elizabeth macdonald. the man himself is next, you know, lou dobbs. so keep it right here on fox business. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the united states is sending another 1,000 troops to middle east, this as iran threatens to increase its enriched uranium stockpile beyond any agreed-upon limits. iran demanding that european leaders like macron and merkel side with iran and work, help iran evade the impact of u.s. sanctions. the radical dems remain hell bent in their harassment of the president. the dems now considering calling on former trump campaign members to testify in the eternal efforts of the radical dems to,

if not overthrow the president, to absolutely, absolutely obstruct his agenda for the remaining twof -- make that one and a half years of this first term. two and a half years have passed since the president's election, and still the radical dems are driving the dead horse of russian collusion. new developments in the president's efforts to stop illegal immigration and secure our southern border. the government of mexico has arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants over the weekend. the mexican federal authorities joining with u.s. drug enforcement agency raiding a cartel controlled fentanyl lab in northern mexico. for more on the evidence of u.s./mexico cooperation to stop illegal immigration, drug smuggling and efforts to secure the border, william la jeunesse joins us from the mexico/guatemala border.

>> reporter: with multiple fights a day, i.c.e. deports 1500 guatemalans from the u.s. every week. are you going to try again? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: why? >> i kind of just -- i have three daughters and i need work. >> reporter: some are giving up. others vow to try again. >> couple times, couple more. >> reporter: more guatemalans are apprehended at the u.s. border than from any other cup. a superhighway of migrants passes through guatemala every day inviting drugs, extortion and corruption. >> we have to generate -- to attract investments and generate jobs. >> reporter: last week the interior minister says got mat la is -- guatemala is considering a country agreement requiring honduran and salvadoran my grants to apply for asylum here, not the u.s. >> guatemala is going to be a country that's going to support

the with regards of closing that loophole. >> reporter: jose acosta was deported after just four months in the u.s., he is headed back, but mexico's promise to put 6,000 soldiers on the border gives him pause. >> translator: i am afraid because i don't want to be returned to my country. >> reporter: critics of this president say his border security focus is misplaced, that we should be spending more money and time focusing on the root causes of illegal immigration. as we we found out here, that is not easy, it is not quick, and much of it is out of u.s. control. u.s. taxpayers have spent a billion dollars here over the space of a decade, and yet illegal immigration has increased. even supporters can see not all that money's been wisely spent, but it does buy a seat at the table. going forward, no analyst says giving more money to a corrupt government is a good idea. lou? lou: william, thank you very much. william la jeunesse. mexico's national migration institute is sending 1,000

migration agents to both the northern and southern borders of mexico trying to help the united states stem the flow of ill illegal -- illegal immigration. the mexican navy has also been deployed to the border river separating mexico and guatemala, trying to stop illegal immigrants trying to crosby raft. our first -- cross by raft. our first guest has firsthand knowledge of the crisis and the need to enforce, internally enforce u.s. immigration law. joining me now is tom homan, former acting director of immigration, customs enforcement, fox business contributor. good to have you with us, tom. it's interesting watching la jeunesse's report there. there was almost an appeal you could hear from some of those in his report for them to continue to come north. they're obviously, most of them at least in his report, are determined not to come back again.

they feel that this is being more closed by this new effort by mexico, obviously. >> well, i think -- look, i think as i said before, i think this deal the president made in mexico is historic. no other president has got a deal this big and this wide. we've got to watch and make sure mexico lives up to their promises, and if they don't, i think the president will put tariffs on them. i'm impressed with what's happening so far, but it needs to be a sustained operation. and what part of the deal i really liked is mexico said they were going to have national guard resources attack the criminal cartels, both the financial infrastructure and the transportation infrastructure. that is key. that is key, that they try to dismantle these cartels x. plus, again, partisan agreement is working toward a a state three-country agreement. if we get that, that's a game-changer, lou, if the mexicans stick with it. lou: and the mexican government is giving every signal that they're going to complete the deal that they agreed to with this president.

including the third nation asylum seeker part of the agreement. got mall that's -- guatemala's role in this is extraordinary and much to their benefit. it is also, in my judgment, a game-changer with guatemala. and to see, to see the federal misworking with the dea takes me back to early days of my career some -- [laughter] some decades ago in sonora in northern mexico where that was a routine operation for mexican and u.s. officials -- whether they were federal, provincial police, dea, atf, whomever it may be -- they were working together on both sides of the border and having immense success. >> you know, and i want to address one thing i've been reading in the media lately. people are saying, well, mexico can't handle this. they can't handle -- i want to explain something.

the safe third country agreement, aliens from el salvador and honduras, they'd have to claim asylum in guatemala. guatemalanss would have to seek asylum in mexico. however, people need to look at the data. 90% of these people do not get relief from the u.s. government because they're not true asylum seekers. once you shut off the united states, they're going to stop coming because this has never been about escaping fear and persecution. this is about getting to united states. so mexico may have some harsh in the beginning, but i think the numbers will slowly go down because they're going to see that route to united states is virtually cut off. and i think you're going to see some success. and i agree 100%, our relationship with mexico is good right now, and it's only good because this president went out on a limb against the democrats and some in his own party who attacked him for the tariffs. this president showed once again that he's a genius, and he took all these people to school once again because he's going to keep

his promise to american people. i have no doubt about that. lou: i, you know what? i don't have any doubt about it either. and like you, i don't have any doubt because i've actually seen what is the consequence when this president puts his policies to work -- [laughter] and it's pretty straightforward. i mean, whether we're talking about trade, whether we're talking about illegal immigration, border security, whether we're talking about foreign policy, this economy, he's right, and you can just put in the blanks who's wrong, who's wrong? nobel prize winners, wall street geniuses, masters of the universe. they all look like the fools that, inhabit most of the leadership posts on capitol hill. do youdo you like the way i word that in, on capitol hill? [laughter] >> the president has been right on this issue from day one. i seen him give a campaign speech in arizona, i watched that entire speech, and every

time he made a point, i said to myself, he's right, he's right. so he's been right even before he's been president. i tell you what, don't take this president on too hard because this president likes a good fight. i think he takes pride in a good fight. and i haven't seen him lose too many good fights, and he won't lose this one, because i think the american people realize he was right about the caravans, the national emergency, the national security on this border people that want to do harm to this country can come to this country more easily now than they ever could in the past, so this is a national security crisis, and god help us if the democrats keep pushing back on this president and not secure this border, because they're going to be on the wrong side of history if something terrible happens. lou: and something great is happening in this administration. the president's teams, important areas whether it's trade, whether it is defense, national security, whether it's pompeo, whether it is bolton, shanahan

appears to, the president seems to be impressed with him, and they're doing good work. and i'm looking at dhs, the border security team, the immigration team that he's putting together, you know, and you. the president apparently wants you to be a very important part of that. where do we stand on that? >> well, let me make something perfectly clear, because people said i said no to president, i walked away from this. if you think tom homan's not up for a fight, then you don't know tom homan, first of all. second of all, what i said this past week was i have not accepted a position yet, because i think it needs to be structured a certain way for it to be successful, for me to be successful and the president to be successful. so those conversations will continue. and so tom homan's never said no to this president. i have been shoulder to shoulder with this president from day one, and i came back from

retirement once to serve this president, and i'll never say never, i wouldn't say i wouldn't come back, so let's get that right out of the way, because all the a naysayers are saying tom homan -- lou: well, i don't know who these naysayers are, but i do know -- >> pardon? lou: i said i'll tell you this much, you're getting it straight from @loudobbs tom homan -- from lou dons, this country would be well served to have you working for this president. i think that's, that's e a straight-up way to put it. finish do you agree? >> yes. and don't count me out. [laughter] lou: i'm counting you in, partner. i'm counting you in. tom homan, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> thanks, lou. lou: yes, sir, you too. acting defense secretary patrick shanahan tonight authorizing 1,000 additional troops to be sent to middle east in response to iran's hostile aggression. it comes as the u.s. navy has

presented photo evidence iran was behind the attacks on those two crude oil tankers last week in the gulf of oman. these images follow an announcement from iran that they're ramping up enrichment of low grade uranium, and iran says they'll pass their stockpile limit under the obama era nuclear deal in ten days unless europe, get in the, unless -- get this, unless europe somehow would get the united states to back off the punishing u.s. sanctions. think about this convoluted nonsense on the part of the iranians. they must, indeed, be desperate. the state department today urging our allies, including macron and merkel, not to yield to this nuclear extortion by iran. up next, the fallout continues from hillary clinton's classified e-mail scandal. we'll take that up and just take a look at how many people got away with a crime, and it's

criminal. plus tonight, what president trump had to say about the deep state's efforts to bring down his presidency. we'll have that and much more right a

>> we clearly believe there was a group of people working against you. do you think president obama was behind it? the. >> i would say that he certainly must have known about it, because it went very high up in the chain. i'm not going to make that statement quite yet, but i would say that president obama had to know about it. lou: had to know about it. president trump calling out his predecessor for spygate, for spying on president trump's 2016 presidential campaign. the president also told abc's george steph stephanopoulos tha, quote, lowlife ares in the fbi worked to prevent him from winning the presidential election. fifteen individuals involved in mishandling classified information linked to hillary clinton's unsecured server, the state department sharing these shocking details with senator charles grassley. he's been leading the congressional oversight into that scandal. it hasn't exactly moved ahead, has it? no names of those employees were

released, no specifics yet concerning possible disciplinary action, if any. as i say, it's not moving quickly, is it? well, joining us tonight, new york times best selling author, breitbart senior editor at large, peter enticer, and peter -- entice schweitzer, it is great to have you with us. >> great to be back with you, lou. lou: i've just got to get to this. grassley, and the revelation that there are 15 names who have been identified, 23 violations, 7 infractions in the review by the state department, and here we are, it is 2019. for crying out loud, who do they think we are, complete idiots? >> yeah, that's, i think, what their assumption is, because, look, lou, when you've got 15 individuals that were passing along classified information in violation of federal law, those people need to face justice. and it's important to keep in

mind, lou, those are only the people we know about. remember that hillary clinton deleted half of her e-mails, so there is probably a whole other universe of people out there that we simply don't know about. and this is what frustrates people, this sense that justice is not equally applied. and it's probably not going to be applied here unless this attorney general decides to do so. lou: yeah, i just, i just -- it rankles me so profoundly, to have grassley talking as if he is there in a blue, white robe of some is sort speaking from a cloud about the sins of mere mortals when he has been aiding and abetting this nonsense with his establishment blather and inaction, dragging his feet at every opportunity and then reporting back to good people of

iowa just pure nonsense. i just can't stand this pure, aggravated, to me, disloyalty to this nation. it is sickening to watch the sanctimonious nonsense instead of people with enough guts to actually take action against what is clearly a violation of our laws and the integrity of our entire system. >> yeah. i mean, lou, i've used this analogy with you before, but what goes on in washington, d.c., it's a hot like professional wrestling, you know? when you see it for the first time, you think that the combatants don't like each other, they hate each other, they're hitting each other. the fact of the matter is they're business partners, they're working together, and there's a lot of that in washington, d.c. where, you know, one party will sort of call out the other party in a very stern way, but as a matter of fact, they're not doing anything other than trying to create the impression that there's conflict and combat. so this is the problem that

frustrates people, and, you know, until we get some leadership change in the republican party, you're probably not going to see a lot of movement on this, because it's comfortable. it's comfortable for them to operate this way. lou: and for the national left-wing media who are complicit with the radical dems, it's just another day at the box office, and and we'll see how the receipts play. unfortunately, president trump saying that obama had to know about this effort, this conspiracy, this effort to overthrow his candidacy and then overthrow his presidency. it's exactly right. how could it be otherwise? >> yeah, i mean, look, i think we all know if you watch the fbi or the cia or any intelligence service, if you are going to undertake a very, very politically sensitive surveillance spying operation, you are going to let the white house know. in my mind, there's no way that this operation operation

occurred without sign-off at the highest levels of the white house, part of it because the fbi and cia are protecting their own institutional viability with the president. but part of it is they also want the president, essentially, to support or to authorize what they're doing, because they don't want to be hung out to dry. in this case it seems like that's probably what happened, so i think he's correct. i don't think there's any scenario under which senior white house officials, including the president, didn't know at least something about this going on. lou: and we also have the corroboration of the texts between page and strzok talking about it, this from the white house, twice making references to the president and to the white house as to what they wanted to know and how they wanted to be certain that things were going, quote-unquote, by the book. the left-wing media goes nuts over this comment he a makes to step november louse -- stephanopoulos. what did he call him? the little wise guy.

asking about a, you know, the proposition that it be a norwegian giving over to president some dirt on an opponent in 2020, and the president saying i might have to look at that, and the left-wing media goes apoplectic, their hair's on fire, they're just overcome with is it the indignity of it, the affront to their just highly refined sensibilities -- [laughter] and at the same time, where were they when, you know, the clinton the foundation paid for, paid for play? the ignorance of all of this on the part of the national left-wing media is overwhelming. it's got to be disconcerting to the american people to see so plainly and brightly, vividly before them is such hypocrisy and and hyperbole. >> yeah. you know, it's pretty funny to hear these sort of fake, you

know, virginal squeal of shock that political campaigns would have connection with foreign powers. i certainly don't like it, whoever does it, but i would commend the people to go back and read the memoirs of the longtime soviet ambassador in washington, d.c. and he accounts in his memoirs how in 1980 and 1984 senior democrats, including tip o'neill the speaker of the house, came to him. and he accounts in vivid detail, they came to him saying how can you help us prevent reagan from being elected in 1980 and then later in 1984, how can you help us defeat him. so here you have, by his account -- and there's no reason to not believe him, he has no reason to make this up -- saying that they were actively seeking the cooperation of the soviets during the height of the cold war. i don't think it's a good idea when anybody does it, but the hypocrisy of acting shocked that

anybody would even entertain this idea is ridiculous. it's, unfortunately, gone on a lot in the past. lou: and we should -- there is no moral equivalency between the dirt from norway with the president talking hypothetically and, say, ted kennedy beseeching the soviet soviet union to provide him whatever dirt they can so that he can win the presidency of the united states. and and on can and on it goes, and the left, without consequence, continues to -- well, they tend to stand the high ground so long as it's a bedrock of pure hypocrisy. peter schweizer, come back soon. we've got a lot to talk about in large measure because of your reporting. look forward to seeing you again soon. thanks so much, peter. >> thanks, lou. lou: president trump's ban against huawei crippling the telecom giant. huawei's chief executive officer says the company will lose $30 billion in revenue over the next 20 years. the ceo also said the

blacklisting will force cell phone sales outside of china to drop by about 40%, that is the sales of huawei phones. president trump was right on huawei just like he's been right about trade, tariffs, illegal immigration, sanctions, pressuring nato, no collusion, the economy and prosperity, defeating isis, the iran nuclear deal, and we ran out of, well, thought for our machines, so we'll just take the list to that point. we are continue this in the days ahead. up next, new concerns about america's power grid after a massive blackout in south america. we take that up right after the break. stay with us. as usual, you would not want to

lou: power is back on for millions of people in south america following a 14-hour blackout over the weekend. 50 million people in argentina, uruguay and paraguay without power because of electrical failure at a power station in argentina. argentina's president has not ruled out the possibility of a cyber attack. the possible cyber attack in latin america prompting concern of a similar attack on the u.s. power grid which supplies power across the united states and canada. joining us tonight, cybersecurity expert morgan wright, to whom we always turn in moments of, well, tension and suspicion and concern, and this is such a moment. good to see you, morgan. >> hello, sir. lou: what do you make of it? i know the details are scant -- >> right. lou: your sense of what's going on in south america. >> i draw some parallels between this and the fact that happened december 23, 2015, in ukraine

where they attacked also a hydroelectric plant, took it offline. the first successful use of black energy, done. so the fact that three countries are hit at the same time, the fact that the grid fails completely, and it's also another hydroelectric plant, i think there's too many parallels here. again, it's early, but it's one of those things, lou, at some point you've got to quit believing in coincidences. we know we've got state actors between -- especially russia, china, they're in our power grid, other people's power grids. this may have been one of those instances but, again, too many parallels right now. lou: and also the president accusing the times of virtual treason, coming out with this story talking about the united states ramping up its cyber attacks on russia -- >> right. lou: correlations? >> yeah, you know, it's about time, is what i said. you know, i talked about this before, i've written several articles about it, and one of the ways to stop playground

bully is the is to give them a bloody nose. for too long, people thought russia and china were inpenetrable. i think it's time they get a dose of realism. we're still good guys, mid goodness, that punch, that jab, that hook can inflict a lot of damage, and it also deescalates a lot of things, because it lets them know the rules are different. one thing trump has done is changed the rules of engagement, and now these guys aren't sure if they're going to do it. they need to fear our abilities to do the same thing to them far worse than what they could do to us. lou: it's, to me, it is very strange that it was under obama that put out a doctrine, if not a doctrine, a doctrinaire statement suggesting that we could consider it an act of war, an act, a cyber attack on our virtual data -- >> right. lou: the reaction -- this was never a reaction, there was never a response at least which

i'm aware, and now under this president we are beginning to see, to see the consequences of certain acts. >> right. lou: it's just, to me, it's very difficult to understand why russia and china do not give us any credit for having that, that potential, and why do we put up with having one arm tied behind our back in the is cyber world? >> you know, there were some acts before that i would consider just to be feckless. i mean, it's all talk, no show. so we were completely ignored on the world stage when it came to that stuff, but now with the head of nsa and u.s. cyber command, the new authorities that were given in a classified finding, you know, for the intelligence community, basically it's loosened the rules of engagement in cyberspace because there's five domains of warfare, sea, air, land, space and cyberspace. we're good in cyberspace, trust

me. the freedom of the press is virtually zero over there. you don't hear about tiananmen square, nobody bad mouths vladimir putin. you hear about it in the u.s. but trust me, now that they've taken the gloves off, i think you're going to see a leveling of the playing field. we're going to get a pause, then the next thing we need to go after is the folks like huawei and the espionage that's going on once we settle this area over here as well. lou: and the finding that morgan is referring to, it's a presidential finding signed by president trump. morgan wright, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> you bet, lou. lou: up next, judicial watch's tom fitton joins me here to take out the state department's efforts to target president trump as candidate, oh, ye, and as president. we'll have the latest for you on the deep state's endless

lou: desperate house radical dems believe they may have found a way around white house executive privilege. they're planning to target allies of the president who never if worked for him inside the white house. former trump campaign manager, for example, corey lewandowski, former new jersey governor chris christie, former campaign chairman paul manafort all reportedly considered as targets to be required to give testimony. i mean, the radical dems just don't give up, do they?

they are the most indecent -- it's an appalling bunch. it's disgusting, truly. well, judicial watch has uncovered new documents that show the discredited steele dossier being funneled through john kerry's state department, e-mails dating back september of 2016 detailing communications about the phony dossier between the assistant secretary of state victoria nuland, jonathan reiner and incoming house majority whip-then, steny hoyer's, national security adviser daniel silverberg. and joining us to make is sense of it is judicial watch president tom fitton. tom, good of to have you with us. -- good to have you with us. you can't be serious. john kerry, steny hoyer's national security aide working together with christopher steele? this is -- tell us it's just

preposterous and it couldn't have happened. >> well, or steele had it in with the state department going back years even before the 2016 elections. he knew this jonathan weiner guy, was helping him out according to the documents we have, and once the dossier came up, he conveyed that to senior state department official, victoria nuland, and then nuland is, obviously, talking about that with house democrats. other documents we have, lou, show that the state department was a key area or a key agency in the anti-trump efforts shepherding the dossier not only to congress, but to justice department even through steele. you know, we think that steele has the one dossier? oh, no. the state department was sending its own material separately to congress. so when a a.g. barr is going to look at this, he needs to not only look at doj, fbi, nsa, cia, state department's at the center of the storm when it came to

these coup efforts. lou: into he's going to need to look at how did john mccain get his hands on the steele dossier, and how is it that he's sitting there working with a former agent of mi-6 at a security conference who is the person designated for him to hand over the dossier to fbi, which he does? very little discussion about that path, that circuitous path through the intelligence agencies of our so-call allies. -- so-called allies. it's pretty stunning stuff for there not to have been any, any significant public discussion of all of this. at this late date. >> well, it explains why you have the sort of desperate activity by the house democrats to harass the president's team even further with this ridiculous consideration of trying to bypass executive privilege which won't work.

because -- lou: by the way, it's not only indecent, it is beneath contempt, and it's also just stupid, what they're doing. it just -- the democrats get dumber, and the republicans, the house republicans, there are a handful who are fighting for this president. but those republicans need to stand as one and say you will leave this president the hell alone. and the senate republicans look like complete baffoons, and i'm starting with lindsey graham, the chairman of the judiciary committee, who should be defending this president and creating a countervailing influence against the morons who run the house intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee. >> yeah -- lou: do you disagree? >> he should crank up the judiciary committee and investigate what went on with this. the democratic-controlled intelligence committee -- and i don't want say that lightly given the republicans run the senate -- is obviously harassing trump. lou: yes. >> senator graham has got to step into the gap here, i agree.

but quickly on the democrats, lou, the flak they're throwing up is designed to protect themselves from scrutiny. forget about investigating the investigators, we need to be investigating congress about its role in the anti-trump coup which, in my view, continues through its abuse of power at the house targeting his irs forms, confidential irs data, harassing him generally. the reason they're doing this is because they don't want the world to stop and focus on their misconduct, their political party misconduct in engendering spygate. lou: if all the news and all of the shiny objects to send at earth at one time what's left, nothing but a president who has achieved historic success in his first two and a half years in office and a democratic party that is rancid and politically corrupt beyond with anyone's imaginings three years ago as we approached a decision about who

he would put in the white house. it is, it is just extraordinary, what we are living through. tom fitton, who's making it, making it better and discovering much that we are learning, as always, thank you. thank judicial watch, tom. appreciate it. >> thank you, lou. lou: up next, president trump getting ready to officially step into the 2020 race and take on, that's right, those radical dems. we'll have that and much more with our panel right after these with our panel right after these

my twin brother jacob has an autism spectrum disorder i remember one moment after being at school all day and i remember him getting into the car just balling... and saying: "mom, i have no friends" "why don't i have any friends?" it broke my heart. ♪brother let me be your shelter♪ ♪never leave you all alone that was the moment when i realized that i needed to do something about this. i needed to make a difference in his life. go! and i knew that if i could help him find a friend, i could help teach other people that including people with differences is the right thing to do. ♪bring it home ♪brother let me be your shelter♪ that was the inspiration behind my non-profit "score a friend" educating people to include the people with differences is so important because when jacob's included he feels like he can succeed in life and he feels like he actually has a purpose. ♪..home

we like drip coffee, layovers- -and waiting on hold. what we don't like is relying on fancy technology for help. snail mail! we were invited to a y2k party... uh, didn't that happen, like, 20 years ago? oh, look, karolyn, we've got a mathematician on our hands! check it out! now you can schedule a callback or reschedule an appointment, even on nights and weekends. today's xfinity service. simple. easy. awesome. i'd rather not.

lou: president trump to launch his 20 re-election bid tomorrow night, a huge rally in orlando, florida. how huge? well, it's the at the amway center. they can hold up to 20,000 people. the president says more than 100,000 of his supporters have requested tickets to attend tomorrow's kickoff event. people seen lining up, camping outside the venue this morning. is that salem's mike gallagher there? he was sort of wanting to interview the first person there 40 hours to go before the rally kicks off. the president, the vice president and, well, here we go,

2020 coming. joining me tonight, trump 2020 campaign national press secretary kayleigh mcenany. we've got to explain to everybody it's purely a coincidence you're here on the eve of the kickoff of the president's re-election bid -- [laughter] and charlie hurt, fox business contributor, great american, both of them. let me, caylee, begin with you. 100,000 people trying to get into the venue. that's extraordinary. even in trumpian terms, that's extraordinary. >> it is, indeed, extraordinary. i mean, think about this, joe biden found, you know, some 85 people at his event last week -- lou: wait a minute, let me write that down. >> that's right, 85. lou: 85? >> yeah. so times that by more than 100, and there you go, that's what you've got on the trump side of things. nearly more than 100,000

rsvps. we had to create a tailgate to make sure everyone had fun, including the 80,000 plus that could be waiting outside. this is a big deal, one of the biggest, i think, in modern history, presidential announcements. lou: i don't know about this. the trump campaign providing tailgate condiments? i don't know what that means. many of those, i think, probably bring their own, what do you think? >> yeah, exactly. things might get out of hand. but really it is amazing. obviously, there's so much that we loved about his first campaign because it was unscripted, it was, you know -- lou: wide open. >> it was wide open, it was charging the gates. i love all of that. this time it's a little bit more difficult because he's inside the gates, and he's got, and he's got to figure out how to thread that needle, but if there's anybody that can still sort of do that marauding campaign where he talks about the people are -- and speaks accurately about all of the

people in his way trying to carry out the agenda he laid out, whatever it is, i think he can do it. lou: i think -- well, i know he can do it. that isn't even a question with me. kayleigh, as i think about this campaign kickoff, the first question i have is why orlando? how did you pick that venue? tell us about that? >> well, it's really because this is a second home state to president, and we needed to find a place that could house, you know, tens of thousands of supporters. the amway center was an obvious choice because of capacity. being here in the heart of orlando is great, but it really had more to do with the venue than the location. florida's, obviously, a swing state, but this being the second homemade the choice obvious and special. lou: and joe biden, you talk about 85 people, kayleigh, and the president's talking about 100,000 folks, and the polls are saying biden's ahead of the president nationally.

[laughter] every once in a while i go back and i take a look at one of those clips from the imbecilic networks that were so downcast and just having -- [laughter] a terrible, tragic moment as they realized that president trump who was a 95% certainty to lose, at least according to "the new york times," was winning in the wee hours, i love that. and if now we've got biden ahead of him. that is outrageously -- that's stupid and bizarre beyond any comprehension. >> and, of course, that all began in florida when florida -- lou: that's right. >> -- cracked, it started to fall away. all these things the polls are saying, as you point out, you know, at this point in the 2016 election polls would have shown that donald trump had a .7% chance of winning. it's absurd to try to rely on these polls. and i think that a bigger, a better way of looking at it at this point is to look at a rally like in orlando.

if the guy's pulling in tens of thousands of people at this point in the campaign, who on the democratic side is doing that? i don't see that sort of enthusiasm lining up behind anybody which is why you have so many characters that are so desperate. lou: they've got a lot of desperate characters, but name one important issue that they have original, put forward with original -- >> or just sane. lou: it's stunning. kaylee, as you -- kay, leigh, as you might guess, you're not going to have a lot of trouble persuading charlie and me. [laughter] what is the surprise for tomorrow night, between us? >> there will be a few, and it's not just between us, it would be between us and all of your viewers, but there will be a few, rest assured. it's going to be a great night. and while we talk about polling, i've just got to say, lou, the democrats are making it pretty easy for us right now. we're seeing the polls shift in our direction as they talk about

government takeover and felons voting from jail and illegal immigrants amnesty and decriminalizing border crossings and health care for illegal immigrants, they're making our job really easy. lou: kayleigh, thanks so much. charlie, thank you. >> thank you. lou: i just can't figure out -- you say the democrats are making it easy? that and the president is making it pretty easy too. >> that's right. lou: president trump and vice president pence tomorrow night in orlando to kick off his new race. kayleigh, again, grubbing to you. thanks so much -- good luck to you. and mexico ramping up its efforts to confront the border crisis after making a deal with president trump. we'll have

lou: the mexican government arresting hundreds of illegal immigrants over the weekend. tom homan discussing mexican-up s. government cooperation. >> the president has got a deal this big and this wide. we have to watch and make sure mexico lives up to the promises. if they don't, i am sure the president will put tariffs on them. i am impressed with what has been happening so far, but it needs to be a sustained operation. lou: president trump launches

his campaign in until * tomorrow. hundreds, thousands lining up. see you tomorrow, good night cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. the pentagon sending more u.s. troops to the middle east after iran threatens to breach its nuclear limits within days. plus, new evidence just revealed seems to point the finger at the regime for the attacks in the gulf of oman. lauren: trump supporters readily to rally -- ready to rally in florida, as the president kicks off his 2020 re-election campaign. we're live in orlando as a top 2020 challenger promises to turn republican strongholds in the south blue. cheryl: new details into facebook's forray into cryptocurrency. lauren: tony stark, move over.