caucus cannot stand together to shut down the government over daca. so they believe there will be a continuing resolution. still negotiations over daca and getting a budget deal because there s a lot of insistence that they be tied together will be difficult. when the president gets home from mar-a-largo tonight, trace, he s got a very difficult week ahead of him, no question. indeed he does. john roberts live for us. team fox coverage continues on the push to reach a deal on immigration and avoid a government shut down this weekend. adam shapiro is live on capitol hill. republicans can t pass a funding bill without the democrats clearly. it s looking that way. you heard john roberts describe the hurdles they face. when you get to the senate, you need 60 votes. republicans have 51. so they re going to need democrats to cross or as has
part of a spending bill congress has to pass by friday to avoid a government shut down. we have team fox coverage, adam shapiro is live on capitol hill. but first to john roberts live on the north lawn. john? good afternoon. you mentioned president trump not optimistic about the chances of a daca deal getting done. here s what he s tweeting on that. daca is dead because democrats want to talk and take money away from our military. the president last night in mar-a-largo insisting that he did not use that word s-hole in the oval office meeting thursday. two republican senators, senator purdue of georgia and senator cotton of arkansas saying that they didn t hear him say that. but illinois senator dick durbin doubled down on his assertion last week that the president did indeed say it. listen to senator durbin a short time ago.
blanking terrifying. strzok replying omg i am so depressed. later that month page wrote, i bought all the president s men figure i need to brush up on watergate. these are just the tip of the iceberg of messages sent by agents who were investigating both hillary clinton and president trump. bill: meanwhile congressman trey gowdy saying he believes democrats might be laying a trap for the president as he decides whether to make their memo public. the democrats are politically smart enough to put things in the memo that require either the bureau or the department of justice to say it needs to be redacted and therefore it creates this belief there is something being hidden from the american people. keep in mind, this is the same crowd that voted not to release our memo and voted not to gain a lot of this information in the last 12 months. bill: we have team fox coverage following this this morning. guy benson standing by with analysis. we begin live in washington for more on what th
weekend in washington let s step back from the brink. let s stop victimizing the american people and get back to work on their behalf. this is the trump shutdown, only president trump can end it. we democrats are at the table ready to negotiate. the president needs to pull up a chair and end this shutdown. we recognize that as a group of 20 plus bipartisan legislators we need to be working with our respective leadership teams to have them come to a level of consensus. for my democratic friends, don t overplay your hand. the government shutdown is not a good way to get an outcome legislatively. we learned that as republicans. so february 8th make sense to me. bill: a sample right there. team fox coverage right now. john roberts the latest from the white house. mick mulvaney standing by as well. we begin on capitol hill where
gray. in washington there s winners and losers. democrats wanted a daca fix. they didn t get it. the democrats lost. we have team fox coverage. john roberts live on the north lawn. first, the chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. hi, mike. shep, good afternoon. a senior aide says they should be voting shortly. sounds like a few senate republicans were at the white house for a meeting. earlier the senate majority leader couldn t contain himself jabbing the democrats for shutting down the government over an unrelated issue. if we have learned anything during this process, is that a strategy to shut down the government over the issue of illegal immigration is something that the american people didn t understand. and would not have understood in the future. so i m glad we ve gotten passed that and we have a chance now to