the prediction it could end soon. lou dobbs is next here on the fox business network. have a great evening. lou: good evening, everybody. president trump standing strong securing the u.s.-mexican border remains his top priority, ending the national security crisis. the president saying once again he may declare a national emergency if necessary to secure our border with mexico. >> i have the absolute right to do national emergency if i want. my threshold will be if i can't make a deal with people that are unreasonable. we can all play games, but a wall is a necessity. all of the other things, the sensors and the drones, it's all wonderful to have and it works well but only if you have the wall. if you don't have the wall, it

doesn't matter. a drone isn't stopping 1,000 people from running through. lou: and the president is demappedding that that wall be funded and built. and today he walked out of a white house meeting after nancy pelosi refused to fund the border wall. rather than securing the border and keeping america safe, the radical dimms are insisting on resisting anything that the president proposes to score what they see as political points. pelosi and schumer's pathetic performance after last night's presidential address, being reduced to nothing but internet peoples. memes. and you're looking at one of my favorite memes. president trump visiting capitol hill meeting with senate republicans. the upbeat president saying his party supports him all of the way. something that cannot be said about the dimms. >> the republican party i can say, and i just left an hour meeting, we had a great time actually. there was no discussion about

anything other than solidarity. we want national security and border security for our country. i just want to tell you that the republicans are totally unified. now if you were to ask the same question to the. connell: the democrats, you let me know in some of those districts where i won or are a little more towards sanity. you want them to run saying we don't have border security? you got plenty of democrats that do not want to be in this battle. lou: tonight we take up the president's ongoing battle to build his border wall and to end the national crisis along the southern border. legendary republican strategist ed rollins, congressman matt gaetz among our guests tonight. new reports, deputy attorney general ron rosenstein my leigh the justice department within weeks after the mueller report is finalized, according to some of the reporting.

rosenstein ma has suggested secretly recording the presidenting with sayinpresideng sarcastic, and he signed the extension of the fisa warrant. and chuck schumer made a desperate plea asking the president to withdraw william barr's nomination as attorney general. >> mr. rosenstein's potential departure only heightens the stakes for mr. barr's nomination. from all accounts, mr. rosenstein has an an impartial actor at the head of the special counsel's investigation. now president trump is trying to replace folks like mr. rosenstein with conflicted loyalists like matthew whitaker and william barr. i still believe after the revelations about mr. barr's unsolicited memo, president trump ought to withdraw this nomination. lou: i'm sure he's going to do

that straightaway. are you? attorney mitchell joins us tonight. taking up that question. the latest on the deep state's russia witch hunt. we begin tonight with president trump ripping into house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck schumer for their refusal to come up with the moneyed to fund the wall to fix the crisis. president trump leaving a white house meeting shortly aft it began calling it a total waste of time after they refused to fund the wall. we fur turn to john roberts >> the takeaway from today's events another the white house is it's not likely that the shutdown is going to end anytime soon. >> it's cold out here and the temperature wasn't much warm ner the situation room. >> after a second meeting in the situation room today, both sides emerged no closer to a deal to end the shutdown than they were going in.

>> unfortunately the president just got up and walked out. he asked speaker pelosi, are yol you agree to my wall and she said no. he got up. said we have nothing to discuss and walked out. >> democratsdescribed the president as demanding and on that nate. as on thaobstinate. >> he left the room because speaker p pelosi said she would never agree to the border security proposal we have on the table. >> in a tweet president trump called the meeting a toast l wastetotal wasteof time. earlier in the day president trump upped the ante on his calls for a border barrier. >> human trafficking cannot be stopped if we don't have a steel barrier or a concrete wall,

something very powerful. >> signing a bill to combat the scourge of human trafficking today, president trump said without a wall criminals can simply drive their victims across the border. he acknowledged the idea is primitive but insists that it works. >> they said it's a medieval solution, a wall. that's true. it's medieval because it worked then and it works better now. >> as the federal workers face their first missed paycheck on friday, some republican senators are growing concerned about the political impact. so president trump went up to capitol hill today telling senate republicans he' dug in and needs them to stand with him. >> i would say that we have a very very unified party, they want national security, they want to have a steel barrier or a wall of con creek, they don't care. i'll use any term they want. >> in the event the impasse continues, the white house is taking steps to mitigate the potential effects. the department of agriculture ensuring re1eu recipients they't

their food stamps. tax refunds will go out even if the shutdown extends into tax season. lou: john roberts a the the white house. joining us tonight, congressman matt gaetz. congressman, great to have you with us. and the president saying after nancy pelosi refused to put forward a proposition or to concede to his insis tans that a wall be funded and built that it's a waste of time and bye-bye as he put it. what's your thought? >> if the democrats' heads were spinning faster in washington, we'd have to call the exorcist. these are the same democrats today calling the wall racist, immoral and unacceptable who previously have voted for billions of dollars in fencing and border security. this makes s makes no sense to . there are a lot of wealthy democrats in washington who live behind the barriers. they don't have the barriers

because they hate the people on the outside. they have them because they love the people on the inside. donald trump loves this country and he's fighting for the forgotten men and women who want higher wages, safe streets, rule of law and a preservation of this country's borders with language and culture. i don't think that's too much to ask and it's pretty ridiculous that the democrats continue come to the table with some of the same proposal that they've supported in the past. lou: it's becoming, it seems to me, becoming clear as it could be to all involved, democrats, republicans, the american people. and that is why negotiate over national security. this is the president of the united states. he says a wall should be built. that it's a national emergency. at that point the nation should rally behind him. democratsas well as republicans. but without question there shouldn't be further negotiation with these people who have been repeatedly arrogant and ignorant in their responses and refusing,

absolutely abdicating their responsibilities whose people deserve to be safe as the president said, to have their borders secure. and the nation sovereign and without question secure. >> yeah. i wornd if nanci wonder if nancd chuck schumer are willing to make the phone calls to the family members who are grieving after people come across our border illegally and commit violence against the people who are here legally. you are right, lou, that the presidency carries with it a unique set of obligations and a unique perspective. donald trump has made those calls. he's met with those families. he understands what a porous border does to the american life and i think that's why he's fighting so hard. here's where we've got to be careful, lou. if at any time any president says i deem something to be an emergency so i'm going to do it.

can you imagine what barack obama might have done to this country? lou: i know what he did with a pen and a phone. go right through the list. $150 billion to iran, a packaging up of billions of dollars in currencies and delivering it. the list is immense, it is shameful. it is remarkable. >> president trump undid a lot of that stuff. the good news is we elected a president with the guts to go in and call out that inappropriate behavior for what it was. barack obama exceeding his authority. so president trump actually is a deal maker. he wants to make a deal. the difference between government and real estate is that in real estate typically both sides want the deal because they both have something to gain from it. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer don't want to gain from a safer country. they want to continue to exploit the immigration issue to inflame the most radical left.

lou: we've known it for years. we've known it when george bush was blathering about jobs that americans won't do and trying to set conditions and racialize illegal immigration and the juanton exploration of illegal immigrants in this country by the business lobby, the business rown table, the chamber of commerce, the koch brothers. and we're at the same position where this president is not talking about illegal immigration. he's talking about a threat to this country in the form of opioids, drugs that are the deadlyist in the history of the world, 70,000 ods in this country in the last year. the list goes on. it is a national emergency. it is a crisis and there could be no national dispute of that, could there? >> lou, you usually ask the question. but let me ask you one. will donald trump be reelected in 2020 if hi is not standing in front of a border security wall?

lou: i think the answer to the question, and if i may, i would put it this way. there are some fights that are worth having. this is a fight that is worth having because the future of the country depends on it. i would say this. if this president is not reelect as a result of his insistence on a secure nation, a sovereign nation and providing for the safety of the american people, then we've lost a nation and it will be a shameful, shameful outcome were he not, reelected. is that a fair ans? >answer?>> it is. witwhat you just said reminded e of one of my last discussions where he said matt i'm going to fight with everything i somewhere for the americans who want a border and if i don't debt it i'm going to die with my boots on. that's the resolve that i want from the executive at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. someone who is willing to do everything he can to make sure

that the american people see promises fulfilled. a lot want to maim promises in lks electionelections and then . this president plans on keeping his promises. lou: one of the strange things about this presidency are the number of those in the opposition, the resistance as they style themselves, who question his talent, integrity and stead fastness. when really the only question is whether the republican conference will stand with this president because it is their guts, their principles that has been obviously lacking throughout. >> that's clearly why the president was on the hill today, lou. as you have pointed out, there is a well-funded open borders wing of the republican party and president trump doesn't want to see them do violence to the efforts that all of us are undertaking to try to deliver for the american people. and i think he was very effective today when he got with a lot of those republican

senators, they understood how high the stakes are, not just for elections or legacies but for the type of country we're going to have for the next generation. lou: the national security of the united states. >> that's right. you've nailed it. i think they get that now. lou: all right. congressman matt gaetz you've gotten it for a very long time and have been one of those principle leaders. we appreciate it. the left wing national media wasting no time criticizing the president and his address to the nation. >> that should have come with a surgeon general's warning. it was hazard douse do thous to. >> the president repeating the dubious crimes he's made in the past. >> no one's mind are changed from last night. >> in a nicer voice. >> the president made his pitch directly to the american people in an address that was riddled with things that were not

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lou: three groups backed by charles koch are saying they will support any border security deal giving permanent status to illegal immigrants. thank you, koch brothers, thank you so much. that is such a generous negotiation that you're carrying out. freedom partners and americans for prosperity, they claim a border for a dreamers deal is the best way to end the shutdown. and chamber of commerce executive vice president neil bradley demanding the shutdowns end with a deal to protect the dreamers. the democratic response to the president's oval office address last night leading to dozens of twitter memes. let's take a look at just a few of my favorites and here we are.

we begin with chuck and nancy, the subjects of american gothic. i mean, if you saw that, you had to be appalled it was hi hysterical. and they rehearsed it. here they are as upset parents. and one twitter user thought they looked like attorneys writing, quote, have you been in an accident with someone who didn't have insurance. our law firm can help. joining us tonight, fox business political analyst, ed rollins, the s deen of all strategists. >> the president gave a great speech. he didn't need to do anything more than that other than lay out where he wanted to go.

their stupid picture there. lou: can we put that up, please? >> it came up but i could barely stop laughing. lou: pretty please, can we put the picture up? i'm told it's coming. here it is. it's arrived. we couldn't have made that much smaller, could we? >> i had democrats say why didn't hav they have two podium. they can have whatever he wanted. lou: did you notice he controlled more than half of the podium. that was not fair. that was not at all fair. >> it's never going to be fair. schumer is going to be a permanent minority leader. never winning the majority of the senate she's the speaker and she's got to suffer with this intolerable group of people lou: we got the koch brothers, the chamber of commerce, the business round table telling the president you've got to end the shoutdown. we don't want you to have any leverage.

we don't want you to stand on principle. we want you to do something for the dreamers. in my opinion, the daca deal is dumb and the president, in my opinion, shouldn't be negotiating with these fools at all from here on. to sit there and not -- to say basically they're not going to deliver anything at this point, and i think the president is doing exactly the right thing walking away from the table, bye-bye is the fac exact correct response to what -- the ai arrogance and the insolence and ignorance of the situation. >> if they don't want to deal, don't let them in the room again. don't let them see the situation room or get a pass to come into the white house. in 1986 ronald reagan gave amnesty and the promise was later we would do the security. later is still coming. i would remind the president of that. i would remind the president

when george bush broke his tax pledge he lost 27% of the republican vote in the next election. lou: and this isn't just about the base. this is every american now. this president is trying to assure national security, assure the safety of americans. and for the democrats to even suggest, and their leaders to imply that there is no crisis, or to state outright that there's no crisis on the border is just ignorant beyond belief. and if they didn't have the crazed left wing national media in a closed feedback loop to support them, they would be -- they would be thrown out of office. i would think that there would be recalls in state after state. >> i think the speaker gave his answer today. she said no wall and he's going to basically say yes, i'll put the wall up myself. i'll declare an emergency, we'll build the wall and you try and stop me. lou: this is a country that right now is not only divided, there's such an ambivalence

right now on the part of the, in my opinion, in washington, d.c. the democrats don't care about the issues that they were elected to resolve. and foremost among them is safety of the nation. what would they do if we had armed aggression from some quarter. would they just throw their hands up? are these people who would just surrender everything that is america? >> i think they would. i think they ought to get on a plane and go look at venezuela, look at cuba and guatemala and a few other places and see how sowcialissocialism works. lou: we're getting a good look from this new group of freshmen congress women. president trump threatening to withhold money today to help, well, the governor of california wants to fight wildfires. the president saying that poor

forest management is to blame for the deadly blazes that scorched large portions of california last year. the president has ordered fema to stop giving the money to the state of california until they get their act together. be sure to vote in tonight's poll. do you believe president trump should insist the border be secured before there could be any further discussion of amnesty in any form? cast your vote on twitter@lou tr @loudobbs. follow me on twitter, follow me on instagram. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, three news organizations reporting will he or will he not be gone. we'll find out. attorney cleta mitchell with us next. we'll take up the mueller witch hunt. a look at the u.s. national debt coming ever closer to $22 trillion. ssuspense.

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lou: deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the man overseeing special counsel robert mueller's probe will leave the justice department in coming weeks. e plans to exit after william barr is confirmed as attorney general and stay through the transition. dod official tells fox news there's no reason to think the timing of rosenstein's departure is in any way connected to the mueller probe. joining us now, attorney and former member of the oklahoma house of representatives cleta mitchell. we need you to make sense of what rosenstein is allegedly doing, three different accounts of his plans. and i'm not entirely sure of the sources. your thoughts. >> well, my understanding is that he has said that he is going to step aside once

mueller's report is delivered to the department and i think that's probably a good thing for william barr's confirmation hearings. because rosenstein would be an issue in the barr confirmation hearing that i guess is scheduled for next week. the democrats would all be trying to get barr to pledge that he was going to not interfere with rod rosenstein and not fire him et cetera. so it's probably to bill barr's benefit that rosenstein is stepping aside. and i think that rosenstein,stein, whatever his name is, he accomplished what he wanted to do, which is he was able to get jeff sessions to step aside and to recuse, and he stepped in -- lou: and they have run out the clock. >> then he appointed mueller and he's allowed mule tore do whatever he wants, that's his

buddy. lou: why is everybody so -- it seems to me that there is almost an o obstinate refusal of the media to focus on the fact that the republicans got rolled and the democrats did a terrific job of it. and culpable are mitch mcconnell, the dee dear departed prieb. this has been an unseemly corrupted mess in the leadership that we've seen on capitol hill, both houses. don't you think there should be a little more accountability than what we see in prospect? >> oh, gosh. where to begin with that question. you remember that congressman devin nunes who was the chairman of house intelligence, he went to paul ryan and told paul ryan in the spring of 2017, we have

just discovered that indeed the obama administration had put the trump campaign under surveillance. and i would like to go -- i want to give you the head's up. i'm going to advise the white house, which he did. remember the president said that the obama administration had his campaign under surveillance. remember that the national media laughed, scoffed, said he has no evidence, and do you remember what priep the paul ryan then d? he made devin nunes step aside for a period of nearly a year for an ethics investigation for something that he had been cleared with him before he did it. now, you know, that to me says everything you need to know. a congressional subpoena, you know, they finally issue a subpoena to rosenstein -- lou: it's part of what we need to know, cleta.

the rest of what we need to know, when you look at what ryan and the republican leadership is culpable of and for, and then you look at what has happened in our justice department, not a single person has been held to account, departed, fired, resigned, retired, reassigned. congressman jim jordan is fond of saying, he's never seen anything like that in any agency or department in his career. and yet there is not one of them in prospect of punishment for their deeds and their corruption. >> well, we did see some heads roll at doj, but we didn't see them prosecuted for -- you know, andy mccabe was fired. lou: you saw heads move. you didn't see any of them prosecuted. >> mccabe may be denied his retirement. lou: to this point it has been zero. nothing. >> they haven't been prosecuted. no. and what makes me upset is --

and i think it makes a lot of people upset, is that this whole special counsel situation is a complete farce. this was a quote counter intelligence operation from the beginning and -- lou: you said it. >> it's terrible. it's a farce. lou: president obama has immense responsibility here. and to this point, the national left wing media has given him an absolute free pass. cleta, i'm going to have to end it. you get the quick last word. >> i'm just going to say, he's their god and they think obama is infallible. lou: well he certainly demonstrated otherwise, hasn't he? >> to those of us who have a real god. lou: thank you. up next, president trump continue to weigh a national emergency declaration, obstructionist democrats fail to provide funding for a wall, to even consider it. we take it up with congressman mark greene right after these messages. stay with us.

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called the jordan border security program. since 2008 it's grown to include a nearly 300-mile long fence system along jordan's borders with syria and iraq. the project works to stop armed smugglers, refugees, isis fighters from entering jordan. senator lindsey graham praising the president's address to the nation last night adding that now is the best chance for the republicans to fund the president's border wall. >> to my republican colleagues, this is the best chance we'll ever have to help president trump get border wall funding. the only way we lose is to give in. if we'll stand firm, put deals on the table that make sense, we will win this on behalf of the american people. but if we undercut the president, that's the end of his presidency and the end of our party and we deserve to be punished in we give in you. lou: senate lindsey graham standing up as frankly no one else in the u.s. senate as.

joining us tonight, congressman mark greene of tennessee. he's president of the incoming freshman class. he's a doctor, former businessman, iraq and afghanistan war veteran. good ff yo to have you with us r congressman or do you prefer doctor? >> congressman is fine or mark will do nicely. lou: i'll stick with congressman. thank you very much. let's turn to the party's standing as senator graham said firm with the president. frankly i've seen some wobbling but i haven't seen anyone defect from the president yo. your perspective? >> my perspective is that we're standing together with the president. it's a crisis at the southern border. when the "washington post" says it's a crisis, it's a crisis. the republicans are standing firm with the president. lou: and when we look at just one statistic, 72,000 overdoses, fatalitiefatalities in this coun 2017, we don't yet have the

numbers for 2018, to hear democrats say there is no crisis at our owr southern border as in they don't understand the majority of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine all coming across that border with mexico. >> yeah. i'm a physician, so i get it. i'm actually an emergency medicine physician and i have treated heroin overdose. i have seen people who are addicted to heroin. when 90% of the heroin comes across the southern border, there's a crisis. and i know the democrats want to say it's coming through ports of entry. but that's what we've caught. i mean what about the tons of it that are going by the barriers going by the ports of entry that we don't have any record of. it's disingenuous on their part. lou: disingenuous. >> and dangerous. lou: and dangerous, fatal. and it's as if the congress, the democrats are saying that that

collateral damage is acceptable, there is no crisis. how in the world are their constituents reacting to such callousness. >> i don't understand it myself. i mean you think of the women that are making the trek through central america, new statistics show that almost one in three is being sexually assaulted as they make that trek. this is a humanitarian crisis. and to put the politics of personality ahead of the policy of protecting americans is just ludicrous. it makes no sense whatsoever. lou: and the president faced with the prospect of having to make a unilateral decision on declaring a national emergency at that southern border. do you support him if that is his choice? >> i support whatever means it takes to get it done. i mean we have a crisis at the southern border and it's time to act. and it's pretty clear the democrats don't want to participate in the solution. they've had many opportunities

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lou: on wall street stocks closing higher fb a fourth straight session. the dow today up 92 points, the s&p gained 11, the nasdaq up 603 volume on the big board 4 billion shares, crude oil up 5%, $52 a barrel suddenly. gold and silver up over half a percent. copper flat. and u.s. china trade talks wrapping up after three days in beijing. china says it wants to hold another round of talks the 22nd of the month in d.c. with u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer. and jeff bezos and his wife announcing their divorce after

25 years of marriage. their divorce could cost mr. bezos nearly half of his $137 billion net worth. a reminder, listen to my reports three times a day, cost t coasto coast on the salem radio network. joining us mike murphy, ceo of the venture capital fund. thank you for being here. what is your judgment is driving this market? is it trade negotiations and disputes? it is the fed and earnings, earnings and prospect? your thoughts. >> i think it's all of the above. people are focusing on the negative outcomes. what if the -- we have a 90-day window that started last month with china. what if we don't come up with some sort of agreement there. what if the fed -- today was a positive sign out of the fed. but what if the fed overreacts and raises rates too much. what if earnings starts to drop toch totoo much.

lou: don't you think your pal resolved the fed stance here saying they're going to be adaptive, they're going to be flexible, whether it is interest rate hikes or whether it is running up assets on the balance sheet? diswhsphwhr 100%. he spoked wall street but he's done a great job of walking back their stance. they're going to be data dependent. we don't have a lot of inflation out there. i think the market could deal with it. lou: one would be an annoyance. it would be outside of any basis given the lack of inflation. it's been my experience, and i've done this for a couple of years, that when fed chairmen decide to raise rates in the absence of inflation, that the results are always, well, disappointing, if not extremely painful. that's what happened here. >> i think a lot of times what the fed is prone to do is

overshoot. they see, potentially see inflation coming and they start to raise the rates to stop it and they do it too much. the fact that we're talking about it before it's happened is a positive thing for the market. lou: and the markets have got plenty to worry about. what are you looking at? a 20% depreciation in equities? >> we had a 20% pullback. since christmas eve we've had a 10% rally in the markets. but i think the setup here for the market is to the upside. the reason i say that is a lot of the negative news is out there. a lot of the negative news is baked in. if we get decent corporate earnings, the market will have a good year. lou: what are the odds on decent quarterly earnings. the market is blaifg as if it's expecting a significant decline in earnings growth. >> you can look at apple as maybe a proxy for the market in that they had to lower their

earnings and the stock has gotten punished from the 230 range all the way down to 150. lou: i love how you professionals say that the stock has been punished, not the investor. >> correct. the shareholders have been punished. but now the setup for a company like apple at 150 oa 150 or nowh the market in general trading after this 20% pullback, a 10% rally off of that, i think the setup is to be long, to buy the market at this price. lou: and volatility, do you think it's exacerbated? >> well, i think we got spoiled because volatility kind of left the market a year, year and a half ago. so we really got lulled into a false sense of security. let the markets be volatile. let the program trading come in. lou: i like the way you said that, as if we have a choice. >> you don't have a choice. but the choice for the viewers watching at home is not to try to trade every headline.

not to buy because the market is up today and sell because the market is down tomorrow. kind of take a little bit of a longer term approach. lou: with this volatility warsenning over timworsening ovf it to the upside, it has been difficult and i have to believe it's driven aat of investors for some time. what do you think? >> driven investors out of the market? >> lou: yes. >> we've seen a lot of money coming out of big mutual funds. but unfortunately, if you look historically when retail sellers are bailing, it's a good time to be buying. i would just advise that the last thing you want to do is make decisions on your 401(k) or your retirement plan based on yesterday's headsline or tomorrow's headline. it usually don't work. lou: appreciate it. good to have you with us. >> thanks, lou. lou: we'll continue in just one moment. stay with us. president trump and the radical left at an impasse over the

border wall. we take up the president's choices and likely position on the future of a national emergency declaration right after the break. stay with us. n tell you liberty mutual customized

lou: a reminder to vote in our poll tonight. the question is, do you believe president trump should insist that the border be secured before there can be any discussion of amnesty in any form whatsoever? cast your vote on twitter. i would like to hear from you. follow me on twitter,@loudobbs. here's where we are today. what we're looking at tomorrow. president trump called his meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi at the white house today a quote, total waste of time. congressman matt gaetz discussing the radical dems' resistance on border security. >> these are the same democrats who are today calling a wall racist and immoral and unacceptable who previously have voted for billions of dollars in fencing and border security. this makes absolutely no sense to me. there are a lot of wealthy

democrats in congress who live behind physical barriers. lou: the president will be traveling tomorrow to mcallen, texas. there, he will tour the border with mexico as he considers an emergency -- national emergency declaration, something he says he has the authority to do. his attorneys back him up. >> i have the absolute right to do national emergency if i want. my threshold will be if i can't make a deal with people that are unreasonable. we can all play games, but a wall is a necessity. all of the other things, sensors and the drones, it's all wonderful to have and it works well but only if you have the wall. if you don't have the wall, it doesn't matter. a drone isn't stopping a thousand people from running through. lou: deputy attorney general rod rosenstein planning to step down after the president's nominee for attorney general, william barr, is confirmed and the special counsel releases its,

well, russia witch hunt report. that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. congressman frank rooney, gordon cheng and jason chaffetz join us tomorrow. hope you will as well. thanks for being with us. good night from new york. trish: breaking tonight, the number of migrant families crossing our border hitting a record. this as president trump walks out of a border wall meeting after democrats refuse to negotiate. we have the details on the surging cost to american taxpayers and it is clear this is not just a humanitarian crisis but indeed, a financial one. as dianne feinstein once said, we cannot be the welfare system for all of mexico. um-hum. that was dianne feinstein, the liberal senator from california. she said that. she and her democrat colleagues actually wanted a wall, they wanted border security and they wanted law and order in our