where you are right now takes great pride in things like the life of brian mocking christianity movies like the life of brian and other so other such comedies and they say well why should islam get special treatment why can't muslims get on board with this whole idea of satire called to humor and not take everything so seriously would you say to them that's actually a prime illustration of the power point about freedom of speech and life of brian and soft targets to such a great part of british culture because christianity and the church in particular was incredibly powerful in the west and particularly in europe as there is a whole heritage of socks higher against the church that is founded upon making fun of people that are more powerful and so is the context is hugely important what do you mean when you make fun of islam you're not making fun of a religious establishment that has existed in the west for centuries and had very intimate ties to power. you're making fun of their religion of very recently arrived minorities that make up maybe four five percent. of. european country i th

he discusses his memoir "just right: a life in pursuit of liberty." briane edwards, your new book "just right: a life in pursuit of liberty." what do want somebody to take away? lee: i want them to realize that for example, barry goldwater was far more than just somebody who voted against the civil rights act of 1964. that he was, in fact, the most consequential loser in american politics. i want them to come away, hopefully, with an idea that not anreagan was dunce," as he was reporter but actually an intellectual who is very comfortable with ideas. i would like them to come away with an appreciation of bill buckley. sometimes we get caught up in his style, but he was also a very serious man who could have been the playboy of the western world, but chose, as a put it in the book, to be the st. paul of the conservative movement. to evangelize on behalf of conservative drought his 60 years. brian: you say in the book you are now designated as the longest living conservative and a country who has been active in politics. what year did it start for you that yo

ashley: life of brian. stuart: i'm tap dancing to work up to neil who will say what the heck are they talking about. seven seconds. what will you say on cheese? neil: nothing on cheese, but i was fascinated by the auction segment and the lincoln letter could go for as little as 100 grand. i would thought it would go a lot more. stuart: that is classic there. is hardly in that condition. only one hundred thousand dollars. neil: are you bidding? stuart: left it up to you. neil: talk to gaspo, he will hunt it down. thank you very much, my friend. we have everyone on dow, i know what you'reç saying, 25,000 watch. forget by christmas. at rate we're going we could do that next couple days. a lot has to do with getting tax cuts through in the senate. two sides ironing out differences. there are not dramatically that many in short order. there is separate rumor out there, not necessarily one to be believed, the house would simply vote on what the gnat came up, rubberstamp that, get it to the president's desk pront

clerkships, there was a case where i felt like i saw something because of my life experience that someone else did not see. brian just a couple of minutes we have left, talk to the people who came out of your same kind of environment that you did and tell them not with what that lawyer said but tell words about own getting out of that world and having the same chances you had? tiffany: to get out, you have to want it more than anything. you have to be willing to keep moving forward at all times and you should know that, in the end, i believe everything you go for works for your benefit. if you keep moving forward in order to get the success that you want, you have to be more creative than other people. you have to look to resources that, when you don't feel like you have any resources, you have to find them somewhere. itcould be a public library, could be a teacher, asaying hey school andtay after whileith this for a with me? do not be afraid to email people who are doing things you want to do. if you see someone on tv and he was a learned something from them, email them. i was so afraid to ask for help. but do

over us to the possible don't go rhythms instead of feelings measuring emotion starting december sixteenth on t w. this is due to the news life from brian and tension inside and outside amazing of the far right a.s.d. party here in germany things fired water cannon us left wing demonstrators trying to disrupt the events inside the party's leaders are engaged in a power struggle over ideology also coming up. after former security adviser admits to lying to the f.b.i. over the russian investigators and attention turns to other members of trump's inner circle including the president's on and off. and on duress and forces a curfew after on rest in the streets over a disputed presidential election at least one protester house died. i'm out on a welcome to the program while several people have been injured in the northern german city of hanover when police used a water cannon to disperse a protest against the far right a party and thousands of demonstrators gathered in the city where the party is meeting for its annual congress protesters formed roadblocks and briefly delayed the opening of the congress where a.f.d. party members are electing

he discusses his memoir "just right: a life in pursuit of liberty." briandy to take away? lee: i want them to realize that for example, barry goldwater was far more than just somebody who voted against the civil rights act of 1964. that he was, in fact, the most consequential loser in american politics.

ashley: life of brian.e? neil: nothing on cheese, but i was fascinated by the auction segment and the lincoln letter could go for as little as 100 grand. i would thought it would go a lot more. stuart: that is classic there. is hardly in that condition. only one hundred thousand dollars. neil: are you bidding? stuart: left it up to you. neil: talk to gaspo, he will hunt it down. thank you very much, my friend. we have everyone on dow, i know what you'reç saying, 25,000 watch. forget by christmas. at rate we're going we could do that next couple days. a lot has to do with getting tax cuts through in the senate. two sides ironing out differences. there are not dramatically that

of life that followed. long answer. [laughter] brian: in your notes, you say he wanted the job but did not get it. hn: there is a section of not just haldeman's scrawled notes, but also it shows a degree of self-consciousness, but haldeman had collected them together. m.o.'s, timeslips showing communication between the nixon campaign and anna. nixon's lawyers major we did not see it for four years. brian: this is personal stuff. it new, but it is from other books you have went to. you say some positive things about professor erwin gelman as most premier most premier authorities. john: he has taken it upon himself to write richard nixon's history and politics starting with his book "the contender." he just did a book called "the apprentice and the president" was presidential years. through three or four times as many as i have. seen those the collection -- he knows the collection in yorba linda more than 90. -- more than id o. brian: where would you put him on the list of people who have done books on richard nixon? john: is in good health and -- given good health and his goal to chronicle the rest

it's been part of our lives and we hope that it continues to be a part of our life. briannk are watching you. you know also there is a mortgage on the house. why was that aattack plan? >> i don't know. i was talking with my agent about like how i could, you know, somehow help them and we talked about vacations. and we talked about something that would be just like really nice for them. but i think the financial burden of mortgage is something that really can't be matched. and it was funny because after i already decided to do the mortgage, my mom -- i had a conversation with my mom and somehow the mortgage came um. and i acted like i had no idea what that was and asked her questions about it. and she was just giving me answers. but she had no idea it was already paid off. [laughter] >> he was being very sneaky. brian: have you raised a very sneaky child. i'm very embarrassed for you. >> exactly. brian: now the whole country is going to be watching your success and progress and at least at one time through the pro-station people are going to be pulling for you to be success

of it this way. jefferson never lost an election in his life, he had confidence in the people who always elected him. brianhow many times was he elected? gordon: well, he was elected to his house of burgesses and to the state legislature and then gets elected by the legislature to the continental congress and then he's appointed to the -- to ministers -- minister abroad and then, of course, he's elected vice president because he comes in second to adams. adams in 1796, there are three electoral votes that separate the two of them. adams was appalled by that. he had been vice president to washington. he expected -- well, i should be acclaimed. like washington. washington got every single electoral vote he could. it wasn't the same with adams, he squeaked in by three votes. if it had gone the other way, jefferson would have been the president and he would have been the vice president. he said he would never serve under jefferson. he is not happy about that, he feels he has been humiliated by that close election. and then when he comes to the election of 1800, he loses and that's just -- that just is beyond b

of my dad. i have always said maybe the second or third most influential person in my life -- one of the top -- david: is coach malloy. briand he was a marine -- or an ex-marine. and he really drilled into me hard work, winning strategy, tactics, and i went on and played a great run in squash and had a chance to compete internationally after college. david: so now you compete still. at the maccabiah games, you have won the gold medal there and silver medal, and you are now going to play again there? brian: my children have both done it, my two daughters. and my son said, let's you and i do it, dad. so we are going to go to israel and compete one more time. it will be my sixth time. i proposed to my wife on one of the trips. it has had a real significant contribution to compete, represent our country, be a jewish athlete, and at the same time, share my family experiences, as we have all played the sport and had a lot of fun with it. david: you are now in your 50's. is it hard to get into shape to play when you are in your 50's? brian: i was retired for about 10 years, and it is very hard. that is the short answer. every body

the department's use of force review board also recommended officer brian train er be fired. life in northwest tonight with more on these findings. hey, paul. >>reporter: hey, marina and shawn. the chief telling our anchors t internal use of force board found it unjustified because officer brian trainer had broken a number of protocols. this was a controversial shooting from the very beginning because the mayor telling us the day after the shooting that officer train er did not turn on his body camera until after the shooting i'm here at third and m streets northwest where terrence sterling was shot back in september of 2016. now, the mayor and the chief both spoke today about this decision by the use of force board. heeshes ' the what the mayor had to say to me is that we we have kept trust with the public so we know that we had a very unfortunate circumstance where a person died and now we have our administrative process that we follow in the district. so what i hope the community is that we've done exactly what we said we were going to do in being transparent and following the

. >> cop killer was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2015 murder of brian moore. there's a lot to the story as far as a tension between the mayor's office in the nypd. for the full story will bring in john,. >> it was a testy rebuke from the judge reminded me of my time in the courtroom when the judge basically said good riddance. a similar scene today in queens. demetrius was called a coward by the judge. he said get him out of my courtroom as a judge sentenced him to life in prison. and dozens of police officers were pleased with the sentence. outside they had some pretty harsh words and also still some tension with the bill de blasio. >> mayor diblasio was not there today. he was traveling in iowa today. the nypd knew it. >> the mayor's back in iowa perhaps testing the water for 2020 run. he says no but they sent about a dozen representatives to iowa to take along with the mayor and remind iowans about the mayor's pass. the upset o over contract negotiations and said the mayor's anti- worker and antiunion. in this contract is in mediation once again. want to ma

life of leonardo de vinci. also let trump be trump by corey lewandowsky. fourth on the list is pulitzer-prize winner ron, on the life of grant. followed by fox news host brian brian kilmeade, history of battle of new orleans. a look at best-selling nonfiction books according to washington post continues with vice president joe biden's promise me dad in which he recalls how he balanced his professional duties while attending to his ailing son and pete souza behind the scenes look on barack obama's presidency. next is oprah winfrey's insights from most meaningful conversations, for cis come of sundays and rapping up the look at best-selling books according to washington post is capital gains, a memoir from hgtv chip gyan -- gaines. some of the authors will be on book tv. >> c-span, television for serious readers. here is our prime time line-up. 7:30 eastern, the connection between the brain and the world and argues that virtual reality enhances lives, then on book tv's afterwords, 9:00 p.m., astronaut scott kelly recalls record-setting time in space. he's interviewed by form other nasa administrator charles bolden. administrative director of the manhattan pro

ainsley: sarah sarah huckabee sanders said it was one of the most powerful moments of her life. brians always a bipartisan senate commission who are meeting to put together some type of massive immigration reform which will include massive building up at the border wall to control illegal immigration. judging by these numbers, this could save us a ton of money. steve: the department of justice and department of homeland security have released a study. as it tuns out, there are a lot of people in the federal prisons in this country who if there was a wall might not be here and would not be in jail. ainsley: so we have one in five federal prisoners, they were not born in the united states. and of those 94% of foreigners in doj custody entered our country illegally. steve: that's right. the attorney general of the united states jeff sessions said yesterday this prufs we need immigration reform. brian, to your point, he also said americans are being victimized by illegal aliens how commit crimes. the simple fact is that any offense committed by a criminal alien is u89 matily preventable.

steve: monopoly and game of life. brian: i love anything gi joe. nsley: jenny of these left your favorite. brian: brian took mine. janice: what about hasbro? hasbro is going to donate, right? >> hasbro donating. a toy for every toy that's donated by marvin the american public, they will donate a toy as well up to 1 million toys. brian: by the way this happens to be the general's favorite. my little pony. >> of course. i will put that in the barrel. [laughter] steve: general, thank you very much. ainsley: thank you, hasbro. what a great company to do that. look at this we are cleaned out. steve: general, before did you go what is the website. www toys for tots.org. >> thank you. steve: coming up on this friday, more on the shocking verdict in the kate steinle murder trial after that illegal alien accused is found not guilty. but this morning, word federal charges could be on the way. sarah flores from the department of justice joins us live with that next. brian: it's become a christmas tradition here at "fox & friends" challenging santa and friends

but that took the life right out of me. >> reporter: brian lukens, sr., a veteran of the iraq war feeted burns he survived the fire. so has his wife and caught. meanwhile, friends have set up a good fund me account for the stricken family. in schwenksville, montgomery county, jeff cole, fox 29 news. >>> as you can imagine the community is deeply saddened about this tragedy. less than two weeks before christmas. some neighbors just couldn't believe the news when they woke up this morning. our dave kinchen joins us live with more from schwenksville. dave? >> iain there are so many people who knew these boys and who know the family. they heard about this, didn't believe it and had to come out to see the scene of devastation for themselves. >> i have no words for it honestly. >> cindy baringer returned to what's left of the schwenksville home where two boys died in an unspeakable tragedy. from time to time she would babysit 11-year-old brian lukens nicknamed lj and his six-year-old brother parker. >> lj was -- he's really energetic him and my brother. they would always run around. >> reporte

but by the end of his life, it is sad because slavery has become a nightmare for him and he hasn't done anything about it. he doesn't know what to do about it. adams realizes that. briann the end, what kind of money did jefferson and adams have? gordon: adams was never really wealthy but he was always shrewd. he and abigail kept their expenses within their income. he did not die in debt, jefferson dies totally in debt. so much so that he couldn't free slaves if you want to because his creditors would have owned this saves. he freed the children but he was an aristocrat, he doesn't think about money the way the way a yankee like abigail or john with think about money. he borrows money from the dutch to buy books, he doesn't borrow money from international creditors to buy your expenses and consumer goods, he is out of touch with reality in terms of his income. he didn't have double booking, he kept records but he didn't balance is full account. so we had no awareness. his son-in-law comes to him and says at some point, mr. jefferson, you are going to lose monticello and jefferson goes white. he could not believe that. his personal affects, maintaining his accounts, wha

of their life? john: just about. brian: to how many pay in that much?he fact is that a typical married couple who reaches age 67 this year will receive in medicare and social security benefits, both combined about $50,000, a little bit more than $50,000 a year. that is almost equal to the median household income in america today. so over the remainder of their lifetime, their benefits are going to grow with inflation or health care, grow faster than inflation for medicare, and they will receive about $1 million in inflation-adjusted dollars over the remaining lifetime. brian: who attached inflation indicator to social security? john: well, that was done in the most intraordinary circumstance regarding social security that i know of. it was done in 19 2, and the story of it is a very, very interesting one and illustrative of congress' inability to grapple with these entitlement programs. the story began with a proposal to increase social security benefits to compensate recipients for the inflation that had occurred since the last benefit increase. at the

that took the life right out of me. >> reporter: brian likens, sr. u.s. servicemen who did two terms in iraq. he has survived as has this wife tracy and their daughter sophie y a small memorial behind mirror near the burned building a baseball bat and flowers gone fund me page has been started for the likens family. live montgomery county, i'm jeff cole, more at 6:00. folks back to you. >> see you then, thank you jeff. fox 29 just receiving a statement from the school the two boys attended reading in part "the perkiomen valley school district community was deeply saddened to learn this morning about the death of two schwenksville elementary school students from a house fire. grief counselors were at the school today. >>> arctic blast taken hold of the delaware valley. a live look at reading of course berks county winds making temperatures feel like they're in the single digits. yeah, it's bone-chilling. as we take live look outside of our old city studios. clear skies now. snow expected overnight. kathy at least maybe with the snow a bit of a warmup possi

people off simply because their story or certain aspects of their life do not agree with us we run the risk of avoiding some of the same mistakes. brianentify someone as having made a mistake and because that makes them unworthy then we forget about a lot of people so we would be writing a lot of presidents off, basically all of them out of history. brian: up next al can one of the most revered president in his day be so controversial in our day? controversial in our day? here why some ♪livin in this crazy world ♪so caught up in the confusion♪ ♪nothin' is makin' sense ♪for me and you ♪we've got to give a little love♪ ♪have a little hope ♪make this world a little better♪ and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of onl

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of that attack. and life in the shadows of the front line we have. reports from a village in eastern ukraine that's been cut off leaving residents with no way out . are brian thomas great to have you with us will the european commission today take steps towards triggering the so-called nuclear option of article seven and impose sanctions on poland to move brussels has never taken against a member state sanctions would include the unprecedented step of suspending poland's voting rights and cutting its a u.s. aid or brussels correspondent teri schultz is following this very closely for us and joins us now terry what's what's behind the complete breakdown the unraveling of relations between warsaw and brussels. and you're right it has been a complete breakdown in fact the two sides are barely see even speaking anymore from what we hear about the possibility that the so-called nuclear option will be triggered it's been years that the european commission has been warning poland not to take these and these steps it considers undemocratic particularly in these latest weeks and months with regard to its supreme court so the european commission has not wanted to tr

effort the , police beat the people into lines, because ben butler of course did not depart life without one final ruckus. [laughter] brian: throughout his 74 years on earth, ben butler proved especially adept at taunting, riling, and vexing those around him. no man of his time excited such fierce personal animosities as general butler, one newspaper aptly concluded. one did not have to spend much time with the general before detecting the faint odor of sanctimony. even his visage could offend. burly and balding, obliged to squint for me to rethink -- squint from a drooping lazy eye, he was by his own admission the homeland man on earth. they called him a nave, they called him a liar, they called -- the vocabulary of abuse has rarely been employed with a more elegant and efficient variety. ben butler, one journalist editorialized one year after appomattox, is the best hated man who ever lived. [laughter] will nor was this ire confined to the state of the former confederacy. in the early 20th century, a rowdy debate in the massachusetts state legislature with those politicians to table a proposal to erect a statue of butle

brian edmond, sr. >> right now, my life is kind of off track. you know what i'm saying? just had a rough life, my whole 36 years of living. i was doing good in school. straight as and bs. i pleaed basketball. i don't know. i just chose the wrong route. this is where it landed me. >> mr. brian edmonds sr., let me look at his charges. assisting a felony. he was sentenced to 30 years. >> having been sentenced, ed mondays now awaits transfer to prison. a place he is familiar with. he has been there on three separate occasions, serving a total of 14 years. >> tired of being in this jail. can't wait to get away from here. go to my next phase so i can get ready, get my appeal done. >> although no stranger to prison, he does find himself in unusual circumstances here. housed in a cell on another floor at the jail is his 18-year-old son, brian ed mondays jr. who's been charged with two counts of murder. he's pled not guilty. >> we ain't got no real close relationship because i've been locked up off an on. i haven't been there through him growing up. he knows i love him, he loves

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seven years ago today brian terry and three of his colleagues set out not just to protect our border but to protect innocent people who came with their entire life savings because we chose to leave that border pourous. . . h.r. 4433 is called scuring d.h.s. firearms act of 2017. we learned during testimony on this bill that in a two-year period, roughly 200, just over 2 hub firearms were stolen from people who worked for the department of homeland security. or lost. at least one person was killed by these firearms. and i would concur that that is unacceptable. i certainly support the bill. but having served in the united states army as a leader of soldiers on deployment, all of whom were issued at least one weapon, i wonder if it literally requires an act of congress to suggest that d.h.s. promulgate regulations to oversee the loss or theft of d.h.s.-supplied weapons. yes. over 200 weapons is horrible. yes, one life lost is horrible. but should there be an act of congress? because as i recall, as a leader in the army while deployed overseas, we had protocol for dealing with lost weapons, with lost sense of item, with lost things. we didn't need

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not going to our way of life democracy. >> no. brian: going to have this revisionist nation.ause they are looking to change the balance by invading other nations and building islands respectively. >> yeah. bingo. brian, here this is a president who is making clear in this document that invading other people's countries and occupying them neo conservative kind of policy is unamerican. we don't do that. that's not who we are. it's 1776 means something. it's a rejection of that kind of behavior. but, it rightly notes, there are countries out there, whether it's russia invading the ukraine, whether it's china with those fake islands you mentioned, that wants to intimidate their neighbors, wants to displace america as a force for good in the world. and we're not going to let them, brian. steve: it's peace through strength, isn't it? >> absolutely. it's two things. it's peace through strength so returning to that golden era of the reagan attitude to the military. another thing is america first. not america alone. we will stand by nations that share our judy deo christian values, wh

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sort of philosophical framework that has now taken over academia in which all intellectual credibility goes to the person with the most critical attitude toward american life, culture and history. brianthese names, i wrote them down. max horkheimer, eric fromme, others. wil: and of those the work i had been most familiar before -- i am not a great student of the frankfurt school or anything. but i knew one of them because i was interested in art. breitbart just gets him all wrong. apart from the laughable quality of blaming what he perceived as america's demise on six jewish german philosophers in the 1930's, he does not seem to have read those people very much himself. brian: at the end of the article, you started some intellectual discussion about others, meaning one of the fellows i want to show you, walter russell mead, he had a book you can't get for less than $48 today called "special providence." here he is talking about some of the conclusions. >> the jacksonian idea is you cannot trust other countries, you certainly cannot trust international institutions. big corporations maybe are ok, but they can be greedy and self-centered. really it's populace and it's the american peop

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saying in part "we will continue to stay in prayer that brian trainor is never in another position to take another wife." now one of them -- another life." now one of the most controversial cases. hughes is live outside the supreme court with more on this. yan: crowds of people camped out for days to hear the arguments inside the supreme court. on one side you have supporters or the baker, jack philips. on the other side, you have supporters for the couple, and dave mullins. they arrived here and sat on the steps as the this is a landmark case that pits the baker's religious rights against the gay couple free of discrimination. the masterpiece cakeshop versus the colorado civil rights commission. jack philips was sued one year after he refused to make a the same-sexfor couple because of his religious beliefs. the couple was referred to him by their wedding planner. that he violated the antidiscrimination law, but the baker argues he has free speech and religious rights under the first amendment. jack philips addressed the media outside the court. >> i have had to stop creating the wedding art that i loved. i have faced death threats an

of life among the scary wildfires ravaging southern california. news at 11:00, on your side. kimberly: we begin tonight with the winter weather alert. good evening. i'm kimberly suiters. graaffi'm brian van de we had a record snow day. it is not that we had the biggest number ever, but for the state in the history books, we have not seen this much snow since 2005. inches, aller two of these records set. the snow is done, but the concern tonight is the icy spots. anything that is wet could be select. beautiful pictures shared on social media. we totally appreciate that. this is a shot from great falls, trees and the rocks. a beautiful shot. in maryland, beautiful photography, just a pretty seen across the dmv. overnight, temperatures are slipping back. heading out the door tomorrow, 20 to 39 degrees downtown. coming up, we talk about the subfreezing temperatures in the impact for slick sidewalks and side roads. kimberly: as brian mentioned, we are at freezing right now and in some spots you may see the wet pavement turned to ice. tonight, takeving it easy, especially on bridges and overpasses. crews have spent much of the day trying to keep the roads clear. salt trucks were filling up