rino mitch mcconnell and paul ryan really are. thanks for being with us. that's it for us. we thank you for being us. congressman jim jordan fan ronre is lou. lou: good evening, a number of news events that are developing. a suspicious letter sickened 11 at a virginia military base. haz-mat teams responding to joint base meyer-henderson hall in arlington. also attorney general jeffin sessions announcing justice department decided to investigate allegation of fisa court abuse by obama administration. and special counsel robert mueller moved to drop charges against rick gates, mueller's

leniency after gates agreed to cooperate in the manafort probe. only half of the charges again gates however. the special counsel and all of the investigations and congressional committee combined have failed to produce any evidence of collusion, that amounts amongst all those committees and fbi investigations, and special investigation, by superb -- special counsel to just about 7 years of investigation that produced to this point, nothing. president trump making history, kicking off his reelect campaign, 2 1/2 years before 2020 election, making his announcement earlier than any previous president, president trump announcing also he chosen one of most important people in his 2016 presidential campaign. to head up his reelection effort, we'll tell you about it

here. and also tonight, examining evidence of rampant corruption by obama doj and fbi, congressman mark meadows joining us, bedemanding a second special coicounsel, and also congressman andy bigs, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, taking up prospects for midterms and 2020 with rona mcdaniel, republican party is now president's party. her vies on how well the g.o.p. will do. little bit analyst -- political analyst ed rollins and trump campaign, and ambassador bolton. our top story tonight. attorney general jeff sessions announcing that doj will investigate how top obama

officials were able to abjoi abn a fisa warrant to spy on a former trump campaign advisory or, sessions confirmed, exposed prosecutors, and how they and the fbi mislead a federal judge when applying for the warrant. catherine herridge has our report. >> yes, it will be investigated. >> taking questions, jeff sessions was pressed on house intelligence committee memos and if laws, broken when a surveillance warrant was issued on page. >> hold fbi justice department officials in contempt? >> we believe that department of justice must adhere on my standards to high standards that is the appropriate thing. that is a matter he will deal

with. reporter: after rescheduling, hope hicks testifies behind closed-doors. >> every possible question. that is up to them. reporter: republican source said that hicks answered questions about campaign but not her time in white house, not clear whether she u invoked executive privilege. >> we're cooperating. president said has said there no collusion. reporter: also on capitol hill, director of national security agency was pressed by senate democrat osicom i -- >> you said that president trump has never ordered cyber come to take any action to defend or thwart russian attempts. >> i have never given any specific direction to take additional steps outside my authority, i have taken steps within my authority. trying to be a good pro active

commander. reporter: punishing russians could take many forms from diplomacy, sanctions. >> are tools available, in fairness you can't say nothing has been done, but my point would be it has not been enough. >> we're taking a number of steps to prevent this and looking at vaif variety of othes to imminent overcoming weeks and months. reporter: charges in virginia against former trump campaign associate gates. -- defraud u.s. and lying to fbi, lou. lou: thank you. >> catherine herridge. >> first guest, sets a second special counsel should look into claims that the fbi knowingly used information from paid political operatives to spy on their political opposition. joining me tonight. congressman mark meadows, member

of several key committees, including foreign affairs, oversight, government reform, and chairman of house freedom caucus. mr. chairman, good to have you with us. >> than thank you always good te back with you and your viewers. >> and we're all appreciative. let me turn to most recent development from attorney general sessions, who, who, who is hearing a lot of calls for his resignation among those voices your own, jim jordan and other leading republicans, today saying they will investigate the special -- will investigate fisa secret courts. and whether or not there has been the abuse that is appears there has been on part of the obama administration. >> yeah. that is welcome news. that has been a long time coming. but i want to applaud attorney

general sessions for taking that initiative. but lou, we need real transparency at doj and fbi, that is why jim jordan and i, as much as 7 months ago called for a special prosecutor, when you see the things that we've seen, inconsistencies is polite way to say it, went the fbi and doj, we need someone that is really, a third party to come in look at this, it not just the feesa application -- fisa application that the inspector general horowitz, i hold in high regard will look at. it more important. what were the clinton involvement? the more we look at this, collusion narrative is not about this president and russians but the hillary clinton campaign, and the russians, i think that it deserves a special counsel to look at that. lou: i think that you know i think any fair reading of the

evidence before us, there is none, of a collusion with russians on part of anyone from trump campaign, and in is every everyin suggestion of collusion on part of democrat to subvert this pat see which is -- presidency that seems to be outcome from the disinformation war and psychological operations and warfare condemned by the russians is their goal, and democrats are succumbing to it almost daily. >> the russians trying to sew discord went our democracy. -- went our de went our democra, democrats having a hard time explaining, why would you not

tell a fees fisa court they paid for a dossier and used it to spy on american citizens, i can tell you other part of that is this jim jordan and i and members on both judiciary and oversight committees are looking seriously. it time to look into clinton campaign, what happened, what they knew and when they knew it, that is why chairman nunes sense forth a number of questions that have to be answered, i believe that american people will see what real truth is about the russian narrative. lou: we know for a fact that john brennan, head of cryolipolysis, is -- of cia is a certified liar. we know that james clapper, dni under obama administration, has performed in much precisely the

same way, has been had a very inelegant experience with the truth. in this as we go through and james comey, my god, they are 3 leading heads, save head of nsa of our intelligence apparatus. this is stunning that we're at this position after electioning the president in november of 2016 whose job it is to disrupt this and get it straight upped out, this -- straightened out, this is hard going if you can't get head of u.s. 18 i u.s. senad republican party, mitch mcconnell and speaker paul ryan to say enough with the mueller witch-hunt, get focused on where that evidence is leading us. >> you are right, we need to bring all these investigationses to a close, we have spend more time on investigating, this

particular narrative over first year of trump presidency than on anything else, what to we have to show? zero collusion. and so, i can tell you that, a number of us, have really dug in to some of the details of what was happening, i think you will see more information in just the days to come that it was not necessarily a hillary clinton campaign that was operating in this vacuum. i think that what we'll find is a number of her friends and operatives were inevitablevolved -- involved. they got surprised. they got surprised by president trump's election. now they have been trying to cover-up that narrative. on behalf of american people, we need to make sure transparency is your number one priority. lou: and some in-- integrity,

thank you so much. >> thank you. lou: we're coming back. a lot to cover. stay with us. >> president trump boosting mueller -- blasting mueller witch-hunt, dropping 2 dozen charges against rick gates, we'll take up the case with gregg jarrett here. >> president trump getting a jump on 2020. announcing his reelect campaign sooner than any other president. >> with you and all people in this room, we are going to do great things over next 8 years. >> more on president's winning strategy, when we continue. smile dad.

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11 people, joint base meyer-henderson hall in arlington. 3 taken to the hospital in stable condition, not sure of the substance of the letter. base officials are coordinated with haz-mat teams and the fbi. lou: president trump scoring a huge legal victory on border wall from a surprising source. federal judge ruled that plans to build the wall can proceed. so doing, he rejected a challenge by the state of california and environmental groups to the wall. president trump you may recall in 2016 as a candidate blasted the judge as bias in case over

funked -- defunct trump university. joining me now, our legal analyst gregg jarrett. we have a list of issues, the judge standing up for the wall. >>l he got the law right, i presume he read the law. lou: think about how many federal district court judges have not gotten it right. he stands tall amongst them. >> he is the exception to the rule i would say, especially out in california. >> 9th circuit. >> right. and he got it right. if there are environmental concerns, or negative environmental impact, national security and immigration trump that. pun intended. and you know, the president can issue waivers to himself. lou: now speaker ryan and

majority leader mcconnell have a problem. this is a president what can build his wall no matter what they say. >> yeah, he is doing what he said he was going to do in washington, it is a novel experience. lou: one that, if ryan and mcconnell do what they are used to doing, that is ignore their constituents and those who of republican party, they will pay a huge, huge price. >> they will. lou: turn to the ig, department of justice, sessions announcing that the ig will investigate the fisa courts and the appearance of -- considerable political influence and abuse. >> i was astonished that jeff sessions stated the obvious, investigating wrong doing. i am wondering if he checked with rod rosenstein.

make sure it was okay with him. in reality, that is kind of how it goes on there. lou: seems to be no other explanation for inert nature of leadership of the justice department. talk about investigating wrong doing, their job. but, it is you know this is really a historic moment. because sessions is doing something. >> yes. but he should have done this a long time ago. we have known about dossier and fisa abuse for a very long-term. before intel committee memo. he should take it a step further, instead of having department investigate itself, there should be a special counsel. congressman meadows pointed out. lou: turn to mueller, witch-hunt continues. and rick gates, manafort aide in

dealing with everything ukrainian and oligarch. has half his changes dropped by special counsel. >> well, i get a kick out of commentators, legal analysts, who have been saying this means that gates is going to sing like a canary on collusion against trump. no, it doesn't mean that. it means he already pled guilty, the other charges most are dropped. i heard -- >> but why did he bring them in first place. >> pressure, squeeze, you know. and i heard one legal analyst say, you done really need gates to testify against manafort. yeah, you do. because tax cases and money laundering cases are incredibly complex, they rely on documents.

in front of a jury can to be confounding. you need an insider to explain the documents, say, here is what we did. that is the reason that gates of squeezed to go against manafort. not trump. lou: meanwhile, a special counsel that is indicted, well grand jury has, he has to show for himself are a couple of people who make no senate all. period of activity, manafort, gates 2006-2013, had nothing to do with trump administration or charge, the mission of this counsel. >> collusion is a media and democratic narrative they refuse to give up on. collusions by itself is not a crime in even any other

ancillary crimes don't apply. namely a statute defrauding the u.s. in no, none of that applies, neither does collusion. lou: why doesn't special counsel just about home? >> i think he will try too justify the conduct of the fbi and deputy of justice,. remember mueller spent a professional career at doj and the fbi. he will defend them to the very end. there is no defending their misconduct and their crystalty, i count -- criminality. i count 6 different. lou: we have to go, summation christopher wray, director of fbi said there is no problem, move along. it is ducky at fbi diswr. >> that is why he has canned just about iferl everyone.

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campaign manager. ed: he clearly understood michigan and wisconsin and that most of people didn't. i think starting early is unique. this is the earliest anybody has run a campaign. to a certain extent it will be a different kind of campaign. the best part by the is they are not taking anything for granted. this is not going to be an easy campaign. it will be a hard campaign. by the time parscale puts his team together and the digital function. you find your voters, communicate with your voters, and you get them to the polls. he's an expert at that. lou: he's an inspired choice and the president relies upon him

obviously. the democrats were talk all sorts of smack just as recently as two weeks ago. we are not hearing much from them suddenly. the wave that was supposed to be a blue tidal wave across the country seems to be dissipating. ed: 32 members of the house decided not to run for reelection. people have been warned it will be a tough race. in my sense no one will know two days or three days before the election what's going to happen here. it won't be whoever wins will have a narrow margin in the house. and i think we'll pick up 5 seats in the senate. in the house certainly 10-15-seat margin if we rub

hard. lou: the question of the evening you ignored. do you think the republicans can add to their majorities? ed: the lines are well drawn in a way. they can in the senate. there are tremendous opportunities in the senate. we would be in terrible shape if we didn't pick up fiver. >> six or more because the next class is a tough class. lou: the border wall has gotten the goa -- the go-ahead from the very judge who the president said was biased against him. here he's standing up for the president's constitutional powers to make the decisions on constitutional national security. ed: the old factions say build

the first mile of the road or railroad and you will get the project in the end. ed: the president needs to get it started. he goes and beats them up every single day and say i would build this wall in this particular place but these two guys are basically blocking me. lou: we are coming right back. much, much more straight ahead ahead. president trump urging republicans to gear up for the 2018 mid-terms. >> we have a big problem. we need more republicans. you have to get that enthusiasm and keep it going. lou: it took only two cables for these fearless daredevils to

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lou: the deputies and the national left-wing media are using the florida school shooting tragedy to push their gun control agenda. among the stories they aren't covering. a foiled carjack. the suspect tried to steal a car

from a guy who had a conceal carry permit and weapon. the driver pulled his own gun and shot the suspect. ronna mcdaniels, chair of the republican national committee. ed rollins i think is the smartest -- political analyst in the country. he says the republicans have a chance to get four or five extra seats in the senate and hold their margin in the house. what do you think this forecast? >> we are building towards that. we have 10 states where president trump won. all of them voted against the his tearic tax cut that's putting money back in the paychecks of the middle class. they will have to defend that.

lou: did you send them thank you cards? >> we sent them thank you cards. we isn't some of them crumb cakes in response to nancy pelosi calling these bonuses crumbs. we want them to remember their vote in november that they didn't help their constituents who are benefiting under the leadership of president trump and the republicans giving people more money, better jobs and more wages. this is a comeback and we want to keep that going by adding to the majority in the senate and house. lou: anyone who has dispassionate or passionate, but fair-minded, this country, he has in 13 months turned the country around. the confidence levels as we are reporting now, consumer confidence, investor confidence, trillions of dollars added to the equity markets and 401ks.

the democrats are saying we want to take away your constitutional right to own firearms. and we don't want to get handler paycheck and we want more of four money that you work for. what an idiotic manifesto for the dems to run on. >> they said no to bigger paycheck. they said no to a greater stronger economy anding a stronger military and isis on the run. they said no to everything. so we are going to say no to them in november. the rnc raised record money with the help of president trump who is your greatest fundraiser and motivator for small dollar donations. we are prepared to win in these mid-terms. but lit take energy and urgency on our side.

the president was right at cpac where he said everyone has to be engaged. one thing democrats do have is energy on their side. opposition is uniting. we have too cop come out and match that. lou: i don't see that energy on the part of the democrats to be honest with you. i'm not arguing with you. it's just that i failed to see it. they don't have a plan or program or even an interesting idea of what to do with our money if they were automobile to confiscate more of it. they have no policy they can point to and say this is a boppo idea. you have people running around talking about dreamers luke they are the only people in the country, and they are all democrats. >> their fundraising shows no energy with the dnc. we want their voters to think we

have no energy because we cannot become complacent. what president trump has done with turning this cub triaround and making america great again is something we have to fight for. we know where schumer and pelosi want to take us, do the dark ages of stagnant growth and stagnant wages. just as important as electing president trump is keeping the majorities? the senate and the house. lou: will you be able to persuade paul ryan and mitch mcconnell? >> we had 500,000 new small dollar donors because of president trump. go to a trump rally and see what propelled this rally into you are country. if we are going to keep house and senate, our candidate and congressional members will have

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lou: the united nations accused north korea of supporting syria's chemical weapons program. u.n. investigators say the kim regime shipped 50 tons of supplies including acrid resistant tiles and thermometers to damascus that could be used to build a chemical weapons facility. joining us is john bolton. great to have you with us. let's begin with, if we know as the united nations assures us we do, that kim jong-un's regime has shipped 50 tons of supplies to aid in a chemical warfare plant in syria, why isn't there a consequence for syria? >> there should be a consequence for north korea as well.

the north has had an extensive chemical weapons program for a long time. this is how they break sanctions and earn he news selling to their buddies in syria. reaction tear israel destroyed in the syrian government was being built by the a exirks s of evil. it's a clear violation of korea sanctions and united nations sanctions. now not just nuclear weapons but chemical weapons as well. lou: this president campaigned on smart government because paul of us are frustrated with the dumb government we have experienced the last 30 years. beyond the pale. here we are facing the same

situation, the same circumstances that faced bush and clinton and obama. and the result is not solution, but the continued perpetuation of these conflicts because these actors as you describe them are playing at the margin with a super power that has yet to unleash its full power to say enough. >> it's a dangerous point for the president in a sense. to an extent he believes the proliferation is serious. but the policies of his administration don't follow it. he says his advisors are following the policies of bush and clinton. he needs to protect against that. lou: some of those advisors are of the same ilk as advisors

past. and that's problematic. let's talk about russia. we have to me a stunning development. michael rogers the head of the nsa comes out and says the trump administration has not ordered him to respond to cyber-security threats from russia in particular. i question yes was saying that because he at the same time claimed he's doing everything within his purview as the head of arguably the largest intelligence operation on the planet. >> it's a good question what the advisors have put in front of the president as his options. the way you put the russians in their place is get an assessment how great you thought the cyber meddling in our election was, then retaliate in a disproportionate way. lou: exactly the way the obama

administration projected it would respond but never did. off course. the purpose here, it escalated. don't even think about interfering in u.s. elections or getting into cyber attacks. the cost to you will be substantially greater than whatever cost you impose ounce. this is how you create deterrence. lou: president trump heading out west to make good on another campaign promise. we are talking with congressman andy coaching means making tough choices. jim! you're in! but when you have high blood pressure

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defense of the corruption collusion. the justice department is going to investigate the obama administration's abuse of fisa courts. >> it's a long time coming. we have been waiting for it. it's clearly appropriate it's been demonstrated the obama administration abused the process to get fisa warrants. i have trouble with the fisa court itself. that's good news. lou: in california judge curiel has affirmed the president's right to defend national security and make decisions about our borderers including the wall and ruling against environmental groups and the state of california. the wall ready to move forward unless speaker ryan and mitch

mcconnell absolutely work against the nation's interests and the president's. >> i was pleased with that ruling. i think that's the right ruling and somewhat surprised because of who authored that. but certainly i'm pumped to see it go forward. the question, of course is, we are going to get something out of the thousands fund that wall. the question is will the senate do the same. lou: you are not talking about $1.7 billion, are you? >> no, i'm not. we shouldn't be talking about daca until we have fully funded, started and completed the wall. lou: congressman, i couldn't agree with you more. anyone who thinks they can win this game playing piecemeal and relying on the promises of the left is not paying attention to history. and we know one thing. if you can't control your

borders you can't control immigration. if you can't control immigration you sure can't reform. >> absolutely right. the promise was simple and it was made as you note a generation ago. and it's been broken every time. the first rule i learned coming back here was you can trust if you want to, but you better verify. the way to verify is to make sure it's done. that's the way i feel. lou: there is no verification issue from me with charles schumer and nancy pelosi. there is an absolutely do not trust for any reason whatsoever period full stop. do you think it will be built and how much money will be appropriated? >> we need around $20 billion and it will get built only if the senate comes along. lou: we'll find out how big a

rino mitch mcconnell and paul ryan really are. thanks for being with us. that's it for us. we thank you for being us. congressman jim jordan fan ron desantis. thanks for being us. good night from new york. kennedy: democrats make the case tax cuts are a bad thing. wait until you hear their lateest argument. the president meets with republicans to discuss gun control. should the government give everybody universal basic income? put your hand out, we have a surprising poll. round up the troops. more polls are pouring in from battleground districts around the country and the republican tax plan is becoming quite popular. republicans were under water with big promises and democratic messaging that