lou, back to you. lou: steve, i think the whole country is looking forward to that possibility, and we hope prospect. steve harrigan, thank you so much. also mr. heir began always on the front lines whether it is a natural disaster or man made among our intrepid team of correspondents. before leaving joint base andrews today, president trump told his supporters that he will be back. >> i will always fight for you. i will be are watching, i will be listening, and i will tell you that the future of this country has never been better. the things that we've done have been just incredible, and i couldn't have done 'em, done it without you. so just a good-bye, we love you. we will be back in some form. lou: what form that takes, well, a lot of rumors are swirling already. his comments come as there are reports that he is considering the possibility of establishing a new political party to further the trump agenda. as i say, these are rumors and, of course, they're being reported now by not only "lou dobbs to

lou: yeah. and the president today said we're headed toward half a million people in the next month. it's outrageous. and, again, no comment from the biden administration. u.s./china relations, president waxing nostalgic talking about possibilities with the chinese. hasn't said a word about the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars of intellectual property, state secrets, u.s. military industrial secrets, the expansionary and aggressive policies of china in the south china sea and around the world. your thoughts. >> yeah. it is dangerous to go back to this notion that we need to strengthen the communist party, that we need to favor chinese jobs while we have policies that throw americans out of work. and really that's what's been the policy of the engagement crowd. president trump ditched that five decades of appeasement, he then started to impose costs on china for unacceptable behavior. biden has suggested he's going to go back to that old way of doing things, and that is not what we should

lou: it is. and to think that they so absolutely wide open about embracing the biden era if it is to be and being very e -- relieved that the trump era would end. it's stunning to metathat moe of the, i think most americans do not realize the degree to which china is possible for certainly 300,000 deaths worldwide. you know, the numbers are just astromom if call and have never if been called truly to account by the united nations, by world leaders, no seasons of reason rations -- no sense of reparations, no sense of accountability. there is no reason for the chinese to fear us at all, is there is? especially if there is to be a biden presidency? >> i don't think there is now, and i i think it's even worse than that. i think after they recoiled from the global anger at them, they sort of calculated and said, you know what? we have more pharmaceutical capacity than the west does, were more protective equipment, let's never waste this crisis. and now they've become almost defiant. we're a authoritar

lou? lou: congress itself divided, the republican party divided and dividing, it seems, by greater measure every single passing day. mike emmanuel, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you, sir. lou: defense secretary lloyd austin has ordered the entire u.s. military to stand down over the next 60 days for what he calls needed discussions on extremism in the ranks. a standdown order will take the military off an offensive footing but doesn't mean all military operations would stop at once. that's reassuring, don't you think? pentagon press secretary john kirby -- yes, he's back -- says the number of extremists in the military is small but not an insignificant problem that has to be addressed. so the problem gets more ridiculous. just how small is the problem? there are a combined 20.3 million veterans active duty and reserve service members. last year the fbi opened 143 criminal investigations into troops and veterans. 68 of those cases for domestic extremism. quote-unquote. that is. .0

[laughter] thanks, lou. lou: thank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> up next, red storm rising and rising fast. the chinese communist party putting more restrictions on free speech. who knew they could? we take it up with china expert dr. michael pillsbury joining us right after these quick messages. they've got a rot of tanks and a lot of flags. i'm a little nervous, aren't you? excuses. we're all guilty of making them. those are advanced poses. that's why at cvs, we're making not making excuses a little easier, with the vitamins and supplements you may need. now get a $10 gift card when you spend $30. cvs. healthier made easier. it's time for aerotrainer, with your weight and health? now get a $10 gift card when you spend $30. a more effective total body fitness solution. (announcer) aerotrainer's ergodynamic design and four patented air chambers create maximum muscle activation for better results in less time, all while maintaining safe, correct form and allows for over 20 exercises. do the aerotrainer super crunch. the pre-str

back to you, lou. lou: well, not even a week, ed, and already are raising taxes, reregulating stop, stopping fracking. this is an administration not afraid of overreach or backlash in extending its initiatives and policies. and thanks so much, edward lawrence, reporting. >>> and this breaking news, speaking of biden overreach, a trump-appointed federal judge in texas has blocked president biden from enforcing his 100-day so-called moratorium on deporting illegal immigrants. and on wall street stocks slipping a bit. the dow down 23 points, the s&p lost 6, both from their record highs, the nasdaq down 10. volume on the big board picking up to 5.9 billion shares. a reminder, listen to my reports on the salem radio network each day. >>> up next, "just the news"' john solomon is, well, going through declassified obama gaipt documents. new revelations on the greatest political scandal in our history. john solomon here n my retirement plan with voya keeps me moving forward. they guide me with achievable steps

lou: yeah. david, you just referred to the sangty ity of the constitution -- sanctity of the constitution. >> that's right. lou: it does not honor the constitution if you permit others to violate the constitution. this is enabling. this is giving permission and approval9 to the dems to proceed with this awful fraud on the constitution. on the american people. where the -- and i'm asking quite a similar, as you suggest that he should not go, but i am saying to you that the senate majority leader, the leadership of the senate, the republican party should say to the democratic party, hell no. and you will be held to account for this vile, vile enterprise. >> well, i'm hoping that the most important part of what you said, i think, is what i'm hoping. that is that the american people hold the senate democrats to account. i'm not a political partisan in any way. but what's happening here is supposedly being run by one party who has chosen party over country, and that's just wrong. this is simply the p

lou, back to you. lou: mike, thank you very much. mike tobin. quite a sight. 25,000 of our national guard in the nation's capital. to protect what will be a virtual inauguration. >>> well, as the nation's focus is focused on security in washington, d.c., a caravan of 12,000 immigrants, illegal immigrants, is making its way through central america. why am i calling them illegal immigrants? because they are all legally in mexico, and -- illegally in mexico, and they seem determined to make it to our southern border. this weekend that caravan clashed with guatemalan are soldiers who tried to hold back the crowds. guatemala's president saying these illegal caravans will not be accepted in his nation. guatemala determined to stop illegal immigration, yet the incoming biden administration has already announced it will offer amnesty in its first days in power through executive order. customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan says the president-recollect's rhetoric is encouraging -- president-elect's rhetoric is encouraging that caravan. mo

lou: yeah. you want to see the next phase in the fascist left's efforts to control speech in this country and to dominate -- not to dominate, to eliminate counter, dissenting voices? we have reports from the federalist that apple has threatened to remove the competing social media site parler from its app stores competing against the left-wing mad twitter service. this is where we're headed, and it's going to get uglier and uglier it seems each day if it is not, if it is not stopped. tom fitton -- >> big tech is scrubbing everything, and apple's china-friendly, as you know, lou. so the irony is rich, isn't it? lou: yeah. well, they're also china-bound this tear production as well. in their production as well. thanks so much, we appreciate it. tom fitton, judicial watch. we'd like to hear your thoughts. share your comments on twitter @loudobbs like me on facebook, follow me on instagram and parler -- parler -- @loudobbstonight. >>> up next, securing the border, one of many of president trump's pr

back to you, lou. lou: well, not even a week, ed, and already are raising taxes, reregulating stop, stopping fracking. this is an administration not afraid of overreach or backlash in extending its initiatives and policies. and thanks so much, edward lawrence, reporting. >>> and this breaking news, speaking of biden overreach, a trump-appointed federal judge in texas has blocked president biden from enforcing his 100-day so-called moratorium on deporting illegal immigrants. and on wall street stocks slipping a bit. the dow down 23 points, the s&p lost 6, both from their record highs, the nasdaq down 10. volume on the big board picking up to 5.9 billion shares. a reminder, listen to my reports on the salem radio network each day. >>> up next, "just the news"' john solomon is, well, going through declassified obama gaipt documents. new revelations on the greatest political scandal in our history. history. john solomon here n finally moved in. it's a great old house. good bones, wraparound porch. the pipe

lou: yeah. when you say it was all right, it's important for everyone to understand the predicate for that permission from the media and most, if not the majority of americans, who were watching this unfold in the early days, it was predicated on a serious charge that a president was effectively a russian agent, that he was in collusion with vladimir putin. i mean, brazen, outrageous, fraudulent assertions by the leadership and the principal officials of the party. and there has been no consequence for them whatsoever for lying, for trying to destroy this man, his presidency, his administration. and now as we near inauguration day for joe biden, it is almost a welcome home, joe, kind of atmosphere amongst the swamp creatures. how does this get made right, and it be made right? >> i don't know if it can be with made right at this point other than trying to figure out what went on. if john durham isn't going to prosecute these guys, we already know that. biden is not only bringing some of these fo

lou? lou: it's a real struggle for this administration, apparently, to come to terms with the distribution of this vaccine. any, any word from the administration, the cdc, the fda, any of the relevant agencies as to how president biden intends to speed up the distribution? >> reporter: they are looking to ramp it up. the problem right now is the supply, but they say that the companies are able to create more and more vaccine, and so as we go into the spring, you're going to see the vaccine become available to more and more groups. but we may be getting closer to summer before it, before it becomes available to everyone. it may become -- they may open it up to all groups in april, but it may be the end of the summer before all americans who with want the vaccine are able to get it. lou: sobering news from the administration. jonathan, thank you very much. jonathan serrie reporting from atlanta. well, the south african strain as well as the strains originating in the u.k. and brazil, are mor

lou? lou jackie, thank you very much. jackie deangelis with an extraordinary story on incompetence in government, in california and perhaps soon to be visited upon the federal government. as if the federal government needs more help in that department. more on the markets now. the white house says it is watching the wild trading in two stocks particularly, gamestop and amc, that was driven by social media. td ameritrade and schwab restricting trades on those companies. melvin capitol and citron capital closed out of their large short positions on gamestop. joining us now to take all of this up is bill lee, former chief economist for citigroup, former deputy division chief at the international monetary fund. bill, great to see you and under such -- [laughter] well, a dour atmosphere as was generated on wall street. this was a significant day. to see gamestop, to see amc, their stocks for crying out loud, tripling without earnings, in fact, with losses. what is going on here? >> well, you know, the gamestop kind of trade ph

lou: yeah. well, it's interesting because public and private is an interesting expression particularly when it's applied to corporate media. the fact is that in each instance the public, public corporations are the owners of these news media outlets whether it's disney, whether it is, you know, silicon valley, facebook, twitter. there is a public accounting. shareholders own those companies. and they're using money from those shareholders to donate to a preference on the part of management for which they should be held accountable. the idea that jpmorgan chase decides which party it's going to donate to, why is it donating to any party? and we have to evaluate where we want shareholder money being spent by management. you know, this is -- we've reached a point in this country where there's this attitude that management of these public corporations is anything more than hired help. they are titans, they are oligarchs, and they are fabulously wealthy. but they do not have the right to crush our co

lou: it is tough. [inaudible] lou: i don't care what the court said, unanimous, five-four, i don't care, i don't care, they have a role in this government and their responsibility. on its face, you know, some nonsense about what we should see with our own eyes that it happened in pennsylvania. that was illegal what was done. it was unconstitutional. they should have been the court of resort for that contest against what is plainly and obviously unconstitutional conduct. if they can come up with an excuse not to perform, why do we need a supreme court? the hell with it. this is ridiculous. it is. >> take a deep breath. i totally agree with you, by the way. lou:y breathing, by the way, dos not change my mind. >> no. [laughter] they were totally wrong. i called it a constitutional travesty on this network. it continues to be. i think the supreme court should have taken that one. it would not have changed the election. >> thank you. i was starting to have to breathe deeper because i thought you were changi

lou? lou: thank you very much, indeed. benjamin hall. joining us now is gordon chang, columnist, author and great american. gordon, thanks for being with us, and let's start from the warning -- with the warning from xi jinping at the virtual davos conference, which sounds like an improvement on the real conference, about the prospects of a cold war with the united states. >> well, certainly if there's a cold war, it's because of china. in may 2019 people's daily, the most authoritative publication in china, declared a, quote-unquote, peoples war against the united states. and that was in conjunction with a flurry of very hostile propaganda pieces. you know, lou, this is just ridiculous. xi jinping can go to davos and say all these things, but he's the cause of the world's problems right now. lou: indeed. and they're huge problems, over 400,000 americans dead. 25 million americans infected with the virus. there's been no response. in point of fact, shi gin e ping had the opportunity to warn the world of the danger, had the opportunity to

lou: and turnout is expected to be heavy. our first guest this evening has raised concerns about the integrity of the electioning in georgia. today a fulton county superior court judge refused to take up a hearing to determine whether ballots from the november election should be forensically inspected. the request for the inspection was brought forward by garland finishing avorito, found or of an election integrity watchdog group, and he joins us now as does david cross, concerned citizen, who has been amongst the team analyzing votes in georgia with garland. gentlemen, good to have you with us, and let me say, garland, you've been working on integrity in our elections for decades. to be told in that count today you wouldn't be able to inspect ballots, your reaction. >> well, you've been leading this issue as well in the broadcast media for 16 years, lou, so thank you very much. we were very disturbed by this. it was kind of what we call an administrative trick that was pulled today, and they tried to -- lou: who pulled it? w

lou's name. lou wanted to be called joe. >> how did he explain that to you? don't call me lou anymore? >> because he didn't have the proper identification to be established as lou. he needed an actual social security card and driver's license. >> they believed he had committed identity fraud which give them what they needed to make an arrest. >> we knocked on the door. mr. castro and his common law wife answered the door. >> we approached him as joe venegas. we called him joe venegas to his face when we talked to him. he corrected us he was not joe venegas, but lou castro. he went back to the old identity. >> was he shaky to see law enforcement at his door? >> i think he was able to explain why we were there. >> the investigators charged him and searched his property. >> what did you find? >> normal things. paper documents and computers and weapons and guns inside the house? >> any smoking guns? >> no. >> emily was on the way home from school when she got a call from the detective. >> he said emily, where you are? i said i don't know who you are. he said i'm

we'll see how that goes there, lou. back to you. lou: yes. quite a statement coming from a man who took on the leader of the republican party and did so without so much as batting an eye and now is bleating for forgiveness. phil keating, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. make no mistake, kevin mccarthy was taken to the woodshe would today in one form or the -- woodshed today in one form or the other. and this may be the beginning of big changes in the republican party. congressman matt gaetz is a change agent for the republican party, and he spoke just moments ago at the wyoming state capitol in cheyenne where he is campaigning against house republican conference chair liz cheney and the rest of the party establishment. finish we turn now to fox news correspondent kevin corke with more on the gaetz speech and his activism in wyoming. kevin. >> reporter: evening, lou. the former congressman is, frankly, two parts a tip of the hat to the great cowboy state, it's also one part shot across the bow against a congresswoman who, as you know,

lou: your thoughts. >> you're right, lou. they use impeachment as a political weapon, and i think congressman gohmert did a great job of pointing that out. even if you look at maxine waters. remember, this has come from the very beginning. jim jordan was absolutely right. within minutes after president trump was elected in 2016, within minutes they were already calling for his impeachment. this was a weapon from the left. but mind you this, it's not so much about president trump. this is a lesson for every single american. they are sending a message to all the 75 million americans that voted for president trump that they will impeach your choice. that it must be their choice. and we have to be really careful here to see how they're using this. and remember, maxine waters also came out and said, you know, to target trump voters, target maga voters. and now what are we seeing repeatedly in the news? constantly calling trump voters or america first voters or maga voters terrorists, comparing them to hezbollah in "the washington