candidates speaking against her. it is money. s: ultimate deal, thank you so much, it was a great show. now thank you atome here is lou dobbs. lou: good evening our top story, stuff fbi investigator testifying on capitol hill revealing deep state corruption of highest order inmates clinton cover-up, and obama administration spy operation d at not only subverting firsdonald trump as a presidential candidate, but then as president of the united states the latest evidence shows fbi counter intelligence agent and official peter strzok playing a larger role than understood to this point. and very much at center of the fbi political corruption scandal, remains lisa page. and the tens of thousands of

potentially explosive texts and e-mails, we take it up tonight, congressman ron desantos, chris ferrel will join us, also, busiest primary elect evening of the midterm cycle, and there is little talk of once might mighe ar.e, and rinos running the dean, ed rollins will join us with his take on the races. and their implications, also president trump with a counter play against the nfl again, making left wing owner of the philadelphia eagles wish he never tried to politicize a planned visit to the white house. >> we love our country. we respect our flag. and we always proudly stand for the national anthem, we always

will stand for the national anthem. lou: president trump honoring our country, and troops, while eaglefully players and feckless owner sought to huddle in their locker room. while their fans honor the anthem, flag and the nation. -- tonight, stunning revelation from fbi espionage cleave on capitol hilchief, oncapitol hild about fbi agent peter strzok and his part of clinton e-mail cover-up and spying on trump campaign. our correspondent catherine herridge with our report. reporter: fbi espionage chief, testifd for first time behind closed-doors for house investigators. former number two peter strzok was a essential player in

clinton e-mail probe and later removed from russia case for anti-trump bias. one republican said strzok appeared to be running the show. >> the text-messages we have, and e-mails that have been produced to oversight and judiciary committees. while that may have been a prestep call it was more peter strzok driven. reporter: he intervened the affair. >> he was a supervisor, i think he took the appropriate actions once h found out about the nature of the relationship. reporter: republicans want more information about alleged confidential human sourcing that contacted eads, and lawmaker pressed him on may 2016 trip to london, and whether it was connected to russia probe that strzok launched two months

later. >> i can't really speak to those. reporter: with james comby and others, are subject of long awai report to fbi handling of the clinton e-mails. waiting for report to drop, on twitter presint questioned, what is taking so long on crooked hillary and slippery james comey. hope report is not being changed. today, after 6 1/2 hour, a lawmaker describes the testimony as cooperative, and based on latest information so intelligence testimony and other records. it appears that strzok plad a more significant role than known clinton e-mail and russia investigations. a role that goes beyond text-messages and what they indicate. lou: thank you catherine herridge. >> first guest, furious over

counter intelligence powers used against opposition party presidential campaign, joining us congressman ronesantos. a member of a number of important committees, including oversight and government reform, foreign affairs and judiciary committee, he is also leading republican candidate for governor of the great state of florida. let's turn to what we have learned today from pre-- to degree you can chair that, and committeesn a closed-door hearing to hear his testimony, strzok is now been from the beginning, it seems, at epicenter of this, center absolutely of the scandal, at fbi, and the justice department, now it looks lik he played a larger role than anyone imagined. >> i tell you, there has been few people that -- have done so much damage to reputation of fbi

than this guy strzok. he changed language to careless, to get it out of the statute, and then he turned and after hillary exonerated and opens up a counter intelligenceinstigati. downer did not report any e-mails, he just said there was dirt on russia. he hated donald trump. this under scores problem that we've been talking about with

this investigation. >> do you have some insight. you have been among thosey who have been following this you know more because of but what beenable to read and hear, what was threat to these agents and department of just is, was it fear of being found out what they had done to cover-up for hillary clinton. your thoughts about their motivation, and reasoning they went to links to subvert a president? >> i think hillary was inside irswamp candidate, and people who are part of the permanent

threatal class here, people who are elected and also high busch creatic officials, i think they are more comfortable with hillary. donald trump is coming after this, he is like, a sledgehammer to the dc swamp. an outsider, i think they viewed him as someone that would up end the apple cart, they didn't' that, maybe some of the is ideological, but i think really ithe more of trump was an outsider up and end washington, and they did not want that. lou: disrupter again the establishment. deep state, i think ideology played some role. turn to that president today tweeting, about again. another delay from the inspector general. in that report disseminated, he tweeted, what is taking so long

with the inspector general's report on crooked hillary, and slip arey james -- slippery james comey, hope the report is not being changed and made weaker, your reaction? >> that and i think fear is that report gets presented to justice department, who has a period to review it there that been a problem with how rosenstein and folks at fbi handled congress' request for document, they redact a lot of things that have nothing to do with law enforcement sensitivity or national security, they redact the fact that andrew mccabe, they spent $700 on a table with tataxpayer money for the was on the, they aroffice,if that is gs

report. if they are trying to change it to lessen truth about how some high officials, behave, that is a big problem. if it a matter of being thorough, look, i wanted it yesterday, i wanted to three months ago, but we get a thorough report tomorrow or monday, it actually leads to referrals to comey on these people who colored outside of the lines, then i'll be find with that. lou: if you in congress and senate don't have energy, and spirit to march on the justice department, if there is redactions of a big number, if there is you know are altering as in this report. that important people have been --ations in this report that american people have been waiting for, 6 months and longer than we were told, we were told that inspector general is a man of integrity, but if this is

another white wash over the corruption of the fbi and the justice department, i mean, what in the world you are going to do? >> you are right, lou. congress will have to use some of its powers, whether that is the power of purse or power of this is not a it has been longer than 6 months this started january of 2017. so we're almost a year and a half into this. and that is part of the problem, when it takes this long, it is more difficult to hold people accountable. we need a clean report. if there are redactions we to take issue with that. lou: slow walking the oversight process, and public a right to

know. your leadership, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, my gosh. i can't understand why the republicans have not particularly in the house, you are putting up with it, it you tell us that? why do you put up with a lame duck speaker who will still be in office in january of 2018, that makes conference look. >> we're working to i think you ll have numbe of us go to speaker, and say, look, here is the documents we need, we need them to be declassified. president is willing to play ball with us on it but we need push from congress, and someone that will be willing to back that, to get american people the truth, in terms of how lesh thing, i don't understand the way it is going, you are right, i don't know they have a lame duck makes sense, but nevertheless, that is where we at now. i am trying to get all of this stuff, because like you said, lou, they want to run out the

clock. and if they are allowed to run out the clock. lou: they run into midterms you will pay price for it not them. >> i agree. lou: that is frustrating part of this. >> i agree. lou: why should paul ryancare? -- paul ryan care. >> if we put our foot on this, you do it because it right thing, our voters would respond positively, walk over hot coals to vote for republicans in november, we have it inure our hands to get the truth and set republicans up for a strong midterm election. lou: that all it takes is gr gut as you know and demonstrate every day, congressman ron desantos. >> thank you, lou. lou: bombshell new techs from peter strzok and lisa page, show

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question mark. the word -- referses to outside of continental united states, and lures, fbi redacted, refers fbi recruited spies. our next guest has first time experience running double agent operations while an army counter intelligence officer, joining us is director of investigations in presearch for judicial watch chris ferrel. this is striking stuff. this sort of lays out,n very form what they were about. >> it was a intellige operation, directed against then candidate trump. they applied all trade craft they could and avoided all regulatory requirement of executive order and deputy of department regulations, by

launching a double agent operation overseas. and in shorthand, the offensive counter intelligence operations, a double agent, that lure or lures plural. iit is plural, those are persons that are dangled out in front in h that you know, interested parties would take a then, fbi would reel them in and run them against the the trump campaign. so this is you know, deliberate. thought out, an effort to run or launch the operation. you note not investigation, another important word, counter intelligence operation is not constrained by same things as legal investigation or criminal investigation, this very, very serious stuff. lou: and there is a response

from lisa page to the -- did you get out of the lures approved, no, it is just implicated a bigger policy issue. explain later, might be able to use it as a pretext for a call. as we watch these two operate, it is pretty clear, they are operating in a very select circle. that they seem to think which clay centered upon them, certainly on peter strzok. what are we to take from this? >> we're talking that from very early on, in december 2015. there was a concerted effort by agencies of fbi to apply intelligence trade craft, and intelligence operations, to attack and undermine candidate trump, nowsident trump. it is indisputdisputable.

>> you can't go to ledges they have gone to with language they have, these are their own words, there communications, they were running an operation to president of united states they were seeking to have what is called undisclosed participation in a u.s. sensety in united states -- u.s. entity in united states, these are violation of the law, these are not gee someone had bad judgment, this tinse-- is intelligence trade c, steered against someone in an election. lou: as we can' as we conclude o be done about strzok. by congress by what now is before them, in closed hearings and some documents of the millions they have requested.

the congress has been stymied in the over site rule, there seems nowhere for to go. what are next steps as we see this is a significant operation that was designed specifically to under cut candidate. there . >> a level of criminality beyond the pale. the president needs to rip lid off this as every member of congress. any person involved in any oversight capacity, or any you know management position, whether it is president or attorney general, whoever has any influence, needs to make this public. this is such a grave abuse of power and authority, like nothing we've seen. this makes you know the nixon watergate burglary, look like keystone cop stuff, this is grave. public has a right to know.

should know soon as possible. all details about this. lou: chris ferrel, judicial watch thank you. >> thank you, lou. lou: vote in our poll tonight, do you think that department of justice and fbi's obvious inability to conclude any investigation is evidence of their political corruption and general incompetence? cast your vote on twitter. follow me on twitter. like me on facebook, follow h on insta tbram. instagram, up nt primary evening of the year, dems in we states are worried that blue wave will not appear, not, haven't a ripple -- not even a ripple, we take it up with the dean, ed rol rollins js me next. stay with us.

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lou: breaking news now. the "the new york times"

reporting facebook shared data with four chinese electronics companies, including one flagged as a u.s. national security threat. the times reports claiming that facebook had an agreement going back to 2010 and it remains in effect to this day. facebook officials say they'll end the deal sometime later this week. how generous of facebook, don't you think? senate majority leader mitch mcconnell canceled this year's august senate resays. saying dem obstruction the im passage of spending bills before the end of the fiscal year, dozens of the president's nominees for key administrationadministrations as remaining unconfirmed and apparently mitch mcconnell has taken notice of a year, almost a

year and a half into the president's term that he is not getting any cooperation from the democrats kelly sadler, the white housee who mocked senator mccain and then word was leaked out from house is out. this comes a month after her reportedly insensitive comments about mccain's health were leaked out of a closed door white house meeting. a senior administration official telling fox news her departure not related at least directly to the mccain incident, make of that what you will. and interestingly no word that the leader is leaving the white house which is somewhat disturhen you think about it. joining me, the dean himself, ed rollins and great america parke r pac chairman. kelly sadler, she goes and the leaker stays.

>> she goes. she was a very good operative, never a leaker, very quiet, worked behind the scenes. made an inappropriate remark at a private meeting, got it leaked but at the end of the day she should not have been fired or chased out of there. the leaker should have been driven out but they're not. lou: she told the president the biggest leak ner the white house is the head of communications, mercedes schlapp. >> she's still there and not been accused of anything. so at the end of the day if you want to clean up the leakers -- people know who they have and they need to get them out of lohy is the president so reluctant? >> i have no idea. but he pays a price for it every day. lou: it's a shame. let's turn, if we may, to the midterms and the primaries. we've got eig races tonight to be settled. >> big day today, alabama, california,ssippi, new jersey, new mexico and south

dakota, two races that will havr republicans running to take on tester, trump's number one target, montana, my pac endorsed mark rosendale as most of the conservatives have. it's a conservative race. and in california where the democrats have had seven or eight targets but they're kind of handicapped because of so many democrats running, they have a jungle primary, whi means the top two go. there's three or four seats they may have had a shot at but may not get anybody in the final, may get two republicans in the finals. t the end of the day, if there's two republicans run in the orange county seats, we'll do all right and we'll be on their way. lou: how about dane that rohrabacher. >> he's goa got a republican opponent. i would argue it's better to have the two republicans again in the race and i think that could very well happen.

lou: there's quite a turn of fate, that the republicans by focusing one or two folks may trump those mini candidates put forward by the- they're too greedsy. >> they're too greedy. obviously they're going to split the vote up. this was an idiotic process in which the top two get to run created by arnold schwarzenegger, destroyed the blican pty whe he was the republican governor. lou: i don't know how he ever got registeredded as a he is the funniest guy. and he was a lousy governor, a lousy candidate. >> and unfortunately may be the last republican elected statewide if we're not careful here. we don't have a serious candidate in either the senate race or the gubernatorial race although i hope we get john cox running if are the senate. lou: what are the odds for governor? >> i would say very slim.

very slim. lou: california, you may sleep well tonight. ed rollins, thanks so much. >> we're now in third place in california, the state i grew up in. none of the above republica party. lou: as ed rollins licks his wounds, we say thank you. tomorrow we'll look at the results. >> no lon the couf ronald reagan. lou: coming up next, getting america back to work. the country of donald trump. and american steel plant adding hundreds of jobs, all of that because of president trump's insistence on american jobs want american steel and oh, yeah, american tariffs. u.s. steel chief e officer david burw joins me here next. blp commitment to you.

lou: china trying to avoid trade accountability offering to buy as much as $70 billion of u.s. farm and energy products if only the trump administration would drop $50 billion in tariffs on chinese exports. the offer doesn't come anywhere near closing america's $375 billion trade deficit with china and the white house says it's still enacting the tariffs by mid june. president trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports bringing jobs back to america. case in point, u.s. steel corporation which today announced the planned reignition

of a second blast furnace at its plant in granite city, illinois. u.s. steel plans to hire another 300 employees after hiring 500 back in march. joining us tonight with is the ceo of u.s. steel, david burritt. great to have you with us. and this president is truly making a difference for you industry, isn't he? >> yes, he is. thank you very much, lou. we're delighted to be here and delighted to see that demand ha. so we're able to open up not just one blast furnace at granite city, illinois but two. and 800 people will head back to worknd we're putting them through the paces now and they're responding eption nallyy well. we're excited for our team and customers. so that we can provide mined,

melted and made in the usa steel. lou: your company, your trade style is iconic america. and to think what u.s. steel has gone through over the past several decades is extraordinary. and it has required donald trump to basically step up and say to the world, you're out of your minds. we have such trade imbalances across the world. he's the only voice in leadership in the world, in the western world talking about trade imbalances and restoring rationality to the international trading system and the left and, if you will, the establishment right, are just clucking like they're wailing, gnashing their teeth as if he is the one prescribing a destiny that should make every american shiver, instead of the testy that we'vdestinywe've been livi.

>> president trump does have it absolutely right. he needs to trust his instincts. the reality in steel, we've been in a trade war for over 30 years. like this to get people to thet table to have a discussion and actually force some resolution here. meanwhile, we're doing the right things for our workers here in the united states. and of course special thanks to commerce secretary ross and peter nav have been fighting the good fight every single way. but it's the president's leadership that's made the difference with 2-3-2. lou: it's amazing to think what this president was say in 2015 about american made, american jobs, and the fact that the united states has played chump for so long. most importants don't realize, we have not had a trade surplus in this country for over four decades. that's just irrational. and we've had both republicans

and democrats in that white house who have basically conspired against the working man and woman in this country, a middle class families, workers and middle class wages, as you well know, have beenropping, not rising, until this president took office. >> yeah, you're absolutely right. i think it hasn't been intentional by previous administrations but it's been the abconvenience of acumen, the ununderstanding of what's goingn here. what we want is a level playing field. you give us a level playing field and we can compete with anybody in the world. lou: and i can remember in the '70s when people were saying exactly that. and then the '80s they were saying that and then by the '90s it was too damn late, we thought. but it turns out 2016 we weren't too damn late. trump arrived on the scene just in time. and. >> that's absolutely true.

because, you know, this steel industry is vital to the national defense of this country and it's not just the military. it's building the roads and the bridges and taking care of our society. if you don't have a strong commodities industry, you really can't make things for manufacturing. and we know how these bad actors behave. some of them allies, that sically take the business away, jack up the prices and kill the industry and then jack up the prices. we know what game is being played and this president understands what game is being played and now we've got the customer demand comack to the good old usa and ourorkers e a part of this. lou: david burr et burritt, we'e delighted that you're with us and hope you'll come back soon to talk about the continued success of u.s. steel and this great country of ours. >> thank you. lou: up next, dems and rhinos are releaptless in their pursuit of amnesty for illegal

immigrants. why is that? the latest o the daca discharge petition in paul ryan's house of representatives, right flexion to k street, the koch brothers, wall street, the business round table. straight ahead all of that and more. we'll be right back. finally. hey ron! they're fina down

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house are just a handful of signatures from forcing a vote on amnesty for illegal immigrants. fox news chief con depression coent mike eel i the house, some gop moderates are trying to break up gridlock on immigration. two more democrats signing on today so organizers are three short of the 218 signatures needed to force o immigration bills june 25. as house republican leaders try to find a gop solution. >> we're very close on a couple of different fronts that reall boil down to how are we going to handle the daca recipients. >> president trump weighed in on immigration first thing this morning on twitt separating families at the border is a fault of bad legislation. border security laws should be changes but the dems can't get

their act together. attorney general jeff sessions issued this warning to those considering coming here illegally. >> we don't want to do this. te from their childreno be you're not given immunity. >> offering this advice to lawmakers. >> if you want to do a fix on daca, let's talk about illegal immigration and fix that so we don't have a daca every ten years. >> it as not clear that immigration would be brought up in august sen mcconnell is only interested in taking up a bill president trump would be willing to sign. but cutting the recess should have the effect of forcing cooperation oon and nominees. lou: thanks so much p threatening to veto any such legislation. mike emanuel, thank you. on wall street, stocked closed mix pd. the daw down 13 points, s&p up

two, volume on the big board 3.4 billion shares. the united states, the world's largest oil producer asking saudi arabia and opec to raise their oil production by a million barrels a day to help fight rising u.s. oil prices. think about that one. think about this one. we're one of the largest producer a we're asking opec to boost things up. i'd have to tell you a reminder, lis to re three times a dayoast to coast on the salem radio network. no eagles, no problem. president trump celebrates america after canceling the philadelphia eagles' white house visit. rebecca rose woodland and mark si me here n us. we'll be right back.

lou: the philadelphia eag and their owner tryin what the white house is calling a political stunt leading up to the team's white house visit. president trump turning the event on its head canceling their visit today and instead holding a celebration of america where he reminds of us of why all of those folks should be standing and singing the national anthem instead of, as he put it, huddling in t locker rooms. >> to honor our military and to honor our country and to remember the fallen heros who never made it

back home. we stand to show our love for our fellow citizens and our constitution. lou: well following the cancellation by the president, philadelphia's mayor, what a piece of work he is, jim kenny, called president trump a fragile egomaniac and not a true patriot. kenny apparently thinks he would recognize one if he saw one. joining us tonight, defense attorney rebecca rose woodland and wr talk show mk simone. great to have you both here. rebecca, let's start with you. what in the world is lurie thinking, the eagles. it's really unbecoming the city of philadelphia. >> it as not -- it's unbecoming of our country. they're taking a political stand. if they have an issue with the president, that is not the way to do it nor the mechanism. you have an issue, go and vote next time there's a presidential election.

you do not force a team, a group of people who won a super bowl, a city, a state that is so proud of their team to not have the celebration they're entitled to by playing games. it's not appropriate. lou: they're not entitled to if the president of the united stat s w hereot going to play your stupid games. >> because they play games. lou: this is remarkable. the nfl has just sort of saved itself, like roger goodell who i've criticized throughout for two years, actually doing a smart thing and then he's got this cute lurie, the owner, pulling this stunt with his football team. >> it's fascinating. these owners are billionaires, run a multibillionaire dollar business and they're totally intimidated by these dopey s. you're anmployee.you can protes, can't do anytime the business. lou: and we give you plenty of money and time. >> protest of the flag. this has nothing to do with donald trump.

you're protesting the white house? it's a part of america. lou: nba star seth curry, lebron james, lebron -- curry may be beating his brains in on the court but they're together in e nba.g this anti-trump thing in when ts going to stop with these athletes? >> i don't know if they recognize that by not standing fsh the national anthem what you're doing insulting veterans, people who stood up for our freedom. the national anthem is not directly related to the president. it's the country as a whole. it's democracy, the constitution. i don't understand how there can't be a distinction. again, mark is right, you want to protest? protest in the voting booth. protest in a different way. not with a group and not when you're playing a sport and not against the veterans. lou: tonht eig primaries

primaries mark what think is going to happen? are we going to see the blue wave? >> a huge blue wave. they're leaderless. the dnc has no money. lou: they want open borders, high crime, they want illegal immi to css t borde atl. and don't worry about a job. in california they want to yo 500 in stockton, california, they want every citizen to have $500 a month guaranteed income. what's not to love. >> that's a great -- strict background checks on guns. if you want to cross the border, no background check. we don't care who you have. >> it's starting to sound a bit like bernie sanders campaign were everyone is going to get a college eblg occasion. it'education.its not feasible. reat but

th have to be fuppedded. lou: somebody has to make money at some point and create a product and a service. it's called life. they want to revert to the junk jungle, the primitive state. >> you've got record low unemployment in 17 states. you're not going to have a wave during that exp. lou: markets exploding, the economy is growing and then you've got folks on the left who think everything should be handed to them. they want dependency at any cost. but so long as thets paid by someone else. so as we look at this -- i've got one last question here. does paul ryan survive his lake duckness, very quickly? >> i think there's no getting rid of this guy. it's like a cold that kee coming back. lou: thanks so much. i sure hope that rebecca is

right and mark is wrong tonight's quote of the evening for those nfl players who defy the president, our national anthem, men are respectable only as the at it for us tonight. thank you for joining us. good night. . you're ac watching fox busis coverage of the 2018 primary elections. s neil caputo. neil: this is big. i've got the all-star crew here. to tell you how big this will be in the eight states where we're putting it on the line for you. five governor's mansions up for grabs, five senate seats up for grabs, 85 house seats, 60 of them in safe republican districts that might not be safe anymore. and ifou keep in mind the map, the democrats need 23 seats to gain control ofhe hse representatives. you can do the math as well as i