have a good evening. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. the radical dimms sham impeachment case against president trump has all but collapsed. the democratic house managers have weakened with each successive day. today seemingly aware that their last desperate efforts to overthrow the president have been reduced to flailing and futility. even senate minority leader chuck schumer can no longer deny the recognition of abject failure, conceding that mitch mcconnell had successfully

blocked the democrats the calling of witnesses. going beyond this weekend most tell us would be highly unlikely. house speaker nancy pelosi and house manager adam schiff throwing tantrums saying without witness, there is no real trial and the president can't be acquitted. oh yeah? they are making excuses for their failure for any support for their efforts. mock themselves as the house impeachment manager put it, the case was based on the president's efforts to seek dirt

on his political opponent. >> the president solicited a personal political benefit in exchange for an official act. solicited dirt on a political opponent. in exchange for the release of $391 million in military aid. solicited dirt in exchange for a white house meeting. lou: jeffries and the radical dimms are so ignorant and unaware of themselves and their own conduct, they ignored it was in fact their democratic national committee that funded their effort to smear their presidential opponent, none other than donald trump, using a fictional filth-filled dossier created by a foreign agent, christopher steele for millions and millions of dollars.

that seemed to have escaped the good congressman. the target of that doomed democratic disastrous mission, the man the dimms have been trying to overthrow for three years, president trump. the president today addressed the dimms and their disgusting assault on him through fbi investigation, the fisa courts, the phoney russia investigation and the impeachment inquiry in the house of representatives. president trump's declaration that the democratic attacks on him are simply a disgrace to our entire nation. president trump: the tax cut was the biggest tax cut in our nation. and what do they do? they impeach you.

explain that one. but we have great republicans out there and they don't like it any better than you do. a very partisan situation, frankly it's a disgrace to our country. lou: chief justice john roberts presiding over it all refused to read a question submitted from senator rand paul about the relationship between two men, one on the house intel committee staff and another at national security council. and here is how the chief justice responded. >> the presiding officer declines to read the question as submit. lou: submitting it, rand paul. roberts offering no further explanation. senator paul told reporters his question was entirely appropriate. >> my question made no reference to any whistleblower or any kind

of person or complaintant from the whistleblower. manager schiff says he has no knowledge. if he has no knowledge, the rest of us can have no knowledge hot whistleblower is. it means anybody anybody ever said might have been the whistleblower could never be discussed in a proceeding. it's very important whether or not a group of democratic activists part of the obama-biden administration were work for years looking for an opportunity to impeach the president. lou: schiff was later asked about the role of one sean hurricanes sko, the staffer hired -- sean misko. >> i will not dignify that by giving them the any credence. nor will i share any

information i believe could lead to the identification of the whistleblower. >> i can tell you hot whistleblower should be. it should be every one of us. every one of us should be will fog blow the whistle on presidential misconduct. lou: i think we would be and stronger country if more of us did exactly that, blow the whistle on pure bull. this is where we are in the 21st century, it feels like 1984, the orwellian. the national left-wing media and the establishment wherever you find it. it's stunning to find out how many of us actually know who the whistleblower is and who his associates are and how they

conspired and worked to effect what we have been watching the last six months. but we won't say a word about who they are. it just isn't done. the world health organization declaring the coronavirus to be a global public health emergency because of the increases of cases outside china. the virus has been confirmed in 23 countries as theth case in this one -- the 6th case has been confirmed in this country. the patient is the spouse of the chicago woman who contracted the virus in china. she recently rushed from wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak. the state department announced it's planning a second evacuation of americans from wuhan, the same type evacuation

that brought 200 americans home from wuhan and they are under quarantine at an air base in southern california. it has affected 8,000 worldwide. the overwhelming majority of those people in china with the disease. joining to us make sense of what we are reporting to you on his disease on its continuing spread, fox news medical correspondent, dr. marc siegel. these numbers are getting higher in china anders in any no other country has had to report a fatality as at result of the coronavirus. what do you make of it at this point. >> it's a big problem in china. with the chinese having built a coronavirus hospital, more cases will be reported because of

increased surveillance. the cases may have been there before. i suspected there are thousands of cases undocumented over the past year. having said that, i am surprised -- not surprised politically, but the world health organization is talking about countries outside of china as the reason to finally call this a public health emergency? are you kidding me? outside of china when 99% of the cases are inside china? it should have been called an international emergency a long time ago. lou: when we talk about china, politics do play a part in this, if you will permit me, the medicine goes down a little easier centered in china. but also politics within that

win understand a u.s. public health team or teams will be within the overall w.h.o. organization going into china. >> that's great news. i am very impressed with the team the trump administration has put together and how they are handling this. tony fauci has decades of experience the. cdc boots on the ground. they have done something called contact tracing. you talked about a case in chicago. that's a spouse. a spouse has very close contact. what we are trying to figure out is what if you only have casual contact. how contagious is this virus? how can you get it if you don't have symptoms yet? lou: unknown as you wrote in an op-ed does scare people.

we are learning a lot more. i don't know if people are feeling more settled or less as a result. but the great news with these numbers from china, the good news for the chinese, it's not as deadly as sars or certainly even influenza. >> influenza kills 60,000 to 80,000 people a year in this country alone. it's already infected 20,000 people in this country alone. there are 6 cases in the united states. and they are walking down the street. lou: they may be thinking about the flu. >> if you want to wear a mask to protect yourself from the flu, i'm all for it. i like the travel advisories. i like that the cdc is going

over there. lou: rationally is what i would describe what the cdc is doing, setting up these quarantines of these individuals. they caught this very early. >> yes. they caught it very early. it happened because this virus is unstable and it mutated. it's not as deadly as previous iterations of this virus and i don't think it's as contagious contagious -- as a lot of our respiratory viruses. we cut down on travel to china, and if we keep our cdc on alert we may be able to contain this. lou: with this woman in chicago, now six cases with no fat

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lou: on wall street today, stocks closing higher. dow jones industrials finishing higher for a third consecutive session today, up 125 points. volume on the big board today approaching that 4 billion share level again. 3.8 billion today. crude oil lost 2%. $52 a barrel. gold up 4% to $1,583.50. a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. former attorney general jeff sessions taking shots at trump

administration turncoat john bolton. sessions explaining why he never wrote a book, never betrayed the president. >> you are there to serve his agenda, not your own. he was elected, not you. second it undermines the unity. the president must have the ability to have candid conversations with his national security advisor, his attorney general, secretary of state, et cetera, without fear those conversations will end up in a book or a newspaper. a new poll finds republican voters are more fired up with the 2020 election than the increasingly anxious democrats.

66% of democrats are anxious about the upcoming compared to 46% of republicans. 43% of republicans say they are excited about the presidential election. only 33% of democrats can say the same. 62% of democratic voters frustrated about the upcoming election. 20 points higher than the republicans. joining us, the a haven't himself, ed rollins. those numbers look impressive and favorable for the republicans. >> you would be anxious if that was the best you can get. we know who our candidate is. he's getting stronger by the day. once we get the impeachment stuff out of the way he can focus on what he's going to do for the country and all he has

done for them. sessions is running for his old senate seat in alabama and he's leading 2-1. lou: you are not suggesting his comments today have a political purpose. >> he's a wise man. he held that seat for a long time. if he gets elected, we'll be happy to have him back. lou: what we were witnessing date looked like a funeral procession as the house managers moved up to the lectern. >> schiff has gotten the crap knocked out of him the last several days. his arguments aren't valid. the two white house attorneys are superb. anders winds. i have -- dershowitz has been a

tour deforce. the explanation he has given was a brilliant, brilliant and a big impact. lou: a bunch of lefties went after him because he understands intent and motivation and understands law from a to z. >> he's a great teacher. i haven't been bored to death -- lou: cipollone. i want to go through something patrick philbin has also done well. >> he did a fabulous job. lou: let's pick up on this, witnesses. >> to switch now and say we need more witnesses demonstrates they haven't proved their case. lou: they haven't proved their

case, and it looks now that mitch mcconnell is doing precisely what the president wanted him to do which is bring that conference together and bring even the rinos on board. what are your thoughts? >> as painful as this process has been for us, to watch this you be fairness, the republican party is the most solid i have ever seen it. they are supporting this president. they decided this is our future, and you have got romney and one or two others still out there. the house got solidified, 100% behind him. i think the senate will be the same tomorrow. lou: if this president were not in the oval office leading the republican party, what in the world would these folks be doing? >> they would be in as much disarray as the democrats are. my sense is the president put

forth policies, and he's the only guy who could have got it done. all these major issues accomplished, in spite of the three-year nonstop onslaught that hopefully ends tomorrow. lou: we are told by several folks it won't in their judgment go beyond the weekend. rand paul sent out this tweet after judge roberts refused to read his question. there it is, thank you for that. he tweeted whether or not individuals who were holdovers from the obama national security council and democrat partisans conspired with schiff staffers to plot impeaching the president before there were formal house impeachment proceedings. denied effectively by the chief

justice and the name of the whistleblower. >> it was a former white house staffer who is the whistleblower's best friend. he left the white house and went on schiff's staff. the next day is when all this got filed. what the question was. these two guys were overheard bad mouthing the president by the staff. i won't name them. but i know them, you know them, and everybody else in town knows them. lou: but they must not be spoken of. >> a cia guy who is supposed to be investigating other countries should not be investigating our president. lou: what's anews me, presiding or the entire proceedings chief justice john roberts? he's the guy who preside over

the fisa courts and we now find out that at least two instances they are were rankly corrupt. and defrauded without any accounting whatsoever. so it gets curiouser and curiouser. >> i will be very relieved when it's over and the chief justice is across the street doing what he ought to be doing. lou: ed rollins as always. drug overdose deaths dropping for the first time in nearly 30 years. we'll have that and much more when we continue. stay with us. give me your hand! blach we customize your car insurance

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committee and law firm perkins coie. he accuses the dnc and the law firm of pursuing political agendas with the steele dossier filled with smears analyze. his attorney says it's the first step to address and exposing fisa abuse. joining us tonight, kt mcfarland. her new bikes entitled "revolution:trump, washington and we the people." it's available on barnes & noble and bookstores around the country. when does it come out? >> february 25 you can preorder it and you should because it's

already in the second printing. lou: that's very good. so let's start with the revolution. i love the title. how did you choose it? >> you had an impact on my own thinking. as a card carrying member of the american foreign policy establishment. for years i have been dissatisfied with the constant middle east focus. we were spending money we didn't have to prop up dictators who didn't like us and we were ignoring china and the real strategic threat to the united states. but what i didn't see that you did, something else happening in the country, working and middle classes had been abandoned with both -- by both political parties. the trump administration, one of the people he turned to to

helpful fill those promises. the establishment is fighting the revolution. and it's so much bigger than trump. it's a revolution of who gets to govern america. the washington elite and the establishment or we the people. lou: in this instance we are talking about as the president talked about the forgotten man and woman. this is for the first time we have a president in memory for the first time we have a president who is working for the middle class and those who aspire to it. he's the only president -- and i think the only politician right now who is focused squarely on how well our working men and women, their families and their family values are support and sustained. and it's so good -- to me it's a

comfort every day to know that we have a man in the white house who is a champion of the people. i love the way you said it. it is a revolution. >> he's one mean tough guy and i like him for that. because he stands up and he keeps getting up. they don't knock him down for long, he bounces right back up. i think the reason is because it's not so much about him, it's about the people in the country. lou: he makes that very clear. the rand paul question about identifying a member of the intelligence community who is the obvious whistleblower. it is a strange moment in time. in politics and media. the name cannot be uttered? it is an astonishing moment to

me that john roberts would stand up there, even as rand paul had the guts to bring forward the name and he refuses to do so. >> the whistleblower worked for me as did all the other people they were referring at the beginning of the trump administration. it was clear in the meetings i held, saying we are going to change the obama foreign policy to the trump policy. a number of the obama holdovers were saying trump is beyond. they thought they were in charge of foreign policy, not the guy 3 million people wanted to have as -- the guy 63 million people wanted as their president. lou: and there is another figure, john bolton. who used to sit on that side of the desk here and be a guest. to betray the president has he has, did you ever imagine that

would be john bolton? >> i think washington brings out the worst in a lot of people. my feeling, and this is the resignation letter i wrote to president trump. i was honored he appointed me to two important positions. i think if you have that opportunity, you owe it to the boss who gave you that opportunity to not turn around and do a tell-all book. you can make case in favor or not in favor of his policies. but don't do the dirty, tragic petty thing. lou: kt, always great to have you here. much success with the book. and the book is revolution, trump, washington and we the people. good luck. and we recommend it to you highly. if there is any doubt in your

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impeachment managers and the president's defense attorneys after in the session ends. the senate votes tomorrow on whether to call more witness. republicans are confident they have the votes to block extending this farce and will end the trial by the weekend without calling witness. a global emergency, the coronavirus now in 23 nations around the world prompting the world health organization to declare the outbreak to be a global public health emergency. new video that shows the longest drug smuggling tunnel ever discovered on the southern border. it stretches a full mile from tijuana to san diego. it features a rail cart system, an elevator and a complex trainage system.

-- drainage system. so far no arrests. drug overdoses dropping more than 4% to 67,000 in 2018 compared to 70,000 in the previous year. with there was a 3% psych -- a 23% increase in methamphetamine deaths and 10% increase in fentanyl and 5% in cocaine deaths. mark morgan, acting director of cbp. that tunnel was impressive. and i have seen a few impressive tunnels. no arrests or seizures to go with it?

>> it's one of the most sophisticated tunnels we have ever encountered. since 1990 we uncovered 230 tunnels. this tunnel never really finished its exit point. so we were able to get it before it was completed. so a couple things that are important. this tunnel should show the american people the tenacity and commitment of the cartels and the human smuggling organizations to do anything they can to make sure they continue to pour drugs into this country. even those overdose drug deaths are down. 67,000 overdose deaths. if you have meth, it came from the southwest border. when we talk about securing the border infrastructure, technology and personnel.

this is exactly what we are talking about. lou: reporting on that border and the drug trade and the cartels for about 30 years, i have never understood why the chamber of commerce, the business round table, all of the open borders and wide open immigration lobbyists did not hold themselves accountable for those deaths that result from methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, marijuana. and all of the major drugs that cross that border. they all come from mexico, the vast majority of them. >> you are absolutely right. what other threat in this country killed 67,000 people last year? it's the drugs pouring into this country. when the experts from the border patrol ask and tell congress what we need, we tell them we need more wall, we need more

technology to do better in detecting more tunnels. it's unbelievable that we don't get more help. lou: aoc telling bernie sanders supporters, telling folks to tip them off whenever there is a raid if they find out about it. your reaction to that sort of thing. >> let me give you a couple quick steps. i.c.e. arrested 2,000 human traffickers. rescued a thousand children from pedestrian files. we rescued 4,900 migrants. i could go on and on with the stats. so for anybody to talk about breaking up ice or cbp, it's

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236-166. we peeling a 2002 resolution authorizing it in force against saddam hussein's regime. joining us is congressman jim banks, member of the armed services committee. let's start with these two measures passed in the house. some with some of your friends and associates attached to it in favor. what do you make of that and where does it go in the senate? >> neither one of these no visions are going anywhere. they are democrat-designed amendments to attack this president who by in all regards has handled the situation with iran with incredible wisdom and strength. but both of these measures are nancy pelosi democrat designed

hit pieces to go after the president to tie his hands. what i want to boil this down to for you and your listeners, i served in afghanistan in uniform. i know what it was like to wake up in the night when the taliban was firing rockets at our base. if you are in uniform on one of these bases in iraq. these measures would tie the president's hands from preemptive attacks against our enemies to prevent those types of attacks. if i'm in uniform on a base abroad today, i would be alarmed and disappointed anyone would vote for this. lou: the president says were it to make it to his desk, he would retore it and that's that. if we can roll first the rand paul chief justice exchange,

please. >> i have a question to present to the desk for the house manager schiff and for the president's counsel. if. >> the presiding officer declines to read the question as submit. lou: with that, congressman, rand paul didn't get his question which would have presumably led to some fur .they of the whistleblower. >> this is not a whistleblower. we are not technically dealing with a whistleblower. lou: what are we dealing with? the media doesn't want to be the first to step out on his identifying him? we know who it is. we know the associations of the whistleblower. we even know his motivation. >> that's what's brilliant about senator palms question. he's getting at the heart of the matter.

this is a political operative who from the outset was intent on looking for ways to destroy this president. that's why senator palms question is so relevant and important to get to the heart of the matter. from the outset this so-called whistleblower was coordinating his activities with adam schiff and the house intelligence committee to go after president trump. lou: why in your judgment have they been successful in freezing -- he's effectively vanished from our language if not from the swamp? >> i think it has a lot to do with the left-wing mainstream media who has gone after anybody who dares talk about the identity of the so called whistleblower. unfortunately that played out on the senate floor with the chief justice, refusing to ask one of the most relevant questions that would have been asked in the

impeachment hearings. lou: in fairness to the chief justice. he would have had to read the question which would have been him revealing, if you will. it was a peculiar twist and maneuver. he will have less to preside over it appears. it seems mitch mcconnell has got the votes to not continue this farce. and end any call for witnesses. >> i am particularly excited about this. tuesday night is the state of the union address. if the president of the united states can walk out before the american people on live television at the state of the union address and declare that all of this circus is over with and we can get back to doing the work of the american people, that's going to be a great moment for this president and the congress. it will be a great moment for america. we can get back to what matters

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tweeting game over after this new video of john bolton surfaced. >> i will be meeting president zelensky. he and president trump have spoken twice. the president called to congratulate president zelensky on his election and his success in the parliamentary election. they were warm and cordial calls. we are hoping they will be able to meet in warsaw and have a few moments together. lou: john bolton, there it is. the swamp is a difficult place. the coronavirus is spreading. 212 people reported dead in china. 99% of the case are in china including ath confirmed case -- a 6th confirmed case

in the united states. dr. anthony fauci joins us tomorrow as well as brexit party leader nigel farage. good night from new york. [♪] trish: no witnesses. democrats do not have the votes. so it's time for america to close the book on impeachment. so much for the left's big, brillennant intellectual hero. >> i think it will go down as one of the great performances. >> senatorial eloquence. >> i thought it was dazzling. >> by most accounts it was a virtuoso performance. trish: it's time for the media