i'm leland vittert. now, back to forbes on fox. >> this is by far the easiest they want it, republicans and democrats. and i could have started with infrastructure, i wanted to save the easy one for the one down the road so we'll be having that done pretty quickly. david: of course, nothing is easy inside the beltway. president trump talking about his next big legislative push while signing the tax bill into law on friday. new infrastructure concerns are growing after a deadly amtrak crash killed three passengers, injured dozens in washington state and in atlanta, an electrical fire shutting down the airport there, which happens to be the world's largest. now some are calling for more infrastructure spending and, steve, it's clear the president wants a bipartisan infrastructure plan, particularly after the party line vote on taxes. >> oh, absolutely, david. and infrastructure in that sense is an easy one because it means giving out money and even democrats like the smell of, you know, the money from pork

more coming up with leland vittert merry christmas. land: breaking down the fight between the california governor in president trump. harrisburg pa-based radio host, rj harris fighting with wh p. online as well around the country and around the world. good to see you, rj. >> great to see you. nice to be with you. leland: love the christmas time. is this an amway a good title for president trump to be fighting especially with his base? >> well, i think without question one of the largest problems in america is better border situation is still horrible and it's been that way for years. we argued this during the reagan era, gave clemency to people, said we were going to fix it and never have. i think it is interesting that jerry brown is taking a jab at the white house by releasing somebody who was arrested on weapons charges following these weapons charges related to gang activity. you've got to be kidding me. leland: it does seem like a softball for a tweaked at least sometime in the next couple days for president trump. >> without quest

i'm leland vittert.he unrest in the holy land. right ahead of the christmas holiday. palestinian protesters, some dressed as santa, clashing with israeli forces in bethlehem amid the fallout from president trump's recognition of jeruselem as israel's capital. a massive blaze, killing one animal and four others missing and several workers were treated as smoke inhalation as a fire tore through a children's petting zone. ap the cause is under investigation. i'm leland vittert. we'll see you at the top of the hour with jillian turner with a lot more on the decision to send this to the ukraine. now back to cashin' in. . trish: this could be the rage in 2018 because 19 states and d.c. are mandating that companies raise minimum wages in the new year. gary, you say that will actually decrease jobs. walk us through your thinking. >> well, for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. when you mandate cost of businesses, they're going to do a couple of things. a, there's going to be less hours, b, ther

i'm leland vittert. out in california, the massive thomas wildfire is entering the record books now. it is now the largest in state history, surpassing in size the 2003 cedar fire, officials now say the thomas fire has scorched more than 273,000-acres that's 427 square miles and so far, it is only 65% contained as the fight continues and get this. a spacex rocket carrying 10 satellites into orbit from southern california left behind a dazzling and dare we say mysterous light. these pictures going viral on social media some people thought the light was a tv show or a ufo , that is until the la fire department put out an advisory to confirm it came from a rocket launch. i'm leland vittert now back to bulls & bears. dagen: president trump and the white house keep saying it. special council robert mueller isn't getting fired, so why does the media keep harping on it? john you say you know why. >> i do. it's because they didn't get what they wanted look many people were predicting indictments for president tr

i'm leland vittert. in iran, massive rallies going on, thousands in the streets in tehran supporting the ayatollah. more next hour and president trump's response and how it differs with former president obama's approach when he faced protests. is this an opportunity in iran? a countdown for the big new year's eve bash in times square in the final hours. organizers putting on finishing touches, testing the confetti. and millions of people expected to be on hand and brave the cold tomorrow night. i'm leland vittert. i'll see you at the top of the hour with gillian turner. now back to cashin' in. lauren: president trump ticked off as pictures allegedly show chinese ships selling oil to north korea. how can we deal with north korea if we can't trust china? gary, what do you think? >> you know, i have to tell you, china is sitting right there west of north korea and japan is south korea, just south. one would think in their best interests they would put the screws to north korea. they are 80% of the economy s

i'm leland vittert. a dramatic change being announced in u.s. policy towards the war in the ukraine. u.s. officials saying the trump administration has agreed to provide lethal weapons to ukraine security forces as they fight russian-backed separatists the weapons include anti-tank missiles the ukraine has wanted for a long time to defend against russian heavy armor. russians none too pleased about this. also, fiat chrysler announcing a major recall pulling nearly 1.8 million ram trucks off the road. the auto company says the trucks could be shifted out of park without the driver's foot pushing on the brake. the recall is mainly in north america and includes models between 2010-2017. more news as it breaks. i'm leland vittert in washington , now back to cavuto on business. >> the united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovreign nation. we will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the unit

happy new year's eve-eve, i'm leland vittert. frigid temperatures are gripping much of the northern united states and they're not going anywhere for at least a few days. all of this making for a brutally cold new year's eve. wind chill advisories are warns up cross the northeast. in new york city, the ball drop in times square could be one of the coldest on record. take a good look at this surveillance video released of a gun store robbery in tennessee. shows three robbers smashing gun cases and stuffing the guns into bags. it happened early christmas day morning. the thieves made off with more than 30 guns worth about $20,000. as you might imagine, police are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspects and trying to get those guns back. i'm leland vittert. a lot more news at the top of the hour, now back to forbes on f fox. david: so just as you're booking a trip on google to get away from the horrible winter, a new report coming out saying that google is using its search dominance to steer consumers to deals that l

meantime i'm leland vittert we'll break in when there's more news now back to cavuto on business. neil: well authorities are still investigating what could have been a fatal terror attack in the new york city subway station the attacker a 27 year old manure heard from bangladesh entered through the u.s. through something called chain migration that is large on families and president trump says this is why he wants more of a merit based system. charles this one you say the president is right. explain. charles: i looked at canada they changed their immigration system a few years ago to a merit-based system that includes education. neil: in other words what you can bring to the country. charles: what you can bring to the country and there is also a slice in there if you get 10 points for the ability to fit in if you have relatives here that helps, there rather that helps a lot and i think about how fewer incidents there have been vis-a-vis terrorism and things like that but also let's face it we're a nation built on immigration but also a nation where we populated it and i think at t

i'm leland vittert, in a snowy washington as well. now back to the cavuto on business. >> neil: all right this thing about this conyers out, franken out, franks out, but that sexual harassment settlement fund in congress is still very much in. now when lawmaker is pushing to get rid of it and repay every penny of it danielle, not all lawmakers have resigned or took advantage of this slush fund to take their enemies and their comments out of context or out of the way, but you do have to wonder what's going on at corporate america where they're out as soon as the allegations go versus congress where they linger until someone finds out. >> danielle: i think this is just a mutual difference in the timeline because a corporation that has somebody whose a figure head their brand can go down the tubes really quickly with these allegations, but somehow politicians seem to be a little bit more like teflon. 264 of these complaints since 1997, i think there's more reporting and rumors of more reporting of 20 or 30 more politicians who had these

i'm leland vittert, more news as it breaks. now we return you to bulls & bears.ent trump: it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they've done that is really really disgraceful and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. >> if you have those wal-mart shopping trump voters that peter strzok so derided in his text messages how do they react to that? do they have confidence in their fbi and department of justice? >> they're going to ask me what in the hell is going on with the department of justice and the fbi. dagen: some americans may be losing confidence in the department of justice and the fbi as newly-revealed anti-trump texts from members of robert mueller's special council team show a bias for hillary clinton and against president trump and his supporters. emily if america loses confidence in our justice system not good, right? >> probably the most important thing of the outcome of the special council investigation is public confidence because if the public does not have confidence in the decision whatever the ultimate decision

i'm leland vittert. president trump is doubling down on his support for alabama republican senate candidate roy moore. the president holding a campaign -style rally in pensacola, which is only about 25 miles from the alabama border the president saying the country cannot afford to lose its senate seat to a liberal democrat who would be controlled by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. a milestone in the fight against isis. the iraqi government declaring total victory against the terror group after more than three years of combat operations. prime minister saying security forces have liberated all the land once controlled by isis including the country's border with syria. i'm leland vittert in washington , now we'll return you back to bulls & bears. >> peter strzok, the guy who ran the clinton investigation interviewed secretary clinton, changed the gross negligence crime to the term extreme carelessness, ran the russian investigation who interviewed mike flynn, gets put on mueller 's team and then gets kicke

i am leland vittert. welcome to "america's news hq." i am leland vittert. gillian: anion gillian turner. fox news alert out of colorado this afternoon. one officer killed in four others injured while responding to a domestic violence call. will carr is live with the latest. >> gillian about 15 minutes south of denver after a suspect some of the done nearly half a dozen deputies, killing one and injuring four others as well as two civilians and in response authorities shot and killed the gunman. we have a live picture of an emotional procession. the deceased deputy being transported from a hospital in littleton, colorado two we are assuming the medical examiner's office. the procession on the procession on the highway so for the deputy has not been identified. this urban douglas county deputies responded to a domestic disturbance around 5:15 this morning at the copper canyon canyon apartments bigger share of sophistry multiple deputies were downed enough people to avoid the area. we learned shortly after the shooting of the seven people were rushed to two se

i'm leland vittert. i'll see you at the top of the hour with gillian turner. now back to cashin' in. lauren: president trump ticked off as pictures allegedly show chinese ships selling oil to north korea. how can we deal with north korea if we can't trust china? gary, what do you think? >> you know, i have to tell you, china is sitting right there west of north korea and japan is south korea, just south. one would think in their best interests they would put the screws to north korea. they are 80% of the economy so it's weird to see they're acting against themselves. i don't know what to do at this point. i would think we'd have some leverage because they have leverage, but it seems to me, they want to keep doing what they're doing. i don't know what the answer is except there's going to be some sort of trade war and that's not going to be good for anybody. lauren: yeah, david, it's very tricky. china denies they're violating the u.n. resolution and they're violating sanctions, nonetheless, you have instances of them delivering oil via ships to north korea. do

i'm leland vittert now back to bulls & bears.ent trump and the white house keep saying it. special council robert mueller isn't getting fired, so why does the media keep harping on it? john you say you know why. >> i do. it's because they didn't get what they wanted look many people were predicting indictments for president trump. they they're predicting evidence of collusion with russia with president trump. there's been zero evidence so far. they're mad about that president trump has come out and called them fake news and it turns out that all they were predicting was indeed not true and they're mad about the fact they don't have something to report. there's been more evidence of secretary clinton with russia than there has of president trump and it's just simply the media got it wrong just like they got the polls wrong for president trump in the last elections. dagen: hadley, but lawmakers too keep bringing it up senator mark warner brought it up, congressman wrote a letter saying we're going to have to come back to washington

tucker carlson or leland vittert? reporter: i think it's tucker because it's more natural. ere are questions. there are rumors. jesse: it's too good to be true. i think leland's hair is perfect. tucker looks like he just got out of bed. also his 30s don't match the ties half the time. he's the king of cable and he's barely trying. jesse: i'm going to overrule and go with leland. who would win in a fight, pete hegseth or rob n -- or rob o'ne. for those of how don't know. tropica.rob o'neill killed bin . reporter: i'll go with rob o'neill. jesse: pete is pretty big. i will go with henry. best dressed. ed henry or brit hume. i'm going to weigh in here. we threw you in at the ends to make you feel good. brit is a very well-dressed guy. he has the shirt that matches the tie and the pocket hankie. reporter: in this case i have to defer to the veteran who was a newspaper columnist long before i got my start. he paved the way in dress and news. i have got to go with the man, the myth, the legend. jesse: are you wearing cuff links? >> it's sort of like watch plugs. little dials. jess

lea: more from washington with leland vittert and gillian turner. >> president trump sending the christmasistmas eve hankie message to troops around the world while he celebrates the booming stock market and dropping unemployment numbers. gillian: also sending fbi director and her mccabe a lump of coal via twitter over his handling of the e-mail investigation. all the details straight from the winter white house. leland: one is christmas eve am a goal runner-up to see how millions of christians are celebrating from the vatican to the middle east coming to your own hometown. ♪

leland vittert, thank you. with us now to discuss the latest in the sexual-harassment scandal, "washington times" open an editor and fox news contributor charles hurt and political reporter rachael bade. good to have you with us. we are hearing more about the women seven forward, feeling like they are facing an enormous backlash. there's been discussion about that the fact that there are comments about this is why don't hire women, that kind of thing. >> i think that's especially true on capitol hill were a lot of women feel if they come forward and tell their story, they are going to be blackballed and not able to work in politics anymore. i spoke to the woman who accused lakes here and hold of sexual harassment .14 and she basically said it's been three years. she is still not able to find full-time employment. she had to leave d.c. because people told her she's not going to be hired again even though she had been there for five years on the hill. she's trying to make more money by babysitting on the side and

i'm leland vittert. gillian: i'm gillian turner. the russian investigation into accusations from the trunk transition team of special counsel robert mueller investigators inappropriately obtained tens of thousands of e-mails. 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 abo

i am leland vittert. >> and gillian turner. president trump has issued a fresh and now this morning that he asked former fbi director james comey does not investigating his former national security adviser general michael flynn. the president treated i never ask me to stop investigating flynn, just more fake news covering another lie. live with us now from the white house to give us more on that. hi, gary. >> high comment transport could not be concerned about now that these close to the investigation telling a baby knows everything with investigators and that none of that. however, court documents in the term transition were aware with russian officials with previous suggested and today top democrat said they now believe there will be a lot more shoes to follow this investigation. >> general flynn not a minor character here. i think this is very significant the fact it is a factual basis for the plea is something he wasn't not being as a rogue agent. >> what we are beginning to see if putting together a taste of obstruction of

leland vittert is here with the latest. >> as of now, they are going.uestion, the white house spent the day clarifying whether or not they will go to south korea. update from sarah sanders, press secretary. "the u.s. looks forward to participating in the winter elements in south korea. the protection of americans is our top priority. we are engaged with the south koreans and other partners nations to secure the venues." part of that security includes massive u.s. and south korean war games and while the footage may not be a great promo for attending the olympics, it's designed to send a message to the north of american power and resolve. nothing says american projection of power like a pair of b-1 bombers flying from guam. there were supposed to be a pai pair. as we reported last night, there was one. the other one was stuck on the runway in guam with mechanical problems. the pentagon tells us had it not been a training mission, the second bomber would've been able to fly. the olympics is supposed to be about everything but war, as pope francis said abo

leland vittert, thank you. fox news foreign policy analyst kiron skinner is here. tonight on a call with the white house about this topic. professor of international relations at carnegie mellon. let's talk about some of what leland had to say. we will have the speech at 1:00 tomorrow. we are going to officially recognize drew's mom at the capital but the embassy is not going to if they are right. >> it's not putting on the brakes. there is some realities about moving in embassy. it takes many, many years to build embassies, to find the right spot, to build the security apparatus. that's part of it. it was in 1995 that congress passed, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan way, the jerusalem embassy act saying that this should occur. moving our embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. but nothing really has been don done. until president trump decided to take action. he campaigned on this a year ago, talking very strongly about the need to move our embassy. it's not so much a campaign promise but part of his overall foreign policy. it, to me, it's an application of what he ca

leland vittert is following the latest.cipating in the upcoming winter olympic games saying russia ran a state sponsored doapg program at the 2014 olympics held in so much i, russia. an unprecedented attack on the integrity of the olympic games and sports. however, the committee did say some russian athletes will be allow to compete in south korea, but without their national flag or anthem. the ioc saying, quote, innocent athletes will be allow to compete under the olympic athlete of russia if they pass drug tests and checks proving they had a doapg free background. so i hope that these athletes will take these chance to present a new and clean generation of russian athletes. but at this point it's unclear if russian president vladimir putin will even allow them to compete. put in has previously said it will be humiliating to compete without russia's national sympathomimetic dolls. months quow has refused to accept that any state sponsored doapg system has existed. they're calling tuesday's ioc decision quote, controversial

i'm leland vittert. the senate literally burped the midnight oil last night and republicans did not need the vice-president to get the reform through the senate, though he was there. >> we're halfway there the. the republicans got this through with vote to spare even though democrats did everything they could to block it. >> i would be glad to gut and destroy this legislation. >> how high the stench is rising in this chamber as we debate the bill tonight. in my long career in politics i have not seen a more aggressive piece of legislation. >> they also took to twitter showing the last minute changes that were handwritten on the bill, complaining there was no way anyone had time to read the entire piece of legislation, much less study it and figure out how it would effect the economy. here is senator john tester of montana. can you tell me what that word is? you have better eyes than me, this is unbelievable. >> in the end, the republicans were able to push it through, giving a huge victory. the g.o.p. we

i'm leland vittert inside "america's newsroom." >> president trump will sign that government funding bill we've heard today and expected to sign the republican tax reform bill before he travels to florida for christmas later this morning. >> fox team coverage. peter doocy on capitol hill with details on the government funding bill. we begin with john roberts live at the white house. hi, john. >> good morning, to you. the president is expected to leave the white house in about an hour headed for his christmas vacation at mar-a-lago. yesterday we were told the president may have a full blown press conference today but that wouldn't leave a lot of time between now and his departure for the press to get together and ask questions of the president. i'm told that he may stop and talk to the press on his way to the helicopter but likely we may not even hear from the president this morning. tell you what's on his agenda for today, though. he will sign that continuing resolution which includes the so-called pay-go waivers that prevent cuts to entitlement programs to pay for tax reform and he'

. >> good morning to you, i'm leland vittert. former united states marine has been arrested after the fbi says he wanted to carry out an attack on a christmas spot. will carr on what is a thwarted terror attack from our west coast bureau. >> the fbi releasing terrifying details. 26-year-old evan jamieson planned to attack pier 39. he's a sharpshooter qualification and a tow truck driver living in modesto, california. according to the fbi, jamieson jumped on their radar he was liking a lot of pro isis, pro terror posts on social media. an undercover agency posing as a senior isis leader then talked to him and he described wanting to use explosives to funnel a large amount of people at one place where he could attack at pier 39. the fbi filed a terror charge against jamieson, and while he expressed hesitation about the attack earlier this week and denies theologist, authorities say they found a note inside his home insinuating he was carrying out the plan because of president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital o

i'm leland vittert. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> i'm cheryl. the president and first lady fielding calls from children calling the santa tracker as norad to find out when santa would arrive. one boy telling the president about his ailing grandmother. >> that is the best -- you want your grandma to get out of the hospital. that's what your wish is? that's great. that's better than asking for some toy or something, right? that's much better. >> rich edson is live in florida. rich. >> good morning, cheryl. nothing on the president's schedule thus far on christmas day. it is another beautiful december day here in south florida. the kind the president or anybody else may want to spend . the president and first lady did offer their christmas wishes tweeting out a video a short while ago. >> president trump: on behalf of melania, myself, baron, and the entire trump family, god bless you, god bless america, and have a very, very merry christmas and happy new year. >> the president and mrs. trump attended religious services at the bethesda by the sea wh

lisa: official leland vittert. pete: thanks for being here. leland: thanks for being here.isa: i was surprised i was allowed through security. pete: you are on a list not the worst list. it's a watch list. leland: not the no fly list yet. lisa: they didn't recognize me in the morning. pete: we are glad you are here. brian, steve, and ainsley get al well-deserved vacation this week. the jv team. we're the self-declared jv team. we are here to inform you, entertain you and we are glad are here on "fox & friends." lisa: i guess there is other stuff going on. pete: a little bit of news this morning. leland: big news. pete: bob mueller looking into so-called russian connections. it's actually not new at all. it's been going on an entire year that probably hasn't caught your eye but it caught ours this morning because of a headline in "u.s.a. today." take a look at this, this is a headline in "u.s.a. today." it says the quiet probe into clinton email investigation could be a land mine for bob mueller. this is an investigation that's been going on since january. it was actually st

i'm leland vittert inside "america's newsroom." >> president trump will sign that government funding

i'm leland vittert. great to be with you. big guys are enjoying their well deserved time off.e: last weekday of 2017. we have got a weekend but on monday it will be january 1st. who knows what you will find on this program of "fox & friends," final 2017 program. rachel: you are all enjoying wisconsin weather. leland: enjoying, i will let you put that on there. pete: do you enjoy it when it's negative 10. rachel: i stay in. once it gets to a certain temperature, i look at the kids outside and i wave at them playing in the snow. i don't go out there. leland: missing a fireplace. pete: have a fireplace installed. leland: even if it's one of those video fireplaces you feel warmer. pete: i did the yule log this christmas on the tv. rachel: you don't have a fireplace. pete: i have a fireplace as well real and virtual. and enjoy us all morning long on "fox & friends." we'll move on to little bit of news as well. enough is enough. house intelligence committee chairman devon up in nez blasting the doj and the fbi for failing to turn over documents on the anti-trump dossier. rachel: tha

i'm leland vittert. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> i'm cheryl.