american people deserve it. >> that will probably not going to happen. david: we'll see what happens. as the president famously says. thanks, gang. that does it for "bulls & bears." we hope to see you back here tomorrow. so long. liz: a story we've been covering for months and months. now happening. supersecret fisa court shred former director james comey and fbi team for shady way it got fisa warrant to spy on trump campaign. the court ordered the fbi to come up with a reform plan in less than a month after the scathing doj report. the watchdog reportedly probing whether fbi fisa abuses are systemic. new legislation is underway to stop that, the abuses there. we've got it. and now, the new push in the media, to try to personally attack and discredit prosecutor john durham and his push, in his criminal probe to hold

individuals accountable. remember durham is the guy who probed bad government guys working on the whitey bolger case and government torture of detainees. as former fbi general counsel james baker, he worked under james comey, now criticizing comey's fbi for how they did their work spying on the trump campaign. we've got that debate. new polls coming in, quinnipiac, trump's best job approval rating ever. cnn poll, support for impeachment dropping, including double-digit drops among democrats. "usa today," new poll, trump beating all his top democrat rivals. now democrats now allege, trump committed multiple federal crimes including bribery and wire fraud charges? but they are not spelled out in the articles of impeachment. we debate what that's all about tonight. president trump hitting back, ripping into democrats, demanding they drop impeachment in fiery picks-page letter to house speaker nancy pelosi. this coming in, house judiciary

democrats demanding a d.c. federal court help them get grand jury materials from the mueller probe to continue 24/7 impeachment after this initial go round. democrats and authoritative rhetoric that falls apart in the sunlight of facts. we'll show you what jerry nadler emphatically declared was true last year about carter page and the steele dossier. the 2020 democrat field is in turmoil. senator elizabeth warren now appearing to back drag on her all-in government take over plan of health care. we have disturbing new scandal about to do potentially significant damage to michael bloom berg's campaign. disparaging remarks about women and more. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. liz: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business

network. president trump sending a fiery six-page letter to house speaker nancy pelosi denouncing what he calls the impeachment quote, perversion of justice. the house will likely vote tomorrow on the impeachment articles. the democrats have the votes. hillary vaughn is live in d.c. with more. hillary? >> liz, the president unleashing his uncensored take on this impeachment process, ahead of tomorrow's official vote in the house where house lawmakers will state for the record whether or not they support impeaching president. in searing six-page letter to speaker nancy pelosi the president slams the impeachment process saying those accused in the salem witch trials had more due process than he did, writing quote, it's a terrible thing you are doing but you will have to live with it, not i. you were the ones interfering in america's elections. you were the one's subverting america's democracy. you were the ones obstructing justice. you were the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own selfish, personal,

political, partisan gain. the senate is preparing to pass spending packages that the house approved this afternoon. $1.3 trillion spending deal reached as compromise between republicans in the house and senate and democrats has something in it for everyone. the spending package repeals three obama care taxes. medical device tax scheduled to take effect in january. a tax on health insurance. also the cadillac tax, 40% tax on high cost employer health plans that ended up hurting union workers who negotiated better health care plans. the deal raises the age for purchasing tobacco to 21. that applies to e-cigarettes and vaping products. the defense package adds $22 billion more in defense spending compared to last fiscal year. it also makes the space force the sixth branch of the military. it includes the biggest pay increase for military employees in a decade, 3.1% pay raise. republicans were able to secure funding for a border wall system, something democrats fought against.

the deal includes 1.3 billion for that. also gives the president more flexibility on where he can build that wall. democrats secured wins in this too. 25 million for gun violence research. 425 million for election security grants. 208 million more for the epa. liz, budget hawks not thrilled with this deal because it adds a lot of money to the deficit. liz? liz: no kidding. hillary vaughn, thank you so much. great to see you. markets, dow, s&p, nasdaq, closing in record territory again. gerri willis joins from us the new york stock exchange with more. >> all three major averages finishing at fresh highs. dow up 31 points. nasdaq up nine. s&p up one. boeing finishing flat after the company said it would suspend production of the 737 max jet for indeterminant amount of time. the dow component is largest u.s. manufacturing exporter, sidelining production could

carve .3 of a percent off gdp. federal express tonight announcing ruts results for the second quart, guiding lower for the year. weak economy, short holiday season and amazon which told its third party sellers not to use the delivery service. liz, back to you. >> gerri, great to see you at the big board. thank you so much. lawyers for house judiciary democrats, look at this, they filed a new lawsuit with the d.c. federal appeals court. they're now demanding the mueller probe's grand jury materials for impeachment probe based on that. here is what they're saying in court documents. the house judiciary has continued and will continue its impeachment investigations. let's bring in congressman steve chabot, member of house judiciary. great to see you, sir. your reaction to that. looks like 24/7 impeachment. >> al green said, democratic congressman from texas recently, they said if they don't remove him from office this time, they

will keep trying. they will file more and more allegations of impeachment. its absurd. it's a waste of time, waste of taxpayers money. apparently that's what some democrats want to do. liz: house democrats argument is this, that the president ran through a red light talking about probing the bidens on that the ukraine phone call with, saying basically they want probes announced into that. that ukraine government should announce it. can you help us with this part of the judiciary report? it alleges trump committed quote federal bribery and wire fraud crimes, plus alleged russian interference? the allegations are under the umbrella of the abuse of power. they're not separate articles. talking about federal prison sentences. can you help us outbreaking this down? >> it is all absurd. they have thrown everything but the kitchen sink in there. the think i think is most, you know, cuts through it all is that they're supposed to be crimes, actual crimes.

there is supposed to be bribery. there is supposed to be treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors. that is what our founders wanted. what they have put up is basically abuse of power, whatever the heck that means and obstruction of congress. so they're talking about things which are not actually crimes. for about a week there they were screaming bribery every other word. they dropped that all together. this president has not committed any crimes. they want toed to impeach him since the day he was inaugurated. they're bound and determined to move forward on this if they won't get him here, they won't, no way the senate will vote to remove him from office. they will keep coming back with more and more trumped up charges, sorry about the pun. but it is ridiculous. we ought to spend our time and american taxpayers money on things which benefit the american people, not divide us, which impeachment does. liz: next month the president will be doing his state of the union address. it could come in the middle of a senate trial. i want to move on to what jerry nadler said last year.

jerry nadler last year in memo responding to devin nunes memo on fisa court abuses authoritativelily called carter page a agent of a foreign power. jerry nadler, painting the steele dossier found probable cause, in the steele dossier that has now been debunked. can you help us out with democrats making seemingly authoritative statements that fall apart after the sunlight of facts are thrown on them? >> they throw everything out there that make all these charges. ultimately there are no facts there. we saw this earlier when adam schiff, for example, was basically assuring us that he knew that there was russian collusion and it would come out in the mueller report. well it is absent in the mueller report because there wasn't any russian collusion. of course attorney general said there was no obstruction of justice. so they have thrown all that out. then, what is in a couple weeks, after that, that they come up

with this ukraine, president would call it a hoax or a witch-hunt. the bottom line is, there are not sufficient facts to show that the president did anything impeachable, yet they're moving forward on this. you know, we had one impeachment in 200 years of our history, andrew johnson. unfortunately in less than 50 years we're on the third one now. what the democrats are doing lowering the bar. impeachments will be too routine. it is very divisive. liz: to your point, we tracked what happened since the '80s, the age of the special counsel. with the congress not doing oversight, appointing special counsel's attack the opposition and that what you're seeing is. more instability in the u.s. government. control of congress swinging back and forth because ever before, because of age of the special counsel to your impeachment point. i want to get on this new cnn poll support for impeachment

among democratic voters dropping double digits, down to 77% from 90%. more voters oppose it, down% swing, 4% swing up in opposition that is the cnn poll. real clear politics average shows about the same numbers. new "qunnipiac poll" shows donald trump matching his best job approval rating ever under "qunnipiac polling." 43%. it is where obama's approval at this point in his term. your take on all approval ratings, poll numbers there? >> i think the american people see through this. they were keeping an open mind. there were allegations against the president. we all wanted to look at those, made sure he hasn't done anything wrong. he hasn't. he may have not said things exactly way i would have said it, or other members, they're not impeachable. the american people are sick of this. i think they will get sicker of it as time goes on. liz: what they're seeing, don't mean to interrupt, doesn't rise to the level of impeachment, to high crime and misdemeanor.

polls seem to indicate voters are saying no. final word, congressman. didn't mean to interrupt you, sir? >> bottom line, we should work on reducing opioid abuse in the country. working on infrastructure, bridges, roads, highways falling apart. we ought to focus things our time on not impeaching a president who hasn't impeached done an impeachable offense. liz: congressman, thank you for coming? >> thank you very much. >> later in the show, rare rebuke, we never seen this before, the secret fisa court slamming former fbi director james comey and his fbi team for their fisa court abuses on the trump campaign. fisa court ordering the fbi to come up with a reform plan in less than a month. we'll debate what is going on in less than a month.

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♪. liz: welcome back, to the latest news, the russian spy ship, believed to have been trolling the waters off the east coast of the united states. so what was it doing, what was it looking at? fox news's lucas tomlinson joins us with more from the pentagon.

lucas? reporter: the same russian spy ship seen off the east coast of the u.s. off and on for the past five years. here it is in havanna harbor in 2015 one of few welcoming ports for russians in the western hemisphere. over the weekend the russian spy ship was spotted near the kings bay georgia, host of the submarine fleet. the u.s. coast guard issued a marine safety bulletin from charleston, that spy ship is operating unsafe manner off the coast of south carolina and georgia. unsafe operation, not energizing running lights, not responding to hails by commercial vessels and other erratic movements. the coast guard would like american boaters to do spying of their own, report any quote, unsafe situation to the proper authorities according to the bulletin. the real concern here is at the pentagon, potential long-range missile test for north korea around christmastime. liz? liz: great to see you.

lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. president trump's phase one trade deal getting criticized by "new york times" columnist paul krugman and piling on a goldman sachs economist and senator chuck schumer. we have derek from the american enterprise institute. great to see you, derek. michael pills bury advising white house. they're very enthusiastic about the white house bit. china is in to it. what do you say? >> well i think it will be a little longer than two weeks. i think there is some positive elements of the deal if the chinese i will implement it. i also think ambassador lighthizer others in the administration, it is right to be skeptical. we'll see if china implements the deal. liz: to your point, one of the key points in the deal is about china, using, taking u.s.

intellectual property. we have a new foreign investment law. it makes it illegal to force u.s. companies to transfer ip to china. we're hearing breaking news the commerce department is coming out with five new rules stopping transfers to china. things like quantum computing, three-d printing your reaction to that? >> i'm happy with the trade deal we keep our leverage. people don't like tariffs. you have to have leverage over the chinese to get them to take actions they don't want to take. i'm very skeptical on the progress of technology. it is so important to china to take technology either buy it or coerce it or steal it from america and other foreign companies and the commerce department export control regulations that i have seen are very weak. so there is a problem there where we, we have the tariffs but we don't have commerce department regulations that are going to help and i'm very suspicious of the chinese changing their spots on technology transfer. liz: i hear you. the rules are going to be coming. i hear what you're saying.

goldman sachs, top economist there is unhappy that the tariffs are not reduced more than what was anticipated. to your point, white house advisor on china, michael pillsbury, let's listen to what he told us last night. what he is saying essentially is that, that the trump white house persuaded the chinese to open up the market for american products. let's get to what michael pillsbury is saying. let's take a listen. >> i think they believe they have persuaded the chinese to open up the american market to our investment, our companies and especially to american exports. so we'll get a huge economic boost out of this. liz: what do you think? >> well, i don't, i think he is being too optimistic. again i think the, i think goldman sachs is wrong and if the president didn't keep tariffs applied we would not get chinese cooperation. we have seen that year after

year after year, so that is a positive in terms of getting chinese implementation. we have to see if the chinese go through with this. they have very big targets to meet importing more american goods. some they may meet. i think we'll get stalling on others. the president will have some tough decisions to make. liz: okay. derek scissors, thank you for your input. great to see you, sir. come back soon. breaking news, president trump just tweeting on the big news of the hour, the supersecret fisa court shredding former fbi director james comey and his fbi team for the super shady way they got the fisa warrants on the trump campaign. president tweeting, wow, stunning rebuke of the fbi. the fisa court severely chastises the fbi for the fisa abuses brought to light in the recent inspector general's report. there were at least 17 significant errors. we'll stay on the story.

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liz: to another fiery democrat townhall. anti-impeachment voters booed and shouted at michigan democrat elissa slotkin. she is from a district trump won in 2016. slotkin helped flip it in 2018. the debate is this. is this what democrats face back home breaking for christmas recess on friday, voters angry about impeachment? matt flynn is in michigan with more. nat? reporter: president trump supporters fiercely protested, even heckled congressman slotkin at a rowdy town hall she announced she will be voting yes to impeach the president. representative slotkin joins a list of 20 other democrats in trump districts that say they will vote yes to impeach president trump. this fiery town hall of 400

people here in michigan, supporters of the president and democratic congresswoman repeatedly clashed. 9 congresswoman will vote yes for impeachment out of principle because she feels the president used power of for personal, political gain, not to benefit the country. relationship slot skin says she understands on her yes vote on impeachment she could be vote the out of office in 2020. >> and i did not think that, you know, that events or actions of that time were worth of, worthy of an impeachment inquiry. that changed for me on the very basic facts that the president of the united states came out and his lawyer, came out and said very specifically that they had reached out to a foreign power and asked him for information on a political rival reporter: in california, a very similar scene, president trump's

supporters heckled congressman adam schiff during a town hall there. >> liar. liar. liar. [shouting] >> hey. hey. reporter: nationwide there are 31 swing districts that president trump won in 2016. speaker pelosi needed 16 or 176 those votes for impeachment. tonight it seems like she is feeling pretty confident as nearly two dozen democrats say yes they will vote for impeachment. liz: matt flynn, thanks for your reporting. come back soon. president trump beating top democrat rivals, warren, sanders buttigieg in a new poll from "usa today" and suffolk university. the democrat field is still in turmoil. problems hitting warren and bloomberg campaigns. welcome my next guest, patrice

onwuka of independent women's forum. start with the bloomberg campaign a booklet surfacing of bloomberg's favorite quotes. from 1990s. his friends, colleagues put it together. it was intended as a lighthearted birthday gift for bloomberg. disparaging one-liners against women. let's get at it. see some of the comment. let's keep moving through them. if women wanted to be appreciated for their brains they would go to the library instead of bloomingdale's. any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site does not get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she gets one of the pretty striking comment from 30 years ago. do you think this will hurt the bloomberg campaign? >> it depends how much the media decides to run with the story. "new york times" broke this back in october, no one picked it up again. it is starting to get a little bit of legs. if i think that the left feels like bloomberg will be there

eventual candidate. they will want to bury this story. it is difficult though. you're dealing with the left right now, who are strong advocates of the #metoo movement, sexual harrassment, sexual assault, how we mistreat women. we've seen senator al franken resigned over, i would think, probably less than what is alleged in this book. some of the sexual harrassment allegations that were made against mayor bloomberg in the past when he was, you know, when he was a ceo or in business. liz: was it harrassment or disparaging remarks? >> disparaging remarks. there are some other cases waiting to be settled on that could have been around a toxic work environment. could have been around comments he made about women. so it doesn't bode well in this political environment particularly when you're talking about me too and sexual harrassment, sexual assault.

if this has legs. i've been looking at a lot of progressive news outlets. they're not running with the story at all. liz: interesting. let's move on to elizabeth warren. striking retreat. it appears she is pushing, rather dialing back, she is retreating from the government take over idea of health care. now saying voters could choose, this is her wording to choose to opt in to her single-payer plan. this is after her national support got cut in half in one month's time over her single payer idea. i know you say "medicare for all" opt in, what is going on right now with elizabeth warren? >> boy she thought she could beat bernie sanders with a plan. it turned out not to be the case. at least i think with senator sanders, he said listen, everybody will have to pay more for "medicare for all." he was at least honest about that. when elizabeth warren came out with her plan she had a lot of fuzz any math that simply did not add up, liz. it will not be enough to tax the wealthy and impose the

surcharges, on the upper echelon of the country. you're going to have to hit middle class families with tax increases. and you will have to eliminate choices that private insurance that they like. she didn't know that she would get such backlash for that. liz: to your point paying for big government plans, warren and other democrats, they're losing going down in the polls, talking about not just taking away the health insurance, but also, not just taxing you. they are now talking about elizabeth warren, wants a form after sales tax that would wipe out your retirement accounts. this is her new attack on your retirement money. she says effectively, yes a federal sales tax on all of your stock trades, done in your 401(k)s and pension plans, all stock trades would be a good thing if it wiped out second by second trading. let's listen to elizabeth warren justify this idea. watch this? >> so the financial transactions tax is basically just that, a tax on every time stock trades

on wall street. if you're doing the second by second trading. it actually generates a fair amount of money. if that second by second trading goes away, it generate less money but that is probably a good thing in our economy. liz: she first tries to say it is tiny, but then says it will generate a lot of money. then says, wiping out the second by second trades at that make people money in retirement plans, quote a good thing with the economy. can you swear this one? can you figure it out? >> same fuzzy math as the health care funding plan, liz. doesn't make sense at all. either way americans will be penalized, whether those who have retirement plans. whether it is, you know, in reduced trading. she has been been struggling to figure out how she will pay for these big government expansions and do it in a way that doesn't make her sound like you know, it will hit middle-class families. she can't get away from that. this will hurt her, i think. it could continue to hurt her in the polls. we've seen her slipping

substantially. i will say one thing, liz, when you look at president trump's matchup against the top five candidates in swing states like michigan, pennsylvania, he is beating them. for good reason. they don't have good solid plans that regular common sense voters will really support. liz: they have high rates of insurance coverage. they have lower rates than, lower than the national average of uninsured. why? because labor union workers who really like the health insurance plans. wow a great point you made, patrice. come back soon. the dow is up 10,000 point since president trump won. i think up about 54%. s&p 500, up nearly 50%. great to see you, patrice, come back soon. >> you too. liz: president trump wants vindication beyond acquittal at senate trial. does this mean he wants a full-on push to unmask the whistleblower? settle scores with house intelligence chair adam schiff, maybe a probe of the bidens? we'll debate it next.

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♪ liz: lou dobbs joins us now with preview on what is coming up on his show. >> tonight we'll be talking about this president's historic victories on the economy, trade, overall the most successful president in the first three years of his term in history. we'll be joined by treasury secretary steve mnuchin, our special guest tonight. also, on this impeachment eve we have former congressman jason chaffetz, pulitzer prize-winning columnist, michael goodwin of "the new york post." wor radio host mark simone, amy tar takennian, and latest on cyberattacks from asia, russia, around the world. expert morgan wright is with us. we hope you join us for all of that and more.

liz. liz: will you talk about the fisa court judge, the chief court slamming down james comey of the fbi? >> again turns out he was not exonerated, liz. turns out there is a rat's nest of corruption that permeates the justice department, and the fbi. and, we have to credit this fisa, this district court judge, with having the courage to speak up. i think we are at an inflection point. and, there is reason to hope that attorney general william barr will be vanquishing the evildoers as we were told to call them back in the bush era, you recall. liz: that's right. and reagan era. great to see you, lou. >> you got it. >> we will be watching. president trump does not want just an acquittal at a senate impeachment trial. he wants vindication. he wants senate republicans to do that vindication, according to reports coming in. here is what the president said on friday, watch.

>> very much agreement on some concept. i will do whatever they want to do, doesn't matter. i wouldn't mind a long process, i would like to see the whistleblower who is a fraud. liz: let's bring in former fbi assistant director bill gavin. where does this go? during the senate trial or after it? unmask the whistleblower, go after adam schiff, do a probe of the bidens? how do you think this might unfold? >> i think liz, it is probably going to start to unfold when the senate puts this whole mess to rest. everybody that goes to trial wants to be acquitted. there is no doubt about that. there is no doubt that this president will be acquitted in the senate. as far as exoneration, he will be exonerated in certain areas but, the some news media are not going to exonerate him. they will continue to go after this president day after day, like they have been, even though they will have lost this whole

advance toward him. liz: bill, i want your reaction to republican mark meadows, on democrats stonewalling any probe of the bidens. watch this. >> overa dozen contacts between joe biden and president poroshenko at the particular time when his son was on the board of a corrupt country and yet they're not even willing to look at it. they say it is debunked without investigating it. liz: why are democrats, you know, what they are alleged to have done, why does the media call any discussion of that, quote, conspiracy theories about democrat corruption? >> well, this is an absolute mess, liz. as you rightfully know, this should, joe biden's son hunter had no being in burisma. when joe biden goes to talk about this 20 different times, hunter biden, what are his qualifications to be there?

he is an attorney and nothing else. his qualification listed as a executive on that board at burisma was for legal advice and direction, financial direction with the company. he had -- you're talking about a kid who has an addiction problem, both drugs and alcohol. who had, at least, who was booted out of the navy a year after, a month after he was, had a waiver for age to get into the navy. he was booted out because he tested positive for cocaine, saying that he smoked a cigarette that he bummed from somebody. this is ridiculous. nobody can possibly believe any of this. liz, i'm telling you, nobody has really picked the scab off his relationship with bhr on chinese yet. all of a sudden, in october of last year he just walks off, talking about this year, sorry, just walks off the job there, says i'm doing it because my father's running for the presidency. there is something there. liz: private equity fund.

the private equity fund in china. quickly, your reaction to rudy giuliani claiming that the, saying that the former ambassador ukraine, yovanovitch is blocking a probe of the bidens s there a sound bite, gang? do we have it? show it. >> what i uncovered there are two major schemes, one for 7.5 billion, the other for five billion in money laundering. liz: also saying that the former u.s. ambassador yovanovitch is blocking visas for ukrainian prosecutors to come to the u.s. to give information what is going on with the bidens there in the ukraine. are your reaction? >> he is saying that ultimate, outcome of this whole thing she didn't want the people to come to the united states to sit in front of committee tell them what they really thought. she was blocking visas to come here. bottom line, maybe rudy has found major corruption with the

billion of dollars he talked about, tying hunter biden to that, might be a little bit more difficult but, you know, i wouldn't put anything past the ability of rudy giuliani to do, to find out what needs to be uncovered and made, to see the light of day with the american public. liz: bill gavin, great to see you. come back soon. >> my pleasure. thank you, liz. have a merry christmas. liz: merry christmas to you. the supersecret fisa court the judge there shredding james comey and his fbi team for the super shady way they got warrants to spy on the trump campaign. we have got more on that story coming up. great riches will find you when liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wow. thanks, zoltar. how can i ever repay you? maybe you could free zoltar?

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detrimental to their case. let's bring in his for expertise, former prosecutor doug burns. we've never seen that before. >> this is a development. someone from a different branch of government, not a dust-up between the executive branch the congress. this judge is very clear, really hammered home the point there was serious problems in the presentation of the information. it vindicates those who have been saying there were serious problems with the way the original warrant and the various renewals were obtained. liz: yeah. >> the fact of the matter is, what is really interesting, there really isn't an immediate one line sound bite against this. so i will be watching closely to see how the so-called left and again, as a lawyer, hate to put it in political terms but this is the world we're in, how they try to minimize that statement. exactly. liz: she is also saying, fbi, you got to come up with a fisa reform plan in less than a month. >> january 10th.

liz: let's show what the "washington post" is saying what went on. basically garbage went into fisa judges. garbage came out. surveillance warrants might have been changed or denied all together. if the fbi played it straight. show you what we found in the doj watchdog report on problems with the steele dossier. that steele first stated or exaggerated statements in multiple sections. his own sources were saying salacious claims about trump. rumor and speculation, just talk, word-of-mouth, hearsay, surprised even put in the report. multiples littles of hearsay upon hearsay, on and on about steele misstating or exaggerating. >> extremely strong, extremely direct, extremely clear. this is the chief judge of the foreign intelligence surveillance court. liz: seeing this. >> seeing this, laying out in no uncertain terms, crystal clear there were big, big problems in the process. and to me it's a very, very significant development. much more significant, not to be

a broken record, than if it came, from those in the main arena of the political dust-up. this is from the third branch. by the way, remember something. at issue in the whole impeachment thing, is, the allegation that the president obstructed congress and many experts and scholars and lawyers are saying wait a minute, you have to give the third branch, judiciary, a a chance to be ajudicated and which documents should be honored. liz: personally attack prosecutor john durham of the russia probe. "washington post" is running stories with maybe two former federal, or existing federal prosecutors going after him. you know the headlines, that are questioning john durham's integrity right now. >> for me it is almost like a joke and comedy routine, i'm serious, liz. because the minute somebody, anybody in government addressing the issues comes out with something that helps the left, right, all of sudden the bastion

of integrity and finest public official. if it hurts them they're horrible, terrible. liz: despite their denials, putting tremendous pressure on members to vote for impeachment. i want to get to this. former fbi general counsel, james baker under james comey, worked under james comey told cnn about the fbi fisa court abuses. i don't know what word you want to use, terrible, unacceptable, shouldn't happen. i was completely distressed about it. a source shows up with a big stack of information you go to work, don't swallow it hook, line sinker. that is about the steele dossier. >> there is a, a measure of due diligence and checking materials. i was involved with many, many, many warrant in my nine years in doj you have to check it. >> so sorry, ran out of time. >> not at all. >> a lot of breaking news. >> thank you. liz: next up, president trump hosting the president of

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claiming his country does not have the infrastructure to make it happen, your reaction? >> of course they don't, what i like about this guy, he's promised to do what he can to provide the infrastructure, el salvador has the highest murder rate for a country that's not at war. he has bigger fish to fry in the short term but he's been successful and reduce the murder rate something like 40% in the three or four months. there is great promise and once he gets his country under control, once he's able to get a handle on government then he'll be able to honor the deal because he's made the promise to president trump in exchange for $50 million. >> 58 billion right. what does this mean for the asylum cooperation with el salvador, guatemala and honduras? >> the main thing, for the first time in a long time the ministration is putting their money and their emphasis at the

source. many of my inside friends told me the best investment for limiting immigration is to attack at the source and that includes improving infrastructure, governance, coming up with the deal that keeps the people at home, the president of el salvador said, salvadorans would rather be at home at el salvador then in the united states if they can clean up their act and will go a long way to fixing our border problem. >> he is saying 100,000 kids growing into working age every year but an economy that only creates 20000 jobs annually. can they pull it off? >> i think so. this is what happened in mexico ten years ago, most of the immigrants coming in to the united states were mexicans. and they turn things around in mexico. the same thing can happen in the northern triangle countries and we need to make the investment

there. >> great to see a parade will have you back on. thank you so much for watching, lou dobbs is next on the fox business network. have a good evening ♪ ♪ ♪. lou: good evening everybody, tonight's impeachment eve, tomorrow the house of representatives will debate whether to impeach president trump and there will be a floor vote on the resolution to do so is set for tomorrow as well. mr. trump rebuked the radical dems and their continued efforts to subvert his presidency to remove him from office, while he has accomplished more in his first three years in office than any president in american history. the president sent speaker pelosi