Trish regan. Welcome, everybody, to the intelligence report. Joining me right here, right now, fox news strategic analyst Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters to talk about, colonel, always good to see you. Good to see you, dagen. Dagen the variety of subjects that nikki haley, our ambassador to the u. N. Hit upon, what do you think stood out to you as the most important . The most important thing to me is nikki haley. Nikki haley herself. She was crisp, firm, clear. How often do we actually hear somebody like that. Her positions on iran, firm, clear and sensible. We are going to, you know, were going to shame the europeans into getting real about iran over this, i guarranty you. On north korea, she expressed skepticism, but measured skepticism. On pakistan, i worked with the Pakistani Military back in the 90s, trump is absolutely right on this i can be tough on President Trump but on pakistan he is right. Theyre responsible for the death and mutilation of many an american in afghanistan th
Lot of American Workers are starting and having a very happy ew year thanks to the wage increases and bonuses they got as a result of the president s tax cut bill. Exactly what doing the president said they would. Ncreasing investment and raising wages and the workers are the big beneficiaries. We will be talking a lot more about that in the the coming days. With the new year, we also have a renewed appreciation for the we enjoy here in the United States. Unfortunately, millions of world are not he so fortunate. In recent days, we have watched widespread protests erupt in cities, years of corruption and foreign venturism have ee readed he iranians people in their leaders. The regime spends their peoples wealth on spreading military ensuring her than prosperity at home. Prices for everyday staples and uel are rising while the revolutionary guard spend the ations wealth on foreign militant groups and enrich themselves in the process. The iranian people are angry at the rising tide of cor
Some kind of issue about his time on the course . I think its the press that has an issue with his time on the course. The president s extremely proud of the accomplishments we had during 2017. I dont think anyone can argue its one of the most successful first years in office, passed major legislation, reworked this court system, and it got a Supreme Court justice nominated and approved and on the bench in the first year, a booming economy, Massive Gains against the war on isis, i think weve had an extremely successful 2017 and some of thats due to the Relationship Building he was able to do there. Well take one last question. Reporter is there a reason for no read out or confirmation . We provide information when its pertinent to the day and well continue to do that. Go ahead. Reporter earlier the president tweeted about tax reform saying companies are giving big bonuses to their workers because of the tax cut bill, really great. Will the employees of the president s own companies be
Senior advisor may have exposed classified state passwords to her very hackable private yahoo account this as President Trump said if navy sailor had to go to jail for taking pictures of his classified submarine so should a bedin, and christian is here with us to might to call out that double standard. Weve got an allstar guest line up for you, economist ben stein on that big risk to your money, now sitting right there hiding in plain sight and retired Lieutenant Colonel on the explosive iran protest and how they are now blaming the u. S. For irans riots politics, money weve got you covered welcome to risk reward im elizabeth macdonald. We are on the dow closing in the green in its fir trading day of the new year the s p 500 and nasdac clenching fresh record highs. Could the markets rise continue under President Trumps new year agenda. The work starts this week. The president is expected to meet with season at majority leader mitch mcconnell, House Speaker paul ryan tomorrow at camp da
Rain well offshore. We have several hours until the rain moves in. As we look at the time line, there is a possibility well have light rain in the santa cruz mountains. The push of heavier rain, potentially thunderstorms moving in this afternoon. Look at the time line there, at about 2 00 this afternoon. Ill be talking more about when this becomes more widespread in a few minutes. We are out there on the roads with an early look at traffic. We have off to a good start this wednesday morning. It is all green. No major slowing or accidents to report at this time. Chp hasnt reported anything major. If we look at the bay bridge, we can see it is looking beautiful, but, if you notice the cars out there, well, we are starting to see slowing. I havent seen them turn on metering lights, its early for that. Im going investigate what that is all about. They might have one of the metering lights on to slow down traffic a bit. Ill give you an update on that in a bit. Back to you. Thank you. Now, a