time not gonna watch the iranian escalate and put lives at periods before we will as secretaries mike pompeo live and get reaction from democratic senator chris van hollen. then congress returns from break over to stand up on impeachment. >> we cannot hold the trial without the articles. we are no closer for this problem we s last met. chris: will ask the sunday panel where this process stands at more than two weeks after the house vote. and our power player of the week. the true hollywood story of the head of the motion picture association. >> i went from working with kermit and ms. piggy to the president of the united states. chris: all right now on fox news. chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. the deadly strike on iranian general qassem soleimani marks an escalation in the standoff between washington and tehran on raising fears of all-out war. the u.s. sending more than 4000 additional troops to the middle eastom this week. as iran promises to seek revenge. in a moment we'll speak a life with of state mike pompeo. but first let's get the latest from kevin corke from florida. >> chris the parliament met in extraordinary session this sunday. they are considering whether to ask the u.s. to withdraw troops from their country. that consideration comes just after an american drone strike took on a general on their soil. >> over the weekend iraq's prime minister strongly criticized the drone strike that killed general qassem soleimani and took part in the u.s. protests in baghdad. white house official said it was soleimani that directed the recent assault onn baghdad. and it was response offer killing hundreds of americans worldwide. and i iran, massive funeral procession from several of burrell cities to honor the slain general who may have been considered the second most influential man. overnight the president tweeting if tiran tracks an american or a base we will send some of the brand-new beautiful equipment their way. and threatening to strike 52 are iranian sites representing 52 hostages taken by ron many years ago. i run inform minister responding cultural sites as a war crime. and i run telecommunications minister called trump a terrorist in a suit. it's a. >> after two week vacation here in florida the president makes his way back home away he will be considered entanglements and broad enough possible impeachment trial here in the states. chris: kevin thank you. joining is now here in washington is a secretary of state mike pompeo. welcome back to fox news sunday. >> thanks for having me on. chris: you know f the iraqi parliament is holding an emergency session today to discuss whether to the question of whether the u.s. 5000 troops should remain in country. it has just come across the wire the iraqi prime ministers as it is in the interest of both iraq and the u.s. to end foreign troop presence in iraq. and he also says that the killing of general soleimani and also a top militia leader that was backed by tiran abu mahdi al-muhandis were political assassinations. your sponsor. >> we should know president trump neverse shy away from protecting america. we have been doing that over the entire three years of our middle east strategy. the activity you are seeing today is fully consistent with that. the american should know we twwill continue on the president retweeted it again last night. we will take the actions necessary to keep americans safe. as to the going out with iraq today, we have been in the country and we will continue to take down the right against the american people. the primee. minister, is the resigned premise are his the acting prime minister. he is under enormous threats from the very iranian leadership that we are pushing back against. we are confident that the iraqi people won the united states to continue to be there to fight the counterterrorism campaign. and we will continue to do all c the things we need to do to keep americans safe. chris: but if iraq as a sovereign country, they demand we leave, willun we leave? will that dramatically hurt the fight againstsi isis and the stability and the reason? >> we will have to take a look at what we do when they iraqi leadership in government makes that decision. but american people should know we will make the right decision we will take actions that the previous administration refused to take to do just that. chris: president trump says general soleimani was planning an eminent attack against americans you have said it was a big action that could potentially kill hundreds of american diplomats and soldiers. what was the plan? who were the targets? andd how soon? >> president trump was writing when he said and so was i. we will share all of the intelligence we can. as a cia director for while there are things we simply cannot make public about the things we new at the time and what we know today about the continuing activity. we got it right what we are eglpably negligent if we had not gone after soleimani will be had the opportunity. he was actively engaged in plotting against american interests. we need to look over what he personally and done over the days before that when americans were killed on december choice evans. there is no surprise there is plenty of public evidence of qassem soleimani and we did the right thing. chris: i just want to press of this degree. he had been targeting americans, and other people around the regiones for decades. at the t lot of 600 americans is on his hands during the iraq war. the question is, there are some intelligence agents who are talking to media outlets who are saying yes, he was doing bad things, but it was another day in the middle east. in some congressional leaders who have been briefed now, say that the intelligence was not of an eminent attack, it was bigger more worrisome. don't the american people have the right to have somege understanding of what it was, why it was so urgent to take out soleimani now? >> i have not heard any of the congressional people who've seen the full set of intelligence to make the comments you're saying. ii think anyone that knows what the senior american leaders had in their presence they would come to the same conclusion that our leadership team did. the fact that there be more risk to america, there would've been more risk if we would not of taken action we did. we will do everything we can to share this information with the american people, but he think the american people understand as well there are things we just can't put out the public. you have to a the protecting americans out there collecting the intelligence and that's the information will need in the days and weeks ahead and we have to protect them. chris: i ron's leaders are bowing a crushing response using wordshe like a hard revenge. what we do if they strike back? if they retaliate? is there a plan and is there because we went after soleimani is there a change in u.s. responsibly are no longer going to go after the enemy in theco field, we are going to go after command-and-control? >> isa strategy that is been several years than making now that we have been working on. it's a diplomatic strategy, ten economic and naïve seen parts of the military. and the president trump talks about 52 targets last night. that is not new, we have made clear to the theocrat, the kleptocratic that are running around today and running it against the will of their own people, we made clear to them that we would not respond just against these proxy forces that they run. that they run in yemen and syria and lebanon. we made clear that this cost will be brought home to them, to the leadership regime and iraq. and we would not just attack their asymmetric efforts we wouldn't would respond to anyone who puts our lives at risk. so. chris: you are saying toei leaders of the revolutionary guard and everyone else don't think you're off limits? >> what i am saying is exactly what president trump assange. we will take responses that are appropriate with action that threatens american lives. that's what jen safar chris there is no reason that the american people or the regime would think will do anything different. chris: you talk about the strategy. the president has been pushing what he calls the maximum pressure strategy since he took office. he pulled out the iran nuclear deer in may of 2018 and impose tough economic sanctions. and thiss summer he suggested the strategy was working. >> iran is a much different country than two and a half years ago when i took over iran was oliver. they had 14 to 18 different sites of confliction, they were all over. and now they just wants, oh they want to negotiate a deal so badly. chris: but in 2019 alone ironic six ships, shot down a u.s. drone, launch an attack on saudi oil facilities, damaging attacks, and after all the information of isolating the distant joint exercises with china and russia. so the question is has the president's maximum pressure strategy made ironic less aggressive or more? >> it's panicked aggression on the their leadership because they are demanding more from enormous change. they know the iranian people are supported by american that demand for change. we have a huge coalition chris, countries all across the world who are joining us. they are joining us not only in the straits in the defense this has been identified. remember we came in chris we came in at 2015 the obama, biden administration handed power to the iranianti leadership. acted as a cause i outlined thereby underwriting them underwriting the very militias that killed american resources. the money they had to build out those forces was provided to them by the nuclear deal. they had europeans go do business, we did a hundred $50 billion in cash, all these things of the very challenge the trump administration's had to correct. strategy is working, we are turned have to stay the course will protect the american people at every step. chris: you know i will be asking senator mena holland and the next segment. president trump is also saying he's keeping his campaign tromp promised to pull troops tot of the middle east. here's what he had to say in october. >> the plan is to get out of endless wars, to bring our soldiers back home, to not be policing agents all over the world. it was a quick hit but they stayed from us ten years. let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand. before but just this week, this week the u.s. deployed a hundred marines to the u.s. embassy in bad dad plus seven and 52 the region and now another 3500. is the president pulling us out of endless wars in the middle east or with his action this week did he take a big step back in? >> endless wars are the direct result of weakness. and president trump will never let that happen. we are going too get it right, we are w going to get our facilities as hardened as we can get them to defend against what i iran might potentially tdo. but make noo mistake, america's mission is to have our footprint in the middle east reduced will see keeping still keeping america safe. keeping them safe from rogue regimes and terrorist activity. chris: so is it safe to say the big strategy is to pull the u.s. out of endless warm, at least the short term it could be more of a commitment? >> the obama administration created an enormous risk to america. this administration is working to reduce that risk. chris: finally, some analysts suggest that the impeachment of president trump has emboldened enemies like i iran and north korea. to think that they can confront him. do you think that as misguided as it may be, that some of our enemies think this president is more vulnerable because of the impeachment effort? >> you should ask mr. soleimani.go chris: i understand that but he was going ahead before you killed him. so the question is do you think impeachment is in building our enemies? >> i don't. i think our adversaries understand that president trump and our administration will do the right thing to protect american people every place we find risk. chris: secretary pompeo thank you for coming on very busy weekend. when we come back democrats raise questions on the wisdom and legality of the president's decision to take out soleimani. we'll talk with the top democratic senator, chris van hollen, that is next. it's the 3pm slump. should have had a p3. oh yeah. should have had a p3. need energy? get p3. with a mix of meat, cheese and nuts. new tide power pods one up the cleaning power of liquid. can it one up spaghetti night? it sure can. really? can it one up breakfast in bed? yeah, for sure. thanks, boys. what about that? uhh, yep! it can? yeah, even that! i would very much like to see that. me too. introducing new tide power pods. one up the toughest stains with 50% more cleaning power than liquid detergent. any further questions? 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>> i think we learned the hard way, chris, and iraq in the iraq war. that administration sometimes manipulate and cherry pick intelligence to further theirir political goals. that's what got us into the iraq war, there is no wmd. chris: understand that's happened in the past are you saying it's happening now? >> i'm saying they have an obligation to present the evidence. they did not notify the gang of eight and then opportunity that they had just two days ago to talk to senior staff at the senior level. they had no evidence to support their claim of an eminent threat. look everybody knows soleimani cls a very bad despicable guy. there is no debate there. but the claim of an eminent threat, they have not supported. and what we do know is that this dramatic escalation is now putting americans at greater risk. in fact secretary pompeo's own state department after the attacks urged americans to leave iraq. so obviously they thought it was a more dangerous situation the day after than the day before. and as you just reported we sent 4000 additional troops from iraq from a president who is claiming that he wants to get out of wars in the middle east. chris: there is no question that soleimani was our enemy. he had been directly or indirectly responsible foror hundreds of american soldiers are the iraq war. hera wasn't taking a vacation as he was traveling around the middle east this last week. he was making more plans for terror attacks, spreading iran's malign influence. why not kill them? >> because you have to look atli what the consequences are. we don't go around killing all the very bad people in the world. we have president trump and bracing kim jong-un, he has a lot of blood on his hands. including an american citizen. he is getting love letters from the president of the united states. so the question is do we further our interest by killing soleimani, and everything we've seen is we've actually increase the risk of war dramatically. we have put americans at greater threats. and we seem to have accomplished soleimani's main goal is nested under minor influence and iraq. by rockyve the top leadership, the president and the prime minister condemning our action. we have parliament meeting to talk about expelling u.s. forces. what was soleimani's main goal? it was to get us out to under minor influence. so we seem to haveet accomplished what soleimani was trying to do. so in death he's actually accomplish his goal. that turns back u.s. interest in the region. chris: you have been tweeting ever since that soleimani's takedown. here's one of them. the constitution makes clear the president may not go to war without authorization from congress, and we have not authorized war with iran. but senator whitehouse says this is not war, that soleimani was a terrorist and this was an act of self defense which a commander-in-chief can always take. >> my.chris is we are now headed very close to the precipice of war. you heard the president this morning talk about targeting iranian sites including cultural sites which is a war crime if the president was to carry that out. the.we are making is the president is not entitled under the constitution to continue this escalation and take us to war without congressional action. that is what the constitution requires. look i heard secretary pompeo talk about this, you asked him about the maximum pressure strategy. they have not accomplished any of their goals. they have very unrealistic goals all they have done under this pressure is to escalate the chance of war with iran. something president trump said he wanted to avoid. but a lot of people around him like secretary pompeo have been urging a confrontation with iran for a very long time. chris: want to pick up on this because here's another one of your tweets in the last couple of days. the administration's reckless policy of the last three years has brought us to the brink of the president, and you just heard secretary pompeo say, no it was president obama who brought us to the brink. it was the obama nuclear deal that funneled a billions of dollars of back into the regime that they used to spread their brand of terror across the middle east. andlu also it was the obama administration's decision to focus exclusively on the nuclear program and to ignore all of the other malign activity by i run throughout the region. >> will first about they did not ignore, but the obama administration correctly observed that a nuclear armed iran would be even more dangerous than an ironic did not have nuclear weapons. said what this administration did was they ripped up that agreement essentially divided us from our allies, and the resultlt has been an increased actual activity from ironic and the region. chris: not necessarily. you look at the reports that because of the fact that they are economic sanctions, and ironic economically strapped that hezbollah is star for money isn't that a good thing? >> look there's no doubt the maximum pressure campaign is putting pressure on iran but to what end? secretary pompeo had a list of 11 thing the regime had to do. and it was never realistic, and that's why they have no end game. that is why we are here right now after this latest escalation, at much greater risk of going to war thyroid which would be very damaging to the united states. it would be damaging to iran but it would be also be damaging to the united states. ironic continue to prosecute its efforts in syria throughout this time of the administration. oso the notion that they succeeded in doing anything to stop by ron's malign influence is nonsense. what they have done is dramatically escalate the chance of war. chris: want to switch to a dramatically different subjects. how long do you think speaker pelosi should hold onto the articles of impeachment. mitch mcconnellll the senate majority leader has made it very clear he is not going to be cowed by her, is not going to be pressured by her. the senate will run its own trial. at some.doesn't she have to hand over the articles, and for the good of the country doesn't the senate have to get on with m the trial? >> will speaker policy is made very clear she will send over the articles and peaches. chris: but when? >> when she feels it is appropriate. andri that will happen, but the issue chris, is we have a constitutional duty in the senate to havee a trial. and it needs to be a fair trial. in every american recognizes that a fair trial means you get to call witnesses, you get to have relevant documents. we've seen in the last two years weeks more e-mail surface and this trump administration trying to cover up key e-mails trying to cover-up that the president of the united states ordered the hold on vital u.s. ukrainian assistance. and so why not get those documents? president trump himself said he wants mulvaney to testify. why shouldn't we have witnesses? chris: i got one last question and lessen many of you to answer. you have any concerns about holding this trial right now with the president in this growing confrontation with iran and potentially an international crisis? is that t a good thing for the senate to be trying whether or not to remove the president at particular moment? >> we have a constitutional duty when it comes to issues of war. congress, and the constitution has the ability to declare war in a matter what the president may think. and we have a constitutional duty to try the president and impeachment trial when the house of representatives send us that are that impeachment. i think our system is strong up that we can do both. i very much worry about what the president is doing right now to escalate tensions and the likelihood of war in iran. but our country will have to deal with both of these issues at the same time. chris: senator van hollen, thank you for coming in today sir. at will bring in our send a group to discuss what happens next to the growing confrontation. plus what would you like to ask our panel just go to facebook or twitter at f fox news sunday and we may use your question on the air. ♪ ♪ not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa when youyou spend lessfair, and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com (music and splat sound) (music) oops (music and patter of little shoes) (music and glass breaking) uh-oh... get on top of it before they do. 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the passive and just look? chris: and now it's time for a sunday group. josh holmes former chief of staff to mitch mcconnell. moa leath even georgetown and donna edwards former congresswoman and national former national trump security e uncilperson michael antone. michael does the decision to escalate dramatically and it was a dramatic escalation to take out some on it, does it make us more safer or less safe? and if i iran decides as it keeps its promise to retaliate dramatically, does the trump administration have a strategy? >> i don't know that i would increase this is escalated. you can say is dramatic. iran has been doing without much of a response. the main port i want to make here is the regime has been very aggressive. getting used to not facing pushback, not getting retaliation. and when they finally do get pushed back, they tend to back down and go into turtle mode for a little while. and that may yet happen again.ap we have seen that happen in the past. they have not faced metro tap italia should in the past for spending in a normal artists when vile they got out of the iran deal creating proxies and thttle colonies, building out their empire. and i think they got overconfident, and to some extent that overconfidence is exemplified by the fact that soleimani went right into iran i'm sorry in iraq and the airport completely confident video in the place and nothing would happen to him.. so i think the stones of the regime and likely make them retreat a little bit, like their ones and reassess. before we ask you for questions for the panel and on the president's decision to take outfe soleimani. rere's a question from you. what is a difference between what president trump did and what former president obama did to some of bin laden. >> there are two main differences of bin laden was a nonstate actor. we have an eye iranian hierarchy, nobody is out there saying that soleimani was a not a bad guy. he was a bad actor and he had been for a couple of decades. but the question is whether this was the smartest way in which towh conduct an overall foreign policy in the region. and i believe it has actually made the region and the united states interests a lot more vulnerable. chris: so iranian backed militias launch a number of strut a week ago friday and kill an american contractor od hurt a number of american soldiers. we respond with a number of strikes that kill about two dozen of those militiamen. they then attack our embassy, no they didn't kelly babin is pretty shocking what they did to the assembly him in baghdad. are we supposed let it go? >> what i'm saying is among the options the range of options the president had his did they take one in taking the action and killing soleimani. that actually, the downstream puts us in a much more difficult position. and i think right now, it's not really clear to me that just like pulling out of the iran deal, that this administration said has mapped out what the endgame is. what is the next part of the strategy. in i think without that the united states interests and our ability of our allies to stand with us in this, becomes much more complicated. chris: wants to move to a different aspect of the questions people are asking this week. president trump very publicly and has reaffirmed that as recently as this fall that the situation in syria ran on getting the u.s. out of endless wars in the middle east. but as i discussed with secretary pompeo, this week alone he sent more than 4000 u.s. troops into the region. so are weakening out charlie getting deeper? >> i don't think that is inconsistent it all. i think the overarching policy is to remove americans from theseri endless wars. these conflictson in syria and iraq and beyond. but that also cannot override immediate security threats. you need to be responsive to that. and i would just say i am totally stunned at the notion that somehow america is the one that brought this to a higher escalation level. the president's critics may not of been paying attention to what happened over the last years, but just because they are more focused on impeaching the president then on the well-being of our people in iraq. this guy has killed over 600 american soldiers. just last week we watched them storm the embassy in baghdad. now how america is the aggressor is beyond me. but what they did, is for the first time in a long time, and i will argue the president has been extremely reluctant to engage in this kind of thing. but for the first time in a long time not anymore, you're not going to attack american assets or personnel without repercussions. chris: here's how the president described in explain his action on friday. >> we took action lastct night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. chris: what about the argument, as i have recited in the interviews with the two previous guests that there are a s number of actions iran is taken going after ships, shooting down a drone, going after oil facilities, just in the last week they killed an american contractor and badly injured a number of american soldiers and then stormed the u.s. embassy. what about the argument that president trump needed to stand up to this i rating aggression and shall resolve. >> one of the presidents of rationales for withdrawing from the eye run that by doing so, and imposing these crippling economic sanctions on the regime, it would bring the regime to ask needs. in fact the exact opposite is happened. the regime has become more and more emboldened. and it has been escalating its rhetoric. my concern here, and as others have said, is what are the ramifications regionally? this is not our first opportunity to go after the sky. stan mcchrystal who was fired by president obama, he was no fan of obama he was at one point leading our effort in afghanistan. he talks openly about the time he had an opportunity to take him out, but there were bigger regional concerns. chris: he thanks president trump made the right decision? >> we will see. if you look at what happened just moments before this panel came on the air where the iraqi prime minister standing in front of the iraqi parliament called this a political assassin detonation and that the united states should withdraw all troops from the country. there is now a huge mess on the grounds in the middle east. in the united states is going to have to be ready for that. the government and the president have to be ready for. chris: he apsley doesn'tt have a bout a minute left in this segment and michael i want to leave it with you. you are positive that they needed a punch in the no's and now they're gonna pull back and now they gotten too aggressive. there's a flipside of that. what if iraq goes ahead and expels u.s. troops? and what if i iran and it's a possibility, strikes back? what we do then? >> if they are iraqis decide they want u.s. troops delayed one thing i can say with confidences president trump will not be begging them to say let us stay. he will call their bluff. i think the iraqi leadership know the big winners and that will not be iraq it will be iran. chris: h but would that hurt us if i iran takes evermore controlled iraq? >> badger said earlier the president really likes is much of the middle east as possible. he did not run as an isolationist, he ran more of a jacksonian. live and let live. we will live in the live as much is possible but if you hit us, mess of this, strike us or hit our killer people, we will hit back very hard. what he's doing is it's not term nationbuilding he has no reason to build it for the long term. >> we would leave controlled by lack we would reseed it. >> it is a sovereign country as you have said. if the elected government says we don't want you there, we don't have a way to stay in the president is knocking to beg them to stay. chris: we have to take a break here panel we have more to talk about democrats try to remove president trump. how long can nancy pelosi hold on to the articles of impeachment and hold up a senate trial? ♪ ♪ and account minimums. so, you can start investing wherever you are - even on the bus. download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. with truecar, to sell just enter your license plate and see your car's value in real time. sports package and low mileage? nice. within minutes, you'll have a true cash offer, and you can head to a dealership and get paid, today, right now. their turn is over, they have done enough damage. it's the senate's turnn now, to render sober judgment as the primers envisioned. >> there has never, never in the history of our country been ann impeachment trial of the president in which the senate was denied the ability to hear from witnesses. chris: with the senate back in session majority mitch mcconnell and minority later making noh progress on ground rules for impeachment trial of president trump. and we are back with the panel. so josh, where are we on a senate trial? is your former boss mitch mcconnell going to hold firm and say nancy policy you are not going to dictate what's going to happen here? and secondly over the recess there were two republican asenators collins and rutkowski atth expressed concerns about mcconnell's hard-line stance. what you think are the chances of mcconnell holds firm that you can get them and maybe two other republicans that would give democrats potentially a majority to call witnesses, and basically run the kind of trial democrats want to? >> first off this whole thing is kind of confusing to me why nancy pelosi believes it increases her leverage by holding the papers. every day she hold them it looks more and more bizarre and the closer and closer they get to the iowa caucuses of course there was off every 2020 democrat running against president trump. but she has no leveragee here. id she's never going to control the senate. so this ends only one way and that's's when she sends the papers over without any precondition. that is basically before okay so for my second question you have 47 democrats if they get for republicans that 51 and that's the majority assuming they'll vote together. and then they could call mick mulvaney. what carl is advocating for is a0 reasonable process one that was adopted 100 to nothing in the peach meant trial of the clintons. in the 1990s. ed has impeachment managers from the house and the president's defense team the opportunity to lay out their cases. and what is agreed to at the front end is that framework. after you get through that framework, centers go through a series of questioning they are able to look at what's missing. and at that.you can have a discussion whether you bring in different pieces of evidence. chris: like witnesses? >> so are we concerned is their concern that senators are ultimately going to back a democratic proposal to lay out this entire thing on the friending? no absently not. because what it does is create complete chaos. and i can say or democrats don't want it easy either because they are closer to getting 51 for biden and the trumpth meditation. chris: how long can nancy pelosi hang onto these articles of impeachment? it was a democrats it was policy and shift, they said we seve to move forward because donald trump is a clear and present danger. and now they are holding up the process to remove him. >> i think we need to examine what we are now because mitch mcconnell openly said that he wasn't going to have a fair process. and i think it is legitimate for speaker pelosi to actually keep open this process as long as she needs to. and if she's gonna turn over the articles of impeachment, but she does want assurances given that mcconnell came out straightforwardly and said he wasn't gonna have a fair process and he would be coordinated with the president.e so i think she actually has created leverage because she opened up the stage for some and may be mitt romney has nothing to gain this process by aligning himself with thehe administration,ee with the president, to make sure there is indeed a fair process. chris: alright we will continue, plenty of time to continue that conversation. let's turn to the democratic presidential campaign. because we just got the forks corner, the end of 2019 fundraising numbers for all the democratic democrats and they're interesting. bernie sanders led the field in the fourth quarter raising 34 and a half a million dollars. pete buttigieg, joe biden, and warner closely bunched about $10 million behind and then it's another 5 million back to andrew gang. mo, how j do you handicap the race at this.? >> is a jump ball. i was going to lay out the field to some extent. c historically they say two or three tickets out of iowa. you have as many as four or five out of iowa this next time. and it's anybody's game. those were tremendous numbers for bernie sanders but they are tremendous numbers for everyone in the field. the biggest question, heading into iowa and just under 30 days from now is will those senators that are running, elizabeth warren sanders, booker, klobuchar will they be able to be on the ground in iowa or will they be on the ground in iowa? for somebody like elizabeth warren or klobuchar, they are right there to get one of those tickets, they can't afford to see weeks of ground to somebody like vice president biden or mayor buttigieg. chris: maybe that's a g strategy hold up the senate trial. >> i don't think that's it but it is going to be an issue. chris: we should.out what they are were raising that amount of money donald trump raised $46 million far more than the others he's build up a huge campaign war chest and has over a hundred million dollars of cash on hand. which raises the question, michael, how big of an advantage to the president how much of a disadvantage to the democrats that he is building up this warchest basically intting there. he has a couple people running against him but nobody serious. but the democrats are going to spend all of it going after each other. >> it hassi been a long time since an incumbent president was defeated for election. 1992. it is an enormous. chris: [inaudible] >> its extraordinary circumstances at delta be repeated. and president bush, who was defeated in 1992 faced a very bad economy. and it's the economy stupid is the number one issue. bill clinton ran against but the democrats don't have that right now. i think anything is possible.yt theti economy turn could turn sour in the next year, but the economy had already been a recession and people were discontented. but that's up the case right m now. president trump looks very strong to me. chris: when m you look at not just theha money, but the polls, i think the thing that surprised me as bernie sanders had a heart attack in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of talk about the party wasn't gonna go as far left, they are pulling in voters, w they're pulling back to the center using buttigieg. biden had considerable strength. there are a lot of people out of the still support in our giving money to bernie sanders. >> there are, he showed resilience and energy. but i would say joe biden's actually showed a lot of resiliency to for all the attacks and the talks of the demise of his campaign. i look to see a resurgence of somebody like elizabeth warren. she's got money on hand, she's got the ground game of like iowa and new hampshire. she has the ability to organize and amy klobuchar you are right she is on the rise and she can't afford to be taken off. chris: i think there is a dryer calling a draw? >> i'm like the voters i am not ready to do that quite yet. but i do look at the collective energy in the democratic field. you can look at that in the fundraising were collectively the field is still able to demonstrate that from small donors across the board, that democrats do still have the wind in their sales. chris: 30 seconds joshua in that field is the biggest threat to donald trump? >> i don't think we know yet. i think they all have vulnerabilities some unique vulnerabilities. i think that bernie sanders elizabeth born weighing inn the midst of a good economy it's absolute devastating for democrats. i don't know how to change the american economy. chris: so basically there chden was right? thank you panel see you next sunday. next our power player of the week. the man who serves as the ambassador from hollywood to right here in the nation's capital. ave had a p3. need energy? get p3. with a mix of meat, cheese and nuts. i learned about myuse grandfather's life. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ chris: hollywood's award season kicks off tonight with the golden globe hollywood's award season kicks off tonight with the golden gold award and its shaking up to be a big year for netflix. the streaming service that used to be antr outsider in the movie industry. we spoke with an insider working to change that. he is our power player of the wweek. >> this is the place in washington d.c. where hollywood meets washington. >> charles rivkin is talking about the motion picture association, a powerful d.c. lobbying group which advocates for film, tv and streaming industry. >> 2.6 million americans wake up everyday and go to jobs supported by this business. >> the mpa numbers are hollywood's elite studio like disney and warner bros. and now, netflix. why did you push so fa hard for netflix to join the npa.he >> i believe the mpa should be the home of leading content creators on the planet and clearly netflix is. >> netflix. >> netflix. >> this year they scored 17 golden globe nominees, more than double any other studio, but charles rivkin says the giant is a partner not arrival , of the silver screen. >> what about the owners of movie theater two the more technologically savvy the i consumer is, the more people are likely to go to the movies so i don't believe there's cannibalization. >> for decades it was led by powerbrokerr and our first ever power player jack valenti. >> movies, television, wow, that's what i would like to do for the rest of my life and i've done it. >> the industry has changed dramatically and so has the mpa. the headquarters reopen this fall and now features iconic movie props. >> this is elton john's gucci jacket signed by elton john, worn in the film. here the original aquaman outfi outfit. >> but the mpa secret weapon has always been its movie theater. >> this is state-of-the-art. >> where washington politicians enjoy private screening's of new releases. >> the last theater, when it was built, it was good for its time, this is 120 seats. we had to have the best screening room in d.c. >> his father was an ambassador, his godfather, former senator and vice president hubert humphrey but he showsws politics over entertainment. he ran jim henson outside of that family. president obama appointed him ambassador to france. he brought hollywood with him boasting's stars like clint eastwood and samuel l jackson who met with young immigrants there. >> he talks about his story, the embodiment of the american dream. >> he said he slipped his own dream. >> i went from working from. [inaudible] for me, joining a 100-year-old institution and helping to modernize it for our new era, this new incredible golden age of content is very satisfying. >> despite the popularity of home streaming, movie theaters remain pack. the domestic box office for 2019 is projected to be more than $11 billion. that's it for today. have a great week. we will see you next fox news sunday. ♪ ♪ ♪ hello america, i'm mark levin. this is life, liberty and levin. indeed roberts, how are you. >> i'm well thank you. >> world-famous author, british historian, journalist, with all this turmoil going on in the world, our country, britaibritain, all throughout the world, i thought this would be a good time to talk about winston churchill. i think our