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despite the strength of the storm no deaths have been reported but emergency services are being forced to wait for the high winds and flooding to subside before they can get back out on the streets to assess what is expected to be significant damage. "fox news" correspondent steve harrigan is in san juan with our report. >> lou remarkable structural damage here everywhere you look you see chunks of the building chunks of the rip entire balconies with everything ripped off these major hotels through the winds were gusting through here ripping through more than 100 or eight he 5 miles per hour for about two hours straight. the wind damage has cause the brunt of the destruction so far but there could be more trouble ahead. a couple of rivers have warnings issued for flash floods in there could be a storm surge of several feet so puerto rico certainly not out of the woods yet. an interesting situation with the electrical power grid it was

weak from being hit by irma two weeks ago. more than a million people ride power through that storm. this however has been a direct hit, a worst-case scenario for the island of puerto rico something that has not happened here in more than 80 years. right now this american territory the entire island of 3.5 million people is practically without power. there have been no reported incidents of looting but certainly a very combustible situation, an island in the dark. people in desperate situations and limited security threats on the street. no reports of looting as of yet but certainly something to watch. they have put in a curfew established at 6:00 p.m. tonight until 6:00 a.m. and that will run through saturday. lou back to you. lou: steve harrigan reporting from san juan. now, this is the latest video of the central region of mexico hit

by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake yesterday. rescuers in mexico city and much of the pueblo province in mexico. at least 225 people were killed in the earthquake. dozens of buildings collapsed including homes, schools and office buildings and the efforts to clear away the debris of those collapsed buildings continuing at this hour. this earthquake came two weeks after a magnitude 8.1 hit mexico city. yesterday also the 30 -- 30-second anniversary of an earthquake that killed as many as 10,000 people back in 1985. mexico's president has declared three days of national mourning. president trump offering assistance to mexico during a call with the mexican president today. the president today with an enormous plebus the schedule also announced he has made a decision on what to do about the

iranian nuclear deal but the public will have to wait to hear what his decision is. >> have you decided? >> i have to tell you -- i will let you know. lou: his comments coming a day after the president and a highly praised speech to the general assembly called that agreement and embarrassment to the united states and promised we all would learn much more from the white house on the matter. interestingly the world's leaders were not in new york city to hear the president's speech. chinese xi jinping and russia's putin and germany's chancellor angola markel are remaining at home. stunning new developments in the left-wing crusade to intimidate and discredit the president and his associates. the witchhunt that began in the obama administration's intelligence operations and continued to this day in the

form of special counsel robert mueller's runaway rush appropriate today we learned russia's dragnet has extended to the man who appointed him and supposedly oversees his investigation as of special counsel. that man is deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he was interviewed in the summer by mueller's team. rosenstein offered the memorandum justifying the firing of a and calling for that firing firing, the document that he said he stands by to this very day. we also learned mueller's assembly of what appeared to be democratic attorneys with ties to the obama and clinton regimes are going back more than a decade now, trying to find some evidence of wrongdoing on the part of former trump campaign manager paul manafort

scrutinizing his business deals all the way back to 2006. this comes just two days after we learned that the fbi indeed had been wiretapping manafort before and after the election, kline first made by president trump and some republican lawmakers acclaimed it was was vehemently denied by the obama intelligence team until now. >> wiretapped covers a lot of different things. i think you can find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> let me be clear, i have been saying this for several weeks, we know that there was not a wiretap of trump tower however it's still possible that other surveillance activities were used against president trump and his associates. lou: there was no such wiretap to be mounted against the president and the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his

campaign. lou: as if all of that was not enough we also discovered today that president obama's ambassador to the united nations samantha power went on an unmasking spree in the final year of the administration. "fox news" reports power as for confidential identities to be revealed in more than 260 incidences. the final request comes just days before president trump's inauguration. joining me now to talk about the obama administration's shocking, shocking surveillance, the leaders of two of its intelligence agencies and what he thinks is going on in this environment and why they are so much much attention being paid to what has been a futile year and a half of searching by investigators into collusion between the trump campaign and russia and an absolute dismissal

of all that was done under president obama. we are joined by retired lieutenant colonel tony schaefer a senior fellow for the london center for policy research. let's start tony if we may with these revelations. we now know, we knew john brennan was lying. we had every sense the clapper was lying. these men are lying as a matter of course and they have led two of the most important intelligence agencies in this country. why is there not a full on investigation and i'm talking about grand are injuries. i'm talking about going after these people to find out who the hell they think they are and whether or not this is the most corrupt government in american history. >> let's cut to the chase. this is all about vengeance. most of these folks are -- with hillary clinton.

this is the deep state trying to organize itself. first off they didn't say they would -- think they would be copied all all of the shenanigas that weathered about that of never been disclosed so fortunately for us we have president trump who first off has identified the fact that he was indeed wiretapped and under the greatest possible terms surveilled and now we are learning about the scope of it. to your point about what to do i have been in consultation with a number of folks behind the scenes on this and there are some key issues that i don't think mr. comey, mr. mueller are aware of regarding some of the mistakes made in the past really on their watch. i think there are issues that need to be looked at by a new investigative team to examine their own wrongdoing. some of this goes back as far as the 9/11 attempt so we have got to be very much aware that these

folks have a deep history going back to that timeframe, the late 90s. they worked together through the entire timeframe and now what you see is essentially bitterness in the form of organized bureaucratic investigations, trying to make mr. trump's presidency a failure. i think it should be put back on them. lou: the subversion of the trump administration is obvious. it's transparent to the point as you say these folks never dreamed that would either case but the greater issue to me now is how close our intelligence agencies and this is deeply disturbing. it rises beyond a permanent government the deep state whatever you want to call it and goes to a government as president trump said himself as a candidate. it's rigged and this is rigged

against the president, a duly elected government that is being aided and abetted a donor class and the establishment of both parties in the leadership particularly of the republican party particularly on capitol hill. this is an organized attack of a sitting president. >> let me link something that your audience may be as a noted. one of the reasons we had so many foreign-policy failures is because president obama and then rhodes, susan rice they all turned the power of our intelligence collection system on us, on the american people on political rivals so that is what you are seeing here. to your point the corruption goes deep. we are talking about jim clapper who i continue to believe is -- because he will do whatever he is told. john brennan.

lou: did you work for jim clapper? >> i did work for jim clapper and when he was the director of the cia i was overseeing the clandestine intelligence program. i had to brief him on several programs at lou i'm telling you i was with the jake tonight briefed the man. unless someone is holding his hand feeding him information please been so successful in the role he played in the obama administration. he would do what he was told and he could care less as we have seen. he lied to the american people. lou: so did john brennan and susan rice. all of them. this was an organized administration intent on working against the national interest of the united states. there is no other rationale for what we have witnessed.

>> we are organized to go after then that's the next step by the president. lou: i would hope urgently so. lieutenant colonel tony schaefer good to have you with us. we are coming right back. a lot more ahead and not all of it is pleasant but we hope you will stay us nonetheless. we will be right back. special counsel robert mueller unchecked, out-of-control and now he is even interviewing his own boss. >> they have phony witchhunts going against me. they have everything going in you know what? all we do is win. lou: next will take up the never-ending witch hunt against president trump don't let dust and allergens get between you and life's beautiful moments. flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. it helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause symptoms. pills block one and 6 is greater than 1. flonase changes everything. when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night,

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lou: the special counsel has not exceeded its authority and just how corrupt are the leadership's of a number of our intelligence agencies? we are joined now by the president of the judicial watch and he is leading much of the charge wind out what happened in the obama administration and what some of these government agencies have been doing against the interest of the american people. tom good to have you here. >> k lou good to be with you.

lou: let's start with these revelations today the reporting that bob mueller the special counsel interviewed rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general who is his boss. he has oversight over mueller and the special counsel and get after an interview rosenstein doesn't recuse himself. mueller just moves ahead. what is going on here? >> mueller is investigating himself in my view because the firing of comey led to his appointment. comey's leaking of information led to his appointment and sessions recused himself almost immediately from anything of substance as it relates to this whole russia scandal and so we are faced with a constitutional mess over at the justice department where rosenstein is being interviewed by the guy he is supposed to be supervising in theory.

lou: but who he also appointed. >> right and the only reason he appointed him is because sessions recused himself so by rosenstein's own light he shouldn't be there either supervising mueller. let me say this i think the special counsel regulations and mueller's appointment are constitutionally suspect. mueller isn't really a u.s. attorney. he is not a u.s. attorney. he is not supervised on a day-to-day basis by rosenstein art anyone else at doj. at best he can be fired after-the-fact that he doesn't have to go to them for permission to issue a subpoena or. manafort's home for guns and things like that. lou: guns drawn. >> guns drawn. who does he work for? he doesn't work for the american people. he's an appointed bureaucrat who

has powers that i don't think he should be able to. lou: you may not think that an i may not think that and millions of americans can't think that because justice in america and the way this thing is proceeding. we have seen previous special counsels. this one has gone so far beyond his charter that it's stunning and the leadership of the senate senate, republican leadership of the senate, republican leadership of the house are not raising their hand in a moment to say we really need to have some discussion here about the way you're comporting yourself and the way you are moving ahead ahead. this has been under investigation as you well know, the so-called collusion for more than a year by the fbi and now for five months by the so-called special counsel. >> the american people have got to be wondering after watching clapper lying again, watching brandon's lies unfold before us what in the world is this

government, so call that was left behind by barack obama, how corrupt is it? >> well you know when you have the leader of the opposition, manafort close to president trump whether it are outside the campaign being surveilled by the obama administration you really have improper intervention in the elections. it goes back to his 2012. obama used the irs. robert mueller's at the i collaborated with the irs to figure out ways to prosecute various groups the irs is targeting. and in the successful effort to steal the election 2012. 2016 rolls around and you have got the fbi and doj protecting hillary clinton and targeting donald trump. in an unsuccessful effort to intervene in the election. mueller himself as a witness.

he interviewed for the job. he interviewed for the job. lou: i understand. what i don't understand is what can we do about it? these people are not just going to sit here and be rolled over again by a corrupt federal government. >> we need to make sure the officials who have the public trust and responsibility step up to the plate. lou: who would that be, tom? are they going to turn to the speaker of the house, senate majority leader? are you going to turn to the intelligence agencies, the law enforcement agency that is the fbi whose leaders are so corrupt that it is so disgusting, most americans can't even stomach the idea. >> i think it's sessions doesn't step up and i'm recuse himself in take control over this rogue special counsel investigation

the president should exercise his authority under the constitution to police the justice department and remove mr. mueller. lou: at this point he would be eaten alive by his own party. that really isn't a possibility for him in the near term. >> i don't know what else to do. he's a responsible official. sessions recused himself and maybe he will under recuse himself and do the right things but mueller is reported today to the white house everything and to the sun in terms of president trump's firing the general plan and mr. comey. the white house has been torn asunder by this investigation and its compromise from the beginning. lou: we have to go but what we are watching in my judgment is the establishment which owns both political party leadership, we are watching the establishment to use mueller for what he is used best and that is as a tool against the one person

person, the one person who can change the direction of what has been an increasing corruption in the federal government and that is the president of the united states and i think it's straightforward. tom is always great to have you here. keep up your continued great work. thanks so much. be sure to vote in our poll tonight to the question is do you believe special counsel mueller has now agreed to sleep exceeded the original mandate for his investigation? cast your vote on twitter @lou dobbs. we'd love to hear from you follow me on twitter @lou dobbs like and facebook and instagram @lou dobbs tonight. on wall street stocks closing mixed but posting records. the dow up order to point at a new record high the s&p up also at a record high. the nasdaq down five points. volume on the big port 3.5 billion shares. the fed announcing it will be unwinding is $4.5 trillion balance sheet in october.

the fed eyeing one more rate hike we are told by the chair this year. we hope they will follow the markets instead of the way they proceeded over the past two years. apple shares are down big after the company reported cellular connectivity problems with this latest i watch and amazon reportedly developing a lexa enabled smart classes. there's a combination. apparently forgetting the failure of google labs and listen to my reports three times a day coast-to-coast on the salem radio network. up next to the state of california has seemingly declared war on the chop administration and the national left-wing nut media but they just don't want to report about it. we will take care of that here tonight. we are coming right back. we are coming right back. stay with ♪ ♪ adapt supply chains based on trends, tweets and storms. and make adjustments on the fly. ♪ ♪

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important story unfolding on the left coast. it's becoming clear the government of california has organized much of its state government and legal resources for one purpose. to mount a campaign of harassment and obstruction against the trump administration. the campaign appears to be led by a cabal of left-wing politicos fronted by governor jerry brown. with the addition of kamala harris to the senate, bacerra was appointed attorney general. he's trying to block one of the president's signature campaign promises. namely, the border wall. but this isn't the first action the california a.g. has taken

against the it would house. he haas filed two dozen lawsuits and legal briefs against the trump administration. he doesn't have time to do much in state government, he has federal targets. daca, the travel ban, redistricting, and regulations on air quality and fuel standard to name just a few. the democratic legislature has passed 10 so-called resistance bills this session have been unsuccessful. they call for protection for dreamers and calling for the kren sewering of president trump -- of the censuring of president trump. all the while california looking to increase its influence in the 020 elect.

lawmakers passing a bill to move the presidential primary from june all the way up to march. california's efforts to this point demonstrate that california state officials elected and otherwise are so radicalized they are intent on pushing their agenda through and no one should doubt evident to push california toward secession will only strengthen, be strengthened by the left, and they may well have taken all but full control of the state government. our quotation of the evening from charles de gaulle sing politic is tooerious a matter to be lt to t pitician and also to be left to the media. gop leaders' l will it b eugh? >> obamacare is a daster, it's

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he served in three administrations. the dean himself. let's start with this talk of a new healthcare initiative that will result in glory days for the republican party. is it going to work? ed: you can wave the flag and say it's glory. but it's not repealing obamacare. it's making minor modifications and sending it back to the states. it's not saving taxpayers money long term. lou: it will keep much of the cost basis of obamacare and block grant to the states in graham-cassidy. why cannot ryan and mcconnell be straight? they are crooked to the bone. they can't talk straight, they can't be honest, they can't be forthright. ed: john mccain said the old

process has to be gone through. i have been around congress for 50 years, that's the way it's always been done and we got pretty good legislation. lou: they were promising the american people that. lying through their teeth. ed: you won't see the tax bill until it's ready to go. the whole premise of not showing you the tax bill is because people will fight elements of it. if you can't sell your program, it shouldn't be out there. the country will never be satisfied. the reality is again. lou: i hope voters, i hope american citizens will say this is still our country and you idiots get your acts together. >> it's festering more and more and to a certain extent trump should be leading that charge and i think he will more and

more. lou: we don't have the images of john kelly. ed: i have seen the pictures. lou: i hope our producers will remember to visualize some of the things we say here from time to time. the man sitting there with his palm slapped against his forehead. what was all of that? and why should any president put up with it? edare he shouldn't. what i have heard from sources inside who know kelly, he voted for hillary. so i don't think he basically is a trump supporter. lou: then what is the excuse for having the man there ringside at the general assembly for such an important speech? he's playing the fool. if he were in a drama class that could be extraordinarily rewarded. there he is. ed: he has to realize this is

the third photo shot they have taken of him looking disgusted. the chief of staff doesn't have to be up front in pictures. he could be behind the scenes. lou: why should the president put up with this? ed: the president needs to have a meeting with his top advisers and say how many of you voted for me and how many of you are 100% behind me. if you are not, basically leave. lou: can the president fire mueller who is on some sort of crusade. ed: mueller has moved beyond any -- he's -- manafort is not a good guy. i was surprised when trump hired him. he shouldn't be going back 10-15 years.

if this was a soviet persecution we would be all appalled by it. if you have something against manafort -- the idea is the president of the united states after he's been elected on a wiretap and no one in the government said mr. president you have to understand, we are basically going after manafort and you should know what's going on here. lou: ryan and mcconnell better understand something. the american people who voted for this president are not going to put up with him being messed with much longer. because it's reached egregiously disgusting and appalling levels it's uncome grath krattic and -- it's undemocratic and un-american. ed: at the end of the day he should not be distracted by all this mess. lou: robert mueller should be the focus of an investigation,

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lou: president trump praising loyal luther strange. senator mcconnell pac has he spent $9 million boosting the establishment candidate ahead of next week's senate primary runoff, roy moore. moore still leads by 8 points. joining me to talk about that senate battle in alabama. we are pleads to have with us tony perkins, the head of the family research council. you are backing roy moore. >> roy moore is a fighter. he's been a fighter. my third day at the helm at the family research council i was on the steps of the alabama supreme court where they were rolling out the ten commandments he

defended. i could say good things about roy moore and luther strange. this race is not about roy moore versus sleuther strange. this is the people versus an american senate that is broken, it has become the grave yard of all good things. we need to change the and roy moore is a fighter and i think he will change it. lou: mitch mcconnell wants to be the head grave digger. and it's strange. mitch mcconnell hasn't done a thing for president trump. why would a populist president put himself in a position opposing the will of the republican party, the people of alabama? >> i'm not sure. i can't answer that for certain. i would think it's probably that luther strange responded in some way to the white house to do something. maybe it waltz first go-round on the repeal of obamacare.

but donald trump is a man of his word and if he commits to something he will do it. lou: let me be clear about something too. tony perkins supports the president. as he just said he likes luther strange as well as roy moore. you have made the choice based on values and what you perceive to be the best interest of the folks of alabama as they have independent dated their votes. where do we go mere? no dancing on this. right now you have got a contest between the establishment, a man who sold out to the establishment lock, stock and barrel. that's mitch mcconnell. you are in a contest with the president of the united states. and where does it go? >> you have roy moore who has shown he's willing to shake things up and stands for the constitution thing he cares about. he's a fighter. you look at what happened in the senate.

the house repeals obamacare. they repeal dodd-frank, they send it 0 the senate, it dies. lou: you don't have to remind any member of our audience what a necessary mitch mcconnell is. >> that's why this race is so important. i think roy moore will not be part of the problem. lou: will he win it? >> he has a good chance. never under estimate him. i believe he has a very, very good shot at winning this race. even though the president on this particular case is on the wrong side, in my opinion. lou: tony perkins, head of the family research council. president trump striking back at crooked hillary's criticisms of his u.n. speech. we'll be right back. ♪

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>> i to lapse feeling? 90% of you say yes. i'll start with pol mollie. let's get to it. hillary clinton is this woman okay? polpoll polli wouldn't say she s shown healthy introspection. lou: charlie, you are a quick judgment on this. i can't imagine why she is doing what she is doing.

charlie: i don't know if she is more crazy than she was when she ran. but whatever it is, i hope she keeps doing it because it's terry pike for conservatives and the republican party, and i think for donald trump. any time she gets into it with the president, he comes away winning. the democrats will do anything to get her to stop talking. lou: the president of the united states against california. can you believe california is spending the time and money trying to frustrate the president? >> as a former residents of the state it's not a surprise. immigration is one of those areas explicitly laid out in the

constitution as a power for the federal government. so they might have more trouble resisting in that regard than they would like. lou: resisting. we are watching a state simply implode. out there today attorney general jeff sessions trying to explain to the governor and persuade him not to sign a sanctuary state bill. what do you think are the odds? charlie: i think a lot like the situation with hillary clinton. this resist movement i think is great for donald trump. there are a lot of people sitting at home whether it's the protests at berkeley or this other man sense they are seeing and they are shake their heads saying i can't wait for the next election so i can vote for this guy. there is no doubt where people come down on the sanctuary city

issue it's an 80-20 issue. lou: do you believe all of these folks in california and around the country in the resistance movement, do you think one of them understands their candidate hillary clinton's husband never got 50% of the vote in two elections? in his first election had a lower percentage of the popular vote than president trump won in 2016. this ignorance on parade across the entire country on the part of the democrats and the left-wing resistance. mollie: i can understand some people on the left having trouble accepting what happened. the media made it seem like there was no way in the world done around could win the presidency.

i can understand if it took them a few days or a few weeks to come to terms of reality. we are in late september. it's beyond the time when people need to grow up, accept reality, learn to deal with the fact someone they wanted didn't win the election and someone they didn't want did. lou: john kelly face palming at the united nations. historic, i think the strongest speech i think i ever heard a president give. and he's pulling this nonsense with his body language. i don't know if it was in response to the speech. but he has to know the cameras are on him. they are watching him at all the events. he needs to be careful with his body language because it didn't help his boss. maybe it doesn't matter with the people who matter most of. but it's unseemly.

lou: i can't get to it. we'll take up -- we'll take up obamacare the next time we meet, mollie, charlie. thank you for joining us be beto great minds that it's great to have -- he's next. lou: good evening everybody. the strongest hurricane to hit harder rico in nearly a century has knocked out power to all 3.5 million people who live on the islands. hurricane maria made landfall this morning as a category 4 storm. high winds and flooding taking downed power lines over the entire island. just two weeks after puerto rico escaped with what was only a glancing blow from hurricane irma. as of right now tropical storm force winds are still reaching over the islands as the governor has imposed a curfew trying to deter looters