and then as e.j. said, what's happened basically is the president has become a captive of the 30% or 35% that make up his base, and not just that 35% of the american public which includes a substantial number of people who are for doing something positive for the d.r.e.a.m.ers and resolving these issues. but the most anti-immigration, nativist forces that include senator tom cotton, representative bob goodlatte, and the two people who seem to be acting as copresidents, steven miller and john kelley. and trump simply does not want to alienate that base. and he's blown up a deal that was right there for the making. he is unable, i think, to understand the whole nature of how you make deals in governance, which are not the same as making deals in real estate. >> and he has -- again, around this table, talking about an immigration bill full of love. he wanted it to be a good bill for these dream e.r.e.a.m.ers. and he's proudly nonideological. on many issues he says he's nonideological, he wants to make th

. >>> e.j.solutely devastated. >> so today i come in, and -- it. >> she gets home and she makes a horrible, frightening discovery. >> my husband, my kids -- >> i mean, something really bad happened, and it was done to her by the people she loves the most. >> they found out where i hide my snacks. >> oh. the good snacks, too. >> i mean, you know, you hide them because they are for you, just you, and that solitary moment by yourself. >> they were just eating them and eating them, and you know, to, to be exposed like that, i felt, i felt naked. i felt uncovered, like -- how did you find my spot that i hide? >> because they've been spying on you. you can't have that to enough either. >> i'm sorry, e.j., i've never been a mama but i was the kid that spotted them and it's like ahh! >> there's a level of violation that i can't explain. >> what do you hide from your children? >> we hide nothing. what are they going to go for my gluten free snacks? i'm good. i'm fine. >> e.j., she's not fine right now. >

." >> that's e.j.'two years ago we sat down with her. >> he got hit in the head. he was slumped over. >> reporter: just days after her grandson e.j. was shot in the head at 19. >> oh, god. oh, god. >> reporter: he was one of 771 chicagoans killed in 2016. b's an agony relived. 21 years before that her daughter was also murdered. in their memory she vowed to be part of a solution. >> no parent should have to bury their child. that's just... they don't go together. that's just not right. >> reporter: two years later, she's delivered on that promise, and not before my parents uses hiess as the tool. >> with chess, you think. you focus. i want to beat him. and i don't have to beat him with these. i can beat him with this, right here. >> reporter: she even drives kids to weekly lessons, and monthly matches with police officers that she hopes will build trust. >> how are you doing now against this officer? >> demolishing him. >> you're demolishing him? e laughs ) >> i'm sure every time he sees me, "oh, that's

>>t'there, that's e.j.'s dad -- >> reporter: we sat down with her two years e.j.ot hit in wa was shot in the head at 19. >> oh, god. oh, god. >> reporter: he was one of 771 chicagoans killed in 2016. it's an agony relived. 21 years before that, her daughter was also murdered. in their memory, she vowed to be part of a solution. >> no parent should have to bury their child. they just don't go together, it's not right. >> reporter: two years later she's delivered on that promise and "not before my parents" uses chess as the toll. >> with choose, you think, you focus. i want to beat him, and i don't have to beat him with these, i can beat him with this right here. >> reporter: she drives kids to weekly lessons and monthly matches with police officers that she hopes will build trust. >> how are you doing now against this officer? >> demolishing. >> you're demolishing him? >> i'm sure every time he sees me, oh, hey, that's officer mcclain, i beat him in chess. >> is this your grandson e.j.'s legacy? >> yes, it is. i know he's looking proud. go, nana. go, nana, y'all go

e.j. dionne columnist from "the washington post." ladies first, donald trump saying he would like to testify under oath. i'm wondering how much of a cloud does the russia gate scandal, the on going scandal hangover his state of the union? >> i think it's going to be a huge deal. not for his base, but certainly for the democrats and the world is watching. i think he has done a really great job of maintaining a consistent story. there was no collusion. sometimes journalists have to ask him, mr. president, the question was, where are you headed today? i do think this is going to be a huge saddle over the state of the union. i think our friends and enemies are watching. his aggressive language has put him very much on the world stage. i don't think he's going to be able to get away without having to address some of these huge scandals he's been involved in. >> 30 times in depositions when he sued you telling how much he earned or how much he's worth. does the fact of his reputation for not being honest and truthful, how much does that ha

-woman: e.j., party of three! e.j.! lemonis: let's look at the revenue.o to the sales tab. lemonis: $17 million of sales across the company. mike: right. lemonis: buena park -- $359,000 in profit. brea made $200,000. riverside made $70,000. rancho cucamonga lost $92,000. sacramento lost $300,000. five locations of which three of them make money. where is the cash to fund the loss coming from? -shauna: buena park. -lemonis: where else? -paul: brea. -shauna: riverside. lemonis: every location that makes money. mike: yeah. we're trying to keep it afloat. paul: yeah. lemonis: i want to summarize the debt, as i understand it. it's made up of bank loans, legal bills, the build-out loan for this place, taxes, and payables. you said that you -- man: ah, farrell's crowd, look this way! 'cause i got something very important to say! lemonis: so, the total amount of debt... [ drums beating ] you want to hear something funny? that's the reason people don't come back here. shauna: i know it is. lemonis: it's actually annoying. it can be done in a more elegant way. i do

every monday is party night in hula kula club in warsaw with e.j. dika it's all fun. i love dancing and retired people have to do something so i don't. think it's a way for people to come together. and love to dance and don't love each other as a matter of fact but for. the love and respect to each other very much more limited you can snuggle up if you're alone. forget you know each other ten years ago at a dance party like this study me for four months i paid her nowhere tention we danced on our own don't interrupt me sweetheart after four months we met again and since then. it's up he was fascinated by my red shoes. when d.j. bekah is behind the turntables in hula cooler the dancers really let loose. to say. what i'm spinning records i'm twenty years old maybe even younger. i like to play music and i love to watch people down. there give me a schmidt is quite a celebrity in poland she's known as a pensioner with strong opinions someone who makes a statement. and she certainly has the experience to back it up. you. think is really really good for you i don't think we

violent attacks on prison guards by inmates one of the hot spots in the protests is the flutie mirage e.j. only a paris it is the largest in europe and holds more than four thousand inmates it's also used to monitor potential or suspected terrorists and among them is. who faces trial over the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks with a staff protested their working conditions saying that puts them in danger clashes erupted with police outside the prison. i. i. look at ice today we've all come here for strike because discontent is spreading across fronts the crucial problem is the security of prison personnel top of that is the issue of islamic radicals but also kept our jails who are not isolated from other inmates i . don't know would you lucia it's dangerous for us to be around the inmates because for them we are everything they hate for them we are enemies by definition that. well with the blockades and demonstrations that spreading across franchise lipinski has been following the story for us. this is a nationwide strike of prisons across france with the union saying that around one hu

a and, yes, e.j. is completely right.'t saying we need a lot of, you know, really progressive -- the progressives of norway to come here, we need white people. that's what he was talking about. and, you know, when i knew donald trump in the '80s up through the '90s i actually hedged on the racism. what i thought about him was basically he just hated anybody who wasn't like himself. you know, that he couldn't associate. he hated the rich people who had more class than him. he hated everybody. then i had the pleasure while he was running for president of going through the files from his discrimination case where he was -- he and his father were blocking minorities from gaining apartments in their buildings, and the man's a racist. i mean, there's no two ways around it. and what we have here -- and, again, remember, i'm the one who took the longest to get there. >> yeah. >> what we have here is an absolute demonstration of the fact that he's a racist. and if observing reality stops us from having an immigration deal, well th

the wait times you took the words right off of this tweet from e.j. thinking the same thing he said there are lots of misconceptions about so-called chain migration one is after mexico the next four countries with the longest visa wait list due to family based immigration are the philippines india and china so a large part he says attacks against family based immigration are attacks against american families so one misconception in his view richard what is something else you think people don't realize about this so-called chain migration. you know i think when i think about it when the president was running he talked about make america great again everyone i think began to see what he really meant was to make america wait again there is no sure there's no surer path to making america right again or white or limiting family preference visas this is an avalanche of people you know coming over the border there are long wait times there are different way times depending on the relationship there we times depending on the age of the person if they're minor

. >> just days after her grandson e.j. was shot in the head at 19. >> oh, god, oh, god. >> he was one of 771 chicagoans killed in 2016. her daughter was also murdered. in their mentmory, she vowed toe a part of the solution. >> that just doesn't go together. it's just not right. >> two years later, she is delivered on that promise, and not before my parents uses chess as the tool. >> with chess, you think. you focus. i want to beat him. and i don't have to beat him with these, i can beat him with this right here. >> she even drives kids to weekly lessons, and monthly matches with police officers that she hopes will build trust. >> how are you doing now against this officer? >> dieppe m >> demolishing him. >> every time he sees me, he says, i beat him in chess. >> is this your grandson's legacy? >> yes, it is. i know he's looking proud. like go nana. go nana, y'all go. >> she lost her cherished grandson, but her family and her impact continue to grow. >> and we are looking at her proud as well. that is the overnight news fo

to e.j.'int, this sort of worship of president trump, this whole audience of one, steven miller and people from the administration go on television and they are not talking to the american people, and they are not saying things to bolster the democracy and defend the administration in terms of what its trying to do in terms of pushing or advancing american ideals at home or abroad, they are talking to the president because they know the president is listening. you read the tweet that the president tweeted out. it was proof. the president was watching steven miller. think about that. you have the authoritarian aspects of this, but you have people and you have a president who desperately needs praise, needs to be validated by the people who work for him, and all the while the american people from journalists, god bless us, for standing up to that kind of treatment from somebody in the administration, and other people who are watching and thinking what is going on with the white house, with the a

e.j. velazquez in tracy. tweets from as far south as san jose and as far north as petaluma.eep sending us your reaction, #abc7now. >>> top surfers from around the world are on alert because the window is officially open for the mavericks challenge surf contest. for the first time in its 19-year history women will be allowed to compete. maverick was not held last year. you may remember the previous organizers filed for bankruptcy. this year's window runs february 28th and surfers will get 72 hours' notice to get to that contest. well, she juggles many titles, celebrity chef, author, model, tv host, and restauranteur. >> there's one title ayesha curry doesn't want to carry. >> one of the titles you didn't say is nba wife. >> that's not really a title. >> no, i don't think i'll ever call myself that. i feel like, i mean, i don't think my husband would call himself a chef's wife. >> that's right, ayesha curry. tell her. never lose yourself inside of your marriage her mother told her. she says she's happy she has been able to find that balance. take care of her family. bravo. >>

the director of the middle east forum, and e.j. who is the head of our israel victory effort in washington. we're building the political base for it and we're building the intellectual base by giving talks like this. having studies, commissioning studies. bringing this up as an alternative to the existing paradigm. let me emphasize that it is an approach. it is not a number of policies. we're not saying two state or not two state. i have my own opinions. but that's not the point. the point is that israel needs to convince the palestinians that it's over. the conflict has been resolved by the fact that israel is a flourishing, powerful state. the palestinians have a very oppressive and weak policy that isn't working. it's a long-term effort. the goal is not to change policy in the next few months. but it is with time to put something else on the table that fits the historical pattern. you don't end wars through negotiating. think of vietnam. it didn't end through negotiations. it ended by the north vietnamese army coming in and taki

. >> e.j., elton john. we're still sitting here. good morning, america.s left for washington he'll be anchoring our live coverage from the state of the union. >>< this morning we have great shopping advice for everyone out there who has ever gotten a gift card. $27 billion in gift cards were exchanged over the holidays. but if you're stuck with one, you won't use it, becky worley is here to save us all. she's going to show us how to turn them into real cash. didn't like. >> that's true. >> i'm guilty. i get gift cards and they just sit in the drawer. amy is looking at me like give them to me. >> i'm sitting here. i'm ready it take them off your hands. >>> first, though, more on the president's first state of the union address. let's go back to cecilia vega with more on all that. good morning again, cecilia. >> reporter: good morning to you. i'm told the president will spend much of his day on last-minute speech prep. very few people in the inner circle have seen a full copy of this speech. we do know he is not expected to talk about the russia investigati