The double ax three. Very bold. Everything and everyone is calm. Enjoying the right. Thats the president s hope for all of you this new year tweeting in all caps, happy new year to everyone including the haters and the fake news media. 2019 will be a fantastic year for those not suffering from trump derangement syndrome. He wraps up the tweet with this advice. Calm down and enjoy the ride. Great things are happening for our country. President trump is setting a few goals for 2019. The first is to remind everyone what a beautiful, winning year its going to be. I just want to wish you a very, very happy new year. Its going to be a great year. Complicated, but great. Im fighting for you. We are going to win all the way. We are going to win at everything we do. So happy new year and lets enjoy the next year and then we are going to enjoy the following year and we have four more and everything is going to be so beautiful. Jessica dean is live from the white house. Is it your sense that thats a broader theme that he wants to make his own in the coming year . Thats exactly right. He likes to watch the stock market and the economy has been driving him. He likes to focus on it and talk about it. While he has been here at the white house after he canceled his plans, he has been using twitter as a way to communicate. He did talk about the economy. Take a listen. I will tell you, there has never been an administration and im very proud of this, thats done more than the Trump Administration in the first two years of office. Our economy is doing great. Wages are rising for the first time in many, many years. People are getting more money. They are working one job instead of two or three. This administration, the president , the white house has long maintained the economy is strong. They downplayed any weaknesses in the economy, but we remember december was a roller coaster with the stock market and this was the one of the year for stocks . A decade and december was the worst year for the dow since 1931. A couple of things to keep in mind as we look ahead to 2019. The government shut down looming large as we head into the new year. Indeed. Staying calm and enjoying the ride. Here with me to share the reporting and the insights. From the washington post, Michael Scherrer with the New York Times and kelsey snow with npr. I need to get something out of the way. On ohio state game days, im wearing my lucky tshirt. Going with the tie. Its new. It doesnt work and they will have a ritual burning. We got that out of the way. Game time starts in five or six hours. Lets take 30,000 people. We are digging in on what it means. The 30,000 foot when you look at what the president has ahead for him in 2019. What sticks out to you . You have to reopen the government and you have 800,000 workers or working and not getting paid. Thats going to be the first thing that democrats want to talk about and when they take over on thursday when they are sworn to take over the house. There are so many other cabinet positions that need to be filled. The question of whether or not nafta is going to get or the new nafta will get ratified. The plate is full. No question. There is also the russia investigation. I want to pull up a tweet from rudy giuliani. Im looking forward to 2019 so he can end the Mueller Investigation before the unpaid traffic ticket investigation. Thats a sarcastic way of saying the house will go after many, many things. The lingering question of will they pursue impeachment and a lot of people think it would be treacherous to go there, they will be looking into the trump family and the finances of the president and the decisions that have been made by cabinet officials. There is very little that is going to be off limits for the democrats in the house. They are bracing for that. Its obvious that there is going to be political acrimony in the house over all of these investigations. The real question is what do the Senate Republican dos once they have a report from mueller. Yes, the houses plan is set. It is not clear what the reaction is going to be because he has critics who are willing to break with him over russia and Foreign Policy generally. He is going to face push back over the syria and afghanistan pull out. People willing to break with him if they really feel like it comes to that. That is going to rest on what we see from the special counsel. That will be conclusive in the next few months. It could tip things one way or the other. We will get into the senate. That is your everything to some degree depending on the day. Its an interesting point. Jessica was reading statistics and we saw december was topsy curvey and nobody is sure a recession is coming and more people are thinking 2020. It has been the underpinning. Whats your sense in the white house and how they are viewing the curve . They are saying thats their top focus. When you go into a new year, you are talking about whats your legislative agenda . Republicans have the house and the white house and there is very little talk about priorities for legislation. They are laying their hats on the economy and President Trump putting out the message that the economy is strong. We have seen it strong in the past couple of years because house and Senate Republicans were able to get a tax bill through and a lot of people say its a sugar high for the economy. We will have to wait and see if it slows down in 2019 going into 2020. A lot of economists are looking at whats happening with the trade war and the insurgency about the government shut down and other things happening in washington. Wondering whether or not it was a sugar high that will slow down and the global slow down we have seen will impact the United States going into 2020. That can take a top card off the table if the economy is not strong heading into reelection. Live and die by the market. It benefitted them totally throughout the first two years in office. If they go sideways, it will be problematic. Its part of asking about the 30,000 feet looking down. One of the things for trump that he has been able to do pretty successfully over the last two years is to be the to set the agenda with twitter or with the republican majority he had in congress and the thing that will frustrate him is hes going to be on the defensive. There will be other actors who will be setting the ajenda and forcing him to react. Whether its mueller who has been silent for the last 15 months and now he will likely not be silent and will be setting the agenda and the president will have to react. The house will do the same. The economy may force the president to be more responsive and reactive. That i think is going to generate a lot of frustration in the oval office. Hes not used to that. People are already talking about 2020. I want to play what President Trump said about Elizabeth Warren who announced an Exploratory Committee yesterday. Elizabeth warren will be the first. She did very badly in proving that she was of indian heritage. That didnt work out too well. You have more than she does and i do too and i have nothing. We will see how she does. I hope she does well. I would love to run against her. She said she is in the fight all the way, mr. President. Do you really believe she thinks she can win. That i dont know. You would have to ask her psychiatrist. That was the most predictable response. The Exploratory Committee. You cover Elizabeth Warren on capitol hill. Whats your sense. Democrats have to figure out how to respond. She has been part of the struggle to duck and let them push ahead with the message that is more about the proactive things to push back against the president. There has been a struggle to figure out when the balance is there. They have been willing to push back and the risk is there and the president doesnt back down. He goes harder. Its very risky to go up against his base and people who want that and not be the fighters here. It remains to be seen. She is a part of the wing that is more likely to push back and fight with them and get down and dirty. It will be a dynamic thing to watch. 50 more minutes of show left. New details about the american accused of being a spy in russia. I will talk live to his twin brother. Well be right back. To do whatever it takes, use every possible resource. To fight cancer. And never lose sight of the patients were fighting for. Our Cancer Treatment specialists share the same vision. Experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. And these are the specialists were proud to call our own. Expert medicine works here. Learn more at cancercenter. Com. 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Without a wall there can be no Border Security. The democrats take over the house in two days and they hope to pass their own spending package. Nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer warn if leader mcconnell and republicans refuse to support the first bill, they are complicit with trump. Its simple, the senate is not going to send something to the president he wont sign. Everything is great. Positively wonderful here. Its worth remembering. 800,000 federal workers are furloughed or working without pay. There are real implications and impacts not just here in maryland and d. C. , but around the country. We are about to see that. I want to focus on where this is headed. You are on the hill with kelsey and me all the time. Whats your sense . They are entrenched. Whats the pathway out . The first question is, will the president and will the gop agree with the plan to buy time and work out the department of Homeland Security . Thats the place where the wall money will go anda also the place where they have tsa workers and Border Patrol not being paid right now. If they separate out the rest of the quarter that is not funded right now and get that through to the end of the fiscal year and live to argue another day, they buy themselves about a month of negotiation time. In which case this is going to be a freeforall. That was not that long ago that we were talking about 25 billion for the wall in exchange for the daca program. In order to make sure you took care of immigration issues alongside Border Security issues. Thats the way the democrats like to do this. Whether or not they get that deal to do the shortterm extension and buying time to negotiate the wallrelated issues and border immigration issues, we are being looking at them at an impasse. Whether the government stays shut down for the next few weeks or they manage to separate anything else out, whatever they do is going to set the tone for the negotiations for at least the next two years. The gap where the two sides are is not that big with single digit billion dollars which is a drop in the bucket against the federal budget which is trillions. You cant give away something for nothing if you start off negotiating with trump. Trump is not in the mood to take no for an answer. Thats the situation you have got. I dont know how that resolves itself. It may hold the shut down budget hostage or may not. Its a very, very difficult few weeks of negotiations to work this out before we get to the end game. One of the most interesting to push the dynamic forward. They are not moving until the republicans sign off. They told me in terms of what the president would sign. They said no idea. We need to let it play out anymore. He was not being snarky. They are not totally sure. How do you move forward when nobody is sure what the president is on board with . Part of the reason is because they thought he was on board with the spending bill that they passed before the shut down even happened and they got over to the house and the president was getting attacked on tv and getting attacked from his very loyal base in the House Republicans and he changed his mind. When republicans dont know what the president is going to do it makes it hard to agree with something in a negotiation. Going back to what was said about exchanging a broader immigration policy for the wall, they were there when they were asked about that. They said no. They moveded on from that part of the negotiation. They are going to have to come up with a new different term if they want to move forward. I have a hard time seeing what the terms are. At this point democrats feel like they can be the grown ups in the room. 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Paul whelan lives in michigan and is a former marine who has done multiple tours in iraq. His family said he went to russia for a wedding and they couldnt get ahold of him and was detained. He could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. He spent time in russia. He was there for two weeks in 2006 when he was a marine. Joining me now is pauls twin brother, david whelan. I know this cant be an easy time. Want to start with there is limited information thus far. You guys have been reaching out. What if anything have they told you at this early stage . Thanks for having me, phil. We heard back regularly from the staff and they have been updating us that there is nothing to update. We spoke to them yesterday and we heard about the detention on the internet over news wires. We contacted the state and the embassy and they are keeping us up to date. There is a blackout president until anyone can get to them. If i understand it correctly, its 72 hours. Do you have any idea what happens once that mark is hit . My understanding is that the 72 hours is a president that once its told, the embassy will get access and we can confirm what his status is, whether he is healthy and what happened during his arrest. He will be able to speak to officials about his status essentially and they will be able to give him the information he will need to collect a lawyer to try to respond to the allegations that the government said. Along those lines, i cant imagine this coming to someones plate. In terms of hiring a lawyer in terms of bringing someone on. Are you in the middle of that process or have you been walked through what needs to happen . We have tried to do an assessment and you cant assess lawyers on the ground. Im in canada and my family is in the states. There is no way for us to know who is competent and provides the representation they need. We will rely on the recommended lawyers that will get us started. Its important to hit the congressional representatives and senators from michigan. The representative from pauls district in michigan and whoever else we can and the American Government to try to help get paul out of the situation regardless of whatever legal jeopardy he is in. I was wondering if you can share the background on your brother. Several times is my