the end of what we have known as the trump presidency? president trump roller coaster instincts plunged into washington into chaos. griff: while the media is freaking out, what should the average american take away from all of this? well, we will find out. pete: thankfully the guardrail is always off this show. let s ask our own captain chaos dan bongino host of the dan bongino show and author of spy gate. i didn t give you captain chaos name. it was in the teleprompter. what? finding some truth to that. pete: dan, what do you make of the freakout? listen, the media is all in on activism. can would he be candid now. journal is dead. the trump has highlighted it trump didn t start the slow death of the media s credibility. he made it more obvious to people. pete this is a perfect example. i know national defense and
everyone is putting the blame on him at this point. we have got to be able to keep the blame on congress where it belongs. this should have been done a long time ago. we had five appropriations bills already done. they were done months ago on time. these last seven were not done. we were bickering about border security. we need to get it done so we can get it over to the president s desk. griff: senator lankford, thank you for taking time. good luck. get this done and merry christmas to you. merry christmas to y all as well. griff: media in panic mode this week. the world is less safe today after the dramatic resignation of the last human guardrail. guardrails are down. the chaos has been unleashed. is this the beginning of the end? griff: dan bongino is fired up about the media s reaction. he is live coming up. and you may have heard of super saturday or panic saturday. we are live with last-minute shoppers. that coming up one thing tell me your love is here it s all i
you guys are just making this stuff up. it s not journalism, griff. i m sorry. it s just not. pete: dan bongino, i m going to give you promotion. not captain chaos. you are major chaos. listen, i love that thanks, guys. pete: merry christmas. merry christmas. griff: lebron james taking shot at nfl owners and their slave mentality. pete: listening to all this shut down talk, who doesn t need a drink? i don t need a shutdown to get a drink. here is another excuse. one bar in our nation s capital putting out crazy cocktails. full look at hilarious menu coming up next. jedediah: we have ice drink on fox square this morning. that s coming up. good. and not so good.
bring expenses currently. if you have a mortgage deduction, for example and can you still take that deduction because it is limited, try and bring it in prepaid if you can. if you have income that you think you might be getting this year but can you defer it to 2019, go ahead and do it, pay taxes for it next year and avoid it this year. jedediah: thank you for saving money. you got it guys, merry christmas. griff: still ahead, do you want to start a pot selling business? taxpayers could end up paying for it we will tell you where. pete: great, subi subsidize more bad ideas. langford and dan bongino both here live coming up on this saturday shut down addition of fox & friends
them now back story. pete: they ignore them completely. donald trump jr. wikipedia story. mike flynn story when he called the russians. these aren t small stories, griff, these are big stories. and it s meant to paint this apocalyptic tone in the trump administration and it s just not true. pete: it is a fair point, dan. i remember being down in southern mexico and the leader told me i will talk to you, fox news, where are your colleagues? where is cnn? where is msnbc and they weren t there at that time. griff, griff, i m sorry, i m not trying to hijack your segment here. you were down there. you did great work by the way i m not necessarily kissing your butt. you did a great job. had you an interview with a guy who admitted to being a very serious criminal and yet when you brought up the simple fact on interviews, me doing other interviews with other people saying hey, not everybody down there is a criminal. obviously. large majority aren t. but there are criminals. here s the inter