we look at how the day unfolded, beginning with remarks by senate leaders mitch mcconnell and charles schumer. >> today, we entered the third day of the trump shutdown, the first ever real shutdown to occur when one party controls the entire legislative process. the republican party controls the house, the senate, the presidency, yet they were unable to keep the government open for the american people. n people. leader mcconnell knows it takes 60 votes to win passage of a spending bill, and yet he moved forward with a last-minute extension that he knew lacked the votes. both democrats and republicans voted against that bill. the reason the republican majority had such difficulty finding consensus is they could never get a firm grip on what the president of their party wanted to do. these days with -- these days you never know who to deal with when it comes to the republicans. the republican leaders told me to work out a deal with the white house. the white house said work it out with republican leaders on the hill. separately president trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan comprom

charles schumer said they made product but still more to do. where do you see daca going? that's a sticking point. >> there's basic agreements on daca but getting it into the bill is the fight. we'll see how it goes. if daca isn't part of it republicans claim victory and vice versa if it ends up in there. >> let's hope they come up with something. this affects real people. and it has serious ramifications. >> you know, the first cuts will be about 800,000 federal workers that will not have a paycheck and then increasingly as days go on more people are affected. >> just before we let you go, as this continues to go on, if they don't reach an agreement, who stands to lose the most? republicans or democrats in the next election cycle? >> the democrats think the republicans will pay for this because they are in the majority in the senate, house and have the republican in the white house. why didn't they get the job done? that's going to be the cry there. republicans will say democrats were recalcitrant and wouldn't compromise. >> just seems like they shouldn't be worrying abou

but now senator charles schumer is saying the wall is off the table. meanwhile, back here at san jose, this is the phone number that they want folks to write down, 408-290-1144. that's the number that you can call to report any activity of immigration agents any raids and also if you and your family member is arrested,call for help. live here in san jose, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> the fate of a santa clara county judge who presided over a high-profile sexual assault trial is in the hands of voters. the registrar of voters says organizers of the campaign to remove superior court judge aaron persky gathered more than enough valid signatures to put the recall on the june ballot. the effort stems from the judge's decision to sentence former stanford swimmer brock turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a campus party. critics say the sentences would too lenient. persky supporters say the judge was simply following sentencing guidelines for first time offenders. >>> new this morning a massive fire tearing thro

when trump did recognize it, charles schumer said "he did it because of me. was the one that urged him to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital." so that is the senate minority leader speaking. and for the same reason. if you look at trial simmers money, he gets it mostly from -- schumer's money, he gets a from right-wing jews and wall street from the same sources of income as trump, the same strings of income. and on these questions, a lot of the democrats, including schumer or especially schumer, i should say, are worse than trump. marviample, after the 10ma incident after passengers were killed, charles schumer went before a group of orthodox jews and said, "the people of gaza voted for hamas and therefore, economic strangulation is the way to go. what that means. we're talking about a population , more than half of which are children, or living under a medieval siege. what he is effectively saying is we should continue starving them until theychildren, or living vf hamas. what you say about something like that? bernie sanders and schumer went to my high

be cut off and employees who will no longer get to paid if a deal isn't reached by midnight .charles schumerhis morning to meet face to face with president trump a man he often criticized. the president invited schumer there to see if they could work out a deal to keep the government open until at least february 16th. and it appears that for two men who often don't see eye to eye, today was no different. >> we had a long and detailed meeting. we discussed all of the major outstanding issues. we made some progress. but we still have a good number of disagreements. discussions will continue. >> reporter: one key disagreement democrats want protections restored for 700,000 people brought to the u.s. as children and have stayed here illegally.

senate leadership majority leader mitch mcconnell met with the minority leader charles schumer.were meeting face-to-face on capitol hill late this afternoon to try and hash out a spending bill, but that apparently was unsuccessful. still the senate majority whip john cornyn is predicting tonight that the government will remain closed tomorrow, yet again, with no deal nailed down at this hour. let's bring in democratic congressman john garamendi of california who is a member of house armed services committee and subcommittee on strategic forces. good to see you tonight. >> good to be with you. >> you have been burning the midnight oil. as we just heard from republican congressman biggs, how would you respond when the republicans and the president blame the democrats for this mess? >> and the democrats blame the president and the republicans. there are plenty of blame going on, the fingers are pointing. i think i suspect over a couple more hours people will get tired of pointing fingers and getting down to solving the problem. there are solutions here. first of all continuing reso

he also talked about the upcoming agenda before turning the floor over to minority leader charles schumer who outlined what he hopes to accomplish in the months ahead. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: as we open the second session of the 115th congress, we're pleased to welcome my colleagues back to the chamber. i'd like to extend a particular welcome to our two new senators who were just sworn in. first senator doug jones of alabama will have big shoes to fill. his state has sent some very distinguished legislators to washington, including our attorney general, jeff sessions. senator jones brings a background in law enforcement, having served as a federal prosecutor in the northern district of alabama, and we welcome him. we also welcome senator tina smith. for three years, she served the people of minnesota as their lieutenant governor. now she will join senator klobuchar in representing them here in the senate. i congratulate both of these new senators and look forward to working with them in the month ahead to make bipartisan progress and to find common groun

followed by senate leaders mitch mcconnell and charles schumer discussing the congressional agenda. >> you guys have narrowed the advantage in the senate this week. it looks like there are some ther interesting senate races, some retirements. e're less than a year from the midterms. will the democrats win the majority back in the senate this november? >> this was a great week for the for alabama and for the country with the swearing-in of jones who ran a campaign based on kitchen table issues so not going to make any predictions about what will 2018.n in november, what i can say is all the signs you have a very nergized democratic base plus lots of independent voters who are crossing over to support democrats as they did with doug of disaffected republicans and i believe that the republicans in congress have taken are actually going to make things a republicansor those including the passage of this tax bill which is a total while y to corporations millions of middle class taxpayers are going to see their taxes go up. on in these ocus campaigns and things are headed in the right direct

the conservative paper the wall street journal says charles schumer was shut down.he journal calls the episode a fake drama. slate is scathing in its view of how the democrats performed, they cost them losers who exhibitedd little of the confidence and daring one might expect from a party who is on the right side of what may be an unprecedented movement in the u.s. they limit what they see a safe opportunity, they say the shutdown in 2013 lasted for two weeks and this time it lasted barely one day and could have been the first active resistance by the democrats. instead, the only thing more astonishing than the man in the white house is the fecklessness of the party opposing him. >> a diplomatic route over sweden and china over a bookseller. >> thehey were abducted over the weekend. he is a swedish citizen of chinese born who was snatched by plainclothes officers on the weekend while traveling to beijing, company by two european diplomats. it was a brazen abduction. the second time he, who writes about the chinese political elite, has been adopted and the chinese of

security analyst charles schumer bridge says it's ironic that while south korea is seeking peaceful solutions it supposed allies are escalating the rhetoric considerable course diplomatic achievement for the north and arguably for the south but i think it's critically ironic that last this if you like not exactly a fall on the topham on it's going on at least a thawing of tensions between north and south that is happening in vancouver the former allies of the of south korea of course are tightening the noose as they call it increasing the rhetoric and raising the temperature south korea itself today is seemingly at least for the time being rejecting that belligerent approach and actually adopting an approach of talking and trying to ease tensions and seemingly with some first steps as results it appears to be the case that when the interests and the foreign policy and the actions of the united states are put to one side local players are to some degree at least able to start finding local solutions. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees has slammed america's decision to freeze more than ha

well security analyst charles schumer bridge believes the u.k. faces a genuine problem with under-investment in its armed forces what we've got here is a situation where interestingly today even those sections of the u.k. media play up the so-called russian threat amongst their headlines to monks their deeper insight their analysis pieces on this speech from that car today there's some degree of cynicism about what it is that he's actually saying and the reason for that is because of this conflict this below the surface conflict that is going on and particularly acute at this time when a defense spending review is underway about to get under way yet another phase of the british state of the british military in terms of the number of its personnel the number of the amount of its equipment inequality that quitman is at a pitifully low level and that is a situation entirely of the u.k. defense establishment is making because they have instead of opting for equipping soldiers with the best equipment numbers they have chosen very expensive capital pro

right let's delve a little deeper into this nie because security analyst charles schumer bridge has taken the time to join us hi charles good to have you on the program and just down the brass tacks to all this you know when it comes to money why is there such at this graph and see between the government's assessment and the armies when it comes to funding because the army is essentially asking for much more here. well you're right this is i think a subtext of what you're asking if you forgive me if i'm wrong but it's about money and what we've got here is a situation where interestingly today even those sections of the u.k. media quite a large section of the media actually that regularly in fact even on a daily basis in many cases likes to play up the so-called russia threat amongst their headlines today i'm talking prick xampp of the b.b.c. the guardian if not amongst the headlines but something deeper inside their analysis pieces on this speech from that car today there's some degree of cynicism about what it is that he's actually saying and the reason for that is because of this confl

be talking about iran north korea and syria russia isn't on the agenda well security analyst charles schumer bridge believes the u.k. faces a genuine problem with investment in its armed forces. what we've got here is a situation where interestingly today even various sections of the u.k. media play up the russian threat amongst the headlines mugs the deeper insight that analysis on this speech from that caucus today there's some degree of cynicism about what it is that he's actually saying and the reason for that is because of this conflict this below the surface conflict that is going on and particularly acute at this time when a defense spending review is underway about to get under way yet another phase of the british state of the british military in terms of the number of its personnel the number the amount of its equipment and the quality of that quick money is at a picture for you know nothing is bad is a situation entirely of the u.k. defense establishment is making because they have instead of opting for equipping soldiers with the best equipment and numbers they have chosen very ex

followed by senate leaders mitch mcconnell and charles schumer discussing the congressional agenda. and later, a look at the federal government's role in infrastructure spending. >> this week on "newsmakers," congressman chris van hollen, a democrat in maryland and one of did you thank you for being here. we have kevin robe lar who is with "politico" and sean sullivan with "the washington post." it looks like there are some other interesting races. the democrats -- will democrats win the majority back in the senate this november? >> so this was a great week for the senate. for alabama and for the country with the swearing in of doug jones who ran a campaign based on kitchen table issues. and a lot of this affectsed republicans. and i believe that the steps that the republicans and congress have taken are going to make things a lot harder for those republicans, including the passage of this attack which is a total giveaway to corporations while millions of middle class taxpayers, you're going to see their taxpayers go up. >> senator, when you are making priority i, your priority goin

charles schumer had been stationed a few feet away for a long bpt. he is standing near mcmcconnell. >> listening is what is potentially to be discussed and then announced. turner has turned back and move away from his counter lek tern. >> now, manila folders are being old. this is a full-on scurry, sfrj i guess here comes flake for another orbit. but it looks like bem mcconnell just voted no. the vote was open until the marriage leader et. >> any senators wishing to change their vote? the yeas are 50 and 49. three first of the centers not havesi build the green to. >> i had a social a part of the statement of the white house press secretary tonight, presumably on behalf of the administration, simply says we will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage oaf their reckless demands. that appropriately represents the white house view where we are and, mr. president, what we have just witnessed on the floor was a cynical decision by senate grasp to the emment, all because senate democrats choice to f

he -- pattypelosi, murray, charles schumer not exactly fans of the president. donald: this is an occasion where politics are put aside for this. they're talking about the government and the president is selling a constitutional role to deliver this. it is not a particularly partisan moment. bill: i agree with don because i was there every time and there was not. host: the president is just departing the white house, it is 8:46 p.m. it is only a mile and a half and no stopping for lights. are you alerted at this point? you are still standing at the door at this point, correct? bill: that is correct. host: how long will it take the president to get from the door to the holding room? close to the house chamber? bill: it takes about 12 minutes. the most elaborate entrance of a president was franklin roosevelt who was paralyzed from the waist down from his polio. he would have to come in through a certain entrance and get an elevator to go to the next floor. they would bring him into the chamber with a whole series of potted plants to the skies his disability -- the

senator charles schumer from new york changed his plan changed his plaintive little bit bit, pulling off the table a willingness by democrats to fund the border wall with mexico. here's what he had about it. >> we are going to have to start on a new basis and the wall offer is off the table. reporter: while that may seem like a nonstarter for republicans nonstarter for republican scholars agree and say they've got to go forward. >> as senator schumer take something off the table, we will take something off the table. right now i want to get started. i'm not asking us to start on my bill or anybody else's bill. as a matter of fact, the best thing we can do is to senator cornyn and senator durbin look at bipartisan bills come in narrow them down and pay this is a good starting point, attitude and the blood descendent, the star within your project. trade the president treated them president treated that while everyone is trying to work towards a set 10 deal, there is no guarantee it will be concluded by february 8th. back to you. lauren: the president and the world stage set to travel t

taxes that republican leadership, like mitch mcconnell can divide the democratic party and divide charles schumer from someone like joe manchon in west virginia. charles: mitch mcconnell is definitely the man, the spotlight is on him for sure. >> absolutely. you look at two states with particular to the democrats wanting to hold onto the senate seats. joe donnelly in indiana, claire mccaskill. trump won the states by over half a million votes. 18% and 19% respectively. charles: overtures and willing to listen. >> they have to. charles: let's see if they actually cross the aisle. thank you, both very, very much. amid calls for draining of the deep state, fbi turns out that the bureau has been investigating hillary clinton for months. we've got details on that, next. . charles: some may say two probes are better than one. justice department refewing investigation into the clinton foundation for alleged pay to play politics done then by then secretary of state hillary clinton coming amidst the justice department reportedly reopening the investigation into the e-mail server and more specifically how

is it a double fence that might conform with what was passed in 2006 when people like charles schumeror the secure fence act of 2006. or you could pass a down payment for the wall and after you get started, authorized a user fee model where you impose charges on visas and border crossing and bingo, mexico pays for the wall. you have a dedicated revenue stream for a while. there's a lot of thinking going on that we are not hearing abou about. >> bret: saying the country's not ready for a while but we are going to get something. a.b. come i want to turn to offshore drilling. >> our goal certainly isn't to cross governor scott we have a great relationship with him. we are going to continue working with him on a number of issues. we will continue those conversations with him. >> florida is unique. the president has tasked me to develop an energy policy offshore but also take into consideration the local and state interests for floridians. we are not drilling off the coast of florida. >> bret: florida is off the list. new york's governor andrew cuomo says new york doesn't want drilling off

holmes, former chief of staff with senator mitch mcconnell and jim kessler policy director to charles schumerst i checked 2018 was an election year. not a lot of business gets done in washington during election years. what chance do you give this president of getting anything on his to do list accomplished? >> it is an election year. look, he has a decent chance but he needs a course correction. 2017 he was overtly partisan. he did very partisan things. as a result he has got an approval rating that couldn't melt butter and he has fewer legislative accomplishments than any president. you have to go back to william henry harrison. so if 2017 was about partisan activity, 2018 has got to be about bipartisan activity. if that's the way he is thinking i think he can get things done. >> jon: he ended the year with an approval rating with barack obama at the end of his first year. >> still doesn't melt butter. >> jon: josh, things like infrastructure and obamacare reform are still supposedly tops on the president's agenda. what are the chances? >> a couple things jim said. for republicans and presid

but now senator charles schumer says a wall is off the table. now, here in san jose, santa clara county officials will be talking about this new plan to help shield a lot of the people are at risk of deportation. they will announce the hotline today at noon in san jose. live in san jose, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> so far one member of president trump's cabinet has been interviewed by investigators looking into possible ties between the trump campaign and russia's alleged attempt to influence the 2016 election. special counsel robert mueller's team spoke to attorney general jeff sessions last week. yesterday, the president said he wasn't worried about the meeting. former fbi director james comey has been interviewed. cnn claims mueller is digging into the firings of comey and former national security adviser michael flynn. >> if i were mueller i would want to speak to sessions about an obstruction surely is one of them, um, and perhaps foremost among them how did it come to pass that comey was asked for loyalty? how did it come to pass that

. >> julie: a former legislative and policy director to senator charles schumer and alexandra, i'll start with you. you say president trump will be giving democrats every reason to come to the table tonight. what do you mean by that? >> he sure is. if you look at anything from the immigration proposal that he is going to talk about in his speech tonight to infrastructure, 1 1/2 billion dollar plan he will be talking about. these are giving democrats every reason to come to the table. and you know what? they really should. 2018 is a big year for them. after the legislative temper tantrum they threw with the government shutdown they need to show their constituents they are good for more than just going the washington and saying no to donald trump. several key senators sitting in the audience tonight that president trump won. some by double digits. they really ought to show some enthusiasm for coming to the table and working in a bipartisan way with this president and the republican congress. >> julie: what do you believe is the state of our union and what is president trump's biggest challe

provide funding for just four or fiv >> reporter: also on the table, senate democratic leader charles schumer proposed a shorter stop-gap measure. that would provide funding for just four or five days. and, of course, that would set up yet another showdown. >>> time now is 6:32. right now we are on storm watch as rain pounds the area! the hi-def doppler is showing us that -- hm, not so much rain. but you know what? we have live team coverage anyway. jackie ward is live in pacifica where the wind is making dangerous surf and neda is the expert in reading this hi-def doppler. what is it saying? >> right now it's showing not much rain. our camera from san francisco showing there's a few areas of raindrops and we are going to continue to see just a light drizzle very light showers throughout the day. sierra snow still falling across the higher elevations and the surf is high again. you will notice the chill in the air. let's show the rainfall. it's very, very light. drizzle around the bay as this storm -- this little cell came through the bayview and moved right across the water. let show you the

senate democratic leader charles schumer is answering to the left about the perception that he caved. >> we have advanced the cause what people have to understand, and i think most people do, most of the democrats here on capitol hill perfectly understand, we don't have the levers of power. >> reporter: a new poll shows 71% favor allowing illegal immigrants brought to the country as children to stay legally while 40% favor and 53 oppose building a wall. republicans involved in trying to find an immigration deal say schumer is trying to save face by taking the border wall off the table. success requires something bigger than just a senate plan. >> look, people around here like to talk about gangs of eight and 14 and -- there's 279 people i'm interested in. that's a majority in the house and 60 votes in the senate and the president of the united states. that's what we have to have to have a solution. >> reporter: the senate homeland security chairman says lawmakers have an obligation to get it right. >> rational people look at our current legal system is broken and needs to be fixed, it

, they are as they have been telegraphing for days, trying to blame democrats, in particular, charles schumer for this shutdown, this is a statement by the press secretary. ly note the obstructionist losers, sounds like a quote directly from the president, himself. we have not heard from him in a couple of hours since his last tweet where he thought he noted the negotiations weren't going well. i am sure it is a matter of time, whether it be later this evening or early tomorrow morning, where he will weigh in with probably similar tough language for democrats. >> again, we are making a sweeping assumption, we are after midnight. you see john cornyn realized the same thing looking at his watch, chuck grassley on the far left has been on his iphone, here comes lindsey graham emerging from his group of democratic friends, wanting to approach, it looked like, mitch mcconnell standing at his leg tuctern, pon of ohio will go back and report to his republican friends, including but not limited to portman of ohio. the democrats now, who do you see there jonathan? >> is that schumer leading in the mid

you see charles schumer, the minority leader, allowing them to vote with the republicans. and you have democrats saying it's time to get a deal done. president trump said he was interested in a deal and wants a deal. shouldn't be capitulating to the house freedom caucus, the far right that has blocked the bill and substituted the children's insurance fund. >> thank you both. we'll check back in as things continue to develop. we're about under 16 minutes now until we get to the midnight deadline. thank you, gentlemen. jimmy kimmel and a spokesperson for paul ryan got into a twitter fight over chip. kimmel tweeting, shame on you for making chip a bargaining chip and tying our children's lives to immigration and shame on you for doing anything other than funding chip cleanly and immediately. senator dianne finestein claiming people can die. are republicans that heartless? let's talk to some of them the chair and vice chair of the congressional committee. are that you heartless? that's the way the media will play this? >> no, we authorized chip in november and the senate didn'

they are, as they have been telegraphing for days trying to blame democrats in particular charles schumer for this shutdown. this is a statement by the press secretary. i will note the obstructionist losers sounds like a quote directly from the president himself. we have not heard from him in a couple of hours. since his last tweet where he thought that he noted the negotiations weren't going well. i am sure it is a matter of time, whether it be later this evening or early tomorrow morning, where he will weigh in with probably similarularly tough language for democrats. >> again, we're making a sweeping assumption about our audience at this hour. just after midnight. you see john cornyn realized the same thing looking at his watch. chuck grassley on the far left has been on his iphone. here comes lindsey graham emerging from his group of democratic friends, wanting to approach it looked like mitch mcconnell, who is standing at his lectern. portman of ohio was walking with graham who goes back and he's going to report to his republican friends, including but not limited to portman of ohio.

post in an op ed, he said if i were plotting the moves and counter moves in nancy pelosi and charles schumerrship suites, i could be holding my hand. and last time they blamed republicans and then in an election thereafter republicans won more than democrats. so i don't know how many of the public about this. >> the truth is this trump shutdown is the perfect cap stone to a very chaotic first year for the president. it is almost like you would expect it to play out. listen, republicans created this crisis. they control every lever of government. they control the house of representatives and the senate and the white house. and the message to them from the american people should be do your job. the truth of the matter is mitch mcconnell doesn't even have 50 votes in the senate. and that includes losing republicans on this deal. and so there has to be only a bipartisan solution to this. and it is a very simple one if you break it down. give the military the funding cent certainty that it needs. that is what the military tells us they want. stop lurching from c.r. to c.r. and give them center th

we look at how the day unfolded, beginning with remarks by senate leaders mitch mcconnell and charles schumer

that's why you see charles schumer, the minority leader, allowing them to vote with the republicans. on the other hand, i think you have most democrats in the country, according to the polls, siding with senate democrats and saying you know, what it's time to get a deal done, 79 trump has said he was interested in a deal, that he wants a deal. you shouldn't simply be capitulating to the house freedom caucus, the far right that, blocked the bill. >> shannon: juan williams and ed henry, thank you both, we'll check back with you. we're just about under 16 minutes, now, until we get to the midnight deadline. thank you gentlemen. late night talk show host jimmy kimmel and paul ryan speaker got into a fight over chip. kimmel tweeting this, shame on you for making chip a bargaining chip, shame on you for tying our kids lives to immigration and shame on you speaker ryan for doing anything other than funding chip cleanly and immediately. prominent democrats dianne feinstein claim people could die because of the shutdown. are republicans really that heartless? congressman steve stivers and mim

se reuniÓ hoy frente a la oficina del senador nueva york y lÍder de la minorÍa grata, chuck schumer. -- charlesroduce luego que el juez federal al anuncio la decisiÓn de bloquear temporalmente la eliminaciÓn de daca. >> es algo positivo pero sabemos que al final del dÍa necesitamos una soluciÓn permanente. enny: el fallo del magistrado solamente debe iniciar a quienes ya estaban inscritos en el programa y perdieron su estatus debido a la orden ejecutiva de trump. >> nosotros no somos ninguna carga. somos un gran beneficio para este paÍs. enny: con el fin de evitar que muchos dreamers ssean vÍctimas de estafas, varias organizaciones comunitarias planean realizar talleres educativos y educarlos sobre sus derechos. la orden del juez de california de bloquear temporalmente daca no impide que las autoridades migratorias detengan y deportan a quienes representan una amenaza para la seguridad nacional. la casa blanca dicho que apelarÁ esta decisiÓn. ilia: un reside informe del departamento de seguridad interna y muchas dudas sobre si se estÁn tomando correctamente medidas que garanticen la seguridad d

that's what chuck schumer is trying to do. charles you use your power top teach people of a lesson. that's what he's trying to do. he blamed the gop, the white house and senate, he put blame it solely on them. >> how can it be the schumer shutdown when the republicans control the white house, the senate and the white house. >> i have to laugh when you have say that. you have know as well as anybody that it takes 60 votes in the senate to pass an appropriations bill. >> i know that. >> so if you are have 51 votes in the senate, you have to have democrat support to funds the governments. so that's the answer to your question. charles: you already know the answer. >> we have known for a long time that jim acosta is suffering from an acute case of trump derangement syndrome. i don't know if he's being dumb about how government works or votes work or he's being me lea- being malevolent and biased. npr was repeating the same thing. charles: the cot republicans be blamed for a government shutdown? >> it was a good move to say we need 9 democ

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i'm talking mitch mcconnell, charles schumer and nancy pelosi.. >> at hoyer for the democrats and mccarthy and cornyn for the republicans will be here. we've got kind of the number two across the board and the way they see this list earlier today, they feel this group of 20 is a group that can actually get a deal done. >> got it. thank you blake. see you soon. let's get back to the top of the hour where i was talking about this long list of companies which are passing along their savings to their tax bill to their employees. it's a long list. edward joins us now. the people on the left are saying this is just windowdressing. it's peanut spread the not giving much back to the workers. what is your response to that? >> i say they are absolutely wrong. those million people and their families are enjoying the benefit of donald trump's christmas present in terms of the tax reform bill and let me remind you also, it was mid-november when i was on your show and i said things are going so well with the economy. we will hit dow jones 25000 by the end of t

nancy pelosi, bernie sanders, st eny hoyer, charles schumer, hillary clinton they're so yesterday and elizabeth warren, john kerry again, bernie sanders again, they're filled with rage at trump's success. rage is not a growth plan. name calling is not a strategy. resistance is already failing, so good for you, mr. president. you confronted the elites over there. now come back and sort them out over here. the third hour of varney & company is about to begin. president trump: after years of stagnation the united states is once again experiencing strong economic growth. the stock market is smashing one record after another and has added more than $7 trillion in new wealth. since my election, we've created 2.4 million jobs and that number is going up very very substantially. america is open for business and we are competitive once again. we lowered our corporate tax rate from 35% all the way down to 21%. as a result, millions of workers have received tax cut bonuses from their employers. now is the perfect time to bring your business, your jobs, and your investments to the united states.

that's why the left is so angry at chuck schumer today. charles: 800,000 signed up for the daca program. that's about 25% of the total. they were urged by president trump to come in out of the shadows, they would never lose this right and they would have a path to citizenship. that's a promise the democrats have to figure out how to keep. >> this is a bipartisan issue. a lot of your viewers have been hammering me on twitter saying it's not. but a new poll shows how much the republicans support the dreamers. charles: do they want to allow them to stay here because they spent their lives here. >> if the phrase i hear is a permanent legal solution. for us the debate is bipartisan. when we look at immigration as a national security issue, you are not going to find a group of immigrants that is more culturally asimulated, that embraced the culture more than dreamers. charles: the democrats have raised a record amount of money in 2007. remember when they were lagging? now they have all the money and all the polls going their way. hold on dad... liberty

protests outside senator charles schumer's personal home in new york.own without getting what they think are real protections for the dreamers. our next guest has an article in the journal about this, dan henninger joining us now. all right, dan, i'm sure you've heard that president trump is saying there is a pathway to citizenship for the dreamers, maybe a long time coming, but he used the expression citizenship. you've got to welcome that. >> yeah. i think, by and large, we have to welcome that, though it has completely reset the immigration debate in congress. and what i wrote in today's journal was the dreamers, i think, have elevated and altered the debate over immigration. let's set aside whether it's the right thing to do, to do anything about it. i'm talking about winning and losing elections, right? and whose side are the dreamers -- whose side are people on. polls show that 74 to maybe 80% of people hi something should be done about the dreamers. they've become a household word, stuart. stuart: yep. >> previously republicans used to debate imm

the top officials to sit down with big four republicans mitch mcconnell paul ryan, democrats charles schumer nancy pelosi, here's the deal. the the president wants to build the wall, end chin my tbraition and end lottery now in thes want the dreamers to stay. politically, the president may have the upper hand with the democratses shut down the government if they don't get their way. we'll see. big show today, you'll be shocked to learn just how much federal bureaucrats make the people who control our lives are laughing all the way to the bank. and business is on notice you got what you wanted. now you have to invest in america. and here's another shot coming your way. the weather is going to get even colder. you know i've got to love doing this show. i came back from south florida they for this. "varney & company" is about to begin. >> wow. the bitter cold continues. frigid temperatures spread all across the country. will you look at those windchills please, just look at that. and by the way, a big storm is expected to ham orer east coast all the way from georgia to e maine some forecasters

legal protection for immigrant dreamers broiled over in the office of senate minority leader charles e. schumer on thursday as he met with members of the congressional hispanic caucus in what several participants described as a tense and heated exchange. with just a few minutes notice they showed up in the lobby of schumer's suite across from the senate floor in hopes of pressing him to persuade more senators to vote against the g.o.p. spending plan set to be approved in the coming hours. the latest short-term spending plan was set for approval as democrats backed off a pledge for undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children. their decision angered immigration activists. several people who attended the meeting granted an the senator fromty said the -- an the senatorononimity. said some unloaded on schumer. in response schumer raised his voice telling gutierrez not to disrespect fellow democrats. gutierrez yelled back don't raise your voice. a few other democrats made pointed comments towards schumer. later in the day gutierrez tweeted the fight continues in january. i think we're

if it was doing poorly, what would chuck schumer say, who would he blame for the say the of the economy, obama? charles: not the prior president. >> no, it would be trump, for that reason we should look wisely at the role of trump. charles: i reader an read an article of words he used, that had never been used, dethroned and things like that. president trump brings a unique way of speaking, a unique way of looking at things, to your point american public gave him a chance to be president because of his uniqueness. >> as your previous owner mentioned they have a deadline in because, they have a businessman making decision, there are parameters. he won everyone over that last february, not a lot of experience, he had to make a lot of changes in white house and staff and his own approach, he has learned, he will continue to learn. we see he can adjust, he is smart, he sees nature of what it is that washington does. you will see a man there tonight who understands his own agenda, he knows he can get across and he wants to make sure that american people know he has done. he is proud of what he has done. dea