Can a and praying it at the western wall when it helped him politically. 2008, president ial candidate barack obama at the western wall. 2016, u. N. Calls the western wall occupied palestinian territory. Seriously . The post concludes, that post came just after searing remarks from the Prime Minister blasting a long speech today by u. S. Secretary of state john kerry. Now i must express my deep disappointment with the speech today of john kerry. A speech that was almost as unbalanced as the antiisrael resolution passed at the u. N. Last week. Palestinian rejection of israel and support for terror are what the nations of the world should focus on if they truly want to advance peace. And can i only express my regret and say that its a shame that secretary kerry does not see this simple truth. Nations was about preserving the twostate solution. Thats what we were standing up for. Israels future is a jewish and democratic state, living side by side in peace and security with its neighbors. There are a similar number of jews and palestinians living between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea. They have a choice. They can choose to live together in one state or they can separate into two states. But here is a fundamental reality. If the choice is one state, israel can either be jewish or democratic. It cannot be both. And it wont ever really be at peace. Here now why key newsmaker israels diplomat to the United Nations. Welcome, we appreciate you coming n such a busy time. Thank you. I want to start with that very basic claim by secretary kerry. He said if the choice is one state israel can either be jewish or democratic not both. What does that mean to you . Its not true. Its not correct. Jewish democracy. Today we have more than 1. 7 Arab Israelis who are not jewish who live in a very strong democracy. We do not accept that what we saw now was a failed attempt to defend the indefensible. You cannot protect the decision that was made by the Administration Last friday when the u. S. Actually allowed the resolution to pass at the u. N. For more than an hour secretary kerry tried to justify what happened at the u. N. Security council. I was there in that room. That was a shameful moment because the u. S. Is the closest ally of israel. We work together. We share the same values. And to see the u. S. Voting with venezuela and other countries that are all against israel, it was very disappointing. They didnt vote for them. They abstained. By abstaining actually what you said is correct because usually the u. S. Stands with israel and apply the veto power it happened in 2011 and 2014. Without the veto the u. S. Blocked the resolution. Now when the u. S. Abstained, all the rest voted to support the resolution and it passed. When you read the resolution, its so one sided, we have no legitimate right to the wailing wall, to the jewish border with jerusalem. This is insulting. Are you planning for the possibility of president obama potentially pushing more antiisraeli u. N. Resolutions before he leaves office in three weeks . We hope it will not happen but after last friday, who knows. Because Security Council people side of the u. S. Stand with israel. Now new environment Security Council. Maybe some of the countries come with new resolutions against israel. And we dont know what will happen. Okay. We have talked about the obama side. Lets talk about the israeli government. You can say unequivocally tonight that Prime Minister netanyahu is still in favor of a twostate solution. He said it himself. He is willing to negotiate. Does he mean it . Is it real . Prime minister says something he means it he said willing to negotiate everything with the president abbas. He is willing to go to new york to negotiate. After the resolution passed in the Security Council, no reason to come back to the negotiating table. Because for them its much easier to get whatever they want in the Security Council without negotiating, without condemning terrorism, without stopping the violence. It will be very hard to move forward and we welcome President Trump committed to israel and he will continue to work to support israel. You mentioned president elect trump. Had you put out a statement saying that you appreciate his unequivocal support. You said it in recent days. You say it now. In the republican platform this summer in cleveland, then candidate trump and his aids pulled out language supporting a twostate solution. Since you say you are for a twostate solution, would you condemn that action by donald trump. Bipartisan issue. 88 senators asked the president to apply the veto power before the vote on friday. And he ignored it. Not democratic or republican. Hold on one second. He is going to be the president of the United States and in the Republican Party platform it no longer says that they want a twostate solution. That is counter to what you want. Prime minister netanyahu will come to president elect trump and they will discuss all the issues. They ran agreement. The peace process. Speak about everything. But its not so simple. When secretary kerry speaks for more than an hour about the settlements. What about hamas . What about radical islam . What about terrorism in the middle east . You saw he focused only the issue of the settlement. Obstacle to peace. I hear this criticism of president obama that the Obama Doctrine has become basically be tougher on your friends like israel than enemies like iran and assad in syria. Do you agree with that criticism . Many ambassador approach and ask me what happened. What happened to the relationship between israel and the u. S. And we know that the timing is crucial because transition period and within a few weeks there will be a new administration in the white house. But the relationship between israel and the u. S. Will continue to be strong. Its based on shared value and im optimistic about it. What about how personal this has gotten. I mentioned Facebook Post by the Prime Minister a couple moments ago where is he showing president obama as a candidate on the western wall and sticking to it. When he needed it politically to say is he praying at the western wall. Its opposite of what happened friday. It seems this has gone much further this time and this has gotten personal. We are disappointed. We did not expect it from closest ally. Im used to those kind of resolutions coming from venezuela, yemen, syria. For them to bash israel. When the u. S. Pinged with those countries and the u. S. Was a major player on the resolution, we were very offended about it. Mr. Ambassador, you are intimately involved in all of this. Give our viewers some hope about the future then. We know your criticism of whats happened today and what happened last friday. What is the way forward for peace . We hope that the new administration will make sure that achieve peace through direct negotiations. We did in the past, ed. We negotiated with egypt and jordan. It was hard but we achieved a real peace. And palestinians and to the rest of the world you cannot impose peace treaty on israel by passing resolutions in the Security Council. You should call both sides to engage and have real negotiations. When you look at president elect trump nominating a hard line ambassador to israel, and Prime Minister netanyahu appearing to dig in with his comments today, last question, how can you get peace when it looks like the hardliners are digging in their heals . When the Prime Minister was elected in 1977, it was considered to be a hardliner. People say what will happen in israel tomorrow . Look whats happened, the first leader to achieve peace. We found sadat in egypt as a real partner. Today we dont have a viable partner among the palestinians. Thats why they keep coming to the u. N. Instead of coming to talk with us. Ambassador, we appreciate you coming. In thank you very much. Happy new year. Thank you, happy new year. President obama is taking heat over senior democrats over his relationship with israel. Steny hoyer released a scathing Statement Last night demanding secretary kerry not each give that speech today. The Statement Read in part i urge secretary kerry and the United Nations not to set forth a formula which will disadvantage israel in any negotiation. Though we would like to get beyond all of these statements from official washington tonight and give you inside glimpse of what the israeli people are actually thinking about all of this turmoil. Who better to do that than our ace Foreign Correspondent john huddy live for us tonight if our jerusalem bureau. Good evening. Hey, ed, good evening to you. Like fridays resolution, u. N. Resolution vote, people here in jerusalem are disappointed. Theyre dismayed but they are not exactly shocked, shocked about what was said tonight in secretary kerrys speech. Based on just the history, the relationship between israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. And secretary of state kerry and specifically president obama. Some people can understand some of the points. Others not so much. And along with Prime Minister netanyahu, not to get too detailed about the politics, but other israeli leaders are also firing back at secretary of state kerry. One israeli official told me that while the middle east burns, secretary of state kerry talks about Home Construction and another senior israeli official said he questions if the Obama Administration truly understands what is happening on the ground here. Well, president obama and as you heard secretary of state kerry said they both understand what is going on. Secretary kerry also said tonight this is a personal thing for him. But, as far as if they understand whats happening, thats really been the sentiment thats been expressed to me on the street. You know, people that i know, friends, neighbors, and all of this really, ed, has been on peoples minds, absolutely. At the coffee shops, place called aroma here in jerusalem. Thats kind of a social scene. A lot of people hang out there. At the restaurants along one of the main drags, busy shopping area also here in jerusalem, and, of course, in the settlements where really the focus all this focus has been at this point. That said palestinian leaders are also sounding out tonight about the future of peace talks. Mahmoud abbas said that palestinian leadership is ready to resume talks if i cant recall is ready to freeze all settlement activities including those in east jerusalem. They want negotiations to be based on fridays u. N. Resolution. Ed, that alone may be a nonstart are for israeli leadership. Tonights speech israeli backlash from officials, word on the street, people talking about on the street is, i guess you could say the climb max of several days of fierce political battles, fiery political rhetoric after fridays u. N. Resolution vote. And there certainly, ed, wase li Prime Minister netanyahu and secretary of state kerry. Im sure people will be talking about this tomorrow as well. As one official said to me earlier tonight boy, what a night, huh, john . Ed, back to you. To say the least. Thank you for cutting through all that rhetoric. We thank you for staying up well past 2 00 a. M. In jerusalem to give us that report. If i dont get to talk to you before the weekend happy new year, buddy. You too, ed, thank you. Just a short time down in maralago president elect trump made a statement on economy. Took a few questions. Its been a little while since he held a full News Conference. Good evening, peter. Good evening, ed. All day long the Transition Team had been teasing an announcement they said would be upon for american workers. At about two hours ago we found out what it was when the president elect came out and announced that one really big company is going to bring 5,000 jobs back to the United States. And one Smaller Company is going to create 3,000 here. A new company is going to be hiring 3,000 people so thats very exciting. We have a combination of sprint for 5,000 jobs. And thats coming from all over the world. And they are come back into the United States, which is a nice change. And also one web. The president elect also said he thinks this was only possible because there is a spirit of hope in this country. And even though transition officials insisted today the president elect knows there is only one president at a time, which some white house officials have been trying to remind him of, he is making a lot of big news with regard to the economy. Because this follows the boeing and Lockheed Martin negotiations also at maralago that seemed to have yielded promises of onbudget air force one and f35 project. It also follows the big carrier announcement and the announcement with that bank ceo to create 50,000 jobs in the state. Today we also learned that even though the president elect and the current president had been hyper critical of each other in the press lately with president obama saying he would have beaten mr. Trump in 2016 if that was legal or possible. And mr. Trump saying that there is no hope anymore in this country and that the president is disrespecting israel. The two are apparently still talking on the phone a lot. Transition official told us this morning they have been in regular contact and they will be for the next few weeks. Mr. Trump said when he talked to reporter that he had a nice conversation with president obama today. He wouldnt go into details. He said it was general in nature. We also saw something extremely rare in any situation covering a president elect or a president today. As the press was all packed up and ready to leave maralago in a van too head off the property the president elect came back out to say he wanted to talk some more about the v. A. He then had an official with him, explained the Transition Team is working on a publicprivate option for veterans that would let them get treated at the private facility of their choice and that followed a meeting here at maralago with executives from some of the nations best hospitals, including johns hopkins, the mayo clinic, and the Cleveland Clinic. And the equitiesive who was here from the Cleveland Clinic dr. Toby cosgrove is, we are told, a leading contender to become the next v. A. Secretary. So a lot going on here at maralago in between christmas and new years. Ed . I wish you a happy new year, i bet we will be talking live a couple more times before the weekend. See you, peter. Oh, yeah. It is time for twitter storm, our nightly forecast of social medias most powerful weather patterns. President elect donald trump is in the eye of tonights storm over this tweet which reads the u. S. Consumer Confidence Index for december surged nearly 4 points to 113. 7. The highest level in more than 15 years. Thanks, donald. The president elects selfcongratulatory ending to that tweet did not go unnoticed from mocking to the down right ridiculous. Thanks donald quickly went viral. Mike levin said our commanderinchief talks talks about himself in person prowrestler but with worse vocabulary and poor spelling. Thanks donald. Joe gasper said there was toilet paper in the stall at the gym today, thanks, donald. Charles ellison tweeted my brothers house in florida hasnt fallen into a sinkhole yet, thanks, donald. As always on twitter there were dissenting opinions many to use genuine maybe snarky attitude toward President Trump. Leah tweeted thanks donald for almost two month of hysterical liberal meltdowns. Its been glorious indeed. Drumming said thanks donald for giving me the tears of every social Justice Warrior on the planet for me to drink. It was delicious. See you on the 20th. Presumably january 20th. Finally chuck tweeted thanks, donald, for showing the world that the mistakes of the last eight years can be undone in 100 days. Dont set expectations that high. Thats tonights twitter storm. For a while it looked from the outside that the president and president elect were against all odds getting along splendidly but is the relationship now on the rocks . Thats next. Also, how will the Trump White House work with israel after that u. N. Resolution . Ambassador john bolton is here. He says its time to scrap the twostate solution, replace it with a threestate solution. Well have details coming up. This is my body of proof that i can fight Psoriatic Arthritis with humira. Humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. Its proven to help relieve pain, stop further joint damage, and clear skin in many adults. Humira is the number 1 prescribed biologic for Psoriatic Arthritis. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment, get tested for tb. 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Fundamentally when you are president of the United States you can disagree with him on any number of issues but fundamentally barack obama respects the office of the presidency. Respects the peaceful transition of power and offered repeatedly to help the president elect in his transition. He has tried to do that. Unfortunately the president elect takes any statement that is not in his favor as a personal affront hence the not, very president ial of him by the way. You know, its unfortunate that he is calling you know, the president is president until january 20th. He has every right to continue to underline his own policy positions and his perspective on the election. In fact, lets go back to november 10th and hear how they described it all at the beginning. My number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president elect is successful because if you succeed then the country succeeds. This was a meeting that was going to last for maybe 10 or 15 minutes. And we were just going to get to know each other. We had never met each other. Just getting to know each other. The reason why i called it a bromance is that donald trump had questioned whether he had ever been born in this country and then was saying falling over himself to say is he being really nice to me. Caitlin, whats happened here . For example, the antiisraeli resolution, that really sets things up poorly for donald trump. Right. I think this is certainly a reaction to that. Its a reaction to president obama saying that he would have won the election. And so given that back drop. Also given the back drop of donald trump is preparing to take office as the most unpopular incoming president. And so he is really, i agree with lauren, is he on the defensive on a variety of different things, trying to kind of confirm his stance. The russian hacking element of this, too, is important because he is seeing that as efforts to or the focus on that is efforts to try to delegitimize his presidency. Is he really fighting those ties. I think these tweets are more representative of his defensive posture not so much the relationship between himself and obama which they talked on the phone today. And they ended up talking on the phone. So maybe there is a little bit of a thaw there. Laura, interesting. Because some of the other tweets from obama today were specifically about israel. We cannot let israel be treated with disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the u. S. Not anymore. The beginning with the end with the horrible iran deal and now this, u. N. Exclamation point. Stay strong, israel. January 20th is fast approaching. Talk about the states now for donald trump. This is a bigger Foreign Policy challenge, perhaps perhaps, than anyone anticipated immediately out of the gate january 20th number 1. Number two, are expectations being set so high for this man as well that somehow he is going to fix this in addition to draining the swamp and Everything Else he promised . He is setting those expectations for himself he continues to insist he alone can solve the ills of the world. Every president since the state of israel has descrulgd with the most complex and most difficult geopolitical situation in the world. I appreciate that the income president believes he is going to be the one to fix it. Its an extremely difficult time. Wherever you are on israel, the issue with the settlements continues to be that it makes it more and more difficult to find agreement between the two sides i appreciate president elect is a, you know, a supporter of israel. I think president obama is, too. They have different views on the future of the state and the peace process. But, you know, to say that he is going to solve something automatically that, you know, the last 48 years of president s have been unable to solve. Democrats and republicans . Setting himself up for a pretty impossible task. Weigh in on that if you want. Also, i want to note the flip side of coming into office with all these problems is when the economy appears to be doing well, you get some credit, too. Right, exactly. He is already starting to take credit for kind of the economic, positive outlook, right, which is another reason why obama is going to be is weighing in and is probably going to continue to weigh in. I think whats interesting about the Foreign Policy challenge surrounding israel kerrys statements today i think kind of unite republicans in a way around donald trump. That is not the case on other Foreign Policy issues particularly when it comes to russia. I think donald trump can take away from this day something of a step forward in terms of the Republican Party, at least on capitol hill. Supportive of that element. Especially perhaps when he has democrats like steny hoyer challenging the obama house and suggesting they are going to support israel whether its republican or democrat. Exactly and Chuck Schumer as well. Incoming Senate Democratic leader. Yes. We appreciate it as well. Happy new year. Two sides to every story. Secretary kerry says israels greatest friend. Netanyahu says not so much. John bolton is here next to give us inside dope on what the real story is. The long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Administration has been israels greatest friend and supporter with an absolutely unwavering commitment to advancing Israel Security and protecting its legitimacy. No American Administration has done more for israels security than barack obamas. Secretary kerry paid lip service to the unremitting campaign of terrorism that has been waged by the palestinians against the jewish state for nearly a century. What he did was to spend most of his speech blaming israel for the lack of peace. A war of words between secretary of state john kerry and israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Slamming kerry in a late night News Conference looking forward to the day that donald trump takes office. Here now is former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations john bolton. Good evening, ambassador bolton. And i wonder what you think about the fact that ambassador from israel just told us at the top of the show that he is preparing for the possibility that president obama could come up with another antiisraeli resolution in the days ahead in these final three weeks. Well, i think its entirely possible, although secretary kerry and other administration spokes men have said that they wont. Look, they were, to put it politely, economical with the truth about their involvement in resolutio passed. So, now he, i would take whatever they say with a couple of chunks of salt. I think that we have this socalled peace conference coming up in paris on january the 15th. I would be worried about what might happen there, what might follow in the Security Council. I read closely your oped in the wall street journal a day or so ago. Where you said the two state solution has been on life support for years. And you want to see a three state solution. You can briefly summarize for our viewers what is the way forward in your eyes . Well, the briefest summary of whats wrong with the two state solution is john kerrys speech today where he says well, there is either a one state solution, which is bad for israel or there is a twostate solution. What a failure of imagination. The answer here is for to have in mind the life of the average palestinian. What would be best for the average palestinian and his family, the delusion of the twostate solution is never going to make life better. What i have called for is a threestate solution, give the gaza strip back to egypt. Give whatever part of the west bank israel is prepared to give back back to jordan. Tie the Palestinian People into real economies. Give them a chance for their families to enjoy a better life. Dont make them the tip of the spear in the fight against israel as they have for decades. Now, there are a lot of reasons why my suggestion is difficult to achieve, fine, lets see other things. But beating your head into a wall, which is what the advocates of the twostate solution are doing, not gonna bring peace to israel and the palestinians. Ambassador bolton, i checked the numbers and Abraham Lincoln when he delivered the gettysburg address was three minutes long. Fdrs 20 minutes. Ronald reagan tear down this wall 26 minutes. John kerry went on today for 1 hour and 13 minutes. At the end of that, what is the Obama Doctrine in your eyes . Well, its still that the main problem in the entire middle east is the Israeli Palestinian dispute. And the main problem in that dispute is israel building apartment buildings in east jerusalem. Ifully its a simpl i think s a simple minded view of life. Secretary kerry and barack obama and i might say before them Hillary Clinton were living in a parallel universe. I think this is an extraordinarily difficult problem. But beating your head on the same line without any recognition that it is not realistic, honestly, is driving the parties farther apart. I think remarkably Chuck Schumer today in response to the kerry speech said he feared it encouraged extremists on both sides. Nice work, john kerry. Ambassador, thank you for your insight tonight. Thank you, ed. Some Top Democrats are also joining the chorus of people criticizing the Obama Administration around israel others president netanyahus push for settlements biggest threat to peace. Here now is julie to get the other side. Its great to have you coming in here tonight first of all. Thanks so much. Good to see you. Lets start with ambassador bolton left off. You can acknowledge as a democrat you have hundreds of thousands slaughtered in syria. And, you know, no answer there. Not just for the Obama Administration but the World Community and yet the u. N. And the Obama Administration are focused on i believe its the 20th resolution this year alone beating up on israel. Well, first of all, you are absolutely right. Im shocked this may be a first that actually i agree with a lot of what ambassador bolton said. I think his proposal is an interesting one. I think egypt and jordan would run as far as possible from getting the gaza strip and the west bank back territories for all the reasons that they dont want anybody dealing with those two territories. But, i will also say. This look, any relationship and i said this earlier today, any relationship, whether its a personal relationship or a Foreign Policy relationship between states. You cannot want it more than the two parties involved. Right. Right now neither the netanyahu government nor his Coalition Government, israel parties very prosettler parties that have put b. B. Netanyahu in power as part of the coalition want to stop the settlements and want peace for the palestinians nor do the palestinianians want peace in israeli. When you have amood abbas saying one thing in english which sounds very reasonable and very different story in arabic own people, and naming streets after people that they call martyrs and we call terrorists it says to me who is john kerry at this point this late in the game or any of this come out and say to the two parties involved this is what we would like you to do when neither of the two parties are interested . Very interesting indeed. Lets switch to domestic politics. I wanted to talk to you about this as well. Harry reid, the outgoing Senate Democratic leader had some comments about the bench for democrats right now. Looking ahead to 2020. And basically said that when you go through it appears we are going to have an old folks home. We have Elizabeth Warren she will be 7. Biden will be 78. Bernie will be 79. What in the world is going on with the Democratic Party when you have even harry reid saying we dont have a bench . A failure of imagination. Because i remember in 2000 i sat around, i was pressed, i was booking trips to hawaii. Thinking are you doing that again . I actually booked a trip to jamaica election day and it was great. Nobody knew about a little state senator named barack obama in illinois who nobody thought about. 2004 came out of the Democratic Convention and gave a speech that electrified the country and four years later was president. So, somewhere out there, it doesnt have to be Elizabeth Warren or could be. Or cory booker who appears older than i man i am in mid 40. Could be some little known state senator or state rep from oklahoma, nebraska, somewhere that none of us know about. Almost nobody saw barack obama. Nobody saw donald trump coming. Nobody saw trump come as well. Frankly the republicans dont have that much of a bench either. When you win it covers up a lot of other problems, obviously. And so moving forward he is the man coming to town. The republicans had a great bench, rubio, ted cruz, latino from texas. Carlie for that, all these people. Chris christie all these young vibrant strong guys. Look who became president , the one that nobody expected. The one who is 70 years old. The one that was never part of any bench discussed four years ago or 8 years ago. Politics is a funny thing. Things turn on a dime. Last question we were just talking about the israeli peace process. And the future of the Democratic Party. Lets use those together. Are you worried that. Farrakhan and some hateful statement. Could be the next chairman of the democratic committee. Such a nuances issue. You could be proisraeli as i am, my family lives there, my grandmother lived and died in what is considered a settlement east jerusalem. Im very familiar with this issue. You could be proisraeli, passionately so and oppose settlements. It doesnt mean that all of a sudden you have to somehow state if you are not in line with what b. B. 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Use as directed illegal immigrants. Thats right. The poo become that white house wants 3. 9 billion aimed helping illegals as well as refugees. Brian babin calls that program a trojan horse. Congressman joins us live from houston. Good evening, congressman. I wonder whats your beef of the spending of the money and we will break it down. My beef is that the top priority of us is american elected officials is to keep americans safe. And we have seen over and over again the Refugee Program turning a trojan horse not only in western europe as we have seen but right here in america. So when the president want to double the funding for his office of refugee resettlement, more refugees toward the end of his career he is going to be doing this toward the last days hours and minutes of his president to makes a much mischief, to try to keep president elect trump from undoing what this president has done in terms of endangering citizens and so President Trump will be at a disadvantage. Is he trying to he is has also dismantled our National Security entry exit system to make it more difficult to mr. Trump to undo this these refugees to the president is trying to bring. In just trying to throw as many road blocks in the way. Dig deeper on that. In terms of the refugees. Its the Christmas Season. I would assume that at least some of these refugees you are willing to spend some taxpayer money on because you would acknowledge they are not likely terrorists. You want to sort out the good from the bad obviously and here on the Christmas Season you do want to help some of those people who are coming over legitimately as refugees. We want to help those people in safe zones right where they are. Near their home lands. We are compass passionate nation. America always has been. We dont want to bring them into the country. Well over 75 of americans have spoken loud and clear. The polls show refugees coming in to the United States from these terrorist hot beds like syria, iraq, and somalia, et cetera. And so we have a bill to try to stop this. I introduced this bill a year and a half ago it has to get to the floor. Americans have spoke. They will not tolerate anything other than stopping this program so that we can keep safe and make sure that our children and our citizens are safe. Thats our first priority. Our highest priority. Congressman, last question. President elect trump as you mentioned has talked about extreme investigating. Whats the line there . What would your bill do so that we can separate the good from the bad . My bill would pause the program until we could determine evacuately what evacu exactly what that extreme vetting would con access of. The president and his administration have absolutely classified the vetting procedures where we were told in classified briefings earlier that it would take up to 24 months to vet these people. And now we are seeing evidence that it may be as short as a few days. So we want to make sure that these people coming in to our country are safe, that we are not introducing a trojan horse. And at taxpayer expense literally setting terrorists up in business in the United States of america. And we want this is exactly what were going to be doing. I am urging President Trump to honor his promises to undo what this president has done for eight years and that is endanger the National Security of our country. And thats what. We mentioned Christmas Season in terms of helping the refugees but also over the Christmas Season people very jumpy about terror right now and making sure the country is safe. We appreciate you weighing in on. This absolutely, ed. Thank you. Happy new year to you and your family. We appreciate it. You have seen kennedy hosting her show on the Fox Business Network and cohosting outnumbered. Did you know her previous job put her in the middle of the musical world . Kennedy steps into the friend zone next. We live in a pick and choose world. Choose. Choose. Choose. But at bedtime. Why settle for this . Enter sleep number and the lowest prices of the season. Sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store, right now, save 600 on our best selling i8 mattress, plus 24 month special financing. Learn more at sleepnumber. Com know better sleep with sleep number. Mone hundredts thousand times a day, sending oxygen to my muscles. Again so i can lift even the most demanding weight. Take care of all your most important parts with centrum. Now verified non gmo and gluten free. Time now for the friend zone where we invite one of our friends from within the building here at fox onto the show. Tonight we invite kennedy host of the aptly named kennedy on the Fox Business Network. Before we graced us with her presence she was a dj on mtv 3. There was 3 in there did i read the channel i dont think wrong. There is mtv. Probably is a 3 now. Good old days. Horse and buggy. There was nothing competing with us. It was a completely different era. And it felt very new because at the time we all got email for the first time in 1993. And we felt very technologically advanced. And enabled you to meet some people like George Michael, prince, david bowy, some of these legends who have very recently passed. Yeah 2016 has been incredibly tough year tore music. Especial solid losing people so young like prince and George Michael. David bowie wasnt even 70 and wrote a beautiful haunting record before he died. And its interesting because the nice thing about the digital age is i dont know if you remember carting all of your cassette tapes on a plane or put them in a car. Im old enough for 8 tracks. Ed, slow down. I dont want to be uncomfortable here. I didnt realize i was talking to betty white. I used to take a box of cassette tapes to my grandmas house in indiana each summer we got all this music on our phone like beats and spotify. Where you can go back and revisit all of entire catalog from musicians and thats what i have been doing with George Michael for the last few days. I want to talk about the transition to fox. You can weigh in on any one or all three of them. Legacy for George Michael, prince, i mean, amazing. Amazing legacy. No, its true. And i was saying the other day that i have been listening to George Michael. I hear sweeping vocals and these emotional changes in the song and i wonder how directly someone like adele who has been influenced by George Michael who is obviously influenced by david bowie and elton john and, you know, and elton john and George Michael had that beautiful duet together. The grammy winning one he did with aretha franklin. You are doing a duet on new years eve. You will be hosting big new years eve coverage. We see jesse there and is he crazy. Crazy in a good way. That was at the Democratic National convention. So that was jesse and i in philly. Jesse and i got into some parties at the Correspondents Dinner in march. We walked up to a party where you had your name had to be on a list to get. In i knew mine wasnt. I walked up and your name i said kennedy. She looked at jesse, and said Anthony Kennedy . Jesse said yep, thats me. Supreme court justices. Whats the transition to fox been like for someone who is so deeply into music and now getting into news and politics. So passionate about were music and politics. And its interesting because i have always found a way to blend the two or at least have a foot in one of those worlds. So you know, when i was at mtv, it was very political time, 1992 was when bill clinton was elected and mtv news had a big choose or lose campaign. You had a lot of people. Is that when you got the boxer or briefs question was mtv, right . Exactly right. In one of those forums that they always kicked me out of building for because i was never allowed to be around bill clinton or albert gore. I dont know why. You had a lot of musicians who were singing about the time and were energized by bill clinton and his presidency and then doing talk radio and music radio in l. A. , sort of a bridge in between, continue that and here i have a lot of musicians who come and visit me on the fox business show which i love. You bring so much energy to your show, both shows really at fbn and fnc. Thanks, ed, for hosting. Dont forget to watch kennedy and Jesse Watters as they kick down the downtown counsel. 8 p. M. Eastern right here on the fox news channel. Coming up next, you are almost out of time to tell us what you would do if you were king for a day. Tweet me at ed henry or email me at Turcotte Carlson tonight at foxnews. Com. You might get it in under the wire. 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With humira, remission is possible. Consider yourself crowned. Youre king for a day. If you are salute power and could do one thing what would it be . I would make twinkies mandatory for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Truth teller said it would be to end all racism hate and in our country whether based on gender, race and are or ethnicity. Mute one performing. No more listening to their politics. Sign me up. Gregory kelton said my own show . Well, if you were watching mean tweet last night, someone said they would rather watch tucker reruns than me, not that im bitter or anything. Today in pomposity returns thursday. What is the most pompous thing youve heard . Tweet me ed henry. Why do i think im setting myself up for more mean tweets pomposity. Thats about it for us tonight. Tune in each night at 7 00 much the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. Dvr the show if you havent already. Hi im eric bolling in for bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Lets dive right in to our top story, the feud erupting between donald trump and president obama. Critics say the president took a thinly veiled shot at mr. Trump yesterday when he said this. Even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at it most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward. We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different. President elect donald trump responded with a tweet this m