he goes to nashville. he is attacked at nashville. and on the first day of the retreat or the second day of the retreat, hood sends a dispatch to beauregard saying, we have just been defeated. we are in full retreat. and once i safely cross the river -- excuse me, the tennessee river, i will get back to you with more details. so five or six days later, after hood safely crosses the tennessee river and back into northern alabama, hood sends another message saying we have completed the retreat, and we thankfully have not lost much more since the battle in front of nashville. he had told -- he had informed beauregard that they had been defeated in nashville and have lost 50 canon, so he says, and we are in full retreat. well, this is from stanley horn's book, "the army of tennessee." mr.mr. bourne wrote that -- horn wrote that on january 3, he received his first direct word telegraphed from corinth that must go down in a masterpiece of misleading understatement. "the army has recrossed the tennessee river without material loss since the

then he goes to nashville and he is attacked at nashville. on the first day or the second day of the retreat he sends a dispatch saying, we have just been defeated and we are in full retreat. and once i safely cross the tennessee river i will get back to you with more details. five or six days later after hood safely crosses the tennessee river and back into northern alabama he sends , another message saying we have completed the retreat and we thankfully have not lost much more since the battle in front of nashville. he had informed beauregard and they are in full retreat. this is from stanley horn's book, "the army of tennessee." he wrote on january 3, he received his first direct word telegraphed from corinth. that must go down in a masterpiece of understatement. "the army has recrossed the tennessee river without material loss since the battle of franklin." he goes on to say -- did not say anything of the shocking losses at franklin and the disaster at nashville. well, sword writes the same thing. it is the confederacy's last hurrah. he s

there are four and six lanes coming into nashville. outside of nashville they in a loop. you have 65 and interstate 40 running from the east coast to the west coast coming into two lanes in downtown nashville, tennessee. we have a liberal mayor that has made us a sanctuary city that is now looking at a billion-dollar infrastructure for rail system. system ineed a rail downtown nashville. you will go up different cities, that allows rural people to hop on the trains. do it like the japanese have done it. we're wasting money. host: thank you. guest: i think his overarching point is there is an impetus to enhance capacity. i can't speak specifically about but these major urban centers, big cities, mayors, governors, members of congress, they realized the need to enhance capacity. you have the trucking industry talking about this for years that being struck in traffic is excellent detrimental to the economy. takes about $63 million annually -- the economic impact of the trucking industry. enhancing capacity, that is on and ige to do list -- mean capacity on surface transporta

convention center in nashville. we will talk about the economy. some other things that will no doubt come up, the talks at camp david this past weekend. talk about a shift in topic since friday, the last words from the president via a tweet against this book and steve bannon. >> i think you will hear a lot about the wall and a promise that the wall is going to be built and that plays well in southern states in the midwest. don't forget he'll be going to the national championship game. we don't know what role he is going to play but that's alabama versus georgia. >> harris: who do you call in the game? >> i'm from georgia, i've got to go with the dogs. >> harris: i didn't know you were from georgia, too. the president has boarded air force one, he's headed to nashville, tennessee. he will be talking small business, the economy, he will address the farm bureau federation's convention as they await him. we will see you tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern as i always do for "special report." one of the most influential republi

i'm in hendersonville, just outside nashville, and alex has invited me to a musical landmark. incredible. i can't believe i'm here. >> welcome. >> thank you so much. and the cash cabin. what is this place? >> johnny cash built this cabin in the '80s as a getaway. one of the best recording studios in the world. >> and the families were close? >> yeah, our families go back to the '50s, when johnny and roy were roommates and labelmates at sun records. >> i can't wait to learn more, and i would love to see inside. >> of course. >> this cabin has been a creative refuge for dozens of major recording artists, but it's also like home to roy's boys, and a link to their late father. what was he like as a dad? >> he was pretty wonderful as a dad. >> born in 1936, roy spent much of his youth in vernon, texas. i heard that he wrote his first song at 8? >> he definitely had his first radio show as an 8-year-old. he walked down with his guitar and knocked on the door, and he said, "yeah, my name's roy orbison, and i want to play some songs for you guys." by the end of the year he had his own

he was mentioning the president is going to be in nashville.he speaking to the american farm bureau federation, 99th convention that they have had. they have invited the sitting president every single year. first time in 25 years a sitting president has said yes to that invitation. steve: that's right. the last one to go was president george herbert walker bush. the farmers understanding the president understands the challenges facing them these days. they said the president made it very clear farmers would have a seat at his table. they saved him a seat at the podium. pete: beissues deregulation. state tax that hits farmers a lot. he will talk about a lot of that from his tax reform bill. reasons why he is going to rural america when he says i am going to forgotten man. steve: today was going to be the day the president of the united states was going to unveil #fake news awards. pete: i can't wait. steve: put it off until next week. there is a lot to do. no doubt he is considering giving michael wolff an award for his book that came out. we ha

this is the president arriving in nashville earlier in this hour.ys the president will head to atlanta for tonight's college football championship game between the alabama crimson tide and the georgia bulldogs. as we would say down south, sec, sec, sec! just deal with it. deal with it. i have no room to speak over here. we have a georgia bulldog over here and an absent crimson tide over there. roll dogs! the lexus es. with standard technology like lexus safety system plus. the lexus es, and es hybrid. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >> shepard: on this day in 1790, president george washington delivered the first -- the country's first state of the union address. he spoke to members of congress in new york city, the capitol of the united states at the time. washington laid out his administration's plans and hinted at creating a stand-by army. or stand

there are four and six lanes coming into nashville. outside of nashville they in a loop. you

>> oh, it's the best. >> nashville. >> nashville is where i used to ring in my new year.he honky tonk just spilling out of all of those bars. sara sidner has been rocking the cowboy hat. sara sidner, happy almost new year's in nashville! >> i wanted to don my glasses, pun intended. hi, don and brooke. it is a crazy scene here there are more than 100,000 people who have shown up. at bicentennial park here in nashville. and that man, keith urban, has been taking down the house in here, playing with groups like lark and poe, a duo that is amazing. you've got to hear their music. two sisters that really have some serious rock 'n roll soul. and he keeps switching things up. he is playing all kinds of music. john mellencamp. he is playing reggae music. he is also playing some of his hits. the crowd loves him. but i want to give you a look at this crowd. it's insane. look. it's people. it's bars you can see. and by the way, there they all are! waiting for new year's eve to pop up. there are fans all over. i got to tell you, it is so cold here. you are lucky to be in new orleans.

greatest reserves of oil in the world and the queen of country music dolly parton in the studio in nashville talks to us about her new album i believe in you could help millions of british children learn to read after the closure of hundreds of libraries amidst the western economic crisis plus hours after her government met with venezuelan officials and the leader of the opposition asked me what money he was on and what we all know what money is he and his shadow chancellor on this planet venezuela tourism in a trice a survey of the u.k. labor party with the country deemed once by u.s. president jimmy carter to have the best electoral system in the world at this week's prime minister's questions gold and some more coming up in today's going underground but first five years ago today nicolas maduro was named vice president of venezuela by one of the most electorally successful politicians in the world who go chavez but during the would succeed chavez as president of the nation with the world's largest known oil reserves elected in a landslide in twenty five team but could threats from nato na

kennedy: when you're in nashville and get pulled over by the police in nashville, can you line dance of walk the line? griff: what's your name. kennedy: it's going to be a long night for griff jenkins. jesse: i wish i had a little of what griff was drinking. i could have used a little bit of that right now. we just got started. kennedy: but we only have 15 hours to go. it's going to be the best night ever. let's talk to bryan llenas who is in times square. our news man with the news. man. bryan. go! all right. bryan is going to come up in just a little bit. jesse, you may think you are the king of the man on the street interview and we're going to get back to bryan in a little bit. he's been arrested right now. i took a page out of your play book to see who people thought would be better at keeping resolutions, me or you. take a look at this. jesse: all right. kennedy: who do you think is more likely to break our new year's resolutions, me or jesse watters? >> jesse watt es? >> probably you because i don't know who jesse watters is. >> i'm watters and this is my world. kennedy: who i

that's in a speech in nashville which he will give later.. i think he is looking forward to getting out of town for a little bit, when he is in front of crowds he seems to draw energy from that. he is going to end up in georgia, watch ago football game with two southern states as well and i hear he is going to be surrounding himself with corporate ceos, might try to see if they can do more for workers. some corporations have already announced bonuses and they've given credit to republican tax bill so i think he may try to keep the ball rolling on that because it makes for good press and ta kes because it makes for good press and takes attention away from the fire and fury book and the tweets he sent out over the weekend and other distractions. there is the book. inside the trump white house, written by michael wolff who has been giving interviews about his experience collecting information for the book. here is some of the latest he said. the people in the white house are like everybody else in the country. what's going to happen here, we do

. - the music busins, i go to t music business nters to nashville and to los angeles and new york to work and then i travel on the road. you know, i still make a living playing-- - perform all over the country and all over the world right? - playing concerts, so i'm home at least half the time. still play 100 to 110 dates a year-- - my goodness. - which i, thankfully, i'm able to do and still love to do, but, so you know, living at home, sometimes i feel like it's a, it's a theoretical idea, but actually, when i'm home, i'm really home. - what'd your dad do, what'd your mom do? - my dad ended up in marketing. my dad started out when he was 17 in the mail room. the old humble company, his father got him a job with the company, his father worked at the refinery in baytown. my mom started when she was 17 with the company. my mom's uncle, alvin klein was his name, he worked there. he was the land lease man, and he got her a job there, and so my mom retired with 40 years and dad with 37, and they met working for the old humble company, so if it weren't for big oil, i wouldn't be here. (la

or new york well no i'm still live in nashville i love tennessee asked about the old home place you know back years ago where we my early days and so i've kind of built up that part of the you know of our world of they are close i love my family i love the smoky mountains i love who i am and where i'm from and the people that made me everything that i am so i love travel and i love going to new york i used to have an apartment there for years and i have a home in l.a. because i do a lot of business there but i just fan like days or weeks not months and years there because this is still. you know it's a poor state of i'm reading that maybe nine team found direct jobs have been attributed to dollywood and maybe one of billion dollars of economic impact for me about dollywood well dollywood we actually have dollywood the theme park we have a water park we have a couple of dinner theaters out on the parkway as well so we generate a lot of jobs for a lot of the people in the area and now we have a new resort called the dream or resorts is doing really well and that employs a lot of people as

he'll be flying to nashville to give a speech. then on to watch the college football game tonight in georgia. it is, of course, a possibility the president will come back into the press cabin, perhaps, to take questions from a small pool gathered on air force one. we don't have any expectation that will happen. no expectation it won't happen. we're eager to hear from the president on that. we're also eager to hear from the president's legal team. the president's outside counsel declined to comment initially but a few hours ago i heard from john dowd, the president's outside lawyer who says, the white house does not comment on communications with the osc, the office of the special counsel, out of respect for the osc and its process. adding, the white house is continuing its full cooperation with the osc in order to facilitate the earliest possible resolution. that's interesting. the earliest possible resolution. what i've heard privately and i think you've heard publicly from the president's legal team, they believe, they hope this

and i know that in the comeumentd of nashville i went going to have the opportunity maybe to donate $10thing that was just impactful in a different way and starting this program has been, it's been amazing. it has had the same impact that my foundation has had in montreal, and a little bit of a different way and the kids. i mean i wish she could be there to see the look on the kid's faces when it is the first time go to a hockey game, first time really doing anything that they can think of in a positive way. and so have police officers there to do it with them, it's just been great. >> so you have these kids who meet up with a police officer. they come to a game, you get them tickets, buy them dinner, they hang out together. i would like to understand why you thought that that wab something you would want to do everything tackles it in a different way, but why that, why the kids with the police officers. >> well, first of all, i think that i have, like i said, friends that work in law enforcement. and i think that we need to celebrate the good that they do as well. and i think that the

it was great that it was here in nashville. we people in nashville deserve some great credit, and he came here for us. it's super. liz: you know, earlier knows how to speak to the american people. >> it's amazing. liz: i hate to say this. i don't want to be a clichÉ call it a barn burner of a speech but there was a lot of applause, and he has talked personally about 401(k)s, and i think this is what we're going to show you. he added how a police officer came up to him and says thank you for my 401(k). let's listen. trump: i had a policemen in new york come up to me and said mr. president -- i was shaking hands. do we love our police and our uniform? [applause] and he came up -- we were taking pictures and nice event. and he said, sir, i want to thank you for my 401(k). i never thought in terms of this way. i said i think i'm going to use this every once in a while. he said my 401(k) is up 39%. it's so good my wife think so i'm -- don't forget this is in, like, nine months when i met him. said my wife think so i'm an investment

that boy is from arkansas but he's tearing it up nashville style.fox news. >> lea. >> where are you from? >> youtube and i'm originally from new jersey. >> i'm also from new jersey but both f us live in atlanta. >> why do you want to be in nashville tonight? >> we wanted to be colder than atlanta but not quite as cold as new jersey. do you have any new year's resolution or anything that you're looking forward in 2018? >> not smoke anymore. >> what's that? >> quit smoking. >> that's a good one. >> it'll help with the cardio for dancing because we have only been dancing for about a month together. i'm new at this, he's the pro. our new year's resolution -- >> you have only been dancing one month. >> let me show you a move right here. hold on, you're ready? >> let's see it. >> is that good? do i have hope for me? >> for sure. >> well, there's hope for me, i'm going to try to dance with the people and figure this out. i don't know how, but back to you, i have time to practice. ♪ ♪ >> not my dancing. >> it's a good thing griff is a really, really good re

so the titans, their season, we were there week one, they took on oakland in nashville and got blown out by houston and recovered at 8-4. mariota went through health issues and then lost three in a row and had to week win week 17 and beat jacksonville and eliminated kansas city. that thrown in the area of walker. what do you see with this team, tony, looking ahead to next year? tony: ownership came out and supported mularkey and a big win last week to sustain yourself to be back as the coach. and the players like him. but they have to take a step. they did it this year. but march yosto took -- mariota took ar step back. not a good season for someone who has high hopes in this city for. and they have to figure -- they have an identity and got some young talent. getting a little older on the d-line. i want to see them get a little more aggressive down the field with those too type of things but in some ways, mariota has to push the ball down the field and be a little bit more quick through the progress gregses and get the ball out and trust. they are using his legs more and more each e

air force one taking off for nashville where the president will address the convention. hello, i am dana perino. this is "the daily briefing." ♪ even with today's focus on american farmers, the explosive white house until all is still in the headlines. farmers chief strategist steve bannon tries to make amends. live in nashville come out what the possibility of the president speaking with robert miller andt from the special counsel? >> it's a little bit loud as you can well imagine. it's an excited crowd hoping the president will come forward and really stir things up at the american farm bureau. we will talk about that in in a moment. there is a lot of nuance, to be honest. as it relates to the white house -- a possible agreement with the president's legal team to allow him to actually be interviewed by the special counsel. they are considering the possible form of what could be an interview. they are quick to point out it may not ever happen, dana. let me share you a statement we got from the president's lawyer, who has always been very kind to give at the very latest

and nashville, tennessee. t-e-n-n-e-s-e-e. okay. b, 4. final answer. >> i hate to say it.y. >> i'm so sorry. but it was so good to meet you, and i'm so glad you got to come out here and play. i hope you had fun. we're gonna come back, we're gonna play more whiz kids right after this. [applause] [dramatic music] ♪ modern, young, cutting edge. let originality become your reality at the linq, the new home of urban art-inspired rooms and endless dining options, including guy fieri's vegas kitchen & bar. located in the center of the strip, you'll love life strip, you'll love life at the linq. for mild-to-moderate eczema? it can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. the face of a fisherman? the hand of a ranch hand? the knee of a needle pointer? prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. it blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. and it's steroid-free.

earlier in the day he was speaking in nashville.n't seen much in the way of controversy but the president set >> we want our flag respected. we want our national anthem respected also. there's plenty of space for people to express their views and to protest. but we love our flag, we love our anthem and we want to keep it that way >> the president in nashville delivered remarks to the farm bureau. he talked up the new tax law. he took a moment to brag again about his election victory. >> oh, are you happy you voted for me. you are so lucky that i gave you that privilege. the other choice wasn't going to work out too well for the farmers. or i minors >> and talking about broad band access to world areas, he sign todd speeding up the process to make broad band more available in more places and gave farmers a suggestion of what pages they should visit online >> look up at real donald trump. i have a feeling you get that anyway. it's the only way around the media, fake media. >> so much travel today, the president must not have what his

so the titans, their season, we were there week one, they took on oakland in nashville and got blown out by houston and

this is not the speech that we saw in nashville that he gave earlier today.can say whatever he likes. we can fact check it but he can say what he likes. this not that. in the past he has been, to phil's point, i don't want to say backed into a corner but forced to confront directly, well, you're saying this and you said that. those two things are directly contradictory. how do you explain. he has struggled, as any of us, he has struggled to do that. >> it's one thing if you tell an untruth or lie before a civil deposition in a lawsuit over the years, but if you lie to robert mueller in a deposition along these lines, a q&a, that's a -- that's a federal crime. >> to dana's point, too, he hadn't been the president of the united states before. the stakes are immeasurably higher. >> everybody stand by. other information coming into "the situation room" as we speak. we'll be right back. . wondering, "what if?" i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's

the president in nashville today. >> you people know real estate. they have rooms all over this beautiful building are packed. but you're here with us, right? and i say packed with our people. so it's great. so thank you very much, secretary purdue, for the kind introduction. there could be no better person to be our secretary of agriculture. a man known, trusted and respected by your industry. that's for sure. i'm thrilled to be back in the amazing state of tennessee. [cheers & applause] here as the state slogan goes, we see america as its absolute best, and you're doing well. you're doing a lot better since november 8, i might add. at the same time, it's true of the people gathered here today in our nation's former and -- you know that -- our nation's farmers are just the most incredible people and we're doing a job for you. you're seeing it like nobody else. regulation, death tax, so much. your a big beneficiary and you're really producing like nobody else. i want to thank you for that. [applause] and that's why i'm so honored to be the first pre

marshall, looby, weaver, go back towards nashville on that main highway.marshall: they didn't catch us at all. juan william: marshall almost died right there in tennessee. narrator: when he reached his nashville hotel room, marshall called attorney general tom clark to tell him what had happened. thurgood marshall: i told him i was arrested for drunken driving and tom said "well were you drunk?" i said "no, but five minutes after i talk to you!" roger wilkins: i don't know how you could do that kind of work over and over and over again. he puts his whole body and soul at risk in his attempts to make this country better. i think thurgood was the bravest man i ever knew. narrator: by 1950, marshall had escaped the loaded gun of a dallas sheriff, spent a long night one car ahead of the klan on long island, hid in the bushes from a violent mob in detroit, and finally survived his own lynching. in this impossible environment, he had won 10 major supreme court cases and set the stage for a direct attack on segregation and in the early 1950s, marshall and his col

of course, it's in nashville, tennessee where the hermitage is located where andrew jackson called his home for three decades. it's a huge sprawling ranch. he pointed out on january 8th on this day 203 years ago andrew jackson won the battle of new orleans and talked about the impact this man had on this country. watch. >> today the battle of new orleans lives on in the american soul and it lives on in each and every one of you. our task is to preserve the freedom that american soldiers have fought for and died for in every generation. the americans held their ground. independence was secured. andrew jackson's name was etched in to history. and those patriot farmers proved once again that in the words of andrew jackson farmers are the basis of

. >> reporter: interstate 440 is the road nashville residents complain about most. >> it's like riding on a dirt road. >> it can rattle your teeth. >> reporter: what makes 440 so bad? >> everything. >> reporter: it's a pothole-laden, roughly seven-mile stretch of decades-old concrete linking three freeways. the state plans to spend about $100 million to rebuild and expand 440 starting this summer. it's part of a $10 billion backlog of infrastructure projects statewide. >> it just needs to be worked on. >> reporter: nationally, u.s. infrastructure earns a d-plus, according to the american society of civil engineers. at least $2 trillion is needed over the next decade to keep pace. >> it's also time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. ( applause ) >> reporter: president trump is calling for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that would likely redirect $200 billion in existing funds from amtrak and transit programs, while calling for hundreds of billions more from cities, states, and the private sector. but private investment requires projects that make money, like toll roads, wh

couldn't get a gig in nashville tennessee which is 120 miles up the road. i said, well, i'm going to build myself a studio and cut some hit records. >> hall's muscle shoals sound often teamed white session musicians with black singers. all while recording in the still segregated deep south. >> while george wall as was making a statement of, of -- segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever. i was in this studio, and muscle shoals, cutting a round of 1,000 dancers on wilson peck it. >> in 1968, hall gave dwayne alman a shot using him on wilson picket's version of hey jude. ♪ ♪ he ♪ don't make it bad ♪ the muscle shoals sound spread as mothers opened studios in the area. with acts like the rolling stones. >> what's your name? little girl ♪ >> leonard skinard. >> and paul simon. all recording hits in northern alabama. in 2015, we visited fame studios. with singer songwriter, jason isbell where he recorded something more than free. ♪ you were singing that night by yourself ♪ >> isbell who grew up a few miles from muscle shoals, has deep conne

he have said to nashville later today. focusing on rural communities in the farming industry. is a key issue. here is what house majority leader told me yesterday about reaching a deal. we want to solve this problem but most importantly we don't want to deal with this problem in the future. yet the border security you have to deal with chain migration and it's a place that everybody can find common ground. after the policy speech in nashville he will make his way to atlanta for the college championship game between alabama and georgia. even admitted controversies. once again continuing the momentum. the dow jones industrial average cracking through the new milestone of 25,000 the fridays market was strong. also stronger by almost 1% apiece. we are well off of the highs of the morning. the dow jones industrial average is down about 15 points. they pull back from last week's amazing record run. we started off pretty strongly things have begun to give back the highs. it's up to his 14 points while off the highs of the morning. about a 40% higher off the high. japan is still close

>> tennessee, nashville. >> nashville, tennessee! why are you here and not outside in the cold? person here at the moment. sorry? oh -- >> oh, come on, now. you're trying to get familiar with me. >> oh, yes, you look dashing tonight. >> would you be my date? >> of course! >> there we go. this all can be happening. so andy and anderson, there is plenty of food here. andy, there are toilets here. yeah. toilets. so -- i know that cold weather, what it can do to a man of a certain age. >> all right. thank you, richard. >> of a certain age! >> you should say that in a british accent. >> oh, they're on to the breadsticks. >> the breadsticks. the famous breadsticks. richard, is this your first time in an olive garden? >> well, i -- no, i have been to an olive garden before. it was in tuscany. >> yes! >> yes. >> richard, what makes me think i'm older than you? >> i think i'll take a diplomatic license -- no, with i think i'm well older than you. i was just saying, because i know you were concerned, four hours in the bitterly cold. >> yes, yes. >> so richard, thank you. you are looking f

so the titans, their season, we were there week one, they took on oakland in nashville and got blown out by houston and recovered at 8-4. mariota went through health issues and then lost three in a row and had to week win week 17 and beat jacksonville and eliminated kansas city. that thrown in the area of walker. what do you see with this team, tony, looking ahead to next year? tony: ownership came out and supported mularkey and a big win last week to sustain yourself to be back as the coach. and the players like him. but they have to take a step. they did it this year. but march yosto took -- mariota took ar step back. not a good season for someone who has high hopes in this city for. and they have to figure -- they have an identity and got some young talent. getting a little older on the d-line. i want to see them get a little more aggressive down the field with those too type of things but in some ways, mariota has to push the ball down the field and be a little bit more quick through the progress gregses and get the ball out and trust. they are using his legs more and more each e

[explosions] kimberly: and with that, a prominent piece of nashville skyline is no more. withraper tower went down nearly 700 pounds of explosives. a hotel will be billed in its place as part of a new neighborhood being developed. a dog is recovering after falling into in icy pond in chesterfield, virginia, the daring rescue caught on camera. neighbors helped pull the dog to safety yesterday using a ladder, a kayak, then a harness. after several tries, atlas was out of the frigid water. >> i'm not a hero. anybody would have done that in that circumstance. just hope someone he would do that if my dog was stuck on the ice. kimberly: temperature was so low that it did not initially register on a thermometer, but atlas is expected to make a full recovery. let's check in with meteorologist brian van de graaff. it has been awfully chilly. today was sure, 21 the high, the second day in a row where the temperatures were rolling in the low 20's. the average high is 43. that means we were 22 degrees from where we should be. i think tonight could be the coldest night thus far. the w

there is the shot from nashville. you can see they are awaiting president trump as are we. melissa: adam, thank you. david: liz peek from the "fiscal times," dan heninger from "the wall street journal," a fox news contributor, ned ryun, american majority founder and ceo and guy benson townhall.com, also a fox news contributor. guy, i will start with you, the people to whom the president is about to speak could care less about 90% of what the media is talking about today, this new book about the president, oprah winfrey, et cetera. they care about what is affecting them directly and frankly this is the president's strongest base, rural america is much stronger for the president than the cities are where the media is located. he is in his very comfortable setting, right? >> david, this is not an oprah segment? i'm confused? david: you have the wrong preview, i'm sorry. >> no, no. look, i think part of the problem with the book that is consuming this town, washington, d.c., is that the president keeps talking about it and tweeting about it and the white house is feeding some o

boris sanchez is in nashville where the president is set to speak. boris sanchez are we expecting this controversy to come up at all in his address and or is it all about look at me and taxes and what we're about to accomplish in this country. >> reporter: brooke, when it comes to president trump in front of friendly crowds you can expect the unexpected. you know when he's around his supporters in an atmosphere like this one he is prone to relish the moment and to go off-the-cuff and to attack his political opponents, whether it be democrat decs, and other republicans and potentially his former white house chief strategist steve bannon or the auth are on of "fire and fury" he's here to deliver a message to the american farm bureau which is the first time that a sitting president will address this group in more than 25 years and that really underscores his messaging to these folks from rural communities that he is behind them, that he will fight for them specifically as you said, he's expected to tout the tax reform legislation that was passed in dece

chris and his wife morgan invited us to their farm outside of nashville for a sunday sit down. ♪ usedin a barroom ♪ ♪ >> november 4th, 2015, the night chris stapleton's life changed for good with an assist from one of the biggest stars on the planet, justin timberlake. the eight minute performance set the arena and stapleton's career on fire. his debut album "traveller" rocketed to the top of the charts with sales growing 6,000% after the show. stapleton won three cma awards that night. three months later he added a pair of grammys. >> did it feel in the moment like something magical was happening? >> i knew we were going to have fun. two guys that wouldn't seem like they would go together at all find a place to live together. >> that stage was a long way from stapleton's humble beginnings. he grew up the son of a cool miner in a small town in eastern kentucky. avenues musician, football player and va elel valecdorian high school class. >> i had an uncle was musical and taught me a few things on the guitar. i came to music through a lack of wanting to do anything else. >> stapleton to

. >> reporter: president donald trump went to nashville to praise >> under the huge tax cuts we just passed, americans will pay less in taxes and keep more of their own money. >> reporter: in front of an audience of farmers, the president made the case he was fighting for them. >> as we put money in the pockets of all americans, including farmers and ranchers, we are putting an end to the regulatory assault on your way of life. >> reporter: in washington, there is a simmering debate about the president's fitness for office. michael wolff set off aspires -- set off a firestorm in his book, fire and fury, as painting the president as semi- literate. the president slam the book over the weekend and tweeted he was a genius and a very stable genius, at that. >> [laughter] if he doesn't call himself a genus, no one else will. >> reporter: during the 2016 campaign, lindsey graham called then candidate trump's several things but came to his defense today. >> he is my prid doing a really good job on multiple fronts. >> reporter: voices in the white house called the allegations from the book a

stopping what he called god's country in nashville, addressing the american farm bureau's, calling forct for the flag and the national anthem. >> we went our flag respected, we went our national anthem respected also. there is plenty of space for people to express their views and to protest but we love our flag, we love our and demand we want to keep it that way. >> the first appearance by a sitting president and a quarter century, joined by the secretary of agriculture and lawmakers, connecting with the heartland and the tax overhaul. >> on nafta i am working hard to get a better deal for our country and manufacturers. it is under negotiation as we speak. want to see even more victories for the american farmer in the american rancher. >> reporter: following the speech he signed an executive order on broadband increasing access to farmers by easing the process of bringing private broadband infrastructure to federal property. he also addressed issues like nafta and the opioid crisis which has hit rural communities so hard. >> reporter: who were you pulling for last night? >> reporter: i

that's the way it works in nashville. if you contribute anything, clinton-gore just the song name to a song, you get a part of the royalty. well, lee bryce is a pretty well-known singer as well as a songwriter, and he put the song on his album. you would think the royalty would add up to a lot of money. but in 2016, on my senate financial disclosure, i reported receiving $101.75 in royalties from my one-fourth of the song "falling apart together." if you're a songwriter living in nashville or memphis or los angeles or new york or anywhere or provo or salt lake city, you can't make a living on $101.75. the other problem facing songwriters is that music is increasingly played online. companies like spotify, pandora, amazon, apple, offer listeners virtually unlimited access to digital music libraries that they can play using the internet whenever they want. according to nielsen, there are nearly 86 million paying subscribers to these types of digital music streaming services. 86 million paying subscribers. in 2016, these sub

the president, you can see air force one on the ground in nashville. we're waiting for him to come out. back to hallie. what else happeneding on that plane and what else did we hear from hogan gibley? >> reporter: a couple of things as we get ready to watch the president stepping out of air force one arriving in nashville for a speech likely focused, that will largely be focused on agriculture talking about be deregulations and what he's done to roll back red tape for the american farmer and head to georgia for that football game. one of the deputy press secretaries here, a couple headlines that relate to two people whose names have been in the news quite a bit over the last 72 hours. steve bannon and oprah winfrey. on bannon, asked would the president accept what you could call a bannon non-apology or a statement of regret at least? gidly does not believe there is in way back for steve bannon at this point. >> hmm. >> reporter: calling the comments made about the president's family members repugnant. let me add a little grain of salt there, because i

here is the president in nashville yesterday. >> we are going to end chain migration.e are going to end the lottery system and we are going to build the wall. >> well, as for the so called dreamers caught in the border wall battle there's an estimated 800,000 of them. they are young people generally brought to the u.s. as general against their -- they weren't consciously coming here. they were brought here because their parents brought them. the president announced he will end the program that was created by executive order that was created by president obama in 2012 but trump gave congress until march 5th of this year to come up with a solution. the program protects those young people from deportation. it allows them to go to work, go to school and be productive. >> to be productive and pay taxes. >> to be eligible, you have to have arrived in the united states below the age -- before they turn 16. had to have lived in the united states since june 15th of 2007. they can't be older than 30 when the program kicked in in 2012. >> this part is important. >> they have to h

cheryl: the president will be in nashville to address the opiate crisis in his remarks.ning a major legal battle. >> a judge has tossed out a loss suit against iraq's claim that under filled loss comps to save a little money. we've all gotten a lot teen realized maybe wasn't held a smudge for the foam was taking up too much space but they said there wasn't enough evidence to prove all of this in any reasonable customer would realize that the film is going to be there because it's part of a lot say. lauren: and starbucks defense if you ever you don't like your drink he told the priest that they are happy to help you. cheryl: or order without phone. lauren: or do that. the broader market with a surgery new year. the s&p 500 gained two points 6%. mark bloomfield, president and ceo for capital formation might have been it there. would you think, mark? >> when we say with all this talk about fiction on a fiction or nonfiction. i listen to you before you go out for my daily run. in terms of the issue you are racing, the jobs report friday confirmed that have recovery out there

with bas or phd in nashville.e bas than all pt cities combined. it's just a different scale, let's be honest. >> have you crunched your own numbers in terms of what the economic boon of having an amazon in new york city would be >> there is no absolute one number we know they're planning to spend $5 billion just on the real estate alone. that would have an extraordinary impact on our construction numbers, our construction worker numbers and again, those buildings will be paying taxes those folks will be living in new york city. they'll be buying a lot of food at restaurants they'll be really be beiing par the city 50,000 high paying jobs for new york se yorkers is very interesting. >> it's been a huge story in new york the state of the subway system, dilapidated, underinvested. money has been wasted. to what extent do you need to explain to the likes of an amazon eventually an apple others what new york's concrete plan is to fix that? it's one of the biggest selling points for new york. >> i agree even with all th

>> tennessee, nashville. >> nashville, tennessee? why are you here and not outside in the cold? have a load of fair weather -- unfortunately, i do seem to be the best dressed person here at the moment. >> oh, come on now. >> you're trying to get familiar with me. >> oh, yes. you look dashing tonight. >> would you be my date? >> of course. >> there so andy and anderson, there's plenty of food here. andy, there are toilets yeah, so i know that cold weather, what it can do to a man of a certain age. >> thank you, richard. certain ? >> yeah're , they're on to the d sticks. >> richard, is this your first time in an olive garden before? says have been to an olive garden before in tuscany. i know you were concerned four hours in the bitterly cold. >> so richard, thank you. you are looking very dashing. i do want to go to randi kaye. she's joining us again along with a -- well, she's in colorado where, i guess recreation marijuana use is okay. how is it going, randi? >> it's going great. i'm definitely earning the nickname kush kay. i game prepared this year. i thought maybe i would bri

president addressed that topic earlier in the day during a speech before thousands of farmers in nashville, tennessee. he highlighted aspects of the tax bill he says will benefit them. >> you'll be spared and it really is the word punishment of the deeply unfair estate tax known as the death tax so you can keep your farms in the family. >> reporter: while in nashville the president also signed an executive order aimed at expanding broadband to rural areas. over the weekend the president defended his fitness for office following the publication of the explosive new book, "fire and fury." tonight the author of that book, michael wolff will join stephen colbert on the late show and he isn't holding anything back. >> everybody in the white house had their own press secretary. so the president has his own press secretary, not sean spicer, but his private press secretary. jared had a press secretary, steve bannon had a press secretary. so there are all these different press operations. so the answer why there are so many leaks in this white house, that's what they did all day. >> you can watch t

. >> the president travels to nashville today to make remarks and then atlanta finally tonight, guys,will take the national college football championship, we will see if he has anything more to say about this? >> i'm sure he does. we have been hearing for a long time, other media outlets talking about president trump's mental illness, stability. rob: sure, montage of some of the sound that we heard over the weekend. here we go. >> not only amplify it is coverage of this but also amplify it is question that the book raises. >> the warning signs were there and we did not do enough. >> you hear him put out the statement, genius like nixon saying i'm not a crook. his ability to process information, impulse control. >> if we do have a president who has some fitness issues, even though he says he's like really smart, there are problems happening. >> he has put questions of incompetency in responding in way he has in middle of conversation. >> then it is actually quite frightening for the american people. >> we have all written this 500 times. >> yeah, the conversation has been ramped up sin