[♪] [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. president trump calling together his staff, his supporters, his allies and friends to celebrate the indianapoli dr -- celebrates rejection of the fraudulent impeachment. the president standing before friends and defenders declaring vindication and exoneration against the forces of evil, political corruption and venality. president trump: we have been degree through this for three years sphipt was evil, it was

corrupt, it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars. it should never happen to another president ever. i don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it. had i thought fired james comey who was a disaster, by the way, it's possible i wouldn't even be standing here right now. lou: but standing there he is. the celebration began this morning at the national prayer breakfast. president trump holding up the paper with the headline that says acquitted. president trump made it clear to all assembled that he plans to take the offensive against the party of hate that has been trying to destroy him for more than three years. president trump: as everybody knows, my family, our great country, and your president have been put through a terrible

ordeal by some very disshownest and corrupt -- dishonest and corrupt people they have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation. they know what they are doing is wrong. but they put themselves far ahead of our great country. lou: after failing so miserably at every effort to bring down president trump, the radical dimms are left to deal with mr. trump, the president at his highest approval rating ever. also the president who accomplished the most in the first three years of a presidency. one who is proud of his record of promises made and promises kept and boasting of what he calls the blue collar boom,

higher wages, more jobs driving unemployment down to record levels for all americans. demanding fair and reciprocal trade with all nations. in the east room today president trump predicted an even more prosperous future that includes a republican senate and a new leader of the house. president trump: kevin mccarthy has done an incredible job. i would say you are going to be speaker of the house because much this impeachment hoax. and i will work hard on it. lou: our first guest tonight also got a shoutout from the president. he's often taking the fight directly to the radical dimms defending the president. and recently firing an ethics

complaint about nancy pelosi. joining us, congressman matt gaetz. great to have you with us. the president i thought had a terrific idea. kevin mccarthy, speaker of the house. it has a ring to it. >> i'm look forward to republicans taking over the house. and that is all the more likely with the president having a triumphant week. the state of the union a raging success. acquitted in the senate. i got notice the president has taken off the battlefield the leader of al qaeda yemen. the president is just proving the strum doctrine works. we'll kill -- the trump dock relationshi -- the trump doctri.

and all the more reason the republicans will be in charge of the house and the senate and the white house after this election. lou: what is your view of the speaker's behavior? will it be enough to result in consequences? >> nancy pelosi disgraced the house of representatives. she embarrassed our country. all the world was watching as she had her center childish petulant behavior of ripping up the speech. i don't suspect any democrats will turn against pelosi. but this is important for precedent value. when joe wilson correctly said

barack obama was lying about the fact that illegal aliens are eligible for obamacare, the democrats wanted to censure him and rain consequence on him. but with it many our own speaker embarrassing our country, they don't want to get off their duffs. lou: i sadat president taking the -- i saw today the president taking the offensive. for the first time he is not engaged in have to defend himself. this may be short. but the president decided this feet up against evil and corruption and the party of hate is a fight worth having and to fight on his terms. >> it's a fight that cannot ends. just because the president has been acquitted does not mean

there weren't people engage in corrupt acts as part of the left's political movement. lindsey graham will bring forward the whistleblower and finds out the extent to which the deep state is continuing efforts against the president. they are not going to stop. they didn't stop after mueller and i don't think they will stop now. lou: senator graham is continuing the fight. this is the same chairman of the judiciary who said he was going to investigate the investigators. he said he was going to investigate the corruption of the party of hate. he hasn't done a single thing since assuming the chair. so i would hope he would begin that effort to continue what he has done would be just more of nothing. >> we need to see more action

out of the senate judiciary committee. they have you sneak oversight responsibilities -- thee have unique responsibilities. the. we need to know why elements of our own government were trying to chief legitimize the president. we need to get to the bottom of it. senator graham is the guy who can do it and wes we -- and we d to pick up the pace on that. lou: if we were to have another 3 1/2 years of hate-filled attempts to destroy this president, they will continue, pelosi, schumer, they will continue. and it has to come to a stop. for not only justice, but as the president alluded, i know of not

a single other person who could have withstood the fury and hate of the radical dimms that he has. >> that's why we love our president. even though he undertakes a tremendous amount of incoming. it only intensifies our support for him. last week in iowa president trump enjoyed record turnout. it shows this impeachment has backfired on democrats and it has republicans who support the president even more encouraged to see four more years of rising wages, gdp growth. and a renewed american spirit. lou: what should be the consequences for mitt romney's betrayal? >> if i were mitch mcconnell i

would expel romney from the republican caucus. frankly, i don't know what the difference is between mitt romney and a democrat at this point. he only in the voted with them, he undertook their arguments that are fundamentally delegitimizing the movement that fueled the successes we have had. i don't think mitt romney is focused on anything other than mitt romney. lou: he lost sight of who the leader is and who is the follower. and he is neither which leads to much of his abhorrent conduct. congressman matt gaetz, i guess they are all acquittal days. acquitted forever is the

expression. we'll be operating forever. thanks so much. chinese officials rounding up coronavirus patients? wuhan and place them in isolation, quarantine, designated hospitals, trying to stop the continuation of this contagion. more than 30,000 people have been infected worldwide. 634 people have died including the chinese doctor who first warned of a virus in december and was targeted by police for quote rumor mongering. acting homeland security deputy ken cuccinelli. more on the president's acquittal. the celebration goes on. political savant ed rollins

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lou: an update on the coronavirus. the state department offering u.s. citizens stranded in hubei,

china. to evacuate area on board two aircraft. they will be in california by tomorrow morning. over the past 10 days hundreds of americans have been evacuated. evacuating wuhan on board three government organized flights. joining us tonight. ken cuccinelli, acting director of the department of homeland security and member of the president's coronavirus task force. good to have you with us. let's start with it is good news to hear the government is moving those americans who want to be evacuated returning them home. also, talking with secretary azar, speaking with dr. fauci of nih, this is all very positive news we are getting on the

control of this outbreak in the united states. give us your sense of where we are right now. >> we are still ahead of it in the united states. but the threat is if it explodes out of hubei province. so far that is the place where it isn't under control. it's only that one province in china. but you are seeing it in other countries. and we learned from previous instances like the sars and mers which are in the same family of virus as this one about some of the steps we need to take. president trump was very definitive with us, with the task force he set up, that he wants us to stay on the front edge of keeping americans safe. if we are going to err on one side than the other we'll err on being safer longer. we are a long way off from being

able to cure there is since it only existed in humans on earth for a couple months. that's the posture we are take. we are dealing with it on lands border. the coast guard is dealing with it on the seas. and so far everybody is working together well, and we are staying ahead of this. that will not keep us from having some cases. it will not keep us in the united states as we have already seen from having person to person transmission. but we want to keep those numbers as low as we can and so far we have been able to do that. lou: a credit to you and all of government and public health authorities who are moving with such dispatch and professionalism, bringing the best american healthcare can to this threat. >> we have the best in the world at this. it doesn't mean you win just because you bring the best.

but we have the best in the world at this. the whole u.s. government is operating under that guidance. secretary azar is leading the task force on this issue. the complicated interactions between federal government and state and local governments, i can't tell you how many different lieutenant governors and mayors and local health officials i have been on the phone with the last week or so, but as a former a.g. and state legislature i understand their perspective as well and we are trying to keep them plugged in. lou: our hearts go out to the chinese people. it's devastating to show where we are. almost 99% if not more of the cases of the coronavirus, 30 thousand 732 cases and 634

deaths. it will rise and beup dated and to -- be updated and to a largea large extent the world's response is dependent on how the chinese can control this. >> you are right. the way you beat an outbreak is you bite as close to the source as -- you beat it as close to the source as you can. that's why we are making offers to the chinese and the countries close to china to try to limit the spread and slow it down so we buy time and use that time to put in place procedures and learning frankly of this new virus that we need to be able to beat it.

lou: ken cuccinelli, great to have you helping lead the fight in government. we appreciate it. up next, a vindicated president, an exonerated president, a victorious president trump says he's trying as hard as he can to work with the radical dimms. but will the party of hate be willing to work with him? we take that up with the savant, ed rollins. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need.

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lou: president trump speaking at the national prayer breakfast and celebrating his acquittal in the impeachment farce. the president telling the crowd he's trying his level best to cooperate with those radical

dimms. president trump: they like people and sometime they hate people, i'm sorry, i apologize. i'm trying to learn. it's not easy. when they impeach you for nothing and you are supposed to like them, it's note easy, folks. i do my best. lou: he is doing his best. it's the first time i ever heard the president apologize for anything. we know he's trying to like them. also president trump thanked senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for his strong leadership and his defense of the president in the radical dimms impeachment farce. president trump: mitch stayed there from the very beginning. he never changed. i want to tell you, you did a fantastic job.

plow[applause] lou: that i a sincere thank you. the radical dimms with the caucus catastrophe in iowa. this time the scapegoat, trump supporters. this is a new development. the iowa democratic party claims the president's supporters jammed phone lines just as the democratic precinct chairs were calling to report their vote counts. that doesn't exactly explain why the app used to report results

failed. and that doesn't explain why there are precincts that haven't reported their results. the democratic national committee has stepped into this and taking charge. or trying to. chairman tom perez is calling for a recanvassing of the results in iowa. that means that the votes they don't have yet will have to be recounted if they ever are counted. by the way, in straight lingo on recanvassing. it's a disaster. it looks like folks will have to caucus again. the problem is, not many people even understand what they didn't do let alone what they did wrong. but there are at least two winners according to the numbers that don't exist. and that's buttigieg and who is the other fella?

bernie sanders? >> bernie sanders actually won by 6,000 votes. i read it in the "new york times." i have to read the "new york times." they say nasty things about all our friends. how complicated is it? why do you make it more complicated. if you are bernie sanders and you have a 6,000-vote margin, you are the wish. the rest of iowa, they have until july when they have a convention. lou: do they have to recab vas? >> i spent too much time in iowa. the hottest place in the summer and coldest place in the winter. my experience in iowa is down.

it has 6 electoral votes and we are going to get them. lou: the president has had a belly full. >> what they like to do, they sit in a tree and shoot you in the back. but when it come face to face, they can't touch trump. he's now -- i have known nancy for 50 years. he is under her skin when she talks about the sacred house. it was absurd. lou: the president said he wants to like them. he's trying. i can't even imagine -- god bless him for even thinking of

it. sometimes there is a reach too far even for prayer. maybe get along with them. but to like them? >> he will never like them. the reality here is he has his party in a war mode. they won a big victory. they will now try to win in november. lou: if the mitt romneys are thrown the hell out of the party and they end up with this nonsense, they have mike lee wanting unanimous consent in the senate instead of votes where they are held accountable when they start talking about program that would create competition for american workers against this president's electoral interest, working people, their families. what the hell is going on? >> the reality here, my favorite

senator, senator romney, who somehow thinks he's smarter than 195 house republicans and 53 fellow senators. whoever he is talking to upstairs or at the mormon tabernacle temple gave him divine guidance to do something he shouldn't have done. we are lucky not to have him anywhere in the political process again. lou: the president for the first time it seems to me is on the offensive. he was under surveillance and attack about it radical dimms and the deep state in the months leading up to the election. since he has went in oval office he has been under attack. for the first time he can go on the offense and hold these s.o.b.s accountable. >> he did today.

this was one of the greatest shows i have seen in politics. all the editorials will chastise him and he doesn't care. it will just reinforce his base. lou: nancy pelosi is making coy remarks about infrastructure. should the president say stay over there on capitol hill, don't bother me, i won't bother you. see you after the election. >> there is nothing nancy pelosi will bring to him. he has mitch mcconnell to help in the senate. they will get judges through. the next 9 months will be vicious and we'll win in november. lou: if the president has any issue he has to deal with, i would be stunned. when you look at his concrete

verifiable empirical results of his governance, it's historic. >> i heard the speaker say after 8 years of obama, trump stopped their momentum. trump got rid of the regulations obama put in there and the economy took off. lou: ed rollins. thanks so much. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you think the iowa caucus catastrophe was the result of corruption or ineptitude? we'll put it to our highly scientific poll. we'll have the results of last night's poll coming up. senate republicans, chuck grassley, ron johnson. the man who wrote the best selling book on the corrupt

radical dimms is none other than sport schweizer. he joins us next. stay with us.

lou: senators chuck grassley and ron johnson want hunter biden's travel records. they are asking the secret service for biden's travel slog while joe biden was serving as vice president.

president trump wondered why the radical dimms continue to defend him. president trump: they don't think it's corrupt that a son that made no money, got thrown out of the military, had no money at all, is working for $80,000 a month. and that's only ukraine. lou: joining me, peter schweizer, author of the best selling book, "profiles in corruption." it moved to number one on the "new york times" best seller's list. let's start with this request for the travelogues for hunter biden on board i guess it would be air force two, traveling with his father, pick up a couple

bucks in the ukraine and china. >> i think it's an excellent idea. it ought to be extended beyond hunter biden to look at his brothers and son-in-law. on numerous occasions family members have flown on air force two. what president trump has done is put his finger on the pulse no other official in washington wanted to talk about. that's the kinds of corruption that is accessible -- acceptable in washington, would not be acceptable in corporate america. but politicians get away with it because snob calls them out on -- because nobody calls them out on it. but president trump called them out on it. lou: he conveyed that he's ready to go on the offensive and hold

accountable all the people who have bedeviled him. the top officials at the fbi, the justice department, the chiefs of our intelligence agencies. and of course those radical dimms in the house in particular who have gone after him knowing full well he was guiltless, he was innocent, and had done nothing wrong, yet they try to destroy him, his presidency, his family, and this rub i -- and ts republic in point of fact. >> one of the things that frustrates people i talk to is the phenomenon that people go into public service, they serve in congress for 20-30 years and necessity leave and they are worth millions of dollars. people try to figure out why that is. politics has become a racket,

it's a way to become wealthy. they don't like it when they are called out on it. i think the senators calling for this investigation is a good idea. we need to have congressional hearings on the sort of things joe biden is doing, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, the self-enrichment that takes place. if you call people out in the swamp, if you go after the alligators, they are going to try to fight back. they bit back, they failed, the key is not to re-treat it's to stay on the offensive. lou: it requires quite a draining. bernie sanders made a fortune in public service. you have recount that in your book. how could it be that a socialist can be so obviously

money-driven? >> it's funny. the interesting thing about bernie sanders, he figured out one of the deep dark secrets in washington when he was in congress. you can funnel money to people by putting them in charge of your meade yeah buying. -- your media buying. if you said spend a million dollars on television and radio ads. i would do that, but i get to keep a 15% commission. bernie sanders put his wife in charge of media buying, even though she had no background in media buying. knowing she could make money and it would not have to be disclosed. when he talks about self-service and says he's a true believer. he may be a true believer, but he made his family very wealthy. lou: i guess you could classify

him and his wife as communist-socialist entrepreneurs. a good idea for the president to be on offense? >> absolutely. that's where you have to be. otherwise they will try to pull you into the quicksand and drown you. lou: a vote for the president to go on offense. congratulations on your best-selling book. one of our producers won the title miss heart of new york over the weekend. she performed an original classical i and so piece. she moves on to represent the state at the miss new york pageant in may. congratulations, bria. we are proud of you. attorney general william barr

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lou: attorney general william barr today speak on china's

geopolitical intentions and the theft of our intellectual property. >> if russia wants to conquer the world we can deal with that. china wants to own the world. that's more difficult to deal with. china wants the fruits of america's brain power to harvest the seeds of its planned economic dominance. lou: joining us, gordon chang, good to see you. first a reaction to what bill barr said. >> it's a very important statement. you had in october the twin speeches by the very much and secretary of state hammering china. last week secretary of state pompeo talked about china being the central threat of our times. the secretary of state in the october speech said he would make a series of speeches

setting out policy of the trump administration. lou: i want to go to the coronavirus and what the people of china are contending with. this is a runaway outbreak it seems to me. if we can pull that up while we are talking. over 30,000 people infected with the disease. more than 600 dead. the numbers are rising obviously. your thought about what is happening in china and how critical this is. an even fire province has -- an entire province has been quarantined. >> this virus will probably not peak until april or may. xi jinping has disappeared for a

week. lou: is that unusual? >> it is unusual. normally he's front and center. lou: what does it portend? >> we don't know. it could be he's trying to distance himself from the disease prevention efforts or he could be losing power or the rumors are that he's not well, he had a stroke. lou: or the leader of china is consumed with trying to protect his people to kill his coronavirus outbreak. is that not a reasonable possibility? >> that's possible. monday he was announced as talking about virus protection after a meeting of the politburo. people are saying all these things and we won't know for some time. but something at the top of the communist party is up. they are acting in ways they

normally don't. like the leader disappearing from state media. lou: what else? >> we are seeing a blame game between central and local officials which is starting to break out into the open. communist party officials don't do this. they keep their dirty laundry in private. a lot of local officials -- lou: like politics on any continent you can imagine. >> the communist party doesn't do that, though. they try to keep it inside. we are seeing different things. lou: and this is a unique moment for china. they have to whip this virus outbreak, don't they? >> they do because it's shaking the economy. two days ago bloomberg reported there was a 20% drop in oil

demand. lou: bloomberg on the fox business network. >> 0% decline. we see the canton fair, the premium gathering for exporters. that has been canceled for the spring session. that's in april. that means chinese leaders don't think this will be solved until early summer. lou: it seems the world community believes this won't be solved unless china solves this crisis where it began. >> that's right. they let this spread. so they take up these draconian measures to capture and deal with this. but it's probably too late for that. this spread throughout china. it's uncontrollable right now. lou: by what measure. >> you are starting to see cases

pop up all over china. deaths all over china, lockdowns of cities. it's occurring all over the country. lou: not a pleasant prospect or discussion. but great to have you with us. stay with us. we are coming right back.

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street. stocks finishing higher. the dow up 89 points. the s & p up 11. the nasdaq gaining 63 point. 3.9 billion shares volume on the big board. silver staying pretty much on a narrow trading range. and reminder to join me tomorrow three times a day on the salem radio network. in our poll last night we asked this important question, whether the gop should throw rino senator mitt romney out of their party. 85% of you said yes. president trump blasting the vicious dimms failed attempt to

impeach him. president trump: they stick together like glue. that's how they impeached. 220 people, so they don't lose anybody. you could be george washington and you could have just won the war and they would say let's get him out of office. they stuck together and they are vig as hell. and -- they are vicious as hell. and they will probably come back for more. lou: we'll continue to follow the contagion of the coronavirus. none better to talk with about that than dr. anthony fauci. pastor robert jeffress will be among our guests tomorrow. we thank you for being with us tonight. look forward to seeing you here tomorrow evening.

good night from new york. lauren: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. all eyes on new hampshire ahead of next week's primary as the democratic candidates are preparing for the debate tonight. cheryl: the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to climb, 638 confirmed dead as president xi-jinping tells president trump china is doing everything they can to defeat the virus. lauren: warner media finalizing a major deal to bring the friends cast back together, but what it took to make this happen. it is friday, february 7th and "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪