such as china or russia. can we afford it? we can't afford not to do it. that's what a lot of people on the left don't understand. charles: thank you so much for your service and expertise tonight. thank you. >> thank you, charles. charles: lou dobbs is the best and he's next. keep it right here on fox business. lou: the trump administration begins purging the left-wing leftovers of the obama administration, and, of course, the deep state as well. white house press secretary sean spicer today acknowledged the trump administration is under attack by an orchestrated efhis policies. >> well, i think there's no question when have you eight years of one party in office that there are people who continue to espouse the agenda of the previous administration. lou: we'll be talking what needs to be done to quell sedition with the authors of the book what washingtonets

wrong, the unelected oials who actually run the government. also here tonight, president trump makes an all-out push for ryan care saying the plan takes into account conservative priorities. >> provides states with flexibility over how medicaid dollars are spent giving power from washington and back to local government, which we all want to see would do a much better job. and the plan empowers individual americans to buy health insurance that is right for them, not forced on them by the government. lou: we'll debate that with fred barnes and former chairman of the republican national lawyers association, randy evans. and rising tensions in east asia. new satellite images showing north korea may be preparing for another nuclear test. and chinese state media issuing more warnings, warning the united states must pay the price for the deployment of the

thad missile system in korea. are we nearing a breaking point? general jack keane is among our guests here tonight. good evening, everybody. there's a furious battle over health care, and president trump is predicting he will win passage of the legislation the conservatives are now criticizing as ryan care or obamacare light. president trump met with a group of house republican committee chairs at the white house. he insisted congress needs to act and act now. >> we must act now to save americans from the imploding obamacare disaster. this is the time we're going to get it done. we're working together. we have some great results. we have tremendous spirit, and i think it's something that's going to happen very shortly. lou: house conservatives are demanding changes. freedom caucus members, coressman da btt, congressman rdan, among those considering urging leadership to blow up the

senate trulies completely remove obamacare with one bill. >> i'm for doing what needs to be done to make sure that the affordable care act, obamacare, is completely repealed and replaced with something that is going to bring down costs for the families they represent and we all campaigned on that simple message, that basic message. that's what they send us here to do. >> the congressional budget office is expected to weigh in with estimates on costs and the impact of ryan care or obamacare light as soon as monday. joining me to discuss the president's push for ryan care and whether house leadership is listening to their conservative colleagues, the executive editor for the weekly standard, fox news contributor, fred barnes. good to have you with us. >> thank you. lou: this is starting to look like potentially a real confrontation. president seems assured they

have the votes but the conservatives insist, paul ryan does not have the votes. your thoughts? >> well, he has the votes as long as president trump is behind him. you know all the criticism of this particular repeal bill of obamacare, repeal and replace has been against paul ryan, but all these conservatives are scared to death of donald trump, and he's behind it. so i think they're going to be better off, and this notion that somehow you can just repeal all of obamacare and just get rid of it in one swoop is crazy because it will be filibustered in the senate and you won't win. this is a narrower approach using the reconciliation process and you have to meet all these rules in the senate, and it is a left sweeping approach for sure, butt will gethereventuly and obacare ll be gone. lou: well, in the house, reconciliation doesn't amount to much. >> no, no. lou: let me finish.

>> okay. lou: the senate can blow up, use the nuclear option, get to straight majorities. there is a peculiar attitude here, and one starts to believe that h street and k street and the business roundtable, wall street, that they have a direct easy pass to paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and that what we're watching form here is something that is utterly misshapen at least within the trump vision of the future. this is a very dangerous moment and should not be underestimated whether your name is ryan or whether your name is meadows. >> yeah, look, it's an important moment, no question about that. are you going to get something passed or not that repeals obamacare. lou: let's remember who won the election on november 8th.

it's president trump, the great disrupter talking about draining the swamp. what are we going to do in the speaker saying it's binary? are you kidding me? he's talking to children? he doesn't have a grasp of the issues here, let alone the potential impact of the legislation that he's advocating. >> i think he does. i think you're wrong about that. he wants to get through the house. lou: i don't doubt he wants to get through the house. there's not a single cost estimate in front of us. there is no judgment about what will be the impact on premiums. there is no, i repeat, legislature whatsoever. rushed through ways and means committee, rushed through commerce and energy, i mean come on! this looks like a replay of 2009. you know it does. >> why do you think donald trump is supporting it so vehemently? lou: well, i don't know. do you? >> yes, do i know why. lou: but the issue to me is not who the hell is supporting this

legislation, whether it's the president or whether it's ryan. what will be the impact on the american people? this is supposed to be a populist moment in our history. >> it is. lou: and the people should be at the forefront and their impact and the class and the result is critically important. >> i agree with all of that. lou: okay. >> no question about it, but my question is do you want to get a bill passed or not? lou: i don't want to get a bill passed. i want to improve the lives of american citizens. >> well, they go together. you get a bill passed -- lou: well, we should just pass bills willy-nilly. it apparently doesn't matter what the economic is, doesn't matter what the cost is, it doesn't matter whether it's a superior product to the one that precedes it. come on. we just to get a bill passed? are you kidding me? we know there aren't enough senators to pass this legislationment they don't like it. the margin isn't there. >> that's why you need the

reason that's why you need to do it through the special process, the reconciliation process. it's awkward, but can you do it. democrats can't amount to fill buster in the senate. is that the ideal way to do it? no, at the moment. it's the only way, lou. lou: it may be the only way, but it could be the most costly way, because if this blows up, this would be perps, perhaps, a significant, significant blow to therump administration, and frankly, he is the only one down there right now who counts because he is the man leading the country and to watch paul ryan be absolutely capricious about the impact from the administration, i think is terrible. what do you think? >> i think paul ryan is one of the least capricious people i've ever met. i've known him for 20 years. he's crafted a plan along with the chairman of the two committees. >> how long have you known bill

kristol for crying out loud. how long have you known bill kristol? >> 20 years. lou: i think you take my point. fred, we're out of time. thanks for being here. >> always a pleasure, lou. lou: we're coming right back with more. stay with us. vice president mike pence says the end of obamacare is near. >> we're open and talking about ways we can improve that bill and ultimately buy likely additional legislation, will get us to a point before we get to the spring where obamacare will be gone. lou: we take that up with leading republican randy evans here next. and new satellite images show north korea preparing for yet another nuclear test. how will the trump administration respond? that and much more coming up next. stay with us. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose.

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. lou: attorney general sessions today asking for the resignations of 46 u.s. attorneys. they were appointed during the obama administration. the department of justice says this is common practice during presidential transitions and the attorney general himself was forced to resign as alabama attorney general after president clinton as u.s. attorney in alabama after president clinton took office. joining me now to discuss the trump administration's efforts

to purge the deep state, the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. rnc national committee man, former chair of the republican lawyers association. randy evans. good to have you. >> good to be here. lou: dianne feinstein howling about the it's never happened, you would think, based on her rather political view and exclamations. what say you? randy: how quickly they forget president obama basically eliminating and starting the process of creating this deep state, a deep state so deep that it insists on continuing even into the new administration. we've had the replacement of u.s. attorneys for every president who's come along, sometimes quite controversial, but nothing new, and i'm actually ecstatic that general sessions took that step, i wish he would take it sooner but he

couldn't because they held up his confirmation so they could hang around a little longer. lou: and the justice department assuring that professional staff and officials will be handling investigations of prosecutions throughout until t are in place. given how slowly the process is going both in terms of nomination and confirmation, that could be sometime, couldn't it? randy: it could. i call it bureaucratic purgatory, which is literally, you don't have the old people, you don't have the new people, but you have the career people who have been there for eight years, ten years while president obama was the president. they are deeply committed to their own agenda. deeply opposed to president trump. they're going fight him at every step of the way and good illustration to that was sally yates, willing to supplant her authority for that of her boss, the president of the united states. lou: and falling into the

position of number two at the department of justice during the important executive order battle which he refused to enforce. let's go to the issue of trade, we're getting reports that the white house, there is a division over trade, multilateralism, that is instead of the president's preferred bilateral negotiation of a trade agreement, whether it be the renegotiation or the abandonment altogether of nafta, whatever it may be. there's a real fight between the establishment types within the administration, and peter navarro, the economist, and steve bannon who is the chief strategist for the president. randy: lou, you put your finger on an inherent fracture that is inevitably going to come about with regard to the republican party in deciding who it is. is it the people who put donald trump in as president or is it

the establishment? free trade versus fair trade is going to be one of the issues, inherently the establishment is free trade even if it costs america jobs, drained our economy, caused trade deficits and you have a president who says enough already, enough of always being on the short end of the stick. we need fair trade. lou: randy, this is the essential issue, it's a defining issue for donald trump. randy: it is. lou: it is what made so many millions of americans turn to him along with the rest of his agenda, certainly, but to abandon what he has campaigned on his trade to let the gary cohns, the establishment types, their ilk if you will, they represent the tired and the actually the defeated establishment intellectualy.

globalism is in retreat everywhere, and this president bears great credit for leading the charge and changing the direction of this country. i just don't see how he could entertain the possibility of abandoning this great make america first, hire american, buy american, are you kidding me? this is a renaissance. we're at the eve of that renaissance and it is a trump renaissance so long as he follows through on these policies. don't you agree? randy: lou, i totally agree with you. does anyone seriously believe we would have one the brexit states, had there not been a fundamental shift to say, enough of putting america equal with everybody, let's put america first for a change. let's have trade deals that focus on protecting our economy, our jobs and our people. lou: we voted on that. we voted on that.

we voted on that. why, then, is there a fissure within the white house and the appearance that the president himself would be entertaining putting -- giving primacy to gary cohn or the national economic council over his own, his own architects of his strategy that he carried to the american people? i mean, he's been talking about this for years. randy: well, virtually a large part of the white house is populated with the old establishment. lou: who's fault is that and how do you get them out of, there randy? get on washington and get that thing straightened out. randy: i think the president will do it for us. this president is going to say you're either with me or mind a new job. lou: i'll just tell you this way. if, if the gary cohns of the world prevail in the white house, it will be one of the

soriest days in american presidential history. randy: i've got to say this to you. lou: real quick. randy: they will not prevail. donald trump will prevail and his agenda will carry the day. lou: you're not suggesting the establishment reporting on these issues is perhaps askew? randy, i've got to go. randy: you mean to say --. >> i get the last word this time, just this one night. randy: thank you. lou: randy evans. great to have you here. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. the question is -- it sure sounds like it, doesn't it? that was a little editorial. follow me on twitter, "like" me on facebook, follow me on instagram at "lou dobbs tonight." protests erupting in south korea after the country's first woman president was forced out of office. south korea's constitutional court upheld a parliamentary

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lou: a few thoughts on the left wing national media's war on the trump administration. nate silver was a media favorite writing a string of calls on election outcomes. then came donald trump.

on election day silver gave trump a 29% chance of winning. now he has been taking a deep look within. his latest article, entitled, there really was a liberal media bubble. yes, nate. there certainly was. silver just now waking up to the bias. of course, that bble also extended to the 538's owner of

espn who leads disney. he wrote there is a feeling among many staffers both liberal and conservative that the company's perceived move left ward has had a stifling effect on discourse inside the company. consumers have sensed that same left ward movement, alienating some. the word should not be some, but many. the sports network lost about 12 million subscriber since 2011. you would think disney would look at espnen see sports and money, their audience. instead they seem to see only another platform on which to publish their left-wing drifl. -drifl. -- drivel.

it has been inseason waited into espnd it has been insinuated into the athletes and the sports they cover. pour quotation of the evening, this one on audiences from nate silver. disney honchos should listen to silver because this is what i said. i prefer more to kind of show people different thing than tell them, oh, here is what you should believe. and over time you can build up rapport with your audience. there you go. not so hard, is it. now the question is. does the management have the judgment that again using that time wisely. we are coming right back.

stay with us. there is no doubt about it the economy and markets are soaring under president trump. >> we have seen more optimism in the ceo community in the first 50 days than we have seen in a long time. lou: we take that up with steve forbes next. hold on tight for this extreme kayaking adventure. the video and much more straight ahead. stay with us. we'll be right back. and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis.

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lou: the trump economy. more good news for american workers, consumers, everybody. the economy adding 235,000 jobs last month, unemployment dropping to 4.7%. the labor force participation rate rising to 63%. 340,000 more americans joined the workforce as that unemployment rate declined. wages also rising up 2.8% from a year ago. starbucks's plan to hire 10,000 refugees is hurting its brand. shares of the company down 2.5% since starbucks announced the plan after president trump's

original extreme vetting plan was announced. forbes media editor-in-chief steve forbes. hallelujah. we are watching the market add $3 trillion, we are watching jobs be created. these president can claim these jobs because he was work for two months before he took the oath of office. steve: the number that didn't get any attention was the household survey. calling people and saying are you working. that's a very volatile month by month. but it's a better gauge of new business and job creation. that went up 447,000 after a long series of disappointing results. if that continues in that way, that is huge. lou: it is huge and this is where we both have to acknowledge it was one month, but what a moisture was.

what we are seeing in the markets guiding us toward that outcome 6-12 months out, we hope. steve: this is where the tax i shall pew becomes important. lou: we are suppose to be talking about repealing and replacing obamacare. don't you know that's the most important thing? steve: well, they are going to get the tax thing done whether mcconnell likes it or not. lou: i are hope you are right. -- i hope you are right. we are having to watch paul ryan tell us how it is, that there is a bitheiriv -- a binary choice. and mitch mcconnell declaring there will be no tax cut until summer. what the heck is going on? >> i don't mind summer if they make it retroactive to january 1.

lou: i understand why you are saying that. but we have a president who's proactive. we don't need retroactive. steve: i agree with you on the precedence of tax cuts. lou: he put these ghiets winner's circle, now they are telling him hoist is. steve: a good piece of news on healthcare. trump announced the appoints of a new fda director, scott gottleib is a true expert on speeding up the approval of drugs and reforming that agency. that will fundamentally make a big positive change for american medicine. lou: a report in the highly establishment financial times. economist peter navarro and the president's chief strategist steve bannon against gary cuhn.

and he's leading this idea that suddenly there is going to be multilateral trade agreements. did he pay any attention to the president? did he understand how he got this job and who put him there? steve: one of the things president trump likes to do is keep people off balance and pit them against each other. tpp gone. negotiations are going to start with japan. so the agenda is moving forward. the key thing is we have to kick some butt responsible capitol hill. and get a tax cut. lou: you know what that good religion border tax adjust can, would you like that? >> it's c minus. better than f.

237. lou: at bits's a d minus. -- at best it's a d minus. steve: he will make it happen. them realize if they don't succeed next year in the elections. lou: you just said they would. steve: they know if they don't, they are going to be looking for -- lou: mitch mcconnell will accept advice from steve forbes. steve: if he doesn't do it, he will be here as a fox news contributor. lou: who needs a river to kayak? these adventurers in british colombia racing down a drainage ditch racing speeds of 90 miles

an hour. that's the most beautiful drainingage ditch i have ever seen. you have got to admire the kayaking. fit weren't for the speed at which you have to travel, it would be perfect for me. china issuing new threats to the use the. north korea preparing another nuclear test. what should the trump administration do? how will it respond? general jack keane joins me next with the answers to those questions and more. stay with us. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture every day.

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