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What this is not is an indictment on our justice system. this is not an indictment of fbi, of the department of justice. it does not impugn the mueller investigation or the deputy attorney general. what it is is the congress legitimate function of oversight to make sure that the fisa process is being used correctly and that if it wasnt being used correctly, that needs to come to light and people need to be held accountable so we do not have problems again. because this does affect our civil libe...

Victims and their families. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was not on the train but offered a statement saying, quote, my condolences and those of the entire senate family go out to the victims family, friends and co-workers. our prayers are with the other accident victims fighting to recover from their injuries, and deep gratitude with the police, firefighters and personnel who sped to the scene. chuck shumer reacted on twitter. awful to hear my republican colleagues train accident. wer...

Kevin, thank you. >> reporter: all right. >> dana: president trump is set to outline his immigration proposal next week as democrats are already reacting to it. senate minority leader chuck shumer slamming the plan, calling it a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system. chief congressional correspondent mike e manuel is live on capitol hill. mike, what is the response from president trump on this? >> reporter: well, dana, president trump took a swipe at the senate democratic leader on twi...

Economy. but our immigration system is stuck in the past. >> reporter: you saw the outline of the plan last night. this is just the start of the president and his team making his pitch for these immigration principles. dana? >> dana: the president is talking about what chuck shumer said, but what are other democrats saying? there are some things in it that they want. >> reporter: absolutely. they are all for the idea of making legal status for 1.8 million people, but they are critical of some ot...

On whether or not schumer decides to listen to the majority of his caucus, which is right there with the american people and, in particular, those senators that live in trump states and who are up for re-election next year, democrats. they want to see this issue finished because they want to turn to their constituency groups and finally say theyve accomplished a promise they made a decade ago to do some of this. or is he going to listen to the progressive wing of his caucus who are full of peopl...

You have pm may and this kind of lets call it warm fuzzy, as warm and fuzzy talk as you can have between president trump and pm may saying were going to do a deal together. >> dana: we all benefit from the global economy doing better. >> and we are. the stock market is showing us. >> dana: its up right now. im not on fox business, but i can read that. diedre, thank you so much. >> sure. >> dana: the reason for some opposition to a southern border wall that has nothing to do with immigration. plu...

Disappointing that congress has chosen to shut down the government, and particularly senate democrats have, at the one-year anniversary. but i -- >> no reflection at all of the leadership coming out of the white house? >> i think its a reflection, candidly, of the position that many in the democrat party find themselves in. >> reporter: on the other end of pennsylvania avenue -- >> negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with jell-o. >> reporter: senate minority leader chuck shumer ...

All seem to be quite happy. having a good time despite the government shutdown. top senate democrat chuck schumer says democrats are still waiting for the call to make a deal with the president. in fact they were even ready to fund mr. trumps border wall, according to schumer. >> they have not called me. they say theyre not negotiating. thats foolish. i have asked them, bring the big four, myself, leader mcconnell, speaker ryan and leader pelosi to the white house today. but we havent heard from...

>> i think its a reflection, candidly, of the position that many in the democrat party find themselves in. >> reporter: on the other end of pennsylvania avenue -- >> negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with jell-o. >> reporter: senate minority leader chuck shumer is complaining mr. trump rejected his offer to start paying for the wall as a last-ditch gesture to prevent a shutdown during their friday meeting at the white house. >> next to impossible to strike a deal with the pres...

Suspect. we have a very divided country, which everybody knows. washingtons a very partisan place, which everybody knows. the president has spent his first year basically living on partisanship. i mean, he has been very, very strong in trying, as he keeps saying, to drain the swamp. but a government shutdown is kind of like the definition of the swamp. this is washington politics. and each party is trying to use the pressure of the shutdown to get some things that it wants, and its also a test o...