victor davis hanson and former fbi director chris swecker tell us next.hey >> i have total confidence the fisa process was followed and the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by the doj and fbi. i think the notion fisa is abused is nonsense. >> laura: don't you love those old sound bites? they were so much fun. almost a year ago, actually over a year ago.on that was comey dismissing concerns fbi was abusing power to spy on the trump campaign.ve now, he persisted withss this le even after the ig report came outt last week. writing in "the washington post," the allocation of criminal conspiracy was nonsense. there was no spying on the trump campaign. the truth is finally out. six days later, comey changing his tune. >>th i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. it is incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those because he is right, a real sloppiness. 17 things that should have been at the applications or discussed and characterized

dan bongino, victor davis hanson and moore react to all of it, but first, house judiciary dams are upo their usual hijinks. this time dropping a nearly 700 page impeachment report in the middle of the night the week before christmas. democrats are now accusing trump of committing bribery. and wire fraud. throw something else in. two crimes curiously leapt out of the articles of impeachment heading to the floor vote this week. joining me as bob barr impeachment manager as well as federal prosecutor and georgia congressman and also here is byron york chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner" and fox news contributor and congressman andy biggs. house judiciary committee member who had to endure last week. so we are just going to say congressman, i'm glad you are okay after a nightmarish week long series of proceedings. but before we began come i want you all to listen to what senator pelosi said, can we call her senator? speaker pelosi said when asked why charges are entertaining against trump were not in their articles. >> we have accused him of bribery but why bribery

mercedes schlapp and victor davis hanson have the answer next. darkest hour into votes?there is no question they are picturing this is a dark tape for the president. >> it was a really dark day for the white house. >> a very bad day and a bad week for president trump. >> the worst day for this president ever. >> laura: okay, those were the last few months. so dramatic. weren't you so worried? i wasn't. bad days for trump never came. the really bad days for the media though. really bad days for comey, brennan, and the rest of the people despite finding no political bias. senior fellow at hoover, victor davis hanson and mercedes schlapp, the senior advisor of trump 2020. mercedes, the democrats really can't see how this is all helping trump, but i can tell you all of the messages i was getting from friends and associates across the country people are giddy. they think that the democrats are out of gas. >> when you see those media pieces and, for example, they say the dark hour. they have been talking since the president became president. and really, the democrat party and

joining us, victor davis hanson from the hoover institution.est-selling author, "national review" contributor. how do you do it? you have got to be one of the busiest men in the country. >> thank you. i think. lou: i'm sure. what do you make -- i like the way peter put it, two-week charges for the impeachment -- two weak charges for the impeachment inquiry. and the usmca trade deal, and it's bringing clarity to the u.s.-china trade relations. >> i think -- i don't know why people thought trump had a bad week. lou: who said that? >> i heard it a lot because of the impeachment. and the fact horowitz didn't recommend criminal referrals for people who deserved them. if you look at the totality, we are making progress with china. nobody is talking about trump appeasing russia. if anything he has been tougher than any president since reagan on russia. then we have a trade deal in north america. when you look at impeachment, we are not talking about quid pro quo. there was bribery then there was treason. now there are no high crimes or misdemeanors at

victor davis hanson as a history professor, classical history professor.pe he is perfectly situated to you were watching. he just wrote a piece called the "cannibalistic ideology of the left." what are we watching? >> we've seen that in the classical world and china and russia, especially in the french revolution and everyone is afraid to. yesterday they were social justice warrior, now there a counter revolutionary, tomorrow an enemy of the people. you see it with the crazy thagenda. they want to abolish everything, i.c.e. that would have been incomprehensible as late as 2008, much less one obama won back in 2012. it begs the question, where are they doing this? why are socialist like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, the leading candidates? they thought they had 16 years of obama -- hillary clinton to complete the transformation of the country.na donald trump disrupted that. he's been successful. every time they tried to abort his presidency, the 25th amendment, the logan act. it fails and rather than take a deep breath they say it failed because we weren't zealous enough. you wer

victor davis hanson is a history professor, a classical history professor and he is perfectly situateduate what we are watching. he wrote a piece called cannibalistic ideology of the left. what are we watching? >> i think what we are watching, we seen it in the classical world. and they will be a counterrevolutionary today and tomorrow they will be an enemy of the people. and we see that tucker with this crazy agenda. they want to abolish i.c.e., and that's 2008, much less obama won it in 2012. that begs the question why are we doing this. why are socialists now like with warren and bernie sanders, the leading candidates. and that's like 16 years of obama-hillary clinton to fundamentally complete the transformation. and donald trump being donald trump disrupted that. and every time they try to abort his presidency, 25th amendment, and, it failed because we were in zealous enough, we weren't revolutionary pure enough. and, he came out and reinvented himself. those three, if they go 72 mcgovern, that's where their heart is. then they want to go 92 clinton, and that's the war that's going

victor davis hanson and craig shirley tell us how this impeachment is disregarding history.y there. ...boom boom! get free next business day shipping or ...1 hour in-store pick up shopping season solved at office depot officemax or officedepot.com. - do that are degrading?ideo tapes, film reels, or photos, legacybox professionally converts them to dvds, thumb drive, or the cloud. legacybox is simple and safe, with over half a million satisfied customers. visit legacybox.com today, and get 40% off. ♪ >> what president trump has done on the record makes him look almost small. >> we are looking at abuse of power and a level of corruption here that makes the nixon impeachment look like child's play. >> i see it simply as a global watergate. >> laura: they all, they come up with their lines in the morning and they just repeat them all day long. they love comparing trump to watergate. and conduct to watergate but if that is true, why aren't they following the president's set of impeachment inquiry? 20 me to set the record straight, richard david hansen,h craig shirley presidential

victor davis hanson is a classics professor. a senior fellow at the hoover institution.y other volumes worth reading. he joins us tonight. professor, as you see the democratic party reach backward to the founders, to justify what they are doing right now, what as someone who knows a lot about the founding period in this country's history, what's your response to that? >> well, they don't identify themselves, tucker as liberals anymore. they are progressives. by definition progressives want to go beyond or evolve beyond the constitution we have heard nothing from the people you just aired. nothing from them but as you said the framers were dead old white men. they were racist. sexist. they were intolerant and some of them slave owners, the founding documents and the framing of the constitution was flawed at the outset. that's why they want to change the second amendment or amend it until it's unrecognizable. they want to put hate speech codes into the first amendment to water it down. as you said they want to get rid of the electoral college. they are mad there is two sen

scalise and trump 2020 reelection, i think it never looked better after the events f today victor davis hanson and mercedes schlapp will tell us why, but first, basic, fundamental and serious errors. that is the focus on tonight angle. now, if you walk by a tv today, you may have thought someone messed with your dvr appear that you are watching impeachment hearings from last week. judiciary committee jerry nettle described what could be televised and be impure politicians questioning lawyers about stuff they were thinking and doing as they were doing an investigation of the ukraine impeachment investigation. but i have a question. where was the original inquisitor? the ultimate witness? well, he was nowhere to be found. beco where are they? >> i don't know, chief, i don't know. >> he was friends. >> friends. >> laura: adam schiff, he is like the kid that pulls the fire alarm and skipped out on the rest of the day at school. even without him today, there were a few amazing flash points at this sideshow hearing. >> at&t? >> i don't know maybe your chairman could be here to answer this. >> who fo

victor davis hanson and craig shirley tell us how this impeachment is disregarding history. stay there. impeachment is disregarding ♪ >> what president trump has done on the record makes him look almost small. >> we are looking at abuse of power and a level of corruption here that makes the nixon impeachment look like child's play. >> i see it simply as a global watergate. >> laura: they all, they come up with their lines in the morning and they just repeat them all day long. they love comparing trump to watergate. and his conduct to watergate but if that is true, why aren't they following the precedents set of the nixon impeachment inquiry? joining me to set the record straight, richard david hansen, senior fellow along with craig shirley presidential historian and author of the great new book. this book is coming out tomorrow. i read it when it was in proofs. "mary ball washington the untold story of george washington's mother." she was a woman ahead of her time, tough but fair and devoted, devoted woman in prayer. phenomenal book. craig, i forgot it was coming out tomorro

white house trade czar peter navarro what's happening with china and historian and scholar victor davis hansonrs we're going to have some rather, well, testy constitutional conflicts in the weeks and months ahead. of course michael goodwin and mark simone join us tonight as we hope you will at the top of the hour, right after liz macdonald. liz? elizabeth: you know what, lou? it is strike. first they were adamant about collusion. then no collusion. and then the democrats are adamant about bribery. now no bribery. lou: and now what are they adamant about? they are adamant about abuse of power, but it turns out that's been sort of dismissed, and then -- because the mueller report -- and then they are a little upset about obstruction of justice because the president and all of his administration, liz, they just want to go to court to assure their legal rights. only the radical dems think of that as obstruction. you can't make these up. elizabeth: lou, thank you very much. we will be watching. lou: thanks. elizabeth: do you want to live in a world where the administration like the obama administra

pete: victor davis hanson a national treasure. did you tell interview. did i not watch.use spot on. always a trial in search of a crime. they know they can't beat him at the ballot box. look at the clown car of candidates running. sit on impeachment thinking maybe we will get his tax returns. maybe he will have another phone call. and then we will push it over when we can get squishy republicans like. maybe mitt romney will flip because he has always hated president trump that's all they are thinking. lisa: the walls are closing in. we have heard that earlier. pete: echos. ed: president trump fired up about impeachment on the twitter machine talking a lot about that. pressuring california to do something about the homelessness crisis. the president has been going after nancy pelosi about homelessness in her backyard in san francisco, going after the democratic governor gavin newsom warning if you don't do something the federal government is going to get involved. now, there are other municipal pantles like new york city hearing about that and homeless advocates here sayi

i'm also sensitive to something i thought profound that victor davis hanson wrote, i want to say abouttwo month ago, which is that, a lot of the worst what we've seen in the conduct of some of the fbi agents, i think victor was talking in particular about peter strzok and andrew mccabe, he noted that they came up through the ranks and he deduces from that there may be something endemic in the agency, when it finally rises to the managerial level it's problematic. my experience in government is, when you bring good people in, that has an electric effect through an agency. when you bring, when you have people who are not so good, then people run amok. you see some of the worst things that you fear. >> let's see here. this is, related to the reaction, the question was, will president trump, how will, has he been fighting back? what can one do in that situation? >> well. i've been saying from the beginning of the administration that i think what he could have done, there has never been a day since donald trump was president when he could not have declassified and unsealed and publicized an