today the president is stopping by his decision to withdraw our troops from syria. the president saying if other

nations want to get involved in syria, fine by him. but he's keeping america out of it. the president tired of the carping from senator lindsey graham who sees to be hell bent on keeping american troops on syrian soil in conflict. we'll have a report on what both had to say about bringing our troops home. you probably won't like it. president trump is warning turkish president erdogan that the united states will up poe crippling sanctions on turkey's economy if he continues the assault on northern syria. kevin corke with the latest from the white house. president trump: the sanctions and tariffs we are doing and will do to turkey will be devastating to turkey's economy. reporter: president trump told reporters at a news conference with the italian president that

turkey has only one way out of the crisis in syria, key fire and talk it out. president trump: we have a situation where turkey is taking land from syria. syria is not happy about it. let them work it out. we shouldn't be over there. reporter: the president penned a letter to the turkish president saying make a good deal. you don't want to be responsible for the slaughter of thousands of people and i don't want to be responsible for destroying turkey's economy and i will. but the decision is dividing strategic allies and political allies here at home. this afternoon congressional democrats accused the president of insulting speaker of the house nancy pelosi and making matters worse in the region. >> he called her a third-rate politician. he said there are communists involved and you guys might like

that. reporter: the president suggested the pkk was worse than isis. and ironically that's something president erdogan had been suggesting. that just shows the complexity of the alliances in the region. we are told tonight the administration is armed with fresh possible sanctions. that could be in tow with the vice president and secretary of state. we'll continue to follow that story as well. for now, lou, back to you. lou: our first guest was at that bipartisan meeting with the president at the white house. joining us at the white house. steve scalise. congressman, great to have you with us. that must have been 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 considerable opposition from both parties. the reason? >> first of all, it was a meeting where we were initially going to talk through some of those differences and i think talk with the president about some of our shared objectives, and that is one to keep isis at bay, to prevent turkey from coming in and running roughshod over the turks, and to make sure we don't see turkey ally too much more with russia than they already are. the president showed us the tough leaf directed at president erdogan to let them know we are serious about sanctions. that's when things got a bit contentious, and you saw pelosi. she was saying some things after the meeting. she stormed out of the meeting.

she was saying some things about the media that weren't the case. we had a civil conversation after she and chuck schumer and steny hoyer stormed out. there were other democrats in the meeting. we talked through how we can achieve similar objectives in continuing the fight against isis. lou: it sounds like you had a good meeting when it was a one-sided meeting. >> there were democrats still there but it was contentious when speaker pelosi and chuck schumer were going back and forth with the president. you saw the president release pictures on twitter that showed the aggression. it's important to show that. lou: there you are, as this just set up. when you talk about them storing out of the meeting, two thoughts occurred to me. it was their turn. he stored out of the last so-called bipartisan meeting,

right? why in the world should a president of the united states put up with nonsense from the very people who are trying to overthrow his presidency. i have to give hip credit for even inviting him. >> i thought it was gracious object his part to invite them there. pelosi was on this drum beat to impeach the president. behind closed doors with adam schiff, trying to overturn the election. that's something people all across the country are disgusted by. lou: i would have called her a lot worse than a third-rate politician to be carrying out such an assault on the president of the united states. >> it goes against the foundation of what our founders set up when they put the power of impeachment in the constitution. the standard was high crimes and misdemeanors. only three times in our history has the house moved forward with

full impeachment inquiry, and there was a full vote of the house. while they are hiding behind secret. they won't let the rank and file members read the transcript of the volker hearing. lou: congressman, i think you are being generous. so far everything they -- they averred has been a lie. >> they are trying to hide the name of the whistleblower who is trying to take down the president of the united states. schiff said for two years that he had more than circumstantial evidence of collusion with russia, and there was not an ounce of evidence of collusion. he keeps making baseless allegations. we had a vote on the floor to

censure chairman schiff for the thing he has done to subvert transparency and mislead the american people. lou: you also had a joint resolution 77 that 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 ways the end game with containing isis. president trump has been very aggressive at taking the fight to isis with a coalition of countries and working with the kurds to finally get isis at bay. we know there are thousands, many 7,000 plus in addition to their families being held in prison. we want to make sure they aren't released from those prisons. we talked to the president at the meeting about that. that was one of the topics we talked about. pelosi stored out before we could get into the details of

it. but ultimately she did. there were some democrats in the room to make sure we can contain those tariffs because we don't want them to run loose. >> 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 action precisely the description of i think 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 i think nancy pelosi is for it so i sure as hell better be against it. >> there are a lot of things she is for that we are fighting like standing up to iran which this president is doing. reversing the bad iran deal.

pelosi was for it. what he's doing to stand up to russia. when president trum -- when prea wouldn't sell ukraine the missiles. trump did. when president trump got elected he told them the missiles so they can push back and russian aggression. this president has stood up to russia and all the bad actors in the world from north korea to china and iran. it's one of the reasons why his foreign policy doesn't get a lot of credit. look what he's doing in israel. pelosi can have the socialist debate on the left. you will see next year a debate between freedom versus socialism. 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 what did you do for the president at the moment he needed the greatest support, he needed people standing shoulder to shoulder with him instead of voting with the democrats on a resolution. republicans in this most of recent survey by 57% approve of that troop withdrawal, congressman. and 57% of folks in that poll. you went against the folks who and the president who has been right on issue after issue which has been correct. how can you comfortably line up with lindsey graham who was -- he wanted to work for presidentk for president obama to put the

muslim brotherhood in the new egyptian government. this is not a man who has great skill and a great record in foreign policy. >> i wasn't for that. like i said, we were at the white house to talk through some of those issues and come to an agreement on things like imposing tougher sanctions on turkey. that was one of the items the president talked with us about. and again the rest of the meeting was very productive once speaker pelosi and chuck schumer and steny hoyer stormed out. there were still some democrats remaining. but you have a president who has doneihas -- who has done yeomans work. our alleys can step -- our allies can step up, there is a lot more that they can do.

the democrats don't agree with the results of the arecollection. and we are fighting that batting as we speak. lou: imagine congressman how much more that would strengthen him as he conducts the most of successful foreign policy in three decades certainly. congressman steve today lease. thanks for being with us. project veritas published undercover footage appearing to show cnn president jeff zucker demanding that his network solely focused on impeachment coverage. >> i don't care about -- let's stay very focused on impeachment. we are moving towards impeachment. we shouldn't pretend oh this is going one way so the moves are

moves towards impeachment. lou: quite analysis. zucker's anti-trump posture. no secret at the network. watch what one employee had to say about how cnn is covering president trump. >> jeff zucker, yeah, president of cnn, has a personal vendetta against trump. he hates him. it's negative. lou: it was videoed by gary porch, a former satellite up-link technician. he recently joined sean hannity to talk about cnn's outright campaign against this president. >> i want the biases to be upfront. if i watch msnbc, i know i'm letting a left-wing perspective.

if i watch fox, i get a right-wing perspective. with reason tv i'm getting an independent perspective. but the cnn of old, i saw many, many things every day to the contrary. lou: up next we'll continue our fair and balanced coverage. we take it all up with power attorneys, victoria toensing and joe digenova and kimberly strassel. that and much more after this quick break. please stay with us. i get it all the time. "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go.

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lou: joining us tonight is gordon chang. 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. >> help me out. what happened here is the

chinese got front-loaded benefits. they got the deferral of the increase of the tariffs scheduled for tomorrow. and they got a lot of orders from american big box retears. when the word went out there was going to be a deal, a little early. what these retailers did was placed orders for next season in china. these others would have gone to other places. but they knew what was going on so they got those orders. this undercuts the president's add built to disengage the u.s. and chinese economics. factories are saying we'll stay because there is going to be a deal. lou: the president used the word deal. the vice premiere in the minute

and a half of remarks said it was a pause, not a deal. it was at best a pause. >> they said we'll buy some agriculture, but the amount we are going to buy is dependent on china's national needs. lou: since when did we become an agrarian society. agriculture is 1% of our gdp and it's the focus of this phase one. i don't get. >> the important thing here is intellectual property. the chinese steel hundreds of billions of dollars of i.p. that's the future of our society. that has to be priority number one. lou: there was some sneaky

language running around. instead of talking about an enforcement mechanism, the investigators were talking about a grievance process. it's a bizarre thing to me and and an important thing not to be puffed up with ambiguity. >> we know every trade agreement we had with the chinese, they dishonored it. we were thinking of keeping tariffs on. but when light here is was confronted with this issue, he said we'll have this consultation. lou: 22% of exports to china. >> chinese imports are fell showing a fall in domestic demand if which shows trump's tariffs are work. lou: the latest move by joe

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lou: hunter biden announcing he will step down from the board of a chinese-backed private equity firm management in shanghai. young biden pledging not to work on behalf of foreign-owned companies if this father joe biden were to become president. this comes after president trump's scrutiny of hunter biden's questionable business dealing. joining us, sidney powell, counsel to general michael

flynn. the appearance is joe biden said 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. but it was all right if he was vice president. is that what you take from it? >> i think that's a fair assessment. he aloud it and encouraged it apparently when i was vice president. even those younger bind wasn't qualified to serve on the board of anything. lou: it has resonated now, and the question is in the public's mind is why in the world hasn't there been a rigorous investigation of the biden shenanigans, i will call it that, where he without experience, without expertise, or seemingly purpose, was on the board of a private equity firm, a chinese private equity firm and burisma, a ukrainian energy

firm. >> there was going to be an investigation of it in ukraine until mr. biden himself shut that down by threatening to withhold all the money until they fired the prosecutor who was in charge of it. this justice department under president obama wasn't going to do anything about it. it was encouraging, the obama-bind scam. lou: the president has termed this 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 also had a working relationship with christopher steele, the author

of the infamous, fraudulent dossier. this is a very small world we are watching encamp on the shores of the to tomorrowic. it seems like everyone, people working in schiff's office. we find out there are cia officers. they come? twos apparently, and none of them have first-hand evidence. but they are trotted out as star witnesses. this gets more bizarre by the day. >> it does. and mr. schiff is in it up to his sigh balls. he was meeting with glenn simpson in aspen a couple years ago. he has his fingers in all parts of this operation. fusion gps is at the epicenter of it all, working with christopher steele helping run the back channels of the fbi and the department of justice through nellie ohr and fusion

gps. they should come out with a book "confessions of conspirators." lou: we have not seen confessions or atonement on the part of any of these corrupt actors in the justice department or fbi, fusion gps at least is a departure in the private sector. perkins coie paying a million 16 to investigate trump and fusion paid steele $170,000. they should be writing a business book because those are the margins any business ebt prize would want to achieve. but how in the world is it that no one laid a glove or even seemingly announced an intention to investigate 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 after the election to continue to fund fusion gps and push the russia hoax. it just goes on and on. glenn simpson lies to congress. lou: explain why the chair of the senate judiciary committee, senator lindsey graham, is not investigating this. he didn't with the last report, he hasn't talked about it in 8 months of leading that committee. no hearings are involved or been 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 up there testifying for a whole day on his recent report on comey. we are about to get a long awaited report on the fisa abuses and more. this stuff need to be exposed and there need to be a hearing on it in front of the senate judiciary committee. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. the♪lexus es... ...every curve, every innovation, every feeling... a product of mastery. lease the 2019 es 350 for $379/month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.

lou: michael flynn's attorney, sidney powell, says the justice department has possession of two of joseph mifsud's contro cell . joining us to take all of this up and more, victoria toensing, the former assistant attorney general for the justice department and joe digenova, founding partners of the digenova and toensing law firm. victoria, let's start with a couple of basic things. where is the server from the dnc. >> that was trump's question today. lou: i thought it was a good

question. i have got a couple more. >> don't we all. it's important for the viewers. the dnc complained the russians hacked their servers, their computers. they should have turned the servers over to the fbi for analysis. but they turned it over to a democratic oriented company called crowdstrike, who an lids them and of all things said the russians did it. but they have never been analyzed by the government. what is really bad is the fbi said okay -- lou: do we believe that? if the president said where is the server. he also mentioned crowdstrike on the telephone call. right? and i'm just curious about crowdstrike, the dnc, how the fbi relented on such an important piece of forensic

evidence. aren't you, joe? >> yes. and i think john durham will give us those answers. i believe the investigation the attorney jeb has authorized by john durham into crossfire hurricane which was the counter-intelligence operation against citizen trump, candidate trump, president-elect trump and the trump was all part of the same ball of wax. i am sure durham will give us the answer as to why this was done. jim comey at the top with brennan and clapper made sure anything involving the democrats was going to be covered up. if she had gotten elected we never would have known about any of this. lou: there is so much we still don't know, but i have to say as we are watching the so-called impeachment inquiry moving through the ship's star chamber, i don't know what's going on.

volker is there. all of these low-level people testifying. it's just 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 nothing more about the situation in ukraine. >> here is what the equivalent is. it's as if you have a defendant on trial, the president, and the prosecutor gets to have the witness questions outside of the jury, forget about cross-examination. the prosecutor gets to come in and give snippets to the jury of what the witness said. basic due process is gone. i'm so he based for the media. where are the editorials saying hold on, guys, you should be

fair in this process. i'm terribly he based. i don't know what happened to journalism. lou: when you look at msnbc, and cnn, listen to jeff zucker exhorting his quote you be quote journalists to focus on quote-unquote impeachment simple subversion cloaked in a fantasy called an impeachment inquiry. we all know it is nothing of the kind. let's go to what has happened here with the -- i'm on a digital kick tonight -- the server, where in the hell is the laptop or anthony weiner and all the emails betwixt hillary clinton and huma abedin.

>> it's the whole issue of declassification. apparently the fbi is fighting the declassification of certain parts of the report. war the reason is, the point that you made earlier is the correct one, lou. what we are watching is a de-constitutionalization of the american government. the corrupt process that the democrats in the house are following, if you can call it process, is designed to do one thing. smear the president, corrupt the public jury with false evidence about him and say when it's over, this man should no longer serve as our president. we are watching the absolute

destruction of the constitutional system that our founders set up. the democrats are doing it with glee, with joy, all in the pursuit of power. the fact that the wiener laptop is still in the possession as i understand it of the fbi and has not undergone further analysis is on part and parcel of why it's essential barr get it over, get it out and figure out a way to fix the fbi. because the fbi need fixing. >> chris wray can't do it. lou: i think i want something more that as we discussed. i want justice for those who have so wronged this country. right now it sees like justice deferred waiting to be justice denied. i hope that's wrong. victoria thank you very much. we appreciate you both. we are going to come right back.

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lou: president trump in far better shape, just like most of americans knew, in far better shape for 2020 than recent

polling suggests on the part of the national left-wing media. new models from moody comes analytics, and moody's one of the most of accurate show president trump actually cruising to reelection in 2020. moody's basing its projections on how consumers feel about their own financial situation. historic gains in the stock market during the president's tenure. the prospects of employment and unemployment which fell to a 50-year low. all three of moody's models show president trump winning between 289 and 351 electoral votes. all of this built on amongst' all other evidence, the median

income for the average family gaining more under president trump, $5,000 in just over almost three years. that by the way is five times what happened under obama. and you don't even think about the factor for george w. bush. the german government announce it will not ban huawei from its 5g network. this despite warnings and threats. germany laying out requirements including proof that huawei can be trusted. a new report finds a cyber espionage campaign helped china steal intellectual properties from american aerospace

companies that fueled development of china's c919 aircraft. it looks like a wonderful adaptation. the report adds the operation saved china billions of dollars. they just copied the technical details of the components used to build the airplanes. hunter biden breaking his silence and admits he used poor judgment. >> you didn't have extensive knowledge about natural gas or ukraine itself. >> no, but i think i had as much knowledge as anybody else on the board if not more. >> if your last name wasn't biden do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of burisma? >> i don't know. probably not. i think there are a lot of

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lou: joining us tonight, kimberley strassel, a member of the "wall street journal" editorial board. most of importantly tonight she is the author of a new book, resistance at all costs. how trump haters are breaking america. today is 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 the ones they do. to watch the two conferences to he besmirch themselves with a resolution vote. your thoughts on this today. >> this has been the attitude from the start. one of the premises of the book is there is a group of people -- i chose that subtitle on

purpose, haters. we can all be critics. this is a group that from the moment that donald trump was elected they decided he was illegitimate and they would use whatever means possible to remove him and oppose them. along with that mentality was they were entitled to break any rule, regulation and any standard and any norm. so we heard from hem for years that it's donald trump break our democracy and institution. if you step back and look objectively, it's the other side doing it. lou: they have had some help, for example, paul ryan as speaker of the house, not a single subpoena issued, he was trying to do something else. we can argue what it was. it certainly appears to me he's serving interest well beyond national interest.

and it's just ignorance that i have seen in a sad way. i almost expected this of the radical dems, i didn't expect the establishment republicans to be so intransigent and frankly cowardly. >> i think you are getting to 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 to people's reaction to donald trump when he became nominee. i think they were legitimately surprised when they saw the radical left and the haters do what they were doing. we trespassed over boundaries. we have an fbi that launched a counter-intelligence investigation on a sitting presidential campaign. even to say that statement is an astonishing thing.

lou: what did president obama and when did he learn it? >> i hope we are going to find that out soon. apparently fusion gps co-founders have their own book coming out. according to some reporting some of the information from the dossier they got went to president obama. this is the least surprising bit of information ever. i think some people who didn't though 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, the center of a scandal, james comey, fired and disgraced, as his own book contract and two of the individuals responsible for one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the president have their own book coming out next month. kimberley strassel. may i see that book just for a moment. i would like to do something

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