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binding, nothing enforceable in any memorandum of understanding at any time. how do we know all of this? how can i report this to you tonight? well, not because i've heard it from the u.s. trade representative, robert lighthizer or any of his delegation, not because i've heard it from the white house communications director, no, because our inside reporting relies entirely on the chinese side. the chinese foreign ministry is our correspondent edward lawrence's principle source. mum's the word of the day at the white house on these trade talks, leaving the field entirely to the chinese. the white house seems content for at least today to allow china to control the messaging on trade. assisting only the powerful influence campaign of the

globalist elites. no matter how much it favors the chinese no matter how much pain it causes the americans. the art of the deal is either president trump makes america great again, puts america and americans first or the chinese prevail and dominate. all that stands between china and global domination is in fact one man, one president, well, those talks go on in washington, chinese state run tech giant huawei is expanding its influence in north america, adding 200 employees in canada, taking a primary position in building germany's 5 g network, offering emerging nations technology that is advanced and is much cheaper. no matter the security threat, huawei and china poses. secretary of state mike pompeo

today warned nations about the existential threat posed by huawei, its technology, and its chinese communist masters. >> been out around the world just making sure everybody had the same information, that countries understand the risk of putting this huawei technology into their i.t. systems. we can't forget these systems were designed by -- with the expressed work alongside the chinese pla, their military in china. they are creating a real risk for these countries and their systems, the security of their people. europeans care deeply about their privacy. the risk to privacy from this technology is very very real. lou: we take it all up tonight. the hudson institute is joining us. jack keane, former reagan white house political director, and a republican strategist, are among our guests here tonight.

fired former fbi acting director andrew mccabe's confessions are unending. and so too his constant contradictions. former house oversight committee chair is joining us here tonight to take those up and much more. we will tell you about "empire" actor jussie smollett who is now in big big trouble, as he should be. today he turned himself in to police in chicago, where he faces a felony charge for filing a false police report. chicago police superintendent johnson slammed the media hollywood elites and the liberal politicians who were so quick to believe, to stand behind his fraud and spread the evil of smollett's lies and hoax. >> this announcement today recognizes that "empire" actor jussie smollett took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career. the accusations within his phony attack received national

attention for weeks. celebrities, news commentators and even presidential candidates weighed in on something that was choreographed by an actor. lou: by an actor. and so we begin. our top story tonight, there has never been a more powerful influence campaign directed at any president of the united states than the one now underway on the issue of trade between america and china. the messaging is led by media, business, political elites and most powerfully the chinese government itself. for now at least china has the loudest voice in our public arena. edward lawrence has been following the talks throughout today's trade session. he has the latest for us tonight from washington. ed? >> well, lou, both the chinese and u.s. trade delegations met at the u.s. trade representative's office to try and work out these agreements. the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson says they have an agreement on principle on major

issues, some major issues. they would not say exactly what those issues were. a u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer says he wants specific enforcement actions written into these agreements. reuters says there are six different agreements that tackle each specific concern by the united states. one major concern, the force transfer osm technology and protecting -- transfer of technology and protecting company's intellectual property. the u.s. delegation wants china to change the laws so they can't steal patent information going forward submitted by u.s. companies. secretary of state pompeo says this is one of the president's major issues. >> this enormous transfer, this unlawful transfer of american wealth, american innovation and creativity that's taken place over the last decades is enormous, it's historic. the trump administration is determined to push back against it. >> specific enforcement will be written into any memorandum understanding, according to the u.s. trade representative, robert lighthizer. still china experts say if the

u.s. moves on the march 1st deadline without an agreement, then nothing will change. >> well, you know, we've tried this approach before, taking a hard-line. it hasn't worked. the problem is, you know, when we talk to the chinese, they think that we want to engage them. you have all sorts of expectations on their side. they need to see a new attitude on the part of washington. >> both sides have said that president donald trump and president xi jinping need to meet face-to-face in order to finally settle this agreement. the chinese have blocked on their calendar march 26th through march 29th. lou? lou: ed, thank you very much. ed lawrence reporting. joining us tonight is dr. michael pilsbury director cent center at the hudson institute and a trade advisor. it is great to see you. the chinese today really have the field to themselves. the white house not talking. the communications department, the trade representative, and

the trade ministry of china with 30 members in the delegation outnumbering the u.s. members better than 2 to 1, i mean, they really are dominating in every way right now, whether it's messaging or whether it is in number of folks at the table. >> it is true, lou, the chinese are trying hard to control the narrative. even in their own press conference, they think america has a secret weapon and his name is donald trump. they often point out how many presidents they've been able to bamboozle frankly to use a polite word over the last 30 years or more. they don't see donald trump the same way. they see him as a master negotiator. there's translations of his art of the deal. and they know he brought this to office. he first wrote about this in the year 2000. lou: you are making me feel michael like we didn't have an election in 2016. i even voted for the man.

you don't need to persuade me. the praise is worthy of it. but i think there are issues we need to get to. >> the important thing is this is what the chinese think about him. they are on the defensive. lou: they may be on the defensive. right now we have two members of the delegation. they are steve mnuchin and larry kudlow, who are not exactly the most notorious fair traders. they do not grasp it seems to me at least from this comfortable distance i have from the nation's capital the importance of deficits, their impact on our economy, and the necessity of prevailing. as a matter of fact, they seem both determined to take any deal, any deal, any way they can despite some, you know, smooth soothing words they utter from time to time to the left wing media. your thoughts? >> my thought is that larry and steve have a different world

view than the president. but the president is capable of hearing their point of view, welcoming the fund-raising skills of mnuchin. he was a major fundraiser during the campaign. he can understand the difference. lou: a different matter, but all right. >> i did enjoy peter navarro talking about the stench of goldman sachs in peter's speech -- lou: and unregistered foreign agents. >> that too. lou: we could name names couldn't we? >> let's give the president some credit. lou: wait a minute. one minute you want to praise him and then find him in deficit of credit. he's never either on this broadcast. never short of praise. >> i think the chinese see him as tariff man. they translate that into china into their press. lou: i understand the importance of understanding the enemy. i also understand the importance of disregarding -- if you will,

just because they have to be at the table doesn't to me in any way garnish it. this president is the only one, think about this, the only one leading any western nation who has stood up against the chinese and said end the deficits, end the external debt that is rising uncontrol bly -- >> the theft. lou: and stop the intellectual property and technology theft that you seem to think is a birthright that is of the pla. i mean, it's madness. and then the united states turns to china and says as part of a trade deal, we're going to ask you not to steal from us. a bank doesn't say don't steal from us. they put up armed guards. they put up ways in which to stop you if you wish to rob them. they don't say please sign this, dear bank robber that you won't try again. this is madness, is it not? >> i think we can place a bet of

a thousand dollars lou between you and me. i think the president is going to insist on an enforcement mechanism. this is not going to be the end of the story. the china theft story and the trade lack of reciprocity -- lou: not going to be the end of the story? >> it is going to go on for our lifetime, lou. but the president is going to make -- he's going to score some points in these talks. lou: you are the chinese expert. >> you are too. i hereby appoint you a china expert too, lou. lou: you know, i wish it were so easy as to be anointed, appointed -- >> i will teach you some more. [laughter] lou: i'm more interested in plain spoken english and i'm more interested in no more long word doctrine as we heard when it came to counterinsurgency and fighting the war on terror. i'm no more interested in that than for example saying this will be a generational war. if it's a generational war, we lose, and you know that because of the sheer weight of the

chinese state -- >> call it the one year marathon. lou: yes, it is a 100 year mar than and it is a title for a book. we need to think about that. the fact is we don't have 100 years. we have now. the threat is existential. we need to respond to it. this president is doing so. i worry and worry deeply that he does not have a sufficient voice amongst those who are there to serve him and the nation. they have short cuts and other interests that they seem to find preeminent rather than that of the president's values and policies. >> if you go back and read the president's book, in the year 2000, you will find he already identifies china as the main challenge to the future of the united states. lou: you and i are having trouble communicating. i think one of the reasons is you seem to think you need to defend the president. i think we need to defend the reality and the threats and the issues that are on the table.

and the issues on the table are memoranda of understanding. you and i both know that in any business, in any walk of life, and in politics or government, that an mou isn't worth the paper it is written on. it is unenforceable. it is not binding in any fashion. we know we have to stop theft, hundreds of billions of dollars in theft. there has to not just be a discussion about vis-a-vis the chinese. it has to be what in hell will we do to protect our cyberspace? what will we do to protect our cyber assets? and that by the way includes our intellectual property as well as technology. >> yes. lou: what is the answer to those questions? >> well, the answer is the framework is much broader than u.s. china trade talks. i think the president's got a more comprehensive strategy in mind. sometimes he calls it the endo pacific strategy. there's a cyber offensive component to it. it is really across the board --

lou: no danger then that anything will be signed or come of these sham talks that are going on right now in washington, d.c.? >> i didn't say that. [laughter] lou: that's what i was asking, though. >> i think the chinese want to control the narrative. they are up against the toughest -- lou: they want to control the world. >> as the book called 100 year marathon they are in the way of doing it. lou: i stepped right into that. we have to conclude. always good to talk with you, michael. >> i love your books, lou. lou: thank you, sir. we appreciate it. we recommend you his book to you highly, 100 years, 100 years, we're going to shorten that. >> 70 years gone already. lou: there you go. good to have you with us. the left wing national media's complicity in jussie smollett's hate crime and how it exposes their not so subtle liberal bias. >> if there are any independent voices out there, if there are any journalists who are not beating the same drum and giving the same talking points, then we pay the price.

lou: the left pays the price. so far it's an orthodoxy that seems intent on surviving. we will have more on that later. jason chaffetz joining us. up next speaker pelosi is rounding up her band of radical democrats trying to dismantle the president's national emergency. by the way, she wouldn't mind dismantling the entire trump agenda. ed rollins with me right after the break. oh, yes, it is about 2020 already. stay with us. stay with us. we will but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees

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lou: one of our favorite people here, house speaker pelosi encouraging members of her congress to support a resolution that would block president trump's national emergency declaration. congressman castro of texas will introduce the resolution we're told reliably tomorrow. so far just 200 members have -- [inaudible] -- cosponsors. i'm starting to think there's a partisan divide here. aren't you? no republicans so far are supporting the resolution. but susan collins says she will if there were a clean resolution when it reaches the senate.

senator collins arguing there are times emergency declaration makes sense but this isn't one of them. she didn't exactly explain what that meant. when would you have a declaration of national emergency other than when there is for example a national emergency? the good senator says the president should instead work with congress. you know what a fun thing that's going to be. the same congress that's made up of mostly democrats and have just passed a resolution to deny him his declaration. so senator, i think you need to work on the logic just a little bit and maybe expand the fact base. certainly think about please securing the border, senator. and of course maine among the top states, senator from maine, top ten states for opioid-related overdose deaths. maine also with a crime rate of over 16 offenses for every thousand people. by the way, i might remind the senator that it is this president who declared opioids

to be a national emergency in his campaign from almost the very first day. despite the ever growing field, the 2020 democratic hopefuls, a lot of hope, a lot of democrats, the oddsmakers are heavily favoring president trump to win reelection. president trump is the 3 to 2 odds-on favorite. kamala harris is the leading democrat at 8 to 1. that is what we call a big lead. joining us tonight former reagan white house political director, fox business political analyst, ed rollins, a man who knows something about the political odds and the oddsmakers say right now he's a shoe in. >> there's no such thing as a shoe in in a presidential reelection. >> let me rephrase the question. >> let's argue this, the president deserves to be reelected. i think he will be. but there's a whole lot of tread that has to go off the truck before we get to -- lou: you are not going to tell

me it's early days. >> i'm not going to tell you it is early days. when you have 24 candidates out there running we will be so tired of the election by the time it comes. in the meantime, the president has all kinds of stuff he has to do and do well including this trade deal we were just talking about here which is critical, critical. lou: i think a lot of people right now are not paying attention to the fact that this president is focused on 2020. >> right. lou: he always has to be focus on the united states, our national interests, as president of this country, and he's done so better than any president in modern history, but this is about 2020 now. he has to prevail in these trade talk, the united states must prevail >> absolutely. lou: he these prevail on every single issue, the border wall, he has to prevail. he had to secure that border. the list goes on. and right now at risk is the economy itself. and he's got this huge influence

campaign run at him directly on the chinese trade talks trying to convince him and the american people that the outcome of the trade talks are all about assuring global market stability and price appreciation. it's pure nonsense. >> two things that got him elected one he was viewed as a stronger leader than obviously hillary and he was, but secondly, is that he basically had the strength and conviction to move forward his agenda. that's what we're dealing with right now. lou: just to deal with the issue of these consecutive -- and we're talking almost a half century of trade deficits and budget deficits in this country -- in four years. >> people understand what trade deficits means, they do understand when jobs get put overseas. this is a make-or-break deal. my sense today is we have to win this one. have to fight the chinese all the way to make them live up to it lou: not only fighting the

chinese. you have to fight mnuchin, kudlow, the koch brothers, the list goes on. >> i promise you, they know what they want. we're still basically arguing what we want. the president knows what he wants. he has to make sure his team knows the outcome is critical. lou: your thoughts right now as we head into this new week coming up? a lot going on whether it's vietnam and north korea and kim jong-un summit. >> so much on this agenda from the ones you just mentioned right there. we normally would take a whole month getting prepared for and talking about. this president never gets a break, never gets a breather. he has to basically get his team together and move the ball forward. lou: the great thing is he never slows. he never slows. he never even pauses. >> no. lou: good to see you. >> thank you. lou: ed rollins, up next, a decision made on how to handle an undecided house race in north carolina, just because they

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the influence campaign that's being run by the chinese, wall street, etc., it's unrelenting directed straight at the president. your thoughts on its importance to the president's reelection? >> i think it's very important because it will go to set our economy on an even stronger trajectory for a very long time to come. and you know, lou, presidents of both parties for many years if not decades have talked about fixing the trade problems with china, but none of them actually ever did it. lou: right. >> this is a president who said he was going to do it. he's going to do it. and the american workers, american companies are going to benefit. they are already benefitting from a strong economy. when he can get this straightened out, i think the economy is going to be that much stronger and it is going to be sustaining. lou: and the other issue that he ran on, signature issue, a signature issue, of the 2016 campaign, the wall. he has been contested again by

basically the same host of opposition of whether it's the chamber of commerce, the koch brothers, whether it's a business roundtable, wall street, maybe even for all i know the chinese as well, in building the wall. how important is it in your judgment? >> i think it's very important. i mean, this is a president who believes in keeping his promises. we've had so many presidents in the past say one thing and do another when they were in office. this is a president who believes in doing what he said he was going to do. the wall is one of those things. even when you get beyond campaign promises, it's the right thing to do. the president understands about the drugs that are flowing across the border, the fentanyl, the heroin, the things that are poisoning so many of our neighborhoods, and then the crime. the president wants legal immigration but he wants to be legal immigration. so this is all part in parcel to his plan in securing our country and making it a safer place for

americans and people who come here to work and can fulfill those jobs. lou: as things stand now, as you well know, the democrats as the president points out, they are the party of crime, open borders, drugs, death and devastation. here's -- this is an extraordinary sound, a sentence from the border states. it's a honduran migrant responding to the question whether or not he would be comfortable with beto o'rourke's suggestion that the walls be taken down between the united states and mexico. >> when you hear the democrats, take the wall down, there should not be a wall, how do you feel about that? >> [inaudible]. lou: not giving anybody a chance, mark lotter. your thoughts? >> no, and i mean again this is one of those reasons why the president is so right on this

issue. he knows that walls work. he knows that -- you know, the reason why we have doors and walls around our homes, it's not because we hate the people on the outside. it is because we love the people on the inside. by the way, most walls lead to doors. use them. we can do it legally. so this is an issue that the president is absolutely rock solid on. to all the democrats and folks who are throwing up these fits over the national emergency, let's remember that president clinton declared a national emergency to stop the import of blood diamonds from sierra leone. that actually didn't challenge our national security and make people at home safer. it was the right policy, but it was also a national emergency or stopping the investment in angola. these are not things that threatened our homeland or citizens. they were the right policy decisions. they were also national emergencies. the president is using the power of the office to protect the american people. lou: good to have you with us.

it was president trump after all running who was talking about a building a wall, but with a big beautiful gate and door. you know, he acknowledged that from the very beginning and reinforces it now, throughout. mark, good to have you with us. congratulations on your new position. >> thank you, lou. lou: appreciate it. up next, how america views north korea as president trump prepares for his second summit with kim jong-un. we will take that up with general jack keane and much more right after the break. stay with us.

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lou: headlines tonight, actor jussie smollett released on bail today, charged with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. today's hearing came after he lied to police about the fake hate crime attack that he conjured up last month. less than a week away from

president trump's second summit meeting with north korean dictator kim jong-un. a new fox news poll finds 46% of registered voters now approve of the president's policies on north korea. only 41% disapprove. joining us tonight retired four star general fox business chief strategic analyst general jack keane. general, good to see you and this is interesting to see these numbers and the polling. the president building support for his view on bringing north korea to -- into the table and denuclearizing the korean peninsula. your thoughts? >> i think that's largely one because they are talking, this is the second summit. and two, the testing which had a whole air of crisis about it, with ballistic missiles flying over japan, flying towards our other allies in the region and threatening to use nuclear weapons against the united states, so that speech is gone and so is that testing. i think that contributes to

what's taking place here. but -- and there is a big but, that north korea has not given us yet anything tangible in terms of dismandeling, disarming -- dismantling, disarming, nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. hopefully we will get a breakthrough here as regards to this summit. it remains to be seen. lou: i do see the end of ballistic missile tests flying over japan as you point out and other places. we've seen an absence of testing for almost a year and a half now, as a result of the president's engagement with kim jong-un. that period of some 15, 16 months in which there's been no testing, no bellicosing per se, is in mark contrast to the 30 years that preceded this presidency in which the north koreans were full time

aggravating in global geopolitics. >> that's true. kim jong-un is the leader among the three of them, grand father, father, and now grandson who truly accelerated the nuclear testing and ballistic missiles to a degree that his predeces r predecessors never had. but remember, at the first summit, the president and kim jong-un both agreed to denuclearize and hopefully there will be a tangible step to do that. i think what our government would like to see is that -- a timetable of denuclearize with an inventory of their assets to support it and a commitment that there would be independent inspectors to verify that dismantling, some kind of schedule to do that would be a major tangible thing going forward. lou: i want to turn very quickly as we wrap up here, we're out of time, unfortunately, but

vladimir putin saying he would be perfectly willing to bring back the cuban missile crisis in 2019. what do you make of the statement? what should be the u.s. response? >> well, i think it's putin blustering again psychologically trying to undermine the united states as he's done before, so successfully with obama, threatening escalation, as a result of that, no action taken. i believe what he should do here is what reagan did in the 80s when he deployed missiles to europe as a result of that, the soviet union came to the negotiating table and we got the 1987 inf treaty agreement. the russians have been violating that agreement. we should up our game in terms of countering that threat. we should not expose the american people to that threat or our allies, and i think as a result of that, there's a very good opportunity that negotiations will be restored again to put together a new

treaty and this time hopefully be able to pull china into it. i think the president is absolutely on the right path here. i think he understands what putin is up to here. lou: general jack keane, always good to talk with you. thanks. >> good talking with you. lou: up next, andrew mccabe's convenient memory lapses, contradictions, conflict, my goodness. who was on board with the deep state's plan to remove president trump from office? and why in the world aren't these people in jail? we will take it up with jason chaffetz here next. stay with us. we will great news, liberty mutual customizes- uh uh - i deliver the news around here. ♪ sources say liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. over to you, logo. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ the first-of-its-kind lexus ux and ux f sport, with the latest safety system standard, best-in-class turn radius and best-in-class mpg.

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lou: on wall, stocks closing lower -- on wall street, the stocks closing lower. the nasdaq lost 29. volume on the big board, 3 1/2 billion shares. crude oil down over 1/2 percent to nearly $57 a barrel. gold down a percent and a half. silver down nearly 2 1/2%. a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the radio network. andrew mccabe telling reporters today two cabinet members who were thought to be on board with rod rosenstein's plan to invoke the 25th amendment against president trump, as if he could do that. when pressed on who those cabinet members were, mccabe said he couldn't very clearly remember who he was talking

about. it was just two names you would have thought. never mind. a veteran journalist says she's become a target of the left wing national media herself for calling out their obviously anticonservative prejudice. >> they can't take down the substance of what you are saying. they can't go after the things that matter. they smear you personally. that go after your integrity. lou: laura logan, you have got to give her credit for making that statement. it is obvious to many of us, but for her to do so took some considerable bravery, and we commend her. joining us now, jason chaffetz, former republican congressman from utah, former house oversight chair, author, great american. you have andrew mccabe contradicting himself, confessing at every turn on his book tour that he tried to unseat the president of the

united states in a considerable conspiracy at the fbi and doj. your reaction? >> well, i think the guy should actually be prosecuted. i don't think he should be on a book tour. if you go back and look at the february 2018 inspector general report, 39 pages, it lays out the case, details four times where he lied to federal authorities, three times under oath. the department of justice has prosecuted everybody from manafort to stone to flynn to, you know, these people because they lied to federal authorities. the former acting director of the fbi lied to federal authorities. why is he not prosecuted? lou: why are none of these people being prosecuted? of all of the people who were forced out, resigned, fired, at the top of doj and principally the fbi, not one prosecution. jason, what is going on? why is in the world is there not someone standing up? and do you think it will be

william barr to insist on an investigation and prosecution? i'm not talking about one of those endless year by year investigations the justice department and fbi become famous for. i'm talking about moving ahead smartly and getting to the facts. >> well, attorney general barr has the opportunity to be the most consequential attorney general of our time. he really does. and the parallel that i see, lou, is, you know, on the smollett case, you hate the disgusting effort of what this person put law enforcement through and the hate crime that he actually engaged in, but look at what the chicago police department did. they investigated it. it took less than a month. and then they put some handcuffs on him, and now they're prosecuting him, all less than 30 days, by doing some actual law enforcement work. why can't they do that at the federal government? lou: you know why because they are trying to cover up their crimes, their corruption. it's that straightforward, isn't

it? i mean they are burying the obama administration's crimes against the republic, the constitution, and the nation, for crying out loud, whether it's benghazi, whether it's the justice department of eric holder that he politicized to the point of becoming simply a political arm of president obama. >> no, look, clearly the unthinkable happened, and that is hilary clinton lost the election. and suddenly their whole house of cards started to fold under them. then when the president did the smart thing, which was by the way probably the most bipartisan thing in washington, d.c., and that is the firing of james comey, suddenly, all the protective blankets that were on these people went away, and they were worried about being exposed. that's why they planted this counterpunch in trying to come up with an investigation to protect themselves, and, you know, and then you see what's happening here. but these people they've got to be prosecuted. the inspector general did a fabulous job a year ago

detailing why mr. mccabe should be in jail. lou: i concur. you mentioned the inspector general. where the hell is he now? and why haven't we heard from him? and what has happened to the special counsel with portfolio at large? i mean, good god almighty, what is going on? >> well, look, i'm a huge fan of the inspector general. he laid out that 500 page -- lou: that makes one of us. >> he did his job, but he's the one that got us all the information that we have now, lou, that's good stuff, and he laid out that a year ago the case against mccabe. okay? now he has work to do on fisa abuse and the other things that happened there. the best i can tell may, june, is what they are going to come up with, but it's going to be the most definitive report to come out and the most conclusive, from the inspector general. he has the most credibility in town. we've got to really listen to what michael horowitz has to say

on this. lou: we are to hear from robert mueller we are told soon. do you think it will be in the next week or so? >> i mean, there's an awful lot of people out there saying it could be tomorrow. it could be next week. lou: i will accept that. >> attorney general barr has to be able to review that. this has gone on far too long. it should have happened about six months ago if not ever because i don't know that they ever could justify it. lou: they can't justify it. i love the fact james clapper says it will be anticlimatic. james clapper, john brennan, james comey, the three stooges. jason chaffetz, always good to talk with you. thank you. >> thanks, lou. lou: up next more on the ongoing trade talks with china. what the united states must do. stay with us. we will be right back. -their béarnaise sauce here is the best in town. [ soft piano music playing ] mm, uh, what do you do for fun? -not this. ♪

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lou: the trade talks go on in washington. the u.s.-china trade talks. next friday's deadline approaching. the chinese delegation taking effective control of the narrative and the messaging saying both sides reached principle agreements on major issues. we hear nothing from the white house, the trade representative. but there we are, the chinese moving ahead full bore. president trump next week travels to vietnam to hold his second summit with korean dictator kim jong-un. they will meet next thursday in hanoi. they are continuing their talks for denuclearization on the korean peninsula. there will be a new election in

north carolina. it will start anew including primaries. but justice is being done. good night from new york. trish: venezuela socialist dictator nicolas maduro ex--intelligence chief is reportedly saying maduro is courting hezbollah. coming up, i talk exclusively with one of the daughters of a u.s. hostage who has been held captive there for 450-plus days. his life is being threatened. you will hear from him yourself tonight. the trump administration on high alert with vice president mike pence announcing he'll travel to colombia at the request of the colombian president. he'll be