He came out today from the meeting at the white house with the g. O. P. And the Democratic Leaders who say in part that successes now make the successes of now make the whole impeachment argument, he would say, a difficult one. President trump its hard to impeach somebody who has done a great job. That is number one. We even talked about that today. I said why dont you use this for impeachment. Nancy said we are not looking to impeach you. I said thats good, nancy. Thats good. You dont impeach people when they are doing a good job. That more on that in a moment. The shutdown discussions appear to be at an impasse for now, the president was also asked about a new member of congress who does want him out. Congresswoman talib said this on the first day. People love you. And you win. And when your son looks at you and says momma loves you, bully donts win. I said baby, they dont. We are going to go in there and we are going to [bleep] martha lovely, right . Similar sentiment, a different language, though. We heard from the now new chair of the powerful House Intel Committee adam schiff. I i assume it will end with trump voted out of office. But bob mueller will have a lot to say about that. Martha its not going to happen soon, it doesnt seen. Because a grand jury already empanelled by bob mueller for 18 months with now be extend and we believe its for another six months. Here now on manners, and the showdown that is underway, on a number of fronts, former arkansas governor and the Fox News ContributorMike Huckabee and the former c. I. A. Officer brian dean wright and candidate for the chairperson for the d. N. C. Ms. Green. Welcome. A lot in there. The economy is doing well. The jobs number was extremely strong. Then you have got that just post to a showdown juxtapose over a shut down and the looming investigation that is going on. The question of impeachment against the backdrop, governor huckabee, ill start with you, greeted with pretty Strong Language by one of the newest members of congress. Start there. Lets be fair. Not all the democrats are that vicious. They dont use that kind of language. I think it would be unfair to paint all the democrats with a broad bush. But its disturbing that someone would say that. Profane and vulgar and up necessary. Frankly, its nonsense. First of all, a lot of americans dont seem to understand or i dont guess she does either that impeachment isnt removal from office. As long as the republicans have 53 members in the senate, it would take all of the democrats and 20 republicans to get to a super majority in order to remove the president. So this talk about impeachment is utter nonsense. I only quite frankly would hope they would pursue it and push it and go all the way with it because i think it would be the best way donald trump to be reelected and the republicans would get control of the house again back in 2020. Martha one more question on the impeachment front before we move to the other things. Ill get you to address it and what would you say to her about the comment . Full disclose sure, im a talib fan girl. She was trained by an organization vote run leads that i serve as the board chair of and we train women to run as you are. We train them to be unapologetic. And that is what we are seeing from her. As far as impeachment goes martha what do you say about the comment . That is totally separate from what you said. To the impeachment process, we are two years in the administration and nearly every entify that President Trump ever entity that President Trump ever led martha just answer my question. Im curious what you would say to her. Your friend and you support her. Do you support her using that language, which i wont even characterize on my show about the president of the United States . Look, i would not have used it. But the reality is and i think governor huckabee probably knows this and anyone who has watched the Television Show veep, politicians curse. They curse all the time. We are just not seeing it as so up close and martha not generally in front of the cameras. They do. They have sailor mouths. I think anyone who has worked inside the beltway understands that. The public just doesnt usually say that. But for impeachment there is a serious conversation to be had whenever entity that this president has led is under investigation. He is surrounded himself, the administration filled with the family members, associates and advisers who are under investigation for a long list of influence peddling and Money Laundering and i mean the list is so long. If the Founding Fathers put impeachment clause in the constitution, is there any other situation more tailormade to martha i dont know. A lot of the accusations you mentioned sound familiar from prior administrations so i dont know. Let me get you to weigh in here as we look at the whole issue of the wall, the battle over the wall. Your thoughts on where we stand with the showdown. Lets start with the immigration piece first. Nobody in country looks at this thoughtfully and says you know what . We have 3,000 people coming across the border every day, its no at problem. Of course it is. Democrats are playing games. My party is on the losing end of the issue. We have handled this ridiculously. Representative bustos today said that she would be open and the party would be open to a partial wall. So lets just dispense with the ridiculousness about the wall and why the government is shut down. Let me address secondly the whole garbage of cursing. Im not concerned about a representative cussing. What im concerned about is the Democratic Party spending two years telling themselves and this country that there is evidence of collusion between trump and russia and there is not. So what else do we expect . We have set the brushfire alive in this country that the president is guilty would evidence. That is the issue that your friend, colleague speaking just before me, is avoiding when you asked her a tough question. Lets wait until the evidence comes in. Dont pretend that the Democratic Party lit on fire from the ridiculous allegations yet to be proven with one shed of evidence. Clearly martha you want to respond . Lay out how the grand jury empanelled for an additional six months. That would not happen if the process was not moving through a high number of the indictments and guilty pleas. There is progress maid. Martha we havent seen the end of the investigation. When we do we will see what is in it. Governor huckabee, i want one last thought from you on the wall. Its interesting. Nancy pelosi is calling the wall immoral, which leads me to wonder if she would i mean this is a serious way does she believe we should dismant the existing part of the fence and the wall there now. Are those also immoral . They do attempt to block people from entering the country. That is the fairest question of all. If its immoral, if its really a moral issue to protect the border we shouldnt have any protection. 650 miles that we currently have, the democrats should introduce legislation to dismantle it. We also should call out the pope for having a wall around the vatican. We should call out every Major Institution including the prisons for having walls. If they are really immoral. I think its a ridiculous statement and indefensible one. There is surely a way to bring this i would love to see us resolve daca, get the border secure. This ought to be a bipartisan issue. It shouldnt be politicized. It shouldnt be one of the things that is thrown in, in this ridiculous discussion of impeachment because its simply not going to happen. I think American People are looking for people to lead, govern and resolve issues. Not just to stand off in corners and scream at each other. Martha you touched on something that may be the answer we end up with here which is a daca Border Security tradeoff. Most americans would be favorable toward that. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and see where we go. Thank you for being here tonight. Good to see you. Have a good weekend. Coming up next, a decorated navy seal is accused of murdering an isis prisoner. He has pled not guilty in a california courtroom today. We will speak exclusively with his brother sean who says the elite special force officer was stripped of due process in his own country. That is next. As a fitness junkie, i customize everything bike, wheels, saddle. Thats why i switched to Liberty Mutual. 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His combat resume is long and impressive but the Navy Prosecutors paint a picture of highly trained fighter in the eighth deployment went off the rails and a man used drugs and indies cremnantly fired at indecember crim indies cremnantly fired his gun. And said he took photos of himself holding a knife and the boys body and sending it to a fellow seal saying, i got him with hi hunting knife. More damning is the prosecutors built the case on the testimony of goal gers fellow navy seals. Military brotherhood like no other and the investigators say when some of the seals first tried to report gallaghers misdeeds he threatened to kill them. But he also has supporters including the top military leaders who claim to be eyewitnesses saying that the isis fighter died from the enemy gunshot wounds and gallagher and other seal medics were trying to save the boy to eventually interrogate him. There are also accusations stating that the navy seals who accused gallagher of killing the boy were malcontents that gallagher reprimanded for not wanting to engage in combat. Today in court a number of the gallagher fellow seals spoke on his behalf saying that they would trust him with their lives. Even under these allegations. Watch. I can stand by my friend and know he is a good man. He has had 19. 5 years of deployment and service for the country. He has been a number one chief and platoon operator and nothing but a valiant guy. A gold star father opened his house for Eddie Gallagher to stay in when he is released from prison. Today, a judge ruled that gallagher would go on trial between february 19 and march 1. And gallagher has agreed to a trial before a military jury. Onethird of whom will be enlisted personnel. Martha . Martha thank you very much. Here now exclusively Edward Gallaghers attorney phillip stackmouse and his brother sean gallagher. Welcome to both of you. Good to have you here. Sean, start with you. Trace laid out on both sides. Supporters and the detractors. You say the detractors are telling lies. Explain. Every single statement that was just said, every accusation made, every slanderous comment boils down to the bottom line. My brother reprimanded a couple of guys in combat who buckled under his leadership because they were new and inexperience because they put mens lives in danger not wanting to take the fight to the enemy. My brother called them out on this and rep remanded them. When they got back, months later they spun up the stories. Every allegation you heard stems from a couple of malcontents who admitted to tampering with my brothers rifle so he couldnt fire at the enemy in combat. This is how reckless they were. So the entire investigation i want to make it clear, Crystal Clear based on lies. Based on the testimony of the malcontent who were concerned about their own reputation they spun the stories to paint my brother as villain to escape criticism. Martha this jury, mr. Stackhouse, will hear both sides of the story and i maam they will see the evidence of the photographs of his holding the body and the knife as well. Well, i cant discuss what is contained in the pictures because there is a protective order that has been issued by the convening authority in the case. But i can tell you any pictures available i would expect will be shown in the trial. That is fine. I mean i will tell you now we will be showing those pictures as well. They show exculpatory evidence for our case. Martha sean, you know, there were nine members of Navy Seal Team seven who testified against your brother. You are saying that these are the people he reprimand manded . Nine of them . Its not that way. There are only a couple making the damning statements. There are nine that prosecutors claim to be on their side but lawyered up and dont want to talk to them because they are afraid they will be gone after the same way my brother has been gone after. Look at the case as an overzealous outofcontrol prosecution trying to make a career taking down a navy seal. Which should make every american blood boil because of the premise. The premise is that my brother killed an already dying isis fighter in combat. That is brass tax. He denies all of it and there is pounds of evidence to exonerate him. In spite of this the prosecutors try against the nine guys and against other guys of eddie teammates to try to intimidate them saying ill go after your career. Ill end your navy seal career if you dont start lying about Eddie Gallagher. This is the ret treatment we experience horrendously over the past four or five months. Martha gentlemen, thank you. This is an emotional issue for your family. He has three children. He served eight tours of duty. The last one in mo sue, iraq, trying to clear isis from there. We will be watching and thank you for being here tonight to tell your story. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Martha you bet. Still ahead tonight, one of the most used allegements to reopen arguments to reopen the government. Dont hold millions of americans, hundreds of thousands of workers hostage. Martha who is really impacted by this shutdown . President said he would be willing to let it go on for years. He doesnt want that but says it could be. Chris stirewalt with the real story next. He also said you said in the meeting that him quoting you, i want to check that the shutdown could go on for months or even a year or longer. Did you say that . President trump i did. I did say that. Absolutely i said that. I dont keep track of regrets. I never count the wrinkles. And i dont add up the years. But what i do count on. Is staying happy and healthy. So, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. New boost® high protein nutritional drink now has 33 more highquality protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals your body needs. All with guaranteed great taste. The upside im just getting started. Boost® high protein be up for life look for savings on boost® in your sunday paper. What is a safety net for the federal workers . A month and a year for a shutdown. Do you have a safety necessary for those who need a safety net for those who need a check . Well be safe. Not economically but ultimately economically. I really believe that the people, many of the people that we are talking about, many of the people you are discussing, i believe they agree with what we are doing. Martha President Trump admitting the shutdown could continue for months or maybe even years. They will meet this weekend to hope to resolve it. But right now 14 days into this. 800,000 government workers affected not yet, nobody as of right now this minute has missed a paycheck. The official payday, period end monday and they wouldnt get paid until next friday. If they resolve from now and then no one would have missed a paycheck. Those on the job are Correctional Officers and 50,000 custom Border Protection agents and coast guard employees. Those told not to report to work. 21,000 people at the commerce department. Nearly all of nasa. 10,000 state department employees. 45,000 people who work at the i. R. S. Maybe extra time on the taxes. Here to separate the fact from the fiction, chris stirewalt. Fox News Politics editor. Nobody wants anyone who lives paycheck to paycheck to be put in a dire situation. But listening to the politicians and the examples so far, this does not appear that anyone at least of right now entered that dire situation. Paycheck wouldnt be here until friday. There are Government Contractors who have not been paid and they probably wont. Those things are not rectified at the end. The government relies on contractors so there are contractors who have missed paychecks but for the bulk of the workers you talk about a week from today is the d day, when they miss the paycheck. They are on the 22nd of december. A long pay cycle and due next friday. But you right, its not a missed paycheck for the employees. Martha they said someone fell in a National Park and people who were supposed to be there watching were not there and someone else carried him down and he was fine in the end. There is another story floating around out there about a death in yosemite, which is tragic. A man fell. Fell in a river and died of a head injury. But the headline says death in yosemite as man falls in Government Shutdown. If they closed the parks that wouldnt have happened. I have no idea if he would have gone to the reward. Had rangers been there. The park was open. That wouldnt normally be the case under the past shutdown. Martha the point is in the ten seconds we have left; how dire is this situation . Do you think it will be open before next friday . The president says for months or years, that wont happen. The people will quit and the republicans and the senate will break. If