Thanks, kristina. merry christmas. merry christmas to you. there was this cheery gal that worked the cash register. as soon as i walked through the door, hi, vince. dana: nicky mcneill said a guy came in down one day. when she asked him what was wrong, he said he had kidney disease, a genetic condition that would require a transplant. the story stuck with her. when i came home, i told justin about him. the very first thing justin said was i have a kidney. i can give him a kidney. before he said anything else, before he knew anything about the man, that was his first thought. dana: the good news is, justin mcneill will give him his kidney the day after christmas. the donated kidney should last 20 years. quite a gift indeed.
Never get the votes in the house. we got them. i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i m not gonna blame you for it. last time you shut it down, it didn t work. dana: let s bring in fox news capitol hill senior producer. on the politics of this, i think if you re a strong democrat, you re going to blame the president no matter what. if you re republican, you re just going to blame the democrats. does it really matter who gets the blame here? we have seen government shutdowns before. sometimes they have had come together later and sometimes not. remember the shutdown in 2013. democrats said it would be really bad for the republicans in 2014 and they won the senate. go back to the big trifecta of government shutdowns in the mid 1990s. bill clinton won re-election big time and newt gingrich was never the same as house speaker after that. so sometimes you don t quite know what the resolution will be.
Finish doing christmas shopping because my lights will be turned off. dana: also adding anxiety. one thing that s not gonna stop. do you know how norad does the santa tracker? that will be funded. gotta track santa because you can t follow with your heart. dana: they even put out a tweet. that s the way we do things these days. i will be on your show tomorrow night. any advice for how i succeed there? no. your levels above in stature, integrity and intelligence. dana: come on. it s up to the rest of us to step our game up. dana: any new year s resolutions for you? i m not a new year s resolutions guy. i feel like you should be consistent all year. people say, i m going to get a new gym piece and by tend of february it s furniture or a coat rack. i try to stay consistent. i ll try to cuss less. how about that? dana: i have never saw you cuss. you should watch. i just found out i can cuss. i went nuts today. dana: now everybody knows
We are clear eyed about the risks the united states from terrorism. dana: joined by jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst. let me ask you, sir, about the fact, what president trump did when he first took office to turn that situation around in syria and to go after isis. deserves a lot of credit for that. secretary mattis was a big part of that as well. oh yeah, absolutely. remember president obama waited nine months from the time isis had invaded iraq before he provided any support whatsoever to the iraqi government who had requested it nine months earlier. it wasn t until mosul fell in june that we finally got around to providing some air support and some ground support, two months later. then i think he totally got it wrong. the main effort should not have been iraq. the main effort should have been the isis safe haven in syria and we should have taken that down
Yesterday, you re not looking for perfection. you wanted to try to get something done. tell me a little more about what you mean by that. it would have been a $25 billion bill. we had it fully funded. we would have had a separate bill so we wouldn t have been spending money adding to the debt. that s what i meant when i said perfection. dana: i don t know if you were able to hear senator ted cruz. i was interested in the language he s using. that the democrats are being extremists, that the republicans are the ones using commonsense, the president is equivocal in what he will accept and not accept. but it s the president who has the middle of the road approach here. do you think that will work? i think he s right. because when you look at it, 60% of americans want a wall. i come from a boarder state in arizona. most people understand we need to have a wall to help us fight this onslaught of folks coming across. it s not just people. it s drugs, weapons, human