post," excuse me for saying and the liberal democrats and the established republicans like mitchell mcconnell tell us who we should have as our senator. it's an effective argument. you saw the holes they're trying to poke into the stories of some of the women today, whether extra writing had been done on the yearbook or not. trying to give voters a reason to say it's ok to support roy moore. don't let the outsiders tell you will what to do. robert: phil, president trump going to pensacola but not alabama? philip: a classic trumpian move. the white house had said early on he would not be going to alabama. he makes it out as a rally to thank his supporters. robert: the white house said on the plane on the way down, it's not that we're not going to alabama, it's about that we're going to pence carol:. roy moore gets elected by the u.s. senate. there was talk maybe he'd face expulsion. he'll certainly have an either i said investigation. walk that back in the republican party. andrea: mitch mcconnell has done a complete flip on this and they want that vote. it's fascinating to watch with the tax

>> infrastructure -- when mitchell mcconnell and donald trump talk about bipartisanship, it's hystericalmcconnell used special procedures to make sure that democrats were not part of gop tax plan and also with the repeal of obamacare used reconciliation because they didn't want democrats involved. to talk about partisanship is crazy. also the same person who held as we know the supreme court seat for over a year. and also during the obama years said the one thing i want to make sure is obama is a one-term president. they haven't shown anything that leads to bipartisanship and donald trump attacks democrats whenever he has a chance. i don't see that happening. and like i said, number one thing that democrats need to continue to do is resist reckless and racist agenda of donald trump. that is not working with him on anything. there is nothing positive or good that donald trump is going to put forward. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. happy new year. >> happy new year. >>> up ahead, our gift to rachel. stay with us. if sleep is essential to happiness. what's essential to sleep?

robert: how did mitchell mcconnell and programs president trump get these department of sit hawks to come along? alexis: it's a little of what mitch mcconnell disparaged in 2010. trying to buy off votes in his own -- about specific concerns of specific provisions. for instance, if six different colleagues had concerns, he listened to those and adjusted the pass threws for senator johnson and in the end he managed to pull together the votes to bring it to the floor. one of the things that i think is interesting is that the republicans are rushing this through in such a way that the senators we know are still trying to read what's in it. even though this the t is hurdling now through to a final vote. robert: and there's a lot in it. it is a massive tax package but there's so much more in the legislation. >> so much more and really, the most version of the legislation dropped an hour or two before we were on this show. 500 pages. you mentioned one, health care. an individual mandate repeal, which brings in the entire health care conversation and we've already had the c.b.o. basic live s

mitchell mcconnell said no, it's an election year we're not going to do that. they're trying to see some kind of parallel. here's a spoiler alert, it ain't going to happen. president trump said the vote next week is crucial, tax reform laying the foundation for what he calls american re neul. if congress sends me a tax reform this is only a small beginning to the incredible things that our people will achieve over a very short period of time and the tremendous eights that economically and so many other ways in our country. the president says if the bill was done by why is mass americans could see tax cuts by february. critics say the plan will heavily benefit the risk. lawmakers asking if is biased. ninety pages of text messages of then candidate trump. they were shainged between an fbi lawyer. today they grilled deputy attorney general roy rosen teen you can disband the musclier special prosecutor and you can do what we've all called for. appoint a special second counsel to look into this. our inspector general is doing a thorough review. that's how we found a

people like mitchell mcconnell have been very, very skeptical of roy moore. we've not seen any of that skepticism from the white house. we know that alabama loves president trump. when people go to the polls how much of this is going and voting for roy moore or voting for the trump ageneral danchts that's great question and really b this election is about fitness for the office and trieblism or partsism on the other other. to keep the seat in the senate. they don't believe the news coming in about him. on the flip side independent, favor waiverring moderate republicans and obviously democrats are look ing at this in term of fit. they believe that jones is more fit than mower specifically and we'll see which side wins out. let me ask you, i know a lot of times we've seen this back at the presidential election, leading up in the actual election are you going to vote for a certain canned date and maybe they aren't necessarily telling the truth. do you that i could be a factor here? >> there's some of that. on the margins we may have people being embarrassed on w

let's start off first and foremost, a little bit of a reverse course and even mitchell mcconnell before when he called for roy moore to pull out of the race he said let's let the people of alabama say. receipts ' start with you. roy moore is a very problematic candidate. it remains to be see what happens when he gets here to shall what than to. i agree at this point your option is between the seat flipping to the democratic side or roy mower coming in and figuring out how to deal with that member of the senate once he gets here. there are so many things on the table that need to be resolved annulus sing that vote in that seat, especially in just something that can't be tolerated. i think the establishment has flipped. they've gone all in for moore. the president has directed the r nc to do that. i think roy moore will be elected to the united states senate and it remains to be seen when his case is referred to the senate ethics committee. what does this say about our society or the republican party as a hoavment first the rnc says we're not going to get behind him. president trump decid

as part of the trade on the tax bill, majority leader mitchell mcconnell prom promised to hold h a vote on by partisan zac a in january. nearly 120 some daca eligible lose their status. we need action. we need it soon. fisa that controversial spy program is only extended until the 19th and when congress takes it up it won't be easily agreed upon. senators like white in and rand paul have major concerns. then there's military funding.so republicans. our military is hearding so we want to fund our military appropriate but i think we got to do the cr because it's the appropriate responsible thing to do here but we have to get our dwef appropriations done . the congress was supposed to come back on january 3 but now they won't come back to work until the eighth. in washington i'm ellison barber, fox news. >> still ahead, president trump spent part of his ef mass eve taking phone calls from some children. after tragedy struck several prince george's county families days before christmas now firefighters are stepping in to bring them some holiday cheer . stay with us, fox 35 news at ten back

majority leader mitchell mcconnell previously called on moore to drop out of the race.ay he said alabama voters will decide they're going to make the decision a week from tuesday. the ethics committee will have to consider the matters that have been litigated in the campaign should that particular candidate win. when allegations of sexual harassment or misconduct came out against some in the private sector many lost their jobs. the same cannot be said for these lawmakers, but all are accused of some form of sexual harassment. key win of making unwan former staffer, franken of groping five women, conyers of hard hassing former staffers. with 84 taxpayer dollars. in the case of fernt hold the money came from a fund managed by the office of compliance. we know that all totaled since 1995 there have been 268 claims paid we know the total is 17 million how that breaks out with different types of complaints and settlements we do not know. that fund is now the focus of bipartisan legislation with a goal to end it and name any lawmaker who has used it. it has 63 cosponsors as o

and mitchell mcconnell, senate majority leader, has been skeptical of that.basically said if they can find the votes to do, it you know, good luck. but he is really lowering expectations that they'll be able to have another repeal and replace effort. shery: if we could back up more broadly herement you've got trump talking about healthcare reform, and then you have paul ryan talking about welfare reform. and even in the mix there, mitch mcconnell is talking about or things, like immigration reform. where do you see the picture going for republicans going into 2018? who is going to win snout you can't have all of these things as a top priority going into january. >> yeah, they're going to have to sort this out. there's a big split right now between the conservatives who want to really take on issues like obamacare, issues like shrinking the food stamp program, and shrinking the welfare program and putting in tougher work requirements. this is something that is politically difficult to do with just one party. historically you do this as mitch mcconnell noted la

mcconnell i want to thank you what a job. and i want to thank paul they're going to speak they're going to say a few words but paul ryan and mitchell was a little team we just got together and we would work very hard didn't we it seems like it was a lot of fun it's always a lot of fun when you win if you work hard and lose that's not acceptable but i'm just going to name a few names and then some of them will come up but people that i saw so much over the last month and really over the last almost year because when you think of it we haven't even been a year. and we did the largest tax cut in our history we i hate to say this but we essentially repealed obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate which was terrible. and that was a primary source of funding of obamacare. and anwar so a friend of mine congratulations and then whizzed in. and got. here. i'll tell you of between dan and don and lisa you've done a very great job so a friend of mine called up about anwar he's on the up as he said you to get anwar and i said tell me about and we said we've been trying to get that past the whole country the world they tried in r

mcconnell with whom he's had a frosty relationship all year. on twitter he said he could not have asked for a better partner. mitchell returned the praise. meeting for the ninth time this year, he asked ben carson to say a prayer. >> carson called the president and his colleagues a blessing. >> we thank you for the president and for cabinet members who are courageous. >> for months the white house has pitched tax cuts as a boon for the middle class. with the bill now passed, mr. trump admitted corporations are the big winners. >> the plan also lowers the tax on the american business. that's probably the biggest factor in this plan. >> the bill also doubles the standard deduction for families and cuts the individual rates for the highest earners from 39.6% to 37%. senate minority leader chuck schumer said republicans failed the muddle class. >> there are only two places where america's popping champagne, the white house and the corporate board rooms. >> this is a big win for the white house, but in the very near future, the president will need democrats, not one of whom voted for this legislation if he hoped to gain votes on the business