Letter today, in the letter he accused the party of hate, the democrats of declaring open war on american democracy. President trump wrote the radical dems impeachment quest, you are the ones interfering in americas elections. You are the ones averting americas democracy. You are the ones obstructing justice. You are the ones bringing painandsuffering to our republic for your own selfish, personal, political and partisan game. The president also called the abuse of power charge a completely disingenuous meritless, baseless invention of your imagination adding their second charge of obstruction of congress is preposterous and dangerous. President trump also signaled he is ready for this fight as he has been throughout his entire presidency and his entire life but now he has a new weapon with him, a united Republican Party. I have never seen the Republican Party united. We had 100 of the vote, i believe the senate is equally as well united. I watch Mitch Mcconnell this morning, i watched numerous people last night, senators and i think were equally well united, they know its a hoax and a witch hunt and a continuation and has been going on for three years. It probably started before i even won the election based on what were finding out with insurance people policy quotes and other things. Its a disgrace. President trump referring to what were finding about about the dems, rinos and deep states unrelenting efforts to bring down his presidency. Today we learned the secret in the report that ultimately allowed the 2016 Trump Campaign to be spied on has lost faith in the fbi. In a rare public order the chief judge, Rosemary Collier blasted the fbi for their surveillance application process giving them until january 10 to come up with a way to avoid another severe abuse of power. She wrote this, the frequency with which representation made by fbi personnel turned out to be unsupportive or contradicted by information in their possession at which they held information, detrimental to the case falls into question whether information contained and other fbi application is reliable. It does that at the very least. To demonstrate how much of a rubberstamp the court has been for the fbi the government made 1081 buys a surveillance request in 2018 and of those rejected the count is very simple, there was only one. Joining us tonight former congressman and chairman of the House OversightCommittee Jason and bustling author, fox business can trigger, great to have you with us. Lets start with the first most egregious act on the fbi and the country history that is surveilling a president , a fisa court judge supervising judge of the court system saying they can clean up their act at some point near but should try hard is a way i interpreted it. Your thoughts . I thought it was the weakest of responses you can possibly get from a court. If you or i or anybody in the public made 17 serious heirs and omissions and filings with the court, youd probably have handcuffs on and going to jail. The idea that they say fbi, why dont you do better and explain that in a few weeks how you get things right was as weak as you can possibly do. I cannot believe theres no consequences, the court could do that. And then also work to fix things moving forward. But i thought th overall was pathetic. Lou we isnt it sad we have to give her credit for recognizing and acknowledging there is a corrupt issue, a problem with the court system in the fbi. And then suggesting somebody tell us how to do it better. I have one thought, beyond the fisa court, bring to account both parties who just authorized the fisa courts and their surveillance over the course for another 90 days extending and limits of this scandal that is an atrocity against our constitution and the american way of life. Until you gain confidence, the worry, there are legitimate concerns of terrorist and other things that need to be continued on but i have to tell you the court can send a real message to the department of justice by putting handcuffs on people. Instead you have james comey working the media putting out an oped saying he was cleared of anything that was any wrongdoing, how about Holding People accountable that actually sign those things, how about holding the attorney who prepared and altered documents, how about bringing him before the court and throwing him to jail. The court has the ability to do that and are choosing not to do it and it showing a weakness that is an palatable. Lou lets raise the ante, lets take the leaders of the fbi, all the officials, lets take gwen simpson, his partner, fusion gps, by the way bringing into account the democrats to a favor law firms and bring them together and reach out and extend our outrage to british citizens by the name of Christopher Seale first and foremost. And bring them into account. This is a hideous atrocity. This scandal, we are only beginning and its already the biggest in our country history. Yeah, the number you cited is only one instance in 2018 did they say no we will not rubberstamp and approve that, its a stunning number. Lou its incredible. And by the way the fbi, the Justice Department and various intelligence agencies will come to suggest they have to have those courts its unbelievable what we are putting up with in this corrupt system and we really have to put in and two. I want to turn to speak into corruption, the radical dems in their efforts to overthrow this president. The president today wrote a beautiful letter, a terrific letter to nancy pelosi which she responded to saying it was ridiculous. In point of fact, it was elegant, it was comprehensive and it put her in the radical dems who have attacked this president mercilessly for over three years and precisely where they should be. And that is in the focus of history for decades to come. I hope everybody has a chance to read the letter, i thought the president really pointed out the flaws and the arguments, i think the president was absolutely right, im glad that he didnt and i know you know this but i want to remind people at home, i think what nancy pelosi said in the last two or three days when she was challenged to why they were trying to rush this through so fast, nancy pelosi said we been working on this for two and half years. I think that showed more about the intent and what they were doing, the moment the donald trump was being sworn into the president , this is exactly the playbook, the ended up not having evidence because mueller never reduce for them in the horowitz report destroyed them but they decided to do anyway. Thats what will happen tomorrow and wednesday and its a complete and total tragedy. Lou its that in the debate, the boat comes tomorrow on house. I have a nomination that may surprise you tonight with the lou dobbs Great American of the week so far. That is none other than Mitch Mcconnell responding to Chuck Schumer. That the first. Lou this is a first, a glorious night, i am sure in the mcconnell household. But this is what the majority leader said in response to Chuck Schumer, lets play this sound of the majority leader. The senate of the judge and jury to hear a trial not to rerun the entire factfinding investigation because angry partisans rush sloppily through. The trajectory that the democratic leader apparently wants to take us down before hes even heard opening arguments, could set a nightmare as president for institution. Lou jason, your thoughts and reaction to the majority leader standing with the president strongly and it looks as though perhaps the entire conference of the senate will stand with the president. I want to second the nomination that you made, i think you are right, i think Mitch Mcconnell is showing true leadership and what has happened in the house has been absolutely destructive to the United States congress as a whole, im glad to hear Mitch Mcconnell speak the truth and be plain and blunt and not shy away, tell it and call it like it is in any more power to the majority leader. I thought he was right on. Lou absolutely. And we appreciate you being with us tonight. As always. Thank you so much. Up next, new polls show dwindling support for the radical dems, impeachment push and also tonight the president historic victory on the economy, trade and in the first three years of his presidency. We take that up with a special guest, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin joins us. Stay with us well be right back after the quick words. Some people say dress your age. Thats ridiculous. I dress how i feel. Yesterday i felt bold with boundless energy. This morning i woke up calm and unbreakable. Tomorrow . Who knows. Age is just an illusion. How you show up for the world, thats whats real. Whats your idea . I put it out there with a godaddy website. Make the world you want. Lou i want to bring you uptodate on wall street, another record setting performance for the index, the Dow Jones Industrial at a new record high up 31point 17th of the year, the s p up a point, 30th record close and the nasdaq up nine, the 25th record close of the year. Were starting to see a theme. Volume on the big board, 3. 8 billion shares in crude oil up more than a percent to 60. 91 a barrel. Gold was at 1474, 60 cents an ounce. Ford announcing itll invest a billion and a half dollars in the detroit area building to plant part of a new aw contract and that investment will create 3000 new factory jobs, a reminder to listen to my report three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. Amazon to block thirdparty sellers on its platform and block them from using fedex ground for prime shipment, the ban goes into effect this week and will stay in place until fedex performance methods improve according to shipping data, fedex the liberties were 90 on time in the week following back friday and amazon spent 27 billion on shipping and their delivery to an happily in packages per year end they dont like fedex. Amazon has 50 aircraft flying in and out of 20 airports transporting deliveries by 2021 amazon plans to build up a new fedex, not a little one but a bigger fedex that will have 70 planes in the inhouse air fleet. The house today passing a 1. 4 trillion spending package ahead of a potential Government Shutdown that loomed friday, the spending bill which goes to the senate will fund the government next september, the fiscal year, the spending packages giving the president 1. 4 billion for his border wall removes parts of obamacare, 22 billiondollar increase in defense spending raises a nationwide age to buy tobacco to 21 years and that is just the beginning. Our next guest, has been a key actor and spending negotiation as well as all of his other duties and his portfolio as secretary of the department of treasury, joining us tonight is secretary Steven Mnuchin, great to have you with us. Congratulations on the spending package, secondly, usmca, thirdly and perhaps we could rearrange the order, the china, u. S. Phase i deal. It is been a busy week but with your portfolio i know you are not surprised at what can be done in a week. Great to have you with us. Great to be with you as well. As you said its been a great week for President Trumps economic plan. We cannot be happier with getting appropriations done, a lot of money for the military, big investment in our military, the president got the space force and a lot of wins for the president. Lou and the American People, this is been extraordinary. I think there is a sizable number of people and even some of them Trump Supporters who are surprised that in modern history to have a president now who actually does what he says he will do. Who delivers on campaign promises, he said he was going to create prosperity for america and for all americans and im glad hes done so. Absolutely. He is delivering on all of his promises and he is building a great economy for American Companies and american workers. Lou were hearing a number of rags as my friend used to say every dog has his pleas, and with usmca we are hearing from some quarters that they think this new deal isnt as good as the older, your reaction when you read that assessment. I think they dont know what theyre talking about, this deal is so much better than the old deal, i think this is going to have 50 basis points growth to gdp and this has all new types of things and all new protections, i think ambassador lighthizer did a fabulous job negotiating and closing this deal. Lou going through that works out to 1. 3 trillion is a larger deal than the u. S. China trade deal that you and ambassador lighthizer have been working on for more than a year now. Are you think it where it should be, is this the deal that the president is going to be satisfied with or is it going to take a lot more . Absolutely, first of all in the usmca, this has been a major priority for the president and making sure that we bring jobs back to the u. S. And i think this will accomplish it and making sure that we have great trading relationships with mexico and canada. On china, President Trump is the first president who has addressed this issue, this has been an issue with republicans and democrats and the president wants to have a level Playing Field and i think phase i is an enormous step in the right direction, we have intellectual Property Protection and Financial Services that are going to be opened up, currency chapter, agricultural structural changes and this is going to be great for our farmers, their buying a lot of goods. Lou importantly, the enforced mechanism within the steel, ambassador lighthizer, the president and you have all talked about that, how strong is the enforcement mechanism in phase i as it stands now. Its very strong, the enforcement chapter is closed down, this is the enforcement chapter that is going to be throughout the entire agreement and it is binding and has a Binding Mechanism and this is the first time we have ever had an agreement with china on the trade front that has a binding enforcement mechanism. Lou it strikes me that this president has done something first of all its a stork but historic achievements are, its a president because this is a president ahead of the International Monetary thought, ahead of the royal bank, any other organization in the country in the world, saying we are going to have balance trade, will have reciprocal trade and he has begun now to Balance International trading relationships with china, usmca and lets not forget the agreement with japan and south korea. This has been a spectacular demonstration of a man leading all the Financial Institutions as well as the regulatory and media areas around the globe. You are 100 correct. The president has been clear, he wants free trade but free and fair and reasonable. In the case of china, our markets have been opened to them, their market enter markets have been not been open to us. The phase one agreement is about rebalancing. Lou use the expression, he wants free trade, i had a discussion with larry kudlow on this, i had never heard the president talk about free trade, ive heard him talk about fair and reciprocal trade, free trade connotes four decades of failure in terms of managing imbalances and it represents 50 years of consecutive trade deficits. I have not heard the expression frankly freetrade for months now, perhaps years until the deal is done and now its starting to be constructive and correct me if im wrong, i freetrade deal i think its more a fair and reciprocal trade deal. I dont think its a freetrade deal, i think this is a reciprocal trade deal. The president has been very clear unreasonable tariffs and reciprocal trade imbalance trade. From the first meeting that we had with president sheehan President Trump, President Trump brought this up and said we need to have balance trade, this has to work in both directions. That was acknowledged by president xi and we been working on it for two years and were seeing the agreement soon and i think people will see this is a real agreement with real chapters in real enforcement. Just a couple of things, before we wrap up, i just have to congratulate you to the president in the ministration. Its astounding what has been achieved. I dont think much of the media is giving you the credit that you deserve because it is historic, its extraordinary. I want to turn to the world cash, 100dollar bills disappearing and unaccounted for and apparently there is a quest to find out what happened to one and half trillion dollars of u. S. 100dollar bills, what is going on . It is interesting, the dollar is a reserved currency of the world and everybody wants the whole dollar. The reason why they want to hold dollars, because the u. S. Is a safe place to have your money to invest and hold your assets in u. S. Dollars. It is interesting because in the world where everything is Going Digital and electronic payments, the demand for u. S. Currency continues to go up. Literally, a lot of these hundred dollar bills are sitting in bank vaults all over the world and particularly in a world of negative interest rates, you can hold the u. S. Dollar and you dont want to lose money. There is a lot of benjamins all over the world. Lou am going to do it again, congratulate you on a series of remarkable accomplishments and achievements and wish you all the very best as you try to top what is been an extraordinary year, this 2019. Have an even better 2020. Steven mnuchin treasury secretary. Thank you for being with us. Up next, the radical left and ability to sell impeachment to the American People. It turns up there not very persuasive. We will have that and much more right after this break. New polls show, support for the dems sham impeachment. Cnn finding opposition to impeachment running a 47 , those twopoint higher than those who favor pretrade 51 opposition to impeachment and other polls show stronger opposition to impeachment. Investigative journalist john solomon is not reporting the flagging suspicious payments to hunter biden as far back as 2016 and asked ukraine to investigate. That request came just before joe biden in the firing of the ukrainian prosecutor overseeing Burisma Corporation investigation. Joining us tonight poison prizewinning New York Post columnist and fox business contributor, Michael Goodman and Great American himself, wor are radio marks a simone. These polls on appeasement, the democrats have got to be got sick. They spent all this time running the scheme on the American People and to what end, they are going to be badly embarrassed, they have totally lost touch of the American People and heres what they dont know, the American People have figured out the posturing hysteric and coming up with one wild accusation wasted two years of our time, millions of dollars and when it turns out its false, they do not apologize they move onto the next wild accusation. People see whats going on and see the bribery in the charges, and theres nothing there. I was struck by another finding, people dont think theyre going to change their mind. So this is it, this is about as good as its going to get heading south, slowly but surely its not going to get better for the democrats so i think Chuck Schumer wanted to extend the trial, i think he would want to go in the opposite direction of lets get this thing over with. Lou the president wrote a six page letter tupelo c. It gave her an opportunity, and offramp if you will at the conclusion of the letter. And then she responds with a comment to a reporter saying it was a ridiculous letter. That is her response. The ignorance is institutionalized amongst the party of hate obviously print. Everybody who read the lett letter, its a gettysburg address of smeared job false accusation, what a response at the historical document. Schumer saying we have to have witnesses, his admission that they did not make the case in those two weeks with the 17 witnesses. Lou dont you love Mitch Mcconnells response which we did shared with the audience. Mcconnell standing up, uniting his conference against Chuck Schumer and the mob that he calls the conference. I think Mitch Mcconnell has done a good job through the term presidency and with the judge in particular, confirmation fighting against the democrats who invoke every possible roadblock. And now this, he has a difficult group with three or four who may stray but is trying to pick up some democrats and from alabama he is hopeful, and he has said the right things and doing the right things. I think holding his conference will be a mark of great leadership, great good judgment and itll be an extraordinary achievement to your point about the trump judges, the president has confirmed 50 court judges and two Supreme Court judges. 174 total and as the saying goes, keeping America Great has only started. Andrew wiseman laying out how to perpetuate this nonsense of charges from the lead office, he is hateful, ignorant and done an amazing piece of work. Hes destroyed hundreds of lives, corporations, gone after the innocent, you see the new movie richard juul that has come out, what can happen you look at stephen hatfield, a wiseman is the worst of it and somebody has to stop him at some point. Lou he has worked with mueller and others taken down as well arthur anderson. Mueller is fumbling with wiseman and i think its partisan. I think all these guys in the second lives appearing on television have hurt the institution they once worked for prejustice and fbi. Thank you for being with us. Well be right lou stories were covering, President Trump hanging pelosi, six page letter to the House Speaker on the radical dems impeachment process, the president told her to stop the nonsense but he says she knows he will not listen. Impeachment eve tonight, tomorrow the house will debate whether to impeach President Trump and the resolution is set for tomorrow, Mitch Mcconnell saying the senate will move to dismiss impeachment after opening arguments, trumps economy while all of this is going on keeps booming all three market indexes today, new record high, the markets continue to soar and soda 401ks. The chopper ministration finalizing rules of sister catered technology to china, the Commerce Department targeting products like 3d printing and finally acting on a 2018 law that was passed to keep Sensitive Technology out of the hand of rival powers. Joining us tonight swor senior cybersecurity expert, morgan wright. Read to see a. Delighted to have you with us. Lets start with huawei, its not mention but where are we with huawei, is it or is it not a consensus National Threat . Absolutely it is. If you look at some of the new legislation that came out, phase one of the radio, and it is 1 billion to do what you and i talked about millions of times, to get the technology the lungs to them out of the United States and replace it with technology and companies that we trust, there is a billion dollars in there to help the smaller world Telecommunication Companies replace that out but the bigger issue, while we clearly are a threat, were paying money to replace herself right now. The next part will be the intellectualproperty part, are we going to do enough to protect the Sensitive Technology especially Artificial Intelligence. Things like 3d printing, if we dont put a handle on this, the chinese will rob us, replicated and replaces in the global market. Lou lets put ambassador lighthizer appearing on cbs, his comments on the enforcement part of this deal without which none of the rest of it matters anyway. Heres the master. Theres an enforcement provision that last it takes 90 days and you get real enforcement. The United States can take action if china does not keep its commitment. You with take a reaction like we do every other trade agreement, thats what we expect will ultimately whether this whole agreement works is going to be determined by who is making the decision in china. Lou treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin telling us that the enforcement chapter is closed out, its a done deal. This sounds like phase one is a much bigger deal than the national leftwing media want to acknowledge or recognize. What we are talking about is finally addressing the intellectualproperty theft, of all of our institutions of Higher Learning taking a research out of there, finally dealing with Companies Like google and microsoft who build Artificial Intelligence in china and deal with the Chinese Government in the military and not ours, we have to slap the stop on this and say you cannot do it anymore. When they go to do it, one thing we talked about the intellectualproperty commission talked about the force Technology Transfer and companies who wanted to do business in china were forced to give array secrets if this is china reinforcing and falling three nonthat we will not have a problem. It is china i dont trust them any farther than i can throw them of one point to billion people enough not very far. Not far at all. We know the first of this month, china has taken and passed a law that will take data from u. S. Companies and it will only ratchet higher at the first of the year without some sort of intervention on the part of the president in the United States government. As we look at what is happening, Companies Like force transfer, apple builds smart phones and other devices in china, boeing has a huge amount of its product already in china, even as it falters because of the 737 max disaster. Incorporate catastrophe. We see real weakness and what has been the strategy and the approach of preceding president s in Corporate America for decades. We have let them come in because its china, we dont want to upset them for some reason we think they are like children in a sandbox that will take their toys and lead. Maybe its time for them to take their toys and leave. Maybe its time to move companies out of china, went out of china they dont want to move back, the more company that goes to malaysia, vietnam to do these and i get the Global Supply chain to do the cost of labor is a huge factor, what we have to do is put the hammer down in china is a house of cards, you heard jordan ching talk about this many times, a little more pressure to assert herself and i think we should do it. Lou i have to say all of this at the same time, phase one is done, what ambassador lighthizer and treasury secretary management and the president has accomplished her. It certainly represents a very helpful pathway to a potential partnership with china that will be rational in the interest of both countries as the president says balanced and reciprocal. Morgan wright, as always good to have you with us. It is a world of unrest, british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson wants out of the European Union but hes no better at doing so in the predecessor it seems at this early point, it turns out late 2020 is the bestie can do. We will see. President macomb is no better in france, they are and strike over pension reform and they shut down train schools, Even National landmarks like the eiffel tower, i crackdown on venezuela lawmakers and so many are in hiding or in exile from Nicolas Maduro that they have been allowed to vote remotely instead of risking arrest or worse. South americas economy are slowing, argentina economy has contracted 3 so far this year, their peso is down 40 so far this year. Perus economy is stronger than argentina but worse than have been projected in purdu peru wie parliamentary next month and the big issue is not the economy, rampant corruption. Radical dems backing impeachment met with intense reaction of the constituents back home. We remain they support the president. We will take that up and much more when we continue. Stay with lou nothing has been going adam schiff sway for quite some time. This weekend no different. At a town hall held by congressman schiff, protesters discussing their impeachment push in his radical the dem. [shouting] [shouting] lou unhappy constituents we can call them. Joining us tonight amy, republican strategist, former chair of the nevada Republican Party. Great to have you with us. That was liberating to watch adam schiff being called out for what he has been for more than two years now. That is a liar. He should be thoroughly embarrassed because that is in the heart of his district. I have been there, i am actually married into armenian family, if you did not notice my last name, that is armenian and Armenian Genocide is important to the armenians wanted to be acknowledged and this is supposed to be a bipartisan event that was overshadowed by sleazy adam schiffs behavior in dealing with the way he mishandled our president s. Lou mishandling, this is been an outright attack of the president of the United States in an effort to overthrow him, some people want to call him a kook, that seems like a dove, i think its an attempt to overthrow the president and remove him from power. And its conscious, wanted and it has been an effort underway since 2016 in the summer of 2016. Its outrageous and no one has been held to account. The fact that his own constituents are bringing out their pitchforks and the democrats in adam schiff spearheading this, a democrats need to fasten their seatbelt because if they continue going down this road after tomorrow they are going to be in for a very sad 2020. Lou i could care less if they have a sad 2020 or or sad remainder of this year, and looks like its all but assured. I find it stunning that the president in addition to that letter and historic marker that he put the standard down with the six pages to pelosi today, her response is ridiculous and not to take the graceful exit that he offered her. This is a sickness, this is determined ego, unrelenting hatred of the american way. I love every word of his letter, im glad he wrote that. That way when we do look down in history and all the wonderful thing that hes able to accomplish, despite the obstruction, i think it was well written and definitely worth it. The fact that you have nancy pelosi. Lou how about the polls. Nancy pelosi and condescending things like i pray for him, no she does not. She is disingenuous, dishonest, we all know it. Lou how about the polls. I love the polls. Lou i have to say, i think its so much fun to look at the democrats sweating out other socalled impeachment effort. The president is doing great, the American People are standing with it and his conferences standing with it your thought. I think its fantastic, the fact that cnn has a pull of all networks showing the fact that its down 5 for people that are in favor for having the president removed and impeached is a huge win for the president in our ministration. [ applause ] thank you. Its an honor to tell you that Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. I love you only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. New polls show Building Support for the president against the dems effort to impeach him, cnn and the pulley finding opposition to impeachment running up to 47 , 51 opposition to impeachment. The usa today University Poll aligning with those other polls, 51 of people surveyed opposing a senate vote that would convict President Trump the polls are going his way and the fact that been his way throughout and now the radical dems are about to face the consequences of their effort to overthrow the president by any means. Tomorrow will be joined by sidney powell, gordon chang lauren it is 5 00 a. M. Here are your top stories at this hour. Hours from now, a Historic House vote to impeach President Trump and the partisan divide couldnt be more apparent. In the battle of socialism versus capitalism, a new fox poll finds that socialism is on the rise but why its not just millennials to blame. Lauren if youre planning to finish your Holiday Shopping on amazon, some are saying buyer beware. 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