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>> an atmosphere of hit has been developing in the country, a lot emanating from washington and having effect on all of us. >> s this is intolerant time in this country, once you demonize differences, you ahave been the

-- you attack culture of the country. heather: new york democrats blaming during hanukkah, he joins us now who he thinks is to blame for antisemitic attacks. >> my pleasure. heather: first of all, a response from you on what was said by some of the politicians in new york? >> you expect the mayor of new york who has failed to do his job and expect the governor to blame someone else. it's sort of like in school or elementary school or kindergarten, he's the mayor of new york and cuomo is the governor, the countless acts of

anti-semitism, unprecedented, we've never had a situation as it exists right now, those are not my views, those are the views of the new york city police department, the mayor -- heather: it's a fact, let's show people the numbers, just since december 23rd this makes the ninth attack, so far just since december 23rd. >> each attack involves creating pain, creating fear on the part of people and communities, people are afraid, this is america, this is new york, no one should be afraid to walk the streets because someone out there hates you, because you're a jew, what is the problem that you have with me that you go out and physically assault me and you go out and do terrible things, you don't know me, you

never spoke to me, mr. mayor, you're responsible, you're the leader of the city, the acts of anti-semitism in new york have nothing to do with the right, have nothing to do with the president, take responsibility and deal with it instead of blaming washington. heather: what does he need to do? >> he needs to -- look, no question that additional police forcing. heather: patrols. >> they send additional police, when things quiet down they go back to normal, there has to be a concentrated effort not just police in uniform but police officers who may be look like me and people in the communities, let's find the trouble makers on the streets who are ready to attack a person only because of religion, let's have police officers dress like -- i don't have to tell them what to do, he

got elected mayor, he got elected governor, he has all the resources of government bringing everyone together, call it a crisis, it's an epidemic, the situation, bring all the resources and attack the problem, there's so many things that you can do but the first thing is recognize the problem. heather: governor cuomo called it act of terrorism, do you agree with that, should he also include hate crime, the suspect involved said he's innocent and talked about mental illness being a cause? >> anyone that goes out and slashes people and murders people has good a problem, mental problem. that sort of becomes the excuse for why he's not guilty because he didn't know what he was doing, that is absolutely outrageous, one of the things that the governor has done, if you watch his actions, act of

anti-semitism, next thing the governor tweets, tweets, nobody talk anymore, you tweet, he tweets i'm sending the state troopers, that's it, same mo. heather: wasn't the first arrest, attacks i should say that have happened since december 23rd, there's the look hole that's letting people out. >> there are no repercussions unless you beat the hell out of somebody. heather: too late. >> look at all the people that have been arrested. we hear about the arrests, we never hear anything else, guess what, nothing happens, no consequences, they don't pay a price, i would say look into

that, that's worthwhile. heather: there's this woman that mayor de blasio said that he wasn't aware of who had attacked 3 women, 3 jewish women and released and apparently she attacked another woman and attacked her after she was released. >> doesn't he read the newspapers or doesn't he have staff to tell him what is going on? this was pretty well known, the fact, i'm a democrat, i know bill de blasio quite well, he's looking for excuses. forced now into doing something because people -- heather: hopefully. >> the city of new york thinks

he's doing a good job, no one. heather: the time 19 minutes until the top of the hour, first starbucks and now mcdonalds, a police officer disrespected with a vile message in his coffee cup, why the police is saying no thanks to chief of maricopa. >> let her go, let her go. heather: ouch, quid pro joe, one of his campaign stops.

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", heckler's derail a rally for former vice president joe biden, the 2020 hopeful slammed by protestors in

new hampshire. >> this is a democracy. i hope it does. i hope it does. let her go, let her go. heather: well, those blasting biden for alleged corruption, the former vice president and his son hunter, have been criticized for tries to ukrainian gas company. well, biden's opponent andrew yang facing criticism of his own over health care, candidate questioned about medicare for all plan which does not have a public option. >> medicare for all, your plan is not medicare for all, not even medicare for some. >> our plan to expand, medicare for all is not the name of the bill, universal health care. >> medicare for all is medicare

for all, right, i mean -- >> well, our healthcare plan would be based on medicare and expanding it over time. heather: yang also said the country needs to move toward universal health care but has plan as on option. insulting note slapped onto a police officer's coffee cup, can you see that right there? the word pig scribbled in a sharpy on the mcdonalds coffee cup, this happened in kansas, fast-food chain trying to make amends by offering free lunch to officer who is also by the way a u.s. veteran, police chief who posted shocking picture, big mac and fries isn't going to make up for it, you don't have to be a citizen to go to president trump's upcoming rally, a miami pastor telling parishioners at king jesus international ministry, mega church where the president prepares to launch

evangelicals for trump group on friday, it is believed to be one of the largest hispanic churches in the u.s., the pastor says that he would not endanger his people without documentation. and how about pope francis, did you hear about this in pope francis wants catholics to put down phones at dinner table, in sunday sermon the pope tells the faithful, are you able to communicate, the pontiff has more than 18 million followers by the way on social media. well, the time now about 26 minutes after the top of the hour and republican senators uniting behind a no-witness strategy for impeachment. >> there are not two-thirds of the senators willing to convict and remove the president. >> i want this to end quickly. i will say no the any witness request. heather: who wins and who loses,

why congressman james say the american people will be the winners when he joins us live. ♪ ♪

heather: welcome back, half past half of the hour, starting with fox news alert, pentagon releasing this image of u.s. air strike hitting hezbollah militants in iraq and syria in response to rocket attack that killed american contractor in iraq last week. u.s. military fighter jet striking 5 hezbollah targets including storage facilities and command and control centers, refuses to carry out attacks and 18 people died in the ambush. nypd will increase presence in jewish communities in the wake of a stabbing inside a rabbi's

home, bill de blasio with several measures batting anti-semitism, thomas is charged with attempted murder. and tomorrow is new year's eve but the ball will drop today in times square, test drop of the sphere will happen at noon, the ball has 32,000 lights, by the way, that's capable of creating billions of different patterns as it drops, teachers and students who won contest will actually help with that test, that's pretty cool. switching gears now, shooting at texas church leaves 3 people dead including the shooter, police now praising armed congregants for saving lives, kristina coleman has more. >> gunman opens fire in texas

sunday morning. >> we have a congregation here, after something like this happens, it destroys my heart. >> two stepped in fatally shooting the suspect. >> today evil walked among us, topped it before it got worse. >> multiple agencies including the atf and fbi responded to the scene and investigation into the incident is under way. >> hearts are heavy, we ask for prayers for every one of the parishioners today who witnessed this. >> texas governor greg abbott releasing a statement saying in part, quote, places of worship are meant to be sacred and grateful for church members who prevented lives. just saturday night a man with a machete at hanukkah celebration in new york, local officials say

the incidents are becoming too common. >> it's tragic and it's just terrible situation especially during the holiday season. >> there's no ongoing threat to the community involved in the church sheeting, kristina coleman fox news. heather: moving overseas, the u.s. is prepared if north korea delivers on its promise to deliver a, quote, christmas gift, national security adviser robert o'brian says the u.s. will take action if the rogue regime test a long-range missile, listen. >> we have a lot of tools in our tool kit and additional pressure can be brought to bear on the north koreans. if kim jong un takes that approach we will be disappointed and we will demonstrate the disappointment. heather: senior officials say that they are monitoring the situation closely, dictator kim jong un is expected to deliver speech on new year's day, we will be monitoring that. well, the taliban agrees to a

temporary cease fire in afghanistan providing the opportunity for peace agreement with trust, american officials want the taliban to promise that they will not be used as the base for terror groups and to get negotiations going between afghans on both sides of the conflict, a deal could end 18-year long war, by the way, the longest in american history, 12,000 u.s. troops are in afghanistan right now. well, republicans rally around president trump saying that the trial in the senate doesn't need witnesses and it won't bring a conviction. >> there are not two-thirds of the senators willing to convict and remove the president. >> i want this to end quickly, i will say to any witness request. >> everything i do during this i'm coordinating with the white house counsel, no difference between the president's issuing our position. heather: so who wins and who loses if the president is

acquitted? congressman james, member of house oversight committee joins me to talk about it, first of all, thank you so much this morning, we appreciate it as always. >> thank you for having me. heather: what are your thoughts on this, lindsey graham saying his goal to have a short a trial as possible, what do you think? >> well, i agree completely, house democrats have had plenty of time to try to demonstrate that donald trump committed an impeachable offense, they failed miserably, the american people have seen that, you could tell by the polling the american people especially the independent voters were not moved by the case that adam schiff and nancy pelosi and her squad tried to say that donald trump committed impeachable offenses an no crime was proven. heather: trial with no witnesses, should there be a trial at all? >> well, the constitution says

that the senate need to do something, we need to wrap it up, the house had plenty of time, they can't fool the average american voter and if there's a quick trial then the winner will be the american taxpayers because when i travel home in kentucky people say how much did that charade cost, how much of my tax dollars were wasted by adam schiff and jerry nadler on trying to catch donald trump committing some type of minor crime and, you know, the people are outraged and they want this to be wrapped up. heather: speaking of outrage in terms of losers and i know that you did briefly mention this, in terms of democrats, how do you think this will impact them moving forward? >> well, i think that it's going to hurt democrats and they will have to answer to the voters this fall on why they spend so much on the majority on trying to catch donald trump, investigation after investigation, every committee

has had investigations even on the education labor committee where i serve, they are constantly parading, oversight committee trying to subpoena cabinet secretaries just for harassment, the way the democrats treat them. the american people want congress to govern, we have a lot of problems in society in congress because of democrats majority has been solely focused on trying to impeach donald trump because they know they can't beat him in november. heather: joe biden walking back some comments. >> would you comply with a subpoena? >> no, i will not yield to what everybody is looking for here. i would obey any subpoena that was sent to me. heather: all right, so back and forth on that, should he comply if he is subpoenaed, should he testify if there are witnesses? >> well, if he's innocent he should want to testify, you know, in the beginning he didn't

want to testify because he was afraid the senate would subpoena him, now i think he realizes the republican senators want to wrap this up and they don't want to have witnesses and come out of the wood work saying i will comply if i'm subpoenaed, he says that because i would say he's fairly confident he will not be subpoenaed. heather: interesting, what about his son, hunter? >> well, hunter is in hiding and he should be because we all know that if there was any crime committed it was probably committed by hunter and then vice president joe biden, identify not heard one person in america step forward and say hunter biden was qualified to sit on that board of the ukrainian energy company, i think we all know he was there because he was then vice president joe biden's son and the question is, did biden commit the quid pro quo to try to get, you know, his son a job because by all accounts he's

probably not worth a lot on the open market, but as son of a vice president, then he's worth considerable amount of money to foreign companies trying to gain influence with the american government. heather: some folks, latest rally think quid pro quo was done with chants. we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you for having me. heather: time now is 20 minutes until the top of the hour and there have been no shortage of political pitfalls of 2019, among them politicians in black face, the low lights of the year and how they will shape 2020.

heather: welcome back, 2019

proved to be rough year rocking capitol hill, how will they shape the new year, executive director of project, terry schilling, we appreciate you joining us. >> i always love coming on heather, great to see you. heather: who knew scandals rocking capitol hill, number one for you is impeachment and the ukraine phone call, explain why. >> look, the impeachment sham that the democrats have been pushing since president trump got into office literally, they planned it before he even took office has turned out to be a complete and utter catastrophe for them, started off with the mueller investigation which as you recall started because president trump fired james comey, fast-forward to just a couple of weeks ago with ig, inspector general michael horowitz released report, it's very clear that comey should have been fired before president trump was elected.

now you have the ukraine thing because they couldn't get president trump impeached, has led to huge big charade and the american people are starting to see through it. >> let's talk about that since you brought that up. ag barr saying no obstruction, this was back april 18th. >> the special counsel found no evidence that any american including anyone associated with the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian innovate, the special counsel found no collusion. heather: that was back april 18th, now about 20 enter 2020 and we are still talking about it. >> yeah, and we are going to continue to talk about it and we should continue to talk about it because this was the biggest overreach and overstep and abuse of government power that we have seen in the 21st century, let's be very clear about what happened, democrats have weponized certain agencies of

the federal government against political opponents and we should be exposing this greatly as much as possible. you know, inspector general horowitz and his report said that there were 17 overt errors in the fisa application to start spying process on president trump's campaign and he was asked how that happened, 17 errors happened, he said it was egregious. heather: that was another scandal that we kept hearing about. >> virginia's governor ralph northam and lieutenant governor caught in similar scandal and we had -- i'm sorry, prime minister

justin trudeau, what's most concerned is the hypocrisy being shown, if this was a republican that got caught dressing in block face that would be rightfully be run out of town and probably impeached and because it's a democrat, the progressives rally around them, it's concerning and the american people and especially voters are starting to see through this and it's why they don't really trust a lot of the people in the mainstream media to be honest. heather: we will see who is impacted in the elections coming, terry, thank you very much for joining us. good to see you too. 15 minutes until the top of the hour, new york city major bill de blasio sued for quietly shipping homeless people to other big cities, guess who he is blaming. >> the problem ultimately is donald trump has not shown any willingness to give us the tools we need.

heather: yup you heard that right, de blasio's blame game, free coffee, where you can finish up 2019 with a cup of joe . what are you doing back there, junior?

since we're obviously lost,

i'm rescheduling my xfinity customer service appointment. ah, relax. i got this. which gps are you using anyway? a little something called instinct. been using it for years. yeah, that's what i'm afraid of. he knows exactly where we're going. my whole body is a compass. oh boy... the my account app makes today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. not my thing. heather: welcome back, unless mexican cartels are defeated they will continue to overrun u.s. immigration, that is a warning from former acting ice director tom homan. >> that's why this president is a genius and saying, hey, méxico, we want to come down and attack the cartels with you not only save lives but making safer méxico and safer u.s., we won't

lose remain in méxico program for central americans. heather: he knows the u.s. immigration problem can be solved. new york mayor bill de blasio pleading for the white house to help with the city's homeless problem but also blaming the president for the crisis. >> the problem is ultimately donald trump has not shown any willingness to give us the tools, most important section 8 vouchers that allow people to live in rental housing, single strongest piece we need from washington that we are not getting right now. heather: comments come after the president blasted new york and california for surging homeless populations. president trump offered to provide federal assistance if state leaders did not step in. ♪ ♪ heather: turning to a business alert for you, stock futures are up as wall street gears up to finish 2019 with record high, tracee carrasco from sister

network fox business here with more on the year-end rally, good morning, tracee. tracee: good morning, heather, two trading left s&p 500 snapping a 10-day streak of gains, that was the longest streak of gains that we have seen in 22 years, for the year, though, take a look at the numbers, dow up almost 23%, s&p 500 closing at almost 30% higher for the year, the nasdaq year to date up by almost 36%, right now a period what is known as santa claus rally, friday mark day three of the period, last 5 days of december, first two trading days of the year, typically a beneficial time and we will see if gains continue, right now looking at futures they are pointing higher this monday morning. heather: santa claus rally, i

like the sound of that, speaks of gifts, starbucks continuing celebration as well. tracee: starbucks is hosting the pop-up parties as they are calling them at hundreds of locations across the country, these are going to be from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. local time, they are giving away free expresso, who doesn't like that? heather: absolutely, thank you so much, heather, well, 2019 a year with scandals, we just talked about a couple of those, from the attack on jussie smollett to commercial, we will take a look back at stories that made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

heather: welcome back, the new year and the new decade is almost here, hard to believe but as 2020 approaches, we are taking a look back at this year's biggest scandals, "fox & friends" cohost ainsley joins l. ainsley: big name celebrities

caught in embarrassing headlines and lighting up social media, massive nationwide college admission's scam, hollywood stars and high powered ceo's accused to paying millions of dollars to bribe their kids way into country's top universities, many of the accused accepting plea deals in exchange for lighter sentences while some like lori loughlin to take trial to new year. jussie smollett actor telling chicago police two attackers yelled racist and homophobic slurs and ended up being charged saying he set alleged crime. r. kelly with legal trouble, recruiting women and under age girls for sex and holding them in captivity at his home, k kelly remains behind bars and

peloton releasing holiday ad, women documenting fitness journey on the exercise bike given to her a year before by her husband, many slamming the company for endorsing body negativity for women, peloton not backing down, instead saying they were disappointed in the misinterpretation of the ad, canadian prime minister justin trudeau and virginia governor ralph northah both facing scrutiny of taking pictures with black face, one of the most scandalous events of the year jeffrey epstein on charges of sex crimes, two jail guards have been charged for reportedly not keeping tabs on epstein and

forging records, rumors continue to swirl whether epstein was murdered. no doubt scandals will be make headlines in 2020 and we will be there to cover it all for you, in new york ainsley fox news. heather: thank you for joining us, "fox & friends first" continues right now, bye, bye. ♪ >> this is terrorism. it is domestic terrorism. >> you have to remember -- jillian: act of hate now demmed act of domestic terror of americans of all backgrounds come together to condemn horrific attack during hanukkah. >> what we know about suspect after first court appearance and promises on both side of the aisle to address alarming wave of anti-semitism.