given a very reasonable common-sense proposal to deal with this immediate crisis that we have on the border as well immediately open the government. it s nancy pelosi who is absolutely stuck. nancy pelosi who is playing politics with the lives of our federal workers and with keeping our community safe. now, there are some democrats in both the senate and the house that are open to the president s proposal, but on principle, shep, they want to open the government first and then negotiate about border security. the white house is concerned that if they were to agree to reopen the government, the democrats would suddenly say border security? we don t want border security. shep? shepard: john roberts, live at the white house. for facts sake, president shut down the government. he said he would carry the mantel for it and proud to do it and he wouldn t blame the democrats for it. team fox coverage continues,
resolution, nothing will happen. at least not there. we have team fox coverage. mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. first john roberts reporting live from the white house. shep, good afternoon to you. everything in limbo right now. the white house is pushing this ahead. the white house sending an e-mail to the sergeant at arms on sunday asking to schedule a walk-through which they would do ahead of the state of the union, a walk through scheduled for last week cancelled by the sergeant at arms at the request of nancy pelosi s office. in the request for a new walk-through, the white house director of advanced writing given that we lost valuable time over the past week, my team would like to reschedule the walk-through for this monday, which would have been yesterday. the president is planning as scheduled to give the state of the union address in the capitol on tuesday, a week from tonight, the 29th, but just in case that is not possible, they are also putting together so
her murder. another alert, one of the top stories, the new chapter in the border wall border. asking the president to poe s state of to postpone the state of union address. nielsen is disputing the claims and team fox coverage of white house and joining us live on the outcome of the capitol hill, where we start now, 12 days away, the expected state of the union of republicans and democrats talking about wall funding, peter. no, bill, but a group of house freshmen democrats did walk all across the capital from their side to the senate side and mitch mcconnell s office and the russell senate building trying to catch him is missing in action. we are here, now on the senate side, now on the senate side, we are drove in and on the senate side. we went to his office at the
commander-in-chief. keep watch. we have team fox coverage. kristina partsinevelos with the latest on how the shut down is affecting the economy. mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. first, john roberts reporting live from the white house. john? you might need more than 280 characters if you were to give the state of the union on twitter but you could do it in point form. no question this has come down to a battle of wills between president trump and the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. the president trying to do an end run around the speaker today having over members of the so-called problem solvers caucus. a bipartisan group of moderate centrist republicans and democrats in the house. seven democrats among the people that came over today. the president unlike last week s meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi which ended up with the president walking out. the president saw this one as worth while. in a statement, the press secretary sarah sanders said the president
national special security event, which is the state of the union and despite the fact members of the secret service are not being made, it s a no-fail mission. again no, reaction from the president just yet. you can bet that when we get it, it will be a beauty. shepard: probably so. john roberts out in the yard. let s get to the hill now. team fox coverage continues. mike emanuel is reporting there. what are they saying? good afternoon. you have bipartisan senators making a pitch to president trump saying reopen the government for three weeks or so and give bipartisan senator as chance to hammer out a deal. rather than a letter, maybe the best thing to do is get a handful of people from both sides to see if they re willing to meet with the president. what i m going to do is see if the president would entertain a meeting with some of us, if we can get a group together and see where it goes. no commitments by anybody other than just talk. fox has told ten senators