was a draft. charles: got to leave it there, sir. lou: good evening, everybody. our top stories, paul ryan affirming his political ambiguity and displaying his indefensible support of the establishment whose boots he loves to lick. the lame duck speaker today choice to side with the deep state and defy reason and decency as he did so, lining up with trey gowdy saying there's no evidence of a spy in the trump campaign and later playing to the open border globalists and he chose to pour sere u syrn

officials. >> i feel good about the conversations we're having. our members are honest and sincere in trying to understand each other. we have a big swath of views within our conference and i really do believe there's a sweet spot here. lou: a sweet spot here. well, how long will republicans put up with this lame duck who seems intent on destroying the party's chances in the midterms. how long will the party put up with him? i'll ask congressman matt gates if he's had enough of the rhinos leak details of the incoming inspector general's report, describing james comey as an out of control insubordinate hell bent on getting his own way. the ig report only the first

installment in revealing all that is rot nn the justice department and the fbi. the lying and leaking fired deputy director andrew mccabe now begging for immunity but he'll testify on capitol hill. the question, will senator grassley protect the corrupt or serve the people. senator coren is saying the right things. >> we need to get to the bottom of what happened at the fbi during the comey years where apparently there was misconduct going on, which i think is really impugned the reputation of the finest law enforcement agency in the world. and we need to clear the air. and so i think giving mr. mccabe cover through immunity would be a mistake. lou: clear the air and clear the corruption. president trump today called out the ignorant and the vile, the vile national left-wing media in particular, for their

vicious attacks on the first lady as she was recovering from her surgery. fake news and the nasty little kree tants who take it up our top story tonight, paul ryan sold out a long time ago and he's made it clear who owns him throughout his speakership. the lame duck isn't anything much of a rhino and establishment. today ryan undercutting the president and changing the subject from the republican party strong pry primary performance to his own disloyalty. in less than six minutes at today's house leadership briefing, rhino ryan managed to defend the fectless trey gowdy, denying the evidence of spy geat and through ak necessity for illegal immigrants that could well destroy the gop in the midterms. here he is.

>> i think chairman gowdy's initial assessment is accurate. i think -- but we have some more digging to do. >> mr. spea mr. speaker, do you believe. >> i don't know the technical answer to that question but obviously he shouldn't and no one is above the law. when we fix daca we want to fix it permanently so we don't have another daca down the world. we plan to have a conference wide conversation two or three hours tomorrow and that's what we should be doing, talking among ourselves so the majority can function. lou: a whole two or three hours deveeted to daca. speaker ryan's conduct at the twilight of his indistinguished career can be an effort to the established forces of the chamber of commerce, the business round table and wall street. cuban born never trumper billionaire mike fernandez is threatening to withhold all

funding from republicans who won't back the daca discharge petition. he's even assembled open border mega donors to join him. you can see their names on your screen there, including joe rowe, david mcneill, dr. zachariah and coastal construction ceo tom murphy jr., sergio peno and bob dickinson, enrique sosa, a few of the big money donors who own ryan and the rhinos who would destroy the gop. joining us tonight, republican congress from florida, congressman matt gates. good to have you with us. you have put out a very strong statement and i just want to read the first line. it is shameful to see house gop

leadership emphasize support for fbi, doj intelligence collection on the trump campaign. that's about as straightforward as you can put it. why -- i've got to just ask, why in the world have you putting ur conference putting up with a man who could do what he did today at that leadership briefing, which is change the subject from the success of the party and the primaries, the biggest primary night in this election cycle, and turn it to himself and turn it against the idea, the very idea that evidence matters in his judgment of whether or not there was a spy. it obviously doesn't in his case. >> lou, i've got on your show before and defended paul ryan when i've agreed with him but there is no defense today for paul ryan siding with the fbi and department of justice against those of us in the congress who are working for transparency and accountability.

devin nunes has been asking for a year for the documents that go to the very heart of this trump-russia hoax. as we sit here today, lou, members of congress has not sent the documents that show why this investigation even began. but here's what we know. that australian diplomat, he lied. he said this information came through the australian ambassador to the united states and that's how it got to the fbi and we found out that isn't true. so one liar gave information to peter strzok who's had to be demoted because he's like the head of the never trump movement over at the deep state and there's no way any criminal prosecution could be brought against this president based on the bias and mishandling of evidence. but instead of our speaker standing with us and putting the focus on the fbi's refusal to turn over documents so that we could perform our oversight duties, instead he was defending the fbi. and that's deeply frustrating to me and we need to speaker to be an institutionalist for the

congress, not a defender of the deep state. lou: and he is that. and he is a defender of k street and wall street and the koch brothers. the man has sold out. he's been obviously sold out for years and we wanted to check the record. let me ask you. can you think of a time that the speaker has been compelled to say there's no evidence of collusion whatsoever despite financing a one-year investigation by the fbi, almost a year, and more than a year of the general counsel? i can't remember a single time that he's stood up and defended the president and said there is no evidence whatsoever of collusion and that deeply troubles me. >> the house intelligence committee stood up saying there was no evidence of collusion, we need to speaker to do the same. another area, lou, is to have real accountability when it comes to the crimes of the clinic toon family anclinton fa. majority whip were mr. gowdy, mr. goodlatte all calling for a

second special counsel and the silence from our speaker is deafening. speaker ryan needs to step up, join news a call for a second counsel and stop defending the fbi collection of evidence op the trump campaign when they renews to givrefuse to give us e investigation. we know that the fbi broke their procedures. bruce orr broke procedures when he didn't discloses that his wife had a moonlight job for fusion gps. rod rosenstein didn't discloses that christopher steele had been terminated by the fbi for lying. and yet asking a court to rely on his statements. we need stronger leadership from our speaker supporting the work of those fighting in the trenches to get real answers for the american people. lou: let me ask you, congressman, why in the world would your conference not say that's enough, mr. lame duck speaker, get the hell out of the

office. you're going to send us to destruction in the midterm elections. this man doesn't have a plan. he doesn't have a strategy. he disunt raise money that any other speaker couldn't raise. he certainly is not a strategic thinker. he is anti-trump and has been so throughout. he is a disaster and the disaster is going to consume your party. do you not agree if he is locked in that speakership? >> you know i run in if more conservative circles of the house and i have never up to this point heard a single person talk about removing speaker ryan from the speakership. today for the first time i was hearing colleagues say if speaker ryan won't stand with us in this fight over the essentials of our democracy, not weaponizing intelligence community against the presidential campaign, do we need to look at other choices. that remains a lingering question and you're starting to see more frustrations bubble to

the top pa because we need that leadership. lou: great to have you with us. thanks so much. up next, president trump firing back at the fake news media who think, well, it's just fine to take aggressive cheap shots at the first lady as she convalesces from surgery. that's about as appalling as the left-wing national media could ever get. no, it's exceeded itself before. we'll take that up and much more with the dean himself, ed rollins. and we'll also be talking about a very good night for the republican party in the primary polls, right after this.

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put up with a lot in his 16 months in office. today h he slammed the left wing media's vile attack on his wife, the first lady, melania trump. and today he tweeted this, the fake news media has been so unfair and vicious to my wife and our great first lady melania. during her recovery they reported everything from her near death to facelift to left the white house and me for new york or virginia to abuse. all fake. she's doing really well.

four reporters spotted melania in the white house last week walking along to a meeting they never reported their sighting because it would have hurt the sick narrative that he was living in a different part of the world were was really ill or whatever. fake news is really bad. this afternoon the first lady made her first public appearance at a fema briefing. the hurricane season was the subject and here is the president. >> she went through a little rough patch but she's doing great and we're very proud of her. she's done a fantastic job as first lady. people of our country love you. thank you, honey. lou: extraordinary. joining us tonight, ed rol roll, great america pac chairman. you've seen, as they say, a few things. >> i have. lou: to see melania trump, the first lady of this country, attacked as she has been by various elements in the national left-wing media, these are the

lowest in the entire low life national left-wing media. >> anyone who has surgery, it takes week to recover. she had a minor surgery but in the hospital for a week. if she wants to sit in bed for a month it's her prerogative. and at the end of the day i agree with the president. it's outrageous. lou: where the hell are people other than the president, other than the party saying you creeps stop what you're doing. stop it. >> people ought to start canceling the newspapers if they still have a newspaper and to a certain extent start switching channels and start putting pressure on his people. the first lady has served this country well and effectively and the president did the right thing today. lou: she speaks five languages. she's intelligent, so classy. and filled with grace. good lord, what are they doing? >> well, they're doing

everything they can to throw rocks at them and they can't succeed. she looked magnificent today and welcome back to the game which she's fully engaged in. lou: it is great to see her healthy and recovering. >> she looks fabulous. lou: and as we turn to the primaries last night, the biggest primary of this year, your thoughts on what the republicans demonstrated and what the president demonstrated. >> the president demonstrated he still has power. he took a nobody person who moved to california, endorsed him in the california gubernatorial primary. lou: referring to john cox. >> john cox, got him in the race beating the former speaker for the second spot. and to a certain extent the other example was congresswoman roain blam.

lou: couldn't get 50% of the vote. >> and will vi to fight to if bitter end. democrats got what they wanted. in california, it's a real battle. and the issue of ryan is you need someone who can lead the pac and he can't do it. if i was a member of congress, obviously i'm not -- lou: ryan comes out on this day. it had to be intentional and absolutely premeditated. to change the subject to attack the president and this self righteous crap, i'm just going to call it what it is, where he says the president shouldn't do that. the president has said he's not going to do it because he hasn't done anything wrong. does ryan listen to anything. >> no he doesn't. lou: but his own bleating voice? >> he's got a staff around him who basically say mr. speaker, mr. speaker. i think it's important for us to have an expeeker at the point in time. as i was saying earlier, what

they ought to do -- lou: what in the world should they do? >> tomorrow in the conference, make a motion to vacate the chair. anybody has a right to do that. that's how they drove ryan out, the threat of that. and then you have a vote, a mandatory vote, 218 -- lou: you said ryan. you meant boehner. >> boehner. i mixed them up today. lou: they're very much alike. hand picked. you would think they're synonymous and they are. >> republicans have to understand. they are in a war, a war like i've never seen. they can' can hold the congressd expand only if they have leadership and have someone that can lead them. lou: and affix themselves to president trump and his agenda. >> absolutely. lou: this is the reason they did as well as they did yesterday. it's the reason they can win and expand the number of seats rather than lose them, which is the historical imperative for the party in power in midterm

elections. they can reverse that. >> and every single senate candidate, including rosendale run in the key senate races are pledging support to the president. i think we're going to pick up a couple of seats in the senate. we can certainly lose the house, we don't have strong leadership. lou: what do you think the odds are, motion to vacate. will we hear that in the next week? i can't ubs why any republican wouldn't insist on removing. >> the idea that you have to spend three hours discussing anything other than goodlatte's bill -- lou: he's setting up amnesty. >> and he's lose control of it and we'll be stuck with something that the president will have to veto and he will and it won't be good for the country. lou: he says he'll veto. this is a direct challenge. these idiots on k street are playing with the country's future. they don't give a damn about the

american worker, the american people, american family, our middle class and ryan is owned by them. >> most affluent part of the country right now. lou: all right. ed rollins. >> thank you. lou: great idea. thanks for being here. >> it's been there since thomas jefferson. lou: be sure to vote no tonight's poll. do you think any republican who refuse to support the trump agenda should be voted the hell out of office in the midterm elections ? -l cast your vote on twitter@low dobbs up next, shocking developments involving national security violations, political coverup and the i.t. scandal linked to congress and congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, then the head of the democratic national committee. we'll take that up with the daily callers, luke prosiak about a possible plea deal

lou: debbie wasserman schultz disgraced information technology aide is set to strike a plea deal. a hearing has been set for july 3rd following seven delays in this case over the past six months alone. she faced conspiracy bank charge, transferring money from the c credit union to pakistan before trying to flee from the country. joining me now one of the reporters at the front of the story, luke rosiak joining us tonight. great to see you. and again, terrific reporting. this case is one of the most frustrating things to witness because it's inexplicable. the delays, the peculiar posture

assumed by the prosecutors and the defendants in the case and the role of the former dnc head congresswoman debbie wasserman schult. >schultz. >> this is about rigging the 2016 election. there was a second hack that occurred the same week that dnc was breached. the house of representatives inspector general briefed authorities that there was an ongoing hack by pakistanis who the democrats hired as i.t. guys. ordinarily they would have been arrested on the bat obviously. but think about it, the russian narrative they decided to much that week, you know how tenuous it is, backed by nothing it is, you throw into the mix arrest of pakistanis hired by democrat and unvetted for a similar hack at the identical time, the narrative about russia would have been impossible to secure and that's all they care about, the narrative.

lou: what's interesting about this, amongst the many things that are interesting, fascinating, intriguing and frustrating is where is the justice department now. why in the world are we hearing about this in jeff sessions. why aren't we hearing about it from a republican-led justice department and where in the world is debbie wasserman schultz and how has she -- has she been imif given immunity? has he been corrupted by forcess dark and sinister in the deep state? what is going on? >> the happened ling of this case disproves the russian narrative. democrats don't care about hacking or foreign meddling. what they did in this case is to decide to knowingly allow the united states government to be hacked by pakistanis for six months until right after the election so they would peddle a phony russian narrative.

they would go to any link to smear donald trump with this. but what the democrats did here is treason. they allowed the united states to continuous lie be hacked by these bad guys so they could stay the russian narrative. you couldn't have it both ways. if they arrested these guys it's all over the media. and it becomes ridiculous for the democrats. fool he once, shame on you, fool me ten times, shame on the democrats with their i.t. getting hacked again and again by extreme negligence. this would have been the october surprise that would have ensured a victory by donald trump and the house of representatives withheld that knowledge from voters. lou: and debbie wasserman schultz at the forefront of it all, as the person who also made it possible because she was in charge for the russians, quote unquote, to hack the dnc servers

and somehow convince the fbi that they should not bother the dnc with a little matter of national security like having their servers hacked. everyone, by the way, when you heard luke say they were unvetted, not a single one of the 44 house democrats who hired these pakistani i.t. aides, not a one of them conducted conductd background checks on the folks running an goat employee scheme. and we're going to follow it and i would like, luke, if you would join us here to tell us what's going on with this case, a plea deal. are they trying once again -- they being this government and this administration now in charge of the justice department. surely they should no would noty to concealing and putting this thing so deep that it wouldn't see the light of day. >> no, they are. the doj under jeff sessions is

covering up a scandal that exposes the entire russian narrative as a hoax. it is within jeff sessions power to charge the pack city anies with hacking congress and exposing the democrats. he has a list of witnesses and his fbi is refusing to interview them. we've got the fbi refusing to accept evidence from witnesses. the evidence in this -- lou: so. >> it's all -- they have all of the goods. it niece the server logs. this case is open and shut and jeff sessions is refusing to bring the charges. lou: thanks for your reporting and thanks for being with us and come back soon, please. >> thank you. lou: luke rosiak up next, volcanic blast leaving a trail of destruction in hawaii and guatemala. we'll have the report for you straight ahead. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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destroying hundreds more homes in just one night. fox news correspondent jeff paul on the big island of hawaii with our report. reporter: the number of injuries here on the big island rising from one to seven, either lava or respiratory related. that is what the authorities are worried about, the most active fish sure on the big island. a river of lava heading toward

the coast where it's destroyed a coastal subdivision. these pictures really tell the story of how fast the lava is moving. the first is from sunday as lava approached the coast. but two days later, yesterday, the lava has now totally covered the bay, literally changing the shape of the coastline president at one point 117 homes were destroyed but in a day's hiem that number has tripled to hundreds more. >> it's like a flood, pouring out, covering everything in its path. just incredible what it's doing. looks like there's no stopping it. reporter: geologist say 4900-acres here on the big island is cover by lava. so far no reported deaths. lou: thank you very much. jeff recall reporting from hawaii. well in guatemala, the death tall of the vo volcano eruptions risen to 75. 200 people are missing. seven communities have been evacuated. rescuers completing the arduous

task of searching for the ash and rubble for people who are missing and they expect the death toll to rise significantly. the european union announcing it will impose tariffs on goods from u.s. in july. mexico and canada have issued counter warnings against the u.s. and putting tariffs on aluminum and steel. president trump considering separate trade deals with mexico and canada instead of renegotiating nafta at all after the three countries reached an impasse. the european union and cand cano attend friday's g7 summit. president trump will be there as well in quebec joining me now, republican national committee chair ronna mcdaniel. great to have you with us. great to see you. i'm going to start with first what we're witnessing. today speaker ryan single

handedly changed the discussion from the success of the republicans in the primaries to his rather, i think, idiotic and really absolutely irresponsible remarks about both the president and about daca and the general, just the general political atmosphere in this country. what is his problem? >> well, i will tell you, i just went on a west coast swing and was in washington state and california, oregon, not red states. and every person i met with said we need more republicans to support this president. and we want to see our republican leadership supporting this president. and there are a lot of things to be concerned about with the informant that was -- the spy that was within the trump campaign. i'm going to use the word spy. i think you're changing the severity of what happened. if somebody is in the campaign and they're reporting back to the fbi, they're spying. why didn't they inform the candidate, why didn't they go to

donald trump. they're serious questions. and our voters want to see republican leadership stepping up asking about why this happened. and we've got to talk about our successes and we've got to be unified and supporting our president whose agenda is making people's lives better across this country and i see it and i feel it every single day as i travel around to state to state to state. lou: i think that frankly -- let me applaud what you've said because i think you're being direct, forthright and i commend you for it. it is not often that we have that kind of language originating with the chair of either national committee and i just want to cheer you if i may one more time. >> thank you. lou: turning to these elections yesterday, the president -- those candidates he supported to a person all did well. >> they did. i mean john cox made it to the finish line, to the top two in

california yesterday because of the president's endorsement. that is huge for our house members in california who are going to be in competitive races that the democrats have targeted to flip the majority, to have somebody at the top of the ticket running for governor is going to bring out the republican voters and that is because the president engaged. and across the sphiet yesterday we saw republicans turning out in droves in six of the seven battleground house seats yesterday that the democrats were counting on to flip the house, more republicans turned out than democrats and the seventh one was just a little bit that the democrats turned out. that blue wave yesterday became a ripple because the trump agenda is working across this country on employment at a record low. people are feeling better, wages are up and they want to see the comeback continue and they're not going to hand the nation over to the resist democrat party of no. lou: and that's i think being kind to that party. right now they have no agenda, they have frankly little to

commend their party for anything. i mean nancy pelosi is talking taxes, bill clinton is talking history, personal history that he, i'm sure, would prefer to forget. and hillary clinton is still walking around in front of cameras and microphones asking what happened. it seems to me that the republican party should encourage them to continue on certainly through the midterms. >> yeah. i hope that bill clinton's book tour goes through the midterms. pelosi, i send her flowers every week. i want her right where she is. their vision is one of our country going back with regards. they want to raise taxes. they want to hurt average working americans. and when you look at what has happened with the tax cuts, with the derug las vegas, with wages up, with record unemployment, people are doing better because of president trump. and you know what? that's going to resonate in

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a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network the department of justice inspector general's report putting james comey's leadership style under a criticism. the inspector general exploring whether comey went beyond his authorities in the july 2016 period when he was publicly discussing the clinton e-mail investigation and recommending against criminal charges. a responsibility and authority that was that of his boss, attorney general loretta lynch, not the fbi director. congressional letters obtained by fox news show former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, who worked directly under comey, now wants immunity if he's to testify on capitol hill. it's called use immunity and it means that mccabe's testimony couldn't be used against him in a criminal preus cushion.

the npser general found that mccabe lied under oath, mode a criminal referral to the u.s. attorney in washington as a result. and much more on the day's shocking allegations of deep state corruption ahead. also a key trump adviser reportedly targeted in spygate. fox legal analyst gregg jarrett joins me here next. stay with us. we'll be right

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lou: you heard the names clovis, papadopoulos and page. but there was person associated with the trump campaign targeted by the obama administration spy, and his name is steven miller. the spy sent to infiltrate the trump campaign according to the "daily caller." miller was invited to a university of cambridge event arranged by the obama spy, but he chose not to attend. joining me now fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. preorders as i understand it are pushing your book into the stratosphere before it even gets

out. gregg gregg iout. trey as in traitor gowdy has seen no evidence of a spy in the trump campaign. gregg: they are playing a game of semantics and parsing words and it will be a terrific end of the year when trey and ryan are gone. a spy is a secret or undercover agent. that's what this guy was. working for the fbi. deployed to insinuate himself into the campaign.

if that ain't spying, i don't know what is. >> can we take a look at the quick survey of some headline elements of evidence of the spy in the trump campaign? a cambridge professor out as an fbi spy. meeting with campaign advisor carter page, sam clovis. the strzok-page text referring to oco nurks s lures. that's spies not in the continental united states. comey's house testimony confirming the existence of a classified investigation. former national intelligence director james clapper admitting

the fbi ran an informant on the campaign officials and it was quite a common occurrence. the obama justice department and the fbi used the steele dossier paid for by the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign. that piece of fiction used to obtain fisa court warrants against carter page and presumably on thers under surveillance. >> that was spying, too. as well as collection of records undeknowns to carter page. this was a counter-intelligence investigation so they felt able to use spies in two different ways. for gowdy to say that term is not used in an investigation.

well, mr. gowdy, it was a counter-intelligence investigation. lou: they are parsing their dpestles of the deep state but they are careless as hell when it comes to defend be the interests of the nation. they are both lame ducks and should get the hell out. >> i agree. and often what either one or both of them say makes no sense. trey gowdy seems to be arguing that once the americans see the evidence, they will agree it was okay. i have got news for him. americans are already aghast and will be even more outraged when they learn that a spy was deployed in a presidential campaign violating every norm of history. lou: two quick questions. mccabe seeking immunity before the judiciary committee before

testifying. surely grassley will not grant that. >> if it's the only way to get to the truth, he might consider use immunity. here is the exchange of letters today, this was the dance called the prover. where i -- the proffer. write suspect the witness mccabe will give them a preview of what he'll say. lou: i hope they do not. if they don't have the intelligence and resources and wherewithal to get to the truth without it, we are in sorry shape. secondly, i wanted to get to this issue of a woke. is that a cover-up by justice again? gregg: it is. your interview with luke is on

target. this is a cover-up by debbie wasserman-schultz and democrats. lou: tonight's quote of the evening, we'll have it tomorrow night. tonight i join tucker carlson >> trump is trying to fix this broken system. i think the rest of the world agrees with them. >> reckon this morning. investors writing president trump will not jump into a trade war as they get set to meet with leaders from around the world. tracee: on turn tracee: optimism using trade tensions hit another record. cheryl: futures again with a strong pick up to your market. dell 42 in the premarket. s&p