water below, victoria harbor there. wow, what a show. finally, taipei, taiwan, neon lights going. there's fireworks. here it is, it's 1:17 eastern time, that means we are about 40 -- we are actually 15 minutes away from the next new year's which is in india and sri lanka and about 40 minutes away from new year's in pakistan. whatever resolutions you want to make, then it's new year's in pakistan to keep them. >> thank you for keeping tabs on that. >> here to help in any way i can. >>> churches across the country bringing in the new year with a traditional watch night service. for some congregations, 2017 will come with heightened security. >> we step into 2017, we're not scared, we're not afraid, we're not tricking back, we are moving forward. >> we have security, the mpd is aware, we're mobilizing all the men of the church so we have crowd control. the mighty men will be here and other organizations such as the masons will be here. we're hoping to -- we want to keep everyone safe and everybody to feel they're safe. >> as we told you before, federal officials say the islamic stat

professionally. been around the world, china, philippines, venezuela. malaysia, taiwan. all over. keeping my passing going. trying to keep my inspirational going. >> let's see some of your moves. >> let's try them on abby. zoom in on these. >> i brought my nikes in this morning. >> she's more prepared. >> she's prepared to play defense. >> better recreation of what happened. >> come on guys. >> are we pulling for abby here? there we go. >> all right. >> you got to get up here. you got to guard him, you know. >> uh-oh. >> uh-oh. >> she's good. >> she's not bad. >> whoa. she's going backwards. >> there we go. >> that's pretty good defense. >> nice! >> she's so good. >> you are playing good d and she did not fall. >> no. >> that was well-done. >> let's see it. >> i got to make him go left, right? i've played a lot of defense. >> whoa. >> fadeaway. no good. >> he got me and you saw before this segment, he got it through my legs the first time. the only reason i got that one is because i saw it coming. >> you were so proud of yourself at that moment. >> and can we quit right there? he

ukraine and syria, why he needs to stir the pot on things like taiwan and. >> there are lot of people, a lot of voters who voted president-elect donald trump into office who disagree with a lot of things they are hearing on iran, on the u.n. sanctioning of israel. on sanctioning russia, in fact, with 23 days left before the end of the presidency. so donald trump, my guess is that he is saying hey, don't worry, relax, we can undo a lot of these initiatives. >> and it's clear that he does intend to undo much of obama's legacy and that's created tension between them that's erupted in recent tweets back and forth. my larger point, eric, i question how donald trump is going to conduct himself as president. is he going to be shooting out 3:00 a.m. tweets. >> what's wrong with the tweets, senator? what's wrong with the tweets? i personally like the fact that -- the idea that i can get succinct thoughts in a couple of lines, 140 characters and see where the man stands on issues? >> i know a lot of the americans like that sort of bluntness and directness. let's take a very recent exampl

president obama's. we saw him taking the phone call from the president of taiwan, right? he already signaled a drastic change in the way we engage with the world. as we saw with the u.n. resolution just now with president-elect trump saying to benjamin netanyahu, look we have israel's back. i would not do this. forcing egypt to stand down as well. this is just another example of the dysfunctional and dangerous policies of president obama when it comes to foreign policy. those policies as dagen pointed out earlier of helping a country like iran who wants to bring death and destruction to israel. he says there will be no israel in the next 25 years. kennedy: i want to bring eboni in. we're running out of time. you were just in israel. is it possible to share jerusalem? is that possible? >> possible, sure in theoretical sense, from what i saw on the ground i don't see it happening. i think we get much more practical. we heard a speech about theory and what ifs. it will not happen that way. i want to say this you might not think president obama is the best friend israel ever had but gav

, with taiwan and china. time to rethink our devotion, slavish devotion, to an institution that devotes itself to attacking an ally and to undermining american interests. >> and a.b., this points out what charles just said, presumed power of donald trump to change this. we cannot undo this resolution, i don't think we can. does he have power to do that with the sheer power of his influence? >> as charles points out, the power is to swing influence and opinion against the u.n. that's building in the congress and that seems to have resonance. the problem is that we don't know what obama still has left to do, so as you see the israelis try to collect this evidence they're going to show to trump to prove that obama both produced and provoked this resolution, this is going to be an ongoing story as we have -- one president at a time, but it's a story that trump will relish being involved in. again, it's not that he can undo it and get a result, but it is definitely a threat to the u.n. over the long term. >> matt? >> doug, why do you want to be our friend? why would anybody want to be americ

f-35 equivalents. japan, stram, taiwan, great opportunity there. we're not going to be able to do it brian unless we rebuild our military which donald trump has said. >> this is exactly like the class at princeton. >> yes. foreign policy 101. >>> coming up straight ahead, two days until christmas, it's time to undeck the halls. how long is it going to take your decorations down? we'll ask an expert next. >>> well the hustle and bustle of the holiday is quickly winding down. that means it's almost time to undeck the halls. but something untrimming the creates more than a mess than unwrapping presents on christmas morning. >> here are some tips to safely store your christmas decorations is lenore. >> a lot of people ask when is a take down the decorations. >> some people have them all year long. >> there's a lot of beliefs and superstitions. take them down by december 31st, because we don't want to bring the old year into the new year. some people believe january 35th is the day because it's the 12th day of christmas and some people believe january 6th because of observance of the epip

some people a little off guard, much like his phone call with the president of taiwan did. how valuable is that? >> look, one of the things i have heard from the people i talked to up at the trump team, they are functioning more like they are in charge already. because president obama just isn't doing anything. and that is the sad truth. i mean, look, the fact is this, president obama reluctantly has been doing nothing to be involved in this. so i think what we have to look at here -- >> they have to know, you know -- they are having a little fun along the way, which is why they took the drone. >> that's right. i think, look, the chinese are possibly going to give it back and should. this was seized in international water. we had the right to be there and had the right to do peaceful recognizance and to study whatever is happening there. and i think mr. trump has to do and say what you're going to make the chinese look at what the situation is. >> that said, the concern, the fear out there is that donald trump could get reckless and maybe he says something or tweets something that gets

taiwan for the first time. a few days later is when the taiwan president called president trump to congratulate him on his election. >> lucas, great reporting. thank you, sir. >>> as 2016 winds down, we reach a very sad milestone. the number of migrant deaths in the mediterranean has surpassed 5,000. around 100 people feared drowned on thursday as the italian coast guard continued recovery operations. they're asking for reform of policies to stop this migration across dangerous seas. so far 360,000 have made it across the sea this year alone. >>> the soob-to-be first family made waves when mel layne yeah trump said she wouldn't be moving into the white house right away and ivanka would take up some traditional first lady duties. we'll explain why this first lady dynamic is not a new phenomenon in the white house. plus, this is a perfect job for elizabeth prann. italian officials make sure the wine you drink is up to snuff. i don't know anything more about this story, but i want to see it. this is great. oh, that's lovely... so graceful. the corkscrew spin, flawless... ...his signat

call, from the president of taiwan, there was sort of this outrage, this gasp oh my gosh, he is breaking protocol and breaking long standing u.s. policy to take this phone call. but didn't we see president obama break, you know, u.s. policy in terms of protecting israel before the u.n. security council and you're not hearing the same kind of outrage from the media. >> because the media and obama share a dislike of israel. and obama was kind of held in check by the fact that most of america is pro-israel. so he wasn't able to do what he wanted to do. even though much much his policies were detrimentally. now taken steps peace. palestinians being awarded for doing nothing and israelis were punished. >> shameful display. i have 30 seconds. peter doocy mentioned this a moment ago that you have a lot of jewish democrats who overwhelmingly supported president obama twice and supported hillary clinton and yet, this is what president obama does on the way out the door. >> president obama would rather do something that makes him and his hard left supporters feel good than something that

dignity. >> reporter: mr. trump accept aid phone call from taiwan, anger rg china. he has threatened china over its trade and economic policies. while the president-elect called for congress to increase spending on the u.s. military, he also declared on twitter that the country must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability. then president-elect trump interfered with an obama administration vote on a u.n. security council resolution criticizing israel. trump urged the u.s. to vote against it. and israel enlisted the trump transition team to pressure the resolution supporters to drop the egyptian sponsored measure. >> the president-elect is looking beyond that. speaking with egypt's president regarding negotiations on a middle east peace process, president obama finishing his term while the president-elect donald trump looks forward to his is an explicit demonstration to the world at how much u.s. policy has changed because of this election. >> rich edson from the state department, thank you. >>> the fbi and homeland security department are warning law enforcement officials

a position of strength after your adversaries react to you. he did that with the taiwan call. did he that with the wall along the mexican border. he did that with the muslim ban and i think it's been effective. >> he wants mica safe, drinking her coffee in the morning. where she doesn't have to worry about things. having a leader like that is going to make her more safe, not less safe. >> that's true. a lot of people don't know this but president obama has already signed off on a $1 trillion nuclear modernization program. >> um. >>um that's a lot of dough. president obama doesn't like to spend a lot of money on the military. is he already upping the an an ante to a thrill. he has already reduced our nuclear war head capabilities than a president in the lacy three or four terms. so when donald trump comes out and says he wants to modernize, everybody goes crazy, but, obama already trying to do it and it's already on the table. >> you remember that 60 minutes piece maybe a year and a half ago where we have got 1960's reporter phones in missile silos. we have got to fix this problem.

dignity. >> reporter: mr. trump accept aid phone call from taiwan, anger rg china. he has threatened china over its trade and economic policies. while the president-elect called for congress to increase spending on the u.s. military, he also declared on twitter that the country must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability. then president-elect trump interfered with an obama administration vote on a u.n. security council resolution criticizing israel. trump urged the u.s. to vote against it. and israel enlisted the trump transition team to pressure the resolution supporters to drop the egyptian sponsored measure. >> the president-elect is looking beyond that. speaking with egypt's president regarding negotiations on a middle east peace process, president obama finishing his term while the president-elect donald trump looks forward to his is an explicit demonstration to the world at how much u.s. policy has changed because of this election. >> rich edson from the state department, thank you. >>> the fbi and homeland security department are warning law enforcement officials

angeles airport toward the ocean, and destination of taiwan, the jet was turned east toward a mountain range and into the flight path of another airplane. it took more than a minute for the tower to get the jet to respond instructions and change course. eventually it did land safely in taiwan but reportedly it came very close to the mountains so how do we keep near disasters like this from happening, aviation consultant, formal commercial airline pilot. you listened to the air traffic control reportings of this particular incident, what do you think went wrong here? >> just about everything that could wrong for contributory factors in causing an accident was going wrong. you had a failure in communication between pilot and atc, english language understanding problem from people who don't speak the native tongue. you also had a very poor situation awareness of pilots that seemed to forget there was a mountain range out there. jon: yeah, at one point i heard the controllers saying, okay, you know, the eva jetliner had been sent on a course of 090 which is due east and atc control turn le

: i loved the taiwan call, as we talked about on the show with the taiwanese president, and i love that donald trump is shaking things up because i don't think we should be beholden to the geopolitical bullying of china for a long time. that being said, this guy, peter navarro, this could have real ramifications for our trade deals -- gillian: that's right. meghan: buying a tv could exponentially rise in cost, just evidence things. so i have a -- everyday things. i have a lot of questions, and i think the american public -- harris: so here's the overarching question: are you willing to take a risk on something fresh and few that you can't necessarily categorize to and see how it plays out -- meghan: i'm going to take a risk, but i've also never been one of these people under the illusion that we can somehow stop the technological revolution that a lot of these manufacturing jobs can come back. technology has progressed on, so if it means sort of denying that fact and having ramifications on the average american's bottom line, yeah, i'm going to have a problem with that. kennedy: as

beijing when he took a phone call from taiwan's president. he's also used twitter to criticize china's trade policies. european leaders say they are concerned about the praise of vladimir putin and the former kgb agents en route to become the richest man on the planet. let's turn to james free man, editor of the "wall street journal." what do you think? does he change a lot? who changes when you're 70? >> well, it's a change for all of us, more informal style. i like the call to taiwan. i thought that was good where he wasn't necessarily listening to the state department bureaucracy. it's a more informal style after a call to the president or prime minister of pakistan, said he was a terrific guy and it was a fantastic country. but in that case, probably made some people in pakistan happy. so it's going to be a different approach but china specifically, i think he does need to make clear that we can sail in international waters, that our navy can't operate in the south china sea. >> your paper has not gone easy on him and he's made note of that. his china policies that we don't know wh

device. china is said to be out of sorts over trump's phone call with the president of taiwan and his questioning of the u.s. one china policy. >>> while president obama continues his holiday vacation in hawaii,'s teaming up with canada's prime minister to try to cement his legacy with environmentalists in a much colder climate. correspondent kevin corke reports from honolulu, the president's successor may not approve. >> reporter: for a president who's made fighting climate change one of the pillars of his presidency, it's a watershed moment, a joint agreement with the canadian government to suspend and in some instances impermanently, new offshore oil production from large swaths of the arctic ocean. the president said the agreement would, "reflect the scientific assessment that even with the high safety standards that both our countries have put in place, the risks of an oil spill in this region are significant and our ability to clean up from a spill and the region's harsh conditions is limited." for its part in the deal, canada has also agreed to cordon off large areas from devel

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taiwan sent shutters through diplomatic channels from washington to beijing, who have agreed on a one china policy. even president obama has acknowledged a fresh set of eyes on u.s.-china relations could be beneficial for both countries. >> america benefits from some new perspectives. and i think it should be not just a prerogative but the obligation of a new president, examine everything that's been done and see what makes sense and what doesn't. >> reporter: what doesn't make sense say analysts is business as usual. from hacking u.s. infrastructure to china's unabated aggression in the south china sea to the nearly $300 billion annual u.s. trade deficit. >> the consequences is a very big deal. president-elect trump i think is going to make sure there are consequences when we have these incidents in the future. >> reporter: administration officials tell us that the return of the drone could come as soon as tuesday at a yet to be determined location in the south china sea. though a destroyer will likely be the type of vessel to pick it up, the mechanics of that retrieval remain unclea

this phone call from the president of taiwan based on the not invalid argument that china is a nuclear armed power and a formidable threat and we should be careful about producing unnecessary confrontation, when i agree with. the same is true of russia. to sit here and sort of suggest that vladimir putin lurks behind every american problem to concoct these wild elaborate conspiracy theories to try to convince americans that russia is this grave threat to the united states. we all have to stand up, i think it's incredibly dangerous not just because it creates a toxic environment domestically but because it's very dangerous and put us on a pot of almost unintentional confrontation with a country ha can do a lot of damage. >> that's the way it seems to me. i don't think you and i have ever voted for the same person. niles to hear you say that because it sounds less crazy. thanks for joining us. i appreciate it. >> great to be with you, tucker. ♪ ♪ >> now it's time for twitter storm. our nightly forecast of social media's most powerful weather patterns. well film maker michael

currency -- president-elect trump took a phone call from the taiwan president. terry branstad has a close friendship with china's president going back decades. jordan chang is the author of the book, the coming collapse of china. what are we to make of this? >> the important thing is this was as act of war, piracy. china has a very extensive claim to 85% of the south china sea. the chinese took this outside of this nine-dash area. it's clearly international water. the chinas now what they -- doing because the u.s. navy told them to stop and beijing is trying to lower the temperature but that is what aggressor does when they committed some belligerent act. i think donald trump is on the right side of saying, let's keep the temperature high. >> bit donald trump is saying keep our drone. the chinese are setten it back, is twitter the right place? >> norm. normally you have one president at a time but unfortunately president obama in the friday press conference didn't talk about that and didn't answer the question of already racist issue. so someone needs to deal with and it twitter is

: we know that china had just encircled taiwan with fighter planes, so this feels like another chapter. ebony: yeah. miami mad at that. i agree for whatever you -- i've been a voter of president obama but highly critical of mainly his national security leadership. i think it's been pretty poor. so i'm very interested and intrigued and very willing to see what this leadership will look like under a president-elect trump because, as charles says, new sheriff in town. let's see what it looks like. when he says y'all can keep it, it sounds kind of crazy, but maybe he's saying, you know what? it's not that crazy. >> they've opened it up, looked at it -- ebony: you've already got the best of it. katherine: it's a little craze i to tweet it -- crazy to tweet it. he's talking about, like, country to country drama. so it's inappropriate on a personal level, this is certainly inappropriate especially if you're too enraged to make sure you spell right. it's just not a good look. ebony: autocorrect. katherine: twitter's not the place for -- >> i do want to say it feels to me like a ronald

sea, buzzing, if you will, taiwan after donald trump spoke to the taiwanese president. this, this is a very big story, bret. i wonder how you bring the two me atem together as they're this crucial transition period in our country. >> yeah. i think that countries like china, like russia, like others may try to challenge not only the new president, but the outgoing president. and i think that's some of what you're seeing with china here. this drone was taken right in front of a u.s. naval warship. we saw it. they denied it, china did. now they're going to return are it as soon as tonight east coast time. and i think that this was a big moment. how the administration handled it versus how donald trump handled it on twitter, two different thing. and tonight on "special report" we'll look at the different takes of how the outgoing administration and perhaps how the incoming administration is going to handle china in very different ways. jenna: that'll be interesting to watch. we'll look forward to that. we'll see you at 6 p.m. eastern time today. thank you so much. >> thanks, jenna. jon:

about the trump transition. they threw everything at this giechlt first the taiwan call and ditches the press and now a controversial family office and best friends with vladimar putin. and this is the same play bock these people have used last couple of decades against republicans. is this going to change and drumming up the controversy and will they get serious? >> politically it doesn't work. silly attacks, people ignore what they say. and that's what you saw in the primary and election. becomely the press decided frump ufr trump was a threat and he was a facist dictator and they decided they had a moral obligation to knock him out of the race and they were so unfair and people turned off and the new's organizations are discredited and doomed. they devalued their own currency. >> like the boy who cried wolf. >> you had rioting and the electors having death threats and they want recounts now and now, they are saying it was rigged by the russians. if the republicans had behaved this way, can you you imagine the hysterial and vitrol that was aimed for all of the ridiculous behavior. can

. first it's the taiwan call and then ditches the press. now he has this controversial family office and then he is best friends with vladimir putin. this is the same play book that these people have used the last couple decades against republicans. is it ever going to change? are they going to get serious? >> the problem is two fold. politically it doesn't work because if you bum bard people with silly attacks they seem to not believe. the press decided trump was a threat to them. and so they decided they had a moral obligation to try to knock him out of the race. they were so unfair to him that people just turned off. i think those news organizations basically are doomed because of that. they discredited themselves. >> it is like the boy that cried wolf if you keep saying it over and over again no one will believe you. the democrats, too, after the election. they have rioting. you have the death threats. you have recounting. they want recounts now. now they are saying the thing was rigged by the russians. if the republicans had behaved this way, if donald trump had lost, can you imagin

. i think the phone call with taiwan was a modest matter. i think this business with the underwater drone is a minor matter. we want to continue to stay on the up and up and straightforward and in contact with china because i think we have a reasonable chance if we play this right to get along cordially. it would counter act some of the steps that i think are from the more dangerous part of the world namely the russians and north koreans. >> given that, ambassador, how does it play on china's end when president-elect trump pops off on twitter, if you will? >> i have no idea. i have ideas about a number of things but the chinese attitude towards twitter is not one of them aim aflad. >> let me go back to the drone. it was con fi skated on thursday. you're saying it's an insignificant piece of machinery. john mccain saying they can in fact through navy technology . >> i do understand it's unclassified and it's a water sampling device and it only costs about $150,000. none of those strike me as being very far up the scale as far as importance goes. >> so -- okay. so if china continues i

, already delicate following his phone call with taiwan president. for more on the twitter diplomacy, let's bring in ethan berman and radio show host mark levine. gentlemen, thanks for being here. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> mark, first, i'll pose this to both of you, do either of you understand these two tweets, one calling it unprecedented and it being angry and the next one telling the chinese to keep the drone. >> maybe he owes massive debts to the chinese and they promised to call them in. he won't tell us what debts he owes to china or russia and won't disclose that information so we don't know who is pulling the strings of our president-elect. >> i didn't think we would get there so quickly. ethan, does that make sense to you or are you scratching your head as well. >> it is schizophrenic, he is going one way and then the other and in terms of diplomacy, the stream of consciousness tweeting is dangerous. go back 100 years to the world war i, less things have started wars. >> in fairness, i did hear a couple of folks defending mr. trump here saying essential that by say

transition. they threw everything at this giechlt first the taiwan call and ditches the press and now a controversial family office and best friends with vladimar putin. and this is the same play bock these people have used last couple of decades against republicans. is this going to change and drumming up the controversy and will they get serious? >> politically it doesn't work. silly attacks, people ignore what they say. and that's what you saw in the primary and election. becomely the press decided frump ufr trump was a threat and he was a facist dictator and they decided they had a moral obligation to knock him out of the race and they were so unfair and people turned off and the new's organizations are discredited and doomed. they devalued their own currency. >> like the boy who cried wolf. >> you had rioting and the electors having death threats and they want recounts now and now, they are saying it was rigged by the russians. if the republicans had behaved this way, can you you imagine the hysterial and vitrol that was aimed for all of the ridiculous behavior. can you imagine? >>

to you about the trump transition. they threw everything at this giechlt first the taiwan call and ditches the press and now a controversial family office and best friends with vladimar putin. and this is the same play bock these people have used last couple of decades against republicans. is this going to change and drumming up the controversy and will they get serious? >> politically it doesn't work. silly attacks, people ignore what they say. and that's what you saw in the primary and election. becomely the press decided frump ufr trump was a threat and he was a facist dictator and they decided they had a moral obligation to knock him out of the race and they were so unfair and people turned off and the new's organizations are discredited and doomed. they devalued their own currency. >> like the boy who cried wolf. >> you had rioting and the electors having death threats and they want recounts now and now, they are saying it was rigged by the russians. if the republicans had behaved this way, can you you imagine the hysterial and vitrol that was aimed for all of the ridiculous b

had over the last 30 to 40 years since 1979, where we recognize one china and not taiwan, and in exchange, the chinese were supposed to have a level playing field in trade, help with north korea, and you know, basically stabilize asia. they are not upholding their end of the bargain and haven't been for some time now. the signal the president-elect is sending is well, we may not either. we need to hit reset on this deal and the chinese need to begin behaving better. >> well, a tweet certainly is not one of those diplomatic niceities behind closed doors so beijing may be finding out that there's something different -- >> i think the people in that part of the world respect strength and that's the signal that's being sent. >> we will see if beijing does give back our drone which is ours. thank you. arthel? >>> his medical techniques saves thousands of lives and today the world is remembering henry heimlich. >>> dylann roof was convicted of all charges in that horrible massacre of nine parishioners inside that church. our legal panel will weigh in on the penalty phase. roof wants to

comes after trump has said the one china policy regarding taiwan is up for negotiation, so these are sensitive times between the two countries. the chinese did issue a statement. they said that the u.s. is hyping up the drone issue. then there's the misspelling of the word "unprecedented" if the tweet, which has become a story in and of itself. senator chris murphy tweeting, this is madness, a 7:30 a.m. escalation of crisis with china with misspelling. then her yam webster tweeted the hashtag word of the day is not unprecedented. goes on to say, that's a new one. and at this rate, julie, it may be a new word by the end of the weekend. >> all right, will carr in los angeles. thank you. rick? >>> well, for more on this, we go to gordon chang, author of the coming collapse of china and an asia expert. some have called this an act of piracy. you call it an act of war. >> what they did is they took a sovereign vessel, which is the way the defense department termed it, and they took it. so it doesn't matter whether it's an aircraft carrier or a drone, the principle is the same. this is an

ruffled a lot of feathers in beijing when he spoke to taiwan's president over the phone. now, since then, the chinese have been flexing their military muscles with live fire exercises in the sea in eastern china. and said they have the right to use force to retake the island of taiwan if necessary. as the president-elect prepares to handle that rocky relationship once he takes office, he's also putting the final touches on his white house team. today mr. trump named republican south carolina congressman mick mulvany as director of the official of management and budget. mulvany is a founding member of the fiscal conservative house caucus and if confirmed will be responsible of overseeing the federal budget and taking on the massive ever growing debt. >> he will tackle the $20 trillion budget deficit we have right now and start to chip away to get rid of government deficiencies. find outdated projects and plans and government waste. but he is going to be a real champion of the american taxpayer in that office. >> last night, mr. trump continued his victory tour with a rally in orlando, flo

since president-elect trump's call with the president of taiwan, china flew a bomber around the south china sea. the chinese had not flown that route since march 2015. the country is ready to take taiwan by force if the u.s. doesn't recognize its part of china. the current commander in chief cautioned that china sees taiwan as an existential threat. >> this goes to the core of how they see themselves. their reaction on this issue could end up being very significant. >> reporter: a short time ago, i was handed the official chinese response to the state department's process known as a demarche. a chinese official responded, quote, you know that china has undisputed sovereignty of the south china sea. there are risks from your continued surveillance. the south china sea is international waters. it does appear tensions are ratcheting up. >> lucas, thank you. >>> one of the challenges to the incoming administration with its unconventional president-elect will be dealing with unconventional warfare. tonight, catherine herridge reports there's a lot of gray area in what used to be the black

. your successor spoke with phone with the president of taiwan today and declared subsequently he wasn't sure why the united states needed to be bound by the one china policy. he suggested it could be used as bargaining chip perhaps to get better terms on trade deal or more cooperation with north korea. there's already evidence that tensions between the two side have increased and today the chinese have seized an underwater drone in the south china sea. do you agree as some do that our china policy could use a fresh set of eyes and what's the big deal about have ago short phone call with the president of taiwan, or do you worry that these types of up orthodoxes approaches are setting us on a political course with our adversary? >> great question. i'm somewhere in between. i think all of our foreign policy should be subject to fresh eyes. i think one of the -- i've said this before -- i'm very proud of the work i've done. i think i'm a better president now than when i started. but if you're hear for eight years in the bubble, you start seeing things a certain way and you benefit fr

to grab u.s. assets. >> chinese senning planes around taiwan. and you have the evidence now that we have very big military installations on disputed islands that china built up. and i want our viewers to know the drone was taken 40 miles off of the coast of the philippine and the president there said we don't need you and prepare to leave the philippine and we have had a presence in philippines for many, many years. we are right on the eve of a transition of government? >> this is the chinese sending a message to the president-elect that they are willing to it act and the question is whether he will back up. it is a test of the u.s. political system in general. there are so many things happening in the south china sea that means that china is testing the international system in general. these are points in history that are inflection points and they see our reactions and they don't believe we are firm in defending our principle and friends and allies, the situation will get worse. with the philippines, he is genuinely anti- america and most filipinos support the united states and so

. >> they had a problem with everything, his call to taiwan, everything he does, they're going to have a problem with. >> where would they have learned that from? from the past eight years. moving on, julie. top lawmaker, homeland security officials knew the ohio state attacker was a terrorist recruitment risk but let him in the country anyways. did the obama administration drop the ball? >>> plus fat cat democratic donors demanding answers what went wrong after pouring more than a b, billion dollars into hillary clinton's failed campaign. will anyone tell them? when are they leaving? grilled cheese and campbell's tomato soup go together like grandchildren and chaos. made for real, real life. watry...duo fusiong heartburn relief? duo fusion goes to work in seconds and lasts up to 12 hours. tums only lasts up to 3. for longer lasting relief...in one chewable tablet try duo fusion from the makers of zantac . >> fox news alert for you, we are watching the dow, as we have been. it is approaching that key 20,000 level. up 22 points in today's session. it has closed at a record 16 times since

taiwan president. the first time the china flown that particular route since march of 2015. a sign of increasing es can is la in the region of the also this week, csis, a washington-based think tank, released photos, china armed all seven artificial islands in the south china sea. yesterday in the press conference in beijing, the chinese foreign ministry was asked about recent fox news reporting about these bomber flights. china called them routine. china conducted live-fire exercises from the only aircraft carrier in the region in the last few days. jenna? jenna: so much focus on russia and hacking but what is china doing? something that we have to continue to watch. lucas, thank you so much. breaking news at the pentagon. more on that as we get it. leland? leland: right now president-elect donald trump getting ready to take his new tour to orlando tonight. i-4 corridor did well for him. last night he promised to put miners back to work in a rally in coal country. bryan llenas, wains burke, pennsylvania, in the keystone state with more. hi, brian. reporter: leland. green is the highe

, with the fact he was willing to take on china over the taiwan phone call. these are things people are excited about, an american president standing up and acting an american president for once. >> do you love the aspects so much you want to join the team? >> let's move on. [laughter] >> look, i have been honest about the fact i was offered a position in the cabinet. i declined it. i never did anything to help donald trump get elected because i wanted a federal job. i didn't. i want america to start to do well and go to work again. >> we get a lot of live tweets and people say we wanted to see you in a position. >> they just want to get rid of me. enough. >> not with that tie on. [ laughter ] >> that's it. >> megyn, where do you put the favorability ahead of the actual governing. how important is it? >> one helps the other, agenda will be readily received if the people like and believe in him. you can see the numbers turning around dramatically, that's a dramatic shift having not yet taken office. in addition to carrier, it's his outreach to rivals, to people who just battered him

chinese media blasting our president elect calling him a child calling out his call to taiwan. the white house says russia should apologize to china. >> the united states government has been and remains firmly committed to our policy. the obama administration does not view taiwan in our relationship with taiwan a bargaining chip. >> mr. trump says he doesn't feel p bound by the one china policy. >> president obama refusing to put the word christmas on the christmas card for an 8th year in a row. it's a stark contrast president elect trump has in mind. >> merry christmas. we are going to start saying merry christmas again. >> this year's card features a picture of the obamas and says happy holidays. the president's position to stay pc sparking serious outrage. >> in a cross on top of one town's christmas tree is no more. they took it down after one complaint, just one complaint sparked a lawsuit by the aclu. it violated the first amendment and caused him irreparable harm every time he looked at it. they could not win a court case. outraged residents handing out wooden crosses all over tow

taiwan's president on december 2nd. the obama administration quickly chimed in, saying it fully supports the policy, recognizing the communist beijing government as the official china. then came indications from the trump team that the call was actually something that had been planned for months as a deliberate move to shake things up on the policy front. those indications were down played by trump's senior adviser kellyanne conway that same day saying it was, quote, just a phone call at this point. and yesterday on fox news sunday, president-elect trump further muddied the waters of this timeline. senior foreign affairs correspondent tells us how the apartment shift is being received around the worlt. >> reporter: china reacting swiftly to comments regarding the long held property colt of recognizing beijing while remaining only unofficial ties with taiwan made by president-elect donald trump on fox news sunday. >> i don't know why we have to be bound by a one china policy unless we make a deal with china having to do with other things, including trade. >> reporter: a spokesman

government as a sole authority where taiwan is involved might not be a good thing. china doesn't like that. again, it might be better if mr. trump postpones this confrontation until he is in office and fully briefed on the consequences of a war of words with the chinese. plenty of time to make deals with china. why t them off now? finally, donald trump's appointments to me, they looked fine. it's not like any of these cabinet members have tremendous power. they don't. they do what they're told to do. and all the people appointed so far have skill and experience. fox news is now reporting that ceo of exxon rex tillerson is trump's pick for secretary of state. i have never met mr. tillerson. i know little about him. although reports are that he has a good relationship with vladimir putin. maybe tillerson can neutralize putin's bad behavior. that would be a good thing. i expect mr. tillerson to be confirmed in the senate despite all the whining. summing up, russian hacking happened. president obama should have to deal with it he did not. if it continues, president trump will have to. on china

policy. it started with trump's acceptance of a congratulatory call from taiwan's president on december 2nd. the obama administration quickly chimed in, saying it fully supports the policy, recognizing the communist beijing government as the official china. then came indications from the trump team that the call was actually something that had been planned for months as a deliberate move to shake things up on the policy front. those indications were down played by trump's senior adviser kellyanne conway that same day saying it was, quote, just a phone call at this point. and yesterday on fox news sunday, president-elect trump further muddied the waters of this timeline. senior foreign affairs correspondent tells us how the apartment shift is being received around the worlt. >> reporter: china reacting swiftly to comments regarding the long held property colt of recognizing beijing while remaining only unofficial ties with taiwan made by president-elect donald trump on fox news sunday. >> i don't know why we have to be bound by a one china policy unless we make a deal with china

countries feelings about taiwan. >> first on the monday afternoon, the stunning conclusion from all 17 u.s. national intelligence agency. all of them in lock step, that the russian government did intervene in the u.s. presidential election and is now bringing bipartisan action. the top republican in the united states senate, republican, mind you, says it will investigate whether russian hackers tried to help donald trump win the election. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says moscow's meddling cannot be a partisan issue. the hacking and invasion of crimearch on saying to nato, come together to prove moscow is try to undermine america. >> let me just speak for myself. the russians are not our friends. i think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumption that the russians do not wish us well. >> this comes after two of donald trump's biggest republican critics, john mccain and lindsey graham, joined chuck schumer and jack reed in calling to a bipartisan investigation. senator mcconnell says it's hard to believe any republicans could in any way ever be against revie