administration spied on the trump campaign. now 65 republican congressmen are calling on committee chairman devon nunes to make that four-page document public. they re going with a hashtag release the memo. jason chaffetz is the former republican congressmen and a fox new contributor joins me now. always a pleasure to see you thanks for joining us. good morning. maria: before we get into this memo let me just circle back and get your thoughts on roy blunt who we just heard from. what s your take on this stalemate going on right now and what needs to happen to get the government to reopen? i think people actually need to ask themselves what is it that the democrats actually want because there s nothing in the bill they re opposed to but what is it that they actually want? they say they want to protect dreamers but they want to offer a bill. there s no bill to vote on. there s no insertion of an amendment they want to try to do. i don t think they ve answered the question exactly wha
people out there in the populous , they re not buying into the trump administration right? right. maria: so why is it failing in that regard and yet he s winning in other areas? if you just look at donald trump s policies they re working and yet you ve got naysayers in the mainstream media who will not buy into that network. this is one of the great paradoxes that there s a disconnect between the way in which trump is portrayed in the mainstream media. it s a constant story of liberal heads exploding and the reality of policy outcomes. whether you look at the economy or foreign policy, there are clear improvements relative to the obama presidency. i think the deregulation doesn t get talked about nearly enough. i think it s more important than the tarp reform actually and it s giving a real tailwind to the u.s. economy and i think the news is going to stay strong this year and those people who predicted a financial disaster when trump was elected big shout
to and i think they will change their mind on this pretty quickly. maria: senator we ll be watching the developments thanks so much for the update. you bet. maria: senator roy blunt joining us there up next the obama administration spy on the trump campaign? all roads seem to lead there some lawmakers say a classified memo may hold the real answers and they want it made public from a congressman jason chaffetz weighs in on that. follow me on twitter at maria bartiromo and sunday futures let us know what you d like to hear on the show as we re live this morning watching all of the developments out of washington we re looking ahead on sunday morning futures right now. back in a minute. no matter how the markets change. at t. rowe price. our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain. but you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.
maria: and we re back with our panel mary kissel and ed rollins it seems to me that this is exactly what schumer wanted. exactly what the democratic leadership wanted in the face of all of the successes for president trump whether it be economic or isis being defeated they wanted to make a stink on the one year anniversary. they don t want the whole president trump and congressional delegation representing america in davos, switzerland happening next week and of course a week later the state of the union address. well just as you see polls starting to give republicans some advantage based on the or at least closing the gap based on the tax bill as people start to see it s going to work, you cloud the story. the whole story now is about this and why can t they run a
government, why can t they do x, y, and z and if they can stay on to the president s state of the union speech nobody will care what he says and that s the speech he has to set the tone and agenda for the next year. maria: that s a scary thing that no one is going to care what he has to say because the government has been shut for awakened a half and it could happen because the last one went for 13 days i just wonder mary the long term implications in terms of the voting public. i feel personally people are on to the obstructionism and they know in fact this is not about policy any more but do you agree with that? well, look, i tend to think that republicans always get blamed for the shutdowns. i think in 2013, they were to blame for the shutdown. this shutdown of course they re not because chuck schumer and the democrats are filibustering but look, democrats are going to go out and say look the republicans have majorities in both houses it s all of them banking on the fact that vote