Thanks for starting your sunday off with us. Well start with a live look outside on december 1, 017. You can almost see how crisp and cool and clear and freezing cold it is outside. Were going to start off with dar gar in the Weather Center this morning keeping an eye on what really has been brutal cold here you. Covered it all, tom, well take it back here then, thank you very much, gary, thanks for seeing you. Very, very cold. You have more . I have to cover two minutes. So ill take my share here. Listen, heres whats going on out there now. Lets just say its going to be an arctic new years eve. This arctic air started last night trickling in and dew points dropping and arctic air is here and it will get colder and colder and windier and windier out there and that will make it feel oh, so cold. And wind chill advisory in place for Northern Virginia and central virgina western virginia and all the way up to mary pennsylvania. And part of this out west is in place. It runs from 9 p. M. This evening to 9 a. M. Tomorrow wind chill value in Single Digits and at times down below zero okay. It will be bitterly cold. Really it stays bitterly cold the next several days here. I dont see much relief coming this week. And then another arctic air mass comes in late in the week. Wow, im full of good news, right . 19 degrees now and you can see martinsburg at 12. Frederick at 18. Culpeper at 18 degrees and mannasas 15. And when you factor in the quind already some places below zero it feels like for gaithersburg and this is not a constant number it goes up and down as the wind gets stronger and the wind gets lighter. So this is just a snapshot in time from the wind chill factor. But you can on. Satellite and radar a few clouds. But mostly clear. Later on today, we could have a few flurries coming across. Temperatures stay in the 20s for everybody. Some places lower 20s and i think well make it up to 26 degrees. And heres your new years eve forecast. Need i say very cold. Single digit feel out there. Single digit wind chill factors tonight. So, i dont know. Do whatever you need to do to stay warm. Do whatever you need to do to stay warm the next several days because 7 day forecast doesnt get much warmer. Guys. Good advice, thanks, gary. Gary, thanks. 7 03 while its new years eve and those that plan to brave the bitter cold can see extra tight security at new year celebration hot spots. Police in the district, new york city and all over the region are stepping up security measures because of this following a year of deadly attacks on innocent people. This morning fox5 tisha lewis is live harbor in maryland with more steps being taken to keep you safe. Good morning, kiesha. Well, good morning to you tom, annie, you can bet there will be tight security here at the national harbor. Theres a lot of events going on. The good things about the events here is for the most part, some of them are indoors. Theres mgm having a party and gaylord having a party and pockets of celebrations going on at the harbor. There are some Outdoor Activities and its going to be cold as you mentioned. Cold here and, of course, all eyes are usually on new york this time of year. It will be cold in new york as well. Take a listen. Two, one, happy new year. New years eve organizers test dropped confetti as preparations continue for the famous ball drop in times square. As last minute preparations are underway for the biggest new years eve celebration one thing on everyone the frigid weather it. Will be 10 sunday night. Wind chill below zero making it second coldest new years eve in new york city history. I dont think this year its safe to be out in the hopefully there will be warming stations. Youll be packed in with so many people. Its like all the penguins they get the heat mass going. I dont think it will be that bad. Arctic chill nationwide has officials worried about hypothermia and frost bite. Sunbury pennsylvania and omaha nebraska cancelled events and philadelphia added warming station and new York Police Department is taking extra security measures to protect time squares following two terror attacks in the city following as many months. You will see increase in heavy weapons, bomb squad personnel. Radiological teams and technology taken to include over 1,000 cameras in and around the area of times square for the events. Aviation vapor dogs sniff out bombs and more Police Officers in hotels and Office Towers overlooking times square a response to Las Vegas Shooting where a gunman killed 58 below out of a hotel room in u. S. History. Las vegas that hosts the biggest celebration in the nation tripled its budget to 350,000 thousand and doubled the number of National Guard troops. This year along with spotters theyll be accompanied by snipers. Individuals in possession of rifles to ensure safety if a threat is recognized. And back out here right across the water, theyll be first night alexandria there will be Fireworks Show there. You can theres lots to do and lots to pick from. And whats interesting 0s themed and a lot of you guys have themes and you Better Believe a lot high priced tickets. So check it all out online. Tisha lewis. Fox5 local news. Time now is 7 06. Now to follow up on fbi raided in sterling, virginia. This morning were learning that the raid was related to possible terrorism. Court documents say the raid was part of an investigation into a possible radicalized isis supporter and now federal agents arrested shawn dunkin a u. S. Citizen that moved from pittsburgh to virginia over the summer and fbi was tracking dunkin for months after a Family Member tipped them off that dunkin convert todd islam and may have been radicalized and he is accused of destroying evidence and obstructing justice and could face more charges. Metro place are investigating an officer involved the shooting in northeast. Chief newsam spoke about the case last night. He said the officer was responding to Domestic Violence incidents along h street when the officer arrived police say he was approached by a man with a gun and the officer fired at the suspect then taken to the hospital in critical condition. That suspects gun was recovered at the scene and police said the investigation is still going on. And the community in rest incomes together to honor two neighbors after they were brutally murdered in their home. Hundreds of people turned out for Memorial Service in honor of Scott Fricker and wife buckley coon trick fricker yesterday. The couple was gunned down last week. The boyfriend of their daughter was responsible for murders and i family and friends tell us the frickers had been trying to break them up because the 17yearold boyfriend reportedly held neonazi views. A centerville man faisz multiple charges this morning for allegedly trying to rob someone and attack them with a machete. The Man Told Police he was approached on heritage drive thursday night accused of trying to take the mans wallet and started swinging machete. The victim was not hurt in all this and khan is charged with attempted robbery and Malicious Wounding and being drunk in public firefighters in Montgomery County yesterday. Thats right. Fires broke out around several locations throughout the country and crews were not battling flames they were battling element thes they told you about a massive fire in North Potomac yesterday afternoon flames broke out of two story home on out post drive. The fire started in the living room and spread to the attic. They are still trying to find out what the cause of that fire was. Luckily, no one was hurt. And over in gaithersburg a two alarm fire broke out around the potomac oaks co condos, firefighters got everyone out as they battled fire in frigid temperatures yesterday morning and they say this was made even harder because their equipment kept freezing awater they used turned to ice. 60 people are homeless because of this nair and good news is no serious injuries reported in this one as well. Thats a hard job getting even harder right there trying to not only deal with the fire but the elements out there. And in this specific case it was thanks to quick thinking neighbors know the brave firefighters that got everyone out safely. And you know, we ails say this, thats the important part. Cant replace a life. Coming up at 7, 2017 a year of bomb shell reports some of the biggest scandals under covered this year. And a squirrelly little homeen vader caught on camera. Well explain this viral story coming up. Stay with us. Well be right back. Whoa. Whoa. 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Moonlight you won best picture. The mixup was corrected in middle of la la lands acceptance speech with last and crew of moonlight going on to accept the award and Kathy Griffin a bloody mess while holding a mask of President Trumps blood the comedian said she was sorry and revoked that apology. United airlines faced Public Relations nightmare in april. Two Security Officers vio violently dragging off a passenger and refused to give up his seat. Ceo oscar munoz offered a apology for the incidents. Call him pill cosby. Legendary actor accused of druging a woman before he performed sexual acts in 2004. Cosby denies rj chas and judge declared a mistrial as jurors failed to reach a verdict and new trial is set to begin in spring and dove coming under fire for racially insensitive commercial an add of a block woman removing her shirt to reveal a white womb it missed the mark in thoughtfully representing women of color. Dozens of women come forward accusing director harvey whine seat to of harassment a. Salt and rain. Movie mogul was sxed from the academy of Motion Picture arpts and sciences and in addition to several open investigations by authorities, weinstein denies the allegations and weinstein story creating a ripple effects with dozens of men accused including kevin sp spacey, jeffery tambore. Ben affleck. Dustin hoffman. Nick carter, Sylvester Stallone even george h. W. Sglush were devastated. Matt lauer terminated from nbc after an employee filed a complaints about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. Nbc news chairman andrew lack said it was first complaint lodged against lauer but the network has reason to believe it was not isolated incidents. And journalist charlie rose was fired from cbs and prominent interview show is dropped by bloomburg and pbs and harassment and groping and lude phone calls and harassment allegations Alabama Senate candidate roy moore akisd of dating and in some instances sexually assaulting teenage girls when he was in his 30s. He denies all his allegations. The people of alabama had more in common than to divide us. And more ended up lose the scene against democratic doug jones. Al franken shown placing his happened over Leann Tweeten in 2006 and several others accused him of touching inappropriately at Campaign Events and he resigned. This it days after Democrat John conyers facing own allegations announced retirement. And with 2018 right around the corner no sdout there will be more of these scandals in the news and well be covering it all for you right here. In new york, answerly earhart, fox news. Lets get to trending story this morning, a squirrel on the loose. Take a look at this frisky body camera. Oh, my goodness. Police in upstate new york got a call about a squirrel in the kitchen eating cookies and the cityer bounced a round a little bit and accidentally turned on the stereo and officers were eventually able to get him out of the house. And no one was injured. Oh, my goodness. You know. Such a naughty story. Whoa. You know, weve only got a few more hours left till new years eve. This might be my favorite story of 2017. And it looks like search a big, large squirrel. You know coming right at you light that it looks like a monster. When i was a kid ill make this quick there was a drive through safari not far from my house and bad an grew up and got into someones house. Where did you grow up. That would make the story longer. Animals indoors if theyre not used to be indoors will do things like that. So your house, kids, thats the lesson for today. Drivethru safari must have been jersey. I can say that i was born in jersey. Heres the white house this morning, cold, cold, cold out there it will only get colder, too, thats how we end the year, rights . Temperature this morning right now here in town is 19. Okay. 19 degree. We can do that. Thats not all that bad. But its not going to warm up a whole heck of a lot and temperature today will make it into probably lower to mid 20s and and 19 here. Lets check on temperatures in the suburbs this morning. 12 winchester and 12 Mar Martinsburg and gaithersburg and heres what happens when you factor in the wind. I almost thit show you that and tell you it will get colder with the wind chill. Arctic new years eve definitely arch tk care comes in. Check out what were thinking tonight. 18 or so here in town. In the that. More like 10 to 13 degrees. Very cold. Single digits feel, too. Winds whip around a bit tonight. It will feel like zero. One, two, three degrees Something Like that and maybe below zero for times. Wind chill advisory in effect. Out hire, western virginia, Higher Elevations to West Virginia and maryland the wind chill advisory is already in effect. And right around d. C. Surrounding counties starts at 9 00 this evening right just in time for new years eve and then it lasts through tomorrow morning and were talking about winds chill factors in the single dingit and at ti times, theyll be below zero. Maybe as much as five to six degrees below zero. Okay. 2 00 today wind chill value look at the forecast. 2 degrees. Some right around zero if not below. 8 00 tonight, Single Digits and then by midnight lots of Single Digits to right around zero. Tomorrow morning check out. Well below zero with the wind chill factor and torr wind chill factors all day long will still in the Single Digits. Were in the teen now. Look how cold it s still more arctic air coming down out of canada. Fargo this morning minus 24 and International Falls minus 0. Thats actual air temperature. High pressure fills in with arctic air and we just kind of continue with the cold stuff. Tomorrow, for the first dave the year, were only in the 20s. And tomorrows temperature 25. Thats with total sunshine. And the wind will be blowing two blustery. See this feature here that can come this afternoon and bring a couple of cold flurries and shouldnt be any accumulation that will happen later today and wind kick up as well and were dry. Well build in the cold High Pressure and lots of sunshine. Some sunshine today, 20s and later this afternoon maybe a flurry or two. Watch for that. And i wish i had a better 7 day forecast for. If you like it cold, thats good first week of the new 6 on wednesday that will be balmy and more arctic air comes again. Latter part of week. After next weekend we should start warming up a little bit. Highs are okay and lows are a little low. As cold as we get rights there. Thanks, gary. And all right. As you know, whether to battle critics or promote Administration Trump made headlines every single day this year through a series of non stop tweets. Kevin quirk has near Impossible Task of breaking it down and compiling a list of president s top sweets of 2017 take a look. Over 2400. Thats number of mostings from President Trump twitter accounts since he took office back in january. His most popular of the year, this one retweeted almost 370,000 times about cnn. And with that in mind, we he had fashioned our own top five trump tweets of the year ch checking in a one of the nfl owners when somebody disrespect the flag to say, get that son ever a bridge off the field right n now. Out. Hes fired. Hes fired. President s war on nfl anthem protest boiling over on the stump and online and m mr. Trump tweeting if nfl monies that are refuse to go to games until people stop disrespecting the flag and currenty you see change take place fast and number four the transgender ban they will not accept or allow them to serve in any capacity in the military. But some Senior Pentagon officials apparently did not get the Marina Marraco owe. How did you learn of the president s decision. Well, when he sentence out the tweets yesterday. Same way everybody else did, i saw tonight the news. Number three, beleaguered how he turned to Jeff Sessions in july. Sessions, who the president repeatedly ridiculed for russia probe seemed to take the hit in stride. Its kind of hurtful. But the president of the United States is a strong leader. Number two, lordy, tapes. Ive seep the tweet about tapes lordy i hope theres tapes. Tapes in the oval office. Jim comey testified he orchestrated leak of accounts of conversation with the president because he thought it might lead to appointment of special prosecutor to lead russia investigation about which the president tweeted james comey better hope theres no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Later the president admitted there were no tapes. Number one wire taps this explosive tweets lit up it up in march. Terrible just found out obama had wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Though critics how old at the suggestion that Previous Administration wire tapped trump tower evidence proved the government did xun caution of some trump team members. And what would a president ial tweet countdown be without mentioning cofifi you remember that that was just after midnight tweet back in may that spawned countless internet meemz and theories and trum is like so much else in life we dont know what that was all about. 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Second shot. Cant wait for it. Thats what the new year is about. Fresh starts we kish win i a greet new years eve. Stay with us redskins gametime is next. We just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. We did a lot of research online. We just need to have a designer put it all together. Mmm hmm. So, its really nice when clients come in and have. Done some of their own research. What do you think about these chairs and that table . Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Us being young professionals, were so busy. Theres no way we couldve designed it ourselves. No. We love it really . Theres no way we couldve designed it really . Es. No. Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. After going 58 first 13, today the redskins season comes to end on one of two notes. Its taking a eitherer with disheartening whim per in loss to 213 giants or skins can get Third Straight win fi finishing 88 on a streak that would have potential for a playoff run in 2018. Theres always potential every year there was potential last year potential care about results okay, josh. If youre looking for results its hard to overlook the season kirk cousins has produced. Today he can eclipse 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns. But is this his last game throwing tds in burgandy and gold. Why would you not want to be part of whipping brand and not build for the future. Why would you in any place you are why would you not think ahead. Were thinking ahead to the game in new york and next y years redskins game, with or without kirk cousins. Its game time, redskins gametime starts now. Did kirk cousins say he was not part of a winning organization. Guess hes leaving then. Im brody logan alongside grant paulson Will Montgomery and harvey. Today is the day, one final redskins gametime. One final gametime for 017 happy new year early its time for keys to the game. One last keys to the game it makes me wishful. So, again, we say this just about every week. But, to open up the pass which they love to do kirk cousins gets 4,000 some odd yardsty need to be balanced. They need to be balanced because sop of what they do is predicated on play action kirk cousins is highest rated p passer in the National Football league and play ak at its bheingt run sake respected this team when theyve been great mostly by throwing football and its been in games they run it enough to just keep a defense guessing. You saw that this past week and dont have to run for buck 30 or 40 frankly thats Mission Impossible for the group. If you can run it well enough to run it 18, 19 times theres balance. Without a doubt keeping defense guessing just a little bit. And enough for kirk to do his job. Hes a good quarterback a bad quarterback wobt be able to do that as good quarter back he can have a good game against the giants. First matchup turkey day 31 runs and 31 passes and harrison in the middle keep it up today. Its amazing shes so good endplay action without much of a running game especially last few weeks. Another thing if are you balanced and not putting the ball in the air maybe less chance fortuneovers. Thats always been you huge for the team de fen sufficiently theyre not g when thats the case you just cant get give possession as way you cannot put the defense in a position to have to protect short fields. You cannot go out on the field and end drives without a kick. Whether thats extra point or punt as will likes to say. By the way. I smell bacon right now. Doing something. I smol the bacon can we just do the tailgate section. Protect the bacon forget the turnovers protect the bacon im coming to eat it a all. With two teams average at best. Two teams at average best it will be the team who makes the least amount of mistakes. The team that makes the most mistakes you still have attitude of here we go again. Especially at the end like this you say why are we doing it. It will be the team that says okay we got take this and not make any mistakes and find out a way to win. You want to the eliminate the turnovers and keep kirk healthy and you have to make sure vernon and jpp are you know have a body on him and dont get those free rush around the edge and dont put tight end on vernon or jpp you want kirk to get through this game healthy. If euro fen receive lineman are you thinking oh, many have 100 odd some Million Dollars to protect behind me. Because you have to keep them clean. I remember when korey and Chris Chester and myself went on vacation later we were planning postseason vacation. I thought okay lets hurry up and get through the last game of the season it doesnt matter. Its modified exhibition game and the only thing you worry about is injury. Kirk has been for the most part healthy but he took a couple of big shots. Big hits. And you can see the pain is back when he got hit in the back he was down. So this game for him its important just to go out and stay healthy and you think this is where you can see offensive linemen love you or not theyre willing to sacrifice. I love the theme were Payton Manning he would go to the fetal position and avoid hits. Kirk, take a couple difficulties. Hes been hit more this year than any point during his career. Not just in terms of quantity but quality as well taken huge shots and theres been different points new or le leenss blow to the head where Chris Thompson you thought wow miss tam is time has president ial been the case. One thing that makes him viable durability and since being named starter for the redskins. Talk about that pass rush on giant. Redskins pass rush is great the last few weeks. Well talk about that and rest of defense when rereturn. Im redskins gametime. One final ride, people. Four 2017. Last of the [music playing] [beep] [beep] [beep] our members shop a little differently. So we reward every purchase. Lets see what kate sent. For you. For all of us. Thats for me. Navy federal credit union open to the armed forces, the dod, veterans, and their families. Welcome gametime on fox5. Im annie yu. Its time for redskins trivia question brought to you by navy federal. Ready . Heres the question. Theres only been one off officially retired number in redskins history. What is the retired number . Who did it belong to . Post your answer to the fox5 Facebook Page and well answer the question later in the s show. Brody. I know this one annie, its number 57. Oh, yes ken harvey. Number 63. Number 63. Happy new year annie yu. Happy new year ill see you in a bit. Shes still here. Its time to preview todays game from that 57 side of b ball. Kept harvey side of ball. What do the skins need to do to end the season on high n note. And hey in kent harvey style need a game tackle Everyone Needs to run to the ball. That was it. Cool. And at the end of the day post sign. The redskins are okay t team. I keep saying that. But in the sense oneonone tackle and players with this team and with defense everyone has to get to the ball because if one player misses you have to have come first knowing everyone will be there to back it up. Defensive result earlier in the year is doing all this whether they were getting stops. Its easier to do more of this and you have healthier speed and theyre on second and third tier at a lot of positions and naturally you wiont do a lot of things as well but i think this is particularly important when you have shifty dim inutive guys in the field and giants tonight have as many of them. The sworm factor is big deal other weeks you know where eli manning will be hes not mobile the giants will try to run the ball and keep the clock going own get off the field. Many of those guys checked o out. Theyre cutting players this week because they told the Coaching Staff reportedly they didnt want to play. Redskins defen d good job turkey day keeping giants o from under 100 yards rushing and continuing to tackle and eye Onen Kerrigan is he questionable, plague this week . Never miss aid game i guess he gives it a go. He wants to keep that streak alive. You need him out there. Eli, you know where hell be in the pocket you need to get to him. And if you get to him and Ryan Kerrigan it gives you a dozen sacks in the season and headeded to the pro bowl. Couple individual super activities here. And eight sacks on the rear year. He has a chance to get there the first time in his career and it would be a huge accomplishment in the team and jr. Playing for a contract. I love the way 58 is m coming off the edge now. One year deal would sign this off season and finally stayed healthy. He may not be back but hes playing for a job somewhere and money next it season and trent murphy will come back a free agent. That g enough group to ush rush the quarterback well if you are rush the d line next year. At the end of the day you got some guys who can do some real damage on the outside. The weakness will be if you cannot shore up the middle and so thats definitely something to look into for next year and the think i talent is there on the outside against the quarterback. And we keep talking about thisp giants team like you said guys get cut and fighting and not a good team. That said they have talent and you cant give them extra opportunities by letting them concert third downs. They cannot convert third downs thats one of the big stats third downs obviously turnovers and sacks and all of those things at the ipd of the day just get out of the game healthy and go plan your vacation. Get off the field. We know where your mind is at. And you were in florida last week you have a nice taken for some reason. Its makeup. 3rd down defense for the redskins last year 2016 was worsst nfl. Jay gruden said third defense worst ive ever seen literally theres never been a worse o one. You could have been alive at the day one of nfl and never seen a worse 3rd down defense. They improved this year and its still an area theyre inconsistent. Only weeks they play well thats a key for them. Which players could mean a win for the skins . Well let you know. Actually, this man will let you know. Grant slants coming up after this this welcome back to redskins gametime. Its times for grant slapts i give you the team to watch and stat of the day to keep tabs on. Redskins and quarterback kirk cousins. Is this his final game in washington. That is the big question for kirk cousins. Will he be resigned. Well the redskins want to pay him and does todays game have anything to do with answering that question. For me, if youre really evaluating him based on four quarters of week 17 of lost season youre probably not doing your job properly at redskins park. He has a chance to eclipse 14 yards and three touchdos posted some best numbers in a year where he had least amount of help and couldntbution from teammates around him and has a chance to finish strong today. Other quarters backs. Eli manning in the new york giants any giant to watch ill lust reus hall of fame career and multisuper bowl champion he was benched a month going before ben mcadoo was fired and the gm this week said eli we think will be here for a while as starting quarterback. Im not buying that just yet. They may want to go young with top five draft and eli manning against redskins perhaps one final time today. Curious to see what he looks like against a team. That had his number more often than not oaf the last few seasons. Stat of of the day a lot of people poke fun like this you did not win the super bowl im a tough guy and will stick my chest out. Im not tough and wont stick my chest out i like facts. A Third Straight season with eight wins for First Time Since 2001 and second time since 199 2. What does this mean . Well a Redskins Team that is largely been inept for the last quarter century since winning super bowls version 1. 0 of joe gibbs has a chance for third time in last 25 seasons to go three years without a losing record. Generally the redskins take a step forward and then mike a violent leap backwards. Jay gruden and kirk cousins avoided a step backwards as they slowly build this team. Big deal for this team and losing record for thaird straight season. Its not to say aarr great but youre okay. If you gone from bad to okay and ideally next is very good. Speaking of very good brody logan over to you. Would wants to be okay. Who wants to be in football puring torrey. I will be football tough guy. Im tough guy 88 not good enough even though this team goes 412 45 pounder. We have one of the biggest things about the redskins is well fight tour of kirk cousins. Well break that down when we come back. Back. At the d. C. Lottery, we not only love this place as much as you do, we heard you loud and clear when you voted for six new neighborhood scratchers. You could win 500,000 that may be used towards buying a home in your favorite neighborhood. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Welcome back to redskins gametime the biggest question as we prepare for off season involves kirk cousin and fupt tour cousins looking for a long term deal for a while and wants to be paid like top tier quarterback. If we look at the last three contracts which is what cousins is expecting from Redskins Front Office june of 2016 Indianapolis Colts andrew luck signed 6 year, 139 Million Contract came with 24. 5 million signing bonus and 87 million in guaranteed money and average annual salary that slightly more than 25. 5 million a year and now in june of 2017 Oakland Raiders quarterback derrek carr signed 6 year 126 Million Contract including a 2. 5 million signing bonus and 70 million guaranteed and average salary slightly more than 25 million a year and last contract was signed in september. Detroit lions quarterback stafford signed six year 151 Million Contract and came with 50 million signing bonus 9 million in guaranteed money and average salary of 27 million a year only play withoff quarterback luck signed best electricity but 03 playoffs and stafford and cousins are similar when you compare stats. This races several questions. Is kirk cousins worth that much money to the team and will we see cousins sign a contract similar or greater to staffords or is this end of cousins as a redskins. Lots of questions there. That was a lot of money that i had to get through. What are we doing . Were all resigning. What are we doing here . Why was i not blessed with football skills. Ill be here maybe. And so the thing is, the thing those others players didnt have they didnt enter open market with other teams bidding up that number. So theres going to be theyre going to be so many teams that need a quarterback coming after kirk cousins. First things to republican signed. I hear people say stafford got 27 million a year cousin should get that if same guy and he got that with cap was 178 million the cap has gone up 10 million he gets a raise its percentage of cap. Even if you sign exact deal stafford signed its closer to 30 million than 27 million because of inflation and hes had a better year than andrew luck that didnt play and sderk car taking a step backwards and hell ask for and deservedly get more money than those guys at that point. The way it works the latest guy to get paid gets the most money. Is he work the money you ask. No but my townhouse it alexandria is not worth what i pay for it either. Thats what the market dictates. In beginning of year you had knock against kirk cousin he has to do this or that everything we have said thats been a negative he answered thats what you wants in quarterback right especially under all the injuries your o line not there and not had a run game the way you wanted to do and hes asking those questions and its saying im available and ready to take care of things. Thats what i love about him. Will, lets me ask you based on what kens with saying is there a part of kirk cousins who say these guys didnt show faith in me they could have signed me to longterm goal years ago. I have a lot of other suitors there. Do you think his feelings are come into play or i would. I mean i would be happy i would say i want to ply play here but its about dlars and sglents there may be a small part of. It end of days is guaranteed money. What do they offer him last year guaranteed. 50 million. If they offer him in the the 80s, 90 million range he has to take a look at that and in this league you need a quarterback to win and quarterbacks are not cheap. If just pretenting and like we were saying earlier the last handful of years kirk and staffords numbers are similar. So you want to get paid equal to your peers and thats going to cost a lot. Remember the franchise tag number. They have a chance to franchise them a Third Straight year. They have done something unpress departmentsed and its 34 million this coming season. Hes making 24 million this year and 19 million last year. If im cousins and i can get 34 million by sitting why wouldnt i do that and push free agency back one more y year. Remember, cousins, his agent, his agent will bring the number up as high as humanly possible. Just because a good agent does that. Kirk may say emotionally i want to be a redskins and theres a number. Hes in a good position either way right . He is he has so much leverage theres not a lot of good quartsers backs in the nfl. And longevity 30, previously was like i dont know about 30 year old quarterback but top players in the league are playing into 30s. And cousins is meeting with chiropractors and spends its of thousands probably hundreds of thousands of dollars and sleeps in chambers and he does everything there is to do to for his body. Did you ever. Squats. Did you ever sleep in chambers. I hit Massage Therapy i. Chiropractors, theres always a long line at the chiropractors they would come in and game day and sometimes when they crack my neck im like dont do that so hard i want to do that. He has mental tests where he sleeps all night long and make sure is sleep patterns are good. Ive nev been around a player that spends more time and energy making sure he will be available. You have you are sitting and does he have that magical tom brady water that prevent sunburn look that up its ridiculous. I want a prediction from everyone. Where is kirk cousins in 2018. Im going to say denver. Okay. That is nice situation is for it. Ken, not here. Probably denver. I like kirk he texts me every once in a while ill s say. Big time. Pony up. Name dropping. He text mez every once in a while. Im with will, redskins put here. He sees what they have going on down in jacksonville on the defensive side and all they need is quarterback and mortals will be gone put them in swrak sonville in the sunshine. Will the season end . With a whip for kirk cousins in what could be his last game as a redskins. What do you see in the future of redskins. Hot takes when redskins gametime comes back. Welcome back to redskins gametime. Its the last week of the 2017 nfl season im brody logan alongside retired redskins ken harvey and Will Montgomery. They can still play. They can still do it. Hes still lifting. We heard these guys thoughts about todays game and heading into the 2018 season and we wanted your thoughts with toyota hot ta takes. This is fox5 hot takes brought uingt to you by local toyota dealers. So todays hot takes i wanted to assess this team in the the front office and coach is going into next year. We have joe green well showing off the guns. Said i like jay. We need to sign kirk to a long term deal we need two Wide Receivers and corner backs and breeland needs go. Breeland apparently they let him any we need every down back and stay healthy and most teams would have lost games this this situation and draft and free agency will be key. So i guess what he is saying is, yes we keep focusing on kirk cousins but theres other needs that need to be addressed. What is the biggest thing they need to shore up for next y year. You talk about draft and free agency and stay healthy you want all of that. Another pass rusher and another o lineman and receiver and i think as opening as you can get the best Position Available if they stay healthy this Redskins Team can beat the giants theyll have 8 wins a happened full away of being a ten win game. If they can stay helmy maybe it will be 11, 12 win team theyre on their way. Its committing to what you will do. Weve talked about it before. Its committing to say if kirk will be your guy its like what you said you build around that. You cannot keep going halfway in not our guy youll never build a team around somebody who is always a question mark. That will be part of the big issue. Speaking of kirk cuz and and is he the guy. Kirk will be back in 2018 but price tag will cost other high profile agents which will cause pandemonium with the fan base. Okay. And that kind of goes to the how much is kirk cousins worth. Its a certain percent am of cap and its less money to shore up other part of the team and like you were saying if this team get healthy isnt that like getting big time free agents coming in. I like the way the patriots do it he married and made more money than tom. Tom was reduced salary low millions and. Low salary. Hes taken a 10 million a year haircut. Kirk, whats the deal . With this team like you look at kirk. Good player. Great player. [m ed] abouter line been a great player. But is he the guy that will take you to the playoffs. Is he the guy that takes you to the super bowl. Thats what you look at in the big picture. A lot of people its like you know what hes not shown that. And if hes not that guy and you pay him that much money on the cap. That can be alba tros on your cap going forward. Like raiders may be saying i dont know about the car deal after this year. Michael stallnecker wrote were going to be in the exact same position as what we are in right now. So basically saying this is 88 type of team and if they keep everyone together theyll be 88 type of team next year. I want to keep this group of guys together. We have a great thing going here. With kirk and redskins you have a quarterback or dont. Guess what theyre expensive. You have to lot of money for kirk or if not you go with unporch guy and draft somebody ab starting all over about that guy get good and then decide whether or not to pay that guy. Just like said its bay bridge every year the same thing. This year has been a lot of injuries but year before was Something Else and year before Something Else the team is insane in the sense that they are doing something over and over again and not producing wins. Its 1000 times till the stone breaks. I love the quote redskins fans spoiled be careful what you wish for. Look how different this team wod next year. Browns would love to have the kirk cuz ib problem. Ray wrote kirk has to stay. Look at stats. If know football youll agree. I like the emogis. Coach give him a year and running back. Running back theyve been stopgap after stopgap guy you think you have the guy and then how much different would the team be with a Better Running game. Running game will help a lot. Especially if you can hand the the ball off and not put the stress on quarterback. Like viewers staying stats dont lie. Kirks numbers compared to staffords look hes done and say it all the time. O line banged up and receivers and tightened and running back how have all the piece around him fallen through. Kirk is still producing. Right we keep saying how much the femor different and but with the team we had i think kirk has done a great job. Is it should not be one and done they have opportunities to be good. Keeping this game competitive in every game but two. They did good job and rolling in players after active status being with the game for two days and you can imagine what kirk and jay could do with a i wail say this look at her picture and you can tell that type of quote came from here. Shes a nice lady. Looks like she has a quilt. Nice dog and flowers. We are happeneding out awards participation ward t time. Tailgate takes should get award for studio smelling g good. Jay gruden his job is safe apparently theyre offering jobs to assistants to keith them together the job jay has done with the injuries to get this team to 88 after 58 they could have quit what do think of the job of jay gr gruden. Nobodys job is safe, player and coach. The only one that has a good job is the owner. Theyre not safe. They can be cut and coaches can be fired and players cut. Every day youre on your job interview. He did a good job. You look at the team and injuries its easy for a team to go into the a good job keeping the team together. 88 is good record with all injuries not as great were basing it off all the years previously youre disappointed with the record we have. I said no ones job is is safe. Thats true in this business. Except for the job of annie yu and guy lambert. Thats a solid way to end our last show brody. The show is not over. Its last show of the year with my favorite people. Feel the love. Thanks so much, guys, lets start around the league on very serious note nfl revamped concussion protocol. Tell bus this. Finally a step in the right direction with nfl for so much negativity surrounding it i am glad they got this right up until today he would have to goed in the field and into a tent and to an independent doctor. All that khaichs as of today. One if a flare is well let say has cop cushion and starts seizure player taken off the field and cannot return for remainder of game and should a player have concussion and get up and somewhat stagger that player has to go to locker room to be scamened about a doctor. Third, nfl doctor will now sit at nfl command center and monitor all games. He or she can supersede any local doctor if you will and last but not least shall i say another nfl doctor will be at every playoff and super bowl. I feel like this should have happened sooner. But better late than never step it right direction philadelphia is not end of season is for a number of players but could be end of season for players on the same team were talking about San Francisco 49ers. Eric reed played safety. You may recall in 016 he was one of the first player toty knee wow believe hes done so every since only player to take a knee throughout the entire season 2017 what does that mean hes concerned whether or not he will be picked up by another team as you know he seems to think Colin Kaepernick was blacked balanced and he think its might happen to him. We have to plate. 2346789 fl delivered a late Christmas Present top one seattle sea hawk. They say its stand for not fun league i fwoing differentment were having fun none other than mr. Coleman here hell get interception there he goes pick six baby toy end zone after he does this he jumped into Salvation Army kettle that has to be f fun. Guess who did that last year none other than ezekiel elliot. He was not he was not fined this is wired to me but i like it were talking about the bobblehead President Trump a lot of folks play fantasy football annie and what you cannot see because its written small there it happens to say fake news. That is the trophy given to the person that well shall i say didnt do too well with regard to fantasy football. Theres a number of different ones. But so far they go for 100 bucks and 1,000 have bay bridge sold within the past five days and hottest item in nfl for fantasy football lovers. Do you think we could get ken, brody and will. It bobbles without that. All right. I dont think you want a trophy t like oh, di really win. Tlz one of the top terms of 017. I want a hamburger wrapped in donut. That will be your trophy. Thank you guy, thank you annie, well see you in a minute. Coming up on redskins game time this is is will eluded to its time for favorite segment redskins tailgate segment and got something new it all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. Were joined by tailgate ted. A new theme. We have cronuts. This is the one everybody was standing in line for. Is it super potential lar there i have not tried it. Remember when it was dominique something bakery. Yes what do we have here. Its a cronut pepper jack bacon cheese burger. I want to do pepper jack to cut through sweet and use coffee rub. Dwil well on that bite. I used coffee rub on to much burger to gets a little coffee player. Cover he and donuts. They say for new years to eat something circular to bring the new year full circle. Really. Weve been spilling it all morning. Looks like savery and stweet at the same time. How do you make a cronut the. Im not a bake are i couldnt tell you i went to three different bakeyes trying to find them. Where did you find them in this area. Shoppers carries them. Dunkin donuts does not and couple other places to not. I went to a couple last night. Anybody with cast iron and no method today. Not today. End with good sound ef effect. You have no idea yesterday was National Bacon day. This is double dipping here. Every day is something different. Happy new year and salute to the big that sacrificed his life for us here. And to celebrate the new years with you guys. Happy new year. Awesome. Will you go. Let me ask you im sure people out there got their first cast ir p christmas what is trick for longevity in cast iron pans. These can last a lifetime. People pass them down again rags to generations, dont use soap. Okay. Dont throw in dishwasher. I honestly scrub with watt wither words and use a spalt ula. Soaks in flavor over time. Yes. I stick mine in the oven. If you have a tough spot sea salt. You could use course sea salt but i use a spatula and reheat back up and use sea salt and spatula and you are reseason it in the oven, too. This would be a perfect hangover cure. Because bacon alleviates your brain if youre hurting tomorrow morning. If someone wants to throw this together no a quick way whats probably easiest way to do it if theyre hurting ooh ton tonight. Really, just stick the burger in plan there and simmer a little flip once and throw it on top of a doe nult whatever you may v. Danish. We had the weight loss segment two years ago going this is the secret eat two a day. You will lose muscle definitely. We threw bacon in there so its not just soft on soft. The bacon is really cr crunchy. Cast iron pan. Okay. How much sorry. I was going to say the sweet and savery or safer a arery and sweet. Why is that such a great mix. I love the different text turz of the differ players. Its busting with multiple players. Texture is big thing right. It is. Flavors are are good but you want to text it away. I like a nice crispy bacon bacon. Its really good ted thank you so much. Its last redskins gametime. It is. Ill miss you guys. Happy new year friend we enjoyed you all season long. Deal with the draft and when we come back we make predictions to the game and before we head to break its time to app the question of the day. We asked you earlier theres only been one retired number and who did it belong to number 33, nfl hall of famer sammy voun they played defensive back and punter for the redskins 1937 to 52. Well be right back. Think about con us cans in that helmet. That helmet. Pass pass is pass is its time for ex exfinty picks of the day and all season weve been picking from nfc east and after 16 weeks look at that up top. Logjam. Will tied for first with grant 3216 and one game behind 3 3117. Im trying be eight and eight you. Finished 25 and 25. 25. And last week of the get a win in the picks for the year. Game one cowboys eagles. This is a game that doesnt mean anything and eagles are probably be thinking more resting starters and cowboys want to go out with a bang. This will be last game of season. Winning and doing all pucks and gil with the cowboys also because ive been fourth so far. Redskins fans you may see nate suddenfeld on the field for the eagles. And ill take cowboys they want redemption earlier in the season. The game weve been talking about all morning long. Redskins and giants rematch of thanksgiving day snoozeer. Who do you have. Basically early preseason game one and stay i was actually at the park the other day and saw josh norman and he said you knee what were peaking but at the wrong time. I think it is redskins i mean they have a little more to play for and so i would go with redskins. I want to pick the redskins. Theyll probably win the game. Giants quit. But i have to do something to try to catch you guys. Ill say giants pull off a stunner at home and get upset. Except for your Dumpster Fire halloween. We will have some fun here. Whip or lose redskins 2017 season ends today and moving forward what changes do you think the redskins need to make. Lets look at offense 1st and lets say kirk cuz ins is with the team. And theyre looking free agency in the draft. Whats one position they need to go with. As a running offensive lineman i like a good rub game. Theres been a lot of good running backs some are hurt and who knows what theyll be ba n running back spot. Because those running backs can make two and three yard runs and maybe they can bump them out 5, 6, 7 yard runs and good running back can make the oline look fan tas sglik with a healthy line the running back with do the job and what we need is stellar receiver get up grab the ball and something you could share it with you. You see what happened when they lost 2, 000run receivers until they hit the stride they didnt have that guy. In the last few weeks you see having doddson and what he did. And what do redskins need to add on defensive side of the ball. If healthy i think defensive line looks good and line backers look good and if healthy unfortunately theyre not healthy we need to get them back the secondary i dent think anybody pay defensive line and interior if you can get fresher from inside out then that means kerrigan is getting more sacks and Preston Smith getting sacks. We see with the club on couple weeks ago there was not as much pressure. Inside of the defensive line you can never say much. Defenseive interior i made Preston Smith to do his stuff. Got me more possessions and offense. That does it for the surprise. Red skips play at 1 00. See you in 2018. Happy new year. I love you guys. Ill miss you guys. Its been a goodyear. Great year. This has been fox5 redskins gametime driven by bmw. Good morning welcome to fox5 on the hill. If you didnt know it its christmas ever december 31. We have so much to talk about. Were happy this new yours morning particularly today to wrap up what has been a momentous year. Unbelievable. Showing no signs of 2018 being any bit different as we head out there tonight. Lets the headlines as we begin sunday morning. Were starting with news overseas. Widespread antigovernment pro treingts taking place in major cities across iran. Protesters say theyre upset about a recent spike in food prices and iran weak economy President Trump tweeted several times about it most recently this it morning in support for antigovernment protesters. Important story to keep an eye on. Theres about a bomb shell report out of New York Times revealing what may have started the russia medaling investigation to begin with. Now, according to the times during the 2016 president ial campaign George Papadopoulos was already accepted guilty plea in this investigation reportedly drunkenly told australian diplomat that russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton at the time. At the time papadopoulos was Foreign Policy advisor to Trump Campaign and that admission was a driving factor behind the investigation. And vicepresident mike pence started vacation with s neighbors in colorado blasterd a rainbow banner that reads make america gay again at the end of drive way. He is staying at the mouse aspen for the holidays. And its been a momentous year and fascinating year and non stop. Feels like it wentz by in five minutes. It really does. Some of the thing that have gone on in 2017 and more importantly whats ahead on pike for us in 2018 voyn is us this morning are old friend democratic extragist drew litman and new to desk here this morning welcoming john the chair of Republican Party in virginia. And i want to start with you. Theres something really interesting going on in virginia right now. And unlike something a lot of us have ever seen before. You got a dead locked race in the 94th house delegates seat. Now last week they were going to d jar. Thats with held up. Now it looks like that proceeds again. This is Shelly Simons and david yancy republican and democrat down there new port news area and what is going on with this and will this go ahead now as we hear . Theyre going to do this . Youll draw names out of a glass bowl. Your prediction 50 50 shot of getting it right. 50 50 shot they take a canister and drop names into caber is and pull names out of. It now the key is loser of that draw can request another recount. Its highly likely this will nobt resolved before General Assembly in january. You have a lot ridingthon because of the controlled house. If you do a 50 50 split of republicans in the house you have power sharing which has happened before but its messy affair. Drew lets bring you in and look across the country i told you i loved your predictions i read. In the spirit your predictions democrat. You predict aid lot of good things happening for demo democrats. Arguably donald trump had good things happen for administration this year bad too as well of course and can you in the spirit of bipartisanship say anything you think may be positive to happen for Trump Administration or republicans in 2018. You predicted they would have a big loss in midterms. Is that just you being positive for party or you know could something good happen anyone light of tax reform and booming economy in light of things he can say i did well. I think ronica the answer is no. And the numbers dont lie. Trump is lowest Approval Rating at this stage is of presidency of any president ever. Democrats have largest lead on generic ballot since 198 when poling started. Would you go for democrat or republican in next race so the numbers are terrible for donald trump i will say the economy is in good shape economy down around 4 and inflation low. Not a lot of room for economic improvement which you might otherwise be hoping for. People mocked 4 . Maybe there is room. I dont think you get unemployment down to or 3 . I dont know its possible. So theres not a lot of room not like youre pulling out of recession and numbers improve drastically in a year. Theres not a lot of room for improvement and with economy the numbers are low. As you look forward to 018 we saw what happened in alabama and as i made the point a couple weeks ago not everybody gets to run against roy moore. You had a Gubernatorial Race and it didnt turn out the way you wanted it. When you head nationally you head to your party in important Midterm Election coming up next year. What message do republicans have to take out because it becomes increasingly more difficult from district deal with one state. What message do republicans take out of washington out of the state capitols in order to make a dents with voters in 2018. Tax bill was huge step forward. The biggest thing we have to way toy do again is appeal to suburban motors. This is what happened in virginia are in the governors race. We had a tremendous wave election for house of delegates that took away a large almost all of our majority and it happened in suburban dissglikts when you say suburban voters do you feel theres a perception youve been party of non suburban and either extreme rural candidate or somebody higher echelon of the rich skill. If i knew the answer we would have not lost so many seats. Great example locally here is barbara comestock district. Do you think shell hold that. I think she will. We had a 14 point victory her in 2014 in 016 shwoman continues to win elections and is hardest working congressional candidate i have seen it will be tight but shell hold it and democrats have a huge contested primary running up that. Democrats all yearlong i think story of 2017 is democrats trying to find their voice. Towards end of year you had more success than most. Does that continue to 18 again you dont get to run against roy moore in every one of these race as cross the country. Thats right i think despite conventional wisdom that democrats need Stronger Economic message democrats can succeed running against item trump and comstock is in High Education districts and resourceful politician. Those are the district democrats feed to take the house back. Drew litman thank you very much. John whitt back welcome to the show thanks for being with us we hope you come back in 2018 and were certain politics in enjoyed having you both. What is in store not only for you but healthcare in 2018. Been a lot of change this year and well start it all out. When we return fox news opt hill will be right back. Back. Health care has about a hot topic in 2016 and it will number 2018. President donald trump one goal was to eliminate obamacare. He thinks he got there partway through tax bill and there are going to be more arguments and debate. And where we are headed into the new year looking back on what we had. Associate professor of medicine Georgetown University and tharng you both for being with us today. I would actually like to start this conversation with issue that affects us locally because you know when were thinking about the conversations that we have on fox5and when we talk about health in america a lot of times it resolves around Opioid Epidemic. My question for you is when can we maybe sxrekt a turning point a think about local viewers fighting this and dealing with this crisis and so much in this region and these bigger National Conversations how do they affect the the crisis here at home. Hopefully thats an issue of bipartisan agreement. I think so. I think it s unfortunately weve seen so many death and Life Expectancy of population starts to decline instead of increase. This is astounding right we should be Getting Better in our Health Status and aging. But in fact were losing in part many younger people middle age people and older people to this opioid epi epidemic. How its dealt with requires all hands on deck. It requires federal government putting in resources and theres been some of that but not enough. We need states to really tackle it big time. And we need to really look at some of the underlying problems where the pharmaceutical industry is pushing opioid now for decades and unfortunately as something that is is something good and now we know theres been interference. This battle over obamacare raged throughout this year. A lot of the times the president you know threatening he will end it at one point the house was able to pass legislation that did not go through. Finally end of year we have a tax bill that removed the individual mandate. What is this going to do as far as crippling obamacare in the way that the president now claims that obamacare in his words is virtually eliminated. Has it been virtually eliminated. It will do almost nothing. Getting rid of individual mandate will not kick in until 20 19 effectively status quo remains same. My prediction for john q. Public doesnt have federal Health Insurance you pay higher premiums and higher dedubtibles and higher outofpocket expenses. Nat part will come because of individual mandate was dropped going forward. Again not this year but in the next year. Folks will no more likely roll off and give up that Health Insurance leaving sick people to raise causes. Was that not the your pinning that kept it alive. Now the government is no longer coercing Healthy People to buy something they dont want to buy. Ill different with that. Where going back to the Opioid Epidemic theres something President Trump m and his department has done they have not done. July of this year over 400 prescribeers were criminally prosecuted for opioid precipitation and senator sessions signed off on bill on item that only find llc 5 million for over distributing oxycodone. This is same thing as giving el chato and i whereing atic tote get out and going after street dealers. Prosecute heads of Drug Companies that profited for billson for this until we do that and theres fear like no fear with Mylan Pharmaceuticals what they cause for epipen. Until theres fear of criminal prosecution these drug Company Executives nothing changes. This is something we can agree on. There has to be accoun accountability. The conversation is additional i appreciate you bringing it here at home and maybe that will help. I dont know, well have to see. Regional politics and predictions wins and losers having to bring it closer to home in the dmv. Robert mccartney is up now. Watching fox news on the hill. Well be back after this [lance] it is absolute chaos out here . Dont know if you can hear me, [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. Brace yourself for the season of audi sales event. We just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it [vo] the season of audi sales event is here. Just kind of ties in very well. Audi will cover your first months lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. Welcome back to nox news on the hill. Its been a whirl win year in local politics and news and we have the person with the pulse on all of it this morning. Bob mccartney with the Washington Post. Youve been there for covering local politics for sometime. More than a decade. I loved your piece you write with predictions for the year and your quiz you give people. You put yourself out there and you wrote about the things i got wrong last year and things you got right last year. Whats your most confy accident prediction. Theres a lot of if that piece. My most confident prediction this is natural this sundays Washington Post my most confident prediction mural bowser will be reelected. Because she doesnt face strong opposition. I think people thought that vincent gray the former mayor might run against her. Most people seem to think now he wont. People think even if they did he would lose. That doesnt seem to be anybody else running against her. I dont think theres a whole lot of you know positive enthusiasm for her. Its just shes doing a good job overall. People think and they dont see any reason to change and nobody is chomping at the bit to try to replace her. And thats my most confident prediction. Bob, mayor becauseer is not the only one up for reelection this year. Governor larry hogan in 2018 will face voters and hogan was a surprise win when first elected president in democratic state. There is a slew of democrats that would love to knock him off. First they have to get through own primary. Give us your primary and general election. My is tough. Its fairly early. Lot of candidates. We have not seen who has money. We wont know for a couple weeks who is raising most opinion money. My prediction is baker county executive from Prince George county will win the nomination and he has a lot of name recognition in washington suburbs and a lot of support from the Party Establishment both attorney general brian frost and senator Chris Van Holland endorsed him i think baker has a chance to be democratic nominee. Wins in november. Thats a tough question. I saw your answer though you put i predicted hogan would win even though i think it will be antirepublican year withdrawals as we already saw in the november elections and in virginia theres a lot of ants eye trump feeling out there and he seems to have insulated himself a bit from that though he has zone everything he can do insulate himself hes governed as promised and popular and democrats i have not seen them really coming together in maryland very m much. Lets quickly go back to primary. One name i think may surprise ben gel is he has a primary voice they we dont see nat virginia. What is the Bigger Picture from progressive movement. I doe r know you didnt have prediction specifically on that. You cannot help but notice the voices and what they go on the primaries and what we dont know will happen in maryland you dont see him as victor. I dont see him as victor but so far early going hes putting on a strong showing. Ben gel is is former naacp president and sort of the progressive sort of Bernie Sanders kind of candidate in the democratic primary so far and hes just the fact hes doing so well in a state where Bernie Sanders did not do well is significant. We dont want to leave out virginia we talked republican chairman of virginia Barbara Comstock a lot of eyes nationally not just locally are on that race over in loudoun county. Shes a republican. Its going to be a tough Midterm Election. Barbara comstock does she retain her seat. I dont think so. No . I heard the Republican Party would come through. Why . Shes seems to have come on on leading voices in sex harassment issue. Yes but that was when shes also been trying to play a leading role on metro. Yes. But the antitrump feeling in the Democratic Party is so strong as we saw in november and that is a very. Weve been watching that district change over the ye years. That district is changing blue. I love your guts it pout it opt line. Thanks for being with us to today. Real pleasure. All the best toou happy new year. Well have you back next year to judge validtive predictions. I didnt do so well this year. Fox news onle hill coming up writing back riting back whatever you were about to do just became whatever youre about to do after you get coffee. Nothing comes before coffee. Thats why were introducing a new line of cafequality espresso drinks from mccafe. Get a small peppermint mocha for just two dollars. Welcome back. Now a friend of fox5 youve been covering the hill and president youre with us to talk about your predictions of 018. The russia probe obviously this weekend with news about George Papadopoulos, these developments seem to be coming fast and furiously. We are waiting for a holiday surprise and what can we expect in 2018. Does muller hit the grounds running again or are we in a dormant period. For a while. One thing we can expect the president legal team will be proven wrong and one thing we have been predicting this probe is about to end for sometime and they even predict today would end by end of this year and i dont think that will happen. This is something less i appreciated your prediction for democrats taking back the house and not the [ you may have heard earlier in the show we had a democratic statgist on that thinks there will be a clean sweep. Tell us about differentiation you made and why you think it will be that way. Essentially in the Senate Democrats have to have a lot of competitive seats ten or 11 depending how you count it they have a chance of gaining two seats in the senate and thats a complete contrast with of 24 to take control of the house in 23 district and Hillary Clinton carried those by republican kuvrmently th there. Do you think Midterm Elections coming up will make democrats less willing to work with he president on things like infrastructure and daca. Yes is short answer it plays better to the Democratic Base to oppose the president. Theres no real political incentive. Lets talk about the white house. They were changing senior staff like people changed socks there for a while. And john kelly came in midway point through this year that seemed to ease a bit. Does 018 look like a more normal white house staff or do you expect more of this of what weve seen in upper end turmoil. I would say normality is relative term. And obviously this first year is very unusual. Do i expect there to be more staff changes partly because its just exhausting job but also because President Trump likes competitive real quick daca is there a fix in the works before this deadline hits in march. I think there is. All democrats want and a number of republicans do. We have a new normal now that trump is in the white house. We do or abnormal. However you wants to look at it. 2018 is around the corner, thank you so much nile for being with us we appreciate it you know well you have back next year. That good it for us. We wish you all a happy new year. This is final show of 2017 of course well be back next week before we do, we want to leave you something a little bit special today. The 42 streetcar oling Company Joins us with a rendition of one of the classic new years eve songs. Nobody knows what this it song means. But this is olangsine we look forward to having you all yearlong and look forward to having you sundays on fox news on the hi have a lot of bipartisan work done and maybe we start with infrastructure. Dana what are the odds republicans and democrats can find Common Ground . We hope the future will be different and a republicans friends realize that legislative and political roles are better served by bipartisanship and compromise rather than quick gridlock a s