army lieutenant colonel ralph peters.you're thrilled with general mattis of course but almost if we're approaching some type after showdown between these two. who backs down on issues like torture and nato? >> first of all, liz, i have to congratulate you on your strategic triumph on wednesday. liz: thank you so much. >> very, very important. liz: we done good. we've been fighting a good battle. >> not for a redhead from l.a. >> thanks. >> let's hope it doesn't come to a confrontation. general jim mattis who have been privileged to know somewhat for 15 years is a man of deep experience, profound none, and above all, flawless integrity. that is not pabulum. he is truly a man of iron-clad integrity. he is my bellwether for this administration. as long as jim mattis is in the information and thriving we're headed in the right direction. should any point he feel compelled to resign, i would worry. liz: let's not fast forward to that for a moment. a couple of things i want to point out, colonel. on right-hand side of our scree

ralph peters, we have to run. thanks for being here. we appreciate it. thanks for being with us. donald trump calls chuck schumer the head clown and the rest of the democrats are schumer clowns. >> they are the weakest they have been in modern times as a party. lou: will the delusional dems eventually come to their senses. we take up the morbidity of

the thing i talked about with colonel ralph peters.n provoking our navy in the strait of hormuz, that certainly jacks up the price of oil, gets people nervous. working in the opposite direction right now as oil continues to fall and pull down our markets. the floor show at the moment, traders as new york stock exchange, cme and nymex. let me get to you, luke. oil shares, any stock related to oil is dragging this market down, financials secondary. what do we do about that? i thought oil would spike on the iran news? >> kudos to you, liz, you have to be a long-term listener on this program, i know we talk about daily moves for crude but we've been talking about this for several months. number one, a lot of oil companies hedged oil above 55, meaning they don't think they it can go above that they will not participate in any up move in oil. number two, everybody thinks break even for u.s. producers is 55 or higher, right? the u.s. is now the biggest swing producer in the world. if rig counts go up in the u.s. and other oil companies don't

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of some to subvert the trump presidency before it begins his fox news strategic analyst colonel ralph petersgreat to have you with us, ralph. let me see if you and i agree on the outcome of this. we have a gathering of the heads of these intelligence agencies on capitol hill and at the white house and what they relayed was still primarily conjectured and no evidence of a direct intervention in the election itself, not altering a single vote. >> you are absolutely wrong. 16 intelligence agencies agreed that the russians attacked our electoral system. they attacked the fundamentals of our government. >> lou: what did they attack, ralph? now, you said i'm i am wrong ai want to understand. here's what i want to ask specifically, because what is not out of their is what did the russians attacked? >> the russians obviously hacked various democratic sites we know about. >> lou: democratic national committee? >> yes. they also engaged in broader dissemination campaign, face news sites. vladimir putin tried to put it politely to make mischief with our fundamental tools of democracy free elections. lo

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lieutenant colonel ralph peters, strategic analyst at fox news. am i making any mistakes, colonel?> no, bill, we are on the same sheet of music overall on this.. i think what is really important here is not to argue in a partisan manner. this was an attack upon the fundamental tool of our democracy, free elections. the response has to be bipartisan, not democrat, not republican, not about throwing the election one way or the other, but about an attack on our nation. >> bill: but some people don't believe it. some people don't believe that putin and the russians did it, you heard assange tell sean hannity this week that that didn't happen. and there were some in congress who don't believe it. that is what muddies the waters. i believe it, you believe it, i think, mr. wright, you believe it, correct? >> the world is not flat.u >> bill: no, i got it. but when you have so much confusion, it is very hard to get a consensus or to get people mobilized. what do you say, mr. wright? >> you know, bill, this isd. an ongoing discussion we have been having for a long time. and one of the big th

here now is lieutenant colonel ralph peters. fox news strategic analyst.o you think push is going to come to shove here? >> i think there's going to be a lot more smoke than there is actual fire. and, you know, i was startled by rex tillerson's comments because the only -- you know, he seemed to be alluding to some sort of military activity, which is what it would take. and, david, it's a very good fundamental rule in strategy. don't start new wars before you finish the wars you've got. david: uh-huh. >> and so when you look at the south china sea, those islands in the northern part of the south china sea, that area is in our strategic interest. it is not in our vital strategic interest. david: right? >> so we are not going to -- we're just not going to go -- david: i was going to say exactly that, colonel. but the fact of it is you look at a globe. and this is all the way around the world. there are a bunch of these made up islands. are we really to risk a war over something like that? i would suggest that most americans would say no. >> well, i think --

joining me now is fox news strategic analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters. should we be worried about this believating coming out of china? >> you pay attention to everything. but there is no need tore excessive alarm about china at this point. i always tell people, china is a rival, and sometimes it's an antagonist. but rishes an enemy. what we are hearing from china is war-like receipt flick response to donald trump's rhetoric. especially to rex tillerson's comment during his confirmation hearings that he basically foresees a military option with the south china sea. the chinese don't want to fight us and we don't want to fight the chinese. the problem is by attacking china publicly,. same with mexico. attacking china publicly, they can't back down without losing an enormous amount of faith. so you have two super powers acting like schoolyard kids yelling at each other. but the trouble is both those kids -- dagen: don't expect trump to stop with the rhetoric. just when people think he's going to behave in a different way, he doesn't, then they act as if th

[applause] charles: joining me to discuss, frank gaffney and lieutenant colonel ralph peters. lieutenant peters, what do you make of today's announcement? a lot of people thought donald trump was bluffing on it. >> i never thought he was bluffing on it, the large is importantly as a symbol. there are stretches of the border, and i have worked down there, where more fencing will help. but the real wall you need is a wall of laws that are enforced, and the fundamental problem we've had on our border, we have good laws that have not been enforced. and what really encouraged me today, charles, where things, they were raising a possibility of ending catch-and-release, establishing detention centers close to the border, so that nts all across the country and playing shell games with them. and of course, the crackdown on sanctuary cities is important because, nobody gets to choose which federal laws they do or do not obey. charles: absolutely right. frank, in fact, donald trump said, listen we'll enforce of the laws of the usa, work within the existing framework but the wall, i can't

ralph peters, we've got to run. thank you for being here, we appreciate it.e are coming back with much more, stay with us. >> lou: the obama administration try to strengthen his case that russia interviewed in the presidential election. but as mr. trump has said, the evidence just isn't there. >> i think it's ridiculous, another excuse, i don't believe it. >> lou: when will the obama campaign of disinformation and? we will have some of the answers with congressman jim jordan, who joined me next. and these base jumpers about to jump in from the second tallest residential building in the world. we will have their daring, death-defying leap of faith a death-defying leap of faith a straightahead, and the v death-defying leap of faith a straightahead, and the v i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that door. on this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. but these days it's phones before forks. they want wifi out here. but behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. wifi pro from comcast business. public w

i want to bring in retired lieutenant colonel ralph peters as we get started. you've been listening to the debate about how good our intelligence is. >> our intelligence agencies have been insulted enough. to listen to political hacks demean and insult the patriots. more than half of them are unformed military and veterans within our intelligence agency. these are people who have kept us safe. our homeland safe since 9/11 and track down thousands of terrorists around the world and killed them. they monitor north korea, russia, china, iranian nuke program. compared to the intelligence world i served in 20 years ago, the strides have been phenomenal. we're really good. people who don't know about the intelligence world say intelligence failure. which intelligence failure? people go back to 2003 and weapons of mass destruction. even back then, martha, the intelligence community was not unified. there was plenty of dissent. the political neocons pushed through the weapons of mass destruction scenario. they're not perfect but the front line of defense keeping us saf

until we raise the bar on that, you and i and ralph peters and i, we will have the same discussion. >ll: what would you say, mr. wright, two americans who are not convinced that russia and putin interfered and hacked into the election process? what would you say to them? >> you know, you are not going to be able to convince everybody. at this point, when the director, james clapper, said there is high confidence can wear the same things james comey said about north korea, we definitively proved north korea was involved in the sony hack, at some point, you have to trust the intelligence professionals. i think a lot of us, bill a lot of this has become politicized. you both the politicize it to e it serves political objectives. >> bill: people are suspicious of clapper and comey, they think they are trying to help the democrats, because the democratic mantra right now, colonel peters, is that this russian hacking through the election to trump. that is what you are hearing from a lot of democrats. and republicans are furious about it. >> i don't want to hear about democrats and republica

joining me fox news strategic analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters.spent a lot of time in europe, you lived in germany, you have a lot of thoughts what's going on right now. let's talk about big picture, how frustrated europeans are with sort of the upper class, if you would, that davos, frankly over there in the fur coats on the ski slopes, really has come to represent? >> yeah, the kardashians with ph.d.s. davos is revolting, it's a revolting spectacle of self-importance, of hyperconsumerism, utterly out of touch with the plight of not just the working poor but the average middle class person out of even out of small entrepreneurs, small business people. if davos, if the world economic forum had a motto, trish, it would be we know what's best for everybody. rest of you shut up. they're hitting a wall now, because it's turning into the echo chamber. when it began in the 80s there was a powerful exchange of ideas. but it's the most exclusive club where everybody speaks the same language in terms of what's right and wrong, multiculturalism is good, bor

joining me now, fox news strategic analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters.as always, thank you so much. >> ashley. ashley: donald trump spoke in very tough terms about china on the campaign trail. what are you expecting? you've said, and i was reading your notes, that china has essentially been cheating for decades and standing up to them has been long overdue. >> well, that's certainly true. and i do expect a trump administration to take a firmer and, one hopes, wiser line. because the chinese have been getting away with murder. be almost literally. helped very much by a minority of u.s. businesses who are profiting from the china parade and lobby in washington. but -- china trade and lobby in washington. but whether state craft by tweet is going to really work is another question. i mean, the tweets certainly scare our allies, i'm not sure they scare our friends. and so the chinese, if you really look at them in an historical context, they're much more apt to respond to implicit threats and firmness than to explicit threats that humiliate them publicly. an

colonel ralph peters is with us. confrontation, do we win? >> not this way.hink we all agreed that we need to take a much firmer line with china, but there are two factors that jump out at me. one, when you publicly confront china, you make it impossible on this. make con eggs is -- and the taiwan issue, i'm glad that trump took the phone call, it's not the right leverage to deal with the big problem with china, trade imbalances, currency manipulation, et cetera. and the second thing, this is very important, is got to get your priorities straight. china is a competitor and sometime adversary. russia is our enemy. we need not-- we mustn't forget that. stuart: so you don't like the way china is being confronted. let's move on to russia. there is a confrontation between trump and the cia on this issue. here is outgoing cia director john brennan on fox news sunday. roll tape. >> i don't think he has a full appreciation of russian capabilities, russia's intentions and actions that they are undertaking in many parts of the world and that's what the obligation and r

ralph lauren. >> can i just say for women i'm glad to know. >> i knew it right away. [ laughter ] >> peter alexander's church. peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: yeah, matt, suffice to say i got the same e-mail you did. [ laughter ] so they're inside the church of the presidents now. the part of this service that has been -- >> we seem to have lost the signal to peter momentarily. hopefully we can get it back. we're about, probably, 15 minutes intoh it's expected to go between a half hour and 40 minutes and then comes the moment where they'll head to the white house. >> it's been interesting to watch president-elect especially last night at the concert. he's a jumpy guy. >> all politicians i've worked for have ants in their pants. john mccain was always ready. i don't know there's anyone more ready than donald trump. >> he's at another level. if you're charged with something for donald trump you said 30 to 40, take me under. >> we have peter back. >> reporter: i hear you. we'll try it a second time, if we can. dating back to 1980, the only president that hasn't come here to saint john's episco

ralph lauren immediately. >> i didn't care about that. she looks beautiful. i'm glad to know. >> i'm glad to deliver the news. >> someone made you like you were a hostage. >> i knew immediately. of course. >> peterpeter, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, suffice to say, i got the same e-mail you did. that's the only way i had a clue what she was wearing. they are inside the church of the presidents, part of the service that's been a tradition. >> we seem to have lost the signal for peter momentarily. we hopefully can get that back. we're about 15 minutes into that prayer service. it's expected to go between half an hour and 40 minutes. and then, comes that moment when they head over to the white house. >> it's interesting to watch the president-elect, especially last night at the concert. he's a jumpy guy. >> i was thinking all politicians, that i've worked for have ants in their pants. and george w. bush was early because he was ready. john mccain was ready. and i don't know that there's anyone more ready than donald trump. >> he's at another level. if you're charged with doing a church service, you said 30 to 40, take the under. >> we have peter back at st. john's church. can you hear me