[♪] lou: good evening, the president of the united states from the day he took office more than three years ago has prevailed in every attack against him, even as those attacks nearly all of them orchestrated by the radical dimms and the deep state. president trump has beat back the dark forces of the deep state, using their influence and power over government at all levels to subvert president trump and his america first agenda.

now that he's beaten back the forces of evil, hon his election to create the special counsel. the idiotic fervent effort by the party of hate to try to impeach the president which ended in acquittal for life and vindication for his historic accomplishments are already the stuff of american history and for all time. but the party of hate and the deep state are again raising their voices. can you hear them? they are there, protesting the president's right of free expression of his opinions. as if this president of the united states alone has no protection under the constitution or the first

amendment. even his own attorney general decried the president's as comments. some rino republicans as is there wont quickly responded in opposition to the president. susan collins, lindsey graham, mitt romney, all offering various statements of disapproval of our commander-in-chief. they became a pathetic chorus of constant complaint against our president. we begin with u.s. attorney general william barr telling abc news the president should stop tweeting about justice department cases. >> you are saying you have a

problem with the tweets? >> yes -- well, i have a problem with some of the tweets. i'm happy to say the president has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case. however, to have public statements and tweets made about the department, about the people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and judges before whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we are doing our work with integrity. lou: it's bad must justice department has become the place where truth has gone to die in recent years, just last night the president's former chief of

staff praising the efforts of the deep state to undermine the president he was supposed to be serving. john kelly said alexander vindman was doing what he was taught to do in the military. to follow an illegal order. kelly is wrong. no one ordered vindman to do anything wrong. despite the president's acquittal, the dimms continue to croak and crow about the possibility of another impeachment farce. eric yo swalwell. >> we are not going to take our options off the table. we don't wake up in the morning wanting to impeach him.

but we are not going to let him torch this democracy and we are not going to do something about it. lou: new reports indicate the fbi and the justic justice depat worked together to trick the trump campaign. according they worked with james comey to have former white house counsel mcbe began draft a letter before the fisa warrant was signed in april. former attorney general recused himself and there was no one in charge.

boente was in charge of signing the warrant which he did. then rod rosenstein signed the final renewal to spy on considey on carter page. then boente oversaw the agents who worked on the mueller report that exonerated and vindicated donald trump. joining us to make sense of all of this and remember the justice department i just described to you is the same justice department the leader of which attorney general bill barr doesn't like people talking about his department. it makes the job tougher he said. joining us is tom fitton who more than a few times has been accused of making the work of public servants in the justice department difficult.

tom, good to have you with us. first your reaction for bill barr for whom i have immense respect and great hopes. but when he says the president of the united states is making his job tougher and the justice department has to hold accountable someone who so obviously and blatantly broke the law. your thoughts? >> i think the attorney general's job is being made more difficult by the obama holdovers on the roger stone sentencing recommendation. according to the attorney general is contrary to what the law requires and would have resulted in a man serving more time in jail than necessary. to complain about his boss holding the justice department to account makes his job

tougher, but the bigger issue is what you went through piece by piece, the justice department is trying to ride the tiger trying to figure out how to make these guys operate according to law. but it's a complete mess. it's clear with the mueller thing that he was outflanked because he hadn't gotten a handle on the personnel issues. the president in my view has a positive obligation to make sure the justice department isn't violating the rights of americans. lou: this president is keeping his promises. and he's not going through the sage intermediaries of the national left-wing media.

i guess i'm so disappointed in bill barr, i have to say this -- it's a damn shame when he doesn't get what this president has gone through and what the american people have gone through, and what his charge is as attorney general. i want to endorse everything you said. those are all things to complain about. but where the hell is the report. where the hell are the indictments. where the hell are the charges against the politically corrupt deep state within the justice department, the fbi, and why in the hell aren't we hearing apologies from someone in that rancid corrupt department about what they permitted. because they had to have to pull off what they did, the 26 names we can go through on the fbi and

the justice department. but to hear this attorney general complain about this president who is fighting every one of those damn people to do the right thing and get this country straightened out. i don't want to hear any crap about an independent justice department. this justice department does everyone works for the president. it's part of the executive branch. where are the people talking about john f. kennedy putting bobby kennedy his brother in as a.g. who are these people? >> the democratic left, the establishment, doesn't want the president to be able to be president. he's not allowed to talk about the justice department. what if he called up bob barr and said what's going on? that would have been a scandal.

it needs to be reined in significantly. bill barr has fallen into a trap laid for him by these prosecutors. now they created another scandal laid for them in the coup. all this passes. it will come down to they are concerned that barr might actually do the right thing. -and they want to stop him from prosecuting the criminal gangs. >> i think it's clear, too, the radical dimms, the deep state are beginning an effort to stop this president from fulfilling his charge now. have you heard all the talk about he's vindictive, he's

vengeful? how about he's bringing justice. these people were trying to destroy this man, his family, the presidency. and to do it in front of the national left-wing media which has sold out. and to be a check against such corruption. who a federal court just said publicly, we can't believe a darn thing the fbi is telling us on fisa warrants. and we have the attorney general complaining about the president's tweets. it's remarkable. lou: i'm sure they are bringing over the documents in wheelbarrows that you have requested. >> they are in court defending hillary clinton. they didn't want to respond to us even though we now know they

have documents. we have another set of documents. duncan hunter, the republican forced out of office. the prosecutors there attended a hillary clinton campaign party. they had told the court the reason they were there was to provide advice in terms of a security incident. they lied to the court further suggesting a compromised investigation. the justice department this crisis. it's not because donald trump is complaining about it. it's because of the misconduct of attorneys who are part of the agency who think they can do whatever they want and they can get away with it. you and judicial watchdog the lord's work. appreciate it.

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5,000 more cases. almost 1,500 people have died of the disease. 65,000 infected. 99% of these case, these deaths are in china. the recent spike is caused by what china claims is a change in diagnoses. after removing the people in charge of the handling of the wuhan crisis. joining us is dr. anthony fauci, he's director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. good to have you with us. let's begin with this latest report. this time the daily count rise above 100.

yesterday almost 15,000 cases suddenly spiking the numbers. and 5,000 cases again today. >> they have expanded their capability of diagnosing. the prior numbers that we were getting every day that you and i have been discussing the past couple weeks were based on a definitive diagnosis by the specific coronavirus test. everybody knew they were missing people because there are so many people coming into hospitals who clearly had a syndrome that looked exactly like coronavirus disease. but they weren't being currented because they didn't do the test or the test didn't show it. so now they are making a clinical diagnosis if someone comes in with the chest

difficulties, they are diagnosing. that accounts for the big spike yesterday and today. lou: it's difficult to imagine. i want to give you credit. almost the first time we talked you intimated there were concerns about the diagnoses and the way they were assessing the cases. but it looks like outright attempts at concealment. it looks like they are trying to be more transparent. not just effective against the deadly outbreak they have to contend with. >> i agree. i think we are seeing a much stronger leaning towards really clear transparency. what happened over the last couple days is many officials who are involved in those early

discussion and reporting on this infection have been fired or have resigned. so they are having a political purge there with people essentially leaving for the reasons they felt they didn't handle things right. looking forward i think we'll see a lot more transparency and accuracy in what's being reported. lou: today troubling as well, only 15 cases, i say only, but that's a lot. compared to the other affected countries on a percentage of population, it's very small. but we have the cdc telling us we should expect this disease to get a foothold in this country. what does that mean? >> what's happened up to now is the system has actually worked.

when people were brought in from wuhan and others coming in by a structured way from china. the people in wuhan were put under quarantine. if you look at our 15 cases. 13 of them were people put into quarantine to observe and two of the close contacts of those people. lou: i understand. but i'm asking what in the world does the cdc mean by getting a foothold in this country? >> they are being totally honest. what they are saying is we have our arms around this and controlling it now. but if this outbreak goes out of china and starts to be sustained transmission in a number of other countries, it will be almost impossible to keep it out of our own country. lou: why? >> it's a possibility.

lou: why would we not put up the same safeguards with limiting travel and warnings about travel to china. why would knot that not be the appropriate response by any country with a significant outbreak. >> when we first did the travel restriction, i mentioned to you, limiting travel to a particular country or region is a delaying mechanism. but if the virus spreads throughout the rest of the world. it becomes impossible to exclude the entire world from coming into your country. lou: that sounds rather fatalistic and somewhat lacking in positive' response for

preparation and adaptiveness. >> i'm being realistic. i am saying that although at present the risk is low in this country, if in fact -- and it's an if we have to accept as a possibility -- if in fact this virus starts to seed itself in a sustained way in other countries, we'll be dealing with a global pandemic. as difficult as this is to accept, we'll have a big problem this country. lou: i can accept the prospect of there being a huge problem. i can't accept the idea this country has to accept it as a fait accompli. the result. it seems that's not perhaps -- maybe i'm seeking outs for a

straightforward threat against us. we have 15 cases and we can still manage our destiny. >> we can manage our destiny because the system we put into place to manage a limited number of people coming into the country from a well identified source, i.e., china, if we have the whole world to be concerned about -- lou: i understand that. you said that several times. i still don't accept it. this is my problem. i am going to talk to myself this evening and work it through and see if i am the one that's not being adaptive. dr. anthony fauci, you are always being very helpful to us in explaining what is going on in this crisis. it is no less than that. up next, kt mcfarland on why so many of the president's critics and detractors are getting so much coverage by the

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lou: joining us tonight, kt mcfarland. her new book is "trump, washington and we the people." we recommend it to you highly. it's good to have you with us. let's start with the idea that 8 -- at this point, john kelly, a year and a half since he was there -- is coming out against the president saying he doesn't believe in the wall, blah, blah, blah. what is it about this president -- and you are clearly a wonderful exception to this -- talking like they are the experts and the people elected them rather than this president.

>> i have a lot of respect for general kelly. but if you disagree with the president why do you take the job in the first place. add you have worked for a president, you have been given a great honor by the president and the nation. i think you have a responsibility to keep your mouth shut. if you have a disagreement on policy. when he came out with the nsc guy, it made no sense. lou: vindman. let's go to john bolton. he tweeted this. john kelly says bolton is an honorable man. john and i disagreed at times which kis --which is commonplacs

always served his country faithfully. consequence are says have a responsibility to reject baseless attacks on him. i want to point out to the audience. it's an interesting turn that john does there. he acknowledged he had disagreements with kelly, but he refers to those who disagree with john kelly. see the cute little turn he makes there? this is the b.s. and nonsense from the deep state and the perm' in the bureaucracy that i hate. they play word games as if everybody is an idiot. that's monstrous, a defense of john kelly operating in a faithless way for the president he served. >> 63 million americans voted

for the president. he sets foreign policy. not a bunch of career bureaucrats, not even military. they have to take an oath of office to say they defend the constitution and they work for the president. what he does set policy they should not go around his back and try to sabotage which is what the national security council did. lou: robert o'brien is standing up for this president, working hard. the president's tweet on kelly, if we can put that up for the audience. when i terminated john kelly which i couldn't do fast enough. he knew full well he was way over his head. this is the president who said

recently his greatest regret was personnel. and i think he has great self-awareness and knowledge to say that. >> when we were in transition in the early days of the transition. i don't think they realized the buzz saw they were going to walk into. we were treated like an alien invading army. lou: who treated you that way? >> the washington bureaucracy. the national security council. lou: you are saying the personnel office at the white house. >> the permanent bureaucracy that you can't fire or even transfer. they look at the president and say we'll be here long after you are gone. lou: they may be, but they will

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channel. that's because mark steyn, the fella in the green tie. he and i will be lining up in a battle of wits in tucker's ask show. it starts at 8:00 p.m. on the fox news channel. joining us is the man taking on all those challenges and more. national security advisor robert o'brien. let's begin with vindman. the president is entitled to have whomever he wants anywhere in that big white house behind you. why is there any issue here over vindman? >> i never understood that. the nsc serves as the personal staff of the president. many of them are detailees from

other departments. we expect and hope they will do their best to serve the country and the president. if you don't like the president, that's your right. but probably your highest and best use isn't over here at the white house working on his personal staff. i never understood the attraction of white house employment for someone who doesn't like the president. lou: you mentioned you intended to reorganize the national security council and had a very laudatory philosophy to streamline it and make it efficient. it seems to me that's what you are doing. >> this is something the republicans and democrats have been asking for for many years. the staff has grown exponentially over the years. it got to a high point of 236

policy professionals under obama. i spoke to my predecessors. what i thought was a good up in was 100-115 policy officials. that's what we had in the first bush administration. i thought that was a good number. i think we'll be there very soon. lou: how soon do you expect to get there. >> i think by the end of the week we'll in the 115-120 area. this is something we have done over 5 1/2 months now. i talked about this long before i heard the name vindman. i talked about doing this in an op-ed in the "washington post." when president kennedy showed up at the white house, president eisenhower had 70 officials at

the white house. kennedy dismissed all of them. lou: did you say political loyalists? the president is entitled to have political loyalists? >> they are smart guys and they got us through the cuban missile crisis. we use it primarily for attrition. most of them have been here a year or two or three or four. but it was time for them to go back to their home agencies. lou: i can't understand why you have military detachments, cia details into the national security council. a number of people whom i respect mightily say there should nobody cia and no

intelligence agencies represented in the national security council. that it should be outside the council for you to do your work. given what we witnessed in the three years of this administration, i couldn't blame the president if he said keep them 50 blocks away. >> we have got some great dedicated folks from all the various agencies, and most of them are committed to the president and his policies. those arele policies the people elected the president to execute. lou: most of us are still sceptical and will be for some time as you might appreciate since the vast number of those leaks that have been so harmful to the president and the administration have come from the national security council. hopefully there the is changed as a result of your good efforts. let me turn to huawei. this has become an ongoing issue.

is huawei a threat to national security? is it not? why is there a public discussion of this with the u.k., the european union, nato allies. why is this persistent and why is the justice department bringing legal charges against huawei when it's a national security matter point blank and there ought to be if i may a whole of government response to the threat? >> we are working on a whole of government response to that threat. you are right, with it's a national security issue for us and it should be for every other country thinking about installing huawei. as we look to 5g and the move to the cloud. so much data will pass through the cloud. if that goes through the huawei product, that means the chinese communist party will have access

to all information. it's a threat to our personal privacy and national security. we have allies, scandinavian countries who feel the same way we do and are looking for trusted providers to give them 5g internet service. lou: the national security threat represented by huawei and all the other efforts on the part of the chinese to spy on this country and steal our intellectual property. the coronavirus epidemic looks like it's getting worse. the chinese have not been straightforward about the number of cases they have. your concluding thoughts? >> this coronavirus is serious. the president took unprecedented steps early in the virus and

closed off air travel for people from china. we have a great task force led by alex azar at dhs. lou: great to talk with you, up next, one digital colossus censoring speech. how can a u.s. senator be censored by a big old corporation and why would they be aloud to do so?

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lou: a new report, the united states is cutting its carbon footprint more than any other country on earth. did you hear that, lefties. all of you watching in the international energy agency says carbon dioxide emissions in the united states fell by 140 mega tons in 2019.

that's the subject of our poll tonight. do you believe aoc and the dimms, the radical dimms will give the president credit for reducing a won he miss more than any other nation on earth? did i mention president trump has cut emissions more than any other nation on earth. youtube removed senator rand paul's speech on the senate floor on the whistleblower. they say they remove the leaked whistleblower's name from the past platform. if you remove it to protect the whistleblower's identity, you have sort of blown his identity. there have been numerous attempts to protect the

whistleblower. adam schiff blocked any mention of the whistleblower in the open and closed impeachment hearings. fab * has removed any mention of the whistleblower's name and the consider and the chief just its blocked senator palms question ask about the whistleblower. corey lewandowski, great to see you, and harmeet dhillon. rnc committee woman from california and member of the trump 2020 advisory council. great to see you. what do you make of this nonsense with youtube blocking this fella who is considered a whistleblower, but doesn't meet any definition in

law according to anybody i talk with. >> there is no prohibition about naming this person. it's an editorial position by youtube. google has been censoring conservative speech for years. the republican legislators allow them to get away with it by renewing their license. lou: a fog has drifted down over the media. the media going along with the idea that certain people can't have their names mentioned because they are quote-unquote whistleblower. which we know is preposterous. >> the fact that they remove any reference to him, just validates

that we know who the person is. they have gone through painstaking privileges to make sure this person's name is never mentioned in public but everybody knows who it is. lou: we know who the attorney jins, and we'll talk about how in the world he felt comfort panel talking to the left-wing media complain being his boss. are you kidding?

lou: we are back with corey and harmeet. barr complaining about his boss' tweets. and we just received word that mcconnell is agreeing barr. >> i love when the president tweets. bill barr also said the president never asked him to weigh in on any criminal matter. and the decision to change the sentencing recommendation was done long before the president tweeted anything. lou: the president has first amendment rights. >> i can only assume some or part or all of the statement was quleerd the president in advance. i would feel better about the situation if we saw the attorney general cleaning house in the doj. lou: and to complain about the

president's first amendment rights. get to work and clean up that mess. corey, thanks so much. it's 5 a.m. here are top stories at this hour faze one of the u.s. china trade deal is in effect and the clock is is ticking for bay jng to make good on its promises with the deadly corona virus quickly spreading, and the u.s. wrapping up pressure on huawei. will the trade deal fall flat? >> attorney general bill barr now publicly critical of the president. directing hissing frustration at the president's tweets. so is it enough to calm down the calls from democrats to redesmine >> how far would you go for love? would you actually cross the political divide? what americans are putting first when it comes to finding their sweet heart. happy valentine's day it is friday february 1