Around the world now, killed more than 329,000. In the United States, 1. 5 million americans have been infected by the virus. The number of americans killed almost 100,000. Since President Trump issued his ban on travel from china, hes also implemented bans on travelers from iran, much of the european union, the United Kingdom and ireland are. Flights from those restricted nations to the United States, however, arrive every single day, three direct flights from wuhan, china, landed at new yorks jfk airport since last friday a alone, two at Los Angeles International airport in the same time period. There are a number of flights also scheduled to the United States from other parts of china as well as the virus hot spot. Frank further, paris, rome frankfurt, paris, rome, london. In fact, the president s ban has been all but ignored. Since january those flights have brought in more than 365,000 people into the United States directly from china, another 1. 5 million more people from other parts of asia, 2 Million People from western europe and nearly 200,000 more from Eastern Europe with. While President Trumps travel bans exclude american citizens, green cardholders and a number of other exemptions, anyone coming to the United States from a restricted country is required to come through 13 u. S. Airports. They are then subject to enhanced entry screening including questions about their medical history, current condition and Temperature Checks. Theyre also required to quarantine at home for 14 days to, to provide Contact Details to officials, but no one seems to know whether those regulations are being enforced. Is that mandatory 14day quarantine, for example, for returning travelers being enforced . And if so, by whom . Well, state leaders like new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo said, well, its not his jobbed to do. Job to do. Its not a state role. Theyre in coordination, but they determine who comes, who doesnt come. Its purely federal, and they determine what procedures and practices are in place for those who do come. Lou one of the nations top federal immigration and Border Security officials is the man responsible for enforcement of those travel restrictions. He joins us tonight from washington, d. C. , acting customs and Border Protection commissioner mark morgan. Mark, good to have you with us. A lot of questions are arising. The announcement that some airports would be, for example, screening for temperatures. What i think much of the country just assumed, that that was taking place in the face of this pandemic. Why is it only taking place now . Well, lou, lets go back to what you started and what this president did lou whoa, whoa, whoa, commissioner, let me say, mark, you and i, we know each other well we do. Lou i respect you deeply, and i always felt that was reciprocated. Lets deal with what im asking because its important, its very important. It is. Lou this audience understands the history. The reality is that those Temperature Checks, most americans believed they were already in place. Why were they not . Well, lou, right now, look, im coming at this from a Law Enforcement perspective. Im not the medical expert here. So what we are doing though is we are working with the cdc, hhs and other Health Care Providers to come up with a solution that is effective, a common sense, effective solution. Is and right now, lou, what weve done, those entering the countries including those areas, cdp, we have screened almost 300,000 people. That means 300,000 people that have come in weve effectoffly screened them effectively screened them and pushed them on to medical experts for further screening. So that is being done. Now, what weve done from that, from that 300,000, only a handful have been identified needing further screening and, ultimately, were found to have covid. Is so so right now those screening procedures, theyre effective. That doesnt mean we cant continue to improve, and we are having those discussions. Lou okay. And thats terrific. Were three months into this, and the reality is that temperatures, apparently, havent been taken to this point or there wouldnt have been an announcement last week that you were beginning those temperature screenings. Secondly, theres a ban, a ban on travel from china. There is a ban, as you know, the other regions and countries. And yet i think, again, most americans are surprised to learn were talking about millions of people, not hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands, coming into this country from nations that were banned. And were not talking about u. S. Nationals, were talking about foreign nationals. Look, lou, this president s been very clear as well, there has to be a balance. There has to be a balance between the very real concerns from a Public Health standpoint as well as an economic standpoint. That is a challenging balance. We have to take both of those into account, we have to be thoughtful and methodical as were applying that. We just cant turn off and shut everything off. We have to be reasonable and methodical and balance that. And right now one of the things were doing is were piloting certain additional screenings to see if its effective. Lou, you know as well as i do, look, a lot of people are asymptomatic with this. Even a Temperature Check look, im not a medical health professional. We know there are a lot of people who have had screening who are completely asymptomatic including the Temperature Check that later were found out to have had covid. Lou no, i understand. We have to do this by a datadriven approach. Lou and i, i comprehend that part. Like you, not a medical expert, but im something of, if you will, a educated person when it comes to screening, immigration. In fact, ports of entry in what is derig our across the country. Even that has not been followed, is my understanding. And, by the way, you said on this broadcast that we were taking the words of people traveling from those countries as to whether or not their origin was what they said it was. And im wondering have we become more sophisticated and competent in that regard. Lou, we have been and were constantly monitoring and shifting to improve what were doing. Ill give you ap example. Just this week the president authorized the extension of two very important travel restrictions at our land poes, ports of entry, as well as in between the ports of entry. The cdc extended the order thats been very effective those coming across our border illegally. Now with that cdc order, were able to remove those individuals immediately back to mexico within an hour. That means were not bringing them into our facilities, were not exposing our work force or other ingrants or american citizens. Immigrants. We had over 3,500 individuals in hour Holding Facility just before covid, and now we have less than 100. Thats an effective containment mitigation strategy. At our land ports of entry, we have the nonessential travel as i know youve talked about, right after that was instituted, we saw a drop of over 400,000 People Per Day entering this cup. Lou, 400,000 people, thats an effective containment and mitigation strategy. They are working. Does that mean we cant improve . No. Were constantly working with people, were working with officials, were working with local leaders to see where we can improve. Lou well, and i commend you for that because so many government agencies, in fact, never, never acknowledge that there is room for improvement, never acknowledge in point of fact that their systems are in place are not perfect. And i know you as a person and as a leader. I have the highest regard for the fact that you take a look at the prospect of failure and recognize deficiencies and move to meet them. What do you consider to be the greatest concern for you . What keeps you awake, as the saying goes, in terms of more security, immigration policy and screening . Lou, thats a great question. Heres what keeps me awake. Right now this country, the citizens of this country have made tremendous sacrifices. Theyve listened to the medical experts. They have done the things that they have been asked, and just as this country starts to reopen in a thoughtful, methodical way, reopen this economy as we should what keeps me awake is whats happening outside our borders. Mexico, for example. Their cases are continuing to incline, both cases and deaths. Lou right. The western hemisphere, brazil, for example, now becomes the western hemisphere epicenter. We apprehended 148 people from 148 Different Countries last year, a lot of them traveled through brazil. So what concerns me right now, what keeps me up is as we are doing everything that we can in this country, to reopen this economy, im concerned that we could be introducing people from outside our borders that could jeopardize that, and we have to shut that town. Shut that down. And we have to do that in a balanced way of Public Health and economic issues, and thats exactly what were doing. Lou and, of course, these arrivals from china, banned and the origin of the wuhan virus, to see that number of people coming in here is, i think you would acknowledge, unsettling. Because the ban is in place. That is and remains a hot spot along with northeastern china now that the Chinese Government has locked down another 100 million of its citizens because of flareups there. How are you responding to that . Again, lou, were constantly monitoring. And like you said, were making sure, were taking a look at our screening procedures, and were seeing what areas and how can we get more effective with those screening procedures. Were looking at our contactation. Were seeing where can we get more effective and improve on that Contact Tracing so insure that an individual who does come boo our border through the airport, for example, theyre screened effectively, evaluated from a medical Health Perspective and we have effective Contact Tracing to be able to enforce that. Those are all things were trying constantly to improve and get better. But, again, ill push it back to the land poes and in between the po ez. This time last year we had 20,000 people in our custodiment right now can you imagine a Single Person that crossed our border illegally that was infected with covid could not only infect countless of our work force, but hundreds, hundreds of immigrants themselves that would overwhelm our local health care system. That has all been turned off because of these orders. Lou right. Mark morgan, thats why we invited you here tonight to take it all up, and we appreciate it, and we appreciate everything that customs and Border Protection is doing for the country. We appreciate it. Good to see you. Up next in tonights broadcast, well be talking with the hudson institutes dr. Michael pillsbury about the new Trump Administration report on u. S. National Security Strategy that apparently no one authored and few people comprehend, apparently. What does it mean for the relationship with china, for example . Well take that up as well with congressman devin nunes. Well be talking about the obamagate and whether or not anyone will be going to jail for the outrages against american law, the constitution, this president and this nation. 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Lou breaking news now regarding general mike flynns controversial case and an even more controversial judge whos preare siding over that case presiding over that case. A federal a Appellate Court today ordering judge Emmet Sullivan to respond to the Justice Departments motion to dismiss the case by june 1st. This Appellate Court order orders sullivan to explain why he denied the Justice Departments request to dismiss the case. Flynns attorney, sidney paul, telling sidney powell, telling this broadcast the ruling indicates the Appellate Court sees a problem to the administration of justice and, certainly, that problem the focal point of that problem is none other than the judge, Emmet Sullivan. Finish a former judge of elections in philadelphia, turning to the sublime from the absurd, has admitted he was stuffing democratic ballots for years. Dominic demurro pleaded guilty to federal charges and faces up to 15 years in prison, admitting a political consultant bribed him to add fake votes for some democrats running for judge positions. Also breaking tonight, the fbi says to todays shooting at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi was a terrorist attack. The terrorist was shot dead, but a second person of interest may be at large in the community. Fbi officials told the public to remain calm, but they did not name the terrorist, nor did they describe the terrorist in any way identify the atlarge person of interest either. The american people, i would remind the fbi who have become your yolike in eurolike in their totalitarianism and denial of americans right to know are proceeding on a dangerous, dangerous path. The fbi has abandoned its responsibility to inform the public in emergencies and events like in that they acknowledge was this that they acknowledge was a terrorist attack. It is also clear that former president barack obama and the deep state targeted general flynn because of his stances on Foreign Policy and what flynn would know and could uncover as President Trumps former director of Defense Intelligence. We want to credit author lee smith for his report in tablet magazine in which lee smith wrote this, quote flynn not only made it clear that he wanted to unto iran deal undo the iran deal, he also broadcast his determination to find the documents detailing the secret deals between obama and iran and to pub hi size them. Bubbly size them. All of them. Former director of Defense Intelligence means he knew how and where to find the evidence behind spygate. Well, joining us tonight is congressman devin nunes, Ranking Member of the house intelligence committee, member of the house ways and Means Committee and hero of the spygate tragedy and scandal. Congressman, it is, as always, good to see you. Were starting to get a sense that there are a lot of obama holdovers in the Trump Administration, and many of them facilitated the creation of this scandal and the frustration of this president , his policies and Administration Agenda at almost every turn. How big a part do you believe they have played in this scandal . Well, what youre really talking about, lou, is youre talking about the greer deep state. And for me, my definition of the deep state is all the layers of bureaucracy in the greater washington, d. C. Area that are mostly leftist, mostly children of the left, products of the left and totally know who their bosses and overlords really are. And that exists all i throughout every agency. Its not just with the intelligence agencies, its at the department of the defense, the department of agriculture. But i think that probably the most concerning part is that because the trump, you know, trumped had never been in politics before and im not trying to make excuses, its not an excuse, but, you know, he didnt come to washington, d. C. With a whole apparatus behind him, a whole pyramid of people who had lived their careered in washington d. C. Lou right. So when he arrived, i think the president thought, saw the good in people and thought, well, if we have a National Security council with 400, 500 people, these must all be patriots, these must be people on the front lines that are warriors. Theyre in the military. I think the president just believed those people were all good. And what happened was that the deep state was left, a lot of obama holdovers were left in there that essentially worked very, very hard to take down the president of the United States. And i think we only know a fraction of what they were doing inside the white house grounds at the very beginning of the Trump Administration. Lou you know, i think youre exactly right. And what we already know is astounding, appalling and disgusting. But when we attach to the teach state its masters who appear to the deep state its masters who appear to be radical dems whether it be nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, barack obama, perhaps the former Vice President , joe biden, as well, and then go to adam schiff, the chairman of the committee of which you are Ranking Member, i mean, the list goes on. These are loyal opposition, members of the Loyal Opposition Party the likes of which weve never seen, hell bent on subverting a president , overthrowing a president. And i think most americans now as a we listen to the as we listen to the attorney general talk about investigating the investigators whether its the special counsel, the fbi, the house intelligence committee, judiciary, theres a question now aft attorney general after the attorney general says that there is no intention to charge a former president who at this moment appears to be, its not unrealistic to expect based on the evidence we have that he had foreknowledge or that joe biden, who we know was going after a ukrainian prosecutor because its on videotape. We have a huge case filled with unknowns, uncertainty and a Justice Department now led by an attorney general whos ruling out prosecuting the people who might be the very head of what has turned out to be a criminal organization and relationship between the radical dems and the deep state. Well, let me say this. So i think we have to be very careful. I know how frustrating it is because obama and biden surely knew about this, okay . They knew about it, they were well briefed on it. But lets look at the evidence. We have to go off of evidence and then what we can actually bring charges on. And weve covered what my criminal referrals have been lou sure. Many of your folks know about it, so we wont go back into that. But i think we have to be we should not jump to any conclusions, because i think that both durham and the u. S. Attorney out of connecticut and the u. S. Attorney out of missouri as they begin to pull this apart and look at, you know, what happened in early 2016, what happened during the trump transition and then i take also important what happened during the mueller, the time that the mueller witch hunt was stood up and everything that happened from the flynn indictment and so on and so forth with the report. All those things have to be looked at. And what we dont need right now is any politicization, so to speak, of this. And i dont want i dont think, i dont want the attorney general just like ive done. Youve never heard me come out and say, well, i made criminal referrals on this person, this person, this person. Youve never heard me do that, youve never heard me say that. And thats because every american is, you know, should be treated fairly. We made our criminal referrals, we dead our whole investigation we did our whole investigation. I suspect that now the u. S. Attorney out of connecticut is looking at those among other criminal referrals made by the u. S. Senate. And i think we should expect fairness from everybody involved in this. Lou well, i think is so too. I know that weve had great fairness from the Obama Administration that unleashed this, this criminal act against a president. One way or another, you know that for a fact and as do i, millions of americans. We also know that no one wanted to jump to any conclusions as they pursued this president , accusing him of colluding with the russian government for three damn years. I do understand your search here for fairness, and im glad you respect my frustration as well. Well, had i lou congressman, could we ask you to finish im sorry, congressman, weve got a hard out. Could i ask you to stay with us through the commercial break . Well be right back with congressman devin nunes. Because our way works great for us but not for your clients. Thats why were a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. So, what do you provide . Cookie cutter portfolios . Nope. We tailor portfolios to our clients needs. But you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right . We dont have those. So, whats in it for you . Our fees are structured so we do better when you do better. At Fisher Investments were clearly different. Our fees are structured so we do band my side super soft . R. 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