learn more about the organization. i will be back in this chair filling in for sean tomorrow night asac well. i hope you will join me again, and the "the ingraham angle" with jason chaffetz filling in for laura ingraham. >> jason: thank you, appreciate it. i'm jason chaffetz, this is "the ingraham angle." 2020 democrats are continuing the war on law and order. how does the leading 2020 democrats want to make your life better? by making meth and cocaine legal. of course. the hot debate is coming up plus, the editor of a christian magazine is coining just because -- quitting just because the publication will defend president trump. rachel is here on that. and california governor is blaming the trump administration for the states homeless crisis. trump is hitting back and hard.

dinesh desousa is here and you will want to see that.es also, as the u.s. faces threats from north korea on the ground, the trump administration is looking ahead to. trump says space is the world's newest war fighting domain. nasa administrator, jim, is here exclusively on the brand-new t military branch space force. but first, impeachment. according to the house democrats, it is so urgent and so necessary to get rid of trump but they stop everything that they were doing and went on recess. david is alive for us with all the latest. >> good evening, a few days out in 2020 and the new year and ball of articles of impeachment, house speaker nancy pelosi and there's no update to what the senate trial may begin but support to find out nothing will be happening anyway this week or next week because of the

holiday. on monday, just a few days ago, house democrats in the court filing made it clear that they still want access to mueller grand jury material. that to be the basis for an additional article or two for impeachment. he's infuriated about house speaker nancy pelosi and saying this on tuesday. >> she's doing a tremendous disservice to the country. she's not doing a good job. some people think that she does not know what she's doing. a lot of people think that, and a lot of people have said that. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnelll is winning to learn if and when a senate trial place.ke we set over the past few weeks he's competent president trump will be acquitted in the senate and now he is watching moderate senators, susan collins,pedete joe manchin, and doug jones. peter mcconnell says he's corning with the white house for the senate files closely.

now, lisa murkowski infuriating democrats but also republicans choosing a moderate republicanie for the lt and she's in an interview this week that mcconnell's comments disturbed her and have further confused the process. while some democrats praised pelosi p for holding onto the article, others are ready to get things moving. >> my strong feeling is that we will avoid any unnecessary delay. we should move forward with purpose. >> tonight, just a few hours ago, senate majority leader chuck schumer asked the resident and they tweet, "if you're so confident that you did nothing wrong, why won't you release the emails and let witnessese testify under oath" that's when nancy pelosi will send articles to the senate and that's all we get. we know that president trump is in the middle of the impeachment will step into the house chamber to deliver the state of the oion address as of tuesday, february 4th. it will be a couple months coming up. >> jason: yes, it is, david, thank you very much. pelosi is pumping the brakes and

stopping any sort of movement on impeachment, the leftist media is busy glorifying her. >> she has been masterful, legislatively, masterful in holding the caucus. >> she is the kryptonite. >> she plays chess, should be a statue already. shela played this masterfully. >> jason: all for donald trump, just rising along but anyway, joining me know as house minority from louisiana.ve steve scalise. i have the honor and the privilege to serve with the united states congress, and seeing happening was happening with nancy pelosi and what's not happening, with the latest from your perspective? >> well, jason, good to be back with you and i hope you had a great christmas and look, he served with nancy too. she loves holding onto power, and she has probably approaching a record for the most people who switched from democrat to

republican's and she has been the speaker. obviously, she did again this time. people got fed up with the impeachment sensation whereer -- fixation where everything's about a witch hunt about donald trump, and instead for the hardworking families of this countryr who would like us to be working together to lower drug prices too. >> jason: what happens -- what's happening in march. i mean, back in march, she thought it was very reasonable and saying it should be overwhelminghe evidence a bipartisan, but what changed between march of 2019 and december of 2019? >> well, the aoc party changed and really started controlling her caucus. it's no longer nancy pelosi calling the shots and you think about anybody who follows in the things thathi she's been forced into doing, it's been mostly the far left socialist wing of the party and it's not just pelosi. you see w aoc shaping the presidential debates on a things like the green deal and some of the other lunatic policies where they are pushing the

presidential candidates so far to the socialist left it that you can't even recognize. so the fact that they are on the most radical elements of the base, instead of focusing on the bread and butter issues and the things that got them the majority andbr they've gone so far. most hardworking families are looking, who do these people really careil about? they care about their own power, the hatred against the president instead of the things that folks on home care about and frankly, that's why donald trump is doing so well. he stayed focused on the things that they care about. >> jason: in 2008, democrats have the house and the presidency and we watched as she steamrolled over everything and then one of the biggest changes in history of the house of representatives swinging over to the republican side. i want to listen from the sound of donald trump because he also believes in nancycy pelosi and maybe wishful thinking, but

reality, he believes that nancy pelosi is pushing the spectrum for the opportunity for more republicans come -- to gain seats come november 2020. it wasn't too donald trump. >> look, she got thrown on the speaker much of a far, she lost like 63 seats. 61 or 63, tremendous, record-setting number of seats. it's going to happen again. >> jason: it's one district at a time to put out a cliche, but what are you seeing and hearing on the ground, what are real people dealing with in the individual races? >> when you look at what happened last year, we lost 40 seats, but most of them were 51-49 races. you look at the big number, it was a blowout and it was. when most of them were 51-49 races, those are not far left socialist districts, they are swing districts and yet the members that came in under the democrat majority are voting far left. they are voting way different than the districts that they are representing andot that's what e did when she lost the majority

in 2010. remember, you are there, it was moving sohe far to the left of that people in the middle did not recognize anymore and ultimately they fired closely then and they're going to fire pelosi next year. >> jason: it was classic, last december we were in the mess of a government shutdown and where was nancy pelosi? she was actually in hawaii. i don't know where she is and i saw a picture of chuck schumer supposedly out in florida and probably doing some fund-raising, and it's amazing that the democrats are playing such a urgency and at the same time they are out on the beaches in florida and doing what not. congressman, i really do want to thank you for joining us and i hope youy had a wonderful and merry christmas. you've got the wonderful family and we send the very best this holiday season. >> we are blessed, same to you, jason, and happy new year as well. >> jason: house democrats are accusing president trump of abuse of power, and the obstruction of congress. is thathe not exactly when nancy pelosi is doing by

refusing to send impeachment articles to the united states senate? democrats from the start have been saying this had to be done immediately. >> the trump administration is supposed to do horrible danger to our country, our values, our people, and our reputation. >> the trump presidency imposesp a clear and present danger to our country and to the world. >> the ukraine allegation as head and shoulders one of the most serious allegations that we have seen. >> the timing has really driven by the urgency. >> jason: joining me now is tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. along with the john, claremont institution seniorr and constitutional scholar. john, i want to start with you because you're the one that pointed out the warning in the -- wording and the resolution passed in the house.

the house resolution number 55. and it's as if president of the united states is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, the following articles of impeachment, he exhibited it to the united states senate. now, john, does not mean exactly what it says? the democrats wrote the articles and they are solely the ones that pass them and they are not abiding by them, correct? >> that's right, and they seem teto think if she were to have another vote that says don't send them over to the senate she would probably get the majority on that as well. you don't have to have the vote, we can deem it as having the accomplishment like they pulled back with the obamacare legislation nearly a decade ago. no, they house of representatives operates by majority vote as a body. no individual member of the house of representatives has any power different than other members and even the speaker. when they passed a resolution that says it shall be exhibited to the senates, that's the law.

there is no further action necessary. we are in uncharted territoryct but quite frankly, if i'm senator mcconnell, this exhibited to the senates i read in the congressional record that we're about to take it out next week. >> jason: i'm thinking, maybe do that, but they have the chance and joining the onset here in washington they write the articles and they passed them themselves, which are taken? >> they don't want to lose in the senates, they put off the laws even a trial that is abbreviated and though still going to lose and they don't want to happen. obviously, seeing a new opportunity and through the election have the perpetual impeachment over the president. the problem is the constitution -- >> jason: that always gets in the way? little thing called the constitution. >> i've always called this a coup and you see the

elements with the impeachment obviously, based on nothing and so abusing the rules and powers they have under the constitution and by impeaching him for nothing. now they are trying to overthrow the senate. they want to do -- if they don't get their type of hearingsth againstof the presidents, the trying to blow up the legislative branch as well. if i were mitch mcconnell, i would say we are going to run a trial here. pelosi can anticipate or not, we are going to run the trial and, frankly, to the degree, it should be adam schiff and his prosecutorial trial. why would you reward him with the abusive trial of the president? >> jason: john, how does of the president due process? they been throwing allegations at him since day one. it nancy pelosi admitted, she finally said, we've been working on s impeachment for more than o and ad, half years. that's is a lot. if they're off the recess and how does the president actually get due process in the case? >> this is one of the very reasons the legal counsel has sfor decades, under both

administrations, says the president can be indicted whilee he's in office. they can bring the trial against him and indictment hanging over his head that he cannot vindicate himself and it would cripple the presidency of the office itself. when nancy pelosi is doing here is exactly the same thing. the parallel with the first article impeachment is that they are using the powers of their office to try to investigate the head of the opposing political party who happens to be done in 1600 pennsylvania avenue, what they are doing is the impeachment itself much less the holding out for the articles of impeachment and not sending for lthe senates. it's the utmost abuse of office. he really is a travesty and it shows you how blindly -- how much blind hatred they have for the president that they are willing to throw off every norm in orderli to find some dirt on the president to get him out of office.

>> jason: what's interesting for me, going back to the pesky constitutional question, i think i saw donald trump jr. puts this out, when then simply pelosi is actually wanting as a quid pro quo. i will send you over if you do this, it's kind of ironic and the whole thing. the constitution says it has a soul power. it is the house has the sole power to move forward articles of impeachment and the senate has the sole power. that's the problem for nancy pelosi, isn't it? >> that is, and that's why she'a trying to leverage the impeachment of the articles and the timing. the impeachment and then senate takes up the trial and if i were mitch mcconnell, i would acknowledge the reality and take the constitutional limbo. remember, the president is being victimized here. he needs to do his job and he

tweeted it makes it more difficult for him to talk with foreign leaders and we don't want the congress and the radical fashion blowing up the constitution just for political purposes. if you know, i've half jokingly said this, but mitch mcconnellt famously, and correctly in my view, put off the confirmation of mayor garland during the election year. i think the senate should think laabout putting off any impeachment trial of the president or dismissing it because we are not doing an election here. >> jason: that would be interesting take on it. now, john, quickly we've only got a few seconds left, but there's some talk with democrats that would actually delay this until after the election and then want to bring up the same articles again in between the untime of the election in novemr and when the new president or the reelection of donald trump happens.r is that getting to that? >> so the right to have council president hearings, the right to confront witnesses against you and now throwing in the double deputy clause, and the

scherman-esque blow of the constitution norms of criminal procedures. look, it's not just the president is being victimized here, it's the d fice of the president itself that's being undermined. it's a great detriment on our ability to conduct the government both home and abroad. but the democrats have demonstrated in full force that they really are not interested in getting much done. tom, i will give you the last 20 seconds here. what you think's going to happen when they actually reconvene here in the 1st of january? >> weas see the hard-core senatr say that we are going to get this quickly. pelosiis may have overreached he and i think there is going to be some type of trial where there's be a adjudication that will vindicatee the president. >> jason: only nancy pelosi you know, she posts up everything and focuses on everything and i think that's probably what's going on right now.

i'm just guessing through experience. john eastman and tom, merry christmas and happy new year and thank you so much for joining tonight. coming up, you won't believe what a certain iowa front runner wants to make it legal. plus, the editor of a christian magazine quits because the publication is defending president trump. rachel campos duffy is here on that next.

♪ >> republicans stand for law and order and we stand for justice. if we stand for justice. ♪ >> republicans stand for law and order and we stand for justice. we stand for justice. we side with law enforcement and with law abiding americans. >> jason: well, trump may be the law and order presidents, the 2020 democrats are becoming the party of law and disorder.

it's almost like it they are trying to create mass havoc. the latest is mayor pete buttigieg who wants to make this legal. >> incarcerationnc should not en be a response to drug possession. >> some meth or cocaine, any drugs possession? incarceration isn't -- >> that's right. >> jason: wow. you heard that right, > pete buttigieg wants you to kw it's okay with him if you are doing coke, meth, whatever it is. you are not going to jail. joining me now is tony, syndicated radio host and scott bolden, attorney and former chairman of the d.c. democratic state committee. thank you, gentlemen, for being here tonight and i appreciate it scott, i want to go eat with you here first.

>> as a democrat, right ahead. >> jason: seriously, i've never seen a national party to well that's been so anti-law enforcement why do they feel that they have to liberalize t everything? >> i don't think they want to liberalize everything. democrats and republicans believe without amounts, low-level amounts -- >> jason: that's not what pete buttigieg said. >> i daresay that's what he meant or should have said if you will for the chair of the state party. here's the deal. i think the ultimate issue here is that marijuana is legal in 40 plus states on some level. >> jason: let's talk about heroin. if. you go to a school. you've got heroin. >> i'm a former prosecutor for new york city, and this is a health issue and possession, so i would -- i would put them in a program. if you're selling drugs, using drugs or possessing a new level of drugs, within several yards of the school, you've got to go. >> jason: i want to go to tony w

here. again, sincea donald trump's presidency, they're gone after the border control, ice, now liberal and every drug, whatever you're doing with it, nobody's going to jail. is that a winning formula for democrats? >> i don't think it wins, it's their formula and you've got to understand that they have been discussing this since early on. in the fox news wrote a article in this october, and south carolina on the subject and we talked about decriminalization. the then credited to kamala harris, she boycotted because the first setback forio president trump. pete buttigieg is a day late and a dollar short and donald trump beat him to the punch on ideas and conversations of criminal reform. it's an important subject and a

worthy, and we may decide that some things shouldn't carry out certain jail time. but if you've got meth -- >> jason: that's a real h,problem. i would keep going because i'm try to hit me or for subjects. i want to get it michael luke bloomberg throwing millions of dollars in empty his as fast as he can. he actually exploited the prison labor system. this is what he said that on twitter if the allegation on the campaign, hiring prison inmates to make prison calls and he defended himself that it's fundamentally accurate and as soon as we discovered which subcontractor did it, we ended the relationship with the company and the people who hired them. was it was an honest mistake or was this the idea that he's trying to get some real cheap laboraks by hiring inmates and

oklahoma to make campaign calls? >> it's a bad error on their part, they should have known and he's never run for president before, it's no excuse if you hire a subcontractor you have to do a background examination on. >> jason: is that a real excuse? >> i don't think it's going to be held against michael bloomberg, it's an attack on second amendment, and they will be holding against michael bloomberg. [laughter] that ain't working. >> have you not met many michael bloomberg? >> good lord. >> jason: okay, i want to get thisbl last income of the new yk governor, he is actually put forward by a democrat that would allow federal judges to preside in wedding ceremonies. now, come on, what is going oned with the governor of new york?

>> i don't have a comment on this. [laughter] i don't. don't let me just say this very quickly, i've been a prosecutor are there. the law is that federal judges in new york and mary folks, you can get a license for 25 bucks and just register. i think he's sending a message and it's a rather small message i know that it's going to be despised or make a difference one way or another. >> jason: they believe the federal judges approved that they were to pro-trump and theyw don't stand for what new york or stand for. >> this is the rare moment with the governor, he ruins enough things leave the marriages alone. >> marriages are tough whether they are pointed or not. -- appointed or not.

>> jason: the idea that the government could not sign the piece of legislation put forward by them or cuts these people might have been appointed by donald trump is so fundamentally wrong. you have trump derangement syndrome. tony katz, scott bolden, thank you very much and happy holidays and merry christmas. i really appreciate you being here. the editor of the christian post is quitting because all the publication took a stance and defended the president trump after another christian magazine called for his removal. >> i warned him, if you go down this road, and join team trump then that will destroy the reputation of the "christian post". i was told that this is the direction they want to go. at that point, you know, we reached the impasse and i really had no other choice but to leave. >> jason: he had another choice but joining me now is rachel campo duffy rate of fox r news contributor and rach, when he saw this and you read about it and heard this gentlemen's comments, what did

you think? >> i thought he was just totally out of step where evangelicals are. evangelicals are 77% approval forva donald trump and among the 77% the majority of them don't just approve of donald trump, they strongly approve of donald trump. it's not that they love donald trump or they love the president tweets and his colorful past, that's not it ate all. they love the policy. they realize that he is the best and most fearless defender of all the things that they believe and whether it's their pro-life decisions, school choice, even christian persecution both in the united states and abroad. he steppedcu up on all these different positions that he's taken and christians and evangelicals and conservatives in general really love. that's what the publication is defending. trump, but the policy.

>> jason: really, at the heart of this and i understand the story, the position on impeachment and how clear it was or unclear, some people want to see the president impeached and others did not want to see him impeached. i respect the right of religion to be able speak out and take positions on this. it is not simply he's doing here? is this a breach too far? -- bridge too far? he's putting his money where his mouth and quitting, saying i can do this anymore. >> if this comes out as an op-ed, he would accept the publication and publish in the editorial and saying of the entire publication. again it's the evangelical publication and they are reflecting the views of so manyn evangelicals. many evangelicals conservatives andd catholics and people of mafaith, president is being persecuted primarily because and

i believe so much a because of politics in america is about abortion. it's about the supreme court, the appointed at the federal level. this is what i think is animating the left and animating the impeachmentt process. it's very rude and people don't talk about that, they want to talk about ukraine and they want to talk about the russia hoax and all these other things. at the root of so many of the american policies is abortion. that's the issue that evangelicals do have a taken and they are very pleased with the president has done an terms of nominating judges and really setting up the supreme court to take a very constitutional positions and also a position of life and defending life at a constitutional level. >> jason: i do wish everybody would go back and hear what the president said in front of the united nation among the most important and impactful speeches on religious liberty. no matter where you are in the religious spectrum, with the president of the united states

is doing and for the u.n. it's a great speech and he never got enough credit and i hope people can go back and watch it. rachel campo duffy, merry christmas to you and a big one and a big wonderful one. i wish them nothing but the best and thank you so much for joining us. coming up,t president trump threatening to send the feds in on the governor can't clean up the own problem. here next, you don't want to miss it. stay with us. dinesh desousa

♪ >> homelessness in l.a. has become a true epidemic just in the last seven years. human waste is splattered on the nearby wall. the homeless collected and jars kept in their tents or makeshift shelters. >> jason: the "the ingraham angle" has been telling for months how the

liberal leaders in california are failing on multiple levels. the growing homeless crisis across the this day. -- this state. enyesterday, president trump sending a dire warning to governor and threatening to send the feds and if he can't clean it up himself. joining me now is the conservative commentator and full maker, this is what the california governor said last week about the trump administration. listen to this. >> they are not serious about this issue. they play politics with it, expect nothing but the vision coming in from the folks in the trump administration. v >> jason: i mean, really, is that a problem here tonight? >> the problem is not nearly the homelessness seems to had the upsurge or the epidemic as you call it. if it's that an democratic run cities they appear not only to do nothing about it but almost to be coddling and cultivating the problem. making it many ways worse, and

refusing making elementary steps to do with that. i grew up in india and it was a normal side of india and other third world country to see people and in public. this was a disgusting memory of my youth. now, it has come to america and i feel nostalgic for the old country, but if i did, i don't have to t go to mumbai to watch this i can go to l.a. and san francisco. these cities are being third world-ized by the democratic leadership. they've not just ignore the problem but they cultivated it.. >> jason: if you look at the states where the fast rising homeless problem, they're run by democrats. new york, hawaii, california,an oregon, and the state of washington. in san francisco, it's just the city, just the city, $94 million and we did the math right,

$257,000 a day and they still -0 they are losing ground in this fight. what should happen? what should there be doing? what should the leaders actually do? >> first thing to realize is how we got here. now a lot of people naively saying, oh, wow, all these americans walking around without homes. the truth of the matter is that all these people are either drug addicts or their alcoholics. earlier decades in america, there were treatment programs and these people were confined to a given medical care and they were given drug treatments and then the supreme court and other courts and that '80s and '90s said you can't keep these people against their will even if it's for their own good.an you're violating their civil rights and you've got to let them go. andhe it's almost created it, yu may say, by liberal prudence, so liberal presents causes the problem in democratics turn it

into almost a contingency. it's almost asking what's should be done, because people have not been doing about it have not had any intention to go after it. if a homeless guy walks up to a guy eating in a restaurant and picks up the chicken like off his plate and start eating it or hasslingp people in the neighborhood, virtually, nothing you can do and that's the way the democratic leadership wants it. >> jason: i think that's sad, they lose their jobs and they divorced, maybe have financial problems and that's a portion of it.ed we seef the rapid growth in the economy of coast-to-coast in the country that is looming ahead of all time record levels the point that you made that i hope everybody understands, this is not necessarily primarily driven by poverty. it is driven in large part by

these liberal policies that are allowing this and ultimatelyy cultivating this. >> a very good experiments, if you walk up to a homeless guy who is hungry and you offer him an apple, i give you 50-50 odds that he will throw the apple at your face. if he offer him a job obscenities are going to call your way, and you're dealing with a different kind of problem that we might naively assume and it's not just these guys need a meal, is not that he needs a job, a part of what's going on is that these are people who are in some fundamental ways have become dysfunctional in the a society and the things that we need to do to reintegrate them to treat them, to train them, those are things that the political leadership has no interest in doing and in a way, almost would rather have them as a dependent constituency that they can count on politically. >> jason: it is said, and a

big part you want to be compassionate to those and offer compassionate to those who can take care of themselves and people dealing with mental illness and other things. we are not doing those things to help them. to hear the governor of california tried to blame it on the feds, if it were up to me, hey, local government, you're the guys who's got to take care of this. but that's my take on it. i wish i had more time on you with this, but thank you so much for joining us on the holiday evening and i really do appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> jason: coming up, what happened to north korea's big threat against the united stat united states. plus, the trump administration preparing to fight china on a different front. nasa administrator is here with new details on the space force. that's next. ♪

♪ ♪ >> jason: north korea's threat of a christmas gift to the united states in the form of a missile has yet to materialize. despite the holiday being over, that doesn't mean were out of the danger zone, our pentagon correspondent has the detail. lucas. >> jason, many citizens were jolted from their sleep sometime after midnight after a major japanese news outlet sent a north korean missile's flying over their country. the reports turned out to be a false and now retracted for 23 minutes. echoes have another false alarm over hawaii over two years ago. in the u.s. military is not taking any chances. like the air force rc 135 had been flying missions over the peninsula in recent days. they monitor for unusual military activity in north korea and spy on the communications. so far, all is calm.

north korean leader kim jong un recently met at the top military brass and another big meeting limbs. the next date is to watch kim's new year's date address, and passing his remarks to align the goals for next year. 2017, north korea was in the final stages of launching its first intercontinental ballistic missile. by the end of the year, he had done so three times including one that flew 2700 miles from space but in all of the u.s. in midrange. he roughly has 30 nuclear warheads in the arsenal according to estimates. north korea has to prove they can do the following, have a warhead reenter earth from space in one piece, lunch a ballistic missile from a summary and -- submarine, successfully hit a target with a long-range missile. they warned of the dangers of solitary missiles. >> the boosters provide a degree of efficiency and mobility and that gives you less than a liquid filled rock at the end it's anotherqu thing that we wah

because it reduces our warnings, if you will. >> coming next month, and unorthodox christmas. sometimes things are lost in translation. >> jason: lucas, thank you. while the united states is protecting itself from north korea on the ground, president trump is looking ahead to the next biggest threat facing the country.. >> faces sing the world's is the world fighting domain, a great threat to the national security, america's security and space is absolutely vital. the space force will help us deter aggression and the ultimate high ground. >> jason: joining me now is a nasa administrator, jim bridenstine, who i served with when he was congressman bridenstine. thank much for being here, administrator, ands the space force. excited about the future potential,ad what will it be abe to do that our current military branches canal do.

-- don't do? >> it is about organizing and training and equipping a fight to win wars and space. he created the space command with a full authority to do under the act but this required an act of congress and i will say when we look back maybe 15 years from now, we look back to the administration, the most important thing that was done under president trump in office, i think we will look back and say that the space force is likely the most important thing that he has done and i will tell you why. he will hear the enemies of the united states, i would say the competitors of the united states mainly china, they call space the american t achilles' heel. i will tell you, president trump will not allow any competitors of the united states to have the advantage in the way that china has already declared. >> jason: administrator, i want you to listen to what some of the democrats are saying

about the space war of isaac we have some sound bites. >> he's fighting the future wars in space face against enemies both foreign and federal galactic. >> it sound like than knock off action figures got from your grandma on your birthday. >> pursuing this nonsense like a space for us. >> who we fighting? a bunch of frozen monkeys? >> jason: i'm telling you, they are so naive to what's actually going on. i know you see a lot of classified information, but to the best extent that you can, explain what's happening in space and why the fact that we have to be there and be there now. >> those comments that you just heard, it would actually be fun if itt was not so sad and serious. it's ignorant. and it must be communicated and, jason, that's why i'm so glad you're willing to talk about in the segment.

here is what we know. there are people watching this broadcast right now, they are walking on direct tv networks, some people are going to watch an internet broadband delivered from space. iowe also think about navigatio, people flying across the country on airplanes that use gps navigations and we think about people driving across the country using gps navigations. the way we communicate, way we navigate, the way with it produce fuel,mu reducing water usage, preserving nitrate in the soil because of space technology. that's going to see more of the world than ever before and it's bea expert of the united statesf america, but it's not just food, it's how we produce energy and a clean way. it's how we predict the weather, it's how we understand climates, it's how we do banking. every banking transaction and united states of america is dependent on the timing signalki from gps. there is no gps, there is banking and the united states of america. we are dependent on space on a way that most america does not extend.ca

but i will tell you who does. china, and you know who else does, president trump, he willte not let them get an advantage by attacking space. and i will tell you, they are advancing direct antisatellite missiles, and the united states of america is dependent on space, and what most americans don't know andt they might be laughing at it, on the late-night tv shows, but they are simply ignorant. this is critically important for our nation. >> jason: i totally, totally agree with you. look, putin was out there talking about hypersonic weaponry and china on monday and they attacked a newly created acu.s. space force is a delibere act threat to peace and security. maybe the best singles where we have and what nasa's may be doing is the right thing. and donald trump is taking a very proactivedo messenger here. >> absolutely, nasa is not necessarily the space force, we do science. he is what we need to, we need

to make sure that space is secure and we are building an economy in space that's going to produce a trillions of dollars and already a $400 billion economy for the united states of america.ar it's growing rapidly, and just like -- if you look at president teddy roosevelt, he created the great white fleet. he created the most powerful navy ever to protect the comments on the sea. -- commerce on the seas. president trump is doing the same thing. this is the expert for the united states of america and it must be protected. >> jason: administrator, i really appreciate it. i would thank you by the way for your military service and you come from your military of the rich heritage and the people that used to represent congress, and we are proud of you serving as the administrator for nasa. thank you for so much for what you're doing. >> thank you, jason, you're doing great work. merry christmas. >> jason: thank you, merry christmas to you. j we have a very special thank you when we return. stay with us.d

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at such a time. he will be joining us tomorrow night so tune in for that. that's all the time we have tonight. thank you for letting me sit in for you. be sure to check out what is coming up next. here's my book. let's go to mike emanuel and see you tomorrow night. mike: we begin with the fox news alert. the political battle over the senate trial of donald trump firing up in earnest with the minority leader calling on the white house to release documents democrats are demanding, possibly even opening new articles of impeachment to let witnesses testify under, the president in solving nancy pelosi for withholding the articles pass along purely partisan line and democrats defending that move. i crack showing in the republican ranks over th