take it with you. would be an amazing shot of the adrenaline. here is lou. lou: the department of justice issuing an arrest warrants for jose garcia zarate, the illegal immigrant who yesterday was acquitted of the murder of kate steinle. it sparked a national backlash including from president trump who called the decision disgraceful. the pressure on senator mitch mcconnell to deliver fax reform to the american people.

indications are that mcconnell does have the votes. senator bob kosher is the long republican holdout. the final vote is not expected until very late tonight or perhaps early tomorrow. we'll have the full report and much ado about nothing. special counsel would beer mueller charging former national security advisor michael flynn with lying to the fbi. but so far there is no evidence of collusion and we know that collusion itself is not a crime. we'll take all of that up here tonight. our top story, the justice department issuing that arrest warrant for jose garcia zarate. arrest warrant urn sealed in the western district of texas by the justice department. it accuses him of violating his supervise release, an existing

federal detainer requires that he reef naint custody of the u.s. marshal service and he will be transported to the western district of texas pursuant to that warrant. perhaps justice will be served after a san francisco jury sided with the defense and said the shooting was an accident. the juriy was not told he was a 7-time felon and five-time depore tee. and his attorney wasted no time in further politicizing the tragedy. >> for those who might criticize this verdict, there are a number of people who comments on this case in the last couple years. the attorney general of the united states, the president and the vice president of the united states. let me reminds them that

themselves under investigation by special prosecutor in watched and they may themselves soon avail themselves of the presumption of innocence and the beyond a reasonable doubt standard. i would ask them reflect on that before they comments or disparage the result in this case. lou: a spokesman for the prosecutor said they will respect the jury's decision. >> the jury is not what we were hoping for, but both sides gave it their all. lou: if that's all the prosecution had, san francisco has got big, big problems. claudia cowan on the next steps on the case that ignited a national firestorm. reporter: acquitted of murder

and assault charges, zarate may finds himself in court again including felony illegal reentry. president trump called it disgraceful and said his exoneration is a complete travesty of justice. build the wall if the san francisco jury never heard about his criminal history. the. you defend acknowledged the anguish being felt by steinle's family. >> they should not interpret this verdict as diminishing their loss. it's not about that. the reality is we have 300 million guns in our society. 40-50 accidental shootings every day. this is just a tragedy what

happened. reporter: in san francisco they refused to cooperate with federal authorities. the trump administration vowing they will not stop until stricter immigration laws are on the books. >> it tells our major sanctuary cities, you are not getting federal funding. reporter: he was convicted on a gun charge and will be sentenced next month. possibly up to three years. but with credit for time served, he probably won't be here much longer. the department of justice has unsealed a federal arrest warrant. scenes's done here he will be turned over to federal authorities and possibly face more prison time. lou: on capitol hill senate

republicans are set to deliver president trump and the american people a big historic victory on tax cuts and tax reform. senators expected to vote on the tax legislation within hours. mike emanuel with our report. >> good evening. it might be a late night on the senate floor, but the outcome is not in doubt after late night changes to the tax reform package. the one no we expect is from tennessee's bob corker who says he has concern about the nation's debt. >> they know i have fiscal concerns and i'm probably a dinosaur in that regard. object ron johnson announced he's a question after changes to help small businesses. another republican holdout announced he's a yes first thing this morning on fox. >> this a historic moment for

our nation. it's been 31 years since we had come presensive tax reform and tax cuts. reporter: some changes to the senate bill to round up the senate votes allowing property tax deductions up to $10,000. some of those changes were designed to win over maine's senator susan collins. >> overall it's a good tax bill. there is always short comings in any piece of legislation. most of people are going to benefit from it. reporter: that's after the plan mitt a snag it was announced some republicans were demanding an adjustment. >> the fact that we received the

dynamic score a day before a final vote on the bill shows how fool shardy it is to wash a bill like this through. -- foolhardy it is to rush a bill like this through. >> if republicans are serious about not undermining family's healthcare, there is an easy way to do that. step back from the brink right now. reporter: the house is preparing to go to conference to iron out the differences. >> we are going to come back in monday because we believe the senate will get this done today. reporter: a senior trump official predicts the senate will wrap up in the next few hours. but timing on capitol hill is not always precise. lou: i think that's an under statement. a victory on tax reform would bring rewhref to million --

relief to millions of americans. but the left-wing media is hyper vernt lating over an issue of little consequence. former national security advisor michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. how big a deal is it? catherine: retired general and former national security advisor mike flynn stood before a federal judge and pled guilty to lying to the fbi. >> there is broad exposure to other people within the transition team and possibly administration. catherine: flynn told the judge he willingly and knowingly waived his right to a trial and he will cooperate with robert

mueller's russia investigation. newly unsealed court records show that he mislead the fbi about his contact with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> it turns up the pressure on other individuals and causes people in the white house to wonder who is going to go next. all that is designed to get cooperation from people and for mueller to send a signal to the white house he's playing hardball. >> i have seen no evidence that shows any connection between michael flynn and russian collusion. catherine: flynn said what he did was wrong and through his faith he would set things right. >> he admitted the falsity of it, the materiality of it and the intents to deceive. that's different from what

director comey told us earlier this year. catherine: james comey told congress in closed door testimony his agents concluded flynn had not deliberately misled them about the russia contact. en twitter comey posted a bible verse about justice. a source tells fox fuse he's in the middle of selling his house. lou: catherine, thank you very much. we are coming right back. a busy day. there is much more straight ahead. stay with us. special counsel robert mueller's witch hunt snaring national security advisor michael flynn who pled guilty to lying.

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lou: judicial watch released fbi document on that clandestine meeting between bill clinton and loretta lynch. 29 pages of emails previously withheld by the justice department. they detail a frenzy while hunt within the fbi look for a source who talked to a reporter about the controversial 2016 meeting. they were looking for the leaker. the messages show almost no concern over the actual meeting itself. or what was discussed. astonishing. chris farrell from judicial

watch, it's good to see you. let's start with this 29 pages. you win, you get the documents, and it turns out the fbi and justice department are concerned just about who leaked the meeting to local reporters and national newspapers, the new york observer. you couldn't make this up. it's so infuriating and disgusting. >> at first the fbi lied to us. they said they had no records. then they sheepishly came around to admit their existence. even not you redactions made hiding the names of people involved is cowardly and dishonest. lou: we are talking about the fbi here. cowardly? cowardly? >> and dishonest. absolutely. who are the people involved?

who made the decisions? what do they have to hide? these are united states government officials hiding their identities of who was involved in trying to track down the person who let the press know that the former president and the attorney general were an fbi official wrote, quote, we need to find that guy. the phoenix fbi office was contacted in an attempt to stem any further damage. this was appalling. you know you have got the attorney general of the united states and a former president lying when they say they were talking about grandchildren and golf. it's absolutely a --

>> talk about despicable, saying we have got to find that guy. what were they going to do when they found that guy? lou: you know what they are going to do. they are retaliating or intimidating. you are either on their team or you are not on the team. let's turn today to the arrest of the plea of guilty on the part of the general michael flynn to a count of lying to the fbi, heaven forbid. but we don't know what he lied about specifically that is material that would result in his future of perhaps spending

five years in prison. >> first off, lieutenant general flynn made a grave error and it resulted in his firing. there is no new information here. it's sad. he's a wonderful, honorable, granite tell jones officer. but he had an error in judgment. misspoke. got in trouble with the vice president and put himself in a position where he leaves under a cloud. that's unfortunate for a man who gave 5 years of his -- gave 35 years of his life to his country. but this is pretty thin gruel. false official statement. i have got news for you. if i interview you for more than two hours i can get you on this charge. you will make a false statement

in the course of two hours, i guarantee you. this is the last if he fiewj of a failed investigation. lou: we need to put this into some context. nieblcontext. michael flynn was unmasked by the obama administration. he was an obama official until he was fired. it's dangerous to the public it's an outrage this amount of money, time and evident is being spent to subvert this administration. >> mueller is on a scalp-hunting investigation. this is exhibit 3 or 4 of that. if you want to look at a criminal. look at sandy berger. he stole documents relating to

9/11 from the archives and destroyed them. lou: we have some clear criminal acts. we don't have to go any father than hillary clinton. whether we are talking about an administration in this instance that waits until there is less than a month left in office before president obama decides to retaliate against the russians for their intervention in our elections, he does nothing about crimea. what would you call that? >> it's criminal negligence. where are we going with this? and why isn't anyone talking about the context here and the actions of the administration with its unmasking of hundreds and hundreds of officials,

american citizens, including members of the transition, the trump transition team. why in the hell isn't anybody look at that? >> if somebody sat and read a communications intelligence transcript to the "washington post" concerning general flynn, the circle of knowledge on that level of information is so small as to be able -- it's a handful of people. let's finds that leak and put them in jail. lou: first so we know who lied. we know james clapper lied. we know john brennan. the fbi and the head of the cia lied to congress and to the american people. yet michael flynn is the fella who today had to plead guilty to one count.

chris, we always learn something talking with you and we appreciate you being here. last word. >> i think people need to remember that comey the leaker betrayed his oath, sphoal government documents, leaked them through a third party to the "new york times," and the dimwits on the house intelligence committee thanked him for his service. lou: it' the dimwit republicans on that committee who have turned it over to the democrats. senator richard burr should be given a special place of dishonor for what he is doing and has done to the american national interests. thanks for being with us. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you believe there are

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lou: joining me, ed rollins, let me start with michael flynn pleading guilty to thrieght fbi. we -- of lying to the fbi. we watched this parade of nonsense since may and this where they are. >> this is the simplest charge

they can get you on and it gives them the benefit of going after somebody else, and shame on flynn. lou: bob mueller is being a cute special counsel and every attorney showing up on tv saying this is the way an investigation proceeds. this is effectively a subversion from the left to stop this president. ed: the president needs the up his legal team and prepare for a throng war. i lived through the watergate period. you get distracted. if his son-in-law is involved, sends him home it was all stupidity, it was nothing that dealt with the russians in a realistic way. lou: as it stands right now, i

don't see where anything untoward even occurred. this is a president and his team coming into office. the obama administration waited until less than a month left in the presidency of obama to have any response to the intervention of the russians in our election. ed: we still don't have any evidence that russians interest neared our election. they will keep going here. this is going to distract the president. lou: the president all summer has said to the republican leadership, stop this nonsense, wrap it up, and the damn fools won't respond. ed: they will take the flynn thing and say he didn't tell us the truth either so we need to bring him back up again. lou: can i just say this?

the gop leadership are a bunch of dam np jac -- a bunch of dam. ed: their job is to protect the president and move the ball forward. there won't be a republican party if they don't. lou: i'm not sure america isn't repaired to lose the republican party right now. ed: i think both sides are suffering. every time i get frustrated with my own side i look at conyers and others and say that's not me. what people don't realize is donald trump would clobber hillary clinton again today. hillary and her people know it. >> it's a historic fact.

to hell with hillary. let me turn quickly to the tax reform legislation. are we going to get it? are we going to get tonight or tomorrow? >> obviously we are going to play the conference game. >> it will get to conference. there is no question about it. corker will be the only one against it. lou: flake says he has a deal with the white house and the republican leadership that they will do what he wants on daca. ed: if they don't get the wall and whatever they give you have, if they give up on the wall, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi win. lou: don't even say it. ed: the new statistics on who

gets to come here. lou: 9 million here on chain migration. we are talking about 4 million that get to stay with daca. when they started talking by the they said 800,000. lie after lie from both parties. we are coming right back. much more straight ahead. please stay with us. former president obama fancies himself a shadow president of sorts embark on an asian tour that copies the same route as president trump. we'll take up the shameless actions with steve forbes and so much more. this pilot taking to the sky to help endangered wildlife finds their way in europe. the

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speak anything india obama lamented america's exit from the pair tries climate accord and he blasted president trump for his twitter account saying he should think before he tweets. is that nauseating or what? joining me, steve forbes. how nice that the president of the united states has all of these fleas just trying to scratch anywhere they can. steve: it's nice to see this guy going around the world still doing this apology tours but being out of the oval office. he doesn't matter any more. he can get publicity but he doesn't make policy. lou: i think u.s. marshals should follow him. it's bad manners.

boorish, absurd. he should be brought back by the marshals. isn't there some law that says presidents shouldn't be attack sitting presidents? each * there i -- steve: there is an unwritten one. lou: we'll get tax reform apparently. >> call them tax cuts. on the business side pretty good. personal side they made it unnecessarily complicated. but sausages are never good seen being made. create jobs, investment, get there. that's it. that's all i want it's a simple thing. >> one of the things they should make clear is this is the first of many tax cuts to come. get people anticipation.

next year you will get another president. lou: i have seen how heard it is to get anything done. take what they give us this time and we'll move on from there. let me turn to the tax bill's impact. jeff flake says they made a deal for amnesty and daca by the president, promise from the president and the republican capitol hill leadership. are you kidding me? steve: this is the night before. they always tell you we'll still love you in the morning. but when you have the conference a lot of these goodies promised won't be delivered. but they will get a bill through. they know if they don't, they are finished. lou: i thought of the expression, the check is in the mail.

let's turn if we may to michael flynn being pleading guilty to lie together fbi, the special counsel goes on despite the conflicts. steve: the bottom line is if they had something real to get the president it would have been revealed today. this is 100 parts smoke versus a half part of fire. lou: the conviction and principle of the republican leadership in both houses need to say stop it, we are done. the attorney general of the united states is presiding over this in some form. what's wrong with jeff sessions? what is he doing? steve: he recused himself. so he put himself out of a position of responsibility. and if you want to dock his pay you can try to do it.

but the bottom line is this is gathering fodder for democrats to try to impeach trump next year, and they are not going to succeed. lou: i am going to consider that an optimus stick outlook. please roll the video and watch as this pilot in an ultralight tear craft -- i think there was a movie about this, wasn't there? it helps guide birds across france. "fly away home." the population is shrinking because of the destruction of natural happen habitats. the pilot wanted to show the flock a safer migration route. it's terrible to hear about the declining bird population. fired fbi director james comey gloated about michael flynn's

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jeffress, pastor of the first baptist church in dallas. we start out with folks who want to quote verse. today it was james comey. i'm stunned that he was so excited about everything. he said, justice rolled down like waters and righteousness, and righteousness like an ever flowing stream. how did he do on his selection of verse? >> that's a great verse. but people like james comey who keep calling out for god's justice to roll down, what they mean is they want god's justice to roll done on their enemies and not on themselves. we are all sinners and all need god's grace and forgiveness in our lives. that's what james i'm ought to be praying for.

i have a scripture verse for james comey be proverbs 24:17. do not gloat over the misfortune of others lerks st the lord visit his anger against you. lou: . let's go to the president talking about tweeting out merry christmas. for over a year this is we had been talking about, the opportunity to talk about telling everybody merry christmas. he and the first lady did so. it's a nice feeling. you do have a sense that the country is more at liberty to be itself. i.e., a country that is christian, the judeo-christian ethic is our foundation. and he celebrated that. >> he did. and i retweeted his tweet about

christmas. because it was more than just saying merry christmas. he told the story of christ that it's about mary and joseph and the baby born 2,000 years ago to bring salvation to the world. we have never had a president republican or democrat who is that bold advocating his faith. that's the reason christians love this president. i'm look forward to being with him at one of his merry christmas receptions. we were founded as a christian nation. we welcome people of no faith and all faiths, but this is a christian nation. lou: amen. pastor ropass -- pastor robert . merry christmas. up next, the justice department trying to remedy the travesty of

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lou: with us tonight radio talk show house come giordano.

let's start with the lack of verdict out of the kate steinle case in san francisco. >> there was a death of a young woman on a pier. if you want to say the prosecution didn't prove murder, couldn't prove intentional killing beyond a reasonable doubt. what happened to involuntary manslaughter? the unintentional killing in a reckless act. you are going to tell me having an illegal firearm and discharging it on a public pier is not reckless? lou: is this something that could only happen in san francisco? >> no it could happen right here in philadelphia. we are a sanctuary city and people like our mayor don't care. you predicted we would see incidents like this and now

that's what we are seeing. lou: to have this happen and for the self righteous nonsense spewed by that public defender, it's nauseating, it's infuriating. where in the world do we get off not telling a jury a man is a 7-time felon who has been deported five times. you tell me what sense it makes not to have that information in front of the jury. should prosecutors go in with both hand tide as well? >> unfortunately in this matter the judge made some decisions, there are laws and legalities. but the department of justice is looking into federal charges. he's found guilty of possessing an illegal firearm. >> that led to her death for which the built was fired. they knew that and did not find

involuntary manslaughter. >> i hope this has influence over the daca negotiations. i heard you talk about jeff flake tonight. what universe are we going to continue to do more of this stuff when we see the results in san francisco. lou: we have been waiting for four hours to see the majority leader of the senate mitch mcconnell come out and tell us what's going on with the vote on thanks reform. four hours ago. i'm anying this isn't a great sign. rebecca, what do you think? >> let's hope we can reform some taxes and get middle america working again. repatriate money from the corporations and bring it back here and get things moving forward in a positive direction for this country. >> i don't think it's a great

sign, but i do think they are going to do it. it seems like some of the players have come around to this. it's an 11th hour negotiation to tax somebody when it's not their money to begin with. the house is much better on this. lou: rebecca, we have 30 seconds. it doesn't seem even material. >> it's two count, carries a maximum five-year sentence. the actuality is he will probably just face parole. we are making a lot out of this without having anything there. lou: dom, you get the last word. >> the sunday shows, they won't talk about kate steinle. they will want to center on general flynn.

i agree, it's a minor matter. lou: ambassador john bolton and michelle malkin among our guests monday. good night from new york. >> announcer: from fox business headquarters in new york city, the new "wall street week." maria: welcome to "wall street week," the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. a exerks l weber my special guest. gerri willis is in the fox business newsroom. gerri: markets went on a wild ride friday after news broke that former trump national security advisor lieutenant general michael flynn lied to the fbi. and abc news reported he will