ignatius. kasie, the art of the deal, it was not. so my question to you, just what was the point of all that? that s a great question, jonathan, and i spent most of the weekend talking to a number of particularly republicans but also democrats and that is exactly where they are. everyone sent this bill to president trump after literally months of all of this fighting. they finally got it to him and he created this as you said, jon, from nothing. and instead, he delivered a week of uncertainty. finally of course, ending that crisis by signing the bill late last night. it not only provides money to those who need it, but it avoids a government shutdown that was otherwise going to happen tonight. remember, the bill was sent to the president on christmas eve, but he complained he wanted to raise the stimulus checks to $2,000 a person. that s something he could have advocated for months ago. and trump has been at his mar-a-lago golf course. the bill actually had to be flown do
eric swalwell who has used his office to promote beijing s talking points word for word. a man who admits to a close personal relationship with an actual chinese spy who helped him get elected to congress. raised money for him and put an intern probably another spy in his office. that man continues to serve on the house intelligence committee where he is unrestricted access to classified information. how is this happening? trace: let s bring in former utah congressman jason chaffetz. good to see you this morning. thanks for coming on. i want to get your take. the axios report says this woman christine fang didn t pass on classified information. the report says private but unclassified information about government officials such as their habits, preferences, schedules, social networks and even rumors about them is a form of political intelligence. collecting such information is a key part of what foreign intelligence agencies do. what do you make of all this? it s a very
department are issuing and discussing whether a special counsel should be appointed in a hunter biden investigation. it comes as we learn a lot more about overseas business dealings by the president-elect s son that may be in the present rather than past tense i m leland vittert. i m julie banderas. the special counsel discussions are coming after former attorney general bill barr said he would not appoint one in his final days as attorney general. business records show hunter biden still holding a 10% stake in a chinese private equity firm less than one month before his father is set to be sworn in as president. fox team coverage for you this thursday morning. byron york joins us with more in a moment but we begin with jackie heinrich. good morning, to you. how likely is this to happen? good morning to you, julie. it is yet to be seen. acting attorney general rosen refused to say last week whether he would name a special counsel. this was on the heels of his predecessor
and the u.s. is out with secretary pompeo showing they had intelligence showing there was going to be an imminent attack that justified this strike at an iraqi air base where kassem soleimani was believed to be coordinating the actions of the iranian officials in the country. david: the ayatollah has said there would be serious repercussions for the united states. what is the united states doing to try to protect us against possible attack? bill: u.s. has ordered americans in iraq to leave. it is bolstering security at key facilities. there are a lot of new potential targets for iran to strike out in the middle east. dozens of military and civilian targets, as well as more soft targets, places like shopping malls and other soft targets in countries and the region. there is a lot for the u.s. state department and the department of homeland security to do in the u.s.. analysts are looking for a possible early reaction or response from iran to come on a cyber channel. korea andi
steven mnuchin are getting on the phone today with the top chinese trade negotiator to try and iron out more things. we are in this messy and game. endgame.essy we have been here before. we were here in may. this may still unravel. david: i heard we have not agreed to a deal on soybeans. you think if they were close to a deal they would ve gotten that out of the way, at least. shawn: what we are seeing as they are talking about the difficult issues on the table. the fact those around the table now and are being wrestled with is usually a sign of the end game being afoot. on soybeans, it is not so much they are debating how much china is going to buy. it is debating the details of when china will buy and for how long. those are the details you will be ironing out to the end. spinning.h sides are are they spinning in the same direction? it seemed like beijing was spinning in one direction and washington was spinning in the other. shawn: this been we get from both sides is both