Say it like we hate it. As the white house and the gop leaders continue to push their plan for tax cuts, some firms on wall street appear to be growing skeptical. And that could spell trouble to President Trumps signature issue. According to the washington post, bank of america economist are calling the republican proposal a quote fiscal sugar high for somebody who drinks mountai mountain dew, i kind of like that. Morgan stanley claims any positive effects from the tax cuts would be shortlived and ahead of Goldman Sachs saying that the economy is doing well and tax cuts dont need to be a priority. So what would the tax cuts mean for normal folks . Well, independent experts have been analyzing the senate bill and the predictions are clearly split along some partisan lines. The leftleaning Tax Policy Center is out with a study that says under the First Year Senate plan, 9 of americans will see their taxes rise. 50 of americans will see their taxes go up after a decade. But the conservative Tax Foundation points out that the senate plan would lead to higher wages, nearly 1 million new jobs, and enough Economic Growth to generate about 1. 2 trillion in federal revenue. So who should we listen to . Politicians, bankers, or the bean counters in dc . Joining me now is former economic adviser to president obama Fox News Contributor robert wolf. We kind of have you wrapped up all in that. Thats youre kind of all of those things. I am. And i mean that as a compliment. Well, thank you. You didnt think they would get tax reform by the end of the year. You still stand by that . I stand by that and as you know, im for tax reform. I would have split it between Business Tax Reform and personal. I think comprehensive is just too difficult, and i think thats what theyre finding in trying to mix and match just doesnt work. You have a lot of people arguing why is Corporate Tax reform permanent and personal not permanent . Thats where the 50 of peoples taxes go up after ten years is because tax cuts expire. Exactly. And then i also think were just in a situation where theres a misunderstanding about how Corporate America works in many ways. Just because you get more money, that doesnt mean you invest more money. Okay . You can have do dividends. You can do stock buy backs. You only invest if theres an roi. Return on investment. Return on investment. So a lot of the corporate ceos are saying, you know, its great if we get our taxes lowered. But as gary cohn found out when he asked how many ceos raised their hand when actually reinvested, there was a de minimis number in the audience. Do you hear that that they wont invest . And would bump up the stock market and President Trump would like that. But at t ceo Randall Stevenson clearly not a fan of President Trump now that the Justice Department is trying to put the kibosh on at t buying time warner. But he said that 20 to 25 Corporate Tax rate will make us step up our investment level. So are they not telling the truth . Well, i think, first of all, the economy feels better globally today than when he made that statement. I actually do think that they will take the money and spend it hopefully on Capital Expenditure and people. But that being said, the economy has been doing a bit better on a global basis. And what i would say is one of the concerns that all of the corporate ceos had is debt and deficit. Because at the end of the day, that impacts inflation, that impacts the economy, and if you recall when president obama was looking at tax reform well, he proposed 2012 25 for manufacturing, 28 for corporate. And 2012 and 2013. But the fiscal, you know, hawks, mainly the conservative republicans, forced to be revenue neutral. Which was fine, but you cant really do tax reform revenue neutral unless you take away some things. And thats why this is not tax reform. This current plan by the gop is just a tax cut. We should just say what it is. Its a tax cut. Its certainly a tax cut on well, its a tax reform on the business side somewhat because we do go to a territorial system and try and prevent some Corporate Tax shenanigans that go on now and a number of the tweaks in it. But i would review tax reform as impacting revenues. Okay . And expenses. This is not impacting revenues. Well, the Tax Foundation with we use that statistic if it raises revenue 1. 2 trillion, that comes close to paying for it. Yeah. What i would say. Youre going to argue. Well, no. Listen, im a reagan democrat. I was brought up in wall street in the 80s. We all believe trickled down economics worked in the 80s. Its not the same today. When reagan was president , taxes were 70 . Okay . Corporate taxes were north of 50. Its just totally different, and it wasnt a Global Economy the way it is today. We have not proven. Okay . In the last decade that trickled down economics has worked. So im a little more skeptical about that. That being said, be i think we should simplify the tax plan. I would just do it separately. I would do Business Tax Reform, i think you can pass it, and then work on the hard personal tax part. Steve moore who worked with before the inauguration. Both sides 32 advisers, and they both think it should be separated. Thats a party over there, i tell you what. Yeah. Those are some fun people. A lot of arguing. Good to see you. Thank you. Happy thanksgiving to you and everyone at fox. Back at you, my friend. In the meantime, the prospects of getting the tax plan passed just keep getting murkier. A small number of undecided gop senators could ultimately decide its fate. According to reports, that includes bob corker of tennessee, jeff flake of arizona, and Susan Collins of maine, among others. The problem is every time gop leaders try to appease some senators, they risk alienating others. Ron johnson of wisconsin says hes voting no. And this is over the way Small Businesses are treated. And as we all know, they cant really afford any more defectors. So will they unite . One of my favorite people walking on planet earth. Shes a reporter for fox News Headlines 24 7. She was in a cranberry field a little while ago. Town hall. Com editor guy benson, and former White House Security counsel staffer jillian turner. Her absolute favorite. Yes. Absolute favorite, and i like her hair better than yours, carly. Shes got the best hair i think on fox news. Its so funny because i hate my hair. We all agree here that something that senators and the Republican Party got cannot. Did they get this done . I cant imagine senator john mccain coming out and giving this thing a thumbsup just because it would mean a victory for President Trump. I mean, if thats the mentality of senator like mccain or Susan Collins or bob corker, that would be so petty. It would be throwing away a longterm victory and conservative goal just to stick it to trump, and it would be just as petty, if not more so of trump being on a regular basis. I think that theres some positive signs on this. Im not convinced that ron johnson is a hard no. I think hes saying no for now and moving. Lisa murkowski it doesnt seem like you can take it to the bank that hes going to be voting against this thing. Murkowski, who is a real pain on health care is making some noises that seem optimistic about certain elements of the plan. If she says it, shell were not there yet in terms of a whip count. But the republicans have to recognize they need to get something done. Theres a lot in this bill to really like. Its time to finally govern like a majority. But murkowski says that it seems like shell be a yes if they repeal the individual mandate that thats her condition for the well, shes okay with the plan of getting rid of the individual mandate, as long as they pass Something Else like a stabilization package to basically bail out insurers because of the disruption that that would occur. If both of those are balanced out, she and possibly Susan Collins have indicated that they would get onboard for Something Like that. All politics is local, like personal relationships, but i want it, and i want it now. They all have these individual wants and needs, and i think its disgusting to the American People, quite frankly. Well, the other thing so lets say theres a christmas miracle and the Senate Passes their version of this bill. Theyve still got this massive uphill battle ahead with the reconciliation process because were still left with a situation where the house and Senate Versions have some major, major discrepancies. I mean particularly with the state and local Tax Deduction and the senate plan. They completely do away with it on the house plan, they have right. They have the 10,00 10,000 exemption for property taxes. But i think a bigger point, carly, is that the senate and the house the republicans in both chambers do a horrible job of communicating this, and they do a horrible job of fighting back against the criticisms from the democrats. Some of which will express. And some concerns that politicians are expressing now have been expressed for years and largely because of a lack of communication and inability to get things done. But enough about politicians. The American People are not completely onboard about this either. Theres a recent harvard poll that says 54 of americans oppose this bill. A majority of conservatives agreed with the way that this tax bill was laid out. But Small Business owners are concerned. Theres this overall sentiment that this benefits the rich over the poor. So also is President Trump doing enough to get more people onboard . I dont really know if he has been. One thing is that part of the reason health care failed according to capitol hill is that President Trump didnt really have enough skin in the game. He did not go door to door like he should have to try to sell this to members and senators. I think hes tried to reverse course correct that error with this. Hes been much more hands on in delivering tax bills on both sides of the aisle on both chambers. To both chambers. For everything youre making a face. 70 points. You dont think so . No. No. Quickly. The 70point plan that he had the white house come up with to deliver to the hill was, like, an opening show of, like, look. Were serious. Were serious about this. We put thought into it. Yeah. And i think to your point about polling, theres reams of other polling showing that the major elements of the republican bill are very popular with the American People. What republicans ought to be saying constantly is that independent sources, independent analysts have found that the tax reform bill that just passed the house would cut taxes on average for every income group in america. Right. That it will grow the economy, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and the biggest one being 70 of americans right now file taxes and take the standard deduction. They do not itemize. And we get to double it for you, people. Double standard deduction. That is at least 70 of americans automatically winners right off the top of this thing. Republicans dont point that out. Make it easier. Were going to increase your child tax credit, and were going to double the standard deduction, and were going to stick it to those liberals in those blue states. Sorry. Thats what theyre doing. Thats where you live, though. Yeah. Im sorry. Im getting the never mind. Twitters going to be i am getting the moving on. Speaking of well, hillary clinton, once said it takes a village to raise a child, but its going to take several vigils to keep track of all the things she has blamed her election loss on. Yesterday she went to excuse number 900 this time bringing president obama into the mix saying this quote when you run to succeed a twoterm president of your own party, you have a historical headwind blowing against you. The nerve that obama winning a second term. Hillary also went on to say she had a difficult time running because this election was the first reality tv campaign, which is amazing given that here we are a year later, and shes still not accepting reality. So has hillary gone mad . Or did she just have too much hot sauce at lunch . Carly, this is i understand because she was trying to she couldnt really run on president obamas record in terms of people in the middle of the country, the very people who turned and voted for President Trump because their wages werent growing, they felt left out, they felt left behind, ignored by washington. So how are you doing how are you going to basically blame president obama but then also yeah. Like, can you help me win . I actually think she made a really good point, given everything that, you know, you just said. Its obviously going to be more difficult for her to convince unhappy people that shes going to make them happy running as a democrat after obama. But i mean, the funny thing here is that the excuse train is, like, 150 cars long now. And its rolling down the tracks with no end in sight. I actually view it as an excuse as much as i see it as, like, this is a moment where she was actually being very truthful because the way where . Because the way that i see it. Over on the campaign trail. A lot that she has thrown around about its bernies fault. That stuff was a little russia. But i think this is actually shes being honest, and its true. Because one of the things her campaign failed to do at a National Level was to really hammer out how she overlapped with and differentiated herself from president obamas policies. Its something that they fail on the campaign trail from day one all the way through to november. And they were doomed to fail. But, well on that point. Because if you look at the exit polling. They could have done a better job of hammering out from the beginning. Sure. The areas of this is where were with president obama, and this is how were different. This is how were better, and they never did that. I think your point is well taken. But if you look at the exit polling and the polling leading up to this election, people were not happy with the direction of the country. It was on paper a change election. She was right about the history at play here. And theres not a Single Person on the planet who could be credibly convinced a change maker after eight years of barack obama. Nobodys going to believe that. So it was a tall task. Trump, say what you will about him. Big, big change. Hillary clinton, more of the same. There wasnt eight years of obama that was the problem. It was eight years of bill clinton, and she was being in the white house and what she tried to do there that was much further left than what barack obama did, i would argue. A lot of badge. A lot of baggage. It was a lot of baggage and a personality that was fiction or at least she tried to be fiction. And then the sorry. Thats something we will not miss. The panel returns later. But first, President Trump managed to stay away from the roy moore controversy for a while. Finally weighed in on the Alabama Senate race yesterday. Should he have just stifled . Ill ask next. 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Just when it seemed like President Trump had widely sidestepped the controversy surrounding roy moore and other washington sex scandals, he dont have right into the muck with white house reporters and seemed to suggest that he, well, supports roy moore. Trump look, he denies it. I mean, if you look at what is really going on, and you look at all of the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didnt happen. Well, some political say the president should continue to stay quiet on that issue with some calling the off the cuff statements an unforced error. Same going with his on going twitter spat on the nfl along with basketball dad levar ball who trump referred to as a poor mans don king. So what will it take to avoid the political third rail or could it be in his best interest to just keep stirring the for the . Let me bring in former White House Press secretary. Also a Fox News Contributor. I have said literally for since the president declared his casino, he shouldnt be on twitter. He shouldnt be saying that, but he still does it, and he won the white house, and he is still here. Yeah. And i dont think anybody should ever think he should get off of twitter. He wont. He has used it to his benefit many times. Sometimes he has gone too far. The levar ball thing is a silly distraction. I dont think theres anything thats going to upset the ship of state here. But its a fight that if youre the president , sometimes you want to elevate, you dont have to be in every fight thats out there. The communications director, though, the comments that he made on the fly about roy moore, it was the way that he said it that seemed to be the problem. And as if he did not have kind of a prepared response to those questions. Whose fault is that . Oh, no, i think he had a prepared response. He knew what he wanted to say, and i think hes been inching toward this for weeks. Look, you cant keep silent on this forever. The elections not for another three weeks. Hes going to talk to the press within three weeks, and he made his point. And he is in an impossible catch 22. Play it out. If donald trump had said that moore needs to step down, immediate next question is then what about you, mr. President . Why should we believe him when we didnt believe yours . So he cant say that. And thats the pickle hes in, so thats why he said what he said. Does it distract and take away and even damage his agenda as the senate is now trying to move forward on massive tax reform . It will ultimately, if he can get through the senate, go to conference. Does this hurt that . Should he be communicating more about that versus Everything Else from basketball to football to the color of the sky . Well, look, i think that nothing is going to impact tax reform in this election. Either republicans are going to be able to pass it before this election or theyre not. And if you lose the seat in alabama, then its going to be more precarious when it comes to final passage if they dont have that done in time. So i understand that incentive to want to have somebody who votes your way. But, again, you know, theres not as if you can just avoid reporters for three weeks. I suppose he could clam up and do that. But its very hard to do when youre the president , and hes asked by the press about roy moore. And theyre never going to let it go. And he did try to make it about a Political Choice about are you going to choose a democrat . He mentioned the candidate was weak on crime. Or are you going to choose a republican . And i thought that that was the kind of lane that you want to stay in. You have to be consistent, and i said the right moral thing would be for moore to step down. But in the democrats case. Take what happened with congressman conyers who has also been accused of Sexual Harassment and paid off a settlement. One of the leading democrats in the house leadership congressman names james fellow democrat said this about congressman john conyers that the charges against him dont have any real substance. Quote you cant jump to conclusions with these types of things for all i know all of this could be made up. So if the democrats are going to jump on donald trump for not believing the accusers of roy moore, they need to jump for defending conyers, you cant have it both ways and democrats are trying to have it both ways on these issues. Take care. Happy thanksgiving. Thank you. Coming up, a damning new report claiming ubers new hacker stole data from nearly 60 million customers and drivers but kept it under raps for more than a year. Should you be concerned if youre an uber user . Deirdre bolton, details next alerts wouldnt you like one from the market when it might be time to buy or sell . 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The Ridesharing Company has admitted they paid hackers 100,000 to conceal a cyber attack that exposed the data of 57 million customers. Oh, and that hack occurred back in october 2016. Is the latest in a long list of uber screwups that date back all the way to the companys founding. So why are we just finding out about the hack now . And should users be concerned . Here with me now Fox Business Network deirdre bolton. Deirdre. It is the latest screw up. But this is kind of even more i was just going to say. Ubers past ceo former ceo travis had really set the bar pretty high for bad behavior, immaturity and as many people would say even questionable ethics compared to other average human beings. But this actually takes the cake. So uber got hacked, you mention the date. October 2016. So more than a year ago and didnt tell anybody. Okay. So thats actually a problem as you alluded to following a long list of problems. Uber just flouted youre supposed to pick up the phone and call the new York Attorney general, the ftc, and say, hey, this is what happened. Customers accounts and bat were breached. Also, some of our drivers. Something like 600,000 drivers i think. 600,000 license numbers were taken from seven million drivers, dagen. And if you want to take a look at the numbers for worldwide customers, its above 50 million. This is a big hack. I just want to underline that point. That ceo no longer has his job, and this is just one of the reasons why. But what is really egregious and lots of companies have gotten hacked in the past few years. This is the only one, at least, that i know of from being on the business where the ceo was, like, oh, you hacked our database . Okay. Heres 100,000. Zip it. And theres no way to know or we dont know at this point what the hackers still have in their hands. Ill go over the list with you. I mean, now, what i do want to tell you is that the list has been provided by uber itself. So were going to have to trust, in other words, no Social Security numbers, i do know that. No credit card information, and no trip location details, which is obviously a great privacy concern. But theyre asking us to trust them when they didnt tell us for the last year that they got hacked. Yes. And they sort of just released in a blog post saying, hey, this just happened a year ago. I think you should know about it. One thing i do want to say is the new ceo very long last name seems extremely competent. He is just trying to cleanup these messes left, right, and center. Honestly by all accounts, hes a very good leader. Hes very strong and said, hey, listen, theres no excuse for what happened. Im not even going to try to explain this. But what i can tell you going forward, every single ambition decision that were making at uber is made with the idea of integrity. So i do give the new ceo a lot of credit. I just think he has such a huge mess. Its like two monkeys cooking in a kitchen, and he has to go around and cleanup. Misogyny and sexism that was wellknown throughout Silicon Valley. There was one executive had the personal medical records of a rape victim in india. And he actually flew to india illegally obtained those medical records with the idea of discrediting a customer at the hands of an uber driver but discredit her story. No, theres nothing that was correct or noble or done properly at this company under the former ceo. I do want to highlight. Hes still on the board. So there are a lot of investors, in fact, one of their biggest investor is in an open lawsuit right now trying to, basically, get more board seats. So im going to make this face in the camera and relay in respect to that news. Crazy. Thank you, deirdre bolton. Youre so welcome. Youre fantastic. Always good to see you. So how evil is technology . Thats a question that was asked in New York Times oped that compares the Tech Industry to big tobacco. The piece i dont tell lines three ways big tech is hurting users. Number one, social media is having a negative impact on young people. Two, the Tech Industry is encouraging addiction to products to make more money. And three, monopolies like facebook and google are using their market power to invade our privacy. Privacy invasion has proven to be a valid fear. Google just admitting that they have been able to track the location of users even when the setting was turned off on phones. So how do we fight big tech . The party panel back. Carly, guy benson, julian turner. This is what you cover. You cover social media. How do you fight this . You cant fight it. But you have to realize that this is whats happening, and there is nothing that you can really do about it. Even if your location, you know, tracker is off, even if your microphone is off on your phone, always assume that people now have your information. Now, i dont think that everybody should be very concerned about this. I personally am not. I like to think that my life is so bland that somebody in, you know, a tech company isnt tracking me, personally, but they but there are a lot of perverts online tracking you. Thats true. One look at twitter, and you get very terrified. Ive read this New York Times oped, and i think about all of the information that people give to these Technology Companies and the way they choose. This is personal responsibility. This is where parents need to step up and where all of us need to step up. Because ultimately if youre worried about it, then dont use your phone. Take charge. The landline. Right. Totally agree. And a lot of this does come down to what you allow yourself to do and your devices and your choices that you make and parenting and so forth. But to the example that you just gave about google, these were people being responsible turning off features that they didnt want on and google is exploiting it anyway in a way that i think was a betrayal. And then uber was in trouble in the last couple days revealing that there was a huge hack that compromised millions of people. Yeah, and what do they do . They covered it up by hiring basically more hackers to make it go away. And now were just finding out about it. It was shockingly easy for them. Very easy. Good thing that google a couple of years ago got rid of its original motto. Dont be evil. That used to be the motto. Because they couldnt i want to get jillian jillian, what were you going to say . I was just going to say that there are some parallels on the National Security front which carly was saying about how do you regulate Silicon Valley and big tech . You cant, really. You cant really rely on the government to do this. Were only now for the first time getting donald trump to dump isis content off of it. And that was through shaming. Because i shamed twitter years ago because they were literally not policing it at all. But i think that the threat of regulation will get them to do a better job at protecting peoples information. The threat of it because they dont want the government coming in. Its looking like some holiday spirits may be running a little dry this year. Many offices will reportedly be banning alcohol from their yearend parties while some firms are canceling the parties all together. Amid Sexual Harassment allegations coming from work environments. And some dont want to take the chance of the incident. But is sobriety really the answer . Guys . Youre giving the me the death stair. Its such a depressing story. Some of perv nato is ruining everything for everybody else. If you have too many drinks at the Office Christmas party, you probably shouldnt be doing that to begin with. Or take yourself home. To have everybody ruined because of these bad apples. And moving to alcoholfree lunches. Which is fine but less fun. Ill drink some booze at lunch because noon is like my 5 00. Yeah, exactly right . Yeah, because i get up at 2 00 in the morning. To have a glass of wine at noon. Your solution here. Im, like, oh, some companies are moving these to lunches. Youre, like, great. Lets drink at lunch. Undeterred. Heres what people are going to do at the christmas party. Looking like highschoolers, you know, drinking at a school dance. This isnt going to happen, though. There would be so much outrage if they dont serve alcohol at Company Christmas parties. People would just bring their own. Heres a pro tip. No ones going to go, so dont bother to hold the party. Would you i wouldnt go. Thats true. And then the company would save money, though. Which some of them. But do you know what . Thats what theyre doing. The companies are using this as cover to cancel the christmas party. Cheapskates. So the war on christmas. I tell you it exists. This is the real war on christmas right here. Exactly. You take away my booze, its war all right. Thank you, all. Big hug. Did you know there are more troops in somalia than at any time since the infamous black hawk down battle . Buck sexton joins me to say why beefing up the militaryyyyy its time for the ultimate sleep number week on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort your sleep number setting. And snoring . Does your bed do that . Its the final days of ultimate sleep number week. Save 50 on the ultimate limited edition bed with adjustable comfort on both sides. Ends monday. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Mikboth served in the navy. S, i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. She thinks shes the boss. She only had me by one grade. We bought our first home together in 2010. 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More than double what was carried out in 2016. Military personnel in somalia have also more than doubled this year from about 200 to 500. Its the largest American Military presence in that country since the black hawk down disaster in 1993 when 18 u. S. Soldiers died. Now, somalia is a wartorn country and there seems to be an Endless Supply of bad guys there but can america really patch things up . Let me bring in former cia officer host buck sexton with america now. It is buck sexton. Good to see you, my friend. Good to see you. Whats going on, particularly in somalia and why the increased presence there . The Trump Administration i think has seen whats gone on in iraq and syria as a template for what theyre going to try to do against the affiliates of the Islamic State going forward. Use local, on the ground allies, work within the political realities of the various tribes and factions and give them air cover, have a limited presence of u. S. Special forces or special Operations Command personnel who will be training, providing intelligence, and other assistance if necessary. But let indigenous forces carry most of the fight. That has been the that has worked to that has worked well in iraq and syria. Somalia, they are upping the air strikes. This is where the trumpian aspect of it i think comes into play even more. Theyre taking a more aggressive stance with those strikes. They also did this in iraq and syria, i should note. But that means you will have an increase in casualties and not just casualties of bad guys, but i think the administrations calculation is look what happened in iraq and syria. We have a half Million People dead in syria. You have civil war there in iraq. Tens of thousands killed at a minimum hundreds of thousands wounded, displaced, injured, enslaved, and that was because there was insufficient action taken on the ground by there was a u. S. Presence, and there were u. S. Options at hand. So i think what theyre trying to do is the antiisis model from iraq and syria elsewhere around the world, and that means more air strikes, and it means that we will have people in harms way. Thats part of this. Right. Theyre putting the hammer down for lack of a better phrase. What about, though, because its the military operation. But that comes out of intelligence gathering. Do you have any sense as a former cia officer the quality of the intelligence that were getting in order to execute on some of these missions . Well, you need it to be for Counter Insurgency purposes, which is really what youre dealing with in a context like somalia, you need it to be granular. You need it to note down to the tribe and village level who the players are, good and bad, and that means that on the ground allies are absolutely essential, which brings me back to what the template is now. Look, we did go back in iraq. We did go back in afghanistan. For bush and obamas terms in office. Obama pulled down in iraq but actually surged in afghanistan. I think theres a recognition that its not ever going to be possible for us to build a country and want it more than the people who live in the country. He cant want it more than they do. So thats why using the forces on the ground in the case of somalia, in niger were working very closely. The mention the raid, very important raid where we lost some u. S. Special forces personnel killed. But theyre working with indigenous forces there too. Were using air cover and our specialized operators and in some places but ultimately, we see as a nation. And this sounds very simplistic. These terroristaffiliated groups in these africaian countries is a threat to the United States security. Maybe not here at home but overseas, thats a question rather than a statement. Well, you look at a group like al al shabaab. Right. And you look at nigeria, for example. These are same as alqaeda. I think the separation between these groups. They change, theyre all working for the same thing, which is a global caliphate and a global jihad. But they have engaged in crossborder attacks. Al al shabaab has gone into kenya and been responsible for mass casualty incidents there. So we know that thats already on offering for them. Thats something that theyre trying to do. And i believe that one of the problems weve seen is that with, for example, the Obama Administration iraq and syria, they took a handsoff approach, they allowed the failed state to become the launchpad for jihadism, and then it was our problem anyway. So trumps team is looking at this problem set. And, look, its very, very complicated and no one can fix this easily. But losing the problem set of whats going on with jihadist in Subsaharan Africa more now even air strikes which involve more casualties. That will happen if youre taking a harder line. That prevents us from dealing with. Okay. Now theres a civil war in somalia, which has been happening over the course of recent decades. But now theres the complete implosion and hundreds of thousands of people killed. Buck sexton. Good to see you. Good to see you. Happy thanksgiving. Eat well. That, i can promise. Coming up, they say you cant teach an old dog new tricks. But you can teach him new exercises. Well tell you about a police dog whos trying to work off President Trump is keeping with a Family Tradition and spending the Holiday Weekend in palm beach, florida. And president clinton is keeping the tradition and spending it at hooter. Pass the bleu cheese dressing. This is topical storm. Topic number one, we dont normally cover serious topics in this segment, but we begin tonight with a police exercise thats so intense, they had to bring in the canine unit. Any dog can give you a paw, but it takes a serious shepherd to drop and give you 20, and thats exactly what nitro learned to do after Gulf Shores Police taught him how to do pushups. Or is it the other way around . Nitro looks like he has better technical ncaa than that auto guy on the right. Over 1 Million People have watched this video. But, unfortunately, the news is not all good for nitro. Earlier today, he was suspended from the police force after he got caught making deals under the table. Topic number two. The Legendary Rap Group would you tang clan is suing the Dogwalking Company for Copyright Infringement and could be headed to court because the lawsuit disclosed an unknown amount of cream. Boy, these are would you tang songs which i only point out to you because the producers just pointing them out to me. Anyway the dog Walking Company is called the wolfgang clan and aside from having a hilarious name, they also claim to have the full hiphop treatment for your dog, which means the dogs getting walked to a pot dealer and barking at female dogs. Topic number three. Lets head on down to florida where the holiday traffic is so bad that everybody is trying to use the hov lane, including airplanes. A Police Dash Cam captured footage of a pilot trying to fly on the roads after his engine failed on his plane. Look out. Amazingly, nobody was hurt during the fiery crash. But Florida Police say that passengers are still expected to suffer from the flames. Theyre all Miami Dolphins fans. You want to talk about crashes. Topic number four. Up until now, if you drank whiskey out of a capri sun you were either a raging alcoholic or actor hanging out with some questionable people in hollywood. But all of that is about to change because a British Company started a Subscription Service that brings you whiskey in a pouch for 7 a month. These are real neat looking, but i just wanted to point out that kennedy only picked this story about whiskey delivery because they heard my accent and, of course, just assumed that i come from a family of bootleggers, which is very presumption and, well, true. But we didnt bring booze in a pouch. We brought it in a mason jar. Pouches were reserved for fish hooks, live bait, and chewing tobacco because im a lady. Topic number five. This monday is the online megasale known as cyber monday for those of you not familiar. Cyber monday is like black friday for people who dont like being trampled in a store. Spain has the running of the bulls. We have the running of the flat screens. But if you prefer spain, youre in luck because International Travel deals are expected to be one of the topselling items on cyber monday. 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