Doing it but, the truth of the matter is, the totally appropriate thing for him to do, to call around to the banks because of what happened in 2008. the best thing about the united states, we restructured our banks and balance sheet. look what s going on in the europe peep banking system. no one talks about. this but look at the devastation taking place in china. that stock market is down 35%. the currency is getting crushed. what the president is basically shown people is that the united states 25% of the g.d.p. is still in control of the global economy. he would just like fairness in trade. he is not looking for being aggressive. he is just saying hey, your tariffs are up here. ours are down here. moves your down or we will move ours up. i don t understand why that is a big deal to all of these people. is he playing a long game. so it s upsetting the markets temporarily but you have got to give this guy credit for seeing this thing out for 1, 2, 3, 5 years. he is trying to adjust a 4
Soldiers out of syria. brian: it s official who thought the president would back off. january mattis made it clear they are coming out. he says he will be out of the white house sooner than he thought. griff: gillian turner is live with the latest. lisa: hi, gillian. gillian: my three favorite people on one couch. no offense to anyone else. you are awesome. all right, so a senior defense official confirming to fox news yesterday that outgoing defense secretary jim mattis has signed orders to pull all-american troops out of syria during the coming weeks. pentagon officials though declining to share any specifics of the plan, citing security reasons. roughly 2,000 u.s. troops remain currently in syria. president trump said defense secretary mat tis will be leaving in one week. essentially forcing him out two months earlier than expected. the president tweeting: i m pleased to announce that our very talented deputy
50 year trade imbalance. griff: whether it s trade or what s going on in syria, yesterday governor chris christie was on the sunday shows and he said this whole style of governing, no one should have been surprised. take a quick listen to this. what they voted for was washington to be upended. that certainly happened. john, that s my point. this hysteria about oh, i have never seen chaos like this. 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 expected. people who voted for him, if you talk to people who are supporters of him they like this. brian: anthony, thoughts? i would i would just add to paragraphs to what the governor just said. the president s policies by and large stepped back are all common sense related. they are actua
Lisa: remember, secretary nielsen said 500 criminals among the caravan. i saw a stat amnesty international 80% women experienced rape. a lot of women take birth control before going on trips. that s the situations they will face. clearly very dangerous journey. griff: i had a migrant tell me specifically on camera. i have to look to see if i can find it, this has become a mess down there, is he going to wait until a time on the border might be a little more lax. he said christmas eve and new year s eve while the border is shut down. when all of this is going on by the way my colleagues in the media. lisa: they are going nuts. griff: they say this administration is in chaos. this is democrats and the media talking about this administration. let me just say, this the president, he is unraveled. things are unraveling. donna. this is more than a wall. is he not behaving like is he fit for office. we may look back on the mattis resignation as the beginning of the functional
Shopping deals and commercialization of the holiday. brian: our next guest joins us with a message of the true reason for the season, joining us right now fox news religious correspondent contributor this is just one of your two jobs, father jonathan morris. father. it s a joy. not a job. brian: you want to be happy but you want to make sure america catholics are focused on the right direction. not just catholics, anybody celebrating christmas we have to go back and say what are we celebrating? for example, hanukkah, i would love it when people say happy hanukkah to me, especially if they can give me a reason why they are celebrating. it s a beautiful thing. same thing with christmas. what we are celebrating is something very simple. an historical fact that a child was born in a town of bethlehem. some of us believe that that child is divine, that he is our lord and our savior and that god became man. in fact, let s go to the verses in the gospel of luke