very easy to do and it'll save you big money. >> for more information go to his website. have a good weekend! >> have a great weekend. go to fox nation or run to the radio. >> bill: think you guys. here we go, the labor department reports we added 145,000 jobs. capping a tenth straight year of payroll gains. slightly less than expected number, but the employment rate holding steady, 3.5%. second month in a row for that. more of this throughout the show, we will get a sense of where the economy is today and where wall street opens in 30 minutes from now. meanwhile, president trump defending his decision to take out iran's top general at his first rally of 2020 last night, saying that he notified congress first democrats would have leaked to the information. that's not all he said. he said a lot. good morning, everybody. it's friday, you've made it. i'm bill hemmer live here in

new york city. a big welcome to melissa francis back here in "america's newsroom." >> melissa: i love that, i love money. >> bill: we've got the next three hours together. speed to have those on women numbers, i'm so excited be here. i'm melissa francis in today for sandra smith. president trump telling some he was ready to be rotella ready to create down my grip ready to retaliate. decided against it when no one was killed. a resolution to rein in his military authority. here's what president trump had to say about that. >> the united states military eliminated qassem soleimani and ended his rampage. and yet now i see the radical left democrats have expressed outrage. they should be outraged by soleimani savage crimes. in fact, countless victims were

denied justice for so long. they are all trying to say, "how dare you take him out that way? you should get permission from congress!" they want us to call -- can you imagine calling crooked adam schiff? "we like to set up a meeting so we can discuss this execution." "i can't make it now, i'm trying to impeach trump." [laughter] "even though he did nothing wrong." >> bill: that from toledo, ohio, last night. from every angle. doug collins, greg palkot is live in ukraine, but we begin washington with griff jenkins. good morning. >> good morning, bill. the president certainly wouldn't pull any punches, taking shots at toledo. familiar targets, congress and the media. >> you should come in and tell us so we can call up the fake news that's back there and we can leak it." [cheers and applause] these are split-second

decisions. you have to make a decision. they do only to make a decision. they want me to call up. >> the symbolic resolution aimed at curbing the president's u.s. military force in iran. the vote, 224-194. not breaking down party lines. eight democrats voting against it, while three republicans voted for it. the most surprising was congressman matt gaetz of florida, he is a staunch defender of the president, making a case that it didn't meant to the president but did require congressional approval if you get into another conflict in the middle east. because the resolution is nonbinding it cannot become law. speaker pelosi explain why it was necessary. >> we are taking this path because it does not require a statement -- a signature of the president of the united states. this is a statement of the congress of the united states, and i will not have that

statement be diminished by whether the president will veto it or not. >> next, the senate is expected to take a similar measure, already gaining some bipartisan support, those unclear if it can pass the senate. bill, believe it or not, speaker pelosi may not be done voting with regard to iran. there could be additional votes about the 2002 aumf, or use of military force, and block any funding for military action against iran. >> bill: we will depend on you to follow all of it. thank you, griff jenkins, leading our coverage there in washington. melissa? >> melissa: meanwhile, another stunning story in the midst of the iran fallout. the regime denying it mistakingly brought down the uks after the missile strikes on u.s. troops in iraq. "the new york times" obtaining new video that shows the moment the plane blew up in the evening sky, killing 176 people on board. fox news has not independently verified the video.

iran is now calling on the u.s. and canada to share any evidence they have. greg palkot is live in kiev, ukraine, with the latest. greg? >> hi, melissa. once again ukraine finds itself or in the middle of the major geopolitical crisis. i will ask my cameraman to give you a brief glimpse of this makeshift memorial, people paying their respects of flowers and pictures of the killed crewmembers. the ukraine international airline plane that went down wednesday morning, shortly after eight a barrage hits the military base in iraq. among those killed are a lot of ukrainians and iranians. expected by the leaders of the u.k. and canada that in iranian missile or missiles at least mistakenly took this plane down. today iranian officials are saying "no way." saying they could recover the black boxes but in fact it will take a couple of months to go through those.

they are hurriedly cleaning up the debris site and they are claiming, just claiming, they want foreign involvement. as for ukraine, president volodymyr zelensky has been pretty noncommittal about what could have caused this. we understand he just wrapped up a phone conversation with secretary of state pompeo. maybe he was swayed and that, but it's a little consolation for the folks here paying their respects. take a listen to a few people we spoke with. >> how do you feel seeing this? >> translator: no words. >> what if they were shot down? horrible with that have been? >> it's very sad. it's a huge tragedy. i cried because these are my colleagues. some of my flight members. >> there is a 45-member investigative team from ukraine in iran now, trying to help the investigation. it remains to be seen whether they will be allowed to help get

to the bottom of this. back to you, melissa. >> melissa: wow, so awful. greg palkot, thank you for that. >> bill: fox news confirming mitch mcconnell believes nancy pelosi could send the articles of impeachment to the senate perhaps as soon as today. ranking or public in house judiciary committee with me now, georgia republican doug collins. good morning to you. i believe there has to be vote for us in the house. do you expect that today, sir? >> we haven't heard about it yet. i wouldn't be hearing about it. we've already prove the rule that would let the bill come to the floor of the names of managers and sends the bill. i have not been notified yet. it'll be a short debate once it happens but i have not been notified. i'm not looking for it today right now. >> bill: you are not, okay, as of the moment. forecast then, went to the trial begin, do you believe, on that sense that congress? >> that's a great question, it's all in the hands of nancy pelosi right now. she's keeping this from the senate. it's argued a few days after

that. i think she's in a tough bind. she understands her case has been very weak in the house. it's not something the senate can actually take seriously because we make it the case that procedurally was terrible. they know they're going to be exposed. she doesn't want to send it over to a quick and hurried death, which is exactly what's going to happen. but i think she will send them. we see that happening with the senate democrats, so i think it will happen fairly soon, probably the first of the week. >> bill: she said, "we want to see the arena." mitch mcconnell said, "forget about it, we're not going to do that." he also offered that this is junior varsity hostage situations. >> mitch mcconnell is pretty blunt in his assessment. he has been since the impeachment happened. when doing so, i think we ought to look at -- we see the fact that he has the votes to continue, as the clinton trial did. even some of the senate democrats are acknowledging it's time to move on with this.

to say she needs to see the arena is sort of disingenuous in my mind. because we already know what is actually happening in the case. they have put the articles together, they made their case, they sent that back, the facts are already there. my question is not a matter of the arena, but if she wants to send over. that doesn't change. the argument about an arena doesn't really hold true because you know what it'll look like. she just needs to center managers over to present their case. v7 it appears there's movement on the republican side of the senate that if you don't do it within 25 days they will take action, even if it has to go to that point. i want to bring up a comment last night, talking about democrats and the soleimani hit. is that they are in love with terrorists? you said they mourne soleimani e than the gold star families that suffered under soleimani and is a problem? wanted to say that, sir? >> i understand the frustration, but this is my frustration. when i look at this and i see them coming to the forcing the president assassinated

soleimani, when i see them come to the fore and not recognize the fact of a terrorist, it is personal for me. i understand the frustration people may have with my comment, but when i was in iraq i was in hospital. when i saw the results of what mr. soleimani did, when i saw iraqis and american soldiers and coalition soldiers sitting there blown with legs blown off, their body parts missing, many of them died, it's very personal for me. so it's very frustrating for me just to see that we don't call it what it is, and that the president to attack a terrorist. who, by the way, was designated a terrorist by president obama. so that's my frustration. >> bill: hear your words -- "they are in love with terrorists." do you honestly believe that? >> i think their actions betray them. to all of them looked terrorists? know. they she was that they want to acknowledge that he was a terrorist, they want to acknowledge the fact that this was a good thing for the world, for soleimani to be taken out. from my perspective, they need to be called up. if they would stop calling materialist, that's accusing a president of a crime. that's not been talked about a

lot. at this point we need to move on from the fact of the president did what i believe he should have done. he took out a terrorist in the world is a better place for it. >> bill: one more thing, there's statement in the war powers resolution whether or not you support terrorists. you would agree with that, right? it's very ideal politically trying to restrain in a nonbinding way, the president from taking more action against iran. last, done that. >> speaker pelosi earlier in here broadcast, she didn't want anybody to comment on it. she didn't wanted to be binding so the president could veto it. she said it was the political document, a political stevedore slap at the present. the war powers act is something i've talked about before. i have an issue with it on its own confidentia constitutionali. >> bill: you are right it >> bill: we will see if you read about the impeachment vote later today or not. melissa, would come in coming? >> melissa: a terrific show coming up today for this friday. democratic presidential candidate tulsi gabbard will respond to all of the top stories that we have.

former white house press secretary sarah sanders is going to be our headliner. she's coming up at 10:30 a.m. eastern time. we will ask her about all of this news, and also kicking off the reelection campaign. from the democratic side, we have congressman anthony brown here, as well. we will get all the perspectives on everything. >> bill: there was a window of opportunity for this happen, the vote in the 10:00 hour. if representative collins is right, it won't happen today. we will see as we move forward. >> melissa: we have enough news without it, i don't think we need it. >> bill: we have two hours and 48 minutes left. here you go, tom steyer making a cut for next week's democratic debate, as the billionaire sees a new surge in the polls. new numbers and where the rest of the democrats stand. coming up with analysis on that. melissa? >> melissa: plus, secretary of state mike pompeo fighting back at claims from the obama administration that the iran nuclear deal was a good thing for the u.s. kt mcfarland is on deck.

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>> melissa: to the justice department is reportedly wrapping up its 2-year inquiry into hillary clinton's dealings during her time at secretary of state, with not enough evidence found to formally open a criminal investigation. the inquiry was launched back in 2017 amid concerns raised by president trump and his congressional allies. when then-attorney jeff sessions tapped u.s. attorney john huber to take a closer look at the time between the russian nuclear agency and the content foundation. >> it is a fantasy to think that the nuclear deal was good for the united states. the money that the iran regime was permitted to have, the very

speech of militias that took on that ultimately killed americans. it isn't about him doing what obama did. it's about protecting and defending the american people. >> bill: mike pompeo slamming the nuclear deal cut three years ago. to run with me now. kt mcfarland, former national security advisor to president trump. welcome back to you. "the new york times" op-ed, here's the headline from the former secretary of state. "diplomacy was working until trump abandoned it. the president put us on a path toward conflict and turmoil with iran." how do you size this back-and-forth? >> it wasn't working, because iran was going to have a nuclear weapon. legitimately have a nuclear weapon under the iran nuclear deal. they were going to have the ability to deliver it with missiles. at the same time they were also supporting terrorist movements, ramping up their terrorist activities throughout the region. so it wasn't working at all. >> bill: you had a comment here that caught my eye, this risk of taking out s soleimani.

you said a significant thing was that the president knew the options on behalf of iran have been limited? >> very limited. >> bill: in what sense, how did that happen? >> when i worked for president trump and he did his first military operation, the bombing of the syrian oilfields after they did weapons attack, he has a series of options, he chooses the options, and then he sits in the situation room and says, "what could go wrong?" not what could go right, what would be the consequence of that? what's the worst thing that could happen? and then he makes a calculated decision. i think when he looks at the options that he had now maneuvered around to have, they are quite limited. first of all, the economy is strong, growing jobs numbers, we are in great shape. energy independence gives us an option we've never had in the middle east before. we don't need their oil. we don't need to be in the middle of the fight. finally, i think he understood that because the united states

controls the world banking system we could limit the options that iran had. what could they do? well, i guess they could militarily escalate and strike back. but they've already seen soleimani, number two guy in the country, has just been smoked. so what do they know? that term can go back and go after their military installations, their oil installations. number two, well, they could do what they've always threatened to do -- close the strait of hormuz. disrupt world oil supply. guess what? united states is energy-independent. iran would hurt itself more than anybody by disrupting the flow of oil. >> bill: and the third option? >> absolutely. let's make a deal, come to the table. >> bill: do you see that as possible? >> yes. >> bill: you think the leaders of iran are willing to sit on the president trump? >> before they did the retaliatory strike, i think soleimani give trump for signals. the first one is on his former

defense minister, soleimani, or, the supreme leader's, "you did yours, we are going to do hours, that's the end of the game unless you retaliate." and the ayatollah himself, let it be known, he personally directed that response. it was the most minimal response they could have made. after it all happen, the foreign minister came out and said, "that's it, we are done." i think that's a lot of openings. >> bill: very interesting if it goes that way. it would be a significant headline. i want to show this from "the wall street journal." trump's new national security team made fast work of iran's strike. white house advisors were and less inclined than their predecessors to push back against the president's wishes." what do you make of that? >> trump finally has a national security team that thinks the way he does. but as far as pushing back and warning them of the down side and the risks, you better believe they are all warning him of what could've gone wrong. trump got very lucky, but it was

a calculated risk and he took it. >> bill: kt mcfarland, thank you, good to get your analysis trait have lovely weekend. >> melissa: the backlash continues to pile up for boeing afternoon after new messages surface marking the safety of airplanes. we will show you what they are saying. >> bill: big news from across the pan, don't act on my palm, meghan markle going to canada, leaving prince harry to face the music from london. news from you as the palace as we roll on. ♪ our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence. so we can spend a bit today, knowing we're prepared for tomorrow. wow, do you think you overdid it maybe? overdid what? well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

>> bill: word from the white house moments ago, we expected this from yesterday. after the president made his comments, now we are getting word at 1045 eastern time. secretary of state mike pompeo, treasury secretary steve mnuchin will be at the white house, set to announce new sanctions against iran. in addition to what tehran is facing today, they will be cranked up even more. the president alluded to that this week, and indeed it appears to be the case. we will cover it live, one hour and 20 minutes from now. >> melissa: joe biden still holding big leads into cove early voting states. new fox news polls show by deleting in the bottom with 23%.

in south carolina, the former vice president is at 36% among democratic primary voters. and a surging tom steyer now in second place in south carolina, look at that. he's qualified for tuesday's debates in des moines ahead of the iowa caucus. peter doocy is live in los angeles with more on this. peter? >> melissa, people that watch just a little tv have been seeing a lot of tom steyer because the california businessman prefers campaign commercials over big campaign rallies and has seen an 11-point increase in his standing in south carolina since early october, as joe biden has lost 5% of his support but remain solidly in first, first in the south primary state with a 21-point lead over mr. stier and everyone else his surge is also seen in the brand-new pole of the contest that goes before self to n.

nevada, he ties with elizabeth warren for third there, told percent support additive pete buttigieg. trailing only bernie sanders, in second place. and joe biden leads with 23%. steyer gained national prominence with an ad campaign trimming ups don't act on my drumming up support, but is one the only top-tier candidates that doesn't have to be worried about getting stuck in washington, d.c., for us an impeachment trial. he may also be the final qualifier for that democratic debate before the iowa caucuses on a stage that is set to string from seven candidates last month to six candidates this month. he and everybody else right now are hoping to upset the longtime national front-runner joe biden, who spent the night in california where he is such a campaign a few hours with the big city mayor whose endorsement here in last night, l.a.'s own eric garcetti. melissa? >> melissa: peter doocy, thank you so much for that. >> bill: up early in l.a. the senate still waiting on speaker pelosi on the articles of impeachment.

>> the president deserves his day in court, and she can't run the senate. >> republicans are moving to formally condemn. stand by, got a little bit of drama there, melissa. speed absolutely. stunning news and the different ups in case. we are learning about footage from his first suicide attempt in a manhattan jail, as his accusers speak out. >> i said, "are you q. taking it seriously cannot" and he said, "yes, i'm taking you seriously." if the fbi had listened to me in 1996, there would've been no more victims. >> when i grew up in brooklyn wow!

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i'm ready. that will probably be soon. >> melissa: speaker of the house nancy pelosi saying she may send articles of impeachment to the senate "soon." fox news confirming that majority leader mitch mcconnell expects to get them as early as today. let's bring in jim trusty, former doj prosecutor, and law partner. thank you so much for joining us. did i say that ron? is that a typo? >> you're in the ballpark. >> melissa: forgive me. did she gain anything by holding out? >> i think it's to the contrary. what she has done is remind everybody what a horribly flawed process this has been, really from day one, or from day zero, the day before they impeached, in this case. it's a congressional pillow fight. it will pass shortly. we'll be over soon. but it didn't serve any purpose except to show that she was being imperious, that she wanted to take control of the senate process, and they weren't biting.

speech should she have decided she wanted to hang onto those articles and add something to them? because their claim is these emails have come out since, that this is a new damning evidence that they want to have on the record. also, it seems like there has been a change in position from former national security advisor john bolton. before he said he would let the courts decide, and if he were subpoenaed he would wait and let the court tell them to go or not. now he is saying if you were subpoenaed he would just go, so it seems like there is some new territory. would she have been better off kind of pulling those back and exploring that territory in the house? >> maybe, because right now it's a very thin gruel. the articles of impeachment are not much. to say abuse of power is pretty much like saying "donald trump is a bad man come we don't like him." the obstruction component is really concerning to me, because it's essentially saying, "if you don't like our flawed process, that's a crime." maybe they do need more meat.

maybe bolton would be the hail mary to give them more evidence. but the problem is, as they linger, as they take their time, as they say, "we are still thinking about new charges," when the first part of the process was so horribly flawed and unreliable, it doesn't sell. it doesn't make it seem like they're coming from any sort of position of strength. instead, they are grasping, as they've been doing for a while, for anything they can find to help validate their dislike of the president. >> melissa: here's what lindsey graham had to say about what comes next. "it's our job as senators to dispose of the articles that were lawfully passed. the speakers attempt to shape or delay the trial is unprecedented and it cannot stand." what advice would you give to republicans in the senate, as this ball is sent over to them? if they want to make sure the american public feels like it's fair? >> i think the first part -- it sounds like the speaker is going to relent today and turn this over with no actual victory in hand. i'd probably say let's give it

the weekend. but really, i think they were in a position where they could have filed or announce some sort of motion to dismiss. that they would hold a vote, if they didn't get the articles within x days. if there wasn't an article in front of them, they would vote on the evidence has been presented. the unreliable evidence, the hearsay and opinion testimony, and say, "we are done," and dismiss this. that might've been a palatable ending for the republicans, to say, "we tried to assess this very weak case. they would do been provided to us and now it's gone." i would say there would be a time to establish a deadline and moved to dismiss it. but all of this is new territory. there's really no precedent, there was never such shaky facts when it came to the clinton situation. or as the nixon situation evolved. thfacts are pretty well understood. we don't even have a basis of facts to rely upon. >> melissa: let me turn to one story before we run out of time. this come out in "the washington post." "the justice department winds it

down, the inquiry once championed by trump. it found nothing of consequence." this is related to the clinton foundation. i followed this for a long time. there's a lot of what looked like pay for play. whether it was in the middle east, people of the clearing customs before they got into the plane. a huge event to those airlines. that they were paying were paying bill clinton the come and make speeches as the stuff was in front of hillary clinton. waiting for her sign off on it. the fact they didn't find anything, does that tell you that these were not illegal acts? but maybe it's something that people want to look into and see if they are comfortable with? or do you think this really says that it was all nothing? >> as far as i know -- and i don't want to latch onto the post as a pillar of accuracy quite yet -- here's what i would say. i don't think anybody should

celebrate when high profile political figures get indicted. it happens frequently, but it doesn't necessarily make the country look good. and there's a lot of room for behavior that is very bad, that doesn't rise to the level of a provable criminal offense. the maddening part is we probably aren't going to get some sort of mueller report from huber, from utah. we probably won't examine the underlying facts and play armchair prosecutor and figure out whether or not there was a makeable case. that's the way the system should work, by the way. that's why you don't besmirch people who are innocent, or that can't be charged. it's going be frustrating for all of us to just rely on headlines rather than actually being able to look at the facts. speech the swamp. jim trusty, thank you. >> all right, thanks. >> bill: hearing from boeing now, releasing hundreds of troubling messages between employees, raising more questions about the 737 max jet. that fleet grouted last year after two crashes killed 346

people. dan springer watching that from our northwest bureau. dan, hello. >> hey, bill. boeing released documents to congress last night and some of the emails between boeing employees working on the 737 max are embarrassing and raise questions about the safety culture on the max team before the plane got certified. the 737 max has been grounded for almost ten months following two's fatal crash is blamed on new software. congress has been digging into what many have called a "cozy relationship" between boeing and the federal aviation administration that led to corners being cut during the certification process. one of the emails between boeing workers shows disdain for the company engineers and regulators. it reads, "this airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys." some of the most damaging email center on a simulator use to test the 737 max. test pilots have criticized the simulator as covering up for some design flaws, including the one responsible for the two

disasters. in one exchange, the boeing employee says, "would you put your family on a max simulated trained aircraft to mike i wouldn't." two days ago, perhaps knowing how much blowback there would be from these emails, boeing announced a major reversal. it's now recommending that all pilots who fly the max when it's allowed to fly again get trained in a flight similar to before pilots just need to do an online course. boeing said, "the language used and some of the sentiments expressed are inconsistent with boeing values and the company is taking a probate action in response. we expect to hear more from members of congress who want major oversight changes." bill? >> bill: thank you. in a moment, president trump, live in toledo, ohio, saying democrats would have leaked details on the soleimani air strike had they been briefed on it prior. congresswoman tulsi gabbard said the president undermined national security, competing ideas coming up next. stay tuned, live in a moment.

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>> bill: on the campaign trail, a lot to get to on this. billionaire tom steyer qualifying for the next debate, that's tuesday of next week, after he sees a surge in the latest fox news polling. about three weeks to go before iowa. tulsi gabbard, presidential candidate, democratic congress one. how are you doing cannot good morning to you. thank you for coming back here. they showed joe biden up 21 points in south carolina. what do you? >> polls are polls, snapshots in time. the real thing that matters is how people are actually going to cast their votes. i think it's interesting, as a lot of conversation is focused on these debates, fewer and fewer voters are watching these things. that's where i'm really focused on spending time with voters. the people who will actually be the ones to decide this election, having real conversations about issues that matter and focusing on bringing people together at every one of our town halls that we are haviy

states and across the country, we have democrats, republicans, independence, and libertarians really coming together and saying, "hey, we may disagree on some issues, will agree on others, but we must stand together." motivated by the sliver of country, work together. >> bill: do you say few people are watching these debates? >> is not an observation commits the viewership we have seen. >> bill: the reason i ask you that, he did not qualify for next week. how do you feel about that? >> again, and focus on spending my time with voters. it's an amazing experience. i'm feeling inspired and i will because there are so many people really care very much for our country and we want to work together to be able to usher in a new era for our country. focus on respect and integrity and equality for all americans. this piece of in a couple issues, let's get to them right now. sound bite number two from the president last night. let's talk about iran, taking

out of su soleimani. here he is in toledo. they are trying to say, "how dare you to come out that way! you should get permission from congress. you should come in and tell us what you want to do." [boos] "you should come in and tell us so we can call up the fake news that's back there and we can leak it." >> bill: that from last night, you hear the reaction there in northwest ohio. you say iran is now closer to a nuclear weapon than ever before. you say it's opening the door to the resurgence of isis and al qaeda. defend that. >> first of all, let's address the issue that the constitution, written by our founders, intentionally place the responsibility within the hands of congress, whether or not to declare war. abiding by the constitution means the president needs to come to congress and make that argument, make that pitch. if he wants to go to war with iran, come to congress and say

why he feels that's important for our national security. that did not happen. >> bill: to be clear, he hasn't suggested that he wants to go to war with iran. >> he has gone to war with iran, that's the reality of the situation, and how the decision president trump made -- as you mention, it undermined our national security in two ways. iran is no longer complying with any of the restrictions of the iran nuclear agreement, and they are speeding closer and closer to developing nuclear weapons capabilities, which increases the threat to the united states and to the world. number two, our troops in iraq, their whole purpose and mission for being there has been to work with partners, to prevent a resurgence of isis and al qaeda. our u.s. commander in iraq has said they can no longer do that mission. they have to completely redirect their energy on their efforts toward defending against iranian forces and iranian-backed shia militias leaving the door wide

open for these terrorists to reconstitute -- >> bill: perhaps you're right about that. let's hope for the sake of the country in the world that it's not the case. there are others arguing exactly the opposite. they say more than ever iran is open to negotiations. do you buy that? >> [laughs] based on what? every single step this administration has taken with their maximum pressure campaign has shown that it is further and further derailing any kind of diplomatic or peaceful opportunity for negotiations, to bring iran back to the table. every single day that iran is not abiding by this nuclear agreement, every single day that negotiations are not occurring, is a day that they are getting closer to developing a nuclear weapon. again, serious, serious threat posed to the american people in the world. >> bill: and the administration argues they are isolating them in ways that have not been before. let's see in the end how this unfolds. a lot of it happens over days and weeks and sometimes months and years. i think you would agree with

that. pete buttigieg shut out or treat with regards to this airline shot out of the sky in ukraine. he said, "civilians are now dead because they're caught in between an unnecessary tit for tat. my thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all the 176 souls lost the board that flight." he has come under a lot of heat by a lot of different people. ted cruz says, "you're wrong, they were shot down by iran." what you make of the comment comments? >> i think it's a very unfortunate incident, that has affected so many people and so many families. but this is one of these consequences of this escalation and this state of war that we are in. having the foresight and being able to look at what the consequences are of going to war with iran, i think it's a serious thing and a responsibility of the present commander in chief, that he and his administration i'm not looked at. >> bill: are you greeting with

buttigieg? >> my point is that it's a very unfortunate consequence of this escalation of war. >> bill: but it was iran who owned the antiaircraft missiles. it was their system that went off. >> are you implying they did this intentionally? >> bill: i did not say that at all. the inference here is that iran is responsible for this, and not tit for tat. >> no, no. this is the consequence of this escalation of war, that further points to why we need to de-escalate these tensions now. i urge president trump to do so, to get back to the negotiating table and make sure this war no longer continues to move forward. >> bill: we hope for all of that. thank you for coming in, tulsi gabbard, from washington, d.c. good luck on the trail, will speak again. back in a moment.

>> melissa: did you hear? meghan markle has flown the coop. she is fleeing to canada, leaving prince harry to face the fallout from the bombshell decision to "step back" from their royal duties. sparking a royal family feud. carley shimkus is here with fox news headlines 24/7, channel 115, on sirius xm.

>> the drama continued! >> melissa: the drama! >> i have the vapors! a pat leahy the left baby rt in canada as they made this bombshell announcement, so meghan went back up there to be with him. as harry continues to talk to family. he clearly drew the short story affair. we learned they did talk to the queen about their plans on wanting to take a step back, but then that information was leaked to the media, so they went to social media to beat the leak, thus catching the queen by surprise because they didn't expect her to do that. it doesn't explain why they released and launch this whole massive website that details their financials and where they want to live, because it seems like those sort of details could have been ironed out with family. i think that's why they are getting so pushback today. >> melissa: and the trademark, i don't think you want to catch the queen by surprise, by the way. i watch "the crown," so i know. [laughter] and no opera is involved

>> there are reports that meghan and harry spoke to oprah, and she was the one who encouraged them to separate themselves from the family. she released a statement saying, "meghan and harry denying my help and figure out what's best for them. i care about them both and support whatever decision they make for their family." so oprah is saying, "coming out of this disaster." >> melissa: carl carley, thank . >> melissa: secretary pompeo and steve mnuchin about to make that announcement, we will have it from the white house. sarah sanders is the headliner, coming up when we come back. top of the hour on a friday.

>> bill: in a matter of moments the u.s. would take brand-new action against iran. mike pompeo and steve mnuchin set to announce sanctions against the regime, the news briefing will get underway this hour at the white house. we are waiting for that and we will have it for you live when it starts. in the meantime, we've got this now. the impeachment battle could be close to entering its next phase. speaker pelosi saying she will be sending the articles to the senate quite soon, and her words, as we begin a brand-new hour here on friday, 10:00 in new york. i'm bill hemmer, welcome back to you. how are you doing? speed i'm terrific. i watch you guys every day, usually on after this. it's my favorite show! there you go. i'm melissa francis come in for sandra smith today. speaker pelosi has been resisting calls to release the

impeachment articles, but now the weight could soon be over, setting off a trial in the senate, brand-new reaction coming from all sides. >> she is still holding these documents, she is still keeping me from the senate. she's in a tough bind. i think she understands her case has been very weak in the house. >> by the way, i did nothing wrong. they don't even know what the hell is going on. she doesn't even want to put in the articles, it's so weak. they are so pathetic. >> bill: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on the hill, coverage on a friday. what's happening today, mike? good morning there. >> bill, melissa, we are waiting in on duty waiting to see what happens. much of the set is gone for the week, perhaps tired of waiting on those articles of impeachment. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told fox late yesterday, "we are anxious to get the papers, do you guys know when they're coming?" fox confirmed that mcconnell thought the speaker could send

the articles of impeachment as soon as today. that would set the stage for a trial next week at some democrats are expressing some frustration. senators dianne feinstein, richard blumenthal, chris murphy, chris coons, joe manchin, doug jones, and independent angus king have all made comments suggesting it is time to get moving. pelosi should send the articles over. the senate judiciary democrat was put on the spot today about speaker pelosi's tactics. >> she said she wanted to see the rules of the road so that she could appoint appropriate managers to present the case to the senate. she did not say, "well, i'm holding out until mitch mcconnell agrees." let's get back to what we should be doing, focusing on, what kind of a trailer going to have in the senate? is going to be a fair trial or a rigged trial? >> is a florida republican, military veteran, said democrats are no automatically against this commander in chief. >> whatever the president does,

he's going to be wrong. if he exercises diplomacy to speak to kim jong un or to speak to vladimir putin, that's wrong. if he withdraws our troops out of harm's way on the border of turkey, he is wrong. speaker pelosi has hinted she was in the articles of impeachment soon. doug collins told you guys not quickly today, perhaps early next week. bill, melissa? >> bill: live on the hill, thank you sir. >> melissa: meanwhile, growing evidence iran accidentally shot this plane down. video appears to show the ukrainian jetliner hit by a missile strike shortly after takeoff from tehran. but iran denies it. calling on the western governments to present their evidence and prove it. trey yingst's live in baghdad with more. trey? >> melissa, good morning. we are getting new updates to that ukraine airlines plane crash outside of tehran earlier this week that killed all 176

people on board. according to reports, the iranians are now willing to hand over the black box to boeing so that it can be independently inspected. according to reports, the iranians have cleared the wreckage site, something not normally done after a crash like this. western intelligence officials do believe it was shot down with a surface-to-air missile. they were 63 canadians on board. we had this week from canadian prime minster justin trudeau expressing his condolences and calling for more information to be get fed by what exactly happened. the flight was headed to kiev, ukraine. we will wait to see whether or not secretary pompeo and secretary mnuchin much of this today when they give remarks at the white house. the iranians are accusing the west this morning and spreading lies about what exactly happened. they say it was definitely not shot down. i want you to take a listen to what one senior iranian aviation official had to say. >> translator: what we can say with absolute certainty is that no missal has had the plane. as i said last night, the plane had traveled while on fire for

more than one and half minutes and the crash site shows that the pilot had decided to return to the airport. >> as we continue to follow the story out of iran, here in baghdad thousands of protesters gathered in terrier square to demonstrate against their government, calling on the prime minister to cut all ties with both united states and iran. melissa? >> melissa: trey, thank you. >> bill: jeanne zaino, professor of political science at iona college. miranda devine, new york post columnist, welcome. and josh, i always want to throw in an extra h with your name. it must be that age in josh. let it kick us off right now? what you think will happen? >> one goes to mitch mcconnell. this is a waiting game, a political standoff between two of the top tacticians on capitol hill.

clearly pelosi is showing she is fold increase of the senate are starting to get aggravated with the way that they are handling the delay. you also saw house armed services committee chairman saying they have to speed this up. she was getting pressure from her own side, the carcass was divided, she had to fold in this case. >> bill: does she get anything from this? >> absolutely nothing. i think nancy pelosi is showing herself to be a frivolous person. she's behaving in a very disingenuous way. either it was urgent to get rid of the president to impeach him or it isn't. she is showing the full impeachment gambit was a farce, and i don't understand why the media in washington gives her a free pass. she is behaving in a way that does damage to the national interest, and yet she's getting away with it. she's on the cover of "time" magazine as some sort of heroin she is the worst person washington to cause division. >> bill: strong words.

jeanne? >> you know, i think i disagree. i think she did get something out of this. she got bolton, who may testify. we have to wait and see. she got new evidence in terms of the email. she also called let's be clear, knew the outcome. he will be acquitted. so she wants to do with the republicans were saying in the house. they want to make sure that their base sees this trial as not a fair process. so this is what she is banking on. i agree with you on the counter and the politics. i don't think this is good for democrats, but i do think there is a method to her madness. nancy pelosi, probably the most effective speaker of the house. she's never lost a vote. >> melissa: she didn't get bolton, she lost bolton. she could have subpoenaed bolton and he would have come and testify. he said before that if he was subpoenaed he would wait and that the courts decide. since then he has said if he gets subpoenaed he would just come. if she hadn't rushed through, he made that decision during this waiting period. she could've had him testify before.

>> that would have required him to wait. i agree, they should have waited. you and i have talked about th this. i'm not sure he would have heard bolton say the same thing if this thing was still in the house. and he may have executive privilege. he may never come testify at all or say much if he does. but i do think the emails and the evidence gathered is something that you have to say she has a small win on. >> melissa: why doesn't she come back and reintroduce those emails? there out there in the ether but they didn't make it into this conversation that is happening now or that happened in the house, it's not part of the body of evidence. >> that was is still investigating. i think it would be insane for her to bring you back. >> but iowa, it's in three weeks. she's doing damage to the senators, instead of spending their time meeting and greeting people in iowa and new hampshire, they are tied up in the senate six days a week. they will be when the trial goes on. they have achieved nothing with

this. the polls for president trump have either stagnated or gone better for him. so what have they achieved? all she has done his grandstand and self-aggrandizing. >> bill: in the senate there are political pressures on republicans. there are a lot of republicans up in swing states in 2020 that are going to feel pressure to call john bolton as a witness. it would have made sense for pelosi to push it to the senate, let mcconnell handle the questions, not let the speakers all have to do with it. that's why i think it was a political muscat collation. this is a battle of the bases. by delaying this, the energy on her site has dissipated, and the pressure is on her, not a mitch mcconnell. >> bill: on that point, do you give credence to these reports suggesting she wanted sidelined some of the more liberal members of her party trying to enact an iowa? and perhaps give biden a boost? do you believe that? >> i don't, i think that sort of the three-dimensional chess you don't see a capitol hill. there's no doubt by having the

trial or before the caucus, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, the two most left-wing candidates in the field, are not going to be and i will. it will be on capitol hill. >> melissa: does it give them a national stage? if you're sitting there and then they have the bully pulpit, maybe they are not and i will be there on national television and they are arguing the case for impeachment. as jeanne says, better evidence. maybe it's good for those candidates. >> not really, now on the national stage of the front runner, joe biden, in the cross hairs of the senate. and he is not going to -- his reputation is going to be sullied in this process. >> but that's good for sanders and warren, also supreme maybe this is good for those two. >> but they are all suffering. they are all handicapped by this entire process. whenever people say pelosi is some kind of master tactician, maybe she is if she wants to get donald trump reelected. >> bill: 's of the dow jones has just crossed 29,000 for the first time. this is simply remarkable.

you are up 11,000 points since the election three years ago. we may not see this in a generation again. we will put out on the screen for now. let's talk about iran and what happens next. last night in toledo, ohio, here is the president talking about why he did not inform congress. >> these are split-second decisions, you have to make a decision. so they don't want me to make that decision, they want me to call up, maybe go over there. "let me go over to the congress. come over to the white house, let's talk about it." we knew the way he was getting there, and we had to make a decision. we didn't have time to call up nancy. >> bill: he went on from there. >> i'm just going to add the jobs numbers were out today, and very positive as well. i just wanted to add that. i think there are a lot of questions, and we've heard them from republicans in the senate as well as democrats on what was the need.

was there an eminence issue here? and we heard something new from the president last night that the eminence had to do with a pending attack on our embassy. so i think senators want to hear that information. particularly people like rand paul and mike lee, love ask these constitutional -- they've asked these questions. in my mind it's not as much a question of imminence as, or we see her with soleimani dead or alive? i think that still question we do not have an answer to. >> bill: maranda? >> i think again he got a situation where america really is facing peril with this war with iran. short although it was. and you have nancy post it again grandstanding, refusing to take a phone call from the vice president,'s wandering off to cocktail party when they were sending missiles to american bases in iraq. if she really have the national interest in mind, she would drop this entire impeachment farce

and allow the president to do what he must do to safeguard the interests of america. >> melissa: there's a big way this can backfire on democrats. that's outlined in "the wall street journal," "there is no peace from the death." saying, "they are betting trump stumbles into an iran war. there is still potential to sow chaos between now and november. it may do so to make things tougher for the incumbent. but if the end result of this episode is the elimination of a bloodthirsty regional puppetmaster and weakening of the most dangerous player in the region, democrats lose their disaster talking points." is not a real danger? >> that's why the politics of iran are so tricky. you look at the early polls, the majority of a plurality of americans support the killing soleimani. but there's a majority that worries about the perspective of a wider war. they are bidding this could go south, more attacks, that it

could be chaotic at it into a presidential election year. democrats have to be worried that they are sounding too dovish, not rooting for america against iran. but republicans have to be wary about this because the consequences. >> bill: fair point, josh. last hour, gabbard. watch. >> constitution, written by our founders, intentionally placed the responsibility of deciding whether or not to declare war within the hands of congress. abiding by the constitution means the president needs to come to congress and make that argument, make that pitch. if you want to go to war with iran, come to congress and say why he feels it's important for national security. that did not happen. >> bill: he has always said he doesn't want war with iran. >> he does. he was elected on that. he's the anti-neocon. i think his base understands that, and they trust him not to get america embroiled in another endless war in the middle east. by the same token, he is not

going to sit back and allow american embassies to be overrun by iranian terrorists. i think at the moment he has won, because il iran's response response was very provocative action was so mild that i think -- of course iran will continue to be a burger in the saddle of america, but i think everyone, the whole world, took a sigh of relief after those missiles didn't kill a single american. that is where the democrats, with all their carrying on the day before, just look like fools. >> bill: your hood betting think so quite for now? >> i'm not betting. it could go wrong. iran is showing witness, and also that their equipment, there antimissile government, is not very good. they're pretty primitive country compared to american terms of

military might. >> bill: ten seconds. >> i hope and i hope all americans hope the present was successful in quieting iran. we don't know the answer to that. there was a bombing in the green zone yesterday, we have seen cyber attacks from iran, we have proxies out there that they control and don't control. i hope this goes quiet, i hope in ten months we don't have a nuclear iran. those are great big hopes i think the american public has have a debate about it. >> bill: think you all. we also can confirm doug collins mentioned this last hour there will be no vote today in the house to move the articles of impeachment to the senate. so that will wait until at least monday, or depending on travel for members of congress, could be tuesday of next week. the timeline, melissa, goes to possibly a senate trial that begins through the end of next week or even possibly on martin luther king day, which is january 20th, 2020. >> melissa: it was moving along quickly and then not so much. >> bill: they're moving the boulder slowly. but we can confirm us of today,

think it all of you. we will see very soon. >> melissa: will continue the conversation and just a moment, that and more with our headliner, former white house press secretary sarah sanders. she reacts at the bottom of the hour. >> bill: also in a moment, under house arrest. fotis dulos posting bond. bond. investigators searching for answers and the dispense of his wife jennifer. why lawyers say despite the murder charges they are reliev relieved. >> we are looking forward to the process of no defending this case, going forward in court. ns. va mortgage rates have dropped to near 50-year lows. newday usa can help you refinance your mortgage and save thousands a year. i urge you to call newday usa now.

>> there does not appear to be a crime scene weapon, there does not appear to be any admissions or statements against penal

interest. there's nobody. the suspicious disappearance and entirely circumstantial case. when i say i'm relieved, not being cocky. >> fotis dulos' attorney speaking there after his client posted has bond yesterday. now he's under house arrest awaiting trial on murder charges. his ex-girlfriend, michelle troconis, also posted bond and was taken to the hospital feeling unwell. so what is next for dulos? criminal defense attorney david bruno joins us. to to hear or lay it out, no weapon, nobody, they don't have anything. when you drilled on the little bit on the evidence, as we followed the case, they have all kinds of stuff. the nanny saying, "i just restock the cabinet with paper towels, they were all gone immediately." what other kind of sifter they have? >> the attorney did mention circumstantial evidence. sometimes that can be more persuasive than directory the friends it's on this case, what

great police work. there's a 38 page affidavit for rest, it's a capital murder charge. by the way, it details all these steps that this defendant, his girlfriend -- >> melissa: like what? speak of the vehicle that he owns has her blood in it. her blood is all over the crime scene. he tried to change seeds in his vehicle using an employee. the girlfriend is part of this. so my thing is there are three people charged here, and while it is circumstantial, they maybe able to flip the girlfriend. if they conflict the girlfriend with a lawyer, that can be absolutely -- >> melissa: how to that lawyer get himself in trouble? how did that happen? >> this is not a criminal lawyer we just saw, this is a civil lawyer, a friend. it's really not clear to me as to why, but he is charge of the conspiracy to commit murder. not just covering it up. they are alleging that there was an agreement between the husband, the girlfriend, and the

lawyer all to commit murder. >> melissa: wow. >> if they float one of those, it could be circumstantial. they may not have a weapon, but guess what? if you have a witness to the conspiracy, that -- >> bill: you say the affidavit reads like a crime novel. how? >> it does, it details the step by step investigation. these investigators went through forensics. the forensics is going be very difficult to explain. how is he going to say how her blood got all over his vehicles? they also have evidence being discarded. they have him dumping bags. they have him on video changing license plates. that's all circumstantial and it all goes to him. i'm wondering, what was the participation of the lawyer? the lawyer is the one still in jail. speed let's get back to motive, all the start of her money. so many of these things do. >> divorce, too. these are individuals being divorced. i am a former homicide prosecutor myself. would see in the office, today's domestic violence is tomorrow's

murder. yes, this is an issue. it's money, too. not a religious divorce, not fighting over the children. suite five of them now. >> that's the saddest part of this case. >> bill: you are a defense attorney. how do you defend him? >> well, prosecutors are going to have to make a very important decision. did they use the codefendants? he who calls the codefendant loses. let say this with the girlfriend, she's on the stand. he's going to try and probably point the finger the girlfriend and said, "it wasn't me, it was the girlfriend." she may have just as much motivates him to kill the wife. i don't know how they will defend the blood evidence. it'll be a very difficult task. this attorney who comes out and says he's released, the forensics is so strong in this case i think it will be his downfall. >> bill: thank you for your time. a fox news alert now, the president in the white house months ago, breathing there.

secretaries mnuchin and pompeo will detail new sanctions against iran. we will bring you to live as soon as it begins. melissa? >> melissa: plus president trump hitting the campaign trail as a senate awaits the arrival of impeachment articles. sarah sanders is our headliner straight ahead. beco thanks to republican leadership, america is winning again. and america, most importantly, is respected again. respected like never before. [cheers and applause], balanced. for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy.

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week. majority leader mitch mcconnell tell your republicans she expects articles we sent over soon. fox news confirms that will not happen today. we will bring in sarah sanders, former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. happy new year to you. i guess the news of the moment, it's not going to happen today. maybe it happens on monday or tuesday. what are you going to make of that, when you consider you will be at least three and half weeks removed from the actual vote itself on impeachment? >> i think it just continues to show what this whole thing was all about. it was nothing more than a political play. it has a out well for the democrats. i think they made a huge mistake by trying to force this impeachment sham down america's throats, and every single day we see that play out more and more. the dealer they have put everyone through after constantly telling all of america and everyone what an urgent thing that had to happen, we had to do this right now, we could wait another minute.

but apparently be cut. not just another minute, we could week three and a half more weeks before they even send the paperwork to the senate. the good news is it gives the white house more time to repair, complete and total confidence in white house counsel led by pat cipollone. they were prepared three and half weeks ago because the facts are on their side. the president is going to be vindicated, if this ever gets in the senate. >> melissa: do you think it's a mistake if they don't call witnesses in the senate? to they fall into the trap the democrats have laid if this is a sham trial, that you are really interested in fighting justice? especially when there are new things now like these emails, and you have former national security advisor john bolton willing to testify. >> i think the entire thing has been a sham from day one, but that's not on the part of the senate nor the white house. that's on the part of the democrats who started this

ridiculous political play to begin with. i think mitch mcconnell has been doing a spectacular job. he's never done anything out of order. i think he will play by the rules that have been set forth for a long time, and make us a fair process unlike the ridiculous thing we saw take place in the house. the problem is they haven't even had a chance to have a fair process because the house continues to sit on it. they are constantly looking for something to prove that the president something wrong, when they know it didn't happen. i think the whole thing has been a disaster for the democrats. frankly, it's hurt the country. this isn't good for america to have this type of partisan political game. the real concern i have is what happens in the future. we have now created impeachment as a political tool instead of what is meant for, and i think the democrats are going to have to wear that burden moving forward from now on. >> bill: three more minutes, two more topics. as moshe iran iran, adam schiff,

about the nonbinding war powers resolution passed in the house. >> the resolution before the house today is a step toward reasserting our constitutional duty, terrain and the president whose unilateral actions have isolated us from our allies, increased the risk from a nucler armed iran, and made us less safe. >> bill: we've heard that a prelude from democrats. i do believe the state has been reset to with regard to iran after the killing of soleimani? >> look, i think the president did what was necessary to keep the people of this country safe. this resolution, they know it's worthless. they know it's meaningless. it's a nonbinding resolution. even nancy pelosi herself called it a symbolic measure. this is nothing more than a political show, just like the impeachment sham. it's unfortunate the democrats are so focused on hating the president that they forget they actually have a duty to do. the president took action to keep america safe. the idea that we are somehow

less safe after one of the world's most dangerous terrorists is no longer a threat to this country or anyone else is absurd. it's naive, and it's the reason democrats should be in charge of our foreign policy. >> melissa: meanwhile, the president on the campaign trail in ohio. he would like to turn the page. here's what he said. >> i'm thrilled to hold the first railing 2020 right here, in this great state of ohio. [cheers and applause] is to begin a new year, our economy is booming. wages are soaring. workers are thriving. america's future has never, ever looked brighter. [cheers and applause] >> melissa: in addition to that, sarah, we saw the dow crossed 29,000 for the first time today. just 37 days since the last milestone, 28,000. the problem is people don't vote on good news from the past, so they don't vote a "thank you."

do you think they will remember this when they go to the polls, what is the president have to hit it harder than he usually does on the economy? >> i think people are going to remember that their life is much better under this president. i don't think that's going away. i think that's going to continue through november. the economy is strong, the president continues to focus on things he promised he would get done, whether it's a trade deal. we expect phase one to be signed next week of china. something everybody else that was impossible. for good, nobody was willing to take them on. this president has, and he has delivered on one thing after another. i think people are going to remember that when they go to vote. the president is doing exactly what he should. he's going out and going on offense and delivering his message directly to the american people. he has an incredible story to tell, after just three years in office. i think anybody wants to continue down this path of strength and prosperity is going to look to president trump. what we know from the democrats is that they are a party of appeasement, a party of

weakness, and a party that wants to make government bigger, not smaller. they want to move us more toward socialism. i don't know anybody who thinks when they really sit down and look at the contrast between those two options, think's going with the democrat is a better choice. i think president trump is in a great position. >> bill: it sounds like a campaign about who he's up against. sorry to interrupt you, we are getting breaking news from the white house. thank you, sarah, for coming here today. sarah sanders here with us. fox news alert, jobs numbers out now. stock market on the rise. moneyman charles payne is next. we will talk to charles on a friday. how does he assess the report? we will stand by for the white house. hello, sir. >> melissa: look at those sneakers. ♪ the winner of the golden globe for best director. we need to keep moving! and best picture. experience "1917".

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>> bill: the december jobs report is out. the numbers, hundred 45,000 jobs added, slightly lower-than-expected.

unemployment rates lead a 50 year low, 3.5%. he is the moneyman, charles payne, fox business network. hello, sir. you have to get in the weeds. >> that's where they are, it's like an easter egg hunt. [laughter] i'm going to give it a b+. you had the headline, 15% from expectations. that might be adjusted next month. but the biggest part of this is the official unemployment report, the rate. in the reviews there is really nebulous. there's a much better way -- melissa knows this, it's called the you six. it takes into account more things. we are at a record low for an opponent using the best gauge. why is it better? marginally attached people. these are people who aren't even looking for a good, they've got jobs. sitting at home eating froot

loops and summing up the door, "want to work out and i plant connect with go." and they're not being forced to work part-time anymore. that's why it's great news. i would like to see those dirty fingernail jobs debated. manufacturing was off, mining was off a lot. construction only have 20,000. >> melissa: can make point out a few things i liked about this? 50% of jobs that are held or held by women. last time i think that happened was april of 2010. that's good for the president. that shows that women are -- >> further in the weeds, it's being driven by hispanic women more than anyone else. you want to talk about the notion that this is a president that does things in a racial kind of way, this shows you when things are going great, everyone benefits. today's jobs report, to your point, women, hispanic women. if you look across the border, all the different folks benefiting, seam tide lifting all ships. >> melissa: i have a theory about how things are getting

better. the dow, 29,000 for the first time today. we added a point where this expansion, both in the market in the economy, should be petering out. but the president has a secret weapon. he has held back a bit because of all this trade stuff. so if we get a deal with china, and away from this usmca going, we struck some more deals all over the place, we could see this expansion were normally we would be kind of -- its last breath. what you think? >> we never had an 11 year extension before. to your point, we are in uncharted waters. it's re-accelerating, that the irony. almost all the data be seen in the last two weeks suggests the economy is going to be accelerate. i tell you what, with this trade thing, the trade deficit this week, it got better. exports to china increased oil imports to us declined. oil, $58 billion year to date.

we are so positioned, and i wish we could get household formations. we can get those millennials to get married, start having families. [laughs] >> bill: i can't remember the last time you can hear a pessimistic news. it's been a long, long time. they are under a two-minute warning for secretaries pompeo and mnuchin. standby for the white house. hourly earnings in this report from wages in december, what was it, that's 2.5% of the upside. >> ; go disappointed. there's an article this morning that explains when the survey was taken it was a little earlier than normal, and the numbers should have been hired. i think the more intriguing part of it, not supervisory work. blue-collar workers once again, another where they artists that's shared prosperity the lower rungs of the economic ladder improving higher than the higher rungs. the eighth that's been the story of this recovery. the exhilaration of the bottom so much better, the wage gap closing, they are at making it

faster. that's untold story. >> he really is. there's a lot of untold stories not separately one of them. to your point, melissa, i think gdp is going to be better this year than it was last year. in part, resolutions of some of those things that were outstanding. i think businesses are going to step up. i'm worried about the oil patch a little bit. we lost 8,000 -- those were the, good paying jobs. you're not worried about it? >> melissa: no, let's look at what's going on the middle east. we have more independence. i'm good. >> so we are all good then! >> bill: hang with us while we wait for the secretaries to come out. it's an election year, they have levers that other people don't have. you are super bullish on this. >> you make an amazing point, the market in the economy typically does very well in an election year. also this time we've got a certain unique momentum.

this type of momentum does not peter out. it builds on itself. success begets success. these marginally attached workers, there aren't even looking for a job and got one. over 200,000 people came back to the labor force last month. >> melissa: this news we are about to get ties into what we are talking about. we will talk about more sanctions right here coming out, on iran. as we get these sanctions, is more focused on oil. >> good morning, everybody. think you're being here today. i would just like to make a brief brief comment before we talk about the iran sanctions. everybody saw the dow hit 29,000. the president's economic are currently working. we are looking forward to china signing, the usmca, and a strong economy this year. as previously announced by the president, we are announcing additional sanctions against the iranian regime as a result of the attack on u.s. and allied troops. first, the president is issuing an executive order authorizing

the additional sanctions against any individual owning, operating, trading with, or assisting sectors of the iranian economy, including construction, manufacturing, textiles, and mining. let me be clear, these will be both primary and secondary sanctions. the eo also allows us to designate other sectors in the future, as secretary pompeo and me think is appropriate. second, we are announcing 17 specific sanctions against iran's largest steel and iron manufacturers. three seychelles-based entities, and a vessel involved in the transfer of products. as a result of these actions, we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the iranian regime and we will continue our enforcement of other entities. third, we are taking action against the senior iranian

officials who advance the regimes, destabilizing activity and were involved in tuesday's ballistic missile strike. secretary pompeo will comment more on that. today's sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the iranian regime's global terrorist activities. the president has been very clear, we will continue to apply economic sanctions until iran stops terrorist activities and commits to never having nuclear weapons. i will now turn it over to secretary pompeo. >> thank you, stephen. good morning, everyone. today president trump is delivering on the pledge that he made, the day after iran attacked american forces in iraq there would be a series of new sanctions. secretary mnuchin just mentioned eight senior iranian officials that are responsible for the regimes violence both at home

and abroad. we are stricking a part of the islamic republic's inner security apparatus. these sanctions targets include the secretary of the spring national council and the commander of the forces. that is the brute squad, which has come in the last few months, killed approximately 1500 iranians simply demanding freed. our action also targets other senior leaders close to the ayatollah. they've carried out as terrorist plots and destabilize campaigns across the middle east and around the world. they have employed soldiers across the regions battlefield. they've trained militias in iraq, syria, and elsewhere in the arts of domestic repression. today they are accountable for the the goal of the campaign is to deny them the resource to construct foreign policy. we want them to being like a normal nation. we believe the sanctions we enforce today for that

objective. our campaign is composed of diplomatic, economic, all components that deprive the resume of billions in revenue that they've used to fuel death and destruction across the middle east and all across the world. sadly the previous administration had opened up revenue streams for iran. under our administration, all revenues are down by 80% and iran cannot access roughly 90% of all of its reserves. not even two weeks ago, president rouhani admitted that our sanctions have cost around over $200 billion in lost foreign income and investment. as long as iran's outlaw ways continue, we will continue to impose sections. i want to really read president trump's concerns for americans and dual national citizens detained inside iran. iran kno knows these individuals have committed no crime. the charges are fake and we will do what we can to get each of them returned safely to their

families. with that, we will take a few questions. yes, ma'am? >> reporter: the administration said this strike was done based on imminent threat. you said we didn't know precisely when and we didn't know precisely where. that is not the definition of imminent. the president has also suggested there was some sort of attack being planned against an embassy, perhaps several embassies. can you clarify? did you have specific information about an imminent threat and did you have anything to do with rbcs >> we had specific information on an imminent threat, and those threats included attacks on u.s. embassies. period, full stop. >> so you were mistaken when you said you didn't know when precisely where? >> this or consistent thoughts. we don't know exactly which men or which date would have been executed, but it was very clear. qassem soleimani himself was plotting a broad, large-scale attack against american interests, and those attacks were imminent. >> against an embassy? >> against american facilities

including american embassies, military bases, american facilities throughout the regi region. >> reporter: mr. secretary, in the initial hours after the missile attacks on the airfield, it was believed that iran may have taken steps to avoid u.s. casualties. but then the chairman of joint chiefs mark milley came out, secretary of defense came out, other officials came out and said, "these missiles were intended to kill americans." it was iran's intent to kill americans, does that not deserve some sort of response? if somebody takes a shot at you and they don't hit you simply because you duck, does that mean they weren't trying to kill you? >> i will defer to the deferment or defense of the details, but there is no doubt in my judgment as i observe the iranian activity in the region that night, they have the full intention of killing u.s. forces. whether that was our military folks or diplomatic folks in the region. i'm confident the response the president has taken was appropriate. the president said we don't want

war. we want iran to behave like a normal nation. the reason the secretary of treasury and i are here this morning is to continue this campaign. our strategic effort to get around to behave in a way that doesn't continue their 40 40-year-long effort to terrorize the world. >> reporter: mr. secretary, do you believe the iranians shut down the ukrainian international airways plane? if the iranians shot that plane down, will they be consequences? >> we do believe it's likely that plane was shot down by an iranian missile. we are going to lead to the investigation play out before you make a final determination. it's important to get to the bottom of it. i've been on the phone, i was on the phone with president zelensky just before he came here. i was on the phone with my canadian counterpart, they are working to get the resources on the ground to conduct that thorough investigation. we will learn more about what happened to that aircraft. when we get the results of that

investigation, i am confident that we in the world will take appropriate actions in response. let me just -- >> reporter: will you allow the ntsb to work with the iranians? >> i was just going to comment on that, the treasury will issue waivers with its americans or others to help facilitate the investigation. >> reporter: last time he joined us in this room is back in the summer, and nothing sanctions, including -- secretary mnuchin, that what you said, "i think you've done more sections on iran than anybody, and it's actually working." since then he seen an escalation in violence from iran. shooting of the drone, attacking them see, the contract he was killed, u.s. troops wounded. how are sanctions keeping the united states interests more secure? >> i think we have 100% confidence and we are consistent in our view that economic sanctions are working.

if we didn't have these sanctions in place, literally iran left tens of billions of dollars. they would be using that for terrorist activities throughout the region, and to enable them to do more bad things. there is no question, by cutting off the economics to the regime, we are having an impact. as the president has said, the fact that the obama administration turned over $150 billion to the regime, we think we wouldn't be in the situation at that not been the case. >> may i just add, it's important to keep in mind what's taking place in iran today. this country has ever been in the place it is today. challenging problems. the budget, they will fail by tens of billions of dollars achieving their revenue for this year. they've got real challenges in figuring out how to make difficult decisions. do you underwrite hezbollah? thomas? to underwrite the militias in

iraq? or do you allow your opportunity for the people to you can see the protests. protests we expect will continue, that will demand from the iranian regime that they begin to treat the iranian people the way they so deserve. this demonstration will get you to support those efforts, as well. reported back he mentions secondary sanctions. what is your message to our european allies who continue to do business with the iranians? specifically, if you can, will this impact the mechanism set up by a number of european countries to avoid u.s. sanctions and continue to do business without using u.s. dollars? >> sure, thank you. those are both important questions. let me first comment on insects. i don't believe there have been any transactions. as he made clear, we are working on a swiss channel that we have approved for humanitarian transactions. we will continue to allow these

transactions. we have warned instex and others they will most likely be subject to secondary sanctions, depending how they use that. that's absolutely the case. as it relates to the europeans come up with the secretary and i have spoken to our counterparts in europe several times over the last few days. we have emphasized the impact and the issue of iran announcing they are no longer part of the jcpoa. you have had very direct conversations with our counterparts about that. >> reporter: secretary pompeo, what is your definition of "imminent?" >> this was going to happen. american lives were at risk. we would have been culpably negligent, as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said. would have been culpably negligent had we not recommended to the president he take this action against qassem soleimani. he made the right: america is safer as a result of that

>> reporter: >> we are going to try and do one question for everybody so as many people can get questions. at me to cut you off that we are trying to -- go ahead >> six months ago, secretary pompeo, the president said u.s. intelligence agencies have been running amok. he spent most of the past three years he's been in office denigrating and attacking the intelligence community and disputing findings, whether it's on russia or north korea, or really any area that contradicts the things he has said. why then do americans suddenly believe your assertions that you had good intelligence on this, when the head of the executive branch has been casting aspersions on the intelligence community for most of his time in office? >> look, i served as cia director for the first year and a half of this administration.

i watch the president rely on the work they did for the entire time i served as the head of the central intelligence agency. i watched him rely on the capable and in women delivering exquisite information to the executive branch. watch the president have confidence not information. we all challenge their work, wish to make sure you get right. the intelligence community is not flawless. we get it wrong. in this case, the intelligence community got fundamentally right. even the reflections we've seen after the strike that qassem soleimani took has demonstrated we were quite rig right. there was active plotting, and we took an action that we thought was likely to create less risk for the american people, and i'm confident that we did that. go ahead, in the back. >> reporter: thank you, this question is for secretary pompeo. there are reports that the iraqi prime minister has asked you to start negotiating withdrawal of u.s. troops from iraq immediately. as? can you comment on that?

>> you didn't quite characterize the conversation correctly, but to the larger and more important point, we are happy to continue the conversation with the iraqis about what the right structure is. it's very clear, we've been there to perform a training mission to help the iraqi security forces be successful and to continue the campaign against isis. the counter campaign. we will continue that mission, but as times change and we get to a place where we can deliver upon what i believe in the president believes is a right structure with few resources dedicated to omission we will do so. we also saw today a nato team that's here at the state department working to develop a plan which will get burned and-sharing right in the region as well, so we can continue the important mission to protect and defend and keep the american people safe while reducing our cost, resources, our burden, and the risk to all soldiers and sailors in the region. >> reporter: secretary pompeo, if i can come here today at the

podium use of the imminent threat was a threat to u.s. embassies. you didn't know precisely when or where. less at the present said it was a threat to embassies including our baghdad embassy. why can you say that here in the president can say it at a rally in toledo but no one said it to lawmakers behind closed doors in a classified setting as multiple senators have said? >> we did. >> you said that? so the senators are lying? >> we told them about the imminent threat. all the intelligence we bring come that you've heard today, we provide in the classified setting, as well. >> to be clear, you told them embassies were to be targeted. that was the imminent threat. >> are not going to talk about the details of what we shared in a classified setting. make no mistake about it, those leaders, those members of congress who want to go access the same intelligence can see that very same intelligence that will reflect what i described in with the president said last night. >> reporter: is that threat now gone with soleimani gone? >> threats are never gone. there's always a lot of danger in the world. always a lot of danger

throughout the region. nobody believed that a single mission in any respect took down the risk of terror, terror from al qaeda, isis, al-shabaab. nobody believes that. the president doesn't. look at the lisp a look at the achievements in the administration. we took with a caliphate in its entirety, we took down hamza bin laden, we took down al-baghdadi, qassem soleimani. this has reduced the capacity for tourists around the world to perform the functions putting american women and men in the homeland at risk. we are very proud of we have accomplished and we are going to stay the course. right next to you. report an? okay! [laughter] china is also a big and predator of iranian oil and iranian minerals, and that's a big part of their economy, as well. are you concerned about the iran issue coming up in the

negotiations for the deal? >> i had no idea you would ask that question but that's a good last question to end on. let me first say that we are looking forward to the chinese delegation coming next week. phase one is very significant. it includes very significant components, changes to technology issues, intellectual property issues, and $50 billion in purchases for our farmers. i would comment, i don't agree with your comment that china is a big buyer of oil. the china state companies are not buying oil from iran, and i would just say we are having conversations with china as well as any of your counter party on sanctions evasion. thank you very much. thank you, everybody. >> bill: three major headlines here. number one, the sanctions, additional sanctions launched against the iranian government energy. 17 specific sanctions on different iranian entities,

targeting eight senior iranian officials as well. cutting off access to money, the access they still have, we should say. on the access to foreign investment. headline number two, they insist attacks remained on her embassy were embassies and military bases overseas. that goes to the, the president made around this hour yesterday when he said they were looking to blow up our embassy. he alluded to it again last night in toledo, ohio. third headline, secretary of state mike pompeo says he believes iran is responsible for shooting that ukrainian airliner out of the sky the other night, but he says we will let the investigation play out. melissa, three headlines from the white house a moment ago. >> melissa: drilling down on the details here so folks can understand, they had those 17 iranian metal producers and mining companies they designated for sanctions. this is iran's only resource, trying to get these raw materials out of the country to sell to raise money. they are also looking at some entities in china and the

seychelles. three specifically that were caught with vessels, as they say, involved in the purchase and transfer of iranian mental products. there was also a question about the transfer of currency. if you can exchange money, how can they sell these things and collect the money? they talked about looking for the transactions that they are monitoring the various networks, that they haven't seen those transactions go through there but they are allowing money to go through switzerland for humanitarian reasons to get into the country. but you get a bird's-eye view into the way they are continuing to tighten the financial noose where we see inflation spiraling out of control. >> bill: you are right, back in iran. to add to all that, the amount of pressure, the noose they've tried to put on this resume has been dramatic. you wonder, where else can you squeeze? these secretaries clearly are looking in every corner they can possibly find a way to crank

even more pressure up against iran. melissa, after a couple days or even weeks, the downing of this airliner. they could be back at this yet again. and the iranians have said, "you come to us and prove it." i would ask the white house if they would ever expect the iranian regime to apologize for what happened the other night to 176 people. >> melissa: absolutely. on top of that, what we had seen before this latest turn of events was a rise up of the people inside iran did not benefit when those sanctions weren't in place before. they were in getting that money. that was supposed to be feeling into the country and modernize it. i thought would happen. the export of the money for terror reasons. instead, as you see this stranglehold, now iran is getting that money. those in charge aren't getting it, either. it becomes a question of how long they can hang on there. i think that's what the pressure

is about. >> bill: also become back to this idea about her embassies being targeted. as we go through all the stick of it, we will bring in chris wallace. mr. sunday is with us on a friday. anchor of fox news sunday parade what a week, yet again good morning. what do you think the next story is here in the air on chapter? >> well, i thought the presentations by the two secretaries, mnuchin and pompeo, was very forceful, very persuasive. clearly they and the president they work for mean business in terms of continuing to tighten the screws on iran. i don't have any doubt that these sanctions -- i'm no expert but i assume they are going to make it even more difficult for people in iran to business. the question, really, is strategy. will it work? as was pointed out, the two secretaries briefed in that room last september and said at that

time that the sanctions were the strongest that they had ever imposed on any country. we have seen all of the activity by iran since then. we have also seen iran continue step-by-step to pull out of the iran nuclear deal, and now they just announced they will pull out even further in terms of limitations on fuel enrichment, the stockpiling of nuclear fuel. i guess the question becomes, do we really think that this is the step? these are the sanctions that break iran's will, or will it continue? also, the question, of course, we have our partners that also signed the jcpoa. the iran nuclear deal. like britain, france, germany. are they going to come on our side or continue to try and find work arounds to continue to do business? there is no question that donald trump means business, and the secretaries there mean business. the question -- and i don't have an answer for it -- is, "is this

going to be the step that breaks iran's will and get them to say they will get to the table and talk about not only the nuclear program, but also maligned behavior?" i don't have an answer. >> bill: on that point, since the killing of soleimani a week ago today, he hear from others in the know -- jack keane is one of them, a well respected military analyst works on behalf of us and others -- that he believes this is the straw that breaks their back, that pushes them to the negotiation table. i don't know if you can see that. others clearly cannot. but he does. it must be a reason for that. >> well, i hope he's right. it would be better for the world if it were right. i will say, when i interviewed iran's president rouhani at the united nations in september, the thing that struck me -- and this is just at the point when the u.s. was imposing a whole new set of sanctions.

if you remember, president trump very much wanted to either meet on the sidelines were even have a phone call with iran's president rouhani -- it was the enormous gulf between the two nations. while we thought, i could argue quite rightly, that iran was one of the major purveyors of terrorism in the world, iran's president rouhani told me that they felt america was the major sponsor of terror in the world. i was just struck by the tremendous goals in the way the two sides. maybe after the killing of rouhani -- i mean of soleimani, and these new sanctions, maybe things will change. unless general keane -- and he may well have information i don't have. unless he does. i don't know why we would think they will change their position. >> bill: jack keane was adamant on that point. we will see where it goes. the day after you interviewed the iranian rep, i remember you telling me that directly. that it was like talking to a whole different orbit in a different solar system. you say x, he says y on just

about every issue. let me go to impeachment. they will not be a vote today, chris, which means articles wil. maybe it happens monday night. mike emanuel tells me the next houseboat is slated for 6:30 p.m. monday evening. maybe it doesn't happen until tuesday. how do you see this working out next week in terms of a schedule for, as nancy pelosi put it yesterday, that this will happen soon? >> well, she said it would happen soon. she also said it will happen when she is ready. one of the things that i think we are getting a greater sense of is that nancy pelosi keeps around counsel. it's not a collective decision-making process. steny hoyer, her number two, who she doesn't get along with particularly well, said he has no idea when she's going to do it. i've talked to other hot top house democrats, they don't have any idea. i think there's an increasing sense among house democrats and especially among senate democrats, "let's get on with

this. you've extracted everything you can extract." which isn't much, but at least to put the issue of trying to have witnesses and evidence on the table for a vote later. you've got to fold it now. she has not indicated that. she can make an announcement late tonight, friday night document. not the actual vote, but "i'm going to trim them over and we will have the vote on monday," which was kind of ease the pressure. if we get through this weekend, and disobedient issue on all the sunday talk shows, the pressure will only increase on nancy pelosi. >> bill: you are exactly right. it's been three and half weeks, i'm almost out of time. do you think she has gained, in any respect, by this protracted delay? >> in the end she didn't get mitch mcconnell, and i don't think anybody thought she was going to get mitch mcconnell to break his will. he is in charge and he's not going to be told what to do. i do think she has put a bit more focus on the idea that there needs to be witnesses and

there needs to be evidence. do you hear some republicans like murkowski, like collins, like mitt romney, saying that maybe she's right about that. in terms of getting mitch mcconnell to promise that in the early part before they vote to begin the process, not a bet. >> bill: that hasn't happened. looking forward to your show, chris wallace there in d.c. much more on impeachment and around. robert o'brien will join chris wallace. you also hear from democratic senator chris coons, on the foreign relations committee. he's one of the senators who said let's get on with it. check it out, local listings for chris wallace this sunday. >> melissa: to meantime, iran continues to deny any involvement in the ukrainian plane crash that killed hundred6 people. u.s. intelligence officials say there is evidence the plane was mistakenly hit by an a rating missile. now to iran wants them to share that information. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more.

jennifer? >> we just heard from secretary treachery steve mnuchin that despite his new sanctions the u.s. will authorize waivers for any american citizens who need to travel to iran as part of the investigation into the plane crash. they also just heard on the record for the first time from an american official confirming the u.s. and believes iran is responsible for the downing of the billing jet >> we do believe it's likely that plane was shot down by an iranian missile. we are going to let the investigation play out before we make a final determination. it's important we get to the bottom of it. >> iranian officials continued to deny, as you mention, that they shot on the plane with a surface-to-air missile. iran's ambassador to the u.k. said it was a tragic accident, but not their fault. >> we are in fact confident from outside that there has been no missile launched in that area at that time.

>> they have invited boeing investigators and representatives from countries who citizens were killed in the crash to come to tehran and aid in the investigation. canada alone has 63 citizens on board the plane. after days of chaos, iran finally secured the debris field. there are indications the investigation has already been hampered. much of the wreckage has been removed from the crash site by iranian officials before the investigators had a chance to see the wreckage. a senior u.s. official confirms to me it was a russian-made fa 15 missile that the iranians fired that brought on the ukrainian passenger jet. canada's prime minister wants answers. >> intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence, the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an iranian surface-to-air missile. this may well have been unintentional. >> u.s. intelligence sees that

the picture emerging basins out based on satellite infrared imagery. what they are seeing our holes on the plane and some of the wreckage that pointed damage from shrapnel. bill and melissa? >> melissa: jennifer, thank you. >> bill: here is sending you information on the jeffrey epstein case. his accusers are talking, as we learn what happened to some surveillance footage from his first suicide attempt inside a jail room in manhattan. >> melissa: plus president trump touting a booming economy as the dow crosses 29,000 for the first time ever earlier today. what this means for your wallet, coming up next. >> as we begin the new year, our economy is booming. wages are soaring, workers are thriving, and america's future has never, ever looked brighter. my team's working overtime to make sure every veteran can refinance now to save $2000 every year

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we are doing better than pretrump in this labor market expansion. pretrump use are a labor force shrinking after the great recession. currently we are growing the labor force quite dramatically. >> melissa: democratic candidates of course say not everybody is benefiting from that. rich people, if you're in the stock market it's good for you, but not everybody's benefiting. here's what my pete buttigieg had to say. >> they say just look at the stock market. i'm glad to could, i'd rather have it going up and down, but that's not the same as an economy working for all of us. when i'm president, we will measure the success of our economy not by gdp growth will buy the stock market, but by the income growth of the 90%. because that tells us where the economy is working for you. >> melissa: you heard people cheering there, but if you look of the data, there's a report that came out from goldman sachs that said right now income growth at the bottom is doing better than anywhere else.

that those wages are rising twice as fast as elsewhere. that's from data from the bureau of labor and statistics. why do you think that message isn't getting out? that that's where wage growth really exists? >> yeah, i don't know what economy he's talking about. it's certainly not the u.s. economy. in the u.s. economy was happening is pretty much every disadvantaged group has grown faster and historically advantaged. people without high school -- the bottom 10%, et cetera, are growing much faster. more importantly, the wealth is growing much more along the low wealth learners. if you look at the bottom half of the wealth distribution, it's 50% in the wealth. tremendous growth. much higher than the top. in fact, become out of date on

this in a short time period. the top 1% of the wealth distribution is shrinking, so the top 1% is getting less of the wealth than they were before while the bottom is -- >> melissa: i don't want to run out of time, sir. i see the numbers, but the message isn't getting through, that it's these other groups getting the biggest advantage. instead, democrats drive home the message that it's the rich people who have benefited from president trump being in office. how do you get that message out? which of the administration be doing differently to deliver that? >> we are putting out the data, the council of economic advisors is essentially putting out what our unquestionable data. we need to message that more clearly. but i think obviously people don't want to believe those data they are not supporting the president. i think it's pretty clear with the data is telling us, which is that wealth inequality is declining and labor markets are benefiting the poor a lot more than they are benefiting the

rich. >> melissa: tomas philipson, thank you for coming on today. we appreciate your time. >> bill: fox news alert now, jailhouse surveillance video on that either jeffrey epstein's first suicide attempt. apparently no longer exists. his accusers are speaking out about the abuse. we will get a lot of report on that and let you know the state of that story today. new fox polling shows joe biden holding solid leads into company of the early states. who is fading, who is surging? karl rove will break that down. don't miss out, coming up from austin, next. your orders are to deliver a message

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>> polls are polls, snapshots in time. the real thing that matters are how people are going to cast their vote. i think it's interesting, as a lot of conversation is focused on these debates, fewer and fewer voters are watching these things. that's where i'm really focused on spending time with voters. the people who will actually be the ones to decide this election. v7 there was tulsi gabbard, she has not qualified for the next debate next week. interesting tidbits in this fox news poll we put out last night before another debate next week. it goes down i will. we want to bring in karl rove, former warehouse to be chief of staff. hello to you, sir. happy new year. my first time to say happy new year to karl rove in 2020. >> i haven't talked to since the last decade, man! [laughter] >> bill: you know what they say, it's been too long. nevada, here we go. here's what i find interesting

pit on screen now, biden's are markedly consistent pre24% in november, 23% now. bernie sanders, 17%, was 18%. tom steyer sneaking up there at 12%. you make of that what, sir? >> steyer spending a lot of money, both in nevada and south carolina. he is getting within striking distance of the magic 15%. that's the number you need to get in a democratic primary in order to get delegates. it also may suggest that there is one other gazillionaire spending billions of -- well, millions of dollars. that's a former mayor of new york. mike bloomberg, not competing in these early four, we mentioned the steyer effect on march 3rd. that is to say on super tuesday where bloomberg is spending a lot of money, he also might be able to get close to the 15% threshold. >> bill: moving to south carolina, here's what we show. here's what we find. biden has a 21-point lead.

look at tom steyer, popping at 15%. how do you evaluate that? >> of the steyer effect. south carolina on the republican side, they used to say they are the state that settles the republican nomination. it looks like sucking on a democrats want to be in that place, too. if you look at the first three primaries, iowa, new hampshire, and nevada, it's pretty closely split. a couple of states, there's been poles where it's been a dead heat between three candidates. south carolina is a clear win if this poll is right, for bide biden. that's important because south carolina is the last of the february contests. it happens on saturday the 29th. four days later, 1,358 delegates will be elected on a really super-duper tuesday. if biden has momentum coming out of south carolina with a big win, that's going to give him some additional points. each one of the 14 states that are having contests on that day. >> bill: interesting stuff. i know you like to do your own work at your own homework.

would you have for us today on the whiteboard? >> melissa: [laughs] >> i want you to think about this. remember, i was split. those 41 delegates in iowa are going to be split between four candidates and the latest numbers would suggest that there was a gap of four delegates between the number one finisher in the number for finisher. new hampshire, 24. again, two delegates separating the number one finisher and the number three finisher. so it's all split up. nevada, right now three people splitting it up, two of them pretty equally, sanders and biden, steyer in the third place. but south carolina starts to break. of those 101 delegates, nobody has a majority. even if there is a fantastic victory in south carolina among its 54 delegates by biden, he's not going to come out of february -- he's going to come out with a lead, maybe, but it's going to be a plurality and a low plurality. that's why those 1,358 delegates

that are going to be elected on the third are so important. the problem is you are going to have at least five candidates who have the financial resources to compete in at least some of those states. steyer and bloomberg in every state, biden, warren, sanders, buttigieg and most all those states. in some of those states are going to be naturally predisposed. massachusetts will vote that day. who doesn't think elizabeth warren is going to come out of there with a strong number? if she doesn't come out with a strong member, she's dead. if she doesn't come out with an ultra strong number, she is probably unlikely to last much beyond that. >> bill: you make the case of this is a protracted matter. >> yes. >> bill: that could include multiple people? >> yes. the fact that it's being frontloaded means that a lot of delegates are going to be suggested when a lot more candidates are live. we know that we are going to have a biden- warren, buttigieg, and senders being competitive in march.

then we have bloomberg and steyer spending money. what i take away from these two polls is that the steyer, who is let's just say an improbable nominee for the democratic party, he's not going to be the nominee. but he is going to be a presence at the convention if he gets himself in these early contests about 50%. simply by spending part of his vast fortune. same with mike bloomberg. i find it hard to believe he will be the democratic nominee, but he could be a force at the convention if on the 3rd of march he gets 15% of the vote and gets 20 or 25% of the delegates. >> bill: i see your point loud and clear. great to see your analysis, will see which waco sprayed i'm circling march 3rd. have a happy new year, we will talk again soon. >> melissa: a fox news alert on the jeffrey epstein case. the accusers speaking at abc news. emotional accounts of the abuse they say they faced at his hands. as we are learning this,

surveillance footage from the night of his first suicide attempt has gone missing. bryan llenas is the latest details. bryan? >> melissa, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york submitted a letter to court revealing that surveillance video from outside jeffrey epstein's jail cell on the night of his first alleged suicide attempt in july has been deleted because of clerical and "technical errors by the metropolitan correctional center." the letter reads in part, "the mcc inadvertently preserve video from the wrong tear within the mcc. as a result, video from outside the defendant's cell no longer exists." his cellmate on trial for quadruple murder, it requested the surveillance video in court to prove that he did not beat up epstein on july 23rd, and that epstein's injuries were instead the result of his first suicide attempt, as prosecutors believe. the problem is when the government requested a copy of

the video to be saved, the mcc saved and recorded video from the wrong jail cell and video from the correct cell was deleted. meantime, as the fbi continues its investigation into epstein's former and alleged madam, less than an abc, an accuser said that maxwell threatened her life after she and epstein sexually the salt that are. >> they didn't get my clothes off. they tried. i was in a panic, i was able to get myself up and out of that room. she came after me, but i took these big pieces of furniture and push them against the door. >> maxwell's whereabouts are still unknown. >> melissa: thank you for that. >> bill: in a moment the house approving a resolution aimed at reining in the person from taking more military action against iran. does the measure have any teeth? lawmakers remained divided after

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>> melissa: the house passes a nonbinding resolution to limit president trump's war powers against iran. the resolution passed mostly along party lines, but eight democrats voting against it and three republicans supported the measure. democratic congressman anthony brown is vice chairman of the armed services committee. sir, thank you so much for coming on the show. i want to play for you something that secretary of state mike pompeo said just a short time ago and see if it changes your calculus on these issues. let's listen. >> we had specific information on an imminent threat to, and

that the threat stream included attacks on u.s. embassies. period, full's. >> reporter: so you were mistaken when you said you didn't know precisely when and you didn't know precisely where? >> those are completely consistent thoughts. i don't know exactly what in it or which day it would have been executed. but it was very clear. qassem soleimani himself was plotting a broadcom a large-scale attack against american interests, and those attacks were imminent. >the >> melissa: does that change your calculus at all? >> it certainly confusing come melissa. two days ago we had a classified briefing with almost every member of congress, specific questions were asked of secretary pompeo and the intelligence community. "do you have time, place, manner? can you give us details about this imminent threat?" and other than a narrow window, there is no information about places or targets or methods of attack. so this is all new information. >> melissa: let me stop you right there, because he was asked that specific question and he said he did tell you exactly

that in the meeting. exactly the way he just phrased it to us. he said he did share that with you. so are you saying when he told the press that about an hour ago, was he lying or mistaken? >> i'm certainly never going to call someone a liar. but i'm going to tell you is he was probably asked five times by both democrats and republicans during this close, classified session, "do you have a place?" in answer is no. "do you have a date," the answer was, "we don't have a date, we have a window." "you have a method of delivery?" and the answer was no. they do go on to say that based on the nature of the intelligence, they thought it was credible. they believed it was an imminent threat. so i'm not doubting that there was a belief among the administration that there was an imminent threat. what i'm saying is the factual underpinning has never been presented to congress, and this is the first time you're hearing about attacks on embassies. future attacks on embassies. >> melissa: i want to ask you,

because i know that you support mere buttigieg. a lot of controversy right now about a tweet he put out saying innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat. in essence, blaming the instruction of the president for the downing of the airline, and all of those souls that died on that plane. do you agree with him? >> first of all, let me say that that issue also came up in the classified briefing. as a member of congress, i am awaiting information from our intelligence community about the nature of that attack. the source, the method, so i can reach a conclusion about what happened and who was the cause of that, and how we prevent things like that from happening in the future. >> melissa: but what do you think about what the mayor said? to support what he said or do you think he spoke too soon and that it's unfair to blame the president for something that potentially iran did, but as you said, you want to see the evidence of who did it. was he wrong with this tweet?

>> look, i just really need to speak with where i am. i'm a member of congress wanting to hear the information. we ask about that question to the intelligence community. at the time, two days ago, there wasn't information made available to us. i've got to do the response will thing as a member of congress, get that information. that's kind of where i am on that issue. >> melissa: we certainly appreciate that. congressman brown, thank you for coming out to talk to us today. >> okay, melissa, thank you. >> bill: 12 minutes before the hour. good news here, far fewer americans are dying from cancer. the united states now saying the largest one-year drop in mortality ever. what's behind that? will it continue? the doctors in the house to explain that to you, next.

>> melissa: wow, a busy friday. atop the owner, iran today in the don't like denying it was in the rainy missile that brought on dominic on the ukrainian jetliner. even though secretary of state mike pompeo said that they believed her on his mind it. new video appears to show a missile hitting a plane near the airport. so what happens now? >> gillian: we will also take a look at the queen saying she might not be too wild about prince harry and reports that she now urged him not to go public with his intentions to break away from his royal duties. the duke and duchess of sussex, as we now know, harris, did it

anyway. the real attic for the monarchy. we'll break it down. >> harris: meghan markle is already in canada. >> gillian: i know, i saw that. >> harris: plus, our guest in the middle. "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. >> bill: think you, ladies. see you in 9 minutes. breakthroughs in scientific treatments driving down the cancer mortality rate. the u.s. recently saying its sharpest single-year decline ever reported. dr. marc siegel, professor of medicine at nyu, fox news contributor. i love to you. five year survival rates on screen. prostate, 98%, five years. melanoma, 92%. breast cancer, 90%. this is fantastic news. the question is why? >> first commits the united states were talking here. the reason is, in the united states as opposed to some other countries that have socialized medicine like the u.k., france, canada, we have access to amazing new treatments here that we don't have elsewhere. what are these treatments

chemically have immunotherapies, targeted therapies based on genetics. i can treat your jeans versus mind, that maybe different. i can have the immune system wake up and recognize a cancer cell, the chinese cancer cell, and attack it. whereas before the cancer was hiding. second point, bill, this is been a trend going on since 1991. cancer deaths per year, we are still the number two killer, cancer. but it's gone down 29%. why? first of all, less smoking. second of all, better detection. we have incredible techniques we didn't have before. cat scans, colonoscopies, prostate screening, breast cancer screenings, they have evolved in dramatic fashion. we have prevention, then we have diagnosis and treatment area as i said, expanding and becoming more and more personalized. >> bill: so it's all about innovation, is the point were making. in the medical fields here in the united states.

>> yes. when i said diagnosis, we are now heading toward artificial intelligence going to help us. we talk about treatments, by the way, sometimes we talk about treatment before the cancer prayed we will see a big drop in liver cancer over the next few years. you know why? we have new drugs or hepatitis c becoming more and more affordable and a free market system. they are going to cut down on the incidence of liver cancer. >> bill: remarkable stuff. thank you. >> exciting times. >> bill: indeed it is. breaking news, we can now confirm here at fox news that nancy pelosi intends to send the articles of impeachment to the senate next week. here is the timeline. the house comes back to business on monday. i do believe based on mike emanuel's reporting that the first vote is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. monday night. maybe it changed earlier in the day, let's see. that's where it is right now. if it doesn't happen monday night, then thou scheduled on tuesday , and you potentially get it after that takes place.

regardless, next week is shaping up to be a critical moment in the senate trial, melissa. depending on how mitch mcconnell wants to put the schedule together, we could be in the senate trial one week from today. he may delete further into the following week, january 20th, but we will see based on what the senate majority leader decides, melissa. >> melissa: she said she wouldn't send it over until she knew the rules of engagement, so to speak, would be. i guess we get to see at that point if she gained anything by holding onto these for this period of time. with the state of play really will be over there, bill. >> bill: thank you for that. we are watching that. we'll get you updates in the moment. quick break here, marc siegel, thank you. great to see you, back after this. chocolate would be good- snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar.

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