i talked about my dog. >> you have refined palate and taste everything in wine and everything else like that? >> it means i have palate of a sophisticated 8-year-old. >> yeah. david: thank you. liz: happening now, house republican leaders mccarthy, scalise, cheney and doug collins expected to speak just outside where the house intelligence committee is voting on the impeachment report. tonight, the reality check. this is still not a full house vote which nancy pelosi still has refused to hold. the president has called for. one moderate house democrat fears voter wrath, the nation divided. republicans out with a rebuttal, senate republicans preparing to call hunter biden and democrat adam schiff to testify if it heads to the senate. as senator mitch mcconnell today blasted house speaker nancy pelosi for her, quote, empty rhetoric.

for her made-for-tv histrionics, for obsessing over impeachment and then, flying off to europe for a climate change conference, leaving behind nafta 2.0. still not done. an estimated 176,000 new american jobs at stake. we've got that and a new letter today from 17 house judiciary republicans, outlining a lot more democrats are not getting done. we have a republican on that committee tonight. to the nato summit started off with with a big bang. president trump blasting french president emmanuel macron for being nasty, insulting, telling "the economist" magazine that nato is brain-dead. we have details on the new transatlantic fight. as the new secretary-general praised president trump to do what president george w. bush and obama could not get done, get canada and europe to increase spending on nato. to the 2020 democrat race, kamala harris drops out amid

confusion still in the race. no front-runner. the majority of democrats in congress, 2/3 of them, still not backing a democrat candidate. we've got the latest on the infighting in a race that that critics say has been rarely this week. william barr was misquoted on anonymous ig report on the probe and what the media is missing. i'm elizabeth mccdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. liz: house intelligence impeachment report, cites senior administration officials including acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, secretary of state mike pompeo and energy secretary perry for basically being complicit in what went on with the ukraine phone call and more. president trump said he would love for them to testify but quote, does not want them to because this is a quote total

fix. hillary vaughn has more on capitol hill. hillary? reporter: liz, right now the house intelligence committee behind closed doors is votes on this report from their impeachment investigation. the report finding that the president withheld military aid and a white house visit up in exchange for an investigation into the bidens. this report will then be handed off to the house judiciary committee that holds its first impeachment hearing tomorrow where four lawyers will discuss the constitutional grounds for impeachment. but after weeks of investigations 100 hours of witness testimony, house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff says he is not ready to say that the president should be impeached. >> do you support impeaching and then senate removing him from office? >> i'm going to reserve any kind of a public judgment on that until i have a chance to consult with my colleagues, with our leadership, and i think this really needs to be a decision that we all make as a body.

reporter: house republicans, house committee intel oversight, foreign affairs issued their own review as a result of this investigation after looking at evidence gathered from over 17 witnesses in this impeachment probe and they say it does not back up the democrats conclusions saying quote, the evidence does not prove the democrats allegations that president trump abused his authority to pressure ukraine to investigate his potential political rival vice president joe biden. chairman schiff says, their investigation is not over. even though the report is final he says they will continue on looking into various aspects of this investigation. the president said he will not be watching the hearing tomorrow saying that he has other things to do. he is obviously at the nato summit. he also said he does want two of his people to testify, just not here in front of the house which is controlled by democratic lawmakers. liz? liz: hellory vaughn, great to see you. thank you so much. we'll talk about it with on the phone republican jim

sensenbrenner who sits on the house judiciary committee. great to have you on. a reality check, this is not a full house vote. nancy pelosi still refused to hold that. the president want it. 31 moderate democrats fear voter wrath. we have 228 house democrats supporting impeachment. your reaction what is going on? >> well, adam schiff getting four pinocchios for what he just said. first of all, what they're trying to do is to impeach a president of the united states based on his statement and phone call ukrainian president zelensky saying i want to ask a favor of you. now the intelligence committee has been gummed up for the last three months on impeachment. they're not doing the oversight work that we need to do to make sure that congress and the white house are in sync in terms of dealing with security threats against our country. you compare that to the fact that vice president biden was in

office actually bragged about the fact that he held up a billion dollars of aid to ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor within six hours. and then he says, son after bleep, the guy got fired. now we republicans realize that foreign aid is not welfare. we have to get them to do something about corruption and we don't want the hard-earned tax dollars of the american people going into somebody's pocket or somebody's swiss bank account and ukraine is probably the most corrupt country in europe. so time to -- liz: we got to cut away. we have a press conference here. let's watch. >> the democrats decided what the american people would see and when. the democrats decided on timing of release of important pieces of transcripts. they still have not released the transcript of the ic injector

general. democrats essentially stacked the deck in their favor and despite the fact they did this, even with everyone fair advantage and unprecedented ad ad advantage they gave themselves preventing president access to the proceedings, preventing his counsel from any participation in the proceed, they have come of this and fundamentally failed to prove their case. we're moving into tomorrow where we a panel of constitutional scholars, liberal law professors predominantly and one republican witness and the democrats will be asking them questions about whether or not the behavior that they are inaccurately and lacking in facts the behavior they're describing would be impeachable. we would remind the speaker of the house once again the power of impeachment rest with the house of representatives, the constitution does not say impeachment shall be the responsibility after panel of

liberal activists, but that is where we will be tomorrow. meantime we're focused on the important and critical work that is not getting done and on that point i wouldlous just note that the intelligence committee has been hijacked the last 70 days, unable to, unwilling because the democrats are in charge, to focus on the real threats that face this nation. the democrats will be fundamentally accountable for the damage that they're doing because the intel committee has not been able to focus on critical threats like, threats we face from china, threats we face from russia, threats from north korea, iran, terrorism, none of those things have been in the purview of the intel committee because they have been focused on this sham impeachment effort. with that i would like to turn this over to the republican leader of the judiciary, mr. collins, to talk more about the hearings tomorrow. >> thank you, madam chair. as you will find out tomorrow the sideshow of the schiff report now is coming to the

judiciary committee where it should have been to start with f you're going to do impeachment should have been in our committee to start with but the committee failed miserably on so many counts this year it was actually taken from us. it is coming back tomorrow, what is more sad about tomorrow we're coming back not with what you have always seen in impeachment. go back into the history of clinton, nixon, comes to the judiciary committee with weight and gravitas. it does not anymore. in fact a shell of it seven, the judiciary committee is. how will we start that? we'll start it with, let's talk about what a impeachable offense is. most of this committee on our side, on the democrats side said we need to impeach him. if they already know they need to impeach him, why are we wasting time? i'll tell you why. they have a problem. they have a problem that just came out of facts from public hearings and private depositions. they're having a problem this will be the first impeachment ever had with honestly dispute, not just disputed fact the why they want to impeach the president but actually contradicted facts. was it a quid pro quo? was it actual pressure? was there anything done.

two participants on the call, president of the united states and mr. zelensky said nothing was wrong and mr. zelensky said many times over we felt no pressure. we'll talk about this tomorrow. i want to focuswhat is going on my committee. my chairman cannot tell you if we have a fact witness. my chairman cannot tell you, past tomorrow, looking presentation, how you do it. how do you go to the american people with straight face tell them you're looking seriously impeaching a president, overturning 63 million votes and you don't have a plan for your own committee? there is also one very large thing, our chair won't state it from things not getting done how this has been bad we have a saying down south if something will be important my mom would tell me, go put your sunday best on and we'll go to town. well a few month ago the democrats put on their quote sunday best, we're going to have rules for impeachment. it will take care of everything we'll actually take care of the president. the president will have a chance

to actually be a part of the process and look at witnesses, and question and this is where we're at now. the judiciary committee was only place to do that. well starting tomorrow, they failed miserably in trying to provide any modicum of fairness in this process. the president is not sending a counsel tomorrow and he shouldn't send a counsel tomorrow because there is nothing to ask. why do they ban to sit through a constitutional law class which most suffered through this law school? tomorrow provides nothing, a dreary eyed proposal for this country to watch as the impeachment process slowly drags on with no direction, no focus because they're having one big problem, and the big problem is, the president did nothing wrong and they can't prove it. with that i yield to the whip. >> thank you, doug. welcome back. hope y'all had a great thanksgiving. i wish we had come back here to confront a lot of problems that families are facing across the country. i wish we were this week taking up the bipartisan package of bills that passed out of energy and commerce to lower drug

prices. that had unanimous support in fact. that would lower prescription drug prices bring more generics to market quicker to lower drug costs for families but we're not doing that. i wish we were working here in congress to support what president trump is doing right now in europe to strengthen nato, working with our allies to make nato even stronger but we're not doing that. what is disappointing, the fact that right now as we speak adam schiff, meeting behind closed doors once again, holding votes in secret is an affront to transparency. it is going on right now. you look at how this whole impeachment sham has been going. while president trump is in london meeting with our allies to strengthen nato and to -- liz: okay. those are the house republican leaders talking as the house intelligence committee is voting on the impeachment report. let's get back to republican jim sensenbrenner with house

judiciary. we're hearing that now democrats are thinking about adding the mueller report to the articles. they're reaching out to other investigative panels in the congress to send any allegations of trump-related misdeeds to add to the articles. that sounds like they're trying to make it, their case stronger. your reaction? >> well, the mueller report was a big flop. the democrats for two years said wait until mueller comes in with his report. well it came in. it said no collusion, no obstruction. they decided to move on to ukraine. now you crain is not a strong case, democrats will tell you. i kind of think what we to the from mr. schiff was he is guilty, so let's have a trial now. that is not the way the american justice system works. liz: right. so guilty, in other words guilty until proven innocent. in other words a charge is tantamount to a conviction. here's the thing. the republicans we know are rebutting.

leader of ukraine, mr. zelensky did give an interview where he was quoted saying this is not about a quid pro quo. i would like to ask you this. senator mitch mcconnell really blasting house speaker nancy pelosi for quote, obsessing over impeachment, not getting nafta 2.0 done. she is at a u.n. climate change conference in madrid. you, i think, sir, did you sign a letter with 16 other house republicans on the judiciary committee saying here's not getting done? lower drug costs, border crisis, election security, domestic terrorism and more, did you sign that letter? >> absolutely i did. what's not getting done is not getting done and we all stand behind what was in that letter. the facts speak for themselves. this congress and washington, d.c. have been obsessed with impeachment that has been run as a sham, kangaroo court by the democrats led by pelosi, schiff

and nadler. and you know, i've been significant around here, you know, watching all of this stuff and he said/she said stuff, lots of hearsay evidence which would not be admissible in any court in the country, and for that they're trying to throw out a man who was duly-elected president of the united states. well, they didn't like the result of the election but we didn't like the result of the previous two elections but we hunkered down and did the nation's business during that period of time. not as much as i would have liked but at least we didn't get a washington and the country tied around the axelrod by attempting to impeach president obama or even talking about, what i think was biden's clear misconduct when he said, i held up the billion dollars of aid until they fired the prosecutor within six hours. now you know, look at the difference between the seriousness of what biden said and how flimsy the schiff case

is against president trump. liz: okay. congressman jim sensenbrenner, member of the house judiciary panel. thank for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> next up, the nato summit started off with a big bang. president trump slamming the french president making nasty, insulting comments about nato to "the economist" magazine that nato is brain-dead. president trump now the defender of nato? we have the details on this new transatlantic fight coming up? ♪. hi honey, we got in early. yeah, and we brought steve and mark. ♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event.

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would go dollar for dollar with france i am poising tariffs if france goes forward digital services tax. the trade representative said the tax is discriminatory against apple, amazon, facebook an google. announced $2.1 billion of tariffs will be slapped on france just hours before president trump sat down with the french president emmanuel macron. >> as the president knows we tax wine and we have others scheduled. we do not do that. that is the way it, would. we'll work out or we'll work out some mutually beneficial tax. the tax will be substantial and i'm not sure it will come to that but might. it might. reporter: the president also met today with justin trudeau, allowing the president to continue to implore democrats to bring the usmca to the house floor for a vote. tomorrow, the president is scheduled to sit down with angela merkel as there will be more nato events. his trip here ends, or at least

is scheduled to end with a press conference. back to you in new york. liz: blake burman in london, thank you so much. let's bring in hudson institute senior fellow rebecca heinrich. rebecca, great to see you. is it now macron the disruptor of nato. he said we need to seek greater combination between russia and china. made brain-dead comments about nato and he wants the iran iran irnuclear deal back? >> that brain-dead comment seemed to be macron testing the waters how europe would respond. he seems to want actually have france be leader of this european strategic defense initiative, the european union, rather than the united states leading the traditional nato alliance. it didn't work. france doesn't have the economic or military heft to do that it doesn't have the leadership there. you will not have eastern and central european countries there in the shadow of russia trust that france could actually

provide defense assurances for them. liz: senator mitch mcconnell today saying it is under president trump this, the white house and the administration has really gone hard after russia, both during increasing troops in europe, that the leader of nato praised again president trump for saying that quote, since 2016, canada and european allies have added $130 billion more to nato's defense budget. it will increase to 400 billion by 2024. so, rebecca, seems like president trump is doing what presidents obama and george w. coin get done there? >> that is exactly right. president trump said a lot of things previous presidents said, only he says it in a way that makes others he means it. there will be consequences if these other nato countries don't hold their fair share and contribute more to selective security. that the united states can't do all of this. we expect them to contribute more to defense but act more like political allies as well.

nato is a much stronger position now three years into president trump's administration than the way he inherited it. absolutely no question. liz: to your point, the media and democrats really went after president trump for doing things like singling out germany for falling short on their nato defense spending and going after nato saying you got to do more. the president was criticized for this. watch joe biden 22 years ago, sounding just like trump. watch this. >> germany, if you're unwilling to reflate your market, and take on your responsibility in the rest of the world as a world leader, why are we only ones that have that responsibility? why are we the only economic engine? we're clearly the biggest. we can say to the germans and our friends in europe, we're all in this. liz: we're all in this. your reaction? >> i would say too. i care a lot how they act politically as well. what is their behavior even apart from the military spending? germany has been doing energy

deals with the russians, in order stream ii which empowers and emboldens russia and harms, takes away leverage from eastern europeans. germany complaining about president trump's rough statements towards angela merkel when germany is empowering russia the very country we are supposed to be helping to deter. all kind of hip hypocrisy president trump is exposing. because of his tough talk we're in a position to deter countries like russia. look at issues we have like taking on china now. liz: to your point, in order stream ii will double amount of natural gas will sell into europe bypassing ukraine. we have russia and nine hooking up with a major pipeline. russia is selling nat-gas to china. these are the kind of threats the president and u.s. is now countering trying to get nato to step up. the final word? >> united states needs to make sure we have the strongist

economy and strongest military. we do need to more to strengthen our military to we can deter and defend against china which is investing in advance technologies to take on the united states the all of that will empower us to handle the countries diplomatically to strengthen our alliances because we'll need them. liz: great to see you. >> great to see you. liz: coming up. kamala harris are is dropping out of the 2020 democratic race. majority of democrats in congress still not backing a democratic candidate this late in the race? democrats slamming each other. we'll dig into a race that was rarely been this weak. the story coming up. lots of ink. print about... this many pages. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill.

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democrat lawmakers yet to back anyone. we have research fellow, joel griffith. great to see you again. how do you unseat, how do you toss out of office an incumbent president who is overseeing the longest economic expansion, thee longest bull market in u.s. history? >> only one of two-ways that can happen. either to convince americans not to believe their lying eyes at a time household incomes are at a record, jobs are plentiful, or you can resort to the politics of envy and that's what we see right now. the front-runner candidates, senator warren, senator sanders, that is what they're resorting to and envy is very powerful drug and powerful poison and destructive not only those that feel jealously but on policies that are implemented. >> warren has to raise middle class taxes on lower income middle class people. that is bernie sanders talking about taxes on 29,000. in other words, the policy of

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liz: two republicans, mark meadows and jim jordan sent a letter to house oversight chair

carolyn maloney to testify about the upcoming report due on monday. here is what is going on, washington. >> reporter: ing based on anonymous leaks, attorney general william barr may not be on board with the findings. david is at. >> liz, report comes out on monday a small group of people have seen what is inside the report. they're not supposed to talk about it but that hasn't stopped leaks. "washington post" reports attorney general bill barr takes issue with the fining that the fbi had enough information to launch an investigation into the trump campaign. the fbi began investigating members of the trump campaign in the summer of 2016. former 2016 trump campaign aide courter edge page was under fib if i surveilance. horowitz report, liz, will determine whether the fbi had proper reasoning to track page or he will appear before the senate judiciary committee next week to answer questions.

>> attorney general barr has every confidence in the world of mr. horowitz. he believes he has done a good job a professional job. >> attorney general barr held an event honoring police officers but did not address the i.g. report. a spokeswoman with the department of justice told fox news in a statement, quote, the inspector general's investigation is a credit to the department of justice. his excellent work uncovered significant information the american people will soon be able to read for themselves. former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe, according to reports, cleared of political bias in the ig report. he was on television reacting to the news about barr. >> i have never seen an attorney general essentially preempt the conclusions of an g report. for the attorney general trying to undermine conclusions based on that massive of a tranche of evidence is going to be a very tough hurdle for him to get over. reporter: a department of justice official told me earlier today that at this point there

are no plans for the attorney general to submit a formal rebuttal to the ig report. liz? liz: david spunt, thank you so much. talk about it with former federal prosecutor doug burns. great to see you. >> great to see you. liz: your reaction to what you heard? >> bill barr has been pinata ever since the whole mueller thing. summarized the mueller report in four-page summary. he summarized we'll see the report. now they're doing exact same playbook. he is disagreeing with findings of the report. everybody calm down. we'll read the report monday. liz: here is the thing, here is what is going on. we know that lisa page is out with her story. >> right. liz: that other people who have read the report, the draft report is, are, thinking is there leaking right now to set the narrative. >> right. liz: the media is missing this. is this really what we want for the country basically a political opposition campaign? >> right. liz: paying for dirt on an

opponent to get a fisa wiretap to basically hire surveillance on opponent? carter page was never charged. >> you hit the nail on the head. it is so toxic. we had very unfortunate double standard, okay? so the reality is you can't mix criminal on politics n criminal law you don't need that high after standard to start a criminal investigation. so that is what is ultimately going to save them legally. but liz, it doesn't translate into politically because back to your point, the point is, no, you should not be doing surveillance or if you want to ratchet it up, spying, which is the way bill barr described, which is angered the left so much you remember he said there was spying but the point is you don't want to be necessarily doing surveillance. if it were in reverse, the shoe on the other foot test, right, they would turn around breathlessly saying, can you imagine doing surveillance on your political opponent? oh, my god. liz: fisa, by the way, stands for foreign intelligence surveillance. >> yes. liz: supposed to be used for

foreign agents, foreign governments, terrorists. here's the thing, fbi policy, we're looking through it, what is concerning the threshold to your point to open a fisa warrant probe like this is very low. it could be based on allegations. >> of course. liz: of threats to national security. very low threshold. >> there is a much bigger point that got lost as i discussed this. they turned around conveniently criminal law not mixing with politics, you have to show a probable cause a crime was committed. that is not true in a fisa warrant. liz: that's not true. >> you have to show that the warrant will provide evidence of foreign interactions. not necessarily criminal at all. everybody slept through that. that is an important clarification. liz: stay on this, i want to be clear. it's a lower threshold to get a fisa warrant, way more powerful than a criminal warrant because it hits way more devices? >> doesn't have to be crime. liz: doesn't have to be crime but hits more devices than a criminal wiretap?

>> yes. the other thing too which got lost in translation a little bit, they had three renewals. they got four warrants, imagine that no, one warrant. it was renewed three types. each time it is renewed -- liz: mccabe signed one of the renewals, commenting weighing in for cnn as an analyst. >> what does that say about cnn? everything is capable of immediate political characterizations. that is the whole thing. everybody goes on and on. foaming at mouth. big rorschach test, picking this point, that point. reality, this report i need to read it first, not being sarcastic, but second based on leaks came out assume for the sake of argument they're true it is a mixed bag of once again because they say there was misconduct. liz: i want to stay on this, the media is missing this story. it is about using the fisa court to wiretap an in a powerful way a political opponent. stay on this. >> yes. liz: former fbi attorney kevin

clients smith reportedlying doctor an fbi email to justify a fisa renewal. threshold lower to get it. now accused of the doctoring evidence. >> lower level, made an error? i'm being sarcastic, characterized in media. low level staffer. no the man was an attorney. if in fact he falsified information in a court warrant that is serious matter. that is type of stuff that will be addressed in the report. what i was going to say real quick, in the report there is going to be material that shows misconduct. there is one-liner apparently where horowitz pivots, says the initial, this is what may be taken out of context because of the low standard. in other words the initial, initiation of this was proper but we need to drill into the full report and really digest -- liz: horowitz saying letter of the rules but it's a very low threshold that the fbi is allowed to do it. >> take the legal point. put it into politics. liz: there you go.

doug burns. come back, need your insight. >> glad to. liz: lou dobbs joins us with a sneak preview what is coming up on his show. lou. >> i think i understand the threshhold now, liz, thanks so much. "judicial watch" president tom fitton our guest at top of the hour. ed rollins what in the world is going on in the swamp while the president of the united states is leading -- in the uk at their summit. former state department senior advisor christian white ton joins us night. retired public safety captain, cartel expert, jason jones with us on all of the violence that's erupting near our southern border. trump campaign director of communications tim murtagh as well. all of that at the top of the hour and much, much more. liz won't give me the time to go through all of that, but thank you for the time you did give me, liz. liz: lou, we'll be watching. great to see you, lou. next up, 17 house republicans on the judiciary committee slam

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♪. liz: let's get back to the house intelligence committee. voting on its impeachment report. it will get over to house judiciary pretty quickly. former california republican chair with us. the reality, tom, this is not a full house vote. nancy pelosi refuses to do that. 31 moderate house democrats fear voter wrath there. the nation is divided. your take on that? >> think about what you're doing. thanks for having me on. they scheduled the nadler hearing before they wrote the report. that is like scheduling a sentencing hearing before a verdict comes out. this has always been baked. they were ready to do this. last november 1st i predicted they would get to impeachment in the washington examiner because they would never satisfy the base. they had ha lopsided set of hearses, witnesses were lopsided, due process was thrown asunder. you know who is not there? nancy pelosi doesn't want her face associated with this. so this is where politics is

today. what i call the divided era. democrats are running a very partisan show and the republicans put out their minority report. that is politics today. liz: they're out with a rebuttal. republicans preparing also to potentially call hunter biden and democrat adam schiff to testify. maybe even joe biden. white house press secretary grisham said the report reads like the ramblings, quote, the ramblings of a basement blogger. i want to stay on your point about nancy pelosi now at a climate change conference in madrid. basically senator mitch mcconnell saying, you've been stalling nafta 2.0 and you're in a climate change conference in madrid. there is only less than two weeks of legislative days to do work before they go on christmas recess, tom. it ain't going to happen this cycle, 2.0. >> think about this. this is historic impeachment, you would think, and the house speaker is not if that tells you what she really thinks about this. i love what joel said earlier about the the strength of the

economy. i don't think nancy pelosi wants it to get any stronger. if it did get better through nafta or would with the replacement of nafta, what would democrats have to say next year? surely the impeachment did not play well last week and will not play well this week. liz: tom, the other thing, if you're still with me, estimated 176,000 jobs could be created by nafta 2.0. that is what estimates show? >> that's a huge number and on top of a historic low unemployment numbers. so the democrats don't have a contrary narrative to the economy. just that trump is bad person for three years. liz: i have to jump in. house intelligence, breaking news voted to adopt of report. it is headed to house judiciary. breaking news there. finish your thought, tom. go ahead. >> if you look at this economy, they know that independents are happy with the economy and they know the independents are not happy with impeachment. they want to restrict the economy even more because if it

gets anymore headwind, they're going to fall behind in these key battleground states. that is the story of the next three months. liz: tom, great to see you. come back soon. >> all right, thank you. >> next up, mexico, now trying to claim president trump moving to possibly designate drug cartels as terrorist groups would hurt mexico's tourism? that debate next. song inspiration. i started in my garage, but nationwide protects so much i had to expand. nationwide helps protect everything you see in here, brad. every family, every business, every dream. .. , they have backstories. of course they do. here, i got more to show you. keep up, now. a little hustle.

liz: reports tonight that family members of the nine women and children shot at point-blank range south of the border. they met with the president of mexico. they said we want to help authorities in mexico, but we'll be demanding of them. brandon, your reaction to that story? >> i think it's great president obrador was willing to meet with the families. but what is he going to do to stop crime in his own country. the intel community is saying 80% of mexico is controlled by crime or drug cartels. he has to do the right thing by getting his country under control. liz: leaders in mexico oppose

president trump's designation of drug cartels as tour groups because they say it can hurt the vital tourism industry. but how? shopcides are you under record historic highs. violence continuing unabated. >> that's a pathetic excuse. long term, this is going to help your country. if your country is safe, you will get a lot more visitors to come to your country. if he does not want us to designate these criminal cartels as terrorist organizations, then he needs to accept the help president trump offered him. president trump's policies worked for border security. if president lopez obrador wants to step up to the plate and accept our help, we have the blueprint like we did in

colombia to fix these situations. now the ball is in lopez obrador's court. liz: we know the attorney general william barr is expected to visit mexico sometime next week or next. your take on this. thud the attorney general talk tough with the leaders of mexico saying hey, we should designate them as terror groups to help you stop your problem. >> i'm confident that attorney general william barr is going to go in mexico and do what needs to be done for the betterment of the united states. i'm confident when that meeting ends, the policies that will come out of that are going to help border security and help agents like myself patrol the border better so we can secure our border for the citizens of the united states.

liz: thank you for having us in your homes. thank you so much for watching. lou dobbs is next right here on the fox business network. have a good evening. lou: good evening, adam schiff's fascination with political fiction and malevolent melodrama carried him and the left's puppet press through two months of orchestrated attacks aimed at overthrowing the president of the united states. times are changing. schiff's so-called report is laughingly titled the trump ukraine impeachment inquiry report. it's answer overarching fantasy of impeachment. his fact