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Because fewer people need work. the unemployment rate in december stayed at 4.1% for the third month in a row, the lowest level since the year 2000. the dow is up 2,024 points. heres cavuto. >> neil: more than 200 points is good enough for a record. youre looking at the strongest start of the year for the market since back in 2006. stocks pushing further into record territory after the dow finished above 25,000. not far from 26,000 at the rate were going. the backdrop, republicans holding a pow-...

Off the record may have actually been reported, shep. >> shepard: peter doocy live at the white house. lets turn to john bussey, associate editor of the "wall street journal." hes a fox news contributor. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> shepard: some quotes here. the first from bannon. treasonist. he said the three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with foreign government in the trump tower with no lawyers. if you thought that was bad stuff, and i happen to thin...

Steve bannon is swinging at the trump white house in this new book thats come out. >> hes said hes going to get involved in primaries. i would view it less what is the role steve bannon plays and what role do voters who think like steve bannon. this america first group who voted for trump, will they be motivated in the mid-terms to support trump? weve seen voters who hate trump and vote against him in the m - mid-terms. it becomes very much a turnout game because not as many come out as presiden...

What does this debate look like heading into the meeting today? >> it will be very interesting to see how the president handles this. i think he has two paths as he begins his second year before the 2018 mid-terms. he can take the sort of base-pleasing path he has taken sung he will not compromise on daca and thorny issues with respect to immigration that he campaign on or look towards taking a more bipartisan path. if you look at what the rhetoric thats coming from mitch mcconnell and the presi...

>> very slow. >> real slow. >> very, very slow. >> like almost you want it to end. >> that is true. >> and if you want 2017 to end, thats happening. lightning round. 2017 in one word. >> eyeroll emoji. >> mayhem. >> rusher. >> 2018 as we look ahead in one word. >> women. >> can i say started from the bottom now were here? >> wow. >> i dont know where but well be here. >> turnout. and i dont mean like getting drunk. i mean really, turn out, damn it! vote! whats wrong with you! vote! do it! vote! ...

>> happy new year. a great new year for political analysts. its a national election again. >> molly: one big gift heading into the mid-terms. as we head into the mid-terms there have been some predictions it could be a blue wave year. similar to the republican revolution in 1994 but in reverse. do you buy that? do you think this is a year for a blue wave? >> its way too soon to say. is this a year that is likely to favor democrats? the answer is yes because its a mid-term election year in a repu...

This also comes after, you know, the uproar about the protests, the national anthem protests and basketball players over in china and a number of racial issues that continue to be surfaced by this president. we are seeing this at the ballot box. if youre a republican right now looking into next years mid-terms, youre probably a little worried about this. >> and youre worried about whether people are getting the real goods, the real facts on it because if they are it can turn off a lot of people,...

Daca deal but i want my wall among other measures related to immigration. do they get past that impasse and where do they compromise on so many issues heading forward into the mid-terms? >> if you are a friend of senator mcconnell or speaker ryan, send them a big package of migraine excedrin for the new year. in the senate, mcconnell will have to get the votes of nine democrats in addition to holding all 51 republicans. you see, were past the 51-vote rule. now its 60 votes to pass these key item...

About it. how do we keep people that are mentally ill from owning guns? when we have people, because of domestic violence or something that happens in the home and they get convicted, there are too many loopholes. if we can keep people who have issues that are mentally ill that we can help and not have access to that gun, we can save lives. we need to work together to do some common sense things like this that help save lives. >> congresswoman, please keep us posted on where this goes. so often ...

Plants and possess as much as an ounce of the drug. were covering it for you live on special report at 6:00 p.m. eastern. now back to "your world." >> republicans are coming out of 2017 on a high note with president trump signing the gop tax bill into law. but should that be worried about the 2018 mid-terms? sarah weswood joins us now. sarah, you know, i was talking with karl rove. he expressed a lot of worries about 2018 and saying republicans should be worried. the president will gather republ...