♪ >> a federal judge in texas ruling that obamacare is unconstitutional. >> there's no doubt in my mind that this was unconstitutional. you cannot force people to buy health insurance. >> the president said this now congress must pass a strong law that provides great healthcare. mitch and nancy get it done. >> budget director mic mull vane is taking on the job of chief of staff on acting basis for now. >> mic mull vane is a work horse. he knows the spending issues inside and out. mick is going to do a great job. >> pushed hard against

accusations michael feline. >> entrapment of the highest order. classic abuse of power. >> i will be remembered in history as helping to bring this country back together. >> did anybody really hire him to teach ethics? i doubt that very much. >> one week away from the possible government shut down. sticking point continues to be the border wall. >> i am more than okay president stick to his gun. you will win. we have your back. ♪ ♪ ♪ anything can happen ♪ anything can happen ♪ anything could happen pete: ed eni had declared this a great song which it might be. jedediah: you were dancing a little bit. ed: anything can happen when jedediah is here. jedediah: i heard you were having too much fun without

me so i'm back. pete: you are the fun police. you can amp up the fun. yesterday jed a little dance. ed: shout out to your mom i know she is watching. jedediah: she wants her own show watch out. lasagna is on its way. she keeps inviting everybody like a typical italian mom. everybody, come to the house. pete: classic ed henry brownie point. jedediah: trying to be the favorite. pete: it is 10 days before christmas. i'm not good at math. it's the 15th christmas is the 25th. ed: i have a big surprise for pete. pete: i already got a gift, ed. ed: a gift that keeps on giving. ed: obamacare is unconstitutional. that's what a federal judge is ruling in texas. invalid as open enrollment closes today. what's fascinating about

this is the judge is saying that the whole law, the entire affordable care act should, in fact, be torn down because the individual mandate demanding that you buy health insurance is unconstitutional. quickly, here's what he said. the district judge reed o'connor the individual mandate can no longer be fairly read as exercise of congress' taxpayer and is still impermissible under the interstate commerce clause. meaning the individual mandate is unconstitutional without it congress and the supreme court have stated the architectural design has failed. jedediah: about time. we have been having this debate so long. this was unconstitutional from the start. does put a little bit of pressure on republicans now. democrats have always said listen, if you are going to criticize the affordable care act which ended up not being so affordable for everyone, you should have a replacement. which is good. step up to the plate and provide pro-nongovernment

alternatives. pete: forcing people to buy a product was unconstitutional to begin with. that's what they repealed. we stood on a bridge in lexington concord because of a stamp tax. i shouldn't be told. ed: here we go. pete: that i have to buy healthcare. this judgment says that's been repealed. now the whole law is not valid. the whole law was based on this tax which forced people to buy it i didn't see it coming. i don't know, maybe the president of the united states saw it coming as well. buff he tweeted last night. he said as i predicted all along, so, ed, he did see it coming. okay struck down as unconstitutional disaster. now congress must pass a strong law that provides great healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. mitch and nancy, get it done. the question is mitch and nancy? steve: not chuck and nancy. i think that jedediah makes a great point is that republicans have said let's tear this law down. they have been trying to do

it since it passed, right? now they have responsibility to govern. you have a republican president. a republican senate with a bigger majority in 2019. but, but, but, as the president points out, the democrats have a responsibility to govern. they campaigned on healthcare. they said and let's find out what they want. as you know, it's not about saving obamacare. a lot of the democrats, like your favorite socialist in the bronx, bernie sanders and others want medicare from all. jedediah: which they did frankly. this was about medicare for all. they wanted obamacare. they knew it was going to have problems and people were going to object and hope was to bring in medicare for all. when you start doing government-run heck people instinctively say why is this the government running this for me. why is the government managing my personal decisions? what doctor i can go to. let's not forget this thing was pushed through with a bunch of lies. told they could keep their doctor and costs go down. that's not to say republicans won't have to step up to the plate like i said there are a lot of people still struggling with healthcare coasts and want

people to come in and say how do we promote you? talk about free market all the time? pete: it's not clear what republicans are going to step up with. democrats have terrible idea of medicare for all. easy to sell and talk about. if you talk about transparency and costs. choice, free market. that's harder to sell. where this goes from here, i don't know. but, we have had so many bad judges from the ninth circuit and other things overtaking what the president has done. here's one ruling that seems to go in the direction of freedom. ed: we are talking about this morning. we suspect you are talking about it friends@foxnews.com. what should come next? this doesn't immediately effect your coverage. this is likely to go to the supreme court. the battle will continue. this is a major development. pete: that's right, open enrollment is still going on. ed: that possibility of a partial government shut down is out there. now the president making a major personnel decision as well. pete: that's right. president trump taps mick mulvaney as new acting chief of staff. jedediah: garrett tenney is live in the capitol with

details. >> like a lot of hirings and firings president trump made this announcement on friday on twitter. mick has done outstanding job. i look forward to working with him in this capacity as we continue to make america great again. senior official cited his experience as a former member of congress saying the president picked him because they get along. for his party mull vane tweeted this is a tremendous honor i look forward to working with the president and the entire team. it's going to be a great 2019. there is no time line for how long mulvaney will serve in this acting capacity. a senior official says the president didn't want to put him in that role permanently, at least not yet. last night, president trump also pushed back on the notion that he was struggling to fill what used to be one of the most highly cold fronted jobcoldcoveted job. for the record there were many people that wanted to be the white house chief of staff. mick m. will do a great job. earlier this week the president said he wanted

someone who thinks like him as his chief of staff with a possible government shut down looming, the president certainly has that in mulvaney who pushed for his fair share of them as he was one of the founders of the freedom caucus. back to you all. pete: he is one of the founders of freedom caucus. a movement conservative. a true believer. the only thing he has been an outlier on with this white house is on defense spending. he has wanted to cut that budget. a lot of the president's supporters think it should be bigger. interesting pick. jedediah: i like him. budget hawk not afraid of a shutdown. the left talking points government shut down end of the world. government shut down means a lot of the government still stays open and at some point you have to draw the line and debt is out of control. it's a national security threat to have your debt thatch out of control good for him and i hope he sticks to it. ed: big stories we have been talking about all morning and something big coming tuesday the sentencing of general michael flynn. the question now is did he lie to the fbi or not?

pete: that's what new documents show the fbi agents didn't think that he did. in the interview, again, and there is questions about that interview itself. should he have had a lawyer. what should he have been notified about. but ultimately the fbi agents, this is what we are getting this morning from exhibit b of the fbi. this is from the fbi. strzok and redacted, person we don't know, both had the impression that at the time that flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying. flynn struck strzok as bright -- get this, but not profoundly sophisticated. ed: it could have been a setup. the fbi did not basically tell him the consequences of lying. pete: they bum-rushed him. ed: we are coming over. we want to talk. they didn't make clear it's part of this full-blown investigation. why was andrew mccabe number two at the fbi maybe look like he was setting him up? jedediah: in fairness, some

will argue do you have to be cold the consequences of lying to the fbi. that's something that you should know all of us sitting here if we got questions from the fbi we all know going in you don't lie to the fbi. he will be held accountable. ed: bob mueller,special counsel, his team is saying regardless of what happened with the fbi security advisor former of an intelligence agency, retired lieutenant general and 33-year vet of the armed forces knows he should not lie to federal agents. he does not need to be warned it is a crime to lie to federal agents to note importance of telling them the truth. pete: michael flynn gets no lawyers but hillary clinton gets like 15 in her interview including lawyers who are witnesses in the case? it's a complete and absolute double standard. i also look at what strzok said. flynn is bright but not profoundly sophisticated. do you read the strzok page text like gossip girl. peter strzok. ed: toward trump officials, trump voters. they talked about how people at walmart smelled.

pete: not sophisticated. jedediah: bizarre personal attack to be making, bizarre to say at all. pete: he served his country. believes in something not a foo foo like you and believes he is -- entrapping people. jedediah: tell us how you really feel? pete: i will. sebastian gorka said this. >> the fact he misremembered content of one telephone conversation if that's a crime people watching this show that could be a felony what they said to somebody. entrapment of the highest order. the fact that they had the transcript tells you everything that you need to know. also, the two agents who did that interview said that they didn't think he was lying and then the 302s disappear for 8 months. this is a classic abuse of power. ed: big question whether this -- what appears to be

fbi misconduct leaves judge sullivan in this case how the government has operated. will he throw out the charges against general flynn or will he keep the charges but basically have leniency and not give him any jail time. we will see on tuesday. big story. we are talking about it. what do you think about how the fbi handled general flynn's case friends@foxnews.com. jedediah: let us know. we have to turn now to your headlines. police are urging the fiance of a missing woman to come forward. they believe patrick frazee is the last person to see kelsey burris after she dropped daughter off to them before vanishing. authorities are calling the disappearance suspicious as they are searching frazee's colorado property for any clues. last seen on surveillance camera walking into a grocery store with their daughter on thanksgiving day. afghan war veteran charged with murder after he committed on tv to killing a suspected taliban bombmaker. >> did you kill the taliban bomb maker? >> yes.

jedediah: that's major matthew goal stein speaking with fox news bret baier. he was talking about a situation in 2010 when three marines in his unit were killed by hidden explosives. his team tracked down and killed the suspect. he was not on a list of targets cleared to kill. he could face the death penalty. johnson and johnson stock takes a 23 billion-dollar plunge after. the reuters story knew baby powder contained asbestos for decades. faced thousands of lawsuits claiming the baby powder causes cancer. johnson and johnson calls it absorb conspiracy. absurd conspiracy. pete: israeli special ops member who has seen first hand that walls do work. he explains why yes. brian: is it time to rebrand

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>> he work. that's the facts. we have seen that in huma. where we have fro that flow has dropped somewhere from 90 to 95%. that is substantial. pete: our next guest agrees that walls work. a former member of israel's special ops counter-terrorism unit says a border wall slashed illegal immigration and terrorism in israel to virtually zero. aaron cohen joins us now. you saw that debate in the

oval office. chuck schumer saying walls don't work. they are not needed. yoyou have been in israel do walls work. >> first of all chuck schumer needs a wall in front of him when he is talking about things he has no idea about. first of all, it's good to see everybody. good morning, guys. pete: good morning. >> here's the thing, a wall it was stripped away of all the political nonsense and all of the emotion that is associated with a wall is just a divider between and bad. that's the way we look at it in israel. it's bring an brick and mortar designed originally after an onslaught of terrorism that israel faced in the mid 1990s. probably the one of the worst ways of terror in the country. over 450 civilian casualties within a period of about a year and a half, two years. coming out of the 190s. israel said listen, we are fed up with this. the barriers between the west bank and between actual israel was very loose fence and is the same thing with

gaza and israel said and the generals said look, we have had enough. why are we basically putting a layer and remember security is layers. why aren't we physically putting a layer that can be patrolled, monitored by surveillance, by actual border patrol units and let's see what happens. so they built this wall. it was a little contentious in certain parts of the west bank but ended up reducing the amount of terror attacks from 75 the prior year, by the end of 2000 to down to less than a dozen. the fact is it works for our -- pete: what's the argument against that layer on our southern border? >> there is a very weird double standard in the united states when it comes to the southern border. i don't know what the deal is i grew up in los angeles. when i was 18 i volunteered and moved to israel, served in this unit for 7, 8 years and came back to the u.s. there has always been this weird contention it's almost a california double standard and because california is on

the far left portion of that border, i feel like it's just kept the security issue stomped on and illegal immigration has continued to fester. the difference between -- what happened in israel, ultimately, after we saw that the wall was extremely effective against terrorism, by around 2008, 2009, israel faced a very aggressive index of illegal population from various is a heroin and african countries. israel went why aren't we doing the same thing with the egyptian border which was extremely porous. israel extended the wall over on the egyptian-gaza side. we went from 50,000 illegal west african immigrants who were spiking the crime in tel aviv to less than a dozen illegal immigrants today. pete: 55,000 to less than a dozen. that strikes me as something that works. aaron cohen you know of which you speak. thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it.

>> guys, thank you so much. we appreciate it. pete: president trump's former attorney michael cohen speaking out after being sentenced to prison time. do voters believe him in the brand new dials coming up next. >> one of the hopes that i have out of the punishment that i have received, i will be remembered in history as helping to bring this country back together. makes things easy. e united traveling lighter. taking a shortcut. woooo! taking a breather. rewarded! learn more at the explorer card dot com. if your adventure... ...keeps turning into unexpected bathroom trips...

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ed: good morning again. quick headlines. a live look in paris. the protests are heating up for a fifth weekend nearly 8,000 officers, 14 armed vehicles patrolling city streets. protesters angry over low wages and tax inequality.

france is investigating whether russia, yes, russia is urging the yellow jacket movement online after reports linking the kremlin to social media accounts promoting unrest in paris. we're going to hear about this one. and australia is now formally recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. sort of. australian prime minister says he won't move the embassy out of tel aviv until there is a peace agreement between israel and the palestinians. pete: bold move -- or not. former trump attorney michael cohen defending credibility. first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison for crimes including lying to congress. do the voters actually believe him? jedediah: here to bring us the dials, president and partner at maslansky and partners lee carter. >> great to be here. thanks so much. jedediah: what do you have for us today? >> well, cohen did an interview and let's hear from him and see how the voters react. pete: got it. >> he was trying to hide what you were doing, correct? >> correct. >> and he knew it was wrong? >> of course.

>> and he was doing that to help his election? >> you have to remember at what point in time that this matter came about, two weeks or so before the election, post billy bush comments, so, yes, he walls very concerned about how this would effect the election. >> you can see there nobody liked what he was having to say. independents and republicans yellow and red lines. neither one of them finding him credible. democrats gave him a b overall. look, i believe what he is saying, no one really likes this guy but it's having an impact on the democrats not as much though on the independents or republicans. pete: do you know who likes michael cohen, michael cohen. this is what he had to say. listen. >> he doesn't understand the system. and it's sad because the country has never been more divisive and one of the hopes that i have out of the punishment that i have

received as well as the cooperation that i have given, i will be remembered in history as hoping to bring this country back together. pete: remembered in history. >> he will be remembered in history. can you see there independents and republicans really took a dip there i will be remembered in history. don't give yourself any credit for what you did here. did you terrible things and now coming forward and admitting it. ed: they both gave him an f. >> they both gave him an f. jedediah: democrats gave him a b. i thought it would be lower than that. >> he didn't change anybody's mind. democrats were already likely to believe what he had to say. they are glad he came forward and think this is all going to be a free for all. independents and republicans not so sure this is going to make any difference at all. pete: president would be worried if critical. independents are giving him an f on both of those answers. interesting. let's hear from the president and what voters are thinking about how he is reacting to this. watch. >> is he a lawyer. he represents a client. i never directed him to do

anything incorrect or wrong. and he understands that look, he did some bad things, unrelated to me. maybe related to his other clients. i wasn't his only client. he had other clients. he did some bad things. and income tax evasion, i heard about taxicab medallians. i heard about a lot of things. i'm not reading about any of that stuff. what he did was made a deal tomorrow bare was me. ed: what do you think about taxicab confessions. >> democrats gave him a d. independents not sure what to buy. this is sinking in with them and not buyin buying what trump has to say. democrats are saying you know what? i think you did it. ed: democrats gave him a c where michael cohen an f. jedediah: interesting how many times republicans and independents fell in line. >> they really do. for the most part during the 2016 cycle that's how it went. there has been a lot of the split in recent times. and now you are seeing it on this particular issue. i think republicans and independents are in line.

pete: there has been time and time again we have been told this will hurt the president and his approval. do you see this with independents? >> i think a little bit. it's not going to be this crisis that everybody is talking about at this point. if you are going to see some more things happening, perhaps, i really don't see a whole lot of movement in people's opinions. people have decided i think the president is guilty. i think the president is innocent and i'm going to support him through it. ed: most importantly, have you done any dials on the charactery. >> come later in the show we have it ready. ed: viewers will be able to weigh n a moment. pete: don't dial it. mike pence's faith being targeted by the left again. this time an incoming democratic congresswoman, one of the somali muslim women mocking the. >> christmas is getting closer. bass pro shops and cabela's here with last-minute gift ideas. coming up next. ♪ jingle bells ring

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♪ santa claus is coming to town. ed: we had a big "fox & friends" party this week getting ready for christmas. you can see some of our wonderful producers and pete, one of our great anchors right there. [cheers]

pete: that's a little bit of hyperbole. jedediah: it was fun. pete: jedediah was there but left early. jedediah: i had to take my mom to an appointment. it was a good time. ed: did you miss -- jedediah: i missed it. ed: the key part of the entire party. jedediah: i'm ready now ♪ ♪ pete: we were working for the weekend. ed: we did. pete: we decided we have got to do a duet. ed: song texted it to me we are singing this. ed: maybe. i arrive in new york from d.c. a couple days ago. literally two or three very senior people said i heard you are doing a song. how many people have you told?

pete: it's true i announced it on the air. ed and i have to do. what are you doing here? have you got to get up on stage with me. jedediah: when are you taking it on the road? i can be a backup dancer. pete: there is a reason they looped five seconds of the song over and over again. do it here on the show what do you think. ed: maybe later in the show. [buzzer] ed: see, i was hesitating. pete: it was a good time. we have an awesome team here at "fox & friends" and it was a ton of fun. jedediah: can we talk about santa claus though? because now people are saying that santa claus should be modernized. 20% he should have iphone. 20% tattoos. 21% should go on a diet u 70% should be gender neutral. 11% should be a woman. 70% should remain a man. i kind of like my santa old school. pete: this is a survey people answered questions and said those insane things.

why are we changing santa? jedediah: i already think is he modern. the beard is in right now. pete: ahead of the curve. ed: retro. santa was cool way back when. and it's true. like santa gets better and better. pete: first of all, is he stocky. he is not fat. how do you know that he doesn't have tattoos? he wears the big suit. why would santa ever go on a diet. he can fly around the world in 24 hours and deliver gifts to everyone? he doesn't need a diet. jedediah: how is he going to eat the cookies. ed: gluten free. jedediah: leave the kale salad. we wanting to hear from you. ed: should we stop leaving him cookies so he goes on a diet? pete: if santa gets a tattoo

what would it be. ed: we the people. jedediah: a picture of pete, obviously. jedediah: back um dancer. we are turning now to your headlines. homeland security's inspector general is investigating the death of a 7-year-old migrant girl who died after being taken into custody. officials say the guatemalan girl had not eaten or drank anything for several days while crossing illegally into the u.s. with her father. >> we are being sick and tired of being blamed for these type of tragedies. the people who should be blamed are the drug cartels orchestrating these smuggling events. jedediah: the child was flown to children's hospital where she later died from dehydration and shock. take a look at this, federal investigators are looking into what slammed into a commercial plane in mid-air. the nose of an aeromexico jet significantly damaged in a possible drone collision

before dransdin landing in tijua no. one was injured. this could be the first time a drone hit a large jet liner ever. a democrat is under fire after mocking the vice president's christian faith online. congresswoman elect elon omar tweeting this photo of vice president pence saying, quote: jesus take the wheel #border wall. the picture coming in week. >> artists like rihanna and pink reportedly don't want to be associated with the nfl over the league anthem controversy. the nfl has not yet announced maroon five as the official act. those are your headlines. ed: thanks jed. pete: bass pro shops has

deals you don't want to miss. ed: time to head to their stores. our old friend is here with the hottest last-minute that everyone is trying to shop. you can do a little bit on line but also bricks and mortar alive and well especially bass pro shops. what can people get. >> bass pro shops and can a bell also a we believe in the power of christmas. taking it back to that simpler time when families celebrated the holidays together. that's what santa wonderland is about traditional christmases go there and get free photo with santa at bass pro shoppes. i'm a brand new dad. 8 month old daughter i was able to take her. >> what's her name? >> her name is brimi. she got to meet the big guy herself. that's what it's all about making those memories. pete: i paid 20 bucks for a santa photo. >> they are free at cabela's. jedediah: what do you have? >> awesome gifts. ed: a lot of this stuff is warm.

>> it's warm. cold outside. natural reflection and redhead house slippers. going on down the line we have redhead sherpa fleece lined jackets great for outside work, playing. whatever you want to do. jedediah: super warm and soft on the inside. >> we were looking at these pants earlier fleeced and flannel lined. less than $20 right now. >> less than 20 bucks? ed: you like to buy men's clothes. >> i buy men's clothes because they are big and comfortable. i don't know about the pants but the flannels for sure. >> cabela's gear bag 12.9. talk about the perfect gift for somebody you don't know what to get for. they can put anything in it, fishing, hunting. ed: throw your ipad in it and do family stuff.

>> our gift cards are always great idea. our gift cards have been rated number one by scripts over 10 years because they never expire. online in our stores. big cypress lodges. ed: you are giving away a truck? >> we are. what a better christmas gift than a brand new truck. giving away a tacoma trd. these trucks are absolutely awesome. they are luxurious, rough. anything that you can throw at them. actually, this truck has been the best-selling truck in its class for over a decade. ed: go to bass pro shops.com. jedediah: you need make these in women's. ed: a whole lot more coming up from prison to politicians. the big announcement from the former trump campaign aid gorge papadopoulos. you won't believe it they have been floated as possible 2020 contender. could we see a biden-beto

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joe biden loses maybe papadopoulos wins. ed: throw that out there and let the voters decide. special counsel robert mueller's probe costing a whopping $25 million so far. the tactics the fbi took that were questionable when they interviewed general michael flynn way back in january 2017. here to react judicial watch president tom fitton. >> good morning. ed: another document dump. every friday something coming from the special counsel's office. this is a response to what flynn's team had said. what else the most important thing you took away from these documents? >> documents confirm that general flynn's attorneys were right in raising about the way flynn was approached and questioned. confirms that the fbi agents, including period strzok didn't see any indications of lying by flynn. in fact, they believed he was telling the truth and that he believed he was telling the truth. on top of that you had andrew mccabe, corrupt

number two at the fbi been fired for lying since call up flynn and say you know what? you don't want to involve white house counsel here because we have to brings the justice department in which is a bunch of malarky and the idea that he did this to the national security advisor is unbelievable to me. enough to we know whose idea was this? james comey. ed: talk about that. >> this corrupt duo of cuomo and mccabe that is targeting flynn for, what? he talked to the russian ambassadors incoming national security advisor there was no reach to go after him but to target him and get a scalp as they barked around their anti-trump campaign. ed: james comey did this interview several days back here in new york city and sort of boasted about the fact that i wouldn't have been able to get away with this igeorge w. bush or the obaa administration. there was chaos at the beginning of the trump administration. instead of going through the white house counsel's office we sprung this on flynn.

how key say that? >> what an outrageous hypocrite. this is the same man who complained about the white house talking to him and the president talking to him directly about cases because, quote: there were procedures about how the white house was supposed to communicate with the fbi fbi and justice department. the rules didn't apply to donald trump when it came to targeting him. and they were holding him out to a standard that they held no one else out to. ed: this is what the president and rudy giuliani have been saying there are two standards of justice. this fires a lot of people up. i have less than a minute, tom. bottom line, do you think there is a chance judge sullivan says the fbi acted improperly here, i'm throwing out the charges against flynn. >> i think he ought to do it. he needs to initiate proceedings, throw out the charges based on government misconduct and protect general flynn from being prosecuted anymore on these issues. and if he doesn't do it president trump can't pardon flynn soon enough. ed: tom fitton has been all

over this story from the beginning. appreciate your insight this morning. >> you are welcome. ed: border wall is heating up. will the president take the fight for $5 billion into 2019. maybe delay this battle past christmas? two years after navy seal charlie keating was killed fighting. emily compagno gets to honor him. she takes us behind the wheel next. >> every lap that we race today we raise money for his family and the united states veterans. it's an honor to drive for your son.a how smart is that? smarter sleep. to help you shed those sugar cookies, get a running start on the holidays, and take it all in with the patience of a saint. and now, 48-month financing on all smart beds, plus free premium delivery and setup.

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ed: our friend emily compagno she lived out our race car driver dreams for

cause. pete: support veterans in need and honor fallen navy seal charlie keating killed while fighting isis in 2016. jedediah: emily compagno joins us now. thank you so much for being here, emily. >> thank you so much. jedediah: tell us about this. it looks like amazing experience that you had. >> it was incredible experience. total blast. most importantly an honor. check out the package. >> >> it is race day in georgia. we are here at atlanta for the 24 hours of race. u.s. veterans. you can see it's raining. i'm a little nervous but i'm honored to be a part of something raising money for the special forces. let's get started. the founder of the united states veterans corps. what happens the more laps we do here. >> not only just for our missions but also the fallen. each one of our drivers,

including you, are driving for someone that was killed in combat operations. you can either make a donation per lap or one blanket donation. >> we do food toys houses. biggest one we have operation coming home. operation 19 right now. one of our drivers house 17 was wounded in combat in afghanistan. is he going to drive for laps of honor, also. >> u.s. army veteran the recipient of the 17th hero home. >> this is a little bit different from what we normally do. he asked if i wanted to race a car? i'm like heck yeah, i want to come down there and watch anyway. of course i will try to drive it. >> the 17th hero home what was that like? >> incredible. just a huge blessing. it was right on time with our family. they parachuted the keys in and really changed our lives. >> this is eric, is he a retired u.s. army ranger. >> eric, what are your race tips for me?

i'm starting to freak out. it's becoming real. >> just relax. straightforward. >> anthony last words for me. >> have fun. go fast. >> all right, you guys. let's go get geared up. ♪ >> super excited. time to go. ♪ ♪ >> with every lap that we race today we raise money for gold star mom christa keating. this is mom. navy seal fallen on n. northern iraq may 3rd, 2016. we learned that the crew,

the special ops guys put this on they knew your son. what does that mean to you. >> it makes my day. i got here and heard stories i haven't heard before about charlie. he was exceptional person and proud of what he did for his life. i'm proud of you. >> oh my gosh, thank you. >> i can't believe you are doing all of this. >> i was scared at times and any type of fear i had fails in comparison to the greater cause and honoring your son's memory. the sacrifice he made. it's an honor to drive for your son. thank you. >> it's an honor to see you do it. ed: that's sweet. wonderful cause. pete: relax and go fast. >> great directions at that time. this charity was started by three paratroopers. everyone is special ops. one of them is building homes for wounded veterans. incredible organization. the keating family is incredibly generous. she has written a series of children's books on behalf of her son and it's called big hearted charlie. and she inscribed it to me

to big hearted emily. there is no end to generosity and really these guys are heroes. ed: relax and go fast doing this show. pete: donate under team emily. ed: awesome. pete: great stuff. come up we have dan bongino. you know him dr. sebastian gorka and geraldo all here live on this saturday's edition your roof struggles to support the heavier me. [laughter] whoo. [crash] and your cut-rate insurance might not pay for this. so get allstate, you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. mayhem is everywhere. so get an allstate agent. are you in good hands?

ed: obamacare is unconstitutional that's what the judge has ruled in texas. pete: president tweeted as i predicted all along obamacare has been struck down as unconstitutional: >> you cannot force people to buy health insurance. pete: president trump taps mic mulvaney as new chief of staff. >> he tweeted it's a tremendous honor. i look forward to working with the president and entire team it's going to be a great 2019. >> is this entrapment or not? >> this is highest abuse of

power. >> did you kill the taliban bombmaker? >> yes. law enforcement mind set. >> possible government shut down, sticking point continues to be the border wall. >> with the wall is just a divider between good and bad. >> i am more than okay for the president can stick to his guns. you will win. we have your back. ♪ this is what you are ♪ pete: that was a good shot. i like how you did that from the camera to the couch. jedediah: that was great. i saw that a show within a show. ed: you are right. pete: ted went to the christmas party, too didn't you ted? give us a nod. ed: he always has a hat on he didn't have a hat on at the party. he looked different.

jedediah: i had to take my mom to a doctor's appointment. all good. pete: i drank for you. jedediah: just enough to do the karaoke. pete: if you were early you saw if you were not up early you missed it. ed: may be a live rendition. pete: i'm up for a live rendition. jedediah: backup dancer in the house. ed: breaking news and this is a big one. as joe biden might say it's a big bleeping deal. obamacare is unconstitutional. that? from a federal judge ruling that the affordable care act is invalid as open enrollment closes today. obama exchanges are still open for business. this is likely to go to the supreme court. another big battle over obamacare it never seems to end. this is a big blow to obamacare. pete: judge in texas who a lot of people deem to be a credible, thoughtful guy basicry said if you get rid of the mandate, that's part

of what president trump did, then it invalidates the entire bill. the entire obamacare was premised on the mandate. ed: the chief justice john roberts saved the law by saying the individual mandate is a tangeghts the commerce clause of the constitution basically this saves it, it's constitutional all good. now mandate is gone it's not so good. jedediah: left wing talking points on this coming home. republicans don't care about your health. they want to take away your healthcare. they want to take away your pre-existing conditions. republicans better be armed. come out and talk about the free market. don't just talk about it. but implement it so people know you are in control of this issue. nothing is more important to people and forefront than own personal health. ed: they put this up law and made all kinds of promises keep your doctor if you like your doctor. like your plan, keep your plan. that didn't turn out. pete: going to lower premiums. ed: premiums gone up.

he is tweeting about this decision saying as i predicted all along, obamacare has been struck down as an unconstitutional disaster. now congress must pass a strong law that providers great healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. mitch and nancy must get it done. is he putting the ball in the democrats' court. republicans have a responsibility to govern. is he president. what comes next? nancy pelosi is no now going to be in control of the house. pete: nancy wants to do what bernie wants to do what your favorite socialist in the bronx want to do which is medicare for all. government-run healthcare as you pointed out last hour so rightly. that's what they wanted to begin with. jedediah: from the beginning u. pete: socialized medicine is where they want to go. mitch is not going to go for that nancy is. i don't see anything changing. jedediah: nancy pelosi is actually responding already. she is saying tonight's district court ruling

exposes the monday store russ end game of republicans all-out assault on people with pre-existing conditions and americans access to affordable healthcare. jedediah: i love how they call it affordable care act. bottom line it wasn't affordable. they lost their doctors and lost their plan and can't afford their heck. they have a lot of nerve talking about it like that. ed: ken paxton in texas brought this case to the feds. that's why the judge was ruling on it they said everything that had been promiseside not actually turning out. ken paxton was on with our own shannon bream last night. here's how he put it? >> obviously i am celebrating with the president. this we believed from the very beginning was unconstitutional. we think the judge did the right thing. there is no doubt in my mind that this was unconstitutional. if you remember, they built this on a tax. this is what judge roberts said it was built on tax. tax was removed by the congress end of last year. now that the penalty was taken out by congress at the end of last year in the tax reform bill, the taxing card

issue is gone and therefore the individual mandates falls. ed: as you said, republicans now have to say okay, what comes next? they have been against obamacare from the beginning. they have got to come up with some plans. we know where the democrats are they want medicare for all as you say. here's the big problem with that is the cost. how do you pay for that? you are talking about a massive expansion of an entitlement. >> you can ask alexandria ocasio-cortez. i'm sure she will not be able to answer you. pete: no, she won't. this will be appealed and appealed again. go to the supreme court it will be very interesting to see what john roberts does. ed: you have a different court than did you under president obama. >> still john roberts was the deciding vote in upholding obamacare. jedediah: it's an opportunity to show a contrast. have you democrats always running with government, government, government. it doesn't work. people know it doesn't work. this is the opportunity for republicans to come out and say we have a solution. don't lose this opportunity. pete: opportunities for republicans to have a solution? that sounds like the border wall. jedediah: long overdue.

ed: house and the senate last two years. pete: last time i checked that's true. president wanted it working on a deal that would delay the border wall fight until. two week extension. ed: might be kicking the canal. due to have a partial government shut down at the end of this coming week so maybe he wants to kick the can past christmas. then all of a sudden beginning of january, democrats about to take power. maybe their hand is strengthened. it's interesting. let's not forget these news cycles move so quickly. what dom natalled this week before michael cohen and everything else was that extraordinary meeting in the oval office where the president just threw down on nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and said i promised the american people i'm going to get the border wall. we are going to do this no matter what. you look right there. pete: it was a wonderful scene. ed: many said nancy pelosi was all over him. she has a much stronger hand. the president came out of it saying no. just the opposite. that he believes that the american people are on his

side. they want more border security. and lindsey graham agrees. watch. >> i'm more than okay for the president to make a reasonable request of the congress and stick to his guns. he ran on securing our border. the democrats all voted 44 of them did, in february of 2018, this year, for $25 billion for the wall. as part of a larger deal. now they won't give him 5 billion that could be well-spent. this is arrogance on their part. they hate trump. they are overreading their mandate. jedediah: i'm loving lindsey graham 2.0. i think he is 100 percent right. i think trump needs to be very careful about delays. one thing people expect from him is to not delay and be afraid of a government shutdown to make this wall a priority. remember he ran on that. he ran on immigration and being tough on this. the expectation is very high. pete: rationale extending through christmas. that's it.

no reason to delay or give if. jedediah: problem is that becomes a week later and month later. pete: it can't. it really can't. jedediah: makes me nervous. pete: i'm with you 100 percent. jedediah: how is the time. pete: now is the time to get it or shut down. admitted to killing taliban bombmaker. he made that admission at the cia and also admitted that happened in talking to our own bret baier in 2016. ed: matthew goldstein. pete: served as green beret in afghanistan. he will talked to bret baier about being in that combat environment. pete: two marines being killed. get bombmaker. they had not been cleared to get the bombmaker through the rules of engagement. seen as vigilante. he felt like he was getting justice. here is what he told bret baier and we will explain. >> did you kill the taliban bombmaker? >> yes. >> willingly offered up

these details. >> right. >> at the cia. > right? >> that's correct. >> that's where it all started. >> pretty much. you can construe it as a law enforcement mind set. there is limits on how long you can hold guys. you realize quickly you make things worse. it is inevitable outcome that people who are cooperating with coalition forces when identified will suffer some terrible torture or be killed. ed: so that's what the sort of confession he need bret baier. he was being honest with the cia when he was applying for a job when what happened in afghanistan. boomeranging. they are basically bringing charges against him and he could face the death penalty. pete: i struggle with this all the time. first of all, war fighters like, this thanks god we live in a nation where men like this will do things on our behalf to keep us safe. in iraq and afghanistan, i saw it myself. there is a catch and release program where you catch people, you don't have enough evidence to hold them then people you know are responsible with blood on their handed from enemy are

released back into the public. in this particular case, this green beret said to marines are dead i'm going to find this guy and kill him. when i kill him he can't make more bombs and kill more americans. if you are at war with isis and radical islamists that's the type of approach you have to have. the problem is our military justice system hunts guys like this down and says no, no, no. you shouldn't have taken that action. you should have left him released. i get what the rules are and the rules are important. but i side with a guy like him every time. because he wants his boys to come home. he wants americans to come home. he doesn't care if a dirt bag bombmaker gets killed. unfortunately our bureaucracy never sees it that way. army lawyers, special operations lawyers comes down on these guys and it's a shame. jedediah: people forget we are at war. first of all, it's war. think about that for a second. these guys are making decisions sometimes in the moment. they are following their gut. their job is to protect this country and to protect themselves and their men.

ed: all great points made. special operations commands spokesman says major matthew goldstein's immediate commander has determined that sufficient evidence exists to warrant the preeferl of charges against him. they are saying this was premeditated. this is a remarkable story. the idea that an american war hero might actually face the death penalty. we want to get your comments on this story friends@foxnews.com. pete: remember, is he an american to who put his life on the line and killed bombmaker after that guy killed americans. eddy gallagher, only. ed: he went in for the job and told the truth. he didn't lie about it and here what happens. pete: he comes back to a grateful nation, do you know what i did on your behalf? i'm going to be honest and i'm not ashamed of it. he gets punished. jed said wha: what kind of mese is that sending? pete: this president has an opportunity to change. that will do it without being ruthless and

indiscriminate. these guys know the line. ed: what do you think would be justice in this case? we want to know what you think. pete: it may be a pardon. listen, guys like this can be pardoned. ed: new poll shows former vice president joe biden is leading democrats in the field of possible 2020 candidates. will it stay that way? charlie hurt is here to weigh in. is he live next. pete: some people are about to get free money. $500 a month. but at what cost to their communities? ed: and to the taxpayer. pete: becoming socialists ♪ living on a prayer ♪

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ed: good morning again. a fresh new poll finding that former vice president joe biden leads the pack of potential 2020 democratic contenders. close on his heels vermts senator bernie sanders and rises star beto o'rourke. here to react fox news contributor and opinion editor and columnist of "the washington times" charlie hurt. good morning, sir. >> good morning, ed. ed: is this name i.d. the president was saying in some of those rallies leading to the midterms is he 1% joe. every time joe biden has run on his own is he in the low single digits. >> at this point it largely is that. he there has been some improvement for joe biden because of course the last poll they did had him -- had the entire field behind i don't know or other. it is true. it's largely name idea quite frankly when you look around and talk to democratic voters these days as you have, it's kind of hard to imagine that a guy like joe biden who has been part of the political scene for

decades, he has been in the administration for 8 years. it's hard to imagine democratic voters given the current environment going for a guy like him. when you have a situation where you are going to have early voting starting in california the day that you have the iowa caucuses begin this year, all that front loading of voting out west is going to give a tremendous advantage to other candidates other than, say, a guy like joe biden who is going to be running more in the sort of traditional republican mold and give that advantage to people socialist programs. ed: there is another report saying that biden might be telling democrats privately that beto o'rourke could be his v.p. and get a young face. is that two white male for the democratic party. >> it is the strategy he has got to find somebody else

that he can kind of sort of draft off of that picks up that violation support that is increasing as you are seeing as we know, ed, increasingly taking control of the democratic party. ed: talk about another democratic party who has designs on the white house. interesting she doesn't pop up in that poll. elizabeth warren, given the d.n.a. test. the backlash, here is what she is saying now. >> i'm not a person of color. and i haven't lived your life or experienced anything like the subtle prejudice or more overt harm that you may have experienced just because of the color of your skin. ed: so she previously said, quote, my indian parents were forced to elope because of white racism, certainly suggesting she was a person of color. now she says to a largely black audience i'm not a person of color. >> yeah, once again, she has been caught -- she is caught kind of trying to rewrite history. earlier she got caught with her hand in the affirmative

action cookie jar and then released that incredibly embarrassing, ridiculous d.n.a. test that revealed that she has less indian heritage than probably either one of us. and, you know, and for her to claim now that, oh, she has never tried to use it to her advantage, my goodness, her entire political career is based on trying to use that to her advantage. she tried using it to her advantage the entire time she has been jockeying to run for president. you know, just on the fails of it, it's not true. and, that's not just a problem with people like me who probably are not going -- would probably into the support her under any circumstances, that's a problem for the democratic base who obviously understandingably take this stuff very seriously and find it really offensive to have someone like this trying to claim the mantel of those issues. ed: breaking news charlie hurt will not support elizabeth warren in 2020. >> breaking news. ed: thanks, charlie. a seattle law school cutting its ties with ice.

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we will see. you are seeing live protests heating up in paris for a fifth straight weekend. nearly 8,000 officers and armored vehicle are patrolling city streets at this hour. protesters are angry over low wages and tax inequality. that paris climate accord blew up in their face. urging the yellow jacket online linking the kremlin to social media accounts promoting unrest in paris. and facebook now apologizing, yes, for another massive leak. that exposed photos of nearly 7 million users. for 20 days a software bug allowed third party app.s to gain access of photos of 6.8 million users. that in september alone. facebook claims the breach is now fixed. affected users will be notified, they say, facebook working on getting copies of those private photos deleted from the 1500 apps. good luck with that. that's going to take a while. pete: oh man.

jedediah: that's tough. ed: the past 18 months have been full of democrats pushing the russia collusion narrative. >> presidential campaign may be compromised by the russians. that looks a lot like collusion to me. >> i do think there is evidence of collusion. >> he was colluding with the leader of a hostile power deliberately. >> there is plenty of evidence of collusion. we know that the trump campaign wanted the russian tots give them help. >> we already know that there was collusion. >> this after guilty pleas about lying to the fbi agents and investigation into campaign finance where is the collusion some may ask? dan bongino, former secret service agent, former nypd officer and host of the dan bongino show joins us and author of the book hit book spy gate. released key documents relating to the fbi questioning of flynn. one of the exhibits which we'll put on the screen strzok and redacted we don't know who that is, both had the impression at the time that flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying

flynn said strzok as bright but not profoundly sophisticated. saying he was lying. walked him in without lawyers. what do you think of this. >> this is devastating. on the collusion front first. have you ever seen the movie mean girls where gretchen tries to make fetch happen and regina says fetch isn't going to happen? collusion is not going to happen, guys. it's not. it's done. it's finished. there is no evidence of it. it's over. they have evolved from treason to collusion to object destruction. to campaign finance reform. that's going to go nowhere, too. on the flynn case, what's profoundly disturbing about this. and just to be clear, what pores mbothers me the most is te lawyer thing, andy mccabe, the number two at the fbi seemed to incentivize film to speak without a lawyer. to be clear on this as a former federal agent, that's not illegal. there is no requirement that mike flynn have a lawyer present. but we know now that that was probably not sop, standard operating procedure for an interview of that kind of gravity.

why? because jim comey admitted it himself on another network in an interview where he said, what? i wouldn't have gotten away with it in another administration. gotten away with what? >> dan it, seems crazy what james comey said as you point out. it seems like the behavior of peter strzok, andrew mccabe, which we had heard about before is only getting worse with these court filings there is a real possibility in coming days that judge sullivan could just say i'm throwing these charges out against general flynn. here's the bottom line question i have to take the other side for a moment. why then if this was all rigged against general flynn and he really did nothing wrong, why didn't he tell the truth? >> ed, we don't know that you know, i understand people listening are going to say but, dan, he took a plea. you know, i'm hesitant to say it i have reasonablably good sources on this. he took that plea for one reason and one reason only. he was brupghted by the government. he was a 30 year military professional. he didn't work for goldman

sachs. he was not a multimillionaire. he was bankrupted. the mueller probe basically used witch-hunt like tactics to threaten him and his family it would have gotten worse. he had to take that plea. i'm absolutely convinced based on exhaustive amount of reserve that mike flynn didn't lie. that mike flynn genuine dli not recall the fact that he had discussed sanctions. now, ed, you may say, again, what makes you believe that? mike flynn admits in the fbi's own paperwork that he knew they had a transcript. he says to andy mccabe in the conversation, well, you probably know what i said why we lie? that's an argument for his innocence, not his guilt. jedediah: dan, i just have to ask you because we are having a lot of conversations about money and i tend to be a hawk when it comes to money. and this investigation now, this mueller investigation is costing $25.2 million for taxpayers. and i remember when it was benghazi that was being investigated. when it was hillary clinton's emails. democrats were always talking about what a big

waste of money that was. to what end is this now with this investigation? it seems like it's never going to stop until they find something and they are not finding what they want. >> yeah. they are not investigating crimes in search of people they are investigating people in search of crimes. people are donald trump and his team. and jedediah, what's really disturbing about this is, this is, by the way, the mueller probe is the biggest rip off in america history. the biggest difference with benghazi and hillary clinton's email scandal those actually happened. those things actually happened. people actually died in benghazi four american patriots. hillary really did have a private server to sir couple vengts government privacy rules. but, here's the deal with collusion, it never happened. there is no evidence $25 million and there is not a scintilla of evidence, this collusion, a fairy tale actually happened. it is a total rip off. biggest rip off in american

history. pete: great point. somebody on the other side of you, representative eric swalwell he may be a 2020 hopeful. we're not sure. he has been talking to the media as he often does, saying there is more evidence that trump was associated with a criminal campaign. listen to swalwell. bigger picture i are seeing more evidence than ever that donald trump was associated with a criminal campaign, a criminal transition and presides today very likely over a criminal presidency. pete: what is he setting the table for in the house? >> this is one of the slimiest members of the house. i'm serious swalwell from the start has been lying, disingenuously about trump. then donald trump colluded, then he was associated with collusion. then donald trump was a criminal and associated with criminals. swalwell knows he has got nothing. is he a conspiracy theorist. he should not be discussed idiscussedin polite company anye this guy. pete: we will stop early.

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jedediah: seattle university law school depriving students of real world work experience deciding to externship with ice after a complaint by a student who then filed a petition. pete: one student, email from the school's dean to students saying in part, quote: i am suspending our externship placement with ice. based on its current policies and practices, as educators, lawyers and soon to be lawyers we hold particular power and bear a special responsibility to be piecemakers and assist those who are suffering due to the unjust operation of our legal system, laws and their enforcement. here to react campus reform.org correspondent and third year law student at seattle university school of law thomas rinehart. thomas, thanks for being here this morning. you heard what the dean had to say this externship has to end because it's unethical as lawyers to work with ice. what do you say to that? , to me seems hypocritical

try to hide behind jesuit values allow students to external with ice. we brought up the administration a couple weeks ago that ice does a lot more than enforce our borders. they enforce the drug trafficking international child sex trafficking. so there a lot of social justice issues that ice actually tackles. it's really disingenuous and seems to me to be a political maneuver because they disagree with the president's enforcement of border policy. >> tom, the program director actually gave a statement on the suspension saying students raised concerns after ice presence at annual externship fair caused unsafe. we believe a real possibility exists placing a student in ice externship may force them to act unethically or unlawfully. what is your response to that statement? >> yeah, well, you know, we have seen this a lot throughout other college campuses, the leadership institute campus reform has done a great job on reporting on that. what's really interesting is that in a law school, we are

really faced with these same issues with our student body where people feel unsafe and, it's frankly, there is no justification for that when we're lawyers being trained on the rule of law being trained on, you know, having -- knowing both sides of an issue. so, to me, why would we want to limit opportunity. we are not forcing students to extern with ice that opportunity should be available for students to pursue in law enforcement. they are being shut out. it's not fair. pete: not a mandatory externship. you can if you want to. we have some stats about ice's legal team. they have 1200 attorneys. 300 support staff. covered over 900,000 hearings in 2017. turns out immigration and immigration law is a big practice. our government is involved in it. yet, the first statement i read i'm stuck on it. your school says no, you are trained to be a peacemaker. i thought you were being

trained to follow the law and the constitution. >> well, absolutely. there is really no respect for that. >> you know, what about -- my thing with the peacemaker issue is what about -- not everybody that's crossing our borders illegally is a peace maker. so, really how as if we want to enforce our borders, we have to -- we need lawyers to be able to help support those ice agents and enforce our law and especially here in washington state where we are a border state, we have really large ports. ice needs legal exterrence to bexterns toassist issues that our community here. to me it, really is just political maneuver by seattle u. it's really unfortunate and honestly embarrassing as a student to have just another political decision made by this administration. jedediah: it's unfortunate, thomas. it's not surprising. i have taught in academia. i know how this works in terms of the manipulation and trying to get their message across.

ice actually issued a statement as well. saying it's disheartening that an institution dedicated to the teaching the laws of this country and core values teach justice and diversity would prevent its students from gaining valuable professional experience. i'm tending to agree with that and i'm guessing you do as well. >> yeah. i do. it's really sad because the school's ranking has dropped and since 2012 we were ranked in the low 80's. last year ranked 128. we have fallen 40-some odd spots in the last five years. in large part because they are not focusing on the rule of law. they are not focusing on training students to have experiences that will actually help them in the real world. they are focusing on racial justice book training clubs and gender and the law. i had to fight to get a basic tax class offered this semester. those are the kind of classes that are going to help me. not these social justice oriented random sort of classes. pete: a basic tax class. i have a feeling you just

made yourself a lot more popular on campus. i wanted you to know that. [laughter] pete: in one way or another. >> only one semester to go hopefully not too much longer. pete: good luck. keep us posted thomas. thank you for being here. >> appreciate it. jedediah: coming up, protect those gifts because tis the season for watch out for porch pirates. pete: porch pirates? >> what's going on, man? [laughter] >> a look at the best home security systems just ahead of christmas coming up next. >> plus a shut down show down is looming on capitol hill with the deadline just days away. but how much did the government really would be shut down. it's less than you think. we're going to break it down coming up next. ♪ ♪

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jedediah: couple quick headlines. utah is gearing up strictest state driving laws. limit will be .05 in a couple weeks down .08. the controversial law effects gun owners gun owners can carry without a permit lose that right with a blood alcohol content over 0.5. california's liberals rolling out free cash for all. the city of to come done now picking 100 residents to receive 5 million bucks a month for a year and a half. the program sent out letters this week to over 1,000

eligible families. lucky locals will be chosen at random to participate on the study of the effects of a guaranteed you income. no taxpayer money will be used. >> tis the season for a little giving or the season for taking? if you are a chief stealing christmas deliveries. look at this. >> hey, hey. hey, get away. >> what's going on, man? [laughter] >> hey, put that back. [laughter] pete: so how can you jingle bellock down your home this holiday season good writing. jedediah: kurt the cyberguy. >> are you ready to lock them snout. ed: how do you keep your porch safe. >> 27 million people in newark last year reported boxes stolen off the front porch. that's 8% of the u.s. it's huge. ed: crazy. >> three do it yourself security systems that are making it to the top of the

list this morning. this is the 2 million people in america bought this one it's called simply safe. out of the box, no more do you have an installer come to your house. you just pop this thing in there. it has virtually every part of the security you would need in your home in this one little system. that's central to the unit right there for simply safe. these start roughly all of these start somewhere from 199 up to about 400. the sweet spot is between like 250 to 300 for these systems. ed: it's not thousands and thousands of dollars. jedediah: not bad for what you get. >> here is what you want to look for. you don't want to spend more than $15 per month. you would like to not have to sign a contract. that is not necessary with this one. pete: don't want to keep that on a wall that i don't understand. every other old school security system i have ever had. >> now the key pad, everything is wireless. also got battery backup and some have cellular

technology. if they try to unplug it. ed: ring gets a lot of attention how does that work. this is a billionaire genius out of california who came up with a ring video door doorbell. that's their second version there on the right. this now is their new system called ring alarm. what i love about, this again, right out of the box, you can install it yourself it is so simple, you can grow as if you have a large house, you want to add more motion sensors. pete: i'm looking at my front door right now. right here on my phone on my ring. ed: here is the address. take that down. >> here is how this is so seen just. app. launched a portion of the app. ring neighbors. what it does is some sketchy person is in the neighborhood. a neighbor who might have caught them on the ring video doorbell says someone kind of stretchy was at our porch and fiddling with our package no one stole anything but keep your eye

out for him. we have caught two people in our neighborhood already in the last two weeks. edited sends you a text message. >> i'm in the neighborhood it, notifies me. and it protects my privacy and my neighbor's privacy so we don't know exactly which national is sending it. pete: a bit much like people alerting the guy walked on the sidewalk in front of my house. but some of it is legit. if they are on the porch. >> he just filed for a patent that got into the news because it got granted this week. and this enables you to -- let's say that my ring video doorbell caught a portion of the face of a crook but then he went somewhere else. someone else's house they can merry those images together and identify that suspicious person. jedediah: tell us about this. >> this one, crowd source this is another great winner. this is called abode. company behind. this brand new one called iota. single box out of the box, you're ready to go with home security. that has a camera built into it. i am not a huge fan of putting cameras inside of my house. if i'm going to be away.

ed: on the porch or outside. >> in your house and that's the control module that everything else is going to talk. to say all of these systems, you want to have a battery backup. you want to have some sort of fail-safe like cellular technology if the crooks try turn it off. noise isn't enough. you need monitoring on these things to be very effective. ed: great idea for christmas. >> cyberguy.com post a whole article. merry christmas, sir. jedediah: merry christmas. pete: great to have you. coming up, mike pence's faith being targeted by the left. this time incoming democratic muslim woman mocking the v.p. details coming up next. ed: president trump's fixer michael cohen sentenced to three years in prison. did the president really commit a campaign finance crime? a former fec chairman says no. he joins us to explain. he actually has the facts. not the spin next hour. ♪

ed: lawmakers on the hill have just three working days to avoid a government shut down leaving little time to come up with a deal on border security as the president has demanded, having been through shut downs before, should would he be concerned or not? here now to break it all down is history professor david asen back. >> good to be with you. ed: let's walk it through here. we have it on the touch screen shut down by the president. we hear all this talk shut down, shut down. did you go back in recent history. ronald reagan there were a whole bunch of shut downs we survived. >> we survived. the government continues to function there isn't much to worry about on a practical level. on a political level however

there are big impacts. ed: shut downs where ted cruz got the blame for republicans over obamacare or perceived to have gotten the blame. there is debate about that. more recent ones some months ago known as the schumer shut down as the republicans branded it and the democrats took some blame. look at this. 75% of the government is already funded for fiscal year 2019. that started on october 1st. so let's start with that basic concept. this idea that we are going to hear in coming days from democrats and many in the mainstream media. everything is shutting down. it's really only a partial shut down. most of the government is already funded. >> i think the news story is interesting because what's the impact on our community. it's never a good news story when you have a government shut down. that's why it always hurts the party that is perceived as the initiator of the shut down. ed: the president himself says is he happy to shut down the government. here is who already has funding, important to note, the military already funded. medicare, medicaid and social security. veterans affairs. they are still going to get checks, your benefits. and congress, interesting, they took care of themselves. legislative branch is funded

in terms of their offices. here's something in terms of an impact i want to get into. an estimated 400,000 essential employees of the federal government would work without pay, basically furloughed and around 350,000 would be furloughed all tolled. so you have got some active duty military folks. they are still going to have to report to work. but their paychecks are going to be interrupted. they will get the money eventually that's a real impact on families. >> people think this saves us money having a shutdown it doesn't save us money. we wind up spending the same amount of money if not even more. ed: they will eventually get the pay. interesting we will hear a lot in the coming days about how whole government shut down only a partial government shut down if it happens. 75% of the government already funded, david. >> i think it's always the case. it's the perception. and what would scare me would be the markets, that might be the threat. ed: all right, david. appreciate it federal judge strikes down obamacare as unconstitutional. we are live in washington with fresh reaction this morning. one sheriff's department honoring our fallen heroes

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i had he had obamacare has been struck down as unconstitutional. federal judge ruling that affordable care act invalid. >> the sentencing of general flynn did he lie to the fbi or not. >> targeting flynn for what? to get a scalp as they barked around their anti-trump campaign. >> in paris protests are heating up for a fifth weekend. protesters angry over low wages and tax inequality. >> i will be remembered in history as helping to bring this country back together. >> did anybody really hire him to teach ethics? i doubt that very much. >> president trump tax

advisor mic mull vane as new chief of staff. >> mulvaney tweeted this is a tremendous honor. it's going to be a great 2019. >> here is the deal with collusion it, never happened. the mueller probe is the biggest rip off in american history. ♪ taking care of business ♪ everyday ♪ taking care of business ♪ every way ♪ i've been taking care of business ♪ it's all right ♪ taking care of business ♪ working overtime. ed: karaoke. pete: you would be good at care okayy. jedediah: i would be a better back up dancer. i'm trying to start a new career on the side, you know? pete: pete you could do it. jedediah: you better come to the show. ed: we certainly would. pete: we might do it next hour. ed: i have a special gift i will bring pete tomorrow i won't be here next weekend. jed, i have to go shopping for you today. pete: i have a gift for you,

too, ed. i found it last week by happenstance. jedediah: is it a to few burger? he loves those. pete: tofurky burger. it's only 10 days to christmas. i have done zero christmas shopping. pete. ed: exempt for me. christmas came early for president trump. pete: we begin with a fox news alert. ed: well-done, ed, you must do it. v. federal judge strikes down obamacare as unconstitutional. ed: that's right. ruling comes one day before today's enrollment deadline for coverage next year. jedediah: garretgarrett tenney s live with reaction from both sides of the aisle. >> you will remember back in 2012 the supreme court unconstitutional because of will. mandate because of tax. congress got rid of the individual mandate part of tax cut package which prompted 20 states to sue the administration saying without the mandate, obamacare was no longer constitutional. well, last night, u.s. district judge reed o'connor

agreed writing in part of individual mandate is no longer fairly readable as an exercise of congress' taxpayer and continues to be unsustainable under congress' interstate commerce power. the court therefore finds the individual mandate run from attacks is unconstitutional. president trump was quick to celebrate that ruling, tweeting as i predicted all along, obamacare has been struck down as an unconstitutional disaster. now congress must pass a strong law that provides great healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. mitch and nancy, get it done. now, for her part, nancy pelosi noted that a number of democrat attorneys general are already planning to appeal the ruling to the fifth circuit of appeals. now, it's important to note though that despite this ruling, until this court process plays out the centers for medicare and medicate services tells us it won't have impact on coverage for 2019 and open enrollment will continue until the end of today as normal. back to y'all.

ed: if coverage is not interrupted in 2019 but still cloud hanging over obamacare, what comes after 2019? oh, 2020 where there is a presidential election. that means obamacare will be front and center in another election. now, in the last midterms it seems like it helped democrats more. they really ran on healthcare and said we are going to try to save. this there may not be any saving obamacare anymore. what comes next? this is a real important pivot point for the president and republicans to say what they are for. jedediah: opportunity for republicans to come out with something strong, something that will work. something that they should have had out honestly since hillary care it will be really late on this. they better be ready democrats already coming out and saying things. pelosi saying all-out assault. senator schumer this will be a disaster. senator murphy this is a five alarm fire. republicans don't care about your healthcare. pete: five alarm fire. jedediah: you have got to be ready for that stuff. pete: walls are closing in and nyeste rout. keep going with the analogy they use as members of the

resistance. democrats are going to push for all out and out government run healthcare. shocializee socialized medicine healthcare for all. republicans better be market transparency free market transparency about better for healthcare. obamacare didn't let you keep your doctor. set premiums skyrocketing. didn't work. provide alternative. that will be key. jedediah: liberals, democrats use so effectively. when they come out and talk about republicans don't care about your healthcare? e o, really i thought you didn't care about people's healthcare when you decided to tell them they could keep their plan and keep their doctor and they weren't allowed to do that when you shoved this plan down people's throats on a bed of lies. don't be afraid to be tough. ed: obamacare was a winning issue in previous midterms 2010 and 2014. they used it more effectively as a political weapon. this is going to be front and center in 2020.

ed: mueller investigation shifting gears. $25 million and counting. enough to it's become almost a regular owe curensz now that every friday there is some sort of a document dump this time this past friday special counsel's office reacting to general michael flynn's legal team and what they were saying about how they don't want any jail time well, there is new questions in these documents about the fbi agents who handled the flynn case and how they never believed that he was lying during the meeting they had. pete: that's right. here's a portion of a document released related to michael flynn. it said strzok and redacted, we don't know who that is, both had the impression at the time that flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying. film struck strzok as bright but not profoundly sophisticated. that's rich coming from the guy who sent -- do i know about gossip girl. i should not admit that but i will. the guy gossip girling with lisa page. ed: peter strzok. pete: he said michael flynn is not sophisticated. save it. a lot of people close to the

case feel like michael flynn was set up. never lied. his career what he did to our country and in uniform never held in account. ambushed and based on surveillance used for a long time. a lot of questions around michael flynn. ed: question just not about the gossip and text messages back and forth. peter strzok and andrew mccabe. these were supposed to be fbi officials who were nonpartisan and just the facts, ma'am. they were law enforcement officials we should respect who are going to get to the bottom of this. instead, it looks like two systems of justice in terms how the fbi handled hillary clinton and how they handled donald trump. jedediah: we have tom fitton, president of judicial watch. the fbi targeted flynn as part of an anti trump campaign. that's what he is saying. >> this corrupt duo of comey, and mccabe, that's targeting flynn for what he? talks to the russian ambassadors, incoming national security advisor. there was no reason to go after him. but to target him and to get a scalp as they barked around their anti-trump

campaign. it goes to show that the rules didn't apply to donald trump when it came to targeting him. and they were holding him out to a standard that they held no one else out to. pete: thank god for those so sophisticated text messages and how much bias they truly revealed. ed: there was another very important development. maybe buried. take you back to january 6th, 2017 i believe it was. president-elect donald trump is getting briefed by james comey at the fbi. this happened at trump tower here in new york and other intel officials, james clapper and whatnot about threats. pete: made a big deal in the book. ed: at the end of that meeting i believe he then pulled aside the president-elect and said basically, we got some dirt on you. you know, there is this dossier. there is this stuff maybe sexual nature some stuff you should be aware of. i have talked to people inside the white house around the president who felt like the president felt pressured that comey was sort of trying to hold this information over his head. and there is a lot of talk well, that was christopher steele and the dossier and

that it wasn't made clear to the president that this was funded by the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign. guess what? we now have evidence of that because in these documents they released what they call annex a, which basically it's sort of a two-page memo that comey had. it's finally been released of what he briefed the president-elect on and among other things it says, quote: the source is an executive of a private business intel firm and former employee of intelligence service meaning christopher steele but don't name him who has been compensated meaning paid. the source collected this information on behalf of private clients and was not compensated for it by the fbi. private clients, you mean hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc? this is the document that james comey was using to brief the president-elect. he says private clients were behind it, mr. president-elect. why didn't he disclose to the incoming president of the united states, this dirt was paid for by the

democrats? >> what's fascinating to me, too. nobody talks about that but, yet, we have been talking about what trump may have done and looking into collusion for how long we haven't found it. when you have something substantial like, this that's right there in front of everybody's face. nobody questions it. the media stays silent on that. it's stunning, actually. pete: we live in a world of double standards. two forms of justice. also double standards stuck out to us. a new congresswoman, she replaced keith ellison. remember keith ellison from minnesota, first muslim congresswoman. she is ilhan omar. she represents the same seat that keith ellison had. she tweeted this a couple days ago and it caught our eye. picture mike pence during that meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. ed: talking about the wall. pete: talking about the wall saying, jesus, take the wheel. #border wall. pete: i'm not quite sure what that means all i know is that the media to your point about double standards would never pointed throughout. is he sor.

pete: is he blinking during the meeting and praying and mock his christian faith. jedediah: pence gets mocked for craziest face. remembers liberals mocked he didn't want to go out and have drinks with women other than his wife. things people would look and commend people for this is a noble guy of faith and family. that's what they choose to mock all the time. and i think that's really a reflection of them that take note of. ed: incoming republican congress men or women tweeted this about a muslim. pete: can you imagine if i put up a photo of ilhan omar and said mohammed take the controls, #open borders. can you imagine? do we live in a free country. you can insult the person i believe t my lord and savior, can you insult your prophet? i literally want to know that whether we still live in a country where that can happen? that's why things like this get people's ire. because it feel like we live in a double standard where some things are acceptable and some are not is that

what you should be tweeting as a new congresswoman elect? jedediah: not to say people don't make mistakes on both sides of the aisle. of course some of us do. only one side gets held accountable for it and the other side gets a pass. either you will be outraged by these things universally. pete: she will be a cause celeb of the left. you think ocasio-cortez is ilhan omar center of resistance against donald trump. ed: weigh in. jedediah: what do you think? ed: show some of your tweets, emails, whatnot friends@foxnews.com. pete: that's right. president trump's fixer, lawyer michael cohen sent to three years in prison. did the president commit a campaign finance crime? a former fec chairman says no. and he joins us to explain coming up. ed: he will know he is at the federal election commission. that will be interesting. a mom is caught on camera rocking out to kelly clarkson ♪ since you've been gone

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ed: president trump's former attorney michael cohen going public after being sentenced three years in prison. there is something he wants to be remembered for. >> he doesn't understand the system and it's sad because

the country has never been more divisive and one of the hopes that i have out of the punishment that i have received as well as the cooperation that i have given, i will be remembered in history as helping to bring this country back together. ed: our next guest says michael cohen pled guilty to something that is not really a crime. he might know a little something about it. ed: is he a former federal elections commission chairman bradley smith. he joingsz us now live. is he currently the chair of the institute for free speech. good morning, brad. >> good morning, how are you, ed? ed: good to see you. let's start with simply reacting to michael cohen, because in that interview with george stephanopoulos with nbc, president is unindicted co-conspirator in a crime. you say? >> right, well, let's start with what the prosecutor's theory is the prosecutor's theory is very simple.

he says anything that's for the purpose of influencing the election is a campaign expenditure and subject to all these rules of the federal campaign act which they did not comply with seems like open and shut case. >> hush money to women and impact campaign. >> did it to influence the election. most people -- that's what cohen says they did it for and one reason why and so that makes sense. case closed. ed: sure. >> in fact not anything for the purpose of influencing election campaign expenditure. a businessman has as many prominent people do various lawsuits against them against their businesses maybe even for routine things like traffic accidents and so on. he says to his lawyer, look, i want all those cases settled. i'm running for office. i don't want a distraction or some guy in the press accusing me of being heartless. does that the answer is clearly not. right? he can't use campaign money to settle these lawsuits that might be pending against him. so there is another part of the statute that specifically says that it's

or something to be a campaign expenditure an obligation that arises from the campaign. and this obligation doesn't arise from the campaign. it arising if it happened at all, from, you know a fairs. ed: affair he had before running for office. what about the question of using personal money vs. campaign money, keep comparing it to what happened with former senator john edwards and his presidential attempt? >> here's the problem. if in fact they had used campaign funds to pay for, this it will be revealed as illegal use of campaign funds for something president sparing family of embarrassment. maintaining his vitality as a television personality and so on. ed: he did not use campaign funds? >> right. if he used campaign funds, they would say illegal use of campaign funds because did he use campaign funds. they say it's illegal because report it as campaign funds. ed: can we try to douse the blames on the hysteria going on in some quarters of the media going on. you are the federal chair of

election. the president took money out of his own pocket, essentially, to try and make something embarrassing to go away. >> right. ed: is that a crime yes or no. >> the answer is no. politically there may be ramifications, crime, no. ed: so, to you, this is a whole lot of nothing? >> i think that's right. i think in the end it's a lot of smoke. why did cohen plead to it? you know, he had other felonies that they were after him for. they were putting the squeeze on him. honestly i think the prosecutors wanted to get the big official. so he pleads to it. ed: a lot on this story no doubt. thank you for going through the law for us. >> thank you. ed: a fox news alert. protests are heating up at this hour in paris for the fifth straight weekend. we are live on the ground next. and one sheriff's department honoring our fallen heroes. what a wonderful thing to do this christmas. they have a very special tree to honor our men and women in uniform. the sheriff in the unit behind this touching tribute, they join us live

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ed: we are back with a flirt. this a big deal. a live look right now at protests heating up yet again in paris for a fifth straight weekend. france now investigating whether russia is using social media to encourage the violence. our man on the streets greg palkot is live in the middle of the arrests again. you see the helmet and goggles? you are ready for anything, greg. >> everything and anything is possible. weekend five for these protests. it is considerably reduce sod far from what we showed

you last week. it is still tense and a lot of folks out on the street. i will ask my cameraman pierre to show you the yellow vest protesters. antigovernment protesters gathered here old opera house in paris. this is one of the most iconic places in paris. and then i will ask cameraman pierre to swing back again and show you who is outnumbering the protesters right now armored poe armored cars war machines they brought in. if i ask my cameraman to give 3u 60 tour, more riot police, a flank of horses ready to charge in if need be to clear this place. continue on, pierre, down to the plaza. the ritz hotel where princess diana spent her first night. that's a water canon truck ready to come in to disperse things if need be. and back to me, so far, 60 people have been arrested, considerably less number, again, antigovernment against high taxes.

against low wages. against president macron. macron has given some concessions and, perhaps, that has helped to tamp things down a little bit this day. it's still early. back to you. ed: appreciate that live report. we will get back to you as news warrants. greg palkot live in paris. pete, it was only a couple weeks ago. pete: honored police officers killed in the line of duty this year by putting up a christmas tree decorated with blue ornaments. jedediah: the tree has 142 ornaments for each police officer killed in the year 2018. joining us now sheriff mike nielsen of the boone county sheriff's office. so great to have you. that tree behind is you absolutely beautiful. please tell us what was the motivation for you to do such an amazing projects like this. >> thank you very much for having us from boone county, indiana. we really sincerely appreciate that this was an opportunity for us to honor those folks that have given their lives in the line of

duty and paid that ultimate sacrifice because it hits close to home for us this year. we lost one of our own on march 2nd. pete: one of your deputies, jacob pickerington was lost i -- picketwas lost in the linef duty. talk about that officer and his service and sacrifice and what it means to others who are on that tree as well. >> i will tell you what jake was a leader of our canine team. he will be forever missed an edge fox news deck shut smile and his laugh. most of all never forget his dedication for protecting the citizens of this county. he gave his life protecting them just as these 142 officers behind us has done. jedediah: those ornaments are so amazing. each ornament is handwritten with the officer's name. it has the officer's rank. it has the end of watch date. this is a time in our country where i feel like law enforcement is sometimes really under appreciated. what is the message that you want to send to the rest of the country to law enforcement everywhere by

doing an amazing project like this? >> well, what i have to tell is you that these folks that are standing behind meal and all 142 officers that have their names on those bulbs. i am honored to walk this journey with them. i will give credit where credit is due. this came from our 911 communication center. they presented to me a little over a week ago, and we ran with it the goal here is to make sure that we pay the ultimate tribute to these officers that have given their lives to hold that thin blue line. it's so important for us to show that gratitude since it now hits so close to home for us. the goal here is once we take this tree down, we will be sending those ornaments to those departments. pete: to all of those departments. ultimately you all serve together in the service of our nation. sheriff, if you would, why do you put the uniform on every morning? >> i put this uniform on every morning because i have done it for the past 36 years.

and it is something that is in our hearts. and those folks that are out there, whether you are wearing green or blue or red or yellow and fighting and defending that line or from a military perspective, we do this because we are there to protect others. and that is so important to us and those 142 folks, unfortunately, had to pay that ultimate sacrifice to give their life for another. pete: boy, that's right. that number is way too high. but knowing that there are men like you and the folks standing behind you, standing in line for us means we can do our job in peace. ultimately you are officers of the peace. what did so many folks get wrong about your profession? >> they just have to realize that we are people, that we our lives matter as well. every life in this country matters. and we have got to make sure that we send that message out there that we have to be unified in facing this evil that is facing our world today. that thin blue line is there to make sure that we hold

that thin blue line between the mission of good and evil. jedediah: that's an important message. so unifying. thank you so much for all have you done. pete: sheriff mike nielsen, boone county, we really appreciate you honoring and remembering all those brave men and women. appreciate it? >> thank you, merry christmas. >> merry christmas. pete: merry christmas to you, sir. appreciate it. jedediah: amazing. pete: you probably watched those fireworks in the oval office i know you did. between president trump, chuck and nannies. what did the american people think of that exchange? we have got the new dials coming up next. >> you have the votes. you should pass it. >> no, we don't have the votes, nancy. because in the senate we. >> in the house can you bring it up right now. >> i can't -- excuse me.

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♪ rocking and a rolling ♪ rocking in the u.s.a. ♪ he had kiss 1970s, 1980s, i can't name the other ones that was not you one of the best. anyway, moving on. one of the most contentious moments in the oval office, i covered a lot of them. i was surprised what happened this week. president trump met with house democratic leader nancy pelosi and chuck schumer it got nasty real

quick. jedediah: what did the voters think of the clash. pete: here with sound bites of the legal lee carter from maslansky and partners. >> it was electrifying. pete: what did the voters think. here was the exchange between president trump and nancy. >> must keep government open. a shutdown is not worth anything. and that we should not have a trump shut down. you have them. >> you should trump. >> you have the white house. you have the senate. you have the house of representatives. you have the votes. you should pass it. >> no, we don't have the votes, nancy. in the senate we need 60 votes recommendation no, no, in the house. >> yeah, but i can't, excuse me, i can't get it passed in the house if it's not going to pass in the senate. i don't want to waste time. pete: i don't know i have ever seen the lines go like this. >> like spaghetti junction in atlanta. jedediah: true. >> i thought what was fascinating. when pelosi was talking she did a good job she held her

own toe to toe. when trump was talking watching it totally slipped. nancy gave her base and everybody gave her an a on her base. when trump started talking his base gave it an a. independents gave it a c. ed: when both of them were talking. independents were not liking it. >> not that they were not liking it when i dug into why they felt the way they did. people like to see it they know these conversations are being had. they know it's contentious. they want to see it they don't want everything all polished they want to see the sausage get made. they really are having conversations that's what it is really like. they might not like how contentious it is. ed: they gave it a c not an a. >> they didn't give it an f. a lot of the media thatry have been watching trump was a big loser in this. everybody lost in this. this is a terrible thing. no, it wasn't. the american people actually were glad to seat conversation being had. ed: exchange with nancy as you said and now here is chuck. >> we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute.

and you want to shut it down. you keep talking about it? >> no. the last time, chuck, shut it down. >> no, no, no. >> we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's through you, through the military, through anything you want to call, i will shut down the government. >> okay, fair enough. we disagree. we disagree. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security. he had. pete: he said he will own it. >> he said he will own it. the trump schumer debate there trump won. republicans an a, independents b minus and dems a d minus. is he putting his mouth where his money. you know what? i am so glad that he is finally standing up for this. this has been going on for so long. this is a campaign promise he made. look, i'm not going to take it anymore. let's fight. fine, i will close it down. pete: chuck and nannies let's do it in private. no, this is transparency. let's talk about it. jedediah: b minus from independents not so bad. >> not what everybody is

saying out there. no one really lost on this one with i think the american people are glad to see what's happening. jedediah: last one we have is representative ted lieu on red glagh regulating speech. >> i would love to regulate speech the first amendment prevents me from doing so. that's function of the first amendment. over the long run it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech. ed: which one is he for? >> over the long run i think it is better that are government does not regulate free speech. republicans and independents gave this an f. democrats gave it a c. now, what happened afterwards, when you asked them why they reacted the way they did. wait a minute, did i just hear that? what did he say? is he for it? is he against it? not a good moment. ed: he later said i'm for the first amendment. didn't sound like it in the short-term. jedediah: he walked it back. >> i don't think there is the outrage said. did he even know what he

meant? what was that? pete: first amendment is specifically there so that speech we don't like is allowed not the idea that we censor it. unbelievable. the modern democratic congressman, ladies and gentlemen. jedediah: there you go. lee, thank you very much. >> good to be here. thank you so much. jedediah: lawyers for suspected terrorist charged in the deadly new york city bike path. accused of mowing down a crowd killing 8 people last year investigators interrogated him while he was on drugs recovering from a bullet wound. they are asking the judge to throw out those statements and information taken from his cell phone after his arrest. his trial starts fall. an person tourist may have been killed by multiple people in costa rica. forensic scientists believe as many as four people may be involved in the murder of her. she was found half buried in plastic bags behind air b

and b. she died of stab wounds and blunt force trauma. the security guard is under arrest. he gave inconsistent information to police. a law requiring voters to show photo i.d. at the polls is vetoed. roy cooper says it expresses voting rights for minorities, poor and elderly. instead he thinks the state's real election problem is illegal absentee ballot harvesting. republican lawmakers are vowing to override the veto. and take a look at this. a maryland mom is going viral for embarrassing her son. >> i started singing myself answered gave me a look that's up up there i went for it ♪ since you've been gone. >> he was like no, please stop. so it was a lot of fun. >> she is so much fun. caught on camera sara nagd her son at college basketball game earlier this week. kelly clarkson sharing the

video on twitter that's my kind of mom that. >> mine, too. >> and those are your headlines. ed: i can see rocking it. pete: never miss a chance to embarrass your kids. ed: you can't embarrass him he loves karaoke. >> you. adam: i enjoy drinking and listening to you guys doing carcakekaraoke. you like signs. you have been out here for a couple hours. what your names again. >> rhonda. >> and ben. >> and you are from. >> elston, kentucky. >> big shout out to elkton, kentucky. they have been out here for hours. we have maps across the country. i'm also enjoying this forecast. 48 degrees not too bad in new york city in the winter, is it guys? we're going to have a white christmas. well, last week we were

talking about snow along the mid-atlantic. today because of all of that heat we are going to be talking about rain. hopefully you brought umbrellas for the rest of your day. rain out here. not now, the next couple hours, guys. a really good crowd. we are about to throw it back in. everybody wave to everyone back in the studio. [cheers] ed: bringing the heat. pete: elkton, kentucky, thanks for watching this morning. a great line up with geraldo rivera, sebastian gorka and mystery guest. ed: imagine being taxeing taxedt messaging. which could it be? is california taking taxes too far. we will talk to mike slater. pete: texting while drinking out of a plastic straw ♪ ♪

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>> are you really shocked by this california now trying to tax one of the common means of communication. jedediah: they want to tax text messages which americans send a million of. ed: is this taxing going too far the host of the slater show mike slater. where will it end in california. >> guys, i have never seen a more greedy group of people in all my life than california democrats. they work tirelessly to come up with new ways to take all of your money that will never stop. we actually have a super majority of democrats in california right now. so they have super majority in the house, state house in the state assembly. they actually had a super majority in 2014. three senate democrats got arrested and n. three separate incidents they lost it so now they have got it back again. no one can stop this in sacramento. no republican or voice that can stop. this it will never end.

sorry guy i'm fired up about this. the worst thing about this tax is how it hurts the poor the most. right? i can afford another $10 a month or whatever it is going to be. i would rather not. imi a ford it there is millions of people in california where this amount of california is going to break their back. it's hard enough to live here. what annoys me the most is these democrats still proclaim themselves to be champions of the poor. that's what particular phil mics me ofphil -- what ticks me offt. jedediah: they have the audacity to suggest going back and making it retroactive back from five years ago. that's insanity as far as i can see. >> this is the worst part of it. it's the precedent set. one thing to tax and increase it next year. another thing to start a new tax and say hey we are going to impose tonight year was that. as you mentioned this proposal is five years retroactive. so they're not only going to start taxing text messages,

they are going to tax texts from 2013. gavin newsom our new governor is he going to raise property taxes that's not the one horribly oppressive tax in california. the new going to raise property taxes from five years ago. we are going to owe back taxes from five years ago. that's what dangerous about this. ed: we reached out to the state authorities out there. we haven't heard back. but we have got 30 seconds, mike. where does this go? what also frustrates people if they were raising the taxes to sort of pay off the debt and do something positive. they will probably just spend more money. jedediah: yeah. >> this will increase the debt. they will project how much money this is going to bring in let's say $50 million a year. they will spend it right away. and then more people are going to use like i message and what's app. which isn't taxed the same but the government is already going to have spent the money. now we are going to be in a bigger deficit and come up with new taxes find new things to tax it will never stop in california. never. jedediah: nothing is sacred, mike. not even my text messages.

ed: you should write a book about that. >> or plastic straws as you mentioned before. ed: mike slater we appreciate it? >> thanks, guys. ed: attacking the president as the border wall heats up. >> more than okay for the president to make a reasonable request of the congress and stick to his guns. jedediah: will the president actually take the fight for $5 billion into 2019? >2019? ed: plus, just in time for christmas. it's time for pack hacks. all your packing needs and see who can pack the fastest. wait. pete is already practicing? this is not fair. jedediah: cheater, he cheated. ed: that's a bad job ♪ run, run rudolph ♪ ♪ ♪ bring all the gifts for under the tree and while you're at it... bring the tree. ford f-150

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survey 50% of parents get anxious in public space because of the germs and stuff. hand sanitizing wipes. jedediah: we have to move to a competition. because these two are always competing. we will see who can pack the best suitcase and they have one minute. >> the rule is you have to put all of that stuff in the suitcase as fast as you can all of the stuff, too. remember. jedediah: got to be quick. >> rolling and do all that. jedediah: quick and efficient. pete: ready, set, now. ♪ pete: treats. all the listerine. jedediah: ed is going for the clothes first. pete: i have all the baby stuff. pete: ed, you can have a couple of hand sanitizers there. ♪ have has to be able to clothes. >> hangsers never know where you are going to be. did ed forget the hangers? >> you missed clothes.

i am only packing my stuff over here. oh, come on. he had. pete: these suitcases. rushed. last time i checked. [ding] >> we have a winner. pete: still got time here, people. ed: i'm going to go get my trophy. pete: i want america to decide that contest. pete: i think . >> you got more stuff in there in your defense. i have to say. jedediah: that's pretty fabulous. ed: great tips. jedediah: still ahead. geraldo rivera is here live. pete: is it time to rebrand santa claus? some people want him to carry annual iphone and get tattoos. and maybe even be gender-neutral. maybe a she-santa. we will talk about it coming

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a shutdown showdown is living on capitol hill. leaving little time to come up with the deal on border security. i'm more than okay for the president. we have your back. obama care has been struck down. they are ruling that the affordable care act is invalid. >> did you kill the taliban bomb maker? >> present trump has is new acting chief of staff.

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we have the obama care ruling that we are going to get to. the possibility of a partial government shutdown that is looming for the end of this coming week. the extraordinary over office meeting where the president put it on the line instead face-to-face with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. they wanted to take the cameras out. we can have the american people see that you want to not give me what i promised the american people for nearly two years which is not even whole wall. but if i billion-dollar down payment on building the wall. they painted this as i was a terrible moment. i actually thought it was great television. this is one of his key issues. this is the issue we had campaigned on.

i'm not a fan of delayed because every time you delight you kick the can down the road. and you never get the border security. there are revealing moments. at this as all of those one. i could be pushed the delay. you don't need that noise. but if you don't do it in january while you still have the house and you're never going to do it and that's exactly what senator lindsey graham said about the president's fright for $5 million for the wall. >> when they make the reasonable request and stick to the guns. he ran on securing our border. the democrats all voted 44 of them in february 2018 this year $25 billion for the wall. as part of a larger deal. this is arrogance on their part. they are over reading their mandate.

they had been trying to expose the hypocrisy of the left. just months ago in exchange for a dr. deal they voted for about $20 billion towards the wall. now were talking about one fourth of that. in terms of kicking the can down the road in the possibility that they mentioned there's now a report in politico suggesting that maybe the president and congressional leaders of both parties well have a timeout. everybody wants to go home. they want to celebrate the holidays with families. does the president lose leverage by that. you know what the american people want is the wall that was promised. this is the last moment to do it. the other part of that exchange is when they destroyed up said i don't think walls work. this is a the same guy we talked about. we have aaron cohen on.

he talked about israel. they had walls and it turns out they work. stripped away of all of the political nonsense in the emotion that is associated with the wall it's just a divider between good and bad. that's the way we look at it in israel. they built this wall. i ended up reducing the amount of terror attacks. there were 55,000 folks coming in. and went down to under a dozen. i think it's a winning point with americans. i think this is something they promise. this is a defining moment whether or not who blinks

first and it can't be the president. in terms of the house and the senate. there is some of the presidents base upset. on the other hand by the president actually succeeding that might have actually led to the destruction. that brings us to a fox news alert. a federal judge is not striking down obama care seen all of it because of the individual mandate is now unconstitutional. the ruling comes just one day before today's enrollment deadline for coverage next year. back in 2012 the supreme court upheld the constitutional because the penalty for not having the insurance and media attacks.

last year they got rid of the individual mandate as part of the tax reform bill. and the district judge agreed with the coalition that would have it without the individual mandate. as an exercise of congress' tax power. it finds the individual mandate unconstitutional. they were quick to sell that. as an unconstitutional disaster. it protects pre-existing conditions. a number of democrat attorneys are already appealing this. then eventually it will go to the supreme court. the high court has upheld it twice already.

it was chief justice roberts chief justice roberts is cited with the courts on the individual mandate. all eyes will be on him. until then all the court prices plays out. the latest ruling well not had any impact on coverage in 2019 its front and center in 2020. this is an honest question. when a judge rules on something related to a travel ban it immediately stops but when a judge rules that obamacare is unconstitutional a keeps going. then they say we will deal with this next year. you should've been should been dealing with us five years ago. you already have democrats reacting to this. i will be a disaster.

they're going to blame republicans. they don't care about your healthcare. no we do care and here's our proposal. people care about solutions ultimately. and they are affiliated with a party. that kind of answers the questions somewhat. because of travel ban that was sort of proposed. it was sort of new policy. in this case it's a full-fledged law. so how do you unwind that in 24 hours. , you can't. this will be litigated in 2020. you at least had the mandate going. prices have gone up. healthcare has not gotten better. they created that issue. can you litigated and keep it in their court.

before they could now bring in medicare for all which is a complete disaster for everyone. >> a look at the story involving a green beret. he was facing down the enemy and afghanistan going after the tile again -- tell me in. he was looking for a job where he pointed out after seeing a taliban bomb maker is that i'm going after this bomb maker i want to make sure he doesn't kill anyone else. he is a recipient of that silver star. two of his fellow marines killed by a bomb maker he took action into his own hands. he went out and said i'm in a kill this a bomb maker because it's can the save american lives. he was honest about it. he sat down as you said in

2016 and was forthright. i was there and i made a call. >> you willingly offered up these details at the cia. and that's where it all started. a law enforcement mindset. law-enforcement mindset. there is limits on how long you can hold guys there. it is an inevitable outcome that people who are cooperating would identify. the catch and release program. he did you release people you know our guilty. and then those that gave the information they go after ear friend and kill him. it's a double whammy.

if to make this tough decision. he made the decision to put that taliban member and the dirt. i know the rules and how these things go. there is a spokesman but this person out. this is ongoing and were hoping to get more on his side of the story. he could get the death penalty if he is found guilty. everyone respects the rules your were these people that are risking their lives for us are making these decisions on a moments notice trying to protect their safety. i think this sounds like a really harsh potential punishment for what he did.

they made it tough difficult calls that you and i don't have to make. you guys are chiming in on this story. i found it appalling and that they would file these charges. that was my greatest responsibility. disgraceful that any combat that would ace a penalty for what they've had to do in the name of war and freedom. they get involved. things go sideways. a lot more coming up. agents didn't think he did it intentionally. he said it was a perjury trap. he is here to explain life --dash my life.

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--dash my life. straight to the fox news alert. signature of the interior ryan zinke he will be leaving the administration at the end of the year after having served for a. of almost two years. we will see if he is adding to that. here is the key. they had been under investigation with the justice department.

we had been there for a couple years. that's pretty standard time for a cabinet member. we also had mikel mulvaney coming in. the democrats are trying to say at least that nobody wants the job like that. what is your reaction. if a guy that's carrying a lot of baggage. there was allegations of that they were doubledealing.

they have really cause a lot of friction with critics. i'm surprised that he has clung to his position as long as he has. i think that's a great move. that's the one guy as far as i can see. nobody doesn't like him. it was a very sound choice. new interior secretary will be announced this coming week. there was a tweet that caught our eye talking about michael flynn and the investigation they show that they were not searching for the truth but setting a perjury trap.

not refreshing his recollection and filing a false statement. i think we head in our minds and image that were going to talk with profound consequences. you also think that is some of the target of investigation that they get miranda warnings given a white -- you have the right to an attorney. they discussed among themselves the anti- trump forces within the fbi with the acting director. they swore to sabotage the trump presidency.

the statements they were making. were penalized by perjury. even though they didn't swear him and that everything he said would be held against him. >> we will see if the judge throws out the charges this week. 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.

>> good morning again. as state trooper runs for his life as a semi- barrels towards him. ramming into that i was state trooper patrol car why he was

ingress -- investigating another case. a 14 on white is accused of crashing a stolen car during a wild police chase down in florida. they are throwing spike strips down. flipping the vehicle twice. the boy that gets out of the car and then runs before officers tackle and arrest him. he now faces several charges. thankfully nobody is hurt. it's been nearly one year since a horrific shooting in parkland florida which left 17 people died. and now a florida commission looking into the mass in polk county. they are on that public safety commission. he joins us live now. good to see you sir. i wonder what is your expectation in terms of what the commission is going to recommend.

and how that is going to be implement it. we worked on the recommendations that would be afforded to the government nerve. if teachers of volunteer and pass the background. and the very strict trading. they should be allowed to carry a firearm. we know that skype -- scott peterson did not run in. but from the time he was noticed until he arrived at the building. already 21 people have been shot in nine students killed. we need someone there in the building that second that can protect the students. a couple of the key aspects. more school security funding.

the code red procedures. what latitude will different school districts had. we already have senate bill 1796 that was passed last year. i gave them a lot more authority and responsibility there was no criminal or civil penalties attached to that. they were trying to protect the children and educators and were getting the most pushback from some of them in some areas of florida. we are in a wrap up our game. and we can ask our legislators to make the schools engage with us to keep children safe. >> there are many who oppose measures like this.

people have concerns could a student get a hold of a weapon could the dynamic in the classroom get heated and lead to an unfortunate circumstance. but florida representative actually released a tweet saying that there is no evidence that arming teachers will make our students safer. a reminder they took a no testimony on arming teachers but recommended it anyway. what is your response to that. >> my response is he is a politician not a researcher. not a law enforcement officer. and he has not read and seen the data that has been presented towards this commission. he is interested in headlines. i'm interested in saving children's lives. and we can do that. if the teacher does not want to have a gun they should never had again. no one is making them. but what were saying is we now

and we see empirical evidence all across the country where teachers and administrators had run into a fight without a gun without any protection to save their students. why wouldn't we at would we at least give them the chance. the democrats also as you know raise the issue of gun control. please answer that as well. with the proper background searches and whatnot. arming teachers in some cases here's what i say. we have laws in the state of florida that clearly say that they cannot possess a firearm arms unless they are in the presence of their family. parents had to lock up their firearms. we don't have a better solution. and we care about gun control drugs are illegal in this

country how is that working for us. once outline drugs and gets rid of drugs and then come back and talk to us about how we should outlaw firearms. we will be watching it closely. another fox news alert. the interior secretary will now be stepping down at the end of the year. that does broke a moment ago. they're worked in the white house. he's there to react to that. clay aiken and ruben stutter reunite from their american idol days.

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fox news alert. president announcing just moments ago. ryan zinke he is stepping down multiple ethics investigations. they will be leaving the administration at the end of the year after serving a. of almost two years. he has accomplished much during his tenure. the trump administration will be announcing the new

secretary of interior next week. thank you very much for being here. your reaction to him leaving the white house? >> i am saddened. i consider him to be a personal friend he was on a mission to make federal lands more accessible to the american citizens and he is a patriot and a hero. just a few months ago. we met the lincoln -- memorial. it's two two years in any administration. i guess it's like dog years. the equivalent of being there for like ten years.

i want to ask about another shift. what kind of change does that bring. when we heard the news about general kelly. we have to be loyal to the make america great again and gender. and have really good relations. you really had to know how the building operates. in terms of running the white house. if to be a stone cold operator. he meets every single requirement.

i hope he's not just acting chief of staff for the president. i hope he becomes the permanent chief of staff because he is perfect for that role. we understand he's launching a new radio show in the new gear. merry christmas you guys. we have some headlines for you now. johnson and johnson stock it takes a 23 billion-dollar plunge. a damaging report goes public. the company knew it it's baby powder contained in asbestos. they called to report an absurd conspiracy theory. boone county indiana share.

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the police have been using today trying to block them and trying to avoid the pilots that we witnessed firsthand last week. and keep turning around 360. so far and in fact it's quite below what we've seen below. so far contained rage as we speak. it's only approaching 4:00 in the afternoon. still noisy.

those developments in real-time. they're all hanging in the balance. big story and up next. fifteen years in the making. they are here to give us a preview of their van -- brand-new christmas show on broadway.

>> has been 15 years since this moment. the winner of american idol 2003 is ruben studder. they have reunited and are taking the stage together in a

new christmas spectacular. everything happens when it's supposed to. i think this is the person time and perfect season. i'm really excited for both of us to be able to be here in new york city doing what i love. and that's performing for people. i hear it has some comedy and some sketches. amazing song that everybody's can one of recognize. when we started talking about this. we both wanted to do the he ha type show. immediately that's what we wanted to do. i think a lot of people think it's just good to be a, sir. they've all come to the show and set i did not expect that this is gonna be so funny.

and at the box office. we have a special treat for you guys. i cannot wait to hear this. these amazing performers are about to perform. [music] had yourself a merry little christmas. let your heart be light. from now on our troubles will be out of sight. from now on our troubles will

be miles away. here we are as in olden days happy golden days of your. faithful friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more. through the years we all will be together if the state allows. henny -- hang a shining star. have yourself faithful friends

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we look good as a reindeer's. maybe we should go back to that karaoke bar and do a little song. >> we are talking about stormy daniels in that playboy bunny as her chief witnesses. if you want to make that the centerpiece of 2019 be my guest. do you believe everything the president said on the subjects? >> know. he's always under siege.