for your free home care planning guide. >> sandra: did you notice the dow is down today? but it sailed through 25,000. >> bill: georgia? >> sandra: all right, georgia, yeah yeah. it's on. >> bill: see you tomorrow. >> president trump back at the white house but not for long as he gets ready to head south this afternoon. good monday morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> i'm melissa francis. the president flying to nashville later where he will become the first sitting president in 25 years to address the national farm bureau federation's national convention and then he is off to atlanta for the big game while the president's allies strongly defend him in the face of michael wolff's explosive new book. >> john roberts is live with more. >> starting you off first. this hour the dhs secretary is expected to announce that the

united states, the trump administration will be ending so-called temporary protected status for 200,000 citizens of el salvador, many who have been in the country since the earthquake of el salvador in 2001. it will end as of september 2019. meaning that all those people still in the country under tps will either have to return to el salvador or find some other means of gaining status in the united states. tens of thousands of people who came in as part of that program have already received some other sort of protected status in this country. now to the president's former chief strategist steve bannon and what he said in a book and what he is saying now. i wouldn't count it as an apology, just basically steve bannon saying this is what i meant and this is who i was talking about when he made those comments published in the

new michael wolff book "fire and fury". steve bannon in a statement to fox news talking about that meeting that donald trump junior had with a russian attorney that was described by bannon in the book as being treasonous. he said donald trump jr. is a patriot and good man. he has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that helped turn our country around. at the same time bannon did not deny saying the meeting was treasonous. he said it came from my life experiences as a naval officer stationed aboard a destroyer to hunt soviet sub -- submarines and my time during the reagan years. he pointed fingers at the president's then campaign manager paul manafort who was also there saying my comments were aimed at paul manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the russians operate. he should have known they're

cunning and not our friends. to reiterate those comments were not aimed at don junior. he said sorry to the president kind of in a way tweeting, quote, i regret my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding don junior has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments from the first year of his presidency. the president spent part of his weekend focused on responding to the book and allegations in it, including allegations he is not stable enough mentally to execute the job of the presidency or to understand the big issues facing him. the president tweeting on saturday, quote, i went from very successful businessman to top tv star to president of the united states on my first try. i think that would qualify as not smart but genius. a very stable genius at that. administration officials took to the airwaves sunday to defend their boss, c.i.a. director mike pompeo talking to chris wallace.

>> those statements are absurd, chris, just pure fantasy. the president is engaged, he understands the complexity and asks really difficult questions of our team at c.i.a. so we can provide him the information he needs. statements like the one mr. wolff made about how we all think about the president, they're just ridiculous on their face. >> the president has so far refrained from any comment on the "fire and fury" book so far today. he is going to nashville this afternoon to become the first sitting president in 25 years to talk with the farm bureau federation convention giving a speech on agricultural and trade policy and then he heads down to atlanta, georgia, to watch the face-off between the georgia bulldogs and the crimson tide. >> the day is still young. plenty of time to go. >> we'll be watching twitter. john roberts. >> how lawmakers are back from the holiday break for work cut

out for them as they look to the november mid-terms that could impact their agenda. here is karl rove. >> how much trouble are republicans in as they head toward the mid-term in 2018 in november? >> big trouble. the president's approval rating is in the high 30s. the republicans are 24 seats in the house away from losing their majorities. there has always been a tension between the house and senate. this year the house republicans will use the tension createively in order to say we're working, they aren't, vote for me, your republican congressman and the senate can go to heck. >> joining us now is the author of the daily 202, national political correspondent for the "washington post". what do you think of that analysis? >> spot on. he is absolutely right both in the fact that the house and the senate are in play and also the idea that republicans in the house are going to try and createively come up with wedge

issues to force vulnerable democratic incumbents to get difficult votes. they have the filibuster rule. 60 votes to get anything done. after the loss in alabama they only have 51 votes with two senators six 49 votes they can count on. it will be hard to pass big ticket things in the senate. paul ryan in the house can put points on the board, give his vulnerable republican incumbents things they can go back home to their districts and say we tried to pass this, we would have passed this into law if only the senate would fall in line. >> the strategy as he laid it out is republicans in the house and senate and the president can work together in lock step now and then the house members of the house can do extra stuff on the side that they say we did this great thing and it would have worked great. we handed it to the senate and they didn't do anything with it. they say that a lot. it could work with everyone sticks to the plan. they have a habit of not doing that. >> this was the big topic at camp david this weekend. president trump was there with

the republican leaders of the house and senate and mitch mcconnell is going to these guys saying i know paul ryan wants to tackle entitlement reform. one of his big life long legacy items. that will put some of our members in a tough spot. we won't take it up. please don't make this the big priority. so mcconnell urging his republican colleagues in the house and the white house saying focus on infrastructure and immigration. those are areas where we can actually win and get some real achievements. >> i'm glad you brought up camp david. i am one of those people that is suspicious of conspiracies everywhere. i look out and think as the president headed to camp david, could steve bannon have been a sacrificial lamb? that is we're throwing him off after the disaster in alabama and everything, now we're all coming together in a more moderate position. let's all work together kumbaya, what do you think? >> i think you're dead right.

i think that mcconnell couldn't be happier. the people close to the leader are thrilled. they really hope that this means that there is not going to be the kinds of divisive primaries there might have been in arizona and nevada and wisconsin and elsewhere. if republicans can avoid some of these nasty devastating primary fights their odds of holding the house and senate go up. >> the timing of the book and whole thing is too convenient. i feel there are people behind the scenes working on this more of getting rid of bannon. that's a subject for another time. talking about issues, that's what really counts. what do you think gets done in this moment of trying to work together? is there a deal that daca and the border or is it infrastructure? what do you think could actually get done? >> well, i think something is going to happen on immigration. both sides think they have leverage that they are in a good negotiating position. republicans feel like democrats

are separate for the undocumented minors. democrats feel like republicans will cave to get their votes. that trump won't get money for the border wall. there has to be something that gets done but both sides still feel like they are in a good negotiating position. they have to pass something by next friday to avoid another government shutdown. i think they will end up kicking the can down the road a week or two. i think there will be some movement on immigration. infrastructure is harder than it sounds. it should be easy. let's spend money to fix the crumbling infrastructure. contradictory information coming out about what the plan is going to be. i think some people -- some conservatives want to do public/private partnerships so the government doesn't have to go into so much debt to jump start the projects. trump was saying i don't think that approach will work. we have to actually spend government money to do this. there are deficit hawks in the

house and senate who really don't want to spend a trillion on what might be another stimulus package. that said i think there is 10 democratic senators up for reelection this year in states president trump carried in 2016 and feel a lot of pressure on something like infrastructure to get on board. i think that is why i feel somewhat confident something even if it's a relatively small package can pass. >> james, thank you for your insight this morning. appreciate it. >> a taliban hostage freed after years in captivity in court for a bail hearing now. joshua boyle rescued by pakistani forces last october. he is facing multiple charges in canada including sexual assault. that's story in a moment. plus president trump firing back on twitter at critics questioning his fitness for office. how his closest advisors are defending him next. >> he didn't become the president by accident. as much as everyone wants to

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mental stability and brilliance. this isn't a normal presidency or normal white house and he does what he wants to do. >> seems to me we have a situation here on the one hand you have the accounts in this book which, if true and there were questions inside the administration about the president's ability to perform his office, they would put a duty on those working around him to speak up. on the other side you have what could be a fundamental smear against democracy, which is to say the fitness of the president. this isn't just some political critique but whether he can perform. it goes to the heart of what's going on. >> jon: you heard mike pompeo went on to defend the president and his fitness for office. let's bring in our panel. this new book has just sent the media into, well, i guess a twitter. they are just all over this and you do have to say you cannot

win the presidency of the united states without having some smarts. >> well yes, he is either crazy, as his critics would say, or president trump is crazy like a fox, as his defenders say and as the american thinker wrote over the weekend. look, there is no doubt that president trump is very unusual and has some very peculiar traits, most of which were chronicled by michael wolff and you have a doctor who did a long-distance diagnosis of the president who also said the president is unraveling. they have said this of his i had -- journalists are not good psychiatrists and shouldn't be in that business. >> jon: few have degrees in the field. ones that do have to it.

long distance analysis. here is the deal. president trump has been a public figure for nearly four decades. he has acted this way when he was an incredibly successful real estate mogul and when he was campaigning last year, the most scrutinized watched campaign we've ever seen and become a dully elected president. his communication style is unorthodox. the problem is many people in the industry are taking that unorthodox approach and trying to connect it to the 25th amendment which is to remove a president based on his mental stability. so look, he is unconventional, we get that completely. but we can't use that as an excuse to say he is mentally unfit. >> jon: there are demands of the office that a lot of people assume the president is sort of holding twitter out there as a shiny object and getting -- baiting his critics, his enemies if you will, by putting

out some of the tweets he puts out while behind the scenes he is appointing neil gorsuch to the supreme court. >> that's the crazy like a fox hypothesis. the problem is in a nuclear age if someone does exhibit signs of mental instability that should be a legitimate source of concern to people. and we have had previous instances, as we now know only in retrospect, for example, president reagan who performed admirably and magnificently some would say on the job who was also suffering from alzheimer's apparently while still in office. so there are questions. the president has a physical coming up on january 12th. why not release the results of it and that might put to rest some of these allegations. >> a lot of people in the business are going too far. joe scarborough msnbc tweeted today the "washington post" had turned him down twice to write

an op-ed to argue the president is suffering from early onset dementia. how does joe scarborough know it. he said it came from a source. unless the source is the president's doctor we can't go ahead of this. pew did an end of the year analysis of president trump's coverage. he only gets 5% positive coverage while president obama received 20% negative coverage. so anybody who says there is no bias in media it puts it to rest. >> if you want the press to like you try not attacking us day and night. >> personal feelings shouldn't get in the way. follow the facts. don't worry about if the president is attacking you. >> jon: the president wrote i have had to put up with the fake news since the first day since i ran for president now i have to put up with a fake book. ronald reagan had the same

problem and handled it well. so will on. i guess that's the questions of alzheimer's especially during reagan's second term. fake news, the president is at war with the media. >> absolutely. his war on the media definitely has consequences and you see them at moments like this. but when you read michael wolff's book as i did over the weekend started to do online over the weekend, it is filled with things that really would make people wonder what is going on in the white house. >> things, what kind of things? things that were fact checked? >> i'm now talking about michael wolff's report he goes to bed at 6:30 if he can with some mcdonalds and that's not normal behavior. >> who cares? we're treating gossip as gospel now. michael wolff has been known over the years, over decades for being allergic to fact

checking where he has been contradicted about his reporting from people who said they weren't even in places they said they were. one person was at the four seasons and he said my kid was being born that dai. i wasn't there. this was somebody else. i can give dozens of examples of this book being simply gossip. not saying all of it. but this book should not be taken seriously. >> i think it will be whether or not we like it. >> jon: the president is unhappy about it. thank you both. >> melissa: a big night at the golden globes as the stars wore black in a statement against sexual harassment in hollywood. then there was oprah. we are live with the details plus fire breaks out over at trump tower. what we know about the cause and how it was detected. >> the secret service that were monitoring the building noticed the smoke coming from the roof and they called the fire safety director in the lobby.

by checking the cameras throughout the building he saw flames coming out of a vent on the top of the building.

>> jon: things are getting back to normal now at trump tower in new york city after a fire on the top floor had smoke billowing from the roof. the fire department says there were three minor injuries, two civilians, one firefighter. >> the fire wasn't in the building. it was on top of the building. flames were coming out of the vents. again, it did not -- no smoke or fire inside the building. >> jon: the high rise building is home to the president's

penthouse. other luxury apartments and business offices. the president's son, eric, tweeting his thanks to firefighters for doing a quote, incredible job. >> melissa: hollywood's award season kicking off last night. the red carpet turned black at the golden globes with stars denouncing sexual har atment and supporting the me too movement wearing black dresses. harvey weinstein was not there but he did get a mention in seth meyer's opening monologue. william is live in los angeles with more. >> well, remember two years ago hollywood was too white. last year the industry went after president trump. this years awards show was about promoting women. it looked like a funeral as everyone wore black to protest gender inequality, injustice and sexual harassment in the workplace. >> many of us were taught not

to tattle. it was a culture of silencing and that was normalized. i urge all of us to not only support survivors and bystanders who are brave enough to tell their truth but to promote restorative justice. >> everyone got on the band wagon. none bothered to joke how hollywood personified a sexist culture for decade. dozens of directors and producers who have been accused of misconduct, only two were vilified by name. harvey weinstein and kevin spacey. >> for the male nominees in the room tonight this is the first time in three months it won't be terrifying to hear your name read out loud. harvey weinstein isn't here tonight. i heard rumors he is crazy and difficult to work with. >> host evidence by the 98 members of the hollywood foreign press association they

honored oprah winfrey what many saw she delivered a political speech. >> for too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. but their time is up. >> oprah inspired the crowd. her long time partner later said she would run for president if, quote, that's what the people wanted. would america elect another celebrity with no political experience? melissa, what do you think about that? nbc, i have to say this. nbc ran a tweet last night that said we have nothing but respect for our future president. they had to delete it because it was put out by a third party. >> melissa: she was implying she was our future president. two master marketers between oprah and the current president. it would be interesting to watch and give us a lot to do.

thank you, william. >> jon: the navy is helping out in a frantic search for survivors after an oil tanker collides with another vessel. the fire raising fears of a larger environmental disaster as well. and president trump taking a tough stand on immigration. can he and the democrats make a deal to protect the dreamers? and will the president's demands be met? >> we want to solve this problem but most importantly we don't want to have to deal with the problem in the future. you need border security. you have to deal with chain migration, and it is a place where everybody can find common ground and solve.

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>> jon: the united states navy joining the search for more than 30 crew members missing from an iranian oil tanker. it collided with another freighter and caught fire in the east china sea. smoke and weather are complicating the search for survivors. benjamin hall following the story from london. >> there are now real fears this tanker carrying a very flammable kind of oil from iran could explode and could then sink. if that were to happen it would make it the worst tanker oil spill in over 25 years anywhere in the world. the ship was sailing from iran to south korea carrying 136,000 tons, around a million barrels

of oil that's an ultralight form of crude oil. mostly transparent and more explosive than normal crude oil. it collided with a cargo ship carrying grain from the u.s. 160 miles off shore east of shanghai saturday night. the u.s. navy is joining the search looking for the missing sailors. chinese authorities have besaoefpd three cleaning ships to help. it is presumed the tanker's entire crew is dead. one body has been recovered aboard the tanker. the crew of the cargo ship have been rescued. experts are trying to bring the fire under control and contain the leaking oil. there are growing concerns that marine life in the area is at risk. at the moment there is the fire and the poisonous gases making recovery of any more bodies very difficult. as you said there are high seas in the area making it impossible for ships to get close by. the high seas have been

responsible for collisions as well. the warships that we've seen colliding in recent months. a dangerous place to be there at the moment. the recovery still ongoing. >> scary situation. >> melissa: president trump says he hopes to make a deal with democrats on immigration. this weekend at camp david the president laid out his demands for any deal that protects so-called dreamers. >> president trump: we want the wall. the wall is going to happen or we won't have daca. we want to get chain migration, very important. we want to get rid of the lottery system. in addition to that we want money for funding. we need some additional border security. when somebody gets picked in the lottery we aren't getting the best people. so we have to get rid of the lottery system. we have to get rid of chain migration. >> melissa: joining me now richard fowler radio talk show host and fox news contributor and lawrence jones, radio host

and conservative commentator. lawrence, i'll let you go first. what can actually get done here on daca? i don't want talking points. republicans want to get something done. what would it look like and include? >> what has to be included first is that we get border security. the base won't hear anything else until we get border security as a promise first. and then, melissa, i think that we can talk about the dreamers staying here. i don't know if that guarantees citizenship. i believe a lot of people wouldn't be too happy with that but i think democrats simply agree to the wall and border security then we can talk about the dreamers. if we don't get that, then this conversation is dead on arrival. >> melissa: majority leader kevin mccarthy who stood behind president trump doesn't think necessarily you need democrats on board. let's hear that and richard, i'll ask you to respond after that. >> i have never seen this party as united as we are.

think about this. the democrats are whipping nancy pelosi on the floor to shut the government down. republicans passed it on their own, got to the 218 just republicans to move this government forward while they are trying to play politics. and think about what we just did on tax reform. you had to have the house and senate. it was three decades. i had a lot of democrats come to me saying they wanted to vote on the bill but they were getting whipped from the democratic leadership to vote no. >> melissa: if you give advice to republicans try to get your own team on board and don't worry about trying to please democrats because they aren't going to vote with you no matter what? >> i wouldn't say that at all. i agree with lawrence to some extent. i think we can have a conversation about border security. i think where we have a non-starter is this idea of the wall because i think what all the research tells us the wall will be ineffective. number one because a lot of

those individuals who have come to the country in violation of our immigration laws never went -- never crossed the border. most of them are visa overstays. people who came from other parts of the world that overstayed their visas. they came here legally and overstayed their visa. building a wall won't stop that, right? that's number one. number two, we believe in a strong border. with that being said for those folks who have come to this country no fault of their own because their parents brought them here as young people. they went to school and currently in the military and currently working or in college, those individuals deserve the right to be americans because they are pursuing the american dream. who be it from us to take that right away from them? i think that's up for debate here. playing political foot ball with them. >> melissa: lawrence, let me drill down on his first point. this idea of a wall. that is kind of the problem is the semantics around that in the sense it isn't physically possible to build a wall

end-to-end because of water and different geographic things. what constitutes a wall? there is something everyone could agree on but not agree on what to call it. >> we can debate the name whether it's a wall or a fence. what we know is there has been a couple demos that are being built now. it looks more like -- it does do the same thing. a lot of border patrol agents have concerned with being able to see through the wall. and so that's why a lot of the design has changed. but at the end of the day whether you call it a wall or fence we just want security. so democrats can debate the terminology. american people want security. richard is right on one point. the visa program is a problem. but the wall is also a problem. we do have people coming across our southern border as well. >> melissa: i want to give richard a chance to respond. that is the problem, right? everybody does want security.

i think it is in that word the wall and what it actually means is where the fight is. >> it is. that's a fight created by the president of the united states. remember when he ran he said he will build a wall so high that you can't see over it and mexico is going the pay for it. now we know the united states, the taxpayers of this country are going to pay for this wall. we know that like you said, melissa, it is unfeasible to build a wall along the whole border. let's have a conversation about we keep those individuals who came to this country at no fault of their own the ability to stay in this country, pursue the american dream. they are contributing to our economy. the fact we use them as a political football is immoral. >> melissa: we didn't help them out at all but gave it a shot. we gave it our best. >> jon: the four-minute solution. a canadian man held captive by the taliban for five years

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a penn state university student says their son went missing tuesday night when he walked into a wilderness park while visiting family in california. now they're sending an urgent plea as investigators try to solve the teen's mysterious disappearance. >> if you hear me, it's okay for you to come home. we love you. >> blaze, come home, wherever you are, whatever has happened, we don't care. we just want you here. find a way home. >> melissa: family and friends canvassing the area where blaze was last seen are using drones in the search. investigators believe he was last seen by a friend at a park the night he went missing. but that friend is not a suspect. >> jon: breaking now north and south korea set to hold diplomatic talks tomorrow for the first time in more than two years part of an effort to improve relations as the rogue regime aims to strengthen its

nuclear weapons program. c.i.a. director mike pompeo says the north only reached out because of pressure from president trump. >> they're behaving out of fear. that is they're very concerned that america for the first time in a long time is serious about denuclearizing the peninsula. we'll have to wait and see how the conversations go on tuesday. >> jon: let's talk about it with nile gardner at the heritage foundation. what do you think about what mike pompeo had to say there? are the north koreans nervous? >> i think they are a bit nervous, actually, without a doubt the united states has ramped up the pressure on the north korean regime. but let's also bear in mind that traditionally in the new year the north korean regime makes traditional overtures to the south. very little actually comes out

of these grand gestures coming from north korea. they are really used overall for propaganda purposes. we should be under no illusions with regard to this latest statement from kim jong-un. he is a dictator who can't be trusted. and we have to significantly further increase the pressure on the north korean regime, especially through applying sanctions against pyongyang. >> jon: they might be used for propaganda purposes but also buying time. while these talks are underway, the north korean nuclear scientists and ballistic scientists no doubt are working more than ever on trying to get a deliverable nuclear weapon. >> that's absolutely right, jon. beyond a shadow of a doubt the north korean regime is hell bent developing its nuclear weapons program and directly threatening the united states itself. and so we have to ensure that every single possible aspect of

pressure is applied against pyongyang. we really do need to see the united states enforcing sanctions against pyongyang, especially secondary sanctions against chinese banks that are continuing to do business with the north korean regime in violation of u.s. law. we have to see those sanctions being forcefully implemented by the trump administration. at the same time we do need to see as well the continuation of military exercises between south korea and the united states. those have been postponed during the winter olympics but we need to see the resumption of those exercises as soon as the olympic games are over. and we should also, i think, be acutely aware here that the north koreans will seek to use the participation in the winter olympics for its own propaganda

purposes and still continuing on its nuclear program. >> jon: how would margaret thatcher have handled an issue like this? >> deeply distrustful of the north korean regime and advocated for the west to be robust and to implement tremendous resolve in the face of what she viewed as one of the most evil, tyrannical regimes of our time. and she would have urged as well the united states and its allies to invest significantly in rebuilding military strength and capacity in order to combat any kind of threat posed by north korea, iran or a whole wide array of rogue regimes. but her view was you can never appease evil. you always have to confront evil, ultimately defeat that evil as well. >> jon: thank you. >> my pleasure, thank you very much. >> melissa: new warnings about a growing public health problem.

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at the f.b.i.? "outnumbered" on the top of the hour, someone you won't want to miss. >> melissa: two major investors putting pressure on apple after studies on children and teenagers showed negative consequences of excessive smartphone use. fox business network is live from our new york city newsroom. who knew using your iphone around the clock is shocking. >> we all do it, right? as far as investors go there is a leading activist investors and pension fund co-writing a letter this weekend to apple saying apple needs to address what they are calling a growing public health crisis. so at issue youth phone addiction and the challenge to kids' mental health. more psychologists are doing studies between increased teen anxiety, depression and even suicide and phone use.

so activist investor, it says apple's high flying stocks could be hurt in the future if it faces a p.r. backlash. long story short. they think the kids phone use is such a brandish yu it could ultimately affect the stock price. there is a co-writing letter with a retirement system. one of the biggest pension plans in the country. together they control about $2 billion worth of apple shares. cynically you could say apple doesn't need to listen to them because apple's market cap is $900 billion. apple could ignore the letter, but in the past apple has shown itself to be flexible especially on social responsibility issues. one example you remember perhaps if it sensed that you are driving and you have your iphone there is a do not disturb while driving feature that kicks in and automatically

silences alerts. even from a cash perspective you've had groups of shareholders saying give us a little cash back and apple has shown itself to be flexible in giving stuff back to shareholders. i think twice within the past seven years by my count. in essence what these companies are saying, jana and counselors are asking apple to do specific things as it regards teens and phones. they want apple to develop new software tools to help parents control and limit phone use more easily and they also want apple to fund some research. basically put some money into this link between young people and smartphone overuse and the cause and effect. melissa, back to you. >> the problem with those software tools are then the kids are smarter at deactivating them than you are. >> people say it's hard to put toothpaste back in the tube. >> jon: a big democratic donor says she will pull her support from some democratic senators.

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