Giant. What did the president tell you when you got the job . What did he say . Build the wall. Parking lot party a tailgate. Steve its not exactly like a parking lot in front of our building. Actually, we got up this morning and there was snow on the ground, about an inch here in new york city. The week before christmas. Ainsley i got so much sleep last night. Did you get a lot of sleep . You probably didnt. You were down at the border. What time did you get in last night . Brian i was on the tarmac last night at laguardia. They thought it would be a good idea to leave us throughout for a while. Ainsley they love to do that. Brian it was fantastic. I think i was in bed by 12 45. Ainsley oh my gosh. Steve oh, good. Brian we were up at 3 00. Im not going to make much sense today. Steve we call that thursday. Ainsley thats all right. A lot of what you did is on tape. Brian with the Homeland Security secretary, its pretty cool. I have never been to the border before. Did i try to escape from the country once. I got caught. Did i come back. I dont count that. Ainsley they told me once when i was on the border. What if i went across the rio grand, she said you would not come back. I said okay, im going to stay on this side. Ainsley you were in san antonio for a while. Ainsley this is when i worked on Sean Hannitys show el paso. Dangerous town in mexico. Steve i heard it was pretty easy to come back. Ainsley right it depends on where you are, maybe, on the border. Steve thank you very much for joining us on this snowy thursday. Straight to a fox news alert. Hope have you room in your stockings for a giant tax cut that essentially is what the president said yesterday. And it looks like tax reform for middle class and corporations, companies could be wrapped up by christmas day. Brian Griff Jenkins is live in washington, d. C. Lawmakers will get it done. Griff . Good morning, guys. You know, most americans arent used to getting good news from the irs. But yesterday the president took an opportunity to highlight a statement put out by them as g. O. P. Leaders in the house and senate reach an agreement on a bill. If Congress Sends me a bill before christmas, the irs, this is just out, this is breaking news. Has just confirmed that americans will see lower taxes and bigger paychecks beginning in february. All right. So whats in this . Lets take a look. First, it slashes the corporate rate from 35 to 21 instead of the 20 as originally planned. It cuts the top individual rate of 39. 6 to 37 . It caps state and local Tax Deductions to 10,000. Giving them flexibility across property and income taxes. Satisfies the high tax states like new new york, new jersey, and california. Finally it repeal its the obamacare individual mandate. But dont expect democrats to support it as senator ron wyden calls it a betrayal. This is the ultimate betrayal of the middle class. It doesnt give middle class americans the tax cuts they deserve now and it takes away medicare and Social Security later. Its never a done deal until its done. Of this is washington after all it appears the house and senate will start voting on it early next week and could reach the president s desk by christmas. Brian all right, griff. Its not saying great to see you. We will take over to from here. I just want to make sure i dont want to be rude to him. Totally done, for example, marco rubio has some colonel about the Child Tax Credit and senator mike lee answered him yesterday saying yeah, we are going to look to include that, an additional Child Tax Credit will make it even greater. I guess it is somewhat fluid. Steve they agreed in principle what it will be. They are still writing on the margins. The president said yesterday according to the irs, if they pass this by christmas, you will see a larger paycheck come february as the federal government will be taking out less in your withholding. Ainsley right. Just to sum it up. Republicans agreed on the bill now they are going to vote on it next week and then it will go to the president s desk, hopefully before christmas, the republicans say. Steve all right. Meanwhile, if you were watching the Fox News Channel late yesterday morning, you saw the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein getting grilled by lawmakers, particularly republicans. And they will wanted to know hey, whats the deal with, for instance, peter strzok who wrote those inappropriate apparently biased texts to lisa page, his girlfriend. Essentially calling donald trump all sorts of inappropriate words and using the f word. Then have you jeannie rhee on the mueller team. She used to work for the clinton foundation, weissmann, bruce ohr. On and on. All these people biased who are on or off now the mueller team. Ainsley it went on to four hours. Do you want to listen to some of it . Because i bet you didnt watch all four hours. Watch this. Then lo and behold, those who were supposed to make sure there are no conflicts of interest, seem to have a few of their own. High ranking fbi officials involved in the clinton investigation were personally invested in the outcome of the election. This guy thought he was super agent james bond at the fbi. And im here to tell you, mr. Rorch stein, i think the public trust in this whole thing is gone. Not a single, solitary personal he can imagine would vote for donald trump. This is the conflict of interest free special agent assigned. Did mr. Mueller take propghts action in this case . Yes, did. Have you seen good cause to fire special counsel mueller. No. So mueller is on the case. He says essentially the reason they came out with Text Messages between peter strzok and lisa page was because they wanted to show, look, we got a bad apple we get rid of them. Brian 9 of 15 investigators are clinton donors. Who knows, one went to the party. The guy they want to talk to is mccabe former acting director of the fbi and trey gowdy said yesterday i bet you he doesnt even come here. How do you continue to do. This i couldnt believe it when eric holders attorney general just refused to answer and provide documents. Now we are seeing continue only Rod Rosenstein is appointed by President Trump. So, why would he be blocking . Why wouldnt he answer the questions about fusion gps . Why wouldnt he say was that used to get fight that warrants . It doesnt reflect on him. Just be within a did. Go behind closed doors, whatever you need to do. There is a dysfunction thats not acceptable. Ainsley well, were they personally invested in the outcome of this election . Thats the big question this morning. You heard representative jim jordan say the public trust is gone. He want a second counsel appointed. He said the most egregious texas message he found was this one. It was when strzok was talking about a meeting with the fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe. This was august 2016. This is what the text said. I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andys office that there is no way trump gets elected. Im afraid we cant take that risk. Its just like an insurance policy in the unlikely events you die before youre 40. Brian unbelievable. Steve who are all these people on the mueller team trey gowdy said at some points mr. Mueller is going to have to explain who vetted these people . I have been very defensive of Robert Mueller from day one, even up until as reentsly as a week ago. But, he hired some people that have terrible bias. And he will didnt have. There are plenty of women and men who dont contribute to political campaigns. There are plenty of prosecutors he could have hired. So, at some point, bob mueller is going to have to explain how did he vet these prosecutors and agents . How did these folks slip by . Because whats going to happen, martha, if he decides to do something to the Trump Campaign or prosecute President Trump, republicans have a builtin argument for bias. That the fix was in from day one. Brian that should have been the attorney general. Meanwhile, we will talk more about that later. Yesterday, i had a chance to go down to the border. It was only her fourth day on the job. Im talking about dhs secretary nielsen. She wanted to go down and meet with the Border Agents at the most porous place. Thats the Rio Grande Valley sync tore of our border in texas. I want to bring you a little bit more of this on monday a complete package on this. I talking to a lot of the agents. Here i asked her about the terror attack at Port Authority and chain migration and what could be done from Homeland Securitys perspective. Listen. What happened to Port Authority this week and thats also an immigrationmigration situation. A chain migration situation. Yes. Brian as Homeland Security secretary, whats your role on that . Its a couple things. I think we need to look at all of our visa programs and ensure, first of all, that they meet the requirements that congress originally meant them to meet. We have a lot of fraud and abuse which decreases the ability of the people who need to come as part of that to come. It also demonstrated that one bad apple if you will can cause a lot of problems. Very lucky there was no fatalities. But we have got to increase vetting for everyone coming in this country is what i take from that. Brian orders. Chain migration. She would like the lottery system examined as well. Steve you are down there at the border. Is she going to do everything she can to build the wall . Brian we will talk about that. We have this different ballard wall, a chain link fence. 54 miles of wall. And there is over 50 without any barrier at all. So you will get more of the bottom of the hour and major complete package on monday. Ainsley great to see a woman in that role. She is an attorney. She worked for general kelly at one point . Brian worked at the white house and worked with him as his chief of staff. When general kelly came to visit us last year, she was there. Ainsley he recommended her for the job . Brian yeah. Ainsley jillian has headlines. More on that in 20 minutes. Jillian good morning to you guys and to you at home as well. Lets get you caught up on headlines of the morning. The wanna be new york city terrorist could face life in prison. Akayed ullah a chain migrant from bangladesh making Court Appearance from his hospital bed. Judge denying bail. He wanted to kill as many people as possible in the name of isis when he detonated a pipe bomb inside a subway passage way in times square. He was the only one seriously injured. Turning now to extreme weather. A winter storm hitting the mid west and northeast overnight temperatures hitting below freezing. We are seeing snow now. People forced to dig out after the storm dumped 10 inches of snow in parts of michigan. Wind chill there in the single digits. Drifting snow causing Poor Visibility and dangerously slick road conditions. All right. This one. You remember this story. Sarah Huckabee Sanders dishing out pie gate controversy and delivering pies to the press today. You may remember the White House Press secretary tweeted about her homemade pie for thanksgiving. Cnn reporter april ryan doubting her skills tweeting, quote show it to us on aible that. Well, sarah did just that tweeting this photo of freshly baked pies. And she didnt stop there. Sanders tweeting out her entire baking process, using the pie gate. Sanders says she will serve her pies today at the White House Press corps pot lock. A look at your headlines. What do you guys think about that. Ainsley its real. Jillian i like that. Its funny. Steve everybody will be able to sample personally. Brian her dad said bring it on i knew she was capable. Jillian i got this. Ainsley i saw this on twitter last night. Thanks for the pecans, they were from someone on staff parents farm. Brian Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein grilled by the house yesterday. Were you aware of just how biased mr. Strzok was . Ainsley representative Louie Gohmert one of those lawmakers demanding answers from him and is he going to be joining us next. Steve cry me a river. A convicted cop killer Hunger Strike employe ploy to gt transferred that nobody is buying on this thursday. you are going to be a big surprise. whining aww, i see a big puppy. I see a biig puuppy. 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We finally got to see the texts that the ig covered from strzok. Those of us that used to try lawsuits in front of juries, you go through jury selection to make sure that nobody as biased as these people get anywhere near being the justice for your client. Steve right. These guys were hand picked by mueller. And i would submit humbly the reason that they were knocked off this special counsel force was not because they were biased. He had to know how biased they were. And been part of the selection process. The reason they were kicked off is because their absolute hate came out in things like these Text Messages. Steve sure. As long as the public didnt know how much hatred there was on the special counsel force for the president was okay. When the public found out really hate it but i will have to let you get out because the public has found out how bad you are. Steve you are right about that. If the folks missed some of the texts we ran them yesterday. Here is one of them. Lisa page says god trump is loathe some human. She texted that her boy friend peter strzok. Yet he may win. Good for miller. God hillary should win 100 million to zero. You talked about it earlier. The big one, you want to talk about a headline is when they take about an insurance policy against even if trump wins they have to have an insurance policy. That can mean only one thing, they have got to take him out if he does survive the election. Steve it sounded ominous. You know, the president of the United States, i know you want to know what was in that fisa warrant to get them to start everything. Exactly. Steve the president could declassify himself right now and we would all know by noon. Yeah. And i know the president would love to do that but people would probably freak out if the president went in and declassified these things. Steve based on the phony dossier, people should know that. You bet they should. And so im sure that the president s heard from some of these career attorneys like rosenstein oh, lets dont do that. He needs to do it. He really does. Steve lets see what happened today. Louie gohmert from texas. Thank you all for digging into it. Thank you so much. Steve thank you for joining us today. You bet. Steve some reports say she had to be dragged out of the white house. What really happened with apprentice star omarosa. Shes fired . What . Wh and designer shoe collection were ruined. Luckily, the Geico Insurance agency had recently helped mary with renters insurance, and she got a totally fab replacement wardrobe at bloomingdales. Mary was inspired to start her own fashion line, exclusively for little lambs. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. We thats why at xfinityic. Weve been working hard to simplify your experiences with us. Now with instant text and email updates youll always be up to date. 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