joining me now is debby dingle.e way, comes from michigan, a swing state that voted for president trump. happy new year. >> chuck, happy new year to you but it is not really happy. >> it has not started, it feels like we have not wrapped up the business of 2018 and in your case that is literal. the president taking the national emergency declaration off of the table, are you relieved or not? the first thang ing we did, i h been talking all week to people, but when you sit with people not getting their paycheck today and how scared they are, when they have a real word discussion. you're going to see it happen across the country, i hope to god we see a change next week in attitud attitudes. >> let me play something to you from president trump today. he had a message for democrats, let me ask you about it on the other side. >> this is how i ask the democrats to come back to washington and to vote for -- money for the wall, the barrier, whatever you want to call it, it is okay with me, they can name it want. >> okay, so

debbie dingle is here along with richard trumpka.e pointing to a flat opening this morning amid all of the uncertainty over china trade, earnings, it's an enormous week this week. this after stocks finished to the downside he yesterday on the china growth fears, weak guidance from nvidia and caterpillar and worries about what happens with china and the u.s. there's conversations happening tomorrow. joiningjoining us right now is d kudla. thank you for being here. >> good morning, maria. maria: we've bun talking about what a -- we've been talking about what a week this is. fourth quarter earnings are coming out. we have a jobs report coming out on friday. brexit discussions, the vote today. u.s./china discussions tomorrow. a fourth quarter gdp number. how do you want to invest with all of this? >> i think investors should be looking at stocks right now that they want to own. we've been invested through the past month has been very good for stock investors. 13% rise through friday from the lows of december 24th. and that's in both grow

the rest of them, debbie dingle and everyone else, has said -- we all agree basically on the premise prelet's get together and figure out a way to solve this. >> harris: i know from watching your show each at 7:00 p.m., "the story," the evil talked with a lot of people feeling the pain. can you talk to me about the pressure that has been on this white house? the president said he would on the shutdown and he has not since said anything differently. he is coming out now, we think, with some sort of announcement about the pup don't a partial government shutdown. maybe it's about a deal to get us to go forward. who knows. but what kind of pressure is on this white house? >> martha: etiquettes are interesting. you take someone, president trump, who is not a politician. by nature of his background. this is the way he has always operated in his business. you push the negotiation to the breaking point, and you stand your ground. that's where his instincts are. that's what has been sort of guiding him, i think, through this period. but now he's in a pretty tough position. because government

yesterday on the program i spoke with michigan congresswoman debbie dingle.crats' position today. what's the of position in terms of wall funding? because they may very well say here $5 billion towards border security, not a dime toward a wall. >> if people are really working together, that may not happen. there may be money if there are appropriate places for a wall or a fence. maria: is there a movement within your party do you think among your colleagues that they feel like yes, some money should go for an actual barrier. >> what i hear among my colleagues is let's go into a room and do something that makes sense. maria: this is happening as federal debt reached an all-time high. joining me right now is senator david perdue. thank you for being here. >> good morning. maria: what's your take on the these negotiations these next three weeks? >> i love what the congresswoman judd says, the democrat from the house. i hope we get to a reasonable solution here. it's there to be had. the last four presidents have built some form of border security, border barrier