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president saying about those ongoing protests in iran and how it might affect u.s. policy going forward? >> great to have you with us, molly. we'll talk a bit about policy shifts in a bit. first i want to say the president has made clear his belief the people in iran want freedom. that's something the leadership there, the people in control refuse to give them. that's why you are seeing this protest play out. we've talked about this over the great many years we've done this. it is not just the trump administration that made this observation. also the obama administration and before that the bush administration as well. let's go to twitter. the president making his opinion known. as you just showed earlier today, the president was talking about this and he did so yesterday as well. he said iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the obama administration. the great iranian people have been repressed for many years and hungry for food and freedom. along with human rights, wealth of iran is being looted and he

concludes by saying time for change. now that tweet comes amid demonstrations across the islamic republic and the deadly government crackdown to silence dissent. the president is also facing strong words here at home. this time from a former obama administration official. former u.n. ambassador susan rice and national security advisor retweeting a "new york times" piece on twitter about the uprising saying how can trump help iran's protestors? be quiet. that drew this response from kellyanne conway. >> you don't be quiet when people are losing their lives because they are standing up for basic essential needs and for freedom. a couple people are starting to realize that if you're out of touch with american's primary concerns. if you aren't for the working people or not for freedom around the globe look how safer and more pos perous we are as a nation this last year. the president stands with the iranian people in their quest

to get basic freedom. >> in case you're wondering about possible policy shifts. the truth is congress can certainly do something at the behest of the add min -- add min ition traes in terms of new sanctions. >> what the leaders of iran saying? >> they won't accept responsibility for what's happening in their own country. rather they decide they would like to point the finger at outsiders. take a listen. >> the enemy is waiting for an opportunity, for a crack through which it can infiltrate. look at the recent days' incidents. all those at odds with the islamic republic have utilized various means including money, weapons, politics and intelligence apparatus to create problems for the islamic system, the islamic republic and the islamic revolution. >> the death toll there continues to rise.

now at 21 at last check. and i should also add some 450 people have been arrested over the past three days. the unrest is not subsiding yet. >> the world is watching. >> jon: as kevin just reported the president is taking aim at the iranian regime while deadly anti-government protests spread across that country. mr. trump also took time out to blame his predecessor for some of what's happening tweeting the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt iranian regime. all the money that obama gave them went to terrorism and into their pockets. no human rights and big inflation. the u.s. is watching. joining us now executive washington editor of the "wall street journal." all right, jerry. the u.s. is watching. what else can it do? >> first of all let's step back. there were protests like this

in 2006 in iran, 2007, 2009. each of those stages the u.s. tried to figure out what can we do sort of further the process and to show that we support the idea of regime change in iran. it is tricky because you want to show support for the protestors without doing it in a way that allows the iranian regime to portray them as american stooges. if you want to use this as an opportunity as president trump wants to impose more sanctions you need to find a way to make sure the sanctions hit the regime, not the people in the streets, the very people you want to support. so this is tricky. i think what the administration is trying to do is two things. first think about imposing some additional economic sanctions of iran. they can do it under existing authorities to protest human rights violations but to work out an international response in which the u.s. and european partners make a statement of support for the people in the street. their right to be there to protest things that they don't like about the economic and political situation in iran. >> jon: interesting in 79 it

was the students who helped depose the -- it's students back out in the streets this time protesting what they've got. >> the students then are the people in charge of the regime now. it is a reversal. it was true in 2006 and 2007. student-led protests. the bush administration tried to figure out how to support them that might change the character of the regime in iran. they couldn't figure out how to do it without creating a backlash. the hard liners in the regime use this kind of protest as an excuse not just to say this is the west trying to undermine our revolution, but to crack down and to squeeze the moderates in the regime off to the side and into the margins. what the hard liners can do in iran and probably do is use it as an excuse to take over more power, not less. >> jon: there are some who

suggest that this might be an opportunity for the world really to renegotiate the iran nuclear deal. here is what senator lindsey graham had to say over the weekend. >> if i were president trump i would have a nationwide address pretty soon explaining why the iranian nuclear deal with is bad deal for the world and urge a better deal with iran before it's too late. >> jon: is this perhaps an opportunity to do something like that? >> look, the europeans -- or allies and other partners' interest in renegotiating is near zero. i don't think that's going to happen. the u.s. could pull out of the deal entirely. it would still be in place but not include the u.s. as a partner. what could happen and i think in the first instance will be the attempt here is to start some new negotiations with iran over its missile program and support for terrorism and if

the iranians don't want to cooperate in that effort, use that as than excuse to impose more economic sanctions and the europeans might be willing to go along with that. right now the u.s. continues to stand alone on the idea that the nuclear deal ought to be renegotiated. >> jon: the 2009 protests in iran, the feeling in that country at least was that the u.s. did almost nothing to help them. would that be the same case this time around do you think? >> i think already you see the rhetoric out of this administration is different than it was in 2009 out of the obama administration. again, it is hard to know what's more helpful here. if you express your support for the protestors in too obvious a way and too high a volume you run the risk of undermining their legitimacy internally. if you don't do that you run the risk of not lending support. it is hard to get the balance right. i think repeatedly administrations in washington haven't quite firgd out how to

do that. >> jon: three successive administrations have faced this issue. thank you for being on. >> protests in the streets of pakistan in reaction to president trump's angry tweet about the country's quote, lies and deceit. trump is slamming the islamic republic for protecting terrorists while taking billions in u.s. aid. our ambassador is summoned to the capital city for an explanation of the president's comment. benjamin hall is live in london with more. >> the trump administration has been talking about this issue for quite some time now. the fact that on one hand pakistan takes billions of dollars from the u.s. and seemingly supports the groups the u.s. is fighting against in afghanistan. today there were mass protests across pakistan in response to this threat to withdraw funding as islamic group held rallies in cities. among them was one radical group connected to the mumbai attack.

protestors chanted against the u.s. and president trump and called for the u.s. ambassador to be expelled. after president trump tweeted this on monday. the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit speaking of our leaders as fools. they have given safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help. no more. this pressure from the trump administration began back in august when the u.s. said it would hold up $255 million to the pakistani military until they cracked down on extremists. monday they said it was still the plan. the relationship between the two countries has been on a downward spiral ever since bin laden was killed in the pakistani town in 2011. the u.s. also tracked down and killed taliban leader in the country in 2016. yesterday pakistan did make one small change. they actually banned all nations group on the u.n.

security council sanctions list. other people feel nothing will change as long as pakistan sees afghanistan and a buffer zone against ind ya. it is a nuclear armed country and needs to be kept stable as can be. molly. >> yet to see how big the changes may or may not be. thank you. >> jon: it is the second of january 2018. the day senator al franken is set to step down. why he is making good after announcing his resignation a month ago plus president trump returns to the white house energized after a year-end legislative victory on tax reform. wants to hit the ground running in the new year looking to make good on campaign promises. we'll have a look at his 2018 asgend ahead. -- agenda ahead. >> we hope we get democratic support. the budget, getting reasonable budget caps and maybe a budget

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>> i think we always have to go into an election year with an awareness when you have a majority and mid-term election in a presidential term that the party that is in power typically loses seats. but given that i think the best way for us to overcome what might be some of those historical trends is for us to put up a record of accomplishment and that's why passing tax reform, meaningful tax reform that will bring meaningful tax relief to hard working americans in this country and middle income families i think will be really essential as people start to evaluate this president, this republican majority. >> molly: the most pressing item for now is a funding measure to avoid the government shutdown which will need bipartisan support. joining me now is the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia, larry sabado. happy new year.

>> happy new year. a great new year for political analysts. it's a national election again. >> molly: one big gift heading into the mid-terms. as we head into the mid-terms there have been some predictions it could be a blue wave year. similar to the republican revolution in 1994 but in reverse. do you buy that? do you think this is a year for a blue wave? >> it's way too soon to say. is this a year that is likely to favor democrats? the answer is yes because it's a mid-term election year in a republican administration and republican congress. having said that, look, it is january 2. this is the day for flights of fancy by both parties. if you listen to the democrats, there will be the biggest blue wave since the one that sunk the u.s.s. poseidon. the republicans will tell you they maybe will lose two or three seats but they can see

taking this democratic seat and this one in the house and senate. it is all justified january 2. we have to see what happens. i thought senator thune was right when he said one of the keys to this election year is whether republicans are able to credibly link themselves to the improving economy using the tax bill. also they need for president trump to improve his ratings. he has got to get his job approval up. it will help them and keep the size of the wave down. >> molly: digging into that a little more. many republicans are claiming a big victory off the tax reform bill. and meanwhile the president also saying it's a big victory. they see it as the sea wall to stop the blue wave as they head into 2018. if the economy really does surge and we see improved jobs and the middle class really does see more money in their pockets. granted, they don't file their taxes until the following year until post mid-term, will that

be enough? pocketbook issues consistently rate at the very top when voters head to the polls. >> it won't be enough to save every endangered senator and house member but it may be enough to save some who are in very competitive races that could go either way. and in the senate for example. let's not forget the map is incredibly favorable to the republicans. doesn't mean they will be able to hold onto the senate but it sure means they will have to lose a lot of races they ought to win to lose control of the senate. improving the economy will help that. that's what they will work on all year. >> molly: the red leaning states may help the gop. let's talk about what is coming up. the funding bill in january. immigration has been sucked into this for just one example of a potential impasse. democrats have said we aren't signing unless we see an effect on the dreamers. we want to help the dreamers. the president said you'll get a

daca deal but i want my wall among other measures related to immigration. do they get past that impasse and where do they compromise on so many issues heading forward into the mid-terms? >> if you are a friend of senator mcconnell or speaker ryan, send them a big package of migraine excedrin for the new year. in the senate, mcconnell will have to get the votes of nine democrats in addition to holding all 51 republicans. you see, we're past the 51-vote rule. now it's 60 votes to pass these key items in the senate. so either there is going to be some degree of bipartisanship or nothing major will be passed including right in the beginning here when a lot of deadlines are coming up very quickly. it isn't going to be easy. you look at the new senator from alabama, doug jones. i think he would be a vote open to the republicans on at least some things.

the same with senator manchin. this is an election year for him. different than last year. senator heitkamp in north dakota. senator joe donnelly in indiana and mccaskill in missouri. they're democrats but have to run in states that trump carried handily come november. there are democratic votes available to the republicans. it is tough to get up to nine. >> molly: interesting to see what happens in pennsylvania, ohio, michigan. some of those states out there will be ones to watch. thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. have a great new year. >> jon: murders in chicago actually down in 2017 but are the numbers anything to celebrate? a live report from one of the windy city's most dangerous neighborhoods coming up. thousands of travelers returning home from abroad held up at several u.s. airports for hours. the reason why next. >> we came off the flight

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us and we've been standing in line for over an hour. >> three hours. with two small kids and they -- it is really bad what is happening. >> molly: the outage lasted for two hours but the hold-up remained for much longer causing many passengers to miss their connecting flights as well. >> jon: that doesn't sound like fun. chicago police statistics show that city has seen a slight dip in the number of murders and shootings in 2017. the windy city seeing 650 murders last year compared to nearly 800 the year before. matt finn live from chicago with more on all of that. matt. >> jon, a sign of just how bad things are here in chicago. that 650 murders last year is an improvement from 2016 when two people a day were killed in this city. right now we're on the city's

south side, historically one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in all of chicago. many people wouldn't walk alone here especially at night. we caught up with one woman who lives here. a crime blogger, to talk to her about what daily life is like here on the south side. >> sitting on the porch on sunday morning drinking coffee and seeing someone with a gun shooting or sitting on the porch at night after work listening to music and then hearing shots ring out. had a lot of anxiety. >> neighbors like that woman can breathe a sigh of relief. there has been a 43% drop in shootings here in this neighborhood in 2017 thanks to police. >> jon: is it what police are doing or what's the reason for the dropping in crime? >> there is a drop in murders and also a drop in shootings. there was 2700 shootings last year compared to 3400 shootings in 2016. police largely attribute that

drop in shootings to this technology i want to show you called shot spotter, it's placed on top of utility poles in the most dangerous places in the community. a sonar that improves response time by alerting police and capturing the shooters on camera. the mayor added 1100 officers to the force and placed an evidence on community policeing. the woman talked about what these improvements mean in her neighborhood. >> they really have a connection with the community and community organizations. they don't come around as security. they come around as a fabric of inglewood. i think that has helped as well as the technology. >> signs of improvement here in chicago. jon, 650 people murdered last year in a 12-month period. we have a long way to go here in the windy city. back to new york. >> jon: hard to wrap your arms around those statistics. matt finn from chicago. thank you.

>> molly: it is a new year which means there are no laws taking effect. how one state is looking to cash in on the sale of recreational marijuana and president trump back in the white house after the holiday break. why he is already facing a very long list of challenges in 2018. for singing definitely dry mouth has been a problem for me.

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decade. >> let's not go back a decade. i wouldn't mind. almost everyone could be affected by these laws in some way or another. a gun oner, pot smoker, minimum wage worker the changes will have a significant effect. california the latest state to legalize recreational marijuana with business brisk yesterday at this store. while the long-term impact of the law is hazy, growers are expecting an economic boom. the state making a lot of money by taxing sales heavily and anyone over 21 can light up provided they don't do it while driving or riding in a car. big changes for gun owners here in california. they will no longer be able to buy ammunition online and have it shipped to their home and anyone convicted of a hate crime will be prohibited from possessing a gun for 10 years and the minimum wage will also be going up here as well as in new york and several other states across the nation.

>> molly: what about some interesting law changes across the country? >> as well as that minimum wage change, new yorkers are also going to get what governor cuomo calls the nation's most comprehensive family leave policy. eight weeks for most workers. >> everybody should have the right to be there when their spouse is giving birth. everybody should have the right to be there when their mother or father are sick and needs help. >> an interesting new law, too, in tennessee given the free speech debate on college campuses across the country in 2017, the state now saying colleges cannot exclude speakers based on opposition by others to what they might say. finally, illinois in its infinite wisdom has now decided that pets can be treated like children in divorce cases. so from today family court judges in the land of lincoln

will have the added fun of deciding cat and canine and perhaps even cuddle fish custody. whatever pet you have is now part of your divorce. good luck. >> molly: they have a difficult job, i'll say that for sure. appreciate it. >> jon: and hedge hogs. don't forget the hedge hogs. president trump back to work at the white house today. another to do list for 2018 it's a long one. so let's bring in our political panel today. josh holmes, former chief of staff with senator mitch mcconnell and jim kessler policy director to charles schumer. last i checked 2018 was an election year. not a lot of business gets done in washington during election years. what chance do you give this president of getting anything on his to do list accomplished? >> it is an election year. look, he has a decent chance but he needs a course

correction. 2017 he was overtly partisan. he did very partisan things. as a result he has got an approval rating that couldn't melt butter and he has fewer legislative accomplishments than any president. you have to go back to william henry harrison. so if 2017 was about partisan activity, 2018 has got to be about bipartisan activity. if that's the way he is thinking i think he can get things done. >> jon: he ended the year with an approval rating with barack obama at the end of his first year. >> still doesn't melt butter. >> jon: josh, things like infrastructure and obamacare reform are still supposedly tops on the president's agenda. what are the chances? >> a couple things jim said. for republicans and president trump 2017 was an action-packed

accomplishment ridden year. i think the tax reform package for the first time in over three decades itself is an incredible accomplishment. they enter 2018 with a strong hand and a lot of legislative momentum. the question is in election year it looks a little different. legislative accomplishments here will have to be in a bipartisan manner. they have some opportunities there with infrastructure and other items out there but they have to have democrats play along. up until this point democrats haven't been willing to do much of anything with the president or anybody else. >> jon: isn't that what the american people want, jim, is bipartisan cooperation in washington >> they do. and look, i think one of the reasons why donald trump was elected in the first place is they thought well, maybe he would do that. and the opening months before he took office but between his election and the inauguration he was showing some signs and then he made the foolish mistake of doing repeal and

replace. wasted eight months. he has opportunities to do something that is bipartisan. it means he has to give a little bit. i think a perfect place to start is with daca, with immigration. he said september 5 in a tweet we'll solve this with heart and compassion. we need to see if his words are worth the tweet that it was written on. but that would be a place where you could do something, convince democrats he actually cares about something they care about and then from there get other bipartisan deals. >> jon: you have to have some sympathy for mitch mcconnell. he had a tough enough job with the senate. now with the arrival of doug jones as a democrat from alabama it's 51-49. some suggested jones might want to vote with republicans on some issues because he comes from a very conservative state. but if he does that, isn't he going to find himself alone at the democratic lunch table? >> if he has any interest in remaining a senator he

certainly would vote with republicans. alabama is not interested in the kind of liberal democratic leadership that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and others in the democratic conferences have provided. the question is how much crossover? there is a thinner republican majority. there has to be some crossover voting. one thing to keep an eye on, an awful lot of democrats in red states up for reelection in the senate. claire mccaskill. heidi heitkamp. joe manchin much. 12 in states president trump carried by double digits. they have to look closely whether these priorities align with their political interests in 2018. >> jon: quick prediction from each of you. healthcare, welfare reform, immigration, infrastructure, where do you think this country can make progress in 2018? jim? >> welfare reform definitely not.

that's a non-starter. entitlement reform ryan wants to do, mcconnell doesn't. infrastructure a possibility. immigration, and i also think some of the small fixes to healthcare that senator alexander could help and get done. >> infrastructure is an opportunity where both parties can meet. on the immigration front what's interesting about that everybody talks about daca. clearly democrats want to do daca. the question what are they willing to give to do it? up to now nothing. nothing to do with chain migration or nothing to do with the wall. they will have to move off those points of view in order to move anything substantial on immigration. >> jon: and we have a budget issue coming up we will have to get the government funded later in january. we have the threat of another shutdown coming. >> that will be fun. >> jon: fun year. thanks for helping us kick it off. thank you both. >> molly: president trump taking on the deadly protests sweeping iran taking a different approach from his predecessor by choosing to side

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>> molly: breaking story in iran why a crackdown on protests against the iranian regime has killed at least 21 people. president trump expressing his support for activists while condemning the approach taken by barack obama. our next guest commenting in a "washington post" op-ed saying it should thus come as little surprise that president trump fresh off repudiating obama's nuclear deal with iran has taken the opposite tack and thrown his weight behind the protestors. the trump administrations is conundrum that has long stymied u.s. officials. what can we do beyond issuing

statements? the author of that article joins me now michael, a former senior director of middle eastern affairs at the national security council and managing director of the washington institute. michael, thank you for joining us today. i want to turn to the piece you've written. i want to get your reaction to this. this morning on "fox & friends" kellyanne conway counselor to the current president criticized something that susan rice had put out. susan rice both the national security advisor and u.n. ambassador under the former administration of president barack obama. she tweeted how can president trump help iran's protestors? be quiet and shared a link to a "new york times" piece that argues we can be fairly certain that high-profile public support from the united states government will do more harm than good. what do you think about that comment? >> i think that the iranian regime will blame us for these protest and try to cast the protestors as foreign agents regardless of what we say. the supreme leader of iran has

just done that today. there is no real advantage in staying silent. at the same time the words alone aren't really going to accomplish much. it's also important to bear in mind, molly, the president's statements aren't just directed at iran, not just at the protestors and the iranian regime but directed at his own government that we should be doing things to support the protestors as well as at u.s. allies around the world who hopefully will feel like they need to issue statements of their own, which they haven't yet. >> molly: i want to turn to your piece. beyond statements from the white house, tweets expressing support, what can the u.s. do? what concrete actions can america take? >> i think international pressure is better than u.s. pressure alone. so organizing our allies to jointly make statements in support of the protestors and even more importantly jointly warn the iranian regime against the mass use of violence against these protestors. warn them there will be consequences for any crackdown. that's the first thing. the second thing molly is look, these protestors dissidents

inside iran don't face an environment where they are free to express themselves, free to organize and we should be using the platforms that we have to keep attention on them, to give them chances to speak out, to provide accurate information to people in iran about what is happening. but also maybe the tools to evade some of that censorship and surveillance. >> molly: will this be different from 2009? it's a dangerous place to be a political dissident. tens of thousands taking to the street. more than a dozen have been killed thus far. will things be different? >> it is tough to predict what direction it will go in. what we can say is we tend to look pay attention to this episodes. 2009, you look at what is happening today. i think we need to take the long view. this is a long, simmering resentment we see in iran and eventually one has to think it will produce some kind of change in iran. and we don't know when it will take place but we want to make sure we are ready when it does take place and want to make

sure we do what we can to encourage iranians to make the right choices. to step back from some of their more repressive, aggressive policies and take more peaceful paths. >> molly: you say western officials should keep expectations of the protests in check. they could gather steam or subside. the sign of a successful policy response will be its ability to survive either way. it will be less dangerous to its region and to the united states being responsive to its people. how does the u.s. walk that line? >> look, it gets back to the last answer in way. we have to have a long-term policy of supporting change within iran, supporting human rights within iran. and not sort of be premiseing our policy on the idea either there will be regime change tomorrow or that this will all somehow subside and go back to business as usual. i think what we want to do is

again have that longer-term vision while supporting human rights, while supporting those calling for change inside iran. >> molly: thank you very much, michael. >> jon: california becomes the first sanctuary state in a move against president trump's immigration policy. a look at the ensuing fallout in our live report. maybe, you could trust he wouldn't leave the upstairs water running. (woman screams) or, you could just trust duracell. ♪

>> molly: happy new year. >> we're back together again. >> happy new year. >> coming up on "outnumbered" president trump supporting the protestors in iran after a top senator says the deadly violence there is a result of president obama's failed policies. what he is right and what president trump needs to do now. >> a battle brewing over the protection of dreamers, top congressional leaders head to

the white house tomorrow to talk about it after the president tweeted no wall, no deal. whether we'll see a compromise. if not, what takes the political blame? >> "outnumbered", not exactly the first of 2017 but close. >> this is it, this is the first one. >> 2018. welcome back. >> welcome back. we're glad we're here. see you. >> molly: new information on california which just became the first sanctuary state in the nation with the law that governor jerry brown signed back in october now taking effect. we're live in los angeles with this. >> the law prevents law enforcement officers from asking about someone's immigration status and bars officers from participating in federal immigration enforcement activities in most cases. >> the california legislature and governor jerry brown are basically saying california is a sanctuary state and it is not

going to assist the federal government in deporting illegal aliens. >> molly: back in october california governor jerry brownish uday a statement which read in part these are uncertain times for undocumented californians and their families and this bill strikes a balance that will protect public safety while bringing a measure of comfort to those families who are now living in fear every day. the new law drawing plenty of backlash on social media and here is a sign from last april placed on the malibu city limits sign which reads, official sanctuary city, cheap nannies and gardeners make malibu great and another sign that says landscaping by l.a. city council. we would rather spend your taxes on welfare for illegals. no word who is behind these signs. meanwhile, the illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killy kate steinle is

facing sentencing this friday in san francisco. he was acquitted of her murder but due to the sentenced being a felon in possession with a gun. >> molly: the question is will we see other states taking similar action? thank you for the report. >> jon: we talked about the growing unrest in iran. it is causing deadly protests there. now the regime's top leader is responding after president trump sided with the activists.

>> "star wars" the last jedi raking in $1 billion nationwide. worldwide. molly and my dollars are among those. another successful weekend at the box office for that film, staggering total makes it disney's third biggest film of 2017. at the movie also earning the title of highest grossing movie

of the year at the domestic box office, surpassing beauty and the beast. >> loved it. we've got your chewy impression over the break. >> too bad. thanks for joining us. 22 starts right now. >> a time for change in iran. president trump voicing his support for the people there as thousands take to the streets and a slew of deadly antigovernment protests across the country. this is "outnumbered." i'm sandra smith. here today, harris faulkner. host of kennedy on fox business, kennedy. republican strategist and fox news contributor lisa boothe and today's #oneluckyguy, fox news contributor and radio talk show host richard fowler is here and it is 2018. >> harris: i like your new glasses. >> richard: new glasses. kennedy was up on that, you were colder up there.