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 its become a criminal probe, durham can impanel a grand jury, seek testimony from witnesses. Hes 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. Reporter sources tell fox news the nature of durhams investigation changed because of new evidence in a trip bill barr made to rome and the information in the Inspector Generals report. Michael horowitz wrote that his draft report is lengthy and he anticipates the final report will be released publicly with few corrections. Despite the fact that durham has worked for both the democratic and republican administrations. The democrats ripped him by calling this a hit job. A double whammy for President Trump in washington, d. C. Today, journal howell ruled d judge howell ruled they must turn over he materials from the mueller investigation. And red the impeachment investigation is valid even though it has not been approved by a vote of the full house. Lou new developments on general Michael Flynns case. His attorney, sidney powell, joins us tonight. The justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel has written a letter to the Intelligence CommunityMichael Atkinson upbraiding him. Stating that the Inspector General should never have treated the socalled whistleblowers complaint as an urgent concern saying it was outside the Intelligence Community and not a matter of urgent concern. The u. S. And china appear to be closing on a number of certain aspects of the deal. Ed lawrence has the latest from washington. Reporter Chinese State media signaling the Vice President s speech walked a fine line between the hard talk an and th accommodating language. Lighthizer said they are close to the finalizing an agreement, not a treaty. President trump said chain a still needs a deal. President trump the farmers will do better than maybe anything. China wants to make a deal. They would like to see reductions in tariffs that are scheduled to go on very soon. They would like to see them not go on. Reporter he seemed coto confirm what the chinese trade sources told us. Thats 15 tariffs. The chinese worked hard to get those tariffs postponed or not put in place. Interest protects intellectual property, and. S banking so they could work with chinese markets. The administration wants to have the final lang tbhaijt phase one agreement ready to be signed by the time the apec summit comes around in less than three weeks. Lou joining us, Peter Navarro, assistant to the president , director of trade and industrial policy. The straye the trade czar, iu will. This deal seems to be coming together, but has a lot of elements that are poorly formed. Give us an idea of where this deal is, the socalled phase one. We had a good talk with liu he. The enforceable obligations, might look like a 4050 page document. There is progress on intellectual property and forced Technology Transfer and currency. What it doesnt do which will have to be done in phase two and three, is the seven deadly structural sins of the chinese, things like dumping, subsidies, stateowned enterprises. Made in china fentanyl killing americans. And cyber intrusions into our business networks. But it looks like a great deal for phase one if we get an enforcement mechanism. Thats the red line of all of this. Lou an enforceable mechanism. What does it look like . Because we are sort of in a peculiar position of asking another state not to steal from us rather than erecting our own barriers, Law Enforcement in matters of National Security and defense making certain they damn well dont. We learned a lot from the wto mechanism that didnt work. This would be quick trump time. You have a Complaint Violation in the agreement, it would be settled in a matter of weeks or months. If the aggrieved party believes it hasnt been fairly treated, the United States, they can impose tariffs, and the other party china would not be able to appeal it to the wto. Thats kind of what it looks like. If both sides and liu he publicly said if there is no enforcement there cant be a deal. They appear to be committed to it, but as President Trump said, lets see. Lou they reneged on the same concept back in may. Sort of amazing at the vice premier level see a nation renege. Also the reports suggesting that the chinese definitively and absolutely mean that we need to remove those tariffs before they buy our agricultural products. By my calculation, and this elementary mathematics so its something i can deal with. It looks like we would lose quite a bit of money in terms of tariffs, or not as much money in the way of agricultural purchases by the chinese. Why in the world would we do that . I think both sides recognize thats a nonstarter. What is in play is whether the december 15 tariffs go into effect. The conundrum is you repeal those tariffs in december, you dont have any incentive for the chinese to do phase two and three. The on reason why the chinese are at the bargaining table is because president donald j. Trump stood up to them and imposed tariffs. Thats why we are here. Lou to his great credit and to the country. I think we have all become accustomed to those tariffs, and it seems we are putting ourselves in a position of dropping those penalties for their conduct before they change their conduct, and that seems to be a matter, ifle you will, of extraordinary 8 and hope that has been misplaced in our previous dealings with the chinese. Why should we do that . We shouldnt. We are hearing that from the outside. The spin thats trying to push this president toward a place where we shouldnt go. Lets have faith in donald j. Trump and bob lighthizer. Well get a good deal in phase one or we wont. They walked away in may. We are here to have a fair deal. If they walk away it wont be our fault. President trump has done nothing but bargain in good faith with the chinese. Lou just as he did up to their reneging in may. We are on a glide path to chile. Its three weeks away. Lets see what happens. Peter navarro. Trade czar. Do you like the ring of that . The leftwing National Media deep state seem worried about the expansion of john durhams criminal now investigation. This is raising serious questions about whether the president is using the Justice Department to go after his enemies. It makes no sense. Brit, attorney general barr. I dont see what you have got. Those arent real investigations. Its a disinformation operation. I know nothing improper was done. Its interesting and i will let it go at that for the timing. Lou we wont let it go at that. What President Trump has to say about resistance from some of those in his own party. We take it up after these quick messages. Stay with us. Well be right back. [ orchestral music playing ] mom youve got to get yourself a new car. I wish i could save faster. Youre making good choices. Youll get there. Were you going to tell me about this . I know i cant afford to go. I still have this car so you can afford to go. I am so proud of you. Thanks. Principal. We can help you plan for that. 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The nasdaq up 57 points. Volume on the big board 3. 4 billion shares. Shares. Out of control congressional spending driving the federal budget deficit. It rose just short of a trillion dollars for fiscal year 2019. The highest level in 7 years. The uaw approved a deal that includes a commitment from General Motors to invest in manufacturing plants here in the United States. Some of the uaw members can go back to work. But ford has been informed they are next on the list as they go to contract talks with the united you a counion. We have to give petered navarro and the president of the United States who dis. Ed him to add some urgency to those talks with the auto workers. President trump we do have never trumpers. I am not a fan. I think they are bad people. Some have recovered. I guess they went through a recovery program. They learned how to win through me. But others havent. Im not a fan of never trumpers and i never will be. Everybody makes mistakes. You are with cnn and you are fake news. Along with the national leftwing media, hes long those folks have all tried to undermine his presidency with varying degrees of failure. The president also going after his predecessor. In a new book by doug wead President Trump saying of the Obama Administration quote. The interesting thing out of all of this is we caught them spying on the election. They were spying on my campaign. Anybody else would be unabling to function under the kind of pressure and distraction i had. They couldnt get anything done. No other president should ever have to go through this. Weads book inside the trump right house goes on sale on the 26th. We highly recommend it. Joining us, the savant ed rollins and mark simone. Good to have you both with us. How about that . A president going through all of this and by the way, it only gets worse it seems with every passing day. They started spying on the campaign in the high ranks of the fbi and cia who did not want this president and actively worked against him in the campaign. When he became president they worked against him. The cia is not a Law Enforcement agency. Its a spy agency. Its supposed to be spying on them. The idea that a guy who wasnt even in the white house, who left the white house suspect left the white house when trump came in and is still spying on the president of the United States is treasonous. Now he doesnt even have to testify. Lou this pretext of an inquiry of impeachment, this is ridiculous. Then we get the news that the Justice Department expanded john durhams investigation into a criminal investigation of the origins of this collusion hoax. I swear to you, mark, this is ridiculous what we are watching without comment from the national leftwing media about what these frauds and the radical dimms are doing. I love the president. He has one flaw, and hes not ruthless enough. He should have a pointed the special possible youthor. Durham, everybody says we should have confidence in them. In that debate he said ill appoint a special counsel to look into your situation. Should have done it. It would have led to all of this stuff. Lou a lot of people say he should have fired comey the second he got into the white house. Hes trying to be fair and hes trying to be measured. Even president ial as some of his critics speak. But what we are watching now, this is a white house that is in absolute mortal combat because the Democratic Party means to destroy this president and everybody about this country that absolutely values due process, innocent until proved guilty, and just getting the hell out of the way once an election is over. The only good news is you are up against a bunch of thirdrate bumblers. With nixon you were up against some statesmen. And he also committed a crime. There was a breakin, burglary, and a coverup. It was pretty simple. The democrats are making this confusion. The president s effort to get rid of people in the Intelligence Community who are not only against this president , but against everything he stands for. They are doing illegal acts every day they go to work. Lou its not as confusion as some are suggesting. The democrats are lying and attacking the president with the purpose of subverting and overthrowing him. Every one of them should be skidding on their tails right down pennsylvania avenue. Its absurd putting up with this. If you had one Senate Majority leader with principle, and guts, saying you are not going to do this. You are going to get out of the thug and mob business and get back to the peoples business. If i was the republican leader in the house, i would take all my members off the floor. San and say if you want to go through this, go ahead. Hes all alone. Everybody has deserted him. There is a senate Intelligence Community and judiciary community. Lou richard burr, the chair of the Senate Intelligence committee and Lindsey Graham who has never seen a microphone or camera he didnt like, the author of so many opposing sound bites and inconsistencies to the point of eccentricity, instead he has done nothing to investigator set the record straight or defend this president other than run his mouth. Its time he does something more than just play to which way the wind is blowing at any given hour on any given day. When you are a wind mill every day the wind blows a different direction. Thats lindsey. Hes a wind mill every day. Lou what does the president have to do. I grew up in a town with the navy and marines and i was a boxer. Whenever i was in a barroom brawl every item you needed for your defense was there. Whatever weapons they have they need to use. He will win in the independent. Gary cooper in high noon. Lou i like it, but i dont want him to leave town. I want him to stay right there. Breaking news now. The pentagon, that controversial 10 billion pentagon award for computing, that contract has been won but not by amazon. Amazon had won the contract earlier but there was a review and the president raised concerns that the bidding process hadnt been competitive. The president come plaining over the amazon deal with the post office. But in this deal microsoft prevailed. Not amazon. Microsoft will have the pentagon Cloud Computing deal. Next the efforts to entrap general michael flynn. Well be talking to his attorney, sidney powell. And new reaction from china about Vice President pences speech criticizing chinas human rights abuses and criticizing corporate american for refusing to statatata sir, youre a broker. What do you charge for online equity trades . Um ah, ill look into it. Lisa jones hey carl, what are you charging me for online equity trades . Laughs umm. And do i get my fees back if im not happy . Like a satisfaction guarantee . Ugh. Schwab oh right, im calling schwab. 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