even peter mcconnell said he wasn't completely clear on where the president stood with some of these immigration priorities. so the president shifting his policy positions behind the scenes under pressure from his conservative base? sarah: not at all. the president, as well as the administration, we've laid out clearly in a three-page memo what our priorities are, what our principles are, for this process. and we have been very consistent on that front. reporter: -- [inaudible] -- veto power over any immigration deal? sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country is the president. thanks, guys. reporter: is it still too early to talk about gun control? >> before the- house voted on the three-week spending bill, members of the congressional black caucus held a news conference to voice their opposition to the measure. this is 25 minutes. >> first of all, thank you all for joining us this afternoon as the congressional black caucus announces to the country a couple of things, one of which the congressional black cauc

even peter mcconnell said he wasn't completely clear on where the president stood with some of these immigration priorities. so the president shifting his policy positions behind the scenes under pressure from his conservative base? sarah: not at all. the president, as well as the administration, we've laid out clearly in a three-page memo what our priorities are, what our principles are, for this process. and we have been very consistent on that front. reporter: -- [inaudible] -- veto power over any immigration deal? sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country is the president. thanks, guys. reporter: is it still too early to talk about gun control? announcer: you for the house voted on the three-week spending bill, members of the congressional black caucus held a news conference to voice their opposition to the measure. this is 25 minutes. >> first of all, thank you all for joining us this afternoon as the congressional black caucus announces to the country a couple of things, one of

even peter mcconnell said he wasn't completely clear on where the president stood with some of these immigration priorities. so the president shifting his policy positions behind the scenes under pressure from his conservative base? sarah: not at all. the president, as well as the administration, we've laid out clearly in a three-page memo what our priorities are, what our principles are, for this process. and we have been very consistent on that front. reporter: -- [inaudible] -- veto power over any immigration deal? sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of

even peter mcconnell said he wasn't completely clear on where the president stood with some of these immigration priorities. so the president shifting his policy positions behind the scenes under pressure from his conservative base? sarah: not at all. the president, as well as the administration, we've laid out clearly in a three-page memo what our priorities are, what our principles are, for this process. and we have been very consistent on that front. reporter: -- [inaudible] -- veto power over any immigration deal? sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country s the president. thanks guys. >> is it still too early to be talking about gun control? [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: a fin

. >> this morning, the president has spoken to peter mcconnell, speaker ryan -- leader mcconnell, speaker ryan, speaker mccarthy -- leader mccarthy. he also spoke with secretary .attis, who gave him an update about 90,000 national guardsmen and 20,000 army reservists have had their training canceled because of the government shutdown and additional costs they have had to incur, picking up their own pay and travel costs. thetand here, ready to sign bill that the house passed last night, anxious

. >> this morning, the president has spoken to peter mcconnell, speaker ryan -- leader mcconnell, speaker ryan, speaker mccarthy -- leader mccarthy. he also spoke with secretary .attis, who gave him an update about 90,000 national guardsmen and 20,000 army reservists have had their training canceled because of the government shutdown and additional costs they have had to incur, picking up their own pay and travel costs. thetand here, ready to sign bill that the house passed last keep thexious to government open -- or should i say to reopen the government. the white house position remains the same -- we will not negotiate the status of 690,000 unlawful immigrants while hundreds of millions of taxpaying americans, including hundreds of thousands of our troops in uniform and border agents protecting our country are held hostage by senate democrats. we continue to remain anxious to reach a deal on daca, and we look forward to resuming those negotiations as soon as the senate democrats rio open the thernment -- reopen government. the reality that is difficult for many americans to understand i

. >> and peter, the republican establishment, particularly mitch mcconnell with trump today, seemed almost gleeful that this book may bring about bannon's demise and no singing of kum ba yah, but are they missing the point hi book paints a picture of the white house where no one, 100%, no one, thinks the president is intellectually or psychological up to the job? >> burn the village down. so intent in the senate now to preserve their very narrow majority, just one seat, 51 seats out of 100, that the idea of bannon going down takes precedent over the concern you just mentioned. bannon, of course, threatening to wage war against republicans in primaries this year. the president winked, nodded saying, well, i'm not for that but left open the idea that wasn't a bad thing from his points of view and mr. mcconnell is looking at a clearer field, they thinks, in terms of getting his incumbents re-elected. the number one job of the senator majority leader. the book raises larger concerns. concerns that have been whispered about among republicans on capitol hill for a year now. this would have surfa

house legislative director marc short and said that the president has spoken to mcconnell at least once today, julie. julie: peter, how are democrats defending their no votes when it comes to the continuing resolution? >> julie, they are basically saying they are voting no because an immigration deal that they thought might happen fell apart. >> negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with jello, that why this will be called the trump shutdown. president's time is requirement- >> pelosi is i think to anything she can to scrub schumer shutdown because she is now instead trying to name this one after the president. she just said, happy anniversary, mr. president, your wish came true, you wanted a shutdown, the trump shutdown is all yours and i just wrote -- road up hire with republican senator and democratic senator said you know that's how i like to spend my weekends, so there is an appetite to make a deal, it just doesn't seem like it's going to happen any time soon because both sides are so dug in. julie: yeah, both sides are pointing fingers as they always do when an agreement with not be reached b

and that's all the sport it's back to julian landed peter thank you judicial steam locomotives are eiffel towers made of mcconnelljust some of the exhibits on display at model engineering show here in london there are hundreds of exhibits and many here to see them but the future modeling facing an uphill struggle pieces sharp as the story. toys for the boys well not exactly this is london showcase of modeling forty five clubs and societies display more than two thousand exhibits but you struggle to find the few in the crowd under the age of sixty modeling may be on its way to being a by gone on record is produced. it took eiffel twenty seven months to build his tower paris using eiffel so regional drawings colin davis spent over a year to create the precise dimension of this complex architectural masterpiece the hof inch hole spacing for the macondo is exactly a five foot six inches which is about off height perhaps more challenging in scope and scale the five metre long replica of the royal navy's h.m.s. ah well dan forty started terry ninety ninety two and finished twenty five years later he served on a similar

that means mitch mcconnell needs the help of 13 democrats to keep the lights on past midnight tonight and that's why so many folks around here are so pessimistic right now. >> harris: peter doocy, thank you very much. we have senate leadership with us right now. the head of the conference committee chairman joins us now from capitol hill. mitch mcconnell, the majority leader of your party we think is not at that meeting with the president and chuck schumer, why not? >> i'm not sure i know the answer to that, harris. i would hope that the leader would be involved in those conversations and discussions, hopefully the president is going to talk some sense into senator schumer, who is heading us down this path toward a government shutdown. frankly over an issue that is unrelated to funding the government but more important he doesn't have a deadline until the middle of march. there is no sense of urgency about this. the democrats have adopted a position that is inconsistent with the reality of where we are. we need to keep the government funded, we need to make sure our military gets funded. we have health insurance programs for 9 million children that will be funded and aut

mcconnell. in a moment we'll go live to gop congressman ron desantis in washington >>> also tonight, our panel and peterweitzer joins me in tonight's swamp watch. and and coulter is here to break down president trump's first year in office. >>> first, as a public service to you our audience, i have sat through hours of misery today watching d.c. politicians try to explain the shotdown shambles. what an embarrassment they are. that they pop up on or tv screens blaming each other, keep saying how much they want to avoid a shutdown but give the impression that they're loving the drama and the attention. i'm sick of all of them and their political games. and i know you are too. let's deal with the short term. it's perfectly obvious that this shutdown is engineered by the democrats to pander to their extremist base. why else would they shove the daca issue into the middle of the entire federal spending bill when it's got nothing to do with spending and there's a separate negotiation on immigration that doesn't have to be completed until march. but the real question is why do woe have this endless crisis over

mcconnell. in a moment we'll go live to gop congressman ron desantis in washington >>> also tonight, our panel and peterh. and and coulter is here

speaker ryan and leader mcconnell, without the commitment of the president, would not agree to accept anything, peter-- either. what happened to the president trump who asked us to come with a deal and promised that he would take peace forward? what happened to that president? he backed off at the first sign of pressure. deal onhe outline of a tax, we have the outline of a deal on health care, we had an outline of a deal on immigration, the toughest issue. it was real, it was on honest-to-goodness breakthrough. we could have passed a short-term extension of funding so that we could cross the t's, with iti's, and be done all, but the dynamics of the last few weeks, during which congressional republicans looked for guidance,nt and the president provided nine, prevails again today. host: one follow-up on a that conversation between chuck schumer and president trump, or into sam stein, a daily beast thatter, he tweeted out according to one of his sources, it was general kelly who called schumer to say the outline of the deal was "too liberal." sam stein putting that out last night and we want to hear fro

peters, it is great to have you on our broadcast. steve bannon used the royal "we" on behalf of a movement when he says things like mitch mcconnell were coming for you, we are coming after you. does he have a constiuency? >> that's the funny thing of revolution, brian. that's what's happening to steve bannon at this moment. it is difficult to see where his constituent si is. his backers in the mercers, i don't know how you build a movement if you don't have political capital and financial capital. that's what bannon lacks at this moment. >> where does a statement like that comes from and walks back something about don jr. , is it because his funding was threaten, do you think? >> i think it is a few things. his job is in danger. he could be forced out of chairman. so you have that and you also have the fact that as bannon tries to build what he hopes will one day be an apparatus that supplies the modern republican party. he lacks credibility and he did not have, not just the financial backing but political backing of the people who are most important to him. that's people in and around the white house and the president himself. so loo

mcconnell said yeah. >> i think one thing to really look at here is whatever happens with the mueller pro. if the mueller broke petersliver impeachable goods, so to speak, then i think at that point there will be a lot of democrats who will reassess whether they can work with trump. if he does infrastructure, that the democrat agenda. a lot of republicans are going to be uneasy about that and it's going to give the president more leverage. he needs to figure out this kind of thing that is hanging over him, when he took in a resolution on that. >> bret: we will see where that goes. thank you. when we come back, proof that love sometimes hurts. ♪ get ready for centrum micro-workouts. the bottle curl. the twist n' turn. the stretch n' grab. the gummy squish. centrum micronutrients fuel your body from the inside out. grab a centrum and join in. repeat daily. is gone musical >> bret: it's cold. finally tonight, the ice rink in rockefeller center is a popular place for marriage proposals in new york city. you may not have known that, but it is. it has its pitfalls, as a new jersey brian and his girlfriend amanda found out.

squeeze anything out of mcconnell, they don't understand why schumer didn't make a deal before the shutdown. a lot over the liberals are wondering the same thing tonight. >> bret: peter doocy, thank you. president trump is claiming victory tonight, perhaps not so many words but the administration's message is clear. he outlasted the democrats. chief white house correspondent john roberts is here to tell us where we go from here. good evening. >> president trump's strategy was to play a waiting game over the weekend, not talking to democrats, no bipartisan negotiations. in the end, he got precisely the result he was looking for. >> white house officials spiked the ball today, clear win for president trump after chuck schumer cut a deal this morning to accept everything president trump offered him three days ago. >> in regards to the government shutdown, we are pleased to see senator schumer accept a deal that president trump put on the table from the beginning, from the government and debate immigration is a separate issue. >> the president waited in a statement saying "i'm pleased democrats in congress have come to their senses and are not willing to fund our great m

peter doocy is live on capitol hill. i imagine there is a bit of tension there. >> a lot of tension, melissa. democrats are now saying it is no longer enough for mitch mcconnell to say he hopes or intends to bring a daca bill to the floor in early february once this three-week long cr passes, if it ever passes. they're saying that from mcconnell they want a guarantee that it will come to the floor. >> all they want is a guarantee there will be a process because you are going to deport a lot of children who don't have any other home but america. so there is a sympathy on democrats and republicans. >> this morning republican senator susan collins hosted a bipartisan group of senators in her office for a shutdown negotiations. she said democrats who want mcconnell to promise a daca vote in three weeks are on to something. >> i do think it would be helpful if the language were a little bit stronger because the level of tension is so high. but you have to remember that initially the majority leader was not talking about this issue. so he has moved. the republican leader has moved to accommodate the concerns that have been raised. >> the next step today comes an ho

with me now gary peter, a democrat from michigan who is part of the negotiation seeking a compromise and voted to end the shutdown you. were a yes yesterday. do you trust mitch mcconnell >> well, i can't say i do trust mitch given the fact that he has made some promises to other folks and hasn't carried forward. that's why in this deal we made sure that what he did is made this promise in a very open way. so there is a difference from some of his one-off promises that he apparently has made to individual members. that's why we insisted if we were going to reopen government, we would need to have assurances from him to the american people directly. he made a statement on the floor. but i think also it's important to know that the bipartisan group that i was a part of that worked to find a path consisted over 20 senators. you're talking over 10 republican senators who are also going do hold mitch mcconnell account to believe the statements he made today. so he is making those statements and promises not just to the american people, but to ten members of his caucus. and i can tell you from my conversations with my colleagues over the last few days, republican colleagues,

peter: steve, there is going to be this big meeting at the white house on wednesday where daca is on the jeantd. mick mulvaney will be there. republicans will have speaker ryan, senate majority leader mitch mcconnellity leader chuck schumer. steve, if the republicans blink and they make a daca deal without a fully funded border wall, do you think that conservatives are going to start to call for speaker ryan and leader mcconnell to go? >> oh, i think absolutely. that would be the swamp at its very worse. again, i want daca people protected. it has to be part of a compromise. if they were to cave and protect daca people without the border and chain migration and lottery system, so me, that would be a capitulation. by the way, too i would say this about the democrat. they try to pretend that they are just so compassionate toward illegal immigrants. the reality is they want illegal immigrants amnesty because of their votes. let's be clear and honest about that. crass vote grab. they do believe if they do am else in city them they will get their votes going forward. i'm not anti-immigrant. i'm hispanic, immigrant son. so is the president by the way. he is married to an immigrant, of course. we love le