ployy. the midterms are over. caravan still an issue. carchaos is taking place. there is no election. and video shows it. what i m just wondering is, there is a miscellaneous portion of the budget. is there a so-called what democrats call a slush fund. there might be other money out there, $400 million that might go on top of the 1.6 that could give the president close to 2. and if he can get 2 billion up from 1.3 billion. that could be considered a win. if he keeps if the democrats want to say we kept them from five and far from 20, which he wanted. they could consider that a win. but the question is, and you would know best, lisa, do the democrats increase their leverage once nancy pelosi takes over? lisa: yes, they do. that s why i think congress, they are going to hold off from striking any sort of deal until the next congress because they do get additional leverage with democrat controlled house.
attacks here. nobody was clamoring to get 2,000 people out. griff: all the way back to april there were headlines. brian: if you don t mind, i would like to add this. conditions on the ground. conditions on the ground they are t not down yet. first time isis flag is flying over a city in that area the president loses re-election. they don t talk about tax cut or the economy or unemployment. they say isis, al qaeda, 9/11. there is a connection. lisa: all right. well, i m sure we will get to this later on in the show for now. for now we have jillian mele with the headlines. jillian: good morning. merry christmas you guys and to you at home as well. a miracle at sea days before christmas a royal caribbean cruise ship rescues two sailors in the ocean. spot. crowd because of bad l the sailors were not hurt, it s
i watch all the sunday shows. he is always the voice of sanity there. is he not an apologist. he will call out president trump when he has a problem with it why is anyone surprised? listen. what they voted for was washington to be upended. they hate washington, d.c. john, that s my point. this hysteria about i have never seen chaos. this is what the american people voted for. they said that the way washington was being run by both parties. they wanted a disrupter. they wanted a disrupter and now they have got a disrupter. now people may decide they don t like this much disruption. don t tell me this is not what people suspected. supporters of him they like this. lisa: griff, can i ask you a question? do you think is the administratiotrumpadministratiot chaotic pay more attention just because entrepreneurship is who he is by nature. griff grit as an observation as a reporter who covers this for fox & friends
i feel so happy. jillian: air force lieutenant colonel alfredo laboy spent the last six months in the middle east. he will be hope in florida. catching a grinch at a school in nebraska. officers staging the chase for the kids. the grinch eventually ended up in handcuffs. accused of stealing christmas. look at that brian. brian: thanks a lot, jillian. i owe you a favor. overnight james mattis signing orders to pull all remaining troops out of syria. this just hours after the president confirms mattis will leave the white house january 1st not the end of february like he wanted. to say our next guest says there is nothing for america in syria and agrees with the withdrawal argument. we haven t defeated isis by taking its territory. fox news contributor andy mccarthy has most high profile terrorists including the blind sheikh. that was the beginning, many people thought, of understanding the terror threat here at home.
combination. anybody you talk to outside of washington tells you and you guys have been to the border, too, tells the border is effective. go to israel the border is effective. have you set up a barrier, it is effective. griff: just to add to that your point, the border patrol officials, and i have been down there a lot this year say we need three things, infrastructure, technology and ma manpower. what you see in the shutdown is democrats denying the border patrol. brian: symbolism. griff: need this component to secure the border. brian: i also want to find out what the viewers think. is that okay? lisa: i think. so. brian: tell us about the shutdown. how long are you willing to wait? does the president lose leverage if he goes past january 3rd. did what the house throw out $5 billion and ends up with nancy pelosi giving him nothing. lisa: let us know whose side you are on in this fight. lisa: james mattis signing the order to pull u.s.