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and putt against leaders of his own party like congressman nancy pelosi and senator warren. liberals are quick to condemn the spending bill calling it a broib for banks and donors. mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill with us. mike, the senate so manies stuck on the extension, they did do something successfully, right? reporter: no question about that. they passed a short- term government funding to buy senators more time. it was scheduled to be quiet today. and there are conversations taking place about cutting the deal on the government extension and we ll so if it pans out. earlier harry reid sounded aggravated. regrettably the republicans pulled the legislation off. and now, we are regulated to watching the time tick away on the clocks. reporter: at this point the senators are in session seven hours and counting, julie? what have they done all day long. a voteramma. and look at the names. murphy to be surgeon general and car lincolman for social security commiss ....
we will hear from the girl and her mom this morning at 7:20 eastern. eric holder is making new announcements. is he adding fuel to the fire? log on for his debate. fox & friends starts now. bye. good morning. it is tuesday, december 2. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. it was a meeting of the protesting minds. president obama holding discussions on the ferguson fallout at the white house all while launching a plan to retrain cops on the taxpayers dime. that s you. is this really the answer? we report, you decide. why is al sharpton there? meanwhile the president threatens to shut down the federal government if republicans the bad guys do not fund his amnesty action. but how much will that cost us? we re crunching the numbers straight ahead. moses an inspirational icon in nearly every major faith but hollywood actor christian bale wonders if he was more like a terrorist. and if we should send in the drones. mornings are better with friends. hi everybody. i m huey lew ....
come back here to try to make a difference. i want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. now one of the questions i would ask you is why you re willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and human services. thank you, senator. when i think about the mission of the department of health and human services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the american people, it s what i ve literally spent my life trying to do. and so to have the opportunity to participate if confirmed, to be to serve as the secretary of health and human services and to try to guide that organization in a direction that would further fulfill that mission, i can t think of anything more exciting for fulfilling. i think you have the background for doing that too, with the wide range of experience you had between the different practices and hospitals and then coming here and going through ....
the state department. putting iran on notice, is this trump s new red line? hi, erin. definitely being presented as a hard line on iran. maybe somewhat blurry one at this point. but the white house is saying that it is dedicated to holding iran accountable after this latest missile launch. and it is considering a whole range of options in a response and, yes, that does include a military one. a tough line on iran at the white house today. as to have day, we are officially putting iran on notice. reporter: national security adviser michael flynn offering a cryptic warning after iran tested another ballistic missile sunday. the obama administration failed to respond adequately to tehran s malign actions including weapons transfers, support for terrorism, and other violations of international norms. reporter: the new administration making its clear it believes the missile launch violated a u.n. resolution. flynn s comments today follow its missile program. but prior t ....
this was the last day before the trump presidency s 100th day. and congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. there is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. no legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. we have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. it s when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. and it only goes down after that. what a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. this is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. and he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill clinton. at this point in bill clinton s first year, the congress was working overtime. at the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bi ....