>> bill: i always wanted to be 6-foot and i'm still 511. >> make a trip. >> bill: to the moon. >> sandra: okay, "happening now" starts right now. >> bill: bye-bye. >> jon: we begin with the fox news alert deadly search for survivors in california with crews near santa barbara trying to reach new areas and dig through the destruction to find any trapped victims after a storm slammed into a coastal community sending off flash flooding in powerful mud flow that swept away dozens of homes. those mud slides killing at least 15 people, a number that is expected to rise. still, crews were able to rescue some survivors trapped for hours in collapsed homes. we will have much more on this breaking story when we go live to one of the areas hardest hit monday seat toe, just minutes from now.

president getting ready for cabinet meeting a half an hour from now. judge ruled against cabinet's decision to end the dreamer program. good morning to you. >> julie: i'm julie banderas. blocks the president from rescinding the obama era protection immigrants brought to this country illegally as children. press secretary sarah sanders calling it outrageous especially in light of the meeting the president held with nearly two dozen lawmakers on reviving daca just yesterday. >> i think yesterday was a watershed day. what we want to do is solve the daca issue, bring border security to our borders. second thing or third thing is eliminate chain migration and this ar archaic diversity visa lottery. the second thing the president did yesterday was establish a sense of urgency. that's something rare here in washington. >> julie: chief white house correspondent john roberts is live with the story. never a dull moment where you, john. >> are you kidding, julie? a dull moment? no such thing. parish the thought.

none of that in washington. we will talk about the court ruling in just a second. first of all, the president going off this morning on democratic senator dianne feinstein for releasing a transcript of the judiciary committee's interview with fusion gps founder glenn simpson. in that transcript simpson is quoted as saying that the fbi was inclined to believe at least some of the information that was contained in that unverified dossier on donald trump because some of the information came from a human source inside the trump administration or trump organization. that source has not been revealed nor has it been verified that there actually was a source inside the trump organization. the president ripping feinstein in a tweet just a short time ago writing quote the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has on numerous occasion stated that collusion between trump-russia has been found release testimony in such underhanded and illegally way totally without authorization is a disgrace. she must have a tough primary. the president also going

after district judge a clinton appointee who announced he was blocking the president's plans to rescind daca. the president tweeting quote it just shows how unbroken and how unfair our court system is when the opposing side in a case such as daca always runs to the ninth circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts. again it was a district judge who issued that ruling that district judge is within the 9th circuit of appeals jurisdiction. sarah huckabee sanders the press secretary going much further than the president in a statement saying, quote: we find this decision to be outrageous. especially in light of the president's successful bipartisan meeting with house and senate members at the white house on the same day. an issue of this magnitude must go through the normal legislative process. president trump is committed to the rule of law and will work with members of both parties to reach a permanent solution that corrects the unconstitutional actions taken by the last administration. the department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen who appeared on fox earlier today said she does not believe that this ruling

is going to stand in the way of reaching an agreement, a bipartisan agreement to fix daca. listen here. >> i don't think so. i mean, we are very disappointed by the decision but what we heard yesterday at the meeting we are all committed to finding a deal. current decision daca recipients. >> jon: back to where we started on that fusion gps story and the unverified dossier, one of the president's attorneys in the trump administration, michael cohen announced on twitter last night that he is suing fusion gps and buzz feed over that unverified dossier tweeting enough is enough of the fake russian dossier just filed a defamation action against buzz feed news for publishing the lie-filled document on potus. @ real donald trump and me. that dossier contains report cohen went to prague and czech republican to meet with officials. came back and said he has

never ever been to prague. julie? >> julie: i don'john roberts at the white house. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> jon: a fox news alert and an announcement out of washington that could change the balance of power in the u.s. congress. republican darrell issa of california has announced he will not seek re-election. he won his 2016 race by less than a percentage point. it was expected to be one of the closest races in the country were he to run again. he has decided not to do. so darrell issa, republican of california will not seek re-election. our chad pergram, ace washington producer says that it represents the opportunity for a democratic pickup in the house of representatives. we'll keep an eye on that. so as john roberts just reported michael cohen takes legal action over the trump russia dossier produced by former british intelligence officer christopher steele. cohen is suing both buzz feed and fusion gps for

defamation. buzz feed published the document a year ago. that news comes after ranking democratic senator dianne feinstein released co-founder glenn simpson' testimony in front of the judiciary committee. republican congressman jim jordan weighed in on that. >> what i have been able to read thus far is the fact that glenn simpson said christopher steele told him the fbi had another source. how did christopher steele know that? did the fbi tell him? and, if they did, why is the fbi telling christopher steele, the guy who was paid by fusion, who was paid by the clinton campaign, why isn't the fbi telling christopher steele they got another source on this whole russian investigation? i think that is interesting and something we need to get to the bottom of. >> jon: let's bring in jake sherman senior writer for politico and co-author of politico's playbook. first of all, the release of this transcript, chuck grassley is not happy about it. he's the head of the committee. why would senator feinstein do that? >> you would have to ask her

why she would do it, but i would say, listen, i think democrats are trying to very clearly assert themselves on these matters. i think, listen, they are not in the majority. so they have very little leeway to do anything of substance. but they obviously were in position of -- in possession of this transcript which they subsequently released. this is not something that is typical in washington. i will say back in the day, when republicans were in the minority in the house, darrell issa, who you just reported is resigning -- is retiring at the end of the congress used to do stuff like that to force the hand of the majority. while it's not commonplace it's something minority party does. the president meanwhile did chalk it up to dianne feinstein's primary challenge in california. i'm not sure if that's the reason why. again, you would have to ask her. clearly the president's trying to assign some motive to this move that she made. >> jon: it's also unusual especially on something like the judiciary committee for senators to sort of run

around behind one another's backs and release information like this. isn't it? >> of course. but these are strange times. i mean, i thought every time i think something is a strange, i'm -- it's topped the next day by something else that happens. it's also not normal for the president to use twitter like he does. i mean, there are tons of things that are not normal. you are absolutely right releasing this transcript is not standard fare in washington. not something that's usually done. >> jon: we have the president's lawyer suing buzz feed and fusion gps over the release of the dossier that came out a year ago. buzz feed is, you know, after all, a website, you know, kind of a purveyor of journalism. does this lawsuit stand a chance? >> i think buzz feed is a purveyor of journalism. they are a journalistic entity. they are a news outlet. i'm not a lawyer but i will say the people i have spoken to do not think that this has much merit. they say that this is a clearly news worthy document and ben smith, who former

colleague of mine of politico who runs buzz feed in the "new york times" this morning said he is proud he published it the way he did. he is proud of what he did. so clearly buzz feed is not backing down in any way, shape, or form. >> jon: so, by suing it, doesn't the president end up bringing more attention to the dossier? >> yeah. i mean politically you, i'm sure, a lot of people are questioning why he is doing. this why is the president's attorney is doing this. they just had a massive win on tax reform. and you see around the country republicans taking credit for bonuses, for business, positive business decisions around the united states. and that should be the narrative, according to a lot of republicans that we talked to up here. that should be what they are focusing on. not fusion gps and the dossier from 2016. there is positive economic signs. although i will say 31 house -- 31 republican seats are open in this upcoming election. i would say mixed political

news for the republican party. >> jon: they are fearful of their opportunities to hold onto the house of representatives. that's for sure. jake sherman from politico. jake, thanks for spending some time with us this morning. >> thanks, jon. >> julie: a school bus here in new york city on new york city expressway bursts into flames near kennedy airport. we'll have details in just a moment. plus, president trump about to meet with his cabinet as he pushes for a bipartisan deal on immigration while making good on a campaign promise. >> having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital. because this should be a bipartisan bill. this should be a bill of love, truly should be a bill of love and we can do that.

>> julie: right now firefighters giving the all clear after a scary site. a school bus going up in flames. it happened on a new york city expressway near jfk airport. fire crews put out the flames leaving the charred bus behind.

the lucky part here is no students were on board thank goodness and no one was injured. >> here we see fusion gps, the entity paid by the democratic party working with the fbi utilizing the very same tools that the russian federation uses to disrupt democracy around the world. >> jon: florida congressman matt gaetz blasting the fbi aftershocking revelations in the transcripts of fusion gps co-founder glenn simpson' interview with the senate committee. it looked like simpson author told fbi in 2016 he feared russian officials could be in a position to black malblackmail then candidae trump. congressman gates joins me now. do you think christopher steele came to the fbi with this story out of concerns for american democracy or was he motivated by something else? >> this was an attack on american democracy and it fits in with the blueprint

that russia uses around the world. what russia does from macedonia to south america is that they go and dig up or make up elm bar eminem bare wassing things about people running for office. leak it to the media. get to the public square and use that as a basis to undermine democracy and elections and political candidates that voters can choose. in this case though it appears that russia's most willing partner was the democratic national committee and potentially the fbi working with glenn simpson and christopher steele. so, that's why it's so important to evaluate the typical manner in which russia approaches elections and how they may have been trying to undermine our democracy and our duly elected president, donald trump. >> jon: do we know what exactly the fbi did with this information from christopher steele? because the indications are that they said oh, yeah, we kind of already knew that and you just backed up our concerns. >> well, that seems to be the story now. but if we look at the text messages around this time between peter strzok and his

mistress lisa page, we see a deliberate attempt, a deliberate execution of a plan to leak information to the "wall street journal" to embarrass the president. so, again, using the very tools that russia uses to disrupt elections but here the characters, the players are the people working with the fbi and the democratic national committee to leak this information before verifying it and before knowing whether or not it was true at all. >> jon: so dianne feinstein released this information, obviously because she thinks that it, what, embarrasses republicans or because it embarrasses the fbi? >> well, i think dianne feinstein might be facing a tough primary in california and just wanted to rile up her liberal base. but it is a true departure from the procedures we use in the congress to exercise oversight to establish a meeting that is in a confidential setting and then to just have one member unilaterally release the information, that's the type of thing that undermines the future oversight obligations

of the congress. it limits our tools to be able to find the truth and tell the american people. and it's only a consequence of congressional investigations and congressional subpoenas that we finally gotten all the evidence that shows the incredible bias that seem to favor hillary clinton and prejudice against donald trump. >> jon: how confident are you that the bureau or that the congress is going to be able to get to the bottom of all of this and figure out what really happened here? >> well, we as a congress have that obligation. we have already had a number of sworn introduce in the intere house judiciary committee. i suspect as we continue to connect the does, we will see there was no collusion with the trump campaign in russia but there was tremendous collusion with the democratic party and the fbi to dig up these false facts and it may have been fusion gps that was working with russians to develop a fake fact pattern to undermine our democracy. that's what we have got to stop going forward. >> jon: >> jon: also in the testimony, this testimony that dianne feinstein had

released, there is testimony that the fbi had a source inside the trump campaign? how confident are you in that? >> well, i think that george pawnpopoyuapa got drunk in a london pub one night and mentioned the fact that vladimir putin didn't like hillary clinton. something all of the world knew since hillary clinton had called for his ouster and was encouraging protests against him. i don't think it's more likely that a guy drunk in a london pub launched a counter intelligence investigation than it is that the fact that the fbi had become so politicized under the obama administration that they were literally using campaign information paid for by the democratic party and they were dressing it up as an intelligence document and then using that as a basis to undermine the president. that is what is so problematic. we can't have people campaign activities bleed over into the official acts of the fbi in this case that very well may have happened. >> jon: so much swirling a year after that dossier was first published.

congressman matt gaetz, republican of florida, we thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> julie: chaos in north carolina ahead of elections. what a panel of judges just ruled on redistricting that could have major implications for states all across the country. plus landmark talks twine north and south korea this week. how the u.s. plans to reinforce its presence in the region. >> denuclearization of the korean peninsula is our number one priority and certainly what we would like to see. we are in very close contacts with the -- our south korean allies about these conversations.

>> jon: a landmark ruling in north carolina. federal judges striking down the state's congressional districts as unconstitutional jerrymander, the decision chose state maps into chaos months before midterm elections. the judges ruled that when the states republican majority general assembly redrew districts in 2011 lawmakers illegally manipulated borders based on party affiliations. lawmakers must now redraw the lines and redistrict by january 29th so candidates for november congressional elections can file for primaries starting in february. democrats are celebrating the ruling calling it a major victory. republicans have vowed to appeal the court's decision. >> if we do this properly, daca, you are not so far away from comprehensive immigration reform. if you want to take it that further step, i will take the heat, i don't care. i don't care. i will take all the heat you want to give me and i will take the heat off both the

democrats and the republicans. my whole life has been heat. >> julie: president trump expressing commitment to immigration reform in spite of political and public backlash. the president saying he is hopeful congress will reach a long-term bipartisan deal on daca. family based immigration. the visa lottery system and, of course, that long-promised border wall. new hurdles are cropping up. federal judge ruling last night to block trump's decision to end the dreamers program. let's bring in our panel four republican presidential campaigns, and marjorie clifton, principle of clifton consulting. thank you both for talking to us. patrick, i'm going to start with you on immigration. two major hurdles to you what to do with the 2 million salvadorians to escape series of earthquakes in 2001 or millions of dreamers whose daca protection ends on march 5th. which will get priority. >> i think, julie, more than anything else, this issue

has been temporarily addressed again and again. daca was a temporary fix by president obama. he knew that program could be taken away. t stands for temporary tpa. we haven't addressed these things as a whole. what we saw yesterday is the border wall, border security, tpa, trying to come up with even possibly a path to legal citizenship were all of sort of on the table with the president. i think all of this stuff is now being forced in a comprehensive manner that's going to lead toward a big fix, not a series of small fixes, that even a temporary order from a federal judge can try and slow down. it's time to fix this. i think we saw that yesterday in what he call a stroke of stable political genius where the president assembled members of both parties for that 55-minute meeting to the white house yesterday. and we saw some real interesting stuff go on there. the pressure is now on the congress to send the president a bill that will fix this once and for all. july eulogy i have to say, marjorie, president trump he

really surprised supporters after holding that event yesterday in the cabinet room. it had been billed on the official white house schedule as a pool spray. that's a brief visit for the press to ask questions and then get out. instead it turned into an hour long in-depth discussion on the future of daca among 25 lawmakers. i want to read part of an rnc email and get your reaction. many in the media have spent the last week hyper vent layinventilatingover hyper phon. president trump led the most transparent substantive policy discussion with congress maybe ever. what was your take on yesterday's meeting? is it going to change anything? >> we have had trump come forward and tackle things and not shy away from hard line approaches on a lot of different issues. like we saw on healthcare. healthcare is very complicated. once trump sort of started down that road of how do we repeal obamacare, he discovered that the devil was' indeed in the details

and it was a highly complicated issue. what we know is back in the obama administration, both healthcare and immigration were sort of the two major policy initiatives that the president wanted to push through. but knew he could only tackle one of them. again, because it was really complicated. but what republicans and democrats both know is that in 2016, 27.4 million eligible voters are latino voters who do care largely about immigration. that is one of their top issues. so getting something done is going to be absolutely critical. and programs like daca and allowing temporary visas for the el salvadorians those are humanitarian issues in most people's eyes that's republicans and democrats. the idea of punishing children who now are citizens and working and contributing to our economy for things that they did not have control over seems really a hard line. so it's something that is part of a bigger puzzle, obviously. >> julie: i think the president has made it clear though he doesn't want to punish children who came here without having any say in the matter. he has made it clear that he wants to meet with democrats

somewhere in the middle on coming up with a daca resolution. yesterday he even seemed open to democrats' ideas, patrick, when he responded to california democratic senator dianne feinstein suggesting that he support a clean bill on daca. one without any funding for the border wall. and then here's how president trump replied. he said i have no problem. then a complete 180 from yesterday's civil exchange because feinstein goes ahead and release testimony from the russia investigation which led to this tweet this morning by the president. the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between trump-russia has not been found would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way totally without authorization is a disgrace, must have tough primary. patrick. is this the kind of underhanded behavior that's going to prevent democrats from compromising to get anything passed through the mid terms? >> it's unfortunate the democrats are focused on russia investigation because they have nothing else to talk about.

this is absolutely completely devoured every aspect of their narrative. that said, i thought yesterday's exchange was open. i thought the president was in command of that situation contrary to what michael wolff and others have been talking about with regard to his state of mind. the question directed from senator feinstein to the president was right there for everybody to sees a was his answer. i think if the trump administration is able to conduct these kinds of discussions, and the american people can see the president willing to listen and exchange in an open not underhanded way, then they will make the judgment that the politics of this thing, such as the behavior senator feinstein exhibited yesterday is sort of sneaky and underhanded and not productive to try to solve this problem. >> julie: we have got to go. i'm sorry. i have been given the time out here. i tried to give you both fair time. thank you both. >> all right. thank you, julie. >> julie: jon? >> jon: life saving medical supplies in high demand after nationwide shortage hits the u.s. why last year's devastating hurricane season is being

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>> julie: a fox news alert. more search and rescue missions underway at this hour after deadly mud slides in southern california. at least 15 people have died while dozens of others were airlifted to safety. heavy rains spawned the flash floods and the mud slides which some residents say left them in total shock. >> you could hear the boulders rolling down the hill. you could hear the mud. it sounded like a freight train. >> i would say o. pock lip particular. i can't quite believe it. >> julie: william la jeunesse joins us on the phone from montecito california with the latest there. what a scary situation, william. >> where i am at, julie, they brought in the backhoes and bulldozers i'm down in montecito in the creek. the actual mudslide started about two miles away up slope where the thomas hill ripped the hill of vegetation. when the winds came, that brought down the mud and picked up steam and boulders and trees and hit a choke point and literally

everything that was up there all that mud and debris is down here now in the valley. and they have now brought in the heavy equipment to take that out. the sheriff says 15 fatalities so far. he expects more. 50 as you said were rescued last night by helicopter alone or yesterday, rather. 300 remain trapped in their homes. many unaccounted for. the victims say they never expected this and neither did the weather service. we saw almost an inch of rain in 15 minutes. unlike a fire when you see it, you smell it, a mudslide that comes without warning. by the time it hit, it was too late for these individuals. >> every hill you see around here was on fire. and when we know that the dirt is loose, and the rain comes, we knew it would come. we didn't know it was going to be this bad. >> 3:00 in the early morning hours all the debris came down sounded like cars were being dragged. saw the boulders and rocks. tried to get out and couldn't. >> the debris flow snapped trees and power poles.

pushed homes off their foundation. mandatory evacuation remains in effect for some individuals. exclusive safety zone. the sheriff said he wants people to stay inside their homes because it is dangerous outside. search and rescue continues with high water trucks and helicopters today. there were six major wildfire areas in southern california. several have been hit. of course, the sheriff says this area in montecito was the worst. >> the only words i can really think of to describe what it looked like is it looked like a world war i battlefield. it was literally a carpet of mud and debris. >> what's interesting is the fire lasted four weeks. we had two fatalities. thrain that brought this mudslide lasted only four hours. yet we have 15 fatalities. the difference according to the sheriff so many individuals followed their evacuation orders with the fire but not in this case because they just didn't think it would be that bad.

the good news, julie, we have good sunshine today. the bad news is this was the first rain of the season. back to you. >> julie: all right. william la jeunesse, thank you very much. ♪ >> jon: just in on the north korea crisis, vice president pence now set to lead the u.s. delegates to the winter olympics next month in south korea. official telling fox the move is meant to reinforce the strong u.s. presence on the korean peninsula while sending a clear message to the north korean regime. all this on the heels of land mark talks between north and south korea where both sides agreed to further discussions on easing military tensions along their border. >> you hear a lot about these fears about a wedge in the alliance between the u.s. and south korea. well, the real way to create a gap between the two is if washington undermines seoul's effort. very important that president trump is not doing that. >> jon: joining us gary the editor for the "wall street

journal." you seem pretty positive about the results of those talks thus far. >> as far as they went they were successful from the point of the south koreans. what they had hoped for is to pave the way for north korea to participate in the olympics next month in south korea. that would be both the confidence building measure reduce tensions and what remove the cloud that hung over those olympics in the sense that people were -- north korea going to do something crazy to disrupt them. well now not. that was one thing that was accomplished in the talks. and the south koreans seem to have succeeded in convincing the north koreans that they ought to be broadened out a little bit to talk about lowering tensions generally. that's all great. i think the darker underside from the point of view of some people including some people in the u.s. is that maybe this is all designed to drive a wedge between south koreans and allies, create a positive environment in talks between the two koreas that leave the u.s. on the outside and that precludes the possibility of the u.s.

taking some military action against north korea. that's why i think this news that vice president pence is going to the olympics is really important because that's a sign of support for the south korean government as it holds those olympics. >> jon: there are obviously a lot of hurdles that remain and let me read for you some of your own writings as they appeared in the "wall street journal." north korea wants the u.s. to foreswear joint military activities with south korea in advance of talks while the u.s. ininsists of goal of talks to eliminate nuclear arsenal. each side finds unacceptable. diplomats expect engagement south korea drive a wedge between seoul and its allies. taking any military action against pyongyang. the idea you think north korea is kind of embracing its southern neighbor and saying hey, you know, you don't need uncle sam in this fight. >> well, that's a possibility. who knows what the north

korean strategy or rationale now. but i think the point is in the longer term, really descalating tensions over north korea's missile and nuclear programs is going to involve not talks only between north korea and south korea. it's going to have to involve conversations that include the north koreans and the u.s. and the problem right now in getting that diplomacy going as i wrote this that piece, the north koreans want the u.s. to do some things it's clearly not going to do to say okay we are done with military exercises with the south korean allies and we will back off on economic sanctions a kind of precondition to going into those talks. that's not going to happen. the u.s. wants the north koreans to understand that the goal of these talks from the american point of view is to eliminate the north korean nuclear program to. denuclearize the korean peninsula. the north koreans don't seem to be interested in talks as the ultimate goal. the question right now if you want a broader diplomatic initiative to get going beyond the north, south korean talks, wh how do

you make that happen with those be a tackles in the way. >> jon: as talk goes on north can continue working on nuclear program. >> that's correct. so far they have been less provocative in recent months than they had been previously but we will see. jerry sunn seib. >> thanks. >> julie: robert mueller purportedly in talks about interviewing president trump. when could that happen and what does it mean? severe flu season sending hundreds to the hospital. why this season stands to be the worst that we have ever seen in previous years. >> all of last year for the flu season we saw 210 patients with confirmed influenza and to date we have seen 201 patients with confirmed unflew enzoo.

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entering final stages with new reports special counsel robert mueller now wants to interview donald trump. an indication the investigators have compiled enough evidence to interview their highest ranking potential target. now, this news comes amid leaked testimony from fusion gps founder glenn simpson. focusing on his company's now infamous dossier. democratic senator dianne feinstein releasing that information in spite of republican objections. congressman matt gaetz weighing in just moments ago. >> if we look at the text messages around this time between peter strzok and his mistress lisa page, we see a deliberate attempt, a deliberate execution of a plan to leak information to the "wall street journal" to embarrass the president. so, again, using the very tools that russia uses to disrupt elections but here, the characters, the players are the people working with the fbi and the democratic national committee to leak this information before verifying it and before knowing whether or not it was true at all.

>> julie: joining me how texas congressman louie gohmert. thank you very much for talking to us. >> sure, julie. >> julie: what does a sit down between robert mueller and president trump signal with regard to this investigation? does it signal an end is near? >> no, what it would signal to me is that mueller is desperate. he doesn't have a case he can make. and so he is going to follow the path of martha stewart, scooter libby, or mike flynn and hope that they can get president trump to get confused on some day date. some fact that they can turn around and prosecute for perjury. i would suggest that we remember martha, we remember scooter, we remember mike flynn and have the president say make your best case and bring it. i'm not helping you. >> julie: right. well, the reason prosecutors like to leave their highest ranking witness for investigation. >> i understand. >> julie: obviously gather as much evidence as possible to use against him. >> absolutely. >> julie: as far as we know there is no evidence of collusion. >> that's right.

>> julie: if mueller is prepared to talk with his main target right now, what does that mean? >> it means he is desperate. i have been a prosecutor. i have been a judge. i have been a chief justice but i have always been court appointed, defended murder case in a capital murder. i'm telling you the best advice the president should get is you've got -- mueller has nothing, don't give him anything. say bring your best case, i'm not going to help you. i don't think he should. mueller is not a friend. he has made that clear. and how ironic, julie, what we have got here is an administration obama with secretary of state clinton, they rush over there with a reset button. they want to be russia's best friend and the russians apparently have figured out they are going to try to set up something against trump so they feed steele stuff knowing that these fools are going to go forward and use the fbi and blow this thing up. it's rather ironic when you

look at it in that context. the russians played the democrats when the democrats thought they were playing the republicans. >> julie: right. it is ironic. >> it is. >> julie: christopher steele being recently called out for falsifying the dossier and then, of course, that being what ignited this investigation in the first place certainly is going to work in his favor. >> right. don't forget the texts though. the texts indicate there may have been more leaking than we knew about to begin with. especially with comey leaking, admitted leaking. there needs to be more pursued there and mueller will never pursue that. >> julie: that's where the drip, drip, drip comes from. "the washington post," i want to get your thoughts on this. the reluctant sit down for open-ended face-to-face questioning without clear parameters, they say, according to a source. they have even discussed whether the president, the lawyers, have discussed whether the president could, instead, provide written answers to some of the questions from mueller's investigation. as president reagan did

during the iran contra investigation. is this something mueller would actually agree to? >> i think mueller is desperate and since he has gotten nothing, this is his last ditch effort to try to trip trump up and so if that's the advice that the president is being given, it means he has smart lawyers. and i know he does. i know the lawyers. and so, that would be a huge mistake to let mueller just sit down and have v. a free ranging conversation. that's how you end up as martha stewart, scooter libby and mike flynn did. >> julie: lawyers don't want their clients taking the stand in any investigation. >> exactly. i have been there. i got a murder client acquitted and he was not guilty. you don't take the stand. so anyway -- >> julie: all right, anyway, that's a good way to end it. we have to wait and see. >> thanks a lot, julie. >> julie: congressman louie gohmert. anyway.

>> jon: anyway. unlikely consequence of hurricane maria hit mexico this summer created a shortage of medical supplies here in the u.s. we will explain next.

unilatterally released transcripts with the interview with the man behind that anti-trump dossier, republicans not happy, saying the move damages the investigation. whether this makes a special counsel more likely, was that you getting excited over there? >> harris: come on, now. steve bannon out at breitbart. the president's former chief of staff reportedly says he is focusing on a political operation for 2018. and betting that the president will need him again. >> sandra: all that plus our #one lucky guy outnumbered. i don't know, i was trying to think of something.

>> harris: poking him? >> sandra: top of the hour. >> julie: a nationwide short tang of saline bags and iv fluids essential for critical care blamed on damage to facilities in puerto rico. mat finn is live in chicago with the details for us. hi, matt. >> hey julie a saline shortage might seem that urgent. say reasonable is onsaline is os they reach for to keep people alive. sings hurricane maria there has been a severe nationwide shortage. some clinics are forced to decide who gets saline bags and when. >> we're a level one trauma center. we see the worst of the worst. so when a patient comes, in they are in dire need to get fluid be it have bleeding or whatever else had happened in the field so it's dire that we have the saline to immediately give to that patient. >> the american hospital association calls the

shortage huge and on the verge of a crisis. fortunately one of america's largest manufacturers baxter reports its three plants are back online in puerto rico. it could be some time before production is fully restored. one woman who has lupus and survived leukemia says she has to get monthlily immune boosting mixed with saline she is sensitive to medicines. last time there was no saline feeling guilty if any bag she does get in the future might be more critical to a cancer or er patient across the hall. >> because i have been there i have been the cancer patient in the chair. who has needed it it's so not fair to them. >> the fda insists the shortage will get better in a couple weeks. we spoke to one facility in california says it has enough saline to get to february and then who knows, julie. >> julie: matt finn, thank you. >> jon: there is new information on the flu outbreak across the united

states. the centers for disease control and prevention say cases have been reported in 46 states now with a sharp increase during the last week of december. >> people should really influenza it's a disease we know in the united states causes millions of illnesses every single year. >> jon: flu cases have spiked the most in the south with arkansas and texas seeing the highest percentage of doctor visits linked to the flu. >> julie: new revelations about that trump dossier from the man behind fusion gps, glenn simpson. senator dianne feinstein defying her republican colleagues and releasing his testimony and now the g.o.p. is firing back. the latest on the fiery exchanges ahead on outnumbered. ♪ when did you see the sign? when i needed to jumpstart sales. build attendance for an event. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage. and got them back on track.

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the president is not happy and is he tweeting about it anyway, the drama continues in washington and so does outnumbered. >> jon: more on that ahead. outnumbered starts right now. >> sandra: fire here. fox news alert, president trump is meeting with his cabinet right now at the white house. and we are expecting some video out of that meeting this hour. this as the political battle intensifies over the fbi's investigation into russian election meddling and that anti-trump dossier. the complete transcript of the senate judiciary committee's interview with the co-founder of the firm behind the dossier is now out. senator dianne feinstein, the ranking democrat on the committee decided to release it despite objections from republican chairman chuck grassley. he says putting it out there only hurts the committee's probe. this is outnumbered. i'm sandra smith and here today there she is harris faulkner, the editor of town hall.com katie pavlich is here. former deputy spokesperson