or miss tweet it to us at jer, thanks to all of you for watching, i'm paul gigot, i hope to see you next week. >> it's a working weekend for president trump as he gathers with gop congressional leader at camp david, the president and inner circle discussing how to advance agenda and map out their strategy for the midterms later this year. hello, everyone, welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news room. i hope you are warm and indoors right now. >> that would be the operative word, warm and indoors. >> i'm kelly wright, thank you for joining us again. president trump doubling down of criticism of white house tell-all book describing fire and fury as mere fiction. his qualifications for office speak for themselves. >> i went to the best colleges or college, i went to a -- i had a situation where i was

excellent student, came out and made billions of dollars and went to television and for ten years was a tremendous success as you probably have heard, ran for president one time and won. >> live at the white house, rich. >> good afternoon, julie, this type of criticism is how the day began at camp david, on twitter from the president, he was responding to this book that claims that the president and everyone surrounding the president believes that he is unfit for office, so the president waking up this morning in camp david tweeting, quote, actually throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart. crooked hillary clinton played the cards very hard and as everyone knows went down in flames. i went from very successful businessman -- >> we are having audio issues with rich, we will try to get him back later in the show,

kelly. kelly: russia investigation back in the spotlight this saturday, two top senate republicans urging the justice department to launch a criminal investigation into christopher steel, a major figure behind the trump dossier containing solicitous and unverified allegations. lindsey graham releasing a statement saying, quote, after reviewing how mr. steel conducted himself in distributing information contained in dossier and how many stop signs the doj ignored in its use of the dossier, i believe that a special counsel needs to review this matter. the rule of law depends on the government and all who work on its behalf playing by the rules themselves. caroline has been following the story, she joins us live from our washington bureau with more details, caroline. >> hi, there, kelly, senator graham head of judiciary committee chuck grassley think steel may have lied about contact with reporters over the

trump dossier. former british spy on the payroll of opposition research firms fusion gps, the project later partially funded by the democratic national committee and clinton campaign. graham and gassily layed out suspicions of steel to justice department. members of congress can slam doj for more review. the first known criminal referral for congress as part of russia investigation. the voracity is still disputed. many republicans want to know if the dossier has sparked the fbi investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> but this all goes to how did this investigation into this collusion begin with law enforcement, what was christopher steelers role, who was he working with in the justice department or the fbi people. >> richard, senior democrat

released, this action was taken without any bipartisan cooperation and vaguely stated allegations seem to design to distract attention from the priority issues for investigation and discredit the fbi and other law enforcement. the doj doesn't have to take up the matter but judiciary committee has oversight of justice department, coming from grassley and graham it would most likely be a priority, kelly. kelly: indeed, caroline reporting from washington, thanks, caroline. julie: we fixed the hick-up, let's get to rich with more on the president's tweet basically defending himself regarding those who are questioning his mental stability. rich, go ahead. >> yeah, julie, something with the polls created a problem there, the president began the day defending mental capabilities because of michael wolff's book in which that book he has claimed that those surrounding the president believe that he is unfit for office questioning his

intelligence, well, the president took to twitter from camp david this morning tweeted, quote, actually throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart, crooked hillary clinton also played these cards very hard and as everyone knows went down in flames. i went from very successful businessman to top tv star to president of the united states on my first try, i think that would qualify as not smart but genius and a very stable genius at that. the president with a few questions after cabinet meeting with a number of congressional republican leaders as well, one of the issues that came up is the response to the reporting that the president and staffers in the white house pushed attorney general jeff sessions not to recuse himself from the russia investigation. the president respond today those reports. >> the time was way off or at least off but everything that i have done is 100% proper, that's

what i do, i do things proper. i guess the collusion now is dead because everyone found that after a year of study there's been absolutely no collusion. >> president also offered a discussion on -- on immigration saying that he would extend the daca program, republicans would be for those protections but he wants to get rid of chain migration, the visa lottery system and he wants additional money for border security. julie, kelly, back to you. >> rich, thank you. allegations of paid to play. the investigation putting forward is putting clinton's tenure, here is president trump reacting earlier. >> now, there has been collusion between hillary clinton, the dnc and the russians, unfortunately you people don't cover that very much but the only collusion is between hillary and the russians and the dnc and the russians.

>> let's bring in former white house press secretary fox news contributor, thank you for talking to us. >> glad to be here. >> so sources oh close to investigation are telling fox that investigators have actually -- this th has been going on for months now even though we have been learning about it already conducted multiple interviews associated with probe which clinton clinton foundation violated tax law, what happens if investigators find evidence of pay to play? >> well, the investigators find evidence, they will take it to the department of justice and see if it's anything that the justice department prosecutors feels needs to be prosecuted. it's very serious. it should not have anything to do with anybody's politics, findings to have fbi as they investigate. julie: okay, the spokesperson for hillary clinton and the foundation tells fox that the investigation is just an attempt by the trump administration to

distract the public. i want your reaction to what they're calling, let me put up on the screen, let's call this is what it is a sham, it began with long project spear headed by steve bannon, continues with jeff sessions doing trump's bidding by heating his calls to meddle with the department that is supposed to function independently, the goal is to distract from the indictments, guilty pleas and accusations of treason from trump's own team from expense of justice system's integrity, should be concerning to all americans and that is an end quote. it goes on, that was just a portion of it. what is the clinton administration -- what is the clinton foundation trying to do here? >> well, it's a flawed deflection from why this is being investigated, it's been publicly reported. this investigation began during the obama administration. the fbi, when president obama was in office had reason to

believe that there may have been pay for play. they start to investigate it close to the election, the obama justice department instructed the fbi to keep investigating, would not issue subpoenas and not to go forward with anything more than just look into thicks and basically put it on hold and then the fbi continue today look, they issued subpoenas but the investigation never stopped, so what we have only learned this week is that the investigation has got more active, again, so this investigation is not a sham, it's a leftover, a leftover from the obama years and now the fbi seems to have found and kicked it in higher gear. julie: why do you think it's more active? >> because they found something new. when the fbi has something on hold it's not sufficient information to either close it or continue to go forward or at least that anybody publicly knows about. if they find new witness, new

piece of paper, that gets the fbi to launch additional inquiries, that's why these things get out to public realm, the talk to the witness, somebody heard. julie: the fbi's whole role in all of this is something that's hard to -- there's just so many, you know, i guess places in this investigate where must wonder if the fbi is in a difficult place politically because the investigation is being led by the u.s. attorney's office and the fbi in little rock, arkansas, sources are telling fox that the fbi is mainly heading up this investigation. so you wonder what is the fbi's role in this in the midst of robert mueller's investigation of the trump campaign and its ties to russia. >> well, i think you to separate this from anything from bob mueller and issues involving russia. that's a special counsel, it operates to the side of the fbi

n this instance what you is typical business as usual, fbi, investigators, look for clues if they find something wrong, they have to go to prosecutors and that's the u.s. attorney's office, the two work hand in hand, they always do, they always have and they always will. that's how the justice department is supposed to work with no politicalization, what you have to separate from the comey investigation into hillary and e-mail and mueller investigation trump and russia, this is separate independent track brought up through career investigators at the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office and, again, it started under the obama administration. this is not because donald trump said anything to the justice department, the justice department was reacting to donald trump. this began when president obama was president and as anybody who has followed the clinton foundation knows there's no surprise, allegations of pay for play have been in all newspapers, appeared that they have found something, something worth looking into. julie: thank you very much u just a reminder, be sure to

check out tomorrow night on fox news special the wise guys, he will discuss the major issues affecting our country along with bill, steve, oliver north and alan, that's tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox. kelly: bone-chilling temperatures and dangerous windchills are gripping much of the northeast, the current temperature in boston, about 10-degrees. in buffalo new york, just 3-degrees. bryan llenas is outside braving the elements right now. bryan, it looks cold out there. >> yeah, kelly, it is the arctic blast coming also after the so-called bomb cyclone which brought tremendous snow and snow down from tallahassee and obviously we can expect 30-degrees. we are talking about a windchill advisory that's now in effect for northeast and great lakes

region. it is my news 20 in new york, up state new york, negative 7 in boston with the windchill negative 9 in pittsburgh with windchill as opposed for tomorrow morning, these are temperatures, tomorrow set to be negative 4 in boston and that could break the january 7th record, daily record that was set back in 1896 for the city of boston. it was negative 2 then. it'll be 2-degrees tomorrow morning in new york and it'll be 22-degrees down in atlanta, so far reaching windchills in massachusetts, by the way, in new england area, negative 25 to negative 40 in some parts of the suburbs, that's cold enough to cause frostbite in as little as ten minutes. we are talking about chaos at jfk airport all morning long, people talking about having to wait 4, 5, even 20 hours on the tar mar in their planes without

water, without food and some cases without toilets, the port authority here in new york are helping and coordinating with the faa to get people all of those planes with portable staircases and also busing them to terminals, take a look at this tweet right now. this is from one passenger who tweeted, chaos at jfk, had to wait six hours post landing to be able to exit the plane and now have been waiting for baggages for three hours and told that there might be another four to come, left home in paris 24 hours ago. they are now working with the faa to regulate and to limit how many planes are arriving at jfk, we will have more word on that, obviously have affect on travel here this weekend and let's look at this video, this is amazing. mount washington, new hampshire, this is from the mount washington observatory, it's so cold that they are blowing bubbles and they froze and you can see the guy actually holding

the bubbles as if it was a baseball, it feels like minus 100. just incredible temperatures, tied for second coldest place here on earth. here in the united states incredible temperatures right now, stay warm and stay safe, at least 22 people have died over the last week because of the cold temperatures, so last two weeks, kelly. kelly: i'm looking at you but you're standing out there, i see people walking behind you, people in new york are very stout, they are braving the temperatures as yourself, personal question, what does it feel like for you personally? [laughter] >> you know what, i was in boston two or three days t coldest and new year's eve night was pretty bad. i lucked out this time because i can run into a building this time. it's pretty bad out here, more than ten minutes out here is not fun and here in new york people have no choice. they don't have cars, either you bought tickets to visit new york, you have to visit the

tourist destinations or you live here and wait for train. freezing cold. kelly: all right, bryan, thank you. >> of course. julie: world of entertainment is in mourning, they are mourning the death of jerry van dyke, a look back at his life and memorable roles coming up next. plus, could tensions be easing with north korea? the rogue regime agreeing to talks with the south for the first time in two years, so is this real this time or is it an olive branch, we will find out or just a rumor. >> he knows i'm not messing around, not even a little bit or 1%, if something can happen and something can come out of talks, that would be a great thing for all of humanity. ♪ ♪ get going with carnation breakfast essentials® high protein drink. with 15 grams of protein to help you be your best. try our high protein drink. and look for our coupon in sunday's paper.

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julie: the man perhaps best known for role on the 90's sit come coach has died. jerry van dyke, the younger brother of dick van dyke died yesterday, four emmy nominations for playing the bubbling assistant coach luther van dam

on coach. first tv roles back in 1962 on his brother's the dick van dyke show. a very talented show. appeared on the middle. tells tmz she and her husband were in car accident two years ago and health had been deteriorating since then. jerry van dyke was 86 year's old kelly: north korea agreeing to hold official talks with the south next week. the high-level contact will take place in the zone. >> i hope it works out. i very much want to see it work out between the two countries. i would like for them seeing getting involved in olympics and things go from there. i'm behind that 100%.

he actually thanked me and a lot of people have said, a lot of written that without my rhetoric and stuff stance, not just a stance, this is -- this is what has to be done. kelly: joining me now senior fellow at the atlantic council, thanks for joining us, sir, tell me on the surface what do you anticipate could take place with this meeting between the north and south? >> the position of the south korean presidency is appeasing towards north korea, it is one of the weaker administrations in the history of south korea, so they want to talk to the north, they consider them brothers which they are, of course, there are divided families and what not but in the long-term it is the north that wants to squeeze the south and get as much as possible from that relationship including money, including stuff, including the survival of

their regime. it's all about regime survival. i thought long and hard about what is the game that the kim dynasty is playing. keeping their regime intact and possibly trying to unit all of the korea under the north and, of course, as long as we keep our forces in the south, this is not going to happen and also if for some reason we demonstrate weakness and the south goes for nuclear deterrence, then they'll be a nuclear stalemate in the long run. >> what impact do you believe the trump administration has on its talks and what personal impact from the president of the united states in describing the situation with tough rhetoric and saying that he's going to be firm? >> it's very appropriate for kim

jong un to know that u.s. is tough. the question is, how do you communicate that, do you communicate it by military posture, deployment of additional weapon system in the south and by the rhetoric in your tweets. i say it's the former, it's your stance, it's building the coalition, even bringing china and i have to give credit to this administration that the toughest customer here is not north korea, the toughest partner in this relationship is china and so far it looks like the relationship between north korea and china -- the relationship is not great and china is slowly putting a squeeze on pyongyang. kelly: i want to get back to this question, the actual meeting because their meeting will discuss olympics and the fact that kim jong un would like to see or at least put his teams, his athletes into the olympics which will take place

next month, having said that, president trump was asked that specific question today and if he had hoped it might go into something better than just talking about the olympics or deeper dialogue and the tension that is have been going on since 1950, they've been technically at war with each other and the president saying he would love to see that, he would welcome there and then secretary of state rex tillerson said that the tough sanctions are, in fact, working and forcing north korea to the table to talk to south korea. >> they want to squeeze them to give them money, to give them investment, anything, food, for example, they don't produce enough food because it's a communist system and it's extremely inefficient. in the long-term i do not believe that the regime voluntarily is going to give up nukes and if the united states

and south korea are willing to sit down and, the united states wants to have relationship and finish the state of war that they have since 1950 with north korea retaining the nukes, it'll be up to our administration. i think it's a very dangerous regime, it's bad for its own people and it's very bad for the region. kelly: we will wait and see what develops when they start the dialogue between the two countries and we will wait to see what china does and, of course, what the united states is going to do and that's continue to be tough. dr. cohen, thank you, sir. >> thank you. julie: so the u.s. is doubling down on its support of the iranian people as they continue to protest against the government. so what is the next step? we will discuss straight ahead. plus, the trump administration giving new details on the border wall with méxico. we will have details next.

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>> the wall is going to happen. we want to end chain migration, very important, we want to get rid of the lottery system. in addition to that, we want money for funding. we all want daca to happen but we also want security for our country. >> so president trump demanding border wall and calling on congress to fund $18 billion in ten years for barrier in exchange for deal for so-called dreamers. garrett tenney has been following the story and has more in washington. >> the blueprint we have of trump's administration for a wall along the u.s. and southern border and calls for a major expansion for border security, wall street journal, copy of document which was shared with a number of senators on friday and the first would cost $18 billion and include more than 700-miles of new and replacement barriers

along the southern border. lays out the changes to immigration policy that president trump has demanded in any deal to address daca and allow the dreamers to remain in the country. >> we want the wall. the wall is going to happen or we are not going to have daca, we want to get rid of chain migration, it's very important and we want to get rid of the lottery system. in addition for that we need money for funding, additional border security, these are great people and we need some border security, we need ice, but we want to make sure that in terms of what we want and we -- we want daca to happen. >> democrats are slamming the administration's plan for a border wall including dick durban who said the president may be pushing congress shutdown adding outrageous that they would cut government efforts and

$18 billion of wall funding on the backs of these people. several ie tempts not included in the plan what barriers will be used an how the white house plans to make méxico pay for it, kelly. kelly: garret tenney, thank you. julie: meanwhile on capitol hill, top senate democrats are hammering out a deal to protect hundreds of thousands of the so-called dreamers brought here illegally as children but they warn president trump demands on immigration could lead to government shutdown, any room for compromise? joining us alex, conservative millennial on conservative review and ben, last podcast on the left, thank you for talking to us. so, ben, top democrats are saying that top's immigration demands could lead to government shutdown, nobody wants that. so where is the room for compromise when it comes to immigration? >> there was a lot of room for compromise on the issues of chain migration and doing away

with the lottery immigration process that we have now and going towards more of a merit-based approach. there you have a much -- a lot of compromise and a lot of agreement amongst the republicans and the democrats. this poison pill of $18 billion for a border wall is really what is holding the entire bill hostage and it's unfortunate because we are playing with the lives of 800,000 people, daca recipients who did everything right and came to the country the proper way and they don't deserve to be political ping-pongs in the ridiculous match. julie: ally, where do democrats stand on protecting our borders? how far away are they from meeting republicans in the middle to end chain migration, end the visa lottery and toughen border security? >> right, i agree with some of what ben said and i hope i'm not oversimplifying things that we should be close to a compromise. i think republicans demands are not absurd and want to end chain

migration and visa lottery program and also want to tighten border security possibly be a wall, many republicans have said in exchange for all of those things they might even extend the daca program for three years so the dreamers can apply for citizenship legally. if anyone is obstructing the process, if anyone is standing in the way of compromise is democrats. >> no. >> putting on the table that they want immediate citizenship for the dreamers who by the way, i heard ben say that they came here the right way. they are still illegal immigrants. they have to apply for citizenship, they should not get immediate amnesty, it's the democrats that are obstructing the process and like i said, i think that's fine, those are democratic priorities, they don't want to crack down on sanctuary cities, they don't want to tighten border security but they need to be honest about the fact that they are the ones obstructing compromise, they are the ones that are going to be liable if the government does -- >> grant them amnesty but senator chuck grassley to extend

and republicans aren't going to go for that. ben, how do you -- how do you tackle this when you're talking about tens of millions of these dreamers and do they deserve to have more time to apply for citizenship? >> absolutely they do, once again, they have to have an education, they have to have a job, there was a massive vetting process in order to qualify for daca. we have attorney general jeff sessions who wants to end legal marijuana which is an 8 billion-dollar industry basically giving $8 billion back to drug cartels and now we have a president that wants to add 18 brl dollars for border wall, it's counterentwittive and ridiculous and not rational and donald trump trying to throw red meat to base that he has been losing. julie: ally. >> the right and the left seemed to be agreeing on that, $18.5 billion is absolutely insane, however, this is a lot more than red meat. trump's base and a lot portion

of the american public really care about tightening border security. i mean, it affects our jobs, it affects our economy and affects our safety. it's not just trivial manners that we are talking about here. julie: let's get back to the wall, extending the wall with the bord other f méxico namely because it's going to cost 18, 19 billion, i don't know how much. >> more. julie: during the campaign promised that méxico will pay for that. i don't mean to make light of this but that is what the campaign was all about, let's build the wall, méxico's president is going to pay for it. during the campaign the president of méxico said no we are not and he was right because now we need to cough up $19 billion. is there any way that democrats and republicans are ever going to come somewhere in the middle and meet in the middle then when it comes to the wall? >> there's a massive lie when it comes to immigration that they

are -- illegal immigrants are flowing over borders from méxico. roughly 11.5 undocumented individuals for eight years and 18 billion-dollar wall is not intelligent, it is counterintuitive, nothing to solve the problem whatsoever. not to mention eminent domain. you talk about people who have their land seized by the government, they are not going to be thrilled same way farmers not being able to find labors. >> thousands of laborers in texas, lawsuits going left and right, millions of dollars spent and these people are not moving. there's actually not -- enough land in order to cover the entire perimeter of texas, but nonetheless, ally, i want to give you the final word as far as where we are going to see immigration reform in 2018? >> i think the wall is symbolic gesture both right and left. they have both of their symbolic reasons for not wanting it. i think if the republicans and

democrats can come together and tighten border in a way that's fiscally responsible and decrease illegal immigration, i think we will be able to get along as well as compromise on daca, that's what we need to do. julie: all right, thaump. >> thank you. >> kelly. >> thank you. kelly: overseas progovernment rallies held across iran, governments against israel and united states, that comes as antigovernment protests continue across the country, more than 1,000 people have reportedly been arrested. un ambassador nikki haley saying the u.s. supports the demonstrators. >> the iranian people will determine their own destiny and let there be no doubt whatsoever the united states stands unapologetically with those in iran who seek freedom for themselves and prosperity for their families and dignity for

their nation. kelly: katie logan joins us live, kitty. >> hi, kelly, this time it's progovernment demonstrations which have brought thousands of people into the street in iranian towns and cities, first protest took place in north of the country but more soon appeared elsewhere, now iranian state tv says direct response of days of demonstrations against the government and just yesterday the u.s., of course, called the meeting at the un to address these protests to the anger of iranian government that the u.s. ambassador nikki haley said antiprotests in iran are human rights issue which should be of international concern and that's because 21 people have been killed since those antigovernment protests on december 28th of last year. people first took the streets about the economy that they soon directed anger against iranian government, iranian leadership are aspired by foreign

interference. interesting to note that the protests seem to be fading and that's largely because iranian government crack-down and the shutdown of social media, kelly. kelly: thank you. julie: author of trump dossier could be in legal trouble. new twist to russia investigation coming up next. >> this all goes to how does this investigation into this collusion begin with law enforcement, what was christopher steelers role, who was he working with in the justice department and fbi people.

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level. kelly: former utah congressman jason chaffetz, he's talking about the letter grassley and lindsey graham have sent to justice department asking for possible investigation into the man behind trump dossier, christopher steel, former british spy, intelligent officer compiled unverified dossier for the research firm fusion gps which by the way partially support bid the clinton campaign. joining me now byon york, thanks for joining us, byron. your article goes to the heart of the matter as to what people should anticipate from this move from senators grassley and graham. explain. >> well, the story has been confusing because we don't know exactly what's going on because all we have is a short letter that the two senators sent to the department of justice and

the fbi, it was a cover letter for a longer memorandum making a case that was all classified so we haven't seen it. here is what appears to happen. two senators appeared to be concerned about statements christopher steel, dossier author made to the fbi in the summer of 2016. if you go back to then, he started compiling the dossier, he finds this kind of spectacular allegations about donald trump and he believes they're so important that even though he's working for the clinton campaign he takes them to the fbi and says, hey, look, this is what i have. he had a previous relationship with the fbi because he had been in british intelligence and they basically considered hiring him essentially as a special operative to keep doing this investigation but what grassley and graham are concerned about is at the same time that was happening, he was still working for the clinton campaign and he

was sharing the same stuff that he shared with the fbi he was sharing it with reporters trying to get the story into the press. so did he tell the fbi, hey, by the way i'm telling this stuff to reporters or not? and i think that the the question that's at the heart of this issue. kelly: that would conjure up conflict of interest, u.s. code 1,001 and it says, accept as otherwise toever in in matter within the jurisdiction of the executive legislative or judicial branch of the government of the united states knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals device, material fact, makes any materially false fraudulent statement or representative and here is one that i think goes to the heart of your story, makes

or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry. we are not saying that's exactly what's going on but that would appear to be what the two senators are focusing on and what your article talks about as well. >> right, it appears that they are focusing on what it was that steel told the fbi. it's not the question of whether the contents of dossier was unsubstantiated which they still are, the major substantive allegations still are. it was not that, it was what he told the fbi and, by the way -- kelly: i have to let you go but real quickly, as you know senator diane feinstein says this is basically a distraction and deflection. >> yes, democrats have been very opposed to this, she is the ranking democrat on the judiciary committee which actually issued this letter.

a lot of them have condemning, i think what we are going to have to see is we are going to have to see the contents of that document that they sent along essentially making this case to see whether this was really a serious issue or not. kelly: we will be following it as you will to. >> thank you, kelly. julie: in one state the hospitals are actually turning people away because they have too many flu patients already. live report just ahead. >> when i see, i knew it was the flu. >> fever, body pain, i still have chills. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. my healthy routine helps me feel my best. so i add activia yogurt to my day.

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>> iconic building in downtown nashville is now history. >> the 12-story lightweight tower tumbuntil 12 seconds and it was going down to make away one million diffuse. kelly: california health officials say that it's so

intense that some helps are rerouteing patients because they just don't have the room. will carr live in los angeles with more details, will. >> kelly, this is setting up to be one of the worst flu seasons ever, according to cdc, the number of people has spiked over the past week, widespread flu symptoms being reported in 46 state as cross the country, pretty much lighting up the whole map leading to at least 45 deaths and people have been hospitalized, the spread so large that some parts of the country are seeing record number of cases, people flooding into emergency rooms, creating long lines and in one case forcing a california hospital to set up tent for flu patients. >> very unfortunate and tragic is the late-breaking death that we learned about yesterday from december 31st, 12-month-old and

we are all very sad but this is, you know, good reminder for all of us that we all have a role to play in terms of protecting us and the community and our loved ones from influenza. >> cdc recommends that everybody recommends a flu shot, if it's not something you want to do, sometimes flu listen last until may. you have to figure something out. >> i have a solution, don't leave home and don't let kids go to school because they'll bring it right in. that's going to do it for us. kelly: yes, coming up next eric sean and arthel neville. >> julie: then i will see you in fox 7:00 p.m. eastern. thank you very much. reatment fo? so i made a point to talk to my doctor. he told me about eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots

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eric: fire and fury for president trump as he continues crusade to crush unflattering book in first year in office. blasting author michael wolff calling mr. wolff a quote, fraud. the president is a work of fiction. hello, everyone, i'm eric sean, welcome to brand new hour of america's new headquarters. arthel: and i'm arthel neville. the president's push back coming at crucial time meeting with republican lawmakers at camp david to discuss legislative priorities for this year and the political landscape going into the midterm elections, but the controversial book about presidt