concealed carry. can you hear the channels clicking when i say that? charlie: if we have very much. now here's lou dobbs good evening, tensions e corrupting between president trump and his attorney general jeff sessions. president trump today excoriated sessions on twitter saying it's disgraceful that his attorney general decided to rely on an obama era inspector general to investigate obama era fisa court abuses by the fbi and department of justice also tonight, a major departure from the trump white house, one of the president's longest serving and most trusted aides, hope hicks today announced her resignation as communications director. no specific date set for hicks

departure. we'll have much more tonight on her resignation and its likely effect on the president's senior staff. and today, president trump taking the lead on the issue of school security and the safety of students and teachers. president trump called a large group of both democratic and republican lawmaker to the white house to discuss the issues and to find areas of agreement that could pass congress and the senate. >> we have to do something about it. we have to act. we can't wait and play games and nothing gets done. we're determined to turn our grief into action. i really believe that. i think that the people at this table want it. lou: and two of our with guests tonight are leading republican congressmen who have been instrumental in exposing the deep state obama era corruption and collusion. congressman ron desantis with us and chris farrell of judicial

watch, fred flights joins us as well to discuss obama and clinton corruption. and the washington time's charlie hurt joins me to discuss the white house staffing moves and why the left wing national media has so much trouble saying the words communist dictator when referring to china ice president xi jinping our top story tonight, president trump slamming attorney general jeff sessions for using the inspector general to investigate what are obvious abuses of the fisa courts and the politically motivated surveillance by the obama, fbi and department of justice. president trump tweeted this, asking why is ag jeff sessions asking the inspector general to investigate potentially ma sie e abuse. isn't the ig an obama guy?

why not use justice department lawyers. disgraceful. sessions responded to the president's criticism, passive agreesessive ambiguity. the attorney general issued this statement, saying, quote, we have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary, as long as i am the attorney general i will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner, according to the law and constitution. our first guest tonight has called for ag session to step down. he's one of 13 congressmen who today sent a letter to sessions demanding a second special counsel to investigate the fisa court abuses and seeking answers all 13 congres congressmen as ty

hillary clinton's investigation ended and the trump-russia probe began. joining us tonight, congressman jim jordan, a member of the oversight committee and also a member of the influential house freedom caucus. good to have you with us, congressman. >> good to see you. lou: it's great to see you. let's start with jeff sessions. >> yeah. lou: you called for his resignation. he issues a statement in response to the president's criticism. your reaction to both. >> everybody single day becomes more and more obvious we need a second special counsel. that's why we called for it again today. it's obviously i don't like special counsels but you have to have one to get -- jeff sessions doesn't know where his recusal starts and stops. robert mueller is inherently compromised i think with his background with the fbi, looking into all of this. so you have to name a second special counsel. what i would suggest is pick

someone from outside the swamp, a retired judge from oklahoma, iowa, somewhere, have them come in and do an investigation the way it should be done. and when that happens there's a much better chance that whatever conclusions he or she reaches the american people will accept those conclusions. lou: the issue of a second special counsel when this one has created so much turmoil and at the very least conflict, not only between the president, of course, and the republican party and the democrats, but this thing is upside down. it makes no sense. and one would, i think, would have to at least consider what a mess this first special counsel is before appointing a second. >> yeah. well i think the second special counsel could look at all of this. but mostly focus in on the dossier. we had congressman schiff's memo come out and i think all it did was reinforce and buttress the republican memo from a few weeks ago. lou: i think you're exactly

right. >> they said, well -- congressman schiff said well the fbi was already looking into christopher steele, they didn't need the dossier. why did you get the warrant before hand. why did you wait until you had the dossier and why did you lead with the dossier on the application to the fisa court. every argument that they raised really didn't in any way refute what we had says about this dossier was the key reason they were able to go to the court and get a parent to spy on an american associated with the trump campaign and it should not work that way. lou: let me ask you this. you have called for sessions resignation, the president is obviously beside himself, infuriated with the man that he appointed, who is defying him and defying reason itself. sessions is not even making sense. in talking about honor and integrity and discharging his duties, there should be no question about honor and integrity. he has a responsibility and a duty and the only way he can

maintain integrity is to fulfill that duty. >> yeah. i don't know why they don't investigate what took place at the fisa court. when you go to the court you're supposed to present the whole truth. what they took to the court was this dossier all dressed up like it was legitimate intelligence. we know it wasn't. they took it to the court, got a warrant to spy on a fellow american. they didn't tell the court who paid for it. when you read the paragraph where the democrats say well yeah they did, talk about source one, person two. the most convoluted way. they didn't clearly tell the court who paid for the dossier, namely the clinton came pane and the democratic national committee. and they didn't tell them that they had discontinued their relationship with christopher steele because he violated a fundamental principle. he went to the press and told them he was working with the fbi. the fbi didn't discloses that to the court but continued to use his work product, this lo dossi.

if jeff sessions doesn't want to investigate this, at least name a special counsel that we've called for so we can get to the bottom of it. lou: it's extraordinary. the clock is where you knowing out. chairman devin nunes of the house intelligence committee demanding answers from the three principle leaders of the obama intelligence apparatus. what's going to happen here? >> well, devin has been tough on this and i appreciate the work of the chairman. he said ten question questions like when did you get the dossier, who did you share it with, who did you get it from, did you talk to the press, who did you talk to, ten important questions to two dozen people, most of nem i them in the obama administration, most of them at the fbi, so those ten questions and the answers is due this friday. and devin said if you don't give me the answers, we're going to subpoena you and that's exactly

the way it should work. if they're not going to comply and give us the answers that the american people are entitled to when something this fundamental, a dossier was taken, a campaign opposition research document was taken to a court to get a secret warrant to spy on an american citizen and you're not going to give us answers on how that happened. you deserve a subpoena. that's what we're waiting on friday. what kind of answers we get and people who don't send the answers back, chairman nunes is going to issue subpoenas. lou: congressman, great to have you with us. we'll be back with much much more. the deep state is getting a little, well, aroused. we'll tell you about that when we come back with much more. stay with us president trump blasting attorney general sessions' decision to use the inspector general to investigate fisa court abuse. judicial watch's chris farrell joins us tonight to talk about session' decision to use the ig

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and special counsel mueller's never ending probe. a trial date has been set for september 17th. of course mueller's case against manafort alleges no wrongdoing by president trump or any collusion between his campaign and his administration and the kremlin. joining us tonight is chris farrell. great to see you. let's start with first the appointment by president obama of jeff sessions. i think it obviously, it frustrates him greatly, his performance. but that tweet today in which he went after his attorney general for using an inspector general to probe what seemed to me at least to be obvious abuses of the fisa courts by the obama, fbi and doj has him seeing red. who is right here? >> the president is.

look, these are grave national security crimes with respect to fisa but also constitutional rights that are violated by folks who are targeted under this phonied up attempt to use the foreign intelligence surveillance act to go after a trump campaign transition and administration people. this is serious stuff. and frankly, you know, most inspectors general really are the department of coverups for whatever agency that they work for. that's a sad saimen sad statemet factually correct. lou: it fits the swamp. >> the ig office is where bad news goes to day. it's unfortunate but true. mr. horowitz has been in front of the you dish committee in the senate, senator grassley. and senator grassley held a set of hearings called "all means

all. a peculiar title. but what was happening is the department of justice inspector general was complaining that when the fbi was being investigated by the dojig, they refused to turn over records and documents. lou: why do they get away with this? think about it. when you go through all of the committee investigations, the justice department has told congress in its appropriate oversight role in each instance go to hell in a fact. and we're watching the same process now. michael wh horowitz, we were supposed to have his report two months ago and then it was march and now we approach march and who knows what's going to happen. why does the department of justice get an easy pass to delay and then utter -- to utterly ignore oversight by

congress? >> and there's two parts to this. horowitz ha is already under oah on the record to senator grassley saying that the fbi basically tells him drop dead. so he's already admitted that he cannot actually fulfill or act on his job. part two is within the inspector general's office, there are operatives who are really first-class coverup artists. i know this first hand from my work covering corruption in the fbi in el paso. an assistant inspector general deliberately sat on and suppressed an information. i'm not guessing at this. i have first-hand experience dealing with these pem pep and i'm telling you anybody who is excepting the inspector general to come out with some devastating report, they're delusional. it's not going to happen. lou: not going to happen. and one gets the feeling that so much is not going to happen under attorney general sessions. what is the president to do

here? he has a recalls trent, to be kind, attorney general who is refusing to invest his integrity and honor as he called it today in the performance of his duties. he's talking about -- it's almost a statist kind of view of his job, which is to preside. he's supposed to be leading the department of justice. >> well, you know, going to the other extreme, you've got the eric holder school of being the attorney general where you basically cover up the criminality of the president, particularly in regard to fast and furious where obama invoked the executive privilege. but with respect to mr. sessions, when the president is tweeting the way that he is, one would think he would get the message. lou: well he obviously has not. and more disturbing, he sounds like a man who is probably not likely to get many messages from

many quarters other than those who are in his immediate proximity and that is a very dangerous complex to contemplate. thank you so much be sure to vote in the poll tonight. do you believe the dems are more concerned with rolling back american's second amendment rights than addressing the fundamental issues that lead to violence in our schools? we'd like to hear from you, cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. on wall street tonight, stocks move lower. the dow plunging 381 points. the s&p down 30. the nasdaq fell 57. volume on the big board, more than 4 billion shares traded, 4.1. and the dow and s&p posting the worst month in two years, both losing 4%. the nasdaq posted losses of 2%

in february. ge shares continue to fall down another 3% today. the embattled company nominating three new board members. it's now facing an sec investigation. and grand standing from the ceo of dick's sporting goods said the store will stop selling assault rifles. the company made the same announcement in 2012 the weapons were available in 23 field and stream stores. the ceo grand standing, pounding his chest saying he'll take whatever the backlash is and hold his ground. what a positive contribution to our society made by the grand standing ceo who apparently doesn't understand the issues of mental illness, security in schools and what our society must do with those who are so deeply troubled emotionally and mentally in our school systems a reminder, listen to my

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lou: president obama not only ignored russian meddling in the 2016 election, he ignored his own cyberspace defense strategy published in may of 2011. it reads in part, quote, when warranted the united states will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would do any other threat to our country. all states possess an inherent right to self-defense and we recognize that certain hostile

acts could compel actions under the commitments that we have with our military treaty partners. excuse me. and yet president obama sat on his hands while the russians waged cyber warfare on our electoral process. joining us tonight, fred fleitz, senior vice president at the center for security policy, former chief of staff to ambassador john bolton. great to have you here. >> let me say, i was so glad you are back. the swamp was running amok during our absence. lou: let's turn to the obama administration which is squarely in focus and should be the target of special counsel investigation, not this administration. we know that there's about seven years of total combined investigation of this administration and the charges of collusion with the russians. no evidence found whatsoever. we have more evidence of obama

collusion, clinton collusion and corruption, and we have no invest ga toirry focus on them. how can that be? >> i think that's a big issue here but weless have to keep in mind that barack obama's policy was across the board. he mishandled syria. but what was obama's national security priority? climate change, lou. climate change. he mishandled everything and we're suffering for it now. lou: the conscious ignorance of the president and his administration made. i'm worried about the corruption and the collusion that is staring everyone -- you're a former cia analyst. what in the world would be your conclusion when the president says that he will be flexible, tell vladimir, here we go,

here's uranium one, here is everything that we can provide you. i mean, come on. and we're watching a pay to play corrupt enterprise like the clinton foundation and people are ignoring it and our deep state, that is the fbi, department of justice, cia, dni, you name it, involved in those decisions. >> i think that's exactly right. i mean if president trump had said what president obama said to that russian official, all hell would break lose. there are so many instances of collusion with foreign entity and countries involving the clinton corporation. i think there could would be no end of allegations and charges filed except we're not getting the investigation. lou: what's it going to take? >> this is something the justice department has to look into. i disagree with congressman

jordan. i don't like special counsel. i think they get out of control. lou: he says he doesn't either but he doesn't see another option and neither do i. >> i tell you, when i see what's hamming -- lou: manafort, attorney general who refuses and adamant as hell about going after on yous expansive swamp filled with clinton and obama corruption. >> i mean, that's right. one problem with these agencies is you have to have someone at the top who cleans house, whether it's the state department, justice, the cia and we -- lou: we haven't gotten into the state department yet, fred. think about what we're going to unearth there. >> it's so bad there, lou. so many vacant positions, so many obama holdovers undermining the president's policies every day. it's so disheartening. lou: what is this president to do? what are are we the american people to do?

we have a group of people in the justice department and the fbi leadership, i mean these are not people who are -- i don't know who's paying their salaries but it shouldn't be the american taxpayer because they're not working either in the american interest or according to american values. >> i think in all of these departments there has to be a house cleaning. i think that has to start at justice. but with the national security counsel and the state department, defense department, i think there has to be a vetting process to choose nominees. so when people are proposed to president trump who might be bush administration holdovers, really aren't going to be better than obama people -- lou: think about that in the state department. you have a choice of holdovers. you've got obama holdovers, bush holdovers. president trump ran on the principle, amongst others, of smart government instead of stupid government that spends $6 trillion on wars that refuses

to win, that spends $20 trillion and no one can find out what we did with it other than ship it to china. i mean, this is, this is time for smart government but i've got to tell you, the issues -- the iq test here is severe. >> for judicial nominees there's a great process to vet them to get real conservatives. to get people in national security jobs there should be a vetting process of trusted people. and i would have people like john ballton, frank gaffney, the head of the hudson institute. let's get real conservative leaders, vet people for state department posts, defense department posts, ambassadorships and let's do this quickly. lou: quickly is now a relative term. we're 13 months into the presidency. >> yes, i know. lou: -- of donald trump and now quick means urgently, i think. >> immediately. it has to be done immediately. lou: fred, as always great to

see you. thank you. we're coming right back. much more straight ahead. not all of it pleasant but all of it important. stay with us. president trump taking the lead in the effort to keep our students safe. >> we can do that with an executive order. i'm going to write the bump stock, essentially write it out so you won't have to worry about bump stock. shortly that will be gone. >> we take up the president's proposals to protect our schools with congressman ron desantis and this blue angel pilot teasing spectators with a sample of what might be in store for them at the upcoming air show. we'll show you his astonishing stunt here next. we'll be right hello. - hi. how's it going? - alright, how ya doing? - welcome! so, this is the all-new chevy traverse. what do ya think? this looks better than 99% of the suvs out there. it's very modern... sleek. maybe the most impressive part of the all-new traverse... is what's on the inside. surprise!

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lou: a big legal victory for the trump administration in a 5-3 decision, the supreme court ruling yesterday immigrants facing deportation can be held indefinitely without receiving bail hearings even if they have permanent legal status or seeking asylum. another supreme court victory for the president president trump pressing lawmakers to make real progress on protecting americans from mass shootings. he invited a bipartisan group of ten senators and seven congressmen to the white house to meet with him. the president took time to listen to as many ideas and proposals but said any plan should give people the ability to defend themselves. >> we want to pass something

great. and to me something great has to be where you stop it from happening. i want a very strong counter punch. because if you have a strong counter punch, they're not going in and you're not going to have this problem anymore. lou: joining us tonight, congressman ron desantis, a member of a number of important committee including foreign affairs, judiciary oversight. great to see you here. let me start first on the issue of gun control. i haven't heard a lot of discussion about mental health. i haven't heard a lot of discussion about school administrators, counselors, teachers and their responsibilities to students who are emotionally and mentally disturbed or ill. and the role of law enforcement and their response to these threats when they do occur. it seems a little -- the whole thing to this point seems a little eat logicalllittle super.

>> if you look at this terrible incident, having this individual where the police are going to his house dozens of times, where people in the school, not only know he's got serious problems, obviously he gets kicked out of the school. but people are actually predicting he would do something like this. it was a total breakdown in the local community. and that sheriff down there, who i think should resign and then obviously some of the administrators. but this was a big dropped ball. and of course there was a federal role here because you actually had a very concrete tip phoned in to the federal bureau of investigation, not just that he was a problem or ds but that he was actually going to shoot up his school and the fbi tip line, they did not even forward that to the miami field office. and so to me the biggest failure

is that incompetence by both the fbi and by the local officials. lou: it's clear that there is a massive -- you talk about a breakdown, as you point out, the fbi is in the midst of a crisis. its leadership, it gives every appearance of being corrupt throughout its senior management. it gives every impression of being incompetent of report after report by the fbi is sought by the obama administration, those reports, only a handful of those reports ever saw the light of day and they were inconclusive and used as a shield to keep truth from the american public. >> and what about accountability? so the fbi put out, i thought that disastrous statement the friday after the shooting saying it was cloaked in the typical language of the bureaucracy about protocol was not followed, pass the buck. why haven't heads rolled.

why haven't people lost their jobs that's part of the problem. when you have bureaucracies where there's never any accountability, well, that makes things like these breakdowns more likely to happen. if people's jobs were on the line because of their performance, then these things would be less likely to fall through the cracks. lou: and christopher wray, the director of the fbi making it very clear saying clearly he believes that there's no problem at the fbi, that everything is just terrific, as if he has not paid attention to what is hamming in the firing of all of the -- many of the folks in senior leadership already. that process is well under way. and as if the leader of the department of justice, which the fbi is part, the attorney general is at odds with the president of the united states and acting as if the president is not a person who has a right to express his view about what should be done in the face of

threats to the integrity of the federal government, the national security apparatus. i mean it's mind-boggling what we're witnessing. >> think about what's happened over the last six or seven months. obviously the bombshell that the clintons and the dnc paid for this dossier, the fact that the dossier was so central, the fact that there were misrepresentations all the officials that have been demoted or moved out of the government, and an inspector general, given what we know, that is not adequate. they don't have prosecutorial authority. they're going to take forever and a day. and these individuals, it will be a report, whether it's recommendations -- there's a time and a place for ig informations but what we need right now, given what we know, is we need a special counsel assigned and the attorney general should pull the trigger on that and say we can really have someone focused on the malfeasance that occurred. lou: given what we know about the attorney general sessions,

he seems loathe to do anything in a proactive certainly spirited manner in leading the justice department. do you think there is any chance in the world that he will actually do something affirmatively? >> you know, lou, i would say when i'm back in florida, i would say that's probably the number one frustration that a lot of voters have, particularly a lot of supporters of the president, is that they don't think there's been enough zeal in the justice department. and particularly with trying to deal with all of the problems that happened in the previous administration. and so it has been a constant source of frustration. we have a number of members, a huge critical mass now who are laying out the need for a special counsel. think about all of the things that need to be investigated. you have false statements by christopher steele, false statements by comey, comey leaking the memos with classified information, you have peter strzok and how he was

handling the 302s, the fbi documents, how they were interacting with congress. there is way more reason to do a special counsel in this case -- lou: they're lying. >> exactly. and for the trump-russia collusion, remember when that special counsel was assigned, bob mueller, they didn't identify the alleged crime that was alleged to have occurred. and all of the investigation and indictments, nothing has had anything to do with collusion which is supposed to be the run reason for the case. lou: congressman, we're glad that you are on the case. we appreciate it. thanks for being with us tonight. >> welcome back, lou. lou: thank you very much. good to see you. roll the video now and we'll show you first some spectators down there. oh. that was a little close, wasn't it? they got a close and personal look at a hornet strike fighter in california. i believe that's called an f-18 hornet. a blue angels pilot performing a low takeoff as he prepares for

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lou: president trump leading on the issue of what to do about securing our schools and assuring the safety of our students. the president called a bipartisan group of house and senate lawmaker to the white house to find out what they can agree on. the lawmakers making it clear they're not well-informed about fundamental issues and that as usual they're being reactionary rather than thoughtful. there are exceptions. but for the most part they're too willing to ignore real causes and the complex issues that underlie all of this. none of the lawmakers seem to have read a recent study by north eastern university. it shows our schools are much safer now than 20 years ago. let me repeat. much safer now than 20 years ago. professor james fox found that four times the number of children were killed in schools

in the early '90s than today. more children die each year from pool drownings or bicycling accidents. so why can't lawmakers focus on the plight of our schools that are first of all in most cases too large to manage at all that ignore deeply disturbed children who desperately need help who administrators and teachers and counsels are afraid to act in the interest of the students or the security of their classmates and the school. on average the ratio of high school students to counselors is 500 to 1. the cdc reports that one in five in this country's youth experience a mental disorder in any given year. and approximately 80% of those children who do don't receive treatment. think about that. 80% of them. the number of students enrolled in alternative schools has grown over the last 15 years to approximately a half million

kids. and nearly half of those schools that serve primarily those who have disciplinary and academic problems have a graduation rate under 50%. so are students being sent to those schools to, well, to help them or to assure the graduation rate for the schools that send them. so while democrats and republicans may focus on assault rifle limits and bans and they'll have their debate, they are ignoring the profound threats to our youth, our students and public schools. and the problems there are so wide spread and so horrendous often and always readily ignored. we can almost understand why so many of our politicians are attracted to reflective simple solution to the ugliest problems that seem to worsen by the day and now threaten to overwhelm not only our youth and our schools but our society.

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lou: joining us, washington times opinion editor, charlie hurt. let's start with gun control and the president running a bipartisan group through the center ring at the white house. and look to appear all the better for it. charlie: he's not about to see this debate. he'll be the ringleader of it all. the lawmakers in there have never seen a guy in politics who is willing to speak off the cuff and talk openly about this stuff. a lot of the things he's talking about fright be and worry me, i

don't want to raise the age that is required for somebody to buy a long gun. but the fact that he's willing to have the conversation shows incredible respect to the american people. all these politicians are freaking. you can't have an honest conversation in public. this is terrible for the democracy. they are all running around like their hair is on fire. lou: various members of the house and senate. but at the same time, the president making it clear, he put the nra on notice, who knew that the nra was going to be on notice again. and at the same time, steve scalise struck me as the most of thoughtful member of that entire group. he said this, we need to act. but the only thing worse than doing nothing is doing something that doesn't achief intended

result. he went into a thoughtful expo significance about mental health and what congress had done and not done, and what needs to be done. these problems are so onerous it will be a long conversation. the bump stock the president will dismiss with an executive order, that's terrific, that enables as you know, a rapid-fire machine gun effect from a semiautomatic weapon. but the rest will be complicated. charlie: as a gun owner who cherishes his second amendment right, steve scalise getting shot by a crazed left-wing huge particular. there is probably nobody in washington who thought about this as deeply and sincerely as scalise. his point that you remarked on

is exactly right. the worst thing you can do is to pass some stupid pointless legislation just to make you look good and score political points. that's all any of these people around here have ever done. so, but, i do think that while the president is sort of open to everything, it's incumbent upon republicans like steve scalise. you have to sell this argument to this president because he's not exactly in your owner. i think that's a good thing and it makes everybody work harder. lou: i cherish my hunting rifles and shotguns, but i know one thing, the president is going to

talk honestly, i'm frankly for concealed carry. can you hear the channels clicking when i say that? charlie: if we have learned anything in the last weeks, the government cannot always protect you. kennedy: the argument over gun control is exploding in the business world. president trump lashing out at his own attorney general over government spying. who wins there? put on your swimsuits. time to dive in. the mob is gathering and gaining steam as fearful corporations nervously react to the florida shooting by taking a stand and making changes. big companies know they must get on top of stories.