Chris California Attorney general javier becerra, a son of mexican immigrants, calls on congress to protect the dreamers as a federal judge blocked the administrations rollback of daca. Its a Fox News Sunday exclusive. Plus, the president imposes new sanctions on iran but decides not to blow up the nuclear deal for now. If we will ask our sunday panel what happens next in u. S. Relations with iran. And our power player of the week. Which is tougher, politics or football . I was born to play football. Chris how an nfl star wound up working for the speaker of the house. All right now on Fox News Sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington. On this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, the Nations Capital is still reeling from President Trumps incendiary remarks about immigrants from africa and haiti. His comments have reignited the debate of whether the president is a racist, they have also derailed progress on a bipartisan deal on immigration, a setback that could lead to a Government Shutdown midnight friday. Joining me now for an exclusive interview, the new secretary of lament security, kiersten nielsen. Welcome to Fox News Sunday. Secretary nielsen thank you, my pleasure. Chris before we get to immigration, lets discuss that false alarm in hawaii yesterday. Just after 8 00 yesterday morning people across the state got this alert. Ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. People were understandably terrified for 38 minutes before they got the all clear. It turns out it was a state official who hit the wrong button, but as the head of federal dhs, what have you learned about the state of Emergency Preparedness in that state and across the country . Secretary nielsen i think this is a very important topic and i just want to encourage everyone first and foremost not to draw the wrong conclusion. I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems. They can trust government systems, we test them every day. If this is a very unfortunate mistake, but these are vital, seconds and minutes can save lives. I would encourage people not to draw the wrong conclusions. Secondly, from a dhs perspective we are looking with state and locals to ensure not only that the messaging is clear, but what to do next is clear as well, how we can best support them and work with them. As you know, they are on the first lines and they are the first responders. Unfortunate situation, but we are all working together to make sure it doesnt happen again. Chris this raises questions not only about emergency alerts, and as you say generally we can trust him. It also raises questions about civil defense. I remember as a kid in the 50s, under Public School desk and repair for the nuclear attack. When looking back on it its laughable. If we dont have bomb shelters today, we did not have that kind of civil defense. If god forbid were a real attack, if the North Koreans or somebody else had fired a missile over the horizon at an american city, what should folks on the ground do . Secretary nielsen its a good question. Of course it depends on where you are and what the particular type of threat is. In this case citizens who are in that could be affected, look at any guidance that comes from the government. Fema has a whole variety of measures and prepared thinks they can do. Sometimes its shelter in place. If you saw in hawaii, if you are in a car they asked you to get out of the car and lay flat on the ground. It just depends, but the government has provided tremendous amounts of information we could all seek it out and make sure we know what we need to do as citizens. Chris is it true that the Trump Administration has not conducted a full scale exercise to plan for this kind of an event, and if so, how soon are you going to order a full scale exercise among all the principles and the government . Secretary nielsen when we look at response we all act under something called the National Response framework. We test that very frequently. We use different scenarios. We did have whats called a deputies committee, thats the deputy secretaries of the department, exercised in december specific to the threat and we had already planned to have that principle early next month. We will continue on that. The National Exercise program is very rebalanced, as well as it should be. We need to provide action after a real event and of course prepare for events unfortunately might befall us. Chris lets turn to that meeting at the president held with a half dozen members of congress on thursday. They were discussing immigration from africa and according to democratic senator dick durbin the president said this. These vile and vulgar comments the nations that come from [bleep]. Exact words used by the president , not just once, but repeatedly. Chris you were in that meeting in the oval office comforted the the president say that . Secretary nielsen i dont recall him saying that exact phrase. I think he has been clear and i would certainly say undoubtedly the president will use, continue to use Strong Language when it comes to this issue. Hes very passionate about it. I think what was frustrating about that meeting for all of us in the meeting was that although the deal presented in theory and approach to the four pillars upon which we had agreed, did not address the core Security Issues that we need to do our job. And more importantly theres nothing in there that would prevent us from getting here again. Not interested in half measures. We dont want additional temporary populations here. Its unfair to them, its unfair to american citizens and it certainly raises security risks. Chris im just going to press back on you once on the subject. It seems to me you were in the meeting when these comments were made. I can understand you either saying they were sad or they were not said. It is pretty shocking language and to say i dont recall seems impossible. If the president of the United States use the word blank whole talking about countries in the oval office or didnt say it, i would know. Secretary nielsen i understand the question. It was an impassioned conversation. I dont recall that specific phrase being used, thats all i can say about that. Chris there are several things about the president s comments, alleged comments, and are both republicans and democrats who confirm that he sent it. One is the president seems to be writing off people who come from black countries, while he saying we should take people coming from one of the widest countries on earth, norway. Here was a comment from an official at the u. N. Commission on human rights. Im sorry but theres no other word one can use but racist. You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as of [bleep], whose entire populations are not white, therefore not welcome. Chris isnt that the definition of racism, to say we dont want people from these black countries, but we do want people from a very white country . Secretary nielsen i think with the president is saying is he would like to move to merit based, based an individual. Whether individuals can come here and contribute to our society, help our economy and assimilating communities and help america be better. I take a little bit of offense to the comments and suggestions that the president is racist. Hes looking at the meritbased system they have in australia and canada. Im sure that we are not, any of us, suggesting that australia and their canada leaders are but racist. Chris the president seems to be equating merit to the countries that people come from. He seems to be suggesting you would rather have a janitor from norway than a doctor from haiti. Secretary nielsen i disagree. Chris what would merritt have to do with the country . Why would it have to do with your qualifications . Secretary nielsen i think it does. I think what hes trying to do is move away from a quota based system, whether its a quota of underrepresented countries or a quota of norway for example. I think what hes trying to say we need to look at the individual and ensure that we look at those who can bring merit to our country. Chris lets turn to the practical implication of that because the big question in washington now is chances for a deal on daca. The president tweeted out this morning, and lets put it up on the screen. Daca is probably dead because the democrats dont really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our military. One, is daca dead . Is there a chance for it . And is the president willing to see the Government Shutdown if democrats insist on linking a daca deal to funding for the government before it runs out of money midnight on friday . Secretary nielsen i do not believe daca is dead, but what i would say is for my perspective of course as the secretary of Homeland Security, its not a daca deal. Its a security immigration deal. What my role this is to ensure that we dont end up here again. We must close these loopholes to ensure that these temporary populations not only are not encouraged to take the dangerous journey to get there, but then when they get there we are weibel, able to properly remove them so we dont end up with the category of daca again. In terms of the funding what i would say is in my opinion where i sit its completely responsible to tie the two together. We need to fund our troops, we need to protect them, we need to increase Homeland Security. These are Vital National security interest we need to fund. To tie it into a daca deal or the actual Expiration Date is in march as a responsible. Chris if the government shuts down, thats on democrats . Secretary nielsen it would be very unfortunate if they continue to do that. They are not the same conversation. You heard Democratic Leaders say just that in the past. Chris one more daca question. A federal judge this week blocked the Administration Decision to phase out daca and wrote lets put this on the screen. A plausible inference that racial animus towards mexicans and latinos was a motivating factor in the decision to daca. Your reaction to that and how quickly will the administration appeal that judges decision blocking the phasing out of daca . Secretary nielsen on the appeal i would refer to the attorney general. I find that offensive on its face. I took an oath when i became secretary of Homeland Security to defend and support the constitution. The program was unconstitutional. What we should be focused on instead of these Court Interventions in these distractions is that we need a permanent solution. We have said that, i have said that, the president has said that. We want to find a permanent solution to the daca population, not a continual three year when youll period. Chris in the short period of time we have left i went to ask you about some of the issues that are facing your department. Border apprehensions are down 40 in 2017, which some Administration Officials are called the trump effect. But in december there was a significant increase as the Border Patrol caught more than 40,000 people attempting illegal crossings. Why has it gone back up . Secretary nielsen its a great question and i appreciate you asking because i think its very important for the viewers to understand this. The problem is that we have so many loopholes within our legal system based on a panoply of court decisions, confusion with respect to the law and how we can enforce them that if you are in the south or central america, those who would wish to smuggle you are able to tell you if you get to america you can stay. More and more are willing to undertake the journey because there is no way for me to promptly remove them. If we talk about the wall. The wall is a very, very important part of this. It works, but it only gets us partway there because if i can stop them at the border but i cant remove them, thats not Border Security. They will continue to come. Chris what some people are saying is the reason its going back up is because for all the tough talk from the president , people in central america, smugglers and people wanting to come across, finally decided the system really hasnt changed. Secretary nielsen the system is worse every time a court makes a patchwork decision on one individual continues to exasperate exacerbate the system. They cannot remove or apprehend whether they are criminals in some cases or whether there are multiple repeat illegal entry. We have to change these loopholes so that we can promptly remove them. Chris finally this week federal agents waited 98 7eleven stores in 17 states in the district of columbia resulting in 21 arrests. If will you order more raids on employers in this country, and with the message youre trying to send . Secretary nielsen yes, and the message were trying to send is if you consistently and willfully disregard the laws that the congress and the American People have passed, and you will be held accountable. These are not accidental hiring as illegal immigrants. Some of these countries unfortunately have continually and systematically tried to get around the system. Hire illegal aliens, which affects the ability of the American Workers, but it also continues to encourage those who might not otherwise take the journey to take the journey. We are looking to try and stop this bad behavior and hold employers accountable. Chris secretary nielsen, thank you. Secretary nielsen my pleasure. Chris thanks for coming into this holiday weekend, please come back. Secretary nielsen i would love to. Thank you so much. Chris up next reaction from javier becerra, californias attorney general. Has filed several lawsuits against the Trump Administration on immigration. 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What is your reaction to her defense of the president s position in that meeting one senator durbin and others this week . A. G. Becerra chris, i dont know if its defensible, and its disturbing to see so many people with such shortterm memory losses and the inability to recall a conversation, important conversation that has taken place just a few days ago. Can you imagine what happens when you have a conversation about nuclear war or what we do about natural disasters and you have a room of people who cant remember what was said just a few days ago . Thats dangerous. Chris do you think President Trump is a racist . A. G. Becerra in every respect that he is showing us is that he has a racist. Let me put it to you this way. Mental instability, mendacity, no bigotry. Having any one of those is the white house is dangerous. Having the combination . Thats lethal. Chris what about the argument beyond the words, i understand the words are hard to get beyond. If this question of merit based immigration what about the argument that too many of our immigration programs, family unification, or as its also called chain migration, visa lotteries, do more to help people from other countries than they do to attract and to bring in people to this country who can best help us . A. G. Becerra i can only speak to you, chris, from the perspective of a son of two of those immigrants. If i can simply tell you that with a man who had a chance to go to the sixth grade, a mother who didnt get past 18 years of age when she finally got here, both of them never having had a chance to step on a college campus. They did a great job of getting four kids a College Education or military service and a man who couldnt walk into a restaurant when he was young because of the sign that said no dogs or mexicans allowed, because of his children had a chance to walk into the white house to meet the president of the United States. Not this one, but the president of the United States. In every respect, my dad, a proverbial ditch digger, built this country and now the results are that his grandkids are going to some of the finest colleges and universities and they are not going on any taxpayers time because their parents can afford to have them go. My mom when it came to finances was always an they live in retirement than they ever lived when they were both working. Those are two examples of immigrants who came to this country with little and gave so much. Chris lets talk about the situation here in washington right now because democrats are threatening to shut down the government, to refuse to vote for another funding bill when the government runs out of money at midnight friday if they dont get a deal on daca. This seems to directly contradict Something Senate democratic leader Chuck Schumer said a few years ago when the republicans were threatening president obama, take a look. We believe strongly in immigration reform. We can say we are shutting down the government, we are not going to raise the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform. It would be governmental chaos. Chris mr. Attorney general, if it was wrong for republicans to threaten a democratic president and threaten to hold the government hostage, why is it all right for democrats to do exactly the same thing . A. G. Becerra i dont believe democrats are doing anything to try and hold up a government funding bill. They are just not agreeing with the outlines of what republicans have put forward in the republican funding bill. If they are objecting to this budget because right after less than a month after passing a 1. 5 trillion tax break bill which benefited mostly the super rich and corporations, all of a sudden having used the Government Credit card to pay for that, now republicans want to cut benefits for veterans, for seniors, for students, for workingclass americans to pay for that tax cut. Chris number one, they havent called for cutting all those benefits. Number two, thats not specifically the question im asking you. Im asking you specifically about the fact that democrats are saying no deal on spending. I agree they have to work out the spending deal, but no deal on spending and less you also pass a daca fix. If thats what some people say is holding the government hostage. Do you think the democrats should link funding for the government to a deal on daca . A. G. Becerra if you listen closely what democrats have been saying if that we need to have a deal on daca because President Trump, by trying to repeal daca has created this chaos. I will tell my democratic runs the following. Daca is now actually alive and Homeland Security department is now accepting renewal applications. Its nowhere near dead. I would hope it would not agree to any bad deals on immigration, really bad stuff that has nothing to do with helping our borders in order to get a daca deal. If that daca deal should stand on its own, it should be clean. Worrying about the budget is what republicans and the majority in the house and the senate should be doing because otherwise the government shuts down. Republicans are threatening to shut down the government unless they get a whole bunch of bad stuff on immigration. Democrats are saying lets do a clean fix on daca because it has nothing to do with the budget. If we could title together, great, but dont try to hold young people hostage to get a budget and certainly dont try to load up a bill with that stuff with her in the budget or on immigration. Chris let me just interrupt because im closer to washington now than you were, although you were a democratic leader for years. The democrats republicans are not insisting on linking daca and immigration. They just want to pass a funding bill and in fact they are talking about a three or four week continuing resolution. Let me switch to another subject, because you brought up the fact that daca is alive and well no. One of the reasons is alive and well is because you as californias attorney general filed a lawsuit where the judge agreed to stop the phasing out of daca by march. I want to ask you about that because it this it seems to me, sir, is not the nobrainer that some people suggested. President obama didnt even create the daca act. It didnt even protect the dreamers until 2012, almost four full years into his term when he was running for reelection. Why doesnt, just as a matter of principle and law, why doesnt President Trump have the same right to end daca. He doesnt want to end daca, he just wants to be a congressional law, not an executive action. Why doesnt he have the same right to move on daca that president obama did when he started four years into his term . A. G. Becerra chris, because no person in this country, even the president , is above the law. If he wants to take an action he must do it according to the law. As the judge held in this case, the president and his administration acted arbitrarily and capriciously. Thats why weve been able to have several victories. Its kind of poetic that the son of immigrants is the person wielding the legal slingshot against the Trump Administrations attacks on our constitutional civil rights. But the reason we keep winning, we are batting a thousand against this administration is because there president believes he is above the law and he continues to act arbitrarily and capriciously and taking action. If you want to change the law, chris, dont break it. Chris im not sure i understand how hes breaking it. He sang this was an executive order taken by the president. It wasnt even a law and hear you had donald trump saying i am resending that executive order giving six months to do so. Why is that breaking the law . A. G. Becerra because, you go about a process. Even president obama went about a process to establish an executive order. You go about a process. If you have a whole bunch of people in this country when our government takes action, they start to rely on the representations of our government. To their detriment. So whether its the consumer who decides to get health care for the consumer who decides to send his kids to particular college, its based on certain representation oftentimes that the government says we will be there in this respect of health care or an education or on immigration. And if you are going to try to unwind that youve got to do it through the right process and clearly the president has continued to be arbitrary and capricious in the way hes tried to undo things, and thats why as i said before we havent lost a case yet against donald trump. A guy who should know how to operate in the courts since hes been sued or sued himself thousands of times. Chris one final question, less than a minute left. If you have condemned the president s decision to remove temporary protected status from salvadorans and there are 50,000 of them living in california who have been here since the earthquakes in el salvador way back in 2001. The question i have though, sir, just as a kind of matter of common sense. The earthquakes ended. The devastation was repaired. Why are people still here 17 years later on temporary protected status . A. G. Becerra clearly things are broken both in those countries that sent a lot of those immigrants and even our own integration system. And over the course of some two decades, those individuals who were the victims of that broken system on both sides chris it was earthquakes. They came in because of a natural disaster. Why should they stay here . There are a lot of broken countries, that doesnt mean we take them all in. Why should we take them in over an earthquake that happened 17 years ago . Continue to have them here . A. G. Becerra we dont. What we do is we tell the country get yourself get back on your feet. We are not going to try to make things more difficult for you to get back on your feet. Two decades have gone by. Those individuals in this country have now established businesses. They have gone to schools here. They have families here. And to all of a sudden just jerked the rug from underneath them, i dont think its the american way. And i do believe congress should try to resolve this because it is a program that was not meant to be permanent. But congress could take action as it has in the past to address it. I think it would be only correct and right to do so because these are people who have made Major Investments in this country to make it better. Chris attorney general, thank you. Thanks for your time, its always good to talk to you whether its here in washington or in california. A. G. Becerra thanks, chris. Chris up next we will bring in our sunday group to discuss where congress is in talks about immigration and spending. The clock ticking down to a Government Shutdown midnight friday. Chris coming up, Congress Continues work on an immigration bill as the clock ticks down to a Government Shutdown. A resolution to the daca issue must be part of a global deal on the budget. Chris we will ask our sunday panel if congress can get a deal done and what will happen to the when this comes back, hopefully with an agreement, this group and others from the senate, from the house, comes back with an agreement, im signing it. I will be signing it. Im not going to say i want this or i want that. Chris President Trump on tuesday predicting smooth sailing for a daca deal of that televised meeting with two dozen members of congress. Of course all of that fell apart later this week and an explosive meeting in the oval office. Its time now for our sunday group. A former press secretary to Vice President pence marc lotter. A columnist for the hill juan williams. Adrienne elrod, former director of Strategic Communications for hillary confluence campaign, and john bussey from the wall street journal. I understand the argument intellectually that we should go to a meritbased system of immigration, but i want to pick up on the discussion i had with secretary nielsen because what troubles a lot of people is the idea that we are equating country of origin with merit and it raises the issue, whats better, as i said, a janitor from norway or a doctor or an engineer from haiti . I dont think the president is talking about making any kind of geographic or quotas based on any country. Chris he did say that. What he was saying that shes basically saying right now under the Current System we do have quotas. We do have random lotteries or people not based on their skill, just because they apply our allowed entry into our country. Hes basically saying that lets judge the people who want to, and move to america based on who they are, not where they are from. Chris juan . Forgive me, it doesnt seem to me thats what the president is saying. Thats not with the reporting indicates. Chris let me just put up i will get you in a second, what House Speaker paul ryan said reacting to the president s comments. My family, like a whole lot of people came from ireland. If im what on what they called coffin ships then. Came here and worked the railroads. The eyewear sheet dont work with the irish were really looked down upon back in those days. Here all the stories about irish need not apply. Chris throughout her history people come to this country because the situation in their country is bad and its often the best and the brightest to take the initiative to take that step to sail across the Atlantic Ocean or fly across the Atlantic Ocean from a much worse situation. Correct. I think thats why on the statue of liberty we have that phrase, that american idea that we will take your people who are burdened, oppressed, people who have been left behind and judged to be inferior and we make them. I think this is what Lindsey Graham was saying to the president in the oval office. Come to america the idea of this as a place of opportunity and Political Freedom and stability. Thats the american idea. Its not based on where you come from, certainly not the irish as you just heard paul ryan talk about. Not for italians, not for catholics. At one point in our history all those groups have come up against this kind of bigotry. I think for paul ryan to say this is unhelpful, clearly that this is racist and unamerican . Chris i want you to respond before bring everybody else in. Again, i think what were talking about here is in the future we have a great history of immigration. No one debates that no one debates the countless contributions that have been made by immigrants and now second, third multiple generations to our country. But as we are moving forward, as we face challenges in terms of Homeland Security and as we are trying to get more people jobs in america, putting American Workers above the needs of other people who may not be coming in here with the skills to be able to compete. If there was a study that said over half of immigrant lead families are receiving some sort of welfare. Three quarters of those families with children are receiving some sort of welfare. Can we not look at who we are bringing in [boos] thats what the president is saying, not necessarily where you are from. Chris he did say exactly where they are from. He didnt say we need to bring in doctors and engineers. We dont need to bring in ditch diggers. Thats not what the conversation was about. He chris it was the language used. I understand that when you look at the context of that conversation, it was supposedly in a broad immigration discussion and it was also talking about tps. Talking about some of those in the lottery system when he clearly said is why do we need people from these shole countries because they are underrepresented in the reason the lottery exists to make sure theres more adequate representation of people who have not been coming. Its not about the countries in saying that but about the people who would be included in the lottery. Thats why its so personal to people like me. Chris let me bring in adrian. This is a good moment. Democratic strategist. This is a good moment for democrats, good political moment for democrats, but should they actually take the final step they are threatening to take, which is to link daca and a deal on daca to funding the government and risk a Government Shutdown . Is that smart politics . Absolutely it is. Heres why, chris. Number one, democrats have absolutely no control in the house of the center of the white house. Republicans have full control right now. This is the only bargaining chip the democrats have. We are tired of seeing the Daca Recipients not have a fix. We are tired of seeing them play political spitball with their lives. This is their last bargaining chair. January 19th in the last train coming. Weve all compromised on daca. We will make a compromise, but we are not going to allow Daca Recipients any longer to live in the state of limbo. Chris john . This seems to be an issue, again, about messaging from the president. The interpretation of his remarks is a generous one. Hes really talking about it being a meritocracy. We will get more physicists from norway than we are going to get from haiti. If thats the generous interpretation. The failure of the message is that it leaves open this big discussion of whether or not the president is a racist because of the language that he chose. Similarly coming off of that tuesday meeting, which was an incredible hit for him. That was a remarkable Public Relations success for the president. Very president ial having democrats and republicans in the room getting along civilly over disagreements that were fundamental to the two parties. And in the very next day having changed the narrative away from russia, away from the fire and fury book the questions his mental stability. The very next day coming back and attacking the courts on their daca decision, saying hes going to change the libel laws so books can be written about him that are negative. Attacking Dianne Feinstein that morning the day before she sat across from him at the table. This is whats working against the president and any negotiation over daca, over the spending bill, over immigration in general. Chris let me ask about a different aspect of this though because the president took some heat from that televised meeting because a lot of people in his base said he seemed too soft, to open, lets get a deal, i will sign anything you want. If he didnt intend to do it quite the way he did it, but arent there some people in his base who will be reassured by the hardline he took in that Oval Office Meeting . Absolutely. We saw some very far right wing elements say we like the language that you used. But is that in his interest right now . Is looking at 2018, some very dicey elections, campaign coming up. In his interest to have a win on daca, on the spending bill, its in the interest of the democrats similarly. They are fairly close, honestly to reaching some kind of agreement. Democrats have agreed to spend something on a version of a wall, whatever it might be. That gives the president some face while also getting daca advanced. Why not close that deal as opposed to endangerment right before it expires . Its in the interest of the democrats to show a dysfunctional white house. The votes are there. If were looking at a bipartisan bill, the votes are there. There are enough democrats and republicans will come together on this bill and supported daca fix whether its a clean daca fix or whether its effects that has the Border Security element. Senators like, let harris who have said i would support a Border Security agreement as well, strengthening Border Security. Republicans have the task of putting it on the floor. The question is what happens when talk radio, the lowest moment of terms presidency this week because he engaged in that kind of talk. And i think you can see this now that the far right, the Freedom Caucus is going to put heat on him and he says this week in the meeting, he says i will take the heat. Well, mr. President , this is your chance. Chris we have to take a break here. 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Com[a5df] in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminate terminated. Chris President Trump back in october reluctantly agreeing to stay in the iran nuclear deal, but the white house announced friday congress and our european allies have 120 days to fix it or the u. S. Will pull out and we are back now with the panel. The president is demanding to go big changes to the iran nuclear deal. I want to put them up on the screen. First, inspectors must have access to any site they want in iran and second, elimination of socalled sunset provisions that iran would be able to restart parts of its Nuclear Program ten or 15 years. Is there any reason to believe that either iran or our european allies we negotiate will agree to rewrite it . He wants a third thing, something about their missile program, containing the missile program. Those are three things that a lot of people can agree on, that these are issues that need to be resolved before we move ahead with continuing the program as it is. On the left, on the right, in europe and here. The problem is theres an agreement and it sat. And it took a long time to get to it. If there six countries that are founders of that agreement, not just us, five others with him on signed that agreement that dont agree with the United States on reopening it. France has said no, germany is not encouraging this, china and russia. The united kingdom. They are not in favor of kind of reopening. The president may find himself on the outs with his allies and this might be Something Like we saw with dpp where we move away from an agreement with the agreement has a life of its own. With iran. We would just be on the out of that as we are with the Transpacific Partnership trade deal. Chris i want to pick up on that. We asked you for questions on the panel and we got this on facebook from michael t mulhall who incidentally we have put up questions from before. Good for michael. What are the possible consequences of the Trump Administration decertified the obama era deal . I think if you decertified, it makes it more likely, not less likely that iran gets nukes and therefore is a greater threat to our important ally israel in the middle east. The second thing to say is it signals to our allies that we are not to be trusted having signed a deal. We signed that deal, made a deal, and america has to keep its word Going Forward if, as you heard in the question, people are asking about u. S. As an effective negotiator in any international arena. Chris michael will have a followup for you. Im looking forward. Chris we get appreciate all my questions from them every week and i appreciate that. Theres another big story rolling. There are reports that the president s legal team is negotiating with the special council team, Robert Muellers team about terms for an interview in the russia investigation. Last june mr. Trump said that he would 100 be willing to answer questions, but it was a different story this week. Take a look. Certainly i will see what happens. But when they have no collusion and nobody has found any collision at any level, it seems unlikely that you would even have an interview. Chris adrienne, what happens if the president decides he is not going to sit down with Robert Mueller and his team . He has a couple of options. I think his attorneys will probably do this, they would say maybe before we actually sit down with you for an interview, mr. Mueller, lets think about maybe a signed affidavit or answering questions in a written context. But ultimately the president of the United States, he owes this to the American People to explain in his own words what happened. If there was really no collusion with russia than sitting down with special counsel mueller should not even be an issue with him. Again, he is the president of the United States. He certainly has the option to plead the fifth, but essentially if he wants to get to the bottom of this investigation and restore public chris if the president pleaded the fifth . I think it would be a real big problem. I dont think its politically tenable for him to do it but he certainly has the option. Its in the constitutional rights. If he wants to nip this in about he needs to have a conversation and needs to do it in an interview format a special counsel. Chris do you think its possible that the president will refuse to sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller . I dont know. If the president personal layers right now are dealing with a special counsel on that. They have been cooperative from the beginning. They continue to be cooperative so they will have those discussions. Who knows, maybe they are asking right now if they can get the Hillary Clinton treatment on an interview with the fbi or you do it and then the decision has artie been made before hand. I dont know what those details are, but hes been very transparent. Theres still no no evidence of collusion. And we will trust the lawyers to work that out. Chris adrienne, which like to respond . I think from the broad context i find it so laughable that every time republicans this issue comes up you guys immediately pivot to bringing secretary clinton into try to deflect. Its the only collusion thats been proved. All right. That is your take. There is an obstruction of justice question thats outstanding. The administration pivots to collusion when it should be answering the question is mueller wanting to talk to the president about the possibility of obstruction of justice . Not only that, theres a constitutional crisis in the making here if the president refuses to talk to mueller because then you put the congress in the position of saying to the president you must comply. In order to have credibility for our justice system, this is a country of laws, the president as the chief Law Enforcement officer cannot be exempt from the laws of the United States. Chris that raises the specific question all of this is speculative, but Robert Mueller could go to a court and get a subpoena, court order for the president to testify. I think thats what happened with bill clinton. I believe thats what i recall. Chris thats not politically tenable for the president to refuse to submit to a subpoena, court order. And its all speculation right now. They are still talking so if he comes back with a subpoena, that deal at an entirely different level whether they are having voluntary conversations back and forth back and forth in terms of what may be on the table and what parameters may be set for an interview, those kinds of things. Again, the president s personal lawyers and the special counsel have been cooperating the entire time. They continue to be cooperative and we will see how this goes out. Chris less than a minute left. What interests me is the fact that we would like to move on with this president. Highs like the tax bill, loads like the comments in the oval office this week. But the russian investigation, possible collusion, obstruction of justice, continues to cast a shadow over this presidency. It does, and thats what this is about. If thats what all the tangling with lawyers is about. Whats with the constant iteration that theres no collusion is about. Its the feeling that this russia investigation is expanding, is possibly getting closer to the Trump Organization or the trump family or perhaps the president himself, we just dont know yet. There are a lot of outstanding questions that havent been resolved. Its the big issue along with 2018. Chris all right, panel, 2018, thats another big subject too. We will talk about that. Thank you, see you next sunday. Up next our power player of the week. From hard hits on the field to heavy lifting on the hill, we will follow a pro Football Players journey to how House Speaker paul ryans office. Chris eight years ago i was at the headquarters for the Washington Redskins to do a profile of the teams new head coach. At one of players walking off the practice field said he watched this Program Every week. Who was that political junkie . Heres our power player of the week. What i do on a daily basis, i basically block and tackle. Its my job to build key alliances to help move the speakers agenda forward. Chris derek has been a staffer for House Speaker paul ryan for the last two years. Working on everything from the tax bill to school when he uses football analogies is not just talk. If dockery was an offensive lineman in the nfl for ten year years. Chris which is tougher, politics or football . I was born to play football and now having to transition from the field to the hill is a tough transition but with the help of a great team around me its easy now. Chris dockery says he didnt care about politics until two of his fellow lineman on the Buffalo Bills pulled him into their discussions. Every day they would bring in the wall street journal, new york times, we would talk taxes, religion, national security. Chris the turning point. One day i looked at my paycheck and set a need to think about taxes. I pay a lot of taxes. Chris dockery made some contacts which led to the next step. You are an nfl player making some good money. Why did you decide you wanted to be an intern in the offseason . Because i wanted to transition. I was thinking about whats next. Chris he got a job interning on the house budget committee, then shared by paul ryan. Chris what did your teammates think you might they loved it. Political dockery. It got so bad i watched spaceman. I loved it, i couldnt get enough of it. Chris dockery took us out of the speakers balcony looking down the National Mall to reflect on his remarkable journey. You play at fedexfield in front of 80,000, 85,000 screaming fans and this is you think about just a history. Chris the best part, you dont have to choose because youve done both. The best of both worlds. Chris which brought up the politics of football. Chris how do you feel about nfl players taking a knee during the National Anthem . We need to Pay Attention to criminal justice and the inequities in our country. We should always strive for a more perfect union. But to me personally im not comfortable using the anthem as a protest. Chris would you let your son play football . I would. My wife would give you a different answer. But if it was up to me, i would. Chris so the answer is no. [laughs] Chris Dockery and his wife started a nonprofit called yellow ribbons united to help veterans and to support the families of the fallen and military who were still serving. The reason why we do it is because of my wifes brother, who we lost in afghanistan, Sergeant David williams. He really inspired us to give back. Chris its all part of a tough transition. Derrick dockery has made look easy. I enjoy getting up every day and having a purpose. Im not at home trying to figure out whats next. I enjoy working with people. I enjoy being a part of a team and thats the main thing, being a part of the team. Chris dockery says he has no plans to run for office, but he doesnt rule it out. To learn more about his charity, yellow ribbons united, please go to our website. Thats it for today, have a great week and we will see you next Fox News Sunday. Dr. Michael youssef welcome to this series of messages, marriage gods way. We saw in the last message that selflessness is one of those foundations. You know, everybody talks about forgiveness, and they think forgiveness is just a lovely idea. Even the secular world talks about forgiveness. Ahh, but when you really start practicing it, you cannot do it without jesus, and that is why i want you to stay tuned, because im gonna show you how to forgive like jesus. [music] [music]