jeffries' stock rises as pelosi's successor.he newly elected democratic caucus chairman could one day be first avenue can american speakers if he can get past hurdles in his own party. there's a lot of talk about 2020, which wing of the democratic party, but there's another 2020 position that would open up which is speaker of the house. are you interested in that job. do you want to make some announcements here with these pastries? >> i'm focused on the job that we have right now to do as democrats and it's an honor to be -- have elected as the next house of the democratic caucus. nancy pelosi has a phenomenal track record of success. i look forward to serving with her. >> we have a government shutdown we're dealing with still. yesterday, incoming acting chief of staff nick mulvaney said the white house could come off the $5 billion demand and they would be willing to take something over the $1.3 billion or $1.6 billion that has been offered. do you have any idea what number they would be willing to take at in point? >> well, th

so that's essentially the level that i'm looking at since i think it's highly unlikely the jeffries target of 450 is where it's going to get. when i looked at it earlier it was significantly higher on the back of price target raise it was trading around 370 at the time the levels i was looking at trading at that level was the 375 calls in january you could spend about $24 for for those and sell the 420s against it for about $7.60 you're spending $17. this spread ended up the day keeper because the stock ended up lower than the levels where it was when i was looking at this and i think the critical thing to think about here is do you think the shorts could get squeezed out do you think the stock is holding above the 360 level when the converts come due in march if you go and inclined to make a bullish bet this is the way to do it. i kind of feel like it's a binary situation either they hold above that level and it could go higher or they fail and they are coming up with the $900 million and it could go lower. >> so, what do you think, dan. >> well, i think targeting that level is an interes

. >> joining us now is congressman hakeem jeffries. he'll serve as the chair of the house democratic caucus. he's part of the new democrat leadership. congressman, you heard the cvp commissioner saying they're overwhelmed at this point. he's asked congress for funds to improve conditions and medical care for children. are democrats prepared to approve that? >> we're prepared to provide additional funding for enhanced fencing, technology, drones, satellites, lighting, censors, cell phone towers and the things the experts have indicated will improve border security. in addition, we want to enhance the ability of our officials at the southwest border to conduct themselves in a humane fashion and to avoid the type of tragedies that happened with jakelin and felipe. that was unacceptable, unamerican and unconscionable. we need to do bet. >> does the federal government bear any of the blame? >> the trump administration bears blame to the extent the buck stops at the top. at the end of the day, you had two young, innocent children die in amer

hakeem jeffries, the incoming chair of the democratic caucus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for four minutes. mr. jeffries: i thank the distinguished gentlelady from texas, sheila jackson lee, for yielding and for her leadership on the criminal justice reform effort over the years. i also want to thank all of the members of the house judiciary committee, in particular, chairman goodlatte, as well as jerry nadler, of course, cedric richmond and karen bass, who were phenomenal assets to this effort. let me thank my good friend, doug collins, who has been a tremendous force of nature as it relates to making sure that this congress did something about overcriminalization in america from beginning, middle, and end. it's been an honor to work with you on a wide variety of things in this great body, but in particular, on this effort to break the back of the prison industrial complex. i thank doug collins for his tremendous leadership. in 1971, president nixon declared drug abuse public enemy number one. it was the b

supported by president donald trump, cosponsored by the republicanan congressman, democratic congressman jeffries of new york and the republican house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte of virginia. i didn't like the original version of the bill because i thought we could do better and we should add criminal sentencing to prison reform than we did something that's rare. we sat down, democrats and republicans and worked it out. we came up with a bipartisan bill by combining the two. the revised first step act is a bipartisan sentencing prison reform bill. it's supported by president trump and the stakeholders supporting the bill. the largest group of prosecutors in america we have police and prosecutors and the civil liberties union and the passing our bill would reduce the sentences in a targeted way. when the harshest penalties should apply the bill also put in place a recidivism program that would facilitate the rehabilitation and reentry for senator cornyn just a few minutes earlier. let me tell you a story about this man here. in the year 1994 at the age of 24, he was given a mandator

ambassador jeffries, our special envoy to syria, a good man who was ambassador in iraq, two days ago announced a commitment to stay until we got this right. i don't know how this decision was made. it literally came out of left field. it has rattled the world. you see north korea flexing their muscle now. why don't you leave south korea before you do a deal. i can promise you, that everything that happened in iraq is going to happen in syria unless we change course. i can promise the president if you will reevaluate this decision, unfortunateyou'll hav support across both sides of the aisle. >> isn't it horrible that the president appoints a special envoy for stabilization and help nous syria in jim jefferys, a great diplomat, who was appointed by secretary pompeo, and three days ago he's at a lunch where in effect jim jeffries says we will stay in syria until we finish the job against isis and it may be several more months but didn't put a timetable on it and the next morning, the very next morning, he wakes up and reads the paper and hears the president determine unilaterally we wi

bill called the 'first step act.'"...receiving support from republicans and democrats alike.hakeem jeffries "it was an important leadership moment for democrats and republicans, progressives and conservatives, the left and the right."in fact, it was a bipartisan effort from the start...... with trump urged on by his son-in-law, jared kushner......who enlisted the help of democratic lawmakers... ...kim kardashian west... ...and c-n-n's van jones... who also hailed the bill's passage tuesday.van jones: "a christmas miracle just happened."i'm reid binion reporting. ( robin ) the new york times dropped another bombshell about facebook not being honest about how it shared its user data with other companies. the paper says the data was shared with more than 150 business like amazon, microsoft, netflix and spotify. some companies got access to users' names and contact information - and their friends' names. while others even had the ability to read users' private messages. the paper says it obtained the information from internal facebook documents. facebook says they did not violate users' privacy

dean: rep jeffries offering no real explanation.n the streets. this is an outrageous statement to make. this is living breathing, american hero who is gone from us now because we have awful border control, terrible laws on your books. 100% of the people come here illegally should not be here. these heroes should be alive today. hakim jeffries stumbled through the answer because he has no good answer. dean: dan bongino telling it like he always does. todd: dan bongino used to work for the nypd. his sources are solid. rachel: he says sanctuary policies help people, make husband more safe. dean: trying to allude people reporting crimes to the police. that has been debunked by several law enforcement personnel on our show today. todd: syria, the president just moments ago, sending out this tweet about syria. it reads as follows. if anybody but donald trump did what i did in syria, which was an isis-loaded mess when i became president they would be a national hero. isis is mostly gone or slowly sending our troops back home to be with the

kellyanne conway said this morning as what the president wants to see happen followed by joakim jeffries. >> i have spoken with the president and he said he is ready to receive a counteroffer from the democrats. it's been many, many days since the house passed its $5.6 billion for border security. it's not restricted to just a wall, but they need technological enhancements, a steel barrier, things the president has talked about from the oval and elsewhere. >> we're certainly prepared to provide additional funding for enhanced fencing technology, drones, satellites, lighting, sensors, cell phone towers and the things the experts have clearly indicated would improve our border security. >> so, alice, let's start with you. are both sides more in line on this than they pretend to be? >> kellyanne conway is right. it was shocking walking around the white house how little was open, how many offices were closed. you would think they would be burning the midnight oil trying to make negotiations. this really was not happening. that's because the government has a good reason to hold out, and that'

lawyer will become majority leader, james clyburn will be the democratic with while new york's hiking jeffrieswill be democratic caucus chair. on the republican side kevin mccarthy will be minority leader, the police as minority whip mister cheney has a republican conference chair and on the counter having the national republican congressional committee. on january 3, watch the house on c-span in the senate on cspan2. new congress, new leaders, watch the process unfold on cspan2. >>

incoming house democratic caucus chair hakeem jeffries of new york joins me now. congressman, good to see you. welcome and congratulations on what is going to be your new job. >> thanks so much and great to be with you. >> what's -- what do the democrats have planned for when they take control of the house and the legislative power that comes with it? and the context of this is something that karen just said, that democrats won on the base of conversations about health care, about jobs, about the economy. but the first thing we see is a fight about a shutdown and the border. >> well, the fight about the shutdown and the border falls squarely within the republican complete control of government right now. they control the house, the senate, and the presidency. democrats don't want to shut down, they want to fund the government so we can get about doing the business of the american people. and what we've said in our conversations over the last couple of months, in conversation with the country, all across the nation, is that we have a for the people agenda. we're go

diplomat jim jeffries he told us that pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty would also undermine u.s. relations with europe. i think it's quite likely the u.s. will pull out of this treaty i think the the end of the story that just to finish and my fear were guarding the europeans and how it will affect our relationship with them is they simply do not have the courage or the the strength of character to say to the americans no this is bad for us this is bad for europe this in danger is our security we won't go along with this whatever trumps impulses might be to either have an agreement with the russians and as well as with the chinese to have a better relationship that he has a national security team that is entirely composed of the wrong people and what they want to do is to put russia into an untenable security position and this is simply one more rock they can throw at moscow and they don't really care with the consequences are that is what my fear is here. the chinese foreign ministry has warned counter that it could face serious consequences if it feels to release the chief fina

i think it's highly unlikely that that jeffries target of 450 is where it's going to get i would imagine that it will get to that level and is probably going to run into resistance when i was looking at this today, actually, it was significantly higher on the back of that price target raise it was probably trading right around 370 at that time. you are spenting a little over $16. this spread ended up much cheaper because the stock ended up lower than the level where you was taking a look at this. do you think the shorts could get squees e squeezed out or the stock is going to hold above that 360 level when the converts come due in march? if you do and you are inclined to make it, this is the way to do it. i mean, i kind of feel like it's going to be a binary situation either they pull the level and it could actually go higher or they fail, and they're going to have to come up with the $900 million, and it could go lower >> so what do you think, dan >> i think targeting that level is an interesting psychological level. targeting the shorts into, you know, the -- i just think march is a ve

"politico" reported that she recruited an african-american to be to mount a challenge to jeffries. she says one thing about d.c. is the gossip that passes as reporting. this story has not one single source. my far it had a name for articles like this. bird cage lining. has she or anyone from her staff asked for a correction? her tendency towards fact-challenges comments and a willingness to pick fights with the press. she challenged a reporter who says her wardrobe doesn't match her income. a massive scandal involving years of made up stories from der spiegel. grenell says the u.s. has lost faith in its fact check. kind of the same complaint at home. journalists canceling their facebook accounts. are some liberal commentators going off the deep end when it comes to the mueller probe? howie: the media ripping president trump for crises from washington to wall street. i spoke with bill bennett, a former cabinet official and author of the new book "the true st. nicholas" and why he matters to christmas. here is the media narrative. unnecessary government shutdown. jim mattis is the la

now, we are here to hear from ambassador james jeffries. currently serves as secretary special representative of syrian engagement. he is of the senior american diplomat with experience in the middle, turkey, germany and the baltics and just held senior signs in washington dc and abroad and as national deputy advisor and ambassador to iraq and ambassador to turkey and united states ambassador to albany. he was the highest rank. was a969 until 1976, he u.s. army if a tree officer in germany and vietnam. thank you very much to everybody for being here and ambassador jeffrey for joining us today. [applause] ambassador jeffrey: thank you for inviting me here. i am going to take a step back before i talk about syria. , six yearsyou know until august, i was in the think tank world down the street. of being inenefits a think tank is you get to think about the larger issue of foreign policy and abroad, secretarial analysis. and, so, having been bitten by that bug, not to expose if you're in the foreign service, i tried to follow up on my interest e

bill called the 'first step act.'"...receiving support from republicans and democrats alike.hakeem jeffriess an important leadership moment for democrats and republicans, progressives and conservatives, the left and the right."in fact, it was a bipartisan effort from the start...... with trump urged on by his son-in-law, jared kushner......who enlisted the help of democratic lawmakers... ...kim kardashian west... ...and c-n-n's van jones... who also hailed the bill's passage tuesday.van jones: "a christmas miracle just happened."i'm reid binion reporting. ( james ) for your money this morning... san francisco has some of the noisiest restaurants in the nation. and twitter is found to be a toxic environment for women. jane king is live at the nasdaq with those stories and more. good morning jane. ( jane )good morningwomen are abused every 30 seconds on twitter.an investigation by amnesty international and element a-i surveyed millions of tweets and found 1 point 1 million abusive tweets were sent. to women, black women got more abusive tweets. female journalists and politicians were on the r

hakeem jeffries tweeted day seven of the trumps shut down. they refused to pay a $5 billion ransom note, and the $5 billion in border wall funding is stuck in the senate where allies and lindsey graham wrote today, to nancy pelosi on the house democrats, no wall money, no deal. so, senate leaders abandon attempts to move the border wall bill because of so far short of the 60 votes needed to pass. so some house lawmakers are urging upper chamber colleagues to change the rules. >> this is an emergency, the southern border. the 60 vote rule, the filibuster rule in the senate, that will allow them to go forward. >> democrats insist the dustup over dollars for the wall is just a diversion. >> he wants a fight about this because he wants to distract from the other very bad things that happened in the last few weeks. >> they are starting to think bigger like a trade, and in exchange for a fix for daca immigrants. >> i think there is room for negotiation and the president is willing to come down on the dollar amount. democrats should go along with th

this is jpmorgan, credit suisse, and jeffries.s see associated a lot with these big tech ipos out to the west coast. we can expect to see them self positioning themselves around other names next year. it is a real divide where you see people aligned themselves with lyft or uber. , thankelizabeth fournier you for joining us. coming up, exposing facebook. u.s. lawmakers seized internal facebook documents and made them available for all to see. what it tells us about how facebook and mark zuckerberg does business -- do business. that's next. this is bloomberg. ♪ is is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." u.s. stocks slumped as concerns intensified. walk us through the moves you believe are directly tied to news of this very intriguing arrest. >> where we can see movement that would be tied to it is in companies that do have exposure to huawei. , these are suppliers some of the semiconductor names that do have more exposure than some of the others and we have seen outside pressure, but it's interesting because if you lo

reporting question claims kislyak recruited an african-american woman to challenge new york congressman jeffriesrvative. politico is standing by the report saying it is hard to know what the criticism of the piece is since she doesn't specify, nor has she or anyone from her staff asked for a correction. some folks on social media are weighing in, one tweet that is very much a reality, one person saying welcome to washington dc. it is only just the beginning. how true is that? rob: it doesn't always go your way, you may not be the darling forever. >> the official christmas portrait released by the white house, it is beautiful. >> if you made the cut and you were on donald trump's list for a christmas card look at the picture you are getting in the mail, taken at the congressional ball on saturday. the president and the first lady tweeted it out, the vice president and second lady released their official christmas card, you see them looking very festive. some folks on social media reacted by talking about the so-called war on christmas. michael said it is good to say merry christmas again. the war

and right now, all -- if you look around this room, we have not only hakeem jeffries and deb collins who got this started in the house, we have the american -- [inaudible] we have jared kushner. we have senators, politicians, we have law makesers, we have the president of the united states standing for those people. we're not alone anymore. we're not alone. [applause] >> mr. president, we have met once before. i am a lawyer and law professor at georgetown. i spent 11 years in federal prison before that. president trump: yes. >> i have been given second chances and what this bill does is give second chances to hundreds of thousands of people in federal prison and i think you're going to be very surprised with what they do with that second chance. what i saw in prison was not [inaudible] it was people for whatever reason made really bad choices and deserve to be punished but who have the potential to turn it around. this gives them the opportunity and i thank you for that. [applause] resident trump: thank you. >> my name is john and i [inaudible] alcoholism sent me to prison. i was in

. >> ambassador jim jeffries is the recent appointee to syria, and he's been out in public very much the last couple weeks saying the same things, saying how complicated it is, and what kind of diplomatic patience is really he required to allow the conflict to die itself back and get these parties back to negotiation. it just takes away america's presence to i think let that happen, but more importantly, what is the u.s.'s word worth in this region. and local fighters who have done everything the u.s. asked them to do, and really provided security for the rest of the world by taking on isis, that's how guys like mcgurk will explain it. if you don't get to the end, don't stick around, don't provide a bit of help, the fear is it will very convictionly collapse. maybe it won't, maybe enough has been done that some troops can pull back, but it's hard to understand why now, what political gain? his own party isn't calling for it, many of his followers are not calling for it? nobody wanted this. >>> many say they don't want the u.s. to leave, except for vladimir putin saying it's a great i

delivered early stage documents for its ipo, which is working with jpmorgan, credit suisse, and jeffriesasic pitch is that the company went from $18 million to $30 billion. the filing is confidential, but what do we know? >> very little at this point. companies have been able to do these confidential filings, they gave all the data to the sec, those financials and risk factors, it can go back with suggestions or feedback. that -- itells us is didn't have to put out a statement saying it had filed confidentially, but it's almost like firing the starting gun on this process, kicking off the regulatory process for the real numbers everyone will take a look at. ♪ >> personnel announcements and the trump administration, x bush attorney who could succeed sessions, and heather and ours is moving to the u.n. >> it looks like the president is getting people into the position that the doj and u.n. who he likes, who are close to him, who will replace jeff sessions. favorably, from trump's perspective, on a number of significant issues, he looks like a guy who was in line with trump thinking. he wil

morgan and jeffries to lead the offering in the first half of next year. $18 billiond from to $30 billiontop story, trade talks could get even more complicated following the arrest of a chinese telecom executive. the u.s. convinced canada to arrest huawei cfo meng wanzhou in connection with violating sanctions against iran. she is the daughter of huawei's founder. we spoke with a cyber policy and china digital policy fellow along with bloomberg's mark gurman. >> this is seen as a dramatic escalation from beijing. directlygh this isn't linked to the trade war, it comes at a time of tremendous political tension between the u.s. and china and could make ongoing trade talks more contentious. china the statement from at the court -- request of the u.s. side, the canadian side arrested a citizen not violating any law. the chinese protest over such actions which seriously harmed the human rights of the victim. u.s. and canada to correct the wrong doing, to restore her personal freedom. mark, put this into context by far thewei is most global of china's tech companies. alibaba and tencent are hug

jared kushner, hakeem jeffries on the house side, chuck grassley, the republican chairman of the justicemmittee, and then a -- allied with jared kushner. it does quite a lot to reform federal sentencing guidelines, it eases up on the three strikes rule, allows inmates to earn more credit for time off. keeps them closer to their family, and the opposition was fairly vocal. tom cotton was dug in, usually has the president's backing, did nots on this, and the result is what you saw last night, an overwhelming bipartisan victory. >> thank you, garrett. >>> loretta lynch is talking to two house committees about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. thesis there until subpoena, and you have adam schiff calls on michael flynn to testify before his committee. flynn has been ordered to surrender his passport after that blistering criticism from a judge yesterday. so what's next for him? let's bring in ken delaney, and maya wiley, senior vice president for social justice at the news school. thank you to both. what is next for michael flynn? >> they'll reconvene in 90 days. they're -- that's th

joining us is democratic congressman hakim jeffries, a member of the judiciary committee, just electedch for joining us. let me get your reaction. what do you think of this apparent front-runner to become the next attorney general, william barr? >> well, i think it's important that the president fill the vacancy with someone who is respected on both sides of the aisle. william barr has a decent reputation as far as i can tell, has the appropriate degree of experience. he'll, of course, have to be vetted by senators who are republicans and democrats as part of the confirmation process, but we do need to move beyond the current acting attorney general who appears to be nothing but a lackie for donald trump and someone who does not do justice to the department of justice. >> barr, robert mueller, they worked closely together during the first bush administration, but barr has criticized mueller for appointing some of the prosecutors on his russia probe team with a history of making political donations to democrats. does it give you any concern about his potential treatment of the mueller i

. >> if you look at jim jeffries, he's got a show on comedy central. >> bellemare said the >> ben sassens are not the nothing him strong enough. it depends on a few things. >> look at roseanne. >> roseanne, another situation. who you are, if you are a member of that pc inner circle club, who you are attacking, if it's a republican, it's okay. and the language that you use. there is a big double standard. >> juan, do you agree? >> what i think is interesting about the situation with mika, jesse -- >> mika? >> as you said, potato, potato payment >> did you call her a potato? >> it's a good thing i didn't call her tomato. what's interesting here is you have people on the left you are upset with her. i think that's why, to your point, the apology didn't go to mike pompeo. it went to the lgbt community because they are the ones who said -- you even heard this from president trump's ambassador to germany, our former colleague. when you sexualize gay sex, it is offensive, it demeans them. that's why you had to do that. the advertisers and the network are sensitive to that community. that is th

now we are here to hear from ambassador james jeffries. -- james jeffrey. he currently serves as secretary special representative for syria engagement. he is the senior american diplomat with experience in political security and energy issues in the middle east. 1969-1970 six, he was u.s. army infantry officer. in service in germany and vietnam. that -- thank you very much further one for being here and thank you most importantly ambassador jeffrey for joining us here today. [applause] mr. jeffrey: thank you. thank you atlantic council for inviting me here. i will take a step back before i talk about syria. six years you know, up until august, i was in the think tank world too, down the world -- down the road. one of the benefits of being in a think tank is you get to think about the larger issues, foreign policy, and abroad, sectoral analysis. having been bitten by that bug which you are not really too exposed to when you are in the foreign service, i still try to follow up on my interest, even in my current job which is pretty all-consuming. day, i read a

secondly, i think to john bolton, the national security adviser and certainly to jim jeffries, hop beene adviser on syria for the president, who gave a speech on monday, they made the argument that iran's presence was a significant reason the united states needed to keep some presence on the ground. bolton himself said just a few weeks ago, publicly, you won't see the united states leave the ground in syria until the iranians do. what the president hasn't done is explain how this fits in with his iran strategy. there are ways to explain it, but he hasn't done so. >> david sanger, thank you so much. happy holidays to you. >> good to be with you. >> all right. still to come, a top democratic lawmaker sends a message to president trump saying like it or not, mueller's report on the russia investigation will become public. more on that, next. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. smoking. it dictates your day. i didn't like something having control over me. i wanted to stop. the thing is i didn't know how. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to sm

democrats a the shutdown should never have happened, new york congress minute democratic caucus chairman jeffries tweets day 7 of the trump shutdown, republican told the american people hostage, we refuse to pay a $5 billion ransom note, in other words, take a hike, congressional leaders will give 24 hours notice to return to washington to vote on any agreement on the government. >> we will all be ready if it happens. let's bring in tonight's power panel, the border patrol council vice president and fox news political analyst caldwell, welcome to all of you. i went to play a little more of what the sheriff had to say today, california has sanctuary state policies and makes his job tougher. is what he said. >> suggesting the outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn't restricted, prohibited or had their hands tied because of political interference. why are we providing sanctuary for criminals, gang members? a conversation we need to have. >> first and foremost, prayers go out to the family, to the community. it is important in these times that you don't use a crime like this to dem

and hakeem jeffries held in there as well. >> sure.the first version that made it through the house, and it changed to get some of those wary senators, even democrat, senators like dick durbin, on board. let's talk about jared kushner. when you were on the show with us november sdwaen 15ths, the dr the president supported this, you said jared kushner deserves a lot of credit. this is personal for him. his father was in prison. this is something he has been fighting for. how much did jared kushner do to push mcconnell's hand to get to where we are? >> jared left it all on the field. he called everybody. he was working around the clock. but what's interesting is jared kushner is just one person who had a personal stake in this. the secret behind this whole thing, the secret sauce, there was no super pac, there was no highly paid lobbying effort. there was no big billionaire donor. it was formerly incarcerated people and people like jared kushner and jessica jackson from cut 50, whose families have gone to prison, and both sides said we'r

an investor you're not dealing with a binary decision, you have an inif i nent number of options jeffries this morning with rules from the ecj, brexit can be unilaterally revoked by them and do they use this threat of triggering an intention to withdraw, do they use that as a threat in its own negotiations. >> a whole other can of worms. that's something we'll be watching very closely. if you have any views on what we've discussed tweet us @streetsignscnbc. >>> coming up on the show, the u.s. seeks to separate the ceo's arrest from china talks. we are live from beijing after the break. rebekkah: opioids has taken everything and everyone i've ever loved away from me. everything. i blew my ankle out and i got prescribed pain pills by my doctor. if making my detox public is gonna help somebody i'm all for it. i just wish i would've had a warning. ♪ there's no place likargh!e ♪ i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ . >>> the white house considers march 1st as a, quote, hard deadline for any potential trade deal with china. that's according to u.s. trade representative robert light hiezer who

named a trial lawyer as its new general counsel, then you got an upgrade thrown in to buy over at jeffrieshiked the price target to $450. stock's at $361 now, turning tail in the last couple minutes of trade, down just half a percent. >>> happening right this second, the ten-year treasury yield heading for its steepest drop in more than three years. the 30-year yield for the week heading for the steepest decline since the summer of 2016. why? well, the fed definitely plays into this. we bring in former ubs america ceo robert molson for analysis. the fed. yesterday during this hour, news breaks, the "wall street journa journal", it hits the tape the fed is going to change its language from yep, we're doing gradual rates, no worries, to now we'll shift to a wait and see approach. >> you know, i used to like it when they only spoke quarterly or when there was a rate situation. they seem to be a little bit all over the place. it feels to me they will still do their fourth rate hike come on the 19th, and that would have been the fifth in the last i think five or six quarters. the real question

exclusive interview with customs and border chief kevin mcaleenan, plus she goes one on one with hakeem jeffries. he's one of the newest members of the house democratic leadership. that's coming up right here on abc. >>> now to st. louis, a missouri man is accused of shooting his girlfriend, her two young children and her mother in the home they shared. police say richard darren emery fled the scene after a shoot-out with police and was finally arrested at a convenience store following a seven-hour manhunt in which another woman was stabbed when the suspect tried to carjack her. >>> in california authorities say they've recaptured an inmate who they say escaped from a prison. 21-year-old shalom mendosa was arrested at a fast food restaurant 200 miles from san quent quentin. he walked away from an outdoor work assignment. he's suspected of getting away by carjacking a woman. he was already serving a five-year sentence for carjacking. >>> in portland, oregon a hotel has fired two workers after police were called to remove a black guest who was making a phone call from the lobby a week ago. the dou

new york congressman and democratic caucus chairman, hakim jeffries, tweeted, day seven of the republican shutdown. republicans continue to hold the american people hostage. we refuse to pay a $5 billion ransom note. they will give members at least 24 hours notice to return to washington to vote if there is an agreement. back to you, greg. >> rich, thanks very much. >>> joining us now with reaction, florida attorney general pam bondi and arizona congressman andy bigs. congressman, it wasn't just 2013 but all the way back to 2006, then senator schumer, obama, biden and clinton were all voting in favor of constructing a barrier on the mexican border. frankly, not much has changed in the interim 12 years, except the problem has gotten a lot worse. are people like schumer suffering acute amnesia or is it just petty partisan politics? they can't stand to give trump something he wants even though it is the same thing they have long wanted. >> yes. i am not sure how sincere they were in 2006. i can tell you what they are sincere about today is that they just don't like president trump. they do n

jeffries, the special envoy to syria who was a great pick, the former ambassador to iraq, just 48 hours ago, 72 hours ago, announced that we're not going to leave. you had brett mcgurk, the guy in charge of syria and iraq said that even though the space has been taken back, the land has been taken back, isis is not yet defeated. there are 20,000 to 30,000 fighters. they have been hurt mightily because of president trump's change in strategy, but they're not defeated. so secretary mattis is firmly in the camp of the job in syria is not yet done. that abandoning the kurds now will hurt us down the road, that isis could and probably will come back. i think that's the universal view of bolton, pompeo, and mattis. the president has the right to do what he would like. he is the commander in chief. so did president obama. all i am saying, if you don't trust these people's judgment, find somebody you do trust. general obama turned out not to be such a good general. i don't think general graham is going to be a great general. i don't think general trump is going to be a great general. the people

if you look at jeffries, our caucus chair, katherine clark from massachusetts, sherry bustos, we've gotd, up and coming young leaders in our caucus and will decide. we have a lot of good talent to choose from, for sure. >> congressman tim ryan, thanks for coming on this show. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> shawna thomas, vice news tonight and aaron blake, senior reporter. let me start with you. no deals. nothing cut. >> no deals. i tend to believe there was no backroom deal. nancy pelosi is very good at showing you how her power work and that's what we got shown. here is the deal, though. i don't think any of us doubted. she said she would be a transitional figure way back in the day. there had been talk for months that she would agree to two years, in this case four years, that she'll have to put some kind of limitation or term on this. we saw what happened. in the end, no one was running against her. >> do you disagree? >> nancy pelosi could have gone -- >> you believe tim ryan when he says, yeah, this wasn't a figure leaf? we actually got some stuff? >> the deal makes all the sense

congressman and next chair of the democratic caucus, hakeem jeffries. 47% hold president trump responsible the shutdown with 33% blaming democrats in congress. joining me is congressman brenda lawrence from michigan. does that poll make democrats less inclined to cut any deal with the border wall? the public is laying the blame with the president, so the democrats can hold out? >> let's be very clear. what the democrats are asking for is border safety. and border safety is not defined by building a wall, a fence, or a chain link whatever, steel slats with points on it. it's about security. one of the biggest challenges we have on our border is the lack of immigration judges that can help expedite the process. we need to ensure that our trained workforce is sufficient, the numbers are there to address the issues. building a wall is not the same, it is not synonymous with border security. the democrats have never backed down from funding and investing in border security. >> let's talk about the dollars here. we've learned that the white house made an offer last saturday to senator schumer th

. >> from a legal perspective, jeffry, does it make any difference if the president doesn't reimburse the "national enquirer" for the $150,000 for that hush money payment? >> makes no difference. >> why? >> because the money is spent on behalf of the campaign. and that's -- that's what the campaign laws are designed to enforce. money spent on behalf the campaign. if money later came in that might be a separate crime, but if you authorize, encourage, support, an illegal campaign contribution, you are guilt as well. >> i want both of you to stick around. don't go too far. the manhattan u.s. attorney's office is in the middle of a criminal probe examining the trump team's inauguration spending. i want to bring in "the wall street journal"'s reporter rebecca ball house. first of all, tell us what you and your colleagues are leverage. how did this start? this is a criminal investigation? >> so what we suns that this investigation came out of federal prosecutors in manan's investigation of michael cohen. we understand that in their raid of cohen he's hotel room and office and home earlier t

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lawyer will become majority leader, james clyburn will be the democratic with while new york's hiking jeffries will be democratic caucus chair. on the republican side kevin mccarthy will be minority leader, the police as minority whip mister cheney has a republican conference chair and on the counter having the national republican congressional committee. on january 3, watch the house on c-span in the senate on cspan2. new congress, new leaders, watch the process unfold on cspan2. >>. >> defense secretary james mattis recently deliver the keynote address at the annual reagan national defense forum at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. after thespeech, he sat down for a conversation with) fox news .>>. >> this morning marks and anniversary for our keynote speaker. exactly 2 years ago today, president trump announced to the nation 's intention to nominate james mattis as our secretary of defense. having met and interviewed with the president just 10 days prior, time and events no doubt move swiftly for the retired marine four-star. the president very first,. while secretary ma

a member of her leadership team congressman jeffries is making clear what the democrat caucus wants.e american people hostage. we refuse to pay a $5 billion ransominose. the senate a polar opposite message. senator lindsey graham, to democrats. no wall money and no deal. the white cut their request for border wall money down to 2.5 billion and the democrats rejected it and never made a counter offer. again, it doesn't sound like any of these negotiations have been bearing fruit. but it doesn't sound like there have been negotiations period any time recently. >> they are all on vacation. happy new year. i will see you all tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on fox business network. we have more of my exclusive interview with the vice-president of venezuela rodriguez. i reported on venezuela so much. you heard me talking to the former congressman about the latin american countries that are so challenged. venezuela is the biggest challenge and vladimir putin is now in there. the russians are buying up oil fields and property to have access to us. so i talked to the vice-president about that very

but you have to give credit to hakeem jeffries in the house, strong democrat, and you got to give creditkushner. >> hakeem is going to be here in the next hour. let me bring in symone sanders. this is one of the issues that you talk about that's on your radar as well. this is what the president tweeted tonight. he said america is the greatest country in the world, and my job is to fight for all citizens, even those who have made mistakes. congratulations to the senate on the bipartisan passing of this historic criminal justice reform bill. this will keep our communities safer and provide hope and a second chance to those who earned it. in addition to everything else, billions of dollars will be saved. i look forward to signing it into law. does president trump deserve the credit? you heard what van said, getting this passed. mitch mcconnell was putting it up for a vote. >> look, i think there's no question that it was under the trump administration that this first step act did, in fact, happen. and there's no question that we needed sentencing and prison reform, that we are not yet there