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Have you figured out your new years resolutions yet . No. Send us yours. Help us out. We havent decided yet. We have news to cover. Fox news alert. Russia retaliating after being slammed with new sanctions for alleged election hacking. Putin alleging sanctions of his own and swift revenge. Lets get to Garrett Tenney live in washington with the breaking details. Good morning, garrett. Good morning. Russia promised they o would retaliate against sanctions. It appears theyve done just that. Reuters news agency is reporting that russia announced plans to expel 35 u. S. Diplomats and ban u. S. Diplomatic staff from using two buildings in moscow. That comes in response to a long list of sanctions the white house announced yesterday, including plans to shut down two compounds in maryland in new york that have been used by russian personnel for intelligence purposes and declaring 35 russian intelligence operatives persona non grata and give them 72 hours to leave the country. With that announcement, the president says the u. S. May take additional steps against moscow as well. We will continue to take a rah right of actions at a time and place of our choosing some of which will not be public loysized. They widely mocked it. Saying president obama expels 35 diplomats in cold war deja vu as everybody, including American People will be glad to see the last of this hapless administration. Lame duck. As for the incoming president elect, donald trump who has long questioned the Intelligence Communitys findings of russian interference surrounding the election said in a statement its time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, i will meet with leaders of the Intelligence Community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation. Of course, the big question with the sanctions is what will president elect trump decide to do . Last night Incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said they will wait until theyve met with the intelligence communities and gotten that information before making a decision on how they will go forward. Back to you. Thanks, garrett. Serious intellectual thinkers are rolling over in their graves when they see this tweet, lame duck. Modern diplomacy. Its important to clarify, yes, no one wants or believes there should be foreign interference in elections. Lets be clear up front, the election itself was not hacked. The vote count was not hacked. According to who . According to this administration. Even president obama said that. Not a single vote was affected by what russia did in the actual implementation. Were they trying to tamper with our process . Yes. Thats a big question. Why are they coming out with three weeks left in his presidency . Heres what the White House Deputy press secretary said yesterday . The president is leaving the white house, hes the president from now until then. The president elect, once he assumes office on january 20th will be in a position to make decisions. What russia has been engaged in over the last few months and years is outside the norms of diplomatic behaviors and the president is sending a message to tell them to cut it out. Thats why he ordered aggressive action. Sniemts a couple things. Cut it out . I mean, that doesnt sound hey vlad cut it out. Eric schultz, good person, know him. Worked with him a lot at the white house. I think what hes trying to say is yes, theyre pushing back now. Trying to get aggressive. When were talking about timing, this hacking situation started some 18 months ago, summer of 2015. Why didnt they do anything sooner if this was an imperative part of it . They didnt want to interfere in the election, didnt want to pour gasoline on the fire. If this was going on and it was so awful, so horrible, we need to teach Vladimir Putin a lesson, why did we wait until the final three weeks . When you put this together with the israel resolution story, it looks like a president in the last three weeks is not taking bold action, but is trying to salvage a legacy here. And doing the opposite instead. Hes looking political and not salvaging a legacy. Just doubling down on a legacy. Kellyanne conway articulates these kind of things and was on talking about why would this be happening . Does this have anything to do with politics . She was on hannity last night and this is what she said. I was disappointed to read in the piece this evening about the allegation or the supposition that perhaps one reason the sanctions are taking place is to quote box in president elect trump forcing him to take a position or otherwise once he takes office. I hope this isnt motivated by politics even a little bit. I would say its remarkable to me that were talking about sanctions against russia just days after i would call sanctions against israel. So i think in the last couple of days you see this flurry of activity by a tough president obama as he exits the office and i guess semicolons worth of his legacy. At the same time, the new president will have an opportunity to reexamine the relation shifs geo politically. There are two Big Questions here. Why now anditical was the move . You brought this up ed when the resolution came forward at the u. N. Last week. You said would this have happened if Hillary Clinton was the incoming president . I wonder the same thing. Because youre leaving a mess for donald trump and youre exacerbating some of the mess as well. By taking on an ally like israel. Also attempting to delegitimize. The headline in the New York Times. I also did label it properly as the failing New York Times. I was wondering. I added that on top. Over election hacking, there was no election hacking. When you try to there was hacking of emails. The result itself was not hacked. We should be very clear about that. He was way ahead of the curve on russia. It was the other guy. Watch. Russia indicated is a geo political foe. Excuse me. Its a geo political foe. I said in the same paragraph, i said iran is the greatest National Security threat we face. In the 1980s or now, calling to ask for their Foreign Policy bank. The cold war has been over for 20 years. Really strong moment for mitt romney. You look back on that and here you have president obama trying to get tough on russia and you have to wonder with these sanctions, weve been here before, havent we . Sure. A few years ago with the crimea and all of that. What did that do . The Foreign Policy back. You underestimated just how big of a deal russia and Vladimir Putin turned out to be. At the time in that debate, isnt it also interesting that president obama appeared to be, got to give vlad a chance here. We can work together. Now you flip it around, donald trump is too close to vlad and putin is a bad guy. Wait in 2012 in that debate, you said we were going to be friends. Exactly right. They cross red lines and support the assad regime. We do nothing. Now for the election violation, we expel spies and close down two compounds. Its a slap on the wrist diplomatically. We would have done it in the cold war. Happened all the time. This is a big Decisive Action . No, its not. Its like fixing a broken arm with a bandaid. What does that do at the end of the day . Why not hit on the inner circle . Where does he get hit the hardest . Is that the question . Absolutely. The compounds were going after, theyre mysterious. One in maryland outside of d. C. You can see it there. Its about an hour and a half outside of d. C. On the Eastern Shore of maryland. Beautiful area. Been there many times. Never been to that compound, i can assure you. Apparent live, theyve got great parties there. Theyve served them vodka. We go there because we want to be secret and what is happening . When do we call things compounds versus houses . I dont know. Im just saying. How long has that house been there filled with russia . Late 60s, early 70s. Why are we doing something about this now . What impact will that have on our relationship with russia . Nothing. Negligent lijable. Theyre going to do the same thing to us. Kick out spies under diplomatic cover. Its a hit tat. Were with russia still running the table. Be interesting to go in that compound now. See how they left it. All the bugs that were left behind. Like a summer rental where at the end, theres a like its become a summer rental. Up for rent. Its a beautiful area. Theyll flip it around now. Help cut the deficit a little. Lets get other headlines. Toss over to jillian. Good to see you. Good to see you. You should get that puppy up on air bnb. I think youre right. Here are headlines for you. This is a fox news alert. A Texas Police Officer shot during a routine traffic stop. Shots ringing out across a parking lot as officer chris bum pus tried to arrest a man outside ft. Worth. The officer and the suspect were hurt and rushed to the hospital. The officer is out of surgery thankfully and in stable condition. The navy veteran was recently named rookie of the year. Good for him. Developing now, unprecedented security in places as the world prepares to welcome in 2017. Isis warning about brand new attacks. A live look at times square where you can see trucks are blocking the streets filled with sand filled trucks. 7,000 officers will patrol the crowds and helicopters will keep watch from overhead. Right now, there are no Credible Threats against times square on this new years eve. Now to extreme weather achlt major winter storm slams parts of the northeast at this hour. Heavy snow and whipping winds making for a dangerous commute. More than a foot of snow falling. In maine, a car rolling on to its side over the slick roads. But the good news, much of the mess is moving out just in time for new years eve. Those are your headlines. Good news. Thank you, jillian. Times square looks vacant. Its going to be crazy. Im sure well have a few live shots. The Obama Administration is rushing to resettle refugees during the last days in office. Was this another attempt to hurt and complicate things for the incoming administration. Well ask Congress Louie Gohmert when he comes in. Where were those principles when they performed for dictators . They dont want to talk about that, do they . Dont let the food you eat during the day haunt you at night. Nexium 24hr. Shuts down your stomachs active acid pumps. To stop the burn of frequent heartburn. All day and night. Have we seen them before . Banish the burn with nexium 24hr. Tension growing between the u. S. And russia. Already at an alltime high following president obamas decision to impose sanctions on that country. Some members of the president s own party speaking out, though. Saying the sanctions should be tougher. Congressman adam schiff saying we must evaluate the success of our response using one critical metric. Has it dissuaded russia from bad conduct. I believe other punitive measures will need to be undertaken from a democrat. Texas congressman Louie Gohmert is here. Good morning. Great to be with you. A big news day. First off the top, the reaction to president obamas actions yesterday. If youre going to punish somebody, what he did is not all that much of a punishment. I was hosting for sean hannity yesterday. Mike from ohio called in and said, this is really not a punishment because these 35 russian expelled diplomats just choose the sanctuary city they want to go there. You dont have to leave, go to a sanctuary city and go there. Chicago, san francisco. Its not so bad. Its not really punishment. Why now . So many violations, so many things russia has done over the last under this administration. Now this and this action. We sell these kind of actions when we were each in middle school. When somebody got their feelings hurt, what did they do . They tried to slap back. If you look at what this president has done, 2012, i know you remember, you reported on it ed. But the president said, tell vladimir, i have a lot more flexibility. When he was willing to sell out the country and vladimir didnt take him up on his offer, then it was a slap back just like in middle school. But if you look at what the president is doing at the same time with immigrants, i immediately thought of Batman Begins the one with liam neeson. What do you do if you want to destroy the big city . First they let the criminals go. Whats the president doing . Hes letting as many criminals go as he can. Then you bring in outsiders to destroy whats left. This president , hes been told by isis, were going to get terrorists in with the refugees and he says, great. Lets bring them on. Well have them all here for trump. Keep sending them. Is he the superhero . I see trump as the guy that comes sweeping in with the medicine that saves the city. How does he do that, though . When youre dealing with vladim Vladimir Putin and russia, every president can set the reset button. Trump will have that opportunity. What does he do to get it right . The thing that trump has going for him, as a student who majored in history, i told donald trump this in september, we were talking privately. When you look at the president s that did best with Foreign Policy, they were president s perceived as being a little bit crazy. Teddy roosevelt, Ronald Reagan. Remember when reagan was portrayed as where is the red button, im ready to launch missiles. He said they say im crazy. Thats why you will be great for foreign relations. He came to talk about this sharp increase of refugees coming into this country. How do you make sure theyre vetted and they dont become theyre not terrorists. You take the testimony of comey and those that have testified before our committee on this issue. They have said yes, they will vet them, but they have absolutely no information with which to vet them. There is no way to know. Comey said when they came from iraq, we had all of iraqs governmental records we could check against. From syria and the other places, weve got nothing, we have zero. We have nothing to check their records. So the president should be in the position of a doctor. First do no harm and this president is doing harm as he goes out. Its a mess. Congressman Louie Gohmert. Thanks for coming in. Its a pleasure. Thank you. Hollywood alister boycotting president elect trumps inauguration based on socalled principles. Where were those principles when they performed for dictators and others around the world . 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The court says it needs time to investigate brand new information that reportedly involves allegations patricia kren winkle was abused by Charles Manson or someone else. She was found guilty of helping manson murder seven people nearly five decades ago. And Drexel University is defending its professor who tweeted all i want for christmas is white genocide. In a statement, the School Supports the rights of its faculty members to freely express their opinions calling the professors tweet protected speech. They protect that, but not other forms i guess. Many celebrities have proudly announced they want nothing to do with president elect trumps swearing in celebrations. Something he says he doesnt care about. In a recent tweet trump said the socalled alist celebrities want has look what they did for hillary. Performed for thugs, dictators with literal outrage. Author of con job and editor of black chick. Com crystal wright. Crystal, good morning to you. Good morning, abby. Good morning, ed sneemt lets show you a list of celebrities who have declined to perform at the inauguration, elton john, gene simmons, andrea bocelli, the list goes on. President elect trump says i could careless about this. Liberal hollywood was in the tank for Hillary Clinton. Remember . You had lena dunham. The list goes on and on. They say were not going to perform for trump. Not going to put country first. Thats what liberal hollywood stars do. As you pointed out in the tease before we started talking, a lot of celebrities dont have any moral high ground or ethics when i