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Struggling to deal with the president. you have views on foreign policy where you have a president who has cozied up to a lot of the authoritarian leaders, where just four years ago they were saying russia was our greatest political challenge. and also a spending issue that is a complete reversal from what plans preached. its a conundrum for the republican party in the future. >> the reporters will share from their notebooks next, including elizabeth warrens plans to ring in the new year. l we. ...

Thats an open discussion. >> open discussion whether the president can be indicted. molly, you start with the spending issue that alexandria ocasio-cortez said. she said we dont want spending cuts before you spend more money like medicare for all. that suggests the democratic majority wants to spend a lot of money. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez doesnt want that rule because he has a progressive agenda and doesnt want to deal with how to pay for it. this shows the difficult situation that nancy pel...

We have a spending issue. >> just wait in the first quarter of next year. huge inflow of money to the treasure richmond. brian: lets keep in touch. >> okay. steve: watch you later today on fox business. democrats refusing to budge on border wall funding amid the countdown to the friday shut down this week. corey lewandowski has an idea to pay for all. >> if the president has to use the military to build this wall or use funds from the military, then lets do that. steve: whats the white house say...

Definitively. >> he is the president of the united states. hell lay it out there for the american people. thats one of the reasons the american people were excited about his presidency. it is a nontraditional presidency. he came to washington, d.c. to disrupt the way washington works. that was one of the driving messages is they were so frustrated with the way that washington was just tangled up. yeah, hell speak freely and candidly to the american people. >> who do you think has his ear? >> all...

Communications director and david asman is co-host of after the bell on the fox business network. what a morning so far. good morning to all of you. what do you make of things so far, david? >> weve never seen anything like this where a president of the united states in front of all of his allies, nato allies, lays out stuff that is very uncomfortable for them and particularly focusing on this pipeline. everybody thought it would be over the nato spending issue. this pipeline has hit a real nerv...

Hunt and there is sort of two different dramas playing out. one very predictable and one not and both sides of the capitol there, the senate, rand paul is trying to slow -- gun up the works and -- on the spending issue. and then house democrats -- rand paul being rand paul. and then the house democrats are debating whether they should kill it or not. so what do you know? >> reporter: chuck, this is really unfolding minute to minute here. democrats are meeting behind closed doors to try and decid...

Re-visit that? lets say the house should flip and they force that point? what would you do? >> the american public doesnt want to see taxes go up. we all know that washington does not have a revenue issue. they have a spending issue. thats one of the things i was advocating for with this bill. we have a great opportunity this year looking at the spending side, especially tackling mandatory spendling sight. >> neil: so you would refight their repeal efforts? you would fight whatever effort to res...

Included in the funding bill. or you are going to point fingers at it very clear to me that if you tell your party in the senate that she can vote on this, this is a procedural issue. this doesnt come down to the facts. the different between fact and fiction. the american people dont understand senator schumer in the minority has the ability to shut down the government. he just did it and he continues. >> there was a path forward for republicans on this. i want to pull up the latest quinnipiac p...

You got to do it and i think democrats are willing to make some concessions in order to get a deal. its the president thats stopping everything. one of love is that he says its about the military. how the military got into it, i dont know. how about the immigrants? they are criminals. oh, yes, tied to terrorism and crime. strange to justify something that lacks justification is a spending issue. >> jesse: we did a story yesterday about an illegal alien who shot two deputies. >> juan: how many ti...

Happened, senator dick durbin holding out for a daca deal. senator rand paul was on "fox and friends" this morning and he said these two things should be separate. >> i think the immigration debate is sort of separate from funding of the government, but that is a question. will the democrats hold up spending and funding of the government over this issue? ive still thought immigration was going to be settled separate from the spending issue. i still think it will be and should be. >> but again, t...