Democrats to come to the table and start negotiating, not just to end the partial Government Shutdown, but to address the humanitarian and security crisis. Shepard democrats insist evidence of any crisis is lacking, that the threat for President Trump, this is a political moment, boxed into a promise of a wall that mexico would paid for, facing a house leadership that is disagreeing and polls only his base supports. Kamala harris from california says its President Trump who isnt willing to negotiate. A bipartisan effort out of the United States senate and United States congress to pass a funding of the government, and the president is holding it up because of his vanity project. Shepard President Trump has not budged on the 5. 7 billion price tag for the beginning of a border wall or barrier. Democrats say a wall is not effective. And against american values. Theyll support other forms of Border Security. With that, we have team fox coverage, mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill, first john roberts reporting live on the north lawn. Shep, good afternoon. One thing for certain, tonights address by the president nor the joint democratic response is going to solve the problem of the Government Shutdown or what to do about Border Security, it will be an exercise in staking out competing positions. The. Insisting the building some sort of barricade along the southern border, whether its made out of concrete or as the president now says a steel slat fence is a major matter of security, that i. C. E. And the u. S. Military need it to help them do their jobs to curb the know of Illegal Immigrants, criminals, and drugs across our southern border. The Vice President mike pence making that case. The American People deserve to know that the situation on our southern border has become, as the Washington Post said, a bona fide emergency. 60,000 people a month. And for the first time on record, the vast majority of those are families, unaccompanied children, and it simply is overwhelming the ability of our Border Patrol and customs a little to address it. In their joint response tonight, democrats are expected to make the case there are better ways to protect the border than putting up some sort of barricade even though Many Democrats who are in congress now voted back in 2006 to give president george w. Bush the authority to build 700 miles of secure fencing along the border. Democrats will make the case the American People should listen closely to what the president says, because most of it will be bunk. Listen here. Now let me speak to the president s address to the nation tonight. Before he speaks. The president s address should also come with a warning to viewers. And that warning is the comments you are about to hear are not based on fact and are likely to include misinformation, blatant lies, and fear belongering. That fearmongering. That should be warning running across the screen when this address takes place. Now, as to the idea of an Emergency Declaration the president is keeping that in his back pocket, he has emmett flood of the white house looking into it, and what authority the president might have to have the military build a steel structure. According to the Vice President who gave a background briefing yesterday, the president hopes to solve the impasse without resorting to that. But it still is a potential possibility, shep. Shepard the white house response, john, to the democrats . Well, we heard more from Kellyanne Conway about that a little while ago, Robert Melendez saying much of what comes out of the president s mouth will be misstatements and misleading information. That actually happened on sunday when sarah sanders, the press secretary appeared with Chris Wallace on fox news sunday, stating that custom protection and government authorities apprehended 4,000 terrorists or people with ties to terrorism, i believe it was fiscal year 2017 was the time frame. And that the greatest point of vulnerability is the southern border. Well, it turns out that that is not the case. Kellyanne conway walked that back a short time ago. Listen here. That number, the 3,755, that number were told by dhs is real. What is not correct is that they were all apprehended or prevented, i should say, at the southern border. Its a number of different ports of entry. As you know customs and Border Patrol is at the airports. Apparently airports, ports, the border other ports of entry. That is the clarification. Heres what dhs said in a Statement Released late yesterday. Overall we stop on average 10 individuals on the terror watch list every day from traveling to or entering the United States. And more than 3,700 in fiscal year 2017. Heres a key point. Most of these individuals are trying to enter the u. S. By air, not the southern border, but we must also be focused on stopping those who try to get in by land. The problem with all of this is that as you saw from senator Robert Menendez of nmg, democrats are going to give the message to the American People that the president is going to lie to you about whats happening on the southern border. Any misinformation that the white house puts there on purpose or by accident is going to undercut anything that the president says tonight. Shepard john roberts live from the white house. The question, is there some sort of compromise possible, can the Congress Come up with something that the president will sign and fully reopen the government . Team fox coverage continues with mike emanuel from capitol hill. The message from senate republicans, theyre clearly hoping President Trump will take this opportunity to tell the American People theres a major security and humanitarian problem at the border. I want him to make the case like he has been doing, the idea that its a National Knowledge m, of course, thats poopooed by the other side. But if you look at the heartland, most of the states in the country, especially places like indiana shepard breaking news, Mitch Mcconnell speaking live on the senate floor on this matter now. Lets remember what were talking about. In light of the you are enhumanitarian and security crisis on our border, the president is requesting 5. 7 billion for physical barriers and Border Security. For some context, thats just about 1 10 of 1 of federal spending. 1 10 of 1 . For a physical barrier like the fences and barriers which already exist, which democrats have previously voted for with enthusiasm back in 2006, thensenator Hillary Clinton, barack obama, joe biden and the current democratic leader all voted for more than 1 billion to construct about 700 miles of physical barriers. Thensenator obama called it badly needed funding for better fences and better security. That should help stem some of the tide of illegal immigration. That was senator barack obama. Senator schumer later described his vote, proudly, quote miles of border fence that create a significant barrier to illegal immigration. As recently as 2015, secretary clinton boasted, quote, i voted numerous times to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent Illegal Immigrants from coming in, Hillary Clinton. Well, mr. President , obviously that was then and today the new speaker of the house is trying to argue that a physical barrier is, quote, immoral. Immoral . Today my friend the Democratic Leaders proposing to add a Senate Shutdown to the partial federal Government Shutdown and block even more of the peoples business, all, all to avoid more of what he already voted for. Maybe the Democratic Party was for secure borders before they were against them. Or maybe theyre just making it up as they go along. Maybe they are dead set on opposing this particular president on any issue for any reason, just for the sake of opposing him. Now, look, walls and barriers are not immoral. How silly. Enforcing our laws wasnt immoral back in 2006 when thennor clinton and thensenator obamand the democratic leader were proud, proud to vote for physical barriers. The only things that have changed between then and now are the political winds and of course the occupant of the white house. So this is no newfound, principled objection. Its just political spite. A partisan tantrum being prioritized over the public interest. So for more than two weeks they have indulged in that partisan tantrum rather than good faith border funding, hardly something that should be a partisan subject in the first place. They put that partisan tantrum ahead of keeping a quarter of the government open. And now theyre saying their par day san tantrum is more urgent than pressing legislation that concerns our lives with israel and the syrian civil war. Look, mr. President , i hope that isnt the case. I hope that or democratic colleagues dont pile on even more pointless obstruction. I hope they dont block the senate from turning to the important legislation, legislation by the way that they support. Well find out later today. We all know what is necessary to move past the funding impasse, a negotiated shugs that can pass the hos, earn 60 votes in the senate, and get the president ial signature. Shepard democrats insist that proposal is not possible. The president initially come pained on a border wall that the mexicans would pay for. When the mexicans refused to pay for it he had a Republican House and Republican Senate and couldnt get a border wall funding bill passed. Now that the democrats are in charge, the democrats point to public polls which say the vast majority of the American People are not in favor of a border wall. That his base is the primary widespread supporter of a border wall. The democrat controlled house has said we will not provide funding for a border wall, as a result the president shut down the government. Now the president says he will keep the government shut down, he said for months or years if necessary, while waiting for the funding which the house of representatives says it will not give. So theres the impasse. One side or the other must budge at some point. Tonights event is a political event. Its a political event for the white house and 34ri9 cal event for the democrats. But at the moment the ones in charge of the Purse Strings at democrats in the house of representatives and theyre not giving him the money at least not now. Mike, its hard to see where a compromise is going to be. Mitch mcconnell has largely been on the side lines. He said let nancy and chuck handle this, as he puts it. Today hes front and center delivering the president s message. The president will do so tonight and well hear from the democrats. No question about it, mcconnell had a plan, he passed a government funding extension to keep everything up and running through february 8. Passed it right before christmas. You had senators singing Christmas Care rolls thinking they had done their work and going home for christmas. Then the president backed away from the deal. So theres been frustration from mcconnell and his allies in the senate who said we didnt need to get to this point. But mcconnell making the point democrats were for border fencing in the past when it wasnt donald trump in the oval office. Theres politics here everywhere. You have got also senators from states that have huge federal employee populations, who are having their workers furloughed, all fired up, saying theres no need for. This House Democrats are going to put a variety of funding bills on the floor that has no to do with Border Security, hoping republican members will say, well, i have to vote for, this im in favor of funding the irs during tax season and other nonrelated Border Security ish oos. So theyre clearly hoping that will force republicans to lose some leverage. Shepard mike emanuel, live on capitol hill. We expect to hear from republicans and democratic leader in washington in a moment. Our coverage continues on Fox News Channel after this. If youre a veteran homeowner and need money for your family, call newday usa. 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At first slice pizza lovers everywhere meet o, thats good frozen pizza one third of our classic crust is made with cauliflower but thats not stopping anyone o, thats good shepard less than six hours away from President Trumps First Oval Office speech to the nation, first one of his presidency. During it, its expected to push and bull pull on Public Opinion hoping to get a larger percentage of the public over to his side of the argument on funding for a border wall. Lets turn to a journalist, Eliza Collins, politics reporter for usa today. Eliza, thanks. Of course. Shepard the congress is not movable at this moment, its largely believed. Hes trying to get the people onboard. How big a moment this . This is a huge moment for the president. As you guys were talking about earlier in the show, public polling ahead of the shutdown did show that ore whel ming majority of americans did not believe that the government should shut down over the wall. Trumps base does believe that. Trumps very much catered to his base. At this point the government is shut down. In order for republicans to continue and have really leverage in negotiations they need a broader section of the population. And so he is trying to bring in sort of those moderate republicans, those independents, and you said congress is not movable, i believe democrats are not movable. The white house does run the risk of losing moderate republicans in congress on this. Part of this speech is also to rally up republican support and say this is the right thing. Shepard does that risk come from a constituency from those individuals, when they stop getting paychecks or feeling the effects of the Government Shutdown, might put pressure on the representatives who might feel pressure to break with the president . Absolutely. Government employees are not just democrats, right . Some of these senators, represent states where theyre government employees, constituents, for house members, are government employees. Like you pointed out earlier, paychecks for some of these people will not come on friday. Thats a really big deal. Republicans in the white house are trying to basically move people away from the stories about people not getting their paychecks, not being able to pay for necessities. Shepard have republicans identified any leverage that the president might have in this argument . Not so much so far. I mean they are hammering down the point mcconnell made that, democrats have voted for this before. We have seen the president move away from that concrete wall he campaigned on to the steel slats, which is closer to the fencing, some of the democrats voted for over a decade ago. But right now, theyre kind of just waiting to see what the president does. The Vice President is coming to the hill later today with secretary nielsen, to talk to Congressional Republicans and theyre hoping for assurances from the white house on what is going to happen next. 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