thank you for being with us this afternoon. a lot of news breaking. i m eric shawn. the president s announcement comes as it is now day 29 of the partial government shutdown. both sides are failing to see eye-to-eye on the deal to fully fund the government. as hundreds of thousands of federal workers still not getting paid. the president about to offer the democrats a possible deal. garrett tenney live at the north lawn of the white house with the very latest. so garrett, what do we expect the president to say in a few moments from now? well, eric, we re told the president is going to lay out a proposal that would end the government shutdown by giving democrats some of what they want on immigration in exchange for his border wall. fox news has learned that the proposal will address daca and tps immigrants by granting temporary legal status to the 800,000 daca recipients and extending protection status from 250,000 immigrants from countries such as el salvador and honduras who would o
it. but i think it is an important first step, and i think it shows the american public a willingness to negotiate which we know everybody wants to see. eric: kristen, do you think there s room for compromise? i think there s always room for people to sit down and like you said earlier, you have to sit at the table and have a conversation if you are going to come to a compromise. however, the president with his announcement today, i m not really seeing what the compromise is here. he s asking for a permanent wall and funding for a permanent wall that the democrats don t support in return for starting negotiations on, you know, how we deal with dreamers, over the long-term? that s definitely not something that s going to be a starter for house democrats. eric: he s also offering basically the structure of what was already agreed on last february, that 25 billion dollars deal. so i mean, do you think at least this is a starting point that will get the democrats to come over to the pres
issues. we re hearing from the democratic side that this is inadequate. doug mcelway live in washington with much more on this and reaction. doug? and eric, there s something else that jumped out to me in the president s speech which i don t believe we have heard before. he said that mitch mcconnell is ready to take up legislation this week in the senate, reflecting these proposals that the president and his staff have made. you recall that we heard from mitch mcconnell dating back to before christmas, in fact, we heard it a lot before christmas, and in the immediate aftermath of the christmas holidays that mitch mcconnell would take up no legislation that did not stand a chance of garnering 60 votes in the senate and in which the president would not sign. so something has clearly changed here. mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader is going to take this up in the senate. i don t see based upon what we re hearing from democrats that it has any chance of passage. in fact, just readin
nor have i seen that anecdote that the president just addressed to us about birth control being given to women who are attempting to come across the border. obviously, that would be concerning to just about anybody, that listened to the president just moments ago. but this is something i haven t seen in any kind of reporting so far. arthel: well, back to the point at hand, let s see if in fact president trump has extended enough of an olive branch to get those folks in congress back to the bargaining table and get the government to reopen. john decker, fox news radio white house correspondent, thank you very much. thanks a lot, arthel. eric: one of the main points of the president s proposal we just heard dealing with a three-year extension of daca, that s for the 700,000 dreamers as well as a 300,000 for the tps, the temporary protective service workers as well as those with kids brought under 16 years old, as well as millions for humanitarian aid and other
nearly 250 migrants were taken into custody after turning themselves into authorities at a point of entry. investigators say the group had been smuggled into the u.s. and was made up of mostly people, again, from central america including many families with small children. now, here in california, at the san diego sector, in total, border patrol says so far it s made 2600 arrests related to that migrant caravan. arthel? arthel: jeff paul in los angeles, thanks, jeff. eric: special counsel robert mueller s team disputing buzzfeed s recent controversial article calling that reporting not accurate. the report claims that president trump ordered his former attorney michael cohen to lie to congress about the pursuit of the trump tower project in moscow. it cited two anonymous federal law enforcement sources for that. buzzfeed is still defending it saying in the last hour by the way quote we have confirmed we have reconfirmed, they said,