Just make a major film about the ultimate kennedy scandal . Well tell you which one. But, first, trump, the great g. O. P. Unio unifire thats the focus of tonights angle. Do you remember those headlines about how trump was going to irreversibly divide and destroy the g. O. P. . Oh, there they are. Well, it turns out that the president may well be on his way to healing those divisions. Well, sure, there are still some policy disagreements, on the big issues, the unity of spirit and purpose is kind of remarkable. And it needs to be acknowledged. You think about where the g. O. P. Was in lets say 2008 or 2012, early 2016. And now think about where it is today. Once upon a time the Republican Leadership had little regard and minimal respect for the rae mogul who crashed their party. Just remember the kinds of things the g. O. P. Leadership had said about trump. Our new president of course had not been in this line of work before. And i think had expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. Claiming a person cant do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. Its absolutely unacceptable. You would think he would aspire to be the president of the United States and act like a president of the United States. But, you know, thats just not going to be the case apparently. So the narrative from the g. O. P. Establishment was that donald trump was a divisive figure who wasnt engaged in policy. He didnt understand the ways of washington. Oh, really . I was told by multiple congressional sources that the president worked the phones tirelessly to get this tax bill done for the American People. He has been intimately involved in remaking trade policy to benefit the American Worker as well. And, of course, his efforts to revive the economy seem to be paying off. Home sales hit their highest level in 10 years. Stock market breaking all kind of records. And, of course, he delivered that tax break. Everybody loves a winner. And nau the president has turned some of his fiercest critics into allies. Listen to them now. Year of extraordinary accomplishment for the trump administration. Something this big, something this generational, something this profound could not have been done without exquisite president ial leadership. I have never ever in my life used the word fake must news. Until today i actually understand what it is the president has been dealing with. Laura not only is that a stunning reversal of the view of the president s style, but he has converted them or at least cowed them on a number of key issues. So, for instance, when is the last time a prominent republican really complained about trumps efforts to renegotiate nafta or challenge china . And in case you didnt notice Mitch Mcconnell now sounds like Jeff Sessions on immigration. Defying expectations again, the president has pulled his party toward the conservative populist movement that swept him in to office. His detractors are now realizing that the trump way is the only way forward. Its finally, finally dawned on them. There is simply no constituency for the g. O. P. Of open borders, endless wars, and those lopsided trade deals. You want to know who the dividers are today in the g. O. P. . I will tell you who they are. You see them there. The bushes, jeff flake, mitt romney, and other bitter globalists whose time has frankly come and gone. Like the ghosts of christmas past, theyre wandering the halls, making noises but no one is listening. This is a Trumpian Party now. And thats the angle. To discuss, im joined by Fox News Contributor and former congressman Jason Chaffetz and in utah and here in the studio in washington is attorney richard good stein who has advised most democratic president ial candidates going back to 1984. And in new york guy benson Political Editor of town hall. Com and Fox News Contributor. Great to see all of you. Merry christmas, happy holidays. Merry christmas, laura. Laura you just heard the angle. What do you think . He was going to be this guy who ripped the party apart. Divisive, brash, all those things. But to see what happened yesterday, with all of these former detractors and you saw just a smarterring of them. What a reversal. I put this under the heading with friends like this who needs enemies in this regard. Thanks to donald trump, the party i. D. Split is wildly in favor of democrats. Thanks to donald trump, republicans lost alabama. He backed two losers. Laura try to focus on the question. Look, i give the republicans credit for getting this tax bill done. It was not an easy thing to do. They rammed it through. Everything they said, all the tape they ran about obamacare, you could replay now. Okay . But they got it done. Its wildly unpopular. Just like he is. Historically so. So, i mean, you know, in the generic ballot, democrats are way ahead. I think we have to kind of see whats going to happen in the 28 election plus 20 or so democrats. Laura congressman chaffetz lets go to you on, this the generic ballot in 2016 was a disaster in ohio. It was pretty bad for trump, pennsylvania was going to be his waterloo. Wisconsin, there was no way he was going to win. Of course he won, and surprised all the critics, the pollsters and so forth. But it struck me yesterday and especially watching mcconnell, ryan, even that little bit of concession from corker. I think they have moved toward him more than he has moved toward them. Yeah, look, america wanted a disruptive president. They didnt like what was happening in washington, d. C. On either side of the aisle. And if the democrats only thing that they can really point to as a highlight for their 2017 is a snen nark ballot. You know it was a terrible year for democrats. They lost, they lost big, Hillary Clintons numbers are even lower. If the race were won again, donald trump would win by even bigger numbers. He did help unite the party. After the proverbial political face plant by blowing on obamacare. They finally realized that maybe we ought to come together and the president did work hard behind the scenes. Should be higher. How dare the republicans cut your taxes. They have got nothing to run on other than generic ballot. Laura hey, guy, lets go to you, you were a never trumper in your day, raised all sorts of red flags about him his demeanor and so forth. But watching him over the last year, setting aside the tweet storms and all of that, the congress blew obamacare as jason said. He comes in and he is hammering people for when are you going to get me a bill . What are you going to do on this . He is always on the phone with ryan, mcconnell and gaggle of other people why cant you get this stuff done faster . Contrary to what you hear, he is on these details and he is impatient for change. And the change came. And i think part of the reason that the party is so united at the moment is this is a massive win. Not just for the republican party, but for the American People and for long held conservative goals. This a tax cut for 80 of americans. This is major tax cut for corporations to make our numbers way more competitive in the world. Thats something even obama was for and democrats all skedaddled trump champions. Also getting rid of obamacares individual mandate. And drilling in anwr. They got it in one bill. Laura looking back. Some conservatives, george will, bill kristol, he is not a real conservative. If what he did on anwr, the tax bill, the deregulation, gorsuch, 123 circui 12 circuit s if thats not conservative, i dont know what is conservative. I worked for president reagan. Thats conservative. The judges are the absolute highlight of the presidency so far. One other point, laura, i think you have to evaluate everything that the administration does, action by action. There has been a lot of the good things recently today, nikki haleys speech, i know you are going to get to it later in the show. That speech standing up for American Interest before the u. N. Was like a fist pump moment. That was awesome. That was powerful. That was moral courage and clarity. Thats a high point. Ending the year for the trump administration. So, yeah, im a trump skeptical conservative, but im not going to sit here and close my eyes to big important victories and we have several to care about. Laura richard, lets go to you. It wasnt the ohio point for democrats, it was winning in alabama. It was winning by historic numbers in virginia. The voters are speaking, these are people, frankly, who the ones who were in the streets on january 21st last year. A lot of them didnt vote. You lost five congressional races in a row. You have been in congress. Every single one of them went plus 15 or 20 in the democrats direction because they were ruby red districts. To think its just ballot again, with all due respect you are kidding yourself. Have they accomplished something . Of course does 2018 look like a good year . No. Laura roy moore and ed gillespie. He is like a guy from new jersey came down to virginia and tried to be a conservative populist even though he a bush guy. That wasnt going to fly. Its the second time he lost running for office in virginia. So i dont know if those two states are great barometer. You are right. The democrats are happy they won those. Lets move to what the resistance is planning all of you. There was a hilarious piece in the l. A. Times today. I screamed laughing like at 9 00 in the morning when i was doing my radio show. The title is protesters stash bull horns and hot chocolate just in case trump fires mueller. All right. Jason, i have got to go to you on this. Im not kidding you in washington l. A. They have Resistance Headquarters and dashing off their signs and their little supplies, their power bars because they actually think donald trump is going to fire mueller and they want to be ready for the moment. This is what they live for. This is what they hope for. Conservatives are kind of working and taking care of our families but they are always ready for a good protest. Oh, have you got to love liberal preppers. They are getting their hot chocolate and running to office max to get their markers so they can write out their swear words and beanie caps ready because its cold outside. The president has said he is not going to fire mueller. The white house spokesperson was quoted as saying a thousand times i have told you we are not planning to fire mueller. They are getting whipped up over fake news. Laura elizabeth beavers is a washington based policy manager for this Group Indivisible she said the last thing we want to be caught sun prepared. You need the hot chocolate, i guess, to be prepared. I mean, guy, this will be what the president and the republicans face next year as they move forward whether its daca fix or Supreme Court nomination which might coming up in june or any of the other things that trump has planned. Resistance will drive them all the way to 2018. They will use that to try to drive turnout. The professional left is very good at a jit props. They are practiced at it they will do it again. I like this modern day minute man routine they have going to on here. We have to our gloves by the door and provisions if we have to rush out in the stampede in the streets. I thought we were supposed to be dead from Net Neutrality being repealed. Look, i agree. If trump fires surl, that will touch off protest not just from the hard left. I dont think trump is going to do it. Its not in his interest. Its going to look terrible. All we sit here and talk about is trump going to fire mueller over and over again. Republicans keep say dont do it. He shouldnhe should let the gus work and move on. Laura this is the fantasy of the democrats desperate for some piece of news good for them. Middle of the night he does saturday night massacre on mueller, richard . Go ahead. If trump fires mueller, the least of his problems. Laura he is not going to fire mueller. Least of his problem is how much hot chocolate. Constitutional crisis of the first order because it will show that we have a president who thinks he is above the law. Instance dentally i will bet money you, jason, guy, im on, yes, on whether he fires mueller because, you know, is he like a stuck pig and he is squealing. Laura a pig . Its not a pretty picture. Come on. Laura thats a nasty way of referring to the president stuffed pig. Im not talking about him. Im talking about the people arranged him are feeling the heat. Laura i like pigs though. Four months from now everybody will be singing a different tune whether thats going to be happening or not. Laura i bet 5,000 for charity right now. You got it. Laura good. National right to life is going to get all that money. Isnt that wonderful . Im just teasing. Trump is suddenly riding so high guys, that the democrats are in total shock, even richard. He is not going to say that they are setting one big booby trap desperately trying of course to get the president to take the bait. We touched on this but we have a lot more on it. Theres no way he gets fired. White house chuck. Listening to republican members talk about a coo and talk about a criminal activity in the fbi. That will encourage the president to think that he can fire mueller with impunity. No, im not. Firing mr. Mueller or any of other top brass involved in the investigation would not only call into question this administrations commitment to truth but also to our most basic concept rule of law. For the 1,000th time we have no intentions of firing bob mueller. Laura okay, guys, dont be deceived for a nano second by the democrats dramatic warning that the president better not fire special prosecutor mueller. Better not do it. Dont do it. They are actually hoping he will do just that. Now that the credibility of the russia probe is tarnished after all the bombshell reporting we have been doing on this show. Across a couple of great news outlets, the antitrump bias of the investigators is off the charts firing mueller may be the democrats only hope at this point. There is only one problem for them. The president isnt falling for it. He outsmarts them every time. Joining us now to analyze ken starr with the independent counsel and the white water investigation he is joining us from new york and in sunny florida Alan Dershowitz harvard law professor. Author of the book trumped up. You go from Marthas Vineyard to miami beach. Anything else . My goodness. Great to see both of you. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas. Lets start with you, judge starr. You just wrote a piece that things you are concerned about in this investigation. You still respect mueller and rosenstein. Have you some issues. But i want to start on this dramatic dire are series of warnings. Said not going to fire mueller. He said it multiple times. Drum beat continues. What do you think its about . I dont know what its about. Its a culdesac. The president is not going to fire bob mueller. He is being advised to. Very wrong headedly you need to fire bob mueller. Bad advice. Wrong thing to do. I dont think the president is going to fall for it in fact, we hear from the white house. We hear from the white houses lawyers and president s lawyers not going to do it would just be terrible. We dont need another saturday night massacre. Should bob mueller have been appointed . Its a serious question. I would say in may we should not have a special counsel. We over criminalize so much of life and our politics together. We need to stop that and so im also very concerned about the calls for the appointment of yet another special counsel. I think its all wrong. Laura lets go to Alan Dershowitz. Alan, on this issue of the mueller firing, i mean, you get the sense that the democrats are just kind of running outs of steam. There is nothing happening, at least not yet on the mueller investigation. Its almost as if they have to keep the fumes going and this is all they have. All day on the other networks. Thats all they are talking about. Right. My liberal colleagues on the left have been proved impaiimempirically wrong. They said he would strike down the travel ban. They upheld it. Today the federal judge said nonsensical argument. They were wrong about flynn. They are wrong about firing mueller. They have just been wrong. Its not because i am smarter than theyre. I have been right and they are wrong. They put hope over reality. Im an analyst. Im calling it as i see it. Its easy to be right if you are objective and call it the way it is. Whats happening the both sides are playing. Trump side is playing smarter. Keeping pressure on mueller, questioning his integrity. Challenging whether he had conflicts of interest. Questioning whether he should have gotten a warrant. They are hoping that putting pressure on him, he has such concern about his reputation he may lean over backwards in a close case to report the trump side. And the other side of playing. They are saying if we push hard enough and say he is going to fire him, is he going to fire him, he will fire him. Maybe we will goad him in to firing him. Right now the trump side is coming off better. They have mueller where they want him. Last thing trump should do or would do is fire mueller at this point. Laura no, no, no. The firing comey wasnt the best choice, obviously. That was not a smart move. Laura i want to go to you uranium one reopen of the investigation that Jeff Sessions has announced looks like they are going to look at that all anew. You are concerned about this because of the number of connections from that deal to the Clinton Foundation specifically. Tell us what the big red flags are. The big red flags are this multiyear process by which now the transaction was completed years ago was accompanied by enormous gifts to the Clinton Foundation. 31 million was the first gift. After the first part of the deal was signed in kazakhstan back in 2005. Then gifts kept coming in from senior officials from this company and went through reorganization and acquisition. So im very deeply concerned about the timing. President clintons speech for half a Million Dollars in russia the russia connection. I have always been in favor of transparency. I think we need to be cautious about criminal, everything moves. In terms of our politics we need to get the facts out. Laura al