lou: pulling back from that -- >> it's so obvious lou. lou: well it is obvious. >> it takes like almost a corrupt mind not to see it. it's logical what happened is logical. let me put it this way. is there any serious adult human being that thinks that a multibillion air, ukraine oligarch who fled the ukraine, worked with russia, and stole $5 million, is going to pay this kid 3 to $8 billion? or was he paying it to joe biden does anybody think that china would give this kid $0.02? or were they buying and compromising and not only buying , but compromising the office of the vice president of the united states. there is an odor that's so foul that everybody in the ukraine used to laugh at joe biden when he talked about corruption in the ukraine. lou: i've got to bring us to where we are right now, and that is with the president's attorney , sitting here with us talking, who now has his own attorney, to represent you, and all of these matters attached to the impeachment inquiry so-called. >> illicit impeachment inquiry. lou: as you have desc

lou: good evening. the radical dimms continue their parade of various witnesses varying in all sorts of occupations as they head to capitol hill. the dimms' motive never more clear than to subvert and overthrow the president. alexander vindman testified yesterday and according to the "new york times" admitted toal teshing the transcript of the ukraine transcript with president zelensky. he seemed more concerned with the opinions and policy positions of the so-called interagency carrying out the president's policy. the top white house official on the national security council in charge russia, tim more o -- tim morrison. this comes on the eve of his scheduled testimony before the house committee. for the latest we turn to john roberts. reporter: a new development in the impeachment inquiry. tim morrison who is the top russia expert at the national security council will be leaving his position. sources tell fox news it's been expected for some time. but the timing is significant because morrison is schedu

lou: loretta lynch?t of people don't even know who she is because she hasn't been considered for investigation. >> how about kavanaugh and trying to destroy his life and what about the other lives they have ruined in the process. my father is fighting like hell to turn around the country. we are the talk of the entire world and i know that because i travel the world and i hear from people. we are doing everything right. he's doing everything right. we have the best markets, the best jobs. manufacturing is coming back. we are wing on every front. the democrats know it and they want to distract from that and what he's doing and his message and the patriotism he brought back to this country. biden is not going to win. the guy is a crook. our be is not going to win. she is somebody who slies about her native american ancestry. she is not going to win. here we go again. i feel like it's a merry-go-round. >> i wish it were as amusing as a merry-go-round. this effort to overthrow the president of this congressi

lou: up next.the trump administration plans to do about the judicial activists who stifled the president's immigration policies, citizenship and acting director ken cuccinelli lou: three federal judges in three separate states have chosen to block a trump administration rule that disqualifies legal immigrants from obtaining permanent residency if they use public assistance program. the judges deemed the rule to be unlawful at just about the same time. george daniels of the southern district of new york wrote it's a new agency policy of ex pull-shun it's repugnant to the american dream. he left out also the public welfare and social services. i don't know why he didn't include that in that ruling. all three ruling were issued friday. the rule is set to take effect tomorrow. isn't it great when the rule comes together with three district court judges at the same time. the mexican authorities stopped a caravan of 2,000 central american, caribbean and african-american immigrants were turned away after

lou: kelly sadler, peel be right back. lou: as we conclude tonight.peaker pelosi announcing there will not be under current planning any formal impeachment vote for the house of representatives. commerce secretary wilbur ross on this broadcast on the witch hunt of the so-called credibility of the so-called whistleblower. >> the third party information he had proved to be incorrect. i think that's the real reason they don't want to expose them. then to say their main objective is to preserve this guy's anonymity is incredible. a whistleblower with misinformation cannot be a basis for impeachment. >> areminder about two great books, gregg jarrett's witch hunt, both ready for you to purchase and read to your heart's content. congratulations to our colleagues at fox news. number one for 71 quarters. atop it all. sean hannity, congratululululul lauren: it's 5:00 a a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. taxing the wealthy, jobs for everyone and no real medicare for all plan, the gloves came off in the buckeye state as democrats took on president trump

lou dobbs next. lou: the radical dimms and leftist national media are not only trying to overthrow president trump with their illegitimate and unlawful so-called impeachment inquiry. they are trying to further divide the nation. until now republicans have been largely passive, doing no more than occasionally release press release or in the case of the rinos shedding crocodile tears as the dimms viciously atarngd our president. -- attacked our president. but suddenly republican lawmakers have found the courage to fight back against the radical dimms. house republicans voting as a cohesive block to censure adam schiff and dozens of them protesting the schiff-led star chamber, storming the dimms' secretive hearing room. not so view discuss in the senate. but a handful of gop senators standing with the president against impeachment. senator lindsey graham today stepping up his support of the president and railing against the leaders of the kangaroo court proceedings against president trump. >> what's goi

lou: do you think anyone doesn't remember? >> these guys are dead serious, lou.ll we are saying -- we are not keeping tens of thousands of troops in syria. we are talking about keeping less than a thousand so the syrian democratic forces who fought isis will keep their foot on their throat and not let them emerge. we have less troops deployed overseas since any time prior to world war ii. this is a small commitment we are making for a huge payoff. lou: what is the payoff. >> protecting the american people. lou: do you believe that doctrine is the reason this country has not been struck by al qaeda? >> absolutely. lou: because we kept troops in syria? >> no, because we kept a foot on al qaeda in pakistan. and we kept our presence there. and we run operations very maul operations, just a few hundred people into yemen, eastern africa, syria is a very small operation. for just a few thousand, we get a huge payoff. we are protecting america. lou: from afterway around the world. >> radical islam is in close to 40 countries, and we are only involved in five. lou: i thin

lou: good evening everybody. president trump today added to his historic record of successes in his first three years in office. president trump pulling off an unimaginable feat at least in the minds of his detractors after unilaterally ordering the withdrawal of our troops from syria just two weeks ago. president trump announced what he termed a permanent cease-fire between turkey and the kurds in syria praising the outcome as one reached by americans that ultimately save lives. the president having a little righteous retribution fun against the fake news geniuses who along with radical dems and rhinos criticized his decision and called for an endless continuation of u.s. involvement in what the president termed long bloodstained region. turkey, syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries. we have done them a great service and we have done a great job for all of them. and now we are getting out. let someone else fights over this long bloodstained sand. there were some political pundits who

lou: good evening. the radical dimms contrived a political persecution of president trump they will likely soon regret. already speaker pelosi is talking about prayer, apparently praying for mercy from the low lifes in her party who concocted a scheme to impeach trump. the senseless, baseless claims that the president was somehow improper in his phone call with president zelensky of ukraine. zelensky said straight out that president trump never pressured him. and that's how the -- the transcript from their call read as well. today speaker pelosi and adam schiff leading the charge on capitol hill as is their wont in full-throated dramatic readings. they claim president trump is a threat to the republic and the constitution. the same constitution they are working to up-end. the president tore into the house intel committee chairman this afternoon. president trump: he should be forced to resign from congress. adam schiff. he should be forced to resign. he made up a conversation and reported it and said it

lou's name.he first time i had seen lou castro in print. >> underlying his suspicion, he theorized he had a drug case. >> i worked drug case sz and unexpected weltd so goodwym began to come out. maybe i had side there was truss accommodating them. >> that's right. >> you tried to get it. >> i did. >> the tech guys couldn't come up with it. >>> frustrating. >> it's a good fire. >> as emily tells it, brian was visiting family in south dakota. >> one day he called and he spoke to low for a little while. then he asked to speak to his daughter who was still in wichita. the story goes that he told her good-bye. >> told her good-bye? >> right. and then, a couple hours later, we got the call that he had been crushed underneath a car that he was fixing. >> reporter: brian was dead. really? that didn't make any sense to emily. >> he would have put blocks under the tires. >> reporter: he knew his way around a vehicle? >> right. >> reporter: and then, he was dead? >> yeah. >> reporter: the bodies were piling

lou: one and the same. lou: breaking tonight. the pentagon has released aerial drone footage of the remarkable raid taking out isis leader al-baghdadi. we are also learning tonight that the isis informant responsible for providing the kind tell jones on the location of al-baghdadi including the layout of that compound will receive some if not all of that $25 million bounty placed on al-baghdadi's head. up next, mitch mcconnell appears to be working for the president. yesterday we weren't so sure. it looked like he was operating' against the president with the dimms trying to take over. the rights of many would like to have an expression of their political preference in the campaign leading up to the 2020 election. we'll have that and much more after this break. hmm. exactly. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ it's what gives audibl

lou dobbs next. [♪] lou: good evening.resident trump set off a firestorm of bipartisan wailing and protests when he ordered the withdrawal of our troops from northern syria and stood his ground against even the leaders of his own party as has been their custom, abandoned the president to vote for a democratic resolution opposing the president's order to withdraw these troops. those same republican leaders side with the radical dimms and they look all the weaker with the major development of this day. president trump successfully persuaded turkey's president erdogan to agree to a ceasefire. after several hours of negotiation, vice president pence announced the united states and turkey reached an agreement. the president dispatched mike pompeo and vice president pompeo and robert o'brien to negotiate the ceasefire. reporter: erdogan went past any outline he gave the president. the president penned a letter saying don't a tough guy, don't be a fool. after sending mike pence and mike pompeo to meet with he erdogan, the preside

. [♪] lou: good evening.resident trump is deploying 2,000 troops to saudi arabia to meet increasing threats in the middle east. the president authorizing sanctions against turkey but not yet activating those sanctions, depending on what the turks do in syria and whether or not the kurds are protected. president trump announcing a new phased approach to the u.s.-china trade negotiations in the obvious hope of deescalating rising tensions and rising rhetoric of both nations and ultimately balance the u.s.-china trade relationship. president trump referred to the verbal agreements of the two country negotiators as a deal today. the chinese were more constrained. the chinese are calling this a pause in at what at best has been a trade dispute, and at times a hostile conflict between the two countries. the rall -- the markets rally on the hope this will lead to an agreement. the dow jones industrials down 200 points from its session highs. and for the latest we turn to chief white house correspondent, john roberts

lou? lou: newly released documents paint a damning picture of former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein's role in the attempted overthrow of the president. judicial watch obtaining hundreds of thousands of rosenstein's communications and one was written three days after the firing of james comey. in the people he assures robert mueller said the boss doesn't know with our discussions. he emailed mark flip saying quote, i am with mueller. he shares my views. duty calls. sometimes the moment chooses us. that email sent just the day before rosenstein appointed robert mueller to be the special counsel. the messages also delivered in the same period rosenstein was discussing with senior fbi officials the possibility of wearing a wire with former acting fbi director andrew mccabe and perhaps they planned to invoke the 25th amendment against president trump. adam schiff continues to deny reports his office was in direct contact with the whistleblower before the complaints was filed. earlier th

. ♪ lou: good evening.resident trump being hammered daily by the radical dimms the deep state on the left-wing national media. the president castaicing on all his antagonists and enemies at once as they work to overthrow and subvert his presidency. president trump: the republican party and president have been treated extremely badly by the democrats. because they have a tiny margin in the house, they have eviscerated the rules. they don't give us any fair play. it's the most of unfair situation people have seen. lou: president trump informed the radical difficulties are who lead the house inquiry effort and denied him and the house republicans any representation to obstruct the president's administration's ageneral .and subvert his presidency and eventually remove him from office. right now there is no crime. just the assault on the path and the nation itself. joining us tonight, victoria toensing and joe digenova. the kurd claim 7 civilians have been killed by the turks in airstrikes. president trump said

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lou: joining me now, dr. walid phares. your thoughts on how al-baghdadi and the great result by delta forces operations for taking him out? >> it's stunning, complex. but most of important, a daring operation. those special forces had to cross two countries, four military zones. even in the operation to eliminate bin laden that was not the case. and accomplish it, no casualties. in terms of operations it's a big win for our armed forces and the decision making process, president trump and his administration. no doubt about that. lou: we watched the national left-wing media spew nonsense. i want to go back to "the washington post." their initial statement on this. abu bakr al-baghdadi an austere religious scholar at helm of is almostic state dies at 48. they celebrate the death of this terrorist. >> i tried with all my 30 yiefers academic endeavor to understand what they were talking about. maybe in the 90s after the end of the cold war before 9/11. but not even the "washington times." what was that about? a religious schol

lou: u.s. officials telling fox news the pentagon is looking to send armored units, including i perhaps tanks to syria with which to guard oil fields and protect the kurds. officials say those tanks would come from a unit already deployed to the middle east. that's expected to be near the omar oil fields in eastern syria that were seized bi' u.s. forces in 2017. mark esper lashing out at turkey calling their incursion into syria unwarrants and adding that turkey is heading in the wrong direction and getting closer to russia. not only geographically he means. the republicans exhibiting steel and spine taking on the radical dimms and the rinos in their own party. two senators doing their best to drain the swamp. proposing a bill i think you might find intriguing. we'll take up their efforts. the possible consequences, much more straight ahead after these quick messages. we'll be right back. yeah, that's half the fun of a new house. seeing what people left behind in the attic. well, saving on home

lou: this just set up.hen you talk about them storming out of the meeting, two thoughts occurred to me. one is it was their term. he stormed out of the last so-called bipartisan meeting. and secondly, why in the world should a president of the united states put up with nonsense from the very people who were trying to overthrow his presidency. i have to give him credit for ininviting them. >> i thought it was gracious to invite them there. pelosi has been trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election behind closed doors. lou: i would have called her a lot worse than a third-rate politician. i think she is a lot worse than a third-rate politician to be carrying out an assault on the president of the united states. >> it goes against what our founders set up when they put the power of impeachment in the constitution. only three times in the country's history has the house moved forward with impeachment and each time there was a full vote of the house. pelosi has shielded her members from that vote. neces

for now, lou, back to you. lou: our first guest was at that bipartisan meeting with the president at the white house. joining us at the white house. steve scalise. congressman, great to have you with us. that must have been quite a meeting. let's start with the fact that this president is standing by his decision to withdraw our troops from northern syria. and that's been considerable opposition from both parties. the reason? >> first of all, it was a meeting where we were initially going to talk through some of those differences and i think talk with the president about some of our shared objectives, and that is one to keep isis at bay, to prevent turkey from coming in and running roughshod over the turks, and to make sure we don't see turkey ally too much more with russia than they already are. the president showed us the tough leaf directed at president erdogan to let them know we are serious about sanctions. that's when things got a bit contentious, and you saw pelosi. she was saying some things after the m

lou: good evening, everybody. president trump long battled the corrupt deep state, the radical dimms, the resistance rinos and the national left-wing hide yeah. the leftist state news and the radical corrupt dimms investigation use anonymous sources for their complaints against president trump. we take up a few tonight. the president was elected because of his anti-establishment campaign. we'll analyze some of those unnamed sources and contrast them with our unnamed sources. they are amom plus officials with our anonymous highly placed officials. we'll report, you decide whose unnamed anonymous sources you choose to believe. they give pull user prizes -- they give pulitzer prizes to people who got it wrong. lou: we'll be talking tonight with general jack keane. we'll be talking about what's required to make sense of america's role in the middle east. we'll be talking with dr. michael pillsbury on the china trade talks and what is needed to rational aize a trade talks. we begin with breaking news out of the middle

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liz: lou dobbs is next. good night. lou: president trump adding to his historic list of achievements. announcing that a team of u.s. forces and army rangers conducted a raid that resulted in the killing of abu bakr al-baghdadi. president trump: the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice. abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead. a brutal killer. one who caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated. he died like a dog. he died like a coward. the world is now a' safer place. god bless america. lou: that mission named to honor kayla miller, the chairman charity worker enslaved and killed in 2016. he said if obama had been as decisive, mueller might still be alive. the cad rall dimms are seething because they were not notified of that raid in advance. president trump withheld calls because he was concerned about the possibility that the likes of adam schiff would leak the information and endanger the mission. >> it was a friendly crowd for the president's first official event in chi

. [♪] lou: good evening.he democratic party is in a mess of its own making and the radical dimms may be victims of their own nefarious plot to try to overthrow the president of the united states. they may be the victims of the disastrous consequences they intended for president trump and the republican party. for more than two weeks the dimms carried out what is clearly an soccer straighted effort to bring forward a so-called whistleblower to attack the presidents with false claims and charges based on hearsay. then we found the person they brought forward had connections to the cia, a democrat and one with no first-hand knowledge. now we learn he has ties to one of the 2020 dem ya -- the democc candidates for president. the white house has clearly decided to fight the radical dems' acts of subversion. the pretense of an impeachment inquiry is challenged directly by the white house. the ambassador to the our penal union was stopped from testifying by the white house from testifying before adam schiff's commit

lou dobbs is next right here on fox business. [♪] lou: god evening.resident trump being hammered daily by the radical dems. the deep state, the national left-wing media. he spent his entire life fighting corruption. the president take on all his antagonists and enemies at once as they work to overthrow and subvert his presidency. >> the republican party and president has been treated extremely badly by the democrats. very unfairly. because they have a tiny margin in the house, they have eviscerated the rules. they don't give us any fair play. it's the most of unfair situation people have seen. lou: president trump informed the radical dimms who lead the house inquiry effort and have denied him and the house republicans any representation in their baseless orchestrated plot to obstruct his agenda, subvert his policies and eventually remove him from office. even though there is no crime and no charge. only desperate usurpers running an assault on this president, the american people and this nation itself. matt whitaker joins us, victoria toensing and jo

lou: you know what? when i say stunt, by the way, i'm not in any way suggesting a pejorative connotation. i'm bragging like hell on you guys. don't slight. don't call it a mobilization. call it what it is. you are fighting for freedom. and at least the conference is standing up for the president. by the way, if across the way you see mitch mcconnell, tell him to tell the democrats to go to hell. there will be no discussion further. it's illegitimate. unconstitutional, wrong and un-american what adam schiff, nancy pelosi and the rest of those damn radical dimms are trying to pull off and it's an affront to the american people that they are trying to unseat their president. we are proud of you and all of your colleagues standing with you and this president. >> this president is great and we are going to keep fighting. that's a promise. that is a promise. lou: god bless you. congressman andy biggs. up next, americans' rising concern about illegal immigrants failing to assimilate. we take it up with tim cucc

lou: up next.you republicans are fighting back against the party of hate's corrupt efforts to take down president trump. stay with us. we'll be right back. lou: a vote expected as soon as thursday on the house democrats resolution which is basically a blueprint for impeachment, giving very little to the republicans. how minority leadered kevin mccar think tweeted this. -- mccar thinthy tweeted this. that's it fear us tonight. we thank you for being with us. best selling author peter schweizer. a remind tore follow me on twitter @loudobbs, like me on facebook and follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. listen to my radio reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. see you sleer tomorrow evening. good night from new york. lauren: it is 5:00 a.m. here are you your top stories at this hour. angry lawmakers and hurt families criticizing boeing's ceo as he testified on the 737 max jet's role in two fatal crashes. did he say enough to ease fliers' fears? cheryl: joe biden attacki

lou: that's your hope. why in the world hasn't he be investigating ukraine and the biden corruption charges. and how in the world could he have done it without acquiescence and approval of mitch mcconnell, and why is this president so absolutely lacking in support among the rino republicans of his party? >> the republicans should give the benefit of the doubt to the president. i want them to always have an open mind. but there is no doubt in this case. there is no justification for this so-called impeachment. three times they voted in the house, three times it failed. they don't have any other underlying evidence. they have the majority. they can use the tools and levers just like adam schiff is. but they don't. they are take their sweet old senate time. lou: it's gone beyond the sweet old senate. this is vicious passivity and refusal to support the leader of the party. it's not lost on the american people. they are behaving in the most of contemptible fashion and betraying the president by their inaction.

lou dobbs coming up next. lou: good evening. president trump in full-throated expression of the people's outrage of what has been decades of american military adventurism. neoconservative assertion of military force that has led to unending global military postings of our young men and women in uniform, and often little understood within often utterly senseless conflict the past few decades. leaders of both parties grotesquely turning out what was spaced to be a peace mission on a tens of millions of dollars on our treasury and our young people in conflicts oversears. the waste has diminished our great nation. president trump ordered the withdrawal the last,000 troops from syria. it caused the senatorial rinos and radical dems to protest. here is the president. president trump: we want to bring our soldiers back home. these are the endless wars. we are not fighting, we are policing to a certain extent. we are not police. these are great fighters. the greatest in the world. lou: while the president leads this nation, the party of

lou: lies all. while congress and the senate are wrapping up their two-week recess undeterred by the pelosi-schiff subversion effort in d.c. the president staying hard at work as he has since the day of his election. the markets are booming and the economy continues to roar. the economy is doing better than almost any economist dreamed possible. the unemployment report numbers are the lowest in a half season to youy. wall street today rallied on the numbers. all the major indexes up more than 1%. the president loves it all. touting the strong economic performance. >> we have the best economy we have ever had. we have the best job numbers we have had in 51 years. the best unemployment numbers that we have had a half a century. people understand that. people are working, they are making money. if you look at one very important number that was just announced, wages up 3:%. that's unheard of. lou: despite the president's wins, the radical dimms continue on their futile, extraordinary efforts to break hi

lou dobbs next on the fox business network. [♪] lou: good evening.e elected president trump for such times as these. times that are truly trying men's souls as thomas pain -- as thomas payne once wrote. president trump standing up to praying neocons -- braying neocons in his party. and radical dimms who each and every day work to subvert his administration and overthrow his presidency. today the president is standing by his decision to withdraw our troops from syria. the president saying if other nations want to get involved? syria, fine by him. but he's keeping america out of it. the president tiger of the carping -- tiring of the carping from senator behind i graham who seems hell bent on keeping american kroops in syria in armed conflict. i will stem you, president trump is warning turkish president erdogan that the united states will impose crippling sanctions on turkey's economy if he continues the assault in northern syria. kevin corke with the latest from the white house. president trump: if they don't, the tariffs and sanctions we are doing t

[♪] lou: good evening.onight we'll be taking a good hard look at the latest efforts by the radical dimms to overthrow the president of the united states. this time they plotted and began to implement what increasingly looks like an amateurish series of clumsy claims that house speaker nancy pelosi has relied upon to launch an impeachment process against mr. trump. you will see tonight she relied on the demonstrated liar adam schiff who presented her a pandora's box that may threaten more than just democratic control of the house in the upcoming elections. the chair of the house intelligence committee delivered pelosi a grossly inaccurate account of the phone call between president trump and ukrainian president zelensky. it fictional narrative became the basis of her decision to proceed with impeachment. she underestimated the support of republicans for president trump. and the rickety case of what has turned into a failure of almost comic proportions. many in the republican party are coming to the defense o

lou: as we conclude tonight.ing any formal impeachment vote for the house of representatives. commerce secretary wilbur ross on this broadcast on the witch hunt of the so-called credibility of the so-called whistleblower. >> the third party information he had proved to be incorrect. i think that's the real reason they don't want to expose them. then to say their main objective is to preserve this guy's anonymity is incredible. a whistleblower with misinformation cannot be a basis for impeachment. >> areminder about two great books, gregg jarrett's witch hunt, both ready for you to purchase and read to your heart's content. congratulations to our colleagues at fox news. number one for 71 quarters. atop it all. sean hannity, congratulations and fox news. good night. trish: house speaker nancy pelosi announcing she is planning no vote to launch an impeachment probe. she held a press conference to announce there would be no vote to launch an impeach many probe. if you are not willing to take a vote and put your money

lou: good evening. big development in the investigation into the origins of the russia collusion investigation. u.s. attorney john durham's administrative review of the origins of the deep state's efforts to overthrow our president has shifted to a criminal investigation. this expansion of durham's investigation driving the radical dimms and the left-wing media to distraction. they are complaining that the u.s. justice department has politicized the investigation. we turn to chief white house correspondent john rob ergts at the white house. reporter: more than two weeks ago fox news was told prosecutor john durham was expanding his investigation based on what he found expanding into the spring of 2017 and the firing of james comey. now that it's become a criminal probe, durham can impanel a grand jury, seek testimony from witnesses. he's interested in interviewing james clapper and john brennan. president trump: a lot of think that -- and they know they have problems because they were very dishonest. re

lou: i think they made it clear. after basically a year -- almost a year and 9 months in charge of the house of representatives they have done nothing to advance any program in the national interest authored by this administration. you mentioned the farmers. we learned today that the chinese have decided they don't want to buy that $50 billion, $4 billion to $50 billion of agricultural products that we thought had been agreed to in the so-called phase one as announced by the president. this is the second time as you know, mr. secretary, we have seen this regime much president xi renege. at this point, this goes beyond misunderstandings. this is a position of president xi, is it not? they indicated they would continue buying substantial amounts right now. the $40 to $50 billion was meant to phase in over a couple of year time period. lou: that wasn't made clear to anyone as i have read anyone's reporting, including my own. the idea that $40 to $50 billion was going to be phased in. there is as communication problem be

lou: i will give you my thoughts.disgusted with these radical dimms that he will win by a huge margin. i don't think they will find a place in government. >> look at those districts, nancy pelosi, adam schiff, jerry nadler. >> you got it. lou: here is the book, gregg jarrett. "witch hunt." good luck with the book. everyone uses their phone differently. that's why xfinity mobile lets you design your own data. you can share 1, 3, or 10 gigs of data between lines, mix in lines of unlimited, and switch it up at any time. all with millions of secure wifi hotspots and the best lte everywhere else. it's a different kind of wireless network, designed to save you money. switch and save up to $400 a year on your wireless bill. plus, get $250 back when you buy an eligible phone. that's simple. easy. awesome. call, click, or visit a store today. president trump: we just completed a negotiation with china. we are doing very well. we are having another one tomorrow. i'm meeting with vice premiere over at the white house. and i thin