[♪] lou: good evening. we elected president trump for such times as these. times that are truly trying men's souls as thomas pain -- as thomas payne once wrote. president trump standing up to praying neocons -- braying neocons in his party. and radical dimms who each and every day work to subvert his administration and overthrow his presidency. today the president is standing by his decision to withdraw our troops from syria. the president saying if other

nations want to get involved? syria, fine by him. but he's keeping america out of it. the president tiger of the carping -- tiring of the carping from senator behind i graham who seems hell bent on keeping american kroops in syria in armed conflict. i will stem you, president trump is warning turkish president erdogan that the united states will impose crippling sanctions on turkey's economy if he continues the assault in northern syria. kevin corke with the latest from the white house. president trump: if they don't, the tariffs and sanctions we are doing to turkey will be devastating to turkey's economy. reporter: president trump told reporters at a news conference that's turkey has only one way

out of the crisis in syria, ceasefire and talk it out. president trump: we have a situation where turkey is taking land from sir gentleman. syria is not d land from syria. syria is not happy about it. let them work it out. we shouldn't be over there. he urged erdogan to quote make a good deal. you don't want to be responsible fourth slaughter of thousands of people of and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy, and i will. but the decision is dividing strategic allies and political allies at home. at a white house meetings congressional democrats accused the democrats of insulting speaker of the house nancy pelosi. >> he called her a third-rate politician. he said that there are communists involved, and you

guys might like that. reporter: he suggested the pkk was worse than isis. ironically that's something president erdogan has been suggesting for some time. it's the latest example of the complexity of the alliances in the region, to say nothing of the conversations set to be had in ankara. fresh possible sanctions could be in tow with the vice president and the secretary of state. lou: kevin corke from the white house. our first guest was at that by part and meeting with the president at the white house. joining us from the white house. house minority whip, steve scalise. that must have bern quite a meeting. let's start with the fact that this president is standing by his decision to withdraw our

troops from northern syria. and that's been met with considerable opposition from both parties. the reason? >> first of all, it was a meet where we were in isly going to talk through some of those differences and i think talk zooms with the president about some of our shared objectives, to keep isis at bay, to prevent turkey from you running roughshod and having a slaughter and to make sure we don't see you are kif ally too much -- don't see turkey ally too much more with russia than they already are. the letter to erdogan let him know we are serious about sanctions, and secretary mnuchin was there to talk about the sanctions proposed against turkey. and that's when things got a bit contentious. you saw pelosi. she was saying some things after the meeting.

she stormed out of the meeting. she was saying some things about the meeting that weren't the case. we had a civil conversation after she and chuck schumer and steny hoyer stormed out. there were other democrats still in the meeting where we talked about how to achieve some of the similar objectives we have of continuing the fight against isis. lou: it sounds like you had a good meeting, it was a one-sided meeting you will. >> there were democrats still there, but it was contentious when pelosi and schumer were going back and forth of the president. you saw the president release pictures that show the aggression. i think it's important to show that. lou: this just set up. when you talk about them storming out of the meeting, two thoughts occurred to me. one is it was their term. he stormed out of the last

so-called bipartisan meeting. and secondly, why in the world should a president of the united states put up with nonsense from the very people who were trying to overthrow his presidency. i have to give him credit for ininviting them. >> i thought it was gracious to invite them there. pelosi has been trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election behind closed doors. lou: i would have called her a lot worse than a third-rate politician. i think she is a lot worse than a third-rate politician to be carrying out an assault on the president of the united states. >> it goes against what our founders set up when they put the power of impeachment in the constitution. only three times in the country's history has the house

moved forward with impeachment and each time there was a full vote of the house. pelosi has shielded her members from that vote. necessity won't let rank and file members read the transcript of the volker testimony. a rank and file member can't even ride the transcript of d read the transas -- read the trf that secret meeting. lou: a third-rate whistleblower. >> they are trying to hide the whistleblower who is trying to take down the president of the united states. >> schiff said he had evidence of collusion by the president with russia than was no evidence. we passed a resolution on the floor to censure chairman schiff

for the things he has done to subvert transparency and mislead the american people. lou: you also had a joint resolution 77 opposing the president's action to get our troops out of that war in syria. you voted for it. i don't understand why. >> it's more focused on what is the end game with containing isis. president trump has been very aggressive in taking the fight to isis with a coalition of countries and working with the kurds to get isis at bay. there are thousands and many 7,000 plus in addition to their family whose will be held in prison. there are reports of jail breaks. lou: how do you do that? >> we talked to the president at the meeting about that. pelosi stormed out before we could get into the details of

it. but there were still democrats in the room where the president laid out his plan to make sure we can contain those tariffs. we don't want them to run loose. lou: 94% of republicans in poll after poll support the president of the united states. the people who voted for him in 2016 voted for him with this promise on the table, that he was going to get our troops out of wars in which they did not belong. out of international police actions, precisely the description of northern syria. isn't it time to start following this president? i don't understand it. the republicans -- i would think you guys would say, nancy pelosi is for it, i sure as hell better be against it. >> there are a lot of things she is for that we have been fighting, including standing up to iran.

reversing the bad iran deal. pelosi was for the iran deal. i opposed it. what are you doing to stand up to russia? when president trump would not sell those javelin missiles to the ukraine, our friends, that wanted to stop russian aggression. obama won't sell them missiles. when president trump got elected, he sold them the missiles so they can defend themselves. the president stood up to the bad actors of the world from north korea to iran. look what he's doing in israel, standing up to our ally there, too. pelosi can have the socialist debate on the left. you will see next year a real debate between freedom versus socialism it's playing itself out. but the voters should decide that. not nancy pelosi and adam schiff behind closed doors like they are trying to do with this

impeachment witch hunt. lou: do you think the voters will ask a congressman running for reelection, what did you do for the president at the time he needed the greatest support. instead of voting with the damn democrats on a resolution -- the american people, republicans in this most of recent survey by 57% approve of that troop withdrawal. 57% of the folks in that poll, you went against the president who has been right on issue after issue. which has been correct. how in the world can you comfortably line up with lindsey graham who was, by the way -- he wanted to work for president obama along with senator mccain and cairo to urge president sisi

* to put the muslim brotherhood in the egyptian government. this man does not have a great record in foreign policy. >> i wasn't for that. we were at the white house to talk through some of those issues including imposing tougher sanctions on turkey. that was one of the items the president talked with us about. those of us that remained in the meeting. there was still some democrats remaining. ultimately you have got a president who has done yeoman's work standing up to the bad actors around the world. it would be nice if we had some of our friends in the world helping in that effort. but we are going to keep fighting and making sure they don't try to impeach a president with high crimes and

misdemeanors. they just don't agree with the results of the election. that's where people have to stand with the president, and we are fighting that battle as we speak. lou: i would hope republicans in the house of representatives would stand with him as he conducts the most of successful foreign policy in three decades. steve scalise, thanks for being with us. project veritas published undercover footage appearing to show cnn president, jeff zucker, demanding his network focus on impeachment coverage. >> let's stay very focused on impeachment. we are moving toward impeachment. we can't pretend this is going one way. so all these moves are moves

towards impeachment. lou: quite analysis. zucker's anti-trump posture. listen to how one employee had to say about how cnn is covering president trump. >> zucker, the president of cnn, has a personal vendetta against trump. he hates him. lou: the undercover video was videos by gary porch, a former satellite uplink technician. he recently joined sean hannity to talk about cnn's outright campaign against this president. >> i just want the biases to be up front. if i were to watch like an msnbc. i know i'm getting a left wing

perspective. if i watch fox i know i am getting a right-wing perspective. the same thing with reason tv, i am getting a libertarian perspective. but to claim you are the cnn of old, i saw' many things every day to the contrary. lou: we'll continue our fair and balanced campaign. we take it up with power attorneys, victoria toensing, joe digenova and kimberly strassel. president trump slamming his rino critics for the continued opposition to his troop withdrawal. please stay with us. from the couldn't be prouders

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with the promise they will invest millions in u.s. factories over the next 10 years. 39 gm factories have been on strike. rino senator lindsey graham piling on with more criticism of the president, particularly of the president's decision to withdraw up s. troops from syria. graham says president trump appears hell bent on repeating president obama's mistakes in iraq. >> i will do anything i can to help him. but i will also become his worst nightmare. i won't sit on the sidelines and watch a good ally like the kurds be slaughtered by turkey. this is a defining moment for

president trump. he need to up his game. lou: that's quite an opinion. during a press conference president trump brushed off the senator's criticism with a scathing response. president trump: lindsey graham would like to stay in the middle east for the next thousand years with,000 of soldiers -- with thousands of soldiers fighting other people's wars. he need to find out what happened with comey and mccabe, lisa. what happened with peter strzok, what happened with president obama. what happened with brennan. that's what lindsey ought to focus on. the people of south carolina don't want us to get into a war with turkey, a thank you to member, or syria. let them fight their own wars. they have been fighting for a thousand years. the people of south carolina want to see those troops come

home. i won an election based on that, and that's the way it is. lou: joining us tonight is former reagan white house political director, leading republican strategist, the savant, ed rollins. let's start with the president. i don't know what it takes. who does lindsey graham think -- he's threatening the president of the united states, he will be his worst nightmare? what kind of language is that from a two-bit senator. >> one senator out of 100 in the minority. he's chairman of the important committee he wanted. he should do the things the president laid out there. lou: he said he was going to investigate, investigate, investigate. he has had zero hearings. zero investigations. he has done nothing to get to

the truth of spygate and this outrageous radical dimm effort to overthrow the president of the united states. >> i would not have had the meeting at 5:00 today. when the house voted 54-60, i would have canceled it. he's right in the sense of the middle east. the timing may not have been the best. but at the end of the day he did it. he warned erdogan. he has the secretary of state to go there to reinforce that warning. lou: how do you feel if you are president of the united states and you are trying to talk about foreign policy. 57% of republicans support in this most of recent poll and i believe the number is far higher than that across the country.

and usual looking at a man -- men and women who just voted for a resolution opposing your decision to withdraw troops from a foreign war 7,000 miles away. it's indisputable what the president said. it isn't our war. we were not suppose to be there. it was supposed to be resolved. but that's true of every place we put troops. we have troops in all sorts of capacities around the world. >> the democratic debate last night in which all 12 candidates began telling the president why they should impeach the president. i would think our own party would want to defend that. and i think to a certain extent republicans who voted today on the matter of principle or whatever -- lou: on the resolution? >> the matter of principle has to be to support this president.

how would you like to be if every single day when you came in here, beam who work for you were basically undercutting you. the president and the newly elected president. and both of them said there was no coercion. why did a bunch of staff guys in the white hiewns state department saying oh, my god, this is the worst thing in history. we have to impeach the first president in history. lou: we are running into trouble on time. >> my issue is he's being undercut everywhere. lou: you have know what i think? i think if we had anyone necessary this white house right now, this country would have already rolled over for china. we would be engaged in syria and we would have daffodils putting our troops god knows where. this man is doing what he said

he would do. he's doing what the people who voted for him wanted him to do. he's change decades of stupidity and ignorance. getting our troops the hell out. and i commend him highly. i hope you do, too. equally important, they have to support him now. >> you think these guys -- i was talking to the whip for the minority, steve scalise. he doesn't seem to understand how important this support is in every context here. it's a menu. my god, i can't even believe this nonsense. ed rollins, the savant. we are coming right back with much, much more. the new detail we learned about a shadowy professor tied to the

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lou: president trump ripped into abc jonathon carl about his line of questioning about the president's decision to withdraw troops from syria. >> even after seeing the prisoners freed you don't have any regret for givingered began the green light to invade? president trump: i didn't give him the green light. when you make a statement like that it's deceptive. when you ask a question like that, it's very deceptive. it's just as deceptive of you showing the bombing in sir why

and the turns out the bombings took place in kentucky. lou: president trump was referring to the retracted video purchase ported to be a battle between the kurds and the turks. it was from a machine gun demonstration at the gun range in west creek, kentucky. joining us, dr. walid phares. great to have you with us. let's start first of all with the nonsense that i witnessed today and most of americans did. spectacle of the republican party conference and the democrats in the house passing a resolution opposing the withdrawal our troops from a war not our making and certainly not one in which we should have a significant commitment. i applaud the president, don't

you? >> i certainly subscribe to the policy of withdrawing troops, expeditionary troops. but the opposition is decide two. you have to in the opposition and would chiefify any aspects of donald trump's foreign policy, no matter what. but there is another -- lou: you are the expert. >> i am an expert, not a politician. lou: i'm talking about as a common sense citizen of this country. i don't like our troops being 7,000 miles away and getting killed for god knows what. it's time to end that ask of our men and women in uniform. >> no one is arcing with the fact that we should have permanent troops overseas. but it's how do you do it, when

do you do it and what are the consequences. this should have been the debate. i think that withdrawing from syria and iraq. what we need to examine is what are we leaving behind us. if we are doing as president trump has done, withdrawing in 201 and opening the door for two forces, al qaeda -- lou: the fact is syria is an inventionen creation o kree -- n and creation of president obama's presidency as well as iran. >> it's a correct statement in abstract. but the reality on the ground is, who will be behind us if we leave syria and what are they going to do. if we trust the syrian arm crane

hezbollah and tehran. that's a different issue. before the sanctions we should have sent a strong message, and i bet he would have listened before the operation. i hope our diplomats are going to -- lou: the president held him for two years. what he did was? violation of his agreement on that phone call. we also know that. we have no way in which to project a certain course in that region right now that region being northern syria without a tremendous is today st. louis, and surely you are not -- a tremendous escalation and certainly you are not calling for that. >> i am talking to certain advisers, speech writers and analysts in town. they say we don't though what's going to happen.

i think we can project. if erdogan goes in and deploys the militia, that's my concern. not the turkish army. it's the militias that are

lou: mike flynn's attorney

sidney powell says the state department has joseph mifsud's cell phones. powell says the phones could contain certain information relating to foreign intelligence that has been used against her client as early as 2014. joining us to take this up and more, victoria toensing, and joe digenova. former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, founding partners of the digenova and toensing law firm. let me start with you, victoria. let's start with a couple basic things. where is the server from the dmc. >> that was trump's question. lou: good question. i have got a couple more. >> don't we all. here is what is important for the viewers in case they don't know. the dnc come labored the

russians hacked their -- complained that the russians hacked their computers. they should have turned their servers over for analysis to the fbi. but they turned it over to crowdstrike who analyzed them and said the russian did the, but they have never been analyzed by the government. and what's really bad, the fbi says okay. lou: do we believe that? the president said where is the server? he also mentioned crowdstrike on the telephone call, right? and i am just curious about crowdstrike, the dnc, how the fbi relented on such an important piece of forensic evidence. >> i think probably john durham will give us those answers. i believe if the investigation the attorney general has

authorized by john durham into crossfire hurricane which was the counter-intelligence operation against citizen trump, candidate trump, president-elect trump and president trump is all part of the same act. the corrupt james comey fbi at the top with brennan and clapper made sure that anything involving the democrats was going to be covered up. it's brazen and as bold as that. if she had gone the elected we would haver in known about any of this. lou: there is still a lot that we don't know, as you know. as we are watching the so-called impeachment inquiry moving through the schiff's star chamber. i don't know what's going on. all of these relatively low-level people testifying. it's stunning to me.

what do you make of getting these transcripts, turning hearings into transcripts, into depositions, if you will. providing no access, and we are learning kno -- learning knock e about the situation in ukraine. >> it's as if you have a defendant on trial, the president, and the prosecutor gets to have the witness questioned outside of the jury. the prosecutor gets to come in and give snippets to the jury of what the witness said. that's what's going on here. basic due process is gone, and i am embarrassed for the media. where are the editorials saying hold on, guys. you should be fair in this procession. i'm terribly embarrassed. i don't know what happened to journalism. lou: it's clear when you look at

msnbc. when you look at cnn. listen to jeff zucker exhorting his quote you be quote journalists to focus on quote-unquote impeachment because that's not what this is. this is pure and simple subversion cloaked in a fantasy called an impeachment inquiry as we all know, it's nothing of the kind. let's go to what has happened here with the server, where in the hell is the laptop for anthony weiner and all of the emails betwist hillary clinton and upa anand and humana and de. we are told by reliable sources that it's" to be delayed god

knows why. >> apparently the whole issue of declassification, and the fbi is fighting the declassify casings certain parse of the report. whatever the reason is, the point that you made earlier is the correct one, lou. what we are watching is a deacons institutionalization -- is a de-constitutionalization of the american government. the process the democrats are following is designed smear the president, corrupt public jury with false evidence and say when it's over say this man should no longer serve as our president. we are watching the absolute destruction of the constitutional system our founders set up. the democrats are doing it with glee, with joy, all in the pursuit of power. the fact that wiener laptop is

still in the possession as i understand it, at the fbi, and has not undergone further amall sissies only part and parcel of why it's essential barr get itr it -- get all out and find a way to fix the fbi. >> and chris wa wray can't do i. lou: i think i want something more as we discussed. i want justice for those who have been so wronged by this country. it seems like justice deferred waiting to be justice denied. i hope that's wrong. victoria, thank you very much. we appreciate you both. we'll come right back. we'll be talking with walt street

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lou: joining us, kimberly strassel, the edfor of the wall street journals editorial board. but she is the author of a new

book, how trump haters are breaking america. days a luminous example of what you are talking about. to see the national left-wing media, the stories they choose not to cover as well as what they do. to watch the two conferences in the house, besmirch themselves with a resolution vote. to say to the president, we oppose you. >> this has been the attitude from the start. one of the premises from the book is there is a group of people. i chose that subtitle. we can all be critics of different presidents, maybe good things, they do bad things that we approve of or we don't. this is a group who from the moment he was elected decided he was illegitimate and they would do by whatever means possible

remove him. along with that mentality is they were entitled to break any rules and regulations and any standard or norm. we have heard it's donald trump break our democracy and our constitution. you look back, objectively, it's the other side doing it. lou: without question. they have had some help. for example, paul ryan as speaker of the house. not a single subpoena issued. i can tell you it appears to me he was serving interests well beyond the national interests. it's ignorance that i have seen. and in a sad way, i almost expected this of the radical dimms. i didn't expect the establishment republicans to be so intransigent and frankly cowardly. >> i think you are getting to

the point -- the point you are making, some of these republicans, i think even they were surprised. i don't think they should have been given the lead-up toot heoo -- the lead-up to the election of donald trump. we have trespassed over bawn industries. when you look out, you have an fbi that launched a counter-intelligence investigation of a sitting presidential campaign. just to even say that statement is an astonishing thing. lou: implicit in that, what did president obama know and when did he learn it? >> i hope we'll find that out soon. fusion gps co-founders -- according to some reporting, some of the information from the dossier they got once -- this is

the least surprising bit of information. about the only people in washington who didn't know about the dossier and what was going on were probably republicans. lou: it's clear we live in a new world when a former fbi director who is the center of a scandal, james comey fired and disgraced has his own contract and two of the individuals responsible for one of the greatest frauds every perpetrate on a president have their own book coming out next month. kimberly strassel. may i see that book? i want to hawk your book. new bikes "resistance at all costs." we recommend it to you highly. thanks so much, kimberly. my thoughts on the widening divide in our nation's politics.

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lou: a few thoughts on this amazing, somewhat intek tack lahr moment in history. it may not feel that way each and every day. but moments like this are always marked by great divide amid americans. tempers flairing and harsh

rhetoric. the moment is marked by the sharpest divide i have witnessed in our country. our divide is between citizens and our elected representatives in washington. the democrats, fabricating a cavalcade of phoney witnesses whose authority is third hand and fantastical hearsay. both sides passing a house joints resolution 77 opposing president trump's order to remove 1,000 of our troops from northern syria. the vote against removing our prooms, 354-60. now if the fools in washington will only figure out they must

begin following this leader. we'll see you tomorrow. health and human services will be here and rand paul cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. right now, mike pence and mike pompeo on their way to turkey to push for a cease fire in syria and back here at home chaos inside the white house when democrats storm out of a meeting on syria. what this means for the u.s. going forward and why russia is now in the mix. lauren: netflix fighting off the competition for now. the stock surging premarket but can its hit show, strang strangr things, continued to fend off rivals. cheryl: as 2020 democrats push for a wealth tax, some way it will push america to