potential suicide bombers before they ever reach a crowd or a target. of course, organizers had a lot of preparation of their own. on saturday did air one way or the otherness test of the 3 tons of confetti ready to drop onto the crowd. tested the bulb s 32,000 lights and drop switch. it s a lot of pressure with a billion people watching on tv. believe it or not, there have been mistakes in the past. you know, the first year i did this back in 1995, the ball was actually we used to do it by rope, six people. four men on ropes. there were supervisor and a man with a stop watch. even back n the 1950s the ball got stopped halfway during the celebration. we have come along way from the first new year s eve ball bulb in 1907. 25 light bulbs 25 watts each about what you would use for a table lamp. leland. leland: jackie, happy new year to you and yours. thanks for being out there for us. i m leland vittert in for
never felt better about where things are headed. let s bring in republican congressman francis rooney of florida. at least for the next couple of days here vice chairman of the house foreign affairs committee will change in the new congress. good to see you, sir. good to see you, leland, thank you. leland: lindsey graham feels a lot better. do we understanding what he feels a lot better about and why? because this seems now incredibly opaque. i don t think we know enough details of what the president originally had in mind or what the president has in mind right now and what lindsey might have been able to change his thinking on. but we do know that isis is an ideology, not a state. and we have got to keep our foot in their back and it s not good for the world or the united states to give them any opportunity to fire back up. leland: sort of inherently answers the question i had for you but i will ask it anyway which is white it be better to wait to announce u.s. policy until w
given by the administration to really actually appropriate the $5 billion what the wall looks like, where it s going to be, what it needs to do? i have not seen a detailed analysis of where the money would go. i have seen some topical analysis. in fact, i asked him for that and suggested that they link the number of border crossings that would be interdicted by certain investments in wall and/or fence and/or whatever in different areas along the valley. i spent a lot of time in the valley. the valley and the whole rio grand border and the land border with arizona and new mexico is very complicated area. each area has much different characteristics. leland: by way of saying would it be better to figure out what to do in each one of those different areas you talk about and then how much it is going to cost and then go to congress with that or do the 5 billion upfront. i think it would give us a lot stronger position vis-a-vis the democrats to bombard the american people with real f
people moving. in the state lost net 45,000 people. and it s the fifth straight year illinois has lost people. as we said, a total of nine states all across the country, the ones absent the ones driven by an energy economy like alaska, west virginia, which was not a good year. it s mainly high tax states that s like new york, illinois, hawaii convicted cut. those are the places people voting with their feet and leaving. leland: so what is the evidence that they are moving and voting with their feet in your words, even if it s raining out because of the high taxes? who wants to live here right now? nobody, probably. lovely weather we are having. but, yeah. there is evidence if you look, for example, like illinois has a new governor coming n two weeks. he has promised to switch from a flat tax income tax to a progressive tax that s like the u.s. tax code. if you make more money you get charged not only more money but a higher
kristina, thanks so much. good news we have a lot to talk about in 2019. definitely. leland: we will see you then, ma am. from the fox urgent wire senator elizabeth warren laying out the reasons that she is considering a white house run. you saw her speak live from her house in massachusetts earlier this hour. democrat lawmakers says she is forming an exploratory committee which allows her to raise money and hire staff for a 2020 presidential campaign. earlier she gave a preview of her platform. america s middle class is getting hallowed out. middle class is shrinking. i m in this fight all the way. washington works great for the wealthy and well-connected it s just not working for anyone else. leland: the republican national committee calling senator warren a, quote, fraud and out of touch. david reporting live in washington. david, nice to see you. hey, lee land, nice to see you, too.