>> you need to head over to fox nation. >> it's out of control. it's going to be big. >> i feel so woke after that last segment. >> great show guys. fox news alert is president trump is issued a stern warning to iran after violent attacks on the american embassy in baghdad. troops in the 82nd airborne are gearing up and deploying to the middle east and some have already landed there. without good morning i'm really linden for bill hemmer. >> all of this starting yesterday morning. u.s. troops firing tear gas to disperse crowds gathered for a second day at the u.s. embassy after pro-iranian menace was broke into the compound setting fires and a reception area. fox news learning more than 100 marines have arrived at the embassy to bolster security.

thousands more troops could be deployed. president trump responding to the situation last night while thinking iraqi security forces for their help. >> we have some of our greatest warriors there. they got there very quickly. as soon as we saw there was a potential for problem they got in and there was no problem whatsoever. i also want to thank the iraqi government, they really stepped up. i spoke to the prime minister. they stepped up very nicely. >> we will get into more about the iraqi government coming up. we begin with trey yingst from our middle east newsroom. >> good morning. militia men protesters gathered outside the embassy for the second day in a row. u.s. forces fired tear gas had rubber bullets to push back iraqis who were throwing rocks and setting fires. many of the demonstrators pitched tents and spend the

night inside baghdad's green zone is more than 100 marines arrived to defend the embassy. mark esper arrived to an infantry battalion would be deployed. yesterday president trump blamed iran for orchestrating the attack on the u.s. embassy, adding they would pay a high price for any damage or theft or occur as a result. the iranians reacted denying involvement. if any government uses force against the iranian government they will be fighting back. targets on sunday killing 25 of the groups fighters. >> they are using something else as an excuse. they are attacking iraqi soil killing a number of people. the iranian government strongly condemned the u.s. malicious attacks.

>> striking images of the u.s. embassy in baghdad under siege will help the iranian regime that's fighting up parallel information war against the u.s. tensions could erupt at any time periods before. >> it brings back some of the echoes in terms of them entry to the u.s. embassy in toronto in the 70s. real quick comedy is israeli is constantly warned about the iranian aggression and the a uranian spread of violence. are they teaching their defensive stature right now in terms of this potential class coming up in the golan heights of the lebanese bowl on michael porter with has below? >> as you know, having spent to much time out here reporting there are iranian proxies all around israel in places like gaza. they are receiving support from the iranian regime. has below and let and lebanon. just last week the top leader of

the israeli defense forces, the commander, said his troops are preparing for a direct confrontation with iran. one point to note that earlier in the week is really prime minister spoke on the phone with secretary of state mike pompeo and congratulated the trump administration for the strike that killed 25 of those are running back fighters on sunday. israel is fighting the continuous battle against iran so this was a win for israel the way they see it. >> you have to imagine benjamin netanyahu might be talking about that on the campaign trail. trey yingst in jerusalem. >> in the meantime president trump vowing that i rock a well not be a benghazi. referring to that attack on libya that left for american dad in 2012 during the obama administration. >> this will not be a benghazi. benghazi should never have happened. this will never, ever be a benghazi. >> david jackson as white house correspondent for usa today and

he joins us to talk more about this. >> thank you, happy new year's. immediately when this broke yesterday morning during our 4:00 a.m. newscast i immediately thought of benghazi looking at these images and thinking oh, no, don't let this be another one. what were your thoughts? >> along the same lines although these protesters only broach the compound of the embassy, they didn't get to the embassy itself. there were also reports that the militia leaders called on the demonstrators to back off and say our message has been delivered so let's calm down. obviously there were echoes of benghazi but it wasn't as deadly. no one's been killed in this incident. >> hopefully that will not happen. in terms of president trump and his administration and how he is handling this, what are your thoughts there? >> the first one is what you just mentioned, they want to make sure this wasn't another benghazi so they rushed troops there and they urged the iraqis

to beef up their security forces and to keep the demonstrators away from the embassy. there was also a lot of concern within the administration about the iraqi position and all of this. in the past iraqi security forces have kept protesters away from the u.s. embassy in his compound but in this particular case they let them get through. there was a lot of concern and worry about what iraq's government was didn't terms of this incident. he noted president trump talk to the leader of a rock yesterday so now they are pretty please with the way things are going and i think the situation is the escalating. >> the fact that they did not do that job definitely raises a lot of questions. here's what mark esper had to see yesterday in terms of the u.s. moving additional troops to support and protect the compound. approximately 750 soldiers will deployed to the region immediately. additional forces from the irs are you prepared to deploy over the next several days. this deployment is an appropriate and a precautionary action taken in response to

increased threat levels against u.s. personnel and facilities such as we witnessed in baghdad. as a precarious situation because we don't want to escalate anything further. >> exactly. that was a warning to both iran and iraq. stop poking at us or we will take action. it's also a message to the iraq government saying you need to beef up your security forces and protect our embassy. >> what about message to the rest of the world, leland was talking about a response from netanyahu. you will thought have to consider in this area russia, syria, how do they look at this and what he think the response will be? >> that's a tough position for the president because there's a lot of mixed messaging going on. israel has been urging the united states to confront around for quite some times, so has saudi arabia. there's a feeling among that group that the conflict between u.s. and around is inevitable. president trump with one thought, he wants to restart

negotiations on a new iran nuclear deal. he's very low on using built military force in any case. people are saying iran is not going to try influence itself in the region and you're going to have to deal with it. meanwhile others like russia and syria trying to get the u.s. to calm down and trying to calm u.s.-iran relations. he is very much caught in a bind with iran come as a very difficult challenge. >> we can't ignore the fact that all of this coming during an election year. democratic candidates no doubt we'll be talking about this as they have already on the campaign trail. president trump as well how do you think this will impact him? >> that's obviously but going to become an issue because a lot of democrats yesterday were saying was president trump's iran policy, his withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal and this increase of sanctions on iran that have more or less provoked this current crisis that iran is responding to provocations from the u.s. i think you'll hear a lot of democratic candidates talk about that. i think is a president trump trying to defend its middle east

policies. >> thank you so much for joining us once again happy new year to you as well. >> thank you. >> we will have much more in the spirit morgan ortagus coming up a little bit later in the hour. >> a fox news alert as we are learning more about a drudge who freed the man charged in the blood he attack a hanukkah celebration. the judge won't say why he released a attacker last year after his arrest for menacing a police officer. and after grasping thomas his own mother asked that he be committed. laura ingalls digging in for us on this. high, laura. >> the question of many people's minds today is good this hanukkah attack have been avoided? they judge who presided over the 2018 prosecution told "the new york post" that he couldn't comment on how we handle proceedings because this is a sealed case. according to the post, the man accused of going on that brutal stabbing rampage inside a rabbi's home saturday night at a

hanukkah celebration was arrested last september by greenwood lake police at new york and charged with possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment, and menacing a police officer. the case resulted in an adjournment, and contemplation of dismissal. of the decision the judge said was made by the district attorney's office. 37-year-old crafton thomas has been charged with five counts of attempted murder after the attack left several people severely injured. he has pled not guilty. his lawyers have said that, suffers from mental illness including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. a pastor that knows the thomas family told the post that thomas' mother pleaded to have her son committed for inpatient treatment during a may 14th court hearing but the judge refused. in addition to the state charges, thomas has also been hit with several hate crime charges that could send him to prison for life. the family for one of the victims can use f newman, released a statement updating

the public on his current condition saying this, our father was severely stabbed multiple times during the attack sunday night. the knife penetrated his skull directly into his brain. he also suffered three cuts to the had a come on one cut to the neck, and his right arm has been shattered. our father's status is so dire that no surgery is been performed in the right arm. doctors are not optimistic about his chances to remain conscious. if his father recovers dr. suspect he will have permanent damage to the brain leaving him partially paralyzed and speech impaired for the rest of his life. new york government andrew cuomo so the attack was an act of domestic terrorism. thomas' friends responded and said that once he is not a terrorist but mentally ill. >> as you point out so many more questions about the judge in this case and how we got to where we are at right now. will keep digging into that, thanks.

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>> i would testify. i would do demonstrations. i would give lectures and summations. or i do what i do best and i try

the case. i would love to try the case. >> tune in for that one perhaps. rudy giuliani at a new year's eve party at the trump mar-a-lago resort. the trim's personal attorney saying he be willing to testify at a synod impeachment trial, possibly do even more. could that ever happened? turney with us. appreciate both of you being here, you look great after new year's eve. happy new year's. debbie, we will start with you. it's kind of interesting. where did this line start and stop between being the president's attorney, being a target of an investigation, also being a witness come also wanting to try the case? >> oh, my god, giuliani is involved in every possible aspect in trump world. in regards to him wanting to testify as a witness, that's possibly the worst possible

thing that could happen for the president. it would actually be a true gift of the democrats if he were to testify. assuming he could keep all of his lies straight. he basically substantiates the case on the articles of impeachment against the president. i don't know where he's thinking that he wants to be testifying. >> debbie brings up an interesting point. rudy giuliani says a lot of things, some of them helps them is because in some of them hurt the cause and some of them heard the president. at times the president has pulled them back from the president spotlights. is that who you really want in an unpredictable sense on national television with everybody watching at an impeachment trial? >> listen, the one thing that is clear. whatever rudy giuliani is speaking, what larry does impromptu liquor was last night and so we should be careful about taking what he said at face value because that was a social event he was speaking at.

listen is clear that rudy giuliani cares about one thing and that is eliminating and rooting out corruption. he's made a career of this and that is absolutely his goal. it is done this for his whole life and that's what he was trying to do on behalf of his client, the president. >> hold on. i have yet to hear this argument, holly. you're saying he was in ukraine not on behalf of his client, the president of the united states trying to help him in his reelection bid, but you're saying he was there in ukraine on behalf of the government of the united states trying to root out corruption because president trump does pays his personal attorney all the time to go around the world and find corruption? >> that's not what i'm saying. what i'm saying is as the president, as donald trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani was doing his job by trying to make sure that any corruption that took place that smeared his

customer during -- >> i want to get debbie in here for one second. is the fact that you're not giving a full throated endorsement and having to parse the president's personal attorney words and say he set it off the top, the personal attorney to the president of the united states. shouldn't we be able to take what you say in front of television cameras whether it's in party or in court as the truth and what you think? >> exactly. he is speaking. on one hand he sang i represent the president and i would do anything for the president, we have to take what he says at face value. what he is saying out of his mouth. the fact of the matter as he wasn't trying to do any investigations, he was priming a shadow political campaign or shut up political government. he does not represent the united states, he represented donald trump. he was doing everything that he could for donald trump. we would love to have him come

testify. >> this is another thing that he said last night in terms of what he might also testify about or just put out in the public spa space, this is for you what was yesterday was yesterday. >> just met with the newest this yesterday. i can't tell you who i met with. this is expanding. it will turn out to be a series of criminal acts. it will involve the highest level of the obama administration. >> holly, you get the last word on this. rudy giuliani has promised a lot of things, sometimes it comes to her and sometimes it doesn't. >> what is trying to do is to show just how corrupt the obama administration was and trying to prevent the president from being duly elected by the american people. for anyone in this country to be upside about someone trying to find out what really happened and to find truth behind corruption, shows they have something to hide them and not

be trusted themselves. i appreciate what rudy is doing for the president. >> holly you get the last, happy new year to you both. we'll have a lot to talk about. take care. >> house democrats some would say didn't do their job so far so somebody has to do it. coming up the crackdown on underage vaping when it comes to e-cigarettes, the trump administration is planning to ban many flavors. will the president take backlash from business owners questioning 2020 democrats getting an early start in the new york and many of them hitting the campaign trail today with the first contest in the presidential race just weeks away, can you believe it? we will have a live report. >> imagine a country where no politicians has to kiss the rings of the rich in order to win elected office. [applause] we come together to imagine this reality because this reality is now within our reach

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ellison barber is heading there shortly and right now she is in boston for a happy new year to you. 2020. >> happy new year to you as well. at midnight we obviously ended 2019. it also meant actions the end of another fund-raising corner for 2020 hopefuls. andrew yang a candidate few people knew a year ago his campaign raised at least $12 million this quarter and he says they now had enough money to stay in the race for the long haul. >> in less than 24 hours. over $4 million. >> all the way. people are surprised by what's happening last year. people who are surprised are going to be really surprised when i win this whole thing.

>> mayor pete buttigieg, another candidate who took started out with limited name recognition a year ago, has raised $24.7 million in the fourth quarter. according to his campaign. earlier this week joe biden's campaign set the expected have the biggest quarter yet in terms of money surpassing the $21.5 million they raised last spring. bernie sanders average donation is less than $20 and is expected to raise $26 million this quarter. that's more than any other democratic candidate has raised in any quarter in 2019. elizabeth warren, who is here in boston yesterday, is expected to bring about 20% less then she did last quarter. her campaign was aiming to hit $20 million this time around. warren relies on small donors and yesterday in boston she was speaking with reporters and she

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>> secretary of state mike pompeo on the attack on our embassy in baghdad saying that iran will be held accountable

for any malign activity. >> use of the president site today we will continue to hold islamic republic accountable whenever we find there malign activity and we will make sure we have the resources to do so. i'll leave it to the department of defense to talk about specifics but make no mistake about the guidance that the department it of defense to make sure we have all we need to perform the missions. >> high, kevin. happy new year to you. >> happy new year to you. obviously yesterday's protest for a great number of americans not only recalls memories of benghazi and beirut, for others it takes you all the way back to the iran hostage crisis of 1979. it stands to reason that the administration would have such a strong reaction to what they observed on the ground. it with that in mind that they made the decision to enact the full scope of measures to deter the excursion including force projection and protection.

in which the secretary of state does this. >> lisa president trump directly quick response making sure we had all the resources necessary to keep people safe and secure the compound as well. >> and he plans to evacuate the embassy? >> none. >> any plans to pull some of the 5,000 u.s. troops in iraq out? >> none. >> strong reaction from the secretary of state in his conversation with mike emanuel on special report. now for his part, the president's been part of the day in conversation with iraqi leaders yesterday he enjoyed a new year's eve gala at is restored. he also told reporters that his administration was going to make sure that this wouldn't be a repeat of recent tragic history. >> this will never, ever be a benghazi, but we have some of our greatest warriors they are. they got in there very quickly. as soon as we saw there was a

potential for problems they got in and there was no problem whatsoever. >> to quote the iconic 30s film, all quiet on the western front. i guess in this case the southern front. we don't expect to see the president today but at that changes i'll let you know. >> you never know. thank you so much, kevin. appreciate it. >> with that we bring in morgan ortagus comest state department spokesperson. it's been a long good night on duty come appreciate you being with us this morning. 24's hours on, pretty clear that this was not a bunch of angry iraqi protesters. this was organized by the government of iran that their direction using their militias. how much of this was a test by the iranians of the united states? >> you are exactly right, leland. this was not protesters, these were terrorists that are organized, trained, and equipped. this is something we see in

their playbook quite often. we've had threats to our embassy, which the secretary of disgust. we went to iraq over the summer to address some of these threats with the government of iraq. you remember we on order departure for a while. we've been facing threats from the iranian regime for quite some time now. you have a wonderful reporter in trey yingst i believe is in the region and he wants to see, and if your audience wants to see pictures of protesters in iraq you can go to to rear square and put baghdad to see peaceful protesters who have been protesting wanting transparency. >> let's get back to the iranian playbook. he make an excellent point about the protesting in baghdad, two different issues. back in may, for oil tankers damaged by mines, june 13th, 2 saudi thinkers attacked. june 20th iran shoots down a drone near the strait of hormuz.

july 19th the ird cc is a british flag tanker. on september 14th, the same militias attack saudi oil infrastructure. all of those have been a no strong military response by the united states. are the iranians under the impression right now that they can do whatever they want? >> those are just attacks that have been reported. there's been plenty that is gone unreported as well. we think the maximum pressure campaign is working. not everything we do is public but we have told the iranian regime countless times, do not confuse president trump strategic patience with weakne weakness. that's way so the strikes over the weekend targeted at these militias and while we have president trump and secretary pompeo have extended the hand of diplomacy numerous times. every time we asked on the hand of diplomacy we see the sort of

kinetic actions or cvs protests -- >> you're making the point that the iranians keep getting offered the hand of diplomacy and they keep coming back with these attacks. when is the hand of diplomacy the iron fist of u.s. air strikes against iran, targeted attacks on the ird scene actually not making their militias. price but actually making them pay a price in language they understand? >> we been making them pay a price for the past year and a half. >> it hasn't been working. >> that's totally wrong, leland. we think our policy is working stronger than ever. the iranian economy is out of money. >> you just told me that you extended the hand of friendship their work kinetic actions by the iranians. now you're saying the policy is working could come yet they keep doing more bad acts. i don't understand. >> i'll explain it to you, let me clarify for you. the reason why our policy is

working is because the iranian regime is out of money. their militias are out of money. we are extending the hand of diplomacy while simultaneously pursuing our economic pressure campaign while we are pursuing sanctions the president such as last night that we want a peaceful resolution, we do not want war with iran. were not seeking another war the middle east, and that's what not what we're doing here. we are holding the iranian regime accountable we are protecting ourselves. just because we have maximum restraint doesn't mean you're going to have to let me finish it for going to finish this. >> you've got on now for about a minute come i'm just telling you what the iranian side. they said you can't do anything. this is the ayatollah as a speech in iran. if the islamic republic decides to challenge and fight it will do so unequivocally. does that worry anybody? >> no, we are completely confident in the marines we have guarding our u.s. embassy, we think the u.s. situation is

secure in baghdad. however we are always on alert, use of secretary marcus burk, yesterday and talk about the additional protection of forces that will be in the region to protect us. to say i'd have to go back to that point, the sayer policy isn't working is just absent of any facts and any reality. we can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign and defending ourselves. >> i just want to get this in real quick. >> it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how foreign policy actually works. >> we will leave it there, morgan thanks so much. >> coming up, places of worship becoming targets of violence. the deadly shooting at a texas church sunday was just delayed its incident. what can be done to stop it? robert jeffords of first baptist church joins us in the next hour to talk about it.

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speak of the vaping is coming out, were going to be announcing it very shortly. we'll be taking off the flavors for a period of time. certain flavors. were going to protect our families, were going to protect our children, and were going to protect the industry. >> president trump working annuity restrictions for e-cigarettes. the food and drug administration planning to ban all flavors except tobacco and menthol. is this a good compromise question what joining us now is

dr. debbie, the associate professor of medicine. thank you for joining us and happy new yea year to you. >> happy new year. speak of the new year possibly bringing about some changes for people who like to use e-cigarettes. is this a good compromise as we just asked? >> i think it is. the big debate with e-cigarettes as you have people who would are in favor of it because they say it's better than smoking traditional cigarettes, but then you might also the opponents that say you're fascinating a new group who never smoked before, they think e-cigarettes are appealing and then they get addicted to nicotine i may be transitioned to tobacco. with this, by banning these specific flavors, barry, mango, mint, all of the things that attract teenagers, they may be blowing that sort of initiation of teenagers and younger folks to smoking. at the same time let's say you were a hard-core tobacco smoker, you would still have e-cigarettes available, the

tobacco flavored ones and menthol flavor ones. that might be safer than what you were doing. >> let's take a look at some of the statistics since you are talking about leading youth into using tobacco. over 5 million middle and high school students were actually using e-cigarettes back in 2019, almost 1 million were using e-cigarettes daily. 81% of those cited the availability come of the appeal of the flavors you are talking about, as the primary reason for their use. because the other reason they might be transitioning slowly rather than banning all of these is that what you don't want is that is so highly addicted. you don't want to eat them to suddenly have e-cigarettes completely unavailable and then they go to traditional tobacco products. that's an issue. the main issue is that between nicotine and tobacco. seems to be affecting in terms

of heart disease. nicotine is not great but it seems to be a safer alternative. >> vaping has been connected to some lung diseases and dangers of their own. >> exactly. that is what is causing this n now. the fda has been trying to ban e-cigarettes for the past 15 years. it's been about 2500 people hospitalized for vaping related illness. over 50 deaths related to it. i think that's what's the spark that's causing this to happen. because that's the best way to happen it? what what should we do moving forward? >> all i could do things gradually first and see the outcome and then move forward. this is a good way to do this because it should steer away a lot of teenagers from e-cigarettes and tobacco use. at the same time keeps the option available and for people who are heavy smokers. when we think about other folks,

retailers, small business owne owners, regulation versus choice. do we want more regulation? this is perhaps a good compromise. >> it's a better transition then you can reassess the whole transition and see what's going on. >> thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. thanks to a healthy new year for a lot of folks. >> held the new year, healthy new decade. kim jong un ringing in the new year with a new thread. were going to talk about kim's latest warning to the u.s. amid those stalled nuclear negotiations. plus, chicago now report the downturn in violent crime in 2019, why the good news? >> the city does have potential for being the safest big city in america and it is on track to do that. can match the power of energizer. because energizer ultimate lithium is the longest lasting aa battery in the world. [confetti cannon popping] energizer. backed by science.

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>> fox news alert out of hong kong. protesters are welcoming the new year with tens of thousands of their fellow pro-democracy demonstrators. the gathering was largely peaceful, but as you can see some violence broke out in areas and police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. those pro-democracy protests began in juneau for a proposed law that it would allow extradition to mainline china of anyone charged with a crime. they have since morphed into a broader movement, demanding democracy once again for hong kong. >> fox news alert for you, north korea dictator warning that his country will soon show a new strategic weapon to the world in the face of what he calls gangster like u.s. sanctions. that is according to north korean state media. they also say the nation will no

longer be closed unilaterally bound to a moratorium on tests of intercontinental ballistic mission hills. is a vice president of national security and foreign policy. so great to see it today, happy new year. >> good to be with you. >> usually i see you in the sun's not even up. in terms of what kim jong un is saying or threatening this time around, what are your thoughts? >> i think whether the administration should wait and see what he does. a trigger event that's going to change the u.s. policy would be kim jong un doing something. right now the american position seems to be we warned them. if you go back to testing we will double down. u.s. might even start doing joint military drills again. i think the u.s. will wait for them to actually do that. they've been warned. the u.s. is in wait mode. >> agreeing to not connect those

large-scale military drills was part of our commitment made to them in times of north korea and their commitment made to us, have they kept their end of the park and far? >> they haven't done a real provocative act, which is the longer-range testing. i think reading this administration, that's pretty clear those are the trigger points. they can yell, they can scream, they can do short range stuff. if they are raising those activities, the u.s. would see that as a breach and say a sign that they are not interested in the diplomatic about the denuclearization. the u.s. is already stated their response to that commitment be more sanctioning come of it, potentially resuming military drills, may be even preemptive military deployments. i think the u.s. would double down. this is a challenge for kim, if he goes back to the old ways, it puts them back in the box it was

in before. >> possibility of more what he calls gangster like u.s. sanctions. perhaps a very important, he has not shut the door. he did not say they would abandon any denuclearization talks altogether. >> i think that's important. that's why the u.s. will judge north korea by their actions. you always have to say this, with north korea and iran, those issues are linked together because of the u.s. a set of the cave to north korea's demand, oh if they're going to pull to the north korea. every day the u.s. doesn't make concessions towards north korea, the uranian say they're being tough on the north koreans, were never going to get an easy deal from them. the administration has to kind of keep an eye on both balls when they think about negotiating. >> also in terms of the world a response to what's going on the embassy in baghdad and the u.s.

as a response to the iranian backed militia they are, north korea no doubt watching that as well. >> they do that a lot. they look at each other and they play off of each other. i don't know if we have any evidence to say kim's rhetoric is orchestrated with iran's provocative action or if the irradiance woke up one day and said kim is giving trumped trouble. we do know that they talk to each other and we do know that they look at how the u.s. treats the other when they take their own policy decisions. >> should they not listen to it this time around. what are you thinking in terms of going into 2020? the possibility of there being some sort of agreement with kim jong un and president trump? >> there's only one person that knows that and that is kim. why would kim make a deal with

trump? he is the only thing that is really changed in the u.s. negotiating position of the last decade. if he didn't think trump would be around to enforce that deal, think a lot of us thought kim would play for time until he saw the trump was going to get reelected. the thing is, you can't guess. we don't really know what kim is thinking. we have to actually wait and see what they do. i think the u.s. has to stay the course. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you but we have to go, we are out of time. thank you so much and we will see what kim does. >> in fox news alert as we will look at this new information coming in and the showdown between the united states and iran. how many u.s. troops are on the ground? (man) we weave security into their business. (second man) virtualize their operations. (woman) and build ai customer experiences. (second woman) we also keep them ready for the next big opportunity.

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>> fox news alert. there is the escalating shuttle between the united states and iran. the president trump headset about 750 troops to the middle east after an attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad. thousands more could be deployed in the next few days. with that, happy new year and welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm leland vittert. you think about this, there's a lot of trips that flew overnight into new year's. >> to begin their new years away from family and in harm's way. i'm heather childers in for sandra smith, bill and sandra obviously off today. unrest in the iraqi capital carrying over as leland said into a second day.

u.s. troops firing tear gas to disperse pro-iran protesters gathering outside of the american embassy. after those protesters, some of them stormed the compound yesterday. they were scaling walls, smashing windows, setting fires, following u.s. air strikes that killed 25 iranian backed militia fighters in iraq and syria. the president quickly putting the blame squarely on iran and praising the marines guarding that embassy as he vowed a tragedy from the obama era will not be repeated on his watch. >> they were there instantaneously come as soon as we heard. i use the word immediately, they came immediately. it's in great shape, as you know this will not be a benghazi. benghazi should never have happened. this will never, ever be a benghazi. we have some of our greatest warriors there. >> our man at the state department this morning. i think he is in washington, d.c., back at the bureau monitoring thanks.

good morning rich. >> good morning come as before. just a few blocks away so administration officials say these demonstrators are terrorists in reality, organized and trained by the iranian regime in these protests are part -- fred from the demonstrating against corruption in iraq that's been happening over the past three months. president trump tweeting that iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost or damage incurred at any of our facilities. they will pay a very big price. this is not a warning, it is a threat. happy new year. iran supreme leader shot back in a speech that if iran wanted to confront a country, it would do soak directly. iraq's government is caught between a significant american and iranian presence in their country. senior u.s. officials stressed iraq was responsible for securing american diplomats and facilities. >> urging them to continue to fulfill their responsibility to protect our facility and our people. we are happy to see them deploy forces there to do that.

we continue to ask them to do everything it takes to ensure that facility is protected. >> the iraqi government later deployed federal police and counterterrorism forces to protect the u.s. embassy. mike pompeo says there is no plans to evacuate. the protest began own following prayer services for militia men killed this weekend in american air strikes. the u.s. struck has blocked, and iranian backed military group in syria and iraq. to the military says has blood is responsible for a missile attack friday i'm in the iraqi military base that killed an american contractor. the militia spokesman says they are staying at the embassy. >> we don't care about these aircraft that are flying over the heads, neither do we care about the rumors. this shows a psychological defeat and the mental breakdown the american administration is suffering. >> our pentagon theme is reporting about 4,000 paratroopers have been told to prepare for a possible

deployment to the region. the administration is also sent one of the marines to the embassy to bolster security. >> rich edson on standby in washington, back deal with what your sources of the state department say. but that we bring in republican congressman jim banks, member of the armed services committee. thank you sir for waking up on new year's morning. >> happy new year. >> and to you. let's go back to our interview saturday real quick and will come out and talk about what's happened. take a listen. >> the maximum pressure campaign by president trump versus iran is working. we need to continue down that path. iran is like a flailing child flapping its arms around and trying to retreat from these sanctions. >> flailing child, they are flapping their arms around. if you're trying to reroute retreat where they attacking your embassy? >> leland, that's the issue. the maximum pressure campaign and the economic sanctions on

iran has brought the economy to a destructive point where they are acting out. we have to continue to show the restraint that president trump has shown, reacted in a appropriate way to their activities like attacking our embassy in iraq. the strikes that happen after our interview over the weekend was an appropriate response. now rescinding troops to our embassy in iraq as well. those are appropriate responses, but in the meantime we need to keep their economy strangled to the point that brings iran back to the table to negotiate a better deal with united states and the jcpoa. that's what president trump has been targeting. because that sparks a question in terms of how much restraint is good. president obama use to argue all the time that he was showing restraint. he said after the cairo and benghazi embassy attacks in 20 tone of dumb like 12. he also sent troops to reinforce embassies all around the

middle east. i was there in cairo as the troops came in and the u.s. took up station there. but he was criticized for showing restraint by republicans and are now praising president trump. >> president obama rewarded arad for their nefarious activities by giving them cash through the jcpoa in negotiating a deal that was in the best issue of around that allowed time to go down the path of obtaining the nuclear weapons that president trump is trying to prevent them from getting. any deal that president trump negotiates with iran moving forward must ensure two things, one that they never get the nuclear capabilities they are seeking. and two, that they stop funding proxy groups and stop continuing their activities is the largest state sponsor of terrorism around the globe. that's what president trump is focusing on. >> the iranians unquestionably have the blood of thousands of americans. u.s. soldiers in iraq as well as

this contractor who was killed in a number of soldiers who were wounded in the past few days after you and i spoke on saturday. here is what morgan ortagus sighed about the president strategic patients. take a listen. >> we have told the iranian regime countless times, do not confuse president trump sick patient with weakness. unfortunately the regime is done that, which is why use of the strikes over the weekend targeted at these iranian militias. >> is that the red line, you kill an american or going to kill 25 of your militia members? >> that's been the approach president trump is taken. >> i'm asking you if you agree with that. >> i agree with the approach. the president has gone up lengths to prevent an endless war in the middle east. at the same time he maintained the national pressure campaign crippling the iranian economy and preventing them from

covering state-sponsored terrorism around the globe. that's the same path we need to take. it's also the same time why the president is sending troops to protect our embassy. >> what do you think the patients should run out on the restraint run out? where is the red line that would demand an overwhelming good military response from the united states? it's not shutting down an american drone, it's not killing a u.s. contractor in targeting troops, where should let overwhelming response come? >> depends on what you mean by overwhelming response. we need to show overwhelming strength as a deterrent. >> but they're not being deterred. may be shipped to the regio, that's why we move troops to the region. i would argue largely that they have been deterred. they have been desktops and significant, we can't turn a blind eye to their directed activities toward our embassy and other places, but at the same time we have shown a strong

response due to sanctions, a strong response to the missile strikes and key strategic places. imagine that's what the administration will maintain. >> you have this tit-for-tat thing come every one breaks in the price of doing something. they target u.s. troops, there militia gets targeted, they attacked the embassy. everyone understands the paradigm. we go back to the mid-1980s when president reagan flipped the paradigm on its head. he was the one that sank a third of the iranian navy in an afternoon and said gee, if you do anything else were going to sink the other two-thirds tomorrow. the iranians didn't do anything for years after that. they didn't attack any embassies, their sponsorship of has blood and other groups went down. where is that kind of response, or should it be there? >> i imagine it's on the horiz horizon. what we have accomplished through these sanctions on the iranian economy has brought them to a point of self-destruction.

they are economy, if there's any economy that is in the tank around the globe it is the iranian economy. because of that, that's dried up funding that they previously sent to groups like hezbollah and other state-sponsored terrorists or epoxies in the region. that's a good thing, leland, and that's why this president has gone out lengths to prevent another war, but at the same time putting destructive measures both economic and military on iran. i imagine that's the same path that this president will take moving forward. in the meantime we need to show american strength. that's why our naval fleet, why our troop presence is important to flexor muscle and prevent any more damaging activity by ron. >> watching video right now so our viewers understand if a u.s. apache gunship helicopter that flew over the embassy after the protests broke up and launch

some flares in the show of strength. he was marines landed there in the embassy compound. congressman, we appreciate you making time of the holiday. happy new year to you and to all the hoosiers there that are with you in indiana. >> think you, have a good day. >> the campaign trail hoping the new year will boost her campaign. the massachusetts senator once considered a front runner has been losing steam in the polls. elizabeth warren delivered a big speech in boston just yesterday aimed at hopefully reigniting her chances of winning the nomination. >> over this past year i've had the chance to shake hands or hug more than 100,000 people. [cheers and applause] in more than 100 a.d., 190 town halls all across this country. my determination to lead a movement has been forged by the tens of thousands of people who

have said they are ready to fight for the country they know we can be. >> it's bring in brad blakeman and doug schoen. thank you both for joining us today. so you just heard elizabeth ward talking they are, tones a little bit differently be trying to sound a little bit friendlier possibly. also reportedly taking some more questions from audience members than she has in the past. this is the latest real clear politics pulled that we can look at when we talk about her favorability slipping. you can see back in october she was at 26.8%, all the way down as of december 31st 215.2%. so, doug, is she salvageable. >> she is salvageable. never say never, how there. she slipped as the real clear average shows about ten or 11 points, four or five points have

gone the bernie sanders, the other candidates, joe biden has stayed at the top of the pole end. some pools over 30. i think she's in pretty dire shape and i don't know what my friend to come up brad blakeman says. i think this is a very difficult situation for her. perhaps impossible. >> since he bring it up come up brad what do you think? >> i think she's a weak candidate going into the first primaries and caucuses. were going to see she is going in weakened by campaign cash. always follow the money. not only is she losing in the polls but they are not sending as a kind of money she needs in order to feed her campaign machine. that means, as doug knows, boots on the ground. offices, campaign offices, volunteers. people making telephone calls. she has a plan for everything and i think voters are sinking in. $40 trillion in a programs with

no way to pay for it. it's getting the most liberal democrats. speak of those democrats not taking aim at her in terms of her support for medicare for all, her ability to articulate exactly how it's being paid for. the cost of it. also as i mentioned at the beginning, her tone overall. in terms of that type of strategy, is that wise for the other candidates to go against her at this point? >> it's clear that it works, how there. when she was attacked for the enormously expensive medicare for all, she didn't have a response other than trust me, your taxes are not going to go up. everyone that i talk to and saw an polls said they would go up. i think there's a credibility gap and you were alluding to it, a know it all sense in her debate performance previously. she acted like she had answers to everything and nobody else

did. clearly that's not how you want to come across as a candidate for the nation's highest office. >> brad, i want to bring up some of these other pools that we have from real clear politics. some of the key states, iowa being the first. elizabeth ward coming in at fourth. new hampshire the average therefore her also down, but a close to joe biden. is up 14.3%. finally the average in south carolina. she does come in second but way behind joe biden impurities at 35% and she's at 16.3%. in terms of these key states, how do you think she stands? obviously we know the statistics right there. it's because she has to win at least one in order to stay viable as we move into the super tuesday races in south carolina. there's bad news for warren but is also bad news for the democrats. in the first few primary states of iowa and new hampshire and nevada, if you have different

winners in three contests on the move into super tuesday, then you've got a we can field. i don't think elizabeth warren is the only one beyond the troubles of performance. >> you were talking about money and the amount of money raised. elizabeth warren actually lowering their expectations for the amount of money that she expects to raise in the fourth quarter. i think she went down to 20 from 24.4 there she raised in the last quarter. andrew yang, his name not on any of those real clear politics average is that we just looked out, but here's what he had to say about the amount of money he's been able to raise. >> we have the resources that go all the way to the spring and ride into milwaukee. i'm an entrepreneur, i've seen multimillion dollars organizations go from nothing but an idea to number one on the country and that is exactly what's happening with this campaign. it feels very familiar.

>> doug, what do you think? >> i think he is exaggerating a bed. there is a small sliver of the democratic party and democratic supporters who support a tech entrepreneur who is anti-systemic, has a new idea in providing a guaranteed annual income to people. i think he appeals there, but i think he raised three and a half million the last week of december or thereabouts. it is clear there is some support there but whether that's enough to go all the way to milwaukee, i have my doubts. >> we see them drinking champagne nail that was from his new year's celebration that he had. his grade at crowd serving among other things, but it will not them all the way? >> it will not. it's easy to campaign before a vote is cast. once the voters make their choices in the early states, the also-rans will drop out quickly.

it's because the people have spoken. they know who their choices are likely to be and it's hard to sustain the kind of attention that they have had once the voting starts. >> i liked how you put the outcome of the also-rans. the amount of money being raised by these guys are just phenomenal. thank you for joining us and happy new year. >> same to you. >> we've been covering this over the past couple of weeks, the attacks on the faithful, whether in churches, synagogues, anti-semitic attacks in the streets of new york, there is now calls for increased security at houses of worship. is that enough? >> plus the trump administration cracking down on teens and vaping. the latest effort to ban most flavored e-cigarettes is up next. >> one of the things we will be talking about is age. age is a big factor. were going to be coming up with a number. i think we have to come up with an odd number at some point so we will be doing that. right at home caregiver.m j

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the pope admitting that he lost patience with a woman. he said he regrets the bad example he said. >> fox news alert. the fda in the new year reported the expected to ban all e-cigarette pod flavors except for except for tobacco and menthol. we heard about this for a couple of months. the move is coming as part of the administration's effort to curve this certain teenage vaping. some think the white house has taken it for an issue with. >> good morning. as soon as this friday, the food and drug administration will announce the plan to ban the sale of fruity flavors and cartridge based e-cigarettes. this scene is compromised by the trump administration because it does not ban all forms of e-cigarettes, would still allow the use of closed pot or cartridge vaping systems formulated the taste like tobacco or mental tobacco. it will also permit adult usage

of open think popular with adults where you can mix their own favorites. in striking the compromise, the trump administration acknowledges that vaping is much less harmful than smoking. >> looked, vaping can be good from the standpoint. a look at the e-cigarettes you stop smoking. if you stop smoking that the big advantage. we think were going to get a backup of the market very quickly but we have to protect the children. >> even so the snow's policy is not without critics. some say the policy does not go far enough to eliminate all forms of vaping. others right, when flavored vapes are no longer available, many just won't quit, they will use cigarettes. elders will turn to the unregulated black market and it is not been determined that the unregulated black market responsible for the state of

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>> i know he's sending us her messages about christmas presents and i hope his christmas present didn't is a beautiful vase. that's what i would like, a vase. as opposed to something else. president trump striking a positive note on his dealings with jim junket one. an assessment that could be put to it that test. the north korean leader warning the regime could resume nuclear and bloor and grange testing following this from our newsroom. >> good morning, comes to the end of kim jong un self-imposed moratorium. both on nuclear tests as well as on longer-range ballistic missile tests. kim jong un is always said that unless he got concessions from

the u.s., he would resume these tests. at a party meeting he is lord over unprecedented shocking actions. seeing his come tree will reveal eight new strategic weapon to the world as it tries to bolster its position in face of gangster like u.s. pressure. he sounds increasingly impatient does diplomacy with president trump is failed to bring about the benefits he so wanted. in particular, the list lifting of sanctions. as a way of pressuring the u.s. after that seconds failed summit, north korea broke their hiatus on weapon tests back in may and since then i've launched 27 mostly short range ballistic missiles and rockets and have warned of more provocative tests to come. in december it connected to ground tests and its test site but secretary pompeo continues to defend u.s. strategy in diplomacy. >> president trump came into office with a threat of war with

north korea. a true concern for the american people. he took attack, he said we can deliver a better outcome for the people of north korea. >> it is believed that kim has used his blue maddox stalemate to expand his literary capabilities. his arsenal is now estimated to contain 40-50 nuclear bombs and various delivery system which are capable of hitting the u.s. mainland. it's believed that in 2020, north korea is going to reach a more positively towards russia and china. we've seen meals to countries try to argue against sanctions at the u.n. that's another way of pressurizing the u.s. president trump standing firm in the face of those calls. >> we see what they do with sanctions, especially when it comes to trying in this new trade deal. benjamin hall on station in london. >> breaking news in baghdad, and u.s. troops firing tear gas to disperse crowds gathered for a second day at the u.s. embassy

after supporters of pro-iranian militias broken to the compound, they set fires and a reception area yesterday amongst other things. president trump putting a run on notice for the violence. iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost or damaging incurred at any of our facilities. they will pay a very big price. this is not a warning, it is a threat. happy new year. turning me knows lieutenant colonel daniel davis. the key switch for jordie benn and happy new year i spoke with you yesterday come an hour into a second day of continued protests. as the united states as president trump and his administration making the right move? >> i honestly think based on all of the things that are going on here especially in the government of baghdad's response to this and how they have not done a very good job of protecting our diplomatic personnel, this ought to be the last straw in the american people should say it's time for

us to redeploy our troops out of there. here's the key thing for americans to understand. first, there is no threat to american security. their primary benefactor is baghdad. they were sent there in 2014 at the height of the isis people at the defense of the government of baghdad. i do gets time for us to come home because all we are doing is having targets putting on our back and it's him creasing the threat to our troops. >> earlier we spoke to dan hoffman, who is fox news contributor, he talked about iran's influence in all of this. listen. >> they hold a lot of influence. it's not over yet, the united states should be doubling down on our diplomacy with the government of iraq and finding appropriate iraqi leaders with whom to work. make no mistake, the battle for iraq's future carries on and it's a great challenge for us. >> you mentioned you believe we should pull the troops out right now we have approximately 5,000

u.s. troops there now. >> that's correct. to his point, you also see just how chaotic it is. prior to all of this, these sanctions and all these people rising up against the united states, there was a great deal of protests for months against the president of baghdad because of the iranian influence. that's probably one of the most effective way to move iraq away from the iranian sphere of influence by their own people who are tired of that. we don't need to ride the military backstop and increase the risk we might have a clash with iran because that would not serve our interests at all. >> 11 attacks and just last two months. that's in addition to the u.s. contractor who was killed on friday. in terms of who these protesters are come a lot of people upside come a lot of veterans today and you had one of the media

referring to these protesters as iraqi mourners. here's what morgan ortagus from the state department had to say but to these protesters are earlier. >> this was not protesters, these were terrorists that are organized, trained, and equipped by the iranian regime and threats to the embassy. we went to iraq over the summer to address. we actually went on order departure for a while at the u.s. embassy in baghdad. >> your thoughts on that? >> they probably are mourning the loss of their personnel because they are for paramilitary units that are around back. these are iraqi citizens, they are not iranian citizens and that's part of the complications because we have attack on iraqi citizens that are in the control of that iraqi government.

it's a real chaotic situation and we need to withdraw our groups and not get in the middle of all the stuff. >> would that put those people left behind in further danger? >> a few referring to the people at the u.s. embassy we actually need to maintain a very robust gear to stefan that's beyond question. i'm talking about the 5,000 that is better on the country that does not thing for american interests we need to reduce our strategic risk. >> that's something that president trump is campaigned on. he talked about bringing our troops home in places like this all over the country, including the world. >> honestly as we head into 2020 people are going to be paying more attention to that. the last thing you want to see if they'll be far worse than anything we find in the number of years and i think trump's right to us back from that.

you hear the opposite in terms of democratic candidates for 2020. to compare what is done here with the obama administration for us. >> well, i think beyond politics both sides can do anything they can do damage the other side. president trump's been firm in defending american interest. that's what i'm saying we should withdraw our troops but he will defend us no matter what. he's not going to allow a situation like in benghazi were american personnel were killed because of the slowness of the defense response. >> what is around trying to get out of this? >> the big problem with this come a lot of people say the maximum pressure campaign is

succeeding. the only thing he succeeding in doing is making her on more provocative at making them move towards more risky situations. if we want to negotiate a better deal than when that situation here, we have to be willing for iran to come out with something like a win. otherwise you don't have any negotiations in these kinds of things are going to continue on. it's just not in our interest. >> what does that mean, we need for iran to be able to come up with a win? >> if you're going to negotiate something both sides need to get something they want. we can't say everything we want is going to happen if you're going to do because they're not going to operate that way. no one will do that. we have to say what are your needs and we have to give them something. look, be honest, if they don't get anything that's a win what's their motivation to do what we want them to do? >> we also remember over this past summer they attacked oil tankers in the gulf come they shot down a u.s. drone, we have sanctions underway right now that are hurting our economy. thank you so much, we appreciate you joining us.

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level since 2015. >> and we talk about the reductions in homicides and were at a 13% reduction as i stand here before you compare to last year, that's 74 less people that were killed in the city of chicago. a really important statistic. more people than in this entire room and in the lobby right now today. that's a significant impact, that's real people who are alive because the city of chicago has done a better job of protecting its folks. >> chicago also hit a 20 year low in robberies, burglaries,, and vehicle theft. >> more houses of worship becoming targets of violence. a gunman opened fired inside texas church last weekend killing two people before he was shot and killed by a volunteer security guard. in new york a man is accused of stabbing five people inside a rabbi's home while they celebrated hanukkah. with that we bring in dr. robert

jeffords, pastor of the first baptist church of dallas. happy new year's sir. this must hit home for a man who speaks at the pulpit every sunday. does it change how you do things or is it simply no effect of life we have to accept? >> doesn't change what we do because we've always had a plan, like this church in texas does. you know, leland, the great hope of the christian message is that one day evil will be eradicated from this world when the lord returns. until that time, evil is a reality that has to be confronted and the defects diminished wherever possible. i think every pastor, every rabbi come has a duty to protect his congregants by making sure there's a plan of action just like this texas church had to deal with acts of violence when and if they occur. >> do you feel as if there is a new product specific to religious organizations like this church as we see there that the shooting happened then?

we'll get to anti-semitism in a minute. >> there seems to be an increased level of these kinds of threats. you know, some of it is attributable to mental illness. that was the case with this texas shooter. it was involved in the hanukkah stabbings as well. i think some of it can be attributed to the increase of divisions in our country. ultimately, leland, et cetera middle to evil. jack wilson, the hero who took down the shooter, said he was dealing with evil. that's the ultimate cause here. >> what i humble hero he has been over the past couple of days. that's an example we don't get a lot of in the united states. >> that's right. it's a great story. great example for all of us. >> moving now to the idea of the anti-semitic attacks and those two certainly seem to be targeting on the rise. nine of them in new york and just the past couple of weeks. anecdotal evidence that it it's on the rise around the country.

do christian specifically evangelical christians, have the responsibility to speak out about anti-semitism in a strong and forceful way? >> absolutely. a couple of weeks ago at the white house the president signed a bill, an executive order, about anti-semitism. i was standing next to him when he signed the data. before he signed it you ask me to say a few words to the group. as of the both christians and alike believe what the bible says in genesis 12, that god will bless those who bless israel come he will curse those who curse israel. when anybody speaks out or the jewish people he is really attacking the chuck codd of the jewish people and that's why evangelical christians, above all should be standing with our jewish brothers and sisters in the faith. >> we have seen before in history that anti-semitism is the canary in the coal mine so to speak to a breakdown in

society. are we seeing that in the united states yet? has the canary started to make its presence known? >> i think it may be begetting to chirp right now. i just think again, look at 2018, the last records we have 1800 plus cases of anti-semitic assaults in the united states. that is totally unacceptable and i think we all need to say this is wrong and again, there is a spiritual element involved in this, leland, those of us who believe in the bible believe in the satan. he has had a plan to destroy the jewish people from the beginning. we need to make sure that we are in the right side of history, but more importantly on the right side of god when it comes to standing with the jewish people. >> real quickly. beyond talking about it, as you have just done eloquently, what is the next step as this

anti-semitism rise appears to be unchecked so far. is there a responsibility by even by evangelical groups such as yourself to actually do something? >> i think there is. i think we need to continue to have dialogue with the jewish leaders about what we can do to stand beside our jewish brethren. you know whether it's a prime minister netanyahu or other jewish leaders around the world, they know the best friends they have in the world are evangelical christians. i do think it's the responsibility of the president come as he has been doing. >> i spent four years and it's real. they will agree with that statement, they do view evangelical christians as their best friends in the united states. we talked on christmas, we talked on new years, we got a sometimes not talk on a holiday. happy new year, sir. >> coming up authorities want to talk with the mother and the

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>> welcome back, fox news alert on this protest. they are heating up outside the embassy in baghdad with demonstrators attacking the compound, letting fires, chanting death to america. welcome back to "america's newsroom," i'm heather childers and for sandra smith. >> some people are talking about our coast to benghazi and those dots to america chance take it back to tehran in 79. i'm leland vittert in for bill hemmer. the protest has been going on for two days, at its already know wednesday night in baghdad. the protest started over deadly u.s. air strikes targeting iranian backed militia members. here's the state department store folks woman on "america's newsroom" a minute ago. >> this was not the protesters,

these were terrorists that are organized, trained, and equipped by the iranian regime. this is something we see in the playbook quite often. speak of pressure campaign that the economic sanctions on the run of product their economy to a destructive point where they are acting out. we have to continue to show the restraint >> -- live fox team coverage on how the president is responding. also his expertise as a former commander in the 82nd airborne. first out of trey yingst where it is already wednesday night, situation on the ground still protests going on are pretty calm. >> good afternoon, we are still getting reports in right now if people outside the u.s. embassy in baghdad. there's also reports of at least a partial withdrawal. some of those militia men and protesters leaving the area

after spending the night. more than 50 tents were pitched within baghdad's green zone so people could come to this morning and caught once again with american troops. we signed new images wednesday morning of u.s. marines firing tear gas and rubber bullets trying to push back the iraqis were throwing rocks and setting fires to the compound. many of the demonstrators did stay the night is more than 100 u.s. marines arrived to reinforce the embassy. mark esper announced tuesday evening that an infantry battalion from the 82nd airborne division would be deployed to the middle east among rising tensions with iran. yesterday trump blamed iran for orchestrating the attack on the embassy adding they will pay a high price for any damage or theft that occur as a result. the iranians denied any involvement. hassan rouhani also accused the u.s. of committing crimes by striking has blood targets on sunday, killing 25 of the

group's fighters. >> they are using something else as an excuse. they are attacking iraqi soil, killing a number of people. the iranian government strongly condemned the u.s. malicious attacks. >> leland, as you noted these are some striking images from outside the embassy in baghdad. some flashbacks to beginning of the, but all of this part of a larger information war that the iranians are conducting against the west. analysts worry that any day a conflict could erupt on a greater level between the united states or iran or countries like israel. leland. >> real very much caught in the middle on this. trey yingst, thank you. president trump as you heard fouling iraq will not be another benghazi. he's sending hundreds of troops to the middle east following that siege of the u.s. embassy in baghdad. more on white house reaction, president trump did not play

golf yesterday, monitoring the situation. high, kevin. >> good to be with you, there is little doubt that the administration or reacted with the fervor you would anticipate it would do, given the history mention trey mentioned the number of incursion involving u.s. embassies in the past. this administration wanted to be very forceful in the way it reacted to what it's all happening in iraq. particularly given our shared history with the americans with violence person it perpetrated on our personnel and property and embassies the world over. tamping down the unrest of the utmost importance. you mention the president did have a conversation, a consultation with the iraqi prime minister yesterday. he also said he was appreciative of the iraqi government's efforts. he also mentioned additional for strength as u.s. marines deployed to the zone prepared to engage and interdict as necessary to ensure the safety and security of our people.

last night at his new year's eve gala the president told me that he was pleased with the administration's coordination and response. >> the marines came in, we had some great warriors come in and do some fantastic job. they work they instantaneously. i use the word immediately, they came immediately. it's in great shape. as you know this will not be a benghazi. benghazi should never have happened. this will never, ever be a benghazi. >> quiet day here at the southern white house. the president is at its resort. we'll see if he hits the links and if he gets any other news will pass it along. >> monitor's twitter account as well. kevin corke in palm beach thank you. >> with more on this now, congressman mark green from tennessee who serves on the house oversight and homeland security committee. thank you for joining us first of all. >> thanks, heather. >> what a way to begin the new

year and for all of our service people who are serving. your response to what you see happening? >> i think it's proof that this president uses a very proportional measured response one is confronted with these kinds of situations. if you look at the drone attack when they shot down our trawling, he refused to do a kinetic strike then and used basically a computer virus to destroy their missile launchers. then they attack us, we had 11 rocket attacks against american forces inside iraq and in the region and we responded with five attacks on their camps. now they are escalating it even more and that's been said many times, this is organized by the ir gc supported hezbollah militia. there were uniforms in the crowd yesterday from the images that i saw. flags of those units. this is an orchestrated terrorist event and the

president's ride. is not going to allow another benghazi. because some news organizations calling the protesters iraqi mourners. as a side, just from the images alone, we can see they were much more than just that. here's what secretary of state mike pompeo had to stay about iran's influence last night on special report. >> we put real pressure and we will continue to do so. we will continue to hold the islamic republic of iran culpable. >> part of those resources, secretary of defense mark esper saying that he is authorizing deployment of an infantry battalion from the immediate response for a force from the 82nd airborne division. you yourself have experience with that. >> i served as an infantry commander in the 82nd airborne division. went on the irs many times. they rotate units when the soldiers weren't small yeah there was some difficulty with the tenth mountain we were

standing up and preparing to go to that region of the world. i understand the feelings of those families right now is there soldiers are in the air. and something those guys except every day. those guys and gals except every day part of their job. nonetheless, it's new year's and they are on their way to the middle east again. >> what do you think about pulling all of our troops out? is that something we should consider and we should do? >> especially not now. it would clearly be interpreted by iran as appeasement, as running away just as we did after somalia. bill clinton basically pulled all of our forces out as soon as we got a black eye and that empowered bin laden to say these americans won't stick and fight. we cannot do that, especially now. we have to stay. what we need now is our rock to step up and be the ally that we have certain only treated them.

they were invaded by isis and we came back and liberated them from isis. they need to do their job to protect our forces and our assets. >> a lot of question as to why and how these protesters or these iraqi backed militia members were able to breach the embassy as far as they were able to. i do want to ask you about this in terms of pulling our troops out because i talked to colonel daniel davis just a little while ago. he said that we should pull our troops out any pointed out that would follow the example of ronald reagan back in 1983. >> you know, there are people who now see that as a mistake as well. after beirut, when ronald reagan moved the brains out of lebanon, many of us feel like that probably also embolden terrorists in the region. you have to look at what arad would come their constitution, the iranian constitution actually says our mission, our

government exists to basically dominate the world. to expand the nomination just offshoot of that state all over the world. that's their goal. that's the purpose. we cannot pull out. now would be horrible. it would empower them, embolden them come a bad idea. >> what type of signal without sent to other countries? north korea being one of them. russia as well. >> absolutely. all of the bad actors of the planet are watching this end americans response is critical. our president again, he's not overreacting either. there were many of us who thought, and i was one of them come after the drone was shot down we should've gone kinetic nine. he did a very measured response and in retrospect he turned out to be right. that is the right thing to do

and iran needs to be on notice. this escalation has to stop because this president will not put up with it. >> thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate your time and happy new year to you. thank you to your service. >> fox news alert, new year and a new vaping policy from the fda. there are reports it's going to ban all e-cigarette flavors except menthol and tobacco. doug mckelway following this live in washington, were not everyone is on board with this. >> good morning. this pinch could be announced as soon as friday and it will apply only to the sale of fruity flavors of a product. marketed in cartridge-based e-cigarettes. the actions are seen as a compromised by the trump administration because it does not apply the vaping cartridge is designed to take just like tobacco or mental tobacco. it would also still permit adult systems of open tank where the

users can mix their own flavorings. >> we have to protect our families. at the same time it's a big industry and we want to protect the industry. as you know we will be taking off the flavors for a period of time, certain flavors. were going to protect our families, were going to protect our children, and were going to protect the industry. >> the nunu ban is expected to draw criticism from both sides of the debate. from others who say it will likely lead to more deaths. psychiatrist sally seidel rode last october when flavor vapes will are no longer available users want just quit, others will turn to the regulated black market. the state of vaping related lung disease and death last year have officially been attributed to unregulated black formulations. the new fda restrictions will have a big impact on the

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>> back with the fox news alert. on come protesters welcoming the new year with tens of thousands joining a pro-democracy march. the gathering was largely peaceful, but violence did break out in some of those areas. police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. the antigovernment protest began back in june over a proposed law allowing extradition to mainland china church and get with a crime. it is and has morphed to a broader movement demanding full

democracy. >> i would testify, i would do demonstrations, i'd give lectures and summations. or i do what i do best, i try the case. >> there is the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani think he'd be willing to do just about anything in a senate impeachment trial, he just wants to be involved. what that ever happened? joining us now is mark eckler and eliza roman, politics reported for business insider. nice to see both of you as well. mark, this is an interesting one because in a way you've got republicans who are saying they would love to have rudy giuliani there because he's going to talk about the bidens. and democrats who would love to have rudy giuliani there because they love to see them on the stand and squirm under cross-examination. who comes out ahead in that paradigm? >> rudy giuliani. he wants to do it for his own benefit. i think he likes to be at the center of things. and i think it's a mess for everybody.

it would be very damaging to joe biden and it would be damaging to trump. i think it's not good for democrats or republicans, the only person the benefits is rudy giuliani. >> mark that may have been the most honest answer i've heard on television and a long time. elijah, can we get some agreement on the panel that this would be good for rudy giuliani? >> i don't know if i can agree with that. giuliani has proven himself time and again to admit the things he probably shouldn't in interviews and i'm sure that would continue if he actually testified in this impeachment hearing. i think that senate democrats haven't asked rudy giuliani to testify so there's no indication that he will be testifying. >> it's an interesting point, markey seemed to see think that senate republicans would appreciate this and put behind the scenes. >> i think he does have information on ukraine. he's been there. it's interesting democrats don't want him there come he's the guy

that they are accusing of being the president's outside channel shuttle diplomat, they should actually want him there. i find it interesting the democrats have not asked for them to testify. >> that is interesting. conceivably could claim attorney private client privilege. lindsey graham has talked about that rudy giuliani should share information with the intelligence committee to ensure it's not misquoting the hill is russian propaganda. as we move on to a broader discussion of impeachment, which everyone can come back to christmas and new year's can get back to discussing. this raised some eyebrows from representative al green, was also somebody was quite outspoken on the other side. take a listen. >> the genesis of impeachment coming to be very candid with you, was when the president was running for office and he had of his own party to talk about his unfitness to hold office. the president didn't have the

luxury of persons from his party having been on his side as it worked throughout this entire ordeal. >> al green is also been the one that says we need to impeach him because otherwise he might win reelection. what does this deal, mark, to democrats who start claiming and complaining that a republican senators are not impartial and independent? >> i think it's very damaging to the whole case. to be fair come he's the one telling the truth. democrats have been trying to impeach trump since literally before he won office. certainly within hours of him taking office. it shows an illegitimacy from the process the house that is very damaging in the polls are showing that. >> elijah, is there, maybe it's refreshing or damaging, to simply call it like it is, there were a lot of democrats that say we want to impeach president trump that were going to go find a crime to do it.

>> look, i mean a lot of democratic voters have long felt that trump has committed impeachable offenses. before he was elected he was accused by almost a dozen women of sexual harassment and assault. there is long been a discussion about impeachment among the more progressive members of the house and of the senate. >> is that a problem for democrats who want to come out and say all of these senators aren't impartial, this republican senator said he is going to be a big supporter of president trump, you've got others who say they don't see a crime. mitch mcconnell says were going to be in lockstep with the white house. how can democrats complain about that when they been saying for so long that we want to impeach him? >> i think it's pretty clear to most voters and most americans that both sides are looking out for their own political party and benefits so i think it's

clear that both republicans and the democrats sort of know how they are going to vote on this issue, even though there are a handful of swing lawmakers. >> to bring that full circle, perhaps rudy giuliani is doing what's best for rudy giuliani. democrats and republicans are going to do what's best for their respected bases, right, mark? >> i agree with that. we have to look to him this whole thing was made partisan by the house of representatives and by nancy pelosi and by adam schiff and the show they put on in the house of representatives. there was no rule of law, i'm just outraged by hearing what eliza say people thought he committed impeachable offenses before he was elected president, that's legally impossible. that's insane, and violates the rule of law. there's nothing that says that any official can commit of impeachable offenses before they are an official. this is the psyche of the radical far left of the democratic party. it's not playing well with independence and especially in swing state is hurting democrats very badly.

>> eliza we've seen that pulling from the consulting groups to look at how impeachment fares in swing states. the president had five or ten points in his favor when it came to the impeachment question. you bake in people going home for the holidays, they fight christmas dinner in time to talk politics, now it's new year's and they've had time to get together with their friends and you have all these conversations that been going on, would democrats be wise, shall we say commit to retake the temperature of saying after this time of the american people reflecting on the past year? >> we have 11 months until the election. there is a lot of time for americans to think about impeachment and to let this process play out. yes, i think democrats will absolutely pay close attention to pulling going forward and especially after the trial.

>> if we ever get to a trial because so far nancy pelosi hasn't released the articles of impeachment. a few steps from there, may be the pulling will play into that. mark, eliza, happy new year to both of you. great way to start the new year off with a panel. we will talk to you soon. >> 2020 democrats weighing in after joe biden admits that he would consider choosing a republican running mate. what is competition is saying about that. new developments about the attic a stabbing suspect, what we are now learning about his past.

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officer, but was let go. that order was made by a judge who was tracked down by "the new york post," which reports today that he told the paper he couldn't comment on the proceedings because it was a sealed case. according to the post suspect, grafton thomas comeau was also charged in 2018 with a possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. it resulted in the adjournment of contemplation of dismissal which in layman's terms of the benefit of the doubt ruling communing the suspect will be released with the understanding that if he or she doesn't commit a crime within a year's time, the case at hand will be dismissed and sealed. thomas was charged now with five counts of attempted murder after the saturday attack that left several people severely injured. he has pleaded not guilty. his lawyer say thomas suffers from mental illness and a pastor pastor that knows the family told the post that thomas' mother pleaded to have her son committed for inpatient

commitment. the family for one of the victims released a statement updating the public on his condition after suffering multiple stab wounds which penetrated his skull and shattered his arm. saying in part this, our fathers status is so dire that no surgery is yet to be performed on the right arm. doctors are not optimistic about his chances to regain consciousness. and if our father does miraculously recover, doctors expect he will let permanent damage to the brain, leaving them personally paralyzed them speech impaired for the rest of his life." in addition to the state charges, thomas is also been hit with federal hate crime charges that gets in the prison for the rest of his life. >> we will lead weight development at that court date. thank you so much. >> fred tc, former federal prosecutor, thank you for joining us first of all. happy new year to youtube. you know doubt heard what laura was reporting there

come a horrible crime using a machete and breaking into this rabbi's personal home. critically injuring several people and this isn't the first time he's been in trouble. >> it isn't the whole thing is this, i don't do criminal defense work so i'm not here to defend the guy and i think he should go away for an awful long time for a very serious crime. here's the problem with this, i used to save us a lot of time to announce a prosecutor, it's very easy to go back with 20/20 hindsight and question what does judge dead but we can't do it without understanding the law in new york. first of all, the law in new york does not allow a judge to consider the safety of the community when setting a bail. it's ridiculous, when i worked in the federal system we were allowed to have people detained without bail if we could show they presented a danger to the community or risk of flight. that's not an option open to a new york judge. a new york judge has this thing called kendra's law which came from back in 1999 when a man

suffering from schizophrenia pushed a woman in front of the atrium in new york and killed her. the in order to effect that lie you have to show multiple arrests or multiple hospitalizations and refusal to take treatment. on the record i've seen so far with this kind it is horrible, but i'm not so sure there were any yellow flags or anything that could've been done in the past to try to avoid this during the last time this had an interaction with the criminal justice system. >> that takes us into the next thing i wanted to talk to you about it and we will meld the two together. this new law that goes into effect today in new york regarding to bail that would allow people who commit hate crimes to be released. >> correct. >> does a new london new york that basically denies judges the opportunity to provide a bail for a bunch of crimes, including assault without physical harm and stocking and drug crimes, which quite friendly i don't care what these progressives tell you, drug crimes of the most violent crimes.

they rip apart neighborhoods, they kill people, they result in death and destruction wherever they are. going forward the state of new york judges cannot impose bail or conditions of bail on any individual charged with certain crimes. what's worse about this is they are also not allowed to continue, to consider the safety of the community. which a lot of other courts can. california, new jersey, illinois. judges can take into consideration the danger to the community of letting somebody out and deciding not to impose bail or deciding to impose a bill that is very high. not so in new york. >> it seems like there's a lot of common sense perhaps missing from some of this. we were also reporting on this there was the most recent case prior to this mass stabbing where a woman in the ark had been arrested for attacking three different jewish women. she was relieved in the very day she was released she was

arrested on another attack. >> right? a little bit of common sense would go an awful long way. you see these people and courtrooms all the time. i did this for years and years. everybody in the courtroom knows they are a danger to the community, these people are standing up there and yet the judges let them out on bail and they shouldn't. there are far too many incidences and far too many analytical data supporting the contention that people who are a danger to the community are going to continue to commit violent crimes and continue to affect the safety of law-abiding citizens if they are out on the street with no conditions or accommodation of conditions that would ensure the safety of the community. >> it's the incentive to return to court? >> none. that's the whole purpose of bail. if you have bail, even if somebody said you had a 50,000 bail a 10% you still have to put down $5,000. if you didn't show up or your family pledged that money, they would lose that money.

that was all a very strong effective tool for entering people showed back up. people who failed to show up, they disappear into the night, we never see them again and the next time we see them they've committed either another crime or a violent crime which is just an unbridled disaster. >> with this latest case was was a fact of them active terrorism. senator cuomo called them and the second thing i have to ask you before we wrapped up his where you have mayor de blasio blaming the rhetoric of president trump. >> you know what came out, start with mayor de blasio first because that's a cheap shot. i could lay out 15 different things that he has done that basically undermines the safety of law-abiding citizens, and that's most of the people that lived in new york city as a result of his practices and policies. forget him. as well there is an act of domestic terrorism, we can argue all day long about the term it's a hate crime. under federal law it's a hate

crime. irrespective of how sick this guy is, quite frankly i don't think he's as sick as you like this think he is. i've seen evidence that he tried to bleach the blood out of his cry car which is evidence that he knew he did something wrong. this guy should have the book thrown at him and spend the rest of his natural life in jail for five times of attempted murder. >> prior to this attack he looked up and disseminate information online and that type of activity. >> correct. that shows premeditation and that shows motive. this wasn't some crazy guy that says the aliens told him to go attack five jewish people. this guy, when the evidence starts to come out and could law enforcement will gather at, it will show what he did was a premeditated hate crime for which he should be punished severely. >> thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it.

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>> back with a fox news alert on new threats from north korea. what kim jong un warning he will soon reveal a new strategic weapon after indicating his country could resume nuclear and missile testing. benjamin hall is following the story line from london with the latest. high, benjamin. >> high, heather. chemist said all year that if he doesn't get concessions by december 31st, he would resume those long-range missile tests and the nuclear tests as well. of course he has not received any concessions whatsoever. we saw them in this big workers party meeting over the last three days warning of unspecified shocking actions saying that his country will

soon reveal a new strategic weapon to the world. it is the latest example of kim sounding increasingly impatient as his diplomacy with president trump as failed to bring about the benefits he has so wanted. in particular, the lifting or easing of sanctions. mainly because he has refused to move on denuclearization. as a way of pressurizing the u.s. after the second failed summit, north korea finally broke their 18 month hiatus on weapons tests in may and since then they have launched 27 mostly short-range missiles and rockets and connected to tests of their missile engine test sites. it is also believed that kim has used the diplomatic still meant over the last couple of years to expand his military capabilities. his arsenal is now estimated to include 40-50 nuclear bombs and various delivery systems, including icbms capable of reaching the u.s. mainland. it's also believed that kim jong un will use this to show a more united front with russia and china. they been backing them at the u.n. and he's hoping to use that

to pressurize the u.s. as well. >> benjamin hall come alive for us. thank you. >> bring in rebecca grant, national security analyst president of the independent research group, fellow alumni, the one of us is slightly more accomplished than others. we'll let the viewers decide at the end on that one. all right, so president trump has set in the past that kim jong un rode him beautiful letters and that they were falling in love. now you listen the kim jong un that sounds a good dear john letter coming back. >> well, kim could have been more provocative but basically, leland, the talks are stuck. kim jong un wants some sanction relief in the u.s. position is not to give it up to them until there is a real step forward in denuclearization, even if it's a small step like producing a weapons inventory. >> isn't in inherent that they have gotten some sanction relief? john bolton set how to respond to kim jong un's threatening

remarks. the u.s. should fully resume all military actions, exercises in south korea and hold congressional hearings with u.s. troops are ready to fight tonight. if he's ready to do another nuclear weapons test or another long-range missile test, which is the only thing president trump is how the audits of success from his talks north korea, it's really a thumb in the eye of president trump, isn't it? >> there's a lot of speculation about what the strategic weapon might be. some say it could be a space launch. north korea launched missiles or satellites in 2012 and 2016. it's possible that the engine test in december was a preliminary to a space launch or it could just be another job. >> we are hearing wait and see. in some places north korea is getting what they want by having us talk about this all the time? >> i don't think they are getting what they want exactly because the sanctions pressure is still pretty strong. they really want that often they

really wanted peace treaty. they really want u.s. forces to decline on the korean peninsula. none of that is going to happen and despite what bolton says, u.s. forces in korea ready to fight tonight. no question. >> there's been questions as to what the military action tire sizes did or did not do. tie this into what's happening in iran. you see the iranians now with all these provocative asians including attacking u.s. interests and attacks on u.s. embassy. the north koreans and the iranians come if you're not talking to each other they've got to be watching a president trump response to each one of these. is there a message here in the u.s. strategic restraint against iran? >> there are two big sets of ties. first, north korea supplies both to the iranian navy. the other baked i have course is russia and china. they are egging on the north koreans and they are egging on the iranians as we saw with those naval exercises. china and russia really are

stirring up trouble , whereas president trump is trying to control the development of nuclear weapons. we know iran can't be trusted with nuclear weapons in north korea can't be trusted. >> the north koreans already have it. what i'm trying to find here is a real success on any of the metrics that you pointed out for the president. the iranians are attacking our embassy in shooting down our drones. the north koreans say basically that was fun but we've got this new weapon here and we are no longer having our own imposed moratorium. where is the win? >> so for the fact that north korea has not done a dozen more longer-range tests, that makes us safer. they are a long way on that a big icbm. with the wrong come a victory yet to come. it's a maximum financial pressure. tromp wants those financial sanctions to work. it's going to be off to be patient to see if that happens. >> we will also see whether or not the iranians play ball and

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>> welcome back. several democratic presidential candidates not wasting any time so far in 2020. on the campaign trail. as some respond to joe biden's claim that he would consider a republican running mate. >> i think it is fair to say that i will not have a republican as a vice president on my ticket as a vice president candidate. i will have somebody who shares my views. i am not aware of too many republicans who do. >> we should not be reflectively partisan. i won't have republicans in my cabinet. people who i know and are governed by the same values as me. >> ellison barber joins us now live from new hampshire. that's where andrew yang is currently holding an event. allison is back on the campaign trail. >> hey, how there. bernie sanders and cory booker, they rang in the new year in

iowa. michael bonnett and andrew yang bring it in new hampshire. andrew yang has three events on his schedule today. the first one is getting started soon in the building right behind me. the new hampshire primary, they take place on february 11th, 8 days after the iowa caucuses. yang says based on this latest fund-raising numbers, his campaign is enough resources to stay in the race through spring. >> i've seen multi-million-dollar organizations go from nothing to buy it in idea that the number one in the country. that's exactly what's happening with this campaign. the people aren't surprised by what's up and over this past year, i am not. people who are surprised are going to be really surprised when i win this whole thing. >> yang's campaign say they expect to raise more than $12.5 million this quarter, that's roughly 25% more money then they raised i in the quartr before. yesterday, december 31st, was

their best to fund-raising date to date. they yang campaign said they raised over $1 million in just 24 hours. yang supporters call themselves the yang get gained and as you can hear they are incredibly enthusiastic. so for their candidate is not leading the polls. a new hampshire poll earlier this month out the voters of the 2020 democratic primary for president who would you vote for. pete buttigieg, joe biden, warren sanders all of the toppling in double digits. yang and tulsi gabbard came in fifth place with 5% of new hampshire voters saying they would vote for them in the primary if it happened today. of course in politics nothing is over until it is over it. things can change up until the very last second but if you can believe it, heather, the iowa caucuses are just 33 days away. >> i can't believe it. i really can't. >> the 2020 race is actually here. that was ellison reporting. getting a little cold in new hampshire. the one person we didn't hear

from in ellison's report about what biden said about having a republican would be michael bloomberg, who once was a republican. i'm just saying, if one of our cruises out there and sees bloomberg they should ask him not. all right, before we have our quick new year celebration here, because we didn't go to get to go out last night. we are going to show you the new year's celebration in florida. this would only happen in key west, florida, as they said goodbye to 2019. with the 15th annual, how do you say the name of this kind of d dog? >> there is a terrier, they are not all dioxins. >> a parade of dogs. some ducks that looked like some of the lion king. there we go. this was before last night's festivities. i could use some taco bell right now. there were 300 of the dogs that went out there. many of them, as you can see, or

dog costumes. if got a little guy there with a doggy wheelchair making his way down. >> which would you rather be, at this parade or a political event? >> if you ever want perspective just think about thought for the next 11 months. you can either be listening to politics, there you go, we want to think our makeup team who brought these with us as well. happy 2020, have a great decade. it was great to start it with you and great to start it with you at home. america's news headquarters back here from new york when we come back. >> have a great one everybody. let's be honest, quitting smoking is freaking hard. like quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so, try making it smaller. and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small... ...can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette

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>> u.s. marines on the ground in baghdad, guarding the american embassy one day after iranian-backed protesters broke into the compound, setting fires, tipping over cars, and smashing security cameras. one of the worst attacks on the u.s. diplomatic mission in years. hello, everyone paid happy new year's day and welcome to "america's news hq." i'm julie banderas. >> and rob schmitt. u.s. troops using tear gas to disperse countdown mike rounds for a second day. the protesters setting a fire to the reception area. u.s. marines have arrived to boost security, hundreds of soldiers from the 82nd airborne division also deployed to the middle east and more u.s. forces could be on the way very soon.