blake burman live at the white house with details. blake?> president trump non-committal whether or not there could be future tariffs on auto imports, potentially raising that auto tariff. as you know, the commerce department on sunday, delivered a section 232 report over here to the white house which outlines whether or not tariffs on vehicles and auto parts are needed in the name of national security. the president has threatened the european union with a tariff of up to 25%. a white house source who is familiar with this issue i spoke with earlier today said to me no decision has been made saying there is no there there and that this is still very early in the process. president trump has 90 days, just a little less than that to respond but said today he wants to make a deal with the european union. >> we've studied it very carefully. we've seen the results. the bottom line result is whether or not we can make a deal with the eu that is fair. we lose $151 billion trading with the eu. that is a lot of money. we'll see what happens. we'll s

blake burman standing by live at the white house. blake, you got a great question in, but i guess it's pretty much par for the course as expected, national emergency being declared as well. reporter: we had heard the president talk about this for weeks, if not months, that this national emergency could be a possibility. he made it official earlier this morning, declaring a national emergency along the southern border. the president doing so ahead of officially signing the spending bill that gives him $1.375 billion for border barrier along the southern border. the white house saying that the president has officially signed that spending bill. within about the last hour or so. if you put it all together, just a tick under $1.4 billion for physical barriers at the southern border though the administration says that number could make its way all the way up to $8 billion when you include executive action and the national emergency. the president took to the rose garden earlier today to continue to defend why a wall is needed along the so

liz: thank you, blake burman. please interrupt us. hillary is welcome, too, if you guys get anything more. >>> besides the guys in suits at the white house, the trade tit for tat is spanning the globe. bloomberg reporting this final hour the eu is putting together a retaliatory tariff list targeting, ycaterpillar trucks, xerox machines, samsonnite luggage if president trump slaps duties on european car imports. this as you just heard, the u.s. and china are inching toward a possible deal. don't call it a memorandum of understanding, apparently. but remember, if they don't have a deal, tariffs increase one week from today exactly. from the pacific coast to the atlantic and the great lakes to the gulf of mexico, america's ports are hanging on every word that we have just reported, because they are in the middle of all these trade spats. economic activity from cargo movement through u.s. ports, generating $4 trillion to $6 trillion a year, accounts for a quarter of the u.s. economy and countless jobs. joining us now in a fox business exc

fox business blake burman is that the white house the preview of what president trump will say today. blake, we are asking how how significant the speeches and then the declaration of a national emergency here at home at the southern border. reporter: two different issues there crippled will hear from the president is his continued support of who the administration wreck advances as the opposition leader venezuela. the president set to take the flight short trip from west palm beach over to miami. south florida community has the largest venezuelan american population in the country so a natural place for him to give this speech. the white house claimed out a few items the president will touch on your. next hour the support for guiado to push for humanitarian aid to be allowed into that country, but a larger theme for president trump is making the case that it is a move towards democracy that is necessary for venezuela. the president national security adviser john bolton told reporters on the ground a little while ago the administration would be open to the possibility of having talks

blake burman from the white house. blake. normally after the state of the union, the president goes out, hits the road, touts key policy issue from the night before. little different scenario as we learned from the trump campaign, that the president will go to the border town of el paso, texas next monday for campaign style rally. instead of the visit president made today was over at the state department to talk about the ministers for global coalition to meet isis. military advisors, warn, if and when, when u.s. troops pull out of syria, that isis could reconstitute back in that area, pose an even greater threat to the united states. the president saying though today, that isis is caliphate has been taken away. >> it should be formally announced sometime, probably next week that we will have 100% of the caliphate, but i want to wait for the official word. don't want to say it too early. reporter: also today the president announced david malpass his selection to be the leader of the world bank. malpass was an advisor on the t

charles: blake burman, live at the white house with more. blake?ter: that will be something to see tomorrow night, charles? president trump up there and nancy pelosi sitting behind president trump for entirety of the speech. she is the house speaker. so she will be there in the frame of the camera for the entirety of the president's speech. you might remember back on friday, i believe it was, the president teased ahead to his state of the union address saying he might have some news as it relates to potentially declaring a national emergency along the southern border. the white house being fairly tight-lipped about this one as whether or not the president will actually outline what he plans on doing as it relates to a national emergency, whether he will or will not go that route but kellyanne conway just a little while ago when askedder about it, made it seem as if the white house wants folks up on capitol hill have their say between now and february 15th? watch here. >> the president could not be more clear he has the absolute right to declare a n

blake burman at white house for more on this. reporter: for 50 some days, the debate, connell and melissa, is border security. how much money will be earmarked to the president's border wall but that took a sudden shift over the weekend as it appeared congressional negotiations were going well and that stopped when it came to the number of detention beds for illegal immigrants. that is what the president in part is talking about right now. to sum up where we are, where the folks are up on capitol hill, democrats want congress to approve funding for 16,500 beds for illegal immigrants who are detained. however the position of the trump administration as we heard from the deputy direct are to have i.c.e. earlier today is they want some 52,000 beds, more than triple the amount. i.c.e. making the case, earlier today, during a conference call that we were on, that slashing the amount of beds or capping the amount of beds would be quote, would be extremely damaging. the deputy direct are to have i.c.e. also saying if they cap the number

now to blake burman at the white house with what they're saying there. hi, blake. >> it was the vice president mike pence earlier today in an interview with cbs where he was out defending one of the more talked about lines from the president's state of the union address in which the president denounced congressional investigations. the vice president saying today in that cbs interview that the. was talking ant investigations that have a partisan tint. of course, the president said last night at one point, if there's going to be peace in legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. the vice president clarifying exactly what the had meant there. seemingly on cue, it was the top democrat in the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, that announced his committee would be launch as investigation into russian interference during the 2016 election, including whether russia holds any financial leverage over president trump, his family or the trump organization. earlier this afternoon the president was asked about it and did missed the probe. >> on wha

let's get to blake burman live at white house with the latest.r: quite a turn of events in vietnam. president trump described kim jong-un as quite a character. their talks were productive. a scheduled signing ceremony was scrapped. he said it is one of the negotiations where it was in the best interests to walk away. after the talks at a press conference the president said the main sticking point that the level of sanctions relief that kim jong-un was seeking. >> basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that. reporter: north korean's foreign minister disputed the comments during incredibly rare news conference, one that took place around midnight in vietnam. he described the north korea proposal as realistic. north korea was claiming that the they were claiming that they wanted u.s. to remove part of the sanctions. nancy pelosi was among those were pleased that the president walked v

blake burman has more.orter: the p trump heads to vietnam for the second summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. the trump administration acknowledging today they're not really sure what north korea's long-term intentions might be. on conference call earlier with reporters, senior administration official said the following, quoting, i don't know if north korea has made the choice to denuclearization. we believe there is the possibility that north korea could make a choice to fully denuclearization. that is why the president assigned such a priority to engaging with them. in a interview earlier today with maria bartiromo, secretary of state mike pompeo said he was hopeful one day north korea will denuclearization and he used this historical reference. >> i remember i was a young soldier patrolling the east german border in 1989. no one anticipated that the wall would come down on the day that it came down. i'm hopeful that the world get as day like that here as well, where no one expects that north kore

let me get to blake burman. he just jumped in front of the camera at the white house. did the white house have anything to say about a possible deal? reporter: you have the comments from tester, liz. he of course is one of the top democrats involved. richard shelby, the republican senator from alabama, one of the top republicans involved. he was here at the white house today, discussing all of this with president trump, and afterwards, shelby described it as a very positive conversation, said the president is reasonable, wants to get this wrapped up soon. you're starting to hear more talks as we get to this friday deadline to have this conference committee sort of hash something out so they can meet the next friday deadline. more talks of maybe this is headed in the right direction now. the president was asked about all of this just a little while ago and this was his response right here. watch. >> i hear they're working on something. we'll see what happens. but i certainly hear that they are working on something and both sides are moving along. we'll see what happens.

blake burman is on tap. he will break it down for us from the white house. >>> and it's being called one of the most important cases in internet law history. mozilla taking on the fcc over its decision to end so-called net neutrality. edward lawrence at the u.s. court of appeals following opening arguments that could determine the future of the web and how you use it. >>> plus trump's trade war, super bowl sunday and charlie breaks it on the former starbucks ceo potentially running for president of the united states. we are less than an hour to the closing bell. i'm lauren simonetti in for liz claman. let's start the "countdown." lauren: we have some breaking news. major reversal. the taiwanese manufacturing giant foxconn says it is now planning to build an lcd factory in wisconsin, just two days after it said it was scaling down those plans. back in june of 2018, president trump was in the state heralding the plans which would bring thousands of jobs, mostly manufacturing jobs. well, wednesday foxconn said

to blake burman live at the white house.t are the odds you're hearing on whether the president will sign the bill? >> reporter: right, whatever it may look like is the key point. you just ticked through some of the headlines. keep in mind the final text of this legislation, of this massive spending bill might not be produced until tomorrow evening. so folks over here at the white house throughout the day have been saying, look, they want to see the final language to see everything that is in it. the president today did not necessarily say one way or another whether or not he might sign, even veto this pending legislation, but he did make it very clear that he is not happy with what was produced from capitol hill. >> first of all, i hope he signs the bill. and second, i think he ought to feel free to use whatever tools he can legally use to enhance his effort to secure the border. so, no, i would not be troubled by that. >> and as for moving around the money, he needs congressional permission to do it. >> reporter: liz, obvio

let's go to blake burman at the white house with the latest. blake. reporter: that meeting happened between the president and the new york governor earlier this week over here at the white house. the reason why andrew cuomo was coming over here to pitch the president on his view to repeal the salt cap. at one point during the discussion the talks shifted to hq2 specifically in new york. of course as you know the president is from there, from that state, from that city. i'm told that during that meeting the president said that he thought it was a good deal for his hometown. he thought it would be a good move and a good thing for his home state as well. larry kudlow, the president's top economic advisor also, a new yorker, appeared on brian kilmeade's radio show shortly after the amazon news broke and this was his response right here. >> i know there was some controversy. you know we just, president and i just met with governor cuomo and that topic did come up but it would have really helped new york, that is all i can say. so, too bad. it is just too b

with blake burman at the white house and what the president is saying and hillary vaughn on how some democrats that want his job are responding. with begin with blake. >> hi, neil. kevin hasset is a group of small folks that briefed the president the night before the jobs number came out. when he did that last night, president trump responded with a fist bump. the white house twitter account just a little while ago put out larry kudlow, the president's top economic adviser. he said "i hate to tell you so, but the pessimists are wrong." the president saying he was not surprised by the numbers at all. >> the jobs numbers just came out. we added 304,000 jobs, which was a shocker to a lot of people. it wasn't a shocker to me. the country is doing really well. we have the strongest economy in the world by far. >> neil, when i spoke with kevin hassert, he pointed to a few things that they like and see in the numbers. first off, what you just said, the 100 straight months of job growth. that dates back to the obama years. but hasset said it's 100 months in and you're seeing a 300,000 plus nu

blake burman. by the way, we are told that right now, president trump is about to sign an executive order focused on keeping america first in artificial intelligence. the problem is, america's not first. the chinese are, when it comes to patents, when it comes to spending, so who do the microsoft, hewlett-packards and other titans of the ai world go to for their needs? they follow the arrow. arrow electronics ceo mike long coming up moments from now to tell us what america needs to do to get out in front of the chinese with ai. >>> even with markets facing the wild cards of the looming government shutdown and trade talks set to restart, we have this. the msci all country world index. if you don't know what that is, it encompasses about 2,756 stocks in both 23 developed markets and 24 emerging market countries. it's up nearly 10% so far this year. while everybody talks about a global economic meltdown, we're not seeing that with the global markets. to the floor show and we bring in our traders right

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blake burman is at the white house.orter: he is currently aboard air force one to meet with the north korean there, kim jong-un, later this week. ahead of the trip the president gave this assessment of the second meeting between the two saying quote, with complete denuclearization north korea will rapidly become an economic powerhouse. without it, just more of the same. chairman kim will make a wise decision. ahead of the meeting there is concern at least according to administration officials president's special envoy to north korea is getting quote, too far over his skis a top worry is that denuclearization has become a negotiateing item and not something necessarilily that is non-negotiatable. president is expressing optimism towards his discussions with the north korean dictator. >> i think we'll have a very good summit. i think we'll have a tremendous summit. we want denuclearization and i think we'll have a country that will set a lot of records for speed in terms of an economy. reporter: very rare moment earlier t

fox business reporter blake burman reports from the white house on some of the key issues still to beesolved between the united states and china. >> reporter: mark, it's all over the world opening higher to start the work week after president trump announced over the weekend the upcoming friday deadline to strike a trade deal with china is being put on hold. speaking to a gathering of governors, the president even talked up the possibility of a signing ceremony at some point down the line. >> we are going to have another summit. we are going to have a signing summit which is even better. so hopefully we can get that completed but we are getting very, very close. >> reporter: the u.s. and china trade negotiators metaphor four consecutive days. china's government is touting progress as well, substantial progress was that ed on such specific issues as technology transfer, protection of intellectual property rights and exchange rates. but president trump who believe that's striking a deal is more likely to occur than not, still continues to remind that a deal is not guaranteed. >> that co

blake burman at the white house with the latest on this one. what do we know right now?> reason why president trump is not committing to the spending deal one way or the other whether he will sign it or not because the actual text of the legislation has not been finalized. a official told me advisors here in the building want to go through the fine at text when it is completed. they want advisors at the department of homeland security to look through it as well. at that point they present it to the president in full. at that point he will make a decision whether he will sign it or not. that advisor telling me that what the president has been briefed on already at this point there are certain things in this bipartisan agreement that he does not like. the president is saying today he wants to make sure he can overcome certain obstacles. >> well, we haven't gotten it yet. we'll be getting it. we'll be looking for landmines because you could have that, you know. it has been known to happen before to people but we have not gotten it yet. it will be sent to us at some point. w

blake burman is digging into all that was said. you need to hear what he has gleaned from it live at the white house in just a moment. also in this hour, samsung unveiling some pricey new phones that do some really incredible things and yes the number five is all over the place. the first 5g model and a fold able model, you see that? how cool is that? this is an event in san francisco but we've got live pictures as the smartphone maker continues its event. our top tech analysts tell us if apple is still the main target or if there's another smartphone maker in the bullseye now and that apple's taking a back seat, and alexandria ocasio-cortez green new deal lighting a fire in d.c. over america's energy future but one energy visionary is here to take a deeper dive cutting through all the political hoopla and accusations to tell us what the conversation should really be about. former nrg ceo, that was a huge utility company, he ran the big one, david crane is here, exclusively, plus the latest on china trade talks, there are things ha

blake burman watching budget battle from the white house. edward lawrence coughing all things china trade from washington. kristina. very good day. >> that is an understatement. we had four days of negative territory for the dow. we're seeing a rally. honestly from traders i'm speaking to today. doesn't have to do with the shutdown. a lot are heading, buying into china. they believe, several traders around me believe the president will come to a conclusion as he alluded to today, he will push that deadline forward and that they are going to work on a deal and maybe get something going by the end of march. a lot of investors entering the market contributing to the rally. some dow leaders we're seeing are typical dow leaders we see whenever we talk about china trade in the mix. caterpillar on the board, boeing, 3m. all of these stocks, except for caterpillar up above 5 1/2%. you can see constantly very similar story. i want to end on an interesting story that seems to get a lot of consumers riled up, it has to do with consumer prices, when you

blake burman from the white house. reporter: this morning he officially made it clear he signed the national emergency along the southern border, this afternoon, the president signed the spending deal as well. $1.37 billion in the spending bill for border barriers though the trump administration they will try to get that number up to some $8 billion through executive actions and the national emergency declaration. the president took to the rose garden early this morning to pitch the need as why there needs to be a border wall along the southern border. watch. >> not like it is complicated. it is very simple. we want to stop drugs from coming into our country. we want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country. nobody has done the job that we ever done. nobody has done the job we've done on the border. reporter: legal action likely to come. chuck schumer, nancy pelosi saying following in a statement earlier today, saying quote the president's actions clearly violate congress' exclusive power of the purse w

so let's get to blake burman at the white house. blake of course was in the rose garden for a news conference. asked a couple questions as usual. got to two newsworthy topics, china and i mentioned national debt. talk about the national emergency. go through that for us. reporter: i couldn't help but think, connell, as we were standing in the rose garden a little while ago, this is not what we heard from president trump, not for days but weeks, when we were in the news guarden he was talking up the need for a national emergency. what changed today he actually declared it. he signed the paperwork so the president says, declareing a national emergency on the southern border. the president walking through the reasons why he had to go down that road t was very clear that the president didn't necessarily like a lot of things that were in this spending bill that were signed. didn't necessarily get all the money that he wants. and at this point, he plans to attempt to supplement all of that with extra monies from other portions of the gover

blake burman has more for us from the white house. blake, what do you have?standing by alex acosta, the labor secretary. we just received a statement from the department of labor as it relates to their defense of the labor secretary who has received an immense amount of criticism, especially over the last 24 hours, for his handling of the jeffrey epstein plea deal in 2008, as a florida judge yesterday rebuked the prosecutors in that case for their handling of the plea deal in which they kept the alleged victims, teenaged girls, in this case, in the dark. acosta was a part of the prosecution team. here was the statement in part from the department of labor. it says quote, for more than a decade, the actions of the u.s. attorneys office for the southern district of florida in this case have been defended by the department of justice in litigation across three administrations and several attorneys general. the office's decisions were approved by departmental leadership and followed departmental procedures. so that is their defense of the labor secretary but as t

blake burman with the latest from the white house. reporter: couple interesting components.alpass was trump campaign advisor. he made his way undersecretary of treasury for international affairs, under steve mnuchin. we develop known by the president and treasury secretary. someone thought highly of apparatus here in the white house and the treasury department as well but malpass is also a part of the team that is part of the china trade discussions. we do believe that his very senior level communications with the chinese will continue on even though the president is going to elevate him to his selection to lead the world bank. his timeline, matches up the march 1st deadline with china. the world bank vote isn't until april. we believe malpass will continue role as it relates to the china discussions if and when he becomes the head of the world bank. the latter part, because there is criticism, coming as it relates to selection of malpass, malpass himself was critical of the world bank in the past. critical of multilateral organizations as well. the u.s. has a 16% voting sta

blake burman has the very latest. hey, blake.r: disapproval up on capitol hill specifically within the house of representatives got taken up with the live pictures there, 10 or 15 minutes or so ago, they are starting to talk about this, the official vote from the house not likely to come until later this evening until 6:00. no doubt about it. this resolution of disapproval as it relates to the president's national emergency along the southern border will pass through the house. democrats are pushing this for a couple reasons. first off, they want to assure president trump cannot move federal money within the federal government to continue to build more of the border wall. also they are trying to make the point as it relates to this issue, the president should not try to get around congress. earlier this afternoon, here was the number two democrat in the house, steny hoyer trying to make the case case as well that republicans should be voting with them. watch here. >> i would hope so many republicans who demanded that the executiv

i'm blake burman. in for elizabeth macdonald. president trump set to deliver his second state of the union address. the president criticizing the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, in an interview over the weekend. president trump: she wanted to win a political point. but i think it's bad politics. she wants open borders, she doesn't mind human trafficking or she wouldn't do this. edward lawrence has the latest this new england washington. reporter: the president putting the final touches on his state of the union address. the message will have one of unity. an excerpt of that saying quote we can bridge old division, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions and unlock the extraordinary promise of america's future. he'll be making that address standing in front of house speaker nancy pelosi with no problem showing disdain for the president. both republicans and democrats remain deeply divided over a number of issues, including border security. the republicans including the president say there is a humanitarian c

blake burman live at the white house. blake, we are also just 11 days away from the possibility of a second government shutdown. what do we know about what the president might say tomorrow regarding this, because again, it will move the markets. reporter: yeah. and at the end of last week, you might remember president trump sort of teased as we say in the business, i guess, you might want to pay attention to the state of the union address tomorrow night, because he might have an announcement as it relates to the possibility of him declaring a national emergency on the southern border. the president has talked about this now for several weeks. the white house, though, today is suggesting when i asked specifically kellyanne conway about this earlier this afternoon, that maybe they want to let the negotiations up on capitol hill play out first before going down that road. watch here. >> the president cannot be more clear that he has the absolute right to declare a national emergency. it has never been his preferred option of

the clock ticks for congress to come up with a deal, to fund the government past next friday, blake burman with the latest. blake. reporter: melissa, president trump teased last week we should tune into the state of the union address tomorrow night because he might have announcement on declaring a national emergency. the white house not saying if the president will unveil the intentions tomorrow evening but is suggesting that the president will let the negotiations on capitol hill unfold first. >> president cannot be more clear that he has absolute right to declare a national emergency. it has never been his preferred option of first resort, second, 10th, 12th resort, it would be the last resort after congress completed its work. conferees are doing their work. we'll see what they come up before february 15th. reporter: february 15th, the timeline when they need to come up, folks on capitol hill, a deal or not. the president said a second shutdown is indeed on the table. the white house downplaying what effects that could eventually have on the economy. >> if there was a second shutdown we

let's get to blake burman, with more on this at the white house. blake. reporter: cold as it looks.et they have the heat pumping there through air force one. president trump about to leave the white house here any moment, said earlier today, relates to the national emergency along the southern border, there is a good chance that could happen. the president loves to have viewing audience. he set up state of the union on tuesday evening as possibility of potentially making that announcement then. >> we will be looking at a national emergency, because i don't think anything is going to happen. i think democrats don't want border security. >> do you expect to declare a national -- >> i don't want to say. you will hear the state of the union. you will see what happens after the state of the union. reporter: you will see what happens after the state of the union. there is of course a group of democrats and republicans up on capitol hill trying to hammer out a border security package. the president continues to call that group a total waste of time. but members of that group say, they dese

blake burman at the white house.y was up in excess of 5% back into bull market territory here. let's go to ed mills, the raymond james public policy analysts. good to have you. >> great to be here. neil: do you think the markets are getting ahead of themselves. we are going to have a deal. >> yeah, i am not going to downplay any of the kind of optimism that there is today. but what i've written about as i talked with us or is there is a lot still don't know here and it seems the one person who wants a deal is president trump and he has all the authority here. he could put him back on. i really want to know the details exactly what has been agreed to come exactly how much china's going to purchase and i really want to know if the existing tariffs come off because i think that is the next thing the market is going to be looking for in terms of are we steady-state premiere up or down. >> it's interesting because you could look at this and say did they get enough compassion by almost any measure is going to be better tha

blake burman has the latest. hi, blake. >> the trump administration trying to continue to keep the pressure on venezuela's contested president, nicholas maduro as the white house announced today that the vice president, mike pence, will be heading to columbia in just a few days time on monday. standing in one of venezuela's neighboring country, the president will call on maduro to step aside. a spokesperson for the v.p.'s office saying the following in a statement today. >> the announcement comes as maduro shut down the border at brazil. he said he's considering the columbian border who he views the opposition from bringing in relief. guaido, the opposition leader is organizing caravans as he's trying to get humanitarian relief that is being stymied at the border to make its way through venezuela. last week over here at the white house, president trump hosted columbia's president. both were critical of maduro for stopping aid at the border. >> i think he's making a terrible mistake by not allowing that to happen.

as blake burman points out, just because they're not meeting in person doesn't mean they can't have aall, right? we did see that at one of the last rounds or one of the -- >> neil: turned things around. >> exactly. they spoke on the phone and they seemed to at least come to some sort of common understanding. of course, the way the market reacted, it's like you could have dropped a stone. if you looked at deer or caterpillar, these economically sensitive stocks reacted. >> neil: trade sensitive. >> yes. >> neil: another thing that interested me there in the comments, the meeting isn't immediate. they can't put a final stamp on this until the two leaders write off on it. so the meeting is delayed on the phone or otherwise. that means the china trade deal is delayed. >> it seems if the two presidents don't speak or just status quo, in theory, new tariffs on chinese goods kick in. >> neil: march 1. >> march 1. up 10%. >> neil: is there any chance you're hearing that the administration, if it was sensing progress would push that back? >> i think there's so much room for maneuvering here. o

here's what he told blake burman. >> i think it's a big loss to new york city. it's a big loss. if you look at the deal, the deal was not a great deal from the standpoint of they could have made a better deal than that, a much better deal. but still i think it's a loss to new york city. omes next? retirement? after that. after retirement? david: more billboards are up in new york city slamming congresswoman alexandria okays ya cortez in amazon canceling plans to build second headquarters in new york city. congresswoman has lashed out on twit ner response. joining us now is the man behind the billboards, president of the job creators network. al free do, thank you for coming in. what's your goal here? >> if you look at the rising trend of socialism in this country and the interest especially amongst millennials, we are concerned about that. we're staunch supporters of the free enterprise system. and as staunch supporters, aoc was very vocal about her onslaught on this kind of deal. and we said you know what? we have to find a way of making sure that the discussio

so let's get to blake burman at the white house. course was in the rose garden for a news conference. asked a couple questions as usual. got to

first, to blake burman at the finger pointing that has a lot of the talks with the north appearing to head south and fast. break? >> you're right. the back and forth is beginning between the united states and north korea. earlier today president trump described kim jong-un as quite a character and their discussions were productive. but a signing ceremony was scrapped. the president said sometimes you just have to walk away and this is one of those times. the president said the man sticking point was the level of sanctions relief that kim jong-un was seeking. >> basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety. we couldn't do that. they were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that why wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that. >> north korea's foreign minister is now disputing the comments right there. he did so in an incredibly rare news conference, one that took place around midnight in vietnam. he described the north korean proposal as realistic. north korea is claiming they were looking for the u.s. to remove just part of the sanct n sanct

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first, coverage with blake burman at the white house and peter doocy on capitol hill. those talks could stand. hi, peter. >>

connell: aclu chapter of blake burman fan club making its presence known. reporter: couple hundred of them. big loud speaker. connell: we could hear. blake, thank you. we're getting into more detail. former bush 43 lawsuits, which the president himself expected. do you think this drags on longer period of time, or gets expedited in the courts? >> i think executive order that president trump issue, it was called the muslim ban, the travel ban. restricting number of refugees coming into the united states. it was frozen fairly quickly of days being issued. over a year before the supreme court ultimately sided with the trump administration on a 5-4 vote. maybe over the years expedited. connell: interesting political dynamic to explain to the american people, you declared a emergency which took a while to be declared. that emergency going on for a year while being decided in the courts. somebody will make an argument is it really an emergency if we all can wait this long? >> that is the big question to begin with. if it is an emergency if you did political wrang

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blake burman was in the oval office for a meeting between the two sides. he joins us now. blake?eporter: a lot of headlines coming out of the overall office meeting between president trump, top members of his trade team, and liu he, vice premier of china and his trade deem. both sides feel progress has been made. the structural issues remain. it was revealed in the oval office the two sides agreed to changes as it relates to chinese currency manipulation. chinese negotiators will stay for the next two days to hammer out final details. they will be here with saturday, sunday and president trump and xi xinping, the chinese president, likely to meet at some point in march to potentially nail down a final trade deal. when you step back the wig question with all of this, they have been going after weeks and months whether or not there will be a trade deal. i asked president trump at this point, whether or not he feels more hikely there will be a deal or not? the president answered that question, then posed that very question to the top chinese negotiator. watch here how it all played

blake burman at the white house. any clues -- they don't even have a yet so i don't know what clues we could get. reporter: is the bottom line with all of it. a classic case of hurry up and wait. on capitol hill they are trying to finish the text of this legislation. over at the white house they are just waiting because they don't have the text, the final bill about the compromise -- with the bipartisan committee on capitol hill and an upcoming race. a white house official i was begin with earlier today walks me through all of the thinking here and this is the thinking that the white house. they want advisers to be able to go over the final text of all of this. a lot folks at the department of homeland security took over the final text as well and at that point they plan on breaking president trump and at that point the president will make his final decision. one official at the white house telling me they expected the bare minimum to be some 700 pages long at the minimum. the president as we heard yesterday, some of

let's go to blake burman live at white house with more on this?orter: largest venezuelan american community in the country is in the miami area. where president trump to be introduced by first lady melania trump will give a speech any moment within the 120 minutes or so we believe. president will give his support to juan guaido. the president will allow humanitarian -- call to allow humanitarian aid to flow in the country. and military leaders involved with nicholas maduro to seek democracy, move away from the maduro machine and preserve democracy. you saw an image, the president's national security advisor john bolton, he said in advance speaking to the reporters the administration is happy to talk with nicolas maduro about exit terms. they pushed back if they underestimated the staying power of maduro. >> absolutely not. more and more countries are recognizing the legitimacy of guaido presidency. we know 50 nations right now. this will not be easy. we are looking for a peaceful. reporter: when it comes to venezuela, all options remain on the tab

let's get to blake burman at the white house with more on that.eporter: there is good feelings coming out of capitol hill, connell, there could be a deal here in the upcoming days to find a border security package. jon tester, one of the top democrats, a senator, says he thinks they could have a deal by the weekened. richard shelby, a senator as well, one of the leading negotiators for republican was here at the white house today meeting with president trump. >> i don't know if he would sign whatever we came up with but i -- the president had a very positive conversation with the president and the vice president, earlier today. and, i believe, he was very reasonable with us. reporter: the president after that was asked about all of this. he was non-committal to what might be coming out of capitol hill. this was his reaction when he was asked whether or not there could be a deal on the horizon. watch here. >> there could be. i hear they're working on something. we'll see what happens but i certainly hear they're working on something, and, both side

let me get to blake burman live at the white house and that's not all president trump said that got these markets rolling and running. reporter: a lot of action and words over the last 24 hours or so liz first the action from president trump yesterday in which the president said that this friday march 1 deadline to get a deal done or else tariff levels would increase would be put on hold, because there is being progress made on both sides from the u.s. and china as it relates to a possible trade deal. president trump has suggested over the last 10 days, two weeks or so whatever you want to call it that it could be heading in this direction maybe not a marc. he made it official yesterday saying that these two sides could continue to talk and that the deadline would be put on hold. then came a statement from the chinese government through state -run media earlier today in which they talked up the prospects of a deal that could be in near reach here between both sides this was the statement. "the chinese delegation said that substantial progress was made on such specific issues as technology

blake burman live at white house with highlights. reporter: michael cohen in the chair there.-hour break. president trump's former personal attorney the very first description of president trump by michael cohen that the president is a racist. accusations did not stop after that. cohen among his accusations president trump compensated him during his presidency for hush-money payments related to stormy daniels. cohen did produce checks. he also claimed the president was aware via roger stone that julian assange and wikileaks would be releasing stolen dnc emails. that the president pursued a trump tower in moscow throughout much of the presidential campaign. cohen's non-answers raised questions as he suggested that the president has legal exposure in the southern district of new york. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes. and again those are part of the investigation that is currently looked at by the southern district of new york. reporter: republicans continue to point out cohen

blake burman live at the white house with the very latest. blake. reporter: that's right. delayed a week, because of government shutdown, longest government shutdown ever. president will address many of his top policy priorities in the new year. the president will discuss issues like immigration and trade, along with lowering the cost of prescription drugs. we should also hear, the president talk a lot about the economy. as the white house feels that they have a very good story to tell there. >> the president will be talking about a booming economy, the fact that wages are up. unemployment is down, deregulation is successful. he remade the judiciary. we export oil and gas, like he says, no one else exports oil and gas. reporter: democrats are already trying to dismiss the speech tonight. chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate, saying a little while ago, do not believe everything you hear out of the president later this evening. here he is talking about taxes for example. >> what about that 4,000-dollar raise every family would get because of the tax cuts? so when pr

blake burman asked a few questions today. he's with us from the white house. e. >> the top trade negotiators, robert lighthizer and steve mnuchin are on their way back to the u.s. after a couple of days of discussions in beijing with their chinese counter parts. the two met with the chinese president xi earlier today. president trump described the talks as going "extremely well" but also added who knows what that means because it only matters if we get it done. negotiators will return next week. time is ticking. there's a march 1 deadline to get a deal done or the u.s. will increase tariffs. when i asked the president earlier today if the deadline is firm, he suggested it could slide. >> there's a possibility that i will extend the date. if i do that, if i see we're close to a deal or the deal is going in the right direction, i would do that at the same tariffs that we're charging now. i wouldn't increase them. >> as of now, president trump and president xi are not expected to meet face to face before the march 1 deadline, two weeks from now. you have to whethe