Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas Newsroom With Bill Hemmer And Sandra Smith 20181220

And im sad for all the people who sacrificed in the way they have in something that was being won. One of the concerns i had from the outset with syria is that officials with the Obama Administrations and pentagon at the time could never give me a straight answer whats our objective. Congress never authorized it. Thats a problem and why i applaud President Trumps decision. Bill kevin, good morning. Whats up . Good morning. I can tell you this, when you go to background briefings on topics like these it is clear the man who occupies the building behind me takes in the information and he and he alone makes the final call. In the case of syria, it is clear saying were done. Enough is enough. Let me take you to twitter and share a bit of what the president has to say about this topic. I think this and another tweet will really lay out his thinking on this topic. He said this, getting out of syria was no surprise. Ive been campaigning on it for years and six months ago when i publicly wanted to do it i agreed to stay longer. Russia, iran, syria and others are the enemy of isis. We were doing their work. Time to come home and make America Great again. If you followed the president s trails on the campaign trail and speeches at these rallies you heard him referring to this idea of global u. S. Intervention at every turn and every conflict is not something he wants to do. And he said this on twitter. I think this really spells it out for you. Does the usa want to be the policeman of the middle east getting all caps, nothing but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who in almost all cases dont appreciate what were doing. Do we want to be there forever . Time for others to finally fight. But youve also as bill pointed out heard fierce opposition to the president s position noting emanating from capitol hill in particular from the president s own party. Here is South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham comparing this move to something president obama did previously. The military told president obama if you leave now, the radicals that are still around will regenerate and all the people that helped us in iraq, a lot of them died. Same thing will happen in syria. Marco rubio, senator from the great state of florida said this. The decision to pull out of syria was made despite overwhelming military advice against it. It is a major blunder. If it isnt reversed it will haunt this administration and america for years to come. I want the pass this along. Russian president Vladimir Putin is having his annual talk to the public. He sits there for several hours fielding questions. He said this. Weve seen the u. S. Make similar prok lowmations about leaving afghanistan. 17 years on there is still there. There is a belief in some corners that maybe the u. S. Wont pull out entirely. To hear the president tell it, were out as soon as we can get out. Bill thank you so much from the white house. Leading our coverage today. Thank you, sir. Julie another big story today. A short term bill has cleared the senate and lies in the house hands at this hour. Though it would avert a partial shutdown this bill fails to deliver new funding for the president s border wall. So will President Trump sign it . Thats the question after lawmakers spent the night working on the hill. The president and the house should follow that lead because shutting down the government over christmas is a terrible idea. Im sorry my democratic colleagues couldnt put their partisanship aside and show good faith flexibility the president has shown. We have to change it. We have to change it. Fool the American People four times shame on congress because thats what weve done. Four times we promised we would build the wall and put it on the spending bill and when pelosi is speaker it will never happen. Julie the president not breaking down. Theyre putting politics over country. What theyre just beginning to realize i will not sign any of their legislation, including infrastructure, unless it has perfect Border Security. Usa wins. Peter doocy is on capitol hill with more. Is there anything conservatives in the house can actually do to stop this continuing resolution . Julie, they are expecting this short term budget to pass the house but hoping that President Trump then refuses to sign it. Mr. President , were going to back you up if you veto this bill. Well be there. But more importantly, the American People will be there. They will be there to support you. Lets build the wall and make sure that we do our job in congress. The president s most conservative allies in congress are warning that his 2020 campaign for reelection will be a rocky road if he bails on a border wall. They want to fight while paul ryan is still speaker instead of february when nancy pelosi takes over. She is happy to wait. Democrats are committed to fully responsibly funding the government in january. In the meantime well support the continuing resolution to keep government open and working for the people. Only 83 of house members actually showed up for the votes last night. Some of them lost their elections and lost their offices. Others have had prior engagements. Were camped outside the Weekly Republican meeting to see if anything has changed or if anybody else has shown up. Julie peter, how big of a motivator has the Christmas Holiday been for senators trying to pass something and leave . Theyre running out of time. It was a big enough motivator last night on the floor of the senate that lawmakers in the Upper Chamber were singing christmas carols. Little drummer boy. And rudolph the red nosed reindeer. Rudolph responding present. The lawmakers who pushed the funding fight to this week so that things could stay civil while the nation was celebrating the life of george h. W. Bush two weeks ago arent really fighting. They are literally singing. Julie. Julie its a nice change, right . Peter doocy, thank you. Bill hasnt been signed yet. Stirewalt is with me now. Merry christmas to you. Mark meadows is on air about 40 minutes on fox friends saying this is a fumble. If not now, when . With democrats taking over the house in january. Pete king sees it a different way and argues the politics of it and said this yesterday afternoon. As republicans in the suburbs it would definitely hurt the Republican Party politically. We would be blamed for this maybe not in the states that the Freedom Caucus represents but in the states where the suburban areas its a bad issue. Why . 2020 elections they could keep that in mind. Bill i see the point they are both making. Who wins a shutdown that they start . The democrats started a shutdown last time we did this. It was democrats who started the shutdown and they wanted daca for the people brought to the United States illegally as minors. Protections for them. Wasnt part of the bill. They shut it down. They were sorry. You go back when ted cruz shut it down about the well defund obamacare thing. It didnt end well for republicans when they did that. If you start the shut down youll be the one who loses it. Here is the takeaway from all of this. This is astonishingly fake and empty discussion. We talk about the difference between 1. 6 and 5 billion. Neither of those things will either insure Border Security or deprive us of Border Security. It is a marginal fight for the bases of these two respective parties and making noise instead of doing your job and so if you are the one who shuts it down, you are going to be the one who is stuck with the bill at the end. Bill do you agree with meadows its a fumble. If not now, when. This is faker than the well make them defund obamacare. Bill i thought you would say fake news. No. No. No bill another thing here watching paul ryan yesterday after 20 years in the house felt nostalgic. A lot of the things he had to say were pointed. Here is a piece of that. Too often genuine disagreement quickly gives way to intense distrust. We spend far more time trying to convict one another than we do trying to develop our own convictions. For all the noise there is less passion and less energy. Its exhausting. It saps meaning from our politics. Bill what happens to paul ryan now . I think he will probably be very happy to be back in wisconsin. Im sure that his role as a National Figure is not over. He is a talent and he is a person of gifts. It was very poignant because paul ryans speakership was the result of more than a decade of effort by republicans in the bush era, john boehner and others to protect him and set him up to succeed. His ideas are the core conservative values, so those things. Small government conservatism would have its moment. It is bittersweet for ryan. He made it there but in the end his party had gone in a dramatically different direction when he arrived and his position as a deficit hawk and tough guy on spending were far out of fashion with his party by the time he was in charge. Bill have a Merry Christmas. I think what paul ryan would tell you, they had a golden opportunity until they got the no vote from senator mccain at 2 30 in the morning. A big opportunity and argue to get some things done financially. Julie paul ryan took a lot of heat as well whenever the republicans couldnt get something through they went to him. He was in there. He fought a good fight and did a good job. Bill good speech. 11 past the hour now. Julie more problems for facebook to tell you about. The social media giant still doing damage control after a stunning report on user data. Now an attorney general is suing. Well have the latest straight ahead. Bill the president s nominee for a. G. Slamming the Mueller Probe in a newly surfaced memo. Is it a cause for concern or clarify things for the west wing . Daryl issa weighs in on that. This is an obamalike decision. I hope im wrong but i dont think i am. And i have no understanding of why were doing this. To me its an illconceived idea. The down side is really great. The up side is pretty small. Julie more reaction to President Trumps announcement that he is pulling our troops out of syria. One of his most vocal supporters, rand paul, joins us next. Im proud of the president today to hear he is declaring victory in syria. The president has the courage to say we won in syria and were coming home. First president in my lifetime really to do that. What would you like the power to do . Listening to people answer that question, is how we find out what matters most to them. For a business, its the power to grow. For an entrepreneur, its the power to innovate. 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This is the opposite of an obama decision. Trump is taking us out. Congress has never declared war or authorized the use of military force in syria. We shouldnt be there anyway. Bill senator mike lee backing the president s decision to get troops out of syria. Senator rand paul, member of the Foreign Relations committee. A lot of our colleagues disagree. Why do you support the beginning of this move in syria . This is a very bold move for President Trump. Exactly what he promised the American People. In fact, it is one of the reasons he won the election. He is different than so many republicans that want to be everywhere all the time around the world that they want us to be the worlds policeman that every war on the planet we have to have our soldiers involved with. President trump said he would Treat America first. I think bringing some of that money home, whether it goes towards Border Security, whether it goes towards building bridges and roads in our country. There are a lot of independent voters and people in the middle in the states that President Trump won, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, these are states that no other republican won. They want to be at war everywhere all the time. President trump said well fight when we have to but when we win well come home. Incredibly bold maneuver. All the naysayers in washington will be against him. If you ask the American People, this is why President Trump won the election. Bill pointed questions for you then. Do you believe its a veiled way of getting more Border Security . You save money in syria and put it toward the border in the southwest . I dont think thats the intention. I think we have won the war against isis and taken back 99 of the land. The upper hand is with the people who live there. Selfdetermination is the people who live there standing up and fiengt. We spent trillions of dollars. Should the iraqis defend their territory and the kurds defend their territory . Absolutely. We should not always have to fight everyone elses battle and pay for it. Can any money be shifted for a wall . I dont think thats the purpose. I advised the president that were spending 50 billion a year in afghanistan and we should declare victory, come home from afghanistan and that money would be and could be used for the wall. Bill i think a lot of people in bowling green, kentucky would agree with you on that. However, you have bigger players in iraq. You have iran and russia. This is a stew thats happening in syria. To leave the possibility of a power vacuum puts a lot at risk here. Saudi arabia, progress in iraq, friend and neighbor israel as well, senator. This was the decision we should have made five years ago when we started supporting jihadists. Hillary clinton was a big supporter of the radical islamist. The people for violent jihad in syria. They were no better than assad but Hillary Clinton and obama got us involved in that syrian war and at the time republicans were more unified in saying wait a minute, they were saying like senator lee is saying, we didnt vote for war in syria. Syria is a mess but we didnt create that mess. What you really need now and if you talk to the generals, not one of them will say there is a military solution over there. We need to get together with russia, with iraq, with iran, with turkey, with all of the players, with syria and we need to have a peace negotiated now. Because no one is going to completely win that war. Bill its a tough neighborhood. The tweet from the president , one of many on syria. Does the usa want to be a policeman to the middle east nothing but spending lives and spending dollars and they dont appreciate what were doing. Do we want to be there forever . Time for others to finally fight. I mentioned the vacuum. Let me move to the opposition. Senators yesterday gave mike pence and earful behind closed doors. It will only result in increased presence in the region and the distrust of our partners and allies. Valid point there. Our original goal was to defeat isis and we did. 99 of thaifr land is gone. The people who live there need to stand up and keep isis from reorganizing. We have people struggling in our country to make a living, struggling on bad roads and bad schools. Lets take care of America First and not say we have to rebuild every other country and send our soldiers into harms way in every other country and that were never coming home. I think its interesting. You had a solder on earlier this morning on fox friends who said it exactly right. He served over there and he said look, we cant stay forever. We shouldnt stay forever. When we risk our young lives there is no reason why we have to keep doing it and keep doing it. The people who live there need to stand up and defend their countries. We can help but you know what . We should obey the constitution and vote on it when we go to war and come home when we win. Bill more to come on this. You voted for this criminal justice bill the other day. It passed overwhelmingly 8712 in the senate. All 12 no votes republicans. You were a yes vote. How come . Most people getting out of prison and they are going to live amongst us. We have a couple of choices. If we dont try to reform them in price on. If we just house them in prison when they get out they recommit crimes. I want people when they get out of prison to commit less crimes and stay away from drugs and not be on welfare. So there are a lot of ways we can get people back to work. Theyre all getting out at some point in time. In texas theyve done this and had these programs where people get job training while in prison and guess what . Theyve closed eight prisons in texas. People are not recommitting. The numbers of recommitting crime have gone down dramatically. Im for less crime. I think its a real law and order bill and was a good idea. Bill please come back and spend more time with us. Merry christmas to you and your family. Julie there is new outrage over californias sanctuary policy after a man wanted by ice is accused of murder. Daddy diaper duty. I cant say its the highlight of fatherhood. But id rather be here with my little man than not be here because of migraine. I have three words for migraine. I am here. Aimovig, a preventive treatment for migraine in adults, reduces the number of monthly migraine days. For some, that number can be cut in half or more. The most common side effects are pain, redness or swelling at the injection site and constipation. Talk to your doctor about aimovig. And be there more. Bill 25 past the hour here in new york city, lower manhattan. Harvey weinstein expected back in court today. His attorney is going to argue the case should be thrown out. His lawyer accusing the alleged victims of lying claims the d. A. s office and Police Department withheld evidence from the grand jury and the case is tainted by misconduct. Urging the judge to dismiss five charges of rape and Sexual Assault against the former producer. More to come on that. There is this today. A federal judge ruling in favor of buzz feed after a defamation lawsuit was brought over the steele dossier. Last year a russian tech ceo sued buzz feed for publishing the dossier claiming statements in it were false regarding him. The judge found the publisher cannot be found liable. In a statement the editor in chief says the ruling has vindicated buzz feed for publishing forthat dock to that document. Julie lawmakers want facebook to talk about access to weve been paralyzed in washington from doing anything on this. At some point when peoples information is getting shared and they dont know it, we have to put some rules on the road in place. They cant say trust us, we got your back. Thats not what has been happening. Julie a lot of people dumping facebook saying theyre deleting their social media account. What is facebook saying, jonathan . Good morning, julie. Facebook is giving some answers in a Statement Last night the company responded to the accusation that it shared peoples private messages without their knowledge saying quite simply thats not true. Now the Company Admits they used what it calls a common practice in tech allowing people to integrate messaging capabilities through facebook with apps like netflix and spotify and several others but Facebook Says it was always with the users permission and no third party was reading messages and writing you messages without your permission and the services were experimental and have been shut down for nearly three years. Some of the Companies Named in the New York Times which first broke this story are also hitting back. Netflix saying in a tweet, quote, netflix never asked for or accessed anyones private messages. Were not the type to slide into your dms. Facebook stock fell 7 yesterday. One of the companys single worst days in a year when its shares are down 25 over all. Julie at one point yesterday they went up a bit which was surprising considering the fallout. Now facebook i understand is facing some pretty real legal trouble over privacy concerns, right . Yeah, very real legal trouble. The attorney general for washington, d. C. Has filed a lawsuit accusing facebook of failing to protect users data. This particular action refers specifically to the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the Research Company was able to secretly gather facebook users data through the quiz app to target ads for the Trump Campaign during the election. The lawsuit says, quote, facebook failed to protect the privacy of its users and deceived them about who had access to their data and how it was used. Of course, julie, many on capitol hill as you heard in your introare running out of patience. Another voice democratic senator mark warner saying quite plainly Congress Must step in and start regulating the social media giants. Tough year for facebook. Bill daryl issa has a lot to say about Loretta Lynch and her sevenhour interview that took place yesterday. Could have helped her career considering her career was about to end. The influence that somebody like president clinton had was undeniable. Bill she was behind closed doors answering questions about the tarmac meeting. Congressman issa is standing by. Julie more media backlash targeting the first lady. Vogue magazine is going after the first lady. Is this going over the top . Our ateam will take it up. Everything that touches your baby should be this comforting pampers swaddlers, the 1 choice of hospitals, is 2x softer and wraps your baby in our most premium protection so every touch is as comforting as the first pampers the 1 choice of hospitals, nurses parents bill bumping up against the holidays and trading on wall street. Were off the open more than 350 points the down side. This after the fed yesterday at 2 00 in the afternoon bumped Interest Rates another quarter point higher. I believe in math tells me correctly its the ninth hike theyve had going back about two years. The president did not want it to happen. Earlier in the week he sent a message to the fed and others by way of twitter. Feel the market. Just dont go on the numbers that he considered meaningless as they reflect on the economy and gdp and what we need and whats happening around the world. But the president wasnt alone. Lets see how things shake down. Things have been moving well. Julie a humbug move. Bill theyre seeing something out there. The Silver Lining in all the analysis from what i picked up yesterday is that they believe what the feds signal is theyre near the end of the rate hikes which could mean in 2019 depending how things go maybe get one or two more hikes, which would signal theyre winding down this intervention. Well see. It is all out there and well see which way we go today. Julie well have to see. All right. Turning now to house lawmakers questioning former attorney general Loretta Lynch for about seven hours yesterday in a closeddoor session. Democrats calling the interview a waste of time and slamming the republican colleagues for rehashing what they consider old news. The attorney general has given Tremendous Service to our country. Our republican friends want to rehash issues already resolved. She saw no reason today based upon all that was reviewed and presented regarding former secretary clintons emails to prosecute or to hold her criminally liable. It was a total waste of time. Simply rehashing things that have been gone over in public many times before. Julie joining me now republican congressman darrell issa of california who sits on the committees. I know its been a very busy week for you. Thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you. I just want to start off by when people get to see the transcript what theyll see is republicans asking important questions, questions that quite frankly she answered pretty straight forward. And then theyll hear democrats talking sort of almost like a social chitchat about what were her opinions on unrelated matters. Lets talk about three hours of interview, not seven. Julie democrats are calling it old news. Did republicans learn something news . It is old news but it still has not been put to rest. Comey was insubordinate. Comey did not inform the attorney general, who had not recused herself, that he was about to dismiss a case for lack of evidence when, in fact, he wasnt a prosecutor but rather an f. B. I. Head. He did a lot of things that justify his firing and ultimately one of the greatest questions that had to be resolved was, was f. B. I. Director comey fired for good and valid reason. I think we put to rest in no Uncertain Terms that he was. That he was appropriately fired by the chief executive for his ongoing insubordination and attitude. Thats separate from his efforts to try to undermine the presidency before donald trump was elected and right afterwards with his deceit, his actions toward flynn, all kinds of other things. Ultimately the firing of comey of james comey was correct and appropriate. We put that to rest yesterday with the help of the attorney general. Julie now both the judiciary and oversight are jointly examining allegations of bias. That is a big Sticking Point for republicans and one that democrats might not understand because this is not old news, it just happens. About a year ago. Specifically im referring to the former a. G. s controversial tarmac meeting with bill clinton at a time when thinks wife, the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton just happened to be under investigation. Comey i thought was interesting we read in the transcript called the meeting a coincidence. How did lynch explain it . Judging by your face i dont believe you think it was any coincidence. Its 140 degrees out on the tarmac. You dont even want to keep these jets out there with people in them. The reality was it is a long way from one side to the other. President clinton had to basically stalk the attorney general, set it up so this coincidence would happen. Then he not only had private conversations with the attorney general, who was about to move out of her position and want somebody of influence to help her in her future life, but he also privately and separately talked to members of her staff and we still dont know what was said there. But the same was true, these people were about to go out of office and having the president of the United States and a former president and man who controlled half a billion dollars of charity assets and global reach you Better Believe he had influence far beyond that of the average citizen talking about chitchat and children. He had influence that affected the decision of whether his wife was prosecuted, for what was clearly wrong. We can debate prosecution but there is no question she failed to obey the law and he was in there interveng for her. Julie switching gears a bit. The president s pick for a. G. William barr getting more criticism from the left with a memo that said called the obstruction of justice by the special counsel fatally misconceived. Does that present a conflict of interest or more of the left picking on another trump pick . First of all, this is somebody who even the moment he was announced they had to agree was incredibly qualified and had no question about his previous service. He can have an opinion that happens to be right. The fact is it was fatally flawed. The reality is that what were learning is there is a weak and unjustified case to prosecute the president for obstruction for firing comey, just the opposite there is good and valid reason for the firing of the f. B. I. Director. Those are real questions but just because he has a view on it doesnt change the fact that he is very qualified and, in fact, he is right. Julie congressman darrell issa, great to see you. Thank you for coming on this morning. Bill california, a sheriff calls for changes in the states immigration laws after police say a man shown here wanted by ice killed a stranger and carried out random acts of violence. William la jeunesse picks up that story from los angeles. What happened . California sheriffs warned the governor and democratic lawmakers that one day they would have blood on their hands if they made california a sanctuary state. Well, that day is here says the sheriff because the law prevented him from honoring an ice detainer on 36yearold man, a career criminal. Violent offender with priors and two deportations. Now, instead the law forced him to release garcia, leading to this. Two dead, a car chase and a shootout with police. Police picked him up high on drugs on friday. Seeing his prior deportations ice issued a detainer, 10 hours later the sheriff released him because the sanctuary law banned him from honoring that detainer. Released, he stole 300 rounds of ammunition, shot six, killed two, injured three more before dying in a car chase. None of which would have happened, says the sheriff, without this law that prohibited him from communicating with ice when a criminal alien is released. That tool has been removed from our hands and because of that, our county was shot up by a violent criminal that could have easily been prevented had we had the opportunity to reach out to our fellow counterparts. Basically ice said in this statement this is unfortunate and extremely tragic example with policies that limit Law Enforcement agencies afwoilt cooperate with ice. This guy had gotten two years in federal penitentiary for Armed Robbery and assault and drug possession. That isnt serious enough to hold him. He is forced to ignore 75 of detainers. Julie President Trump defending his announcement to pull troops out of syria. Michael anton, former National Security member in the Trump Administration. 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The mission should not go beyond that. He has said publicly more than once he wants to get out of syria. I think he surprised a lot of people when he said it this spring, Something Like eight or nine months ago. Were still there and now he says it again. This is going to move forward. The only way you could be surprised if you werent listening to him or didnt believe him all along. Ive been listening and believed him. I thought this day would come. If anything it seems to me it came later than probely wanted it to. He waited longer than he was inclined to do. Bill interesting. I can understand chad or jabudi or ghana, but this is a wicked stew in the heart of a very tough neighborhood, michael. Thats true. Thats not a reason necessarily to stay in. Look, it is a wicked stew. A very complex, difficult situation. One of the things that i think you are not hearing enough of is there is a big constituency in washington and has been since well before the 2016 election to get the United States more involved in the civil war. To take sides in a primarily war not against isis. The president during the campaign made clear that he would support a limited presence in syria and iraq and elsewhere for the purposes of defeating isis but he did not want to get the United States more broadly involved. That went against what his opponent Hillary Clinton wanted to do in the 2016 campaign and went against a lot of what a lot of his republican allies in Congress Want him to do. I think some of the frustration youre hearing about this decision is less to do with the decision itself but to do with the fact that people who wanted the United States to get more involved, to take sides, now realize if this decision goes forward that will never happen. I think there is some unhappy about that. Bill you are really smart and happy to get you on today to get your analysis. Here is what the president said on twitter. Does the usa want to be the policeman of the middle east and most people dont appreciate what were doing. Do we want to be there forever. Time for others to finally fight. A lot of good points in the tweet. A lot of what he campaigned on. I agree with you entirely on that. You have to wonder whether or not the Syrian Defense forces or iraqi forces are up to that battle or whether forces like iran move in and russia as well, or assad does more damage in that area and then were coming back in a year from now looking at the decision and wondering what it was all about . What would cause us to come back a year from now . A year from now the country could still be in turmoil and there wouldnt necessarily be a necessity for a major u. S. Return. The United States was there to fight terrorists who have the potential to project power against the United States, either against the homeland or against our allies and assets in the region. And we will be there if that situation recurs, i can conceivably see us going back. If isis remains small and holds as you heard others say earlier almost no territory, no population centers. Bill according to jen griffin at the pentagon 1 to 2 of the former caliphate. Others warn there could be 20,000 to 30,000 isis fighters in syria and iraq. Do you save money in syria and put it toward Border Security . The president is looking for money to Border Security wherever he can find it given democratic and some republican hesitation about funding the wall. I dont think thats what is ultimately driving this decision. It is part of it. We have limited resources and we spend them all over the world and some of those have to come home, i think. Bill thank you, appreciate you coming on today. Michael anton. More to come from the white house, pentagon and others. Julie a holiday sweet treat has some people up in arms. Whats amiss with the hershey kiss when our own investigated . Were on the case, too, me and bill. Well put it to the test. With days left until christmas, the holiday mad dash is on. Stay with us. Jingle bell, jingle bell rock if you have psoriasis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. Its a pill that treats moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis differently. With otezla,75 clearer skin is achievable. Dont use if youre allergic to otezla. It may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. Otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. Some people taking otezla reported weight loss. Your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. Upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. 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Thats my favorite. Thank you so much. Bill tis the season to be jolly. Apparently not for some bakers across the country. An outcry over chocolate drops. Theyre missing the tip of the chocolate dollop. Bakers claim its affecting the look of the cookies demanding hershey do something about it. Bill it doesnt taste the same. Julie our crew did investigating. We have top notch behind the scenes bill a small sample. Julie they said i actually they are, yeah. Bill if it doesnt have the tip its another piece of chocolate. Julie yeah. Might as well eat m ms, you know . Okay. Bill well send them back. Well demand. Julie mine has a tip. Do i win something . Bill more from hersheys. Minutes away from House Republicans. What will we learn about the spending debate ongoing . We dont have a deal yet. Hersheys kisses are incensed. Me, you could take out 54,000 dollars or more. 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Shutting down the government over christmas is a terrible idea. Four times we promised we would build the wall and put it on the spending bill and now were saying no, no, pelosi will be speaker, it will never happen. The problem is i dont see the democrats paying any price whatsoever for essentially sanctioning open borders and not funding Border Security. It may be a political fight that will take us into the 2020 election. Mr. President , well back you up. If you veto this bill well be there. But more importantly, the American People will be there. They will be there to support you. Bill mike emanuel is live on the hill. Where do things stand at this hour, mike . Good morning. We expect later today house lawmakers will vote on the sixweek government funding extension. It will not contain the 5 billion for the border wall that President Trump has wanted. Bottom line the democrats arent playing ball on that issue. President trump is not giving up hope in terms of getting that border wall. He continues venting on twitter saying the democrats who know steel slat wall are necessary for Border Security are putting politics over country. What theyre beginning to realize is that i will not sign any of their legislation, including infrastructure, unless it has perfect Border Security, usa wins. There is a lot of frustration both sides of the aisle particularly with republicans who wanted the democrats to come atlong to give them some Border Security money to help the president tighten up things down at our southern border. Bottom line democrats feel like they have leverage. They needed a 60vote threshold in the senate. They passed a sixweek government funding extension and send it over to the house. Bill see if it gets signed. Kirsten neilson. What are the expectations for a high profile hearing. You have Kirstjen Nielsen talking about efforts her department has done to sending the u. S. Military there to try to help with efforts to try to tighten things up as well. Nielsen is on the hot seat also internally. A lot of speculation about her future, questions about whether she may be leaving the Trump Administration. So a lot to watch in that high profile hearing getting underway any moment now on the house side of the capitol. Bill mike emanuel live on the hill. Julie another story to watch. President trump ordering the pentagon to pull all u. S. Troops out of syria saying isis has been defeated and there is no longer any reason to be there. Reaction pouring in from republican senators both for and against the move. Listen. President trump said well fight when we have to but when we win well come home. An incredibly bold maneuver. All of the naysayers in washington will be against him. Guess what . If you ask the American People this is why President Trump won the election. I believe its a catastrophic mistake that will have great consequences for the United States and interests and allies in the months and years to come. To those who say we have defeated isis in syria, that is an inaccurate statement. They have been hurt, they have been degraded, i give the president all the credit in the world for changing our policies regarding the fight against isis, but i will not buy into the narrative that they have been defeated in syria, iraq. Julie and the president tweeting this this morning. Does the u. S. Want to be the policeman of the middle east getting nothing but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who in am all cases do not appreciate what we are doing . Do we want to be there forever . National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin is live at the pentagon with more. Well, a senior u. S. Defense official tells me the president made the decision to pull out of syria after speaking with turkish president erdogan last friday, december 14th. Secretary of state mike pompeo was there at the time and was the first to be told we are leaving. The turkish president told President Trump that Turkish Forces were planning to enter syria soon to go after the kurdish pkk and warned u. S. Troops to get out of the way. This i am told hastened the president s decision, something he had been mulling for some time. The president gave the military 30 days to pull out. The fear among u. S. Military commanders and pentagon chiefs is that the u. S. Will not be able to protect its kurdish and syrian allies. The Syrian Democratic forces or sdf who fought alongside u. S. Forces to retake raqqa, those cud i shall forces and other allies are likely to be slaughtered. As one u. S. Defense official put it to me, no one will ever work or fight with us in the middle east again as a result of this hasty withdrawal and the abandonment of those kurds who risked everything to fight with the u. S. Against isis. Not a single u. S. Military commander or leader ive spoken to at the pentagon agrees with the president s unilateral decision to pull all 2,000 u. S. Troops out of syria leaving a vacuum that iran and ice is will fill. The decision is being viewed by the military as a Christmas Gift to russian president Vladimir Putin who just spoke in moscow during his annual News Conference. As for the Islamic State group defeat, i agree with the president of the United States. I have already spoken about the fact that we have achieved significant changes in the fight against terrorism on this territory and have seriously hit isis in syria. Most believe the russians will move into the vacuum created by the u. S. Pullout. The Russian Embassy in washington tweeted the following praise for President Trumps decision quoting the spokesperson for russias ministry of foreign affairs. The u. S. Decision to pull its troops from syria creates good prospects for a political solution in that arab country. Critics point to the pullout of u. S. Troops from iraq in 2011 as giving rise to isis. Defense secretary mattis and john bolton convinced the president to keep american troops on the ground in syria not only to continue the isis fight but keep an eye on iran. It shows he is not listening to them anymore. Bill retired general jack keane and analyst. An early Merry Christmas to you. I take it you dont like this move. How come . Well, you and our viewers know, i think, that ive agreed with most all of President Trumps Foreign Policy and National Security decisions and i have Great Respect for the National Security team that provides him advice. All that said, this is a huge strategic mistake that i hope the president is willing to reconsider. If he does not, i believe with some degree of confidence that he will come to regret this decision. I mean clearly were repeating the obama mistake of premature withdrawal which got us isis. It is a misstatement to say that isis is defeated in syria. What is accurate is we have destroyed their safe haven in raqqa and have now taken down another town which isis put up a fight for over two months, which demonstrates their determination and resilience. And there is remnants of isis still in the area. In my judgment, we need to stick to it and finish the job. When senator paul and other supporters of the president s decision say that the United States has got to stop doing the heavy lifting in the middle east, we have to leave the fight to the people in the middle east, that is exactly what we have been doing. The primary fighters are syrians, kurds and arabs. Day in, day out fighting this light infantry on the ground engaging the obviously the isis fighting forces for better part of a year now. What we have there are advisors, 2,200, who are helping to put together the plans to conduct that fight and also our air power and artillery support. That has been decisive. If we pull away bill to be clear on this what the white house has said. They arent declaring victory on isis. Theyre deliberate in their language about a territorial victory over the caliphate. If you consider 1 or 2 of the territory between iraq and syria ruled by isis. To that what would you say . I agree with that. But its not idle speculation that isis has the capacity to rebuild because they are very resilient organization. And then reemerge to retake territory again. My sources in the Intelligence Services have forecasted that event. Then well have a decision to make. What are we going to do . Do we go back in there . There will be considerably less Political Support for that. It is much easier to leave than it is to go back. The second thing that is really crucial to understand here, bill, by pulling out of Eastern Syria, we have given all of syria to the iranians. Syria is and will become their strategic anchor in the middle east. They will have achieved their number one strategic goal to have established a crescent from iran, through iraq, through syria, to lebanon, to the mediterranean. That will be a victory of strategic proportions that will have huge consequences for years to come. Julie you hit the nail on the head. This is about iran and irans assisting syria in carrying out these atrocities to its own people. The president defending his decision on syria on twitter today writing this. Getting out of syria was no surprise. Ive been campaigning on it for years and six months ago when i wanted to do it, i agreed to stay longer, russia, iran, syria and others are the local enemy of ice is. We were doing their work. Time to come home and rebuild. When the president that were not responsible for solving all the worlds problems, however, when assad went ahead and gassed his own people we dropped bombs. We dropped rockets on them. So the president while he doesnt want to solve all the worlds problems did get involved with assad had carried out the atrocities. What happens if we stepped back . Iraq fell apart. What happens to the people of syria specifically because we wont be there to defend them . Well, the consequences are very significant because we said as part of our strategy in syria not only did we want to contain iran, that we wanted iran to leave syria and intended to work toward that end. By having a piece of ground in Eastern Syria that we were able to drive isis out of and stay the course there. That gave us a seat at the political table to get a political solution in geneva. We just forfeted that. We have turned over the political solution in syria to the iranians and russians because we no longer will have that influence given were pulling up and walking out the door. Much to the frustration of our allies in the region and also obviously in syria. I do accept the president s concern about our allies not doing enough. They clearly could do more. Bill when you talk about a modest troop investment. A quick answer. You mentioned 2200 troops there now. What is considered modest . Is it 2200, half of that . Whats the number. Modest is the 2200. The right size advisor to help the Syrian Democratic force in what has been one successful battle after another against isis. Bill thank you for your analysis. Thank you. Julie thank you. Bill breaking news here in new york in the Harvey Weinstein matter. He was in court in the last 30 minutes Pretrial Hearing has been scheduled for march 7. Weinstein and his attorney came to order on behalf of the detectives in the case and nypd to get the judge to dismiss the charges against him making allegations of malfeasance. Some has been successful for weinsteins defense. Apparently the request to dismiss the trial was not successful. They will move forward after the new year three months from now. Julie not a surprise there. Nonetheless, a development. Federal judge blocking the latest efforts to limit asylum. How this could impact the Trump Administrations immigration efforts. Bill vogue magazine the latest media outlet to go after the first couple. Have you heard about this article . Did you see the comments . Our ateam will take it on and well ask the question whether or not its a little over the top. Come on back next. Sometimes its fast we could see the media wants to bash and focus on negativity. chime [narrator] meet sharks newest robot vacuum. 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How that affects william barr appeared his nomination Going Forward we dont know. Matt whitaker has been given the aokay. Julie the senate approving a short term spending bill with no funds for a border wall sending it to the house where it is likely to pass averting a Government Shutdown. The house Freedom Caucus is spoiling for a fight calling on President Trump to veto the bill. Lets bring in our ateam. Jessica tarlov fox news contributor. James freeman from the wall street journal and Morgan Ortagus former Financial Intelligence analyst for the treasury department. Jessica, ill start with you. A lot of republicans are upset by this because the president had been steadfast, i will shut down the government until i get the funding to build the border wall and less than a week later he has changed his tune. We were talking about this last week when sandra was here that chuck and nancy were the ones who won that little bruhaha in the oval office that was televised. Bill depends on your view of that. The president said i will shut down the government if i dont get my 5 billion for the wall. He is not getting his money and wont shut down the government over it. A lot of his biggest supporters upset. Ann coulter who he has unfollowed on twitter now. Julie oh, he has. Bill lots of her lots of his supporters as well. She wasnt alone in this. Its a big failure on his part speaking to his base. I dont think moderate republicans care that much but the red meat stuff. Bill mark meadows says its a big fumble. Veto it if you have to. Is it a fumble or a creative way to make it happen ultimately . Part of it is rhetoric. The democrats have to tell their base we arent giving trump his wall. Schumer is saying well do enhancement. A lot of fencing there now. Maybe a bill without a word wall he can get the wall. He offered 1. 6 billion and trump said no. Bill your point is well taken. If you dont spell out the word wall. Probably still get it. Ultimately we hope there is a deal where you get a very strong fence, maybe you call it a wall, and in return more legal immigration. Build the strong fence doesnt have the same ring to it as build the wall. I think this is an epic failure by republican congressional leadership. The president has been in Office Almost two years and had a chance to get the wall funded and punted doing so. In august the senate canceled their recess because they were going the take care of all the spending needs supposedly. They got 75 done. They were worried about the political optics of a fight over the wall before the november midterms. So they convinced the president to punt. Guess what . They lost the house anyway. Bill why such distaste for getting it done . Thats a good question. Eight years of saying well repeal and replace and two years into a Republican Administration and we didnt get that done, either. We dont have a republican plan i know of other than the grahamcassidy bill put forth in the 11th hour during the last Obamacare Repeal and replace. Republicans have every right to be upset with congressional leadership and quite frankly with the president and his team. I would say the president , they can try and pivot on this. They have suggested that they maybe could have the military build the wall. I dont know if im sure theyll do that with the d. O. D. Budget. She is describe how the president of the United States is trying to work around a republican majority in the house that dissolves in two weeks. Yeah. I think i share the sense of i think a lot of republicans that the wall is not their First Priority but i think for both parties this is kind of telling you how much they want solutions versus fighting. Again, this is a signature promise. He has come back to it again and again. If you wanted to do a deal to get the immigration fixes with the people say they want they ought to be able to work this out in return for his wall. Whether or not they want to call it a wall. Bill what were driving at here sitting on this side of the table. Many people talk about how the left despise this president. Do some on the right show their cards as well with their level behind closed doors about how they feel about him and some of his big proposals that have gone nowhere . The Republican Base is frustrated. For so many years theyve voted people into office who made a lot of series of promises. I would agree with james for the things i care about the wall is not even in my top ten. It doesnt matter. The wall is symbolic does this administration and do Congress Stand by and stick by the things they say they are going to do . And Republican Base is frustrated theyre promising and they vote people into office and it doesnt materialize. To be fair this administration has had a lot of wins but they will have to come out quickly and explain how they will get this wall done whenever they have an incredibly hostile Democratic House thats about to take over. Julie wouldnt democrats like to see this as perhaps the president will be willing to negotiate with them and maybe turn this into a positive where they can negotiate on something . The president is making are a huge step here angering even his own base in the process coming up with some bipartisan immigration reform. I would love that. We got bipartisan criminal justice reform. We should feel good that it is possible we can work together. Opioids is another area of compromise we can do. I think that the harsh reality is Congressional Republican leadership looks at the polling and how people feel about the wall overall. It is not your top ten. For a lot of republicans its fifth or sixth but theyre mostly concerned with healthcare and both parties have to move on. Number one issue in the election. Bill ill squeeze in jim jordan from last night on his level of frustration on the house floor. Watch. Youve got to be kidding me. Really . February 8th when nancy pelosi is speaker do we really im supposed to believe, were supposed to believe were then going to build the Border Security wall and keep our promise on the 2016 campaign . He is not wrong, is he . We can conclude that from this conversation. One thing they arent talking about is spending restraint. This is after all about the amount of government is going to spend. It is north of 4. 1 trillion. Thats what you would love to see if its two more months theyre arguing about this, maybe it will come into it at some point. Bill federal judge took the step of ordering Asylum Seekers who sued after deportation be returned to the u. S. To have their claims heard. Where does that go and what is your feeling on that . The administration will repeal this. What youll continue to see is unless we have bipartisan compromise on things like immigration and things like healthcare as jessica brought up youll continue to see immigration litigated in the courts. I dont think thats successful for anybody. Certainly happened under the Obama Administration when he took unilateral executive order action and i think youll continue to see this administration have to fight it out in court. The best solution would be a bipartisan compromise. The two parties come together and make a decision. What the Trump Administration did was change a longstanding policy you could seek asylum if you were fleeing from a person or persons physically abusive and gang violence. Now it has to be government abuse. Harder to prove. A lot of women who are coming to this country because they live in abusive households and under attack bringing their kids here for a better life and safety. It is up to congress. Theyre the ones that change the immigration laws. I have think that Congressional Democrats can lead on this. Bill this is a moving target. Come back in a couple minutes. Loretta lynch was on the hill for seven or eight hours. Former a. G. Closed door hearings. Lawmakers are looking into how they handled the Hillary Clinton email matter and russian interfeerns. What did they learn . Julie a memo written by President Trumps pick for attorney general raising questions how he would oversee the special counsel investigation and we have a lot of breaking news. Well bring it to you next. An individual writing as a private citizen. He is entitled to his opinion. He wasnt speaking for the government ar whispering in the president s ear but expressing his own personal opinion on a matter of legal concern. It was embarrassing. My joints. They hurt. The pain and swelling. The tenderness. The psoriasis. Tina i had to find something that worked on all of this. I found cosentyx. Now, watch me. 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Catherine herridge live in d. C. With more on that. Good morning. Good morning. Word that Justice Department at this hour a few minutes away from a News Conference about an indictment against some chinese hackers but were hoping to get questions in to the Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. In the meantime there are major headlines coming out of the Justice Department this morning. One of our contacts has confirmed that the acting attorney general Matt Whitaker has met with Justice Department ethics officials and told him he is fine to oversee the Robert Mueller investigation. This is significant because there has been criticism of whitaker given his past comments to the media that were highly critical of the probe and talked about diminishing or narrowing the scope of that investigation. In addition, weve been able to obtain this memo which was provided to the Judiciary Committee for the upcoming confirmation of the president s choice to lead the Justice Department bill barr. The reason the memo is important is that it was sent to the Deputy Attorney general last summer, unsolicited and it talks about whether there is a strong Legal Foundation for any kind of obstruction probe by the Robert Mueller team. It reads in part, quote, as i understand it, his theory is premised on a novel and insupportable reading of the law. In my view it would have grave consequences beyond the confines of this cast and do lasting damage to the presidency and the administration of law within the executive branch. Well have an opportunity hopefully with questions to the Deputy Attorney general to respond to the issues. One the acting attorney general Matt Whitaker will have principal oversight for the Robert Mueller investigation and the idea if the Mueller Investigation is looking at a obstruction case there isnt a sound case. Bill what happened on the hill now, Loretta Lynch, seven hours behind closed doors. What comes of that . She was behind closed doors for seven hours. Were just about to begin. Well be back with you. Catherine herridge with that from the department of justice. She has had a very busy, busy week. Thank you, catherine. Back to you when the news happens. Julie you would never think were about to take a christmas break. Lets bring back in the ateam with us, Jessica Tarlov and James Freeman and Morgan Ortagus. Lets first talk about the information that were getting from Catherine Herridge and your reaction. Loretta lynch hearing. I understand why democrats are frustrated to bring her back. Julie the last interview. The last time theyll have accountability on this matter. Republicans continue to have frustration about every step along the way of these investigations last year how the f. B. I. Conducted themselves with Hillary Clinton versus how theyve conducted themselves with donald trump are just two mon mentally different things. All the Text Messages that have been revealed. All the communications where we have found consistent bias against the Trump Administration and campaign. Is there one thing that was close to the same sort of bias . Nothing that i found. We havent seen everybodys Text Messages. Weve looked into this over and over again which is frankly why there were more democrats that showed up for the Loretta Lynch questioning than republicans yesterday. Both sides admitted there was no new information. They were more interested in coming for the comey pile onon r and talking to him about the Hillary Clinton email investigation. He did the reopening and shutting of the case within 24 hours had a causal effect on the election outcome. Im not accusing trump was the one who was hurt by this. There was an open investigation into his campaign the f. B. I. Does not feel the American Public needed to know about but needed to know about anthony wieners laptop. Hillary clinton considering the number of investigations that cleared her was grossly mistreated by the f. B. I. And republicans on the hill who continue to parade the actors in this false story in front of them over and over again. Bill false . It is a false story. What is going in with Loretta Lynch or jim comey. Jim comey hurt Hillary Clinton. Bill the answer was so elusive and why it continues to go on. Rod rosenstein is talking about penalties for china . Do we want to take this . Listen for a quick moment and james well come back to you. 90 of the departments cases economic espionage over the past seven years involve china. Two thirds involving thefts of trade secrets are connected to china. In the last few months of this year alone, our department has announced charges in three separate cases alleging crimes committed at the behest of a branch of the Chinese Ministry of state security. It is unacceptable that we continue to uncover cybercrime committed by china against america and other nations. In 2015 china promised to stop stealing trade secrets and other confidential Business Information through computer hacking with the intent of providing competitive advantage to companies in the commercial sector. But the activity alleged in this indictment violates the commitment that china made. A commitment they made to members of the international community, to the United States, to the g20 and apec. We want china to cease. Bill not only is the u. S. Making this announcement but word from london at the same time and britain will join the United States and others in holding the chinese responsible for the global hacking campaign. When you marry with with the tariff battle. You see coverage about trump as being alone in the world. But i think these this is one of a number of events that have to make the communist thugs who run china very nervous. You have Law Enforcement laying out a disturbing long pattern of cyberhacking, espionage. Ties to the chinese government. They would love to say its trump. Some part of a negotiation. As you said you have our allies saying it is around the world. Julie he said he would be tough on trade and china. As anyone watched me im the ultimate china hawk. What this president is doing to move the country and both parties really the Foreign Policy establishment toward a more aggressive stance toward china is the most important thing he will do in these four years and the important thing is its not just republicans he has moved on china. Among the democrats and Foreign Policy establishment i talk to there has been a clear reckoning that we have grossly mishandled the relationship both sides over the past 20 years. We had the theory if we open up economically to china they would slowly reform and become more democratic. That hasnt happened. Were in a complete cyber war with them and they are attacking our companies and government on a daily basis and weve had our hand in this collectively. The criticism is bipartisan. We have had our head in the sand with cyberhacking. Aggression against our allies in china. To bring the Foreign Policy establishment and bring our allies together to really bill you are both right about a wholesale look necessary with what is happening with china. A lot of things are moving on a lot of fronts. Word from the capitol that the Republican Press conference has been canceled. Why that is we dont know. It may happen later today. The official reason is that the meeting this morning went too long and they are in votes now. It is worth noting republicans control the floor. Well get updates as we hear this. I would just keep in mind what mark meadows said two hours ago. He said you cannot fumble at this point over Border Security and he urged the president and said if you want to go ahead and veto this budget well have your back. Do we think that some of that is in play now . Yeah, of course we have to speculate on why they are cancelling. The good point here, the president has not signed off on this deal. Were talking about what people dont like about it, what theyre criticizing. He may say no and if you look at recent history, shutdowns dont actually do that much political damage over the long term. So he may be thinking now is the time. Im going to hold out the essential functions of government, National Defense continue, but im not going to let the full bureaucracy run and keep the paychecks going while we have this discussion. Bill an interesting development. Lets see where it goes. 40 votes for so from the freedom conference. In the near term it hurts republicans no matter who is responsible for it. The polling no one talks about that and no one calls it that but republicans. Bill mark meadows said if not now, when . Definitely not next month. The numbers dont get easier for him. Mark meadows is absolutely right. Its not even about the wall. It is about the fact are we going to stand by the things we commit to our voters and just giving people just sort of saying well do x, y, z and not doing it. Our base and the country is so over that and they should be. Julie he will get mexico to pay for it. A gofundme. Congratulations. I look forward to seeing that. The president even walked it back the other night on twitter when he said i didnt mean a hard wall could mean steel slats. He is trying here. His base that 2025 will always stick. That top 10 there. Bill we have to roll. Thank you all. Have a happy holiday. Merry christmas, whatever applies, okay . Julie theyre coming back. Well ask them one other thing. Bill all eyes on the market. Whats going on wall street in the wake of the fed rate from yesterday. The hike up a quarter point. Well talk about investor response coming up in a moment right here when we come back. Every road in the world is now an information superhighway. phone ringing and the car has become an accessory to the smartphone. Ride hailing, car sharing, carpooling. Mobility services are proliferating. And theres a new generation who dont seem to want to own cars in the first place. It all means massive disruption to the car industry, cities, businesses and investors. Im Martyn Briggs for bank of America Merrill lynch. For christmas because they keep getting better. Theres smartouch for selfies, then theres four way stretch for flexibility. They even have smartdri. See . Stays dry. So get isotoner gloves for the whole family. Bill a couple things here were trying to put the pieces together. This bill has not been signed. The showdown for the government could happen tomorrow night. Friday night at midnight into saturday morning or not. Chad berg rum says things are getting squirrelly on the spending bill. There was a press conference scheduled and it was canceled. The president shot out this tweet 18 minutes ago. While i signed the omnibus bill i was promised the wall and leadership would be done by the end of the year, now. It did not happen. We foolishly fight for Border Security for other countries but not our beloved usa. Not good. Well try to read between the lines and figure out whats happening behind closed doors. Well get back to that in a moment and tell you what we think we know. Back with the panel here. This is a special surprise, christmas surprise, part three. We have this beautiful picture of the first couple in the cross hall of the white house. And vogue came out with a rather scathing review of this photo. Do we have it . Called it surreal quality, called it a cardboard cutout version, said they are, quote, very, very smiley. They are also holding hands. A move that famously out of character for them and why it feels so strangely off. Wax statues with a question mark. Thats vogue magazine. Bill dont go to freeman first on this. Sorry. If you think thats nas nasty and mean spirited. Its the vehicle for trying to teach young people to be leftist radicals. It is gorgeous. Julie i want that to be my christmas picture. I want that dress. Holy cow. Took my breath away. She is one of the most beautiful human beings on the planet and how anybody can be nasty of her. It is because theyre jealous. Bill knows on the left cant find a way to say anything good about this white house, jessica. This is petty. It is petty. What vogue should have done and that dress, oh, all of it looking great. I think it is important especially when left publications and leftists like myself are attacked for having nothing good to say especially about melania you focus on the issues here. Melania with her be best campaign about cyberbullying her family benefited by chain migration. Bill were talking about a photo. It is more than the photo. It is about the photo because thats the issue here. It allows the right to say oh, you just cant say anything good about her. Julie but she is bashed more than any first ladys ever been bashed. Hillary clinton bill sorry, jess. They would never consider this for the obamas over eight years. We can call on the guy. The trump cyberbully thing. He is typically on some of the most powerful people in the world. If he says crying Chuck Schumer on twitter, are we really upset about this . Bill all right. Guys. I thought we would find agreement on one topic before the holidays. Julie she looks beautiful. Merry christmas. The dow looking to gain traction this morning after the feds Interest Rate hike and well see how stocks are responding this morning after a taking a freefall yesterday. 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All three major aoff. A steady drip of negative news. The Philadelphia Fed index pointing negative here. People didnt like that. Lots of folks they expect stocks to continue lower today. You never know. Normally what happens is the stocks go higher in the morning and lower in the afternoon. The kind of pattern weve seen for days and days now. Started differently today. We started lower. Anything could happen. I have to tell you the santa claus rally, santa may have left the building. Back to you guys. Bill go find his sleigh. Bah humbug. Merry christmas. A major policy shift here. U. S. Policy, the president announcing plans to pull 2200 u. S. Troops out of syria. A lot of reaction all over the dial on this. Talk to bret baier and Adam Kinzinger at the top of the next hour. Come on back. Deserves the hard work that went into the Science Behind vascepa. Prescription vascepa. Vascepa, along with diet and exercise, has Proven Results in multiple clinical trials. 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How are you doing . Julie lets do this. Im Julie Banderas in for sandra smith. The Senate Passed the measure last night but a lot more questions at this hour about the bills future. Bill lets get to it now. Peter doocy is on the hill to piece it together. Good morning. Good morning, bill. Normally at 11 00 today it would be very impolite for me to be standing in this room because the speaker of the house and Republican Leaders would be at the podium briefing what they just told their conference behind closed doors. The speaker of the house and his team have canceled this press conference this morning. That is as lawmakers are telling them they want assurances that President Trump will definitely sign and not veto a spending bill. Right now republicans do not have those assurances. No, no guarantees were made in that regard and some members did ask. So here is why things are so uncertain. President trump a few minutes ago tweeted this. When i signed the omnibus bill i was promised the wall and security by leadership would be done by end of year. It didnt happen. We fight for Border Security for other countries but not our beloved usa. Not good. A problem that some republicans have is nancy pelosi seems totally on board with this approach. She says this, democrats are committed to fully responsibly funding the government in january. In the meantime well support the continuing resolution to keep government open and working. But the president s most conservative allies here in congress are telling him that they will have his back if he vetoes this measure that does not have any new money for the border wall. There are a number of people in the house of representatives who would support a president ial veto enough to sustain the veto and probably enough people in the house of representative to support a stand alone bill for 5 billion for Border Security. Mark walker the republican from North Carolina tweeted he wants a vote on a bill that would just be 5 billion in border wall money and wants it today. We dont know if that is something that leadership is talking about right now. We also dont know for sure if we will hear from them again today. Its possible but things are kind of up in the air right now. Bill a little bit. What are you piecing together . Chad said it was squirrelly. A pretty good word for the moment. It is squirrelly. You look at the president s tweet where he is expressing great frustration about this giant spending bill that he had to be talked into signing last time and it is not clear if that is a veto threat, is it a veto warning, is he just expressing displeasure . A big problem that republicans have right now they are about to lose the unified government and there are conservatives in the house who are making the argument that they have to do this while paul ryan is the speaker. If they kick the can to february they come back and nancy pelosi is the speaker. So she is speaking very glowingly about this approach. Yes, lets wait until february when im the speaker and i have more say and Committee Chairs and control. But not every republican wants that. Again, the Christmas Holiday a big motivator on the senate floor last night. Some senators were singing christmas carols. Singing rudolph the red nosed reindeer when they had the support to have a spending bill and they could go home for the night. Theyre sticking around today to see what happens and they might be here past today. Bill well report until we get it. Things are moving on the hill. Thank you, well find out what direction real soon. Julie another fox news alert. The president s decision to pull out of syria making news dividing the Republican Party as most of washington is caught offguard by the announcement. The white house is standing firm. Senator rand paul backing the president earlier on americas newsroom. I think there are a lot of independent voters and people in the middle in the states President Trump won, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, these are states that no other republican won because they want to be at war everywhere all the time. President trump said well fight when we have to but when we win well come home. Incredibly bold maneuver. All the naysayers in washington will be against him. If you ask the American People, this is why President Trump won the election. Julie john roberts picks up the story and joins us live from the white house. Good morning. The president may say its no surprise he is announcing the pullout of troops from syria. He is getting blowback. A lot of his colleagues are trying to talk the president out of the move. Rubio tweeted it is a major blunder. If it isnt reversed it will haunt this administration and america for years to come. Lindsey graham who returned from afghanistan yesterday likeened to president obamas pullout from iraq. Listen here. The military told president obama, if you leave now, the radicals that are still around will regenerate and all the people that helped us in iraq, a lot of them died. Same thing will happen in syria. Bill mike lee on the other hand applauding the move. Listen to what he said. One of my colleagues called it an obamalike decision. I couldnt disagree more and i couldnt agree more with the president s decision. Rubio pointed out another person who liked the move was Vladimir Putin in russia. He said donald was right to do it. Julie a big announcement from the department of Homeland Security today. What can you tell us about that . An announcement we thought would happen before the house Judiciary Committee a short time ago. They went into recess after Kirstjen Nielsen sat down and about to give testimony. When i came out here they had not gone back into session. She will be making an announcement that after months of negotiation, the United States and mexico have agreed that anybody who is either at the border or crosses the border between mexico and the United States to seek asylum will stay in mexico while that asylum claim is adjudicated. In a statement from the department of Homeland Security she said aliens trying to game the system to get into our country illegally will no longer be able to disappear into the United States where many skip court dates. Instead theyll wait for an Immigration Court decision while theyre in mexico. Catch and release will be replaced with catch and return. The department of Homeland Security worked this out with the Mexican Government during the summer and early fall. It was unclear whether the new administration would agree to it. It appears they did and will likely go into effect in the next couple of weeks and were awaiting that announcement. She was supposed to make it again they went into recess. Homeland security came out with the official announcement. One other thing i can tell you going back to the budget. Yesterday afternoon it appeared as though the president would have to sign this continuing resolution. He really didnt have much choice. Theyve been in meetings with the president all morning so were not exactly sure which direction this is going at the moment. Julie interesting. A bit unexpected they would go into recess right before this announcement. Well have to wait and see what it was all about. Thank you. Bill from the white house. Bret baier, busy day in d. C. You have breaking news on a telephone discussion a short time ago. What happened . Just getting word from sources that the president has called the hill specifically Speaker Paul Ryan and apparently there was a heated conversation. According to one source. Another confirming the call. But now what is he upset about . I think its clearly the funding for the wall but he is now in this corner and there is a decision to be made whether you sign a c. R. Whether they get the votes that it can actually go through or whether they are recalibrating and saying is there another avenue here . It is late in the game for that as you all just discussed. Remember this, too, there are 100 members of the house who essentially dont have an office after this. Some of them dont have a place to sleep anymore. And some of them are not here. So you have a different scenario with a Lame Duck Congress heading into christmas and the math starts to be very crucial on Something Like this. Bill i was looking at mark meadows comment from earlier today. He called it a fumble and he said if you dont do it now, when . So he is a member of this conservative caucus talking to the white house, i would assume urging the president to stand tough on this and dont give in. His words just to repeat, if not now, then when, bret is their position . Its not just mark meadows. You have voices that the president listens to. Some opinion makers, Rush Limbaugh was railing against this saying he should not sign it and go to maralago and let the government shut down. Thats not where the Administration Overall is. The president is clearly feeling it today from these conservative members. I think were in for a bumpy ride before either passage and or signing. Bill that battle will go down to the wire if not beyond. Heated phone call. You confirmed that between paul ryan and the president earlier today. A press conference was supposed to happen an hour ago. That has been post poned or canceled. We have the news we woke up to today about 2200 u. S. Forces operating in Eastern Syria that within a period of about 30 days will be withdrawn from that country and that decision has been met by some who are decidedly against it and others say its the right move. President has already defended himself saying this is what i told you i would do during the campaign. Once we win with he come home. In a territorial sense they believe they defeated isis in that part of the world. What are you hearing on that . Well a couple of things. One is that it is not a surprise that the president wanted to get these troops out. He has been saying it for some time both publicly and privately. He has said, you know, essentially when this reauthorization all along, how long can you say until you defeat isis there . Theyve been giving him a window. They were getting close and the problem that a lot of folks at the pentagon who ive talked to and others was with the process. The policy first but the process of how it happened and how people were out of the loop, all aisles didnt know what was happening. Capitol hill didnt know what was happening and you look at the policy. A lot of people. Lindsey graham is not alone say it could open the door for iran, russia and assad. Bill can you take the thread and draw the line about the border wall through all three of these stories . The Government Shutdown. Pulling troops out of syria which would save some aspects of money within the military and these discussions that Sarah Sanders broke on our show two days ago taking some military money and using it for the wall for security on the southern border . I dont know if you can do a direct line. It is in the president s head that he does not want to be deployed all over the place and doesnt want to be the policeman of the world. He thinks that sells internally and saves money and clearly this white house believes that they can move money around and can do the wall with money thats already allocated. The question is how much pushback they get from the house on that. They could probably only do it once but they may do it for the wall. Bill see you tonight at 6 00. Ryan zinke exclusive interview. Look forward to seeing that. Julie new demands from north korea and talks between the u. S. And the kim regime hit a wall. Bill President Trumps nominee for a. G. Calling parts of the mueller matter fatally misconceived. A memo sent to the doj and well talk about it with tom dupree coming up next. I think it would be absolutely irresponsible for the democrats to try to stop the confirmation of an extraordinarily well qualified nominee for attorney general based on this memo which to me expresses the law properly. On. It looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. The beat goes on. It looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. Ladiladi. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine that helps your heart. So you can keep on doing what you love. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. It helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. 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President trumps nominee for attorney general william barr slamming the Mueller Probe in an unsolicited memo to the Justice Department in june calling parts of it fatally misconceived. Lets bring in former assistant attorney general tom dupree. Thank you for coming on, to fm. Great to see you. I want to get your reaction and well get to the bill barr story. Your reaction to the acting attorney general Matt Whitaker not recusing himself from the russia investigation just breaking in our last hour after he met with d. O. J. Ethics officials and told him he is fine to oversee the mueller russia investigation. What say you . I say its good to see he followed the appropriate process. When youre in a situation like this you seek out the counsel from the nonpartisan professional ethics advisors within the Justice Department and put your fate in their hands. I never saw a reason for him to recuse for his comments on the Mueller Probe. You have people placed in high government position who have talked about issues of the day and sharing their views. Just because you express an opinion on something before you are in the government doesnt mean you have to recuse yourself from touching that issue once youre in the government. Julie bill barr and his comments. He was a private citizen at the time. Should his opinion then matter now . Well, i think it matters in the sense that it certainly would be fair game at his confirmation hearing for senators to ask him about his views on these issues. That said i guess i wouldnt make too much of it. As we understand what was in the memo it seems as though barr, who himself is a former attorney general, was weighing in on his views when he was the attorney general he wrestled with these types of issues which are issues that right now as we know are being hotly debated by lawyers, by constitutional scholars how far the special counsels authority extends, whether its appropriate to prosecute or challenge a president for obstruction if he is exercising his sup advisory. I dont see it as a basis for pulling the nomination in any sense of the word. Julie i want you to listen to mike lee talking about this point last night. Listen. This is an individual who was writing as a private citizen. He is entitled to his opinion. He wasnt speaking for the government. He wasnt whispering in the president s ear. He was expressing his own opinion on a matter of legal concern. This is a person who is imminently qualified and a person who should be confirmed as the next attorney general. Julie in the memo william barr called the obstruction of justice misconceived. Private citizen speaking his mind. We all do that. Robert mueller hasnt proven collusion. Is that not why the reason this investigation start evidence from the beginning . Thats the purpose of the investigation to find out what extent russia tampered with the election. Julie we know they did tamper. That i think we all know happened, right . Absolutely. Julie weve conceded to that. Its the collusion part was the part Robert Mueller is going after and chasing that one and hasnt caught up. He hasnt. To be fair, his investigation as we all know is still ongoing and well see what he has at the end of the day. From barrs perspective the fact is he wrote that memo in his capacity as a private citizen. There are many instances where people hold views as a private citizen and in a Government Role theyre exposed to more information and they different perspective. I wont necessarily conclude with 100 certainty the views that barr held as a private citizen would automatically translate to views he would hold as the attorney general of the United States. Bill former a. G. Loretta lynch questioned seven hours by house lawmakers. Mark walker was in the room and well talk about what came out of that hearing and the big story. The clock is ticking on a Government Shutdown. House republicans. Where are they . Marshalling opposition to the spending bill . Could it pass . Will it pass if Border Security is not in it . Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Fool the American People four times and shame on congress. Julie north korea says it wont denuclearize unless the United States removes its Nuclear Threat first. It will demand the u. S. Withdraw its troops stationed in south korea. The white house has yet to comment. They believe he is getting bad advice. They know he has promised not once, twice, but three times he would get border wall funding and here we are about to punt and i would argue its not a punt. A punt actually helps improve the field advantage. This is a fumble and we need to make sure that the president stays firm and a lot of people are very nervous this morning about whether the president will cave or not. Bill that was mark meadows earlier today. The senate approving the short term spending bill to avert a Government Shutdown tomorrow night. Its now up to the house and president and things are at the moment appear to be rather unclear. North Carolina Republican mark walker is with me now. Good morning to you. You represent a Republican Study Committee 123 conservative members. Where are they on what the house could possibly vote on . Would it pass or not, sir . I will tell you this, bill, my four years here it is one of the more lively conferences. A strong rebuke of the senates voice vote on this c. R. Leadership im going into that as vice chair. A strong rebuke to say we must fight in the time to do so is now. Weve had one member, one of the chairmen of our committees had not spoken in conference in eight years. He made the compelling argument that we have to draw the line now. Bill okay. Here is a statement from Sarah Sanders just a moment ago. Ill read it for you. Were seeing it for the first time. Quote, the president is having a meeting with Republican House members at noon today. 34 minutes from now. He does not want to go further without Border Security which includes steel slats or a wall. The president is continuing to weigh his ontions. Signed from Sarah Sanders. You are hearing that for the first time and your reaction. It is. Im familiar with the noon white house meeting. We will be working in on that. But yes, whether its steel slats, concrete, we believe that its time to make sure that we fulfill our promise to the American People. The amount of drugs coming in. This isnt just about illegal immigrants. This is about drugs, human trafficking. I feel like our conference got to the place we said enough is enough. And i think that were seeing that play out today. We were waiting for the president to make sure that he was willing to go to the mat. It looks like he is. We will have his back 100 . Bill are you willing to shut down the government partially over the holiday . Were willing to do whatever it takes. Now, im not one to jump out there and advocate for shutting down the government. But when it comes to securing the border on behalf of protecting the American People, i believe what we have to do is make sure that were willing to make a bold statement. Now, republicans we have to be smart. We also have to have an exit plan what it looks like long term and make sure Government Employees are taken care of. This is a hill we should be willing to die on. Bill back on the exit plan in a moment. Two weeks from today nancy pelosi will likely take the gavel as speak evening speaker of the house. How are republicans feeling . If you think youre trying to sell this that things will get better february 8th. The proposed date for this continuing resolution, they wont. This has been something that has been discussed the entire year. This is something that President Trump made the foremost king Pin Foundation of his entire Campaign Running for president. The time to deliver is now. Bill a couple pointed questions. Of those 123 members i referred to are they all in agreement with you or is their squishy room . I have 18 or 19 members of the Freedom Caucus. We have a lot of different factions within the committee. Bill theyre not all in lock step. There are two parts of this. Today some members want disaster relief. Some members from florida, North Carolina, that are trying to come together. Is it possible to merge these two and have a vote today the 5 billion for Border Security for the wall as well as disaster relief. Weve called an emergency conference and not listed which time it could happen to let members in the work. We have our best work when everybody is in the room. The president meeting comes first. Bill you talked about an exit plan. Politically the hammer could come down on you if the shutdown happens. Whats the exit plan . The exit plan right now is the big tbd. To be determined. Some people in leadership havent been willing to say its an easy call because it is always easier up front to say lets shut it down. The components of this are very complicated. We want to make sure its a partial shutdown we want people to be taken care of. Other components as well. We have to make sure that both going in and out is taken care of. Bill tbd doesnt sound like a plan. You meet with the president in 30 minutes and see how it goes. Nothing focuses the mind like a deadline. Thank you for your time. Julie facebook fighting back and say why some tech giants got access to users data and why some users are giving facebook a thumbs down. Weve had issues with the ads and what we found out and the Bipartisan Commission report in russian involvement in the last election. They have to get their act together. chime [narrator] meet sharks newest robot vacuum. It powerfully cleans from floors to carpets, even pet hair, with ease, and now for cleaning surfaces above the floor, it comes with a built in shark handheld. One dock, two sharks. The shark ion robot cleaning system. Bill breaking news from the hill. Kirstjen nielsen on the hill now. A moment ago announced this Asylum Agreement with the Mexican Government which means all the asylum cases at the border, for example the caravan in tijuana, mexico, will be handled on the mexican side of the border. That deal has been cut with the Mexican Government. Want to bring in thomas homan. Former acting ice director. What does that do to the immigration, the illegal immigration issue . Thats a huge win. Before i retired i actually participated in meetings with the mexican officials on this very topic. We made some headway but when i retired the deal wasnt signed. With the new leadership in mexico i was pessimistic would it get done. A huge win for the secretary and president that these people can wait in mexico. If they are escaping fear and persecution based on the rules of asylum. 91 will end up losing their case. For those really escaping fear and persecution theyve escaped that fear and persecution. Mexico has offered them jobs and sanctuary there until their cases are herd. Its a win win. What does mexico get from it . A partnership. Last year we have to remember a lot of people say mexico doesnt help. When i was the ice director mexico actually arrested a lot of Central Americans on their southern border and returned them. They arrested tens of thousands at the southern border. Theyre stepping up and saying we dont want illegal immigration coming through our country either. Theyre a sovereign country and they have narcotics and gang issues also. They realized it isnt helpful to them or us. Bill there is a report that suggested mexico and the southern part of the country would get billions of dollars in the deal and perhaps Central American countries would get billions of dollars as well that would build programs and incentive long term to let people who live there have the incentive to stay in their country. Is that part of this . Im sure it is. When i was the director i went down to miami and met with officials from the triangle countries along with secretary kelly where they called it security and prosperity. We talked amongst ourselves how we can increase security amongst our countries and make sure we arrest the bad guys and dont let them migrate to our countries but a lot of banks and big businesses talking about how we can create pos parity for these countries so they can find good employment and hope so they arent living in poverty and no reason to leave. Bill are you convinced its a program that can work. Throwing money at the issue might not get the results youre looking for. It is worth a shot. I think if we can build business down in Central America and pay them a decent wage. The governments down there dont want their people leaving, either. They have some pride if their country and i think people can earn a decent living and be able to take care of their families, less of them will want to come to the United States. There will always be a population that wants to get to the United States but it will stop a lot of them making the journey. Bill jim jordan was vocal and what he said now about the ongoing battle on the floor of the house but on the hill. Watch. Shame on congress. Because four different times this year we have promised them that we would put money in a spending bill and actually build a Border Security wall. Here we are with a bill that was voice voted in the senate that says wait a minute, were actually going to get it done february 8th. Nobody in the country believes. None of our constituents believe it, no one believes it. Bill thats from jim jordan. The tweet from the senate. Trump says the dems are putting politics over country and what theyre beginning to realize i will not sign any of their legislation, including infrastructure unless it has perfect Border Security, usa wins. Is he going to get it . There is a meeting at noon of republicans in the house. I agree with jim jordan. He is an American Patriot saying the right things. If the president dont get the money for the wall he needs to veto any sort of continuing resolution and he can stand up and say i have done everything i can to protect our border. So the last thing he can do is shut it down and make nancy and schumer come back to the table. Look, schumer put 25 billion on the table just back in january. Now he is asking for 20 of that and they wont give that up. The president stands by his promise to the American People. Shuts it down, stands proud and we get back to the table. We cannot kick this can one more time. It cant happen. Bill well find out one way or the other very soon. Thank you for your time. Nice to have you here today. 22 before the hour. Julie pushing back on report when it gave facebook explained why firms and spotify and netflix were able to read and delete your private messages. Facebook is trying to fight back on the accusation it shared peoples private messages without their knowledge. Facebook says simply, thats not true. The company does admit it used what it calls a common practice in tech allowing people to integrate messaging capabilities with apps like netflix and spotify and several others but Facebook Says it was always with users permission and adds, quote, no third party was reading your private messages or writing messages to your friends without your permission and said the services were experimental and have now been shut down for nearly three years. And some of the Companies Named in the New York Times which first broke this story also hitting back. Netflix saying in a tweet, quote, netflix never asked for or accessed anyones private messages. Were not the type to slide into your dms, Facebook Stock fell 7 yesterday, climbed a little bit today, julie, but certainly 2018 is the year that facebook will be happy to say goodbye to. Julie other than deleting your facebook because some people have done that if you choose to stay, what can users do to protect themselves . Well the bottom line is if you use social media and a range of other apps you basically have little to know idea where your private information might end up. The simple but most draconian way to do it is delete facebook. Short of that its hard to protect yourself completely. You might want to start reading those permission contracts that we usually all just scroll through and click agree. That will give you more information about what is being shared and when. Julie, if you are mad as hell and cant take it anymore you can delete facebook and the appears such as spotify and netflix. Well lose the vital ability to see hundreds of pictures of your friends. Ugly christmas sweaters. Lose access to the cheesy holiday play lists and you wont be able to watch netflix movies like the christmas prince. Who wants to live without that . Julie my friends on facebook would die if they didnt know what my elf on the shelf would do every morning. I would die if i didnt know that information. Bill the president defending his decision to pull u. S. Troops out of syria. Lawmakers both sides of the aisle, there has been criticism. Adam kinzinger will give us his take in a moment. First senator rand paul who sides with the president. He likes this call. We spent trillions of dollars over there. For Goodness Sake should the iraqis stand up and defend their territory and the kurds stand up and defend their territory . Absolutely. We shouldnt always have to fight somebody elses battle. Chevy also won a j. D. Power dependability award for its lightduty truck the chevy silverado. Oh, and since the chevy equinox and traverse also won chevy is the only brand to earn the j. D. Power dependability award across cars, trucks and suvsthree years in a row. Phew. Third times the charm. I need a new book for my son. Stories. Stories or quotes . Time for a rhyme . Or not rhymings fine. No rhymes. Skivvies. Gadgets or skivvies . Boxed set . Perfect nobody knows Young Readers like we do. Barnes noble overwhelming air fresheners can send you running. So try febreze one. With no aerosols and no heavy perfumes. So you can spray and stay. Febreze one. Bill watching the deadline of the partial Government Shutdown. Conservative voices in the house. We arent sure where theyll go now putting pressure on the president and responding in kind suggesting he wants Border Security. On the outside you have influential conservative voices in america like the one youre about to hear. Rush limbaugh who makes the case its now or never on the wall and Border Security. Thats been the objective to end this Congress Without a shutdown . Thats how were going to define success . Meanwhile the border remains wide open and the democrats will be controlling the house in just a few weeks and now gloating and telling the president you cant get any money from anywhere else. This is textbook. A textbook example of what the drive by media calls compromise. Trump gets nothing and the democrats get everything, including control of the house. Bill the bottom line at this hour it is not a done deal yet. There is a meeting at the white house. We believe that begins in about 15 minutes. Up dates on that as we go through the day today. Julie all right. One of my colleagues called it an obamalike decision. I couldnt disagree more and agree more with the president s decision. By definition its the opposite of a obama decision. Obama got us involved and trump is taking us out. Congress never authorized use of military force in syria. We shouldnt be there. Julie opposite of obamas decision. That was senator mike lee of utah. One of the few republicans supporting the president s decision to withdraw troops out of syria after the white house announced all 2,000 troops would be coming home. Many gop lawmakers dont share that sentiment. Adam kinzinger is joining me. Bush won the war in iraq. Obama lost the peace by premature withdrawal. Military strategists calling the syria withdrawal a strategic mistake. After president obama pulled troops out of iraq we got isis. How is pulling trips out of syria different than what obama did in iraq . I would argue its quite a same. If you think about iraq thats part of the reason i ran for congress is president obama was promising to leave. I had just gotten back from iraq in 2009 and i knew what would happen. You new al qaeda would resurge. We have isis on the ropes and important to press the fight against them. They arent defeated yet. This announcement is a recruiting tool for joining isis. Now some cleric opens up the quran and said this is the prophesied caliphate. We have to go through difficulty. Now is our chance to come back. It is a strategic mistake. They were affecting good policy with little footprint and thats not even mention the fact we were put in a blocking position of iran. Bush called it. You pull troops out prematurely and some more evil force. At the time al qaeda around 9 11. Some more evil force will rear its ugly head. What happens . Isis emerges. There is a Bipartisan Group of senators that sent a letter to the president urging him to change his mind. Republicans Lindsey Graham, joni ernst, tom cotton and marco rubio. There is one democrat. The letter from the group. If you decide to follow through with your decision to pull out troops out of syria any remnants of isis in syria will surely renew and embolden their efforts to the region. Isis isnt the only threat. The dictatorship of assad weighs hefsh lie upon the Syrian People and fear a withdrawal of our troops may make him bolder the take further actions to solidify his power. Its hard to change the president s mind when he has made a decision. Who in the administration military officials are advising him of Something Like this when every military official weve heard from so far, military official, has said its a bad idea . I dont think anybody. This is whats concerning. He has an absolute right to make this decision as president. I dont argue with that. But when he disregards the advice of all of the people around him thats worrisome to me. He said once he knows more about isis than the generals. I thought that was used metaphorically. Maybe he thinks it. This is a concern. To say that isis is defeated. To do a video where you point to heaven and say the people that have passed want us to come home. You cant speak for them. The reality is they are emboldening isis, iran, russia, assad and not to mention basically we have a base camp that straddles a main supply route that iran wants to resupply their enemies against israel. We would be vacating that. A detriment to israel. Julie the president says we shouldnt be surprised by this. He used to critique former president s for trying to solve the worlds problems. We had general jack keane on last hour saying we should stay the course in syria with 2200 troops. Keane believes pull them out puts israel in danger. If isis emerges iran becomes a threat. Are we running the risk of putting israel in harms way . Running the risk of putting a lot of people in harms way, the kurds, israel, greater middle east and our word. Think of all these groups that sided with us that we have abandoned in the past if Foreign Policy mistakes. You can add the kurds and Syrian Defense forces to that now. What happens in the next war when we have to get allies and they look back at our track record . This is actually has been a successful strategy and i wish he wouldnt abandon it. Julie thank you very much for talking to us. Bill 11 50 in new york. 12 minutes away high noon at the white house. Republicans and the president get together to talk about the spending bill. The budget showdown now. We know the president and paul ryan spoke by phone earlier today described as heated. The Republican Press conference was canceled last hour. 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Bill illinois, the attorney general in that state saying the Catholic Diocese failed to report 500 people the illinois attorney general is blasting the States Catholic church saying it failed to protect victims and incapable of policeing itself. In a nine page report attorney general found the names of at least 500 priests were withheld from the churchs list of clergy accused of sexual misconduct. 690 priests had been accused where the church had only reported 185. In a statement the attorney general said by choosing not to thoroughly investigate allegations the Catholic Church has failed in its moral obligation to provide survivors, parishioners and the public a complete and accurate accounting of all sexually inappropriate behavior involving priests in illinois. Illinois is one of at least 15 states where the a. G. Launched an investigation into catholic clergy abuse. Chicagos archbishop issued a statement saying in part there can be no doubt about the constant need to strengthen our culture of healing, protection and accountability. The vast majority of abuses took place decades ago, many victim survivors continue to live with this unimaginable pain. Survivors network of thoefs abused by priest issued a statement saying while this report highlights the shocking and awful details of sex abuse coverups in illinois were confident that similar techniques in minimizing is happening in diocese throughout the country. The attorney generals report comes ahead of next months meeting of American Bishops in illinois where theyll prepare for the popes february meeting on clergy abuse in rome. Bill thank you, lauren. Julie President Trump appearing to revive his threat to shut down the government over border spending. Will his meeting with House Republicans produce any update on funding that wall . 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We have a lot coming together in the next few minutes. Any moment now the president is expected to meet with House Republicans at the white house. That is new. Its Late Breaking Development complicating efforts to pass a short term spending bill. Remember the president has intimated he would like to shut down the government over the border wall and now a popup meeting. The white house says the president is continuing to weigh his options. Thank you for watching outnumbered. Im harris faulkner. Here today melissa francis, katie pavlich, former director of Strategic Communications for the Hillary Clinton campaign Adrienne Elrod and in the center seat lawrence jones, editor in chief of campus reform. Org