it has. >> left here, right here? that is the way to do it. human being behind it on -- >> i would take this one step further. i think there will be flying vehicles. we won't need roads. david: that is next. fasten your seatbelts. we'll see you. >> president trump arriving right now. air force one landed after showcasing the u.s. economy at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. he is promising a big middle class tax cut. we have former advisor art laffer. i will show you how the democrat continue inflammatory accusations with no basis in fact. another vicious political brawl. in this one, dem versus dem.

you can't make it up. also who filed a 50 million-dollar defamation lawsuit against hillary clinton for allegedly characterizing her as a russian asset. i'm gregg jarrett. in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. gregg: hello, everyone, the latest on impeachment trial. the third against american president in u.s. history. edward lawrence live on capitol hill with details. edward? reporter: first vote on party lines with no republicans switching over on this one. opening argument, opening statements have started here. democrats are laying out how the president abused power. adam schiff started with 2 1/2 hours of his opening statement.

he laid out he believes that the president withheld military money and dangled a meeting at the white house for the ukrainian president, in exchange for, announcement of an investigation that would help him politically. and the call schiff says, proves it. >> a call record reveals a president who used his high office personally, direct the leader after foreign country to do his political dirty work. reporter: even though schiff says he has an overwhelming case here he went on to for senators to call witnesses. also ask the white house for more documents that would prove the president deserves impeachment here, something the president's attorneys balked at. >> just went through 2 1/2 hours of laying out his case to go with the 11 hours of laying out their case last night. now unless he is making it up, he seems like he has a lot of information. so proceed with your case. reporter: the president's attorneys will get 24 hours over

three days for their case but right now, the democrats are into their sixth hour now of their 24 hours for their case laid out next 2 1/2 days. a lot more of this argument. the democrats, democratic managers taking turns with they're verbal arguments. it is going on right now. gregg? gregg: will go on a long time. edward, thanks very much the stage is set for another very long night on capitol hill. joining me is hans von spakosky. senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation. what struck me adam schiff continually speculated on the president's subjective intent, imputing a corrupt motive. so i guess adam schiff is now, the thought police? >> well, yeah, he did that because they don't actually have facts to prove their case. i mean most of what you heard

today was speck, based on speculation innuendo, gossip, hearsay, not actual proven facts even opinion evidence by critics of the president. none of which is what you need to substantiate and support serious allegations made against the president. gregg: schiff kept playing sound bites of all the speculation witnesses offering their opinion based on multiple hearsay. frankly if i were the defense, saying thank you, adam schiff, for making my case for me. but schiff deliberately misrepresented what chief of staff mick mulvaney said in his infamous news conference to reporters, when he told the journalists there is always some political influence in foreign relations. so get over it. but adam schiff contorts it to

say. that what mulvaney was arguing, get over corruption. here is the sound bite from schiff. >> should congress get over it? should the american people come to expect our presidents will corruptly abuse their office to seek help after foreign power to cheat in our elections? should we just get over it? is that what we've come to? i hope and pray that the answer is no. gregg: i counted more than a dozen misrepresentations by adam schiff. they had to be intentional, hands. >> no, i think it is. i think what is going on here, gregg you and i know this is the weakest case for impeachment ever represented by the house of representatives in the entire hit of the country. they have simply not made the case much apparently they believe making all kinds of unproven accusations, doing things like, accusing the president of being a despot,

something that schiff did today. somehow that is going to help them damage the image of the president. apparently i fest, help them in the next election because, this is a they can't prove their case, they pretty much know he is going to be acquitted. gregg: and schiff, i love this part, he repeatedly invoking "the federalist" papers in particular, alexander hamilton federalist 65, but again he misrepresents andmy construes in federalist 65. it doesn't state ogu you can impeach without a crime. take a lessen to schiff. >> hamilton explained that impeachment was not to cover statutory or common law crimes but crimes against the body politic. hamilton wrote, the subject of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men. gregg: hamilton, hamilton

wasn't -- there is the president getting off air force one at joint base andrews. schiff misunderstands federalist papers and hamilton. hamilton was not defining what impeachment is. that is made clear by the plain language of the constitution. he is explaining why a trial should be held in the senate, not the supreme court. >> no, that's right. and it is very clear, not only from the federalist papers but constitutional convention, impeachment clause was only to be used if you could prove serious misconduct by the president, misconduct so serious that you can't wait until the next election. i think it is very clear that the democrats have failed to do that. they just simply have not shown that kind of serious misconduct that fits within the treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors standard in the constitution. gregg: schiff was not only playing sound bites from

witnesses offering nothing but guesswork and speculation. >> right. gregg: he was putting up repeatedly the transcript of the conversation between trump and zelensky which it is evident from that, there is no threat, there is no bribe, there is no pressure, there is no quid pro quo. again, really make the case for the defense. >> yeah. i think so. and i think a lot of the misleading claims that he has made and others today, along with their exaggerations i think actually think that shows the weakness of their case. because if they had a real case, if they had real facts, they wouldn't need to try to mislead the public and senators. they wouldn't need to make outrageous exaggerations they have been engaging in. gregg: one thing they didn't play or maybe i missed it, but you can bet the defense is going to play it, joe biden on camera bragging about his quote, quid pro quo. fire the prosecutors investigating my son's company

or, you're not going to get a load of cash. i mean that's surely going to become part of the defense case, right? >> it certainly should be because what did that represent? possible abuse of power by a sitting vice president in order to prevent a corruption investigation that did what? enriched his son. gregg: right. and the president's argument was, look at the transcript. i'm asking about corruption and in particular, joe biden's potential corruption. i would argue, the president in fact, if he is wear of that, has a constitutional duty to inquire about it. if another country has evidence under a long-standing treaty they're supposed to turn over that evidence to the united states. so the president was entirely justified, wasn't he? >> he was. but remember he also made general inquiries about corruption. again. given the fact that he knew we

were going to be giving a lot of money to ukraine, everyone has known for quite a while that ukraine's had a problem with corruption, that was again, a legitimate inquiry by the president to make sure that, if we give them money, it is not going to be misused. gregg: that's our money after all. >> it is. gregg: hans, good to see you as always. thanks. >> thanks for having me. gregg: up next, president trump promising to deliver a very big middle class tax cut. we have former reagan economic advisor art laffer on that coming up. ♪. because your investments deserve the full story. t. rowe price invest with confidence.

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house. >> was that a tax cut for middle class or you want to make that permanent? >> no. i will mca tax cut and probably make the other permanent. it has a long way to go in all fairness but we'll make that permanent for the middle class. we'll be doing that. we'll announce it over the next 90 days. to me that is very important. gregg: let's bring in our next guest, former reagan economic advisor, dr. art laffer. thanks for being here. before i get to the tax cuts. >> thank you. gregg: i want to get your reaction to this starke contrast. the image on television, sets across america, adam schiff, jerry nadler, droning on and on, trying to remove the president from office in what will surely be a failed effort, a waste of time and resources. on the other hand, you've got the president, meeting with world leaders, business leaders, encouraging them to adopt the american model of trying to improve people's lives.

do those diversion images tell an important story? >> well i don't know about the divergent images to be quite frankly with you. i can't stand the impeachment stuff. i don't like watching it. to me he is a great president. he provides prosperity, growth, economic well-being for all, for the world. he carried out on his promises. he has a corporate tax cut. he has monetary change. he has free-trade agreements all over the place. the best deregulation ever. who in their right mind would want to get rid of that president? that is just crazy. i don't see any logic in that whatsoever. and that is why i think bill clinton was kept as well. he oversaw huge prosperity. so has donald trump. no one want to get rid of him because he is a great president. gregg: people vote their wallets, they say to themselves i'm a whole lot better off four years ago. let's keep it going but speaking of keeping it going. you saw the clip of maria bartiromo with president trump

talking about a significant additional middle income tax cut. >> sure did. gregg: what do you make of that? >> well, it is a way to pull the democrats out and make them vote. if we can get a good bill, get it in the house there, or get a proposal for it, ask them to bring it there, do the democrats want to do a tax cut bill for trump before the election? you know they should be made to put their names on the line as whether they say yes or no. i think it is a great, great bill. i think it would be a great way to pull democrat out for being what they really are. nancy pelosi put in all those tax increases all over the place under obama and, you know, we're very different than that. we want to create economic growth by increasing the incentives to invest, produce and to work. that is the way you should do it. put every congress person on the line. senate and house, as to how they feel about tax cuts and economic growth. that is what i hope he is doing. i think larry kudlow has been pushing this very hard. larry completely correct on this

issue. just the right thing to do to make them vote on growth. gregg: the president didn't give specific numbers or percentages but, maria got a sense what he was talking about in their conversation. for people earning between 30 and 100 to you dollars, they're current tax rate is 24 to 28% that might drop to 15%. is that doable? >> it would be very doable. very hard in this congress to imagine that could be passed before we get a new congress but that is exactly what he is talking about. if you won't pass this bill. we'll get a congress in there that will pass it. tell us what you're going to do. that is the right thing to do. the other then he said in there, was making the other tax cuts permanent. now with a corporate tax cuts, i believe are permanent but the personal income tax cuts are not permanent. they should be made permanent as well. gregg: yeah. >> so we all know what it will be like over the long term. it is just common sense, gregg. he is going on common sense,

forcing people to reveal who they are. gregg: democratic presidential candidates have a different kind of common sense. for example, they want to raise corporate tax rate, inherent where it was? capital gains would be taxed at ordinary incomes. what would do that to the economy with that? >> you know if you tax wealth, you're going to get less wealth. you will have a stock market collapse that will proceed to a very large decline in income and employment, in prosperity. if you want to vote for a downturn, a recession or if you, got elizabeth warren to, bernie sanders or a depression, you will get that. if those are the people you want, if that is the outcome you want, vote for them. frankly i love prosperity. i love it for my children, grandchildren, for for everyone else's children and grandchildren. for all of us, a rising tide really does raise all boats, gregg. good economics is what kennedy did.

it is what reagan did. it what's bill clinton did. it is what donald trump is doing. let's keep the prosperity going. gregg: in voting booth per art laffer, you have a choice, prosperity or recession, depression. well-put. art laffer, good to see you as always. thanks very much. >> one last one. one last one, reagan defeated mondale 49 out of 50 states. mondale was a great candidate. reagan gave us prosperity that is the way to win elections. gregg: you were involved, art laffer, thank you very much. coming up, fox news says that the pentagon is likely deploy missile defense systems more widespread around iraqi bases housing american troops after the recent iranian missile attacks. that is coming up. my money should work as hard as i do. so i use my freedom unlimited card

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♪. gregg: hillary clinton slammed with a 50 million-dollar defamation lawsuit by tulsi gabbard after allegedly characterizing gabbard as a russian asset. let's take it now to our guest, conservative commentator kristin tate, author of the new book, "the liberal invasion of red state america." congratulations on the new book. i look forward to reading it. gregg: [inaudible]. this is a big but, i was glad to see tulsi gabbard bring this defamation lawsuit because evidence was pretty compelling this was slanderous. it is about time people be held accountable. >> i mean hillary clinton didn't mention tulsi gabbard by name which might be sort of problematic. gregg: her aide did. >> we all know hillary clinton meant tulsi.

it is great to see her fighting back. gregg, tulsi is the only rational democrat running for president. gregg: i agree. >> she would have a chance, one of the best chances beating donald trump in a general election. she has no, no shot at the nomination. she is more moderate than these far lefties. she is veteran. i like her stance on ending wars. they don't want having to do with her because she is not pedaling a platform giving everyone free everything. i wish her best of luck with this lawsuit. if anything this shine as spotlight how unfair political elites to some of the candidates. i don't like bernie sanders but the way they treated him back in 2016? the dnc was awful to bernie. gregg: tulsi gabbard is actually intelligent, articulate. she is not crazy left. i like her military experience. i think it brings depth and meaning to her positions on

foreign policy. speaking of bernie sanders though, clinton, hillary clinton, she can't resist resurrecting her old feud with bernie. so she says this in an interview, quote, nobody likes him. nobody wants to work with him. he has got nothing. he is a career politician. it is all just baloney. and i feel so bad that people got sucked into it. she is actually making a legitimate point. >> i have to say i agree with hillary clinton and i'm glad that she is pointing out bernie is an establishment politician. bernie loves portraying himself as an outsider but he is the ultimate d.c. insider. gregg: oh, yeah. >> this man has been in the house an senate for 30 years. he knows nothing other than being a politician. federal taxpayers subsidized bernie's life to the tune of $4.5 million over the years. hillary clinton has a valid point. but donald trump has to be

sitting back smiling over all of this because every time, every time hillary clinton opens her mouth, it helps donald trump. it highlights how fractured the left is right now. washington, the swamp is filled with people like bernie sanders who never had a real job, other than being a politician in washington or their home state. chuck schumer is another guy right out of college, goes to work on capitol hill. becomes a congressman, becomes a senator. has the guy ever had a real job? no. >> all the top-tier democrats. look at bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, joe biden, none of these candidates have created a single private sector job in the last 50 years. now these people want to take over the whole u.s. economy. gregg: right. >> it is terrifying. they don't what understands that drives economic growth. gregg: they're good at spending other people's money because they never had to earn it in a business for other people. clinton said last night, she is like walking this whole thing back, her insult of bernie

sanders. that she will support whoever the nominee is. really? >> it will be pretty tepid support if it is bernie. >> donald trump hopes that hillary clinton ask vigorously stumping for whoever get the nomination because hillary clinton isn't just despised by the right but also the left. there are lots of democrats who really don't like her. they think she ran a lousy campaign against a winnable candidate, basically handing 2016 over to donald trump. hey the democrats cannot afford to lose any votes to take back the white house. they need progressive bernie sanders people and more establishment candidate. that is why she is walking it back. gregg: hillary clinton has been on a me tour, ever since she lost the presidential election in 2016. it is books, constant, you know appearances on tv, especially you know the comedy shows at night. now this documentary about me.

that is all about me. that should be her middle name, all about me. but she, i think she has this dream, sort of mimicking mlk's, i have a dream. her dream is in is a deadlocked convention. she walks out on to the stage, declares herself, queen of the world. i which of save you, democrats. i will be the nominee. >> it is really pathetic and i don't think she has any support from either side of the aisle. she represents everything voters come to hate. gregg: you failed some times running for president, we can't do it again. >> these political dynasties have got to go. people are sick of the clintons. we want new people in there. that is why trump did so well in 2016. gregg: even ad lee stevenson threw in the towel, i run enough for president. harold stassen no. bloomberg in a new poll in

fourth place but only 9%. $248 million in ads get you nine point? >> he is still surging. we're less than a year away from the general election. there is no front-runner. gregg: he will buy the presidency. >> the fact he is doing as well as he is, speaks to how weak the field is. the fact for democrats, they don't have any candidate who is articulate, embracing reasonable left of center policies but has the fighting spirit to take on trump. so democrats have left without anyone, a moderate. even joe biden has become radical. gregg: bloomberg is an empty vessel. >> he is. gregg: first he was -- >> zero charisma. gregg: he was democrat, became a republican, a republican, an independent, then a democrat again. it is bloomberg party he ought to run on? >> the fact he is doing as well as he is shows there is hunger more of a moderate. he is more of a moderate compared to other people in the field. joe biden was supposed to own the moderate plane but he is

pushing a five trillion dollar climate plan. his health care plan is obamacare on steroids. this is the problem with primaries. it forces candidates to play to the most extreme wing of their. gregg: bloomberg would be first candidate to not campaign, stay in the fancy mansion in manhattan. it is the street. he will buy ads. buy ads, two billion dollars, which is chum change. he is worth 62 b stay home. don't go to iowa. don't go to new hampshire. buy nothing but television ads. don't be in debates, or grant interviews to the "new york times" for endorsement. he bought the mayor's races three times here in new york. >> yeah, i have seen him speak before. he lacks the likability factor. gregg: charismatically challenged. >> yeah. i can't believe he is doing as well as he is, despite all the money. gregg: if he held a rally only

cats and dogs would come. if it is here in new york, rodents. >> right. gregg: thank you, kristin tate. good to see you. >> thank you, gregg. gregg: we'll get to the report that pentagon will deploy a missile defense system to an iraqi base housing american troops. don't go away. actually from . 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.

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learn more about the condition at factsonhand.com gregg: fox news reporting that the pentagon likely deploying a missile defense system to the base in iraq housing american troops after iran's ballistic missile attack on the base earlier this month. this comes after more u.s. servicemembers were sent to germany, a medical facility there, complaining of some head injuries, some trauma injuries following the attack. let's welcome my next guest, fox news military analyst, retired colonel date hunt. great to see you as always.

given missile attacks on bases where u.s. troops are housed do we need more widespread effective missile defense system in iraq? >> yes, we have great early warning as we saw in the last attack. in. sa provided in this case, so did iran. yes, if you're going to keep people at al-assad close to iranian border. these missiles cause consciouses, it is a big deal. yeah, something like the iron dome the israelis have. but we have to absolutely protect your people out there. gregg: initial reports as i mentioned said there were no injuries. now turns out 11 people sent to germany. another reason why early assessments, we should always be kept al of? >> absolutely. saying goes, first report is always wrong. we've been at this almost 19 years. we should be better at it than

this. this is field report that gets filtered and winds up in the situation room and they got it wrong. if we're evacuating soldiers out of iraq into germany as you mentioned, then they got probably concussion injuries, not shrapnel. but just as damaging with traumatic brain injuries that can happen. good luck to the guys that were injured. the initial report was wrong. gregg: i want to ask you about something else. iran's president rue happey any saying today, i will quote him, we have never sought nuclear weapons. we will never seek a nuclear weapon. is there ever reason to believe he is lying? >> there is every reason to believe. yes, they have been seeking it. they have the money. they have got the help. chinese and russians to seek that. that is one of the reasons there was a treaty. but the world has got to pay very close attention to iran. we did not, we were not able to stop north korea. we really need to stop iran for getting a nuke weapon. which they are seeking.

gregg: two days ago iran's prime minister hauled off and said i think we'll pull out of the nonproliferation treaty. you only do that if you're thinking about building nuclear weapons. i think that answers our question for us. i do want to ask you about saudi arabia. state tv there reporting that the saudis are asking the united states to remove sudan from the terror list which would effectively lift some financial and debt penalties on sudan. bad idea to lift those and to take them off the list? >> yeah. bad going to terrible. i have no idea why the saudis are asking for this. sudan is on the list because of all the terrorist organizations that are in that country. sudan has very little government to speak of. so that is why it is on there. should not come off. we need, that is part of the world we need to pay a lot of attention to. makes no sense why saudis are asking this. we should not be paying attention to them on this issue

at all. gregg: colonel david hunt. colonel, thanks. i got a little more time i'm told. i've been freed up with a little bit more time. now that we have some distance between the president's actions and taking out a notorious terrorist soleimani, and the iranian response, to all of those people who said, oh, going to be world war iii, now that things have sort of settled somewhat, we still have to be on guard. they have to be cautious. they will perhaps use proxies to attack u.s. interests? >> sure. this was a delicate high-wire act that was necessary, killing soleimani and the head of the iraqi militia that was going after our embassy. we did it with very precision and a c-130 gunship, not missiles but that night, as we

all remember, we thought this could be real trouble. between iran and us and intermediaries there was a solution which was kind of elegant, we got 11 guys wounded, for them to throw missiles at us, not hit anything, we did the same thing when we shot 50 plus cruise missiles into syria with a base that had russians on it, told everybody what we were doing. look, the best, the best outcome so far but killing this guy soleimani was years and years late but he was also the second most powerful man in iran and we have to, as you said, be very diligent. iran has a worldwide reach. we are exposed worldwide. so we have to pay attention. gregg: all right. colonel david hunt, good to see you as always. thank you very much. >> thank you. gregg: lou dobbs joins with us a look what is going on? lou, we're day two isn't this -- >> is it day two already? my gosh. gregg: there has been a run on

no-doze at walgreen's, lou. >> to no avail. gregg: this is bromide for insomniacs, isn't it? >> the liliputianss, these people going after a giant, president trump, they should be ashamed but they're not. greg, thanks. joining us at the national committee chair, ronna mcdaniel. former reagan political director, the savant himself, ed rollins. with the latest developments from the coronavirus, and what they are doing, we'll have senior fellow gordon chang. peter schweitzer on his blockbuster new book, profiles in corruption. the 2020 dems better watch out. tammy brings among our guests

hope you join us at the to of the hour. gregg, back to you. gregg: lou if americans had the choice of watching adam schiff drone on and on, reruns of "laverne and shirley," they would pick the latter, wouldn't they? >> i would. i am old enough to know what you're talking about, gregg. adam schiff, tom shillue does an impression he does, so spot on. gregg: he does. >> so amazing. so much fun. thanks so much, gregg. gregg: lou, thanks very much. still ahead, president trump says speaker nancy pelosi should spend more time on fixing her home city of san francisco, which is a mess, and less time on impeaching me.

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>> the republican party has never been so unified. you've seen that too. 195 or 196-0 in the house twice. three democrats came to our side. i think we'll have some people come to our side. it is a hoax, it's a terrible thing and it's a hoax. gregg: the president reacting to

his impeachment trial in the senate, speaking to our maria bartiromo before leaving the world economic forum in switzerland. let's bring in former federal prosecutor jim trusty for some legal perspective. jim, great to have you with us. >> sure. gregg: the president's principle defense first and foremost, even if you accept all of the allegations lefted by schiff and nadler, the two articles of impeachment are defective on their face because they fail to state impeachable offenses. no crimes, no violations of law, unlike all previous presidential impeachments. is that a valid defense? >> yeah, i think so, gregg. that is a hugely important starting point that should be the key point of emphasis, not only point but the key point as the president's defenders step up which is to continuously say, look, we have the benefit of the written word of the

constitution. you don't have to dig around in "the federalist" papers to look for legislative history. we have the plane language this stuff by definition is not a crime. like civil litigation you file a motion to dismiss to failure to state a claim, stuff like this dismost without witnesses. gregg: while ask you about a motion to dismiss. while might not be a good idea to pursue it on article i, article ii seems to be a slam-dunk motion to dismiss, because article ii is saying it is obstruction of congress for you to assert a legally recognized privilege. i mean that is ludicrous, isn't it? >> put it this way, probably half the lawyers in d.c. would be locked up for obstruction if you're not allowed to defend yourself this is typical stuff. you can demand a subpoena to show up for court. should be the same with congress. you can say, hey, i got your subpoena, i have a privilege to assert or i will file a motion

to quash. there was constitution to avoid subpoenas. they didn't issue subpoenas. there was no fight below. that was the choice of chairman schiff. i agree. i think second article of impeachment here is essentially disagreeing with adam schiff. i would hope for the sense of history and precedent, no matter what happens with the first article that that second article gets tossed at the midpoint here. gregg: bill clinton asserted executive privilege 20 times. obama famously asserted with eric holder "fast & furious" congressional investigation. if this is the low standard for an impeachable offense, then those other presidents should have been impeached as well and future presidents will? >> bill bennett called it the chiefable of. that second article is a bad precedent for the rest of time if it stands. gregg: back to article number one abuse of power, not only

does that fail to state a crime, which historically has been the case in presidential impeachments, but the facts don't support a crime. all of the allegations that went on for weeks and weeks, extortion, and bribery and campaign finance violation, in the end, all of that was dropped. and none of them were alleged? >> right. they couldn't actually come up with a federal statute. a high crime or misdemeanor. you watched the democrats kind of flail for that in terms of which statute they would latch on to. we end up with this very squishy notion of abuse of power. i think it lends itself to the second part of the defense for the president to talk about process. talk about adam schiff. and really direct everything towards the unfairness of the process with adam schiff which underscores how ridiculous it is to have something this vague as your chief article. gregg: i have 30 seconds left but schiff repeatedly tells senators oh, the evidence is

overwhelming. why then does he need new witnesses that he didn't pursue? isn't defeating his own argument? >> well, it is hail mary, right? he is an advocate. i don't expect him to say this is weak stuff but he comes in, says i need more. that is the hope they turn some hearts on the republican side by having some bombshell comes out of thin air. i don't expect it. i expect they would announce it whether or not. he is hoping for new information that moves the needle. gregg: he is telling the senate an affront to due process if you don't have witnesses, like the due process you deprived trump of in the house proceedings. jim trusty, great as always. >> thanks, gregg. gregg: coming up next, new video of mexican authorities, flying, busing caravan members who were on their way to the u.s. back to honduras. stay with us. u eating poop earl.

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seamlessly. the unit is from my district, the 101st airborne division. i looked at where the sole derps are on the border. it's night and day from when i was there in june. that's a big part with the president basically threatening the mexican leadership with tariffs. and they sent troops to their border and our southern border. it's been great. 75% decrease. the soldiers and their leaders are doing a fantastic job. the integration with cbp has been awesome. gregg: do we need more judges and do we need to do something about the incentive that causes

people to flood across our borders illegally. >> the protocols president trump negotiated with mexico has decreased the incentive. i think that's why you are seeing the 70% decrease. having the mexican military national guard at the border. i was able to look across the rio grande and saw them sitting there doing their job. we are in a much better place reflective of the president's job and the army. gregg: there is still a big smutionling proper -- there is still a big smuggling problem, right? >> yes. but when you put those troops on the border they can concentrate in those areas and catch folks

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