took this photo with his wife and their 5 mol 5 month old son. he loved his family. he was, quote, living the american dream. belonging to blue line wives a police organization helped build a memorial there in the town for singh s wife. his latest role was that of a canine officer. his partner sam was in the car when the stop occurred and the shooting did. sam will be retired and stay with singh s wife and son. heather and rick? heather: so heart-breaking. thank you very much, william. rick: another big story this morning day seven of the partial government shutdown as both sides dig in over funding a border wall. it s likely to stretch into the new year when democrats take over the house. republican congressman mark meadows saying president trump is trying to find common ground. so whether it s republicans in the house or democrats in the house, the president and his team have
revenue streams. casino gambling. sports wide. legalization of pot. taxing that governor spritzer campaigned on the notion of a graduated tax. illinois has a flat tax of 4.9%. the graduated tax would put a greater burden on the wealthy. we have democratic politicians out here talking about maximizing the advantages of federal matching funds. but you don t really hear people talk about cuttings programs at all, heather? heather: we have got to do something if you want to stop people from leefings the state. thanks so much, mike. have a great weekend. you got it. rick: many unanswered questions in the case of the colorado mom missing since thanksgiving with her fiance now facing murder charges. what happens to their 1-year-old daughter? heather: plus president trump s surprise visit to our troops in iraq knot going over so well with some in iraq s government. why they are angry and how the white house may respond.
we also saw upside on that great day on wednesday when we were up a thousand points. so the computer is get involved and getting pushed all over the place it seems to happen in the end every single day. heather: in terms of it being the end of the year. dolls that have anything to do with it as well. volume is lighter. folks are already on vacation. they closed out their books for 2018. heather: machines really take over. the machines really takeover. then you have the poor retail us. like aing are investor saying how do i get in because on christmas eve stocks were discounted big time. that was a sale. and generally rye tail investor would buy with both hands. these numbers look good really low valuations the retail guy gets scared or spookdz or unable to get in because is he competing with the computers. heather: should people be spooked. you should be spooked if you are worried about not just an economic slowdown in 2019 but perhaps a recession if you look at the data th
for the disasters, funding for the border wall and it passed 217 to 185. now, nancy pelosi told the president a week before she taunted him. he don t have the votes to pass this. well, in fact, they did. and i wish our speaker had understood that as well as most of the rest of us did. we really wanted to pass this. heather: here is my question. is it just democrats or are there also republicans there that don t 789 to get the work done. clearly in the house of representatives there are only two republicans there that day who voted against it so i would say the republicans were very unified on this. the difficulty then. heather: but the senate sent you something that didn t have any funding for the wall. right the senate had the votes and motion to proceed and they made a motion to adjourn. my feeling is this is so important. this is an emergency. this sour southern border. the defense of our nation. the 60 vote rule, the filibuster rule in the
fox business network reporter lauren sim sim nettie joining with us more what s going to happen today up note or down note. no one knows the answer because the volatility seen in the final hour of trading. you were talking about the 600 point dropped yesterday that became a 200 point game that was record swing thigh low that we saw in the stock market. that s one record. the day before we had a record 1086 point gain. heather: what s going on. volatility by unanswered questions shutdown lasts a long time whether there is no resolution to the trade war with china. whether, you know, the european union is broken up because maybe not just great britain leaves but maybe italy leaves, too. there is all these pockets these question marks at the same time have you computers, algorithms not human beings, that compound the losses particularly to the downside.