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see me. clear skin can last. don't hold back... ...ask your dermatologist if cosentyx can help you find clear skin that lasts. we begin with a fox news alert. lawmakers are working overtime now trying to hammer out a deal that would reboot government operations. it comes as we're nearing 24 hours since the lights flickered in washington. hello welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. >> good afternoon. i'm eric shawn. president trump is foregoing his weekend in florida staying at the white house to sign a potential spending bill that would end the government shutdown if it comes. it is the first time the capital has gone dark since the last government shutdown back in 2013. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are dishing out blame. >> and peter doocy is live now on capitol hill with the very latest.
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peter? >> republicans in the house, arthel, are saying they did their job. they passed a budget -- or a continuing resolution to fund the government. they sent it over to the senate and now the senate has it stuck. they are saying that they refuse -- they will refuse to negotiate a long-term fix for daca recipients that democrats have been demanding in exchange for their support until the democrats relent and support this short-term measure. >> i have been talking to them all the way through. a lot of them are texting me. inside the democratic conference, they are not happy about this because they understand too daca is not shutting down -- or having any problems until march. you already have a court case on it where they are still filing. but our military is. our children's health insurance program is being shut down by schumer and all these other items. >> so the new proposal is a three-week long continuing resolution instead of the four-week resolution that died in the senate late last night.
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republicans are focusing heavily on the impact this shutdown has on funding for the mill tear and funding -- military and funding for the children's health insurance program that is now on hold. democrats see things differently. they are instead accusing republicans of lacking sympathy for the so called dreamers. >> this is their fourth cr since september. get it together. wipe the tears of joy from your eye about passing a tax cut that benefits the wealthiest in our country. get down to business for every day people in america and stop using children as a shield to cover up what you are not doing for the american people. >> and we're hearing that there may be some action this evening in the senate on that three-week long continuing resolution to fund the government, but a lot of members of the house that i've been speaking to say they have no idea how long this shutdown may last. one conservative member just told me that they are willing to ride this out as long as
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possible, and they think that their leaders are with them. arthel? arthel: oh, boy, peter doocy, thank you very much. eric? eric: arthel, how does congress reopen the federal government? let's go to the white house to find out. that's where nick mulvaney joining us, the director of office of management and budget. mr. mulvaney welcome. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> you were pretty optimistic yesterday thinking there would be a deal in 24 hours. are you still optimistic that something could be done before the weekend is over or is this a total standoff? >> well, i'm still optimistic. i'm a republican. by nature i'm optimistic but i'm struggling with the new sort of way to measure the likelihood of a positive outcome here. ordinarily in washington, d.c. what you would see is can we find a bill that enough people support? and that's what's so challenging right now. we have a bill that the democrats actually support. they don't oppose the bill that's in the senate. the democrats in the senate support a cr. they support the extension of
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the children's health insurance program and they support the delay of the various obama care taxes not the least of which is the cadillac tax. in an ordinary washington, d.c., even in an ordinarily dysfunctional washington, d.c., that would have passed because democrats would vote for something they support. for the first time that i can remember, people are voting against a bill that they like in order to bring in an entirely different and unrelated topic. that makes it very difficult to handicap the likelihood of success in the next few hours. eric: the democrats are pointing to president trump saying he was given bipartisan bill and he rejected that. you were pretty tough on congressman -- senator schumer in that meeting earlier today you said that he mischaracterized and basically wasn't honest about that meeting with the president where schumer said he thought he had a deal but negotiating in his words jell-o. what did you mean by that? >> i don't think i used the word was dishonest. i actually laid out what
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happened which is my understanding from talking to the chief of staff is that mr. schumer told the president he was willing to give the president everything he wanted for the wall. and of course the president then asked what that meant in terms of money and mr. schumer said 1.6 million dollars. that's a little tiny piece. the discussion has been from the very beginning if we're going to do a deal on daca, the entire wall needs to get built. that entire southern border needs to be secured. in my mind the senator tried to pull a fast one on the president. that's not a professional way to behave. he got the shutdown he wanted. we are on the anniversary of the president's inauguration. instead of talking about the good things that have happened, the increase in the stock market, the tax cuts, the great job performance we have had in the last few months, we're talking about this which is exactly what senator schumer wanted. he got the shutdown he wants. it is up to him to open up the government. we will see what happens in the next few days. eric: he did say he could be a little more honest. how do you think this will go forward? the senate is meeting later on today.
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the democrats shot it down again in that vote for cloture a few moments ago. >> i think you heard congressman mccarthy mentioned he's talking to folks in the democratic caucus in the senate. there's a lot of democrats who are looking around wait a second. did we really vote to shut the government down? yes they did by the way. everybody who voted no in the last day and a half voted to shut the government down. sanders voted to shut the government down. elizabeth warren voted to shut the government down. a lot of them are wondering is this really a good idea especially when they are on the record of criticizing folks like me in the house of 2013 for doing what they say was the same thing. i think there's a lot of d discontent. others are starting to realize the real pain this is putting america through. hopefully you will see cooler heads prevail within the senate democrats. >> how do you think this will continue in terms of effect on americans as it rolls out as you said you're a veteran of the last government showdown.
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the obama administration, they put up the tape and denied veterans the ability to go to some of the monuments and this sort of thing. we're not seeing it this time. >> i think you are seeing an entirely different approach to the shutdown here by the president of the united states. he said look mick let's try and make this as reasonly as possible. let's not weaponize it like president obama did in 2013. there are a bunch of folks protesting behind me right now. because of the actions the president of the united states took today, they can go to the monuments. previously under the obama administration, he denied world war ii vets the ability to get to the monuments. that's the difference between this president and president obama. we will continue to manage the shutdown as well as we possibly can. that's the duty of the office of management of budget. actually falls to me to manage the shutdown. you will continue to see a different management of the situation than you did four or five years ago. eric: finally, any guess on when it will end? >> no, it is up to the senate. senate democrats could end it
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today. by the end of your show, they could agree to reopen the government. we want to begin discussions on daca right then, but we are not willing to allow military pay, pay to folks who are defending the border, pay for folks who are fighting fires out west, to be held hostage so that they can introduce an entirely new topic which is daca. >> thank you mr. mulvaney. i know you have a lot of work to do. go back in the white house behind you and deal with the president, deal with the ongoing situation. thank you for taking time to join us this afternoon on the fox news channel. >> thank you. >> he will be sitting down tomorrow with chris wallace on fox news sunday. so of course there will be more news. this thing is moving so fast. developments come, 2:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. check your local air times for your local fox station, fascinating conversation that will be continued tomorrow. arthel? arthel: eric, the other big story of the day, women's marches underway in major cities across the country. on the one year anniversary of president trump's inauguration.
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participants in the nation's capital emphasizing the need for more women in government. in los angeles the lineup is also celebrity heavy. anita vogel -- vogel is live in los angeles with the very latest from there. >> hi there. a lot of celebrities headlines this event today, from natalie portman to scarlet jo hanssen to a performance by melissa etheridge. the march is wrapping up. tens of thousands of people poured into downtown los angeles today, both men and women. and even though this was billed as a women's rights march, plenty of people came with all kinds of different agendas, posters and signs. they were promoting women, they were promoting social justice. and of course as you might expect speaking out against the trump administration. they also encouraged more women to run for office and we caught up with one woman running to be california's first female
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elected lieutenant governor. >> we're not represented at the top of the chains of command in equal members. i think women have had enough, but i also think men and women, everyone knows that when you have equal representation, when you have leadership that represents our population, you just get better decisions for everybody. >> and even though this march was billed as a nonpartisan event, there certainly weren't too many trump supporters in the crowd. we did find one, waving his flag. he didn't mix in too much with the rest of the marchers, and he had police surrounding him most of the time. and finally, you know, you always see interesting things at these marches. and today i saw something i had never seen before, a tent with two guys in there who were willing to listen to whatever people's frustrations were and, you know, i'm only assuming they got quite an earful today. arthel, back to you. arthel: okay, well, there you
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have it. that's a twist for you. anita vogel, thank you very much. >> yeah. eric: on the other side of the country, here in the east coast, in new york city, tens of thousands of women and some men marching through new york city today with many anti-president trump signs. we have been watching them all. in fact we are right outside our fox news headquarters where part of the route goes right past our building this morning. i heard them chanting. hi. >> hi, eric. we saw a lot of people passing right by here. the march here wrapped up about 30 minutes ago. the streets are just starting to open again. we saw lots of women wearing pink, including those familiar pink hats that we saw at last year's march. the n.y.p.d. says around 200,000 people and as you mentioned they were chanting throughout. listen. >> this is what democracy looks
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like! [cheers] >> kick off event happened at 11:30 this morning with speakers including the founder of the me too movement. then the march moved down 6th avenue about an hour later. the message as anita said a combination of women's issues including things like health, equal pay, stopping sex trafficking and domestic abuse and ending sexual harassment but also a very heavy theme of antipresident trump sentiment. listen. >> our current republican government is unfair, greedy, inhumane, and doesn't really care about america. >> i don't think having multiple messages means we're divided. i think being all together and having that foundation of being a woman but having different messages to represent them is what's going to unify us. >> a large number of men
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marching today throughout the day as well. many people carrying signs that echo the same sentiments of what they are saying. and even though many of the signs were anti-administration, the event organizer tells fox news the real focus should simply be on women. >> we are pro-women. we want women's voices to come out and be heard. women's voices were never heard -- before trump and after trump and during trump. we need to fight for equality. that's what these are about, fighting for equality. these are pro-women marches. >> now, the day has been peaceful, but there's been a lot of energy out on the streets here in new york city today. the overall message is for women to get out and take political action by voting and by getting more women in public office. eric? eric: thank you very much. the president noting on twitter great weather as opposed to the last couple of days here in new york. thanks. arthel? arthel: well, eric, the federal government had been shut down now for more than 17 hours and lawmakers in washington are
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action. both sides still far apart in the stubborn budget battle forcing a government shutdown. house majority leader kevin mccarthy earlier voicing frustration with democrats. >> we had a meeting, a bipartisan, where everybody in that room agreed to working on four issues with dealing with it, the daca, the border security, the migration and the merit base but we have been those meetings but to turn around and shut the rest of the government down over something that's not shut down to me that's irresponsible. >> editor-in-chief of the hill is joining us now. what happens? a few days ago it seemed as though the president was ready to sign a bipartisan bill. one was presented. and then nothing, a government shutdown. where did it all break down? >> well, i think it broke down -- the key point was that house republicans really needed to pass their budget bill through the house, and once they did, it gave both sides an argument. house republicans can say, hey,
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the senate democrats are blocking the funding bill which led to the shut down, which was what they are saying. now, of course then democrats say well republicans control everything. so you've got to blame them. so the blame game is very intense today, arthel. i don't see any deal today. i think that the real next deadline is tomorrow because of course the effect of the shutdown -- arthel: starts monday morning. i agree with you. i'm hopeful as well. i ask you, who bears the heavy lifting now to come up with a bill the president will sign? >> that's a great question. i think a lot of people are -- we saw it on the senate floor late last night early this morning where a lot -- both sides of the aisle, they are talking. even though there is a lot of finger pointing going on, i think there is -- it is not as nasty as 2013. i think there's an incentive. but anyone can step up right now, whether it's lindsay graham, or dick durbin, there's really no ongoing talks that have been productive so you may see some other leaders step in
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or other people like for today for example louis gutierrez, a big immigration activist, democrat from illinois who may run for president, he said i will trade daca for the wall. that's a big deal. so i think you're going to see some breakthroughs, but you are not going to see them any time soon. arthel: that exchange was already on the table. that's what senator schumer said. >> exactly. i don't think that's going to happen any time soon. we're talking about a short-term. this is not the heavy lifting. this is really to punt it -- the democrats didn't want to punt it for a month. maybe come up with a three week or two weeks so you can get the big immigration deal. >> senator graham is saying as late as this afternoon saying let's move this down by a couple weeks so we keep cool heads and really hammer out some legislation that will be beneficial all around. >> yeah. this is not heavy lifting here right now. the next one will be because then you've got to get an immigration deal, no matter what. they want to have time to do that. arthel: meanwhile, though, bob,
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how much political pressure and influence on the decision making now is coming from outside the beltway? >> oh i think a lot. i mean both the right and the left -- when this immigration deal is finally struck, and i think they will strike it sometime over the next several weeks, to a month, there's -- the left is not going to like it and the right is not going to like it. so i think the beltway pressure on both sides, you know, any compromise, there's a lot of give and take that's why the left and the right will be very vocal in their opposition to this. so i think that the pressures are enormous on both democratic and republican leaders on capitol hill. arthel: when you look at it this way, on which party and in what way might this backfire, this shutdown, this, you know, impasse, how will it affect either party, democrats or republicans? >> there's been some polls out showing that more people would blame republicans and are blaming republicans. however, i think it is early. it is day one of the shutdown.
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we have seen president trump tweet about it. he's got to use a bully pulpit. it is all about leverage, calling it the schumer shutdown. calling it the trump shutdown. i think that remains to be seen. in the past, republicans were blamed. however, now there's a republican in the white house, unlike with clinton and obama. arthel: you mentioned president trump. you know, he's paying close attention to all of this. is there any one, bob, perhaps who is in president trump's inner circle who might be giving him bad advice and perhaps having him to go against his own negotiating instincts? >> well, something that's frustrated members on capitol hill is that sometimes trump has said okay i'm interested in a deal and then democrats say well, now he's changed his mind. i mean, i think that it's going to come down to the chief of staff kelly to really get the president to say okay this is a good deal. let's do it. trump wants to get a good deal. both sides really have to save faith. they don't want to be seen as caving.
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this is a failure -- this is failure of leadership on both sides of the aisle. kelly is the key aide. he's now how important it is to the military of course. i think he will play a key role. arthel: why not the president come out and say listen guys i have been watching this this is not working it is time for me to come in here and set you guys straight? >> i think it was a good move that the president invited chuck schumer to the white house. that was hey let's get a deal. it looked like even up until the deadline yesterday, it looked like they might get a last second deal, and then it just never materialized. i think that's partly because it was a saturday, we're going into a saturday instead of a monday. i think trump may do that again. he may say tomorrow let's have another meeting. arthel: very possible. here we are at 5:23 eastern time on a saturday. i think you said at the top of this segment that you think this could be resolved so this doesn't affect workers come monday morning. >> i think there's a chance they
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could get a deal tomorrow. if they don't get a deal tomorrow, fasten your seat belts. this could last for a while. >> editor-in-chief of the hill, thank you very much. >> thanks, arthel. eric: will that deal come tomorrow? well tonight lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, they are still digging in, even though they are trying to come up with some type of resolution to this. you see live on the senate floor as the debate continues. but you know what? they are getting paid. but the federal workers are told to stay home. we will take a look at that, straight ahead. i was out here smoking instead of being there for my son's winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how.
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people keep asking me if i miss the mayhem?stuff, does waiting around trying to protect your house from a lighting strike give me the same rush as being golfball-sized hail? of course not. but if you can stick to your new year's resolution, then i can stick to mine and be the best road flare i can... what? you couldn't even last two weeks? in that case, consider mayhem officially back. so get allstate. and be better protected in 2018 from mayhem. like me. lawmakers are now sifting through the aftermath of the government shutdown and that means many federal employees could go unpaid. but essential workers like the u.s. military will still have to report for duty. molly henneberg is now live with us in washington. give us the details on this, molly. >> hi, arthel. the trump administration says it's been preparing for this shutdown and is trying to
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mitigate the impact on americans as much as possible. still, hundreds of thousands of government employees are set to start the work week on monday, but if the government is still shut down, they will all be furloughed, meaning no work, and no pay for now. the state department however is telling all employees to report to work on monday and that further instructions will be provided at that time. a state department official says the white house budget office has asked all agencies to figure out ways to minimize the impact of the shutdown and that that's what the state department is trying to do. also this notice, quote, at this time, scheduled passport and visa services in the united states and at our posts overseas will continue during the lapse in appropriations as the situation permits. now, those federal employees whose job it is to quote protect life and property also will go to work. again, no pay for now. so tsa, air traffic controllers, emergency management, food inspection, transportation, mail, healthcare, national
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security, all will be on the job. as will the military. defense secretary james mattis says some reserve training will be curtailed, but otherwise, he says, quote, ships and submarines will remain at sea. our aircraft will continue to fly and our war fighters will continue to pursue terrorists throughout the middle east, africa, and south asia. as far as national parks, interior secretary says not all parks will be open but quote we're all working hard to make as many areas as accessible to the public as possible. here you see him at the world war ii memorial today greeting some visiting students. but even in the parks that are open, there will be no trash pick up or bathroom cleanings or other services. arthel? arthel: all right, thank you very much for breaking that down. a lot of people are paying very close attention to what will happen potentially. molly henneberg, thank you very much. >> that threat is growing, and
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if north korea is not -- does not choose the pathway of engagement, discussion, negotiation, then they themselves will trigger an option. >> that's secretary of state tillerson warning the crisis with north korea is growing graver by the day, he says. raising the possibility of what he calls an ominous option. this despite the agreement between north and south to march together under a unified flag at the winter olympics next month. is that a real breakthrough in relations or only a symbolic gesture that plays right into the hands of kim jong-un? president of independent research and national security and military analyst. welcome. so far 22 north korean athletes who go to the south, about 550 or so north koreans in the whole party will participate in the olympics. do you think this is real? i mean actual concrete progress or just a propaganda coup for
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kim? >> i think it is real. i don't see this as a propaganda coup for kim. i like how president moon has taken control here. it's good to have the peninsula talks, the talks between the two koreas. they have already reactivated the military hotline as a result of those talks, a few weeks ago. so i think this is moon's chance to give an olive branch, but also to control the narrative around north korea's participation in the olympics. eric: how does he do that? >> well, i think he has it on his side at this point. look, moon has done what's really important. he went ahead and deployed the missile defenses even with all the squawking from china. but he is extending this olive branch out to them, and i think by letting them participate, they have marched together before in previous olympics. they've done some joint work together. and this allows them to go ahead and have this olympics and south korea is the good cop, while the u.n., the u.s., china, etc., maintain the military pressure and we all hope this comes to
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wider talks on denuclearizing the peninsula. eric: some would say having a unified flag, that's exactly what kim jong-un wants he wants unified koreas but under him not the opposite. >> right, but i think moon is taking the real initiative here, and so just unifying this flag and marching under the unified flag does not change the heavy u.n. sanctions that we see. it does not change that the fact that the military options really are there as tillerson said unless there's engagement or negotiation, he will perhaps end up triggering a military option. that says there's still very heavy pressure here, and let's not forget, moon has given president trump quite a bit of credit for bringing about even the peninsula talks. so i think moon is very very savvy, better for him to have korea come and participate, let their figure skaters land a couple triple axles and keep the pressure on, keep the negotiations going. eric: while they are landing the triple axles, i mean up north they are still tinkering with
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the nuclear program. it is not stopping the ballistic missiles. in fact they will probably have another test after the olympics. everybody will be watching on television and seeing them, this will be praised of course as perhaps it should be, but it is not stopping what we're looking at now, those ballistic missiles that kim jong-un has threatened to use against us. >> that's right. so don't expect the olympics to move the needle on that big problem. the fact is kim made quite a bit of progress over the last two years, but there's still time to stop this program. there's a lot that the north koreans have not done. they are missing some crucial types of tests. they don't have solid rocket motors. we don't know about their actual launch trajectory on a target trajectory. so the quicker we stop these tests. if he stops now, his arsenal still isn't all that great. it is very much in the interest of the world as the u.n. recognizes to stop tests as soon as possible. we need to stop him right here. eric: when you say there's still
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time to stop his program, how is that achieved? >> i see that by particularly no more tests. what he's done is he's done some preliminary tests that have tested the intercontinental missile but normally you would expect to see a dozen or more tests to really prove out that capability. let's make sure he doesn't prove that capability. let's leave some doubt about the technical expertise that they have. i see this being achieved by continuing pressure from the u.n., assistance with russia, china, and all the world together, so let them have their olympic moment. let south korea learn everything they can from that contact with a few dozen or even a few hundred north koreans. let them take the temperature, get the insight, and keep the pressure on for those talks. eric: that's fascinating. what do you think they will learn? i mean, do you think any could defect? >> let me paint this picture for you. there are talks that go on at the dmz. you know the militaries are involve. i think it is certainly possible
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for the two koreas to take the temperature of one another in a way that could perhaps tell us more about what's really going on inside north korea. hard to speculate beyond that, but it is a chance we're taking. i think president moon really has this under control by letting those north koreans come and participate on his terms in his country. eric: bottom line, though, it is certainly not going to stop the nuclear program. do you see a day where the world does have to accept that -- they cannot denuclearize the north unless that regime falls? >> let me quote chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on that. it is not acceptable for north korea to have nuclear weapons i.'s not acceptable for them -- it's not acceptable for them to threaten denver or toronto or london. no i'm not ready to go to that yet. i think we have a lot more to come in this deal. i am expecting to see real talks beyond the peninsula talks. i would like to see this nuclear program and other defensive
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capabilities stopped cold here. eric: can beijing helped get them that message? at first they didn't want even to want beijing's envoy on this. >> military sources continue to say that beijing is helping. remember north korea has been pretty rough on them as well. the assassination of kim's uncle a few years ago really sent a message to china. so we need to continue to give china time to work on this. they have to make sure that all the sanctions are tightened up. we absolutely need china's help here. our role is to continue to keep the diplomacy going as we saw in vancouver and to keep the military pressure on with our forces. b-1s, b-52s, b 2 bombers the navy out in pacific. we need to keep the military pressure there. south korea keeps its military forces and its jets on alert even through the olympics, so that combination of diplomacy, both public and quiet and military pressure is what will bring this about. it is hard. it is not easy to do what we're trying to do, but we have to keep trying to denuclearize the
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korean peninsula and not leave kim with that offensive capability. eric: finally, it is hard, and it is even harder when russia and china aren't even a part of it. they have voted on the resolutions, yes. they weren't even at the vancouver summit. there are reports that china still is trading. that russia is helping with the oil. what would you finally call on moscow and beijing to actually do that is concrete so that kim could get the message? >> right. they were invited to vancouver. trump did have a phone call in that time period. here's what i want moscow and beijing to do, continue the sanctions, tighten them up, stand behind us at the u.n., and begin to cut off even more of that energy and currency supply and that black market economy, do everything you can, denuclearize that pe nins lasm -- peninsula. >> that's the message from rebecca. at least when it comes to korean issue, they have been standing with us at the security council
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which sometimes is surprising. we will see how that goes. rebecca, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. arthel: this afternoon being a saturday at 5:38 here on the east coast you have lawmakers in d.c. hard at work. here's a live look on the senate floor, democratic senator of oregon is speaking. we're expecting senate majority leader mcconnell to take the senate floor. when he does, we will bring that to you live as we watch the government shutdown right here on fox news. liberty mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. liberty did what? yeah, with liberty mutual all i needed to do to get an estimate was snap a photo of the damage and voila! voila! i wish my insurance company had that... wait! hold it... hold it boys... there's supposed to be three of you... where's your brother? where's your brother? hey, where's charlie? charlie?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you.
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a private practice anesthesiologist. want to give you a heads up that we're waiting to hear from senate majority leader mcconnell and when he takes the senate floor, you and i will have to zip it. [laughter] arthel: and go to -- it is all important. that's why we're here right now with this particular -- >> exactly. arthel: as we just said, it's still operational, the cdc, but should things -- we're hoping for the best, in what way might the shutdown the cdc's ability to tackle this very deadly flu season? >> first of all, i want to start off. everybody is wondering how this will impact their health. regardless of your health condition, don't panic. your nurses, your doctors, your emergency rooms and hospitals, they are business as usual. they are going to continue working. so if you think you have the flu, go see your doctor. if you think you have a food-borne illness, go see your doctor. and this happened last time in 2013. we saw the government shut down. and there was a number of lessons learned. we have gained some wisdom.
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one of them is that we have contingency plans. and the reports have been that any activities that are essential to protecting life will continue as usual. essential employees even in these federal departments will continue to work. arthel: what about people who are there saying listen i depend on medicaid and medicare, what happens to them during this shutdown? >> well, arthel, you know my dad that's one of the first things he asked will this affect me? no, absolutely not. our seniors and disabled, medicare covers them, it will continue as business as usual. medicaid it will continue. our veterans the ones who fight for our freedoms they will continue to be able to get their services. no change to their care. arthel: while they are trying to get everything sorted out, is there anybody in particular who might be at risk as a result of any kind of slowdown at the cdc? >> like i said, if you have a medical health condition, do not panic about this. what we are worried about is, for example, national institute
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of health, if you are about to enroll in a clinical trial, they won't discontinue that. if you are in a clinical trial, they will continue with that. we saw that back in 2013. with the food and drug administration, inspections will slow down and stop, but i want to caution that there will be a watchful eye. when there was an outbreak in the last shutdown, they did brink people back immediately so -- they did bring people back immediately so they could deal with it. what is the recommendation for people who currently have the flu or perhaps those who are caring for infants or children or even the elderly currently fighting the flu? >> this is a particular brutal flu season. i'm glad you brought this up. 30 children have died. thousands have been hospitalized. millions have been diagnosed. we have 13 more weeks of this. so if you have not gotten your flu shot, i know it's not as effective as we had hoped, but it is still the most effective method we have in preventing the flu. especially if you are a caretaker for somebody elderly
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or if you are around children, get your flu shot. it take two weeks for it to kick in. it's worthwhile and could be life saving. wash your hands. cover your mouth. if you are sick, stay home. arthel: we have you here, doctor because you are a medical professional, you are a doctor. basing on your demeanor and your answers, your job is to keep calm and to carry on. >> right. arthel: that's what i think that you're the message that you're conveying here to us and to our audience that listen, those who practice medicine, they are in it because they -- for the love of the patients, for the love of their occupation so they are not just going to cut and run? >> absolutely. don't panic. first of all, you can still see your doctor. the emergency rooms are open. hospitals are open. it is business as usual for them. they are not federal employees. and also i want to point out a shutdown of the federal government does not mean a disaster to human health. what we are expected to see is a slowdown in inspections of food as well as approval of different medication or pharmaceutical drugs. so those are things that we are
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seeing, but as you can tell, we might cut out for mitch mcconnell sitting there and trying to deal with this and the president is committed to getting a resolution to this as expeditiously as possible. arthel: if you are talking about a slowdown on the inspection of food, you're not talking about the food that would be going to the grocery store tomorrow. you are saying kind of earlier or higher up in that process? >> what they will do, it will shout down the food inspection. -- it will shut down the food inspection. that's what happened in 2013. but the department of agriculture will continue with meat, eggs and poultries. the private companies can still continue with that. there will be a watchful eye. if there is an outbreak that occurs, people will be drawn in right away. this is not going to be a disaster. again we want to get this solved as soon as possible. they are working through the weekend to try to get this resolved. >> good to have you. dr. nina ratcliff. i noticed that you call your father daddy. so do i.
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>> yes. >> thank you. >> thank you, arthel. take care. >> you take care as well. eric: that's great. wonderful. keeping a close eye on the nation's capital, showing you the senate a moment ago. senator of oregon is still on the senate floor discussing the budget showdown. we hear that senate majority leader mcconnell is on his way to speak at the senate floor again. there may be some action later tonight to try to either break the filibuster or come to some conclusion and get a short-term deal before federal workers show up on monday and stop a longer-term government showdown. we will have the latest on this continuing drama in our nation's capital as fox news channel's continuing coverage continues.
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arthel: there is a bloody terrorist attack still underway at a luxury hotel in afghanistan. at least four gunmen storming the intercontinental hotel in kabul. a hotel popular with foreigners. the attackers reportedly taking hostages and trading fire with security forces. many guests hiding in their rooms, phoning police to be rescued. special forces reportedly landing troops on the roof by helicopter, searching floor by floor to clear the building. eric: back here at home, major cities across the country holding some women's marches on this, the one-year anniversary of president trump's inauguration. one of the cities where thousands of people marched through the cities with various signs. dan springer is in seattle with the latest on how that march is going. >> we are at the tail end of
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this four-hour long march. it is kind of winding down now. this is the folks that came here today to protest the trump administration. earlier today we can show you some shots from aerials that we got and wow there were a lot of people down here, about 25,000, 30,000 people packed this city, made a long march from a park down to the seattle center. but it's nothing like what we saw last year at this time. they had 100,000, maybe 120,000 people who came out to protest on the inauguration of president trump, a far smaller crowd today, but that does not mean that this crowd was any less energized or this city or state any less opposed to the trump administration. in fact in many ways seattle and the state of washington has been sort of ground zero for trump administration opposition. you have the attorney general here who sued the trump administration 19 times in that first year of the trump
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presidency, including that one last january which effect live i stopped the travel ban effectively stopped the travel ban. the governor recently hired somebody whose only job it is to make sure that none of the state agencies are cooperating with and giving any information to i.c.e. agents. this state, this city very much opposed to the trump administration. one of the messages here today, eric, was let's get more women in politics. well, this city and this area certainly has done just that. in november they hired a new attorney -- a new mayor to run the city of seattle, first one since the 20s. there are women up and down in city councils throughout the country. >> all right, we have to go, we are up against a hard break. people in the world. those who fear the future...
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eric: we start with a fox news alert. tonight it is a standoff, a showdown, both sides not giving one inch on capitol hill at this hour. this is lawmakers are showing no signs it seems of any progress to try and put the united states government back in business. you know, the showdown will near 24 hours six hours from now and senate majority leader mcconnell is expected to address the senate floor, you see there, any moment now. hello everyone and welcome to a brand new hour of america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville. many federal agencies now shut down but the most essential workers like our troops will report for duty but potentially
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without pay. now 18 hours and counting since failing to reach a spending deal, and senate leaders from both sides are working hard to assign the blame. >> like the president, like the house, and like a bipartisan majority of senators the american people cannot begin to understand why the senate democratic leader thinks the entire government should be shut down until he gets his way on illegal immigration. >> negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with jell-o. that's why this compromise will be called the trump shutdown. the president's behavior is -- [inaudible] -- to compromise which is required to getting things done in government. eric: peter doocy is live on capitol hill this evening with the latest. hi. >> hi, eric, believe it or not, the fight on the floor of the house a few minutes ago had nothing to do with keeping the
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government open even though it is currently shut down. instead democrats were protesting that republicans were using a poster that said government shutdown is the politics of -- the poster was ruled to be in order so ultimately they were yelling and screaming literally for nothing. that had nothing to do with funding the government. this follows a shutdown fuelled by senate democrat commands to consider a daca fix even though daca doesn't technically need to be fixed until march. so republican members believe the democrats just made a big unforced error. >> i absolutely do believe that the democrats have made a very big mistake. and i think the american people are not happy and you wonder why congress has a low rating because of issues like this. >> i've spoken to a couple conservative republican members of the house who are so confident that democrats are being blamed by the public for
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this shutdown and will continue to be that they are ready to wait as long as it takes for democrats to come around and support a three-week long resolution to fund the government because republicans are not going to negotiate on daca until the government is back open. in congress or in the white house. >> negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with jell-o. that's why this compromise will be called the trump shutdown. the president's behavior is -- to compromise which is required to getting things done in government. >> i'm told to expect to see the majority leader of the senate mitch mcconnell on the floor of the senate any minute. the house came in on a saturday to wait to see what their colleagues in the senate which failed to pass the continuing resolution late last night early this morning are going to do. and we might find out just a few minutes from now. eric? eric: the senate majority leader earlier on the floor really
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blasted the democrats about this. we will see what he says moments from now. thank you. arthel? arthel: eric, meanwhile, president trump also placing all the blame for the government shutdown on the shoulders of democrats tweeting earlier, this is the one-year anniversary of my presidency and the democrats wanted to give me a nice present. hashtag democrat shutdown. garrett tenney live from the white house with more on this. >> we are hearing a bit of a different tone from the white house today. yesterday we heard from a number of administration officials who said they felt pretty confident that congress would be able to reach a deal by end of today, but 24 hours later, they are not so optimistic that a deal will be reached by the end of this weekend. one official put it to me this way, he said we are hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. while the negotiations continue, the white house is waging an aggressive public relations campaign to place the blame for this shutdown squarely on the shoulders of the democrats. this afternoon legislative director mark short said with today being the president's one
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year anniversary of taking office, the timing of this shutdown is no coincidence. >> there are many democrat activists who look at all the administration has accomplished over one year and they have pushed their leadership to say we want something to shut down the government. those are things that we look as tremendous progress but i know they are captive by a small base in their party and they are saying we demand a shutdown. >> today senate minority leader schumer criticized president trump of being an unreliable negotiator and claimed he and the president reached a deal on friday during a meeting tat white house which included -- at the white house which included an offer to fully fund the border wall but a few minutes later the president changed his mind. the white house is pushing back on that and saying the president never agreed to a deal and schumer was only offering a small fraction of what the wall would actually cost. >> chuck schumer had the gall to look at the president and said i'm giving you everything you asked for the wall and then when pressed admitted he wasn't doing it. that's the type of negotiations
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that schumer has been negotiating with the president. you have to ask at one point does it even come profitable to continue to work with somebody like that? >> the white house has said there will be no negotiations on immigration or daca until the government is reopened but that isn't stopping them from continuing this aggressive push in the public sphere to build pressure on democrats to make a deal over daca. that's why today they released this new campaign ad to do just that. >> trump is right. build the wall, deport criminals, stop illegal immigration now. democrats who stand in our way will be co-- >> president trump was supposed to be in florida this evening, but we are told he is going to stay at the white house to work
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a deal to get the government open. arthel? arthel: eric? eric: the women's marches are sweeping the country today. folks gathering in front of the lincoln memorial to hear speakers deliver a message of female empowerment about giving more women the opportunities to run for office. amid other calls that are directly against president trump. caroline shively has more from our nation's capital. >> the focus of last year's event was protesting the election of president trump. but this year's theme is power to the polls, to get more women running for office. take a look at the crowd. thousands of people with signs, those famous pink hats and plenty of enthusiasm. they rallied at the national mall and then marched to the white house. >> i'm here because i have to be. things have gotten way worse than i ever thought that they would and i'm afraid that our government's being eroded and all the rights that i think a lot of vus taken for granted --
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a lot of us have taken for granted over the years need to be protected. >> democratic members of congress addressed the crowd asking them to vote president trump out of office in 2020 and promote more women candidates. >> one year ago millions of women and the men and children who have their backs marched around the world to send this message, women deserve to be heard, women deserve to be respected, women deserve to lead! >> president trump tweeted during the rally saying in part, quote, beautiful weather all over our great country. a perfect day for all women to march. in that same tweet, president trump said it is the lowest level of unemployment for women in 18 years. eric? eric: thank you. arthel: those marches also taking place in several u.s. cities coast to coast. here in new york city organizers estimate as many as 200,000 protesters poured into the streets calling for equality and empowerment. leah gabriel is live in new york
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with more. hi, leah. >> hi. that march passed by our building in 6th avenue and went on for several hours. it was a sea of women of all ages, many wearing pink and those little pink hats that we saw at last year's march. you could hear groups chanting as they passed by. listen. >> this is what democracy looks like. [cheers] >> people packed more than 20 blocks for premarch rally that started on the west side of central park. now that rally kicked off around 11:30 this morning with speakers including the founder of the me too movement. then the march started moving south of central park and down 6th avenue about an hour later. organizers of the march were expecting it to be one of the largest. we spoke with one of the organizers. take a listen. >> this is not about taking rights from anybody. this is about allowing women to have their voice heard and be
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represented in our government. women matter. our voices matter. and all we want is equal representation. >> marchers carried signs with varying messages, many promoting women's issues, things like women's health, equal pay, stopping sex trafficking and stopping domestic abuse also ending sexual harassment, but there were a lot of antipresident trump signs that we saw with very angry messages. there was a clear anti-administration theme that was threaded throughout this march here in new york. that combination of messages is the essence of what we heard from the marchers and speakers today. now, there are a large number of men who marched as well. listen. >> the more we can get all white men out of office and the more we can get women and people of color into office the better off we are going to be. i'm 100% behind the women's movement. >> it is time to have more representation in congress and it is time to break the glass ceiling. >> as in other places of the country, that was the overall message here in new york, for women to take political action by getting more women to vote
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and getting more female representation in public office. the day here in new york peaceful, but lots of energy here from women and from men whon't whatted to be heard. -- who wanted to be heard. arthel? arthel: thank you. eric: they continue to burn the evening oil on capitol hill right now. that government shutdown now in effect. we are expecting mcconnell to appear momentarily, his second appearance on the floor today, addressing the continuing shutdown. earlier he blamed democrats. what will he say? could there be a deal? we will have a guest with her prediction next. (whispering) with the capital one venture card, you'll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. not just airline purchases. (yelling) holy moly, that's a lot of miles! shh-h-h-h! what's in your wallet? man: shh-h-h!
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>> a a news alert, a group of gunmen storming the intercontinental hotel in kabul afghanistan. this is coming just days after the u.s. embassy in kabul issued a warning about hotels in that city. david lee miller is in our middle east bureau with those details. david lee? >> arthel, as many as four armed men attacked the intercontinental hotel in kabul. security forces at the hotel returned fire. hostages were reportedly taken, but the hotel manager was able to escape unhurt.
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he said the attackers entered the hotel through the kitchen. the hotel is one of the few luxury hotels in afghanistan's capital. on sunday an information technology conference was slated to take place. according to a government official, there were more than 100 i.t. engineers and managers at the hotel when the violence erupted. earlier this week, the u.s. embassy in afghanistan issued a warning tell u.s. citizens, quote, we are aware that extremist groups may be planning an attack against hotels in kabul. the intercontinental in kabul is not part of the hotel chain with the same name. the building which is well fortified and located on a hill top above the city was last attacked by the taliban in 2011. this latest incident took place despite an increase in security, following a truck bombing outside the german embassy in may that claimed at least 150 lives. arthel? arthel: david lee miller, thank
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you very much. eric? eric: arthel back to our top story here back at home, the apparent stalemate that continues in washington at this hour. lawmakers right now still at work on capitol hill. you are seeing the senate floor live. they are grinding through some of the details of the government shutdown, trying to find some sort of common ground, if they can, but you know, right now, there is no deal exactly in sight, and that means the bitter blame game has been heating up. >> this is exactly what schumer said in 2013 that was so wrong with government that one side would take government hostage and say you have to pass what we want and nobody else can have input? we are in discussions right now with durbin in the room, with the white house in the room, with myself, with cornyn, working through with the commitment that we're going to solve this problem. eric: how will they solve the problem? who will blink? let's bring in chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. susan we hear there may be a
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vote tonight to either a break the filibuster or maybe vote or at least consider some type of short-term continuing resolution for monday when federal workers go back or maybe there's that three-week lindsay graham deal to fund the government through february 8th. i mean what do you think we can expect this evening? >> i think well we're going to hear what mcconnell has to say if he does take to the floor to tell us what his plans are but if democrats continue to filibuster, really the earliest they can vote on that three-week government funding extension is monday. so you would actually get into the work week with the government not fully funded. eric: why would that be? is it part of the senate rules and the procedure? >> that's right. uh-huh, democrats are not giving consent to take the bill up immediately. we have to run the clock on the debate and let it -- let the time expire. it hasn't expired yet. that will be monday. but there may be a deal cut sooner than that. there's what you just mentioned which is funding the government in exchange for the senate taking up a vote that exchanges
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protecting the dreamers from deportation with some border security. it's considered a more moderate border security bill, not a lot of the conservative republicans like it, but it might be enough to bring democrats on board. you said at the outset eric, you know, somebody has to blink here. i think both sides will have to blink a little bit. you can't -- they are dug in right now in their respective corners. usually what will happen in an instance like this is they will come up with a deal where each side can claim a bit of a victory here, where republicans aren't saying hey we're caving in and democrats aren't saying hey we're giving up on our base here. eric: how will they do that? half blink? >> that's right. i think it's probably going to be along the lines of a deal that fully funds the government. there's not a lot of disagreement on how to do that at this point. but there will be a promise of further action on perhaps the lindsay graham bill on the dreamers, in the senate. i think that would save face for democrats right now. i don't think you're going to
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see a situation where republicans agree to the initial demand by democrats to take this dreamers protection language and put it in the spending bill. i don't think that's going to anywhere at the moment. i think it's going to be a deal where the separate funding bill is passed and then a promise of a vote further on on this lindsay graham bill. one thing that may make this a tough sell for democrats is that they know even if the senate were to pass a bill like this, which is not all together impossible to believe it would happen, the house is probably not going to even take it up. so it's not clear what they would get out of it ultimately in terms of a deal, but it would get them a vote on this issue. now remember this is a deal they brought to president trump last we week. it is the more moderate immigration deal. >> they have been criticizing the president for turning it down. we haven't seen these type of fireworks on the hill for quite
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some time. schumer says dealing with the president is like negotiating with jell-o. republicans today said the democrats are 2-year-olds throwing temper tantrums. here's senator schumer part of what he said earlier. >> negotiating with this white house is like negotiating with jell-o. it's next to impossible. as soon as you take one step forward, the hard right forces the president three steps back. eric: here's mitch mcconnell in kind of a response. >> the president wouldn't resolve months of ongoing negotiations over massive issues in one brief meeting, and give the senator everything he wanted. eric: he's criticizing schumer. i mean, we haven't seen this for a while. how can they come together and get a deal when they are going like this and pointing fingers at each other? >> they will come together because the government will not be functioning. that's a dangerous thing for both parties.
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neither party feels secure in who is going to get the blame on this. the longer it goes on, the more difficult and painful it is for america, and i guarantee you, that will force them to start blinking a little bit. and we don't know exactly what the terms of the deal are going to be. the democrats are trying to exert as much leverage as they can on this in the minority. they have kind of backed themselves into a corner here with their stance on the dreamers, and they need to do something. they can't just give up. but they are not sure if they are going to get blamed this time the way republicans did back in 2013. so everybody has a stake in getting this fixed quickly and i know that's what they are working on right now. it depends on how stubborn each side is going to be, eric. eric: they are stubborn but they are also using it for political purposes and the american people don't want that. >> they know it. eric: when you have got schumer with the trump shutdown poster behind him, one of those stunts and at the same time you have got the president calling it the schumer shutdown -- >> that's right. eric: let me read what the "wall
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street journal" says today in its editorial. it says quote this is what mr. trump's life will be like times about ten if democrats retake the house and senate in november. they are going to torture him like a dancing bear. they want chaos in washington because they think it will contribute to the emerging campaign theme that mr. trump is a dangerous man who can't govern and must be checked by the opposition party. so how does the o and b deal with this? how does the government? how do we as the american people deal with these type of cliff hangers if they are trying to use it for political purposes? >> this is a threat to them politically, eric. a shutdown is a threat to the democrats politically. because of that, they are going to want -- they realize they can't push this too far, but you are absolutely right. they don't want to give president trump a big victory on the dreamers, on border security. so they're trying to make the deal more favorable to them and they are pushing it as hard as they can, but i think they are even nervous at this point and the republicans are in charge. they know they have got a deal
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done. i think that's what's going to get everybody ultimately to the table and accept each side is going to have to cave a little bit. eric: do you know how you solve this? you give them a deal that they can't refuse. >> they don't have that yet arthel: what is that deal? eric: i don't know. that's from the movie. arthel: that's why it is in movies. all right, eric, didn't mean to jump in there. couldn't contain myself. by the way, as the political gridlock continues on capitol hill, lawmakers are hustling to hash out a deal to end the government shutdown. will they be able to find common ground? we will have a live report with up to the minute details, from washington, up next. only invisalign® clear aligners
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are not getting too -- making too much progress on that tonight yet, but many government workers will now have to go without pay because of the shutdown. molly henneberg is live in washington with the details on what that means. hi, molly. >> hi, eric. hundreds of thousands of federal employees who are planning to start the work week on monday, but they will not go to work, if the government is still shut down. and will not get paid. for now. except federal employees whose job it is to quote protect life and property. for example, the border patrol still will be on the job, protecting our borders. it's the same for tsa, air traffic controllers, food inspections, emergency personnel, mail, healthcare and national security. defense secretary james mattis says some reserve and national guard training will be curtailed but otherwise he says, quote, ships and submarines will remain at sea, our aircrafts will continue to fly, and our war fighters will continue to pursue terrorists throughout the middle east, africa, and south asia. here's more from the white house
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on that. >> our border patrol agents our actual troops and servicemembers first responders they have to work and not receive pay, and that can only last for so long. so the impact is very real. it does hurt and undermine our security. it hurts our national security. we are working as hard as we can to minimize that impact. >> but one group stepping up to help the military is financial services company usaa which announced quote we are prepared to offer a no interest payroll advance loan to our military members in the event of a pro tracted shutdown that disrupts military pay on february 1st. members of congress however will get paid during the shutdown, according to the law. some of them however including new york republican congressman chris collins and virginia congresswoman barbara comstock have asked to have their pay withheld until they reach a spending agreement.
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eric: they are putting their money where their mouth so. we will see what happens. arthel? arthel: a former cia officer was arrested this week for suspicion of spying on china. some intelligence officials believe he helped the chinese government identify cia informants in that country. last year the paper reported between 18 and 20 cia sources were killed or imprisoned by chinese authorities from 2010 to 2012. joining me now to talk about this is peter brooks, a senior fellow at the heritage foundation, also a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and a former cia officer. so you are the perfect person to discuss this with. what did your gut tell you when you first read or heard about this case? >> it is very troubling. you know, china is a very important country. our ability to gather information on potential adversaries is very important. think about china and north korea. think about china and the south china sea. there's a lot of things that are
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very important. this is the biggest espionage case in nearly two decades, going back to robert hansen who was an fbi agent who betrayed the united states by disclosing the names of american assets to the russians. and then before that, in the early 1990s, there was a man who also worked with the soviets. this is very very troubles, not only the public trust has been betrayed -- has been betrayed -- >> i'm sorry i have to interrupt you. we have to go to the senate floor. senate majority leader mcconnell has taken the floor. >> -- voted to avoid this. a bipartisan majority voted to advance a noncontroversial bill that had already passed the house in which the president has already said he will sign. of course like any compromise, this funding bill cannot be all things to all people, but this bipartisan bill does what we need it to do right now.
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it ends this pointless, pointless irresponsible shutdown, funds to government for our troops, our veterans and millions of vulnerable americans and extends health coverage for millions of children in low income families. none of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle can point to a single thing in the bill that they oppose, not one thing. that's why -- that's why a bipartisan majority voted for it last night. it would have passed smoothly and been sent for the president's signature, except, except that the democratic leader took the extraordinary step of filibustering this bipartisan bill and initiating his own government shutdown. why? well, because he explains the president would not give him everything he wants on the issue of illegal immigration in one
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afternoon in the oval office. that's it. that's it. leaders from both parties have spent months negotiating long-term fixes for immigration policy, government spending, and other important priorities. senators on both sides want a bipartisan solution to daca and other immigration issues. senators on both sides want long-term funding for our troops. bipartisan, negotiations on these matters have been underway for months. months. here's the difference between the democratic leader and the rest of us tonight, the difference, he wants to keep the government shut down for hundreds of millions of americans until we finish negotiating on the subject of illegal immigration. wants to keep the government
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shut down until we finish a negotiation on the subject of illegal immigration. shutting down the government over illegal immigration. those discussions on the immigration issue continue. we don't have to shut down funding for our veterans, military families, opioid centers or anyone else who relies on the federal government over the issue of illegal immigration. there's a lot of interest around here on both sides of the aisle in dealing with it. but it's not an emergency. all of these other issues which are affected by the government shutdown are emergencies. particularly the children's healthcare issue. look, the american people know what's going on here. they've got this figured out.
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a survey this week shows that a majority of americans say funding the government is more important than passing legislation on daca. legislation by the way that doesn't really exist in which the democratic leader cannot present to us. we hear a lot of talk about it, but we haven't seen it. fewer than half of democrats in this poll i'm talking about, fewer than half of democrats say that dealing with daca is more urgent than keeping the government open. these numbers came in before americans picked up their newspapers this morning. when they did, they read from the associated press exactly, exactly who was responsible for this chaos. from the ap, democrats blocked a four-week stop gap extension in a late-night vote causing the
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fourth government shutdown in a quarter of a century. you might say they pinned the tail on the donkey. the new york times, not exactly right wing sentiment, put the blame exactly where it belongs, senate democrats blocked passage of a stop gap spending bill to keep the government open. mr. president senate republicans remain ready and eager to end this totally manufactured crisis. this is not a crisis. it's manufactured crisis. we voted to avoid it entirely in our bipartisan vote last night. we are ready to vote again. all the country needs is for the democratic leader to withdraw
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his filibuster and let a bipartisan majority pass this bill and reopen, reopen the united states government. earlier today i asked for a consent to move up a vote on this bipartisan solution and to end the craziness today. democrats objected. that won't work forever. if they continue to object, we cannot proceed to a cloture vote until 1:00 a.m. on monday, but i assure you will have the vote at 1:00 a.m. on monday unless there's a desire to have it sooner. in the meantime, shutdowns have consequences. the democratic leader may be playing for political points but the rest of us understand that the readiness of our armed forces, health coverage for poor children, and survivor benefits for the families of fallen servicemembers are the furthest
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thing from a game. playing with all of those lives, over the issue of illegal immigration. congress has a lot of work to do. we need to provide for our war fighters, secure the border, resolve the daca issue, and continue work on healthcare and attend to many other key priorities. i want to move forward on all these issues. and we can when the democratic leader's filibuster comes to an end. because these talks are only being delayed not advanced, but delayed by the democrats' filibuster and the democratic shutdown it has created. so i want to assure the american people we'll be right back at this tomorrow. say it again to the american people, we will be right back at this tomorrow and for as long as
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it takes. we'll keep at this until democrats end their extraordinary filibuster of government funding and children's healthcare and allow a bipartisan majority of senators to reopen the federal government for all americans and to get congress back on track. the democratic leader may put his personal political priorities ahead of everything else, no matter the cost, but republicans stand with the american people. >> senator from florida? >> mr. president, it might surprise some people here that while what we're dealing with here is important, we're not the center of the universe. all across this country as i was reminded of this morning calling
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home speaking to friends and family and my wife, my children, life goes on, most americans -- arthel: now we see senator rubio taking the floor there as negotiations continue there on capitol hill. strong words from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell earlier telling the american people that we will be right back at this tomorrow and as long as it takes. notable in his address there on the senate floor mitch mcconnell, senator mcconnell mentioned the words illegal immigration quite a bit saying that until we finish negotiations over illegal immigration, chuck schumer wants to keep the government shut down. so it seems that the name calling, the blaming, if you will, has -- they have doubled down on it. but hopefully there will be some sort of resolution there in d.c. before monday morning. >> we will see. meanwhile we just heard the senate majority leader talk about the u.s. military and the effects that the shutdown does have on the military on our fighting men and women. he said this deals with real
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lives. joining us is a professor of international relations at carnegie mellon university and research fellow for the hoover institution and a fox news foreign affairs analyst. so let me first get to the point, the military is up and running. d secretary of defense -- the secretary of defense says the pentagon has all the lights on but there are effects on a shutdown that will be felt by the military. how serious is that? >> extremely serious. the secretary of defense has conveyed that. think about what happened last week. at the beginning of the week, the secretary of state rex tillerson was at stanford university hoover institution giving a profound speech about the u.s. commitment in syria, beyond isis, wanting to see regime change there at some point, and making sure that it is not a safe haven for terrorists. by the end of the week, the secretary of defense issued the national defense strategy for
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the nation. we haven't had one in several years. and it prioritizes china and russia as strategic rivals for the united states, alongside the global war on terror. and then by friday evening, we have a shutdown of the government. the united states is working overtime around the globe with special operation forces everywhere. it's very difficult to articulate a strategy that continues to have us deeply engaged in numerous crises and then have the federal government shut down, where thousands of defense workers will be furloughed especially on the civilian side. eric: they say about half of the civilian workers could be furloughed. in terms of military pay, some won't get paid until the government reopens. what message is there to our adversaries when they potentially could take advantage of america's weakness in this thing? >> it conveys chaos and
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confusion and the great value of the united states and the world, in addition to its ability to project military power, to protect freedom, freedom of navigation in the seas and support people around the world is the fact that we are the world's most fully functioning multiethnic democracy and when we can't function according to our own social and political principles, it undermines our role in the world because that is what attracts so many to us. and so this is not a great moment. and we don't want this to be like the 2013 government shutdown that lasted, you know, many many days. we can't afford it now actually. we're just too engaged in the world and also for our troops and for their families, it sends a signal of kind of desperation as well. and they don't need that. they're working overtime for us also. eric: absolutely not in terms of that. this does have some real consequences. here's a letter that secretary
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of defense mattis wrote to the senate in september, and it talks about continuing resolutions and the negative detrimental impact of these cr's, but these are specifics. listen to this, folks. training impacts immediately. lost training is unrecoverable, says the secretary of defense. there's a lack of funds to stand up for training squadrons leaving the air force to train the number of pilots necessary. it may prove fatal in a future conflict. that's very serious. he says the navy will reduce flyifly ing hours. and it could impact the readiness of our forces and their equipment when at a time security threats as you said are extraordinarily high. so tonight at 6:45 p.m., the senate is in session. the house is in session dealing with this. what is your message to them? >> it's been announced that 90,000 national guardsmen and 20,000 army re -- reservists
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will have their training cancelled. how many more have to have their training cancelled at a time when we're so engaged in the world? it puts much more pressure on the servicemen and women who are full time who are going to continue to work without pay. this is an unsustainable situation, and they will make the crisis even greater if they don't resolve the government shutdown as quickly as possible. eric: we certainly hope that happens because we owe everything, we owe our freedom and our way of life to those brave men and women and their families too who are home when they are out deployed and to not get -- i mean, a paycheck, i mean, really, during this type of shutdown and when politicians in washington no matter what side of aisle you are on has these types of fights. we don't want our military to suffer. thank you and we certainly hope that it will end soon. we will be right back. >> thank you, eric. remember our special night?
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arthel: going to get back to the story about the former cia agent arrested this week and charged with illegally retaining classified records including names and phone numbers of covert cia assets working in china. peter brooks is still with us, senior fellow at the heritage foundation, also former deputy
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assistant secretary of defense and a former cia officer. thanks for sticking around, peter. i want to go to -- is there a connection with this case to the killings and arrests of u.s. spies inside of china? >> certainly possible. it is important to point out that this individual hasn't been charged with espionage yet, just this classified information he was in possession of, but of course there's concerns about the connection between the information that was reported by the newspapers of the names of cia officers and assets in china and then the disappearance or killings or arrests of chinese individuals in china. so there's a tremendous amount of concern to that. it is hard for us on the outside to make that connection, but it seems from the reporting we're seeing that people are making that connection, although the individual has not been charged with espionage yet. arthel: so does this now hamper
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u.s. spying capabilities inside china? does it impair any diplomacy efforts between the u.s. and china? >> well, it is important also to look at the reporting we have seen. they are talking about this was up through 2012. and the individual was just arrested. arthel: right. >> this takes painstaking investigative efforts op the part of the u.s. government -- on the part of the u.s. government to try to put this case together to the point where they can make an indictment and arrest the individual. of course, arthel, remember, if the allegations out there are true, that it involves china, the chinese are not going to cooperate with us, are they? and of course we're going to continue to try to rebuild any intelligence networks that were broken. and that can take some time. remember, this is human intelligence. this isn't technical intelligence, and that can take quite sometime especially if the chinese had particular insights into how the united states may conduct these sort of operations. arthel: exactly. how do you know the path is clear to go back in there at some point? and also does this diminish u.s.
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spy operations outside of china? or, you know, does it strain u.s. national security capabilities in other ways? >> one of the big problems of course is about, you know, intelligence leaks from the u.s. government or a case like this is that if you're trying to recruit people overseas, do they feel they can trust the united states? in other words, they're not going to have somebody who is going to turn them over to their country -- or somebody going to read about an intelligence operation in the american press. these can be real challenges for americans trying to set up intelligence networks as you can understand. so yes, this is not helpful to us. this is, you know, harmful to our ability to protect and advance our national security, potentially, if it isn't related to china against a major rival. if you look at the national defense strategy that was mentioned in the previous segment, they talk about great power rivalries, including the united states and china and russia, iran, north korea, the
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challenges we have there, and of course china has major -- plays a major role in many things around the world, increasingly important role including north korea which is obviously something we're very very concerned about. so yes, this is -- if the allegations are true, this is very troubling and potentially a setback for american intelligence operations. arthel: what happens next? i mean, how do you avoid this? in this case i understand it wasn't necessarily negligence. but this guy was reportedly a disgruntled employee unfortunately working for the cia and he became -- how do you vet that? how do you know somebody is not going to remain loyal? >> it is very very difficult. obviously a great amount of trust is put on our government employees, especially those with national security secrets. there is an ongoing effort on the part of the u.s. government to ensure that people are not betraying that significant trust. in this case, think about it, lives were involved. the same thing was true as i
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mentioned earlier before we had to move off to the senate floor, the cases of robert hansen, who betrayed the united states while he was employee of the fbi. or aldridge aims who betrayed the united states while he was a cia employee. this is not only a matter of secrets but it can also be a matter of lives and our national security because people may be reluctant to work with the united states. this is a real challenge for the united states and there are many reasons people decide to betray their country. it could be ideological. it could be money. it could be as you mentioned if this individual was a disgruntled employee, revenge. there are a lot of potential motivations out there. but once again, we have to trust american people. they are vetted, but we have to continue to look at vetting them on a continuous basis to ensure that they don't have financial troubles or other issues that could lead them down a path that
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is against our national security. arthel: a lot of facts to consider. thank you for breaking it down. >> thanks for having me. >> that sounds like some case. >> it is some case for sure. >> that is going to do it for us. >> we will be here tomorrow and will have continuing coverage of the government shutdown. will they reach some type of an agreement tonight? there's marco rubio, senator from florida, he's talking about the senate shutdown. >> julie banderas is up next with the fox report. electrolyte formula, corrects the salt imbalance that causes dry eye. so your eyes will thank you. more than eye drops, dry eye therapy. theratears®. let's team up to get the lady of the house back on her feet. and help her feel more strength and energy in just two weeks yaaay! the complete balanced nutrition of (great tasting) ensure with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. ensure.
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>> a government shutdown as the president marks his very first year in office. congress failing to reach a spending plan, effectively stopping government. good evening everyone, i am julie banderas. you are watching the "fox report weekend". lawmakers scrambling to negotiate a deal to get the government up and running but the effort seems to be overshadowed by a political blame game. republicans ramping up their attacks on democrats >> the vote for they are there the president was ready. the solution to this manufactured crisis was inches away.
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