liz: thank you both of you for coming on. and thank you for having us in your homes and thank you for watching. qut low dobbs "i"lou dobbs" is e on the fox business network. have a good evening. lou: good evening, everybody. president trump today at the mexican border in texas. there to talk about the illegal immigration and border security crisis and during his visit the president making it clear once again if need for that wall, why construction on that wall must begin and begin immediately. >> they koim flew the border and they go out through our nation. you'll have crime in iowa, you'll have crime in new hampshire. you'll have crime in new york. you'll have crime in places you know you don't associate with the border but it comes through the border. all i can tell you is i feel very badly for people who have family members who have been

killed. that should have never happened. those are the people i'm thinking most about. these people do the most incredible job. and they're not given a full hand. because they need the barriers. lou: need the barrier. and tonight we take up exactly why the democratic party is trying to subvert the trump administration on the barrier, on the wall. why in the world is schumer and pelosi refusing to support the president's wall, refusing to build the wall, why the radical dimdims continue their desis te. nancy pelosi says no wall, chuck schumer says no wall and they want the president to lift the partial government shutdown. mr. trump is having none of it. the president told the assembled left-wing national media that the radical dimms are not remotely worried about bidding the wall and securing the

border. president trump says he'll declare a national emergency and build the barriers if the radical dimms don't yelle yielde national interest. >> i would like to do the deal through congress and because it makes sense to do it through congress, i'm okay to making a compromise. compromise is in my vocabulary very strongly. i have the absolute right to declare a national emergency. the lawyers have so advised me i'm not prepared to do that yet but if i have to, i will. the democrats don't care about the border and they don't care about crime. they've been taken over by a group that's so far left, i really didn't think they care about crime. anyoand you know, sadly, they're viewing this as the beginning of the 2020 presidential race and that's okay with me. lou: we take up the president's trip to the border, his resolve to end the national crisis along that border, the deen of republican strategist ed

rollins, congressman andy biggs and fancies rooney join us tonight. mike pompeo declared a new age in u.s.-middle east relations. telling an audience in cairo that the trump administration is reasserting itself as the regional leader after the obama era policy of apology. >> when i was in grad school it was about 10%. >> yeah. lou: we apologize for that. the red storm continue to rise. chinese president xi jinping hosting north korean dictator kim jong-un, suggesting beijing may be determined to stop any deal between the u.s. and north korea. we'll be joined by gordon chang here tonight. top storpry, president trump taking his call to build a wall or barrier along the u.s.-mexican border to deal with the immigration and border security crisis.

the president meeting with border patrol officers, lawmakerrings anlawmakers open e lost their family due to the lack of border security. here with more now from the white house, fox business' edward lawrence. >> yeah, lou. president donald trump right now on his way back here to washington, d.c. he went to texas to see for himself exactly what it looks like at the border, exactly the situation. he's arguing that we have to have a border wall as part of border security. the president in texas wants voter to call their democratic representatives and get them to negotiate with him, engage reopening the government as well as funding the border wall. >> as hard as we work and as well as we're going nationwide on crime, a lot of it is caused by people who come in by the southern border. if we had the barrier, it wouldn't happen. >> and senator lindsey graham late tonight saying that it is time now, since the democrats

refused to gauche dwrait negotiy that the president needs to declare an emergency, saying this is a crisis. this is what the president keeps hearing from house speaker nancy pelosi. listen. >> i said to him, mr. president, the e evidence of what's happeng there does not support the crisis that you describe and therefore the solution that you suggest because we have so better idea of how to keep our country safe and it isn't a wall. >> and house democrats continue to pass bill after bill. today passing the agriculture bill and transportation bill, funding government agencies one at a time. senator ben carden, democrat in the senate trying to get the senate to vote on these bills. mitch mcconnell saying this is all just a waste of time. >> there's a lot of important business that the senate could be tackling. we've typically done that during these government shutdowns.

which the last thing we need to do right now is to trade pointless, absolutely pointless show votes back and forth across the aisle. >> and this is truly a stalemate with no end in sight unless someone breaks ranks or an emergency declaration is announced. lou: and there are no signs of anyone breaking rank. edward lawrence, thank you. about 60 miles from where president trump was speaking today about the crime and the crisis along our southern border, nearly two dozen bodies were found in what appears to be the result of a mass killing involving rival drug cartels at the border. the bodies were found near burned out trucks, some of the bodies burned as well. the area has been a conduit for drug shipments into and out f 06 the uniteout ofthe united state. the discover comes as radical leftists like bay to o'rourke

claim that the southern border is one of the safest places in the country. wow. our first guest tonight to talk about the president east immigration ideas, joining us francis rooney, former u.s. ambassador to the vatican. congressman, great to have you with us. let's start with the claims by the left, whether it's schumer, whether it's pelosi, whomever it may be on the left, that there's no crisis on the border, that there is no problem because we've got 70,000 opioid death as year in this country, far more, as you know, than were killed than in the vietnam war. how can these preposterous claims be made without response from the national left-wing media, without response in some cases from the republican party itself. >> yeah, we definitely have a problem here on many levels. and the fact that they're trying

to wash it under the rug and say no wall is reflective of their kind of lack of reality. as faas far back as the case in, the supreme court said that a sovereign has the ability as part of being a sovereign to determine who goes in and out of their country. and the democrats don't seem to want to do that we have no to stop wonton reckless unpatrolled entry across our border lou: and it's very clear. the president alluded to this today at the border. this is a very simple thing. pelosi and schumer are simply denying the president the funding for the wall because they realize that that is the last major promise he has made to the voters that he has not fulfilled. and when he fulfills that, he will be a juggernaut in 2020 and that's what they're fighting, don't you think in. >?>> this president has done wht

he said he was going to do. it's refreshing to see a business guy come in and do what he said he would do. now we need to finish it off with the wall. lou: pelosi says it's not going to hatch, schumer says it's not going to happen. it's obvious they're playing presidential politics trying to 0 block this president on fulfilling his last mayor promise to the voters of 2016. adopt you agree? >> i don't agree. it shouldn't be about political posturing. it should be about protecting americans and protecting our sovereignty and making our border impenetrable. lou: and i want to take up the rio grande sector. law enforcement there telling the president during his tour that there's a greater number of apprehensions here of late than in previous months. and already we're seeing significant travel across that border by smugglers, drug

smugglers, human smugglers. what is your sense of what the president can do here next should he continue to invite the democrats over for tea or should he just say, you know, it's time for a national declaration of emergency? >> well, i don't think i would want to be bluffing with president trump seeing the way he's operated so far. he may get to the point where he tries it on and we'll find out if it will stick or not. you mentioned the valley. i have great experience in the valley, a lot of business down there. and the disproportionate crossings take place in the eastern part of the rio grande valley. we need to secure that area. lou: as far as i can tell looking across that whole run of 2,000 miles that make up the mexican-u.s. border, we need to secure the whole thing. this idea of picking and choosing, i've never seen it work anywhere because what happens is that they simply are diverted by whatever wall or barrier or sphen fence and it'se

for everybody on both sides of the border to grow up because there's corruption on both sides and that corruption is what's keeping the border open, whether it's drug traffic, human smuggling, whether, you know, it's the cartels. this has got to stop. >> well, the countries of guatemala, honduras and el salvador are not going to improve nobody what anybody does in the near future. this crisis of caravans trying to get through mexico into the united states is not going to stop. we have to defend our border. lou: defend our border indeed. and also you and senator ted cruz, a border state senator if there ever were one, calling for term limits. you've got cosponsors and moving ahead. it's an interesting idea, one whose time, i think most people right now would say it's an idea whose time has come. >> 80% or more of all americans of all subsets, groups,

identities, et cetera say they want term limits the only people who don't want term limits are the entrenched politicians in d.c. maybe that's why people give congress an 11% approval rating. lou: i can think of a host of others as well. great to have you here. thank you so much. >> thank you, lou, for having me on. lou: up next, the radical left sings the same old song about the president's push for a wall along the southern border. listen in. >> what he is proposing is not the best way for us to secure our borders. >> this has become really a fiasco. i think it's reached a breaking point. >> are we going to spend billions of dollars for a wall or a fence when i can buy a $100 ladder and take care of the issue. >> the crisis here is one that donald trump has made himself. >> this is ridiculous and it's cruel. and it needs to end now. >> i think we ought to be able

to find a way to agree on an investment in modern border security technology that doesn't necessarily require our building a vanity project, concrete wall in the desert. lou: have you ever heard such balderdash? we'll talk that up and much more right after the break. ed rollins our guest. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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anti-trump cnn contributor, some of those words i think are redundant, ana navarro doesn't believe there's a crisis on our southern border and here is how she responded as a protrump commentator, steve cortez, was discussing that crisis. >> even if i were to grant you that, okay, the point is the illegal alien crime rate should be zero. you can do your nails. you know who can't do their nails? on people who have been killed by dangerous known illegal aliens who have been allowed to stay in this country because of the leftist policies that people like you have allowed to stay here. lou: joining us tonight, ed rollins. good to have you here. >> my pleasure. thank you very much.

lou: we're hearing a lot of talk from the left about no crisis, that there aren't 70,000 opioid overdose as year in this country, that mention coo isn't thmexico isn't thesource of theh methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin and cocaine into this country, that they're not the source of illegal -- they have become deniers. they choose to call republicans on the issue of climate change denars. who are they other than deniers when it comes to the issue of border security and our illegal immigration and drug crisis on the border. >> the whole columbian drug crisis that us with going on in the '80s has all moved to mexico. everything that was being done down there is being done on the board arborder of mexico. nancy pelosi can see a successful wall if she would go down there. the year she got elected to

congress -- lou: he doesn'she doesn't want e anything. >> there was 70,000 people that came across the border. they put the border wall up there and it basically stopped it. so it's there. it's worked. lou: we know the walls work. there's not even a question, whether it's in jordan, israel or whether it's. >> san diego. san diego, el paso. lou: the president now i is calling this a national emergency and it is. i don't think the democrats have given him any choice. and by the way, i don't know what you think, but i can't imagine any further negotiation with people who have said hell no. >> well he can't negotiate. they're not going to negotiate with him. she stayed it's unholy to do something like this, it's immoral. schumer who was once voting for walls says now he won't devote a penny. what does trump get out of this in trump needs to do what he needs to do.

lou: let's be clear pap and and you've seen a lot of dirty politics in your career but these people are saying no, not because they don't care about the national security. they care about 2020. and if they can block this president from fulfilling his last significant campaign promise of 2016, he won't be as powerful -- i still think he'll win 2020 but he would be a juggernaut if he can deliver on this promise as well then they know that. >> for the good of the country we need to get the wall done and we're never going to get it done unless it's done now. he realizes that and he has to hang tough. they're not going to do it. they made it very clear they're not going to do it. lou: and lindsey graham standing up saying point blank, declare a national emergency, mr. president. lindsey graham has stood tall and strong with this president. it's good to see. i'm wondering where all of the other republicans are, why they are not supporting this

president and calling for the end to this national crisis. the president can resolve this. >> he's the only one that can. nay ear nothey're not going to e lou: what about mitt romney. >> he said he wouldn't shut the border down, wouldn't do an executive order. he said that today. lou: he is jeff flake on steroids. >> he's worse. lou: as senator david perdue suggested we didn't need another jeff flake on steroids. >> there are four or five of them moderate in the senate and so far they're holding them fast and there are eight or nine house members going south on the vote. the bottom line, the president is going to have to hang tough on this one. lou: good to see you up next, our poll, and the scwe iquestion is tonight, do yu believe pruch should declare a national emergency to secure our southern border, to impede illegal immigration and sex

trafficking. cast your vote @loudobbs. up next, kim jong-un goes to china ahead of a second summit with president trump. what's beijing seeking in these discussions. asia expert gordon chang will take that up next. before we go to break, a look at the u.s. national debt. this always clears this mind, doesn't it, as it approaches the $22 trillion level. speaking of crises, there's another. we'll be right back. stay with us.

lou: south korea reporting the expected second summit between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un is imminent. that roote report follow as twoy

visit to beijing for kim in which the south korea president said that he hopes the united states and north korea can meet halfway on denuclearization. think about this. how do you meet halfway on denuclearization. this is the fourth such meeting between kim and xi. seconsecretary of state mike poo blasting president obama's foreign policy where obama spoke of a new beginning were u.s. relations with muslim and arab countries back in 2009. listen to this. >> remember, it was here here in this city that another american stood before you. he told you that radical islamist terrorism does not stem from an ideology. he told you that -- he told you that 911 led my country to abandon its ideals particularly in the middle east. he told you that the united states and the muslim world needed quote a new beginning. end of quote.

the results of these misjudgments have been dire. the age of self-inflected american shame is over and so are the policies that produce so much needless suffering. now comes the real new beginning. lou: and joining us now, gordon chang, columnist, author of "the coming collapse of china" and "the nuclear showdown." first your response to strong language from the secretary of state in cairo rebuking and null nullifying whatever comments the former president had made that suggested that the united states would be anything but strong in the middle east. >> well secretary pompeo's comments were absolutely needed. what you have is the united states in some terrible policies in regard to iran. we ended up with the nuclear agreement of 2015 that was really helpful to the iranians, not helpful to anybody else. and under this president we've got a new iran policy, new

middle east policies. and this is just absolutely necessary. lou: and what is necessary now with china? we hear, as a result of three days of talks with the chinese, that there is significant progress in the trade discussions. but i can't find the real substance there in terms of resolution of a trade dispute and a balancing of that trade relationship which, after all, is the purpose of having these talks. >> yeah. the talks in beijing i think largely were procedural because there's going to be a meeting in davos on the 22nd or 23rd of this month. lou: that in and of itself is frightening. >> between president trump and chinese vice president jong. they talked a little bit about increased purchases of u.s. products but they didn't really solve what's at core here, and that is theft of u.s. intellectual property, pred tear trade practices and all of the

rest of it. lou: think how frustrated president trump must be. he's having to carry out an education program for the establishment elites about why balanced trade is the appropriate and natural state of international trade, not only between china and the united states but globally. he is having to educate the elites that a nation should not be permitted to steal have a trillion dollars from us in intellectual property every year. he's having to teach, particularly the left and the establishment elites, that it's necessary to secure or borders to stop death and destruction and devastation as a result of the illegal traffic of drugs, sex trafficking and porous borders and human smuggling. i mean, this is the stuff. it is madnes madness itself. >> yeah, we don't talk about clinton, though.

fentanyl, though. lou: did you though that shee ginninshethat xijinping may mak? you can't make this up. >> when you have large gangs involved in the manufacture and driks of fentanyl coming across our borders with to be chinese communist party is involved with it and some people in the government are making a lot of money. lou: it's an authoritarian government. even outlaws are under the heels, the boot of the communist party. and to pretend otherwise, which is what many of the establishment and globalist elites do, i mean they're functioning effectively as vice president mike pence said. admitting on wall street, in

corporate america, operating as unregistered foreign agents lobbying against this administration's policies, its goals and objectives, its achievements and on behalf of china itself. >> you have that september 16, 2018 meeting in beijing. you had the communist party summoning wall street executives to talk about the midterms. that's completely unacceptable. lou: unacceptable but, you know, there are, within the white house itself, certain globalist elites who are working just as hard quietly, certainly, with great stealth in most instances against the president's poll sis apoliciesas are any number of es and officials of wall street or corporate america. certainly k street sphwhr and and you've got one pupil in particular in the white house that needs a lot of education. that's called the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin.

we cannot allow wall street to hijack trade policy. and that's exactly what is happening. there are a lot of americans who have been suffering because of really feeble policies in previous administrations. lou: and against the backdrop of all of this, we're looking at the prospect of a second summit between the president, who has made great progress in his negotiations with kim jong-un, but what can be resolved when china has this aggressive and threatening posture throughout, whether it's in commerce or whether it is in international relations. >> well you have sh xi jinping. at the same time, you had the american trade delegation in beijing. that was a warning to president trump saying look, if you don't help me on trade -- china is running at of ammo on the trade dispute. what jinping was saying if you don't help me on trade i'm going to give you a hard time on north korea. arand here i have kim jong-un in

my capital to prove it. lou: it's important to all of those who basically want to deny the role of xi jinping in the north korean issue, want to deny how important it is for the chinese government to steal $600 billion of our intellectual property and technology, they should remember that's all more important to them than running a trade surplus with the united states of a few hundred billion dollars. and that all has to be resolved and that can't be compromised on. gordon chang, thanks for being here. appreciate it up next, president trump on the southern border. part of his continued push to build that wall. >> this should have been done 30 years ago. these people do the most incredible job. they're not given a full hand because they need the barriers. where we have a good strong barrier you don't have problems. lou: congressman andy biggs

joins us right after the break with much more. stay with us. we're coming right back. -we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house?

lou: mexico bracing for a new caravan of migrants who are set to leave central america this month with the intent of entering the united states. the head of mexico's immigration office is meeting with central american government officials and they're warning that those entering mexico illegally this

tiesm will be deport pd. joining us tonight, congressman andy bigs. he'll cochair the border security caucus where the 116 congress. and also serving on the house judiciary committee, the science, space technology committee, a member of the house freedom caucus. great to have you with us. first this caravan. another caravan. perfect, just perfect. what in the world -- and the left continues to deny there's a crisis, that there is any issue here. >> they're kind of playing a game of are you going to believe your lying eyes 0 o eyes or areg to bto believe what we tell you. and this caravan is coming again because why? because they know that this discourse is taking a damning place where we're not making progress because nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and the democrats refuse to budge on this and

they've basically said we're not going to fight illegal immigration on the border. that's what they're saying. lou: they're saying point blank, the rest of america can go to hell. their constituency, illegal immigrants. their constituency, the employers of those who exploit illegal immigrants in this country and have for 30 years. this is -- there's no mystery here. they're also blocking the president in fulfilling his last major campaign promise to the voters, which is to build that wall. and they know that if he builds that wall, if he secures that border, he will be an absolute electoral juggernaut in 2020. >> when lindsey graham says if we don't build the wall, this is our last chance to build the wall, he's exactly right. but the democrats are saying, yeah, we can't afford -- they believe they can't afford to let him do it, just like you say, because to do so has a chance to restore the republicans to credibility.

because right now we're shaky on credibility because for two years we didn't get this done and that's too bad. but here we are, we're in this fight and i'm grateful for president trump. he's holding strong and most of my colleagues are as well. lou: and to that point, are you confident that the conference in the house, which is, by the way, as you suggest, one of the most conflicted conferences in history, and i'm talking about the previous congress, not this one yet, we'll find out. do you think they can stand up -- is the leadership within the party more principled than the speaker and the leadership of the previous congress? >> well, i certainly hope so. so far everything kevin mccarthy -- lou: you hope so. i love your candor, congressman. i absolutely do. >> yeah, me too. kevin has said the right things. he's been there. i think he's committed. i know he introduced a bill like

i did to build a wall and fund the wall. so i think kevin is there on the policy. and i think for the most part we've lost eight people to a vote yesterday. but i think that's probably the extent of the people who are weakening. lou: and two lost today, 10 and in another 12 who crossed over with those three bills with four to go. i haven't checked to see if there's been another vote. but that's not significant at this point, would you agree? >> i would agree with that. i think we still have the high ground. let's just be honest. the hop ticks of everything that's gone on this week is in favor of the republicans and president trump. he is just -- he's played this masterfully, not that he's playing a game. but he understands how you negotiate with people who don't want to negotiate. sometimes you got to walk away. sometimes you walk away from people who don't want to have a good faith negotiation. and so -- lou: when you're dealing with national security, congressman, if i say, i hope you would agree with me sometimes you don't

negotiate at all. what is at stake here is you know, better than almost anyone on capitol hill, the sovereignty of the nation and the security of that border. and without it, as the president reminds all americans all of the time, without those borders, we are not a nation. >> he's exactly right. and i think that most of my colleagues are right there and willing to go the distance. and so i have been real pleased with the effort of the leadership on this issue as well as my colleagues. there are some that are a little bit softer. i don't understand why. because for me, this is really the keynote issue of our time. it really is. lou: will you unequivocally support the president if he choose to declare a national emergency on the border? >> yes. yes. i've studied it, i went through and read the statutes again. lou: will your colleagues? >> that's where it gets a little

dicey. i would hope so. lou: i would too. but i would like to have more re assurance than i hope so. >> i'm going to always tell you the truth as i see it and i think a significant majority would be willing to stand and fight. but he wants -- i think the president wants to, we all want to get to a legislative solution. if the other side -- lou: i got to be honest with you. we got to solve it. i don't think we've good time for a legislative solution. i've seen what the republicans do. i'm a little tired of their efforts, to be candid with you. >> i don't think it's going to happen, lou. i think it's going to be an emergency. lou: i think so too congressman andy biggs, good to see you. a reminder to vote in tonight's poll, do you believe president trump should declare a national emergency to secure or southern border and impeople illegal immigration, drug and sex trafficking, cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. up next, jerome powell take as market friendly tone on

interest rate hikes. we'll have that as well as the president's continued efforts to get the wall built. jason chaffetz joins me next. stay with us.

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straight session. the dow and s&p are out of correction territory. the dow gaining 123 points, the s&p up 12, the nasdaq up 29. volume on the big board dropping to 3.7 billion shares. the market gaining $1.7 trillion over the past five trading days. crude oil closing relatively flat to just over $52 a barrel, gold also flat, silver and copper down nearly a percent. a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network joining us tonight, jason chaffetz, former republican congressman from utah, fox business contributor and author of the terrific book "the deep state" great to hav ." great to have you with us. look at the market taking off despite everything. the market hates uncertainty. i can't imagine much more uncertainty unless we were

absolutely involved in oo a warr something of that order. this market seems to be inspired by tension and uncertainty and some level of conflict whether it be economic or political. >> well, i think the market also understands that it's only about 6% or 7% of the government that's actually closed. remember, 75% of the government is automatic spending, of the remaining 25%, 75% of that continues to be open. and the normal pinch points on a wall and a shutdown are usually with veterans, dod, you know, military pay. and again all of that is flowing as well. lou: does it look to you as though the president -- let's deal first with the government shutdown. does it look to you as though the president is going to have to leave the government shutdown, this partial shutdown go on for some time in order to prevail against an absolute

intractable democratic leadership? >> oh, i hope he continues the daily beat because he's on the right side of the issue. it's stunning to me how the democrats have moved from a position that they used to hold in terms of border security, i think america sees the hypocrisy of it. po lacy and schumer has painted themselves into a corner. the president is on the side of the border patrol. he's on the side of the federal workers. lou: and he's on the side of the american people. i mean first and foremost. >> that's right. and i don't want to see a distraction declaring a national emergency. now, again, i think he's justified. i think he has the legal apparatus in order to do it. he may do that sooner rather than later. but i think he just needs to continue to make the case to the american people. and every time a democrat says, oh, i could beat that wall with a ladder, then say go ahead, let's see you do it. let's actually see you -- let's see one member of the house or senate scale that wall with a ladder. i dare them. lou: i could like to see them

trying to climb up 30 feet. and i would also like to be in charge of what would be along the top of that barrier. >> oh yeah. lou: when they go up there. but in all seriousness, here, you said that you would prefer -- you implied you would prefer he not declare a national emergency. i think it's the only way forward here. otherwise there's not going to be a solution. there's no sense protracting this any longer than necessary. and when he declares a national emergency, it's within his power to a actually get that wall constructed. and when you say national emergency here, remember, president obama declared national emergencies 12 times for everything from, you know, somalia to swine flu, for crying out loud. >> look, the case is stronger to actually do it. again, i think the president has the legal impetus to do it.

but when things continue to get tougher and tougher, you saw the congressman from minnesota who's in charge of the agricultural committee saying he's getting about 75 calls to his office in favor of the wall and only five or six in opposition to the wall. those democrats need to continue to hear that in order to actually win this debate. and i think coming up at the end of the month, i think it's the 29th of january, the state of the union, democrats are going to want to have this closed out. they're not going to want to sit there for an hour and a half listening to the president address the nation making the case again for the wall. lou: the president has the ability to do this. there shouldn't be too much legal question. >> yes. lou: that doesn't mean that the democrats won't challenge and try to obstruct as they have throughout his presidency. >> right. lou: but i really believe the way forward here is for him to declare a national emergency and simply sweep aside the

recalcitrant left in this country. they have obstructed, resisted and subverted for far too long. the american people don't need to put up with this and the president needs to find a way forward here where he can deliver on this promise in advance of the 2020 presidential election, because that means he will have fulfilled all of his mayor promise to the american people from the 2016 election. i think it's critically important. >> i think the president will prevail. if he doesn't tonight or tomorrow or whatever it is, i will wholeheartedly support him. i do think they need to continue the daily drum beat and make the case, rather than have everybody say withi, oh, well it's tied un the courts. in the coming months we'll see what happens. i want them to daily tell the american people they are not in favor of border security. and if nancy pelosi thinks the wall is so immoral, introduce a

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lou: left night on our poll question we asked whether you believe president trump should insist on securing the border before any talk of amnesty can begin. 95% of you said yes. here's where we are tonight looking at tomorrow. president trump on the southern border today in texas telling sean hannity democrats that it's about politics, not security. >> is not a money thing but a political thing. they look at the 2020 race and not feeling too good about it. they'll do whatever they can to. lou: the dems on house of representatives continue to resist, subvert, scheduling votes on their standalone spending bill to fund the department of the interior and the environmental action agencies but if you are wondering, none of those bills will be taken up by the u.s.

senate. that is it for us tonight and we thank you for being with us. executive director of frontier service group, eric prince, david and gop nevada chair amy and the pastor among our guests. good night from new york. trish: breaking tonight, major warning for americans as socialism think that the challenge to the economic - venezuela economic despair and total isolation tonight. as its dictator nicolas maduro swears oven for another term for former ambassador to venezuela under ronald reagan is here exclusively with what is next for this troubled country and why we must all recognize this ominous threat that we are facing as socialism gains traction here in the united states with reports of a new caravan forming half of our border in honduras. the president says it is the

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