concessions. charles: thank you very much. here's lou. [♪] lou: good evening, our top stories. the republican leaders of the house intelligence committee demanding answers from the department of justice about an obama administration spy inside the trump 2016 campaign. it appears the department of justice tried to hide the existence of the mole from congressional investigators. congressman matt gaetz joins us. president trump fulfilling the promises of three presidents, as well as his own. opening the u.s. embassy in

jerusalem. pastor robert jeffress led the prayers at the opening of the he bassy after mitt romney decided to start a holy war of his own on twitter. also tonight, there is every reason to be concerned globalists, corporatists and establishment elites have overtaken the trump white house at precisely the moment when the president should be ebb snowing his historic accomplishments. we'll discuss with gop political strategist ed rollins, congressman matt gaetz, the political disaster that may befall the republican party divided between the

unprecedented success of the trump party and the global and establishment he. our top story, a constitutional conflict between congress and the justice department is intensifying. nearing a crisis. the outcome depend on whether justice will accede to the comessal mandate that gives congress authority over the justice department. at issue, disturbing reports of the obama administration's infiltration of the trump campaign. did the obama presidency place a spy in the trump campaign?

trey gowdy negotiating for the justice department to turn over documents relating to that source. the investigator helped author the committee's membership oh documenting rod

rosenstein is refusing to release the memo that details the scope of the investigation. our first guest tonight joining to discuss the systemic corruption weren't justice department and the fbi, and the boiling political cauldron. congressman matt gaetz. your thoughts on what's happening right now. it all seems to be moving to a boil right now in watch washington, whether it's in the house or white house. >> i never would have believed we would be getting reports of human intelligence being collected on a rival presidential campaign. i never would have believed we would have department justice officials attacking a staff member who has worked so hard

with our office and many other offices to expose the crimes of the deep state. but i never would have thought that cash at the democratic national committee would be converted into a warrant to spy on american citizens. we live in these rare and unuse times when they believe the people answer to them rather than the other way around. lou: answer they will come this fall. but paul ryan doesn't seem to be concerned. the conference allowed ryan to resign the speak -- the speakership but hold great sway over the coming election. >> we need to be stronger in making demand. if we don't and we lose the house because we have not shown

sufficient oversight. the democrats will start demanding documents. and if the documents don't show up, they will start the impeachment proceedings. we have engaged in pro tacted negotiation over what we have a constitutional duty to do. that's demand answers from the executive branch. lou: the ineffective speaker who cannot drive an ajean today or prepare the conference for the mid-term elections. >> we have members concerned over the increased democratic intensity we have seen. but we have been successful in make something of our key arguments to the public. today 53% of americans according to cbs believe mueller's probe is politically motivated.

lou: as much as i would like to give you credit for that, it's president trump attacking fake news. >> we are always encouraging them to be more supportive our efforts. members of come have been -- members of congress have been conducting these investigations. comey fired, andrew mccabe, fired. seater strong demoted and -- peter strzok reassigned. his girlfriend gone. institutionally the congress has to be stronger, otherwise nancy pelosi will get the speaker gavel. lou: we give on this broadcast to devin nunes the hero's position in the an pantheon.

then is has been outstanding. but paul ryan has not stood tall. he has not stood loudly in support of this president or against the department of justice and the fbi. he's weak-kneed. he's a trembling figure in the twilight of his tenure as speaker. how much can the republican party stand from this man? we hear there is a discharge petition in which he is basically trying to make it look as though he has been carried across the finish line to amnesty which has been his goal for years and years and years without a quid pro quo. the dischannel petition says we are going to take a vote on everybody's immigration bill. the conservatives have the goodlatte immigration bill that end chain migration and build

the wall. all the things we care about. and takes care of daca. the democrats can have their proposals. but you know what i'm sick of? i'm sick of not taking votes. i'm sick of debating immigration and talking about it but not doing anything about it. lou: i'm more concerned about delivering for the american people. right now daca is amnesty. and daca amnesty without quid pro quo. the goodlatte bill, goodlatte has been absent in and absentia. we have a president at the threshold of securing every major policy victory. and it looks as those globalist

forces are circling and moving in to suppress what should be a moment of exhilarating victory for this president and for the nation. >> it should be. if we were 10% as a congress as this president was, we would have done so much more to advance his agenda. alone the president has reduced illegal border crossing by 40%. if we would do the things he's asking for, i believe it's a solvable problem. the democrats want you to believe you can't solve it and we can. lou: again, the threat against america first is his policies, his doctrine is all too real tonight, and we appreciate you being here. matt gaetz. up next, the trump administration softening its positions on sanctions for a chinese phone maker.

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lou: a dozen google employees do not want to be contributing to

the national security of the country. a dozen google employees resigning over a contract with the pentagon. they are using artificial intelligence to help the pentagon sort information imaged by drones. the united states placed stuff sanctions against zte because it defied sanctions against iran and north korea. it's been banned from selling its phones on military bases because they are judged to pose security threats and removed from u.s. bases for sale. joining us is refired four star general jack keane. general, good to have you with us. let's start with the

complications of north korea, china, the use the, iran all coming around one entity called zte. one of the largest phone makers in china. the reversal was stunning as the president talked about saving jobs in china. >> it was stunning. i think the criticism is a little premature. i believe what's happening here. the president has thrown this into the negotiations in what we consider is you be fair trade practices by china, and we know they have been stealing our intellectual property. the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the planet. tomorrow coming to the united states in d.c. will be the vice

premiere of china to be principally involved with secretary mnuchin and others involved in negotiations they were degree last week in china and will be doing now in the united states. we should wait to get the final outcome of what's going to happen here. lou: i have been waiting for an outcome for some time with the election of donald trump. the what it is over. this is a deeply disturbing reversal and quick one. in the relationship between xi and the president, particularly when there is a national security threat and absolute defines and breach of our sanctions with two terrorist-sponsoring states, iran and north korea. >> i totally agree with everything you just said. but i don't think the playbook

is over yet. this is the beginning. we don't know what is is taking place, nor should we. at the end of it when these negotiations are finished we'll see if the president was able to achieve his objective or not and what he had to do to get us there. >> i have every faith in that prospect. it's what i mow that disturbs me, not what i don't know. that would only add to the counter weight, if you will. as we look at iran, we have to look at this in terms of real politics. there has to be a reason iran and north korea were the targets of this breach by zte just as there has to be a reason that china, the united states and north korea are aligning on the issue of denuclearization of the korean peninsula. there are some who think that

is -- has created a propitious moment. and the testing by the north koreans has resulted in abject disaster for korea and china. >> north korea and iran are kissing cousins, for sure. the iranians have been present during the testing and that's one of the reasons we want to denuclearize north korea. we know they will proliferate those weapons to radical islamists. that's a major issue for us. as to china's role in north korea. i just came back from the far east japan. their foreign ministry does believe a potential breakthrough is coming on north korea and

denuclearizing the peninsula. they attribute that to one word only. trump. they believe the on reason we are having this is because of the president's hard line with the north koreans and the chinese. and the real threat of military action. and i also think pulling out of the iranian nuclear deal, not permitting them to have a nuclear weapon that that deal would do is so consistent with what the president is doing in north korea. they will give us their nuclear weapons or we'll take them from them one way or the other. that's what we are coming down to. lou: with north korea, we know their testing site has been decimated. we don't know the degree of the damage. it may be ongoing. there is room for inference that north korean testing site has

imploded. that it is going to require extraordinary sums of capital and technology which frankly only the united states and perhaps russia possess to be employed to deal with that disaster. your thoughts on what role it might have played in aligning the interest of china, north korea and the united states. >> if we are going to have there is break through as the evidence seems to be suggesting. china had a pivotal role. the 19-party congress that just ended a few months ago when president xi was put in power indefinitely. when you read what their ambitions are to dominate the pacific and replace the united states as a global power. i think that's they stepped up. they recognize that the president was serious and they know they have to do something

about north korea themselves anyway. lou: general jack keane, as always, good to have you with us. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you believe the corrupt leadership of the department of justice will provoke a constitutional crisis by refusing to accept oversight at the department and fbi. follow me on twitter @loudobbs. like me on facebook and follow me on instagram. up next, president trump's former campaign manager joining team pence. what's going on? the latest political maneuvers. stay with us. we'll be right back.

lou: first lady melania trump undergoing kidney surgery at walter reed medical center.

her office describing the procedure as benign, saying the procedure went very well. the president visiting her at the hospital earlier today. growing white house criticism surrounding homeland security chief kirstjen nielsen. many saying she is a never trumper. she is trying apparently to undermine the immigration agenda so goes the fake news. president trump reportedly criticized her enough for not doing enough to secure our southern border. former trump staffer and campaign manager corey lewandowski getting back into the campaign mode joining mike pence's great america pac. he'll be stumping for gop candidates ahead of the mid-terms.

idaho, nebraska, oregon and pennsylvania heading to the polls. joining us now, the dean himself, ed rollins, great to see you. let's start with corey lewandowski joining the pence office, if you will. ed: what i can't understand why the vice president has a better political operation than the president. there was one operation and i don't think the vice president should have a political pac. corey lewandowski is a well-known trump guy. this should be the president's program. this needs to be like a parliamentary election.

the people who support trump are the ones he should be supporting. lou: president's people need to be conscious of it because sometimes it becomes a process that leads to a result. and it's not helpful to even have an appearance of a divide. how long did it tak take the vie president to say the mueller witch hunt needs to end. ed: he's part of the president's team, and the president and his team need to be running the elections in 2018 and 2020. lou: but we don't see that level of coordination we would expect. speaker ryan has been absent throughout this contest between

the special counsel and the president. why in the world will he and mitch mcconnell, there is no good reason other than horrible spite and terrible political judgment for them not to be supporting the president and ending the special counsel. ed: it's been a year now. get it wrapped up because it's been a terrible distraction. 018 will be a critical year for the president's party and you can't be running around worrying about leaked stories and no charges, just rumors and innuendos. lou: why is the conference putting up with paul ryan resigning the speakership and letting him stay in office as the leader of the house republican conference and at the same time going into mid-term elections where they will face

an outright slaughter? ed: the odds are great against them. they need to be like a parliamentary. you talk about the president, the president's programs, what each individual can do to help the district. and i think to a certain extent, the withdrawal -- discharge petition. lou: they want daca amnesty. paul ryan wants to pose as if it's being pushed on him to invite these daca amnesty bills without a quid pro quo of any kind. ed: if you have a majority which we have, you need to drive your agenda. unfortunately his agenda is not the president's agenda. this discharge petition allows the democrats to bring their bills to the floor. lou: and the republicans sell

out and go with the democrats. it's very clever, shallow and transparent. sorry, speaker ryan. but you are being transparent. it's absurd. and there is a dynamic that seemingly neither the white house or house of representatives or the senate want to takes note of. a populist president driving an america first doctrine in every day. make america great again against a speaker and majority leader and conferences that are owned lock, stock and barrel by the business round table and wall street. >> it's like he's running a coalition government. if nancy pelosi is speaker it won't be a coalition government. it will be hard driven democrats with their agenda.

lou: there are a lot of soft bellies. ed: they need to get fearful of this election. they are confident and they should not. lou: this contest between trump populism and the elite globalist establishment is represented by the leaders of the republican senate and house. the republican voters and independent voters need to tell them all to go to hell. >> that's what's going to happen. we'll wake up the day after the election and say gee, what happened? lou: coming up next, an historic day in the holyland thanks to president trump. >> i believe father i speak for every one one of us when i say we thank you every day that you have given us a president who boldly stand on the right side

of history, but more importantly stand on the right side of you, oh god, when it comes to israel. lou: we take up the opening of the new embassy in jerusalem

lou: mitt romney who has been vocal in his criticism of trump fired off an unexpected even

shocking bolt of romney vitriol toward robert jeffress. he tweeted this. robert jeffress says you can't be saved by being a jew and more mannism is a heresy from the pit of hell. such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the united states embassy in jerusalem. pass for jeffress endorsed candidate trump in 016 saying he and romney shared many of the same values. pastor robert jeffress, head of the first baptist church in dallas and i think it's fair to say, a great american. it was an impressive ceremony

and impressive prayer. suddenly mitt romney who you supported in 2012 comes after you like nobody's business. what's going on? >> he was upset with me because in the primaries i supported rick perry and not him. i'm not a bigot. many of those comments are manufactured or ripped out of context. the belief that jesus christ offers the way to heaven. the fact that people don't agree with that is fine, but it's wrong to call tens of millions of evangelical christians like me bigoted because we follow the words and way of jesus. it was sad that he would do this on such an historic day when we have so many positive things to celebrate. lou: let's turn to those.

i assume you are expecting an i polly from mitt romney forth with. >> i'm not waiting by my twitter, no, i'm not. lou: it's the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the state of israel as well as the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem. >> today we saw history being made, and it was being made by president donald j. trump. he had the courage to do what in other president in history was able to do or willing to do in moving this embassy, standing by our most of reliable ally in the middle east. i cannot walk down the streets of jerusalem without being stopped by people who see me on lou dobbs in the and saying thank you for standing with

president trump. the israelis love this president. they love evangelical christians and love america for standing with them. this is a great day for israel, america and the entire world. lou: this is a president who didn't just make a promise, he delivered on that promise, which is his custom. he deserves great respect for that. at this time just the power of that special relationship between israel and the united states assures much more the middle east itself. good to see you, my friend. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. the question is, do you believe the corrupt leadership of the department of justice will ultimately provoke a constitutional crisis by

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the subject of trump this weekend. it sounds like somebody is putting out a strategy memorandum to all late-night television hosts and all of the dimm and left-wing operatives who probably don't was they have done, which is basically weaken the dimm's chances come the mid-terms. up next. president considering a deal with chinese phone maker zte despite their violation of u.s. sanctions against north korea and iran. what's going on with the chinese. what's that about? liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that.

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life vest after in world war ii. let's start with our op-edin "the hill" where you focus on what the russians and chinese are doing with the president reversing course to try to deal i guess with a broader issue, we'll see, but nonetheless, a firm that has done business with iran and north korea both despite u.s. sanctions. your thoughts first of all about the role of russia and china, look at the world's greatest economy and the largest the president has been reminding people by twice the size of the next economy, namely that of china. >> if you look at a lot of the technological advancements happening in russia and china they are the direct result of

intellectual theft our property. but china has bee been insidious about how they do that. and i have been lobbying to keep these companies out of our broadband network. so this has been a plot for a long time. you try to do business in china as an american company, it's nearly impossible unless you have a chinese partner who has access to your r & d. see how many businesses are still in business in china that have gone that route. lou: suddenly zte there is the prospect of reversing severe penalties as there should have

been for defying u.s. law and u.s. sanctions against known sponsors of terrorism. the optics of this are looking horrible for the trump administration. >> zte did nobody any good when they sold this technology to iran. iran is ideologically one of our biggest threats. they attacked us through cyber attacks. you ought to see what iran is up to. maybe north korea will come around because of what's going on. make no mistake. with the size and power zte and huawei * have. wait until they are in your network and you have got no place to go but china for your equipment. lou: the u.s. is trying $suggest

they are buying lot of parts from u.s. companies for the finished product. but it's the finished product where the power to be a national security threat rests. >> i'll tell you, lou, for a long time the strategy has been -- i have been at cisco when huawei * was taken to court. they stole every bit of the technology for routers. they are going to take this over one bite at a time it in aligns with their efforts to control the interest nets and cyberspace. do they want control of all domain. sea, land, air and cyberspace. they will stop ating into get there. lou: the south chain today sea

we are talk about 40% of the world's shipping. the national security issues loom large here. but the larger issue with national security is the economy itself. we have simply as you have said, opened ourselves up to the theft of intellectual property to actual -- to all sorts of technological secrets and developments. we estimate -- estimates run as high as $600 billion a year. over 3,000 front companies. i'm talking about intelligence companies owned and operated by the chinese operating in the united states. >> some of these places including institutions are taking money. they are getting subsidized and they are look the other x and that's the wrong way to handle

our national security. they are not going to invade us with military. they will invade us with money and buy stuff. that's why qualcomm was turned down. that's why a lot of these companies are being turned down. even though it took the military years to kick huawei * and zte off their bases. pretty soon you think there is something there when it gets turned down this many times. the larger issue is the president is trying to denuclearize the korean peninsula and build a relationship with president xi when there is a clear-cut national security issue it's one if we avert our eyes it could result in utter disaster for the united states. >> these are folks selling

sensitive technology and help something of our biggest people killing american soldiers in syria, iraq and saudi arain. so that's just -- if you want to send a message, this is the message. they ought to make the chinese come begging to us for a change to get back in business. lou: this president is on the verge of success on nearly every policy front on which he embarked solely created these initiatives. the america first doctrine. putting straightforwardly all americans their prosperity he

asniewrd his election. this will create a extraordinary diminishment of prosperity if not i ai -- >> if you get access to their i.p. and research and development? wow you want fair trait trade, have their rules. we have been fighting fair for too long. this is a chance for president trump to stand firm and say no to china and make china pay. why are we giving them a free pass? lou: that's a good yes question.

>> zte did do some inappropriate things. they've admitted to factor the question is are there alternative remedies and that's the area will be exploring very, very probably. gerri: the u.s. and china reportedly close to a trade deal that would keep zte and business in exchange for dropping tariffs on billions of dollars of u.s. farm products. train to the dow rising for the eighth straight session on developments higher by 58

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