crisis. really? we have our ugly christmas sweaters. jedediah: mine has a unicorn that i have named greg gutfeld. [laughter] griff: it looks good though. jedediah: oh. you re unbelievable pete: saturday is fox & friends on the weekend. let me share with you, you can shut down the federal government, but you can t shut down fox & friends. griff: no, you can t. pete: not possible. jedediah: can t stop us from talking about it either. pete: jedediah, griff, good to have you guys here. griff: i came to host. i m excited this weekend. i didn t shut the government down now in its seventh hour. now as you wake up go ice skating because 75% of your government is funded through the pretty much end of 2019. we have a government shut down that began at midnight. that is, of course, unable to reach a compromise over
sweater by the way. tip number one is take advantage of your standard deduction. it has doubled sings last year because of tax reform. it s now $12,000 for individuals. $24,000 for married filing jointly. 30% of americans are expected to not itemize this year so you may save yourself a lot of time and effort by just taking the standard deduction. talk to your rah count tantd or look at your accounting tax software hopefully that mr. l. help you make that decision. pete: second is moving money into your 401(k). saved money for retirement. future into your 401(k) or ira. put up to $18,500 into your 401(k) if your company offers it or about $5,500 into your ira. pretax stuff it, will save you lots of money. and put money away for retirement. jedediah: tip number three bunch charitable donations. if you do decide to itemize and don t take standard deductions. charitable deductions are a great way to give back
the shut down, we want to know what you think because there is a lot of people with a lot of different opinions. griff: we do. jed, your point is one that should get a lot of focus and attention in this whole fiasco and this is that it is border patrol agents and i have spent a lot of time with them on that border in tijuana that are saying what are you doing with the political football, making politics out of the small amount of money to do the job you sent me here to do. jedediah: absolutely right. pete: washington, d.c. is freaking out. if you turn the channel, don t turn the channel but if you did they are freaking out. trump supporters are not freaking out. regular americans are like finally somebody is doing something. jedediah: continue to follow this closely as possible and we ll be duking it out. turning now to your headlines. russia tries to compromise our 2018 midterm elections. but failed. that s according to a u.s. intelligence report. just like in 2016 they tried polarizi
them is ask them to provide security on the northern border to take it easy on the kurds, our allies who they have a problem with and to go ahead and be useful in limiting iran s influence. if they do those things, yes, if they don t, then we know where they stand. pete: joey, your thoughts? it s a good idea to stick to the rhetoric and the policy that you set forth in your election in 2016 it s a good idea to deploy something different in the middle east. i declared five months after president obama declared that we would pull out of afghanistan. so in iraq and afghanistan i was a part of staying longer than we needed to or staying without a set goal or mission. what i would say is that it s the responsibility of general mattis and the generals to want to go after our enemy in infancy and retreat to kill them and eliminate them. it s the responsibility of the president to see past the x s and o s sometimes. if we elected this man into office. we should have faith in foreign policy.
blame at the president because it was the president result 34589ly who drew the line in the sand. he did suggest he would accept a continuing resolution to get us through february 8th. reversed course and drew a line in the sand. here is senator schumer on who is to blame. the president will try to do his best to blame democrats but it s flatly absurd. no democrat has called for shutting the government down. we are all working to avoid it. the president seems to relish it. he seems to feel it will throw a bone to his base. the problem being his base is less than one quarter of america. pete: of course you know democrats want to keep the government open. this is where the messaging is so open. bigger. want more money u of course they don t they forget that 75% of the government is funded. the dod. jedediah: they don t forget. pete: they don t forget. they know full well and lie to you and say that a wall is expensive and ineffective. they are going to push for