homeless people. it hasn't worked out that well for the activists though. connell? connell: no, it hasn't. dan springer live from seattle, thank you. i'm connell mcshane in new york, thanks for watching us today and every day on "after the bell." we'll see you back here at the same time tomorrow. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the radical dems will vote on a resolution that will call upon vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment for the removal of president trump dent pence reportedly has absolutely no appetite whatsoever to follow through on the demands of the left, and that means house democrats will be voting on a single article of impeachment against the president as soon as tomorrow. that's right, here we go again. president trump today traveling along the u.s./mexico border in

texas, slammed the radical dems for going down their false and failed road of impeachment once again. >> i'd like to say that free speech is under assault like never before. the 25th amendment is of zero risk to me but will come back to haunt joe biden and the biden administration. as the expression goes, be careful what you wish for. the impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger and division and pain far greater than most people will ever understand. which is very dangerous for the usa, especially at this very tender time. lou: president trump today accused the democrats of ignoring dangers posed by foreign adversaries in this moment in which they are going down the impeachment farce once

again. and in particular, the rising threat of the chinese communist party inside the united states. as president trump's secretary of state, mike pompeo, warned lawmakers, he said the threat from china is, quote, inside the gates. pompeo said further the chinese communist party has penetrated everything from our schools, city councils, local and state legislatures all across american business and universities as well. pompeo today delivered another speech in which he highlighted the foreign policy accomplishments of the trumped a managers over -- trump administration over the past four years. here with more, fox news correspondent rich edson. >> reporter: good evening, lou. what the trump administration and secretary of state mike pompeo are doing here today in this speech is warning of links between al-qaeda operatives and iran. the secretary saying that there is a confirmed link between

leaders, al-qaeda leaders in iran and using it as an operational headquarters. >> has a new home base. it is the islamic republic of iran. as a result, bin laden's capabilities.n is poised to >> reporter: u.s. officials have said for years that there the has been senior al-qaeda leadership inside of iran, and in this speech pompeo also confirmed the august 7th assassination of abu mohamed al-masri, al-qaeda's second in command killed on the streets of tehran. he was on the fbi's most wanted list for u.s. embassy bombs in tanzania and kenya. the secretary did not mention who killed him. pompeo also announced more sanctions on iranian-based al-qaeda leaders.

during his feature, iran's foreign minister tweeted, quote: to fictitious iran declassifications and al-qaeda claims, mr. we lie, cheat, steal is ending a pathetically disastrous career. all 9/11 terrorists came from secretary pompeo's favorite middle east destinations, none from iran. officials are trying to solidify as much of the trump administration's foreign policy as possible before the handoff to the biden team. there have been more sanctions that the trump administration has put out against iran. the biden team says if iran returns to compliance to that 2015 nuclear deal, then the u.s. would also go back into a nuclear agreement, and the biden team would seek further negotiations on their missile program. lou, back to you. lou: rich, thank you very much. now to capitol hill where two house republican leadership sources tell fox news house

republicans will not whip their members into voting against the radical left's use of impeachment to once again assail the president of the united states. for the latest on that, we turn to fox news' chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel. mike. >> reporter: good evening. a key house judiciary committee democrat urged his colleagues to urge vice president pence to use the 25th amendment. >> come on, guys, can we get it together to act as a rules committee together as a congress to tell the vice president simply to acknowledge what's obvious which is this president is not up to the job for the next eight days and a lot of danger still faces us. >> reporter: a close white house ally says vice president pence isn't going to react to pressure from house democrats. >> the vice president is, as a defender of the constitution, he said he is not going to invoke the 25th amendment. he's said that. mike pence is a good guy, i trust him.

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that is despicable. >> reporter: that impeachment vote in the house expected tomorrow. lou? lou: mike, thank you. if i didn't want know better -- i didn't know better, i'd think that chuck schumer was blaming the president. president trump made his first public appearance today since last wednesday. the president inspecting newry-built border -- newly-built border wall in texas. he addressed violence in washington last week, and once again he called for peace and for calm. >> millions of our citizens watched on wednesday as a mob stormed the capitol and trashed the halls of government. as i have consistently said throughout my administration, we believe in respecting america's history and traditions, not tearing them down. we believe in the rule of law, not in violence or rioting. now is the time for our nation

to heal, and it's time for peace and for calm. respect for law enforcement and the great people within law enforcement, so many are here, is the foundation of the maga agenda, and we're a nation of law, and we're a nation of order. lou: we are all of that and more. the president's remarks come as corporate america, big tech, social media, the radical dems and rinos are continuing to align themselves against the interest of the nation and the american people. not least of which is their assault on the first amendment. sixteen of this country's largest corporations and wall street firms now say they will not give political money to republicans who objected to the electoral college certification. another 25 companies and firms have, quote-unquote, paused all

contributions to either political party for the fore if seeable -- foreseeable future. i, by the way, for one endorse that decision. but a peculiar report today in "the washington post", further distancing president trump, in point of fact, from the violence of last week. that report covers what the fbi knew and when it knew it but didn't tell before last wednesday's save america rally. listen to this. "the washington post" reporting the fbi's washington field office was with briefed on january 5th, one day before the capitol hill protest, that people had been preparing to travel to washington to commit violence. one online thread monitored included a post that said this, quote: be ready to fight. needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in and blood from their blm and antifa slave

soldiers being spilled. get violent. stop calling this a march or rally or a protest. go there ready for war. rather explicit, don't you think in so what did -- don't you think? so what did the fbi do with that intelligence? what did the fbi do to deal with that threat? the assistant director of the fbi's washington field office provided this response today. >> as offensive as a statement can be, the fbi cannot open an investigation without a threat of violation or alleged criminal activity. however, when that language does turn to a call of violence or criminal activity, the fbi is able to undertake investigative action, and in this case we had no indication information was linked to any specific person, but this is a matter of an online discussion.

lou: that is one of the most idiotic statements that we've heard from the fbi over the course of the past four years. if get violent isn't a statement that would open an investigation and cause law enforcement to prepare for the worst and understand exactly what is likely to happen, then i cannot imagine what language would be required of the fbi. for its part, the fbi says they shareed information with their law enforcement partners. that's a very ambiguous statement. but despite that knowledge, almost no action was taken by anyone in law enforcement, and five people are now dead. so why, why was no one put on high alert in washington, and why was there not more assistance for the capitol police? we're going to ask historian victor davis hanson about that on the broad with cast this evening. we're also joined by the hill's media columnist joe concha who will take up big tech's

continued push to silence conservative voices. we'll also be talking with china expert dr. michael pillsbury tonight about an ominous warning from secretary of state pompeo about china. we're also joined later this evening by former national security adviser kt mcfarland. and up next, so much for unity. the radical dems seem to be disinterested now, baselessly stoking fears about republicans. we take that up and more right after this quick break. please stay with us. victor davis hanson joins us on the other side. ♪ ♪ car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ but there's only one way to become one... by going all in.

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♪ ♪ lou: on wall street today stocks finished modestly higher. the dow jones industrials up 60 points, the s&p rose more than a point. the nasdaq up 36. volume on the big board picking up to 5 billion shares. and a reminder to listen to my reports on the salem radio network daily. breaking news now, "the new york times" reporting that senate republican leader membership mcconnell -- mitch mcconnell believes president trump committed impeachable offenses and is happy that the democrats in the house are pursuing impeachment. the president traveling to the

southern border today where he praised the efforts of his administration in securing the border. the president also condemned big tech and the radical left's assault on the first amendment. and secretary of state pompeo has sounded the alarms for the next administration, warning that china is inside the gates of america. pompeo also warned of the connection between iran and al-qaeda. also breaking, the radical dems' fear mongering about republicans. radical dem senator sherrod brown, one of the most radical of the democratic senators, says senator ted cruz and senator josh hawley must be expelled from the senate for their objection to the electoral college. and house homeland security chairman bennie thompson today said cruz and hawley could be put on a no-fly list. oh, yes, this doesn't stop here. the radical dems are in high healing mode now, don't you

think? congresswoman maxine waters, who spends a lot of time on healing, says when president trump leaves office, he will have control over his supporters to confront his enemies. but the radical dems have given their own marching orders in the past. take a look and listen. >> i just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. maybe there will be. >> you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you -- >> please, get up in the face of some congress people. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. >> when they go low, we kick them. >> they're not going to stop. they're not going to stop, and that's -- this is a movement, i'm telling you. they're not going to stop. and everyone beware, because they're not going to stop. they're not going to stop before

election day in november, and they're not going to stop after election day. and that should be, everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't -- they're not going to let up, and they should not and we should not. lou: do you think the national left-wing media bears great respondent for not -- responsibility for not reporting, first and foremost, on the extraordinary hypocrisy of the radical dems? this is outrageous. and to try to put this in historical context and understanding, joining us now is victor davis hanson, best selling or author, senior fellow at the hoover institution at stanford if university, the national review contributor, one of the country's terrific and best historians. victor, good to have you with us. i'm going to simply turn to you and ask why is it that the, first and foremost i want to get a little bit granular. why is the fbi as it

acknowledges that he had intelligence that there would be violence at that demonstration, why is it that that seems to be their pattern? they receive information, they receive intelligence and do not act? your thoughts. >> because a lot of things about the washington bureau of the fbi we don't understand. we've got sort of a sordid view during the whole mueller investigation about the fbi nos. i think if you were to take, give them the benefit of the doubt, they probably said we have never seen a maga rally go violent in the way of blm and antifa, so these are splinter groups, they may want to incite. but the vast majority will not be violet. and if you were cynical you would say, you know what? these are donald trump's people, and he's responsible and let him deal with them on his own. i don't know what it is. i will say that when you had that clip from chuck shouper, i

was -- schumer, i was really aghast because, remember, he got a group of angry pro-abortionist protesters, and they were hammering on the doors of the supreme court. and he said literally, this is the senate minority leader, we're coming after you. or excuse me, you won't know what hit you, judge kavanaugh and gorsuch, you won't know what hit you, and you're going to reap the whirlwind. that was a direct threat, at least that's how chief justice roberts interpreted it when he rebuked him. you've played all these clips, lou, and what's going on. i think part of it is that they have whipped up this anger and anger and anger, and it's in preparation for this agenda that's going to be rolled out in a few days. and this agenda that we're going to see is not about policy, it's about process. they're going to change the way we make government in this country. and they want to emasculate and disarm every critic they can.

they don't want a ted cruz editorializing about the end of the supreme court as we knew it with nine members. they don't want a josh hawley saying you can't let in puerto rico without a national discussion. and they don't want trump supporters saying, no wait a minute -- now, wait a minute, we have a second amendment. i think they're taking care of business because they're going to unleash the most radical agenda we've seen in our lifetime in about two weeks. and that goes for big tech too. i mean, we have three companies which have about $4 are trillion in market capitalization. three of the five largest companies in the world, and they're out to ban, deplatform, cancel out potential create -- critics and go after parler are, one of their critics. so this is all in preparation for the tsunami that's coming in about ten days. lou: yeah. and, well, not only an ideological divide there, but a competitor, parler, giving conservatives and republicans

and independents a, without a question, an effective platform in direct competition to twitter. and many believe that is why google and and apple have fallen in line, if you will, in the oligarchy against parler and against free speech, against the president. you talked about the vast majority. the vast majority, i believe, in this country do not understand why corporate america is taking shareholder money and spending it on a campaign or candidate that the shareholders may find both offensive and operating against their interests. this is really something egregious many in our history -- in our history, to see this kind of power, economic power that has been instantly translated into political power and used as

a force against one party, and that is the party of donald trump, the republican party. it's unprecedented to see this extent, this amount of power being consolidated and used with abandon against the constitution and the rights of american citizens. >> it is. and i think what happened, lou, in an historical point of view, this has been insidiously going on for the last 20 years, and they have been aggregating financial, political, technological power. and they have gone on a long march through our institutions -- they being the left. i mean, professional sports, entertainment, hollywood, foundations, academia. and we really didn't notice it, and they didn't activate that power, they latent power, because when there was a george bush presidency or a mccain candidacy or a romney candidacy,

they thought either they would win or they could facilitate those republican candidates because they shared a lot in their participation in the administrative tate and washington establishment. here comes donald trump out of nowhere with no allegiance to any, you know, political party in a sense, nominally a republican, and he's damning both parties' establishments. and he had this strange, i don't know what you call it, this agenda that appeals to working people across racial lines that the democrats felt was their monopoly. and then he's saying you're not going to go over and have optional wars in the middle east, and he confused the whole political matrix. and once they sized it up, they thought, you know what? we're going to squash this whole movement, and we have this power that was not detected and not appreciated, and now we're going to exercise it. i think all of us were just, we were shocked at how ruthless and brazen they were to unleash that

financial and technological monopoly. the only answer is to go back to our ancestors and say what did our great, great grandparents do when they had cartels that prevented, you know, fair commerce on the railroads or oil. and those people -- lou: i think we also -- >> -- said, nah, you know what? we had antitrust legislation, we broke them up. and i hate to say it because i don't know any other way other than to break these monopolies up. lou: i'll be very clear, i think that is not only the only way, it is the best way. this kind of awesome power cannot, cannot be permitted any further because they are destroying a republic. and there's a reason why we have those antitrust laws, those anti-competitive laws. there's a reason why we have to have a party that represents the working men if and women of this country and their families, the middle class, because this country's built on the american dream. and therein it resides most

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♪ ♪ lou: a programming note, "just the news" editor in chief john solomon will be among our guests here tomorrow evening x. among the many issues we'll be taking on is our shared view that president trump should, without question or delay, release any and all obamagate documents directly, directly to the american people. as he has previously promised. release those documents to the people. not the congress or the senate, but directly to the american people. and president trump, in my judgment, should do so immediately. we'll be taking that up with john solomon here tomorrow evening. please join us for that. and please, mr. president,

please release those documents. be sure to go to the "lou dobbs tonight" poll. we want to know do you believe corpses should be spending -- corporations should be spending share holder money donating to either political party? cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. we're back with victor davis hanson. and, victor, i want to take up that very issue. we're watching an unprecedented challenge to the, to the antitrust laws and anti-competitive laws in which silicon valley is dominating now politically and economically in this country whether it's in market capitalization on our exchanges, whether it is in size and scale and asset or their intrusion into the constitutional rights of everyday citizens or mere users and mere consumers, not citizens

as the big tech and social media titans view americans. your thought about what is the best response to deal with this urgent, critically urgent issue. >> i think what's old works best, lou. we had a response in the 19th century when the railroads -- i'm in a farmhouse that my great, great grandmother lived, and i grew up with these stories that the railroads said if you don't like the price and you don't like the price fixing, get on your buckboard and use your horse. haha. and we said, you can't do that. so now 130 years later, we have these cartels, and they're saying if you don't like google, 90% of the search market, then get another one. or 60% of the twitter market or 70%, get another one. but they're even worse was the other one -- because the other one is parler, and they want to destroy it. and then they say, well, you

know, private companies have free speech, and they're not responsible for the first amendment to follow it the way a public entity is. they use the public airwaves, and we communicate. so they're basically telling us if you want to communicate over the most common mechanisms of social media, then you're going to follow our rules, and they're going to be asymmetrical, and they're going to be biased. and if you don't like it, what are you going to do, use e mail? gmail's owned by google. you know, youtube, it's owned -- they have all these tentacles like frank norris' octopus, and they masquerade as if they're champions of the first amendment when they're old-fashioned, 19th century cartels, and everybody's afraid of them because they give money to the left, and they tell laissez-faire people you believe in the free, unrestrained market market, and we're the example of the models you've always

worshiped. somebody's got to stand up to them and say, you know what? not going to happen in america. we're going to have free speech, we're going to have a free market, and we're not going to have a cartel, and we're not going to go back 130 years to the railroad cartels, not going to happen. i hope somebody will, at least. lou: well, hoping has not worked to this point, as you know. the reality is neither party has the the the stomach to do what is right for the constitution. the pretense, the ugly pretense of the radical dems and the lapsed promises of this administration to take on big tech and social media, it's stomach-churning to see the cowardice of both parties on this issue. the republicans, in my opinion -- the republic, in my opinion, is at stake. victor, great to have you with us, thanks so much. coming up here next, the latest in parler's fight against amazon. we'll have more on big tech's efforts to silence voices.

"the hill"'s joe concha joins me right after these quick messages. please stay with us.

lou: breaking news now, a jimmy carter-appointed judge is considering whether to temporarily force amazon to support the social media app parler. parler was forced offline on sunday after amazon web services cut off parler's access to its

servers. parler is now suing amazon in a seattle federal court to get that platform back online and to force amazon to honor its contract. please join us here tomorrow. parler's ceo john maize joins us. we'll be talking about this extraordinary threat to his company's very existence and to the existence of free speech in this country. well, joining us now, joe concha, media and politics columnist for "the hill" and fox business contributor. joe, good to have you on the broadcast. that is one of the most encouraging developments that i have seen in weeks, if i may say, that a federal judge is actually considering an injunction or an order forcing amazon to honor its contract to support parler. your reaction. >> as they should, lou. think of a car, for example. you build a great social media

platform, you build a car. what amazon is, is the engine in that car. without an engine, the car doesn't run. without apple, apple's like -- or google -- those are like the keys. and if you're not on their app stores of apple and google, then you can't get access to the car. so when amazon and apple and google all on the same day, amazingly as if they may have, to use a word popular in the last four years, colluded, to take down parler. last week parler was the top-downloaded app in the apple store. so it's on its way to being a billion dollar company, and the fact that you have these social media oligarchs suddenly saying it's becoming too popular, and to use the ridiculous excuse that parler was used to help organize the siege on capitol hill, glenn greenwald, who i think is one of the few remaining independent thinkers in this business, he found that not one active parler user was involved in terms of the arrests that were made so far at the capitol hill siege. but plenty of organization was

done on facebook and youtube, which is owned by google. so it's just a big old mess, but this is a very encouraging development as far as this judge is concerned,. lou: lou absolutely. and you have to deal with this every day and as a consumer of other media, i do as well, as do all americans. but you have to focus on what has become a media that is unabashedly one-sided and also utterly, it is self-blinded to the reality. there's an old saying you can, we can all have our opinions, but we can't have our own facts. the left-wing media has only looked at their own facts as well. that's it. they created new facts, if you will, at least -- and decided which to leave out. i love the fact that chuck schumer is talking about trump's supporters on the ellipse and

then at the capitol as if everyone who showed up for save america, that rally, suddenly was in the capitol building. it's, it's a fiction, and it's an intended, an intended oversight on the good soon-to-be majority leader's part. we're watching this every day, a disinformation campaign. it's propaganda. it's brought to us by the democrat party. >> and you talked about, lou, bias. i think it's beyond that. i think we've shifted at this point. we've gone from journalism straight to activism. and we saw it in the reporting, right? from what we witnessed over the summer in portland, seattle, atlanta, minneapolis, new york, chicago, billions of dollars in damage. did you know last year, lou, that 264 law enforcement officers lost their lives? to put that in context, that's the highest number since 1974, and these riots, obviously, played a role in terms of more

law enforcement officers being in harm's way. yet you did not see once -- this is the number of numbers. joe biden's biggest audience last year was his acceptance speech at the democratic national convention, 26 million people tuned in to watch that. and during that entire speech, mr. biden not once condemned the violence that was engulfing our cities, nor did his running mate, kamala harris, nor did chuck schumer who you mentioned before. so you can't kind of pick and choose when you're going to be outraged when bad things happened. what happened at the capitol last week was repugnant and one of the most horrific days in modern history. yes, we should all be mad about that, and the people responsible should absolutely go to jail for a long time, particularly those who hurt or, obviously, even killed a police officer. but when you didn't have that same outrage over the summer and the media decided to almost tell you on a nightly basis that they were mostly peaceful and this really isn't what's happening right now even though there's a burning building right behind me as i'm doing this report, that's

why people are so angry with media right now, the utter activism that we see in many circles. lou. lou: joe, thank you. and, yes, putting a -- juxtaposing those scenes versus this newest development, the fbi, we've just learned, joe, has created a sedition task force. they didn't create any task force against antifa or black lives matter or the violence that they, they caused and swept much of the country with. >> that sounds selective too. lou: thanks so much, joe concha. absolutely. joe concha, "the hill." breaking news, house republican congress chair liz cheney says she will vote to impeach the president. cheney says president trump summoned a mob to the capitol and lit the flame, as she put it, of an attack against the capitol. the house is expected to vote on

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♪ ♪ lou: a world health organization team investigating the origins of the china virus will be in wuhan on thursday. here we are just about a year later. china has had more than a year to cover up the evidence, and they recently deleted hundreds of studies from the wuhan institute of virology where the virus originated. the w.h.o. team is only planning to vet research that chinese scientists have already done, and apparently most of that is now missing. joining us is dr. michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute, chairman of the defense policy board and, an advisory group reporting to the secretary of defense. great to have you with us. we're also joined tonight by kt mcfarland, former deputy national security adviser to

president trump. thank you both for being here. let me begin first with you, mike. we have been talking for almost a year about the origin of the china virus. now w.h.o., which has worked hand in glove with the communist party of china, is finally getting to go to china. is there going to be anything that we don't know; namely, we already know that the virus originated in wuhan. do we not? >> yes, we do know that and, obviously, they've had a year for the cover-up. it's very difficult to find anything. it would take a very different kind of team going to wuhan, more like a non-proliferation inspection of the iaea that could pick up traces and try to look into their hard drives. that's just not going to happen. the negotiations have been underway for about a month now on just what this team can have access to, and it's actually very little. we could have an american

independent commission with former american leaders and scientists and then make it a demand. [audio difficulty] lou: yeah. and i do want to point out that the president has served notice that we want no part of w.h.o. in any capacity whatsoever. and wants to create a global, did want to, create a global alternative. kt, good to see you, and secretary pompeo busy warning about china. warning about iran. warning about iran and al-qaeda. your thoughts about at this late stage these obviously now more urgent concerns about the combination of iran and al-qaeda without any discussion about what this administration has done or plans to do about

it. >> well, i think what he's trying to do is to really set it up so that nobody is going to be confused when a biden administration comes in and tries to make nice with iran and says, oh, iran, they're this great nation, we're going to help you, we're going to renegotiate or even give you back the iran nuclear deal, we're going to help your economy, we're going to welcome you into the region, and we're going to empower you. probably at the expense of israel and the arab countries, the sunni-arab countries. but i think by saying the obvious -- a lot of people have known for an awful long time, al-qaeda was always, they had a relationship with iran going back to september 11th and the fact that the number two leader of al-qaeda was killed in iran last year, i mean, it's pretty obvious that that's where he was hiding out, that's where he was making his claim. and so i think what the secretary of state is doing not only in china, but within the middle east, he's saying iran is not a good country, you know? if the biden administration is going to go in and give back

iran what they had before, which was a path to nuclear weapons, we want to be on the record as saying look out for these guys. these are not going to play by the rules, and these are people who have chanted death to america on a frequent basis, and they are embracing al-qaeda. lou: and, mike, secretary pompeo again making it clear that his views about the threat posed by communist china, but this time saying, i thought rather colorfully, they are inside the gates. this is the same secretary of state who warned the rest of the administration, the president and the nation that the confucius institutes were here, almost 100 of them in k-12 schools and in universities across the country, and as far as i know only a few were actually closed. what is the, what is the intent

here, and why have we tolerated that threat? >> well, secretary pompeo laying down a number of lines here so that people can be clear what the next administration does. one, this business about china being inside the gates. he was quite specific about counties, cities, universities, this widespread view in america that china is our friend. a lot of people who only hear bad things that china's like nazi germany, they don't understand that the majority of people in our universities think china is a great placement they get nor mouse benefit, particularly our investment community. the idea -- lou: the wall street -- >> -- go into china. yes. it's very strong. so what pompeo is doing is really brilliant, especially on taiwan. lou: michael pillsbury, kt mcfarland, we're so short of time, i apologize.

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kevin mccarthy says he is open to impeachment. mitch mcconnell says he has had it with president trump. stay tuned. thanks for being with us. see you tomorrow. good night from sussex. elizabeth: tonight we bring you breaking news. lawmakers have been briefed on specific armed threats against washington including white house, supreme court an capitol building. washington is going into lockdown beginning full on tomorrow. state capitals brace for protest this is weaken. tonight congressman james comer, brett tolman, christian whiton, brent bozell and dolly and general any lens, congressman brian babin on these top stories. more on what members of congress heard from authorities. they are now closely monitoring