we are angry. charles: we have got to leave it there. i love your passion. i want to you keep up the fight again it's a big one on both sides of the atlantic. lou: good evening, our top stories, president trump poised to make an historic announcement that will affect the course of the country for decades through the supreme court. the president's choice to be the next supreme court justice will be announced two hours from now. >> everyone, you can't go wrong. i'm getting close to miking a ma final decision. lou: hear to break it down we're joined by andy biggs, attorneys victoria and joe digenova new tonight, robert mueller and his angry democratic crowd

colluded to journalists, so-called journalist to take down trump's campaign manager, attorneys for paul manafort making a stunning allegation. former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy joins us tonight. we'll be talking about the out of control russia witch hunt. also, liberal lunacy running wild in boston. there boston lawmakers want to give noncitizens the right to vote. that's right. illegal immigrants apparently visitors from the european union. who knows. our top story, though within presiden, premp setto announce t on the supreme court, a vacancy created by justice anthony kennedy's retirement at the end of the month. narrowing it down to four finalists, breath kavanaugh, raymond kethledge, thomas hardiman and amy coney barrett,

all under the age of 55. and the national left wing media apoplectic over the president's choice without even knowing who it is. and senator mitch mcconnell, the rhino republican majority leader instilling little confidence in putting mr. trump's choice through the confirmation plo says. in fact mcconnell came up with a brilliant idea. he suggests that judges, kethledge and hardiman would have the fewest obstacles in the process. there would be fewer on that kls for a democrat if the president were so moved. and now there are five senate democrats and two republicans turning down and invitation to attend the president's announcement. democrats senators joe donnelly, heidei high camp and john manchin, joe johnson, dianne feinstein and republicans lisa murkowski and susan collins. shaim on them.

ed henry joining us with the latest. >> this is probably the most conservative court we have seen in generations. >> while liberal liberals frettt the fate of roe v. wade dominated the early headlines about president trump's next supreme court pick, the left is sounding a lot more alarm bells, charging nothing less than the fate of the republic hangs in the balance. >> the issue of how protected the voting rights balance is. how that apply to the redistricting process. there's the issue of how we can control how much billionaires give to candidates. there are a lot of things o on e agenda. >> there's at least some hi peshablsome highpeshably. but there's truth in the fact that for all of the talk of the reagan appointee's conservative votes in the wanes daysen in the

last term on decisions that back the president east travel ban, kennedy was the swing vote saving liberals for years on major issues like same-sex marriage and affirmative action. and for every bit of alarmism on the left, there's joy on the right about reshaping those policies and affirming new rights on issues like guns with based on several faces in lower courts. >> neither the left or the right side of the court was confident on where justice kennedy would be so they denied the petitions. now some of those might be taken up and probably with rulings in favor of broader gun rights. >> for all of the speculation about roe v. wade potentially being overturned, some conservatives believe that chief justice john roberts is more likely to steer the court to a middle course where abortion rights are restricts instead of ending. republicans may gain on religious liberty. in the last session a court sent a case involving a cake shape

not wanting to bake a dessert to a lower court. >> i think it would be decided differently. >> other wild cards such as the status of special counsel robert mueller's probe that could be problematic on the issue of executive power. >> one of the key questions that senators are going to have to ask is what with is you view of whether the president is above the law. >> the high court could rule on whether a possible subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury could be enforced, putting the new justice in the cross hairs pretty quick lip. in washington, ed henry, fox news. lou: going us tonight to discuss the president's historic choice to sit on the supreme court is congressman andy biggs. he's a member of the house judiciary committee, a member of the freedom caucus. great to have you with us, congressman. let's start, if we may, his choice to sit on the supreme

court. we all know, we've been inundated with how important this choice is from the left, the right, republicans, democrats, independents, you name it. at the end of the day, the democrats are acting as if they have the right to block his nomination even though he's not made the appointment yet. they've made it clear they're against everyone that they can possibly imagine him choosing. have the dems gone completely and utterly beyond the pale? >> absolutely, lou. this is just more of the same course that we've seen since donald trump became the president. and if you think about it, they're upset because they're not going to have the same advantage that they thought they have had at the u.s. supreme court for the last, what, two generations. and that's really got them going crazy. and so they're unreasonable, they're out there saying, we're going to fight anybody. well that doesn't even make sense. you don't even know the qualifications, the criteria.

and we've walked away from what the supreme court is supposed to be doing by making it so political. lou: the democrats have sort of confined themselves to irrelevance because they have been so preposterous and capricious and i irresponsible,n my judgment. in is a constitutional right of a president this is not some art fies con injurekojjuriedconjured up. this is the fabric of the republic. >> the constitution says he nominates, right, and the nominee is confirmed by the u.s. senate. that's their role. if they don't like it, they cannot confirm. we've seen them do it with robert. that started the whole massive politicization that we see going on. but in my opinion they ought to remain quiet until at least you know who the nominee is going to

be. lou: those are two words that i don't associate in any way, democrat and quiet. and then a stillness fell over the room. i can't even imagine. >> i'm with you on that, lou. lou: let's turn if we may, to the business of jim jordan who wants to be speaker of the house. he's received a lot of support from former coaches with whom ht ohio state. he's got support from colleagues in the house of representatives. but there's one conspicuous absent supporter. and that is the spea speaker ofe house. why in the world would he be so classless as not to stand up for the right of this man who's been so dishonorably atakdz b attacke left? >> i can't explain that. i'm not sure i understand. i mean he said he's going to

wait until a new investigation happens and all of the information gets in before he makes a statement. lou: why don't you just -- why doesn't the republican caucus understand -- you say you can't explain the speaker of the house. that means to me you can't explain why he's speaker of the house. why is he the leader of your conference? why is he in that position of power when he's already resigned the job? i mean, the republicans, if they ever wanted to look absolutely lifeless, or as the president would refer low energy, they couldn't have done better than paul ryan who sold out to every major donor, to every major business group, particularly u.s. multinational groups, the business round table, the chamber of commerce, the koch brothers, the list goes on. did i mention wall street? why are you putting up with him? >> well, lou, unfortunately i'm only one vote. but let me just tell you, i

think that's -- lou: i'm giving you the opportunity to speak for so many. >> yeah. they're all with me, okay? lou: as i would expect. >> well let's just take a look. why is the timing of this so peculiar to me is jim jordan is getting some traction to be the speaker of the house. i think he could get it done. and then all of the sunda sudder what, 25, 3035 years ago you get these despicable allegations that come forward and you know, here are things -- crickets. these are serious allegations. let's see them play out. the doctor who did the wrongdoing is dead and has been dead for over ten years. so what you do now sn? the allegation is she should have nown known, must have known np that doesn't say anything about the accused, that says something about the accuser. they're living in a world devoid of facts. lou: but with a heightened sense of timing.

no sooner does congressman jordan make his his aspirations known to run for speaker, he's inundated with a smear campaign. i want to ask you, the house oversight and judiciary committee to hear from lisa page on thursday. you've heard from strzok, peter strzok, the other half of that duo. what can you -- i mean, do you expect to learn anything at all from her that you hadn't already heard from strzok? >> we might get a few tidbits. what i suspect we're going to get is a lot of reference to some kind of a privilege or confidentiality or some kind of top secret type of issues, you know. and i think we're going to get a lot of that. so then we're going to need to go again to get another public hearing for lisa page. lou: we wish you luck as this mess unfolds, the russian witch

hunt goes on. and the president a very patient man, i have to say. >> thank, lou. lou: thanks for being with us, andy biggs, great to have you with us. up next, liberal lunacy in the city of boston. imagine that. boston lawmakers want to give voting right to noncitizens. that's right, just about everybody, visitors, illegal immigrants. we'll tell you about it here next and much much more. stay with us. we'll be right back. the employee of the year, anna.

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legal analyst gregg jarrett author of the book -- this is what we've been waiting for -- "the russian hoax, the illicit scream to frame hillary clinton and fry donal free donald trump" a must read. that's not a bad endorsement coming from the president. >> it's pretty good but yours is just as good. lou: bless you for lying. congratulations. it's stretching an terrific ande delighted for you. cocongratulations. important subject without question. >> i think it is. lou: we recommend it to you not only highly but this is the highest recommendation that we can give here on "lou dobbs" tonight. buy the book "the russian hocks"

let's turn the business at hand, the president's announcement of his nominee to the supreme court seat vie kateed at the end of the month by anthony kennedy. >> there are four or five finalists, you could put any one in a hat and pick any one of them and republicans and conservatives and the president come out a winner. all three, four or five satisfy the three main requirements. a, they're conservatives, originalistists, b, they're 45 o 53 which means they would be on the court for a very long time. lou: whipper snappers i would call them. >> and c, they're all confirmable given the composition of the u.s. senate although the caveat is some are more easily con firearmable than others. the gentleman on the far right-hand side, hardiman, he was voted a decade ago on the court of appeals 96-0 by the u.s. senate.

the composition of the senate has changed somewhat but it would be a hard argument for democrats to now say we oppose him even though not long ago without dissent they approved of him. lou: and he has the advantage of being recommended by the president's sister. >> you were right to point that out. if the president's relationship with his older sister is anything like my with my older sister, you'd take your marching orders. lou: well, he's a hard man to, as you may have noticed -- but i would guess his sister holds about as much influence as one could imagine over this president. >> i think so. lou: i've actually been in her courtroom when she was a judge and she is a remarkable talent herself. >> she really is. a highly respected judge. lou: as she should be. i find it interesting that mcconnell, the speaker, has come out with his view that there are certain people here

amongst them, the gentleman you just mentioned, who would be easier nominated. you know, that just seems like the recommendation that a majority leader could make to the president of the united states. i think that the president has demonstrated his intellectual superiority to the leadership of the party on capitol hill in both houses. so why would mcconnell state the obvious which is effect lively, mr. president, if you would just nominate is damn demeanor, this would be a breeze. >> i think mcconnell wants to do whatever is easiest for mitch mcconnell which is a sad commentary. lou: hence the name turtle. >> yes. lou: i don't know what that means, but. >> i think i do. lou: slow moving. >> yeah. the fact is that if mitch mcconnell puts his mind to it, he could get one one of those people on your screen confirmed.

they're all, you know, noted scholars and jurists. kavanaugh would be an excellent choice, barrett would be a wonderful choice although she's only been on the bench for eight months. kavanaugh would be wonderful although, there are a couple of things that democrats would seize upon -- lou: the hell with them. it's this president's nomination. >> exactly. lou: what i find interesting are the number of people that have been so presumptuous, they advise the president. but this is a president's right, it's his choice. >> sure. lou: if there is anything about this that is critically important, that it be his man or woman on that bench. >> and the president has experience in this because he guided gorsuch through the process. lou: that's right. >> knows how to do it successfully. and they've had the better part of 18 month to properly vet all of the people on the list. lou: let me ask you this. he's had the help of the

federalist society, the heritage foundation, they've come up with what, from every account i heard, the initial 25, certainly. list of potential nominees. i mean they have been remarkable in, i think, finding these qualified -- helping the president in finding these qualified, highly qualified candidates. >> right. and stealth candidates like david suite sutter are a thing e past. republicans learned their lesson. you don't pick somebody that doesn't have a proven track record. sutter was picked because he wu recommended because he came from the same state and he allegedly knew him an and it proved to be disastrous. lou: he's a religious viewer of the program greg, as always,

great to have you here. >> my pleasure. lou: and congratulations -- wait for it -- on the new book, and we recommend it to you highly. i liked read the russian hoax but the part i like is the illicit scream to clear hillary clinton and frame donald trump. succinct, brilliant and absolutely correct. we recommend it to you. be sure to vote in the poll tonight. do you believe the dems have decided toic nor the constitution all together as they argue the president has no right to name a supreme court nominee. follow me on twitter, like me on facebook, follow me@lou dobbs tonight. thanks for being with us tonight. i am thrilled to be with you up next, lame duck speaker ryan won't come to the defense of his, well, his potential successor. congressman jim jordan, ed

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lou: you know, the lame duck speaker of the house, paul ryan won't support congressman joe jordan who has been forced deny that he ignored sexual abuse allegations against a doctor at the ohio university while he was on the wrestling team there, his time as assistant coach. in an e-mail today paul ryan said this through a spokesperson. he refer to a colleague -- i'm

sure he doesn't consider jordan to be a colleague because the speaker i thinks of himself as somehow royalty of some kind saying, quote, these are serious allegations and issues. thank you, paul ryan. you have a deep son of a gun. the university has initiated a full investigation into the matter. the speaker will await the findings of that inquiry. the speaker shall. who thinks like that. who talks like that. who writes like that. a smug pretentious absolute puppet of the establishment. that's who. president trump and numerous republicans have come out in support of congressman jordan but not paul ryan, the precious darling. joining us tonight, the dean himself, ed rollins, chairman of the great american pac, director of the political office of the white house under ronald reagan. great american. >> thank you. lou: i've got to just say first. i got to say this. i get to say this. it's part of the deal. i get to say welcome, my friend. you take it away.

>> thank you. i want to say one thing about the president's sister who people talk about her recommending hardiman. i was on the you dicialg selection panel in 1983 in the white house when she was chosen. she as an outstanding jurist. she not only serve tond federal court from 1983 to 1989, she was appointed to the circuit court by president bill clinton. so in his older sister was an outstanding jurist. so he grew up sort of with law as parted of his background and i don't want people to think that she was just someone who made a recommendation. her recommendation i'm sure weighed very heavily. lou: as the president has said, he comes with a pretty good gene pool. >> absolutely. lou: think about the strength that is required to be the president of the united states, if your name happens to be donald trump. i've never seen such ignorance. forget the vitriol and

everything else. just the ignorance of the national left wing media pred pretending all of this nonsense and chasing after it spewing it day after day after day. >> this group of judges, the four of five that are left and it may be down to two, i don't know exactly. lou: i bet it's down to one. >> it probably is. every single one of them are qualified, great court of appeal judges, confirmed by the senate. they've been mentored by scalia, kennedy. they grew up in the judicial system and obviously they're going to be great, great judges and they're going to write great opinions in the future. that's going one one of his great legacies, the judges that he appointed to the courts. lou: here is the president of the united states, a year and a half into his first term or if you prefer, and i do, his two terms as president, and they're

not talking about ginsberg, justice ginsberg. and why didn't she retierp r tire when president obama was there to assure the left of another seat on the high court. it's because she didn't trust the man. >> well with good cause. the reality is judge kennedy who served well, i've known him for a long time. basically had great confidence the president would appoint someone who could carry on the conservative agenda. lou: he should. he's demonstrated every reason for that confidence with justice gorsuch. let's turn to -- i was mentioning the left. i'm sort of annoyed by them. >> still there. lou: and so is dick durbin. this is dick durbin on the president's supreme court nomination. >> the men and women that i work with on the democratic side really take this seriously. they understand it's an historic

decision. it's about more than the next election. it's about what in the country, the united states of america is going to chart as its course in the future on this supreme court. i think each and every one of them take that seriously, that personally. it goes beyond the next election. lou: wow. who knew that it went beyond the next election at any time for dick durbin, who is the leading dem hack in the senate. your thoughts. >> well they want to fight. we're going to give them a fight. there's a lot of groups including my copac, we're going to put $5 million at least into this race. many other element to the conservative elements are going to put money in there. this will be like a presidential campaign. the most vicious fight ever to put someone very qualified on the court. lou: and you know, it is just such a demonstration of loathesome ignorance on the part of the left, the dems. chuck schumer should be ashamed

of himself, along with dick durbin principally. it is -- it is absolutely horrific to think what the democratic party has become. >> at the end of the day they damage the institution when you make these knock dow knock-downt fights. if you have objections, fine. but to make it a philosophical batter because you lost is ridiculous. lou: petty partisanship on the part of durbin as he's saying i's not about the next election that's exactly what it is. ed, thanks for being here. good to see you my friend. up next, disgraced former counter intelligence agent peter strzok and fbi attorney lisa page headingepage headed to capo explain anti-trump texts. we'll take that up with andy mccarthy right after these messages and a great break. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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joining me now, andrew mccarty, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, long time prosecutor, national review contributing editor, fox business contributor and it is great to have you with us. >> great to be here. lou: let's start with strzok and page on capitol hill again. and i just don't see these hearings producing much. i worry that the intelligence -- well the intelligence committee of the senate is a joke. the house has done some important things, so i want to leave them out of this equation. but then to look at oversight and the judiciary committees, this is -- in both the senate and the house, is to me just, it's stunning how little is accomplished by all of these hearings. >> here's what i worry about, lou. if you were in a courtroom setting and you had a judge, if you tried to give your version of events and then evade

cross-examination, the judge would not let that happen. the jowm judge would say no, no, you've waved your privilege of self incrimination by telling your story. now you have to answer the hard questions. what apparently is happening in these interviews is they give the testimony or the information that they're comfortable discussing and then when they get asked things that are of immense importance to the investigation, there's fbi counsel there and justice department counsel, as i understand it, who intervene and tell the witnesses don't answer this, don't answer that, whether it's over classified information or investigative integrity or what have you. but the bottom line becomes, they get the version of events that they want to have out there out there. now we of course we haven't seen any of this yit. yet. but they don't get cross-examined on the things that we need to know. lou: you remember the number of times that people have -- officials have stood up in front of a committee and offered testimony and then taken the

fifth. >> right. lou: particularly during the irs conservative targeting scandal. it is mind-boggling that nothing happened. in other words these witnesses for a long time, the past -- throughout the obama administration and now, as you ught under thsuggest under the p administration, they're basically not held accountable. you're saying bring in a federal prosecutor who know what is he or she is doing. >> if you remember, we had hearings during the clinton investigation -- lou: this raisings a big question about trey gowdy. >> i think it's not just gowdy. i'll say this much for gowdy. gowdy at least, he knows how to examine a witness and he can get from a to b to c. but i don't see anybody -- the best cross-examiner needs some time to develop a line of questioning. lou: man, we've had time. >> but we don't have time in a hearing where there's 30 guys asking questions and they get five minutes a piece.

lou: they think they're going to be a big star on local television for five minutes. >> if that's the point. but if the point is to get to the bottom of what happened, what they ought to do is the committee ought to retain a former prosecutor, not necessarily this one, please. this is not -- i'm not harping for a job here. lou: we don't want you taking time away. >> but they have to get somebody who knows how to do this and also can exploit the entire time rather than this truncated five minutes this, five munlts that that get you nowhere. lou: you would think this would occur to a group of adults in on the hill. >> if they want to get to it. lou: exactly. do you have a favorite for the president. >> my favorite is barrett, if i had to make a wager. lou: amy coney barrett? >> yes. but whoever said that you could throw a dart at this list and come up with an excellent judge i think is right.

lou: that's remarkable to have this list. again, credit as well to the president, his attorneys and advisers and of course the federalist society and the heritage foundation. >> they've done great. they've done great work. it's an excellent list. they don't get enough credit. there's so much politics involved in this. the craftsmanship of the judges, the sheer excellence of the judges as lawyers is really not appreciated enough. lou: very quickly. you wrote a column on roe v. wade and the democrats are fund-raising on the idea that a conservative will be added to the supreme court no matter what. you pointed out in your column that roe v. wade is basically irrelevant. >> i think the chance of the core holding of roe v. wade being teed up for decision is highly unlikely. we've been under planned parenthood versus casey for 27 years now. lou: and the left hasn't figured out that the law is a living

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information to reporters which is illegal in return for reporters giving them information about their supposed target. we have a client who the fbi first of all -- big time gambler -- >> humanitarian businessman giving lots of money to charity. the fbi leaked that he and phil mickelson the golfer were under investigation for insider training. the fbi comes back and tries to get a member of the board of directors of another company tofestify against billy. they squeeze the guy and leak the board of directors is under investigation. and after being squeeze he agreed to testify albeit falsely against billy. in the words of alan dershowitz, he not only sang, he composed.

lou: that's a great line alan came up with. >> one last thing about justice department ethos. the district attorney's office of new york denied the case. only when the judge ordered a hearing did they admit it. and they promoted the agents who leaked the grand jury information. lou: the pit bull of robert mueller's witch hunt fame. >> weissmann who had done this before and is recognized widely in the united states as one of the most of unethical prosecutors in the history of the department, he engineered this meeting between doj lawyers and fbi agents and the associated press for them to

basically share information amongst themselves including grand jury information. in order to put pressure on manafort. we are watching the destruction of the fbi by people actually inside the mueller investigation likewiseman. like -- like weissmann. this has to stop. lou: where are the president's attorneys? why aren't they raising hell over this stuff? why with anyone who knows information from grand jury is being sent through a conduit to the national left-wing media, that's a violation of law. >> absolutely. manafort's attorneys asked for a hearing. i think the judge is going to grant it. i think there will be a hearing. it will be an opportunity to put weissmann on the witness stand along with other fbi and doj

employees. the i.g. report about strzok and everybody else laid out cold how the fbi had a policy of working with the media to leak information. and these people in the bureau lied about it to the i.g. but they eventually had to admit it's occurring it's destroying the bureau and destroying the department of justice. and chris wray and rod rosenstein will do nothing by the. they are so interested in protecting the institution they are willing to look the other way. >> when rod rosenstein says he feels like it's extortion with it's oversight -- lou: i find myself less and less concerned about how rod rosenstein feels on any given day. the mueller probe effectively it seems to me may be dead if -- and this is an extension, if the trump attorneys are right,

demanding before there is any further discussion with the special counsel that they demonstrate some sort of evidence there was collusion, some reason to have a further discussion. your thoughts? >> there is no doubt, the president of the united states enjoys a special status under the law. in order to interview him for any reason whatsoever, here obviously an impeachment investigation, it's not a criminal threat. there is no evidence a crime has been committed. mueller is trying to interview the president on an impeachment/slash collusion investigation. the law is clear, under no circumstances should the president agree to this interview. if mueller wants to issue a subpoena. the president is going to win that in the supreme court. mueller can show no reason why all the evidence he has hasn't already been obtained from other

people. lou: we have got to go. i had to kick it that time. thanks for being with us. good night from new york. [♪] neil: we are an hour away from finding out who the president is going to pick to succeed justice kennedy on the supreme court. we are told there are four individuals on that list. three men, one woman. all with intellectual ties to the constitution. a lot of people are reading palace intrigue into where certain justices were at the time and who was with them. what they