Administration. The United NationsSecurity Council voting to impose sanctions on north korea. Attorney general Jeff Sessions order egg a review look at new allegations the Obama Administration gave a free pass to hezbollahs Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering operations to secure the iran nuclear deal. John roberts has our report. President trump gave i fist bump gave a fist bump when he stepped off air force one today in florida. President trump its a tremendous thing for businesses, the people, the middle class, the workers. And i consider this have much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs. Reporter democrats continue to slam the plan as terrible for the country. Republicans took a victory lap because they successfully sold americas childrens future. Reporter two more corporations announcing benefits for workers. Manning out christmas bonuses to 55,000 employees. New England Patriots owner bob kraft called the president yesterday to say he supports the bill. President trump hes going to buy a big plants in the great state of North Carolina and build a tremendous paper mill, Paper Products plant. Reporter President Trump invoked the name of Ronald Reagan saying his is bigger than Ronald Reagans. Trump claims to have signed more legislation in his first year than even harry truman. Second now is harry truman. Reporter the president will spend the night at maralago. President trump wants to get bipartisan byin so infrastructure will most of likely go first. President trump infrastructure is easy, people want it. Reporter immigration and welfare reform will be a much harder sell. Democrats are expected to give the president little or none of what he will ask for. The 2018 elections were front and center the same day President Trump celebrated the passage of tax reform. Sources tell fox news the meeting grew heated when lewandowski rangt alarm that the president wasnt being wellserved by the political operation at the white house and changes need to be made. Reince priebus told the president the same thing. A gop operative tells fox news there needs to be better coordination on communication. When the white house is in a political knife fight, it needs air cover from the rnc. One source said the rnc is a disaster. The president needs to dump that place and start over. Republicans fear a bloodbath next november unless something is done to change out the strategy. Gregg President Trump blasting the Fake News Media tore failing to talk about many of his accomplishments in his first year in office. He has a partial list. The president repealing the obamacare individual mandate, opening up arctic drilling. A record stock market, rollback of obama regulations. 1. 7 million new jobs created. The gorsuch con fish nation, the travel ban is now in place. The Keystone Pipeline and Veterans Affairs reform. Joining me, the former republican congressman from utah, jason chaffetz, now a fox news contributor. You think he exceeded expectations. Does that mean he exceeded low expectations or went beyond his agenda promises. In the First Six Months it was a rocky start because the republicans in the house and senate were doing a political face plant. They were running into each other and defeating each other even when they didnt need democratic votes to have republican victories. Thats less of a blame on trump and more on republicans having the levers of power. In its own strange way, the failure got them to collectively come together, be united and say we have certain political death if we dont pass tax reform. Gregg it was a wakeup call to them, i think. Everybody is talking about a huge tax cut legislation, the president signed it into law. That gives him enormous momentum. You and i know momentum can be fleeting. It will evaporate like rain water on a sunny day. Can he carry this forward . It becomes more difficult on january 19 when you have to fund the government. They passed a continuing resolution. The republicans want to institute their policies, democrats want to thwart activity of the republicans. And you dont have the reconciliation tool where you have to get to 50 votes. It becomes much more difficult, particularly in the senate. When you take on some of the more contentious discussions like daca, immigration and how to fund the government, infrastructure is not going to be as easy as the president reports because we just sente spent nearly 100 million on hurricane relief. Gregg some infrastructure rebuilding was destroyed. I want to ask you about the breaking news story. Attorney general Jeff Sessions is going to open an investigation into this report. The Obama Administration gave a prepass to the notorious Terror Group Hezbollah over Trafficking Cocaine into the u. S. As well as Money Laundering. Politico has done a Pretty Amazing report with a lot of verification behind it. Its absolutely warranted. They need to provide congress the documents its been asking for. But it sounds as if werent department of justice we are making progress on hezbollah. We are importing cocaine into the United States. That smells a lot like fast and furious which we saw at the beginning of the Obama Administration. Maybe they learned their lesson. Gregg how many lives are lost and died of cocaine overdoses. President obama allegedly said give them a free pass, we really care about iran. Much of the news this year has been the special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. How concerned are you that this special counsel himself, his team is riven with conflicts of interest and the entire investigation is tainted by bias and maybe corruption, and fairness cannot be achieved . I think we moved beyond the idea that bias which i think is well documented and pretty yell understood from senior people on muellers team within the department of justice. I worry we are into this collusion category. Its not trumps collusion with the russians. We are worried about collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign and i also worry after the election what did they do, particularly bruce ohr and his wife, the news gps age. There are so many different facets to this story. It should worry everybody. Thats not what justice looks like in the United States of america. Gregg does there need to be a reopening of the investigation into the hoik email scandal give what we learned about peter strzok who changed the language to absolve her. Given his role in the russia investigation, then jumping into the mueller investigation. This was a guy sending out texts of hatred and denuns yaition of President Trump and avidly supporting Hillary Clinton. If he used political bias to interfere with the justice. Isnt that obstruction . I have not been a fan of putting into place another special counsel. I would hope everybody would understand inspectors general come with a lot of weight. Michael horowitz has 450 employees. Something like 100 million budget. He has been looking at this since january. You have not seen leaks. They have been doing their work. Poring over a million documents. That should be the definitive view. Membership ally gentleman cummings and i both wanted to see what the Inspector General would come up with. Come march we should have it. Gregg do you suspect the antitrump dossier was perhaps illegally used to gain a fisa warrant to spy on Trump Associates at the hands of the fbi doing the fisa warrant application and spying, then used as the basis for launching the trump russia investigation . Certainly if you have listen to congressman jim jordan, thats the question. When it was put to director wray and rosenstein at the departments of justice they wont answer that question which should bed the flashing red light it very well may have been its a bogus document funded in part through the Hillary Clinton campaign. Democratic operatives. You have the dnc partially involved here. And nobody seems to want to answer the questions, nor are they giving the house and Senate Intel Committees the information they need. Gregg when a guy says i know the answer but i with wont tell you, that means answer is yes. It was used to gain the warrant to spy on Trump Associates. President trump celebrating his first major legislative win. A tax cut for hardworking americans. President trump they will start to see that in february. The numbers will speak. Gregg well take you have the president s big victory with steve forbes. Companies showering their employees bonuses because of trumps tax cuts. Well have more on my business was going nowhere. 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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. Gregg the trump tax cuts already paying dividends for the holidays. Bank of america became the next company to pay a 1,000 bonus to its employees. The president said our big and popular reform bill has taken on an unexpected new source of love. Big companies and corporations shower their workers with bonuses. This is a phenomenon nobody even thought and now its the rage. Merry christmas joining me steve forbes. When it comes to matters of taxation. I think you are the true expert expert with your knowledge of tax systems. This will do more good than harm. It lowers the burden on people, lowers the burdens on businesses. People will start to notice early next year that their paychecks are going up. And the good thing about having an investment oriented tax cut at the beginning means their paychecks in the future will rise. So they wont stagnate too much as they have done the last 10 years. Gregg the media repeats that this is a tax benefit that only benefits rich americans. What do you say . Steve i talked to some people in new york and california and their tax burden will guy little bit because they dont have the deduction of state and local taxes. We have been going 2025 miles per hour, now well get it up to 4050. What the wruch cans should do and i hope the president does it in his state of the union. Put it out there that there is more to come. Gregg especially the when we see it work. Steve the federal government will always do fine. The key thing is, is it good for the American People. One thing you will see, pundits will have to explain why even though the tax cut seems to be working it really isnt. Gregg why is it polling so badly . The numbers are not good. Steve this is where the republicans have to get their messaging right. The only thing people have heard is corporations are going to get a cut and most of peoples taxes will go up. Most of people think their paycheck tax are going up. By taking away obamacare fines for working people, 30,000, 40,000 a year. Thats a 595 raise. That means something to people. They dont have to pay that anymore. Gregg people may be saying if you cut taxes it means less revenue for the federal government. In the long run treasury revenue will actually increase. The only way treasury revenue increases is when the economy is booming. John kennedys tax cuts. Whenever you reduce burden on people so they can focus on doing real things instead of getting around the tax code or wondering how they will cope with this regulation or that regulation. And we have had a balanced budget in the late 60s with the john kennedy tax cuts and the late 90s when we ron the cold war. The government revenues really soar. So if you do a few things right, the American Economy responds. Gregg im waiting for the billions of dollars in corporate money which is held offshore because of the uncompetitive prohibitive high Corporate Tax rate which will drop down to 21 . What will happen . They wont have to leave the money over there because they are going to get punished. We are the on company in the world that taxes profits you make overseas. By removing double taxation you will get a lot more money coming in. Apple has over 250 billion in cash. They float 100 billion of bonds. Taxwise it makes sense. Get rid of these artificial influences on behavior that dont contribute to economic growth. Gregg the president is talking about structure spend as his next big economic goal. Thats an idea thats been largely dormant in 2017. Good idea . Why would it be a good idea if it is . Steve if you want bipartisanship, nothing like dangling money. But they will do something there. But i hope they koiment with requirements that states remove barriers to building bridges, repairing highways so you dont have to wait for 10 years of studies and commissions and lawsuits so you can get to it. Gregg the president has been expediting a great many things by reducing regulars leg laces. Reducing regulations. Steve all this is good stuff. Remove these artificial weights on people. Imagine trying to run a marathon if you have a 50pound pack on your back. One of the things im glad the president is focusing on infrastructure. It means they wont focus on medicare and social security. You dont try to tackle those things in an election year. It will be a loser. And they are positive ways to do it without the root canal work. Gregg you are promising to come back next week and well talk about that. On wall street, stocks closed lower. The dow jones 28 points down. Volume on the big board not so much. 2. 3 billion shares. All three major indices posting weekly gains. New home sales hitting their highest levels climbing 18 in november. Bitcoin. Plunging nearly 30 today. So far this year bit coins up 1,000 so you are still ahead. A remind tore listen to loser board three times a day on the salem radio network. Coming up next, a win for the Trump Administration as the United NationsSecurity Council imposes sanctions on north korea. This an unprecedented challenge from a defiant state. So we leveled an unprecedented response. Gregg well talk about the many successes of the trump doctrine with cliff may. siren blaring working as an emt in a small town usually means hospitals arent very close by. When you have a really traumatic injury, we have a short amount of time to get our patient to the hospital with good results. We call that the golden hour. Theres nothing worse than when were responding to the hospital, and the hospital doesnt have the right specialist. Evaluating patients remotely, by an expert, is where i think we have a potential to make a difference. Robots can do a lot in medicine these days, but they cant think. Theyre still machines. For nuanced decision making, we still need humans. We would save a lot of lives if we could bring the doctor to the patient. Verizon is racing to build the first and most powerful 5g network that will enable Breakthrough Innovations to take place. As we get faster and faster wireless connections, itll be possible to bring those capabilities to more remote sites, and be able to operate on a patient in a way that was just not possible before. When you think about underserved areas, you tend to think of remote locations. But the reality is, an underserved area is anywhere where the person that you need, who has the expertise for the problem that you have, is nowhere near you. Low latency is crucial for things like surgery, because the Response Time has to be immediate, it has to be real. I could put on vr goggles like these, and when i move my hand, the robot on the other side will mimic the movement, with almost no delay. Who knew a scalpel could work thousands of miles away . dr. Vasquez its going to be lifechanging, and lifesaving. Gregg the United NationsSecurity Council unanimously approving tough new sanctions against north korea. The latest sanctions are punishment for the regimes launch last month of a Ballistic Missile pyongyang says can reach the United States mainland. It appears the trump doctrine appears to be working. The economic vice is tightening on north korea. The latest sanctions block fuel, ships, workers. But the history of kim jongun shows he doesnt care. He doesnt care if this people are suffering, living in poverty, dying. What is the impact . People think north korea is the most of sanctioned country in the world and its not. His economy is about to implode. If he thinks its a danger to his regime, if he thinks genels are looking aim in a ba way, he will kill the i he can. Before you get to military force, you want that to be the last resort. So whats going on is useful in terms of tightening sanctions. The workers another countries are essentially slave labor. Two million barrels. And vessels violating sanctions can be seized. This will take a while before it comes to fruition. But its important that we try these economic methods first. Gregg are you satisfied with the way President Trump is refocusing National Security and American Foreign policy on american interests . Yes, that absolutely needs to be primary. Particularly when you see this in his National Security strategy. Hes look at what threatens americans. Thats our main concern. And well it should be its a great problem that for 8 years President Trump ignored the maturation of the north korean threat and other administrations before i have to say did way too little about it. President trump said there are those threatening us, that has to be our top priority. Long range on the National Security policy he talks of two class, the rogue regimes and the revisionist power such as russia and china. Its important that america be pour fup and play a leadership role. But its good for every free nation and everybody who wants to be free. Gregg your reaction to the news that the attorney general is looking into the Obama Administration trying to kill project cassandra which tried to kill hezbollah operations in the United States. Good for Jeff Sessions. Jeff meyer did a comprehensive piece of reporting. He found a terrorist Organization Also involved with drug cartels, organized crime, particularly in latin america and essentially the Obama Administration says lay off, we need this nuclear deal with iran. What happened, Jeff Sessions is going to investigate. Im hopeful this will be a bipartisan enterprise. And finally what should happen is operation cassandra should be revised. Gregg the prosecutions should go forward that president obama allegedly and his administration put a halt to. And there may be other crimes committed in the process. Cliff may, thank you. Merry christmas. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is reportedly brewing that the republicans might lose the senate and house in 2018. Tammy bruce and dom giordano give us their predictions. This wing suiter doing what has never been done before. Well be gregg senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell reportedly expressing concerns that the republicans could loose seats in the house and senate. They need to pick up a the democrats need to pick up 24 seats to regain the majority. Here to talk about this, radio talk show host dom giordano and tammy bruce. Should the white house be increasingly concerned about this . Historically there is a backlash against a new president in the midterms. Tammy yes, and historically last year jeb bush or john kasich would have won the presidency. But the gop has been doing its usual screwups. We realize we have been lied to and our money taken and votes taken on promises that with never be fulfilled. There needs to be a reminding to the American People by the president about whats at stake. Maybe the republicans dont want to be in the majority. Maybe it would be easier to let the status quo move along if the democrats are in the majority. I dont trust mcconnell other gop. This will be an important test for the president and all of us who maybe wouldnt go out in a midterm, its as important as last years election. Gregg the electoral map favors the republicans but you cant take that for granted. The are you you are about ban races republicans have been targeted. And they have moved away from the president. And pennsylvania is vulnerable. Im concerned about the house. Even though thats a hefty number of seats to pick up. There are issues. But if on the first paycheck in february the tax cut is working and americans are seeing more money in their pocket and the economy is growing in the manner we are seeing, this is positive terrain for the president and for the party. Reporter in a tweet the president said hes optimistic bipartisanship can be achieved. Is that overly optimistic, 10 naive . Tammy we have seen with the president a certain my eate. You have naivee. You have seats the fizz and starts and expect you have seen fits and starts. When it comes to spending bills he will get some help because the democrats like to spend. Again just him waking up in the morning, we have good economic news, that should be good for him. But we want to make sure there is an aggressive dynamic for the senate seats we want to take. That the 10 vulnerable democrats that are there. But this is good for the house. Its like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. We need them to want to win. The president s agenda next year will be great. The democrats will condemn it. Gregg dom you get the last word on bipartisanship. The president could endorse blue skies and sunshine and the democrats would oppose it. Im wary of the infrastructure talk. The amtrak crash out west was due to human error. Im wary of that talk. Democrats are the adversary and they need to be defeated and we need more republicans. Gregg Merry Christmas and thanks for being with us. Be sure to vote in tonights poll. Do you believe the investigation into collusion between the Obama Administration and hezbollah is proof the doj is getting serious about draining the swamp . Please roll the videotape. I love these wing suiters. They prove you dont need a parachute to stick the landing. He soars above lake garda in italy before landing on the water without a parachute. Its just got to hurt no matter what you have got on. A father makes a plea to the white house to save his son from an indonesian prison. Did you go tanning . Youre getting so tan. We need some sun. Protect yourself. Protect your friends. Stop tanning. Learn more at spotskincancer. Org wifiso if you cant live without it. T it. Y wharent you using this guy . It makes your wifi awesomely fast. No. Still nope. Now were talking it gets you wifi here, here, and here. It even lets you take a time out. No no yes yes, indeed. Amazing speed, coverage and control. All with an xfi gateway. Find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. Gregg President Trump successfully gore yairlted the return much several americans held captive overseas. Now a family whose son is being held inside an indonesian jail is appealing for the administrations help. Reporter a 32yearold is not in the u. S. , but bali where marijuana remains illegal. Lawyers say no country is obligate to honor a prescription in another. We have five months. The defense presented nothing. Even the documents havent been translated or anything. Reporter he worries indonesia is parading his son as a poster. The president and his new administration has been good at helping americans finding difficulties in morning lands. Reporter the state Department Says they dont get involved . Courts of foreign countries. This one of the areas where his dealmaking ability, his ability to use his personal persuasive powers is at a zenith. Reporter trump intervened to free three University Basketball players caught steeling in china. Egypt released this aid work tear after trump appealed to elsisi. And other warmbier from north korea. Reporter President Trump has taken a more active interest in the fate of americans overseas in his first year. But the number of americans who travel abroad is enormous and he cant be spoon for all of them responsible for all of them. Reporter drug crimes can be a touch sale. But americans should not be subject to abuse and extortion. Bali accuses him of possessing 6 glams of posted and he could face the life in prison or death as a trafficker. Gregg joining us after the break, pastor robert jeffress. Break, pastor robert jeffress. Stay with us. Group Conversation wooooo oo waa ahhh its a beautiful mornin thank you ahhh, ah ahhh each bird gregg in our online poll last night we asked you this question. Do you believe its time to stop handing taxpayer dollars to the leftist United Nations that disprerespects america . 98 of you said yes. Joining us, pastor robert jeffress. Pastor of the United Methodist church in dallas. You addressed this at the white house. What occurred. President trump was gracious enough to ask me to close the evening saying a few words in prayer. And i thanked the president for his accomplishments this past year, including having the guts to do what no other american president has done, recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. Thats what people dont understand. When it comes to history. History is on the side of the jewish people, not on the side of the palestinians oruslims. Jerusalem was fst established as the capital of israel in 1,000 bc. That is 1,100 words before the word palestinian was even invented by the Roman Emperor hadrian. Gregg not that we care how the United Nations voted. Is antisemitism behind some of those votes to oppose jerusalem as the capital . Yes. This vote proves the United Nations is overwhelmingly antii anti antisemitic. The United Nations recognizes the right every other nation in the world to name its own capital. Why not israel in the only logical explanation is there is a wave of antisemitism running rampant in our world, and i thank god for a president like President Trump who has the willingness and courage to push back against antisemitism in our world. Gregg hes threatening to with showed billions of dollars in aid. And this is just one more reason the American People put donald trump in the oval office. I mean, its absurd that we would keep shoveling money to our enemies, people who oppose our only reliable ally in the middle east, israel. This is a common sense move by President Trump. Gregg we are wrapping up the year. What are you thankful for . I had my first grandchildren, triplets. Im grateful for the freedom our country and our great president. But im most of grateful that god showed his love to the world by giving was we needed the most of. Somebody said if mans greatest need had been education, god would have sent and teacher. Fit was money, he would have sent taken economist. But our greatest need was forgiveness, thats why god sent a savior. Thats good news for all of us. Gregg it many all about kindsness of spirit of heart and generosity not to receive but to give. Thats right. John 3 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only son. We are to follow that example in giving instead of just taking. Gregg what are you hoping for next year . I believe it will be an even greater year for america than 2017. 2017 was tremendous. As your guest said earlier. President trump exceed every expectation he had for him. As our country draws nearer to won another and nearer to god, i believe god will continue to pour out his undeserved blessing on our nation. We enjoy your words and sentiment and presence on this program, Merry Christmas to you and your family. Merry christmas, gregg. Ururu. Dagen will the president media critics come around after the president wins big on tax cuts. The president says he wont fire robert mueller. One senator is warning of a constitutional crisis if he does. Is Hillary Clinton really planning to get involved in the 2018 election and why would democrats want her help . All that and more tonight on kennedy. Hell has frozen over and