[laughter] they seem to have reindeer antlers. Chris even if its not snowing. Melissa and have the red and green tie. Youre bringing the whole thing, and we appreciated. Love it. Lets get to it. Some are public and senators visiting the white house today ahead of the highstakes battle, President Trump urging Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell to use the socalled a Nuclear Option to pass the spending bill, which includes more than 5 billion in funding for the border wall. The white house stepping up pressure on lawmakers to deliver on the president s Signature Campaign promise. Here is White House Press secretary, Sarah Sanders. Speak of House Republicans delivered a huge victory last night for Border Security. We are very hopeful that the senate will come through and help protect the market people. We need a wall and we need Border Security in order to have that. We have to protect people this country. The president is going to stand firm and make sure that happens one way or another. Mel
The country illegally. Senator Lindsey Graham hearings on the planned withdraws of u. S. Troops in not only syria but afghanistan. The shadow you had by out imminent resignation of james mattis. Man climbed the National Christmas tree and wouldnt get down. Merry christmas, washington. Cold as ice you know that you are cold as ice. Pete wow, that is fox square formerly known as the plaza transformed into an ice skating rink this morning. Jedediah that looks beautiful. Im so excited. Griff i have goose bumps i dont know if its foreigner or ice. Fondest memory as a child 10 years old my parents brought me to Rockefeller Center you dont know how to ice skate i lacied them up anyway. Pete how did it go . Griff i dont know. I was 10. Conjures up memories of christmas and new york city. I cant wait to go ice skating again. Pete are you an ice skater . Jedediah im all right. I did notice producers say jedediah is going to try some harder stuff. I dont know how thats going to go guys. If i fall
What the American People want us focused on in washington, d. C. Is the kind of things i was talking about, at the steel factory today and on a farm here in minnesota. They want us talking about this growing economy. They want us talking about making america more secure. I really do believe and i hope that congress will get the message that well move on. Ellison barber has the latest from the white house. Ellison . Hi, jon. The department of treasury says they have their subpoena, but officials would not comment beyond that. President trump is talking and commenting on this on twitter writing in part quote i won the 2016 election partially based on no tax returns while im under audit and the voters didnt care. The radical left democrats want to again relitigate this matter, make it a part of the 2020 election. The chairman of the house ways and Means Committee says his committee needs to see six years of President Trumps personal and business tax returns. He said quote after reviewing
And brian. I had to switch it. Steve the person staging it person over here had the trophy we were out of position. Ainsley sorry about that. Pete it was a needed event. Thank you everyone who came out. Steve ran into a lot of people at the airport. They either saw the livestream on fox nation or they watched our post game show yesterday. Just absolutely loved the way we saluted all the patriots. Really good fun to stand on stage and see all of those first responders, people who fought for our country. It was nice. Steve meanwhile, the headline here in new york city, ka bloom mike wall bloomberg is about to people down to alabama to start Gathering Signatures so he would qualify for the primary there it sounds like he wants to run for president because he thinks, first of all, joe biden is weak and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren cant win. Ainsley deadline is today to file for the alabama primary. The democratic primary which happens in march. The deadline is today. He went down th
Ill get into that. Then ill talk about mueller is now in active negotiations to testify. We begin the pressure on House Speaker pelosi. House democrats are privately lobbying her to begin impeachment proceedings. This is more credible because it is not posturing. It is reports coming into public view. All of this comes as White House Counsel Don Mcgahn refused to comply with a legal subpoena which is pushing some Top Democrats over the edge. Our subpoenas are not optional. Mr. Mcgahn has a legal obligation to be here for this scheduled appearance. Let me be clear. This committee will hear his testimony even if we have to go to court to secure it. The pro impeachment caucus arre arguing the best way is through an impeachment probe. The Washington Post states at least five member of pelosis Leadership Team pressed her in a closed door meeting, asking to at least let the Judiciary Committee begin impeachment proceedings. Then later in another meeting, jerry nadler, who you just saw at tha