[sighs] adam: all along the coast rain here this morning. there are a couple of flurries back up across upstate new york and upstate michigan. a few places where snow is going to be in the forecast. rounds of the system rolling off stretching up into oregon and seattle. higher elevations that does become snow. we have winter storm watches and warnings stretching across that region all the way down into portions of central california. this is an area where there will be snow. most of the country and middle of the country it is going to be completely clear. if there is a little bit of a glass 4568 full travel. anyone doing travel it will be mostly okay. brian: 18 minutes now before the top of the hour. griff: 70s secretary mattis signing orders overnight to bring our troops home from syria. andy mccarthy says it s the right move. he will join us next. lisa: one military father gives his kids the ultimate christmas gift. [cheers]
holy night all is calm all is bright. jillian: the song first debuted at christmas eve mass in austria in 1818. the lyrics were written by a catholic priest. so happy birthday, i guess. lisa: great job. brian: lisa, you sound surprised she did such great job. not like the other one did you in other weeks. lisa: that s not true, jillian. brian: wait a second. we have to talk about griff s family. griff: we have to talk about cringe worthy christmas cards, right? you get these in the mail. some of these are really, really tough. lisa: what does yours look like. griff: put mine up. so my wife owns a stationery business. there it is right there my daughters and dog wraf was rasce
Mulvaney and senator jeff merkley. we moved off of the five. we hope they move up to 1.3. the ball right now is in their corner. the senate democrats have the ability to open the government and agree to the deal. the american people want to spend money in a smart way. let me be clear democrats are not going to agree to funding to build border wall. none? that s correct. none. lisa: i think for a lot of americans signatures at home. this is what they hate about congress. just the dysfunction. a lot of people are seeing what happened with the migrant caravan and seeing people trying to rush the southern border, aha this is why we need a wall. this is why we need a physical structure to prevent people from doing just that. so i think a lot of people see this is silliness from congress. brian: when you have a farm bill which is needed in many respects. unfold $400 billion. it s so much money. and then you say how much do we need for the border which is obviously not an election
Scaramucci out there to do the job. it will take me less than 11 days but i will break that thing up for you. brian: anthony, your book is out. trump the blue collar president and that personifies why is he successful and resonates with so many working class and so many in middle america. let s talk about. so messaging coming out of the white house. the markets see what s happening with mattis. they see what s happening with the trade deals and they think it s chaos. is it? it s not chaos. it s basically the president is probably one of the few people that s willing to play a long game as opposed to all these little blings and ticks in the market. long game on trade. long game on middle east strategy. one of the reasons why he is pulling out. you saw it right here. he doesn t want to put these people in harm s way unnecessarily. in his opinion, he has disseminated isis and time to pass the baton on to people in the region to secure the rest of the.
President blistering the chairman of the fed. rotating a guy who has 85% approval president pentagon general mattis. as well as a trade war with china. these are all things that are causing people to say i cannot believe all these things are happening at once. brian, i ask you this, chaos assumes disorder. disorder assumes uncertainty. what were you not certain about? i mean, seriously did donald trump not run on this stuff? you don t have to agree with it, that s fine. you are all smart folks and have your own formulated opinion. i ask you very seriously, what part of that agenda did donald trump not run on? he has been talking about interest rates forever. he was a real estate guy. he ran on pulling out of syria and disengaging globally from some of these commitments. he ran on immigration. brian: judging by conditions on the ground and nobody thinks isis has won. nobody thinks that we have beat isis. brian, isis is not a