[♪] 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 received be hundreds' thousands of requests

for tickets. kristen fisher is in wildwood and has the latest for us. >> i have been to a least trump rallies recently. but the crowd and the location really stands out. this is the jersey shore in january. it's typically a ghost town this time of year. but inside the wildwood convention center, there are no seats, the capacity about 7,000 people. not nearly enough to hold the thousands of people camped out some since sunday at 2:00 p.m. they waited two days and two nights to get in here tonight. the other thing, jersey shore january, a lot of places are typically closed. hotels have reopened. many of them are sold out. bars and restaurants have reopened and offering drink

specials like the maga-ita. so there is a party vibe i haven't quite seen at some of the other rallies. the primary reason president trump is coming here tonight is to campaign for congressman chris van drew. he's democrat turned republican. he was a democrati democratic cn who opposed impeachment. and this is his district. president trump wanted to come here to help him win. i just spoke to someone with the trump campaign. the campaign views van drew as just one of many democrats, democrats around the country have become disillusions with what is happening in the country

with impeachment. lou: a lot of excitement. and the congressman apparently made the right choice switching to the republican party there. in wildwood, new jersey. new jersey is a blue state. the president doesn't care. he seems to want to make it red. today the centers for disease control warning americans to avoid all non-essential travel to china. it's aninit's d it's aning expaf last week's warning. most of the more than 5,500 confirmed cases of the virus are also in china. but the virus has been confirmed in 16 other countries, including five cases here in the united states.

the cdc is expanding its screening for the coronavirus from five ports of entry to 20 ports of entry throughout the country. health and human services secretary alex azar says the united states is take all precautions. >> we said in the united states the risk tony individual american -- the risk to any individual american is extremely low. the individual american, this should not be an impact on their day-to-day life. lou: joining us is dr. anthony fauci. a programming note before we turn to you. we'll be going live to wildwood, new jersey for the president's rally. we only await of course the

president. doctor, it's great to have you with us. i want to focus on the number of cases that expand to 5,500 in china. 131 deaths. your analysis of what that means for the chinese? >> it reflects this an evolving, expanding situation in china. and i would expect the numbers to continue to go up. the real question will be the dramatic effort the chinese are taking in china to contain that epidemic which isn't going to be successful. that's something that we have no guarantee. the expanding numbers are clearly reflective of an outbreak that's accelerating. lou: the number of cases in this country remain confirmed at

five. but now we learn there are more than 100 suspected cases in the united states. so my question to you is, do you have a profile of those 100 suspected cases, men, women, age, et cetera. and get your thoughts on that. >> i think you used the word suspected. it might be a little bit misleading. those are the contacts of the individuals who have been documented to be infected. you used the word suspected. but it may be not any of them have had infection. they may be just contact. in some respects that's good because the cdc is casting a wide net to investigate those who come into contact with those

we know are definitely infected. lou: i appreciate you straightening that out. we also have more good news in the sense none of the deaths from the coronavirus have occurred outside of china. >> i don't think we can make much of that, lou. the fatality rate in china is about 3% to 4%. you are talking about 3,000 cases. so the numbers alone in people outside of the china who are infected, i would not put anything in the fact that the deaths are even lower. so i don't want to get feeling too good about that. but the denominator is still

very small. lou: as we look at what is happening in china, we learned president xi met with the delegation, with the world health organization, has agreed to bring in some you be specified number of teams into china from the world health organization, at the same time declining u.s. help through the cdc. your those about that. >> we are trying to get some of our cdc embedded with the w.h.o. i hope the chinese authorities agree to that. it's a good step to bring the w.h.o. in. i hope that will be followed by our team inside helping. lou: is there anything else all

of us should be thinking about or anything you think is important for us to know. >> it's important to reiterate what secretary azar said today. the risk to the american public is low. but that does not mean we are notetaking this -- that we are not taking this seriously and doing what we can to protect the public. lou: dr. anthony fauci. the leading expert on infectious diseases in the country, in my opinion. the president's legal team today addressed the senate. they brand up their defense. the president's personal attorney, jay sekulow, attacked the validity of john bolton's claims and saying this entire sham is over a difference of

opinion. white house counsel pat cipollone pointed out the hypocrisy over the impeachment two decades ago, especially chuck schumer. >> i expect history will show we lowered the bar on impeachment so much. we have broken the seal on this extreme penalty so cavalierly that it will be used as a routine tool to fight political battles. i'm afraid when a republican wins the white house, the democrats will demand pay back. >> you are right. lou: the radical documents * and their efforts to -- the radical dimms and their efforts to overthrow an american president.

the president's defense team has lamb pond so much by greg gutfeld and the mimicry of tom shillue, he now thinks he is perhaps tom shillue. perhaps someone named steve. crowds with been gathering in southern new jersey waiting to attend president trump's rally in wildwood. china's influence in the ivy league. the head of harvard's chemistry department facing federal charges. we'll have the story and you don't want to miss it here next. we'll be going to wildwood, new jersey as soon as the president steps on to the stage.

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lou: despite the efforts of the president's legal defense team in the dimms' sham impeachment trial, resistant senators appear to be hell-bent on having witnesses and extending for god knows how long, this farce. mitt romney, susan collins.

they want john bolton to testify. lindsey graham wants to see the bolton manuscript. pat toomey wants to make a deal with the dimms. mitch mcconnell confirmed he does not have the votes to block witnesses from testifying in this farce. joining us now, house minority leader kevin mccarthy. let's start with the word we just received from the senate. mitch mcconnell says he does not have sufficient votes in the senate to stop witnesses being called. your thoughts? >> i think that's disappointing. that's not the role for the senate. if they are thinking because the "new york times" on the last day puts an article out that says they might have heard something bolton said because he's selling a book makes no difference.

adam schiff inside the house didn't even subpoena bolton. and it doesn't change the outcome. you have the transcripts of the call. ukraine got the money. ukraine did nothing to get the money. the idea of what they will do to keep moving forward on this to get more witnesses, that's not their role. chairman nadler said on impeachment we have proven it beyond a shadow of a doubt. the senate is supposed to judge the case, note try to make it something different by bringing witnesses in. lou: alan dershowitz giving a brilliant dissertation on the law and the constitutionality. saying straightforwardly. that no matter john bolton has

to say, nothing he can say there change the fact that it is an unimpeachable offense. and it's just stunning to me that the republicans and the u.s. senate didn't have the sense either that or they didn't listen at all to dershowitz. >> they should have listened to him and the other attorneys the president put forward. i think they refuted everything to show why this is sheer political power on the democrats' side to impeach because they can't beat him in an election. you have a chairman of the judiciary committee who ran on being the best for impeachment. but the american public sees through it. lou: and didn't vote for

weaponry for the ukrainians against the russians which is suddenly of such moment to them. imagine this, it's a hypocritical moment for them. let's turn to the -- you mentioned the dimms. what about lankford and graham and collins. those people have the president's -- are supposed to have the president's back. they should stand united as you and your conference under your leadership did throughout. and to watch what is happening here is -- well, it's just appalling. >> if you looked on the house side. remember what speaker pelosi said in march. impeachment was so divisive that it would destroy the country and it had to be overwhelming and

bipartisan. now you are going over to the senate. the idea they listened to the house managers and listened to the president's defense? to vote this down and move forward. the american people expect to us get to work. fentanyl, the senate has actually taken up the bill. we only have 9 days left. it will get rated at a lower level. judiciary committee has not taken that up at all. the entire time has been on impeachment. the chairman of judiciary. that's yes ran for it. apparently that's all they have done. >> it's stunning. when we look at what should have been examined by the senate judiciary committee. and you do recall senator lindsey graham said he will be investigating.

his statement about flexibility as he communicated that from the prime minister to vladimir putin. he could be more flexible after the election. within two years russia was in charge and had taken crimea and had troops on the eastern borders. no investigation. he turns over $150 billion to the iranians, leaves a pallet of cash on a tarmac in iran. and there isn't an investigation. obama is accused of seven times violating the law. not a single investigation. and this judiciary committee under republican control and the chairmanship of lindsey graham hasn't taken up one moment of its time to find out what the truth is. >> every day we learn something more about another bide be

family member -- another biden family member becoming wealthier. now it's another biden brother on a caribbean island. joe biden as the envoy to ukraine he told them they had to fire the prosecutor or they wouldn't get the taxpayer money. when the prosecutor was fired? they no longer investigated that corrupt energy company. but the democrat majority has offered more subpoenaed than they created laws. all they have ever done is try to defeat this president. he will be president after impeachment and he will be sworn in to be president for another four years. lou: and they have as their handmaidens the republican rinos

in the senate. congressman, we appreciate you being with us. thanks so much. congressman kevin mccarthy last year raised a record amount of money as house minority leader. he raised $52 million. that's $8 million more than the previous record set in 2017. joining us is former reagan white house political director, ed rollins. i'm told the president is about ready to come out. your thoughts on what he faces in if the senate. >> his team did a superb job of answering the stupid questions -- the stupid charges. dershowitz gave a tour d force about what impeachment should be

about. there is nothing the president has done but a superb job. he should be lauded for it not impeached. lou: i don't think it american people will forget convenient tt the venom and the allegations tearing apart this impeachment farce. >> politics is about quid pro quos. nancy pelosi did quid pro quos to get the healthcare bill. and this president does good deals like he's doing today. lou: and he does great rallies. 100,000 people trying to get into the venue at the wildwood convention center. and they put big screens.

all of those who were disappointed they couldn't get in, they are watching on those in somewhat cooler weather. >> people camped out sunday afternoon, 2:00 sunday afternoon with sleeping bags for two days to get into the event. lou: that's a good indicator for the radical dimms who assaulted this president for three years. the people of america seem to be with this president in even stronger numbers. there is not a democrat who can come close to getting a fraction of his audiences. the president of the united states, donald john trump. [cheers and applause]

president trump: i love new jersey and i'm thrilled to be back right near the garden state. the garden state. together we are achieving historic victories for new jersey families. you see it every single day. the new jersey unemployment rate has reached the lowest of all times. [cheers and applause] more people are working today in the state of new jersey than ever before. and i have to tell you more

people, almost 160 million are working right now in the united states. the highest level of employment in the history of our country. a lot of countries aren't doing so well, just so you understand. tomorrow we'll replace the nafta nightmare, one of the worst trade deals in history. with the incredible brand-new u.s.-mexico-canada agreement. the usmca. a massive win for new jersey workers, new jersey farmers, new jersey union people, new jersey manufacturers, and everybody. [cheers and applause] and weeks ago we also signed a fantastic new trade agreement with china that will boost new jersey exports and defend new

jersey jobs. $250 billion coming in. it's going to be so nice. and we are restoring america's industrial might like never before. they are all coming back. they want to be where the action is. and the years of devastating defense cuts, we have fully rebuilt the united states military. [cheers and applause] [crowd chants usa!] thanks to the incredible courage our warriors, the greatest warriors in the world, the isis

caliphate has been totally destroyed and its savage founder and leader al-baghdadi is dead! [cheers and applause] [crowd chants usa!] weeks ago at my direction the u.s. military launched a flawless precision strike that killed the world's number one terrorist, quassem soleimani. and soleimani was responsible for murdering and wounding thousands of americans and actively planning new attacks. but we stopped him cold. [cheers and applause]

yet washington democrats like crazy bernie sanders and nervous nancy pelosi, they opposed our actions to save american lives. they opposed it. they opposed it. you know the roadside bombs that you see hurting our people and lows of other people so badly? the legs, the arms wiped out. soleimani loved that. that was his weapon of choice. we didn't like him. he's not around anymore. [cheers and applause] we are creating jobs and killing terrorists. the congressional democrats are obsessed with demented hoaxes, witch hunts and partisan crusades. it's all they know how to do.

the do-nothing democrats. they spent the last three years and probably even before i came down that beautiful escalator with our beautiful future first lady -- [cheers and applause] -- trying overthrow the last election. and we'll make sure they face another crushing defeat in the next election. we are going to have a victory that's even greater than 2016. this november we are going to win back the house. we are going to hold the senate. and we are going to keep the white house. [cheers and applause]

the american people are disgusted by the washington democrat -- you see it, you see it -- which is worse? the impeachment hoax or the witch hunts from russia? but we are going to be signing up millions and millions of registered independents, democrat voters. and today i had the best call i ever had since being -- the best polls i have ever had since being elected. the best we have ever had. we had our best polls. americans of all political beliefs are sick and tired of the radical rage-filled left

socialist -- i never saw anything what's going on in this country. what's going none this country. the democrat party is the socialist party and maybe worse. voters are making a mass exodus from that party and we are welcoming them to the republican party with wide open arms. [cheers and applause] and the republican party is doing great. we are privileged to be joined tonight by a courageous leader who left the democrat party because he's had enough of their extremism, enough of their socialism, and enough of their vile hoaxes and scams. he has had enough. he's a brave guy. he said i am not doing it. it's a hoax, it's a scam, i'm not doing it.

we told him, you are our kind of guy, and he said let's go. he believes like we do. we are truly honored to be here with the newest republican member of the house of representatives, your great congressman jeff van drew. lou: president trump referring to the newest republican in the congress. congressman jeff van drew in whose district he is. we are going to take a quick commercial break and we'll be right back. stay with us.

lou: i have just been informed by management that we need to break away from the trump rally. we'll continue with the broadcast. coming up, our good friend and savant, ed rollins. stocks rebound after yesterday's sell-off. the dow gaining 187 points. the s & p climbing 33, the

nasdaq up 33 points. crude oil fishes at $5 -- crude oil finishing at $56 a barrel. silver lost 3%. the u.k. today announcing it will allow huawei to work on some of its 5g networks, defying warnings from the united states. the united states national security council said it will block huawei from working on networks necessary for national security. the u.k. says they are inspecting huawei products at a lab overseen by u.k. official. but that land is funded by huawei. listen to my reports three times a day on the salem radio network.

the chairman of harvard's chemistry department and two boston researchers have been charged with lying about their ties to china. he didn't disclose he was receiving millions from the chinese government at the same time he was receiving money from the nationality institutes of health. also a visa officer claiming to be a student when she is a lieutenant in the people's liberation army. surely it was just scene oversight. a cancer cell researcher from beth israel center arrested for trying to smuggle via ls of biological research from boston to china. she was financed by several

thousand talents plan. a violent senate report finds thousand talents website lists 300 department of energy researchers who accepted their money. 300. including what are now 9 former employees who retain their high security clearances. we are back with former reagan white house political director ed rollins. this is outrageous. and it is still going on after the trade deal, after everything, and now the u.k. is going along with huawei, make a ridiculous claim they will segregate their network from the prying eyes of the is i have nawj clone, the chinese. >> the chinese will clean their

clocks. they do this better than anybody else. i think to the new prime minister and the new brexit agreements better understand that we are their ally and we'll put the deal together to make them all function. when we speak, we speak from great experience. and huawei is a company that has done illegitimate spying and will continue to do that. i think it's a foolish mistake on their part. lou: the radical dimms in this country have certainly overreached this time. committing this act of pure venom against the president of the united states, trying to overthrow him. the president is very kinds. he refers to it as a hoax, a witch hunt. it's answer attempt to overthrow the president of the united states. the american people should be outraged by this. >> i think they are.

the trump supporters are really angry. i promise there is not a democrat anywhere running for president who could have a crowd like he has tonight in this event. that will be his cam paint rest of the season. he will have bigger and bigger crowds. he has as many people after he flying for this thing. lou: you have rinos in the u.s. senate behaving like the school children they are. these are not the brightest of the school children. >> especially the ones running for cover and think they have have to be fair. lou: when have the radical dimms been fair? can't they figure out what they are doing to this president? it's outrageous. they are not bright people. they cannot be this stupid. >> the line has been drawn in

the sands. the house 100% supporting this gentleman. including the gentleman they are celebrating tonight who switched parties. lou: the legal team for the president has been masterful. and certainly amongst them the brightest as i said earlier in the broadcast. the brightest legal scholar in the country, alan dershowitz on the very point of this impeachment farce the radical difficulties inflicted on -- this country and the president. >> i argue high crimes and misdemeanors do not encompass the two articles charge abuse of power and obstruction of congress. for the senate to remove a president on vague constitutional grounds will create a dangerous precedents. house managers, you just picked the wrong criteria.

you picked the most dangerous possible criteria to serve as a precedent for how we supervise and oversee future presidents. lou: while this president is being impeached, he brought forward today his middle east peace plan, a two-state solution. and here is john roberts from the white house with the story. i am told we don't have it. we wanted to remind you, on the sister channel fox news they are carrying the president's rally. we hope you will stay with us. but we understand if you want to avail yourself our viewing choices. we'll be right back after this. plastic.

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president trump: the do-nothing democrats spent the last three years, and probably ebb before i came down that beautiful escalator with our beautiful future first lady, trying to

overthrow the last election. we'll make sure they face another crushing defeat in the next election. we'll have a victory that's even greater than 2016. this november we are going to win back the house. we are going to hold the senate, and we are going to keep the white house. lou: bernie sanders rising in the polls. showing strong leads in new hampshire and california. that is worrying some moderate dimms that he could potentially win the democratic presidential nomination. wow. isn't that the point of it all. the real clear politics average shows sanders in the lead. he has taken over joe biden. he's 3% ahead.

pete buttigieg, 9%. ed rollins, what do you make of the politics of the left and the radical dimms. and they get what they want which is a socialist, marxist lefty of high order in bernie sanders. some of the elites are getting apoplectic about it. >> joe biden is a weak candidate. but bernie sanders has an organization. he's leading in new hampshire and iowa. he has a stronger structure in the state. and iowa is a state that shifts quickly in the last closing days. i wouldn't be surprised to see if he come out of both those states with the win. lou: can he win that nomination?

>> i wife asked that question yesterday. she said is bernie sanders going to be their nominee? you are going to die on me and leave me with all this mess. lou: democrats nominated george mctoday vern. it may happen again, who knows. she is worried if bernie sanders gets elected i will leave. lou: i will leave it right there. could he win? he has the best organization. he has got big mike spending billions of dollars on advertising. and he's not moving. lou: he is moving. you can't deny the devil his

due. >> no one has ever spent that kind of money. lou: which is the problem? is it bernie sanders? is it mike bloomberg? >> how about all of the above? seriously. lou: i don't understand why anybody would dismiss mike bloomberg already he spent a quarter of a billion dollars, and the democrats seem to be embracing him. not as much as they are -- >> my sense, we never had this before. as i said. he has now spent three, four times as much as i spent for ronald reagan. but ronald reagan won 49 states. he doesn't have any organization. but he has a structure and smart people. i don't think he will be the nominee, but i didn't think

bernie sanders would be either. and he's the frontrunner. it's a very weak field. lou: i can't agree mike bloomberg is a weak candidate. he has momentum. but i don't think bernie sanders is a weak candidate. he was counted out. he had a heart attack, now he's at the top of the field. >> he almost beat hillary clinton for the nomination. the philosophy of the democrat party driven by young people is very left. lou: it many interesting a 77-year-old candidate, in this case bernie sanders is appealing to the young folks in the democratic party. it would be an interesting generational test for them. a 77-year-old leader bringing in all the young people. a credit to him.

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[♪] lou: massive crowds gathering for days for president trump's rally tonight in wildwood, new jersey as we showed you earlier in the broadcast. the president just blasted the dimms endless efforts to overthrow his presidency. president trump: while we are creating jobs and killing terrorists, the congressional democrats are obsessed with demented hoaxes, crazy witch hunts and partisan crusades. it's all they know how to do. the do-nothing democrats. they spent the last three years and probably even before i came down that beautiful escalator with our beautiful future first lady.

lou: a beautiful moment it was. it turned into a beautiful three years, and i think five more for sure. that's it for us tonight. thanks for being with us. have a great lauren: it is 5:00 a.m. a. here are your top stories at this hour. breaking overnight, a plane carrying american consolate workers out of china is suddenly diverted as coronavirus cases spark serious panic in almost every corner of the world. u.s. airports bracing for the hundreds of americans fleeing from the deadly virus. >> apple hitting earnings out of the park. it may be a different story for boeing this morning. how bad will the damage be from the troubled 737 max jet. lauren: the super bowl is days away. americans are clear on what their favorite food is. it's not chicken wings. we've got the surprise winner coming you up. it is wednesday, january 29th. "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪