joining me is federal prosecutor doug burns. good to have you here this morning. >> thank you. >> the justice department said leasing this memo to the public would be extraordinarily reckless. so do you see this as another attempt to disrupt the special counsel's investigation? and could that lead down the road to obstruction? >> yeah, dara, i call this down the middle. in other words, perfectly liable but they are able to throw smoke screens up and question the integrity of the officials and the fbi and the way the material was used to get the warrant. but at the same time, it's legitimate in the other direction. look, if it is a classified document, legally speaking, it's got to be declassified or has to be what lawyers call redacted, take a number of the names out and so forth. so i mean, the committee claims they are going to vote this week on making it public, discriminating, we'll see. but i myself have not talked in the there. >> please explain for us and the president why this is so? >> well, it is interesting because i

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, criminal defense attorney, vinoo varghese, arguing on behalf of the democratic governors, and doug burnsthe tax law is constitutional. welcome, gentlemen. this is what political -- democratic political analyst say, it is a no-brainer, failing to aggressively pursue this would be political malpractice. he is thinking of the potential legal won, and it being a potential win. >> a perfect place to start. it is way more political, of course, then legal. obviously, new york state is a very high tax state and to cap the deduction for state and local and real estate taxes, $10,000, it does harm people whose taxes are above that measure. but legally, the claim that is unconstitutional based on equal protection grounds is incredibly weak. maybe they want to hit the books a little harder and come up with some other avenue. think about it, shannon. you have distinctions in the internal revenue code all over the place. single filing is different than married. if you earn x dollars, that is with the tax code is. so to say that this distinguishes unconstitutional, against someone whose taxes are highe

it is like saying, i do not believe in fire but yet the house is burning war -- down? doug stanton: it does not matter if you believe in violence and the war. it exists and we need to come to terms with it and do something in our own way to move the needle in one direction as the or the other. what has been fascinating when dealing with this community is that these people have thought deeply about what people fight. i think that is on the journeys of four soldiers, my own education in that. today, if you look at december 1, president obama's beach, the announcement of 3000 more troops, general crystals earlier request in august of those troops, the waiting out of the counterinsurgency program -- you do not eat in that program upfront, headlined, much of this talk of the unconventional approach to this as a "social problem here: i think that those things are there. problem." l you have to remember, this would be -- i do not even know how to describe it -- the fact that these people are fighting with the taliban, is because they do evenhink that fmap karzai knows that they ex

burning. >>> our coverage continues now with chief meteorologist doug kammerer who is going to tell us how it's going to have a direct impact on our weather. is it bringing the same amount of raih damage? >> no, it's not. it's going to be extremely beneficial. we really need to see some rain and california needs to say that rain, too. not like that and not in that same area. now, for us, it will bring warmer temperatures and you already see the warmer numbers down to our south and west. 43 in d.c. notice what is happening, 69 in jackson. the warmer air is moving our way into the area on friday. you can see the storm coming through the rockies with some snowfall back towards parts of the colorado rocky theas and th it's beneficial for us as well. the rain comes in during the day on friday but it's not just the rain that this storm brings. it's got much colder air on the back side of it, too. much more about this and i'll time it out for you in ten minutes. >> okay, doug. thank you. >>> a tragic end to the search for a missing man who suffered from did i mementia. >> daniel dehaven was last seen

burned down. tragic circumstances. things are going on. moore, even though doug jones has been sworn into office, still not conceding, he is still holding ground. but there is only so much news that comes out of that because we know the doug jones is a senator and roy moore is not. host: a follow-up on the cost of the dream act. mid december cbo came out with their score on it. this is the "daily caller" report. cbo finding it would increase the federal budget deficit by $26 billion over 10 years mostly from conferring eligibility for federal benefits on amnestied immigrants. cbo also has their scores available on their website. guest: and the president says $18 billion is what he wanted initially for the wall, for this round of wall building. he came out with those principles on friday. host: martin in salem, oregon. line for democrats. caller: i was wondering why nobody is talking about social safety nets. i work three jobs and i was going back to college and then i had a disabled son, so he had to go on disability, i had to go on disability, we had to get hous

doug is tracking the timing and impact. >> and a world war ii veteran trapped inside a burning home. what we are learning about the 94-year-old victim from neighbors who captured the tragedy as it unfolded. >> a mother of three killed inside her home. family members say her boyfriend is locked up for murder. the urgent message from the mayor in this tragic case of domestic violence. >> news4 at 6:00 starts now. >> and we are going to start with bone chilling cold and brutal wind chills as a lot of you get ready to head back to work and school tomorrow. >> it is brutal indeed. and believe it or not, it is going to get even colder. doug has the heat cranked up storm center 4 to tem us what's coming. >> you know i like the cold, but this is ri this is not the cold anybody likes. take a look at the wind chills now. incredible. 11 in d.c., 0 in hagerstown, and 10 below 0 in pittsburgh. i think many of our numbers will be below 0 as we move on through the rest of the night tonight. the reason the wind, we have the winds gusting to 20 to 25 miles per hour around the area. where it is not sh

burned down last wednesday. moore denied the allegations and lost the race for alabama senate to doug jones.igation is under way. >>> he's scared but also hopeful. >>> 20-year-old luis mora has been in the country since he was 11. he was arrested last week by u.s. border patrol agents for overstaying his visa. abc news reporter leslie brinkley has the story. >> reporter: his attorney shared this facebook video, part of a campaign to get him released from custody. he and his girlfriend made a wrong turn and rein into a temporary immigration checkpoint east of san diego. >> when they asked him for his papers, luis was honest. he told them, i'm not an american citizen, i'm from ecuador. and they took him in. >> reporter: mora came to the u.s. as a 11-year-old. his visa expired. he's now a political science major at cal. mora's attorney says the department of homeland security really has the authority to set up a temporary immigration checkpoint anywhere, any time, within 100 miles of a coastline, a border, or an airport. so in essence in the majority of california. mora's attorney visited him i

reopening a battle on another front today, burning sanctuary cities and states that they may be forced to prove cooperation with federal immigration authorities or else. dougckelway joins us with details on the drama that played out today and a surgeon to continue. >> pressure of the federal local standoff regarding sensory cities has been building. today, it exploded. just hours before the president was to meet with the members of the u.s. conference of mayors, the department of justice sent letters to 23 sanctuary jurisdictions including the top three cities, new york, los angeles, and chicago. threatening a withdrawal of federal safety grants if those cities refused to turn over info about the immigration status of people in custody. mayors that fail to do so could be threatened with arrest. >> every crime committed by someone who shouldn't be in this country is a crime that's 100% preventable and so we are highly prioritizing these sanctuary jurisdictions, urging them to cooperate with federal law enforcement, so that we can lower the crime rates and some of these places. >> that announcement was not was not really a surprise. attorney general sessions

burned down. tragic circumstances. things are going on. moore, even though douges has been sworn into office, still not conceding, he is still holding ground. but there is only so much news that comes out of that because we know the doug jones is a senator and roy moore is not. host: a follow-up on the cost of the dream act. mid december cbo came out with their score on it. this is the "daily caller" report. cbo finding it would increase the federal budget deficit by $26 billion over 10 years mostly from conferring eligibility for federal benefits on amnestied immigrants. cbo also has their scores available on their website. guest: and the president says $18 billion is what he wanted initially for the wall, for this round of wall building. he came out with those principles on friday. host: martin in salem, oregon. line for democrats. caller: i was wondering why nobody is talking about social safety nets. i work three jobs and i was going back to college and then i had a disabled son, so he had to go on disability, i had to go on disability, we had to get housing,

burned lots.>>> a former white house strategist, steve bannon with startling accusations about the trump campaign. as well as a furious response from the president. i'm doug luzader from washington and i will have more on all of that coming up. >>> the federal government plans to end a policy that allowed legal marijuana laws to expand, jeff sessions the attorney general will announce he is resending the policy from the obama administration that paved the way for legalized marijuana in california. the policy from the obama administration was to not stand in the way of states that legalize marijuana as long as officials kept it out of the hands of criminal gangs and children. sessions reportedly will allow federal prosecutors to decide how aggressively they will enforce federal marijuana laws. >>> the white house is threatening with imminent legal action against the president's former chief strategist steve bannon after some bombshell disclosures in a book about the trump administration. doug luzader with the story. >> steve bannon sought to betray himself as the power behind the throne but his disclosures about the trump administration and about the presi