To mount juliet, tennessee. Christy walked in for a get together and got the surprise of her life. Not a dry eye in that house. Thanks for joining us. Busy day. Im dana perino. Heres shep. Shepard a live look, the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the west wing where were about to hear live from the president in the wake of an extraordinary morning. The pressure on President Trump accelerating and in moments hes scheduled to speak. Two big issues, first, the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria. Widely criticized by members of his own party, his own advisers and generals and cabinet. Our own reporting that he stopped listening to top leadership, didnt inform our allies or the pentagon. Hes getting praise from putin and condemnation from conservatives. At the same time, in the face of pressure to build that wall, the newly announced president ial decision not to sign the
shortterm budget deal that easily passed the u. S. Senate. His base was rebelling. The Freedom Caucus on the hill, his supporters on social media and beyond saying promise broken to build that wall. St. A compromise possible . A dance of dollars and semantics that could soothe and give solace to supporters. Or will the government shut down just as santa feeds the reindeer. Now the president will face the cameras. The topic today, a farm bill, but the focus here and Around The World on other matters and were advised he will address the shut down first. President trump now refusing to sign any Spending Bill that does not also include funding for a border wall. Sending congress back to come up with legislation that does. The house speaker, paul ryan, on his last day on the job explaining that. The president informed us that he wont sign the bill that came up from the senate last evening because of his legitimate concerns for border
security. So what were going to do, were going to the house, work with our members. We want to keep the government open but we want an agreement that protects the border. Shepard notice the language there. Speaker ryan talking to reporters after House Republicans met with President Trump to keep the government up and running, keep the president s Campaign Promise to build the wall alive except paul ryan didnt say anything about build the wall. He said Border Security. Border protection. Is the build that Wall Amen Chorus being rewritten after the months after it first emanated from mike flynn, build that wall . Is a wall in another form like steel slats or Something Else acceptable . Well know soon. Congress has a little more than a day to pass legislation to keep 800,000 federal workers on the job before lawmakers leave for their christmas break and conservative republicans are
calling on the president not to back down. Last week the president said he would be proud to shut down the government to build the wall. This week the white house backed off from that and now the language seems to have changed. President trump is demanding wall funding to stop the show down. The Senate Passed its version of the wall last night. Thats the legislation that speaker ryan was referring to. It does not refer to border wall funding and House Republicans say they want to know what the president will support before they pass a bill, which brings us to todays meeting at the white house. Mike emanuel on the hill. First the chief White House Correspondent john roberts on the north lawn. Do we know what the president will support . No. I just got off the phone with a Senior Administrative official. Rush limbaugh on his show said
that he was told if the president doesnt get 5 billion in wall funding, hes going to veto the bill. I asked, do you have a minimal figure a floor which you will not accept below . They said they dont have a specific figure in mind. Lets see what can be passed out of the house. What happens if what comes out of the house has no money . The response from the other end of the line was, maybe there will be a shut down. This time yesterday, shep, it looked like the president was going to have to accept whatever came out of the senate and the continuing resolution to fund the government and didnt include any money for the wall but under pressure from conservativ conservatives, the president dug in his heels and began with the following tweet. It said the president then called in
12 members of the gop leadership for a noon meeting in which he delivered a clear message that the senate bill to keep the government funded through november 8 was unacceptable. Heres what the incoming House Minority leader, Kevin Mccarthy said, after that meeting. The president said what the senate sent over is just kicking the ball down the road. We want to solve this problem, we want to make sure we keep the government open and have that done and get something happening. After mccarthy and ryan came out, Sarah Huckabee sanders released the following statement. Now, a wall can take on many different forms. There you can see the executive
office building where the president will be signing the farm bill soon. But as to what happens from here, we do not know. Again, a wall can take on many different forms. The president has started to talk about steel slats, the word wall connotes a Big Concrete Structure that the democrats say they would never agree to. So well see if moderating the language a little bit moderates sentiments on capitol hill. I doubt it. Shepard i said earlier, wondering, are they trying to come up with some semantics dance where he can get money for Border Security, which democrats have to a man and a woman said they want Border Security but not have to build the wall, that it doesnt like he has support for even within his own party . It would appear hes moving in that direction. I hear it on twitter that steel slat equates to fence, does not
equate to wall. If the president tries to say that a steel slat fence is a wall, he will get push back from his base. Shepard thanks, john. Waiting for the president to speak. Well go live the moment he does. Team fox coverage continues to mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill. The question had been that where the president said i have the votes in the house, i have them, we can take the vote today and the votes would be there, but our reporting had been that he doesnt have the votes in the house because the Freedom Caucus wouldnt vote for it unless somebody could pay for it, has something changed . The republicans want to give it a shot. Thats something that they promised the voters and the base back home so they want to fight for that. Some are hoping by adding billions in Disaster Relief money that might win over colleagues worried about their areas hard hit by hurricanes and
wild fires. Were going to move today to add language to the bill that the senate sent over on Government Funding to add 5 billion for the wall as well as the Disaster Relief funding a greed upon at both the house and the senate for the hurricanes and the wild fires. So well move that later on today. This is about securing americas border. A complication for House Republican leadership is there are members that are retiring or lost in the 2018 election and out of their offices. The offices are being refurbished for new members to take them in january in a couple weeks. So that do not have the full roster of republican members. Shep . Shepard on the democratic side, i keep hearing the word wall again and again. You heard it from the Press Secretary and heard it there. Are democrats budging in some way on a wall . I ask because of this. If he decides to shut down the government while waiting for wall funding and if the wall funding doesnt come, how would you reopen the government . Well, some have suggested that you wait until nancy pelosi is the speaker of the house and then she gets credit for reopening the government. Thats the take of some democrats. So its not entirely clear what would be next steps. Democrats are resisting that and saying there was an offer made to basically offer money for the Tunnel Project in new york city, try to win over some of those northeastern democrats. The Senate Democratic leader that happened to be a new yorker says republicans are playing a dangerous game. It seems unfortunately that trump Temper Tantrum is spreading like a contagious plague in the house. Trumps allies can pound their fists but it wont get a wall. Well see if they have the votes and a plan b or plan c in
the hours ahead. Shep . Shepard mike emanuel reporting from capitol hill. John bussey is here from the wall street journal. Im required under ethics to tell you, the journals Parent Company and fox news share common ownership. What is happening . The president has a game of chicken going on. Yeah. He had to blink last night. The Senate Wednesday night passes a Spending Bill without the wall in it. Presumably with the president s okay. The senates controlled by his party. He wakes up and gets excoriated by the right for having allowed that to happen, for not standing his ground on the wall, which is what he wanted to do to begin with. Blinks again and says im not going to sign it after all. So now what happens . Hes in a difficult situation with 2020, the political campaigns, not just him but his heart in mind. These are promises that have been made. If he does delay it to february, is he just essentially saying that were not going to get a wall because guess what happens in january . Its a democratic controlled house, negotiations will be entirely different when that happens. Shepard he cant get it under a republican controlled house or he would have done it. Youd think so. What is happening now is that you have a lot of republicans not there. Theyre not voting. Why . Because maybe they are retiring or didnt get reelected and its the end of the year, theyre cleaning out their office, on their way home to do christmas shopping. So he already has a depleated republican vote base. You need 60 votes in the senate to pass the Spending Bill. Theres a good story on wsj. Com right now. You need 60 votes. You have 51 that are republicans and the democrats are not aligning with you because they dont feel anything is in it for them. So what will happen . Is he going to have to blink again and keep the government from shutting down because he
doesnt not want to be the parent and the owner of that. Shepard what he did was, he told them to go back, go back to the floor, go back to your caucus, figure out something that can pass and that i can sign. Yeah. Shepard so if they cant get something together that will pass, is just im trying to figure out what an end game might be. Is there a strategy here . Yeah, the republicans are trying they thought they had an end game, which is were not going to get the votes for the wall funding. Shepard sorry, ryan. Oh, okay. Go ahead. So they thought they had a tactic on this, right . That the president was okay with them passing the bill in the Senate Without the wall funding in it. The republicans must be looking at this in the house now. Paul ryan must be saying, im not sure what to do. Were not getting guidance on the white house on what would be
sufficient beyond just the 5 billion that the president has said. So if they cant get that into a bill that can pass with enough votes from their party and some democrats, which does not look like it would happen in the house, everybodys hands are up in the air wondering what happens next. Shepard the word is hes fighting mad. Hes been fighting mad for some time about this issue. Its a Major Political promise that he has made and a number shepard it was a political promise. It was. A promise nonetheless and he wants to deliver on that and show that he delivered on that come shepard so he thought he was going to get a wall built . Yes, he did. He thought that he could do it with his party in power. Its not just him. Its a number of republicans that ran on the same issue in the midterm election. The question is, is he going to just alienate further the independents that voted with the democrats in the midterms over this issue if it comes to a government shut down . The other thing is, he just
passed a prison sentencing reform bill, a bipartisan bill that was really the president s initiative. Shepard a huge win. Run by his soninlaw. A big win that democrats and republicans have been lauding the white house for. Youre missing an opportunity to make a lot of hay out of that with this debate going on and the possibility of a shut down looming. Shepard so now with the president to speak at 3 00 eastern time, was to begun 13 minutes ago, of course everything is behind, but you wonder when he comes out our guidance from the white house is this. They send out notes about heres whats going to happen. He was going to give a farm bill talk. He will do that. The first thing that they tell us hes going to talk about is this shut down, build the wall funding, the fight on capitol hill. That is the first thing he talks about. Tomorrow hes scheduled to go to maralargo for 16 days. And not quite sure how you would
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that. He sent out a tweet and said ill be out in 15 minutes. So im passing that along. He ought to be out around 3 30. When he comes out, well listen theres a couple it would appear at least unless theres new information, heres the options. You get the democrats to agree to funding for the wall or you shut down the government. There is a thing in washington called compromise. He sent his leaders, the leaders of the republicans back out to come up with a way to get the funding and have a continuing resolution or a budget or something so that he doesnt have to shut down the government right before santa hohos about. And they said they were going to go back and do that. They had 1 1 2 hours, Something Like that, hour and 20 to get a
new thing together. And maybe theyve come up with that. Theyll come out and the president will have a new announcement about how were going to do this moving forward. As of yesterday, the president said heres the tweet, by the way. With a clip of him at the emmys as a former. As you know, this is a Farm Bill Signing. He sent out Farm Bill Signing in 15 minutes. Emmys, tbt. So an emmys throw back thursday, i believe that would be. Today is thursday, right . So that would stand to reason the president there in the heehaw regalia while discussing the coming farm bill. But we have already been told that the president could we put the tweet back up again . Could we do that . The tweet. This is the latest today the president is dealing with Reb Rebellion for his generals for pulling the troops out of syria and in addition facing a government show down and shut down and heres the president ial tweet. Well be back. Hey there people eligible for medicare. Gimme two minutes. And ill tell you some important things to know about medicare. First, it doesnt pay for everything. Say this pizza. Is your part b medical expenses. This much about 80 percent. Medicare will pay for. Whats left. This slice here. Well. You have to pay for that. And thats where an aarp Medicare S