shutdown as leverage at a last 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 governor john kasich on his political [deep breath] i receive travel rewards. i visualize travel rewards. going new places! going out for a bite! going anytime. rewarded! learn more at the explorer card dot com.
have allowed abortions when people can hear a fetal heartbeat. you vetoed a bill that would have given gun owners more rights which raises the bigger concern about you politically, which are you too moderate for today s republican party? look, first of all i signed a lot of pro-life legislation in this state. that is a fact. i don t want to pass something i think would be probably ruled unconstitutional. secondly i m for the second amendment but let me tell you this, chris, if you see somebody who is unstable in your business or your family, and you think they pose a threat to people around you and you can go to court, i think their guns should be taken. that is not against the second amendment. that is common sense. i can t get that done. i m not signing anything else until i can get that done. chris: governor kasich, got to leave it there. merry christmas. happy holiday. see you soon. chris: you took it all away from me. same to you and your family. all right, sir. chris: our p
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
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
but how certain is it president 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