Mueller probe still going on . The Trump Administration announcing harsh new shipping sanctions against north korea. The president calling the sanctions quote the heaviest ever and warning about phase two if those measures dont don. All that and more coming up. The president s triumphant return to cpac. For more than an hour the president did what he does best, speaking directly to supporters in a campaignstyle speech that touched on everything from the Second Amendment to north korea. John roberts has our report. John there was a lot in the president s cpac speech. But his support for raising the minimum age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21. The National Rifle association, a big sponsor of cpac is firmly opposed to the idea. At the conservative Political Action conference President Trump doubled down on his calls for staff to be trained and armed to respond to a school shooting. President trump well trained adept teachers and coaches who were in the marines, the army, the navy, the coast guard, people who are adept with weaponry and with guns. Reporter President Trump insists the gun free zones thats describe american schools are a magnet for shooters. President trump its concealed. So this crazy man who walked in wouldnt know who has it. Thats good. And the teacher would have shot the hell out of him before he knew what happened. Reporter the proposal was met with derision by connecticut senator richard blumenthal. Half cocked, hair brand. Toxic lunacy is the way to describe arming 1040 percent of all the teachers in this country. The Teachers Union said teachers wont want to be armed. They want to teach. On his way to cpac President Trump was critical of the broward sheriffs deputy who stayed outside the Douglas High School instead of running toward the carnage unfolding inside. Its what case where they didnt react properly under pressure or they were cowards. It was a shock to the police department. These teachers love their students. Would i rather have somebody who loves their students and wants to protect their students than somebody standing outside that doesnt know anybody and doesnt know the students. Reporter President Trump announced the biggest package of sanctions against north korea. Targeting 27 companies, 28 ships and one individual for smuggling knew and other supplies to support conside north koreas nr weapons package. It was today a number of white house staffers were set to lose their interim security clearance. President trump weighed in on the fact his soninlaw, Jared Kushner is still operating without his full security clearance. President trump we inherited a broken system. Thats up to general kelly. I will let the general make that call. Reporter sources tell fox news Rod Rosenstein called the white House Counsel to say Jared Kushners security clearance file would not be completed by the deadline today. There were still to pending items that required investigation. Jared kushner sources tell fox news that Jared Kushner maintains his interim security clearance. David the white house has been work the doj and fbi in redacting the memo from adam schiff which is a rebuttal to the gop memo exposing surveillance abuses. If its transmitted back to the committee, it will be poasd on its website and released to the public. Well bring developments on the memo to you as soon as we get them. Joining us, mr. Ed rollins. Lets talk about that speech, first of all. I loved the spontaneity of it all. He was reading from the script. He was reading from the teleprompter. He kind of threw that aside. Ed it was a magnificent speech. As i was sitting there watching it, the difference between a year ago and for the first time in my lifetime there is a new conservative leader, barrie goldwater in 1964, and Ronald Reagan in 1986. He now owns the conservatives in the republican party. David a lot of conservatives were worried. Is this guy the real conservative . Hes in manhattan, he supported democrats in the past and had wishy washy views on things like abortion. But he has been far more conservative than they imagined. Ed right down the line. It was powerful speech. It was a good speech to ended the week of great tragedy and the week of great performance by this president. David he found a way to address the awful shooting last week. It appeared democrats were trying to own the issue. It seems crass to put it that way. But thats what was happening. We saw them trying to take the issue over. This our issue. The president clearly said there are things that can be done without confiscating peoples weapons that could lead to more safety in the school. He address it more than any president has before. Ed he said i may have to go a different place on some of these things. He gave a great le somebody to anybody who lesson to anybody who wants to oppose him. He praised two members of the freedom caucus, mark meadows and jim overcan for all the you d jim jordan for all the support they have given. David essentially saying you get on the train or you will be left in the station. David on the expanded charges against Paul Manafort and his associate mr. Gates. He said he didnt want to go through a long legal process. But manafort is going to try to fight it. Manafort is clearly an operator inside the beltway. The administration got rid of him when they found that out. Ed i have known manafort for 40 years. The moment he was named i said somebody didnt tell trump about manafort. I think clearly this all past history. Its nothing today on the Trump Campaign. But he resurfaced and people started investigating what he has done, and i think hell be in jail for a long time if found guilty. David its clear what happened is the trump people or maybe donald trump himself said this is the kind of guy who represents the swamp i want to get rid of. Ed that was important. It allowed the campaign to finish on the high note it did. David we are coming right back with a lot more. Please stay with us. No evidence of collusion in the mueller witch hunt as rick gates pleads guilty to lying and conspiracy. There is no evidence of collusion and has nothing to do with the president. David well take up the case with Andrew Mccarthy coming up. President trump issuing a new warning to north korea after announcing new sanctions. President trump if the sawngses dont work well have to go phase two. It may be a very rough thing. It may be unfortunate for the world. David much mom, dad, can we talk . Sure. Whats up, son . I cant be your it guy anymore. What . You guys have xfinity. You can do this. Whats a good wifi password, mom . You still have to visit us. I will. No. Make that the password you stillohave toovisit us. Thats a good one. Seems a bit long, but okay. Set a memorable wifi password with xfinity my account. One more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. David Paul Manafort took a swipe at his former Business Partner rick gates, he said i continue to maintain my innocence. I hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence. Gates pleaded guilty to false statements and conspiracy charges for work and manafort did for the government of ukraine. None of the charges had any connection to trump or his campaign. Joining me, Andrew Mccarthy, a man who saw a lot of this coming. We dont want to discount, these are very serious charges against both men. And mr. Gates pleaded to two, including conspiracy. But nothing, nothing related to the across its of the Trump Campaign which lead me to ask the question, why do we have a special counsel . Thats a great question. It does seem that there is no reason that the Justice Department could not have investigated gates and manafort for what you say are serious charges. I think what they will say ultimately. There is a lot of evidence of these two guys colluding with people who are connected to the kremlin. It was very poor judgment on their part to bring them into the campaign. But nothing they have been alleged with doing is related to their activity in the context of the Trump Campaign. The special counsel, this is no breaking news. The special counsel has a purview to look into whether there was any connection between the Election Campaign and russia. Thats his purview. But it looks more and more like he thinks that the president is his suspect. Hes going to squeeze anybody who can give him anything that will pin something on the president. But the president is the suspect without any charge of criminal activity. That goes against our system of justice. Thats one interpretation of what he was trying to do. If there were any collusion between trump and russia, that manafort is the guy who would know about it. So hes squeezing manafort. The other thing going on, he wants to make a record, i believe, that it was reasonable for the fbi and the Justice Department. There were all these russian contacts around manafort and gates and trump chose to bring them into the campaign. They want to i think create a portrait that that was a reasonable decision to make under the circumstances. David as we just heard from ed rollins. As soon as trump found out this guy is a perennial operator inside the beltway and ed rollins worked with number the 80s, he got rid of him. He was gone four months before the election. I happen to think hes trying to justify his job. David we are getting evidence there was collusion between on other people and russia. People work for fusion that was paired for with money from that was paid for with money from the hillary campaign. The indictments of the 13 russians let me to believe if you can indict russians, why didnt you indict Christopher Steele . I think when this is all over, one of the telling stories that will come out of it is the disparate treatment between the Hillary Clinton email investigation and everything that was attendant to it, and the way they went after trump with myopically compared to all these other connections between russia and other players you are referring to. At thened of this rainbow you end up with nothing. But you will never i dont think be able to justify the disparate treatment between the two things. It seems like its an operation with one objective. Thats to get done a in his inner circle. I want to give mueller the benefit of the doubt to this degree. I think he wants it to be said when this is all over that he was thorough. I am not convinced he wants to make a case on President Trump. But i am convinced he wants to make sure nobody can say he didnt look under rock, and he wants to justify the way the investigation was carried out by the fbi and the Justice Department. David do you think hes being justified by his staff who leans heavily to the left . It would be impossible to not be influenced by everyone. But we have to bear in mind that these guys of what their political leanings are, they are fabulous prosecutors and investigators. And you have to hope when they get together and speak, they are speaking clinically rather than politically. David Andrew Mccarthy, good to see you. Have fun at cpac which is where you are. Be sure to vote in tonights poll. Do you believe the mueller team is far too biased and corrupt. Cast your vote on twitter loudobbs. Follow lou on twitter loudobbs and follow him on instagram loudobbstonight. The dow surging, and the s p and nasdaq up. A reminder to listen to lous reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. President trump slamming russia and rans behavior in syria calling it a humanitarian disgrace. Im leaving the track behind, but im not standing still. And with godaddy, ive made my ideas real. I made my own way, now its time to make yours. Everything is working, working, just like it should david President Trump announcing today the quote heaviest sanctions ever imposed against north korea. Targeting 26 shipping and trading entities evading sanctions against the kim regime. Also threatening sanctions against countries who continue to support north Koreas Nuclear program. And a scathing rebuke of serious Human Rights Violations after 99 children were killed by airstrikes in syria. President trump what russia and iran and syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace. I will tell you that. We are there for one reason. We are there to get isis and get rid of isis and go home. We are not there for any other reason. And we largely accomplished our goal. But what those three countries have done to people the last short period of time is a disgrace. David my next guest believes u. S. Inaction in syria is hurting u. S. Interests. General, it was good to hear them call out russia and iran like that. Im delighted hes doing that but it isnt enough. Its laughable what russia is doing. They are committing war crimes. They are bombing every hospital in the eastern area. Thats a war crime. Assad has been committing war crimes all six years and russia supports them in doing all that. But russia believes and says to their own people that the reason they are in syria is because much isis. The reason they are in syria is to prop up the assad regime. The means to do that is to kill the Syrian People who would oppose them. Thats whats so horrific. David i dont get what gets out of syria. A huge strategic intervention in the middle east. The russians want to replace the United States as the most of influential out much region country in the middle east which has been our province since world war ii. They see us disengaging from the middle east and they want to take our place. They want to build Nuclear Power plants around the middle east. And they are doing that because they want geopolitical influence. Iran and russia have a politicalmilitary alliance. Thats why i think our strategy is wrong. Korea is looking at this and seeing american weakness. Iran is looking at this and seeing american weakness. So is china. These things relate to each other in terms of the america standing up. David during the Obama Administration we saw the u. S. Becoming almost a feckless power in the middle east. Pulling out of iraq too soon which gave rise to isis and other terror groups. Doing nothing with syria. That least the Trump Administration had the air strikes when they used chemical weapons. We want to stand up to irans aggressive behavior. But the place to do that im not suggest we get in the middle of the civil war. But we can organize the world to sanction iran and russia. For the war crimes they are committing and they clearly are. David we can start by tearing up the Iranian Nuclear treaty. And there are other things we can do with the arabs in the region. There are things we can do to help get diplomats to leverage. Our diplomats have no reference and there wont a political solution anytime soon. You contrast that with whats happening with north korea. We put the military option back on the table, we have a policy of maximum pressure. We have been shutting down 70 to 80 of north koreas revenue and commodity and trading. The new sanctions is to shut down as of the rest of it as possible. These are loop holes. And the navy is going to start interdicting some of these ships that have been back dooring the capability into the north korean ports. This is a good step in the right direction. David there are some suggestions they are not happy with general mcmaster. What have you heard about that . I read the same thing you read. I was with him a couple weeks ago. He was taking me through some of the challenges they are facing in the world. Getting my views on things. He was a happy camper. He was working hard and loved what he was doing. He believes he has a Good Relationship with the president and chief of staff. None of us know for sure whats going on here to be honest with you. David at least hes going to the right place for information. General jack keane, good to see you. Have a good weekend. We are coming right back with a lot more. Please stay with us. House republicans demanding answers about the Obama Administrations role in the bogus trump dossier. Who in the government knew what, and did they know that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton actually paired for it. David we take up the next phase of the Intel Investigations with Chris Farrell from Judicial Watch next. This thrillseeking motocross biker take his stunt to a whole new level. Well show david im david asman in morer for lou dobbs in for lou dobbs. Congress republicans wants to know what obama knew and when he knew it about the trump dossier. The document was eventually used to justify surveillance of the Trump Campaign and carter page and god knows what else. They launched phase two into fisa abuses today. Chris, today we had this expanded manafort indictment. We had a plea copped by manaforts assistant gates. It seems to me, granted these are serious charges. But these are molehills compared to the mountain of the question of whether the