the land. our reporting begins now. >> shepard: first from the fox news deck this afternoon, if it's true, it could have huge implications for the trump presidency. buzz feed reports that president trump districted michael cohen to lie to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. that is perjury and it's a crime. neither fox news nor any other major news organization to our knowledge has confirmed this story. according to buzz feed, two federal law enforcement officials told reporters jason leipold an anthony cormier that the special counsel's office learned about the directive through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and through internal company e-mails, texts and a range of other documents. cohen acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office. in november, michael cohen pleaded guilty admitting that he lied to congress about the moscow project and he had been in contact with vladimir putin's right-hand man during the presidential campaign in and effort to get the project approved. in response to the buzz feed story, president trump is again accusing cohen of lying to reduce his jail time. and the deputy white house press secretary hogan gidley came on fox news and did not deny the report. >> you're saying the president did not tell michael cohen to do that? >> i'm telling you this is why the president refuses to give any credence or credibility to news outlets because they have no ability to corroborate anything. instead, they're using shade did sources -- >> that was not a denial of my question. >> no. but the premise is ridiculous. >> shepard: the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff has tweeted the allegation that the president of the united states may have sub borned perjury to curtail the investigation and cover up his business dealings with russia is the most serious to date. we'll do what is necessary to find out if it's true. just weeks from now, michael cohen is set to go back to capitol hill to testify. this time cohen says he's going to give a full and credible account of what happened and provide the american people with answers. john roberts reporting live from the white house that i heard another very specific denial of this. >> yeah, this happened on the white house driveway. sarah sanders after doing a pretape for the jesse waters show on fox news. walked back and did a brief gaggle outside the west wing entrance where she mirrored comments made by rudy guliani in the last couple hours in which guliani said "any suggestion from any source that the president counselled michael cohen to lie is categorically false." those were the words that the press secretary sarah sanders used today, "categorically false" and citing guliani. guliani says that michael cohen is a convicted criminal and a lawyer. to quote the prosecutors, he's traded on a pattern of lies and dishonesty over an extended period of time and for that he will pay a serious price. today's claims are made-up lies. more of michael cohen's malice and desperation in order to reduce his sentence. you pointed out this morning and it wasn't just hogan gidley and kellyanne conway, that when white house officials were asked about it, they didn't come out and deny it. they trashed buzz feed and michael cohen and with kellyanne conway, also trashing the fact that law enforcement officials might have been trying to leak something to buzz feed. listen here. >> i'm very, very dismayed that the sourcing in this particular article are two law enforcement officials that are connected to the investigation. that should be -- that should send chills down people's spine. i don't see verification of this from where i sit. >> i don't see verification from where i sit is as close to a denial that kellyanne conway got. democrats say this is more reason to launch a lot of investigations of what is going on here at the white house and what happened during the campaign to get to the truth of the matter. listen to joaquin castro, democrat of texas. >> if the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress, then that's a clear case of participating in perjury and obstruction of justice. he should resign. but if he doesn't resign, he should be impeached. >> you mentioned at the top, according to reporters, there's corroborating evidence that the special counsel office has in the form of e-mails and texts and other materials. those reporters acknowledge that they were not shown that evidence. they only have verbal description of that from the two law enforcement services that they cite. >> shepard: thanks, john roberts. nancy pelosi accusing the president of creating a grave security threat when he revealed she was heading to a war zone with other lawmakers. speaker pelosi and a congressional delegation were planning to fly on a military plane to afghanistan to meet with the u.s. troops. it was supposed to be a secret, but just before lawmakers were set to leave yesterday, president trump announced that he was cancelling their military flight and told them if they wanted to, they could fly commercially. speaker pelosi said she started making plans to do that, fly commercial. her spokesman said the trump administration leaked those travel plans, too. >> the fact that they would leak the commercial -- that we were flying commercial is a danger to us and to other people. it's very irresponsible on the part of the president. >> shepard: a senior white house official saying it's a flat-out lie to suggest that the white house would leak anything that would put americans at risk. back to john roberts. here we go again. >> yeah, here we go again. the white house denies leaking details of nancy pelosi's planned travel. they didn't need to because there was a couple that came to the state department from afghanistan around 5:30 a.m. many which officials from the state department in kabul said that there were requests of authorization from the state department for 17 tickets on commercial airlines and that those requests were made over unsecured telephone lines. according to the cable, her travel will be no secret and her arrival easy to predict. but the cable also said that operational security for the tripped that been compromised and the afghan media has been reporting that the president told her that she was free to travel commercially after he yanked the military plane that was scheduled to take the codel to afghanistan. nancy pelosi argues that the president revealing details of her initial trip was irresponsible. listen here. >> the president outing our trip made our plan more dangerous. [inaudible] >> the white house argues the fact that she was planning to being out of the country for a week during the shut down was simply ridiculous. listen here to hogan gidley. >> when we were in the midst of a shut down, she was in hawaii. then democrats partied in puerto rico. then she was talking about a six-day excursion overseas. when is she going to come to the white house and have a conversation to protect the american people and open this government? this trip, this six-day excursion would all but guarantee 800,000 employees would not receive a paycheck for the second straight pay period. that is unacceptable. >> there's a lot of back and forth between the hill and the white housed and all of these tangential issues and getting people back to work. nothing. >> shepard: all right, john. john roberts out in the yard. chris wallace now is inside. hello, chris. >> how are you? >> shepard: this back and forth thing is just not credible. you know, the president said i'm shutting down the government. i'll own the shut down. i'll carry the mantel and he shut the government down. that's that. >> well, i mean it takes two to tango. >> shepard: there's no tango here. the president said i'm shutting the government down and -- >> no. he said he would shut the government down unless they gave him funding for the wall? >> shepard: right. >> both sides are party to this. what distresses me to see and i thought john roberts was right when he called it tangential, now we have an argument if the president can make a state of the union speech, whether nancy pelosi can go to afghanistan. none of this solves the key issue, which is to reopen the government, get a compromise on border security and immigration and there's obviously a deal in which both sides are going to have to compromise. they're taking passed each other. it wouldn't matter if nancy pelosi was in afghanistan or down the street because at this point, they're not talking to each other anyway. >> shepard: the president ran in the mid-terms and campaigned for people in the mid-terms on you have to vote for republicans because the democrats aren't going to give us a wall. the democrats ran in the mid-terms in 2018 says we're not giving him a wall. they won 40 seats plus in the house of representatives and they're not giving him a wall. everybody wants to play this as a two-side speaking pasted each other. the ones that control the purse strings said no. the president said come on. he said no. he closed down the government. that's what happened. he can reopen it tomorrow just like he closed it down. it's all on him, isn't it? >> well, he got elected too. he has a point of view. the fact is that at this point a bill that would reopen the government without some funding for the wall wouldn't get through the senate. if it did, the president would veto it. just as a practical matter, there's three steps. it has to get through the house of representatives, which is controlled by the democrats, has to get through the senate which is controlled by republicans and has to get through a republican president. each side has to give and they refuse to give. >> shepard: what do you think of the buzz feed report? i saw you with bill and sandra. some time has passed by then. often, chris, when there's these big blockbusters, somebody gets it and another somebody will back it up and confirm the reporting. there's no confirmation reporting yet. >> yeah, i think that's exactly the right point. at this point. you know, buzz feed is out there with a story. buzz feed is not the most reliable respected trustworthy editorial sound media outlet in this new world of internet and blogs and websites. a thousand flowers bloom but some are stronger and been around longer than others. it is note worthy, as you say. this came out very early today. maybe it was late last night. nobody has matched the story. that's significant. oftentimes when one of these stories breaks, people that cover justice, cover law enforcement are able to say it's out there. can we match it? nobody has matched it. may be true, may not be true. the silence from every other media source out there and i know with fox news we're trying to match it, is deafening at this point. >> shepard: subornation of perjury, if true, it's hard to see how things would continue as they are. >> i completely agree with that. if it's subornation as perjury as i said is the kind of thing you get impeached over. but before we get to far down that line, you have to know whether the story is true. other than buzz feed, they're out there all alone at this moment. so you know, you do have to make that the first thing. is it true? and then what are the consequences if it's true. >> shepard: that's what we did. any big plans for the weekend? going to be cold, chris. i'm coming down there for an event. >> are you really? >> shepard: yeah. >> will you stay away from >> shepard: sure. >> yes. unless you want to show up and be in the audience for "fox news sunday." we know we're going to have congressman jim clyburn, the number 3 democrat in the house. he will talk about the shut down and the new allegations against the president. maybe by then we'll know if they're true. we'll talk about steven king. we'll talk about martin luther king birthday. yeah, i think i'll say this. maybe the communication shop of the white house is shut down because we've been trying all week to get them to give us somebody to talk about the shut down and all of these allegations from their point of view. as we sit here at 3:14 p.m., we got crickets from the white house. maybe they're nonessential employees. >> shepard: we have a lot of cell phone numbers. maybe send off a firm text to somebody. >> we have sent firm texts today. made phone calls. nobody is returning them. >> shepard: yeah. >> maybe that's why i'm in a bad mood. >> shepard: maybe it is. it's friday for me. two more days of work for you. >> it's wednesday for me. that's okay. >> shepard: it's going to be 4 degrees monday night. cold sunday night, too. >> listen, how about kansas city for the game against the patriots? 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>> i don't really think anything can be accomplished. you have to remember that the north koreans have been refusing to participate in working groups. so for instance, they cancelled that meeting with secretary of state mike pompeo in november. they won't even meet with steve began, the north korean envoy for president trump. so if you're not going to have working groups, why should you have a summit? i think north koreans believe that they can get a deal from trump that they couldn't get from american policy makers. so they're trying to work on the president. they believe he's the weak link. >> shepard: what is the border situation at the dmz? >> both sides are taking down fences. moon and the south korean president went to pyongyang. this helps the north koreans. it helps the potential attacker. it really undermines the ability of south korea and the u.s. to defend. we no longer have eyes on a lot of that border. we don't have eyes on the sea, the west sea, which is really where there's been a lot of controversy and conflict over the course of the years. >> shepard: what do we have there? 28,000 personnel? >> for the first time in history, north korea, south c korea and china that wants the u.s. troops off. that means the north koreans can cooers the south koreans into submission or you can see an invasion. >> shepard: and they want a unified area there, right? >> it's been the core goal of the kim family to take over all of south korea. this is at the heart of their legitimacy. if they can't do it, they might not stay in power. that's why they've been working on south korea. right now you have a situation that north korea could get president moon, the pro north korean south korean president to agree to things that would undermine democracy. moon has been trying to do that. he's reverse liberalization. it's not a good story. >> gordon chang, thanks very much. the defense department releasing the names of three of four americans kill in a suicide bombing in syria this week. jonathan farmer of florida, shannon kent from new york and scott wuertz from missouri, a civilian. we're working to confirm more details of the fourth american killed. we know he was an interpreter. the islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack on wednesday, which is still under investigation. came just weeks after president trump declared victory over isis in syria and said he was pulling u.s. troops out of the country. the shut down now threatening an annual tradition. the state of the union in flux. but presidents didn't always deliver it in person. it's changed a lot since the first one was given way back when america was just a teenager. billions of mouths. billions of problems. sore gums? 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[ singing in spanish ] >> shepard: looking for action on government shut down? there are questions about what it could mean for the super bowl. the big game two weeks from sunday in atlanta. some lawmakers are asking whether the lack of federal funding could affect travel and security. of course, hundreds of thousands of government workers are also trying to figure out how to feed their families and pay their bills. as the longest shut down in u.s. history is about to head into its fifth week. peter doocy live on capitol hill. hi, peter. >> shep, behind closed doors, democrats met and talk about moving the super bowl as one thing that would definitely end the shut down quickly. the majority whip, jim clyburn from south carolina brought it up. part of his concern is for unpaid law enforcement personnel. >> these national security events, we need to have people at their sharpest. we need them concentrating on their job, not on whether they can pay their bills, whether they can put food on the table. >> that's not all. atlanta's mayor is already asking some who come to georgia for the game to think about waiting until tuesday to leave because atlanta's already overwhelmed airborne kept safe by unpaid tsa agents might reach a breaking point. >> the airport is a challenge. i've been through atlanta twice this week. i can tell you, there's long lines and that's something that we need to work on. again, i have complete confidence in tsa and their professionalism. they get it, they understand what we're doing right now, what we're going through. i believe that they're going to deliver. >> there's no mention yet about a specific threat to the super bowl, just growing concern on both sides of the aisle about keeping it that way. shep? >> shepard: how many more affected workers are starting to apply for unemployment benefits? >> about ten times more. so there are knew labor department statistics that show out of 800,000 affected federal workers, more than 10,000 have now applied for unemployment benefits. that's up from just under 1,000 when the shut down started. >> peter doocy live on the hill. thanks. let's turn to jonathan swan from axios. good to see you. >> you too, shep. >> shepard: is there any wiggle room? anything anywhere that suggested that we can end this? >> naion of the conversations i've had with white house sources or with members of leadership on capitol hill or with rank and file staff on capitol hill involved in the negotiations leads me to think yet that there's a path. certainly the people involved don't believe there's a path yet. to the extend that there's any optimism in the white house, they won't say this publicly but privately it does seem to be that there's a hope that might be among some officials a deal swapping some kind of amnesty with daca for a wall. but again, that's just some officials i should stress and it's a hope more than anything that they've gleaned from negotiations with the democrats. the sense is this could go on awhile longer. >> shepard: it feels like their main strategy is to try to sway public been to their side. >> you're 100% right. and there's been some people saying the president has been frustrated. look, he may well have had flashes of frustration, but what he's saying mostly behind the scenes is we have a better message. what you're seeing -- to the extend they have a strategy, it's to try to paint the democrats as open border radicals and make a rhetorical argument to sort of beat them into submission. we haven't seen that actually work the polls in their favor. if anything, the momentum don't want to overstate it but there's been a little cratering in the president's support. so it's hard to see where they go from here. >> shepard: what do you make of the buzz feed report? i'm sure you're chasing it, right? >> we are. we're chasing it. look, i haven't been able to confirm it. it's obviously -- you know, this story is the most high stakes story i think i've read so far during this presidency, which is an extraordinary thing to say. if the facts of the story as they are laid out are true, it meets the definition of obstruction that the new attorney general bill barr agreed to in his confirmation hearing. the challenges that we've had simply we haven't been able to confirm it and secondly the paragraph to me that is most interesting in the story, it's not that michael cohen is alleging this. we fully expect to know that he's going to allege this. it's the corroboration and the documented corroboration inside the trump organization, which basically means because the president, donald trump, doesn't use e-mail or text. what this seems to suggest is that michael cohen was communicating via text or e-mail basically telling colleagues, yeah, donald trump told me to purger myself xyz. it's a heck of a thing to assert and we're just trying to confirm it. >> shepard: we don't know of any big organization that has confirmed it besides him. we'll let you know. have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> shepard: thanks. speaker pelosi arguing that due to the shut down, president trump should either postpone his state of the union address or deliver it in writing on january 29th. the white house of course has pushed back. they want the platform. most of us can't remember a time when the speech wasn't broadcast in prime time. but the hoopla surrounding it is a modern invention. chad pergram has his own unique look at how we got here. >> article 2, section 3 of the constitution states that the president shall fro time to time give congress information on the state of the union. recommend that their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. president washington gave the first speech. president jefferson halted the practice. he sent a written copy to the house and senate. for a century after that, presidents submitted a written report to congress. a house clerk read the remarks out loud in front of lawmakers. that changed in 1913. president woodrow wilson rejuvenated the practice of an in-person address journeying to capitol hill. president coolidge was the first to deliver the speech on radio in 1923. the advent of radio built president roosevelt into that star with his fireside chats in the 30s. roosevelt first used the phrase state of the union in 1934. >> i come before you at the opening of the regular session of the 73rd congress not to make requests for special or detailed items of legislation, i come rather to council with you. >> congress deemed the speech state of the union in the 40s. president truman's 1947 speech was the first to be televised. things really changed in 1965. that's when president lyndon johnson delivered the first state of the union in prime time. president bill clinton's 1997 remarks were the first to be streamed over the internet. george w. bush's 2002 speech was the first available as a live webcast on the white house website. now it's a television bonanza. networks sending main anchors to washington for coverage. hundreds of reporters cluster to dissect the president's remarks. and then there's the eight important words stitched into the state of the union fact. >> mr. speaker -- >> mr. speaker -- >> the president of the united states! >> which morphed into this. >> madam speaker, the president of the united states! >> nancy pelosi became the first female speaker to preside in 2007. each president and congress put their on marks on the state of the union. the address is organic that means change is inevitable. chad pergram, fox news. >> shepard: chad pergram reporting on the long and unusual history of the state of the union. extreme weather alert. a storm system moving a cross the country. forecasters say parts of the northeast could see up to two feet of snow this weekend. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the extreme weather center. 4 degrees sunday night? >> yeah, cold sunday might and monday night. it's not just the northeast. it's the ohio valley, parts of the western great lakes. here's where the center of the storm is going across minnesota, iowa, wisconsin and illinois. there was one little storm that moved across the northeast overnight. that is not a big deal. you can see all of this pink that is winter storm warnings stretches from south dakota all the way towards maine. that's where that stripe of snow is going to be. it's going to be heavy. put this map in motion. the future radar. notice here tomorrow, threat for severe weather down across parts of the far central gulf states. snow wrapping in across parts of missouri. there's the snow line, the northern half here, the northern side of the ohio river valley, that's where it will be snow. rain across the southern side of this. eventually this moves out of here about sunday night. i'm going to move in closer here across the big cities where the big population zone is from boston down towards d.c. take a look at this. there's saturday, midday. moving in across parts of pennsylvania. by late afternoon, early evening, we're talking about snow, long island, there around new york city. just on that line. same goes to philadelphia. better chances for rain and d.c. i think you're rain this entire storm. then go towards sunday morning, 10:00 a.m. we transition into rain here along philadelphia, new york. just to the north of it, it's going to be some sort of freezing rain, sleet combination there that will fall and that will make that slushy nasty probably 3-6 inches of kind of awful stuff here along the knife corridor. to the north of it, all snow. sunday afternoon, shep, if you are out, the snow will be gone. the precipitation will be gone. go outside, shovel your roads, your driveways, shovel your sidewalks. it will be a deep freeze that comes in after this. that sunday night that you mentioned, the low temperatures, that will freeze everything and your monday will be really bad if you don't take care of that sunday afternoon. >> shepard: have to be ready. thank you, rick. stocks on track for a fourth week of gains. live like at the dow. up 1.3%. that's the dow. every single member of the dow 30 in the green this afternoon. we'll find out what is moving the markets next. your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? 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>> shepard: kristina, thanks. kristina partsinevelos with us. one of the busiest ports in the u.s. is seeing increasing traffic as trade talks with china continue. hillary vaughn is live with more. >> what you're seeing behind me, the rows and rows of containers lined up. this is not normal. the director of the port of los angeles says there's a backlog of shipping containers because u.s. companies are trying to beat the clock before higher tariffs are enforced in this back and forth between beijing and washington over trade. retailers are rushing to bring in as many imports as they can from overseas. the port says they just wrapped a record year in 2018 for shipments in and out of their port. they moved more cargo in 2018 than they have in the entire century. 9.4 million teus in 2018 and this surge of imports is causing a logistical nightmare here. the director says they don't have enough space to put all of these containers. >> forced advanced orders, bringing cargo in before the taxes hit. we saw a lull after that. more advances of orders. prior to the january 1 scheduled events, we saw a huge rush. american companies that import are fighting for florida space at manufacturing facilities. >> this port of l.a. is the fastest route to asia. they're on the front line. >> shepard: but buyers in china are not in a rush to bring in u.s. goods. >> no. the director of long beach says there's a significant imbalance happening with this surge that we're seeing. in fact, the record -- they brought over record numbers of stuffed containers here but not sending the same full containers back. 186,000 containers in long beach went back to china empty, shep. >> shepard: hillary vaughn at the port of los angeles. thanks. have you found yourself checking your work e-mail and thanking your boss and say there shouldn't be a law against this. there may be a law against this pdq. details next. this is loma linda, a place with one of the highest life expectancies in the country. you see so many people walking around here in their hundreds. so how do you stay financially well for all those extra years? 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the biggest one of all, when does this become nanny state legislation? the bill to protect employees from being fired if they choose not to answer after work. there would be an exception for workers that agree to be on call. if it passes, employees that feel like they're abused can file a complaint. if it's confirmed, the employer would pay the city a fine of $200 and pay the employee an additional fine of $500. if they're wrongly fired, it jumps to $2,500. it would apply to companies with more than ten workers and that's a big deal. in new york city, 98% of companies are small businesses. critics would suffer the most because they don't have hr departments. critics say it would drive up the cost of running the company. and some say it's high time to update the laws. in reality, nobody bills overtime for homework. it's being debated and could get amendments. the big question is whether it's the government's job, shep, to legislation e-mail hours. >> shepard: workers could still communicate with the boss if they want the. >> yeah. some say they is why it wouldn't work. it's competition within the workplace. >> shepard: thanks. appreciate it. after our reporting here, we'll have a fox news update on facebook watch. it's a minute's long news cast online with unique content that streams live on the facebook watch home page a few minutes from now. once it's over, it's a available to you online any time on demand. let's take a quick look at the big board as the stock market is about to close for the long holiday weekend. bell rings now. up 336. 30 dow components, all up. not a bad way to finish. have a great holiday weekend and i'll see you back here monday. "your world" with neil cavuto starts now. >> neil: thank you. that is the fourth up week in a row. fox on top of a government that is still shut down as mother nature continues to bear down. welcome, everybody. this is "your world." i'm neil cavuto. happy arctic friday. an arctic blast is now spreading across the midwest and the northeast. 200 million americans are caught in this deep freeze this weekend. part of new england now looking for upwards of two feet of snow. more than 3,000 flights have been delayed or cancelled in the u.s. and that number is expected to grow. we're all over all of this with meteorologists rick reichmuth