lou: adam schiff is chiseling out a place in history as the right hand of speaker nancy pelosi and a radical dimm plot to overthrow the president of the united states with make believe witnesses, pretend evidence and fantastic charges. ship, not one, but two individuals. both happen to be cia officers. isn't that a coincidence. to complain about a phone call

that neither heard, between the president and the ukrainian president zelensky and make much of it. schiff admitted his purpose is to keep president trump in the dark. a combination of a kangaroo court and star chamber, schiff is trying so hide the identity of the so-called whistleblower throughout. and now schiff added an entirely new element to the mysterious doings in washington, d.c. saying that whistleblower number one doesn't have to be questioned before the house at all. evidence aplenty he says in the transcript of the call between the president and zelensky. green lighting china's stall tactics, the business round table allowing xi to stall until the 2020 elections. china says they want another round of trade talks before they

sign any deal which supposedly was reached on phase one. president trump slapping back at turkey, demanding sanctions due to the turkish incursion into syria. the sanctions mean the president is fulfilling his pledge to keep our troops out of the fight. we turn to john roberts. reporter: president trump announced crippling sanctions on turkey. slamming president erdogan for endangering civilians and threatening peace and security and stability in the region. president trump is targeting the turkish economy announcing a return to 50% tariffs and stopping negotiations on a $100 billion trade deal. and he threatened government officials or anyone else for

human rights abuse or repatriating refugees with financial sanctions. while it is unusual to hit a nato ally with sanctions designed to bring the economy to it's ins. president erdogan is going well beyond the limited operation he outlined to president trump and members of congress. president trump is not backing off his plan to take u.s. forces out of syria, insisting they have been there too long, and it's not america's fight. he says anyone who wants to assist syria in protecting the kurds is good with me. but the turkish president is playing the nato card telling allies germany and the u.k. that turkey is at risk and nato needs

to stand with it. reporter: the president is not taking u.s. forces out of the neighborhood. he says they will be deployed elsewhere in the region to monitor the situation in turkey. he will leave a small contingent of forces in a base in southern turkey to keep an eye on isis. lou: the white house demanding that turkey stop its invasion of syria, begin an immediate ceasefire. vice president mike pence announcing he and national security advisor robert o'brien have been dispatched by the president to go to turkey to lead a delegation for immediate negotiations. >> president trump made it very clear that the united states will continue to take actions against turkey's economy until they bring the violence to an end. we want an immediate ceasefire and we want to begin

negotiations between turkey and syrian defense forces. lou: joining us tonight, retired army colonel douglas mcgregor. the president sending a delegation to turkey to get things straightened out. >> i think sending the delegation speaks specifically to the president's good idea. it will be a way of arctic laight our concerns about the fate of the people in the zone the turks have entered. i probably would not have urged sanctions at this point. but i think president trump ought to withdraw our forces from turkey. we ought to stop sharing intelligence with the turks. we should think about halting foreign military sales to the turks. but the idea of sanctions i think is preemptive and probably unnecessary. i think mr. eshed began will

listen -- mr. eshe mr. erdogan l listen. lou: he didn't listen sunday night when the president received after he shiewrnses the kurds would be safe from the turkish military. they have been laying waste in that region that is supposed to be a safe zone. and it's hardly that. >> i think the assertions that the turks are laying waste to the region is an exaggeration. i think the turkish military is doing what any military would do under the circumstances. they are dealing with an enemy that is doing everything they can to impede their advance. this is something that's been a long time coming. i think we could show more interest in the turkish military's score.

lou: banked on the other side of its border in syria, all these kurds, and frankly, the concern that they are alying with terrorist organizations within his own country. >> exactly. i would think americans who are watching what happens on our southern border would be more sensitive to that. lou: that's an interesting parallel. the issue for the president of course is to make certain that his demands are met and the safety of the kurds which he took into his calculus upon agreeing to permit turkey's incursion into syria, that's going to be the next difficult challenge. >> well of course the president also achieved something else. russians, syrians and iranians have all accepted the kurds back into the fold. he whose got them effectively containing the turks.

so we are out of it. he's right. we need to be out of it. lou: there is something else i would like to note. he has the iranians absolutely raging at him along with senator lindsey graham. so it's another win, if you will. colonel, your thoughts on where we are headed and what are likely next steps. >> i think this will die down over the next weeks. i don't see this exploding into a larger regional conflict at this point. i think the american people should look carefully at people like senator graham and realize these are fugitives from accountability. these are the same people who dragged us into the region. they are responsible for terrible things that happened in iraq. millions of displaced persons and hundreds of thousands dead. they are raising cain over what's happening in syria. they fail to understand that by

extricating us we destroyed the alliance between russia, iran and turkey. tim tired of the congress carping at the president. the president said if you are serious, declare war. at last someone mentioned constitutional law. lou: perfect rejoinedder as they sniff with their cannisters of snuff and acting like ancient tories members of both parties. this man, the president of the united states is making tough decisions while they won't sit still to pass legislation necessary for the nation's security. it's important, too, to remember what this president inherited. that is, this situation in syria with these kurds with all of the

cross alliances, all the makings of the national security team of one president obama. and i think we should keep that in perspective as well. colonel douglas macgregor, thanks for being with us. a number of journalists including myself have, well, when they asked one ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovich, asked that we be monitored. judicial watch discovering all of that and covering our names, including laura i can gram, sean hannity, john solomon, sara carter, dan won gin so, rudy giuliani, sebastian gorka. the list goes on and well the entire extent we don't know, but we do know this.

city would be unlawful to have done so and we can't wait to hear which of my fascinating conversations may have been heard as a result. not really that fascinating. but i had to say that. mexico's latest major crackdown on illegal immigration to the united states. we take it up with ken cuccinelli next. who joe biden credits for the radical dimms so-called impeachment inquiry. you know, the effort ♪ limu emu & doug hour 36 in the stakeout. as soon as the homeowners arrive, we'll inform them that liberty mutual customizes home insurance, so they'll only pay for what they need. your turn to keep watch, limu. wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ] only pay for what you need.

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lou: on wall street stocks closed lower. the dow jones industrials down 29 points. the s & p lost 4. volume on the big board. only 2.6 billion shares. it's been a long time since we have seen trading that light. crude oil down 2% over 53 a barrel. the bond market closed because it's columbus day across the country. facebook losing another

supporter of their crypto currency. they lost a quarter of the original 28 backers for the crypto currency libra. house intel committee chair adam schiff wants the so-called whistleblower to continue hiding in anonymity. except many of the press know who it is. schiff saying congress may not need to even interview that whistleblower. isn't that fortunate for the radical dimms. >> being that we have the call record, we don't need the whistleblower who wasn't on the call to tell us what was in the call. we are going to make sure we protect that whistleblower. lou: when you hear that nonsense

flowing from schiff's mouth. you want to say isn't it great when the radical dimms' plan comes together. president trump slamming schiff's clear intention to keep the proceedings secret. tweeting adam schiff doesn't want the whistleblower to testify. he got my ukraine conversation so wrong. not even close. did schiff tell him to do that? we must determine the whistleblower's identity. 2020 democratic hopeful joe biden taking credit. you don't see this often in presidential politics. he's taking credit for something he didn't do. he's taking credit for the impeachment inquiry against president trump. this despite the fact that he's the last democratic candidate

for president to call for impeachment. the former vice president called for the president's impeachment last week. over the weekend he said he is the only reason end quote impeachment is going on. joining us tonight, former reagan white house political director, the savant himself, ed rollins. my, my. joe biden, he's up 10 points. i have got a lot to say here. i do the interrupting. >> i can come back for the next segment. lou: i'm not going to have this argument with you about whose show it is. >> it's your show. lou: it is my show. >> you are the one making $15 million. lou: how did you ever think of

my name with bush. >> i was thinking about the money. >> we are old friends and you want to talk money. i'm kind of hurt. what were you going to say? >> what i was going to say about joe biden. joe biden made it sounds like -- joe biden was the guy who said i am in the upper part of my class at law school. turned out he graduated 79 out of 85. so those numbers aren't good. lou: out of 185? >> no, 85. he said he got a full scholarship for academics. it turns out he ask got a partial scholarship. he always had difficulty with academics. lou: why is everybody beating up on the guy.

he's politically corrupt, he has never been very effective. why is everybody going after him. >> the former president picked him as the vice president for 8 years. lou: i don't hear from the former president. obama has sort of gone into hiding. president trump pointed this out the other day. >> you get all of his bad policy if you elect bind and not his terms. >> the president is trying to start, hashtag where is hunter. hashtag where is obama. we can go down the list. >> if anybody wants to be successful they need to put a coalition together and biden can't do that and obama couldn't do it again either. lou: what do you think when you hear adam schiff say it's not necessary for to us know who the whistleblower is. there were two.

the one that's left still has nothing but hearsay, and no longer is relevant to the case as the man leading this attempt to overthrow the president because the conversation transcript between zelensky and president trump is sufficient. >> don't forget for a minute -- lou: do you that all the time. >> i assume you might forget once in a while. adam schiff had the memorandum and he had to make stuff up. whoever the whistleblower was, how did he get his information and what was his information. a cia agent is not supposed to be investigating the president of the united states. they are supposed to be investigating foreign countries. lou: you should tell the cia.

don't forget. you can't spy on american citizens. >> the fbi failed miserably and now it's the cia's turn to fail miserably. the democrats will try to impeach this president without any fact or not. the president has a right to know who his accuser is. is it valid information which i don't think it is. lou: the kimberly strassel thing the dimms are firings secrecy, that's the only reason in judiciary. she has not about right. >> i watched all day today people saying the president fired his ambassador. how outrageous. every ambassador can be fired by the president. they are hired by the president, they can be fired by the

president. if she was bad mouthing the president she should be fired. lou: she was talking about monitoring me and surveilling me. i mean, i take that sort of as a badge of honor honestly. but my colleagues who are less courageous than knee, i feel badly for sean hannity who might be intimidated by such a thing. i'm kidding. >> certainly you are not intimidated. five hours a week on here and three times a day on salem radio. anybody who wants to know what you are thinking it's right there and it's always very smart. lou: sean hannity, it's just amazing. sean hannity, john solomon. the four most of reporting on the spygate that's been coming from john solomon, and sean

hannity, sara carter. it's crazy what she was doing. >> unbelievable. absolutely unbelievable. the public is going to know. at the end of the day again they may put the 218 votes up tomorrow and impeach him but they won't get him out of office. lou: i don't think they are worried about evidence. this is make believe. these are fantasies of the radical dimms. they have enough people to close the feedback loop and spew the propaganda. it's unsettling to me, frankly. >> three years nonstop. at the end of the day it will and terrible process and he will keep fighting and the american public will support him. >> i am torn on this. i not would be a waste of time. it's more aggravation for him. i believe that will drive the radical dimms performance into

the dirt from which we all spring. >> there are no facts and no truth in any of this. >> he say sit, the savant. ed rollins, folks. the latest move by joe biden's son hunter and admission of guilt? we take that up after the break. sidney powell joins us. it looks like it could be problem. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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lou: hunter biden announcing he will step down from the board of a chinese he can winds fund in shanghai. young bind also pledging not to work on behalf of foreign-owned companies if his father joe biden were to become president.

this comes after president trump's scrutiny of biden's questionable business dealings. joining us is sidney powell the legal advisor for retired general michael flynn. the appearance is joe biden at the same time his son was stepping down, that he wouldn't permit this kind of thing on the part of his son if he were to become president. by the was all right when he was vice president. is that what you take from it? >> i think that's a fair assessment. he aloud it and encouraged it when he was vice president. even though the younger bind wasn't qualified to serve on the board of anything. >> it has really resonated now, and the question is i think in the public's mind, why hasn't

there been a regular russ investigation of the biden shenanigans, i would call it that, where he without experience, without expertise, or seemingly purpose, was on the board of a private equity firm, chinese private equity firm, and burisma, a ukrainian energy firm. >> there was going to be an investigation of it in ukraine until mr. bind himself shut that down by threatening to withhold all the money until they fired the prosecutor that was in charge of it. the justice department under president trump wasn't going to do anything about it. it was encouraging the clinton and biden scam. lou: this looks liking in more than as the president termed it, a con job, the effort on the part of the radical dimms on capitol hill to try to overthrow

this president. today fiona hill testifying on capitol hill. congressman matt gaetz trying to sit in because that had been commonplace in previous impeachment inquiries. fiona hill, it turns out she had a working relationship with christopher steele, the author of the infamous fraudulent dossier. this is a very small world we are watching on the shores of the potomac right now. it seems like everyone, people working in schiff's office. the next thing we find out they are cia officers. they come in twos, apparently, in this proceeding. none of them have fir-hand evidence but they are trotted out as star witnesses. this gets more bizarre by the day. >> mr. schiff is up to it in his

eyeballs. he was meeting with glenn simpson a couple years ago. he has his fingers in all parts of this investigation. fusion gps is work with christopher steele through the department of justice and nellie ohr through fusion gps. they are coming out with a book, the title should be confessions of conspirators or something like that. lou: they will never confess. confession or atonement on the part of any of these corrupt actors in the justice department or fbi. fusion gps is in the private sector. paying more than a million in 2016 to investigate trump. fusion paid steele $170,000.

they should be writing a business book because those are the margins any enterprise would want to achieve. how in the world is it that no one laid a glove or announced an intention to investigation fusion gps and its founders? >> i don't know. it should be on the list of things to do at the justice department. remember they were paid over $3 million by dianne feinstein's former chief of staff who managed to raise $50 million following the elections to continue to fund fusion gps and push the russia hoax. so it just goes on and on. >> explain to me why the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, senator lindsey graham is not investigating precisely this. bringing in the heads of the inspectors general as they

produce reports. he didn't have the last report. he hasn't talked about it in 8 months leading that committee. no hearings were announced at all to find out anything. and he said he was going to investigate everything. >> there is no good explanation for that, lou. none whatsoever. it's an embarrassment. inspector general horowitz should have been testifying for a whole day just on his recent report on comey. now we are about to get the long awaited report on the fisa abuses and more. this needs to be exposed and there need to be a hearing on it in front of the senate judiciary committee. lou: up next. what the trump administration plans to do about the judicial activists who stifled the president's immigration policies, citizenship and acting

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lou: three federal judges in three separate states have chosen to block a trump administration rule that disqualifies legal immigrants from obtaining permanent residency if they use public assistance program. the judges deemed the rule to be

unlawful at just about the same time. george daniels of the southern district of new york wrote it's a new agency policy of ex pull-shun it's repugnant to the american dream. he left out also the public welfare and social services. i don't know why he didn't include that in that ruling. all three ruling were issued friday. the rule is set to take effect tomorrow. isn't it great when the rule comes together with three district court judges at the same time. the mexican authorities stopped a caravan of 2,000 central american, caribbean and african-american immigrants were turned away after make it 24

miles into mexico north of the the -- north of the guatemalan border. president trump had nothing but praise for the mexican government it's an extraordinary time. i can't even imagine the fact that the mexican government is an active responsible partner with us in border security. joining us tonight, acting u.s. citizenship and u.s. were immigration services director. ken cuccinelli. could you have possibly imagine the mexican government would put 20,000, 30,000 troops to work to secure their borders and work as our southern on our southern border? >> yes, i would say i could, lou. but it's worth people remembering. because we have such sort

memories of the news takeles. in 2019 when president trump was hitting mexico hard and threatening to impose tariffs and taking away foreign aid money from the northern triangle countries, he used tougher tactics than this press saysors, republican or democrat, and they worked. now zooms we have better cooperation with -- now we have better cooperation with mexico than i can remember. the mexican government is taking affirmative steps. we need them to keep doing it. but it's playing a big role in the driving down of numbers and it comes as president trump's plan in the beginning of 2019. >> i think his threat of tariffs on mexican products is when we saw a sea change.

>> it's important to think a different part of the world, about china. there the president has imposed the tariffs. it wasn't like some prior presidents who would draw red lines then back off of them. he has proven this is the sort of threat he will impose. that matters to the mexican government and it matters to the mexican people and they have become great partners. lou: interior enforcement is still an issue here and we don't see a lot of it is the problem i see. while we have seen all of the increase and after prehengses and a sizable improvement from the spring until now. interior enforcement, e verify. going after employers. it's not happening. just as those tariffs. he put them into effect against china. he was believable when he threatened mexico. there is no threat here.

corporate america is having its way doing just as it wishes. >> i will say the crisis on the border -- the crisis at the border has drawn i.c.e. agents down to deal with that. and a lot of what you would call interior enforcement is happening at the border were i.c.e. with expedited removal. what we call the emb program back to the northern triangle countries. a lot of this is happening at the border to avoid these people being released into the interior. we are keeping the problem from getting worse. we have seen -- you know the drop in numbers for may. but the biggest proportion of that drop is families. because of the remain in mexico program. those two elements have worked together to drive that most of logistically challenging aspect of the illegal immigration rush

on our southern border count most of. it does take agents from i.c.e. who might do other things. but you also saw and periodically you see some things that make the news in terms of their internal enforcement. but a lot of what they do is day to day. they go to work every day, they are doing removes every day, every week from the interior and not just the border. we don't drive a lot of news on that because the border is sucking up all the attention, it has not stopped happening, lou. lou: i take your point. but i can't think of any extensive raids on employers, any arrests of employers, or any penalty for employers hiring illegal immigrants. youfying we have in this -- you figure we have in this country 20 to 30 million -- 22 million according to that study. lou: as many as 30 it said as

well. and we arrested how many employers? >> as you know, there are some investigations that are still ongoing. but we have issued over a million removal orders that are being executed on, and we have the biggest back losing on our agency on asylum and the department of justice that they have had in a very * long time. congress is not giving us the tools to attack this problem. they don't want to, and long-term solution -- lou: they are trying to impeach our president. do you think they are going to decide there will be a handshake. >> things that matter to americans. we have to keep pointing out that they are failing to do their job there. at least nor graham before they went on -- senator graham before they went on summer break pushed an asylum solution effort and

his partners on the effort left. the house is having a show trial. lou: let's be real here. he's not driving policy. he doesn't even hold investigative hearings and he's the chair of the senate judiciary committee. i have got to tell you, it's all on you and the folks at i.c.e. and customs and border protection and we appreciate everything you do. >> you pointed out that activist judge who read more like you a political activist than a knew central arbiter of a judge deciding law. that's a major factor here. lou: you as a former attorney general and lawyer yourself, you should be heartened by the fact that chief justice of the u.s.

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lou: joining us tonight is gordon chang. it's great to have you here. let's start with phase one. now we learn from secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin that the chinese want to have some talks before they agree to the agreement they had on phase one? help me out? >> the chinese got front loaded benefits. they got deferral of the increase in the tariffs that were starting tomorrow. they got a lot of orders from the big box retailers. when the word went out there the would be a deal, a little early. lou: somebody was leaking something. >> the retailers placed orders

for next season in china. these orders would have gone to other places if there were problems at that friday meeting. this undercuts the president's ability to disengage the' american and chinese factories. countries who would have left china say they will stay because there is going to be a deal. lou: the president used the word deal. the vice premire in a anyone it and a half remarks in the oval office saying it was a pause not a deal. it looks like it's at best a pause. >> the official communist party outlet, immediately after the president's remarks said we'll buy 0 agriculture but the amount we'll buy will depend on china's

needs and there was no agreement. lou: when did we become an agrarian society. agriculture is 1% of our gdp? it's the focus of phase one. >> the focus is intellectual property, the chinese steal hundreds of billions us from each year. that's the future of our society. lou: there was some sneaky language running around, too. instead of talking about an enforcement mechanism, apparently the negotiators were talking about a grievance process. it's a bizarre thing to me. and i think it's an important thing not to be puffed up with ambiguity. >> we need an enforcement mechanism because we know every trade agreement we have with the chinese, they dishonored it.

when lighthizer was confronted with the issue you just mentioned, he said we'll have that consultation. lou: 22% decline in chinese exports to the united states. are you encouraged or what? >> i am encouraged that chinese imports fell for the month, 8 .5 percent percent showing trump's tariffs are working.

lou: president trump slapping sanctions on turkey for its incursion into syria. the president also dispatching vice president mike pence and robertio brian, they are leading a delegation to turkey. >> i'm tired of the congress carping at the president. and the president said, look, if you are serious, declare war. i was happy to hear it. at last some mention of constitutional law. lou: congressman steve scalise and grab done judd among our -- brandon judd among our guests

tomorrow. we thank you for being with us tonight. we'll see you tomorrow and good night from new york. lebron james silent no more. he said the houston rockets gm, quote, wasn't educated. meanwhile, new data overnight shows that china's economic outlook is not looking so great. will they be more willing to negotiate with the united states on that. lauren: to the crisis in northern syria. president trump is slapping sanctions on turkey and calling for an immediate cease fire as the syrian government makes a deal with the kurds and sends troops to the region. cheryl: the stage is set for tonight's democratic debate. 12 candidates are getting ready to rumble. joe biden no longer