good night. lou: president trump adding to his historic list of achievements. announcing that a team of u.s. forces and army rangers conducted a raid that resulted in the killing of abu bakr al-baghdadi. president trump: the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice. abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead. a brutal killer. one who caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated.

he died like a dog. he died like a coward. the world is now a' safer place. god bless america. lou: that mission named to honor kayla miller, the chairman charity worker enslaved and killed in 2016. he said if obama had been as decisive, mueller might still be alive. the cad rall dimms are seething because they were not notified of that raid in advance. president trump withheld calls because he was concerned about the possibility that the likes of adam schiff would leak the information and endanger the mission. >> it was a friendly crowd for

the president's first official event in chicago. the meeting of the nation's chiefs of police. president trump: he was a sick and depraved man and he's dead. he's dead as a doornail. and he didn't die bravely, i will tell you that. reporter: but democrats complain that the president didn't inform congress that the raid was about to take place. democrats insist the so-called gang of 8, the bipartisan house and senate leadership should have bin told. president trump did tell senator lindsey graham and richard burr. but on the way to chicago this morning explained why he didn't

tell the democrats. president trump: they were talking about why didn't i give the information to adam schiff and his committee. the reason is because i think adam schiff is the biggest leaker in washington. i know that, you know that, we all know that. he's a corrupt politician and a leaker like never before. reporter: attorney general bill barr who in an exclusive interview spoke for the first time about john durham's now criminal investigation into the origins of the russia probe. >> i understand he's making great progress. he's a 35-year veteran of the department. a great rep case for non-partisanship. he was selected by two democratic attorneys general to do investigations for them. reporter: he clearly believes

the failure of leadership in 2016 has been rectified. lou: after 38 days of lawless subversion and the partisan attempt to overthrow our president under the cloask an impeachment inquiry, so-called, wrought a vote of the both parties on the floor of the house. pelosi is now she says planning to told a vote thursday to try to formalize the process, legitimize it she can't without a floor vote. two weeks ago pelosi argued there is no need for that floor vote in the process. >> we are here to find the truth to uphold the constitution this is not a game for us, this is dead lid serious. i'm not concerned about anything. they have no substance. they can't defend the president

so they are going process. we are not going there. lou: we don't know where she is going, but she is going with one party. than is nothing bipartisan about what she and the radical dimms are attempting in the house. president trump attacked the dimms' so-called impeachment. president trump: a whistleblower wrote a false narrative of the conversation. now they don't want to talk about the whistleblower because they didn't think i was going to release the conversation. when i released the conversation i blew up schiff's act. lou: we'll be taking up the latest in the difficulties' subversion analyst. joining us tonight, donald, jr., donald trump, jr., the executive

vice president of the trump organization has a new book called "trigger." how the left thrives on hate and wants to silence us. it's now available for preorder and we highly recommend it. lou: we are great particularly after al-baghdadi was killed over the weekend by dealta and special -- by delta and special operations forces. there was not a single loss of life or serious injury. a successful mission. >> yesterday my father did the announcement where he gave credit where it was due. he gave it to the guys on the ground, the soldiers who were there. the joint chiefs of staff, the k9 units that was there. the last time it was iiiii.

it was so important to see him recognize the members of the armed forces. liz: you mentioned the first person singular. this is a president who rarely uses the expression. i can remember state of the union addresses by obama rough heard the first person singular i throughout. the president uses the first person plural throughout his campaign rallies and every day peach. he's doing this for the right reasons. he got involved with this not because he needed the job. he knew what would come with it and the viciousness of the other side. last thing he said to me -- lou: what was that book again? >> "triggered." because we trigger the libs.

the last thing he said to me before he made his announcement in 2016 he said now we find out who our real friends are. he did this knowing all these people he had known for years would turn on him. because there are kornses to being a conservative and a vocal conservative. it doesn't just turn the other cheek and take defeat because the other side wants you to lose, but actually fights back. that's and good thing for conservatives to learn. lou: for all americans to learn. stand up. he is emblematic in my opinion of the best of america's strength. i never said what i -- never mentioned a word of what i said to your father as president. i will contest this.

i said to him, i don't know how in the world any other man could have stood or woman in your place with this assault with 360 degrees of attack constantly. >> that's the reality. if you look at his accomplishments and you can list them out. all-time low unemployment. 6.3 million people. but accomplishment after accomplishment. but then you take the notion that he did all of that despite unprecedented -- that's not hyperbole. that's not an exadges racial. no -- that's not an exaggeration. no president has taken the incoming this president has. work on strucko -- -- work on infrastructural reform.

and the usmca after the disaster we have seen with nafta. lou: she'll never give the president credit until the 2020 election is over. it's despicable about what she and chuck schumer and dimms are doing. then i hear this nonsense from the other party. he's an historic president in terms of his accomplishments. but then what he's dealing with with the left one media, i want you to look at this "washington post." this was their original take on his obit. abu bakr al-baghdadi, austere, religious scholar at helm of islamic state dies at 48.

>> that's how sick these people are. this guys a rapist, murderer. he burned people alive. he threw gay people off buildings. he's the worst of the worst. for them to make this guy into a religious scholar is sick. that's like saying jeffrey dahmer is a purveyor of organic and fine meats. it's sick. the left-wing media doesn't have the notion of objectivity any more. the derangement and insanity. bloomberg did the same to white wash the history of these brutal beings. to try to somehow take away from trump and his accomplishments because this was one of his number one goals in assuming the

presidency. >> the contribution of president trump to the rise of isis, i would like to show that if we could. the rise of isis under president trump. 4,400 percent increase. rising from 700 fighters to 31,500 according to the cia. >> obama was weak. he had no convictions. and he didn't try to take them out. when rob o'neill took him out, it was all obama. but when it's trump, they act as isis sympathizers. think how sick and deranged

these people in the leftist media, 90-something percent. when we go into an election cycle, the average guy consuming a few minutes of news a day, they are not seeing it. people that are active hi trying to subvert democracy. whatever happened to democracy dies in darkness. especially when adam schiff wants to conduct procedures in the basement. republicans are saying there is nothing here. lou: democracy dies in darkness. >> democracy dies in b.s. and there is plenty of it at this time.

lou: i don't even mind the b.s. as long as there is an open dialogue and open conversation. knowing politicians we have gotten used to that. what i can't stand is this silence and star chamber procedure they have put in place of a legitimate straight-forward impeachment inquiry. >> it was a coup when it started out of the russia hoax. this started in 2016. it started november 9, 2016. lou: this puts me at odds with some folks on the right. i don't think this is a hoax or and witch hunt. i think it's an effort from the beginning to overthrow our president. we want them all to go where they long for trying to do just that. >> i agree with you. lou: up next, attorney general william barr takes a shot at

james comey. things are happening. we'll take that up with investigative journalist john solomon. he's with us next. the deep state, the radical dimms, the rinos. he's attacking the president's description that's abu bakr al-baghdadi died like a coward. >> you cringe when you hear these details which in and of themselves are not damaging. but the totality of them, you can be sure adversaries go to to school on that. >> it's humiliation to hear the president piling on. a little bit is appropriate. you are sending a signal to some of his followers around the world. >> you don't want a locker room feel to this. lou: unbelievable. we'll take all of that up with

retired army colonel douglas mcgregor. gaffe dills? som

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yes. lou: the president saying he may release parts of the video of the raid which isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi was killed. shortly after his death, u.s. and syrian democratic forces launched an airstrike calling the is spokesman who was portedly one of those mentioned as successor to al-baghdadi. he was being smuggled across the syrian border. he was considered a potential successor to al-baghdadi. president trump taking a victory lap following the death of al-baghdadi. the president taking a shot at his press saidors -- his

predecessors. president trump: he should have been killed years ago. another president should have gotten him. they would walk into my office and say this leader at a low level, and i want this leader. i said i want al-baghdadi, he's the only one i know now. i want al-baghdadi, and they got him. lou: under obama, isis grew from 700 fighters to 31,500 fighters after his 8 years in office. all this while a civil war ranked in syria. after president trump's first year in office, isis lost 98% of its so-called caliphate. none of its territory is now under control of isis.

the radical left was quick to try to downplay the killing of is leader al-baghdadi. the left joining russia's defense minister who claimed there was no evidence the isis leader had been killed. listen to what former national dni james clapper said on cnn. >> isis is more than just al-baghdadi. somewhere in the neighborhood of 18,000 fighters remaining. i don't if they have anyone who would have the symbol i can importance of al-baghdadi. but i don't think we can say at this point we can stop worrying about isis. lou: somebody stopped worrying about isis, including mr. clapper, in the obama administration. the obama administration allowing isis to grow to the strength that president trump had to take on.

the left-wing national media trying to downplay the president's accomplishment. leaders death will damage isis, but not destroy it. and three ways the al-baghdadi raid undermines trump's chaotic policy. they are trying to downplay another one of president trump's victories. colonel mcgregor. it's a stunning thing to see the national left-wing media continue to carry out their nasty negativity against this president in the midst of a wonderful accomplishment by our military, our special operations forces, delta force. an extraordinarily successful

mission. my god, ways wrong with these people? >> you are not really surprised, i'm sure. anything that this president does is attacked by the left, regardless of how good it is or how poise tough it may be for the american people. i think the death of al-baghdadi is a wonderful way to conclude this long, arduous process of destroying the caliphate. as you pointed out, the caliphate as a territorial entity is gone, no question by the. there are fighters that remain. as much as 40,000 at one point. there may be 10,000 left. they are milling around in syria. but they are migrating largey towards a city in northwest syria. a place where the islam yis islt

fighters have been supported by erdogan. we need to watch what the syrians and the russians do about eglit. lou: it appears the turks were targeting al-baghdadi. >> we need to be frank and open. there is a new emerging caliphate. that caliphate is in turkey and the toda caliph of islam is mr. erdogan. that's what he aspires to. it's mr. erdogan who wants to repurpose the fighters and use them in the caucuses, central

asia, south africa and other parts of the middle east to attack his enemies. and that should not be forgotten.

president trump: there is one person that's not here today in chicago. the superintendent of chicago police, eddie johnson. since eddie johnson has been police chief, 1,500 people have been murdered and 13,067 have been shot. and chicago has the toughest gun laws in the united states. that doesn't seem to be working too well. lou: the chicago police department has some explaining to do.

and their superintendent having the lack of grace to attend the police cheesms conference in his own city. we are going to take up why that might be. president trump addressing the international association of police chiefs noting the absence of eddie johnson. johnson said the values of chicago are more important than what the president said today. chicago's murder rate, let's just take a look. the murder rate is the tenth highest in the country. 23,013 people have been shot in chicago. the poverty level is 7 points higher than the national. can you imagine the sanction

moan was hypocrisy and ignorance of johnson saying we did about this president? i mean, this is beyond contempt. >> it's outrageous. the truth of the matter is there are other cities with high murder rates and they cured them with great superintendents. this city being one. washington, d.c. which was a murder capital at one time, by getting good law enforcement people in here. chicago is a runaway and it's getting worse by the day. lou: the murder rate is declining. but it's a slight improvement. now turn to the president and al-baghdadi. there is nothing you can do about "the washington post" or bloomberg. they will do what they insist on doing.

it's everything as negatively as they can. but they don't realize what fools they look like to the american people? how dumb do they think americans are? >> the hardest part of being a president, presidents have to take tough decisions every single day. there was no tougher decision man the one the president made to go in there, we worked in on that for nos and months, at the same time he's pulling our troops out of syria. he could have been distracted by all the crap going on around him. and the democrats instead of saying thank you. they impeach him. now they decide to impeach him thursday. lou: they are not going to impeach him. >> they are voting on a

resolution to go forward. it's still not a vote by both conferences. >> you will have all democrats. it's still an impeachment. my points of all this. what are the facts of this? after months and months and months, the secretary of energy, rick perry asked the president to call the president of ukraine to talk about an energy deal. he did. both men said there was no quid pro quo. lou: there is -- is a transcript of the phone call. >> there is no crime, no misdemeanor, and they are still going to move forward because that's been their intent since november 9, 2016. lou: it's an outrage. the american people should make the democrats pay at the polls.

up next. adam schiff says bill barr is weaponizing the department of justice. we take that up with john

lou: house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff is claiming attorney general william barr is weaponizing the

justice department to go after president trump's enemies. but barr fought back today and taking a swipe at former fbi director james comey. >> one of the reasons mr. durham is able to make the progress he's make is director wray and his team at the fbi have been outstanding in the responsiveness answer support they have given mr. durham. i said previous live i felt there was a failure of leadership at the bureau in 2016 and parts of 2017. but since director wray and his team have taken over, there has been a world of change. lou: joining us, john solomon. let's start to your reaction. the outright endorsement of christopher wray who i think it

could be said many thought he was dragging his feet and not being particularly helpful to the durham investigation. >> some of the answers he was getting from his lieutenants like chris wray didn't add up. but with mr. durham looking behind the scenes, there is good cooperation. in the face of evidence of criminal wrongdoing this probe has gone from an administrative review to a criminal investigation. that is a significant development. it gives mr. durham the ability to compel testimony. it's good to know the doj and the fbi are on the same page and there is good cooperation going on. lou: it's interesting to watch the speaker of the house announce there will be a vote by the house thursday on going forward. it's unclear whether she will

have the principle and courage to call for a full vote of the house on articles of impeachment or process of injury. what we are hearing sounds liking a discussion about going forward rather than whether there should be a quote-unquote inquiry. >> a couple weeks ago the same speaker said there was no need for a vote it appears the need for a vote arose after the president scored a major foreign policy victory after the death of al-baghdadi. i was visiting outside the belt ware. the people in the room seat political nature of this inquiry and they are deeply concerned about it. there is nobody who will pull the wool over the eyes of the american people. they are pretty smart. lou: for a while we thought nancy pelosi had a grip.

but she obviously did not. we are almost a month and a half into this farce -- they are trying to call an impeachment, legitimate impeachment process. a strawns script of the call between zelensky and the president of ukraine. and so-called whistleblowers that are evaporating faster than they can come forward. the ukraine is a target of the national left-wing hide yeah they keep putting ordinary crazy at least to me assertions that hunter biden's firm got paid only $50,000 a months. your thoughts? >> the greatest conspiracy theory ever woven by the american journalism community

was the russia collusion story. how do we go from something that's fact you'll to something that was completely silly like collusion between trump and putin? you get it by inaccurate reporting and misinformation. a lot of the early ukraine scandal looks like the early russia scandal. start with hunter biden. i have the record the fbi sees from hunter biden's firm. and the ukrainian prosecutor seize from burisma showing his company was getting $166,000 and change, not $50,000. even at $50,000 a month, it's a big salary. but think about the difference. you have to ask why are people understating the amount of money that flowed to hunter biden's firm? lou: and why are they reporting

there was no active investigation of hunter biden when burisma was hiring and had him on the payroll. this father was calling for the firing of the general prosecutor to end the investigation. >> a couple weeks ago i had a story, march 29, the day the prosecutor general of the ukraine was fired. that same day hunter biden's american legal team was calling the prosecutor's office to meet with the new guy to settle the case. here is something the american media ignored. in february, one month before joe biden effectuated the firing of the prosecutor. they raided the home of the head of burisma. that's when the vice president

lept into action. whether they are related, the appearance issue is clearly there. lou: john, you have been under some considerable attack from some quarters. your thought about the origins of those attacks and the purpose. >> part of the reason liberals are so involved in ukraine is one of their largest mega donors, george soros has a footprint. he had a group that was partially funded by the state department and george soros. it was that group that the united states state department sent a letter and said do not prosecute that group. we want you to keep hands off. we have officials saying we didn't tell ukrainian was to do. i have the letter. it happened. there is a lot of interest in ukraine because one of their

mega donors is there. who funds republicca? george soros. lou: we thought we would give you an opportunity to respond to that. i know you and i know your work and i know you are absolute aces. the craft is fortunate to have you. >> all you can do when you have these character attacks. don't let it distract me. and keep reporting the facts. lou: next time we'll take up why you and i and sean hannity and other folks ended up on an enemies list led by the former ambassador to ukraine. john solomon. thank you. appreciate it. up next. president trump defends leaving

u.s. troops in northeast syria to secure the oil fields in the region and to provide a u.s. presence. we'll take that with dr. walid phares. stay with us. we'll be right back. whether you're out here on lte.

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lou: joining me now, dr. walid phares. your thoughts on how al-baghdadi and the great result by delta forces operations for taking him out? >> it's stunning, complex. but most of important, a daring operation. those special forces had to cross two countries, four military zones. even in the operation to eliminate bin laden that was not the case. and accomplish it, no casualties. in terms of operations it's a big win for our armed forces and the decision making process, president trump and his administration. no doubt about that. lou: we watched the national

left-wing media spew nonsense. i want to go back to "the washington post." their initial statement on this. abu bakr al-baghdadi an austere religious scholar at helm of is almostic state dies at 48. they celebrate the death of this terrorist. >> i tried with all my 30 yiefers academic endeavor to understand what they were talking about. maybe in the 90s after the end of the cold war before 9/11. but not even the "washington times." what was that about? a religious scholar? he's a terrorist and murderer.

lou: with everything that happened here, this is a mission carried out so perfectly by the military. not a single person seriously wound at all. not a single life lost amongst our military. this is a moment for celebration. what other reaction can any american have. then we have former admirals, you tell me what they are, talk about, you shouldn't be dancing about the death of this gruesome, ugly monster who terrorized for years that region. >> nobody is dancing. we are just celebrating a very successful tactical operation. just think of the way the administration officials handled the fact of who should know what

from all these players. the russians, the turks, the kurds, the syrian regime and iran. this is a masterpiece. i'm not saying this because it's donald trump or the opposition. it's reality. the fact that he was taken out now. he was trying to do a merger between isis and other jihadi organizations. the timing was important. lou: the timing was important and the result remarkable and outstanding. walid phares. thanks for being with us.

lou: president tweeted a declassified photo of the military dog wownltded in the raid that resulted in the killing of abu bakr al-baghdadi yesterday. president trump said the k9 did a great job in capturing and killing the leader of isis. the administration is work on arrangements for the dog to visit the white house. tomorrow night the republican national committee's congressman matt gaetz and sidney powell will be among our guests.

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