garrett tenney has more on what to expect in 2018. garrett? reporter: republican leaders have a long wish list for 2018 including a couple of items that may be able to get bipartisan support. foremost among those is rebuilding america's infrastructure. the white house tells us they're looking at $200 billion to rebuild roads, bridges, rails and waterways. another hot-button issue the white house wants addressed is immigration reform including daca. democrats want to protect those brought into country illegally as children and president trump is willing to do that in exchange for end to chain migration and the lottery system and border wall which is a non-starter, but senator lindsey graham is optimism. >> we need the wall, not a complete 2200 mile wall. there's a deal to be had on immigration. reporter: republicans like paul ryan are eyeing a number of issues that aren't expected to get much democratic support including reforms to entitlement and welfare reform settlement which many say is untouchable. >> the privatization of social security,

thank you garrett tenney. >> for more on this let's bring in daniel. thank you for joining us get a lot of people thought that we would be done with this but here it is creeping up once more. we'll be having it over the emails from hillary clinton and find some solution to move on? >> well, that is a deep question. part of it is because people like hillary clinton and her campaign are still blaming people he james comey for the demise of her campaign. i think if you take these emails seriously, i think in some ways it absolves james comey reopening the investigation in the last couple of weeks. there is some legitimacy in doing that and sending out letter it was not just about time to specular tent and it is, james comey, former fbi director eventually followed -- fired by the present.many hate him for different reasons. in some way this absolves him a little bit from the democratic hatred. >> he will probably enjoy hearing from you because he was, he was really under a lot of heat as a result of doing that two weeks before the election. and it would s

>> rick: garrett tenney, a rather noisy white house garrett we appreciate your time. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators taking a short victory lap after clearing a major huddle on tax reformerly saturday morning but it's not over yet. lawmakers in the house and senate still need to hash out the differences in their separate bills before sending a final draft to the president's desk. the house is expected to get that ball rolling tomorrow with a key vote. senator john barasso says the two chambers are not far apart but admits there is work left to do. >> absolutely there are some changes that still need to be made in in in conference to work these things out and the other big differences are the republican bill in the senate eliminates the mandate of obamacare. it takes obamacare from being a mandatory program to a voluntary program and yes, i like the idea of making the taking away the death tax entirely. >> rick: for more on that critical senate vote in the wee hours of saturday caroline s hivley joins us and the president saying he wants the bill by chris

garrett tenney tells us what's behind the allegations. >> we are going to be asking the entire international community. it's time for them to wake up. >> the u.s. unveiled what it describes as undeniable evidence iran is providing weapons to who the rebels in yemen in direct violation of u.n. resolutions. weapons built by iran and supplied to its allies in yemen's civil war. inside the military hanger, defense department officials displayed fragments of an iranian ballistic missile. launched by rebels last month. two months ago today president trump declined to recertify the iran nuclear deal entity euros investor to view a nikki haley said this new evidence is proof the president was right. >> everyone has focused on the nuclear deal and iran has hidden behind the nuclear deal, constantly threatening to get out of it. these are the things they are doing while we are all looking the other way. >> the u.s. is pushing for the international community to take action against iran for violating u.n. resolutions, including one in the nuclear deal that prohibits iran from supplying weapons. nikki ha

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molly: garrett tenney has more from the white house. how is the president feeling about the chances for tax reform next week? >> molly president trump is confident the congress would be able to have a bill by the end of this next weekend you can't overstate how big it would be for the administration for its first legislative victory. now today the president was talking about the economy and that has been eight and went for him and his administration but he says tax reform will allow the u.s. to take its economy to a whole other level. >> i will say because of what we have done with regulation and other things our economy is doing fantastically well but it has another big step to go and he can't take that step unless we do the tax bill. >> in terms of what the growth would look like the president said the economy can go from the current 3% growth a year to four, five or even 6% of that would name trillions more dollars in the u.s. economy. molly: what else do we know about these new accusations against the special counsel investigation?

bring in garrett tenney who was traveling with the president at the museum awaiting the president's speechduled to take the podium, was scheduled right about now but is running half an hour late because of the weather in palm beach. to this issue of the division, do you feel that in the crowd? is that overshadowing the president's arrival in his speech? >> we felt it over the last week. a lot of these folks that were planning to be here, decided not to show up, not being comfortable being here to one of the opening of the museum with donald trump, many feel does not stand for the same principles as those in the civil rights movement, we heard from civil rights icon congressman john lewis, donald trump's invitation was an insult to those civil rights leaders, it is a shame that anyone would not want to be here to join the president honoring men and women who go through the civil rights era and we have seen that from a local lawmakers decided to show up. along the parade, protesters lined up, and drove past that, the civil rights museum, they did not feel comfortable or happy and a lot of fo

garrett tenney has our report. >>reporter: the reaction to former national security adviser michael flynn's plea deal continue to roll in. >> it will not be long before we understand one way or the other whether trump people colluded with russia because i cannot imagine it happening and plan not to know about it.>> he was getting a lot of value in terms of general flynn's cooperation. >> sunday morning president. trump denied instructing director coming to back off the flan and he said i never asked him to back off of plan dysmorphic news covering another comey life. this was two days after was found guilty of lying to the fbi and part of his plea deal agreed to fully cooperate with special counsel robert mueller's investigation and on that front fox news learned mueller removed the top fbi agent for missing this summer after learning the agent since anti-trump text messages to a colleague >> fbi agents should not bring in their own political bias into these investigations and the fact this is one of the lead agent

ger -- garrett tenney in the white house, how is he responding?> a bit of the change in how the white house is portraying michael flynn. everyone that has followed president trump will remember for more than a year he praised former security adviser, a good man who he wish he didn't have to fire. yesterday the tone from the white house shifted a bit. as they try to diminished flynn 's official and former obama official who served for 25 days before getting fired. the attorney ty down played flynn pleading guilty while adding nothing about the guilty plea or charge implicates anyone other than mr. flynn. in this morning before leaving the white house, the president said he is not concerned about it either. >> no, i'm not. and what has been shown is no collusion, no collusion. there's been absolutely, there's been absolutely no collusion so we are very happy, we will see what happens, thank you all very much. >> behind the scenes, though, there's a lot of concern because donald rumfeld said you don't know what you don't know. flynn was involved heav

two other witnesses from the fbi to meet with congressional investigators, at the white house garrett tenney. >>> interesting new details are coming out in a new book about what it was like to work with president. trump when working or running for office, to former campaign aides have written candidate trump would eat for mcdonald sandwiches for dinner and elton john would be played at mindnumbing levels and regularly demanded that his pants steam while still wearing them. the washington post reports that let trump be trump by two former campaign aides shows sides of a man that would break most hardened men and women into pieces. the newspaper obtained an advanced copy of the book which is set to store shelves tuesday. >>> drugstore chain cvs says today they plan to buy health insurer aetna for $68 billion in it could mean lower costs for consumers and more health services at the drugstore. cvs plans to uses low-cost clinics provide its medical services to is more than 23 million members and in addition to health clinics and medical equipment cvs can provide assistance with hearing and visio

garrett tenney joins us with what this means. >> reporter: good morning.oesn't like some show and tell and that is what we had yesterday at the white house as donald trump brags about his efforts to cut what he calls burdensome, duplicative and ineffective government regulations. he used visual aids to show how much federal regulations have exploded since 1960 in the president set a goal to illuminate two regulations when he took office. and eliminated 22 regulations for the new one. >> let's cut the red tape, set free our dreams and let's make america great again and one of the ways we are going to do that is by getting rid of a lot of unnecessary regulation. >> reporter: yesterday the fcc made big headlines and the net neutrality rules of the obama administration which prevented internet providers with certain rebuild -- websites charging others to run faster. instead the new rules require internet providers if they are doing these things. this change should benefit consumers. >> it is not the job of the government, picking winners and losers in the inte

garrett tenney with the latest.aid he is going to resign but not quite yet. >> no exact date but it will be in the coming weeks. several key votes on the senate floor the democrats don't want to lose him 4. more than a half-dozen women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct by our franken, he is an advocated champion suggesting he is only stepping down now because he wouldn't be able to effectively represent minnesota going through a senate ethics investigation. >> i know in my heart nothing i have done as a senator, nothing has brought dishonor on this institution. nevertheless today i am announcing that in the coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. >> reporter: he has been advocate and champion of women during his time in congress and all women deserve to be heard and have their accusations of sexual harassment taken seriously. at the same time he said some of the charges against him are untrue and others he remembers very differently than his accusers was the on

and garrett tenney is live at the white house. >> the president is expected to arrive any minute now back from his trip to new york city where he had some fundraising events. and he talked about the success of this senate passing taxi for me that was the win he was hanging his hat on. also between events that he tweeted i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those. it is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide. this morning as he was leaving the white house the president said that he is not concerned about michael flynn cooperating with special counsel robert mueller's investigation. >> no, i am not. what has been shown is no collision. no collision. there has been absolutely no collision. we are very happy. we will see what happens. thank you all very much! >> while the president is not concerned, the idea of you do not know we do not know. that is particularly true because unlike the other individuals have been charged in the investigation thus far, michael flynn was heavi

we heard garrett tenney at the white house saying the white house is pretty anxious what flynn mightthey know what the conversations were, the president knows the conversations he had with general flynn who became national security advisor flynn. jared kushner knows what conversations they had during the campaign. they know what they did. by virtue of the fact that they're worried, is there something there to be worried about? >> it's hard to know how worried they are, when you hear reports like that. but, yeah, i mean, it all comes down to don rumsfeld, we don't know what we don't know. if there's no "there" there, there's no there there. and flynn cooperates to what he knows. and if there's no collusion there, it doesn't become collusion if flynn points out. and there is indication on public sources there is on the straight collusion front, none of this changes anything. i think that people are worried, in particular, if i were kushner's lawyer or other lawyers, get someone high enough up in conversations that you were already likely asked about so if flynn gave a different descrip

garrett tenney in washington dc with what this means. >> reporter: cutting regulations is one of donald top priority to get the economy going on yesterday at the white house used props to show how much federal regulations have grown with a stack of papers showing regulations that existed in 1960 compared to the red tape that exists today. the president counted his administration's progress rolling regulations back and even surpassing his goal of eliminating two regulations for every new one implemented so far his administration has thrown out 22 for each new regulation. >> earlier this year we set a target of adding 0 new regulatory costs onto the american economy. today i am proud to announce we beat our goal by a lot. >> reporter: that deregulation pushing clue the fcc which voted yesterday to roll back the net neutrality rules of the obama administration which prevented internet providers from slowing certain websites or charging more for others to work faster. the fcc rules require internet providers to disclose if they are slowing down any website or giving preference to others wit

garrett tenney has the latest. >> reporter: more than half a dozen women have come forward with allegationsisconduct by out frank and but that is not why he is stepping down. the minnesota senator said he is only resigning because he cannot represent minnesota while going through the senate ethics investigation and he described himself as an advocate and champion of women during his time in conference -- congress but when it comes to sexual harassment and assault, he said this. >> all women deserve to be heard and their experiences taken seriously. some of the allegations against me are not true. others i remember very differently. >> reporter: he maintained he has never done anything to dishonor the senate and before wrapping up the once rising star the democratic party took some parting shots at roy more. >> i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sit in the oval office and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. >> reporter: after his resignation, trent frank announced his own

leland: thank you, garrett tenney.illian: returning to russia, increasing criticism over what many republicans see as political bias tainting the process. and nunez says, at this point the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. and they believe that robert mueller will be fair with him and how he handles the investigation. alison barber joins us with more. >> let's start with that document of devin nunes. he said there were a number of delays and discrepancies as they've spent subpoena requests and that the fbi and doj now have until january 3rd to turn over all outstanding documents relating to the subpoenas. and closed his letter as gillian says, it seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. for weeks now, republicans have criticized the fbi and doj, some like florida representative matt gates say it's time to fire special counsel robert mueller. republican leadership isn't going quite that far. >> the integrity of law enforcement is paramount and needs to be carried out without any politics

. >> shepard: garrett tenney. thank you very much.uch more to get through as we report live from washington state and d.c. on this train derailment. new information from witnesses and emergency crews unseen coming up. we are also going to get the bottom of the hour headline update and have fresh news for you after this. on america's choice for news and information on cable. this is fox news channel. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. >> i am leah gabriel with fox report on more today's headlines. a fire forced a family out of their building in brooklyn. that is where from fire officials, looks like the fire was an accident, but no word on the cause. california, firefighters battling to check neighborhoods is a huge and deadly wildfire continues burning in santa barbara county. fire officials say they already s

garrett tenney has the latest from the white house. reporter: well, transfixed on the the transition team accusing robert mueller of bad behavior and how it obtained the e-mail suggesting investigators may have violated the fourth amendment top lawmakers transition team claims in august requested tens of thousand that is the government agency with office space and e-mail services at issue is through the material and data but wants to. the government property should be acceptable to line for spent officials put it belongs to them and shouldn't have been handed over without consent in as much as predicted by president privilege. in short, since the gsa improperly provides the special counsel's office, and the ptt, presidential transition team have not only been reviewed privately by the special counsel office about notification, they have also been misused publicly. special counsel office pushing back in a statement said we have obtained e-mails in our ongoing criminal investigation we have security. the account owner's consent and on th

. >> garrett tenney live at the white house. >> the president has had a lot to say about michael flynn and the fbi over the last 48 hours really. but one of the tweets has landed him in hot water with congressional investigators. yesterday he posted this tweet in which he said, he fired general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. to some that look to be an admission that the president lied to the fbi and then still then asked the then director of the fbi, james comey, to go easy on michael flynn. we now know that that treatment was written by the personal attorney wrote a long flowing social media director to post it on the presidents account. he told fox news he was simply paraphrasing and adding a statement i am out of the tweeting business. i do not mean to have fakeness. that is entirely correct but it is said i do not know why he lied. he did not need to. and while the white house is trying to downplay the significance of michael flynn cooperating with robert miller's investigation, today, lindsey graham said that michael flynn also that she has a key role in

garrett tenney live, hi, garret, how was the president received?> well, there's a huge crowd here at the museum and take a look, they've just now opened the doors for this museum. there were certainly a lot of controversy though around president trump's attending today's event and instead he actually spoke at a smaller private event inside the museum earlier today and along with ben carson got a tour of the museum. evers brother charles was part to have president's greeting party at the airport and evers widow was there at the president's speech today and he praised them for being there and for the legacy of their brother and of their late husband and the principles that he and so many other of civil right icons fought for. >> we want our country to be a place where every child from every background can grow up free from fear, innocent of hatred and surrounded by love, opportunity and hope. >> yeah, the president stayed on script for the most part for nearly 10-minute speech and praised christian pastors including martin luther, jr. said he has stu

at the white hours, i'm garrett tenney, fox news. now that the house and senate have passed their versions of tax reforntion the two sides are expected to ette up a conference committee to negotiate the differences that is expected to take place tomorrow. both the senate and corporate tax rate to 20 percent down from the current rate of 3t trump weighed in on the legislation and says when the final bill comes down to his desk it's possible the corporate tax rate will be higher, perhaps 22 percent. and north korea is thrashing out at the united states and south korea for conducting another joint round of military exercise. they will run for five daze and start tomorrow. about 12,000us military members will participate. just last month, the united states, south korea and japan conducted a series of naval exercises together. peen yang has called these drills a provocation. did you happen to see the super moon this evening it is just gorgeous. it is the last full moon of 2017. we'll checking in with details. i'm so happy that mother natu

>> garrett tenney live at the state department. be right back with a look at when a new and improved major motor speedway was ready for races and happened on this day in history. >> trace: on this day in 1909, workers laid the last of more than three million bricks at the indianapolis motor speedway. the race track opened that summer with a gravel surface but it was dangerous and caused crashes and deaths. crews replaced it. asphalt covers most of the districts except in the start-finish line. it's tradition to kiss the bricks now. i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. the dow is down a bit. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> neil: all right. houston, we have a problem. we have a very big problem. a lot of folks are pointing to marco rubio as the reason for the problem. a tax cut that doesn't look like a sure deal because as things stand now, he can't vote for it. that had stocks swooning when it locks like the tax cut was moving along. here's the issue. a lot of this has to go with his views on whether this is

i'm garrett tenney, fox news. >> happening right now, new york city preparing for one of the coldest year's celebrations since the 1960s. security extra tight for the ball drop in times square in the wake of recent terror attacks in addition to snipers on rooftops there will be additional police officers, explosive sniffing dogs and trucks each block. that's soggy have zero interest in ever doing. and it's going to be so cold. although with all of those people they keep you you warm. all a of your new thousands of friends. eleven greece or something. miss me with that. >> dress warm, everybody, if you're going up there. it is a shortage happening nationwide. why airlines say they are in need of commercial pilots. >> i'm going to apply. >> new gig. there are thousands of people them, we're talking about the president's tweets, why not. if you can believe it we have the top of his tweets in 2017 coming up. whatever you were about to do just became whatever you're about to do after you get coffee. nothing comes before coffee. that's why we're introducing a new line of café-quality espre

garrett tenney is here with more on this program. >> good evening.e may not know if aliens exist but it turns out our government had a special team of ufo hunters that was trying to find out. the pentagon now confirms the existence of a secret ufo program tax with investigating reports of on a on his edified flying objects. the advanced aviation threat identification program was created in 2007 at the urging of harry reid. over the next five years, the program receive more than $20 million for its work which included analyzing a variety of aeronautic threats ranging from what could be our adversaries next generation aircraft to reports from military pilots of encounters with unknown objects like this one in 2004 that appeared to defy the laws of physics. >> the pentagon tells us the program ended in 2012 2012 and officials determined there were higher priority issues. the program's former director who resigned in october says it was only the funding that ended and that over the last five years, the program has continued investigating incidents alongs

>> garrett tenney in our nation's capital, thank you. >>> right now frigid temperatures blanketing parts of the country creating dangerous conditions for those on the roads ahead of this holiday. we have your new year's eve forecast straight ahead. >>> plus there are precautions for celebrations tomorrow night. we go live to times square where officials say revellers have nothing to fear, but concerns still remain. >> going to be one of the most well policed best protected events at one of the safest venues in the entire world. >> when there's a mass of people somewhere, people can just come in and decide to throw something, you know. >> the presence isn't too overwhelming but we feel protected. we have our kids with us. we really don't -- me personally, i don't foresee anything negative or anything impacting us here. you wouldn't believe what's in this kiester. a farmer's market. a fire truck. even a marching band. and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. preparation h. get comfortable

eric: those are some of the questions to garrett tenney on the north lawn of the white house with theest. >> reporter: at the center of this debate is who did these e-mails belong to, and we're talking about tens of thousands of e-mails that investigators now have from 13 top members of the trump transition team. now, the trump transition team claims the e-mails belonged to it and that it was its property and that if the special counsel wanted those e-mails, it should have come to the transition with a warrant. instead, mueller's office went to the government agency that provided e-mail services to the transition and then obtained those e-mails without a subpoena and without informing the transition team. in a letter to top lawmakers, an attorney for the transition suggests investigators may have violated the fourth amendment by obtaining the e-mails without a warrant. the special counsel's office is pushing bakken on that though and in a statement said when we have obtained e-mails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we are secured either the account owner's consent

garrett tenney is in washington with the story.eporter: the state department released 2,800 of huma abedin's emails. at least five contain classified information. the bulk of them are about the logistics of clinton's schedule and travel plans. but even a lot of those mundane emails are heavily redacted. four of the classified emails are almost entirely redacted. but another contains talking points with saudi arabia's foreign minister which was mostly about wikileaks plans to publish sensitive information about the united states government and our allies. she said i seek your help in preventing wikileaks from under mining our mutual national interests. they were discovered in a laptop that she shared with her husband anthony weiner while he was being investigated for sexting with a minor. >> 4.5 billion people have security clearance. they all know what the rules are. and they are upset that hillary clinton and huma abedin got away with these outrageous violations of the law. reporter: they claim she didn't know what she was doing w

garrett tenney is live with more on this. >> donald trump tweeted, it was in tatters and that was before new set of revelations suggesting political bias may have played a role in the decisions senior fbi officials made in the investigation. as donald trump departed the white house for graduation ceremony, he took another shot at law enforcement agencies. >> it is a shame what happened with the fbi but we are going to rebuild the fbi, it will be bigger and better than ever. >> an hour later the president received a hero's welcome at the national academy for graduation ceremonies, 200 law enforcement officers including a special training program by the bureau. in that speech the president took a different tone, police officers and the rank-and-file agents of the fbi. >> i have so many friends, friends and the fbi, these are great great people. a -- real heroes to all of us. >> combating violent crime jeff sessions defended the fbi when asked about the assessment of the bureau's reputation. >> i don't share the view the fbi is not functioning at a high level. all over the country, he spoke

. >> griff: garrett tenney is live in jackson garrett good morning what can we expect in mississippi?ted as folks are about the snow we also have today's opening of the civil rights museum and museum of mississippi history and the president he is scheduled to come here and tour the museum a couple hours from now before giving a speech to a small crowd of about 200 folks civil rights leaders as well as museum patron s and local elected officials as well. now president trump we're told his remarks will focus on honoring those who fought intolerance, hatred and bigotry and will focus on bringing the nation together and that is something we heard him talk about last night a bit in his rally in pensacola, but his speech today will not be apart of the public ceremony and instead it will take place just before that and that decision was made after protests came out from civil rights leaders as well as the naacp and democrats who were outraged that the president was invited to speak here. now civil rights icon congressman john lewis was scheduled to speak at today's ceremony but he canceled h

rachel: garrett tenney is life in washington with what we are learning from these documents. >> goods before the election. while the e-mails are new, this is the first time the public has been able to see a lot of them. so by the state department released about 2800 e-mails and of those we know of at least five that were later deemed to contain classified information. most of the messages are related to her schedule and talking points with world leaders and several marked classified which are either partially or entirely redacted. one exception is this exchange from november 2010 regarding an upcoming phone call with saudi arabia's prime minister warning him about diplomatic cables that were about to be made public by wikileaks. that suggested clinton say i deeply read grad the likely upcoming wikileaks disclosure. i seek your help and preventing wikileaks from undermining our mutual interest the fbi uncovered the e-mail in its course of sexting investigation with anthony weiner. some of the messages came from an account on hillary private e-mail server. >> this is the reason is clas