Contributor, katie frates, and deneen borelli. Katie, you know what, forget about everything, all the predeductions all the predictions of doom fan gloom, the obamacare failure, the tweet storms. President trump, his economic agenda, he has an amazing head of steam. Consumer confidence at alltime highs and the market at alltime highs. Well have to wait and see if republicans can keep an even keel. They are going to have to keep that cohesiveness with trump to have this momentum continue on into 2018. Charles are you to keep their ship in order. Does this mean Establishment Republicans have to understand who is driving the ship and stay on board. Instead of saying i have got wind in my sails. Paul ryan was coming out every other week with his own agenda. Katie people be be overexcited. They got tax reform. Thats a trap they will have to watch out for. Im just hoping they have come together and that glue will stick long enough to get things like infrastructure reform. Charles democrats cried, screamed, hollered for more infrastructure. They have a chance political experts keep telling me they are going to play ball. Its their own platform. They are going to look at the fact that infrastructure will create more jobs. Thats something they dont want to hand President Trump as a win. Look what they did with tax reform. No democrats in sight in terms of helping out their constituents with tax reform. Infrastructure should be hand at state level. What are they doing with the tax revenue and the tolls they collect here in new york city. You are paying an arm and a throwing go over the George Washington intrij . What are they doing with those funds . They are using did it for other projects. Charles i hope whatever comes out of this that money isnt shy jacked by the state and local governments and divvied up for other purposes thats one of the things hat happened with the obama effort. Less than 50 billion even went to highways. You are talking about a supposed stimulus bill that did nothing for infrastructure. What republicans are talking about, is partnering with state and local governments and the private sector on getting new american highways, new bridges, rebuilding our airports. Now that we have tax reform, we have to build more connections, more economic opportunity. It will relieve congestion for people in the suburbs. It will help people in downtown and rural america. So democrats i think have been running on this for years. They ought to. Its in their own interest goat this effort done. Charles President Trump is uniquely qualified as a builder to overlook Something Like this. He will understand the pitfalls where money can be squandered and how to implement this in a smart way. There is a lot of pressure and initial pushback from democrats on the private part. President trump is saying we can do a combination. Privatepublic funding, especially on airports. There is a lot of excitement from wellheeled investors on this. Katie of course democrats dont like trumps infrastructure plan because it takes power away from the federal government and gives the back to state and local governments. They want to take a trillion dollars and throw it at something and say look at all the money we gave. Trump wants to give tour back to the state and local governments and the private sector to use that money as they see good. In Loudon County we are ready to partner with President Trump and congress. We have projects ready to go that will relieve canadian jeption and allow people to avert toll roads not add toll roads. We are excited this effort. We want to see it to be number one on the agenda. Scharls getting the money from a federally administered pool all the way down to the local level. It needs to score well on congestion relief. Thats what the obama era stuff did not do. There was not a good ranging system. If its airports it needs to be different Rating Systems its what states and local governments are using. So we can take those principles, apply them at the federal level. I question the special interests involved in making these decisions, charles. What states will get the funding and what project and when. Thats a big concern when it comes to federal spending. Charles do you decide that based on outcome . This is probably why the private sector is critical. They look at return on investment. Or squandering money. But real why it bang for the buck. Could that be another area where the private sector helps hold down costs and make a final assessment on outcome . There are incentives for tax credits for private entities to be part of the project. Charles in new jersey a town mere knee picketing out of ticketing out of state cars for using their roads during rush hour. You have all of these and i think this is another area where democrats need to consider. They are for the mega city. They from for urban living. But what comes with that is a one, two, threehour traffic jam. I understand you keep saying democrats are going to push back on this. You have to see, right. Do their voters care more about how much they hate trump or care about issues like this where outofstate cars are being taxed for coming through certain towns. Members of congress dont want to work with trump in any way because their base would be frothing at the mouth thinking its a concession. Do they want to play politics to stay in office or help their community. Charles Chris Christie temperatures career which was a juggernaut at one time collapsed because of a traffic jam on the George Washington bridge. Er in talk about 200 as a fine. We have 40 tolls on i66 thanks to Governor Terry mcauliffe. Then hes trying to take 90 million a year in road funding and give it to the metro system which is failing. Charles caution on highspeed rail to nowhere. Hey, guys, thanks a lot. Great conversation. Fantastic news for our Police Officers. The number of deaths on duty declined sharply. Well share the details with you next. [lance] monica, it is absolute chaos out here gale force winds, accumulations up to 8 inches. 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. Charles a new report from the National PoliceOfficers Memorial Fund shows the number killed in the line of duty dropping 10 year over year. Here to discuss, randy sutton, host of blue lives radio. Let me start with you, randy, last year we saw a spike, a fiveyear spike in one of the most of horrific days in the history of Law Enforcement when six Police Officers were killed in dallas in july. What would you attribute the decline to . One of the factors i believe is the president. Under the Obama Administration it was open season on Police Officers. He legitimized much of the black lives Matter Movement that advocated for the killing of Police Officers. Under President Trump we have a president that actually supports the American Police officer, even buying christmas dinner this year for a number of Police Officers working his detail. That is a vast difference. And the american Law Enforcement officer is absorbing that difference and seeing there is a change in the leadership of this united states. But thats not im not giving him all the credit. There are other factors. One of the things we have to be aware of is the assault on Law Enforcement officers, in 2016, 57,000 american Law Enforcement officers were assaulted physically. Stabbed, shot, beaten. Thats a huge number. I want to see the difference from last year to this year. Charles we have this amazing data. There was a dramatic shift in a lot of the large cities particularly new york city saying their crime levels are the lowest levels since 1950. Bill deblasio is saying its removing stop and frisk and working with black lives matter. I disagree with mayor deblasio. I think its something attributed to the Trump Presidency coupled with the rise in the economy. Whenever you have a rise in the economy, you have less crime. We look at the nuances in Law Enforcement. They proved to be a tremendous contributor to the reduction in crime against not just police, but the public in general. Another thing a lot of people dont take into consideration. But trump instilled a lot of conservative justices throughout the country. And what they are doing is rolling out a conservative agenda in the courts. Charles does not mean longer prison sentences, less parole . Longer prison sentences. We look at the immigration policies. We are keeping criminals behind bars much longer and we are targeting the groups such as ms13 and gangs that create crime problems in this country. Charles so far this year 14 Law Enforcement officers killed in texas. They still point to that as one of the key efforts despite the almost heroic efforts by attorney general Jeff Sessions. One thing they have done well is combine their resources to go after violent street gangs. They have been effective in that. Beginning their resources so that on a local level and federal level they can use all of the statutes to combat these violent street gangs which are a scourge on the community. There is Something Else that needs to be addressed here. There is still the ferguson effect. I call it the obama effect. Charles im glad you brought that up. Baltimore set a new record its a horrible distinction. The most of killing per capita. Baltimore we saw what happened with the Police Department there. We saw what happened with the riots there, and we saw what happened with the mayors dismissal of the Police Department. It feels like somehow they are going to have to figure out a way to reinvigorate the Police Department and get more respect throughout the city. When you look at the city of baltimore, thats a city thats 500,000 less. So it is a violent city. We look at that mayor charles it became more violent after the incident where the mayor sort of dissed the police force and condemned them and found them guilty before a coast law had to. It created a precedence where the people in that city thought it was okay to assault police. The Police Commissioner was removed. The mayor refused to run. This is a great introduction for Jeff Sessions to bring in the atf, fbi and federal resources to reduce these crimes. Charles i think there is a way to fight crime and heal the situation. Coupled with a great economy its an amazing opportunity for that to happen next year. The other question is trump. One word that wont go away. Pew out with startling numbers. You already knew the Mainstream Media did not like trump. But i have a statistic for you that will blow you away. I used to have more hair. I used to have more color. And. I used to have cancer. I beat it. I did. Not alone. I used to have no idea what the American Cancer Society did. Research . Yeah. But also free rides to chemo and free lodging near hospitals. I used to maybe give a little. Then i got so much back. I used to have cancer. Call 18004944357 today. Your contributions to the American Cancer Society fund valuable research. But thats just the beginning. A cancer diagnosis can kick off years of challenge. And thats where your donation truly shines. You help us fund free rides to treatment. A live 24 7 help line, free lodging near treatment centers. And even efforts to expand access to insurance. So, please donate today at cancer. Org and help attack cancer from every angle. Charles according to pew research the medias coverage of President Trump has been overwhelmingly negative. Three times more critical than coverage of barack obama or george bill or bill clinton. 62 negative the first 60 days. Only 5 was positive. By comparisons president obamas was 42 positive and 42 . You see it channel after channel after channel. But for it to be this pervasive shows the Mainstream Media had tonight for President Trump right out the gate in. What is really glaring with President Trump. The vast majority of Mainstream Media journalists vote democrat. President trump is unconventional and communicates in unconventional ways, and hes not shy about tangling with the media. He punches back and they cant take it. Charles the notion that there is this much bias from President Trump coming into office is something that should be addressed. The media needs introspection on this. In the same pew research group, two other things came out in recent times. One is the rapidly increasing dislike of the media for spreading misinformation and distrust throughout america. And the second part is, they do an institutional survey. On three institution in terms of popularity are the military, police and small business. We live in a tough divided time. The answer for President Trump is to worry less about popularity and more about productivity. I think going into the new year, the best thing it president can do is push a major league invest in america Infrastructure Program to follow up on the tax reform plan would be a major success. Charles adam, you are a communication strategist. This is your wheel house. Is there any obligation on the part of the Mainstream Media to look at this through a different lens as they report these stories or are we at a different age . Is the walter the cronkite age goon for good . This is why the media is getting such a black eye. Maybe it is a reflection of the times. But what americans are cheering for is good news for america. Thats something that even negativity from the mass media can overcome if the president and the American Congress pull together and make things happen. Would it be a good idea for President Trump to experiment, go a month without punching back or bun bun or punching down . I see things that are remarkable that will never be mentioned in theMainstream Media. Consumer confidence or corporate earnings. Would it be an experiment for him to do that and take away any form of criticism against him . He does use his twitter feed in a strategic way, and perhaps he could in 2018 use it more tra strategically and focus on the big wins hes delivering for the American People instead reef lying on the media to report it. Actually it out in tweets. Yet you see there are many people he doesnt engage . Twitter wars with. You see some of those people like eminem who tries to get him to engage on twitter and he refused. And those people, the pop stars are melting down. Perhaps he could refine it in 2018. People like that hes unconventional. Charles eminem needed that engagement. If you saw the first couple weeks of album sales, it wasnt that good. Steve bannon distancing himself from another controversial politician. Will he be able to drain the swamp . Or is the establishment wing after all. Winning after all. Think your Large Cap Equity Fund has exposure to Energy Infrastructure mlps . Think again. Its time to shake up your lineup. The alerian mlp etf can diversify your equity portfolio and add potential income. Bring amlp into the game. Before investing, consider the Funds Investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. Read the prospectus carefully at alpsfunds. Com amlp i enjoy the fresher things in life. O. Fresh towels. Fresh soaps. And of course, tripadvisors freshest, lowest. Prices. So if youre anything like me. Youll want to check tripadvisor. We now instantly compare prices. From over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Go on, try something fresh. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. They appear out of nowhere. My secret visitors. Appearing next to me in plain sight. Hallucinations and delusions. These are the unknown parts of living with parkinsons disease. What stories they tell. But for my ears only. What plots they unfold. But only in my mind. Over 50 of people with parkinsons will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. And these can worsen over time, making things even more challenging. But there are advances that have led to Treatment Options that can help. If someone you love has parkinsons and is experiencing hallucinations or delusions, talk to your parkinsons specialist. Because theres more to parkinsons. My visitors should be the ones i want to see. Learn more at moretoparkinsons. Com charles former white house chief strategist, steve bannon cutting ties with far right challenger, posting what many are say antisemitic tweets, they condemn them saying he is dead to us, here is discuss it fox news kris contributor dave. Also gabby, Washington Examiner white house correspondent. Start with you. You know breitbart family well. You know steve well. He has been leading the charge to drain the swamp. Many people are excited when he left the white house, he was free to do this thing, had a couple setbacks. A lot of people say that establishment is winning. In washington they write obits before the subject on dead. Not that im saying he is dead or will be, you have wins and losses in politics, roy moore thing in alabama was a setback, in the end, it was a good thing for the Republican Party. Establishment by the way in defense of swamp, washington is not a swamp. It is a sewer. In a sewer is drains into it, it stinks. Steve has decided to wade into it to clean it up, he had membership of us road to damascus moment, we have to get federal government to work for the people, were seeing that happy happen, were seeing a government become more efficient. And you have to work from the outside, that is a plus. Charles ashley. Your thoughts. You have a lot of folks who i consider establishment, saying, they dont want any more. Pennsylvania is out, and others way corker or flake. Many say that is a win that shows that bannon wing of g. O. P. Is pushing back and making a difference. Yeah. At the same time, i am sad to see some of these people go, there are real states monopoly out there states men out there giving up these jobs because they feel there is no ream for them in politics any more. I believe we should have differing opinions, in the Republican Party there are many different factions there is a home for all of them, the Current Administration saying that it is loyalty over anything, that is where bannon piece plays in, but we did see him fall a little bit with the election in alabama, traditionally very red state, going blue in case of jones. Really work out for him in 18 . I think verdict is you know, kind of up for grabs seeing as he has had failures. Charles gabby, if we interpret what we saw going into november last year, it was a general revolt against the establishment on both sides of the aisle, that ridges loud and clear to any person. Knowing that is the case, this will be primetime to drain the sewer to daves point. This administration has walked a fine line since then. They have short of befriended a lot of establishment manages, we figures, we saw President Trump work closely with ryan on tax reform, and establish a buddybuddy relationship with mcconnell a few months ago, that something that is likely to carry into 2018. Especially after this loss in alabama, it was huge blow to bannon world, and breitbart and antiestablishment figures who have been criticizing a lot of the folks that president has got know behind, a good example dean heller, he was a never trumper in the campaign, now has a great relationship with this administration, and has likely ironed endorsement of the president next year. Charles that would be news, i did not know that much, i thought heller was on his way out, that is you know, you are right, he was a nevertrumper. David prince who is also a never trumper, wrote a piece david, he dismisses this. There is a lot of faction in there that dislike President Trump mostly i think because he is an outsider, into their little game. Absolutely, President Trump broke the emergency glass on the problem in washington. To ashleys point, they those to leave, nobody is pushing them out, they are facing tough reelections, the thing is that different facts need to factions need to come together on strong conservative springs pehlprinciples and infrastructu. Charles i think that is the question is, atthispoint get behind something that is important, winning, behind success, self s in 2018. Charles i need to ask you hold on, one thing were talking about is fresh face. Newer face that challenge the establishment, one is rising quickly, for 2018 midterm. John james, of Michigan Senate candidate former u. S. Army captain now president of james group international, john. For about a month now, people have been tweeting me, you have to get him on your show. Okay. First of all thank you. Charles why are they so excited about you . What is so exciting and fresh about your candidacy . I have to tell you, that is what you have been talking about for last 15 minutes, above the cut line, the institutions that americans respect and revere, military, Police Officers, small businesses, i have two of those boxes checked, i understand, because of combat veteran how to keep americans safety have done it, real life. I also dont just talk about creating jobs, i have created them, then you look at opportunity to really talk about conservative values, and fight the fight that the people really dont want to get. Ability to and willingness to serve the country and serve in the community and go to washington. As world becomes more dangerous, people want someone in senate who keep them safe. Charles where are you on immigration, daca, the wall . These areas are within g. O. P. That there are a lot of problems and push back. For me, that is easy, in our feel, i am only one in our fields, i am only one that secured a border, and kept america safe, i believe putting America First does not mean american alone it means defunding sanctuary cities, and securing our borders support our Border Patrol officers and those in blue when keep us safe in cities and homes. Charles john, what would you make so far of what is happening. A lot of stumbles initially out the gate, hurdles were high, it seems that President Trump is going to 2018 about as well as he could. Is that enough to get party to rally around him . Or fresh faces, nonestablishment types like you too push through the to push through the trump agenda. I believe our president is leading the way, he has surrounded himself with people like general kelly, and mattis and, who understand Foreign Policy. Also we need michigan, has a chance to elect someone, a combat veteran, Business Leader who understands what ittations s put Michigan First as well. Charles john, james thank you. Thank you. Charles a record day on wall street, dow closes for its 71st record this year. Ill tell you about that and how to get ready for 2018, next. daniel jacob for every hour that youre idling in your car, youre sending about half a gallon of gasoline up in the air. That amounts to about 10 pounds of Carbon Dioxide every week. malo hutson growth is good, but when it starts impacting our quality of air and quality of life, thats a problem. So forwardthinking cities like sacramento are investing in streets that are smarter and greener. The solution was right under our feet. Asphalt. Or to be more precise, intelligent asphalt. By embedding sensors into the pavement, as well as installing cameras on traffic lights, we will be able to analyze the flow of traffic. Then that data runs across our network, and we use it to optimize the timing of lights, so that travel times are shorter. Who knew asphalt could help save the environment . Thats why feeling safe is priceless. With adt, you can feel safe with an adt starter kit professionally installed for only 49. 00. Call today, and install an adt starter kit that includes security panel, keypad, key fob, entry and motion sensors and for a limited time, get a camera included and installed at no additional cost. Thats a 449. 00 value, installed, for just 49. 00. Adt has over 140 years of security experience, with our commitment to customer service, and roundthe clock professional monitoring, you have the comfort of knowing that adt is helping to protect what matters most. Call today, or visit adt. Com to get your adt starter kit installed for just 49. 00. Adt. We help keep you safe, so you can feel secure. Call 1888337safe or visit adt. Com and get your adt starter kit for just 49. 00. Charles apple apolllizes for slowing down older iphones, offering 29 battery replacements for a year. Well be right back. I used to have more hair. I used to have more color. And. I used to have cancer. I beat it. I did. Not alone. I used to have no idea what the American Cancer Society did. Research . Yeah. But also free rides to chemo and free lodging near hospitals. I used to maybe give a little. Then i got so much back. I used to have cancer. Please give at cancer. Org. Charles just when the market of the going to drift to the weekend. Buyers started to show up, they made their move after 1 00. It was nimble after lunch then a feeding frenzy to closing minutes. Lifting dow jones to 71st record close of the year, buyers looking to get in front of a april rush for stocks potential rush for stocks. The question is where do investors find value . There will be 3 approaches that a lot talk about. Dogs of the dow, based on yield, this takes blue chip names with highest dividend yield to new year, the top 5. Then there is dogs of dow based on performance. High yield is one thing, often it does reflect slumping share prices this approach said lets focus on the dogs with 3 fleas. There is another approach it is based on socalled january effect. This is identified initially in 1942. It sees out performance by small cap names that bodes well for russell 2000. Outperformed larger indiseses today. I would see these investment approaches all in all are gimmicky but valid to a degree. I prefer you are weighted in market based under lying fundamentals, i will post a sector review on my web site, wstreet. Com. Time to make your perspective great again. Your portfolio great again. Coming up. Both Political Parties taking aim at giant social Media Companies 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. Charles both sides of political aisle declare war on big tech, some on capitol hill say facebook and google are creating products to manipulate users and keep them addicted to social media. Here to discuss cyber guy. And a tech analyst with crowd scout. You get me confused when you get all funky with the names and letters, i want to start with you. This is interesting. There was always Natural Alliance between progressives and silicon vol valley but now ethical point of view they have created technical patterns for most part intentionally made their products habit forming. As a business person you wonder what is wrong with that they are not cigarettes, but it has angered the democratic party. You know there is a group of people out of Warners Office on hill that hosted a briefing the way that technology can be habit forming and maybe for the worse, making people unhappy and leading them to you know cause behavior that is negative for society as a whole. Were seeing not only now the right aligning again Tech Companies but the left. I file sometimes my lip balm is addicting and they want me to buy more. Charles how habit forming a product might be . Here is the problem. I dont government in high life, i dont want government telling me what to do, but there is unquestion abily no doubt that face look, google, twitter, as been built promise not good for you and me or good lip gloss, but built how to get us to spend as much time on their platform as possible. Every second means thousands and there something ethically wrong with that. Yes. Charles what it is . They are not self policing themselves, they are not thinking is it good for charles. Charles the guy who sold me a hot dog across the street i put a lot of mustard on it, i didnt know what was in it. You are right, on social media you are missing out on an enormous part of life we are trained behaviorally to please like me, like, like, how much time is wasted in that cureiated experience to sucker humanity to reaffirm my low self esteem. Charles sounds like curt longs for good old days the way Abraham Lincoln grew up. I just want balance. Charles you . I think what is interesting, i dont know if you saw this facebook came out with study and endorsingnes these, the way you engage in facebook could lead to negative habits, so facebook is trying to get ahead of this, say away you engage on facebook, has a lot to to with how much you get out of it and how happy you will be in life. This is an interesting angle from facebook. I think this is facebook playing games. Charles no doubt. They have such a black eye from this year. That yeah. They are saying 2018 has to be about how were real about. Bottom line too, if that is case they have to get ahead. Cigarette classaction lawsuit, if you dont have a great life sue them. I dont think that black eye is stopping anyone from logging on to facebook. Charles no, i went wait for segment to be over, i want to see how many people like this segment. Happy new year. Thank you too. Charles coming up, Trump Administration facing they did better than anyone thought. Next year it will be dicey, diplomacy or war, we break it down for you. Charles President Trumps first year in office wielded serious adjustment in our Foreign Policy in an effort to keep his America First agenda promise. Tillerson, saying in a new york time oped, he is proud of progress that has been made, and optimistic, particularly about diplomacy in 2018. David web, and john james, john, you were in military, you understand what goes ookay for arm chair folks on sit back and advocate war, but we live in a dangerous world, President Trump inherited a very dangerous world, how would you assess Administration First year . You consider all that on the president s little bit, considering what it looks like vietnam in afghanistan, balkans and syria, and cuban missile crisis in north korea, highly nenuance. He has filled his cabinet with people who understand the consequences of war, a combat veteran, they have a chance to we have to exercise diplomacy, and be ready to fight. Charles thing is were being pushed. Take today, you get article tillerson, on north korea, he talking about the country has the ban on nuclear weapons, and pushing diplomacy, donald trump tweets, caught red handed, disappointed that china is is a lowing oil to go to north korea, there will never be a friendly solution to north korean problem if this continues to happen. His hand is being pushed for him. Forces are pushing you and forces you have to push back on. You do use diplomacy, soft diplomacy, hard diplomacy, you use technology to catch china, i call korea the simmering pot, china has kept them simmers for decades. Charles it boiling over now. Natural boil over is most dangerous point. The president is looks at a time, james is right, you put a team in place, you get the perspectives. You draw the best, you have to do something. You know, the military does well, you have to adapt, military does not see every problem as a nail in you know were going to hammer away. We use every aspect we can, military being a part. A component. Charles john, our enemies were emboldened over last 8 years, prior p to this year, have you isis, and al qaeda and manmade island in china, and Vladimir Putin gone beyond soviet bloc, to places like syria and beyond. How to w to contain. He is pushing back. I think that you hit the nail on the head, our president has been taking major steps to approach our friends and enemies from a position of strength, that is the beginning of diplomacy, understanding that america will not be trial offed with but trifled with but we will work with people in the world. And we do not allow north korea to continue to threaten the world with nuclear weapons. Quick, top hot spot . Asia, there is economic and military challenges, middle east is an adjunct to that. China operates in middle east as does russia. Charles men thank you both, new lou dobbs is next. Good evening, i am greg jarrett in for lou dobbs, Top Republicans taking aim the corruption of highest level of fbi and department of the justice, house intelligence chairman nunez saying that doj and fbi are withholding key documents to discredited company dossier, and demanding an end to the stonewalling, our guest two congressmen. President trump sending