Congressional republicans threw a Party Following final approval of the g. O. P. Tax reform bill. For president is calling it historic. His critics say will be historically bad. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts start us off tonight. Good evening. Good evening. Critics have said the president has had very few legislative achievements to point doing his first year in office but with the clock running out on 2017, the president stuck the landing on a very big one today. It was a moment President Trump had waited 11 months to the day for, celebrating the passage of his signature legislative item, tax reform. Its been an amazing experience. I have to tell you. Hasnt been done in 34 years but actually really hasnt been done because we broke every record. With the president came away with what a cut in the Corporate Tax rate to 21 . Cut in the top tax rate to 37 . Doubling of the standard deduction in Child Tax Credit and a big reduction in taxes for small business. In a harbinger of what might lai had, at t said once a tax reform is signed into law, at t plans to invest in additional 1 billion in the United States in 2018 and pay a special thousand dollar bonus to more than 200,000 at t u. S. Employee employees. Its always a lot of fun when you win. If you work hard and lose, its not acceptable. The president knows what its like to lose, having twice watched Obamacare Repeal and replacement go down to defeat. But because the tax reform bill eliminates the tax penalty in the obamacare individual mandate, the president claimed victory on that front as well. When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means obamacare is being repealed. They get their money from the individual mandate. So the individual mandate is being repealed. The president s critics seized on a report from the Congressional Budget Office that projected 13 Million People would choose not to buy Health Insurance as a result of the change and an obamacare premiums would raise 10 . The president asked his colleagues not to highlight the repeal. We didnt want to bring it up. I told people specifically be quiet with the Fake News Media because i dont want them talking too much about it. Members of congress were thrilled with todays accomplishments. Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski who called for the president to drop out of the race 14 months ago, praised him for opening up the Arctic National wildlife refuge to oil drilling. This is a bright day for alaska. This is a bright day for americ america. Other members who often found themselves at odds with President Trump, particularly over his tweeting, were suddenly effusive. Its been a year of extraordinary accomplishments. All that pales in comparison to the love letter utah senator orrin hatch delivered. You are one heck of a leader and we are going to make this the greatest presidency weve seen not only in generations but maybe ever. The time for celebrating and praise were short. The president has to craft a deal to keep the government open. The white house is confident it will get a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through january 19. Whats not so clear is whether the white house will get those waivers on the pay go process which eliminate cuts to entitlements like medicare in order to pay for tax reform. I heard a short time ago gary cohn, just down the lawn for me, if the president doesnt get the rivers and a continuing resolution by friday he will not sign the tax reform bill into the first week of january. Bret john roberts, thanks. As john mentioned, there remains work to be done before the holiday break. Members of Congress Facing a midnight deadline friday to keep the government up and running. Peter doocy is on capitol hill where the jubilation over tax reform is tempered. The yeas are 224. The motion is adopted. The house passed once in a generation tax reform. They had to vote again because the Senate Passed a different version when democrats demanded certain provisions get yanked out. We wouldve preferred there not be any glitches. Sometimes that happened. But we fix the glitch and moved forward. The speaker of the house didnt let the do over or dampen his feeling about the end of the year win. A very emotional time. Jack camp was my mentor and ive been working on this issue pretty much my adult life. The tax bill cleared both houses but democrats continue trying to turn constituents against it. What we are doing today is basically saying wealthy americans, a big fat Christmas Present for you. Tiny tim, we are taking your crotch away. And all the other kids in the country. We are planning a lump of coal. Lawmakers usually returned home after a big vote but they are sticking around to figure out how to avoid a Government Shutdown. You dont get long to enjoy an accomplishment like this. We have to shift our focus to the other challengers. Plans to fund the government for the entire year have been abandoned. The house is working on a stopgap bill until january 19. There is currently not much of an appetite for a spending fight because all programs would be renewed with their current levels. How to handle immigrants brought in the country illegally as children. Senator jeff flake tweeted bipartisan daca bill will be on the senate floor in january although waiting may not satisfied democrats. Because of the importance of these issues, especially dreamers, we cant do our shortterm funding bill that picks and chooses what to solve and what not to solve. That will not be fair and will not pass. Democratic lawmakers got an email from nancy pelosi telling them to vote no on a continuing resolution to fund the government. That means republicans are going to have to do it themselves. Their meeting tonight in a Conference Room at the end of the hallway underneath the capital trying to figure out if they can unite the multiple factions of the party to make it happen. Bret we will head back for breaking details. Peter doocy, thank you. Stocks were off today. Dow lost 28. S p 500 fell 2. Nasdaq was down 3. That raises some questions. If the markets are so bullish on tax reform, why werent todays numbers better . Deirdre bolden of Fox Business Network is here with possibly some answers. Markets closed marginally lower. Some analysts say investors had already accounted for the reduction in Corporate Taxes for American Companies. And more colorful language, tax reform was already baked into the cake. There are questions as to what American Companies will do with the cash. Will they invest, hire, will any decisions for growth . One strategist told me that the uncertainty is part of why the stock market closed lower. Its worth remembering this is a record year for stocks. There will be days with lower closes. The dow has gained more than 5,000 points total, s p 500 up around 20 so far, poised to have 12 straight months of positive returns, including dividends. If this happens, its going to be the First Time Since at least 1970, so this is clearly a banner year. Every now and then, theres going to be a few down days. Going forward, cautious strategist say we cant have too much of good thing. They say the tax shakeup could lift growth and inflation and that means the Federal Reserve may raise rates quickly. For borrowers, every time you borrow money, it gets more expensive. Bond investors seem to think the same thing. Yield on the 10year u. S. Treasury note today rose 2. 492 , its highest level since march. Looking at the possibility of the fed raising rates sooner rather than later. Bret thank you. Americans purchased homes at the fastest pace in nearly 11 years november. Good news there. National association of realtors says sales were up 5. 6 . Thats the strongest showing since december of 2006. Lets talk about the tax cuts, possible Government Shutdown and state of the u. S. Economy. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin joins us from the treasury apartment. Mr. Secretary, thanks for joining us. Thank you. This obviously is a big day for you, the president was in his element there at the white house. Your thoughts that this is now at president to ask president s desk. Its historic. We got it done. Great day for the American Public. We fixed a broken tax system, weve delivered on tax cuts for individuals and business. This is all about creating jobs. I think its can have an enormous impact on the u. S. Economy. Bret do you know when he will sign it . I think we are working out some logistics on it. The important issue is it passed today and he will sign it as quickly as he can. Bret will most of it take effect at the beginning of january which marked for 70 sitting at home, how does it play out . Virtually all the aspects will start on january 1 and the important issue is we have already started working with the irs and we are working on the withholding tables. We expect the American Public will see tax cuts in their february paychecks, and that is something we are going to work around the clock through the holidays to make sure we get done. Bret this president has spent a lot of time talking about the economy and oftentimes he refers to the markets. The markets today didnt seem to jump for joy about this. There is a lot of factors with the markets, always. Here is the president earlier. I heard a couple folks this morning, and they are thinking the market hasnt fully digested what theyve got here. I dont think the market has begun to realize how good these are. Bret is he right . Should you judge this the markets response . If you look at where the market is, since the president has been elected, its an incredible rise. I think thats been in anticipation that we would get this done, or get Regulatory Reform done and the president has delivered on this. Its a great Investment Opportunity in the u. S. I think its about bringing trillions of dollars back on shore that will be invested. You saw at t make a big announcement today about bonuses and more investment. I think were going to see a lot more coming from other companie companies. Bret critics of this point to corporations, and they say it will just be used by backstops and raise corporate salaries. You point to the at t announcement that the president mentioned. The fedex cfo said last night on a Conference Call u. S. Gdp could increase materially next year as a result of u. S. Tax reform. If this occurs, we would like the increased Capital Expenditures on hiring to accommodate the additional volumes triggered from this incremental gdp growth. Is that what you are seeing from most companies . Is he sugarcoating things . I think thats exactly what youre saying. Weve had a broken tax system. It encouraged companies to leave their money offshore, create jobs offshore and we fixed it. We created a territorial system, the right incentives to invest capital, have jobs. We expect not only will people see tax cuts but they will see wage increases. Its all about getting the economy going again. As you know, the president has repeatedly said we think we can get to sustained gdp of 3 or higher, and that will create very, very large Economic Growth. Trillions of dollars in additional revenue for the u. S. Government. Bret you didnt have a single democrat vote for this. They were out talking about you, sir, earlier today. Let me go back to mnuchin. Talk about billionaires. Mnuchin seems to make it up as he goes along. Sang it wont cut taxes for the rich. He handed the top wealthiest 1 80 of the benefits. Bret your thoughts. I dont know where they get these numbers from, and i dont make it out. We have lots of people here at treasury that he been working on numbers. They fundamentally disagree with us and i guess thats why they voted against it. They dont believe we can get the growth we think we can. They dont believe in the american economy. They say they want to do things that are good for workers but they voted against the bill. We have been saying the number one impact is to make america competitive again, to fix the business tax system, deliver tax cuts for the middle income, this is not about tax cuts for billionaires. Its about tax cuts for working families, people with kids, the Child Tax Credits. I think youre going to see this in the polls as people get paychecks. They are tired of listening to the democrats complained about this. Bret yeah, heres one element. This is candidate donald trump talking about one element. As part of this reform, we will eliminate the carried interest deduction, a wellknown deduction, and other special interest loopholes that have been so good for wall Street Investors and for people like me but are unfair to American Workers. The Hedge Fund Guys wont like me as much as they like me right now. They will pay more. I know people that are making a tremendous amount of money and paying virtually no taxes and i think its unfair. Bret the carried interest loophole is still in. Why is it that in in there . He wanted to get rid of it. He spoke to me about it many, many times as recent as this week. At the end of the day, its a great bill, terrific bill. It doesnt mean every single little aspect in this deal is exactly as the president wanted or is exactly what members in the house and senate wanted. Its about compromise but leveling puts in perspective. The carried interest is a very small revenue impact. Its something that impacts one group and the president wanted to get rid of it but the president thinks its a great bell and its going to be great for American Workers and working families. Bret there is negotiation in every big piece of legislation but who specifically on capitol hill was fighting for Hedge Fund Guys . Private equity folks . I am not going to comment and say specific names. This was a collaborative process between the house and senate. As you know, a lot of things changed in conference. It became a better bill in conference and we couldnt be happier with the team effort across the administration, the treasury, the senate and house. Its a big win for the president and the American Public. Bret do you have assurances the government is not going to shut down and you will have a shortterm continuing resolution in midjanuary . Sticker i think its highly unlikely theres a Government Shutdown. I dont want to give the assurance until its passed by congress and gets to the president. I can tell you the president doesnt want to shut down. I think the right thing to do is lets get a shortterm funding and will deal with it in january. Bret the budget test 700 billion for increasing the u. S. Military, investing in that sort of thing. Is there a assurance that these requesters are going to be cut . These are the battles, even if you punt to january. Discussions are ongoing. We had a Cabinet Meeting in the president made it clear and secretary mattis gave a presentation on the military. Its a big priority. Weve got to make sure americans are protected. The president wants our allies to begin to reimburse us for various different costs but this is a priority of the president to make sure our military has the resources to meet our needs and protect the american people. Bret mr. Secretary, we appreciate your time on this historic day. I know tomorrow is your birthday so its a good birthday present. Thank you very much. Great to be with you. Bret Kentucky Republican senator rand paul says he will oppose and filibuster a longterm extension of legislation authorizing surveillance on americans as part of foreign intelligence gathering. The law is set to expire at the end of the month. The senator says he wants a shortterm extension to make sure the law adequately protects the communications of u. S. Residents. We learned today minnesota democrat senator al franken will officially resign january 2. His appointment replacement, minnesota Lieutenant Governor tina smith expected to be sworn in the next day. Franken announced his resignation earlier this month after several women accused him of sexual misconduct. Up next, a warning from the u. S. Over United Nations nations voted to condemn americans recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. First heres what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering. 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This comes as the Trump Administration issues a stark warning to other countries regarding an attempt to formulate criticizing wreck and move. Conor powell has the latest from jerusalem. Violent clashes between israeli shoulders and palestinian continued today for the Third Straight week. While demonstrators in gaza burned photos of President Trump and the american for leg. An american. The battle over the decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital is heating up. Though General Assembly will hold a rare emergency meeting tomorrow. Debating a nonbinding resolution criticizing the president s decision. Today President Trump threatened to cut off Financial Aid to countries that vote in favor of the measure. We are watching though votes. Let them vote against us. We will save a lot. We dont care. It appears to have strong support even among some of americas strongest allies. It comes after the u. S. Vetoed a similar measure by american ally egypt at the security council. U. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley warned america will be taking names. Meanwhile, palestinian leaders say they will pursue full membership with the United Nations and will now work with other countries to jumpstart peace talks. The United States, playing an effective role. They decided to be more israeli than the israelis themselves. Vice president pence was supposed to arrive today but due to the vote on the tax bill and a chilly reception from leaders, his trip has been postponed. Bret conor powell in jerusalem. Up next, the hezbollah connection to the obama iran deal and some shady i. T. Workers for top democratic lawmakers, how it ties together. We will explain. Beyond our borders, as the European Unions top court says court says uber should be regulated like a taxi company. Uber argued its a Technology Firm but lost. The company says it will affect its operations in four countries. Spanish catalonia votes tomorrow on a new Regional Government in october, residents voted to break off from spain, prompting the government to take direct control of the region and put proindependence leaders in jail. Disgraced former boston catholic archbishop has died in rome. He was the spiritual leader in boston for 18 years. He was brought down by the scandal over his failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood. He was 86. Some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. Well be right back. Gher risk oe due to afib,r risk oe a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. But no matter where i ride, i go for my best. So if theres Something Better than warfarin, ill go for that too. Eliquis. Eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis had both. Dont stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. 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We could be nearing a new constitutional clash between the administration and congress over perceived bias against President Trump in the justice department. We are learning new details of yesterdays congressional testimony from a top fbi official. Chief washington correspondent james rosen has this exclusive. Lawyers for devin nunes are readying fresh subpoenas for next week after tuesdays interrogation behind closed doors of Andrew Mccabe creating conflicts with previous witnesses testimony. The fbi resists this degree of transparency. They dont like answering questions in front of congress. But they have to. Congress has a legitimate oversight interest in the answers to these questions. According to sources, mccabe told the committee he couldnt recall when he first learned the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National committee paid for the antitrump dossier funneled to the fbi in july of 2016 and which lawmakers believe was used to obtain fisa surveillance on carter page. Investigator said dave obtained documents signed by mccabe indicating his awareness of the dossiers origins. I made a mistake using a private email. And the fbi investigated Hillary Clintons private server, mccabe oversaw the probe. Even though his wife, a candidate in virginia in 2015 received nearly half a Million Dollars from an organization controlled by Governor Terry mcauliffe, a top clinton ally. If Andrew Mccabe has been falsely accused and adequately defended himself, we dont know that. Democracy dies in secrecy. Fox news learns the next subpoena targets may include bruce ohr, the top doj official demoted earlier this month when it was reported he met secretly with the two men from Opposition Research firm fusion gps. Ohrs wife was paid by fusion gps through the summer and fall of 2016. Both doj and fbi declined to comment on the report. Senate Intelligence Committee pursuing its own probe of alleged collusion between the Trump Campaign and the kremlin, readying for an appearance there by bruce ohr likely this week. Bret thank you. We have another followup tonight to our reporting on an investigation into alleged Obama Administration interference in investigations involving the hezbollah terror group. Politico reports the interference was because of the pending Iran Nuclear Deal. Doug mckelway on a possible hezbollah connection to a scandal we told you about previously here on special reports involving i. T. Workers with highlevel connections to democratic lawmakers. It was called Cars International aid, used car dealership in virginia that a lawsuit alleges gave a bad name to Car Dealerships everywhere. Fake staffers, no inventory. The owner is imran awan, the same man who was paid 7 million taxpayer dollars to provide i. T. Services to 44 democratic members of congress, including then chairwoman Debbie Wasserman schultz. 120,000 of computer equipment went missing. Imran awan was arrested at Dulles Airport in july as he tried to flee to pakistan. A piece posted today found that imran awans used car business had a curious pattern. It was a classic Money Laundering operation. There were political reasons why even as our nations security was at stake, prosecutors didnt want to bring charges. The scandal occurred in the same time frame politico reports the Obama Administration was point back on interdiction of hezbollah drug operations. Heading up the Obama Administrations organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task force was bruce ohr. Ohr was demoted this month after james rosen reported he had concealed meetings with fusion gps, the company which commissioned the antitrump dossier and that ohrs wife worked for fusion. There appears to be a coverup. The timing a shortly before the 2016 election. Wikileaks published the dnc emails. How is it not routed to the highest levels of the fbi . Because this at least cries out for a serious investigation. People have money problems getting a loan from someone who was known to hang out with hezbollah they have access to the server for dozens and dozens of democrat elected officials. Fox news confirmed that the House Oversight committee will be launching investigation. Imran awan downloaded thousands and thousands of democratic members personal emails onto external hard drives. Five charges brought against him, no shortage of potential blackmail material. Law enforcement may be willing to let this sleeping dog lie. Bret more on this with the panel. Thanks. 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The president taking to his favorite twitter account to say the tax cuts are so large and so meaningful, and yet the fake news is working overtime to follow the lead of their friends, the defeated dems, and only demean. This is truly a case where the results will speak for themselves, starting very soon. Jobs, jobs, jobs and also obamacare, the mandate. Obamacare has been repealed. We didnt want to bring it up. I said be careful, be quiet with the Fake News Media. I can say the individual mandate on health care been repealed. Bret the main funding mechanism for obamacare. Lets bring in the panel. Eli lake, olivier knox, and ainsley earhardt, cohost of fox friends and author of the new book through your eyes. A great book. Lets start with you. Its a big day for the administration. Its a big day, a great big day for the majority of the folks who live in our country, the majority of our viewers. Most americans are going to see their tax brackets go down. Youre going to save money. You can spend more money at christmas, more money in your pocketbook. We have ted cruz on today and he said the 529 plan is going to allow you to put money aside for colleges, now you can put it aside for Public Schools and that helps the folks in the high tax states, new york. So many people and up sending their kids to private schools. Even though their tax bracket or even though they still have the local and state taxes, local lawmakers are going to have to decrease that. I think its overall going to be wonderful for the majority of americans. Im not convinced its going to be bad for the high tax states because some of these other cuts and deductions. I think we are putting pressure on local officials to lower the taxes. Bret obviously democrats view it differently. Their perception of the middle class. Here are the leaders of the house and senate. The economy is not going to take off through the wealthy will do better. There will be a lot of dividends, stock buyback. Not too much job creation. Delivering the champagne to their parties. This isnt about anything better for workingclass families. This is about champagne glasses clinking. Bret s its an interesting argument to say the economy is not going to take of off. It may not but they are truly making that case. This is one of the central points. Whats going to happen . The republican sales pitch was that it would spur Economic Growth to 3 , possibly 4 . Under their current conditions, we would hope it would lead to wage increases but its a big bet. The interesting thing about the president s remarks is that republicans have been saying how much they hate that they have full control of the government and havent been able to pass a major achievement. This is a major achievement and they are hoping it puts to rest this idea that this constellation of bret eli, overlooked in all of this talking was the repeal of the mandate. That is the main drive for the funding of it. So this means that at some point, very soon, Republican Leadership is going to have to tackle this again which they failed that the first time. Well, they have tackled again, but im with olivier that the republicans needed to pass something important like this in order to avoid the charge that with control of both houses of congress and the executive branch they were the donothing republicans. So they have got that out of the way. Repealing the mandate is not the same as repealing all of obamacare. There is still enough wiggle room i think for members of congress and for republicans to continue to allow states that want to continue to stay under obamacare and people can stay on obamacare so it doesnt entirely kill that many program. Trying to get the best of both worlds in their talking points. Bret if people are not mandated to sign up, suddenly you have fewer people and the numbers just dont work. They eventuallyout legs come out from under it. Right . The legs can come out from under it but there is a lot of wiggle room between what you can do between now and then and what will happen. At a certain point one of the reasons why the republicans failed before to repeal obamacare because a lot of their constituencies found it popular. They liked it even though at first maybe they didnt. Bret yeah. And as far as the government shut down, it seems, ainsley, that were heading towards, you know, another punt apes ains i dont think punt. I dont think thats going to happen. The republicans are going to push for that so they can go home for christmas and come back in january. We havent seen a shut down. Its very rare to see a shut down. Last one was in 2013. I doubt thats going to happen. Republicans really want defense spending and democrats are saying yeah, thats final. If you are going to do defense spending we want more money for nondefense spending. We are talking about billions of dollars for relief in puerto rico and the folks hit by all the hurricanes this year. Whether or not we see that i dont know. Republicans dont, you know, of course they want to help other people, but its a lot of money to be spent. So, they are going to have to come to a compromise on that. I dont think its going to be a shut down. Its very rare that that would happen and worse Case Scenario i think c. R. And come back in january and fix it. Bret continuing resolution. Peter doocy outside where they are leaving now. Senior house g. O. P. Leaving meeting. At least give us two or three hours before you murder santa claus on the way to christmas. Obviously, they are feeling the pressure up there. Next up, the Obama Administration, hezbollah, and some shady it workers on capitol hill. How it all fits together. It all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. 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This is an allegation that the Obama Administration essentially let hezbollah continue its efforts inside the u. S. Because it wanted the Iran Nuclear Deal. Thats one element to this story. The part has to do with it workers. Eli, lets start with the big picture. Big deal. It is a very big deal. The Obama Administration had the prerogative to emphasize any Law Enforcement or intelligence activity its. But when it sold this iran deal it said it was a narrow deal. Only about the Nuclear Program and our side lifting nuclear sanctions. It never discussed, in fact, it said nothing is going to stop us from continuing to counter irans support for terrorism and promotion of mayhem in the region. Clearly, and i trust josh meyers reporting and he spoke to a lot more people than the two sources that are derided on social media by obama alumni. It appears that during these negotiations they went soft on a very important operation to cut at the heart of hezbollah, which is an arm of irans illicit revenue through Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering. Its extraordinary. Bret here is the other party of this story thats really bizarre. Remember the it worker tied to the democratic lawmakers computers and all of the investigation. We brought you that here elm ron ewithin a, the daily caller has the story that he and his family members were these congressional it aids. They made access to servers thousands of times. At the same time, allegedly they run a car dealership that took money from a hezbollahlinked fugitive whose financial books were insee ceasefireable and Business Patterns bizarre. It started this whole situation. Here is this reporter they dont have inventory. Somebody wants to buy a car. They go across the street and borrow one. Used clips used by hezbollah. I object tell uses them as well. Bret its so bizarre, olivier but there are questions being asked on capitol hill. As well there shouldable it is deeply bizarre. The headslink, i believe is in lebanon. We should note that they are pretty influential in lebanon it wouldnt be that unusual for a prominent financier to have some kind of connection to them. I still think that the Iran Nuclear Deal is probably the more substantive policy question here which is to what degree did the Obama Administration sideline these efforts in order to keep iran from breaking off the talks. Thats the substantive part of this. Bret its a different shift with this administration on iran. Theres a new sheriff in town for sure. When i read this story, bret, i was appalled. We have to think about our men and women. We have to think about our men and women not home with their families on christmas. They are out there on the front lines trying to fight terrorist organizations like hezbollah. Meanwhile we have an administration, if these reports are true, trying to make Historic Deal with iran and they are ignoring Money Laundering, drugs, 1 billion a year money that is being funded for hezbollah . So that this terrorist organization can stay alive . Meanwhile, we have men and women, we are asking them to put their lives on the line and go fight for our country. Thats appalling. This needs to be investigated. I do know that project cassandra those investigators tried to look into this. Had you according to this report officials at the doj and Treasury Department said we are going to delay these requests, we are rejecting these requests. We are declining to file charges. Basically we are going to ignore. This we dont want you find out about it and we dont want you to look into it and we dont want americans to know and we have the right to know. Bret we will continue to stay on it i know capitol hill will. Panel, thank you. 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