airports. joining us tonight is dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. doctor, we've had to talk about these issues over the years. this one is unusual in it's such a small number of cases both in china and now we hear about one case in the united states. what's going on? >> well, it's an evolving situation, lou. i mean, yes, there are relatively speaking not a lot of cases, but they're accelerating. just a few days ago there was 40 cases, then 45, then 60, now there are over 300 cases in china predominantly with six deaths. we were expecting that sooner or later we would see a case in the united states because of the extensive volume of travel between china and the united states. so the case that was discussed today in the press conference is not really a surprise. lou: in in seattle. and i think like most americans, we were expecting it because precisely what you say; that is, the extraordinary international travel. it's hard to keep this contained marley when we've -- particular wily when we've heard that the virus, the coronavirus has moved to south korea, thailand -- >> right. lou: -- and beyond, certainly beyond china's borders. give us a sense, if you will, as to how the who, the world health organization, moved to -- so quickly to get to china on what were reported 44 cases and already the who had moved into action a week and a half ago. >> well, you know, it's a combination. i think the chinese health authorities were the ones that were really moved quickly to address this. obviously, the who is the broad global coordinator. lou: right. >> our own cdc are very much in contact, which is what is going on, in china. and they're obviously quite ready for any kind of response should it have any difficulty here in the united states. as you know, lou, we are with the department of homeland security screening individuals at airports -- lou: right. >> the jfk, lax, san francisco and now recently we've added chicago and atlanta for entry screening for people that might have symptoms and signs of the infection in order to isolate them should they enter the country. [inaudible conversations] lou: has there been any positive contact among the over 3,000 screenings? >> in the screenings, no. that one person came in, entered the country prior to the beginning of the screening entry at the airport. but right now there have been no positive hits, as it were, in the screaming. obviously -- in the screening. obviously, people can get put aside who might be suspicious, but then they do an appropriate test, and if they're not infected, they let them go. lou: and how large are we expecting this to grow over what period of time? in other words, how quickly is this outbreak going to take hold moving to significant numbers, that is in the tens of thousands, or do you believe that can still be stopped? >> well, i believe it can still be stopped, lou, and it's completely impossible to predict what the scope is going to be, what the kinetics are going to be. let me give you some examples. you might remember in 2002, 2003 with the sars outbreak which was also a coronavirus -- lou: right. >> -- that jumped species from an animal to a human. that wound up with about 8,000 infections and about 775 depths over a period of -- deaths over a period of a year and a half or so. in 2012 we had the middle east respiratory syndrome, or mers. again, that was an outbreak of a coronavirus. that was about 2400 cases and about 800 deaths. so we really don't know where this is going to fall in that spectrum. lou: how soon will you have an indication of the specialty of -- potentiality of this outbreak and when it could move to an epidemic level? >> well, i think it's going in that direction. i think we already know that it's starting to spread from human to human. and as you mentioned correctly, lou, we're already seeing case, travel cases in thailand and in japan, and it's inevitable that we're going to be seeing more cases throughout the world. in fact, in our meeting today we heard there was now a case in france also. so this is something that will likely spread more before we actually get it under control. lou: and, of course, as i understand it, it's about a 4-5 day window in which there are no symptoms but which the patient is, in fact, contagious. is that correct? >> well, i'm not sure -- we don't know the exact days with this, lou, because we just are starting to get experience. but the incubation period is anywhere between 2-14 days, and we know with general viruses like this it is often that you can actually shed virus and spread it for a day or so before you actually feel sick. whether that's the case here with this coronavirus, we haven't determined that yet completely. lou: d. anthony fauci, reassuring to have dr. fauci at the head of those working against this outbreak. doctor, as always, thanks so much for being with us and for informing us. >> good to be with you, lou. lou: appreciate it. and we're going to have much more on this deadly disease outbreak tonight and its transport to the united states, at least one case. we'll be talking with health and human services secretary alex azar here later in the show. president trump today in davos delivering the opening address at the world economic forum, and president trump sent a message to not only the global elites in attendance, but to working american men and women and their families as well. >> the time for skepticism is over. people are flowing back into our country, companies are coming back into our country. many of you who i know are coming back in with your plants and your factories. thank you very much. america's newfound prosperity is undeniable, unprecedented and unmatched anywhere in the world. america achieved this stunning turn around not by making miles per hour changes to a handle of -- minor changes to a handful of policies, but by adopting a whole new approach centered entirely on the well-being of the american worker. every decision we make on taxes, trade, regulation, energy, immigration, education and more is focused on improving the lives of everyday americans. lou: everyday americans. and we're all eferld -- everyday americans. coming up next here, radical dems want to kill the organization citizens united, and they still want to overthrow the president. want, want, want. how are they doing? we'll take it up with republican strategist ed rollins and citizens united president david bossie. how does he feel about all of those radical dems wanting to destroy his organization? also president trump legal team member robert ray joins us on stopping adam schiff and the radical dems' efforts to overthrow this president. stay with us, we're coming right back. much more straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... ...lots of money with liberty mutual. we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! [ grunting ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ oh no, here comes gthe neighbor probably to brag about how amazing his xfinity customer service is. i'm mike, i'm so busy. good thing xfinity has two-hour appointment windows. they have night and weekend appointments too. he's here. bill? karolyn? nope! no, just a couple of rocks. download the my account app to manage your appointments making today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. i'll pass. lou: on wall street today, investors reacting to the outbreak of the deadly krone virus -- coronavirus in china and several other up cans. the dow fell 152 points at the close, the s&p lost 9. nasdaq down 18. volume on the big board picking up to 4.2 billion shares. crude oil finishing at $58.34 a barrel. gold, $1557.80. and silver down more than 1.5%, it's at 1774 an occupancy. treasury secretary steven mnuchin today telling "the wall street journal" that tariffs on china could remain in place even after a phase two trade agreement is reached. mnuchin says the next step in those trade talks with china could be a phase 2a, as he put it, that would remove some but not all of the tariffs. a reminder, listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. the radical dems tonight consuming -- [laughter] much of the air in the d.c. swamp with their farcical impeachment sham. democratic house managers, oh, my goodness, they're having quite a time debating the president's legal team since a little after 1:00 this afternoon. they're fighting over ground rules of the trial, and the dems, i have to tell you, aren't doing very well. they want more witnesses, they want more documents despite claiming their case was overwhelming. white house counsel pointing out the left's outright absurdity. >> they said in their brief we have overwhelming evidence, and they're afraid to make their case. overwhelming evidence to impeach the president of the united states. and then they come here on the first day, and they say, you know what? we need some more evidence. [laughter] lou: well, so far two amendments have been put forward by the august senator schumer, and two -- [laughter] have been voted down. and i want you, if you will, to pay attention to the vote on those two amendments. they were voted down 53-47. 53-47. exactly along party lines. and the republicans are showing unity and strength, and this does not bode well for mr. schiff and the radical dems who came forward to the senate for a trial on very thin rule, indeed. a third amendment for omb documents -- oh, yes, they need more documents -- that's being debated as i speak. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell today offered some small changes, allowing each side to have up to 24 hours up to three days to present their opening arguments instead of the initial two days. and the house record will now be admitted as evidence. fox news has also learned senator susan collins and others requested those changes from the majority leader in today's senate g if op luncheon. -- gop luncheon. my, my, my. surprising collins would be involved. next i'll be hearing -- well, surely mitt romney wouldn't be involved with that or mike lee or any of those folks. we'll see. joining us tonight is robert ray, a member of the prime minister's defense team -- president's defense team, independent counsel for the whitewater investigation. ray, great to have you -- robert, great to have you with us. >> nice to be with you, mr. dobbs. this time from d.c. lou: and you're working hard for the president's team. i was taken today by pat sip loney's comments, and i'd like to play this for the audience as he addressed the issue of the delays in getting these articles to the senate, if we could hear that, please. >> they held these articles for 33 days. we hear all this talk about an overwhelming case. an overwhelming case that they're not even prepared today to stand up and make an opening argument about. that's because they have no case. frankly, they have in charge -- no charge. when you look at these articles of impeachment, they're not only ridiculous, they are dangerous to our republic. lou: i just don't think that that expression could have been framed better, more eloquently than he did in that sound bite. your thoughts. >> that's the right argument, isn't it, lou? i mean, look, it's first that speaker nancy pelosi held the articles of impeachment hostage, and now the democrats democrat senate with the aid of the house impeachment managers are attempting to delay the inevitable which is the start of trial. so we're now on our third procedural motion with more hours of debate that consumed the entirety of the legislative day today before the united states senate, and it's not clear to me that that will be over even today. look, i'm anxious -- i'm preparing, that's why i'm here. lou: right. >> i'm actually excited about the prospect of getting started because that's what the trial of an impeachment is for. but i don't see how delaying through procedural mechanics what is inevitable and the start of this trial really is in the country's best interests, and i don't even think it's in the democrats' best interests. lou: it's sure as hell not in the country's interests, it's not in the president's enters, and that makes it -- interests, and that makes it irrelevant. this is an on celebrity that should never, ever have gotten, this my opinion, to this point. and i'm delighted that you and the other members of the president's legal team are making that so clear. i want to turn to the issue of executive privilege as well. the president's attorney, jay sekulow, today saying this about the constitution: >> this is not some new construct. we don't waive executive privilege. and there's a reason we keep executive privilege and we assert it when necessary. and that is to protect, to protect the constitution. and the separation of powers. lou: sekulow speaking, among other things, to the issue of whether some witnesses would be brought forward without constraint from the executive branch and from the president of the united states. your thoughts. >> look, presidents of both parties, lou, have asserted executive privilege. it is particularly of importance in connection with matters involving foreign policy and the confidentiality of advice that is provided to the president at the highest levels. that should not be a surprising concept to anyone. and, of course, in the house democrats had the choice about whether or not in the face of an assertion of executive privilege should they desire to challenge it to go to court and litigate that issue fully to get a final decision there to proceed once that final order had been obtained. and they chose not to do that because they found and stated that this was so pressing and such a matter of national concern that they had to speed along the articles of impeachment only to have nancy pelosi then, for partisan advantage, hold them up for a month in order to extract or attempt to extract procedural concessions in the united states senate which even today they're still trying to do and which will not be successful. lou: and in the throes of their absurd reasoning, they also, of course, had to protect their argument that the president would somehow be obstructing justice if he were to resort to the courts to protect executive privilege. their madness went on and on. this is from white house spokesman hogan gidley today who said this, if we can have this full screen up because it, again, goes to the issues that you are going to be con fronting tomorrow. he said: the men democrats appointed to lead these proceedings is adam schiff who has been caught lying multiple times about russia collusion evidence, made up a totally phony phone conversation about ukraine that never happened and lied that his staff didn't have contact with the whistleblower. if there's anyone who should be disqualified from leading this proceeding, it's mr. schiff. his disqualification -- is disqualification of mr. schiff on the agenda of the legal team? >> look, i don't think,ly, that any of those things -- including the democrats' latest effort to try to disqualify pat from the legal team, and then there's other efforts underway in unrelated proceeds about trying to have the attorney general of the united states recuse himself in connection with the let's parnas -- les parnas investigation. it seems anything in which there's a contend u issue is to ask the decision maker to ten aside. i don't really think that's the path forward. i am anxious to have a trial. let's get to the shooting match. lou: and that getting under way in earnest tomorrow. and shooting away will be robert ray. we thank you for being with us, bob. thanks so much. >> thank you, mr. dobbs. always a pleasure. lou: new reports say the trump administration plans to add seven other countries to the travel ban list next week. the trump administration now saying belarus, eritrea, kyrgyzstan, myanmar, nigeria, sudan and tanzania don't add a adequately vet their travelers to this country. citizens of this country also overstay their visas quite often, apparently, well above the total average rate of overstays which, by the way, is pretty significant. we'd like to hear your thoughts. give us your comments. follow me on twitter, @loudobbs follow me on instagram @loudobbs tonight. and a programming note, the republican national committee's ronna mcdaniel and the government accountable institute's and best selling author peter schweizer join us tomorrow. peter has a new book out, and ronna has another election to win. still ahead, a deadly contagion outbreak in china has spread. it is now at least in evidence in this country, one case, but will it end there? health and human services secretary alex azar on what the trump administration is doing to protect americans and to stop this deadly outbreak. also president trump in davos for where the global elites have gathered and apologized and begged his forgiveness for ever doubting him. i'm just kidding. but we'll have for you what the president said to the global elites right after this quick break. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ lou: the president in davos today responding to questions about the radical dems' farcical impeachment proceedings. he said e he's not too worried. >> that whole thing's a hoax. it goes nowhere because nothing happened. the only thing we've done is a great job. we have the strongest country in the world by far. we're bringing a lot of other companies into our country with thousands of jobs -- millions of jobs, in many cases. so that whole thing is a total hoax. so i'm sure it's going to work out fine. lou: and so far, so good. joining us tonight is citizens united president, former trump campaign aide david bossie. david, great to have you with us. also with us tonight, former reagan white house political director, fox business political analyst, leading republican strategist, the savant, ed rollins. great to have you with us, ed. david, let's go first to the calls now from, well, david brock of all people who wants to shut down your funding for citizens united. how shocking that brock would call for that. >> well, considering that david brock has used the law, citizens united, supreme court ruling which is ten years ago today, lou. i can't believe ten years has gone -- lou: i wish i could tell you i had you being here to celebrate that decision. it was coincidental, but congratulations. >> well, thank you very much. it is important for free speech. and without our first amendment rights, we can't defend all of our other rights. so it is vital that both parties, republican, democrat, liberals and conservatives alike have an equal and level playing field. and that's what the citizens united case did. the left completely controlled it before the citizens united case through the media companies, "the new york times" and washington post as well as hollywood. and we -- and the unions. and, basically, we leveled the playing field. david brock can go off and do anything he wants, but donald trump's going to win re-election in november because of people like david brock. lou: well, and hillary clinton and barack obama, and the list goes on. your thoughts. >> well, david brock has been all over the place, so he's not even worth sitting here having a conversation. lou: why do you always say that when i'm having a perfectly lovely conversation with david bossie? >> i think he more than took care of it. [laughter] he's made his great contribution with the citizens, which is probably as important a decision as the court's ever made. so so give him the credit, we'll basically -- lou: as we should. >> as we should. lou: and your thoughts about this impeachment. >> it's the longest, most tedious day. i thought i was in, you know, at a graduate course and boring mathematics or something. the idea that these four members of the senate have to sit will there for 8, 10 hours of the day with only milk and water, that's all they can have on their desk -- lou: do you really believe that? >> the old senate i came in -- [laughter] lou: the old milk and water senate. [laughter] >> but i think the key thing here is the democrats say they have all the we've they need, but yet we want more evidence. and you would think after hearing congressman demings talk, rudy giuliani is the one they're impeaching. lou: by the way, if you can figure out what those democratic members are doing, manager, i mean, they're silly beyond recognition. let's turn to president in davos, david, very quickly. here he is in the, in a hotbed of global elitists, a crowing -- i hope he's crowing -- about magnificent economy, a beautiful labor market, the lowest unemployment rate in half a century, record low unemployment for minorities in this country. i mean, the list goes on and on and on. they must hate his guts! >> absolutely. [laughter] look, donald trump is in davos lecturing the global elites on an economy that he picked up from the boot straps and has lifted up. you look at what he's done, all of the promises made and all of the promises kept from the trade deals, japan, south korea, usmca and china. he has renegotiated all of the horrible deals that the global elites wanted because they love to pick on the united states and build their countries op our taxpayers' backs. and he has ended that. and then the economy in the united states is on fire. you look at the dow, you look at unemployment, all those things that you just pointed out, lou, he is able to take -- and the split screen is terrific because donald trump is out representing the united states of america and is doing the job as president, echoing what he has done here at home, taking that message abroad. and hook at the senate and what they're doing, mired in this impeachment farce, this hoax. and it is terrific because all this does is help this president get reelected next november. leyna: yee e haw. -- lou: yee haw. very quickly, ed, we've just gotten word that senator schumer's third amendment has gone down on a party line vote, 53-47. that's three amendments attempted, procedural nonsense on the part of the democratic minority leader. and all three went down. republicans united, republicans unified and resolute, turning down these first three amendments by the dems, and it looks like the republicans mean to have their way. >> well, they should, and the reality is that the democrats are presenting nothing new. we've heard the story before. the bottom line is that the president made a correct phone call to a new leader. he should have held off the resources because no one knew who this guy was. people forget he got elected in april. june is when we basically put the hold on to is see who he was. and at the end of the day here, there's no crime. i go back again -- lou: there's nothing there. >> it's an insult to the american taxpayers -- lou: for sure, because we're paying for it, and it's the only time the senate seems to work. dade -- >> let's not forget the $20,000 in gold pens that nancy pelosi had -- [laughter] lou: i've got to give hillary clinton some credit here though. david, she in an interview for a new documentary, hillary clinton said no one likes working with bernie sanders, he gets nothing done, she says. he's a career politician, which i love coming from her -- [laughter] and your thoughts on her remarks and the democratic party just splintering here. >> complete lack of self-ing awarness -- self-awareness. coming from hillary clinton about bernie sanders. i will say i disagree with hillary clinton on almost everything, i agree with her on this. nobody does like bernie sanders. it's one of the reasons why he's receding in the polls, now in fourth place in iowa and many other places around the country. he's receding, and i've got to look at this and say is hillary clinton doing the dirty work for joe biden to make sure that joe biden is the nominee? lou: well, somebody -- >> that's important to look at. >> the reality is, basically couldn't do anything. he almost beat her last time for the nomination, so he's looking in the rearview mirror. the bottom line is democrats have nothing. nothing, nothing, nothing. lou: that's the final word. >> nothing. lou: ed rollins, david bossie, thanks so much. up next, health and human services secretary alex azar joins us on the deadly chinese virus that has now made it way to the united states. we'll be right back for t t t tt lou: among the stories we're coverine tonight, the impeachment trial begins, the radical dems debating the president's legal defense team over the rules of a senate impeachment trial. three, three amendments sought by chuck schumer, the head of the radical dems, for white house documents and various other things voted down along party lines, 53-47, the vote on each. 53 votes, the republicans are standing united during this assault on the president. and a fourth vote on an amendment that would meaning that the testimony of mick mulvaney, that will be debated after a dinner break that's just been asked for by the dems. they'll be back at 8:00 eastern. and a blue collar boom, president trump telling the assembled globalist elitists in davos that the american dream is strong and that they should be less skeptical of his america first policies. and the contagion in china spreading, the deadly coronavirus that has killed at least six people in china has made its way to the united states and several other countries as well including south korea, japan and thigh -- thailand and possibly france as we learned earlier today. the centers for disease control confirming the first case of the virus outside, just outside seattle, washington. finish joining us tonight, the secretary of health and human services alex azar. mr. secretary, great to see you again, and thanks for being here. give us a sense as everyone is, obviously, deeply concerned about this, one case in seattle, washington, and we know that it's also spreading to -- as we learned earlier -- france, to japan, south korea and thigh lan. >> so thank you, lou, for having me on. first, a bit of background for your viewers. so the coronavirus is the common cold, but very rarely in animals that virus can morph and make a change that then jumps to humans. we is saw that with mers, middle east respiratory syndrome, and we saw it with sars, the severe acute relate respiratory syndrome about a decade ago. and what has happened here is in one city in china about halfway between beijing and hong kong, we've had an outbreak of a novel coronavirus, and it is showing evidence of limited human-to-human spread, approximately 300 cases so far -- lou: in a city of, in a city of, if i may, 19 million people. >> yes, indeed. and it also is happening at the time of the chinese new year, and so you have a lot of travelers. the chinese have been transparent, working with us and the rest of the world community on this. we have been heavily engaged from the outset of this, and the cdc and i, working under president trump's direction, have been taking the steps one would take with an outbreak of this kind. we have engaged in, we've created a diagnose knost ific test, so we developed a diagnostic test at the cdc so we can confirm if somebody has this, we've educated our health care professionals, hospitals and doctors to be on the lookout for any symptoms so that a patient can be isolated and contained right away. and we've also enacted travel surveillance mechanisms, so flights coming from that city, woo hand, come in primarily to lax, san francisco and jfk. all travelers are being screened for any symptoms. we're expanding that now to chicago and atlanta, and we're also -- that will cover 84% of individuals coming from that city. and we're, the other 16% we'll be what we call funneled. their nights, flight plans will be changed so that they will travel to those five cities so they also can be surveilled before entering the united states. >> and, of course, everyone is anxious to understand what is happening with the disease itselfth in china -- itself in china because we have not always had reliable information from the chinese, if i can put it that way. is there a high level of confidence that the chinese are not experiencing something far worse than they've reported numerically? >> so i would say to date our interactions with the chinese government have been very transparent and productive, and i don't believe any concerns have been expressed by either the cdc or the world health to organization regarding that transparency. we may find more cases because, frankly, the 300 that have been identified so far, those are individuals who have presented in a clinical way to a hospital. so those numbers may expand. that wouldn't necessarily be a matter of lack of transparency but, rather, just epidemiological surveillance and collection. so so far we're seeing cooperation. it's enabled us to actually develop that diagnostic that i mentioned, and we'll be spreading that diagnostic around the country so that we're able to do rapid testing on site. but the most important thing we need to do is get any individual with suspected symptoms -- fever, respiratory illness -- to see a physician, go to the hospital so they can be diagnosed to see if they, in fact, have this condition. it would be very rare. we've seen limited human-to-human transmission. we have had, as you mentioned, one case identified, and this was immediately identified by health care workers in the state of washington. so the system is working. lou: and last i heard -- >> [inaudible] of that individual to insure that none of them are showing those symptoms and they would, of course, be isolated and treated if necessary. so while this is a potentially serious public health issue, it's one for which we have the playbook, and we will keep ratcheting up our controls, our multilayered approach as appropriate in close consultation with president trump. lou: and as i understand it that one case in, outside seattle, washington, that one case we're told -- it's been reported -- that he is in good condition. which is encouraging as well. >> absolutely. lou: mr. secretary, we thank you for taking the time the talk with us, and we also thank you for taking care of us all across the country. appreciate it. secretary alex azar. a record number of people were killed in mexico last year. decades of deadly cartel violence are simply worsening and ravaging mexico. the mexican government's data now shows a total of nearly 35,000 murders last year. that number is 2.5% higher than in 2018, the highest year since official records started back in 1997. again, nearly all of that violence inspired by the cartels. meanwhile, a group of thousands of mostly honduran migrants are amassing on the guatemalan/mexican border. mexican authorities are warning that anyone coming across the dividing river without legal status will be put in detention centers or deported. again, the mexican government working closely with the trump administration to do something they haven't been involved in ever with any president, a partnership to stop illegal immigration into mexico and up to the u.s. border with mexico. a remarkable period of cooperation between the two governments. up next, should american universities be concerned about chinese students and their ties to the chinese military? 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>> language, for sure, but they also have the language focus on particular things, like how wonderful the spring festival is, how happy everybody is in tibet, this kind of thing. lou: goodwill -- let me interrupt you -- [inaudible conversations] on the number of chinese students in the united states just in the last academic year, because i think people may be surprised how many people are here from china. 369,500, the last reliable count. >> right. lou: this is a tremendous number of people we're talking about. >> yes, it is. and they pay full tuition usually. so you're talking about billions of dollars of income to universities. secondly, they tend to cluster in physics, chemistry, engineering, hard sciences. they're not here to study huckleberry finn or, you know -- [laughter] american civil war poems. lou: you're not a fan of the humanities and liberal arts, are you? >> i am but the chinese are not. [laughter] lou: no. and by the way, america should be far more fans of mathematics, engineering, science, technology -- >> right. lou: let's turn to the deal, phase one. there's been some, you know, gary cohn, formerly an aide to the president, grousing that tariffs had been really damaging our economy -- >> right. lou: and i'm thinking, this is a guy used to working with numbers and empirical evidence, and he's out just spewing balderdash. your reaction. >> well, gary, i think, is proud to be the globalist in chief. he dominated the white house the first year or so against tariffs. he and rob porter had a special thing called the trade committee. everybody had to come in front of that, and then he would veto it if it even had to do with putting pressure on china. so i'm sure gary's happy now that he's left the white house and the president is able to get his own way -- lou: and everybody else is happy about the president getting his own way because it turns out to be the right way to drive prosperity -- >> well, maybe not -- lou: wealth creation and job creation. >> maybe not the chinese, lou. lou: maybe not the who? >> the chinese aren't too happy. they feel they've been ripped off by this agreement. lou: i'm sure they've got their reasons for agreeing to the agreement, and we've got our reasons for cheering on the president. mike, great to have you with us. mike, great to have you with us. stay with us through thisssss ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... ...lots of money with liberty mutual. we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! [ grunting ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ lou: well, we're back dr. michael pillsbury. mike, a few thoughts on the president' trilateral nuclear deal. >> i think this is the next big rabbit out of hat the president's going accomplish. the chinese at first did not want to have any kind of arms control limits on their forces. they're growing number of nuclear weapons and missiles as you know, lou. we and the russians have a deal, but it expires a year from now, so the president's concept is to have all three leaders -- xi jinping, himself and putin -- agree for a ceiling on nuclear weapons and missiles. that would be a real achievement, probably even bigger than the trade deal. lou: it's, you know, the great thing is we're not having to pick and choose. looks like we're getting all of them with this president's successes. dr. michael pillsbury, as always, great to see you. thanks so much. >> thanks, lou. lou: senate republicans unified in the impeachment trialalalalal checheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. just moments ago, president trump sitting down with our very own maria bartiromo in davos, switzerland. he talked about his plan for more middle class tax cuts, possible new tariffs on europe and his reaction to the impeachment trial. lauren: that trial stretching into the wee hours of the morning and the sparks were flying, causing the nation's chief justice to reprimand both sides. we're live with the major moments before the senate is back for day two today. cheryl: and america's students are having separation anxiety from their phones. the new ways teachers are helping the kids cope. it is wednesday, it's january 22nd p. 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