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Good afternoon. 2020 candidates taking a break from christmas from the campaign trail today. But expect the race to heat up first thing tomorrow morning. When these candidates move between iowa and New Hampshire impeachment is a top thats dominating the news cycle. It has been for weeks here in washington. These white house hopefuls playing close attention to the tension between the house and senate. Former Vice President joe biden called impeachment a solemn moment for our country this weekend....

Important campaigning and iowa new hampshire. state of the union is february 4th a day after the iowa caucuses. its going to be busy with the trial, with the state of the union, lot going on and these people on the campaign trial not taking much time off maybe just today. thats it. >> could be a big advantage for biden and buttigieg and others. we appreciate it. lets bring in now john buffy associate editor from "wall street journal." great to see you. lets talk about this additional impeachme...

protesters set off fireworks. it all started nearly two weeks ago when cops raided a peaceful sitin against the government-run plan to turnç this park into ar mall, but that backfield in a big way. now the turkish prime minister is saying, look, erdogan is saying you have to back down. were not going to tolerate this anymore, and now he is in there with the police trying to break the protesters up and, frankly, thus far, its not workilsjy thisç has sparked nationwide protest, some ...

Capital hill. ther is are shelled out more than $4 million on one conference in 2010. a conference that included luxury hotel rooms and free drinks. those are just some of the findings that a new report from the inspector general it showup official stayed for five nights in a room that usually goes for $3,500 a night. the report revealed the irs paid a flat daily fee of just $135 per room, but the agency improperly chose some upgrades instead of negotiating a lower rate, and remember, the irs ma...

not run of the mill here. the food, plate-silverware started flaying, -- flying but the plane landed safely. well be live with a passenger who took the pictures. thats all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on "studio b." >> first from fox at 3:00 in new york city, we heard today from several consecutive groups who claim they were targets of irs overreach. its the first time were hearing from victims of the irs scandal themselves. some organizations had tea party in their na...

0 >> shepard: some of the witnesses testified about the questions they said the irs was asking. >> thats right. the treasurery inspector general called them unnecessary questions, and they talked about how they were bogged down in questions about donors, philosophy, about the nature of the prayers they were giving, and heres the latest sample question. >> my personal favorite was question 33. which in relation to protests asked for a listing of our, quote, committed violations of local ordinance...

0 to meeting patient needs... ♪ to wireless is mitless.s... >> megyn: im exhausted. time for shepard. see you. >> shepard: the gus begins anew. an interesting day at the white house. i about the boss is fit to be tied. there are three major dustups over simultaneous investigations. the first charging of the september 11th attacks in benghazi. the white house spokesman echoed the eed the presidents -- that he didnt know about the e-mails. the president calls the story political theater. second,...

Phones owner didnt have anything to do with the pictures. investigators said it looks like the work of the iranian intelligence service. for the shortly after he was abducted his english language news service reported that he was in the governments custody and he would be released in a few days. ever since then, iran has do denied any involvement whatsoever and claims to have conducted a series of searches and raids and have turned up nothing. >> shep: david lee miller, thank you. >> managing ed...

health emergency. more today as we got word in the last years movie theater massacre may have planned his shooting simply important months and apparently cased the place to ensure maximum carnage. breaking news first on studio "b". more news is breaking in new york city. first a ferry crash and now this. this is queens where rescue crews say a crane has collapsed just across from manhattan. this is across the genes borough bridge and you get into queens, many of you have been here kn...

janice dean says those yellow jerseys are called. [ speaking french ] >> i think italian. >> thanks to everybody. here is shepard smith. >> shep: nivani. >> menaijeune. >> and the news begins anew. more than 50 people injured, several of them critical this afternoon after a commuter fairy crashed into a pier near new york still. this flu outbreak is getting very serious. so bad that emergency rooms are said to be turning away patients because there is no more room in there and one city...