The White House Legislative Affairs director knight has been up on capitol hill all afternoon to put together a christmas miracle. It looks like the white houses hard line on the border wall may not be so hard. Out there is a proposal to keep the government funded through the end of fiscal year of 2019 providing 1. 6billion dollars for border fence through the rio grande section of the southern border. Thats one of the most active areas for migration. Democrats have indicated that they may be able to support such a proposal in the house. There is an increasing sentiment among many republicans they would rather go for a continuing resolution than shutdown the government over business. Thats far less than the 5 billion that the president is looking for. Watch for the white house to seek a legal opinion whether it can use money for defense construction to Start Building portions of the wall through the department of Defense Budget. Such a move would likely provoke howls of outrage among lawmakers on capitol hill that would make the case the president cant just shift around money as he pleases. The white house may try to find a legal opinion to do some of that. The president will have to accept less if he wants a deal this week, he found other reasons to be optimistic that changes in other areas may come to pass. President trump failed in his attempts to repeal and replace obamacare but found reason for hope after a federal judge in texas ruled obamacare is unconstitutional. The president tweeting that the deductible with obamacare is so high its not really usable. The president s optimism was not shared by democrats. They shredded the ruling. Its an awful ruling. We will fight this. The first thing we will do when we get back there in the senate is urge, put a vote on the floor urging an intervention in the case. It will fall to the Supreme Court to determine obamacares constitutionality. Until then the law stays in place. Some members of congress will try to find a solution before then on the issue of preexisting conditions. We have to find some solution to lower healthcare costs and make sure that all americans have affordable healthcare that cover preexisting positions. President trump had an eye on another dive in the dow warning it would be a mistake for the fed to raise Interest Rates this week. The president tweeting its incredible with a strong dollar and no inflation, the outside world blowing up around us, paris burning and china way down, the fed is considering yet another Interest Rate hike. On the subject of staff changes the president will name a replace for the department of the interior secretary. Fox news was told that mulvaney will take over as chief of staff on january 3rd. Shannon the dow lost more than 2 Percentage Points for the 4th time this month. The s p fell 2 . Nasdaq down 2 and a quarter. Lets get insight on what is happening. Christine joins us from new york. It was a rocky day on wall street with a huge selloff for the last hour. Indexes their lowest close in 14 months. Investors have to grapple with several issues. There is a chance the Federal Reserve will increase Interest Rates on wednesday. Investors will pay close attention to jay powell and his worgd. When the fed hikes Interest Rates that affects all debt. This is a concern about Global Growth slow down. Weaker Economic Data from chine and europe weighed heavily on oil today. It was at a 14th month low. The u. S. Dollar is climbing higher and that makes oil more expensive for other countries. The Energy Sector was lowered this. Healthcare took a trumpble after a texas judge ruled obamacare was unconstitutional. You have 3 stocks on your screen right now. Look at that down 13. 5 because of the ruling. Overall, the dow and the s p for on pace for the worst december since the great depression. December is typically a positive month for markets. Investors are waiting for santa. Shannon former fbi director james comey was back in front of lawmakers today seeking answers on fisa abuse and the russia probe. Cath catherine tells us what happened. James comey took some reporters questions but took none of the blame for any damage to the bureaus credibility. The fbi took a big hit because of the president. Flynn was discouraged from having a lawyer. Comey declined to answer foxs questions about whether he mishandled classified information when he documented his conversations with the president. Thats nonsense. I am proud of the way the fbi conducted itself. Headed into the 6 hour sessions, republicans were focussed on flynn. For him its all about comey. The fbi released a heavily redacted memo to brief President Trump about the trump dossier. He indicated the other day that he was not aware of that. Until he read reports long after he was gone. I find that very hard to substantiate base on other evidence. On fox news, the president s personal attorney said his clients written answers for Robert Mueller are sufficient. If the special counsel wants to interview the president . Over my dead body. The legality of a search warrant are cited by democrats that the Mueller Probe needs protection from republicans. They want to play defense counsel for the president. The republicans will continue to rake jim comey over the coals for longs they can at the direction of President Trump. In virginia, Michael Flynn was cited for making false statements. He will be sentenced in washington tomorrow. Shannon Mitch Mcconnell will hold a vote on a criminal Justice Reform bill later this week. The legislation to ease federal sentencing laws is running into opposition from some conservatives. They want to exclude more prisons offers from earning early release. Supporters of the bill warn that too many amendments could kill the compromise. Alexander of tennessee said he wont run in 2020. Democrats are fighting among themselves tonight over the future of what could be the partys most valuable asset. Information about you. Peter doocy explains. They want emails to pitch information to reporters. Rising star alexandria ocasiocortez writes this is a terrible idea. Another official ken martin told the wall street journal the dnc doesnt realize they are slitting their own throats. He doesnt want them directly involved with the voter files. He said this would result in a splintering of the ecosystem. We are perplexed by this proposal. When tom took over as the chairman an of the dnc the data operation was in a complete shamble. That was the first order of business. There is no surprise there will be a debate internally. It spilled out publicly. The Trump Campaign is trying to stay ahead making a data guru campaign manager. What matters most is that we get it right. A dnc without a strong data operation, its irrelevant. The dnc drama unfolded over mass email this weekend. But we might have a better idea where the power over the democrats data is headed. Shannon another disruption in the u. S. Relationship with saudi arabia. The kingdom is rebuking u. S. Senators for their linking of the murder of a saudi journalist to the crown prince. Amy has the latest on the escalating war of words. The saudis were incensed that the senate voted to lay the plame for khashoggis murder on the saudi crown written. The statement came 3 days after the vote. This is now unanimously the United States senate has said that the crown prince is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi. Thats a strong statement am i think it speaks to the values we hold deer. President trump said he sees nothing to impugn the crown prince. Its important to maintain that relationship with saudi arabia. It doesnt depend on him staying in power. Each country needs the other. But its important that the senate took the action they did. The senate voted to withdraw its support in saudi. This is not just a war. Why is the u. S. Providing support for it . The senators votes are symbolic and not likely to lead to any action. They have shined a light on issues that many see as worthy of debate. Shannon up next residents of a California Community destroyed by wildfire return to what is left of their home, we talk about how to prevent disasters like this in the future. What some of our fox avilliates across the country are covering. In Los Angeles California backed off a proposal to impose a tax to text message. Text messaging is an Information Service and not subject to a surcharge under california law. Fox 13 in tampa as republican governor elect ron desantis wants to delay Voting Rights to felons who served there time. He said they they should clarify the language. This is a live look at new york from fox 5. Google is spending more than a billion dollars to expand operations in new york city. 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Extreme winds, continued drought and rising temperatures and other factors are making western wildfires more frequent and severe. President trump blamed gross mismanagement of the forest. The california congressman pointed to restrictions on logging. We care about 4 times the tree density that the land can support. The 3 trees lose their resistant to wildfires. Large scale tim perbrasions are controversial. They live here because its the wood. And it must include setting fires on purpose. Fire is a necessary and normal part of forests in the west. We need to reintroduce fire safely and carefully in areas. Controlled burns to get rid of dry brush and debris take money and manpower and political will. They want to refuse the threat of fires in the first place. Shannon the board at cbs says that the former chairman man les moonves will not refer his serevence package. He failed to cooperate with investigators and cited his willful misfeasance. Next story involves a liberal Ivy League Institution censoring its own students. It has National Implications for millions of young people. Molly reports tonight from boston. The greek life at harvard is fighting back against a School Policy that sanctions students who join unrecognized single gender social organizations. It creates an atmosphere of fear on campus. Students are afraid to be part of something because they dont know what can happen to them. For decades harvard pushed backs against the historic and secret allmale groups negotiate reports of deeply misogynyistic attitudes and refuseing to admit women. Now a half dozen unrecognized fraternities and soreorities are taking the school to court. Our claim is a claim of freedom of Association Like free speech. Harvard is threatening students in the exercise of their rights. Those joining single gender clubs risk being barred from leadership roles and Student Organization including athletic teams and being inelible to receive endorsements for championship. A harvard spokesman defended the policy. She said it supports groups that trance form. The recent clamp down is striki striking sororities hardest of all. They were there. They were thriving. Now most of the womens groups are gone. The policy applies to the class of 2021. But across the nation they are concerned they could be next. They launched a petition and a social media push to stand up to harvard. Shannon up next some help for businesses trying to protect themselves from cyber attacks. Beyond our borders. A gas explosion destroyed buildings around a restaurant in northern japan sunday night. It shook buildings and shattered windows. A bomb exploded today out of a greeces private sky broadcasters. No injuries reported there. No claim of responsibility for the bombing. 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Joining us the managing director of the Cyber Security institute. You have a new program that businesses can take part of to deal with cyber attacks. It launched today . Exactly. This is an output of the commission to enhance national Cyber Security. Two of the leaders of that commission they came together when we were finishing the end of the commission to say what are the efforts we want to continue with . Focussing on small and medium sized building. This Program Provides free tools and resources for businesses to help them become more cyber ready. Bret last week chinaa hacked military and businesses are hacked always. The keylesson from this is the fact that all Companies Need to Pay Attention to their supply change. This was createed to help Small Businesses become more secure to be a component of the value chain. Its free. Thats a big bonus. Can the government do more to help this process go forward . The government has a lot of efforts underway in outreach. The department of homeland security. The department of commerce. And recently Congress Passed legislation that tasks the National Institute of standards and technology to work with Small Businesses to come up with a public and private approach to help Small Businesses. A key dealing with the private sector is to ensure that government is working together. Bret its only increasing, right . The attacks . Exactly. When we see a new event when we talk about how this is the worst we have ever seen, thats only going to happen because the tactics and procedures improve with time. Bret china is a big factor but there are all kinds of actors . Yes. What we need to step back and take a look at, we are recognizing that personally every individual has information that has become vulnerable. This means that individuals have to start taking more responsibility for the security of their data. What that also means is when we as consumers are choosing airlines, hotels, cars, that we need to start seeing security as a distinguishing factor and something we will pay more for to secure data. Bret where do businesses go . To our website. There is a log in and a register icon. You have access to the program for free. Bret the hope is they take advantage television to improve security not only for them but for others. The hope is we impact ecosystems and global value chains. Bret thank you very much. Shannon who blinks first on the shutdown showdown . Thoughts from our panel when we come back. We will get to the 5 billion and increase funding not only for the physical barrier but for technology and personnel. President trump should understand there are not the votes for the wall in the house or senate. He wont get the wall in any form. Even the house a majority of republican they dont have the votes for his 5 billion wall plan. Shannon lets bring in our panel. Chris is editor here at fox news. And molly and charles a writer for the washington post. All of us this afternoon following what is happening. Senators going into meeting saying i dont know about a deal. John roberts reported that the president is considering to get 3. 4billion dollars of the Defense Budget to get the wall done. Can they do that . John is seeking a legal opinion . If they dont know, how would i know . The big picture is once again, they are fighting over this wall funding. It was supposed to come from mexico back at the beginning. Now its gone down from 20 billion to 5 billion and they cant even get that. I think the president threw his own fellow republicans a curve when he said i will be proud to shutdown the government over. This. A lot of them are wait, we are trying to avoid the blame for this. Since then he hasnt been able to organize a response. People on the hill are nervous that the leader in the white house doesnt understand the politics of this. On the other hand, the president understands the politics of the Republican Base when appreciates him fighting for what he promiseed to do in the campaign. Shannon he made this promise over and over again and still does at rallys. Its one of his signature issue. Thats what he began his president ial campaign with. I think chuck is right. This has been a curveball for republicans. The problems with border enforcement and security they developed in a bipartisan fashion. Both parties have an interest in not solving anything. I think people thought President Trump had a stronger hand several months ago. He knows this wont be a complete shutdown of the government. Not acting like the end of the world is at hand. Shannon nancy pelosi could be the speaker of the house again. Senator kennedy pointed out what motivation would she have to negotiate with him . The democrats take over the house in weeks. Yes, the situation worsens for republicans as of january 3rd when the democrats take over the house. From a political standpoint the republicans will be relieved to be the minority. They are tired of being the majority and having to pass legislation and say things. That will let them be a bunch of boobirds in the back of the house hollering at democrats. Remember this we are talking at 900,000 federal employees and would not go to work and not get paid. Shannon but everybody eventually gets paid . Yes, the joke is on taxpayers. Everybody gets their back pay. If you go into christmas time with a million workers not getting paychecks that will cause difficulty. Shannon and former fbi director james comey talked with House Republicans and democrats. There is tweeting back and forth. The president tweeted about Michael Cohen. Michael cohen only became a rat after the fbi did something that was unthinkable and unheard of this. They broke into an attorneys office. Why didnt they break into the crookeds office. Comey tweeted back. This is about the president of our country lying. Shame on republicans who dont speak up for the rule of law and the truth. Well, i have to say i share jim comeys astonishment at that sweet. Not a lot of it is true. There was a properly executed warrant. It wasnt like they barged in the door or broke it down. The president is adopting a tone and a language unbecoming of the office to refer to somebody as a rat even if you dont like him. Its extraordinary that comey over time has become so patterson. I am not sure thats necessarily to his personal benefit. On the substance, i think he is right. Shannon today he comes out of the questioning and talks about the fbis reputation took a huge hit. He said but the damage has nothing do with me. Days ago he said they got away with something the way they took the flynn interview and told him he didnt need an attorney or tell him lying would get you in trouble. For him to talk about getting away with something against this administration doesnt help his case. No, and the fact that people laughed was uncoming of the country. The tweet is unbecoming for the president to use that type of language. The deeper is whether we are seeing abuse of the prosecutors discretion. We have the department of justice going after Hillary Clinton. The fbi just not been over backwards to give immunity and getting nothing in return and not prosecuting anybody for false statements and then going after anyone affilivated with the Trump Campaign. Hillary clinton all of or attorneys got immunity. You have the fbi going after cohen and seizing his records and uses this pretext of russian collusion. A lot of headlines today were about how the russian collusion story is falling apart. That Michael Cohen went to prague and traded money for information. Thats falling apart. The investigation was done differently than the way Hillary Clinton was investigated. Republicans are going to continue to say, Hillary Clinton was treated unfairly. I believe that molly and other fairminded americans would say, they just want equal protection. Michael cohen did a lot of bad stuff. Michael cohen did a ton of bad stuff. Not related to the president and some of it related to the president and the campaign. He pleaded guilty. He is going to prison. I know there are a lot of republicans that say Hillary Clinton should be gone back after. Drive the bus back around and look at Hillary Clinton again and do it right this time. Take the findings of the report and do it right with Hillary Clinton. She should be held to account for her mishandling of secrets as secretary of state. All fair. The political predictament for this president is the damage done because of the lies told about Stormy Daniels and Campaign Finance and minor stuff compared to the rest of the investigation. Polls have illustrateed it clearly, the president s credibility weakened. Trust in mueller is up. As mueller gets results people will be less likely to hear from trump as the aggrieved party. He is not getting results on the russian collusion. Thats what everyone was sold. Shannon we will wait and see. We are standing by. Panel, next up democrats fighting other democrats over information about you. As a fitness junkie, i customize everything bike, wheels, saddle. Thats why i switched to liberty mutual. They customized my insurance, so i only pay for what i need. I insured my car, and my bike. My calves are custom too, but i cant insure those. Which is a crying shame. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. danny after a long day of hard work. You have to do more work . vo automatically sort your expenses and save over 40 hours a month. danny every day youre nearly fried to a crisp, professionally vo you earned it, were here to make sure you get it. Quickbooks. Backing you. I was walking into a Democratic National committee that was in dramatic need of a major overhaul. In short, we needed to rebuild. We needed to organize. We needed to modernize. We needed to win. I come to you about 21 months since that date, and the Democratic Party is back. Shannon the dnc chair there. Our panel is back. They will meet tomorrow and we had a heated email over the weekend about how they will use or share data. Chris, there are internal differences . The democrats are badly outgunned on their data operation. Hillary clinton, she left a dnc that was a laughable shell. She ran her campaign through brooklyn. The Trump Campaign teamed up with the rnc. They have a robust data operation. They have a track record to prove they can take it to the field. The democrats are stumped on. This you have the chairman of the Democratic National committee that says, screaming we are in huge trouble. He is getting the state chairman saying we are not sharing our data with us. Perez is frustrated. They only have weeks to ramp up the data operation once they have a nominee. Shannon alexandria ocasiocortez congresswoman elect tweeted this is a terrible idea to share that information. There may be competing financial interest. One not a private fund to handle it. The Democratic Party didnt work out well in 2016. It was making sure Hillary Clinton was the nominee. That angered the more progressive wing. Who controls the assets controls the direction of the party. Do you go for a 50 state strategy or let people experiment. Shannon chris, we think about under president barack obama and candidate barack obama. This is looking back on this. This is from a democratic strategist. We as democrats thought we had a significant advantage in digital and targeting data and that stuff ahead of the 2015 election. We were lapped by the trump operation on this. Shannon how did that happen . Its over my head. I am in the generation that doesnt know that much about data. Part what have went wrong with Hillary Clinton and data, they modelled the electorate the wong way. This is inside baseball to voters. Who has the data. We are not even in 2019 let alone 2020. I understand why the republicans are blasting this story out to journalists. The truth is tom perez is right. The democrats are back. They just won a big victory and put the republicans back on their heels in the last fall. The frustration of tom perez must be we are going great. Everything is fine. I presided over the victory would be his point. Why arent you listening to me and following my suggestions . Molly has a part. Part of what is going on is the lingering distrust of the dnc left over from the fight between bernie and Hillary Clinton. I think democrats other than this spat are doing well. Shannon i heard a number of delegates on the floor who are very angry the way the dnc finances were handled. This election is well under way. When we come back, a surprise visit from the president. 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