A nonstarter as well, right . No doubt. Listen, this is a stalemate that the president is content to ride out unless he gets funding for the border wall and Border Security, he simply just will let this thing play out and see how much pressure he can apply on the democrats. Lets go to twitter. The president is up and tweeting already in 2019. He said this. The democrats much as i suspected, have allocated no money for a new wall. So imaginetive. Without a wall there can be no Border Security. Our country must finally have a strong and secure southern border. Yesterday the president was in the oval Office Working to find a way for the white house and lawmakers to ind the impasse. White house officials was working the phones as well. The shutdown affects real americans, many of whom are beginning to feel the pinch of not being paid for the time being. Even though they will eventually get paid once the shutdown is over. That said the president is Standing Firm and he wants the American Pe
Outspoken republican saying the president needed to take this step. What will get interesting over the next couple weeks here maybe as soon as today as we start to find out more specifically where this money comes from, some senators who have theoretical objections on grounds that they think its beyond the president s per view. If you look at Susan Collins and others in the house, there are republicans who have expressed theoretical concerns about this. If this money comes out of funds that were directed towards puerto rico, for example, you have two republican senators in florida. Marco rubio and rick scott who have both pledged theyll have advocates for puerto rico. The puerto rican vote in florida is a big deal. How will they react . If it comes out of the Harvey Relief for texas . Cornyn has been publicly warning the president against taking this step. If its coming out of something that could help his state, you could see strong pushback from republican senators or you could not.
Maybe more active, quote, ongoing investigations that relate to or grow out of this mueller probe. First there is the trump aide turned convict turned star witness against Paul Manafort rick gates. He is still as of today speaking to bob muellers investigators. Now we know that tonight because of the new word that comes out here that gates continues to, quote, cooperate in several ongoing investigations. Legal experts say that implies one of them would at least be the potential misconduct that has been alleged about the trump inaugural committee. The new york feds are investigating that. Gates has talked to them tackling questions about the money trail and a lot of other foreign influence allegations. Meanwhile, there is a mueller prosecutor saying Michael Cohen has also provided information for, this seems to be the theme tonight, quote, ongoing investigations. While all the investigators pursue the leads that have come out in part of the mueller case, democrats in congress pressing f
Socialism in this form is absolutely necessary for our country to succeed. Do americans really want socialism . Griff jenkins was there to get that question answered and taking a hit on social media the future nfl star who says he had to scale back his support of the president. Fox and friends first starts right now. Rocking in the usa a great time to wake up across the great us of a this morning, you are watching fox and friends first on this thursday. Almost made it to the weekend, thank you for starting the day with us. Fox news alert, a brandnew caravan marching toward the us, donald trump threatening to call for additional troops on the border is more than 1000 Central Americans hit the road. The latest developments on the growing crisis at the border. Reporter most of this caravan is traveling on buses and is going through guatemala. The countrys president says he will confront this caravan but donald trump sounding the alarm getting ready saying hes ready to add back up. Have to
Republicans saying it completely undercuts House Intel Committee chairman adam schiffs claim. They are calling for the transcript to be released immediately and weve also just got something new from the House Democrats tonight. They say the evidence works to their favor. Well spell it out and let you decide. Stick around for Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director respond to the case of a Police Officer arrested for cooperating with officials, and get a response for the president s policy leveling new charges tonight. Hello, and welcome to fox news night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. Weve got Catherine Herridge standing by you need to know about that nearly ten hour witness deposition on the hill that did not go as democrats had hoped. Correspondent david spun, response to democrats impeachment push. Busy night tonight in washington. President trump on the offense. Tonight, fox news confirms the president is scheduled to send a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing his white house w