we have to leave it there, god bless aretha franklin. lou: good evening, our top story, tonight straight talk on impact of the trump policy agenda on this country. tonight we recognize the facts that national left wing media ignore. you noticed since president trump was elected, booming trump economy has been growing, strengthening and american can again be call the a prosperous nation and americans a prosperous people. as the president promised on the campaign trail in 2016, his leadership, his administration, policies have resulted in a return to prosperity for all americans. and as we have come to expect, dems, national left wing media

attack all his policies and seem more interested in preserving what was a devastating status quo for millions of americans before elected and still resist his policies, even though they have almost from the beginning created jobs, created wealth, and created opportunity, and a brighter future for all. left and rinos combining to lash out at president's america first policy, fighting hard against his use of tariffs to protect american industry and workers. doom sayers from the left, right, rinos, dimms fear mongering, but policies, have paid impressive dividends in less than two years in office. >> our economy is doing better than it ever has before. it was going in the wrong direction whether we came on board, now it doing bitter thanr than before.

lou: nation's largest retailer today saying that americans are spending, spending more. walmart reports best sales growth in a decade. >> china sending envoy to the country this month to talk about a deal on the president's terms, those terms will mean a trade relationship that is first of all fair for both countries, balanced and reciprocal. we take it up with fox analyst ed rollins, and new york columnist michael goodwin. >> and president had to counter the attacks from seemingly every quart, left, rhinos, the koch brothers, business round table, putin, and xi and kim and at

home. they conspire to subvert and destroy mr. president trump's presidency. >> it was like they were best friends. lou: all best friends, not working in the best interest of this country, we'll talk with investigative reporter sarah carter, tonight has new details on origins of phony trump dossier. >> and paul manafort's fate is now in hands of a virginia jury, deliberations underway in first trial for mueller and his 17 angry democrats. judicial watch chris fairly will be witwillfarrellwill be with u. >> our top story, damaging new details emerge on disgraced justice department official bruce ohr, now focus on contact ohr had with a discredit the dossier author christopher

steele after the 2016 presidential election, catherine herridge with the latest for us, beginning with a white house announcement that it may pull ohr's security clearance. >> as part of this review, i am evaluating acted with respect to following individuals, james clapper, james comey, michael haden, sally yates, lisa page, and bruce oho. >> -- ohr on only official on the list still working in the government, he is connected to controversial trump dossier, and during the presidential elect, scandal over alleged government surveillance abuse, his wife nelly worked for fusion gps, and dnc and clinton campaign paid the firm for trump dossier. after fbi dropped steele as a source forlying in november

2016, been lead house intelligence committee found that steel mountains contact with ohr as a back-channel. >> his wife worked with the firm that put together the dossier, it is never supposed to work that way. reporter: in closed-doorsome last year, cofounder of fusion gps, had now contact with ohr until after the presidential elect, but the e-mails conflict with the testimony, showing contacts earlier in december 2016, note indicate a meeting in washington, d.c. chinatown, saying gave him a memory stick. >> fbi received documents and material from mr. ohr . >> the documents shed more light on steele's activities before the presidential election he

also asked ohr for help with a russian gol dark oligarch. >> and steel of the concerned about comey's firing, afraid they will be exposed, today justice deputy declined to comment or a chance to tell his story on august 28 when a closed-door committee is scheduled. during the presidential election. lou: thank you. >> catherine herridge. >> joining us chris farrell, director of investigation and research for judicial watch, great to have you with us, how deeply do you believe ohr on be connected to christopher steele? former mi6 spy, to the entire effort to discredit first

president's campaign, then his administration? >> first, that is eye that is ag piece of journalism by ca cathee herridge, it pounds out ohr is the lynch pin in all this, with his wife's connection at fusion gps, and him taking information and funneling it back to fbi and doj away outside of scoich his s authority, abusing his position in was o offers. this shows the subject matter, and all of it, circles around ohr at this point, this isa the indictment that has been put forward, and report by catherine herridge, it is devastating. >> devastating, but we have seen other devastating evidence as we've gone through this long,

national nightmare, the mueller witch-hunt. what will come of this? what come of it? the american people are frustrated even as congress will be talking with bruce ohr, we're not going to have a window or will we be able to hear his words. it is very tough to continue on this path where even those who are trying to provide oversight are not able or at least at this time clever enough to come up with a way to share revelations with american people. >> i think services done here to get that message out, be clear that you know in the case of other scandals, you heard expression drip, drip. there now a mountain of evidence of the connection. all character that catherine laid out this a point where it

cannot be ignored, layerings onions are being pulled back. lou: i am sorry you would think that department of justice could not ignore any of the material, you would think that fbi could not to credit of fbi at least, office of inspector general has been a credible job. in trying to bring that information forward. but we're a long way from solutions. >> we are, that rests on head of mr. rosenstein who is sitting by feeding fires of mueller witch-hunt and ignores the mountain of evidence that been built up pointing in the opposite directed o of a corrupt fbi dodge attempting to steer outcome of a presidential elected. >> and john brennan. the former the former obama cia

director. attacking president of yesterd yesterday. i cannot tell you how appalling it is to hear people with trade credibility and great standing, defending his free speech rights a reason not to lift his security clear answer. your reacted? >> look, brennan has gone off deepened, discredited and disgraced himself. none of former officials are owed a security clearance, it is a privilege not a right, his conduct has been so outrageous he disqualified himself, including his op-ed today in "new york times," a lot of them are leveraging that clear an cl.

lou: to be honest it is a pass to party who those who want to prosper in this club of those who possess security clearances, and most often it seems to be for new good reason. >> president trump's decision to revoke brennan's clearance is one of the best smartest things he has done, it is anti-swamp. lou: i want to read you something from senator richard burr. for first time represented by his statement realized by his office today, he is defending president of the united states he is quoted, director brennan's recent statements purport to know has fact that the president trump campaign cleule colluded h power, if the statement is based owon intelligence while still leading cia, why didn't he

include it in intelligence committee assessment released in 2017, if it based on intelligence since leaving ost, that constitutes an intelligence breach, if he has other personal knowledge or evidence of collusion, it should be disclosed to special special co, not "new york times" if he is political and based on congestionure, president has full authority to revoke his second clearance as head of the economtheth executive branch. >> i am glad senator burr woke up, doing something positive and state the facts as they are, i am encouraged by it he has kind of dropped ball in other places. lou: the first time he has

defended the president, and i think that reason is that evidence is so compelling, that clinton corruption, obama littlt expense of the national interest is reasons that i think we've seen a turn in what i think will be a substantial turn in the affairs of mueller witch munt. witch-hunt. >> the winds have shifted. >> yes, sir, criss farrell thank you. >> walmart with strongest quarter of sales growth in more than a decade, stock is up 10% after respecting earnings, ceo said, customers tell us they feel better about current health in u.s. economy as well as their

personal finances, they are more confident about their employment opportunities. the way that nation should feel about itself. and china, buckling under economic pressure by the trump administration announcing a trade delegation to be in washington d.c. this month for trade talks, afterward of a possible break glue i breakthroa talks with mexico. as trump administration continues to push for fair, balanced reretrade. we're foolings to put up with such deficit. >> we'll take up silence from paul ryan after john brennan had his security clearance pulled, that much more, ed rollins,

michael goodwin join me here next, stay with us, we'll be right back. my father passed this truck down to me, that's the same thing i want to do with you. it's an emotional thing to watch your child grow up and especially get behind the wheel. i want to keep you know, stacking up the memories and the miles and the years. he's gonna get mine but i'm gonna get a new one! oh yeah! he's gonna get mine but i'm gonna get a new one! when it's time for your old chevy truck to become their new chevy truck, there's truck month. get 10 or 14 percent below msrp on 2018 silverado pickups when you finance with gm financial. plus, during truck month make no monthly payments for 90 days. find new roads at your local chevy dealer.

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paul ryan did not take the president's side on the issue, he didn't take his word. >> i think he is trolling people. honestly. this is something in the for view -- purview of the executive branch, some have lost it, and others styl still have it, not r purview. lou: president proving he is a man of action. does not make empty statements. warning that more may be on the way. joining us tonight, ed rollins, former reagan white house political director, fox business political analyst, michael godwin pulitzer prize winning columnist, fox news contributor. your sense on the issue of

clearance. it is stunning the left with all of its nonsense coming up with this as a percentm -- first amendment issue. >> i thought response by burr was instructive, he put out a statement, saying you know, in his op-ed in times, said had is hogwash when trump says there is no collusion, and burr said we're not away of any, mueller has not come up with any, if you are aware of any on your watch, you are violating security. it a security breach if you say something that you learned on the job. lou: as we reported. >> i think that goes to the heart of who job brennan is. a pure partisan now, and he does not he should not have clearance if he will play political games like that.

lou: this anyone have a clearance after leaving an administration. that hangs over this discussion. >> my premise, i worked in two white house, i had top clearance, the day i walked out, i did not expect anything, only keep someone to help you, you need to bring them back. these guys have not only not helped them they have been opposition. lou: to that point, why would any president, but this president in particular, who talked about smart government, bridge back same people for counsel who screwed it up for 8 years for crying out loud. >> brennan has been biggest leaker in white house and cia for years, i would have fired him, and i would have basically shut him down a long time ago, and he has done a great injustice to the cia, overall are wonderful human being who serve country. >> everyin suggesttion that

national security team of president obama, very next the insiincipient point to subvert campaign and presidency of donald trump, why in the world would he tolerate that? >> look, i think that is the key issue, that brennan should be investigated not so much for now but about what he did in offers -- in office. rudy guliani said he believes that brennan of the quarterback to undermine trump's campaign. lou: look to admiral william who came out with a statement if we could put that up. do we have that? there ithere it.

i would consider an honor if you would revoke my security clearance, so i can add my name to list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency. one of the most decorated, respected men in general staff of the country. revered by seals that i know, with whom i have talked. why would anyone get involve flood this? for the sake of john brennan? >> i have no idea, he is a 4-star admiral, served this country, abley and he understand that president is commander in chief, he should just bite his tongue, collect his retirement do whatever he does, he should not be criticizing the president's decision, i would say thank you very much give me a star back if you want with

thathat -- >> he earned them, but with what he lost in way of respect today with that grandstanding is unfortunate, disappointing, i think. he will likely regret it for some time. the president now, is looking at success on every quarter. he has been in office you know, just over a year and a half. this is such a remarkable performance and yet the left is more desperate, more fevered in their criticism. there are add mo -- attacks thek with the newspapers coming together with a giant glob of fake news, i don't know what

they could think they would achieve. >> i think they further dug themselves into hold of being part -- hole of being partisan. the fundamental core of american media has collapsed. it is now just a partisan operation this group thing, this special interest approach. >> group think? they want to putting it together 350 others. >> yes, but this pleading, we're the keepers of first amendment, no, you are not, everyone has the first amendment, not just the newspapers, their attitude is disgraceful. >> you can take any one of those newspapers, 3 times a week writing negative stuff about the president. lou: how many times a week. >> that a good day for the president. lou: i still can't get over.

you can go to "new york times" and washington post if you have the stomach for it, look at their front page, post in particular, assigns at least 8 articles op-eds, features attacking the president of the united states. >> very give kille -- difficulto distinguish between the two. lou: thank you appreciate it. >> in our poll, do you think firing of peter strzok and revoking presen beenrevoke breny clearance? up next. newly uncovered text-messages between christopher feel and bruce orh, they could be critically in the fight against

russia witch-hunt.

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lou: jury in trial of paul manafort completed its first full day of deliberations, no verdict, they are going back tomorrow, they are ask the judge to redefine reasonable doubt, government is not required to prove defen defendant guilty bod all possible doubt bureasonable bought, i bought based on reason. jury will resume tomorrow. and top attorney testifying behind closed-doors on capitol hill, lawmakers interested in his role in overseeing fbi role

in the of the hillary clinton server. >> joining us, investigative reporter fox news contributor, sarah carter. great to have you with us. it and i don't know about you, you live with the story day in and out. it just seems there is no evidence other than massive collusion. but that collusion has been on part of the department of justice, fbi. intelligence committee under president obama. and where necessary, the dems, democratic national committee, and uk intelligence, mi6 well what woul we say, ex- spies ande russians. >> that is true. we heard today from a number of senior officials with the

senate. other lawmakers, they have never been offered proof of collusion bean the trump campaign and russia. it just does not exist. brennan keeps insinuating and thankfully his clearance was revoked, i can't tell you how many people in the intelligence community were waiting for that to happen. because hic ede he exceeded fard what he needed to talk about, insinuating there was blackmail information on the president, i have asked, if you have this information, share it with america, let's be done with this. this is a che share -- charade,y just down have it. and another example of how fbi his the information. lou: you have the text-messages at least many of them, between

ohr and steele. how purpose do you think those text-messages are, and what they reveal? >> i think they are extraordinarily important, i think it shows bruce ohr of used as a back-channel for steele, he violated their protocol, he was shopping his information out in summer 2016 to multiple media outlets, disseminating disinformation because christopher steele said he cannot verify the information in his dossier, so the fbi continues to use steele through bruce ohr, the question is, the most important question, when did the fbi find out that christopher steele of actually shopping this information around? if it was before first fisa

warrant on carter page this is a huge problem. lou: along with hillary campaign. and who was managing that benefactors to steele. and one has to wonder, is it an accident so many people were involved in the uk, and working on the behalf for example perhaps another intelligence agency, a foreign intelligence agency, whether russia or uk or another. against this administration? >> i think there were a number of intelligence agencies involved in this, christopher steele we call him a former british spy, he is in communication with people at mi6 and others, they gather overseas intelligence, we know he was

delivering information to mi6 and gathering -- >> i apologize we're coming up against called a hard out. great to have you with us, sarah carter. >> thank you. lou: autism spectrum disorder

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lou: joiny us, national republican committee woman from state of california. good to have you with us. the arrest in sacramento of a

man who is a terrorist for isis. for crying out loud, looks as though under term of chain migration. and managing to stay here for some time. your thoughts about isis being this successful and likelihood they have been successful in a lot of other places besides sacramento. >> absolutely, lou. what is concerning that this one of about a half dozen incident over last 3 or 4 years terrorists, in our bay area, in the larger california area. and only reason he got caught is because the government of iraq has an arrest warrant out for him and asked him to be returned. this tells me is that terrorists and other wrong doers view the state of california, sanctuary

jurisdiction a very fo fertile ground to convert others, your california citizens and greater american community is up safe unsafe because of that. lou: sanctuary tat state now and sanctuary cities, they don't defend that border with nevada, arizona or state of oregon, terrorists if they do get in, have access to the entire country. let's turn to if we may john brennan. -- okay. lou: lifting his security clearance. and also the review by administration. president of others, appropriate in your judgment or not? >> overdue. lou. the real question is why did he have a security clearance at all. how did he become head of cia

with his background. brennan during his tenure oversaw giving billions of dollars to iran, unmasks of american citizens according to his own physician, russian interference with our election. you know, i don't see why he should have had a second clearance for a minute longer than his during a with obama administration. i think that president needs to have an oc objectiv objective py across the board. >> i take what you are saying that. it would be in your judgment easier sell to the left in particular if there is an be on objective standard for groups. but thinking about this to me it seems incredible that the director of national

intelligence, head of the fbi, and head of cia under president obama, work azusa on -- as one o attack this president personally, looked as they were doing so clearly beneath the you know tab -- tab la rasa. a subversion effort on part of previous administration or at least 3 of its officials, there should be far more than just security clearances lifted. >> now doubt. clapper lied to congress. there is a long host of hostile acts began our current government but even against the american people during obama administration. i hope that the doj, 1 it gets political will to do to investigates what happened hire, and fundamental rights of american citizens, not just republicans but a lot of american citizens violated by

these people. lou: ha -- dylan. >> thank you. lou: on same day, more than 300 newspapers willful fill president's caricature of them, they ran a self righteous article defending themselves. onanchor made -- well you decide what he made. >> how many people in republican party think it would be okay for donald trump to deself thei disr own grandparents, 10% would be, donald trump has power to do every one, including kill my parents. lou: on the faces of all people at table, you could see, what he made of himself, what an ignorant, john heilman, unbelievable. we'll be right back after the break, stay with us. xfinity mobile is a new wireless network

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us. lou: new york governor cuomo seldom speaks in public, the dems are terrified nearly of time he because, he says things like this. >> come down to this, we're not going to make america great

again, it was never that great. we have not reached greatness. >> even his left wing audience did not think of that comment, and left wing national media seem unwilling to forgive him for his latest insult to nation, and his weak knee effort to retract it without an apology. >> joining me now, charlie hurt, fox business contributor, the man seldom has a press conference, rarely speaks in public. and we saw why. >> maybe he should stick to not making appearances. lou: how did he get into politics. >> i know, so funny, be clear, as a politician, your number one job is to talk, and to speak not

say stupid things. and to be that bad at talking and not saying stupid things is amazing, i think about his father mario cuomo. he is turning over in his grave right now, he was so eloquent, you know he believed in a hopeful message. the way that i don't know all politicians used to. lou: even barack obama was talking home and change no matter what he did. >> that '08 campaign, i still believe that was one of best campaigns we have seen in decades. lou: but little connection to his the policy. >> you are a weisman. -- wiseman, you are able to discern that, most of us said this is

positive. but by 2012, it was rotten, we knew it was all lying lies, he d hotly negative at that time. lou: i digress, i was among those as well, equally given to hope and change. not enough to vote for him. but within 6 months he had astronomical approval . . . >> you know to me that is the story of that entire era. the opportunity that he had to bring america together. like no other president had before. and he could have done it, and instead within opposite directed. when a missed opportunity.

lou: i think that national left wing media spins a lot of i have thi havethe -- attacking this p, they are still dialing with fact they were bamboozled by barack obama and their own disappointment. i think considerable guilt for aiding and abetting him in what turned out to be a very sad, sad 8 years. >> i don't know that i would give him that much credit. lou: okay i take it back. >> what a failure it was. i think they are so consumed with their hatred, not only of donald trump, they hate donald trump. whatever. he is a big boy, he can handle it. it is how much they hate the american voter, and the people they think -- >> let's be honest, they hate america and everything that we're about. >> yeah, and that dairy farmer

out in america that steel worker, who basically loves america, wants to work, wants a job, they have nothing but contempt for those people, as evidenced by that john heilman kip yoclip before the break talg about how stupid voters are. lou: the look on the faces of those people in at that anchor desk, they were horrified. they are getting a lot of that stuff over there on the left these days. charlie hurt, thank you we appreciate it. >> great to be here. lou: charlie hurt. >> after the break, a look at documents linking corrupt deputy of justice official to the russia witch-hunt. stay with us, we're coming right my father passed this truck down to me, that's the same thing i want to do with you. it's an emotional thing to watch your child grow up and especially get behind the wheel.

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reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. this is where we are today and what we are looking for tomorrow. a review of bruce ohr's justice department emails, handwritten notes and texts revealing how connected he has been to the discredited dossier and the russia witch hunt. >> it shows bruce ohr was being used as a back channel for christopher steele, even after the fbi had to let christopher steele go because he violated their protocol. he was shopping his information in 2016 to multiple outlets. lou: the virginia jury in the paul manafort trial go back to work tomorrow.

the jury ended the day with a question, "what is reasonable doubt?" lame duck house speaker paul ryan says he doesn't think tariffs are the way to go. but mitch mcconnell changed his tune on tariffs, now backing the president's stance on balanced and fair trade with china. do you suppose paul ryan will muster the integrity to follow mitch mcconnell's example? do you think the firing of peter strzok and the revocation of john brennan's security clearance is an indication they are going on the offensive to put an end to the mueller witch

hunt once and for all. join us tomorrow. we'll be talking with interior secretary ryan zinke and >> they announced the great numbers, fantastic guidance. also came on the heels at the the same time of china tariff talk announcement. a golden scenario for wal-mart coupled with economic news that we have seen. cheryl: fantastic news helped leading dow in latest gain, wal-mart-amazon faceoff. legal cause legal cause futures up this morning, dow up 19, more turmoil for tesla how elon musk infamous tweet on taking the company private play have been the icing on the cake for sec. cheryl: following