all of that plus the reverend franklin graham is here to defend trump's muslim ban proposal.hannity" starts right here and right now. welcome to "hannity." tonight the 2016 gop presidential race is heating up. new polls show that the field is tightening as we move closer to the iowa caucuses and a brand-new fox news iowa poll, ted cruz has moved into first place edging out donald trump. he has 26%. and senator marco rubio now is in third place with 13%. another new poll out of iowa has ted cruz with a ten-point lead at 31%. donald trump comes in second. he has 21% followed by ben carson and marco rubio who are both in double digits. those numbers out of iowa are impressive. but in a brand-new nbc news-wall street journal poll, senator marco rubio does the best against democratic front-runner hillary clinton in a potential head to head matchup, rubio would beat clinton 48-45. here with reaction is the 2016 republican presidential candidate, florida senator mark marco rubio. senator, good to see you. >> good to see you, sean. >> you're getting a hundred numbers thrown at you a

her. >> kirsten, rick, stick around. >> after his father, the reverend billy graham, reverend franklin graham is the most well known influential evangelist in the nation probably in the world. in the last 24 hours he is really shaking things up. reverend graham taking to his very popular facebook page and announcing he is leaving the republican party and declared himself an independent. president ceo of samaritan's purse reverend franklin graham is here to go "on the record." >> your facebook speaj shaking up a lot? >> you know, greta, there is a lot of good people i think probably in both parties and we see some good candidates in the republican party running for president. greta, i'm so disappointed in just the leadership of both parties our nation is in trouble and it's in a mess. starting january 5th, i'm going to be going to all the capitols, state capitols holding prayer meetings on the steps of the capitol and we senator des moines, iowa. i felt it was best for me and not to be aligned either party but to be an independent, if i'm going to stand there and ask for people to pray for thi

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the who, it's evangelist franklin graham, son of the legendary pastor billy graham.franklin graham announced he's leaving the republican party over its failure to defund planned parenthood in last week's spending bill. now to the what. it's not quite the millennium falcon, but spacex made history last night with an unprecedented vertical rocket landing. it's the first successful landing for a spacex rocket, fueling the space race between elon musk's spacex and blue origin. now to the where, our friends in the "new york times" times collected a bunch of these. the farm route here, appearing in front of a tractor. a lot of senators included pets, but diane feinstein featured just her yorkshire terrier. and virginia's tim cane is jamming out with santa here, or something. >>> now to the when, 2025, the year when hillary clinton wants alzheimer's to be cured. he's proposing $2 billion a year in hopes of treating the decease. >>> now to the why. year-end statistics on congress. 100 bills were passed into law on 2015, compared to 224 in 2014. 12% of the bills that made it

i can't blame franklin graham but the problem is, where will he go? don't even endorse the constitution party so let me tell you. i don't hate barack obama, i didn't vote for him but i don't hate him. here's where some people believe and think he is a deceiver. to hoursto remember before he came to charleston and sang amazing grace, he was in the rose garden praising the supreme court for approving same-sex marriage. this is the best thing that ever happened? he got a bit political when he came down to mother emanuel. those people are conservative in their beliefs about marriage and abortion and things like that. he was very careful not to say what he was doing two hours earlier before he broke into song. it does not add up or make sense. you're telling some people some things and others the other and that's why some people, i'm not saying, i don't think he's the antichrist. but it is not right to deceive people. that's where he gets in trouble. religion does impact my vote so thank you for taking my call. host: new york, let's go to joann on the repu

. >>> prominent evangelist franklin graham says he has lost faith in the republican party, renouncing his membership over last week's spending bill. the son of billy graham wrote on facebook, after all of the appalling facts revealed this year about planned parenthood, our representatives in washington had a chance to put a stop to this, but they didn't. graham compared planned parenthood to nazis and wrote, quote, that should have been all that was needed to turn off the faucet for their funding. nothing was done to trim this 2,000 page $1.1 trillion budget. he said it was why he has resigned from the gop. though graham was recently spoken favorably of donald trump. >>> we are learning much more this morning about the u.s. service members killed in a suicide attack in afghanistan on monday. the air force has identified all six americans who died when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle drove into the group and detonated a bomb. among them major aid draina vorderbruggen, she was the first openly gay female officer to be killed in combat. her wife will continue to raise their young son. s

franklin graham made it official, he's out of the gop. this two-party establishment thing is beginning to crumble. >> i think voters are sick of the two-party dueling open think. they play the cards are the democrats. * that's very, very important. all of a sudden you don't conform to that little guy running testifying, what's his name? the head of the republican party. republicans are too upper echelon. donald trump like he said, is a ceo. he's a candidate for the democrats and for the republicans. charles: on the democratic side a lot of people are looking at bernie sanders. an outsider if you will hole probably listen to the grassroots, the american public. i see cracks on both sides of the aisle. >> on the democratic side you are receiving the normal primary process man this case the frontrunner prevailing. i expect him to solidify behind clinton. if trump is the nominee it will be a goldwater election the establishment party basically deserted the candidate. you see the republican party getting its tails whipped by an amateur. but he

listen to what he told me just a few minutes ago. >>. >> we need, i think -- >> franklin graham is fedate reflects his christian values. he is talking specifically about planned parenthood. he said nobody went the extra mile to defund planned parenthood. >> yeah, that was a huge issue. it will continue to be as we go into the election season. people start to actually vote. i think what we're seeing now is more evangelicals are coalessing around ted cruz. as ben carson starts to fade off pretty quickly, cruz has been the beneficiary of that, clearly, and that's why you see his lead in iowa. he is pulling in lowers with trump in some national polls. >> marco rubio is not that far behind. those conversations happen in evangelical circles also. he is a leader in the evangelical community and is probably troubled by a donald trump candidacy. i think that he is a little bit more diplomatic in the way he would say it, but the washington post did a story in december with that. how evangelical leaders are trying to figure out how to get rid of trump because he doesn't represent our vauldz per s

franklin graham, the son of billy graham. billy graham was unbelievable. they were incredible. think we will do -- we are doing really well with evangelicals. by the way, i do like ted cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals, out of cuba -- come out of cuba. not a lot come out. i like him nevertheless. we are doing great with evangelicals. we are doing great with the tea party. leading with the tea party. [applause] doing fantastic with old and young and middle. we are doing great with everybody. it is very important to me to win iowa. i could put less pressure on myself and i could say i don't care about iowa, but i do care. i do care so much about it. that is why am here all the time. then lies happen. they lie so much. the people of iowa can't be that stupid. the people of the country -- i'm trying to make a point. i said the people of the country cannot be that stupid. they cut the country out. iowa, i love you people. remember that. [applause] i was talking about something and i won't even mention what i was talking about because the guy i was talking about was actually a very

all of that plus the reverend franklin graham is here to

franklin graham, the son of billy graham. billy graham was unbelievable. they were incredible. think we will do -- we are doing really well with evangelicals. by the way, i do like ted cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals, out of cuba -- come out of cuba. not a lot come out. i like him nevertheless. we are doing great with evangelicals. we are doing great with the tea party. leading with the tea party. [applause] doing fantastic with old and young and middle. we are doing great with everybody. it is very important to me to win iowa. i could put less pressure on myself and i could say i don't care about iowa, but i do care. i do care so much about it. that is why am here all the time. then lies happen. they lie so much. the people of iowa can't be that stupid. the people of the country -- i'm trying to make a point. i said the people of the country cannot be that stupid. they cut the country out. iowa, i love you people. remember that. [applause] i was talking about something and i won't even mention what i was talking about because the guy i was talking about was actually a very

stuart: a quick issue i want to bring to your attention, roland franklin graham, he has left the gop.cal exit from the gop? >> i think he is leading a disaffected ex that by many americans not just evangelicals, more sick and tired of the gop not living up to got them there. the tea party movement, a conservative populist uprising got them the majorities in congress. john boehner didn't share power, ryan does a lousy deal that looks more in this omnibus bill, they do very little to actually exercise their power as congress should. stuart: franklin graham is annoyed about planned parenthood, if the gop cannot get rid of squishing babies to maximize the value of their spare parts, this party is not for me. >> federal tax dollars, our tax dollars would you agree or not, those dollars should not go to something many americans disagree with. application of public money. is not the private money of the governments of planned parenthood can function on its own. they have a business model, splitting the two, we discussed that before. whatever they want to do. that is part of it. that is if yo

i have the reverend franklin graham with me now.p's suggestions but he's calling on christians to pray fervently for america. thank you for coming in. tell me about your plan to hold prayer rallies in all 50 states. what does that involve? >> it starts january 5th in des moines in the capital and we'll go to all 50 capitals and conclude in october. i don't have really much hope for the democratic party, the republican party, tea party, anybody else. our system, carol, is broken. the only principles that really, really work are god's principles. i'm asking for christians to join me or anybody to join me at the capital and to pray, pray for our nation. >> christians, jewish people. >> anybody. >> muslims? >> everybody's welcome. >> muslims? >> absolutely. people willing to come in to pray and to pray for our nation and to pray for its leaders because our system is broken. i want to encourage christians to get out and vote. and to vote for politicians that support biblical principles, godly principles, because those principles work. we

and this budget vote last week that you just referenced from franklin graham's statement, it put a lotworking hard to get republican majorities in the house and senate was to make some significant policy changes. the republicans folded. they were given four aces, and they laid their cards down before they even anted up for the game. it was absolutely outrageous to see a whole litany of things, whether it was planned parenthood funding, funding for syrian refugee relocation. 400% increase in bringing in foreign workers to replace americans. i mean, all the republicans got was export of oil. what does that say about republicans? that the only thing they care about is exporting oil? they don't care a hoot about the values of the rank-and-file republicans? that's why people in the republican party are just bolting for the door. >> richard haass. >> governor, what about defense spending and the rest of the spending we do, foreign aid and the like? what's your view about that? do you support that, in particular given how messy the world is, do you support an increase in defense spending? if

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graham and swain and macon county. this isn't terribly heavy but significant rain coming in the mountainin. that's why we have flood watches out through thursday morning. little more than a quarter inch in franklin. little more than that in andrews. 66 right now in asheville. 70s south. but only 40s in boone. what's going on? we have a warm front draped right there and that's lifting through and keeping us very unstable and soupy. temperatures in the 60s for your evening planner. it's going to be wet. could be two inches in places over the upstate. i'll see you again in a few minutes. >> larry: here's a reality we all like, lower gas prices are a holiday gift that just keeps giving. prices in the asheville area gasbuddy.com. production. >> i have three vehicles that that's good. >> it's good for me to travel and do what i want to do. so that's good. >> larry: prices in asheville the last month. >> tammy: enjoy it while it lasts. asheville. but there are congestion. >> jaclyn: get ready for delays between long shoals and airport road. i-240 west is another problem spot at the moment. traffic is heavy between i-40 and haywood road. things are slowing on the west bound side through asheville. that'