that agreement permanently exempting south korea from the trump tariffs in exchange for south korea reducing its exports to this country. our special guest tonight, trump trade adviser peter navarro with us. also tonight, the department of inspector general announced he will open an investigation into fisa court abuses during the obama administration. thashtsd. an obama inspector general with no prosecutorial power who is already overburdened with investigations into the comey and clinton e-mail scandal now looking into fisa court abuses. >>> and attorney general jeff sessions sill silent on calls for a second special counsel. we take all of that up tonight. lou: our top story, president trump attacking california's sanctuary policies. tweeting this, quote, my administration stands no solidarity with the brave citizens in orange county defending their rights against california's illegal and unconstitutional sanctuary policies. california's sanctuary laws release known dangerous into the uniteunited states. but california's attorney general continues to flaunt federal law, threatening to arre

trish: ed col hundreds, south korea is -- ed rollins. south korea is acting like a catalyst to get the president and kim jong-un together. they said kim jong-un expressed eagerness at meeting president trump. is anything being lost on the south koreans that they should be aware of. ed: he's put a lot on the line here as well as we have. i think the critical thing is unlike most of traditional diplomatic efforts that come out of the state department. i would urge the expertise here is just as jack keane said, i think the defense department has to be very, very involved in this discussion, and certainly general mattis, the secretary of defense has to be involved in this. it isn't swapping rice bags. it's about weapons and people with great knowledge hewitt goes -- a with a great knowledge of how it goes. the team the president puts together has to be a team with a great understanding and capacity. if they tried to make this a jared effort it would be idiotic. trish: jared kushner won't lead this one. ed: i think we have to show the greates

and exempting south korea from the tariffs in exchange of south korea reducing the steel exports to this country. we'll have peternavaro with us. and inspector general will officially open an investigation in the fisa court abuses in the obama administration. that's right. a obama inspector general and overburdened with investigations in the comey and e-mail scandal now looking in fisa court abuses and attorney general jeff sessions still quiet on calls for a second counsel. top story, president trump attacking california safrnth yah policy. my administration stands in solidarity with the brave citizens in orange county defending their rights against california's illegal and unconstitutional saufrnthuary policy. but california's attorney general continues to flout federal law and threatening to arrest the sheriff of orange county sandra hutchins because she sell enforce the law and cooperate with immigration and custom inforcement. wall construction under way in california. great briefing on the start of the southern border wall. and the president referring to a 30 foot high bortder repl

basically because the south korea government hated the idea. but let's not pretend no one in tripling string wa trump administration, i think someone was, but idea that kim government has not responded to the president agreement to a summit, i think that president, by throwing out diplomatic rule book surprised kim government as much as he surprised everyone in the world. i don't know if the offer of the serious or if kim government thought that president would accept so rapidly, i think they are now trying to figure out what to do. stuart: kim jong-un has never faced an american president like president trump. mr. trump always keeping his opponents off balance. that is what he does. and i think he is good at it. but this meeting. where might it take place? i hear sweden is possible, but i cannot imagine kim jong-un wanted to travel overseas, he does not know what is going to happen at home. >> i don't think that is going to happen. the north korea foreign minter travel to -- minister travel to squeeze en. there were some discussions about impr

michael: south korea has settled some of our claims. lou: and the european union. michael: whatever they get based on adjusting those deficits. lou: do you have a concluding thought for us? ed: i group in a submarine town, i know what they can do, with nuclear weapons especially. lou: i'm just not a fan of send the diplomats home. something tells me they got other stuff around, as do we. tomorrow night congressman andy biggs joins us and dr. sebastian gorka. see you tomorrow. good night from new thing havnoble thingyou have doy much. here is lou dobbs. lou: these are top stories tonight. one of best days ever on wall street. dow jones serged almost 700 points. today's dow performance is third best in history. president trump receiving little credit for the rally in market from election day on high in january. and roundly criticized, of course, for his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. but it may change. only grudgingly on part of political media

michael: south korea has settled some of our claims. lou: and the european union. michael: whatever they get based on adjusting those deficits. lou: do you have a concluding thought for us? ed: i group in a submarine town, i know what they can do, with nuclear weapons especially. lou: i'm just not a fan of send the diplomats home. something tells me they got other stuff around, as do we. tomorrow night congressman andy biggs joins us and dr. sebastian gorka. see you tomorrow. good night from new >> last week everything was against the bulls then this week you heard on monday that chinese tensions are easing and they were coming to blink or play ball. i knew we'd be capping. transfer the bulls are back in charge of all strata of months to rally stock features. guess what i'm appointing two more games at today's opening. train two yeah, dow futures up 131. s&p at 15. nasdaq up 60 of course after the big rally yesterday. lauren: the dow jones up 670 points. the third-biggest point gain in history on trade t

michael: south korea has settled some of our claims. lou: and the european union. michael: whatever they get based on adjusting those deficits. lou: do you have a concluding thought for us? ed: i group in a submarine town, i know what they can do, with nuclear weapons especially. lou: i'm just not a fan of send the diplomats home. something tells me they got other stuff around, as do we. tomorrow night congressman andy biggs joins us and dr. sebastian gorka. see you tomorrow. good night from new york. tom: i'm tom shillue in for kennedy. the president kicks 60 russian diplomats out of the country. stormy daniels tells her tale to "60 minutes." but do the voters care. should you be worried about your privacy with the facebook data scandal? all that on "kennedy" and more. the united states and our allies certaining a strong message to the

stuart: he threatened to hold up a new trade deal with south korea until he reaches a nuclear pact with north korea. president trump: i may hold it up until after a deal is made with north korea. you know why? it's a very strong card. i want to make sure everyone is treated fairly and we are moving along nicely with north korea. we'll see what happens. certainly the rhetoric has calmed down just a little bit, wouldn't you say? would you say? stuart: you have got to enjoy watching the president speak. we won't take up the president's america first trade policy, his push for the wall and more with ed rollins and jason chaffetz. also tonight, attorney general jeff sessions fueling outrage, rebuffing republican calls to appoint a second special counsel. and defending his recusal from the russia investigation. sessions telling congress he doesn't see a need for a special prosecutor at this time, but he appointed an obama holdover to look into the matter. here to discuss sessions' recusal and the resulting special counsel witch hunt is jonathan turley. also tonight, wrush

the olympics for example, south korea paid for north korea's participation in the olympics. just incredible. lou: let's set the stage here. how soon will north korea have a nuclear war head deliverable by a ballistic missile to -- against either our alley alliese united states itself? >> look cia director mike pompeo as several times used the phrase within a handful of months. a handful of month to do precisely that. lou: he said it more than a handful of months ago. >> he said it a couple of weeks ago. there are things happening to push that back but nobody should think we have a lot of time here. and i think that's why the president is coming closer to a very unpleasant choice. lou: let me say this, and no offense to the cia director. but i'm tired of the ci earks director and other officials who have liedin sliding goals and assessments. he was saying last year, by the end of that year, at the beginning of this year. we're now at march for crying out loud. if there's to be credibility on the part of the intelligence community, we need a little bit better, more reliable as

i really believe that something positive could happen great for korea, north and south, and great for the world and great for this country. >> lou: joining us tonight. fred, the author of the brand new book, becoming north korea, nuclear nightmare, fred, great to have you with us. turning to the president's optimism about those talk and also the obvious balance that he holds with you know, admitting that there is no way to tell there is no way to tell what happened. >> the president changed the game by throwing out the diplomatic rule book and putting an aggressive policy than foreign policy experts thought was appropriate. you remember several months ago, they said he would lead us to war and now they are saying he's too diplomatic to kim jong-un. we don't know if it is legitimate and the president has made the north koreans change their tactics. >> lou: i concur with your judgment and think that is right. i found it interesting that the left wing establishment, left wing media they will say anything so long as it is negative about the president and policy and direction. you almost h

reporter: south koreans credited donald trump for bringing north korea to the table. >> the united states is actually having conversations from a position of strength, not weakness like the one north korea finds itself in due to the maximum pressure campaign. reporter: the two leaders traded insults for months. president trump calling kim jong-un a man you yak and little rocketman. while the white house says this possible breakthrough was months in the making, even the secretary of state was taken aback by how quickly the landscape changed. >> what changed was his posture in a dramatic way that came as a little bit of a surprise to us as well. reporter: white house officials don't know precisely why kim did an about-face. but they believe the sting of sanctions was crippling the regime. >> we believe this step is in the right direction. it's required to normalize the situation around the korean peninsula. reporter: the white house warning today kim is not going to get a face to face with the president unless he's present paired to give up his nuclear program. >> the united states made zer

great for korea, north and south, and great for the world, and great for this country. lou: joining us tonight, former characteristics a analyst fred fleitz,al author of the brand-new book, the coming north korea nuclear nightmare. let's turn first to the president's optimism about those talks. and also the obvious balance that he holds with admitting there is no way to tell what's going to happen. >> well, lou, the president changed the game concerning north korea by throwing out the diplomatic rule book and putting forward a much more aggressive policy than foreign policy experts thought was appropriate. several months ago they said he was going to lead us to war. now they are saying he's being too diplomatic. we don't know if these offers by kim jong-un are legitimate. but we have to pursue it. i think the president has made the north koreans change their tactics. lou: i find it interesting that establishment national left-wing media will say anything so long as it's negative about the president, his policies and his direction. so we almost have to begin with the vie

china sea on trade issues and national security and north korea and at this time, the sons or in one case john kerry's close aide that are involved in businesses that involve multibuiltion with the chinese government and one extreme example. 2013, joe biden flys oaf in air force two to/beijing china and hunter biden has no background in priecht equity and joe biden negotiates with the chinese and he's socht on/beijing and ten days later, hunter scores a 1.5 billion with a b private equity deal from the chinese government. this is american princeling and are multiple examples in the book. >> lou: the south china sea. china is building out the artificial islands and continue uninterrupted by the obama administration and not until president trump takes office. destroyers to do overflight and tripe to stop the further construction. islands, it is appalling and selling out the national. and that's what they are doing. >> specifically to that point, lou. there is rosemont realty that involves john kerry's step down and hunter biden and devon archer. rosemont realty does a major deal with a