♪ >> the mueller memos are out paul manafort accused of lying to investigators. michael cohen will spend significant time in prison. president trump tweeted totally clears the president. thank you. >> this special counsel will blur the line between crimes and sins designed to put the president in bad light. >> a lot of noise. a lot of drama but no substance in terms of the president of the united states. >> former fbi director james comey testified in a closed door congressional hearing about alleged anti-trump bias in the justice department. >> we are talking again about hillary clinton's emails for heaven's sake i'm not sure we need to do this at all. >> the ninth circuit anyone who crosses the border illegally without going

through official ports of spree from seeking asylum. >> it's the nation's biggest rivalry since 1890. armarmy vs. navy. >> we are rivals and after that we are teammates. ♪ i just want to feel this moment i just want to feel this moment. ed: the president will see some of those teammates. we have a new teammate on the couch this morning. welcome dr. nicole saphier she wore her army green this morning. >> i do like green. i'm going to be neutral today. pete: i can't be. twine you we have red and green i'm going to be neutral. ed: he is going to pull you to the army side. i will stand up to the navy today. pete: well done.

absolutely. >> i'm so excited to be here this morning. pete: we will hear more about dr. nicole saphier today. maybe you can send us questions. she does know a lot of things. ed: we also are going to see a lot more of this exinterview pete had about b. netanyahu the prime minister. this is a very busy news morning. pete: sometimes we say that and today we mean it. >> really big day. ed: special counsel late on friday both in the manafort and cohen cases we begin with that fox news alert. still no evidence of russian collusion of all of these court filings. pete: white house claiming victory after special counsel robert mueller releases new charges for michael cohen and paul manafort. >> jil gillian turner joins us. >> the white house does think that the filings are great news for them. the white house press secretary who usually stays mum on matters related to mueller's investigation weighed in last night with

two statements one on manafort and one on cohen on manafort the government's filing in mr. manafort's case says nothing about the president even let's about collusion and devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. once again, the media is trying to create a story where there isn't one. and on cohen she says the government filings in mr. cohen's case tell us nothing of value that wasn't already known. mr. cohen has repeatedly lied and as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, mr. cohen is no hero. now the office of special counsel though says manafort lied to them repeatedly about his business dealings though the president's lawyer rudy giuliani told fox news last night manafort never lied to mueller's team about the president specifically. he also emphasized the contrast between manafort and cohen saying while manafort has nothing to lie about, cohen doesn't even know what to lie about. now, giuliani is also not worried about information still under seal, perhaps unsurprisingly. he reiterated the president

and manafort's attorneys have a joint defense agreement and added the president's team has been reassured by manafort's attorney kevin downing directly that none of that info is about the president himself. back to you guys. ed: gillian turner live in washington. just to underscore what she is reporting there. the president tweeting one line to react to this activity saying quote totally clears the president. thank you. that's the tweet from the president. sounded like ariana grande. thank you, next. thank you, next. move on. that's what he wants to do. pete: if you expanded on that, two years, millions of dollars. top democratic lawyers, an eager press and you have no evidence and no mention of russian collusion. and we will get into this. even michael cohen contacted by the russians didn't follow up nobody charged with a criminal conspiracy to collude with russia. even the wonderful and beautiful source of cnn saying nothing that emerged

on friday or with flynn earlier in the week is no smoking gun or obstruction of justice with trump. when he tweets that he is right. >> only thing they mentioned about russia is potential synergy. they specifically said. pete: you can't collude if you don't answer. >> they actually said it didn't take place. we have joe digenova former attorney says there is no evidence of trump colluding. >> what we learned was there is no evidence, again, of russian collusion with the trump campaign and certainly nothing with the president personally. we learned that michael cohen is a -- kind of a rather unscrupulous individual who sought to enrich himself through the campaign and did some pretty sleazy deals after the campaign. there is no

suggestion whatsoever that the president did anything wrong, committed any crimes or certainly had any contact with russians. a lot of hype, a lot of sound, a lot of noise, a lot of drama, but no substance in terms of the president of the united states. pete: well said. it was a sentencing document for former trump lawyer michael cohen. is he going to spend time in jail based on what the special counsel is seeking. i read that document this morning on the wes the way. in here is a portion of the cohen sentencing filing. the defendant, michael cohen recalled that a russian national repeatedly proposed a meeting between individual number one which is known to be donald trump and the president of russia. the person told co-than such a meeting would have phenomenal impact not only in politics but in the business dimension as well. cohen, however, did not follow up on this invitation. ed: he didn't follow up on that invite. remember, that the previous bombshell we had heard about a week or so ago was about the alleged trump tower in

russia that clearly the president, michael cohen and others were talking about, but never came to fruition. the teal didn't happen. >> the deal wouldn't have been illegal by the way though. it's not a resign to play for the private sector. it wasn't illegal. he was lying about a transaction that would have been legal anyway. pete: absolutely. ed: you have more contact but not necessarily collusion. >> exactly. pete: very, very different. jonathan turley was on "special report" last night and had insight on this point. take a listen. >> the thing that caught my eye was that synergy conversation with some unknown russian. but it also says that nothing came out of that. cohen didn't even follow up on it because he was already working on the moscow project. it seems to me that you could argue that cohen, at least, viewed this all about the moscow project. he had a line going on there, didn't even pick up the phone essentially to call back this guy. if there was real collusion in a criminal sense, some type of conspiracy, this sure doesn't look like it.

ed: so it doesn't look like it. but, on the other hand, once the mainstream media got their hands and waiting for two filings on michael cohen, paul manafort. we will break down manafort in a minute. but immediately the media pounces, watch. >> the big news tonight is not about michael cohen. it's not about paul manafort. it's about one person, donald trump. >> this is the first time that federal prosecutors are accusing the president of the united states of having directed a crime. >> the department of justice today in the most explicit terms said the president of the united states committed two felonies. >> synergy. >> cinergy sounds a little collusiony. >> donald trump must be impeached. pete: conclusiony. i heard that word in there. pete: can't say conclusion it's conclusiony. pete: conclusionist. friday was a very bad for

president trump. conventional business doll, he said a very bad day for president trump. it said the walls are closing in. ed: we have heard that before. pete: papadopoulos is out of jail. flynn, nothing. cohen he was dabbling in taxi medallion and sold a fancy hand bag for $30,000. >> bottom line don't lie to the feds or cheat on your taxes. pete: they are hunting trump down not looking for the original mandate of the special counsel. ed: michael cohen document, we need to point out that they are charging at least and the president is going to get his day in court or at least public opinion that the president directed michael cohen to commit crimes in terms of campaign finance in terms of paying off the women. and that's the charge and opens the door and says that the trump organization his business was not clear on these payments that they sort of masked them. that could be a problem for his business. on the paul manafort issue we haven't gotten to the fact that his sentencing memo, his document says that in may of this year, there

is some text message from paul manafort allowing someone to contact an administration official. a trump official official on his behalf. was that just normal play back and forth between the lawyers or something else going on that opens the door to object destruction of justice? you have to wonder why paul manafort and his people were talking to the administration? why, pete? pete: i say we keep the special counsel going for nor year keep digging for anything we can i didn't hear a word about collusion from what you said. i didn't hear a word about conspiracy and i didn't hear a word about obstruction of justice. >> that's what the social media jumping on what he did. pete: we don't know where the money came from. this had nothing to do with russia. this had to do with two women stormy daniels and all that stormy daniels has nothing to do with russia. there is hunting for a crime because they want to undo the election of donald trump. ed: that may be true. >> alan dershowitz says there are no crimes here and the special counsel will only find crimes if they stretch vague laws.

on tucke "tucker carlson tonigh" he talked about it a lot. >> i don't see any crimes, but i'm afraid what is going to happen is this special counsel, whose job it is only to find crimes, not sins, only crimes, will blur the line between crimes and sins and write a report designed to put the president in a bad light but in the end they won't be able to find any specific violations of federal criminal statutes unless they stretch these vague laws like obstruction of justice underany recognition. ed: that will be the question are laws being stretched. started with major allegations of collusion with the russians to influence the 2016 elections. now we are talking about did the president direct a crime on campaign finance. pete: do you know who else might be in trouble? >> we have a long morning, guys. let us know what you think. email us at friends@foxnews.com.

we have some headlines. carley sim can you say is here with us. carley: always excited to be here. happy saturday. good morning to you and good morning to everybody at home. we begin with this. james comey is promising to return to capitol hill after being grilled by republicans for nearly seven hours. the former fbi director was questioned over decisions made during the 2016 election. >> date to come back on the 17th after a full day of questioning. one we could have done this in open setting. two, when you read the transcript, you will see that we're talking again about hillary clinton's emails. carley: that transcript from friday's interview could be released as early as today. a manhunt is intensifying for an armed and dangerous mississippi inmate escaping in shackles and hand cuffs. todd stole a prison transport van moment after a court appearance. he told officers he didn't want to go back to jury trial after a judge revoked his bond on drug and felony

drug and weapons charges. the van was running are the door open when he jumped in and took off. the officer's gun was inside the vehicle. protests heating up in paris. the city shutting down the eiffel tower as demand better wages and benefits following riots over a now scrapped fuel tax hike. over 90,000 police officers are patrolling streets across the country. president macron keeping out of sight leaving his government to handle the chaos. ed: little different than when he was lecturing president trump a couple weeks ago. we have a lot more to get to coming back. a set back for the trump administration asylum policy at the u.s.-mexico border. pete: and it's the holiday song that's being sung by many and sparking a christmas song baby it's cold outside ♪ it's cold outside.

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pete: we are pack with a fox news alert. the special counsel releasing the court filings yesterday so what does it all mean? joining us to react is hair tan foundation fellow and former deputy assistant attorney general in the doj's criminal division john malcolm thank you for being here this morning. >> thanks for having me. pete: sentencing document included willful tax evasion making statements to financial institutions and making false statements to congress. no collusion with the russians what do you make of the sentencing democratic. >> it reflects several things. one is the great of the gravitye offenses committed. campaign finance violations, lying to congress, bank

fraud and tax evasion. it also probably reflects the fact that he has down played his role in those offices and possibly denied involvement in other offenses. and also that he has overplayed the extent of cooperation that he can provide. i mean, this is somebody who promised to have incredible access to the president. knew everything the president was doing. but it seems that he was overstating his relationship with the president. so he is going to look at some serious jail time. obviously russia is on the periphery of this in the sense that he was convicted of lying about contacts that he had had with russian officials related to a deal that donald trump was trying to put together to build a hotel in moscow. there is certainly nothing that's been publicly disclosed about collusion to interfere with the 2018 election. pete: i don't know, briefly in a general sense we have heard the names papadopoulos and flip and manafort, yet, with all that's come out with them we don't have any oil ananything on collusion or

obstructions. is this looking lik like an investigation that will whimper out. >> hard to say. memos filed for cohen. heavily redacted. references to other investigations going on. sentencing memo more michael flynn makes it clear they met 19 times and that he has provided substantial assistance based on his firsthand knowledge of events that they are investigating. you know, i was a prosecutor for a number of years. you never like to speculate about what a prosecutor knows until they reveal their hand. so far there has been nothing publicly disclosed that you is in any way aauthor take with respect to alleged collusion. pete: got it president trump nominated bill barr to be the new attorney general. he is facing attacks from democrats. this is what the president tweeted about barr. he said i'm pleased to announce i will be nominating the honorable william barr for attorney general of the united states. one of the most highly respected lawyers and legal minds in the country he will be a great edition to our team and i look forward to having him in our administration.

he was for the comey firing. skeptical of the mueller investigation. not sure where is he on immigration. what do you make of barr? >> he will be a steady hand. he is imminently qualified. he worked at the cia. domestically staff for ronald reagan. deputy attorney general and then attorney general under george h.w. bush. he knows the department and for that matter bob mueller incredibly well. and somewhat turbulent time for the department of justice. he will bring integrity and independence and restore calm very quickly. he was also confirmed unanimously as by the senate at the time in which the democrats controlled the senate. pete: john, real brief. is he a fighter? the president is looking for one. >> he is a tough guy. he investigated the panam 103 shooting in lockerbie. he ended the talladega prison crisis. is he a very tough guy. pete: john malcolm, thank you for your time this

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ban last month when thousands of migrants were approaching our southern border. ed: we know them well. kevin hart stepping down 2019 oscars after tweets resurface. >> this is not the first time it's come up. i have addressed. i have spoken on it i have said where the rights and wrongs are. i have said ohio am now versus who i am now i have done it. ed: did the hollywood elite get their way again or did the actor have to fall on sword. executive director of ununited america christopher harris and raychel richie. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, ed. ed: i wonder why it took the oscars so long here in the sense that they knew these tweets were out there. they have been in the public. they knew kevin hart had some controversies and they didn't want to seem to own it? >> you know, ed, being told that you can't host the oscars in 2018 is kind of like being told that you are not going to be able to be the captain of the titanic.

that ship is going down. hit an iceberg and it is going down. ratings are down 40% from four years ago. it's because it's an overblown, over congratulatory performance that nobody is really watching. who cares? i mean, honestly, most people don't care because most people are not watching. ed: the ratings have been going down. raychel, what's your take on all of this. >> you know ed and chris, i feel if the academy is going to make kevin hart apologize for what people consider homophobic comments made him apologize for the incentive remarks he made about black women of a darker skin tone. he made those comments in 2010 on twitter. but am i surprised that they didn't make him apologize for it; absolutely not considering that the academy is rooted in discrimination and so it's seems like unless you offend a certain demographic of people in this country, an apology is not warranted. and the academy just showed their hypocrisy. ed: christopher, on that point as i recall a few months ago kevin hart was at

the mtv video music awards and bashing president trump and hollywood ate it up. >> they loved it you know, it's amazing that i'm agreeing with rochelle here but there is a problem in hollywood, right? there is something stinking in denmark, right? it's just the problem with hollywood is that they are very full of themselves. there is a hierarchy of grievance. here's what kevin is finding is that he is at the bottom of that hierarchy of grievants. there is certain groups that control hollywood that you are not allowed to say anything about. that's one of the things that we fight against in hyphenated america. this whole idea of identity politics. you know what i would love to see? i would love for the left to come straight out and say here's where the hierarchy is. here's hot most protected are you are not allowed to say anything about these people. you can say whatever you want to say about these people and we will pay lip service to that but don't talk about these people. that's what i would love to

hear the left. ed: rochelle, isn't it selective outrage in hollywood. >> absolutely. i just said that. they are upset about what he said about the lbgtq community but said absolutely nothing about i had remarks that he made about black women. and that is offensive to me. but, you know, i think that kevin hart is stepping down. that is his own decision. i'm sort of glad that he did. and it's not necessarily because of his comments. but it's more so because of the fact that the academy is simply hypocritical when it comes to who you can and cannot offend and who deserves an apology and who doesn't. ed: now they are looking for a new host. we will see who they wind up with. rochelle, christopher, appreciate you coming. >> in thank you. >> thank you. ed: tickets to the clinton show on clearance. what bill and hillary are doing to fill seats on speaking tour. live in philly right now. she is at the big army navy game hours in advance. can't wait to get to her.

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family is here in the northeast. my immediate family reside in arizona. ed: your parents were separated when you were very young stayed together, co-parented and it sounded like it worked? >> we are the typical american family these days, 50% of the population is divorced. my parents divorced when i was 2. however, let me tell you that they are still very, very close in the sense that they're both with me for thanksgiving. coming out to my house. we all go on vacations together it works. it wasn't a lot of that hostility. pete: you like to go camping, too? >> my dad took us camping constantly growing up. gymnastics, cheerleading. i was trying to kill my several apparently. pete: are you going to lead any cheers. nicole: if you want me to. he had said cold or we would go outside. pete: we would. ed: talk about the extended family and whatnot. pete: your family now your husband. >> married to paul neurosurgeon specializes in

aneurysms. pete: two doctors. nicole: good thing we understand our schedules. we have three boys ranging from and big halloween fans as you can see by that picture. we have three boys. i had my 18-year-old and then those little guys 5 and 4. so, you know, it's a busy house. let me tell you. pete: 18-year-old he is at ole miss a freshman. >> senior prom picture. pete: how did it feel to drop him off. >> finished his finals yesterday and flew in last night. officially done with his first semester. congratulations. very exciting. i went down for parents weekend and great time football game. is he wearing a bow tie because the fraternity he is pledging requires him to wear bow ties. great experience. he is loving it. ed: your husband is a neurosurgeon. what's your specialty and what's your day job? nicole: i work at united states largest cancer center. regional director of breast

immanueling. i read all the imaging examines and biopsy for breast cancer and neck cancer as well. pete: increasing women's right to early breast detection. examine room and pushing policy. nicole: advocacy has become one of my passions. i listened to a woman speak once and she motivated me. and i have kind of been known as someone who doesn't tote the line when it comes to some of our colleges i advocate what i believe. in most the time it's aligned with our patients. it's great to be able to be in the hospital to be in front of the legislation and then be here in front of everyone else and sharing everything. pete: you might get to help some people on our show today. since we have the doctor in the house. if you have medical questions for dr. saphier email us. the stranger and more outlandish the more unusual the better. friends@foxnews.com. let her help solve your problems.

nicole: i will try. thank you, guys. pete: you will do better than ed or i. carley: dr. saphier better than web md. nicole: don't confuse my medical degree with google. carley: let's get to this. a quick-thinking worker fights off armed robber as he holds a knife to co-worker's stomach. look at that. the employee snatching the weapon and kicking him when he jumps over the counter. another girl working at the time says she is glad she wasn't alone. >> i told him he was a hero. that was amazing, his reaction was so quick. carley: the crook grabbing only 6 bucks before being chased out of the seattle store. the man who plow you had his car into a crowd of protesters in virginia is found guilty of first degree murder. james fields facing 20 years of life in prison after he killed one woman and injured dozens more in charlottesville last year. white supremacist rally organized remove a statue of

confederate general robert e. lee. bill and hillary clinton speaking tour is forcing them to sell tickets on group on. just look at this underwhelming crowd in toronto where empty seats were selling for less than $5 on their official website you can buy tickets for as much as $325. but on group on you can purchase them for 35 bucks. if that doesn't fit your budget try snub hub and snackit ticket for $5. singer dean martin's daughter says she is not going to stop singing the holiday favorite ♪ i really can't stay ♪ baby it's cold outside ♪ i've got to go way. ♪ but baby it's cold outside. deanna martin telling fox news the song is cute, flirtatious and romantic song that is played every holiday season. i personally love performing

baby it's cold outside and i will continue to do so. critics claim the song is problematic when it comes to unwanted advances. and those are your controversial christmas headlines. pete: cold outside. carley: what are we going to think of next. pete: carley, thanks for being here. awesome to have you. carley: thank you. pete: are you army or navy? carley: i will do a little research and get back to you on that in the 7:00 hour. pete: it's one of the greatest rivalries in sports and called america's game. nicole: in just a few hours the 119th army-navy. ed: goes down in philadelphia. the eagles are playing there normally but right now morgan ortagus is storming the field. good morning. >> good morning, guys, how are you. you just said it is cold outside. baby it is cold outside and it will be for these players today. take a look. we have something to tell you about this great game.

the nation's biggest rivalry knights against midshipment u.s. navy academy in annapolis, fans are ready to fight. >> go army, beat navy. [cheers] >> there is nothing i have to do to get these guys up. this is the biggest game of the year army navy game. >> game you must win. >> great o'reillyry fun to be part of a game like this. >> it's called america's game there is a reason. these teams are not just fighting for their schools they're fighting for their troops. >> yelling and screaming. i know people overseas will be watching as well. it's a great feeling and honor to be able to play for the people in uniform. >> they are the real heroes. my job is easy. i just make tackles. i know it would mean a lot to them laying in fox holes

all over the world to know we won the game. >> they may be ready to fight it out on the football field. but, when it comes to the battlefield, it's a whole other ballgame. >> big thing on that one day where our biggest rival after that we are teammates. >> i think it's emblematic of our core values the fact that, hey, we can have our challenges and have our conflicts if it's on the football field. ultimately we come together and solve the mission. >> this game marks the 119th year of playing. the navy game is looking to take back the glory. army has won the last two years after the navy took home the title 14 years in a row. how are the teams preparing for saturday wants game? >> we know those guys are tough as nails and they are going to come and fight. >> this year the two teams have a little more pressure because they will be playing in the presence of the president of the united states. president trump will be the 10th sitting president to take in america's game. joining presidents truman, jfk, bush and obama as

spectator in chief. pete: go ahead, navy lieutenant or taking gas. ortagus. who is ranked -- nicole: who won the 14 years before those last two years. >> thank you dr. saphier. you can tell whose team i'm on i'm on team navy. what's really exciting about this day president trump will be coming as president. he came a few years ago as president-elect. i can tell from you having been here at this game several times attending as -- the spectators, everyone gets so excited to have the president here. i know everyone will be watching for that today. pete: some at army feel like it's been the trump effect. first time he shows up as president-elect they win. >> you know, pete, i'm hoping for mccain, for bush,

we can have a navy win. pete: that would be the navy side. nicole: stay warm. we will see you in a little bit. ed: battle going on all morning. pete: media making special counsel court filings all about president donald trump. >> these memos aren't about abouten -- they are about cohen but do they point to the president. >> donald trump also committed two felonies. pete: ned ryan is calling out the media, he is live next. this is not a bed.

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pete: we are back with extreme weather. a dangerous winter storm is moving east. nicole: rick joins us with the heavy amounts of snow we could see. rick: really big storm looking at the video of "the grapevine" out of l.a. same storm that brought the mud slides, now moving

towards the east. cold air solidly in place here. very fine library between the cold anfine line between co. still some winter storm advisories here back across texas and oklahoma. take a look at pink. that's where winter storm warnings are and heaviest of the snow is going to be. you can see the bib storm here across the south. seeing switch of snow across the panhandle of texas. see this wiped down throughout the day today and definitely see big aconsume lace, go across the southeast biggest snow will be that will start tonight and see some spots one to two feet of snow. all right, guys over to you. pete: one to two inches of snow. wow, thanks, rick. ed: media sounding the alarm bells about special counsel latest court filings over michael cohen and paul manafort. >> in a lot of ways cannot be underscored that these memos aren't about cohen -- i mean they are about cohen but do they really point to the president in a way we

haven't seen before. >> donald trump also committed two felonies. >> i'm willing to bet there is good evidence that trump had the requisite intent to commit this crime as well. nicole: but, are they rushing to judgment? ed: joining us to react speech writer for george w. bush ned ryun joins us. what about now you got people in the media saying i think the president it intent. why not wait for the facts. >> at some point we have to actually admit that what we are seeing with cohen and manafort has nothing to do with trump and everything to do with cohen and manafort's tax evasion and lying to prosecutors. yet again, a new memo comes out. left wing pundits light their hair on fire, go on tv and proclaim that the end is nigh for trump. i would say this. on the cohen payment. guys, we have already been down this path. john edwards, a million dollars of campaign funds to pay off baby momma mistress,

doj dropped charges. there were no fec fines and we are talking about trump using personal funds. we have already been down this path. the left continues and insists that somehow trump is guilty. other thing we have to really finally admit and i hope they will admit, when are they talking about russia and collusion and sorry call me naive i thought that's what this investigation was all about. pete: what is this about then if it's not about collusion? >> this is about bringing down trump. this is the great witch-hunt he talks about. in their minds, i think in the media minds trump is their great white whale and money dick and they are captain ahab. it didn't end well for captain ahab. battle is not playing out well between trump and the media. 70% of the american people think that the media might actually intentionally pushing fake news. so, you know, again feel

like groundhog day another day another memo people's hair on fire and we move on. pete: thank you for your insight. good stuff. >> thanks, guys. pete: our own catherine herridge pressing james comey on fisa abuse after he testified behind closed doors to congress. >> fisa abuse major issue for the republicans. did you have total confidence in the dossier when you used it when you used it to secure surveillance warrant? pete: he responds coming up. ed: senator elizabeth warren she made those results public. what does it mean for 2020. maybe it's blowing up in her face. we will discuss it next. ♪ i'm running behind ♪

♪ ♪ >> in public, i put out 10 years of tax returns. my hiring records, and d.n.a. test all out there on the internet for anybody to see. i believe that it's important to be transparent. i think that's how public officials should be. nicole: senator elizabeth warren did not seem to regret releasing her d.n.a. results. the release of those results may have hurt her 2020 prospects. ed: each hometown paper the "boston globe" said maybe she should not write at all. while warren is effective and impactful senator with important voice nationally she has become a divisive figure. a unifying voice is what the country need now after the polarizing politics of. pete: howie carr will weigh in for us.

it liberal senator from massachusetts has lost the "boston globe" how is she a viable presidential candidate? >> right. that's the question. she has also lost the "new york times." cnn called this whole d.n.a. dispute a debacle. she has lost hurricane america, heamerica, her america. second tier of democratic candidates. i think the establishment is tries to narrow the field. avenatti, devol patrick the former governor they are dropping out. the problem she has got everybody makes mistakes, cory booker, bernie sanders, they wrote stupid columns in newspaper. kamala harris had an alleged per verdict working on her staff. she had to fire him this week. the problem for elizabeth warren is if she doesn't have this ethnic fraud she doesn't have a career. everything that's happened to her all the good things

has been since she started checking the box to claim she was a native american when she was almost 40. you know, she claims i didn't get any advantages at those ivy league law schools because i -- they thought i was native american. let's release the documents and see. there aren't any other professors at ivy league law schools who have her academic credentials, rutgers law school. not a knock on those schools that's just a reality. she got the job because she claimed she was an indian. ed: did she make the mistake of playing the president's game. branded her at pocahontas takes the d.n.a. test at his demand and he owns her. >> the president calling her pocahontas and the fact that i have enjoyed making sport of her as well. they had somebody calling us bullies. i thought we were speaking truth to power. you know, we are calling her out on an ethnic fraud. we are not bullies. nicole: cherokee nation giving her hard time over

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destruction again. >> it's the nation's biggest rivalry since 1890. the army black knights vs. the neig navy midshipman. >> on one day rivals after that we are teammates ♪ you're unbelievable ♪ ♪ pete: welcome to saturday "fox & friends" one hour down with dr. nicole saphier. nicole: i'm a little awake. had my coffee. let's jump into the next hour. ed: hourhe had. pete: army-2 today two years in a row they have won it. running back called the wrecking ball. averaging 300 yards a game. i know we have morgan ortagus ryu tenant out there covering it. ed: i will stand up for

balanced on the couch. i will be for navy. i know you are an arm man and that's cool i will stand up for navy. nicole: i'm going to be neutral. pete: i have my army tie. we have switzerland over here. i will convince her to come over to our side. nicole: we are one unified military we all work together. pete: that's the point at the end of the game they sing each other's song at the end of the game very cool tradition. ed: navy wins we will make you win the navy song tomorrow. pete: i will submit myself to that. nicole: could get interesting. pete: we do have news this morning and big news. we will start with fox news alert. white house claims victory after special counsel bob mueller releases more sentencing documents for paul manafort and michael cohen. thankfully we have a real deal journalist who can make it down.

ed: we have been talking about it all morning. what did the memos actually see. break down the mueller memos and talk about it. bottom line here you see there is no explicit collusion. document after document. we have seen that before this month after month the investigation going on about a year and a half now. no specific collusion. michael cohen though in deep trouble. he was asking for leniency because he was cooperated with both the special counsel probe but also an investigation here in new york the southern district the u.s. attorney here. however that's largely about tax evasion and about financial crimes and about problems with taxi medallions. it's not clear that he actually has any specific dirt on the president particularly in the russia investigation. what michael cohen does have is campaign finance payments to keep women silent stormy daniels and karen macdougall. we have heard that before. did that actually break the law as we have heard from alan dershowitz and others.

this was personal money that the president used not campaign funds. he could use personal funds on an unlimited basis. how did it help his campaign by keeping the women quiet. make the case it broke finance law. he as a candidate directed michael cohen to break the law. that's one of the issues. again, that has nothing to do with russian collusion. paul manafort. let's break this down. specifically bob mueller says in this court filing late on friday that there are discernible lies to paul manafort told the special counsel. here's one of the problems from the special counsel though. he is accused about lying about contact with some guy named dr. k. in cypress. does that actually tie back to president trump? does it tie back to alleged russian collusion? we are not sure. there is another part of the memo though that could be problematic for the white house. there is a text message from may of this year in which paul manafort authorizes someone to talk on his

behalf with a trump administration official. not collusion with the russians but was there something going on there in terms of coordinating stories? nothing either the cohen memo or manafort memo suggest there was collusion with russia which, again, that's where this entire investigation started and so the mueller memos, does it really have anything new in there at all? dan bongino doesn't think so. there are some take aways right now. looking at paperwork that bob mueller is not investigating collusion bob mueller is investigating donald trump. this is the equivalent of a taxpayer funded private investigator following donald trump around for the rest of his presidency. it's a joke and embarrassment and stuff done in third world republics and the media supporting this should be absolutely ashamed of themselves this case is a

farce. bob mueller is not investigating collusion bob mueller is investigating trump. so far from papadopoulos to flynn to cohen to manafort. you still see places like cnn saying the walls are closing in. yet, we have seen information and stuff coming out from the special counsel charges against all these gentlemen. nothing on russian collusion. we haven't frankly seen anything on obstruction of justice. the big ones we thought would come out. this is a criminal probe against guys that did shady things because they had access to foreign markets business opportunities. you read the actual cohen memo, it's all about taxi medallions in new york city and chicago. evading taxes. all the things you laid out, ed, nothing about donald trump. nicole: american people want to know what does this all mean when it comes to our president? the bottom line is not a lot came out of it you know,

bongino said that bob mueller is investigating collusion. or he is not investigating collusion but he is he was investigating he is not finding it there is something there to these memos but it's not collusion. pete: it's not collusion. that's why the white house came out strongly yesterday saying basically the same thing. sarah huckabee sanders in a statement saying the government's filing in mr. manafort's case says absolutely nothing about the president. it says even less about collusion and devoted almost entirely to lobbying related i. once again the media is trying to create a story. ed: get over to cohen and get back to that i mentioned dr. k. the shadowy figure from cypress. i was researching this morning and where have we heard this name before? this was a big revelation yesterday that manafort lied about his contact with dr. k. who may or may not have contact with russia. if you go "u.s.a. today" august of 2018 had a report that said six bombshells

from rick gates' testimony. that was during the manafort trial. they were calling it bombshell then that there was contact with dr. k. months later there is a memo repackaging dr. k. stuff. pete: when is there going to be a real bombshell. i haven't seen one yet. molg hemmingway was on our channel last night talking about the special counsel being used as a weapon. listen. >> special counsel as an investigation into the treasonous collusion with russia to steal the election. we are not seeing treasonous collusion with russia nor anything close to it. even the people who set up this special counsel are now admitting not because they thought there was treasonous collusion to steal an election with russia. there was federal government how it runs and whether it's okay to win an election even if it makes people angry. nicole: again, what we are seeing is something did come out of yesterday but nothing directly tied to collusion. it might be a lot of hype.

more may come but as of right now as it stands it doesn't look like there is anything that's tying this to collusion for the president. ed: don't forget the november 2015 cohen memo. november 2015 with someone allegedly tied to russia. pete: someone allegedly tied. nicole: they had legal they weren't having legal business dealings there as well. ed: they talked about certain guy witsynergy. pete: talking about political synergy when they never responded. it's ridiculous. people on other channels going wall-to-wall insane in delusion of trump. advocating so-called responsibility as journalists. running with nonsense. ed: something not being covered by other people james comey grilled on capitol hill. lawmakers have been pushing for this for a long time. very interesting in particular was when pressed

about the dossier and other matters, he was not answering some of these questions. remember, he and others at the fbi and justice department used the dossier, funded by the dnc and the clinton campaign we found out later to get a fisa warrant to conduct surveillance on carter page, a low level trump official who by the way has never been charged. not mentioned in any of these memos. they were surveying him for months and months and months. our own catherine herridge pressed james comey about whether there was fisa abuses. interesting. his answer quite interesting. >> on fisa abuse, it's a major issue for the republicans, did have you total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the subsequent renewal. >> i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and the fbi. i think the notion that fisa was abused here is nonsense. ed: catherine asked a very direct question about whether he had high confidence in the information in christopher

steele's dossier and he goes to process he doesn't defend the dossier. nicole: done in a thoughtful way. pete: i followed the process. what if the poison pill of the process was never looked into or revealed within the process. process doesn't matter if ultimately unbelievable. ed: he emerged and spinning what happened behind closed doors. the transcript we are told of what james comey was asked and what he said is allegedly going to come out as early as today. we have that tomorrow morning. nicole: we have the transcript tomorrow morning for sure. pete: pressed pretty hard. also with us is carley shimkus like a two for one. great to have you. carley: i'm so happy to be here. anna: important story to get to right now. a u.s. appeals court denies the trump administration's request to reinstate its asylum ban. in a two to one decision overnight the ninth district court claims the ban is inconsistent with an existing u.s. law.

president trump issued the ban last month in response to the thousands of migrants approaching our southern border. a manhunt is intensifying for an armed and dangerous mississippi inmate escaping in shackles and handcuffs, todd stole a prison transport van moments after a court appearance. he told officers he did not want to go back to jail. after a judge revoked his bond for felony drug and weapons charges. the van was running with the door open when he jumped in and took off an officer's gun was inside the vehicle at the time. in a tragic twist in the thox mass shooting the hero sergeant who died trying to kill others was killed by friendly fire. the gunman immediately ambushed ron and highway patrolman as they stormed into the bar. during the dark and chaotic gun fire he was shot five times but it was the sixth bullet fired by chp officer that caused the fatal blow. the ventura county sheriff says the officer is devastated. and next year's oscars is

still without a host after kevin hart stepped down and now several celebrity names are floating around the internet as possible replacements including melissa mccarthy, amy schumer and the rock. hart stepped down from hosting the february awards show after old controversial tweets resurfaced and the holiday reporter told the job the least wanted job in hollywood. we have to wait to see if anybody signs up. >> go through your own tweets. he had. pete: ridiculous how he got steam rolled. carley: he apologized and that's all we can ask. nicole: apologize, repent and move on. pete: also apologized for like the tenth time. how many times do you need to apologize? ed: what does the democrats think about the new special counsel documents on paul man fort and michael cohen. forget about impeachment mark penn is on deck. nicole: interview with benjamin netanyahu.

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mueller going? >> it does look like 198 all over again and to me i spent a year, you know, fighting ken starr and i thought that was wrong for the country. it looks like it's going to be just as wrong for the country when you see how this case is moving. what they really said here was the president participated in what they are calling illegal and secret. it's built on a hous house of cards. edwards was acquitted for similar payments. the fec ruled that his case these are personal payments. what they did here was to pressure people who they found with tax evasion to plead guilty to charges that they would never have to prove that they could then use to try to create this impeachment trail and burn the country into turmoil over something that really isn't a crime to begin with. nicole: hi mark, thanks for being here. nicole here. we spent $30 million on an

investigation that was started on this dossier which sounds like not very legitimate. do you really think that mueller at the end of the investigation we will find anything new? are we ever going to see something that's going to have collusion, which is what the bailiffs of all of this was or is this just a waste of a lot of taxpayer dollars. >> more than just the dollars. you have to understand when you take virtually 9/11 a campaign and everyone in a white house and require them to get lawyers and be worried about prosecution, that you really affect the president and the government itself. i saw that in 1998. that you can even see recently a story came out about president clinton questioning whether to go ahead with missiles against usama bin laden because of this process. it effects the presidency. it's not just the money. i don't see any collusion coming out of this thick. i see a string of circumstances and contacts that's going to be put into the most ominous possible

way. >> clinton's ratings did go up during that time. >> president trump's has gone up a little bit. 46% in the harvard harris poll now trending up to 60 in one poll he has actually been improving. if there is going to be a big fight here. if there is impeachment report, democrats will have to decide will have to died do last time. if this about boomerang again. after all, there are 60 something nature vote this president out on a campaign finance violation that isn't a campaign finance violation. ed: mark penn lays it out. pete: thank you very much. the chaos in paris continues. practically everything shut down. the eiffel tower area, various tourist areas because of these protests. where is french president

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interesting. g.m. plans to sell several u.s. plants by next year. the president has not been happy about it uber is racing to wall street ride sharing app. filing preliminary paperwork to go public. that according to the "wall street journal." comes a day after lyft their key competitor did the same. pete: now on to a fox news alert. paris on lock down as protesters take to the streets for a fourth straight weekend. this is not slowing down. thousands of security forces struggling to keep order and arresting hundreds already today. ed: prefortsdz originally protesters originally protested against rising fuel. and now have turned anger toward president macron and his leadership. pete: nigel farage, help us here. we have seen these protests escalate. started with fuel as ed said now about much more than that why are they growing

and where does it go? >> yeah, they are growing and there were five hundred arrests so far this morning in paris. but don't think this is confined to paris. this is now happening across the whole of france, indeed, on thursday, there were tax offices out in the regions that. one burned to the ground. it has spread across the country. i spent a lot of time in france and i felt over the last few years it was increasingly unhappy country. a feeling that paris and there it is right there in the center. that's where the power is. that's where the money is that's where the media are. and out there living in small town france people actually no better off, perhaps worse off than they were 20 years ago. feeling completely unrepresented by a president who believes in the european project who has grandiose ideas about the world who cuts taxes for the rich and

then puts up the cost of filling up your car or van for those on lower incomes. he just looks so detected and, remember the history of fans. you know, they had a revolution. they brought down the royal family. and in 1968 there was a big student protest that brought down the great president general degull. there is a history of this in france. this is now the fourth week in a row and it's spreading in intensity. goodness knows where this ends. ed: nigel just to underscore everything you are saying. i took my family to lop done you and i sat down for an adult beverage. you warned me as i was getting on the train with my family in paris you told me you said be careful. paris is not what it was a few years ago. i thought you were exaggerating. you said there was more violence and macron's leadership spinning out of control. when you talk about lofty

rhetoric. macron a couple weeks ago was lecturing our president about nationalism. how dare he? >> five weeks ago it was the ends of thending of the first wd war all the leaders were there. macron lecturing about the dangers of nationalism why we should all come together. it was a direct insult actually to president trump who said the week before that he was happy to be called an a nationalist. again, mrs. macron, you know. is he a theorist. he believes in highfalutin ideas. you know, he is racing, his approval racing is 18%. lowest any french president has been at any stage this far into the presidency. president trump is on 50. you know what they say who he laughs last laughs now this. i, honestly, macron was held up to be a big hope of the

european project. the big hope of making the argument for free movement of people's. and he has presided. he wasn't the one who started it. he started paris this beautiful city. you come out of the train station coming in on the euro star from london, and you literally can't believe you're in paris. it feels unsafe. crime has reached a level in cities like paris where nobody even bothers to report it. and i'm sad to say. ed: that's what you told me then and blowing up now. pete: nigel, you use the word hope. people give me hope and they recognize is he not in touch with french values in the future whereas america, the people have spoken and they are supporting this president. very, very big difference between france and america today. >> absolutely. thank you very much. pete: coming up, still have sean spicer, alan dershowitz all live on the program. ed: our friend morgan ortagus live in philly for

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ed: as you can see the doctor is in, literally. pete: we have dr. nicole saphier here all morning as you know. you are emailing us your medical questions or any question, really. ed: yeah. pete: email us at will answer them.m for nicole: may not be correct. ed: what's the craziest question you have ever gotten. nicole: greg gutfeld likes to ask crazy questions. pete: inappropriate or otherwise. ed: getting to them throughout the morning. pete: first head out now to morgan ortagus live at reagan financial field in philadelphia for this game played between, i don't know, army and navy, right? >> the sun has come up. >> it's a big game. good morning, guys. we are here at america's game. lincoln financial field. it's a little bit chilly today. i have something that i know pete will love that the

official navy helmet for the game. phil the goat mascot for the navy. i will be rooting hard for navy all day. pete: you are a lieutenant in the u.s. navy reserves intel you serve our country. grateful for that service. there is a photo of you right there. pinning i believe on lieutenant. your service is -- we appreciate it. so, that allegiance is legit. you know you are going down. we do know is happening. you can lie to yourself. >> you know, i'm going to beat up on you all morning, pete. i do have two people with me here today that may take your side. we have lieutenant colonel ned marsh, the commander of the golden night. sergeant first class kenneth severine who also is on the jump team. this is a really big deal for all of you watching today. what will happen in this game is that they are going to jump and come down and land in the stadium. and when you are a spectator it is amazing to see you do.

this what is it like for you to jump on a day landing in front of president of the united states on the biggest game for army-navy? uh-ho it's a pure joy. >> we love representing the united states army. we can do it in front of soldiers on the biggest station in the nation today it's an honor for us. >> that's great. what's it like for you sergeant, you are army, of course. i'm navy. what do you think it's like for those of us in the military and the families to participate not just in a football game but in america's game? >> good and healthy friendly rivalry between the two but at the end of the day, it's one team, one fight. and that's all that matters. >> what do you think it's like to have the commander-in-chief here today? have you been to a game when the president of the united states has been here? >> i have not. it's great to have the commander-in-chief with us, leading us. our job is to inspire americans to support, to trust, to join the armed

forces. and we can have leadership here. that's great. >> speaking of commanders in chief. actually at this game today we will be honoring president george h.w. bush who, of course, just passed away. but you all, the golden knights, have a special connection with him because he actually jumped with you, i believe at least once, maybe twice. >> he jumped with us three different times on three different occasions when i talk about us trying to inspire americans, no better way than to have the president support us, trust us with his life and come on and help inspire people. >> rivals today on the field but thank you so much for being here today with us. go navy. >> go army, beat navy. pete: i'm with the colonel. i'm with the colonel and sergeant first class. tell them thank you. ed: i love the riflely but as you say we are all americans today. pete: well done, morgan. thank you. we are going to toss to carley shimkus. carley: i decided i'm rooting for both teams. how can you choose a side between heroes ♪

carley: let's get applause going. [applause] carley: there you go. that's what i like. let's get to some news here the ambassador for the united nations will no longer be a cabinet level position after nikki haley leaves. the decision is solely up to the president as the role has switched back and forth over the years. it comes as president trump picked state department spokesperson and "fox & friends" anchor heather nauert to replace nikki haley. she still needs to be confirmed by the senate. alexandria ocasio-cortez may already be breaking house. she tweeted threatening to use subpoena power on donald trump jr. socialist. she can't do that according to a statute prohibiting members of congress from threatening official action over partisan politics. and the 2019 grammy nominations are out and rapper kendra lamar and drake dominate the top spot. lamar nabbing eight including album and record of the year and drake

receiving seven. ♪ ♪ i never leave the ground ♪ >> well, lady gaga and bradley cooper also nominated for record of the year for their hit song shad shallow for the movie a star is born. you can see who takes home the iconic trophy on music's biggest night february 10th. those, guys, are your headlines. >> thank you, carley. >> here is a fun fact about nicole. she and her husband have spent date night at the same restaurant for nearly 10 years. ed: welcome her to the curvey couch and the show we brought her favorite new york city eatery into our studio. they are going to whip up a sapphire family favorite the executive shep robert swerrz he joins us now. >> are they really there a lot over the last 10 years.

>> not only seen me but i'm enjoying his work constantly. ed: why do you love this restaurant and meal. >> nicole: babbo i can go to any day of the week. special time of year i have to go and this is my favorite dish which i'm going to let robert tell us about because he knows a lot more about it. >> super simple pappardelli. pete: type of pasta. >> ribbon shaped noodle. nicole: white truffle why is that special? >> very rare and seasonal. expensive. they have incredible aroma. it's extremely luxury. nicole: have it usually from october to janish. februaryish. it's coming almost white truffle season. >> really expensive? >> yes. rick: this plate right here of white truffles how much? >> probably almost $151,500.

nicole: can you go to elsely and do hunting tricks. sniff out mushrooms wear tweed and leather glorious. pete: how done one make this. >> truffle simple is best. because you want to show off the product. so we just toss it in butter with a little bit of pasta water. pappardel iacucs quickly 30 seconds in the water. nicole: al dente. >> pasta water. butter. nicole: let me tell you this melts in your mouth. it is the most amazing dish i have ever had. ed: remarkable only takes 30 seconds. pete: you shave the $1,500 into that. >> absolutely.

nicole: they actually do that at your table so you see how much is going on there finished product. rick: is there a plate for this? >> eat straight out of there. >> one fork. so you are going to be the guinea pig. nicole: that's my plate. the rest of you get to share that there you go. are we ready? 15 bucks 20, bucks? 150 bucks? nicole: this is a special occasion. >> there is no such thing as too much truffle. >> if you don't our viewers should know it's not easy to get a table at babbo. it can be. >> 5:30 p.m. on a tuesday. i'll i'm all for early dinner. >> 110 greenwich. rick: i'm so glad this is your favorite place. thank you for making this

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newly discovered hezbollah terror tunnels in the northern part of israel and much more i flew with him in an helicopter up there heard some briefings and came back and sit down with him a lot of things some of which will air eventually on fox nation. we did talk about terror tunnels threat from iran and relationship with america. here is the prime minister. >> you were in the north of israel today. i had the chance to go with you. terror tunnels from hezbollah. talk to us about the threat you are facing there. >> they want to not only conquer all muslims who don't share their faith or subjugate them or kill them and then goes against all the infidels. guess hot great satan is? the united states. and who the small satan is? israel. we just happen to be closer by. we are preventing them from taking over the middle east. they are trying to mask their campaign to get nuclear weapons. that has to be stopped and the sanctions are taking a bite out. the second thing they want to do is use their proxies,

principally hezbollah to be the forward arm to attack israel with the goal of destroying it as part of that hezbollah building terror tunnels to -- under israel's territory. we have known that for several years. and few days ago. we, you know, we tore the mask off and covered the first tunnel. and we're going to uncover the rest. basically deprive iran of this weapon of aggression. i hope that countries will take the u.s. lead on this bringing a resolution also to the general assembly. that requires hutzpah and the administration really has it i mean they are bringing it to the general assembly and daring countries, you know, stand up with the truth. pete: how much israel and how much does the last year meant? >> the united states of america is not only our greatest ally, it's a unique ally. it's the bond of values of a

common heritage of a belief and common destiny of freedom and democracy and truth and this has been the basis of america's support for israel from day one when president truman recognized israel. that was historic decision. and president trump's proclamation is historic decision which carried the relationship to even higher ground. israel's relations with the united states have never been stronger. pete: that was just mere feet from the western wall of the temple mount in the old city of jerusalem. just moments before that interview. it's the first time the prime minister of israel, sitting prime minister has ever gone to the western wall to light the menorah u.s. ambassador david freidman so central to the good relationship we have had and moving of the embassy was there for that. ed: all of this was timely because the u.n. refused to condemn hamas the terror group. nicole: came close but did not.

pete: the u.n. has been used as a bludgeon against israel for anti-semitism for quite some time. the prime minister continues to fight back including domestic criticism he is facing which he says is a witch-hunt what this president is facing here. they said they can't beat him at the ballot box. trying to beat him with trumped up allegations and investigation. ed: trumped up. pete: been very resolute against that the whole interview -- actually not this whole interview. another 12 minutes will be part of a documentary eventually to air in 2019 on fox nation about the battle for jerusalem. so much going on in that holy city that our know our viewers care about. ed: great interview. appreciate you bringing it back. nicole: are you tired of getting swiped left on because having voted for president trump. the founder of righter will tell us how he will make new app. make dating great again. that's next ♪ ♪ aaaaaahhhhhhhh!

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♪ nicole: well, for some single trump supporters looking for love, it can be hard to right the right partner. pete: brand new dating app. is promising to change that. ed: here with more is founder of righter. >> good morning. ed: why did you feel like the app. was needed. >> it is needed. we have had many requests and some frustration on other apps from friends and we have been doing some research for well over a year. and people aren't getting rejected they are not even getting to the profile. female swipe left if you voted for trump. swipe left if you are a conservative. i thought well, no problem we will create our own app. pete: so the app. brings in conservative folks to support the preside.

how do you preserve the integrity of a site like this. make sure right people really are pro-trump or conservative how do you maintain that? >> pretty simple. log in and simply says write before you log in conservative this is the app. for you. no rules, no application process. just simply says this is a conservative dating app. nicole: heard in the media that you threatened to sue any liberal that joins your site. can you clarify that is that true? >> that's simply ridiculous. why would we spend time and energy and expenses suing liberals? i think they are all the ones spending all their energy suing our president. nicole: why would they join. >> we have three strikes you are out for any user that is harassing anyone on the app. or lying or not showing character or integrity on our app. we will vet the complaints that have been submitted and three strikes you are out and you are banned. ed: do you have any success stories yet? do you have maga marriages that are budding?

nicole: just one yesterday or recently. >> that would be very quick marriage. pete: the response has been strong. >> it has been very strong. we have been overruled. and very excited and have had quite a bit of responses. i have been receiving emails from men, which is surprising, asking if i could take a quick peek before they upload their profile to make sure it was done quickly. they care deeply about how it looks. it's exciting to see the interest. pete: app. launched thursday now available google play on the app. store called righter. >> correct. nicole: thank you, christie, i'm married. if i weren't i would add that to the list that i would be considering. >> veterans are free. there is no charge for anybody who has served past, present or future. we deeply appreciate their service to the country. nicole: thank you very much. pete: thank you very much, appreciate it. still ahead, james comey grilled behind closed doors on capitol hill. did he answer the most important questions we will

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pete: special counsel robert mueller releases new court filings for paul manafort and michael cohen. ed: still no evidence though of russian collusion after all of these court filings. >> but what they did here was to pressure people to try to create this impeachment trail and turn the country into at the multi- >> there was no cooperation. there was no coordination. >> james comey is promising to return to capitol hill former fbi director was questioned over decisions made in the 2016 election. >> i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed. the notion that rules were

broken is nonsense. >> i think he has been thoroughly discredited. >> the nation's biggest rivalry since 1890, the army black knights vs. the navy midshipman. >> go army, beat navy. >> i have think there is good and healthy friendly rivalry. at the end of the day, it's one team, one fight. ♪ swing, swing ♪ my heart is crushed. ed: one team, one fight. one america. the army-navy game. pete: sure do and dr. nicole saphier this morning. nicole: good morning, everyone. thanks for being with us. ed: a lot of questions. people really have medical questions. we will get to them. nicole: i looked at a couple of them already they are really good questions. pete: i ask really bad ridiculous questions and they give good ones. ed: greg gutfeld tried to send a few in. we will go for the real.

pete: focused on the big army-navy. army 9-2. ranked 22 in the country. president trump will be there. he has been the good luck charm for army ever since he attended the first game president-elect. feeling good about it. ed: also nice. nicole: they are favored to win, too. ed: going to honor the life and legacy of the late president george h.w. bush, of course, knave greater, fighter pilot who risked his life in world war ii. what a wonderful army that will be. big game as well. there is a lot of breaking news friday night. robert mueller laying out what you might call the mueller memos about paul manafort and michael cohen. we were promised from many in the media going to be blockbusters. were they? break it down so we can talk about it this hour. we are calling them the mueller memos because there was a lot of hype going in that maybe he is going it finally reveal his hand. what did he actually show us? bottom line is, no explicit evidence of collusion. that, remember, is where

this investigation started, was there collusion between the trump campaign and russians 2016 campaign. interference? we're not seeing that as mark penn democrat said last hour this started out as investigation of collusion and morphing into something much else. what is that other thing? michael cohen, his troubles. he specifically asked for leniency. he doesn't want to serve prison time or want to serve, obviously, as little as possible. robert mueller, despite the cooperation from cohen, is saying that he did very bad things, tax evasion, financial crimes. problems with taxi medallions and the like. and that he should serve a relatively long sentence. and, that that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the president. so, where does the president come in here? why are some in the media trying to tie him to it? well, there are campaign finance payments. and the question is did that break the law? so this involves karen macdougall, stormy daniels. we have heard about this before. but alan dershowitz and other legal experts are saying hang on a second. while the cohen documents

here from the mueller memo suggest that the president directed michael cohen, his one time lawyer and fixer to break the law, it's unclear whether the president really did break the law. because he used personal money, not campaign funds he could use unlimited personal funds in the campaign as we saw him do in other ways. then let's go to paul manafort. the question here in the memo is he is accused of telling discernible lies to special counsel robert mueller. well, what were those lies about? one is about a shadowy figure known as dr. k. in cypress. no clear idea whether that ties back to the president. there is an allegation that there was a text message sent in may of this year from paul manafort to an associate saying, yes, you can make contact with a trump administration official. so the question is, why was manafort having that contact allegedly with someone inside the trump administration? is that going to raise more questions about obstruction of justice? allegations of that? again, nothing in the memos

about collusion with russia. what we do have in here pete and nicole, is a very interesting point which is that we see and a lot of people in the media seizing on this, that in the cohen document, it suggest that he had contact in november 2015 so very early in the campaign a trusted figure in russia we're are told. we don't have a name or anything like that heard allegations like this before where michael cohen talked to this person in russia allegedly about having political certain guy synergy bn trump campaign. pete: you are burying the lead trump did not follow up. ed: did not follow up like trump tower in russia. nicole: footnote trump did not follow up on it i believe it was a footnote. pete: more than a footnote for sure. while ed was speaking, president trump was tweeting. and he tweeted this. in relation to this issue after two years and millions of pages of documents and

the cost of over $300 million. nicole: 30 million. pete: no collusion. that's the bottom line. we hear all. this manafort had shady business dealings. we know height in tax evasion. nothing about destruction. nothing in there about papadopoulos is out of jail after 12 days. they reduced his sentence from a whopping 14. if there was really collusion, we would know about it by now. and the evidence we are seeing so far doesn't point to it, yet, if did you go to cnn, my most trebled source, buried in a story that said very, very bad day for donald trump. all about headlines said and i quote nothing that emerged on friday or with flynn earlier this week no sort of smoking gun or pins obstruction of justice on trump.

so yelling, yelling, yelling, yelling, yell and acknowledge in paragraph 9 that there is nothing there. nicole: nothing that came out of this. showing collusion. the white house is claiming this is a vic 2reu. victory. we haven't gotten the official report from mueller. if there is some surprise out of here i doubt it. you would have some allusion what is to come i'm not seeing it. pete: a lot of redactions in the manafort memo. people thinking that might be a new investigation into tony pod podesta. ed: to the president's point in that tweet. mueller only about a year and a half. the president is right in saying. pete: comey handed it to mueller. ed: hang on i was about to make that point. that the fbi started this investigation basically in the summer of 2016 and by the way started surveying carter page, a low level official with a phony dossier and james comey on the griddle. we will get to that by the way. we can't let that be buried in all these headlines. the mainstream media after

all this no evidence of collusion and jumping all over the president. watch this. >> the big news tonight is not about michael cohen. not about paul manafort. it's about one person. donald trump. >> this the first time that federal prosecutors are accusing the president of the united states of having directed a crime. >> the department of justice today in the most explicit terms said the president of the united states committed two felonies. >> sinne sin synergy sounds a little collusiony. nicole: jumped all over this president trump committed all these felonies. i'm not a lawyer. mark penn says the country has turned into turmoil over something that isn't a crime to begin with. what they really said here is that the president participated in payments that they are calling

illegal and secret. it's really built on a house of cards. what they did here was to pressure people who they found with tax evasion to plead guilty to charges that they would never have to prove that they could then use to try to create this impeachment trail and turn the country into tumult over something that isn't a crime to begin with. ed: that's not corey lewandowski, a democrat he worked for both clintons. he said it's a house of cards. pete: part of the clinton impeachment process. nicole: defending. pete: investigation started with a land deal and ended with a blue dress. very similar, they are hunting for a crime against donald trump. started with collusion. now looking into business dealings and payments in the campaign which has been pointed out similar payment by john edwards were deemed not to be criminal. and deemed to be personal and so there is a lot of evidence on the president side that each that is

nonsense. nicole: american people want to know what does this have to do with the president? if it has nothing to do with the president, move on, the election was two years ago. time to move forward if they can't prove something with the president. ed: justice department guidelines suggest that the president can't be indicted anyway. not excusing wrongdoing if there is wrongdoing. at the end of the day of this what are we going to have? pete: feels like this and this and this and. this feels like an attempt to undo the election with anything they can. ed: we are going to get to james comey and whole lot of other issues popping up. for now we will get headlines with carley shimkus. carley: we start with important news from folks in mississippi. a manhunt is intensifying for an armed and dangerous mississippi inmate escaping in shackles and handcuffs. todd stole a prison transport van moments after a court appearance. he told officers he did not want to go back to jail after a judge revoked his bond on felony drug and weapons charges. the van was running with the door open when he jumped in

and took off an officer's gun was inside the vehicle. turning now to extreme weather. a winter storm is moving east intense flooding and snow slamming california. heavy rains triggering mud slides in areas destroyed by the state's wildfires. in atlanta, city officials have snowplows on stand by. north carolina already declaring a state of emergency as several states are under snow, ice, and flood alerts. and president trump is urging mitch mcconnell to ask for a vote or criminal justice reform. the president tweeting in part. it is extremely popular and has strong bipartisan support. it will also help a lot of people save tax dollars and keep our community safe. go for it, mitch. the measure would loosen mandatory minute municipal sentences for nonviolent offender and fund programs to help inmates transition outside of prison. and one family is decorating their home for christmas just like the griz walds.

come out, everybody, quick, look at the lights. >> the ohio family covering their home with 25,000 lights. look at that house. just like national lampoon's christmas vacation, this is their sixth year decorating their home like their favorite movie. wow. their electricity bill is going to be through the roof of that home. >> literally. >> did you see what happened in new jersey. i think it was in new jersey where they were actually charging the home money to have so many christmas lights because it was costing so much. carley: penalizing the home. that's not very christmassy. not the holiday spirit. pete: do they really go on the roof and do all those rows like clark w. griswold, that is commitment. carley: commitment to christmas, i like it. pete: sean spicer here to react next to the memos.

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pete: we have a fox news alert. the special counsel issuing new sentencing filings against paul manafort and michael cohen. and the white house is maintaining there was never any collusion. ed: joining us now to react is someone who worked in the administration in the early days, of course. former wows press secretary author of the briefing. sean spicer. good morning, sean. >> hey, good morning, guys. ed: good to have you here. i want to react. let me just walk you through a scenario. if i presented to you a memo that said that john podesta and hillary clinton had some conversations with a chinese official of some kind in 2015 and talked about

political synergy, would that bother you? >> well, if it was the chinese it might bother me. there is a difference between what bothers me and what is illegal though. ed: please, expound upon that. >> having a conversation with the chinese if it's what the nature of that if it's about what you are going to do when you are in office or the policies you are going to pursue. i think that's probably fine. there is a difference between maybe leveraging some of the technology and political might of the chinese government sworn enemy of ours in so many ways to help influence an elections. that would be, i think, a little bit different. pete: what is your major take away from what has been revealed about cohen and manafort? >> i think it's consistent with what you guys have been talking about so far this morning. this is about, you know, things that michael cohen and manafort did wrong, specifically one thing in common, both of them got caught lying which is a bad things, something i would urge everyone not to do

under when you are under oath. secondly when it comes to michael cohen if you read the charging document his failure to pay taxes and taxi medallions and where he was covering up things and not abiding by the law. none of those things not once in those documents obviously a bunch redacted in the manafort one say the word russia. i think the underlying premise of what this investigation always started about was collusion with russia. two years in we have seen nothing but a bunch of accounts of people who didn't pay their taxes, didn't file properly with the government and who lied when asked by federal officials who tell the truth. none of those things have anything to do with colluding with russia. i think this is where the president's frawtion is rightly aimed. when are we going to start talking about this or when are we going to wrap it up and get it over with? nicole: sean, chuck todd said he won because of

psychological and large majority of population wanting to be gullable. what do you take from that? >> i think there is a bit of sadness in the fact two years afterwards some folks in the media don't appreciate what's going on in this country, from coast to coast the forgotten men and women in this country finally had a champion of the issues and concerns that they have been expressing for a long time and no one in washington has been listening to. this president tapped into it in a way that nobody had before. and not only that as a candidate, but now as a president, he is getting so many things done making this economy stronger, making the country safer and fulfilling the promises that he did as a candidate. whether or not you even agree with the policy, so many americans at least are willing to say you know what paris. reformed the v.a. and renegotiate nafta. nicole: let's see what chuck todd says. >> i new gas lighting out there i knew every day. part of me in my head

assumed people were discerning it out. knew the b.s. from the non-b.s. i think what my sort of shock to the system is, just how gullible a big chunk of the country was to this gullable because maybe they want to be gullable. >> he is smart and you are gullable. >> or out of touch. too many in the media sit around with group think at country clubs and safeways and talk about issues that most americans aren't concerned with. nicole: leave it at that. >> big issue today, look, the one issue we are not talking about is why navy is going to beat army. pete: oh, get out of here. ed: i was going to get to that sean sean spicer a proud navy man. pete: you may outrank me, sean, but i don't think you will win today. >> i do outrank you and we will win. pete: good man. everything is shut down as

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government authorities and antigovernment protesters. i left my cameraman pierre to just zoom beyond me and give a view a little bit quiet now. a few minutes ago it literally looked like a war zone. this if you are familiar with paris is like you have never seen it of about. filled with the yellow vest protesters. again, they started their protests complaining about a raise in gasoline and deville fuel. but it spread to a full, full blown complaint against the government. and their taxes and the low wages. i will ask my cameraman pierre just to pan over here. see the huge police presence at this location and if you can continue to pan back, pierre, you will see why. this is the most important landmark for the french government. last week at this very moment, it was being ransacked by protesters. now the government here is guaranteeing that it stays

secure. we have been seeing arrests. we have been seeing injuries. and we have been seeing a lot of damage but less than last week. but, there is several hours left and we can hear a little bit of explosions of percussion fire behind us. back to you. pete: do you have a sense that things will get worse? are the grievances of the protesters increasing or is there a resolution at hand somewhere there? >> well, if you heard that, that's a very large percussion grenade or perhaps something from the police. grievances are very serious. the prime minister met with the leaders of the protesters last night. but they have not yet heard from the french president emmanuel macron. is he behind a lot of these measures. he is trying to reform he says but it seems like the reforms are going more in the direction of the rich, rather than poor. and that's why these people are coming out. there have been some give by

the government pierre just take a look one more time at this crowd while i finish up my explanation for pete. there has been some give by the government but they feel that they have got something going. 75% of the french public surveyed say they are behind these protesters. some of them extremists very violent indeed. back to you, pete. pete: emmanuel macron awol. greg palkot stay safe. ed, back to you. ed: a serious situation. meanwhile at home democrats having problems connecting with voters dnc chair tom perez says maybe the church is to blame. watch this. >> i had someone in northwestern wisconsin tell me, you know what? for most of the people i know, their principle sources of information are fox news, their nra newsletter and their pulpit on sunday. it should come as a surprise to no one that our message hasn't penetrated. that person on the pulpit is saying ignore everything else that this person has done and is doing. we have to focus on one

issue of roe v. wade. and people buy it. because that's their only source. ed: let's bring our panel for reaction dr. robert jeffress, of course, senior pastor at first baptist dallas, a fox news contributor dr. susan johnson cook. former ambassador at large for international religious freedom under the obama administration and muslim scholar dr. ahmed. we appreciate you all being here. i start with susan cook. what do you make of the dnc chair and his comment. >> i come from a history where the pulpit has been used for good. i was a practicing pastor international freedom religion ambassador. certainly the civil rights movement was birthed out of the pulpit. many churches made sure that there was justice and equality for our people. now, on the other side, some pulpits are being used not for good. if you are supporting the nra and other places that actually kill people while promoting gun use, we have had so many people die from gun violence. i have think you have to be

very careful about the way the pulpit is used. ed: to suggest the nra is kill people. that is extreme statement. they are fighting for the second amendment. i'm not going to do their bidding but they support the second amendment and the freedom to have a gun. the nra to be clear is not killing people. >> with the number of deaths we have had because of handguns, nobody has put a check on the nra. and i think no matter, what we have to talk about the number of violent deaths we have had because of handguns in this country. and so that is an nra issue. so, on the other side though, let me just say the pulpit has been used for good in terms of civil rights and justice for people who have been killed and slaughtered as a people. i'm a historical person. ed: i don't mean to interrupt but i want to get to everyone else. dr. jeffress, i hear what susan is saying and what the dnc chair is saying basically if they don't agree with the nra then somehow maybe they are forgetting about the first amendment? >> look, the most damning concession that the dnc chairman has made is that

people who get their information from churches are likely to quote shun the democratic party there is a reach for that the democratic party is increasingly becoming a godless party and i mean that literally. a few years ago they tried to remove god from their party's platform. millions of americans saw that not only that they have unbiblical views of sexuality and certainly abortion. here is a party that not only allows but actually celebrates the right to murder 1.4 million children in the womb every year and good christian democrats are having trouble reconciling their faith with the democrat platform. it's like a democrat deacon said in my church recently he said quoting reagan. you know, i'm not leaving the democrat party. the democrat party is leaving me. ed: let's get to dr. ahmed. you weigh in here as a muslim scholar. what are your thoughts. >> i mean, first of all, as an american at the end of this week, i gathered around the pulpit to honor a great president being laid to rest. pulpits are so much more

than politics. i found the remarks of perez demeaning and showing extraordinary contempt for all people of faith whether it's muslims or christians or jewish people. additionally, i would like to challenge the democrats on their remarks about faith going, church going americans. they have been sharing or attending pulpits of some very questionable figures. louis farrakhan is one that comes to mind. the nation of islam, some associations with the muslim brotherhood. so i would say america is a nation of faith. this is our strength that we go to congregations and it is not a source of indoctrination. ed: i will give you 15 seconds to be fair but i'm out of time. >> democrats are godless. i'm very much a godly woman. i take offense to that danger for people not in the pulpit to challenge. ed: thank you, everyone. i appreciate your thoughts. >> i'm a godly woman. ed: okay, thank you.

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roger. ed: few hours the america's game taking off army taking on the u.s. naval academy in 119th game. pete: joined now by two people definitely cheering for the navy morgan or taking gas live at lincoln financial field in philadelphia with naval graduate and hall of fame rb roger stal rodge stallbauch. >> roger, you played in this game as a quarterback in the game what was it like. >> i don't think you were around. >> no, not yet. >> i was -- i mean you could not play varsity football back then in '62 i was a sophomore at navy. i was a nervous wreck i couldn't sleep the night before the game. >> i bet. >> it was a great game ended

up winning 35-14. it was a thrill of my life is winning the army-navy game. it was a big deal. >> well, we lost the last two years, navy did, of course to army. but we won the previous 14. so, what do you think? can navy come back today and get over this two-year losing streak? >> well, anything can happen the army-navy game. walk into the academy and right at the beginning they shave your hair and then they say they teach you how to beat army. so it's anything can happen. you can go 0-9 for the whole season but if you beat army you have a successful year. this is a big deal for navy. army is on a roll right now. navy is struggling and winning this game though will make up for all those losses this year. >> so, did you actually start the term hail mary? >> i actually said it in 1975. >> wow. >> after we were playing the vikings and drew pearson caught this pass at the end of the game to win the game.

afterwards i told the press they said what do you think i said i closed my eyes and said hail mary. i was a catholic kid from cincinnati. the term was used for the first time, yes. >> so we have the president of the united states coming here today. i know that means a lot to the players. you also recently won the medal of freedom. can you tell our audience what that was like for you, what that day was like? >> it was a thrill. i was telling people in dallas i was going to say hi to babe ruth. some believed me. babe ruth's grandson was there and elvis presley. it was kind of a mixed bag of people, anthony scalia and it was -- our kids, we had our 15 grand kids there, our five kids and my wife and it was -- i was shocked when i found out about it, but it was. >> well deserves. >> i was nominated by a bunch of military people. >> that's fantastic. speaking of the president, he will be doing the coin

toss today. you actually have the official coin for the coin toss that has been sponsored by usaa. can you show us the coin and your involvement with usaa. >> this is the army-navy on one side. they call it prisoner exchange prisoners and cadets exchange. this will be the official coin today and of course usaa has been a long supporter the army-navy game. this is -- i want to give it to you. >> really? >> it's all yours. >> oh my gosh, that's great. thank you. i have a souvenir from the game. it's an honor to meet you sir. thank you so much and go navy. nicole: he did say army is on a roll, morgan. he got very excited with that. pete: tell him thank you from all of us. the guy whop the heisman trophy. one of the best of the best hall of famer roger sahall of fr

roger sa staubach. >> i'm a daddy's girl so go navy. ed: he shamed you. you were on the sidelines. pete: you made a choice though i respect that. carley: thank you, pete. i appreciate you. we start with this. james comey is promising to return to capitol hill after being grilled by republicans for nearly seven hours. the former fbi director was questioned over decisions made during out 2016 election. >> scheduled a date to come back on the 17th after a full day of questioning. two things are clear to me. one, we could have done this in open setting. and, two, when i read the transcript you will see that we're talking again about hillary clinton's emails. carley: the transcript from friday's interview could be released as early as today. the search is on for an armored truck driver and missing cash. mark espinosa was waiting in the truck outside the louisville mall while his partner went inside to do a

pickup. espinosa was nowhere to be found when he returned. empty guard truck. he could be in danger as they are investigating every aspect. and bill and hillary clinton's struggling speaking tour forcing them to sell tickets on group on. look at this crowd in toronto empty seats were selling for $5. on the website you can buy tickets on $325 but on group on purchased for 35 bucks. if that doesn't fit your budget can you always try stub hub and snag a ticket for under $14. those, guys, your headlines. ed: no need to comment. pete: thanks, carley. ed: rick reichmuth is watching the weather for us. good morning, rick. rick: it's chilly. why are you all here it's really cold. >> we are here to see the rockets. rick: thank you, say that again. nicely. you win, you win. i can't believe it take a look at the weather map and

show you what's going on. big winter storm down across parts of the south. where you see that pink winter storm warning, charlotte, raleigh you are right on the line where you will see very heavy snow and bit of freezing rain. you can see all of the rain here across parts of the south. it's causing some flooding. also have snow around lubbock. we had over 6 inches. one of your biggest snow falls ever there the snow continues to pull towards the east. cold air is in place. across the northern piece of this and by tonight, it turns into snow across the southern appalachians and becomes all snow overnight. some spots probably about 2 feet of snow or up to two feet of snow. very heavy rain across georgia, alabama, mississippi. and then there is that bulls eye of snow in charlotte. you will notice charlotte right on the edge there. all right. guys. back to you inside. enjoy the rockettes. nicole: stay warm out there. ed: a serious fox news alert. special counsel mueller releasing new memos on michael cohen and paul manafort.

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no smoking gun in here. seems to me every few weeks we all go on high alert because bob mueller's team is going to be filing something new. each time we think is this the one and filing that will establish a direct link between the russians and president trump? so far we still haven't seen that and yesterday's filings don't change that i think what it does show is it adds a little bit to the story. it fills in some of the color. forearm, it talkfor example it s about how had contact in russian that he failed to follow up on. a little bit of information this here but falls far short of a smoking gun. ed: the walls are closing in. i'm saying, i'm joking. we keep hearing from mainstream media he had conversations with dr. k. in cypress. you keep wondering how does this tie back to the 2016 campaign and russian interference? >> yes. and, look, the paul manafort situation is fascinating. shows number one to my mind that bob mueller is casting a very broad net here. we know that his

jurisdiction is broader than a lot of people think and that he has been looking back at paul manafort's past dealings. the thing that intrigues me as we know that manafort initially fought mueller and then he said he was going to cooperate and mueller is saying he said he was going to cooperate but he lied. yesterday's filings, again, fill in a little bit of the detail about why bob mueller is saying paul manafort is continuing to lie and deserves a serious sentence. pete: we missed some big news as well. bill barr recently put forward by president trump to be the new attorney general. we know he was the attorney general under the original george h.w. bush. what do you know about bill barr if he is there to take on the mueller probe where is he on other issues? >> bill barr is a good solid choice. he has had this position before. he nos the department of justice from drop t top to bott. he worked at verizon as well as other places. i think barr is an independent guy. is he a thoughtful guy. he is a serious guy. i don't think he is going to

come in and shut down bob mueller from day one. at the same time, i think he is going to exercise appropriate supervision to ensure that mueller is staying within the four corners of his jurisdiction and not exceeding his jurisdiction. ed: when you go back to bill barr's writings and recent interviews he has been a strong advocate of executive power which something president trump wanted to see asserted by attorney general jeff sessions. without saying he will reign in bob mueller. will he bring adult supervision to make sure this is not morphing into a whole bunch of other areas and bringing this to a conclusion? >> i think he will exercise that exact sort of supervision. and, look, you are absolutely right. barr is actually the guy who a lot of folks credit with pioneering the notion of a strong executive, that the president has certain prerogatives under the constitution that should not be infringed on by congress. is he respectful of that he understands how the constitution works. and, as i said, i think he will be a good choice at the justice department.

pete: tom dupree thank you for joining us this morning. ed: did you hear about the woman who died after using a nettie pot? how in the world did that happen? dr. saphier is going to answer that and all of your medical questions pouring in. that's next. pete: holiday song sung by many ♪ baby it's cold outside ♪ you know it, dean martin's daughter responding to the lunatics coming up next. ♪ i'll hold your hands ♪ they're just like ice ♪ my mother will start to worry ♪

♪ i know that we'll be safe and found ♪ we're safe and sound. ed: absolutely nailed the music you are safe and sound have dr. saphier in the

house. pete: anything goes down, we're set. that's why we asked her to answer your questions because we knows about this stuff and we don't. so josie emailed into friends@foxnews.com she said a woman in seattle died because she used tap water with her neti pot. how common can this be and what should we look out for? nicole: great question. they haven't linked it for certain to the neti pot. this woman did die from a brain eating owe mea eat omeba o to contaminated water this can happen. we see high profile cases when kids or someone has dove into fresh water lake they can get it. again, very rare. but can happen. and so, when she actually died. they were able to look and her brain was infested with this ameba they are linking it to possibly using a neti pot a year earlier. what she presented with was a rash on her nose. ed: flushed her. if she is taken a drink with

that tap water. nicole: not necessarily what happens in fresh water lakes you dive in and goes straight into. here's thing when it comes to a nety pot saline water. distilled water. boil the water before you use it you should always be doing things under the care of a doctor anyway. don't just try and treat things yourself. ed: you mentioned your advocacy in terms of fighting breast cancer and very important question. are there any special foods, sebastian emailed this to help fight breast cancer that can actually put your body in a better place to fight breast cancer. nicole: there are a lot of lifestyle changes you can make. biggest factor genetic mutations being a woman and getting older. three things you can't do much about. there are things to lower your risk mediterranean diet higher in fish. leg giewm leedon't smoke cigare.

that absolutely increases your risk. just try to have as healthy of a diet as possible. that's not just breast cancer that's all cancers. pete: becky emailed this and important one is dark chocolate really good for you? nicole: i do talk about this is it good for you? actually, yes there are health benefits to dark chocolate if you are comparing it to milk chocolate. dark chocolate has great nutrients in it fiber, iron. one of the world's best forms of antioxidant however you have to eat a lot of dark chocolates to get those nutritional benefits and with those large quantities comes calories and sugar. ed: don't have five hershey bars. pete: guy lived to 102 and credits long life to coors light. nicole: to each his own if you are going to have chocolate dark chocolate can lower your risk of heart

disease. pete: keep them coming in friends@foxnews.com we will answer more questions on the show we hope. big news on the legal front. we have two of the best lawyers in the land, geraldo rivera, and alan dershowitz both here live coming up. we will talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ...

pete: special counsel robert mueller released now court filings for paul manafort and michael cohen. ed: still no evidence of russian collusion after all these court filings. >> two years in we've seen nothing but a bunch of accounts of people who didn't pay their taxes and who lied. when are we wrapping it up and getting it over with. >> james comey questioned over decisions madurae the 2016 election. i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed and the notion that fisa was abused here is nonsense. >> he broke every rule in the book, made new rules and leaked i think he's been thoroughly discredited. >> protests heating up in paris president macron leaving his government to handle the chaos.

>> he just looks so disconnected. macron was held up to be the big hope of the european project. pete: we are focusing of course on the big army/navy game that's happening today. >> go army! beat navy! >> anything can happen. the thrill of my life is winning the army/navy game was a big deal. >> ♪ ♪ nicole: speaking of the middle this is my four year olds favorite song by the way and she can sing the entire song to and dance because he's talented. pete: maybe we should have him on the program tomorrow. ed: and dance. pete: welcome. nicole: thank you guys it's so happy to be here. ed: dance all over pete if navy beats army. pete: we'll see about that three big news items, trump exonerated and the army is going to win.

ed: all right that's the show. pete: that's your day the shows over right there. ed: but there he's exonerated let me go over to the touch screen and let's talk about this all right we've got the mueller memos, having a little fun with pete and we've got geraldo coming up to break it down as well so the mueller, it comes out on friday bad news for michael cohen and paul manafort who both lied and that's something they shouldn't have done but no explicit evidence of collusion in either of these memos it's very important to underscore. the other issue let's break it down can cohen first. the big problems, failing to pay his taxes, financial crimes, along list of that, but again, while there was the suggestion here in the memo that cohen had contact in november of 2015 with someone whose allegedly a trusted source in russia, there was communication he had but not exactly collusion with russia, because he didn't really follow-up on this conversation where a russia ledge edly talked about political synergy with the

trump campaign. what the memo does layout is campaign finance payments, and the question is did that break the law? the memo from team mueller suggests that the president directed his one-time attorney, michael cohen, to use personal funds, to pay off at least two women. stormy daniels, as well as karen mcdougal, and we've heard about that before but the key is that while the suggestion is that helped his campaign and maybe is some sort of violation of campaign law as we've heard from alan dershowitz and others it was personal funds from the president, not campaign funds. remember john edwards had a similar situation and got off the hook. the other question now about paul manafort, i mentioned about his lying. they go deeper in the memo about him, that he told discernible lies but one of the lies is about someone named dr. kay, in cypress. no clear connection to the president, no clear connection to russian collusion and there's

a text message where manafort told one of his associates yes, make contact with a trump adminitration official. does that suggest obstruction? does that suggest some sort of problem? that is something that's followed up on but again at the end of the day there's absolutely nothing in both of these memos, page after page, that suggests there was collusion with russia and molly hemmingway was on special report last night saying this started as an investigation of russian interference in 2016 and has morphed into something much else watch. >> we were sold the special counsel as an investigation into treasonist collusion with russia to steal the election. we're not seeing treasonist collusion with russia nor anything close to it. even the people who setup this special counsel are now admitting that it was setup not because they thought there was treasonist collusion with russia to steal on election. there's an important issue here about the federal government and how it runs and whether it's okay winning an election even if it makes certain people very angry. nicole: okay so bottom line is we know that cohen and manafort

lied, broke laws, but let's bring in geraldo rivera. pete: i was on my way into the show today. geraldo: good morning, nicole. pete: fired up cnn. the headline was friday was a very bad day for donald trump, but if you go into the actual article, cnn notes, nothing that emerged on friday or with flynn earlier this week is any sort of smoking gun that pins collusion or obstruction of justice on trump. what's more important? the headline or the fine print? geraldo: well i think what's most important is the president has not committed a high crime or misdemeanor at least as contained in the various sentencing memos we've talked about today. this has always been a toxic illegal collusion with the russians to sabotage the u.s. election. that is not at all why the special counsel has come up with , i can briefly review it.

i thought that ed henry did a great job at the board but what you have here and the embarrassing revelations we have here we know now that michael cohen earlier than previously known began the negotiations for trump tower. way back in 2013. we also know that those negotiations over trump tower in moscow did not end as previously thought in january 2016 when the president's campaign was really heating up. it ended in june of 2016 when he was already the certain nominee so you have a factor here where michael cohen on be half of the president is negotiating these real estate deals even as the president is running for the high office, the highest office in the land. you know, why didn't he drop it earlier? as tacky as it is though and this is the bottom line and i think professor alan dershowitz and i are on absolutely the same page that is not criminal. the one crime that i can see in all of these sentencing memos is

the fact that the president of the united states did direct michael cohen as everybody expected or michael cohen didn't come up out of thin air and say all of a sudden i'm going to make payouts to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, the playmate and the porn star so the special counsel says isn't that a campaign finance violation and the answer is it may very well be a campaign finance violation just like the one president obama committed when he paid $400,000 in fines and the damn thing went away in two weeks. pete: the same thing with john edwards a more direct payment not deemed to be a campaign finance violation so even that is anything that you see in these filings, all of the hyperbole we get. geraldo: exactly i think the embarrassment to the president has already been suffered i believe and already factored in by the american people. those who love him there's

nothing in here that will make you change your opinion of him. those who hate him, of course, they will accentuate the negative to the extent that they can in their further attempt to smear the president, and to distract his administration but as i've been saying really for many many months, this is collusion illusion. there is nothing here there is no smoking gun here. if there was if indeed michael cohen had met with this russian, another russian knuckle head meets michael cohen our knuckle head and they say well, president trump, you know, could spend a little time hanging out with vladimir putin, man, things would go swimmingly, not only for trump tower but also for u.s. russian relations. aside from that one contact that seems very mushy, it doesn't seem to me there is any russian collusion at this late date, after all that we've gone through after the millions have been spent and the many months

have told, we have no russian collusion. it may not be as the president tweeted that he's totally exonerated, but it certainly seems that again, there's nothing impeachable here. his critics can have fun with this stuff, but there's no toxic , no treasonist, no criminal collusion. nicole: so embarrassing but not criminal on the president's part so these filings don't show collusion so what's next? geraldo: well i think they've got to act out the last chapter of this saga, of the sad saga, michael cohen, you know, the special counsel said treat him leniently, but the southern district the stuff that has nothing to do with president trump, the tax medallions and so forth they say throw the book at michael cohen that means four to five years, so we'll see michael cohen get sentenced, paul manafort, the only counsel that sucker has of a presidential pardon because of those convictions of his dirty

dealings again before he ever met president trump in the virginia federal court. nicole: but he would still be vulnerable to state law, so even if he got the federal pardon that doesn't mean he would be going away scott free, correct? geraldo: right, the federal government can have its shot but the state government may also even if it's the same set of facts go after someone but you know, manafort' defense was pretty spirited if you'll recall , in virginia. we did not know when the jury went out how they were going to return their verdict and i don't think the commonwealth of virginia, for instance, i don't believe that, i think that manafort's in plenty of trouble and so is michael cohen but the headline it has nothing to do with donald trump. pete: right. nicole: thank you very much. pete: appreciate it. have a good saturday. >> good morning, guys we'll get straight to a fox news alert.

a live look at protests, violent protests erupting in paris, the city going on lockdown, former u k independence party leader nig el farrage reacted earlier. >> living in small town france actually are no better worse off feeling completely unrepresented by a president, who cuts taxes for the rich, and then puts up the cost of filling up your car or vair for those on lower incomes. he just looks so disconnected. >> well demonstrators are demanding higher wages and better benefits, a live report is coming up. also, breaking right now, six people including five teens, are killed in a stampede at a nightclub in italy overnight. nearly 60 others are injured. reports claim the panic may have erupted help the crowd smelled a strong odor in the club bike

pepper spray but officials are still investigating. and wikileaks wants a federal judge to drop a lawsuit by the d nc. the organization says the leaked dnc e-mails it published during the dnc 2016 election are protected by the first amendment because it's truthful information and democrats are rejecting that argument saying a legal activity is not safe under free speech and new this morning christmas coming a bit early for astronauts on the international space station. spacex's dragon capsule delivering everything the astronauts need for christmas dinner as well as research supplies and it took two tries to land at the iss due to network communication issues. so, a very merry christmas to all of the astronauts on the international space station. pete: i wonder if they exchange gifts. nicole: a little secret santa? >> you have to plan that. i wonder if they have room for extra. pete: thanks a lot. ed: meanwhile the president slam ming democrats over their open border agenda.

president trump: american politicians should protect american citizens, not criminal aliens. ed: does he have a point and where do things stand on funding for the wall? we'll discuss it, next. pete: plus it's called america's game. the 1 19-year-old rivalry the army versus navy games, today, we're live from the field, coming up. >> ♪ ♪ you put in your machine. press the button to brew up powerful relief. to defeat your toughest cold and flu symptoms fast. new theraflu powerpods. press. sip. relief.

president trump: american politicians should protect american citizens not criminal aliens. unfortunately there are extreme politicians in cities and states around america. i'm sure you haven't heard about this, who have issued policies to forbid their police departments from working with federal immigration authorities. hard to believe isn't it? nicole: well president trump bringing the battle over sanctuary cities back into the spotlight. pete: this as u.s. and

mecklenburg officials grapple with convicted criminals embedded in the caravan of migrants hoping to make it to the u.s.. ed: so does he have a point let's ask former gop house candidate, maria value a czar god to see you on the couch. >> wonderful to be here. ed: you lost a very close race down in florida this is one of the issues you were battling out why do you think president trump is right there? >> well i think that it's time for hispanics to wake up and understand that we need to put order at the border and to solve this immigration problem that we have, which is not only the border wall, but we have the un accompanied minors and we have the sanctuary cities, and we have the people that have been here for more than 20 years and they do not have a criminal record so what are we going to do with them so immigration was a signature plank for president trump, and unfortunately dems are not helping but republicans at the same time i don't think we have encountered the problem the way we need to. pete: critics of the president will say when he says we immediate to protect american citizens in front of criminal aliens that's code talk for

being anti-hispanic. >> which is not true because what i see here is that president trump had the courage to say what other presidents and other administrations are not because they did not want what the political condemnation international outcry, the backlash. he dare to do something that needed to be done, which is to put order at the border, whether it's the wall or very high security at the border; however you want to call it. what are we going to do with the asylum system? it's a disaster so those that do need to apply for asylum and they have legitimate claims are being overshadowed by those that are coming in and they only have economic reasons. nicole: a lot of the illegal immigrants coming over are coming over at non-legal points of entry and i think that we need order there. president trump is not saying no one can come in but they need to come in following illegal process. we need to reform the asylum right? >> let's talk about the wall. we may have a wall with very big

gate, i've said that over and over, during my campaign, during this cycle. why? because the market needs people. sometimes there are, you know, i'm sure you guys know and you've reported it. we have some cities where you have more jobs than hands to fill those jobs. we don't need that either economic progress right? but we need to have those people come in with a little piece of paper saying okay you'll go and pick-up the jalapeno peppers in south koreans southern california or you'll be the doctor that the manhattan hospital needs, legality with order. ed: well nancy pelosi will be kind of the new sheriff in town as democrats come into the house and a few days ago, she said that the wall is not just wrong. she said it's immoral. >> listen, democrats cannot pon tificate when it comes to hispanics and i'll tell you why and i can say openly. democrats have played political football with hispanics for more than 20 years and we are very

upset and i'm going to give you two facts that no one can rebut. in 2009 president obama said to spanish television i worked in spanish television for 35 years, he said to us we're going to pass an immigration reform law within the first year and what did he do? he gave that political capital to obamacare. it's fine. i'm not saying he could have chosen to do whatever he wanted but do not promise something so substantial, so biblical proportion and then just throw a little bone at us called an executive order named daca. ed: quick second point because we have to go. second one is the 1996 immigration reform law signed by president clinton. everything that trump is being criticized. we can always discuss that, but everything he's doing is based on the legal framework signed by president clinton and these are the defenders and the ones that the beacons of morality, no way. pete: thank you very much.

we hope you'll come back. pete: well a fox news alert we've got more on the other side about special counsel robert mueller's new memos about michael cohen and paul manafort. alan dershowitz here to react, next. place, the xfinity xfi gateway.

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road before those collisions. robertson played 12 seasons for the la rams and buffalo bills two sad stories. pete: very sad. well, federal prosecutors recommending substantial jail time for michael cohen all the while down playing his cooperation with the special counsel so what's next? nicole: joining us now to react harvard law professor and author of the case against impeaching trump, alan dershowitz. ed: good morning, professor. nicole: thank you for coming on again. >> good morning. ed: what's your key takeaway from these two memos? >> well, the takeaway is that the mueller has come up with far less than he hoped for. he's not getting cooperation, obviously, from manafort, they are at war with each other and as far as cohen is concerned although he, the special counsel , recommended some leniency because he was getting some cooperation, the u.s. attorney's office said really, we want a harsh sentence of four to five years. look, i don't think cohen has anything new.

the new york times reported breathlessly this morning oh, my god for the first time we have evidence that the president may have been involved in paying these women. we've already heard the tape recording, remember cohen has a tape recording. ed: yes. >> cohen doesn't add anything to the tape recording the difference is the tape recording is credible and cohen is not, so i don't see anything new in the cohen revelations about paying off the women. the legal issue is whether a president is entitled to pay women in order to avoid embarrassment to his family, damage to his brand, perhaps impact the presidential election also if he had to report these, the reporting period was after the election, so it wouldn't have had any impact on the election anyway so it's a very very weak case that cohen has provided. i suspect that may be the reason he's not getting much in terms of sentencing considerations. pete: professor the white house is preparing for all of this. in the military we used to prepare for the most likely course of action and the most dangerous course of action for the white house, what is the most likely and what's most

dangerous? >> the most likely is that we'll get a long report with a lot of circumstantial evidence growing out of the lies that people told, trying to put together a mosaic that shows political sin but not federal crime. that shows that the president may have done things that the american public would disapprove of, wanting to build a tower at the time he was running for president, maybe the campaign used material from wikileaks but none of that is criminal so that's the most likely scenario. no crime, but political sin, which would be a complete distortion of what the role of the special counsel is supposed to be. now the worst case scenario is that they come up with new evidence that we haven't seen that would suggest criminal conduct. let me give you one hypothetical example that some people have been talking about. if in fact anybody offered putin a penthouse in a building in

exchange for putin giving permission to build the building in moscow, that could arguably violate the federal corrupt practices act but i've seen no evidence to support that so i think the president is right to prepare for likely scenario, worse case scenario, and i think the most important thing is that right now, his team ought to be demanding of the attorney general that no report be released until his team has had a chance to review it and rebut it and then both reports the report of mueller and the report of the trump defense team be issued simultaneously so that the american people can judge. remember, prosecutor reports are one sided. it's unfair to issue them without an opportunity to respond. pete: it's a good point. nicole: the special counsel says that paul manafort lied to federal prosecutors in a heavily redacted memo. do you think anything more will come out of that? >> well, redaction generally means that there's something they're hiding from the public but manafort can't ever be used

as a witness because he's lied so much. the same is true of cohen, but what's really a problem with the report is they can use cohen and manafort because they're not going to be subject to cross- examination. they would never dream of putting them on a witness stand as actual witnesses subject to cross-examination but they can use their material in a report and that's again an unfair aspect of prosecutorial reports and that's why in general prosecutors don't issue reports. they just say indict or not indict. the problem with comey is that he went beyond that with hillary clinton and now with a report we'll see a prosecutor go beyond that with a report. ed: professor thanks for coming in. nicole: thank you very much. guys, well, coming up president trump just teasing a major staff change. brand new tweets. pete: we haven't seen that. ed: plus, chaos in paris look at these pictures, everything shut down, protest ors clashing with riot police several weeks in a a row now live on the ground just ahead. pete: our friend morgan ortega

is live in philadelphia with our big army/navy game and she's joined by both the army and navy secretary. ed: duke it out. pete: they might. war of words, maybe we'll see, coming up next. >> ♪ ♪ i switched to geico and saved hundreds. that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. the geico app makes it easy to manage my policy. i can pay my bill, add a new driver, or even file a claim. woo, hey now! that's a win-win. thank you! switch to geico®. it's a win-win.

ed: the army navy game is just hours away pete has been talking about it all morning. nicole: the historic rivalry will play out for the 119th time

at 3:00 in philly. pete: u.s. naval reserve office ever morgan ortega is joined by two special guests, secretary of thes army and richard spencer secretary of the navy. morgan take it away. >> good morning, pete. not only is it historical rivalry between army and navy but between you and me this morning so since i've been taking the navy side i've been a little bias i'm going to go first to the army secretary. sir, tell us what does this game mean forearm it? you've won the past two years you're on a winning streak can you keep it going today? >> absolutely it's a great game i'd like to think that it's all part of the new direction the army is heading preparing for this high intensity conflict in this age of great competition but the army team symbolize all that's great about our core of cadets and the united states army. >> that's great thank you so much so secretary spencer, come on, man. we've got to get the navy back. we had 14 years of consecutive wins, two years of losses can navy pull it off today? >> morgan, as secretary just said high intensity conflict is what it's all about.

iwogima, naval forces battles where the odds were against us and we'll pull it out adding philadelphia to the list. >> so one of the things i thought even though we're a rivalry we saw army and navy come together this week in a really beautiful moment whenever president george h. w. bush a navy veteran was laid to rest we saw this amazing moment where senator bob dole got up out of his wheelchair to salute the casket of his fellow competitor and navy veteran. tell us about the moment what you think it meant forearm it/ navy? >> it's a very moving moment for sure and richard and i were talking earlier. we are the most bitter rivals on the field but at the end of the day particularly when they graduate these young men and women will be fantastic officers serving our nation, willing to lay down their lives in defense of our country and they will do so together as partners on future battlefields. >> so secretary the president is going to be here today one of many presidents that the have been to this game and i know what it's like when you have a sitting president that means so

much to the players and people watching. what do you think about the president being here today what do you think we can expect? >> i think it's fantastic he's here today to see his two services cop pete on the grid iron right here it fires up the mid shipmen, our army competitor s and it's all good. >> we'll have a navy win right? >> we certainly are. >> well pete you heard it and it's a navy win. pete: ever since our nation elected donald trump to be president, army has won each time, so remind the good secretary of that fact for me will you? >> i will, i will. pete: thank you, morgan appreciate it. ed: good stuff. nicole: now to carlie with more headlines. >> that's right guys we begin with a fox news alert moments ago, president trump nominates a new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, tweeting i am pleased to announce my nomination of four star general mark milley, chief of staff of the united states army, as the chairman of the joint chief of staff, replacing general joe dunford who will be retiring. i'm thankful to both of these

incredible men for their service to our country, date of transition to be determined. this afternoon the president will head to today's army/navy game and the u.s. appeals court denies the trump adminitration's request to reinstate its asylum ban and a 2-1 decision overnight the ninth district court claims the ban is inconsistent with an existing u.s. law. president trump issued the ban last month in response to the thousands of migrants approaching our southern border. and a tragic twist in the thousand oaks mass shooting. the hero sargent who died trying to save others was killed by friendly fire. the gunman immediately ambushed ron helis and a california highway patrolman, as they storm ed into the bar. during a dark chaotic gun fight helis was shot five times but it was the sixth bullet fired by a chp officer that caused the fatal blow and the officer is devastated. and a classic song, baby it's

cold outside, has recently been getting a chilly reception. but singer dean martin's daughter says she's not going to stop singing the holiday favorite. >> ♪ baby it's cold outside >> well dena martin telling fox news the song "is a cute romantic song that is played every holiday season. i personal love performing baby it's cold outside and will continue to do so." critics claim the song is problematic when it comes to unwanted advances. and those are your headlines, guys i'll send it back down to you. nicole: thank you, carlie. pete: the pc police kill everything. everything they see they crush. ed: maybe i can't say baby, but it's cold outside and rick richmuth is all over it. how are you rick? rick: it's cold outside. >> [applause] rick: wow that hurt!

that hurt. from texas, hey let's take a look at the weather map, but it's raining and snowing in texas, and a big storm moving across parts of the south, tonight will really take aim across parts of the southern appalachians, north georgia mountains, towards asheville, charlotte and raleigh is kind of the big question, right on the line between a little bit more rain, a little bit more snow right now the snow is up to eight inches have accumulated around lubbock, heavy rain moves towards the east, mississippi, alabama, georgia all getting the rain but then that snow line is off towards the north. you'll see the snow there where the temperatures are cool enough , but it will cool down overnight tonight and fill in with mostly snow across much of at least east or western parts of north carolina and eventually virginia as well and some of those accumulations are extreme probably the biggest snowstorm you'll have all year starting right at the beginning of december. there you go. guys back to you inside. pete: appreciate it.

>> [applause] ed: wow. pete: enthusiastic outside. it might be because christmas is right around the corner. we've got the biggest over-the-top toys that will top many kid's listnicole: that's rs now is executive director with the toy insider, jackie briar. thank you so much. thank you for having me. we're going to have a fun time. pete: what are you holding? >> this is super cool so check it out, inside there's a lot of super fun things but the best part is the top, and we've got a fun little pet. see? and a little friend and this one is actually scented. >> it looks like cotton candy and what's the purpose of it? >> it's just fun. it's a toy. kids can unbox and play with. >> got it. cool. pete: okay. >> we've got jumbo checkers and jumbo bowling so the kids are

having fun here and what's great about these is they are adorable for inside or outside and they both come with a storage bag so you can take it on the go, clean it up easy you want to knock down the bowling pins, ed? ed: pete could not beat me when we were bowling outside i wonder if the kids could beat him. >> oh, okay. >> [laughter] nicole: these are cute toys. they're huge and so fun for outside right? how much do these cost? >> these are just 25 each, super affordable, really adorable and over here, we have playdate, and they have beautiful long hair that kids can brush and maximus when you feed him his apple, he eats it. can you hear him? ed: and when we were tossing to morgan, she -- she has a lot of articulation

too so you can pose her a lot of ways that's fun for playing. nicole: i want to know what this is because it seems super fun. >> so this is scout and he has over 100 different unique movements and sounds and he can actually go, can you make him go forward? so kids can actually ride him with two speeds going forward and also go in reverse. so kids have a lot of fun with him and he comes with a lot of cabbies accessories too. pete: made for three year olds. >> this is the fisher price bouncer and it's awesome because it's also great inside or outside and you can leave this inflated you don't have to leave a blower going, and -- nicole: musical activities on a snow day. >> it takes four minutes for everything to be up and running. comes with the ball and pit too. this is a really fun show on nick tunes and kids can play it. >> [laughter]

pete: wow. ed: you should not do that in here. nicole: it's about as tall as i am. >> it's huge it's five feet in diameter and kids can try to hit each other's target. just like in the show. go to toyinsider.com and we have all of this and more. nicole: wonderful thank you so much jackie. >> thank you so much it's great being here. nicole: playing with everything. pete: you got the doll? nicole: is there a weight limit for this? ed: [laughter] pete: we just want to play. can i bowl for you? ready? this is for ed. ed: here we go, pete. nicole: nailed it. ed: pete finally one. more fox & friends on the other side! i landed.

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pete: we're back with a fox news alert. nicole: violence striking the city for a fourth straight weekend. ed: greg palcott join us live in

paris, he's in the middle of the demonstrations. good morning, good afternoon there. >> hi, folks, yeah, we are in fact right in the middle of it right by the arc de triomphe. i'll have my cameraman give you a view as you've never seen it before, full of the yellow vest protesters that have turned this city into a war zone for the past couple of hours. now, like any war, like any battle, it ebbs and flows a little bit calm now but about 20 minutes ago, we were seeing percussion bombs, tear gas, rock s, fires being hurled at one another, at the police authorities, big stuff. let me show you something else too, pierre can just follow me around. we are at the arc de triomphe and that's really the crown jewel for this city, for this government, for this country. it is being protected by rings and rings of police including armored cars and if you know

anything about paris there are a lot of different avenues that lead into the arc de triomphe and every single one of those avenues has protesters and they want to get to it and they got to it last week and it was ransacked and there was really a lot of uproar over that, monuments were destroyed and this is not just happening here but it's happening all over paris and throughout france. its been something like 700 arrests, streets have been destroyed, and a lot of activity i'll swing you back here, folks, just one more time. again, its been a long day, and pierre if you can just show a couple of the young people taking a rest right around the police, so it's not all battle. it's not all hardship here but it's paris, france like i've never seen it and i've been following it for about 30 years guys. ed: remarkable the pictures tell a story you're doing an even better job of explaining it but obviously this is a tourist mecca or should be for people from america, for people all around the world i can't imagine

very many people want to take their families to dinner. we're showing a picture of a burning car, smoke everywhere . this is unbelievable. reporter: absolutely i'll ask pierre to pan down now. again, down the champs-elysee, a smoke bomb, tear gas, most of the landmarks are closed, many restaurants and shops are closed and his is the height as we all know the height of the christmas season and no place lovelier than in paris during the christmas season, no place ugl ier right now. i'll make one more point again these protesters started because the gas and diesel prices were going up. it spread to a broader anti-tax, anti-low wages protest against the government, but we have not heard the french president e-mac emmanuel macron once in the past um cuff weeks and he could have gone on tv thursday night and said i'm listening to you, they have given back and i'm going to

work this out because i don't want my city, my jewel of the world destroyed. he did not do that. i've talked to analysts and experts to figure out why, he may be above that we don't know. he's going to be talking the early part of next week, maybe too late. back to you. nicole: thank you very much greg , it is a big question where is president macron. you have a beautiful historic city being destroyed so we're all eager to hear about it. pete: his policies have also helped destroy it thank you, greg. up next, we've got goats in a classic fox & friends transition goats on fox square for a fox & friends tradition. a special organization here to tell us how you can save a life by gifting a goat. >> ♪ ♪ (humming a lullaby)

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believe it or not and they can't remember what they got last year but this is the gift that keeps on giving, because we only deliver female goats, she goats and they deliver two goats a year and it provides the education for a child through k- 12 for the rest of life so this is like the gift that keeps on giving. ed: why did you start this so long ago? >> i started because i woke up one morning and we have this hearts that are made by women who have seen somebody killed or sometimes heard somebody killed in front of them and you can buy the hearts on our website goats for the old goat.com and we bring over the crystals and they make the hearts and then that's it and then darren's organization which is a for- profit making organization has really helped the goats in south sudan. >> i think that the other thing that goats do a lot of them have nothing of value and it gives them immediate value. over in africa, livestock means something and they've never had anything in their life to have ownership and it gives them hope

that they can attain education and it's just a wonderful thing to be able to do this for children. pete: meet immediate needs and it's sustainable. >> we only give outlaid it goats. >> the amazing thing is she's delivered over 15,000 goats in south sudan. pete: wow, congratulations. nicole: and to donate go to goats for the old goat.com. more fox & friends coming up. stay tuned. >> ♪ to say merry christmas to you ♪ see a little blood when you brush or floss? you may have gum disease and could be on a journey to much worse. try parodontax toothpaste. it's three times more effective at removing plaque, the main cause of bleeding gums. leave bleeding gums behind with parodontax toothpaste.

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pete: oh, man. rick: who here is forearm it today? ed: come back tomorrow, we'll see you, talk to you then, go army! nicole: bye, guys. >> the fixers in a fix, president donald trump, former attorney michael cohen facing substantial prison time but what if anything is the president facing? former u.s. attorney andrew mccarthy will tell us and what are stocks facing come monday morning, the market is suffering another nasty week with trade fears, taking hold, our market pros taking stock. and republicans looking forward to round two in their showdown with former fbi director james comey but this top democrat is vowing to shutdown their investigation into alleged fbi bias, is that