melissa: it is raining. place. >> they go for whoever gets the most views on their programs that do they put on center stage. when it comes to the credit party as i said earlier if you look at what they're standing for when it comes to against on drums tax cuts for the wealthy not making them permanent from the class but making them permanent for huge operations there's moderates who think there's a better way forward. melissa: awesome job summary great economy all that stuff we've been seen they think is terrible. >> we know the economy is on the decline. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> let me ask you this. are you long stocks and 401k? >> i can keep up with these numbers? >> if you own stocks in your 401k by definition your optimist and think the economy is getting better. >> naturally the economy does overtime turned up your that's of course. >> your argument that we will . melissa: we have to leave it there. we believe them on the claps and bring them back to see. adam and ben, tha

melissa was a glowing bride. alyssa, the little flower girl. >> it wasn't just melissa and ben getting married. it was melissa marrying alyssa, too. >> seriously. they made a particular ceremony of it. >> alyssa, will you promise to share in the love of this family? if so, will you please say i will? >> i will. >> i got her a little bracelet. i had it engraved, letting her know that i will always love her as my own. and gave it to her that day. >> and from that moment on, alyssa called melissa mom. how did that make you feel? >> happy. very happy. couple they were. >> for her to be my wife is a blessing. >> that's what you wait for all your life. >> reporter: what were your plans? >> to buy a house and to have babies and have a family. >> reporter: they eventually moved here, a three-bedroom ranch in the carson valley, looking up toward the sierra nevadas. alyssa spent half her time with ben and melissa. the other time with her birth mom, ben's ex-wife, dawn. but above all, what ben really wanted was to have his

melissa. melissa: blake, thank you for that.ll: here now is former arkansas governor mike huckabee. also a fox news contributor. the above here in studio with us in new york. >> great to be here, connell. connell: is there pressure, i know a lot has been said about pressure on chinese to make a a trade deal, their economy slowing down. >> sure. connell: the point making a deal so this doesn't drag on too long? >> nobody wants us to drag on too long. what we're in now way better than what we've been through which is a very unfair process. we've been getting played like fools for years and years. it really had impact on american workers and american economy. president's playing it right. he is playing hardball. connell: with the tariffs sometimes in the short term you go through some pain, right? >> sure. connell: the president talked about this. i've been out in iowa couple times last year talking with farmers. when i was there, surprised to see, for the most part, not all, they were okay with that, as long as there was a long-te

melissa: deroy, i'll let you go first. mika and joe are ready to vote on impeachment for the 25th amendment saying he's out of his mind. if you listen to them, it's a matter of time before the president is out. are they serving their viewers or giving them false hope? >> this is the trump derangement syndrome network. they said the president didn't go to visit the troops. then he went to visit the troops, and they complaining about the make america great again hats. then they complained about melania's outfit or the christmas trees. if they have legitimate complaints they should focus on those instead of nitpicking. >> if president trump is somehow mentally inc incapacitated how d he beat am united states senator in one of the most of well financed campaigns for president. what we have to get back to us real conversations about what real americans are talk about at the dinner table. they are talking about the environment, climate change, gas prices, food and the ability to educate their children and what this country will

melissa? >> melissa: william la jeunesse, thank you.y martin luther king jr. today with events taking place across the country, including earlier today would president trump and vice president pence laid a wreath at the mlk memorial in washington. steve harrigan is live in atlanta. the city where dr. king was born in 1929. >> melissa come in the predawn hours this morning and the very bitter cold, hundreds of people were out in front of the of the ebenezer baptist church waiting for a chance to get into the memorial to reverend king today. several of whom we spoke with told us that they sense a real debt that they owe to reverend king . >> i know how things used to be. i used to have to go to the black -- the different black-and-white water fountains, all that. i had ended up working for the government in d.c. i am a recipient of his actions. >> many of the buildings here in atlanta that are part of the king historic park have been closed due to the government shutdown, really for the past month. the donation from delta air lines of $83

melissa. melissa: carol what is your take on that? >> i love that he is channeling tom petty, melissa. he won't back down. and i think that this something we've haven't seen before. usually shutdowns are a lot of political theater, the fact he is willing to stand tight, something people should admire. something incredibly important. i think we do have a backstop. if you think about the democrats, eventually if we keep the government shut down, we find out these people really aren't necessary, then we have argument to make maybe they never need to be reopened. so eventually they need to reopen them or we get the argument. so i think the president is actually in a very good negotiating position. melissa: paul, it could be tom petty. could be imagine dragons, whatever it takes, we could play the game all day. what do you think is the end result of this? i mean carol's idea that people don't notice a difference, uh-oh? >> i'm a little more concerned about it. listen, look how we started off the year with a split government. what does this

melissa. first if you don't think the government is so dysfunction the department of labor which is actually charged with taking care of the welfare of the wage earners is open. they're open to report statistics on labor but people who are actually working are not getting a paycheck. that is the government for you. now in terms of the economic impact, i feel absolutely horrible for the families. melissa: of course. >> i think, i think that there are a lot of people who we won't be able to make it up. the service providers that people who go out to lunch, cutting back, that is couple of weeks or maybe even more than a couple weeks, that is just completely lost. not like you're buying two sandwiches the next week when you go out to lunch because you didn't get your sandwich this week. melissa: you still ate. you didn't starve to death. >> you still ate but probably didn't spend as much money, finding places to scrimp, events were canceled. certain service providers don't make that up. so i do th

melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." we have more on the big market movers but first here is what is brand new at this hour. the state of the union is one week from tonight as congress scrambles to strike a deal. a group of bipartisan lawmakers are set to meet tomorrow to begin negotiations on funding the border security. we're live at the white house with the latest on that. >>> plus the audacity of billionaires to run for political office. growing outrage from the left mainly over howard schultz' potential 2020 bid. it is the report they warned us about. high-stakes results are expected from apple this hour. could be the tech giant's most important announcement in years. find out the numbers before it impacts your money tomorrow. a lot about the global economy and china, even if you're not investing in apple. it is a big deal. connell: no doubt. china, china, china. we're all over apple but also today pfizer united technologies and 3m helping to lead the dow higher even with other major averages down and gerri willis w

melissa. melissa: sending a warning.organ ceo jamie dimon telling fox business what one of his biggest complaints about partisan politics in the nation's capitol is. president trump's first oval office address to the nation. the president expected to outline urgent need for a wall as he considers declaring a national emergency at the border. we are breaking down the legal details with judge andrew napolitano. that is coming up. looked at chart patterns. i've even built my own historic trading model. and you're still not sure if you want to make the trade? exactly. sounds like a case of analysis paralysis. is there a cure? td ameritrade's trade desk. they can help gut check your strategies and answer all your toughest questions. sounds perfect. see, your stress level was here and i got you down to here, i've done my job. call for a strategy gut check with td ameritrade. ♪ when it comes to managing your type 2 diabetes, what matters to you? step up to the stage here. feeling good about that? let's see- most of you say lowe

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melissa. melissa: oil topping $50 first time in 2019. settling up 5%. phil flynn, at cme oil on the way back. look at that. >> i love it. it is showing economic optimism. when we saw oil prices crash. we saw the global economy falling apart. all of sudden we're seeing optimism. this rally came as we got somewhat bearish report showed a big build in gasoline inventories. a big build in dissill latin inventories. they are focused on these fed minutes where the fed is saying hey, listen, we'll not be raising rates. we'll be open to be patient with interest rate increases. that caused the dollar to go down. it gave oil a rally. who knew the fed could rally oil. they did late in the session, along with a lot other commodities like gold, silver, palladium back near record highs. it has been amazing day for the commodities. melissa: phil flynn, thank you. connell: we have more on that heated meeting we've been covering between the president and congressional leaders at the white house. the commander-

melissa. melissa: edward, thank you. connell: thank you, edward. goodup for gerri willis who joins us from the floor of new york stock exchange. that was kind of the theme, china and global growth. >> china, china. we have the dow down 301. s&p "the five" hundred down 1.4. nasdaq down as well. it was all about china today. worries about the growth, selling first day traders down here had opportunity to trade on that headline, china's growth is just 6.6%. which sounds oh, so good to me. some of these folks down here calling this the davos selloff. why? executives at davos, big honcho meetup talking about negatives, talking about trade, growth, brexit, the government shutdown but i got to tell you the headline this afternoon that really sent stocks down, u.s. turns down china offer of preparatory talks. that was a big deal. it is already been knocked down by white house officials. also, another thing pulling down stocks today, housing. we had really bad existing home sales number for the month of december. came in at 4.99 million. you know that is a

melissa. melissa: deirdre, thank you. connell: with stocks climbing today, we had the latest round of u.s.-china trade talks kicking off over in beijing. let's find out more about that. edward lawrence is at the white house with what we know. edward? reporter: connell, very positive talks or information coming out of that meeting. the language the chinese are using is extremely good according to the white house here. china's top negotiator even stopped by the meeting to see how it was going when it kicked off. a signal to the white house this is very important to the chinese. they want to make some changes. in fact a chinese trade official says these meetings are setting up talks next week at the minister level between u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer and china's top negotiator. chinese foreign ministry says quote, china is sincere properly resolving trade frictions on mutual respect, equality, mutual benefit and reciprocity. this is the first time they used the term reciprocal talking about trade. the white ho

melissa. melissa: double the impact.visor kevin hassett telling "after the bell" in an exclusive interview why the economic damage from the shutdown is worse than predicted. take a listen. >> we made an early estimate at the beginning of the crisis a little lower than the estimate you just cited, been studying this hard as it has gone on. the damage is a little worse because of government contractors. the fact there is a lot of pain -- melissa: joining us to discuss is art laugh every, former reagan economic advisor and laffer associates chairman. >> my pleasure. melissa: thanks for joining us. we're trying to get to the impact. they're not getting paid now. they're going to get paid later. i understand the loss to businesses around there, because those people will not buy two sandwiches when they go back to work. they missed out on that business. but if in your mind we have 380,000 workers, government workers deemed non-essential, does this raise a legitimate question about the size of government? >> well the size of go

melissa. melissa: unless everybody decides to sit down and work together.hen it could be over in a flash but never mind. blake, thank you. connell: as for the democrats on capitol hill blake was talking about, they essentially rejected the president's proposal, simply calling it more hostage-taking. more on the congressional response, go to fox business network's edward lawrence in d.c. edward. reporter: not holding back, senators talking about the shutdown but not doing nothing about it. democrats brushing off the latest offer of president donald trump not even carrot of three-year extension for daca recipients. those receiving temporary protected status not moving the needle. chuck schumer will not consider a compromise. >> we want the symbol of america remain statue of liberty, freedom, quality, not a divisive wall. reporter: the tone turned even more harsh. vocal democrats announced they are running for president in 2020. >> he is now holding the american people hostage over a vanity project that he calls a wall. while 800,000 people are trying to figur

melissa: a nation on edge. damaging effects of partial government shutdown now making its way to the super bowl. connell: uh-oh. melissa: why officials fear that security and travel could be at risk. fred barnes, former "weekly standard" executive editor joins us next. connell: bracing for more damage. with the ongoing shutdown could mean for california and the state's crucial preparations for the next wildfire season. we have california congressman tom mcclintock coming up. melissa: president trump meeting with top north korean official at the white house today ahead of the second summit between kim jong-un and the president next month. what it could mean for the rogue regime's path towards denuclearization. ♪ i had a coach. math. ooh. so, why don't traders have coaches? who says they don't? coach mcadoo! you know, at td ameritrade, we offer free access to coaches and a full education curriculum- just to help you improve your skills. boom! mad skills. education to take your trading to the next level. only with

melissa: i'm melissa francis. we have more on the big market movers but here is what is new at this hour. >>> crushing defeat for theresa may. the british parliament rejecting the prime minister's proposed deal on brexit. now the opposition is calling for a no vote of confidence in her government. this is happening two months before britain's planned exit from the european union. we're live in london with with e latest. >> shoe back on capitol hill the confirm hearing for william barr is underway. how the attorney general nominee is responding to questions from lawmakers. >>> refusing to come to the table. house lawmakers refusing to discuss the shut down at white house as the shutdown reaches day 25. exclusive interview with kevin hassett, white house council of economic advisors chairman. connell: back to the markets though, that failed brexit vote in the uk and it was a spectacular failure at that. we'll start with that result, which may very well impact stocks by the way across the globe tomorrow. certainly st

melissa: i'm melissa francis this is "after the bell." we're seconds away from netflix earnings, results that could move markets tomorrow but here's what is new right now. grounded, president trump firing back at nancy pelosi canceling thing how spiker's overseas trip just moments before takeoff. latest on white house stunning response. speaker pelosi's call for the president to delay the state of the union address until the government reopens. president trump putting nation's enemies on notice at the pentagon earlier today. announcing a first sweeping review of missile defense systems in nearly a decade. will the advance system help defend america against threats from north korea and iran? plan b for brex it. we're live in london with theresa may's new strategy. connell: back with the markets, with the dow hitting session highs, with a report the u.s. will ease back on chinese tariffs. let's get straight to edward lawrence in d.c., with details on that. edward. reporter: a new report, the treasury secretary starting to debate about remov

with me, melissa francis. are you with me? >> melissa: go friday, go friday! >> lisa: i can't do that, the don't like it was too good! >> harris: fox news contributor, jessica tarlov. matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union and former white house political director under george w. bush. hello. >> matt: hello, good to be here again. >> harris: gray tabby. we have an lot to get to. >> matt: not much news! [laughter] >> harris: we will start with this. new fallout after president trump denied speaker pelosi's use of a military aircraft yesterday for a trip to afghanistan with the congressional delegation. a codel, as they call them. just minutes before they were scheduled to depart yesterday. this come after pelosi called for the president to delay his state of the union address, citing concert security concerns amid the shutdown. president trump today tweeted this -- "why would nancy pelosi leave the country with other democrats on a seven-day excursion when 800,000 great people are not getting paid? also, could somebody please explain to nancy

this is "outnumbered," i'm melissa francis. here today is harris faulkner, lisa boothe, radio host and fox news contributor leslie marshall, and joining us on the couch, the opinion editor for the times and fox news contributor, charlie hurt. >> happy new year to everybody! you got some red sox going. happy new year to you! >> harris: are those candy canes? >> charlie: they are christmas socks. >> leslie: we coordinated colors. >> harris: i like what somebody hangs onto the season. >> melissa: right now we are watching here as folks are coming into the senate floor. this, as we are getting ready to see the swearing in of the 116th congress. >> harris: yes, they are walking into the house of representatives, they are. they are pretty much on time. this could take a while. several hundred people. we will be all over it. some of the names that we know are going to be considered that are big names, we will take you there lives. it is a look. they did it, melissa. that the put the picture up. i like to watch this happen. i'm a huge

>> melissa, good afternoon. if anything, the president is doubling down on this idea that the boarding needs to be enhanced. whether that's a wall, or a fence, or a barrier, it doesn't really matter. in fact, if we take it to twitter, you get the sense the president is not only really entrenched in his position -- he has really been getting to feel like he has gotten the support he needs on capitol hill to see this thing through. he writes this -- which, by the way, he calls it a humanitarian crisis at our southern border. you may remember president obama mentioning that same thing back in 2014. here is the quote on twitter. "i just got back, and it's a far worse situation than almost anyone would understand. an invasion! i have been there numerous times. the democrats, crying chuck, and nancy don't know how bad and dangerous it is for our entire country." the tree continues, "a barrier or wall should have been built by previous the administrations long ago. they never got it done. i will. without it, our countr

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[laughter] >> melissa: that's true! capri and i were talking over the break that there are a lot of republicans who could vote for this guide. >> harris: why you do say that? >> david: he has appealed to the great middle. this is a guy who voted strong on criminal justice, he voted for the iraq war in 2002. >> david: he's an old school democrat. one that allowed people in the middle of the country still understand, that he can connect with. he does face a little bit of an uphill battle, because he has run for president in number of times since 1988. there's no question that he is and could of the experience. i think is really good at connecting with people. i think he's authentic, which is something that haley clinton obviously missed the mark on but a great stretch. i think it's going to be hard for him, because it will be a crowded field and i think -- in the absence of superdelegates, which have been eliminated out of the democratic national, the established democrat is not goi. it's going to be hard for them. >> ken

here today, melissa francis. lisa boothe, radio host and fox news contributor leslie marshall, and we welcome for the very first time in the center seat, from the great state of florida, republican congressman matt gaetz. great to have you. >> matt: great to be here. i have done almost every show on your network, but this account has been my white whale. [laughter] great to be here with you, this caps the career. >> leslie: mission accomplished. >> harris: we will call you moby. i love the cobalt suit, by the way. bringing freshness of the couch! >> matt: i've got to bring some sale to the congress. i used to wear please. >> leslie: should i mention what i heard about somebody's jacket? i won't. [laughter] >> harris: welcome. we will move onto the news now. can they make a deal? for the second time this week, top lawmakers from both political parties are meeting with the president at the white house. as you know, some vital parts of the government remained shuts down. it hundred thousand federal workers could soo

here today, melissa francis. fox news contributor lisa boothe, host of "kennedy" on the fox business network, kennedy, and in the center seat, former utah congressmen and fox news contributor jason chaffetz is here. all days are important in the news, but this one has a special twist with the president and prime time. >> jason: you all don't always get the president in the oval office. the networks are trying to figure whether or not they want to cover it, who should be on, how they will do fact-checking. for the president has a great opportunity. it's an important moment. >> harris: and the nation has an opportunity to hear what his plans are with regard to the shutdown, too. let's get to the news. the president's address comes with the partial shutdown, the second longest in u.s. history now. the big question hangover tonight's speech -- will the president declare a national emergency, allowing him to build a border wall without congressional approval? on thursday the president will travel to the southern borde

i'm melissa francis. here today is harris faulkner, democratic strategist and fox news contributor leslie marshall, host of "kennedy" on the fox business network, kennedy herself, and joining us on the couch, former white house press secretary, sean spicer. we have a lot on messaging toda today. you are a good one to have here. >> harris: happy new year, by the way! i haven't seen you in 2019. with your fine fuchsia on. >> sean: thank you! i met melissa. >> melissa: let's get right into it. that smart of you. pelosi a short time ago defend her call to delay the seat of the union address. at first she said she had security concerns, but now she is suggesting is about federal employees not being paid. then she gets a shot of the president and homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. >> i'm saying let's get a date when the government does open pray let's pay the employees. maybe you think it's okay not to pay people who do work. i don't. my caucus doesn't either. it isn't a question of whether they are

>> melissa: 56% of republicans in that pole?harris: no. >> melissa: that makes a lot more sense. i just don't see any way that trump doesn't get his same people back together, and everyone who voted the last time around. >> harris: is not enough? >> melissa: no matter what. it does end up being enough like it was last time. it feels like we are going in that direction. we are too far out to know at this point in time, but it's that problem on the left of splitting off the folks in all different directions. if you feel like you are not represented, you are a disaffected and the pole. >> harris: what about the argument the democrats always come together in the end? the difference here is that president trump isn't really necessarily going to run against anyone of them. he's going to run with what he has now. >> katie: he will run on his record. while democrats so far, as we've seen -- like kamala harris, kirsten gillibrand -- are running on identity politics, he sang, "you can call everyone deplorable, racist, and say this country

melissa: congressman, it is melissa francis. if i could ask you one of your colleagues said on television earlier in the day, it is about the word wall, that if you guys came up with some other euphemism, the president could point to later and say, that means wall and nancy pelosi and her friends on the other side could say, no, that means border security. it is not a wall, that simply could be a solution. is that possible? >> i'm a computer scientist, semantics are important in things like this. so maybe, maybe that's a part of the solution, i don't know. the president has made it very clear, what he is talking about is border security. house republicans have made it very clear. we're talking about border security. a country without borders is not a country at all. i think the president has made it clear when he talks about the wall, he is talking about the complex structure both governmentwise, law enforcementwise and physical. -- melissa: when everybody goes back to their corner, screaming wall, no wall. i think we all, it is

that's what melissa has been talking about, with semantics. >> brian: with the president wants. >> melissan't they just put in language with a limit with the barrier could be? if democrats say it can't be cement, it cannot be this, and you just limit -- it is callous. >> harris: how do they know, are the experts? >> lisa: or write in a way that everyone can go home and say they cover they want. president trump can say it's a wall, democrats can say it's specifically not a wall produce thing like that. you're not going to get an encumbrance of deal done in the short a period of time. you look at issues like daca -- exactly, hair spray to get issues like daca both the like they've been trying to solve these more nuanced immigration issues for quite some time. they failed to do so. it's certainly not going to get done in this short period of time. >> harris: do declare an emergency if you are the president? >> lisa: i think that might be going to make its funding. to brian's point as well, you got a bicameral bipartisan group of members of congress that are trying to come to terms with someth

melissa. melissa: breaking news. the u.s. department holding a press conference on huawei technologies, charging huawei's ceo with financial fraud. we are monitoring the event. we'll continue to give you breaking deadlines as it happens. that is a really big deal. as we said at the top of the show, they're on their way here in the air for trade talks. connell: sarah sanders was asked about the timing of those two things, whether they were connected. she said they are not. you can't ignore that, liu he is on his way to the united states for trade talks as the doj is really going after the company, huawei. melissa: big time. connell: the shutdown is averyed but the border fight is heating up. how does president trump come out of this with a win? why one republican senator says, declaring a national emergency would be a terrible mistake. that's next. ♪ one who delivers the news around here. ♪ liberty mutual has just announced that they can customize your car insurance so that you only pay for what you need. this is phoebe buckle

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and be there more. >> melissa: thinks to brian kilmeade. >> brian: thanks for having me. >> melissa:ot close to mark's final thought? >> brian: my final thought is the president never stops. he's going to new orleans comings going back to clemson, we cover it all. >> melissa: thanks to christ, as well. we are back here on the couch at noon eastern tomorrow, but for now, here's harris. >> harris: and we have the president of the united states on the ground in new orleans right now. he is said to speak to thousands of the nation's farmers. the government shutdown stretches into day 24, and so far we are told not to expect a deal insight at this point. we are "outnumbered overtime" now. i'm harris faulkner. right now, the president -- this come from moments good. we covered it live. it hasn't even been three and half minutes yet. in new orleans come over he will address the american farm bureau's 100 annual convention. this, as some farmers are reportedly struggling after the partial shutdown stops checks meant to soften the blow of

melissa. melissa: blake, thank you for that. $1.2 billion a week. that is how much the shutdown is costing the economy, according to the white house own chief economist kevin hassett. david, erin are back with us. david, i never know how to take those numbers because so much is made up later. i don't know. how do you quantify the impact of something like that? >> well, i mean. >> from the investors perspective it historically a nothing burger. the dow is up 1500 points since the government first shut down. different economists will talk about. .1 of a percent of gdp each week or each two weeks. the fact of the matter, any point, the shut down can be stopped because of course mr. trump does look at stock market. no one should be selling stocks based on that. if the stock market falls off tremendously, i think you see more negotiations there. melissa: erin, always hard to measure the impact of this thing, they talk about people won't be included in payroll, aren't working, but we all know they're furloughed, sitting on the sidelines, will get the mone

. >> melissa: okay! i love that idea. [laughter] >> harris: we will try. democrat lawmakers demanding the attorney general's testify sooner rather than later. republicans are demanding the deputy attorney general testify, as well. whether we will see either official do this, and what it will me to the special counsel investigation. and, the president's choice to be the next attorney general making the rounds on capitol hill ahead of the high-stakes hearings next week to confirm william barr. whether or not democrats will make a stand to try and block his confirmation. >> i still believe, after the revelations about mr. fisa 'unsolicited memo, president trump ought to withdraw this nomination ♪ when cravings hit, hit back. choose glucerna, with slow release carbs to help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. glucerna. if you're a veteran homeownecall newday usa., home values are rising, and with newday's va cash out home loan, you can borrow up to 100 percent of your home's increased val

>> melissa: imagine steny hoyer. in the meantime, there's also a showdown over the state of the union set for six days from now. the president wants to go ahead with the speech, but speaker nancy pelosi could prevent him from delivering it in the house. sources telling fox news the president is preparing two versions of the address. when he can deliver in washington, and another that he would give someone else in the country. here is white house press secretary sarah sanders. >> we always like to have a plan b, but the president should be able to address the american people whether he does that from the halls of congress or whether he does that in another location. the president will talk to the american people on january 29th, as he does nearly every single day. we are going to continue moving forward with a state of the union. >> harris: in the meantime, speaker pelosi says that she hasn't heard from the president after asking them to postpone his address while the government shutdown continues. the only response s

let's reopen the government. >> melissa: all right. this morning, senate minority leader chuck schumer taking to the senate floor to double down on their criticism. watch this. >> so, the president continues to fear monger, and he makes up the facts. this is a presidency that is in crisis. in no way to the president's speech last night make a persuasive or even a new case for an exorbitantly expensive border wall. a wall that the president guaranteed would be paid by mexico. he says "i ran on this!" yeah, he ran on it saying mexico would pay for it. >> melissa: white house counselor kelly and connolly responding today to democratic cynicism criticism. watch this. >> the idea you could say these crises are manufactured when you know the suffering and the pain that so many families have endured, because their love ones have died at the hands of illegl aliens who should not have been here, the president detailed some of those real-life accounts yesterday. and said, "what if it was your child, your husband, your wife, your loved one?" for

[laughter] melissa? >> melissa: i see this different from everybody else i've heard so far. lot of what he talks about with the idea that it's a two party system not working. i think it's a little bit of the same thing the president said before. it is an antitrust message. after you watch this chart on a deep said, "look at all these people, they got together and fought!" and in the end, they didn't help anybody. they didn't help the daca recipients, there is no wall, the federal workers didn't work -- it was politics as usual. >> harris: they didn't even have themselves. >> melissa: nothing. in the end you do have people like nancy pelosi declaring victory, and you say, for what? you guys just proved that it's broken. and somebody like howard scholz is saying, "i don't want to be part of the two party system. i'm independent. yes, it would siphon off some of the democrats, but that also hints at that trump narrative of there is a swamp and it stinks. >> harris: but even president trump aligns himself with one of the two parties. right? so why doesn't that third party ever r

av thanks, melissa.ear that much trouble in the weather department this morning. it's all about theld it's been dry overnight, so all the stuff that melted out yesterday has refrozen this morning. side seweets and sks are probably going to be the trickiest part if you're getting out and getting goi this morning. 15 now in gaithersburg for temperate, 15 in prince george's county. 14 at dulles airport, only 10 in manassas. forecast for today getting ready to hit the road, watch out for e icy spots here early this morning, but more than enough melting later on today. don't forget to clean all of your car off, everybody. not just half and don't forget to t clean off roof as well. also, good time to get some extr windshield washer fluid because you'll be using those an awful lot the next c.ple da more about the big drop in temperatures expected later in the weekend coming up in a few. >>> thank you, chuck. >>> as we enter day 26 of the partial government shutdown, any deal any time soon seems unlikely. there

this is "outnumbered" and i'm melissa francis. here today is harris faulkner, town hall editor and fox news contributor katie pavlich, fox news contributor jessica tarlov, and joining us on the couch, josh holmes, former republican strategists and chief of staff to senator mitch mcconnell. what a perfect day to have you here. we are about to see some action, we hope. we want to lean on you and find out what would be the smartest thing going forward. a couple seconds to think about that? don't move. [laughter] senate majority leader mitch mcconnell reportedly looking to force democrats to either support the bill or blog for g.o.p. efforts to europe and the government. this, at the white house is accusing democrats of "playing politics with people's lives," as the shutdown drags on. placing the blame on house speaker nancy pelosi. watch this. >> she won't even have a conversation with the president. she was very clear that if we did everything the democrats wanted, if we voted for every piece they wanted, then they would talk to us.

>> melissa, thank you. 5:33.oad crews were out in parts of northern virginiaahead of this arctic blast treating roads before they became y. vdot officials were very clear that anything wet on the roadse ght would be ice this morning. news 4 is working on the roads right now, checking on the conditions. >> adam tuss is live on the road this morning. adam, where are you? what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, look, aaron, we're in the vienna area. roadre did do a good job. look of the the windshield, this is shady mill lane in the vienna area. there ar s certain sideeets that look a lot like this. ondary roads for the most part in really good shape, but then you get into the neighborhood streets and if y don't have a car that does well in the snow, i got news for you, you might be digging out or might not even be able to get up certain hills in certain parts of the area. across fairfax county, we have seen conditions kind of vary depending on where you are. butagain, it depends on really your neighborhood street,

. >> melissa: very newsy, catherine. thank you for that. judge, let me bring it out to you on the subject of william barr. he talked about this idea that it is common for officials, former officials, to weigh in through the use of a memo when they see things that they disagree with. putting their experience out there, to say, "i don't know if you're going about this the wrong way." but he doesn't like to see the law "torqued," the word he used. specifically, for anyone case. because that can backfire later. he used for case of -- he also wrote a memo about senator menendez, who he says he does not agree with politically. he thought, for example, that that prosecution was based on a false theory, and that it had long-term ramifications that were negative. so here is the case where he didn't agree with the person but he weighed in in memo form to say, "i don't think this is right, either." what did you make of those arguments? >> judge napolitano: it's not uncommon for former government officials to opine on technical matt

melissa: president trump flirts with the idea of declaring a national emergency to get his wall. but dose have the authority to do that? we are on it.

>> melissa knows this. lauryn knows this. >> i know i'm here. >> we're all trying to get back thinghe swing of >> what did you say, lauryn? >> i said, i know i'm here. i have no idea what d aynow. i. i don't know what time it is. >> we're going to talk to elissa about the roads in a second. first, lauryn, i'm sure there's some graphic that tells you what day it is built into this forecast. >> i need to put them on there so i have a reminder. i do know it's raining today no tter what day it is, especially if you're south and east of d.c. if you're in d.c., le'reking at just cloudy conditions. i think we're going to goainly rain free here inside the beltway and points to the north and west. lot of rain rolling in from the deep south. passing just south of the area right now and just south of d.c. again, you can see the beltway right the t. tht rain down through southern maryland, going through st. mary's county and out to the eastern shore. if you're making your way out of southern maryland, probably going to

melissa will filn us in o that. chuck, how about the forecast?l, absolutely way below freezing this morning all across the region m andh like yesterday morning, parts of northern virginia, northern ntgomery country are real cold this morning, down to 11 in manassas. mid teens

melissa mollet is standing by. but first chuck bell with this very cold morning. >> goodng mor temperatures have fallen into the teens. there is optism in the forecast and sunshine today and a whole lot less of a gusty wind will allowemperatures back in to freezing. as youep outside, same goal numbers. mid teens around the city. the winds are nowher near as strong as yesterday, but even a little as the feels-like temperature is back down. so heavi coat, hat, scarves, gloves all railroad. tomorrow and thursday, you're probably going to need i here's your school day forecast. mid teens in the next hour or 34. climbing up to a closer look on into the beginning of the weekend coming up in a few more minutes. all right, melissa, what have we got? >> we're seeing northbound at i. right si blocked by the disabled vehicle, not really causing any issue there.g so we're go to take a look a oumething else coming up. centreville, eas 66, 29 centreville, crash on the left side. 95 in virginia, no issues. white's ferry shut down