thing. leland: you said crazy, not me, buddy. i'll give you dedicated over the past couple of days and for your work tomorrow night. >> dedicated, yeah. leland: keep it up and best to jimmy and tamara who is out there as well. happy new year. >> thank you. leland: gillian. gillian: coming up, big changes for taxpayers in 2018. we'll break that down for you. it's also been a record-breaking year for wall street. will the trend continue to the new year? diabetes can be a daily struggle, even if you're trying your best. along with diet and exercise, once daily toujeo may help you control your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪ let's groove tonight ♪ ♪ share the spice of life ♪

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(bell sounding) >> it has been a record setting year on wall street. of the major stock indexes made double digit gains during 2017. several factors kept the market on an upward trend.

the global market, and continued to strengthen. and g.o.p. taxover is haul also encourag encouraged investors. leland: that made on friday the major stock indices closed down as people took profits or losses to finish out the 2017 tax year. come tuesday, we will all be living under the new tax bill, lake it or not. this past week for these living in high tax states scrambled to take advantage of the last minute pre-payment deductions especially on state and local property taxes to tell us what it means for your pocket book, bill hoglund of the policy center, nice to see you. we had video of people spending the week between christmas and new years rather than on violation at the property tax office, lining up trying to pre-pay because they thought if they pre-paid 2018 taxes they could deduct them in 2017.

and it turns out they may have been standing in line for naught though. >> depends particularly on the jurisdiction, the individual jurisdiction where they live and whether or not they actually know what their 2018 property taxes are going to be. so it's a little difficult to determine. some of them may be able to deduct it and it depends on the individual jurisdiction they live in. >> presumably there were people who wrote checks and irs an oddly not able to answer the questions. >> and somehow in 2017 you'll get credit for that in 2018. leland: before it's over, bun new york state official said there was great confusion this week. >> absolutely. leland: and as you point out, there's great confusion about what happens on tuesday or perhaps friday, which is the first pay period, if you will, of 2018. >> i don't think you'll see too much on the first of the year, early in january, but the withholding tables about will

come out the end of january and they'll start to see changes in the withholding. and you'll see some results beginning in late january or early february. leland: that's what paul ryan said. he said look, take away the noise and the talking points, the proof will be when the american people look at their paycheck now versus, he said, next year, you're putting when next year is february? >> well, my sense is, yes. february. you'll have to go through the withholding tables, they have to be put out. if you're working, you'll have new tax withholdings and you'll start to see in your paychecks beginning, i'd say in february, march at the earliest. leland: we're in such the infancy and even the smartest tax folks i know still haven't gotten through this bill and figured it out. but, what everyone refers to as a normal middle class average american family, whatever that means, everybody has their own opinion. is there anything they need to be doing differently next year,

a all of a sudden, off the top vis-a-vis this tax bill? >> the issue response, talk to your c.p.a. and tax lawyer. leland: what about people who don't have c.p.a. or. tax lawyer. what about turbo-tax. >> they'll be incorporating into their taxes. bottom line, don't overreact. you're going to get a tax cut and it's going to come sometime in early spring through the holding and you'll start to see this coming out. leland: certainly for people who count on charitable deductions and itemize different things, there are changes here. >> particularly when you double the standard deduction, there may be no incentive to provide the charitable deduction that you did in the past i would go ahead and make those nonetheless. leland: all right. appreciate you being here, sir nonetheless. i think we'll have a lot to talk about in 2018. >> happy new year. leland: gillian. gillian: an armed man shot as he

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>> it's almost like gillian turner will get out of doing to have a meeting in our office. a woman arrested sitting in the back of a police car until she somehow slipped out of his handcuffs and climbs into the front seat and, wait for it,

steals the squad car. mia thornton then led deputies on a 15 minute chase before crashing. she was initially accused of causing another driver to crash after grabbing their steering wheel and her new charges include assault and battery with intent to kill. gillian: don't think i won't be studying that video. ♪ >> and a 911 prank call resulted in the shooting death of an unarmed man. will carr has the details on this development. will. >> and gillian, this stems from a dramatic call authorities in wichita received on thursday. a call from an armed man who said a man was dead and he had hostages and threatening to burn his house down. the only thing, it was a hoax. a hoax called swatting. reporting fake crimes to get the s.w.a.t. team to respond.

>> and i'm pointing the gun. are you sending someone over here? i'm definitely not going to put it away. >> that was fake and when authorities arrived. 28-year-old andrew finch unaccording to the family. went to the door and was shot and killed. this started from an online video game dispute. finch's mother said her son didn't play video games and questions why authorities would open fire simply based on an emergency call. >> the incident is a nightmare for everyone involved, including the family. and our police department. due to the actions of a prankster, we have an innocent vict victim. >> we know the los angeles police department arrested 25-year-old in connection to the case and we know that there have been other swatting calls across the country and becoming a real challenge to are law enforcement agencies. gillian: you know, it's the week between christmas and new year's, just when we're feeling

faith and humanity restored to get a story like this. thanks a lot, will. >> very sad. leland: all right. coming up, the state department releasing thousands of e-mails from top hillary clinton aide huma abedin that had been forwarded to her estranged husband anthony halloweener's laptop. we've tell you what's in them coming up. president trump laying out an ambitious to-do list for congress in 2018. and where could common ground be found and what can get done? we'll talk to a democrat where they're looking to work with the president. . >> the president is working diligently to get ready for 2018, but he's very happy with the results of 2017.

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>> well, it is cold outside! virtually everywhere in america. even in florida here. your glad to be inside with this. this is "america's news headquarters" from washington. >> is is what's making news right now. [video] >> iranians risk their lives to demonstrate against the islamic regime at home. they get shout outs from the president. revelations from the hillary campaign. the state department releases dozens of emails from the private laptop of anthony weiner. the close assistant husband or estranged husband. we have highlights. >> boiling water, freezing the air! yes, it is that cold! how much worse it will get this new year's eve weekend. >> now a fox news alert.the president taking to twitter to

talk about the protest erecting a cross around. steve is here with the latest. >> there has been some sharp back-and-forth between the white house and iran. this comes on the heels of three days of protest. this began with economic outrage and since then has shifted to anger over the political system. president trump tweeting 11 o'clock last night been reports of protest by iranian citizens fed up with the amazing corruption and squandering of the wealth. they should have the right to express themselves. the world is watching. this is followed quickly by sharp response from iran's foreign ministry.the statement read out on state-controlled television and included the following pewter many people give no credit to the opportunist remarks of the us officials for mr. trump. protest and iran continue today

both pro-and antigovernment. >> what about a new year's message from the kremlin for the president trump? >> as is tradition, vladimir putin sending out the new year's best to a number of different leaders including president trump. he says he hopes for a pragmatic cooperation with the us in the coming year. as for the present schedule today, nothing official on his agenda. we did see him in a white golf shirt early this morning. it is likely he is playing golf. >> thank you for the report! >> we will see if we have in the present get about the iran test. this marks the eighth anniversary of the green revolution. hundreds of thousands took to the streets for democracy. this is what president obama said back then. i want to start off by being very clear that it is up to the iranians to make decisions about who iran's leader will be. we respect iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the is being

an issue inside of iran. compare that to jay and president trump streets. the world is watching, # iran protest. here to discuss, the former state department coordinator for the iran's nuclear invitation here jared, good to see you as always. is there an opportunity now if played correctly, some of the iranian regime back on his heels here? >> i think there's very little opportunity for the united states to have a controlled influence inside iran. we do not really -- >> does that mean we should not try? >> basically we should be pursuing our national interest and iran's policy in the region and globally. we snuck into the understanding that domestic politics and iran and the statements from the president or washington you have a controlled affect your assessment as an effective set of iran better than none? how is any stabilizing the

iranian regime right now not a good thing for the united states? >> i think there a lot of answers. i will start off by saying there's no particular reason to believe anything we say or do will have a stabilizing effect. >> so, why not try? >> there dreaded people. there's a strong national sentiment. the idea that our influence will somehow support the protest rather than undermine them, i think is probably not true. more than that i would say the idea that is inherently good or desirable or necessary for the united states to stabilize this is just not true. >> is a regime that hates israel, it is the same regime that has the blood of thousands of americans and american soldiers on its hands. what is the harm in trying? this was the same argument essentially that president obama used in 2009 do not get involved in the green revolution.

yet, when -- was under siege they could not wait to come out and say something to look at why at least not take a chance? >> principal, there is a little bit from president obama. just like president trump -- >> hold on -- >> like president trump he called for human rights in iran. >> hold on. he did not call for the ayatollah to step down. he did not say that that was an illegitimate president. do not try to help the protesters get their message out and allow us attacks to the pictures come out. a lot of folks would say president obama left the protesters and iran out to dry. why not do something different this time? >> i think there is strong reason to believe that overt support from the states were protest inside iran, are counterproductive for the protesters. more than that, if you look at the actual coverage, but we understand is going inside iran. it is very thin right now could we do not have enough of an understanding and the politics of iran to play this game.

>> let me -- hold on. you have given, i get that talking point. i have understood that since 2009. but iran only became more radical peer support of hezbollah only increased. the amount of blood on a meaning hands has only increased. >> that is all a historical. >> want to try something different? >> the iran support for hezbollah has been a consistent part of the regimes policy. she said that their support for brutality in syria increased in 2009, the civil war -- >> you're not answer my question. is what we did, in 2000 and if that did not work. clearly -- >> policy is not made by saying, an impossible goal is not achieved in 2009. >> so is not worth trying something new? >> and again pursuing a possible role.

united states is not in the position and does not need to push for regime change in iran. >> wait, hold on can we do not need regime change in iran? fascinating! well -- a lot of folks would disagree with you. clearly our allies in israel would as well.and folks i have spoke to. jarrett blanc we appreciate your insight. >> good to be here. >> state department releasing thousands of emails from hillary clinton very close a, huma abedin these are found on the laptop of her estranged husband, anthony weiner.some we found out now were classified. garrett tenney has more.>> the state department has released about 2800 emails. of those sober we know of at least five that contained classified information. these cover a four-year scam hillary clinton's time of secretary of state and the both of them are about the logistics of clinton's schedule and travel plans along with notes for meetings with world leaders.

but even a lot of those mundane emails are heavily redacted. after fighting as of the state department had later deemed to be classified, four of them are almost entirely redacted. but the other include talking points where it phone call with saturday's leader to one about wikileaks plans to have sensitive medications between us government and allies. they suggested that clinton say, i deeply regret the wikileaks disclosure and quote - i seek your help in preventing mcguinnes from undermining our mutual national interest. this new batch of emails are from the private email account of huma abedin. not the state account. they were discovered by the fbi and a laptop that she shared with her husband, anthony weiner while he was being investigated for sexting with a

minor. and this morning on fox and friends a groups president said there again calling on the justice department to take action. >> i think for the half-million people with security clearance that allow them access to classified information such as this. they all know the rules are and i guarantee most of them are upset that hillary clinton and huma abedin got away with this outrageous violations of law. >> james comey testified on capitol hill that investigators chose not to recommend any charges because they believe that huma abedin did not know what she was doing was against the law. >> thank you for that garrett. >> despite the holiday recess, one congressman just now talking about possible contempt charges against doj officials for the continued stonewalling. house intelligence committee chairman saying quote - at this point, it seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. ellison barber during this now with more. this is not just about congressman starting out on

television. this is about real letters and real demands that carry the weight of one branch of the us government. >> right, fox news obtained a letter that came from the house intelligence committee from chairman nunez addressed to rod rosenstein. it begins by saying the house intelligence committee quote - rights and responsibility department of justice, doj and the federal bureau of investigations failure to produce responsive documents and provide the requested witnesses in compliance with subpoenas issued four months ago. nunez is requesting more documents related to that trump dossier. he says there were a number of delays in discrepancy as they sent subpoena request. any says the fbi against doj have until january 3 to turn over all outstanding documents related to august 24 subpoenas. weeks now, republicans have criticized the top doj officials and fbi officials.

at least three house republicans it's a special counsel, robert mueller, needs to lose his job or south carolina senator lindsey graham says that robert mueller is the right guy for the job but he is not looking at the dossier and in grams view from another special counsel should. >> i sent some time in the last couple of days after lot of fighting with the doj to get the background of the dossier. this is what i can tell you. i'm very disturbed about what the department of justice did with this dossier. we need special counsel to look into that. >> democrats say attack on the fbi and doj are a distraction and republic is not interested in facts or the truth. instead, they want to discredit the special councils russian investigation and anything they might find. we do not now have a lot of time but i point out there is a new article that came out about 30 minutes ago from "the new york times". in it, they allege that the entire russian investigation did not really begin with the dossier as we have heard the president and other politicians say. they are claiming that it

actually started after a tip came from australia with george papadopoulos. apparently sat at a bar and talk to one of our stressed-out diplomats and mentioned that russia had political dirt about hillary clinton. there say not to perhaps -- and sitting at a bar in australia! that is a new one. we will come up with a diagram and a chart. this article just dropping from "the new york times". we'll do more of our own reporting to see if we can't get more throughout the weekend for sure. interesting stuff here. tell us, more stuff from the president about robert mueller. you have a lot of people in congress saying that they want robert mueller fired, they think he is leading a bad investigation. the president, a lot more tempered shall we say then that. >> yes. a couple of weeks ago white house attorney said he expected this entire investigation to wrap up fairly soon. most legal experts say this is

not the only investigation into motion and the 2016 election. some happening on the hill as well. the senate intelligence committee is looking into it. and a chairman talked about the timeline for the investigation earlier this month as council on foreign relations. he said it would be over when they are done interviewing everything. >> every interview, there may have been another individual. with every new story there have been another individual that was added. every individual that is added, puts about three more weeks into an investigation. that is my it makes it difficult for me to look at. >> white house is called the investigation a hoax. the president didn't tell "the new york times" that he thinks robert mueller will treat them fairly. when you look at the latest report coming from "the new york times", you have to think that alone, that -- >> it might not be over anytime soon but not only has the president said he thinks he will be treated fairly but also

ironclad. that he will not fire robert mueller. it is something we keep here over and over again. despite what the president has to say. ellison barber, thank you. get to see you as always. in the last hour we had the gop perspective on all of this. direct from congressman francis rennie who has a message to investigators. >> i think if they do not produce those doctrines on 3 january to be held in contempt. i think mr. rosenstein did not go back and testify about what was being referred to in all of the meetings about the dossier and stuff, they could be held in contempt for that also. >> join us nothing of this of the aisle. we have a congressman joining us. from the other side of the aisle. which sort of side of the presidents argument are you on when it comes to the russian investigation? is this a hoax or is robert mueller treating everybody

fairly? >> well, i mean i do not really draw my conclusions by the various positions of the president that he takes. i think this is a case where a republican president appointed a republican attorney general who appointed a republican special counsel. he is doing his job. he ought to be able to do the job that he was tasked with and it has produced some clear evidence of wrongdoing. there have been guilty pleas, there have been indictments of senior officials very close to the president. >> congressman dan kildee, sorry to each object. but what do you say to conservatives and republicans who push back that say there has been no stone cold of collision between the president and the campaign and russia and kremlin for. >> first of all, i'm not sure anyone can draw that conclusion before the process is

completed. but when you have the national security advisor, lies to his own administration about his relationships with russian officials, i think it does at least raise the question that ought to be answered. i do not think we ought to get too far ahead of ourselves. we ought to allow the process to complete its appear we have said on the onset that this investigation will take some time. i've been administration officials that indicated that they thought it would be wrapped up very quickly. nobody who was really thoughtful about this ever thought that it would ever be wrapped up quickly. let's let mr. mueller do his job. let's follow the rule of law and allow the process to conclude itself. and we ought not be judged. >> there is plenty to occupy the white house and a junior colleagues on the hill where we make an investigation to wrap up. >> true. >> i do not want to be the bearer of bad news. but when you return from recess in the new year, there is a backlog of really important agenda items that you and your colleagues had to tackle. i'm talking about things like

dealing with additional aid for hurricane victims across the country, everywhere from california to puerto rico. lifting the debt ceiling, reviving the children's health insurance plan and legislation to provide relief for dreamers. can you cherry pick for me, what are your priorities here when you return from recess? >> all of those are important. obviously, dealing with the children's health insurance program is a very high priority. certainly, coming to some conclusion on dreamers. the thing about both of those, those are really bipartisan issues. the chip program itself is bipartisan, has been for a long time. >> safety say it is a little easier to work out? >> well, you would think it would be. i think it should have been worked out long before this. but it is a new year, we ought to be able to going to the year with the idea that we can get something done. but another one is daca.

>> congressman, i wanted to pull up a tweet from the present yes equities of the democrats have been told and fully understand that there can be no daca without the desperately needed wall at the southern border and an end to the horrible china migration and ridiculous lottery wisdom of immigration, etc. what is your reaction to that? >> that is hit threat. that he will not deal with daca unless he gets something else in exchange for it. if the president was to actually sit down and negotiate with democrats, i am all ears! in fact, maybe the president is watching. i've been trying to get a hold of him to talk about water infrastructure one year, no answer. we are open to conversation. daca is a situation where you have republicans and democrats taking essentially the same position. saying that we should codify this. we should do it president obama actually anticipated would happen after he initiated daca in the first place. and that was not would make this law. if we took it to the floor of

the house. with or without a wall, if you took it to the floor of the house without any others restraint, it would pass by an overwhelming majority. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you congressman but we have to leave it there. thank you for the message. i want to read every wheaties of which is that hope is eternal. hope to talk to you in the new year. thank you again for your time. >> thank you. >> coming up the 2018 agenda and the president plans to bring in the new year with a meeting with republicans. and giving millions of safe for the new year's eve ball drop tomorrow night. brian will have more from times square. >> brutally cold weather

year's eve plans for many across the northeast. but it will not deter people expected to fill times square to see the big apple ball drop tomorrow night. our meteorologist, adam, is live from the fox extreme weather center. fortunately, he is not outside. adam, what can you tell us about bringing in the new year tomorrow night? >> i'm sure folks was to do it but you need to bundle up. it will only get colder. these are some of the coldest spots across the country. plenty of areas and negative numbers. -10 degrees, down to -20 degrees in some spots. and in the windchill. this is the feels-like temperature and even colder. suddenly positive -20 and -30s. in some cases even -40 degrees.

it is incredibly cold out there. it will all shipped its way further to the east so that more folks can expect colder temperatures getting into new year's eve tomorrow night. and then new year's day. currently we are seeing some snow in front of this coldest air mass falling from new york damage areas of dc. this will continue from anywhere to 1 to 3 inches of snow continuing through today. the real story is temperatures. this is the forecasted windchill. it will sink down further into the country so i am taking into new year's eve night at 2:00 a.m.. i discussed with windchill falling down into the negative numbers across the midwest and stretching into the mid atlantic and further up to the north. unfortunately, it continues to settle in. new year's day will be absolutely frigid across the country. we are looking at a lot of spots -20 and -30. when the ball drops at 11 degrees, the windchill will be at -2.

folks will still be out there but, you really, really need to bundle up! >> you lost me at -10. [laughter] but i listened to the rest of it. i will go get my jacket! thank you adam. >> the president highlighting a new report that we, the taxpayers, are essentially subsidizing amazon to the tune of nearly $1.50 for every package they send out. here's a tweet from the president. white united states post offic , moving many billions of dollars a year, while charging amazon another so little to deliver their packages? making amazon richer and the post office dumber and poor. they should be charging much more. let's discuss this with our political panel. we have -- great to see them both. let's start. is this now the war of 2018,

jeff bezos verse president trump? >> they've always had a tit-for-tat in a campaign when the president said he was at the "problems for bezos. i found it interesting that that tweet came the sender that the post causing offer misleading claims that he made and his new york times interview. there only looking to get him and with one stroke of a finger or a thumb. >> bezos not only owns amazon but recently purchased the washington post. the president as you point out, often as issues with. there is an old saying where i come from at least where you never pick up every demand who -- that does not seem to bother the president to request that this is true trump fashion. anyone that has criticism of him. whether it is the federal

service, civil servants or the fbi criticizing thing that he is doing. that is what he does. >> lb with that. he's made it clear that. >> the point those who have this is him and him he attacked the credibility and uses twitter and question their credibility. >> but shouldn't we be looking at that as amazon grows, what the consumer is spending on that? you know, he made a good point about the us postal service. how they raise prices by two percent on packages in november. shouldn't they be doing more to help their place in the market? >> there is more to this. it is also an economic debate in terms of the number of mom and pop stores. other retailers that they are not able to compete fairly with amazon if they are being subsidized. also the people in amazon do not always have to pay sales

tax could listen to the president tweet in the summer over this issue. amazon is doing great damage to taxpaying retailers. towns, cities and states throughout the us are being hurt. many jobs being lost. that was in august 2017. could both be true here maurice? that i'm sure alonzo craft would not mind standing up for taxpaying retailers. >> this is true but we have to remind ourselves of the post office transfer. >> but wouldn't democrats be in favor of leveling the field with mom and pop retailers and amazon? >> we have to do that in reconcile. and the us postal office has their hands tied. they are an appointed board. >> you're not answer my question. can both things be true here? can it be that the president likes to have a fight with bezos and anyone that criticizes him. but can it also be true that he is standing up for the mom and

pop retailers or even big-box stores having a tough time competing against amazon? >> he enjoys the fight with bezos. it just happens to be convenience i could also benefit. >> this is totally disingenuous. >> i just want to get the facts straight on the tax on the president of the tax law he's on was that he was only defending big companies. then you read about this and he says he is attacking the big companies. i agree with you we lens. i think he's trying to point out discrepancies and that is what happened here. if you can get a little job at jeff bezos, he is okay with the pure quiz it is meaningful that no matter which side the president takes, carl identifies a sinister they look at this very suspicious lens. understanding perhaps. we leave it there. we will see in 2018 at this between mr. bezos and mr. trump were mr. trump and anyone else! >> coming up, a look ahead to

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it will -2 degrees at midnight. but over a million people will come to times square to celebrate new year's eve. live pictures as the snow was still coming down in new york. those people have a choice. brian does not have a choice!

and it did not deter him from still having a smile on his face as preparations continue for the big new year's eve celebration. hello brian! >> hello leland. i am inside so it is a little better. we just saw the ball drop test about one hour ago. now we have got the balloons. volunteers just blew out some of these 25,000 balloons that will be in times square on the big night. you lay them out it can be 20 miles from when organizers tell us in terms of how many balloons there are. but the big ball drop test, they flicked the switch. it went up about 400 feet in the air and it came down twice. it lit up. of course, the last thing you want is for this not to work as all of these people are watching on tv. they did a test with that. he says a test we've also had a full week of preparations. even a confetti test with a dropped some confetti in times square for the big event. some 25 million pieces of confetti will be falling from

the sky. they have also checked the numbers for 2018. that will be already on top of one times square. they have also finished final preparations. besides that, what a lot of people have on their mind is the weather but also security. the nypd has promised this would be the most secure event it has ever been. they are employing for the first time, deploying a record number of dogs for the event. these dogs are specially trained to be able to sniff out. they work in tandem and work together to sniff out bombs in the air and were on people. that is a way to find and stop potential suicide bombers. they also have a number of police officers in hotels and office towers overlooking times square. every single hotel has a number of police officers to help stop perhaps a las vegas style attack like we start on october 1. other than that, they are telling people to bundle up.

it will feel like -2 degrees which will make it the second coldest new year's eve in new york city history! we spoke with organizers. they tell us they believe people come here probably a little bit later. sometimes we people stand here from 10 am until midnight. they think people pushes back until four or 6 pm. that is to eight hours in this freezing. but we will be out there. i know that jesse and kenny will be hosting the show and it will be a great time. >> is going to be a great time. bundle up! we are glad you got inside for a little while brian. keep up the good work and thank you! as he points out, special live coverage. take off tomorrow night facilities, a two hour special, countdown to 2018. that is 8 pm eastern. and when it is really cold, there will be live from times square at 10 pm eastern, all the way through the ball drop for all america for the new

year. you will not want to miss this especially if you are warm inside on your couch! >> the republican national committee announced this week has raised $8.2 million in the month of november alone.the most they've ever raised during the month of november during a nonelection year. it also has $2.5 million ahead of the d&c. for that month. joining us, from florida right now can we have a rnc spokesperson, kaylee, thank you for joining us. >> the federal election commission tells us that the dnc close out the were slated to close of the year a few million dollars in debt while the rnc is going to close out the air at a surplus. can you explain why for us? >> that is absolutely right. two things. one is management, we know how to spend money wisely but secondly and more importantly,

it is the small donors that enthusiastic about the president to give us a record-breaking nonelection year. look at the on hand, 40 million cash on hand. the dnc, imagine their debt. we are seven times the amount of cash on hand advantage. and we can give that back to the president and our chairwoman. >> this is all good news undoubtedly for them. but as you know hillary clinton outweighs the event candidate and still lost. i think the republican party as a whole sort of very skillfully made the argument that look, but certainly not everything. money does not determine future successes. so i would ask you now that you or any other seat, which is it? does money matter or not as much as we think? >> it matters, certainly.

it is an indicator of enthusiasm. particularly when you look at the small donor numbers and the fact that the rnc is making in small donations of $250 or less an event that we never have before. that is a positive indicator. you're absolutely right to point out that money did not win an election.the president proved that. but what wins you the election is congressional results. putting more people in the taxpayers pocket. having an infrastructure bill that is successful. immigration reform these are the things that will make that money celtic electoral victory. quickly about the recent loss in alabama? how do you explain what happened there? >> alabama was a special case. it was an aberrational election with a lot of extenuating circumstances as we know. it is importance of a viable candidate. we hope that doug jones will work with us on the hill and help achieve the ends that i mentioned. >> i think it is safe to say they're pretty fired up, they rallied around the opposition to the president going into the

midterm elections. that is a fire in your belly. what is that for republicans? what is uniting the party right now? >> conservatism. standing at the present has achieved more when you and i would argue any other republican president of my time and certainly going back to president reagan. he has achieved so much with regulations in terms of tax cuts, immigration, repealing and replacing obamacare with the repeal of the individual mandate. a present of action and a party of action. we know that scene in the road when we had paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and the president all standing there celebrating tax cuts. that is the kind of republican unity we need around a conservative agenda to prevail in 2018. >> if you guys do not do as well as you hoped, do you at the rnc or are you focused on contingency planning?what is the worst case scenario, what if that comes to be? as far as i can see is if you lose the house. have you a strategy than for 2018? or are you not thinking that

way? >> where optimistic. we are focused on the fight ahead. you're right to point out that it will be hard fight. there is no doubt about that. especially midterms after the first two years of any presidency are historically difficult. where not underestimating the challenge for sure. but we are optimistic because we see the enthusiasm. we see the record-breaking small donations. we are not gaming out a loss, we are planning for a win. >> wish you the best of luck and hope to have you back soon, kayleigh mcenany from the rnc. thank you for your time today. >> coming up, defense secretary james mattis turning up the pressure on saudi arabia. to stop a growing humanitarian crisis. what this means for our allies. christians in egypt morning those lost after islamic extremist attacks on a christian church.

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for christians killed when a gunman opened fire at a church and market outside of cairo. 10 killed, five wounded when a gunman on a motorcycle open fire in a shootout killing the gunman and a police officer. >> the united states is turning up the pressure on saudi arabia as the civil war rages on. defense james mattis saying that anything united states can do to limit civilian casualties inside yemen will be done. it is the latest very tough statement as a saudi air force continues to pound iranian backed rebels. the washington post reports, pictures like these of humanitarian crisis in yemen are moving the president to push this out is harder than ever and encouraging them to end at the naval blockade of the country. so, we lend, i want to ask he says -- do you think the

studies take this well adjusted and pushing back on his harder than ever? >> that is a big question because for so long it seemed that president trump had given us out as a hunting license with no bag limits now is a sudden, the saudi military almost entirely incorrect by the united states. and trained by the united states. will it be constrained by the united states? mass goes back to the old saying that countries never have permanent allies. only permanent interest. clearly the president has seen, it was not me it was winston churchill that said it. but, the president has decided he is no longer in the american interest to have this picture. so is a not for the studies is a knock it off? and on the other hand they have things we want. they have a huge trend for the

president of fun at the middle east is a lot more complicated than anyone ever thought it was. and he gets more collocated. >> in spite of his best intentions and their unique come out; this extraordinary relationship with the saudi king, he may not be able to get them to do what he wants. >> and then jared cushion his relationship with the crown prince. all right, coming up, controversy. why the player that were these holiday shoes got into a bit of hot water with the nfl. and -- when a cold calls... achoo! ...answer it. with zicam cold remedy. it shortens colds, so you get better, faster.

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>> the nfl defending itself again! against angry fans. this time over finding a player thousands of dollars for his

christmas message. and here is the offending message. alvin kamara jingle bell cleats! were not joined for the opinion on this and there are a lot of opinions. feel free to weigh in on twitter. what is the nfl's justification? they say we cannot do anything about people kneeling, we can do about this. but if you are christmas cleats, we're docking your pay. >> thesis it was a no fun league. also my opinion and a respectively. they are treated the national anthem controversy. just one year ago they find antonio brown -- >> what is the explanation for the difference here?>> one uniformity. quite honestly think the article displays scared.roger goodell was too scared to take action when colin kaepernick started this with the national anthem back it infiltrated the league. then there was fear that anything to be done would be considered racist. should not be a racist issue to want to have pride in your country.

and stand up for the service members who are overseas currently risking everything! >> brian kill made made a great point on fox and friends good is the nfl figured out a way to walk is like you have to be respectful during the national anthem and at the same time it allowed players the freedom off the field or off the court. as we saw with lebron james to talk politics and if they feel like it to be vocal in their views. anything that you hear from the nfl about changing their policies?>> i have been speaking with insiders and some coaches within the league. i believe that the discussions will take place in the off-season because it got rampant. it got too out of hand. from the plane from behind they should have done something before this started. on that point you mentioned, david stern and adam silver their salaries, $10 million compared to what roger goodell is, 30 millions.now he just signed an extension for 200

million expert what is he doing that is a special or unique? >> that is an interesting point. and roger goodell had a run in with jones. and roger goodell won that one. check out the tweet from alvin kamara. he is good-natured about this. he showed the fine letter and said he will start a go fund me page. anything above the fine he will donate to charity but this was the first time the nfl finds people for cleats. i mean there have been about domestic violence, breast cancer, have issue with all of those also. but doesn't the nfl have the right at some level to say, this is the uniform you will wear? >> they do! and i think when anthem controversy came to the forefront, people pointed out that salute to service month where they give out ribbons for you to wear and camouflage. but yet they allow the players to do this. there accepting money from the department of defense and the national guard by allowing players to protest. >> at the same time also put out i think it was -- for

breast cancer awareness. >> make christmas great again! let the more jingle bells. , we appreciate you. >> coming up, and brazil, some would go as far to call this a religion. we usually have folks bring in the new year at this beach. plus, ringo starr is still going very strong. now he has a new honor to add to his very impressive resume along with a brand-new title.♪ ♪ [music] (vo) dogs have evolved,

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high gear with more than a million people expected to show up for the tournament of roses parade in pasadena california. on new year's day. police are ramping up security. shutting down reits earlier. much earlier than in years past. those working on the float say that despite extra security they're not losing sight of what the festivities are really all about. >> we have security come through, police, bomb sniffing dogs. it does not phase as good a thing as tradition that has the spirit. >> of 80,000 hours of combined manpower each year.

>> alters over the coming merger bulldog win. and if i'm not here tomorrow, this is why i will not be here. i will be celebrating beach style to honor the brazilian sea goddess. he was singing, dancing playing music and praying around a large statue of the goddess. probably doing other things also. mostly just and white as they watch the offerings to the sea. a little better than times square for the weather. >> britain is getting too near knights of the realm as they are known as new year. both of them making sweet music on their way to knighthood. one says he is designating honors to his two brothers while ringo starr has waited for his honor since 1965 which ones when all of the beatles collectively were named members of the british empire. >> if you're still waiting for yours, right? to be lady?

>> i am a fox news. i don't know if they recognize that. >> we'll see you back here tomorrow. thank you for joining us. stay warm and stay safe this weekend! releasing thousands of emails discovered by the fbi on a laptop belonging to anthony weiner. his gaze has been a former top clinton aide, huma abedin at least four of those emails marked as classified. hello everyone welcome to a brand-new hour incentive "america's news headquarters". >> the fbi writing -- finding these emails. after james comey said that hillary clinton had been extremely careless in her handling of fi