>> virginia's governor still refusing to step down despite calls from state and federal leaders from both sides of the aisle to leave office all over a racist picture from his medical school yearbook and a new admission of wearing black face. leland: president trump's first state of the union before a divided congress now a little more than 48 hours away. a former george w. bush speech writer on what language the president should use to bring the nation together. molly: and millions of americans from all walks of life are gathering together to watch the 53rd annual super bowl. we will get a preview. ♪ ♪

molly: welcome to america's news headquarters from washington, i'm molly line, great to be with you. leland: i'll preview the super bowl, pats are going to win. molly: that was fast. leland: there you go. molly: i think people are still going to tune in. leland: i'm leland vittert, good to be with you. and a fox news alert coming to us from syria right now. from our pentagon team, u.s.-led coalition forces have bombed part of the syrian army in the eastern part of the country. this after u.s.-backed fighters came under attack. it's not clear how many syrian army members were killed in the attack. a u.s. coalition spokesperson says, quote: our partner forces were fired upon and exercised their inherent right to self-defense. we're being told there were no u.s. troops in the vicinity of the attack. a u.s. official telling fox news that the attack and the counterattack right now are under investigation. a reminder of the dangers u.s. forces face inside syria every

day. molly: virginia governor ralph northam is showing no sign of stepping down despite growing calls from top democrats for him to do just that. garrett tenney joins us from richmond. garrett? >> reporter: molly, this was a complete 180 for governor ralph northam. on friday he claimed respondent for that picture and apologized, then less than 24 hours later he said he was absolutely certain, and he never believed that it was him in that picture. >> last night if i finally had a chance to sit down and look at the photograph in detail. it is definitely not me. i can tell by looking at it. >> reporter: that explanation prompted another wave of calls for northam to step aside not just because of how his story changed, but because he also admitted to wearing black face on a different occasion that same year, to dress up like michael jackson. democrats at the state and national level say it's clear that northam needs to resign.

>> he basically has shown that he is not honest. he's disingenuous, he needs to resign, and if he has any, any way that he wants to regain his integrity, he would resign and then participate in the discussion. >> reporter: northam is launching an investigation to determine who the two men in the yearbook photo are to prove to the public that he isn't one of them. he has no plans to resign, and he wants this experience to help start a conversation about racial injustice. former virginia congressman jim moran is one of the few in his party who agree with that decision. >> i do think it's the right thing to do, and i hate to be on the other side of virtually all of my if friends on this, but i do disagree with their judgment, because i think it is a rush to judgment. i believe in second chances. that's the power of redemption. and i think -- >> congressman. >> -- we should use it to achieve a better future.

>> reporter: northam is asking the public for patience while he tries to prove his innocence, but it's not clear how much time he has. the legislative black caucus of virginia is now warning the governor that if he does not step aside, that they will begin to take steps to remove him from office via impeachment. molly? molly: plenty to watch there in richmond, virginia. thank you, garrett tenney. leland: with that, we bring in larry sabato. larry, always good to see you. history does not rhyme -- or it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't repeat itself. you have to think about scandals like gary hart, like mark sanford in the past. have we ever seen anything quite like this where there is literally nobody supporting a governor or a politician and him saying i'm going to happening -- to hang on? >> maybe governor eric greitens in missouri, now former governor eric greitens.

he had lost the support of his party before he was forced to resign not too far in the past. and that may be somewhat comparable. his was about a sex scandal. this is a different subject, but it can happen this way. i need to interject something. i'm a friend and fan of congressman jim moran, i've known him for many, many years, but -- and he makes a reasonable argument. but his brother is in governor northam's cabinet. i think that should be noted. leland: and by this, you're meaning the one democrat who came out, i believe it was today, and talked about the need to offer somebody the ability for redemption. moran seems to be alone in that feeling among democrats, republicans, anybody of note. >> that's exactly right. and, again, i'm not saying he took the stand he did because of his brother, but it's important to note conflicts of interest, and he is one of the only democrats i've come across national or state who is standing behind northam. not because they don't believe in second chances, everybody believes in second chances,

maybe third and fourth depending on how old you are, but that is, that's not necessarily an argument for keeping northam in power. leland: let's get to sort of the nuts and bolts of how this played out where northam apologized for being in the photo and then said, oh, wait, never mind, it's not me. but then, oh, yes, i was in black face at one point when i did the moon walk at a michael jackson skit and then said, this take a listen. >> you danced the moon walk? >> that's right. >> are you still able to moon walk? >> inappropriate. >> my wife says inappropriate circumstances. >> governor, why -- leland: i think we were, i think pam saved him on that one. have we ever seen a press conference or a situation like in the handled quite so uniquely? >> no, and it was very, very clumsy. my, my jaw has been hitting the floor so often that i've got

some extra structures here to hold it up. [laughter] but my jaw was on the floor during much of that press conference. and by the way, that press conference was so bad, it convinced democrats who had not come out firmly for resignation to do so such as former governor doug wilder who was virginia's and the nation's first elected african-american governor, served between 1990-1994. he had not call out right for resignation. after that press conference, he did. leland: all right, you're known for your crystal ball, go ahead. >> well, it's inevitable that he'll go. he has to go -- leland: but does he -- everyone keeps saying that, but does he really have to go? is it inevitable? >> i think -- leland: impeachment, according to the constitution, you need to have crimes in there. doesn't appear as though he's committed any or accused of any. how does he have to go? >> well, i doubt we'll go the imetch people route -- impeachment route, though remember the phrase in the virginia constitution is a

little different than the national phrase about impeachment and conviction, but the effect of the words is the same. essentially, an impeachable offense is anything that the congress or the state legislature deems impeachable. so you could say, well, there are no high crimes or misdemeanors, well, what's a misdemeanor? you can stretch it. they could do it. i don't think it'll come to that at all, i really don't. in time, it's going to be obvious that without the support of his own party, it's very difficult for ralph northam to function as governor. leland: right. >> so he may prove part of what he's saying. i'm open to it. maybe part of it's true. but you can't reconcile the statements on friday evening with the statements he made at the press conference on saturday. and if you can look at a photo on friday evening, a photo of somebody in black face and somebody in a kkk costume and you're not sure whether it's you and, in fact, you say it is, that's a big problem. leland: well, i think that may

be the understatement of the interview, larry. [laughter] appreciate you being with us, my friend. as always, we'll see if your jaw hits the ground anytime in the next 24 hours on this scandal. >> it will. leland: yeah. [laughter] i think you're right there. [laughter] all right. thanks, larry. >> take care. leland: molly? molly: president trump and his family spending the day in florida before returning to washington, of course, to make those final preparations for the state of the union. on the ground there ellison barber joining us with the latest. >> reporter: hi, molly. the scene for the president's state of the union is choosing greatness. an administration official briefed reporters on friday and said the president plans to use his speech to focus on five key topics. a big one, of course, is going to be immigration. we're told though he will also talk about trade, the relationship with china and the deal to replace nafta. he'll also broadly address rebuilding america. mr. trump is expected to ask congress to come up with an infrastructure package. he'll talk about the need to lower the cost of health care

and prescription drugs, and he'll address national security, updating congress on u.s. military efforts around the world and his commitment to end what the official described as america's unending wars. the administration says that the president will focus on unity and also tell members of congress this, quote: together we can break decades of political stalemate, we can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions and unlock the extraordinary the promise of america's future. the decision is ours to make. a bipartisan conference committee is in the process of trying to negotiate a border security package by february 15th. president trump told "the new york times" those talks are a waste of time. he says he'll let them finish, but he is expecting to declare a national emergency in order to fund his proposed border wall. he suggested that sort of announcement could come during his state of the union address. when asked if he's willing to shut down the government again, the president told cbs news all options are on the table. >> well, we're going to have to

see what happens on february 15th. >> you're not taking it off the table. >> well, i don't take anything off the table. i don't like to take things off the table. it's that alternative. it's national emergency. it's other things. on the 15th we have now set the table beautifully, because everybody knows what's going on because of the shutdown. >> reporter: democrats say it is the wrong, a bad move to declare a national emergency. they've said there will likely be legal lawsuits afterwards. some republicans also say they don't think it's a good idea. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said that publicly on a number of occasions. a senior republican aide told me they are not expecting the president the actually declare a national emergency during his state of the union address, but they said he will set the table for that to happen, in their words they said he'll set the table, but he won't actually pull the trigger until after those talks finish on february 15th. molly? molly: ellison barber, thank you so much for a little preview as we get closer and closer to the state of the union on tuesday.

thank you. the bipartisan committee that's working on border security has less than two weeks now to come up with that deal, that elusive deal. for more insight on these talks, let's bring in kansas congressman roger marshall. congressman, thanks for being here. we have a lot to talk about here on the cusp of the state of the union right around the corner, negotiations underway to, hopefully, prevent another shutdown and, of course, the back and forth oh border -- over border security. i want to kind of start there, you've seen things firsthand. what do you think is necessary to secure america's southern border? >> well, good afternoon, molly, from beautiful kansas state university. and, yes, i've been to the border, and i know a crisis when i see it. we need to build the wall, that's the first step in solving the crisis. once we secure that border, then we can move on to the many other problems we have that include housing over 40,000 people and feeding them every night. molly: you bring up an important point, that there are people that are literally streaming across the border.

there's some that have dug under the fence in recent weeks and, of course, the border patrol is making those interceptions. so that's a big challenge as well as just securing the border. do you think a compromise will be made in time to prevent another government shutdown less than two weeks away? >> well, we can only hope so. and, certainly, we all know that there's plenty of blame to go around for shutting the border down last time. but if we don't get a compromise, if we don't secure the border, if we don't have the money for the wall, there's only one person to blame, and that's nancy pelosi. she needs the come to the negotiating table. the president's went above and beyond in negotiating money for building that wall. kansans want us to secure the border, kansans want us to have that wall built. molly: you mentioned nancy pelosi. she's been very dug in on this issue, as has the president talking about the importance of a physical barrier with. he said, you know, the democrats can call it peaches if they want, but how do you get to that point? how do you get to peaches when it seems like people are so dug?

>> it's really tough. you have to realize that right now nancy pelosi is drowning, and she's trying to take the president down with her. she has only one goal, and that's to make sure that hillary clinton is the next president. so when her goal is to drag the president down with her, she's drowning, she has the green tea party shackled to her legs, and she's trying to drag the president down. she'll do anything to keep him from being successful. that's really what this is all about. we need her to meaningfully negotiate throughout this process. molly: i want to talk a little bit about the state of the union right around the corner. you know, the president will have that big audience, of course, playing to the american audience who are the real folks that are going to be interested in what he has to say as well as those congressional members surrounding him. how can he use tuesday to essentially break this divide? is that a potential for what could happen this tuesday night? >> absolutely, molly. my wife and i went to early church this morning here in kansas, and the first thing we did, we sang a hymn called "we

have a story to tell to the nations." and really it's an old church hymn about american exceptionalism. and i expect the american president to take that story of american exceptionalism right to the people. he's going to talk about that we're more secure than we were a year ago, two years ago. he's going to talk about this economy. i'm sitting here in manhattan, kansas, today. our unemployment is 2%. unemployment is nonexistent across the state. everywhere i go people are asking me, send us more employees. becames are up. everybody's getting to keep more -- wages are up, everybody's getting to keep more of their money, so he has plenty of exceptionalism to talk about. molly: you live in the heart of the country, border security really affecting the entire -- affects the entire nation. how does it affect your state? >> yes, it's interesting. we had a big celebration last saturday in church, and i counted 11 different ladies, a

little bit more senior to me, came up to me and said build the wall. and they were serious about it, that it all starts with security. they want their homes, their families, their grandchildren to all be secure. certainly, they want to overhaul the immigration process. so we need more agriculture guest worker visas, we need a lot of different workers overall. but certainly ag guest worker visas, and i can't get that accomplished until we secure the border. step number one, build the wall, secure the border, then we can work on immigration overhaul. molly: congressman marshall, we appreciate your insight here ahead of the state of the union and as the continuing talks over the shutdown go on. thank you so much. >> thanks, molly. leland: all right. ahead we'll get the democrat response in a minute. first, a little more from president trump's interview about nancy pelosi. >> i think she's very bad for our country. she knows that you need a barrier, she knows that we need border security. she wanted the win a political point. i happen to think it's very bad politics because, basically, she wants open borders.

leland: all right. and with that democratic perspective on border security, we bring in new york congressman and member of the problem solvers caucus, tom suozzi. nice to see you, sir. >> thanks for having me on. leland: we're glad to have you, we appreciate it. reasonable people can agree that there is a problem on the southern border. some call it a crisis, others a problem, others a significant issue, but it's a problem, fair? >> i first dealt with this issue 25 years ago when i was mayor of my hometown, and we had newcomers from central and south america, most of them undocumented, and we've been talking about open borders for 25 years, and it's time we finally did receive our borders. leland: all right. now seems to come this issue about what we're going to call the way we secure it. president trump calls it a wall, and then you have democrats say something between smart security and feel as though they can protect a border with drones and cameras only. fair to say that in some places a physical barrier is needed?

>> well, it's important to point out that there's physical barriers currently. leland: right, and they -- at least according to the border patrol, those work, right? >> yeah. and there's about 600 miles of existing -- leland: right. >> -- physical barriers. i don't object to additional barriers in certain places, but that's the wrong focus. we need to focus on ports of entry, radar, borders and customs officials. make sure the border is secure once and for all using 21st century technology and utilizing all the tools we have at our disposal. leland: there's certainly a ton of different tools. my real question comes down to why are members of congress convinced that they are the experts in deciding which tools to use where? why not just say, look, we've got a problem on the southern border, here's $10 billion to the border patrol, y'all go figure it out? >> you know, one of the things that i've heard from many of my

democratic colleagues is one thing we're going to see happen in congress, there's going to be a lot more hearings, a lot more expert testimony -- leland: because that's been so -- >> excuse me, leland. bringing in the experts and listening to what they have to say in detail because right now nobody's talking about doing a border wall from sea to shining sea -- leland: right. >> as has been talked about in simplistic, they're talking about 200 miles -- no, the answer is to listen to the experts the way you just -- take yes for an answer. leland: you can either listen to the experts ahead of time and hold hearings and delay and decide in a couple years we'll authorize funding, or you say to the experts here's the money, now go solve the problem. why do you need to have hearings? >> i think what you're hearing from both speaker pelosi and from senator schumer representing the democrats is, mr. president, let the democrats and the republicans in the congress and the senate actually go and negotiate this together. don't try and interfere at this

stage of the game. let the democrats and republicans negotiate and try and find an agreement as to what should or be done here and then put it forward to you for a signature. the president's puppet his hand in this whole since day one, and the positive aspect is that people are focused on this, and i'm happy, but we have to marry -- leland: the president did win the election, right? he should have something to do with the legislative process. >> but if you want the legislative process to work, let the democrats and republicans negotiate with each other in good faith to finally secure our border once and for all like i've said, this has been going on for 25 years, since i was -- even longer than that. and people who have been living in this country for such a long tiernlg let's marry together border security with protecting dreamers -- leland: as you pointed out in the beginning, that deal has been elusive. congressman, we're up against a hard break. i appreciate it, sir. >> thanks so much. leland: thank you, sir. molly? molly: coming up, thousands of central american migrants get closer to the u.s. border.

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the storms also knock down power -- trees and power poles across the region. wow. ♪ ♪ molly: two of the migrant caravan organizers were arrested this morning in mexico. more than 2500 migrants still, though, pushing now less than 500 miles from the u.s. border. the caravan expected to reach the border week. griff jenkins, who's been doing some remarkable reporting down there, he's now in northern mexico, literally traveling with that caravan. you're on the road. hi, griff. >> reporter: hey, molly, that's right. we are in the caravan. we just crossed less than 350 miles, as you mentioned, and i want you to have a look. this is the federal police escorting about 200, 250 migrants on one of the many tractor-trailers taking the more than 2500 migrants that left honduras on january 15, and now

they're in the final stretch. a little bit of news though as they make their way, and that is not one, but two of their organizers -- not paid organizers, not american organizers, these are organizers we saw along the way. they came from honduras, they had bull horns, they were arrested by the federal mexican police and interpol. one of the officials, the director, secretary-general, excuse me, alejandro leal explaining about the arrests. listen. >> yesterday the interpol collect people -- [inaudible] and another arrest, two people, for interpol. >> reporter: and now we're just going to try and pass, if you will, and let you see what it's like on these trailers. and the arrival, molly, that we

expect is going to be late monday or perhaps actually tuesday which would, of course, coincide with president trump's state of the union. these migrants arriving across from eagle pass. i called and spoke with the border patrol chief in that del rio sector. he says he's making every preparation for their arrival and that should they try and cross in that area, then they will, obviously, be ready for them. there was talk of a second location. we saw a map in the shelter where these folks were staying last night that said they could actually track a little bit east to nuevo la raid doe, but they don't want to go necessarily too far east because that's narco country. a lot of these migrants have family members in america, and along the u.s. border the

cartels will capture them, call their relatives in america and demand a ransom. they want to be safe, they want to stick together as they get close to the u.s. border. molly: that's an incredible image over the shoulder of you passing that vehicle. we can see people holding on to their children on the back of that truck as well as an actual baby stroller. you talk about how dangerous this is but also, as you mentioned, the threats from the cartels. thank you so much, incredible, incredible work, thank you. leland: the ever-expanding 2020 crowd getting bigger. who's in and how far to the left are they going? plus, democrats just wish ralph northam would resign as virginia's governor. what happens if he won't leave? ♪ ♪ every minute counts. and you don't have time for a cracked windshield. that's why we show you exactly when we'll be there. saving you time, so you can keep saving the world. >> kids: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪

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democrat to join a long and growing list of 2020 hopefuls. our gillian turner has the latest on this. >> reporter: grows every time you turn around, molly. congresswoman tulsi gabbard joins an already-crowded lineup of democratic presidential primary hopefuls that includes cory booker and potentially elizabeth warren, kirsten gillibrand and others. whether officially announcing or merely putting their toes in the water now, each and every democrat is leading with their own stories and personal narratives. [cheers and applause] >> i'm proud to serve our country as a soldier, i'm a major in the army national guard where i've served for the last 15 years. [cheers and applause] i will bring this soldier's principles to the white house, restoring the values of dignity, ohioan and respect to the presidency. >> reporter: that was tulsi

gabbard hammering home her military credentials. there is also pete buddha judge who spent time highlighting his military service and how it influenced the trajectory of his personal life. >> i came out in 2015 for the simple reason that i was finally ready. i had been struggling with my sexuality for years, and if i hadn't deployed to afghanistan, i might never have found the courage to come out. >> reporter: other democrats are in the process now of throwing out fishing lines. >> so i've said i'd make a decision by march 31st. i have been talking to other candidates, i want to see what the positions are out there. >> it's a personal issue. my wife and i will make the decision in the next month or so. i am concerned that democrats -- i'm a progressive, and i believe in progressive policies of women's health and on guns and

on labor rights and gay rights always, and you never sell that short, but you've got to talk to workers. >> reporter: increasing scrutiny will be given, of course, over the coming weeks to the candidates' policy position, foreign and domestic. but right now as they make their debuts on the world stage, they're all sticking with what they know best, themselves. molly: the stage will be a crowded one when the debates get underway. it'll be fascinating to see how the stage manager manages to get that done. >> reporter: how it stacks up to the last go-round. molly: some experience with having a lot of candidates, that's true. thank you, gillian, appreciate it. leland: democrats are reacting to virginia governor ralph northam's refusal to step down. senators booker, harris, gillibrand are those calling for him to resign, other democrats releasing similar statements. julian castro, also joe biden.

joining us now to weigh in is wpht radio host dom and matt mcneal. matt's on the right on the tv screen, but i think we'll find him farther to the left as we go on in this conversation. so, matt, we'll start with this. let's just, for the moment, take ralph northam at his word that he's not stepping down. how big of a problem is this for these 2020 candidates who have these big rollouts planned, and all of a all the the media's talking about is the democratic governor conceivably in black face? >> i don't think it's too much of a problem because it is -- leland: really in. >> -- early in the campaign so far. it's a problem in -- leland: i mean, it wasn't a problem for cory booker on friday? >> well, no, i'm saying it is -- they're condemning him. they're asking for him to resign, but he's in virginia right now. once we get into the primary season at the beginning of next year, that's when that will come to a head.

i think pretty much everyone is in consensus, he should resign. i think there's only one person who has said he shouldn't resign. that's a former state representative. he needs to go. he should go. him being belligerent, that's only on him. leland: dom -- >> leland, i would differ with that. we all know with this crowded of a field, we just talked about that, matt, and you have 20, 25 candidates, howard schultz running around, there's only so much oxygen. this guy is taking oxygen out with moon walking talk, and he's in a picture -- leland: dom, to that point -- [inaudible conversations] leland: the republican politicians, or dom, that i talk to or that go on the record say, absolutely, he must resign. the republican strategists i've talked to, shall we say, on background -- who we will not name today -- are almost gleeful with the idea that he won't resign. i had one last night talking to me about the ads they're already trying to cook up with dark money to hang ralph northam

around the necks of so many other democrats. >> well, i think the key thing with northam, for me, and i think fox has been the only national network covering this efficiently, is the fact this brings into the infanticide thing. and i saw terry mcauliffe on another show today dance around that. northam this week, the big news to me is what he said about killing babies. and then all this brings into play again. somebody's got to talk about that part too, and i don't think democrats want him to be out there that exposed on that issue. >> if you want to talk about things, if you want to talk about things, let's talk about consistency. i know pretty much if every democrat has condemned northam. we have a lot of problems on the republican side. we had a school the republicans were with backing up had photos of black face students at a basketball game come out, and they defended that -- [inaudible conversations] leland: guys, matt, we've got -- fellas, fellas, fellas, we're going to stop there because the facts of that, matt, are well in

dispute. you know that, i know that, and it's a completely different situation involving high school kids, not a governor. let's leave it at that. important to note -- >> kind of an issue. leland: important to note what sound bites are going to be played about ralph northam. listen to that and then we'll get your guys' reaction. >> i had the shoes, i had a glove, and i used just a little bit of shoe polish to put under my, or on my cheeks. i had always liked michael jackson. i actually won the contest because i had learned how to do the moon walk. leland: matt, forget television advertising, but when it comes to social media advertising and the like, especially online advertising, one can imagine those sound bites continuing to be played up to 2020 will be toxic for any democrat. >> i think they are going to be for -- they're definitely going to be something that's going to be talked about, especially from the right because it is damaging to the left. let's just face it, black face -- it's amazing that here we are in 2019 and we have to

tell people black face so offensive, don't do it, it's racist. and yet it's almost like northam is trying to find some wiggle room and some validation. he should just resign. i'm not saying that issue will go away, i guarantee it will be brought -- leland: i've got to give dom, i've got to give dom equal time. dom, the president had been silent all day friday and then all day yesterday. he ended up tweeting yesterday evening about this. rule number one of politics is that when the other side is going to jump off a cliff, don't get in the way. should the president just step back on this one, or is him stoking the fire a good idea? >> i wouldn't continue to stoke it. i think he has to go on the record because then he would be said not to be condemning in the, leland. but once he did it, you right, let it lie. do not continue to pile on. let's see what northam does, stay out of it. leland: appreciate it, fellas. great conversation. we'll have you back. we'll see if northam's scandal continues to be in the news or

if democrats convince him to resign. take care, fellas. >> thanks. molly: coming up, a preview of today's big game in atlanta, and president trump will address the nation on tuesday amid the fight over the border wall. will his tone be different than last year? we will talk to a former speech writer. >> this, in fact, is our new american moment. there has never been a better time to start living the american dream. ♪ ♪

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♪ if♪ molly: we're just days away from president trump's state of the union address. for more insight on what we could expect on tuesday's prime time speech, let's bring in white house writer, group senior directer and former speech writer for george w. bush, annika green. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. molly: i feel like it's always tough for -- the president's going to try to talk to the american people, that's his real

audience, and you have some experience with crafting those types of messages. take a look at someone you're very familiar with, this is george w. bush, of course, this is the speech, the state of the union address after the dems had taken back the house. not unlike today, where things were a bit divided. take a look. >> we're not the first to come here with a government divided and uncertainty in the air. like many before us, we can work through our differences, and we can achieve big things for the american people. our citizens don't much care which side of the aisle we sit on as long as we're willing to cross that aisle when there's work to be done. [applause] molly: so the president is, president trump is talking about using a theme of unity. you know, we just heard sort of a similar message there from the former president. how can president trump make that happen, get that unity in this really divided country right now? >> well, it's going to be tough for him coming as it is on the

heels of a government shutdown which is bitterly partisan and in which it is seen nancy pelosi has really kind of won in that case, and in three weeks they've got to come back to the negotiating table. so we have this little blip in time, this moment where all the eyes of the nation will be on president trump. and we've seen in the themes that he's going to do that. he's talking about two things to speaker pelosi has already signaled she wants to work with him on. molly: we just saw speaker pelosi just over the shoulder of the former president which she will be over the shoulder of this current president when he steps there before in the halls and speaks to congress. that's just one person in the room. looming rather large. as well as other members of the party, other democrats. what can we expect when you look at the guests in that room and at perhaps speaker pelosi herself? >> as we saw in the clip, she was the very first to begin applauding when he was talking about unity, and there will be that show particularly among the democrats, i think they will support that.

they need to show, as they just have taken over the majority, that they are willing to work with the president even if pit doesn't end up playing out that way. molly: so not complete stoicism. you also mentioned just a moment ago that this is coming off the end of this partial government shutdown, a lot of people hurt by that. actually, there are people that have been invite by the democrats to be, sit in that hall that were among those that were furloughed or weren't working during the government shutdown. so there is an effort for the democrats to make sure that's not forgotten. how does the president move forward here with the potential of another government shutdown on the horizon here? >> we've seen that he hasn't absolutely said i'm going to shut down the government, it's more kind of a play on words where he says i don't want to take that off the table, and we will also see that the guests that he invites will be sort of his own place of highlighting initiatives. and we've heard that he may invite naturalized citizens which is another way of bridging that divide.

he's not looking to vilify illegal immigrants and ignore the fact that this has happened. molly: and finally, just quickly, what would you say he needs to do to get his message across? >> i think he neats to be relatable -- needs to be relatable, and one of the ways he has struggle in that is when the shutdown happened, and workers were known to be suffering and he said, well, you know, they actually support me. maybe a little more compassion, and he can say, look, i'm going to do everything i can to work with the democrats to make sure we keep our nation safe, we keep our government open and unite on these priorities. molly: annika green, thank you so much for joining us. leland: all right, coming up, the new england patriots take to the field for their victory over the los angeles rams. super bowl liii. jonathan serrie outside mercedes benz stadium. hi, jonathan. >> reporter: hey, leland. you can see the fans milling about outside mercedes benz stadium. coming up, i'll give you a preview of what to expect. ♪

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temperatures in the 50s, should be in the high 50s in time for tonight's big game. super bowl liii pits two formidable coach/quarterback teams against one another, bill belichick and tom brady representing the old guard and a much younger sean mcvay and jared goff trying to make super bowl history for los angeles. >> just taking care of the football on offense is what we want to do. that's been our goal every game, and it's going to be no different. we're going to treat it the same and approach it just like any other sunday. >> we're going up against a great defense, and it's going to be great execution that's going to, you know, ultimately be the factor of how many points we're going to score. >> reporter: about 75,000 fans are expected to pack mercedes benz stadium, although the cheapest tickets sold for around $2,000 on the secondary market, once fans get inside, they should be pleasantly surprised. the stadium prides itself on delicious food offerings for low prices, including $2 hot dogs

and $5 bear. arthur blank says raising prices for the super bowl was simply not an option. >> really the most important message behind that is to show deep appreciation for the fans. whatever event it may be, find a way to say thank you to them for giving us their time, their energy, their passion, their commitment. >> reporter: pop rock band maroon five will be headlining this year's halftime show. a petition's been circulating urging performers to make some sort of statement in solitarity with col lip kaepernick who has not been signed to a team since the 2016 season when he famously took a knee in protest of police brutality. kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 eastern time. molly, back to you. [applause] molly: yes, indeed. jonathan serrie, thank you so much. what a great day. super bowl sunday, here we go. i'll be feet down in boston in time to watch the guam. leland: not going to be a lot of traffic in boston when you land.

[applause] interesting note though, of all the food at the mercedes benz stadium, there will not be chick-fil-a because it's sunday. they're closed even inside the stadium for the super bowl. but i feel like we should end the show where we began, which is always fun to talk about the super bowl, but the verdict is kind of already in. molly: it will be fun to talk about the super bowl. leland: the result is her here that the patriots will win. molly: tuning in for that game, still going to watch it anyway. leland: as will you. safe travels back to boston. see you back here soon. chris wallace, "fox news sunday" is coming up next. we'll see you next weekend. ♪ ♪ discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

chris: i'mchris wallace. the governor of virginia refuses to step down over a racist picture despite a barrage of calls from fellow democrats for his resignation. ♪ ♪ >> i am not east -- either of the people in that photo. i am asking for the opportunity to earn your forgiveness. chris: from the firestorm over the offensive yearbook photo to the outrage over northam's comments about late-term abortion -- >> the infant would be delivered, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. chris: this hour we'll discuss how the events have brought the issues of race and abortion to the forefront of the 2020 campaign. then, president trump