have a good evening. lou: tboogood evening. our top stories. the president has now ordered the full and complete withdrawal of our troops from syria. the american military presence in syria not large, about 2,000 of our service members, most of them special operations deployed in the war torn country. in ordering the troop withdrawal, president trump is making good on his campaign promise, to focus on defeating isis and not allow our force to go to war against syria itself. and the president vowed to never engage in nation building or trying to force western style democracy on foreign

adversaries. mr. trump educated voters on the folly of past presidents in their middle east misadventures. >> we went from mistakes in iraq, to egypt, to libya, to president obama's line in the sand in syria. each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos and gave isis the space it needs to grow and prosper. very bad. it all began with the dangerous idea that we could make western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a western democracy. lou: and the president's order to withdraw our troops drew almost immediate howls of outrage and opposition from some in his own party. rino hawks. we analyze president trump's foreign folc policy tonight. we'rmitch mcconnell looks poised

to hand the president a resolution to keep the government run pg. the white house vows to solve our border crisis without congressional support or involvemeninvolvement if necessf course with outright congressional opposition. we take up the president's fight for border security. congressman jim jordan and matt gaetz our guests tonight. the fed today ignoring the president's warnings to not raise interest rates and raise rates, of course, he did. sparking a major selloff. how big a selloff? almost 800-point reverse until the dow. and then fed chair audaciously claimed he's guiding the economy with a steadsdy hand. >> i think the runoff of the balance sheet has been smooth

and served its purpose. i don't see us changing that. i think we'll continue to use monetary policy, which is to say rate policy as the active tool of monetary policy. lou: to analyze what this means for working men and women, our middle class, our small business and big business, with us tonight, chief economist bill lee, s&p portfolio manager, aaron biggs. the top story tonight, the trump administration making plans to immediately withdraw to 2,000 troops stationed in syria after reports surfaced this morningant the possibility of withdrawal, president trump appeared to allude to those reports and suggest they were correct. he tweeted this. we have defeated isis in syria. my only reason for being there during the trump presidency. the president's decision catching republican hawks off guard apparently leaving them desperate in their efforts to oppose the president's decision.

>> the decision to withdraw an american presence in syria is a cloacolossal in my mind mistake. >> by pulling the 2200 out in north eastern syria, that's going to boost isis's ability too come back. >> a total quagmire. but it's possible to make it even worse and that would be my concern. >> it's caught everybody off guard. i know that -- i doubt there's anybody in the republican caucus in the senate that just didn't stunned. this makes what obama did in iraq, it's replicating that but in many ways it's each worse. lou: we won't get into details about how it could be worse because it isn't. a lot of melodrama and hyperbole in those remarks. perhaps the president's dissenters should focus instead

on executing the will of the american people and leave the decisions of what to do with the armed service to the commander in chief. just last hour the president released a video praising the sacrifice of our soldiers who lost their lives and commending the work of our troops. >> we have won against isis. we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly, taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home. these are great heros of the world. they fought for us but they've killed isis who hurts the world. so our boys, our young women, our men, they're all coming back and they're coming back now. lou: joining us now, christian whiten. chrichristian, good to see you. let's start with first, your reaction to the president ordering an immediate withdrawal without much of a runup to

prepare anyone, declaring straightforwardly isis is done and so is our presence in north eastern syria >> well president trump did absolutely the right thing. he's completely correct. isis is defeated as an organized military political force. remember there with japanese holdouts 0 coming out of the jungle two decades after that war ended. as an organized force, a military force able to hold territory in fea syria and iraq, they are caput. why give you opponents a chance to frankly create a lot of unjust fear by pulling out the president has the ainlt to focus on where the real threats are in the world that we face, like china lou: and certainly concerns in the hemisphere that this president will have to deal with over the course of the next six years. criechristian, let's turn to the

preparation that the president made for everyone. he started with his campaign for president in which he said it's going tosh smart government, smart foreign policy. he is not going to follow the misadventures of previous presidents and he's not going to nation build or simply deploy for permanent station our forces. everyone had plenty of notice and should they have bothered full understanding of his intent in foreign policy and in the use of the u.s. military. >> yeah. it still shocks me that people are shocked that president trump does what he said he would do, which again, in this case, with nation building and president trump went through a list of nearly complete failure. you know our military has done very well at the tasks assigned to it, removing the taliban from power in kabul, removing saddam hussein. but when it comes to nation

building we've been a failure at that. and he'll fulfilling a pledge. you can focus the military on what it does best and where it needs to be. lou: are you struck though even knowing that the protocols of the washington swamp that we would see rinos and neocons suddenly reflexively criticizing the removal of 2,000 troops as though they would alter the future of the entire middle east. it's stunning even by the relatively low standards and expectations we attach to them. >> yeah. it's just outrageous. you know saying also, if you want to keep u.s. forces in syria after woe eve accomplished our defeating isis. all that would do is prolong the syrian civil war that's been going on. hundreds of thousands of people dead. saddam is a tyrant, evil, a bad

guy. but unlike the people the neocons would have us fighting for, assad can control his down country and there are much worse things than assad ladd a. lou: and as we focus on the powers that represent the greatest geomilitary threat to this country, certainly china, certainly russia, to continue in the middle east -- what do you think about the president's suggestion, intimation really, perhaps an inference on my part, that we need to bring our forces home, whether it be germany, whether it be the united kingdom, japan, south korea, we need to bring -- to stand down in a lot of places where this country is hefting the bill and running great risk. >> i didn't infer a sort of wholesale withdrawal but you're seeing an ongoing process of realignment. it's been a long time since

9/11. what made sense in the year two or three or four after that no longer may make sense a decade and a half later. and nato really is obsolete if you look at the original mission. the idea of repositioning the forces and cutting back on the billions and billions. i don't know what we're trying to accomplish in iraq and afghanistan and what we're going to accomplish in a year or two that we haven't in 17 years. but realigning forces, pushing or allies, whether they be european, getting japan as it's agreed to spend more on its military, convert its military to an offensive posture. these are things that donald trump has accomplished. lou: and you can sense his frustration as he has to cajole the european members of nato to pay their fair share as we spend our treasure protecting them. you can tell that that isn't going to last much longer.

as always, good to have you with us. >> thanks, lou. lou: the federal reserve today raised short-term interest rates a quarter point. the target range, two and a quarter to 2.5%. the four decisions that preceded it seemed to be enough. the president said as much. and then the fed chairman, well, ignored his warning. the market sold off and sold off strongly. the dow jones industrials after an 800-point swing down 352 points, the s&p 500 fell 39, the nasdaq down 147. in raising rates the fed may well b contributing to the onset of the next recession. something that chairman powell doesn't seem to have the tools to fight. the institute's chief economist bill lee and aaron gibbs join us here later to take up the fed's decision, its effect on markets and most importantly you and me

also ahead, the radical left and their cohorts in the left-wing national media have all but written off president trump's border wall. >> it makes no sense to build a wall which is limited in its effectiveness. >> the president is becoming increasingly aware of the fact that this wall is not going to be built. he's not going to have the funding for this. >> a better use of the money would be on technology, the smart wam. >> they are going to be unified house democrats on not giving trump any sort of border wall funding. presidenfund. >ing.>> president trump decidedo to american taxpayers in order to get $5 billion for his wall. and there's no appetite of r for that in the house of representatives or the senate. >> this was his last best chance to get big funding for that wall and it's over. >> the wall is something they can't agree on. throw in the towel. it's over. lou: we'll take all of that up. we'll be talking with congressman jim jordan. up next, a day after dressing

down michael flynn, a federal judge has ruled against asylum restrictions from the trump administration. charlie hurt, jessica vaughn join us right after the break. the federal judiciary is starting to be very suspect i guess is the nice word. we'll take it up right after these quick messages. stay with us. guys, it's that time... and nothin's happenin'.

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courtroom demonstration and delaying former national security adviser michael flynn's sentencing for a fifth time, federal judge emmett sullivan has ruled against the trump administration's asylum policies today. judge sullivan in making that ruling said the trump administration's policies are quote arbitrary, capricious and in violation of u.s. immigration laws. he ordered the government to brick back asylum seekers who had been deported and retry their cases. the justice department says it will appeal. joining us tonight, charlie hurt, fox business contributor. good to see you. and jessica vaughn, director of policy at the center for immigration studies. let's start with your -- judge

sullivan, jessica sb said that the asylum rules and deforration are in violation of u.s. immigration laws. are they? >> no, they're not. under our law people can qualified for asylum if they can show they have been or have a reasonable fear of being persecuted for their political opinion, their race, their creed, their citizenship or a few other factors. these grounds have been gradually expanded in past years, sometimes by the rulings of judges. and former attorney general jeff sessions tried to bring us back to adhering to the law because of this rush of asylum seekers at our border which has gone up exponentially, also up in part because of the catch and release policies. but this is really absurd to think that anybody who simply claims to be a victim of violence or having witnessed

gang violence or a victim of domestic abuse could come here and get political asylum that's not what the law intended and not what it says. lou: charlie, your thoughts on this. nowhere is -- our activist judge is more visible and inne energec when it comes to immigration law and border security and they seem to have a high opinion of their ability to set executive policy. >> yeah, no kidding. and of course the president has been fighting that fighted a fit admirally. but it does underscore, in a time where the president has faced a terrible defeat with getting his wall built, it underscores that the president faces enemies on his -- on the american agenda. this is like an 80/20 issue here. the american agenda of establishing and maintaining a

border with mexico. the president runs against republicans here in washington, runs against democrats here in washington and of course runs against judges all over the place. they're all set up to defeat this guy at every turn and sit the issue that got him elected and it's the issue that will get him reelected if he's able to do the unimaginable, the insurmountable and that is get the wall built on the southern border. lou: well, jessica, your thoughts of the freedom caucus is trying hard to come up with alternatives so that the president can have his wall first to seek, as i understand it, house approval and to move forward and then run into the senate. your thoughts about their efforts and what you think will work. >> well, i think it's a good move. i think the freedom caucus is really in touch with what americans want to see happen. we want to have border security. and they're also in sync with

the president and it's sort of a hail mary pass but it's a good move. it may be the last hope of getting language on this appropriations bill to provide resources if arsources for the o fix the asylum system. that's a huge part of what they're trying to do. it would do the trick. if they could get that in front of the president, i'm sure he would sign it. whether the senate would approve it is a different story. this is the last chance to get something like this done. it's not a silver bullet for all of the immigration problems but it would go a long way to solving the immediate crisis at the border and it needs to happen and it's a good thing they're trying. at least somebody is trying on this. lou: charlie, you have -- i just want to get your reaction to the continued opposition even in these final hours of his lame duck and rather lame career, paul ryan. fighting the president all of the way on this. the establishment, democrat and

republican, radical dimms, rinos, fighting this president on border security and dealing with this immigration crisis. where does he turn now? >> look, i would argue that the president in the first midterm election didn't suffer nearly as badly as obviously a lot of presidents have before in their first midterm. but i would also say that he could have done a whole lot better, would have had a whole lot more victories if the republicans in congress had adopted the trump agenda and carried out the trump agenda when it came to fixing illegal immigration at the southern border. lou: do you think those fools know that snow. >> no. absolutely. these are people incapable of learning any les sob whatsoever aboulesson whatsoever.especiallo immigration. this is not a republican-based immigration issue. this is a base issue for both

parties. but the problem is that the democratic party has been taken over by this crazy leftist wing that believes that i.c.e. agents are criminals, they believe in sanctuary cities, they believe there shouldn't be a border and they want to give america away. lou: and they don't give much of a hoot about who they give it to. >> no. lou: jessica vaughn, great to have you with us. charlie hurt, thank you so. appreciate you both being here. vote in the poll tonight. do you support the president's withdrawal of our troops from syria. cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. follow me on twitter, like me on facebook and follow me on instagram. up next, congress continue to stall on money for the president's border wall. congressman jim jordan blaming republican leadership. he janes us right afte

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funding for the president's border wall could be delayed until next year. the senate has yet to vote on mitch mcconnell's proposed short-term funding bill to avoid a partial government shutdown this friday. this bill doesn't include funding for the border wall but both nancy pelosi and chuck schumer say they would support the measure. if approved the bill would fund the government through february 8th and then the dance beginning all anew. our next guest here to take up these issues and the efforts in the house tonight to include an amendment that would include border wall funding, congressman jim jordan joins us, serving on the judiciary and oversight committee, cofounder of the influential house freedom caucus. great to have you with us. >> you bet. lou: bet's start with the efforts to fund the wall after all. >> we've got to do it. and the idea that it has to happen next year when nancy pelosi is running the house, i don't see how it does.

swe have to get it done now. one will say 5 billion for the border security wall, put it on this bill now. the other one will say let's reform or asylum laws. we've seen the caravan play out over the last several months. the way to address the problem is change the asylum laws. those two things are good common sense policies. lou: no one has to tell you. your leadership has fought president trump and the freedom caucus every step of the way. is there any possibility that they would relent? >> here's the frustrating thing, lou. back in march when they did the omnibus bill, it passed, they say don't worry. we'll the do it in september. then we get to september, don't worry, wait until december 7th. and then don't worry we'll do it on december 31st and here we are a couple of days away and we still vont gotten it done and

they're saying wait a minute, we're going to kick it to february 8th. we can't do that. we've got to stand firm. let's get it done now while we have the majority. i fail to see the logic of kicking the can down the road again and i know the american people certainly don't understand that. lou: you call it kicking the can down the road, congressman. i call it outright lying. your leadership has been lying to you the whole way. >> we should pass it out -- actually what we should have done instead of taking a six-day weekend, we should have passed it last week right after the president in the oval office told congresswoman pelosi when she says mr. president, we need to negotiate this in a closed session, and he said no, we need to border security now, that's when we should have put it on the floor. i think we could have gotten it done last week. but even if we couldn't get it done right away, bring people

back on monday. let's get it done early this week, make the case, have the argument, debate taking place, send it to the senate where there's pressure there to do what we told the american people we were going to do. lou: well the one fellow who is keeping his promises is president trump. and it's going to be interesting to see how he fulfilling those promises, because the american people elected him to do just that. as you have observed for your conference throughout this year. if they've been listening to jim jordan, the conference might not have sustained as many losses. >> we lost 40 seats. we didn't want to lose any. but if we had lost 22, won 18 of the 40 seats. you look at the closest margins in the first 18 seats, the closest races with, with it was only 60,000 votes total maybe if we had built the border security wall, maybe we would have won the seats and stayed in the majority

lou: or if your leadership hadn't been such damn fools and fought the president and instead allied with him. think what marvels could have occurred. let me term to elijah cummings, issuing 51 letters to the heads of various government organization, the white house, trump organization. i mean this is a bull rush well under way. >> we knew this was coming. remember, elijah had 64 subpoenas that he wanted to send this congress, 64 things. many deal with what the subpoenas were about. he can't issue them yet because he's not the chairman. this is where it's headed. and we're going to have to focus on one simple thing, getting to if truth about all of these issues. giving the truth to the american people. if we do that, we'll be just fine. we need to be ready for this but our job is the truth, our job is to hold government accountable

and do the oversight in a way that's truthful, fa factual and fair. lou: and you didn't say just like the republicans did over the last two years. >> we pushed hard on some issues but frankly we could have pushed a lot harder especially the fbi and doj issue where they took one party's document and dressed it up, took it to a secret court to spy on the trump sca campaig. we've got to get to those answers and that whole scandal. lou: we didn't get to the news of the day and that is of course loretta lynch appearing before your committee. can you give us your. >> didn't learn much. didn't learn a whole lot. frankly she didn't know a whole lot. we can't get into the details until the transcript goes public. but lots of times she didn't know about key players in the whole russia investigation or key people. lou: i have to tell you i'm a little concerned as a taxpayer. we're electing a lot of folks and paying for a lot of

government employees who have some of the worst memories i have ever encountered. there may be something in the water there in washington. maybe it's the air. i don't know. >> in this situation it was a lot more about what jim comey was up to. jim comey is all about jim comey and i think he didn't follow the rules in so many situations think it was comey withholding information and controlling things versus loretta lynch just not being that involved lou: calls good to talk with you. thanks so much up next, more on the corrupt obama attorney general loretta lynch answering questions behind closed doors. we take it up with congressman matt gaetz. he's next. he's next. i joined the army after 911, cuz, um, i thought that was what i needed to do. we got our orders to go overseas and i went to baghdad, iraq.

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closed lower. it was a huge selloff in point of fact. all of the major indexes at 52 mf week lows. the dow fell 352 points tonight at its lowest point of the year. the s&p down 39, the nasdaq down 147, volume picking up to 5.1 billion shares. crude oil up if the fed is watching just a little reminder. it dropped 4% today to $48 a barrel. but i can understand their innate concern about inflation. goal lost half a percent, silver and copper relatively flat. the fed ignoring president

trump's clear warning, raising interest rates by a quarter point to a range of 2.12 to 2.5%, the seventh rate hike of the trump presidency. a reminder to listen to my report three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network joining us tonight, chief economist, bill lee, and aaron gibbs, equity portfolio manager. good to have you both here. let ears starlet's start with -t didn't seem to take too much umbrage with the quarter point move but then when jerome powell started talking, the marketing sed the hell with you and sold off. what do you think? >> yeah. he really didn't sell explaining what normalization is and why they're changing to only -- look, it is complex.

but i think the messaging was really unclear and wall street sort of had this temper tantrum of well we want growth and we don't understand why we're getting less rate hikes. lou: and bill, jerome powell acknowledging that they're looking at 2.3% growth after 3.5. i mean, that doesn't exactly set the baseline for interest rate hikes, does it? >> lou, chairman powell flubbed the message. the message to the markets was we're prepared to low tore trajectory and lower the interest rate of where we're targeting. we're lowering the forecast of inflation and growth. and yet somehow he said we're on auto pilot with the balance sheet and we're going to be independent and we're going to be on auto pilot the way we were before. the auto pilot and model based messaging overwhelm the real message which is hey, we're

listening to you and we're lowering the trajectory rates. that message got completely lost and i'm so supposed that chair powell came in being a model denier, become a model supporter. lou: and actually model bound. as he talks about unwind in the face of rising water and hell itself next year, this is entirely the wrong attitude for any fed chairman to take. i kept asking, as i listened to him, where is janet yellen when we need her. >> he was completely overbriefed i think he missed the messaging. all of the numbers he had in the economic protections and everything was prepared for him to deliver the right message. but he somehow flubbed it and went back too the old yellen message. >> and when he got into the detailed questions later in the press conference, you know, he was certainly prepared and

understood. but again he clearly kept going back to the word normalization and not fully explaining what that meant. and i think that's where he missed on the messaging. lou: i take it that both of you think this is about the messenger who got have used, you know, something more in the way of training. but i'm afraid it's the message. the message is that in the face of weakening signals from nearly every quarter of the economy and certainly lower prices -- we've watched $4 trillion escape the equities market over the course of the tumult. and suddenly we're supposed to righteously accept that more constriction is the perfect answer for declining prices. bill, what do you think? i mean this looks to me like the odds are far more in favor of disinflation than anything approaching inflation. >> salut absolutely.

and the statement issued set him up for that. normally they change one or two words. but this time they put in the committee judges and continues to monitor global financial conditions and assess the implications for the economic outlook. that's essentially telling the markets we are worried about the growth and inflation outlook because of global conditions and the slowdown in the chinese and european economies. lou: erin let me ask you for everyone watching, including bill and myself. what are we supposed to do here as investors. i mean this has been rugged, raw and absolutely terrifying, i'm sure, to a lot of people, to see these indexes and these prices s across every sector just sell out. >> one, i think let's not just -- actually i would actually refer to powell in some of the statements that he did make that look, things are still

good economically. the u.s. is still on track for gdp growth. lou: it's not negative. i see that. but what should the investors do. >> we try to reassure the investors. the sky is not falling just yet. lou: but the indexes are. >> while there is definitely greater volatility, there's a lot of things in play right now. it's not just interest rates. and there's a lot of uncertainty that's being push into the market, particularly around tariffs that's also making this increase this volatility. stay the course. and one thing, we're looking at a good year ahead for 2019. lou: i probably ought to quit right there with erin's message but bill, i'm going to give you the last word real quickly please. >> i think the market should reflect on what powell said, discount that and look at what the material actually gave him. they're ready to ease. they're ready to pause in their trajectory of interest rate

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the president's space command today as a weaponization of space while china continues its push into the western hemisphere. new reports show beijing trying to enter the arctic circle as well and bid on a number of new airports in greenland. any successful bid would give them, well, something called proximity to an american air base on the very same place. the pride of snowflake, arizona, jeff flake blocked in the senate. it's his third attempt to try to protect special counsel robert mueller who, as far as we can is see, requires nung. for weeks flake has tried to pass a bill to protect the

mueller witch hunt. talk about a man in tune with the spirit of the country. today majority leader mitch mcconnell put an end to the subversion simply saying i object. flake has just 15 days left in office. i believe ryan has about 11. something like that. joining us now, congressman matt gaetz, a member of the armed services committee and great to have you with us. congressman, let's start with the oversight and judiciary hearing with loretta lynch. i know you can't tell us much, but you have a way of putting things that is illuminating. with that setup, you should do great. what do you think? >> well, lou, i think that it's a total joke that here we are just with days left in the republican control of the congress and just now we're getting to jim comey and loretta lynch. sometimes in washington the game you're watching is not actually the game that's being played.

and right now the game that's being played is one of keep away. they're trying to keep rod rosenstein away from our questioning while we still have the power to get answers. and the reason is because if we had rosenstein before us instead of loretta lynch and jim comey, we would ask him which members of the cabinet he was conspiring with to remove the president of the united states. who was he talking with about potentially wearing a wire on the president. i want to know the answer to that. can you believe, lou, that it has been months since we learned that from the lawyer of the fbi and yet we still haven't asked rosenstein those questions under oath. lou: at this point i have to be straight toward with you as you are with me. you know, i am not surprised that this is -- we've watched the clock get run out by the dimms scoaflly becaus successfue leadership of the house of representatives is in the pockets of so many and i have to

believe they have at least offices near k street. this speaker of yours has been a total joke. and you guys put up with him and even let him resign and keep his job for eight months. i don't know what to say. >> i fear sometimes that, you know, we did not have the support we really needed to execute on our oversight over the fbi and department of justice. so now what's going to happen, lou, is that the democrats are going to get control and they're going to show us what real robust oversight looks like. they are going to use every tool in the toolbox to try to disrupt this president from executing on border security or spending cuts or any of the reforms that we need in this government. it's so hard to kind of tolerate this environment in which we like were fed jim comey bite bite bite and loretta lynch when devin nunes gave us a list of 42 names months ago and we never took it seriously. i think in the new congress we're going to have to use different tools in the minority

to make sure that we give this president the defense that he deserves. these are phony charges and if we continue to play the washington game of politeness and allow the fbi and department of justice to slow roll their response to our questions, then we never get the truth for the american people and that's one reason people hate congress so much is because we sometimes confuse motion and progress. there's a whole lot of motion, like today with loretta lynch but not nearly enough progress. lou: i think that's well put. and i think the american people really aren't that confused by what they're witnessing in the congress and the senate of the united states. they're watching people getting very little done. you wonder, given all of the investigations, hearings and all of the nonsense that's come to absolutely nothing, i'm amazed at the low ratings the tragically low ratings, approval ratings of congress and the senate are as high as they are. i mean, it has been a devastating two years for the

republican party. >> it has. and now we've got to pivot open use a different set of tools as we move into the minority in the house. and i fear that there's not going to be a real effort to legislate. it's going to be careening from one government spending brink to another. and all of the democrats are going to use their time are is to try to embarrass and distract the administration from the work on trade that you've highlighted on this show, the deregulation agenda, all of the things that have created the fastest wage growth in a decade. lou: i've got a thought. and i know that you and congressman jordan, congressman meadows, all of you are working hard for this president. but remember these words because i think this president has got a very good sense of what they mean. and they were words uttered by president obama, you'll recall. with that pen and that phone he means to move ahead. he has enormous power that he's about to remind everybody in the democrat as well as republican

party he possesses. i just think -- you know, i don't see why he would wait on anybody on capitol hill ever again to get something done. the frustration has got to be immense. you get the final word here, congressman. >> well we've got a spending vote coming up, lou, and i'm going to be sumenting the amendments of mark meadows and jim jordan to get border security and wall funding into this deal. the fact that we would wave the white flag of surrender and think we're going to get a better deal when nancy pelosi is speaker is just the type of bad energy that i think the republicans have brought to the border security debate. we need to be a lot more aggressive. lou: you're the man

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