On wall street huge job increase sent stocks soaring. Thats what radical means call me a radical. Video of everyones new congressman what is beautiful absolutely nothing have a nice day. Pete i have already had too much. Thats enough. Cut it off. Jedediah one minute in. Pete spin for me, ed. Ed i got no backup. You always tell me you are a great dancer. Jedediah sometimes you have to sit back and let somebody else take the show. Ed you guys did a great job on new years eve. Pete we did have fun. Jedediah i was warmer than him because i was in inside. Ed happy new year. Welcome back to the couch. Jedediah great to be here. Pete there is nothing going on. Ed one story after another. Big for the president yesterday. The jobs numbers that no one saw coming were going to get to that but first the wall. The president giving his most forceful case for the wall perhaps ever. This is something he has talked about since the campaign. He has been doubling down since. But, yesterday, basically dec
It hits the upright again. Thats impossible. The winner of the first annual Carol Burnett award. Can i look back and say once more im so glad that we had this time together. Thank you. The trumpets they go. Steve i love looking at that montage Carol Burnett a pioneer at the end she pulled on her ear which was originally a signal to her family hey, i love you. Now the whole world knows about it. Now she has her own award. Ainsley we will get to. So Golden Globes from last night and some of the speeches. Brian and some of the stupid speeches like Christian Bales. Steve wasnt very political. The host said we are not going to get political they did not. Brian but he did. He did cheney. Ainsley im sure everybody at home watched. Steve one of the awards i only saw one which means to show you im busy watching tv. Ainsley brian has seen one movie over the course of five years and he talks about it every day. When bohemian ma rap is i won he could talk about it. I can stop talking about fred cl
Are not people who love this country. Its possible that Jussi Smollett may stop cooperating with police and police could seek an arrest warrant by taking the case to grand jury. Monster winter storm today nearly 1,000 flights already cancelled. Im top of the world steve i dont know about on top of the world but we are here on top of the studio. Brian imagine dragons and hundreds of people. Steve we know a lot of the country today is having cloudsy weather on this wednesday. Thank you so much for starting it with us. Ainsley janice is going to tell us all about it flights have been cancelled already and we will give you details. Our top story this morning the Washington Post being sued by Nick Sandmann and his family and lawyers the guy from the Covington Catholic school for 250 million. Steve thats right. Our first two stories this morning first about the covington situation and then about Jussi Smollett out in chicago essentially in the rush to judgment the Mainstream Media apparently
Can tap into, to get that wall. Well get into that. Laura will be joining us in just a few moments over the phone to give her thoughts on what transpired tonight. First we go live to capitol hill where david spunt has the details on how all of this went down good evening tammy. Big night on capitol hill before President Trump signs that legislation in the morning which were told he will as you just mentioned, House Speaker nancy pelosi just actually signed it on capitol hill. Now its on its way to the white house. The vote totals, 300 yays for the spending bill, 128 nays on. That it was comprised between republicans and democrats, the majority of democrats. The Senate Passed the measure 8316 earlier today. Spent most of the day in the senate. On the president getting ready to declare a National Emergency, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell made it clear he had assurances from President Trump that the bill would be signed. This bill calls follow 1,373,500,000, 55 miles of fencing along the
Customs and Border Protection commissioner will be the acting secretary. Bill Garrett Tenney, why did the president make the call now . Hello there. Good morning to you. Going back to last year, there have been almost constant rumors what Kirstjen Nielsen was on the chopping block but President Trump asked for her resignation as this growing crisis at the southern border continues and he felt like he needed to take a more aggressive approach to fix it. The president wants the toughest cop around on Border Security. He didnt feel like nielsen fit that bill. Back in november he told Chris Wallace that he wished she was more the president said he wanted to go in a tougher direction. Whats not clear is how much more of an impact nielsens replacement can make. The nielsen alluded to that in her Resignation Letter saying i hope the next secretary will have the support of congress and courts in fixing the laws that have impeded our ability to fully secure americas borders and contributed to d