Credit because, look, there were a lot of people who were saying, criticizing her and she routed her opponents. How did she do it . Well, paul, consolidated her base. There were 15 members. They were in tough districts and she could win without them and didnt need support. I dont read that as opposition so much, you know, being allowed to walk. But, look, i think she did it by basically agreeing to tilt left on a lot of major issues on the next 2 years. Paul interesting no real Freedom Caucus to pelosi, there hasnt been in previous congress, democrats seem to fall in line, very interest nothing watch. Is that just because they figure, we have power, lets use it, whats behind that . I think thats a philosophical question, they are better than the right is, i think that, look, pelosi has made gestures in your direction, hearings on medicare for all and pelosi supports them. Thats a risk going to American Public and saying thats an idea that we are flirting with. Paul kim, what do you expect out of the Pelosi Congress this year . What do you expect them to focus on a year from now, what would they have done . Well, they will focus on priorities passing bills that would be largely symbolic and, of course, they will not pass in Republican Senate and not signed on trump, medicare for all type bill, bills on energy, renewable energy, all the things that they will want to set the ground work for for their president ial nominee going forward. Beyond that its going to be investigations, investigations and then where we go from the Mueller Probe and everything and just ongoing attacks against President Trump. Paul i guess, dan, thats i mean, i think investigations is where they are going to go, thats what the base wants, thats what the democratic president ial candidates will be stressing, and once you start the machinery of investigations and you get the Mueller Report, then maybe its going to be very hard to stop towards a goal of impeachment . Yeah, youre suggesting earlier, where do you draw the line on the Democratic Left . That will be one of Nancy Pelosis biggest challenges, trying to decide if shes able to decide to rein in investigations and the full out Relentless Assault on donald trump because theres going to be a point beyond which certainly Trump Supporters will crack back against that and possibly people more in the center will wonder is the Democratic Party about nothing else than trying to take down the president of the United States. Paul she doesnt want it to be the only defining image. She will push some legislation. Is there any possibility at all, any possibility at all of bipartisan cooperation here . I hold on hope for maybe an immigration deal, i suppose you could see an infrastructure deal which should be more concerned about as taxpayers. Paul what would be immigration deal . The great deal out there sitting out there for a while, give President Trump the border wall he wants, in return people brought in here as children illegally to stay. If you wanted to give President Trump his entire 25 billion, i think you could get a lot of proimmigration agenda through the question is, do democrats actually want to solve this problem or do they like this fight for political reasons . And the fact that they have continue today resist any wall funding, any trades suggest they like the fight and not a solution. Paul infrastructure, you mentioned that. The parties are far apart from that. The democrats want trillion dollars of public opinion, the republicans are saying much less and leverage. I think you could get President Trump to spend Taxpayer Fund on this, the big Sticking Point that democrats will not accept is a streamlining of the process of building that limits their ability to use environmental rules to stop development. Paul faster permitting for, for example. Dan, what about you, hope for bipartisan cooperation, are you more optimistic than james . Not in the least. I think the left, Democratic Left has bitten their mouth, they think they are running the party now. Determining to take down President Trump, a lot of new members arent there to get things done but to take down the president , moderate from states like new jersey, michigan who perhaps will be uncomfortable with a strategy like that and may push for legislation and its going to be a real challenge for nancy pelosi to manage the two sides of the party. Paul kate, briefly, price control, is there a chance theyll go ahead with that . Yeah. Paul, you mentioned bipartisan cooperation but that frightens me a little bit. The main area is price controls on drugs. I think that would be terrible for u. S. Innovation. Lets hope they dont agree too much. 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And yes whenever youre ready to get started, we are too. Call 1800aspendental today. But allstate helps you. With drivewise. Feedback that helps you drive safer. And that can lower your cost now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . I pledge that this congress will be transparent, bipartisan and unifying, that we will seek to reach across the aisle in this chamber and across divisions across the nation. Hopefully a lot of things we can get done together, i think itll work out. A little bit different than people are thinking. So i congratulate nancy tremendous, tremendous achievement. Paul Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump thursday both striking a bipartisan one as the 116th congress convenes so democrats take control of the house and gear up for 2020 president ial fight is cooperation in washington a real possibility, wall street journal columnist and Fox News Contributor karl rove served as Senior Adviser to president george w. Bush, good to have you here. Thank you, paul. Paul lets talk about nancy pelosi, you remember she was there once before when george w. Bush was president , what do you expect out of her this congress . Well, im frankly up in the air about what to expect because on the one hand she had exactly the right notes that she struck there in her remarks, lets try and find ways to Work Together but on the other hand her actions and her rhetoric around the shutdown dont give a lot of confidence that shes going to be looking for ways to bring things together into compromise and to give everybody a chance to win something to move ahead because the language about the wall no money at all, its immoral, its inefficient, its expensive waste of money, all of these things dont pretend well for getting a deal on the shutdown quickly. Paul doesnt give her a lot of running room. You need an open if you will compromise and she didnt give herself much of an opening. Im not sure shes been in different position earlier, i think one of the problems was the president well intentioned had a session in the oval office in middecember with schumer and pelosi which everybody sort of got locked in their positions, she was she had a lot of difficulty inside the democratic caucus, this happened early enough that she was able to solve the problem by saying no money for the wall ever and that sort of locked her in a position and now hard to get her out of it. She had to do that in order to assure that she didnt fight battle with democrats newly elected from trump districts concerned that she would be too liberal and the leftwing, ocasiocortez wing which she was concerned that she would be too centrist. She took care of the problem with the hard left but locked herself in a position hard to get out. Paul looking, of course, across the next year, if you are nancy pelosi, saying, hue can i lure donald trump, lets face it not ideological president in terms of political philosophy, how can i lure him into certain bipartisan deals where my party would be happy getting 50 of what we want, where would you push . Well, i would push, James Freeman talked about the immigration reform. If i were the democrats, look, lets give him money for the wall and lets get Something Like a daca fix in return, the dreamers fix in return because the wall will will diminished in peoples minds and the daca fix which is like a 70 or 80 winner dependent on how you word the question, advantage of both democrats and republicans but its going to be democrats who will be the people who layed it out on the table and said we are willing to deal with you in order to get it. Paul what would your advice be to President Trump how to deal with democrats, my thinking is the more they investigate him and move toward impeachment, the more trump will rely on republicans to salvage for presidency if they do impeach to house and goes to senate, less like lie to compromise. Its very important for republicans particularly in the house to make treat democrat suggestions like medicare for all and free jobs and green new deal, treat it seriously and attack those proposals on the merits, the white house would be great to be involved in that but the one thing that requires displib and focus and this white house has neither discipline nor focus when it comes to messaging but the republicans have got to treat these issues seriously in order to show case differences what the democrats are attempting to do and the republican response and the republican response has got to be not only the democrats have bad ideas but the republicans are going to have to give a sense on what it is they would do in lieu. It would fend on how congress responds. If i were the president pick a couple of things that need to get done, lets pass the budget in time. Lets fund the government and then spend as most president s do when they dont have control of congress on the things which theres executive authority or the president has dominance authority in foreign affairs. The more it looks like hes the victim here, the better off he is but hes got to be responsible reasonable victim and not merely a counterpuncher which is difficult for him to e restrain himself from doing. Paul you see democrats starting left, the first one in Elizabeth Warren, senator from massachusetts, what do you think of her prospects . Shes got high name, we will have a serious of 6 primaries this year and shes going to probably farewell in those virtual primaries, the first primary is for talent, early strike there by hiring Bernie Sanders hiring to work for her, message on billionaires corporations, controlling, screwing the little man and little woman. Money, we will see how well she does well. Thats attractions for Robert Francis orourke, later we will see organization, social media, she comes as inauthentic and thats advantage of Robert Francis orourke. She has name idea and strong image, she will end the year in good place but no guaranty that shes nominee, remember barack obama trailed Hillary Clinton until he won in iowa. Paul fun to carl, karl. When we come back Elizabeth Warren makes it official, her brand of leftwing populism will play and who will likely follow her no democratic president ial race. And no surgery. Results and Patient Experience may vary. Some common side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort, and swelling. Ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you. And visit coolsculpting. Com today for your chance to win a free treatment. From capital one. Nd i switched to the spark cash card i earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy. And last year, i earned 36,000 in cash back. Which i used to offer Health Insurance to my employees. 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So kim, the message, you saw the video and her early message, what do you make of it . Well, look, as you just said, Elizabeth Warren is trying to do trumpism but from the left. Now, there are very important policy differences there. This is a woman who is all about medicare for all, she would like to see the federal government actually manufacture its own prescription drugs, shes obviously in favor of much higher taxes, she wants to put vast new restrictions on Corporate America including requiring companies over a certain size to get a federal charter and put 40 of its board made of its workers, so these are some very radical ideas expanding the size of government and therefore very different. But to the extent paul kim, is that going to play in a democratic primary, you and i are not going to go there, we dont want that, what about a democratic primary . Well, yeah, absolutely. This is a party where the ascendant is Progressive Left and these are all their ideas. This is shes the person that they have been waiting for along with maybe a Bernie Sanders and they are part of the party that wields a lot of clout these days. Paul talk about her strength, messaging, money, what is the strength . The strength that shes interested in public policy, she actually has developed a pretty serious set of proposals while we dont agree with offer competing vision to what republicans want to do, i mean, the biggest risk here, though, i know its its obviously not a strength but i encourage the viewers to go watch the video of her drinking video in her house because its revealing about what bad politician she is. Shes gets out of fridge and offers one to husband, why would we do this, it really is [laughter] revealing that shes not good on the stump and not good at connecting people oneonone even though i think she has a pretty bright policy mind. Paul here is the thing, dan, this proposal, i mean, medicare for all a lot of them are for, a lot of them are for, green new deal, a lot of them are for, the thing that stands where she stands out proposals to reorganize american capitalism, most Big Companies are chartered at the state level like delaware in particular which offers maximum freedom. The main thing that ceos are responsible for is to the owners, the shareholders, the people who gave them the capital, all right, she wants to make those ceos accountable not to shareholders predominantly but to stakeholders who would be employees, who would be community people, who would be customers, much broader universe of people including a lot of political restrictions on what they could do . She calls it the accountable capitalism act in addition to charter she wants to put 40 of employees on the corporate board, restrictions on campaign contributions, this is an idea as kim was suggesting of the Progressive Left and it probably is an idea that kind of has some resonance with younger people who havent worked in the private sector in companies that have to function day after day. Elizabeth warrens suggestion here, her expectation is that there are enough people dissatisfied with the capitalist system in the United States that they would consider her candidacy seriously which is difficult to do at the moment when the american capitalism system seems to be booming. Paul why would you give money to a corporation, invest in a corporation where you are not going to be the ceos are going to be accountable to everybody else except for you . I think dan hit problem with candidacy, the secondest biggest problem, we will get to first in a minute. The issue, you see in the clip, sounds like republicans like marco rubio who developed a plan , slow growth obama economy and describing an economy that doesnt really exist, thank goodness at the moment, things may change but giving a 2011 message, her biggest problem, though, i think is that her play for identity politics, bogus claim of native american status i think in democratic primary is mortal wound to endorse her, that party would have to say identity politics which have put so much stock in is a fraud and joke and Political Tool used when appropriate for our purposes but ignored when its not useful to us. Paul you disagree with that. That might help her, her attempt to say, see, im also native american . Well, not necessarily. Identity politics matter a lot on the left now, her biggest problem is her message is basically negative, its a downer, its a pessimistic message, most president ial candidates have to find a way to appeal to better angels, barack obama was very good at that, even as he attacked the wealthy. Paul trade tensions with china, we begin the new year, talk with beijing resume next week, is a deal on the horizon do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back . About 50 of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. Eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. Fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. Fasenra is an addon injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. Fasenra is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. Fasenra is proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, improve breathing, and can lower oral steroid use. Fasenra may cause allergic reactions. 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Apple slashing revenue forecast for the first time in more than 15 years amid falling iphone sales in china. Trade talks are scheduled to resume next week in the hopes of reaching a deal before march first when u. S. Tariffs on chinese import are set to rise. John murphy is Senior Vice President for International Policy at the u. S. Chamber of commerce, good to see you again, john, lets talk about first the apple announcement, the big blowoff on the stock market after it happened. What does this tell you about the risking for the u. S. Economy from a chinese slowdown . Turns out the well economy is well connected. Paul imagine that. Who would have thought of it . China has been one of the Fastest Growing markets for Many Companies and its not just apple, its host of other companies that are seeing the softness so in transportation sector, in industrials like autos, there is this softness, bank of america just this past week said that tariff and trade war effects have not knocked 6 of share value of s p 500 in the past year, the economy in the u. S. Is strong but these are warning signs. Paul so if you had a recession in china, a lot of people say, great, china, adversary, they should suffer thats fine, but what youre say if that happened youd see that the consequences for that, american businesses and American Workers as well . Absolutely. And it happens directly and indirectly. They are in many ways, its not just these big multinationals whose investments in china are throwing off valuable revenue, its small or Midsize Companies in the u. S. That are importing key components from china and the knockon effects directly and indirectly through third markets as well. Paul if theres a Silver Lining here it could be slowdown in growth in china and the potential effects in the United States would give both sides an incentive to sit down as they are going to do smarting next week with march first deadline and try to knock out a deal that both sides can live with and say they got something out of . I think thats absolutely right. Both sides are focused on this and concentrating in a new way and we do have a u. S. Delegation going to beijing next week to begin these negotiations. The u. S. Focus of theft of intellectual property, its focused on industrial subsidies trying to give some hefty subsidies to key sectors that it regards as important to the future of their economy, the socalled made in china 2025 initiative. These things will be at the focus of these negotiations, the u. S. Wants to see real serious forcible commitments to cut subsidies and discussion of new sales of u. S. Goods, whether soybeans or what have you. The u. S. Is focused on fundamental. Paul we will buy more soybeans, more jet planes, this or that, more liquefy natural gas, thats all fine, nothing wrong with that, thats not going to do it this time in my estimation, the u. S. Wants more and i think u. S. Business wants more, what should we what are what do your Companies Want to see from this negotiation . Paul, youre absolutely right, thats not going to cut it, Bob Lighthizer is focused very much on the fundamental reforms, do i think one of the challenges we are looking at right now is subsidies provided to these key sectors, provided by the chinese government, the u. S. Is looking for ways that those can be cut in a verifiable, enforceable way in addition to the intellectual property protections that i mentioned, so thats certainly where the focus is going to be. Paul i think you will see the chinese are going to say, fine, these will be we will do this and might even change legislation in some cases, for example, having to do with joint ventures allowing more ownership by Foreign Companies than 50 or ip theft but it seems to me that enforcement is going to be the key, that we have to be able to say here is how we can track you if you break the agreements and then have some mechanism for for retaliating. Yes, this is exactly where people are trying to come up with creative new solutions. Now the threat of tariffs is out there, but for us in the u. S. Business community, you know, at the end of the data riffs are a tax paid by americans, American Consumers and businesses, what can we do that isnt tariffbased. Paul quick question because we dont have much time, the new nafta right now, does the administration have the votes to pass that in this congress . Well, no. Nobody knows yet and democrats have been lighting up in the congress saying that they will be looking for more on the enforcement of labor provisions and possibly some other issues. But honestly, members of congress are just starting to focus on this. We in the Business Community who support the agreement because we need that certainty of the access to two most important export markets, i think we have a steep road to climb here but we will be out there trying to explain to members of Congress Just how important the markets are and how we need continuity. Paul wall street wild ride continues, stronger than expected jobs report sent stocks swinging, what the market volatility signals about the u. S. Economy in the new year . I switched to stimulantfree miralax for my constipation. Stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate the nerves in your colon. Miralax is different. It works with the water in your body to unblock your system naturally. 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We are the talk of the world and we had glitch in the stock market but still up around 30 from the time i got elected and its going to go up once we settle trade issues and once a couple of other things happen, it has a long way to go. Paul President Trump touting the strength of the American Economy and down playing recent swings in the stock market, u. S. Employers dramatically stepped up hiring in december adding remarkable 312,000 new jobs and encouraging 2018, what can we expect in the new year . We are back with dan henninger, kim strassel, Kate Bachelder odell, James Freeman. Opportunity to spike the football with jobs report, big number. It is kind of nice who urged cut in Corporate Tax rate and reduction in red tape in washington for years and years to see results that are i think beautiful as the president might say. Paul wage is up too. December job report almost nothing in it you couldnt celebrate. Revisions to previous meaning more jobs created than paul 3. 9 to 3. 7, thats okay . More people coming to labor force. You have more than a Million People in the prime working years since President Trump got elected coming back to labor force or joining it. This is what we have been hoping for, labor force, participation going up, jobs up, wages up, really great news and especially interesting because weve heard so much about the tax cuts were just going to cause a sugar high, just the First Quarter or Second Quarter boom, Second Quarter boom wont last and now looks like surprising strength at the end of the year. Paul let me be spoil sport here, thats my specialty, people will say, yeah, job market strong number but lagging indicater and we see a lot of other indicators, Manufacturing Index really fell off, Global Growth really slow, you saw the apple numbers, stock market, Financial Markets have been tightening, credit markets tightening, slower in 2019 . Could be slower in 2019. The big issue looming is in fact, the trade negotiation with china. As President Trump just said himself in the clip we looked at, stock market had this he called it glitch in december. [laughter] paul bigger than glitch in my 401 k , i tell you that. You talked to john murty about the issues, whats going on here with china and what the United States wants from chinese and xi jinping in my mind a significant structural change in chinese economic model. If you think thats going to happen by early march which is deadline President Trump has set after which he will impose tariffs if he doesnt get what he wants, i think we are going to longterm tariff regime. You are talking about a very long trade negotiation with the chinese government. Paul kim, if we go to that kind of scenario, china retaliates, i think both both economies will suffer enormously. Theres a big ib keptive for them at incentive at least bh sides and even implementation will take some time. Yeah, of course, as you were talking about with the last interview, mr. Murphy. These are interconnected economies. Their economy is hurting far more than ours is. Thats a good thing. They have to understand and the president alluded this, he didnt use the word, whats hanging over the stock market and problematic is simply uncertainty and trade is a big aspect of that uncertainty. The fed another one, but those are the things that if they could set settled and investors and corporations knew what was coming, then we will probably see that reflected in stock market and, again, in greater growth. Paul kate, anything we think may be progrowth coming out of congress this year that would help the economy . The short answer is no, paul. I think if anything we are going to have to rely on a gop senate to stop house proposals that would damage growth in the economy, im talking about, you know, more harassment on businesses, trying to stop the trump deregulatory efforts which the house is going to certainly try to do. Maybe trying to raise the Corporate Tax rate which in addition to being higher would add more uncertainty about whether the rate is going to stay. So hopefully theres a check on bad policies but i dont think anything could be put in the progrowth column at this point. Paul briefly james, did the federal reserve, cautious in moving ahead which the market loved . I dont think they made a mistake . We might disagree on this, but i think this is a very strong u. S. Economy, fortunately so far the power of the trump tax cuts and regulatory tax cuts is bigger than the downside of the trump tariffs. Maybe that changes after march first, but i think theres a compelling argument that xi jinping, you dont have to be a thuggish dictator or communist but you have to realize like most recent predecessor you have to let markets work. Paul i think they should have paused. Mitt romney blasted President Trump in oped and speculation of 2020 challenges. We will have differences and i expect each senator will express their own views as they think best. And shakin me up so applebees all you can eat is back. Now with shrimp. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Smile dad. I take medication for high Blood Pressure and cholesterol. But they might not be enough to protect my heart. Adding bayer aspirin can further reduce the risk of another heart attack. Because my Second Chance matters. Be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. I was surprised at mitt romney, i hope he will be a team player and if hes a team player thatll be great. I will say this, if he fought really hard against president obama like he does against me he would have won the election. I think hes going to end up being a team player, i think he agrees with many of the things that weve done and many things that we have in mind, we will see what happens. Paul this was President Trump responding to mitt romney, blasted the president s character, he has not risen to the mantle of the office, romney denying that the move is sign of possible 2020 primary challenge so if its not a primary challenge potential setting him up for that, dan, what is he up to . It is a primary challenge and thats part of the problem with mitt romney, what he said is not credible, you show up first day in washington and launch this attack on the president of the United States. Paul why is it not credible . Do you disagree . Yeah, i think i disagree with some of it. I want to read some of the statements as an example. He said i will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, antiimmigrant, dishonest or destruct i have to democratic institutions, paul, that is pandering, thats pandering to every buzz word in the antitrump left, the idea that they are always suburban people who agree with that, mitt is trying to assemble his 2020 coalition. It could not be more obvious. Paul kim, you know, when you run in a primary challenge, nobody ever wins those, they can do damage to the incumbent but i cant recall somebody who won a challenge like that, win a couple of primaries but you dont win the nomination. Yeah, everything is stacked against you, the power of sitting president is enormous and remember, that even if that president hasnt necessarily rallied the entire spectrum of the conservative world around him, the institutions of the presidency are behind him too, the party apparatus, everything design today protect them, make it hard for challenger to succeed, romney has to know that but all i could say is the animus that drives a lot of never trumpers is so huge that it clouds their Clear Thinking on the success possibility. Paul kate, one of the things that was striking to me romney didnt really note a major policy difference, he had generals, talk about character. The question is where would he draw policy lines with the president . Would it be trade, would it be immigration, Foreign Policy i suppose but they werent in that oped . Well, thats what stuck out to me on the oped, trump has had accomplishments but things republicans dont agree on and misunderstanding on why people took a chance on trump. Would mitt romney released a list of judge that is he would have put on the court, i dont know the answer to that, repealed the Clean Power Plan or withdrawn from the paris agreement, i think there are some confounding realities of trump is why people took a chance on him aside from character, in spite of it. I think mitt is not really understanding that. Paul and i mean, if i were advising romney and im not, but i would suggest if you want to take trump, fine, take him on trade, for example, use say, we will rein in mr. President , rein in your ability to willy nilly impose tariffs, okay, you will have to get have to be a better reason than you woke up one day than impose tariffs and called it national security. I think we are all getting toward the point which is this piece had no point other than to present mitt romney as plan b for 2020 if Republican Voters tire of donald trump. Paul setting him up a year from now if thing goes bad with trump, the economy gets bad, impeached, Mueller Report . No one believes it because romney paul thats not it. Do you believe that . You dont . You look at romneys history, embraced or shun trump over and over depending on when it was convenient for mitt mitt romney. You had be many measures a better record than warren buffet. Since then political record not impressive. Paul dan, last word. Significant figure, he will be a player in washington for the next year and hes very adept guy at doing this sort of thing, it would be impossible to avoid mitt for the next 12 months. Paul we have to take one more break, when we come back the panels predictions for 2019. Truecar is great for finding new cars. Youre smart, you already knew that. But its also great for finding the perfect used car. Youll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. Now youre even smarter. This is truecar. Paul time now for our panels predictions for 2019, kim, start us off. Paul, this is probably what my kids will call the no duh predictions but sometimes you have to take easy shots, i will predict that House Democrats impeach donald trump this year, they have vowed up and down the campaign trail thats not what they were going to do but lo and behold the first day in congress, you already have legislation from the democratic side file to impeach him. I dont think its going to happen right away. They will hold off until they get a report from Robert Mueller and see what they get from their investigations, some of the leaders might not want it but the pressure from the left will be too great to resist. Paul james. Paul, we have been talking about how we have been enjoying 1980s style economic growth, job creation, we are also going to enjoy 1980s Style College basketball, my prediction that georgetown now couched by 1980s star player patrick and st. Johns coached by 1980s star chris will be back in ncaa tournament. Paul i sense youre not a duke fan . Absolutely [laughter] paul kate. Paul, my prediction is that we year we get deal on young adult, dreamers who were brought illegally. It could trade Border Security and wall funding for the president and trump has said he has compassionate towards the individual who were brought here and now serve in military and go to college, so i think that i think this comes after Favorable Supreme Court rule to go trump and it would be good for the country. Paul dan. Ly make a prediction about the outcome of Mueller Report but i could make prediction that Mueller Report wont come out in 2019, you never know. But if he does issue this report, the two things of the center is whether the president s campaign colluded with the russians at a very high level and whether President Trump obstructed justice. On both of those counts i think the answer is going to be no. Paul so no collusion, but impeachment anyway. Thats it for this weeks show, thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching, im paul gigot, we hope to see you right here next week. And we begin with a fox news alert, a weekend meeting with Vice President mike pence senior white house officials and congressional staffers ends with no deal. But they will be back at it again tomorrow. All this as President Trump suggests the partial Government Shutdown could potentially drag on for months or even years. Hi, everyone, welcome to brandnew hour inside of americas news headquarters, im laura ingle in for arthel neville. Eric welcome, laura, good to see you, im eric shawn, talks are not going anywhere as president and democrats refuse to give any ground over border funding, meanwhile the blame game connu i