and it s just terribly arrogant and it s destroying families. what do you mean he gave you a 50-minute notice? i got a call from secretary jewell saying 50 minutes from now the president is going to designate the monument. that s the notice that we got that this was actually going to go down. have you had any correspo correspondence with the president since you since that letter? no. since april we ve been asking, all of us, orrin hatch, senator mike lee, the governor, we got assurances from the chief of staff that no decision had been made on december 12 but obviously they put this in motion a long time ago. it s aneffected people in utah d nevada and across the nation. i hope that president-elect donald trump will do what he said he was going to do and reverse these executive orders. this midnight monument, it has to go away. it just has to. thanks for coming. thank you. up next, new numbers showing
we have the story tonight from the white house. reporter: speak up, that s the word from interior secretary sally jewell, imploring sciences to confront climate change deniers, especially if president-elect donald trump tries to sideline climate research. make your voices heard and make them relevant to the people that you re to. we have a president-elect who likes to win. we cannot win without good science. reporter: jewell, the top steward for public lands said the warning was in response to the president-elect himself who has since tempered his skepticism but on a number of occasions called climate change a hoax. i think it s a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money. in the meantime, china is eating our lunch because they don t partake in all of the rules and regulations that we do. reporter: critics have expressed concern that the trump administration will be more protective of the interests of big energy than the environment, noting that his choices to run s
block the nomination unless the secret legal opinions are handed over. and continuing to say they ll work with capitol hill and offering no details whether those documents will ultimately be produced, alisyn. catherine herridge, thank you so much for that update. coming up just minutes from now, there s new reaction from the man who used to head the justice department. you may remember former attorney general alberto gonzalez was criticized repeatedly during the bush administration on the legal justifications for the so-called enhanced interrogation, foreign surveillance and many other tools in the war on terror arsenal. he joins us to talk about the heat that he took, now that legal experts admit our current president s plan goes much further. we are just taking a look at the white house now because there are some more changes coming to the president s cabinet. you re looking live at the white house where the president is announcing sally jewel as his pick to lead the interior depar
the ceo of rei, of course, a well-known outdoor recreati recreational, and the at one time worked as a petroleum engineer at mobile, if confirmed by the senate, jewell would replace ken salazar. for more on this announcement it s streaming on our website at foxnews.com. all right, meanwhile, there s a troubling record this week ago the number of americans collecting disability checks height a new record high. the social security administration 8, 830,026 people, the straight months that workers getting these benefits have gone up. the numbers on who is collecting and how long they re collecting. melissa francis, she is the host of money with melissa
harridge joins us. we ll talk about health care legislation and what is the head of congress. washington journal starts now. . homeland security secretary said collaboration on many levels must occur in counter terrorist threats to the united states. democratic homeland security committee member jane harman from california says president obama s approach sophisticated tradecraft. the new york post says it is time, prez, for you to get serious. in our first minutes together, your thoughts on the president s handling of the terrorist threat. host: you can call us what that information, if you want. you can also send an e-mail. or if you follow us on twitter, don t forget, you can make your response is there. this is the op ed this morning in usa today from homeland security secretary general napolitano. the headline says the u.s. will find and fix system vulnerabilities. she goes on to write that this really makes a more critical we work at all levels. host: there ar