It really means a lot to me. Rob holiday feast. The nfl player offering veterans a special feast at his christmas table. Fox and friends first starts right now. Oh my god its the weekends hands up for the weekends oh my god its the weekends hands up for the weekend jillian with that song we know it is the weekend. We made it to friday. You are watching fox and friends first this friday morning. Todd thank you for starting the day with us would remember one fridays were boring and didnt have anything happening . Breaking overnight the house passing a spending bill with 6 billion for the border wall, the senate must come up with a bipartisan agreement before the government runs out of money at midnight. Carley the clock ticks closer to a Government Shutdown. A lot happened overnight. Reporter 20 hours to go, different picture than yesterday, looks like the senate has a solution to avoid the shutdown. House republicans mustering up 217185 vote to pass funding for the border wall. Eight republicans voted against it. A victory to the president and his supporters who want to hold the line. The fact is we need the wall, democrats know it. And they put politics first . We have to build the wall, it will be billed, we are going to complete it, a lot of progress has been made. Reporter they noted they had to do the impossible after the president threatened to veto. The president said he will not sign a bill that came from the senate because of his legitimate concern for Border Security. What the senate sent over is kicking the can down the road. We want to solve this problem. Reporter this includes 5. 7 billion for the border wall, 7. 8 billion for Disaster Relief and funds the government for 7 weeks until february 8th. Democrats and the gop lacked votes for the border wall, they are granting this impasse, the trump shutdown. The president of the United States prefers to shut government down. Donald trump is throwing a temper tantrum and creating the trump shutdown. Reporter the bill goes back to the senate where it doesnt seem much of a chance at all because republicans will need to get 60 votes to avoid a filibuster. You will start hearing the term Nuclear Option today but that may be a tall order with such little time. Shannon if the shutdown happens it will be the third this year. The big differences right before christmas. Todd they like to get home for the holidays as do we all. Carley this hard stance sent the senate crippling to avoid the shutdown. Todd the last 24 hours the president that republicans can come together and deliver for the American People. Many of us calling for months and months, we have the majority. The American People sent is here for this. The president is behind it, lets go for it. It for whatever reason it has been stalled after stall after stall, one after another after another, at this point there is a line drawn in the sand, we have had enough and no longer taking it. It reminds me of the alamo. There is a monument, the monument is not there because we won the fight but because they thought. It was a line drawn in the sand with us over the last 24 hours. It turns out to be spectacular 24 hours both for the Freedom Caucus and congress as a whole, for the president and the country. Carley if the Government Shutdown it would be the 20th time since 1976 including eight time during the reagan administration. Homeland security secretary Kirstjen Neilsen praising her colleague james mattis hours after announcing his resignation as pentagon chief. Any fox news exclusive she tells Shannon Bream he helps protect the borders. He proved to be an incredible partner of ours, very supportive of Border Security. He helps with counterterrorism as we look to fight terrorists abroad so they dont come here, admiration and respect for him and enjoy working with him. Stepping down one day after donald trump announced a drawback in the middle east, mattiss official end date is february 25th. Todd donald trump firing back at linda graham as he leads bipartisan outrage against the plan to pull us troops out of syria, the president tweeting so hard to believe Lindsay Graham would be against it, soldier lives and billions of dollars, why are we fighting for our enemy, syria, staying and coming isis for them, he russia and iran, time to focus on our country and bring our youth back home where they belong. Many critics say the fight against isis is not over and now is the wrong time to pull back. The Trump Administration is planning to bring home half the troops currently in afghanistan. The withdrawal could begin weeks bringing 7000 troops home by the end of spring according to us officials, the president discussed the plan with Top National Security advisers, 14,000 us troops serving in the wartorn country. Carley House Democrats pushing for acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to testify new year. This despite the ethics panel finding no conflict of interest between him and the mueller probe. Katherine herridge brings us the latest. Reporter after an ethics review, acting attorney general Matt Whitaker is free to oversee Robert Muellers investigation. The Justice Department officials reveal more details about the internal ethics deliberations him a painting a more nuanced picture of the decisionmaking. During the process the source said an ethics official voiced concern over whitakers previous negative media comments about the mueller probe. The official said it was a, quote, close call but recusal out of an abundance of caution. Whitaker senior advisers consider the issue, recommended against recusal. The Deputy Attorney general who had primary oversight of the mueller team responded. Bob mueller or Rod Rosenstein or Matt Whitaker, the investigation will be handled appropriately. Reporter bill bar is the choice to leave the Justice Department and in june as a private citizen he sent a letter to rosenstein questioning legal basis for any of section case against donald trump for firing fbi director james comey, quote, as i understand it mueller is premised on an insupportable reading of the law, i will remind you it is credited by the Justice Department, there would be grave consequences beyond the confines of this case and do lasting damage to the presidency. Rosenstein pushed back on the analysis. Lots of people offer opinions that help decisionmaking. Reporter katherine herridge, fox news. Todd nfl player bringing Holiday Cheer to dozens of veterans, he says his own Family Service inspired him. My dads father was a veteran. It means a lot to me. Carley he paid for 100 hot meals, teamed up with plowshares, an organization helping struggling veterans throughout californias bay area. A fox news alert breaking overnight, Donald Trumps threat of a veto coming through as the house coughs up cash for the border wall but will the senate . A former congressman who knows how things work on capitol hill ways in. Todd holy cow, a more appropriate time to you that saying, the cost just in time for christmas that is going viral. It was a nobrainer. I switched to geico and saved hundreds. Thats a win. But its not the only reason i switched. The geico app makes it easy to manage my policy. I can pay my bill, add a new driver, or even file a claim. Woo, hey now thats a winwin. Thank you switch to geico®. Its a winwin. Carley the house working late into the night to pass a spending bill including 5 billion for Donald Trumps border wall. Rob can Congress Send a bill to the president s desk to avoid the midnight deadline . Carley joining us is republican strategist david mcintosh. Thank you for being with us on this important topic. This spending bill will be sent back to the senate, it need 60 votes to pass, an unlikely situation. What is going to happen . I think you are going to see the democrats in the senate, they are a minority, hold out and try not to pass that bill but what is going to happen tomorrow is the whole city, the whole country will realize less than 50 of the senate is holding up a bill that will keep the government going. The house to the right thing to pass a bill the president will sign. The president said he would sign the house bill and it is up to democrats Chuck Schumer to say do we want to shut down because we dont want to give the president an extra 3 billion for the border wall . My group doesnt take a position on that issue. We think the bill spend too much money but to keep the government open will be up to those democrats in the senate. In the past they have been very disciplined to oppose donald trump and that is bad news in terms of likelihood for shutting down. Carley you could make the case the house held up a bill that would fund the government. What say you to that . What they were reacting to was the statement that he would veto the bill that came from the senate so they looked at it and said we agree with him on this issue and we will pass a bill the president will sign and send back to the senate. Hopefully enough democrats will change their mind and say we dont want to have a shutdown on our hands. We will see tomorrow. Rob i want your thoughts on the Trump Administration claiming to toughen work requirements for food stamp recipients. The fraser producers use is this is your champ. With that you say work requirements are essential. Why . Absolutely essential. What we have seen is a ballooning of the food stamp program, one of the biggest welfare programs the government has and what the Trump Administration has done and i applaud them for this is if you are an ablebodied person without children we are going to require you get a job before you sign up for food stamps. What we are seeing is many of the states waived that requirements, they hand out food stamps anyway so 1 Million People will have to look for work. We have low unemployment. What we are seeing is when they are forced to look for a job they end up being much happier than being dependent on government handouts. Todd many on the left would say why are we depriving food from poor people when we give billions upon billions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations . What we are doing is giving them a boost up. We think you are able to work, time to get to work and you will be better off. And your life will be turned around and put on a track that will be successful for you. It has nothing to do with the tax cuts. Once they get a job, on the money they do in. The bridge to success. People who are out of the job, now we have low unemployment, what the Trump Administration is saying is get that job and he will be better off. Todd false flag operation, democratic operatives using fake russian bots to link the kremlin to republican roy more in the closely contested race and the media fell forward. The investigation, his opponent is calling for it. Adopted this well is me attitude, some terrible wrong has been done to her. Can the first lady do anything right . A look at the biggest attacks milania trump has had to send off this year. Outrage, strong words from doug jones whose calling an investigation into claims the democrats fact his state of special election. A New York Times report accuses the party of using russia like disinformation bots on social media to support his candidacy and hurting roy more. The report claims democrats used a concerted pages on facebook and encouraged users to support a write in candidate and not more. He won the election by 22,000 votes. As facebook deals with backlash over a report that he gave Tech Companies access to your private data in the report claims it is tracking your location. It accesses your location when you are using its apps to give targeted advertisements, pinpointing your location by using your browsing history and there is no way to turn the feature off. You can only delete the apps from your phone. Another Christmas Present from our friends at facebook. Carley from Christmas Decorations to high heels to the be best initiative, first lady milania trump cant seem to do anything right in the medias eyes. Is now adopted this well with me attitude. You would think in her rare public appearances a terrible wrong has been done to her. Ive always been surprised by the air of grievance she carries publicly. Carley will the media ever cut milania any slack . Joining me for the daily caller, amber, thank you for being with us. This is a topic that has been going on all throughout the year. I know the media doesnt like the president so the first lady catches heat for being married to him but now that vogue magazine has criticized her Christmas Card which was fine, doesnt it seem when theres nothing to criticize they make things up . Exactly right. It is a shame vogue decided to publish this criticism anonymously because i would love to know the deeply said individual behind such a trivial attack against the first lady. Of your chief complaint is the lighting is too bright or you dont like that they are Holding Hands or it like it is photoshop to then clearly you have Nothing Better to complain about and your only interest is in tearing down another individual, reveals their own character more than it does that of the first lady. Carley multiple news outlets attacked her for wearing, remember this . High heels, when she was boarding the plane to visit victims of Hurricane Harvey. We have those headlines. Slade said what was she thinking with her Hurricane Harvey stilettos . Milania trump off to texas finds herself on thin heels. Vanity fair says who wears stilettos to a hurricane . She changed her shoes when she got down on the grounds. Do you think a fashion magazine, shes a former model, will ever write any positive stories about her . Know because womens magazines have been moving to the left for quite some time. If you read vogue or any of these magazines you will see leftwing talking points about abortion and the gender wage gap and they have taken the leftwing attitude and applied it to the Trump Administration taking every opportunity to criticize milania whether it is for her red Christmas Trees which were painted as a holiday horror show, her choice of shoes, Michelle Obama a blue tiffanys box at the inauguration, she said we cant win because these people are so desperate to get at her husband that they have to attack her as a proxy. Carley i feel like it doesnt bother her. She seems like such a strong woman. She was criticized when she announced the be best campaign but former Michelle Obama took some criticism for her lunch initiative. It is important to note 1st lady milania trump is not the first first lady to be criticized like this. A totally fair point. Michelle obama got her fair share of criticism, whether it was for School Lunches or her garden in the white house, some of her outfits. It is a bad trend that should end. I dont think we should be this tough on first ladies, especially regarding milania trump, shes a very private person, sources close to her said repeatedly but her spokesperson Stephanie Grisham made clear she doesnt see herself as a victim. Regarding her the best campaign, that is not only targeted at young children, it is also targeted at the media as well and that is her response to their constant attacks on her. Missed opportunity when the media goes after the first lady in this era when women are championing other women. It is something to be said that it is not happening with this first lady or the previous one as well. Thank you for being with us, we appreciate it. The time is 26 minutes after the hour. Kirstjen neilsen defending the bush for Border Security as the senate prepares for funding vote. The president will continue to advocate for what men and women of Border Patrol say they need and this is what it is. Carley breaking down how the money will be spent. Senator jeff flake has a final parting gift he wants to raise your taxes. Dan geltruth is here. And saying, really . So capital one is building something completely new. Capital one cafes. Inviting places with people here to help you, not sell you. And savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. Because thats how it should be. You can open one from right here or anywhere in 5 minutes. Seriously, 5 minutes. This is banking reimagined. Whats in your wallet . Whoooo. Did you know the exact same hotel room. Can have many different prices . Thats why tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites to find the lowest price on the hotel you want. Your Perfect Hotel room for the perfect price carley fox news alert, the house overnight passing a spending bill including 6 billion for funding the border wall. The president staying firm on his desire to build the wall. The fact is we need the wall, the democrats know it, Everybody Knows it. You should always put your Country First and they are not doing that. They are putting politics first. We have to build the wall. It will get built. We are going to complete it. A lot of progress has been made. Watch what happens. Carley capitol hill the clock is ticking, the senate must come up with a bipartisan agreement before midnight to avoid a Government Shutdown. Also breaking overnight, two us airstrikes till 11 extremists in somalia. The airstrikes were self defense after the terror group attacked Somali Forces and the peacekeeping mission. No american soldiers were hurt. The us have attacked out to bob militants with 47 airstrikes this year. Flights are taking off at the second Busiest Airport in the uk after drones shot it down causing travel chaos. Tens of thousands of travelers stranded at Londons Gatwick airport during the busy holiday rush. More than 40 drone sightings, in 24 hours. There are no signs related to terror. Memorial Services Begin with two officers killed by a train in chicago. And ardo they were on the tracks looking for shooting suspect. Police say they like we never saw the train coming in died instantly. Edward brown is charged in connection with the death. He fired it just to see if it worked. Homeland security secretary Kirstjen Neilsen defend the border wall push in an exclusive interview. Everywhere we have physical infrastructure by 95 . We will advocate for what men and women of Border Patrol say they need and this is what it is. The 5 billion donald trump is asking for is approved, covering infrastructure and border personnel. Carley jeff flake with time before the end of the year but before he goes he wants to raise your taxes, the prominent antitrump are teaming up with chris coons to push the senates version of a carbon tax bill to match the when the house introduced last month. Here with what this means for your wallet is cpa and financial analyst dan geltrude. Explain what this is about. This happened in paris and we saw the city go on fire. What does it mean to add a tax, if passed which it never will be, if passed, it will be a Carbon Emissions tax, basically fossil fuels are going to be facing taxes. What does that mean . That will get passed along to the consumer. People who are hurt the most are people at the lower end of the spectrum because fuel costs are going up. Whether it is for heating or your car, it is not the right thing to do. Republicans need to get serious about Climate Change but you say this is a stunt. It is. He wants to get serious about Climate Change, two weeks left in office, now all of a sudden we got to get something done. It is just a game. He might be aligning himself against donald trump in the primary as the antitrump. Todd it is time to give you a merry Christmas Present. You are going to give free tax advice what to do the last few days in 2018. We dont have a lot of time left in this year but if you have medical expenses lets get them in before the end of this year because deductions for medical are not the same next year, we get less benefits. The second thing, if you are getting a divorce, if youre real close you may want to get it done before the end of the year. With the new tax laws you wont get a deduction for alimony payments so depending where you fall you may want to time the divorce at the end of this year or the beginning of next year. Todd it will make new years eve a lot more fun. The other thing is you always want to maximize the amount of money you put into your ira and your 401 k plan. And the tip i once to give people, Pay Attention to your 401 k statements, make sure the match going in from your employer is really there, that is your money. You need to look for that. That is the purpose of doing audits. That is something we want to Pay Attention to. Finally gifting. Absolutely. The new trump tax law, we have the ability with the estate tax to get more over your lifetime, 1 million per person, if you want to start gifting, nows the time to do it. You have a lot of room to get those gifts to family members. Todd Merry Christmas to you. Pack your patience. Well played, producers. The holiday headache, the rails and the skies. We have some good news for you. Cant yet enough of this. Holy cow. A farmer corrals his cattle into the special christmas message, the message he sent with livestock. Todd a fox news alert, one of the busy travel days of the year. Carley Tracy Carrasco joins us as 112 million americans get out of town for the holidays. Reporter aaa says 102 million of those people will be driving somewhere and expecting a busy time on the roadways but because Christmas Day and new years day fall on tuesday, it might work out to our advantage and spread out the traffic because one in 3 americans will travel over this holiday season. Because travelers already started taking off, today, monday, that is alleviating the traffic but because people are spreading out there travel time doesnt mean it is any less busy. Still plan ahead. 6. 7 Million People will be flying this holiday season. Busy in the air, busy on the road. Todd this better be good, youre excited. Carley i know food, restaurants in general. I know this is one of your favorites. Taco bell adding a few new things to the menu starting december 27th. Nationwide two new burritos, the chicken and gelato bar reno and in three select cities trying out a few new items. In charlotte you can try the buffalo chicken nacho box, the cheesey how opinion nacho box in cincinnati, and flatbread. And there is a new fancy taco bell. Carley thank you for putting together this story. Dont know if this is something i should be proud of. Thank you so much. From soldiers returning home to their families, americans are going above and beyond to share their christmas spirit. Todd Marianne Rafferty looks at the most heartwarming moments this holiday season. Look like any ordinary visit to santa but these girls are not asking for toys. What do you want for christmas . I want my dad to come home. Reporter without his lead and trustee reindeer, he delivers. Daddy reporter the jolly old elf is not the only one spreading Holiday Cheer. Nurses at an indiana hospital making sure babies are enjoying their first christmas, the newborns placed in festive stockings. We all heard about the secret santa makes spirits right for those in need to pay off gifts on layaway but one stands out from the crowd. He is 11 and cover more than 300 wish list for a complete stranger. It would be nice to have christmas. Reporter some of the best ways kids are bringing cheers this holiday season. Marion rafferty, fox news. Todd 43 after the hour. A brandnew sheriff has quite the icebreaker at a county board game. We are going to physically remove ice. [applause] todd his plan to help illegal immigrants. Carley kurt the cyber guy back with the best tech toys this holiday season. Merry christmas baby today is the day youre going to get motivated. Get stronger. Get closer. Start listening today to the Worlds Largest selection of audiobooks on audible. And now, get more. For just 14. 95 a month, youll get a credit a month good for any audiobook, plus two Audible Originals exclusive titles you cant find anywhere else. 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Todd this comes days after the us pledged aid to mexico and central america. Heather the newly elected sheriff of california warning immigration officials in that sanctuary state. We are going to physically remove ice from county jails. [applause] todd the Los Angeles County sheriff met with mixed reaction over the announcement and wants to limit the crime forcing jails to cooperate with ice. They made 1200 transfers to ice last year. I dont know if that works or my logic hat if that makes any sense. Not a good idea. Carley if you have summit who is tough to shop for, watch this. Todd the cyber guy is here. Like harry potter, this is a can of harry potter, a coding kit that comes with a magic wand so kids know how to code. The first ever harry potter stem product. And to become a wizard like that. It is a perfect gift, under 80. And could the going to love it. I never felt more powerful in your life. This is called relay. And turned out i must be a kid too. Parents can use the apps as well. The little one could go anywhere in the world, california or new york and these will work because they work on 4g. Carley kids will hate that. These were called phones. This is a smart phone with all the junk. It is so simple, keeps you in touch with your friends and family and is a lot more fun. Carley we will take your word that this is a smart phone. This is a cloud mix head set. These are brandnew. These are amazing, incredible game head sets, under 200, in retail stores, not too late for any of this and when you are not into gaming, you can swap this microphone and you are listening to stuff. It is a brilliant design, super high quality, long battery life, hyperactive cloud mix. Carley that is what you look like if you work at espn. This is actually a smart phone. This is my smart phone. Look at this tiny thing. Remember how expensive it is to buy a phone that has a huge memory . You dont need it with this. 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Carley National Ugly sweater day. We are decked out in our ugliest mix. The holiday started in 2011 as a way to lighten up the holiday season. Stop laughing. Todd you saw the segment a few weeks ago, there was a lovely couple, we put them on tv briefly and they said we want you to have it. Finally we accepted it and the producer said we have ugly christmas, we decided this is what the nation needed to see in this time. We apologize for the nightmares. Carley is this funny or is it weird . Todd what was that . Sorry. Didnt see the prompter. Another story about Ryan Reynolds was looking at me. I apologize. Carley he was wearing an ugly sweater as well. Put it on instagram as funny stuff. Fox and friends first continues right now. I think the house has now passed a bill. Now we find that. Carley it is friday, december 21st. A fox news alert. Wall in. Breaking overnight the house trying to bring the border wallace to close it to construction giving the president his 5 billion. Todd with 24 hours until the shutdown deadline the question is what will the senate do . Christmas chaos on one of the busiest travel days of the year, thousands of flights grounded. Carley Severe Weather on this recordbreaking weekend