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 witnesses dissolve into

teary eyed self-tiled victims. eavesdropping on conversations and cosmic presumptions are based onary presumptions that result in absolutely nothing. but that's enough for speaker schiff, nancy pelosi, and the radical dimms cohorts. they have descended to indecency and turned theirs into a part of outright hate for the constitution, the american way of life, and the american people. it's clear hours is an historic president whose greatest offense is he's simply unprecedented and he's unbeatable at the polls. president trump in london for a nato summit. the president saying he has no plans to watch tomorrow's

schiff, pelosi and nadler proceeding on capitol hill. president trump singled out intel committee chair schiff. >> i think he's a maniac. he's a deranged human being. he has a complex for reasons that are obvious. i think he's a very sick man. and he lies. adam schiff made up my conversation with the president of the ukraine. lou: kevin mccarthy telling reporters that perpetuating lies is nothing new for adam schiff. >> adam has a hard time with the truth. adam said just a few days ago in his words he is going to send the president back to the golden thrown -- throne he came from.

adam made up his mind a long time ago. he didn't have the proof so he had to write his own story. lou: but his objective was to overthrow the president of the united states who the dimms deem unbeat panel at the polls. the impeachment report makes the argument president trump was acting on reasonable and valid concerns on corruption? ukraine in the republican report. and not in self-interest. as adam schiff and his band of radical dimms are alearning. the republicans write, the evidence shows president holds a deep-seated reasonable scepticism of ukraine based on its history of pervasive corruption. the president's initial hesitation to meet with president zelensky without

thoughtful review is entirely prudent. the republicans took aim at the denial of the radical dimms that publicly available and i are refutable evidence shows how senior ukrainian officials sought to influence the 2016 presidential election in opposition to president trump's candidacy. case in point the ukrainian court ruled two ukrainian officials middles in the election by leaking a black ledger of paul manafort. joining us tonight is tom fitton, pft judicial watch. tom, let's start with first, the -- this ukrainian role in meddling in the 2016 u.s. presidential election.

there seems to be some sort of orthodoxy suggesting that that did not just happen despite obvious evidence and i are refutable evidence in point of fact, and most of it reported first by john solomon. >> it's part of a pattern by the coup cabal. we were work the russians to take out trump, so let's accuse russia of working with trump. we were working with ukrainians to take out trump so let's accuse trump of corruption with ukraine. this is an unrivaled abuse of power. they have the awesome power of impeachment and they abites for the petty goal of protecting joe biden over this corruption. they spent some time in there trying to defend the

indefensible, joe biden in the ukraine. and i tell you, i don't know if this is going to convince any more democrats that agree they need the votes to vote for impeachment because this is just a written version of the impeachment hearings we heard a few weeks ago. lou: i have been wanting to share with the audience the trump statement on schiff today. and if we can go to that sound bite. this is the president on schiff showing some frustration, i'll put it that way, with the intel chair. >> i think he's a maniac. i think adam schiff is a deranged human being. i think he group a con plex for reasons that are obvious. i think he's a very sick man and he lies. he made up my conversation with the president of the ukraine. lou: adam schiff on the rachel

maddow show. >> that's the end of our investigation. even while judiciary does its work, we are continuing to do our work and issue subpoenas. that work goes on. but we feel a sense of urgency. this is a the a

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is brain dead. you can't go around making statements like that about nato. it's very disrespectful. lou: in a later meeting with macron the president tangled with the french leader over nations who are refusing to take back detained isis fighters. >> i think number one priority, it's not definitive, but it's to get rid of isis and the terrorist groups. president trump: that's why he's a great politician. that was one of the greatest non-answers i have ever heard. lou: the president speak as candidly as he does at home. 1,900 french citizens joined the islamic state. the radical dimms may be

resorting to the mueller witch hunt to steal the presidency from the american people. the dimms reportedly believe they should include the mueller report and to so-called moderate democrats, are there any in republican leaning districts wants to keep the focus on ukraine and forget all together as they have at this point the conclusion of the mueller report two years of wasted time, money that led to exoneration for the president. you would never know it. they seem to have forgotten it all. the 2020 democratic primary is beginning to look more like a race to the exit. senator kamala harris ending her bid for the white house. harris is the third candidate to exit in less than 48 hours joining steve bullock and joe sestak.

there are 23 democratic hopefuls left, but not much hope in point of fact. joining us fox business political analyst, great american, the savant. let's start with the way in which those democrats are exiting the field. they are picking up momentum. >> they are not raising any money and it's an expensive process when you have this many candidates. kamala harris has a lot of disarray in her campaign and can't raise money. the longer you stay around. she didn't do well in california. she is up in a couple years and has to run for reelection. lou: the reality here is the polling is not matching up with the narrative in the national left-wing media which continues

to want to push beaut judge. beaut -- push buttigieg, and sanders and warren, anyone but biden. this is really striking. putting biden at 31% and next up sanders at 15, warn as 10, beaut judge at 9. bloomberg% and he just started the process here. >> it shows nobody is a firm frontrunner. joe biden in a normal traditional campaign would be an overwhelming candidate. these are state by state. he's rubbing very, very poorly in new hampshire and iowa. >> i can see this is a flawed poll. and the point being in this flawed poll, 2-1 advantage in a

field of 15 or the next closest candidate. isn't that impressive despite everything this man has done to blow himself out of the race. >> this is a man who ran twice before and didn't do well at all. i don't think he will do well by the time we get finished here. by the time the voters get to cast the ultimate poll,en that's when they go vote. lou: in london at the nato summit, these low lifes, the radical dimms on the intel committee and tomorrow starting with the judiciary committee. it's disgusting. >> there is no crime, there is no cover-up. he wanted a meeting with the

president, he got a meeting with the president. he wanted the aid, he got the aid. this whole thing has been absurd from the get-go. they are taking shots at him and they are expensive shots. this thing is going to go on and the chairman of the intelligence committee said we'll continue to investigate. despite the fact no crime, no treason, no anything. lou: don't you find it fascinating that the republican party has still not couple with a way to create a countervailing force against the radical difficulties, obvious abuse of power. obvious, obvious, specious, absolutely silly effort to overthrow the president of the united states. but they have done one thing. they chewed up three years of his presidency. they delayed as much -- think what the man could have accomplished over the course of his time. we are entering fourth year of

the trump presidency. he's an historic president in his achievements and still without the cooperation of the opposition. >> this is strictly a house effort. the senate hasn't done anything and they will play an important role in impeachment which they will shoot it down, vote it down when it's done. lou: haven't we entered a different era when one side can decide they are going to be the opposing force. we have watched this democratic party with the deep state take over the justice department, the fbi, carry out a special counsel investigationo nation for two years, one year almost investigation by the fbi before that. now this nonsense with that letter and schiff.

>> they are bound and determined they are not going to let this president operate effectively. a couple of agencies at the top have made life miserable. lou: in the state of georgia, brian kent, the governor who was elected without any equivocation or reservation, he was elected because president trump stood with him and he won. he's now telling the president of the united states to go to hell. he's apparently tomorrow going to tap kelly laufler and romney ally to take the u.s. seat being vacated by johnny isaacson. >> i think it's his prerogative to do it. he won't be pushed around by the president. it's parochial politics in

georgia. lou: was this in point of fact a man who was never a trump supporter who is going to tear asunder the republican party with these acts. >> attempt to. the president will be up in a year and he will do well in georgia and everybody will get back in line. it's his prerogative to do it. it's certainly the choice it will make. >> politics is sordid business. thanks so much. ed rollins as always. up next, north korea's latest threat to the united states. it's a christmas threat. we can do so with former state department senior advisor christian whiton.

lou: north korea warning the united states that it could be

on the receiving end of an you can welcome and unspecified christmas gift. pyongyang wants the united states to couple a new approach to renewed talks and for the united states to offer concessions in exchange for an end to north korea's nuclear weapons program. president trump clarified support for demonstrators in iran after a meeting with french president macron. in a tweet the president made it crystal clear the united states of america supports the brave people of iran who are protesting for their freedom. joining us tonight, christian whiton, senior fellow, and let's start with the support for the

demonstrators throughout iran. first your assessment of the importance of the president's clear support for those demonstrators for democracy. and secondly, how broad and how much wider do you think those demonstrations will go? >> the support is very important. if you talk to dissidents from around the world, including one who at times comes across as left wing. they say they like american support. it increased the cost of the bad guys, the despots incarcerating the good guys. the protesters. trump has done a complete 180 from obama who sat on his hand and did nothing when the iranians took to the streets in 2009 because obama wanted a nuclear deal. the political pressure trump put on iran has put them on their heels. as for the durability of this

move, it's disgusting what the iranian government is doing, like the ss, their version of the ss, showing up and not even bothering with a warning, just shooting people and killing hundreds of people. i think they will have a hard time suppressing it. but at the end of the day it should be clear this is a fragile regime with little support. lou: where is the united nations? the united nations seems to have literally disappeared from geopolitics globally. i can't think an instance in which they are applying any political pressure in which it is the focus of any global dialogue. it appears to be a hollow empty shelf what was a hollow empty shell before. >> it's really living up to its

predecessors, the league of nations in worthlessness. it's real estate in new york that could be put to better use. they are off attending climate change conferences in madrid and other useless activities. they are not alone. other groupings, britain, germany, france, nine countries, seven of which are nato measures are engaged in a scheme to circumvent sanctions in iran. so our supposed best allies in the world are working against us. lou: macron chief among those it appears. let's go to china. there is only one cause when markets go down and the business press is selected. president trump and his announcements he might be willing to consider a trade deal

with china sometimes after the 2020 elections. your thoughts. >> this is a fantastic recognition that china has reneglected on its promises. now it's walk away from its promises in october. a lot of those including on this channel is saying the deal is much less likely than the press has been saying. this creates certainty and pushes the issue beyond the election. at the end of the day, the stuff we export to china is a drop in the bucket of our economy. it's half of one point of gdp to us. so telling the chinese, hey, take a hike, that will be god for our economy and if the democrats will allow the usmca to come to a vote, that counts for twice as much trade as the

china deal and five times as much u.s. exports than the china deal. lou: it will be interesting to see the president be right on interest rates and ask school jerome powell, the chairman of the federal reserve, to be right on tariffs. all of the wags and the business press and the intelligentsia of the business press will say it will tear up the economy, the markets will be destroyed, and what fools they look like now. it's so much fun to see them blow the aid and have them prove what they are. up next, a retraction by a mexican government official shedding some considerable light on the power of the mexican drug cartels as if we needed a further demonstration. that story and much more after this quick break.

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lou: welcome back. stories we are covering tonight. schiff's sham report on ukraine. it's 300 pages of hearsay, presumptions, speculation and nonsense. it's jerrold nadler's turn to take up the impeachment for tons. they will scholars will appear

while the president is busy leading the nato summit in london. today the president met with a number of heads of state and the royal family. he says he will not watch any part of tomorrow's farce calling the radical dimms unpatriotic. one mexican governor today retracted his comments about the drug cartels in mexico. he incisionly said 150 gunmen illegally snuck into texas over the weekend before heading back to mexico where they murdered 20 people in a shootout. then he took it back saying it doesn't mean they crossed the rich or enter the united states. what did he mean and did the cartel's influence extend to the

governor himself? joining us, the retired captain of the texas department of public safety, jason jones. jason, good to have you with us. let's start first with this governor. taking back his report. he was talking about 150 people. this is a major, let's say overexaggeration on his part to go from 150 down to zero. >> it really is, lou. we have some real problems down there. what he's referring is recently after a gun battle that occurred saturday, it's now resulting in 23 people killed in a small community 26 miles from our border. they did involve over 150

people. >> say that again, how many vehicles? >> 26 armored cars and other peoples that were unarmored. we know of that's from people arrested from the cartel and are being debriefed as we speak. it was a real mess. it was a large shootout. lou: the reality is it was those vehicles, six of the cartel members in each one of the vehicles, 16 of them were killed, by the way. and with that, four police officers and two civilians. all of those people got away. the way i look at it, that's not a very good body count if you have got that kind of fire power arrayed against the cartels, it looks to me like the cartels win.

>> it's a problem. that's why you heard me talk about designating the cartels as terrorist organizations. lou: jason jones was the first person on this broadcast to talk about designating the mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations and to explain why this is such an important step, and the president, jason, congratulations, has taken that step. >> thank you, sir. and thank you to you as well for being willing to have me on on talk about this and get it out to the american people. it's about authorities. we need to do things differently than we have traditionally. we are on the narcotics side of things. short term, mid-term and long term cases. moving forward with this terrorism designation. it will allow full spectrum operation. what does that mean? we'll be able to get these folks

out of the united states first. second, we'll be able to deny their visas to enter this country. third, attack the money. the intelligence community has been talking about going after the money, they are use our department of justice model. it's a very slow, outdated framework. it will let us really limit their mobility globally, and five to do a precision-led intelligence operations. someone of the things we learned from counter inyou are jeb i and gorilla warfare and the petraeus war doctrine, it's not an effective way in which to fight these terrorist organizations. it has to be -- it has to be a different approach than we have tried in afghanistan, iraq. you name it. with the cartels, do you have the sense that lopez obrador is

ready to partner in a mature and sensible, responsible way with the united states to destroy the cartels that are sucking the blood and the treasure out of his nation? and corrupting this nation as well and destroying lives here? >> you know, unfortunately he ran on the model that what he was going to do was give hugs and not bullets. and that is going to change. the violence has gone through the roof. the murder rate was around just under 34,000 people killed in that country. this year the number will be much higher. they are fully engulfed along with' areas throughout mexico. he will be forced because of the level of violence to do things differently. thankfully because of president trump this will happen. i have been at this for 30 years, and the state department

was not going to back down for one second. the president sees this is the right thing to do. we need new authority. it's a great -- i don't smile a lot about this subject, but lately, i have got to tell you, it's fantastic. lou: jason, thank you very much. on wall street, stocks moving lower on the president's remarks about deferring a trade deal with china until after the 2020 elections. the nasdaq down 47. volume on the big board. but those trading levels staying in front of recent averages. and by the way, if you are curious, or the course of the 14 months which tariffs have been in place, the -- all of the indexes hitting a record highs within the last week and a half.

crude oil up a quarter percent. gold up a percent. silver up nearly 2%. google's go question founders -- co-founders stepping down. patae will serve as the ceo of alphabet. up next the impeachment sham fires up the president's base. they are not happy, but they mean business. we'll have and much more when we continue.

president trump: i think it's very unpatriotic of the democrats to put on a performance where they do that. i think it's a bad thing for our country. impeachment wasn't suppose to be used that way. all you have to do is read the transcripts. there was absolutely nothing done wrong. lou: president trump calling out the radical dimms for their efforts to overthrow the presidency. the president clearly as leader of the free world in the nato

summit in london. we are being told by a senior member of nancy pelosi's leadership team, our producer chad pergram bringing this news, it, unlikely the house of representatives will vote on impeachment before christmas. joining us tonight, the director of communications from trump's reelection campaign, let's get your reaction to that statement coming to us from the house, that they would not vote before christmas. >> we have been wondering if there has been some buyers' remorse on behalf of the democrats. they know that voters have seen what they have been doing this impeachment thing and wondering, this is it? this is all you have got? now what we are faced with is the idea they will move into the new year, move into the new year without having voted on

impeachment and have no to make the case to the american people that here we are in the same year as a presidential election and the democrats in congress want to kick the president out of office and let the voters decide. lou: the american people may be to some degree disinterested and insured because every day of this president's service to the nation has been marched by investigations dmarred by investigations. whether it's the special counsel. i won't give them a name they deserve on capitol hill, the radical dimms as they are going after him. independents have moved toward the president, have expressed themselves expressly against impeachment. they are going to lose, the radical dimms it seems more and more with every week that passes with this farce they call an

inquiry. >> noise question about that. in particular the people paying attention to this and probably bending nancy pelosi's ear. the freshman democrats who won in 2018. they know this impeachment thing is not something that's popular back home. it's not popular if you get outside the beltway. we travel the country with the president all the time. impeachment is not something normal regular people bring up. it's only an obsession near the beltway. what the democrats talk about on capitol hill is not reflective of what's going not country. people in the rest of the country are concern bodies their bank account doing well, are they safe in their communities, are they getting good jobs. it's not what the democrats are focused on. lou: are you better off now than before the fbi and the special

counsel investigations and the inquiry farce of adam schiff and nancy pelosi? and the answer is as resounding question if you look at every statistic, economically in this country. the lowest unemployment rates for every socioeconomic group in the country. and as well, racial and ethnic groups. it's stunning stuff. and you marvel that they have this self-destructive impulse within the democratic party. on one hand you chiert and on the other you scratch your head. >> i think you will notice this when you see the democrat debate. they have been debating for six or i haven months. no one ever brings up the economy because it's unassailable. is argued so strong that the democrats never bring it up.

something i just tweeted on my twitter feed. a "new york times" story from two years ago when jerry nadler was angling to be the top democrat on the judiciary committee. and he was arguing he's the one in the best position to impeach the president. this is what they were talking about two years ago. of course, they were talking about it before that. but as the impeachment saga moves on, remember two years ago jerry nadler you have a ditions for this job saying he would impeach the president the best. lou: al green precedes him. i loved at al green suggesting such an outrageous radical thing from the floor of the house. here we are. they are living up to the worst expectations one could imagine going into this. the trump campaign pulling

access from bloomberg after mike blook bloomberg announces his news organization will not investigate democrats and certainly himself, only republicans which is of course the president has to be honored that only he will be investigated. he should be used to that. your thoughts? >> i think it was the obvious natural and right thing to do. you can't and news organization that claims to be objective when you have one set of rules for one set of candidates, all of the democrats where you say we are not going to do investigative journalism against all of these democrats. but we'll investigate donald trump.

lou: judicial watch president tom fitton earlier on this broadcast questioned whether republicans should even show up for tomorrow's judiciary committee hearing. >> you can have all the scholars you want, it won't justify the abuse of the president's due process rights and the abuse of the constitution. now they are telling him you can have the lawyers show up for your sentencing. this an abuse of power. i'm beginning to think the republicans should not show at these hearings, they are so

outrageous. lou: that's it for us tonight. tomorrow night our guests will include matt gaetz and michael pillsbury and corey lewandowski. listen to my reports three times a lauren: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories. president trump is wrapping up the nato summit today after spending markets in a tailspin yesterday. we're live in london today. cheryl: change at the top, larry page stepping down as ceo of alphabet, with the current ceo of google stepping in. what it means for the king of search. lauren: another attack on a christmas classic. why critics want rudolph on the naughty list. it's wednesday, december 4th. "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪