[♪] lou: good evening, everybody. president trump threatening the radical dimms and the deep state. the president making it clear he's willing to do whatever it takes to eliminate corruption and to drain the d.c. swamp. the president tweeted he may fuel everyone responsible for the fiction-fueled farce of the special counsel saying it was all predicated on lies. president trump: i think the mueller scam is just exactly what the people are calling it. it was started illegally. it was started by abuse, it was phoney, it was a fake dossier.

they went into the fisa courts and forged papers and did a lot of bad things. the whole mueller thing to me is a scam. >> president trump has been the target of the greatest political scandal in history. the concerted effort by an anti-trump resistance force hell bent on removing him from office. their claims are that the justice department is independent of the presidency. the president making it clear he has high regard for his attorney general. the constitution guarantees the president can and will speak and tweet as he pleases. just because he has the address about a criminal matter he will do so whenever he decides to do so. president trump: the attorney general is a man with incredible integrity. i chose not to be involved. i'm allowed to be totally involved.

i'm actually i guess the chief law enforcement officer of the country. but i have chosen not to be involved. lou: the president saying he will continue speaking out for the victims of injustice. noting the crooked cops of the fbi and justice department have escaped without even a slap on r 78 days. when you look at what happened with mccabe with a recommendation of prosecution and you look at these other people and you look at what happened to general flynn, a highly respected man. you look at roger stone for a tweet and some other things. you look at what's happening to these people, somebody has to stick up for the people. lou: the president also addressed roger stone's future. he says he hasn't given any thought to a potential pardon for stone.

but he did say stone has been treated very unfairly. in a telephone hearing yesterday an obama-appointed judge refused to delay stone's sentencing saying it will move ahead as originally scheduled. the judge apparently will not postpone that sentencing hearing despite the fbi's seemingly s.w.a.t.-style raid to arrest stone last year where only anti-trump cnn was aware of that early morning raid. despite the evidence showing the forth person on that stone jury with a bias against him and despite three of the four prosecutors who drove the case against stone having worked on the humaner witch hunt. three of them. four prosecutors, one man. the same prosecutors who were

recommending a 9-year sentence for stone, the president said he had the absolute right to get involved. article two, section one of the constitution clearly states the executive power is invested in the president of the united states and with the department of justice under the executive branch the president can get involved or do as he wishes. joining us is sara carter. versus gay advertised reporter, fox news contributor. let's start with the stone case. it's just overwhelming. a bias foreman, person on the jury. three of the mueller prosecutors amongst the four who case against stone. this man consider you would think he was a major mafioso

instead of a lonely political what would i call him -- >> he was a participant of ask crime, somebody donald trump knew for a long time. the entire prosecution of roger stone, and michael flynn and everybody else they were looking at surrounding the trump circumference. we know because of michael horowitz's report and the evidence the american people can see for themselves. they weaponized the department of justice, they weaponized the fbi and the intelligence community. if you are looking at roger stone. they talk about he lied to congress. look at john brennan and his

lies to congress. james comey and his lies to congress. james clapper when he lied to all of america when he said there was no spying, warrantless spying on americans, and we found out that was not the case. none of these people have been prosecuted, but roger stone is being prosecuted. >> the president -- if the president had not spoken up in defense of stone, and against such a heinous effort to put him in prison for as long as 9 years on the part of those four merry prosecutors of the justice department. how is it that the justice department can afford to put four prosecutors on one case? that's assinine. how can thee afford to send out s.w.a.t. teams for a guy who

lied to the fbi. >> they were sending a message to anyone in trump's sphere, we are coming after you and we'll use the department of justice. they sent an a madda bay -- they sent an armada to stone's home. he would have turned himself in. but they sent an armada with a message. cnn knew about it, nobody else did. they wanted it to be out there publicly. there should be a group or an entity within the department of justice that can check on these prosecutors with absolute impunity they can go after anybody they want for political purposes. and that's not right. lou: i respectfully disagree. we can no longer think about the

justice department watching over and being the arbiter of what is fair or responsible or constitutional. it's just -- this has to stop and we have got not you oversight committees of the senate and the house that normally would be providing oversight. they are so consumed with politics on the part of the house, they are not doing their jobs. the senate judiciary committee under lindsey graham is not doing its job. i can't tell you a single hearing-ask he has held. this to be general, do you still have the same confidence in him as you had a year ago when he took the job? >> yes, i do. but i'm still holding him accountable as well as john durham. if he does the right job, people will be indicted and the truth will be exposed.

we are still waiting for him to declassify all the documents president trump has given him authority to declassify so we can know the truth. lou: do you find it interesting that we still don't know what the scope memoranda contained? the american people are being treated like mushrooms. you know what that requires, darkness and the rest of the what we have been handed this past year. >> it's actually insulting. it's insulting to the american people and insulting to us. this started out with president trump was the man chewerrian candidate. -- it started out with president trump was the manchurian candidate. it continued to be tens of

millions of taxpayer dollars to target anyone around president trump. that's frightening as an american citizen. lou: i think you are right. but i think the american people hold great power as well still. and one of the issues will become november 3 whether we are willing to support a party that has become the party of hate and perpetrated these crimes against this public, this constitution and this president. sara carter, great to have you with us. up next, china's threat to our national security. is the trump administration doing enough to protect us from that rising red storm? we take it up with dr. michael pillsbury. the trump administration granting waivers to expedited the building of the border call.

we take it up with homeland security's ken cuccinelli. some people say "dress your age."

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lou: breaking news on the coronavirus. one day province in china

reporting 130 k. and new death and 1708 confirmed cases. worldwide there are more than 2000 deaths to report and more than 75,000 cases worldwide. 99% of those deaths and cases are in china and meanwhile passengers aboard the diamond princess cruise ship in japan to prerelease from quarantine tomorrow. more than 100 americans on the ship will have to wait another 14 days before they can return to the united states. new report from conservative review that rhino senators tom tell us james lankford and lindsey graham have been pushing for legislation that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and they are trying to get the president support for the legislation. the farm workforce modernization act, don't you love the titles of these rhino bills, it passed the house last year 260-165.

34 republicans joined the democrats. the bill would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants in the united states who worked for eckerd culture and would create unlimited guestworker programs for farm working illegal immigrants. president trump leaving federal contracting laws to expedite the border wall construction for the trap administration waiving regulations in high-traffic sectors of the border that would allow them to build another 177 miles a border wall bringing the total to 4050 miles built since the president took office. our poll question tonight the subject, should senate republicans persuade president trump to support an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants? we'd like to hear from you. go to twitter @lou dobbs. joining us is can cuccinelli the acting secretary of the

department for homeland security citizenship and immigration services as well and if that isn't enough he's a member of the president coronavirus task force. it's good to have you with us. let's start with the coronavirus. we are now at 75,000 cases in more than 2000 have died in nearly all of them in china. your thoughts about first of all signs of any improvement in the way in which china is handling this crisis? >> well they are still struggling with it and hubei province. it's still an epidemic in proportion. the united states has offered not only china but other countries in the region special support and help. we have some of the best people in the world dealing with this. we have a couple of them on the ground in china which we have been trying to achieve for about a month trying to study this up close.

we can defend the united states and frankly help chinese put an end to this virus at least in terms of the threatening nature of it that we are staring down there. lou: is i understand at the world health organization has a team. is that team on the ground now? >> they are on the ground now. it does have an american element to it. it's not as much as we hope for including the w.h.o. team itself not just the americans but it's going to take them a couple of weeks to make an impact. lou: are you talking about the size of the team or the individuals? >> the size of the team primarily. we only have one or two americans involved and we had offered 13 in the w.h.o. team of 25 and the chinese accepted one that was smaller than that in

all respects. the real big question is going to be what sort of access will they get rid will they be givene allowed to investigate for themselves. the jury is still out on that one but it has a lot to do with how we interpret the information we are getting out of china so we can make the best informed decisions we cannot do presence virus test first headed by secretary azar which i'm a member of. lou: you also have to interpret what china's doing here. they are sending a very loud signal and is i understand at the beginning of january we offered to send in a team of american scientists and doctors, infectious disease experts immunologist but they declined. we are into this now just about seven weeks from the time we became aware of this.

they have still refused. you have an interpretation as to why they are rebuffing our offers of help? >> the first offer was made by our cdc to their cdc on january 6 and we were told no. just took them a long time to say yes and ultimately they said yes to the world health organization for which the event participate so it was just a long secured his route to get there and all the while the virus moves forward. as you noted it still 99% in china but we see instances like a cruise ship in japan. we see singapore with over 80 cases now last i saw and it's worrisome. it's concerning and we are taking active steps to prepare the united states. obviously you saw the repatriation flight of americans who are most at risk.

there's only so long that we can keep that sort of thing up relative to the thread itself and we are looking at all of our options. lou: congratulations to you and to the administration and the president for what you are doing because in this country it seems to be under control and every safeguard taken but there is the question, at some point as we are watching these numbers spread china looks like on the johns hopkins map a giant red blob with these numbers seemingly increasing per day not diminishing. is there going to be a point where simply going to have to say you are not crossing the border and not enter our ports of entry? is that on the table as a response to this because i can't imagine why we would not in order protect their citizens. >> lou first of all you're right.

the threat to the united states is still low when you've seen us use travel restrictions. more on the table but i will tell you the best medical advice suggests you reach a point where those don't really do much anymore. we are nowhere near that point. lou: can you describe that point because it's counterintuitive? >> it is counterintuitive and i understand that the viruses don't care about orders so much. what we don't know is how much of this has spread around before the world was aware of it. we are just generally testing all over the world so we don't know what we are not seeing. as tony fauci from nih likes to say we don't know the denominator. we don't know how many cases are out there. we just know how many china reports and we also know that's not all of them. that's a very difficult in and one of the many uncertainties that we have to contend with. the president has been very clear with us to stay leaning

forward and in the areas of uncertainty err on the side of safety for the american people. so far we have done that successfully but we have a long way to go. lou: ken cuccinelli i'd like to talk about the rest of your massive portfolio. >> i understand. lou: thanks for being with us. billionaire liberal left-wing donor george soros calling for the removal of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg in chief are burning officers cheryl sandberg. sources now making it a habit to issue off heads and to make his demands known. this time he did so in a letter to the financial times. in it soros argues that social media giant's refusal to remove political ads as quote helping to get donald trump reelected and he doesn't like that so if

you will take note. george soros the replacement of the ownership and management of these books. we like to hear your thoughts on all this. share your comments follow me on twitter @lou dobbs like men facebook follow me on instagram @lou dobbs tonight. up next the latest actions taken by the trump administration to stop china's growing geopolitical military threats. it will take it up with one of the nations leading china experts dr. michael pillsbury right after these quick messages. we will be right back. stay with

every cookie sold in the girl scout cookie program helps girls learn life long lessons in people skills, decision making, and goal setting. it's amazing how much you can learn from a cookie. lou: the state department designated five chinese media outlets as quote foreign missions. that designation means those media organizations will be treated as state sponsored propaganda and agents of the communist party if china in this

country through president trump today downplayed the possibility of further restrictions on the exports of some goods and technology to china. here's what the president had to say this afternoon on his way to california. >> i will say we are not going to be sacrificing her companies by using emit term on social security. he has to be real national security and i think people were getting carried away with it. including chipmakers and various others. they will make those ships in a different country. i would be tough but that doesn't mean we have to be tough on everybody that does something. we want to be able to sell all that said credible technology. remember when the world. without a deal to sell to other countries. lou: joining us dr. michael pillsbury director of the center for chinese status -- strategy the chinese institute author of

an international bestseller and it's good to have you with us might. your reaction to open for business? >> i remember back in the reagan administration i was headed policy planning at the pentagon and we have these weekend and week out over what was national security technology that should be denied and what was really serious and would damage our ability to win the war if the enemy got ahold of it. those decisions often depended on intelligence information dependent on knowledge of technology and it went back and forth. president reagan had a similar approach. it didn't want to get our enemies better arms of president trump is trying to balance the same issue. lou: that is one of the words of the presidency. he is to carry out that once i do think we should find a

context with the president saying care about these engines. they've been exported to china since 2014. that's a long time to give the chinese an opportunity for reverse engineering if they want to produce them. unless we are just not giving them the idea they might try that. i can imagine, can you? >> we have the same issue 30 years ago with india a similar kind of engine was being denied. the navy secretary at the time john lehman told us he would resign in protest if we cleared these for india. she explained to us the deal went through for india and 10 other countries. ge explained to president reagan just how hard it would be to reverse engineer the turbine blades because of the way the little holes were drilled. everyone had to learn new details about it. they never were reverse engineered. lou: the chinese have the same

difficulty with these ge engines. let's turn to the coronavirus. as ken cuccinelli and i were just discussing it as a low threat as he put it in this country because we only have 15 confirmed cases. but we have others under observation. the government has done an amazing job i think in constraining the spread of the virus into this country. so here we are and we have china saying we are not welcome to help them and is easy to start suspecting them of having a reason to deny us entry into their country to help them. >> i hope you will permit me to disagree with ken cuccinelli. i think there's a bigger risk

than he is talking about. i think it's to the point of danger. it's not -- the virus is not peaked in china. it kills doctors and health care workers who are closest to it and now they are issuing strains studied yesterday that only harms people 80 years of age or older. the virus kills 15% of them so i don't know this information coming out of china. if this gets out of control we have a real pandemic. a lot of dead people will be facing politicians if they don't take this more seriously. the good thing china has admitted w.h.o. but not the american cdc yet. they have postponed their own congress. it's now put off indefinitely so the chinese know this is a really dangerous virus. they are stopping wildlife traffic inside of china. that's the source of this virus of the chinese are very serious

about it. i don't agree it's a low risk to americans. i think ken means there are very few cases that is certainly not under control in china. lou: when he talks about being a low threat to the states united states based on the number of cases under observation and confirmed cases of it i think you would agree i think about a loaiza rate as we could hope for. >> we don't have protection at all of her ports of entry. there's a number things we could do to be more cautious with the virus that is being done so far. lou: it must be straightforward. we have an unprotected northern border in an unprotected southern border and great swaths of land across both. >> i do think president xi and president trump have a good relationship that's key to all

of this. obviously there've been offers of help so far resident xi still has not responded to the january 6 offer from president trump to have american scientists come in and do studies. lou: i want to turn to the trade agreement with the chinese. seems to be moving at a pace. orders have been placed for 1 million metric tons of soybeans. seems it's moving outpace that larry kudlow the president's economic adviser says he would be willing and it seems to me he's speaking for perhaps the administration that he would be willing to defer the onset of the first parts of the trade deal which would be $200 million over two years. >> i'm very fond of larry kudlow but i think he's wrong on this

one. i think we had to hold the chinese. lou: if i may entropy we have a hard break coming up here. i'll ask you to stay with us to the commercial break and we will be back on why you are right or you'd stay with

lou: we are back with michael pillsbury who is explaining why larry kudlow is wrong to suggest

the united states change the terms of the deal with china. >> we should stick to our guns. this is the president's main reason for running for president. sticking with the china trade deal. it took the president a year and a half to do this. it's unique. i can teach larry kudlow an old chinese proverb. give an inch, you take a mile. until it's a humanitarian issue, i think we need to stick to the president's amazing achievement and make sure this trade deal is enforced. lou: thanks so much. former white house national security advisor john bolton claims the white house is censoring his upcoming back. speaking at duke university, bolton said quote, i hope it's not suppressed. this an effort to write history

and i did it the business i can. we'll have to wait to see what comes out of the censorship. no former national security advisor has ever, ever written a book while the president they served under was still in office. not one. joining us tonight, fred fleitz, national security expert. it's great to have you with us. stunning that bolton would be so arrogant as to label as citizenship the responsible review of that book by a national security advisor. >> i called for ambassador bolton to withdraw his book and follow the precedent bob gates followed. he let three years go by after the 201 election.

lou: out of 10 national security advisors, not a single one wrote a book and published it while they were still in office. >> gates was criticized forward writing this book while obama was still in office. i take issue with what bolton says that the history of this had administration will be censors. i disagree because the president is still making history. lou: he had the temperament and ego to serve the nation, instead of himself. stalking about bolton annoys me, so let's move on. it's ridiculous. chris murphy meeting with the iranian foreign minister. senator murphy is the same fella who criticized tom cotton for

sending a letter to iran. >> we have seen senators and house of representatives meet with representatives of other governments before. we have seen house democrats go to cuba to meet with the castro brothers. but murphy says because president trump isn't engage with iran he will. lou: it's clear murphy is nothing more than a self-important hack. if he thinks he's serving the national interest in any way in a manner superior to that of the president, he's an abject fool. >> the trump administration does want to meet with iran. murphy is being played for a fool by the iranians. an effort about it iranians to divide the united states and divide our leadership. they know how to play us. lou: murphy knows how to be

played. a fool. i think i would put it that way as well. let's go back to the idea that china is resisting u.s. help. your judgment about how the president should deal with this. should he -- how should the president move forward as a matter of foreign policy with china? >> we need to double down our di --our dip that i can efforts. it's a global emergency, and the secretiveness -- lou: does it trouble you that the power structure in china doesn't recognize they have a global responsibility in this? >> i think they recognize it now but they are still not budging. >> if they haven't budged, it means they don't recognize it. they don't want to commit geopolitical suicide. >> the officials are not

responsible to chinese officials. i think they realized what the situation is, but they don't care. president trump has to lean on the chinese leadership to say we need to work on this. >> my guess is he and xi are talking right now. incredible video tonight of the first 100% autonomous human flight with vertical takeoff. figure that one out. looks like a jet pack to me. it shows the man taking off from a marina in dubai, soaring almost 6,000 feet into the air. the carbon fiber wings are powered by minniy jet engines. it can fly for almost 35 miles. how quickly did you get there?

in 10 minutes. the radical dimms are in disarray. the president's list of growing accomplishments. the dimms don't know what to do about this historic president. look at them. they are pouting. drop sebastian gorka isn't. please stay with us. [ fast-paced drumming ]

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lou: wall street stocks mixed. the highest still in history. the nasdaq gained 2 points, and that was enough for it to hit a new record high at the close. gold up over a% to 1,600 an ounce. and a new report shows boeing has discovered foreign objects inside the fuel tanks of some of their 737 max jetliners. they will inspect all stored undelivered 737 max aircraft

beforer in delivered. michael bloomberg has a lot of money and he spent some of it to buy his way into the debate. he wasn't aloud on the debate stage until january 31. they removed donation requirements to qualify for the debates and bingo he's in. who said money can't make the candidate. president trump's success in popularity continues to grow which leaves some democrats very worried and very much aware they have no chance of beating him. these achievements do not go away no matter what. his historic trade deal with chain today, the passing of the

usmca trade deal with mexico and canada. record low unemployment. killing soleimani. all this after the radical dimms couldn't put together -- they decided to try to overthrow him with a special counsel, with fbi investigations and let's not forget impeachment. joining us now sebastian gorka, america first author and former strategist to president trump. i think it's laughable to see the dimms stewing in their own bile. they have no idea what to do. i'm thinking specifically of schiff and nadler and schumer and the bunch. >> it's really quite pathetic a sight when you look at the last

three years. if i were a democrat voter i would have a simple question i would want answered. what has the democrat party done for me since the mid terms. a failed impeachment,ed a failed trial in the house. they haven't delivered in any vague way whether it's infrastructure or anything. we look at the iowa caucus and bloomberg buying himself up on to the stable. we have the party of the underdog and working class has at the lead of its ticket an unreconstituted communist in bernie sanders and michael bloomberg who made comments that are going viral on the internet. farmers are stupid,en and it may lead to a contested convention. in that case i'm buying shares in popcorn.

>> it's quite something to watch. normally i'm not given to minutia in the democratic party because it usually adds up to nothing. but this business of the dnc change its rules to accommodate bloomberg, i think he may be -- there may be a perverse ascension on his part because he's made the other candidates look like whiney little helpless cowardly candidates because they are not standing up and saying hell no. if you put him in, i'm out. which is exactly what they should have done. but they didn't have the guts to stands on principle. so therefore they are aiding and abetting this billionaire oligarch in the takeover of their party. what do you think? >> at the same time how paradoxical and ironic, this is

the party that has been lecturing us on how evil millionaires and billionaires are. aoc literally said at an event to honor the good reverend that nobody has ever made a billion dollars in american. it's peace stolen off the backs of single mothers and illegal aliens. this is the party that hates billionaires and entrepreneurs. now somebody is going to stroll in and buy the election? that's what we are witnessing right now. lou: we are coming right back. stay with ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!

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liz: in our poll last night we asked you should anyone believe for any reason that any department in the executive plan much is independent of presidential authority. 92% of you said absolutely not. the constitution gives the president all the authority he needs to intervene in the justice department whenever he wishes. president trump: the southern general is a man of incredible integrity. just so you understand. i chose not to be involved. i guess i'm the cheech law

enforcement officer of the country, but i have chosen not to be involved. top stories mike bluing after a week of controversy as six democratic presidential homefuls hope to win big at tonight's vegas debate and will the the glove come off and how is former new york mayor going to respond to all of that? >> overnight a new pace of corona virus confirmed in california as more quarantine americans return home. the growing concern here at home -- and tired of getting robo calls well you don't have power to sue the callers with just a touch of a button yeah it is wednesday february 19th and