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FOXNEWSW The Story With Martha MacCallum January 20, 2018

Showdown. The Senate Minority leader and the president and their chief of staff met in the oval office this afternoon. They said we made progress. There are a good number of disagreements that still remain. Tonight the president tweeting in favor of 4 weeks to hammer out the rest. With 3 republican senators, graham, blake and paul in the no column, they have to get to 60. Mike emanuel has been following the latest on the hill tonight. He joins us from capitol hill where the story is continuing to unfold. No doubt about it. Good evening to you. Speaking to republicans and democrat senators most are looking for a way out frft Government Shutdown in the hours ahead. On the senate floor we saw republican and democrat lawmakers speaking. Perhaps starting the blame game a bit. Blaming the other side for a potential Government Shutdown. The Senate Majority leader said there is an easy way out of this mess. We already have the bill we know it can pass the house because it already did. We have a bill that we know the president will sign into law because he commited to do just that. There was great hope on the hill when President Trump invited the democratic leader Chuck Schumer this afternoon. He brought a list of issues to talk about going beyond daca, the young people brought to this country illegally by their parents. He took the opportunity to talk to a range of matters about the president. The president is supposed to lead. The art of the deal. This is a good time to show it. Situations like this, i was very much involved. Very much hands on. Reaching out to both sides. There is a deal to be had here. There has been Significant Movement in the last few minutes. Democrat senators will meet at 8 30. Then we expect around 10 oclock eastern time, there may be an attempt to see if they have 60 votes to pass the deal that passed the house last night. Martha mike, thank you very much. Chris fox News Politics editor and mark and a fox news contributor. Welcome. A couple of minutes ago there was movement. Mitch mcconnell is on the floor right now. This is an idea we talked about earlier. Perhaps he just tried to push through what passed the house and what the president said he will fine. He has to make them pay for it. If the Senate Democrats are going to vote for the house bill, he has to make them vote no. Give them a chance to vote no and get them on the record. Then in the final hour, democrats want out of this thing. They dont want to get stuck with this. Its too far from the daca deadline. At the last hour, chuck, how about a 5day extension . We will take it. Give us anything. Martha its unbelievable, mark. This would be the 4th cr. They havent passed a budget on time since 1996. Folks at home watch in and say again . They throw their hands up. Its a manufactured crisis. The daca goes until march 5th. President trump said if we dont get a deal i will extend it further. People were upset and said you dont do that when you are negotiating. This bill has funding for 9 million poor kids. That dies tomorrow if they dont pass something. Martha there is nothing in the deal that democrats should be opposed to . No. They are opposeed to what donald trump said a week ago. They need to grow up and stop being oversensitive millennials and negotiate with the president of the United States. Martha graham believed they were close last tuesday and would get a bipartisan deal on daca. He said if we dont get it now, it wont happen. There is a deal to be had out there. No reason to think a month from now. In the republicans got everything they wanted and a one month continuance. The democrats have a strengthened position on daca. Its a zero advantage for republicans to be the party of deporting young adults in the United States through no fault of their own. They dont want to do it. The democrat leverage goes later. Too soon to shutdown the government on this issue. Martha we will talk about the first year of the trump administration. Mark, the lastminute, to do that. We could be in shutdown mode when he does the state of the union. A huge year of accomplishments. Passed tax reform and driven isis from their base and he finishes promises that barack obama made and didnt fulfill. The redline in syria and pulled the u. S. Embassy and recognized jerusalem as the president of israel. Things president obama promiseed to do and didnt do. Martha even his critics say when you ad up pluses and mineuses successful. They said donald trump was a lunatic who would bring a nuclear holocaust. He beat his critics expectations. Martha democrats are defiant as to who is to blame for the shutdown showdown. Democratic congressman said this. The democrats have been ready and willing to set down at the negotiation table and reach an agreement with our republican colleagues. But we will not be black mailed. We will not be black mailed because republicans are unwilling to compromise. Martha joining me now senator tom cotton. Good to see you tonight. The last word we received is that Mitch Mcconnell sothe floor again. Will we see a vote tonight . I hope so. I dont think we should shutdown the government for what the democrats are demanding. There is a bill on the floor that would fund the government for another month and would Fund Health Insurance for poor kids for the next six years. Democrats are saying they will reject that bill because they not only want amnesty for Illegal Immigrants but dont want to stop unskilled immigrants. I dont think that will fly with the American People. Martha give us a sense whether or not there is movement at this moment. Democrats want an offramp. They dont want this around their necks. Well, martha, as you have seen, we had a number of democrats in the last couple of hours saying they will vote for this bill. From West Virginia and north dakota. There are a lot of other democrats who have to face the voters in 10 months. They dont want to shutdown the government and deprive american citizen citizens of government deserveses to get Health Insurance for poor kids. Martha graham and durbin thought they were gross to a deal last week. The way dick durbin described it, he said when he saw you in the room he knew something changed. Did you pull the president away from the deal that durbin and graham thought they had with them . The president realized that senates graham and durbin had sold him a bill of goods. Martha did you help him realize that . No, i didnt speak to donald trump until we walked into the oval office. The president campaigned on a number of issues. There is no issue that was more fundamental to his victory than immigration and getting an immigration policy that helps the americans who are working. Its one thing to get a bill pitched on the telephone and another thing to look at the particulars. The president realized he was being sold a bill of good. He wont have amnesty for Illegal Immigrants without securing our borders and stop future Illegal Immigrants. Martha i understand that. But he made it clear he loves the dreamers and think they will are great kids and wants to find a solution for them to stay here. What are you willing to give on the other side . If you have given in on allowing them to stay which is a concession on the republican side, what do you think democrats will put in that pot to make this happen . Well, thats right. Thats the amazing thing about where we are tonight. The president and most republicans in Congress Said we are willing to give Legal Protection to hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants here through no fault of their own. The democrats need to come to the table and offer concessions to secure the border and stop extended family reunification and move towards a meritbased immigration system. Most republicans agree with the democrats that we should give Legal Protections to people who have a daca work permit. Martha one last question. There was a poll done. People who responded said if there was a shutdown they would blame republican. They said if it was over daca who would you blame and they said democrats. Is that sinking in with democrats . I think so. If we have a shutdown its because the democrats are unwilling to vote for the spending bill or dont accept a reasonable compromise. Martha the ground is shifting a little bit. Senator cotton, thank you very much. Good to see you tonight. Thanks. Martha as we watch and wait and see what is going down there about the spending bill. Another big story brewing on capitol hill. The shocking and alarming memo detailing government surveillance is sending shockwaves through washington. Republicans say it reveals proof of the political bias of the fbi and department of just under president obama. There are growing calls tonight for congress to declassify this. Its all over twitter. They want them to make these findings public so everybody at home can take a look at them. Good evening. Some republicans tonight are calling it worse than watergate. Another congressman compared it to kgb activity in the old soviet union. Thats ironic because this investigation started out as a probe whether there was russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. Its morphed into allegations inside the Obama Administration instead. More than 115 House Republicans saw a 4page memo laying out evidence of the fisa abuse. Congressman perry wondered if this happened in america or in the soviet union. These lawmakers say they cant spell out what is in the memo because it include classified info. Pressure building for that memo to be made public. Release the memo on social media. Heres what we know. Nunes told colleagues he has season evidence of fisa abuse by fbi and Justice Department officials. Nunes was referring to obama officials using unverified information put together by a former british spy. Simpson testified that the obe Justice Department asked simpson to turn over information to the obama Justice Department. That led republicans to declare that he and other top officials may lose their jobs for letting that info to be used to get fisa warrants. Any american who saw this do you mind would feel like Rob Rosenstein and bruce ohr need to be fired immediately. They are a threat to the country. Conformer trump advisor under surveillance. He lashed out at page. He said hopefully if Congress Releases the memo, america might learn real facts about the Propaganda Campaign intended to rig the election. Shift says this memo is dismanaged. They misleading. Nunes could hold a vote. With aicism simple majority he could get this made public. Martha congressman jim jordan. He read what is calling a shocking memo. I know you are not talking about the classified information in this 4page document put together by nunes. It collates all of their investigations. You have read it. Do you believe there is a crime in there committed by the doj and the fbi . Look, what i believe is what my colleagues said and i said. The American People need to see this. We want the journalists in this great country to see this. We want the American People to understand what the fbi did. How wrong it was. And again, we are not allowed to talk about it. The committee can meet today, can meet tomorrow. The majority votes to release this. It goes to the white house. The white house can say thumbs up or down. My guess is they will say thumps up and the American People can see what took place at the highest levels of our fbi and the Justice Department that should not happen in this great nation. Martha what is the plan . Why didnt they meet today . I give chairman nunes a lot of credit. He pushed hard and put this memo together. We called for it a week and a half ago. We said make this available to congress. We think once we see it, there will be such a demand and outcry for this to go public, that it will go public. Martha it was compared to watergate which was an election scandal in another campaign. If this is worse than that, it would draw a picture of an Obama Administration attempt to derail the Trump Campaign. Is that what is in these pages . I cant talk about the specifics. Thats why we are pushing hard to have it go public. Think about when we knew a long time ago. The Clinton Campaign paid for the dossier and the Text Messages from peter strzok. They said walking through walmart, i can smell the Trump Supporters. To make sure donald trump was not elected. Martha i hear you. That didnt mean you are involved in a conspiracy. Peter strzok who ran the clinton investigation and interviewed cheryl mills and mi michael flynn. That same peter strzok said i can smell the Trump Supporters in walmart. That same peter strzok whose is deputy head of counterintelligence. Thats stuff we knew. Martha alan who was a member of the Obama Administration who went on msnbc and lets play what she said. I was urging my former colleagues and the people on the hill. It was more aimed at telling the hill people. Get as much information as you can before president obama leaves the administration. I game very worried. Not enough was coming out into the open. I knew there was more. We have very good intelligence on russia. Then i talked to some of my former colleagues. I knew they were trying to get information to the hill. Martha their argument was they uncovered this collusion that we have been talking about forever between the Trump Campaign and russia. They were so concerned with what they have found. They lowered the bar for classified information so more people could get their hands on it. They admitted that in the New York Times article. They wanted to be sure those tea leaves were still out there so it would not get dropped. Is that part of it . Again, i cant get into specifics. The unmasking, we know that happened. Chuck schumer said if you go against the intelligence committee, they have 6 ways of getting back at you. What do we also know . To date not one bit of evidence that showed coordination between the Trump Campaign and russia to influence the election. The Clinton Campaign paid steele who paid russians for that information to influence the election. When this memo goes public it will provide a bigger and better peculiar for the American People to see why the fbi did what they did. Martha are all members of the Republican Committee in favor of the releasing the document . That was the vote yesterday to make it available to members of congress. It was a partisan vote. Democrats voted against it. Chairman nunes is pushing hard to get it public. We are asking him to make it happen sooner rather than later. Martha thank you. Setting up a 10 p. M. Procedural vote to avoid the schumer shutdown. Anything that can be done in the final hours to make a deal and keep the government open . Mick mulvaney is up next. Plus we look back at year 1 of the trump presidency. Spicer will tell what he said to the president. Where was your passion and concern when they all said there was no connection to russia . Where was it then. I thought refinancing would be messy. Yeah, i thought so, too, but Rocket Mortgage gave me control of the mortgage process. I lowered my term and found a payment that fit my budget all from my phone. Can i see . What do you think . Oh, do i have a little. . Rocket mortgage by quicken loans. Get approved in as few as 8 minutes. Rocket mortgage by quicken loans. Exin the 2018xus lexus es and es hybrid. Lease the 2018 es 350 for 339 month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. And butch. Aura. And tank. 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Tomorrow will mark one year since i took the oath of office. I will say our country is doing really well. Our economy is perhaps the best its ever been. Martha President Trump noted today tomorrow marks the one Year Anniversary of his presidency. Its not coming without drama. Live at the senate floor where democrats and republicans are refusing to vote yes but there may be a little bit of movement on this. Democrats wanted a daca deal to be part of this and would hold it

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