. >> joining us now to talk about the white house reporter from the washington examiner, sara westwood. sort of coming to the defense of the president, but admittedly saying he was very critical of the president at one point. bob corker we'll. also coming to the defense of the president. do we know what's behind this change of tide for those two men and do you think it's going to last. >> heading to 2018, recognition among republicans that the best way to prepare for a pretty grueling midterm season is to prevent a united front. he's not someone that forgets disloyalty easily. we saw them golf together pretty frequently in the spring and summer of last year. formed as bond as president trump as found himself without allies on capitol hill. corker is another surprising turn around. given how recently corker called president trump someone who is incompetent and potentially leading us towards world war three. shows you how much republicans know they could be in trouble this year. they know that in states like tennessee where bob corker is retiring from the senate. president trump remainin

. >> sara westwood, we're going to talk to you again in a little bit. thank you. >> thank you. >>> a frightening story in southern california. a mother and father are behind bars after being accused of torturing their 13 children. their 17-year-old daughter escaped from the family's home and called 911. when officers arrive, they say they found siblings, some bound and chained in what appeared to be a dungeon-like condition. miguel almaguer has more. >> this is the home where authorities say 13 brothers and sisters were held captive by their parents. inside, several of the children discovered shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks. their parents, david the and louise turpin are in custody after detectives say their 17-year-old daughter escaped from the home and called 911 to say her 12 brothers and sisters were being held captive in this middle class suburb shock and disbelief. >> crazy. you never know who your neighbors are. >> when the riverside county sheriff's department entered the paris, california, home, they described foul smelling surr

how about sara westwood? where is sara? thank you. "washington examiner." >> yes. thank you, mr. president. yesterday in a meeting with lawmakers, you said you would be open to signing just about any immigration deal that bipartisan group of lawmakers sent to you. >> right. >> would you be willing to sign an immigration deal that ultimately does not include funding for the border wall, or would that be a red line for you? >> no, no. >> no? >> we need the wall for security. we need the wall for safety. we need the wall for stopping the drugs from pouring in. i would imagine that the people in the room, both democrat and republican -- i really believe they're going to come up with a solution to the daca problem, which has been going on for a long time. and maybe beyond that immigration as a whole. but any solution has to include the wall, because without the wall, it all doesn't work. you can look at other instances. look at what happened in israel. they put up the wall, they solved a very major problem. we need the wall. we have to have the wall for security purposes. security is

sara westwood is joining us now. sara, good morning to you. thanks for joining us. as we have reported earlier, senate republicans and the democrats have reached a deal to move forward. what will -- do we think we'll see a deal for daca before the march deadline and can we see congress move forward on daca without trump? >> it's hard to see democrats voting for the next continuing resolution, the deadline being february 8th, without having made substantial progress towards a daca deal. the question really is whether that deal will pick up any traction in the house. and, again, it's difficult to see speaker ryan taking up any immigration deal passed by the senate that doesn't have the explicit backing of president trump. they're not going to send trump a bill that he is not going to sign. so trump is a key player here in whether a daca deal gets done. >> sara, let me ask you quickly about the shutdown deadline which has now obviously been punted to february. are we likely to see both sides reach a spending deal over the course of the next three weeks? >> well, the qu

how about sara westwood. where is sara? thank you. washington examiner. >> thank you mr. president. yesterday in the meeting with lawmakers you said that you would be open to signing just about any immigration deal that that bipartisan group of lawmakers sent to you. >> president trump: right. >> would you be willing to sign an immigration deal that ultimately does not include funding for the border wall or would that be a red line for you? pvment no, no, no. that will include the wall. we need the wall for security. we need the wall for safety. we need the wall for stopping the drugs from pouring in. i would imagine that the people in the room both democrat and republican, i really believe they're going to come up with a solution to the daca problem which has been going on for a long time. and maybe beyond that immigration as a whole. but any solution has to include the wall. without the wall it all doesn't work. you could look at other instances, look at israel, they put up the wall, they solved a major problem. we need the wall, we have to have the wall for security purposes. sec

and sara westwood, white house correspondent for the "washington examiner."the sound byte of president trump, then citizen-trump in 2013, talking about the 2013 shutdown? it so, let's run what he said about where the blame lies. this is what he said several years ago -- okay. i apologize. we do not have that. but he basically said, look, the president is at the top of the hierarchy here. and he's the one to blame. he is now the president. with that said, jack, a shutdown's a shutdown. who is going to object asia the blame -- >> i think if the president was guilty of vetoing a funding bill, vetoing a daca compromise, then i think he would be to blame. in this case, the house sent a bill to the senate. the senate has not moved on the bill. so the government shut down. you have to have democrat and republican votes to get to 60. i think -- i frankly think he has a really powerful message which cnn polling reflects. that 56% of the american people polled believe that keeping the government open is more important than immediate deal on daca. you got three weeks to

joining us now, white house correspondent sara westwood. great to have you with us this morning. so let's talk about all of this because after this the president told reporters that he were looking forward to sitting down with mueller, we've seen his team back pedal somewhat. what is the driving concern about a sit-down with mueller? what are you hearing? there are some reports that those close to the president are actually terrified of him sitting down with bob mueller. >> absolutely. people in and around the white house are very can confident that there's no underlying collusion mueller is going to find, but they're a lot less confident that nobody involved in the investigation has taken any kinds of actions that could constitute obstruction, particularly at the beginning of the investigation prosecute before everyone realized how serious this probe really was. so i think there's some concern that if president trump does sit down in front of robert mueller, that confidence that there's no collusion could cause him to potentially be reckless in that one-on-one interview format i