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testify. quote: your letter only confirms what is known to everyone, you cannot prove your allegations against the 45th president of the united states who is now a private citizen. a reminder to raskin of what an awful fraud he is helping perpetrate. in just a few moments here, we'll be taking all of this up with congressman jim jordan. the radical dems' ongoing persecution of the president now in its sixth year. also the radical dems will soon take the unprecedented action of voting to cancel a member of the opposition party. the dems have lined up to vote to remove republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene from her committee assignments for comments they don't like but which are well within the purview of her free speech and constitutional

rights. greene today defended herself on the house floor. >> it should be america first always, always. and there's nothing wrong with that. and if this congress is to tolerate members that cop done riots -- condone riots that hurt american people, attack police officers, occupy federal property, burned businesses and cities but yet wants to condemn me and crucify me in the public square for words that i said and i regret a few the years ago, then i think we are in a real big problem, a very big problem. lou: the radical dem mobs presumed to be now the arbiters of free speech. there is no limit to their gall, to their presumption. they are willfully ignoring their own recent wild theories and comments and slurs.

to this day, the left spews the hate and the lie that former president trump was a russian agent. they falsely claim that trump's phone call with the president of ukraine was an impeachable offense, all of it pureeing -- pure hogwash. but that doesn't deter them. they are evil. they are filled with hate, and they propagate it. they now say trump's criticism of a lack of election integrity amounted to, quote, incitement of an insurrection. the radical dems' crackdown on dissent comes at a time when the republican party itself is at a pivot aal moment. during a nearly five-hour-long republican conference meeting last night, house minority leader kevin mccarthy reportedly told his caucus i you've elected me leader, let me lead. his remark somewhat reminiscent of 2016 presidential candidate governor jeb bush who once had to tell an audience when to

clap, saying, please clap. without former president trump's leadership, the gop is suffering not only an identity crisis, but an outright rupture within the party. during their caucus meeting last night, some members of the republican party reportedly offered congresswoman greene a standing ovation. while in that same meeting, the caucus voted 154-61 to retain liz cheney in leadership as republican conference chair. despite her vote to impeach former president trump. by the way, that vote taken was a secret ballot. hardly the way to do the people's business. actually, an awful way in which to do the people's business. the republicans should be ashamed. those developments come as a new poll shows that congresswoman taylor brian is far more popular than cheney is in her district among republican voters.

greene has a 10-point net favorability. cheney has a net unfavorable rating of -28. what does that say about the republican caucus? for more on this, we turn to fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel. good evening, mike. >> reporter: good evening. democrats are expected to have the votes to remove freshman congresswoman marjorie taylor greene from the her assignments for conspiracy theories before being elected to congress. >> i never said any of these things since i have been elected for congress. these were words of the past, and these things do not represent me, they do not represent my district, and they do not if represent my values. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi was on the defensive insisting this move against greene won't set a precedent. >> no, no. if any of our members threatened the safety of other members, we'd be the first ones to take

them off of the committee, that's it. >> reporter: when ilhan omar was accused of making anti-semitic comments in 2019 as a member of congress, she was not removed from committees. this week some house republicans proposed a gop amendment to kick omar off her committees too, but the democrat-led house rules committee decided that wasn't germane. >> ridiculous distraction. obviously, we can sees sees seee racist, islamophobic, hateful. >> reporter: a new republican member of congress from south carolina calls this a blatant double standard. >> well, it is a power grab. it is unprecedented. i've told folks that i will consider it when the democrats file a resolution holding their own accountable for their anti-semitism, their bigotry, their violent rhetoric. >> reporter: after a whole lot of unity talk around the inauguration, it feels like congress may be more divided

than ever. lou? lou: congress itself divided, the republican party divided and dividing, it seems, by greater measure every single passing day. mike emmanuel, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you, sir. lou: defense secretary lloyd austin has ordered the entire u.s. military to stand down over the next 60 days for what he calls needed discussions on extremism in the ranks. a standdown order will take the military off an offensive footing but doesn't mean all military operations would stop at once. that's reassuring, don't you think? pentagon press secretary john kirby -- yes, he's back -- says the number of extremists in the military is small but not an insignificant problem that has to be addressed. so the problem gets more ridiculous. just how small is the problem? there are a combined 20.3 million veterans active duty and

reserve service members. last year the fbi opened 143 criminal investigations into troops and veterans. 68 of those cases for domestic extremism. quote-unquote. that is. .0003% and hardly a rational reason to stand down the entire u.s. military. and, by the way, or we are still waiting to hear how the head of the department of defense would go about making these determinations. they simply have offered not even a hint or a suggestion that they have any idea whatsoever how to do that. the biden administration's radical and sometimes cavalier policies are also permeating our school systems. president biden's nominee to be education secretary, miguel

cardona, says he is okay with the idea of biological males competing in female sports. senator rand paul challenged his thinking yesterday at cardona's confirmation hearing. >> what do you think in general about boys running in girls' track meets like they've been doing this connecticut? >> i think that it's critically important to education systems and educators respect the rights of all students including students who are transgender. >> does it bother you that like the top 20% of boys running in track meets beat all of the girls in the state? do you think it's fair to have boys running in the girls' track meet? >> i think it's appropriate -- i think it's the legal responsibility of schools to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities, and this includes students who are transgender. >> you're okay then with boys competing with girls. >> respectfully, senator, i think i answered the question. >> the vast majority of america is just wondering who are these

people who think it's okay. from what planet are you from. lou: from what planet. [laughter] well, in contrast, a recent notice from china's education ministry suggesting young chinese boys play more sports as a way of making them more masculine. the biden administration's also dealing with another major issue involving our public schools. teachers' unions in many large democrat-run cities say they will not go back into the classroom until they are vaccinated. but the current science -- the very science that president joe biden promised to follow -- shows that isn't necessary for a safe return to the classroom. here is the cdc chief, rochelle who eleven sky. >> i also want to be clear that there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does the not suggest that of

teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. so while we are implementing the criteria of the advisory committee and of the state and local guidance to get vaccination across these eligible communities, i would also say that safe reopening of schools is not -- that vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools. lou: so there is the science. the word from the c, the c. cdc. and white house press secretary, what does she say? jen psaki said: the cdc comments are not official guidance. yes, they are. from the cdc. and today psaki said more money was needed to provide more masks and ventilation for schools. apparently, those comments from the cdc did influence city leaders in the san francisco. they filed a lawsuit against

their own school district for failure to come up with a plan to return to the classroom. and in chicago mayor lori lightfoot is blaming the teachers' unions for the lack of an agreement to reopen schools. on wall street stocks moved higher. the dow up 332 points, the s&p up 42, the nasdaq up 167. volume on the big board, 4.9 billion shares. a reminder to listen to my reports each day on the salem radio network. and up next, more on the radical dems' scorched earth persecution of former president donald trump. we take that up and more after after the break. congressman jim jordan, an important member of the president's defense team. stay with us, we'll be right back. sarah, did you know geico could save you hundreds on car insurance and a whole lot more? hmm. so what are you waiting for? captain ahab to help you find a parking spot?

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he even intervened to contradict the justice department and defy their request to dismiss the case against general flynn. that is political corruption of an unprecedented level. also breaking, republicans on the house oversight committee are demanding documents related to president biden's executive order that would stop construction of the border wall. republicans are pointing to biden's time in the senate when he voted for 700 miles of border fence saying that it was needed to stop tons of drugs coming in from corrupt mexico. by the way, those drugs have not slowed down. our first guest tonight is helping former president trump's legal defense team, and is joining us now congressman jim jordan, member of the house judiciary committee, the house oversight committee and

recipient of the medical of freedom. great to have you with us. >> good to be with you, lou. lou: i have to ask, i have to ask to begin with -- >> uh-huh. lou: -- this is an apparent effort at absurdity on the part of the democrats, but it's a very serious matter. but the chief justice will not preside over the event. instead, you have a senator, pat leahy, who will also be a juror. the president himself is not in office, but the point of an impeachment is to remove a president from office. the absurdities mount after that. how in the world -- why in the world shouldn't the president just simply ignore these fools and the party of hate? >> yeah, i think you're right, lou. the president's going to win on constitutional grounds, on the lack of due process afforded him, and he's going to win on

the facts. how do you remove someone from office who's already left? how do you not have the chief justice preside? we're not talking about a sitting president. your right -- you're right, on a constitutional grounds it's a slam dunk case as evidenced by -- and you know that's where the senate members are at a because rand paul a offered his amendment a week and a half ago. constitutional grounds, he wins, lack of due process. this is impeachment by reflex. it was a two hour debate. at least when adam schiff did his impeachment a year and a half ago, the ridiculous impeachment hoax, at least there was sweep thats, depositions -- subpoenas, depositions and hearings. that looked like real due process compared to what they're doing now, and we know how bad that was. and then finally, there's the facts. how do you incite a riot that was already planned? how do you incite a riot when you said peacefully e and patriotically make your voices heard which is just fundamental, consistent with the first amendment? so on the facts he wins, on the

due process he wins, on the constitution, the president wins. finish but this is an obsession, as you know, lou, with these guys. they started trying to remove president trump from office before he got there, now they're trying to remove him after he's left because that's all they've focused on for the last four and a half years. lou: and they've gotten away with it, and they continue to do it. and part of the reason, as you know well, because you are one of the president's greatest defender and defenders of the constitution, it's because of the republican party. its meek and timid ways. and so much of the party obligated to masters on k street and who don't differentiate themselves whatsoever from the democrat party. we saw it in this conference last night of the republican party. marjorie taylor greene gets a standing ovation, i understand,

while you retain liz chain who voted to impeach -- liz cheney who voted to impeach the president of the united states as a member of leadership. cheney, remarkably unpopular with her constituents. marjorie taylor greene is wildly popular with hers. what is wrong with your party in. >> well, here's the big takeaway, i think, lou, when it comes to congresswoman greene. i mean, who's next? who's the cancel culture going to go after next? you know, it never stops. i said this tree weeks ago on the house floor, i said to the democrats when we were debating the impeachment resolution, i said don't think this cancel culture won't come for you too. it won't just focus on conservatives and republicans, it'll come for all of us. that's how bad this mindset is. and it took all of 13 days for that to come true. because what happened last week? the san francisco school board said we will no longer have the dianne feinstein elementary school. no longer will that be named

after senator feinstein. even a liberal icon like senator feinstein wasn't good enough for the woke mob because of something she said 37 years ago. that's how destructive and terrible and crazy this direction the democrats want to go and the cancel culture wants to go. so that, to me, is the biggest takeaway from this whole issue of congresswoman greene. and, you're right, she gave a great speech in the conference yesterday, and she did get a standing ovation from the members because of how she said it and what she conveyed. and americans hate this double standard. you think about this, lou, the guy -- the head of the democrat, the democrat chairman of the rules committee who kicked off today's debate against marjorie taylor greene, jim mcgovern, four years ago, january 6, 2017, he was of the very first objector to president trump's win. and guess which state he objected to? he objected to the state of alabama, a state president trump won by 30 points. and his whole reason was -- talk about conspiracy theories, which

is what they accuse marjorie taylor greene of -- his whole reason was the russian hoax conspiracy theory. and yet somehow they've got to go after ms. greene today. it makes no sense, and i think the american people see right through it. and god help us, i hope this stuff stops. lou: shouldn't we call the russian hoax, shouldn't it actually be called the hillary clinton hoax? because it began with her campaign. >> yeah. yeah. lou: why don't we call it what it is, it's the hillary clinton -- and this is not spaygate, this is obamagate, clear and straightforwardly with evidence. >> yeah, tried to -- [inaudible conversations] lou: -- no evidence for any part of -- they have no evidence for anything. but they have been able to pull this off because of a lack of imagination in the leadership of the party on capitol hill. whether it's mitch mcconnell or whether it is ken mccarthy -- kevin mccarthy. before him, paul ryan. these are to doties for the --,

toadies for the k street lobbyists and represent business and wall street. it's sad to watch. and this is not, does not bode well for the republican party. >> well, we need to come together now, and we need to push back on this attack on the first amendment. i said this today in the judiciary committee, you don't have a first amendment when only one side's allowed to talk. and this needs to be front and center. we need to adopt the attitude president trump has demonstrated for the last four and a half years. you've got to be on the offense. you've got to stand up and fight for the american peep, for the hard working families who gave us the privilege of coming and serving them. we get it all backwards here in this town. right now they've got a razor wire and fence around the capitol to protect the politicians, but meanwhile they're tearing down the wall, not going to build the fence, not going to control the border and secure the border to protect the country and protect the people that we're supposed to serve. how backwards is that? so that's what we've got to remember. president trump remembered that, and that's why the american

people appreciate what he got done in his time in office. and that's why he will be acquitted in the next couple weeks -- lou: i think we should point out it isn't the politicians that the radical dems want to protect. it is, in point of fact, the republicans are quite expendable. i think that's been made very clear. and your rights have been stripped, and they don't expect you to react with force or action to any provocation. the national guard, they're all there to protect the radical dems because the people they pretend to protect are up in arms now against them. whether it is on the issue of border security, whether it's energy, you name it, this president and this democratic party have taken us somewhere near the abyss, and he's only been president for two weeks. >> yeah. lou: congressman, you get the

last quick word. >> no, no, i can't say it any better, lou. look, let's focus on what we should be doing for the american people, not driving up the cost of energy, not taking away their jobs and letting the border, you know, not keeping the border secure. let's focus on what we should, and we're going to push back. i think we are going to come together as a party and focus on those, focus on fighting those things that the democrats are trying to do. lou: congressman jim jordan, always great to have you with us. thanks so much, appreciate it. up next, rino senator lindsey graham, oh, he's done it again. he's done it again. people in south carolina, what do you think of this man you sent to washington? he has put forward an amnesty plan for millions of illegal immigrants. that's what he should do. we were worried about investigating spygate, obamagate but, no, he's come up with a way to get involved in border security because that's where

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lou: breaking news, rino senator and the often-confused lindsey graham has, well, he's now decided he's going to be at the, well, at the forefront of illegal immigration and border security. working with senator dick durbin on the dream act which would give citizenship to an estimated 2.1 million daca recipients who came to this country as children. we reached out to senator graham's office about his advocacy of this bill while 11 million americans are out of work, and the nat and the house have -- senate and the house have yet to respond to the need for a further relief package,

but now he's all involved in daca. well, catch and release is back at our border with mexico, you'll be perhaps not pleased to hear. border protection, customs and border protection telling mcallen, texas, mayor that families with children are being released into the united states while they await for asylum hearings. not just family units. the pandemic is also being used by customs and border e protection to keep individuals out of a congregant setting. joining us now, former customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan. mark, good to see you and to see you in a civilian role, if i can put it that way. welcome back. and congratulations on a job well done, a tough job as i think most americans understand. let's turn to this open border and just wide open illegal

immigration and rampant amnesty that the biden administration is insisting will be the new reality, and it's becoming so quickly. a crisis is bound to follow, and we have early evidence that that crisis has formed and is enladies andlarging, do we not? >> lou, you're absolutely right. i keep getting asked that question, and it's not when the crisis is going to happen because of the open border policy under this new administration. lou, it's already happening. the crisis is already upon us. look, the daily average in january for the past 21 days has been 3,000 individuals trying to illegally enter the country every single day. a couple days ago that was 3,500. lou, you know this, we haven't seen numbers like this since the crisis, the summer of 2019. and this is a direct result of this president's policies with immigration. the crisis has already begun. lou: the crisis has begun, and

all of the tools, it seems, that you were able to employ under president trump will be no more. the border patrol customs, border protection are without tools, without many of their weapons against illegal emigration -- immigration, the drug cartel, smuggling, human smuggling, sex trafficking. this administration is basically saying, welcome to america. >> lou, they are. they might as well just buy billboard space? central america that says come on in, our borders are open. that's what's happening. you're right, this is very pocketer they're stripping away all the -- very important. their stripping away all the policies that absolutely worked under every measure bl fact that's out there. he's removing them without a plan to replace them. the only thing that 3500 a day, the only reason it's not a

catastrophic crisis right now is a because of the cdc order, title 42, that's in place right now. that's the only reason. once that goes away, that 3200 becomes a catastrophic crisis the next day, and title 42 is already being eroded away, as you mentioned. ing. lou: what do we do? >> look, this is -- now i can say this because i am free. it's like elections matter. 2022 matters. but right now we have to keep saying that this is absolutely absurd. we are -- he has has eroded everything. mpp, the policy that ended catch and release. in 2019 cbp and i.c.e. released 50,000 illegal aliens -- 500,000 illegal aliens into the country, never to be seen from again. we've got to convince them that they cannot continue to strip these policies away unless they have plan to replace it. lou: mark morgan, great to have you with us.

thanks for your service and all you've done and will continue to do for the country. mark morgan. up next, president biden's son hunter, he has a new book. we'll take it up with "just the news "editor-in-chief john soing mono. you're going to be struck, i believe, by this heart warming development. stay with us, we'll be right back. mug my. ♪ [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ] ♪♪ [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] ♪♪ uh, you know there's a 30-minute limit, right? tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.

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breaking news, hunter biden -- u remember him -- he has a new memoir coming out, soon, we're told. it's called "beautiful things." the book was bought by simon & schuster in 2019 but kept under wraps until today. simon and zeusenen's the very -- simon & schuster's the very same publisher that canceled senator josh hawley's book on big tech censorship. wow. do you get the irony? [laughter] joining us now, john solomon, editor-in-chief of "just the news," best selling author. you know, there is -- simon and schuster, for crying out loud, there is no pretense here whatsoever. >> no. lou: the national media in this country in all of its forms are sold out entirely to the deep state to the radical dems, and they don't even blush, do they? >> no. listen, it's a two-tiered system right now, and, you know, if we want to talk about "beautiful things" for hunter biden, if

that is truly the title of his book, how about the beautiful money he got from burisma? i have a lot of questions i hope hunter biden answers in the book. we hear this story is going to be about how he overcame addiction. i'm sure that'll make a great book, but in the midst of his addiction, he was well enough to scheme on how to cash in on his father. and i just remind everybody of one document you and i talked about on this show about a month ago. there is a document from april of 2014 where joe biden is about to go to ukraine for the first time as chief of ukraine policy, and hunter biden is well enough to scheme with his business partner on how they're going to get burisma to hire him as a consultant before his dad gets on the ground. and then when his dad gives a speech, he takes credit for some of the language that was beneficial for his natural gas client, burisma. he may have been under the

addiction of drugs and other things, but he was well enough to make a lot of money on his father's watch. lou: well, there may have been just a general and broad addiction issue across all of those players in the ukraine corruption scandal, the china corruption scandal for all we know. that just adds to the mystery of it all as to why anyone would tolerate the conduct, the conduct of these people in public life and with their families. there's a wonderful quote from frank biden, from the vice president then, president now, ad monoishing his brother to just basically, you know, take it down a notch here. [laughter] >> yeah. lou: concerns about the family business. for christ's sake, watch yourself. don't get sucked into something that would, first of all, hurt you.

>> yeah. lou: i guess -- [laughter] give us a sense of the context of that and how successful that -- >> it wasn't very successful because the whole family -- yeah. it wasn't very successful because the whole family continued to look for deals anywhere in the world where foreign despots or foreign companies were looking to cash in. and let's keep in mind there was a moment in 2015 where george kent, the democrats' star ill. peachment witness -- impeachment went, wanted to approach joe biden and say, listen, your son's undercutting our corruption effort, and joe biden's team wouldn't even listen to it. as the obama/biden team was leaving office in november 206, george kent wrote an e-mail saying we need to tell joe biden just how much hunter biden undercut american policy in ukraine. this wasn't just about getting rich, it was about hurting american policy in ukraine. lou: and that documentation of

all of that, so many documents concerning spygate and the insistence on transparency in the final days of the trump administration, you were working diligently to put together that reporting, and the white house failed to deliver those documents and still hasn't, as i understand it, to this day. >> that's right. they really let the president down. the president signed an order before he left office, he declassified a binder about 15, 17 inches thick. i have a full listing of what the documents are that he declassified. only about 15% of those have been released or made public since the declassification. major, major documents are sitting there, and i don't know if anyone has the time or courage to release them now. i'm very worried that the president's declassification order has been thwarted.

what could we get? we could get the unredacted fisa warrants. i know what's in them. let's get those out. we have all the handling documents for stefan halper and christopher steele. we owe it to the american people, and it would be a crying shame that now two, more than two weeks, two weeks and two days after president trump signed the order declassifying these they have not been released. his own team has are let him down. lou: and in that regard, two weeks and two days, it's -- with the president, the former president facing impeachment, his team, i'm sure, is concerned and working on that effort to defend him. >> sure. lou: but put in context for us just how complicated a matter it would be to turn over those documents, let's say, to you. just a straight forward -- >> once they're declassified --

liu: just hand it over? >> yeah. senators put -- lou: pick up the box, pick up the box that's in -- [inaudible] and hand it to you. >> i'll go get it and give every document, i'll make every document available so everybody can read it. it's not that hard. lou: well, i'm sure that the people who are around the president and who are on his team certainly will do that, because i can't imagine, you know, on a simple coffee break, perhaps, pick up the box, hand it to johning solomon. pick up box, hand it to john. [laughter] >> i like the advice. lou: john solomon, you're a good man. thanks so much. appreciate it. up next, the chinese communist party's lies about the china virus pandemic. i will tell you what i told you to begin with, it started in

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♪ ♪ lou: the navy guided missile destroyer, the uss mccain, as pass9 through the taiwan strait today. it's the first u.s. navy ship to pass through the water since president biden took office. and nine members of congress have nominated the hong kong demonstrators and protesters for a nobel peace prize. china says those lawmakers should stop using hong kong to interfere with the regime's domestic affairs. by that they mean they should not be suppressing freedom and

destroying the human rights of the people of hong kong. those people being the communist chinese headquartered in beijing, i believe. well, joining us now is gordon chang. columnist, author, senior fellow at the gatestone the institute. gordon, good to have you with us. what do you think of the idea of nominating the demonstrators in hong kong, the protesters, and none of their leaders are still publicly at least available, are they? >> no, they're not. and, clearly, this is a great idea, lou, because the hong kong demonstrators, they stood for freedom, they stood for can democracy, they stood against communist china. they were an inspiration to us all. and as we saw those demonstrations, and i was at one of them with my wife lydia, we couldn't help but be inspired by them. lou: so inspired, you were. inspired, many as they watched

from afar. but not a single government came to their aid. not the united states government, not the united nations, not europe, not anybody. it's really an appalling moment in our collective history, if you will, that we -- no one stood up for those people, don't you think? >> oh, certainly. and clearly we're seeing right now a number of governments with second thoughts because they're now starting to come around. we're seeing this with calls in congress for granting asylum to certain hong kong people, and the same thing is happening, of course, in the u.k. which is now with its passport scheme granting a asylum to many people from hong kong. but we need to do much more. the trump administration did a number of things which were really good with its hong kong freedom and democracy act. so i think that we will see over the next couple years or so a number of countries actually stand with the people in hong

kong. >> well, let's turn to the uss mccain going through the strait of taiwan. the chinese saying that, in point of fact, that they will -- they are preparing for war. why is the biden administration being so tunneled in responding to those -- timid in responding to those statements? >> well, i think it's really because the biden administration really wants cooperative relations with beijing. they talk about climate change, about cooperation on coronavirus, and they don't want to irritate chinese adepress sores. and we've got to remember that on january 23 china actually promised with its h6k bombers which are nuclear capable. they practiced an attack on the theodore roosevelt carrier strike group. lou: so are you saying you understand the reticence of the

biden administration to in any way irritate the grand masters of beijing? that surely doesn't sound like the gordon chang i know. >> well, lou, i'm just explaining their mindset. i certainly do not agree with it because i don't think we can cooperate with a militant beijing that has used coronavirus and other means to attack the united states, which trieded to overthrow our government by i calls for violence on american streets, which actually called for violence on january 6th. so so this is a regime that we can't deal with, and i think that the biden administration just is wrong in trying to come to terms with a group in beijing that is hostel to the united states which declared a people's war on us in may 20 is the. so these -- 2019. so these guys in china, they're not kidding. lou: imagine the -- yeah. imagine the surprise on the part of big tech, wall street and corporate america to find out they're not kidding. gordon chang, always good to see you. thanks for being with us. stay with us, we're coming right

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