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1941. the song became number 46 on u.s. top charts, but it soon became an iconic tune. it was recorded 79 years ago today. love that looked back. >> leland: good to have you. the lady is on "outnumbered" have it. >> president trump ordering more troops to the middle east after the violent to each of the u.s. embassy in baghdad. thousands of iranian setting fires and smashing through bulletproof windows. the ap releasing new images of destruction from inside the u.s. embassy. windows blown out, and of the charred remains of paper, office furniture, and shelving inside the baghdad complex. and while they have withdrawn, tensions remain high. u.s. citizens advise not to go anywhere near the u.s. embassy
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compound. mark esper this morning on fox with a warning for america's enemies. >> the president has been very engaged, the national security team has been on the phone with them daily. every few hours. he wants to make sure that our forces are well taken care of. we are capable of accomplishing our missions on the ground, and he is absolutely correct but if anybody challenges us, they will be met with a severe response, strong response by u.s. forces. >> melissa: this is "outnumbered," and i am the host of "outnumberedmelissa francis. in the center see today, pete hegseth. we will get a reaction in just a moment. i want to go to trey yingst, who is life. >> good afternoon. striking interview earlier today between fox news and u.s.
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defense secretary mark esper appeared acknowledging that the united states is not just considering defensive action but also offensive action in the middle east this week to try to take care of some of those iranian threats that proxies have posed against u.s. allies, u.s. troops, and also in the region. it does appear that they are preparing for the possibility of a direct military confrontation. as we speak right now, u.s. troops are headed to an american base in kuwait. coming from the 82nd airborne division. as thousands of soldiers on standby just in case. iranians today continuing their rhetoric about the revolutionary guard, saying that his country was not moving towards work but is unafraid of conflict. adding that iran has the power to break america several times. came under siege for two days earlier this week. protesters destroyed many parts
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of the embassy, setting fires to other parts of the compound. this all in response to a u.s. attack on sunday that killed 25 members of hezbollah and militia group operating in the middle east. the supreme leader of iran said that he was open to talks with the united states if the president or to reverse some of the decisions for economic sanctions against the islamic republic. president trump has made very clear that they intend to keep up this national pressure campaign until iran decides to change his behavior. melissa. >> melissa: thank you so much. pete, it was interesting when he just said there, that they would consider, you know, backing off if the u.s. held back on sanctions. not if we did an attack other sites or some of the other things. >> pete: i think this comes back to the economic pressure that they are feeling. it is a total reversal of the obama administration policies.
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maximum pressure has meant maximum pressure. it has also meant we are not surrendering our sailors in the persian gulf while taking a much stronger stance. to choose the embassy in baghdad i think is even more symbolic than it would be, considering 40 years ago, that the islamic revolution there, if you want to expel the americans, which iran is effectively taking control of, then point to the embassy there to try to push us out. all things considered, we don't want to be in a shooting war with iran right now. they want to avoid that if they can. it was the right response from the administration. that was the entrance area, the reception area of the embassy. they wanted us to shoot at "on armed militia members," which thankfully, they did not do. we should hold our own cards about what happened. >> melissa: i want to lean on your security expertise. what is your take on that?
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>> kennedy: crisis averted at the embassy, which is great news, but the bigger challenge for the u.s. remains in iraq, which is tensions between the u.s. and iran have been ratcheting up all year long. there is also this uncomfortable reality, which is that about 5,000 troops are on the ground now. the primary mission is to keep isis from researching, but iran has this hole, huge network of these militias that are loyal to the iranian regime inside of iraq for one reason or another. we don't know exactly how many troops they have got on the ground there, but some people estimate it is in the many tens of thousands. that is an uncomfortable reality to phase one tensions are sort of reaching boiling points like this. >> melissa: what is the right response, then? >> gillian: well, president trump is going to keep those troops on the ground, he says, indefinitely. sending an additional 4,000 troops. up to 4,000 troops to go to the
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region. i think 750 have already gone out, in kuwait and other neighboring states. i think what the administration is trying to do is build up that u.s. military pressure in the region without directly threatening -- without trying to escalate, going head-to-head with iran inside the country. speak to my question for pete, and i want to know in more detail why would iran want to start out work? how does it benefit them? they are trying to draw a response here. because it was more like a berkeley citizen that was perpetrated by pyro's as opposed to a traditional terrorist attack, where civilians were killed on that, so they are trying to provoke a response, and what does that do? >> pete: they are trying to provoke a response because they are under pressure, and you agitate abroad. that has been a perfect place for them to do that.
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i mean, there is no doubt that we partnered with those iranian militias to kill isis. they use that as an opportunity to turn them into -- the iraqi government is completely -- a lot of a step back and go okay, as someone who was very supportive of the iraq war, what is our mission there today? exporter at this point, why do we care there? in the longer we meddle, the more -- >> jessica: there are no good outcomes. that is the case no matter who is president. they have fundamentally divergent values with us. we only have one's true democratic alley in the region, and that is israel. we didn't get into this mess, this began when they pulled out of the nuclear deal. our allies asked us not to do that. that is not what the u.k. were france or germany wants.
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>> gillian: go back a few steps beyond that. >> jessica: i mean sure. the crisis necessitated some sort of deal, which happen to be one which was full of holes. i'm talking about in the last couple of years, that is pulling out of the nuclear deal has changed the landscape a lot. they are tougher economic sanctions were announced, and we have returned the money that we have frozen four years ago, but ratcheting up the nuclear programs. that has changed because of this. and we have a lot of troops on the ground, which is something that president trump about all not campaign trail. >> melissa: hang on. let's say that's true. what is it that we are after? we agree that this is a country -- >> jessica: i think that is on the people -- >> melissa: the president ratcheting up sanctions, trying to force an
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internal revolution. >> gillian: the primary goal is countering terrorism. finding a small, lethal force on the ground that can help prevent isis from having a comeback. he has specifically said time and time again that he doesn't want iraq to become a battleground. he doesn't want iraq to become battleground competition for influence against a iran. he doesn't want to go toe-to-toe with the iranians. he has made that very clear. >> pete: it remains no nuclear weapons for iran, but -- >> jessica: about their program is increasing. despite the action that we have taken. >> pete: that was money that enriched a terrorist, but -- >> jessica: how effective is that? >> melissa: to your point, jessica, it is effective. according to pete, and that make sense, the reason that they are
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lashing out abroad is because they're getting crushed at home because of the sanctions. we know that to be true because the first statement that was brought to us was that they say we will stop if you lined up on the sanctions. >> jessica: going back to a time where they were not attacking the u.s. embassy. that was not happening -- >> melissa: that is a whole different narrative. >> gillian: sanctions don't necessarily work because you still have a lot of people in iran's that are hurting economically and politically. they still have guns. they still have access to weapons that they will use to hurt us if they are pushed into a corner. i am not a huge fan of sanctio sanctions. the other thing is we have a very robust presidential campaign going right now, and instead of the democratic side talking about feelings, what i think we should do is have essentially an anonymous essay contest where each candidate has to write a series of short essays, and they don't get to put their name at the top.
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then we get to decide who has the best response to the specific crisis. this would be on their last, and i have a feeling that you would have a different choice then you think you would. then you can flip it over and say oh, pete buttigieg actually knows what he is talking about. >> gillian: it is time for the iranian regime to start behaving like a normal country, and he is right, but the problem is they are not going to. they haven't for the last four decades. in the last year alone, they continue to hold american prisoners, they attacked the saudi oil facility. they have made threats against the e.u. allies. the problem here is coming to terms with the fact that they are never going to be a normal government. >> pete: one little nugget is the leader of the group, former embassy, he was welcome to the white house in december of 2011
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look at that, topping the list with $34.5 million. trailing sanders, eight bit or judge, so we think, and andrew yang. he has yet to release his official numbers. meanwhile, pulling in a whopping $46 million in the last quarter so far this election cycle. so, i was looking at this, jessica, and i thought to myself this is so interesting because the bernie sanders supported from 2016. it shows two things. one, they have long memories. two, they have deep pockets because the good economy has benefited everyone. what do you think? >> jessica: delightful spin on what is going on here. i certainly agree about the long memory because twitter is a bernie sanders cesspool. those roses will come for you, though little icon that they use. bernie sanders is an incredibly strong candidate. i don't think that people pay
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enough attention to that as they should appear at what i thought was really interesting about elizabeth warren, but bernie sanders only brought in $11.5 million last, and have the force of the rnc and republican establishment behind him. there is a lot of democratic cashier. the narrative has been that we are in so much trouble, but if you out of everything, i think we are going to be in very strong position -- >> melissa: trouble in terms of money. >> jessica: yes. bernie himself is doing -- >> gillian: in 2016, it didn't matter. hillary clinton outspend president trump. high floor, low ceilings. >> kennedy: they are not really growing in numbers. they don't have the voting power
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to win the general. the problem persists. >> gillian: bernie sanders isn't just targeting these boutique voters like he did in 2016. 2016. they considered him to be a laughable long shot, and i think the reason why senator warren's numbers have gone down is because her supporters have decided on bernie sanders. >> melissa: and if you look at the breakdown of bernie sanders donors, according to his campaign, the number one job was teachers, top five places that way words. amazon, starbucks, walmart, u.s. postal service, and then target. average donation was $18.53, which tells you that they have more to go. i also thought it was interesting that andrew yang brought in 16 million, which i think was more than elizabeth warren. i mean, he has a lot of traction.
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what you think about that? >> pete: he is doing truth telling, people who are sick of the groupthink. when it comes to bernie, go, bernie, go. i would be the clear contrast. i thought that bernie would be the nominee. then bernie sanders had a heart attack. everyone thought there is no way that he comes back. here he is roaring back. i think that is because they have inched it to the left, trying to look like him, but they are not the real deal. they were steamrolled by the clintons. seizing that opportunity. >> kennedy: there is really something to that because these nontraditional candidates, they have gone the traction that they have because there are a lot of voters that are still not in love with the establishment. andrew yang has called other dnc for putting together a list of arbitrary rules to keep powerful voices out of some of the debates because they are going for -- >> melissa: can i just jump i
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in? you talked about the numbers for bernie sanders and how they compare to president trump, who pulled in and the fourth quarter if you're looking for the number right here. but what is important is that he has 105 million on hand that is ready to be spent. the only other person who has that much powder left to burn is bloomberg. i mean, it could just be money -- >> gillian: the president has a whole lot more flexibility than the democrats at this point in time. he has a lot more flexibility in terms of timing. he can spend it now, he can spend it later. they don't have the luxury. they have got to spend a lot of the cash on hand. the president, this is really like the advantage of -- >> kennedy: that is a really good point. we saw some of the candidates get into the 2020 race with cash on hand from -- but the
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president, if i'm not mistaken, he is in the middle of an impeachment. that was supposed to wound him and make him less popular. but somehow, the supporters of his that have been on the sidelines, they are now a little bit more excited than they were a couple months ago. >> jessica: $10 million off of impeachment -- >> melissa: $42 million since the impeachment. >> jessica: yes. they are raising off of it, and certainly amongst independent voters against impeachment. i'm not going to be dishonest and say that it is a slam-dunk for them a pretzel like charlie, but i do think that the strength of these fund-raising numbers for certain candidates matter, but the unequivocal front runner, who is joe biden. he is not losing support of any term. he is consolidating actually from people who left kamala harris. i don't think it is anything --
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when talking about how the race is going, and saying it is all bernie sanders, he still doesn't have african-american support. you cannot win without black supporters. >> pete: they would have lead with it on minute one -- 's before they surprised everyone. actually, there was a big surprise that they held back. everyone thought it was going to be a bad number, and it turned out not to be it. so let's wait and see what the number is. it might be 20. >> kennedy: i know you say that bernie sanders supporters have maxed out -- >> jessica: now, they haven't. >> kennedy: i don't think they have. julian castro dropping out, kamala harris, we have yet to see where her supporters will ultimately land. bernie sanders is a more attractive candidate. we say we are not talking about joe biden. you still have a lot of democrats looking around. especially key swing states.
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they say i do not think it is joe biden. >> gillian: what has really hurt the democrats the most is that impeachment has been dominating the news cycle. it has been drowning out the message of fund-raising. it is hurting their individual visibility, aside from finance. it has the sort of international brand name recognition that don't really have. this is a big thing that has been hurting them as well. >> kennedy: you know what else hurts? $30 for a pizza. bill de blasio taking aim at domino's. accusing the chain of price gouging on new year's eve. domino's firing back. hear what they have to say. plus, kim jong un threatening to show off a new type of weapon. how the trump administration is responding. ♪ >> i am confident that we can
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>> we would urge restraint by kim jong un. at the same time, we work closely with our partners in south korea to ensure our forces on the sentence alive. >> melissa: mark esper on the situation in north korea as dictator kim jong un announces that he will soon unveil new weapons. he is no longer bound by his self-imposed moratorium on nuclear missile ballistic tests. president trump asked about this on new year's eve, says that he gets along with th the north koa leader and doubts that he would follow through on his provocation. >> gillian: i think it is a lot of bluster. i think that kim jong un is making a lot of threats, but he is not really taking any action. you look at where he is.
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he has really stuck right now. the country is hurting badly. they are in dire need of relief from some of these sanctions. people are hurting. the national economy is really hurting. and at the same time, so that makes them want to cut a deal with president trump. at the other hand, he knows that he is up for reelection, and anything that he agrees to with him can be overturned if the president does not elected. there is nowhere for him to go. he is very stuck at the moment. that is why we are seeing these kinds of new year's threats. they were not accompanied by any christmas gifts. >> melissa: it is an interesting point. why would he agree to anything at this point if the president is up for reelection? he is being impeached, and if he does in win, what is the point? >> pete: if you agree to it, you can get a better deal. obviously, i don't think kim jong un think that that is the case. he values the relationship.
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if anyone will give him an opportunity to come out from behind the nuclear umbrella, it is probably a unique dealmaker like donald trump peered at the same time, if you are china, you're under pressure, you basically control north korea, they are okay with it. that is a distraction to the united states. another lover that they can pull when they are dealing with a lot of other things. expanding their cultural military and political influence around the globe. i don't know that something big has to happen now, but there is no doubt. if there is one thing, he is the dictator on the peninsula who always want someone to notice them. so he is going to unveil a new christmas gift if he wants to be relevant. >> gillian: why do you think president trump said what he said about him on new year's e new year's eve? i don't want to misquote him, but he said i think he's going to do the right thing.
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>> jessica: we like each other. >> pete: it i is about relationships. >> jessica: what kind of a relationship is that? he says that he had signed something. there is no deal there. he said that there was a contract. kim jong un has flouted anything that anyone thought had been agreed to, he has gotten. >> kennedy: there was more flattering under president oba president obama. >> gillian: there was a greater deal under obama. >> jessica: bill clinton and george w. bush. >> melissa: here is what the former aide had to say about it. >> i think what is different here is that kim jong un has played the president like a violin. he has used the time and the photo ops to gain credibility internationally, while gaining time to continue to develop his weapons and indeed probably does
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have a new strategic weapon at least on its way to reality. >> melissa: you know, you can just change the names and that's what other people on the other side of the iran deal say. they give them time to build their weapons in secret. this is what democrats are saying about the president. >> kennedy: sorry to interrupt you. i got excited. it occurred to me that while she was talking, it occurred to me that there was actually a lot of parallels between clinton and the way that he handled north korea and the trump administration. both went kind of like balls to the wall and negotiation. they wanted to talk to nurse north korea. remember madeleine albright? there were deals. >> kennedy: but now north korea is still worried about their own existence. they are still worried that the united states and south korea are going to invade together,
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hand-in-hand, and they will have to unleash their nuclear power. >> jessica: what you said about china being fine with us, we have to worry about our allies. south korea and japan are not okay with this. the missile would hit us first before it ends up in california. we need to be very thoughtful about the process. specifically he had been a wonderful ally to tron. i think he knows how to deal with that. that they all the new bilateral trade deals. and i hope that we have a plan for how to alleviate their anxiety about this because kim jong un, just goes right over japan. and then we are just sitting here, and we are fine. >> melissa: it would be just like israel. same situation. new document showing andrew mccabe apologize to investigators for changing his story about leaking to the press. was it too little, too late? ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug
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>> kennedy: newly released documents showing andrew mccabe apologizing to investigators for changing stories about leaking to the press. he told investigators he didn't know how info on an fbi probe into the clinton foundation wound up in a "wall street journal" article, but then a few months later, he acknowledged that he did authorize the leaking of that information. reporting that an fbi agent account of mccabe on this internal interview, saying "i said sir, you understand we have put a lot of work into this, based on what we told you. ""i even saw long necks, weekends working on this, trying to find out who amongst your people would do that. he looked down, kind of nodded, and said yeah, i'm sorry. he now faces possible criminal
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prosecution. melissa, i want to go to you first. do you buy that? was i like a apology apology? and apologizing for lying to investigators. it doesn't account for anything. >> melissa: it seems to depend on the day and the time. you see very different kind of punishments for this kind of thing, depending on where you are. i guess that's what bothers me about all of these stories. losing his job, is that enough, for what he did, and then you look at health the punishment hasn't been handed out evenly to different people, right? >> gillian: it also was in a political firing in the way that it was with james comey. this was kind of like a group of investigators. looking into what happened. speak to not only recommended
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that he be removed from his job, but also referred to a criminal investigation. if you still have an outstanding investigation with the u.s. attorney that has subpoena power, and it may in fact bring in a totally different set of charges, based on the circumstances. if you are going to send some people to prison, to federal prison for lying to investigators, there has to be uniformity here. and it shouldn't be based on who is in power, who you donated to, who your wife got money from. it should be a standard set of rules that applies to everybody, whether or not or the deputy director of the fbi, or you are working in the presence of national security inner circle. >> gillian: let's compare income transfers i can. andy mccabe and james comey, interestingly, he kind of apologize like two weeks ago. he admitted that he was wrong
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about the pfizer process. and a lot of folks that i have spoken to you who have been very critical of him so that that means something. they think that that was a sincere effort. >> melissa: no, no. he said that he relied on process that was not robust enough. >> pete: so i think the point that you two made, why is it throughout this entire process, that if you worked with trump, you supported him, or you are around ten, then they are going to through the absolute book at you with the weight of everything that we have. carter page, paul manafort. if you worked with him, the initial crime or secondary crime, we are coming after you. but if you're andy mccabe or jim comey, you are a sincere you apologize, then we should just look the other way if you're to move on to the next administration. >> gillian: there are
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consequences. >> pete: that is because trump himself stepped in with the case of jim comey. andy mccabe, in that instance, even then, it took a lot of pressure for that to happen. we see him lying to investigators, what he is ultimately accountable for. i think other people who see that's double standard. focus on the left who are careerists. >> jessica: it is a bad luck to be calling paul manafort a victim of anything. he has gotten a pretty good deal of this. he committed a ton of crimes throughout his tenure working for president trump. that would have been an extraordinarily larger amount of time. it does not matter to me, as a democrat. i did not take him to be all that authentic. he was backed up against the wall. he had to say something. i think that there is a large appetite, no matter what your political affiliation.
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whether it is that you are upset about what happened in 2016 order since then. that is my feeling about mccabe. >> kennedy: we will not see them anymore. the book is finally -- >> jessica: no one would argue that he should be going to jail. he will probably write another book. >> kennedy: i can't wait to see what the next report is. >> melissa: we have to leave it there. speak to the white house expecting to announce a ban, likely today on most but not all e-cigarette flavors. it makes a lot of health experts very angry. we have that, coming up next. the musical
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>> jessica: we are awaiting an announcement from the trump administration on the banding of e-cigarettes, including fruity and minty flavors. they will allow menthol flavors on the market. i need for public safety, hinting that the ban could be temporary. watch. >> we have to protect our families. at the same time, we want to protect the industry. and as you know, all of the flavors, certain flavors. hopefully if everything is safe, it could be going very quickly
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back out onto the market. >> jessica: so in the break, we started talking about this. we see every side of it. he is our resident vaper on the couch. >> melissa: i don't know that you are able to share that. >> pete: listen, i am not a fan of fans. i like freedom. i think parents should step in and parent their teens. if they are not vaping, they are doing other forms of drugs. they are drinking. that is not on you. the government will not solve it. they have done a horrible job of prp or their p.r. guys should be fired. they all show. it was bootleg stuff and marijuana, the cartridges that were getting people sick. and a lot of people who have smoked for a very long time have used vaping to improve their lives. to ban it is not the solution.
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>> kennedy: you touched on something it was very important. it was the black market that had these vitamin e cartridges the young people and older smokers alike were engaging in, and those were the people that were dying. that is a critical point that we are missing here. you are making the black market bigger when you are trying to suppress the free market. >> melissa: that's a good point, but you don't want to let juul completely off the hook. i have family members that have stopped smoking with juul, but it did also bring smoking back to kids. for example, my children and middle schools, they thought smoking was disgusting. they had no idea what anyone had done that. it makes you smile, it makes your face wrinkled. kids were totally off of it, but then this juul thing came in. it was enticing. kids tell me that kids sell them at school. it has always been illegal. kids were never allowed to have
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it, but they find a way. whatever it is. if they weren't selling this, they would be selling something else. >> gillian: also in addition to the technical aspect for appealing to young kids is the flavor, which gets to the band. the band that the administration has now imposed on the fruity and dessert flavors is that i knowledge meant of those are the flavors that young people like. >> pete: if you are switching, maybe you don't want tobacco. maybe you want something meant. that's not a kitty flavor. that is something that adults want too. i think you should let people choose and let parents be parents. >> jessica: there is meant and menthol. >> kennedy: they are really missing the bigger picture. maybe we should ask ourselves why are people putting things in their body? that is a very personal conversation that parents have to have with their kids. the last thing we should be doing is appealing to this nanny
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blowback. one tweeting, "$30 is not that far off from a large pizza cost around times square anyway, and the added dollars to get it through the crowds to the person is complete be justified. second, domino's franchise operations are also owned by hardworking new yorkers. this is a bad take." "the new york post" reporting the large pie usually goes from anywhere between $14 to $49. domino's singles locally owned stores employ thousands of his constituents. everything is jacked up, pricewise, on new year's eve. this is perhaps the least. >> pete: to be expected from a guy like bill de blasio who has never really understood supply and demand and the free market and how things work. in this case, you had lived a little bit about the average cost of domino's pizza's, but melissa, i agree is someone who buys a lot of domino's and papa john's on apps, if you just buy a large pizza it ends up being like $30. if you get the deal --
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>> kennedy: $14 to $49. >> pete: maybe you get to for $18 >> jessica: but it's new year's. >> kennedy: you can add stuff onto the pizza and make a $50 pizza if you want. >> jessica: if you need gluten-free crust. >> kennedy: restaurant seedings are $1,000 a piece around times square. $1,000. that's not price gouging, that's just celebrating a night where there are millions of people in one space. >> jessica: also, if you side with de blasio on this, you are domino's and you have to go against through distributors to provide food to major sports stadiums around the country, movie theaters, everybody the jocks of the prices when they are trying to sell food to people that are in confined spaces during finite amount of time. >> jessica: people build this into the expectation. nobody goes out on new year's eve thinking it's going to be a cheap. those people were the lucky people who had pizza, they
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probably still didn't have a bathroom. i am continually astounded by how bad every television appearance that bill de blasio does. he always says something -- >> gillian: one is the last time there was a positive bill de blasio story? >> jessica: sean hannity's interview with and probably have the best fallout, i would say. or follow-up from it. he got points and sean got some points. but are you doing this? nobody will like you more. >> kennedy: take a tally of the for various seedings and food in times square on new year's eve. this is hardly -- >> pete: as is pointed out, domino's employs lots of new yorkers and pays them and provides for their families. >> jessica: i'm not buying that argument paid that's part of the argument were domino's is trying to say, "where a local business." i don't buy that. >> pete: franchise businesses are owned by folks that generally live in the area. >> kennedy: hungry for delicious gluten-free pizza.
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i want to think our good friend pete hegseth for being here, kicking off the new year. we are back noon tomorrow. let's go to melissa francis. she is enough for harris faulkner. melissa? >> melissa: fox news alert, tensions between the u.s. and iran remain high as both sides brace for potentially more violence in the wake of an attack on the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad. this is "outnumbered overtime," i'm melissa francis in today for harris faulkner. we are getting brand-new images showing the damage inside the compound after iranian-backed militia stormed the complex. tehran denies it was behind the attack, which came out of the u.s. launched air strikes, killing 25 members of the militia. in the meantime, defense secretary mark esper says he expects more attacks on american interests in the middle east but says iran would "likely regret such a move." >> people know we have vast capability to do any number of things. we will act in response
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