back in march told me that this was different than president obama's use of golf, which was obama played far less than president trump but sean said trump was using the game much differently. can you tell me the biggest single thing the president has accomplished for the american people during his time on the golf course? >> secretary sanders: i think it would certainly be developing deeper and better relationships with members of congress in which those relationships have helped push forward the president's agenda specifically when it comes to helping get the tax reform and tax cuts passed. a lot of that and the success of that came from the strong relationship the president has and he has played golf with a number of senators and use that time certainly to accomplish that. >> so much as been accomplished in this time, we don't always get confirmation of what he's doing there despite requests. there was an incident with the box truck. why is it seem as though the white house is a little -- has

some kind of issue >> the president is extremely proud of the accomplishments we had in 2017. i don't think anyone can argue. it's probably one of the most successful first years in office. reworked the court system, supreme court justice nominated. a booming economy. massive gains on the war on isis. we've had an extremely successful 2017. we'll take one last question. >> is there a reason for no read-out or confirmation when -- >> we've provided information when it's pertinent to the day and we'll continue to do that. >> earlier the president tweeted about tax reform saying companies are giving bonuses to worker because of the tax cut bill.

really great. will the employees of the president's own companies getting bonuses as a result of the tax cuts? >> that's a question to ask the trump organization. the president is not involved in that. i'd refer you to them. >> don't think companies -- >> i'm sorry. >> does the company feel the companies that can afford bonuses should pay them? >> i certainly hope that companies will give bonuses to employees or reinvest and bring business back into this country. that was one of the big purposes and goals of the tax cull bill, which we've seen play out over the last couple weeks and expected to see more come from that. thanks, guys. >> i'm jon scott in for shepard smith. the white house wrapping up their first briefing of the new year's. covering a lot of topics from the protests in iran to the number tax law and the 2018

agenda. the president tweeted about these issues this morning. he's back in d.c. with a jam-packed agenda. top white house staffers will meet with congressional leaders tomorrow to talk about the 2018 agenda. white house correspondent kevin corke, fresh out of the briefing and live at the white house for us now. kevin? >> well, let me tell you, it's interesting, the first briefing of the year. for me it's fun. i've done a few of these obviously. both the trump administration and the obama administration, the bush administration. they're always a little different. no matter what. what was interesting today, however, jon, i felt like the white house is interested not just in international issue, pakistan and iran, north korea, a real focus on the domestic agenda and in particular i asked sarah sanders if she could talk about what the agenda in the early part of the year might look like.

here's what she had to say. >> obviously the budget is first and foremost, a big priority right now and a big priority in the immediate term. the president wants a two-year budget deal that provides realistic budget caps and provides certainty for national security. that's the number 1 priority. that is the focus front and center of the conversations taking place this week. beyond that, it will be talking about those four other priorities that i outlined and what the strategy to get maximum sucks says would look like. >> maximum success. obviously not just a meeting tomorrow on capitol hill. we're talking about a big meeting this weekend with senior leadership. the idea being, jon, simply speaking, they want the make sure they go into 2018 with the same head of steam that they left 2017 with and try to keep getting things done. meanwhile, he did -- she talked a great deal about international issues. you heard about pakistan and why the president sort of seemed to be taking a shot at leadership there. something else i found

interesting, obviously the story about iran. what best is the message to deliver to the iranian people in particular in the face of this onslaught by the government there to quail and dissent. here's what sarah sanders said about that. >> i think the ultimate end game would be that the citizens and the people of iran are actually given basic human rights. he certainly would like to see then stop being a state sponsor of terror. that is something the whole world would like to see. >> the whole world wants to see justice for the iranian people. can they obtain freedom? that is a real tough question that she tried to answer, one that we'll be watching carefully, john, in the days and weeks ahead. >> thanks, kevin. much more on the unrest in iran. nikki haley addressing the united nations this afternoon.

will tough talk result in change? that's ahead. first, a fox urgent. republican senator orrin hatch of utah says he will not run for re-election after serving 40 years in the u.s. senate. his retirement opens the door for mitt romney to run for the seat. here's part of senator hatch's announcement. >> when the president visited utah last month, he said i was a fighter. i've always been a fighter. i was an amateur boxer in my youth. i brought that fighting spirit with me to washington. every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. for me, that time is soon approaching. >> hatch is the longest serving republican in the senate. he chairs the finance committee and played an important role in passing the republican tax overhaul last month. chad pergram joins us now on the phone. chad, tell us about the intrigue over this announcement. >> well, a lot of people thought

several months ago that orrin hatch would be out the door. finish tax reform, stick around until and then make his announcement. then we started to get signals that he was leaning towards staying. now we have the announcement. he's served seven terms in the senate. this would be an eighth. he's been in the senate since 1977. it's interesting that he defeated frank moss in 1976, the last democrat to have a statewide seat in the senate there. there's a famous quote from that race from orrin hatch. he said what do you call a senator that served in office for 18 years? you call them home. he leaves on a high note, having passed tax reform here. he was either the chair or the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee for many years. he played a key role in the clarence thomas confirmation hearings in 1991. he was the top republican on that committee at that point. and he was one of the senators on the republican side that didn't want to reopen the hearings once anita hill came

forward. so something that has been at the forefront of those issues a long time. mitt romney would be the number 1 person to look at. some people indicate that does mitt romney care about utah? he has these mormon ties. you look back to san diego with the multilayers and the car lift, is he too california vers versus utah. other people are chris steward and mia love, republican congressman from utah. she has a tough re-election from been mcadams. some think she might take a look at the race and think she could do better statewide than just in her district. you probably cannot rule out evan mcmullen. he ran for president last time as well. >> fascinating time in utah. today is the day that al franken

is leaving the senate, huh? >> right. he has formally resigned. tomorrow we get two new senators, tina smith, the democrat. she's the lieutenant governor. she will be sworn in and take his seat. she will serve the rest of the year and run for the rest of the term in the fall of this year. and then we also get doug jones, the democrat from alabama. he will be sworn in tomorrow. with e-- oh we got a picture of him flowing to washington d.c. they will swear them in after noon eastern time in washington tomorrow. an interesting tidbit here when you look at seniority in the senate. sometimes they look at somebody that has been a governor a house member or somebody that gets in a couple days before somebody else. it goes down to state population. based on the precedent in this case, tina smith would have seniority to doug jones. she would be 99th in seniority. doug jones would be number 100.

>> fascinating times. 2018 will be quite a year in politics. thanks, chad. >> any time. >> so let's bring in our political panel. chuck is a democratic strategist and president of solidarity strategies. nick adams is founder and ceo of the foundation for liberty around american greatness. a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting civics education. thanks both of you for being here. happy new year. so chuck, let's talk about what is going to come out of the congress and the white house, obviously, in 2018. the president has a pretty long to-do list. wants -- he's got the tax overhaul. he wants to reform obamacare, maybe replace it. a number of other things on his list. can he get those done? >> he has a republican congress, he has a republican senate and he has the 2018 elections staring him in the face. the republicans are desperate to

show the american people that they can get things done. they're pushing a big rock up a steep hill because normally in an off year, the party that is in power loses seats. so they have to tell the american people we're doing something for you, we're trying to do something good for you so they can run on that in 2018. that's why you hear the clock ticking in the background in washington d.c. >> and when people see their paychecks in february when the new tax rates are taking effect, people will be happy. >> john, i think that's the case. they are going to be happy. i am very excited about 2018. i think i think year is even better than last year for the trump administration. i think that they have warmed up. they have got some momentum. they have got a legislative achievement under their belt and we'll see even though the dynamics have shifted, particularly in the senate, we're going to see them continue that momentum and get some more victories. >> i want to stick with you a

minute, nick. the charge against president trump's first year is that he really didn't get a lot of legislative work done except for the tax bill. is that a miss -- misinformed opinion? was he doing other things with deregulation or is he learning on the job? >> without a doubt -- no, jon, last year was a tremendous year for the trump administration, whether we want to look at deregulation, look at the court system or look at what happened in the economy. this was a tremendously successful year. anybody that tells you otherwise isn't telling the truth. and i think that this year with all of that experience, obviously president trump came to the job as a very successful and esteemed business man. he's a deal maker.

he knows there's democratic votes on offer. we have senator mccaskill, senator donnelly, senator manchin, all from states that president trump won handily that i think will be quite inclined to vote with the president. >> i was going to ask chuck about that. chuck, you talked about the republican -- the problems republicans are having getting legislation passed. but democrats are not going to have a picnic when it comes to the senate races in 2018. >> look, about a year ago, i run campaigns for a living. i'm not possibility analyst. i run campaigns. it's tough out there. it's going to be tough for democrats. but there's a glimmer of hope because trump is so unpopular with the independents in the middle. i remind you in alabama, he won by a lot. we're talking about doug jones getting on an airplane to alabama to fly to washington d.c. sure, roy moore was flawed. in virginia, the republicans had a 16 seat majority. it was the red of red states.

because trump was so unpopular, democrats tied the state house race in virginia and that could be a focus of things to come. >> it will be one to watch. chuck, nick, have to say good-bye, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> pleasure. >> ahead the uprising inside iran. the country's leader blaming outsiders for the demonstrations. the protesters say they're upset over the bad economy there and rising food prices. security forces have been killing them in the streets. now fox news has obtained a secret report on how the government is trying to tamp down the tensions. that's next. led new car. the guy says, "you picked the wrong insurance plan." no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance.

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help us." eric shawn with more on this. >> that leaked report reveals a regime in panic mode over the protests blaming president trump and regime opponents. the documents were obtained from the opposition group the national council of resistance against iran and claims the unrest hurts the regime saying "god help us, this is a very serious situation and different from previous occasions." the note points to the opposition leader and his group has long fought against the theocratic regime. she's calling on the united nations to intervene. some protesters have demanded the return the shaw's son that lives in the united states. he's called for a mass demonstration and likened protests to other freedom movements. she says the same forces that led to the collapse of the soviet union and the berlin wall can also bring freedom to his

country. >> nikki haley spoke today. what did she have to say? >> within the last hour she was at the u.n. nikki haley praised the protesters. the ambassador read some of the slogans the demonstrators are chanting but blocked by social media. >> we will die, but we'll take iran back. don't be afraid, don't be afraid. we're all together. in reference to the supreme leader "feel some shame, let go of the country." >> ambassador haley is calling for an emergency session of the u.n. president trump has urged the tehran regime to unblock social media. he tweeted the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt regime. all of the money that president obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into

their pockets. the people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. the u.s. is watching. iran's foreign minister responded by telling the president to stop tweeting saying it's better for him to try to address the u.s. internal issues like the murder of scores killed on a daily basis as well as homelessness and hunger. you know among those killed in the iran protests, reports also include as you mentioned a 11-year-old and now we have learned a 13-year-old boy also. john? >> so san. thanks, eric. one of president trump's tweets ticked off pakistan. he wrote yet that the pakistani government has given us nothing but lies and deceit. now the nation is demanding an explanation. that is next. i'm a road flare. laying here so traffic can safely navigate around this broken-down rv. really? a road flare?

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>> jon: more breaking news on this busy news day. pakistan holding an emergency session of its national security council after president trump accused the country's leaders of lying and deceit. the u.s. also holding back hundreds of millions in military aid. dozens of protesters in southern pakistan chanting against president trump and the united states burning the american flag in the process. the president tweeted that the u.s. has foolishly giving pakistan billions in aid in exchange for the country to treat american leaders like fools and providing a safe haven to terrorists. rich edson is live at the state department for us now. rich, the administration says it is holding back the money until pakistan changes? >> that's right, john. apologies for the phone call here as we've been evacuated for a fire alarm. the united states says pakistan

shelters taliban and others that launch attack against coalition forces in afghanistan. the senior administration official says the united states will withhold $255 million budgeted for pakistan until it clears terrorists within its borders. the u.s. ambassador nikki haley says pakistan has played a double game for years. that they work with the u.s. at times and then also harbor terrorists. she says that game is not acceptable. pakistan says they have fought terrorists though, the administration says they have focused on attacked targets in pakistan. yesterday the president tweeted the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $33 billion in aid the last 15 years and that they have given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking of our leaders as fools. they give safe havens to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help. no more. pakistan officials tell us that prompted an emergency government meeting today, john. >> jon: what is the latest

response from the pakistani government? >> pakistan says the president's tweet is incomprehensible and contradicted facts. pakistan maintain aggressively targeted terrorist organizations in its border. the government says the huge sacrifices made by pakistan including loss of tens of thousands of lives of pakistani civilians and security personnel and the pain of their families could not be trivialized so hartlessly by pushing all of it behind a monetary value and that too an imagined one. pakistan added that it cannot act in haste and it will remain committed to playing a constructive role in an afghan peace process. there's been complicationed -- complicated relationship since the u.s. found osama bin laden in pakistan. in august, trump said in the past, pakistan has been a valued

partner but it's also provided safe havens to the same organizations that kill american people in afghanistan, jon. >> jon: rich edson joining us by phone from the state department. rich, thank you. a teenager accused of gunning down his own relatives new year's eve heading to court today as we hear from the suspect's brother and learn more about what friends have called a picturesque family. a live report coming up.

>> i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report and more of today's headlines. dramatic video showing the coast guard rescue ago man from a sinking car. this happened in panama city, florida. the driver suffered a medical issue and drove into the war at a marina. we're hearing from the good samaritans that tried to rescue a passenger after a seaplane crashed in australia. this happened north of sydney. some folks on a nearby house boat say they dove for oil and

debris and tried pulling the seaplane up with a small boat. all six people on board the seaplane died. and the connecticut lottery admits they screwed up their new year's drawing. now officials are calling for a do-over. some million draw super players had a zero chance of winning because some tickets were left out of the drawing. the newses continues with jon scott after this.

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release his name. bryan llenas has more. >> the press right now and local newspaper in new jersey is fighting to make the first appearance public. he was supposed to appear video video. he's a juvenile. we'll see if they will allow this hearing to be public. this happened on new year's eve. the 16-year-old shooting his mother, his father and his 18-year-old sister as well as a friend of the family. a 70-year-old. this is what police said about the weapon. >> we will be charging this individual with four counts of murder and one couldn't of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. at this point in time, our investigation, we believe, it's alleged that a seam my automatic rifle was used. the weapon was legally owned and

registered to a family member. >> the family, this was a 16-year-old that was home-schooled. friends and family say he was special needs. he initially went to school. one friend said look, he's bullied at one point in elementary school. the last few years he was being home schooled by his mother, linda, a 42-year-old. the family described as loved and carrying. the father was on a softball team, 42-year-old stephen. by all intents and purposes was living and caring. the daughter was visiting. he just finished her first semester at stockton university, about an hour away from the family home. she was studying health sciences. we don't know who owned the gun. the brother and the grandfather managed to escape the home. we don't know how the escape happened, if they happened to leave or if they heard gun shots. one of the many questions we've been asking. >> the one brother, he's talking about his family. >> he is. the "new york post" released

this with an instagram post that he reportedly posting on his instagram saying that they made sure christmas came every year even though they struggled financially. i can't describe the type of people they were. for my sister, she was so beautiful and smart, i just wish i could tell all of them how much they meant to me and how much i loved every one of them because i didn't do that enough. please, please remember to give the ones you love an extra kiss or i love you. that was a statement written. this is the family struggling with a tragedy right now. a go fund me page has been set up to help pay for the funeral costs. that number is over $25,000 right now. so good for that. but a horrific tragedy to start out 2018. we'll know if he will be prosecuted as an adult later today. >> thanks, bryan llenas. nikki haley slamming the idea of peace talks between north and

south korea if north korea first doesn't give up its nuclear program. >> we won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in north korea. we consider this to be a very reckless regime. we don't think we need a band aid and we don't need to smile and take a picture. we have to have them stop nuclear weapons and they need to stop it now. north korea can talk with any one they want, but the u.s. won't acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have. >> haley's comments come after south korean officials offered to meet with the north koreans about the winter olympics. kim jong-un called for peace during his new year's speech and said talks with south korea should begin as soon as possible. the white house saying today their goal of a de-nuclearized korean peninsula has not changed. jennifer griffin life at the pentagon. jennifer, how significant are

these offers to talk? >> jon, if the talks take place, it will be the first time north and south korea have talked since 2015. this comes after a year of war-like rhetoric between kim jong-un and president trump amidst rising fears of a nuclear war. they could be very significant. critics say south korean's president moon who was a strong supporter of the sunshine policy has long believed in engaging open disagreed with president trump's approach to kim jong-un. kim jong-un is trying to buy time by driving a wedge between allies washington and seoul. south korea offered to host the talks next tuesday in the shared border village. the talks would consider the upcoming olympics games in february. the president treated sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have a big impact on north korea.

soldiers are fleeing to south korea, rocketman now wants to talk to south korea for first time. perhaps that is good news, perhaps not. we'll see. ambassador haley warned north korea not to test another ballistic missile amidst reports that pyongyang is prepping for another lunch. kim does so after more sanctions are imposed. a third round were imposed in december and the price of gas has doubled in north korea in the last year as a result of the sanctions. in recent days, south korea sees two oil tankers suspected of smuggling oil to the north, jon. >> jon: what about north korea's nuclear program? >> as of now, they don't believe the ballistic missile could resurvive entry and not deliver a warhead to the u.s. despite kim jong-un's claim otherwise. last year he carried out three intercontinental ballistic missile tests and appears to be making tremendous progress. north korea carried out its six nuclear tests last year and is

believed to have between 20 and 60 nuclear weapons already. during his new year's speech, kim jong-un bragged he has a nuclear button on his desk which experts say is not feasible, since all of the north korean icbm missiles are liquid fuels. there's a growing sense that something has to be done to halt pyongyang's nuclear program. jon? >> jon: thanks. let's bring in tara mueller, a former cia military analyst. she's a senior policy adviser for the counter extremism project a nonprofit that tracks and combats extremist groups. tara, what do you make of these talks? >> i think the united states should take it seriously. it should encourage any form of diplomacy that the north koreans

are wanting to engage in. that is not at the expense of punitive measures like sanctions. you want both simultaneously. you want to increase and ramp up pressure on north korea like we've been doing and open to diplomacy and negotiations and talks. talks are not apiecement. talks are the only way to ever reach a peaceful solution and potential nuclear conflict. >> jon: some observers are saying kim jong-un is trying to drive a wedge between the u.s. and allies by offering to hold the talks with the south. >> might be true. but having said that, that doesn't mean there could be more talks down the line. the south koreans are probably more than willing to engage us on this matter. the south koreans have an interest in resolving this as well. they don't want to see a conflict on the peninsula. they've been helpful in terms of ramping up the pressure on north korea and keeping the door open. i think you're right.

i think it was a move by north korea to try to undercut the administration's rhetoric that has been opposed to diplomacy. you saw sarah sanders at the press podium didn't sort of come out so directly against it. in trump's tweet earlier today, the president's tweet left the door somewhat open as to whether or not the talks could be productive. i'm not saying it's going to yield a magical solution overnight. in order to get to a solution or in order to get a temporary thaw in an escalating crisis, you have to get parties to the table. >> everybody says a solution to the problem has to go through china. president trump was glowing in his praise of china in the early months of his administration. but some of that seems to have soured lately. is he putting pressure on the chinese to put more pressure on north korea? >> i think what you saw, ambassador haley did a great job in multilateral sanctions. doing a good job in terms of getting the chinese to ramp up

their pressure. may have been overly optimistic in how far the chinese were going to go, putting sanctions and words down in theory. i think the chinese could be doing more having said that. again, you can keep ramping up economic pressure and sanctions. at the end of the day, a solution will still need to get parties to the table to get to some sort of negotiated agreement, whether it's giving up weapons, freezing the program. that's how nuclear weapons in the past have been thwarted an abandoned. it's rare they are abandoned alone on sanctions. >> jon: thanks, tara. >> thank you. >> jon: new fall out from a "new york times" report rank ago australian diplomat for rush interference in the u.s. election. what officials down under reportedly furious about it. first, a fox news weather alert.

millions of people feeling the freeze. a look at the lake-effect snow in erie, pennsylvania. forecasters say more snow is on the way for parts of the east coast. folks as far as florida could see freezing rain. adam klotz is live for us now. adam? >> john, yeah, this is the time of day when it should be the warmest. look at the current temperatures. below freezing in a huge swath of the country. add in the wind, you get the windchill temperature. it drops even colder. plenty of spots still in the negatives. unfortunately we're not warming up in the days to come. it continues to be very cold tomorrow. that's when the low pressure system you mentioned forms off the coast of florida. that could bring, unfortunately some wintry mix, snow. we have winter storm watches and warnings stretching from northern florida up to georgia, running up the southeast coast, this system will be on the move tomorrow morning. it's going to run up the entire coast bringing with it at times

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>> jon: australian officials apparently angry about a report that one of their diplomats may have helped spark the russia investigation. "the new york times" reported president trump's former campaign aide, george papadopoulos, told a senior australian official the kremlin had political dirt on hillary clinton. two months before hacked e-mails showed up online. catherine herridge is live with more from washington. catherine? >> thanks, john. on fox this morning, a senior official said the reporting about campaign aides george papadopoulos is a real distraction. >> people are saying don't worry about the dossier. there were the other things.

i'm not sure that the papadopoulos explanation is really any better. in fact, it's probably thinner than even the dossier. >> australian media is reporting there's anger and frustration over leaks by u.s. officials revealing australian diplomat shared intelligence that may have kick-started the fbi russia probe. the australian ambassador to the u.s. personally steered australia idealings with the fbi in the 2016 campaign after a meeting earlier that year between a senior australian official and a trump campaign aide. "the new york times" reported over the weekend that may 2016, that meeting between campaign aide george papadopoulos and another australian diplomat really got the fbi's attention. at that meeting papadopoulos apparently claimed to the diplomat, the russians had damaging information on hillary clinton. bear with me. in the summer of 2016 when wikileaks released the e-mails,

the australian ambassador flagged papadopoulos. based on our reporting, it was not a single source of intelligence that prompted the russia case, jon. >> jon: the president tweeted to you about huma abedin's e-mails? >> yes. huma abedin sent security passwords for sensitive government networks to her unsecured yahoo account. in a tweet earlier today, president trump loaded on abedin saying she ignored basic security, suggesting she should be jailed and criticized what he called the deep state justice department imploring officials to finally act against abedin and the former fbi director, james comey and others. last hour at the briefing, the white house's press secretary explained further. >> obviously the facts of that case are very disturbing. i think the president wants to make clear that he doesn't feel that anyone should be above the law. >> in her april 2016 fbi

interview overseen by peter strzok that sent the anti-trump texts, abedin said she forwarded government e-mails for her yahoo account for printing. she wasn't sure whether her yahoo account was compromised despite receiving a warning. >> jon: wow. >> it's amazing how the circle comes back to the fbi agent. >> it is. >> jon: good work. new laws taking effect from coast to coast this new year. they affect everything from how much money folks effect to who gets the dog in the divorce. jonathan hunt with a look coming up. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain.

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>> jon: it's a new year and new laws are in effect. california seeing several

changes. one of the big ones, folks there can legally light up a joint just for fun as long as they are at least 21. jonathan hunt live in los angeles with more. jon? >> hey, jon. almost every one could be affected by these laws in some way or another. if you're a gun owner a pot smoker or a minimum wage worker, the california laws are having a similar effect. bills brisk yesterday at this santa ana storm. the long-term impact of the marijuana law is still hazy, growers are expecting an economic boom and the state will be making a lot of money by taxing sales heavily. big changes too for gun owners here in california. they'll no longer be able the buy ammunition online and have it shipped to their home. anyone convicted of a hate crime will be prohibited of possessing a gun for ten years.

the minimum wage will be going up here and in new york and 16 other states. new yorkers are also going to get what governor cuomo calls the nation's most comprehensive leave policy, eight weeks for most workers. >> everybody should have a right to be there when their spouse is giving work. everybody should have a right to be there when their mother or father is sick and needs help. >> an interesting new law in tennessee given the free speech debate on college campuses across the country in 2017. colleges can not exclude speakers based on opposition by others to what they might say. and jon, illinois in its infinite wisdom has 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 k-9 custody as if divorce cases weren't enough fun already, jon. >> jon: thanks, jonathan. speaking of furry friends, a country showing off their top dogs that they using for more than just playing. that's next.

i'm a fuzzy, yellow tennis ball dangling from a string

to help you park safely in your garage. it's part of my new year's resolution: no more mayhem. making sure your car is pulled in far enough... but not too far. ♪ >> jon: russia's newest weapon giving meaning to shock and awe. the cutting edge weapons seem more suited for cuddling than killing. the russians showing off the new

puppies from the dog breeding center. more than 3,000 pups are part of the russian armed forces. i'm jon scott in for shepard smith. wore where with neil cavuto is next. >> neil: forget the hot stocks. california just becoming a sanctuary start. what does the acting ice director think about this? he's here and only here moments from now. i did tell you about the hot stocks and the records today. but the weather, not so much. a bone-chilling cold snap that is gripping 2/3s of the nation, over 200 million people are under windchill advisories as we speak. in florida they're bundling up. this video is showing flurries not too far from the magic kingdom in