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no abuse of power, there was no such thing as collusion between the trump administration and russia. there is also new information tonight about susan rice's e-mail declassification and why she mailed herself on inauguration day of 2017 about a january a 5th oval office meeting, a meeting at which president obama and senior obama err a rah officials talked about the radical dems' effort to target the into coming trump administration. today superrice's representatives -- susan rice's representatives told fox news that rice was directed by the white house come, neil eggleston, to, quote, memorialize that meeting before thed a managers left -- the administration left office. rice's attorneys made the very same claim back in 2018 in a letter to senate judiciary committee leaders. in that letter, however, rice's

attorney wrote, quote: president obama and his national security team were justifiably concerned about potential risks to the nation's security from sharing highly classified information about russia with certain members of the trump transition team, particularly lieutenant general michael flynn. on its face, that is an outright lie. and why was that assertioning of her attorneys? in these newly declassified parts of rice's inauguration day e-mail, it is clear there was no indication whatsoever of any threat posed by general flynn or any other member of the administration. rice wrote this, quote: president obama -- president prt obama -- asked the fbi director whether he was saying that the nsc, the national security council, should not pass

sensitive information related to russia and flynn. comey's reply was potentially that he had no indication so far that flynn had passed classified information to kislyak, the russian ambassador. none whatsoever. the white house counsel suggestion to memorialize the meeting obviously given to cover the obama administration and its pretext for what would become unmasking of trump administration officials. why else would the national security adviser, susan rice, mention a number of times herself that obama and comey said the administration was acting, quote: by the book. why else would rice writing that comey had concerns with flynn's contacts with the russian ambassador but had absolutely no evidence, no indication that

classified information had been shared? and why else would rice give president obama an excuse to question whether there was information to be shared with the incoming trump administration? remember, that question originated with the president of the united states, not any member of the intelligence team, nor the director of the fbi. rather, president barack obama. the commerce department, by the way, is now extending waivers for mostly rural telecom companies in the united states to use sanctioned huawei technology. for another 90 days. and the commerce department warns this is the last, the final extension. about a dozen states still have huawei-equippedded internet carriers including four with air force bases and intercontinental ballistic missile fields. the fcc is still working with these companies to find the

huawei gear, rip it and replace it. well, it's a confused matter, national security and huawei and the united states' position. joining us now is commerce secretary wilbur ross to clear a lot of this up. and first, mr. secretary, good to see you and welcome to the broadcast. let's start with huawei. a national security threat. at this particular moment, we have in our research found that there are more countries supporting pa way in their -- huawei in their 5g networks than there are who have followed u.s. requests to abandon huawei. does that comport to your reality, to the situation as you see it? >> no, it's very disappointing. what they've tried to do is to slice and dice. their theory is if they limit

the extent of the use of huawei, they'll protect themselves. we don't believe that's technologically feasible in terms of 5g. it was feasible in terms of 4g and 3g because those were fundamentally equipment-based. 5g is much more software-based. we don't think it works. we think they're kidding themselves. lou: you don't think it's working to in any way compartmentalize or try to constrain huawei, they're involved then. you think they still represent an espionage threat, and that's the reason so many of our allies are still with huawei? do i understand correctly? >> yes, we do. for several reasons. first of all, the assumption that some consultant who's never built the system would know it as well as the fella who built

the system, we think, is a flawed theory. so the probability that someone could put into it a back door or a calling home mechanism without it being detected, we think, is considerable. but even without that, this kind of apparatus needs constant upgrades, constant modifications almost every month there'll be some new thing from huawei being added to the equipment and to the software. so even if it were okay in the beginning, that's not to say it'll remain okay for very long. and the real problem with that is you'll never really know that it was there until it's too late when they intend to unleash it. lou: and huawei right now, in addition to continuing to build out internationally despite the

protests of you, secretary of state come pay owe -- pompeo, our allies are continuing to buy huawei, integrate them into their networks by a higher ratio than are listening to the united states and its concerns about espionage. in the 5g race itself, we were told a year and a half ago that the united states was going to be the victor, that we would be in a significant lead by this point. our research, again, shows that huawei has a commanding lead on u.s., on the united states in the 5g race. what's going on? >> well,, the unfortunate truth is we do not have at this stage a national champion. we do not have a u.s. version of huawei. huawei's real competition around the world comes from samsung,

comes from erickson and comes from nokia. we don't have an american champion. and the reason we don't is that they have destroyed the price structure at huawei so severely that it's not economical for an american producer to make the equipment. so we're trying to figure designs around it to get to some mechanism where we're not so dependent on the radio relays which have been a marley -- particularly price-depressed part of the system. lou: and the administration itself, on with opportunity hand sanctions -- one hand sanctions against huawei, and on the other hand, your department granting waivers for the purchase of huawei. there is, i think you would acknowledge, something of a mixed message here on the part of the administration that is concerning to our allies as well. they're saying that if you don't want us to buy this equipment,

why are you giving waivers to u.s. telecoms to do so yourselves? >> yeah. that's not exactly what we're doing. the u.s. installations are on 3g and 4g. they do do not pose the same security risks as 5g. there is no huawei 5g in the u.s. now, nor does anybody in our government intend to permit there to be 5g. so it's not the case that these waivers have anything to do with that. what they have to do with is it's very important for the rural communities to have good access to broadband. lou: right. >> the only access they have right now is 4g and 3g huawei. we can't knock them out of broadband until fcc works with them and replaces the equipment. lou: well, we -- i think you

would accept at least this humble proposition that i'm going to forward here, and that is that our allies are confounded that we would be talking about huawei, sanctioning huawei for its espionage efforts against the united states whichever generation we're at, whether it's 4g or 5g. the rusks are significant -- the risks are significant, and we have asked them to step back, our allies. meanwhile, what i way is beating us at 5 -- huawei is beating us at 5g. that has national security implications itself, and don't you believe -- >> oh, it surely does. lou: is so it's a deeply troubling matter to me, speaking only for myself. let me turn though to -- >> well, lou, if i could just -- lou: -- and that is -- yeah, you could and you will. go ahead. >> okay. if our allies can't tell the

difference between the technology of 5g and the technology of 4g, they're not qualified to make the judgment that they can save themselves. they know very well that it's a very different thing, 5g from 4g. we don't object to their using the old to stuff. lou: right. well, at this point why then are we losing the race to china on 5g? >> we're losing the race because we do not have a national champion. it's very tough to go to a foreign government, as i have many, many times, explain our view on huawei, and their response often is, well, who is the american company we can use? the fact is we don't is have one. and that's the real gap, that's the real problem. lou: well, sweden, finland,

japan are all strong american allies, and just as you have just announced that you're bringing in tmsc from taiwan, a $12 billion facility in arizona. and i want to cop congratulate hate the administration. this is precisely what the president has said he wants done. you've been working, i know, on this issue and this company for several years. i want to congratulate you here, because this is terrific. >> well, thank you. lou: ericsson, nokia, you name it, these companies should be welcome here as well working in 5g. perhaps we could make one of them a champion. certainly for the united states. something of a proxy, i admit, but my gosh, it's a very amazing accomplishment on your part and the administration's to bring in this very important taiwanese

semiconductor company. >> it really is a game-changer because there are only two companies in the world that have the potential ability right now to produce the very small, very powerful semiconductors that tsmc -- lou: right. >> -- will be making here. the other one is samsung, a korean company. and we would love to have them come here as well. lou: well, we will, i'm sure that they have just received your invitation, and we hope they will respond forthwith. mr. secretary, it's always great to talk with you. again, congratulations and thanks for being with us. wilbur ross. secretary of the department of commerce. >> thank you, lou. lou: up next, red storm rising, china using the wuhan virus pandemic to ramp up aggression and pressure around the world. we'll take that up with national security expert kt kt mcfarland,

asia export gordon chang in this broadcast tonight and more on the obama administering's efforts to -- administration's efforts to undermine the trump administration as it was taking power in january 2017. we take that up next with flynn attorney sidney powell. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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♪ lou: fbi director christopher wray covering up, senator ron johnson bond wondering why susan rice's e-mail was ever classified in the first place and where christopher wray has been in reforming the fbi, in his term as director. senator johnson is and senator chuck grassley are also calling on the director of national intelligence, ric grenell, for the unmasking records on all trump associates from january 2016 to january 2017. also today johnson's homeland security committee voted to subpoena a firm with ties to burisma holdings as part of its investigation into the bidens and the ukrainian corruption. our next guest this evening is

general michael flynn's attorney, joining us, one of the foremost defense attorneys in the country, sidney powell, former prosecutor, best selling author. thanks for being here, and let's start with johnson making the assertion that christopher wray is covering up here. your reaction. >> well, he's been in office quite a long time now, lou, and he certainly did not produce to the defense the exculpatory evidence regarding general flynn that's been in the fbi files for at least three years. or take it to the attorney general or anything else that we know of. apparently, it had to be prided out of the fbi with extreme leverage. so i can't applaud the efforts of christopher wray from anything i know or is have seen. on top of that, he was andrew weissman's supervisor whens weissman was at the department of justice on the enron task force and destroyed arthur anderson, sent four merrill

lynch executives to jail while they hid the evidence that showed they were innocent for six years. it's the same old pattern, and mr. wray is part of it. lou: it is an extraordinary gathering of questionable characters over the course of time, particularly those -- and, by the way, that includes some republicans including michael chertoff who altogether chose to destroy a great, a great firm and the jobs of 85,000 people as they took on and charged a professional services firm arthur anderson, which was a death blow, of course. it would be to any professional services firm. let's turn to, if we may, the flynn case and the role here of the fbi which persists as a

cloud that is ever darkening. we still don't have the 302s, the interview records of general flynn and the fbi agents who conducted those. it's inning conceivable -- inconceivable that the fbi would lose the interview record of the, an interview with national security adviser to an incoming president. it's just, it's unthinkable but yet here we are these three years later, and it still persists as a great enigma within the fwbi. -- fbi. >> it could only have been destroyed because the system dingizes everything or it leaves a trail if it's affirmatively destroyed. that evidence has has to be then the sentinel system one way or another. there's also another draft after

that that we haven't seen. there's at least two drafts missing that would show the most crucial changes from the origin aal 302 to what eventually became the final 302 that mr. mccabe himself signed off on after it was dramatically altered. lou: and altered by peter strzok. >> yes, exactly. and lisa page. mccabe's special counsel. lou: it's difficult to understand why christopher wray and attorney general barr would not have turned everything upside down in order to produce those documents for the integrity of both the prosecution -- which apparently they believed in up until they could no longer pretend they did. and now when they see what an injustice was done to your client which you have demonstrated and advocated throughout that they still

permit those to be, quote-unquote, missing 302s when they are exculpatory and when -- and they're part of history. to me, i just cannot find an excuse for either the administration that is so obviously corrupt politically, the obama administration, and the current administration which has the capacity to produce those documents. >> i certainly don't understand it either, but what i find particularly outrageous now is the failure of the district court to grant the government's motion to dismiss and full acknowledgment of the fact that exculpatory material was withheld from the defense for all these years. i have no doubt there's more exculpatory evidence out there. they may want to use that for other cases or other prosecutions. but at the very least, our motion to dismiss should be granted, and that's why we filed the petition for writ of mandamus to ask the d.c. circuit to instruct judge sullivan to

grant it or to give us another district court judge who can follow the law. lou: don't you believe it's incumbent upon the attorney general of the united states to, to intercede with you and demand that the appellate court remove emmet sullivan if that is necessary in order to honor its order to dismiss the case? >> yes, i think they should certainly join our petition for writ of mandamus to make sure that their motion to dismiss is granted, because it lies solely within the power of the executive branch and the department of justice to pursue any kind of prosecution under the constitution. and judge sullivan's gone out and made up an issue that doesn't exist in the case which is specifically contrary to the supreme court decision, unanimous last -- two weeks ago, i think, written by justice ginsburg. so there's no basis for them to do what they're doing at all, and the department of justice

should definitely join our petition. lou: you know, you would think that amongst others chief justice john roberts would be sufficiently outraged by the conduct of a district court to basically tell the supreme court, the hell with you, watch this. we're going to be back with sidney powell as we continue an examination of this issue as well as the most recent developments with susan rice and why she was writing, well, sort of a covering memo, if you will, for an administration's political corruption. we'll take that up with sidney here next. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ the new house is amazing. so much character. original crown molding, walk in closets... we do have a ratt problem. ♪ round and round! ♪ with love we'll find a way, just give it time. ♪ at least geico makes bundling our home and car insurance easy. it does help us save. ♪ round and round! ♪ with love we'll find a way, just give it time. ♪

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relation that white house counsel directed her to write a memo to herself memorializing that meeting. your reaction to that. >> i think that makes it clear that they knew they were into something when they were in that meeting on january 5th in the oval office. obviously by that time, from what has been disclosed to us from are mr. comey, they had the flynn transcript of the call with kislyak. clapper had asked for multiple copies of the transcript. he apparently had briefed the upper echelon of the white house, obama's inner circle on it and obama himself knew from what susan rice and sally yates said. to they were all discussing flynn -- so they were all discussing flynn in particular and then, of course, the steele dossier because comey went from that meeting to the trump tower the next day to brief the president only on the salacious aspects of the dossier to exploit it all with cnn and

buzzfeed and start running with the entire dossier hoax. lou: which worked because buzzfeed then became the first media outlet to publish the dossier in perfect, in perfect complicity with the obama add administration's -- administration's efforts to subvert and to try to overthrow the trump administration. don't you think? >> yes. and then it was only a few days after that at the passing or after the passing of the baton ceremony that clapper calls david ignatius and tells him to pull the trigger, write the story or whatever triggering the logan act bologna against general flynn. lou: isn't it stunning that they would even for a moment think that they could prosecute under the logan act? i mean, that's just silly, juvenile nonsense. but with, of course, it was

rather juvenile, this effort to overthrow the president. but nonetheless, it was an ongoing conspiracy clearly to do just that, to overthrow him by any means possible. >> exactly. and the documents they've given us recently on flynn show that they knew the logan act claim was bologna themselves, but they went with that anyway as an absolute pretext to do whatever they wanted to do. they all knew it was a lie. they knew the dossier was a lie, a they knew the logan act was bogus, flynn had done nothing wrong and they were perfectly lawful. this was an atrocious abuse of power and egregious travesty of justice. lou: you know, i'd love to ask, as we wrap up here, a question. if you were prosecuting organized crime, the mafia, for example, and everyone told you that, you know, the investigation was just going

swimmingly but that at no point you should deal with the don, the leader of that organized crime family, would you not be surprised and would you accept that as a prosecutor? >> no, i wouldn't accept it at all. and neither would andrew weissman or any number of other prosecutors. lou: and the fact of the matter is this attorney general has said that there is no contemplated prosecution of either the former president, barack obama, or the former vice president, joe biden. a although they were present in that january 5th meeting. what a stunning but somewhat premature summation of the importance of that meeting, don't you think? >> well, it depends on what the additional evidence shows. it may become necessary at some point that it go there. maybe it's just not there yet. lou: perhaps it is not. perhaps it's not.

but exoneration seems definitely not to be warranted at this point either. sidney powell -- >> right. lou: -- it's always great to have you with us, and we thank you so much. good to see you. we'd like to hear your thoughts, follow me on twitter @loudobbs and like me on facebook and follow men instagram, please, @loudobbstonight. a programming note, tomorrow evening john solomon, michael pillsbury among our guests. we hope you'll join us for that and for them. up next here tonight, more information on the tight relationship between the world health organization and communist china. we take it up with kt mcfarland. she is next, we'll be right back with her. ♪ ♪ this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity.

lou: we now know for the past five months china has used the world health organization as a coverpiece and amouthpiece for failures to warn the world of just how deadly the wuhan virus contagion was for the world with after china unleashed this virus. just this week the w.h.o. bowed to chinese pressure again by keeping taiwan out of the world health assembly. communist china also tried to stop a proposed independent review of the w.h.o. response until almost all of the member

countries -- some 120 of them -- called for it. china standing a alone against the world. perhaps china's influence on the w.h.o. shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. indeed, the w.h.o.'s goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and hiv/aids is the wife of chinese president xi jinping. by the way, she is also a major general in the people's liberation army. she serves in the general political department that oversees the people's liberation army's propaganda efforts as well. well, joining us tonight is kt mcfarland, former deputy national security adviser to president trump, author of the new book "revolution: trump, washington and we the people." good to have you with us. we recommend your book highly, and let's start, if we may, with susan rice and their interest in the national -- in the obama administration in the national security council of the incoming president.

you were the number two in that security council, and they obviously knew something, many things that they had done were wrong, unlawful, and susan rice was trying to cover up as quickly as she could with a self-serving, nonsensical memo to self. your thoughts. >> look, that memo that she wrote to herself just a few minutes before she walked out the door and a few minutes before general flynn and i walked into the door of the west wing, it's like the 13th chime of a clock, lou. it's extraordinary in and of itself, and it calls into question all which preceded it. she would never is are written that memo to the record unless they knew they had something -- they'd done a lot of things wrong, and they were trying to cover up. at one point she says president obama's questioning the fbi director should, is in any reason we should not share with general flynn and the new team any information on russia. and they're acting as if, well,

this has just come up. so when general flynn and i met with susan rice four weeks before that and met several times with susan rice, were you supposed to go over all the issues that are ongoing. it's a handover thing. what did they not talk about? she wouldn't talk about russia. and yet when general flynn and i talked right after the sanctions were imposed, i said to him, mike, you know, they knew they were about to impose sanctions on russia, they knew it would cause a crisis, but they didn't even tell us they were contemplating it. they were keeping this from us as well as other things. so i think the whole thing, the whole memo is really disingenuous. when we walked in the door, susan rice very generously offered to have several people would stay on for another week to help us through the transition. well, guess who they were? they were all the resistance. they were the saboteurs. they were the people who were taking what we were saying and twisting it around and then running to the washington post

and leaking it. lou: and unfortunately, that wasn't elemented to the national security -- limited to the national security council. it was in every department, seemingly, and every agency certainly in the justice department, the fbi, the intelligence agencies. it was not in any way anything less than a strategy on the part of the obama administration to effectively maintain if not control, significant influence on the levers of power in the united states government despite the votes of the american people the previous november. it's really astonishing. and when we look at obamagate, the attacks on you by the special counsel, the attacks by certainly the special counsel, the fbi on general flynn, these efforts to take over, if you will, the national security

council, it was absolutely a strategic point with the obama administration. how high did it go? we don't know. but it was president obama asking should we pass on information to general flynn. what in the world would prompt a to say that when his fbi director says we have had no ed whatsoever -- no evidence whatsoever of the general passing on classified information to the russian ambassador? the pretext was just pathetic as everything else that went on in that transition period, the efforts of the obama administration to subvert president trump. >> you know, i mean, one of the things that the fbi kept hammering on me the several times i met with them was did president trump violate the hogan act. did general flynn violate the logan act. i said, i don't even know what the logan act is.

this is some obscure thing that only a few old-timers knew existed. it was passed, what, 200 some years ago before there was any communication via telephonings telegraph or certainly before video conferencing. so it made no sense at all. they were looking, you know what? stalin's secret police chief said to stalin, his name was beria, he said you find me the man, i'll find you the crime. and that's what they were trying to do with general flynn. they were looking for any crime they could find. and what they really wanted was to find something or some way they could persuade, friendly persuasion, those of us they were grilling to try to get something on president trump. they really implied to me that they wanted me to say things about general flynn that he didn't do and about president trump that he didn't do. i was collateral damage, so was general flynn. their real goal was donald trump and hobbling his ability to be president of the united states. lou: yeah.

and the collateral damage in one way and so many others was the nation itself. as they carried out in the obama era the beria-like conduct you're describing. kt mcfarland are, good to have you with us. stocks finishing higher, the dow surging 369 points, the s&p up 49, the nasdaq 191 points higher. volume on the big board, 5 million shares. investors are enthusiastic about the prospect of a v-shaped recovery and are giving little, little notice of the naysayers who suggest the country cannot be restored by this president to prosperity. crude oil up another 5%, $33.50 a barrel. a reminder, listen to my report three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network.

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♪ ♪ lou: is china the enemy of the united states? well, more americans think so. 31% of registered voters say so in today's politico morning consults poll, it's up 11 points from january. only 9% believe china to be an ally. joining us tonight to take up the same question is gordon chang. he's columnist, author, senior fellow at the gatestone institute. gordon, china, in point of finish is china, in point of fact, an enemy of the united states? >> yes, lou. and all we have to do is just listen to what china says about us. because on may 13 ifth of last year, people's daily -- which is the most authoritative publication in china -- ran a piece that declared a, quote-unquote, people's war on

the united states. that's about as clear as you can get, lou. so, yeah, china's an enemy. lou: and now we learn the chinese are very upset with secretary of state mike pompeo who congratulated taiwan on its, you know, an important ally of the united states, and that congratulatory message from pompeo set off the communist party in beijing. it's astounding, the reactionary reflect of the communist party in beijing. >> yeah. china, in reaction to what secretary pompeo said about tie warning came back and said that the united states is going to be the object of chinese countermeasures, quote-unquote, and that these would be felt in the united states. you know, we have seen now for about two and a half, three weeks or so an unrelenting campaign by beijing against our

secretary of state. i mean, they've called him, quote-unquote, insane, they have used words even worse than that. and so we shouldn't be surprised that this is what they've said about him. but, you know, clearly beijing as has shown a viciousness in its tone toward the united states, and we've got to take that onboard because regardless of what americans want to think about china, we have to hear what chinese leaders, in fact, say about us. lou: well, that's absolutely true. and we also have to pay attention to what they are doing. they are challenging the united states, our fleet in the south h china sea, they are challenging us in the air as well. this is a nation that is becoming increasingly provocative over the duration of this pandemic and utterly irresponsible in its propaganda assault on the united states

globally. >> yeah. china has deliberately released the coronavirus from its borders by taking steps that xi jinping knew would lead to infections and deaths outside china. and, you know, this 92,000 americans as of today, we've got to also remember going back to your point about challenging us on the global comments that china has tone a number of things -- done a number of things, attempt to actually bring down american planes. they did that in djibouti in 2019. there were the sonic attacks at the consulate causing brain injuries to americans. and this has been a consistent pattern of an attempt to harm american diplomats and service personnel. and we also are got to remember on of all of this china's been taking hostages, including even children in china of american citizens. we can't forget any of this, lou. lou: we can't forget it, and in point of fact, we have to deal

with china and make certain that there is an accounting. it is, the president has expressed his disappointment. he has called this a war himself. his language indicates a man who wants to hold them accountable. we'll see what happens. it's a, it is a period in this country's history that none of us could have sewn occurring -- seen occurring. we appreciate, gordon chang, all of your words of warning over the years. thanks so much. gordon chang. stay with us, we're coming right back. ♪ ♪

♪. lou: president trump at the white house just moments ago addressing efforts to expand axe access by the democrats, radical dems. they want mail-in voting. >> people have to check you, see that it is you. they're supposed to look at you, check you, make sure, when you get thousands of ballots and they put them in a bag and they just bring them in and people start counting, who knows where they come from? it is so obvious. frankly they should have voter i.d. that is what they should have. you want the country wants, the count very want voter i.d. there will be subject to tremendous illegality and fraud. lou: it is probably going to be fraudulent but anyway, the

president will be in michigan tomorrow. he is at a ford manufacturing plant tomorrow. and that is it for us tonight. thank you for being with us. john solomon, michael maria: happy thursday, good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, it is thursday may 21st, your top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. tensions are rising between the united states and china once again. the senate passing a bill that could force chinese companies to exit u.s. stock exchange, this as the white house slams beijing's economic and military policies. coronavirus cases now topping 5 million worldwide, this after all 50 states are now in some phase of reopening. today another look at what the pandemic is impacting america. take a look at