chris: that lead to a stunning resignation. i am shaken by the resignation of general mattis what it means for our country, for the message it sends to our troops. chris: we ll discuss the current state of the trump presidency with incoming white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. we ll get perspective from a washington veteran, former secretary of defense leon panetta. and is president trump opening himself up to a possible 2020 challenge? we ll talk with ohio s republican governor john kasich, a frequent trump critic. plus we ll ask our sunday panel about new splits between the president and the gop on capitol hill. all right now on fox news sunday. hello again from fox news in washington. we are in to day two of a partial government shutdown with no end in sight but that is just part of a turbulent week in washington even by trump
republican in the primaries or as an independent? chris, as you know all options are on the table. we look every day, i have a team of people who look every day at the factors that go into consideration like that. and, you know, we assess it. at some point i will make a decision and i will give folks full disclosure about how i arrived at a decision and what it is but at this point, again, all options are on the table. i want to finish my job as governor, have a few weeks left and then, we ll see what develops you know in terms of the politics in our nation. what i m most concerned about, chris, having a a voice. when you look at secretary mattis letter for whom two years, you cannot ignore your allies, do thing on youren, america first. saying for two years doesn t make any sense to engage in trade wars particularly with our friends. a lot of things you re hearing
trump will be the republican nominee? joining me now, ohio s outgoing republican governor, john kasich a trump critic, whose name has come up as a potential challenger in 2020. governor, welcome to fox news sunday. thank you, chris. chris: you heard what we re talking about this hour, the shutdown, markets, resignations over the president s foreign policy shifts, what do you make of the situation in washington right now? well, chris it is so much dysfunction, you know. i was just saying to one of the people with me this morning, as governor, what if my communications director, my, half of my cabinet, or even significant numbers of my cabinet started to leave, it would create great chaos. we would have a great difficulty getting anything done. it would communicate chaos throughout the state and in the legislature, whatever. so, it is, it is very disturbing. and, you know, the implications of what all this means long term for our foreign policy, for our
domestic agenda is really up in the air. it concerns me a great deal. chris: but president trump campaigned on building a a wall. he campaigned, he promised the american people he was not going to keep troops, he would pull them out of endless wars like afghanistan. isn t he doing telling the american people what he would do? chris, as you know, a president just can t get everything they want anymore than a governor can get what he or she wants. the fact of the matter i don t understand why he didn t make a deal. in other words, give me a couple billion for the wall, which is more than they had previously been agreed to, and in exchange for that we allowed the daca people to stay and people who didn t come here any other way but on their own to be able to stay in america and not be given the threat of being deported. that is a deal that maybe they could get, that he would get. i don t know why he hasn t done that. that makes a awful lot of sense to me. in terms of syria and troops, i
minute, he knows, if he doesn t get border wall funding now it will not certainly happen when there is democratic house because they can t negotiate with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer at this point in time to get $5 billion of fencing which they voted for before. chris: the bad news. we have to end this panel. good news we ll probably be talking about the shut down next sunday. see you next sunday. have a merry christmas. all of you. outgoing ohio republican governor john kasich on his today is the day you re going to get motivated. get stronger. get closer. start listening today to the world s largest selection of audiobooks on audible. and now, get more. for just $14.95 a month, you ll get a credit a month good for any audiobook, plus two audible originals exclusive titles you can t find anywhere else. if you don t like a book, you can exchange it any time, no questions asked. automatically roll your credits over to the next month if you don t use them.