director, or deputy directorur andrew mccabe failed to specify which portion of the dossier the fbi claims to have corroborated. there is also a report that mccabe plans to retire in 2018 amid mounting criticism from congress. constitutional law expert alan dershowitz weighing in on the scandal, saying that maybe mccabe should have recused himself from any clinton-related investigations, given his conflict of interest. watch this. first of all, everybody tells me who knows mccabe and has worked in the fbi, he s a very decent guy and was an excellent deputy director. having said that, he should have recused himself immediately from any investigation involving hillary clinton because of his wife s connection to hillary clinton. when you are investigating a presidential candidate, whether it be hillary clinton or president trump, you have to be caesar s wife, above reproach, you have to make sure, not only there are no conflicts, but there are no perceived conflicts. not only is there no bias, but there is no perception of bias. he did not pass that test. david: and in other big news, the washington post reporting that house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes is talking with other republican lawmakers about writing a report next year that would expose alleged i say alleged fbi corruption. also, tonight, a stunning report from politico . james baker, the fbi s top lawyer, was in contact with a liberal journalist from mother jones. and he did this in the weeks before the outlet broke the very first news story about then existence of the anti-trump dossier. joining us with reaction, national spokesman andnd conservative pundit, my friend niger innis, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, and daily caller reporter kerry pickett. all friends. great to see you here. i will go to you, first on this, gregg. let s talk about the dossier. put a pause on the politics and look at what you would do within the process of vetting information given to the fbi, this dossier, before you would put it to use. look, the fbi receives a lot of fake documents all the time, it is up to them to vet it. you can t use it in a court of law unless you have verified its authenticity, confirmed its contents. if the fbi used this dossier in an affidavit to spy on the trump associates, that s a fraud on the court, that s a crime. but you back up several months and apparently this dossier was also used to launch the trump-russia investigation. and they apparently did little or nothing in the way of verifying its contents. so, think about this. funded by hillary clinton s campaign and the democratic national committee which, by the way, it is a crime under the federal election campaign act. they use this document to then spy and launch an investigation on hillary clinton s political opponent. it s beyond the pale of criminal negligence. and some of the people who did this, including perhaps comey, mccabe, james baker, peter strzok, and others, should be held accountable, criminally, if appropriate. david: all right, gregg, you are talking about the legal aspect in the process is important. kerry, the process on the hill is a little different. you are down there every day talking to the congressmen and senators. so the political aspect of this comes into play. given what gregg just said, given that comey admitted that he leaked information, which also is an issue that you have talked about before, gregg, what about the dossier and the use oh this in the congressional point of view? well, what s interesting here, david, is that any time i have gone to the hill and spoke to the lawmakers that are leading these investigations, whether in the senate or on the house side, you ve had democrats, for example, who have been preparing almost for and they will never say this publicly but they have been preparing for what could be an impeachment. anytime i have gone up to them and asked, what about the conflict of interest here? what about the podesta group? what about the issue that the dossier is not verified? the answers have been, i haven t heard about that yet or that s not important. on the republican side, however, you go up to them and say what about the donald trump jr. emails and so on and so forth, they have been more on the defensive, looking to say, what, can they do to defend donald trump to make sure that he doesn t get impeached. remember, how did this start? this started out with, oh, my goodness, the russians meddled in our election. we have come so far from this. david: that is the hill view, the legal view. now turning to niger innis, our friend in of las vegas. but the media has been carrying this. gregg s point about the legalal aspect of this, we ve talked about the process here more than i have seen on most media, andeg gregg explained that. kerry looked at the hill. what about the media s handling of this? the establishment media, outside of fox news, which wee don t consider to be establishment, has been egregious in their silence. the washington post has this on the masthead, democracy dies in darkness. actually, democracy died in darkness with the creation ofac this dossier. for these never trumpers out there on these left-wing folk that hate trump and suffer from trump derangement syndrome, i just want them to think about this hypothetical analogy. it s 2008, we all jump into a time machine. it s 2008 and the john mccain for president campaign prepares a dossier using a former british spy and using intelligence gathered on senator obama by israeli intelligence. that information, that dossier, is passed off to the bush justice department and/or fbi, and they use this dossier to not only wiretap senator obama, but to launch an investigation on senator obama. the outrage would be deafening. they would be calling for john mccain to not only be impeached, but be given the death penalty. the deafening silence by the establishment media, and the fact that it s more than deafening silence, they are actually going along with the talking points on supposed russian collusion, based on a dossier and their entire case is built on a house of cards. david: we ll stay on the facts here, gregg. let me go back to you on this. who can be charged? in the end, whether it s the scenario that niger used, or more to the reality of what s happening now. you talk about how you cannot produce fraudulent documents to a court or a judge could hold you in contempt. who can be charged in the scenario? you can start with the people who appear to have exonerated hillary clinton for political purposes. that would be obstruction of justice.pl if that involved peter strzok, who apparently changed the critical wording in the exoneration statement, you might also include mccabe as well as james baker. we just don t know.io congress needs to get to the bottom of it. wish there were a second special counsel to investigate clinton, comey, lynch, mccabe, baker, strzok - david: bruce ohr, who worked for fusion, his wife. you ve got andrew weissmann. there s a cacophony of problems here. which is exactly why you neep a second special counsel. i m not sure that jeff sessions at the department of justice, with so many obama holdovers still there, is capable of actually conducting a fair, objective, neutral investigation. i think there needs to be a second special counsel. there is more than enough reason and evidence to demand one. david: all right, kerry, before we don t need thene constitution explained anymore to the audience about what it takes for impeachment. but we are talking about charges, potential charges, or an idea of who could be charged, and back to washington, d.c., and impeachment, and the.c politics of this, we are ending a year and starting a new year. is this going to change for the democrats in washington? as far as the special counsel being called , right now you already have members of congress calling for an investigation into the corruption right now in the doj, into the fbi, looking to purge the problems going on over at the fbi. so i just can t see a special counsel or second special counsel being called right now. except the problem is, you can t investigate yourself.w. the fbi is part of the department of justice, and if the corruption extended to the department of justice, with so many people there, you can t trust them to investigate themselves, which is why i have long argued for a second special counsel. and in fact, members of the house judiciary committee have sent a letter to the attorney general demanding a second special counsel just for this. darrell issa has called for it, as well. david: let s bring niger back in. niger, big gamble for the democrats. you are hearing your fellow panelists talk about this legal perspective, political perspective. but if they were to go to a special counsel and, given they ig s reports that have come out, do you think a special counsel brings us there or does it prolong and delay the process and the constant back and forth partisan politics? which, by the way if you have a choice of firing robert mueller and ending that special counsel as opposed to bringing on a second special counsel, i lean heavily towards bringing on the second special counsel. look, mueller and the democrats are not going to stop with this investigation. a person recently said, i forget who it was, they said, it is merely just the beginningn of or the end of the beginning. so i think what mueller s investigation is going to continue, it s going to go long past 2018. i think you need a select and distinct special counsel that can examine the corruption a within the fbi and examine how hillary clinton partisans, democrat partisans, refuse to investigate her email and her emails being hacked by foreign entities. i mean, talk about collusion and the fact that they did nothing to the clinton campaign and to hillary clinton herself except for, you know, smack her on the wrist. that needs to be investigated. o as well, i think is the most egregious, what we have all been talking about, which is active collaboration, it seems, between a presidential campaign of one party, a sitting government in power, presidency in power, to wiretap a presidential candidate.e. i mean, my god, i think that s a little bit bigger than even breaking into a hotel room in watergate. david: we are going to around the table on this one for about 30 seconds each. gregg, to you, whether it s wiretapping, what is potentially who could be charged, when it comes to a special counsel, is there anything that can be done prior to that? is there anything that the inspector general can do within the fbi or the whistle-blower issue, which is on the table, to actually bring this out? the inspector general can only make findings, which can turn into a referral for prosecution, but generally they don t do it. the problem with the ig is they are rather toothless, always has been, it s a historical fact. what you need is a prosecutor. again, i don t think there are people that i would have confidence in the department ofd justice to ferret out criminality among themselves. david: so kerry, is there anyone on both sides, sitting down there in d.c., that youou hear from, that you say, you know what, they would lead a straightforward investigation? finding the facts, as gregg talks about? as far as i can see right now, they are simply looking to circle the wagons, their own parties, in this case, republicans looking to protect trump democrats looking to go after trump. that s going on right now. david: all right, we ve got to pause it there. but never pause for our friends, niger innis in las vegas, gregg jarrett here in the studio, and kerry pickett. great to see you guys. thank you. thank you, happy new year, folks. david: we are starting off on the day right after christmas right into the tough news. coming up, president trump is having a very successful year in office but you wouldn t know what if you only listened to liberal, mainstream media. we will show you some of the most extreme and i do mean extreme examples of liberal media bias. stay with us as the special edition of hannity continues. ti my name is jeff sheldon, and i m the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it s great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i ve got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything s pretty much done. it s so much easier so now, we re ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free. running a small business is demanding. and that s why small business owners need more. like internet that s up to the challenge. the gig-speed network from comcast business gives you more. with speeds up to 20 times faster than the average. that means powering more devices, more video conferencing, and more downloads in seconds, not minutes. get fast internet and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more per month. comcast is building america s largest gig-speed network to give small businesses more. call 1-800-501-6000 today. david: and welcome back to this special edition of hannity. you know, 2017 has been a very productive year for president trump, capped off this month after he signed that massive, historic tax cut into law. of course, tax reform is not the president s only major accomplishment. he successfully appointed a qualified originalist to the supreme court. he has rolled back dozens of obama era regulations. he s cleared the way for completion of the keystone xl pipeline. and so much more. but if you watch the mainstream media, you d probably have a very different and a skewed picture of the trump presidency. let s take a look at some of the worst moments yeah, i said worst moments over the past year. i have a whole lot to say about this president s increasing erratic behavior of the past week or so. we have an archie bunker in chief who is disrespecting american indians, making classless jokes on the podium. is this president trying to impersonate hugo chavez? erdogan? vladimir putin? apparently the president gets two stoops. everyone else around the table gets one and no word if there were sprinkles. at the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie. instead of the single scoop for everyone else.is he gains weight, according to sources, he doesn t trust people around him, he s withdrawing, not a good picture. he s a racist. okay? he came proverbially as close as you could possibly come to shouting at a rally the n word. that s what he did down there. donald trump, again, being a schmuck. he looked like a thug, he looked like a goon. a a you look at the handshake, look at this. just what a thug. and you have somebody inside the white house that the new york daily news says is mentally unfit, that people close to him say is mentally unfit, that people close to him during the campaign told me had early stages of dementia. david: i mean, amazing. what you saw is not just a mirage. in fact, according to a study from the media research center, 91% of trump related coverage from abc, cbs, and nbc s evening newscasts has been negative. and despite all of this, the trump agenda is moving forward and an obamacare repeal and replace, well, that could be next. joining us now, republican strategist noelle nikpour, fox news contributors ellen ratner and deneen borelli. ladies, great to see you all. a very belated merry christmas to you. thank you, david. david: i got to tell you something, ellen, i m going to go to you first on this, we ve done a lot of analysis on this over the years. where was the policy disagreement with donald trump in what we just played for the audience? well, first of all, i think that you are not showing what he tweeted out when he goes after people. i think that, you know, he isop supporting the economy, but a lot of those rules and regulations and policies were under barack obama, and i think that you were not talking at all about our standing in the world community. i know you think these people say terrible things but they probably said the right-wing probably said terrible things about barack obama, too. david: my question is, where was the policy disagreement in there? i ve watched a ton of this.to you and i know this. i watch this daily. i am fine with policy disagreements. i don t like the ad hominem attacks. i don t either, actually. believe it or not, i think that when you attack somebody and you say the kinds of things that are said, that s not appropriate. there s plenty that i disagree with president trump about and it has to do with policy. david: all right, so, noelle, let s bring you in on this. you are a republican strategist. from the strategy point, does this help the democrats, and if so, how?wi this constant left wing barrage on trump s character, ad hominem attacks, rather than pointing out policy failures. when i just read a list of accomplishments that are campaign promises he made, he kept, whether you agree to disagree with them, anyone out there, he has kept his promise. right. you know what? they just will not let president trump have a victory lap. no matter what. you know what, trump really did do, what he said is what he fulfilled. he fulfilled promises. unlike what president obama did, which is, hemp got healthce through but it was riddled with low enrollment. you couldn t keep your own doctor, and now the premium increases is what we are dealing with. and president trump, when and president trump, when he came through on creating jobs, you can check that off. t he s about to put money in middle-class american pockets. you can check that off. so he s fulfilling his promises and what he gets from mainstream media is constant negative,ro constant negative. and i think that s a lot of the reason why donald trump has to tweet so he can get his own message out there because it has been negated so much for mainstream media. david: all right, deneen borelli is here in the studio with me. deneen, i asked noelle about how this helps the democrats. on the other side, the he republicans, and the republican messaging, the president s successes, there have been a number of successes. they are not the sexy stories, they don t get the headlines, the tweets. i agree with the ellen, the back-and-forth off policy is not healthy. but where do the republicans take this next? how do they tout changes in gdp, expansion of the economy? how do they do this effectively and sell it even to the underserved communities, no matter what ethnicity they are? the republicans need to do that. they need to take that messageer out there to americans, to all americans. i think it s great when president trump goes out and does a rally for the people, making that face time with americans, because americans want to hear from the president and they want to know what s going on, the agenda, and he is delivering on his promises. that is what the media does not like. the media cannot control president trump. he is able to go around them, he has called them out how many times, numerous times, fake news, very fake news, because the media refuses to talk aboutm his accomplishments that he has been able to make in one year and that is going to help turn americans lives around, from tax cuts, lower regulations, these are the issues, the policies that he ran on, that he talked about and how it s going to be america first and the forgotten men and women. that is what he is putting first. david: so, let s go back to ellen ratner. ellen, you ve been in the media business a long time. you and i have watched and analyzed campaigns, and we are looking at what is coming ahead and what they can use. what can the left use effectively, if the economy continues to expand, third quarter, over 3.3% growth. the markets had highs. home mortgage interest growing, 18 year highs. constant changes and all on the upswing since the president was elected and since he was installed. well, first of all, i think that we have to look over the long term and see if his l policies really work and number two, i think we have to look, for instance, at obamacare, which he wants to get rid of. even though they had less advertising and less time to enroll, over 8 million people enrolled this time. the fact is, obama policies are still working, and people might not like that, you might not like it, but the facts are the facts. david: well, here s a fact for you, ellen. over 80% of the people paying the obamacare penalty make under $50,000. that is irs data. by rolling that back, combined with the doubling of theul standard deductions for people in lower income brackets, they get to keep a larger portion of their money. they don t get hit with a tax. and to be fair, the republicans now have to deal with affordability and other issues to help the insurance industry and health care providers provide a better rate. so that s the obamacare working when premiums are going up 200%, 300% almost in arizona. when there are rate hikes requested for next year by insurance companies, started as low as 25, up to 60%. how are those policies going to be how are they going to use them, as democrats, when people look at the reality of what they pay? well, i think we are going te see how it does play out and whether people really do get health insurance coverage or not. and that s going to see. we are going to see why in congress do they want to help people with their premiums, because they know that it s a very popular program. david: well, popularity is to judged by the politics. noelle, quick 15 seconds. do the democrats have a case to make next year? here is what i think. 1 how can they be critical if they weren t part of the process? and i really resent the fact of the democrats are very upset about a lot of the policies that we are getting through, or trump is getting through, when they did not participate and they don t want to participate in the process. when we come up on health care and we are going to do that,p they need to have a seat at a table or they can t complain the next time around. david: deneen, real quick. are the democrats going to play ball with the republicans or ise it going to be chuck schumerar crying and pelosi beating them up with armageddon?ep unfortunately, republicans did not rip up obamacare fromin the roots and now they own it. the left will clearly blame republicans for the failures that are to come as we have seen the rates have gone up, people have lost their health insurance, or they just can t afford it. republicans will be blamed for it and the democrats will just sit back and watch. they did not help on tax reform. david: the republicans better sell success well, that is what i have to say on that. ladies, thank you so much. up next on the special editionav of hannity, the trump administration and ambassador nikki haley doing a great job at the u.n. they are taking an ax to the united nations operation budgetk we ll tell you how much theyed are cutting, and why it is sending a major message to the u.n. that should not be ignored. ambassador john bolton andaj dr. bill parker weigh in. that and more on the special edition of hannity continuing next. special edition of hannity continuing achoo! 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(snap) (snap) achoo! achoo! feel a cold coming on? zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45%. shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. david: welcome back to a special edition of hannity, president trump s america first agenda in full effect. get this. after the united nations, after the united states negotiated a $285 million cut to the united nations bloated budget, of course, this comes as president trump and u.s. ambassador nikki haleyat blasted and i mean blasted the u.n. general assembly for holding a vote to rebuke the united states decision to movec in israel, to jerusalem. watch this. the united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. we will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world s largest contribution to the united nations. and we will remember it when so many countries come calling onne us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit. the united states, the people that live here, are great citizens. they love this country. they are tired of this country being taken advantage of and we are not going to be taking advantage of any longer anyin longer. david: by the way, as an added note, guatemala now announcing that they will move their embassy into jerusalem, as well. so i wonder when the vote is coming up in the u.n. on that. in the wake of their anti-israel, anti-american positions, and with the u.s. contributing more, and i say more, to the u.n. s budget than any other nation, should the trump administration take even more financial steps to put them on notice? joining us now, former f united states ambassador to the united nations, and fox news contributor john bolton., as well as c.o.o. of the east-west institute and a retired u.s. naval officer, dr. bill parker. author of a great book on my shelf that i read. guaranteeing america s safety into the 21st century. you two have been at work doing this job, first, to you, ambassador bolton. great to see you again. i know where you stand on this but i want to hear it from you. i think i know where you stand on this. what is it really and what does it mean? this particular cut was baked in the cake before the jerusales vote. certainly it s worthwhile to get the budget lower even by that amount. but i think it provides the trump administration with an excellent pivot point to look at the larger question of what elements of the u.n. system are functioning successfully and q what are not. and to move away from the system of international taxation and effect that we are under now, as you say, we say 22% of the regular budget, 28% of the even larger peacekeeping budget. and just decide that we are going to contribute voluntarily to what we think works and either substantially reduced or zero out of those programs and offices that we don t think work. now this would be like a tsunami through the u.n. system. but if we could carry through with it, it would actually make it more efficient and more effective. david: now there is an ambassador i know, he might have been on this show, he may even be here right now, dr. parker, he says that sometimes inn diplomacy, your choices aren t that good. i m using the cleaned up version of this. do you think this sends a signal to the united nations? the united nations is a very important body. there is no doubt about that. very important. but at the end of the day, efficiency and effectiveness matters, and the reality is, as ambassador bolton just pointed out, 22% of that total funding came from united states, 9% came from japan, and 8% came from china and the rest are much smaller. j so to say that we need to get more efficient and more effective i think is spot on. we do need to take a good, hard look at that but we also need to realize how importantze the united nations as to the overall body of the globe. david: ambassador bolton, as i mentioned, guatemala now, they are announcing, and other nations are indicating they may do this, and moving theirre embassies to jerusalem. is there another story here? have you discerned anything from this? the government of israel has been working on this for sometime, and i m sure they are going to try to take advantage of it. i think other countries may make that decision, as well. i think the president s biggest problem, having recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel, his biggest problem in moving the u.s. embassy is going to be at the u.s. state department, where they just don t like this idea one little bit. and i think the president is a real estate executive, he knows how to get things built. my advice to him would be to move forward, select a site, do the planning, and start turning dirt as soon as possible. that, in effect, i think would really induce other countries to look at moving in to usbl jerusalem, which is where all of them would be, without prejudice to the ultimate outcome of the peace negotiation. david: on the other side of this, dr. parker, turkey has announced that they are also going to move their consulate, i believe is what they call it, tn jerusalem. and this is their connection to palestine. does this indicate anything about the geopolitical or the regional political issues? it indicates that this is a complex environment and it s not going to get any easier anytime soon. when you look at the sunni-shia issues around the globe, when you look at what is going on ina the middle east, that is not going to change. the complexities are there and you are going to continue to see countries decide whether or not they want to move their embassies to jerusalem or they want to keep them in other places. david: all right, gentlemen, let s bring this together because, another issue on the table, north korea. that has been we have seen a sea change in years, decades long policy, at least since the 90s in how we deal with north korea. first to you, ambassador bolton. russia now saying, and this came out of the news this morning, they are willing to be the broker of a deal between u.s. and north korea. but from the historical track, what do we see and where are we now with north korea? could russia play a role?, no, i think it would be a waste of oxygen. we have negotiated with north korea for 25 years. they have committed on at least four separate and distinct occasions to give up their c nuclear weapons program. they have lied every time they have made that commitment. there is in play no evidence that in year 26 the north koreans are going to do this any differently. in fact, we have got tonight a very interesting comparison. reuters has a story that says china s statistics showed no oil exported to north korea last month. but we have papers published in the south korean press overnight showing at least 30 examples of ship to ship transfers of oil between chinese and north koreas vessels during the last couple of months. so this is something that we have been played by the north koreans, played by the chinese for a long time. i think we are still waiting for china to do something dramatic. but if it doesn t, we are faced with some very, very unpleasant choices. unless you are prepared to see north korea with nuclear weapons. david: all right, so, dr. parker, you have been involved in this some degree, you have traveled a great deal to brief others and talk about this issue. walk us through the scenario of where we are now and what we should do or not do. this is a complex environment in the backyard of china, of south korea, of japan, and a when you look at those three countries, and what they are dealing with right now, if they do nothing, if we do nothing, ag a globe, and we allowed north korea to maintain their nuclear weapons program and advance them to the point that they are close to right now, what you are going to end up with is likely a nuclear south korea, a nuclear japan, and therefore, a concerned china that increases their nuclear capability and their defense capability. but it gets better. i gets better because then, iran sees that north korea got away with it and what you end up with is a potential of nuclear weapons in and around the gulf, as well. if that happens, you are going to end up losing control of that material and that is a very complicated problem. we haven t even talked about finances and issues of the impact on the economy yet. david: before we get to that, south korea s view of this, specifically south korea. where are we with them and where do they stand? south korea is interesting because before you can talk about the unified korea, you have to talk about a unified south korea. to talk about a unifiedd south korea, you have to ask the question of whether or not you want to unify that peninsula and whether or not you want wmd within south korea itself. if you talk to government officials over there, many of them will say that you need a nuclear capability in order to execute a mutual assured destruction capability from south korea toward the north koreans. and japan would say the same thing. t david: all right, back tore you, ambassador. are we at a new potential cold war in modern form? i think we are at a critical point in terms of the 50 year effort to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction because if we fail to stop north korea, and they are very close to the ability to hit targets in the united states with thermonuclear weapons, then i think that effort will have crashed into complete failure, because it will just be north korea. they will sell these capabilities to anyone with hard currency, to iran, if they are not already doing work together on the nuclear side, thehe terrorist groups, if they can come up with the money, to other nuclear weapon states. then you re going to see this proliferation worldwide. it will be a much more dangeroun world. trump inherited this. he didn t create the situation. but it will be on his watch that we either stop or do north korea are we face a real expansion of nuclear and actually biological and chemical weapons, as well, all around the world. david: dr. bill parker, coo at the eastwest institute. a great new book, guaranteeing america s security and the 21st century. and ambassador bolton, you have been working hard to guarantee our security for many years. thank you both, gentlemen. thank you. thank you. david: coming up, the democrats are setting the stage to try and impeach president trump. yep, i said it. if they are successful in the 2018 midterm elections, can you imagine this is where they going to do? plus, you won t believe the new low that that left just hit. our panel reacts about this next on this special edition of hannity. is next on this special edition of hannity. usaa to me means peace of mind. we had a power outage for five days total. we lost a lot of food. we actually filed a claim with usaa to replace that spoiled food. and we really appreciated that we re the webber family and we are usaa members for life. i am friend to stand here with my friend, congressman i am proud to stand here with my friend, congressman gutierrez, other congresspeople, we will be here announcing that we are introducing articles of impeachment to removeg president trump from office. his motives and his actions are contemptible. and i will fight every day until he is impeached! impeach 45! i rise today, mr. speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. the president s decision to end daca was heartless and it was brainless. the president s fitness for office is something that has been called into question. i am very worried about his fitness. david: and welcome back to this special edition of hannity. those were examples of democrats this past year questioning president trump s fitness for office, even calling for his impeachment, and it s not just democrats relentlessly going after the president, his agenda. liberals in the media have also reached another new low. in response to president trump s emphasis on saying merry christmas, newsweek os christmas eve published an article entitled, how trump and the nazis stole christmas to promote white nationalism. and listen to what cnn s don lemon recently says on the president s recent use of the phrase merry christmas. this is a line that we have heard from donald trump many, many times. this is dog whistle to the base because no one has ever stop saying merry christmas. david: i forgot to bring my dog whistle. i usually have that you blow on my show whenever i hear that phrase.av joining me now with reaction, so one of the late supreme court justice antonin scalia and coeditor of the new york times best selling book, scalia speaks, chris fiscal year. alsoli joining us, fox news rado todd starnes, and author and attorney danielleho mclaughlin. danielle, i ve got to go to you first on this. as an attorney, make an a case for impeachment ofn president trump. as you and i both know, david, it s a political process. not a legal process. david: but it requires a chargeable crime. here in the united states, it requires that. a high crime or a misdemeanor. it has become what the publicme expects the level of proof that you would see in a criminal b offense, we need half of the house, two-thirds of the senateo even if the democrats take back the house in 2018, i think there s a pretty low chance that will happen. david: todd? the media has impeached him already, haven t they? i mean, don lemon, who i have known for years, says it s a dog whistle. again, you know, dogs are barking everywhere. let me say something about don lemon. and quite frankly, cnn. their entire network is a dog whistle for race baiting anti-trump bigots. i mean, it is 24/7. they really believe that merry christmas is a dog whistle. it makes me wonder what they think the words ho ho ho would be code for. i want to go to this idea that christmas is somehow inclusive. is that really true? you don t hear them talking about well, ramadan needs to be more inclusive. this really is not about inclusivity, david. this is about marginalizing christianity. so one president trump said the words, we are going to start saying merry christmas again, what he was trying to tell people was, is that i understand the true meaning of christmas. jesus is the reason for the season. that was the message that the president was trying to convey. david: all right, chris, let s bring you in on this because your father, a strict constructionist, a man who stood for the constitution, defended the constitution, weighed in often on first amendment issuest on constitutional issues, you know, it s tough to say what he say, but scalia speaks, the son of scalia, your take on this? i m not sure about the war of christmas, but in scalia speaks, there are a number of speeches in which he expresses concerns about a narrowing space for public expression of religion. as my father said, he was an originalist, and he believed the onnstitution should be interpreted according to its usual public meaning and it was pretty clear to him that according to that original public meaning and tradition and early practices in america that it was totally okay for politicians and the people in the public square to make religious statements and expressions. and my father was concerned that that understanding was changingi and the room for public for expressions of religion in the public square was getting smaller and smaller, in no small part because the supreme court s own opinions with which he often disagreed on that front. david: danielle, looking at this from what chris just said, whether you like this speech or not, whether it s tweeted a certain way, or offensive to some, this is part of what makes america great., hate is protected speech, offensive speech or offense is not required. but that doesn t rise to impeachment of a president. it may be an impeachment of character according to some who disagree with him. but the democrats are not making a good case here the way i see it. i know that you are a supporter of the president and for many people who are, this is just david: i m a supporter of the constitution first. statements that violate the principles of which the constitution stands and exists and is written for, i think that s beneath, i would think it would be beneath our political, in this case, the president s opponents in washington. sure. the only speech that the president could get impeached for is obstruction of justice. if there was a conversation that he had to shut down an investigation associated with the russia investigation, that is speech that is not protected under the constitution. that is impeachable. david: todd, i love your podcast, by the way. you talk about this a lot. free speech, todd.po you and i have done it on my show, on your shows. i don t care what it is. i don t want to shut down anyone s right to do it, whether i agree or not. is the left effectively shutting down free speech? did free speech die at berkeley in 2017? i think it did. we are in a very dangerous place in this country right now, david. the left says any speech we disagree with, we are going toay make that hate speech. i want to go back to this idea that the democrats are going to do whatever it takes to impeach the president. i believe that. we know that under the obama administration, they weaponized the internal revenue service, the weaponized the department of education david: they investigated james rosen, cheryl atkinson, this was an administration and a government going after individuals. they went after billy graham, america s pastor, for crying out loud. so do i think it s possible that they may have weaponized the fbi in addition to all of that? absolutely i do. david: chris, back to you. i want to bring something into this, as a point of personal pride, that i got to meet your father a number of times. i think we have a picture of the two of us together, the white house correspondents dinner. i think scalia speaks, when the book came out, a great way to put his voice into the conversation, give you a few seconds here to talk about that. it s a collection of speeches that my father delivered over the course of his career. my coeditor, ed whelan, and i,el really wanted to make this interesting and accessible to really every american interested in the law or in my father, not just lawyers or legal scholars. there are plenty of speeches about the law but there are speeches about sports, hunting, about the values that americansg hold dear, about what makes an american, that it s about sharing certain values and beliefs in freedom and equality. so it s a really it gives the picture of my father as a man in full, not just a justice. david: chris, i got to stop you here because we are up against a hard break. thank you, danielle, todd.. great to see you. more of this special edition of hannity after the break. stay with us. you won t see these folks at the post office. they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. david: welcome back to hannity. unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening. don t forget to set your dvrs so you never miss an episode of hannity. you can listen to my radio show monday through friday, 9:00 a.m. eastern on sirius xm patriot. that is channel 125. you can follow me on twitter, david webb. tomorrow, you ll catch us on outnumbered. katie pavlich, she s here, and she s filling in for laura ingraham. cheese filling in for laura ingraham. good to see you, david. i m katie pavlich in for laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from new york. washington may be taking a holiday break for the news is not. we ve got so much good stuff are you tonight. governor jerry brown is acting like the king of california, practically making up his own immigration law and pardoning val evans said to be deported. president trump is putting his money where his methods is slashing u.n. funding after that is great so will vote against the vote recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. a new report says what it is so hard to drain the d.c. swamp, with some bureaucrats set to make more money than the senators. we begin with a president launching a scathing new attack on twitter. he called the infamous russian dossier bogus and a pile of garbage. used by a tainted fbi
dossier key point but refuse to name them. also tonight congressional republicans continue to call out the bias in the russia investigation. congressman andy biggs penned an op-ed for u.s.a. today with the title mr. end the witch-hunt. and joining us now that aforementioned congressman andy biges joining me. congressman, great to see you. thanks, david. good to be with you. david: let s dive right into this. the time line matters here in the travel to to collect the information to bring it back to the united states. hand it off. so, with the new subpoena and subpoena powers of devon nunez, do we see connecting the dots as a part of this strategy? well, i think. so i mean chairman nunes is doing a great job by issuing that subpoena and demanding answers and we in congress have to keep ratcheting this up because we know there is bias. we know there is conflict. we know that with 10,000 emails that got taken away from the trump transition people. we know that those weren t really gone through. this is just one more piece of evidence to indicate that this mueller investigation is just kind of spun outs of control. and it s widespread and it s broad. and this may be the scandal of our time, quite frankly. and we have got to get to the bottom of it. how do you connect the dots here? obviously have you this compendium of information. the email, the text messages and you pull this all together. now you have got to make the connection. is that the next step? because with a lot of smoke, have you got to be able to see how the fire started. that s why chairman nunes subpoenas are so important. we have to see what s going on there. we have to get people back before congress to actually answer the questions. as you may have seen, they just keep deferring and saying well, the inspector general is looking at it and we will just come along after the inspector general. we need to get the inspector general to hurry up with his report. give us the information, because what we have seen is the democrats have changed their tune, completely. you recall they were asking for russian. accuse trump russia collusion. we don t hear that anymore. what we are hearing is obstruction of justice. this has got to be brought back to focused investigation so we can see whether there was collusion. because what we re seeing now is the collusion came from the dnc and hillary clinton. what we are see something that there were actually people at the highest level of our government trying to manipulate the election. that s what it appears to be. so we have to connect the dots. we need to keep bringing these people. in and we have to put it together. and right now they are refusing to answer our questions. with the cover this is under the inspector general s investigation. that s a real problem for us. going back to the genesis of this. it began, of course the russians we know this. they tried to interfere with elections all around the world that said this began counter intelligence looking into russian interference. that means that any and all in the campaign whoever were touched by this should be investigated. are we going to see chairman nunez now look into this, not just the trump campaign, the clinton campaign, the sanders campaign. any campaign that was out there that may have been touched or attempted to be influenced by the russians? in other words, is this going to go back to what it really is about? well, right now, it s kind of spun out of control and frankly, the judiciary committee has jurisdiction over the department of justifiable and we should be bringing these people in. you know, we are finding out maybe that jill stein s campaign was involved somehow. i mean, this is really spun far beyond what mr. mueller s authority should have been limited to. and we have to bring it back in. we have to be focused. and the real question is how did the russians impact the election? if they did let s find out and take care of that the reality is it s become so partisan with my friends across the aisle that isn t what they are even looking at anymore. they are looking at any way to get president trump out of office. that s what they want to do. they want to delegitimize and they want to stain president trump instead of saying let s see what s gone on here with how did mr. mueller get so out of control? well, because nobody is overseeing him. how did he get all these biased people? well, because there is no vetting procedure in place. and so we have to bring that back into control, and then we can get back on focus on the real question which is what did russia do with our election? and we have a pretty good idea. but that, you know, this dossier is really the smoking gun and we have to really uncover everything we can about that. david: a pointed question on, this congressman, something that has not been brought up and looked into needs to be looked into some more. james comey, whether he violated presidential privilege, leaking the documents to the colombia professor and his friend, and the fact that if he did violate the law, can he be charged. do you think he should be looked into and, if possible, charged for violating the law? well, absolutely. i think he should be looked into. i mean, he took information that he had access to, unique access to, may have been privileged information, and to manipulate the apoishtment of robert mueller as a special counsel, he leaked it to his buddy who with the instructions get it into the media. that s a real problem. and that goes to the whole underlying reason why six months ago i started saying mr. mueller should not be the special counsel because what comey did. we keep asking the questions about that. we keep being told inspector general is looking into that. and we did get commitments from director wray and from the attorney general that they would reopen that if the inspector general felt that that was a problem. i think. david: we ll wait for the inspector general s report then congressman and see what comes out and what action is taken by you and the republicans in congress and chairman nunes. congressman biggs, good to have you. good to be with you. david david while they turn up the heat on the a russian investigation. the liberal and the media are doing their best to attack president trump. watch this. the key word in all of this that he keeps using is tainted. there is only one institution that really has been tainted through these months. that is the trump presidency. have you got him attacking the judiciary. have you him attacking the cia. you have him attack the department of justice, the fbi. this is the conduct of someone who could become a tyrant if we don t step in and speak out against them. the fbi is a key part of the fair and transparent legal process that defines our democracy. so every time the president tweets against the fbi or tweets against the department of justice, he is making the russian s job a lot easier. david: joining us with reaction to all of this nationally incident is indicated radio host larry elder. former press secretary for vice president pence mark loader and fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett here with me in the studio. gregg, i want to go to you first and take off of what congressman biggs said. the reason they illicitted. have you been very clear in your writings about the lawen this. and how this investigation was started. but this started as i said counter intelligence operation to find fought what the russians did do you think we are going to get back to that point and how can we get back to that? well, the entire set of investigations are all based on one fictitious document. this dossier was used to launch the trump/russia investigation. david: admitted by director comey in the end. which then morphed into the mueller investigation. it was also used apparently for a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign. so, if it turns out that after a year and a half the fbi and the department of justice can t verify the authenticity or contents of the dossier, then what have you is inherently a fraudulent investigation. what struck me about what the congressman said is james comey s role in all of this, he may have committed several times. not only in converting government property for his own use in leaking it to trigger the investigation. by rornted mueller, but you will find out, i guarantee this, that james comey also had a direct role in selecting his long-time friend and ally and former partner robert mueller. which is unconscionable. in the case. and any obstruction of. yes. david: one quick question, gregg before we bring the rest of the panel in, yes or no. whether james comey used a personal laptop or government laptop is it still the same violation. it is. he was acting in the scope of his job as fbi director when he wrote it. it is government property. it s not his. he is not allowed to take it with him. and there are pretty significant reports that on those seven presidential memos are classified materials. which means that comey taking them home is a crime just like hillary clinton committed crimes in my judgment by having 110 classified emails on her home personal unauthorized unsecured server. david: let s bring in our panel in full view larry good to see you, mark good to see you. you two too. david: the politics of this is there the media we talked about that aspect is there. but, the republicans have to come together and launch and try investigation process. political analyst. or do you see the typical washington commission that postures as they go through their time? i think david, at this point, there has been so much as donald trump put it taint on this investigation that most republicans right now are content let the thing play out. all of these problems regarding the bias, people involved in the investigation, this phony dossier that gregg was talking about. let this thing play out. republicans are not going to believe it democrats already want him impeached. independence are in the middle. you are not going to find two thirds senators willing to throw donald trump out of the office in the unlikely event that the democrats take over the house and impeach him. let it go. let donald trump stick to the getting economy rolling around at 4% g.d.p. and 2020 he will be overwhelmingly reenvironmental protection agency elected. that s how most republicans are playing this right now. think it s a perfectly valid and sensible way of playing it let it play out. david: let s take it right inside the white house or formner this case. mark, you and i have talked about this on my radio show aest hough topics. looking at the point of view you have been there, how do you take this if you are the administration. how do you approach this? let it play out as larry said? absolutely. the white house continues to cooperate fully with the special counsel through all of that process. and they are looking forward to this being done in an exat the diciousz fashion. one of the key things that we have also found out here just recently and some very good reporting by the washington post that the obama administration new year s ago about the warning signs that were developing of what russia was planning to do how they were planning to attack elections integrity with cyber warfare. and they did nothing about it. so, here s once again another case where the feckless leadership of the former administration led to the problems that donald trump is having to clean up as president, weather it s funding he see cocaine and turning a blind eye to that and looking the other way on this. democrats don t have a message. a witch-hunt to cover president obama s failures. david: let s go around the around the table. legal aspects of this and marc just mentioned the extension of this if they find out there was undue influence exerted by the administration or with some 30 agencies as being reported by politico of all things, involved in this operation project cassandra, are these adjunct to this investigation? don t expect robert mueller to prosecute his long time friend james comey which mueller used to be the director. this requires a second special counselor. if it turns out that people for political reasons senior management and the fbi to some extent to the department of justifiable, fixed it so hillary clinton was absolved, and went after donald trump targeting him as the so-called insurance policy law firming a fraudulent investigation against him, all of that would constitute obstruction of justice several people. don t count on jeff sessions to do this. it requires and commands a second special counselor. back to larry elder being on the politics of this. on the expansion of the investigation. i keep coming back to how do we narrow this back to the issue. and bring out the bad actors and charge them. my friend, again, i am skeptical of the ability of washington to focus given the deep state existence of many in the top echelon and this is not about the line agent. this is suits vs. boots. and the suits and the politicals that have been made permanent, i think that s where a lot of this problem lies. well, this is all about the allegation that trump is in bed with putin. the person that ought to be we ought ton looking at in terms of being in bed with putin was barack obama. one of president obama s first acts as president was to ditch the deal that george w. bush had negotiated for a defense of poland and the czech republic because he wanted to curry favor with the russians and do the iran deal. it was obama on hot mike told medvedev after the election i will have more flexibility. it was obama who slammed mitt romney suggesting russia was a big geopolitical problem. if anybody wants to talk about who was cozying up with russia and putin, we ought to be talking about obama. not trump. terrified david all right. marc. we can t go back in time. fortunately we can look at it we can look at actions taken by the previous administration. cassandra. you have got to move the ball forward on this. and does examining the obama administration s actions bring us any closer to exposing what s going on inside the deep state within the liberal quarters or the washington quarters or the bureaucratic quarters? obviously, if you are going to influence elections or come up with insurance policies, that needs to be looked at. because there could be and i will trust gregg on that if there is potential criminality there. mean while the president, the vice president the entire white house are focused on doing the job of the entire american people. they got tax cuts done. that money is going to be in the people s pockets in the next couple months, next on to immigration, infrastructure, and possibly even entitlement reform. the president is barely getting started of right now. they will keep focused on that and we will leave the history and looking for craghts to those who do it best. all right, gentlemen, gregg, marc, and larry, thank you so much. thank you very much. all right. vanity fair just released a tongue in cheek video and guess what? it s targeting hillary clinton. i know you are surprised about that. and many on the left predictably, i can t say this with a straight face, they are triggered. we ll explain next. stay with us. hurry, it s the final days of the ford year end sales event. i m on top of the world, hey. it s your last chance of the year to get our best offer of the year: zero percent financing for seventy-two months, plus an extra one-thousand cash back across a full lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. so hurry and save big on america s best-selling brand. it s the final days of the ford year end sales event with zero percent financing for seventy-two months plus an extra one-thousand cash back! see your ford dealer before jan 2nd and save. i m all about my bed. this mattress is dangerously comfortable. when i get in i literally say, ahh. america loves the leesa mattress. we have more five star customer reviews then any other mattress of it s kind. this bed hugs my body. today is gonna to be great. place your order and experience the leesa mattress at home risk free. order now and get $100 off and free shipping david: welcome back to hannity. vanity fair just sailing into unchartered waters and that from mainstream media two days before christmas. actually posted it online video. 8 democrats specifically. watch this. time to start working on your sequel to your book what happened. what the hell happened. get someone on your tech staff to disable auto fill on your iphone so that typing an f doesn t become form exploratory committee for 2020. you know what anderson cooper, you were telling him about alternate nostril breathing. you seem really adept. you should try teaching a class. take up hiking in the woods. volunteer work. knitting improv comedy. literally anything that will keep from you running again. to finally put away your james comey voodoo doll. we all know you think that james comey cost you the election and he might have but so did a handful of other things, it s a do you year later and time to move on. so cheers to you, hillary clinton. cheers to you, hillary. cheers to you hillary clinton. david: as can you probably imagine easily offended liberals were on twitter were outrage some calling the skit sexist. how do you do that? it s a woman suggesting knitting. we will get that that. actress patricia arquette particularly provoked stop telling women what the bleep she should do or can t do get over mommy i. so-called feminists have been much less willing to come to the defense of first lady melania trump after newsweek posted this extremely, extremely misleading headline, quote: melania trump orders removal of the near 200-year-old tree from the white house. melania did, in fact, order the removal of the jackson magnolia but only under the advice of experts who fear that the tree could fall at any moment. currently because the facts matter here it s relying on the support of a metal pole and intricate system of wires to keep it standing. joining us now former secret service agent dan bongino probably been under this magnolia tree at some time probably lounging on his afternoon off and fox news contributor tomi lahren. good to see you both. dan, have you been under the magnolia tree? have you lounged? i have. and i m glad she took it down because it was about to fall down and maybe mow down all the people in the press corps. listen, i m no fan of the press but i don t want a magnolia tree to fall on them. thank you, melania, for making the sound move. that was a good move. thumbs up. david: all right. so tommy, you know, the tree hugger corps, they didn t consider that ann arborist or someone who is an expert. on top of this from another point of view i have gone up and down down the garden district in new orleans and other parts of the country. they often trim thee trees. they grow out. they become heavy. i pay attention to trees occasionally. tommy, this attack on the first lady vastly different than the triggered left and family them defenders. let s compare them. you have vanity fair making a joke about hillary clinton. in the second story you have actual fake news that people are going to believe. the two, you cannot compare. but going back to that first thing i am just so happy that the mainstream media, the leftist mainstream media might i add vanity fair actually decided to make fun of hillary clinton. i give them some credit four that because they are not really quick to do that and they are going to take some heat for it i applaud them. finally they are coming to their senses and they got a sense of humor. i have got to have a sense of humor about this, guys. i am about to bring back something that will make my uncle chuck very happy. knitting. it s supposedly sexist because according to vanity fair and the woman who suggested it in the video it s sexist to suggest that to hillary clinton. mental do knit and here s rosy grier to prove that. you like working with your hands? well they are not going to work for you without training and help. boy, you can get that training and help right now at the job corps. i m not talking about needle point. i m talking about training in over 100 different well-paying skills and trades. don t worry about people laughing at you. get your training at the job corps. rosy. huh? you re so smart. i know. david: whether it s knitting or needle point. i don t know the difference but guys do it too. i m mocking them a little bit here because the used that it s sexist and you are triggered dan just because you use the word where the left they put us in boxes. yeah. david, a couple things. number one, if you are going to put out a video like this and subject yourself to the far left social media mob and outrage campaign, make it funny. i m sorry, really wasn t that funny. it was kind of stupid. but, secondly, yeah, i do applaud the male for finally opening themselves up for humor on the other side. remember, it was a joke, liberals. a joke. j-o-k-e. or joe biden was spelling it j-o-k-e-e. get it? do you have to be victims all the time? i get it you can t leave your safe spaces and put your chloroforms down and your magic markers. but smile, turn that frown upside down. laugh a little bit. not everything is man kian and end of the world. david: you have taken heat as a conservative woman, are they going to change their behavior or is it really that far gone on the left that the so-called feminine defenders will not defend women first but separate them by their political categories? and by the way, the first lady wh by all accounts successful. thee speaks five languages. she is accomplished. is is someone who should be a story,. it s a very selective brand of feminism the left likes to use time and time again. do i expect it to change? absolutely not. going back to the humor of the whole thing, this is the left, this is a group of people. kathy griffin included who thought it would be funny, thought it would be a joke to decapitate trump and pose for art. now if you would go into hillary clinton going into the woods suddenly that s below the belt? i don t expect them to see it as i do. i love them thinkingerring pus would gid several micro aggressions for many on the left. i m okay with that. look ahead to 2018, the strategy seems to be as obama did, as liberals do, put everybody in boxes, tell them your interest. dan, first to you. is this successful strategy for them? it was in the past, david, when the walter cronkite, tom brokaw era when they had a monopoly over media. essence is. this don t vote for us, vote against the republicans because they hate you. that s the democrats motto. this has always been their motto. the problem with that as the monopoly starts to break down and information disseminated through channel that focuses more fair and balanced stuff. have you breitbart, conservative review, the daily caller. people are getting their information from different sources. the short answer is no it s not going to work in the future. information monopoly is breaking down and breaking down bad. david: take that and go further. do the democrats have another strategy in place going into 018 and looking at the mid terms? they don t. they absolutely do not. let s think about what they have done in 2017. they have protested. they have resisted. they voted against a tax break for 80% of henderson. let s see, they vorsted to pardon illegal immigrants or their leaders have paid that decision. will it s going to be hard to win an election in 2018 or 2020 when the only thing you are promoting is identity politics and resistance. meanwhile donald trump is winning for all americans. i m really excited to see how these next elections are going to come out. david: dan, tommy, great to see you. we will do this again soon. thanks. coming up. the democrats continue to go way, i mean way way off the deep end in their attacks against donald trump. you won t believe failed presidential candidate howard dean, he wrote famous scream he won t go away either, stay with us. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. power your apps with public services. without starting from scratch. the ibm cloud. the cloud for business. yours. does it look like i m done? 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and all they have got is impeachment and he is a criminal without proof. exactly. it s a rereminder just how much donald trump stole democrats lunches in the last election. you know, all the things that they claim to be for, it turned out that donald trump was for and a lot more effective at selling it. the democrats going into next year s elections they are in a terrible situation. in that they basically have to bank on the economy being terrible and things tanking in this country. and that and, you know, not just the tax cuts, we re also talking about all the regulation like president trump cass talking about firehouse talking about cutting all the regulations. that all of that is a boon to the economy. if the economy picks up the way a lot of people are anticipating it to pick up, democrat aren t going to have anything to run on except oh it s not as good as you think it is. david: all right, rachel, by the way if democrats get their way your husband is going to be out of office next year. they are looking to take back the congress no matter what. let s talk about what really needs to happen here. the democrats are going to sell their narrative. guy back to what we do. we have got to play our game better on the right. do you see the congressional actions backing um the president? he has done something amazing as i see it by asking congress their constitutional job as prescribed and the roles that they play in legislation. he has done the executive orders. pushing things back to congress. is this the next step for the republicans? do they have to do this in the house? first of all, i just want to say, talk a little bit about what dennis kucinich said he is right on. the task for democrats right now is to win back the blue collar working class union democrats, white voters that they lost in the last election donald trump. by talking about impeachment. a constant per pet tralg state of outrage they are not having the conversation they need to have with them. in fact they are insulting them. the president you voted for is stupid. and you re stupid and that s not the way to start a conversation. a respectful conversation with people you are trying to woo back. you wanting to say hey, listen, i understand why you voted for him. you were frustrated. we lost you. we want to win you back. but, impeachment just says you re stupid. and we re going to undo what happened in the last election. back to the republican congress, look, they pulled together on this tax reform, probably having failed on healthcare. really force them to actually go, whoa, this is do or die. and let s give credit for credit is due. they passed tax reform and they actually very sneakingly snuck in the repeal of the obama care mandate. which essentially does kill obamacare. they have the wind on their back. i think donald trump wants to start with infrastructure which is a bipartisan move. i know other republicans wanted to go into entitlement reform. they are starting new year with a lot of good stuff on their side of the ledger. and charlie is right. the democrats have to count on all of these tax cuts and all the other good stuff that the republicans are doing for the when we that it won t work. david: all right, so, charlie, we hear this a lot. mid term elections. typically the party with the white house loses seats. but the thing that s changed here is the electorate. the electorate is in a new generation economically to some degree a new voting. the minutes are getting older. blue wall, blue collars, independents, women voters that have changed how they analyze votes. and the anti-failure group out there in america from other ethnicity that says government hasn t delivered. how do the democrats make a case given what rachel just said when the success comes from republican legislation and that can continue to compound? can you make the case for the democrats? is it possible? well, and i think to a large degree that s why donald trump won is because he sort of side stepped the entire democratic argument and as rachel was pointing out, not only do they start with an insulting, you know, campaign. but then they immediately go in this sort of old worn-out thing where you divide voters by race and gender and religion which is that s the only way that democrats ever manage to win anything. and donald trump really did, he sort of he kind of figured out a way around that like no other republican has before him. partly because he is not afraid of it he doesn t care. he doesn t mind getting into these fights with them about this stuff. he calls them on their nonsense. and so, you know, if democrats have to resort to thaty the again, and like i said, if the economy goes as it ought to go with these tax cuts and the cuts in regulation and things like that. they just end up looking like silly racialists and genderrists and whatever else istss. david: rachel, let me go to the middle of the country where you are. sure. david: and that charlie just said. the folks out there are not on the wing. they are not listening to the elite media. a lot of people in the 65% chunk of this country. they are looking at their kitchen table issues. you do it and the risk averse republican congressman and senators up there, do they need a little bit more trump? let trumpen trump to borrow the title of the book but also do the republicans need a little more trump? ,. what they need to do is when this economy is doing well, if this rocket fuel from this tax reform goes they need to own it. believe me, as soon as things go really united statesgreatdemocrats are going y obama set the stage for this. no, donald trump deregulated this economy. the republicans passed tax reform and that s wide we are enjoying the recovery we are enjoying. remember, it s the economy, stupid. when people feel good. remember, nancy pelosi just said that this tax reform quote unquote was armageddon. when the tax reforms produced the results, they are going to look like false prophets and, again, there is so much outrage fatigue. i don t think anyone is believing them. they are talking about impeachment. they are talking about russia. they are not trying to win back the people they lost. and they are leaving a huge opening for the republicans who are focused on the economy, on making people s lives better. david: all right. if we win those kitchen table issues, that s what people care about. that s right. that s what matters. david: charlie and rachel good to see you both. thank you. thank you. david: keeping up another campaign product by defeating isis. they barely cover it. tony shaffer and david clarke will have reaction. stay with us right here on hannity. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early. or too late. or make me feel like i m not really there. talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. and i m the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it s great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i ve got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything s pretty much done. it s so much easier so now, we re ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free. we re going to knock out isis so violently and so fast. america will also be a safe society. we will protect our borders at home. we will defeat isis overseas. isis is carrying out a genocide against christians in the middle east. we cannot let this evil continue. isis must be destroyed. we re getting rid of isis. we are getting rid of isis. [ applause ] isis is we have no choice. david: welcome back to hannity. president trump on the campaign trail throughout 2016. promising the american people that his administration would crush isis if he was elected and it looks like he has kept his promise. according to u.s. military official, the islamic military group has lost almost all of its territory, 98% to be exact. half of that territory having been recaptured since president trump took office less than one year ago. also, the latest american intelligence assessment states that fewer than 1,000 isis fighters remain in iraq and syria. that s down from a peak of nearly 45,000 two years ago. president trump praising military campaign against isis just a few days ago. let s take a look at. this our military has been doing a fantastic job in so many ways with isis. we have made tremendous strides. obviously in syria, with isis. we have taken back virtually all of the caliphate. all of the land. same thing in iraq and we are making tremendous strides. sort of the unwritten story right now. david: here with reaction senior intelligence officer tony shaffer and american first action and spokesman and advisor former milwaukee sheriff david clarke. greagreat to see you tonight. let s dive right. in tony,i will go to you first on this. where we are with isis, they have evolved, as is expected. if you take away land, they expand into those ungoverned spaces. what are they and what do we expect next they are giving out threats about new year s eve. that s the thing. we defeated them where they lived. that doesn t mean it s over. we have made great progress and as you said in the run-up, dave, the pentagon has done what it is supposed to do. it s done its job and done it extraordinarily well. what we need to do now is allow the pentagon to continue to do its job. prior to president trump coming in. i was part of the transition team. i was part of those discussions where the president made it very clear, you know, i want you to go out and do your job. the big thing now, david, is for the president to continue to allow general joe dunford and jim mattis to do their job. joe has been very good this by, with and through strategy working through allies and folks there on the ground. we need to expand that and we have to go after isis everywhere they are now which includes afghanistan, pakistan, yemen, libya, and other places. but the bottom line is we are making solid progress. david: all right. so you know, david, bringing this home to the american home front. what tony talks about involves other aspects of human intelligence. we have got counter intelligence operations. but you are on the ground. sheriffs like yourself, the law enforcement community in this country are responsible for the people in their communities. let s bring that as expected into it fjt what we can do when isis goes into ungoverned spaces. when they inspire someone on the sweater or someone takes up that flag such as it is. there has to be effective counter tragedy to their recutement. before i get too far into that it s been incredible the progress made with isis. we went from a president in obama calling them the jay vee of terror organizations to being a world waived threat. we sea chearngd in chief now with donald trump whose rhetoric packs a punch. the enemies are afraid of this guy and this country again. donald trump has taken the gloves off of the united states military. he has changed the rules of engagement. he has used the military for what they are designed to do, what they are designed to do well at, to fight and win wars. so couple that with the efforts here at home. and it s always going to be a challenging. always going to be threats. look, we are an open society. we are target-rich environment. i will tell you what, these folks over there, these terrorists will be thinking twice about attacking the interior of the united states because there will be severe consequences when they do. david: you know, tony, there are other areas and this is a larger ideological problem not just relate toifd isis. the defamation. the loss of that caliphate in the desert that they wanted to do as a symbol. call it their world view. they are in myanmar. radicals are operating aroundtaroundtharoundth s world. terrorist attack in russia shah earlier today. what taking on that issue? as sheriff clarke said look, we have got to get ahead of this in terms of human intelligence. penetrate a network. to your point, david, i work with sheriff dave decatur in virginia. we have to figure out a way to bridge from foreign uses so to the united states how radicalization happens through migration and online assault conventionally out conversion. this is something now we have to go to the next level. okay, we deprived them of the space. we re on their tail. we re going to beat them. but we have to defeat the ideology. and that s where we have to go next with this. foreclosure and domestic effort to do that. david, sheriff clamor part of the problem i z. how we deal with warriors tastes. i have i don t know from violating the you. there has been discussion about desegg thation nateing them. i m someone who has upheld that shield what do you say to that? it s long been my position. one of two ways we can approach this. either these things are criminal acts which i do not think they are or they are acts of war. i believe they are acts of war. there are different rules that apply to enemy combatants. i think gitmo needs to be use dollars when these i have are here in the united states. i think you need to isolate them from the american justice system. it s a higher stashed to try to cover i don t mean when you try to convict these individuals. you don t want them mixed in with the prison population use it as recruiting ground and convert american frirchs over to their sired. that s something the president of the united states commander-in-chief donald trump, the pentagon, the state department, those are decisions of congress, too, plays a role in this as to how we are going to handle. this i think it needs to be reviewed. david: all right, gentlemen, i have about a minute left. i have to throw this topic in there because it puts a bit of a smile on my face. it will drag them. this build near the western bawl after president donald s john trump. toby, first to you. bipartisan vote they support this. democrats are talking out of both sides of their mouth. this is a good thing. david: all right. david to you? how cool is that, the trump train on the wall over in israel. goes to show the president they have for a chearpd in chief, donald trump, who has made it clear during the campaign he said he would will always be on the side of israel. he doesn t just talk the talk, he walks the walk. he is great. david: they felt this was the appropriate thing to do. delayed clark, tone shaffer great to talk to you more hannity after the break. stay with us. david: welcome back to hannity. unfortunately that s all the time we have this evening. thanks for being with us. don t forget to set your dvr, you do that so you never, ever miss an episode of hannity. you can listen to my radio show monday through friday 9:00 a.m. eastern on sirius xm patriot, channel 125. follow me on twitter. filling in line for laura ingraham tonight and on another note i will be here all day tomorrow. i m moving in as a matter of fact. i will be here for the five tomorrow and then i m going over to the business channel and right back here tomorrow night. all good. pete: we can just change it to the david webb channel if we have to. well done all week on the sean hannity program. i name is pete hegseth and i m in for laura ingraham on this wednesday night and this is the ingraham angle live from new york city. it s almost the new year and tonight we look at what a difference just one year makes with president trump in the white house. isis has been almost wiped off the map completely, losing 98% of its territory, including half of it since president trump took office. an american president will be honored in israel. not just in israel, but in the old city of jerusalem. we will talk to john bolton about both of these amazing developments. and murder and many crime rates including the killi
arlington sex airy in less than an hour. we will take you there live. and the war of words between democrats keeps mounting as former dnc chair donna brazile keeps exposing how the fix was in for hillary clinton. well now one of the former candidates is speaking out right here, and house republicans preparing to vote on a crucial tax cut bill next week, but it s the senate bill and something majority leader mitch mcconnell just said and has a lot of folks very concerned right now, but first to president trump. he just told reporters he s not going to argue with russian president vladimir putin over election medaling and said he said, having a relationship with russia would be a great thing not a good thing, especially as it relates to north korea. to retired four star army general jack keane for details on all of this jack good to see you thank you for being here. happy veterans day and thank you for your years and decades of service in the military protecting us all. thank you. thanks, david and best to our veterans out there. david: thank you so much so let s get to the president s comments on russia. it boggles the minds to think of how many presidents have said they trusted vladimir putin going back to george w. bush, of course president obama, wisper ring little favors to vladimir putin in his ears and others ears and now, president trump. what do you make of all of this? well i don t make too much of it. i mean, here is what i think where the president is coming from. he believes that if he has a relationship, a personal relationship with another head of state, that that gives him some leverage to work tough issues. it doesn t mean that he s making any accommodations to that leader on management policy. i know for a fact that that team that surrounds him on national security to a person is very clear eyed about russia. they know that russia sees the united states as their strategic enemy. russia is an an adversary of the united states. they re tram alling on our allies interest in europe. they re trampling on our interest in the middle east and they are aligned politically with iran and helping north korea as we come to find out now , so yes, we have to go in and talk to the russians to be sure. we don t ignore them, but we go in there on firm ground knowing who we re dealing with and personally, putin is a thug, and i m confident the president knows that. david: you bring up a terrific point general, not surprising that you do but the point being that the president is surrounded by advisors, particularly since his experience in international affairs is somewhat limited his business experience which is enormous but it doesn t necessarily carry the same sort of weight as public policy, but the people that surrounded president obama, i would say a lot of them were quite naive about russia and its intentions in the world and that played out in world awares as we saw particularly in the mid east and developments of isis et cetera. this president has a group of advisors who have been dealing with the russians and political and military affairs for decades and they have a very clear understanding of what it is their interests are. yeah, i agree with that but i also think that the president trusts his own capabilities. his lane is negotiation. he s done that all of his life. i know also for a fact that when he entered initial conversations with heads of state, the team around him was surprised at how relaxed he was how confident he was in dealing with issues he didn t deal with before, how he deals with people in inter personal relationships. he has established a very good relationship with president xi of china of the president of japan, with the vietnamese as well. now that doesn t mean they re going to do our bidding for us but it is a beginning to maybe leverage some very tough policy issues, and i think that s all it is. david: let s talk about one of the toughest issues and one of the main reasons he s in asia now dealing with north korea. he says about russia having a relationship with russia would be a great thing not a good thing and it would be a great thing especially as it relates to north korea. how specifically could russia help us calm down the situation with north korea? well, it s come to light there s a possibility that russia is providing back door assistance to north korea while the chinese and other countries are cutting off all assistance to north korea. after all the u.n. resolution that russia supported was that all the nations would stop doing business with north korea and most countries of the world have done that so the neuce is getting tighter and if russia is back dooring that and ignoring that and the only reason it would be doing it is because it s not in the united states interest. russia usually takes an opposing view of anything the united states is doing in the world. they clearly see us as a strategic enemy. would it be good to sit down and talk to the russians about that and maybe put some evidence in front of them of why we have come to that conclusion? that s stuff that we should be doing. david: i ll tell you evidence. the evidence of three carrier groups off the coast of korea right now despite the president s calming remarks that sends a clear message to north korea and to china and russia that the u.s. is not fooling around getting tough with north korea. there s no doubt about it. that has all to do with the president being in the far east and reassuring our allies that american leadership is back in the endo pacific. this is very critical because our allies have been pushed around by china for a long time now and this is sending a message not just about north korea but about american leadership that we are exercising global leadership and we do not intend for the chinese to trample on our interest in the pacific and of course we re sending loud messages about the trade imbalance that s been taking place in the endo pacific for years and the president wants to bring that to a halt. david: general i m getting a wrap but have we ever seen three carrier groups in that concentrated form in the seas before? well the last time was over 10 years ago and so yes, it s highly unprecedented to be sure it is all about sending a message. yeah we ve got an exercise going on but the real thing is this is what we do. you have arrows in your quiver to reinforce the diplomats. this is military strength reinforcing policy development and that is something we gave up for the last eight years. david: general jack keane, thank you very much and again happy veteran s day. thank you david. david: to amy kellogg now following the president in vietnam. amy? amy: hi, david. well it s not entirely clear why a proper between the two leaders did not take place. it could be quite frankly that russia is too toxic in the united states and it wouldn t have looked great for trump but apparently president putin did want that meeting and he told reporters this afternoon it was down to scheduling issues and protocol issues but he added that whoever on his team was not able to work through those issues would be punished; however i must add he did have a glenn in his eye when he said that now david, the two leaders did meet a few times on the sidelines of the asia pacific economic cooperation summit and their offices did issue a joint statement on syria with agreed points including the need for a non-military solution there. trump told reporters today, he did ask putin at the summit about allegations russia medal led in the 2016 election and trump said putin again denied having done anything. trump said, look, i can t stand there and argue with them. i would rather have him get out of syria. to be honest with you i would rather him get to work with him on ukraine rather than standing and arguing about whether or not , because the whole thing was setup dye the democrats. trump said repeatedly today he believes the lack of a relationship with russia is hurting his and china s efforts to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program. here by the way was what the north korean state broadcaster had to say about trump s rhetoric on this trip. wreckless remarks by an old luna tic like trump will never scare us or stop our advance on the contrary, all this makes us more sure that our choice to promote economic construction while building up our nuclear force is all the more riotous. tomorrow we hill have a full day of meetings with the vietnamese president prime minister and general secretary of the communist party as one of the five remaining communist countries in the world. david? david: although it s a big fan of donald trump what i hear amy kellogg thank you very much reporting live from vietnam. well, former dnc chair donna brazile saying for hillary clinton, the fix was in. well now, one of those former democratic presidential candidates is speaking out, here and only here and to sell tax cuts does this guy need to sound more like these guys? remember when christmas was magical? let s get back there. celebrate the arrival of santa at bass pro shops this saturday and the unveiling of santa s wonderland. time passes. hold onto christmas. david: lots of questions this morning after senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is now talking about tax hikes to fox business networks lauren simonetti, wow this thing is getting kind of weird. well some people will see their taxes go up. i m going to explain everything right now, david. the senate majority leader acknowledging yeah, some families are going to see their taxes go up. that s actually the headline of a new york times article that the senate tax bill revealed this week would increase taxes on millions of middle class families while benefiting high income households. yeah, some people are going to see their taxes go up at all income levels but it s not until david the very last paragraph of that long article that the times notes the senate plan would realize, get this, $30 billion in lower taxes next year, and that the majority of families will see a $1300 savings in 2018 got it? okay? so this is how the senate republicans bill is different than the house version of tax reform. let s start with businesses. both cut the corporate tax rate to 20% but the senate doesn t slash it until 2019. that s why it lowers the cost of the bill but it potentially delays companies making key decisions. as for individuals, the senate bill fails to simplify the number of brackets so you still have seven but it lowers the rates for them including that top personal tax rate that would come down to 38.5% hopefully giving some upper middle class families relief and the top rate kicks in at $500,000 in income. although, those in high tax states new york, new jersey, california, illinois, no longer able to deduct their state and local taxes under the senate plan. under the house plan they would deduct up to $10,000 in property tax either way, this part will be a tough sell in both chambers the white house says focus on the main objective here. helping businesses helping the middle class families and they stress what s similar in the bills, nearly doubling the standard deduction, increasing child tax credits, and repealing the amt. critics questioning quickly if this senate bill really does help the middle class. if we go back to the times analysis, they say a quarter, a quarter of middle income families would see their tax bill go up an average thousand dollars next year, but many other middle income families would see significant savings so there s a lot to get done and not a lot of time to do it. here is your timeline. the house votes on their bill next week, a senate vote could happen the week after thanksgiving, with the plan to get it on the president s desk david this year. david: good for you for really going through raking through that new york times report because so often the times headline is very different from what you actually see. lauren: i had to go to the last paragraph and the article was long. david: it s extraordinary and by the way senator told me yesterday he says that 500,000 on the top rate actually is a mill dollars for couples so 500,000 for singles a million for couples so it is pretty high but again, seven brackets that s too much. meanwhile, wall street giving the senate s plan a chilly reception the dow and s & p 500 snapping an eight week winning streak joining me now, and lauren to discuss are the stars of bulls & bears, we got john layfield, gary b. smith and ned ryan gentlemen good to see you. john, first of all, we should say the new york times doesn t like tax cuts they never have and so they re bias against it so i wouldn t hang everything on a new york times article however we have a watered down tax cut. it s much less than the house was and the house plan was much less than what donald trump wanted, so we go from watered down to watered down to watered down and we see the market going down this week as well. is there a coincidence? no, not really. i think the market has such a good run right now. i think the market is waiting on a corporate tax front. i think they understand the republicans. they re the dogs, they never planned on having new tax cuts never planned on doing repeal and replace obamacare. they could brag about it all they want on the campaign trail and all of a sudden they got the cart and don t know what to do with it. what the market is dealing with these individual tax cuts are politically pretty much un palletable, the repatriation of money which completely changes companies like ge and apple s balance sheet if that happens that s what the market is waiting on. david: frankly gary there was one bit of news in particular that spooked the markets and that was when we heard about the delay in the corporate tax cuts, then the markets you could see the markets come down markedly when that happened. if you delay the corporate tax cuts you delay business decisions and that could delay the economy right? gary: absolutely david look i m of the opinion that once again the republicans have critterred away an easy sell. i was just, you already know the mainstream media is going to be against this. i was just doing a quick span of the headlines this morning. vanity fair, too unhinged to pass, time morally bankrupt, even forbes came out and said that it s going to slam small businesses. okay, we acknowledge that the mainstream media is against it. here is the problem. the reason trump won the election was that he was the greatest salesman for trump in the world. what s he doing now? he s over in china. he s over in asia. he s not selling this, and even if he tried to sell it, he s not a detailed person. as lauren pointed out this thing now is such a myriad of this and that or this and that it s going to be tough to get it done. that s why i think you re seeing market go down. david: in fairness by the way the asian trip was planned long before they knew this was a critical week where the house passing the tax bill to the senate and the senate doing what it did, but ned, talking about the delay in the tax cuts because that s what concerns me the most as you well know, the reagan tax cuts of 1981 were delayed until 1983 and i don t think it s coincidence that in 1982, smack in the middle of that delay, we had a recession. the economy declined about 1.9%. it wasn t until the tax cuts kicked in in 83 that the economy began to zoom up. no, and the thing that i was thinking about is the whole point of donald trump and tax cuts was to make this flatter and simpler for the taxpayers. this is nothing like that and i have to say, david looking at this senate bill and the way that it deals with inheritance, deals with real estate depreciation, doesn t deal with the carried interest loopholes, how it deals with raising the small business pass through tax. there are a lot of us starting to think do you know what? this really benefits the super rich globalist and does screw the middle and upper middle class because the thing that worries me a little bit david, i actually agree with the new york times. this is a tax david: you re in trouble, ne d. but david i think the thing that s really sticking out like a sore thrum, donald trump said he was going to close that carr ied interest loophole. do i think it s a coincidence that gary cohen and steve mnuchin have not really addressed that issue? do i think the swamp dwellers in d.c. haven t dealt with it? of course not. they won t bite the hand that feeds them their campaign. david: the thing where i see swamp dwellers is in the seven brackets. one of the keys to the original tax cut plan that we heard from the trump people in april was that they were going to reduce the number of brackets. we now have seven brackets. the first plan had three bracket s and then expanded to four brackets under the house plan and now we re back to seven brackets. that s potential bubble tax that secret hidden bracket for the high income households and it s complicated and i think the messaging is a little bit wrong here. yeah, you want to get democrats on board particularly as you reach out to middle class families and i think that s where the seven brackets come in you can kind of lower taxes for more people. david: it s not simple. the idea was simple. lauren: the new york times article we were just talking about doesn t even get into this they don t talk about that corporate tax cut, how that will make wages go up. the tax foundation said they re going up about 3% not to mention what it does to gdp. david: guys we ve got a lot more to talk about this later in the show we have to wrap this segment up. thank you so much to all of you. after the donna brazile, hillary clinton bombshells we now know the fix was in. coming up next former democratic presidential candidate lincoln c haffey is speaking out and forget the dnc. new revelations have some wondering if the same was happening at the fbi. you can also grab large particles, pull in piles and directly engage floors. duo clean. invented by shark. david: the fallout is continuing from the donna brazile bombshells and the dnc and hillary clinton and our next guest former democratic presidential candidate lincoln c haffey had a birds eye view of what was happening in the dnc when he was running for the democratic nomination so governor thank you first of all for being here. we appreciate it. did you see what s so upset donna brazile about what was happening with hillary clinton s takeover of the dnc before she was a nominee? well three cheers for donna brazile i like a truth teller and yes absolutely. there were only four of us that dared to challenge hillary clinton for the nomination and we always thought that the fix was in with the dnc. i know i felt that way through the whole course of it and then even getting into some of the mainstream media. david: good for you a lot of democrats are falling behind the clinton machine which is a very powerful political machine in american history and that machine is coming down hard on donna brazile s head for having said what she does or what she about the corruption or the fix being in, but you say she s absolutely right. lincoln: oh, yes and its been a year since the election and the clinton people just haven t looked in the mirror over the course of this year. they ve been blaming the russian s and everybody else, blaming senator sanders. they ve got to look in the mir on and say how could we, as a clinton campaign, lose to a seemingly unelectable man? donald trump had never held elective office, not even as governor or senator, congressman , councilman, never held elective office and they got to look in the mirror and say what did we do wrong rather than striking out beating up on donna brazile a truth teller. david: you brought up the russians and in fact, as we found out from donna brazile s book, hillary clinton s campaign had a lot of control over the financing of the dnc and we now know that the dnc helped fund this fusion gps project to get the trump dossier which relied a lot of russian sources. i m just wondering, hillary says i didn t know anything about it even though it s millions of dollars they spent on fusion gps and the trump dossier, you believe hillary when she says she knew nothing at all about the financing of fusion gps? lincoln: well this will all sort out but i ve always felt this had no very very little influence on the election. find me 10 people in wisconsin that voted for donald trump or for hillary clinton because of the russians. i just don t think you ll find them. it was the e-mail controversy. it was the clinton foundation controversy, it was the speeches to goldman sachs controversy. it was the ethical issues, it was the aerogance i just don t think it was the russians. and it will settle out who did what with the russians. david: they were clearly trying to mess things up i think for both sides but you know you talk about the russians what about the media? i mean the media seemed to be one-sided in this race. talk about their role, particularly with regard to hillary clinton. lincoln: again, there were only four of us that dare challenge her and i know from my experience, i was never invited on any of the sunday shows to either share my views or to get beat up. i wasn t even invited on and finally when we had the debate i got eight minutes out of two hours and the moderator was rabbit punching me and talking over me as i tried to answer my questions. i just thought the fix was in all the way through and i fought donna brazile. david: was that the debate where donna brazile apparently gave some of the questions in advance to the hillary clinton campaign? lincoln: i believe it was a subsequent debate, david where some of the leaked e-mails show ed she had done that. that makes my point again is that that makes my point also. david: well the hillary clinton camp now is using that as an example why not to believe what donna brazile says about them, even though obviously donna brazile if that story is true she was trying to help the hillary campaign. lincoln: i m sure if you invite senator web and there s people or senator sanders people they will say the same thing. they will support from their experience how the dnc was weighted towards senator clinton there s no doubt about that. david: one thing donna brazile says in her book is she didn t see anything illegal. a lot of improper activity going on but nothing specifically illegal. did you see anything you d consider to be illegal in what the clinton campaign did? lincoln: no i ll agree with donna brazile on that. it s unethical but probably not illegal. highly unethical but probably not illegal. david: how does this all sort out. how will it affect the democratic party? we already see people like liz warren at first siding with donna brazile now backing out a little bit from that position. where will this leave the dnc? lincoln: i do think we just have to look in the mirror and see what happened how did we lose to donald trump and that just hasn t occurred. they re blaming everybody. i think everybody has to come together and say what did we do wrong and senator sanders kind of caught fire and took off and he was never really given a chance, i don t think, by a lot of the mainstream media and also by the dnc, and that was a mistake. i think he would have won. i believe he would be the president if he was our nominee. david: we got to go but bottom line is you agree that the election was rigged in hillary s favor? lincoln: oh, yes i agree with donna brazile with that and i applaud her for sharing her experiences. i lived it david. i was for a short time anyway i was out there and i agree with what she s saying. david: governor lincoln chaf ee, thank you very much we appreciate it. from the dnc to the fbi why did former fbi director james comey soften his language to describe hillary clinton s actions? why former fbi assistant director james calstrom says something is very wrong here. that s next. david: president trump peppered with questions on election medaling this morning, just said the fed s ought to look at the democrats and that fake dossier. well we know fbi director robert mueller is looking into mike flynn and his possible ties to turkey. we know he is looking into the paul manafort ukrainian connection but what about the hillary clinton russia connection? wasn t russia the focus of his investigation? on the phone now is former fbi assistant director james calstro m, whose been quite vocal about all of this. jim let s talk about what we know about the dossier and the democrats involvement. we now know that hillary clinton s campaign hired fusion gps to get dirt on donald trump. we know that. they spent millions of dollars doing that. second, fusion was used by the russians to put out dirt on trump and specifically created the trump dossier, so we know that and third, we know that hillary s campaign says now that they had nothing to do with fusion gps, even though its founder glenn simpson has a lot of history with hillary clinton and the folks in little rock, arkansas, so what do you make of all of this? i mean, is there a coverup going on here? james: hi, david, good morning and let me just say if you pass on happy marine corps birthday to you. david: thank you so much. semper fi to you. james: of course it s a cover up and of course hillary clinton lies she s a pathological liar david. she s lied her whole life if you go back and the shenanigans down at the rose law firm and the tint she had on the water gate hearing where she got fired for lying and just goes on and on and on. she s a pathological liar. david: but mueller s investigation is supposed to look into russia. we have clear evidence there s a connection between the dnc, the hillary campaign, fusion gps, and russia. isn t that the sort of thing that mueller s team is supposed to be looking at? james: you know, it s hard to say. i mean, i think the whole thing is disgraceful quite frankly, david. i mean, without question, yes. a special council should be looking into these things, but this whole thing with mueller, you know the way that rosenstein , something on his own decided to appoint a special council and that appoints to mueller and turns out i know from personal history as a conflict of interest about 20 miles wide with jim comey, so i mean it s in violation of the statute that enables the special council and it says a lot about his lack of credibility and his lack of ethics that he would even accept the post, so who knows what he s doing. i mean it looks like he s just basically, you know, following the break rooms of this perpetrated fraud that the democrats, hillary clinton and the rest of them have tried to basically enable the duly- elected president of the united states. it s 99% smoke. it s bs. david: but jim forgive me if you re looking for a connection between russia and medaling in the u.s. election, why not look at what fusion gps was doing with the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign and putting out russian-made dirt on donald trump? james: without question. it s like david, you know, it s like a giant in the woods that you kind of just walk by and don t see. i mean it s pathetic, and not only that, how about john padest a, how about his brother, how about all of the interest that they ve had with russia over the time so if you want to look at russia and the government or people associated with the government they re looking in the wrong place and are they going to indict a few people? sure. is it right what they re doing? i don t think so. they re not looking at the huge issues of the day, like the un masking of hundreds and hundreds of citizens of this country. you know, benghazi, all of the lying that took place. it s just pathetic. david: there s another former fbi director james comey in the cross hairs because it seems like he really went out of his way to avoid any kind of indictment of hillary clinton. now one might say it s because he was afraid of interfering in the political campaign or whatever, but it s clear that he actually changed his language from language that would be an indictable offense to less so, when he was looking into the various things she had done with her e-mails. what do you make of all of that? james: well that s true and david i ve been talking publicly for about a year and a half on jim comey who basically went astray from the very beginning of this thing. i mean when he gets a referral from the intelligence community passed through the justice department that has a flag on it , basically doesn t allow him to put people before the grand jury. i mean right then and there, you know the whole thing is a fraud and i can only say what i would have done if was the director. i would have stood up and had a press conference and respect every resigned because anyone that knows a thing about investigations knew that investigation was going nowhere and the notion that obama was going to let his justice department indict hillary clinton was crazy but i mean this whole thing goes back to the fault of the democrats, putting up a flawed candidate that pretty much everybody in the world knew was flawed and knew that had this track record of deceit and lying and getting money for certain things that they ve done politically, so comey danced with the devil and the music stopped and he was trying to back pedal and trying to perpetuate this fraud on the american people. david: jim very quick final question. do you think going back to the beginning do you think that it s possible that mueller may now be looking into fusion gps and whether or not there was a connection there between russia and the hillary campaign? james well all i can say about that is if he has any credibility and has any feeling about ethics and the rule of law, he certainly would be doing that with a lot of gusto, and i hope that s the case. david: james kallstrom, a great american good to see you jim thank you very much for being here appreciate it. james: my pleasure david. david: growing calls for roy moore to dropout of the alabama senate race of sexual misconduct allegations against him are true but how can anyone prove charges that are 40 years old? in gadson, alabama have the very latest. hi jonathan. hi, david well roy moore still staying in the public eye just wrapped up a speech at the public library where he was the featured speaker at a veteran s day program sponsored by the mid alabama republican club, we re getting reports there was some protesters outside and now roy moore flatly denies the allegations against him, listen to what he told shawn hannity on his radio program yesterday. four weeks out of an election it s obvious to the casual observer that something is up. we re also doing an investigation and we have some evidence of some collusion here but we re not ready to put that to the public just yet. moore says he has no intention to dropout of the race he told hannity, if you step aside for any allegation you might as well not run because when you run you re going to get allegations. moore continues to enjoy support from former trump advisor steve bannon who spoke at the citadel in charleston, south carolina. until i see additional evidence on judge moore, i m standing with him. and moore is scheduled to face democrat doug jones in a general election on december 12. david? david: jonathan thank you very much. let s take a look at live pictures of arlington national cemetery where vice president mike pence is leading a ceremony to honor our nations veterans on this veteran s day. it will be starting at the very top of the hour we ll take you there live. but first, to sell tax cuts, should this guy be more like these guys? people are fighting type 2 diabetes. with fitness. food. and the pill that starts with f. farxiga, along with diet and exercise, helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. lowering a1c by up to 1.2 points. do not take if allergic to farxiga. if you experience symptoms of a serious allergic reaction such as rash, swelling, difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking and seek medical help right away. do not take farxiga if you have severe kidney problems, are on dialysis, or have bladder cancer. tell your doctor right away if you have blood or red color in your urine or pain while you urinate. farxiga can cause serious side effects including dehydration, genital yeast infections in women and men, serious urinary tract infections, low blood sugar, and kidney problems. stop taking farxiga and call your doctor right away if you have signs of ketoacidosis which is serious and may lead to death. ask your doctor about the pill that starts with f and visit farxiga.com for savings. if you can t afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. david: forget the tax cut bill itself is the gop s problem the messaging and the selling of the tax bill, frank lunts joins us now you ve been looking into this, frank. frank: yes, and what we found is that there are a lot of questions that haven t been answered, even though we ve gone through the ways and means mark up. i brought two clips. this is instant response we ve been testing ads on tax reform all across the country, and i m going to show you two ads one that didn t do so well and the other one that did tremendously well. the first one talks about corporate tax rates and it s not something that the average american wants to hear. now you re going to see dials. the red line represents republicans the blue line represents democrats and the higher the lines climb the more favorable the reaction let s take a look at corporate tax rates. roll it. lowest economic recovery since world war ii. millions of americans dropout of the workforce, take home pay flat, america s outdated tax system has produced slow economic growth. we have one of the highest tax rates in the world. american companies are disappearing along with good paying jobs. we need a plan to make america competitive again. call congress and tell them we can t wait any longer to give american workers the tax reforms they deserve. it did okay. it s not that it did horribly but the public reacts to individual tax rates as opposed to american, so tell me what i m going to pay. tell me how it s going to impact me personally? we ve got an ad that used the language, the words of john f. kennedy whose still popular and still credible today, even it was almost 60 years ago, he came out for tax relief and the response was tremendous. let s take a look. it s too high today and tax revenues are too low and the sound its way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now and the reason is that only full employment can balance the budget and tax reduction can pave the way to that employment. the purpose of cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit but to achieve the more prosperous expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus that s one of the best ads that comes from the job creator s network and one of the best ads we ve tested and i ve worked for many groups i m showing the ads now and i want to offer full disclosure. the reason why that works is that jfk was a democrat and the fact he s coming out for tax cuts is incredibly credible. i ll tell you if you just looked at the words and didn t hear his voice you d think it was ronald reagan. it was exactly the same kind of message and as good as communicator as jfk was and still is, he wasn t the great communicator. that went to ronald reagan. i want to play for you a clip of ronald reagan selling his 1986 tax plan back in 1985. let s play the clip and then i want your reaction. i ll start by answering one question on your minds. will our proposal help you? you bet it will. how will the proposal work? the present tax system has 14 different brackets of tax rates ranging from 11-50%. we would take a giant step toward an ideal system by replacing all that with a simple three bracket system. david: now frank that s interesting for two reasons. one, just the simplicity of his language. you go from all these brackets just down to three, but then you look, bring it up to speed to where we are today. we just had the senate announcing that they weren t going to cut the tax brackets. we re going to keep it seven tax brackets. first of all that messaging is terrible on the part of the rep senators and secondly i m wondering if donald trump comes back from asia and delivers a simple address the way ronald reagan did would he have the same success that ronald reagan did? it depends to whether he uses that language. you heard me through the wire. ronald reagan s opening question , will our proposal help you, five words, a simple question. that is exactly what paul ryan should be asking that is what mitch mcconnell should be saying , but it s not. they re getting all these grand pronouncement pronouncements about the economy and jobs. simple question will it allow you to help keep more money in your pocket and third showing all of the different tax rates there, will it make it easier, simpler and quicker for me to file. ask those three questions and answer them, and that s how you communicate this tax reform. and they re not doing it. david: ronald reagan shares something with donald trump. i know they are totally different people, different presidencies and different backgrounds but they both did speak directly to the individual out there and say that this is how it s going to affect you. they have this capacity. that s why a lot of democrats came over and voted for donald trump because he was able to reach across the aisle, focus on the personal concerns that people have. it s again why i m wondering is it too late for him to come back and rescue the simple idea of a tax cut from the senators who have made it more complex than it has to be. it s not too late. you ve got the entire house debate coming up next week but you ve got to engage the american people and what ronald reagan did is he actually looked straight into the camera as i am right now and he said you have to get involved. if you want a tax cut, call your congressman, call your senator and that has not happened. they need to engage the american people across the country from maine to california and get them on the phone on monday and say i want my tax cut. i want to pay less. washington should spend less, and we need this for jobs. we need this for the economy. we need this for the country. call them and tell them you need it and i haven t heard that declaration by anyone in washington. david: the king of messaging , you know what it takes, let s see if we see it from donald trump. thank you very much for being here frank. fascinating stuff appreciate it. thank you. david: we are moments away from honoring our vest rans at arlington national cemetery if you ve seen this before you know it s a very very moving cemetery that by the way is the tomb of the unknown soldier. it s one of the most sacred spots in america. vice president mike pence will be laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns followed by a speech and we have it all covered for you again a very emotional ceremony be prepared but very powerful and really brings us back to our roots and what we have to be thankful for in this country. joining us now, former uss cold commander kirk liphold and tony shaefer. the 11th hour of the 11th month, of the 11th day, that s what veterans day is, was based on armacists of world war one, colonel shafer, and that was supposed to be the end of all wars. it wasn t. we had world war ii which followed that after that korea and then vietnam and now the war on terror. it s still, this is why we honor veterans, because frankly, we will always need our armed forces, no? that s correct, look the actual transition from the armac ist day to veterans day started in 1954 and from that point on it became a day to recognize and honor all of those who have served and many whom have parished, and that s the idea here. i think we ve recognized that a single war is not going to sustain or protect our freedoms. it is an ongoing battle that we will never walk away from. president reagan said it gave a speech on this issue regarding the fact that look, we could never let down our vigilance. we will seek to sustain peace through any number of means but we will never surrender it, and i think it s that fact, david, that we ve been having so many men and women from this day to the past honor that legacy and i think this is why it s so important to have this day to honor for example, commander lip hold and his crew for their honored service and god bless you, kirk, for being on, and all of those who have now continued to work on sustaining that effort and i don t want to make this political david but this is why it s so important for the nfl to honor and respect our veterans who have served so ardu ously to protect us. taking a knee does not do anything except disrespect those who continue to serve today. david: let me bring the commander in because colonel sch afer was speaking of the cold war that ronald reagan faced. our war on terrorism is a very different type of war and you were there for the first military strike against the united states in that war which was the bombing of the uss coal. that preceded 9/11 just by a little bit of time. did you realize when it was struck that this was really the sort of pearl harbor of the war on terror? well, good morning, david and thank you first thank you to all the veterans out there, tony especially you, but also those families on the home front who support them and allow them to go out there and defend our freedom and david when you look at it the attack on uss coal was fundamentally different. up until that point attacking buildings and embassies are things that house and represent u.s. interests. the attack on coal was an attack against our ability to defend our interests around the world. there for it was an act of war it was not reacted to and consequently we paid a price that we re still paying today. david: colonel by the way i just want to alert our viewers on the left side of the screen that is the tomb of the unknown soldier, usually you ll see a soldier, marching in pace in front of the tomb itself. right now they ve halted that for the laying of the wreath. the vice president will be doing that at exactly 11 a.m. eastern time. that s about three and a half minutes from now but colonel sch afer, in 1993 preceding the bombing of the uss coal we had a bombing of the world trade center here in new york city. we never knew, never had any conception that those towers could be brought down by a terror strike years later, but that strike alone caused six deaths, thousands of injuries. did you sense back then that we were about to enter into a new war? well unfortunately, a lot of us were sensing that things were changing. kirk accurately reflected the fact that his crew was the unfortunate target of this change in expansion of the global strategy of radical islam , as kirk pointed out. up until the point his ship was attacked and his ship was attacked is a symbol of our presence and protecting the freedoms of not only us but our allies, the passage of free-trade and all those sorts of things, the very difficult job the navy does this was a direct attack so there was a trend we had not recognized fully and kirk suffered consequences of because we did sense and the intelligence community things were changing and unfortunately i ll be blunt the clinton administration was neglect on actually allowing the intelligence professionals to stipulate and put forth what we knew to be this growing threat. the growing threat we looked back on now as you point out started in 93 and went on so this is one of those things we cannot ignore. we do recognize today that radical islam continues and only through president trump s change of strategy have the chairman of the joint chiefs and the pentagon and intelligence community been properly re focused i might add to start looking at defeating this threat which again as you point out god bless kirk liphold, god bless his crew for having suffered and had to be the first casualty of the new war on terror. david: commander and colonel i just want to again alert viewers momentarily we ll see the parade of colors and then see the vice president laying the wreath. obviously we don t want to talk over any off this ceremony which is so important for us for our nation, for our history, so i m going to have to stop anybody in mid sentence but commander, quickly, do you think that the current administration has it right in the way they are preparing this country for the war on terror? i think right now, david they re making steps toward it. i m not sure they ve really wrap ped their arms around a true strategy in order to confront the radical islamic threat we are now facing. it is continuing to grow. we can see their engagement policies continuing from the last administration are continuing because obviously we re engaged in africa, we saw that with the recent deaths of four soldiers. david: commander forgive me for interrupting but we are see ing a man very interested reorganizing the military in the united states . that s jim mattis at the end of that front row there, as we are awaiting the vice president of the united states. we understand the parade of colors has already happened, presenting of the flags, and the vice president is due to come out to lay the wreath in 15 seconds. this is a military operation and again, if you have been to the tomb of the unknown soldier, you know how precise they are and how important timing is and precision, i assume this will be happening at the top of the hour. it s 11 a.m. eastern time and i believe we re about to see the vice-president walk down to the tomb of the unknown soldier for the laying of the wreath. and this is veterans day, let s just take a listen to what s going on in national arlington cemetery. cemetery. . ladies and gentlemen, vice-president pence has arrived and the honorable david shulkin, and aguilera, army national military cemetery and commander general of the united states army military district of washington. [moment of silence] [moment of silence] honors. attention. attention. just want to alert viewers, it is a tradition on veterans day that there is a two minute moment of silence which is what we just saw, what we experienced, we did not want to break in to a tradition that s been honored for decades now, going back to the end of world war i. two minutes of silence, it is an honor to those who died for their country and now, we see, i believe that s the vice-president walking. we will have the laying of the wreath. they are beginning to come in. this is the party, but that was not an accident on the part of any of those who organized this event, that was a planned two minute of silence which we did not want to break into. let s, again, listen to the natural sound coming out of this event. just want to mention, if you have been to the tomb of the unknown soldier, you might have noticed if you re watching the parade in front of the tomb, if anybody in the audience says anything, laughs too loud, or even whispers too loud, the soldier, marching in step and say, ladies and gentlemen, you must respect where you are. be silent, please. he stops where he is, he embarrasses the heck out of whoever it is that s talking in the audience, and goes on with his duty. that s why the solemnity of the occasion, that s why the silence that you hear, and again, we will honor that silence. let s listen in. [moment of silence] we re still joined by colonel shaffer and commander liphold as well. and i want to emphasize, we ll stop at any moment we feel is appropriate. the camera shot, you didn t can t see everything happening there. but the honoring of silence at the tomb of unknown soldier is something that s absolutely uncompromised when you re there. we want to give the viewers as much a feeling of being there as possible that s why we ve allowed the silence to exist. but while we maten wait for the vice-president your thoughts. and the years of the coverage of our wars that is interned there, that s why it s so sacred, the tomb of the unknown is what they guard because it s emblematic that we ve had men and women go forward and some have fallen and it s totally unknown. the spirit of the fact that these people will always be unknown, but they went forward without fear to do that very difficult thing. so, it s they who are, i think, the most honored. one of my favorite speeches is the gettysburg address, delivered by president lincoln on the 19th of november of 1863 where he talked about the members of that battle who, quote, unquote, gave their last full measure of devotion. that s what this honors is the idea that people have sacrificed everything to sustain our freedom. david: and commander, i believe we re watching the vice-president make his way to the platform there. it s extraordinary. i m sure you ve experienced this when you hear somebody talking too loud in the audience observing the tomb and you see the guard stop in his tracks and silence that observer. it is an amazing thing to watch, i mean, the guards there, they truly represent the honor that we, as a nation, put forth to those unknown soldiers who did go forth and pay that last measure of devotion. i m never forget when i got back with my crew we attended the veterans day service immediately after the attack november 2000 on the u.s.s. cole. sitting in that ceremony and listening to the president speak, knowing that we were honoring those soldiers who have gone forth, soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, the veterans that we have today. they re the ones that truly create the circumstances for our society to exist. they re the one they re presenting the colors. forgive me, commander. they re the ones that truly deserve the nation s thanks. david: let s listen to the national anthem. 0 present. [ taps playing] order. . all right, with the 24 notes that are in taps, one of the shortest and most moving melodies you will ever hear, the vice-president leaves after playing the wreath. we are going to be hearing from speakers talking about the meaning of veterans day and the importance of it. we still have with us commander liphold and colonel shaffer with us. commander liphold whenever i hear taps, it sounds cliche to say it, but those 24 notes never fail to give me the shivers. if they don t pull at your heart strings, then you really are just devoid of emotion. i mean, i have attended services at arlington cemetery where we have buried those who have paid the sacrifice for our nation and every time that song plays, it just tears at my heart and you have a tear in your eye because it truly is that last and final note of thanks that we, as a nation, give to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. david: colonel shaffer. well, look, i have a hard time after everything i ve been through not tearing up when i hear it by the fact that it represents, as kirk said, that last full measure of devotion to the duty of the country and obviously, for those families who stay behind. i mean, that s one of those things, too, that often, you know, we forget that as much as we wish to honor the dead, we must sustain those who remain. and the families who have to endure the loss of a loved one are equally important and must be acknowledged and i think this, again, is one of those days for family members of the fallen are also part of the reason we have this is so that we can honor their sacrifice of their loved one for purposes of helping defend our freedom. so, that s why this day is most complex and as you point out, 24 notes, very simple, but amazingly deep where it touches us and where we live in our soul. david: commander, there s a false notion, i think, running around particularly in the mainstream media that the military just consists of wealthy of people who have are too poor to do anything else. the wealthy get a break on serving in the military when in fact, that s not true at all. you see many communities, many different individuals from all backgrounds getting involved in the military now and are all volunteer service. so, the military does affect a big cross-section of humanity in the united states. when you look at it today, david, the military forms some of the best and brightest that our nation has to offer. only 27% of america s youth today even qualify to enter the military and of that 27% that remain, typically the military takes the top 20%. so, you re literally getting those who are our best and brightest coming out of high school, coming out of universities and colleges, who choose that life of consequence to serve our nation, and they go on to form literally the leadership backbone of the nation. you can learn any kind of business skill you want and whether you serve for four years or 40 years, when you get out, you have a wealth and breadth of skills that contribute to the nation, to the fabric of what makes our society and our economy work. and those typically are the military. if you look at businesses, they want to hire military. they come with a sense that they and they alone are responsible for their actions and the consequences that come from it. they have personal responsibility, they have leadership skills, they have management talent that they can bring to bear. this is why going into the military is such a wonderful option for young men and women to consider today because they not only can give to their nation in service, but they can give back to their nation again at a point in time when they choose to get out and become contributing members of society. david: i ve got to say both of you gentlemen are perfect examples of what the commander was just saying, these are the kind of people, the folks i have as guests right now, who represent the military. by the way, we re going to be hearing the invocation, the prayer for veterans from chaplin michael mccoy. he s director of veterans affairs, national chaplain center and we re going to then hear from the president of the korean war veterans association, we re also going to be hearing from the president of the master of ceremonies himself, mr. matthew webb and then, of course, we ll be hearing from the vice-president. we want to bring all of that to you as soon as it begins. they had to get to a slightly different local, it s again, in arlington national cemetery, but that s where they re getting ready to speak. colonel shaffer, again, we have two big memorials every year for veterans, for those who have fallen and for those who have served, memorial day and veterans day, is that enough? i think it s you don t want to go over the top, david. look, as kirk was just pointing out, we honor the service of those who have given everything they can for the country and many of us are very humbled by our service. we talked about who enlists. the military is the great equalizer, in 1981 when i enlisted i pulled kitchen patrol scrubbing pots as a private e-2. and i think we all have adequate representation, i think this is we have to remember, today is remembrance days for those in the british commonwealth which also honors their fallen. so the dates we have i think are adequate and i think, again, people like you, david, people, networks like fox or other organizations, the uso, things like that which actually do honor, sustain and support the community of veterans is very important. so as long as we have those things, i can t speak for all veterans, but i think kirk and i would agree the recognition is important, but the idea that we will have the means to continue to serve and help others to enlist and serve is very important to the path forward for our nation. david: commander liphold because you were commander of u.s.s. cole, one of the first military strikes in the war on terror against the united states, and it was that war and of course 9/11 that brought in people who didn t usually think about joining the military, people from the upper west side of manhattan, for example, who actually joined up as a result of seeing with their own eyes the fact that america is in danger if we don t defend it from our enemies. did you see a change in personnel coming into the military after 9/11? i did. i think that if there s one thing about americans is that when it really comes down to it, despite politics or how their views or issues are framed, americans are very patriotic. they know the gift of freedom that we possess. they know the foundation that it comes from. and when they feel that that is threatened, americans will join up and serve because they want to contribute to that life and become a part of something bigger than that because they know that s what makes up our nation and the chance they get to raise their right hand to serve their nation and to be able to go forth and potentially put themselves in danger, knowing they re writing a blank check up to and including their lives if necessary, that makes us a great nation. we do not have to go out and have a draft anymore, that we have an all volunteer service because we know we can tap into that reserve of americans who believes in what our nation stands for and serve. david: colonel shaffer, it seems to go in waves. we had, of course, ronald reagan, who was very tough in the military and won the cold war essentially, even though it happened after he left office and then we got lazy about things, and cut way back called it the peace dividend during the clinton years and some say it led us to leave down our guard which gave room for the terrorists to make their move. then with gw bush, we got very active in the military and president obama s era we pulled back again and now it seems we re building up again. so it s like a rollercoaster, isn t it? look, to your point, i enlisted in 81 and i fully thought that i would die in germany for those who remember the cold war, the perceived opening battle, if you will, between us and the soviets. and i ve talked to my dear friend bud mcfarland, national security with president reagan. i complimented him, i thought i would die on the battlefield in germany and you guys got us through. to that point, after the wall came down, we game into this malaise, if you will, in the 90s, we had the peace dividend, we ve won the war and time to let everything go and i think we attributed far too much for our military and frankly vigilance against those who challenge us. and we saw the chaos come back to bite us in 2001 and we have to endure that as kirk pointed out. america s youth once again rose up and jumped in to help continue that very difficult challenge of maintaining our freedom, but there s this is never going to end and i think this is where i ve seen the chief of staff of the army saying no one task force smith. task force smith went into korea in 1950, ill-prepared and not ready to go to war. so we ve failed, david to learn that lesson because we had the same thing between 1945 and 1950. it s one of those things we have to find a way to be better prepared and understand it s necessary to be to have strength as part of our diplomacy to always seek diplomacy, but having that strength is important to be ready to fight if necessary. david: indeed, commander, we re seeing that play out on the korean peninsula right now. one of the aspects of the military that donald trump is insistent we need to build on is our u.s. navy forces and we are seeing the three carrier groups off the north korean peninsula right now making a message to the dictatorship in north korea thatter woo that we re not going to fool around. that s a wonderful signal to send and a bigger picture to look at resides in washington. the united states senate and the house of representatives must get a military budget passed so that we don t have these continuing resolutions that hold up programs, that don t give the military the ability to man, train and equip the forces while we search those three carriers out there, i guarantee you, large complements of each of those ships and the battle groups that formed it we had to draw back from units getting ready to go out there just back from deployment. they re not fully manned like they need to be, so consequently, the military needs a budget that they can count on that they can know is going to grow and give them the tools they need to defend freedom. right now, we don t have that predictability and that s one of the great faults weech we have in the legislative branch. and while donald trump is trying hard to enlarge the military because it s an insurance policy. you want to have a military so big, so robust with the capability and credibility that is a measure of last resort, it will be used. but when we do use it, it must be decisively and overwhelmingly to defeat any enemy. we don t want parity. we don t want to close to parity. we want to remain the sole superpower and use that force judiciously to defend our freedom and economy around the world. and we attempted the incrementmentalism and go here and there and result in the stalemate we had to walk away from. and fortunately, vietnam is a friend and with the president s visit. one thing that kirk said is correct. it s not only about the ability to sustain and fight an enemy, it s the ability to defeat an enemy with overwhelming force and again, not to be a bully, but to be the brother in arms with our allies to make sure that they will trust us, and i think that s one of the things as kirk pointed out earlier, president trump is going in the right direction, and passing a budget that allows for things to be created. we ve got to look at things that s not funded properly, i m a critic of the f-35. and we ve got the requirements of the nuclear navy that have not been met. this is something that the obama administration allowed to the point of failurement it s president trump s job to figure out strategy and budget and capabilities. david: gentlemen, stay with us. i want to broaden this with g e gordon chang, and the question is whether the commitment to the military that we ve seen through the trump administration is something that s appreciated, not necessarily appreciated in a good way, but understood by the chinese and other people in the asian region, that we need to have a little more respect from? the south koreans and the japanese are concerned that the united states doesn t have the assets in the region to protect them and they re also concerned about political will. will the united states come to their rescue if indeed they are attacked? having three carrier strike groups in the region at the same time is an important message. you know, the military says that this was just coincidental. of course, it wasn t. it was important to reinforce president trump s message that he delivered so well in tokyo. david: gordon, from the chinese side, i m wondering, sometimes they re playing games as they always will. do you think they really appreciate actually, i m going to stop myself because i believe we re hearing the colors for the vice-president to come in. let s listen. ladies and gentlemen, the vice-president of the united stat states. ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the procession of our nation s colors and those of our veteran service organizations. as we march on the colors, the united states air force band will play the national enblem march. please put your hand over your heart or render a hand salute. please remain standing for the prayer for all veterans delivered by chaplin michael mccoy. national chaplain center. let us pray, eternal god of nations and veterans, you are so awesome in so many ways. we invite your presence in this most sacred garden where many of our veterans and families have gathered and many of our nation s heroes rest. we give you thanks on this veterans day for the courage, devotion and sacrifice of all those who have worn our nation s uniform and offered military service for this country that we could enjoy such freedoms. god, we ask that you bless our nation s veterans. encourage and bring healing to those who are suffering from both visible and invisible wound of war. god, hold safely in your hand our military members, veterans, their families, and all who live in this great nation. god, remove evil acts from our midst and grant us peace at home and abroad. give to us grateful hearts and a united will to honor our veterans. may we always hold them in our love and our prayers until your world is perfected in peace and all wars cease. god, give us all a joyous spirit as we honor our nation s veterans, let your presence be evident in this celebration of their service in the name of god, who challenged us to care, amen. amen. . now, i d like to invite mr. thomas stevens, national president, korean war veterans association to lead us in our pledge of allegiance. i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. please be seated. it is now by distinct privilege to introduce the members of the veterans day national committee. the committee was formed by presidential order in 1954 to plan this annual observance in honor of america s veterans and to support veterans day observances throughout the nation. please hold your applause until i ve introduced these special guests. if you re able, please stand when your name is called. thomas stevens, national president, korean war veterans association. ang angel, national commander, american gi forum. frank kowalski, national commander, catholic war veterans of the usa. joe parker, national president, blinded veterans association. john rowen, president, vietnam veterans of america. keith harmon, commander-in-chief, veterans of foreign wars of the united states. william starkey, national president, fleet reserve association. david zurflu, national president, paralyzed veterans of america. marion polk, national commander, american veterans, am-vets. raul hellwig national chander. john 0s strossski, noncommissioned officers. and larry from the american legion. corneil just van neff commander purple heart. wendell well, marine corps league. lion smith executive director military chaplain s association. jerry wall don, legion of valor of the usa. david gibson, commander-in-chief, military order of the world wars. john adams, national president, the retired enlisted association. brian thacker, washington d.c. agent, congressional medal honor society of the usa. gary augustine, executive director disabled american veterans. dana atkins, president, military officers association of america. jeff ladue, president, air force sergeant s association. dean coppola, board chair, united states public health services. mr. robert swan, national commander, polish legion of american veterans usa. not with us today is paul warner, national commander from the jewish war veterans, as they do not attend a cemetery on the chabot. they ll celebrate veterans day at the vietnam wall and world war ii memorial. the associate members of the committee are located in the boxes to my left. i d like to ask the presidents and the national commanders that comprise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in recognizing our national leadership with your applause. [applaus [applause] it is now my pleasure to introduce our veterans service organization host for 2017. the korean war veterans association of the usa. the korean war veterans association of the united states of america or kwva is honored to serve as the host organization for the 2017 veterans day national commemoration at arlington national cemetery. kwva is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation that meets the requirements for a veterans service organization under section 501-c-19 of the internal revenue code of 1986 and that it s organized under the laws of the state of new york. the kwva mission is to defend the nation, care for veterans, perpetuate their legacy, remember all missing and fallen, maintain their memorial, and support a free korea. if you have ever honorably served in korea as a member of the u.s. armed forces from september 3rd, 1945 to the present, or served outside of korea june 25th, 1950 to january 31st, 1955, you qualify for membership. the korean war veterans association is represented today by their national president. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. thomas stevens. [applaus [applause] thank you. vice-president pence, secretary shulkin, distinguished guests and my fellow veterans and their families, good morning and happy veterans day. my name is tom stevens, i m the national president of the korean war veterans association of the united states of america. the croon korean war veterans association has the honor of hosting the veterans day commemorations here in washington d.c. often referred to as the forgotten war, the korean war began on june 25th, 1950 when some 75,000 soldiers from the north korean people s army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary of the soviet-backed peoples s republic of r korea to the north and the pro western korea to the south. and the peninsula is still divided today. today, i would like to pay special tribute to all who have served on the korean peninsula, from the start of the war to the present. your service and dedication to ensure the stability and freedom of the republic of korea will be remembered for years to come. we honor and thank you for your service to our country and to the republic of korea. on this veterans day and all such days, when we pause to remember, there are essential lessons for the young and indeed, for the rest of us as well. appreciate the blessings of freedom, recognize the power and virtue of sacrifice, and respect those who gave everything on behalf of the common good. veterans day reminds us of what we can achieve when we pull together as one nation, respecting each other with all of our myriad differences, but coming together, we can fight any battle and face any challenge. may god bless the united states of america and all of the american heroes we honor today and may god bless, also, those who still stand at the ready and may give us the wisdom to do what is right for tomorrow. thank you, we re honored to be the host veteran service organization. thank you very much. [applaus [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the honorable david j shulkin, secretary of veterans affairs. [applause]. thank you. it s great to see all of you on this wonderful veterans day. mr. vice-president, mrs. pence, medal of honor recipient brian thacker, secretary mnuchin, secretary mattis, secretary zinke. the secretary shanahan, secretary wolfen, former va secretary jim peak, tom stevens, from the korean war veterans association, and all the representatives of our veterans service organizations, assembled veterans, members of our armed forces, va colleagues, other distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, i don t think i ve left anybody out. the department of veteran affairs has two main missions to honor the dead and care to are the living. in accordance with a solemn president made by president abraham lincoln in his second inaugural address in 1865. we at va keep that promise 365 days a year and in this past year we ve made great progress towards also keeping president trump s promise to veterans, strengthening our ability to provide timely, high quality care and benefits while also improving outcomes and experience for veterans. but twice a year, we invite the nation to join us in keeping lincoln s promise, by honoring the dead on memorial day, and honoring the living on veterans day. there was a time when more americans understood the importance of honoring the living. many more americans had connections with the military. in the 1950 s, nearly half of all americans, nearly 45% had served in the military or had an immediate family member who had served in the military. today, that number is just 16%. so, i ve invited one veteran from each of our recent major conflicts to be here today, to remind us why we honor veterans. first, to my left in box 40 is jessica haltin of kalamazoo, michigan. jessica, will you stand? gre great. [applause]. jesse ran out of money for college so she enlisted in the navy in 2010 and trained as an aircraft mechanic and served with a hawk eye squadron in japan completing three six month squadrons. after four years on active duty she used the g.i. bill to finish her bachelors degree and earn a masters in national security policy which she will finish in may. congratulations, jesse and thank you for your service. [applause] next, in box 40, jeff roper. jeff, would you stand? jeff. [applause] jeff was born in fayett fayettesvil fayettesville, north carolina. he was in the gulf war with the 320th infantry, first airborne division. he was in saudi arabia when an anti-tank round went through the tent and struck the tent next to jeff s and exploded, peppering his back with schrapnel. he was able to stay with his unit. he retired with 20 years of service and now works at my office at department of veterans affairs and he s here representing both gulf war veterans and va employees, one third of whom are veterans. thank you, jeff. [applaus [applause] in exdown here in front is tom devlin from newtown, pennsylvania. tom, where are you? okay. tom enlisted in the marines in 1966. two years later he was a rifleman in vietnam when a bo boobytrap sent him flying through the air. he served nine years in the marine corps reserves before switching services and joining the air national guard as a medic. he s retired now after 27 years of active service. tom credits the vet s center in silver spring, maryland with saving his life. he showed up there one day at his wit s end thinking of suicide, but the vet s center staff brought him from the brink. tom, to you and all the other veterans, welcome home. [applaus [applause] next, in box 40, in the back, is bill scott of marlo, oek. would you stand? okay. coming up there. great. true to his roots as a proud member of the chickasaw nation, bill fudged his birth date to enlist in the national guard when he was just 16. when the korean war broke out, he could could have used his young age to get out of going, but he didn t. he deployed to korea with the 45th infantry division in 1951. despite his age, bill was made a squad leader and promoted to staff sergeant. he served nine months in combat before returning home and going back to high school for his senior year and then he used the g.i. bill to go to college and he s had a very good life ever since. he s been a patient at va facilities in two states. he s bought two houses using va home loans, and he lives in one of them now with linda, his wife of 52 years. congratulations to both of you. [applaus [applause] finally, also in box 40 is caramel wetzel. who grew up on a farm in west virginia. c carmel, nice to see you. carmel was drafted in 1942 and deployed to france from the 26th infantry division one month after d-day. first, he drove a truck for the famed redball express, an endless convoy that moved food, fuel and ammunition to the english channel to patton s army. and november 1st, 1944, amid fierce fighting, he was captured by the germans. he spent the rest of the wore as a p.o.w. mostly at starlag 2-a. winner was 1/6 of a loaf of bread. he escaped once sneaking out of the barracks during a nighttime bed check and remained at large for 15 days before they were recaptured and only not shot because several americans who escaped before them had been shot. after the war, carmel went back to driving a truck, but for two years in his spare time and without any pay he built apartments in baltimore more other veterans returning home from the war, amazing stories and there s hardly a veteran alive who doesn t have one. our guest speaker [applaus [applause] our guest speaker today also has a story to tell, not of his own service, but of his family s. the vice-president s father, second lieutenant edward j pence, also served in the 45th infantry division in korea, not long after bill scott, our teenage chickasha sergeant. in the wars last month, ed pence was awarded the bronze star for higgs actions as a rifle platoon leader near pork chop hill. that s not all. in 1983, the vice-president s older brother first lieutenant greg pence also served with the 3rd 3 battalion in beirut lebanon just before the infamous barrack bombings that killed 241 americans service members and 58 french paratroopers. and now, currently serving is the vice-president s son, marine 1st lieutenant michael pence who is now in flight school, flying jet trainers. that s quite a service record for one family. and what it tells moo he is that when it comes to caring for the men and women who have served our country, the vice-president is a man we know will always do the right thing. ladies and gentlemen, it is my great personal pleasure and professional honor to present to you, the vice-president of the united states, mike pence. [applaus [applause] thank you, secretary shulkin. secretary mattis, secretary zinke, all the members of the cabinet, secretary wilson, general dunford, general salv admiral caldwell and admiral michael. to director mclara, to distinguished members of congress and all of our honored guests, but most of all, to the men and women of the armed forces of the united states of america, and to all our veterans who have worn the uniform of this great nation, happy veterans day. [applaus [applause] there s a day in the spring when we remember those who served and did not come home, but today, veterans day, is the day when all across america in gatherings large and small, we pause to remember those who served and did come home. for nearly a century, since the guns of the first world war fell silent, and the 11th hour, the 11th day, the 11th month, the american people have observed this day, first as armistice day and now as veterans day. and i thank you all who are here, and all that are gathered around this nation for continuing this great tradition. and to our heroes near and far, i bring veterans day greetings from a great champion for the men and women who have worn the uniform of our armed forces, the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applaus [applause] at this very moment, our president is halfway around the world, but i know his heart is here. in this hallowed place and at every veterans day service across the country. president trump asked us to be here at this national veterans day ceremony to, in his words, honor all americans who served in the army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard, in times of war and peace and to pay due respect, due respect to those americans who have passed the torch of liberty from one generation to the next, for they surely have. and so, i say to each and every one of you veterans gathered here, and all of those that might be looking on, we re grateful for your service. we re grateful for your sacrifice. and i ll make you a promise, just as you fought for us, we will always fight for you. [applaus [applause] the bible tells us if you owe debts, pay debts. if honor, then honor. if respect, then respect. the debt our nation owes those who have worn the uniform is a debt we will never be able to fully repay. in the hour of our nation s birth, our best and bravest stepped forward to defend our freedom. the unbroken cord of their service stretches back into the mists of american history. from bunker hill to bellawood, from san juan hill to saipan, from the coral reef to kandahar. nearly 50 million men and women have donned the uniform of the united states. and nearly 20 million still walk among us today. and as we speak, a new generation of american veterans is being forged across the wider world. as i look out today, it s a humbling sight. i see heroes from the second world war, korea, vietnam, and more recently from iraq and afghanist afghanistan, and many more who have watched in times of peace. yesterday, in da nang, vietnam, our president commemorated the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war and met with some of the heroes who fought that war on the very soil where they fought. as the president said yesterday, we salute our brave vietnam veterans and recall the sacrifices they made for our freedom, and for our nation s strength. some 9 million americans served
brought back into our country? nobody. the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. this is bigger than actually president reagan s many years ago. i m very honored by it. democrats don t like tax cuts. they want to raise your taxes. they don t want to lower your taxes. they want to raise your taxes and spend money foolishly. david: the president being very loose in his speech today and as those lawmakers leave washington for christmas, major battles are set for when they get back in january. however, the president is after passing massive tax cut bill joining us now fox news chief neacialt ed henry. i have got to tell you i m excited. the president began speaking we cut to it millions of people heard what he said today. and he was just being trump, ed. yeah, look. he has been on defense for a large chunk of the year. you have got the mullen investigation out there he still has to deal with going into the new year. they failed on healthcare. they hope to take another crack at it in 2018. you had all these critics and nay sayers saying he is not going to get the tax cut. republicans cannot govern. they have the white house, the house, and the senate. they stepped up here. you heard mcconnell and ryan and others say it was presidential leadership that got this across the finish line. we have heard chuck schumer for weeks now say that this is not going to trickle down. the workers, you know, the employees are not going to feel the corporate tax cut from 35% to 21%. what s happened the last 48 hours here. david: been determined before it was even written or read. chuck schumer says republicans will roux the day. what about the political battle that s shaping up? it s going to be a difficult 2018 for republicans. you ve got to be fair and acknowledge that that any party in power when you have got a new president, barack obama faced this, bill clinton faced, this either party, you are going to likely face losses in the mid terms. but, this tax cut may mitigate that that may help this president big time. because when chuck schumer says this is not going to trickle down to employees and then a whole bunch of companies like boeing and tat say we are giving out $1,000 bonuses. we may be hiring more people. we are investing in our company. that s exactly what the president promised would happen and which democrats said would not happen. and so if you have an economy that s already been picking up steam in recent weeks and months, all of a sudden take off in 2018 that s going to wreck some of the democratic plans for major gains in the mid terms terms. david: thousand more bucks in my pocket. i m paying less taxes. double standard deductions. i m not paying taxes on that money. if that matters in the political narrative. sure. david: some numbers matter here and you say tat at&t and they give $201,000. they are actually putting somewhere around $200 million, give or take an many employees into pockets in the economy. how does the democrat goes against that. they go out and buy a television for the holidays. they put food on the table. i went back and looked in 2012 barack obama in the election year, of course, was talking about a one time tax rebate that was small. $40. #$40. you probably remember that on the radio show. david: i remember that. democrats were saying this is going to make a big difference. $40? that was flog compared to the average family, middle class family $75,000, family of four is going to get a tax cut of about $2,000. that puts the $40 to shame. and by the way, you now have every single democrat in the house and senate who is on record voting for higher taxes and lower wages because they didn t want to see what s playing out now play out. if the republicans can t write a 30 second tv ad pointing out that every democrat voted for higher taxes, they should get another line of work. david: that s a very good point. republicans we are going to talk to the chair woman of the rnc in just a minute. they have got a big job ahead of them. they have got to go out. they don t need to sell it. it is signed. it is law. that s what the president said. i don t need to travel. it will sell itself. we ll see. david: they need to gout and explain the benefits of it to the american people. they have to rebut the attacks on corporations. it s not just mega corporations it s small companies. we have to point out immigration reform. infrastructure, there is a lot, heck. are they going to take another bite at the apple. they promised voters republicans, repeal and replace. they failed this year. can they come back third way not obamacare not repeal and replace. is there some way to move forward. let s be clear there are challenges for the president heading into 2018 but this tax cut gives them a head of steam. david: for sure. people paying obamacare taxes to the irs 80% of them make under $50,000. that means repealing that individual mandate, the funding mechanism is a big boost for americans. major boost for americans. opposite of what democratic leaders have been saying. think about chuck schumer saying this is all about the rich. nancy pelosi saying if this bill passes people are going to die. that he was the way they bill this. maybe the opposite is happening. david: a christmas present. i m wearing my christmas tie. ed henry good see it you my friend. joining us with reaction rnc chair ronna mcdaniel. great to see you. we have talked through this entire process on radio and in person about this and a major achievement the president gets a major legislative win. and the rnc i said to them you guys have to take it to the streets. where do you begin? it is historic day. taps great christmas present. and president trump led the way. you know, i think about a year ago when he was coming to my state of michigan and traveling this country, and recognizing that wages were stagnant, that people were suffering. and now today, he has said we are fighting for you. we are going to give the middle class a huge tax cut. we are going to make your paycheck bigger. we are going to increase jobs. we re going to grow our economy. we re going to fight for the american people. so, at the republican party we are going to keep hammering home the great accomplishments of this the and senator mcconnell and speaker ryan. and then we are going to remind them that the democrats were nowhere to be found. in fact, joe manchin went home and he saw a big banner that said we ll remember in november. well, we re going to make sure they remember in november that no democrat supported middle class tax cuts in helping the american people. david: let s talk about the major driver of the economy and that is the corporate side of this. and i m not talking about the mega corporations. escorts, l corpse. corps. s corps. individual truckers call every day and ask what does this mean to me? what does it mean to them the people in that 50 to $75,000 income level? but they have a pass through. they have a business. what does it mean to them? well, it means they are going to take more money home. it s two-fold. two-fold in that we have cut so many regulations. the president focused on that at the first three months of his administration cutting regulations. and that is so important to the small business owner because they were so constricted by these cumbersome regulations that were preventing them from growing and being able to expand their businesses. so that. and then county tax cuts take more money home. invest in their businesses and help in their families, this is great day for small businesses for like you said truck drivers, people across the country are going to benefit. that s exactly who president trump targeted with this huge tax reform bill. david: all right. ed henry brought it up a little while ago, ronna. has a good point. can the republicans write a 30-second ad that lays out for the american people what does that ad say to the american people in say 30 seconds? republicans are putting the american people first. and we are increasing their paychecks. we are going to focus on creating more jobs. we are going to increase wages and grow this economy. we are going to make america a better place for all americans. and we have delivered at every turn this year. we are are going to keep doing it give us the majority in 2018. david: now let s talk about some other things. i would like to cover the things not always there. tax cuts. great christmas present for americans. what about other things? regulatory reform. we have immigration on the table to deal with daca. we have so many issues. there has been a divide at spoins in the republican party. is the party going to come together now that the president has a head of steam and with the help of the rnc words out, the president border to look at these walls. so much has been accomplished in this year as we look at the year in review. look at the judicial appointments. look at neil gorsuch, look at veterans accountability act. look at increased military spending and deregulation and tax cuts. we are just going to keep doing that the president has signaled he wants to tackle fracture next year. that s something that should bring bipartisan support. there s a lot in the accomplishment column for republicans. have democrats done this year? what have they accomplished? nothing. resist and obstruct and fighting this president at every turn even if it s in the best interest of their constituents is not a message that they re going to be able to run on in 2018. this tax bill has shown that we can come together as a party. we can governor as a party. we have a president who is leading the way. we are going to continue fighting for the american people. our hand is out to democrats. we want them to come across the aisle and work with us. if they are not going to, we are going to get it done. are they really going come across the aisle as we wrap this up. we heard chuck schumer say republicans are going to roux the day when they do this. nancy pelosi, this is the worst thing. this is armageddon. i m paraphrasing. you know the words that are being used. and they are not reading the bills. nothing new for democrats. , about but, are they really going to come to the table? there is some senators ohio think are going to be looking at 2018. joe manchin, heidi heitcamp. joe donnelly, john tester, sherrod brown. these senators in these red states where president trump won, they want the photo op. with the president. they want to to show they are bipartisan. so far they are totally beholden to their leadership nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. when they go to the ballot box they will ask what did my senator do. we have the opportunities to pick up seats they f. they can t come across the aisle and work on other things especially middle class tax cuts and infrastructure. david: thanks, ronna. by the way great to see you and your family. you worked very hard in the first part of this term. good luck. have a great christmas. you deserve a break. merry christmas. merry christmas. thank you, david. david: meanwhile liberals over at msnbc they have been trashing the president s tax plan. but it turns out they shouldn t be. before we explain why. watch this. ? is something donald trump, with all the cruchings and alcrunches.this tax plan proves autocrat across the world. donald trump has perfected the art of the self-deal. look at them like lem mention, are they going to back him on firing mueller? look at them. looks like a north korean parade. there is a difference between giving it to the corporations and hoping that the corporations hand them out and we will see who else decides to do. this and giving it directly to the american people. in the form of larger tax cuts for the individuals, for the middle class and not just the wealthy or the corporations. so the effects of the tax bill started to reverberate today as the wealthiest people and the most powerful corporations in this country started almost literally scrambling to figure out how they are going to handle all the money the republican tax bill just gave them. so when your family s taxes go up because of this bill can you take comfort in knowing that s what you are paying for. instead of attacking the g.o.p. tax bill, maybe these liberal hosts should be thanking president trump. hire s why. hire here s why. comcast the parpght company of nbc have announced they will be giving 1,000 bonuses to over 100,000 employees because of the tax bill. and the fcc s actions on broad band. so think about that for a moment. do the numbered a up to the rhetoric and joining us with reaction, fox news contributor deresolve murder dock, radio talk show most and fox news contributor leslie marshall and republican strategist noel nikpour. you talk about the civil rights industry a lot. this is the liberal media industry selling the narrative. do the numbered a up when the very employees of comcast are getting millions of dollars that they will inject into the economy on their own? we heard from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi that this money will be going just to the ceos and the top executives. the day after this one tax cut plan was passed, we re now finding thousand dollars bonuses for 100,000 employees. if you are rachel maddow or joe scarborough maybe 1,000 bucks is not a lot of money. think about it cable guy, somebody working in customer service call center or maybe somebody who is working secretarial type position. that $1,000 will be quite a bit of money and appreciated this time of year particularly before christmas. david: leslie good to see you. is this a christmas present for america? i know the democrats want to paint this as a disaster. they haven t seen it play out. but to deroy s point, to the money going into the economy, some 200 million from at&t going to employees, 100 million from comcast, may not matter to the rich elitist but what about the americans out there? let s talk about the truth. the reason the at&t did this i know we want to make it altruistic but it s not. basically the reason they did it was the $28 million tax incentive for this them this year because they would get screwed next year. in addition, let s talk about the hundreds i have jobs being establish away from individuals. layoffs they are having at at&t. over 600 ever them even nor concentrate you had in illinois. david: you are conflating layoffs. neither are from the trump tax plan. the timing. david: why bring it into the trump tax plan? they are protecting themselves because of the changes for them as a corporation. they actually will get a better tax break of 28 million more as opposed to they would lose 48 million more if they wait until 2018 versus 2017. they need to distribute the money and it makes them look good to say hey, here are some bonuses. so when you ask is it a christmas present? it may appear that way but that s not the reason. is it a christmas present to the poor? is it a christmas present to the elderly? is it a christmas present to the disabled or to people that don t make between 300 and hundred thousand dollars a year or don t itemize their takes taxes. we would say no. > david: we know they don t have to itemize anymore if they are below a certain income level. tat just spent $200 million to cover $28 million. i m not following the numbers here. first of all, i have got to tell you something. i am really angry. i m very angry with what the democrats have done to spin this. number one, let s just look at corporation ceos, corporations employ 152 million american people. and i am really tired of the media spin that corporation ceo and corporate america is evil. they supply us with jobs. dher not heaval. the last time i checked both democrats and republicans they own dorptions. the other thing i would like to say which is just very irritating for me is the fact that you know this tax cut really amplifies what donald trump is trying to do. he got elected on the backs of the working man because the democrats weren t representing them. he turned blue states into red states. look at the ones that he won. made good on promise. going to see money in paychecks. corporations corporations giving back to their employees. they are not evil doers, nice try for the democrats narrative to spin it to where, you know, the corporations are big fat cats and taking home a bunch of cash. they are giving it down to their employees. there may be one or two bad actors that leslie can maybe trump me on, burr the majority these guys, these women and men ceos of american corporations they are giving it back. david: deroy, let s do some numbers here. i like the fact that when you look at some of the things, we have doubling the standard deduction 12,000 if you are single. 18,000 i like that addition if you are a single parent. and 24,000. that means if you are a hold hold under that 40 or 50,000, you sudden live got more of your money to use on top of that. talking point hebrew increased; added of $500. do the numbers matchlessly s narrative? they don t. this is money people won t be able to keep in their pockets. in addition to that, if you used to pay the penalty for not having obamacare, that s gone. obama basic solid voluntary now if you want obamacare, can you have it. if you don t want to do it you don t have to have it any longer. something called 59 plan going to let people put money aside if never putting kids k through 12 private school. parochial school, what have you. that s a fantastic thing that ted cruz put in. that is probably the biggest boost for school choice in decades. whatever at&t s motives are. they made clear they will give a special benefit giving to their employees. what about wells fargo. fifth third bank. what about at&t s motives might be doctoring other agencies giving bonuses. worker he had itsing youened spends monday on construction of fittings. this is within 48 hours of passage and a few hours of this bill being signed. i think next year is going to be a boon year for this economy. it s going to grow like crazy. the party of no. democrats said no to this and all these benefits will have trouble next november going before the voters as people enjoy these very beneficial things gee we didn t allow you to step up and have theme they voted no on all of these. shame on them. david: let s give a tax break to the poor and lower rungs of the income ladder. in this is the repeal of the obamacare mandate. 80% of the people according to the irs taxed by out obamacare mandate make under $50,000. wouldn t democrats be on board with this? after all, these people don t make much and now they don t have to by onerous task. david, no. i m glad you asked me that because of the healthcare dined of things. the wean they both thought we had need for reformation. i know everybody likes to look at the numbers. let s look at different numbers, not the economy. pure numbers of how many sick versus all people. the hj rooms have been deare bombarded. didn t have insurance care for preventative. david: i m going to give you the last 15 seconds. no, no. you are going off to try to sell it, go ahead, noelle. i know leslie is complaining here s the thing. the democrats had a shot to get some things they needed. remember, at a certain time, we weren t sure if we had enough republican votes. here are the democrats sitting here in a big cluster and nobody really came forward to see if they could get some things in the bill to maybe help and vote for it. so they didn t participate. so, it s really kind of unusual that they are sitting here complaining and crying over spilt milk so to speak when they didn t do anything for the process to get anything that they want. now you can cry over spilled eg eggnog. democrats out there go dry in your eggnog. it s christmas season. we will keep the spilled milk. we will tell what action attorney general jeff sessions is taking following reports that the obama administration gave a free pass to a fares group. also we are learning more details about the fbi s potential role in sharing the anti-trump dossier with the media. stay with us. yeeeeaaaahhh! hmmhmm. uh oh.a painful sore throat? not now. if you want a max strength alternative to cough drops take cépacol instamax. this will provide fast relief. look! unlike regular cough drops it contains 2 max strength pain relievers and cools in seconds. dual power in one lozenge. bye bye sore throat. knock out sore throat fast. take cépacol instamax. david: welcome back to this special edition of hannity. major developments tonight in two big scandals. fox news exclusively reporting that attorney general jeff sessions award add justice department review of obama era law enforcement initiative called project cassandra. that initiative targeted hezbollah s drug trafficking operations in the united states and abroad. sessions move follows a recent political report that alleges the obama administration shut down this initiative in order to secure nuclear deal with iran. also tonight, politico reporting that james baker, the fbi s top lawyer was in contact with a liberal journalist david corn of mother jones in the weeks before the outlet broke the first news story about the existence of the anti-trump dossier. here with reaction to all of this former utah congressman and fox news contributor jason chaffetz and fox news legal analyst greg g-8. let me go to you first on this with the legal aspect of this. the idea of prosecutorial discretion. right. david: what is it and how would you apply it to something of this scope with a billion-dollar enterprise or criminal enterprise? it does not apply to this. here s why. the federal courts have universally held that prosecutorial discretion only applies to individual cases and small groups of cases. this was a massive group of cases involving the terrorist group hezbollah and not prosecuting them for drug trafficking as well as money laundering. you can t hide behind prosecutorial discretion for that. which means that i have concerns that justice may have been o obstructed by the obama administration. you are not allowed to interfere with the due process of law for political purposes. it as that the obama administration was doing precisely that trying to curry favor with iran on the nuclear deal. how many american lives were lost because of the influx by hezbollah of cocaine into america? david: not just that jason, let me bring you in on this because it s not just the lives that greg talks about but it s the effect on others around the world. we are talking about if this political report is to be believed and if it is true, that there were 30 agencies or so involved in this. not just one agency. this is beyond discretion. what about the different layers of this and does congress have a responsibility here with oversight and how so? oh, i know, congress absolutely needs to get to the bottom of this. this is exactly one of those disgusting stories where for purely political reasons so that the obama administration can complete a deal with iran they turn their nose away. these investigators, they put their lives on the line. they are doing a great investigation and then it gets to the point where they are seeing that untold amend of drugs and cocaine coming into the united states of america via hezbollah of all people. and they just are to turn a blind eye to not prosecute, to just tone it down? i mean, politico, hats off to them. because this is one of the best investigative pieces of journalism given the these people are on the record. they are not some anonymous source. but the author of this piece has got to be proud of the work because he has done a good job documenting. this congress should look at it and it s a disgusting story. all right. so, greg, there are a couple things in this story, unsealed indictments. there is a filing under pre, big critic of president trump. there seems to be a host of issues coming out of justice. what about those aspects of this? can those be brought back into play? it depends on the statute of limitations. we don t know the dates of the transactions that gave rise to what were supposed to be criminal prosecutions. if the statute hasn t run, those prosecutions ought to be presented in court. people indicted. people prosecuted and convicted and thrown behind bars. we just don t know. hopefully these can still be prosecuted. but, the obama administration may have been may have prevented that by what appears to be inappropriate, if not illegal action. david: all right. so let s go to jason. because i like to ask questions, especially of our former congressman of what the inspector general s office is doing in washington, d.c. we now have another political report. and this one is about a senior counsel, james baker, and what may, what may have been a connection to the trump dots dossier. where is the inspector general in this? how does congressional oversight get into play here? well, trey gowdy is the chairman of the oversight committee took up after i lift. and actually the inspectors general kind of report up on a jurisdictional basis through the oversight committee. michael horowitz is the one that actually runs, is the inspector general at the department of justice for 150 employees. a massive budget. they have been doing the investigation on the comey matter. the hillary clinton email matter. they have been silent. you haven t heard leaks. and now we have seen two publicly released news reports. one back in july saying in is james baker, the senior most counsel there at the department of justice was being looked at for releasing classified information to a journalist. and then just today as you said, it popped that he has been reassigned. now, we don t know exactly why that happened or what happened there, but, you know, people like trey gowdy and john radcliff on the judiciary committee. devon nunez of the intel committee i m sure are going to be all over this. but i have a lot of faith in the inspector general. i think they have roaded out a lot of things. david: let s bring you guys together on this aspect of this. we have a couple minutes to wrap this up. first to you, greg, what can be done inside justice to work with congress to bring this to a real hearing? not another d.c. political hearing? go back to jason. share information and documents. look, i don t believe in coincidences as a lawyer. i find it hard to believe that it s just a coincidence that james baker, general counsel at the fbi suddenly gets reassigned at the moment of department investigates him for leaking important anti-trump dossier material to a liberal reporter just before the election. is that a series of fantastic coincidences? my instincts as a lawyer tell me absolutely not. jason, if those aren t coincidences, the only way to find out is a real investigation. can house judiciary get involved? can house oversight get involved in this? yes, i thinks it starts with the inspector general and the 450 employees there. i think by the end of march, you will see them come out with a defennive report. that is going to be a critical piece. it was something that myself and he a elijah consumption in a bipartisan way asked and started. i hate to say this but i said it previously. i do think they need a change at the attorney general s office. i don t think that attorney general sessions is up to the job. he needs to recuse himself of all of this. it s why we have director mueller. there are deep seeded systemic problems within the department of justice that need to be rooted out. again, it s going to be people like trey gowdy and john radcliff and host of other people got to get their fingers into it. they have got to file documents and follow transcribed introduce and do the interviews they need to do. david: greg jared attorney extraordinary here at fox have a great christmas. good to see you. come up, special counsel mueller could be fired no matter what the white house says. but the white house says it s not going to happen and they still say he is going to be fired. is the left trying to create a crisis? stay with us as this special edition of hannity continues. this counselor counsel to remove special counsel mueller from his position or to pardon key witnesses in any effort to shield them for from a accountability, or to shut down the investigation would be a gross abuse of power and a flagrant violation of executive branch responsibilities and authorities. if there is a firing of robert mueller or pardon, both would cross a red line and undoubtedly lead to a firestorm, much as there was in the saturday night massacre when richard nixon tried to do the same. if they are watching that spectacle in the judiciary committee and listening to republican members talk about a cue and tal coupe and tt criminal activity, that will encourage the president to fire mueller with impunity. if the president were to fire special counsel mueller, our country would face a constitutional crisis. david: all right, welcome back to special edition of hannity. those are several democrats in the last few days trying to manufacture a false narrative that president trump may fire special counsel mueller. according to our own john roberts today, sources familiar with the matter saying that president trump is definitely not going to fire mueller and that and all this rhetoric from democrats, it s based on pure speculation. joining us now with reaction we have got radio host steve leavy, fox news contributors, doug schoen and deneen borelli. we have all-star group to do. this first let me go to deneen first. happy anniversary. thank you very much. david: very happy time for you and your husband. thank you. david: by the way the pardon not happening was the news. we pardon michael flynn, whatever. why are they driving this narrative. the white house spokesman, sarah sanders said this is not happening. we have gone from fake news to fake firing, david. what part of there s no intention to fire mueller does the left not get. i think really they are desperate right now. they are desperate with their message because all we hear is identity politics. they are desperate with the fact that they don t want any of the good news coming out of this administration to make the headlines. look at what the economy is doing. look at what the companies what the lower tax cuts will be able to reinvest in their companies and their employees, giving out bonuses. they don t want to talk about the good that is coming up. but what they are also doing is deflecting from all of the bias that we have heard within the fbi administration,. david: i have known you for years, you are good on messaging, you understanding what works, what doesn t. there is a huge story today. does mueller or the firing or predicted firing, whatever you want to call it, does it touch the story of the tax bill today? in other words, is it effective? here s what i would say. when the president hinted at the possibility that general flynn could be pardoned, when he said we ll see. i think that raised the specter of what a number of the democrats talked about happening. now, in fairness, the president has been very clear that former director mueller is not going to be fired and i think the democrats and the republicans would best focus on getting these investigations finished and completed, also look at the fbi agents for their behavior. and indeed to add a little maraschino cherry for deneen s very happy day, i think we need also to look at uranium one and secretary clinton. but my focus is let s get the investigations done before we rush to judgment or politicize. david: let me bring steve levy in on this. you are the new guy here. we gave you a chance to warm up. you are a radio talk show host like me. you talk to people every day. right. david: the president said he is not going to do it. doug is right. when you hint at something they take and run with it. does this story override the question i asked doug, and then what do the democrats do next when he doesn t fire mueller mueller. david, i wrote a book something called bias in the media, great extent when i shifted from when i changed my registration from democrat to republican. and i can tell you after what i have witnessed over the last three days in the media. it was incredible. the last three days on these other outlets in the media by this fake story. it started when the democratic congresswoman jackie spears said she heard a rumor tha there might after christmas be some type of nixonian saturday night massacre of firings, totally unsubstantiated. but i will tell you, david, i think this was orchestrated in back rooms by democratic operatives because you saw thereafter talking points. senators schumer and warner went to the floor of the senate saying we are having a constitutional crisis. nancy pelosi wrote to speaker ryan saying you must stop this. and they were aided and abetted by the liberal media giving to this nonsense. so unfortunate because it obscured real stories that those other outlets never covered on things like uranium one. the dossier, and this hezbollah opiate scandal. david: deneen, it reminds me of backlash and the back lacial that you put up with in the media. is the media so intent that they are business to it. the credibility is in the tank, right? you have the progressive media, the liberal media. it s all one big club and they are all writing and saying the same thing. instead of reporting the truth, the facts to americans, they are doing a disservice to the country. david: we are businessmen and women here. to me, they are destroying their business. well, i will say this. the lack of diversity in the media is deeply troubling. i wish i could sit here and say to deneen and steve levy you re all wrong but sadly there is more what we call fake news out there than any of us would like to say. and i m on the other side of the aisle. i m a democrat but sadly what steve reports has and does happen. david: all right. guys. stay with us. coming up, democrats appear to be ramping up their impeachment efforts again. oh, come on. we will tell you what they are planning for 2018. stay with us right here on hannity. is this a phone? or a little internet machine? it makes you wonder: shouldn t we get our phones and internet from the same company? that s why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you get up to 5 lines of talk and text at no extra cost. so all you pay for is data. see how much you can save. choose by the gig or unlimited. xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile.com. david: welcome back to this special edition of hannity. and ever since he took office, you know it is the president, democrats in the media have been questioning his fitness for office, even calling for his impeachment. take a look at this. his motives and his actions are contemptible and i will fight every day until he is impeached. impeach 45. i rise today, mr. speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. the president s decision to end daca was heartless, and it was brainless. we all agree that president trump s decision to end daca is a despicable act of political cowardice. are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process? after watching the clinton impeachment i thought i would never see another one. i think we are in impeachment territory for the first time. president trump did a tweet last night and a tweet this morning, not presidential. president s fitness for office is something that is being called into question. i m very worried about his fitness. david: well, it s nice to know nancy is very worried about it according to the washington post, and the appointment of jerry nadler, the ranking democrat on the judiciary committee is a clear sign of the left s intentions to impeach the president. i don t know what they are going to charge him with. let s not talk about the constitution. that doesn t seem to matter on that process. still with us, radio talk show host steve leavy, fox news contributors doug schoen and deneen borelli. you know what? let s go to doug schoen right here. what s the strategy here? what s the plan? i mean, maxine waters, by the way, the poverty warrior that she is, has a 4.5-million-dollar mansion on 450,000 claimed income. that s another story i need to get. in what are they selling to their base, doug? they are selling resist. i m a centrist democrat. the party has moved far left. they recognize they can keep everybody together with one simple principle. resist and attack donald trump. i would have put forward an alternative tax plan. they didn t do that. now, in fairness, the republicans weren t that eager to compromise the democrats didn t want. it s all about resist and attack and ultimately, if you listen to the talking points we just heard, ultimately, move towards impeoplement. david: steve, happening on a second. i will get to you. doug i want to take a redirect on. this please. if the democrats plan to resist. and base coalition dwindling. how do they stay a national party? well, they did very well in virginia. they did very well in new jersey. they have won a bunch of legislative seats. they are up by double digits in the generic vote, which usually prestages a substantial victory in the house elections. that s the deal and that s the strategy. david: steve levy you heard the strategy from doug. i have got to tell you in the senate they are going to defend some 24 seats or. so and the republicans are going to defend four, maybe six, so are the numbers really with the democrats on this? well, the numbers are with the democrats if they take control of the house. and if they do, i think you can bet on impeachment being almost a certain at this. you have to understand jerry nadler, i know him because i was in new york politics during the 1990s when he first got elected into congress. he is a very smart fellow but very, very partisan. he is a pit bull. he has already said that while the election was legitimate, the president is illegitimate at this point because of the russian probe. and that has been echoed by a number of other democrats. in fact, that little blurb you had about the impeachment resolution actually got 58 votes before there had been any type of investigation that was started at all. on top of that, i saw a tv ad today by billionaire leftist tom styer who is now calling for impeachment because he doesn t like the president s tax plan. have we come to that now, david, where if you disagree with policy it s going to be impeachable? it s scary. a lot of these folks in the democratic party are moving the goal post. first they said it was about, you know, collusion, they couldn t get the smoking gun. so they shifted to talk about obstruction. not enough there. so then they start talking about the president s personal frnses in the 1990s. maybe not enough there. so we will start talking about his relationship with women in the 1980s. it really gives to say that they plan to undo the election. david: clearly deneen got against him. bill clinton who was impeached on the 19th of this month back in 1998 had to be charged with a crime. there s to be a chargeable crime to impeach a president in the house. and, yet, nothing they have brought up in reasons works. cases keep getting thrown out. they are saying just because he is president he should be impeached. even had maxine waters screaming for impeachment at a eulogy. this is how low the democrats will go because they are so desperate. they don t like the fact that president trump is in office. david: all right, well, guys, great to see you. good to see you. david: steve leavy, doug schoen, deneen borelli. you do a great job. look at this lineup, radio, television, and someone who actually tells it by the numbers. doug, i don t know, they will throw you out of the party. hey. i think they have already inched me out. they are resisting me, david, sometimes. david: coming up, more hannity after the break. stay with us. welcome back to hannity. unfortunately, that s all the time we have left this evening. don t forget to set your dvr so you never miss an episode of hannity . you can listen to my show monday through friday 9:00 a.m. eastern on sirius xm. listen to the staff, the team, the camera men, everybody, the producers. have a very merry christmas. jesse waters filling in for lal good evening. i m jesse waters in for laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle from new york. thanks for watching the special the trump agenda in 2018. that agenda got a huge start when the president signed the tax cut law into law this morning. we had the largest tax cuts in our history just approved. i was growing to wait for a formal signing in early january, but i watched the news this morning and they all said will he keep his promise? 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rate would slide from 35% to 20% whose right to charles payne? charlie gas and we ve got kennedy here along with ben stein and adam leshinsky. charles payne? clayton: i don t know why he made it either or proposition. competition drives cost and goods like that but every company struggles and looks for the lowest tax domicile. even amazon is looking for someone to give them $10 billion in tax breaks, lower taxes don t mean anything to corporate america or the bottom line and to the economy. neil: and obviously companies rich with this stuff. i mean, apple comes to mind. they certainly seek out low taxes. listen i like mark cuban, nice guy. it s funny that he earned his billions or billion or whatever he s worth 2 billion and now he wants to deprive other people of potentially earning a billion by listen, the bottom line is this. innovation does occur no matter what the tax code is like generally, as long as we have a generally free market but you ve got to look at it this way. if you do give people an incentive to save and invest with lower taxes generally innovation grows from that and i think that s what he s missing here and by the way a great debate would be tim cook versus mr. cuban because tim cook is liberal on most issues would argue with his analysis of that. neil: kennedy? kennedy: well why not a good environment creates freer markets why not have a great market create even freer markets because not only does that benefit corporations it benefits workers and wages go up and there s also more room to invest in innovation and hire more people, so lowering this corporate tax rate does more than just cushion what we think of as these corporate fat cats that people like hillary clinton have always played to. you know, smaller corporations are still lumped into that and those are the ones who will hire more people and pay them more money and then the money they ve got left in their pocket with all due respect this tax bill, listen, he would have been on firmer ground if he said this tax bill didn t give enough benefits to the small businesses which it doesn t. he would have been on much firmer ground if he turned around and said let s be clear lowering the corporate tax rate kennedy: and that the the senate version of this bill doesn t do enough. there s a lot of stock buybacks at first but the bottom line is lower the corporate tax rate generally companies will stay here instead of going away. neil: and by mentioning some of these off the chart type companies like amazon they re very different than some of the other companies more standard for the rate reduction of this magnitude would make a difference? adam: if what you re saying neil is they have such complicated tax departments that can go all over the world in search of the lowest tax rate that s absolutely true. neil: i don t think that s what i said but sure i ll go with that. adam: [laughter] anyway, i think the political point that charlie, that everybody is missing and cuban is making we know cuban can t stand donald trump is that people are going to be disappointed if they think oh, let s lower this tax rate, that s going to solve everything and excuse me charlie got this right. it s no panacea, and people will be disappointed if they re hanging their hat on this. there are way more important things. adam that s not the argument he made. that s the problem. adam: i agree. neil: ben stein what do you think of this back and forth the corporate portion for which you were in favor not so much the individual stuff but that diminishing expectations here for that and that if companies don t hire more workers or investment plant and equipment you could make an argument that better than full employment and balance sheets is clean and thorough as they ve ever been there isn t much more room for that and they might just plow it back into their stock or buying outcome petty fors and temporarily cutting the number of jobs available what do you think? ben: what i think is i don t understand why mr. cuban a smart capable guy said we re shifting around the deck chairs on the titanic. this economy is not heading for an iceberg or sinking. this is an incredibly strong economy and prosperous economy. we have a labor shortage which is a sign of a very very strong economy and by the way, i would be fine if corporations used the money that they give back from the tax cuts to buyback their stock. that means the stock market will go up, that means peoples pension plans will go up, university endowments will go up , hospital endowments will go up. neil: fair enough. ben: we don t have a sinking stock market but i recent calling economy the titanic. kennedy: the economy will do even better if republicans are finally capable of cutting spending. that s where you re going to be. neil: they re not capable of it. kennedy: but that would create the most hospitable market that charlie is talking about. ben: nobody can cut spending. part of this is the president listen, it is fashionable at this network to say oh, it s all those swamp dwelling guys in congress but let s be clear about where they go. they generally go where the leader of the party takes him. the leader of the party basically said let s do the tax cut, the personal side is insane you re essentially raising taxes on middle class people in new york and new jersey. neil: you re just angry they re raising taxes on you and you re taking it out on the president. in california, i just talked to ben about this he s not so happy and the small business tax is negligible and by the way the notion of spending cuts generally comes from the president and does he ever talk about cutting a program? neil: well they can t do that we ll explore that on the cost of freedom but i mean you re right. they may never make progress on that but i am wondering about this view of the tax cut portion of this. i mean remember charles when all this started, that was where and i could even pre date this administration that was where the obama administration of congress was cooking up maybe a middle ground sort of a corporate relief that would be transformational and never got to that but keep to that, in fact the only part of it was going to be corporate really now we ve got the corporate relief. what do you expect from it and we don t have it yet. charles: bottom line is i ve already seen enough evidence that the wheel of commerce have begun to move in this country because corporations have got back to the natural knitting and that s grown their business, expanding building better mouse traps. neil: but will they continue doing that? charles: its already begun. after eight years of being in a foxhole corporate america is back and eager to get going and they hire it and build factories but they could do more with lower taxes. i agree i wish it was lower taxes for small business which create most of the jobs. kennedy: amen. but you remember what trump did brilliantly and this is the best part of the trump economic plan so far is he s deregulated the economy. i spent some time with tim scott the governor from florida one night. neil: who? very impressive. governor of florida and he ran a healthcare company back in the day, and he basically explained how deregulation is a tax cut. sure. kennedy: that s also critical to healthcare because you have to get more drugs to market and more cancer treatments and other innovations that will help people live longer, better, healthier lives the fda has to get out of the way one thing the president does understand and that also un shackles the economy and businesses and it s that feeling that the government is getting out of the way that i think is bolstering a lot of this movement on wall street. and now if you could have ben: feeling is a lot of it. kennedy: you could have the actual companion they could walk hand in hand into the sunset of glory and prosperity we would all win. neil: what? ben: feeling is a lot. the business doesn t feel it if the government is trampling on them any more. feeling is a lot of it. i ve been told to shut up. neil: really. [laughter] not the first time i m sure. neil: forget coming together. is this the new theme at thanksgiving dinner? you might want to look at the extra stuffing. [laughter] live from america s news headquarters good saturday morning to you i m leland vittert in new york. the company that runs the keystone pipeline says the leak is controlled and not a threat to public safety. trans canada says it sent more than 75 employees to the site of the spill working around the clock to contain the leak. 210,000-gallons of the oil is leaked out the cause of that still under investigation. storms hammering the west coast in more then a dozen states under snow and wind advisories right now utah seeing heaviest snowfall with a foot in some places, powder day on thanksgiving maybe forecasters say winds are up to 50 miles an hour, as the storm pushes east. i m leland vittert, in new york, if news breaks we ll break in, now back to cavuto on business. neil: all right, it s not going to happen this year. forget the kids, is that what adults are going to be doing at the dinner table next week? a recent study out of ucla, so you know its got to be right. that politics could be ruining turkey day, politically divided families cutting thanksgiving short but get this, an average of 20 to 30 minutes in my family that would be the entire dinner they wouldn t have it. kennedy what do you think? kennedy: this is a great rou se. so if you can t stand your family for non-political reasons all you have to do is cut the evening short and say to yourself how great is america, whose sick of winning at the table? it s going to be done in 15 minutes. go ahead and schedule your tinde r dates now. neil: ben stein, i can t imagine that this still exists a year later but i guess it exists ben: i, your humble servant who loves you and is your servant, lost my two best friends in the whole world who live in san mateo, california because i voted for trump. they were my thanksgiving companion for decades and they don t even speak to me now because i voted for trump. they won t even speak to me and it breaks my heart and this is typical on what s happening all over the country. i have so many friends and relatives that don t speak to them. neil: can you say their names and we ll pay them a visit? ben: i better not say their names, but they re dear friends and i see it happening all over the country. you know, it s a very very sad thing. trump is a great guy. i don t know why people get so upset about him. yes you can disagree with him boheas a great guy. neil: but you know i m wondering i wouldn t have called him a great guy. ben: but adam most families, you know, cut both ways politically and my own that way. we all just get along and just eat food and even if there are arguments that ensue, fine. i even have family members who watch cnn. wow. ben: oh, though don t say that. don t say that. neil: but my point is, yes, my point is that is it really that bad? i mean can t we handle our differences a little better than just opting to leave? i mean, i think so. i m extremely thankful. i m extremely thankful every thanksgiving. neil: so is president trump. you do that every year. what a great country we live in and how great our country has been for my entire lifetime and yes, i think that we need to avoid certain topics to have a nice day. we deserve one. neil: i agree with all that. what do you think? charles: yeah, i agree with it. neil: not the way you answered. you immediately said i agree with it. charles: i love talking politics with 25 and under. once you get above 25 particularly north of 30 forget about it because it will never be a good conversation. everyone is already has their own neil: that s a crucial demo for us. charles: i thought we were going for the 25 and under. they don t buy it. neil: [laughter] kennedy: and gold. neil: [laughter] stop it. you never know. you never ever know. i love having this conversation with younger people because they are open minded and it is refreshing. you know, my family neil: is it a large group? yeah, and it s my brother-in-law generally has thanksgiving, and you know, here is the interesting thing. i ve always grown up this way and my brother-in-law is mostly thanksgiving is playing football , watching football and playing football with the kids, and you know, we stayed away from politics. neil: do you really target the kids or try to hurt them in football games? by the way, my nephew is no one to mess with. neil: is that right? but, even my niece, we throw the football around we have a good time and try to do that but my brother-in-law did pass like judgment last year and said listen, no politics, just in case because we do have some radical trumpkins in my family. neil: i kind of hate that though when you can t argue or discuss things. kennedy: can you imagine where everyone has a really strong opinion and they re all interrupting each other and they all want to say something? neil: but has it gotten to the point though that we just rule out conversations? no talking politics because we might hurt each other? that s sad. kennedy: but people feel that way they will physically hurt each other if they disagree so that s why it s best to but why can t you have one day where you focus on not the stuff that we argue about all day here and focus on hanging out. kennedy: don t want to fight neil: but the cavutos were debating money supply at thanksgiving. it s the most boring thanks give on record. kennedy: one year we had a one very station what do you want your future to be like and it s fascinating because when people talk about that you don t talk about politics and you think it s uncomfortable but when you overcome those, then you can get into politics. neil: let s move into funeral s in the meantime mac and cheese, ritz crackers you name it, i call it my food pyramid but it looks like wal-mart is raising its online prices, and get this the retailer thinks that this is going to help sales and guess what? it already has. i ll explain, after this. today on forbes on fox the senate republicans tax cut bill repeals the obamacare mandate tax and democrats say that s bad for america, but actually, it s great for america, they will explain, plus calls growing for a special council, we ll look at the times between the clintons and the russians. hillary clinton says that would be an abuse of power. the taxpayers deserve to know what really happened. we ll see you at the top of the hour. blame my dad s. grandma s. aunt stacy s. what are the reasons you care for your heart? 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charles: i m in amazon still i m not in wal-mart i missed the huge move. they bought jet.com and i didn t think it was a big deal. neil: don t you dodge my question. charles: at the very moment i d stick with amazon. amazon is smart enough to undercut wal-mart online and people who are savvy to shop for their stuff online it s a different level of consumption. they are going where the bargain s are and there s not enough brand loyalty at wal-mart to go the mac and cheese is $ 0.15 a box more on line. neil: what do you do ben stein? how does this idea look to you? ben: it looks ridiculous to me because of the amount of savings that you get by buying for something for a few cents less as kennedy so happily said compared to the value of your time is trivial, so much much better to shop online, get it delivered to you just open the door, let the mailman and step on your dog and get bitten by your dog and just be happy that you saved the time. time is money. time is money, neil. neil: you sound a little eliteist there. adam what do you think of this? adam: i think it s a head scratcher. wal-mart has done a good job of make long term investments like raising what they pay to their employees. this strikes me as a short-term move of shifting people into their stores where they have such a big investment. neil: guys, put you down as a maybe on that plan. in the meantime, i want to thank kennedy, i want to thank charlie , meanwhile here is a wake up call total u.s. household debt is near it $13 trillion and our guys have the stocks to pay a lot of that down, not all of it. can t pay it all down. we re going to pay a good chunk of it after this. . all right, the stocks that will help you pay off your debt. charles, what do you have. occidental, a pure play. neil: wow, adam. iwo, a basket of small stocks doing well right now, especially with the tax reform. neil: ben. the spdr s, stick with the index. neil: you see the indexes doing well? over long, long periods yes. if warren buffett thinks it s right, it s right. neil: this warren thing is borderline fixation with you, i m just saying. david asman nothing borderline about it, all right. [laughter]. neil: here is david. david: house republicans just passing tax reform, senate republicans adding a big bonus to the package. a repeal of the obamacare mandate. so, will all republicans buy into it? the vote is set for just after the thanksgiving break and someone here says that americans are finally going to get the break they deserve. hi, everybody. i m david asman. welcome, find out which, bill ball, john tamny and rich, is this a smart move? yeah, i sure hope the republicans in the senate line up together like people like susan collins and go