lou: he said. great to see you. thanks so much. appreciate it. let's straighten out the fake news a artists. thanks for joining us tonight. and good night from new york. a deal on the border wall. trish: president trump just maiming a temporary replacement for the replacement for john kelly. mick mulvaney knows our economy in and out. in just moments, conservative author jerome corsi joins me exclusively with break details you will only hear on "trish regan primetime." he says he has fresh proof robert mueller and his team are retaliating against him because he says he's daring to take them

on. including suing mr. mueller for $350 million. stay tuned for dr. corsi here. and another "trish regan primetime" exclusive. socialist venezuela on the verge of collapse. nick lapse maduro my sources tell me may only have days left as president of the country. the man venezuela owes the most of money to is here. bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez listen up. breaking night. president trump picking budget hawk mick mulvaney as acting chief of staff. good timing considering the government shutdown is looming. you want somebody who understands the economy?

chad pergram joins us with the fast-moving developments. fill us in, chad. reporter: he's a former south carolina congressman who came to washington in the tea party wave of 2010. he declared if usual a lobbyist who never gave us money i didn't talk to you. if you are a lobbyist who gave us money i might talk to you. he insisted the gop leaders defund obamacare in order to fund the government. mulvaney opposed a 2013 budget compromise authored by paul ryan. he also opposed other government funding efforts. mulvaney led the shutdown caucus. because some sources on capitol hill say they believe the chances of a shutdown have increased because mulvaney will be the acting chief of staff

whispering in trump's ear. how the shutdown goes could be for mulvaney. trish: adam johnson, i am starting with you. you are salmony guy. mulvaney is a money guy. what are the challenges regarding a shutdown and spending for the wall. >> people start to dot their their is and cross their ts, follow the money. he knows where we can get the compromise and where we can get the votes. trish: do you think a shutdown is happening? >> i do. trish: does this further that.

>> he's a fiscal hawk and he's loig to the president. his personality is not overbearing or overwhelming. i know members of the freedom caucus are happy. my husband spoke to somebody from senator rand palms staff and they said city was a tremendous pick. trish: i know the democrats don't like anything the republicans do. robin, i know around good sport and try to see things fairly. how do you think about this appointment? >> i think it's a good wish. this is why democrats need to get behind this in was so much controversy when he was first named director omb because as congressman he said it was a joke. but he continued obama's 100 investigations. he actually fined wells fargo

$500 for what they did that was beyond the pale with consumer loans. trish: i like hearing this from you, robin. now you have a democrat guy, robin was a democrat strategist last time i checked. you said we have to give him a chance. you say he's likeable, amy? does mat buy him any likability in terms of the democrats in congress? >> i would hope so. it seems like it would be somebody easier to work with. he wouldn't have to be reintroduced to the west wing. the players know how to work with him. i see this as a big win. this is a positive. trish: what happens nextally speaking if you have a -- economically speaking if we have a shutdown. >> it's only just now starting

to trickle out with the partial shutdown. so many of the functions of government have already been funded. you are talking about potentially, this waits boils down to. homeland security and department of interior. those are the two departments that will be most of affected. homeland security is an issue. but as far as vets getting paid? no problem. as far as the usual functions of government, food stamps, medicare, medicaid, that is funded. trish: amy, adam, and of course robin biro. breaking developments on the story we have been following on "trish regan primetime." conservative you a thorp, author dr. jerome corsi says he has proof the feds are trying to

harass and malign him. he's on set with exclusively what he calls new evidence of wrongdoing by mueller's team. and another exclusive, "trish regan primetime" learning tonight venezuela's socialist leader nicolas maduro's regime could collapse in a matter of days. the news you will only hear on this program straight ahead.

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trish: breaking tonight. conservative author caught in the crosshairs of robert mueller's russia probe facing new allegations about a cancer fundraiser. he's fighting back with his response to this. the daily caller's report entitled mueller target raised $25,000 in charity to pay cancer doctor who doesn't appear to exist. the story comes on the heels of corsi's lawsuit against the feds. he believes this article was planted as a hit job on his character.

he's calling on the reporter to be a witness in his case. joining me is dr. jerome corsi himself. you saw the headlines there in the "daily caller." what was your reaction? >> i was outraged. we can prove without doubt that this is an illegal leak from the special counsel to chuck ross. trish: the reporter that reported this story saying that basically this was a hoax. your cancer fundraiser. >> there is no other place this could have come from, the mueller grand jury. chuck ross the reportered told me he got the information from robert mueller's special counsel. trish: the reporter himself? >> yes, he said i have this information from sources close to and directly from robert mueller's special counsel it's direct proof of an illegal leak

from the grand jury. trish: you are saying this is not true. and it's a real doctor. >> the doctor is true. tommy sigler is a real cancer blair. trish: so tell us all of it. >> corsi nation took on the case to raise $25,000 for tommy sigler. the doctor is an israeli doctor oncologist and a picture with me in it. so you can document that tommy sigler and i know each other. he was treated for cancer. we raised money to help him with the operation. $25,000. i know the doctor. the doctor is real. the doctor exists. he's an israeli oncologist and

injur --and surgeon. trish: the reporter is saying he couldn't find him. >> that's great. they are not very good at this i will guess. they bring my family into this all the time. cancer patients and my family. i find this attempt to slur me which comes right out after i just published the e-book. trish: this also happened after you were on the show. you were on the show the other night and what happened the next day? >> this article begins to break and my e-book we featured it on the show that my e-book would be available. it's on amazon. "silent no more," the inside story of the horror story of the mueller witch hunt. i'm sure mueller is dropping this zwroir to damage my family and defame me. trish: i haven't looked into any

of this. i talked to you and you tell me it's not true. if it's not true, why wouldn't they come after you? >> i got not a penny. it was a gofundme account. corsi nation which i broadcast and live streamed this case and prpro d promoted it. all the money went to the gofundme account. that can be documented. trish: where did the money go after that? >> it went to tommy. we have photographs of tommy in the hospital. tommy in the operation. i met tommy. this slurred my family, too, talking about cancer victims in my family that the doctor was assisting. let's talk about me. i have an operation for spinal stenosis in 2008. i have had pain enormous taking medicine the doctors created has

relieved the pain. trish: the same doctor you are referencing? the same doctor. trish: in your view the reporter is someone who should be questioned because you believe this information which was untrue, but the story that's been told here was actually told to him by mueller's team. >> mueller's team is investigating everything about me. they want to find a crime. my attorney put the reporter on notice today that he is now a witness that will be in my criminal complaint before the department of justice on mueller's special prosecution efforts and in the $350 million lawsuit that we have in the federal district court. a hearing will be held on that january 3. trish: they said mueller's team didn't leak. they were iron qulad.

>> they leak like a suv. >looks like you asieve. they damage me. they are starting to investigate my family. they are investigating my work with cancer patients. i find this especially offensive given how closely cancer affected my family. trish: have they contacted you. >> no. and they have not contacted my attorney. they are doing everything they can to harass my life and destroy my reputation. this is a slur that originates in mueller's special counsel. we, prove that it's a leak this reporter chuck ross. we have emails from other leaks where the special counselor has been meeting with reporters in a restaurant in washington, d.c. across from trump international hotel to leak grand jury information. i think the mueller team has

been investigating areas of my life unrelated to anything to do with russian collusion because they hate me so much. especially for the appearances on your show and also for this e-book which now lets you read inside mueller's witch hunts what it felt like by me to be under this gestapo tactics. we are going forward with the $350 million lawsuit in the district court. this reporter will be called in. he'll be under oath. we'll opinion him down that he got this information directly from mueller's grand jury it's a total slur on me and my family. an intimidation tactic. trish: we appreciate you coming on and telling your story. >> thank you for the opportunities. your show has been of great assistance. this has been -- i have to

answer questions, is dad going to be arrested on christmas day? is dad going to be in prison? i can't say no. they can come in here and put me in hand kifs after the grandle jury met today -- they could put me in handcuffs after the grand jury met today. i am 72 years old. i never committed a crime. i have never even had a parking ticket. i couldn't give mueller what he wanted and he pressured me to give him this information. i can't connect roger stone to julian assange. they can argue this all day long. but they won't accept the truth of what i told them. trish: are you scared? >> i'm angry. my faith drives me here. i may be put in prison by these

brute for the rest of my life. one year in federal prison might kill me. but i'm so determined to bring to the american people my personal witness as jesus is my lord and savior. i'm not here for an earthly purpose. my purpose is to bring to the american people that the justice system is run by politically motivated hacks known as the mueller special counsel. trish: we'll see what happens. >> we certainly will. trish: the special counsel's office firing back against claims that the fbi act inappropriately when two agents questioned national security advisor michael flynn without a lawyer present. and without warning him that lying to the fbi is a crime. a sitting national security advisor, retired lieutenant general and 33-year veteran

knows he should not lie to federal agents. wow. shouldn't he have had a lawyer? wouldn't that have been the right way to do things? this you go in bet that meeting. before the interview, former fbi director andrew mccabe and others decided the agents would not warn flynn it was a crime to lie to the fbi. they wanted flynn to be relaxed and they were concerned that giving him that information could adversely affect the report. even former fbi director james comey said this was not the usual approach. watch. >> i sent them.

[laughter] >> something i wouldn't have done or maybe gone the away with in a more organized investigation -- more organized administration in the george w. bush an administration or obama administration. i thought it's early enough, let's just send a couple guys over [laughter] trish: joining me, john leu. they send investigators over there, they don't bother to tell him make make sure don't lie. it's possible to misspeak. if he understood the pressure of the situation maybe he would have been more careful. somewhat you are seeing is a friendly argument between the prosecutor and the defendant's attorneys on whether he does a little bit of jail time or no jail time. anybody who is a criminal

practitioners knows you don't have to tell somebody it's a crime to lie to the fbi. that's a red herring. trish: you go over there, you question him. you don't give him a lawyer. we all has americans should know you can't lie to the fbi or lie under oath. if he thinks it's a casual, friendly conversation and they say what were you doing on this day or that day. trying to recall all those things. if you don't understand the scrutiny and the importance of those answers, being extraordinarily accurate you could find yourself in what they call it entrapment situation? >> what's really going on here, and you can see it in the statement of facts in his information which is a voluntary plea document. there is a paragraph about fara. foreign agents registration act. a violation. not only did he not file it. but he made three material

misstatements. trish: that has nothing to do with russia collusion which is the frustration. >> let me make a point. they found a lesser charge for him to plead to, and that was this violation. that was a qulab raw tough effort between two celts of attorneys to find a lesser charge to plead guilty to. if he wants they will go back and charge him with the farra. but what you are seeing is a giant red herring. >> i am afraid i disagree. i read closely document that was filed today. it seems to me that general flynn did not know or realize he was being interviewed for a criminal investigation. trish: dwiends kinds of an important thing to know. he's the national security advisor. part of his job is to talk to the head of fbi about things like whreeks which is what they were purportedly investigating. i can see why general flynn

didn't bring in a lawyer. he probably thought he was talking with people sent over by the director of the fbi to try to figure out where the whreeks were coming from from highly classified conversations occurring between our government. trish: they got themselves a big problem. we are dealing with an overreach. you heard where corsi explain his situation. he feels mueller's team has gone way too far. you look at what's happening here. you have got a special prosecutor with a blank check to keep going and going and digging and digging. approaching general flynn and not him specifically and not helping him understand the parameters of this thing. >> i think what's really important to keep in mind, you just alluded to it a few seconds ago. this doesn't advance the ball in the jurisdictional point of the mueller investigation. was there a conspiracy between

the trump campaign in 2016 and russians to violate the federal campaign laws? reading the documents we saw today, i think general flynn might have made a mistake and pled to the charges to protect his son or the foreign registration act. i think he's taking a bullet for his family or son. but i don't see the ball being forded here. trish: that's the problem with all this stuff. there doesn't seem to be any there there. you know the expression. show me the man, i'll show you the crime. we are dealing with a bit of that. thank you both so much. "trish regan primetime" learning exclusively socialist nicolas maduro's days are numbered. when a socialist is in charge of

a country, people are forced to dig through garbage in venezuela for food. we are setting the record state on why maduro's policies were always wrong and why in just days he may soon be out. and some folks even more on what it for it, santa claus.