stop and pick it back up. finally the ugly. a home security camera catches fireworks flying out of control christmas eve. you can see people running for cover as flames shot into several homes and cars was draw this mayhem no one was injured. "fox and friends first" continues right now. jillian: it is december 27th, historic day on wall street, stocks surging after christmas eve crash. rob: what we can expect as markets open. the president and first lady on their way home after a surprise visit with our troops overseas. >> we are going to say hello to you and wish you a merry christmas and happy new year. very important, thank you very much, great job. jillian: the clear message the president sent our enemies and allies and i am here because of

you, the soldier who got to personally tell his commander in chief why he reenlisted. rob: the historic trip as "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ is tonight going to be a good night ♪ is tonight going to be a good night ♪ is tonight going to be a good night ♪ is tonight going to be a good good night ♪ >> that is the scene a few days from now. it will be much busier than that. >> it will be packed for new year's. todd: i am todd pyro in for rob schmidt.

jillian: we are respected again, strong message sent by donald trump during a surprise visit us troops in iraq and germany. >> the president lifting spirit in defending his stance on syria. doug luzader live with more on the president's trip. >> it was a post christmas surprise, a tight circle of folks around the president knew this was happening. they pulled it off, the president and first lady spent 3 hours or so on the ground in iraq thanking servicemembers, they arrived to cheers, spend 3 hours or so, signing autographs, posing for pictures and thanking those serving abroad. >> our faith and confidence in you is absolute and total. you are the sentinels who watch over our nation. you are the warriors who defend our freedom. you are the patriots who in sure

the flame of liberty burns forever bright. >> the president talked about his recent decision to bring the 2000 or so us troops serving in syria home saying the us presence was never supposed to be permanent, that move surprised many on both sides of the aisle and may have been a big factor leading to the resignation of defense secretary jim mattis. the president is due back in washington at any moment. shannon: jillian: we will have that live as soon as it happens. despite this is over his decision to pull troops from syria donald trump assured servicemembers in iraq that the us is still committed to defeating tara. >> the best and gorka says that message is another example of this white house reasserting american leadership. >> i spoke with the white house yesterday, the president was on his way to iraq.

what you see is an expression of american leadership reasserting whether it is saying in syria we have done what we came to do, the caliphate is destroyed, now others have to pick up the load, or whether it is spending your christmas as commander in chief with the first lady, the first time ever the first lady in my understanding has been to iraq since 9/11, taking your christmas celebration to the troops at an amazing moment, sarah huckabee sanders shared with us when one of our service men said to the president i came back into the armed services because of you, and his response was i am here now in iraq because of you. that is the make america great again way and that is donald trump. >> the iraq war officially ended in 2011 at the us mention is training iraqi forces and stopping the remnants of isis.

>> fox news alert, a massive manhunt underway for a gunman accused of killing a police officer in northern california. police believe this unidentified man is armed and dangerous. you see that picture. he is suspected of shooting police corporal singh multiple times during a traffic stop before taking off in his truck as the suspect as vehicle was found and is being processed for evidence, originally on the force for 7 years and leaves behind a wife and 5-month-old son. the police chief calls in a light in the darkness. a marine and two brothers among the four young men killed in a tragic crash with oil tanker, they were all in the same car when they crashed into the back of the tanker on new jersey's garden state parkway. lance corporal robert was assigned to the military's response team. mother two brothers was reportedly hospitalized after learning of her son's death.

>> you have taken a live look at capitol hill where in a few hours congress will return to work on a shutdown solution. it will have to include border wall funding. something the president says he's not budging on. here's what to expect. great to see you. >> the president digging his heels in, both sides of the aisle will meet face-to-face for the first time since the government shut down 6 days ago. the clock is ticking for republicans to hammer out a deal before democrats take over the house on january 3rd, donald trump is insisting he will do whatever it takes to get his border wall. >> we will have a wall. we will have safety. we need safety for our country even in the standpoint, we have terrorists coming in through the southern border, folks say could we have some drones, could we have technology?

technology is built and whistles, you have to have a wall, you have to have protection. >> secretary of homeland security kirstjen neilsen directed protective measures after an 8-year-old guatemalan child died in us custody adding, quote, at my direction all children and border patrol custody have been given a thorough medical screening. philippe a gomez alonso was treated at a new mexico hospital christmas eve for a cold and he died just hours after being released. dhs officials say it is time to fix the broken immigration system. >> we do all we can to protect and take care of those we encounter. we are doing what we can to provide more assistance. >> democrats are coming out swinging. dianne feinstein giving border patrol 15 days to answer a letter demanding a, quote, comprehensive revision of border patrols to ensure adequate

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heather: will talk about this all morning. a lot of talk that the president had not visited the war zone and just yesterday a number of the media were saying he needs to go. and in a few minutes, two hours later they realized the president's plane over england is going somewhere. iraq, germany was the destination. rebecca grant is national military analyst and international relations expert. while we look at this image on the screen right now, why was this trip so important? >> number one, he made the great gesture of being with our armed forces overseas and that will energize him as well to meet with soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines and going to iraq is a big symbol for the defeat isis coalition. and encouraged them going forward as we wrap up the last

bit of defeat and continue in the region. >> he faced a lot of criticism, twofold. as of late, because of the decision to pull out of syria, what do you make of the criticism? >> he has been criticized but this shows steady hand, he gave insight into the syria coalition, he has given them enough time and back to 2000 fighters left, isis controls less than 1% of the territory originally. from caliphate to the cave, that is a significant success. metis was a big part of that. todd: you are watching air force one taxiing at joint base andrews. doctor grant, what do troops get of a visit like this?

>> and the us is behind the demand readiness, to do their job. they know from his visit they will take special attention with the defense budget and make sure they have training and tools they need to carry out the mission. that is why they are in the armed forces and what they want from a president. heather: was nice to see milania go along for the trip. what a great gesture that was, fantastic presence. and arduous trip, night trip, difficult landing, different approach going into al-assad. the troops were excited to see her as well. wonderful gesture for the united states. todd: they will say something as he is known to do.

what does the president get out of this? >> he got a lot out of this. when he stopped at the headquarters of the u.s. air force in europe, he was able to talk to the situation in russia, africa and other subjects, and be sure he touched base with our commanders, he's coming back with a very fresh perspective on the situation in iraq and syria and perspective on what is going on in europe and russia so he will come back and energized and ready to tackle those international and defense policy issues, very much worth his time. heather: i'm curious about your opinion on pulling troops out of afghanistan. this has been discussed, that is no secret. it has been 18 years. would you do that right now? >> that is a question on the table.

we have a special representative, our us representative. if anyone can sort that out it will be him. donald trump argument enforces not long after he did so in syria after 2017. it may be time to reshuffle but we are not pooling our military presence either from iraq, syria or afghanistan. we have huge airpower, surveillance, special ops ready to engage in any point in time and key to it all, training afghan forces to carry out their own security as we have done with iraq. moving the troop levels around is one thing but by no means are we removing our commitments from that area. we have the power to go back and do what we need to anytime, much more complex. todd: they are getting ready to have donald trump come out of air force one. to follow up on jillian's question do you think the

president experienced anything in the last 24 hours that might change his mind on decisions he made over the course of the last week? >> reporter: we heard forces in iraq were glad when he said we are not taking that security assistance mission out of iraq but what he learned from the briefing will confirm the decision simply because he looked at all that material carefully to start with. the forces of isis have been largely defeated and we know rebuilding is a matter of attacking them in the fiber realm, making sure they couldn't take businesses and refund their operations. his commanders would have told him this and what he heard from the immediate operational briefing he received will have confirmed his view that it is time to make a change in reshuffle the syria policy. >> looking at live photos from

joint base andrews where we are awaiting the president, returning from the overseas trip, surprise trip with milania trump to surprise troops, and we are joined by doctor rebecca grant. what do you think is next for the president? >> he has to deal with the shutdown but has a defense budget to deal with. will he create the us space force? there will be a new command but will happen with the organization of the space force? can he get the defense budget and his priorities through congress now that the democrats are in control of the house? he has no real issues there but i think he will be taking a hard look at afghanistan. though he didn't visit he will talk to some commanders, afghanistan will have come up and he will be doing a deep dive, checking in on negotiations and the military situation.

jillian: will he visit afghanistan in the near future? >> it is a possibility. if he does it will be a surprise just like this was. todd: as we await the president stepping off of air force one there may be people who heard the media criticism of donald trump not visiting iraq, afghanistan, all those places and on a plane a few hours later, thought that trip just happened immediately. how much time and effort does it take to plan a trip like this even though it seems like is a surprise, something that was impromptu? >> he hinted he might be making that visit, takes a minimum of days and days to plan this. forces have to go in and get clearance for the aerospace. it is coordinated on the ground,

but something the military is doing, secret service as well, he has done a super job but he did taken off a lot of criticism whether it was not flying down on the paris visit, taken a great deal of criticism on military parade but what we have seen, there was never any real question, shows us how engaged he is. and the national security issue. >> taking a look at video from the president's trip shaking hands with troops but seems troops respect him from the outside looking in. there were discrepancies between jim mattis an donald trump to force us out of syria but what do you make of the relationship between the president and our troops? >> it is a home run.

the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines love him. you see him taking selfys listening to each individual he is meeting with, talking about what you do and how long you have been here, he has done a wonderful job 1-on-1 with the armed forces. todd: we are waiting the president walking down the steps. maybe he is enjoying his time on the plane, beds and showers and all that stuff. and had all the topics involved in the strip. did you see the attacks on the president for the signing of the maga hats. what do you make of that? >> if you are the president, a

soldier hand you something, you say i sign it, absolutely, that is something he was right to do. i think his interaction with the troops have been excellent and he knows how to do that. you concede in their faces, happy faces, they enjoyed them very much and the first lady as well. jillian: i am curious if there's anything else you would like to see over the next year. what would you like to see the president get done as far as international relations go? >> top of my this is north korea. did you see this tweet on christmas eve when he is meeting with another official talking about north korea and the president says progress is being made? we are waiting to hear what kim jong un will say in his traditional new year's speech. we would like to see some progress there. i would also like to see trump meet with vladimir putin. they have a lot to talk about. things are going down fast with russia. these hypersonic missile tests, they may want to talk about

control at some point, ukraine remains out there as well and i would like to see a final reshuffling of our forces in syria, the defeat isis coalition start to do some rebuilding and i would love to see and exit strategy for afghanistan. todd: let's deal in kaylee mcinerney, thanks for getting up with us this morning. what did you make of the president's trip. >> thinking the troops, and the magnitude of what they do, the sacrifices they have made. >> getting out of joint base andrews. 10 or 15 minutes ago from the surprise trip to iraq, they stopped in germany to refuel and you see them walking down to the

media. todd: we will see if he says anything on returning to american soil. the mainstream media will attack something based on this trip and i realized what it is was they were holding hands, the mainstream media has been all over that and milania wearing sunglasses at night. wait for that to be the focus of this trip. not the good work overseas or meeting with the troops or what was accomplished over the course of the last 24 hours. jillian: looks like he's not going to speak but you never know. i didn't mean to interrupt. >> the media will attack as they are so often do but this was a moment not about the media but about our troops. reflecting on the fact they have regained 20,000 mi. of

territory, 3 million people liberated because of service men and women who make the ultimate sacrifice each day. the president honoring them on christmas of all days, it was incredibly special. the media caught in their tracks, say he was the first president not to visit troops since 2002. that very moment as they craft those headlines. todd: what about the kerfuffle over the maga hats? >> continually going low, these troops were so excited to see the president, so excited to see the first lady, wanted his signature on their hats. it was remarkable. it really demeans what this was about which was honoring our troops. jillian: it has been a rough couple days because of the criticism the president has faced for his decision to pull troops out of syria. that everybody criticizing that decision but jim mattis didn't agree. what did you make of the

criticism? >> we got a lot of insight why he made this decision. it was very methodical. he said in a speech yesterday i gave the general 6 months but i gave another 6 months, when we had retaken 99% of territory in syria i said it was time to bring our men and women home. saudi arabia stepping up, turkey stepping up and we are right across the board in iraq ready if needed. that elucidation explains a lot. he made a promise to this country when he ran on getting out of syria, made good on that promise and it was a smart, methodical, wise decision. todd: the president was criticized for not making the trip sooner but looking at the last number of years, a few decades the president, right in the middle when he visited a war zone, 705 day for donald trump, obama did visit 77 days. president bush, 1041 days. president clinton, 1088 days. president bush, 43, 671 days.

i think i got that >> he is right in the middle but nevertheless all that criticism, he made the trip, someone our service men and women have high approval ratings among service men and women for good reason, someone who continually praising their efforts continually bringing military personnel to the white house, visiting them across the country. to suggest the president somehow was not honoring our troops appropriately is completely wrongheaded and you are right to drag out he was right there in the middle. todd: i asked this to rebecca grant. a lot of conversation is focused on our troops in syria but people are talking about afghanistan and whether it is time to push us out of there. what is your opinion? >> i don't want to get ahead of the president. that will be his call but he was clear yesterday. this is not about nation building. we have been in the middle east for quite some time.

time for other countries to step up, neighboring countries to step up. this isn't about nation building. he made that promise to our country to get out of these wars and for entailment, he did so in syria, we will see the decision he made in afghanistan but first and foremost are the promises he made to the people to bring those troops home, to secure the region the best as possible before doing so. >> we watch marine one taxiing on its way, we thank doctor rebecca grant and kaylee mcinerney for breaking down events not only of today but a historic last 24 hours, thank you very much. jillian: they did not stop to talk to reporters but they had quite a busy 24, 36 hours, in washington dc. live in joint base andrews right now. just landing from a historic

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>> the coast guard racing to find a cruise ship crew member who went overboard. aaron huff disappeared christmas day 260 miles from puerto rico. and and the coast guard searching by air and sea. a collar the ballgame was canceled for the first time ever in boston college and boise state. no contest after repeated lightning strikes. the ncaa have a strict policy on playing games with lighting in the area. heavy snowfall blanketing parts of arizona the snowstorm pushes

across the midwest. jillian: 2018 was filled with memorable moments, good and bad. what were the best and worst moments in politics, here to break them down is president and partner lee carter. we always look forward to this because there are so many to choose from. >> it was hard to go through them. >> the first one here, the best america first moment. take a look at this. >> forces opposing us in washington are the same people who squandered trillions of dollars overseas, the american people voted to reject this corrupt globalism. >> he went on to talk about how i am not the president of the globe. i'm the president of the united states. this is a moment everybody got behind. he talks about america first and

got himself into trouble, talked about being president of the united states first all across the board, people -- >> the dials were different at that part of the speech. >> whenever he speaks democrats, independents have been more lukewarm than they have in the past. this america first message -- jillian: best method moment for the gop, senator lindsey graham. >> if you wanted an fbi investigation you could have come to us. what you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold his seat open and hope you win in 2020. you said that. not me. >> powerful moment. >> powerful moment. this is the moment republicans gave this na plus, independents a b-democrats gave nf. this moment was so important for republicans because up until that moment donald trump was the only one seen as a fighter.

this came out senator graham came out and he was swinging and fighting and energized the republican base and up until that point it was really dismal in the midterms for republicans because they were concerned about voter turnout. this energized folks, if he's going to fight we are going to fight and if this didn't happen it would have been -- jillian: right emotion, independents gave a b-. number 3, hillary clinton's best moment. >> do you want to run again? >> know. >> there was a pause. >> i would like to be president. >> dials went down. we are talking about this. if you were going to run? she said maybe. she wants to be president. this moment was lighthearted for her and one that put her in the headlines again and wasn't all bad for her. jillian: donald trump has a lot of 1-liners. let's look at his best to his

base. >> above all else, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy are at the center of american life. we know that. in america, we don't worship government, we worship god. species looking at the blue line, independents. >> even democrats gave this a b-republicans gave na plus and b-but this was a moment, really good thing toward the democrats who were trying to grow government, worship government and the president said we worship god, not government. we put that first. it resonated with his base and across the aisle as well. sometimes they pay off for him. jillian: thank you for taking time to find the best, we

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jillian: fox news alert, donald trump and first lady milania landing at joint base andrews after their surprise visit to troops overseas. todd: donald trump defended his stance on syria. he stopped in germany before heading home. video from this moment ago landing in joint base andrews, the president and first lady. jillian: donald from making his land on the courts in 2018. >> 280 federal judges appointed, 2019 is expected to bring even more.

jillian: gop political analyst and constitutional attorney mark w smith, thank you for joining us this, let's break down the 85 number and take a closer look, two supreme court justices, 32 circuit court judges, 51 district court judges, that is just in 2018. >> mitch mcconnell realized we have 3 branches of government, one of them is the courts. with a republican president in donald trump and republican-controlled senate we can start to remake those courts with republican appointed judges and that is what we saw the first two years in the next two years now that the democrats control the house i think you will see donald trump is going to as they say make lemonade out of lemons, the fact the legislation agenda of the president won't go that far with nancy pelosi controlling the house, what can the president accomplish without the house? the answer is a lot more judges on the federal bench with republican-controlled senate. that will be a priority of this

administration and mitch mcconnell. todd: 2019, what do you expect to happen? you put up the full-screen. one circuit stands out and it is the ninth circuit. not a typically passionate conservative principles, you say the ninth circuit could possibly flip to republicans this year. >> interesting with the division of flip means when it comes to judges. bear in mind, often judges who are nominated by a democratic or republican president are not necessarily of the political party of the president. that was historically the case. when you look at the ninth circuit which is the western part of the united states in hawaii and san francisco you may say there are a large number of republican judges, that flip them to a majority. there are still enough

democratic judges out west. it would be difficult in 2019 to flip the ninth circuit but it comes very close but several other circuits on the east coast, the second, which includes new york, the third includes pennsylvania, the 11th which includes florida, these are where you see at the end of the year potentially more republican judges then democratic but just because a resident is republican and nominated judge doesn't necessarily mean that judge is a republican because often judges are political too in the sense of usually horsetrading going on. sometimes a deal could because it. chuck schumer could say we don't like those guys because they are too conservative but we like these people because they are neutral. that judge would potentially be a republican nominee but struck

by virtue of a bargain between a home state senator and the president. hard to label that person republican or democratic judge because of the way they came to the bench. todd: my prediction is we learn a lot more about the confirmation process for federal and circuit court judges. we learned a lot with brett kavanaugh. jillian: appreciate it. heather: stock surge, markets open indiana, a record-setting day for the dow, a roller coaster year for wall street -- wall street. how does trading factoring? jillian: we break it in next. ♪ ♪ start listening today to the world's largest selection of audiobooks on audible. and now, get more. for just $14.95 a month, you'll get a credit a month good for any audiobook, plus two audible originals

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>> the dow making a rebound surging 1000 points at wednesday's close, you can call the christmas eve crash. could this roller coaster wave the result of computerized trading, 85% of the market coming here to break down his tips is cpa and financial analyst dan gilden. explain what computerized trading is. >> you have computer algorithms which are set so they are predetermined marks for buying and selling so what happens is when the market or certain stocks a point in time, bank, the trading starts and what happens, what you saw yesterday in terms of this rush of buyers into the market is because there were so many people with similar buying points and once it had that the algorithms, the computer started buying and buying and buying and that is the result we have. >> how does a person other

watching deal with that, overcome that so their financial future is as secure as possible? >> what into happening is there is becoming an emphasis on trading as opposed to investing in that is problematic. you need to spend time with your investment advisor to figure out what is your investment goal and stick with that and computers do what they do. you have some funds out there that are 100% driven by computer algorithms. you are taking a huge factor out of investing at this point. looking ahead to today there i ask you what happens or are we at a point in our financial world where if you even begin, if you are the smartest guy in the room and begin to predict what is going to happen you will have egg on your face at the end of the day? >> the president with out-of-pocket so it ended up being a quiet news day.

i think you have the market truly up. what is going to happen today? i don't really know but i think the news out there is relatively positive. we have jerome powell who is going to remain on the fed. that appears to have been taking their foot off the gas related to interest rates. i think there is progress being made with china which is important as far as the trade war goes so i think there's pretty good news out there and congress ultimately is going to deal with this shutdown issue and there will be a compromise. >> you mentioned the fed. there were so many rumors going back and forth the last week or so, jerome powell is out, jerome powell is in. kevin hastert said 100%, there's not a lot of room for vacation. jerome powell is there. that really called the markets. >> you send it would because it is all about certainty. the market does not like certainty.

the market likes certainty rather. when you have a split government that is okay because there is certainty in gridlock but when you make a statement like that where it is going to be 100% that jerome powell is the fed chair that is as certain as we can get and that is a good thing. heather: we will see what happens today, thanks for wearing those shoes again. >> they are helping the nation move forward. todd: it is 53 minutes after the hour. math can sometimes be hard. the little boy tried to cheat his way through homework by using alexa. a patriotic moment during donald trump's visit with our troops, the video you don't want to miss.

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o. jillian: good morning and welcome back. during a surprise trip to iraq. white house press secretary sarah sanders shared incredible video of the troops reacting to president trump's appearance. [cheers]

[chanting u.s.a.] jillian: wow. the president's first words in responds at ease. at ease. todd: sarah sanders incredible this moment with the press. powerful moment member of the united states army told the president he came back into the military because of him. and president trump responded and i am here because of you. sanders continued, quote: he met him after and he gave me the patch from his arm. incredible #trump troops visit. he also got a picture with the president. that's pretty awesome. jillian: it's time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. best sound effect. start with the good. a 3-year-old boy is burning down the house getting the ultimate christmas gift to be just like talking head

singer david berne. ♪ ♪ jillian: his mother sharing this video of little boy singing along from the hit stop making sense complete with the suit to match berne's. it's talking heads, jillian mele. who knew? love it the bad, 6-year-old boy busted using alexa to cheat on his homework. >> alexa, 5 minus 3. >> 5 minus 3 is 2. >> boy. todd: of course it's jersey. the new jersey mom scolding. mom says she would turn the device off during homework time in the future. jillian: okay. finally the ugly. a professional kite surfer gets tripped up by a shark

and all caught on go pro. he saw the shark while he was training moments before crashing into it off the coast of the dominican republic. his folks did not believe him but as you can see, he had proof. >> not what you expect from a is that correct. >> have a good day. >> president trump along with a first lady melania trump spent the day with our troops after a surprise visit to iraq. >> the near elimination of the isis territorial caliphate -- today, they are not so dominant anymore. [. [cheers and applause] >> great job. >> to have the president of the united states to visit them is a very big deal. >> today both sides of the aisle will meet face to face for the first time, heather, since the government shutdown some six days ago. president trump is insisting he will do whatever it takes to get his border wall. >> you have to have a wall. you have to have protection. >> talk about a come back. the marke