Very strong. The president really does believe you can solve this in 10 minutes. Were asking for 5. 6 billion. They offer us zero. The democrats for better or worse think theyre winning this battle politically. The president is prepared to do what it takes to protect our borders, to protect the people of this country. We need to open up government and then negotiate. Not the other way around. Because were prepared to negotiate. The president seems unaware of this but weve already built a wall across much of the border and all Border Security experts that i talk to say where a wall makes sense it has already been built. Our purpose in the meeting at the white house was to open up government. The impression you get from the president that he would like to not only close government, build a wall, but also abolish congress. The only voice that mattered was his own. Sandra kevin corke is live at the white house this morning. Good morning to you. Happy monday. Good morning. Great to be with you. The white house floating a number of ideas as you see all in the effort to not only enhance Border Security but to protect our sovereignty as the nation. I want to share part of a letter sent to the House Appropriations committee. Part of this long process to try to figure out a way to end the shutdown. This is from acting o and b director russell vot. I want to share a few pullouts. 5. 7 billion for you heard it all weekend long, a steel barrier. You dont like concrete, fine, well go with steel. Also more Border Patrol agents. They want to add to ice personnel and they want more detention beds and technology. President trump we have criminals coming in. Human traffickers coming in. We have drugs pouring in. We have things happening that you dont want to even know about. Its been that way for decades and we cant have it anymore. Cant have it anymore says the president who spent part of his weekend at camp david. 2019 agenda strategy session in which the wall and shutdown as you can well imagine drew top billing. That will continue to be the focus here again today. Sandra whats the latest on the outreach to Congressional Democrats . You saw over the weekend the Vice President , mike pence, was very busy not just meeting with congressional staffers from the offices of Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi but also making his broad overture to democrats in general. They want this to get done somehow, some way, they want to make sure that as the interest continues in this story line of whether or not well get funding for the wall, can we reopen the government, they want to do all they can to figure it out together. By the way, there are democrats on capitol hill that say listen, this idea of declaring a National Emergency. It wont work. Here is adam schiff. Look, if harry truman couldnt nationalize the Steel Industry during wartime this president doesnt have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion wall on the border. Thats a nonstarter. A nonstarter. 17 days in, sandra, no end in sight. Well keep you posted on the outreach again today as i learn more, i promise to pass it along to you. For now, back to you. Sandra we depend on you for that. Bill read between the lines now. Byron york, good day to you. Couldnt do steel. A whole lot of meetings. How much movement. Nothing. It appears that absolutely nothing is going on. There is movement on one side, which is the white house side, which the president has given up completely on the idea of a concrete wall, which truth be told is something that the security expert thought was a bad idea from the getgo. And the president is also saying well, well put in money for other stuff. Wealth we will put in money for other things at the border. The democratic leadership are basically stuck in a no go position. And the question will be is there going to be some split among those democrats between nancy pelosi, who says that a wall is not only bad policy but that it is immoral, and other democrats who maybe dont go that far. Bill there has been a lot of meetings. Some went out to camp david. I dont know why you had to go to camp david. Perhaps there was progress there. What youre suggesting and what were hearing we arent moving forward on this. If youre in day 19 right now and you have a state of the Union Address coming up in 2 1 2 weeks, do you see a way out of this, byron . You also have additional signs coming that this really is a partial Government Shutdown but it does affect a number of people. And we will have if it goes further and further there could be federal paychecks missed. A more human cost. It affects 25 of the government. 75 of the government not affected but still that 25 is a lot of people. We are going to see what effect that might have on these continuing negotiations. So far bill i try to figure out how both sides to declare victory. Thats something that really is a mystery right now. Topic number two, the acting secretary, acting cabinet members. The president talked about that over the weekend. President trump i sort of like acting. It gives me more flexibility, do you understand that . I like acting. We have a few that are acting. We have a great, great cabinet. Bill the acting members continue. Do you have a problem with that . The president is making a virtue of necessity. The one acting that caused a lot of concern and a lot of criticism was the acting attorney general matthew whitaker. His replacement permanent replacement has been nominated. Bill barr, a former attorney general. He will get a confirmation hearing with the Senate Judiciary committee next week. Thats underway. As far as the others are concerned, like an acting interior secretary the president doesnt feel any great need to address that quickly. By the way, the chief of staff, which is simply a president ial appointment, Mick Mulvaney is also acting right now. The president does like this acting thing. Bill when you consider the amount of transition, too, take it slow. Figure out who you like and go with it. Nice to see you on a monday. Hope you had an awesome weekend and well see you later in the week. Thank you. Sandra trading will be underway just less than 30 minutes from now. Futures pointing toward a higher open as a new round of trade talks begins today between the u. S. And china into ending the trade war between the worlds two largest economies. Edward lawrence has more live from the white house. Edward, this is a first facetoface meeting with the u. S. And china since the two president s met at the g20. What is different now and has progress been made . The biggest difference is the change in tone from the chinese. The meeting happening today and tomorrow in china. A spokesman for china saying china and the u. S. Remain on equal footing to come to an agreement. It could be a signal that china would like to have an issue and stop the issues with their economy. Their economy is slowing down. Manufacturing was contracting in china and markets were seeing a slide. We saw a blockbuster jobs report, low inflation, low unemployment, and wages are rising here in the u. S. The foundation of our economy is strong. China is seeing manufacturing with companies possibly moving manufacturing out of china long term. They want to stop that damage. They also see the president is very serious about what he says and Going Forward to try to make a deal. Sandra President Trump paused the increase in tariffs on 200 billion of chinese imports as we know from 10 to 25 to let these play out. Any indication that there will be an agreement before the plan date march 1 . Its interesting. The chinese seem to be serious this time around. They had highlevel folks enter into the meeting that happened there. They announced a series of reforms. They havent acted on it. Stealing companies intellectual property will be illegal Going Forward. A number of Government Agencies signed onto that. China is buying more soybeans, rolling back tariffs on automobiles. Additional tariffs. It is back to the original 15 , still high. The u. S. Would like to see punishments written down in these agreements. They want to make sure china follows through on their word. Senators in the u. S. Are watching closely that the u. S. Makes sure we trust and verify. Listen. Im hoping it will work out. It should be fair trade. It should be fair to all of us. And i think thats the message the president has put out. I think he will bring the chinese to the negotiating table. It cant be a oneway street just with china. He is the chairman of the Appropriations Committee watching closely. Chinese officials are saying if things go well in the talks theyre looking forward to talks next week with u. S. Trade representative possibly here in washington, d. C. So again, progress being made Going Forward. The chinese trying to avoid the latest round of tariff increases by the president. Back to you. Sandra markets looking up in hopes of that being the case. Bill more on this and the border battle. Mercedes schlapp is our guest live in the 10 00 a. M. Eastern time hour. Looking forward to talking to her. Sandra can you read that . Bill i can, actually. Should have been a doctor. Sandra we look forward to talking to her. That will come up shortly. Breaking news on the plan to pull u. S. Troops from syria. President trump the countries that hate isis and they can do a little fighting in their neighborhood also. Were pulling out of syria. We wont be finally pulled out until isis is gone. Sandra what the administration wants to accomplish before troops come home. Bill it has been nearly 20 years since the terror attack on the uss cole killed 17 u. S. Sailors. Now justice for the victims finally. Plus this. I will go cornering the market on the charisma what do you think, Mitch Mcconnell next . That could be good. Sandra Christian Bale taking the only shots at politics during last night Golden Globes award. What he said about the man he just won an award for playing. Excuse me a minute. Hi dad. No. Dont try to get up. Hi, im julie, a right at home caregiver. And if id been caring for toms dad, i would have noticed some dizziness that could lead to balance issues. Thats because im trained to report any changes in behavior, no matter how small, so tom could have peace of mind. Well be right there. We have to go. Hey, tom. You should try right at home. Theyre great for us. The right care. Right at home. 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The only detergent with concentrated gain, oxi boost, and febreze odor remover. Try new improved gain flings. Sandra fox news alert. Two americans suspected of being isis fighters captured in eastern syria. They were identified as Warren Christopher clark from houston, and another man with no location in the u. S. Reported for him. Kurdish forces captured the pair in a group that were suspected fighters from ireland and pakistan. President trump we are pulling back in syria. Were going to be removing our troops. I never said were doing it that quickly. But were decimating isis. When i was elected president two years ago, isis was all over syria and all over iraq. Weve wiped out isis. Bill the president with a weekend circling back on comments with withdrawing troops out of syria. John bolton clarifying conditions for a withdrawal. Foreign Affairs Analyst walid phares joins me on this. Good morning. What did the words of john bolton tell you about u. S. Toops . It tells me that the president made the first step, of course, to say that eventually we need to get out of syria. There wont be bases in the future, not a long project. He wanted to see turkey doing more against isis. But then, of course, the National Security apparatus of the u. S. Studied the situation and found out that although this is the goal, we need to put some conditions. First condition absolutely is to terminate isis once and for all which means fighting against isis. Second securing the kurds. Meaning we have to talk with the turks and setting them the price for you to intervene against isis is not to dismantle or destroy the kurds. Bill we have allies fighting in syria. You dont want to leave them behind unless theyre protected. Matt thornberry on that over the weekend. We have been very successful in beating back isis. I think the president deserves a lot of credit for that success because he took the shackles off of our military and theyve done a lot of good work. But that job will not be finished forever. We have to at least have some presence to keep the pressure on. Bill i dont think you disagree with that. What does that look like do you believe . I would not disagree with the fact that strategically the u. S. Should be present in the region ready to intervene any time isis would emerge neither this part of syria or other parts of the middle east or in yemen or other places. The absolute real guarantee is when we defeat isis, to make sure that the forces that will be taking over from isis are friendly and are allies and we have relationship with them. The biggest mistake in iraq we withdrew in 2011 without making sure that irans militia wont take over from us. We should not repeat that mistake in syria. Bill a commanderinchief says we wont fight these wars forever. How to wind it down is a peck peculiar weekend. The mastermind of the uss cole had been found and killed. He said our great military delivered justice for the heroes lost and wounded from the uss coal. We killed the leader of that attack. Our work against al qaeda continues. Well never stop in our fight against radical islamic terrorism. The lesson in this is that the u. S. Military is not going to stop until they find you. You have to remember the impact of this attack that was overshadowed by a National Election on behalf of george bush and al gore. A precursor to 9 11. Its clear that at long last victory in that struggle. Youre absolutely right. Our intelligence community, our military, our other agencies basically insure that despite our political divide here and political changes. Three administrations have passed since then. They are dead focused on finding those who are responsible for these killings and take them out. This is an example. Bill walid, thank you so much. Nice to see you. Good to have you back on our program today. Walid phares there. 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Bill he managed to return fire after he returned shot. The suspect a 40yearold man was under police guard at a hospital in stable condition. Sandra the flu is spreading in the u. S. 13 children now dead from it. And hundreds have died. Were hearing 24 states now have reported cases. Lets bring in dr. Marc siegel professor of medicine and a fox news contributor. Not a pleasant subject but one we have to discuss because this is affecting people across the country now with hundreds of deaths. How bad will it get . Thousands of hospitalizations. Last year we saw 80,000 deaths related to the flu. We wont see that this year. Another flu a season, the worst of the two kinds of flu. Were starting to see it peak. Over the next month or two months is when youll see most of it. As you reported, 24 states are widespread. Influenzalike activity is heavy now on the east coast and across the Southern United States but it will end up being in every state. Sandra a lot of people at