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days in vietnam, and we have a chance for the total denuclearization of an area of the world that was very dangerous. chairman kim, he has a chance to have a country that is so vibrant economically, maybe one of the most in the world, so i tell him that, i said but you can't do that if you are going to keep nuclear. if you do nuclear, that can't ever happen. lou: international trade, the president announced the delay of new tariff hikes that have been scheduled on chinese exports. they were to go into effect friday, if substantial progress had not been reached, in the president's judgment on the talks between china and the united states. venezuela, the crisis worsening there. maduro's military enforcing his no aid edict and president trump has dispatched vice president pence to colombia holding talks there with juan guaido. we will have the latest for you.

with us general jack keane, ropp strategi strategist -- republican strategist ed rollins. they will explain how a congresswoman could possibly be the boss of her radical democratic party. she says she is and she suggests that americans if not all humanity should consider extinction as a solution, the best solution to the planet's problems. and oh, yes, her party's partial to open borders as well and all stuff being free, for everyone, forever and ever. conservative activist and commentator candace owens with us tonight. our top story, president trump on his way to vietnam where he is expected to arrive about 9:00 p.m. local time in hanoi. after his arrival, president trump will spend time wednesday meeting with the president of vietnam as well as the staff of the u.s. embassy and in hanoi.

president trump will then meet with north korean leader kim jong-un thursday and similar to their first summit in singapore, both president trump and kim are scheduled to meet for one day. kim is now reportedly on a 60 hour train ride to vietnam. he's expected to arrive there tomorrow morning. the president's commitment to peace on the crkorean peninsula and his firm stance against north korean aggression are the principle reasons that pyongyang hasn't conducted a missile test since november 28 of 2017. the president's preparation for this summit comes as he announced significant progress in the china trade talks. president trump putting off the tariff increases that had been scheduled for march 1st. he announced he expects to meet with president of china xi jinping to finalize a trade deal sometime perhaps in march. edward lawrence with the latest for us from washington.

ed? >> yeah, they had the deputy level talks today actually. my trade sources are telling me they were ironing out some technical issues this morning, the primary level talks ended yesterday. now the president still optimistic that a signing summit can happen, even though there's nothing that's been finalized. >> it looks like they will be coming back quickly again, and we're going to have another summit. we're going to have a signing summit which is even better, so hopefully we can get that completed, but we're getting very very close. >> and the chinese have blocked off on their calendar march 26th through march 29th to have that meeting with president donald trump, though the u.s. has not agreed to anything as of yet. now, some big issues still remain, it is the pace of structural changes the chinese are willing to make. also the enforcement mechanism for those changes. the chinese -- the u.s. trade representative saying that china

needs to have enforcement in this. he says it will be a big part of this agreement if china fails to follow through. president trump's advisors on trade say that china will try and drag their feet. >> the chinese are still pressing, and they are hoping for these talks to be so nimble so limited in what the chinese have to make concessions on that they can continue to press on with what i call their hundred year marathon. >> -- played by different rules advisors and experts in china believes that china lumps everything in together to try and get a bargaining chip wherever they can. even deputy attorney general rosenstein says that's evident in what china is doing to get the huawei cfo released from canada. >> china for example appears to detain foreign citizens as a means of retaliating or inflicting political pressure on other countries. >> huawei cfo back here to answer for crimes related for

breaking sanctions. her extradition hearing set for next week. my sources are also saying they expect president xi jinping to make a personal pitch to president donald trump when they meet to get that huawei cfo released. lou? lou: ed, thank you very much, ed lawrence from washington. while the trade talks continue, the united states sent two u.s. navy vessels, through the taiwan strait by show of support for our ally taiwan, this the fourth time since october that u.s. navy vessels have sailed through the strait demonstrating free navigation for all the world to behold, despite threats by china. joining us tonight retired four star general fox business chief strategic analyst general jack keane. good to see you. this is a historic week by any definition, almost irrespective of the outcome of all that president trump has taken on

here. let's begin with north korea. a lot of expectations being paraded in the general media as well as the political press, but the administration has been not guarded perhaps but certainly clearly steady and certain about the challenges they face. >> yeah, definitely, lou. what's happened to the administration certainly is that initially they realize that trying to achieve their objectives in just two years is likely unrealistic given it took 15 years for north korea to acquire nuclear weapons and even longer to acquire ballistic missiles. so they have adjusted that. the objective hasn't changed in terms of total denuclearization, but how we're going to get there has. so they've been willing now to go at a slower pace, step by step, in the process, not necessarily be driven by time in

trying to get someplace. lou: general, to me it's very clear but sometimes unremarked aspect and truth about all of this. this is president trump's idea. it is his energy and focus that has brought us to this point, and i hear the media and the democrats saying oh well be careful about this, do this, all of which he's done, for the entire time from singapore on preparing for this moment. i mean, this is a peculiar stench frankly in the general media that i think is abhorrent and utterly, utterly insulting to the president and the american people. >> yes, some of it is really truly uncalled for because we have a president going out to negotiate with one of the true repressive regimes led by a thug and a killer and trying to disarm his nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and do that

in an earnest fashion and he's got people criticizing him even before he leaves the united states in terms of what he should accomplish and what the dangers are. that's not something this country has done in the past, and it is really unfortunate. i do think despite the perceived low expectations of this, first of all, the personal relationship between these two leaders has truly increased to the benefit. that's a good thing. secondly, i do believe there's some potential here to make progress. one is on the peace treaty itself, to end the war and end the armistice. that would involve ourselves and china, north korea and south korea. if that happened, not immediately, but it could also lead to something that's very consequential, and that is the pulling away of those armies that are facing each other on the demilitarized zone and eventually reducing the size of those armies. that's very significant. lou: but again, the fundamental

purpose and the mission of this president, his purpose for the negotiations that had never been attempted by any president before him is to denuclearize the peninsula. the united states pursued a two korea strategy over the course of 60 years. its time has passed and the future seems to be -- to be made by both this president and kim jong-un. let's turn to xi jinping, the trade talks. the president says he believes there's been substantial progress. the technical teams for both nations meeting through to today, ministerial talks ending yesterday with a clear, it seems, ramp toward further talks to seal whatever progress is in fact concrete and sustainable. your thoughts about the

importance of these talks and where they lead? >> well, again, this is historic itself. and you're absolutely right about the nature of this taking place. it's the first president that's ever taken on the economic predator that china truly is, certainly in not only stealing intellectual property, but the huge trade imbalance that countries have tolerated -- i mean, presidents in our country have tolerated for years. so finally it looks like we're coming to an agreement here, and i think it's terribly significant in what has taken place. and i hope it helps us to reset the table in our relationships with china. china clearly knows now without any doubt whatsoever that they are dealing with a different president than they have in the past, and we have major other issues as you know, lou, dealing with china. you were talking about the navy going through the taiwan

straits. china's intimidation and coercion of all of our allies in the south china sea, the east china sea, undermining their civil societies, they have a very comprehensive campaign that's ongoing there, and we need to fashion a comprehensive strategy to push back on all of that, and this is a accept in that direction. lou: very quickly, venezuela, the vice president is there meeting with the opposition leader juan guaido. it looks as though that is going to be a persistent challenge and perhaps the expectations in the again in the general media that it could be resolved quickly seem to be unrealized at least at this early stage. what do you think? >> yeah, i think we have a way to go here. it is pretty despicable to watch this weekend to see maduro's people out there setting afire trucks that were trying to bring humanitarian aid to a population

that's in a desperate situation, using molotov cocktail against them, tear gas. i think where we are is tactical victory for maduro and stopping it but a huge strategic loss in the court of world opinion in that kind of behavior. i think it will strengthen the resolve of the people in venezuela and certainly of the international community itself not to give up on the fact that maduro's got to go. lou: the wonderful thing about this administration's efforts in venezuela, in part to me general, has been -- we heard sabre rattling by russia talking about they are ready for another cuban missile crisis, iran and china both reiterating in their interest and persistence in intervening in this hemisphere. the united states is standing tall. this president is standing tall, with his administration, there to help the people of venezuela.

and i have not heard one mention of the organization of american states. i haven't heard one mention of coalitions. it is nice to see the united states act responsibly to our neighbors, our friends, and neighbors who share this hemisphere for their good, and i personally am absolutely delighted by the administration's response. your thoughts as we wrap up? >> well, there is a coalition, a so called group that represents countries in south america and canada and they've certainly take an a strong stance against maduro so we are united with the countries of south america -- lou: i didn't say that we're not united, but we're not hearing the nonsense of the coalition of the willing, these fabricated coalitions that have frankly i think beleaguered the u.s. policy, whether it be in southeast asia, whether it be in the middle east. this is the united states, and

this president and his administration taking on the effort to help the venezuelan people. >> yeah, and what's happening here, it's not just a pushback on venezuela. i mean, this is really a push against cuba because they are sort of the mentors of maduro and chavez before him, and it is also a pushback on nicaragua. so this is a step we're taking in south america that needed to be done years ago, and we are not going to see the end of it by maduro going. we're going to continue to see i believe strong leadership pushing back on these repressive regimes. and listen, russia, china and iran it is bluster coming out of them. they are not going to do a thing in south america to tangibly assist maduro other than to protect their economic investment. that's the only thing they care about. lou: general jack keane, as always, great to see you.

>> good talking to you. lou: up next, the likelihood of a mueller report. what will it be? has the left wing national media been rooting for more investigations into this president? say it's not so. >> this is not the beginning of the end, but it may be the end of the beginning. >> the investigation out of the southern district of new york very much ongoing. quelling any hope among the president or his allies that an end to mueller's work would mean any sort of end to the legal and political peril for the president. lou: there is, the left wing trying to rationalize for themselves at least what they might do if they didn't have a witch hunt to cover. judicial watch joins me right after the break. we will be talking about the mueller report, its anticipation, oh, yes, adam schiff and his ambitions to actually be an investigator of what? we will take that up and much more. stay with us.

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listen to this. >> if they simply say no we're not going to release the underlying evidence, what options do you have? >> we will subpoena the report. we will bring bob mueller in to testify before congress. we will take it to court, if necessary. and in the end, i think the department understands they are going to have to make this public. lou: that is the most pompous arrogant -- i just -- incredible. now he's going after the special counsel. he should just go to work for the trump administration and the justice department and be done with it. the president of judicial watch is joining us now. this little fellow is the most absurd figure i think in this entire sorted scandal that is a witch hunt. your thoughts? >> well, i just consider this a continuation of the abuse that his party engaged in targeting president trump during the obama campaign -- during the obama

administration, through the campaign, into the presidency, and, you know, i would like to see mr. mueller go under oath in theory, but questioned about his handling and administration of this get trump effort, lisa page and peter strzok being allowed to run the investigation, and then when it came out they were antitrump partisans, hiding that from congress for four months -- lou: and you have got schiff talking like mueller is now his number one target. he's going to subpoena him. he's going to subpoena the report. does he have the power to do any of that? >> i think it's a lot of noise, and he's trying to highlight the fact or pretend there's something to be subpoenaed in terms of the substantial substantive attack on president trump or concerns about president trump. we know there's no collusion. as far as i'm concerned, lou, the attorney general should be directing mr. mueller, i don't want you writing a dossier on

president trump. okay, we don't have reports here at the justice department attacking the president on behalf of partisan on the outside. lou: if this is a political document, then mueller's name will live in infamy. it may anyway. >> there shouldn't be a document created is my point. lou: he's required -- >> the regulations require an abuse of the president and a constitutional attack, then the regulations should -- lou: no, no -- >> then they should be challenged. lou: well, you know, within this, i guess on the left and the right of it, do you have people making some sort of extraordinary presumptions. one is schiff says that's all that's left him and his like on the left is a presumption, a pretense that there's something that has to be made public in that report. forget what's actually in the report. >> right.

lou: from the right, there is -- to me, i would hope there would be a favorable view of making it transparent to the american people to show. i'm all about transparency, tom. and in judicial watch, your dna is about transparency. >> look, we were the ones actually trying to sue mueller for basic information about his operations. lou: right. >> you know, transparency that's politicized and arbitrary and -- lou: then let the american people see that -- >> -- that's problematic -- lou: -- catalog of political nonsense for themselves. the american people are worthy of trust, whether it be from either party, whether it be -- this is a requirement in my opinion for this nation to get its head straight once again. you know, to be treated like adults. i mean the american people aren't acting like adults in every case, but there it is.

at least our government treating us like we're adults and insist upon transparency. it should be the hallmark of this administration, by the way. >> if there's going to be a report, there's going to be a report. and you're right, there should be transparency generally. the president should, for instance, release more of the fisa material. lou: absolutely. >> but my concern is, lou, is that the special counsel is working on the dossier 2.0. we already have one unconfirmed, uncorroborated antitrump dossier. the justice department shouldn't be in the business of writing another dossier. that's my concern. lou: if they write another dossier -- what they should be in the business of going after people who break the law and abuse power, and not a single person in that fbi, or the department of justice, the upper ranks of which in both cases are rancid with political corruption. if this attorney general fails

to investigate and absolutely prosecute these scurrilous excuses for public servants, then i don't know what in the world would be required. i would say that both the justice department and fbi are lost to the country. what do you think? >> well, i agree. you know, frankly that's why we do what we do is because we don't trust the leadership to do the right thing. even if they do, we will be constrained and limited. that's why you have to have folks like judicial watch and congress where appropriate asking tough questions. you know, rosenstein hasn't been questioned about his -- lou: rosenstein -- >> mueller hasn't been questioned about his fisa abuses. lou: it goes on and on. transparency are us, right? >> i don't disagree. lou: and the trump administration. thank you very much. up next, former fed chair janet

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lou: former fed chair janet yellin, she doesn't like the fact she didn't get the job back at the fed. she was asked on a radio show if she thinks president trump has a good, quote, grasp of economic policy. yellin responded, no, i do not. [laughter] >> says yellin. he's made comments about the fed -- we could go on with that nonsense. joining us now is ed rollins and with him michael goodwin. good to have you gentlemen here. >> pleasure. lou: ed, the idea that yellin is holding -- she's sour grapes. the president didn't want to keep her at the fed. >> she was the first one not to

get a second four-year term and basically deservedly so. if you try to compare her economic environment to the economic environment we have today, you know, there's miles distance. lou: you like 3 1/2% economic growth and like having 8 trillion dollars more in the stock market and you like housing recovery and you like -- >> absolutely. lou: -- you like having record employment for minorities. >> 7 million jobs -- lou: it's amazing. >> pretty good economic -- >> and she's got to be infuriated too about the fact that the president happened to be right about the rapid rate of interest rate hikes -- lou: you must not say that. the fed is independent, they said. and then tried -- well, they did crash the market. >> yes. lou: took it down 2 1/2 trillion dollars in three months. and powell finally got the idea, maybe you can't run off all those assets on a 4 trillion

plus balance sheet and raise rates at the same time. i mean, it's amazing. but this is what -- this is an analog for what is happening to this president. he's in north korea. he's taking on china trade for the first time in 50 years. we have a president who is knowledgeable about economics, has a certain vision, positive vision of this country and its people. this seems to me like a man who is unbeatable in 2020. >> he's got the courage to force his agenda forward, and i think it's been an extraordinary, as we were talking earlier, he has great political instincts and he knows -- he understands people and he's going to do very well in the next two days in a meeting with the world lead their no one thought they could deal with. he's dealing with him very well. my sense is every month it is a new accomplishment. lou: no question about it. and what has north korea gotten from this president? people talking about whether or

not he's giving away too much. he's given away nothing. and he's got a relationship with a man who is i think capable of going where the president wants him, and that is toward a future that's prosperous, that is significant for his country because where he lives now, kim jong-un, there's no future for him or his people. >> and when you were talking to jack keane about this, lou, in the beginning democrats were accusing trump of going too fast, of over -- lou: -- cause nuclear war -- >> even with the first summit that he was claiming too much, and now he's going too slowly. now he set the bar so low. nothing -- whatever he is, they are on the other side. lou: when it comes to -- look at the record. the democrats and the republicans when it came to north korea could do nothing except make fools of themselves or be made fools of by the kim

family. >> equally as important, he's taken kim to two places kim has never been before, singapore and vietnam. and the lesson is if you want to basically have a strong economic model to follow, these two places are the place to follow. lou: right. >> i think to a certain extent, kim came away from singapore impressed as others have in the past -- lou: i want to turn to this. let's take a look at ocasio cortez. the tweet here that she sent out. this is one of those terrific moments if we could share it with the audience. can we do that? >> people are like oh it's unrealistic. oh it's vague. oh it doesn't address this little minute thing, and i'm like you try. so until you do it, i'm the boss. how about that. >> no member of congress is the boss. she represents the 14th district in queens, and what she has to

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trap of open borders and crime. your thoughts? >> look, i'm not too surprised. i think the president knew what he was getting into when he decided to run. he calls d.c. a swamp for a reason. we know there are people that are against him on both the left and the right. but look, the president is right. they better stand firm because this is exactly what the american people want. this is exactly the biggest reason that we put him in the white house, to defend our borders, build the wall. so i don't think this is going to work for either side in the end, and at the end of the day, it is going to be a major issue that will help him win in 2020. lou: this is the sort of thing that just rolls off his back, and he dismisses it and moves on and achieves more. let's -- i'm fascinated by alexandria ocasio cortez. she has now come -- she's outdone herself, it seems to me, this time. basically saying that you know

maybe we ought to think about not having anymore children because the planet's problems would be so simply solved. she's gone somewhere that's bizarre. she's gone places that are unusual and weird even, but this is truly bizarre. >> yeah, you know, i caught my breath a little bit when i read it, but i'm going to say this, if she's proposing that the people that are far left and socialist and want to ruin america shouldn't have any children, i can get on board with that, if people behind her they decided they didn't want to reproduce, i'm comfortable with it. first time i will say i support you alexandria ocasio cortez. lou: there should be it seems to me a republican counter to it, though, for 2020, and that is people should be having more children. they should be supporting the family. we should think -- there should be a family impact statement with every law that's written, every policy that's pursued should be about sustaining the

american family and assuring that the middle class and all who aspire to it have that opportunity to live the american dream. that should be foremost in the minds, it seems to me, of every american and would be a great issue for 2020. >> look, you know i spend all of my time speaking to black america in particular. we have been harmed the most especially by these radical abortion policies in the past. we have lost 17 million black americans since 1973. so i'm always advocating for people to understand how it impacts us, how the breakdown of the black family an how they are advocating for the breakdown of hispanic family and advocating for open borders and madness. yes, america is facing a crisis right now. we are seeing that conservatives and particularly our president is in office fighting to bring all of that back together, to bring the family back together in america because everything is dependent upon the family. lou: how goes your campaign to basically take on the left at

every -- it seems to me almost every juncture possible? do you feel like you are winning? >> i do feel like i'm winning. look, i wake up every day and the smears and the hit pieces against me are nastier and nastier, and that to me is indicative of left fear. i don't think they ever saw this coming. they never could have predicted an awakening in the minority community. they have had our vote. they have taken advantage of us. and fundamentally they have stopped trying, and the republicans weren't competing for the black vote. i think they know that they are seeing my 2020 vision, and listen to this, lou, all we're talking about here is moving the black vote 5 points. if we move the black vote 5 points, the left is done. the democrats are done. they can no longer sustain their party. that's how much they rely upon us, and that's why they constantly want us in the state of anger, confusion, and fear, and that's what i'm working to reverse. lou: well, you are doing a wonderful job. if you don't mind, i'm going to change your number just a little

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lou: joining us tonight is kevin brock, former assistant director of intelligence at the fbi. kevin was an fbi special agent for 24 years. kevin, great to have you with us. and following as it does, adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee saying he's going to subpoena robert mueller. he's going to subpoena the report from the witch hunt or special counsel, if you prefer. i mean, we have quite a system going now. we have chairman of the intelligence committee going after the man appointed special

counsel to investigate the president. this is a never-ending act of cannibalism on the part of at least the democratic party, it seems. >> well, thanks, lou, for having me on. it is great to be with you. i was puzzled by that myself. an intelligence investigation conducted by any agency of the u.s. government of the executive branch, including the special counsel, is going to generate findings that technically belong, and this is the irony of it all -- technically belong to the president of the united states and then secondarily certainly to the congress as well because the congress has to fund the intelligence community and law enforcement agencies and has oversight. so i'm a little puzzled as to why there would be a reason to have to threaten a subpoena when in logic and in tradition, that information is going to flow to congress anyway, unless it's

just political histrionics. lou: i personally believe there should be great transparency here. the american people have watched an elected president investigated for months before he became president, investigated by the fbi, investigated by the special counsel, five congressional committees and to this date there's no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever on his part. why not put this forward, and if it is going to be a political document, don't you think in and of itself that's something that the american people ought to know? >> i agree. i do, and you know, for the criminal charges of mueller's investigation, there's baked in transparency. lou: right. >> but on the counterintelligence side, which is really his main mandate, as

special counsel, there are traditionally classifications. that information normally becomes classified, but there are mechanisms to make sure that that can be declassified and shared. now, the new attorney general has stated, and i think appropriately so, that he would want to review the report to make sure that there's -- lou: it's his job. >> and there's no compromise of sensitive methods or techniques that we wouldn't want to divulge as part of our intelligence gathering process. and because of the intensive interest and national importance of this story, i can't envision a scenario where it would largely be kept secret. lou: it has to pain you, as it does all of us really, to see the fbi in the grip of so much political corruption at the top. at the same time, it's deeply painful that there's not been

any prosecution of obvious wrongdoing on the part of many of the individuals who have been removed at the top. your thoughts about what should happen? >> well, you're exactly right. for those of us who are retired fbi agents, and i get feedback a lot from agents who are still in the fbi, encouraging a countering voice to that which we heard last week from andrew mccabe and previously from james comey who go on friendly media to really spew a bunch of nonsense. they're putting forth ideas and assertions that really have no basis in reality as to how the fbi works. they left out conveniently the fact that both comey and mccabe ran two highly sensitive political investigations out of the director's office which has never been done before.

highly unusual. i call them rogue operations. and whereas normally all fbi investigations are conducted in the field. lou: should they be prosecuted? we've got about 15 seconds here. >> yeah, i think that -- attorney general barr, i encourage him to look carefully at the decision making and the processes that were deployed by mccabe and comey through this whole process, to make sure it doesn't happen again. this is wrong against any administration, not just republican, if it was done against a democratic administration, it would be equally wrong, and we have to protect the fbi and the american people. lou: absolutely. kevin brock, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. lou: up next more on the democrats continued harassment of the president. all he's doing is trying to move the nation forward, to create peace among the korean peninsula, denuclearize north korea, reach a balanced trade relationship with what has been a predator economy, that of china, oh, yes, and, and resolve

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