Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2017

FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier December 12, 2017

Fox news night, shannon bream. Hopped off the presses. Using a unique combination of polling information and data. People are still voting and we will learn more. Here are some initial responses. When asked about the president s impact on their decision to vote, heres what we learned for the vast majority, 67 , said the president was not a factor for them in voting today. 21 said their vote was about expressing support for the president and 12 said they wanted to send a message that they oppose him. We know the president has repeatedly, talked about electing roy moore, what it will do to the g. O. P. Agenda. How important his vote would be. What were the most important factors for voters . 92 said the candidates morality it was a key factor for them. Party control came in second at 88 . Abortion was the third most important factor in the allegations against moore finished fourth. Number three, abortion, a hot topic in alabama. When asked how important the positions were, 34 of jones voters said it was critical. Nearly double, 63 of moore voters said it was very important to them. We also want to hear from people who decided not to vote. We have a way to reach out to them. Heres what our research reveals. A majority of the nonvoters say the allegations against moore were important in their decision to stay home altogether. 59 say that kept them at home, versus 41 . More data trickling in. Well keep you updated. Bret interesting, thank you. At this point, it looks like it could be a tough race to call at this point. Martha maccallum, my cohost for tonights coverage, is here. Its exciting. It certainly is. You look at areas around huntsville, mobile, birmingham, suburban areas, the vote will be watched closely. Suburban women, how did they react . Africanamerican voters really important as well. Bret turn out as the big factor but also as the polls going in, its tough because of the dynamics in this race. We have our decision desk. Of the things that makes it hard to predict is you have a candidate who has had many allegations. Its possible some people are saying they are undecided but they are going to wind up voting for this guide. Democrats arent supposed to be competitive in alabama and there is some evidence this guy can win. Thats so challenging to accept. Bret the gap could be one way or another, pretty big. In the recent polling, 3. 5 margin, which is what you see in terms of the margin of error in senate races. You have the factor, because of the nature of the race and the controversy over the allegations against roy moore, its plausible there are a lot of people who didnt answer the phone, dont want to respond. They may walk in and pull the lever for roy moore. Bret we saw that in the general election people said they either werent voting are warned voting for donald trump but when they got in the booth, they did that. Speaks to the divisiveness in the country. I think it is reflected in these polling devices. There was a time people would be asked by upholsterer and the assumed it was an unbiased person who wanted to know their opinion. Now i think people see gremlins behind these things in many ways and they are suspicious. They may not be revealing their true feelings. Bret we are going to get more data along the way. I will come visit you on the story. Well do cuttings throughout the night. Who do you think should win tonight in alabama . Let me know on twitter bretbaier. Use the hashtag specialreport or on facebook at facebook. Com bretebaiersr. Meantime, President Trump tweeted early today he believes the people of alabama will look to the right thing in todays election. In his words, he is supporting moore. The president is dealing with calls for him to step down, released face an investigation into Sexual Misconduct allegations from multiple accusers. His attentiongrabbing tweet of the day and new calls for another special prosecutor to look into potential conflicts of interest involving the Justice Department and fbi officials in the russia probe. Another busy day at the white house. Here is john roberts. Good evening. The president is looking at an investigation into russia that he has not agreed with for a long, long time. His outside counsel looking at new revelations surrounding the associate Deputy Attorney general they say warranted a new special counsel. Jacek yellow called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into numerous revelations. Fox news reported that bruce ohr was demoted after it was revealed he met with two People Associated with the unverified dossier about President Trump in 2016. Ohr met with Glenn Simpson, the founder of fusion gps, and Christopher Steele, the former spy. Yesterday we learned ohrs wife worked for fusion gps during the president ial campaign. Today the white house stopped short of endorsing the call for another special prosecutor. If we are going to continue to investigate things, lets look at something where there is some real evidence and real proof of wrongdoing. The president s legal team has not made any type of formal request. Attorney general Jeff Sessions spoke to fox news producer jake gibson said he already has a senior attorney in place to review such cases. To recommend to me if standards for special counsel are met and the recommended one should be established. President trump did not weigh in today, his only public appearance, to assign the National Defense authorization act for it on twitter, the president lashed out against Kirsten Gillibrand for demanding he resign in the face of renewed accusations of sexual impropriety. The president tweeting lightweight senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office begging for Campaign Contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them, gillibrand and many others read it that she would trade sexual favors. I will not be silenced. Neither will the woman who stood up to the president yesterday. Elizabeth warren frequently a target of President Trump leapt to gillibrands defense, tweeting are you trying to bully, intimidate, and slut shame senator gillibrand . Sarah sanders said that your mind out of the gutter. The president was talking about access and catering to special interests. Talking about political games people play and the broken system he has talked about repeatedly. This isnt new. In the middle of this backandforth, President Trump is preparing for a speech tomorrow build as a Closing Argument for tax reform. The white house is confident the house and senate will reconcile differences in conference tomorrow. Mark short concedes the president mayhap do except a slightly higher Corporate Tax rate. The president has been consistent about 20 . If theres changes, it depends on what youre getting in exchange. We are optimistic if anything bumps up, there will be other cuts elsewhere. Tomorrow the Energy Secretary rick perry will be attending a socalled one, two, three agreement meeting, to discuss American Nuclear reactors. As part of the agreement, the president is considering relaxing the rules regarding the enrichment of uranium. According to administration sources, tomorrows meeting is to determine how to ensure proper safeguards without being so dogmatic and uncompromising that it costs thousands of american jobs and american businesses billions. Bret thank you. We have no information tonight that may undercut the claims of a socalled whistleblower in the investigation of former National Security advisor Michael Flynn. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge tells us what she has learned. Reports a whistleblower says Michael Flynn began potentially selling out the Trump Administration within minutes of donald trump taking office. Figure the allegations against the president s former National Security advisor from the House Government Oversight Committee senior democrat were closer. Boasting that sanctions again russia will be ripped up. In a letter, congressman Elijah Cummings had a whistleblower and come forward with a evidence that flynn told the business associate their plans to build Nuclear Reactors in the middle east are good to go. The business associate responded to the allegations with his Company Providing this letter. As evidence they say there was no communication between the men on january 20. Adding other allegations of the whistleblower are equally false and unfounded. Congressman cummings wants a transcribed interview with a witness, former justice to foreign officials suggested there may be a rush to judgment. I think people often get in partial information or they filter information to the lengths they want to see things through. They will hear something that the administration did. They will immediately say a half. A smoking gun weve been looking for. The politicization of the Russian Investigation and intelligence were further stored in a candid interview with mike morrell. Gets the first intelligence briefing after becoming the nominee and within 24 hours, there are leaks. They are critical of him and his National Security advisor Michael Flynn. Morel said they should put themselves in the president s shoes. This starts to build and he mustve said, what is it with the intelligence guys . Today the republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee secured a deal for the fbis Deputy Director who, allegations of political bias in the clinton email and Russian Investigations, to testify next behind closed doors. Andrew mccabe was scheduled to testify today but didnt. Bret thank you. Lets get some perspective on the investigations and we have been learning. Senior political analyst brit hume joins us tonight. Good evening. Hi, bret. Bret your thoughts. I must say having listened to their report, it looks like a lash of cummings conclusions hastily reached. The evidence we have seems to show that this incident involving flynn may not have occurred at all. The fortunate thing is it isnt one more example of some Media Outlets getting involved. If you looked at the beginning of the msnbc piece shown at the beginning of catherines peace, evidence flynn sold out the administration. Im not sure if the story was true, that was a conclusion that could be reached. Too much bad information. The problem is it is feeding these calls to have an independent investigation of the socalled independent special counsel investigation. Pretty weird. Bret it is getting muddy. To that point, you have people looking at how the doj has handled, the people dealing with this investigation, like ohr and his wife working for fusion gps on the trump dossier. Thats right. We do have some intersections here between people working on the clinton investigation or senior in the Justice Department during them and who are now in some way, have some role in the Current Special counsel investigation. In addition to mr. Ohr and his wife and their connections in the fact that ohr apparently met with a representative of fusion gps. All of this is getting pretty sick and this plot is going to somehow have to be unraveled. All these connections are going to have to be spoken to. Of course at the same time, you have stonewalling going on with the fbi and Justice Department and fellow republicans on the hill and that raises all kinds of questions. Why dont the people testify, provide the documents . We have a real witches brew of different elements. Makes this picture muddier than its been for a long time. Bret quickly, the president s attorney saying tonight that the special console and that office has told them they are done, with white house officials being interviewed. They believe they are weeks or a month or so away from the end of the investigation. We have heard that before. Seems like its starting to come to an end. There are a couple ways to look at it. One is, selfserving of the administration to say its coming to an end and you heard the president s lawyers have been saying that. The problem is of course that these are the people that are actually in touch more than anybody with the special counsels office, setting up interviews and the rest. They may indeed have a better sense of how far along this investigation is than anybody else. We will have to wait and see what i dont think we can rule out there right. Bret okay, as always, thank you. See you later tonight. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley expressing concern to the white house about two of the president s judicial nominees. Up for a spot on the federal bench in texas that in 2015 that transgender children are evidence of satans plan. Bret talley, nominated in alabama, defended the early ku klux klan in an online message board. Grassley says they need to look at those nominees. California firefighter struggling to keep flames generated by one of the largest wildfires in state history from roaring into downtown neighborhoods and some of these towns. Seaside towns in Ventura County remain at risk. The fire is 20 contained. Its been burning for more than a week. The men charged with executing a failed terror attack here in new york city yesterday apparently flying under the radar. We will tell you what we know about him now and how it may affect u. S. Policy when we come back. When you have a really traumatic injury, we have a short amount of time to get our patient to the hospital with good results. We call that, the golden hour. Evaluating patients remotely, is where i think we have a potential to make a difference. We would save a lot of lives if we could bring the doctor to the patient. Verizon is racing to build the first and most powerful 5g network, with ultra lowlatency that will enable things like precision robotic surgery from thousands of miles away. As we get faster wireless connections, itll be possible to be able to operate on a patient in a way that was just not possible before. When i move my hand, the robot on the other side will mimic the movement, with almost no delay. Who knew a scalpel could work thousands of miles away . 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In the middle of rush hour, as every day new yorkers hurried to their jobs, to their schools, ready to start the work week and get going with their busy lives, one man came to kill, to maim, and to destroy. Ullah faces five terror charges, use of weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place. His radicalization began in 2014 and he told them i did it for the islamic state. The 27yearold brooklyn resident emigrated from bangladesh on a family visa in february 2011. Benefiting from the extended family Chain Migration Program allowing him into the rest of the because a relative won a visa through a lottery. Its a system President Trump says needs to be fixed. There have now been two terrorist attacks in new york city in recent weeks carried out by foreign nationals here on green cards. The first attacker came through the visa lottery in the second through chain migration. We are going to end both of them. The lottery system and chain migration. Were going to end them. Fast. On the morning of the attack, Authorities Say ullah posted a message on facebook, writing trump, you failed to protect your nation. They also say they found a note in his passport saying america, die in your rage. They say the bomb was built in ullahs apartment. A pipe triggered by Christmas Lights connected to a battery. Law enforcement sources say some parts were collected from jobsites where ullah worked as an electrician. Officials admit the scene wouldve been worse if the bomb had detonated instead of fizzled. Investigators have question family members reportedly including a teenager and 4yearold pulled out of class on monday. The investigation is ongoing. We do not stop because we havent the individual charged. Our ongoing priority is to always identify other potential operatives and address potential threats. The u. S. Attorneys office tells us ullah will most likely be formally presented with new charges against him tomorrow and that could happen in the hospital room where he

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