profit it could do quite well. >> to read more check out this week's edition@barron's.com. and don't forget to follows on twitter at barron's online. that is all for us this week, >> good evening everybody. tonight from west palm beach, florida, president trump tonight is wrapping up his first campaign event of this new year in miami. the president looking to energize further his already enthusiastic base from the important evangelical community, looking to bring as many as 25 million of them to the polls this year. at tonight's rally the president announcing to the world that at his command one of the most merciless and savage terrorists on earth was ordered killed by

the u.s. military. >> last night at my direction, the united states military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans. qassem suleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. lou: the commander-in-chief obviously taking decisive and bold action to end the thuggish reign of iran's qassem suleimani as leader of the iranian quds force. he had a lot of american blood on his hands, responsible for killing more than 600 of our troops in the iraq war. some put the estimates much higher than that. suleimani, the chief exporter of

iran state sponsor terrorism, but because of president trump, and our unrivalled military, the suleimani legend is ended. he got what he deserved. the president last night directing an airstrike in baghdad to kill suleimani, just days after an attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad by iranian backed militiamen who were operating on the orders of suleimani. according to president trump, the iranian general was plotting what is termed imminent and sinister terrorist attacks, but was caught in the act and he was terminated. american lives were in jeopardy and the president moved quickly, decisively to protect this country. the message couldn't be clearer. president trump means business, and no one should mess with the idea of america or americans. for more tonight, we turn to white house correspondent kevin corke. >> we took action last night to

stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. >> president trump, target americans and you will pay the ultimate price. >> under my leadership, america's policy is unambiguous to terrorists who harm or intend to harm any american. we will find you. we will eliminate you. >> the president also signalled the willingness to make a deal with iran, tweeting iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation. he accused the iranian terrorists of killing or badly wounding thousands of americans and says he was plotting to kill many more but got caught. the aftermath mourned and celebrated by the iraqis, dancing in the streets of freedom tweeted secretary of state pompeo. white house officials say they are aware that the resulting fallout from the demise of general suleimani could include some terror plots that were

already underway across the globe. however, they insist, his demise was long overdue and much much needed. lou? lou: kevin corke reporting from the white house. joining us tonight, white house press secretary stephanie grisham. good to have you with us. the president is to be congratulated. the administration and the national security team in particular for taking out a man who is responsible for hundreds and hundreds of american lives being lost in iraq and the spread of state-sponsored terrorism from iran. your thoughts tonight, the mood in the white house and within the administration. >> well, certainly it's a great day for our country because of the president's decisive action, thousands more american lives and other lives will be saved -- saved. this man, this terrorist was

brutal, and not only was he responsible for hundreds of deaths of americans, but thousands of horrible injuries to americans and others. he wasn't going to stop targeting americans. that's something to think about. the president, you know, he knew there was imminent danger. we had good intel that there was imminent danger and that americans were going to be killed and so he took the bold and often times hard action that he had to as president knowing that he was going to save lives and save lives then and in the future too. lou: and to hear the democrats at least many of them tell it, this was an imposition on a stable world order in the middle east that only president trump seems to be able to affect. i mean, it's outrageous what i have heard today in the course of the morning, earlier, from the democratic leadership. it's as if they are completely unhinged. >> well, they are.

you know, i continue to be so disappointed by these democrats. no matter what this president does, it is not good enough. the democrats should be happy along with the rest of this country that american lives were saved, and instead they were complaining that they weren't notified. you know, time is of the essence when things like this are going down. the president does have constitutional authority to protect americans when they are in danger. also, i would say that, you know, schumer was complaining that he wasn't briefed, and then when he got briefed today, he was complaining that it wasn't good enough and he still had questions. they just continue to -- lou: stephanie, i think -- >> i'm sorry, yes. lou: i think chuck schumer was born complaining. and i wouldn't expect any quick change in his behavior. it is also i think a good case could be built, it would be utterly irrational of the trump administration to brief the very people who are trying to unseat him, remove him from power, to

overthrow his presidency and to have done everything in their power to do so. i mean, i just can't understand why a neutral voice in this -- say in the national media isn't saying what are the democrats talking about? and why would they expect anything other than to be found untrustworthy by the president of the united states? >> well, i'm going to say because there is no mutual voice in the media right now. you know, the washington post talked about suleimani as the most revered military leader. again, we're getting into, you know, he was a terrorist. he was a murderer. watching cable news today, it was like they were hoping for retaliation. you know, they are like scaring the american public for ratings. i don't understand why, again, the media and the democrats aren't happy along with the rest of this country that our president took the bold action to kill a murderer. we should all be very proud today, and we should all be very

happy that american lives are saved. lou: no question about it. and let's turn to a different subject here tonight, as we're going to continue to cover this throughout this hour, without question, but the impeachment process, senator mitch mcconnell today standing up i thought tall and bold saying that nancy pelosi, her time on the stage of impeachment has ended. >> yeah, absolutely. he did a really great job laying out the case of, you know, the process thus far, how unfair it was. to be honest with you, lou, after the events of the last 24 hours, i think this impeachment stuff just seems all the more silly and pathetic. in the time that this impeachment, you know, scam has been going on, the president has killed two terrorists in this world and again saved thousands of lives. so the impeachment scam, it will continue. it's really unfortunate.

we have, you know, we think that she will turn the articles over. we expect that there will be a trial in the senate. we know that the president will be acquitted because he did absolutely nothing wrong. they keep talking about all this new evidence from a "new york times" story. there are e-mails that say the president wanted the aid to be withheld. he has admitted that himself. he wanted it to be withheld to make sure there was no corruption. there's nothing there. again, sadly in the last 24 hours, there are a lot bigger things happening in this world. it is saturday this continues. lou: it's sad. it's also outrageous, and it's about time i believe that the republican party just simply draw the line and say until the democratic party begins to act like the loyal opposition, instead of an oppositional force at every corner trying to remove a president, that they can expect not to be briefed and not

a lot of other things as well. >> i couldn't agree with you more. you've got my vote there. lou: stephanie grisham, thanks for being with us. again, congratulations from a grateful nation. those two terrorists that stephanie mentioned, leader of the isis terrorists and of course suleimani, a leader of the iranian quds force, two extraordinary terrorist leaders now destroyed as enemies of the united states and indeed the civilized world. up next, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell taking nancy pelosi to task over her performance in leading the sham impeachment process, whatever you want to call it, farce. also tonight, much more on the president's victory in the middle east and his actions to protect america and american

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caliphate and recently american special operations forces killed the terrorist leader known as al baghdadi. the world is a safer place without these monsters. lou: without question. although, some radical democrats are questioning just that. the president today touting what is yet another impressive foreign policy victory in the middle east, tying the death of soleimani to an october raid that killed former isis leader abu al baghdadi as well. the pentagon tonight sending another 3,000 of our troops, the army's 82nd airborne division to kuwait, a battalion of some 750 paratroopers deployed to the same region earlier this week. the defense department calling this deployment a precautionary action in response to heightened threats from iran against

american personnel and facilities. joining us tonight to assess what is now an extraordinary moment in our history dr. walid ferris, fox business national security and foreign policy analyst and national security expert, president of the center for security policy, great to have you both with us. thank you for joining us. walid, let me begin first with you. the very idea that there would be any voice that would rise up in this country to say this president was somehow reckless and irresponsible as he did what should have been done in the estimation of most analysts i've talked with long long ago. your thoughts? >> if there was any action that this president has taken against a terrorist, even beyond al baghdadi or the others, it's this one. he's dealing with a problem that

is an iranian aggressive behavior and terror activities without waging a war. people are talking about war. what war? an invasion of iraq or said invasion of iran -- these are not happening. these are counterterrorism operations and he did the right thing because soleimani and his networks were preparing for a campaign against u.s. military diplomats, civilians and others in addition to what they have been doing in terms of oppressing the iraqis killing 600 or 700 of them. it was a successful operation. no american casualties and we are warning the iranians not to try to open a war because the president wants to end these wars. lou: and of course the ayatollah, fred, saying that there would be severe consequences as a result of the action taken against soleimani.

your thoughts on the possibilities of escalation here? >> well, look, i was on the house intelligence committee. i know something about covert actions. they are supposed to be a notification to congress maybe to the gang of eight, the top eight members of congress before these things take place, but the law says if the president doesn't do this, he's supposed to just notify congress in a timely manner with the reason. we know why he didn't notify them in advance because he thought information about this could leak. the president cannot trust them with information that would put lives at risk. i think the president did the right thing. lou: walid, your thoughts on the same issue because i can't imagine why any president in this situation, you know, opposed from every quarter by the radical left trying to

overthrow his presidency would feel in any way that it would be incumbent upon him to tell them about the details, even the generality of this operation, to take out a terrorist leader. >> look, i agree with fred. he's been inside the government. he knows about those things. basically if this was a war -- because some critics are saying he's taking us to war. of course he's going to go to congress and talk with the leader. if this was a special operation, and it was, he can, he has the discretion of informing the congressional leader, gang of eight and more, but if the situation is very critical, he has the ability of conducting the operation and then of course informing the congressional leaders. at the end of the day, the legislative branch will have that information, but it is under his capacity to conduct this very serious and leaks could damage this operation, and what we heard about leaking over the past two to three years,

that's not encouraging the president to share this information at this point in time. lou: does it appear to both of you and fred let's start with you, does it appear to you that schumer and pelosi and their reactions here and purely political reactions on a national security issue as important as this are really basically trying to preserve the president who preceded him, obama's legacy rather than preserve the safety of the american people? >> i think there's some truth to that, but look, the reaction to this issue just shows the democrats continue to refuse to accept the legitimacy of this president's election. they've opposed him on everything. opposed all his foreign policy appointments, everything that comes up to the hill. it is a shame something this serious, this dire when u.s. lives are at risk in the middle

east that we can't come together, that schumer and pelosi can't come forward and say mr. president, you did a good job here. this is the right thing. lou: yeah. i think, fred, that we have moved beyond they don't accept the outcome of the election. they are trying to overturn the result of the election. they are trying to do so in the most vicious ways that they can conjure. there is a corruption within this party, the democratic party that is -- that would have been unthinkable just three years ago, only because we didn't know the extent of their corruption and their intent to overthrow this president. walid? >> look, i agree with you that in addition to deep domestic -- [inaudible] -- that are sad and are impacting our national security and foreign policy,

there is this phenomena i don't understand why many of the critics in the opposition are hanging to that iran deal. i mean, the iranian people, the iraqi people, everybody in the neighborhood, are against it, and then they criticize the president if he takes action when national security wants him to take action. lou: this should be a moment of celebration and commendation of the president, his national security team, our military, all of our forces and allies. it is -- it is that for most americans. for the democratic party, it will have a much much to explain to at least those who write the next chapter of history. walid phares, fred, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. lou: share your comments. follow me on twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook and follow me on instagram with lou

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lou: the president has to contend with each and every day, radical democrats intent upon unseating him, overthrowing his presidency. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell went some distance to correct the at least a portion of the imbalance in the swamp. mcconnell today rejected outright house speaker nancy pelosi's efforts to shape the up coming senate trial so called as her fantasy. >> their turn is over. they've done enough damage. it's the senate's turn now to render sober judgment as the framers envisioned. but we can't hold a trial without the articles. the senate's rules don't provide for that. lou: joining us tonight to take

up all of this and including of course the attack on baghdad, congressman jim banks, a member of the house armed services committee, education committee, and veterans' affairs committee, a busy man in congress. and i want to first of all welcome you to the broadcast and wish you a happy new year, congressman. >> happy new year, lou. lou: thank you very much. the president today -- i just find myself reacting why should a president have to explain that a terrorist who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of our troops in iraq, who is responsible for global terrorism, who has killed thousands of people, is responsible for their deaths, he has to actually explain that to the left wing national media and the democratic party. i mean, that's -- that's just to

me stupefying. >> lou, this is what we have come to expect from democrats and from the left. we've also come to expect this type of leadership from president trump. what happened yesterday in taking out soleimani means that today americans woke up and we are safer today than what we were yesterday. this is what we ve grown accustomed to with president trump's leadership. he's going to go down in history as being one of the best presidents america ever has had. i appreciate the reason and the restraint this presidents that shown towards iran. yesterday was a victory. it shouldn't be politicized. i feel sorry for my democrat colleagues and friends who look so petty in their reaction to this good news for our country, for american national security. they look petty in how they are dealing with impeachment and not allowing that to take on the next step in the senate, but that's as i've said that's what we've grown accusto