to read more check out this week's edition of barron's.com. with got the full round table in there. and don't forget to follow us on twitter. that's all for us, see you [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. tonight we are wrapping up what has been another extraordinary week in america. the trump economy and markets roll on, employers adding 145,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate remains at a 50-year low. 3.5%. the stock market strong climbing above 29,000 before moving back to session lows. just off its record highs. the dow up 189 points for the week. the president celebrating one of his greatest accomplishments as he campaigns for reelection last night in toledo, ohio.

president trump: as we begin the new year, our economy is booming, wages are soaring. workers are thriving and america's future has never ever looked brighter. we are th the envy of every couy in the world. we created 7 million brand-new jobs since our election. lou: the president's economy strong, growing. a symbol of his commitment to making america great. rising wages for our middle class and those who aspire to it, and the lowest unemployment rate in a half century. president trump boasting america's economic strength will assure his america first national security policies are always backed by the strongest possible military might. today the trump administration moving ahead with sanctions against 17 metal producers and

mining companies, as well as 8 senior officials of the islamic republic. treasury secretary steven mnuchin making it clear more sanctions will come until iran puts aside its aggression towards u.s. en . and. >> if we didn't have these sanctions in place iran would have tens of billions of dollars. they would be using that for terrorist activities throughout the region. to enable them to do more bad things. lou: as president trump leads the nation, the radical dimms for their part are trying to bring him down. those democratic leaders are failing at every effort, failing at every turn. house speaker nancy pelosi

finally caving to mitch mcconnell demands announcing she'll send her two sham articles of impeachment over to the senate next week. the party of hate know the dimms are done. the discredited special counsel investigation and the toothless non-binding house resolution to speaker pelosi who wanted to use it to rebuke the president for his order to kill iran's deadliest terrorist while stopping other attacks planned by iran. as the radical left continued their are futile effort to control the president's actions in the middle east, the president reveals more information about his decision to take out the world's top terrorist. talking with laura ingraham the president said general soleimani was in the midst of blocking several attacks gifnlts s.

interests overseas before the strike that took his life. >> don't the american people have a right to know what specifically was targeted without revealing methods and sources. president trump: i don't think so, but i can tell you it was probably going to be the embassy in baghdad. >> if those were planned, why can't we reveal that to the american people. president trump: i can reveal i believe it would have been four embassies. lou: joining us is former general fact keen. retired four-star general. good to have you with us. taking up the president's statement today, attacks planned against four embassies. and laura ingraham saying something i thought was interesting. and that is, wouldn't it membership his case to give out more information. my first question to you, are

you surprised he has to have a case that it isn't self-effort and obvious to the entire country that he was defending americans and american interests? >> i think it is straightforward and obvious to most people in america what took place here. the justification for soleimani. i think most people in america take our government officials at face value. it was multiple attacks on multiple targets. something had to be done. not to do something would be abdicating your duty to protect american citizens, in this case american diplomats and american soldiers. the gang of 8 and the intel committees of both houses were briefed on the classified information. i will say this. that the information that we had on soleimani planning, coordinating and directing these

multiple attacks in different countries was so sensitive it reveals part of the source of the information. and that is why our government officials are being so guard. but despite that, days after the attack they did bring members of congress in and give them a full top secret briefing. not the whole congress, not the whole senate. i think it's appropriate what they have done. lou: i think our audience is keenly aware of those who are among the gang of 8. but amongst them are some of the people who are trying to overthrow the president who scurrilously lied about the evidence against the president and whose partisan interests are clearly so -- so kinetic that

the president would be understandable to not trust them in the area of national security. >> i'm going to leave that to your judgment. you pay closer attention to that and i don't. i do say this. when you get briefed on something as sensitive that they were briefed on where people's lives were at stake. i would hope everybody would act responsibly with that information and not disclose it. lou: let's turn to russia, another incident where a ship in the north arabia sea, a spy ship again basically playing chicken with the faragut. what's going on and why the test? >> these things are largely symbolic. i think putin and his top

commanders are involved in all of it when he does it with airplanes or does it with ships and tries to penetrate air space. it's to remind everybody that russia is there. he knows the media will pick up on it. while it's potentially dangerous if somebody makes a mistake at that close range. the way ships kim -- ships kill each other today is miles away with missiles. i don't think we should feed putin's ego. lou: much attention is being paid to his observation in the black sea of new weaponry including so it is claimed by the russian government, a hypersonic weapon. your thoughts on the russian development of those hypersonic

weapons already apparently produced of the chinese and the united states. apparently we are still lagging a year atwo behind them. >> if you take russia and take their service, air, land and sea, none of them are a match to the united states. putin not having a defense budget. he spends his money very carefully. he developed special weaponry that makes -- he's focused on one target and that's the united states. and hypersonic weapons and missile defense systems and other specialized capabilities he invested significantly in. and they have great scientists and engineers. they can get out there on the technological ends. we have great concerns about his development of those weapons and the chinese because we don't have anything to defend against

them. that's not classified. that's well known. we are moving quickly to develop that. that's why space is very important. these weapons will spend most of their times in space. and we have to maintain the advantages we have in space. lou: general jack keane, always great to talk to you. secretary of state confirming the united states believes iran is responsible for the down of the ukrainian passenger jetliner. iran continues to deny they shots down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile. they are inviting boeing representatives and other countries including canada to join in the investigation. much of the wreckage, however, we are told has been removed from the crash site by iranian officials.

up next, president trump reacting to nancy pelosi's decision to finally send the so-called articles of impeachment over to the senate. what's going on? mitch mcconnell wins again. a new twist in the mysterious death of jeffrey epstein. is there nothing straightforward about what happened to him that night in that prison cell? and what happened to that surveillance video? we'll have that question, some answers and much more after these quick messages.

fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards. it's just not right. but with sofi, you can get your credit cards right by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. including your interest rate right by locking in a fixed low rate today. and you can get your money right with sofi. check your rate in two minutes or less.

get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k.

and mine super soft? get a no-fee personal loan yes. with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and

automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? not promise... prove. only at a sleep number store. save $1,000 on the sleep number 360 special edition smart bed, now only $1,799. only for a limited time lou: object wall street stocks closed slight lid lower after trump imposed additional sanctions on iran. the dow jones touching 29,000 earlier in the session for the first time in history. but it was down 133 points at the close. the nasdaq down 25, again after record highs. the volume on the big board 3.3 billion shares. the nasdaq up 2% on the week.

crude oil finishing above $29 a barrel. silver up a percent, $18 an hours. shocking internal emails from boeing reveal some employees knowingly misled the fa sarks about the downed max jetliners and joked the plane was designed by clown. the faa is seeking a fine on the faulty parts in the jetliner. the ceo was forced to turn over $45 million in company stocks. he is entitled to receive $60 million. boeing board member dale calhoun

becomes the new coe monday. nancy pelosi says she'll send her party of hate's pitiful sham articles of impeachment to the senate next week. here is how the president responded, talking about laura ingraham. president trump: i think it's ridiculous. she should have sent them a long time ago. it belittles the process. nancy pelosi will go down as the least successful speaker of the house in the history of our nation. she has done nothing. lou: joining us tonight, charlie hurt, best-selling author, fox business contributor. charlie, great to have you with us. let's start with the articles of impeachment.

she finally caved after being dismissive yesterday saying she won't do anything until she decides. your thoughts? >> this must be the most embarrassing day perhaps of nancy pelosi's career. it was the highlight of her career. her ahab-like pursuit of the *. over the course of this process she has made a parody of the house and the impeachment process. she lost a member of her caucus to the republican party. she lost a bunch of members on the vote of impeachment. her top lieutenants were openly talking about what a terrible strategy it was her sitting around on the articles of impeachment. she was forced to release them and got nothing in return.

this is a complete total failure. lou: the disarray on the part of the radical dimms is on full display. it's got to be driving her mad because she is in part responsible for it whether it's aoc or the squad or broadly the list of candidates going in so many directions that no one has any idea what a democratic party platform might look like or would would be leading the party. >> there is not a single issue they have been talking about. the first day back after president trump launches an airstrike to kill a top terrorist, the top general in the state sponsored terrorism. the first day back they spend their day sitting around condemning iran, condemning soleimani? no. none of that. they spent their day condemning

trump and doing all they could to curtail his ability to stop the rain are of terror in iran. this is as good spring board to get out of there. the reason president trump is president trump is because he made those promises to people more loudly and more clearly and more believably than anybody else. one of my favorite lines, if hillary clinton had been elected, do you think we wouldn't be in another war? i believe we most certainly would have been in another war if she had gone the elected. lou: i refuse to even contemplate that. let's turn to last night. tucker carlson talking with congressman matt gaetz, one of three republicans to vote with nancy pelosi and the radical dimms to rebuke the president.

this is just a moment of what they were talking about. here is matt gaetz. >> the president told me he's more anti-war than i am. and up love the president for that, tucker. but i think you have and few advisors of the president who are trying to slow walk the president into war. when the president relies on his instincts and we have the trump doctrine. we kill the terrorists and we come home. lou: you are reaction to matt gaetz. >> i share the concerns matt gaetz and tucker carlson have about getting more involved in the middle east. i believe the president when he says he doesn't want to get more involved in the middle east and he wants to pull back. this is the first moment back after president trump had a tremendous victory. for the first time put iran on notice there was a new sheriff in town. the first day back they are

going to spend their day debating these meaningless, toothless articles of war powers? it makes them look completely, totally unserious. this is the nonsense you are talking about where on the other side on pennsylvania avenue, you have got a guy trying to clean things up and defend erika. i don't want to be in any more wars. but i don't think -- i do think we should retallate if somebody kills scene american or attacks our interests abrought. i still think we should have the strongest military on earth. i just don't want to be using it all the time to police everywhere in the world. >> the president has been clear as he said to naught gates. nobody is more anti-war than he is. and he made that clear. he clearly established that fact over his campaign and three

years as president. this isn't guesswork. we know what this president does in the most difficult and tough and challenging moments of the presidency. we know. there is no doubt about it. then you have the one-term congressman deciding they are smarter than the president of the united states. you can dress it up a lot any way you want to. but the fact is republicans, they have too many people in their caucus who think they are too cute and too smart at least by half. and they love to refer to the president, his instincts instead his intellect. they love to talk about his instinct sewell reflex rather than his solid critical judgment. why the hell they do it is beyond me. i am sick and tired of this non-

this nonsensical condescension on the part of his alleged supporters. >> listening to people in congress talk about not wanting trump to bumble his way into a war. you want to talk about people who are an expert bumbling us into wars, it's the people on capitol hill. it's hard to take them seriously listening to chuck schumer talk about that stuff. lou: and let's mention nancy pelosi one more time. more mystery involving the death of pedophile jeffrey epstein. the security video outside his jail cell when he first allegedly attempted to kill himself is apparently gone forever. but then it reappeared at least in the words and language of the federal authorities. then federal prosecutors

admitted the video they had was from a different part of the prison after they thought they recovered that video. this continued to be one hell of a mystery. now we are told that the video has been permanently disappeared. we don't know what that precisely means. but what it does mean for sure is the federal authorities aren't giving it up to the news media. up next, president trump poised for another big trade victory. china coming to d.c. to sign you a trade deal. the phase one trade deal. gordon chang joins us after his quick break with much more. you don't use this old thing, do you? no! or how 'bout this dinosaur right here? nope! then why are you still using a laser printer? it's got expensive toner cartridges. but this... is the epson ecotank color printer.

no more expensive cartridges! big ink tanks. lots of ink. if you don't think this printer's right for you, just pick up your phone... (chuckling) ...and give me a call. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill. available at... ♪ i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

running to meetings, errands... now i'm running for me. i've always dreamed of seeing the world... ...but i'm not chasing my dream anymore. i made a financial plan to live it...every day. ♪ at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm dot com. from the international fellowship of christians and jews. there is an emergency food crisis for elderly holocaust survivors in the former soviet union. - this is a fight against time. what we're dealing with is coming out, meeting someone who's 85, 90 years old, can't get around, has no food, has no water and just wants to give up and die.

and that's where we come in. we are called to comfort these people, to be a blessing to their lives. - [presenter] for just $25 we'll rush an emergency survival package to help one desperate elderly person for a month. call right now. - in ukraine there's no support network. they don't have food cards or neighbors that come in to help. they're turning to us because they have nowhere else to turn. - [presenter] your gift is a lifeline to help these elderly jewish holocaust survivors. help them to live out their final years with dignity and love. call right now. - what i pray is that you won't turn your eyes

but you will look at their suffering and your heart will be changed. - [presenter] with your gift of just $25 we can rush an emergency survival package to help one desperate elderly person for a month. call right now. lou: china apparently is doing far more than keeping an

interested eye in taiwan's elections tomorrow. they appear to be interfering with the elections. she rejects one country two systems idea for taiwan that is in effect in hong kong. it's going to be fascinating to see what does or does not happen in that election. that is of course the favorite in the election expected to win reelection. joining us to assess that and much more. gordon change, senior fellow at the gai gatestone institute. the fact that china would can interfere in the election. to do so boldly is surprising. not their interference, but