off on a decision about the compromise budget and will reveal until he sees what is in it and lawmakers are rushing to get the legislation through official channels as quickly as possible, still not ready for a vote. the friday midnight deadline looming and lindsey graham is talking with the president about the deal, he joins us with the inside scoop in just minutes. team coverage, digging up details on capitol hill, kristin fisher covering what she s hearing from the white house and that is where we pick up breaking coverage. will donald trump sign this bill and no one seems to know with 100% certainty what he will do? republicans on capitol hill, not even donald trump himself. white house officials say he wants time to review what is in the bill but time is running out. looking for landmines because you could have that. it has been known to happen before 2 people but we have not
into its second weekend stretching into a new year. republicans and democrats were made at a standstill over the president s demand for $5 billion to fund a border wall between the u.s. and mexico. both sides digging in further today. in an expletive new year s interview with fox, the president declared is ready to make a deal but it s nancy pelosi and chuck schumer who are on vacation. the two democratic leaders moments ago revealed a new plan to get the government back open but not until their party takes over the house. perhaps so they can try to claim credit. we have live fox news coverage on the developing stories. kristin fisher covering the movement on capitol hill today. we kick things off with corresponding kevin corke with how the president is spending the last day of 2018. good evening. simply speaking, this is president trump s redline but unlike a previous president similar proclamation at least for now, this appears to be holding. it was the most trumpian of ways to end
good for our country s economy. reporter: and the finalists for that job are believed to be janet yellen, the current fed chair, jerome powell, the current fed governor, and is john taylor who s an economist at standard. we believe it s down to those three. and, you know, molly, this is one of the most important personnel decisions that any president can make, and he should be making it, as he said, sometime next week. molly? molly: absolutely. a busy week ahead at the white house as usual. kristin fisher covering it for us, we appreciate it. rick: we want to get to more on this so-called dodgy dossier, so we go to hugo, editorial director for the washington examiner. the dnc performs an investigation that produces allegations against then-candidate trump, and that is used first to try to derail his campaign and then to fuel this federal investigation. you have a problem with that. yeah. i think this is a really serious development this last week.
now the white house is saying that president trump and the white house has been in communications with the virginia governor s office, they are monitoring the situation on the ground very closely and, again, we may hear president trump speak about this directly when he steps up to the podium to talk about this va bill in just about 25 minutes, kelly. kelly: kristin, we will be following the details of all of that, thanks for the report, by the way, on the president. julie: fox news alert, president trump tweeting on the situation in charlottesville and i will quote, we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for, there s no place for this kind of violence in america, let s come together as one. kristin fisher covering that moments ago. we want to go more in-depths now. democratic strategists, and gop strategists and author, first of all, let s just talk about donald trump s tweets because he got a lot of criticism early on in his campaign because he took