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For a temporary spending bill. The crucial vote could come within the hour. Well bring that to you live. Meanwhile, more companies are announcing plans for how they will be spending their tax savings. Trillions in tax savings but does it all translate into more jobs and growing wages for you . If you thought traffic was bad at thanksgiving, wait until you hear the latest what to expect this holiday weekend. Melissa oh, no. David yes. Melissa you need cocktail. No, im kidding, not if youre driving obviously. The dow surging to a new record high after two days of losses getting a big boost from the highest Third Quarter gdp reading more than two years, three years. Up 3. 2 . This is the first tame weve seen backtoback quarters with more than 3 growth since 2014. Lets go straight to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Nicole, where the major afterring as, theyre back in the green. There you go. As we look at record closes for the dow, it had to be above 24,792. Oh, no, we didnt make it. Were still close. We got very close to alltime highs as well. Overall big picture here, we do see up arrows. The trend is to the upside. People loving tax overhaul. Loving economic news. They got the jobs report recently. Today that gdp number of 3. 2 . Really showing that business spending has been robust. Now with the tax overhaul, everybody has high anticipation for next year. Were looking at nasdaq which finished up about 4 points. The dow is 26 points away from an all time intraday record high. Look at names that hit alltime highs today. This is goldman sachs, caterpillar, home depot, the financials in particular did very well. Weve been seeing them jumping up. Idea of higher Interest Rates too. Look at this, jpmorgan, citi, wells fargo, bank of america, goldman all up between one and 2 . Wells fargo, bank of america highs there as well. Those are notable. Apple, every time says old story every time a new iphone comes out our old one doesnt work, but apple says we slow down your older phones. Not to make you buy a new phone. In fact to preserve the longevity of your old phone. And the older batteries and slowing down the data that comes in there, the programing, in order to make it last for you. Thats what they say. I dont know, i think its a good concept. Melissa uhuh. They are slowing down so you buy a new one. Were a business channel. We appreciate that. That is smart. You dont have to buy an apple phone if you dont want to. Thank you, nicole. Really show. Melissa david. David meanwhile the ink is barely dry on the tax reform bill. Republican leaders faced with the next big challenge of avert as partial Government Shutdown. President trump responding on twitter. House democrats want a shutdown for the holidays in order to distract from very popular, justpassed tax cuts. House republicans, dont let this happen. Pass the cr today, keep our government open adam shapiro on capitol hill watching this closely. Adam what is the latest . Reporter theyre debating in the house of representatives. Why is why im not looking you in the eye. Im watching the monitor. This will take about an hour. We expect a vote on continuing resolution. If it passes expected to go to the senate. The senate takes this up, we would be here very late tonight watching the senate pass it. Why people are saying why it should pass and why it shouldnt pass. Take a listen. News break, republicans control the congress, they control the house, they control the senate and have the signature in the white house. They have the votes to keep government open. They have the votes to keep government open. They dont need us to keep government open. Weve never been about shutting government down. Reporter but republicans are saying look, this gets us to january 19th. We can pick this back up again. While a lot of people say this is no way to run a government, this is what is necessary now to keep the lights on. Take a listen. This deal is taking place way above my pay grade but it is probably right there at the pay grade of the president of the United States, the speaker of the house, and the minority leader. And when folks dont show up to the table for the covers, it makes it harder to get there. David back reporter back to you. David adam, thank you very much. Melissa here is dave bratt, House Freedom caucus member. It is true if you dont get this done, all the headlines about the tax victory will go away, oh, no, the government is shut down, woe is me what do you think . Yeah. No. I just heard nancy pelosi, i like her, she is just dead wrong. We dont have the votes in senate. Right, all year long that has been the story. The American People gave us the house. They gave us the senate but they didnt give us 60 votes in the senate. We had a face plant on health care. The house had a budget in for 90 days. The senate hasnt done their work. They got tax through, thumbs up on that one. In terms of leverage we need eight votes in the senate. The house will get its job done as usual. 300 bills waiting for them to pass. I think were out of hire tonight. I think there is good news. Well get the cr through. The supplemental is pretty rich. I think that may have problems. Well make sure we take care of disaster victims as well. Melissa by the way that disaster victim, we heard from our own reporting from adam shapiro that in there is some cotton giveaways. It is not as straightforward as everyone makes it seem. People out in the audience watching this and theyre saying i have never seen a group of people so hamstrung and befuddled by problems they themselves created. You guys write the rules. Then you get tripped up by them, so frustrating to americans what do you say to that . I agree with you totally. I dont think i will be voting for the supplemental. We have to do our homework better there. Is all sorts of money, only 15 of that 80 billion gets spent next year on the disaster folks. How do i explain that . 80 billion, right . All we have to come up with to pay for the tax cuts is 150 billion a year. If youre growing at 3 melissa that is under the couch. Like nothing. Laying around in the ground out there. You saw it on the stock market report. Were growing at 3 . People have been asking the wrong question. Does the tax bill itself cover itself . Maybe not. But the economy certainly does. That is all that people care about, right . The economy pay the bill . Yeah, were doing great right now. Melissa absolutely, yes, although were paying the bill with our tax dollars. We would like spending cuts and thoughtful spending of our hardearned money. Youre in favor, but realistic to get anything done with the momentum coming out of taxes and the economy . No. Melissa oh. Because the other side of the aisle, right, chuck and nancy, im being truthful with you, right . The Freedom Caucus fights every year at yearend of spending cuts. Chuck and nancy say they concerned about the deficit, but every christmastime, they load up the Christmas Tree with every debt imaginable with 80 billion. They want plusups then say theyre concerned about the deficit. Melissa they dont control everything. They would like to give away every dollar in my pocket and your pocket and davids pocket and everybody but they dont control everything. There are not enough sane people that want to bring down spending . That is why the swamp has such a bad name, my friend. Youre right, im on the budget committee. 3 4 of the budget is entitlement spending. Social security, medicare, medicaid, 3 4. Military are dejected. We have ships running into each other, we couldnt do a military plusup, the democrats would want the same amount loads up Christmas Tree. Were doing chip, do everything weve always done. Spending is the holy grail. That definds the swamp. So the American People have to send some people up here who are very concerned about melissa who are not swamp creatures. 20 trilliondollar debt problem. Melissa they sent one person up there not a swamp creature to clean out the house. So well see. Keep it coming. Melissa congressman dave brat, thank you. Thank you. Melissa Merry Christmas. Merry christmas. Tax breaks dont lead to job creation. They lid to big ceo salaries and money for the very, very wealthy. Melissa rich. Doesnt he seem like the grinch . It is grinch time. Melissa very grinchy. David democrats like Chuck Schumer slamming the bill tax cuts wouldnt create jobs but within hours companies came out in numbers saying just the opposite. Go to Connell Mcshane with the breakdown of the Companies Already looking to hire more since tax reform passed, and pay more. Connell. Reporter well weve seen that david, certainly what senator schumer said. Both could be true. Ceos could make more and workers could also make more have their wages be boosted. We dont know how it all plays out until we get longterm wage data and job data after the tax bill, to your point we have seen individual Companies Already come out and tell us they either plan to pay their current workers more or to hire more. Here are some examples. Cvs, 3,000 workers theyre pledging to hire. Fedex will increase hiring. Fifth Third Bank Corp says they plan to pay hourly employees a higher minimum wage, 15 bucks an hour. Were at wells fargo in new york. Same deal for wells fargo. Seen those announcements. Others are handing out onetime bonuses. Others announcing they buy back their own stock. Speaking to experts about this, they say the buybacks help shareholders certainly could help market. Onetime bonuses are great. Corporate pr, help workers getting them but they point back to what we just outlined. The hiring and wage growth and republicans are hoping, guys, that will be the legacy of this bill once we get further out, that we see a lot of that. Already were seeing at least some examples of individual Companies Moving in that direction. David Connell Mcshane, good to see you. Lets bring in todays panel to react. Danielle dimartino booth, former Federal Reserve advisor. Scott martin, kingsview asset management, fox news contributor. I was listening to the antibusiness network otherwise known as cnbc. They were actually debating, swear this is true, there was announcer debating whether or not this was conspiracy that somehow the Trump Administration had put together these ceos to say that they were going to hire people and raise wages. No. David when they had no plans. I swear. This is what they were suggesting. Theyre socialists. David conspiracy going on here which you say what . At t is in the crosshairs of the department of justice right now. So it is not as if theyre cuddly with trump at all. Yet, they see the economics of this deal. They were the first out of the gate to make announcement about expanding, expanding what theyre paying their workers. Look, this tax bill is going to take average effective tax rate, mainly because of all the loopholes were left in it. There are obviously pluses and minus to that. It will take the average effective tax rate from 21 to 9 . No way this can not be stimulative to the economy and there is no way in my opinion that companies are not going to react in a positive way, giving this economy yet another boost. David all right. Now, scott, i know you love a good conspiracy as much as the next guy but when you think of people who actually claim to be probusiness suggesting that there is a cabal of business leaders, at t, has come out and said this of course fedex said they were going to hire more people and expand their business. Jamie dimon said it weeks ago as a result of the tax cuts. I mean, where do people get this idea there is conspiracy going on among business . David, i chalk it up to the shock that the left is feeling from the fact that this is already permeating the economy to danielles point. This is already working and the left cant stand it, david. It is making them nuts in front of the holidays. Listen to Chuck Schumer moments ago, believed it or not, david, i had a few jobs in my life, ive been fired or let go in jobs. David right. Companies david, that werent doing well financially or companies cashstrapped, my goodness are we forgetting what were doing here . Were giving companies more of their money and more prosperity to do things with. David i want to throw a bone to Chuck Schumer, danielle. Because he put out a list of companies who have done stock buybacks in the month of december. It is big number about, 83 billion. Bigger than most decembers not by that much, some decembers close to 80 billion but there are stock buybacks which is what a lot of company are spending their cash on. Is there any guarranty they wont spend much more of that when they get money back from tax refund . There are no guaranties in this world but the fact of the matter is a lot of these repatriated funds go into Capital Expenditures. They are just not going to go into share buybacks. We seen evidence of that. Weve seen buildup of Capital Expenditures of companies in past few quarters and decline netnet of share buybacks. I dont buy that theory it goes back into shareholder pockets. It will be longerterm economic growth. David in corporate headquarters, the way to make money is spend a lot of money. I think there will be a lot of spending as a result of tax cuts. Thank you both very much. Melissa nations uniting against america voting in the u. N. General Assembly Voting against our decision to move the embassy to jerusalem. The response from Ambassador Nikki Haley and the implications of this vote. David democrats have still steaming as youve seen over tax reform, now warning of a yearlong assault they will make against the plan, even though it will be signed into law soon. Senator john thune how republicans plan to come back this negative messaging. Melissa secondincommand at the fbi on the hot seat for a second time after delivering what some lawmakers are calling conflicting testimony. House Intelligence Committee member Chris Stewart participated in the closeddoor marathon eighthour grilling on tuesday. He will join us next. Retail. Under pressure like never before. And its connected technology thats moving companies forward fast. Ecommerce. Real time inventory. Virtual changing rooms. Thats why retailers rely on comcast business to deliver consistent Network Speed across multiple locations. Every corporate office, warehouse and store near or far covered. Leaving every competitor, threat and challenge outmaneuvered. Comcast business outmaneuver. David shares of nike reporting Second Quarter results. Nicole petallides with the numbers. Hi, nicole. Got to love nike, dow component looking to the upside, coming out with earnings up. 8 right now, 65. 30 afterhours, beat on top and bottom line. Looking what we saw for the earnings per share, 46 cents instead of 40. 8. 6 billion instead of 23. 69 billion. A beat over tall 3. 69. Analysts saying more excitement around product launches, today, finish line reporting earlier about increased traffic, better comp sales, raising outlook. Finish line up 13 as we went into the closing bell. Not a surprise to see overall this group is doing better ultimately, sneakers footwear revenue. That was a beat. North america a little light. China, 1. 22 billion. That was a beat. Big picture news with good news. Already coming off the earlier highes. Up half a percent of nike, dow component. Back to you. David general question before you go, nicole, just wondering, many people thought after the tax bill was actually a sure thing that the market would jump like crazy. It hasnt done that. Why do you think investors are not buying more stocks right now . For the tax bill, why, ultimately weve had a great year. They have been buying. Now at this point some people are getting ready for the holidays, taking off, positioning, windowdressing. I think there is no doubt when you walk around this Trading Floor everybody believes that this market is headed to the upside. David all right. Because its a growth plan. And youre going to see that and thats what they believe. Whether or not you move a few percent, whatever, that is back and fill, back and forth. David right. But the big picture they believe in america, they believe in this plan. David Nicole Petallides. Great to see you. Thank you. Melissa. Melissa grilled on the hill, former fbi attorney bruce ohr and Andrew Mccabe, interviewed in relation to the texts by peter strzok and indicates buys in the fbi at very least. We have doug mckelway. Doug. Reporter fbi director Andrew Mccabe is undergoing a second day of questioning by the house intel committee. Mccabe oversaw the investigation into the Hillary Clinton emails, while his wife was running for office in virginia, while she accepted nearly half Million Dollars from Hillary Clintonallied campaign group. Sources tell fox news yesterday, that mccabe could not recall when he learned the Clinton Campaign and dnc paid for the notorious trump dossier commissioned by opo Research Firm fusion gps. Also testifying before the senate Intelligence Committee, bruce ohr, Deputy Attorney general who was demoted after fox news revealed that he held secret meetings with two fusion gps operatives, glen simpson and former british spy, christopher steele. Fox revealed that ohrs wife, nelly, was hired by fusion gps and worked on trump process. Most of the committee focus is on Text Messages that fbi official peter strzok exchanged with his mistress. This one in particular, and you heard it before. Quote i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andys office there is no way he gets elected. Im afraid we cant take that risk. It is like an insurance policy in unlikely event you die before youre 40. Last night, Martha Maccallum asked intel member peter king, whether mccake said he was that andy referenced in the email. Did he confirm yesterday and did is office is his office . Again i was not when he confirmed it. I think he did. I cant be certain on that. He did not adequately answer any of those type of questions. Reporter this Morning White House press secretary zare are you sanders reiterated president s statement that he has no intention of firing robert mull per. Back to you. Melissa doug, thank you. Reporter my pleasure. David here so react utah congressman and house intel Committee Member Chris Stewart. Congressman, thank you for joining us. I know youre limited as everybody in the meeting was. Frankly should be open meeting in earlies of saying specifically what mccabe told but we already heard from peter king that he thought mccabe said yes, he was the one that peter strzok was referring to when he said, i was talking to andy in andys office about an Insurance Plan against trump just in case they, he wins the election. Was andy mccabe the andy referred to in strzoks note . I cant comment on that directly but let me say this. There is no way you can read that text regardless who he is talking about, and it casts this investigation in a good light. It just simply doesnt. There is fundamental questions that we have for mr. Mccabe. The thing that i focused on, was is there a single piece of evidence that supports this dossier that weve become so familiar with . Right. Is there anything in there that is true . The second question, im pleased to ask him of this and the fbi, did you use this as foundation for your their investigation . How can they justify that if they did . In my opinion, and, believe me, this isnt a stretch, anyone who reads dossier, there is nothing in there that is true. And if that is the case, how could you used it to initiate an investigation . Even mr. Comey has said at the time it was salacious and unverified. David yet, despite the fact that it was so uncredible, the fbi not only seemed to use it as a map in terms of how to investigate these matters, but may even have paid either for the trump dossier or People Associated with the trump dossier. Did you get any further answers on that . Yeah. I mean we know, as has been reported you have got some senior officials in the fbi and doj and their wives are working with fusion gps to collect this information and doj and fbi, not only didnt reveal that initially. They should have told us that at the very first, but in fact they tried to hide that information from us. As they have tried to keep other information from us. But im telling you, we are beating down this wall. David yeah. When the American People find out what we know, and we are able to release this report, i think heads are going to explode. David when will that be, congressman . No offense, but were getting anxious to hear that. This is the american interests here trumps American Security in terms of our right as voters and taxpayers to know what happened. Absolutely. Look, i couldnt agree with you more. Ive been saying that a long time. Were criticized saying we need to report to the American People. Some people are saying youre tried to shortcircuit the investigation. Youre trying to shortchange it. That is not true. We have obligation to the American People tell them the truth, tell them quickly as we can. Not only that but there are many of us on the committee, are arguing, i believe well win the argument, we should declassify this. David immediately. That hearing should have been held in public. It is not revealing classified sources or means or methods. It was a Law Enforcement inquiry. David we need to know. Congressman, theyre giving me a push. I have to ask one final question and this is bombshell. Is it true Andrew Mccabe despite all the questions about the authenticity of the trump dossier and people saying it was filled with nothing but innuendoes, that Andrew Mccabe Still Believes in it . Indicated that to me. David wow. I will tell you this as well, tell you this as well, even when confronted with this quote from his boss who called it unverified, salacious an unverified, his position that it met standard to initiate a fbi investigation. That is nuts. David i think it is a bombshell. Thank you very much for being here, congressman. Appreciate it. Melissa optimism fueling the republican party. Gop leaders celebrating a victory on tax reform. So whats next for the white house agenda . Plus u. N. Ambassador nikki haley not backing down, pushing back against global condemnation. Details next. Ows it looking . I dont know. Theres so many opinions out there, its hard to make sense of it all. Well, victor, do you have something for him . Check this out. Td ameritrade aggregates thousands of earnings estimates into a single data point. That way you can keep your eyes on the big picture. Huh. Feel better . Much better. Yeah, me too. Wow, you really did a number on this thing. Sorry about that. Thats alright. I got a box of em. Thousands of opinions. One estimate. The earnings tool from td ameritrade. David okay, voting has begun in house of representatives. This is to keep the government open at least until january 19th. We will see as you know, the democrats are trying hard to stop this from going through. This is stopgap spending measure. They will have to go through the whole process in middle of january, if it passes but were going to keep that up as long as we can. We may double box it for the next segment as well. Well let you know as soon as the votes come in and show yea or nay in terms of the continuing resolution vote. Melissa . Melissa haley in command. The u. N. Ambassador taking on critics in overwhelming vote condemning the United Nations decision to move the Israeli Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. Critics say it will do more harm than good, with the ambassador issuing a warning. It serves the Israeli Government implementing its clone yam plans. Undermineses prospects for just and lasting peace in the middle east. The United States will remember this day which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. Melissa here now is rebecca heinrichs, Hudson Institute senior fellow. Rebecca, what did you think about that . What about the exchange that happened today . Im incredibly encouraged and Many Americans should be encouraged that we have an american representing america at the u. N. Representing america interests. Leadership is not figuring out what the progressive european leaders want to do. Leadership is doing the right thing and have others come along with you when you do whats right. That is exactly what happened today. Very good day for President Trump i think. He did the right thing. He responded, implemented what the American People wanted him to do. There was a law passed in 1995 says we recognize jerusalem as capital of israel. Very good day i think. Melissa Something Like what happened today makes a lot of americans wonder why we host the u. N. , why were part of the u. N. As they sit there and get together to make a big deal, to kind of slap us in the face that they dont think we should do this, but then at the end of the day it is a resolution about nothing. Theyre just passing, you know, we spit on you. It carries no weight with it whatsoever. Why are all the people getting together, talking, they come up with a meaningless, you know rebuke like the it doesnt feel like theyre doing anything anymore . Why do we even have them . The u. N. Can be a tool. That is just it, it is a tool. The u. N. Is not the leader of the world. The United States is the leader of free world. We can use to it further u. S. Interests and to further our interests and when it doesnt, it doesnt. It makes sense to rec the United States is still the lead be contributor to the u. N. So maybe it is time to look at that, reconsider who were donating to, who we give money to rather, who is asking for our money. Important to recognize the countries that did abstain from voting or voted against the resolution. Poland, czech republic, romania, canada, australia. These are people, these are countries that are demonstrating they are true allies to the United States. It took boldness to do that it is wise for nikki haley and President Trump to support the ideas of taking names of those who didnt. Melissa nikki haley getting a lot of praise for how she conducted herself, how tough she has been. What do you think of her performance, and what do you think it means for her future . I think she is doing great. I dont like to speculate about what she has in mind for the future because i think we need her right now. She is doing exactly what she ought to do as United States ambassadors to the u. N. , it is great to have face of the United States once again doing what is right for the United States and for our allies. Melissa yeah. Israel has been a great ally to the United States. It doesnt deserve the abuse it often gets from the u. N. It grace it to see an american standing up for israel and standing up for what is right and good. Melissa rebecca, thank you. Please come back. Will do. As you can see by the way on the split screen, the house voting has begun whether or not to keep the, keep us from going into a partial Government Shutdown. Weve got about eight 1 2 more minutes left in this. As you can see, all the democrats so far are voting nay. All republicans voting yea. Well be righty back. Stay with us. To help identify potential opportunities. So, you can do it this way. Or get everything you need to help capture investment ideas and make smarter trading decisions with fidelity for just 4. 95 per online u. S. Equity trade. Fidelity. Open an account today. Melissa showing you brand new video just coming in. Vice president mike pence making surprise visit to afghanistan to visit the troops. The Vice President reiterating the commitment to lasting peace and security in the region. David republicans are confident that the tax bill will lead to increased prosperity. Most americans are not yet convinced. Most recent poll showing plurality of 41 of voters think the tax bill as a whole is not a good idea. How do the republicans make the sale to reluctant public . Senator john thune, Senate Conference chairman and finance Committee Member. Senator, i happen to like tax cuts. I do think they stimulate the economy with history as a guide. How do you prove that to the reluctant public . Are you waiting to see when the results come in. The proof will be in the paychecks. You have a lot of dueling arguments going on right now in washington and i think frankly there is a lot of misinformation out there and when people have the facts and they actually gnat doubling of the standard deduction, doubling of child tax credit, lower rates, that will reduce their tax burdens, i think they will like this bill. That is the ultimately the test. Im looking forward to a few months from now, when those paychecks start going up and the taxes start going down, the American People will make a decision about this, this has been a good thing for them. David now time and again we have tested this theory out, whether it was during john f. Kennedys time or Ronald Reagans time. Ronald reagan after the tax cuts kicked in in 1983, we saw the economy grow 4 in 83. 7 in 84. It kept going up and up and up. It was never less than 3 1 2 but again the airwaves are blanketed with this antitax cut propaganda that is coming out from the media, repeated by the democrat politicians. I just think that the there comes a time when you guys just have to wait and sit back to say, okay, folks, the proof is in the pudding. Look what happens to gdp growth. Look what happens to your wages. Look what happens to the weekly wages. You will see it right there. Thats right. I think two things you will see, david, one is the paychecks will go up, taxes go down. Middle income families get a tax cut. We know that the question again, the broader question, debate, what does happen with the economy . As you point out, go back to reagan, go back to farther than that to kennedy, to george w. Bush, when you cut taxes, revenues go up, obviously the economy starts to grow and expand. And in that, that raises wages, one thing we havent seen in the country in a long time are pay raises for American People and american families. We believe that history is going to, again going to work to our advantage and well see economy expand and grow and create those goodpaying jobs. The American People will benefit from that. David senator, another thing beyond the numbers what happened in the 1980s and other times, there was this explosion in technology that we had. That was really when personal computers began to hit the markets. That is what, that is the tax cuts that led to the stimulus that created the selfphone revolution and cell phone revolution and combination of cell phones and personal computers in the same device. Do you think well see explosion of, a Technology Explosion as a result of this. I think you do. You lower rates like we do. Allowing for accelerated costs of recovery for businesses faster they will invest more and obviously they will invest in technology. I think with well see a real, see an explosion in innovation and in just growth and spending on all of these different things. You know, computers were a huge change, that was sort of a sea change in our economy and our country. There are lots of other great technologies out there today. I chair a committee. We have jurisdiction over Autonomous Vehicles. I think potential for Autonomous Vehicles to transform the way we david what are they cheering . Senator, by the, it was drowning you out. What is the commotion in the background . There is, as usually are, most days up here, david, lots of protesters at the capitol. Not sure exactly with theyre protesting here today, but it is loud. Melissa everything. David as long as youre not the focus of that protest. Senator john thune, thank you so much for being here. Nice to be with you, david. Thank you. Melissa the Trump Administration just delivered one of its biggest promises yet. 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Melissa republicans championed tax reform, took it even further to appease the American People. What important items need to be tackled now . Here is fred barnes from the weekly standard, Hadley Heath Manning from the independent womens forum. Guys, they want to build on this momentum going forward, because there is a lot of juice, a lot of positive feeling, people never behind President Trump before were standing there, in the video behind him, same time, if you go out to swing from the fences and miss, you kill all the momentum. Fred, were it you, what would you go out and try to tackle first . You know i think there is a good idea comes out of republicans, and i was surprised when i talked to a lot of them recently when they mentioned it because i hadnt mentioned it, that is the program outlined in the whole agenda that paul ryan created a year ago, of course tax reform was a part of that. Another part, the number one part of is antipoverty program, a poverty Reform Program to reform the program so they work. So people actually, then so people work. Things are required of them. Stablizes families and, doesnt just hand out money. A lot of republicans are for that. Its a good idea. The rich are doing well. Now it is time to do something for the poor. Melissa yeah. Your other idea, you also talked about infrastructure. That is one a lot of people would say is good one to do next. I worry about that one. Melissa daca, for dreamers, the wall is a great idea. Hadley, let me ask you. Start with health care. That seems tough. Yeah, if at first you dont succeed try, try again. This issue is too important to let it go unaddressed. So Many Americans willed be happy to see relief in form of tax reform. Corporations and individuals get ahold of individual resources. We dont want resources continually drained into Bottomless Pit of high Health Insurance coasts. This is one of the issues that drove the veriers to the polls, not just to put President Trump into office but give republicans control of federal government overall. Building on momentum and learning from experience of this summer where they did fail to repeal Affordable Care act. 50 votes in the senate. They can do it. Melissa everybody comes together over spending, god knows, but Daca Dreamers for wall deal, do you think chuck and nancy would be more amenable now . Well, trump tried that out on them before, when they had that famous meeting at the white house, and they wanted him of course, to make dreamers be able to stay here permanently. To not, send any of them back from where they came. You know, democrats said no. It would be hard to convince them. It would be a good thing. Melissa a good deal. They dont to build a whole wall. Build parts of it and so on. Melissa hadley. You say cut spending. That makes a lot of sense but seems like very tough one. You think this would be the best time to try to do that . Well, republicans need to reclaim the mantle of fiscal responsibility. Of course tax cuts are an important step in that direction because lower taxes are important part of economic freedom. We want smaller government. That means cutting taxes but it also means almost necessarily we have to address spending. Of course a large part of our spending is on those Health Care Programs and there is so much overlap. Fred mentioned antipoverty programs. Medicaid is one of those. Of course expansion of medicaid tied up in the Affordable Care act. You really cant get anywhere until you address the elephant in the room. Melissa we got to run. Thanks so much. Guys. Well be right back. Dont know if you can hear me, but [monica] whats he doing . [lance] can we get a shot of this cold front, right here. Winter has arrived. Whooo hahaha [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. Brace yourself for the season of audi sales event. Audi will cover your first months lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. Votes are still open so were going to keep watching this but they have the votes now. That is reassuring. Are you heading home for the holidays . Aaa says today is one of the busiest travel days of the year. Here live from the eisenhower expressway in chicago, our own jeff flock. What does it look like . It is dark, first of all. Reporter the good news, were under a bridge. It is getting dark. This is the shortest day of the year as you know. The good news is the economy is doing great, so lot of people are traveling. The bad news is, a lot of people are traveling. This is a traffic jam, apparently playing out like this all across the country right now. Not only that, but if you want to go by air at Ohare Airport today, this is the day baristas, waiters, bartenders, picked to go on strike at ohare. It is oneday strike. Tomorrow which is the busiest air travel day, fortunately they should be back on the job. Today, big strike. You couldnt get any food. A lot of people flying through the airport. 6. 4 Million People over the holiday season. That is increase of 4 . A lot of air travel out there, increase of 3 of the guys on the road, that is about 97 Million People. This is the most according to experts that have ever, will have ever traveled over the holiday. And i guess, you know, what can i tell you. This is the worst time to be doing it. Right after work, were kind of like between the hours of 3 00 and 6 00. That is what they say. All over the country, places like d. C. , boston, chicago, atlanta, it will be bad. But you know, so it goes. Youre going to where you want to go for christmas, you got a tax break, Merry Christmas. David Merry Christmas to you, jeff. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Melissa. Melissa the house passed the stopgap spending bill avoiding a Government Shutdown slated to begin right before christmas at midnight tomorrow night, pushing the deadline to january 19th. The bill is headed to the senate for a vote later tonight. Adam shapiro is back with us. Adam. Reporter not all done in the house yet. Take a look. I believe we have live picture of voting taking place in the house. This 81 billion relief package for hurricanes down in the south as well as wildfires in california. 81 billion. There is criticism some of this is larded up. Close to 3 billion in this package of hurricane and Natural Disaster relief for cotton growers. That is taking place right now. This is expected to pass. Continuing resolution and this measure will be sent to the house. The house, the senate could start voting on this, within the next 20 to 30 minutes. Well wait for the senate to take action clearly on the cr as well as on the Disaster Relief by back to you. David i just want to ask you a question, adam. Were looking both republican and democrat votes. You see people on both sides, not a lot, generally speaking, republicans are in favor of this. Generally speaking, well, democrats, not so much against it. But i imagine a lot of the republicans against are against the larding up that you were talking about, loading something with all kinds of freebies for their constituents, right . Reporter democrats too, some of them are opposed to that kind of stuff and want this bill to be larger so it is true Disaster Relief. So, nobody hold as monopoly being angry, when somebody slips something into the bill that ought not be there. Melissa adam, tell what is next then. Reporter what is next, dont hold your breath, but this has to pass. They will be off to cocktail hour. They will pass this in the senate most likely next hour or two. Melissa were good until the next time this happens . Reporter january 19th. Why waste a good time, right . Three weeks from now. David people talk about a Government Shutdown, its a partial Government Shutdown. If is comes to pass january 19th, and they dont get another continuing resolution, the whole government doesnt shut down. People come up to me saying maybe government will do well cutting 15 of the spending. Reporter i will not weigh in on that because a lot of people are retired. David are there people in congress that feel that way . Reporter there are people in congress that feel that is a good thing. But they definitely in the mine for the. When we get to the 19th. You remember previous example. First parks close and then they prioritize things like Social Security checks and payments. Melissa at some point they have to come to a conclusion with a real budget, dont they we love it so much, watching people hamstrung by rules they created . Reporter they call the shots. Theyre over in that direction. The house and senate call the shots. As long as they are come forthable using continuing resolutions to fund the u. S. Government with the budget resolutions that they pass, earlier this fall you saw that. That is how we operate. David we have 229 votes yea. Melissa adam, thank you. David i think that means the bill has passed, for victims of hurricane, at melissa this is you had it goes david this is how it operates. Melissa this is how someone we know got elected because people are sick of this garbage. David its live action well cover it right here. Theyve got a lot going on inside the beltway and we have it covered here. Melissa thats right that does it for us risk rewards starts right now. Liz you are now looking at a shot of the house, they are finishing up voting to keep the lights on with the new spending plan that will last only through next month to avoid a christmas Government Shutdown, a lot of Christmas Ornament spending in this bill. Were all over that story and this as another big d. C. Drama now unfolding over tax cuts, as u. S. Stocks hit new highs just one day after the cuts were passed. And, new u. S. Gdp numbers today show the fastest growth in two years. Speaker of the house paul ryan, here is what he says and what you can expect. When weve been working on this issue for so many years, we can see on the horizon this Great Potential for our peo