fox news is not about news. fox news is about fox. fox news is about getting a tonal point of view, making sure that viewers get what they think viewers need to get, whether or not that involves, much of the time, facts. you know it's true because it's true at the most highly rated times of day, who is being paid, who is being promoted. anchors are slipping into those "fox & friends" guest slots and start taking a sharper tone. they are pushing out the same message of incredulity, very serious issues raised about people around this president. >> watch this clip of me and on the other end talk to me about how the sean hannity's of the world communicate with the president. first this montage. >> the fbi south of control. >> there are clear, abusive biases at the doj and the fbi and robert mueller's team. >> pieces of information that may seem small but add up to a pattern of bias. >> unethical political crusader. >> more e-mails are coming out to show the bias here. >> hand-picked minions are hillary-loving, partisan hack. >> people who

this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier in washington. breaking news about the app as investigation into the hood clinton email scandal. fox news has obtained the original draft statement from then fbi director james comey about the clinton situation. this comes as there is increasing concern about how the bureau he handled the clinton case and the early investigation into the alleged collusion between the russians and candidate donald trump. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here. >> fox news has obtained an early draft of director james comey statement recommending against criminal charges in the clinton email case. it shows the term grossly negligent was this a standard for criminal prosecution was removed at least twice among other edits that downplayed the mishandling of classified information. purely draft said there is evidence to support a conclusion that secretary clinton and others use the private email server in a manner that was grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information. fox

fox news, fox news just called this race for the democrat doug jones. i don't know what their latest numbers are. right now fox news is pro projecting doug jones will win this hotly contested alabama senate race with roy moore who had been facing accusations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when in 0s. strong support from the president and from republican national committee. but tonight fox news is declaring doug jones the winner. big news for democrats means they pick up another seat in the u.s. nat which means republicans lose one. which makes it harder to pass the bills they are trying to get through. it will be interesting to see how that pans out. >> hence the national attention on this race. >> absolutely. >> well, tonight, nearly 60 congressional democrats want the house to open the investigation into sexual harassment ales against president trupp. trumpp accusers are renewing their call to action. today he fired back on twitter and called stories fake and fabricated and lashed at new york senator kirsten gilbrand called her a nruvrpingy a

fox news poll. that means that the democrat candidate's roof relying on it. >> i think that the people of the stage -- they elected a richard shelby, they are going to listen to him at. >> they are also lending last-minute support. they recorded robcalls of that are ringing statewide on election eve. cory booker spoke with jones over the weekend, saying that at the rest reputation may suffer. >> don't let anyone talk down to alabama, and please, i am from jersey. i definitely don't want some people just singling out a few folks on the jersey shore tv show and thinking that is my entire state. >> budget jones campaign chairman isn't so sure that they democratic democratic stars who descended on the stage will matter much. >> i don't think the outsiders made much of a difference. this is an alabama race, it will be decided by alabama people, who generally don't like being told what to do. and we look forward to alabama electing doug jones. >> so, the big star tonight will not be an outsider. instead,

this is a fox news alert. james comey the former fbi director is in huge legal trouble tonight. we have major breaking news. fox news has now obtained the draft of james comey exoneration statement about the clinton server investigation remember before the investigation was even completed. we now know that the legal term grossly negligent was changed to extreme carelessness in two specific places. also, the word likely was removed from a section where comey talked about foreign actors actually gaining access to top secrets. special access program information on her server. plus, explosive new information about how the obama state department actually gave hillary clinton and her top aide huma abedin special treatment. judicial watch show clinton and abedin were allowed to actually physically remove electronic weapons from the state department that they claim were quote, unclassified and personal. also sarah carter is here tonight with a new bombshell report about the fbi using an nsa surveillance program. text messages from the fbi agent peter strzok and his fbi lisa page were di

. ♪ >> dana: a fox news alert. we have a major break through in tax reform on a jam-packed day on capitol hill. house and senate republicans meeting in conference right now to finalize tax package while senate democrats are celebrating a big victory in alabama. members of both party just finished grilling the deputy attorney general will the russia investigation. hello, everyone. i'm dana perino and this is the daily briefing. ♪ ♪ one hour from now president trump will deliver what aids aides are calling a closing argument on tax reform. here's what he just said about corporate tax rates. >> we're going to see where it ends up. but i certainly i would. it's at 35 right now. so if it got down to 21, i would certainly be -- i would be thrilled. we haven't set that final figure yet. but, certainly 21 is a very great difference. >> dana: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. what are the expectations regardinregarding with this fax reform package. set around 21% down from 35%. the

in new york, laura ingle, fox news. arthel: the special, "interview with a monster: the scott peterson case," airs tonight on fox news at 8 p.m. eastern then again at 11 p.m. eastern. eric: should be fascinating. well, the question this afternoon, did they flinch the e-mails proposerly? republicans -- properly? republicans reacting to the mueller investigation obtaining those tens of thousands of trump transition team e-mails that happened to be on government servers. our panel will take that up next. >> there are two fundamental questions; did the if fbi pay christopher steele, and was the dossier associated with spying on president trump's campaign? if the answer is yes to either of those questions, then this is as terrible as it gets, as wrong as it gets. ♪ ♪ the moment a fish is pulled out from the water, it's a race against time. and keeping it in the right conditions is the best way to get that fish to your plate safely. sometimes the product arrives and the cold chain has been interrupted, and we need to be a

off the palm beach county coastline, phil keating, fox news. arthel: massive demonstrations in the streets of iran as anti-government protesters clash with police and state-sponsored supporters of the regime. the northern u.s. is in a deep freeze that is likely to stick around for a few more days. we are live from the fox weather center and we'll take a look back at the extreme weather of 2017. that's up next. ♪ pudding... [sigh] did grandpa win again? yes! download the new words with friends 2 today. [♪] arthel: thousands of demonstrators in the streets of iran marching in support of the country's supreme leader after days of anti-government protests at those angry at the country's failing economy. reporter: there have been protests and counter-protests today. the anti-government movement shows no sign of stopping despite the number of government supporters out on the streets. the protests have strung up in numerous towns and cities the last few days. they threw stones in conflicts with riot police. outside tehran university protesters wer

this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier coming you to from the ronald reagan presidential library in the simi valley town. we are following major breaking stories. michael flynn pleads guilty to lying to the fbi. he is agreeing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller and may testify against other members of the president's transition team. his white house or even possibly against the president himself. we only know what is in the court fileings so far. the president's lawyers are already firing back. republicans senators say passage of the tax reform bill is not if but when. we will head there live if the senate majority leader leaks. wall street took a nose dive after the flynn report but bounced back after mitch mcconnell said he has the votes to pass tax reform. in the end the dow lost 40 after being down more than 250 at one point today. the s&p 500 fell 5 and the nasdaq dropped 26. the illegal immigrant acquitted of murder in the shooting dating of a san francisco woman last night is the subjec

he's obsessed. >> those who watch fox news and those who read "the new york times" occupy completely different realities. i mean, if i watch fox news, i wouldn't vote for me. because there's this unrecognizable character. i remember when i was president, every once and a while i would watch that and say who is that guy? oh, this character named barack obama, he's portrayed in the weird ways and selective clips where the sentence isn't finished and then it's all edited and shaped to promote a certain story. >> not true. pretty unbelievable. listen, you're now citizen barack obama. here's my advice to you. get over it. go give a speech. go write a book that leftists will buy. we'll write about reverend wright and go do that. thank you for being with us. we'll always be fair and balanced and not the destroy trump media. lawy laura ingram, i'll give her my time next. >> laura: first of all, you just did the hit list. i haven't heard acorn and bernadette -- i haven't heard those names in -- >> we vetted them. nobody else did. >> laura: i love that. haven't heard that in a while. did you f

charlie hurt fox news columnist and fox news contributor and former hillary clinton campaign aide. thank you gentlemen for being with us. you listened to amy kramer and she is saying judge moore denied these allegations. the women say they are true. when people sort of get ready for work every day, they go live their lives. there are things they care about. will that outweigh the other issues that are very important to them and the things that they really want to see happen in washington? >> i think it remains to be seen. i think it's going to be a have close race and we will see what happens. regardless of what alabamaians decide today, the results of this election are going to live with republicans nationally tomorrow. and so it's either going to be a democrat that's going to take a very red seat or it's going to be an accused child molester joining the ranks of republican senators. they will have to decide what to do with him. are they going to expel him? are they not going to expel him? if not why not? are they going to take money from the republican national committee which he

fired if he sets foot in a fox news studio ever again. that's a fair punishment, we suppose, for trying to escape, even briefly, the overwhelming freedom of canada. [laughs] that's it for us, good night from washington. "hannity" is next. >> sean: thanks, tucker. welcome to "hannity." major breaking news about special counsel robert mueller's witch hunt against president trump. this is an information overload hour right here on this program. we will lay out the case tonight about how the american justice system, your system, is literally hanging by a thread. our constitution hangs in thee balance tonight, and we will butain all of this to you, it's going to take thehe entire hour., please stay with us.hi also tonight, an inside look at how donald trump shocked the political world and won the white house in historic fashion. the coauthors, they were there of the new book, "let trump be trump." corey lewandowski, david bossie, they will give you the insider story right here. also newt gingrich, judge jeanine pirro, sarah carter, gregg jarre

this is a fox news alert. new developments tonight on the port authority terror attack, where 27-year-old bangladeshi named akayed ullah allegedly tried to detonate a pipe bomb during a busy morning commute. he apparently watched her, instead severely injuring himself and causing a rush hour stampede. the drop administration moving quickly to identify ullah as a immigrant who benefited from chain migration, a major political target for the white house in his attempt to undo decades immigration policy. the department of homeland security weighing in late tonight. dha's tweeting, "we can confirm that the suspect benefited from extended family chain migration. the chain was initiated by the suspect's relatives who became a u.s. citizen after entering the country via a visa lottery program. he entered the u.s. in 2011 receiving a green card after the family-based preference." the administration has advocated for ending chain migration and the visa lottery program. we'll have more in just a minute but first let's g

this is a fox news alert. it is decision night for the voters in the great state of alabama and a race that has national implications. we are awaiting the results in this highly anticipated alabama u.s. senate special election race between conservative outsider republican judge roy moore and democrat doug jones who president trump is calling a puppet of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. here's how the race stands right now and you can see it, roy moore is up. the "new york times" actually is predicting a 55% chance at this hour that roy moore would win this race. but it looks very close. here is the very latest from roy moore election headquarters in montgomery, alabama is peter doocy, sir. what's going on? how are they feeling in that room? >> sean, they just put that "new york times" projection up on that screen behind where the speakers are for the first time tonight while now it looks like they took it off. but, when they did, this place absolutely erupted with cheers and applause for the first time tonight.

shepard smith fox news. heather: that wraps it up for me, see you back at 11 am, "fox and friends" first continues now, by. >> congress has responded with oversight, they have been ignored, delayed, refused to send people in to have hearings. jillian: december 29th a fox news alert demanding answers, representative nunez blasting the doj and fbi for failure to produce dossier documents, the new deadline he gave the mueller team to

keep it right here on fox news for the very latest on this >> dana: a fox news alert. precarious situation in washington state, where a amtrak train causing a death. we're about to get an update at about 2:30 eastern, and you will you that live. hello, i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefing." we are also awaiting a speech from president trump, outlining national security strategy that speech should be coming under way at any moment. we will go to the president as soon as he has the podium. dan springer just arrived on the scene and joins us for the very first report on the ground ther there. >> dana, what terrible terrible strategy. as you look south on interstate 5, all of the police vehicles and an amazing scene of all of the cars that are dangling off that trestle that goes over interstate 5. this was a 12 12 car train goig across the freeway, above the freeway, and at least nine of those cars left the track this morning at 740 in the morning at the height of rush hour. as you said, associated press is reporting six people lost their lives, all of them in t

the same with the "new york times." there is an effort to brand all fox news as having this view. joe: one of the things i think -- i have been talking about this the whole year. there has become a blurring of the way people treat opinions as news. it's not an across the board attack. it's confusing to viewers. howie: i think viewers are smart. i think viewers know when they tune into sean hannity they are paying somebody for his point of view. the russia probe by mueller and the understand policy are legitimate and under played by other outlets. joe: i think scrutiny and the press on all side pushing against public officials and challenging them is an important part of what makes the country work and makes the media so important. i think there is a blurring that's going on. part of this with social media, you have the president, his tweets are fact that have no reality. mollie: there is a scandal in the coverage of the fbi and doj. sally yates was fired for refusing to do her job early on in this administration. bruce ohr was just demoted. peter strzok the chief investigator was

the director of our fox news decision team. darren shaw is a professor at the university of texas at austin government department. all right. what is different now? we're no longer doing exit polls. we're doing fox news sroert analysis. what's different? >> fox news left the pool of the network pool that conducted the exit pools. we're using a system that involves three different sources of data. first is the a new kind of poll. very large poll of every state where there's an election. that poll is conducted by phone as well as the internet. we coordinate or calibrate the two polls together to get a much more accurate view of the state. the second thing we're doing is we're combining those poll results with the actual vote results. our sample is big enough so we can look at small geographies in every state and we can find out how accurate was that poll. so far in our test, we've been hitting it dead on suggesting that we have a much more accurate snatch shot of the electorate. and tonight we're experimenting with a new kind of

they were unaware of the fox news projection. what had happened on, a thunderous round, a boolean crowd, hugging each other, kissing each other, toasting each other. chugging beers and chugging champagne and it continues to this point. we don't know when doug jones is going to make an appearance her here. but at this time i am reminded of the words as well, mitch mcconnell, some weeks ago said that we pride the ultraconservative candidates of the past. made tension on the 2010 tea party chair in nevada and christine o'donnell in delaware, who were not ready for prime time. they prove that and that man's will be the case here with judge moore as well. coming out on that horse today to go vote reminded me of the fact that alabama is not the perceived backwater that so many of the coastal elites say it is. this is a state which has been progressively moving forward. home to the marshall space flight center. four or five international automobile manufacturers have made their home in alabama. a lot of high-tech manufacturing going on

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james: new disclosures confirm to fox news show that the link between fusion gps, the firm behind that anti-trump dossier ran deeper than previously known. fox news was the first to tell you about the abrumentd demotion of bruce ohr who was stripped of the title deputy attorney general amid an ongoing investigation into his contact with the two leading figures in the controversy over the dossier. doj officials told officials ohr had withheld from his superiors. ohr met last year with christopher steele, the former british spy who authored the dossier and glenn simpson the town der of gps. the opposition research firm that was paid by the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc. now fox news confirmed that nellie ohr, the wife of bruise ohr worked for fusion gps. a timeline that places her on the company payroll around the time the dossier was funneled to the fbi and perhaps into the election. devin nunes told fox news they are looking into all facets of the connections between the department of justice and fusion gfs, including mr. ohr. they had no comment about the fact that mrs. ohr wor

joining us now with more reaction to this explosive new document that fox news obtained a couple hours ago regarding james comey'sam exoneration statement about the clinton server investigation. he is the author of the best selling book "vengeance," former speaker of the house fox news contributor newtib gingrich. okay, this is may, m mr. speaker. he hadn't interviewed hillary clinton or at least 17 others key to the investigation. the fix is in.n. to interpret it. if you are writing in an exoneration before the investigation. >> i think this is unbelievable. if you and i sat down -- obviously very pro-trump. if we both sat down two years ago and said let'sif write a story and watch the head of the fbi consciouslyhe sets out to protect hillary clinton, no matter o how guilty she is. consciously sets out to protect her staff, no matter how guilty they are. sets up everything so that even his statements in public will exonerate her. we couldn't have made this up. it is now clear, first of all, that if the -- if comey and the fbi done their job early enough, you probably would have had be

this is a fox news alert. authorities are on the look out for terror around the world as we close in on the christmas holiday. we have seen germany and brittian and california where the fbi found letter and guns in the home of a tow truck driver. the 26-year-old may have been planning a christmas attack on the popular san francisco tourist destination pier

"fox news morning" coming right back. >> today on "fox news morning" stunning vk torrey for the first time in decades a democrat whim represent alabama in the u.s. senate. >> and new information about the hours before walt whait man high school senior disappeared and was found d dead. >> and dangerously cold temperatures along with strong winds waiting for you on the other side of your front door. "fox5 news morning" starts right now. >> and this is "fox news morning". >>> good morning to you and thank you very much for joininging us. >> it's wednesday, december 13. >> we're watching roads with erin como and talking weather extremely cold weather with michael thomas good morning. >> extremely gusty wind. single digits in northwest suburbs, good news it will get better as we get towards end of week. details on all of that ahead. hey, erin. >> in mcclain dealing with repairs on 123 and we'll help you get around that for the morning rush coming up. >> all right. sounds good both of you we'll check back in a few. right now 5:31 if you're wakingp a stunning democratic victory in alabama is

fox news alert. welcome to "hannity." we are folling several breaking news stories. rod rosenstein was grilled today on capitol hill over the rampant political bias of the doj, the fbi and special counsel robert mueller's team. fox news obtained anti-trump messages from peter strzok and his girlfriend. and fusion gps the firm behind the clinton bought and paid for fake russian dossier. the wife of a doj official worked at the company on trump opposition research. this can't be in a novel anymore. you can't make it up. republicans reach a tentative deal on taxes and my take on the alabama speciality. -- special election. and anderson cooper's dog ate his home work. first opening monologue. the fallout continues on new examples of political bias can from the defendapartment of jus and the fbi. fox news has some of the text messages between peter strzok and his fbi lawyer girlfriend. they are full of trump bashing. we will show you the actual message in a minute. the massive conflicts of interest, the political prejudice being exposed in america's justice system has rep

only on ktvu fox 2 news, if you got a story contact fox to investigates. >>> >>> a shakeup for the miss america organization and now several top officials have resigned amid a series of crude emails. >> reporter: miss america's chief executive, chief operating officer and board chair calling it quits saturday, the exits come after reports this week detailing vulgar emails mostly written by ceo sam haskell. >> the statements that were circulated in all those emails, which their names are on them, there is no doubt that it was these individuals, are just completely unacceptable. >> reporter: miss america 2008, kristin hagel is among the beauty pageants former contestants who have been calling on top bosses to quit. >> needs to be wholesale change for the miss america branch to be able to read organize. >> reporter: in another email the disgrace to ceos that he wished a particular miss america had died. and a message between the organizations top staffers appear to show them mocking the weight of 2013 miss america winter mallery hagan. >> this is an organization that is -- it's folder mann

and fox news contributor lisa boothe. former national security advisor under presidents bush and obama gillian turner. and "outnumbered" today, former press secretary under president george w. bush, ari fleischer is here. i'm glad you're here. a lot of good news, bad news, hard news. >> ari: typical day. >> harris: we will work through it. the mayor of new york city is calling today's explosion and attempted terror attack. here's a picture of the alleged bomber. the image was released by the nypd. he's reportedly 27 years old, was curing a crude pipe bomb. he apparently was battling injured, burned in the incident. three innocent people also hurt. state officials are saying this could've been much, much, much worse. >> this mail was wearing an improvised low tech explosive attached to his body. he intentionally detonated that device. pick up the device is based on a pipe bomb. it was effects to this person with a combination of velcro zip ties. >> this is new york, the reality is that we are the target by many would like

the name to remember. >> jon: a fox news alert. back to our top story right now, the investigation into the attempted terror attack in new york city. police coming through video of the bombing in the subway system. of all making it clear the suspect seemed to be an amateur with governor andrew cuomo of new york stressing the device he used was low-tech. >> it was and effectively low-tech device. with the internet now, anyone can go on the internet and download garbage and vileness on how to put together a amateur level explosive device. >> melissa: joining us now is bob strang, former cochair of new york antiterrorism task force. thanks for joining us. what's jumped out at you so far? >> the attacks in new york are always concerning especially this time of year, especially when you take a look at port authority at 8:00 on a monday morning with millions of people coming into the city. clearly what's coming in right now with this investigation will help us determine whether or not this was part of a conspiracy or just this one indivi

republican strategist and fox news contributor lisa booth. and, today, outnumbered nationally syndicated radio host and former cia analyst buck sexton is with us. stunning, indeed, right? let's move. >> yeah, i think al franken believed that he would be able to ride this out until the last 24, 48 hours. i think he thought he was good to go. this is absolutely stunning. >> harris: here's al franken speaking just moments ago during his resignation. >> some of the allegations against me are simply not true. others, i remember very differently. i said at the outset that the ethics committee was the right venue for these allegations to be heard and investigated and evaluated on their merits. that i was prepared to cooperate fully and that i was confident in the outcome. >> harris: franken, as you

by the way. >> coming up on "fox news morning". virginia governor unveils a statewide plan to add to teachers across the state. >> new studies suggest most children are not ready for the rigors of kindergarten. >> 4:41. it's 42 degrees. back after this >> democrat doug jones is going against republican roy moore. he's been accused of sexual misconduct multiple teenagers and has denied all the allegations. >> and thomas fire is only 15% contained. so far the fire burned more than 230,000 acres. thousands of residents left that area including several celebrities. >> new details about the death of montgomery county high school senior according to "fox5" sources 17-year-old navid sepehri had attended a party saturday night at homeel join grif bethesda and the party was broken up because of under age drinking and that's when navid sepehri got separated from friends and disappeared. he was later found in wooded area of bethesda. >> jewish holiday of hanukkah start at sundown. the nation's call toll will be step greated today with nationa

this is a fox news alert. we want to take you back laughed alabama where doug jones is celebrating his victory, having been just electeded to the u.s. senate. let's listen in. all right, we are going to work on that audio. stick with us. he pulled off a race that weeks ago many would've thought impossible. that was before allegations against roy moore dating back decades in some cases surfaced and voters we saw were conflicted over whether or not they believe those allegations. we had a big number of voters tell us in our voter analysis that they stayed home because of the allegations. they chose not to vote at all and you would think tonight that had to have helped democrat doug jones. he is going through thinking his supporters and vowing to take washington by storm. >> it is the volunteers who made 1.2 million phone calls around the state. it's those volunteers to make sure we knew it was every community. i keep hearing about the different communities in the states. the african-american community, thank you

in new york city, bryan llenas, fox news. heather: time now 20 minutes after the top of the hour and fox news alert for you, preparing for war, the u.s. carrying out the largest military drill of its kind as the trump administration puts new pressure on north korea. >> if necessary, the president and the united states will have to take care of it. heather: how will north korea respond? we are live with the latest. and just when you thought they were gone for good, could the clintons be attempting a 2018 political comeback. carley shimkus is here with the new rumors heather: welcome back, msnbc joy reed apologizing this morning of series of controversial blog posts containing offensive remark, near decade-old post resurfacing after twitter threat went viral. carley shimkus with siriusxm 115 is here with the outrage online, so i was watching son of this unfold over the weekend, people pretty fired up. carley: absolutely. reed made controversial statements in 2008-2009. repeated homophobic remarks against florida congressman who

all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again, and merry christmas eve from fox news in washington. president trump is spending the holidays with the winter white house, resting up after a frenetic first year in office, and preparing for what promises to be an even tougher 2018. republicans will return to washington with just a 51-49 majority in the senate after that big upset in alabama. and democrats are expecting big gains in next year's midterm elections. we begin our look today at what's next with marc short, the white house director of legislative affairs. welcome back and this christmas eve to "fox news sunday." >> thanks for having become a merry christmas. >> chris: before we get to all that we have some breaking news we have to deal with. first of all president trump is on a tear this weekend sending out repeated tweets attacking the deputy director of the fbi. there was one tweet this morning. fbi's andrew mccabe, in addition to his wife getting all of this money from m, clinton puppet, that's virginia gove

all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again, and merry christmas eve from fox news in washington. president trump is spending the holidays with the winter white house, resting up after a frenetic first year in office, and preparing for what promises to be an even tougher 2018. republicans will return to washington with just a 51-49 majority in the senate after that big and democrats are expecting big gains in next year's midterm elections. we begin our look today at what's next with marc short, the white house director of legislative affairs. welcome back and this christmas eve to "fox news sunday." >> thanks for having become a merry christmas. >> chris: before we get to all that we have some breaking news we have to deal with. first of all president trump is on a tear this weekend sending out repeated tweets attacking the deputy director of the fbi. there was one tweet this morning. fbi's andrew mccabe, in addition to his wife getting all of this money from m, clinton puppet, that's virginia governor terry mcaulif

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"fox news morning" coming b today on "fox news morning" controversial president trump deeper into alabama senate race as voteers head to the polls. >> festival of lights jewish communities around the world get ready for hanukkah >> this is "fox5 news morning". >> and good morning to you thank you owe very much is for joining us. so excited about arctic blast headed our way. >> that's sarcasm for those of you trying to learn what that means. >> it's tuesday december 1. >> airport airport watching roads and pook meek talking about what i just talked about great arctic blast headed our way. >> not sarcasm here it keeps me ememployed. >> >> and that's larger than new york city. >> security in new york city will be heightened today just one day after attempted terrorist attack in times square and 7-year-old akayed ullah detonated a pipe bomb near the port authority. he told investigators she was inspired by isis to set offer the attack and retaliation for u.s. air strikes on isis. >> 5:32 now all eyes on alabama. today voters head to pos vote in special election for state vacant senate seat. >

this is a fox news alert. we are awaiting a senate vote on the tax reform bill that passed the house earlier today. ed henry is on capitol hill tonight with the very latest. ed? >> kimberly, good to see you. we're less than two hours now from what we believe will be a vote on the senate floor tonight on the president's what would be his signature domestic achievement. his only major legeslative accomplishment this year after the failure to repeal and replace obamacare. remember, republicans were dejected after that. a lot of critics and nay sayers were saying the president is not going to get anything major done by the end of the year. they have gotten this done in just a couple of months. put the pedal to the metal, if you will. this could be a dramatic victory for the president. it did not come, though, without a hiccup. the house voted earlier today to move this tax cut forward. get it over to the senate. as i mentioned, but then the parliamentarian in the senate realized that there were some provisions tha

eastern the party ramps up with the all american new year that is cohosted by fox news and fox business personalities kennedy and jesse waters live from times square right here in new york city. will a challenger to putin be stopped from running in the russian election? the country's highest court now weighing in. plus new numbers are released on immigration. the trends they show and what it could mean for those who want to overhaul that system. >> what is the undocumented population and how we fix that problem and then reach over to those who are coming in legally and say how do you maximize the benefit to your new home country? >>> the highest court upholding the decision to bar an opposition leader from running against president putin in march's election. he has been banned from running due to a fraud conviction his supporters believe was politically motivated. he is now calling for a boycott of the election. putin has an 80% approval rating back home and is expected to easily win a fourth term in office. >>> president trump has argued that the u.s. needs to overhaul its immigration

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this is a fox news alert. it is decision night for the voters in the great state of alabama and a race that has national implications. we are awaiting the results in this highly anticipated alabama u.s. senate special election race between conservative outsider republican judge roy moore and democrat doug jones who president trump is calling a puppet of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. here's how the race stands right now and you can see it, roy moore is up. the "new york times" actually is predicting a 55% chance at this hour that roy moore would win this race. but it looks very close. here is the very latest from roy moore election headquarters in montgomery, alabama is peter doocy, sir. what's going on? how are they feeling in that

but let's break it on the fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. good to see you tonight on a busy night, sir. i want to read the president's tweet that we just got done he says, "congratulations to doug jones on a hard-fought victory. this be 21 votes played a very big factor. the win is a win and the republicans will have a shot and another short period of time. it never ends." in the meantime, they will have a democrat in that seat. >> that was a very gracious tweet. especially, since, if you recall, after his preferred candidate lost in virginia, he rose to the guy on twitter in real time in the same evening, complaining about ed gillespie. this time, he didn't denigrate roy moore, who, by the way, we recall, was not the candidate that the president wanted to win and the republican primary. this is not the guy, roy moore was not the guy that trump chose to win for the republican primary. guess what? this is something that steve bannon and his acolytes are going to have to think about now. donald trump was right about the alabama primary. steve

this is fox 29 news at 10:00 >>> here's a live look at the blue mountain. if you're dreaming of a white christmas, look no further, old city studios that may take a little more dream, no snow yet on our philadelphia streets, the big guy can get through any kind of weather, fox 29 tracking santa's across the globe. he left kingston jamaica on his way to haiti, we will check in with st. nick throughout the newscast. i'm iain, we're looking at wet weather and some could turn into snow, let's get you over to monica cryan. let's get the morning forecast >> we have the snow and rain and people are starting to see a bit of a switch over, so here we are looking at scattered to widespread activity on your radar. so we'll zoom in there and it is all rain for south jersey and into delaware for parts of dover, millville atlantic city we're looking at anywhere from moderate to lighter rainfall, but further north we're talking through parts of southeastern pennsylvania. at first in philadelphia, this did start out as a bit of a mix, like a sleet, and then, as it moved a

but obviously his fox news is supportive of president trump. does he give up that influence or does it continue without him? i know he's keeping fox news, but is it strange to give up at this time of unparalleled political prominence? >> it's an extraordinary retreat for a very proud man. he wanted to acquire, he wants control. these are not things he relinquishes usually readily. at least in the ways that we have seen him over the years. at the same time, if you're seeing the properties he's holding on to most of them are the ones that allowed him that influence. you know, the newspapers in australia and the uk in particular gave him the influence, the place at the table to influence national politics in the two countries. and then he was able to use those to come into the u.s. and buy fox studio, to buy major newspapers in this country. and then to build the empire starting in 1996 that is fox news. those properties are the ones that get him a seat at the table and get him the ear. what he has in the uk and native australia was essentially a

yet another fox news alert on a night full. f the justice department has launched a investigation into planned parenthood. it's practices in the sale of fetal tissue. a letter obtained byd fox, reporters, the justice department has formally unredacted documents from the senate judiciary committee,th the same panel that led the congressional probe into planned parenthood. thee letter concludes ongoing investigations into practices. new information about the mueller's deep ties to the democratic party establishment. we've got details, stay tuned. ok, so with the award-winning geico mobile app, our customers have 24/7 access, digital id cards, they can even pay their bill- (beep) bill has joined the call. hey bill, we're just- phone: hi guys, bill here. do we have julia on the line too? 'k, well we'll just- phone: hey sorry. i had you muted. well yea let's just- phone: so what i was thinking- ok well we'll- phone: yeah- let's just go ahead- phone: oh alright- the award-winning geico app. download it today. >> tucker: this is a fox

in new york, garrett g. stilu fox news. >> the new year is a few days away. gyms gearing up for the annual rush of people resolving to get fit in the new year. what you need to know before >>> well some of the most popular new year's resolutions quit smoking and get in shape. >> absolutely. that means of course the next few weeks will be very busy for gyms. fox's erika shows us how fitness clubs are getting ready for the rush. >> reporter: studies shows that roughly 50 million americans pledge to increase activity and lose weight in 2017. fitness related new year's resolutions as a whole are most common and gyms like new york sports club capitalize on it offering sign up specials to get you in the door. >> within the new year, definitely going to be increase in members especially new members. >> reporter: while more bodies may mean less available treadmills, current gym goers like liam stewart say it's a good problem to have. >> it gets me excited because there's definitely like a feeling of community in working out and like caring about your body. >> reporte

he is also a fox contributor, fox news contributor. that makes plea laugh. we can't even agree on math. quantitative. there is only one answer. we can't agree on that. adam, what is odds of this getting done, us getting to some finish point? >> i would say not so much fake math as made of up information all together. i think adam was fairly straightforward. the treasury secretary is making a few things up and saying wouldn't that be nice? that said to the question you ask highly likely a bill will pass. of the there are a bunch of things different between the two houses. they will horse trade and work it out because it is in their interest to make a bill to the president's desk. melissa: even when it is in their best interest to do something together, they seem, liz, to fight their way into doing something they should. i don't know that is foregone conclusion? >> i think that is a foregone conclusion there is tax cut bill. as far as chuck schumer, he and other democrat senators have been called out by "the washington post" and other news organization for spr

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