Good morning to you. I am heather nauert. I am heather childers. Thank you for watching Fox Friends First. It is time for the top 5 5 00. We could learn more on what on earth took so long for help to arrive on the day of the deadly terror attack that killed four people including ambassador stevens. Last week pin ned taw said the u. S. Didnt have enough time to respond. The northeast getting ready for a winter wallop. One of the worst snowstorms in years is pektsed to hit tomorrow dumping 2 feet of home in places like hartford, connecticut and boston. These people in Providence Rhode island are already packing the supermark supermarket. Lance armstrong may now testify in front of the u. S. Anti doping agency thats according to a statement from the agency that was recently released. The deadline for him to testify was last night but the Anti Doping Agency is giving armstrong a twoweek extension so he can meet with them. No word from armstrong on whether or not he will testify under oath.
Truth to it. Seemingly pushing back on legitimacy of his claims. A lot of back and forth about this. The u. S. Really downplaying this. Whats the latest . You know, its very confusing situation. Certainly i have talked to a dozen people this afternoon and they know of no such plot or such information thats come from the iraqis so as you might imagine they are scrambling to try to figure out what the Prime Minister was talking about. Its a casual conversation he seemed to have with reporters on the sidelines there at the u. N. And he mentioned that there was information that his government had that there were perhaps a plot in iraq by americans and perhaps frenchmen to attack the subways in paris and the United States. Now, we have reached out to the fbi, homeland security, the intelligence agencies. They are all talking to each other and know of no such thing. The white house itself is saying they know of no such information within the u. S. Government so were all sort of puzzled. Obvi
The tax bill would do, but a lot of promises are broken. Some bigwigs are publicly high fiving the tax cuts but they may have some ulterior motives. Theres so much to unpack about this tax package. After a monthslong Public Campaign to get tax cuts through congress, President Trump signed the new tax law with very little fanfare on friday. This law slashes corporate taxes way down from a statutory or official rate of 35 to 20 now, and it makes those tax cuts permanent. 21 , im sorry. It was 20 for a long time and settled up at 21. To pay for the trillion dollar or more hole that thats going to blow into the u. S. Budget, the middle class tax relief that President Trump promised is going to be smaller and temporary. So we end up with a big deficit financed tax cut that benefits businesses and the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. Now, theres a whole lot of analysis on this. Independent analysis for instance from the Tax Policy Center estimates that the top 1 , the wealthiest a
Government is going to be open. I can tell you that it is not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it. I will call it whatever they want to. But it is all the same thing. It is a barrier from people pouring into work country from drugs. Not even Christmas Day a slow news day at the white house, Allison Barber with all of the news. Hi, molly, estimated that 800,000 federal workers are going to be impacted or are being impacted by this partial federal shut down President Trump says that he has spoken too many of them and claims that they wanted to continue. Many of those workers have said to me and communicated stay out until you get the funding for the wall. The federal workers want the wall, the only one that does not want the wall are the democrats. 62 of American Voters had that they would oppose shutting down the government over differences about finding a wall over the u. S. Mexico border, that according to a quinnipiac poll conducted ear
Youre fighting for borders in other countries and they dont want to fight the democrats for the border of our country. I dont know if youre aware of whats happening. We want to have strong borders in the United States. The democrats dont want to let us have strong borders. Only for one reason, you know why . Because i want it. Absent from the president s visit, a coherent vision for the future of u. S. Military policy and involvement in the middle east. So much to get to. Hallie, lets talk about the uniqueness of what we saw yesterday. How unusual it is for a president to go overseas and not just overseas to a military base in war zone and bring partisan domestic politics into it. Reporter and blast the other side of the aisle as the president did when talking about nancy pelosi calling the shots. How democrats do not want border security. Something the democrats already today have taking exception with. This is an opportunity for commanders in chief to go to these combat zones to talk