maybe we need to send this as a rock star people, three to rand to rand paul and held out for shannon bream is up next. i wish he was down here on one of the floats with me. good night from new orleans. ♪ >> shannon: hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. it will soon be official. when the clock strikes midnight, we will be under a partial government shutdown for the second time this year. congressional leaders spent the day scrambling to beat the clock and get their record-breaking spending deal through but the objection of one senator delaying the votes of bringing the senate to a standstill. chief congressional correspondent life on capitol hill to tell us what is going on this evening. right now, mike, it tells us like not a whole lot. >> the deadline is approaching. kentucky senator rand paul wanted to protest additional spending in this budget agreement. earlier we had senate democratic leader chuck schumer wanting senator paul, he was playing

with fire. senator mitch mcconnell made this direct appeal to paul. >> i understand my friend and colleague from kentucky does not join the president in supporting the bill. it is his right, of course, to vote against the bill. but i would argue that it's time to vote. >> we could move forward and get a bill done and not risk a government shutdown. were in risky territory right here, as my friends from kentucky no. if that would accomplish the same thing, not will disappear, but the house to its will. >> he wanted to make his point about excessive government spending, even though it is not expected to change the outcome. >> so it's a canard to say we can't have one amendment and can spend 15 minutes debating whether or not it's good for the country to add a trillion dollars in debt! madam president, i object. >> at one point, things got tense when fellow republican tom

tellis of north carolina lasted senator paul, accusing him of wasting time and making government employees what about a possible shutdown. >> employees out there, i apologize on behalf of people that can give you certainty right now at 9:00. at 1:00 a.m., he will have it. i'm sorry we have to go through this process, we seem to go through it far too often. >> earlier, house democratic leader nancy pelosi was in an awkward spot. she negotiated the budget agreement but was speaking against it for an unrelated issue, immigration. >> many of our priorities are in the bill. i have an unease with it and hope that the speaker will man up and decide that we in the house can also have what mitch mcconnell guaranteed in the senate, a vote, a vote on the floor. i am pleased with the product, i'm not pleased with the proces process. >> recognizing he will be

democrat votes, speaker paul ryan tried to reassure pelosi's rank and file members. >> to anyone who doubts my intention to solve this problem, and bring up a daca that immigration reform bill, do not. we will bring a solution to the floor, one of the president will sign. we must pass this budget, first, so we can get onto that. >> house republican leaders are warning their members they may be voting in the 3-6:00 a.m. range, perhaps a little later. if so, government employees will waking up to see whether they should go to work or whether we are in a partial government shutdown. shannon? >> shannon: i understand the senate it is convenient until 12:01. they will start afresh day and tackle this after midnight. my, we know you were on it. thank you. we are joined by republican senator from south carolina lindsey graham, who just walked out the senate floor. what is the mood like over there? i got to say, i think that your colleague, senator rand paul, has done something that it's been tough to do lately, which is good bipartisan agreement on something. everybody's mad at him, including you?

>> it's not that i'm mad at him, he's very sincere. i think he is doing a very dangerous thing. to president trump, if you are watching tonight -- >> shannon: i'm sure he is. >> thank you and god bless you for fighting for the men and women in the military. by the sunrise tomorrow, i won't get much sleep, but the military will have $160 billion they desperately need. we are spending at an all-time low on our military since world war ii, more people have been killed in training accidents than in combat. donald trump is delivering on his campaign process to rebuild the military. anti-senator paul, the deficit is a problem, the debt is a problem. entitlement reform is necessary and i applaud you for being courageous enough to talk about delaying retirement and benefits but our national security, you have been wrong at every turn. you do not understand what our military has been taking since 2011. there are planes that can fly, there are soldiers that can't

deploy, there are families that have to miss their family members way too much because we don't have enough people in the army and navy and air force and marine corps, so he can play his little games, but when the sun comes up tomorrow, the military is going to be flush with cash and god bless those who are doing the fighting prayed >> shannon: they are not the only ones, though. this is a record-breaking spending package. there are plenty -- according to all of the numbers and history until now, this will be the biggest package out there and a lot of that is domestic spending, as well, and the democrats have gotten a lot of what they ask for on that front. you know there are deficit hawks out there. rand paul is not alone. there are plenty of folks in the house at that have big problems with it and say that is not by the g.o.p. was sent to washington, they were said to cut back funding. >> i don't know why they were sent, but i know i was sent to make sure we can defend the nation. the number one priority of the federal government above all else is to defend the nation. look at the threats we face. there is a war going on in afghanistan.

president trump has taken my gloves off and we are pounding isis, handing the teller band, god bless you, president trump president trump. we need more money, resources, to help those who have suffered so long. this is the number one priority. i am a republican. the number one priority is to find the military and this will do it. >> shannon: what you say so, though, seeing the national debt with respect to china and other countries that own us in some sense, there is a national security issue, as well? >> go over the money is at. two-thirds of the federal budget is medicare, social security, and medicaid and interest on the deck. one-third is discretionary spending. half of that one-third is military spending. you could write about the department of defense and balance a budget. you got to delay retirement for young people, ask people like me to pay more into medicare and take less from social security. rand paul knows that. i congratulate him for being strong on entitlements but when he comes to national security, he's been a disaster.

he said tonight, the best way to get the military a pay raise is withdraw from afghanistan. name one general who believes that smart to withdraw from afghanistan. president trump, you are doing the right thing by taking the fight to the enemy in afghanistan. the last time we guard afghanistan, we got 9/11. the only way you will prevent 9/11 is to have our soldiers over there protecting us here and our military has suffered since 2011 under these budget cuts and tonight we begin to correct that problem. god bless donald trump and rand paul is standing in the way of president trump commander in chief, it trumped, for filling the campaign promise. general matta said no enemy in the field has done more damage to the military than the budget cuts authored by congress. so congress has done more damage to our military than any enemy in the field and that is going to change tonight. >> shannon: for you, the price tag is not a concern for the long term impact of the deficit. >> that comes from entitlement

reform. you can write by the department of defense had not even move the debt needle. here's what i'm saying, when it comes to military spending, it's the most important thing we have done. we are spending less on the military gdpwise and any time since world war ii. doesn't make sense to have the smallest navy since 1915, the smallest army since 1940? general mattis has been begging. president trump listens to the general. the rest of us have listened to the general. senator paul thinks he knows more about the military than those in the military, he's never been to afghanistan, so i don't want to hear from him what it takes to win a war in afghanistan when he's never been there. >> shannon: he says he is listening to his constituents. he's not the only one. >> i don't know who is constituents are, but they're not mine. to be when you come from two different states. you got to go back over there now. >> for those in the military, by the sunrise tomorrow, you are going to have more resources,

your commander in chief is coming to your aid in congress is going to clean up its act. >> shannon: are y'all going to hug? will there be a kumbaya moment? >> it's about those who are doing the fighting. we are nobodies when it comes to the war on terrorism. nobody in congress is going to protect your family from radical islam. the people in the field doing the fighting are going to protect you from radical islam. tonight, congress is going to finally help them after seven years of doing nothing. >> shannon: you have spent many decades in the military come as well. >> 33 years. >> shannon: good to see you. fired up. you have energy. >> ready to vote. >> shannon: you have the energy to work past midnight. >> they got the energy to fight, i got the energy devoted. >> shannon: senator graham, thanks for coming on. virginia senator mark weiner, the raking senator , has often promised that the investigation into donald trump would be fair. by printed text messages are raising questions about a relationship between warner and

lobbyist organization representing a russian oligarch. there is a lot to the story and there is bipartisan response. ed henry is here to sort it out. good evening. >> breaking tonight, president trump is weighing in on a story. just a few moments ago, republican senator marco rubio out on twitter tonight, defending mark warner, a democrat, who has been leading one of the many investigations into what happens with russia and the 16 election. as you mentioned, he's been investigating the president's ties to russia, and warner himself had extensive contact, we've learned, with a lobbyist or a russian oligarch who offered him access to christopher's deal. the former british spy. in fact, what we are learning tonight is that warner texted he would "rather not have a paper trail in case he could not deal an agreement with the former british spy. steele has not agreed to an interview yet. he began texting with his lobbyist in february 2017 about

brokering in the older justice department to get the wikileaks founder julian assange to the u.s. to potentially face charges. the exchange dozens of texts about possible testimony from his primary client, russian billionaire, who had his bees overbooked by the state department because of charges he has tied to russian organized crime, which he denies. warner was intent, though, and his messages on connecting directly with steele without anyone else being in the loop initially. in aid to the republican chairman senator richard burr tells fox he was aware of the contract warner made but added "i don't believe he was aware of the content of the text messages." in one message, warner said, "we have so much to discuss, you need to be careful but we can help our country." in a text, he texted back, "i'm anne." interesting because he had his firm in washington, it has ties to hillary clinton. secrecy seemed important to warner in march 29th. when the lobbyist revealed that he wanted a bipartisan letter

from talking, he texted, "can we do brief off the call today? so i can frame letter. he texted that about steele, who put together the anti-trump dossier, of course. warner added, "okay, i would like to do preliminary call, you, me, and him, nobody else, so we just have to trail to start, want to discuss scope first before letter, no leaks." waldman noted that steele was concerned about leaks, so warner texted on march 30th... the committee got the text messages from waldman last september and a warner -- they said that out of context, it doesn't look great. but aides to warner and richard burr said the chairman was in the loop. from the beginning of our investigation, we have taken each step in a bipartisan way, we intend to continue to do so.

leaks of incomplete information out of context by anyone inside or outside our committee are unacceptable, the senate intel panel has been in possession of this material for several months. the full committee has has access to the information and committee investigators have pursued all relative leads. he did not return calls for comment. he signed a 40,000 monthly retainer in '09 and 20 downtube edition the government government on behalf of that russian billionaire, there are reports that he sued paul manafort over a failed business deal and has information to share, but they decided not to give him legal immunity. we mentioned that there is a lot of reaction to this tonight. first, marco rubio is out there with this to each. you can see right there. he links to our story. the president a few minutes ago have a much different view.

bottom line, marco rubio is a member of the intel panel, defending warner, saying this was disclosed to republicans and democrats last october. the question tonight, shannon, is why months before that, warner whizzing by text message, i don't want anyone to know, i don't want a paper trail. >> shannon: thank you for digging in. ♪ speak out now we have republicans hand-in-hand with da trillion dollar deficits. i can't, and all good honesty, and all good faith, just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits. really, who's to blame? both parties. >> shannon: that was kentucky senator rand paul on the senate floor earlier this evening holding up a vote to move forward with a funding package

to keep the government open. for reaction to all this on the big stories coming out of washington, we had back to capitol hill. we'll talk with arizona congressman republican andy biggs who joins his life. thank you for your time. >> good to be with you. >> shannon: i know you are busy and waiting for the next round of votes and what will happen as it gets through the senate, i know there are other hurdles of it makes it that far. let's talk about the fact that i had lindsey graham on moments ago and he said that, when i pressed him about the deficit and with the spreading effectively, he said that we have to make a priority of military spending. it's been unfair to leave them lurching from shutdown to shutdown. he's all about making that priority. the rest of the deal, he can live with because of solving that problem. your take? >> here's the deal. i agree with him. we need to get out of the cr process because it harms the military. what he didn't mention to you is that they have had a budget, the 12 budget bills that took care of the military spending for a full year for about five months

now. they have done nothing about it. he didn't mention that three days ago, the house voted to send a full year funding cr to the senate, all other spending being held even. but full funding for the military. this is what we got back, a massive increase in spending antimilitary and what i see here is he's using the military as a lever to get this additional spending in. it's not necessary. it shouldn't be there. it's going to bankrupt us ultimately if we keep spending like this. we took care of the military, we just need to act responsibly. >> shannon: your so the president said. he is of the same mind about the military issue. the budget agreement today is so important for our great military, it is a dangerous equestrian, give secretary jim mattis what he needs to keep america great. republicans and democrats must support our troops and support this bill." if in its current form it makes it to you, are you a "no" vote? >> absolutely.

i voted three days ago to fully fund the military. when we got a fact, people were talking about $300 billion but that is just the cap increase. they don't mention the debt limit is rescinded effectively, so you can spend as much as you want. also, they don't include things like the disaster relief, et cetera, which takes us over $500 billion in increased spending that is going to give us a projected deficit, structural deficit, for this year, about 1.2-$1.3 trillion. i'm for fully funding the military, i don't think rand paul or mike lee or any of us who oppose this, by the way they will be 50-80 republicans in the house that oppose it, it's not because of the military spending. it's because of the bankruptcy that looms because of all this other accelerated spending. we need to fund the military, absolutely. the mechanisms are in place to do that without breaking the bank on the other side. >> shannon: why are they unconvinced that there is a solution that does not involve

this domestic spending? >> they would rather go to a 60 -- they are relying on a 60 vote rule rather than relying on the 51 vote rule in the senate. they need to bring the democrats on, the democrats want a mess of money. the republicans are saying, okay, we'll give you whatever you want. they did into a process where you can have open rules so you can have amendments, et cetera. what you end up with is massive spending, both domestically and also for the military. >> shannon: if this makes it to the house and its current form, do you think there are enough no votes to keep it from proceeding? back to square one with no government funding. >> i don't think there is enough no votes to do that. i think it will be fairly close but i think it will pass with a significant number of yes votes. >> shannon: okay. we'll be watching overnight, as we know you are, busy at work on the hill. thank you very much, congressman. >> good to see you. >> shannon: more tonight on the fisa memo finds fallout.

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♪ >> shannon: >> shannon: oneness president trump stops aids, ron porter, announces resignation yesterday after two of his ex-wives went public with allegations of domestic abuse. now there are questions about how much john kelly new. corresponded joins us live. >> good evening. rob porter is out. the chief of staff john kelly is facing heat for how we handled the white house's response. in a statement right after the news broke, kelly said, rob porter is a man of true integrity and honor and i can't say enough good things about him. he's a friend, confidant, and a trusted professional. i am proud to serve alongside him. but then this photo emerged of porter's ex-wife with a black eye she alleges happened during a hotel fight. after the photo came out, the white house as kelly became "fully aware of the accusations" and released a new statement, reading apart, "i was shocked

with the new allegations released today against rob porter. there is no place for domestic violence in our society." new tonight, kelly sending a letter obtained by fox to white house staff, part of which reads, "while we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former white house staffer, i want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. domestic violence is important and has no place in our society." some wonder what kelly knew about porter's alleged violent past before the story went public. >> this is part of an ongoing investigation, we trust the background check process and the chief of staff does not get a detailed updates about what may or may not have been alleged. >> did john kelly covering this up, he needs to be held accountable. he needs to justify what he did and what he did it and he better have a really good reason otherwise he's gone, too. it's big at the white house had admitted it could have been better with the porter situation but is not the only messed up for the chief of staff this week. he added fuel to the daca

controversy for comments and some see as racist. while defending the president's immigration proposal, kelly said "some dreamers may not have signed up for the program because they were too lazy or too afraid." shannon? >> shannon: lauren blanchard with the latest on those developments. thank you. meanwhile, the parties in dispute over the fisa memo was given new life when senators grassley engram release their declassified memo about the dirty dossier. details reveal about how they used research compiled by a former british spy that they say is mostly still unverified to carry out surveillance on a former trump campaign advisor. joining me now to weigh in is from her trunk manager and current chief strategist for america first action, corey lewandowski. great to see you tonight. >> great to be with you. >> shannon: we are getting a bigger picture, a fuller picture of exactly what is being alleged behind the scenes. meanwhile, the underlying investigation continues. i want to give you a chance to respond to the ricky democrat on

the house intelligence committee, who says you are not showing up as he thought was planned. he said this yesterday. "yesterday that committee was informed by corey lewandowski that he would be refusing to reappear before the committee to testify any further. despite an earlier pledge to do so. a ball therefore be necessary for our committee to move to compel his testimony among other steps to advance the investigation." how do you respond? >> very simple. i voluntarily appeared in front of the house select committee on intelligence, i sat and answered questions for eight hours. i offered to answer any questions they had and what i did it come i sent a letter back and what happened is during that testimony that i provided, it should have been a public what was behind closed doors, they took a continuous brakes and adam schiff and his colleagues, went out and leaked all the information that i sat there and provided the committee. there was no honor amongst thieves, i guess. they took the information that i give to the committee, which could be public, and they released it to their own

edification, and what i said was, i will be happy to answer your questions, and what congressman adam schiff is not telling the american people, i will do it right here, is the questions that they had that i did not answer during that time, i submitted written answers to in the letter saying i didn't think i had to reappear after spending over eight hours answering their questions. >> shannon: do you think he's being disingenuous? >> i think is a very disingenuous man, yes. >> shannon: do you think both memos that have been released by the house intel committee and also the memos that we have seen from senators grassley engram have painted the full picture or would you also support the release of the democratic memo, saying that we stand with the president for his consideration? >> if it was my choice i would say more transparency the better. i think at this point we should look at what the fisa application actually entailed that was taken to the court because it is my understanding that part of that fisa application, which is supposedly between 60 and 90 pages long, contain information that was put in from the fake dossier. if that is the case, there needs to be accountability because it

is my understanding the roles of an application for a fisa warrant as there can be no information provided in that application that has not been verified and if any part of that dossier was used, which we think it was, there should be accountability for the individuals who presented it to a judge. >> shannon: your name has come up quite a bit in the last couple of days with respect to the rob porter situation. i want to give you a chance to respond to allegations. "the daily beast" says this. "the white house of the story was a product of a smear campaign being orchestrated again supported by a political enemies. among those, they pinpointed former trump campaign manager and current outside advisor for the president corey lewandowski, according to two sources familiar with the conversation." true or false? >> it's 100% false. i have not read porter twice or three times in my life, i found them to be an affable individual. i have no ill will towards him. i wish him and his family the best in these difficult times. >> shannon: one other from "vanity fair." "last night a source said that you called the president and urged them to fire general

kelly." can you comment on that? >> i did not speak to the president yesterday or the day before for the day before that. what happens, it's amazing that reporters write these stories, nobody called me to verify it, you can cut down my truck the white house switchboard, i did t speak to the president at all t. the stories are false. they want to drag me into it for whatever reason, the truth is i have nothing to do with what takes place in the white house right now. they have their own issues. i think they could have handled us much better. it is shameful the way that it was done. it should have been done more appropriately. i think there should be accountability. >> shannon: washington is a very interesting place, as you know. corey lewandowski, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> shannon: the senate has adjourned until midnight when the government funding is set to expire. we will head back to capitol hill for a look at what is next. it is good luck for now, folks. ♪ x his flat

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>> shannon: at the sun has adjourned until midnight when government funding is set to expire. we have senior capitol hill producer chad pergram with us. you will stay there all night. i have no doubt doubt about it. where do we go from here? >> there will be a procedural vote, a procedural vote to break the filibuster at 1:00 in the morning. there is a procedural a set of circumstances that senator paul was objecting to. you can make the sunrise in the west if you can get unanimous consent of the senate. that means you need all 100 senators to agree to something when you had 99 but senator paul was the one fly in the ointment. he was able to delay things. they were hoping to vote on this this past afternoon. that is not going to happen. 1:00 in the morning, a procedural vote, adding 60 votes then probably about 2:30, 3 in the morning, the senate will vote to pass this bill and charlotte to the house of representatives. there is still a question in the house as to whether this could pass. the question is about getting the vote mixture right. the blend between democrats and

republicans. we think they'll be able to pull this across the line. they will need about 150 republicans and i was just told in the past hour about 70 democrats. however, there were a couple of senior sources who indicated this might be in trouble and democrats not might not be able to deliver the bolts. they think they will pass this about 6:00 in the morning in the house, shannon. >> shannon: i know people need to understand that you will stay there all night. thank you very much. we'll check in with you again. for more, let's bring in contributing editor for "the washington free beacon" daniel halbert and david cantonese. thank you for being here. on shutdown night. it is feeling a little groundhog day. >> it is always shutdown night. >> shannon: just a matter of time. the minority leader in the house, nancy pelosi said this and i press her, it is a good bill. i am pleased with the product with entry also said i'm not voting for it. david, where are we? >> we will be at -- donald trump will have beaten barack obama, two shutdowns under his belt,

where barack obama only had one. that is a scorecard. i don't think we are done, even this year. i think right now, chad pleaded out really well. it is the house that is going to be key, the senate will probably be past this. there are enough republicans to join with republicans. nancy pelosi, as you pointed out, the three leaders, schumer, mcconnell, and ryan on the same page. pelosi is the outlier. she made a stand yesterday because there is no daca, no solution for the dreamers in this but she sort of is winking and giving permission, i think, passive permission for democrats to cross over. >> shannon: she was asked about whether she was -- she said, i'm letting them know how i feel. she is giving them permission. right now, the senate is shut down, really in all part because of senator rand paul. he said this today. the reason i'm here tonight is to put people on the spot. i want people to feel uncomfortable. i want them to have to answer people at home who said how come

you are against president obama's deficit and how come you are for republican deficits? >> in fairness, he is reiterating the republican position all throughout the obama years and all of a sudden nobody is concerned about debt and deficits and they are more concerned about keeping the government (that is what happens when you have the government to run. nancy pelosi, that is different. there's been a lot of focus on republican fights, and fighting among the republicans and how they can't agree. democrats are in terrible position. democrats nancy pelosi has negos deal that she's very pleased with. on the other hand, she has a base, donors and supporters who want donald trump impeached. the idea that she's working along with him is just so -- she can't -- she can't do it. she can't bring herself to actually do it even when she likes the plan. >> shannon: someone who is not working with president donald trump is omaro.

this is from "big brother." >> i was haunted by the tweets. they said, keep her away, don't give her access. >> shannon: it is sinister music playing, she's whispering. she says "it's bad." she had some good things about what is going on with the white house. my question is, does she have an nda, nondisparagement agreement? >> i don't know. it was interesting to see how the white house quickly responded. the deputy press secretary roger shah had it they can come ready to fire at her today, saying she's been fired three times during the apprentice and we got rid of her again here. he had tough words for her. i guess this is just the first of a bunch of episodes. we might get teases, bits and pieces of trump administration gossip, like "as the world turns." >> shannon: a voting thing, i think she will want to say more.

she stays. we'll play what raj shah had to say at the white house briefing about her claims. >> omarosa was fired three times in "the apprentice," and this is the fourth time we let her go. she had limited contact with the president while here. >> shannon: i feel like he was trying not to smile. there was laughter. >> clearly, as david pointed out, it was canned response that he saw coming. omarosa does present a serious challenge. i'm a serious matter, she presents a serious challenge. a lot of past administrations have disgruntled employees and read memoirs. omarosa is very comfortable in front of the camera, as we can see if she is willing to spell it all. this presents a serious challenge to the trump administration, in a way we haven't, i think, we have seen other challenges but this is in a way, it's unique. she's putting her face out there. she's taking the heat. it could be really devastating.

>> shannon: we'll see if it's more funny or serious as this goes along. i wonder if she gets voted off. we'll have to figure out. as long as it's not on at 11:00. thank you for staying with us late. you have seen the countdown clock throughout the show. we are under 30 minutes now, about 20 minutes into the next government shutdown. it will be official. the conversation continues with the politics editor chris stirewalt for you to. ♪ for that follow-up vid. this is my cashew guy bruno. holler at 'em, brun. kicking it live and direct here at the fountain. should i go habanero or maui onion? should i buy a chinchilla? comment below. did i mention i save people $620 for switching? chinchilla update -- got that chinchilla after all. say what up, rocco. ♪

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♪ >> shannon: as we inched closer to midnight, that is when government funding is set to expire. we have a lot more to cover. joining me now, fox news politics editor, chris stirewalt. we have about 16 plus minutes. this time around, who wins or loses? they may get it solved by morning, by the time people wake up. right now, we are about to have a shutdown. >> the easy answer in congress is this, america. [laughter] look, i don't mean to be too hard on them. but republicans did run for a long time on fiscal restraint. that was really there bones. lindsey graham made a very impassioned case to you, i thought he was going to go tackle rand paul -- >> shannon: he might. >> he made a very impassioned case about why military funding is super important. the republicans do that but the two previous times that the republicans did substantial tax cuts, you know if they follow them with? spending increases.

deficits. either we do care about them or we don't care about them but one of the things in america today is that partisanship points people to the necessities of government. it's too bad but republicans only care about them until mike deficits when democrats are in power. unfortunately, my children and my children's children and their children's children's don't have a vote in congress. posterity get snowballed. the only way to do it is... >> shannon: spend money. there are people like andy biggs who will vote no. i think they will lose, but on principle. >> nancy pelosi is doing the stone play were she runs out in front of the ball and says i love this deal, that i personally am not voting for it. please keep me as a minority leader, please. then freezer people to pick up the votes. >> shannon: i want to make sure i ask you about this connection with sidney blumenthal, christopher steele, the dirty dossier, all that stuff. this is long but i want to read it. the state department official

who was implicated in this whole thing has arisen a piece tonight saying, "in late september i spoke with an old friend, sidney blumenthal, we discussed steele's report. he shouted no scouting by a journalist i didn't know that alleged the russians had... " , he explains how thing traveled through sidney blumenthal. >> shannon: a great rule in lifk sidney blumenthal's phone calls. just for america, just for you, never take a phone call from sidney blumenthal. it's always bad news. he is the hatchet man for the

clintons. before the dirty dossier, he was a dirty dossier before there was one. he has been a bagman and hatchet man for the clintons. he did the worst of the worst of all of the corrupt stuff that the clintons did in their heyday. sidney blumenthal was appointed guy. for him to stick himself into this discussion and did what he did is -- it doesn't impeach steele yet, we don't know, but the fact that hillary clinton was aware that any of this was going on -- >> shannon: we know she was. >> good point. that's a fair point, counselor. an intimate of hers, a person who did the wet worker in our campaigns, that was known to her and as we know from benghazi and libya, all of the emails, sidney blumenthal, prolific emails, the fact that he was aware of this investigation, trying to interfere, is another reason why hillary clinton, worst politician of my lifetime, and kept losing. if she has cleared this

investigation, if sidney blumenthal has cleared this investigation, it goes arbitrary, then that is quite a capstone is all i say. >> shannon: there is more information about that flow of information tonight. chris stirewalt, great to see you. north korea held a military parade ahead of the olympics opening ceremony. henry kissinger met with donald trump today to talk about the hostile regime. former ambassador john bolton joins us to break it all down. ♪ insurance company. with new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance. when you have something you love, ♪ you want to protect it. at legalzoom, our network of attorneys can help you every step of the way. with an estate plan including wills or a living trust that grows along with you and your family. legalzoom. where life meets legal. with advil's fast relief, you'll ask,

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♪ >> shannon: the president met with former secretary of state henry kissinger today to discuss north korea, china, and the middle east. kissinger has been outspoken on world issues recently, last year calling north korea's nuclear problem the most immediate problem to world peace. let's talk about the hostile regime with former ambassador to the u.n. and fox news contributor ambassador john bolton. great to have you, sir. >> glad to be with you. >> shannon: this is interesting. we know the president met with him because he tweeted about her. we have a tweet from a democratic member of congress who identifies himself as an obama alone. he said this a couple of days ago. "american foreign policy has been based on the interventionist worldview of henry kissinger for far too long. we should return to the principles of george washington

and john quincy adams by pushing for restraint and diplomacy." what do you make of the kissinger-trump summit? >> i suppose this congressman wants to recreate the walls of the atlantic and pacific ocean and protect us from the rest of the world. i think it's important that the president speak with henry kissinger, he wrote an op-ed in "the wall street journal" where he made a critically important point where he said what we want said was unacceptable about north korea's nuclear program. now risks becoming irreversible. i think it underlines the point that after 25 years of trying, we are down to the last possible chance here to stop north korea from going nuclear. it won't just be north korea. it will be them selling that capability to the rest of the world. it's a critical decision time for president trump. i think it is useful to have henry kissinger's thoughts. >> shannon: what do you make of the big military parade that north korean leaders have put

together head of the olympics? they know the world is watching them right now. a show of force? who are they trying to send a message to? >> i think they are trying to send a message to the people of south korea. despite all the propaganda which they have it have unquestionably enjoyed by participating in the olympics, they still think the y is number one. it's intended to show that they have the capability, how long that would last, we don't know. to dissuade anyone from thinking that we can stop their nuclear weapons program. >> shannon: another front of concern, a report from the u.n. talking about al qaeda, even as isis is fading away. they say al qaeda affiliates remain the dominant terror threat in some regions such as somalia and yemen, a fact demonstrated by continuous stream of attacks and world operations. they are out there, morphing even as isa seems to be winding down. >> i think the terrorist groups

come with islamist groups, they don't follow corporate style organization charge, they come and go, the ebb and flow, they merge together, they sometimes work at cross purposes, they sometimes work together. i think the key point is that the ideology, the fervor of the islamicist ideology has not died down and continues to spread even as the isis caliphate is defeated. in all kinds of places in the afghan-pakistan region, libya, yemen, still in syria and iraq. this threat remains, the terrorist threat changes all the time but it remains grave. >> shannon: it does. ambassador bolton, always great to have you with us. thank you, sir. we are minutes away from a government shutdown officially, some final thoughts on that when we return. ♪ ve well, you know, you're getting older. um, you might be experiencing some, ah, sensations.

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♪ >> shannon: all eyes are on capitol hill. we are about to head midnight on the east coast and that will

make the government shutdown official. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. for now, i am shannon bream. ♪ >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. the clock strikes midnight, for the second time this year, we are facing a partial government shutdown. the vote from a senate on the massive two your budget deal to attach to a short-term funding bill was expected earlier today but the vote was held up by kentucky senator republican rand paul. he's been demanding a vote on an amendment to keep budget caps in place. leadership tried to make a deal with the senator while others came to the floor to complain, accusing paul of showboating, and effectively shutting down the government. it's official. the government, all of this is going on as the white house office of management and budget has directed federal agencies to prepare for a lapse in funding. the