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FBC Lou Dobbs Tonight February 7, 2018

Congressman matt gates joins us. Also tonight, President Trump doubling down on his demands for more Border Security. The president today telling the reporter hes ready to shut down the government if congress dont work quickly to close loopholes that allow m s13 gangs to cross the border. If we dont change the legislation, if we dont get rid of the loopholes where killers are able to come into our country and kill, gang members, there are many gang members that we dont mention, if we dont change it, lets have a shutdown and its worth it for our country. Id love to see a shutdown. We will have a full report from capitol hill and discuss the chances of a shutdown with congressman diane blake. And a major turn around on wall street. The dow surging 400 points a day after posting its biggest drop on record point wides. Well take that up tonight. The top story, President Trump is being briefed on the democratic rebuttal to a bombshell republican intel report released last week exposing corruption at the highest levels of the doj and the fbi. Now the white house is deciding whether or not to release a full or edited copy of the democratic memo. Intel Committee Ranking member adam schiff is already claiming he fears politically motivated redactions. But a source telling fox news the democrats memo could be a trap. Its riddled with Sensitive Information so the president may have no choice but to alter or block part of it. Intel Committee Chairman devin nunez says the document is a partisan ploy. Part of the reason we know were right is because of the relintels attacks on me, trey gowdy. They go as far in their memo to attack us in their memo. What did they say for ten days. They said our memo came to all sorts of conclusions. Our memo just lists facts and their memo, they actually come to conclusions. President trump now has until friday to release or block the democratic memo. Well the house voting moments ago to approve a temporary spending measure to avert a Government Shutdown. But the bills future in the senate is very uncertain. Fox news chief Congressional Correspondent mike e i manual e on capitol hill. The democrats continue to hold funding for our government hostage on an unrelated issue. Theyre voting on a fifth continued resolution to fund the government to march 23rd, extending funding for a number of medicare pieces, including commute health centers. Its time now to focus on meeting these essential services, particularly health care and Health Care Services that are a lifeline for our people. The win over defense hawks and conservatives, this includes increased funding for the military through the end of the fiscal year. That brought the conservative House Freedom caucus on board. Were going to vote for the right thing and the right thing is what were voting on today. They think its more important to give amnesty to other folks or whatever reason they come up with, we think thats wrong. Chuck schumer holding out for more domestic spending. Today the Armed Services committee got an earful from the secretary of defense warning frequent continuing resolutions and the existing budget caps are causing the American Military advantage to shrink. The combination of rapidly changing technology, the negative impact on military readiness resulting from the longest, continuous stretch of combat in our nations history and insufficient funding have created an overstretched and underresourced military. That may help with efforts to get a new long term Funding Agreement with more money for the military and domestic priorities, nearly 300 billion more for the next two years which could get tuck into a short term extension. Im optimistic that well be able to reach an agreement. Ive discussed the outlines with my caucus that i think were happy with and hopefully the republicans are. And then we can get something really good done. A budget caps deal would make many feel better about voting for a fifth temporary government extension. But more spending could create new headaches for gop leaders when it comes time to raise the debt ceiling in the coming weeks. The house just did its job, the vote was 245182. And i see that 17 democrats actually voted in favor, voted with the republicans on the spending gap measure. Is it conceivable that any democrats in the senate might vote for it as well . Thats one thing were looking for if Chuck Schumer keeps his troops together. All focus will shift to the spending caps agreement to see if that would be enough to break the logjam and get this through the senate and then back to the house to approve and then become law. Good stuff. Mike, good to see you my friend. Thank you. Here to talk about the fight to avoid a Government Shutdown and the dueling intel memos, congressman matt gates who serves on judiciary, budget and Armed Services. Lets taweast talk about the democratic memo. Adam schiff has been around intel enough to know what you can include and what you cannot include. Apparently he put enough Sensitive Information in this democrat memo that some of it is going to have to be redacted. Now hes saying if anything is redacted, in is censorship. Talk about a ploy. And youre right. Im tired of adam schiff and other democrats playing games with our intelligence and the processes that we have to rely on for meaningful investigations. Here youve got a circumstance where clearly the democrats have chalked this memo full of sources and methods that would hurt the American People if they were exposed. And so of course the president is going to have to redact some of that information. But i dont know how adam schiff has any credibility left with the American People. Remember, david, when he told us that the release of the nunez memo would discloses all sources and methods. Thats a lie. He accused nunez of unethical conduct. Devin nunez was cleared. And schiff made the accusation that we changed the memo before giving it to President Trump. Hes not making that argument anywhere. Time and again hes proven incredible. Weve got to move pass the partisanship. David good luck. The fact is that every republican, correct me if im wrong, every republican on that committee voted to release the democratic memo. They voted with their democratic colleague to release the memo. At the same time every single democrat voted against releasing the republican memo. How do you find bipartisan in that . Its difficult. But it shows that were confident in the facts that are laid out in devin nunezs memo. Quite frankly cash was co convertible into a fisa warrant to spy on americans. Thats outrageous. And democrats and republicans are going to be in power in the future in this country and i dont either side to have the ability to use political document to go and affect an intelligence investigation. We should all be in this together but unfortunately the democrats want to drive division instead of working together. David theres another problem here, which is the fisa judges. Shouldnt they have known isnt some of the responsibility on their heads or his head or her head, whoever, because they should have demanded from the fbi knowing that steeles sources were not named, they should have demanded from the fbi some Due Diligence on the fbis part to track down who steeles sources were for the trump dossier. They didnt do that. They just gave it boom the stamp of approval. They didnt have all of the facts. And thats where i believe laws were broken. I believe that material omissions were included in the presentations to the court. And its important that the American People know david forgive me for interrupting. Isnt it up to the judge to say you dont have the facts . Im not going to give you approval until you get the facts. Heres an example of something they wouldnt know. How would a judge in a fisa court know that the fbi had terminated Christopher Steele, had fired him and refused to pay him because they deemed him incredible after he was leaking to the media. That happened. The fbi and the Department Justice knew it happened and they went and sought renewals before judges without telling them. There may have been some circumstances where there could have been a more thorough review but there was clear evidence of concealment of the fact that Christopher Steele who wrote the dossier was deemed incredible by the people writing, while donald trump was the president of the united states. David its far too easy to spy on americans regardless of whos in power. We have to straighten out the prejudice. That cannot be allowed in justice or the fbi. But also the fisa judges have to be looked at. Very quickly, congressman, you passed this stopgap measure, the spending measure which would lengthen a little bit, satisfy some of the demands of the military that you cant have these short twoweek spending programs. Do you think the senate, theres any chance for it to pass in the senate . Heres the question for the senate. Will they liberate our military from the partisanship and brinksmanship of washington. I fear they wont. Im concerned about that. But this is the senates chance. Lets take our troops, fund them, give them what they need to train and prepare and fight and win downrange and then we can fight about the rest of the stuff after. I think we should put our troops first and i wish we had a willing partner in the senate but im not optimistic. David you did have 17 democrats that voted with the majority to pass this thing. Well see. Matt gates, thank you for being here. We appreciate it. Were coming right back with much more. Please stay with us. President trump warning dems that hes willing to shut down the government if the border isnt secured. Ms13 recruits through our broken immigration system violating our borders. I will tell you, i would shut it down over this issue if we dont straighten out our border, we dont have a country. We take up the president s battle to protect our borders with ed rollins. And the administration reassuring investors following a wild ride for the markets. Theyre functioning very well and we continue to believe in the long term impact of the stock market. Well have a full report on where wall street finished when we come david President Trump telling lawmakers today that hes prepared to shut down the government if congress doesnt pass Border Security measures. Take a listen. If we dont change the legislation, if we dont get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill, gang members, and were just talking about ms13. There are many gang members that we dont mention. If we dont change it, lets have a shutdown. Well do a shutdown and its worth it for our country. Id love to see a shutdown. David i think he said shutdown three times, maybe four. Ed rollins joins me now, a fox business political analyst. Ed, it would take a nonpolitician to Say Something like that. Politician is always calculating whats going to help me here. If i say im in favor of a shutdown, thats going to kill me politically. But he said its better to have a shutdown than to have these thugs come into the country. Hes taught republicans how to fight and hes not about to walk away from this issue. He feels very strongly that we need Border Security. But the vast americans dont realize theres a war going on along the mexican border. Thousands of people are being killed there. The gangs have come across, all over this country, theres thousands of them and he feels very strongly about it. David im sure he does. Were going to talk more about the ms13. Politicians have an inflated ego concerning what they do inside the beltway that somehow americans are going to fall apart if they think theres a partial Government Shutdown. Americans can do very well without most without some of the government operating. I think the critical thing is he has to go to the country telling them why hes doing it. I think he will do everything he can to make sure it doesnt happen but if it happens, hes not going to walk away from it. He wants the Border Security. He talked about it during the campaign and hes going to get it one way or the other and this may be the way. David and you think of a couple of times, 2013 there was a Government Shutdown blamed on the republicans. You can argue about that but thats how the media spun it. And yet in 2014, a year later, they did very well in the elections. Also the markets by the way. We should mention the markets dont give a damn about a Government Shutdown. In fact sometimes they do better if theres a Government Shutdown because they do less spending. To a certain extent the country doesnt feel that the government is working very well any way. My sense is hes going get what he wants and theyve got to understand that. David the m13, they have a heinous group. I consider them to be the taliban of the united states. They are absolutely vicious. The president cannot overstate their viciousness. But the democrats put themselves out on the line last week when he mentioned them specifically, pointed to the gallery and said these folks have lost family members in a brutal fashion because of m13. Democrats sat on their most of that and came out afterwards and were talking about the president was exaggerating the importance of the m13. There are thousands of these vicious monsters in this country right now because of our immigration laws. I think the democrats overplayed their hand in terms of going against the president. I do too. Theyre not just dealing drugs. These are murderers. They go out and the theyre killing people left and right. They have no qualms about life. Theyre young, tough and they have stopped. And you cant let more additions come and its not just here. Its everywhere. But you got to stop it here. David and the democrats spent rare Political Capital, i mean they spent time, their own Political Capital putting their own reputations on the line being able to judge what is dangerous and what is not. And again it reinforces the idea that this president not only is helping the economy but its keeping the americans safer than the democrats would. I would argue with any democrat that in this particular instance their behavior towards those parents who lost their children was very disheartening to those people out there who have been victims or the people that worry about the system. David it was not the finest moment for the Democratic Party. Thats for certain. Thank you very much. Be sure to vote in tonights poll. Do you believe the dems intel memo is just a ploy to distract from the growing corruption at the fbi and doj . Follow lou on twitter at low to bees, like him on facebook and follow him on instagram. On wall street stocks rebounding in a very hem thy way for the biggest selloff in six years during a volatile trading season. The dow ending up 567 points, the s p up 46 and the nasdaq up 148 points. Volume on the big board the heaviest in over a year at 5. 8 billion shares. The dow trading at a range of 1200 points today. The second biggest range in history. Changing direction 29 times before closing higher. The will shire 5,000 measuring at half a trillion dollars. The dow is up nearly 36 since trumps election, the s p up 26 and the nasdaq up 37 . And a reminder to listen to lous reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. Coming up next, special Counsel Robert Mueller wants a sitdown interview with President Trump and the white House Attorneys think this could be a perjury trap. Well take that up with fox news legal analyst Greg Daniel Jacob for every hour that youre idling in your car, youre sending about half a gallon of gasoline up in the air. That amounts to about 10 pounds of Carbon Dioxide every week. malo hutson growth is good, but when it starts impacting our quality of air and quality of life, thats a problem. So forwardthinking cities like sacramento are investing in streets that are smarter and greener. The solution was right under our feet. Asphalt. Or to be more precise, intelligent asphalt. 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The lawyers making a case that there is no subject or line of inquiry that hasnt already been answered over the year. Joining me now, fox news legal analyst, greg jarrett. It seems clear that the president s advisers are saying dont sit down with this guy. Are they right . To an extent theyre right. Its a sound legitimate argument to say

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