we should praise government when they actually put creative ideas to the marketplace and let consumers decide. david: jonathan, quickly. >> i guess i'm, i guess i'm too old for personalized license plates. david: what an admission. that does it for "bulls & bears." liz: happening this hour, president trump arriving just minutes ago in atlantic city, new jersey, on his way to a jersey shore rally after unveiling a new middle east peace plan. nancy pelosi now says quote, there are some areas of common ground with democrats. we'll tell you what's in the deal and what's not. and we have breaking news, senator mitch mcconnell says, republicans do not have the votes to block impeachment witnesses. this as the president's legal team wrapped up the defense, blasting back hard against the bolton book leaks saying you cannot impeach based on inadmissible leaks of unpublished manuscripts. voters are tuning out impeachment. this amid more bad news for the

bidens. "politico" out with a new expose' even more revelations about how the biden family cashed in on the vice president's name. more details on trump impeachment defense attorney pam bondi's withering takedown of the bidens and their conflicts of interest. to mounting global concern over the coronavirus. it is becoming even more deadly and possibly less contained. reuters now reporting another 25 people have died in china. authorities say it is under control but in the face of china rapidly building hospitals with thousands of beds, countries evacuating citizens is it contained? a group of doctors out with a new warning. in spite of it all u.s. markets rebounding after yesterday's selloff. weeks to go before the democratic iowa caucus. bernie sanders is in a powerful position of financial strength as muckraker peter schweizer shine as big light on this. as bernie sanders complains taxpayers must pay and do more,

bernie sanders's government work has made sanders and his family rich. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. liz: let's get back to the breaking news. senator mcconnell says republicans do not have votes to block impeachment witnesses. let's get right to edward lawrence on capitol hill with more. edward? reporter: this was made in a gop private meeting that happened there. we have a source to fbn says that is exactly what mitch mcconnell said. they do not have the votes to block witnesses going forward in this impeachment trial. now today the president's defense team basically wrapped up. they finished the testimony after a little more than 10 hours of speaking. jay sekulow, the president's defense attorney said, this impeachment proceedings is basically over. policy differences. from the beginning democrats

have been going after the president from the moment he took office here. he warnses if you lower the bar of impeachment to this level, it could damage the fabric of the republic. he says that then other presidents, future presidents will be held to this lower standard. >> the trial of the leader of the free world and duly-elected president of the united states, it is not a game of leaks and unsourced manuscripts. to lower the bar of impeachment based on these articles of impeachment, would impact the functioning of our constitutional republic and the framework of that constitution for generations. reporter: sekulow addressed head on the article about the leaks of "the new york times" manuscript from john bolton. he says the facts there are no facts basically in that. he pointed out the responses from the president and

vice president pushing back against the information in the book. now lead counsel there, pat cipollone finishing up the defense, basically using the house managers words from the past against them. listen to this. >> i expect history will show that we've lowered the bar on impeachment so much, we have bean the seal on this extreme penalty so cavalierly, that it will be used as a routine tool to fight political battles. my fear is, that when a republican wins the white house, democrats will demand payback. reporter: and you heard it there. he said that you are absolutely right. now he says that he would like to see this wrapped up and finished. tomorrow starts the questions, 16 hours of questions. he will go back and forth. democrats and republicans getting to write their questions down and submittings them to the

chief justice. back to you. liz: great to see you, he had word. thank you so much. let's bring in congressman greg stuebe from house judiciary. your reaction? do you think republicans will call in both john bolton and the bidens? they said it could last up to even may, what do you think? >> if they call one witness, they need to call all the witnesses republicans had. there is list of house republicans were in the house. we were denied those witnesses. i want to hear adam schiff, what contact he had with the whistleblower before he filed the complaint. like to hear from hunter biden. joe biden. all witnesses republicans talked about hearing. if they call one witness, you open the door to allow all sorts of witnesses by members of the senate. if you call one, i don't see how you can vote against calling others if they're the witnesses trump defense team wants to call. liz: this will be a battle royale then. getting back to john bolton, democrat adam schiff even

attacked john bolton for not testifying in the house. it was because of john bolton's book deal. republican senator john barrasso from wyoming says there is nothing new about john bolton's book. what is your take on that? >> adam schiff says the evidence is so overwhelmingly and incriminating, if it is so overwhelming and incriminating why do they need witnesses to testify about it. that is one issue against witnesses. alan dershowitz he pave the defense i yesterday i believe it was, even if you take what john bolton as being true that is not impeachable offense. you have not met the constitutional burden of high crimes and misdemeanors. the trump defense team well argue the point, even if he is brought in to testify. liz: looks like viewers are tuning out impeachment. maybe 5% of total available viewers, adult have youership watched. it is down 80% during the nixon water gate hearings. 30, 33% during clinton.

does bolton's accusation, bolton's accusation change a key element of the president's defense, that the president released aid to ukraine without getting any investigation of the bidens and ukraine didn't feel any pressure? does that change any of that? >> i don't think it changes anything. go back to the actual fact west know. the facts we know, we have the transcript. the american people can read for themself. no quid pro quo in the transcript. there is no discussion about the aid at all in the transcript. we know that for a fact that wasn't a basis, or what was going on. go back to the facts. the president is in a good place. here. there are certainly not 20 votes in the u.s. senate by republicans to convict him. this may go on for weeks and weeks if they start calling multiple different witnesses. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. liz: more reaction to the president's middle east peace plan with embattled israeli prime minister netanyahu by his side. even nancy pelosi seas there are

common areas that the democrats do agree with here but has already been rejected by the palestinian authority and hamas. here is what the president said about it today. watch? >> i want this deal to be a great deal for the palestinians, it has to be. today's agreement is a historic opportunity for the palestinians to finally achieve an independent state of their very own. after 70 years of little progress, this could be the last opportunity they will ever have. last for a lot of reasons. we'll never have a team like we have right now. liz: welcome back, look who is here, former israeli ambassador to the u.s., danny ayalon. >> good to be here. liz: offers path of statehood over four year period. renounce terrorism, renounce violence, recognize jerusalem as capitol of israel, will they buy it? >> we'll hear probably not but what else is new?

for the last 100 years they have not accepted any offers on the table. not only rejected it in return they started violence intifada. this is exactly what abbas is threatening now. i think this is very unfortunate. this is a betrayal of the palestinian leadership of the interests of their people. this is a great plan. the fact it has been almost universally accepted, except by the palestinians, the fact that arab countries whether tacitly or not are also behind it, look it offers a great opportunity to the people, to the region f they do not take it, again, this is a missed opportunity but, maybe, i agree with the president, when he said, this may their last opportunity for an independent state but maybe they don't want it. liz: two states. so the president did release a map of what the two states would look like. inincludes a tunnel connecting the west bank to gaza? what's that about? >> they want ad con con con they

would do it underground. they won't have any concern about terrorism so people can travel from gaza to the west bank. liz: okay. >> >> diaw, samaria without inspect us by israel. liz: it would incorporate large jewish settlements into israel proper. is this effectively annexation what they consider their land? >> well, it is annexationly annexation of jewish land, always been jewish land. sovereignty over judea and is a mayor raw has always been jewish. it has been the capital of the jewish people for 3,000 years. it has been documented in archaeology. the fact they get their own state, it is not something which is obvious. they have never had a state of their own. they get an independent state,

east jerusalem, parts of east jerusalem as its capital. also -- liz: sounds like a pretty solid deal. you like groups like fattah hamas, islamic jihad still calling shots. are they losing influence with the palestinian people? >> we'll see. also the palestinians if they also understand the plan and they see they can get dignity, sovereignty in, independence, not only that liz, they will get a massive help, economic help of $50 billion. which will create one million or more jobs. and palestinians unfortunately, they are just poverty stricken. it can change immensely their situation, their future, the future of their children and again, if think don't accept it, it is too bad for them. liz: it is a great point you make. ambassador, thanks for joining us. >> pleasure. >> great to have you on. next mounting global concern over the coronavirus it is becoming more deadly by the day. reuters breaking news, 25 new deaths in china.

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16 countries. breaking news, another 25 deaths in china. the new death toll at 131 in china. more than 4500 infected. here's what is happening. as airports increase their screenings, more cases are being found and a shortage of test kits led experts to warn the real scope of the outbreak may be getting worse. jeff flock in chicago with more. jeff? reporter: extraordinary pictures coming out of china, liz, this evening. i start with one. it is a picture of a pilot at wuhan international airport. he is moving a cargo plane there. as perhaps you see from the picture if we have it it shows him in not only the mask that we've come to see many people wear but actually a full protective suit. that is kind of the mentality what's boeing on over there right now. as you point out, breaking news additional deaths beyond ones confirmed earlier today in china

where 4500 plus in terms of confirmed folks that have been infected. the government calls it, a quote, ongoing outbreak right now and they're calling on the chinese government to allow the cdc and the world health organization to have boots on the ground in china. that has not been allowed yet. alex azar though, health and human services secretary today saying here in the u.s. we shouldn't panic, yet. >> it is very difficult to make predictions with an emerging infectious disease. viruses are unpredictable. why the message is potentially very serious health issue. but at the moment, there is nothing individual americans should be worried about but that is at moment. reporter: leave you with interesting pictures we see only tonight on the fox business network. these were obtained by one of our producers, her aunt lives in a town about 600 miles from wuhan, the center of the outbreak.

it is a tourist destination. right now it would be packed with folks on the streets because of lunar new year. it is city of 3 1/2 million people. you see almost no one out there. it is a city, now, bigger than chicago. it is now a ghost town. liz, it is not that people have left the town. they are simply staying off the streets, staying inside and not interacting with one another where perhaps this virus can be spread. tough situation. liz: wow, jeff flock, thanks so much for your reporting there. a group of doctors, they call themselves physicians for civil defense, they track potential epidemics. they now warn it is doubtful and u.s. global agencies are prepared for this outbreak. with us a doctor, mount sinai's director of infection prevention and control. doctor, reports coming out of china -- good to see you, sir. thanks so much for joining us. china news reports warning that tens of thousands could get infected there.

asia times reporting that 150,000 a day could be infected, scientists are saying that. they're talking about building hospitals with thousands of beds. your reaction? >> so what we're reading and what might happen might be two different things. these are predictions or projections but how accurate they are, it is a little too early to say anything about it. liz: the virus is infectious, right? in two week incubation period, up to two weeks but people don't show symptoms during that time. that is different from sars where, you were infectious when you showed symptoms of sars, right? >> so, the virus itself, what we understand right now or what has been understood about the virus at this time is, that during the incubation period, like these non-infectious people, start showing infection signs for humans. at that time they are more

infectious. some reports out of china say it is, people might be infectious before this time but those are, have not been validated in u.s. experience at this time. liz: okay. >> what is the cdc says. liz: the other thing is, johns hopkins university built real time map in china. it seems to move exponentially as we do more airport screenings and more test kits become available. are you worried this will spread into other countries around the world and in the u.s. in a deeper way? >> we'll see more cases. will it spread, it hasn't spread so far. most of the things have been well-contained. what the reports we're getting from cdc, they're monitoring several people, about 100 or more people they're monitoring. the five people that have been tested positive so far have been, have been under the monitoring already. so seems like everything is very

well-controlled at this time based -- liz: china is moving, reports indicate to shut down these wildlife markets where different species of animals are eaten and consumed. do you think that should be a permanent ban? >> so really it is up to their own risk assessment. seems like what they assess, there have beenillnesses associated with these markets. liz: do you think personally they should be stopped and shut down, for health reasons? >> i think the food control or food insection should be a little bit more stringent and those, those are the things that chinese government might be looking at. should they be shut down, i don't have enough experience to say anything about that. liz: doctor, great to see you. thanks for joining us. next up, it is a week to go before the democrat iowa caucus as bernie sanders, he is in a powerful position of financial strength but author peter

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♪. liz: bernie sanders in a powerful position of financial strength. this as author peter schweitzer shining a big light how bernie sanders complains taxpayers must do and pay more. this as bernie sanders own government work has made sanders and his family rich. let's bring in my next guest, "wall street journal" editorial page whiter jillian melchior. >> good to see you. liz: your take on this story. >> there are airs where bernie escaped skepticism and scrutiny in 2016. he shouldn't do this time. i did a lot of reporting on burlington college where his wife was president. ended up leaving with $200,000

with golden parachute i don't collapsed the college. >> raising tuition, which i think is funny. this college got a huge loan. there were questions at the time whether bernie's political influence may have had some decision on the college getting the loan. jane sanders, who is very influential within bernie's campaign and political life, paying her daughters woodworking school. the president of the college actually called this a sweetheart deal. liz: we've been reporting on "the evening edit" how he and his wife open up non-profits, think tanks, raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, shut them down. they steer money to friends and family members public records show. the non-profit they open and shut, sanders institute, sanders wife and son ran it. it was muddy alliance between family fund-raising an campaigning. they raised again, probably over a million bucks there. then bernie put his wife on city

government payrolls whether he was mayor and in congress, put her on congressional payrolls. this old town media buy shop, sits in a private home somewhere in virginia. campaign ads for bernie sanders, $83,000, 83 million rather sleuthed through this off the books media buy shop. looks like sanders' wife es friends run it. >> jeff weaver, talking about it, one of his advisors at the time talking about commissions. we see with his congressional campaign, paying entities registered to the sanders home address where karina driscoll, the stepdaughter, jane sanders daughter, and jane sanders were the registered agents for these entities. i think what we're seeing here a history of politics and sanders family business mixing in a way. i think for the sanders campaign, much in the way of the biden campaign it will be a lot harder to ding trump about

nepotism when you have seen politics become a family business in this sort of way. at least appearance of nepotism on their end. you know, again i will just hit, when some of the vermont publications were looking into this, bernie sanders got really prickly with the vermont press about this. i think something he never had to answer hard questions about. liz: if you were making money off of taxpayers nickel, you are accountable. he has a history of dodging questions at debates. we know the very month digger, a journalistic non-profit called his wife, she hung up on them asking questions. why are they above accountability here? >> i don't think any candidate is -- liz: they act like they are. >> i'm curious with the congressional campaign, talk about grassroots donors, but this shouldn't go to enrich a political career and family business. he criticized family dynasties. liz: i covered the irs so long it is easy to launch a non-profit. you hang out a shingle, say you're a non-profit. file non-profit irs forms the

irs only catches you after the fact. i'm telling you government elected officials, government workers know how to work it. they know how to work the system. the voters see this with the bidens, they see it with the sanders family and they don't like it. in other words, they are so above everything, they are telling taxpayers how to live, do as i say, not as i do, right? >> i also think it is really important that the press look into this stuff and dig into it because especially with a non-profits and political campaigns, a lot is public record. i was very surprised in 2016 how little scrutiny, how little questions were asked about this. liz: when you don't run a business or even venture to try, you live off of the government's nickel, you know, it is easy to treat taxpayer costs as a rounding error. bernie sanders now can't say what is cost for all of his plans. it was in the trillions. he says now may be even more. that is outrageous. the taxpayers and voter deserve better. they deserve more.

>> it is something that will not be paid for by the rich. it will be paid for by the middle class. liz: right. >> because it is these huge plans. if i were a bernie donor i would have a lot of questions where the money has gone for non-profits and campaigns. liz: he has three homes. three homes. okay? three. we'll stay on the story. will you keep digging? >> absolutely. >> one of the best journalists in the country doing digging there. jillian melchior. come back soon. bad news for the bidens. "politico" hammering away. they did a expose' how the biden family is cashing in on a new way on the vice president's name. pam bondi and her withering takedown of the bidens and their conflicts in ukraine. the story next. ♪. that turn these challenges into opportunities. it's these unique companies with creative business models that will generate value for our investors. that's why i go beyond the numbers. ♪

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liz: president trump holding a rally in wildwood, new jersey. a massive crowd gathering for hours and hours. fox news kristin fisher at the rally with more.

kristin, we're hearing they started lining up really earlier and drinking magritas? what is going on there? reporter: magaritas and subpoena -- coladas. pretty catchy name. this is the jersey shore in january. usually a ghost time this time of year. but the first people in line got there on sunday and 2:00 p.m. and waited waited in line for ts and two nights to come in here tonight. this wildwood convention center on the boardwalk is absolutely packed. this is all standing room has been spoken for. it just goes to show you that while new jersey is overwhelmingly a blue state this, is a district that is, has deep red pockets and president trump is here to try to help congressman jeff van drew win

re-election. congressman van drew, remember he is a democrat who opposed impeachment and the fact is, from the democratic party, joined the republican party, so president trump is here to help him out. they said, that is the president primary reason for being here. they also see congressman van drew as embodying what perhaps a lot of democrats feeling in the country which is dills illusionment in this party how the impeachment proceedings played out. tonight, expect president trump to be speaking to some of those democrats, perhaps trying to get some of them to consider voting for him. i've been to a lot of trump rallies. in terms of crowd size, enthusiasm, location really stands out. it really does feel like a ghost town that has come to life in the middle of winter.

all for president trump. liz: great to see you. thank you so much. more on president trump's attorney pam bondi and her withering takedown of the bide ends. joe biden was obama's point man from ukraine while his son hunter earned a million bucks at a cushy job at a ukraine energy company. watch this. >> "the new yorker" reported, quote, once or twice a year he attended burisma board meetings and energy forums that that took place in europe, end quote. when speaking to abc news about his qualifications to be on burisma's board, hunter biden did not point to any usual qualifications of a board member. hunter biden had no experience in natural gas, no experience in the energy sector, no experience with ukrainian regulatory affairs. as far as we know he doesn't speak ukrainian. so naturally the media has asked questions about his board membership.

why was hunter biden on this board? liz: let's bring in my next guest, former fbi assistant director bill gavin. great to see you, bill. house democrats say this debunked. joe biden's own campaign says the media have to say this is deunbunked. your reaction. >> democrats have jumped jumpeda hole without building a exit ramp. they raised the issue. they didn't have enough testimony from credible people to prove two articles of impeachment which they rushed out of the house over to the senate and now they want the senate to do the job for them. in this particular case the, they're just not going to be able to get that done. they want to produce additional witnesses and of course talking about john bolton, but, in doing that, they highlighted hunter biden. nobody can say that hunter biden isn't some integral part of this whole scenario that they have created for themselves.

it is going to be a catastrophe. liz: abc, good morning, america, "washington post," "new york times," ukrainian law enforcement, obama state department, pam bondi cited all them, saying they were concerned about this. democrats own impeachment witness george kent raised biden conflicts of interest to the obama administration. to your point, it is a good one. he joined burisma april 2014. days later, british government seized bank accounts of owner of burisma and opened up a money laundering case. your reaction to that. >> burisma was one of the most corrupt organizations in a somewhat corrupt country ukraine. what did we expect to come up with this. what i question, common sensibility of former vice president of the united states to lead this country as president having done something like this, exposed his son to

this kind of an environment simply because he was getting $83,000 a month. liz: should joe biden have recused himself from overseeing ukraine for the obama administration? senator tom cotton is saying that. your reaction to the "new york times" reporting last september that the owner of burisma on whose board hunter biden sat was happy to see the ukraine prosecutor gone. the guy that biden wanted to get rid of, get tossed out because "the new york times" alleges this prosecutor was shaking down the owner of burisma for bribes. i mean that is, that is an interesting angles that hasn't gotten a lot of coverage. if republican senators want witnesses, this is going to come out. your reaction? >> it has to come out, liz. if in fact they are successful and now i heard that the senate doesn't have the votes to stop calling witnesses. if in fact they get the witness that is, they're going to have

to cough up the bidens and this is going to be the downfall of this whole thing for them, i'm quite sure of that. liz: stay on this for a second. more bad news for the bidens. "politico" reporting that a lobbiest who used to work with joe biden's office, he has close ties to joe biden, he brought property on the virgin islands from biden's brother james biden and james biden gave him a private mortgage. we don't know if it was a sweetheart mortgage but we see the kinds of deals the biden family the looks like insider deals and people associated with them, getting pretty cushy deals. your reaction to now "politico" on the story. >> liz, nothing passes smell test of any of these individual things. when you put them all together, one has to tilt their head to the side, saying what is going on here? what is going on is, i think just some pretty poor judgment on the part of the former vice president of the united states. i agree.

he should have recused himself for anything involving his son but it seems like he was maker of the deal, to make sure his son was put in there, with absolutely no qualifications. it's deplorable. liz: we're staying on the story. bill gavin, we have you back in. thank you for joining us. great to see you. look who is here, lou dobbs to join us with a look what is coming up on his show. >> liz, tonight we'll take the president live from the big rally in wildwood, new jersey, as soon as he steps on stage. to make it very clear, if the senate and the house think they want to mess with the president, they picked the wrong one. the people are showing up in droves at these rallies. joining us at the top of the hour also tonight, dr. anthony fauci, director, national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. he will be talking about the latest on the coronavirus. also among our guests, house minority leader kevin

mccarthy. he is raising tons of money and the trump defense team is wrapping up its final day of opening arguments. former white house political director ed rollins joins me. we'll be taking up the president's rally and the great blue state of state of new jersey. all that and more, please john us at the top of the hour. liz? liz: great to see you. thanks for joining us, lou dobbs. >> i am delighted. liz: same here. coming up the million dollar question, now taking washington by storm. who leaked the bolton manuscript to "the new york times"? the store next. today, i'm earning on a charger. so, just the charger then? ummm... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪. liz: who leaked the bolton manuscript to the "new york times" with allegations about president donald trump and ukraine? ask one of the sharpest minds around, a great writer, byron york, "washington examiner" columnist. welcome back, byron. who do you think leaked it? >> it could be anybody. in classic washington style, a whole lot of people could have done this. this is obviously a book. there are publishing executives, editors, a production process. could have been that. we do know bolton actually sent

a copy of the manuscript on december 30th, to the national security council for what is called prepublication review and clearance. the national security council said nobody outside of the nsc saw it what does that mean? could have been a lot of people there. finally "the new york times" reported that bolton showed the manuscript to quote, close associates. that could mean anybody. bolton's representative denied that report but, even if that is not true, a lot of people had access to the book. liz: you know, reports have, we've seen them, that lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, who, he is the national security expert on ukraine, security council expert who testified for the democrats, that his twin brother works for nsc, review panel that looks at publications. there is no indication or information that set one that leaked it. that is the story that has been out there. >> no, that is not clear at all

now. another thing interesting you should know about the nsc, the book was sent to the nsc for specifically to see if it had any classified information. not for any other reason. not whether there was presidential privilege involved or anything like that, only to see if there was classified information in it. that should have been able to be done fairly quickly, but, the nsc is allowed, if it thinks some passage might be classified to check with another agency about that as well. so, a book can get out more than you think. liz: you know, separate from that, what is going on with leaks in washington? you know should americans take notice about allegations are made about leaks in the intelligence community? let's listen to what nancy pelosi had warned about this a few years ago. watch this. >> there are many very patriotic americans who are engaged in the intelligence community, for

years, decades now. i have saluted their service. wherever the decision is whether it is from the administration as was the case, in the bush administration, to withhold information from congress, i fought that but you don't fight it without a price because they come after you. and they don't always tell the truth about it. liz: meaning the intelligence community. senator chuck schumer told msnbc the same thing in 2017. watch this. >> if you take on the intelligence community they have six ways from sunday getting back at you. so even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman he is being really dumb to do this. liz: we don't know who leaked the manuscript, but that is a concern? >> there is prophetic for senator schumer. there have always been leaks but more serious in the trump administration. think of the leak of the

intercepted conversations that michael flynn had during the transition. this was actually reported now. intercepted conversations are absolutely the highest sort of security possible. and it was leaked. think of the president's actual conversations with two world leaders. the president of mexico and of australia. these were world leader conversations absolutely, totally secret. one has never leaked before and both of them did early on in the clinton, excuse me in the trump administration. which shows you that people with access to the highest levels of classified information were trying to get the president. there is no doubt about it. these were leaks done to harm a new president. this was serious and it was on a level we had not seen before. liz: byron york, thank you so much for your insights and, perspective there we really appreciate you coming on, sir. good to see you. >> thanks so much. liz: next up we'll talk to texas

attorney general ken paxton about nancy pelosi and democrats new push to throw a big wrench. they basically want to undo the president's plans to secure the border. the story next. .. when we started our business

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general joins us. she wants to move on an old bill that would bar the president's travel ban that bars people from countries that have a history of the having extreamists. >> to pass legislation that would allow basically terrorists in our country nation no sense. liz: nancy pelosi is saying this is religious discrimination. if that were true, egypt would be on the list and is not. the list he got from the obama administration and the supreme court has there are upheld it. why fight old battles?

>> it's challenging to me why she wants to go back to a losing argument. these are clearly countries who harbor terrorism and terrorists. i don't know why if she cares about america why she would want his ban lifted. liz: the white house reportedly may expand the travel ban to nigeria, belarus, sudan and tanzania. the constitutional authority to decide who comes into the country and what yardsticks are used to measure it lies with the chief executive. >> he can restrict anyone who he deems to be detrimental to the country. he's making the decision to

protect americans like he should. liz: they are trying to reignite an issue that's already been closed. we had thomas whoman. he says the president sees you and i won't see. that's why he wants to expand the travel ban. do you agree with that? >> yes. common sense would tell you these countries are places that do harbor terrorists. why nancy pelosi doesn't want to protect americans is a mystery to me. liz: u.s. officials recently kicked out saudi military trainees after their colleague shot and killed three sailors. that was saudi arabia individuals there. >> this is a waste of time.

liz: thank you for having us in your homes. thanks for watching. lou dobbs next. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. massive crowds gathering in the blue state of new jersey turning out in hopes of attending the president's rally in wildwood, new jersey. folks started camping out sunday. and by this morning thousands of people were in line outside the wildwood convention center. despite the center's capacity of 7,500, the trump campaign telling us they receivede