>> bret: let's get the inside story on all these topics. white house chief of staff john kelly joins us now for a fox news exclusive. thank you for being here. as you sit here, are you confident the administration and congressional leadership has the votes for a short-term funding to avoid a government shutdown friday? >> i spent a fair amount of time on the hill today speaking to members of congress, both sides of the aisle, and it would seem to have the votes to continue funding the military, take care of the child health care issue. perhaps some other things. as i understand it, they have the votes and they are fairly confident. >> bret: not really what you wanted. >> no, the cr is getting in the way of an awful lot of things but that's the reality of life in washington. >> bret: your time on the hill today got some headlines. "washington post" has a story, says "kelly called some of trump's campaign pledges immigration while uninformed," white house chief of staff john kelly told democratic lawmakers the united states will never constru

i am bret baier in washington. we'll talk live and in depth with white house chief of staff john kelly in a few moments. first up my president trump sticking to his guns on immigration i made the threat of a government shutdown. federal government's had to shut down at least partially friday night if negotiations don't continue to come up with a temporary spending bill. going right down to the wire. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight with the latest on daca and how that fits in. >> good evening. tonight the white house is confident they can get a deal on a temporary spending measure and it is throwing its support behind the republican measure to come out of the house. on daca, the prospect of a deal is beginning to look very bleak. it was a rare moment of harmony on capitol hill today. president trump paying tribute to a line of american politics, former kansas senator bob dole. >> you are a friend. you are a patriot, a hero, a leader and today you have become a recipient of the cong

bret, are you there? take it away. >> bret: thanks, dana. markets make our rapid rise, hitting all-time high as the feud over a new book about the president gets more intense, speeding up the publishing date. this is "special report" ." good evening. welcome to washington. i am bret baier. tensions may be high here in d.c. but the very public spat between the president and his former chief strategist over a new explosive book are certainly not hurting the markets. the dow has another record day on wall street, closing above the 25,000 mark for the first time ever. a full 37% higher since president trump was elected. the s&p 500 was up 11 today. nasdaq grew 13. both record highs. deirdre bolton joins us with a look at what is driving the markets. >> good evening. the best headline today came from drudge on twitter and it said bull beats wolff. outshining some of the upset cost by michael wolff. excerpts of the book have cast an unfavorable light on the trumpet with attrition. stock market investors shrugged it off and the dow jumped past 25,0

i am bret baier. coming to live tonight from the white house one day after the end of the government shutdown and write in the middle of political sniping. maybe eventually open warfare between congressional republicans and the nation's top law enforcement authorities. the rush of collusion investigation has now reached all the way into president trump's cabinet. attorney general jeff sessions spent several hours in an interview with special counsel robert mueller and his team. this comes as house and senate republicans on several committees are raising serious questions of the fbi and doj for what many see as unchecked bias and perhaps even a conspiracy against the president based on newly released texts. we have fox team coverage. mike emanuel on capitol hill. we begin at our washington bureau with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> of the same day a justice department official confirmed the special counsel interview, text messages suggest senior investigators were skeptical the

this no. >> bret: this level of detail and them questions.stay out there until every one is answered. >> it was really something. not only has he served these other presidents he gets really high marks from these previous administrations. is he a well-loved figure. >> bret: dr. jackson. >> yes, dr. jackson it would be a good thing for democrats if this was off the table. sure talk about his character and behavior if you want to, the whole argument about whether he is mentally deranged or unfit, let's just finish with that because i don't think it gets anybody anywhere. and it needs put to bed. >> bret: it seems like this closes that door. >> among rational people it does. i don't think it's going to end the crazy talk that we have heard. that whole thing was just -- it revealed the hour long, i mean, it was truly extraordinary it reveals the absolute absurdity that we have reached in terms of people going after the president in the press, the clips that you just showed. they may have been from "saturday night live" last saturday. it's absolut

. >> bret: single greatest witch hunt in american history. that's president trump on the rush occlusion investigation. he would not say whether he will agree to be interviewed by the special counsel. the definition of the word wall is in the mexican government funding negotiations. democratic senators join us to talk about the future of their party, immigration. this is "special report" ." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. president trump is standing firm for his border wall. apparently wavering on whether he will talk with the special counsel investigating allegations his campaign collude with the russians. allegations he is calling a democratic hoax. the president making those comments as he welcomed a nordic visitor today. chief white house correspondent john roberts as they are and joins us from the north lawn >> good evening. president trump has been consistent in his assertion that there was no collusion between his campaign in the russians to throw the u.s. election. if what the president's legal team may be their fi

lee this week. >> bret: thank you.'s get reaction to the arguments over the president and his state of mind. senior political anise brit hume. good -- political analyst brit hume. >> it's bizarre to see this unfolding. after all if you look at donald trump's behavior going back decades, the one thing about it is that it's consistent. one might argue stable. he has always acted the way he acts now. he's been thin-skinned, always remarkably childlike in his reactions to things and that's playing out in his presidency. you can make a case if you are a term critic that he is temperamentally unsuited to the job but temperamentally unsuited is not the same is mentally unfit and it's not the same is mentally unstable. this is the argument you hear and it's doing the representing of the -- reputations of the psychiatrist no good that they are despite the denial violating the goldwater rule, as doug was reporting, makes it unethical to make armchair diagnoses which all of these critiques seem to be. >> bret: the president's sup

meantime, "special report" is up next with the bret baier. >> bret: you guys are coming here? >> kennedy: it will never be the same. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier in washington. major news tonight and the russian investigation. two breaking stories. one, president trump's favorite twitter targets, the number two man at the fbi, is out tonight. deputy director andrew mccabe is leaving earlier than his previous to the scheduled retirement and mars news is told mccabe was removed. house intelligence committee meeting at this hour. we are expecting a major vote on a document republican say outlines abuses by intelligence officials in their investigation of the trump election campaign. democrats on the committee and since republicans are cherry picking from hundreds of classified pages of material, and they have their own memo. all of this comes against the backdrop of the president's first state of the union address. 27 hours from right now. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge begins our coverage tonight from capitol hill. good evening. >> high

i'm bret baier. with four business days left before another down to the wire countdown on a possible government shutdown, president trump said democrats were being insincere in their efforts on one of the key issues. legal protection for young illegal immigrants who came to this country as children. this comes as the white house and republicans continued damage control efforts over last week's reported vulgarity by the president concerning some immigrants in their homelands and the president of the united states answering a question this weekend by saying "no, i am not a racist." chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. good evening. >> it's only monday, bret. the president thinks the democrats aren't negotiating good faith. some democrats believe the president is not negotiating in good faith with each in all likelihood means the president has a tough week ahead of him. president trump left florida this afternoon after spending much of martin luther king jr. day at his wes

bret. >> bret: alicia acuna in denver. thanks. up next, 1.8 million illegal immigrants could see a pathway for legal status under a new plan rolled out of the white house today. our top story at the bottom of the hour next. >> bret: fox news alert, recapping the top story. we have details about president trump's new immigration reform proposal. it details plans for border security, $30 billion for a border wall, and increased technology. daca legalization, 1.8 million illegal immigrants given a pathway to legalization, protecting only the nuclear family when it comes to chain migration and eliminating the lottery and repurchasing visas. who the president's instance insistence on a wall is clear. there is more vocal opposition from environmentalists. casey stegall is in texas, looking at both sides of the story. >> tucked away in south texas, a place unlike any other. >> this has the largest diversity of plants and animals of any refuge in all of north america. >> santa ana national wildlife refuge spans more than 2,000 acres along

." >> i am bret baier. we begin with the fallout, the s-storm or president trump's comments about illegal immigrants to what lawmakers say the president called "s...hole" countries. it's almost overwhelming negative. he tweeted a vague denial. but democrats and republicans who were in that meeting are weighing in with what they did or did not hear. a daca deal could be much tougher to get. john roberts starts us off. >> as we reported last night sources inside and outside of the white house confirmed to fox news that president trump did use the language in question in an oval office discussion on daca. it happened so many times in the past, the president and not the issue has become the story. >> [applauding]. >> in a white house event signing a proclamation for a martin luther king day, the president ignored shouted questions. >> [bleep]. >> mr. president. >> it was during a heated oval office meeting that president trump asked why are we having all of these people from "s...hole" countries come here? a fi

i am bret baier in washington. we begin with details of a fiery oval office meeting on immigration and the comment from the president disparaging some of the places those immigrants come from, a comment raising eyebrows in washington tonight as negotiations continue tonight on a government funding daca border security deal. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off from the north lawn. >> good evening. a number of lawmakers, republican or democrat, gathered with the president to discuss a possible fix to the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. the president appeared to grow impatient when the lawmakers raise the idea of renewing temporary protected status from countries like el salvador, haiti, and some african countries. according to a source briefed on the meeting, the president said "why are we having all these people from blank whole countries come here." the president asked why we don't take in more people from countries like norway. the prime minister of norway was here yesterday.

bret. >> bret: thank you peter. strong indications tonight that you will get to see the classified memo that republicans say detail surveillance abuses by the intelligence community during its investigation of the trump presidential campaign. so far, that document is still under lock and key. the fbi director is pushing back publicly, saying this memo should not come out. tonight we learn just how raw emotions were in the house intelligence committee meeting monday about this memo. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has amazing quotes. >> late today the house intelligence committee released a 51 transcript that shows monday's vote release republican draft of memo was acrimonious, at times bitter, with allegations flying from democrats. this exchange, mike quigley presses devin nunes over whether he coordinate with the white house. "if they have any i.d. were doing this questionnaire" did you suggest it? >> as far as i know, no. i would say we are well aware that the minority has not wanted to conduc

bret baier? take it away. >> bret: this is a fox news alert, guys. i am bret baier in washington. the game of political chicken between democrats and republicans with the functioning in stake seems to be heading down to the preverbal wire tonight. essentially the government running out of money, a partial government shutdown. we will exclude that a little later. the house has already passed a short-term spending bill. but democrats in the senate and some republicans opposed that measure. and so right now where it stands there is no deal. although at this hour, the negotiations continue. there are some late indications that a shorter-term deal may be in the works to buy make time for a bigger negotiation. in the meantime, contingency plans are being named as our strategies for each party to blame the other in the court of public opinion. we have fox team coverage tonight. john roberts met in the white house, yet so far no deal. we start off on capitol hill with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel where things stand at this moment, changing moment to moment. >> facing a g

. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. welcome to washington. i am bret baier. president trump's former chief strategist steve bannon under fire tonight from president trump, a blistering statement this afternoon saying: when bannon was fired, "he not only lost his job, he lost his mind." after excerpts from a new book or published in which bannon called a meeting between trump campaign officials and a russian where "treasonous and unpatriotic." he warned a special counsel investigation looking into money-laundering could take down members of the president's family. the white house calls this book trashy tabloid fiction. the author says he was given unfettered access inside the early days of the trump white house and completed more 200 interviews. many of them on the record. kevin corke is following the developments. >> from a very chilly white house north lawn, i think it's a board to point out for the viewers steve bannon wasn't officially part of the trump campaign at the time of the now infamous meeting at trump tower. that has not stopped him from not only

bret baier over to you. >> bret: thanks. the market close out the week on another record high. president heads to camp david on the day a book on his administration hits store shelves and hillary clinton back in the cross hairs of a federal investigation. this is "special report." >> ♪ i am bret baier. even with the new investigation with a new book about trump. markets closed out the day on an all-time high again. the u.s. economy added 140,000 jobs last month. keepi keepingun unemployment at 4.1%. the dow closed up 220 points. the s&p 500 up 19. the nasdaq gained 59 points. we look at the gains in the shadow of these blistering allegations about the president. >> investors are only focussed on stock gains. off to their strongest start to a year since 2013. s&p 500 set to push 4 fresh records in 4 at a 17 jeer low. the pace of hiring slowed. fewer jobs were added to the u.s. economy. overall 2015 was one of the best job growth years on record. and for the trump administration, it's a welcome bright spot. if you look at the jobs added. that's february through december. that is

bret, he wouldn't go beyond that. >> bret: john roberts live on the north lawn. thanks. more on this with the panel. we learned this afternoon former white house chief strategist steve bannon has stepped down from breitbart news network. a stunning fall from political grace, days after a public break with his old boss, president trump. bannon had been executive chairman of breitbart since 2012. a lawyer for the founder of fusion gps opposition research firm says someone has been killed because of the publication of the trump dossie dossier. the revelation comes in a transcript of glen simpson's test money before congress and also suggests the government had a source inside the trump campaign. the transcript, coming out today without the blessing of the chairman. catherine herridge tonight. >> christopher steele went to the fbi wish -- saying trump could be blackmailed, striking a fight with chuck grassley. the fbi believes the information might be credible because they had intelligence that indicated intelligence. a human source from inside the trump organization. disput

bret baier. where are you? "special report," everybody. >> bret: he is going to kill this. thanks. this is a fox news alert. i've read by her in washington. there is considerable drama right now in the building behind me as you look alive at the house floor. there is real doubt on capitol hill that there are enough votes to pass an even temporary funding bill to keep the government fully open. we are awaiting a vote in the house on the measure to keep the government funded past tomorrow. the doubt is for the vote tonight in the house. they are counting heads. let alone the uphill battle counting the heads in the senate to get 60 votes. should tonight spill pass in the house, the house expect to devote sometime after p.m. eastern time. both sides are also working on their strategies for the blame game should the deadline passed without an agreement. where fox team coverage. john roberts at the white house with mixed messages coming from the president but we start off with the chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill with the very latest which changes by the min

i am bret baier. happy new year. the new year bring a new pressure from the trump administration on iran calling for the world to get behind the protests in that country that threatened to upset the regime. iran's supreme leader blames "enemies of the country" for the deadly uprising. the demonstrations that have lasted nearly weak are the biggest in the countries since a disputed election in 2009. provided an opening for president trump to hit the previous administration for what he called a lack of action. correspondent kevin corke is at the white house tonight with the latest on this story from the chilly north lawn. good evening. >> good evening. the president threatening new sanctions on the regime in tehran if they continue the crackdown on the uprising, that crackdown has cost more than 20 lives and more than several hundred people have been arrested. that threat happens as his administration is sticking with a common voice in support of the iranian people. >> it takes great bravery for the iranian people to u

. >> bret: thank you. this is a fox news alert. i'm bret baier in washington. you're looking live at the house for where a vote is underway to end the government shutdown. following a senate vote earlier in the day. we are told the house leadership does have the votes needed to pass it and send it to the president. the shutdown will be closed down in a matter of moments. very little is actually resolved. federal employees will go back to work and a government viewed by many americans as dysfunctional to begin with will resume functioning at least for a couple more weeks. senate democrats abandon their insistence on immigration legislation and agreed to end the three day shutdown today. this afternoon the full senate approved a stopgap spending bill, that's what the house is voting on right now. we could be back in the exact same situation during the first week of february. we have fox team coverage. brit hume has a look at what this means. peter doocy on capitol hill on dissension among democrats. john roberts at the white house with the president's role in all

. >> bret: deirdre, thank you. let's talk more about tonight. kellyanne conway is a counselor to the president. she joins me right now. thanks for being here. we just heard deirdre in new york talking about the economy, the markets today. for a president who touts the markets, when you see a big head like, is it a dangerous thing to tout the markets as much as he does? >> the president will recap that it's been a tremendous year for prosperity and security. there is no mistaking that the dow jones still over 26,000 made many record highs owing in large part to the centerpiece of his economic agenda, his tax cut but the regulatory framework getting online. not being so burdensome. energy development you've seen, i think striking at the heart of obamacare. 30 million americans still do not have health insurance post-obamacare. repealing the individual mandate is part of the tax plan. all that is leading to untold prosperity and not just in the wage increases and bonuses and capital investments you are saying from 275 companies and employers but al

over to our friend, bret baier. >> bret: thanks, dana. this is a fox news alert. i'm bret baier. coming to live tonight from the white house where president trump is putting the finishing touches on his first state of the union address. it figures to include heavy doses of optimism about the u.s. economy. even on a top down wall street today, republicans are ready to tear a tax law, a drastic cut regulations across the board, conservative judicial appointments, and the successful fight against isis so far. it will be a compilation of the presidents freshman euro compliments and an outline of his agenda moving forward. with a specific focus according to the president himself today on unifying a very divided country. chief white house correspondent john roberts is here to fill us in. >> bringing back memories. it's chilly. the theme for tonight's address is building a safe, strong, proud america. president trump will attempt to open an engagement across the aisle democrats. upbeat and uplifting is how white house officials are describing president trump's first state of the union a

bret, we will be sitting here again doing this not too long from now. seems like the american public is getting distaste for this and governing from crisis to crisis. >> bret: you're looking on the left side of the screen, senator cotton with folded arms, and senator cornyn talking, two of the conservatives on immigration that would be pushing back against something that gave up a lot of the headway. senator kennedy from louisiana, my favorite sound bite. >> shannon: he is a quotable guy, every week. >> bret: this sums it up. i'd like to go back to america but i'm stuck in washington. and i think that's the feeling for a lot of people at home, this place isn't working. no matter what party you support, it's not working. now they're gathered around mitch mcconnell, which you can schumer next to mitch mcconnell, we could be getting to a point where both sides are ironing out details. this is how the sausage is made, they're writing legislation on the senate floor to come up with the specifics on this continuing resolution. we are 14 minutes and 12 seconds

bret, if you'll stick around. careful, they control house senate and white house to make this as painless as they can for the public, that's going to factor in as well. people aren't going to be showing up and being denied services in important places. social security checks go out, all of those important things continue to happen. they aren't fog to put the public face on it like we saw in 2013 when it was a more adversarial government. >> bret: they will go go out of their way. and while they have the majority in the senate, they'll say they don't control it. they don't have the 60 votes. you may hear the president weigh in on that. earlier tonight, sarah sanders tweeted democrats can't shut down the booming trump economy. are they now so desperate they'll shut down the government instead. you heard this from the president, he thinks the luck of the tax cuts is part of the reason you get into the shutdown. he may have a point if the shutdown goes for some time. for example, at the irs, almost 56% of irs employee

bret baier, they could get this resolved over the weekend, they have to get to the 60 votes. >> bret: i think that's what the shuttling back and forth and the conversations that we saw on the floor was getting the date back to february 8, three weeks. and i bet that you get those republicans who voted against it to come back onboard. you get the five democrats. and they're going to keep voting on this until they get a deal. the five democrats are up for re-election in red states won by president trump. mitch mcconnell will have them vote 100 times if they can to point out how different they are from the democratic party steered by which you can schumer. couple of points. we are told the white house meeting was president, chief of staff john kelly, senator schumer and his chief of staff in the little room off the oval office, the study. "new york times" says they had cheese burgers. we heard from senator schumer's speech he put the border wall, the funding that the president wanted which according to kelly was $20 billion, on the table as a possible deal if the daca could go through. a

bret baier, they could get this resolved over the weekend, they have to get to the 60 votes. >> bret: i think that's what the shuttling back and forth and the conversations that we saw on the floor was getting the date back to february 8, three weeks. and i bet that you get those republicans who voted against it to come back onboard. you get the five democrats. and they're going to keep voting on this until they get a deal. the five democrats are up for re-election in red states won by president trump. mitch mcconnell will have them vote 100 times if they can to point out how different they are from the democratic party steered by which you can schumer. couple of points. we are told the white house meeting was president, chief of staff john kelly, senator schumer and his chief of staff in the little room off the oval office, the study. "new york times" says they had cheese burgers. we heard from senator schumer's speech he put the border wall, the funding that the president wanted which according to kelly was $20 billion, on the table as a possible deal if the daca could go through. a

bret baier, they could get this resolved over the weekend, they have to get to the 60 votes. >> bret: i think that's what the shuttling back and forth and the conversations that we saw on the floor was getting the date back to february 8, three weeks. and i bet that you get those republicans who voted against it to come back onboard. you get the five democrats. and they're going to keep voting on this until they get a deal. the five democrats are up for re-election in red states won by president trump. mitch mcconnell will have them vote 100 times if they can to point out how different they are from the democratic party steered by which you can schumer. couple of points. we are told the white house meeting was president, chief of staff john kelly, senator schumer and his chief of staff in the little room off the oval office, the study. "new york times" says they had cheese burgers. we heard from senator schumer's speech he put the border wall, the funding that the president wanted which according to kelly was $20 billion, on the table as a possible deal if the daca could go through. a

martha, bret?ks. >> let's go to fall river, massachusetts as we see joe kennedy, iii, has taken the podium. let's watch. >> thank you. [applause] thank you, thank you. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. it is an absolute privilege to join you all tonight. we are here in fall river, massachusetts, a proud american city. [applause] an american city built by immigrants. [applause] from textiles to robots, this is a place that knows how to make great things. [applause] the students are with us here this evening in the auto tech program at diamond regional technical school to carry on that rich legacy. [applause] but many american hometowns, fall river has faced their share of storms. but the people here are tough. they fight for each other. they pull for their city. it's a fitting place to gather as our nation reflects on the state of our union. this is a difficult task. many have spent the last year anxious, angry, afraid. we all feel the fractured fault lines across our country. we hear the voices o

to reopen the vote. >> bret: yes, but we're heading for a shutdown. >> shannon: in 52 minutes. >> bret: i think it's going to look different. past shutdowns, 2013, it was very visible. the obama administration decided they wanted it to be visible. they felt that the politics were working in their favor and that republicans would really feel the brunt. you remember, the veterans showing up at the world war ii memorial and getting turned away. and all of the press conferences about how bad it would be. today, mick mulvaney said it won't that be way. we thought it would be interesting to hear from somebody our viewers know very well, who is talking about this very thing, president obama back in 2013, charles krauthammer. >> the president is the one who carries the burden and the blame for the overall economy which is why he enjoys the shutdown. he enjoys it politically, because it hurts the republicans. and everything he's done, is to play to it and to show himself as the one who rides above these crazies on the other side. >> shannon: now the problem is the president and both houses of c

. >> reporter: students confronted biology professor bret weinstein in his classroom. weinstein, who identifies as politically left, had announced he was boycotting a decades-old event created by students of color at the school. now he was being accused of racism. >> if one spoke in a way that challenged the narrative that was being advanced, then one was portrayed as in particular, racist. >> resign! >> i'm not resigning! >> reporter: evergreen is a bastion of progressive values. classes offered include" alternatives to capitalism" an"" climate justice". yet in the days following the protests, students demanded the administration fire the professor and tackle what they call years of institutional racism. they barricaded campus spaces, wrangled with campus police, and stormed the president's office. >> it's not an accident that all of our administration is white. that's not an accident >> reporter: since the events, five faculty and staff have resigned their positions. that includes evergreen's chief of police, professor weinstein, and his wife heather heying, who is a

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>> martha: thank you, bret. good evening, everybody. tonight on the story, did the obama administration help keep this man, a top iranian terrorist alive? that's the reporting from kuwait that sparked a twitter war between former obama officials and foreign policy pundits. it is the second story along these lines in recent days. the other was reporting that the obama administration halted something called operation cassandra designed to stop hezbollah drug operations. why would they have done either as these reports suggest? the theory in both is that the obama white house was currying favor with the iranian regime in order to get the iran nuclear deal done. trace gallagher joins us tonight on the story with the back story. hey, trace. >> hey, martha, general kassam is the commander of iran's terrorist quds force. the general is also responsible for the deaths of more than 500 u.s. soldiers in iraq. the kuwait newspaper now claims that three years ago near damascus israel was on the verge of assassinating general kassam but the administ

bret baier did the interview.e'll talk to bret about that coming up next. >> sandra: steve bannon back on capitol hill. what congress hopes to learn during round two. plus there's this. >> every day we're keeping our promises and that includes our promises to our great, great veterans. >> bill: one of thinks biggest promises is helping veterans. so how is he doing so far? we'll talk to the v.a. secretary david shulkin joining us live later this hour on "america's newsroom." yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >> he and i talk constantly, weekends, early mornings, late at night. we talk constantly. he bounces ideas off me, i'm very proud of the fact that he respects my opinion. but again, he is the president of the united states. he has his own way of doing business. >> sandra: that was last night white house chief of staff john kelly on special report with bret baier talking about his relationship with preside

>> bret: he has his thumbs on his twitter account. in the past minute. "house of representatives needs to pass government funding bill tonight. it is so important for our country. our military needs it."

bret baier is actually here in new york today. greg and bret in the same building.t. >> bret: thanks. still no memo. president trump's chief of staff says the controversial surveillance document is coming but the fbi officially does not want you to see it. a train carrying republican lawmakers to retreat crashes in west virginia, killing one person. investigators are on the scene. plus we go back to michigan for heartland state of the union reactions. this is "special report" ." good evening. i am bret baier. we are coming to you tonight from fox news world headquarters in new york. our top story is about 250 miles outside washington, d.c. one person is dead and a lot of republican lawmakers are shaken up after a train carrying the

a special report anchor bret baier is just back from the white house after his lunch for the president. we just got in on the record quote from the president, i would like to read that and get your reaction. he said i want to see our country united. "it was divided, not just under

good evening from washington, i'm bret baier. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum.enter the house chamber like many before him sergeant at arms announcing the president of the united states to the speaker of the house and to the american people. >> bret: we have a full slate of people preview break down the president's speech and the democrats' response. but,

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of course our own bret baier, plays it down the middle. other than bret who else is out there? the executive branch and congress hide too much from us as well. to all those senators resisting the trump agenda on trade, immigration for instance, what are the big donors demanding? how has that changed your public position on these major issues, isn't that something you'd like to know? who writes these bills that are hundreds and even thousands of pages long, and are filled with all sorts of goodies inserted at the last minute, are they 24-year-old staffers other people, i mean, is there a collaboration of people who write this junk? this is the swamp at its worst, no wonder they don't want us to know what's going on. for the white house, i'd say open up as much as you can without hurting the delicate process of governing. be bfh, before f-hole meeting, was excellent. i hope we see more of that. the american people want facts and they want answers. not the big brushoff. especially from those entrusted to serve the public good whether it's the police, federal government, and public

i'm bret baier.days left before another down to the wire countdown on a possible government shutdown, president trump said democrats were being insincere in their efforts on one of the key issues. legal protection for young illegal immigrants who came to this country as children. this comes as the white house and republicans continued damage

bret baier over to you. >> bret: thanks. the market close out the week on another record high. book on his administration hits store shelves and hillary clinton back in the cross hairs of a federal investigation. this is "special report." >> ♪ i am bret baier. even with the new investigation with a new book about trump. markets closed out the day on an all-time high again. the u.s. economy added

bret baier, thank you so much. we will watch special report tonight. we are awaiting the white house briefing with sarah sanders. we will bring it to you live as soon as it starts. >> dana: oil trading is strongest level since the highs of may 2015. strong demand and tight supply are behind this uptick. but the reason uprising in iran sending waves of uncertainty throughout the markets. live from the floor of the new york stock exchange. happy new year. how is a situation in iran impacting traders today? >> i just wanted to say we certainly saw oil is one of the names in areas commodities overall that reacted to what's going on in iran and overall had such a strong start this morning actually surging to 60.45 a barrel. the unrest that has been ongoing in iran, there is some concern about exporting. that's obviously a big country for exporting overall. that's a story on energy and it has been in strength. right now, it has been pulled back. but it started this year above $60 a barrel and that obviously is a really big deal. >> dana: i wanted to ask abou

bret baier is the anchor of special report.body is talking about this morning. >> everybody in washington maybe not on the markets. the dow doesn't have a problem with this book. but you're right. we have seen the letter that the trump attorneys have sent to steve bannon telling him to cease and desist based on a non-disclosure agreement. it seems like it has a lot of substance and weight to it based on what he may have signed in the white house in his job there. and they are saying that legal action against bannon is imminent based on the disparaging remarks that have come out so far in this book. reportedly the lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher to get them to not publish the book next week. that seems like a long shot. the horse is out of the barn. the book is all over the place. and based on liable, if you are making that case, you would have to sit down and be deposed probably and answer questions in this book that obviously we've been talking about is very controversial. >> sandra: here is one of the

i am bret baier in washington.s of a fiery oval office meeting on immigration and the comment from the president disparaging some of the places those immigrants come from, a comment raising eyebrows in washington tonight as negotiations continue tonight on a government funding daca border security deal. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off from the north lawn. >> good evening. a number of lawmakers, republican or democrat, gathered with the president to discuss a possible fix to the deferred action for childhood arrivals

i'm chris wallace infer bret baier. details breaking at this hour about the extent of the trump administration's cooperation with special counsel robert mueller. one of the president's lawyers tells fox news the level of cooperation is unprecedented. this comes as it appears the special counsel may be shifting from the investigation of russian collusion the focusing more possible obstruction of justice. meanwhile, there are concerns about a so-called secret society of top cops committ

i am bret baier in washington.in depth with white house chief of staff john kelly in a few moments. first up my president trump sticking to his guns on immigration i made the threat of a government shutdown. federal government's had to shut down at least partially friday night if negotiations don't continue to come up with a temporary spending bill. going right down to the wire. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight with the latest on daca and how that fits in. >> good evening. tonight the white house is confident they can get a deal on a temporary spending measure and it is throwing its support behind the republican measure to come out of the house. on daca, the prospect of a deal is beginning to look very

. >> it's bret baier here. >> janice is here for you. >> bret, why are you so tall?nice: what the what? you actually do that? >> bret: this is the first time seen on television. janice: tell me what you are working on big state of the union tomorrow. >> yes, working on the show today. tomorrow at the white house. janice: what are you going to do after? >> bret: analyze what was said. janice: okay. >> then maybe go. janice: a drink or two? >> bret: yeah. janice: meet you at the bar afterwards. >> deal. janice: i'm here to take over d.c. >> this is like mr. smith goes to washington. instead janice dean goes to washington. janice: okay. there is no name on the door here. oh my gosh, i know that voice. >> oh my gosh, janice dean, ladies and gentlemen. mrs. america. [laughter] it's nice to see you. >> tucker: this desk belong tolls a series of little remembered so controversial presidents. i bought it in nondescript office building in d.c. i saw it in the elevator for 100 bucks. >> come on in. >> good to see you. >> nice to see you, too. janice: welcome. >> is this the bo