>> to read mark check out this week addition barron's.com and don't forget to follow us on twitter at barron's online. that is it for us. weekend. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. the radical dimms and the 59 days of impeachment inquiry as far aso -- farce that they conducted failed to put forward a plausible pretext to overthrow the president. the president's approval numbers are on the rise despite those 59 days. support for impeachment on the decline, and the democrats are fortunate to have the thanksgiving recess with which to recover and regroup. but those 59 days of absurdist political theater have awakened millions of americans to the

greatest political scandal in our nation's history and more evidence is on the way. those democrats appear to be well on their way to electoral disaster in 2020. president trump is strengthened and validated by the radical dimms disastrous failures of their so-called impeachment inquiry. the president says he wants a full trial of the facts in the u.s. senate. president trump eager to expose further the corruption and baseless charges of the deep state and the radical dimms that track back to the obama white house. president trump today crowed about this banner week for his presidency. >> tremendous things are happening. i think we had a tremendous week with the hoax, you know the great hoax. we call it the impeachment hoax. that worked out incredibly well. we have tremendous support.

lou: the fcc unanimously voted 5-0 to ban up much telecom companies from using federal subsidies to buy or maintain equipment made by i huawei and zte, labeling those companies a national security threat. the fcc also beginning the process that would force u.s. telecom companies to replace existing zte products with a process that could cost $2 billion over two years. choing us, the chairman of the federal communications commission. he has been focused on the issue of telecom and other companies using taxpayer money. for years commission chairman ajit pai led that 5-0 vote today

and joins us tonight. congratulations on the vote. a clear-cut statement of putting u.s. national security, national you interest above commercial interest, and congratulations to you and the commission for doing so. >> it's a unanimous vote. when it comes to the national security of our communications network, we don't know party affiliation. it's about the security of the country. >> the attorney general of the united states announcing clearly that both these companies, huawei and zte pose a national security threat. he went further and said it's the conduct of the people's republic of china that goes into his assessment of their national security threat and the risk posed. how far is this going to go, and what are the next steps for the united states? these two companies have been features prominently by the

chinese and their efforts to drive a potential potential -- . >> each of them has engaged in conduct intellectual property theft and bribery and corruption. they are required to secretly comply to requests from china's intelligence services. we propose to want use of fcc funding. and looking backward we want to understand if there is existing network equipment from those companies and figure out how to rip and replace it. this is not a risk we can allow in this country. >> it has to be something every american is rejoicing upon hearing the chairman of the fcc say that. but we are also looking at a whole government. the united states government.

is it a whole government effort we are witnessing or is it somewhat ad hoc in the you midst of foreign policy concerns arctic late by secretary of state pompeo recently in a speech declaring china's threats to this country is simply unacceptable. >> all i can speak to is what the fcc believes. from our perspective these two companies present a national security risk to the united states. i have done many trips abroad where we presented a coherent and consistent message. lou: what's the response? >> it's generally favorable. other countries understand the risk. lou: there is also a competitive risk here and a structural risk.

that is, the companies we assumed would be in the lead in this country on 5g, at&t principle among them haven't been -- principal among them, haven't been hitting their markers. what will this mean for the adaptation of u.s. telecom. >> we have been implementing the 5g fast plan, making it easier to deploy infrastructure in the future, whether it's wireless or new entrance to dough ploy that structure at scale. we are working with all the companies to give them a full and fair chance to compete. we want to make sure every american company has the maximum incentive. lou: are you concerned about what has been a lag on 5g

companies? >> we'll have 92 commercial deployments. so i'm hopeful although we still need to maintain that lead, visa advice chain a and other companies that want to see that opportunity for themselves. >> rural farm communities that are desperate for lower priced, huawei zte-type equipment, is it replaceable? is that a possibility? wilbur ross is very concerned about the implications for those rural communities who frankly just have a disadvantaged position when it comes to telecom. but 5g in particular. >> that's a concern i share as a rural american. but at the end of the day one of the things we want to make sure is our communications networks

are secure. we are working with the rural carriers to make sure they have a financing mechanism in place. at the end of the dade my message is simple. the only problem with cheap equipment from huawei and zte is it costs too much. we need to make sure the rural carriers and all of us are on the same page. lou: the attorney general said this in his letter to the fcc. the attorney general writing, we should not signal that huawei and zte are anything other than a threat to our collective security. their own track record as well as the practices of the chinese government demonstrate that huawei and zte cannot be trusted. again, congratulations on that 5-0 vote. good for you, good for the

commission. good for the country. thanks so much. good to see you. we are learning more about the long awaited report on fisa abuses by the justice depth inspector general michael horowitz. the inspector general has reportedly found evidence that former fbi attorney, kevin kleinsmith manipulated a key document in order to justify surveillance much former strum advisor, carter page, that is to facilitate spying on a presidential candidate. the "new york times" reports tonight horowitz will likely absolve top-ranking fbi officials for abusing their powers, namely, james comey, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, and lisa page. we'll be taking up that story in greater detail and assessing what the prospects are for those folks who have been named to this point.

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former national security advice year john bolton is back on twitter and taking shots at the presume white house. bolton tweeted earlier today quote, since resigning as national security advisor the @white house refused to retain access to my personal twitter account. for those who speculate i went into hiding i am sob sorry to disappoint. the white house says it doesn't have the means to do so. and bolton adding further clarification. president trump says he wants to call adam schiff, hunter biden and the whistleblower to testify if the senate calls a trial. he says calling these witnesses will provide shim due process. president trump: we couldn't have any witnesses. you know who i want as the first

witness? i want a trial. >> you want a trial? >> look, number one, they should never ever impeach. lou: of course there should be due process from the very beginning which they have denied this president and the american people. joining us tonight, white house press secretary stephanie grisham. the president standing straight up and saying, i think he also looked at those poll numbers and saw the way the american people reacting to this charade put on by the dimms. he wants to have a full-on trial and raise a little hell it appears. >> when you have done nothing wrong and you have had to endure months and months after people saying you have done all these horrible things. i agree with him. i think adam schiff should go up first.

he has lied what he knows about this whistleblower. we know for a fact his staff was dealing with this whistleblower. he has a lawyer who tweeted on day one of this presidency that he must go down. if there is nothing to hide, let's go. lou: as adam schiff put up all of these so-called witnesses to see time and time again, speculation, presumption, assumption, hearsay. it became a parade of nonsense, only it was directed at the president of the united states. he has the patience of jobe to put up with this. >> he does, and he continues to work for the country which i admire so much. you are right, i couldn't keep a track of the words presumption. i want to point out of all the witnesses that were spoken to during the sham hearings. one witness who did speak to the president albeit a few times.

he said that the president told him, i don't want anything, i don't want a quid pro quo. i want zelensky to do the right thing. i want him to do what he ran on. which is corruption. to me it should be over. i don't understand how we are continuing to talk about it. lou: that reference to ambassador sondland's testimony which he left out of his opening statement was the essence of what he said. it was entirely exculpatory. the republicans stood up as i have never seen them in my career. shoulder to shoulder and dismantling every one of those folks to tried to assault the president of the united states and all of them baselessly. >> it has been so amazing to see the republicans united. this is one of the many ways this will backfire on the dems.

i think the country is united behind his president, too. i was just handed a "vanity fair" article saying it looks like this won't work out for the dems. if we have a "vanity fair" article saying that -- >> that's a high source. >> ambassador bolton today with this nonsense about twitter wanting his dedicated, you know, handle, that was never in the possession of the white house, was it? >> it was his personal account that he continued to use while he was at the white house. i don't know a lot about it. my father is of an advanced age and he may not understand all you have to do is contact twitter and reset your password if you have forgotten it and i will leave it at that. lou: i am trying to calculate

whether myself or bolton is the older with the twitter account. it's a shame to see bolton behave like this. he was next to the president, serving the president of the united states. it's very disappointing that he would stoop to the level he has in innuendo. >> i hear he's got a book deal and he's been on quite the speaking circuit charging high fees for that. i guess money can get you to do a lot of things. lou: stephanie, great the see you, congratulations on another terrific week. we look forward to many, many years more. thanks so much. stephanie grisham. share your comments. follow me on twitter @loudobbs. follow me on instagram

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lou: attorney general william barr and chad wolf today taking action urging the chief justices of the oregon and washington supreme courts to stop block

i.c.e. agents from detaining illegal immigrants in their court house. the attorney general and wolf arguing their actions, those judges in those two states, pose an outright danger to the public. the attorney general describing the mysterious death of jeffrey epstein as a perfect storm of screwups. he says after personally reviewing security footage i can confirm no one entered epstein's cell the night he died. prince andrew has been kicked out of buckingham palace after he defended his friendship with epstein. disputing vindman, award-winning journalist john solomon refuting vindman's claim that all of the key elements of his ukraine

reports are false. he laid out rebuttals and asking vindman to question what was wrong with his reporting. joining us, tom fitton of judicial watch. the attacks on john solomon are extraordinary. no other reporter has done as much as solomon to reveal what is going on in ukraine. no one -- i mean this -- across the board, in my reading of all of the coverage. no one has sourced his or her work even close to the degree that john solomon has. >> been vindman and fiona hill, listening to democratic operatives spin the information. it goes to show that the experts that the president is suppose to be relying on as given to him by the deep state people like hill and colonel vindman.

they don't know what they shall talking about. either they are iser in rant or being men days in suggesting crane wasn't working with the obama-clinton gang to target trump. ukrainians were distrustful of trump. and pretending it didn't happen -- i don't understand it. it's either ignorant -- lou: or the other. i don't know there is a lot of question about which it is. fiona hill actually saying the republicans were not across knowledging russia was responsible for interfering with the u.s. presidential elections in 2016. that wasser in the issue,er in the case, and the republicans point out that she was absolutely dead wrong. and the extent to which she pursued that untruth was i

thought astonishing. let's listen to fiona hill, the self-cast at least leading expert on ukraine. >> i have heard some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and perhaps somehow for you some reason ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and prop gate by the russian security services themselves. the unfortunate truth is russia is a foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. lou: the arrogance of that. >> was that john wren man or fiona hill? i can't tell the difference. no one is making the argument the russians were playing around in our election. they were playing around with

hillary clinton. they spent a couple hundred thousand on facebook ads. no one proved it took place in a court of law. but the dispute is were the russians in it to help trump or in it to help clinton. it's the dossier people that were pushing the lie or the information without evidence that the russians were in there to help trump. i'm glad hill is no longer in the white house. lou: i hope none of these people will ever again be in the white house. vindman talking about zelensky being asked about whether he was -- whether zelensky served in the military. he didn't know the answer to it, and he considerr considered himself the leading expert, not fiona hill. but not to know that, even though apparently the zelensky goveme