You, our audience i sat through hours of misery watching dc politicians trying to explain the shutdown shambles. They keep saying how much they want to avoid a shutdown, but give the impression they are loving the drama and the attention. Im sick of it and their stupid political games and i know you are, too. Its perfectly clear this shutdown is engineered by the democrats to pander to their extremist base. Why else would they shove the daca bill into a spending bill when it has nothing to do with the budget and does havent to be decided until march. But why do we have the endless crisis over the budget. For that we can blame republicans as much as the democrats. Power is money. The more money politicians have to spend, the more power they have. No one wants to give up that power so they fight for more of your money to spend. How do they decide who to spend it on . The people, big business and big donors. Everybody is fighting for their piece of the pie. The bigger the pie, the bigger the fight. This shutdown is what you would expect from a system as corrupt as ours. The solution is not a short term or long term spending deal its a complete and total rethink of the size and functions of the federal government. Go back to the constitution. Everything that can be done by the state and local government should be taken care of by the federal government. All of it should be decentralized. We had enough of the incompetence and corruption in washington. Time after time politicians come in and say they are going to change the and they never ever do. So we the people have to take our power back through efforts like the convention of states project. Thats the next revolution we need. Please tell me what you think. Follow us on twitter and have your say. Lets go live to republican congressman ron desantis. Hes right there in the congress. I want to talk to you about the specifics of the shutdown in a minute. But you heard about what i said about the longterm picture and why we keep having these crises. Am i right about senate. I want to bottle that speech and take it around the country. I agree with everything you said. The shortterm shuf will work out. But the reason we wind up in this position time after time is because the system has broken down. Using article 5 of the constitution we can balance the budget. And i think the president was right about calling for 51 votes for spending bills in the senate. We can do a budget with a majority vote in both chambers. But then 23 you go to fund the government with individual bills consistent with the budget you need 60 votes. So i think the structural changes need to happen and i think you are right. We are in a rut where you have the same outcomes. Sometimes the players are a little bit different. Sometimes the issues are a little bit different. But the net result is congress isnt doing what the american taxpayer should expect to it do. Steve do you think there are enough people in congress who think like you do, bands of revolutionaries tbub like, to make these structural changes . We may not have enough yet. There have been continuing resolutions for nine of the ten last years. Like you mention, doing a convention of the states so we are focusing on the Core Functions of the federal government. Its tougher to get bipartisan support for that with some of my democrat friends. They have a conception of government that is more expansive than most conservatives do. But if you go in the country, if you go in the individual states, i think there is a widespread belief in the reforms you discussed and i discussed. One way would be to do it through the state legislatures. The dysfunction in washington would not be good for our State Government either. Steve im glad we have a chance to talk about this in a more serious way. I am not even going to ask you to predict. But thes have you back and talk about the long term reforms we need. I think we are on the same wavelengths. Appreciate it. Lets bring in our panel, fox news contributor, tomi lahren, and amy holmes. Im going to go straight to you pass representing Chuck Schumer. He couldnt be with us tonight. It seems to me that schumer is actually quite a reasonable deal maker, would like to do the deal and doesnt want to hold this up in the way its happened but has been forced to take this extreme position because the base of the Democratic Party puts the immigration issue above all else. Hes a deal maker. He exels at it. I would say hes not being pushed to do this or forced to do this. I think the design of democracy is to be messy and complicated and loud and competitive and contentious. I would say the only surprising thing is people are surprised this is happening. Donald trump as a candidate said he would blow things up. While some are calling it the schumer shutdown steve why not just let the daca issue be settled as part of the i am briggs negotiation . Why bring it into this . Because everything is connected to Everything Else when you have these conversations. It is not. While he is not being forced to do this. Its true that a lot of the energy in the Democratic Base is in his base. And and lot of the heat in the Republican Party is on the far right. I would like to discuss what you mean about the extremes on both sides. On the right you have extremes that will go to bat for the American People. We have the democrats, Chuck Schumer included, putting Illegal Immigrants over the military, over the American People, over government workers and over actual progress moving forward on a spending bill. I think they will pay for it in 2018 and 2020. You dont put Illegal Immigrants over the American People. I would agree with you that Chuck Schumer isnt being pushed into this, hes jumping with both feet. The Senate Majority leader was correct friday when he said democrats are voting against a bill they support, for a bill that hasnt been written. Immigration reform takes negotiation on both sides. It has nothing to do with voting on a continuing resolution to fund the government. Steve, to your larger point about big government. I think democrats are possibly taking a risk here that by shutting down the Government People will find out they dont need so much of it. But i think the Government Shutdown for a lot of people, it doesnt affect their lives. It makes them thing washington is dysfunctional and messy. Steve requires just game playing. Steve its just game playing, its not serious. They are looking toll support dream horse were brought here by their parents. Its true a lot of people arent impacted by this. There are some important Football Games going on today and a lot of people are watching that. Im take an issue with that. I got an email from an active duty soldier serving. He said a lot of people dont understand the ramifications in the military. When you are active duty in the military your family gets a letter saying the government is shut down, you wont be paid. That detracts all of their energy from fighting their enemies to focus on this because people think its healthy in d. C. To go back and forth and play with these people temperatures future. Illegal immigrants should never come before the United States military. I agree well see how this plays out. Steve i thing i find ridiculous about this, this is such a vast budget. And it end up with shortterm tactics and no one can really explain it. It feels like in the end whats going on with the democrats is they hate donald trump so much that they literally cant bear to have any kind of legislative victory because thats not in the national interest. Democrats are using this issue for fundraising and using it to please their base. Nancy pelosi promised activist groups that they would have Immigration Reform done by the end of last year, they didnt. And they are holding our government hostage to Illegal Immigrants. Steve we are expecting the Senate Majority leader any minute. Once he speaks you will see it live. Swamp watch exposed a paytoplay scheme. Up next, and coulter joins us to break down president trumps first year in office. See you in a minute. Ported with entyvio. Tell your doctor if you have an infection, experience frequent infections or have flulike symptoms or sores. Liver problems can occur with entyvio. If your uc or crohns treatment isnt working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. Entyvio. Relief and remission within reach. Running a Small Business is demanding. And thats why Small Business owners need more. Like internet thats up to the challenge. The gigspeed network from comcast business gives you more. With speeds up to 20 times faster than the average. That means powering more devices, more video conferencing, and more downloads in seconds, not minutes. Get fast internet and add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more per month. Comcast is building americas largest gigspeed network to give Small Businesses more. Call 18005016000 today. Steve we are watching the senate floor where Senate Majority leader mcrequires updating us on negotiations. The government funding bill comes too an end, the serious bipartisan negotiationssa that have beenn going on for months now to resolve our unfinished business, military spending, Disaster Relief, healthcare, immigration, and Border Security will continue. It would be my intention to resolve these issues as quickly as possible so we can move on to other business thats important tot our country. However, if these issues cannot be resolved before the funding bill before us expires february 8, 2018, assuming that the government remained open, it would be my intention to proceed to legislation that would address daca, Border Security, and related issues. Its also my intention to take up legislation to regarding increased defense spending, Disaster Relief and other important matters. The shutdown should stop today. And well soon have a vote that will allowwi us to do exactly that. So lets step back from the bridge. Lets stop victimizing the American People and get back to work on their behalf. In that record, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent notwithstanding rule 22, the senate vote at 10 00 p. M. On the igmotion to invoke cloture on te motion to concur with amendment, further if a closure is invoked that all post low sure time be considered expired and vote on the motion with no intervening action or debate. Objection . Reserving the right to object. Im happy to continue my discussion with the majority leader about reopening the government. We had self conversations. Talks will continue. But we have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward that would be acceptable to both side. For that reason i object. I ask unanimous consent that the senate vote at noon tomorrow on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur with amendment. Is there objection . Without objection. Mr. President . The senator from arizona. Mr. President , friday i voted with my colleagues here. Steve hi, ann, are you still awake watching this . Hi i guess i am. I want to fly to washington and drown them all. Steve what do you make of all this nonsense going on in d. C. . Me it reminds me of your openg statement. The fix is in. The donors control our government. For Mitch Mcconnell the republican majority lead tore act as if his hand are tied, no, he ought p to say a majority voe can pass something. There are five times when you need a super majority vote, to override a president s veto and go to war, for a constitutional amendment. Unless its one of those circumstances it ought to be 51 votes. Even if you are going to have this ridiculous minority rule senate, at least make them filibuster. On isnt like Strom Thurmond who had to stand on the senate floor for a week going to the bath ram. They just say we have an intent to filibuster. If Mitch Mcconnell wants to fund the government they could do it. They wantt to force Donald Trumps hand to do the exact thing he was elected to prevent. Which is pass amnesty and not build a wall. Steve the story of the first year, you were one of Donald Trumps earliest and most of vocal supporters. That brilliant book which i enjoyed so much, in trump we trust. One year in, do you still trust in him . Im giving him an incomplete because i still have hopes he will go back to the candidate trump. What was so great about trumps candidacy. For years and years and years we had what we are seeing on the floor of the senate right now. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party, and voters would say we wanted xyz. No, no, no, you cant vote for that. You can only vote for ab and c. Now trump offered us xy and z. How would his presidency be different from jeb exclamation point . Any republican would have given tax cuts and saved the carried loophole for hedge fund managers. Any republican would say my hand are tied, i cant build the wall. Ou any republican wouldnt say i will negotiate with Lindsey Graham on amnesty. Gorsuch. We have one on the supreme court. The judicial appointments for the next three years will keep the country going for 10 more years. But if he doesnt build the wall and deport illegals this country is over. Senatorr cornyn, if the republicans are as dumb as core anyone for them to all be talking about these children were here through no fault of theirrn own. Thats not what wear talking about with the dreamer amnesty. We are w talking about turning over a federal amnesty to the federal courts its amnesty for ms13 members and, the terrorists. It goes before the 9th circuit courts. What could they even imagine this law would say . Does it have to be proved in court that they came here through no fault of their own . Comeme on, thats not how any lw would ever be wrib. If it were it will be thrown out by judges. Any amnesty is 100 amnesty. And any senator republican or democrat who is weeping about the children who came here through no fault of their own is a liar and are ready to destroy the country. Steve the story thats being told, its ridiculous they cant do this deal. In exchange for daca you get good stuff w likened to chain migration and the visa lottery. You wouldnt be happy with that . No. And the trump base once they found out they had been hoodwinked wouldnt be happy either. We had an amnesty in 1986. 20 years later the 9th circuit was still amnestying illegals in class action lawsuits whose argument was its not fair we werent in on the first amnesty because what he werent here. The 9th circuit was still amnestying them. So to say dont worry, you got wall,mn fantastic. Steve i want to just run through a t couple of the other issues. Where hes suppose to be. The whole point of donald trump, tradend and the attitude towards china. What do you think is going on there . Are you optimistic well see aggressive stuff there to help American Workers . I think so. There isnt as much pushback on trade. There is some business interest in wall street. Wall street does do better with a global economy. They dont care about the american worker. But the interests are not as strong as the interests in cheap labor and change the country into california. Try doing business in california, koch brothers. Good luck to you all. The one fun im going to have is watching all these shortsighted nation destroying businessmen try to see what the regulations are like under an economy thats run by lurks is gutierrez and nancyuc pelosi. But i think trade would be good. I would like to see an end to the pointless war. Immigration, trade and no more pointless wars. But we are still in pointless wars. He has been good on trade and hes been good on bringing jobs back. Steve so great to see you . Can you stick around . I want to get you talking about the clintons if you can bear it. I would love to. Im a specialist. Steve fantastic. Next well check in on the senate floor. Plus you heard the stories of corruption and pay to play involving the Clinton Foundation. Break, what separats fact from fiction. Do what is your Online Tax Service getting you . Stop by your local Jackson Hewitt and get all the benefits of a tax pro. With Jackson Hewitt you get 100 accuracy and our max refund guarantee. So, switch to Jackson Hewitt. Open late and weekends. This ones below market price and has bluetooth. Same here, but this one has Leather Seats use the cars. Com app to compare price, features and value. Steve lets go to chad pergram to break down what we just saw from Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Schumer. The Government Shutdown will continue. We thought we were going to have a proceduralet vote around 1 00n the morning to break the filibuster and approve later on an interim 3week stop gap bill to reopen the government through february 8. The Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer objected to that. So the any snort leader set up a procedural vote monday to try to break the filibuster and the bulk of the federal workforce will continue to be furloughed monday morning at 9 00. This is a procedural vote to break a filibuster. You need 60 votes the break a filibuster that would reopen the government through february 8. Ift they get that through, they still have to vote to approve it. But the house and senate are not in alignment. If the Senate Approvals that it has to bounce back to the house. The house plan would only fund the government through february 16. They have to be in align before they can reopen the government. Steve nothing has really changed, but thanks for the update. Earlier this month the department m of justice launched an investigation to wet pear major u. S. Nonprofit engaged if paytoplay politics also known as corruption. Donors to the foundation included some of the richest and most of powerful people in the world. Unless exchange they received favors, protection and lucrative business deals. We investigate the foundation that started it all, the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Foundation raised roughly 2 billion since its creation in 2001. Over 14 million has been from overseasar governments. Unique clinton was in a unique position top reward countries for their generosity. As secretary of state clinton had the ability to approve arms deals. Which country got the approval for an weapons deal . Surprise, surprise, saudi arabia. Some may say thats just a coincidence. There isnt anything that unusual about u. S. Firms selling weapons to the saudis. Boeing, the defense contractor that manufacturing the fighter jetg the saudis were expecting o buy gave 900,000 to the Clinton Foundation before the dale was approved. Hillary Clintons State Department approved 165 billion in arms deals with 20 countries whosehe governments donated to e Clinton Foundation. It night just be a coincidence. In 2009, chevron, and the trade associations funded by exxonmobil lobbied for a new soil pipeline from canada to wisconsin. Those three companies also donated between 2 million and 3 million to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary approved the deal for the five line that same year. Onti bills last day in office e pardoned marc rich who fled to switzerland after being indicted on multiple charges including fax foundation. Richs wife denise made a number of donation to the Clinton Foundation. The year before her husband was pardoned. To paraphrase shakespeares merchants of convenient cities in, the quality of mercy dropeth like giant checks into the clintons bank account. Energy Pioneer Solutions was partially owned by a close friend. In january 2014, the fragrance foundation, a trade group for the perfume industry paid bill clinton 400,000 to give a speech hat lasted less than an hour. They the had a planting . Haiti. It was reported as personal income. He was paid more than 100 million for speeches between 2001 and 2013, and since leaving the white house he has made 26 million inth speaking fees from companies and organizations that donated to his foundation. The more money these donors give to the clintons, the more favor they find with one of the worlds most of powerful families. After the quake in hate he, the government set up a system to transfer relief money by cell phone. Digicel was run by irish millionaire obrien who set up paid speeches to clinton and donated money to the Clinton Foundation. An Ap Investigation found more than half the people outside the government who met with hillary in the first half of her tenure gave money to the Clinton Foundation. The total donation amount, over 160 million. Even Chelsea Clinton warned of serious concerns in connection with a secret lobbying firm. Many of the clients were Clinton Foundation donors. Emails exposed by wikileaks showser chelsea raising red flas because ten terks o was using bill clintons name in hustling for clients at the clinton global initiative. And huma and continue was a paid consultant for te nerks o while she was working pat the state department. And the Uranium Mining Company donated over 30 mill to the Clinton Foundation. The clinton Business Model is thets swamp in its most of perft form lp. Lets end with the words of maureen dowd who pretty much nailed it. 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Com tv and get two months free. singing tenders, riblets singing 12. 99 singing all you can eat. singing at applebees steve welcome back. In the last segment you saw some of the shady dealing in the Clinton Foundation. But joining me is literally the man who wrote the book on it, peter swierts. Peter, you know more than anyone about the dodgy dweelings the clintons. Tell me why we should care by the even though they are departing the sceneng as it wer. Thats a great question. It goes to the heart of the matter. What the clintons did is not just about the Clinton Foundation. R these ramped up speaking fees while she was secretary of state. If thised is allowed to go forwd unchallenged, not investigated in a serious matter for criminal conduct. Ific you give political figuresa way to make money in public service, it will be imitated. So what the clintons have done will be the wave of the future. If we dont deal with this seriously there is no reason why four years from now we wont have a secretary of defense who sets up a Family Foundation and takes money from defense contractors and foreign governments and who can stop them because thats what the clintons did when she was secretary of state. Dealing with this is key or it will a change politics fundamentally. Steve the clintons are the worst example. They have a sense of entitlement, they, are entitled to behave in this way. Thats what we have to deal with as well. They feel entitled. We have to be more sophisticated int the way in which what he track in washington, d. C. There are issues that are different between the two side. Im not minimizing those. Butt there is a business logic behind the fact that very little gets done in washington, d. C. Politicians have to create a demand for their services. Politicians have to create a demand foran their services and they do that by not solving problems, by obscuring facts, which createsac revenuegeneratg opportunities. What i just said for a long time whether it relates to the clintons or congress, you have to look att whats happening not just on the policy level, but you haves to look at the money flow. How is the money being made . You make money in washington, d. C. By extorting people and trying to control the legislative agenda and not getting too much done. Steve thats so well put, it remindea me you wrote another book, extortions. When people talk about corruption, the outside interests trying to bribe the politicians. Its often the other way around that the politicians are extorting money from the businesses to get rich. Would i love to have you back to talk about that in more detail. I appreciate you being with us tonight, peter. Coming up, the panel on ann coulter weigh in on the clintons. Dont go away. 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A precedent needs to be set and the clintons need to see justice. I dont think they will go away until they do. It wouldou be a great victory to have them go away with their tail between their legs and have them be done. Like and said its on the left and right. People who go into government to serve us, taxpayer funded government go in to serve us and get rich off of it. Theyo need to know people on the left,re the right and the middle are not going to put when it any more. I think the clinton global initiativehe and foundation was classic post president ial activity. This all over the world with former leaders. But then hillary being secretary of state then running for president was a bridge too far. Contribute to the narrative. It was maureen dowd who said the clintons believe your money belongs in their pocket. The level of untrustworthiness that people found trouble. Bute former senator tom daschler wife was an airline lobbyist and was the first one through the door. Harry reid became a millionaire as a United States senator and the salaries arent that high. I lookna back on the 90s fondly when we were just talking about sex scandals and interns. Now we have to talk about a much greater level of corruption. It wasnt just a narrative. It was a fact that they filled their pockets personally so they could live like the billionaires they like to hang out with. Steve last word to you. What this really says about the corruption our system, ann. Amy made a great point. Weirdly enough im nostalgic for a total shorn dog in the oval office. When you see the deep state going after trump and fbi agents going after him saying we have an understand policy to block him. This is more horrifying than i could have managed. So good for trump for fleshing that out. He just has to beat them now. Steve thanks so as much. Well be right back with more of the next revolution. Dont gonc away. O protect your house from a lighting strike give me the same rush as being golfballsized hail . Of course not. But if you can stick to your new years resolution, then i can stick to mine and be the best road flare i can. What . You couldnt even last two weeks . In that case, consider mayhem officially back. So get allstate. And be better protected in 2018 from mayhem. Like me. Steve i love reading all your comments, even the rude ones, provided they are funny. After last weeks show adam asked me to explain the difference between conservatism and populism. Pop lifts are against lowwage immigration because it hurts americans. Another example is trade. Populists are against trade deals that allow cheap imports that can hurt American Workers. My feeling is populism is a pragmatic approach to policies, focusing on practical things to help working people. But there is a big overlap and both philosophies can learn a lot from each other. Thanks to the panel i and thanks for joining us and i hope you can join us next sunday. Reporter the divide is deepening in the capital. A small group of bipartisan senators work to hammer out something the parties can agree on. Im rick leventhal, you are watching the fox report. The political blame game is ramping up. Democrats and republicans both refusing to accept fault. Democrats need to withdraw their filibuster and allow