cap the cost of insulin for seniors at $35 a month and also saying that now 2% of citizens in all 50 states have been tested for the coronavirus as well as they talk about trying to move this country forward. that does it for us on a big market day. lou dobbs tonight starts right now. ♪ ♪ lou: the united states and china seem to be edging closer to confrontation over the release of the wuhan virus and the chinese communist party's cover-up. xi jinping today escalating

tensions between the two countries, calling on his nation's military to, quote, explore ways and means of training and preparing for war. end quote. xi's comments come after a recent internal chinese report warning beijing they need to be prepared for the potential of armed conflict with the united states. chinese communist party officials have made it clear over recent days they will utilize the wuhan virus or pandemic they helped create to achieve their goal of global domination. china's foreign minister telling the united states to stop what it calls its wishful thinking of trying to change china. all of this as the chinese military reportedly readied two new aircraft carriers for deployment off the coast of taiwan, and china continues to push ahead with the effective takeover of hong kong later this week. the u.s. response to these

actions so far have been diplomatic, measured, even muted. president trump and husband administration threatening -- his administration threatening to impose economic sanctions against china should they continue to their provocative rhetoric and actions against the western world. >> secretary pompeo would likely be unable to certify that hong kong maintains a high degree of autonomy. and if that happens, this will be sanctions imposed on hong kong and china. it's hard to see how hong kong would remain the asian financial center that it's become if china takes over. lou: and for more reaction from the white house and the latest on china's crackdown against democracy in hong kong, we turn to our own susan in new york. >> reporter: the foreign minister says that the u.s. and china are on the brink of a cold war, of a coronavirus and what he calls political forhum forces

supporting the hong kong democracy movement. and installing chinese military personnel on city streets in order to enforce them. many see this as an end to hong kong's autonomy, promised for 50 years after it was handed back to chinese rule in 1997. >> i think china's making a big mistake, frankly. i think taking over hong kong's national security parameters and judgments was a mistake. we're supposed to have one country and two systems, and now we're seeing an attempt, i think, to have one country and only one system. that takes away a lot of freedom in hong kong. that will have a very bad financial effect on hong kong, i

might add. >> reporter: a bipartisan senate bill is being proposed that would sanction chinese officials, entities and banks that enforce this new national security law. while the white house is weighing the use of the hong kong democracy and human rights act signed by president trump last year and this requires beijing to prove hong kong's being left independent, or the white house could revoke some of the favorable trade policies the u.s. currently extends to hong kong. >> he said to me that he's displeased with china's efforts and that it's hard to see how hong kong can remain a financial hub if china tax over. takes over. >> which means what? would the united states change its relationship with hong kong? >> i have no further announcements on the precise action the president will be taking. >> reporter: jimmy lye saying hong kong's fate lies in the hands of president trump. lou, back to you. lou: susan lee reporting, thank you, susan. and joining us tonight to take

all of this up, general jack keane, former vice chief of staff of the u.s. army, retired four-star general, fox business senior strategic analyst. general, good to have you with us. red storm rising. xi saying to the people's liberation army, prepare for war. and the, and clearly, war with the united states. your reaction. >> well, the red storm rising has been going on for a number of years. certainly it was accelerated when president xi took over in 2013. the problem is the previous administration and the world at large refused to acknowledge what was really taking place. xi wanted to dominate the asia-pacific region. he said so in his speeches, and he wanted to replace the united states as the world's global leader, and then he put a military accelerated development program in place, and he also became a huge economic predator and intellectual property theft.

all that has been happening. i will admit since covid-19 has taken place, lou, and because he's been backed into the corner a little bit because of international criticism, he's lashing out more than he has in the past. and now he's meeting with the national party congress in beijing, some of this, i believe, is posturing, you know, about the threat of war. if he had war, he would never be able to achieve any of his objectives that he has for the country. and that would be a risk that would absolutely be unacceptable to the chinese communist party. but nonetheless, he is pushing the envelope. and thankfully so, this administration has a comprehensive plan to deal with it not just economically, but politically and also militarily and also deal with the information operations.

and i think we've got to lean our shoulders into more of it than what we have. and, obviously, because of what has been taking place recently, it's got our attention, it's got our government's anticipation, it's got our president's attention and it's got the world's attention. lou: and in the pacific, critically important how much force we bring to bear in that region. and how much of our total might we apportion to the pacific. it looks as though we're going to have to concentrate a considerable amount of our fleet, our air power as well as the triad to the pacific region as perhaps never before. >> yeah, you're absol about that, lou. you put your finger on one of the problems that we have, is china has added to their military capacity to a point where they've put a lot of our systems, military systems at

risk and vulnerable. we've got a couple things we're going to have to do. one is reoption forces and add a greater -- reposition forces. and then the second piece of that, and secretary esper is on top of this, and that is to accelerate advanced technology programs that will create the kind of military deterrence that we want to have in that part of the world that we don't want china making any foolish steps because we don't have it. that'll take a while to get, but fortunate we've had three solid budgets and we need a number of years' more to be able to pleat those advance -- to complete those technology systems. we're going to need that kind of funding. if we don't get it, then jeopardy is going to be around the corner.

i think xi's calculation is that he's no longer going to go along with the facade that the local government in hong kong is is really in charge. they're now in charge, and that's what this new law that was mentioned in the introduction is all about. which mean they can arrest anybody, anytime on any charge, is what that law permits. and the second thing, it deals with foreign interference. they can deport any foreigner without a lot of cause. they'll come up with some phony excuse, but that law gives them the authority to include the media. and china is risking this, and we have to understand this, can china -- if it comes to it -- they're going to own hong kong. and if they have to lose the financial hub to own it and make sure that as a result of the protests in hong kong, there's no pushback on the mainland, they will do that. because they want to protect

their regime and their chinese communist party at all costs to include risking that loss. is that, does that impact them economically? yes. but it doesn't bring them to their knees either. so this is a calculated move on their part to really begin to take control of hong kong and change it from something we knew in the past. and taiwan is another issue. they will -- president cy has been elected there, lou. xi'ss an anti-communist party -- she's an anti-communist party. china is going to put more pressure on them as well. that'll be another flashpoint for us. lou: general, thank you very much, as always. we appreciate it. general jack keane. president trump today implementing a travel ban on passengers arriving from bra. the -- brazil. the south american nation has the highest number of wuhan

virus cases worldwide, 375,000. nearly 24,000 more brazilians have been killed by the virus. in the united states, 1.6 million americans have been infected, more than 9 a 5,000 killed -- 95,000 killed by the wuhan virus. well, the trading floor of the new york stock exchange reopened for the first time in two months. all three major indexes moving higher. the new york stock exchange just in time for the big rally. the dow up 530 points, the s&p up 36, the nasdaq up 16. volume on the big board, 5.9 billion shares. crude oil up more than 2.5%, $34.11 a barrel. and new reports suggest radical dem joe biden planning to use the wuhan virus as a way to take on the president about the economy. but according to "politico," a resurgent trump economy is,

quote, the general election scenario that democrats are dreading. end quote. in a tweet today, president trump said this: stock market up big, dow crosses 25,000. s&p 500 over or 3,000. states should open asap. the transition to greatness has started ahead of schedule. there will be ups and could dowt next year will be one of the best ever. up next, radical dems and rinos like mitt romney make a push for more fraudulent mail-in voting. wait, why would they do that? maybe they want to cheat? i don't know. we'll take it up, much more right after this quick break. judicial watch president tom fitton joins us. stay with us, we'll be right back. helping people stay in their homes through mortgage payment relief efforts

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lou: the republican national committee and two other republican groups are are suing california over its mail-out ballot plan. in the lawsuit the groups claim the mail-in ballots would be sent to inactive voters including citizens who have moved or who have died. meanwhile, a clinton-appointed judge's ruling could allow felons in florida to vote in the upcoming election without having to pay any fees as required by

law. u.s. district judge robert hipging -- clinton-appointed judge -- ruled that state law requires felons to pay legal fees before voting is, quote-unquote, unconstitutional. that ruling could potentially add thousands of more voters to the rolls. and president trump swearing in john ratcliffe today as the new director of national intelligence. ratcliffe taking over from richard grenell who served in an acting capacity for the past three months providing unprecedented transparency as he did so. and today grenell declassified a new bunch of russia probe documents including transcripts of phone calls that incoming national security adviser michael flynn and then-russian ambassador sergey kislyak a had in december 2016. this follows grenell's actions, remarkable, historic actions.

in three months he declassified the list of obama-era officials who requested to unmask general flynn, released more than 6,000 pages of house intelligence committee interview transcripts, declassified the e-mail of former national security adviser susan rice that she sent to herself on the president's inauguration day and declassifying more than three dozen redacted footnotes from the department of justice inspector general's report on intelligence community failures. well, joining us tonight is tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. and ric grenell, tom -- and i know that you would agree -- i mean, he is historic. what he has done in three months is breathtaking. the nation is truly in his debt. >> it sure is. and when you compare the other agency heads of the trump administration, they a pale in comparison in terms of

transparency. secretary of state pompeo, the state department is a disaster, the doj and the fbi are disasters in terms of transparency. for instance, we asked the state department about the super-- samantha power unmasks, they said they couldn't even tell us number of unmasks because it would be a violation of national security to do so. and, of course, doj and fbi literally are breaking foia law by withholding documents from us and requiring us to sue. and then when we sue, they stall exit release -- they stall the release of the documents or pretend the documents aren't subject to foia in the case of text messages. and grenell shows that when you have agency leadership, you can get transparency. and i just hope barr and wray and pompeo look and start producing as well. lou: well, it's really surprising to hear you

criticizing those other departments, particularly the state department. and i'd like to know what can be done here. you say it's a violation of foia law. they're claiming it's against the law for them to release the material. i'm going to guess which side you would suggest is correct here. but why in the world couldn't this thing be adjudicated and resolved or the president just simply order it done? >> oh, i think the president should order a agency-wide disclosures or administration-wide disclosures certainly of the russiagate documents. i know he's pushed for that and, of course, the deep state resists that. we're seeing with the grenell disclosures the classification had no good faith basis. there was no national security reasons to hide the name of the unmaskers, no national security reasons to cover up that susan

rice e-mail, to hide the transcript information. and grenell came in and blew it all open. and the secrecy is to protect misconduct and, frankly, criminal behavior from being exposed. lou: and let's turn to california, the lawsuits. judicial watch and the republican national committee, mail-in ballots you say is pure fraud in specialty, certainly. what's going to be the resolution there? >> well, the constitution doesn't let the governor of a state just send out ballots and change the law of a state. the legislature, under the constitution, has to change the rules x. california state law doesn't even allow newsom to do that. that's why we sued in court last week on behalf of both voters and a candidate, darrell issa, who's running back -- running for his seat again in congress.

look, if you want your vote to be secure and safe, go vote in person. and governor newsom flooding the system with 20 million ballots is an open invitation to ballot fraud. we know we have -- los angeles county's agreed to remove up to 1.6 million names from the rolls that shouldn't be there. we know that california's voting lists are notoriously dirty. we've got the documents and the information showing that to be the case. so if you want voter fraud, if you want chaos on election day, this is what you'll get with this out of control decision by mr. newsom. on top of that, you've got this ballot harvesting rule in california that is also an open invitation to not only fraud, but intimidation. when you're voting outside the polling place, the protections are weak for secure elections and to protect those who want to vote from being intimidated.

lou: and, tom, you know that people are going to say it's california, for crying out loud. it's nothing but, you know, the usual left coast, left-wing, democratic, let them stack up all the votes they want, what difference does it make. pay attention to the stage where it does make the difference. your response the those people. >> well, if it's your vote that's being sold as a result of voter fraud, you may think otherwise. and, certainly, california has senate races and house races and races for mayor and other localities that would be impacted as well. and, of course, it's a state by state ballot. this is not just in california. nancy pelosi, for instance, passed a bill that would nationalize newsom's approach, upend the voter id laws in 35 states and have ballot harvesting in a national, at a national scale. look, our elections are being put at risk here.

lou: and, by the way, i mean, you know, 16 states where this is being, perkins coy is the great democratic law firm. great, by the way, i'm using in a facetious sense. they're leading an action to disenfranchise voters across the country, are they not? >> well, that's right. if your vote isn't going to be counted in this circus-like process, your civil rights are being violated. you know, i'm tired that voter fraud issue, the left using it to attack those of us who support election security as being against people being able to vote. we want to protect the right to vote by making it secure. and when you is set up a system -- and this is what they're trying to do: they oppose voter id, they oppose cleaning up the rolls and, obviously, they got the ballot

harvesting and voter mail scheme going on. that's setting up the -- lou: must be very -- yeah. and 2020 is five months away right now. >> yeah. lou: and to be very clear, it's about electoral integrity. and anything that insures integrity of our electoral system, it seems the radical dems oppose mightily. tom fitton, always good to see you. talk to you later in the broadcast. appreciate it. up next, china's so-called batwoman, so-called, she says the wuhan virus is, well, just the tip of an iceberg if you mix a metaphor when it comes to facts. we'll take that up. what's being done about it in washington? well, we'll talk with senator marsha blackburn who's doing something about it right after these quick messages. we'll be right back.

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♪ ♪ lou: the chinese i virologies known as china's batwoman

because she works with bats to get viruses, the wuhan virus, she says, is just the tip of the iceberg. whatever that means. the deputy director of the wuhan institute of technology telling state media new, contagious, deadly viruses like the wuhan virus are constantly being discovered. it's unclear whether she was making a threat or offering a warning or just what. well, joining us now, senator marsha blackburn, the great state of tennessee. senator, great to have you with us. you've been giving the chinese some things to think about including the covid-19 act in which american citizens would be able to sue for damages. the chinese don't like that, and they're actually threatening you and a few other folks, aren't they? >> well, they have said they think they should sanction me, whatever that means. but i tell you, i think that i agree with president trump. we should be sanctioning them.

and not take that off the table as we look at how to deal with china. and, lou, i have to tell you when you have the virologist who is termed the batwoman talking about this is the tip of the iceberg, we have to bear in mind china has still not let the cdc or the w.h.o. into that wuhan institute of virology. now, they want to say they didn't start this, that it wasn't from wuhan. it's the americans' fault or the italians' fault or something else when the whole world knows that it came from wuhan, and it is time for the chinese communist party to begin to be transparent about this and to stop lying and hiding information and stealing our technology and everything else. lou: well -- [laughter] i agree with you, $600 billion worth of intellectual property they steal every year, and we

have watched almost 100,000 americans killed by this virus that they didn't warn the world about. you can argue about whether they engineered it, whether it -- whether they authored it, but its origin was wuhan, and it was the chinese who unleashed it on the world and didn't say a word to a soul. they're responsible for every death, every infection around the world, are they not? >> they are. and that is why we introduced the stop covid act, because u.s. citizens who have experienced loss of life and livelihood and their families, they need the ability to take the chinese communist party to court and hold them accountable and responsible. and seek some remuneration for what they have experienced. and so through the foreign southern immunities act with the provision of biological agents, covid-19 can be classified as

such. this is something that was unleashed on the world. china knew for 51 days they had this thing. president xi knew for 6 days they had this, and they let it grow to a pandemic before they started to talk about it. they have 3,000 people that were infected with covid-19 before they said anything. lou: and they permitted them to travel around the world even as they cut off domestic travel in their own country. i want to close out here by getting your reaction to president xi speaking to his party's national congress, telling the people's liberation army to get ready for war, to prepare for war. your reaction to president xi and his inelegant, bellicose rhetoric. >> their goal is global domination. they want to be the world's

superpower militarily, through the economy. that is why we have the belt and road initiative coming out of china, that's why they have the hundred-year marathon, is they look at this they want to defeat the united states at every single turn. but i tell you what, i think so many people have awakenedded through this covid-19 -- awakened through this covid-19 experience. and you're going see america recapture our dominance in manufacturing. whether it is telecommunications or pharmaceuticals, you are going to see us push forward with doing what we need to do militarily to be certain that great power competition is where we take the lead. in telecommunications with 5g technologies, with artificial intelligence, i think that a lot of people is have kind of -- have kind of started to say, you know what? they are not a competitor, they

are an adversary. this is a kohl war fight -- cold war footing, it is time for us to defeat them. lou: senator marsha blackburn, we appreciate it. good to see you. up next, more judicial activism from clinton-appointed judge emmet sullivan. the latest, the latest nonsense that he's conjured up to resist the department of justice's motion to set general michael flynn free. investigative journalist john solomon with us next. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ r insurance, so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ which is why when it comes to his dentures only new poligrip cushion and comfort will do. the first and only formula with adaptagrip

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♪ ♪ lou: breaking news now, the house of represent tufs is scheduled -- representatives is scheduled to debate the senate's version of the fisa reform bill tomorrow. the senate sending that bill to the house with an amendment requiring fisa court judges to appoint a neutral third party observer in any case involving a, quote, sensitive investigative matter. now think about that. these are all sense ty investigative -- sensitive investigative matter that is appear before that court x. another judge, judge emmet sullivan, hiring an outside attorney -- beth wilkinson, to defy the justice department's request to dismiss all charges against general michael flynn. we checked, we've got no response as to whether taxpayers are paying for this

representation for the judge. but we do have a few questions including why isn't chief justice john roberts taking sullivan off the case? sullivan lobbied to give james comey, by the way, a $100,000 speaking fee in 2017 at sullivan's alma mater, howard university. howard has received, by the way, almost $100 million from the department of education, federal taxpayer money, 100 million, since president trump took office. it's nice to know how they're spending it. well, joining us tonight is john solomon, award-winning investigative reporter, editor-in-chief of "just the news." john, good to have you with us. first, your reaction to hiring a high-powered attorney like wilkinson to represent a judge in a case. what's going on here? >> i've coveredded the judiciary for 30 years, i can't remember

another time where a judge whose judgment is being questioned not because he's under investigation, but simply because of his jurisprudence. needed to hire a lawyer, i think it shows the sort of trouble that journaling sullivan finds himself in -- judge sullivan. he's in opposition to the supreme court's own ruling what to do in these cases, and i think the lawyer's just another side show. at the end of the day, the courts are going to come down on the side of the law, and that requires this conviction and charges be dismissed against general flynn. lou: john, i've got a lot here i want to talk to you about tonight, as usual. but i've got to ask you why in the world doesn't the chief justice just intervene here in this is ridiculous. he's -- this judge is mocking him, the entire court. and, by the way, the department of justice and the constitution, just as a side note. this is outrageous. why should this take even a week to sort out?

>> yeah. no, it's a great question, right? the law is clear: you know, the wheels of jurisprudence often turn slowly. slower than my patience level, but i think at the end of the day the appellate court has a handle on this, they know what they're going to do. they're expecting the judge to give some sons -- response, and then they're going to tell the judge, go back and do your job. i think this'll play out pretty quickly. lou: yeah. it occurs to me that these particularly the federal judiciary really does need to join the 21st century. [laughter] this is preposterous, that this has to go on. a great new article at justthenews.com, and i want to turn to that. and i'm referring to the text between strzok and, as usual, lisa page. putting obama in obamagate just before the inauguration of president trump. in which there was an expression,, and i can't tell if

it was a genuine concern or if they were building a record. concern that they would have to share intelligence with general michael flynn, the new national security adviser? are you kidding? >> yeah. well, even more damaging, they knew what was going on. you have to is set the table here. it's two weeks before president trump takes office. it's about the time that the fbi agent who investigated flynn for five months has come up with the decision, no more investigation, no criminality, no counterintelligence threat, we should shut the case down. and at that very moment, someone in the white house is seeking the flynn transcripts, and the fbi is debating should we give them to the white house. and what you see in these text messages -- which, by the way, i confirmed this afternoon. sidney powell and michael flynn has never gotten these text messages. i got them, but -- they're actually saying if you give me transcripts to obama and the white house, there's going to be partisan axes to grind.

people are going to take vengeance out on mike flynn. that's not what an fbi investigation is supposed to be for. it's the an extraordinary moment in time where the fbi realizes if they give the transcript of mike flynn to the white house, there's going to be partisan gamesmanship played, and that's not what should have happened. lou: well, fascinating tale, as always, in justthenews.com. we're grateful to you for sharing it here tonight and sharing with us further the wisdom and insights of john solomon. he's coming back with judicial watch president tom fitton the as we take up the, well, the ramblings of the deep state is and radical dems in what they're conjuring now. stay with us, we'll be right back with tom and john in just one moment. ♪ ♪

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♪ muck. lou: a new poll shows 45% of americans now say it's likely the obama administration improperly spied on the trump campaign. these findings by just the news and rasmussen also show 43% think it's not likely. 80% of republicans believe it's

true, just 19% of democrats believe it's true. and there you have it, the grand divide. we're back now with judicial watch's tom fittop, editor-in-chief of just the news, john solomon. i want to start with john rat are cliff now the -- john ratcliffe now the director of national intelligence, running the show after ric grenell's extraordinary three months as the acting director. tom, what do you expect to be the difference? do you expect that, for example, we're going to see a lot more declassification and the public's right to know honored by the intelligence community rather than frustrated? >> i hope so. mr. ratcliffe now has grenell's lead to follow. there are these documents that grenell just declassified including the transcripts of the wiretaps on general flynn which, in my view, are just -- it's just evidence of a crime. there shouldn't have been

wiretapping the of flynn's communications. as soon as they heard he was talking to the ambassador, they should is have turned the tape off. so that material needs to come out. we sued for it years ago, couldn't get it, and now grenell's finally released it. and now john ratcliffe needs to take the baton, the transparency baton x further disclose the details of obamagate. and if he doesn't do it, the president should order him and anyone else involved to declassify -- certainly, it's already been declassified, so there's really no reason other than politics to withhold it. i don't think ratcliffe is going to withhold it. lou: you, john, managed to get material that defense attorney and general flynn couldn't get for themselves. what do you expect? >> i would expect the trend of increased transparency and declassification and release of information to -- when ratcliffe was in congress, he was a big advocate for declassifying, and

i think ric grenell has created the environment by which ratcliffe can accelerate these activities. just last week judicial watch did a fantastic job in getting us the original electronic communication that opened up the russia case. lou: right. >> when you see that, you realize it's a laughable document. there was no basis to even start the russia investigation. lou: i think the expression was not a million years should it have occurred, tom. which, by the way, is what president trump was saying throughout, and yet there doesn't seem to be remorse, there does not seem to be any shame or embarrassment. they just plod on saying, well, you know, that was then and this is now and the hell with the american citizens and their right to know. and, oh, yes, the constitution. this is outrage, to me, that the

stain remains at doj, the fbi and parts of the intelligence community. what do you think will be done, tom? >> this was part of a seditious coup, let's be clear. they were desperate to get trump. they ambushed general flynn in the white house, an attack on the president's ability to conduct foreign policy. it was an attack on the presidency. you know, my concern is that comey's let been let off, and i don't see any evidence that the senior leadership behind this coup is going to be prosecuted let alone even seriously questioned at this point. it's disturbing. the president should appoint, as i've been saying, a special counsel separately because the doj just can't do it. lou: the president has just spoken. he was at an event, not a general news event, but speaking with reporters at least briefly. this is what he had to say about general flynn. >> yeah, i'd like to hear it too. the i mean, i'd like to hear --

the fbi as you know said that he didn't lie. and certainly the conversation, almost regardless, it was a good conversationful he was allowed to do it. -- conversation. the mueller people, who are -- have been proven -- [laughter] very bad, very bad things, they did. very bad -- a lot of bad things are being found out about the hoax. lou: john, your reaction to the president's remarks. >> you know, if he said them three years ago, people would have laughed at him, but the truth of the matter all this disclosure, all the great work by tom fitton, by the members of congress, we now can see this was a ruse from the beginning. it was a partisan political debt -- or personal attack on the president trying to thwart his presidency misusing the most powerful intelligence and criminal law enforcement tools we had. the president is right. there were some bad people who did some very bad things. lou: and none of them have been brought to account, tom.

and as john reminds us, the national left-wing media, the radical dems mocking the president when he said he was being wiretapped. you know, it's just, it's just inconceivable what has happened to this president at the hands of a politically corrupt fbi, department of justice and, as i said, a couple of very bad chiefs of obama-era intelligence agencies. >> yeah. mueller was, was the hammer for the deep state here. and remember, the abuse of general flynn, the prosecution occurred under mueller. the president should presume all those prosecutions and investigations are suspect and tainted and should pardon everyone involved irrespective of how the courts handle it. manafort, stone and, of course, general flynn who is innocent. you know, and jeff sessions, i know, had been in a debate with president trump. jeff sessions didn't need to

recuse himself, and once he did and saw what was going on, he should have unrecused himself to stop the carnage in the justice department. it was a terrible lapse in judgment, to put it charitably. lou: john, you get the last quick word f you would. >> it's hard to follow that, a pretty good argument. people are going to look back at this period of time and really regret what the fbi and justice department did. the real question is can we prevent it from happening again. only punishment and accountability will prevent it from happening again. >> that's right. lou: amen. to you both. tom fitton, john solomon, thank you, gentlemen. we'll be right back with much more. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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♪. lou: breaking news. twitter for the first time intervened with a presidential communication to his supporters and followers on twitter. placing a fact checked label on president's tweets for the first time. the president's tweet reads, there is no way, zero, that mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. mailboxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged and illegally, even illegally printed out and fraudulently signed. twitter has now place ad label that links to, quote, facts about mail-in ballots. we have been wondering if this would ever happen. it has. that is it for us tonight.

thank you for being with us. dr. marc siegel, gordon chang, congressman jim jordan among our guests here tomorrow evening. we ask you to join us then. thanks for being with us tonight. see you tomorrow. good night from sussex. liz: stokes soaring. the dow up about 530 points, almost hitting 25,000 on fresh new hopes for a big economic recovery and on renewed hopes that a covid-19 vaccine is just months away. at the white house and the rose garden, the president announcing a new deal to cap, put a ceiling on insulin costs for seniors with diabetes who rely on medicare. as we come back from memorial day weekend, honoring those who served our country, the other new debate that few are covering. how people who want to serve our country, who want to work for the government, who want to protect americans, our liberty and freedom, do things like