eric: the president is back in washington. air force one arriving at the white house an hour ago -- it was marine one that brought the president from camp david. he had the meeting with lawmakers and cabinet official as they hard out their game plan for the new year. i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville. the countdown is on to avoid a government shutdown. other top agenda items include rebuilding the military, immigration and a healthcare overhaul. garrett tenney is live from the white house with more.

reporter: republicans have a small window to get legislative issues done. this morning the president tweeted what some of those issues will be, saying great meeting with the cabinet and military on important subjects including military security and the wall. budget trade, and daca. daca will be a particularly hot issue the next couple weeks. democrats are demanding the dreamers be included in any spending bill after january 19. the president didn't back down from his own demand that the wall and border security be included in any deal with the dreamers. >> we want the wall. and we want to get rid of chain migration and we want to get rid of the lottery system.

in addition we need money for turning. we need additional border security. these are great people and we need border security. but we want to make sure in terms of what we want -- and we want daca to happen. >> we also learned republicans will not be making welfare reform a priority in the next coming months. that's something house speaker paul ryan and president trump said they wanted to make one of their top issues. without the support of democrats they said it wasn't going to happen. arthel: steve bannon is allegedly making some news this morning afternoon. he issued an apology. reporter: the former white house chief strategist, for the first time regarding his remarks in the book "fire and fury" that

were highly critical of the president and his family members. he said i regret my delayed responding to the remarks diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year. >> the statements are just absurd, chris. just pure fantasy. statements like the one mr. wolff made about how we think about the president are ridiculous on their face. they are not worthy of conversation. reporter: this book is still weighing heavily on the mind of the president. this morning the president tweeted, i had to put up with the fake news from the first day i announced that i would be running for president. now i have to put up with a fake

book. ronald reagan had the same problem and handled it well. so will i. eric: president trump said under the right circumstances it would be an honor to meet with north korea dictator kim jong-un. now he said he's open to talking to him. the president revealing that to reporters at camp david. talking with the north korean strong man he labeled rocket man. and he said he would never call him short and fat. this comes as north and south korea gear up for talks in two weeks. the president expressing optimism over that meeting and leaving the door open for possible talks between washington and pyongyang. president trump: i hope it works out. i would like to see them getting involved and maybe things go from there. i'm behind that 100%.

he actually thanked me, and a lot of people have said and a lot of people have written, without my rhetoric and tough stance -- this is not just a stance -- this is what has to be done. eric: joining us from fort lauderdale, florida, ambassador john bolton. chairman of the gatestone institute in new york. >> i don't think it amounts to much of anything. it's not the first time they discussed and actually done something on the olympics back in both 2000 and 2004. the south and for korean teams hard together. i think it's a kim jong-un propaganda stunt. it could be designed to buy more time as they get close to achieving their long-sought objective of nuclear weapons.

the talks on tuesday are aimed mostly on the hip subject. it will be interesting to see if the north raises anything else. eric: you are saying kim jong-un is conducting a head fake. >> never forget what clay, the arms control scholar said about the north korean regime. he said they are capable of boundless mendacity. eric: how can they develop the talks beyond the olympics and potentially his nuclear proper that as you know they will never give up. >> what could be the north korean strategy is to split the united states against south core ria. president trump tried to give

the impression will wouldn't be a split. we shouldn't give the north koreansed the opportunity unless our national safety comes to that. there is a growing recognition. denuclearization of north korea. they are not going to give it up voluntarily. the options are getting narrow very quickly. eric: what are those options. i think it's a reunification of the peninsula, the only solution to the long-term threat. and to get the nuclear capability out of north korea. i haven't seen much movement on the chinese side. they are playing a double game

as they have so often. having put the military option very seriously on the table. eric: the president said he would be willing to talk to kim jong-un. >> are you willing to even gang in talks with kim jong-un right now? >> sure. i would absolutely do that. eric: would that be appropriate if the president did talk to kim jong-un? >> i any americans as a whole say let's resolve this one way or another. but, you know, any time we talk to north korea, any time the united states sits down at whatever level with north korea, as the saying goes, it's like the police and mafia sitting

down to discuss their common interest in law enforcement. talking to north korea is not going to solve this problem. six years of wasted time. eric: that's astounding, and unfortunately it continues. arthel: there are new developments in iran. the regime's revolutionary guard today he clareing victory over anti-government protesters after weeks of rallies. here is cia director mike pompeo. >> the economic conditions in iran are not good. that's what caused the people to take to the streets. america supports the iranian people. that's a backward regime. instead of a regime looking forward to make the lives of their people better.

arthel: conor powell is live with more. reporter: the iran protests haven't fully fizzled out with you they lost a lot of steam in the last 48 hours and they appear to be on their last legs. protests have continued across iran with 40 people killed and 1,700 people, mostly young university students, have been arrested. unemployment is high among this group. the main complaint for these demonstrators is the awful state of the iranian economy which is plagued by corruption. but these protests weren't just started by young progressive iranians, but in iranian political environment a moderate and reformer. there is different jockeying

between political factions who want to replace the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. of course the regime there has blamed outside agitators, specifically the united states and israel. president trump offered strong statement of support for the protesters in the first days of the protests. but despite statements the iranian regime maintains an iron grip over much of that country if not all the country. so these protests lasted longer than people thought. but they were not able to achieve much in terms of putting pressure on the government in terms of making substantial changes. eric: one man has been killed and a woman wound after an explosion occurred in stockholm. he was outside a subway station

when he picked up what turned out to be a hand grenade. police are investigating this, but they say they do not believe it is terror related. arthel: you know by now a brutal arctic blast is locking the northeast in a deep freeze. winter weather warnings are in effect from main down to north carolina where temperatures could fall below zero. in new hampshire's white mountains, wind chills of minus 94 degrees yesterday. this ties with ontario, canada as the coldest spot on earth. but the bitter cold hasn't stopped cold weather

enthusiasts. >> i got my girlfriend to come out. arthel: it's a touch cold. adam: this will be breaking in the next couple days. still dealing with the cold temperatures in the west and the east coast. you add in that wind and that's when it starts to feel colder. negative 4 degree. in the next several days the actual temperature begins to climb. still in the teens, 6 degrees into the boston area. from sunday into monday it goins warm up a little bit. tuesday gets warm than that. you are seeing it running up into new england, stretching down the spots that are very cold starting to climb back into

the 60s. the other story in the next couple days will be taking place on the west coast where currently all is clear. down in southern california, areas battered by wildfires will see heavy rain. it does stay dry today. but by tomorrow these are rounds of heavy rainfall and when you talk about wildfires that clears a lot of the ground and you can start to see perhaps the mudslides happening. when i talk about mudslides, there will be areas getting rains up to 4-6 inches. it will be happening very quickly. now that the cold is break our next focus will in the west. arthel: adam, thank you. eric: there is fire and fury from president trump and his allies against the author.

but michael wolff is not backing down. >> if i left out anything, it's probably stuff that's even more damning. eric: be requires apologizing to the first family. as for those anti-regime protests in iran are continuing. our interview with prince pahlavi. what he says the future of his nation should be. >> we as iranians don't ask the world to do the job for us. all we say is give us the tools, the means and support so we can do the job. don't throw us under the bus. this is a message that was sent clearly from the wrsh to the

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flight had some more trouble. they found themselves back at logan after takeoff because of what is described as earn unusual odor on board that aircraft. some passengers and the crew said the odor made them feel sick. the source of that mysterious smell is under investigation. >> if i left out anything it's probably stuff that would be even more damning. it's that bad it's an extraordinary moment in time. this is -- you know, i think not an exaggeration and not unreasonable. it's not unreasonable to say this is 25th amendment kind of stuff. arthel: michael wolff responding to the fallout over his bombshell back to fire and fury.

now, steve bannon is expressing regret to the first family and his comments in the book which questioned the president's fitness for office. josh, let me get your reaction to bannon's apology as reported by axios. >> this apology comes probably too little too late. it's almost a week since the boodges revelations. it took a long time for bannon to respond. you saw steven admiral, one of the top advisors at the white house go on television and call steve bannon grotesque. i don't think the apology is really going to change things. steve bannon has lost trust from the trump base. even if some people decide to

read and listen to steve bannon. that degree of support and enthusiasm the base had towards both trump and bannon. bannon lost all credibility on that front. >> so sit was more about bannon trying to save his reputation and maybe his job at breitbart? >> amount in right. one of the big donors, funders to breitbart threatened to cut off funding for steve bannon's projects. his job at breitbart is in question. you saw sarah huckabee sanders suggest he should get fired or considered losing his job. so that's a lot of rhetoric coming from the white house. i know steve bannon has to be worried about his future in politics. arthel: speaking of sarah sanders and the rest of the white house communications team. they are trashing the credibility of this book.

now we have the steve bannon saying i'm sorry for what i said. but is it a good idea for the president himself to lash out publicly against the content and author and threaten to sue the author and publishing company, is that a good idea? >> donald trump's reaction is only drawing more attention to the book and a lot of the negative revelations tonight. donald trump doesn't play by the rules of white houses past. he does things his own bay way. but he's guaranteeing the negative revelations will get more reaction and publicity. there were three big moments in the first year of the trump administration that got under flortd this book. one is when mike flynn lost his job as national security advisor and when john kelly was hired and the third was when steve

bannon left the white house and there wasn't that much in-fighting after that point. this focuses in the first half of 2017 when things were chaotic. but it doesn't give credence to how things are since john kelly came on board. it's different in the details michael wolf portrayed in that book. arthel: is there anything in the book that could be extract and be used as fuel for the russia investigation? >> the biggest news is what steve bannon said. he attacked donald trump's son, jared kushner and raised questions on the record that there could be illicit ties between them and the russians. arthel: now it's out there. even though steve bannon said i regret those comments, it's out there, and perhaps the attention

has been drawn to it. i was wondering if you knew if special counsel mueller is look into the allegations steve bannon made in the book and it could perhaps be used against the president later. >> i'm sure robert mueller will want to talk to steve bannon. so that's what a lot of people in the white house are using to rebut ban noon criticisms. arthel: this man, michael wolff had extraordinary access. so i guess there are those to be count as well. >> steve bannon is on the record, he's quoted by name

saying a lot of derogatory and vitriolic things. arthel: i hair, you are saying take it with a grain of salt and that's it. take it with a grain of salt. >> the bannon quotes are the most of newsworthy part of this book. eric: michigan congressman keith ellison is under fire for a controversial tweet even from his fellow democrats. the winter weather causing a massive headache tore travelers. a lot of them stranded at jfk in new york. some stuck on the tarmac for hours. one plane was diverted twice. we'll have an update on the flights and the travel at one of our nation's busiest airports. the battle brewing between jeff sessions and the states that

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arthel: frigid weather and the aftermath of that bomb cyclone causing more headaches for travelers with hundreds more flight disruptions at airports across across the u.s. today including jfk right here in new york city, and more winter weather is in the forecast this week. brian is live from our new york city news room with the latest hi, brian. >> hi, attar el. do you know what's less fun than freezing weather travel nightmares and jfk airport indiana income city has been exactly that since the storm hit on thursday. take a look at these pictures travelers on flights were stuck on the tarmac and in the airport but they were stuck on the

tarmac in their airplanes for three, four, five plus hours, some reporting no bathrooms no water and no food. the problem is that there was a backlog of flights following the storm. too many flights then landed at the same time overwhelming the airport and there were not enough gates. the port authority of new york and new jersey which operates new york's transit hubs had to bring in portable staircases to get people off the planes and on the buses to bring them to their terminals. once that baggage claim that's when another nightmare ensued. people waiting for hours to get their bags in fact many people left the airport without their bags or they arrived at their destinations like in europe to find their bags never made the trip. one frustrated traveler tweeting "we waited for 90 minutes for our bags, nothing. they even de listed our flight after two hours on the tarmac and 90 minutes in baggage at 12: 45 a.m. went home, no one from delta there for info frustrating scratch that madden

ing. we have to go back to jfk and try to get them" and this is a look at flightaware.com's misery map which tracks cancellations and delays nationwide in realtime and today there have been 369 delays and 19 cancellations we don't have the map but believe me there are about 369 delays and 19 cancellations so far and the worst right now is in chicago's o'hare airport followed by jfk and check your airline before traveling. it's the best advice that i can give you and by the way the port authority in new york saying the better cold and the snow have actually affected the ground equipment. it was four degrees at jfk this morning breaking a january 7 record of six degrees and take a look at the wind chills and that's actually the forecast highs, it will be 19 degrees which by the way has been a high , considering that the current wind chill right now in new york is four degrees and by the way the current wind chill in boston right now is minus 15 so when you have a high of 16

and that feels warm that gives you an idea of the kind of weather we've been experiencing meanwhile even worse in massachusetts. the actual temperature was negative 21 in chickapee this morning. it's so cold that in door chest er two fire trucks froze in place at the scene of a five alarm fire the area ladder frozen and won't retract so both trucks needing to be towed. by the way it was negative two this morning in boston tying the days record set in 1896 and as my friend at fox said she goes once you're talking about single-digits that's a toddler's age that's no right to be a temperature it's just ridiculous arthel: it's a good point thank you, brian. take care. well congressman oath ellison of minnesota is coming under fire for a controverse control tweet that appears to support antifa the anti-fascist group the lawmaker tweeting out this picture promoting a handbook for the left leaning group which is known for using violence against white supremacists.

critics say the tweet condones antifa and our next guest is taking her fellow democrat to task over it. joining us now is jim green a fox news political analyst and former candidate for dnc chair and distinguished fellow for the athena center for leadership hi. >> hi, arthel. dear democrats, last week congressman keith ellison tweet ed out a photo promoting a handbook for antifa, the anti-racist group that monitor and track the activities of neo-nazis also known as violent extremists who go after other violent extremists. being anti-nazi is a good thing, embracing violence is not. congressman ellison needs to retract and delete his tweet. think about it. it was as if the deputy chair of the democratic national committee thought happy new year what's the one thing i can do today to help democrats lose? in 10 short months democrats

need to win back just 24 seats to win the house. it's a harder feet in the senate but if we gain two there we can take that back as well. if promoting antifa is on the 2018 communications menu for democrats, we have absolutely no chance of winning. with so many entrepreneurial left-leaning political organizations on the rise, why on earth would the second most powerful person at the dnc choose to uplift violent extremists? crews like color of change, emerge america, they're fueling enthusiasm for diverse and progressive candidates, while antifa's activities were classified as domestic terrorists violence by the obama justice department. tweeting out violent means is what president trump does. democrats won't win by trying to out-trump trump and we certainly won't win by wrecklessly handing over the amunition republicans

will use in their ads and talking points to drive moderate s away from us. don't give red meat to your opponents that can easily be used to discredit democrats. perhaps you need to read the democratic party platform one more time. specifically the part where it says we believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better than resentment and bridges are better than walls. antifa is not the answer. delete your tweet congressman. arthel: so is the takeaway from your commentary that listen both sides you don't fight fire with fire, you don't put out disparaging remarks via twitter or any forms of social media. you're saying stick to the issues that america wants to hear about and that is how you win elections. >> well, you certainly don't win elections by advocating for violence.

we won fights in the civil rights movement on so many important social issues, embracing non-violence. to see this coming from the leadership within the dnc was infuriating. now, the tweet said that it would strike fear in the heart of president trump as a life long democrat. seeing that tweet it struck fear in my heart as in we are not going to win if this is our approach if this is our strategy arthel: so the congressman apparently said he didn't read the book. that's part of his comeback that i read. >> lame. arthel: listen i'm not taking sides i'm just asking questions. you're the comentator here. he said he didn't read the book but your point is that it's out there. it sends a very strong negative signal, so i'm asking finally, what is it that you think your party the democratic party should do moving forward? do you need not only the

congressman to delete his tweet, do you need some sort of unified backing in concert from the democratic party to discredit, disown, discard the tweet politically as well? what should they do? how do they move forward? >> well there are a lot of great things that the party has been doing and investing and organiz ing in ways that we haven't seen before. that's how doug jones won in alabama. that's how we were successful in virginia so there's a lot of great stuff coming out of the dnc but just to see ourselves or see leadership shoot ourselves in the foot in that way was backing an organization that embraces violence is idiotic and we have to be so disciplined to get the job done in november. we need leadership focused on winning not on stocking fear within whether it's the heart of donald trump or the heart of

moderates who we will need to help us win. eric: may i also point out a spokesman also said not only didn't he read the book but that he has always said non-violence throughout his career so we'll see what else the congressman would have about this controversy in the coming week. >> well he can start by taking the tweet down. eric: searching for survivors up the coast of china after an iranian tanker collided with the chinese freighter. dozens are missing after that tanker caught fire we'll have the latest on that desperate rescue next. plus, more than 20 dead at least 1000 people have been arrested as iran's government has cracked down on those anti-regime protesters so what does the movement do now and what is the future of that nation? the son of the prince of iran is here next, with his take, coming up.

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eric: well the iranian authorities are declaring the end of the deadly unrest but the opposition in iran is not at all over. more than 20 protesters have been killed at least 1000 others have been arrested in street demonstrations across the country so far. it's iran's largest up rising since the so-called greed movement back in 2009. joining us now from washington of iran, he's the son of the sha h of iran and now a human rights activist prince welcome to fox news channel today. >> hello eric good to be with you again. eric: of course seven months ago as you just referred to we had an interview and you called for this very type of protest, civil disobedience that you like en to the similar freedom movements

like nelson mandella in south africa, the fall of the berlin wall and collapse of the soviet union. how can that same thing happen in iran? >> well it is in fact happening and if you have observed carefully, you see that in most cases, the iranians have been quite disciplined in avoiding any kind of violent behavior that would give a pre-text for the regime to come and crack down on them even more. the reason why it is important to have a movement that is based on non-violence civil disobedience is because it doesn't give you a sense of a result of vengence or any kind of settling of scores. what we need is a philosophy of national amnesty and reconciliation. one of the key factors i think we talked about this last time we spoke is the role of the military forces. i sent a message to the military forces a few days ago asking them to realize their role in being on the side of the people as opposed to protect the regime

this exit strategy has to be provided and again non-violence is yet an early indication that people will welcome the military and forces back into their arms so they can have a better chance of standing up to a regime that is using repression. eric: do you think the military would really put their arms down i mean they're using it against the people, shooting demonstrators according to the reports and as we reported today , the regime is claiming victory. >> first of all, i doubt that the military had anything to do with it. there might be some elements still of the irgc that may be doing that but as of late the regime has been importing foreign nationals to do the dirty job for them. they're not even iranians. the point is it will come a time where that shift will occur. we are doing everything that we can from our end a, to maintain the momentum to be of help to our fellows and the formation of a broad correlation of liberal

democratic secular forces today is key and working directly with leaders both inside and outside of iran to provide this platform as early as possible because the leadership now needs to take the country to the next level. as you can see, we are bravely standing and putting their lives on the line, most of them are extremely young, like my children and guess what? this is the first time in four decades that this generation is calling me father so i really feel like i have that relationship with them. these are our children and we need to do everything we can so they can fulfill their aspirations. eric: we were at this point before during 2009 during the green revolution and president obama was criticized for not coming out at first strongly enough to support the protesters president trump has been very strong on that . what should the trump administration, what should americans do to in your view encourage this type of demonstrations? >> america is perhaps the most important democratic country on

the planet which is natural why a lot of people have many expectations from america and whoever is the leadership of this country at any time. i think america hopefully with many democratic allies would understand that as a matter of empowerment it is critical to acknowledge the fact that today the demand of a nation that it is majority are quite clearly rejecting the entire system for the first time means that they need to have an opportunity for change. it's not going to be easy when you're dealing with a repress ever regime so any message of solidarity and support will be greatly useful and helpful and empowering and invigorating because as you know when you're facing a totalitarian state there are ebbs and flows in how long people can sustain protests eric: so quickly what can we do? >> well there's some areas for instance one of the key issues as of late with communication so people can have massive communication and talking about internet access, i'm talking

about the filtering that the regime is trying to do and some action has been taken to that part. i hope that president trump in particular will understand that the idea of the travel ban no longer makes sense. a lot of our people need to be able to come and go to be of help here and there and basically instead of punishing iranian citizens where on your side you better think of limiting the traveling of the regime element rather than the iranian people. eric: how do you think this will end? >> well, hopefully it will end with the people winning. this is a country that has long demonstrated that its people want peace, they want to have regional stability and security, good relationships with their neighbors, they don't want to have our country or our governments interfere and other country's affairs and most importantly people just want to have an opportunity for better life but they understand today the necessity and the discourse of secular parliamentary democracy and separation religion from state a

little bit like europe after the inquisition and license and iran has gone to an islamic inquisition. eric: now we're up against the clock prince, thank you so much. >> thank you eric. eric: we'll be right back. i couldn't sleep and get up in time. then i found aleve pm. aleve pm is the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am.

arthel: attorney general jeff sessions facing widespread criticism for rescinding obama- era policy on the legal sale of marijuana. california is the latest state to legalize recreational pot but the drug is still illegal at the federal level. will carr is live in los angeles with more. will? >> the unveiling of recreational marijuana sales still rolling out this week in parts of california but now there's a lot of confusion about how federal pot laws will be enforced moving forward. eight states plus the district of columbia have legalized recreational marijuana including california this year and on saturday sales started in san francisco which has long- embraced marijuana and california democrats say they're ready to take on the trump administration on another controversial issue. >> now of course we have another barrier so there are always hurdles and barriers with this crazy person named jeff sessions who wants to take us back to the

1950s on many different issues around race and gender and sexual orientation and everything else but including cannabis and you know what? he doesn't know what is going to hit him in terms of the bipartisan backlash against his ridiculous announcement the other day. >> on thursday attorney general sessions announced the justice department was ditching an obama -era approach that essentially dictated a hands-off policy basically saying it's the doj's job to enforce the law. arthel: will carr, thank you we'll be back at 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. eastern. eric: we'll see you later on this afternoon. stay with us, thank you. p maint6 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d. save seven dollars. look in sunday's paper.

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