The subject which well get to shortly. He also took credit falsely for troops getting their first pay raise in ten years. In truth theyve been receiving annual raises for the last three decades. Oddly, such routine lying isnt whats knocking washington off kilter. It is not part of the recent chaos. The shutdown is. So is the president s decision on pull troops summarily from syria. As is his move over the weekend to give his defense secretary james mattis an early shove out the door after mattis resignation general grated lines for him, bad lines for the president. Also part of the socalled mass railing against Federal Reserve only to watch the markets tank as a result. And those stocks racked up huge gains, uncertainty remains after secretary mnuchin made a series of baffling phone calls to bankers over the weekend saying the government was ready to handle a financial crisis which as far as anyone knew was a western until he brought it up. And mr. Trump spent the weekend settling pers
The physical barrier at the southern border. President trump i can tell you its not going to be open until we have a wall or fence or whatever they would like to call it. The people of this country want Border Security. Its not a question of me, id rather not be doing shutdowns. President trump of course told democrats in the oval office that not long ago he would be proud to shut down the government over the wall and would take the blame for it. We know white house gave the democrats a counteroffer last week, between the 5 billion dollar the white house wants for Border Security and the 1. 3 billion the white house says democrats are currently offering. Congressional democrats say they dont know where the white house stands and they really dont know what President Trump wants House Minority leader told usa today this. He says we are going to build a wall with cement and mexico will pay for it. While he has backed off of the cement he is down to a beaded curtain now or something. Im no
Despite abruptly announcing last week that he was pulling troops out of syria. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight. Tomlinson with more on the progress being made in the fight against isis but we begin with correspondent ellison barber from the north lawn of the white house. Good evening, allison. Good evening, bret. The president is on his way back from his unannounced trip to iraq. He is set to make a second stop at an undisclosed location before returning her to the white house. Under the cover of darkness they boarded air force one and made their way to iraq west of baghdad. Roughly three hours on the ground visiting with troops stationed at the airbase. If President Trump gave a 20 minute speech to cheering troops. We came to share our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe, strong, and free. This is the president s first visit to a combat zone since taking office and it comes on the heels of his decision to draw out troops in afghanistan and syria. He says he
Nice list . 321 megamillion reasons to keep behaving until new year. Fox and friends first starts right now. Wow, you really like this song. Usually it does nothing. Today i am a little punchdrunk. Good morning to you on fox and friends first on wednesday morning. Jillian thanks for starting the day with us. Donald trump no sign of giving into the democrats as the partial sit down and tuesday 5. He says the government will remain closed until he gets his wall, trying to stand tough. We have the latest, we dont have doug. We will move along, get doug in a minute and get back to that story. In the meantime donald trump making a special christmas phone call to us military Members Around the world, his message didnt stop there. More on what the president said to our troops and allies. Merry christmas. Donald trump spoke with troops stationed around the world to the middle east and alaska. Part of the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, the us military. It is a great sacrif
Activists. An earthquake triggered by a volcanic eruption on the italian island of sicily has injured scores of people and left many more homeless. And violins that survived the holocaust you meet the man whos been restoring these instruments and the memories of their former owners. Im calm assman thanks for joining us we start with the u. S. President donald trump has made an unannounced visit to american troops serving in iraq its the president s first visit to soldiers serving in the region since he took Office Nearly two years ago during the visit trump said he had quote no plans at all to remove American Forces from iraq and said the u. S. Could use the country as a base for operations in neighboring syria trump again defended his decision to order with the withdrawal of u. S. Forces from syria hes scheduled to visit american troops based in germany on his way back to washington. Following the death of another my grandchild in u. S. Custody the second in less than three weeks the