we re willing to fund the departments that are not associated with security of the border like the dhs is. why not open the treasury. they want to narrow this down to just the dispute president is having with congress and congress having with the president over the wall. they will up the political amp on this. we want to open up and manage the country normally. it s this political fight over the wall. shepard: over the last few day, those who influence him from inside boxes have suggested, sometimes radio ones sometimes tv boxes, sometimes newspapers, have suggested to him he needs to sell this better and feet this harder. he s doing it. he s going to take a trip and give a speech. the trip down to the border will be part of that. the speech that s scheduled for tomorrow night, tuesday neat will be part of that too.
enhanced wall on the border. shepard: can t see one. john, great to see you. happy new year. thank you. coming up, a couple of big legal cases. a woman behind bars since she was a teenager now getting out of prison. how some celebrities helped her to go free. then there s kevin spacey in court today after an 18-year-old claimed the actor groped him on nantucket. of course, context, he pretended he was 23 and there have been some liquor and the courts will decide. what we learn today is that the courts will decide.
urging him to sell this harder. reporter: he ll be congress that. he ll be traveling to mcallen, texas hidalgo, north of the mexican city. right in the heart of the rio grand valley. there s about four miles of border fence there right now. it s right by the border crossing there in hidalgo. that s an order where border fence doesn t work. what the president is going to do is go down there, talk about the crises, highlight what i.c.e. is doing. where he s talking about building the fence is southwest united states, new mexico, arizona and california. we said it many time, you can t build a fence right along the river there. you can t build it in the middle of the river. he doesn t want it there. he wants it elsewhere. shepard: mexico will pay for it is promise thing of the past.
asked viewers not to jump to judgment. there s still no word on whether that is related to the charges. pretrial hearing is scheduled for march 4th. if he is convicted kevin spacey could have to face up to five years in prison and register as a sex offender. shepard: we ll have fox news update on facebook watch. it s a minute long newscast online. with unique content that streams live on the facebook watch home page. few minutes from now, you can watch it live if you re on facebook. once its concluded the live portion will be available to you any time on demand. fox news updates on facebook watch live each day in the morning and just after 4:00 eastern time. again, the president has asked the networks for prime time tomorrow night, 9:00 eastern to
the person who s missing from the negotiations is mitch mcconnell. the majority leader had us going out of session just before christmas when the entire senate unanimously voted for a package in would have kept the government open. he s saying oim i m out of i m out of this. president trump is so right in standing firm with millions of americans who are saying, let s solve this issue. leader mcconnell is correct to say, we re not going to take up something in the senate unless it includes border wall funding. reporter: leader mcconnell felt burned by having the senate vote for the extension right before christmas that would have kept things going to february 8th. shepard: there was a bipartisan plan to reopen the government. i mean in the house, republicans and democrats in the senate,