favorite segment. it's wild card wednesday. we put in a topic and have to talk about it on the spot so you get immediate reaction. notice scripted. you don't want to miss that. thanks for joining us. on "the daily briefing." i'm dana perino. up next, shep smith. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in washington where president trump's lawyers are getting inside info on the russia investigation. from lawyers for his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. even though manafort is supposed to be cooperating with the special counsel, robert mueller. and now there's word, this is brand new, the president has just said he will not rule out a pardon. also, the secretary of state mike pompeo says there's no direct link between the saudi crown prince and the murder of a "washington post" columnist. but the c.i.a. has recordedly concluded that the prince ordered the murder.

notably absent from today's briefing for senators, the director of the cia. plus, the false alarm about an active shooter at walter reed medical center. they then claimed that it was all a drill. now we're learning more about what really went wrong. reporting begins now. our reporting begins with new information from president trump himself. he has just said he is not ruling out a pardon for his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. he told the "new york post" in an interview in a short time ago that a pardon is not off the table. the post parent company and fox news parent company share common ownership. of course, paul manafort faces not only face charges, but others in three states where presidential pardon would not

apply. this as manafort is back under robert mueller's microscope. manafort's lawyers have been feeting the president's legal team information about what is going on inside the special counsel's russia investigation even after paul manafort started cooperating with the feds. john roberts reports. manafort's attorney and president trump's lawyers have a joint defense agreement. which means the two parties share information. "the new york times" broke the story last night and points out how unusual it is to keep an agreement like this one in place once a defendant starts working with prosecutors. part of the article reads, defense lawyers involved in investigations with multiple witnesses often form such alliances so they can share information without running afoul of attorney client privilege rules. when one defendant decides to cooperate with the government in a plea deal, that defense lawyer pulls out rather than antagonize

the prosecutors who can influence the client's sentence. that's exactly what happened with the president's former national security adviser, michael flynn. when he took a plea deal from mueller. mueller is looking into moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, possible collusion with members of team trump and whether the president himself obstructed justice. president trump says there was no collusion and no obstruction. paul manafort is one of 32 people that pleaded guilty or faced charges in the russia investigation. earlier this week the special counsel prosecutors say they manafort violated his plea agreement by lying to investigators after agreeing to cooperate. that means the president's former campaign chair could face more charges and more prison time. the chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge reporting live from washington. >> thanks, shep. federal judge amy jackson has

ordered a status hearing for this matter in washington d.c. we understand robert mueller and manafort's attorneys have asked the judge to proceed towards setting a sentencing date. lawyers for president trump and map ford have a jda that allows them to share information. fox news has learned that mueller's investigators have pushed manafort for information about the june 2016 meeting with russians at trump tower and whether candidate trump knew in advance. fox news has told special prosecutors have pressed manafort on the president's son-in-law, jared kushner. but according to his e-mails left early. a senior democrat is reacting. >> manafort is clearly putting all of his eggs in the trump pardon basket. he's gambling and it's a big gamble that trump will pardon him. he's playing both sides. he's completely untrustworthy. he's a chronic and pathological

liar. his testimony probably would have been worthless anyway. >> those close to manafort's defense single out andrew weissman. it's important that he stepped aside from the case earlier this year after he met with prosecutors against evidence against manafort. >> shepard: we're learning more about the special counsel's investigation of roger stone. >> new reports obtained by fox news show mueller's investigation is focused on the hacked clinton campaign e-mails released by wikileaks and julian assan assange. jerome corsi was accused of lying. the draft plea agreement coats a

corsi e-mail about assange from august of 2016 just before the presidential election. word is friends in embassy, assange, plans two more dumps, one shortly after i'm back, second in october. impact plan to be very damaging. last night, corsi denied wrong doing and any contact with julian assange. >> shepard: catherine herridge reporting from washington. the c.i.a. has concluded that the saudi crown prince, mohammed ben salman ordered the assassination of jamal khaishoggi last month. but now mike pompeo says he's seen no evidence that is true. >> i do believe i've read every piece of intelligence that has come in in the last few hours. i read it all. there's no direct reporting connecting the crown prince to the orders of the murder of

jamal khaishoggi. >> shepard: mike pompeo was on capitol hill to brief lawmakers on the civil war in yemen and the relationship with the saudi kingdom. some members of congress have calling for the administration to punish saudi arabia for khaishoggi's murder. but pompeo and mattis say degrading ties between the two countries would be a mistake. rich edson reporting live from the state department. >> shep, the administration's pitch in this briefing is that it is in the national security interest of the united states to maintain its alliance with saudi arabia and continue supporting that saudi coalition in yemen. secretary of state mike pompeo saying according to his prepared remarks in this briefing, we want to keep saudi arabia in america's column because the alternative is take over by china and russia. pompeo also wrote that the trump

administration would consider more punishment for saudi arabia if new information came to light on the murder of jamal khaishoggi. the cia director, gina haspel, went to turkey looking into the murder of khaishoggi. she was not add the briefing despite that democrats and republicans requested her attendance. >> it was inadequate because the cia was not there. so the question for me is whether or not the cia supporting the conclusion with a high degree of confidence that the crown prince was complicit in the murder of mr. khaishoggi. >> the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker said it was apparent to the senators in the room today that the saudi count prince mohammed bin salman was responsible for the death of khaishoggi and the crown prince is out of control. there's the bipartisan group of senators pushing for the united

states to end its support of the saudi coalition fighting in yemen. to that, james mattis said in his opening statement said pulling back our limited u.s. military support, weapons sales to partners and protection of the saudi populations would be misguided on the eve of the promising initial negotiations. secretary pompeo said hopefully they'll reach some type of cease fire there. the saudi coalition is fighting iran in yemen. the united nations has called this the worst manmade humanitarian crisis of our time with 3/4s of the population in yemen needing humanitarian assistance. shep? >> shepard: thanks, rich. president trump is slamming his own federal reserve chairman for recent troubles in the economy, including market losses and lay-offs at general motors. in a rose garden ceremony, the

president nominated jerome powell to be chairman of the federal reserve bank. yesterday the president told "the washington post" and i quote "so far i'm not even a little bit happy with my selection." worth noting here, the federal reserve is meant to be independent of politics and the president. while its cooperated with past presidents on shared goals, the fed doesn't need the president's permission to make policy decisions. either way, the fed chair moves markets. check out what nearly vertical jump the one that happened right there in the center of the chart around noon when the chair talked about potentially slowing interest rates. deidra bolton reporting live from new york. >> hey, shep. well, many people say the fed chairman, jay powell, may have blinked and that's why you see the markets reacting like that. we'll talk more in a minute. he did give this speech at the economic club of new york. it was scripted. it was the fed's plan to ensure the stability of the financial

system. the backdrop as you alluded to much more intense. president trump breaking the long tradition of presidents not to comment on the independent fed. president trump has been very openly critical of chairman powell saying more recently, i'm doing deals, i'm not being a come dated by the fed and i have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me. president trump has also said the fed is way off base with what they're doing, apparently referring to the increases we've seen of late and as we know when interest rates go higher, all borrowing is more expensive. chairman powell didn't make any comment about the lack of support from the trump administration. he named unsettled state of trade negotiations as a potential figure of financial distress. oddly enough in part of the scathing interview that the president gave yesterday, he

said i think the fed is a much bigger problem than china. chairman powell would have every right in the world to feel targeted. but shep, just reviewing what he said, he said interest rates are close to neutral. that is different than the statement he gave two months ago, which implied more increases to come. you can see from the dow screen you showed, the markets like the nonmove. >> shepard: thanks, deidra. house democrats are meeting behind closed doors to vote for leadership positions today. might just be a formality of sorts because the minority leader, nancy pelosi, happens to be the only one in the running. there's more to this and it's coming up as our reporting continues on this wednesday afternoon. liberty mutual accident forgiveness means they won't hike your rates over one mistake. see, liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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>> shepard: there's breaking news now on fox news channel. house democrats moments ago ended all suspense and nominated nancy pelosi to be the next and again speaker of the house. that said, in a final vote, pelosi could still face opposition from some of her colleagues but nobody has stepped up to run against her. more than a dozen democrats signed a letter calling for new leadership in the house and could still vote against pelosi when the full house votes january 3. mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill. pelosi just spoke to supporters there? >> that's right, shep. even while they counted the

votes, nancy pelosi came out and seemed confident and upbeat feeling like she did the work with enough constituencies to become speaker again. >> i couldn't be more honored. that is a figure of speech. but it's in fact in this case true as any statement anyone could make to be honored by the nominations of those that placed any name in nomination and the support that i have from our colleagues in our caucus. as i say, our diversity is our strength. our unity is our power. >> unity has been a concern when you look at all the democrats out on the campaign trail saying they wouldn't support nancy pelosi to be speaker again. she met with a lot of those folks and some of them have softened their position and will back her now. >> shepard: what about the rest of the leadership positions? >> three familiar faces that we've seen and one democrat from new york considered to be a

rising star. so the expectation is nancy pelosi to be the speaker. steny hoyer to be the majority leader. james clyburn of south carolina. he spoke about trying to develop some of the younger lawmakers. >> if elected, i will immediately put in place a process about which we can help younger members and new members develop the knowledge and the know-how to make themselves effective legislators here in the congress. >> that's been a big concern for a lot of the younger democrats with pelosi, hoyer and clyburn at the top for so long, all in

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subsidies to g.m. the white house wasn't clear about specifics but appears to be talking about the $7,500 tax credit or the buyers of electric cars. that could require an act of congress. the president first made the threat on twitter and the g.m. stock took a dive. fox business has confirmed that the president has looked at different subsidy cuts. the fox business network's susan li reporting live from new york. >> fox business sources are saying that president trump has directed what they're calling the appropriate agencies to look at cutting the subsidies with the energy department being one of them. the $7,500 green credit does go away after 200,000 of the eligible cars are sold. something that g.m. and other car makers have lobbied to

extend. g.m. will hit this limit by the end of the year. there's proposals on the table to extend out the policy, which was initiated under the obama era. this morning we got another tweet from the president, president trump is threatening 25% on auto tariffs on foreign made cars in reaction to the g.m. lay-offs. shares and car makers does include g.m., by the way, dropped the reaction because g.m. said yes, they're an american car brand but they make a lot overseas and ship them back to the subject. they will be subject to the tariffs, namely japan and germany. germany ships in $20 billion and canada and mexico will be except from any proposed auto tariffs with the signing of the new nafta deal. the plant closures, going to get back to this and the job losses at g.m., they're not just numbers. they impact possible's lives and

livelihoods. let's take a look at when detroit auto workers union received word of the closures. >> we're hopeful there's allocation in the pipeline. whether that is an s.u.v. or an electric car or any type of product that we get, any work that general motors wants to give us. we've shown our dedication, our ability to step up to the plates and get it done. we don't want a handout. we want work. >> g.m. issued a statement saying they could shift work to plants across the country. we'll have to see. >> shepard: susan li reporting live from new york. amazon is now selling software that searches patient's medical reports for information that could help doctors and hospitals. that's according to the wall street journal. the journal's parent company and fox news share common ownership.

critics say they're worried about privacy issues. the fox business network gerri willis reporting live from the floor of the new york stock exchange. >> that's right, shep. big market opportunity here. imagine 80% of hospitals in america, they're digitizing records or have already compared to 10% ten years ago. a big opportunity there according to market players. a $7 billion marketplace. we see google and apple getting into healthcare that represents a $3.2 trillion opportunity. healthcare is only growing, only getting bigger as the population in this country ages. i want to talk a little bit about privacy. that is obviously a very big concern. amazon a company that know what's you're doing at home because of its alexa app. knows where you shop because of amazon.com, the retail operations. what we're hearing from amazon itself is that amazon web

services will not accept this information. it will be encrypted. the algorithms encrypt the details and people get the information by having a key that they're allowed to unlock, this is difficult information because it's technical. doctors have their own codes for describing this stuff. they are regulated here by hippa, which is a long-time law in this country that protects people's privacy. so that's what we're hearing from amazon this afternoon. back to you. >> shepard: gerri willis reporting live. consumer groups in half a dozen countries are looking to take action against google for reportedly tracking millions of its users. jillian turner reporting live from washington. >> google's privacy practices under fire, this time the accusations involve their location tracking function and potentially millions of users across the globe.

seven european countries have filed complaints about the country under a new data protection law. they all allege google users manipulative and trick users to allowing google to track them. one of the groups filing the claims saying when we carry the phones, google is recorded to where we go and how we're moving. another says, the places we go to reveal a lot about ourselves and our private life. smart phones are being used nor spying on our every move. tech industry insiders tell fox news under the new european law, google face as fine of 4% of their global revenue. that's about $4 billion. responding to fox news' questions, google emphasises their location history function is one that has to be turned on by users in order to take effect. they also add location history is turned off by default and you can edit, delete or pause it.

if you pause it, we may clear it. we might still collect and use location data to improve your google experience. in the u.s., legislators are hot on google's trail. they have yet to pass fell regulations as the european counter parts did six months ago. >> if we let facebook and google police themselves, set their own goal posts, make their own rules, they will always come up short. >> data including location data is the life blood of big tech companies. the ultimate goal of collecting information like google is doing is resale to third party. shep? >> thanks, jillian. tensions rising between russia and ukraine after a military dispute off the waters of crimea. putin warning and pointing fingers at the ukrainian

president. ivanka trump says there's no reason to lock her up overusing personal e-mail for government business. the first daughter said this is nothing like what hillary clinton did. reporting continues next.

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crimea. russian officials say the ships did not get the proper permission to pass through the area. ukraine claims the ships were in international waters and that its crews that were captured with following the rules. today president trump told the "new york post" that he didn't like that russia captured ukraine's ships but he stopped short of criticizing vladimir putin. moments ago, james mattis said actions like this show russia cannot be trusted. >> it was obviously a flagrant violation of international law. it was i think a cavalier use of for force. it was contempt really for the traditional ways of settling these kinds of concerns, if they had any. it just shows that russia cannot be counted on right now to keep its word. >> shepard: since the show down at sea on sunday, russia revealed that it sent more than 70 large units and military

formations including two divisions and three brigades along with what the russian defense minister called 5,000 new modernized weapons and equipment to the border. ukraine reports many thousands of russia troops are after its border and the president warns, ukraine is under threat, a full scale war with russia. reporting live from the middle east newsroom. >> shep, over the past 48 hours, all 24 of those ukrainian sailors that were captured by russian forces have been ordered by a court in crimea to stay detailed in jail. vladimir putin blamed the firefight off the coast of crimea on ukrainian's president. putin also tried to down play the severity of the conflict sunday calling it a border incident. in the same breath, putin tried to minimize the invasion of

crimea saying the peninsula decided to reunite with russia. that's not true. the area was taken from ukraine in 2014. putin's comments come hours after the russian military announced they could deploy a new surface to missile system in crimea next month. as for the ukrainian military preparations, the ukrainian president said they were training for a ground invasion against russia. the country's president warned of a full scale war between the two countries. as for u.s. involvement when it comes to the crisis, mike pompeo has offered military assistance to ukraine's president. shep? >> shepard: thanks, trey. the republican senator jeff flake outgoing senator blocked yet again by somebody in his own party as he pushed for a bill to protect the special counsel robert mueller.

and now the arizona lawmaker is following through with his threat to vote against president trump's judicial nominees until he gets a vote on his bill. our senior capitol reporter chad pergram is there. >> you have to get unanimous consent. the blessing of all 100 senators to bring up the bill in the senate. mitch mcconnell objected to this request by senator flake to start debate and pass a bill to protect republican from firing. history repeated itself again today. this time not mitch mcconnell. it was republican senator mike lee who objected. there were immediate consequences on the senate floor about this. jeff flake has been clear. he said if i don't get a vote on my bill, i won't help advance judicial nominees through the senate. there was a procedural vote a few minutes later on thomas farr of north carolina trying to break a filibuster. the senate math right now is 51 to 49 in favor of the republicans. guess what? jeff flake voted no.

that made it 50/50. so mike pence, the vice president had to hustle up to capitol hill to break the tie, 51 to 50. thomas farr now may get confirmed in the next couple days, but we don't know. right now this is the issue in the senate. jeff flake is going to oppose these nominees. if they don't get this worked out, a lot of these nominees have to be renominated next year. guess who won't be here? jeff flake. >> thanks, chad. president trump's daughter, ivanka, defending her use of a private e-mail account for government business while she was transitioning to a white house adviser job. she told abc news there is no comparison between that and the former secretary of state hillary clinton's private e-mail server. >> my e-mails have not been deleted. nor was there anything of substance. nothing confidential that was within them. so there's no connection between the two things. >> so the idea of lock her up doesn't apply to you? >> no. >> shepard: lock her up, of course, is a phrase candidate

trump and his supporters regularly chanted about the democratic rival and former first lady and secretary of state hillary clinton. >> dana: kristin fisher reporting live from the white house. >> shep, the key distinction of ivanka trump, unlike hillary clinton, she says she did not delete any of her government-related e-mails. all of these are being stored within the white house system. >> people that want to see it as the same, see it as the same. the fact is that we all have private e-mails and personal e-mails. we all receive content to those e-mails. there's no prohibition to use private e-mails as long as it's archived and nothing in it classified. >> republican and democratic lawmakers including house oversight commission are continuing to call for an

investigation. they want more information about the reports that surfaced last week accusing the first daughter of using her personal e-mail account in 2017 to contact other trump administration officials. that violates the law of all presidential records and raises security concerns, particularly over the possibility of hacking. in this interview today with abc news, ivanka trump, she was also asked what she thought about the special counsel's probe. here's what she said. >> i think it should reach its conclusion. i think it's been a long time. this has been ongoing. but i want it to be done in a way in which nobody could question that it was hurried or rushed. after this long period of time, it will be on that point. so i think it absolutely should reach its conclusion. >> as for her personally, she says that she's got nothing to be concerned about. she insists, shep, that she's not worried about any potential legal exposure for herself, for

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ballistic missile by mistake and caused a panic. trace gallagher reporting live from our west coast newsroom. >> shep, it took four hours to get to the bottom of this walter reed medical event. even then, people got a call about an active shooter. naval support posted reports of an active shooter on social media but said no shooter was found. nearly 1 1/2 hours later at 3:20, the social media accounts were updated to give the all clear and the department of defense said it was an exercise or an ad hoc drill by lieutenant command. naval support bethesda contradicted that saying it was not a drill. it was a false alarm. it wasn't until 6:00 p.m. eastern the navy finally said that in preparation for an upcoming drill, the notification system was activated without containing the words "drill" or

"exercise." temperature congressman that was at walter reed during the confusion said that people were scared and unset and he plans to follow up to see what went wrong. we should note, even after the all clear was given, sirens and loud speakers at walter reed were still announcing active shooter and many people remained sheltered in place. shep? >> shepard: i mentioned the false alarm in hawaii. there's legal matters on that now? >> yeah, a man that lives in honolulu said the phony alert caused him to suffer a heart attack. james shields and he and his wife were on the way to the beach when they get an alert about an incoming ballistic missile. they said their son also called them to say the alert was rule. it took the state of hawaii 80 minutes to correct the mistake. during that time, mr. shields claims he felt a burning in his west, went to the hospital and suffered cardiac arrest.

the lawsuit says it took a defibrillator to start his heart followed by surgery. now he's suing numerous state agencies and this comes days after the inspector general recommended significant changes to the emergency alert system in light of that mistake in hawaii. >> shepard: trace gallagher reporting live from l.a. mississippi just elected a woman to congress for the first time. the republican senator cindy hyde-smith defeated mike espy in a run-off. the new number is 53-47 in the congress. peter doocy has more. >> shep, with the hyde-smith win, the gop majority is beefed up. so now some of the republican moderates in washington d.c. that take a long time to make up their mind ahead of key votes have less leverage.

hyde-smith thanked the president for his help. she took the first flight from jackson to d.c. she said she's not concerned about mississippi residents that said she don't think she will represent them. >> wait and see. they know me. this is not my first race, this is the sixth race i have won. i've been on the ballot five times before this. mississippians know me. other people turn it to something that it's not. they don't believe it. they know who i am. i've been around awhile and i have a long, very good history. >> but the democratic candidate, mike espy thinks there's some scar tissue in this state because everybody has strong opinions about whether hyde-smith was joking about public hangings. >> she has my prayers as she goes to washington to unite a divided mississippi. >> the governor that appointed hyde-smith says he thinks the bad press about her helped

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>> shepard: investigators say the lion air yet that crashed off the coast of indonesia killing all 189 people on board, that jet should never have been in the air. the report out today exactly one month after it happened. the ceo of the airline, lion air, is pushing back against the report. greg palkot reporting live from our london newsroom. >> shep, it's a disturbing new report against last month's indonesia crash raising questions about a very popular aircraft. the lion air boeing 737 crashed into if java sea shortly after departing the capitol of jakarta killing all on board after an examination of the black box data. the preliminary conclusion, the plane was not air worthy. they point to bad airline maintenance, weak pilot training and most significantly a possible faulty anti-stall safety system.

the same plan had the same problems on one flight before. the crew was able to manage to control it. the crew in this instance tried to but could not. while searching for the flight data reporter, shep, they're still looking for the voice recorder that could provide more clues. the real question is how much of the problem with the plane contributed to the crash. yes, the head of lion air says no, the plane was in fact air worthy. the plane that crashed though is the latest version of the boeing 737. that is massively used around the world, including in the united states. there's 5,000 more planes of this type on order. boeing says it's safe. it says, however, they're looking at some modifications and also is looking at some lawsuits. back to you. >> shepard: greg palkot live in london. weather alert. more snow hitting parts of the northeast after some areas in

new england got more than a foot yesterday. rick reichmuth leave with more. >> we are pushing over five feet of snow around the great lakes, this is the time of year when lake-effect snow happens. you can get an idea how cold the witch is right now. that air could hit that right direction across the great lakes, the snow begins to pile up. the i-95 corridor. this is know that we'll continue to see across the great lakes. to the west, we have obviously been so incredibly dry for a long time across the west. across the west, now we have rain moving to southern california. this is really good news. obviously the fires have been a concern. unfortunately now we'll watch that concern switch to some mudslides and debris flow where the very heavy rain will move across the burnt areas. that said, if you're going to take one or the other, this is

the time of year where we get the rain moving in there. that in the long run helps us. we've had some heavy rain and very heavy snow there across the sierra nevada. shep? >> shepard: thanks, rick. after our reporting here, we'll have a fox news update on facebook watch. it's a minutes long news cast online with unique content that streams live on facebook watch's home page in a few minutes from now. once it's concluded, it's available to you any time on demand at facebook. should news break out, we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto is next, including all the great news from the markets today. the dow was up in the early going, but then just about half passed noon, we got word that they just might from the fed chairman, jerome powell, as he hinted the fed might be willing to raise interest rates at a

slower pace next year, home building stocks leading the way this afternoon. of the 30 dow industrial stocks, every single one is in the green this afternoon. the dow up more than 615 points. context and perspective now on america's choice for news and information on cable. >> neil: did the fed just blink? is the president about to take a bough? i'm neil cavuto. stocks picking up 600 as the fed chief pulls a 180 and we've got you covered on this. all of this. fbs's kristina partsinevelos on why wall street is rallying on this. kristin fisher on how the white house is responding to this. ed lawrence on how general motors may have played into this and jeff flock on whether automakers are revved up all over this. we begin with kristina. what happened? >> wow. a rallyhe