Planned parenthood say theyve been discriminated against for being pregnant. We are digging into the report with a former planned parenthood clinic director. Hello and welcome to fox news night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. We have fox team coverage. Mike emanuel preview of whats ahead for the shutdown as the senate is about to get back to work tomorrow. Investigating what turkey and russia have planned. We begin with Jonathan Hunt on President Trumps surprise visit to iraq and beyond. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, shannon. President trump in the first lady arrived in iraq with a very civil message for the troops. We came to al asad to share our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe, strong, and free. That president and first lady flew unannounced from joint base andrews to joint base al asad in western iraq. Its around 100 miles from baghdad. The president s first visit to military personnel serving in combat zones since he took office, and he acknowledged some nerves about the dangers of the trip. I have concerns about the institution of the presidency . Not for myself personally. I have concerns for the first lady, i will tell you. But if you would have seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane, all the windows closed, no lights on whatsoever. Anywhere. Pitch black. The trip comes days after President Trump said he would be withdrawing all u. S. Troops from syria, a move widely criticized by republicans and democrats alike. And one which led to the resignation of defense secretary jim mattis. In his remarks for the troops in iraq, the president reiterated that they could launch attacks on isis from iraq if necessary and that the syria based u. S. Troops are therefore coming home because isis has essentially been defeated. Two years ago when i became president , they were a very dominant group. They were very dominant. Today they are not so dominant anymore. [cheers and applause] great job. The president said he has no plans to withdraw the 5,200 u. S. Forces in iraq. He did not meet with any iraqi officials during his three hours on the ground but did speak with the iraqi Prime Minister by phone in between shaking hands and taking photos with the troops. The second leg of the trip was a stop in germany, an important staging post for u. S. Troops on their way to and from conflicts around the globe. They are the president met with troops, shaking hands and taking photographs. The planning for the trip to iraq had a partly been in the works for several weeks, shannon, and for those in our highly politicized world to fill the need to keep score, president george w. Bush made four troops to iraq while he was in the white house. President obama made one. Shannon. Shannon all right, jonathan, thank you for the update. Footage from the turkeysyria border. U. S. Troops patrolling amid new threats. Its a very tense situation. Here with the, fox news correspondent david. He joined fox news and then his wife had a baby on friday. Congratulations. Your firstever report is for us, welcome, david. Glad to be here. A lot of news out of syria, very busy. U. S. Troops walking a fine line in a region that becomes more complicated by the day. Call it a chess game in the middle east. U. S. Troops are constantly in the middle of the board. President trump is doubling down on his decision to pull troops from syria as turkey could soon make an entrance. Week after President Trump announced he would pull troops from syria, many of the same troops patrolled the borders between kurdishled forces in turkeybacked forces in Northern Syria. The patrols come as multiple reports suggest turkey is preparing a military incursion in Northern Syria against their longrunning foods, the kurds. Turkish and allied Syrian Opposition forces sometimes fire at us. The u. S. Forces are still patrolling and they havent stopped. Footage released by a Turkish News Agency on monday showed a convoy of Army Vehicles approaching the syrian border. However, a russian government spokeswoman said today the kremlin expects the Syrian Government to take control of areas where u. S. Troops are currently deployed. The washington, d. C. ,based institute for the study of war also points out that iran is positioned to fill in the void in parts of northeast syria after our troops leave. To the south, israel, a series of israeli air strikes were conducted just last night on iranian targets near the syrian capital of damascus. Western intelligence sources confirmed to fox news. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu making clear today his country will not sit idly by with the new threats taking shape. Translator we refuse to accept iran establishing itself militarily in syria aimed against us. We are acting firmly against it, including these days. Sources and russia was notified ahead of the strikes to avoid getting caught in the cross fire between syrian antiaircraft and the israeli jets, as has happened before. Tuesdays action was the first 50 since the Trump Administrations decision to pull u. S. Troops out of syria. In syria, isis has been nearly defeated in a defensive carried out by u. S. And kurdish forces. Remnants of the terror group still exist, according to most reports. President trump today said turkish president erdogan has agreed to battle any remnants of isis in syria. President erdogan said he would likely meet with russian president Vladimir Putin as soon as possible to talk about the u. S. Troop withdrawal timeline. Shannon is going to be critical. Welcome. You have no bags under your eyes with a brandnew baby. I am trying my best. Shannon almost exactly seven years ago today, the last u. S. Troops pulled out of iraq under different president. Since then in the wake of the explosive growth of isis, thousands of troops have returned. Under this president , iraq could be a key to keeping a lid on violence in the region. We see something happen with isis that we dont like, we can end them so fast and so hard, they really wont know what the hell happened. We will knock them silly. Its time for us to use our heads. We dont want to be taken advantage anymore by countries that use us. Shannon lets bring in retired Lieutenant General jerry boykin, former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. Good to be with you. Merry christmas. Shannon Merry Christmas. The president took a Merry Christmas to our troops in iraq. What does it do for morale . It cant do anything but pump them up. To have the president of the United States visit is a very big deal. The timing couldnt be better in terms of the president being able to get his message out on what his intentions are with regards to syria. I think this is nothing but a positive for the president , even though i dont personally agree with his decision on syria. Shannon lets talk about it. Former nato commander wesley clark, who has run for president as a democrat, had a very interesting theory that hes floating. He says people are talking about it. Heres his take. Some of our friends and allies in the middle east are asking did erdogan blackmail the president . Shannon thats an interesting charge to level. Yeah, i think general clark probably is rethinking that, and i hope, because ive known him for a long time, i hope that he will try to set the record straight there. First of all, i dont trust erdogan either. And i dont think anybody thats been watching whats going on in syria trusts erdogan cooperatively when it comes to going into an area thats occupied primarily by kurds after decades of the turks chasing the kurds, even killing many, many of the kurds in turkey. I dont trust erdogan here in this situation. Shannon thats clearly one of the issues people have who are opposed to the pullout of syria, saying that the kurds are going to be left in a vulnerable position. Mollie hemingway had an interesting piece in the federalist called trumps syria policy correct but communicated horribly. She says the reality is that assad has won the civil war and the kurds have begun negotiating with him. We can play a role but we dont end them and less protection. They have been an important ally for us. What do we owe the kurds . We owe the kurds certainly some kind of guarantee of their security and support in the future. Go back to iraq. First of all, we left the kurds after the first gulf war. We walked off and abandon them in over 30,000 of them were killed by saddam hussein. Then you look at when we pulled out of iraq seven years ago, we sort of left the kurds to their own devices. They have been fighting against really the shia militias as well as the sunnies. We have provided them almost nothing. Anything we have tried to send them, we have sent through baghdad and it gets siphoned off to either the iranians or it gets siphoned off to some of the militias there in iraq. We have not done right by the kurds. This would be the third time we have abandoned them. That is not a good thing for us to do because, especially with our special operations people, the kurds have been very key to them being able to operate. Shannon lets look to the president and the selection of a new defense secretary. Christian whitten was an advisor to President Trump and president george w. Bush. Heres what he wrote about. He said with democrats gaining control of the house of representatives on january 3, it will become far more important for President Trump to have a defense secretary who can be an effective advocate for president ial policies. The next pentagon chief needs to be both an advocate for President Trumps vision of americas military role in the world and the political pro who can install april trump that work at the defense department. There were some critiques that there werent a lot of pro trumpers there. I think thats probably the case. Im not sure general mattis was aligned with the president on a lot of issues that the president felt strongly about. I think general mattis was probably left of center. That said, doesnt mean he wasnt an effective defense secretary. But i will say this. I think he did exactly the right thing, unlike leon panetta and bob gates when he could no longer support the president s policies, he resigned. Thats the honorable thing to do, rather than stay with it, support bad policies, and then get out and write a book and try to salvage her own reputation. Shannon or write anonymous pieces for the New York Times. 11 people respect him for stepping up and say what he felt he needed to say. General, thank you for joining us. If we dont see you, happy new year. Happy new year. Glad to be with you. Shannon its an era of superlatives for the stock market going from the worst Christmas Eve trading day ever, just a couple days later, the Dow Jones Industrial average posting its biggest single daypoint game ever. One of the lesser notice factors reportedly driving the move was a report from Bloomberg News that the Trump Administration is kickstarting trade talks with china. Reportedly sending a highlevel delegation to beijing on januar. Kristina partsinevelos joins us. What a day here on the New York Stock Exchange floor. You saw traders happy. You saw quite a rally compared to the worst ever Christmas Eve plunge on monday. What do i mean by a rally . You saw the dow closed up 1,086 points. Thats the largest single day point increase in history. You also saw the s p 500 higher. You saw the nasdaq closed in positive territory. This rally comes on the heels of a massive selloff on monday as news surface that treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin contacted the ceos of several major u. S. Banks asking if they had enough liquidity to see them through 2019. President trump added to that market anxiety is well with a tweet blasting the feds saying the central bank is the only problem for the economy. Most of mondays woes were wiped out after one has Economic AdvisorKevin Hassett said powells job is 100 safe and the president has no intention of firing the chairman of the federal reserve. Kevin hassett defended mnuchin decision to question the banks. Secretary mnuchin is in Constant Contact with the financial community. Hes friends with most of those folks. He himself operated in that space. Its very normal for the treasury secretary to call people up and say hey, how was christmas looking . They have credit card data. How are sales . Also do you have problems . He told fox business that president is happy with the treasury secretary. Retail giving the markets a boost with u. S. Sales growing 5. 1 this Holiday Season according to mastercard. Its the biggest increase in six years. You also had a release from amazon stating that they saw an increase in sales for their own products, selling a million eco dots as well as fire sticks. They also said they added tens of millions of new subscribers to prime and people signing up for free trials. On the New York Stock Exchange floor, traders were very optimistic that this rally could continue into 2019. Back to you, shannon. Shannon lets hope it does. Thank you. Five days into a partial Government Shutdown and the senate is scheduled to convene tomorrow afternoon, but what does it really mean . Are democrats ready and willing to negotiate with the president . Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel joins us. At this point it doesnt sound like theres much action. Ive checked in with sources on both sides of the island they are saying no movement at this point. Today was the First Business day of a partial Government Shutdown after the christmas holiday. It was clearly on President Trumps mind all the way in iraq. Whatever it takes. We are going to have a wall. Were going to have safety. We need safety for our country. We have terrorists coming in through the southern border. One quarter of the federal government is closed. The white house insists the furlough government workers will get their money. They might miss of pay period because the Government Shutdown but in the end, even if they arent working, congress has decided to pay people for the whole time. In the end, its really just a shortterm problem, not a longterm problem for government workers. One thing that mice force action would seem people hurting from this shutdown. So far it hasnt happened. Shannon whats the latest from the democrats . Democrats are saying they got offered over the weekend to . 5 billion by the white house, 2. 1 for Border Security and 400 million for other immigration priorities. Democrats dont appear to be budging. They might wait until they are the majority in the house. I think the way we are walking into it, leader pelosi has said, we will promptly open the government. We understand the first responsibility we have is to open the government, to force the president to sign legislation or let it go forward without his signature that opens the government again. So that we can continue to move forward on the agenda that we articulated during the campaign. Thats why some suggest the closer he gets to january 3, the less leverage republicans have because at that point, they will likely be dealing with speaker nancy pelosi. She would likely take credit for reopening the government. Shannon what about the president s allies . We have heard from some of them, different ideas. One suggestion was that the president should take advantage of his ability to take the fight directly to the American People. This is about the perception of the American People and the president has to continue to send the message why hes fighting to secure the border. I know he likes to tweet but lets do a national address, and undressed to the American People from the oval office. Saying why its so important. If he does that, i think he wins the hearts and minds of the people. Oval office address, we will see. Seems like both sides are in their respective corners. Its not entirely clear whats going to get them to the negotiating table for serious talks. Shannon allegedly back in action tomorrow. We will see senators Milling Around and will see if paper goes back and forth. Maybe well get somewhere. Shannon hope springs eternal. 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