like another 19th century classic, the horse and buggy? well that's it for us this week, i'll be back next week, with more in depth interviews here on the wall street journal at large thank y lou: good evening, everybody. another week passing without congressional democrats meeting the president's demands to build that border wall. congress today left town, no indication they're serious in any way about ending what has turned out to be a stalemate at this point. the president remains hard at work in the white house, at the border, wherever he is required. meeting today with leaders of communities devastated by the crisis at the border, despite the congressional on city on on. >> one of the problems that we have is our border, southern border and we're going to take

care of it. the easy solution is for me to call a national emergency. i could do that very quickly. i have the absolute right to do it. but i'm not going to do it so fast because this is something that congress should do. lou: president trump says it is time for the radical dimms to stop playing partisan political games and to reopen the government by voting to keep our country and our people safe. >> and we're waiting for the democrats to vote. they should come back and vote. they want to go home. they're probably home by now. we want congress to do its job. we want the democrats to come back and vote, wherever they may be. i haven't left the white house except to go to iraq. but this is up to congress and it shoal be up to congress and they should do it. if they can't do it, if they yell that we can't do it, there's no way we could vote for security. there's no way that we could vote for safety. all nancy and chuck have to do is tell me.

a enyou know what? we'll start thinking about another alternative. lou: here tonight we'll be talking about the shutdown and this showdown. house freedom founder -- house freedom caucus cofounder jim jordan joins us tonight. also an all-star lineup, republican strategist ed rollins, david bossie. also, president trump keeping another campaign promise as the u.s. military begins withdrawal from syria. we take up the latest in syria and the middle east. former u.s. navy s.e.a.l., founder of black water usa eric prince. another what way executive arresterred charged with espionage this time in po polan. this development comes as the u.s. urges allies not to use what way products because of concern they're being used by the cha chinese for surveillance

purposes. top story tonight. president trump says all he has the authority to declare a national emergency at the border, he's not going to do so yet. plump is waiting the see whether congress will meet his demands to fully found a border wall and end the crisis at the border. we have more on the president's decision and the likely impact on the shutdown and the border. ed? >> first, the president promising that those workers, the federal workers will get their paychecks when this is all said and done. as you said, he's leaving the national security debate on the table. >> congress should do this. if they can't do it, if at some point they just can't do it, this is a 15-minute meeting. if they can't do it, i will declare a national emergency. i have the absolute right to do it. it says as clear as you can. >> and agencies are starting to feel the pinch. the coast guard is working

without pay. now democrats latching on to that saying if the president wants to stop illegal drugs, why is he making the coast guard work without pay. vice president mike pence met border patrol agents today saying this isn't about a pay neck today. this is about protecting the united states because the works will get their money. it's about protecting the united states from criminals, drugs and people ignoring our immigration laws. >> i'm here to say we are with you and we are going to continue to stand with you until you have the resources and the reforms to do your job. that's my pledge. >> some 800,000 federal workers going without a paycheck today for the first time. some pressure felt by republican senators. senator lisa mu murkowski saying she's for border security, wants to end the humanitarian crisis on the southern border wu wavering a little bit on the government shutdown. >> but also count me in as one

who says that shutting down the government is not governing. nobody is winning in this. you know who it's on, mr. president? it is on the backs of all of us. >> and senator lindsey graham tweeting out today saying that, mr. president, build the wall, declare a national emergency. he believes that the democrats will continue to stonewall and the best way to protect the borders is to get the wall built. back to you, lou. lou: thank you very much. and senator graham standing up for the president. and on the issue of the border crisis. as the president is fighting with congress for funding on the wall, he weighed in on the h1b visa program. the president tweeted in part, we want to encourage talented and highly-skilled people to per sue career options in the united states. and i would have to say most of

us would feel exactly the same way, we all do, i think. but somebody in corporate america, someone in silicon valley apparently thought that was a smart idea to suggest to the president. it is far from that. according to professor ron of howard university, almost four in five of hb1 visa workers approved by the department of labor are being paid below average wages earned by american citizens, roughly 40% less than americans in the same jobs as those immigrants on the guest worker program, hb1 visa. visa workers have a pathway to citizenship through a green card petition when fieldz by their employer. and as it turched r turns out the h1b visa program is a little more than a low skilled outsources program, corporate america, the business round

table, commerce, silicon valley should be ashamed of themselves for pushing this idea in the nation's capital. we'll be keeping the story straight, i assure you. joining us fox business political analyst, ed rollins. ed, let's first go to this. we've got silicon interest obviously in this. they want india outsources companies, you can go through the list, that are simply using h1b's as outsourcing material, that is a foreign company will come in, create an outsourcing company in this country, then bring in their workers for example from india and compete for as much as 40% less wages with american workers. this is the last thing that anyone in corporate america should be pushing. >> we shouldn't be disusing this at this point in time. we're in a discussion on security on the border. and any interruption here is outrageous. lou: it is an outrageous one but

one we need to deal with. this president is about the working family and he's gotten a group of people that have gotten to him the raise the issue. it's outrageous. >> son-in-law is running all over the hill talking about zack ddaca. lou: we don't know that. >> my ens is the president needs to focus on this, don't do anything at this point in time. at the end of the day you don't want to confuse anybody. you want to condemn the activities of the chambers and others who are doing anything they can at this point in time. lou: let's turn to his decision to go slower. he does not want to go fast on declaring that national emergency. the government remains shut down. the crisis remains at the border. he wants congress to act. what do you think the odds are? >> they're not going to act and obviously he's not listening well. they have said no, under no circumstances are we going to spend one penny on border

security at this point in time. pelosi said it, schumer said it the other night. pelosi said it to he her member. he's got an answer of no and he now ought to act and do the emergency situation. lou: declare a national emergency. >> declare a national emergency. lou: lindsey graham, who i have to say i respect greatly, he has stood up for this president, has stood up in the interest of the country, has been absolutely bold and is calling for the president to declare an emergency. he's standing with the president on the crisis at the border. and where the hell are the other senators? >> lindsey counts votes well and he knows what's going on on the hill. he's been a total supporter of the president on this issue and other issues and the president ought to listen to him. the president needs to move forward. we need to get this stopped.

lou: speaking of stopping, murkowski standing there on the floor blathering. i mean they don't have the guts to make sense. her language was like watching marshmallows blow in the wind. ridiculous. >> there's four of five of them of the week. she's one of them. at the end of the day they can't make a difference. they can talk on the floor. the votes are not there to move the bill without the president's permission and the president needs to make it clear. lou: mitch mcconnell made it clear there's not going to be a vote on any of this nonsense. why isn't there some movement on the part of the political office of the this president's white house to get ahold of each one of these senators and make it very clear. either you get on board as a republican and we move forward to deal with a national security crisis -- this isn't a game. this isn't something, you know, some trite nonsense, the

platitudes that murkowski and roomny arromney are spewing. >> at the end of the day, everybody knew where the president was and what the president wanted. this has to be very clear. the president has made it -- don't send me anything until it's fixed and if you're not going to fix it i'm going to take other steps. he needs to do it quick. lou: and a reminder of who took it to the president on h1b visas. your job work in the white house is to support this nation, this president and not undercut him and this is a travesty of staff work that i just -- i don't even comprehend. >> totally agree. whoever did it ought to be fired. lou: no president has stood up for the american worker, the middle class family in this country like this president. and to put this nonsense in front of him is outrageous.

i would love to know which fool did it because -- it would be ak academic but done the less i would like to know. >> security security security. secure the wall. that's the issue. lou: as always, good to have you with us. up next, president trump slamming the left wing national media for their failure to report on the dangers that exist all along the southern border with mexico. >> even yesterday i read where fairly close to where i was, like 26 people were killed. you know, it's amazing. it got no publicity. i didn't see it. you don't read about this stuff. they're not telling you the truth about -- you're doing this country a tremendous disservice. you're not telling the truth about the criminal activity and the crime. the media is not telling the american public how bad it is, how dangerous it is. i mean, i read a little story about the 26 and i said, how could that be a small story. the worst victims are the children and the women.

and you don't write about it. you write about nonsense. you write about nancy pelosi saying it's immoral to have a wall. it's immoral to have all of these people killed. these people are being killed and you don't report it. lou: the president is 100% correct. we take that up and much more. congressman jim jordan with us right after this quick breang. stay wit the fact is, americans move more than anyone else in the world. on average, we'll live in eleven homes. and every time we move, things change. apartments become houses, cars become mini vans. as we upgrade and downsize, an allstate agent will do the same for our protection. now that you know the truth, are you in good hands?

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suing the trump administration over the government shutdown pay freeze, or just simply the lack of pay. although they will be paid, of course, once the shutdown ends. the law firm is arguing that the fail you tfailure to pay is a -g mboy havewe got a lot to talk a. good to see you. let's start with the president's decision not to declare a national emergency, give pelosi and schumer one more opportunity, it sounds like that another opportunity at least, to say no, they're not going to do

anything. your thoughts. >> well we should do it legislatively. we should appropriate the dollars, build the border security wall. but if that can't goat done andd hedy clairs emergency, he's right. everybody knows in spite of what the mainstream press may say, everybody know this is a crisis, this is an emergency and we need a border security wall. democrats know it, republicans know it, independents know it. the only ones who don't get it are the democrats in washington, d.c. and that's the problem. lou: well, democrats and a handful of rino republicans who have been votin voting that wayd did so in the house from 8 to 12 at various points. >> yeah. but lou, remember, that's just a handful. remember what's happening on the democrats side. there are a number of new democrats in very republican-leaning districts. they just barely won. the democrat in oklahoma city city district, how about the democrat in south carolina.

you don't think south carolina voters -- lou: how about the congressman in minnesota on agriculture. >> they're feeling the heat more somoreso than any republican. lou: how hot is it from what the republican handful is feeling? >> most politicians don't see the light, they feel the heat and i think that's happening in many of those types of seats. and that close race in virginia, lots of those close seats -- one of them, a freshman member said she's for dollars for a barrier. that's the first democrat we've heard. i think they're starting too hear from their constituents and understand that the american people want what the president wants, a border security wall. lou: we've got to mention cher who said build the wall. when chef moves toward the president you know that things are not quite as nancy pelosi and schumer would like. >> we're making some progress

with cher, right? lou: let's talk about other areas where we're not making progress and that progress frankly is getting the solution at the border. what's it going to take? while we're talking about this handful of republicans, i'm listening to a number of republicans and i can't figure out what the heck they're thinking. lindsey graham, standing up in the senate, i'm talking about primarily the senate. he is standing up for this president and then i watch murkowski, you know, blowing those bubbles of ambiguity. >> well, i think most republicans in the congress are strongly behind the president. we are trying to get the democrats to at least show up at the negotiating table, work on some kind of agreement where we can get the money for the border security wall and whatever it takes to get there. that's what lindsey has been pushing for several weeks, a number of us working with him. republicans by age large are very strong behind the president. we're going to have to wait to

see. and if we can't get it and the president declares an emergency, this is appropriate. the drug problem, the gang problem, the trafficking problem, everyone knows those things are real. and if we have to go the emergency rout we'll have to go that route. but let's do it the right way. let's appropriate dollars and get the wall built. lou: fundamental question in all of this. the president said he was going to build the wall. didn't say he was going to give out amnesty for it. he's got a busm of people around him pushing a amnesty, what i cl daca dumb or any number of levels -- some people are spouting nonsense about grand bargains and you and i know how grand bargains work on capitol hill. never well to put it mildly. this president is better off, yes or no from your perspective -- i don't mean literally yes or no. tell us how you feel -- whether or not there should be any attached condition here. this is national security as the president says.

why the hell should there be a negotiation of any kind? >> good point. the main thing i think is that most americans understand, they're not going to fall for this amnesty now and some kind of border security wall later. they've seen that play before. they're not going to slip and fall for that and we shouldn't do that. the president is right to focus on border security first. that's where we have to go. the problem is, and you know this, you've talked about it every night on your show, the democrats are much more concerned about stopping the president on anything and everything than they are on helping the country. until they changed that positio. one week ago, eight days ago, excuse me, first day of session, the first thing brad sherman, congressman from california filed, articles of impeachment. one member who hadn't been a member for 24 hours, less than 24 hours says terrible disgraceful things she said about the president at the move on. org meeting that he was at.

their first big hearing, elijah cummings announcing their big hearing, who are they bringing in, a convicted felon, michael cohen, they're bringing him in to testify in front of congress. one of the reasons he's gone to prison is because he lied to congress. you can't make this stuff up. lou: you know what else you can't make up? the fools actually said the purpose of the hearing was to determine his credibility, which should take about five seconds. congressman jim jordan, as always, great to see you. we appreciat it. be sure to vote in the poll tonight. the question is do you believe democrats rinos and globalists are suck verting president trump's efforts to build the border because they know that if he does he will be absolutely unstoppable in the 2020 election? you know it. cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. follow me on twitter, like me on facebook, follow me on instagram up next, you may soon be seeing more of former rino

senator jeff flake. i know your heart is well just fluttering with expectation. we'll take that up. republican strategist and former campaign aid david bossie joins us next. before we go to break, let's look at the national debt, a cheerful moment as it moves toward being a $22 trillion crisis. we're coming right back. stay with

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president trump says he wants to make a deal with congress on funding fu for the border wall. the radical left has nothing new to offer. >> i'm a mother of five, grandmother of nine. i know a temper tantrum when i see one. >> this shutdown is not a negotiation situation. this is a hostage situation. >> these people are being used as pawns, as hostages in a policy debate that has nothing to do with them. >> when the president of the united states says that he can, quote, relate to what's happening, it's pretty clear he can't. >> it is harming literally millions, tens of millions of people. there's no doubt. lou: joining us tonight, republican strategist, former chair of the nevada republican party amy tarkanian, former trump campaign aide david bossie. great to have you with us, david. amy, let me start with you.

does your heart soar thinking of senate flake on the air waves of cbs? >> it's probably where he belongs. you know, you also see someone like mia love who was recently picked up by cnn. the two of them are going to be a match made in heaven on those air waves because they're both anti-trump. so of course the media, who is no friend to our president, is going to enjoy having those two use our president as a pinata. lou: david, there's just no pretense here whatsoever. the fake news, as the president refers to them, they are, as amy says, anti-trump first and foremost and perhaps exclusively anti-trump. >> well that's right. and this president has done america a great service in educating the american people about the fake news. and i really think that the american people now look at the media completely differently

because of how they treat this president. and let me say this. this is a noble fight our president is in. a noble fight. he is fighting for every american, every single one of them. he is not fighting for people who want to come here illegally. he is fighting for the american men and women, the workers in this country, the families of this country to protect them from the murderers and the drugs and from the human traffickers. that's what this fight is and i think the american people see it. lou: and amy, to that end, congressman jim jordan, one of the republican leaders, most prominent leaders in the house, talking about the fact this president has the support of the republican party, that there are a handful who have splinters off, but only a handful, whether the house or the senate. how significant and substantial and sustainable is that support on the government shutdown and getting funding for the border wall? >> first of all, i can't say

enough great things about congressman jordan. he is a wonderful human being and i applaud him for standing firm and next to the president in his america first agenda. shame on those few who have splintered off. it is vital that we do keep our border strong. it is vital that we move forward with the plan that the president has put forward to the nation. i don't know why those republicans have made the decision that they have other than to maybe appease the media. and maybe they just don't have a backbone. lou: well, there is that. perhaps -- david, your thoughts on this. >> let me just say that our president and our country is only in this position because the republican congress under failed leadership didn't get this done over the last two years. and lou, we've talked about this a lot. paul ryan and those own this problem. and i got to tell you, that just

tarnishes their reputation. lou: we shouldn't say they were failed. they succeeded. they ran out the clock. they subverted the president and they were bought and paid for by the chamber of commerce, the koch brothers, wall street and that's it. no one should make any mistake about who they are, who they are and will always be. >> that's exactly right, lou. the american people need to continuously be reminded of that. and we're in this position today because this president has decided that the safety and security of all americans are above politics and the democrats are being shown as just doing that to try to atake hi attack r 2020. lou: i want to get both of your reactions. president obama in 2014, he said this, if we could roll this rather interesting expression from the former president. >> we now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the border that only underscores the

need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all. why hasn't he supported president trump as he try to do exactly what the former president failed at. amy? >> it's astounding, isn't it. it's almost word verbatim to what president trump has said himself. you have the media, the majority of the media in bed with these democrat leaders who are refusing to do what's right for the country, what's right for its visits and it's due to their own egos, their narcissim and they refuse to do the correct thing. lou: davids you have 15 seconds for the last word. >> the democrat leadership in the house and senate hate this president more than they love this country and that's the fundamental problem that we have today and we're going to have it for the next two years as they move to do everything they can do under mine and destroy this president. and he's fighting back and that's what they're not used to.

lou: it's going to be an exciting 2020. thank you both supreme court justice ruth bader ginsberg has been working from home recently as she recovers from lung cancer surgery. i'm delighted to say her doctors now telling us she is cancer free. she's a fighter, she's battled cancer for years. she's always worked hard and puts always her fierce intellect on display. we wirv wish her the best and tk her for being a bright example for all of us. up next, the american withdrawal from syria has begun as secretary of state mike pompeo pushes a new u.s. foreign policy in the middle east. we take that up after the break. the come executive director of frontier services group i'm ken jacobus and i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees.

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rd joining me tonight, eric prince, the executive director deputy chairman of frontier services group within also a retired navy cele officer, also the founder of black water. and eric, great to have you with us. i want to. >> thank you lou. lou: i want to begin if we may with first the now the reports that we were watching, the withdrawal of at least some of our forces in syria. and your reaction and your thoughts about the president's decision to withdraw those troops. >> look, i think it's totally

appropriate that the president made good on his campaign promise to try to end these forever wars. the united states doesn't have a long term strategic obligation to stay in syria. but i also think it's not a good idea to abandon our allies and the kurds and the syrian democratic forces that are there without u.s. forces providing them a little top cover will be smashed by the iranians and the syrians. so i think it's a perfect analogy to 1940 where japan had invaded china, were bombing the heck out of their cities and the united states wanted to help them but woul couldn't have u.s. ground troops involved so they allowed the tiger to form, a private company, army, air force, marine took leave of their service and went to work for the private company defending china. lou: do you think that's the analog in syria then,

effectively a private force there to protect the kurds primarily? >> if there is not some kind of robust capability to defend from a ground invasion from the very conventional pow thary the iranians and the syrians are, our allies that thr will be smashed. the president is right to announce a pullout. we shouldn't have to stay there forever but i don't think we should leave the allies hanging because they were key to our success in defeating isis. lou: and your thoughts thoughte alternative? >> the alternative of leaving troops there forever. the united states does not have to be the world's policeman. american history is filled with public and private partnerships where they can fill the gaps where a very expensiv expensivey should not be. lou: the president talks about the trillions of dollars that we've spent there. it's incredible to think about the money that was wasted, the lives lost in those enterprises

and now in afghanistan we're basically returning to the past. we're in negotiations with and enemy that we had va vanquished6 years ago absolutely in afghanistan. >> that's right. in the first few months after 9/11 the taliban were smashed because we fought this with an unconventional matter. we've gone backwards every since. we have $7 trillion in defense spending in the global war on terror. it's too much money. and that approach in afghanistan is not working. it's another place that a racialization could be done but so far the president's advisers are giving him bad advice saying more money and more troops is the only answer. i hope the white house staff and the pentagon opens their eyes. there are better way twa ways

this. lou: secretary of state pompeo rolling back the apology of the former president barack obama the speech he gave in cairo from the very outset of his presidency. do you think it was effective and do you think it auger augerl for the united states' new approach in the middle east? >> you definitely have to set the policy and lay down a marker but that's backeds up with muscle and grit. the iranians are deliberate. it's a society that have put 1,000 stitches in a persian rug in one square inch. they're very methodical. and so far they've been winning. they're advancing. fighting them and combating them in an unconventional way. look, the united states in the 1980s took on the soviet union and in ten years of action from the time reagan took over with a cia director like bill casey,

they rolled communism back. it is not difficult if we go about it in a serious and direct manner. lou: and i think of one other statistic to go with the stitches in that persian rug, and that is that the iranians were responsible for an estimated one-third of our casualties in iraq. erik prince, great to have you with us. appreciate it. look forward to talking to you soon. >> have a good weekend. lou: you too. a remind tore the vote in the poll tonight. do you believe democrats, rinos and globalists are subverting president trump's efforts to build the border wall because they know if they does fulfill that last campaign promise from 2016 he will be unstoppable in the election of 2020? cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. up next, the radical left skips town, no plan to fund the president's wall. no plan to even talk about it. pastor robert jeffers with me right after the break. stay with us. this is stonington, maine,

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closer low wer the markets up 7% though since the beginning of the partial government shutdown, not a bad run. the dow jones industrial down 6 points, the s&p relatively flat, the nasdaq down 15, volume on

the big board, dropping down to 3.4 billion on this light friday trading session. the markets close higher to end the week. the dow up nearly 2.5%, the s&p gained over 2.5%, the nasdaq gained nearly 3.5%. it's amazing what a benign expletion from the federal reserve can do while others chatter about things like trade tensions and government shutdowns. they matter not. at least not this week. crude oil down more than a percent and a half, nearly $52 a barrel, gold and silver flat, copper up nearly a percent. at&t and t-mobile announcing they will stop selling user cell phone location data to third parties by march, that after a report revealed how a user's personal data is being sold to, well, inappropriate buyers. and polish authorities have arrested and charged wha what ws

sell director. a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. joining us tonight, robert jeffers, pastor of the first baptist church of dallas and a fox business contributor, author of "choosinchoosing the extraory life." great to have you with us. let's start with the president on the crisis -- you know, i don't know about you, but i'm always stunned to think that we have a president who has to explain to the national left wing media why there is a crisis, what the crisis' dimensions are on our southern border. they're deniers. the democrats and the national left wing media. despite all of the death and the tragedy across that border and all of the drugs and the sex trafficking, the devastation and death that is exported from mentiomexico to the united stats

every single day. >> that's right, lou. there is a security crisis, no doubt about it at the border. pu there's also a humane tarn crisis that the president talked about. 30% of women being assaulted on the way, trying to have entry into our country. children being used as pawns. and you know, lou, if you have a swimming pool at your house and you don't put a fence around it and a child juaners in and drowns, you're legally liable for the death of that child. you've created an alluring situation. and by opposing this president and his desire to build a wall around our border, i believe the democrats are morally liable for the death of children, the assault of women of the humanitarian crisis that we're seeing at the border right now. lou: it's interesting, isn't it, that none of the northwest wing national media, upon hearing nancy pelosi say that such a wall would be immoral don't follow up saying which part of the walls that exist, which part of the fences that already exist on our southern border, all of

us by the way work, would you tear down? would you tear down the walls around the vatican, your home own, for example, madam speaker. they ask none of those questions. >> well, that's right. and lou, i think the american people are beginning to turn away from the democrats and toward this president on this issue. they are seeing the gross hypocrisy of democrats. they're beginning to understand that the democrats don't give a d-a-m-n about im grants or government shutdowns. all they want to do, they're hell-bent on scoping this president from building this wall because they want to deprive him of fulfilling a campaign promise and trying to deprive him of a second term. i don't think they're going to be successful at doing either. lou: the vice president has said very simply in support of the president's pronouncements, no wall, no deal to the democratic leadership of the senate and the house.

you've talked with him. your thoughts. >> well, look, he's said -- and he said in a briefing call the other day, the vice president, he said exactly that. the president is resolute about this. could i just say a word about the president's speech earlier this week? lou: sure. >> it was the shortest but it was the most powerful speech he's ever given. the line that stood out the most was the next to the last one when he said, when i took the oath of office i swore that i would protect this country. and you know, so many people today are upset about government workers not receiving paychecks. i understand that. but when the president took the oath of office, it was not the office of pay master of the united states making sure everybody got their checks on time. lou: i think everybody knows that politically. >> yeah. lou: i think everybody knows that politically the president has only one leverage in this discussion and otherwise it is a losing proposition, whether he chooses -- whether he is comfortable with it or not, he

has chosen the only place where he can get leverage and that is to move to shut the government down until the democratic leaders in the house and the senate take seriously their responsibility to the american people and to the nation. and that is to secure that southern border. >> and he's on high moral ground. he's never on higher moral ground than he's working like he is right now to fulfill his god-given mandate to protect this country. i'm proud of him. lou: and i think that everyone is very grateful to this president because certainly without him there would be no prospect whatsoever of securing the border and that is a sobering thought. it should be a sobering thought for every american that this president alone, amongst 17 candidates and one general election opponent, is the only one who would have secured the border and provided for the safety of the american people.

that should give everyone pause as they contemplate what is going on in this country. >> it should. and i think opinion again is turning, lou, in the right direction and i just thank you for every night sounding the truth and helping turn people's hearts toward doing the right thing and standing behind this president. lou: thanks so much. always grateful to have you here. have a good one. up next, president trump holds off on declaring a national emergency to secure that southern border for now. we take up what's next, what we think is next right after these quick messages. stay with us. we'll be right back. guys, it's that time... and nothin's happenin'.

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lou: in last nights poll question we asked whether president trump should declare in your opinion a national emergency to secure our southern border. 74% of you said yes. well here is where we are today what we're looking at next week. president trump today met with law enforcement officials on the border crisis, congressman jim jordan says it doesn't take a genius to realize there is a crisis. >> you don't have to be a genius to figure out wow look at what this caravan phenomenon over the last several months. everybody knows in spite of what the mainstream press may say, everybody knows this is a crisis , this is an emergency, and we need a border security wall. democrats know it, republicans know it, independence no it, the

only ones who don't get it are democrats in washington d.c. lou: former u.s. border patrol chief mark morgan former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski among our guests here monday, please be with us until then have a great weekend, >> it's one of the largest armies of its kind. >> would you say it was a hobby? or was he obsessed? >> i think that he was obsessed. >> soldiers of fortune -- and a fortune in soldiers. >> do you have any idea what it's worth? >> yes, we know what it's worth. >> can i know what it's worth? >> the man who raised this army was on a mission... >> he was a true historian. he wanted to bring these battles to life. >> but is it a bridge too far for his heirs? >> he left you with a huge responsibility, didn't he? >> it's just too difficult. >> it's kind of interesting that toy soldiers would get their own trust. >> i don't have my own trust, but they got theirs. [ theme music plays ]