senator roger wicker. [applause] thanks, roger. thank you, roger. and somebody i'm calling up, believe it or not she just ran with me. she just won and she said i have to do it again. she's running in 2020. cindy hyde-smith is incredible. she's tough, and smart and strong. she is with us the way. >> is this guy incredible, or what? he has got -- we have got a president we can be proud of. and let me tell you something, this tuesday, mississippi can send a message to the entire nation. we can let the liberal democrats with their socialist agenda no it may be alive and well in the heart of nancy pelosi but it is dead in mississippi. we can let them know, we don't want open illegal borders for drug smugglers to come through them. we can let them know that, to kill an unborn baby is not a human right, it is a human life. this is a great crowd tonight. next tuesday let's go out and vote. let's support our governor tate reeves and let's support these mississippi republican candidates. go out and vote and let's show the president how much we appreciate him

a man who always does well is senator roger wicker. roger, he's been a great friend of mine from the beginning. and representative greg harper. thanks, greg. [applause] this is really an incredible time for our nation. we are respected again. we are respected again, like we haven't been respected in many, many decades. we have the best economy and our history. the stock market today just hit another record high. that is -- i think 103 times since i've been president that we've hit a new high. and hopefully next year at this time we will hit many more. but that's not a bad number, right? up to 103, and if i'm off just a little bit, like 102, it will be headlines. trump exaggerated. that's why i always say, i think. with republican congress, we got 4 million new jobs since election day and lifted 4 million americans off of food stamps. those are tremendous numbers. [applause] jobless claims are at a 50 year low, and the stock market as i just said is at an all-time high today. african-american, hispanic-american and asian american unempl

senator roger wicker. roger! [cheers and applause] thank you, roger. great job. and a man that did so well recently, it will go down for a long time, you will be seeing those words, they were beautiful words and they were needed very desperately at that time. brett kavanaugh was being treated very unfairly, very, very unfairly, and lindsey graham got up -- [cheers and applause] and he hit a chord that you hit very rarely in the world of politics or anything else, he said things that were said not only so well, the meaning of what he said really changed the course of that event and now we have a great, great supreme court justice, brett kavanaugh. lindsey graham. lindsay, thank you lindsay. thank you. thank you, lindsay. he really did, that was very special. we are all here tonight to support an amazing leader and a tremendous champion for this great state, a woman -- >> sean: of the president goes through his introductions, and i assume that he will next be introducing cindy hyde-smith, we go really quickly -- we will get back to that in a second as he gets back

mississippi republican roger wicker is a budget conferree. >> i'm thinking about the end of the week we'll have a deal that gets us some sequestration relief and we'll there to pay for it. if it is just like the sale of spectrum, that won't be much of a victory. with were going to do -- we were going to do that any way. >> democrats have been hoping to restore funding for medical research and education. the pressure is on patty murray and republican congressman paul ryan to finalize a deal to fund the government beyond january 15th. a new push from democrats in recent days has been a $25 billion unemployment extension which is due to run sought december 28th. >> right now more than 1 million of americans are poses to lose a vital lifeline, a few days after christmas, if congress doesn't do something about it. >> unemployment benefits have been extended five times at a price tag of $226 billion and some conservatives argue more extensions are not acceptable. >> they are causing them to become a perpetual part of the unemployed in our economy and while it seems good, it does a disservi

senator roger wicker, a republican, asked the committee, the senate commerce committee, looking into this. we obtained a copy of the letter he's sending to the faa with questions on this. so this sort of throws a wrench into the whole progress or lack of progress that is being done right now. so wicker has said that the faa may have been notified about these sufficiencies as early as august 18. the stock is barely moving today. that seems to be something that people will be talking about with the stock, shep. >> shepard: we're still waiting for a report. >> yeah. that's right. so from indonesia where awaiting a report. we expected it to common. they're doing their investigation into the cause of the 737 max jet crash. we have not gotten it. we're told it may come this week. that is also playing into the delay for the software patch. boeing says we need all the information available to make sure that we covered every possible problem with the 737 max jet. i would add though that it's been five months since the first crash and presumably they've been working on that patch all the time,

roger wickers is likely to lead the commerce committee and oklahoma's jim inhofe will chair the armed services. they're looking forward to getting to work. >> it's orientation day and we had a good meeting this morning with the leader. and we spoke about not only issues but personnel matters and leadership matters. >> reporter: one race still to be determined is the senate seat and the incumbent is here and republican rick scott is expected to travel here later today. scott hoping to be prepared if he is declared the winner. shep. >> shepard: mike emanual reporting. >>> there's a test to avoid a government shutdown. fox news senior producer reports. >> reporter: the house senate and president trump crafted bipartisan practices agreed to an interim problem to run everything else through december 7 but they could face the shutdown then. the flash point, president trump's demand for a border wall. >> we intend on having a full-fledged discussion on how to complete the mission of securing our border and we will have a big fight about it. >> reporter: border wall money falls in the purview

still mississippi's senator roger wicker thinks the party can get to 50 votes by the end of the week. in that case, president pence would break the tie, when it comes for a vote sometimes before the break in august. senator wicker says he's optimistic because his colleagues are determined to get something done. mike emanuel live with more. what are we hearing from mitch mcconnell? >> he's saying they can't afford to delay any longer. he says they must deliver for the american people and he says he's fellow senators will have a chance to offer input. >> senators will have more opportunities to offer their thoughts as we work towards an agreement and every member will have an opportunity to engage in robust debate out here on the senate floor. if one thing is clear, it's this. obamacare is a direct assault on the middle class. a direct assault on the middle class. it's getting worse and we have to act to finally move beyond its failures. >> so the time line at this point, try to get a deal by friday and send it to the cbo to analyze over the fourth of july recess and in theory, senators

targets include dean heller in nevada, roger wicker in mississippi, nebraska's deb fischer and jeff flake from arizona, who abandon gases could avoid a challenge by retiring like tennessee senator bob corker. >> they take a look at who's potentially running and i think guys like flake are going to do some polling and they are also going to throw in the towel. >> but flake sees alabama's primary result is a different kind of opportunity. one for incumbents to condemn the winter judge moore. two previous comments about sexuality and a op-ed word representative keith ellison shouldn't serve in congress because he is a muslim. >> try to apply a religious test? that's not right. republicans should stand up and say that's not right. >> also desist >> i would say we don't agree wh those comments. >> regardless, the leader of the senate leadership fund believes out outsiders have all the leverage. "the republican congress has replaced president obama as the bogeyman for conservative g.o.p. primary voters was cool. and officeholders are in peril. >> if you get tagged as a candidate in the leadersh

republican senators kelly ayotte and roger wicker have been fighting cuts for those under age 62. a $6 billion cut after cost of living increases and the senators want it fixed. jean shaheen suggested a bill that would close corporate tax loopholes instead of going after military benefits. it's one of the ideas being floated and john cornyn says the issue should be addressed now. >> i don't have any doubt whatsoever if we were able to come up with an appropriate paid for and of substitute for this cut in military pensions, that it would pass like a hot knife through butter in the house of representatives when they reconvene. >> reporter: senator patty murray says including disabled retiree benefits in the cut was a mistake and she says it will get addressed after the bill is passed. >> mike emanuel, thank you. >>> breaks right now. the harvard university sophomore accused of making bomb threats to get out of taking his final exam is at this moment appearing in court. the feds say he faces up to five years in prison for this. investigators say he almost got away with it and would h

. >> that was republican senator roger wicker today questioning the chairman of the joint chiefs. the senator quoting a new column that calls the president out for ignoring the advice of his generals including general dempsey who said the u.s. should keep troop in iraq. now the president is reportedly ignoring their advice again in the fight against isis. mark thiessen is the author of the column referenced. he's also the former chief speech writer to president george w. bush. what a moment today hearing your own column quoted to the chairman of the joint chiefs and he backed you up, mark. >> he did, absolutely. he said that all the generals, all the military leaders thought that we should have left troops in iraq, they gave that advice to president obama, he rejected it. the result is the rise of isis. he confirmed that general austin has requested before and advised the president that we needed special operations troops on the ground to fight isis and that that request was denied as well. so the president -- you have to feel for general austin. here's a guy, a great general who

wicker of mississippi, marco rubio of florida and row blount of missouri. all voicing against the president along with every democrat. it is a strong bipartisan rebuke of president trump's plan. congress has overturned the national emergency declaration that would have provided funding for the president's proposed border wall. he asked the house for the house said no. then he declared a national emergency. now congress has said no again. but next, the promises he will veto. we have team fox coverage. john roberts reporting from the white house. mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. mike? >> there were attempts by some senate republicans to cut a deal with the president to see if they could limit future national emergencies. sources say they were noter into where the president stood in some of these proposals offered to him. so here's why utah senator mitt romney was a no today. >> i'm voting in favor of the resolution. it's not about the balance of power. it's not about the president or border security. i support border security. i support the cons

. >> senator roger wicker told fox if the president gets to make the decision he will accept it amid all of this, a group of 8 bipartisan bicameral lawmakers are concoct ago backup plan and pitching it to their respective caucuses, the thinking is if it passes president biden will not veto anything that comes from congress and they would rather see a bipartisan deal get done. and, bret, fox has brand new information signaling that the white house may reject the g.o.p. plan to use unspent covid relief money, a source familiar with the administration's thinking says about 95% of that $3 trillion is already spent or allocated, including for ppp and unemployment and remaining 5% is for rural hospitals and small business disaster loans. that signals a impasse ahead and republican senator roy blunt told me tonight hind knows that the g.o.p. is not going to sign on to any kind of a deal that undoes the 2017 tax cut and there is about a week or so left of these talks before he says the democrats will likely have to see what they can accomplish on their own. bret? >> bret: jackie, i know you

however, what critics are saying when it comes to biden and this isn't just roger wicker who's of course a republican come about you having tim kaine the democratic senator saying when you take any kind of armed effort and troop movement off the table, then what are we talking about here, it doesn't really speak to the power that we might have. again, we are trying to avoid a hot war, but strategically ukraine truly is important. howard: molly, this is a national view jim garrity what he called a word of praise for president biden. tucker carlson as we just heard it said some conservatives here and elsewhere are trying to push biden into a senseless war with russia. when you say some people have not thought it through do you think they really want this military action or is it just sort of television bluster? >> does seem we in this country have had a portion of our foreign policy establishment that seeks intervention and when we get out of one conflict they are looking for another. they should think through the consequences. one of the problems we had in the previous intervention is we

wicker and a judge as well. somebody sent all of this, and only the judge actually got the letter. the president and the judges were both -- i mean the president and the politicians were beth enter -- both intercepted. the prosecutors recommended a 25 year sentence. today, this man, who was charged with sending this poison letter, is in a court hearing in oxford, mississippi now, where they're about to have a change of plea agreement. we assume he is about to plead guilty to something. the 25 year prison sentence, we're not sure. >>> first, the parents of a 21-year-old girl say they were shocked to discover a worker at a fertility clinic they used is actually the biological father of their child. and now they're warning other families who use that clinic to check their children's dna. this image shows the work as a young man. and look at this photo. shows the girl when she was younger. decide for yourself where you see a re semblance. the girl's parents recently learned of the whole thing. they thought it would

and just now a few minutes ago in the hallway we spoke with roger wicker. he said a slight delay is okay. >> well, it may be necessary. yeah, in my mind, i'm satisfied that judge kavanaugh should be confirmed. but it may be necessary to give some people a comfort level. but, the leadership is deciding that right now. so i'm going to get a little more work done. >> and we're in a spot right now where we are hoping to intercept jeff flake a few floors beneath his office after that meeting with leadership. it's going to be interesting to ask him exactly what made him change his mind because first thing this morning flake put out a statement that said he was going to support the kavanaugh nomination. a few minutes later, i was in a group of reporters when chris coons, a democratic senator and a friend of jeff flake was shown that statement he was so upset with jeff flake was going to vote yes, he was almost moved to tears he was choked up. tried for 30 seconds to react to it and he couldn't. he said no comment and he walked await a minute coons is one of the on

senate budget committee republican roger wicker says smarter cuts are fine but is skeptical of the predictions. >> not only would it not go to those jobs but also it's not going to happen. if there's one thing that we're committed to, we're committed to keeping the overall budget savings that were negotiated in the budget control act. and to lose that would be to lose everything we worked for. >> reporter: critics note this is the same cbo that predicted president obama's 2009 stimulus package would produce three million jobs and fell short. ahead of the budget office release, leading democrats talked about the effect of the sequester. >> the sequester was an economic punch to the cut for transportation, housing and development programs. >> reporter: while the cuts have had an impact on people in terms of furloughs and some reduced benefits, experts say they have not led to the predicted massive breakdowns in critical services. though democratic senator patty murray held out hope that congress will stop the cuts. >> the impacts of sequestration, like the furloughs of 650,000 defense workers no

the mississippi senator roger wicker telling "the hill" newspaper, "cleveland is the last place republicans in tough races want to be," especially if there's going to be what he calls a brouhaha over the nominee. and senator john mccain apparently agrees. the 2008 presidential nominee says no thanks, not me. i'll be somewhere else. not at that convention. for the first time in years. house speaker paul ryan is pushing his colleagues the other way. he's like, show up. it's your party. you should be here. come to cleveland. cleveland is lovely in the middle of the summer -- oh, wait, that's not his argument. speaker ryan will be the convention chairman. so he'll have to oversee the whole thing. jeb bush says he won't be there either. let's bring in shelby holliday, video reporter for the "wall street journal." there are divisions all over this party, and now there's divisions over whether people inside the party sheen come to the party party. >> should even show up. there's a major conflict of interest here. on one hand you have speaker paul ryan saying this is our party, you've got to be her