facebook, twitter or email us on friends at friends@foxnews.com. those are your headlines. griff: all right, jedediah get out here. jedediah: i m coming. rick: these take a while to get on. let s talk a little bit of weather right now. we have a pretty nice day and travel day today after the big storm we had yesterday. take a look at the weather map and show you what s going on. temperaturewise we are okay today. hey, quickly, this is tuesday. this is what you can expect for tuesday. precipitation that day. storm out across parts of the west. going to bring some rain and higher elevation snow. a bit of a white christmas across places like arizona and around the four corners and out across the west. overall the east you are going to be mostly dry and a little bit chilly. current temps as you are waking up. driving maybe getting ready to do shopping, overall weather cooperating today. the east coast is going to be better, much improved compared to where we were yesterday. by this afterno
griff: a fox news alert. a partial shut down now underway. but a new op-ed argues the fight for the wall should continue into january. if the shut down the g.o.p. s last chance to push for border security? jedediah: here to react former presidential speech writer ned ryun. good to have you here. good to be with you guys. jedediah: what do you think should this push through january to february? how long should this go on? as long as necessary if it has to go for months. it goes for months. it s mind-blowingly stupid that we have even gotten to this point. that s congress for you. they want to keep kicking the can downtown road and trump has said absolutely not. we re going to keep having this conversation. back in march when he signed that god awful omnibus bill he was promised by leadership we will get you funding for the wall. here we are in december and they weren t going to give him any funding.
totally effective while at the same time beautiful and if you look at that a lot of people out there saying this could work, actually. pete: part of the reason while the steel slat versus the wall is because if you get 1.6 billion as it s currently written, it has to be a design that was already approved by congress. steel slats already approved by congress, so you can get a wall. if you get the 5 billion for wall funding then it can become the prototypes that the president wanted. all washington semantics and differences. listen, a wall like that works pretty darn well. griff: those washington semantics. pete: they happen to matter. griff: we need to do something on our border. when you hear the head of the border patrol and cpp we have a problem spiraling out of control and we have to address it whether it s steel slats or concrete wall which is what democrats wanted to make this a negative political football. you either address it or you don t.
the money is there. pete: i got it wrong last hour. i said the go fund me page was at 4 or 5 million. it s at 15 million right now. pete: jedediah great point. what they spent money on. i live in washington. i get accused by all people of being a swamp creature. pete: you are my favorite swamp creature, griff. griff: thank you. when you look at those ridiculous expenditures earmarks. just last year they spent 14. congress that is spent 14.7 billion on earmarks but can t find 3 million, which is the difference between where we are in this negotiation that by the way our hearts should go out to the nearly 800,000 federal employees who will be foreload who may go without a paycheck. they will get that back. history of previous shut downs. at the end of the day, you look at they will spend three times the amount of money we are talking about the security of our southern border but yet they have money. pete: your heart will go out to them. they will get paid. everything is going to be
jedediah: if had you to make a prediction how this lands, who caves? does someone cave? do they meet in the middle on a final number. politics is the art of come pro-mize. i think there is going to be some sort of compromise. perhaps looking at 4, 4.5 billion as deroy mentioned. there is going to be some figure where both will be able to claim some sort of victory. this is important for trump to win because, again, let s not forget, this is one of the reasons he was actually elected build the southern wall. pete: that s right. thanks, ned. merry christmas, guys. griff: what happens here is going to foreshadow 2020. we are almost there. jedediah: for sure. griff: president trump announcing he plans to pull troops from syria and afghanistan. some critics outraged. what do those who fight the wars think. our military panel weighs in. jedediah: los angeles highway just named for former president obama. another city s push to do the same hitting some major traffic i want to ride it al