liz: same to you. thank you for having us i in yor homes. thank you for watching. lou dobbs is next here on the fox business network. have a good night. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the trump administration today addressing the national security crisis at our southern border. announcing several thousand of our troops will be sent to the border in support of the department of homeland security mission. with the first members of the newest caravan from central america arriving in tijuana in recent days and thousands more behind them, as many as 12,000 in this next caravan. the need for border security, the border wall, is absolutely manifest, more evident than other. the radical dimms remain

hell-bent on resisting president trump, many saying there is no chance that they will support a wall. >> we do not support a medieval border wall from sea to shining sea. >> what we aren't going to do is use taxpayer money to fund a political applause line. >> i can tell you that the wall, as the president described it in his campaign, is never going to be built. period. >> let's do smart border protection which is very different than a concrete wall. >> i think that a good number of our republican colleagues don't want to shut down the government. we'll have to see if they're willing to break from the president or if the president moves off his hard and fast position. lou: president trump is not only facing resistance from the left but facing opposition within the republican party, the republican establishment leader mitch mcconnell and the swamp dwlers dwellers who inhabit his administration. we take it up t tonight.

ed rollins. also don coats appeared to undercut the president. he contradicted the commander in chief on threats posed by iran and isis and the president's optimism about prospects for a deal with newark. >> wnorth korea.>> we do not ben is undertaking activities to produce a nuclear device. isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. these are schooled and battle hardened fighters who remain dispersed throughout the region. reassays that north korea will taye r try to attain his abilities and unlikely to give up its nuclear production.

lou: coats did not mention the time frame he's suggesting nor did he take into account the prospect of a deal at all. we discuss coats and his efforts to minimize the foreign policy efforts of the trump administration he works for. tonight senator for security president fred fleitz, charlie hurt mopping our guests tonight. historically cold temperatures gripping the midwest. windchill plunging to as low as 60 degrees below zero temperatures. in chicago tomorrow expect it to be colder than the south pole, for crying out loud. residents being advised to avoid the outdoors all together. if they must go out it's recommended they avoid breathing deeply or even talking. the governors of michigan and wisconsin have declared states of emergency. the salvation army in

minneapolis opening shelters around the clock, officials in chicago eagdz 500 beds to protect the homeless. that and much more in our shoe w tonight. the trump administration saying it will send several thousand of our troops to the border to assist the border patrol. the president's prospects for legislation to fund a border wall however appear less likely now than ever as he himself has acknowledged would be the likely outcome. these radical dimms, the republican establishment combining with them clearly far more interested in keeping the border wide open, illegal immigration unchecked and amnesty for illegal ill grants. they hardly seem excited to meet the president's demands to build a border which whic he is essen. mitch mcconnell doing exactly what i predicted the bought and

paid for establishment would do when they could no longer avoid taking up the security crisis. they're trying to enlarge the crisis, the problem that they haven't been able to solve for decades, making it sma something other than border security. they're trying to rush through the border security conference committee a host of issues using the bipartisan negotiation to deny president trump his demand for 5.7 billion drar dollars tol the wall and enlarging the scope of the issues to include dreamers, immigration law reform. they'll also throw in the h1b visa program purely for the benefit of silicon valley, big tech and the corporate outsources of millions of our middle class jobs and yes, the koch brothers, the chamber, the business table and wall street will push amnesty into the deal as well. here is mcconnell giving us an early read on his eage eagerneso

do whatever the establishment might demand. >> i'm for whatever works, which means avoiding a shutdown and avoiding the president feeling he should declare a national emergency. exactly how do do that, as you all know, has been quite challenging. i'm for narrow or border, whatever works that prevents the level of dysfunction we've seen on full display here if last month and also doesn't bring about a view on the president's part that he needs to declare a national emergency. lou: well it's time for the radical dimms, the rino establishment and the white house resistance who are doing their worst to prevent the president from fulfilling his campaign pledge to build a wall. they not only refuse to acknowledge that we have a border security crisis, despite all of the tragic evidence, the radical dimms, the left, the

gobleist elites of both parties deny all together that there is a crisis. i hope that president trump will demand not only his money for the wall but the building of the wall before there is any further discussion of so-called immigration reform. daca, amnesty, all of it. as the president himself has said, without a wall, the border can't be secured. without border security we can't control immigration. and if we can't control immigration, what is the point of trying to change immigration law? democrats have lrdz broken every promise they've issued to secure the border. demand the wall be built and the border in force because there's further discussion of so-called immigration reform. and, oh, yes, to the majority leader, perhaps we might take the time, since it's $22 trillion matter to have a separate legislative effort for the national debt ceiling, just a thought. well congress, once again,

failing to come to term with our border security crisis, runaway illegal immigration and now the conference committee trying to gain the american people one more time. they're even thouing that national debt ceiling into the negotiations. joining us tonight is congressman sean duffy of wisconsin, member of the house services committee, sponsor of the reciprocal trade act. congressman, it is great to see you. bell kom twelcome to the brood . >> good to be with you too. lou: these are exciting times on capitol hill and the congress and the senate. but for those of us watching from a different location, and perspective, it is shame ms the way the leadership of both parties are basically saying to the president, before they even began active negotiation, that the hell with his wall, they're not going to build it. quite an initial bargaining position, don't you think? >> yeah, lou, your monologue was

spot on. to think that republicans are going to wave the white flag before we even engage in negotiations saying that we're going to concede all of the turt territory to the radical left that want borders. we won in between saying we'r be going to secure the border. i don't know what's going to come out of the committee, the house and senate can call for the deal but prurp has to sign it. i don't think you're going to ooh get a deal. i don't think you're going to see that. you're going to go into februare president has to hold firm here saying, listen, this thing is going to get shut down again. i think the americans want compromise. donald trump offered a second deal saying i'll throw in a daca extension, i'll open the government up, try to negotiate. but if the democrats stay hard on their position giving no money to the wall, it's going get shut down again.

here's the deal. we have to make sure there's pain in the congress. when nancy pelosi is off in hawaii and democrats are off in puerto rico and nancy pelosi is going to take a junket to europe with democrats, everyone has to be in the house, day and night, 24/7, not going home to their families, not seeing their kids, being here every moment of the day. and they start to not like that. they get angry and you're disbieng tgoingto see them cut . if that doesn't work you'll see the president go to the national emergency issue. i think the courts are going to overturn him. democrats are fighting so hard on this because they know if they winne win on the border wa, they win in 2020. and donald trump knows if he loses on this, he'll have a hard time winning in 2020. in the house we are pro-trump. we're pro-border security. the senate is a little different. us here, we stand, most of us, arm in arm with the president.

lou: i wish to hell that the republican congress had been protrump during the two years that the republican party controlled it under the leadership of paul ryan whose name will live in infamy in my judgment. let me put in context very quickly here with the audience and look at what we've done here. we're ignoring a border security crisis frankly in terms of our left-wing media, they don't acknowledge it. that's the number of opioid deaths. put this up. drug overdose deaths. back in 1990, just over 8,000 in this country. there was a terrific book that came out the previous year called got r "a clear and present danger" by tom clancy, in which the war on drugs was the center piece and look at what we have done since really mounting an effort against the drug cartels. it's almost increased by ten times in terms of overdose

deaths, methamphetamines seized. these are a lot of numbers were folk to assimilate. 599 in '90. 61,000 now. looking at heroin, just over 1,000 pounds, 5,000 pounds in 2017. marijuana 280,000 pounds, 2017, 1.2 million and of course there was no fentanyl then and now enough coming into this country to kill every single american. and you've got chuck schumer and nancy pelosi saying there's no crisis on the border. the hell with them. this is a crisis. >> lou, one other point on those numbers, in wisconsin, not only do you have the deaths but you have addiction with the meth and the heroin that we're seeing counties take kids away from the addicts ap when you take the kids away, the county has to pay to house the children. our counties are running out of

money. they don't have any money left because there are out of home placements of kids who have drug-addicted parents. it's destroying communities. it is a crisis. that's beyond who is coming in, whether they're criminals or terrorists. the drug epidemic is ravaging our country. and do democrats not care? they say they care about people, they say they care about kids. why don't they care about the drug epidemic. let's shut down the border -- lou: i'm sorry, congressman. we're over here. what do the rb the republicans e about? the senate majority leader said he'll go narrow, he'll go wide. doesn't matter to him. he simply wants what he wants. this is a time for border security. would you agree with me that the president of the united states should not even engage on the issue of changing immigration law until that wall is built? because these democrats, as you know historically, have lied

every time they've supported border security. i don't think they're going to lie about it this time. they're so full of themselves they're going to tell everybody to go to hell. >> the president offered an extension of daca for three years. you may not like it but it was a fair offer. lou: i don't like it at all. you're talking about a man losing an election in 2020. you give amnesty and you trade him out -- i mean. >> you and i are on the same page of that. the president has to understand, the bad advisers in his administration are giving him advice to offer amnesty for $5.7 billion when it's taking 25 25 billion to build the wall. it's a mistake. he has to say listen, republicans, you can't leave me' loan omealone on this. everyone has to be engaged. the leadership in the house and senate have been absent in this fight. it's only donald trump. let's get everybody together,

fight it together, win independent togetheittogether aa together. lou: it is a border security crisis. only one man can fix it and that's the president of the united states. schumer, mcconnell, pelosi and the bunch, did i mention mccarthy -- yes, they need to step up for the country. sean duffy, good to see you. appreciate it. >> thank you. lou: still ahead, the latest on the frigid temperatures that are ripping much of the country, millions of people are not only freezing, they're at risk for far worse. up next, the left-wing national media fawning over senator kamala harris and her brilliant ideas. >> kamala harris has set herself apart from the park. >> she's showed she's ready for prime time. >> i thought kamala harris did a terrific job. >> kamala harris is a natural.

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lou: the house of commons today voting in favor of two amendments for prime minister teresa may's brexit plan. one of those simply states a lawmakers reject leaving the eu without a deal. the other requires may to return to the european union and find alternative arrangements. in other words they didn't get a lot done. march 29th is their exit date for brexit. joining me now, former reagan white house political director, fox business political analyst, ed rollins. great to have you here. >> thank you. lou: this committee, mitch mcconnell standing up there and talking about a narrow approach, a wide -- he just wants a deal, doesn't matter to him what's in it. >> he's a deal maker and a

pretty good one in the past. but this particular deal is very simple. we get a wall or we don't get a wall. lou: would you recommend to the president that he not do anything until that wall is built? absolutely. lou: it's not going to happen. they're gaming the system. and to hear sean duff any, i duy like him, to talk about throwing in daca for the hell of it? are you kidding me? what does he do for daca? >> he undid daca waiting for the court to make the final decision to enforce it. but to give it up at this point in time is absurd. if you don't get the wall now, all of the chaos going on, venezuela is falling apart, 4 million people are evaporated out of that place. where are they going. everybody is coming north. the cubans are in there full time. it's more important to have a wall than any other time in our history. lou: let's turn to the state of the union. nancy pelosi finally invited the

president of the united states to give the state of the union next tuesday and guess who is going to give the democratic response? abrams. a failed gubernatorial cab date stacy abrams. let's put up that trio. there you see abrams and you see gill lam and o'rourke, three failed candidates are being pushed by the national party what is going on there? what are they going to do? >> they fell in love with these three candidates and then none of them win. if you want someone at the state of the union, you want somebody that know what is' goin what's . the idea that you're going to put her in front of a country following the president, it's giving up their ability to put

someone to represent the congress, represent the senate or even a democratic governor. lou: and how about kamala harris, with the idea that she just wants to shut down profit insurance companies and go to single pair and everything will be just fine. even her own party is choking on that one. >> she's an attractive candidate in the sens of al sense of all e and substance. he goes back to her hometown -- lou: i'm sorry, in substance? >> if you teal wit deal with her substance swb he's as left as anybody in the reality of this abolishing insurance company and medicare for all will droid med canwill destroymedicare. more she talks, the more outrageous -- had a big kick off in her hometown. big deal.

let's go forward. lou: everybody is talking about she's bigger than obama, who wasn't so big when he got through. the president is now faced with this awful awful republican party leadership that is in -- i mean apparently the koch brothers own half of the folks that are in proximity to the president and the white house. the koch brothers, the business rowround table, the chamber demanding amnesty, free flow across our border. as literally millions of lives have been destroyed by the drugs coming across, the violence. does the president lose his base if he gets into trading on border security? >> absolutely. this is the sacred promise that he made, this is what the country wants. this is the one thing that he think he needs to fulfill more than anything else. lou: he says he won't cave on the wall. >> he better not cave on the wall. he said two weeks ago he wasn't going to cave and he did.

lou: he acknowledged reality. >> that may be but at the end of the day he can't give up anything at this point in time. lou: ed rollins good to see you. up next, president trump's top intelligence official breaking with him on a number, a number of geopolitical threats. fred fleitz joins me next with much more. before we go to break, let's look at the u.s. national debt. they're going to have to raise the ceiling and there's why. good grief. $22 trillion, it's bigger than our economy for crying out loud and the price tag just keeps going up. we're coming right back. stay with us.

lou: the president's top intelligence chief seems to contradict the president often, as he briefed senators today on global thets threats, it seemede

than often. dan coats warning north korea is unlikely to give up nuclear weapons. coats also saying iran is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon despite all to have intelligence that we've heard for the past ten years. and for whatever reason he warned that isis is far from being defeated and an attack against the united states in his assessment is not only possible but likely. joining us tonight is fred fleitz, president and ceo of the security of policy, former chief of staff for the national security council. good to have you with us. i want to focus on these statements of the dni of the president of the united states. and let's start with this, amongst the outrageous claims he made today was that iran is not developing a nuclear weapon. >> that's right. lou: which means the two administrations before this one were wrong as well and that

israel is wrong. i mean, help us out here. >> lou, i was in the national security council want i worked for john bolton. i saw intelligence. that's not my conclusion. lou, i have some advice for the president on this. cancel all future unclassified worldwide briefings and the unclassified worldwide briefing report. what is the purpose of putting out an unclassified assessment that undermines the president's policies and tells our adversaries our analysis of them. this is crazy, has to stop. lou: what is wrong with the dni. he has no political judgment, no sense of proportion. i mean what in the hell is he talking about? >> let's think about north korea. lou: let's deal with my question first. i want to understand what he's thinking. and why he should be tolerated.

>> i would let him go because of this. and i thought this for some time. i think mr. coats is a great guy, but intelligence is to inform presidential policy. it's not supposed to undermine it. it's not supposed to second-guess presidential policy. this is why we set up a domestic intelligence service in the first place after world war ii. this tha has evolved into a monr second-guessing the president all of the time. the president has to stop these briefings. lou: you wanted to turn to north korea as do i. what would be the point of suggesting they want to keep their nuclear weapons. the president understands that full well and surely even the senators to whom the dni was speaking understand that he's not going to give up those nuclear weapons without considerable, considerable trading and bargaining and a deal with this president.

that's the whole idea. this president is prepared to work toward that end. >> i mean it's obvious -- lou: where does that point? >> it's obvious that north korea wants to keep its nuclear weapons. this assessment is we think the president is going to fail. and you know, the intelligence community is not supposed to draw that conclusion. and if the intelligence community thinks the president is going to fail, it has to say that privately. that's what i did as analyst. i relayed that privately so that the policymakers i worked with, which included john bolton, they knew where i stood but they also knew i wasn't trying to undermine them. lou: i think you and i would agree that he's got a very very very good secretary of state. and a very very good national security adviser and team. what in the world is the intelligence community doing? are they persisting in what they

started as this president was a candidate? they're anti-trump, okay, great. get over your bad selfs. he's the commander in chief. there's something rancidly wrong with this intelligence community. >> i want to first say that i think most first intelligence officers are nonpolitical. i believe that. but having said this i think there should be been an effort in the intelligence agencies to clean out the pollute sty disaitiodisaitionof hiring.thise obama administration and nothing has been done to fix the. lou: hopefully it will be fixed soon. it's outrageous. fred, thank you so much, as always. fred fleitz. >> thank you. lou: up next, the trump administration warns of serious consequences in venezuela as the struggle for power there is escalating. we take that up next, sara carter, the washington times,

carly hurcharlie hurt with us. stay with us.

lou: top headlines we're following tonight, millions of americans enduring sub zero temperatures as a dangerous cold weather system is blanketing the midwest. in minnesota today, windchills bringing temperatures as low as negative 55 degrees.

roger stone pleaded not guilty to charges by special counsel robert mueller. those charges include obstruction of justice, witness tampering, lying to congress. and nicolas maduro freezing bank accounts of opposition leader juan. john bolton warned of serious consequences for anyone who interferes or tries to harm guy' to. joining me now, sara carter, fellow with the independent women's forum, fox business contributor. great to see you. >> great to see you, too. lou: and it's great to see charlie hurt, believe it or not, washington times opinion editor. fox business contributor. let's start, sara, with the caravan that's moving toward or southern border. democratdemocratsdenying all ofe

evidence that we presented at the beginning of the show, the majority of all of the drugs coming across the border, what is the president to do? i know that he's moving thousands more troops to the border. but what can he do to contend with this outrage. because the left is organizing these caravans and driving it with a cooperation of the mexican government to our border. >> he needs to better explain. president trump needs to come out and explain to the people delivering, i believe, lou, during his state of the union address the truth about what is happening on the u.s. southern border. he needs to explain that we're extending the wall. not just building a wall. this started before his presidency under, you know, obama, under bush. this is about protecting our nation. he is the commander in chief. this is his first duty to us, to protect our nation. and doe have a very serious crisis that has been ongoing for

decades and the democrats are being absolutely disingenuous lying to the american public when they say there is not a crisis at the border. lou: the democrats are lying. i don't believe they're a bit disingenuous. honestly, the president campaigned on the opioid crisis. he was the first -- the only candidate for the presidency in either party to stand up and talk about the opioid crisis, about that border that is in crisis. you know, yonl i don't know howh education one president should do when a rate against him is the ignorance and insistence of the establishment to deny the reality that is tearing up the lives of millions of americans, charlie. >> yeah, you know. listening to people like chuck schumer talk about how donald trump needs to butt out and let

congress make these decisions and work out this arrangement for border security. you know, screw that. you know, for 30 years, as you point out, politicians in both parties have been here in washington and they have refused, refused to do the most basic simple obligation, which is to secure our borders and to have borders that are defended. and these people here in washington have refused to do it for 30 years. donald trump has been here for two years and for two years he's been fighting this. and as you said, he ran a campaign, he won the election on the promises of doing something about the opioid crisis and doing something about illegal immigration and doing something about the border. and you know, can i find little things to criticize president trump about in terms of negotiations with the wall? sure. but he still, first of all, headed in the right direction, wants to do the right thing, and, as you say, he's against

ahthose who are refusing to do their job. >> they want to continue to play a game of theater. this is if first time that we have a president that is actually willing to do something. think about all of the government waste. $5.7 billion is a drop in the bucket to extend the bortder bol in areas that the border patrol and i.c.e. and other law enforcement officials have deemed necessary to help fight the drug cartels and stem the flow and move resources into the areas that we need it the most. lou: think about the mind-set that we're dealing with in this country and our leaders when the democratic party produces leaders who say that a wall is immoral and can't find morality in the establishment of both parties, the business establishment, wall street, the koch brothers, all of them

presiding over and in many cases enabling, assisting and abetting the trafficking of human beings, the trafficking of the illegal drugs that are killing. >> children. lou: -- children, adults, young people. i mean, we are watching the most immoral response by both bot ofr political parties to secure the border and protect the american people. >> and of course the previous president as well. president obama having a flashing welcome light at the border, invited all of those things that you just mentioned there. and you know, it's why donald trump loves to use the word wall and why i love that he uses it. when he says wall, that doesn't mean you're just doing the wall. and the argument that the wall isn't the complete answer is not a reason not to do the wall. if you want to do more, great. let's do e verify. lou: by the way, where is the discussion about e verify.

where is the discussion about ending chain migration. where is the discussion about an immigration system that is based on merit. where so that discussion. it's been submerged by the left and the right and every, you know, every part of the establishment. >> donald trump has been talking about those things and has done more than anybody else to put on the national -- lou: he's been alone doing so. >> yes. lou: sara carter. >> but he's going to continue to fight i believe for the american people and this is what the american people want. they want results. so president trump needs to fulfill this promise. he needs to fight for it. he needs to fight for the american people. lou: wouldn't it be nice if he had some help. >> yeah, maybe in congress. lou: had a bunch of, you know, the rinos and the resistance within his own white house, if they were just the hell out of there, that would be also helpful. sara carter, chairry hurt, thank you both. appreciate it. up next, new numberings show

how opposed americans are to an amnesty deal to fund the border wall. we'll take that up and more right after the break. congressman andy biggs joins us as we trying e tr try to figuret keeps the recalcitrants of the left and the right in power. stay with us. [nondescript dialogue]

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call now to learn more. any proposed daca deal. a new poll shows 88% oppose plans to grant amnesty to illegal ill yens for exchange for securing a fifth of what would be necessary to build the border wall. joining me now, congressman andy biggs of arizona, cochair of the border security caucus, serves on the science, space, technology customer. member of the house freedom caucus. are you shocked by this poll in. >> not at all. in fact i've. advocating that we not make the trade. it's a bad trade. it has nothing to do with border security or the wall. what it would do is provide additional ense incentives for e to come here and stay here illegally. the daca population is 690,000

and they want to add another million to it. lou: 1.8 million. >> that's right. and that's all population before 2012. you start adding the same people, it's going to be a big number. lou: it's going to be big. and would you reck to the president that he just simply insist that they build the dad g gum wall before having a discussion? snai ear going to cheat, lie and steal, the dimms. >> i don't think he should wait until february 15th. there's not going to be a deal come out of it. i see it. you see it. i'm proud of him for wanting to stand up but what he needs to do now, title 10 gives him authority where there's an active drug corridor, the department of defense can access money and build a fence. he needs to do that. when you and i are done talking tonight i would ask him to do

that. i think that needs to happen. lou: i want to show the overdose deaths. np 1990, you remember tom clancy and his terrific books. one "clear and present danger" on drugs and what it was doing. 30 years ago this year, going back to then, 8400 drug overdose deaths. last year, 2017, i should say, more than 70,000 and you know the number will be significantly higher now. this is a crisis, mr. schumer, ms. pelosi. meth am femethamphetamines moren 60,000. heroin 1,000 pound in '90, in '17 nearly 5,000 pounds. and the list goes on and on and does not include fentanyl. enough brought into the country to kill every american.

>> right. lou: this crisis is so irresponsible of the left and the rinos who lead your conference to not fully support this president in declaring that emergency and taking action to build that wall. >> right. absolutely. it is a humanitarian issue but it is, as a result of the drugs coming across the border. they pour across the border and look, we know that they're sending people in as decoy to overwhelm the border patrol agent es and they send the drug smugglers in other portions of the border. this is happening. it is real. i was just down there a week ago and to continue to deny what's happening on the border is actually, in my opinion, it is malpractice. but it's actually beyond that. it's unconscionable that they wouldn't address the problem. i don't think they're going to address the problem. i don't think congress is going to address the problem. it's time for the president to say let's build it.

lou: congressman sean duffy said he thought it might be overturned by the ninth circuit court of appeal. i've got to ask you. i know that's the conventio conl agent against it. your thoughts. >> look. if you don't do this you'll never know. i mean who know what is the ninth circuit will do. but i think title 10, section 284, i think it's clear that the president has authority -- that the administration has the authority. and i believe even if they come in and try to set this aside in the ninth circuit, i believe the u.s. supreme court is going to overturn any injunction that they get. lou: congressman andy bition, bs great to have you with us. much more on the president's efforts to deal with the crisis on the southern border. it is a national crisis. he can declare a national emergency. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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congressman sean duffy on the importance of standing with our president. >> to think the republicans are going to wave the red flag. we won in 016 saying we are -- in 201 saying we are going to secure the border. lou: lawmakers as i suggested they would several times on the show, enlarging the scope of the issues they will be taking up adding in the national debt ceiling, daca, dreamers. congressman andy biggs says the president should declare a national emergency. that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. tomorrow night congressman matt

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