blake burman in davos on what the heck happened. >> hi, neil. yeah, that video from a dinner with president trump. it was a who's who of business leaders from all across europe that the president dined with tonight. for example, he sat down with the leaders of adidas, volvo, beyer, nokia. earlier today, steve mnuchin said they feel they have a success story to sell to the world. a new tax plan in the u.s. and they want companies to come in and invest. so at that dinner with those business leaders, the president echoed the need to keep selling u.s. growth. >> i think also being a cheerleader for our country. if you're not a cheerleader for your company or your country, no matter what happens, it's not going to work. >> that dinner lasted more than an hour or so. the president is back at his hotel in davos. tomorrow he will give the big speech at 8:00 p.m. on the east coast, 2:00 east concern before the world economic forum. when the president is speaking to the group and to the world, you can expect him to pitch the american economy and the need

very latest on all of this we'll go to blake burman at white house. hi, blake. reporter: incredibly scary incident, unfortunately a tragic one as well outside of charlottesville, virginia, after an amtrak train carrying many members of come -- congress and their family collided with a truck. one person killed in the accident. though appears no serious injuries to members of congress. they were headed to a retreat they're involved with next couple of days in west virginia. the members of congress had to be taken off the train, some treated for minor injuries. they're headed, or at least in process heading back out to west virginia. not every gop member of congress were on the train as others decided not to go to the retreat or head their independently. vice president mike pence is headed later today this evening. one member of congress, pete sessions put it after he saw it in the immediate aftermath. >> [inaudible]. there no, nobody fell out, nobody hit a window but, we did hit the chairs in front of us. reporter: meantime here at the white house, trish, the sche

blake burman is here with me.the themes that you can expect to hear from president trump next hour as he addresses the world economic forum it will really be according to the white house a continuation of what we have heard from the president. the present well also president will also take aim at trade calling for calling for it to be fair and reset reciprocal. expected to last in the area 50 to 20 minutes. to ratchet up the pressure and for the world as a whole to come together and fight against isis. the president gave this prediction here in davos here this morning. the united states is doing fantastically well. i think will be a great message and people are going to want to hear it. the president today has already met with the leader of rwanda. the president who also heads the african union. and the host country here. he feels like this trip in davos will end up bringing billions and billions of dollars back into the u.s. and world leaders are also talking about the president and his latest. as president trump

go to blake burman at the white house with the latest on president trump's america first again today. hi, blake. reporter: hi trish. president trump met with his cabinet here today at white house. the main focus of the meeting was infrastructure. the republicans and president are hoping to roll out some infrastructure package in the beginning portions here of 2018 but the immediate political headline, or at least the political focus right now in washington and at this white house is what to do with an immigration deal as it relates to daca, the "dreamers," 700,000 or so individuals brought to this country illegally as children by their parents. we got a full view of the negotiations in the white house. democrats were brought in, president, republicans, democrats, 5 a minutes as they started to hash things out on both sides. the president talked about that at the beginning of the cabinet meeting somewhat in a light manner. president trump said it was not a performance. >> some of them called it a performance. i consider it work but got great reviews by everybody other than two networks

i want to go to blake burman. he is in davos where president trump told world leaders america's open for business. blake? reporter: hi, there, trish. it became very apparent over few days we've been here in davos, the president, the administration, feel they have a success story going on right now with the economy. they want to get that message out. when you talk about the new tax plan in place, stock market run-up, bonuses going to employees, on down the line. the president, commander-in-chief had a different role here in davos, essentially being the salesman-in-chief for the united states. before his big speech before the world economic forum he said this was one of his key points. >> i'm here to deliver a simple message, there has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the united states. america is open for business and we are competitive once again. reporter: one of the big questions heading into this gathering was how would the president's america first policies, his america first

we go to blake burman live at the white house. reporter: trish, latest believe it or not at the white house, throughout washington, whether or not president trump described haiti and african countries as s-hole countries to put it in pg version. the president took to twitter said he was not the case. the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough but this was not language used. he followed up with another quote. never said anything derogatory about haitians other than that haiti is obviously very poor and troubled country. never said, take them out. this is made up by dems. this is about immigration deal centering on daca. democrats, republicans in the room with the president. two of the republicans were senators tom cots ton and david perdue. they gave the president a little bit of wiggle room, they put out a statement saying and i quote, we do not recall the president saying these comments specifically but what he called out was imbalance in our current immigration system. at the white house early he today at completely s

blake burman. look at markets, need to get to it right now. there goes the dow. 250+ points of gains reversed. we are now down about 9, call it 10 points for the dow. the s&p lower 7. the nasdaq down 17. forget it. i don't need to get to commentary, i need to get to the traders on the floor show, cme group, and milken chief economist, sarge, to you on the floor, i guess it's the fed saying what we all knew would happen. why has the horses been spooked somehow? >> do you remember what i told last week that $20 billion was going to come out of equity market this week? we are in the process. two-thirds of the way through it. one more close to go. the market is preparing. you probably saw the 10 year, got over 2.75. that's where the money is going. liz: look at intra-day charts here, we're at the lows of the session. we have 52 minutes left in the entire day of trading and the last of the month is the news really that bad to now tack on yesterday's 500 points of losses, pared with the day before, and now we've got another day of losses? >> the new

blake burman is at the white house with more. hey, blake. reporter: fingerpointing is intensifying ahead of all this. the need to keep the government open, the deadline being by friday night. the president taking aim at democrats earlier this morning with the following tweet, saying quote, the democrats want to shut down the government over amnesty for all and border security. he goes on to write, we need a merit-based system of immigration and we need it now. however the top democrat in the center of the daca negotiations, senator dick durbin says he feels the president is not living up to his word from last week. >> we have met the president's criteria. remember at one point, said whatever you send me i will sign, i will take the political heat on this. we showed up thursday with our bipartisan bill and presented it to him it is a much different story. reporter: the white house's position they want a clean spending bill on friday, no strings attached. whatever happened on daca has to be separated out an handled in a different matter. they

. >> want to go straight to blake burman who's been in the east room listening to the press conference. blake, what stood out to you? reporter: the question speaking of russia from my colleague john roberts whether or not the special counsel robert mueller and i'm sorry we got someone here in front of us, it's a crowded room, but john asked if robert mueller had come to the president's legal team, whether or not the president would have conditions that he would set, and whether or not how the president would want to take that interview, potentially. the president didn't want to engage in that topic, as it hasn't happened yet, simply to say we'll see what happens, see what happens. that's what he kept circling back to. he didn't want to engage on the possibility just to say there's been no collusion and if mueller comes to him. we'll see what the attorneys say and see what happens. the other big issue this day is immigration, as democrats, republicans and this president try to strike an immigration deal as it relates to daca. democrats want to see a daca fix. they want to see it soon. t

blake burman, at the white house. ake port -- reporter: daca piece is separate from all of this. the president drew a line in the sand as it relates to the wall as he tweeted out the following quote, we need the wall for safety and security of our country. we need the wall to stop massive inflow of drugs from mexico, rated number one most dangerous country in the will. if there is no wall there is no deal. john kelly in his interview last night with bret baier, the president's views on the issue evolved since the campaign trail. listen here. >> he has evolved the which he looked at things. campaign to governing are two different things. this president is very, very flexible in terms of what is in the realm of the possible. reporter: i'm told the president was none too pleased when he heard comments from the chief of staff. the president tried to clarify some of it earlier this morning again in a tweet, saying, quote, the wall is the wall. it has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived of it. that is whe

blake burman, thank you very much, live in davos for us. as i'm waiting for press briefing from the white house i'm joined by republican senator from alabama, richard shelby. senator, thank you for being here. >> thank you. trish: let's talk about the protectionist agenda, i'm glad i have you here on today, the protectionist people have some people worried, wilbur ross making comments, the markets reacting to it. they're kind of shaking it off. as we confront what we're dealing with north korea we have perhaps we have more leverage when it comes to china. the question is, are we at some point going to need to use it? >> i think we will have to use it. i think the president at times has alluded to it but china is probably the answer to the situation that we find ourselves with north korea. without them you never know where the standoff will lead. probably to nowhere good. trish: yeah. let's talk about mr. mueller around the investigation, and, his questioning of key people. the president, flynn, sessions, all of this, where is this heading?

blake burman, thank you very much. we have stocks up after yesterday. even going into yesterday after the two-day 500-point selloff that we saw, we were still looking at one of the best january's been quite a number of years. this is made even better. better than a 6% appreciation in january and charlie brady is our stocks genius. the guy has spreadsheets and is tied and he was saying normally when that happens and you're after a strong january, eight out of 10 times, 83% specifically you have an up year. in this case if you want to do the rough map, and may be in the vicinity of 12% or 13%. he didn't say that, but that's the best thinking right now. i will go to charlie because if i don't get it from charlie, everything i'm hearing is wrong. no other business network is a charlie brady. fortunately, we do. some of those mainframes and computers. we have charlie and he's more accurate than anyone. -- any of them. a little more after this. you know, i used to be good at this. then you turn 40 and everything goes. tell me about it. you know, it's made me

let's get the blake burman at the white house. normally a potential government shutdown would carry the high of the headlines. on whether or not he said he said. president trump have to push back over the weekend against accusations. that he is a racist. the president ask about that yesterday. and here is his response. i'm not a racist. i am the least racist person you've entered ever interviewed. in that meeting on thursday the two republican senators now are backing the threat. they do not recall that being said. he knows exactly what he heard. i am focused on one thing. not that meeting but making sure that they are eligible for that. in the future in america. just set that aside it for a second. it just put it off. if the wonder where this all goes. on the potential deal over immigration. the democrats in the present he said you want to see a deal that involves that along with border security in some sort of reform for the immigration system. the democrats want this to be done by friday night. the timetable with that being the

blake burman live at the white house. a political is with us to do this one out. house minority leader said those companies that have been giving their employees and bonuses bonuses and crediting the tax reform plan are just crumbs. calling them pathetic. with the only interview with the ceo of the company is giving $68 million to his employees james fish is here in a foxbusiness exclusive. to tell us about his rank and file and what they and shareholders are saying. who is that guy. he is a singer and actor who just signed a multimillion dollar deal to get a new new line of electronic gear. into your hands. he is putting himself on the path to business success. from las vegas coming up. we are less than an hour until the closing bell. let's start the countdown. we are just getting this breaking news. we are hearing from one of the republican senators who was in the room yesterday when president trump made what some are calling very disparaging remarks. it was senator lindsey graham who is in the white house yesterday pitching the deal. he has just released a stat

cheryl: blake burman and washington has more. >> as negotiations continue on capitol hill for an immigration deal, the framework of what it would look like it's becoming clear. in exchange for a daca fix, they want to reform the visa lottery program in the chain migration and add additional security such as the wall. in a news conference monday on the prime minister of norway, the president was asked whether he would accept the deal that did not include the border wall and he was lunch. >> no. no, no. we need the wall for security. read the wall for safety. we need the wall from soft to the coming in. >> the robert mueller special counsel investigation. sources tell fox the president legal team is gearing up for the possibility that mueller might ask to interview the president. the president was asked about that at the news conference and he would not commit to the possibility. >> we will see what happens. certainly we'll see what happens but when they have no pollution and no one's found pollution at any level, it seems unlikely he would even have an interview. >> last year in june the pres

for the latest blake burman. hey, blake. reporter: raj shaw, the press number two at the white house was on air force one, spoke with reporters, they feel the white house feels there will not be a government shutdown. however i can tell you speaking with a senior white house official saying that the odds of a shutdown at 50/50 coin flip. they see the house of inning the right direction and the senate moving in the wrong direction. as you've been talking about, the white house, the president is trying to frame if it was a shutdown it would be democrats fault. earlier today president trump had this theory. >> our tax cuts and our tax reform turned out to be far greater than anybody ever anticipated and i'm sure the democrats would like to blunt that by shutting down government. reporter: the spending bill does not include a talk can fix. that is of huge importance to democrats. it does though provide for a six-year further funding of chip, the children's health insurance program, something that was seem to be something that de

blake burman is there with the very latest what kind of reaction it is all getting. blake? port pour neil, normally the tradition of treasury secretary to uphold a strong dollar. steve mnuchin said during his confirmmation testimony. on the ground here he said a weaker dollar might not be such a bad thing after all. this is the comment right here, that is gaining all the attention led to the chart you popped up on the screen. mnuchin saying the dollar quote, where it is in the short term is not a concern for us at all. a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities. mnuchin also said more actions on trade, speaking of that, are to come and a couple cabinet members also on the ground here in davos as well, kind of weighed in today, backing up administration's current tough stance on all of this. for example, the commerce secretary, wilbur ross said following today, quote, trade wars are fought every single day. the difference is, u.s. troops are now coming to the ramparts. this is the energy secretary rick perry on set with maria bartiromo earlier th

our own blake burman live at the white house. blake, i feel like saying from the sublime to the ridiculous, but go ahead. reporter: rare moment of bipartisanship up on capitol hill. you would never know they are hashing out right now a spending deal or maybe not hashing one out, i guess we'll see, potentially a deal on immigration as well. as for the spending component of this, republican leadership has put forth the parameters of what a new deal would look like. it essentially kicks the can down the road yet again. a short-term spending measure through february 15th. there is extension of the funding for the children's health insurance program as well. along with delay of obamacare taxes. the white house says it is something, a spending measure that president trump would indeed support but they also say it is not option a as they see it. >> we do support the short-term cr. however that is not our first choice. we would still like to see clean funding bill, a two-year budget deal, but we do support the short-term cr, but we're goi

we have blake burman live at the white house. blake, what's the atmosphere been like at the white house, and what are you hearing about how president trump, if at all, will address today's drop in the stock market? reporter: they're gearing up for the speech, obviously, it's the last-minute preparations, the president hosting people inside the oval office as well. when he was asked about the state of the union speech yesterday, the very first thing he talked about, liz, was the run-up in the stock market and the tax cut bill as well. you can expect that to be a sizable portion of the president's speech tonight. it is a bit of unfortunate coincidence that asked to give the speech in the midst of a 300 to 400-point drop on the corner of ball and broad. the white house spokesman hogan gidley suggested at least that the president will not address this one blip later this evening. >> asked if the president will address that tonight, but overall, no one can deny the successes that have occurred under this president's watch. reporter: th

dagen. >> thank you so much blake, blake burman white house, blake mentioned the least two million american from bonuses, here is a look at some companies, stepping up, to offer people bonuses comcast with at&t, 00,000 people, alone, getting 300,000 people alone 1,000 dollar bns the economic back felt higher paychecks more money in paycheck more than 90% workers getting more in pay academics starting in february joining us now ceo form nfl star jack brewer consider what do you think of the number of companies to share welt if you will will that continue to grow? >> i think so this has been incredible to watch seems like day after day you see more and more companies, giving out bonuses to workers and they see are not workers making high 6, 7 figures they see are common folks middle class upper middle class you are going to he feel this the economy will really grow over the categoriourse of quarts fro this. >> in terms of small business a lot tax as pass through entities a big tax cut there are guardrail if you will to prevent certain types of businesses from getting these going to be this de

go straight to blake burman. it was spirited, blake as usual.eporter: steve mnuchin was right off the top, melissa. as the irs and treasury department today received new tax tables accompany the new tax code. treasury secretary steve mnuchin saying this will allow businesses and employers to withhold the correct amount of taxes so employees start seeing those tax breaks at points in february. there is though, there are some tweaks or at least some kinks that deal with this. for example, the outdated w-4 form will still be in place this year. the treasury department is instructing people to go to the irs web site to look at soon-to be-released taxed call indicator. critics say this is being rushed too quickly. the treasury secretary is saying no. >> in no way this was rushed to get this out there forepaychecks? >> absolutely not. we update the withholding tables every year. our objective to get money as quickly as we can. 90% of the people will see changes. reporter: the tax cut message was largely overshadowed today by two tweets that president

blake burman is here with the latest on it. blake? reporter: couple different messages on air force one that president was heading to pennsylvania. the number two in the press shop, rage shaw, does not feel there will be a government shutdown. however i can tell you a senior white house official told me they don't think it is better than a 50/50 coin flip at this point of the president preemptively for days now if there is a shutdown, it would be the democrats to blame. and today, he refined his point with this theory right here. listen. >> i really believe the democrats want a shutdown to get off the subject of the tax cuts because they worked so well. nobody thought, including the democrats it could work this well. they have been so good i think the democrats would like to see a shutdown in order to get off that subject. reporter: here at white house they feel that things are moving in the wrong direction in the senate. they feel that things could potentially right way in the house. house freedom caucus, conserve testify members in

go to blake burman where the president is wrapping up his day the economic forum. blake? reporter: he is not even done. he is sitting for for dinner 8:00 in the evening local time with european business leaders. quite the crowd he has with him here in davos. you just saw a little bit of that play out. the president sitting down with leaders, for example, of adidas, bayer, nokia, nestle, volvo, deloitte, just to name a few. this is two-fold message, two-fold reasoning for the president coming to davos. the first you hit on it, security. security issues that the united states and the world is dealing with but the economic message the president wants to get across and the trade message he and his administration want to get across. sitting down with those ceos moments ago, here is president trump. >> i just want to say there has been a lot of warmth, a lot of respect for our country and a lot of money, billions and billions of dollars is coming into the u.s. and people are very happy with what we've done, not only on the tax bill, but cutting of regulations and also being a c

blake burman is in davos with the very latest including european business leaders later tonight. i there, neil yes the president will be dining here shortly in davos with a host of ceo's across europe. it's described as a dinner with business leaders we're hoping to get a list here shortly. but the president was also engaged in a couple high profile bilateral meetings to start off his day. the first one was with the british prime minister theresa may and in comments to the media the president tried to drive home the point that his relationship with the british prime minister is just fine, this comes after the president had canceled his meetings, a trip rather to the uk and may was none toilessed with retweets the president engaged in at the end of last year but president trump also said that the british would be a reliable trading partner with the u.s. going forward. >> the trade concepts and discussions really i think i can say most importantly they will be taking place are going to lead to tremendous increases in trade between our two countries which is great for both in terms o

that part of the story right now for blake burman. >> in brief remarks thursday in kazakhstan, president by saying he wants people to quote, coming from everywhere. the president engage in preemptive finger-pointing and treating the democrats want to shut down the government over amnesty for all in border security. the biggest loser will be a rapidly rebuilding military at the time we needed more than ever. but even there a system of immigration and would need it now. no more dangerous pottery. press secretary sarah sanders says the democratic tauscher needs to run. >> i don't see what is complicated. democrats need to quit playing politics into what they were elected to do and that is governed and come to the table with the real deal based on parameters discussed. reporter: victor been a centerpiece of thursday's meeting says the president is not living up to his word when he proclaimed last week that he would accept a bipartisan deal. >> we met the president's criteria. one point he said whatever you send me all signed. we showed up thursday with our bipartisan bill and present it to t

blake burman on the scene for us in davos and joins us with the latest. hey, blake. >> hey, there, connell. dinner has come and gone for the president. 10:00 local time here in davos. but those was really a whose who kind of event with business leaders all across europe. the heads of nokia, adidas, bayer just to give you a handful. this is the first trypsins they passed the tax cuts back in december. so the president is using this trip and especially using this gathering of world leaders, this gathering of business leaders to say, hey, there is a new tax system in the u.s. come on in and invest. trump: i just want to say that there's been a lot of warmth, a lot of respect for our country, and a lot of money. billions and billions of dollars is coming into the u.s. and people are very happy with what we've done. not only on the tax bill but also cutting of regulations. and i think also being a cheerleader for our country, you know? if you're not a cheerleader for your company or for your country, no matter what happens, it's not going to work. >> so the eco

go to blake burman at white house, for the latest on the immigration reform meeting. it was a real privilege, blake, to be able to watch that, see both side really working together in a way that frankly we just haven't seen in quite some time because it seems as though they do have the common goal of wanting to get something done here. reporter: a lot of ways to describe this from just the fly on the wall type view we just got, fascinating incredible, to see how all of this is done normally behind closed doors but instead in front of cameras inside the cabinet room. i was speaking to a republican lawmaker who was involved in that. boil it down for me what do you think of all that? constructive. we got at least where the president stands on this solution, on this negotiation that he moderated as ideas were ping-ponging back and forth. you can kind of boil it down to this. he wants to see protection for "dreamers," that he and republicans and democrats in the room are committed to but along with it, wants border security, i.e., specifically the wall. after that the presi

break burman is the a the white house with the latest on the looming government shutdown. blakes, is it going to happen? reporter: has to be hammered out by friday night. the trish, the plan thrown out by pub leadership lip there, is short-term funding measure that funds the government through february 16th. there is back and forth a little bit of stuff in there for democrats and republicans. would continue the children's health insurance program for several years, while delaying some obamacare taxes. some for both sides. the white house is sying that this is not option a, but it is something that the president would support. >> we do support the short-term cr, however that is not our first choice. we would still like to see, clean funding bill, a two-year budget deal but we do support the short-term cr but we're going to continue moving forward in that process. reporter: by no means is this a slam dunk because here is how the calculations play out on capitol hill. not included in this bill, a daca solution. in the senate, republicans will need at least 10 democrats to come on bo

go straight to blake burman. he is at the white house to break it all down for us. hi, blake. reporter: negotiations continued on immigration today. up on capitol hill with leaders there after remarkable 55 minute on camera negotiating session between democrats and republicans here at white house, led by the president yesterday. the formula of how a deal could take place has now come front and center. in order for there to be a daca solution as democrats want and republican negotiators say they want, the republicans need to get a change to the visa lottery program that the president has talked about. he wants to see an end to chain migration. he also wants border security. ie, the wall. at the news conference that wrapped up here at white house minutes ago, the president was asked if a deal could take place. if money for a wall is not included? and he was fairly blunt. >> no. no, has got to include the wall. we need the wall for security. we need the wall for safety. we need the wall for stopping drugs from pouring in. reporter: democrats said they do not want to fund this bor

our own blake burman live at the white house with the latest. blake, do we have any confirmation yet from the fbi? reporter: a source tells fox, the number two at the fbi, andrew mccabe, was essentially removed from his post there. when you add up all the accrued time mccabe had, keep in mind he was set to retire in march anyway, when you add up all the time this was essentially the very first day he could leave the bureau to receive full pension benefits and that is exactly what happened. the president has been very critical publicly of mccabe. just last month sending out two tweets in his direction questioning mccabe's intentions. but at the press briefing earlier the press secretary sarah sanders said the president had no role in mccabe's removal. in fact many were surprised the when the news dropped. sanders took it a step further that the president applied no undue pressure on the fbi. >> the only thing the president applied pressure to make sure we get this resolved so you guys and everyone else can focus on things americans actually care a

here now with the details our own blake burman. boy, i would like to be in that room, blake.eporter: joe manchin and doug jones meeting with president at the white house. two more moderate-type democrats. the president held meetings earlier today as well with the more conservative members on the spectrum as it relates to immigration debate. what you see in the white house the president engaging in this immigration battle as now it moves forward since the government shutdown within the next couple of hours here as the votes continue to roll in. it will have come and gone. david, very much a scoreboard type moment for this administration today as the president often hails himself as one who is master negotiator. up on capitol hill chuck schumer tried to paint this as the trump shutdown in his word. he as he said the president was on the sidelines but the press secretary sarah sanders democrats dem could no longer defend the indefensible and the president got exactly what he wanted which was the deal put on table last friday. >> those are equal parts in this process. why we laid

blake burman live in davos, switzerland with latest there. how was he received, blake? reporter: that was one of the big questions, this america first policy, melissa, how exactly would it be received the president said look, america first as you said does not mean america alone but he also said his top priority is the country, companies, and american workers. the president though also tried to sell that the u.s. is undergoing an economic success story and ready to do new business. >> i'm here to deliver a simple message. there has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the united states. america is open for business and we are competitive once again. reporter: the president woke up in davos to a report in the "new york times" that said he tried to fire robert mueller last summer but backed off. however sources tell fox the conversation was more as a what if scenario with the president's advisors. here in davos this morning the president denied that report. >> mr. president, did you seek to fire mueller? >> fake news, folks, fake news. one

sights on a very busy new year and the question then is how much this will propel that let's go to blake burman at the white house. blake? >> hi there, neil. the white house released tonight you just went through some of it expect the president to call this a new american moment saying that there has never been a better time to live the american dream than right now. you can expect the president to tap the new tax bill that has gone into law this year, his signature legislative achievement talk about the economy as well but there are two especially important issues here in washington going forward that the president will address as well and that is infrastructure and immigration and to the former the president will say and i'm asking both parties to coming together to give us the safe, fast, reliable and modern infrastructure our economy needs and our people deserve. the president has also talked about the need to cut down the permitting process to which he will say "america is a nation of builders. we've built the empire state building in just one year. isn't it a disgrace that it can now take

that's where blake burman is standing by. after covering davos for eight years, i know globalist crowd like nothing more than trade and free trade. how are the comments all playing there tonight? reporter: you had wilbur ross, and steve mnuchin make a host of interesting comments earlier today. we'll start, let's start with wilbur. he basically said that china and their desire to further engage in the technological sphere is a, quote, direct threat to the united states. wilbur ross at one point saying, quote, trade wars are fought every single day. the difference is u.s. troops are now coming to the ramparts. they are trying to put out this message here, liz, at davos that look, the united states, this administration, is not going to stand for trade abuses anymore. here's more from wilbur ross earlier today. >> we don't intend to abrogate leadership. leadership is from being a sucker and being a patsy. we would like to be the leader in make the world trade system more fair and more equitable to all of the participants. report

blake burman has more. >> it's not like congress will ease into 2018. they will have to fend off another government shutdown before heading out of town for the holiday break, congress punted the latest spending decisions to january 19. that's the next deadline a vert the shutdown. funding levels need to be set while the debate ensues over money for the border wall and how to treat dreamers. the children that are brought into this country illegal by by their parents. the administration has signalled the president is likely to sign an executive order this month that would allow for rewriting healthcare rules so that it will be easier to buy health plans at a lower cost. because they don't have all of the coverage requirements that are written into the affordable care act. the top agenda item though right off the bat will be an infrastructure package. president trump does not think that will be too big of a lift. >> infrastructure is the easiest. people want it. republicans and democrats. we'll have tremendous democrat support on infrastructure as you know

blake burman live from the white house. what can we expect from the president and people listening to the president tonight? reporter: this is fine-tuning period for the state of the union speech. the president is working on this speech for about a month. he got his first draft on the way to davos aboard air force one. the president has been to the white house throughout the day. he will meet some of the visitors accompanying the first lady on capitol hill. expect a heavy dose to tout the economic successes he and administration have been pointing to for the last several months. in fact when he was asked about the state. union speech yesterday, at that was the very first item he pointed to. >> we worked very hard. covered a lot of territory including our great success with the markets and with the tax cut. it is a big speech, an important speech. reporter: there will be a handful of democratic rebuttals after the president's speech late every tonight on the senate floor, rather, earlier today, the top democrat in the senate

maria: blake, thank you so much blake burman white house want to get to breaking news right now walmartmber of things this morning, first of all they are raising minimum wage they are creating bonuses for hourly workers going to send 1,000 there are a checks to hourly workers, they are going to incur costs as a result of this on walmart going to incur 400-million-dollar charge, for the special bonus of 1,000 dollars being paid out to employees and going to going to cost 300 million dollars to raise the minimum wage. >> walmart raising the minimum wage to 11 dollars an assure a special bonus 1,000 dollars to hourly workers going to cost four hundred million dollars to special the special bonus and 300 million dollars expense for raising the minimum wage to 11 dollars. for employees, walmart making moves just right now hitting the tape stock up two-thirds of a percent premarket talk more about it, costumes and immigration the acting director of immigration and enforcement. >> the president says wall must be part of any deal on daca do you agree. >> absolutely every place we build a wall b

blake burman live at the white house with the very latest. blake, think back, less than a week ago to all the optimism with the open-door meeting they had that went on for about an hour that the whole public viewed we thought there was going to be a deal. i think the president did too. reporter: it was six days ago, tuesday afternoon here at white house they thought they would have the deal. fast forward to thursday, the meeting inside here, the white house with republican and democratic lawmakers and what the president may or may not have said, if or if he did not refer to haiti and african nations as s-hole countries. the president over the weekend saying he is not a racist. he was asked about it. he pushed pack on it hard. he denied used that term for those countries and for those regions. the president got a little bit of backing over the weekend from the form of tom cotton and david perdue, two republican senators in the meeting, saying they do not recall the president president using that exact language. senator dick durbin says he knows

blake burman live at the white house with the latest. it was marketing between -- genius. everybody has to be admit it, even mainstream media. take it away. reporter: this is pool spray. we see a lot of these, melissa at the white house. let the media roll. president says some remarks. others say remarks and they're ushered out after a few minutes. to my count it went 55 minutes. you essentially saw the whole immigration meeting play out before the camera lens. democrats and republicans in the room, alongside the president, two dozen or so lawmakers from up on capitol hill. both republicans and democrats want to see a solution for daca and they want border security of some kind. the president agrees with all of that. it is the border security issue that is really throwing the wrench into this one. after the cameras were ushered out the white house says there was an agreement made on four different high priorities. they listed them as follow. border security, chain migration, the visa lottery and daca. now the white house describes that as part one of the talks and presiden

blake burman will give us the latest on fallout. reporter: hi, david.he latest debate at white house and washington surround whether or not the president described haiti and countryies in africa as s-holes to keep it in pg format. he took to twitter claimed the language used by me at daca meeting was tough. this was not the language used. he said in follow-up tweet quote, never said anything der interrogatory about haiti that haiti is very poor, troubled country. never said take them out. made up by dems. this is a meeting at white house and democrats and republicans handful or so and president never -- discussing a deal. tom cotton and david perdue came out with statement, giving the president a bit of wiggle room, saying and i quote from their statement, we do not recall the president saying these comments specifically but what he did call out was the imbalance in our current immigration system. democratic senator dick durbin was in the room as well. he said this all, all arose when they were talking about temporary protective status for certain peopl

blake burman is live in switzerland. what can you tell us beside they got record snow there? reporter: and it is cold too, i can tell you that. 10:00 tonight here in davos, david, the president will leave washington, four, five hours from now. land here tomorrow morning, when he does it will be a full schedule. four different bilateral meetings. among the meetings, israeli prime minister enbenjamin netanyahu, potentially the president's biggest ally on the world stage, along with theresa may, the british prime minister. he will meet with the president of rwanda and leader of the host country, the president of switzerland. right now back in washington the president is meeting with mayors. this is with mayors across all the country. this is meeting supposed to focus and is focusing on infrastructure but has taken on a -- david: i'm sorry to interrupt you there, blake, but we do have tape playback from the president at that mayors conference. let's listen. >> brilliant people in this room. i know so much about being a mayor, very good friend of mine, dane maxwell, where is dane?

come in, but the trump administration, he also talked about it releasing tax tables, et cetera, blake burman, you just got out of there. tell me what was the headline for you? >> well, the administration is trying to push this idea that within the next couple weeks or so, come february, that employers, 90% of them, workers, will have a tax cut in their paycheck at some point in february to. that end, the irs today, the treasury department released new tax tables for employers to start withhold the correct amount of money from employees' paychecks so the tax cuts can go into effect within the next few weeks. let me run down some of the time line, if you are an employee, the irs, the treasury department says you don't need to do anything. come february 15th, employers must implement the new tax tables so they can conform with irs guidelines, and then shortly after that, at some point late in february, the irs will have a tax calculator online so people can play with the tax calculator to see what they owe the federal government and make sure what they are withholding is the correct amount, and

i want to go to blake burman at the white house with more on all of this. reporter: trish, let me explain to you what i think, what i think i heard there. that was president taking questions from the media who were inside this event with the president announcing the new tariffs that he has imposed. normally what happens here, they play out the questions first, and then the broader thing that the president bucks about after that. i -- talks about after that. i believe it is eight minutes. we'll hear more down the line. a couple of difficult stories, what you heard from the president there as it relates to the mueller investigation, department of justice officials confirming to fox, as you just heard from president trump, the attorney general, jeff sessions had met last week with mueller's team as part of the investigation into russia. what we can tell you is, the interview lasted for several hours. as the president said he is not concerned about what the attorney general told robert mueller's team. he said he has not discussed it with sessions. this is impor

9th circuit hours after landmark meeting with lawmakers on both sides of the i'll on immigration blake burmanvery latest there blake, good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you as well late in the froveng a federal judge federal judge in san francisco ruled for the moment of trump administration cannot unwind daca protects roughly 700,000 people brought into this country as children, illegally, by their parents. you might remember back in september the president had set a deadline for march 5 essentially for congress to get together come up with a solution, and figure this all out. yesterday, here at the white house, in a you bipartisan meeting, being the president seemed optimistic that those lawmakers could strike a deal. >> we do phase one daca, security. and we do phase two, which is comprehensive immigration and i think we should go right to it i really do, we do one then do the other, but we go right to it. reporter: free-wheeling negotiations republicans and democrats played out on camera for nearly an hour, the president laid out his framework for a daca deal that includes a b

hill republicans considering a spending fix, as congress barrels toward friday budget deadline blake burmanisely with the very latest blake, good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you house republican leadership presentedmens with a plan would fund government stop georgia measure through february 16 by no means though is a slam dunk this morning, as already skroef members expressing regulation invasions about kicking the revolutio reservationings. >> republicans will come around, and will aveteran a government shutdown -- >> we -- as expectation thursday friday vote, on another continuing resolution maria that would get us into february, to allow more time for daca conversation. >> some point you have to figure out that why is the cr going to be different from second and the third. and i don't know there is a compelling case made for that. >> this cr, continuing resolution would be a clean cr meaning no strings attached to that there is no daca deal attached to it that is exactly what the white house wanted with this they feel as well though, that if for some reason if there would b

out bonuses growing americans should see more money next month we told i the list keeps growing, blake burmanhite house right now with the latest there, blake, good morning for you the. reporter: irs treasury department releasing tax tables a deadline february 15 to sort out payroll treasury secretary steve mnuchin sighing should mean 90% should see take-home pay, spree of starting next month, now as far as the implementation goes this is described as a three phased process will take place over the current year, and mnuchin told me this is not being hurried. >> in no way this was rushed to try to get this out there for -- >> absolutely not. >> i mean we update withholding tables every year there is more work our ont is to will get people money quickly as ethic 90% of people will see changes. >> the fed -- bonuses from corporations to employees because of revamped tax code continues, chrysler fiat chrysler announcing 2000 dollar bonuses the 60,000 u.s. employees walmart saying bonuses handed out up to 1,000 as there are would increase minimum wage for their employees to 11 dollars, however, th

trish: blake burman, thank you very much. joining me for analysis ford o'connell and rob biro i will have a lot of democrats on the program that tells me it will not help the middle class. when you hear news like you did today, americans get more money in their paychecks starting in february, do you agree with that, so many democrats or is this some talking point they don't really understand. >> i do think there is a disconnect, trish. i always appreciate being on your show because it is very fair in my opinion and well-balanced. so the problem here is that facts, numbers don't lie, they are really getting more money in their paychecks. i have seen some analysts say between 15 and $20 for the middle class per paycheck. money is money. that is money it bank that helps americans. some of the sky is falling, chicken little stuff i'm hear something sort of ridiculous and nancy pelosi, i respect some of her politics but she can be a tad on the dramatic side. i know you will agree with me there. so you know, i just think that we ne

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temporary spend ing bill or potential have a government shutdown. >> dagen. >> thank you blake, blake burmand connell mcshane retweeted from from earlier i foibt out of all government shutdowns obama one, clinton two george here better walker bush one, ronald reagan, carter five the world keeps moving, right now, earnings, are in focus, it is a busy week for bank financial services citigroup reporting earlier double beat 17.26 billion dollars in revenue 1.28 adjusted earnings per share also reporting later bank of america morgan stanley american express suntrust, and goldman sachs, joining us now vertical group research an bank analyst dick bove, a 22 -- you warned said this is a quarter where it is like kitchen sink time with tax changes what do you make of results? >> i think that exactly what is happening, the hit on the taxes, is due to this complicated something called deferred tax assets have to be written down when you write down you know the tax rate that was 20-billion-dollar hit also, you know citigroup has to pay 15.5%, on its foreign earnings, which it did presumably in the quart