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good evening, mike. we knew that president trump was planning to do this. we just didn t know when. and about two hours ago he made it official as he often does on twitter. the president said, quote: it is my great honor to announce that general flibleg flynn has been granted a full pardon congratulations to jeb flynn and his wonderful family. i know you will now have a truly fantastic thanksgiving. flynn pleaded guilty to n. 2017 about lying to his contacts russian ambassador kislyak. one of the first major courtroom victory for special counsel robert mueller about. a year ago flynn tried withdraw that guilty plea. his attorneys argued that he had been entrapped by people like fired fbi agent peter strzok and then this spring attorney general bill barr tried to have the case against flynn dismissed. barr accused strzok of setting up a perjury trap. it was a charge that strzok at the time dismissed as ludicrous. well, that request to get the case dismissed was still ....
meanwhile, speaker pelosi is still refusing to answer questions about why she held up the deal for months. even refusing to speak with a cnn reporter about her latest political stunt. instead, she continues to dodge, distract, and deflect from important issues to large baseless smears against president trump like claiming he is personally to blame for most of the coronavirus deaths. take a look. > the denial, the delay, thel distortion, the calling as a hoax has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, not all of them attributed to president trump, but most of them. jason: so why did democrats goke so long when the same deal could have gotten done over the summer? it is because pelosi, chuck schumer and the rest of the congressional democrats put heavy politics above the health, welfare and safety of the american public. tit is because there was an election and they used coronavirus as a political weapon to bludgeon president trump. here is senate majority leader mitc ....
jason: happy new year. rachel: happy new year griff and jason. imauto sure you were partying hard last night as you had to get up early. jason: it was interesting. there were dozens of people fathering in new york s times square. it s just surreal. so glad that 2021 is here. a happy and wonderful will new year. those of you at home maybe still up or just now waking up and had a very short night, please, send us your photos. let us know how you celebrated friends@foxnews.com. send us your pictures. we would love to see them and perhaps show them on the air. griff: that s right. now, the president also ringing i2020. he did it here at the white house. he returned to d.c. from mar-a-lago amid the fight over coronavirus relief lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the president s new year s message to americans. good morning. happy new year. happy new year, guys. 2020 was tough for millions of americans. the coronavirus vaccine arrived before the are ball tropical de ....
studying claims of election fraud. this issue igniting a fierce debate on all sides of the political spectrum. is the answer more stimulus or ending crushing lockdowns? i don t want to hear it that it cost too much to help working families get a check when they re struggling. i am delighted to support the president and his increment over what we ve already done. do we turn our backs on struggling working families or do we respond to their pain? we are talking about sending checks, the vast majority of which will be going to people who have had no loss of income whatsoever. my republican colleagues seem more interested in funding defense then in funding the defenseless. the best stimulus there is is a job. lawrence: it s a great last tuesday of the year. thanks for being on the show today. jason, i m going to go to you first. it seems like this process is a big mess. leadership is controlling the process. seemed like the people s voices and being heard. you ....
few million so far. dagen: trump responding on twitter. the federal government has to should riveted vaccines to the states. now it s up to the states to administer. get moving. while biden is quick to point a finger at the president, he s turning a blind eye to the virus mismanagement in blue states. despite strict lockdowns, california seen the highest number of new daily covid-19 cases per capita in the country. remember how the state crushed the restaurant industry by banning outdoor dining? now it is kindly asking hollywood to consider stopping down productions as cases continue to soar. in new york, governor andy cuomo under fire once again this time forgiving drug addicts and rehab facilities vaccine priority over thousands of elderly residents still stuck in their homes. lawrence, to you first on this. joe biden is clearly trying to set it up so he can t take credit for the vaccine, which he had absolutely nothing to do with. zilch, zip. nothing. lawrence: ....