Take a look at these numbers. The arctic blast taking hold last night. The current windchill in chicago is negative 25. It will get down to minus 34. Connell jeff flock is in chicago. Jeff boy, i tell you. I have been through a lot of winters in chicago. This may be the worst. You see this curious phenomenon that you do not see that much in chicago. As we get a wide panorama of the lakefront, this happens when there is a large temperature gradient between the water and the ambient air temperature. We are expecting to be below zero in chicago for one of the longest stretches we have ever seen. There is a lighthouse there. It gives you a perspective of what this looks like. The amount of time and duration of this will be one of the keys, as well as the windchill. In chicago today we have all schools close. About 400,000 students. Hundreds of flights canceled. I tell you, the rush hour this morning, not that bad. A lot of people staying home from work. This is a town that knows it is call
Schmooze. Here we go. Good morning, everybody. It is friday. Today. January 25th. Thank you for joining us. Live from our nations capitol. We will tell you whats going on this morning. We will take your calls. How about it . This is the year they were going to fix the filibuster but it didnt happen. Ininstead of getting rid of the filibuster, instead of making senators actually come to the floor and filibuster harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell agreed to a minor tinkering of the filibuster that, in effect makes no changes at all. I mean, look the senate is broken. Why did harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell chicken out . Doesnt make any sense. We will talk about that and a whole lot more on todays fullcourt press, but first, we take time out to get the latest. Todays current news update. And look at this. We stole her from Stephanie Miller, the one, the only the talented jacki checkschneckner. Good morning, everybody. Vice President Biden is traveling to Richmond Virginia today along with Homel
Hold gets a shock to the system after a democrat forced a runoff. But he couldnt nail down an outright victory. So if this was a referendum on. Trump what does that mean . First throw, a moment you may have missed at the white house briefing. The super bowl Champ Rob Gronkowski checked in to see if sean spicer needed help about a question with trade. Well see what pans out in the negotiation. Can i just can i help . [laughter] i think i got this. Thank you. Thanks, man. See you in a minute. Hold on. That was cool. Shepard may be cool if youre a pats fan. Lets get to it. We begin with breaking news. Word that russia has just made a big move to help syrian regime. The same regime that has murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. U. S. Officials tell fox news that Bashar Alassad has moved all of his aircraft to a russian air base. This comes nearly two weeks after the u. S. Navy launched 59 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian Air Base and took out nearly two dozens of his jets. Tha
Investigator was skeptical the russian probe would uncover wrongdoing. To go days after special Counsel Robert Mueller took over the pope in may, now demoted fbi agent peter strzok enter now reassigned fbi lawyer lisa page discussed the merits of joining muellers team. Strzok tells page, you and i botha know the odds are nothin, if i thought it was likely, ill be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there is no big they are they are. In another cryptic text, strzok writes. That stands for the fbis code nament the the dash the fbi ofs talk about a secret society wits of President Trumps victory. There was a society of at least two people to include peter strzok and lisa page but had a desire to keep donald trump from becoming president and an expressed intent to work against him after he was elected president. The fbi blames a technical problem for a five month gap in the strzokpage text and would not, to fox news and martha vibrio has taken physical
Hes never let me down. Rand paul is a very special guy as far as im concerned. Hes never let me down. I dont think he will let us down again. Lets see what happens. If you remember, he voted for healthcare and did us a big favor. It was somebody else that voted against us that hurt us. I have a lot of confidence in rand but a great deal of confidence in mike pompeo. He will go down as one of the great secretary of states. By the way, he just left north korea. He had a great meeting with kim jongun. Got along with him really well, really great. Hes that kind of a guy. Hes very smart but gets along with people. So i think that mike will be in good shape. Well see what happens. A lot of people are predicting other things. But i have a feeling its going to work out very well and i think our country really needs him. Hes going to be a great leader. Thank you very much. Shepard that was interesting, wasnt it . Its about count two minutes after 3 00 in the afternoon. That was a lunch that has