chris stirewalt, this is not consequence free, but i have to ask you.f president trump and senator schumer come up with the deal, wouldn't that just be the cover everyone needs to get this done? and to stop worrying about it? pgh >> look, if they had an anon anonymous vote or if they had a blind australian ballot in congress on a fundamental deal here that even included amnesty for these young adults who are brought to the net states as minors, it would pass with 80% of the vote. that's where it is. of course members of both parties are afraid of their bases. they are afraid if they come to a compromise, they will be in big trouble. trump has said in the past, he said i will take the heat. i will take the heat. if he's really willing to take each, he can get to a deal. i don't know though how much heat schumer can take. i don't know how much credibility he really has with the rank and file in his party, or if he came out with a deal, whether it would just hurt him and they try to pull him down. >> dana: i think if president trump said, we got a deal her

sap san many thanks to chris stirewalt. i told you he was going to bring the heat. >> sandra: it was a fun hour. >> katie: he didn't bring barbecue. >> chris: i do have bacon in my pocket. that's just for me. >> sandra: leave it on my note. we appreciate you being here, chris. we will see you tomorrow live at noon eastern. here is harris. ♪ ♪ >> harris: let's get this hour started. a move by a top democrat aimed at putting pressure on president trump's plans on immigration as we go outnumbered overtime. i'm harris faulkner. the white house is calling it outrageous that a federal judge has temporarily blocked president trump's decision to end the obama era dreamers program. the ruling by the san francisco based judge coming just hours after president trump hosted a bipartisan group of lawmakers to hammer out an immigration deal. the president insists that any deal must include his border wall. homeland security chief kirstjen nielsen was in the room yesterday. >> the president has a passion for the daca recipients. he has been clear on that. he wants to find a perman

chris stirewalt is back with us. us about bob dole as a man who served his country in so many ways and is getting this honor today. >> we are reminded of the story from his senior staffers about dole kept a cigar box in his desk drawer when he was majority leader and throughout his senate career where they put nickels and dimes in his home town in kansas where local citizens paid money to help his recovery from the injuries he sustained during the italian campaign. talking about this is a guy who embodies the greatest generation concept of. he sacrificed greatly, mightedly during the second world war and came back. with the help of his community, put together a remarkable career. it is something that he was always known for, but now in hindsight we see an even starker greater relief. >> dana: what about him as a person on capitol hill that tried to get deals done? in some ways seems like from a bye gone era, where everybody was polite. >> well, he could be tart. he could be -- >> dana: he had a way with words. >> he

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chris stirewalt, great to see. new reaction tonight of president trump getting a clean bill of health from the same doctor who examined past presidents. doesn't seem good enough to kill a key talking point for some. you go to vancouver for a report on trumped diplomacy. allies from the korean war looking for new solutions to the age-old problem. illegal immigrants on trial tonight. what's one of them sat inside the courtroom today will shock you. full report i had >> shannon: as the daca deal versus government shutdown debate rages, the real-life toll illegal immigration can take with front and center in the sacramento courtroom today. in a trial it's getting off to a chaotic start, trace gallagher joins us. >> much like the man who shot and killed kate steinle, this man was part of the revolving door of illegal immigration, arrested for drugs multiple times, deported multiple times and yet in october of 2014, he and his wife were sitting in a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a sacramento motel 6 when deput

chris stirewalt, you really were a worthy opponent. yson. >> tucker: that concludes this week's "final exam." be sure to pay as much attention to the news as shannon bream does and tune in each thursday to see if you can beat her. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: that passed quickly. unfortunately. we're out of time. tune in every night at 8:00 p.m. to the show that is the sworn enemy of lying pomposity, smugness and especially group think not a easy thing these days. good night from washington. sean hannity is next live from new york. all right, sean. >> sean: busy news night tonight. welcome to hannity. we do have major breaking news hillary clinton is under investigation. the daily beast reporting that the department of justice has now reopened the investigation into clinton's email server. and john solomon also reporting tonight the fbi is now opening a brand new investigation on the clinton foundation, specifically the fbi is seeking to determine whether or not any pay for play occurred while hillary clinton was serving as you

chris stirewalt weighs the winners and losers from the shutdown. all of that and more on a "fox news @ night" live from jerusalem. ♪ hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream coming to you live from jerusalem. no greater friend than israel, that is how israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is reacting to vice president mike pence's a historic visit tonight. the vice president's middle east trip is continuing today. it is tuesday, already in the holy city, where he will visit the western wall in a short while and had to the world holocaust remembrance center. these are deeply symbolic moves for israelis, a day after the vice president announced that the u.s. is fast tracking plans to move the embassy to jerusalem. we've got an exclusive interview with the vice president and exclusive reaction from the palestinians top negotiator, saeb erekat. but first, we'll take you back to washington where lawmakers have apparently struck a deal ending it. a government shutdown. team coverage tonight, rich edson on the latest from the white h

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. >> shannon: chris stirewalt, joins us live. happy new year. it is known far and wide. >> you still have your new year's eve bedazzled pen. >> shannon: i do. thank you, mom. >> back to the big important meeting tomorrow. chuck, nancy, mitch, and paul. >> this is reflective of some success congress had and on punting the stuff into the next year. when the president tried to do the summit, not so hot. this is good in the sense that it's congress taking the lead on the things congress actually does. this isn't the president's job. coming up with solutions on how to keep the government running, what do you do about unfunded obamacare liabilities. what do you do about these other issues that they, these are housekeeping issues in a real sense. how they sort these things out doesn't need presidential moderates to start. >> shannon: one of the things is daca. this six month time limit is going to be upon us. we are getting there. you know what the president has to say. he says the democrats are doing nothing for daca. "democrats are doing nothing for

let's break it down with chris stirewalt. to analyze what we have just heard.et's play a little bit of what the attorney general said about the president. >> he favored the wall. he has fought for it all the way through the campaign and in congress and he never said he was it was going to go from coast-to-coast. he never said every inch of the border needed a wall. i think he's been quite consistent. >> shannon: the president said "i have been consistent." >> well, no, but... >> shannon: that's what he said. >> i know he said that. >> the question is how much is the president going to penalize kelly for saying a true thing. john kelly set a true thing. it would've been laughable if he said something else. this guy is the chief negotiator. this is the person on whom the prospect on government shutdown, it all rests on john kelly. he's the guy republicans and democrats look to hear he's a go-between. you've got to trust this guy. he said yeah of drum, he didn't understand everything as it existed in the world when he started running for president. of course. what

chris stirewalt editor of halftime report. all that said, chris, the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia tweeted this. pundits made a flat prediction of a democrat tsunami in the november midterm. quite possibly given trump but also premature. let 2016 be a cautionary tale. overconfidence about an election ten months away can be deadly. your thoughts? >> mm-hmm. dr. sabato knows from where he speaks because he got roasted for a very, very, very strong call for hillary clinton right on the eve of the 2016 election. so he remembers the pain. it is good for us always to be circumspect, right? both as journalist, them as politicians. it is good to not take these things too much for granted because what we do, what they do, how the coverage goes, will say a lot about the shape of, is this a wave? is it a ripple? is it whatever? there's a lot of football yet to be played. >> dana: the nrcc chairman, the chairman that's in charge of the house side for republicans, he said this. our goal from day one of t

chris stirewalt has the answers. ♪ >> shannon: hello and welcome to "fox news @ night."'m shannon bream in washington. new tonight, three major stories breaking at this late hour. "the new york times" reporting that president trump ordered special cancer robert mueller fired. he reportedly backed down after the white house counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive. we have brand-new insider information about what really happened. there are also late breaking developments tonight on the missing text messages now found between fbi agents peter strzok and place a page. the white house has released a potentially legislative finding controversial new immigration plan. team coverage tonight, doug mckelway on daca under new gambit by president trump already firing up the right. we begin as chief national correspondent ed henry working the phones on the mueller story and breaking some news himself. good evening. >> great to see you. the phone is still being worked and we are breaking tonight we had a source close to the white house telling fox "the new yor

chris stirewalt is here to iron it all out.ood to see you tonight. >> is hoping it was going to be somebody else. i didn't know i had to answer all of that. >> shannon: there are many questions but let me get you a little set appear to t you up. we have a couple of senators tweeting about this. we have senator tom cotton saying this, republican. democrats are not threatening to shut down the government if they don't get amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. let's see how that works out for them, especially in places like west virginia, indiana, missouri, north dakota and montana. the other side of the aisle, senator brian schatz of hawaii says nobody wins the government shutdown battle but i do know one thing, if it happens it will be because of bipartisan compromise was rejected by republicans. anyone who says they want to avoid a shutdown should be asking for a vote on that compromise. my understanding is this is a compromise brought to the president that they were so insulted by. >> he should be careful with the 280 ch

let's bring in chris stirewalt. i think states shy three times really fast you might have a mistake like i almost did. >> deregulated. >> dana: what do you make of the changes today? i think that the republicans, i think from the national republican senatorial committee they feel good ab taking back some seats from democrats in states where trump won. this makes things a little tougher for mcconnell and president trump in trying to get legislation passed this year. >> to be fair, that's what they are paid to say. we expect democrats to say they're in a wonderful position to win back the senate. the truth lies somewhere in between the two. reality for republicans is it's going to be a tough climate. it's not going to be the year they hoped it would be. the year they hoped it would be is because the defendants are defending three times as many republicans are, the gop would be able to pick up some seats, make that margin more comfortable. now we're looking at can the republicans hold at 51, maybe get to 52, or can dem

chris stirewalt, thank you so much. >> happy friday. >> dana: fox news alert, revising the plan for theran nuclear agreement. keeping the current deal alive while lying out a strategy to deny iran a path to nuclear weapons forever. live at the state department, the president has issued an ultimatum to european countries? >> he has coming on the way that this is going to work as the president once changes come of the changing from european -- to the nuclear deal, if he does not get them, then he is going to leave the iran nuclear deal, and on the next 120 days or after. this is the way that the deal works pretty signed in 2015, the united states, european countries coming iran entered into an agreement. every 120 days or so the administration would lift sanctions against iran and suspend them. that would hold the deal together. the president has done that here, but he is warning that this is the last time he is going to do it unless the european governments agreed to make changes. they want stronger enforcement according to the administration. they want no sunset clause. this deal does e

. >> shannon: chris stirewalt, fox news politics editor, joins us now.t's past your bedtime. >> we are rocking and rolling. >> shannon: i'm glad you're here. infrastructure is one thing that the president can get some bipartisan movement on. we got different reactions from democrats. we will let you react to them. senator dick durbin says "of the president chooses to follow through on his prepared remarks giant, he will find democrats ready to work with him on lowering prescription drug pric prices, and passing meeting full paid family leave, and protecting dreamers. "the top democrat in the senate, chuck schumer says... is this a little good cop-bad cop? >> i think you see the role of humor has got to give democrats in line, so they can vote and stick together, and the minority, unity is so crucial. but dick durbin's job is to cut the deal with trump, that is what he is therefore, cutting video trump. i'm here, i'm ready, let's do business. >> shannon: did you expect to hear more bipartisanship in this speech? this is something the white house told us w

chris stirewalt, how are you doing, sir, good day to you. we'll see whether we get a dilly dilly at the end of this week here. where do you believe it stands right now on the votes? >> well, it depends on how many times republicans want to shoot themselves in the foot on this one. and they have a lot of bullets in their gun. let's be very clear and very simple about this. which is republicans in the house have a majority. they can -- they should be able to pass whatever they want. if they can't pass this thing. the president is attacking it on twitter today. attacking the plan that paul ryan has to keep the government from shutting down for 30 days because president says the funding for children's health insurance shouldn't be included in the short term fix. it should be in a long term fix. if they can't pass that today or tomorrow, the government will shut down. they will do it to themselves. >> bill: there is this idea you get a vote in the house. peter was referring to it. a clean vote on the budget. the military spending is out of there.

joining me now, chris stirewalt. obviously this is a major blow to the president's momentum talking about immigration. but do you personally believe saying something like this makes the president racist? >> good news about me and my job, it doesn't matter what i personally believe. itch no idea the quality or condition of any other human being's heart. that's between them and their maker. jesse: tino personally because i have spent some time with the president, and i don't believe he harbors racist views in this heart. he has a big heart and i think he wants what's best for america. do you think it's fair for other networks to label him as a racist? >> i don't watch cnn. jesse: i'm sorry you had to see those clips at the top. >> chris wallace gave a great speech where he talked about the dangers of getting the press broken by trump. when trump says and does outrageous things and things that are inappropriate or wrong, that the press uses this as license to misbehave themselves. and if you look at the glee, the child-

for more on all of this we go to chris stirewalt. orning, chris. >> i don't think of you as beastly a bit. either of you. >> sandra: thank you for that. chris, can you weigh in on the president saying he is not only willing to sit down with robert mueller but he is looking forward to it, and under oath? >> well, it doesn't surprise me in the least. the president has been absolutely plain, absolutely clear from the beginning that neither he nor his campaign had any improper contacts with anybody outside of these united states or affiliated with anybody with the kremlin or any wrongdoing that way. i'm not surprised he is saying the logical thing yeah, i'll talk to them and do it under oath and i'll do it that way. it is telling that his lawyers immediately say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. what his lawyer -- all his lawyers are worried about is a perjury trap. that they know something they can try to get the president to lie about on the record and then they'll have him caught much like they did with mike flynn, much as federal prosecut

chris stirewalt, you look at numbers, you crunch numbers and assess the data.f the mid-terms were held today, what position would the democrats be in. so if the election were held today the gop would almost not only most of certainly lose the house, but lose it by a big fat margin. i wouldn't be surprised if they could get double the 34 seats they need. but the election isn't going to be held today. it's going to be held in november. it won't turn into a good year for republicans. it's the mid-term for a first-term president which historically turns into a win for the party not in power. we have a lot to see as it relates to that. kennedy: in any given week, the world can have its hair set on fire and the next day everyone is kanoodling with the president again. what could happen to put the president in a better position? is a booming economy enough? >> the president has to get his act together. too many unforced errors, too many stupid controversies. the chaos is creeping back in at the white house and it's the president's doing. it's not steve bannon's fault

chris stirewalt's fox news politics editor. ris, welcome. >> i don't know if i should be talking about number twos tonight. >> shannon: that's not where you want to go. >> [laughs] >> shannon: what would that we are going to be talking about is the substance of whether they are inching closer to a deal and i we have this controversial comment from the president. it's taking up all the oxygen. today, you were saying that maybe he was starting to learn how to get things right. >> first, from a point to be of substance, what the president said is going to make a government shutdown more likely. democrats are going to be more out for blood. we knew that there was going to be a certain point for the democratic base had a backlash against these negotiations at all. getting caught negotiating with trump and other republicans is not a good look for a party whose base basically wants trump unprecedented as soon as possible. so this comment will intensify that as possible, and make it less palatable for democrats to be negotiating this. s

byron york and chris stirewalt standing by. we begin with kevin corke to kick off the hour. >> you are right on the money. final preparations underway for this evening's address right here at the white house. now you may have heard yesterday during the afternoon at some point the president did rehearse over in the map room and we're told he will once again rehearse here at the white house. even as speech writers continue to tweak some of the finer points of this evening's address. the president will focus on five major points, jobs and the economy, immigration, infrastructure, national security and, of course, trade. also attending tonight's speech as guests of the first lady are the parents of a pair of girls who were chased down and unfortunately victims of the vicious gang ms-13. these folks are elizabeth alvarado and evelyn rodriguez and the parents of nisa and kayla, the girls killed by the gang. the speech will not only talk about the effort to protect americans and promote our values, it will focus on the idea that ameri

chris stirewalt, great to see you. the tax cuts and jobs act became law eight days ago, several major utility companies that will benefit from the lower taxes are passing savings along to consumers. washington's own pepco are among the energy suppliers claiming they will cut rates for hundreds of thousands of customers across the nation. interior secretary is backing away from calls to drill along florida's coast after meeting with rick scott. he supports the governor's position that florida is unique in its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver. for speculation, he could face a senate bid in this year's midterm. the first talks in years between north and south korea, and report the u.s. is claiming to give kim jong un on the blood he knows. trace gallagher talks about what that means and what doesn't steve bannon's latest fall from grace means to the trump revolution? to bake big guests coming up, the head of the border patrol union tells whether he thinks we need a wall and congresswoman martha

joining us now, chris stirewalt. we make of this? a lot of people think this has died out. any talk of imitating the clintons are hillary clinton. >> both things can be true. you would know this. we have probably 98, 97 districts, federal district court to the united states. each of them has united states attorney. the one in the eastern district of arkansas has been a hotbed of this kind of stuff for decades. where the clintons have been and where the clintons i'm gone, controversy and scandal has always followed. the u.s. attorney out there is named cody highland, i believe his name is. he's a mike huckabee veteran. he was working for mike huckabee when the clinton machine was trying to take him out as governor. old blood feud stuff. deep down arkansas delta business. what you see is this u.s. attorney's office, this fbi field office has the -- whatever the justice department wants to do our base it has to be approved in washington, but if this prosecutor out in little rock wants to take good look at with the clintons between what was going on, i don't think there's proba

chris stirewalt weighing the odds of a shutdown.ng what could be a stunning plan. a stick of the department of justice is reviewing what avenues might be available. >> shannon: the trial of an illegal alien facing charges in the death of two california deputies kicks off with chaos.

spent the weekend in florida in naples with my fox friends including bret baier, shannon bream, chris stirewaltbret baier's charity. children's national hospital in washington, d.c., where his son had over 14 surgeries and procedures since he was born with a heart defect. we went down there. 330 people at the event and we raised $547,000. 300,000 more than last year. the people that bid on to come to see "the five." i promise they would get a picture with kimberly guilfoyle. it was sponsored by fox friends down there. >> jesse: great football weekend. my philadelphia eagles hung on in a nail-biter. they won 15-10. matt ryan mrs. julio jones in the back of the end zone, preserving the victory. were going to be advancing to the nfc champion ship game on sunday. also on the other side, in the afc, this is probably one of the greatest finishes in playoff history. case keenum hits stefon diggs, walk off touchdown. never happened before in playoff history. we are going to meet the vikings in the nfc championship game, and we are going to win and go to the super bowl. >> greg: that's really, really ex

for more on this, let's bring in a fox news editor and the host of halftime report, chris stirewalt. it is unreal television. when we play for you the author. we finally heard from him, michael wolff was on with savannah guthrie this morning on the today show talking about the fact that he does have notes. speak what you have recordings of some these interviews and some of these conversations? >> i work like every journalist works. so i have recordings, i have notes. i am certainly absolutely in every way comfortable with everything i've reported in this book. >> dana: 's right before when kevin started talking, got the tape from the president, he was discussing that there is a dispute. the white house is saying that wolff never got a sit down with the president. wolff said i was there for three hours. is it possible that because there wasn't a lot of coordination with this author being in the west wing of the president might've been chatting with him and not realizing that what was an interview? >> steve is in the only one who's sloppy here. there should be no shock in this book. wh

. >> shannon: let's bring in politics editor and author of the half time report, chris stirewalt.omorrow night is the state of the union. let me ask you this, do you think this comes up in a speech at all or do you think he does not touch the situation? >> to a certain degree he might be obliged to stick up for his own justice department because now we come to the point where the attacks are so constant on the justice department. these are the president's appointees. we know he doesn't like jeff sessions. he doesn't like the way jeff sessions has done his job. >> shannon: he didn't like the recusal. >> it stuck with him. i don't know how much longer jeff sessions really can stay on as attorney general given the way in which republicans in congress and the president basically say the justice department is a mess, the fbi is a mess, everything is a garbage fire disaster. the president could go a long way towards getting past this part of it by saying christopher wray, our team at the justice department, our team at the fbi, great people, doing a a great b independent and strong. if

let's bring in chris stirewalt, editor of halftime report. that was big news today.we've all known trey gowdy, he loves the law, he loves government, but he doesn't love politics. he's made a decision, he's going to return to the judicial side of things. >> i don't know whether he doesn't love it. >> dana: that's what he said. >> well, i mean, that's what you gotta say when you're in politics. he's too good at it. he's been too good at it to hate it completely. i take him at his word when he says he's leaving because he wants to go back on the judicial side of things. who do you think will be the most sought after attorney in south carolina when he gets home? he'll be the number one defense attorney in south carolina before they can get the yellow pages out. >> dana: this comes on a day after the president's state of the union. i wanted to have you look at two things. the republicans have been way down in the generic ballot. but this just in from monmoth, a poll that we take seriously. showing republicans are only two points down in the generic ballot, which basicall

. >> shannon: ed henry and chris stirewalt layout what's ahead. >> let's not turn women into snowflakessecretary of state and national security visor condoleezza rice broke barriers over and over in her rise to political stardom. now she

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chris stirewalt, fox news politics editor, and editor of the halftime report for analysis.reat to see you on this tuesday night. >> dun, dun, dun. [laughter] >> shannon: now that we know that jeff sessions has spent hours, and we are hearing a push for some specific questions they have for the president, as well. >> if the president thinks that he will get out of this without having -- so the total victory for trump would be getting away with just doing a paper statement, that he and his lawyers can sit down in a room, maybe even without him for some of it to craft responses -- you know, counselor, to navigate or circumvent the questions that mueller will put for him. the loss for trump in this case represents that he gets pushed into a place where he is going to have to sit down and be deposed. we know from prior depositions of trump and the private sector, those can be interesting spaces. they want to keep of being actually interviewed. they will try to find some compromise in between the two that probably looks like a "no" under oath, let's have a talk, let's be clear an

editor of halftime report chris stirewalt joins us now. let's start with a story out of "the new york times" about this question of whether president trump considered firing robert mueller if doug mcgann said he was going to resign if he was forced to do that. i guess at this point, everyone is going to have to say, the investigation continues, so is that really that big a deal? >> it's significant. it's always good to know. we here in washington, as you know, though you have escaped the city, we live for these more sells, these little crumblets that come out, the scoop, the palace intrigue, the inside this, the inside that. what matters more than anything, your take away top line is, donald trump wanted to -- this was no secret at the time. the white house denied it. donald trump very much wanted to fire robert mueller and try for this sort of, the night of the long knives like nixon had. start slashing and burning his way through the justice department and do all this stuff. he was advised against it, whether don't mcgann said he'd quit