on this saturday morning, we start with a fox news you alert. six a audi nationals taken custody after a saudi rainan gunman opened fire. >> this as the fbi is looking into a possible link to terror. >> aishah hasnie is live in the newsroom as we learn more about the shooter. >> reporter: this morning the fbi is questioning six saudi national as the they look into a possible terror link into the shooting. the gunman fatally shot three people and injured at least eight more. hhe has been identified as an aviation student and lieutenant

in the saudi arabian air recall. authorities haven't said this is an act of terrorism. the website posted what might have been one of the gunman's tweets. several suggest they were possibly filming the attack. the president took a phone call from the saudi king shortly after the shooting who tried to salvage u.s.-saudi relations. >> that the saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter and this person in no, way, shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people. >> reporter: the shooter was part of the saudi yo saudi airp. the governor is putting pressure on the mideast nation to take some kind of responsibility for the victims. >> the government of saudi arabia needs to make things

better for these victims. and i think that they are going to owe a debt here, given this is one of their individuals. >> reporter: this weekend, naval air station in pensacola is open to mission essential personnel only as the fbi continues to investigate this morning. back to you. >> aishah hasnie, thank you. we'll stay on top of this throughout the show. >> absolutely. listen, names and donee countris americans have been familiar with far too long. we are getting reports he tweeted out friendly things about al-qaida right beforehand. we have to confirm those reports. this looks like radical islamic terror inside our training bases. we have long relationships with saudi arabia. i'm not indicting those. clearly, something was missed or this guy was just straight-up deceptive, which within islam, if you hate the infidels you are

allowed to lie all you want. all the signs are there. >> republican congressman president matt gates from that area tweeted yesterday he clearly believes there's a terror link here. the fbi a few hours later had a news conference in pensacola saying they still don't know the motive. >> to give a little background about the security at this pensacola security. a few hundred foreign aviation students are trained at pensacola at any given time. the training program has about 1500 pilots, saudi has been getting trained at pensacola at this site since the 1970s and security beefed up at the base about four or five years ago. so those are just a couple statistics about the -- >> there's over 100 countries that are allies of the u.s. that are involved in these kinds of training programs. this has been going on and usually there's not a problem and there's vetting in place, we're told but clearly the vetting needs to be stepped up.

>> i've been involved in the military to military organizations. there's reasons why you build bonds between militaries. it makes strategic sense. we're hearing reports that three of the saudis were caught filming it. the question is what did we know and when did we know it. were there other members of the class that saw signs? i guarantee in the days that come in front of us, we'll get a sense, oh, this guy was acting a little weird, was he not. or maybe he was stone cold and didn't give a single sign except for a manifesto on twitter right before he did it. the reality is, three of our service members or people that worked at that base are killed because of someone that turned a gun on them who was given the opportunity to come to our country and had declared some allegiance to al-qaida. >> these are important questions that are being raised. answers are being demanded by rick scott. he said the vetting system has to be improved. >> we have four nationals on

our bases. i served on the navy. you expect when you get on your base, you're safe. we've got to have a complete review. every indication is this is clearly terrorism. we've got to understand why these people are on our base, are they vetted, and clearly we've got to change what we're doing. we have got to take care of americans first. i love that we have allies that want to train with us and be with us, but we've got to take care of american citizens first. >> how did the guy get a gun? if you're a saudi national on our soil, the guys in that classroom were not armed, a lot of questions for saudi arabia to answer. 15 of the 19 hijackers came from saudi arabia. they trained at schools in florida. maybe they're friends geopolitically but we better dig hard into this. >> i think you're saying you'rg members of congress are going to. we remembered heard from rick scott and representative matt

gates who represents pensacola bases in his district, who said we're going to get to the bottom of this. people are looking for answers. >> we'll be looking for more information. >> we'll be all over it, all morning. >> another big story we don't want to ignore, the economy roaring right now. a few months ago, many in the media, almost seemed like they were cheerleading the possibility of a recession heading into 2020. look at the numbers, the jobs report, the expectation was blown away. >> you could say a beautiful jobs report which is something president trump would probably say. this reminds me of we've seen these economic modelers like moody's putting out reports, saying if the be president wins, if the economy -- saying the president wins if the economy stays like this. democrats are trying to impeach the president for political reasons while the economy is booming and this is what americans care about, they care

about the economy. >> this is a story we're not going to ignore. it might get a glancing mention a at other networks. it's a an convenient truth for e left and the media that supports them. look at the wage growth numbers. >> you've heard, unemployment's great, you heard people in the media say, wages are still down. but you're right, there's growth, big-time. >> there's always like the economy's strong but there's this that we're a little worried about. no, the economy is booming right now and americans are benefiting as a result. this puts president trump in a strong position, heading into 2020, regardless of what's going on on capitol hill. >> yesterday he said "i told you so." >> the numbers have been phenomenal, so spot-on, so good, that they've actually never seen

anything like it. it's a long way from when people were rooting for a recession because they thought they could maybe win an election. but we don't root for a recession. we root for success. and we're having tremendous success. >> yeah, so you're rooting for success. well, the other thing we've been covering this week is what's gone on with impeachment where there is no rooting for success. nancy tells us she's prayerful about it, she's pay patriotic t it while the president takes a different view and rightfully so. this is what he's tweeted. he wrote nadler hasn't had a single fact witness testify, zero substance, country wants usmca and growth, not impeachment, polls have tanked on the do-nothing democrats. it raises the point, not only have they not advanced key pieces of legislation, but the polls in early states are showing that either voters

tuning out or they're not interested. >> can you imagine if usmca had already passed, the economy would be in even better shape. >> that's the point from the president, he says these are the things i want to get done but this is what congress is focused on and why reelect them when this is what they're doing with their majority. previously, it was russia collusion, then it was obstruction, then it was ukraine, now they're pivoting back to russia. >> the white house said we're not going to participate and mount a specific defense in the house judiciary committee. here's pam bondy from the white house. >> why would we participate in this of this sham? they need to drop it now. if they don't, we wrote in our letter, you know what, if you don't do it fast, get it to the senate, where we can have a fair trial -- because you know who we want to call? adam schiff. we want to call the whistleblower. and we want to call hunter biden. adam schiff won't even be

presenting his report? he's having the lawyer, the counsel do it instead of him? wonder why he doesn't want to testify. ken starr presented his report but adam schiff sure doesn't want to present his. if this goes to the senate, we want to hear from adam schiff. >> we'll stay on top of this all morning as well. devin nunes will be here with us later this morning. >> why would you be involved in the house trial which is already slanted against you when you can bring your evidence in the senate. >> adam schiff made a mistake when he held the hearings in the skiff, selectively released information, didn't bring republicans into the process and in return he lost them. he lost the ability to bring any republicans on their side because he made it political from the beginning. >> big-time. we've got a lot more headlines we want to get to right now. >> a 20 year veteran police officer was shot and killed in the line of of duty, this happened in alabama. the officer was killed while chasing a suspect in a drug related investigation. shot literally in the hair,

despite wear -- heart, despite wearing a bulletproof vest. this brings the count to 39 law enforcement officers who have now been shot and killed if the line of duty this year. today, we remember a day that lives in infamy. it's been 78 years since 2400 u.s. sailors were killed in a surprise attack at pearl harbor. a 95-year-old vet recounted the tragedy with martha mccallum last night. >> about 7:45 a, coming into the mess hall, i heard -- i thought what the hell is that. i saw the japanese red circles. we're being attacked. we didn't have a chance a snow ball had in hell. i will never he forgive, you will never forget what the japanese did that day. >> a remembrance ceremony will be held this afternoon at the memorial in hawaii. this year's ceremony comes days after a u.s. sailor shot three people at the naval base there

at pearl harbor before killing himself. meanwhile duncan hunter will resign from his seat after the holidays. the announcement comes days after he pleaded guilty to misusing campaign money. he said in part, quote, it's been an honor to serve the people of california's 50th district and i appreciate the trust they put in me over the last 11 years. he faces up to five years in prison. he will be sentenced in march. >> and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez claiming victory after amazon announced it would build an office in new york city. remember she blocked it before? the company previously scrapped plans to build a headquarters in the big apple. then she tweeted quote, amazon is coming to nyc anyway, without requiring the public to fund shady deals. she added this picture, waiting on the haters to apologize. she did not mention the new

office creates only 1 5* 1500 js opposed to 25,000 new jobs that were expected at the original facility that she blocked. >> i think she looks quite lonely there because she alienated so many new yorkers. >> i do agree, the corporate hand-outs are not necessarily a good thing. for all the vets that remember pearl harbor, i can only think of 9/11 and i only hope that 78 years from yo now we're recognig and remembering that. >> back to our top story, a saudi aviation student kills three people at a naval air base in pensacola, florida. now the fbi is looking into very strong ties to islamic terrorism. joey jones nose th know -- knows the area well. he used to be stationed nearby. heor joins us, next not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage.

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american citizen, a grad student at princeton. he was in iran on espionage charges, being held as a hostage. he's now been released. the news is an american grad student has been released from iran where he was a hostage. at the same time, the iranian foreign minister is tweeting out that an iranian scientist who has been held in an lawsuit jail here in america has also been released. so an iranian student was in an atlanta jail. you see the point there. the iranian that's released was a scientist who was here and was on charges in jail in atlanta for violating american sanctions, so -- >> sorry. this what is the president put out in a statement. it writes, after more than three years of being held prisoner in iran, zee wang is returning to the united states. a princeton university grad well student, he was held under the

pretense of espionage since august 2016. we thank our swiss partners for their you a existence in negotiating the -- negligence -- for their assistance in freeing him. we will continue to work hard to bring home all of our citizens wrongfully held captive overseas. >> definitely glad to have mr. wang back on his way to the country. we did an interview with his wife in princ princeton. she said she believed the only thing he was guilty of was being an american. this was a hostage situation. the background on this shows that as a grad student in princeton mr. wang was direct with the iranian government, he was going there to study languages for part of the dissertation and ultimately was swept in -- >> the good news is that an american has been released. we will be talking about that today. >> three people killed and eight others injured after an aviation stiewrch understand fri

arabia opened fire at an air station in pensacola. investigators are looking into whether it's related to islamic terrorist. >> joey jones trained at that base in pensacola. he joins us now live. good to see you this morning. what do you know about this base, having been there and give us context we may be missing to this important story. >> yeah, one of the most secretive schools is a few miles from the base. we have administrative offices there. i was on and off the base quite a few times in the year i lived down there. this is a base that is old and has a lot of retirees in the community and the merge of the community and the naval station are kind of one community. you get that in some of the older bases, some of the bases that are bigger and have a large retirement, obviously florida is a great place to retire so you get a lot of that down there.

and bases like pensacola which trains some of our best fighter pilots, we have people that come back and retire so there's a huge retired community near the base. >> we're training saudis to be pilot, one of which decided to turn a gun on our own people. what went wrong here? >> well, to sit here and say what went wrong, i'm probably a few pay grades below the person that knows that information. what i can tell you, 30,000-foot view, we train a lot of countries in a lot of ways. boeing or lockheed martin tells planes to another countrynd the president's involved in that deal, somebody has to train those people to use those planes and the communications and maintain them and things like that. it's not uncommon for foreign nationals to be on our bases and training. i want to let people know, of the countries that we train and the people that we train, the vast majority of them are

amazing. i went through bomb school with australians and english and they did amazing jobs and they really looked up to us and they were there to learn. but unfortunately, the same can't be said about everyone we bring into our country and train and the saudis don't necessarily have the best reputation of being there for the right reasons and putting in the hard work. sometimes it's royal family and things like that. >> joey, thank you for being with us this morning. >> we appreciate your insight, for sure. we'll be on top of this. >> the gloves are off, michael bloomberg taking a dig at his democrat rivals. >> i watched all the candidates and i just thought to myself, donald trump would eat them up. >> way more candid than he usually gets. is he right? we're going to debate it coming up next. ♪ i've got to keep on moving. ♪ ain't nothing gonna break my strides. ♪ i'm running and i won't touch ground i'm really into this car,

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here to debate, republican political strategist, ashley strong and democratic strategist and managing partner of the chavitz group, kevin shelves avitv. >> michael bloomberg's entry into the race is an acknowledge acknowledgement that the existing field is weak and fractured. you see bernie sanders far to the left and biden who would presumably be the moderate democrat sympto stumbling to tht and right. i think it's going to get messier from here, when the democrats decide whether they let bloomberg into the debates. i think it will get messier and more fractured at this point. >> to quote another democrat in this race, sounds like no ma may -- sounds like no m alarkey from

michael bloomberg. >> he is trying to plu plump us race for the president. he wants to say he's not bought because he's got his own money, self-funding. he's ignoring what are pretty strong poll numbers for joe biden. there are some polls that show trump with a yo a few point leat in a lot of polls joe biden has a double digit lead. i think mayor bloomberg is misstating that the entire field is subject to being waste to by donald trump. >> if we widen the lens, is there something else going on here, if bloomberg and others look at the whole landscape, if the president survives the impeachment battle his base will be fired up. the jobs numbers were off the charts. this is a president heading what's going to be a difficult re-election. when you have an economy like this, maybe the be president is

a candidate to beat. >> absolutely. 266,000 new jobs in the jobs report, far exceeding what we expected to come out yesterday. you're seeing 3% wage growth. it's trickling down to middle income and lower income folks. it's going to be tough. the economic indicators right now are in trump's favor and i think at this point the fractured democrat field clearly makes him, a an incumbent even stronger. i would note as michael bloomberg's play to be a centrist democrat, i would look at his record. it won't play in the rust belt and some of the states in the general. >>.>> how do you beat a presidt with the economy the way it is. >> it would take a candidate to explain what the numbers mean and some of the shortcomings in

the economy. in the midwest, the job growth isn't as pronounced. that's a number important to the 2020 election. i think someone like a michael bloomberg, joe biden, whoever the nominee is, has to have a message take reaches out to those people and say hey, are you really that much better off than you were four years ago. yes, there are more jobs in the economy, but a lot of them are low wage paying jobs. we need a candidate really a president that won't attacks those who need the most help and that will provide skills a that will afford them the opportunity to get higher paying jobs. >> on the other hand, the numbers suggest that wage growth is up. on the manufacturing front, big picture it's been slowing. in this report, manufacturing jobs were up by tens of thousands. kevin, ashley, appreciate you coming in. >> a saudi aviation student kills three people at a naval air base in pensacola. the governor of florida, ron de santis, says the saudi government owes the victims' families.

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alert. six saudi arabian nationals are taken into custody after a saudi gunman opened fire at a naval air station in pensacola, florida. three people were killed, at least eight others injuries. the fbi looking into a possible islamic terror link. >> the gunman identified as mohammed alshamrani was an aviation student and lieutenant in the saudi arabia air force. authorities have yet to say this was an act of terror, site intelligence posted anti-american messages from what might be the shooter's twitter account. >> a lot of questions about him. several reports suggest that the six detained were possibly filming the shooting. saudi officials have condemned the attack. pete, what are your thoughts on this? >> when you hear these reports, that potentially three of the saudis were also filming the attack, we've also got plenty -- a number of credible reports that this guy put out a mini manifesto over twitter, celebrating osama bin laden,

when you look at a student named mow what a me ah hamohammed fro, certainly walks like a terror attack, the question is, did he give off signs, did fellow students recognize changes or did he go there from the beginning with a mission to commit a terror attack. >> we've seen florida govern new york, ron de santis, take a different approach than president trump with regard to saudi arabia. this is what he had to say. >> one of the things that i talked to the president about is given that this was a foreign national in the employ of a foreign service is -- and there will be time to do this but obviously the government of saudi arabia needs to make things better for these victims. lives were saved because of the response of people, both in uniform, with the navy, in uniform with the county and so on one of the darkest days of the base's history, you still saw some of that bravery and

grit come out and even people who had been wounded themselves thinking about others and what could be done to save others. >> no doubt about it. the national chair of the 9/11 families and survivors united for justice against terror remember they've been suing the saudi government to get money for the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, they have now put out a statement saying, quote, i p am sick to my stomach that our military families are suffering the same pain that my family had toen p do you to ends ago. the 9/11 community continues to battle the saudis in court, not only for jus justice but to fore them from driving the evil. we will continue to fight and demand the whole throughout about the saudis and 9/11. that means the department of justice needs to stop protecting them. you see a tough statement from the 9/11 families who have been battling the saudi government for a long time. the president spoke to the king

of saudi arabia yesterday. he wanted to get answers. he gave a statement saying the saudi people feel badly and they express condolences. >> saudi arabia is going to have to own up to this. they've got a lot of splai enveloping to do, they might say. they have played a double game for decades. they're funding radical throughout the world. they are trying to make it feel like they're friends with the west. the details of this will be important. >> it will be interesting to see if president trump's tone on saudi arabia changes. i have to imagine there's going to be increased pressure on the saudi government. >> they're trying to build pressure on iran which saudi arabia is a part of. >>verychallenging. >> a judge is expected to decide next week if harvey weinstein's bond should climb to $5 million. prosecutors r a good in court that the disgraced media mogul violated the conditions of his

release and disabled his tracking device. weinstein's lawyers deny the allegations. he's facing multiple sex related charges. >> the nypd launches an investigation after an officer bit into a sandwich with a razor blade inside. he was taken to the hospital and will be okay. the deli involved apologized saying it was an un unfortunate accident. >> protesters who stormed the field during a college football game could have their charges dropped. about 50 of those arrested can avoid disorderly conduct charges if they serve five hours of community service and return to court next month. protests delayed the game for about 30 minutes. in the a ivy league you get special privileges. >> a small hardware store getting international acclaim for the adorable christmas ad. it shows a young boy working at

the store. after they close up shop, it was revealed he was a kid all along. the message, be a kid this christmas. they said it cost only $130 to make. that's a return on investment. >> i noticed a mocking tone when you -- >> we know what those institutions have become. we know if it was another place they would have been treated differently. >> let's not forget that pete went to princeton. >> i know. >> how do you pronounce princeton nowadays? >> harvard. >> how do you pronounce princeton? >> princeton. >> is that it. >> good sir. >> i've got nothing. i'm out. >> what about arizona state. tennessee in the house. >>.all. let's talk weather out there. not bad right now. temp as you wake up not that bad

anywhere except far northern maine. this is the cold arctic air mass. this week we start to see little bits of this get in at least across the far northern tier of the country, north dakota into minnesota, we're going to watch some really cold temperatures. this is monday morning lows, minus 1 in fargo, so towards tuesday we're in the minus teens and wednesday morning minus upper teens in fargo. so there's colder air coming on the way. it's not going to last all that long. that's the good news. it will retreat pretty quickly. weather-wise, precipitation looking really good this weekend. lake-effect snow going on across the west. a lot of it coming into california, rain and mountain snow. >> negative teens, never good to hear. >> what's the weather like in princeton. >> kind of about what it's like here. >> okay, good. >> thank you, ed. >> i like the ribbing. >> a little ribbing. >> remember house speaker nancy pelosi this week, she kind of

lost her mind when a reporter asked her a simple question. >> do you hate the president? >> i don't hate anybody. as a catholic, i resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. >> don't use the word hate, except we found a little video where she said that in the '90s and a she did use "hate." a little hypocrisy alert for the speaker is next. ♪ ♪ spread a little love today ♪ spread a little love my-y way ♪ ♪ spread a little something to remember ♪ philadelphia cream cheese. made with fresh milk and real cream makes your recipes their holiday favourites. the holidays are made with philly.

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the jury ruled he was protected by free speech and his tweet was not a true threat. the supreme court could take up a case to decide if homeless people have a right to sleep on the sidewalk. an appeals court ruled against the city of boise, sa eye iowa. a final decision on whether or not they'll hear the case has not yet been made. >> house speaker nancy pelosi firing back against the word "hate" when asked about her motives for impeachment. she was speaking a different tune in 1990. watch this. >> i don't hate anybody. as a catholic, i ry resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. we are here today because the republicans in the house are paralyzed with hatred of president clinton and until the republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will

suffer. >> here to react to that is pollster and fox news contributor, kristin solstic anderson. the media made out nancy pelosi to be a prolific speaker. in 2010 she walked party off the cliff with obamacare. is she doing that with impeachment? >> you have to look district by district. pelosi has had a long political history, that clip is not a recent clip. you had to go way, way back. she had moments where she took the house in 2006, lost in 2010. she's had her ups and downs. she's seen a lot. i think by seeing what impeachment did to republicans politically in '98, she's trying to avoid some of those same pitfalls for her own conference this year in 2019. the question is, can she do it. i'm still not sure. >> that's what i was going to ask you you. has she successfully navigatingd that so far.

>> i think if congress were to pass something like usmca while they were pursuing impeachment, she could credibly say look, we can walk and gum at the same che same time. a lot of voters in the swing districts that gave her the new majority, saying you ran on pre-existing conditions, health care and now this is what you're focused on. that seems off topic for me. >> for those members, you've got 31 democrats running for re-election in districts that president trump won in 2016, what's the political calculus for those democrats. >> i'm betting a lot of those democrats wish they had the option of censuring the president, rather than going for impeachment. there are numbers from a district in oklahoma where you had a new democratic member who it shows trump won that district by 13 points and impeachment is under water by 7. more people oppose it than support it. but there's a lot of other districts where the numbers are much closer. so pelosi has to decide, how

many of my members can i lose while not making this a razor thin margin on impeachment that looks nonpartisan, extremely political. >> some exciting news, we've got a promo for kristin's fox nation show, what are the odds. watch this. >> if you were going to place a bet right now on who the democratic nominee would be, where would you put your money? >> i would put my money on biden. >> someone who did not beat trump last time around was hillary clinton. she's been fueling 2020 speculation. if she did jump in, what would that look like? it's too late in the game for her to do this? >> to me seems like a lot of the filing deadlines are past. i don't understand how this would work for her. >> i love polling, i love statistics. tell me about your new show. this looks interesting. >> every friday we'll put out a new episode of what are the odds, i'll talk to political

experts and sometimes people setting the betting lines, about what are the odds that things will happen. we'll dig deep into the polls, what's going on underneath, what do people believe, what are they thinking, what's driving the headlines. >> awesome. sounds awesome. i'll be watching it. everyone at home should as well. you can catch what are the odds on fox nation and get 35% off yearly subscription using promo code "celebrate" now through christmas. make sure everyone does that at home. joe bidens was once touting his friendship with former president obama on the campaign trail. watch this. >> i watched my buddy barack stand up there. >> let me stop here and say something about my buddy. president obama is a man of extraordinary character. >> now biden has a new friend in town, john kerry, and the cdc reveals a third of high school students are vaping, so how dangerous is it?

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>> welcome back. more than 140,000 people died from measles last year. nearly a 15% increase from the year before. despite the fact that there has been a safe and effective vaccine available for over 50 years. >> some experts blame anti-vaxx propaganda for the comeback of the killer infection. >> joining us now, dr. nicole saphier. is it a wake-up call? >> this is a huge issue we're having right now. we talk about 140,000 globally. but let's talk about the united states. we had about 1300 cases of measles in the united states in 2017. this is concerning, the fact that measles was essentially eradicated in the united states in year 2000. what are we seeing? we're seeing an uptick. the world health organization declared anti-vaxx as one of the global health threats and it really is. because what happens is you have people who have not vaccinated themselves or their children traveling internationally to

places that have lower vaccine rates and they bring measles back here. when someone gets a measles infection, one in four times they're hospitalized and one to two out of the thousand infections will actual ily die. it increases the cost of health care and people are suffering when they don't need to. we have a perfectly safe vaccine and people should get vaccinating. >> another issue is the report from the cdc, reveals a third of high schoolers vape with 6.2 million u.s. teens using tobacco or e-cigarettes, 10% of middle schoolers are vaping. what do you make of this. >> let me tell you why this is an issue. i know there's an debate when it comes to vaping. i understand the debate. as a mother to three boys, let me tell you, when you see for the first time, this is now two years in a row you have an uptick in teenagers utilizing tobacco products, this is a problem. you saw smoking decrease in teenagers and people in general

using tobacco and we're increasing again. >> how different are the numbers between teens vaping versus just smoking traditional cigarettes. >> traditional cigarette use has decreased. teens start with vaping devices that use tobacco. vapeing is expensive and teens don't have any money. so they are actually transitioning to the traditional cigarettes again and we not kno tobacco is not good for you. that's my problem with vaping. >> i had no money as a teen, so -- >> vapeing is better than smoking. >> vapeing is better for adults who have been life-long cigarette smokers. but teenagers vaping, that's a problem. >> an aviation student kills three people at an air base in florida.

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>> good morning. let's get straight to a fox news alert. six saudi nationals in custody, being questioned after a saudi gunman opened fire, killing three people at a naval air station in florida. >> a this comes as the fbi los into a possible terror link. >> jonathan siri is live in pens he cola, florida as -- pensacola, florida as we learn more about the shooter and his motivations. >> reporter: a senior u.s. defense official confirms to fox news the detention of those six saudi nationals taken into custody near the scene of friday's shooting for further questioning and a senior u.s. official also tells fox news that the gunman was an aviation student from saudi arabia by the name of mohammed alshamrani.

the new york post reports that a twitter account under that same name published an anti-american message, just hours before the deadly shooting. the message reads in part, what i see from america is the supporting of israel which is the invasion of muslim donees countries. authorities say the aviation student pulled out a handgun in a clas classroom and opened fir, killing three people and injuring at least eight others, including deputies on the scene. some officials have called for a safety review of training programs for foreign nationals on u.s. soil. ron de santis is calling on saudi arabia to make things right. >> the government of saudi arabia needs to make things better for these victims and i think that they're going to owe a debt here, given this is one of their individuals. >> saud saudi arabian officias

condemn the attack. yesterday president trump spoke by phone with the saudi king. >> the king said that the saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter and that this person in no way, shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people. >> reporter: and this weekend naval air station pensacola is closed to everyone, except for mission essential personnel and also they are allowing families with homes on base to access their property throughout the weekend as the fbi continues to investigate. back to you. >> we'll be waiting to see if the fbi and local law enforcement have more comments later. the big picture is, there's over 100 countries we allow some of their citizens to come in, allies of the u.s., supposed to be allies of the u.s. who we help train their pilots, other

military officials. it's clear something went wrong with the vetting. we've got to step it up. >> we've seen people like senator rick scott raise questions about the vetting. it's interesting to see this unfold, the six saudis being detained for further questioning. >> we have military to military relationships. we're going to keep doing that. that's important to extr stratec national interest. if this guy is quoting osama bin laden, he's a -- they were allegelied filming at some point while this was happening. where did he get the gun? how did he get it? what role did the other people play? was this an insider attack? was this help from the outside? we don't know those things. those are the questions we have to start asking, was it a one-off? was he supported by a network? did it emanate from saudi arabia. because listen, the frustration

people have with saudi arabia, they may say one thing, their leadership to the president of the united states or the government on strategic issues but they're still funding radical elements around the globe today. there's a double game saudi arabia plays. when you see the families of 9/11 frustrated about this, rightfully so, that it's emanating once again from people from saudi arabia. >> you see ron de santis taking a tough approach, saying they owe the florida individuals a debts. we'll see what kind of pressure a lot of these lawmakers place on the saudi government. >> we had joey jones on earlier in the program, he spent some time while in the military in pensacola at this naval base. he gave us the big picture, watch. >> we train a lot of countries in a lot of ways. it's not uncommon at all for foreign nationals to been our bases, training. i would like to caution people and let them know, of the countries that we train and the people that we train, the vast

majority of them are amazing. but unfortunately the same can't be said about everyone that we bring into our country and train and the saudis don't necessarily have the best reputation of being there for the right reasons or putting in the hard work. sometimes it's royal family and things like that. >> the fbi last night had this news conference and i hear what you're saying. they're trying to be cautious. they have to wait for the facts. when they're saying look, we're not sure about the motive and you've got republican congressman matt gates saying look at the picture here, he called it what it is. he said it was terror. >> it's not hard to figure out. i get why the fbi waits to get the details. when you look at it, you can understand it's islamic terrorism. you open up the koran, for islamics they feel justified for deceit especially for intak inf. there are questions we have to answer because we have an enemy trying to attack us here and home. this could be another instance here. >> interesting this is happening, we've got this terror

threat and democrats are focusing on what? >> they're focusing on impeachment. we've heard from the white house, saying we're not going to take part in what's going on in the house. this is what the white house counsel said to chairman nadler, he says house democrats have wasted enough of america's time with this charade. you should end this inquiry now and not waste even more time with additional hearings and their approach is they're saying, look, we're not going to participate in this. you look at the way adam schiff conducted this from the beginning, holding the hearings in a skiff, selectively releasing information. but we're going to participate once this gets to the senate. >> interesting. because on one hand you can press the white house and say hold on, you've been calling for due process, you've been saying the president didn't have a lawyer with adam schiff's inquiry, and now you have a chance to send a lawyer and you're not sending a lawyer. you have democrats like al green who have been wanting to impeach the president from day one and said some months ago, he was the

first one to file articles of impeachment months and months ago. he said on another network months ago that we can't beat the president basically at the ballot box so we've got to impeach him. guess what, pete, al green is back and a he has more to say. >> he went to the least viewed network on the planet, c-span. this is what he had to say. >> we can move forward with what we have on the table currently. we can take this before the senate. we can still investigate other issues and when the president has committed additional offenses and my suspicion is that he will, we can take those before the senate. there is no limit on the number of times the senate can vote to convict or not a president, no eliminate the number of times the house can vote to impeach or not a president. >> is he making a point for the white house, where the white house says -- it's in the constitution as only break the glass when you've really got to use this. you've got democrats openly saying we'll just keep on doing

this. >> he's just being honest. >> yeah. some of them are. nancy pelosi is not when she says she doesn't hate the president. i digress. there's videotape of her talking about that the last time. in this particular case, the president called it a witch hunt. if you're in a witch trial, then you bringing your own defense when it's rigged for you to lose to begin with doesn't do any good. hold off on the house, go to the senate when you have the opportunity for process and to call witnesses and litigate it there where we know it's not going to pass. >> i'm watching for the 31 democrats running for re-election in districts that president trump won in 2016, where do they come down on this? we've seen jim clyburn do table setting of saying we're going to lose democrats here, those are the people to watch. another thing to watch, what's going on on the 2020 campaign trail. >> joe is still trucking along iowa. >> when he's not fat shaming potential voters. >> is this because democrats think we have to keep trying to

impeach the president because we're not able to beat him on the ballot box. michael bloomberg says there's nobody on the stage that can beat president trump. joe biden is struggling in some individual states like iowa. >> he's bringing out the big guns. he's got john kerry. think about how many votes, pete, are going to be changed with the mere presence of john kerry. >> john kerry's is going to change the game. >> on the no malarkey tour. >> everyone was waiting, where will john kerry come down many joe biden talked about his association with obama. listen. >> i stand with barack obama all eight years. good, bad and indifferent. i want to stop and say something about my buddy, whom i served for eight years. let me say something about my buddy. president obama is a man of extraordinary character. president obama i think did a heck of a job. i watched my buddy barack stand up there, i watched him talk.

the president of the united states, barack obama -- >> he hasn't been able to get him on the bus, though. >> he got john kerry, though. huge. game-changer. >> he's got a new buddy. he can't get his buddy barack as he called him out on the bus so here's a new buddy. john kerry. watch. >> how's it feel to have your friend with you. >> it feels great to have my friend with me. i can't think of anybody i would rather have. >> i'm thrilled to be back in iowa. i love it. >> john kerry reporting for due you at this, remember that, when he didn't -- reporting for duty, remember that, when he didn't win. perfectly fitting for the no malarkey tour. bring on john kerry. bring another guy, an old lion of the senate to come out and talk to the people of iowa about how much they've done for them over the last 40 years, except -- >> i find it so interesting, those reports that president obama tried to keep biden out from running in 2016, again in 2020. and when you see david axle dd

rorodknifing him any chance he n get. >> he had that big clash. it was interesting when he answered, he said nobody knows more than me, i've been in washington for 50 years. you wonder how that plays in a national election. you wonder what changed, what did you do. >> let's do pushups, that will get votes. >> he's got a buddy. not many voters. >> turning to your headlines, turning to a fox news alert. a detained princeton graduate will return to the united states in exchange for an iranian scientist. shaway wang was held in iran since 2016 after being accused of spying on a research trip. s his wife said the family is complete again. it's hard to express in words how excited we are to be reunited. we're thankful to everyone who

helped make it happen. president trump also praised his release in a news statement. >> a teen murder suspect who escaped from prison is back in custody. morris marsh was captured after he and two others led police on a car chase in nashville. he was one of four tamers who broke out of a -- teenagers who broke out of a juvenile detention center last week. one of the teens is still on the run. the man behind the gofundme scam that conned donors out of more than 400,000 bucks gets five years in prison. mark demakio pleaded guilty to making up a story about a homeless veteran who gave his last $20 to his girlfriend when she ran out of gas. they set up a gofundme to help him. the others also pleaded guilty. he is still facing federal charges. >> utah will not be going to the playoffs after a crushing loss to number 13 oregon in the

pac 12 title game. >> it's a sharp focus, right up the middle, he broke free. s he's headed for the end zone. >>.>> the ducks trounced them, 37-15, punching their ticket to the rose bowl. the rest of the championships will be played today, number one ohio takes on number eight wisconsin on fox. those are your headlines. >> big game. all right. trump economy continues to soar, unemployment hitting 50-year low. what does that mean for 2020? an economics professor is on-deck with the inside story. >> plus, they call her aoc. she is now gloating about new amazon jobs coming to new york city. sheet waiting for hater -- she's waiting for haters to apologize. there are reasons why they probably won't apologize. the big ship-up, up next --

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we need your help more than ever before. we have 266,000 jobs, plus. we've created 7 million jobs since my election. unemployment is at the lowest rate as i told you in many years. it's a long way from when people were rooting for a recession, because they thought they could maybe win an election. >> welcome back to fo "fox & friends." there is president trump, touting america's booming economy after the november jobs report beat expectations. >> yeah. how much did it beat it by? 266,000 jobs were added last month. unemployment rate falling to

3.5%. what does this mean for you and your wallet and 2020? let's ask professor of business and economics at kings college, brian brinburg. massive numbers, crush expectations. given us the big take-away. >> the big take-away is the crushing expectations piece. go back three days and read the headlines about where the job number was going to be. people were talking about a number less than 100,000. this has been a theme throughout the trump economy. the economy's slowing, job numbers are going to slow. we got a crushing number, 266,000 jobs. what that means is 2020 could set up to be much stronger than anybody is predicting. that's going to be a political game-changer and this number really kind of emphasizes that. >> you see democrats, particularly on things like the tax cut law, they say it only benefits the rich and corporations. what has the actual impact been for hard-work americans. >> the unemployment rate is 3.5%. it's been below 4% for 21

months. that is historic. the big news here is the wage gains. the wage gains, above 3% again this month and that's highest -- it's rising fastest for people at the lower end of the income scale. what's happening is you're actually getting a condensation or depression in the inequality because wages are riseing fastest at the bottom. this is an economy that works for the average american. that's the headline that seems to always get buried in this story. >> a republican and capitalism is addressing income inequality. the horror. >> it's incredible how little attention this gets. the new york times, they've havd to start to admit this economy is working for people at the bottom and we can't deny that. >> that's called eating crow. >> well, somebody who might be eating crow today is alexandria ocasio-cortez.

remember amazon was going to bring about 25,000 jobs to her district here around new york city and she helped block that, said she didn't like the tax breaks. late yesterday it's announced amazon's going to come to new york anyway with a smaller office. she is tweeting look at this, amazon coming to new york city anyway without requiring the public to finance shady deals, she says, handouts for jeff bezos and corporate give-aways. maybe thshe said she was waitine haters to apologize. she's sitting there all alone. but this amazon deal now is much smaller than the one she blocked. >> yeah, you know, she's trying to sort of fit things to fit her theory here. the truth is, she's right, we don't need to give corporate handouts to amazon. but she is wrong about everything else when it comes to a business environment and what creates jobs. she has done more than probably any other politician in the city, in the area, to push

people out of new york city, to make this look like a hostile environment for business. so she doesn't deserve a thank you for anything. we would have more amazon jobs here if she wasn't involved. >> cancel culture coming to you next on the other side of break. ♪

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good morning. time for your news by the numbers. $337,000, that's about how much it cost new york city to house just one inmate each year. a new report showing the cost per inmate in the big apple has jumped 161%, just in the last decade. this despite the city's jail population hitting its lowest level since 1980. figure that one out. next, 17 million, that's how many viewers started but could not finish the irishman on netflix. the latest film starring robert deniro and al pacino clocks in at three and-a-half hours. 15 15$150,000, that's how much someone paid for this banana taped to a wall. three versions of the piece sold at an annual art fair in miami. that's art, they say.

pete? ♪ [yodeling] >> we first met him in 2007 when he won america's got talent and soon after terry fader shot up to stardom with big-time success in vegas. now cancel culture has struck the puppet world as his team has been asked to drop his puppet version of president trump from his show. here to explain is las vegas headliner, terry fader along with his version of president trump. thank you for being here. this wasn't the casino saying don't do this. >> it was me. >> this was you and your team. >> me making the decision, because i always said i don't want to be political. i like to -- i want everyone to enjoy my show. and when i created this guy. >> you didn't korea ate me. i korea ate created me. >> he announced he was going to run. he had not won the presidency.

i didn't think he was going to win and -- i was a supporter. i thought it would be great to get a businessman to be president, it would be wonderful. but there was -- it got to a point -- i took him out about six months ago. it got to the point where you just see people tense up when i would bring him out. it's a joke. if you look at the hair, that's pretty fricking funny. >> i have to ask how you feel about not being part of the act. >> i've been impeached. >> i'm a conservative. if i were to go to a comedy show when president obama was president, that wouldn't offend me. i would go in, ready to laugh. >> as a conservative, i don't t get hurt when you make fun of my side. i did a obama joke that was not political and i'm telling you the press in vegas went crazy and they're like he's obviously a huge conservative and a george w. bush -- i'm like no, so it's

weird, when the left hears a joke they take it personally. when the right hears a joke we think it's funny and we don't take it personally. so it's harder -- the right love this. the trump supporters love this. the reason is, i didn't make him look like an idiot and i didn't make him look like a monster. i had fun. he would say things like, i'd say so what's the secret of your success? >> i fire people who don't do anything. >> like who? >> like you. >> he just sits here, i do all the work. >> little jokes like this. i wasn't being mean, wasn't making him look stupid, mean or horrible. trump supporters loved that. i finally got the point where i would see people tense up when he came out. i said my job is to entertain everybody. >> you're hitting pause. the president may come back. >> he'll definitely come back, yeah. i think once he's out of office in hopefully five years, then i'll bring him back and then we can talk about what's he's going to be doing after, post

presidency. then he won't enrage people. >> where can folks find your show. >> i'm at the mirage, four to five nights a week. i tour all over the country. keep up on my socials. ism going to be doing trump and bernie sanders, i have a bernie sanders puppet and we'll be doing stuff, they're like statler and waldorf from the muppets. >> maybe a preview of the debate. >> exactly. but funny. >> you're a funny man. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> next, we move to a fox news alert. new details emerge in that shooting at a pensacola naval air base. six saudi nationals now in custody, three of them reportedly filming the attack. we're live in pensacola with an update. plus, football sunday will look a lot different tomorrow when nflers wear special sheets. our next guest is patriots' tightened, benjamin watson. he reveals what cleats he'll be

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and -- >> jonathan siri is live in pensacola florida this morning as the fbi looks into the possible terror link. jonathan, good morning. what's happening on the ground there? >> reporter: good morning to you. a u.s. defense official is confirming the detention of those six saudi nationals brought in nor further questioning. the new york times is reporting that three of the six were seen taking video footage of the incident, the violent shooting on friday as it unfolded. a senior u.s. official told fox news the gunman was an aviation student from saudi arabia named mohammed alshamrani. the new york post reports a twitter account under that name published an anti-american message before the shooting, the message reads in part what i see from america is the supporting of israel yo which is the invasn of muslim countries. he pulled out a handgun in a classroom and opened fire, killing three and injuring eight

others. one of the deputies shot and killed the suspect. some officials are calling for a safety review of training programs for foreign nationals on u.s. soil. florida governor ron de santis is calling on saudi arabia to make things right. >> the government of saudi arabia needs to make things better for he's these victims. and i think that they are going to owe a debt here, given this is one of their individuals. >> reporter: saudi arabian officials condemned the attack and expressed condolences for the victims while affirming the importance of the strategic partnership with the u.s. yesterday president trump spoke by phone with the saudi king. >> the king said the saudi people are greatly angered by the bar bar rick actions of the shooter and this person in no way represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people? >> reporter: this weekend the naval air station remains closed as the fbi continues to investigate. back to you.

>> jonathan, we'll get back to you. thank you. >> the new york times is reporting that three of the saudis that were there were filming the attack. trust me, the new york times, if they didn't have to report that, they wouldn't. if you're a saudi national this they ki country and you're traig and you're not a radical, your first instinct will not to film it. how many people were involved. that's what we need to know. that's the depth of how far this goes. >> we know that six saudis have been detained for further questioning. >> we'll stay on top of it. >> in the meantime, some other headlines. today, the minnesota national guard will release names of soldiers killed in a black hawk helicopter crash. the crew was nine minutes into a maintenance flight when they made a mayday call. minnesota's governor ordered flags at half staff over the weekend. the family that owns the property where the crash happened raising a flag in honor

of the victims, you see that right there. >> michael bloomberg doubling down on his controversial policy for covering the 2020 election with his company. >> even your own news reporters have complained, that think it's unfair they're not allowed to investigate other democratic candidates because their boss is in the race. >> have you to learn to live with some things. they get a paycheck. but with your paycheck comes some restrictionse restrictionsd responsibilities. >> the bloomberg news policy has been widely criticized. the trump campaign banned bloomberg reporters from covering his rallies. >> aviation gin enlists the -- gym enlists the actress from the peloton ad to mock the commercial. >> the gin is really smooth. >> we can get you another one if you like. >> you're safe here. to new beginnings. >> to new beginnings.

>> they are consoling her and she chugging the entire glass in one sip. critics slammed the bike company for buying his wife exercise equipment calling it sexist. >> that's the same woman from the peloton ? >> right. >> she's having a great moment. >> did you think the ad was sexist. >> no, i think it's silly. the bikes cost a ton of money, if someone spent that money on you, i would be thankful. >>.>> moving on to this. nfl players lacing up for week 14 by sporting custom made cleats that showcase causes important to them. look at that. >> it's part of the my cause, my cleats campaign and you're looking at cleats our next guest will be wearing, bringing awareness to one of his one more foundation, spreading love and hope of jesus christ in local communities. >> joining us now is new england patriots tightened

benjamin watson. how are you doing? tell us about your cause and your cleats. >> it's an opportunity for players to represent the many causes that so many guys are involved in ranging from cancer to criminal justice reform, whatever it may be, whatever is on our hearts. so my cause is our foundation, my wife and my foundation, one more, which as you said before spreads the love and hope of christ to one more soul. and we do that by following the three charges that are given in michael 6, 8, when it talks about doing justice, loving kindness and walking humbly with our guide. for the last 10 years, it's been the opportunity to meet people with needs, whether promoting and giving food to those that are hungry, doing your best around the holidays, promoting education, standing against injustice, whether it be sex trafficking, abortion or racial injustice, those sorts of things and bringing kindness to people. we live in a world and in a country where sometimes people

aren't kind and a kind word can go a long way and that kind word or kind deed can be multiplied by those who receive it. >> why did you choose that cause specifically? >> well, for the last several years i've supported an organization called international justice mission which is the world's largest anti-slavery organization and this year decided to actually represent our own foundation, because it allows us to spread the message of really reaching one more soul. and there are so many different ways, so many different avenues to affect positive change. everybody has different ideas and different desires and for us, it's really about meeting people where they are and not only meeting their need but giving them an opportunity to know the one who can meet their need forever and ever and as i said before, there's a bunch of different organizations that we've been involved with, most recently as i mentioned before the sex trafficking is something that we have really delved into, combating the 2 million children

worldwide that are in the global sex trafficking trade. we've done things locally. and standing for those who are persecuted around the world. >> the website if folks want to support your effort is watson 7.com. i believe. so check that out, watson7.com. your wate quarterback, tom brads wearing cleats that support vets. there's a shot, we've got one on our screen right there. those are tom brady's cleats he'll be wearing tomorrow. how are you feeling about your chances this year? >> feeling good. it's game by game. we've got a big game tomorrow, kansas city, a team that will come in and give us their best shot. our goal is to go out and execute and obviously try to get a win at home. >> i've got good news, if you make the super bowl it's going to be on fox and we'll look forward to seeing you if you make a it there.

good luck. what a wonderful cause. best to you and your wife and your whole family. >> and thank you for bringing kindness to us. >> have a great christmas. >> that's a great way to cross over to rick, our buddy. >> if they don't make the super bowl, it's still on fox. >> that's true. >> good point. >> what did you say? >> it's cold. >> it's cold out here, guys. we have cold air coming this week. today, not that bad, even though it's certainly cold. 33 here in new york, 9 in care caribo, maine this morning. overall, it's not going to be that bad of a day. we'll have plenty of sunshine. we'll warm up by monday and tuesday, temps in the 50s and 60s. a few scattered showers along central gulf coast, nothing that's a washout of anybody's day. towards the northern plains, temps looking good today, um in the 50s across areas of the high plains and areas of nebraska. finally, out across the west,

this is where all the action is. we have a lot of rain and a lot of snow. it's going to cause potential for some flooding, especially where we've had burns the last couple years. significant snow, by tomorrow that moves in across the four corners. back to you inside. >> thank you. >> we move on to a fox news alert, the trump administration a announces an american grad student is coming home after being held in iran for more than three years. decorated green better ray and s on the deal that allowed him to come home. that's next. to the outside world, you look good,

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we've got to understand why these people are on our base, are they vetted. we have got to take care of americans first. i love that we have ally that's want to train with us and work with us, but we've got to take care of american citizens first. >> michael walsh joins us now to react. good morning, congressman. when senator talks about putting america first, that's something this president has talked about since going back to his first campaign. what's your message to the president, concerning the big picture with saudi arabia. some of your colleagues are saying this is terror and saudi has to answer for it. >> first, i want to recognize the sheriffs, the first responders, governor de santis' office for their amazing response to this tragedy yesterday. look, clearly something went very wrong with the vetting that goes on between the saudis, the state department, and the defense department. and this particular program, what i'm most interested in as we get to the bottom of this, was this a deliberate

infiltration on the part of al-qaida or isis as part of a planned effort or was this a one-off radicalization. the end of the day, i think senator scott is absolutely right. we have to get to the bottom of this vetting program. i will say, ed, these programs i personally participated in them. i've trained with british, jordannan, japanese, allies all over the country. they're important for two reasons. one, they're training on american equipment we're selling our allies abod and that interoperability and the ability to fight together is important. we're often training with the foreign nation's best and brightest, obviously not the case here. >> didn't happen here. >> we need to get to the bottom of why. we're going to demand some briefings and understand how this happened. >> you make some very important points. let me get to another topic. we learned this grad student from princeton, an american citizen has been released, a big victory for the president to get him out. a u.s. official told me there was no sanctions relief, no

change in policy and no piles of cash to get this american home. what does that mean? >> that means the president's determined to cut good deals to get americans home. and they've done this with north korea. they've done it with americans held by terrorist in pakistan. we have to remember that robert o'brien, the national security advisor, was formerly the hostage envoy. this has been a focus of the president since day one and -- we have to get the rest of the americans home that the iranians are still holding. one of which, mr. namazi, was left behind as a part of the iran deal. he was promised to come home to the obama administration as part of the iran deal and they didn't bring him home. we still have more work to do. this is a huge, huge step for the wang family and my heart's out to them. >> it goes out and we certainly hope and pray that more americans come home by christmas and in the days ahead. congressmanwalsh, you make

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pete: we begin this hour with fox news alert, 6 saudi nationals taken into custody after saudi gunman opens fire in pensacola, florida, 3 people were killed and at least 8 others injured. the fbi looking into what is a likely islamist terror link. >> ayuation student and lieutenant in saudi arabian air force while authorities have yet to say terror directly, site intelligence posted antiamerican messages from might be the shooter's twitter account. >> several reports also suggest that the 6 detained were possibly filming the shooting, saudi officials have condemned

the attack. >> it's unreal the president spoke to the saudi king and expressed condolences and the saudi people are with the american people, yes, there were more than 100 countries allied with that work with our military for training. >> yeah. >> this usually doesn't happen but this is a case where it's probably need to be more extreme vetting but also should be called what it appears to be which isic lammic terror. >> that's right. the information so far that hours before the attack the saudi individual posted on twitter messages, quoting, osama bin laden and hating america for support of israel and the signs are clear that the gentleman mohamed from saudi arabia, became islamist either before he came here deceptively or after he got here during training and 3 of the saudis currently detained were caught filming this attack, so it looks like it

could be more than just one individual, how did he get the gun, who supplied it and others are filming, propaganda purposes, so many questions to be asked and moments like this you can't be afraid to talk about motivations of people, where it emanates from, saudi arabia spread islam throughout the world, we are scared to talk about it but we shouldn't be, that's the separation conversation in many ways, ed from the fact that our military trains a lot of other country on american equipment that we sell because we rather have them fight. >> this was an act of terror, we have seen people leek senator rick scott, we have to take a look at vetting, how did that guy get there and how did he not get screened and also security

at the facility, there are few hundred foreign aviation students being trained at pensacola at any given time, training program has about 1500 pilots, saudis have been getting trained at pensacola site since 1970's and security actually beefed up at the base 4 to 5 years ago, the lingering question, ed, how did this appear. ed: yes, those are questions, some demanding questions are 911 families, they have been suing the saudi government for years now demanding justice. i'm sick to my stomach that our military families are suffering the same pain that my family had to endure 18 years ago, the 911 family community continues to battle saudis in court, stop spreading hateful radical islamic, the whole truth about

saudis and 911, department of justice needs to stop protecting the kingdom by hiding information and invoke secrets. this is going to obama justice department, they are pressing the obama justice department. pete: today is the 78th anniversary to have bombing of pearl harbor, may we remember 78 years what happened on 911, the emotions are still raw and rightfully so. you know that 911 was conducted 15 and 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia, any really wanted to learn how to land but just take off, what signs were there for the saudis, were they talking, was the military afraid to report it, was there military at all, it was more important where it was missed on the process. >> those are all good questions and ed you interviewed michael waltz this morning, former green

green berete. >> clearly something went very wrong with the saudis, the state department and the defense department and this particular program and what i'm most interested in as we get to the bottom of this we get to deliberate infiltration as part of planned effort or was this more of run off radicalization, at the end of the day senator scott is absolutely right, we have to get to the bottom of the vetting program. pete: ed you used the phrase extreme vetting, a phrase that the president used often described and saudi arabia double game, a lot of questions in days to come.

>> the president jumping on a big story, he was right in the middle of it, lead negotiators as well, brian hook who helped security the release of a grad student, american grad student at prince university who had been hostage in iran for several years now, about 3 years, you see him there, mr. wang, he, again a grad student at princeton, he was being held on espionage charges in iran, senior u.s. official told me moments ago got without sanction's relief and no pallets like cash as we saw in the obama administration. >> president trump put out a statement about this and this is what he says, after more than 3 years of being held prisoner in iran, wang is returning to the united states, princeton university graduate student, pretense of espionage since august 2016, we thank our swift partners for assistance and

negotiating with iran, highest priority of the united states is safety and well-being of the citizens, freeing americans hemmed captive is importance to my administration and we will continue to work hard to bring home citizens wrongfully captive overseas, what do you make of this? >> remembering the forgotten men and women has been presidency, donald trump yet delivering, the time to go me is interesting because you see all the unrest in iran, the same individual, envoy, our envoy to iran as mentioned in the last couple of weeks, thousands of iranians killed by their own government, even tens of thousands arrested, iran is under huge pressure right now, might some of that pressure be part of the reason they are releasing this american at this time all which comes back to a maximum pressure campaign against the regime we said we are not cutting a bad deal with, you're not allowed to give nuclear weapons, story

broke out couple hours ago. >> our son and i have waited 3 long years for this day, it's hard to express in words how excited we are to be reunited, we are thankful to everyone who helped make this happen, look, there are more americans being held in iran and there are other families we should not never forget about who are still demanding answers and hope and pray they get good news before christmas. pete: you think we may never see this person so for the president to deliver it's great news this morning. >> huge, huge job's numbers from november, 266,000 new jobs, 54 manufacturing jobs, 3.5% unemployment, 50-year low, 3.1% wage growth, huge, huge numbers, ed, what does that mean for 2020? ed: you heard pete mention that democrats were rooting for a recession a few months ago, they

were citing tall smarty pants economy, we are headed for recession and doomed and bad for the president in 2020, i think the opposite is playing out and pete pointed out the wage growth. we had brian brendberg on the show, lower to middle class is the strongest, you want to see the rich getting richer that's why the president jumped on the numbers, watch. >> the numbers that nobody ever believed possible, nobody would have believed it frankly in the campaign, i would have never said it but i thought we were going to do very well, despite the fact that we are paying interest to people that have money in the bank and other countries are not and they have a great competitive advantage and yet we are by far successful economy anywhere in the world, we are doing better than any other economy in the world. >> he tried putting pressure on china in the process trying to

get a better job. imagine if the house did their job, american capitalism and i think the wage growth piece is so important because you have a bunch of democrats running a socialist who say that capitalism is what breeds income inequality and as brian brendberg pointed out, the folks tat bottom rising the most thanks to unleashing the american economy that has made this work, you say huge, huge, i think you should still the word from the media, bombshell numbers, no one saw this kind of growth coming this hard. >> there's an op-ed in the new york post and this is a headline it reads job report delivers stiller news why do dems want to impeach trump, you look at economy just booming, president trump meeting with nato leaders and what is congress doing, what are democrats doing with their -- [laughter] >> what are they doing with their house majority, they are

following impeachment. the case doesn't look strong because previously it was russia collusion and then obstruction and ukraine and now going back to russia, doesn't look like the case is really that strong. ed: al green, democrat said months ago that you have to impeach him because you can't really beat him at the ballot box, you look at the job's numbers, maybe he's right. >> we think bloomberg can do that? ed: what do you think? >> let us know. ed: in the meantime other headlines, police officer shot and killed in line of duty this happened in alabama, the police officer was gunned down while chasing a suspect in a drug-related investigation. he was shot in the heart despite wearing a bullet-proof vest. the officer's name has not yet been released but the big picture is this brings the number to 39 officers who have been shot and killed in the line

of duty this year alone. president trump said he will not designate mexican drug cartel as terror organizations for now, the president tweeting he would temporarily hold off on the move after request of méxico's president who insisted designation would violate mexican sovereignty, two countries plan to step up efforts against the gangs in the meantime and an iowa democrat launched controversial ad appear to show her firing a gun at him, watch. >> doesn't seem to care that many of the guns will be pointed at our kids, church-goers. ed: bullets flying by eddy as he criticized senator and called outrageous that he would make fun of gun violence. we will hear from senator herself, an hour from now live on "fox & friends" and those are your headlines. >> we have some great guests today. pete you had to know that their

campaign was irresponsible and they were hoping for blowback and coverage. >> there you go. pete: fox news alert, new details in naval air base that claimed 3 lives, 6 saudi nationals in custody, get this, 3 of them accused of filming the attack, this story close to home for our next guest who shot 7 times in fort hood base attack 4 years ago, his message is next. ♪

applebee's new sizzlin' entrées. now starting at $9.99. >> fox news alert, 6 saudi nationals now in custody being questioned after a saudi gunman, a terrorist opened fire killing 3 people at naval air station in florida, investigators looking into a possible link to islamist terror, incident drawing comparisons to deadly attack on

base years ago, alonso was shot 7 times on horrifying day, staff sergeant, thank you so much for joining us, when you hear this news and you see it happening, your overall reaction? >> it's very shocking, brings back a lot of bad memories from the shooting that we went through 10 years ago. pete: when you say shocking are you surprised that it happened again or saudi national training on our soil, on our equipment, what part of it takes you back the most? >> well, one because it was a saudi national and same thing with major, even though he was born in the united states he was still a foreign national to a degree and i think that we should have learned from our shooting at fort hood that we need a better vetting process of other members joining our

military and we need to change agreement the same way as it is that we are in other country, we need to be more diligent in looking into the background of these service members that are serving with our forces here to make sure that they check all the blocks and make sure they are not a threat. >> makes sense to me. pete: he's on death row, awaiting death row, what was particular about that case, he showed signs that he had been radicalized, islamist that were missed. as you look at the case down in florida, what would you be looking for as it pertains to evidence around the case. >> well, first i will look for is family background, family in his home country and basically investigate and see what their views are, how do they view the united states, how do they view

our policies, how do they view democracy, then if there's any ounce of any one in his family, his or her family that does not agree with our standard of living, then therefore i will not allow the person the opportunity to train with our forces. >> you're right about extreme vetting, obviously a case like that brings this up. when you bring the detail new york times reporting that 3 of fellow saudi officers were actually caught filming or at some part of it were filming what was going on, your reaction to that? >> well, that answers the question because it's a group effort and also let's us know that that this particular attack is one of many that's supposed to come later on so we need to sit back, step outside the box and look at all of the individual that is we have in training and we need to just take them out of training momentarily so that we can make

sure that they are safe to be around our troops, they are safe to have opportunity to be here in the great united states. pete: staff sergeant, at a moment like this, what, there's a war being waged by islamists, what do americans need to know about that threat today? >> well, one we need to educate all americans on what it really is, we don't need to sugar coat and now it's time for us to come back home, let's take care of our own house first before we go out abroad to fix everybody's else problems because we can't effectively fix anyone's problems abroad if we are still having problems at home internally so i think that now that we have come up on election year that we need to make our work leaders stand up to the plate and actually do what needs to be done because history is repeating itself over and over again. >> absolutely, staff sergeant alonso, thank you so much for

your service, god bless you. >> you as well. >> amazon becoming doctor amazon and push to put record in your name, should big tech get involved in health care, that's next.

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>> welcome back, quick headlines, ups employ killed at armed robbie wasn't supposed to be at work that day, frank killed after two hijackers took him hostage, he was covering the route for another driver. in california surveillance video capturing moments before ups driver is robbed at gunpoint, one of 3 delivery truck robberies this week in san josé, california n each case the package thieves approached the trucks wearing ski masking and dark clothing, no arrests have been made, ed. ed: big tech making big moves into health care from developing apps and wearable tech to artificial intelligence products that give medical advice, now new report says amazon is repairing to launch app that brings all aspects of health care right to fingertip but is

that really a good idea, here to debate health care expert and president of gdp adviser and cybersecurity eric cole, good to see you both this morning. >> good morning. >> is it a good idea to have tech companies take a bigger role in health care? >> listen, when you have an economic system in the united states where health care is in dire need of both competition and consumerism, that's something that amazon has been very successful at delivering, i say the more the merrier, the more we can put in hands of consumer to be engaged in healthcare system, let's do it. >> we may be putting more in the hands of consumers, we are also putting data in the hands of big tech? >> that's exactly right, this is a new frontier, right now we have e-commerce where some of your credit card information is online, you might have some limited personal information online with banking but what we are talking about here is all of your medical information, all of your medical data in one single

location and the problem i found is big tech when they do this, they are always focused on futures and functionality and they don't really worry about cybersecurity until after there's a breach and after there's a problem. >> and then they say, okay, we will take care of it. let's give zeth a fair chance to respond, 11% of consumers are willing to share information with tech company, how do you break the barrier if you're amazon, people are already skeptical and then when eric brings up some of those concerns, what's your answer to all of that. >> let's be clear recent story 81% of providers in the health system, everybody from blue cross or local hospital system has had some form of data breach, data breaches are out there, good people like eric to help companies get more secure, amazon will do a lot to hold the

confidence of the consumer when they are utilizing their data. >> eric talk about that, a data breach can be difficult in any arena but if i buy tv and data breach at best buy or something, that's one thing but if i'm giving my private information, something i'm battling, seems like a whole lot more personal. >> exactly. with cybersecurity what we are looking controlling and minimizing damage, zeth is exactly right, they do have some exposure points but, remember f one of them gets compromised only a small amount of your data is impacted, what we are talking about here is taking all of that information and putting it in one single spot i i want to emphasize amazon is not a pharmaceutical company, they are not a medical company and what we really have to ask ourselves is why are they doing this, they are doing this because they want your data, they want to control your data and they want to use

it for marketing purposes, they're not focused really on the security protection of your healthcare information. ed: zeth, what about that? if i start giving amazon my info and say i'm dealing with x, i will start getting a whole bunch of ads in my e-mail and all of a sudden get text alerts, hey, do you want to buy this product that might deal with x. >> well, let's be real most americans are already getting those ads because most americans freely give out that information anyway, with the average americans spending 10 hours researching a car before making a purchase, 2 hours researching flat screen tv but only 15 minutes on health care, say the more that we can engage the consume near the health care the better off we end up will be. >> last point on how we find the balance? >> we need to start driving security up front, so if amazon came out and said here is our security, here is what we are doing, here is how we will protect consumers and show us

they are addressing as priority i would feel a lot better but in all the articles i've seen it's all about functionality, don't see any talk about security. >> guess what, gentleman, we had a serious topic to cover without any shouting, you both brought good information, we appreciate it. zeth and eric, thank you. rush linbaugh, new initiative ready to reveal. that's next. it's time to sell or trade in your car.

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at least 8 others injured. pete: fbi looking into possible islamist terror link, aviation student and lieutenant in saudi arabian air force. while authorities have yet to confirm this officially was an act of terrorism, site intelligence posted antiamerican messages from might be the shooter's twitter account praising osama bin laden. ed: let's bring in james golden, he's also known as boe, famous radio producer from rush limbaugh's program, great to have you, good morning. >> thank you so much, good morning. >> we want to ask you about this case, you know, you've got the

fbi sort of dancing around, i understand we have to show them respect that they are still gathering the facts before they jump to a motive, but you have others like republican congressman matt gaetz, let's call it what it is, it was islamic terror. >> it sure looks to be islamic terrorism, one of the things is we have wrapped ourselves in the country so much with political correctness that we can't do some of the obvious things, profiling, number 1, you know, if you start looking and you look at what happened in fort hood, how many times do we have to go through this and put our military, our servicemen and women at risk before we start taking steps to actually profile who will be on these military bases where, of course, with the access to weaponry it is evident that it's a danger and a risk if we don't know whose on the bases.

pete: james, great point, now is not a time for political correctness at all, big fan of your boss, big fan of radio program, it's awesome to see you and have you on the program, your boss was on our show yesterday, here is what he had to say about the trump economy, listen. >> the american people don't want the president impeached, the american people love the economy, they love the robust new deals that we have made in the trade sector and, look at african-american unemployment approval rating for president trump. i think this is fabulous news and it's once again going to illustrate the other that the democrats face in trying to impeachment. pete: how can democrats possibly compete with president trump? >> well, they are trying to compete with him with impeachment, that's what they've been trying to do, they've been trying to compete with him for the last 3 and a half years with pure hatred through vicious

attacks in the press and through these endless investigations in congress, that's how they compete with them, they can't compete with him on the economy, look at what happened especially concerning minorities, you've had over the first 18 months of the trump administration a 400% increase in the numbers of black entrepreneurs who have been able to open up businesses or start a business, you also have the -- for minorities you have historic lows in unemployment, we have never had as many african americans and as many hispanics works as we do right now, never in american history has this happened. so how are they going to compete with that? >> james, let's stay on that, you are promising to make black americans republican again with a new pack for black conservatives, if you look at states like florida where african-american women were the difference makers for governor ron desantis and victory over

andrew gillum, what's your difference, why should african americans support president trump? >> let me just say, i'm not promising, this is going to be a long haul, we've had 50 years of nonstop narrative from the democrat party and from liberals and mainstream media and academia telling the world that republicans and conservatives are their enemy, it is not going to happen in one or two election cycles but we are starting on it and this is the perfect place to start, president trump as you know, the polls are showing right now two respected polls by liberals and one poll that they don't respect that the president has a 33, 30ish approval rating among voters, why is that the economy is booming, 5 years ago many black families in this country had to tell their kids this is not going to be a good christmas because what we were told then was that jobs were not coming back to america that it was impossible to have a good economy, this president has

within a very short period of time produced a robust economy that has more black americans, more hispanic americans, more american citizens working than ever before, this is going to be a good christmas and we've seen it already by the indicators that are coming out of the retail sector. in addition to that, this president has shown that he's serious about reforming the justice system and that definitely affects minorities, the president has shown that he's willing to work to change school choice, that is huge, giving more and more americans the ability to send their children where they think their children should go meanwhile you have elizabeth warren lying to black parents saying that she sent her kids to public school when she chose private option. so what you -- yeah, and you have a president that's also taking the legal immigration

very, very seriously and despite what elected democrats say, this is an issue that is really central to the way that black americans and in communities think. yes? >> yes want to make sure we get this in before we leave with you, where can people go for more information informal. >> newjourneypack.org. newjournalypack.org. we are about electing black conservatives and bringing black americansing into the republican party, their home. >> newjourneypack.org, i want to thank you for your role in beaming the voice of rush limbaugh, smart man, thank you for joining us on "fox & friends". >> thank you. >> not just rush that knows thousand talk. murdered suspect captured after

he and two others led in car chase in nashville, two others have been caught, one of the teens still on the run. scary moments for a mom when car is stolen with 10-month-old baby, flagged down a good samaritan who was willing to help. >> location that was known for stolen vehicles being dropped off. pete: wow, the girl was not harmed and reunited with the family a short time later, the suspects on the run. this santa claus sparking outrage apparently, recently went on display in army install ation sign reading god bless america, the military religious freedom foundation is condemning this saying it pushes christianity on military members

who aren't christian. others saying it's just a decoration and the argument is you might say full of hot air. >> i'm from fairfax, virginia and i'm okay with this. pete: of course, you are every human being says we love our country and love santa claus. red red rick has never been accused of hot air, ever. [laughter] >> that's not true. [laughter] >> it was not true, hey, welcome from arizona. >> thank you, great to be in new york. >> little cold for you? >> feels great. >> wow, okay, first time i've heard that all morning. show you what's going on, it's cold out there this morning, northern part of the country, not that bad compared to what it can be and will be later on this week, that pink is the very cold arctic air mass and we will start getting little impulses in north dakota, minnesota primarily, short-lived but we do

have chilly air coming in, get ready, maybe pushing the minus 20, so pretty cold, all right, guys, back to you. ed: 2020 hopeful elizabeth warren raising some eyebrows. >> so here is my goal, my goal is to get elected and then to be the last american president elected by the electoral college. >> wait, doesn't that go against what the founding fathers wanted? >> plus husband and father spending christmas deployed overseas. his wife made sure he's still in part of the celebration, photo shopping him into their christmas card, the mother and twin boys and outpouring of support coming up.

ed: quick headlines, amazon having trouble keeping up with christmas shopping season, blaming delay deliveries on bad weather. i thought that's what they were suppose today deal with, nfl players wearing special cleats this week, ben watson show casing one more foundation, he told us about it exclusively a little earlier. >> just bringing kind tons people because we live and in a country where people aren't kind and a kind word can go a long way and that kind deed can be multiplied. ed: great message, you see it

right there and that is pretty awesome, lisa. >> thanks, ed, that is awesome, the electoral college has long been in the democrats cross hairs ever since president trump won the 2016 election, but now senator elizabeth warren is taking the attacks a step further in this viral video, watch. >> so here is my goal, my goal is to get elected and then to be the last american president elected by the electoral college. [cheers and applause] >> i want the second term to be that i got elected by direct vote, i'm ready. popular vote. i just think this is how democracy should work. >> but is this what our founding fathers envisioned when they established our constitutional republic, not a democracy, let's ask trent england, to states advocate for keeping the

electoral college, what would you say to senator elizabeth warren, why do we need of electrical college? >> it's part of constitutional checks an and balances, she's td of talking to middle of america, she's tired of talking to people who live in small towns, places like wisconsin and pennsylvania, she wan wantsts run a campaign g cities. >> okay, so there you go, for the viewers at home half of the united states lives in just 143 of the biggest counties, this is from the 2015 census, so essentially the gray areas are places where you're not really going to be heard, you don't have much of a vote, what does it tell you about the way senators and elizabeth warren and democrats like her view middle america? >> i think that they don't understand -- they've lost touch and they just don't understand how a lot of americans live outside of the biggest cities, right, that map is really

telling, there are 10 million people who live in los angeles county, that's bigger than michigan, right, that's bigger than all but 10 states in our country and, you know, we have this divide, getting rid of the electoral college would make it so much worse and it's a tragedy that we see these presidential candidates who are really to sacrifice something that helps hold us together. >> well, trent, thank you for joining us this morning, all right, and coming up a husband -- coming up a father spending christmas overseas, his wife back home making sure he's part of the celebration photoshopping him in christmas party, you don't want to miss this coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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pete: welcome back, a father spending this christmas season apart from his family as he serves our county overseas as black hawk helicopter pilot, wife honoring back at home by editing photo in christmas card showing them altogether and that photo beautiful going viral, here more on the story wife and

mom daniel of florida along with their 2 and a half-year-old twin boys who like all twin boys refuse to reply to command. >> appreciate it. pete: the beautiful boys, i got a chance to watch them in the break, i'm sure that's what life is for you on a daily basis, for security purposes, just out of respect, we are not naming your husband and where he's at. >> i appreciate that. pete: where does this idea to hold hands across the ocean, where did it come to fruition? >> you know, we've -- holidays are really special to me and i've always -- i always enjoyed doing christmas cards and i didn't want this year to be any exception and i wanted him to be a part of the christmas card so just asked them one day to hold his hand out in his uniform and no idea what i was doing and so we found a way to merge the images together.

pete: daniel, it's beautiful, we think of all the people serving for our nation overseas right now and we also think about the families and the beautiful boys, what -- what's going through your heart and your mind this christmas season? >> gosh, i mean, i know we are not the only family that's dealing with this right now and we definitely miss him so much, so we are just really asking -- really hoping for him to come home soon. pete: amen, america share that is as well, what's one thing that you will hold off, wait till he comes back to share? >> so we've been married, going on 7 years coming up and we've only spent one anniversary together and i'm hoping he makes it home by our anniversary and we can do something together as a family. pete: daniel, thank you so much for his service and you serve ago long side him, beautiful christmas card and beautiful boys,i will let you go before they destroy the whole -- >> thank you so much. >> we love it, so glad to have you. >> appreciate it. pete: big hour still ahead,

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ed: we're back with this fox news alert. six saudi nationals now in custody, they're being questioned after a saudi gunman killed three people at a naval air station in pensacola, florida. >> that's right. this as the fbi looks into a terror link. pete: we're learning more about the shooter and his possible motive. jonathan serrie, good morning. >> reporter: a senior u.s. defense official confirming that six saudi nationals were detained for questioning in connection with the shooting x "the new york times" reporting that a source briefed on the investigation had said that three of those six saudi nationals were seen taking video of events on friday as they

unfolded at naval air station pensacola. a senior u.s. official has told fox news the gunman was an aviation student. "the new york post" reports a twitter account under that name published an anti-american message just hours before the shooting. the message reads in part: what i see from america is the supporting of israel which is the invasion of muslim countries. authorities say the aviation student pulled out a handgun in one of the classrooms on base and opened fire, killing three people and injuring at least eight other including two deputies responding to the scene. one of those deputies shot and killed the suspect. friday's incident has prompted some officials to call for a safety review of training programs for foreign nationals on u.s. soil. florida governor ron desantis is calling on saudi arabia to make things right. >> the government of saudi arabia needs to make things better for these victims. i mean, i think that they're going to owe a debt here given that this is one of their individuals.

>> reporter: officials condemned the attack and expressed condom doll lenses -- condolence ares for the victims. yesterday president trump spoke by phone with the saudi king. >> the king said that the saudi people are greatly angeredded by these barbaric actions of the shooter and that this person in no way, shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people. >> reporter: and this weekend naval air station pensacola is closed to all but essential personnel. the fbi is leading the investigation. back to you. ed: jonathan serrie, thank you for that. pete: let's bring in stephanie griffin sham, white house press secretary. first, your reaction to the events in pensacola and what the white house is seeing right now. >> well, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with everybody there and the entire state of florida. it's really horrible and it's tragic. also want to really thank first

responder, as always, who run into dangerous. so that's -- into danger. we're looking into it. we can't get ahead of the investigation as you just said yourselves, fbi's looking into it, and we need to trust the federal investigators to do. that as the president said though, we will get to the bottom of it. he always puts america's safety first, so i trust that this president will get to the bottom of it. ed: this president's also been direct going back to the campaign about saying that he's disappointed that barack obama owl not call -- would not call out islamic terror, so will this president follow what matt gaetz, his republican ally down in florida, has said which is that this was terror? >> i think that once the investigation concludes and that is, in fact, what it is, the president will do all he can to make sure this does not happen again. >> and, stephanie, we've seen governor ron desantis who has said that saudi arabia owes us a debt now. does president trump agree? >> you know, i haven't spoken to president trump about that. i know that he and governor

desantis spoke and he offered the full support of the white house and all the resources that could be provided. i know that the president has spoken with him and will stay in contact with him and is going to do everything he can to help the state recover. ed: stephanie, there was some breaking news overnight which is that an american citizen who, as you know, is a grad student at princeton university, had been held hostage in iran. the president has now gotten his free, released and his key adviser on all this, brian hook, helped secure that. what do you know about that? but big picture as well, we've seen the president to this in north korea and other hot spots around the world, get americans field. >> you know, i would -- freed. >> i would like to say that the president often times gets criticized for some of his relationship with some of the tougher countries as you would call them. but he's obviously getting results, and it's saving lives. the president continues to have results overseas in many ways. nato, he was just there. but with something like this that is life saving, i believe that's something that people

should consider when they are criticizing the president for some people that he talks to. he's got an obligation to talk to world leaders and, again, he's getting results and saving american lives. pete: stephanie, certainly good news. we see a lot of unrest inside iran. we've heard of over a thousand people killed, even more detained. the regime there under a great deal of pressure, so is this a result of policies under this administration in. >> absolutely. it is absolutely a result of -- the president's policies, again domestically and overseas, are working. we've got the jobs numbers that just came out too, if i can get to those, 266,000 jobs in november. so the president's policies are working and, again, they're saving lives, and they're lifting up americans. pete: let's go to jobs numbers, you just mentioned it, 266,000 jobs, wages up. critics of the president who haven't supported his policies or tried to impeach if him, what in the world can they say to numbers like this?

[laughter] >> i mean, i hope they can say congratulations and it's a great thing for america. and, in fact, i would encourage all of your viewers to go to the top of the president's twitter account. he's got a great montage of all of the media outlets having to actually congratulate and acknowledge the great work he's done for this country. again, i would hope that everybody is just happy and acknowledging that the president's doing a good job. with regard to impeachment, you know, they have not produced any evidence while the president continues to produce results. so i think the american people are seeing. that. >> stephanie, staying on jobs, what do you think we're going to see from congress on usmca? >> you know what? that's up to nancy pelosi. that should have been done a long time ago. we are hoping it will go through. there's many things sitting on her desk that should be going through, and instead she's playing silly games at the detriment to the american people. ed: steph first let's get back to impeachment because you and others in the white house have been demanding that the president get due process, that he get his lawyer in there when

adam schiff was down in the basement having those depositions and witnesses. jerry nadler offered to let the lawyer offer defense, why does the white house not want to participate? >> we're not going to participate in a sham hearing that doesn't give him any rights. they keep moving the goalposts, moving the rules. the president was overseas when hay invited him to be -- they invited him to be part of that silly hearing. that timing was on purpose, and everybody knows it. we're not going to legitimize this hearing. the only evidence they have is the actual transcript that the president produce that show he did nothing wrong. this last judiciary hearing with those three witnesses calling out a 13-year-old son and very biased witnesses, the whole thing is a sham, and it's got to stop. it's clearly not going to, and if it does move to the senate, we look forward to that because it will be fair. >> stephanie, speaker pelosi sparred with a reporter on thursday. i want to play some sound and get some response from you.

>> do you hate the president, madam speaker? >> i don't hate anybody. as a catholic, i resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. we are here today because the -- until the republicans free themselves of this hatred the, our country will suffer. >> as you can see there, she's saying one thing previously, another thing now. but do you think, is this personal for democrats? impeachment? >> i think this is very personal. i would say she said as a catholic she is very upset. as an american citizen, i am very upset that the democrats have been trying to take this president down since before he was even elected to office. so, yeah, i do think it's very clear that this is personal. they attack the president, they attack the first family. that's personal. that is not anything other. and the fact she keeps saying this isn't political also, i'm very confused by that.

pete: the standard she set was overwhelming, compelling and bipartisan. and when you mention her saying it's in the about politics, he says it's patriotic. it's all about patriotism for her, and she's prayerfully considering the road of impeachment for this president. what do do you say to the speakr on that? >> well, i would say that she should be thinking about the country. they are dividing the country. so so if that's not political, if that's not personal, i don't know what else is. if she's praying for the country, she should be trying to unite it. they are trying to divide it. it's got to stop. ed: on your point here, we've got a picture of this sweatshirt the democrats are raising money with, don't mess with nancy. if this is about the constitution, if we're having this prayerfully, why in the world are they raising money like that? >> i mean, because they're not raising money any other way. [laughter] >> there you go. [laughter] ed: stephanie grisham, we

appreciate you.coming in. >> thank you so much. ed: in the meantime, turning now to some headlines. an isis supporter who called himself the dentist is sentenced to 22 years behind bars. he was stockpiling weapons in his new york apartment including tactical knives and a pocket chain saw. oh, boy. he told an undercover agency he hoped to behead people in new york city. he was twice stopped in u.k. airports enroute, yes, to sir. >>. meanwhile, the nypd launches an investigation after an officer bit into a sandwich with a razor blade inside. we're toll he'll be okay, thankfully. the deli has apologized calling it an unfortunate incident. a local newspaper is reporting video evidence suggests it could have been an accident but people on high alert after all the attacks on police officers. in the meantime, actress jane fonda leading a climate change protest in washington for

a ninth straight friday. this week she claimed climate change is leading to a refugee crisis. she then marched the with demonstrators to financial institutions. remember, she's been arrested several times before. today we remember a day that lives in infamy. it's now been 78 years since 2400 sailors were killed in that surprise attack at pearl harbor. a 95-year-old vet recounted the tragedy with our friend martha maccallum last night. watch. >> about 7:45 coming out of the mess hall, i said, what the hell is that? and i saw there were japanese red circles. we're being attacked. we didn't have a chance, a knowball's chance in hell. -- snowball's chance in hell. i will never forgive and i will never forget what the japanese did that day. ed: blunt and direct, gotta love him. this year's ceremony coming, of course, particularly sad because it's just days after a a u.s. sailor shot three people at the

naval base before killing himself. and those are your headlines. wow, 78 -- >> we forget that day at our peril. it's like our 9/11. eighteen years later all those that have been a part of it only pray that our country remembers it -- ed: we're losing so many of the greatest generation. >> which is why it is important for martha to do these kinds of interviews and for us to remember this and also honor him. ed: she's working on a book, it'll be out soon. pete: and to call it what it is, radical islamic terror. of. a democratic hopeful targeted over a cringe-worthy ad targeting joni ernst. gear. >> she doesn't seem to care that many of those guns will be pointed at our kiss, our teachers -- our kids, our teachers. pete: he's not backing down and neither is senator ernst. she joins us live to react, next. ♪ ♪ i have huge money saving news for veterans.

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the united states postal service goes the extra mile to bring your holidays home. ♪ ♪ >> one of the reasons i'm running? because our current senator, joni earn, she thinks it's okay to run ads glorifying guns. she doesn't seem to care many of those guns will be pointed at our kids. well, i care. [gunfire] and i'm running for united states senate because i'm the best democrat to take on joni9 and the washington establishment. pete: controversy surrounding that ad from an iowa democrat depicting his opponent, senator joni ernst, firing gunshots at him. senator ernst joins us now. senator, thanks for being here. just your reaction off the top to that ad.

>> my reaction, pete, is that it is appalling. one, i am a responsible, law-abiding gun owner. and to insinuate that i and hundreds of thousands of other law-abiding gun owners in iowa would participate in those types of heinous acts is, like i said, it's disgusting and appalling. pete: well, senator, if your opponent has doubled down, taking to twitter saying this, saying: making the ad wasn't something i took lightly. joni needs to think long and hard about taking shots at me. those of us with pre-existing conditions and everyone else helped by the affordable care act, we have hashtag courage under fire. so somehow he's taking an ad that shows you shooting a gun at him into something about pre-existing conditions. is this all an effort by him just to get some attention? >> i think it is. he is very desperate for attention and, well, he's got it now.

and i think he has the ire, again, of law-abiding citizens. but to tie it to pre-existing conditions, listen, i protect those that have pre-existing conditions. i have a sister and a brother both type i die beetics and a nephew -- diabetics and a nephew with autism. i understand those types of illnesses. so, certainly, i want to peck those with pre-existing conditions. but to tie it into this type of ad, it is outrageous, absolutely outrageous. pete: especially when as a party he describes himself as a progressive democrat, they bemoan gun violence, but here he is using it flippantly in a political ad. this is also a guy who's for the green new deal, he wants to take down the nra, not surprising, describes himself as a progressive. how are those values resonating in the state of iowa? >> right. those values don't go very far in the state of iowa because we want things like a strong economy, we want trade, we certainly want a strong national

defense. all of those things are very important. what he is supporting, leftist socialist ideas like the green new deal which would stymy agriculture and business and industry in iowa when he is supporting med can care for all -- medicare for all, even illegal immigrant, all of those ideas a not the values that iowans stand behind. so he is seeking attention. well, he's got it. unfortunately, i think it's the type of attention that he wasn't warranting. pete: senator, it also shows how little he would know about law-abiding gun owners who would never fire without knowing what's behind their target. all of it feeds into a view that just owning a gun is dangerous in and of itself. >> exactly. and, again, there are hundreds of thousands of iowans that are responsible gun owners, law abiding citizens. pete, you and i understand that very well. we've been trained with very,

various weapons systems. we understand safety, and we are concerned about gun violence. pete: absolutely. senator joni ernst, thank you very much for joining us this morning. we reached out to your opponent for a statement, he did not come on. [laughter] >> of course. thank you, or pete. pete: all right. they say you shouldn't mix family and business, but what if assigning business times at home could help your marriage? we discuss that one coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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ed: welcome back. some quick headlines starting with this fox news alert. this is a picture just in of the of american grad student just released from iran. a senior administration official says doctors are examining him in germany before he flies home to the u.s. the exchange happened last night. he was held in iran for more than three years, he was a hostage accused of spying during a research trip. and a man who offered to pay for people to kill i.c.e. agents somehow has been acquitted. he tweeted, quote: i am broke but will literally give $500 to anyone who kills an i.c.e.

agent. the jury ruled the man was protected by free speech if his tweet was not a, quote-unquote, true threat. >> all right. well, shifting gears. many households know too well, who will do the dishes? pete: this is a good clip. >> you're upset because i don't have a strong desire to clean dishes? >> no, because you don't have a strong desire to offer to do dishes. >> i just did! >> i just asked you! >> so it turns out that 30 president of divorced couples -- 30% of divorced couples saudis agreement over chores -- pete: i want you to want to do the dishes. [laughter] how do you fix the problem? "the wall street journal" suggests trying to use business titles? ed: really? here to discuss, what's this business title all about? >> that's kind of extreme, but i'm all about it. i work for couples, obviously,

i'm -- ed: what are the examples? chairman? [laughter] >> you're handling all of the day-to-day operations of the household, executive officer, you're handling the oversight of the entire house and the family. i mean, i think it's a clever way. my wife and i, you know, we've been married 22 years, we don't have any kind of titles, but we've put together a list, and it's kind of obvious who does what. my wife does more than i do. >> i'm not married, it doesn't look like i'm getting married anytime soon, but this seems like it's a lot of work, right? to give someone a title? should marriage be that hard? >> well, it shouldn't be that hard. but, you know, once you -- i think mainly for younger couples that are getting married, kind of don't know what you're getting into. you don't know the day-to-day nuances of your partner, what they like to do, don't want to do, what they expect you to do. we have to put together a list and put a title on top of it,

fine. pete: software update officer, vice president of enrichment -- [laughter] chief laundry officer. >> that'd be my wife. pete: pretty specific if you want to. >> yeah. pete: but that happens kind of naturally too. people have interests, so defining it out so people aren't -- [inaudible] >> i'm the chief drain cleaning officer of the house. and the plungerrer when the toilet -- >> i think, again, couples, we want to make sure that married downs do whatever they can to stop the day-to-day bickering because those are the things that, essentially, lead to the 30% of -- >> or you could just do a really bad job, and the other person has to pick up the slack, right? ed: wish we had more time. i'm going to get into a fight with our producers if we don't get a break. i'm sorry. pete: new details emerge after the shooting at a pensacola that naval air base. the fbi looking into a possible terror link as six saudi nationals are taken into

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six saudi nationals now in custody after a saudi gunman opened fire at a naval air station in pensacola, florida. three people were killed, at least eight others injured. ed: the fbi looking into a possible terror link, some republicans saying flat out it was islamic terror. the gunman was a lieutenant in the saudi arabian air force. saudis have yet to confirm it was an act of terror, but this is some information showing that the terrorist here posted anti-american messages from what might be the shooter's twitter account. >> several reports also suggest the three of the six detained were possibly filming the shooting. ed: let's go straight to devin nuñes, ranking member of the house intel committee. we're going to get to impeachment in a minute, we just had stephanie grisham on, she said they're still waiting for the facts to come in, but some of your colleagues saying this is terror. >> clearly, this person was likely radicalized.

i think law enforcement has to wait to get all the facts before they just come out to confirm, i think that's what the white house is waiting to do too. pete: yeah, it is, and a lot of americans look sideways and say saudi arabia, they've had so many problems with funding radical islamic terrorism, we have a military to military relationship with them, but to see this happen yet again on our bases radicalized either here or over there, three of his fellow saudis were filming it, reported by "the new york times," i mean, man -- >> at least that's what they're saying today. let's wait until we get all the facts. these are important program, as you know being in the military, where we train other militaries. we have these relationships where you can build with allies trying to work together. because remember, you have iran, the real bad guy over there. and so the challenge has been with many saudis and many people around the middle east is they get radicalized. and you never know when they're going to actually pop. and my guess is somebody who's been radicalized for a while. >> and there's been questions

raised about vetting, are we doing enough with the screening process. >> well, this is a good screening process in place that's been enhanced over the years since 9/11 -- >> is it strong enough in. >> well, clearly not. considering this is what happened. ed: let's turn to impeachment. want to start with you because you've been under fire, as you know, in recent days with the chairman who you don't get along with. adam schiff sort of dropped in the report there are phone records suggesting that you were speaking to not just rudy giuliani, but one of his associates who's now been indicted. have you checked your phone records to see whether or not what the chairman is alleging is true? >> yeah. so i've been under fire for three years because we continue to expose corruption, right? whether it's the democrats unmasking trump transition officials to them funding the dossier that was used to -- they gave it to the fbi to get a fisa warrant on carter page. and then, of course, over the two weeks before thanksgiving, i think they were embarrassed by their lack of evidence they were

able to present through the hearing. is so what happened is the friday thanksgiving this fake news story drops about me supposedly being in vienna, and then we get back from thanksgiving and, lo and behold, my name -- along with one of my current taffe people, i think this is important, and a former staff person -- all of a sudden our civil liberties are violated because our phone records show up in this report. but i can tell you i had, i was busy all week so finally yesterday i had a chance to go through all my phone records, and i can tell you my phone records do not match what schiff and the democrats put in that report. ed: so you did not talk to lev parnas, for example, as many finals as they're alleging? >> what i have, i can tell you it doesn't match. i have one call with rudy giuliani in april, one in may, okay? the rest of the calls are either they didn't connect or it was a voicemail, right?

so one in april, one in may. i have a call from somebody named -- i assume it's parnas' wife, because it's registered to a lady, incoming call to my phone. i would do what i would normally do in a situation where you don't recognize somebody, you don't know somebody, you say thank you very much, let me get you to the appropriate staff person. ed: so did you ever have a substantive conversation about information in ukraine? >> well, anything -- remember, i didn't recognize the name until just in the last month when he was indicted because i didn't know who this person was. so we get so many calls all the time from random people because we're the oversight committee, right? we get calls from americans, calls from formers. i don't remember it being a female voice. seems like, you know, i remember a call, somebody i didn't know. said, hey, i'll get you to the appropriate staff person. but i can tell you what we didn't talk about, okay? i can tell you that there's no way i talked about me being in vienna meeting with random

ukrainians. that didn't happen, right? so i can tell you we didn't talk about that because that didn't happen. so i think there's -- and the other issue about parnas that we know of is that the only person that's been talking to parnas are adam schiff and the democrats. i received one call, like i said, we receive calls all the time. they're in touch with parnas all the time. so if there's a problem, they need to investigate themselves. pete: on this issue schiff and rudy giuliani, a lot of people pointing to basic civil liberties. not just members of congress, but reporters and others, anyone who would have been talking to rudy giuliani, now their phone records out there? >> so i believe i am the first member of congress, and i believe my staff and former staff are the first ones ever to have their phone records exposed like this. so we're sitting on roughly 3500 pages of metatoday taxer of

phone -- metadata, of phone records that the democrats subpoenaed. they started dropping phone numbers in and searching, let me see what numbers pop up. so the truth is two calls to rudy giuliani and one call with a guy that i don't even know seems pretty odd to say that that's a conspiracy, right? and then he pops me in the report saying that i have something to do with this ambassador yovanovitch being fired. i are news for them, i didn't know who she was. >> you going to release your phone records -- >> well, i'm not going to. i think that is a question between a, the if, the -- at&t, house democrats, verizon -- >> right. >> -- and the courts. so we're going to have to take legal action here -- >> are you taking legal action right now in. >> we're definitely going to take legal action. >> right. >> remember, they have the phone records of many journalists, of many members of congress, right? rudy giuliani -- i'm not the only member of congress rudy

giuliani knows. so there's a lot at stake here because those phone records are down there, and at any given time if they don't like a reporter or a member of congress, they can gin up a story and put those phone records out there. so we need to get to court to try to stop that from happening again. pete: is it right for the white house to decide not to participate in the house proceeding? >> absolutely. because you have to be able to bring witnesses forward, right? they gave us none of our witnesses. so why would you, why would you even think about showing up to participate in something like this? this is a hoax. ed: so if there's a senate trial, the president thinks he may get hunter biden, other witnesses -- >> that's the appropriate way to do it. most people that have participated in a jury trial in america or been to court know how it's supposed to work. and if you're going to impeach the president of the united states, that's how it should work. ed: congressman, we appreciate you coming in and answering the questions. >> my pleasure. pete: turning to some other headlines, this is video out of paris where yellow vest protesters are back out in the

streets. we've seen small fires on sidewalks but so far no reports of any major violence. armed police are monitoring the situation. the yellow vest movement started more than a year ago as people protested a gas tax, and the cost of living has become a lot more than that. and it appears joe biden after his push-up challenge to an iowa voter. >> you're damn liar, man. you want to check my shape, let's do push-ups together. let's run. pete: come on, man. biden seemingly e walking back those comments telling appropriators, well, he shouldn't have challenged the voter. he stopped short of apologizing, and those are your headlines. ed: we're going to get him on the show and have you do push-ups. pete: i don't do it when i'm losing an argument. push-up time. >> push up or shut up. because he keeps challenging people to a push-up contest, and we haven't even seen him -- ed: you accuse me of dad jokes,

and that's what you bring to the table? [laughter] >> mocking a potential voter. pete: he goes at him at on the trail, and then he backs off? ed: next up, a sheriff who made national headlines for his heroism during hurricane harvey. see him there with our own give jenkins. now he's stepping back into the national spotlight. here his major announcement next on fox fox news. ♪ ♪ - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps.

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those. and aviation jim enlists the actress from the controversial actress from the peloton ad to mock the viral commercial. >> gin is really smooth. >> yeah. >> we can get you another one, if you'd like? >> you're safe here. >> to new beginnings. >> to new beginnings. pete: friends consoling the woman as he chugs her entire a glass in one sip. critics slammed peloton for his ad, but a man buying his wife exercise equipment which is ridiculous -- ed: fried chicken fire log, what will they think of next? >> it is not sexist. ed: our next guest, fort bend county sheriff nells is hoping to help his community by serving on capitol hill. >> theart. and while he's running for congress, he's also encouraging his twin brother who's currently serving in the army overseas to

run her his sheriff seat. joining us now is the sheriff himself. why are you running in. >> good morning. >> nice to see you, sorry. so why are you running? >> i see that washington is broken, you know? being in the great state of texas, you know, we're only four hours away from laredo, and we have a very porous southern border. and i have seen that washington is broken, congress has a responsibility to secure our southern border and keep the american people safe. but serving as sheriff in fort bend county, it's case after case of the number of individuals that have been deported more than one time committing crimes against the people of fort bend county. and then as a sheriff, i have to explain to those victims i'm sorry that your son or daughter was assaulted by this individual, i'm sorry that this individual broke into your home and took your family heirlooms. oh, and by the way, he's been deported more than one time. ed: sheriff, you know congress is not working on immigration reform right now. they haven't signed off on usmca

which would affect texas and a lot of other states. they're focused on impeoplement right now -- impeachment right now. i'd like to get your comment on that as well as your critics are saying that you were friar fired from a previous police department and say there are questions for you. talk a little bit about how everybody's throwing out allegations -- >> the impeachment is nothing but a sham, i think it's nothing but a distracter. if you look at president trump and what he's been able to do for this country, you look at the employment numbers yesterday, you look at unemployment being low, the stock market -- seems like every oh week there's a record high. they just focus on impeachment. we have a congressman just outside of houston that was talking about impeaching trump, and i don't think trump even knew where the bathroom was in the white house. i mean, within three weeks. ed: real quick though on the allegations against you? >> yeah. there's politics in all small towns. i will say this, i was terminated from a law enforcement agency in fort bend county. it didn't prevent me from

getting where i am today now, did it? >> about the reentry, why do you think we see those reentries? >> i went down to laredo two weeks ago, and the border patrol agents that i spoke to, they need some support. and thank goodness for governor greg abbott because what is he doing? he realizes that congress is doing nothing. so now we're spending hard-earned tax dollars out of the state of texas to ugh ament the -- can augment the border patrol. i think abbott should send nancy pelosi a bill because texans are paying $400 million a year to augment the border patrol. nancy, when you write out that check, pay to the order of the great state of texas. in that memo section you need to say because we have failed to do our job. ed: thanks for serving our country -- >> this is -- people have asked me, sheriff, when you run for congress, who's going to replace you? i think he's the perfect replacement.

a very handsome fella finish. [laughter] strategic, level thinker, very smart guy. i told the people my twin brother would make an excellent sheriff. finish. [inaudible conversations] ed: thank you to your brother and have a mercy christmas. >> blessings to you all. ed: with christmas less than three weeks away, up next, we've got decorations out on fox square how to make your home merry and bright. ♪ ♪ attentions veterans with va loans, va mortgage rates have just dropped to near 50 year lows. veterans can refinance their va loans with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. newday has extended our call center hours so that every veteran in america can take advantage of this unexpected drop in interest rates. one call can save you $2000 every year. to start saving on your next mortgage payment go to

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pete: all right. with christmas less than three weeks away with, it's time to deck the halls and deck out your yard. >> well, and here to show us how, our home improvement experts, sandy e and shane, who are also army veterans. thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> what are we looking at here? this is so pretty, by the way. >> gone are the days of the icicles. now it's about the snowflakes. this is an easy way -- [cheers and applause] >> am i right? these are leds, super simple to string up, they all connect. >> they're beautiful, i lo this. >> you can do indoor, outdoor, window treatments. pete: i feel right now it's about making it easy.

>> so this is dummy-proof then. i could do it. [laughter] >> the thing about ornaments, back in the day you would open up your christmas ornaments and guess what? they're broke. now -- [inaudible conversations] >> these are indestructibleful but the thing is, you can buy them in packs of 50, 660, -- 60, 80, 90, 100, go to home depot. >> just go to home depot, pick it up, it's in three pieces. you don't even have to make a connection. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> they light up, they've got a remote control. you can sit on your couch, change the lights. it stopped snowing outside in you bring snow inside. this is the how this works. pete: we're going to go to ed and rick.

>> go deep, ed! >> you don't have to do any work. it's all done. ed: here's a perfect example of that. basically, you can have party planning sent to your home. finish so if you have a table for ten people -- >> do not have to do anything. they do it all for you. >> yeah, for $52 you can get a place setting for ten people -- ed: sometimes people get intense with the lights. these are pretty easy. >> it comes in four pieces. you put it together, one, two, three, pick it up at home depot, light it up, it's done. it doesn't look great when it's off, but when it's on, it's amazing. >> all right. these things rah really cool. >> hold on, go ahead. so basically, just plug it in, and it does everything for you. once again, so easy. plug and play. this is what we're about, plug and play. [inaudible conversations]

[laughter] >> you know, you've got to stay off the eggnog. [laughter] >> got one of those little trees -- [inaudible] rick: you guys got here about 15 minutes ago and set this whole thing up. >> where can folks learn more? >> absolutely. go right to our web site or go to home depot.com and buy all this stuff. it's all available. pete: they can't break, they can't break! [cheers and applause] hello mom. amanda's mom's appointment just got rescheduled - for today. amanda needs right at home. our customized care plans provide as much

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ed: come on back tomorrow. pete: hey, everybody, on the count of three, give us a merry christmas. one, two, three -- >> merry christmas! [cheers and applause] happy saturday, everybody. mug. ♪ ♪ neil: we are getting new details about the naval air station shooting in pensacola, florida, and they're not pretty. here is what we know right now. the fbi is looking into a possible terror link. the shooter was a saudi national. six other saudis who were detained for questioning with, some of them reportedly taping the shooting that ended up killing three and leaving several others injured. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. we start with jonathan serrie live in pensacola with more on this ongoing investigation. >> reporter: hi, neil. yeah, a senior defense official