>> heather: president trump rejecting a plan by democrats to end the government shut down because it does not include any money for his border wall. the democrats are pushing forward with their spending bills. and urging republicans to get on board. plus, russia is calling him a spy. his family says he was in moscow for a wedding. the latest on the american facing espionage charges. and north korean dictator kim jong-un threatening to change course on denuclearization. and hello, everyone. i'm heather childers. i'm not shepard smith. we begin a new year. can you believe it?

new congress as well. but the same government shutdown unfortunately. democrats coming up with a plan to reopen the government but it does not include funds for a border wall as president trump demanded. before the ball dropped yesterday, he told fox news that he has no choice but to continue the shut down until that is addressed. listen. >> we have no choice. we have to have border security. a wall is part of border security. you know, i hear so much about the wall is old fashioned. no, the wall is not old fashioned. the wall is 100% fool proof. >> heather: analysts say it's not fool proof. president trump also says that he's ready to go and willing to negotiate with democratic leaders in congress when they want. team coverage for you. kevin corke is standing by. but first, to kristin fisher who is live in washington. kristen, are we any closer to a compromise? >> no, heather. almost nothing has changed.

democrats are still refusing to fund the president's border wall. the president has continued to say he won't sign any bill to reopen the government without wall funding. those republicans and democrats are continuing to blame each other on day 11 of this shut down. >> president trump owns this. he said in the room, i will own it. he hasn't called nancy pelosi since december 11. they have not talked since december 11. >> the democrats don't want to give donald trump a win at any price. their whole objective is to see him defeated in 2020. as a consequence, this is one of the battles that you'll see. >> and it will be the first real battle that this new congress is going to have to tackle. there's no honeymoon period when you have 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without play. house democrats are putting forth a plan. here's what it looks like. one year of funding for six of seven agencies affected by this shut down and funding through

february 8 for the department of homeland security. that includes 1.3 billion for border security, but not for a wall. that, of course, is the big sticking point. that's what this shut down is all about, heather. >> sure is. so what can we expect in terms of timing of this? >> house democrats say that they're going to vote on their proposal as soon as they take over on thursday. it will likely pass. then it's up to senate republicans and president trump. neither the president or mitch mcconnell have directly weighed in on this proposal from the democrats. but it is highly unlikely that either will support it in its current form because senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said the senate won't vote on a bill to reopen the government unless he's 100% certain that the president will sign it. lindsey graham who had lunch with the president just a few days ago said that no wall funding is a nonstarter for president trump. so this shutdown could drag on for days, maybe weeks, heather. >> heather: impacting lots of

folks. thanks, kristen. >> thank you. >> heather: our team fox coverage continues on the government shut down. kevin corke reporting live from the north lawn. good morning or good afternoon, kevin. i'm so used to being here in the morning. >> and i've worked with you very early. good to be with you this afternoon. i want to tell you, heather, able a possible meeting a briefing to be given by dhs officials from the trump administration to a senior cadre of congressional lawmakers wednesday. there's been reporting that that could happen and i say possibly because we have also gotten new reporting from chad pergram, our senior producer on capitol hill that it's not entirely certain that this briefing will take place because some of the key players are not in washington. some congressional aides say the offer is grandstanding, if you will, but the trump administration. the president is appearing to offer just a bit of an olive branch to incoming speaker nancy pelosi.

on twitter writing border security and the wall thing and shut down is not where nancy pelosi wanted to start her tenure as speaker. let's make a deal. channelling his inner monty hall there. the president was in the oval office yesterday working, making calls, looking to find a way to end this impasse. the shut down affecting real americans. many only who are beginning to feel the pinch of not being paid for the time being, even though they'll get paid once the shutdown is over. that said, the president is standing firm and he wants the american people to know why. >> we need, however, borders. you don't have borders, you don't have a country. we don't want drug traffickers or human traffickers or illegal people with criminal records to come in. our border patrol, our ice agents, our military, we've done great. but you can never do it perfectly unless you have a wall. so we have to have a wall as part of border security and we're working on it.

>> that was the president on twitter. now it's also important to point out, heather, democrats say the problem is the president doesn't have an arrow in his quiver that could somehow create a compromise under less he comes down off of the $5 billion number to say how the money should he secure it for border security is allocated. heather? >> some said he was willing to come off of that number a little bit. that was reported. the president has said that he's willing to talk, but does that mean he's willing to in fact give up the money nor the border wall? >> not only is that the right question to ask. it depends on the day, the hour. literally the second. because the president is a deal maker. senior white house officials telling me earlier today, the $5 billion is a hard number. it's not an end number, not a beginning number. it's the number period, end of story. that said, he's a notorious deal maker. maybe the president decides we can meet somewhere in the middle. we can save face here. just maybe a deal can be worked

out. the real pressure cooker here is on democrats say white house officials because it's their agenda, heather, that ends up being stalled as long as the government is shut down, not just the white house agenda. bottom line, cooperation compromise may be the only way to come together and figure out this impass as it carries into day 12 very soon. heather? >> heather: maybe some room for negotiation in terms of daca, which lindsey graham discussed with him. happy new year to you. >> happy new year. >> heather: let's bring in our political panel. david morey is here and holly turner. thanks for joining us on this brand new day of a new year. >> hi, heather. >> happy new year heather. >> heather: same old same old in washington d.c., especially with democrats coming back this week, although they will be in charge. government shut downs seem to be continuing. holly, i'll start with you.

>> yeah, the thing that is becoming very clear, this is really about the 2020 election. pelosi and the rest of the democrats are only thinking about how they'll win in 2020. seems to me their message is, we hate trump, anti-trump rhetoric, we have to defeat trump. it's not about solutions. it's not going to be about helping the american people and about providing answers for them and a better america for everyone. it's going to just be about hating trump. so it's really unfortunate. this is an opportunity for them to get some things that they want. you mentioned the daca recipients. they're walking away from that. that is a lot of people that would have an opportunity to have a path to legal citizenship. the president is willing to give them this, but we have to secure or borders and the wall is the way to do that. it's very sad and very telling about the democratic party as a

whole. >> heather: david, what about that? do the democrats, nancy pelosi specifically, do they know that the president and the republicans are not going to accept what they intend to put forth on thursday and so they're doing it just to, you know, put the ball in the president's court and make him look like the bad guy? >> welcome to the year of divided government. it's wrong to say the democrats are the only ones playing partisan politics here. come on. what is the white house and the president doing? this is an issue that the president himself said he would own. soon to be again speaker pelosi is happy to let him own it. the truth is, it will get resolved eventually. if it's a partisan blame game and one side is wrong and the other is right and that's all they have to say about it, the losers are the american people and the stock market. the issue is this is more about a political base issue than a national security solution. look at general kelly's exit interview.

most people say i was a special adviser to the homeland security. you could spend $5 million on manpower and technology. how can you expect speaker pelosi to back down on that issue if you believe money could be better spent? this is just the beginning. 2019 is going to be an unprecedented year. we're warming up here. in terms of division, partisanship -- >> heather: i hope you're wrong. >> it's almost impossible for me to be wrong on this one. it's not going to be easy to get government together. the leaders that step up will be rewarded for that. >> heather: it's exhausting to think about that. there's been some conversation that nancy pelosi would be more willing to negotiate on many of these things than say chuck schumer was once she becomes the speaker. >> that's right. i've said it before. being bipartisan does not win speakership. so i think once nancy takes the gavel, i think we'll see her

come to the table and negotiate with the president. she just can't risk doing that right now. it's politics getting in the way of serving the american people and the hundreds of thousands of federal workers that are not getting paid right now. i think once she does come in to take that speakership officially, i think we'll see that happen. the president is not backing down. he shouldn't back down. he made this promise to the american people during his campaign. the american people put him in office to carry out his campaign promises and he's absolutely doing the right thing. if he gives in and signs this continuing resolution that the democrats are talking about, then he's lost all of his leverage in this negotiation. >> heather: david, you get the final word. you said that ultimately there will be some resolution to this. what do you think it will be? >> yeah, i do. remember, the president backed down earlier and all the critique from the very hard right wing caused him to turn it around at the upset of mitch mcconnell. i think that dynamic will shake out a little bit here.

unfortunately if he really wanted the wall, should have been part of a infrastructure bill at the beginning of the administration. he's getting to the promise of the political base late. you'll have to have the government open again. we can't be in this situation forever. so this is a short term problem. we have long-term challenges to deal with, too. >> heather: we've been shut down now since december 22. >> 11 days. >> heather: we'll see how long it continues. you two will be back a little later in the show to talk more about other issues. stick around. thank you very much. >> ahead, the family of an american arrested in russia says he's not a spy and they're concerned for his safety. how will the u.s. respond? that's next.

>> heather: did you hear about this? russia has arrested an american and accused him of being a spy. the retired marine family says he was only in moscow for a

wedding. we have the latest details with david. >> paul wheland's family says this is a complete misstanding and this could be -- he could be in danger. the family is pleading to get him home safely. wheland is retired from the military and was in russia for a wedding, no kind of espionage operation. we know that russian authorities took him in custody on friday. a state department spokesperson says the russian ministry of foreign affairs has formally notified the department of state that international law requires russian grant u.s. officials access to him. state department officials have requested to see him as soon as possible and expect that russia will allow this to happen. his brother, other family members say the entire situation is a misunderstanding and they just want him home as soon as possible.

>> he had requests from a friend. he thought he could help out because he had been to russia and he could help other americans from the family who hadn't been to russia to navigate their way around, get on the metro, that sort of thing. he's a very kind person. >> wheland runs global security for an automotive parts and manufacturer in michigan. family members say he's a fan of russia but wouldn't do anything illegal. state department officials continue to work on his release heather? >> heather: what sort of punishment is he facing? >> he family wants to know and others want to know. state news in russia said that he could be behind bars for 10 to 20 years for something like this. again, at this point, wheland's family just want to get him home. he said he was in moscow for a wedding showing people around the city because he's been there many times before, heather. >> heather: the family didn't know until they heard about it

on social media. thanks very much for the latest. >> you bet. >> heather: well, a baby boy survives 35 hours buried under twisted metal and concrete after a deadly explosion that happened prior to a collapsed apartment building in russia. rescue workers found the child and pulled him out. search dogs missed him during a sweep, this happened near the border with kazakhstan. nine people are dead. temperatures fell below zero and officials say the boy was suffering from hypothermia as well as broken bones and a head injury. the north korean dictator giving america a warning in his new year's address. we'll have those details coming up. stay with us. ♪ ) dealing with psoriatic arthritis pain was so frustrating. my skin... it was embarrassing. my joints... they hurt. the pain and swelling. the tenderness. the psoriasis.

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>> heather: welcome back. north korean dictator kim jong-un warning that will be consequences if the united states continues to break its promises. in a new year's address, the leader reaffirmed his commitment to denuclearize the korean peninsula but said that officials in pyongyang would have no option but to explore a new path of economic punishments remain in place. rich edson reporting live from washington for us. hi, rich. >> hi, heather. in his annual new year's address, kim jong-un says he's committed to his international agreements from this path year. kim claims he will work to create outcomes welcomed by the international community and he says he wants the trump administration to do the same. >> if the united states response to our reactive and preemptive measures with trustable measures, then the two countries relations will advance at great spied through the process of

taking more reliable and ground-breaking measures. >> that means lifting sanctions. the u.s. and allies refuse. they say they will do so after north korea dismantles their weapons programs. russian and china also want the sanctions relaxed. the u.s. has accused them of using their enforcement of sanctions. beyond sanctions relief, kim says he wants south korea to halt military exercises with other countries. >> heather: so it appears they're still far apart. >> at the june summit in singapore, president trump broadly agreed to denuclearization. the specifics of how to accomplish it is unclear. analysts say satellite images show north korea continues working on its missile program. the state department says negotiations are progress, but there's nothing concrete.

the department's north korea envoy has had difficulty meeting with north korean counter parts and in november north korean officials cancelled a meeting with secretary of state mike pompeo. but in 2017, north korea was launching ballistic missiles over japan. the tension between north korea and u.s. allies has relaxed considerably since then. kim has launched no ballistic missiles and tested no nuclear bombs. kim has pledged his country would not proliferate nuclear weapons. south korea says kim sent a letter to president moon promising to hold more summits this year. on christmas eve, president trump said he was meeting with his north korea team and they were making progress and he was looking forward to the next

summit. >> heather: thanks, rich. let's bring in gordon chang, author of "north korea takes on the world." happy new year. >> happy new year. >> heather: we've talked extensively over the years about north korea, south korea. just listening there to rich talk about the comparison to just 2017, it appears that we have made some progress. >> well, we've made some progress in reducing tensions. we've not made the critical progress, which is getting the north koreans to give up their weapons. president trump's policy is based on the assumption that kim has made that strategic decision to do so. that's why he's relieved a lot of pressure. at this point, kim has not taken advantage of that hand going full bore in his missiles and nuke programs. >> heather: one of the keys to your thought process there, this new year's address and how the united states was more of an after thought and focused on

south korea. >> what is striking, these addresses are directed to the north korean people. sometimes they'll have messages for the outside world. this time yes, there were some things for president trump but most of it is directed to reconciliation. north korea wants to take over the south. never giving up that goal. south korea's president moon is very anti-american. so kim has a willing audience in seoul right now. so he's directing a lot of diplomacy towards that. >> heather: so in combination with that, the pressure in the u.n. from russia and china to relieve sanctions. >> we shouldn't relieve pressure right now. the chinese and the russians have been openly violating those sanctions. we have not called them to account. things have gotten so bad the south koreans have looked and said, oh, my gosh, moscow and beijing are doing what they want. why don't we? so moon that wants too shovel as much money to kim jong-un's hands as possible has been doing

that and violating sanctions, too. >> heather: that's what kim jong-un, that was his message to president trump. relieve sanctions. let's move forward with denuclearization. >> yeah. one of the things about sanctions, it threatened kim jong-un's hold on power. he does have missile and nuke programs but he needs move for gift politics, buying the loyalty of senior regime personnel. he needs money for buying cars and rolexes. >> what about the potential summit with president trump? should that happen, kim jong-un coming here to america, at the white house? >> no. kim is not willing to hold meetings with secretary of state pompeo or the north korean envoy. if you can't hold working meetings, why should you have a summit? especially when the north koreans have not done anything that they said they would do. this is one of those times that we have to do the gritty work at

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>> heather: welcome back. a new year's. thanks for joining us. the u.s. military a poll guying for this.

they deleted it. a new year's eve tweet that they posted on the page of the u.s. strategic command which is responsible for the country's nuclear weapons. it read in part, "times square tradition rings in the new year by dropping the big ball. if ever needed, we're ready to drop something much bigger." the video showed a b-2 bomber showing weapons that exploded. they issued an apology saying the earlier post was in poor taste and does not reflect our valu values. what do you think about that? let us know. benjamin netanyahu meeting with secretary of state mike pompeo. this comes a couple weeks after the president's surprise announcement that he would pull troops out of syria. tray yingst has more. >> heather, benjamin netanyahu met today in brazil with u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo to discuss the future of

american plans in syria and how this decision will affect the israelis. pompeo reiterating to netanyahu that the decision will not affect the american israeli security relationship happening currently. the trump administration conversations with the israelis will continue when john bolton meets with netanyahu on sunday in jerusalem. after setting a 30-day deadline, the president has agreed to slow down the timeline to nearly four months, this comes after pressure from the president's military advisers and netanyahu who do worry that the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria could lead to rapid iranian expansion in the region. heather? >> what is the latest on the ground in syria? >> right now, in light of these comments by president trump, we are seeing syrian government forces moving deeper in syria. this is a region in the northern part that is highly contested by

the kurdish forces and the turkish military. government forces were invited into this city but the kurds because they do fear a major turkish military operation that could lead to more violence against these kurdish forces that were previously backed by the united states. although the u.s. withdrawal will take place the next four months, the trump administration has indicated that america will still participate in the u.s.-led coalition against isis for the time being. heather? >> heather: thanks, trey. thank you. a new year and a lot of new faces in the white house. this is the first day on the job for patrick shanahan who earlier issued his acting memo as defense secretary. president trump chose the former boeing executive after james mattis said he was stepping down. his resignation came after the president called for the withdrawal of the u.s. troops from syria that we just

discussed. in a farewell memo yesterday, he told the defense department employees to keep the faith in the country and hold fast. lucas tomlinson is live at the pentagon with more on all of these moves. hi, lucas. >> hi, heather. jim mattis stepped down yesterday from the pentagon without a ceremony unlike many of his predecessors. instead, he transferred power to his deputy, patrick shanahan over the phone. in a message to the troops, shanahan said as acting secretary of defense, i look forward to working with president trump to carry out his vision alongside strong leaders including service secretaries and joint chiefs of staffs ander is personnel in the office of the secretary of defense. mattis resigned because he didn't share the president's vision and said he deserved someone with views better aligned with yours. in a farewell message, mattis said i'm confident that reach of you remains un distradistracted

our sworn mission of protecting our way of life. patrick shanahan faces in challenges abroad and here at home. >> heather: what are the top issues that shanahan faces early on in his new role? >> heather, first shanahan face as resurgent russia that just tested a hypersonic message and face as resurgent china that marked 2019 with a military-style flag raising ceremony in tiananmen scare in beijing. the u.s. has to spend more on defense to keep space. america has reached the point of a few blown national security crisis and now risks losing to china or russia in a war. >> the pentagon would be

treading water if they got the $733 billion to advance and make the progress that this calls for, they need to get that number. >> patrick shanahan makes his first appearance at the pentagon when he arrives for work tomorrow morning. heather? >> big day for him. lucas, thank you. investigators are looking into two separate new year's eve attacks in europe. in western germany, police say the driver injured four people when he rammed his car into a group of migrants in a small western city that happened just after midnight. the suspect reportedly making anti-foreigner comments during his arrest. in manchester england, officials are treating the stabbing of three people at a train station as a terrorist attack. jacqui heinrich is here with more on this. happy new year to you. >> happy new year. >> heather: so begins as a violent one in europe. tell us about this police officer injured in this. >> that officer was stabbed in the shoulder.

he's been since released from the hospital. a couple that he was trying to save, they were seriously injured, a man and woman inner that 50s, this all happened at the victory train station in manchester. witnesses say the man shout allah. police tackled him using pepper spray and a stun gun. people in manchester were shaken after a suicide bomber killed go 2 people at the ariana grande concert. >> right nearby. >> the events of last night will affect many people and cause concern, particularly as the incident happened so close to the scene of the terrorist attack of may 2017. >> british prime minister theresa may gave condolences to the victims. she said she thanked the emergency services for their courageous response.

police searched an address where they believe the suspect had been living but have not released his name. >> heather: police in germany say that a man tried to attack syrian and afghan people? >> they say the driver set out to run down foreigners. this all happened in berlin. the driver was a 50-year-old german man. he had been in psychiatric treatment before all of this happened. police say he plowed his car into a crowd of afghan and syrian citizens this morning. four people were seriously hurt. one of them was a child. the driver sped off and tried to hit a different group of people waiting at a bus stop. he did not hit them. he was arrested and police said the susrespect made comments about foreigners while he was being taken in. keep in mind, this all happened in the same city where a tunisian man rammed his truck into a market. >> heather: yeah, i was live on the air when that happened. not a great way to begin the new

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>> heather: one of the biggest political question marks heading

into 2019, special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. catherine herridge live in washington with a look at what we can expect. happy new year to you. >> happy new year to you, heather as well. based on our reporting at fox news, we believe the robert mueller investigation is in the final stages and some media reporting suggests that he could finalize his work as early as february. mueller's office does not comment publicly on its progress or the timeline. it's worth noting that at the end of last year, the house intelligence committee said that they would provide testimony with the political operative roger stone. last month the senior democrat on the committee suggested e-mails between stone and his associate, jerome corsi are inconsistent with stone's statement to congress.

another outstanding question is whether mueller has been building an obstruction case against the president over firing of james comey and issues related to mike flynn. legal analysts say they don't expect movement on the mueller report until a new attorney general is confirmed. the president's choice is william barr. >> the way the justice department procedure works is that the report goes to the attorney general and then the attorney general decides how much of the report to make public. i suspect that mueller won't turn over a report until there's an actual appointed attorney general in place. >> the incoming chairman of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham says the confirmation hearings for attorney general are his highest priority, heather. >> heather: and there's no telling what will happen with that. so there is a few calls by republicans for the special counsel looking at the fbi in 2016. >> that's right. this letter from outgoing

republican chairman trey gowdy and bob goodlatte got buried last week. according to the letter, james baker told house investigators that there was grounds to pursue a case against hillary clinton for using an unsecured personal server for hillary clinton. baker says comey's decision to recommend against criminal charges in that case was not shared by all. "director comey stated no reasonable prosecutor would have brought the case against secretary clinton and his decision was too was unanimous among those involved." general counsel james baker initially did believe the case could be made and multiple witnesses testified to the committee. the fbi's decision not to recommend charges was not unanimous. last month house democrats down played the testimony. >> with regard to the fbi and

the department of justice's conduct and conclusions with respect to the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails, and with respect to attorney general -- form attorney general lynch's brief discussion with the president, with former president clinton on the tarmac whenever, really just rehashing all of that. >> house democrats say the republican investigation was designed to damage the special counsel and they promise to end it and on a personal note with resolutions for the new year, i will look hard at not using double negatives. it's a bad practice. >> heather: i got called on that, too, by the way just last week. so twitter will be all over it. >> thanks, catherine. >> see you. >> heather: let's bring back holly turner and david morey. >> absolutely. >> heather: so david, i'll start with you.

democrats have promised that they will continue the investigations and ramp up with more. is that a good move on their part? >> i think they feel they have to do it. there's already 12 investigations that have begun of the president. in terms of mueller's investigation, nobody know what's he has, what he doesn't have. only he and his close associates. so far he's brought 33 indictments or created guilty pleas and three corporations. sounds like there's more smoke than not there. we'll see how this plays out. i think your intelligence is good. by february we'll know where we are here. the battle will be does this report get public. that will be very interesting. >> heather: holly, on that note, as we heard catherine discussing, many people believe that won't happen until the new attorney general is appointed. we have to go through the confirmation hearings. the president's choice is william barr. what do you think will infold with that? >> i think it is smart on

mueller's part to wait until the new a.g. is in place. if the past few hearings we had are any indication of what is to come, it could be a long process. i don't know that we will have that done by february. we'll see. i know senator graham is very keen on getting this done quickly and efficiently and not letting it spin out of control like the last hearings that we've had. who knows if we'll see what all is in that report. i can tell you one thing, both sides will try to use it to their advantage whatever is in there. >> heather: i'm going to go back to the money issue. we talked about $5 billion for the border wall. how much has this investigation cost so far? you talked about the 33 charges. none of them have to do with collusion, which is what this investigation was supposed to be about. >> well, i mean, it's a lot cheaper than whitewater and shorter and more productive. so we're not through the process yet. so we can't judge it. 33 indictments and guilty pleas

and three corporations is not nothing along the way here. so there's a lot of evidence that something is going on here. i'm not going to speculate. we'll see what the report says. >> heather: holly, final word. >> again, as heather pointed out, we're supposed to be investigating collusion. none of those indictments are guilty pleas or have anything to do with collusion. it's mueller investigating people, not investigating crimes. that's where the american people have a hard time with what he's doing and lost trust in mueller. >> heather: and lost track on -- >> not according to the polls. >> heather: thank you. >> no according to the polls. >> heather: happy new year. >> you too. >> heather: let's talk about the new year and new laws which are taking effect today all around the country. we'll tell you where there's a new minimum wage and custody laws for your pets next. i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activate my body

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>> heather: new year, new laws. state rules dealing with everything from minimum wage to

animal adoptions take effect today. maryann rafferty reporting live from the west coast news hub. hi, maryann. nice to see you. >> hi, heather. good to see you. in 2019, hawaii and the district of columbia join five other states that already allow medically assists suicide and a law in vermont will allow the state to pay people $10,000 to move there. and mbas are thought to play a role in silencing victims. outspoken supporters of the me too movement say the law is an important first step. >> the past year has never been about a witch hunt. it's never been about one man or hundreds of men. it's been about change. >> and the minimum wage is increases in at least 20 states

in the district of columbia. even as the federal minimum has removed at $7.25 since 2009. while some will earn more, if you're in georgia, iowa, louisiana, nebraska, utah or west virginia, the price of shopping online could increase in 2019. these six states requiring online retailers to charge a state sales tax for certain purchases. other new laws are also aiming to curb addiction. in new york, pharmacies can no longer sell cigarettes and take back act there makes drug companies responsible for the cost of left over drugs and the destruction of them. in utah a lower threshold for drunk driving. it's .05%, which marks the strictest in the country. heather? >> heather: in terms of online shopping, people will still do that. what about there in california? >> i'm sure they will. >> heather: tell us about the

law impacting the animals there. >> a new law that requires pet stores to sell pets from shelters or rescues. it will apply to cats, dogs and rabbits. pets in california are now legally an official part of the family that means they will be subject to custody battles just like children. you know, i feel like our pets are children. my dog was my first born. i don't know if we needed a law for this. >> heather: i've heard about them involving pets already. thank you, maryann. great to see you. >> thanks. >> heather: stock markets are closed today for the holiday. maybe that's not a bad thing because 2018 was actually the worst year for stocks in a decade. for more about that, and what 2019 could bring, maybe better news, let's bring in gary kaltbaum. thanks for joining us.

happy new year. >> happy new year to you, heather. >> heather: will it be a happy new year for stocks? what is doing to happen in 2019? >> well, hopefully better than the fourth quarter that -- where the market was just destroyed. i think the biggest problem is the market has been telegraphing slower growth, not only here but really worse around the globe. markets topped out at the beginning of the year and i think a bunch of places in europe are in recession. japan may be in recession. china is slowing down. we're not immune to that. when that happens, the estimates for earnings and growth comes down. our estimates for gdp come down and markets are definitely reflecting that. i think there's going to be some more pain in the first couple quarters. but i will give you the good news. 100% of the time bear markets, we end up with a bull market. we go to all-time highs. we have to be patient. >> heather: people hear about it but at the same time, we have

records. people shopping for holidays, christmas spending. you mentioned the gdp in the third quarter. growth at 3.4%. unemployment at the lowest since 1969. so make sense of that, how we have these two different issues. >> those are past numbers. the market reflects what's going forwa forward. everybody thought the third quarter would be good. the fourth quarter, we started off with predictions of 3.5. we'll probably be closer to two. the second quarter lower than two. that brings profits down and markets down, again, bear markets are not the end of the world. sometimes we just have to have it. it works off the frothe of the prior bull market and then you get going again. i'm sure that sometime during the middle of the year we'll have a good low and be off to the races again. >> heather: what is the factor if you picked one main factor that influences the market?

>> i think two things. direction of earnings and interest rates. i'm sure that central bank, our fed, has stopped raising rates. i don't think it can go higher. earnings like i said have been coming down. they'll start accelerating again towards the end of the year and that's when the markets will reflect it and start going again. those are the two factors that have always led markets up and down. i think we're in that same place again. >> heather: the president invited the fed chair to come meet with him at the white house. we'll see what happens if that meeting takes place. thank you for joining us. happy new year. >> you too. thank you. >> heather: take a look at this. pretty sad. police are known to love doughnuts, all of us are actually. it's not an unhappy new year for some officers in kentucky. the lexington police department posting these pics on twitter after their officers responded to a burnt krispy kreme truck. the driver made it out okay. the doughnuts did not. the cops capturing the pics.

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