i'm ed henry in for bret baier. they are doing the recovery of deadly airasia crash. >> full honors for those lost on airasia flight 8501. the first two bodies returned to the indonesian city of sarobaya from where the plane left sunday morning. four more bodies were recovered along with three yesterday. that's four males and three females, including a woman flight attendant still wearing her uniform and a four-year-old boy. still, search efforts were hampered by bad weather rain and high wind curtailing all diving. the search also hampered by misinformation. the fact the plane was detected by sonar proved false. still, ships still there. sailors have spotted and recovered aircraft debris. >> the ships are looking to operate 24 hours, which is very encouraging and they're moving all the assets to the two spots which they think the aircraft could be. >> as families of those on the flight waited for word praying and singing hymns. while i understandndonesia is a mostly muslim country, there are christians there. some

. >>> good evening, i'm doug mcelway in for bret baier who is on assignment. we begin tonight's coverage with an act of terror. three people including the gunman are dead after a 16-hour long hostage siege in sidney, australia. four others were injured. >> reporter: 16 hours into the hostage situation, and armed officers move in. the loud bangs of stun grenades shook the city as gunfire signaled a bloody end to the siege. the police stormed the building moments after this dramatic escape in the early hours of the morning. earlier in the day, these cafe staff also rush for freedom. the terror is etched on their faces. it was clear at the time the authorities would do whatever needed to be done. >> we are being tested today in sidney. but whatever the test, we will face it head on. >> throughout the day, the spector of the gunman wearing a bandanna with arabic writing drifted menacingly in front of the cafe window. he was charged in 2009 with sending abusive letters to the families of australian soldiers killed in afghanistan. later a flag with arabic writing bu

." >>> good evening, i'm bret baier, president obama today filled his christmas season end of the year news conference with visions, not of sugar plums dancing. but in a session filled mostly with softball questions. the hard reality of the hacking question, lent a bitter taste to the proceedings. ed henry begins our coverage tonight. >> before bolting to hawaii for a two week vacation, president obama put the hollywood hack square at the feet of kim jong-un. >> we will respond proportion naturally and we will respond in at a place in time and manner that we choose. >> that came after the fbi issued a sharply worded statement claiming strong evidence against north korea. the fbi calling this one of the greatest maximum security dangers, and vowing the agency will identify, pursue and impose costs and consequences on individuals groups or nation states who wage cyber attacks. as the president seemed resigned to the fact that america will keep getting hit. >> they're going to be costly, they're going to be serious, but we can't start changing our patterns of behavior any more than we sto

and cuba to change policy. >> bret baier, thank you for joining us today. we will continue the conversation from the couch. i want to come to you first. sesenior administration official has confirmed for us this change which was a separate from alan gross but happened simultaneously as i am understanding it. the release of three of the cuban five. i know you have some details on the history with the cuban five but tell me about this prison release. >> th to talk about what we migt be willing to do leading up to the agreements of the release and obviously our prisoner swap with these three from the cuban five is all happening at the same time concurrently. they may say it was a separate and distinct, but it is not. the three that we released intelligence officers basically spies operating for the cuban service. cuban service is very efficient. they are extremely good, one of the best. >> the fact they are able to suppress the cuban people way they are is because of this apparatus. how hot is the spine between the united states and cuba, how active is it? >>

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"special report" with bret baier. >>> i'm ed henry in for bret baier, and this is a fox news alert. as dawn breaks over indonesia's capital, search crews are gearing up for an intense search. the singapore bound airbus a 320 who vanished in some storm clouds without issuing a distress call. 162 people were on that plane. and now fears are being rekindled as people worry about how safe the airline industry is. senior senior. >> reporter: a desperate search for missing airasia flight 8501

"special report" with bret baier. >>> i'm ed henry in for bret baier, and this is a fox news alert. as dawn breaks over indonesia's capital, search crews are gearing up for an intense search. the singapore bound airbus a 320 who vanished in some storm clouds without issuing a distress call. 162 people were on that plane. and now fears are being rekindled as people worry about how safe the airline industry is. senior senior. >> reporter: a desperate search for missing airasia flight 8501 is set to rev up right now, some two days after the flight disappeared. oil has been spotted off the coast of indonesia, with dozens of planes and helicopters in the hunt there's still no trace. >> of course the operation in the sea, especially in the bad weather like this. >> >> reporter: the airasia plane carried 162 passengers most of them indonesian but other nationalities including british and french. the plane was set to fly from surabaya and singapore. the plane took off at 5:36, at 6:12 a route change was requested but was denied. at 617 radio and radar information was lost. the exact cause o

last night on "special report with bret baier" bret baier sat down with the former vice president, dick cheney. you would think a guy who was one of the, guys in charge of the nation's defense, he probably would have been interviewed for this. no, he was not. also he says for the most part the senate report not worth the paper it's written on. >> i guess partly what really bugs me as i watch all this process unfold is the men and women of the c.i.a. did exactly what we wanted to have them do in terms of taking on this program. we said we've got to go use enhanced techniques and we're going to find out. we've got khalid sheikh mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11 who killed 3,000 americans, taken down the world trade center, hit the pentagon, would have taken out the white house or the capitol building if in fact it hadn't been for the passengers on united 93. he is in our possession. we know he's the architect. and what are we supposed to do? kiss him on both cheeks and say please, please, tell us what you know. the report is full of crap, excuse me. >> i think it's very true. i thought the

. >> bret baier's anchor, special report. thank you for joining us. what can the president do with what is perceived to be local matters of law enforcement? >> heather, good afternoon. i think the president's goal here is to take a 30,000 foot view of law enforcement across the country and take these specific incidents and translate it into better practices for law enforcement agencies. that's what he's talked about! i think pushing for cameras on police officers, pushing for better training, that's the broad sense i think the president and the attorney general have been talking about. >> and he's announced this commission to study relations between police and communities. how do you think that will translate among residents themselves because really that is what a lot of folks are saying this boils down to, that being the family unit. >> i think it's important. each individual local police department authority sheriff's agency has an interaction with their local population. we've seen these incidents but you've seen also a lot of places where this is

here now, bret baier host of fox news's "special report." tell me where i went wrong with all of that? >> melissa, you share views of a lot of people in washington and i think definitely across the country who are frustrated a little twit how the government and our government responded mainly to the sony picture thing. first of all the that the movie was able to be shut down and there hasn't been a definitive response from the administration or at least they haven't ow lined that is pretty striking. it is not the government's job to tell sony what to do and not do but it is it is interesting that the response has not been more significant. secondly, let me just say about cuba. it is much more mixed on that front. there are cuban americans in florida, younger, mostly, who welcome this shift. many are opposed to it including senator marco rubio and others who say i ace sad day for democracy and freedom. a sad day than the sony situation which is pretty cut and dry. melissa: what was the benefit to the u.s.? i understand we got one innocent ame

former vice president dick cheney in his interview with bret baier last night reminded americans of the intense pressure to come up with intelligence in those post-9/11 days. >> that khalid shaikh mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, who killed 3,000 americans taken down the world trade center, hit the pentagon, would have taken down the white house or the capitol building if in fact if it hand intbeen for the passengers on united 93. he is in our possession. we know he is the architect and what are we supposed to do, kiss him on both cheeks, please, please, tell us what you know? >> reporter: senator feinstein acknowledged some of those risks but said that the united states needed to bare its soul over these processes. and meanwhile the obama administration is standing by two bush era endorsers of the program, fbi director james comey and cia director john brennan who have risen to higher ranks in the obama administration. >> so you don't see any contradiction between them endorsing the policies that the president is attacking and they now serve in two most sensitive -- >> what i can tell

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. >> good evening, i'm john roberts, in for bret baier this christmas eve, a time of the year generallyoted to peace and good will is seeing displays of violence and hatred over how police do their jobs. tensions continue in new york city after saturday's murder of two nypd cops and the st. louis area is once again under tremendous pressure after the third fatal shooting of a black suspect by a white police

. >> good evening, i'm bret baier, the old politics make great bed foal lows as we have fox team coveragehenry is at to the white house, where the president is pushing democratic senators to get with the program and several are pushing back. but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike

." >>> good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier, we are nine days away from authorized fundingederal government drying up, without that authorization, the federal government essentially runs out of muffin. the main goal for thiscongress, in its final session is to take care of that. but hard feelings over the president's executive action on immigration could greatly complicate matters. we have fox team coverage tonight, mike emanuel on capitol hill with what republicans can

joining us now, bret baier, anchor of "special report" on the fox news channel. explain this to us.pparently he has decided next year is the time to fight the battle over the executive orders on immigration? >> exactly. tong the rank and file to hold fire until the numbers improve and will have the most republicans in the house caucus since the harry truman days as of january. control of the senate as well. how it is looking now is that there will be this effort to get the spending bill voted on on wednesday. the authorized funding for the government and thursday. so we're pushing up against that deadline. so far no wrenches in the system to throw it off track, but there are things that hadn't been worked out, policy writers on this. we have to fund everything the same levels for years. we will see if that is the way it has to go. jon: my understanding there playing this one close to their vast, the budget shows the priorities, what do you know about the priorities in this budget? >> where they were last time, where conservatives will pull off funding, homeland security until februa

"special report" with bret baier. >> it is tuesday december oh30th a fox news alert. bodies and debris where the airasia flight vanished. >> the mayor verses the police. >> thank you. congratulations officers. >> a day after being booed new york mayor bill deblasio facing some of his harshest critics. >> the mayor needs to humble himself. he needs to change his philosophical views. >> it is a meeting that could be make or break for the comblier's few -- mayor's future. >> daa deadly drink hits the hill of shelves. it looks just like vodka. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> hey everyone. good morning. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday. i am leah gabrielle in for ainsley earhardt. >> um heather childers. the plane vanishing from radar in route from indonesia to singapore on sunday. the president of indonesia expected to address the most recent findings in just a few minutes. let's get right to david kipper who has the latest. >> indonesian officials say search teams recovered several bodies from the sea close to where the plane went mission

." >>> good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier, we are nine days away from authorized funding for the federal government drying up, without that authorization, the federal government essentially runs out of muffin. the main goal for thiscongress, in its final session is to take care of that. but hard feelings over the president's executive action on immigration could greatly complicate matters. we have fox team coverage tonight, mike emanuel on capitol hill with what republicans can and cannot do about it. but we begin with white house correspondent wendell goler and some republicans venting today. >> reporter: fresh from their thanksgiving recess, house republicans mounted a broad attack on the president's executive action on immigration. >> the committee on homeland security will come to order. >> reporter: homeland security secretary jay johnson -- the president can't by pass congress to shield illegal imgrants from deportation. >> the president created that category, not congress, that is a clear violation of the constitution principles. >> with 11 million or 12 million pe

bret baier has the big show, 6:00 p.m. eastern time. "special report" with bret bear.. >>> lot of people wonder where heather nauert is. she's with us. hands off. >> back with my morning gang. >> we love having you. >> a fox news alert now. just moments ago, we learned new details with a massive fire that is still burn not guilty downtown los angeles. the fire department is now saying that two other buildings nearby were also damaged. the flames started in a seven-story apartment building that is still under construction. look at this. two major highways are now shut down because of concerns that that building could collapse onto the road. that smoke could be seen for miles away. luckily no one has been hurt. we'll keep watching this. >>> officials say the woman who was murdered or who murdered an american teacher at a mall in abu dhabi apparently acted alone. security officials claim that the suspect was radicalized online, but they haven't found any specific links to terror groups as of yet. the woman confessed to stabbing the american teacher. her family believes th

. >>> this is a fox news alert, i'm john roberts in washington, bret baier is off tonight. new yorkers are rejecting the call tonight from their mayor for a moratorium on anti-police protests in the wake of a double cop killing on saturday night. demonstrators are attempting to shut down one of manhattan's busiest streets. let's get the latest live from correspondent david lee miller, he's at one police plaza. hello, david. >> as this city continues to move, agademonstrators at this r are trying to disrupt shopping. they're chanting killer cops have to go. many of them are carrying signs that say jail killer cops. the protests are obviously in defiance of the mayor's request that all such demonstrations be suspended until the funerals of the two officers take place. to the demonstrations come on a day when mayor bill de blasio said the city must try and now heal. and he attempted to honor the memory of the two officers who were killed. >> reporter: new york city city mayor bill de blasio joined by his wife visited the memorial of the two police officers shot and killed exec

so today, louisiana republican governor bobby jindal told bret baier why he thinks mr. obama overstepped his bounds here. remember, louisiana is part of this suit. >> he has an election where my policies are on the ballot. all states across the country rejected his policies, rejected his dan dats. shortly after the election, this president in my mind poked at the american voters. now basically ignores the mandate expressed by the american voters and says, i'm issuing this executive order anyway. i'm going to violate the law, violate the separation of powers. >> but the president and his administration have stood by the legality of all of this. homeland security secretary jeh johnson testifying before the homeland security secretary, saying he is confident that the states have to the authority to ito -- >> i have looked at very executive marks by the president concerning his legal authority to act. i do not believe that what we have done is inconsistent with that. >> now the lawsuit is not seeking any damages, of course, instead an injunction, rather just to stop these a

i'm bret baier.er american cities are bracing for another night of protests, following a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for what's being called the choke hold death of an unarmed african-american man. the rioting that occurred in missouri and other places was peaceful demonstrations. they continue to grow larger and more

i'm bret baier in washington. already tense relationship between president obama and israel's leadership. chief white house correspondent ed henry joins us tonight from the north lawn, here's the full story. >> when i pressed josh ernest today he left the door wide open to the u.s. issuing sanctions to israel over settlement activity. privately i'm hear that this would not be similar to the tough sanctions that have been leveled against the economies of russia ander ran, trying to get israel's attention. it would make an

. >>> i'm ed henry, in for bret baier, this is a fox news alert. a massive recovery operation under way at inn hourthis hour in the java sea. as the mission try remains over just why the plane plunged into the sea in the first place. that story just ahead. >>> but first moments ago in new york city, the police union chief came out swinging against embattled democratic mayor bill de blasio. >> there were a number of discusses, especially about the safety issues that our members state. there was no resolve, and our thought here today is that actions speak louder than words.

he sits down with bret baier special report tonight right here on the fox news channel. >> on capitolll, law makers are set to consider a tax extender bill this weekend and taxes can be a burden to many americans, you might be surprised at who gets the break. william will have a look at that story. >> reporter: law makers call them extenders. call it what it is. it is a sib side and give away. when someone doesn't pay their taxes, you do. horse racing is called the sport of kings except under it is u.s. tax code lowly citizens allow owners to write off 50 percent of the cost of thorough breds that make millions. race track owners get a break. repave your drive way uncle sam doesn't care. but owners who black top nas-car can recoup the cost. taxpayers don't only see movies but underwrite the making them. >> it is aiding and abetting washington's addiction to providing pet projects and spending. >> uncle sam pays up to 2500 to anyone who buys an electric motorcycles. two manufacturers are home to the senate finance chairman. and coal, the enemy of clean air, yet the administration will

good evening, i'm john roberts in for bret baier this monday evening, we start off tonight in new york city, where tensions there are said to be unlike anything seen in decades. police are being told to stay in pairs and watch their backs as they mourn the deaths of two of their own. many are blaming saturday's murder as a result of 125i89s of -- we have fox team coverage tonight. shannon breen here in washington, with the rhetoric before and after saturday's cop killings. but we begin with correspondent david lee miller. >> reporter: good evening, john, mayor de blasio did some finger pointing of his own this afternoon, and perhaps in an unexpected direction, he pointed the finger at the media for portraying what he sees is largely peaceful demonstrations, meanwhile the mayor remains under pressure, critics say he has lost the support for much of his own police force. new york city mayor bill de blasio today visited the homes and families of officers rafael ramos and winjian lu who were killed execution style on saturday. at a news conference, he described their anguish. >> you can on

i'm bret baier in washington. welcome to groundhog day. fiscal cliff as we are now less than six hours away from the midnight hour and the government running out of authorized funding. the president and the vice president are working the phones to win democratic votes as efforts on both ends of pennsylvania avenue now to delay or prevent a partial government shutdown are happening. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is watching the action from capitol hill. irks >> reporter: president obama invites vice president biden to work the phones and rally some democratic support. house leaders

. >>> this is bret baier. we have news tonight. cuba's dubious human rights record will not be part of the official initial discussions on restoring diplomatic relations with the u.s. but we begin on wall street, where the dow had its biggest day in three years. the dow jones industrial average skyrocketed today 421 points. the s&p 500 gained 48. the nasdaq surged 104. let's find out just what's going on now from our sister network, fox business network's maria ba bartiromo. >> the federal reserve met in its final meeting of the year and kept their pledge to leave interest rates low tore a considerable amount amount of time. as a result, people are looking at the stock market as the stock market for their money. china is slowing down from its peak levels, europe is also deteriorating and couple the low interest rate story in the u.s. with the fact that corporate profits are doing well and you have to own u.s. stocks, just very few alternatives. today one catalyst was better than expected earnings from oracle. that put the technolog

. >>> i'm ed henry, in for bret baier, this is a fox news alert. a massive recovery operation under way at inn hourthis hour in the java sea. as the mission try remains over just why the plane plunged into the sea in the first place. that story just ahead. >>> but first moments ago in new york city, the police union chief came out swinging against embattled democratic mayor bill de blasio. >> there were a number of discusses, especially about the safety issues that our members state. there was no resolve, and our thought here today is that actions speak louder than words. and time will tell. >> this late breaking development comes as a new report out today reveals that murders of police officers, like the assassinations we saw in new york are on the rise across the nation. correspondent peter doocey breaks down the stats for us tonight. >> reporter: the number one way police officers were killed in 2014 ambush attacks resulting in 15 deaths, compared to 5 in 2013. in all 126 law enforcement officers were killed on the job this year, an increase of

. >>> this is a fox news alert, i'm john roberts in washington, bret baier is off tonight.ght from their mayor for a moratorium on anti-police protests in the wake of a double cop killing on saturday night. demonstrators are attempting to shut down one of manhattan's busiest streets. let's get the latest live from correspondent david lee miller, he's at one police plaza. hello, david. >> as this city continues to move, agademonstrators at this r are trying to disrupt shopping. they're chanting killer cops have to go.

. >> good evening, i'm bret baier, the old politics make great bed foal lows as we have fox team coverage tonight, ed henry is at to the white house, where the president is pushing democratic senators to get with the program and several are pushing back. but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill where mitch mcconnell and harry reid finding themselves on the same side tonight. >> the drama isn't entirely over on capitol hill, the house passed the trillion dollar plus government funding extension, now it's up to the senate. >> i want to consider this legislation to keep our government open and funded. and we're going to do it today. i hope. our senators are unhappy with this legislation. and they'll have the chance to make their objections heard. >> if some senators want to run the clock, congress passed an emergency funding extension through tomorrow night, in case it gets drawn out, the house also approved a second extension through wednesday. but the senate appropriations chair who negotiated the bipartisan deal is pushing the pass the bill. >> we w

i'm bret baier in washington. there could be a major development in the already tense relationship between president obama and israel's leadership. chief white house correspondent ed henry joins us tonight from the north lawn, here's the full story. >> when i pressed josh ernest today he left the door wide open to the u.s. issuing sanctions to israel over settlement activity. privately i'm hear that this would not be similar to the tough sanctions that have been leveled against the economies of russia ander ran, trying to get israel's attention. it would make an already tense relationship with prime minister netanyahu even worse. i asked ernest to -- >> we believe that settlements are illegitimate and we have deep concerns about highly contentious planning and construction acttivities that israel is pursuing. >> reporter: ernest added none of this is affecting u.s. support for israel's defense. protecting the national security interests of the united states requires strategic and moral clarity and an ability to di

. >>> good evening, i'm bret baier, a congress reviled by the public as fractured and do nothing, will try to come together to get a lot of things done before the clock runs out in less than two weeks. and the dissension on capitol hill is amplified by president obama's go it alone action on immigration, the environment and other issues. we begin tonight with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill. >> reporter: with the calendar now on december and the government running out of funding on december 11, congress -- substantial progress was made on an omnibus package to operate the government through next september. >> i don't think it's good for the congress, it's good for the republican party or good for the people to be bogged down in an endless budget debate from now until the eptd of the year and into the next year. >> reporter: maryland democratic congressman chris van holland says that's not the way to run government. >> that creates so much instability and uncertainty in the economy and that's a bad deal for republicans. if we can't come together and come u

. >> good evening, i'm john roberts, in for bret baier this christmas eve, a time of the year generally devoted to peace and good will is seeing displays of violence and hatred over how police do their jobs. tensions continue in new york city after saturday's murder of two nypd cops and the st. louis area is once again under tremendous pressure after the third fatal shooting of a black suspect by a white police officer since the michael brown killing back in august. police say they have proof the man in this case pointed a gun at the officer. rick lebenthal is in new york. >> reporter: drawing an angry crowd of some 200 to 300 people. but despite just being a few miles from ferguson, local authorities say there's no comparison between this incident and the death of michael brown. >> when i got there, we were all saying the same thing, here's a white policeman killing a black young man. so when does this stop? and i can assure you that did not happen last night. >> reporter: surveillance cameras at the gas station captured the moment the suspect antonio martin and another man approaching

. >>> this is a fox news alert, i'm bret baier in washington, president obama is taking drastic measuresht to erase decades of distance between nations less than 100 miles apart. he has announced the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with cuba, saying after five decades, it is time for a new approach. he will ease restrictions on economic ties and travel, he also secured the release of american hostage allan gross, along with a cuban who spied for the u.s. why two nations so close geographically have been so far apart in so many years. we begin with

. >>> good evening, i'm doug mcelway in for bret baier who is on assignment.begin tonight's coverage with an act of terror. three people including the gunman are dead after a 16-hour long hostage siege in sidney, australia. four others were injured. >> reporter: 16 hours into the hostage situation, and armed officers move in.

. >>> good evening, i'm bret baier, a congress reviled by the public as fractured and do nothing, will get a lot of things done before the clock runs out in less than two weeks. and the dissension on capitol hill is amplified by president obama's go it alone action on immigration, the environment and other issues. we begin tonight with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill. >> reporter: with the

good evening, i'm john roberts in for bret baier this monday evening, we start off tonight in new yorkre tensions there are said to be unlike anything seen in decades. police are being told to stay in pairs and watch their backs as they mourn the deaths of two of their own. many are blaming saturday's murder as a result of 125i89s

." >>> good evening, i'm bret baier, president obama today filled his christmas season end of the yearf sugar plums dancing. but in a session filled mostly with softball questions. the hard reality of the hacking question, lent a bitter taste to the proceedings. ed henry b

bret baier, thank you.jon: from capitol hill to the white house meeting with civil rights leader and law enforcement to talk about the violence in ferguson, missouri. protests erupting across the country after the grand jury in ferguson decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of a young black man. live at the white house, good morning, what are we expecting to come out of these meetings today? >> the reason the white house are hosting these meetings today is the administration feels things have gotten too tense between the public and police from coast to coast for the first thing the president is going to do to address this issue is meet with the cabinet and talk about attending a program that gives equipment to law enforcement across the country. it has been under review since august after tempers flared for the first time in ferguson and they want to make sure officers are being trained properly and vehicle and gear normally only seen in conflict zones and other countries are be

i'm ed henry in for bret baier.g the recovery of deadly airasia crash. >> full honors for those lost on

i'm bret baier in washington. welcome to groundhog day. the return of the fiscal cliff as we are now less than six hours away from the midnight hour and the government running out of authorized funding. the president and the vice president are working the phones to win democratic votes as efforts on both ends of pennsylvania avenue now to delay or prevent a partial government shutdown are happening. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is watching the action from capitol hill. irks >> reporter: president obama invites vice president biden to work the phones and rally some democratic support. house leaders are pushing back telling their members they should not feel intimidated. they're fighting each other. >> the biggest obstacle to the house passing a government funding extension at the deadline of the current deal was freshman massachusetts democrat senator elizabeth warren. the liberal favorite took to the senate floor encouraging her allies to stand up and fight. >> when the next bailout comes, a lot of people will look back t

hello, i am bret baier. i hope you will enjoy watching this fox news reporting special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel, but we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, and harvard-trained psychiatrist and even an occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opinion. you were a little regular tphau supbt about this. >> i don't like it. >> i have been trying to convince charles krauthammer to sit for an interview for sometime, and not one where he shares his thoughts on the news for the day, but one where he pulls back the curtain and reveals beyond the extraordinary writer and influential thinker, the life of an intensely private man. >> when i say i don't like it, i am not adverse of the spotlight and i am not going to pretend something that is on tv every night doesn't enjoy it. >> more disclosure. charles krauthammer is a colleague and friend. but he only agreed to cooperate on a fox n

this time i'm setting in for the great bret baier. >> do you have enough pocket harvickys to get yough the week because we can get you some more. >> i'm expecting viewers to send in pocket hankies as christmas gifts. anchor for a week or so. >> get 50,000 of them? >> who is going to hawaii? who is -- somebody has got to cover. >> dan springer. >> dan springer. >> great guy. >> springer is out in seattle, right? that's where is he based. >> is he in seattle, closer to hawaii than where i am. >> i should have put into that. wouldn't that have been fun if i could have covered him. >> you or watters. i think if watters, this is my world. that would be pretty good in hawaii. >> we sent watters to hawaii and i don't think is he allowed back. big year for watters. watching you on the baier show. when we come right back. a segment not for the timid. if you are a blew ther you won't like it either. gutfeld and mcguirk on the folks that anowed them this year. moments away. >>> thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly. in the what the heck just happened segment tonight, annoying people her

i'm bret baier. officials in new york city and many other american cities are bracing for another night of protests, following a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for what's being called the choke hold death of an unarmed african-american man. the rioting that occurred in missouri and other places was peaceful demonstrations. they continue to grow larger and more volatile in many communities. we have whether federal investigations will really make a difference. but we begin with rick leventhal in new york with more reaction to the death of eric garner. hi, rick. >> bret, many people say they were shocked by the grand jury's decision not to seek criminal charges in this case. from eric garner's family to politicians to the officer who testified on his own behalf, and tonight the protests continue with a crowd estimated at more than 1,000 strong gathering down at foley plaza in lower manhattan near the the federal court buildings. the nypd on high alert wondering how much higher

we are joined by bret baier as we get set to hear the president. >> harris, good afternoon.e looking live at the white house waiting for president obama to deliver these remarks. it is notable

and if you've watched the excellent special that bret baier did on that fateful night, the men who wereenghazi, they don't feel like justice was served. and if you read the reporting that's been done by adam houseley and jennifer griffin that have stayed on this story, the united states of america has never left anyone behind. and so the answers to that question is what i want to know. the man who was manning the desk that night at the white house. we have not heard from him. he's left the white house. he's in retirement now. what happened that night that they were fighting for hours and got no backup? we have never done that before. the standdown order. i mean, as i understand it, president obama went to sleep, hillary clinton and leon panetta said we've got this one, but we have never left our men and women behind, and those men went in themselves to try and save them. why did we do it that night, and i think we still are owed that answer. >> jedediah, talk to me about the politics. was critics will -- because critics will say republicans are playing politics. but you saw that poll, p

hello, i'm bret baier. i hope you enjoy watching this reporting special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel and probably know his position on most issues. we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist and even occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opinion. you were a little reticent when we started the project. what is your thought about this? >> i don't like it. >> full disclosure, i have been trying to convince charles krauthammer to sit for an interview for some ticme. >> not one where he shares his thoughts on the news of the day. >> i expect there's going to be another twist here. >> one where he pulls back the curtain, the life of an intensely private man. >> look, when i say i don't like it, i'm not adverse to the spotlight. when it comes to interior life, it's not something that's very interesting to me. >> more disclosure. cha

bret baier's interview with dick cheney and brian williams on nbc asking michael hayden the former ciase techniques were used against your family. nobody's going to be prosecuted here and this is not a trial, but i do think this kind of journalism helped hold the players accountable by asking them tough questions in front of the camera. >> it was interesting to watch on another network, some of it coverage, and the disdain they had for the tactics and the need to make clear to the audience how gruesome they found the tactics employed without -- in a vacuum. without taking them back to 3,000 americans had just been killed, there was a ticking time bomb, the "new york times" was citing officials to talk about their fear of a nuclear bomb going off in the united states of america. it was a time when we believed anything was possible. is that responsible? >> i think you have to explain and remind the audience, the readers, the viewers, about how on edge this country was. with good reason after 9/11 and especially after the iraq war when we had detainees to try to get information out of. i