supervising all of hhs operations and he's manned the $1 trillion budget and then he went on to be the president of lilly usa, the largest division of eli lilly and general council. he clerked for justice scalia and went to dartmouth college. congrats. that is us for -- that is it for us tonight. shannon bream takes it. >> shannon: pretty impressive. >> laura: take care. >> shannon: here is what we have coming up tonight. president trump said he's looking forward to speaking with robert mueller's team under oath. ed henry is tracking the latest developments, as concerns grow about a so-called secret society of top fbi and dod officials. some believe are committed to bringing down the president. plus illegal immigrants tell chuck schumer. colorado republican senate cory gardner a key member of the negotiation joins us live with the debate over daca and how close congress could be to

reaching a deal. we will also have more with my visit to israel, including a look at a controversial security fence there and what lessons the u.s. could take from it. ended former secretary of state john kerry urge palestinian leader mahmoud abbas two resist president trump? john bolton is here to help us dig deeper. ♪ hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. new tonight, fox news has obtained a letter from the justice department to house intelligence chairman devin nunes, warning him about dee classifying the much talked about four page classified memo penned by his staff, which allegedly outlines government surveillance abuses. you know the hashtag, "release the memo. the doj telling nunes releasing them i would be unprecedented and reckless. whether it would damage the

mueller investigation remains to be seen. and surprised remarks before from president trump before leaving to davos, he said he would love to talk to robert mueller "soon." >> there is no obstruction whatsoever. and i am looking forward to it. absolutely. >> shannon: chief national correspondent ed henry joins us now with a look at the focus of the molar investigation, collusion to obstruction and now he said he would be happy to talk but he did and we have a little bit of a caveat, he wanted to run it by the lawyers. >> people are leaving that out in their reporting. breaking tonight, i just spoke to one of those lawyers, white house counsel ty cobb, who was massaging my president trump said but not walking it back. he tells me the president was speaking hurriedly before leaving for davos but stressed the administration stands behind the message they have consistently given about continuing their complete cooperation with robert mueller, which includes, yes, the president to speaking with the special counsel directly. the details of that, though, i

still be worked out by the president's personal attorney outside the white house, john dowd and jay sekulow. these statements, though, were a huge surprise from the president, not just to reporters but maybe even to white house staff, where he told reporters he's looking forward to doing an interview with mueller, willing to do it under oath, and even putting a timetable of 2-3 weeks for what would be an historic session that is very risky from a legal standpoint for him to sit down directly with the special counsel. big picture, it fits with the strategy pushed by ty cobb that mueller is close to wrapping up his investigation and they have nothing to fear from cooperating, contrary too many of the leaks we have seen recently in the media suggesting on for months or years and that his investigation is intensifying because he's been conducting all these high-level interviews with attorney general jeff sessions and others. instead, when you read the tea leaves, this could mean that the probe is winding down, just the scourge of the of some of the president's critics appears to be heating up, including fbi

official peter strzok and lisa page, republicans demanding answers about how five months of the text messages were not uploaded to the fbi's archive system. new tonight, a federal law enforcement official tells fox, cell phones belonging to a few thousand fbi employees were affected by that technical glitch. that is what they are calling it. officials stressed they are taking steps now to recover those text messages. as senator chuck grassley accuse the fbi a playing "hide the ball" on cue on key info about fusion gps and ron johnson claimed he spoke to an informant who said there was an "secret society" of fbi officials trying to undermine president trump. >> it sure looks like a bureaucratic game of hide the ball. the raising genuine concern abot national security. >> i have heard from someone who talked to the committee that there is a group of individuals in the fbi who is holding secret, off-site meetings.

>> that was an exclusive with bret baier yesterday. adam schiff, the top democrat, charge republicans are only prepared to releasing that memo about obama era surveillance of trump officials because it will help the president politically. fox's obtained a letter from a top justice official to devin nunes, as you mentioned, it urges him to let officials see the memo before releasing into the person running it could be dangerous to release it publicly. i'm told this is not going to do to her top republicans from their current plans to continue meticulously going through the process to eventually release what they are calling the explosive memo, shannon. >> shannon: ed henry live with the very latest. thank you very much by the department of justice reopening a battle on another front today, burning sanctuary cities and states that they may be forced to prove cooperation with federal immigration authorities or else. doug mckelway joins us with details on the drama that played out today and a surgeon to

continue. >> pressure of the federal local standoff regarding sensory cities has been building. today, it exploded. just hours before the president was to meet with the members of the u.s. conference of mayors, the department of justice sent letters to 23 sanctuary jurisdictions including the top three cities, new york, los angeles, and chicago. threatening a withdrawal of federal safety grants if those cities refused to turn over info about the immigration status of people in custody. mayors that fail to do so could be threatened with arrest. >> every crime committed by someone who shouldn't be in this country is a crime that's 100% preventable and so we are highly prioritizing these sanctuary jurisdictions, urging them to cooperate with federal law enforcement, so that we can lower the crime rates and some of these places. >> that announcement was not was not really a surprise. attorney general sessions have telegraphed it for weeks, including on this very newscast. >> we are receiving large numbers of the criminal element in this illegal flow. we can make america safer and

it's common sense to me. >> but a handful of mayors boycotted today's white house meeting, claiming the policy will force illegals back into the shadows where they will no longer cooperate with police. crime fighting will be hurt by withholding grant money. new york's mayor went further, tweeting, "it's her braces installed on our immigrant communities." the number one terror target in america. this money, in part, supports our entertain areas of -- antiterrorism efforts. so it's appalling to me that they would think about defending the finest police force in the united states of america. >> most mayors showed up where they heard an ear full from president trump. >> the mayors who choose to boycott this event have put the needs of criminal illegal immigrants over law-abiding americans. >> but sanctuary cities believe it's the federal government that

is violating their rights. lawsuits are now in the works in chicago, philadelphia, and california, which it gives the federal government of unlawfully abusing its authority with the threat of withholding grant money for a just beginning to heat up. through him doug mckelway, thank you very much. for more, let's bring in a constitutional law attorney who oversaw the infamous 2000 recount between al gore and george w. bush. great to have you with us. >> grated be here. how are you? >> i'm very good. listen, the president's attorneys tonight kind of playing a little bit of cleanup, clarification on some of the things he had to say today. we want to talk to you about these top stories and start with what ed told us. we had the president on the way out of town saying, i am more than happy to speak with the special counsel, i want to do that as soon as possible. i will do it under oath but he said i will check with the lawyers. what advice would you give him, if you were part of his team, would you push for something more along the lines written interrogatories where you can control, you see with the

questions are, you control the responses? what would you tell them to do? >> i certainly would not advise him to meet with mueller and his team directly, certainly not under oath. i would try to push for written interrogatories like ronald reagan's team did in iran contra, written interrogatories, the president has team had an opportunity to respond in writing. it's far safer. for member, shannon, there is no evidence yet of russian collusion, there is no evidence of anything wrong with the comey firing. the only two people, two of the people who have gotten indicted so far have been indicted for lying to the fbi. we certainly don't want to block the president into that trap. >> shannon: you know, he said today, he's confident, he's always maintained there's never been russian collusion. he doesn't care what rusher was doing during the campaign, he had no conversations or interactions with them about impacting the election. he sounds very confident on that measure but as you mentioned, this mueller investigation has branched into a lot of different

areas, so now that we know they are talking obstruction of justice, looking into these other firings, are you worried that the president, although believing that he acted illegally and catholic ethicale walking into a trap? >> the scope of the investigation has to be to find a ventricle major issues that we are hearing russian collusion, russian collusion, i got news for everybody. collusion is not a crime under federal law. we are not talking about an antitrust case. we are talking about criminal collusion, no such thing, shannon. the second part of it is the firing of jim comey again, no violation of law. the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president and therefore, the president can fire the fbi director with or without cause. no crime. where's the beef? where's the beef? >> shannon: let's talk about the second story about the doj

now saying to the sanctuary cities and states, listen, we need to do to turn over information about whether you ae breaking the law or not helping federal authorities, we could hold once, we could subpoena you. here's a part of what the attorney general said today. today, a bunch of them my years were sent to me from across the country with the president and mitch landrieu from new orleansd this to say. "unfortunately the trump administration's decisions to threaten mayors and to demonize immigrants yet again, and you cities as political props in the process, has made this meeting untenable." as the doj on solid ground? >> yes. i believe they are. the federal constitution under the clause says federal law is the supreme law of the land and preempts state and local laws, and particularly the supreme court has said when it

comes to immigration. if we truly are a nation that is governed by laws, then we have to live to that principle. the rule of law is necessary for a civilized society and if you believe that, you cannot pick and choose which law should apply pray that is a very dangerous precedent and very un. >> shannon: quickly, there have been a couple of legal decisions from a course that have been pushing back against some of the sanctuary cities and states efforts that this administration has taken for you to do the win or lose as they go to court? >> as it gives up to the supreme court, ultimately the supreme court decides and errors on the side of the federal government on the supremacy act like we talked about before. i don't think there is any grounds ultimately to prevent -- look, think about it this way, what kind of chaos would you have of california had one policy around immigration and arizona has a different phone? we are no longer a country anymore with borders and an idea of who can come in and who shouldn't and under what

policies if you allow that to happen. chaos. >> shannon: we'll talk more about the left responding to that. coming up. in the meantime, just be 22, thank you so much. it's not exceptionally rare for the vice president to cast tie-breaking votes in the senate but it's really unusual for it to happen twice in the same day. vice president mike pence casting two tie-breaking votes, want to overcome a procedural hurdle and the other to confirm sam brownback as ambassador for religious freedom. pence has cast more tie-breaking votes than any vice president during a first year in office. new fox pulls out tonight on how you think the president is doin. for the first time, the president's job approval on the economy is about 50%. overall, 45% approve of the draw of the president is doing for a just shy of its record high approval, 48%. he had that in february of last year after the inauguration. the president to sing a short uptake and approval from the october survey, which had about a record low 38% approval.

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>> shannon: progressives are still angry that he is will and the government shutdown do not include a resolution for daca recipients. they had dubbed the schumer sel out. they took it to chuck schumer's house with a message. >> chuck won't let upstream, we won't let him sleep. >> i'm here to stand up because my life is on the line. >> shannon: joining me now, cory gardner, senate committee on the budget and senate former relations committee member. he's in the middle of all these negotiations. when you were campaigning and running, there were so many people running ads against you that you would be some crazy far right-wing nut job but now we have you pushing against the attorney general on marijuana and a lot of people think your

position on immigration is not so conservative, either. >> marijuana, something i opposed in the state legislator of colorado, it's a major of states rights, colorado voters approved, i will stand up for them. when it comes to immigration issues, people in this country, no matter what political affiliation, want to fix a brush broken immigration system. they want border security, they want to know that we won't end up in the same spot five or ten years from now. i don't like that as a conservative or liberal because, i think it's a matter of making things right and a broken system. >> shannon: for getting them six proposal that you are part of it, it seems like the one thing the house and senate agrees on that you want some kind of legal status for daca recipients. modifications to chain migration and set up getting rid of it all together, modifications to visa lottery, instead of getting rid of it all together, and less money for the wall than the president was asking for. some of your colleagues, g.o.p. colleagues them i had to say this. senator cornyn said the a gang

of six will not get a vote potus want to sign it. border security and diversity visa lottery, limit chain migration, fix a daca. senator cotton, might as well roll it straight into trash can. it sounds like there is work to do. to get everybody on the same page. >> it's always risky when you go first, when you put something together to try to get a solution in place, before you have all the answers of our people are. that is what to do, push the conversation, doing our best to meet with the president and my other four things that he wanted. a plan that addressed the board above all, we need to do more. it is clear. we used numbers when we did not have rail the numbers so we can always do better. we tried to end chain migration the way we could. there is a way to do this thing. there's a lot of conversations on the hill about getting sprayed gang of six, gang of 14, gang of prime numbers. i don't exactly know what is so important about six or h.

what is exactly is 279, the important 279, 60 members of the senate, 218 members of the house, and the president. that is what is required to fix daca and to have an immigration solution that could should include border security. his people and what you have on the house side, headed by bob goodlatte, so different than what you offering up in the senate. both sides are saying, they can't pass. they can pass in those places, they can pass each other and they can get to the president for a signature. i know that you are having a lot of discussions, the senate and house side, but are there bicameral discussions? >> there are. if you look up a president trump set out a few weeks ago when he talked about working with kevin mccarthy and john cornyn i dick durbin come of those conversations continue, i know last week they continued, i know john and dick durbin were together today for a conversation with over two dozen members of the senate. it is no good for us to pass a bill out of the senate. if we pass a bill out of the senate that doesn't go anywhere,

what good have we done? it has to be able to pass the senate, republican support of the house to pass the house and be signed by the president pray that it got to be the ultimate goal. if the objective is politics, this is not ever going to be solved. we will be in the same spot from now or in the year. if the objective is good policy, then we can get this done. >> shannon: doesn't bother you when people call your plan amnesty? are you afraid of that word? >> what i want people to do is not be afraid to put ideas forward. we put an idea forward. it was rejected, that is fine. let's try something new. if we will be people into the corners and ever try something with, we will continue to have a broken system. what we have now, i think most people across the country would realize, it's not working. let's fix it. we put together a plan, people said we can do better, let's do better, let's find a solution. republicans, democrats can do it. without the president signature, what good have we done? >> shannon: to get a plan together by february 8th? >> i think we can.

it sounds like there has to be another cr as they write the omnibus, i think that is what senator cornyn was talking about. i think we can come together and put this together in a way that america can be proud and fix it so that we are not here 30 years from now. we would keep us updated. great to have you with us tonight. israel has a long and complicated security barrier, more for my trip to israel and a look with what america can learn from israel's controversial separation mall. we talked to the guy who put it together. and how a tragedy in a small kentucky town is highlighting a disturbing trend. after the break, trace gallagher investigating a california law some claim giveses illegal immigrants the right to vote. we'll come right back and we'll come right back and separate fac

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the golden state also has a law to allow illegal immigrants to get drivers licenses. do they have safeguards to prevent illegal aliens from being registered to vote? trace gallagher reports for us tonight. >> there are five to 6 million eligible voters in california who are not registered to vote for the new policy is meant to make it easier for them to register. beginning in april, the california drivers who say they are legal citizens won't have their information sent to the state voter rolls is if they opt out. otherwise it's automatic. critics say that open the door to potential voter fraud and here's why. since 2015, california has given driver's licenses to an estimated 1 million illegal immigrants when those illegals apply for renewals by mail or in person, the fear is they could say they are legal and have their information forwarded to the voter registration office. the california secretary of state says that won't happen for

two reasons. one, potential motors have to show proof of age with either a passport or birth certificate which shows their citizenship status. two, illegal immigrants are given special driver's licenses that say federal limits apply, meaning they cannot fly or vote. the election integrity project california says these types of assurances are all well and good but they'd rather adhere to the old motto of "trust but verify." they are calling on the state to allow citizen journalist oversight. a nonbiased group to check out the dmv process. watch. >> people are feeling comfortable about the situation, they should have no problem opening the doors and allowing us to verify that. they may be overblown for all we know but based on what we have observed in terms of the states reliability and effectively following other laws come out we have read reasons to doubt on

this one. >> retired for a special agent from i.c.e. told fox news, people are routinely caught crossing the border of fake voter registration cards. if there's a way to illegally register to vote, someone is bound to exploit it. >> shannon: thank you for digging into that for us and separating fact from fiction. great to see you. the small southwest kentucky town of benton is still in shock and in morning tonight. two students were killed at the local high school by a classmate with a gun. it is the latest in a series of school shootings already this year. senior correspondent mike tobin has the report we had >> the initial reaction to the shooting is that people could not believd small-town america. the reality is that people knew it good. the students here had already practiced massive shooter drills and on tuesday morning, those drills were put to the test. >> evil makes no sense. >> again, traumatized people in

a small town to sing and pray, attempting to come to grips with the senseless tragedy of a school shooting. the first at the school shooting of the year erupted in benton, a small town in kentucky. police day a suited open viruses classmate gathered before gathered before the first day. >> i took off my headphones and turned around, and everyone is running. i saw the flashes from the gunshots. by that time, i was just running. >> calls went into 911 minutes after the first shots. >> callers say there is only one shooter. >> he is secured. >> we have a shooter in custody. multiple injured. >> 15-year-old preston coke would die of gunshot wounds after being transported to vanderbilt hospital. 15-year-old bailey holt died on the scene. 20 were injured. 16 from gunshots. dr. sabia survivors look like they were pulled through. police apprehended a 15-year-old they say he is the godman.

he's been charged with two counts of murder. 12 counts of first assault, akin to attempted murder are being processed. >> we'll be be filing paperwork to classify this defendant as what is called a youthful offender. that is the process to charge him as an adult. >> a day earlier, shots rang out in a cafeteria of a italy, texas. cal state burning scene i was also locked down with reports of gunfire. this was the first deadly shooting of the year but it was the 11th incidence of gunfire at a school since january 1st. >> we are almost jaded since they are so many, it's kind of a mixed bag. you are not about surprised anymore. >> although police and prosecutors are withholding the alleged shooter's name, the students at the school know here who he is a mayor posting his picture all over social media. also on social media, the same debate we have with every school shooting. the problem is easy access to guns versus the problem is not enough good guys with guns.

she and then come back back to. >> shannon: mike tobin, thank you very much. he never against deserves a minute a freedom, those were the words of a michigan judge you's and had larry nasser, the former sports doctor who admitted to molesting some of the country's top gymnast, with over 175 years in prison. he said the emotional testimony for more than 150 athletes and parents should come to the core, but the judge questioned whether he was generally remorseful. we've learned that michigan state president has resigned and made accusations that they mishandled past complaints about his abuses while he was affiliated with the school. is it racist to crack down on sanctuary cities? that is what a growing number of democratic lawmakers are saying tonight. we'll debate it. ♪

>> shannon: president trump meeting with several of the nation's me years to discuss infrastructure, but some like bill de blasio turning down the presidents invitation because of the justice department's new crackdown on sanctuary cities. >> if this is about their efforts to divide and to play racial politics, then again, they were never serious about the meeting to begin with. >> shannon: joining up several other democratic leaders, boycotting the meeting because they say the trump administrations crackdown on sanctuary assault."

a former democratic senator for from indiana, and a worker for mike pence. great to have you here. i want to go on with what we are de blasio said. in the tweet he said... i want to ask you both. once you care when that word come at us and shut down any conversation about this underlying policy and whether it has legitimacy or not? >> i believe having a seat at the table is the important part. when you're running a city, when you are the executive, and you are out to look for the best interests of your constituents, which, in this case, the president was talking about infrastructure. he wanted to talk to the mayors about how to fix the roads, the bridges, instead of putting the needs of a few hundred thousand criminal illegal aliens in this case, what we are talking about on sanctuary cities, over the

needs of the rest of your population. i think that is a responsible. >> shannon: senator, is it fair to use the words of this is racist or do you think it ignites it so much that you can't have a conversation about what is really going on with sanctuary cities? >> that kind of heated rhetoric doesn't help. we need more dialogue, more principles compromised. if you are throwing those terms around, it makes it more difficult. i agree with marc, we are a country of laws, we passed legislation, the courts enforce it, if you don't like the .. you can pick and choose which laws he will obey. get involved and change the law. i've never understood the concept of cities opting out of enforcing laws. >> shannon: they there have bea couple of court decisions that have not been so good for the administration on this point. we'll have to see if this effort is taken up in court. i also want to talk to you about some of the newest of elements going on with the house intelligence committee. they talked about a memo that sparked a hashtag release the memo, they say shows abuses of

government surveillance. the justice department says we don't want you to release it. here is what they say it in a letter to the chairman, devin nunes. marc, where they go from here? >> there is two things here. one, the justice department, all federal government employees are very productive and cautious when it comes to classified information and mostly it's not about the information by the sources and methods used to obtain it. we always have to be careful about that. the other thing i would say, putting on a communications hat in the white house where i used to be, if you don't protect those assets, there are so many others out there in the mainstream media and some of those trying to politicize this that will not cover the information. they will turn and twist the narrative to being about what kind of sources we have put in

jeopardy and what kind of relationships we put in jeopardy. i think the message of the memo, if it's true, i have not seen it, will get lost in the process by those who are trying to undermine what that memo is trying to say. let's be careful and do it right. >> shannon: not surprising a partisan divide about this. representative trey gowdy from the g.o.p. saying... now, adam schiff, the ranking democrat says... if they go public with their memo, we will write one, too. >> another food fight in washington. i was on the intelligence committee for five years, my father was back on the intelligence committee when it was first formed. there is a long tradition of bipartisan cooperation on the intelligence arena to protect the country.

unfortunately, some of that has degenerated in the current polarized atmosphere. with a relating to do is accept the fbi's request to explain the sources and methods, revealing that would compromise national security. you can't release that stuff without having some internal dialogue about how to go about informing the public about possible abuses while still protecting important security and intelligence assets. >> shannon: is a fine line to walk. we'll see how the two size, if they can, walk it figure it ou. president trump taking off for davos amid reports that they may try every assistance style report and walked out of his keynote speech. former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton previews davos and weighs in on a report, you will not want to miss, concerning john kerry and the palestinians. what good is a border wall? who better to ask them a designer of one that is already

in place. >> i saved the lives of so many people.

>> shannon: president trump meeting today with several of the nation's mayors, even though some decided not to show up over a dispute over sanctuary cities.

more on that later. while we debate the merits of the border wall, is released at the very same not so long ago. we want the designer of the separation wall on our trip to the holy land earlier this week. >> israel was in the midst of the second palestinian intifada from 2000-2002. thousands of israeli ants and palestinians killed in clashes. >> people said to the government, enough is enough. do something, build something. >> shannon: they start of the checkpoints across the country. former israeli defense force colonel danny tirza says there were obvious holes in that strategy. >> it didn't help because it was like a gate in the desert. we were checking only those who came to pass, it was very easy to bypass the checkpoints the checkpoints. >> shannon: the uprising and terror attacks continued. the israeli government turned to colonel tirza for a solution he had been advocating, a separation wall. it would surround the rest bank, seal off the gaza strip, and my neighbors egypt and jordan and palestinian communities in

between. a mixture of walls, fences, and technology. the palestinians hated it from the start. it led to clashes and it was built. >> translator: the best way to describe it as apartheid. >> some people from the world to say i am building an apartheid wall. well, it's not apartheid, and i am very proud that i saved the lives of so many people. >> shannon: he thinks the idea could work in the u.s., too. >> the first thing that the united states has to do is to talk about the security concept. what they want to achieve. it's not only to construct the barrier, it is all that gives yearly concepts. >> shannon: just as in israel, tirza says any barriers in the u.s. will need to be crafted to work alongside the natural topography in order to be effective. >> the area like the gaza strip, so there are more channels in san diego than in gaza. >> shannon: despite his successes in lessening bloodshed

in the region, tirza has taken criticism from the right, who says his wall granted more land to the palestinians, and from the left who says he has divided society. nevertheless... >> i'm very proud of it. >> shannon: no doubt, border security will come up in president trump's state of the union address next tuesday. north dakota congressman kevin kramer announced that he plans to bring the owner of a construction company that builds one the prototypes for the wall as his guest to next week's address. according to the latest box was poll, 55% oppose building a wall against the u.s. national border. 40% say they do favorite. tonight, a hebrew language newspaper and israel is reporting that former secretary of state john kerry met with a close confidant of palestinian president mahmoud abbas in london and at that meeting, he allegedly advised him to tell palestinian president to play hardball with president donald trump. kerry saying that he should stay

strong in spirit and play for time, that he should not break down and capitulate to president trump's demands. how serious are to be deborah former cabinet officials working against the current administration? will talk about it with former ambassador to the u.n. in fox news contributor john bolton. what do you make these comments? apparently these are allegations of this newspaper about this conversation, they say former secretary of state kerry also said that trump will only be there for about a year or so, holdouts. >> this is in the jerusalem post, a responsible newspaper, still just one reports. i would have to say, it doesn't surprise me at all, their views attributed to kerry or his views. very, very different from president trump's views. the fact that he is saying to the palestinians or europeans or anybody else, doesn't surprise me. i happen to think he is wrong as a matter of policy but they are entirely consistent with what he did secretary of state. we come to the interesting issue, what do we think of a former secretary of state undercutting the current

president? doesn't this violate the logan act of the late 18th century? my answer to that is no. it doesn't violate the logan act. in any event, the logan act is unconstitutional. if john kerry wants to side with the palestinians on an issue like this, god bless them, let him do it. this is something that happens all the time. nobody should be surprised by it. i don't think the palestinians are surprised by it. i don't think it'll have any effect. >> shannon: a little bit more of what is being reported in "the post." it was reported that kerry said within a year there is a good chance that trump would not be in the white house. according to the report, when referring to the president, he used highly derogatory terms and he surprised his interlocutor by saying he was seriously considering running for president in 2020. in addition, they said that he offered to jump-start his own peace talks in the midst of everything that is going on. >> in terms of john kerry running a 2020, i'm in heaven. i can't wait, please, let's get started. some of these other things he said, derogatory remarks about

president trump, that is a very credible report, that sounds exactly like what he would stay. starting his own peace process, god bless them, knock yourself out, secretary kerry. i would like to hear kerry's response to that, if he denies it, that would be interesting. i think it has a ring of truth. >> shannon: we made several attempts to get in touch with him but we got nowhere with tha that. if he responds, we'll let our viewers know how he responds. meanwhile, the president is getting ready to be in davos and one of his advisors said that he served as an advisor in his campaign, "it's a victory lap in his economic policies. "by the way, he knew fox news poll shows a record high 17% of people say they think that the economy is in excellent shape, 32% is a good, the rest, fair and poor, 35%, and 14. how much of that what the president try to tout overseas? >> i think it obviously is a chance for him to talk about what his actual policies are as opposed to the caricature that's

often painted. i think the tax cut is very important for stimulating the u.s. economy. i think he should talk about that. i think it's also a chance for him to clarify what his position is on trade and the rest of it. it's a risky proposition but this is the gathering of the high minded from around the world. i think he ought to go in and tell them why he is representing american interests, just like all of them represent their country's national interests. go ahead and justify it. >> shannon: what you think about the whisper campaign came of the building they are planning to walk out, a number of people, when he speaks? >> make my day. if you want to demonstrate to the american people why we reject the davos either was, go ahead. >> shannon: we made you happy, we have to davos walk out and kerry running in 2020. great to see you. elon musk wants to put a tesla in space. we'll tell you about the latest space x launch and look ahead to big stories will all be watching tomorrow.

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>> tucker: take a look at the newest and biggest base x rocket, the falcon have become a roaring to life today briefly ft nasa's kennedy space center. elon musk said that test was all good, paving the way for a likely launch next week. it is carrying his personal roadster into space. a preview of tomorrow's news tonight. president trump said to arrive in davos for the annual global economic forum. he will meet with u.k. prime minister theresa may and it israeli prime minister israeli but prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and scientists will explain the 2018 doomsday clock and they will tell us why they believe we are moving closer to destruction. certain to have new developments as well on the mueller investigation of the fight over the "release the memo" fight on capitol hill. we'll keep you up-to-date on

that, as well. in the meantime, most-watched, trusted, and most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> the department of justice has started and is recovering five month of missing text messages from trump hating fbi agents peter strzok and lisa page. >> no collusion whatsoever. >> reporter: the president departing washington wednesday night for an economic forum in bowe bergdahl --davos switzerland. >> the whole thing was a charade. >> we don't support sanctuary cities go we support enforcing