Ends of the state burn out of control prompting records as the death toll rises. Is north korea moving ahead with its Ballistic Missile program . New satellite images to show you, separate fact from fiction with daniel hoffman. Welcome to fox news at night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. Almost a week after the highstakes midterm elections result in florida for the senate and governors race, still days away, one top election official says she will not make the thursday deadline. Lawsuits are piling up. We begin tonight, phil keating live in florida, good evening. Reporter sorting of ballots, 31 2 million pieces of paper, continues tonight but the actual recounting of broward votes has yet to even start even as other florida counties have already completed their recounts. Taking a live look inside the building behind me they are going through them, sorting the ballots which are multipage, they are taking page 1 out that has the recount on it, they get their own stack which is ready to
Parkways but because key members of congress, the government refuses to budge, they are not being paid. The most powerful senator, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says nothing will happen in the senate until President Trump and Senate Democrats reach some kind of an agreement. So thats the state of the country. Three days before christmas. The government partially shut down. With the people able to restart it not blinking. Theyre arguing over money to build the president s wall. But overseas, an entirely different level of chaos and crisis. U. S. Allies and of course adversaries reacting to the sudden resignation of defense secretary james mattis. He quit. He says he cant agree with the president. Also, today, the man in front of the u. S. Led war against isis, president ial envoy brett mcgurk, he is also out. He says he cant agree with the president. Now, if all of that was not traumatic enough, this has been the worst week on the american stock markets since the financial crisis that
And im sad for all the people who sacrificed in the way they have in something that was being won. One of the concerns i had from the outset with syria is that officials with the Obama Administrations and pentagon at the time could never give me a straight answer whats our objective. Congress never authorized it. Thats a problem and why i applaud President Trumps decision. Bill kevin, good morning. Whats up . Good morning. I can tell you this, when you go to background briefings on topics like these it is clear the man who occupies the building behind me takes in the information and he and he alone makes the final call. In the case of syria, it is clear saying were done. Enough is enough. Let me take you to twitter and share a bit of what the president has to say about this topic. I think this and another tweet will really lay out his thinking on this topic. He said this, getting out of syria was no surprise. Ive been campaigning on it for years and six months ago when i publicly wante
I dont. I dont believe mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt. Some have said, on both sides of the aisle, that it looks like a job application. I also think over the past 18 months you, rather harshly, prejudged the investigation and some of your writings. Do trust him to be fair to the president and the country as a whole . Yes. Thats ludicrous. If i wanted the job and was going after the job, there are many more direct ways of me bringing myself to the president s intention. You also publicly criticize the russian probe. However i criticize the russian probe . You dont have any criticism close to mexico not at all. Melissa chief Intelligence Course on an Catherine Herridge is live on that with the latest. We are just in the pods right now of those confirmation hearings. To recap, william barr made clear this morning that it will be a priority for him to safeguard the special Counsel Robert Mueller investigation. He said that any final report should be public to the full exten
An acting defense secretary in addition to an acting attorney general, an acting white house chief of staff, an acting epa administer and five federal departments completely unfunded. Lets begin this hour at the pentagon where uncertainty at the top quickly being felt throughout the ranks, top to bottom and around the world. Barbara starr is there. There was a marine commander traveling around, visiting deployed marines when they asked him what to expect. They said they dont know. Is that something youre hearing across the board . It is, jim. We dont really know what the reaction is going to be at the end of the day. At least for now theres a lot of uncertainty about this. Marine corps commandant traveling to wish the troops happy holidays and getting a lot of questions about the uncertainty they feel about what will happen with them, when theyre coming out of the war zone, what will happen to the combat zones they are leaving behind. Secretary mattis will be gone january 1st. The pres