team fox coverage, mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill. first to john roberts who is live out in the yard. hi, john. shep, good afternoon to you. fox news has been told by white house officials that the president has not made a decision on whether he will sign this bill that is being crafted by the conference committee until he and the rest of the white house staff and the department of homeland security have had an opportunity to go through all of the details with a fine tooth comb so they can know what is in there. now we re running up against this deadline and there s now a suggestion floated by the house freedom caucus, one that the white house supports, for another temporary spending measure a week, maybe more than that to give everybody from the white house to members of congress time to take a good long look at what is in this bill. it s going to run at least hundreds if not thousands of pages. the president is not happy with a number of things in the bill. first among
the president leaving for el paso during this hour. he s expected to hold a campaign-style rally there today to make a pitch to build a wall along the southern border. but now the deal is stuck on the number of detention beds that agents can have. first, mick mulvaney tells fox news sunday, another shut down is still on the table. they don t want it to come to that. the debate over border security and federal funding continues. less than a month after the end of the longest government shut down in american history. we have team fox coverage. mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. john roberts reporting live from the white house. shep, good afternoon to you. this is the first political rally for the president of the 2020 election cycle in el paso. he will take the opportunity to rally the troops to try to put pressure on democrats to come to
some of the president s potential 2020 rivals will be sitting in front of him, including senators elizabeth warren, kamala harris, cory booker around kirsten gillibrand. democrats have chosen stacey abrams to give the rebuttal speech to president trump. we have team fox coverage. mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. first, john roberts reporting live from the white house. hi, john. good afternoon. a big difference 2019 compared to 2018 compared to president trump. last year he had paul ryan and mitch mcconnell standing up and applauding. about everything the president said. tonight he will have mitch mcconnell doing that but also the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who will likely sit on her hands most of the night. the president getting criticism from chuck schumer. the president tweeting back his response saying i see schumer is already criticizing my state of
the next two years. bill: brand-new hour begins now. team fox coverage. martha maccallum is in washington with analysis. we begin the john roberts live at the white house. good morning. good morning to you. an opportunity for the president to make his case on the biggest stage that anyone could possibly have which is why the president agreed to delay the state of the union as opposed to doing a speech on the original day, the 29th of january somewhere outside of washington but the president already getting criticized by the senate minority leader chuck schumer. the president responding on twitter saying i see schumer is already criticizing my state of the union speech even though he hasn t seen it yet. he is just upset he didn t win the senate after spending a fortune like he thought he would. too bad we weren t given more credit for the senate win by the media. immigration will lead off the president s list of priorities tonight which include infrastructure, healthcare, drug prici
we have team fox coverage. mike emanuel reporting from capitol hill. first, john roberts reporting from the white house. shep, good afternoon to you. the conferrees will be meeting wednesday with expects on ice, border protection, other organizations. people that say there needs to be a barrier on the border. customs says they need something to slow up people so they have more time to respond and apprehend them. the case that the white house is making is, look, democrats have said in the past that they have voted for on at least two occasions since 2006 and 2013, even nancy pelosi who you see there on the screen, voted against the security fences act of 2006 but wanted democrats to vote nor a border barrier in the past. the question the white house is asking is, will they listen to the experts in this field and do what they re asking for. here s the acting chief of