5 million viewers. yikes. rob: finally the ugly. race car driver tries to get a kiss from the model gets rejected. whole thing happening after snow ball derby in florida it looked like she was going in for the kiss and then she turns. the models eventually did give him a kiss and number so noah wins in the end. that's a winner right there. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> the bible tells us to mourn with those who mourn and grieve with those who grieve. and today we thank you for sharing this special man with our nation and the world. >> the dow surging 287 points after president trump announced a trade truce with china. >> president trump he is keeping up the pressure by tweeting we will close the entire southern border if necessary. >> the people of tijuana are frustrated. these guys didn't controls legally into mexico. they tore down our border and jumped and they started this caravan. >> theresa may is going to make this big speech to try to rally support for the brexit deal.

this deal is, in my opinion, the worst deal in history. >> this holiday season let us embrace every one of our tomorrows with hope and love. may we continue to spread peace and goodwill throughout the world. thank you and merry christmas. [cheers] ♪ these days are the days of america. steve: live from thorks and as you can see the u.s. capitol where we know that former president george herbert walker bush is lying in state at this hour. welcome aboard, folks, to the tuesday "fox & friends." ainsley: that's right. good morning to you. the president and first lady, they showed up unannounced for a brief visit. they wanted to pay their respects to the former president. brian: the crowds were amazing yesterday with the president showing up a bit of a surprise. he did indicate in a tweet that he would be looking forward to seeing the bushes at some point. also find it interesting,

too. that it was made clear to the trump family that no matter what tykes place during the eulogy and the ceremony there will be no shots at anybody. no political shots at anyone. so it's going to be a safe zone in the cathedral. steve: the bush family contacted the white house in the summer and said essentially that it would not become an anti trump-a-thon. we did see some trump anti-trump sentiments at the funeral of john mccain recently. no toxic politics. the family was emphatic and now we know the president will be in attendance. brian: do you know what's kind of good, too. when brett kavanaugh was nominated and he had the trouble that we all chronicled, brett kavanaugh so close with the bushes and trump doubled down on his support and together they combined fourses and contacts to push him over the finish line that could have created a bit of a bond and broke the ice, perhaps. ainsley: doug mckelway is down in washington as our

nation does honor bush 41. good morning, doug. >> the capitol rotunda remained opened all night long. at was first used at the urge funeral for abraham lynn in 1865. president trump and first lady melania, the building largely empty when they arrived. the president saluted. melania held her hand over her heart. the two bowed her head in prayer. no word spoken at all. they were back in half an hour. here is mitch mcconnell. >> today this hero has returned to the capitol a final time. he kept us flying high. and challenged us to fly higher still. and he did it with modesty and kindness. >> and vice president pence told a really touching story about his own son who was a naval aviator and made his first landing aboard the carrier of george h.w. bush. took a picture on the carrier.

told the president no longer does that kind of thing but sure enough, back came the picture to pence with the president's signature and the notation the acronym kavu. pilot speak for ceiling and view unlimited. a true met for for bush's life. the body will lie in the capitol rotunda until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow and then back to the capital for the funeral. bush will lie in repose at saint martin episcopal church thursday before a burial in a private ceremony at the george george h.w. bush library at college station. back to you in new york. steve: doug, if anybody suspect and about in washington, d.c. right now. they can just walk into the rotunda and look, can't they? >> they can. have to go through a metal detector first but yes, welcome to do it. ainsley: the catafult the platform, actual platform

yoursed to you support the casket of abe lincoln in 1865 when his body lay in state. it was used for president bush's flag draped coffin as well. it's the base of that that the coffin is sitting on that is draped in a black drape. steve: kept historically in the basement of the capitol it is a simple pine frame it is covered with a black khat. the guidelines for state funeral date back to the mid 1800s, on that cataflack that you were talking about that was john f. kennedy's casket posed. george herbert walker bush is the 12th president in history to lie in state in u.s. capitol. brian: with president bush, former canadian prime minister. simpson, john meacham. president bush had to know about the speech eulogies.

but sadly as we know his dad was struggling so much towards the end. this is going to be one of the toughest speeches he has ever given. especially because he says to everyone how emotional he gets, period. and his dad got very emotional, too. now he has got to go up there as a former president. eulogize a former president who happens to be his dad while the world watches. ainsley: right. halls other siblings but he was the last one to talk to his dad and his dad's last words were to him i love you and they did share the oval office. steve: they did, indeed. if you looked at those images as the family arrived a little before 6:00 p.m. last night we covered live here, you could see that the bush family, in particular george w. bush looked exhausted with grief. brian: politics on hold now. couple of weeks had a short-term spending for the government to continue to be funded for the next couple of weeks just because of what is going on in capitol and to put politics to the side. you can't could that if you can't fund the government.

the president is making it clear 85 billion for the wall. get it to me or else there is going to be trouble. i am not giving in here. ainsley: give me the 5 billion or i will shut down the border. brian: 1.6 billion. ainsley: can't agree on a term. have government agencies that run out of money on friday at midnight. the president says he would agree to sign a two week extension of the current spencing so our country can mourn the locals of president bush. steve: we would save billions of dollars if democrats would give us the votes to build the wall. either way people will not be allowed into our country illegally. we will close the entire southern border if necessary. also, stop the drugs. now, here's the thing. republicans, you know, they talked to reporters, they don't see any way they are going to wind up with a grand bargain in the next two weeks. it's just not going to happen. what republicans are trying to do is try to figure a way that president trump can wind up with a win. and what they would consider a win would be something

between 1.6 billion, which chuck schumer said yeah, it's a good number, and the 5 billion which the house has come up with. if they can get more than that, the president will conclude it's a win and sign it. ainsley: remember when the president was running for office and he said people were asking how much do you need to fund the wall? and it was in the 20 billion. brian: $25 billion. ainsley: he has already gotten some money. this would be another 5 billion if he gets a win. not originally what he wanted. steve: close to 5 billion. brian: we talked about it that week. 5 billion and promised 1.6. maybe there is something in between. chuck schumer, the minority leader in the senate is getting pressure from the future house leadership to say hold the line. don't even give him 1.6. so that's the type of political pressure is he dealing. if i'm chuck schumer have you two more years to gain control of the senate. they've have no leverage over you. go out there and do a deal to fund the government. even though he feels it

could happen. look at the 1.6. out of the 1.6 just border security. out of that 750 million for the wall. so the other stuff has nothing to do with the wall. but this whole migrant the caravan is helping the president's case because it's showing exactly what he says the problem is. it is chaos at our border. the wall and barrier is ineffective. the people of tijuana are now seeing the reaction. ainsley: they are outraged there because the shelters are overflowing so then people had to spend the night at the sports complex and that was littered with trash and there was a lot of mud there because of the rain. so then they moved them to a different shelter about 10 miles away there is a delegate down there. we have heard from several officials down there, several residents that our reporters have interviewed have said they are really upset about this. they can't handle the loads of people and their tax dollars are being used to help these individuals that are trying to get into the u.s. and they are waiting for their asylum confirmation. so, there is a delegate down there. his name is jenaro lopez.

lano. here is what he said. is he frustrated. >> they already started their paperwork for getting work permits in mexico. they want to stay in mexico. they know somebody popped the bubble of the american dream. people of tijuana frustrated. if these people came here legally and went tour border and started work visa, student visa our a tourist visa. these guys didn't cross legally into mexico. they tore down our border and jumped. steve: what's frustrating for the mexicans as they look at all these central americans is in the past it's been relatively easy to get into the united states. now with the tougher immigration policy of this president become very hard. how hard is it? we have some video taken by the customs and border patrol. and what this shows, it actually shows a couple of children being dropped from the top of the 18-foot wall.

it also shows that apparently some coyotes, some smugglers i think helped five or six adult members of this group get over the wall and then they just drop the kids. ainsley: one of the kids got hurt. brian: what happened to those kids, 20 days held or be released or. steve: we don't know. they were taken into custody. ainsley: they suspect the guy at the top dropping the children is -- is he a smuggler. he didn't come over. looks like adults were down on the ground trying to catch the children. one of them had a facial injury because of the fall. it's 18 feet? steve: i know it. brian: border patrol has arrested another ms-13 gang member. he was in the huma sector of the border patrol picked him up. so, for those people that think that trump is trumping up this situation, more and more evidence that he is on the money. steve: continues to be a problem and we have got it covered. in the meantime 6:11 in new

york city. carley joins us once again today with a fox news alert. carley: that's right. that's where we begin. this is a fox news alert. the u.s. is urging europe to slap new sanctions on iran. the trump administration condemning the country's latest ballistic missile test over the weekend. the missile is capable of carrying nuclear war head violation of u.n. resolution. one secretary of state mike pompeo plans to address the matter when he meets with nato allies in brussels today. the head of the cia is heading to capitol hill today. gina haspel will brief a small number of senators on the death of jamal khashoggi. she is expected to discuss saudi arabia's role in the october murder. at the saudi assembly in term anterm andturkey. concerned about absence from a session with secretary pompeo and mattis last week. the family mourns the death of an army sergeant killed in deadly attack in afghanistan this year. dying from injuries after

roadside bombing. his wife posting these photos on facebook you will always be in our heart and our sons so will know that daddy was a hero under a loved them so much. rest with god my beautiful husband i will see you soon. mccleary received two purple hearts in the army. his aunt said it was in his blood to be a soldier two. special ops troops and another sergeant killed in that taliban attack. in the 2018 world series champs are heading to the white house. the boston red sox officially accepting the invitation to celebrate their victory with president trump. the team's manager will also attend despite his criticism of the president. alex cora a native of puerto rico says he is going to use his platform, quote, the right way. the date has not been scheduled. and those are your headlines, guys. i will send it back to you. brian: maybe they will show up when we get over this whole problem. >> we will see. ainsley: thanks, carlly. the stock market surging after president trump strikes a trade truce with china. how long will that rally

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brian: markets rose sharply monday in reaction to the trade truce over the weekend and two and a half hour meeting with chinese president president xi jinping. the two sides will now work on a more permanent agreement. here to weigh in, fox business network's susan li. all right, susan, we don't know exactly what happened

after two and a half hours and the communique from china was so vague. >> very different from the u.s. side as well. brian: what do you think we know. >> there was a lot at stake going into this dinner. the entire global investment community true solid a trillion dollars watching this dinner closely. there is a lot to like in that we are not going up to 25% on chinese goods. market access being talked about. more less forced technology transfer, ip protection. china is going to buy a lot more u.s. goods in america. car tariffs are coming down. still a lot to be worked out. still far apart when it comes to trade policy and how much does china turn the boat when it comes to protecting american companies and operate and make money in china. brian: i understanding they are sending a huge delegates to the u.s. shortly. the main thing i hear from business leaders how interact with regularly the whole intellectual property and the deals they have to cut and sacrifice in order to get chinese to the chinese market.

>> absolutely. brian bine do we have enough leverage yet to get them to give in on that? >> hard to verify. we have been here before. previous administrations have tried to talk to chinese leadership to turn this boat around and it's hard to basically judge whether or not china is fulfilling their promises. but we had steve balmer recently of mike soft who says that in china 90% of companies operates on windows. 1% actually pay to use windows. he loses $10 billion a year. can you imagine? of revenue and what that translates to in profit. brian: obviously the obama administration treasury secretary a big critic of this president, he says this. trump, for all his failings has china's attention on economic issues in a way that has alluded his predecessors. >> i would agree. they don't know how to deal with president trump at this point. a man who has shown up with a very strong hand. in fact, he just delegated lighthizer who is seen as a trade hawk who is going to be tougher on china-u.s. trade leading negotiations

in the future. brian: does that have anything to do with the fact that futures are down today. >> people are still sifting through the agreement. what can china adhere to and what is tradeable and investable at this point. promises to do more. 90 days to figure it all out. 90's days that could be extended by the way. still a lot of people are trying to figure out what exactly china keep its promises too. brian: you came out here with three pages of notes and didn't even look at them. >> isn't that impressive. brian: come straight ahead failed for run for georgia governor. is stacey abrams getting ready to run for president? why not? need another reason for immigration reform? millions of non-citizens are cashing in on welfare. ned ryan says american taxpayers can no longer afford this anymore. he is here ♪ i dragself

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safe it will put more money in america's pockets. in a tweet he wrote we would save billions of dollars if the democrats would give us the votes to build the wall. either way people will not be allowed into the country illegally. we will close the entire southern border if necessary. also, stop the drugs. meanwhile, here in the united states, the census finding back in 2014 nearly two thirds of non-citizens, people in this country, who are not citizens, were on welfare. 63%. that is roughly 4.6 million households. and our next guest says the american taxpayers simply cannot afford to spend that any longer. republican strategist and fellow jayhawk joins us live right now ne ned ryun. when you look at that number, 63% what do you think? >> staggering non-citizens here 10 years or more goes up to 70% some form of welfare. doesn't get better the longer they are in this

country. half of those non-citizens are here illegally. what trump was referring to is a figure all of us have seen, i think, 116 billion a year is what it cost the american taxpayers. all the cost of illegals, immigration, hospital, welfare programs. i have seen estimates up to 134 billion as well. it's time for us to actually take a hard look. what are we actually doing about it? steve we have gotten to this point because of unholy alliance between democrats and republicans. democrats and business gain. fox news talking about this whole situation. we keep talking about we have to keep accepting for humanity sake. what about the humanity sake of the american taxpayer. humanity sake of my children and my children's children. when we think about the economic future of what we're looking at, it gets pretty grim. the question that people aren't asking and i think they need to start asking if we continue to bring in a lot of low skilled and unskilled labo laborers. what happens when mass

automation hits and low skilled or unskilled workers get thrown out of work. you will have violence in the streets. social welfare system already failing. only way they get fundside we get to pay even greater taxes life crushing draconian taxes to fingsd social welfare programs. steve: big question going forward and you were talking about democrats and republicans i agree with you, this is a political problem. if you don't like that number, change the law. >> i think part of the problem is i don't think a lot of the american people are focused on the numbers. they haven't looked and seen the staggering cost. the wall will cost us anywhere from 23 to 25 billion. i'm saying well we are spending 116 to 130 billion a year already on illegal immigration that is already taking place. i think it's time for us to take a really hard stance. i totally agree with president trump talking about shutting down the southern border. i would also argue he should shut down government. then we can have a conversation about what size government do we really want? when we talk about government shut down. government doesn't shut

down. we just send home the nonessentials of which there are about 800,000 federal government employees considered nonessential. let's have that conversation. why do we have 2 million government employees why are we spending 136 billion a year. 130 departments and subagencies in our government? steve: you know, ned, the republicans on capitol hill if we have a shut down we will get blamed. >> you know what? in the last shut down republicans for one of the first times actually were well-prepared on the messaging front. i think if they prepare the messaging and prepare to go on the offensive, on the messaging and really take this argument to the american people, we have to have this conversation now or we are looking, not in the distant future, 10 or 15 years from now a very grim economic future. steve: you know, ned, there are a lot of republicans in washington, d.c. who kind of like it is the way it is. >> of course they do. do you know why? this is the power of special interest. this is the power of money and the money that's flowing to these people for re-election campaign. these donors a lot of these in the corporate and business world on the republican side, they kind

of like things the way they are. and people ask me why do things take place in d.c. a certain way. and i always tell them if things don't make sense and we are in defiance of common sense, follow the money. steve: there you go. always. ned ryun, thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: meanwhile, changing gears, the video shocking a state trooper in the path of an out-of-control car, oh my goodness while helping somebody on the side of the road. we will show you what happened next. we still framed that chris pratt sending a powerful message about faith and family for the holidays disney land. >> the more we love our children, the more we will understand the capacity for our father in heaven to love us. sing your rates over one mistake. you hear that, karen? liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges.

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they were going to be lighting the congressional christmas tree up on capitol hill tomorrow night but because of the funeral week of george herbert walker bush they have put it off a couple of weeks. brian: chris pratt making some news. not only continuing to make news with his beliefs but especially this time of the year. ainsley: i know. it's beautiful. what a beautiful message he had a few days ago at the annual disneyland's candlelight ceremony. it was brought to our attention. we wanted to share it with you. we thought our audience would love. they have this annual christmas show. they have choirs as you can see in the background they sing christmas songs and the christmas story is told. he was asked to come and tell the story. in between the songs he stands up there and gives a little christmas message and talks about the story of jesus and the manger and all of that and for unto us a child is born. he threw in some of his own little comments. listen to this. these are his comments about his own child and comparing

it to how much god loves us. >> for me, being a parent has really changed my life in so many ways. when i stare at this precious little creation of mine here and i watch the ways in which he tries to please me, i just feel a love that is so pure and unending. the way we love our children and the more we love our children, the more we will understand the capacity for our father in heaven to love us. [cheers] >> this holiday season let us embrace every one of our tomorrows with hope and love and through this holiday spirit, may we continue to spread peace and goodwill throughout the world. thank you and merry christmas. [cheers and applause] steve: that's just great. difficulties any land has had this candlelight

ceremony since 1955. and this year he was selected as the celebrity reader of luke's gospel. brian: they do a great job. the minute thanksgiving was over. it was christmas, boom. you really get the sense. if you want to feel instant christmas in the hot weather, that's the place to go. ainsley: i would love to go and experience that. brian: maybe steve will take you. ainsley: steve, let's go, please. will chris pratt be there? we are all in love with him now. steve: that is the ceremony they have in disney land. i don't know that they have exactly the same candlelight ceremony going back. ainsley: same weather. ainsley: disney land in california, disney world in orlando. brian: where do you find chinese disney. steve: i don't think they have one. brian: they do. ainsley: i thought there were only three. okay. brian: no, there is absolutely disney in china.

will you look that up? carley: we will google that. steve: anyway, i wanted to show you chris pratt at disneyland. ainsley: let us know what you think about that. steve: in the meantime carley. carley: we love chris pratt. he is funny. brian: he gott himself in good shape. carley: for a role. ainsley: we haven't put a character in there yet we will take you. carley: chris pratt he wins the day. we are calling it right now. switching gears here a body just discovered near an air b and b where a florida woman vanished. carla was last seen one week ago on a birthday trip to costa rica. she never returned home and suspects she was kidnapped. officials have not confirmed if the body found is carla. and british prime minister theresa may trying to convince parliament to buy into the brexit deal a week before it goes to vote. now it's facing criticism by politicians on both sides of

the aisle including may's own party. parliament now has five full days to debate the terms of the agreement to withdraw from the european union. may has denied rumors if it fails the vote she will resign. an out-of-control car hits a state trooper sending him flying in the air. that trooper investigating a crash near west palm beach when the car seemingly came out of nowhere. you can see him pushing a man to the side to save him. the trooper is seriously hurt. it's unclear if the driver will face charges. and the pc police putting meat based metaphors on the chopping block. animal rights activist want to change certain phrases to avoid offending an increasing number of vegans, pete calling to replace bring home the bacon with bring home the bagels and killing two birds with one stone with feeding two birds with one scone. instead of all your eggs in one basket they will say all your berries in one bowl.

what's wrong with all your eggs in one basket? brian: i didn't think anything. i keep learning how to improve my life every day. and my vocabulary. we also learned something about disney, didn't we? ainsley: i was wrong, brian. i was terribly wrong. they have lots of disney lands and disney worlds and have a disney resort in shanghai. in the u.s., japan, china and france. brian was right. brian: very hard for me to be right. steve: in the meantime, janice is always right half the time with the weather. janice: very kind of you and generous. take a look first of all, why are you ladies out so early in this cold weather are when your names. >> michelle. janice: and. >> jennifer. janice: is your mom watching right now. >> yes, she is. janice: what is her name? >> linda. janice: i don't blame you being in the hotel all nice and warm. take a look at the maps because the cold is here to stay for while. look at the wind chills.

single digits and teens across the northern plains and the rockies. and here in new york city we're around 31. feels like 31. you bet it feels like 31. past 24 hours. not too much on the radar which is good news. we have that frontal boundary across florida bringing the chance for scattered showers. a little bit of lake-effect snow. the west coast, that's where our next system is going to move. in some of that energy is going to bring the potential for a storm across the central u.s. as we head into thursday and friday. maybe a coastal storm as well. what are you ladies doing today? >> we're going to do the 9/11 tour and we're going to do the hop on, hop off see more of the city. janice: very nice. i'm cold, so come give me a hug. [laughter] hi, mom. your daughters are amazing. that's sweet. steve: who needs a portable pore heater. brian: they didn't get a choice. give me a hug. ainsley: the crowd out there was huge they were all so excited when janice walked out there. brian: you watch that crowd

grow. steve: absolutely. if you are in town for the christmas and holiday season stop by 48th and sixth avenue. ainsley: hop on and hop off double-decker bus hop on and hop off double-decker. steve: that's why they call it that. ainsley: i didn't know if everyone knew where it was. better get out of way they will run you over. via lengths and fiery protest about the tax hikes rocking france for weeks. this morning a big development. did the government finally get the message? brian: plus this. the supreme court will soon hear a double jeopardy case could have major impact on paul manafort. i want the judge, judge napolitano to break it down. steve: all rise. here combings the judge. brian: here he is. ♪ living in america ♪

♪ carley: good morning, welcome back. quick sports headlines to get to two weeks after losing alex smith losing replacement colt mccoy to a broken leg. washington didn't fare much better on the scoreboard. >> looks left on the split and in to the end zone. carley: the philadelphia eagles getting the best of division rival washington 28-13. in a trio of quarterbacks make up the heisman trophy finalist. alabama's tua, oklahoma's kyler and ohio state duane haskins all earning invite to saturday night's ceremony in new york. congratulations to the three of you. guys send it over to you. steve: carley, thank you very much. on the docket for the u.s. supreme court this turn is gamble vs. the united states u that's a legal case that aims to close a loophole in the double jeopardy law an exception which allows

multiple prosecutions stemming from a single offense. you can be charged and tried in more than one place. brian: the outcome of the case could effect many criminals, including the man walking in that shot, paul manafort. ainsley: here to weigh in is fox news senior judicial analyst judge napolitano. >> it has nothing to do with gambling. repeated efforts to try someone after acquittal. steve: for the same thing. >> british kings would try you and found not guilty. they would try you again before another jury and again before another jury. the constitution prohibits it. the supreme court has looked and said it only prohibits the same government from trying you again. so if you commit a crime that is both a state and a federal crime, you can be tried twice. you could be tried in state court for example found nugget and then tried in federal court and found guilty. we now have a case, it's just a possession of drugs

and possession of a firearm where a guy was convicted in alabama state court. sentenced to a year in jail and then the feds indicted him for the same crime and he says wait a minute, the double jeopardy clause prohibits this second prosecution. but we now have a supreme court that is willing to interpret the double jeopardy clause as the framers intended it we have ruth bader ginsburg and clarence thomas agreeing on this. steve: why did it take so long? >> steve, it has been 150 years since they last examined whether or not the double jeopardy clause prohibits the two different sovereigns, a say like new jersey or alabama in this case and the federal government. how does this apply to paul manafort? so when manafort pleaded guilty in september his guilty plea was 1757 pages long. never seen anything like it. he not only pleaded guilty to federal crimes for which he is charged and state crimes for which he is not

yet charged. why did they do that? they felt that the president might pardon paul manafort. the day is he pardoned he will be indicted by the states unless those prosecutions would be predicted by a new double jeopardy depression. ainsley: when with will we find out. >> thursday. we won't have a decision until april. brian: one of the authors of russian roulette if there is indications that mueller is in the end game, preparing to wrap things up. he has multiple examples. steve: great. bribe bribe do you believe that. >> no, i don't believe it. i believe that mueller is continuing to get information. in analyzing the michael cohen plea last week, most people are focusing on what mr. cohen told the court, took about five minutes. what we really should focus on is what he told the fbi which took 70 hours. brian: you mean told mueller. >> mueller and his fbi agents, yes. we don't know what that was. steve: we don't know that there is anything bad. >> correct. we do know before the guilty

plea they corroborated what he told them. we also know they didn't want to spring that guilty plea until after the president had submitted his written answers. something is up. i don't know what it is. we will find out about it in. ainsley: is that normal for an investigation. 70 hours? >> it's a huge debriefing. could you imagine me questioning you for 70 hours? you would want to kill me. brian: the president said i want him jailed maximum. >> we will know that pretty soon. sentencing on the first guilty plea is later this week. brian: i'm excited by fox nation's liberty file. >> two. long form. the master of the long form is receiving my arm now. brian has done tremendous documentaries. the shorter form is my stuff ons fox nation streaming. to have an interview 20 minutes long without having someone shout wrap in your ear it's fantastic. steve: do you hear that. >> ken starr hey judge do you think bob mueller can

indict a sitting president yes, i do. i have rand paul on today who is going to blast the defense department for providing weapons to saudi arabia to destroy yemen. so we get very serious stuff. steve: if you don't have fox nation yet. we all have it on our phone and out and about and not near a television we watch it all the time. ainsley: you can watch your show. >> get kilmeade 247. brian: what made america great. ainsley: steve's cooking show. >> pouring a bottle of beer over his shoulder. steve: who doesn't want to see that? ainsley: in dr. oz's kitchen. >> beer and tomato sauce? only doocy would think of that. [laughter] ainsley: beer severing. he even puts beer in his cupcakes. steve: talk about double jeopardy. >> that i have not done. steve: thank you. >> a pleasure. steve: one state wants to make it easier for illegal immigrants to get driver's

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ainsley: christmas is right around the corner, as we know. some of the nation's pediatricians have advice for you as the parent. they say skip the electronic toys and go with some of the classics. >> i love that idea. amanda is here to showcase some of the hottest toys this holiday season that will get kids off electronics and they will play. >> good morning. thank you so much for being here. >> the best part of this, no batteries. >> i love it.

>> how easy christmas morning would be. >> like what we used grow up with. >> open up and start playing. ainsley: nothing complicated to put together. >> wrap it up and everybody is happy. start with that creative play. endless play with sets. green toy dough sets they feature sesame street characters. abby can cadaby. colors and easy to clean up. food safe flour base super easy to clean up. kids can get creative. i love this nice quiet play. can i play for hours with doe with my kids. >> kids who love unboxing videos. these are bananas and actually peel the banana. they smell like bananas. open them up and inside are little toys. you will find little

squishy. ainsley: great for airplane, too. they can give them to their friends. seal them back up which i love. they are not all over your house. put them back into your banana. put it on book bag. ainsley: kids love these. surprise toys inside. how much are they. >> 9.9 for three of them perfect stocking stuff. ainsley: called bananas. kids love science. >> we think it has to be attached to an app. great things and cosmo's chemistry sets. it's giving kids interacting, they are learning about science. they are trying new things and then they come in different numbers. so can you go more advanced based on their age. they are going to be mixing and learning. so love our publish toys. these are the holiday huggers. slap bracelets. ainsley: i love the slap bracelet. so cute. >> toss these into their

stocking. we have teethers in the holiday characters. ainsley: these are great. we had these hanging all over hayden's stroller. >> cupcake surprise. smell and look like a cupcake. >> they flip. you can take their dress goins down. >> interactive. janice: my kids love. this. >> hottest toys. >> imagine formers. these are for urge teens. teens and tweens asking them questions beyond how was your day? ask them about their beliefs what they want to be when they grow up. janice: talking at the dinner table. how great is that? ainsley: get your kids off the electronics. yesterday was hard. hay again wanted to you watch something. we did play-doh and paints and spent an hour doing that it's hard to do and takes more time as a parent but do it. >> it's better fo for

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>> we praise you for your generous providence that provided our nation and world with president george herbert walker bush. >> the dow surging 287 points after president trump announced a trade truce with china. >> president trump arguing stronger border security will not only keep america safe it will put more money in america's pocket. >> cost of illegals, hospital program i have seen estimates up to 134 billion. ainsley: fiery protests rocking france for weeks.

this morning a big development. >> want you to believe extreme leftists protesting. do you know who is protesting in france? the middle class. rob: pc police putting on the block for. peta wants bring home the bacon to bring home the bagels. ♪ i'm on the glory ♪ and and i'm hanging on a moment of truth. ainsley: don't you want to get on a table or chair and just dance. brian: nope? ainsley: when you hear this? brian: not for a second. [laughter] ainsley: brian doesn't each dance on a dance floor. brian: i don't go on tables. ainsley: they have restaurants in new york that get kind of crazy. it's always fun we did it a lot when we were younger. go in everyone is dancing. brian: like friday's restaurant. ainsley: they play songs like that and makes you want to dance. steve: i can honestly say having lived in new york for

30 years i have never seen anybody dancing on tables. ainsley: not on tables it's chairs. have to go. christmas party there one year. steve: let's go. brian: the problem is we get up in the middle you have the night so we don't have any night life. the american public invited to say goo goodbye to us george h.w. bush. his body has been lying in state in the capitol rotunda since yesterday. steve: thousands of people have streamed by. president trump and the first lady paid respects to the 41st president ahead of tomorrow's state funeral at the national cathedral in washington, d.c. ainsley: doug mckelway is live in our nation as our nation does honor bush 41. hey, doug. >> hi, ainsley. just talking about the rotunda right now. i walked down there after my last hit because i wanted to see it myself. three things really struck me. first of all, the absolute quiet. there are probably 30 or 40 citizens in there at the time. you could hear a pin drop. not even a whisper. second thing that struck me

was the honor guard, stone cold, immovable. it's give to detect that they were even breathing. and the third thing that struck me was the cold in the room as if the doors were left open and indeed they had been left open. in fact open all night long so they could accommodate visitors throughout the evening hours and two of the unexpected visitors who showed up last night were the president of the united states and the first lady melania. the president saluted the casket. melania held her hand over her heart. the two boughed their head in prayer. no words spoken. they were back at the white house in half an hour's time. earlier leaders of the house and the senate spoke. here is speaker paul ryan. >> as americans, we have no more solemn duty than laying a great patriot to rest. to the bush family, on behalf of a whole house, republicans and democrats, we are profoundly sorry for your loss and we are honored

to celebrate this wonderful life with you. >> vont pence told a very, very touching story about his own son who was a nikki haley aviator who made his first carrier landing aboard the george h.w. bush and took a picture of himself on the carrier and sent to the bush family with the hopes the president would sign it and return it to him. told that the aging president no longer did that kind of thing. lo and behold back to the pence's comes the photograph with president bush's signature and the notation cavu meaning pilot speak for ceiling and visibility unlimited. truly a metaphor for bush's life. the body will lie in state for the remainder of this day until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow and moved to the national cathedral for tomorrow's state funeral. back to houston by late tomorrow where bush will livlyelie in state before burial

at th.private ceremony. thousands modifier more will stream by the basket today. i was watching a martha maccallum program and young porter peter doocy talking to folks why they lined up for hours in the cold to see the casket of the former president. they said things like we are just here to pay our respects. it's also part of history. it's something you never forget. i remember when i was in sixth grade i went to the funeral procession for president dwight david eisenhower who was being buried at his presidential library in my hometown of abilene, kansas. and it was 15 deep on streets of abilene because everybody came out to say goodbye to the former president. brian: couple things. we famously about a year and a half ago we heard the tapes of president bush giving -- talking to his recorder how he felt like a failure because he didn't win re-election. right after bill clinton beat him. and then i fast forward to

bill mcgurn wrote about today and said that george h.w. bush reminds him of jimmy stuart in a wonderful life. jimmy steward felt like a failure yet everyone who knew him thought he was indispensable in their lives. if president bush could see the response the country is giving him and respect he is getting he will realize that he is the furthest thing from a failure. ainsley: he was so successful. not only in his career but also in politics. what i found was interesting was the catafalque the platform that the casket is on. it's draped in a black cloth. it's just a wooden frame underneath but it's the same one that they used for abraham lincoln's funeral in 1865. steve: i think one of the things george bush would be shocked at is the good press coverage he has gotten. i was working down in washington at that time. he did not get very good press coverage. brian: jon meacham's book 41 he said at the time what he wrote about the press would not give him a break. he didn't complain that much

publicly but privately he did. ainsley: let's talk about spending because our president is willing, he says, to sign a two week extension of the current spending because congress has got to fund our government, and the money is going to run out friday at midnight. our president is saying he is willing to extend it for two more weeks so we can honor the life and legacy of president bush. steve: that's right. so this stop gap funding bill is going to run out the friday before christmas. the president needs a win. is he trying to get a little more money. is he trying to get an amount of money, more than $1.6 billion, which the senate has already said okay, we're on board with that. he would like the 5 billion that the house has suggested, but, you know, the democrats are dug in. they feel they have got the you werupper hand. they are not going to budge. it will be interesting to see who does blink first. does not look good for more money for the wall. brian: if you ever thought this was just rhetoric or

something the republicans bring up to win an election, look at the chaos of the caravan coming to the border. two weeks after the election, almost a month after the election. and the chaos is still there check out this, for example, what's going on. so you have these coats apparently who drop children over the wall onto the onwaiting hands of another mug glory ohio guess is going to claim asylum and try to get into our country. this is what is happening with a wall. ainsley: apparently what you are seeing right now that coyote, smuggler at the top of the wall dropping children down to what we think are the parents below according to reports, the family is from guatemala. the family of six, including three children, ages 2, 7, and 10. dropping two of the children down that 18-foot wall. one of the children has facial injuries as a result. steve: that's right. the adults were able to, they got down a little -- weren't exactly dropped like that. they have all been taken into custody. what sort of fate do they

face? we don't know. we just know that they have been arrested. meanwhile, when you look at president's tweet and talking about the high cost of illegal immigration in this country, and then you look at the latest census data, it really draws an image of where the federal tax dollars are being spent. 2014 is the last year. ainsley: four years ago. keep that in mind. steve: census survey on welfare use. 63% of non-citizens in this country, 63% are on welfare. that impacts 4.6 million families. illegal immigrant. long-term visitor like guest workers and permanent residents who have not yet naturalized. ainsley: majority of them getting funding from our government. brian: some in this country neath need welfare. a lot of public work projects that we pay into. you have to ask yourself, even if you have a big heart don't you have a big heart

for americans and shouldn't they have a priority over people who are here illegally? to me the answer is obvious. absolutely, it's americans first. steve: well, here's the thing. it's the law. you don't like it, change the law said ned ryun, republican strategist. >> people are talking about we have to keep accepting these immigrants coming to our southern border for humanity sake for more reasons. what about the humanity sake of the american taxpayer? what about the humanity sake of my children and my children's children? because we think about the economic future of what we are looking at it, gets pretty grim. we are spending 116 to 30 billion a year already on illegal immigration already taking place. i think it's time to take a hard stance i totally agree with president trump shutting down the southern border. i would also argue he should shut down government. steve: there is one other statistic, 70% of non-citizens who have been in the country more than 10 years, 70% are on some sort of welfare which reflects the concern once immigrants

start welfare in many cases they simply do not get off. ainsley: which was not the original point of welfare it was to give you a leg up a boost to help you get back up on your feet. brian: caravan, wall ineffective. it's a problem congress has to address. lame duck session freedom to do a lot of things. hopefully people will use that freedom to get the president at least 5 billion for the wall which should really help secure the country. ainsley: okay. let's hand it over to carley shimkus who has more headlines for us. carley: we begin with a fox news alert. moments ago secretary pompeo slamming iran at a nato event in brussels. it comes days after the regime test-fired ballistic missiles in violation of a u.n. resolution. >> iran has blatantly disregarded u.n. security council resolutions to the agency inspectors about energy program and evaded u.n. sanctions. carley: urging europe to slap new sanctions on iran.

secretary pompeo plans to address the matter in private meetings today. senator majority leader mitch mcconnell slamming senator jeff flake pushing a bill to protect special counsel robert mueller. >> two problems. one, it's blatantly unconstitutional. number two, the house would never pass it. and if the house did, the president would never sign it. so it strikes me as what i would call a futile gesture. carley: flake refuses to vote for the judicial nominees until the bill comes to the senate floor. and vladimir putin won't be stepping on american soil any time soon. potential trip to washington is now out of the question according to russian state media. president trump extended an invitation when the two world leaders met at a summit in fin land over the summer. of the president cancelled a meeting with putin at the g-20 summit last week over russian aggression against ukraine. and hootie & the blowfish is making a combat. [cheers] >> ♪ there's nothing i can do ♪ i only want to be with you

♪ carley: steve, ainsley and brian, i only want to be with you. a band announcing a new album and first full tour in more than a decade. lead singer darius rutgers says it seems like the right time. tickets go on sale to the general public on friday. brian: this does not surprise me because they never broke up. they just did their own thing. carley: he has a huge solo career. brian: this makes sense. if you don't break up can you go back. in. ainsley: all still friend and still perform in south carolina which is where they started and we grew up listening to them on cassette taping that were recordings of recordings of recordings. they made it big and our whole state loves them because they haven't forgotten from where they came. brian: forgot for a little while. ainsley: they did not. steve: he host you had "fox & friends" once upon a time. ainsley: he did? steve: yes, he did.

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ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. a body just discovered near an air b and b where a florida woman vanished. steve: she was last seen one week ago on a birthday trip to the country of costa rica. brian: cowen explains how the vacation turned into a nightmare. kelly? >> we have been talking to her family members. in fact, her father just flew down to costa rica from tampa international yesterday. they have been desperately searching for answers. we know it's been seven days since anyone has heard from carla and now this family is receiving some very grim news. just a few hours ago they posted an update to a facebook page set up to find her calling hermond an emotional roller coaster and one they wouldn't wish on their worst enemies. car laps father landed in san jose to heart-breaking news. on monday afternoon authorities announced the discovery of a woman's body found partially buried in

plastic bags near the air b and b where carla was staying. at this point authorities are waiting on the results of an autopsy before saying for certain who that person is. but investigators have also announced that biological fluids compatible with blood were found in an apartment where carla was last seen. the 36-year-old was on her last night of a trip to costa rica to celebrate her 36th birthday. in fact, she had already checked into a flight scheduled for the following day but never got on that plane. for days carla's family has held out hope of finding her. and we spoke to her father just moments before he got on the flight to go costa rica yesterday. >> you cannot imagine what we are feeling. her mom is absolutely devastated. she can't speak. >> now, we spoke to her family members over the weekend. they tell us there have been

some conflicting stories coming out of costa rica. they have been in contact with the air b and b owner and security guards there who told them that carla was seen getting on an -- getting into an uber at 5:00 a.m. the morning of her flight. but her sister tells us she has access to her sister's account for uber. and that 5:00 a.m. flight was never scheduled. instead an 8:30 flight -- i'm sorry an 8:30 uber car was scheduled. however she never ended up meeting that driver. ainsley: wow, kelly, thank you so much for those details. everyone at home please say a prayer that she is found and hopefully this body is not connected to her. but we can all relate to this because we all take vacations. the uber drivers, we all take ubers. many people use air b and b very scary. steve: a lot of questions still unanswered. brian: meanwhile, this hero has a story unlike any other. only person to complete navy seal training three times. ainsley: wow. brian: unveiling the 40% rule to everyone including

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how many alcohol drink during holidays. people being more social this time of the year. and finally 42%, that's how much tuna and canned fish sales have dropped since the 1980s, the "wall street journal" says young consumers don't find it convenient since it requires opening and draining. how lazy is this generation? we don't want to drain tuna. and star kist ceo claims many millennials don't own can openers that's why they have pull tops. don't we have that technology. steve: also in envelopes now. brian: tuna in envelopes. i love it. ainsley: next guest a story like no other. retired chief only member of the armed forces to complete navy seal training three times and army ranger school and air force tactical air controller training. steve: before he could even have a chance to becoming a navy seal he had to lose

over 100 pounds in three months. he was close to 300 pounds you can't be a navy seal if you are 300 pounds. brian: david goggins is sharing this book can't hurt me. reveals most of us only tap into 40% of our capability retired navy seal chief david goggins is in studio. david, congratulations. >> good morning. how are you doing? brian: what's the goal of writing this book? >> honestly i was very insecure person deep down insecure. all that stuff. and i think it's good for people to hear a success story from a complete underdog and give them hope to become better. ainsley: david, take us back to the very beginning, you said your childhood was a nightmare and you were overweight. how did you go from that to this? >> basically so i didn't start off overweight. in high school i was about 175 pounds. and all those insecurities and stuff like that drove me to a place of gaining

weight, trying to find things that made me very comfortable, made me feel good about myself. the mind is so powerful. it will always direct you in the spot that it wants to go that makes you feel nice and comfortable. and i had to redirect my mind to a different place. steve: there you are in that picture presee you are close to 300 pounds. what in your mind said you know what? i want to be a navy seal i'm going to have to lose 100 pounds? >> it wasn't that easy. basically, i was -- i wasn't feeling good about myself. and that reflection in the mirror is so powerful that every time you come home you see it. you know, can you lie to everybody around you but that reflection is telling you exactly how are. i wanted to change that reflection in the mirror. steve: and did you it. >> did i it. steve: congratulation. brian: you say boot camp sucks and seal training sucks but you know what? it makes you good. like a muscle if you stop going to the gym and running you get weak. military teaches you those great values but we don't keep up the discipline on our own and he would lose it

that's the goal of this book to inspire not to lose it go regame it? >> right. it's all about living for me. if day one week one. you know, like if you are a firefighter, a cop or went to boot camp, that boot camp sucks. you don't want to go back to boot camp. always looking forward to three more days and we will be done. two more days and we will be done. once you are done a lot of our mentality gets soft. ainsley: how do you like because i know you are saying you were in a comfort place and then you went to -- you had to be uncomfortable and go work out and do all of that so many of us the new year we will go to the gym and do it for a few months and then we are going to fall off the wagon. how do you stay on the wagon? >> all about finding what you want, your purpose in life. and one thing people don't realize we are all here for awrps '. figure out what your purpose is that was my big issue i thought my life is so horrible. why god, why me? why this? why that? and so i flipped it upside down and realized this is --

that my life was the perfect training ground to, therefore, teach people on what i learned about the human mind. steve: that's interesting. >> it's how you look at it. ainsley: that's your purpose now. brian: what did you learn about the human mind that has you running 100 miles at a time? >> well, it's the most powerful thing in the world. most powerful weapon we own. we all think this stuff right here is the most powerful weapon we own. it's not. it's not. it's not smart. it's really dumb. makes you dumb. you have to tap into quiet. quiet is where you get all the strength in the world. when my life was real noisy. i wasn't who i was supposed to be. quiet down. steve: david, you say the average person when they think they are operating at peak performance actually over only at 40%. this is everybody, everybody watching right now. ainsley: we are all at 40%. steve: how do you go from 40 closer to 100. >> some people are 60 or 70. just to break it down real simplistic you know how cars

have governors on them. steve: keep you going a certain speed. >> it may say 130 but the governor is set for 91. you have a fast car that passes by you. going 91. it has no governor on it it's gone. you can't catch it that's what your car is doing. so your mind set up the same way. your mind will choose a path of least resistance every single time. steve: because it's easy. >> easy, pain, suffering, discomfort, whenever you feel a situation that you are not great, in your mind will say oh, this is the easy way out. that's that 40% right there. we have to retrain our minds so our brains control us. we have to learn to control our minds. steve: how do you retrain your brain so you go i'm getting out of the easy zone, safe zone i need to go over there. >> i wish we had more time. basically one hint is you have to start extremely small. like for me i had to lose 106 pounds less than three

months that's humongous task. if my mind was to just think about that no way to do it it's impossible. ainsley: one day at a time. >> i broke it down to the smallest molecule possible. not only did i do that i found great joy in losing five pounds. and say oh wow, i lost five. oh my god i have 101 more pounds to lose. steve: that's scary. >> simplistic way of thinking. brian: small victories along the way. >> small victories are very important. ainsley: congratulations. if you want to find out what his family and friends think about him and be on his journey and find out how can you do this in your life too it's called can't hurt me. number four right now. >> number four on amazon. i appreciate it. brian: i have a sense he wants to be number one. don't let him down. >> we have michelle obama out there owning it i'm. brian: go get her dave. steve: here comes number two then. ainsley: america could be facing a potential pension disaster as middle class taxpayers cannot keep up

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it has been illegal to have a snowball fight until last night. ainsley: 9-year-old boy there that every kid needs to love because now you can throw snowballs in the town of severance. there he is right there. so excited because he took this to the leaders of his town and he said i don't like this. and his mom said he has been talking about it for a year and a half when he found out you are not allowed to have a snowball fight. steve: he is 9-year-old deign best. here he is the kid who got snowballs back in severance. >> i'm here today to hopefully change the law about throwing snowballs. today kids need reasons to play outside. >> sounds like you just changed the law, buddy. [cheers] >> there you go, throw your first snowball, the first legal one. brian: the kid does not get a ticket. they should actually ban ice ball when people put snow in water and freezes. steve: i don't know if there is small print there.

the town counse council after ty listed to his speech said you know what it's a dumb rule. ainsley: all the kids cheered. favorite part of the story his first target you can appreciate this with brothers first target is going to be his little brother. steve: apparently the family has also looked at some of the other ordinances in severance, there salah on the books there that pets are defined as only dogs or cats. and 9-year-old dain there has a guinea pig. i have a feeling is he going to try to change that law, too. brian: ferret owners, all type of pet owners. iguanas. ainsley: alligators. steve: deign best is the steve: stev carley: he has a good arm.

brian: from the one pitch we saw. carley: heart breaking story unfortunately. 911 calls just released from a deadly bus crash that killed a little boy. dozens more children and their chaperones are hurt after the bus driver lost control on an arkansas highway. >> a bus flipped. >> how many people are hurt? >> we have kids everywhere. we have a lot of kids. he's stuck. he's stuck. he's stuck. carley: bus carrying youth football team from dallas to memphis. the boy killed was 9-year-old cammeron johnson. how about this for a strange headline? an alligator caught with a sneaker in its mouth after attacking a man at a retirement community. the 85-year-old bitten by the nearly 10-foot beast just steps away from his home in lakeland, florida. officials say the gaiter grabbed his foot and dragged him into nearby woods. that man now in stable

condition. a trapper will remove the gator. a college a cappella group stopped singing this disney tune over consent concerns ♪ kiss the girl ♪ whoa, whoa ♪ shalala la la. carley: a student from princeton university complaining the all male group's performance of kiss the girl is offensive and violating. but, in the little mermaid aerial leans in for a kiss from prince eric. important to note there the tiger tones typically call up a man and woman from the crowd while they sing and encourage a kiss on the cheek. a drunk driver uses the ace ventura defense after crashing into a tree. [tires squealing] ♪ >> excuse me, gentlemen, pet detective. carley: cannot be good. in this report lincoln nebraska police say the

driver told them he crashed because his windshield wipers weren't working so like everyone's favorite pet detective he poked his head out of the window -- the driver's side window to get a look. luckily nobody was injured. not a good idea there. steve: isn't it against a law to be operating a vehicle without operable wipers? that's a ticket. carley: against the law to be drinking and driving, too. steve: okay. all right. words of wisdom. ainsley: thank you. brian: janice dean, are you outside? janice: i am outside. correct. ding ding ding ding ding. how are you guys? >> good. janice: thank you for coming. where are you from? >> bear hope, alabama. >> same visiting. janice: know each other. >> 52 years. janice: right on. what's the secret to 52 years? >> yes, dear. janice: yes, dear. i love it anniversary where are you from. >> louisville, kentucky. >> 25 years. japan january what's the secret. >> communication and christ is the foundation of our

marriage. janice: i love it oh my gosh, wave to everybody at home. let's take a look at the maps real quick. don't you love our viewers that come to see us at 48th and sixth? here are our temperatures. single digits and teens when it comes to wind chill across the you were midwest. not too much on the map. a little bit of lake-effect snow. going to bring shower activity. next storm system moves into the west. this is going to be the weather maker this week and into the weekend. that's going to cause potential for flash flooding maybe mud slides but a lot of heavy snow. wave to steve, ainsley and brian, my friends. ainsley: good morning, our friends. janice: aren't they beautiful? ainsley: they are indeed. brian: wonderful people. he claims he genetically edited babies in china. now he is missing. the big mystery straight ahead. steve: plus, there is a looming pension problem in the united states and middle class taxpayers could be on

the hook for it all. we're going to break down the numbers coming up. that was brian dashing by ♪ on the radio ♪ praying easy down the road i go i keep rolling like an old banjo ♪ free and easy down the road i go ♪ talking about driver-assist technology talking about cars that talk and listen. talking about the highest customer loyalty in the country. but that's enough talking. seriously. that was a lot of talking. back to building

ainsley: quick health care to get to. cdc doesn't know what's causing the polio like illness. 134 of acute flaccid my lights across the united states. average age of the patients is just 5 years old. the chinese scientist behind genetically edited babies is missing. reports of his arrest are not true and that he hasn't been seen since last week.

chinese government officials ordered the scientist to stop his work, calling it illegal and unacceptable. the first gene edited babies were born last month. brian? brian: 15 minutes before the top of the hour. america could soon be facing a potential pension disaster. this leaves our next guest asking quote who wants to support a millionaire? he writes about it in brand new op-ed. assistant editor of the "wall street journal" editor page joins us right now. tell me about what's about to explode with pensions? >> you have estimates run into the trillions in terms of the unfunded liabilities in state and local pension systems nationwide u and who is going to pay? the taxpayers pay most of this. and what is happening already that's kind of shocking to people is how much people engaged in what used to be public service are making in retirement benefits compared to the average person. >> and where is the money supposed to come from? does the math ever work out?

>> lots of places, including the places with the biggest pension obligations are woefulfully unfunded. you think about new jersey, illinois, and we looked at california where it's very generous pension benefits. if someone works in state government 31 years or more. so, in other words, they spend a career there, the average pension is $70,000 a year. now, this might not seem like a fortune and it probably wasn't in an age where people didn't live all that long. but given how long people live and how long they can draw the benefits. if you wanted to buy this product for someone in the private market it would be $1.7 million for someone retiring at age 60. very few americans have the money to afford that kind of retirement benefit. brian bine we have aging population so less workers actually paying for the retired workers. here is some numbers that you put together. let's take a look. in 2018, 13% have defined benefit plans, 76% had

defined benefit plans in the 1980s. that's. >> that's interesting. you think about sort of a myth that people who worked in private business used to have pension deals like the people in government now. but the truth is even in private business, at&t, the great old blue chip companies very few of their workers stayed long enough to qualify. so the benefits that are now being enjoyed by public sector employees which can run into the millions of dollars really were never available to many people anywhere in the american economy. brian: you are analyzing and saying this is happening. we are moving down this road. how are we going to handle this road? >> i think step one for every state government is all new employees should not be getting pensions. they should be getting 401(k) type savings plans like everybody else basically in america has. where you invest money. you prepare for retirement but you are not guaranteed this enormous stream of income. brian: that would certainly help. and other thing that would be important, too is to

explain to people that you might not vote for me but this is what has to be no. politician has the courage to ask people that could potentially be a vote to say we are reconfiguring how you are going to be paid in the future. >> this has been the problem all along. politicians want to trade those pension benefits for votes among public workers but that bill is coming due very soon. brian: though politicians retired with big pensions fantastic. we will pick up the "wall street journal" just for you. >> thank you. and many other reasons. steve: take that bill mcgurn. yearly tradition wreaths across america laying wreaths at veterans grave sites. they need your help this morning. find out what you can do next. plus, white house national economic council director larry kudlow here live when he was on cnbc he would never come on. i don't know why. ♪ lovingly day ♪ - [narrator] the typical vacuum head has its limitations,

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ainsley: every single year wreaths across america honors our heroes by laying nearly 2 million wreaths at veterans graves across the country. and with days just until the detected line, there is stil -- deadlinethere is a neede every single service member is remembered with a wreath. wreaths across america. hey, bree. excited to you talk to you. i know we talk to you every year about this time and our viewers are so amazing. you always get your goal because of our viewers at home that watch your segment. tell us where you are and how many more you need. >> well, thanks so much, ainsley for having me on. it's great to see you. so, currently at arlington national cemetery, there are 253,000 veterans buried there. and our current short fall is 50,000 wreath

sponsorships. ainsley: how much are they and i know we have a link on our website foxnews.com. what can people expect to pay? >> each wreath is $15. they can go to our website wreaths across america.org. and in case someone has a loved one that is not buried at arlington national cemetery or at one of our 1500 participating locations, they can certainly go to our website and purchase a wreath, the same type of wreath we place at arlington and we can ship one out to them so they can take that to wherever their loved one is buried as well. ainsley: what a wonderful program. how long have you been doing this? who started it? >> it started? 1992 by super patriot and great american wooster and his family just wonderful patriots. love our military and they are just so grateful to our veterans and they wanted to pay it forward to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and who give us the freedoms that we all enjoy today. ainsley: i know you said 250,000 buried at arlington.

50,000 more. once you complete the arlington wreaths then you start working at other places around the country is that how it works? >> well, actually we work in conjunction with all of them at the same time. we actually will place all of them at all 1500 locations on the same day on saturday, december the 15th we are working as hard as we can to honor as many fallen heroes as possible. we are just the beneficiary of all of their hard work and wonderful staff up in maine. we all work very hard to earn the sacrifice of our fallen heroes and the families they leave behind every single day. ainsley: we are so grateful. thank you so much for your involvement and coming on fox every year. we will get this done and reach your goal. go to our website again friends@foxnews.com we have a link to your website as well. brey, thank yobree, thank you fg this: a shut down show down in washington. president trump issuing a new threat as congress punts on a deadline. we have the update coming up next. plus, country star phil

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u.s. illegally. >> violent riots rocking france for weeks. >> that is why you have seen the big changes, the vote for "brexit," the vote for trump and these riots. >> 9-year-old boy took on his town's ban on snowball fights and he won. >> change the law about throwing snowballs. today's kids need reasons to play outside. ♪ ♪ made in america steve: that is a beautiful shot from the point of view of the u.s. capitol down the mall. welcome to studio f, "fox & friends" on this tuesday. ainsley: it is a beautiful shot. brian: toby keith a beautiful man. steve: is indeed a good friend of the program. that is the picture.

we have cameras down in washington, d.c. it is about george herbert walker bush. the public is invited to say their final good-byes to the 41st u.s. president. this is inside the capitol rotunda where the 41st president continues to lie in state. ainsley: flags over the casket and flags flying half-staff all over the country. brian: doug mckelway is in washington to talk about the honors for the 41st president the next two days. reporter: hey, brian. the capitol rotunda was open all night long to the many visitors. this was first used during the funeral of abraham lincoln in 1865. president trump and first lady melania. the building was largely empty when he arrived. the president staff ad stiff

salute. melania held her hand over her heart. they bowed their heads in prayer. no word by either of them. later leaders from the house and senate spoke. here is mitch mcconnell. >> this hero returned to the capitol a final time. he kept us flying high and challenged us to fly higher still. and he did it with modesty and kindness. reporter: vice president pence offered a touching story about his own son who is naval aviator who made his first carrier landing on the carrier george h.w. bush. he took a picture, hoping the president would sign it. he was told the aging president does not that kind of thing anymore. but low and behold. the picture was signed and sent back and written, cavu. it is perfect optimism of the

president way he lived his life in a city that often tries to destroy people. back to you in new york. steve: doug, thank you as you look at thousands of people streaming by. george herbert walker bush spent last two decades living quiet life in houston, low-key live. brian: very much still following the political scene and on top of things. he would never complain about the park sin son's, the parkinson's disease that was suffering with that diminished his quality of life. ainsley: back in the washington for the last time. will be buried in houston this week on thursday. let's go down to the southern border because the president is tweeting about funding the wall. he wants $5 billion to fund the wall. if you don't do it i might shut down the border. either way people will not be allowed into our country illegally. we will close the entire

southern border if necessary. also, stop the drugs. steve: what they have done last night is they have aproceeded to a two week stop ban budget bill essentially will fund the government for two more weeks, rather than expiring couple days. that will set up a battle royale the friday before christmas. will the republicans actually shut down the government over this? the president has made it very clear. he would like the full $20 billion. he is not going to get that. he can only get 5 billion from the house. he can only get 1.6 billion from the republicans in the u.s. senate. brian: see if they want to spend chris mat in the capitol. i don't think the president will budge on that. a couple things. look what the president is talking about. i ran on immigration. we got a problem. a series of caravans coming into our border demanding and we're not doing it. all types of pressure on brand new mexican government. the tijuana, down in the city of

tijuana particular. creating scenes like this. look at the two kids dropped over the wall by soon to be two coyotes. dropped over into waiting arms. this guy gets paid. these buys and these kids are now part of our system. ainsley: according to report the guy at the top of the wall, he is a coyote, dropping down the children. children are from a family of six. they're from guatemala. the kids are two, seven, 10 years old from the family. steve: mug shot from a ms-13 member he was arrested in california as well. that is the image of the man right there. goes to show you, donald trump made a border as a battle in capitol hill, he wants to get something done. we'll talk to steve scalise. he is the house majority whip live in about half an hour because the big question is, how, all-in are the republicans up on capitol hill?

they haven't been all-insofar. it would be interesting. the 11th hour, see what we can do in the waning hours of the lame-duck session. brian: all right. so let's switch gears talk about what is happening in france. maybe you have seen some of the video of a series of protests in france. you say to yourself what is going on there? francois macron. steve: emanuel. brian: seems like every french person i think their name is francois. that is mental thing i have to deal with. too many cartoons. macron is extremely unpopular in the country of france he is running right now. out of nowhere this organic protest sprung up about week 1/2 ago. it is because they're raising taxes. in particular these gas taxes for one reason. these are essentially carbon taxes because it's a fossil fuel. paris climate change is this is crisis and we have to solve it. ainsley: guess what happened this morning? they decided to suspend it,

suspend the tax hike. they're taxing gas, just unbelievable how much people are paying there for gasoline. that is why everyone is rioting. we can't afford this. and it worked. steve: it started as a gas tax. it morphed into quality of life in france. also anti-government sentiment as brian said, mr. francois macron's public relations number right now, his approval rating is at 23%. so they put that on hold for six months. also, apparently, and this goes to show what you is going on in france because they spend so much on social programs, they need to jack up the rates, apparently they had increasing in bass and electricity scheduled to kick in just as winter started. they said, you know what? we'll probably kick that in after winter. brian: following up in poland with the paris climb at agreement we bowed out. in poland, 80% of their fuel

comes from coal. that is problem for the paris agreement. they are trying to come up with penalties that pass thresholds. good luck getting penalty from china or poland where you host it. look what is happening in france the home of the paris agreement. maybe societies lower and middle class forced to pay the price for this aren't quite ready for it. ainsley: bernie sanders, watch what is happening in france. that is what he wants to happen here. here is what rush limbaugh said. >> isn't europe utopia? don't our elites tell us our future is emulating europe? from trains to climate change, to immigration. the europeans are doing it right? well in this case, the europeans, the french, are doing exactly what the global climate change political movement wants done. this young, little whippersnapper president has put a massive tax on carbon. which has driven the price of gasoline to over 7 bucks a

gallon. you know who is protesting in france? the middle class. they're protesting this carbon tax which is exactly what the worldwide left wants to happen in the united states. steve: going forward, the big question for the people of france, all these other nations, if you're going to spend so much money on these government programs, if you're not going to jack up the taxes you will have to cut back on the social programs. do you think that's going to happen? no. brian: france has got to do things like working more than four days a week. put in a full day, not taking three-hour lunch. taking entire summers off. that might be a little bit of an issue. there is no lech walesa rallying people at the docks. these are legitimate, organic, grass roots uprisings are impossible to counter. there is no necessary leadership. macron wants to have talks. he got hissed and booed out of his own country with his riots.

i laugh at people say donald trump is unpopular in america. world leader having his problems. really? this guy has 26% approval rating. the last approval rating for president trump, harvard "harris poll" at 46%. focus on your own european country. seems like you have other issue. ainsley: he will be in office a little bit longer. they have a six-year presidential period there. only been. steve: unless somebody happens. he decides i'm done. ainsley: maybe he will change his name to francois. steve: here is -- jillian: speaking french] a body discovered near an airbnb where a florida woman vanished carla stefanisak went to

costa rica and they suspect she was kidnapped. they have not confirmed whether it was carla. blood was found in the room where she stayed. secretary pompeo slamming iran at a nato event in brussels. comes days after the regime test-fired ballistic missiles in violation of a u.n. resolution. >> iran blatantly disregarded u.n. resolution and blatantly lied to the nuclear inspectors about its nuclear inspector and evaded sanctions. special counsel robert mueller's team will make a sentencing recommendation today for the former national security advisor michael flynn. he pleaded guilty last year to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia weeks before president trump took office. the retired army general faces up to six months in prison when he is sentenced on december 18th. legendary ohio state football coach urban meyer is

retiring. the school making the announcement moments ago. he has a cyst in his brain that causes frequent heck aches. he has won three national championships. meyer will be coaching in the rose bowl before being replaced by his offensive coordinator. big deal for the big 10 and ohio state fans. steve: a legend. ainsley: sports guys, what do you think about that? brian: must be real physical problems, he battled hard to get back on the field with the controversy. and he is one of the top two coaches in college football. video is shocking. state trooper helping someone on the side of the road. ainsley: watch this. brian: then comes out of control car. we'll show you what happens next. steve: plus the caravan is sitting at our border. student government voted to give the caravan money. lawrence jones says those students don't know the rule of

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the southern border. the student group bill stating, quote, the united states fueled by corporate greed has strategically intervened in central american politics and warfare, thus, strengthening the u.s. economy and further disregarding the livelihood of the citizens of these countries. so what they are doing, they are going to send them a check for $1500 to a group that is out to help them. here to weigh in, campus reform editor-in-chief, conservative commentator, radio show host lawrence jones. welcome to you. >> thank you so much for having me. steve: okay, uc berkeley sent them a check for 1500 bucks. you have a problem with that? >> this is the principle of the matter. i don't care 1500. they're aiding and abetting criminals coming across the border illegally. goes to show you on college campuses today that they believe it is more compassionate to not obey american law. it is not isolated event. we've been reporting on this for a while. leadership institute campus reform. n.c. state a professor said let

them all in. this is anti-immigration policy that says that we should just have open borders. steve: this is a student government group. they said we'll take $1500 of our money, not taxpayer money. and give it to them. we should not surprise anybody. california is a sanctuary state. >> it is a sanctuary state. on college campuses giving illegals instout tuition, protecting daca. they don't like i.c.e. on college campus. uc berkeley has anti-relationship with i.c.e. if you see i.c.e. on campus, you're told to call the police on i.c.e. so again, this is the rhetoric that we're sending on college campuses. should concern most americans. even though not public funds shows you where college campuses going, willing to send $1500. principle of matter. steve: the university put out a statement. at the university of california student government is legally at ton must and fully independent

of university. student government and members speak only for themselves, do not represent the views of campus administration one way or the other? what do you think of that? >> that is copout. uc berkeley is going. don't let conservative speakers on college campuses. california is sanctuary state. again they may try to pretend this is student government association. again these students got this ideology from somewhere. it is liberal professors backing this type of ideology made the students to decide to use student fees to aid and abet. steve: not just california. it is every college campus. >> that is exactly right. no conservatives are welcome. talk about discrimination. conservatives are not welcome on college campuses. if viewers want to change it, go to leadership institute campus reform. we report on this every day expose what is happening on college campuses. you have to stop giving your money to these schools. it is affecting our society.

these people are anti-american at this point. steve: lawrence jones. thank you, sir. what do you think about that? email us at foxandfriends.com. it has been six months since the death of the great charles krauthamer. today his final book is released. it was finished by his ton daniel and i join us live next. [deep breath] i receive travel rewards. i visualize travel rewards. going new places! going out for a bite! going anytime. rewarded! learn more at the explorer card dot com.

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folly. whether it straightens them out i don't know. i don't know whether it will have an effect on them but there is no other way for an honest critic to be. ainsley: well, now daniel krauthamer, there he is in the picture, he is honoring his father by finishing his dad's last book, a collection of the columnist's most important works. steve: the book is called, the point of it all, and daniel krauthammer joins us here on the couch this morning. good morning to you. >> thanks so much for having me. ainsley: congratulations on the book. you look so much like your dad. >> i get that a lot, yeah. ainsley: how is your family? >> we're doing okay. it is hard. but we're getting through, being able to finish this book for him and have the world see it means a lot to us. brian: how close was he to being finished when you took on the project? >> he was pretty far along. he had put together most of the articles and columns and essays that are in the book now.

set aside others for some consideration. and at the direction of it, that i knew kind of where he was going but there was still a lot of work to be done. last year when he was sick i was able to set things up in his hospital so he could work on it, continue putting things together. so i got a sense through that of what he wanted to do. and when the final prognosis came he entrusted it to me, he told me wanted me to finish it. steve: so you finished the project, but along the way he started it. started it going. but as you were finishing it up, as you think, i know my dad wanted me to put this here but i think it works better over there, so effectively you had the final say? >> yeah. steve: it has to be tough. what would my dad do? >> i am the editor of the book. there were definitely choices i had to make i didn't know exactly what he would do. i think -- brian: like what? >> confident enough that i knew

his underlying philosophy, his underlying thought the on politics and life and religion and big questions and little questions that, when i read things i could see the sinews between pieces that would link them all together. when he wrote his, his first book, things that matter, i talked to him about that and wrote to him about that and i think he felt that i really got it in a way sometimes even missed that gave me some confidence. brian: you share the story how your email after you read the book helped him with questions he was getting in interviews. >> this is actually in the book, some parts i write in the introduction and ending, when i read his first book, things that matter, i wrote him a long email. i sat down and wrote for three hours, telling him why i thought is was such an impressive i wrote back and said, damn i'm kicking myself for weeks doing

all the interviews like with you guys, when i get the question what is the book about, i'm not oy sure how to answer and you said it. i laid it out. i thought that he put that very clearly in his introduction. i think sometimes it takes someone from the outside looking in at it. ainsley: what did he say? what was it about? what did you say? >> everything in the end depends on politics. i think all things beautiful and elegant. he would say all things high, live for, give purpose to life, that is what gives it meaning but it has to bow to politics. if you get politics wrong the rest collapses. ainsley: the book, the point of it all, what is the point of it all from your perspective? >> that's a tough question. it goes right off the theme. for him the point of it all in life to find your own meaning and purpose, things that give you as an individual, a sense yourself. there is so much in the book that is very personal. it is about his passions from

baseball to chess, space exploration, fatherhood, his friendships. but the other large part of the book is politics. that was the point of his professional life, his career. i think in his view he felt that what we have to do in our society build our politics such that we can all pursue our own meaning and purpose within the structure of freedom. steve: sure. your father, a columnist for a very long time, told a lot of stories. threw the years we haven't heard a lot about you and your mom. he protected you. kept you insulated from the scary world out there. what do we not know about your dad? >> i think, i mean he was a wonderful man in so many ways and i think, it does come through a lot i think in his writing and on tv, his wit, his intelligence, his wry sense of irony and humor but i think he didn't wear his emotions on his sleeve a lot and so i think one

of the things, one of the reasons i decided to put a lot of these more personal sections in the book was that now that he is gone, i felt, i really wanted the world to know this incredible, wonderful, deeply good, part of him. because i know that he, really touched a lot of people's lives in a way that i frankly didn't even know about until these last months when people would come forward to talk to me. i really felt not just for him, but for everyone else who wanted to know more this would be a good thing to do. brian: one the things that stands out for me is that he was, he had a diving accident at 22, was it? >> yeah. brian: he is pair liesed basically. he said what is life like. everybody has their cross to bear, everybody. what i do is a a little bit harder, a little bit slower, with a little more effort. was that his attitude? that seemed to the attitude from the outside. did he say from the outside ever

say why am i so limited? >> never. i never heard that once in my life. ainsley: what was that like growing up? i'm sure life was different in your house than it was in the average young little boy's life? >> i think, you grow up knowing what you know so that was just life and which -- yeah there were difficulties, annoyances things were different time to time. i think as my dad said, when i read those words too, it struck me incredibly profound that everyone has their cross to bear. some you can see very easily. some you can't. they are hidden away. ainsley: daniel, when he passed away i heard from neighbors, viewers, everyone tuned in to hear what you dad said about politics, he said it, the way he spoke, it wasn't biased it was just his opinion because it was usually dead on because he was so bright. i remember hearing in an interview, my dad, how did you become so smart?

my dad said when i was a little boy i am going to teach you everything. did your dad do the same with you? >> he came pretty close. he gave it a shot. ainsley: what did he do with you? >> it was a lot of conversations i think. it wasn't kind of do this or set a schedule, but we just hung out a lot and talked. i enjoyed hearing him and he enjoyed talking. one of our favorite things, when i was young we go on car trips. visit my grandma, go skiing what have you, we would listen to books on tape when there were actually tapes. it was our favorite thing. usually history books for political philosophy, political science. when he ran out of those, he would talk to me. i will talk about the constitution. there is three hours. you know, history of the jews, part one and two. i think a lot of the kind of baseline of my, skelton of my historical understanding comes from that.

i learned and built all my own knowledge. ainsley: so blessed to have him as a dad. steve: the new book is called, "the point of it all." as you go across the country you will see how much america loves your father. brian: talk to you on radio in a little while. >> thank you. brian: go grab the book.

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the chinese leader. he will tell us things he never thought he would say on television because it is our show, right, larry? tell us everything. >> well, depends, brian. you lead, i'll follow. brian: give us an idea why there wasn't a communique in the end these five things both countries agree we'll do in the next 90 days? why do we leave it up to interpretation for both countries? >> well, actually a number of documents and cables were passing forth between the two teams, in the two-week run up or the three-week runup. this was never meant as a lengthy trade agreement document. we are not there yet among other things. brian: right. >> this is a question of commitments which is very, very important. it is a question of topics. this is much bigger and much broader than anything we ever talked about. it covers a wide variety of areas, including technology, including tariffs. including purchases of various

commodities, agricultural and industrial. and, you know, look, i'm going to say, i'm not sure that we knew on either side that their dinner party would be as good as it was. i mean i tell you, i have never seen president xi before up close and personal. i saw for the first time the chemistry between president trump and president xi, which president trump has said they're friends. you can see it. the other point i want to make is that president xi said yes to a number of, i'll call them sidebar documents the men at that nil, for example -- fentanyl, we want to redo fentanyl as controlled substance. could be eligible for the chinese death penalty. president asked them to take a look at at the qualcomm deal when it comes back. those were the first yeses we've seen in the entire nine-month

discussion. steve: next day, in the evening after the meal, larry, the president tweeted out something we're getting rid of the 40% tariffs on cars. you know, we haven't heard anything official about that. can you explain what happened? >> i think it's coming, okay? steve: he already told us. give us some details! >> it hasn't been signed and sealed and delivered yet but look they were at 15. then in retaliation, they raised it to 40. i think they will go to zero. in my view i think the president expects them to go to zero and i will say this, the vice premier told us, a group of us, bob lighthizer, steve much is a that they were ready to move on number of items. if they are serious about this i think they will move very

quickly on the car tariffs and i think they will whack them down to tariffs. that would be great. ainsley: that would be great. they're charging 40 he% for all americans cars over there. of course no one will buy them because is a big cost. what does it mean for farmers in america? the president tweeted they will buy a bunch of products from america. what are the products about? >> these are private sector transactions, ainsley, by the way. they're not government to government. the tariff rates will be slashed significantly. this cording to the chinese. we're talking about number of agriculture commodities, throw out soybeans and wheat and various grains will be a part of this. we're talking about industrial commodities, industrial supplies. that is very important. we're also talking about energy supplies. i think nat-gas, lng and so forth. actually they, these are hard to gauge specifically because you have macro forces of supply and

demand but number that was put on in our table for private meetings was over a trillion. secretary mnuchin said 1.2 million. you can't say precisely. these are not government, to government transactions but, but, here is the key point. they will cut their tariffs. they will lower their non-tariff barriers, okay, and that opens the door for american exporters, all our farmers, all our manufacturers, even our automobile producers that export to china, and if you give us open borders, if you give us open markets, rather, we will clobber them of the we will sell everything. we are the most competitive economy in the world. we'll knock them dead. and we'll lower the trade deficit while we're doing it. brian: stop them from stealing intellectual property. that's key. how do you get someone to pledge to stop stealing? >> all right. this is key and this is not resolved although it is in their talking points and commitments, we'll tackket it right away.

i.p. theft absolutely essential, has to be stopped. forced transfer of technology, has to be essential, has to be stopped. cyber hacking has to be stopped. finally ownership, they have to allow american companies to own themselves. this 49% for america is not going to work. it has to be moving up to the mid 50s and higher. i can't say here i know for sure that is going to happen. it is the crux of the matter. in my judgment that is probably the most important aspects, our technology breakthroughs, innovation an invention. these are the crown jewels, okay? with we will see what happens but i will tell you this unlike prior meetings it is on the table, on the table, they have said that and again i'll make this point, again and again, vice premier liu said they want to start immediately, quote, unquote. i challenged him on that, what is immediately? immediately is immediately. so i'm optimistic right now.

we will see. it has been a difficult history but we will see. steve: the meter is running. i think you have 86 days. larry kudlow, north lawn of the white house. thank you, larry. brian: make it happen. >> appreciate it. >> got the best personality. brian: i know. he is good. steve: i think he sounds hopeful. 18 minutes before the top of the hour exactly. congress punting on a stopping a government shutdown, i apologize that is bad grammar. will deal get done? ainsley: that is not your fault. >> we'll talk to house majority whip steve scalise. brian: last time i load the prompterll. quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. while meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. meningitis b strikes quickly.

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he is pushing a man to the side to save him. the trooper is seriously hurt. it is unclear if the driver will face charges. harvard university being sued over a rule to keep them from joining single gender social clubs. national fraternities and sororities promotes they say gender classifications and stereotypes. students who join gender organizations at harvard are barred from leading campus groups or leading sports teams. back to you. brian: american public saying final byes to president george h.w. bush. as he lies in state before tomorrow's funeral. ainsley: we have house majority whip steve scalise. >> good to be with you all. ainsley: you were there yesterday in the rotund today, would you like to say anything to the bush family, how you are remembering him? >> it was a special ceremony in the capitol, to see the whole

bush family there, the family dedicated to public service, to remember the greatness of president george h.w. bush and the kind and gentle man he was and how people worked with him remember in endearing terms. there were a lot of tears being shed. i thought it a fitting tribute to a wonderful person. brian: shows the kind of life you live. you die at 94 there was a sense of tribute but there was still sadness. two week extension now. there is no government shutdown. fund it for two weeks, focus on funeral, not on a shutdown, can you confirm that? >> yeah. we worked that out. this fight will continue on. clearly what we're battling over make sure we fund our border security properly, build the wall, give president trump the money he needs to keep america safe. not just build the wall but safety across the border. you see with the caravan coming, over 600 confirmed convicted

criminals in the caravan. every single american, why do we need to secure the border, every day 10 known terrorists try to cross our bothered. this is real and serious threat. president trump is fighting to secure the border. ainsley: will he get the money he needs? he wants five billion? >> white house is directly involved in these negotiations, i feel confident we'll get it resolved the right way. brian: he is at 1.6. would you split the difference, going halfway, would that be a deal republicans would go for? >> you ever who the negotiations go, give the president the money he needs where he can confidentially say i've got the tools to keep america safe. to make sure our border patrol agents who are under attack at the border are able to keep themselves safe. these are men and women in uniform fighting to keep america safe. we need to make sure they're well-protected. ainsley: you fought hard. you're back. pick up his new book, called, back in the game thanks for being with us. >> thank you. brian: fantastic what you have

been through in the last year. thanks so much, congressman. straight ahead -- ainsley: country star phil vasser is here to perform his brand new christmas song coming up next. brian: okay with you, ainsley i want to find out what is on bill hemmer's show. ainsley: hey, bill. >> events surrounding life of president bush are remarkable. taking through many more today. we're there for that. the congress has been making a call on spending. border security is an issue. talking about that with steve scalise. james comey meets behind closed doors. senator rand paul is not happy with the saudi arabia matter. he will make his case. join sandra and me 11 minutes top of the hour, 9:00 to noon. t. you can get comfortable doing the same with yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it.

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chart-topping hits. ainsley: phil vassar here to to perform his new christmas song, love the title, not so silent night the which benefits the salvation army. congratulations on new song. all the proceeds go to the salvation army. >> every bit of it. ainsley: especially christmastime. tell us why you titled it that? >> we were trying to come up with a name for the tour. the guys from lone star, we're touring together, we ended up writing a song. call it that. a great name for a tour and a song. steve: a lot of people will download it after you perform it, to benefit the salvation army. ladies and gentlemen, phil vassar, not so silent night. >> let's do it. ♪ .

♪ if you ain't having fun, grab yourself hear the music up, and it is going to be a not so silent, not so silent night ♪ ♪ everybody feeling right, rocking out the neighborhood, whoa, ♪

making a lot of noise on christmas ♪ ♪ if you ain't having fun then you got to leave. turn the music up, get your christmas spirit on right ♪ ♪ it's going to be a not so silent, not so silent, not so silent night ♪ come on y'all. ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ chestnuts are roasting, everybody's toasting, look at rudolph's nose, it's glowing ♪ ♪ in-laws, outlaws, bird dog's dirty paws, deep in the eggnog bowl ♪

♪ not so silent, not so silent night ♪ ♪ stay with me, not so silent, not so silent night ♪ ♪ it's going to be not so silent, not so silent, not so silent night ♪ ♪ a not so silent, not so silent, not so silent night oh ♪ come on. ♪ not so silent, not so silent night ♪ ♪ not so silent, not so silent, not so silent night ♪ [cheering] ainsley: very good.

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check them out. they're touring the east coast with 15 performances. buy tickets to see his show. >> will we hear from them on fox nation? >> yes. >> have a great day, everyone. >> so long. >> bill: it is 9:00 in our nation's capital. the final salute to a beloved american president underway at this hour. thousands of americans are filing into the capitol rotunda paying their respects to george h.w. bush. good morning out of new york city. i'm bill hemmer. a great ceremony last night. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. president bush will lie in state in