thanks for keeping it here. fox business. we appreciate it. [♪] lou: good evening. new evidence of corruption at the highest levels of the obama justice department and fbi. two sources tell fox news that disgraced and demoted fbi agent peter strzok was told that a hostile actor breached hillary clinton's server during the 2016 campaign, but then covered it all up for the obama administration. that's the same peter strzok who helped fired fbi director james comey draft a memorandum exonerating hillary clinton of wrongdoing weeks before she was interviewed by the fbi, despite overwhelming evidence and a probe that was far from

complete. also tonight here, special counsel robert mueller, mueller's pack of partisan investigators widening their inquiries beyond all reason. they are exploring now the trump campaign's connections to the united arab emirates and possible business dealing. the special counsel has gone 10 months without producing any evidence of collusion while the house and senate untell jones and judiciary committees have done no better. the same is true of the house oversight committee. they all produced exactly nothing. absolutely no evidence of any kind of collusion. yet speaker ryan panama joart leader mcconnell lacked the integrity to insist the mueller witch hunt be concluded. instead they allow mueller to continue wasting taxpayer resources and dollars to aid the

dems and the left in their efforts to obstruct and subvert the rsh and his administration. for president trump's part he's pressing ahead with punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum despite all the praying of the democrats and the republican establishment and of course the national left-wing media last week. and our president is forced to take on almost single handedly the congressional republican establishment and the gop leadership on capitol hill who have been bought and paid for by the business round table and the chamber of commerce. we'll take all of that up here tonight. our guest tonight two congressmen calling for a second special counsel to investigate corruption and fisa abuses. also tonight, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and byron york to take up the never-ending

mueller witch hunt. and we'll take up the deep state's attacks on president trump with leading political analyst ed roll hundreds and michael goodwin. rising calls for attorney general jeff sessions to appoint a second special counsel to investigate fbi corruption specifically. president trump tweet being the matter saying this. why did the obama administration start an investigation into the trump campaign with zero proof of wrongdoing long before the election in november? wanted to discredit so crooked h would win. unprecedented. bigger than water:gate. plus obama did nothing about russian meddling. tonight more evidence of fbi corruption. sources tell fox fuse fbi agent peter strzok was told about the irregularity in the hillary clinton server.

strzok did absolutely nothing and resisted a formal damage assessment after classified information passed through the clinton server. my next guest is one of 13 republican representatives who signed on to a letter for jeff sessions to appointed that second special counsel to investigate clinton and obama corruption. congressman lee zeldin, let's start with the prospects for a second special counsel focused on the obama justice department and fbi. >> it's absolutely necessary. you can't expect the doj and fbi to investigate themselves. while president obama and his family were being investigated for winning the election without any evidence that they committed any crimes to win the election. you have all sorts of evidence there was misconduct at the

highest levels of the doj fbi with regards to how and why the clinton probe ended and all the fisa abuse that took place when you are bringing those secret documents to a secret court for a warrant to spy on a u.s. citizen. there is evidence of misconduct from the obama doj-fbi, that's what should be investigated. you couldn't expect the doj and fbi to investigate themselves. a special counsel has to be -- to be appointed. lou: an argument that a second counsel seems to be double our problems. i found myself wondering how in the world it is that a special counsel in and of itself is a constitutional institution that should be preserved. to me it seems utterly to put our constitution on its head and

frustrate a sitting president and his administration who have far better things to do than to deal with a special counsel on a whip hunt that has produced nothing and persists and widens his inquiries inex applicationably and beyond all reason. >> it's important to note that for win the is hard to manage the department of justice and fbi doing enough of the investigation for there to be not just transparency but full accountability with regards to misconduct from 2016, doing that on their own without appointing a special counsel. but comparing it to the mueller special counsel. that need to come to an end. lou: how will it happen? you would think mitch mcconnell, paul ryan would have the untechnology right and the interest of the nation at heart and would stand shoulder to

shoulder with the president and say enough is enough. it is time to end this madness. it's a farce being played out before the american people who are watching a congress that seems congressional leadership, and i'm talking about the republican establishment here. your bosses, they seem utterly contemptuous of the american people, the constitution, and this president. >> my bosses are not here in washington. my wife, my two kid and my 725,000 constituents back home are the ones i report to. i took an oath to our constitution. there are different sources of what i'm beholding to and it's not anything here in washington. lou: if you defy speaker ryan i am sure you will nonetheless have some interesting committee

assignments. do i infer correctly? >> i am here to represent my district. i love my country. i'm here for all the reasons. lou: the speaker of the house is also elected by you and 434 other folks. so why don't we get to the point. you have a leadership that's owned lock, stock and barrel by the chamber of commerce. the business round table, the gop establishment. what in the world are we to do. you are obviously frustrated by it. why not get together with the leader shup and say what in the world are you going to do? >> everyone including the white house identified the best possible scenario would be for the mueller investigation to end because they have been providing tens of thousands of documents. they have been cooperating.

they had all these different depositions that have taken place. the president himself said that he's willing to speak with mueller. so there has been full transparency. lou: i hope it comes to that. i wouldn't trust robert mueller as far as i could throw him. would you? >> the president has said or and over again there is no collusion. i'm not aware of any collusion. lou: then what is this about? what kind of farce goes on this long in public view without response from the leadership of the republican party on capitol hill and the senate and the house saying enough. you are subverting a president of the united states. >> that's where we are at. that's what has to happen right now. the best case scenario is for it to end not because there is anything to hide, but -- lou: you don't even have to say that.

innocent until proved guilty, even with the special counsel and the man hasn't produced an iota of evidence. >> where they went after michael flynn, you mentioned peter strzok earlier. this is the same peter strzok who interviewed michael flynn. when michael flynn end up getting in trouble. the underlying activity is the obama administration was trying to get a security crown ask kril resolution passed through the u.n. to cleanse judeo-christian jerusalem. michael flynn was talking to these other countries advocating for them to do the right thing not just for america, but for our allies in israel. lou: the untell jones community at large is corrupt. and i think we agree on this,

and i commend you for calling for a special counsel even though i'm not sure that's progress in this matter. to look into that corruption and malfeasance. congressman lee zeldin, thank you for leading on these issues. we appreciate you being with us tonight. president trump standing firm on tariffs to help american workers keep their jobs. president trump: we are not backing down. mexico -- we had a very bad deal with mexico and canada. for many years nafta has brand-new a disaster. lou: mueller's phoney probe expand together middle east despite no evidence of collusion. we'll pam anyone the mueller witch hunt here next.

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prime minister of israel at the white house. it's the first meeting since the united states announced it's moving its embassy to jerusalem. president trump: over 25 years nobody could get past jerusalem. we have taken it off the table. this gives us an opportunity to peace. we'll see how it works out, the palestinians i think are want to go come back to the table. lou: joining us tonight, ed rollins political director under president trump ronald reagan. "new york post" michael goodwin and ed rollins. let's celebrate your return to the air. what do you think of this idea, congressman zeldin talking about it. talking about the special counsel. what do you make of the recommendation? >> part of me likes the idea

because i think congressional probes are slow and erratic, particularly in the senate. i don't think we can count on the justice department to investigate itself other fbi certainly. so that part of me leans toward wanting a special counsel. but the point you were making once you start them, you can't stop them. who would appoint this person. i am torn, and at this point i would say let's wait and see what the inspector general comes up with. it should be shortly temperature then there might be a stronger case. lou: do you have any faith that inspector general will produce something? >> i do. i think he'll find irregularities in the fbi and the justice department. why do we keep talking about they are going to find irregularities? it's staring us in the face it's

strzok, lisa page, mccabe, comey. why do we need an investigation to see what's in front of us. ed: i would argue another special counsel would go nowhere. there is 23 cases the attorney general says they are investigating of felonious leaks out of the former government. i would argue that's what they should bring forth. if they open that up and instead of investigating start convicting. that's all the guys who were basically there. you are not going to get hillary. lou: whoa, whoa. based on what we know now. if there is no investigation of hillary clinton, the clinton foundation, her email servers, the conduct of that secretary of state in office, my god, what country are we? ed: i agree with all that.

but we talked about this for six months or a year. nothing has moved forward and i don't think republicans are going to take this up. lou: then they should be held accountable. >> i think there is a lot of interest among trump voters for a resolution of all these issues. as for horowitz, the inspector general of the justice department web's the one who did produce the strzok and page texts and told us about mccabe indirectly. he's the one who came up with them. the fbi said we don't have them. he did i think disprove the fbi's claim. i think the report will come soon. if it does have strong things, then there could be a strong argument for a special counsel to focus on these particular things. lou: we get an inspector general

report, and we get an inspector general reported. it's overdue now, by the way, by several months. so what is the point of the exercise. to put more understood the rug? >> the fact that 13 republicans signed on asking for the special counsel tells me there is not a lot of support among republicans. >> when you look at robert mueller's face every night, you don't want two of those meeting you every night. >> there is an elephant in the room we are not talking about. jeff sessions is the hobbled attorney general. all of this is a workaround of jeff sessions. lou: you think he's that high energy? there is a bigger elephant in the room and that's the republican party. you have got paul ryan babbling

the president of the united states for countries dumping their steel and aluminum the united states and running trade deficits every year since 1975. he try to the do the rational thing in the national interests and is greeted by paul ryan's opposition. what kind of nonsense is that? ed: he ought to call their bluff. they can pass something reduce his powers. but he can veto it and they don't have the votes to override his veto. but it's my sense there is some waffling going on on the white house's part. the house can do what it wants to do. but he's got to have a war with these guys. lou: he's acknowledging there is

a trade war with the european union and china. he needs to go to war with ryan and mcconnell who are telling him and his administration and his policies all to go to hell. michael: all the smart people who say a trade war will be bad. what is the answer for the working class in this country who have seen their jobs disappear. if tariff isn't the issue, what is the answer? no wins has come up with one. lou: do you think the business round table and the chamber of commerce and the republican party want to answer that question? ed: they want to have a fight so they can charge more fees. k street wants this battle. they love to have there is battle. lou: they want everyone to do with ryan and mcconnell do,

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lou: judicial watch now suing the justice department for records related to bruce orr, his wife nelly and their involvement in the anti-trump phony dossier. bruce o, wh orr who has since bn

demoted was a close contact for former british spy christopher steele who compiled the dossier, well not on behalf of fusion gps because shez was paid a lot of money to do so. nelly was employed by fusion to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on president trump. cultivation. you like that. i mean, everybody is out there for fire to smear. joining me now, fox news analyst greg jarrett. judicial watch now suing the justice department. >> it's about time. there are several villains in the whole trump-russia hoax. and then of course nelly orr was in on it providing research and her husband at the department of justice meeting secretly with simpson and steele and they're all meeting with reporters

trying to get them to trash trump before the election. it's about time that nelly orr and bruce orr and others have to answer for all of that by providing documents and testimony. lou: i don't suppose the special counsel looking for collusion, having found none, will pivot and look at the corruption of the hillary clinton era within the obama administration, the obama politicization if you will and weaponizing of executive branches including the doj and fbi. >> no. it appears as though mueller assembled a team of people to get trump and nothing else will be a distraction. lou: give me your best judgment. what is the best way to shut down that moronic episode in the special counsel? >> you said it yourself. defund them. members of congress ought to vote to pull the financial rug out from underneath the special

counsel, but that would require a backbone on the part of paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. lou: they've already sold out to the business establishment, the business round table. these two men should be standing up for their party. they're going into the midterm elections which historically are devastating to the party holding the white house. this president has the opportunity to reverse that and make significant gains. they're just simply saying the hell with the republican party. they're rhinos through and through. >> and you've got an attorney general who is not really the ag, jeff sessions pretends to be but is being run by other people, most notely rod rosenstein. and if he had the ability and the courage to do the right thing, he would pull the rug on mueller saying you've had ten months, i'll give you two more months. your central assignment written

in paper is to find evidence of trump-russian collusion you haven't found it in ten movants, three different congressional committees in a year and a half haven't, enough a enough lou: and i think we're well there. the likelihood of that happening is zero so long as sessions is attorney general, mcconnell is senate majority leader and paul ryan is the speaker. the republican party is simply -- it looks like it's impleasing. >imploding. >> well it's lost except for donald trump. and you know, his move here on tariffs is a courageous move. lou: a brilliant move, too. >> a courageous one and i think he can pull it off, too. lou: i think he has. and i love the idea of these swags as i call them in the business press talking about the market is down last week because of the president's tariffs. and then today we're watching a 1% move, 337 points on the dow.

i mean the national left wing media, whether in business press or whether they be the political press are just absolutely ludicrous to watch. entertaining on occasion. >> they're going crazy today on this guy sam nun berg who is a peripheral player in the trump campaign and has had a meltdown on the television and the elite liberal media ran wild with that one. lou: you won't hear of that guy nunberg much more in this broadcast. we're coming right back. much more. stay with us. gop lawmakers demanding a second special counsel. we'll talk with one of the 13 congressmen calling for a fair independent investigation of clinton-obama corruption and collusion. as for this daredevil, this

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lou: my next guest is among those who have called for a second special counsel to investigate fbi corruption. joining us tonight is republican congressman fran say francis ro. great to have you with us,

congressman. the prospects -- as i've talked with a number of folks in congress, i understand the frustration and i don't have the best answer. but i really wonder if the special counsel, when we watch what is happening with robert mueller, if that is the answer here, to find out more about what's going on in the fbi. >> well, special counsel can do a lot of things that the ig can't do. and if you get the right special counsel, someone who has a knife in their teeth wanting to root out the partisan criminality that we see on all fronts of hillary clinton and the fbi and the doj, we might get something done here. lou: i think that's right. if the name were to spring to mind, i'd be more comfortable. but it doesn't to my mind. is there someone that does spring to your mind? >> i'm a business guy so i don't know a whole lot of lawyers. lou: you're bragging. >> rhond ron desantis, well-knon

prosecutors that have accomplished a lot for your country. lou: ron desantis is extremely talented and would make a terrific special counsel. we're in pretty good shape on that. now we just have to convince ron desantis who i think would prefer to be governor of the state of florida. let's talk about what we're seeing here right know and that's a special counsel that's operating frankly without a relevant portfolio. he's supposed to be investigating collusion and mueller is simply just going out on witch hunts and fishing expeditions, widening a probe that's produced absolutely no evidence that would support the mission that he was employed to find, that is collusion with russia. >> exactly. i think it's highly unfortunate that a person of such a

distinguished career and reputation would have set up this investigation to be so laden with democrats, so partisan and so, as you say, out in the wilderness instead of focused on the mission. all of the time and money that has been spent hasn't proved any collusion at all. lou: and we're watching now a battle shaping up between speaker ryan, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader and the president on the issue of tarifftariffs, for crying out l. ryan has found another way to embarrass himself and the republican party opposing this president. what do you make of it and what do you think will unfold? >> well, i don't know. the thing that i would like to see the tariffs focus on first and foremost is china. i think they're one of the biggest problems that we face in the world right now. and whether aluminum and steel are the best one to go after china or electronics and other kinds of things. but we have huge trade deficits

all over the world and it's a problem. the president is right to be concerned about it but we don't want to unravel supply chains that make america competitive either. lou: those supply chains are the making of u.s. multinationals though, not u.s. policy. u.s. policy has followed the dictate of k street, the business round table, the chamber of commerce. meanwhile we haven't run a trade surplus in this country since 1975, congressman. this president should be saluted by everyone for putting those tariffs on saying, we're done with free trade that means it's going to cost us in american workers and working men and women and small business people fortunes. >> you make a real good point about small business and suppliers to these companies. and i think that's a very important thing. and you know, there's no such thing as really free trade. lou: no there sure hasn't been. >> i think we've got to have a

balance of how much trade deficit is reasonable and how much is, as you say, two prejudicial to our internal capacity. lou: let my give you a suggestion of how much i think is acceptable. 43 years of trade deficits by the world's strongest economy, consecutive years of trade deficits is just a monument to the power of k street, the chamber of commerce, the business round table and u.s. multinationals. and it is really, really past time that we put the american citizen, who is more than a taxpayer and a consumer and a worker, as you know, first and foremost and thank god we've got a president with the principle and the guts and the intelligence to do just that. and it's fun to watch everybody squirm, as he does the right thing. congressman, you get the last word. >> thank you for having me on and thank you for continuing to bring visibility to this horrendous out in the wilderness

investigation. i think we should find out how much money mueller spent and how many trees he cut down to accomplish so little. lou: great to have you with us. as always. >> thank you. lou: roll the video now. two thrill seekers combining extreme sports high up in italy's mountains one walking a tight rope between two peaks. which one do you think is safer? i'm trying to think, wing suit or tight rope. that's what they call a hobson's choice. man. spectacular. but crazy? absolutely. our nightly video up next, the trump administration fighting back against the establishments, the elite and special interests who don't even know what the president means when he talks about the forgotten man and woman in this country. i'll have a few thoughts on swamp creatures in my commentary coming up next. stay with us.

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lou: well president trump's incense tense on imposing tariffs on imported aluminum and steel is economic policy long overcue. the perfect political decision as well and it's simple to judge just as correct president trump

is on all of this. just listen to all of the usual swamp creatures, the business establishment, k street, the business round table, all of these howling and snarling about the president's insistence that u.s. trading partners no longer exploit our markets but rather engage in fair, reciprocal balanced trade. the business round table and the chamber of commerce are particularly upset because while they've bought and owned leaders in both parties on capitol hill for decades, they can't buy president trump. that's why the establishment and the deep state are trying to obstruct and subvert mr. trump and his administration at every turn. one of the business establishments most expensive purchases is of course speaker paul ryan who once again is attacking president trump and these tariffs. helping to frustrate the president and the will of the american people. ryan is bought and fade for so

his motivation is clear, unlike his conscience. ryan make nos sense on nearly any issue and there is every reason to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum. the steel being dumpedded in this country is subsidized by governments, priced dramatically delow cost in those countries. and both steel and aluminum are strategic metals. the success of american producers and manufacturers is critical to the national security. ryan pure and simple isn't working in the national interest in this issue. in my opinion he should resign for that reason alone. ryan and his lot have the tamirty to argue with president trump. they have become objectionists. look at the new trump reality, morons, some of them in the business press tried to make a tase that the trump tariffs were misguided, that for three days last week the markets were falling because of the tariffs

and the likelihood of a trade war. now the markets today surged more than 1%. the dow rallied more than 300 points as the president warned he will not back down. the markets have added trillions of dollars in value since he was elected, consumer confidence at a 20-year high, weekly jobless claims just hit the lowest level since 1969. manufacturing is expanding at the fastest rate since 2004 and thanks to president trump's tax reform and tax cuts, americans' income after taxes saw the biggest gain in more than five years. this president has made it clear that he intends to put america first, to put american workers first, standing up to the establishment elites, multinationals and k street who have had their way for several decades now and at the expense of working men and woman, their families, small business and our middle class. president trump is fighting for

all of them and he is the first president to recognize that we've been in a trade war with communist china and the socialist european union for 30 years now. he's the first president to decide it is time that america fight back. now our quotation of the evening from president ronald reagan who said "the future doesn't belong to the faint hearted. it belongs to the brave ." up next, the partisan witch hunt that refuses to end. we take up the shocking expansion of the mueller investigation. byron york of the washington examiner joins us here next. stay with us. we're coming right back.

lou: joining us tonight, byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and fox business contributor. great to see you. tonight on this broadcast we focused on a frustrating robert mueller special counsel that continues to widen, expand. and as he does, the whole effort becomes were futile, it seems, in terms of his original mandate. meanwhile, we're looking at hillary clinton, the obama justice department and fbi with obvious corruption. and give us your sense if we will ever -- earlier tonight i was told that we will never

investigate hillary clinton's conduct. what do you think? >> well, we've seen growing calls from a lot of republicans on capitol hill for another special counsel. and republicans have traditionally not liked these special counsels very much because of exactly what we're seeing with the mueller case, because of mission creep. the fact that they go all over the place and they never end. but the feeling is, is that these, these -- this alleged misconduct by the fbi and the justice department and the whole fisa case, the dossier and all of that is so important, and the fact that the justice department cannot investigate itself means there should be a special counsel. they're trying on that front, not sure they're going to get there. lou: and devi devin nunes has bn essential to our public knowledge of what has happened and transpired in the obama

justice department, the obama fbi. when you say alleged, i can point to a half dozen instances that are on their face, criminal conduct on the part of the fbi and the department of justice. why is there this refusal to dig deeply into why the fbi refused to investigate on its face, having a private server in her home, on its face pay to play corruption on the part of the clinton foundation. >> well, you know, you're raising a question that republicans have not been able to answer, even though they control the house, they control the senate, now they control the white house. but they are looking forward to -- i know you're not a huge fan of inspector generals. lou: i am not. >> but they're looking forward to this inspector general's report that they're hoping to get and maybe at the end of this

month, maybe at the end of next month. and i think the reason they're looking forward to it is they hope it might be a kick starter to get a bigger investigation. an investigation with actual teeth going. but the fact is, there's a republican attorney general. there's a republican leader of the house. and of the senate and a republican president. and it has not happened. lou: isn't that stunning? and with now an open battle between ryan and the president on the issue of tariffs, despite the fact we haven't had a trade surplus in this country since 1975, we've lost trillions of dollars in economic growth because of these trade deficits. i mean, it's as if ryan and mcconnell mean to injury the republican party mortally as we approach the midterms. >> and you have to remember, let's just think about investigations. they are incredibly important.

because you talked about how much progress and work devin nunes has done about this. he is just one committee chairman. the house of representatives acting as a body can do many more powerful things than a single chairman can. but that has to have the support of the speaker of the house. staim witsame with the senate. if the senate majority leader is for something there's more oomph to it than if it's just a committee chairman. lou: and perhaps they could get together and say straigh straightforwardly and honestly, this is a special counsel whose time has gone and not appropriate any more money for the man and his fool's air rand -- bearrand -- the fools ae american people who put up with this nonsense. you get the last word real quick. >> they're terrified of doing that. you're talking about firing robert mueller or cutting off his money, they're absolutely

terrified of doing that and i think it would be a complete disaster if the president did it himself. lou: byron york, thanks for being with us. being with us. >> the biggest problem is china. we lost $500 billion. how previous presidents allow that to happen is disgraceful. but we're going to take care of it. lauren: breaking news this morning. president trump not backing down on his terror plan but there's growing opposition within his own party and that is fueling optimism among investors that the tariff might not go through. >> the dow surging 366 points yesterday. lauren: stock market futures higher overnight. dow up 72 and nasdaq futures gaining