admitting he paid a settlement to a former employee but denies it was because of sexual harassment. another woman is accusing con years of sexual harassment earlier this year. the border patrol not handling the report of the agent's death and the injury to his partner with him in a professional and open manner. the fbi says they are investigating the death as a quote potential assault end quote. but they aren't ruling out some reports that the agents and his partner fell into a nearby quul vert. what -- nearby culvert. so what did happen and why isn't the border patrol open about what happened in the death of one of its agents. the president and his family are in mar-a-lago for their thanksgiving holiday. but before he left the white house he addressed the media. >> he totally denies it. he says it didn't happen. you have to listen to him also. he said 40 years ago this did not happen. reporter: making his first public comments since the scandal broke. president trump refused to endorse judge roy moore. donald trump, jr. roy moore denies it, and he gives a total denial. 40 years is a long time. he has run 8 races and this has never come up. >> moore has been accused of inappropriate contact with a minor. the president's comments coming just ahead of his holiday vacation in florida. >> we had a great call with president putin. reporter: from his recent trip to asia -- president trump: it's very important to get along with russia. i feel having russia in a friendly posture as oppose teelsd fighting with them is an asset. reporter: to the campaign trail before taking office. president trump: i hope we get along great with putin. it would be great to have russia with a good relationship. reporter: in this morning's conversation between the two leaders. president trump: we are talking about peace in syria, we are talking about north korea. we had a call that lasted almost an hour and a half. reporter: they agreed on the importance of fighting terrorism together. they hope to implement a lasting peace in ukraine and increase international pressure on north korea. this when the russian leader net with bashar al-assad in sochi. >> we hope russia will succeed in wait has been saying which is not allowing foreign intervention in any political matter in syria. reporter: it will be the focus of trilateral talks. reporter: the president was asked if he might get out there on the campaign trail and show his support for pro moore in a vocal way for the alabama republican. in case you were wondering, no, the president was noncommittal. he said he would have more on that sometime next week and to that we take him at his word. and we'll shall listening and watching all the same. lou: as you say, it turns out that was a nugget. i thought for a moment it would explode into something much bigger than a nugget. thank you for that nugget. president trump taking a pragmatic approach to the senate race. a republican victory will insure a majority by a tight margin. judges are you undercutting the president at every turn. one of the judges blocked the executive order cutting off funding to sanctuary cities. but that fight is far from earned. reporter: in january, president trump signed an executive order saying sanctuary cities that fail to comply with federal law will not receive federal funds. a federal court judge ruled that unconstitutional. >> that order needs to be in place. and what you don't want to have is sanctuary cities popping up that are going to be a safe haven or harbor for those who are conducting illegal activity. reporter: the ruling means the administration cannot claw back federal money or pry fuse federal money to states that don't cooperate with immigration enforcement. california stands to lose millions in federal aid. >> are they going to restrict us from talking to if the fbi or dea? we should have unfettered access and communication when we are trying to keep our communities safe. reporter: or ric >> this judge is a politician. he's a bundler for obama, he made contributions before he was on the bench. reporter: saying the president cannot use defunding as a weapon. and he says it jeopardized tall federal money. the d.o.j. says that's not accurate. only police grant money is at risk. and they need to apply to receive it. lou: the fbi is offering a reward of $25,000 for what led to if the death of a border patrol agent and the serious injuries to the other. but federal officials aren't giving any specifics to the press about what happened to those agents. reporter: those who knew martinez best say he was an adoring father who dedicated his life to public service. >> all he wanted to do was help people and help the world and try to make a difference. reporter: he says the 36-year-old was the epitome of selflessness. >> he would give you the shirt off his back. reporter: investigators say agent martinez and his partner were in a culvert. both men sustained traumatic head injuries and broken bones. how they were hurt is not known or not disclosed publicly. >> we have been pursuing every lead that we have as well as processing the scene which we are considering a crime scene. reporter: union reps say both of their agents were attacked with rocks. they say the agent who survived and remains hospitalized has zero recollection of what happened. this as friends and family man to honor rojelio martinez. reporter: all the questions are only complicating the grieving process and the agent who is unidentified for security reasons as he continues to fight for his life in the hospital in intensive care. critical but stable condition. lou: i give our condolences to the murdered agents' family. this is the strangest, i would guess press position stance taken by a federal agency that i can recall. we are seeing center few facts coming out earl. we are becoming very euro-like in our federal government. the public has a right to know house at large and who is doing what to law enforcement agents. reporter: agreed entirely. they have been very careful about their wording. nowhere did they use the word "attack" in that press conference. they were using ambiguous phrases. it is unusual. but we are in a time and age when news is flying at us at 100 miles per hour, and it does take time to area out an investigation. my hope is they are not releasing stuff because they want to make sure their is are dotted and ts are crossed. lou: let's hope they are more successful investigators than to this point bureaucrats. stay with us, a lot more ahead. president trump is promising tax cuts by christmas. president trump: we are going to give the american people a huge tax cut for christmas. hopefully that will be a great big beautiful christmas present. lou: but with the current republican leadership, the bill's prospect remains to most of unclear. an outrageous report revealing congress has thanked a secret slush fund which which to pay off among other things sexual harassment claims and never reveal a name. stay with us. kennedy: lieutenant colonel ralph peters weighs in on the detective kennedy. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. helping small businesses. damage your vehicle? 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your thoughts. >> one, taxpayers have a right to know how all their money is being spent. they need to see the claims. see the identities of those responsible for the misconduct. and they need that information. we should not have any taxpayer dollars going to bail out misconduct by members of congress or congressional staff. it's an inappropriate use of taxpayer money. and i think we have got to go back and look at some of these claims and have those members who had the claims settled with taxpayer dollars. let's put them on the look and reimburse the treasury. this an outrage when that's happening. you have the slush fund which we have to defund. but what conyers did, i think you need a conyers rule. he used his office budget, he disguides the payment, so it didn't say payment for sexual harassment claim. he paid this lady over 3 months. it looked like she was a normal employee. he ca -- he camouflaged those payments which i think is wrong. lou: the ethics committee is taking up the case of congressman conyers and the investigation will begin forth with. there is so much to investigate. the idea that such a slush fund was ever created. this was in the clinton era it's clintonesque. do you know why it was created? what was the point of it? >> part of the law, there were some good things in the law. congress had been exempt from a lot of federal laws, civil rights, age discrimination, disability. the reason why they said accountability. saying let's make congress live under some of those laws. but it shows you how the swamp works. even when they are going in the right direction in some areas they are sneaking things like that in the back door. so that was something that is washington at its worst. lou: let's turn to uranium one. we are waiting for the fbi informant who was undercover for the fbi, a whistleblower if you will, in some respects. we have been told that the gag order against him, the none disclosure agreement had been lifted by the justice department by the president's order. now we hear the justice department is going to talk to you about the informant and tell you what he's going to say as part of a process of getting him in front of the united states congress. tell me that's not what's going on. >> we are going to investigate on our own in these committees. if the justice department wants to provide information, that's fine. he has testimony to coffer which is important. he has a treasure trove of documents and recordings. we have been given every indication this will evince a pattern of corruption. the justice department has not handled this well throughout the years. you had a year and a half worth of evidence where there werfel anies being committed by the obama administration yet no indictments were brought. we don't have any record that congress was notified. so what was the fbi doing during those years? what was holder's justice department doing during these years? this won't look good for them based on the information we have received thus far. lou: how soon will the informant be before congress. >> soon in terms of the document. he will answer questions in a private setting because we'll have to subpoena more people after that. when he will testify publicly i'm not sure. but he will give us a private briefing and i think that will happen after thanksgiving. lou: the special counsel robert mueller, the investigation, tc cobb says he thinks the special investigation will end soon. we are seeing every indicator of a widening investigation. your thoughts about when is this nonsense, this witch hunt going to end? >> it all goes back to the appointing order rod rosenstein did. he did not identify a crime to investigate. he said look at campaign and russia. this gives people like mueller the license to try to find something. that's not way investigations should be conducted. comey investigated this for a year. there is no evidence of any trump-russia collusion. i think it's time to put up or shut up. if there is no evidence, we have to move on with the people's business. lou: why would not the speaker of the house and the senate majority leader combined with the president of the united states and the heads of the senate and house intelligence and two judiciary committees say enough. this has gone on far too long. >> that may be happening. i have been making that argument. in the house intel committee, they ramped up the last couple months. i would anticipate something happening by the end of the year. i don't know what they are going to report. but every indication i have heard is the evidence will show no collusion. lou: congressman ron desantis, thank you. >> investors cheering as the dow soared 161 points. all closing at new record highs and volume picking up on the big board 3.3 billion shares. uber disclosing hackers total personal data of his customers and drivers in a massive breach that the company hid from the public for more than a year. a remind tore listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio networks. a judge ruling against the president's crackdown on sanctuary cities. i take it up in my commentary tonight. we'll have that next, much more straight ahead. stay with us. paying less for my medicare? 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>> no, i would think adding new sanctions adds to the pressure. there is no doubt about that certainly politically. but these sanctions, the individual target are never effective. if you sanction the abc company it only takes a day or so before a new company springs up doing the same thing. i think the designation of north korea as a state sponsor of terror will be the right thing to do. >> we are now about 40 days away from the ends of this year. there are reports the north koreans will have a icbm that can carry a nuclear war head by the end of this year. >> we are out of time with north korea. susan rice very help any wrote 6 or 8 years ago, after 25 years of trying to negotiate with north korea, i guess we failed and we'll just have to live with north korea with nuclear weapons and we'll just have to do containment as if we want to go back to duck and cover drizzle for school children. i think the president inherited a real mess. he has to make some hard decisions if china doesn't step up and do what they have the capability of doing. whether it's the ends of this year, the characteristics a director mike pompeo, if these things go, we are out of time. lou: it seems a dangerous proposition if we do not understand when that ballistic missile will be ready with a nuclear warhead to fire on american targets. >> that's why you can't wait until the last minute. it's radically incomplete. that's why 25 years of democratic and republican administrations say we have time to negotiate. and there is not any time left. the notion as the state department keeps saying maybe we'll gets north korea back to the table is a formula that guarantees north korea will be able to strike any target it tbhants u.s. with a nuclear wave upon at any point in time. lou: does it seem to you the state department is trying to couch with the corrupt agreements that were made to keep uranium one away from the prying eyes of those trying to keep up with national security? simply to rubber stamp the idea? >> i think there is a lot we don't know about how this decision was made. there are credible allegations and efforts to corruption by the russian government. and i think a little transparency from the state department out of character generally, but it would be a good thing for the country. lou: i don't suppose anyone would hold their breath. ambassador john bolton, good to have you here. president trump making thanksgiving great again for two lucky turkeys named drumstick and wish bone. here is the president exercising his pardoning powers with zest and gusto. president trump: are you ready, drumstick? drumstick, you are hereby pardoned. lou: there should have been a flourish of trumpets and drums. they get to live out the rest of their lives at a virginia farm. president trump stepping up on congress to funds the border wall after the death of a border patrol agent. sebastian gorka joins us next. stay with us. we'll be right back. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? 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