♪ [national anthem] ♪ >> we had a very, very productive meeting. we are not talking about games. we're talking about national security. >> the president said he's considering declaring a national emergency in order to build his border wall. >> democrats already on defense after freshman democratic congresswoman unleashed a profanity laced tirade president calling for his impeachment. >> impeachment is a very decisive approach to take. my colleague's comments do not have an impact on people's lives. >> senator warren defending the weekend with voters in iowa. >> i'm not a career politician. these are dangerous times for our country. >> companies moving back into the united states who have left and now coming back to us. >> bret: another wild week

on wall street huge job increase sent stocks soaring. >> that's what radical means call me a radical. >> video of everyone's new congressman ♪ what is beautiful ♪ absolutely nothing ♪ have a nice day. pete: i have already had too much. that's enough. cut it off. jedediah: one minute in. pete: spin for me, ed. ed: i got no backup. you always tell me you are a great dancer. jedediah: sometimes you have to sit back and let somebody else take the show. ed: you guys did a great job on new year's eve. pete: we did have fun.

jedediah: i was warmer than him because i was in inside. ed: happy new year. welcome back to the couch. jedediah: great to be here. pete: there is nothing going on. ed: one story after another. big for the president yesterday. the jobs numbers that no one saw coming we're going to get to that but first the wall. the president giving his most forceful case for the wall perhaps ever. this is something he has talked about since the campaign. he has been doubling down since. but, yesterday, basically declaring he may, if congress doesn't go along, if they don't get a deal, he may declare a national emergency and say he is going to build the wall on his own. pete: this is the president yesterday in the rose garden. >> have you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this wall without congressional approval? and, second. >> yes, i have. >> you have? >> yes, i have. and i can do it if i want. >> so you don't need congressional approval to build the wall. >> absolutely. we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely.

no, we can do it. i haven't done it i may do it. i may do it. but we could call a national emergency and build it very quickly and another way of doing it but if we can do it through a negotiated process, we are giving that a shot. this is national security we are talking about. we are not talking about games. we're not playing games. we have to do it. pete: it's clear this president watching this channel yesterday, he's not playing games. he's in this to secure the border, to get the border wall funding. democrats are saying not a dime. maybe one dollar. it's all child other. jedediah: big joke to nancy. pete: big joke to them. immoral, ineffective. the more the president is talking about the wall, the better off for him. because democrats don't have a thing to say. walls are immoral? that's the most absurd thing i have ever heard. they are too expensive? it's ineffective? like every wall that's ever been built has been a deterrent at some level. let them keep talking. i don't know that national

emergency is the way to go forcing them to do their job. when you look at what kirstjen nielsen talked about it's pretty clear there is a big problem. jedediah: 1.7 million pounds of narcotics seized. 17,000 adults arrested with criminal records. 6,000 gang members. ms-13 apprehended. these are serious numbers. and, once again, i don't think the president wants to declare a national emergency. but he is trying to work with democrats. with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. they are giving him nothing. nancy pelosi is making this a big joke oh, ha ha, i will give you a dollar. no one finds this funny. no one finds human trafficking or drug trafficking or cartels funny. look, i don't want to go that route. i'm trying to negotiate with democrats. if you are going to push me, this is a national emergency. you take a look at these numbers and willing to acknowledge there is a huge problem here. he is saying if not now, then when? that line you talked about democrats saying it's too expensive. that's got to be the biggest joke ever. this is such a small tiny

percentage of the budget. democrats find money for everything else, for entitlement spending and foreign aid. supported money for the border before it was president trump's priority. ed: maybe should have hit harder sooner to your point about drugs coming across the border. something both parties agree on there is a opioid crisis in this country. you see over a million pounds of narcotics coming across the border. where are these narcotics coming from. in part, they are coming from mexico. pete: poisoning our communities. fueling gang wars in inner cities where violence is erupting. it's there. just because we didn't talk about it doesn't mean it wasn't an emergency before. a lot of people say where sr. this -- is he finally ringing the bell and raising this point. democrats are fundamentally unserious about it one of his allies on capitol hill, leader of the freedom caucus, representative mark meadows made a finer point on that, talked about what government's role truly is in this shutdown. listen. >> i can tell you this is

not a fight about a government shutdown. it's not even a fight about a wall. it's about safe communities and are we going to really do what we're empowered to do? the government is there to protect and serve the people. and if at its very core is not protecting our communities then we are failing as a government. what we have to do is understanding that today is the day that we have to fight. the president is right to fight for this. and i can tell you i'm hearing from people all across the country willing to stand with him. pete: i heard of the same thing. i was in indiana a couple days ago breakfast with friends. every single person said shut it down. keep fighting. don't back down. get that money. there's no reason to give in to democrats that don't care about our border or don't care about the wall. jedediah: we have hector garza at 7:30 a.m. very important that president trump has come out with members of the border patrol. for them to speak as well. this isn't just coming for

him. they are saying this is what we need. we back up the president 100 percent. areas on the border that have blockades up are successful. not much more that he can do. if democrats don't want to help out -- pete: democrats come in said we are going to have a plan and focus on policy, right? ed: you are right. pete: update me here. ed: the president is focused on cracking down on illegal immigration. in the last campaign they talked a lot about heck and said we are going to focus like a laser, if you will, to ba borrow something from the bill clinton days on healthcare and kitchen table issues. i tried to look real quick the nancy pelosi house. the democrat calling president trump hitler. you had a democrat saying let's abolish the electoral college. you had a democrat introducing articles of impeachment. you had a democrat we're going to get to this, saying that the wealthy should be taxed at 70%. we're going to take all of your money, basically, and we had a new democrat,

rasheda tlaib saying impeach i can't even say the rest of the sentence because profanity laced attack on the president of the united states after month of the month democrats saying on the trail we are going to focus on healthcare and we think the president is coarsening the debate and brought it down to a lower level. they have dragged it down even further. watch. >> when your son being looks at you and says momma. i said bullies don't win. baby, they don't we are going to go in there and impeach the mother [bleep]. pete: that's where the energy is on the left today. everything else is talking points. everything else is papering over. they are all about obstructing, hating, resisting this president. jedediah: not just today. they have been talking about iimpeaching him the day he was sworn. in they are supposed to be civility. when she wa nancy pelosi was

approached about rasheda tlaib she had no comment. pete: rasheda tlaib tweeted after this non-apology, i don't think she should have to apologize. if that's what she believes, good for her. i will always speak truth to power, #unapologetically me. i don't live in this world everything you say apologize for. able who you are. will i'm going to speak truth to power. i'm not apologizing. then a group of reporters chase her down on capitol hill why did you do this? was this appropriate? what do you really want to do? so explain her effort. instead she runs from the press. watch. >> if you are unapologetic about your comments, congresswoman, why not talk to us? >> congresswoman, do you stand by your comments? pete: contrast that with a president stand not guilty rose garden in front of reporters holding court answering questions. standing up chuck schumer said you would shut it down for a year.

yep, that's what i said. exactly. if i need to. and then she runs. one tweet h she says a vulgar thing in front of a move on.org crowd middle of the night will until safe space gets confronted by reporters and doesn't have twitter account what do i say i run with my staff. ugly. jedediah: nancy pelosi leader of the party gets asked about it she says she doesn't think it's a big deal what representative tlaib said. >> i'm not in the censorship business. i don't like that language. i wouldn't use that language. i don't, again, establish any language standard for my colleagues but i don't think it's anything worse than what the president has said. i don't think we should make a big deal of it. ed: they said they are going to focus on healthcare. they are focusing on all other things, side issues and personal attacks. think about it. we thought it might be weeks or months before the democrats potentially overreached a little bit

with their new power it took hours it didn't take days. and you are going to have nancy pelosi dealing with these kind of comments day after day on impeachment and other matters while chuck schumer in the senate is dealing with 5 or 10 or more of his democratic senators running to iowa, new hampshire, and saying all kinds of things. pete: it's out of control. buckle up, folks. this is 2019. the democratic party in 2019. all the while you are welcome for 312,000 new jobs and unbelievably incredible number no one anticipated. the highest manufacturing jobs in 20 years. ed: 20 years. pete: in 2018. we will get to it though. jedediah: we sure are we are going to turn now to some headlines for you. three people are dead and four others injured after a gunman opens fire at a bully alley overnight. this photo taken inside gable house bowls near l.a. authorities say all victims are men. police have not identified the shooter or the motive. saluting a fallen his or

her. fall hero. gunned down by illegal immigrants will be laid to rest today. thousands paid their respects to corporal ronil singh during emotional recession. >> he is a great guy. always smiling. >> good man. the officer we want. jedediah: singh was killed during a traffic stop just hours after spending christmas with his wife and infant son. special counsel robert mueller's russia probe lives another day as a federal judge extends his grand jury. the extension could reportedly be as long as six months. original 18 month term was set to expire this weekend. more than $25 million have been spent on investigating russian medaling in the 2016 election. senator elizabeth warren is kicking off 2020 presidential campaign in iowa. >> >> i was pulled into this because i have watched how

america's middle class has been hollowed out. i'm in this fight for working families. pete: i love watching delusion. jedediah: the left's second marriage candidate. she is coming out strong though. she is not messing around. pete: whatever. ed: cracked open another beer and she said michelob ultra is her favorite beer. pete: said. thanks ed henry now my eyes are burning after watching you dance. ed: i'm going to dance more. jedediah: wasn't so bad. ed: i have only started. jedediah: more is coming. ed: democrats are in power. as you would expect the agenda is all about working with republicans, right? >> promised bipartisanship. most are bipartisan issues. ed: like attacking the electoral college. not so bipartisan.

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ed: this week nancy pelosi reclaimed the speaker's gavel as democrats took control of the house and two more democratic socialists alexandria ocasio-cortez and rashida tlaib were just sworn in to the house as well. as democrats leap further to the left what should we expect from their agenda. strategist former campaign manager for scott brown. i covered bernie sanders 2016 campaign and he talked about medicare for all. appeared to be something way out on the fringe and now it appears to actually have gone mainstream. >> this isn't your parents' democratic party anymore, ed. four years ago who would have thought you a democratic socialist named bernie sanders would have gotten more than 12 million

votes in the primary. he did. and since then the party has only lurched further and further to the left show no signs of slowing down. this is the reality. it is not the centrism of jfk or bill clinton that drives the democratic party it's the socialism of alexandria ocasio-cortez and she is going to be the one driving the agenda. ed: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez likes to push back on fox and others you are just attacking me personally. i think it has been silly that people were going after her for dancing video. who cares. let's talk about what's in her plans. she talks about a green new deal. here's what she wants to do. eliminate the use of fossil fuels all together within 12 years. universal healthcare as well. a federal jobs guarantee and basic income program where you basically get handouts. on the green new deal she is going to be on 60 minutes this weekend. congresswoman ocasio-cortez and anderson cooper interviewed her even he was

credit columbus how are you going to get zero carbon in 12 years. >> expensive. cost trillions of dollars. we don't know all the details yesterday. these by i pie in the sky. governing gets a little more tricky. and all those jobs in the energy industry will be gone. as well as the trillions and trillions of dollars it will cost. it's easier to campaign than govern. that's a lesson that democrats are going to learn the hard way in the next few months. ed: here's what they have done as well. let's break it down. a list of some of the bills proposed by house democrats in the last 24, 36 hours. articles of impeachment against president trump. requirement that presidential candidates release 10 years of tax returns. a mueller protection bill we have heard that before. elimination of the electoral college. so basically we don't like what happened in 2016, so

let's change the rules? >> i think the democratic priorities of this new congress can be broken down into investigate, impied and impeach. they have no interest in working with president trump. nancy pelosi's rhetoric about bipartisan when she took the gavel will be the first and last time we will hear about it more interested in filing subpoenas than legislation. that's okay in districts like congresswoman tlaib or alexandria ocasio-cortez which are overwhelmingly blue. the democrats should not forget they won their majority because they have 31 seats that voted for president trump. ed: they also promised they would vote on healthcare and other issues. we will see. >> thanks, ed. ed: a toll taliban terrorist taken out. major victory in the war on terror for president trump ahead. plus, black lives matter turning on nancy pelosi. what she said that's gotten them fired up. and atheist group claims this painting of a ground zero cross in a missouri

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withdraw troops from syria which we are now told is a bit on pause. pete: take a look at this painting displayed in a courthouse in camden county, missouri to honor the victims of the september 11th terror attacks. it shows the cross emerging from the rubble as a new york firefighters and young girl look on. you can see the twin towers in the background. jedediah: now that painting has come under fire from antireligion group that claims it's a violation of the separation of the church and state. freedom from religion foundation wants the painting taken down. pete: here with more is the camden county commissioner greg hasty. thanks for being here. what in the world is the rationale for taking down a painting like that that's been up since 2002 suddenly it's a problem, why? >> well, apparently they think it has some sort of an endorsement of the christian faith or some faith. we have never considered it with regard to that at all.

we have always considered it as a memorial to the events that took place on september 11th, 2001. jedediah: the freedom from religion foundation needs to be educated on this the establishment clause inhibits the establishment of a theocracy. that painting does not do that regardless, we have a statement from them. they have said if camden county wishes to remember the victims of 9/11, a large portion of whom were not christians, then a cross is a poor way to accomplish that goal and the painting should be replaced with a more inclusive memorial. the cross painting should come down. now, there was another painting that had a bible quote that you guys did choose to take down and remove. that d. that give creed dense to what the freedom from religion foundation. >> what we were trying to do at that point in time was just simply follow the department of labor guidelines with regard to religious items within the workplace of a government

building. but, you know, it's just -- it's part of a brodersen narrobroad broaderscenario. if you take it to this logical conclusion where are you going to go. if you remove bible verses from workplaces, then you remove them from the state capitol. it goes right to the supreme court building. pete: greg, it's never enough. that is your point. you make a good faith gesture. but to them they want to rip every religious reference possible out of the public square. for them, it's not freedom of religion to your point. it's freedom from religion. get it all away. what in the -- will you stand by this painting staying where it is, which is offending nobody except some radicals who have made their way into your town? >> well, the people of our community don't regard it as being an endorsement of any particular faith. we regard it as a -- being a

remembrance of what took place on september 11th, 2001. and our community is united and wanting this to stay on the wall of our courthouse. jedediah: important to mention historical depiction of what happened on 9/11. that cross was part of the history. it's not just about religion. it's about history. we appreciate your take on it and look forward to hearing -- pete: thank you very much. the real radicals are the freedom from religion foundation. we have to keep that perspective. greg, thank you for your time. >> thank you. pete: you got it how does democratic -- they call her a darling. she is the socialist you from the bronx, aoc want to pay for her big plans? big surprise, huge taxes on the rich. >> sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70% as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more. pete: paying more.

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>> wall street needed some good news today and today it got a trifecta, bam, stocks rocketed higher. you see them closing the dow up 743 points. >> surge comes on the same day the government released a goodies jobs report. this is actually a good, strong number. >> this is a reminder, a very vivid reminder that the fundamentals of the u.s. economy are strong. if you're just looking at the u.s. economy, we're in great shape. pete: economists praising the huge new job report under the trump economy. pete: huge, get specific. 312,000 new jobs added last month exceeding what any expert, left, right, center predicted. this as wages grew at 3.2%. that is the highest surge, yes, in a decade. >> jedediah: what does this all mean let's ask susan li. >> the prompter said yuge. right? with a y. jedediah: what do you make of these numbers. were you surprised? >> it was a yuge month i

have to say because it was almost twice the economist forecast for the month. this caps off the best year of jobs growth in three years. also a yuge year i will keep using that word manufacturing. that's a sector that president trump has touted a lot about. best year for manufacturing jobs in 21 years. pete: what were the forecasters missing if the prediction was 175 yet it came in almost 150,000 jobs more? >> yeah. so they were short 150,000. i would say wall street economist forecast are usually very conservative. sometimes a little skeptical. i think this goes to show that the economy is still very strong. heading into 2019. you know, with those stock market jitters people have been talking about recession. recession is not on the forecast at this point. even the federal reserve and most economists say we are in a moderate in terms of growth. not 3%. which is the best year of economic growth but in 15 but, still, 2% is not bad considering where we have been for the last 10 years,

right? jedediah: in terms of policy, what do you attribute this growth to? because you have a lot of people on the left looking town do you a lot of what trump has done. are you talking about deregulation? what led to this? >> low taxes. animal spirits. this is exactly what the economy needed. ed: animal spirits bill? >> it's a psyche on wall street. as jamie diamond. pete: pro-business psyche. now is the time continue to vest while industries are growing? >> and while you have a lot of cash on hand since you are saving so much in taxes. i mean, one of the bright spots, actually there are a lot of bright spots of course in the tax cuts. but reducing the business tax which make the u.s. so uncompetitive compared to the rest of the world. that was a huge deal for a lot of companies. ed: yuge indeed. something else that might be yuge. that would be the tax cuts if democrats get their way. here is now congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez comparing herself to giants in american politics.

jedediah: already. ed: talking taxes. watch. >> once you get to like the tippy top on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70% as you climb up this ladder. you should be contradicting more. only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. abraham lincoln made the radical decision to sign the emancipation proclamation. franklin delano rose vet made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like social security. if that's what radical means call me a radical. ed: when you look at the study something like the top 50% of the wealthy right now pay, i believe it is, federal taxes 97% of the federal taxes. so, what she is saying fair share what is she talking about? >> i think she wants to go back to the era top tax rate was around 70%. during the eisenhower era close to 90%. very few rich people actually pay that tax, of

course. there have been studies done yes this is a great theory tax the rich to give to the poor. bad in practice. very few people actually pay that tax because rich are very elastic. because when prices go up, they change their behavior very easily because they can. so, if taxes go up, they will just move their money elsewhere. they will find loopholes like in france in 2012 when hollande tried to tax the rich 75% they moved elsewhere that reduces tax revenue as a percentage of g.d.p. jedediah: has a negative domino effect on the economy. you tax the top earners it doesn't just hits them it hits everybody. >> if i'm being taxed for 70 cents on every dollar i make. why would i invest in my education? why would i encourage so much student debt for me to work for the government. pete: i have never been hired by a poor person. jedediah: exactly. trickle down. thank you so much, susan. we will give you headlines now.

the parents of the missing colorado mom file a wrongful death lawsuit against her fiance. patrick frazee is facing murder charges in the death of kelsey berreth. she mis mysteriously vanished on thanksgiving morning. >> calling on president trump to dismiss the case of a navy seal. edward gallagher pleaded not guilty along with other war crimes. representative duncan hunter wants statement reads in part no credible evidence has been provided that this isis fighter was murdered as opposed to dying from his terrorist actions. if convicted gallagher faces life in prison. nancy pelosi already in hot water just days after becoming speaker of the house. black lives matter taking issue with pelosi saying all lives matter at a recent town hall. >> i support the recognition that black lives matter for sure. all lives matter. jedediah: the movement saying all lives matter dismisses the struggle of

african-americans. pete: it's a tap dance she can't win. when you in the middle of identity politics some identity is going to be offended. ed: only had the job two or three days. it will get interesting. the president refusing to back down on the fight for our southern border. >> we won't be opening until it is solved. we think this is a much bigger problem. the border is a much bigger problem and dangerous problem. it's a problem of national security. ed: up next an angel mom whose son was tragically killed by illegal immigrant and how president trump is giving her family, she says, a voice, finally. pete: hundreds of tsa agents calling in sick due to the shutdown. why those in charge are calling it fake news. we will bring it to you ♪ running on empty ♪ running by ♪ running into the sun but i'm running behind ♪ i'm partnering with cigna to remind you

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ed: good morning again. government headlines stop officials from getting pay hikes. the office of personal management ordering the federal managements to continue to pay senior officials at frozen rate until legislation is finally passed. the irs is still demand thawing pay your taxes on time despite the shutdown. this despite the fact that your tax returns are maybe going to be delayed since the shutdown delayed two weeks ago. the irs has cut staffing by 88%. and cnn is getting slammed for reports hundreds of tsa workers are calling in sick because of the shutdown. homeland security spokesman tweeted out more fake news from cnn. security operations at airports have not been impacted by nonexistent sickout. cnn has cell numbers of multiple tsa public affairs professionals but rather than validate statistics. they grossly misrepresented them. pete: an apple is just an

apple, ed. more from cnn. president trump standing firm on calling for barred wall no deal on reopening the government unless there sphunsding for that wall. >> we won't be opening until it is solved. we think this is a much bigger problem. the border is a much more dangerous problem. it's a much bigger problem. it's a problem of national security. pete: our next guest agrees. her son dominic was killed by illegal immigrant driver who had a record of drunk driving convictions. durbin is the director and founding member of advocates for victims of illegal alien crime she joins us via skype. sabina, thank you for joining us this morning. first of all, share the story of your son and how it impacts when you do today. >> good morning and happy near tiaryto you. he worked for 911 dispatcher in riverside, california. he was killed 6 years ago

july 12th, 2012. it tore my world apart. my family was ripped apart. and i didn't have any help. i didn't know where to go, what to do. the d.a. lied to me the killer got away with a misdemeanor and served 35 days in jail. after i came out of my shock, i realized there are so many more that know my pain, a child, father, husband because of an illegal a group of us angel moms and dads formed aviac because we want to be there when that happens. like with that young sheriff in california. pete: absolutely. so, the man that killed your son came illegally from guatemala. convicted twice of driving under the influence yet on the streets, unfortunately to kill your son that day. when you see the president

standing firm as he is saying i will keep this shutdown until i get funding for the wall your reaction to his stance? >> i'm giving him a standing ovation. he needs to stand his ground. he promised us that. and he is doing what somebody should do for america who is in power. and all the politicians should actually stand with him instead of trying to not -- trying to dismiss him and call it immoral. it's immoral not to build that wall and protect other americans. from having the same fate that i suffered. it's -- it also works both sides, because, if you build that wall, they won't come. they will know they can't get. in and the children that died on the wouldn't have died. schumer and pelosi, you need to stop playing russian roulette with our lives and get that wall built. pete: that's a fair point. speaking of chuck and

nannies, they were supposed to be in a briefing with kirstjen nielsen, the dhs secretary. she tried to present some facts. they cut her off six seconds. in didn't really want to hear it here are. so fax that the homeland security secretary that was trying to relay that have now been made public. first the amount of drug seizures in fiscal year 2018. 1.7 million pounds of narcotics in 2018 alone as well, 17,000 adults with existing criminal records came across the border. 3755 known or suspected terrorists prevented from entered and 6,000 gang members apprehended. sabina, when you see those numbers, how can you say it's immoral to have a wall or ineffective to have a wall or we can't afford $5 billion? >> that's exactly it. i don't understand it here are the ashes of my son. does nancy or chuck have to have the ashes of their loved one before something

is done? i don't get how you can be so blind. i don't think they are blind. it's the bigger picture. it's the big money. there are other reasons why they are so adamant of not building the wall while they are funding other foreign governments. it's insane. pete: you think they are blind to the reality and there is politics being played here? >> i think politics are being played big time. i don't think they are blind. they are very smart. they wouldn't be where they are. so i appeal to them. don't let another dominic happen. don't let another ronald singh happen. it's time to stop this slaughter. and stand up. be our hero. be america's hero. you have to love americans more than you hate the president or dislike the president. pete: there it is. patriotism. loving your country. and putting your citizens first. that's the issue here. sabina durbin, thank you for your time and reremember your son this morning. >> thank you so much.

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jedediah: welcome back. 2018 was a big year for big tech. what can we look forward to in 2019. ed: joining us now is a man who knows. give us predictions heads

off to vegas for ces convention. kurt the cyberguy. kurt kurt ready for 2019? five predictions to go through. what we're looking for in las vegas because this is a huge time of year not apple because apple never attends ces. we have our eye on apple this year. don't look for them to be doing major breakthroughs on the hardware side. look for them to be in the content and media business. they have put a stake in the ground there, especially out in hollywood. apple pay is going to be huge. see growth in that area this year. also remember vr virtual reality. put that aside. augmented reality. ed: what's the dinners? >> augmented reality use existing stuff right now and you don't have to really just put on anything like a big head set like virtual reality. take you out of relate. so you use your phone. for example, ikea was really good at this you could see where the sofa might fit in your house overlay the stuff

on the screen as you are showing your living room. that sofa might work here. that's what you will see a lot more of. if you go to the show, already amazon echo has sort of bubbled up to be the leader in smart speaker, smart device. so alexa has already over 56,000 skills inside of it what you will see at the show is everything then fill in the blank poured by alexa. this is amazing. this is the high mirror mini. this you will see at the show. we got it early. this is right up your alley because this is -- i thought it sounded like something oh, okay, that's interesting. then you actually use it and this analyzes your skin. and you follow your skin routine on it so it's not forcing you to do anything that you don't already do in terms of a beauty regimen, but what it does is tracks all of that and you can see your own performance. >> having a facialist with you to give you a skin

evaluation. >> build your own beauty box like this. ed: pete is excited. jedediah: i can do this and use the you brought last time. >> got led lights on it and tracks your skin over period of time. ed: why were you talking about it in terms of alexa. >> alexa enabled. unless it is alexa enabled, thank you, pete. ed: alexa looking at his face. >> keep your eye on that one. health and wellness another area you will see huge growth this year. including this. this is from air things. this is about measuring the air in your -- oh, look at the face on it. pete: trying to find my face. >> what this does is measures the air quality in your house. the batteries last about a year and a half on this. set it up. so easy. air things wave and wave your hand in front of this and tell you. the green means the gas level in our house is okay.

radon gas is far more dangerous for you over long periods of time. it is the biggest cause of lung cancer aside from smokers. ed: what about tv. >> 8 k. 5, 6, 7 are gone. this is amazing. this is an lgtv that is just breathtaking at 88 inches and super, super brilliant resolution. jedediah: got to have that pete. ed: when you come back more info. can't wait. democrats have been in control about 36 hours are they working for americans? well, the bills they are trying to push through, they are all about going after the president. we will talk about that next. pete: i thought it was about policy. put me in, coach. barack, who thinks our next president should be coaching it up on the court?

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call me a radical. >> melting down under video of everyone's new favorite congresswoman ♪ yeah what is good for ♪ absolutely nothing. jedediah: she can dance. pete: spin for me, ed. jedediah: look at that. ♪ pete: great song and very fitting. ed, you did everything in that dance except the spin. ed: i have to practice that maybe at 8:00. no one else is dancing. jedediah: i passed the baton to you and you didn't do the spin. can't count on you. pete: more ed no ed at all. stop now my eyes are hurting. jedediah: i thought it was good. i thought you did a great job. first time out and did you really well. ed: back up from here. pete not so much.

jedediah: the spin. ed: 8:00 to get to. we have a lot to get. to say. pete: i was watching casually fox news channel moment by moment. if this is what 201 is going to look like. good luck keeping up. it's nonstop. ed: the morning started with breaking news yesterday better than expected jobs numbers and the president negotiating on the shutdown and doubling down on his push for the wall. focusing on substance and policy. that's what democrats said they were going to do if they were elected to take over the house focus on policy and healthcare and jobs. all these other things. instead in 24 to 48 hours. they are focusing on practically anything but jobs and healthcare. pete: they couldn't keep the lid on it for 24 to 48 hours. these new members campaigned kind of sort of on these policies, in relation where is the real fuel for the democratic party today? ed: going after that guy. jedediah: that's right. pete: initial bills proposed by democrats in the first

weakening hours not weakening beginning hours of the 116th congress. ed: feels like weakening already. pete: presidential impeachment. presidential candidate tax disclosure. mueller protection bill. all of those things elimination of the electoral college. they all look backwards to november of 2016. they still haven't given up the fact that they believe donald trump -- ed: they lost the election because electoral college they want to change the rules. jedediah: looking forward. last one electoral college. couldn't win the last election. trump won. make sure he doesn't win again. we can't do it fairly. change everything around and hope that new york and california can carry through maybe elizabeth warren. ed: she is running around iowa. they love her. ed: another thing we kept hearing during the campaign we are going to restore civility to congress to the nation. that they feel like the president has debased the

debate. his twitter account is horrible. we are going to come back and talk about high-minded issues and be more civil. instead of what we have seen in 24 to 48 hours. let's compare the president to hitler. let's attack him and let's impeach him and drop the f bomb. watch. >> americans elected an authoritarian anti-immigrant racist strong man to the nation's highest office. much like hitler took over the nazi party, trump has taken over the republican party. >> when your son says lost you. bullies doingts win. will they don't because we are going to go in there and impeach the mother [bleep] jedediah: when republicans say something that maybe uses a word that's a little off color, they always have to explain themselves. the media says why did you say that? they have to answer for it interestingly enough, nancy pelosi was asked billion member. she is the leader.

she says it isn't a big deal what representative tlaib did. >> i'm not in the censorship business. i don't think -- i mean, i don't like that language i wouldn't use that language. i don't establish any language standard for my colleagues. >> um-huh. >> but i don't think it's anything worse than what the president has said. i don't think we should make a big deal of it. >> in an ear wrath identity politics, can't censor female congresswoman. can't censor one of the first muslim congresswomen. she is tap dancing with her caucus. i will say this. not only does schumer not have control of the senate as you referenced, ed, because half the senate is running for president. he can't control that nancy pelosi can't control her caucus and won't be able to. she barely squeaked out the votes. she got the votes because she declared she won't -- she will give $1 for the wall. jedediah: maybe. pete: that's how she coalesced her caucus. ultimately, this is going to be a free for all. a free for all of trump hate not based in policy at

awesome when they do talk about policy, ed, you saw the socialist in the bronx talk about in order to pay for her green deal 90% tax rate for certain americans. >> she talked about federal tax. it could -- you add it all up. >> compare with eisenhower when we were up near 90%. bottom line middle of the week right before nancy pelosi took power we heard story lines of whether the democrats overtime will they overreach? you know what? it didn't take a lot of time. didn't take weeks or days. maybe hours before they started overreaching. that's what might blow up in their face. democrats may be the best thing going for the president right now. jedediah: i remember a short time ago when i thought nancy pelosi was extreme. now she is the one that's not so extreme. she is trying to reign in all the crazy stuff going on in her party. it's crazy. ed: while you are seeing side show on capitol hill the president at the white house back over the holidays he cancelled his trip to palm beach. i'm ready to negotiate. nancy pelosi was in hawaii. the democrat didn't want to move the ball forward on

getting the government reopened. they will wanted to wait until pelosi came to power. so they can try to claim the credit. they passed their bill to try to reopen the government that's dead on arrival in the senate. so the president comes out to the rose garden yesterday after a meeting with congressional leaders and says it's time for us to deal. if they don't do it, i might have to declare a national emergency and build the wall myself, watch. >> i just want to check that the shutdown could go on for months or even a year or longer. did you say that. >> i did. i did. i did say that. absolutely i said that we won't be opening until it's solved. we think this is a much bigger problem. i don't call it a shutdown. i call it doing what you have to do for the benefit and for the safety of our country. we set out a number, 5.6 billion. we're very firm on a number. we are not playing games. we have to do it. pete: the loans on the left are doing their thing. every day that trump is talking about illegal immigration and the wall is a winner for him. it's common sense. and you have got the left

jumping -- play this for a second. ben cardin is not a particularly interesting member of the senate with you is he a democrat. he had this to say yesterday. and we will talk about it after it on another network. listen. >> we're prepared to talk with the president as to what we need for border security. we will not support a wall because the experts tell us the wall is a waste of money and it detracts from dollars being available for real border security. so, we need to talk about how we can make our border safer and, yes, democrats and republicans can come to an agreement on that but it's unclear whether the president is interested in that or just interested in his wall. pete: the experts tell us. who the hell are these experts is he talking to. senator cardin, please, honestly friends@foxnews.com. i will give you my personal cell phone number tweet at me, whatever. who are these experts talking to say a wall doesn't matter. is it doesn't work. sir, it's a lie, it's an absolute lie. they know it and hoping to win a political debate. jedediah: can they show that side by side with chuck

schumer and all the democrats a few years ago advocating for that wall and why it was important in addition to the border patrol agents that came out with president trump and said actually in the locations where these walls do exist it does make enormous difference in shutting down illegal immigration. ed: democrats were saying then whether you call it a wall or a fence, this is one of many fence. you have drones and other tools in the toolbox which is what the president of the united states is saying now. he is not saying the wall is the only thing. is he saying it's an important tool. the democrats have completely flipped. they are not only opposing the wall that they used to support now. pete: they are saying it doesn't work. ed: unnamed experts don't want it. ed: this is a special shutdown, ed. not a full shutdown. we have been here before. ed: oh, yes, we have. let me show you the previous shutdown. we are going to go to the touch screen. a mini wall if you will. history of shutdowns. mini wall. government shutdowns are the result of funding gaps. so you haven't passed all

the appropriation bills. so now you have to figure out how do you move forward. so since 1977, there have been 20 funding gaps that have occurred, including the current shutdown where there hasn't been enough money in the kitty so you can't move forward. the current shutdown has lasted 14 days so far. the key yesterday is the president who many in the mainstream media were predicting over the holidays oh, oh he is going to crack when pelosi comes to power. he is going to back down. is he doubling down and yesterday saying this may go on as pete said for months or even years. moving forward the third longest shutdown lasted 16 days. that was under a as you see barack obama's watch second longest shutdown under jim any carter's 17 days and longest shutdown 21 days back in 1995. that was after bill clinton had lost control of congress. he was in a budget battle of his own with the new speaker in newt gingrich. that lasted 21 days. so, what's interesting when you go through all the

history of the shutdown you will hear some in the mainstream media suggesting this is dragging on. the president -- it's absurd that he would wants this to go on for so long. it went on longer under three democratic presidents. barack obama, jimmy carter and bill clinton. they are not mentioning that. pete: it's so true. we have to resist these ideas that we live in some sort of armageddon most special points in history ever. remember we talk about incivility. we fought a civil war. unfortunate matily we are talking about political disagreements at this point. over $5 billion and a wall that hopefully they can reach a consensus on. that's why he says things like a month a year whatever, keep it going also important at the negotiating table. ed: 5 billion to your point that shows resolve. out in the rose garden yesterday i can take 2 billion. take 3 billion. negotiating with himself and going down. you are right. is he saying this could last for months or years. and i want $5 billion. is he holding firm.

jedediah: remove that word shutdown because it's not a full shutdown. pete: always include partial. jedediah: we have headlines for you now. 3 people dead and four others injured after a gunman opened fire at bulling alley overnight. [screams] jedediah: an officer trying to save someone's life inside torrance house bowel. all victims are men. police have not identified out shooter or the motive u the supreme court is considering whether or not to hear their first challenge to roe v. wade since justice kavanaugh joined out bench. an appeal in indiana wants to enforce the state law that forbids abortions by women who fight down syndrome or the sex or rape of the fetus as a reason for ending a peg nancy. next week we could hear if justices will take the case. what should be former president barack obama's next gig an nba legend think the next ucla men's

basketball coach. >> what type of characteristic should ucla look for in the next coach? >> barack obama. jedediah: it happened. bill walton claiming he will keep suggesting obama to coach until he says no. obama is a big basketball fan and even has a tennis court at the white house adapted so it could accommodate basketball. that wouldn't surprise me, actually. he really is in to basketball. he might be good at it. ed: barack obama is a good athlete one time used that tennis court to shoot some hoops he missed about 20 three pointers in a row. pete: doesn't have great form. ed: other times when he made the basket. he had jed nancy pelosi taking shots at president trump. >> i don't know if he knows thousand deal with women in power and women with strength. jedediah: coming up the woman in power the president's daughter-in-law and campaign advisor is here with you why pelosi has it all wrong. pete: she is running some think elizabeth warren is

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question, pete. if i were a democrat i would be running away from hillary clinton's endorsement and running to someone like michelle obama's endorsement who has really high ratings right now. democrats in 2020 are not interested in hillary clinton's name but rather the political machine. pete: the money, the fundraising list access things like that. here are some of the democrats who met with her. elizabeth warren, cory booker, colorado governor john hickenlooper, the l.a. mayor has met with hillary clinton. so you are saying hey, they know her brand is tarnished. they can't run as her. but they want access to power that she has. >> absolutely. and i would add to this that any talk of hillary clinton endorsements is likely an attempt by hillary clinton and the machine behind her to also keep her and her name relevant. we know she is still on the speaking tour. bringing in thousands of dollars.

and so i think it is an attempt by clinton supporters to keep her very relevant to the conversation. she doesn't want to go away. pete: no, she doesn't. a statement from her spokesman, his name is rick merrill a clinton spokesman i won't comment on private discussions she has had she is more than happy to talk with anyone considering a run about the challenges and great things that go with it and lessons what to watch for in this next cycle. aside from salad. she just won't let it go. in her mind she is president clinton. let me transition to second topic. elizabeth warren, hot president has aptly named pocahontas already on the trail in iowa. it almost feels forced. does she feel like and some are comparing her to jeb bush, seems to be a frontrunner on paper. does she really have the energy and interest of graduate roots democrats? >> well, i actually think some of these comparisons between elizabeth warren and republican jeb bush are

insulting to jeb bush. jeb bush had a chance at being the republican candidate for president whereas i don't think elizabeth warren has much of a chance on this front. she is very unlikeable. i think she is very predictable. and she has a lot of challenges. she still is months after this d.n.a. fiasco has not been able to get over it. now we have her attempt to be relatable through the beer-drinking and nobody can forget about it. pete: no one has ever said michelob ultra is their favorite beer except elizabeth warren because she is faking it thank you for your time. >> thank you. pete: feels delusional that candidacy. the president digging in demanding to build his wall no matter how long the shutdown takes.

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speaker getting wrong? lara trump spearheaded the trump pence empowerment tour is the wife of eric trump and campaign advisor to the president and she joins us now. welcome. >> thank you so much. jedediah: great to have you here. i found that to be such an odd comment by nancy pelosi given how many women donald trump, president trump has elevated. i kept thinking of kellyanne conway, shanders the list goes on and on. betsy devos, kirstjen nielsen. the list is a mile long i have in my hand and i'm sure some are missing here. what do you make of this comment? >> first of all it's reding columbus but true identity politics. the democrats really are scared of president trump because is he doing such a great job. and i think nancy pelosi knows that donald trump works very well with women. he was a businessman in his past. he has never cared about your gender or about your color. donald trump expects results and he sees successes and failures. so, that is such a ridiculous comment from nancy pelosi and i think she knows that. he is going to work great

with the women in congress. i have no doubt about it. and she will see. she said we will wait and see. she will see he is going to be great. yesterday jed even while he was a businessman. so many people were promoted. that's a bizarre comment. >> absolutely. jedediah: rashida has made comments about president trump. >> when momma loves you; bullies don't win. we will go in there and impeach the mother [bleep] jedediah: she is obviously a house democrat. i thought house democrats were supposed to be stewards of civility. did i get that wrong. >> talk about a bully. that's a bully right there for you. she obviously doesn't understand how the impeachment process actually works, clearly. there is nothing that they are going to be able to impeach this president on. they have this notion, this dream that there is something out there. there is nothing. but, i think that's what

democrats default to. they know they can't beat the president because he is doing, again, such a great job. the people of this country are behind him. i always say more people are going to vote for this president in 2020 than even did in 2016. and i think they know that and i think they are looking for anything they can to take this president down. i think it's ridiculous. of course, they tout themselves as being so tolerant and not judgmental of anyone and really being like a party of love. obviously, that is not the case. it's really sad that this exists out there. but, when you look at comments like, this they all come from the democrat side. you look at things that have been said before by so many democrats, kick them in the head when they are down. eric holder saying that the number of times we have heard that people should get up in their faces and harass trump supporters and republicans. it all comes from the democratic side. i think people are noticing that. jedediah: you talked about before people being behind president trump and one of

those issues actually involve border security. i want to get your take on what's been going on with the shut june. there have been a lot of calls for compromise for the left and right to come together nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to meet donald trump in the middle someway. i'm not seeing a path to compromise whether you have one side of the aisle on the left making jokes about it nancy pelosi is like oh, you know, we will give you a dollar for border security and not taking these issues of drug trafficking, human trafficking seriously. do you think so president trump will cave on this? >> well, first of all, it's not funny. people's lives are at stake and the future of our country is at stake. that is why the president is taking this so very seriously. something has to happen with this. not so farfetched if the democrats opposed it if not a few years ago they fully agreed with what the president wants to do. wants to protect our borders. they, in the obama days, were all in on border security and now all of a sudden because we have this president, they have changed their minds. i think that that's -- i

mean it's ridiculous. i sure hope there is a path to getting a wall. this country needs wall. and the president will fight to the bitter end to get it. jedediah: what if they come to the democrats and say we won't give you 5.6 but give 3u billion. do you think he is flexible, president trump on the number. does he want some acknowledgment on the wall? where do you think he is willing to budge on his head end. >> given nancy pelosi wants 20 billion-dollar for foreign aid and can't give 5 billion for our own country. hard for the president to swallow anything less than $50 billion. jedediah: thanks so much for being here and looking forward to see how everything plays out regarding the shutdown and glad to see those economic numbers. glad tappreciate your take on this. >> thank you. jedediah: president's critics playing the race card as he stands toe to toe with our officials. >> this wall is not a wall. it is a let's keep america white again. >> hector garza of the national border patrol counsel is here to keep the

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tweeted a couple minutes ago. great support coming from all sides for border security including the wall on our very dangerous southern border. teams negotiating this weekend. "the washington post" and nbc reporting of events, including fake sources, has been very inaccurate, to put it mildly. so, a lot going on, cross current ever information. who is saying what. what's possible? what would a deal look like? let's bring in hector garza national president of the border patrol council. jedediah: thanks for being here. pete: we saw you with the president in the briefing room. you are here with us this morning. your take on where we are getting the wall built and the necessity for it? >> we said this before. border security is national security because what happens at the border and what comes across that border doesn't stay at the border. actually continues to the united states and effects a lot of americans. now, what's happening at the border right now is a national security issue. and we have seen an increase in apprehensions of illegal immigrants coming across.

we have seen increase in narcotics coming across. if congress will not fund border security and that border wall, then president trump should use his authority to make sure that he protects americans. it has to be done. ed: hector, when you talk about that crisis, go through the stats so people get the facts and not the spin. you know this already but i want to remind our viewers. 1.7 million pounds of narcotics seized at the border. 17,000 adults arrested with criminal records. 6,000 gang members including, yes, ms-13 apprehended at the border. we also noticed a spike in attacks on border agents. particularly in san diego, one of the areas we have all paid close attention to up 300 percent from you see there in 2018. so, you can see that there is a crisis as the president lays out. but defend what you just said about, yes, the president should assert his powers and declare a national emergency basically executive power? i thought back in the obama

administration, this president said that that would be an abuse of executive power and that you should go through the normal process and go through congress. >> well, when nancy pelosi says that she is only going to appropriate one dollar for the border wall, that's irresponsible. and it's very clear that politicians out there are not serious about border security. and they are putting their political futures ahead of border security in the american public. we need this wall and proper funding for border security so we can keep americans safe and keep border patrol agents safe. as a matter of fact, last night, i was talking to some agents that are working the san diego border, and they were being rocked by illegal immigrants from tijuana. luckily the only thing that kept them safe was the actual border fence that we have in california right now. and if it wasn't for that physical barrier, they would have been injured and hurt. jedediah: hector i was going to say that the media commentary on some of this has been so outrageous to me. donny deutsch on another network was saying that, you know, i'm sorry, what was

the exact quote? i wanted to get exactly as he said it? included you was to keep america white again. now, what they don't know, you are hispanic american and 51% of border patrol agents are also hispanic american. how out of touch is the media on this issue? >> definitely are out of touch. yes, i am a proud american and proud hispanic. and at least 51% of our workforce in the border patrol are hispanics. it's just very responsible that any media organization would encourage or encourage that type of rhetoric. it's interesting because that type of behavior encourages other media organizations to do the same. in fact, florida morning times from my hometown ended up publishing an article that spread the hate what we were doing. instead of reporting on the facts that they are demand ago wall to protect our country they decided to report on other things that aren't important. pete: this is what that gentleman had to say on another network.

watch. >> you have four white men four stoic strong white men of a certain age, not smiling, by the way. and, you know, look. this is all donald has left. he has one thing, this wall is not a wall. it is a let's keep america white again. pete: your age matters, your stoicism matters. apparently you are all white guys and you are angry. where does that perspective come from? >> well, it's clearly the trump derangement syndrome from all these people. they should be reporting on the fact that president trump is actually reaching out to border patrol agents and is he actually listen to the men and women of the border pa trot to find out what those needs are we need a wall in strategic locations. that feedback came from border patrol agents that are working the field and going straight to president trump. and that's where president trump is working with our border patrol agents. pete: hector, the left though some democrats say the experts say you don't need it. who are their experts telling them you don't need a border wall? who are these people. >> clearly these people have

never walked or worked in the shoes of a border patrol agents. we have all these talking heads come out on all these shows and msnbc and cnn talking about how wall does not work. but, come on, they have never been to the border. some of these people have no idea how the border works. border patrol agents are the real border security experts. we work testify single day. ed: wait, you are saying if we want to learn about the border we should listen to border patrol agents? jedediah: novel idea. ed: very interesting prospect. hector thank you for being here. pete: thank you for your service to our country, too. appreciate it. jedediah: turning to headlines. police department is elm -- an officer is rushed overnight after getting hit by a car while on duty. the sheriff encouraging people to pray. the officer is in serious condition no. word on who the driver is or why they hit the officer. the father of a student killed is appointed to the florida board of education. governor rick scott

assigning andy pollack to the role. pollack's daughter meadow was among 17 people killed at marjorie stoneman douglass high school last february. a business owner is accused of stealing hundred h. dreads of thousands of dollars in benefits. she faked her address to accept nearly $200,000 in state money. if convicted she could face 21 years in prison for welfare fraud. alexandria ocasio-cortez is responding to haters after getting criticized for this resurfaced video how, you ask? well, with more dancing. ♪ yeah what is it good for? ♪ absolutely nothing ♪ >> freshman progressive congresswoman joins a list. pete: socialist. jedediah: breaking it down hillary clinton, theresa may

and george w. bush. pete: she is a good dancer. i don't know why people thinks that hurt her. jedediah: it helps her. she will be more popular for us having shown that. pete: rick doesn't show off but is he a great dancer. rick: she could give theresa may some dance lessons. they should arrange that nasty out this morning. is it nasty out? >> yes, sir. rick: yes, sir it is. very nasty out. take a look at the weather maps. show you what's going on. welcome from florence, south carolina by the way. we have storms across the northeast. what's that? they are working on maps right now. we are having all kinds of map problems. big storms across parts of the northeast just along the coast. go to interior sections not that bad. temperaturewise things are looking pretty good as well. a little bit cooler across the inner mountain west. watch a new storm that moves in across parts of the pacific northwest down across parts of california

throughout the day today. send it back to you inside. pete: not many maps but that one map had you was great. rick: did you like it? rick: it was the wrong map, too. [laughter] pete: that's why people stick around for the next hour by then we will be ready to go. and look at that kid, yes, sir. jedediah: very polite. ed: raising him right. pete: 21 years old old enough to fight for a country but not old enough to buy a gun. one state trite buy arms and if it actually protects americans? ed: snowflakes wanted. military having a hard time appointing millennials patriotism problem or real problem? pete: is that a real poster? joey jones. t back. my doctor and i came up with a plan.

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buying semiautomatic assault rifles in washington state. the voter approved law is part of the gun safety initiative, that's what they are calling it making washington state's gun laws some of the strictest in the nation. this has drawn a court challenge now from gun rights advocates, including the nra. they say the move violates the constitution. here to debate nra correspondent and attorney noar and democratic strategist jonathan harris. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. ed: john, you say this is a step in the right direction? >> yes. absolutely. this is something that's been passed in several other states. 60 or 70 measures are passed across the country to combat gun violence. it's very important they recognize this is a complex issue and this is just part of the problem. and this isn't anything that's a major change. it's just basically ups the age from 18 in washington state to 21. nothing major and as i said it's part of a complex solution to america's obvious issue with gun violence. ed: you heard it right there from jonathan this is a

modest measure that he thinks is going to help people. what say you? >> i disagree, actually. i think the measure is disrespectful. i think it's dangerous and disingenuous. disrespectful says to 18 to 21-year-old that i can go to another country with a fully automatic machine gun and fight for the country but then when i come back to my own country i can't use an ar 15 to defend my life. it's also dangerous in that 18 to 21-year-olds already can't own handguns in washington. now they can't own rifles in washington. so now they have no ability to protect their lives and their families. and i think it's disingenuous in that double the number of people every year die from being stabbed to death and nearly double the number of people each year die from hands and feet but yet, here we are talking about rifles which account for less than 2% of gun deaths in this country. ed: jonathan, answer that if you look at what's happening in the uk you crack down on guns and we see stabbing deaths very often in the city of london for example

right now. respond to what you just heard. >> look, there are going to be a million different ways that criminals are going to find a way to hurt somebody, injure somebody with one weapon or another. what this is specifically talking about is assault weapons. semiautomatic weapons that allow like shootings in las vegas that allow you to kill incredible amounts of people before law enforcement or anyone can stop you. that's what this is about. and, i understand the correlation between a war zone and our streets but let's not turn our streets into a war zone. that's not what this is about. people have a right to bear arms. it's not saying anybody can't own a gun. very specific weapon to a very specific group of people. a part of much larger sweeping legislation about waiting periods and things like that. it is not an assault on the seconds amendment. that's how it tends to be painted. ed: you hear that argument a lot after articulated after parkland and las vegas, this may not be something that you like but that we have to try new things. how do you respond to that? >> well, i'm going to have to respectfully disagree

considering that now, with this new passage of this law, 18 to 21-year-olds can't own a gun period. they already can't own a handgun and now they can't own a rifle. includes all rifles. those as small as a 22-millimeter rifle as well which a lot of kids grow up utilizing with their parents shooting in their backyards. so, it actually strippings 18 to 20-year-olds from their right to own a firearm. and so as far as the mass shootings are concerned, if you really want to get down to the real heart of this issue, we really have to start addressing and talking about what's going on in our inner cities. what's going on in places like washington where you have a heroin epidemic. the issue isn't about firearms. i don't think we have a gun country in this country. we have a suicide problem. and heroin problem in places like washington and we have a socioeconomic problem going on in places in our inner cities. ed: quickly last point. >> you are not seeing mass shootings in inner cities. that's not where you are seeing them. that's what this is intended to address. this has nothing to do with

inner cities and mass shootings. >> you are absolutely correct. and the one distinction that you see in a lot of the the schools in the inner cities is that they have metal detectors. but when we start to have that conversation about doing that in places where we have seen these types of shootings, we don't even want to go in that direction because we never want to imagine the thought of these kids having to go through metal detects tores. like suburban america. ed: pardon me make sure you let us know what you think at foxnews.com. thank you for coming in. ahead, the december's jobs report blew away expectations and we will break it down what it means for you and your pocket. snowflakes wanted both the british military having a hard time recruiting millennials could it be a patriotism problem? joey jones lost his legs in a bomb blast in afghanistan. he knows a thing or two about that. he is here to join us live next.

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♪ pete: welcome back. the british army making a hard pitch to millennials with a new ad campaign, including posters like these targeting me, me, me millennials, binge gamers, phone zombies and snowflakes. their message, your army needs you. meanwhile, here in the u.s. the "new york times" publishing this headline army in need of recruits turns focus to liberal-leaning cities. is it hard to get the modern millennials to fight for their country? joining us to respond bomb technician joey jones. thanks for being here this morning. we will get to these posters which are patently interesting/absurd. the deeper issue is patriotism being infused into the younger generation

so that they have the spirit to want to put on the camouflage of their country? >> no. no, the answer is no. i mean, think about it, pete. we enlisted pause we set in high school or just before and watched two towers fall and we answered a call from our country to go out and defend it now we are on third president done a terrible job of inspiring us on the war overseas. we have a lack of a definition of what we are fighting for or where we are fighting or who we are fighting or for how long and our military and by and large our leaders have done a terrible job telling us and explaining to us why we are at war and why we should enlist and why we should feel pride and go out and fight for this country. you know, we have multiple, multiple special operators on trial right now today for doing what they believe was what they were being asked to do to go out and fight and kill terrorists. we have a v.a. that's completely inept. the military makes promises like college it's up to the

va to fulfill that promise. millennials have access to information that they see when the government promises you things to come in and fight for it, it rarely fulfills those promises. pete: this british ad campaign we saw the posters snowflakes and binge gamers. they say we want meme me millennials. they are seeking them out for theirself belief. now, last time i checked, services about self-sacrifice, serving something greater than yourself, how does the self-esteem and self-belief translate into modern service? >> well, we have a generation of americans that believe they are entitled to go to college, that believe they are entitled to some sort of income equality, that believe they are entitled to a management position. so how do you take those people that believe they are self-important and put them into a place where the first thing they do for three months is get told how unimportant they are? and humbled and rebuilt into something that's worthwhile and a part of a team? so, i understand the challenge and i understand why you might want to appeal to that.

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>> we had a very, very productive meeting. we are not talking about games. we're talking about national security. ed: the president giving his most forceful case for the wall. if they don't get a deal he may declare a national emergency. >> doesn't get the border wall president trump should make sure that he protects americans. pete: congress praising the yuge new job report under the trump comeenchts this caps off the best year of jobs growth in three years. >> promised bipartisanship. most of the things in our agenda are about bipartisan issues. ed: democrats are now in power. look at that agenda not so bipartisan. >> easier to campaign than

govern that's a lesson the democrats are going to learn the hard way. >> sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% or 70%. if that what radical means call me a radical. >> she has only been in congress a few days about alexandria ocasio-cortez is dancing. she can dance. pete: spin for me, ed. ♪ pete: that's good music but i want different music. do we have music for ed to dance to? ed: no. you just want me to dance all morning. jedediah: now he has the spin. ed: what you have been waiting for all morning. jedediah: he did it. now there will be a lot of giffs of that out there. doesn't own it. jedediah: this one does. ed: journalists don't spin? pete: that was

unintentional. they spin every day. jedediah: opposite. pete: so true. we are glad you are here. jedediah: thanks for having me as always. pete: rainy day in new york. who cares what the weather is in new york because jobs are coming back across the country. i saw the number yesterday when it was announced i was taken aback by it. ed: 312,000 jobs in december. pete: we heard estimates they thought it would be 157,000. sometimes they miss by 10,000, 20,000. in this sense 150,000 jobs they missed over 300,000 wage growth up 3.2%. which is a huge number impacting people where they live. and the unemployment rate actually went unby .2% but they say for the right reasons. ed: means more people are looking for work and getting off the couch. even the mainstream media seemed absolutely stunned and for once had to say you know what? the president did a good job. watch. >> wall street needed some good news today and today it got a trifecta.

bam, stocks rocketed higher and you see them closing now the dow up 743 points. >> the surge comes on the same day as the government released a goodies jobs report. this is actually a good, strong number. >> this is a reminder, a very vivid reminder that the fundamentals of the u.s. economy are strong. if you are just looking at the u.s. economy, we're in great shape. pete: that previous dude. jedediah: it's so hard. ed: he said good. not great good. pete: good strong number. also october revised up 35,000 jobs. november revised up 20,000 jobs. manufacturing jobs up 32,000. construction jobs 38,000. and actually government jobs, we're in a partial shutdown, government jobs actually went up 11,000. turns out still pays to be in the government. ed: president trump is increasing the size of the federal government. pete: ed, you put that in my mouth. jedediah: so many on the left coming out with policies completely opposite what president trump has

done. what they don't realize it will achieve the complete opposite effect you will not have wages not have this job growth. you have the complete on sismt take a minute and say that. that's why it's so hard for some in media to report it because they know everyone at home is linking well how did this happen? deregulation, lower taxes, wait a minute this stuff does work. that's terrifying for a lot of people in the media. pete: you have elizabeth warren will running around iowa saying she is for the working man. these jobs were never supposed to come back. manufacturing industry posts biggest annual job gain in 20 years. and, ed, i remember a day when this was never going to happen. ed: it wasn't going to happen because the president as candidate trump talked about not just the forgotten man but the forgotten woman. that's why he won in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania went right through the rust belt. there was eight something president at the time named barack obama who i covered and i remember him saying in 2016 this guy trump doesn't

know what he is talking about. we don't have a magic wand. we will never bring these manufacturing jobs back. this is what he said. >> he's going to bring all these jobs back. well, how exactly are you going to do that? what are you going to do? he just says i'm going to negotiate a better deal? well, how? how exactly are you going to negotiate that? what magic wand do you have and usually the answer is he doesn't have an answer. ed: abra caabracadabra. jedediah: he doesn't understand things like deregulation and cuttings taxes. he doesn't believe in that stuff. he really was an ivory tower academic he had utopian perception of what happens. and president trump was a businessman. that's why he got elected. he was going to put forth practical measures that were going to have effects on the economy that people were craving. pete: you stole the words out of my mouth. that's all i saw at the rose garden and border patrol agent a businessman. a businessman at the podium

saying this government -- it's been insane. it's been out of control. either we fix it now or we don't. some would say well, you might end up negotiating for weeks and come back to the same position. he goes that's what negotiations are about. haven't you ever been a part of that you have to fight it out and see what people are willing to do and stick to your position. sometimes you get back to points a after going through b, c and d anyway. the virtue is in the fight itself. businessman fighting for our economy. we are not even talking about these trade deals that obama referred to. the president is staring down china right now. ed: is he renegotiating. did he it with canada and mexico. still doing it with china. there is a deadline in march that will have dramatic impact on the economy if in fact there is a new trade deal there the other point when you talk about donald trump as a businessman now president remember back to 2016 the art of the deal and how we heard about that. now that is being put to the test because the president is maybe trying to work out the ultimate deal to try and get funding for the wall. a few moments ago he was

tweeting the democrats could shut down the shown shownsd problem in a very short period of time. all they have to do is approve the real border security. this would be so easy to do and jedediah this is also something a wall, that democrats like chuck schumer not too long ago wanted. jedediah: the flip-flop is unbelievable. as i have been saying trump came out with border patrol agents on his side this is what we need. we actually spoke to hector garza last hour and he was saying trump should use his authority to get the wall. >> border security is national security. what happens at the border and what comes across that border actually continues through the interior of the united states and effects a lot of americans. we have seen increase in' prehences in illegal coming across and drugs coming across. if congress will not fund national security and border wall, then president trump should use his authority to make sure that he protects americans. it has to be done. pete: ed, but the left has called the wall now immoral,

expensive, and ineffective. it's almost impossible to walk back from that. and then decide to fund the wall whether you have said it's a moral aberration. ed: here's the other problem for democrats go back to 2016 again. this president talked about what is he going to focus on? i'm going to focus on the wall. is he doing it i'm going to focus on cracking down on illegal immigration is he doing it i'm going to bring back manufacturing jobs. is he doing it what did the democrats campaign on in 2018? we will focus on the economy and jobs. focus on healthcare. we will protect and make sure that you -- that obamacare is strengthened and that, in fact, your healthcare is taken care of. pete: pre-existing conditions an. ed: and it will be about policy. when you break it down. jedediah: what are they actually talking about he haded what he are they actually doing? pete: paid attention to what they are actually doing. rhetoric on the campaign trail, they weren't talking about accomplishing ice and socialism. they were talking about, you know, getting things done. turns out as they have arrived on capitol hill they have focused on slightly different things like articles of impeachment, we

have seen introduced in the house. now, this is the house, again, controlled by nancy pelosi, they said they weren't going to focus on impeachment. here they are talking about it they also introduced legislation where they want presidential candidates to be required to release their tax returns. now, who in the world could that be focused on? i can't imagine they would be targeting that general bill with one individual. a mueller protection bill. i don't know how many times the president, his lawyer rudy giuliani and others have to say we are going to let bob mueller do his job but ultimately it's time to wrap up if there is nothing there. they are focused on protecting bob mueller who himself doesn't need that much protection. in fact, they just renewed another six months of his mandate i believe. finally abolishing the electoral college because they lost fair and square in 2016. they think maybe they can reorient the playing field. you look at these guys and what's the common factor we see? ed: all about donald trump and investigating him and segment coming up what it would mean to abolish the electoral college.

great job there, pete. they lost last time and they don't like the rules so they want to change them. pete: they want to change them. tammy bruce as she does so well broke it all down for us. here is what she said. >> saying that they are radicals is almost too complimentary. these are individuals who are members scenarios not here for the country, not here for the country and future of american families. we see that now in an attitude. the democrats have already gone over the cliff after 12, 24 hours of being in leadership now they are on defense. they are having to defend themselves and making fools of themselves at this point as well. jedediah: these people who voted for democrats have expectations that they are going to go in therenned a talk about policy. there is going to be a lot of disappointment on the part of democratic voters if they see that their leadership is obsessed with impeachment and obsessed with removing trump and it's not for them. it's not about trump. it is about healthcare. pete: that's not where the energy is. it's trump hatred. if the whole primary is going to devolve who hates trump more who will fight

trump more that's what it will become. jedediah: in d.c. around the country a lot of voters are worried about -- they think about these issues. they think about them deeply. ed: they were told we will focus on them. jedediah: they count on those representatives to do it. maybe they will abandon the democratic party if they keep doing it. ed: other voters on the far left if you want to vote in 2020 -- pete: money and energy and volunteers. we will see. jedediah: go to headlines for you now. salute ago fallen hero a california police corporal gunned down by illegal immigrant will be laid to rest today. thousands paid their respects to corporal ronil singh during emotional procession. >> he is great guy. he was always smiling. >> he is a good man. he will be missed. the officer that we want. jedediah: singh was killed during traffic stop hours after spending christmas with his wife and infant son. community is mourning the loss of five kids killed in a fiery highway crash. several people gathering at

a vigil in louisiana overnight. held at sister worship center of the church that took the kids on a trip to disney world in florida when a semi slammed into their van. is a semi driver and all the kids all died. several others taken to the hospital. some with critical injuries. as 2,000 u.s. troops get ready to leave syria their neighbors want them to stay. turkish officials fear they can't fight off the rest of isis alone. they say u.s. officials are working to mitigate these risks. president trump has previously expressed confidence that other countries involved can handle the terrorist group without the united states. those are your headlines. pete: wow. i dropped my phone. [laughter] jedediah: nancy pelosi believes building the border wall is a moral issue. >> a wall is an immorality. it's not who we are as a nation. jedediah: stunning actually a new poll show most americans disagree. matt schlapp is going to give us a take next.

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pete: welcome back. talks to reopen the government stalled as democrats vowed to block president trump's border wall. a new poll finds that the economy and immigration are the top issues americans want government to take on in 2019. so what does this show about the shutdown? joining us now to weigh in is the partial shutdown is the chairman of american

conservative union matt schlapp. thanks for being here this morning. really appreciate it. >> great to be here, pete. pete: a.p. poll that polled folks in december coming out now top issues for most folks in america are 62% say the economy. 49% immigration. 49% healthcare. 30% politics. democrats said they were going to focus on healthcare here we are talking about immigration and of course the economy is growing like gang busters. what do you make of this poll. >> what it tells you, pete, is that this is all the run up to the 20020 re-election of donald trump. because, after the last election, democrats told us all people care about is this pre-existing conditions which republicans and republicans are for covering. what this tells you is the shutdown over the wall is very unique. we have never had a shouldn't. a shutdown. this is something the american people can

understand. the more they understand that the president will fight for this, the more he is winning the political battle. pete: well, nancy pelosi on the other side of this political battle has dug her heels in doubling down and saying that the wall is immoral. when you use a term like immoral, and we have played that sound on this show ask there any room to negotiate. >> she was fine with voting with hillary clinton and barack obama they all said they wanted to secure the border. they voted for those funds. i don't know when a wall is a fence is a barrier, you know, this gets silly after a while. i think the american people, you know, in that poll talks about politics they hate it when politicians are duplicitous. donald trump is doing what he said he would do. what nancy pelosi is doing is trying to do everything she can to simply stop trump even when he is doing things she has done in the past. pete: wall does exist therefore must be torn down?

>> around her house? pete: around her house. if walls are immoral take them all down and see what happens. >> last time she was speaker he had a 747 which had a huge carbon footprint. didn't seem to mind when it was her carbon footprint. hypocrisy, pete. pete: double standards are their favorite standards. matt, i have got to ask you about this in the news pat roberts announced he will not run for re-election in 2020. he has been there for some time. you have a background in kansas. >> grew up in kansas. pete: are you considering a run for that senate seat. >> pat roberts is a great man we will miss his humor and common sense and leadership. freed from her job late last night. mother is in town. sat around and drank a little red wine and talk about this seriously. my first next challenge is to great through look at this race seriously. pete: looking at it seriously. something you are actively

considering and willing to take a look at. >> a lot of calls from my cell phone from the 316 area code is all i have to say. pete: that's a good little nugget ed henry raised his eyebrows. doors are not closing in they are opening. >> there is no wall on this race, let me tell you there is a big door. pete: we will be following closely if and when you announce you better do it on our program. >> it's a deal, pete. pete: we got it on tape, ed. thank you very much, matt. >> appreciate it. pete: injured in battle but united in fighting for america from the front lines of capitol hill these three lawmakers garnering attention for this patriotic photo. one of those men, com brian mast who lost both his legs serving his country joins us next.

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♪ ed: the trump administration getting their first victory in an effort to ban transgender americans from serving in the military. federal court lifting an order against the policy of. the plan allows transgender people to serve if they do so in their biological sex. and freshman congresswoman debra wexton showing her support for the transgender community by placing this transgender flag outside her office door in the house. the congresswoman says she has friends and family members who are transgender and wants them to feel welcome. jedediah: just days into democrats taking over the house. newly elected congresswoman to lead literally dodges reporters after thee vulgar anti-trump comments. >> we're going to go in and there impeach the mother [bleep] [cheers] >> if you are unapologetic about your comments, congresswoman, why not talk to us? >> congresswoman, do you stand by your comments?

jedediah: as you can see, she continued to run away as reporters asked her questions. >> here to weigh in is florida representative brian mast. thanks for being here this morning we appreciate it. jedediah: good morning. pete: we will get to that very cool photo you took in a minute. your reaction to this. how do you work with a new colleague who leads with that kind of a perspective? >> i think it's an absolute change in dynamics from what i came in two years ago. you know, republican, democrat, independent, we came in two years ago as a freshman class with a pledge to civility. that every member signed and clearly not what is going on with this freshman class. they see a president. they are blinded by hatred for him. see him as somebody who stands in the way of fundamentally what i think they believe. they believe that government is the source of all power instead of people and the individual will of man being the source of strength in the american spirit. and i think they are blinded by that hatred. and that's why you see these comments coming out. jedediah: brian, i want to talk to you about the border

wall and shut down. some people calling for a compromise hoping that nancy pelosi, chuck schumer coming together and fix this, i don't see it. i don't see a path to compromise here. do you see a path to nut shutdown to an end and get this border wall and move things along? >> well, you know, as you hear people calling for compromise or even pointing fingers, i think americans roll their eyes when they hear somebody say pelosi shutdown, schumer which thedown things like this. we are talking about needing a solution to a very real problem there are citizens of another country pouring other countries across our border. drugs pouring across our border. terrorists pouring across our border. the president wants a secure nation. that's common sense. that's what we are fighting for. and unfortunately the democrat party digging in their heels against this. it doesn't make any sense. i make the point like this. you know, i have a security system on my home. i have cameras, glass breaks, infrared sensors all of them are worthless if i don't have a front door i can lock.

same way with compromises we need drone technology or sensors other other things. those are all great ideas. but they are worthless if we don't have a physical barrier that's preventing illegals, preventing drugs, preventing terrorists from actually stepping foot into our country. pete: some of the folks on the other side keep citing experts tell them walls don't work. you get to talk to experts, think tanks folks like that. have you ever met someone that's serious about border issues that tells you let's just secure it but a wall isn't an important component of it? >> this is the most basic level of threat assessment. what is the threat? the threat is there are things crossing over a certain barrier. how do we prevent these things? illegal immigrants, drugs, terrorists from crossing through there. we put a physical structure in place of them coming through. what else do we have to do? yeah, we have to monitor it and look what's going on there. but you put something in the way of them doing it that's basic threat assessment. it goes back literally thousands of years.

it's not provocative. ed: seems like common sense. i will tell you something else that resonated with a lot of the people across the country and around the world congressman. you shared on social media this photo from the new congress. this is what dan crenshaw and jim baird two of your new colleagues. the caption said it all, 5 eyes, 5 arms, 4 legs, all-american. welcome to congress. why did you post this? >> look, i'm proud of those two colleagues as i am of so many of my colleagues. but i look at them and i do think they embody the american spirit. they wake up just like all of us, bar none, bar no american. we all wake up every single day with challenges and different things that we have to face. but we wake up every single day and we get to decide is today better than yesterday? we make that choice. that's the grit and the determination inside of all of us it is the american spirit. i think it's the greatest part about this nation and i think those two really embody it from a vietnam veteran and a veteran from my time dan crenshaw.

i'm proud to be serving with the both of them and i was proud to put up that picture. ed: what a way to start a new congress and new year. happy new year. pete: brian mast, thanks a lot. harry. >happy new year. >> happy new year. >> socialist from the bronx wants to raise your taxes to pay for her far left agenda. >> sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% to 70%. as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more. pete: now she is comparing herself to abraham lincoln. ed: what, lincoln? pete: michael knowles got into a twitter battle with the socialist. he is coming up next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ed: i'm american. welcome to a very special edition of "fox & friends" on this saturday. pete: what's special about it. ed: we are all back together. jedediah: i'm here. he had dead you really need to ask that. pete: i'm sorry. jedediah: ed is my new favorite on the show. [laughter] ed: it is extra special because we have michael knowles one of our favorite guests he is host of the michael knowles show. good morning, sir. jedediah: welcome. >> good to see you. ed: we have been talking about democrats made solemn

promise to the american people. we need to take back the country from donald trump midterms. we will do it by focusing on the economy and healthcare and all about decency and the american way. what happened? what happened? >> well, it was a tough job number for them to focus on the economy. and i have to tell you this incoming democrat controlled congress is the best advertisement for trump 2020. donald trump, he's not the most polite guy in the world rashida tlaib says we are going t impeach the mother fofordonald trump thrives on adversary he has a house full of them and optic choice. not passing very much legislation. now at least ugly

difference. one part of the congress being controlled by alexandria ocasio-cortez, the new face of the democrats. the face of the incoming republicans who is a -- it's dan crenshaw? it's jim baird. it's american heros who are sacrificed for their country. that's a juxtaposition and choice that i want americans to see all day long. jedediah: michael we will get to alexandria ocasio-cortez in a minute. some pushing presidential impeachment. presidential candace required to release tax returns. can't imagine who that is targeting. mueller protection bill. abolishing the electoral college because a lot of them are a bunch of sore losers and they want to try to change a system into something where they can win. what do you make of that? do the american people see through that? and do -- does the democratic base of voters, are they getting angry looking at that? >> >> they certainly see through that it's all bark and no bite. you look at what issues matter to americans. they care about immigration, donald trump has played his hand perfectly here on the government shutdown. they care about the economy.

the jobs numbers that are coming out look great and the stock market is reacting to that. they don't care about a politician's tax returns. nobody cares at all. so, fortunately now, have you this one part of the congress. you have the house of representatives calling for all of those crazy radical reforms sore loser bills because they can't convince voters to give them the white house. they can't convince voters to give them the senate. but then you've got the presidency who can rebut that who can fight against that and got the senate as a back stop so i i don't think you will see it impeachment any time soon. you will see more of this reality tv show political game and unfortunately for the democrats, donald trump is the master of reality tv. pete: michael, one of your favorite socialists is not known for her modesty. she seemed to double down on thinking highly of herself. here she is in an interview. watch. >> once you get to like the tippy tops on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as

60%, 70% as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more. only has ever been radicals that has changed this country. abraham lincoln made the radical decision to sign the emancipation proclamation. franklin delano roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like social security. you know, if that's what radical means, call me a radical. ed: call her a radical. she is talking about lincoln bringing liberty and now she is saying we want to shackle you with taxes. she doesn't even understand what she is saying. >> ed, don't you remember when abraham lincoln instituted an 83% tax rate? maybe my history is a little shaky. this is all we could ask for. you now have open socialists in the congress. and i'm glad that we are having an honest conversation. i think for a long time democrats and the left tried to hide their socialist tendencies at least it's coming out there. do we think that americans want to work 83% of the time

for the government? i don't think so. do we -- unfortunately history is not alexandria ocasio-cortez's strong suit. and so she is misrepresenting american history. she misrepresents her own history too. she pretends she grew up in the bronx. she'll didn't. she grew up in a very affluent suburb of new york. i know i grew up in the town next to her. they do this all the time. socialists come out of privilege pretend to be working class heros to defend their ridiculous policies. americans see right through that. pete: you are in a bit of a twitter spat, you might say, recently with her. she tweeted this. she said don't be fooled by the plaques that we got. i'm still alex from the bronx. equipe. >> the trouble she is not of course. i grew up in the town right next to her. pete: you tweeted you didn't grow up between two worlds. you grew up in west chester and lied about it and then changed your biowhen the lie exposed. i grew up in the affluent diverse neighboring town

spent many weekends in the bronx. the difference is i don't lie about my upbringing to fain victimhood. she didn't like you pointing that out. >> she was very upset. she was tweeting about it for a whole day. the reason i point this out by the way is not just to pick on alexandria or because i don't like her or something. it's because one, she uses this lie, this fake narrative of her upbringing to excuse her blythe ignorance. she pretends to have not grown up in privilege and not had access to the best schools. she really did. she should know thee things. she should be able to answer basic economic and historical questions. but, also, this is what socialists always do. they have to pretend to be the working class heroes. they have to pretend that they are speaking for the poor and oppressed. there is nothing oppressed about alexandria ocasio-cortez or elizabeth warren or barack obama or bernie sanders. and socialistism is not the way to fix poverty. it never has it has brought human misery and destroyed committees. the ways to lift hundreds of thousands of people out of

committee in the last several decades is capitalism and free markets. we are seeing the effects of that because of this administration. jedediah: we look forward to your next twitter battle can alexandria ocasio-cortez. pete: keep it going, brother. he had very a good weekend. thanks. sacred jed turning to headlines, the terrorists behind the "u.s.s. cole" bomb something believed to be dead after u.s. airstrike. the al qaeda militant was hit while driving in yemen. he has been on the fbi's most wanted list accused of blowing up part of the warship while it was refueling. the attack killed 17 american sailors. bernie sanders and liz cheney sparring on twitter after cheney promises to fight the fraud of socialism. sanders firing back by claiming her father, former vice president dick cheney lied about iraq's weapons of mass destruction leading up to that war. cheney responding regarding the socialism in part, quote: it steals power from the people and gives it to the government. crushes human freedom and initiative and deficit states economies. ask the venezuelans. by the way your dick cheney

history is as tee fox news deckive as your economic policy. the spat comes as senator sanders claims he was a little bit busy as 2016 allegations of sexual misconduct among his staff were not addressed. former house speaker paul ryan is spotted on his first day out of congress. the daily mail.com snapping these photos of an unshaved ryan taking his kids to school in wisconsin. the former speaker didn't answer reporters' questions about missing capitol hill which he gave up to be a full-time dad. and those are your headlines. yeah, i think he is pretty happy right now. pete: give it two weeks. we will see. right, rick? rick: is he going to like the beard for two weeks. jedediah: i like the beard. >> it's a good look. ed: rick does that every time he goes on vacation. pete: next time you come back from vacation keep the beard. jedediah: keep it. i want to see it. pete: i have no power. rick: i have susan recording it so can i show that to the

bosses as soon as i come back with that beard. thank you, pete. i appreciate that talk a little bit of weather out there. no real cold anywhere across the lower 48 which is not bad for january. a little bit odd. really well above average all across the eastern seaboard. the eastern two thirds of the country will likely stay that way probably for at least about another week and a half florida 15 degrees above average down across central florida, front finally moved through and that is dropping your temperatures down to where you typically would be this time of year. and out across the west that's where temps have been a little bit below normal a new storm moving on in is going to bring some rain and mountain snow to southern careful at this time which is very, very needed. also see this across the dessert southwest and stormy pattern sticks with us all weekend long. thanks, guys. pete: coming up. electoral college gave president trump an historic victory in 2016. now one democrat wants to get rid of it. isn't this what our founding fathers warned us about? ed: little history lesson coming up a criminal decided

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♪ pete: welcome back a couple quick headlines for you. a mugger knocked out by a senior citizen who happens to be a five time world kick boxing champ. 68-year-old steve shepard fighting back after the suspect smashed a bottle over his head and then demanded his cell phone. shepard suffered minor injuries. the robber got away but with broken ribs. wrong pick there. and cnn is getting slammed for reports that claims hundreds of tsa workers are calling in sick because of ththe shutdown. a homeland security spokesman tweeting this more fake news from the inventors

of fake news cnn. security operations at airports have not been impacted by a nonexistent sickout. cnn has the cell numbers of multiple tsa public affairs professionals, but rather than validate the stats they grossly misrepresented them. ed? teach your journalists something. pete: pete enjoyed that. democrats took control of the white house on thursday. congressman steve cohen from tennessee wasted no time introducing a bill to, yes, get rid of the entire electoral college. in a statement, he said, quote: americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office. more than a century ago we amended our constitution to provide for the direct election of u.s. senators. it is past time, he says, to directly elect our president and vice president. jedediah: how far off is this from what the founding fathers intended? here to weigh in is author, lawyer and electoral college expert tara ross. thank you so much for joining us. now, the founding fathers

wanted to protect against the tyranny of the majority and to protect these smaller states so that a president -- someone running for president would have incentive to go to smaller states and listen to their issues and not just play to states like new york and california. what are democrats missing here? >> well, if you read twitter yesterday, you see all sorts of rhetoric about how the electoral college was created only because of slavery and it's a relic of the past and now we have the internet and we have telephones and we have all of these sorts of modern inventions so we don't need the electoral college anymore. and nothing could be further from the truth. the truth is that the founders of the constitutional convention were involved in a dialogue about how you create a government that will not suffer from the failures of the past. and, of course, in the past, they were looking at the histories of failed item crazies where 51% could rule 49% even when they were

being unreasonable or tier written ketiewritten call. they knew we could be self-governing but also put up safeguards an emotional mob or large state cannot tier ratyrannyes over everyone else. >> the system they were fine with for generations all of a sudden they just want to throw it out. >> well, i don't know if they were fine with it before or not. but certainly the 2,000 election and 2016 election have caused a little bit of heartache among democrats. and, i get it. it seems like the system is biased. if you look back though at the full history of states voting, what you really see is that it's more like a pendulum it swings back and for the. at first the electoral college seems to favor the red states and then it seems to favor the blue states. you know, during the ronald reagan years, it seemed like how could you ever overcome reagan winning california and texas august the time? but then, of course, bill clinton came along and we talked about the blue wall

and we talked about how a republican can never overcome the huge advantage that everybody thought that hillary clinton had. and now, of course, we are looking at the situation where democrats are saying the electoral college is biased against them. ed: thank you for that history lesson. not a lot of people knew that and i'm glad that you reminded them. appreciate it. >> thank you. ed: chuck schumer is demanding the president open up the government for the sake of the people he says. >> don't hold millions of americans, hundreds of thousands of workers hostage. ed: isn't it the american people, the president says he is trying to protect? well the white house press deputy secretary will join us live at the top of the hour with an update on the shut down talks. jedediah: first, we are busting the myths about car seats that every parents need to know. that's coming up next. ♪ i can't wait to get on the road again ♪ on the road again ♪ it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. we're the tenney's

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the. jedediah: seat belts in car seats are critical keeping your child safe. there are more misconceptions than you might think. pete: here to clear up some of the myth about car seats mom of two rachel rothman. thanks for being here. jedediah: thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. pete: these are all familiar pieces of equipment to me. , when how much, how old? >> when is actually a big misconception. really important thing is that you get the right car seat based on the height and weight of your child. first we have an infant car seat. another misconception is that the latch seat belt may be safer. really safe options. what i'm referring to if you have no idea about car seats. anchor children. newer vehicles they have anchors super easy continue to stall. it's not in every car spot

and depending on the manufacturer it may not be the best option. pete: when i usually get a rental car i usually use the seat belt. >> just as safe. make sure you install it properly. another thing is that a lot of times people don't realize it has to be really tight. when you install it whether you are doing it with the anchors or doing it with the seat belt is to make sure you can't joss sell it more than an inch ty side to side. >> that's really tight. >> once you get it clicked in make sure you can't joss sell it. make sure you are tightening it. when the child is riding with you it may be moving around. wins do you go to front facing. after your child outgrows the highest height or weight you will switch to front facing. that's usually after two years of age. you have a one and a and a half-year-old. pete: she is ready to be front facing she is an attitude. jedediah: i don't think that's defining. >> when you are doing front facing make sure you are using that top tether. a lot of vehicles it's on the top of the car may be behind the seat. look in the instruction. pete: the thing on the top

that goes over the back. >> exactly. you are pointing do it right there. pete: that one can be a pain can you go into the trunks. >> makes it safer so it's not jostling around. child passenger safety technicians gone through, you know, rigorous studies to make sure they are able to install it go to a hospital or a fire station and they will let you know that these technicians are there to make sure that it's in properly. at home another thing with the harnesses a lot of people don't realize i don't want my child to be in too tight. smug is best. you want to make sure that you can't pinch any of the netting on it. that's really critical so that they are not going to be moving around. now it's winter, have them in a winter coat. you actually don't want that underneath them. you want to make sure you put them in the car seat and then put blankets or jackets over that can compress if you get in an accident and be too loose. pete: where can folks learn more. >> good housekeeping.com. top recommendations and insight on how to properly install them. jedediah: thank you so much. >> thank you so much for

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president trump: we had a very very productive meeting. we're not talking about games. we're talking about national security. ed: the president giving his most forceful case for the wall. they don't get a deal he may declare a national emergency. >> if congress will not fund border security and that border wall then president trump should use his authority to make sure that he protects americans. pete: economists praising the huge new job report under the trump econ economy. >> most of the things in our agenda are about bipartisan issues. ed: democrats are now in power. >> do you stand by your comments? jedediah: newly-elected congresswoman literally dodges reporters after vulgar anti-trump comments. this incoming democrat-

controlled congress is the best advertisement for trump 2020. >> sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70% but that's what radical means call me radical. she's only been in congress a few days but alexandria cortez is dancing. ed: i wanted to tell you we need to dance all morning. >> ♪ ♪ ed: i've been wearing my shoes all morning. pete: it's a new year. ed: you always talk about your dancing game. jedediah: sometimes i've got to pass the baton ed. i can't be doing all of the work here. pete: it's a new year, a new ed henry. clearly. jedediah: ed henry 2.0. pete: boy that's scary. ed: new dance moves. pete: fancy. ed: they are on the internet if you haven't seen them. pete: welcome. jedediah: thank you its been great you make the time fly what can i say. pete: it's fun and we're riding a bull apparently at this hour. ed: normally you're just on the

bull. pete: you're right i'm not an expert in bull riding but i'm an expert in bull tossing. other things. ed: some of the things that come up. pete: you might say i do it for a living but why not. ed: it's a new year. new pete. jedediah: pete 2.0. pete: how do you go from .0? jedediah: yes. ed: pete .5. pete: that's what you get in 2019, a different version. ed: well the president is certainly not changing new year. he has been on the twitter machine for days now going after the democrats. he did it yesterday in the rose garden as well doubling down on his strategy of saying look, i'm not going to end this government shutdown, in fact it may go on for weeks or years, he said to chuck schumer and nancy pelosi behind closed doors and then came out to the rose garden and said look if all else fails i'll declare a national emergency and have the federal government build the wall without congress. pete: this is what he tweeted this morning. he said the democrats could solve the shutdown problem in a very short period of time, all they have to do is approve real border security, including a

wall. something which everyone other than drug dealers, human traffic kers and criminals want very badly. this would be easily, be so easy to do. well let's get someone from inside the white house to react this morning hogan gidley joins us. jedediah: welcome. good morning guys thanks so much for the time. pete: so your boss tweeting this morning waiting for democrats to come to the table on the wall they say they won't give it a dollar. well they will give it $1. but that's it where are we? >> it's incredible i'll tell you where we are and the president knows this he's been articulating this beautifully to the american people. we're in a national security crisis and a humanitarian crisis the situation we face along the border is no longer tenable, and the democrats are offering status quo solutions to a crisis situation. i was in the rose garden and watched the president speak yesterday. i was in both meetings a couple of days ago and then yesterday in the situation room. and what i can't believe is democrats didn't know any of the statistical data. they didn't believe the data and

they didn't care and that's what probably is the most stunning and sad part of this is when career officials at dhs are telling them numbers and data about deaths across this country and drugs pouring into this country, democrats didn't want to hear any of it. in fact, we've arrested almost a quarter of a million people in this country here illegally last year, and they account for 100,000 instances of assault, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 homicides. that means 4,000 people are dead in this country today because of illegal immigration and the democrats refusal to come to the table to fix this problem. all of those deaths are 100% preventable and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer right now haven't lifted a finger to solve it. jedediah: hogan i think democrat s are getting a little bit nervous because they know border security is an issue that resonates with a lot of people senator chuck schumer trying to flip that narrative saying he told trump not to hold americans hostage.

take a listen. >> we made a plea to the president once again, don't hold millions of americans, hundreds of thousands of workers hostage. open up the government and let's continue the discussion. he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time. months or even years. pete: it's a stare down. >> well what the president said was i'm going to do everything in my power, the constitutional duty and oath i swore to do to protect the american people. democrats don't want to do that part of it. it seems like they're for border security but they vote every time against all of the measures we put forward to protect those same families across this country. for the life of me i can't figure out this watershed moment in politics in which an entire political party has decided they're going to stand with people who are here in this country, hundreds of thousands of them come every year illegally and unlawfully as opposed to hundreds of millions of american citizens.

they did it a year ago during the schumer shutdown and they're doing it right now. all they have to do is come to the table. we need about 10 senators to come forward and say yes we'll vote for your security measures mr. president and you guys saw a watershed moment when the president of the united states for the first time came into the briefing room, since he was elected as president. he walked into that briefing room with people from i.c.e. and customs border protection, national security folks to say here is not what the president wants, here is what we need to protect the american people and they said that included a wall and democrats don't want any part of it. ed: and i wonder if you can react to two things hogan which is you were kind enough to take us into the room there we showed picture of the situation room a moment ago you were talking about the conversation how democrats interrupted these career department of homeland security officials just trying to lay out the facts rather than the rhetoric on all sides but now take us into the room. what's going to happen this weekend because the president in the rose garden said yesterday he is making the vice president and others to continue these

talks. democrats try to suggest there's no real progress going to be made this weekend but also pete has been talking all morning about democrats holding up " experts" who they say believe walls don't work. >> well look, the president has made this very clear many times whether it's the vatican, whether it's israel, whether it's san diego, or barack obama 's own personal home, physical barriers are used constantly and have been used because they work, because they're a time tested proven method of security and what the president is trying to say is the american people deserve that same level of security. physical barriers save lives and everyone knows that, but after all the rhetoric we've been talking about the last several days, the part of the democrat party on this point on this issue to protect the american people the president still remains optimistic. he's called together the team as you mentioned of jerry kushner, the vice president leading it and secretary nielsen to have a

conversation with staff today over in the eisenhower executive office building you guys know it well right next to the white house to have a conversation to try and get some things down on paper that we can all agree on. national security is paramount to this president. we have to protect the american people but also, the humanitarian crisis as i mentioned before, the president said this in the rose garden. children are being exploited, used multiple times now, coming across-the-board eras shields, as cover, to try and give illegal people into this country we're talking human traffickers, child smugglers, drug cartels, are using our loopholes, are using this border. don't forget, 85% of the people who come into this country illegally come in between those ports of entry. we have a massive problem and it's no longer status quo. it's a crisis. pete: i just don't know if you have a serious negotiating partner on the other side. you used the word illegally. you're talking about the people on the left whose base says no person can be illegal. that word is almost a swear word

for them and nancy pelosi has dug her heels in and said a wall is immoral. do you really think there's wiggle room to get 5 billion for a wall or is that why the president has said months or years if necessary because i'm not moving? >> well he's not moving, because he's not going to sacrifice the safety and security of the american people. that is something he will not compromise on. how the final bill looks, i'm not going to negotiate here from this seat but the president demands enough money, enough funding, to protect the american people and let's be clear. this isn't just a campaign pledge or a campaign promise. this is something that affects all americans that career officials at i.c.e., at customs border and protection, and the department of homeland security say they need to protect the american people to do their job. that's what they've sworn to do and we see people who have put their lives on the line, men and women on the border. they're the ones giving this information to the democratic

party saying we're not doing this for political motivation. we're doing it to protect the american people. jedediah: hogan another area where the president is delivering on his campaign promises is the economy and big numbers coming out of the jobs report. 312,000 jobs added, a 3.2% wage increase year-over-year, 3.9% unemployment rate. how do you think this is being received throughout the country and is this looking towards 202e chief issue is it going to be the economy, immigration, is it going to be these issues that president trump has been stress ing this whole time and delivering on? >> yeah, he's seen record setting accomplishments and record setting time. everyone thought the economy would go into the tank. it would have damage, you could not ever bounce back from it i think the new york times editorial page said when this president was elected. look at us now, soaring to heights we never saw under the previous administration included in that report you just mentioned, 72% of the people now with jobs came from the sidelines. they weren't even looking for jobs before under the previous administration because the jobs

weren't there. now we have more jobs than people looking. this president has created something that no one saw coming , probably as the great larry kudlow would say the most undertold story of the entire presidency. hopefully people in the media will focus on the economy and it was ironic leading into the mid-terms, the media didn't talk about the economy one-time except to derive the president for not talking about how good the economy was going into the mid-terms, which he did at every turn so it was just ridiculous to try and see them go around the facts that actually real americans, real people from coast to coast are having better lives because of this president 's policy. ed: we've got democrats talking about increasing tax rates to 70 % we'll see what that might do to the economy. we appreciate you coming in. jedediah: thanks for being here. thanks so much. jedediah: we'll turn now to headlines for you, saluting a fallen hero. a california police corporal gun ned down by an illegal immigrant will be laid to rest today. thousands paid their respects to corporal ronal sing during an

emotional procession. >> he was a great guy. he was always smiling. >> he was a good man. he'll be missed and an officer that we want. jedediah: sing was killed during a traffic stop hours after spending christmas with his wife and infant son. a community is mourning the loss of the five kids killed in a fiery highway crash. several people gathering at a vigil in louisiana overnight. it was held at a sister worship center of that church that took the kids on a trip to disney world in florida when a semi slammed into their van. that semi driver, the kids and another driver all died. several others were taken to the hospital. some with critical injuries. democratic senator elizabeth warren kicks off her 2020 presidential campaign in iowa. >> i was pulled into this because i have watched how americas middle class has been hollowed out. i am in this fight for working families. >> she's in the fight.

declared major candidate is set to make a second appearance this morning after launching an exploratory committee on monday and those are your headlines she's in the fight for sure i'll tell you that. ed: sure but don't miss the fact she said the middle class has been hollowed out right after we talked about the jobs number unemployment. jedediah: well they live in an alternate universe with rainbows and unicorns and everything is free. pete: send her a mick elobe ultra. ed: coming up its only been two days some democrats already -- pete: she said it was her favorite that's no one's favorite beer ever. ed: some democrats are already calling for impeachment. >> we're going to go in there and teach them. >> [applause] ed: not all democrats on board with the "i" word we'll break down the backlash. pete: plus forget the wall critics say it's too expensive so instead democrats want more drones at the border and lots of money for people in other countries. they say that will protect us but will it? our next guest is a drone expert

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>> the wall is expensive and doesn't work, whereas drones, you don't just need fencing, you need drones. >> cell phone towers, satellites, drones. the things that the experts have said are necessary to improve border security. jedediah: forget the wall. democrats think more drones are the answer to solving the border crisis. pete: but our next guest who has used drones to hunt terrorists says their plan is destined to fail. here with more is a former special operations intel analyst and author of drone warrior. brett you're the perfect guest to have here right now. >> good morning to you. pete: is it true that you don't need a wall if you have enough drones? >> well look, i mean when i see this, it's clear to me that the democrats clearly have no idea

hadron technology actually works , because if they did, they would know that more drones are not an adequate solution to this all encompassing problem. pete, look we have a serious issue here where two to 3,000 reported illegal immigrants are trying to penetrate our borders every single day. when i hear that it sounds like i'm sitting on a military base about to be overrun. you could put all the drones in the u.s. government's arsenal along the border and it would still not be enough to solve this problem. yes drones can help in certain situations and help provide a common operating picture and intelligence information to the border patrol but in this case, in this particular instance they are no substitute for more manpower in a physical barrier and actual wall is going to be needed in this case andirons can help supplement that effort. jedediah: so that would be the key to have a combination of wall andirons could that be the answer to solving the problem? >> yeah, absolutely. i think it has to be. they're already using drone technology already but the truth is if you look at facts, the cvp has been using predator drones for a while now and there

was statistics that showed the drone technology was not an adequate solution it was very cost effective but did not provide a solution an overall solution to the problem. you've got a lot of terrain to cover. okay look when i was hunting terrorists in iraq we were hunting individuals. drones are meant to be surgical we're talking about a massive amount of people you just cannot operate that way and especially unless the dems want to put missile on these things there's no finishing capability. pete: you've got to have someone there to intercept the person. brett, i've been through the same process in the military. if you're setting up a defense, you want obstacles but we were taught time and time again and setting up a defensive position, an obstacle without oversight, without the ability to look at it, is almost useless, so you've got to have a wall, because you need that as a baseline but then you've got to have people to man it, watch it and make sure it's actually being enforced. it's a layered effect but yet they want to get rid of the first step. >> yeah, you're absolutely right and look the fact that

drones can be used but when you look at this it's such a bigger problem that they can't be used effectively without some sort of physical barrier. there was $135 billion reportedly spent by taxpayers on illegal immigration over the last year and only 19 billion was provided back to us by illegal immigrants at the federal, state and local levels for taxes so when you look at president trump he's probably looking at these numbers saying we're just one big non-profit here we've got to do something and it's an emergency. it's emergency. we need real effective solutions right now, and we needed it immediately. we just can't sit here and continue to wait for this. pete: democrats on the hill if you need an expert, brett is your man. they should give you a call we appreciate your time this morning. >> good day to you. pete: appreciate it good stuff. all right, well move over career politicians. republicans introducing an amendment to the constitution that would impose term limits on members of congress. we'll bring that to you on the othert side.

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i'm in product development at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. pete: welcome back. some quick football headlines for you it's wildcard weekend in the nfl. the colts and texans kickoff the action in houston at 4:30 p.m. eastern and then on fox the dallas cowboys host the seattle seahawks at 8:15 eastern i am so ticked off my vikings blew it last weekend i can't even talk about it. i'll be watching anyway. all right, but you might want tickets for college football's national championship game instead right now on stub hub prices are plummeting as low as $105. last year cheap seats cost $ 1,700. alabama and clemson square off at 8:00 p.m. eastern on monday. maybe alabama fatigue i don't know. ed: wow. pete: the family of alabama's quarterback is taking advantage of those falling ticket prices. i can't pronounce that name.

ed, help me? is expecting more than 400 family members to attend the championship game in california most traveling from his home state of hawaii. good on him. ed: well that's nice. pete: ed thanks for helping me out. ed: gop lawmakers are now introducing an amendment to the constitution that would impose term limits on members of congress. the bill calls for a maximum of three two-year terms in the house and two six-year terms in the senate but will this get any traction on the hill? let's ask one of the bill's sponsors republican congressman francis rooney of florida good morning, sir. >> good morning, thanks for having me on. ed: we appreciate it. we've been talking all morning about how democrats have introduced for example, these efforts to abolish the electoral college and we've been breaking that down and wondering whether that's an overreach. state your case and pushback on the critics who say this is an overreach? >> well the founders never envisioned the professional political class.

they've envisioned like tomorrow as jefferson, people come off their farm, leave their business , do public service and go home and have new people come in with fresh ideas. this is a much more better way than having these entrenched politicians who are too aligned with special interests over a period of years. i would say 18 years is plenty of time to serve your country in congress. ed: well congressman the president talked as you know about draining the swamp and apparently there are some voters who believe a key part of that is your move. look at this poll. 82% of likely voters approve of a constitutional amendment limiting terms of members of congress, only 9% disapprove. this is from about one year ago, january 2018. if there is so much public support though, why has this not gotten traction before? >> maybe that's why congress has an 11% approval rating among the people. maybe the beltway is not the country. maybe the country is the country

if you take that figure, you could find that replicated or broken down in all kinds of sub sets, socio economic, different interest groups, nobody wants career politicians. they want term limits and you know i'm just a business guy. i figure if 80% of my customers want something my job is to figure out how to get it to them ed: so congressman i only have a minute left you know the argument against it and i want to articulate that now. in part is you have congressional staffers who sometimes stick around for 30 years and they learn tax policy or healthcare policy. you have lobbyists who stick around for decades as well. if you move out the politicians, don't you give the lobbyists and staffers even more power? >> but that's an argument that the people are too dumb to be governed in a democracy. it's a whole lot more difficult to drill a 10,000-foot oil well than it is to be a legislator. ed: congressman francis rooney making his case we appreciate you coming in. thank you very much ed. ed: all right meanwhile a

basketball team with triplets. did they use their bench to get some extra points? a bizarre strategy you have to see to believe. and this congresswoman yelled profanities about impeaching america's president but then ran away from the media, we're up next with why democrats can't seem to face the music when it comes to actually facing the voters.

>> he said momma loves you, bullies don't win and i said baby they don't because we're going to go in there and teach them a lesson. >> [applause] pete: that was the new michigan congresswoman, let's bring in joe with the hill a political newspaper and website joe thanks for being here. >> good morning. jedediah: thanks for coming in. pete: before you comment, this is after that came out, the congresswoman tweeted this. she said i will always speak truth to power, but when reporters tried to catch up with her and get her to answer to it even more this is what happened. >> if you're unapologetic about your comments, congresswoman why not talk to us? >> do you stand by your comments? pete: why not talk to them? >> boy we're only at day three. jedediah: [laughter] >> yeah, look she was very brave in declaring she would

impeach her when she's in front of her fans but then she runs away from reporters. if i know she had that speed i'd draft her on my fantasy football playoffs but there are a lot of political pundits out there that are perpetual outrage actors that aren't standing up right now in other cable networks saying we need to raise the level of discourse in this country and she really needs to tone it down. i didn't see too much of that but with this particular congresswoman, it shows that nancy pelosi has a real problem, with the freshman that are coming in, in terms of the agenda. we talked about i heard you talk about it earlier. on day one, you have democrats introducing a bill to abolish the electoral college which basically says because it's in the constitution it's flipping a bird to everybody that lives in smaller states that doesn't live in big cities like new york, los angeles, chicago, that's one thing and then you have its biggest media star guys, alexandria cortez and she is their biggest media star because

she's going on 60 minutes this weekend pushing a tax rate on 70 % on people that earn above x. so you can go through the list with another democratic congressman who compared trump to hitler which is really tired at this point and insult to anybody whose remotely educated on the holocaust. this was all day one so if this is the agenda this is the problem they were elected to solve problems and to work with republicans and compromise because remember they only control one-third of government right now and if they are going to come in and just say we're not here to solve problems but burn the place down that will not resonate well. ed: nancy pelosi in that nbc interview the night before she was sworn in saying no, no, no. if donald trump had walked into his first day with all i'm all about no, you would have heard this media firestorm. but he won't compromise or reach across the aisle. and oh, she's tough on trump. >> and she has a problem there as well because when you look at all of the polls, cnn poll for instance, 78% of democrats want

president trump not impeached after the mueller report if it comes out with all of these horrible things. they want him impeached now based on what? it's like a seinfeld episode based ontoing, he's a bad guy, he should go, so she has to deal with that part of it. jedediah: it's interesting that you bring up democrats doing that because there are a lot of democrats that are actually now backing away from impeached talk >> no one should approve of that and i hope she doesn't talk to her son that way either. we should have better manners than that i assure you. >> there's a fever among some that we need to impeached the president. i'm not going back to washington for impeachment but rather improvement. >> we'll see where the facts lead and maybe that'll lead to impeachment maybe it won't. that can only be determined when you have all of the facts. jedediah: see, joe i feel like there are some democrats that are still aware of the fact they too were elected to do a job and there are some voters on their side that expect to hear about

healthcare and not just talk about impeachment and getting rid of the electoral college. >> healthcare, education, those are the things pulling the highest among democrats and instead, we're hearing about impeachment or some at least are saying we're not going to talk about it. here is my theory though that even if they do go ahead with impeachment and they do impeach the president do you know what you were around for this i hate to age ourselves when you're 41 you age yourself a little bit what do you think president clinton's numbers were post- impeachment day one? pete: no idea. >> 73%. in other words it has a boomeran g effect that if you're going to impeach somebody to the level that it doesn't rise, the court of public opinion you go ahead with that you're probably going to turn that person even president trump actually make him stronger as a result. in other words unless you have a direct line of collusion between the president and russian officials, unless you come with that and you come with anything else whether it be campaign finance violations or anything

else in terms of impeaching this president, it will hurt your party republicans learned that. jedediah: see i think that worked for clinton though because he had the whole media on his side. i don't know if that would work for donald trump because no matter what they would find i think he would have a little bit of a hard time with that. >> that is a great counterpoint every poll, every analysis that you see has been around 90% negative which is remarkable when you consider the economic successes that he's had or foreign policy you can argue as well. saying those are pillars of a presidency. foreign policy and the economy and those two things are going you'd argue quite well. jedediah: thanks for your input we appreciate it. we're going to turn to some headlines for you. ford is recalling nearly 1 million cars over takata airbag inflaters exploding with shrapnel. the auto maker recalling four popular vehicles including the 2010 edge, 2010 and 2011 ranger, 2010 and 2012 fusion and 2010 and 2014 mustang.

at least 23 people have died and hundreds injured from the exploding inflation. ford says take your recalled car to a dealer immediately for a free inflate or replacement. the father of a student killed during the parkland school massacre is appointed to the florida board of education. governor rick scott assigning andy pollock to the role. his daughter meadow was among 17 people killed at marjory stoneman douglas high school last february. nancy pelosi is getting in hot water after answering a question on whether she supports the black lives matter movement. >> i support the recognition that black lives matter for sure and i have incorporated that in many of my statements. i think that all lives matter, yes, but we really have to redress past grievances in terms of how we have addressed the african americans. jedediah: she said all lives matter, black lives matter

supporter took issue with pelosi saying that at a recent town hall. according to the movement the phrase "all lives matter" misses the struggle of african americans. a high school basketball teen is accused of swapping out triplets during a championship game. the teams allegedly switching places while shooting a free throw shot in missouri. no one noticed until later when reviewing the tape. the boys father is the missouri team's head coach and principal of their school which won the game. the incident is under investigation. ed: oh, boy. jedediah: that's pretty tricky. ed: i guess one is a better shooter. pete: quick upgrade. ed: you're not endorsing it though right? pete: i am endorsing it. well played. ed: i want to see the tape. pete: they won the game they can review the tape all they want. ed: get them started early. rick: and the dad was the principal of the school? jedediah: yes, and the coach. rick: there is going to be a deeper story there. jedediah: troubles coming. rick: somebody is about to lose their job. all right here you go all of the

cold air is bottled up across parts of canada that's where we like to see it now down across the lower 48 we might see say med-week a little bout of that coming back in parts of north dakota and minnesota but temps right now looking good and pretty much remain that way. florida getting back towards seasonal temperatures as this tail end of this front moved through yesterday and the main part of the storm still up across parts of the ohio valley mid atlantic in towards the northeast for the most part it's primarily rain-snow across far northern sections of that but it's just too warm. out across the west that's where all of the action is going to continue to be and this time southern california getting in on this, this is the future radar later on this afternoon some of the rain moving into southern california and big storm brewing across across the four corners. back to you. pete: got it. so the government has been shutdown for about 15 days and while some are feeling the pain of missing paychecks and we do not want to minimize that the essential functions in government remain uneffected so is that proof that we actually need a smaller government and

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ed: we are at day 15 of the partial government shutdown while democrats are at a standoff with the president overboarder funding, as central services are still largely up and running so does this prove that the government could use a little slimming down? here to debate, mike slater, and jason nichols, a democratic political analyst good to see you both. >> good morning. ed: jason what's your case for why all of these services of government are essential? >> well first of all, i think that i will probably disagree with my counterpart in terms of what's essential. i think that hud doing safety inspections is essential. i think that farmers getting usd

a market research is essential. i think people cleaning up our national parks is essential. these are things that we actually need so this shutdown has nothing to do with large government versus small government. this has to do with responsible government, so i think we really need to, you know, reexamine that and actually fund our government fully. ed: so michael can he actually make the case that picking up the trash at the national parks that's essential? >> no, for anything that should be done that's not could be done by the states. why is the federal government employing anyone that's deemed non-essential? everyone watching now has had to cut spending, cut non-essential spending in their lives. every business owner watching now has had to fire non- essential employees. it's hard but it has to happen. the federal government needs to be smaller so where should we start? i don't know how about the people who are self-described non-essential? they never should have had a job in the first place and maybe positions in the first place i think we should get rid of them. ed: let's look at what's actually open.

the u.s. post office, the fbi, the border patrol, coast guard medicare/medicaid social security you're still getting your checks, federal court is open, food stamps, military, we've seen the military was already fully funded, in fact robert mueller's russia probe is going on so democrats are worried about that and public transportation and security as well, tsa agencies like that, so jason, here is what i don't understand. will you at least admit that government since we have a partial government shutdown and we haven't really heard kicking and screaming and yelling that oh, my gosh we just simply can't move on. should the federal government at least go on a diet? >> [laughter] well i would say first of all, i think there needs to be a little bit of an asterisk by military. i mean, we're still dealing with the coast guard. some members of congress are trying to fix that and so that the coast guard gets funded but they are members of our military even though they fall under homeland security. i definitely think that perhaps there are areas where, you know,

we can talk about small government or big government but i really don't think that's the issue, the fundamental issue here with this shutdown. a lot of these workers are -- ed: but we spend trillions of dollars and here we are with an oh, my gosh there's a partial government shutdown and mike, it seems like its been hardly a blip. >> yeah, and jason, all the sob stories and people that you are so worried about by the way get back pay anyway so everyone could go back to work. >> when, when mike? >> if you just convince your democratic policies to build a $5 billion wall that's all we're talking about here. we spend $100 billion on disaster relief last year for texas. we're talking about 5 billion to build a wall everyone goes back to work. >> well first of all, i think that there are other things we can do for border security. we've had that debate several times that walls may not be the most effective thing or a wall or barrier or picket fence or whatever it is you guys are

calling it now but i definitely think that in terms of funding the government these are people who absolutely you're talking about they are going to get back pay. when? the president says he's going to keep this closed for a couple of years possibly so we don't know when they are going to get paid. they're all getting unemployment funding. ed: last point for mike. >> if i may the people at the irs in charge of taking your money are deemed essential, those in charge of refunds non- essential. ed: funny how that works mike, jason appreciate you coming in. >> thanks ed. ed: we'll take a hard turn here you might have heard the noise behind me because they're getting ready for the bull because pete is going to saddle up. can he hang on to the bull? we'll see how long he lasts! that's coming up, next. >> oh, he's going down!

pete: welcome back couple of quick headlines for you yellow vest protests are taking over paris streets for the eighth weekend in a row. it started out as a backlash to a fuel tax, but is now a furious ref en end um on economic policy including rising living costs. this despite french president macron banning his tax proposal promising tax cuts for low income families, and in a second story, u.s. national security advisor john bolton is warning the syrian government american troops leaving the war torn country is not an invitation to use chemical weapons more than half a million people have died during the syrian war. u.s. has bombed syria twice in two years over their alleged use of chemical weapons. he currently is in israel as part of a mid-east trip. jedediah: the best professional bull riders from around the world are here in the big apple this weekend to compete in the toughest sport on dirt. ed: but first they're here on

fox & friends to put some of our skills to the test. jedediah: wow. pete: we shall see. professional bull rider tanner burn joins us now that is a bull riding name if i ever heard of one. >> that's my real name. i was born with that. rick: to be a professional bull rider let's call him tanner burn ed: madison square garden is the greatest arena in the world. rick: this is the start of the season right? >> yes, started last night and we go tonight and tomorrow. rick: have you ever been to an event? pete: i have not been. i've got to see it. rick: it's so worth it, it's incredible entertainment. pete: what's it like to get on top of a bull and try to ride it >> for me i've done it my whole life so it's just routine it's what i do, so somebody fresh getting into it i think it would be something totally different and very scary but it's what i do every day and it's tons of fun and what i do. rick: how old were you when you first got on a bull? >> i started riding when i was

young, professionally when i was 18, gone on this big tour when i was 20 so been on the top tier tour for five years now. rick: how long can you go, because it's a pretty quick span and how many things have been broken along the way? jedediah: oh, no. >> i have to go back a long ways to try to remember but lots of injuries broke my shoulder blade, collar bone, all of the muscles in my groin one year that took me out for a long time pete: i think worker's comp, maybe. give us some tips, tanner. jedediah: what do you do when you get on there. ed: pete is going on first. >> i would say with this thing squeeze with your legs and hold on tight. you'll balance. pete: put some time on the clock and then you'll go second. jedediah: i'm going to go. rick: i'm so glad that you guys cultivated this pete and ed competition thing. you don't want to do it? >> any comment on his form?

>> that wasn't a very good start. ed: one hand, right? >> one hand, yes. use that to balance. ♪ ♪ jedediah: oh, look at him go. oh, man, he's doing well. ed: oh, no! jedediah: it's getting faster, it's getting faster! oh, boy. ed: are you ready? jedediah: i don't know if i could get on here. somebody better help me. you'll help me? >> he's young. rick: so squeeze with your legs and hold on tight. can she use two hands or one hand? >> one hand. one hand. pete: squeeze with your legs. >> a little bit farther back.

rick: should she slide from the back? >> she will be good. she's got this. there you go. pete: [laughter] rick: what's the average length of time you'll be on a bull? so we ride for eight seconds and then it's a judge sport so we get marked on how well we ride. ed: she can do it. look at her. rick: you're lucky ed because we only have about 20 seconds left. ed: i was going on! >> [applause] rick: ed will be on when we come back. coming right up. >> we have to help you off, are you already? welcome back, ma'am. of the tooth is yellow. consumption of very acidic foods can wear away your enamel. once they start wearing down, your tooth is going to look yellower, more dull. i recommend pronamel toothpaste because it helps protect and strengthen your enamel. it's going to make them more resistant to the acid erosion so that your teeth are not bothering you

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>> if you can stay on this for 31 seconds, you will pass! >> stop complaining. 31 seconds. pete: ed henry? rick: we only have 18 seconds left can you do it, ed?

the pbr tour begins. jedediah: [laughter] rick: it begins this weekend. jedediah: but he gave it a good try. rick: we will be back. we'll see if ed is down for the rest of the weekend are you all right? we'll see you tomorrow. neil: it's a bull and a bear market. not really, but really crazy, and these wild wins in stocks, take this past week, please, the dow up nearly 750 points on friday, after falling 660 points on thursday, after starting the week up more than 200 points on monday and all of this, after soaring the record 1,086 points the day after christmas. holy christmas! will this ever end? let's just say the swing is the thing, but man oh, man enough is enough. all right well it's time to calm down, everyone and our markets have just the ideas that they think will get you feeling