>> lou: good evening, everybody. our top story. anticipation building in evansville where an hour from now president trump will hold a rally in support of the senate candidate mike brawn. indiana, you see there, they have been filing in the venue for hours in evansville, indiana. the president hoping to add to his already spectacular record of trump-endorsed candidates who have won their races this year. his primary record is 31 wins, two losses. no president in history has even come close to his winning record. few presidents, if any, have had the courage to endorse candidates in primary

elections. waiting for the general election matchups instead. tonight's rally comes as the president spent part of his day slamming fake news, fake search and all sorts of nemesis. the president fighting back against relentless attacks from the national left wing media and the tech and the social media allies in silicon valley. all of them anti-trump, anti-conservative. demanding an end today to the lies and their abusive treatment of conservatives. >> president trump: you have twitter, you have whatever you have, facebook. but everyone, you can't have censorship. you can't pick one person and say we don't like what he has been saying, he's out. >> lou: judge jeanine pirro joins us to talk about the let's coordinated unrereasonning effort to smear and subvert this president and the ongoing coverup of the department of justice, f.b.i., political corruption. also tonight the radical dem

who says that america was never that great and now insulting the immigration laws. >> new york state is a state that says we will not cooperate with ice. they are a bunch of thugs. >> lou: that is new york's barely comprehensible governor andrew cuomo under fire for not only his outrageous remarks, he is also facing a campaign corruption scandal. we will take that up tonight with the republican political strategist ed rollins. and political correspondent byron york. an our top story, president trump arriving in indiana tonight where he will speak at a rally for republican senate candidate mike brawn. hundreds have been lining up in the hoosier state since this morning to attend the rally. president trump arrived amidst a fire storm in the national left wing media after he took them head on over fake news in particular.

giving great notice to cnn and the reporting of the trump towers story. president tweeted this last night. cnn being torn apart from within based on them being caught in a major lie and refusing to admit their mistake. sloppy carl bernstein a man who lives in the past and thinks like a degenerate fool making up story after stair and being laughed all over the country. fake news. then he followed up with this. lanny davis admits being anonymous source in cnn report. bret baier. oh well, so much for cnn saying it wasn't lanny. no wonder their ratings are so low. it's fake news. cnn firing back with this. make no mistake, mr. president. cnn does not lie. we report the news. we report when people in power tell lies. cnn stands by our reporting and our reporters.

there may be many fools in this story but carl bernstein is not one of them. so says cnn. after cnn's tepid response, the president geared up and let the media have it. saying -- "the hatred and extreme bias of me by cnn clouded their thinking, making them unable to function. but actually as i've always said this has been going on for a long time. little jeff z. has done a terrible job. his ratings suck. and at&t should fire him to save credible." he continues. "what is going on at cnn is happening to different degrees at other networks. with nbc news being one of the worst. the good news is that andy looky -- get it -- is about to be fired for incompetence and much worse. when lester holt got caught fudging my tape on russia, they were hurt badly." the left wing media apoplectic

because president trump will not back down. vice president mike pence says this is a major reason that mr. trump was elected president. >> vice president pence: all i know, a lot of the liberal media met their match in president trump. they understand the american people elected this man because he had a right vision for the country and because he is a fighter. >> lou: president trump has also been busy fighting tech giants for suppressing conservative voices saying the likes of google, facebook and twitter are doing may be illegal and his administration is looking into it. joining us today, host of "justice with judge jeanine pirro" and author of the "new york times" best seller "liars, leakers and liberals: the case against the anti-trump conspiracy." judge, great to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> lou: i have to say, the president exceeds himself. he is tearing everyone out

there in the left wing media. well, he is giving them a proper perspective of where he thinks they should be and how they should be operating. >> the amazing part of this, lou, here is a man who probably should be vacationing. right? it's the end of the summer. he just doesn't give up. that is why he was elected. he's a fighter. >> lou: he came back from ten days in jersey. >> that works every day. i know that. the guy is constantly working. but a lot of what he says is absolutely true. americans believe what he is saying. so if you start with nbc, look , jeff zucker now with nbc. is it nbc? >> lou: cnn. >> it's andy looky. wasn't it nbc who told ronin farro who had the whole thing about harvey weinstein we don't want this story, this is not ready and this is not something we're interested in. why? they were owned by wienstein

in the figure tiff sense. and then nbc with matt lauer. a man on the second floor told me about matt lauer years ago and the dalliances. if we knew about it, i'm sure nbc knew about it. then you have the other issues at nbc. they are the first ones to criticize us. look, nbc and cnn, cnn is devoted to saying every three seconds "donald trump should be impeached," should be impeached, impeached. if we can't impeach him, how the we indict? the office of legal counsel says we can't indict the president. so let's get a state attorney general to indict the president. the americans are fed up with this. so is the president for good reason. >> lou: and the american people are fed up. irrespective of the polls that you choose, it's my personal opinion that president trump is at least ten points greater than the mums -- than the numbers reported.

46%, 44%. the american people will make themselves heard in the midterm elections. i think there is a big surprise awaiting the dems who are moving so far left. this attack, concerted, orchestrated in the national left wing media with the democratic national committee, the democratic party, the left. it is going to blow up in their faces. >> you know, if you look at what just happened in the primaries. ron desantis wins florida in the republican primary on wednesday. then to the right is this gentleman gillum. and he is very left wing. they never expected him to win. so as you go through even arizona and florida, california. they are so far left, their candidates, when it comes to november it's a different game totally. we are central. whoever trump supports wins their primaries. >> lou: you have to

appreciate the president's sense of humor. he tweeted out that attorney general jeff sessions' job is safe, that he will not fire him before the midterm elections. >> right, before november. how many days is that? okay so we are safe. >> lou: 68 now. >> 68 days? you know what? i think, look, i don't know where jeff sessions gets off being the attorney general when in truth, how can you work for a guy who doesn't want you? where is your dignity? where is your self-esteem? where is your sense of self? the guy doesn't want you. give it up. >> lou: well, we are not going to give you up. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> lou: judge jeanine pirro. join her saturdays 9:00 p.m. eastern. every saturday. >> every saturday. that's right. >> lou: fox news channel. up next, what is in the name? the headquarters of the one-sided nato alliance could be rebranded courtesy of the very powerful and highly

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apparently charles schumer has stolen the march on him so he is trying to find a place to fame something for cane -- for john mccain. he wants to rename nato headquarters in bres severals after -- brussels after a former senator. an amazing idea from an amazing fellow. joining us tonight another amazing fellow. ed rollins, the hall of fame political consultant, republican strategist. without peer. roll lens served as the white house political director under president reagan. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> lou: marco rubio. there is trump derangement syndrome. now let's lionize john

mccain syndrome. >> you would think a president died and they are doing what they are doing. i don't want to dump on them but it's important to separate the man and the myth. and people do that. >> lou: we are not talking about rubio are we? >> rubio is out of the game now. basically the combination of scott and now desantis has really eliminated -- the bushes and the rubio are no longer the players in florida. to a certain extent, you know, he basically cast his lot with mccain on a number of things unsuccessfully to go with an immigration bill. >> lou: or schumer. >> or schumer with the gang of eight. always a gang. six or seven or none were successful. my issue is if you start renaming buildings, might as well make them federal buildings. one federal building two. we have to say the historic moment this person who was there was a -- >> lou: schumer wants to rename russell senate

building. >> senator mccain was important when he was there. -- russell was important if you were there. >> lou: and lyndon johnson. >> use it as a teaching lesson but the idea we'll change bridges in new york. >> lou: do you suppose this idea of schumer's is suggesting he has recognized that the building will never be named after him? >> it definitely will not be named after him. the rye ronnie and no disrespect -- the irony and no disrespect to mccain he is the third most unpopular member of the senate. >> lou: i saw that poll. i can't recall who did the poll. >> a big poll. >> lou: stunning poll. you know what? another poll i do recall, cbs news earlier this year.

john mccain was more popular among democrats -- >> than among republicans. >> lou: by the way, in both cases, he was underwater. that is more republicans viewed him unfavorably and more democrats viewed him favorably. it's amazing. >> he didn't fit the modern day party. not just the trump party. against the tea party and against conservatives. he antagonized every republican president with the exception of him being the nominee since being in the senate and the house. my sense is wish him well. but you see all the democrats that are there, paul bearers and what have you, he was more closer to the democrats than to the republicans at the end of the day. >> lou: a great american hero. five and a half years in captivity. >> absolutely. >> lou: in vietnam war. >> went through an experience that none of sus to do that hopefully and he was a great champion. >> lou: that is largely what the expression is here in washington. is for his frankly, for his

military service to this nation. far more than. >> what he will get legitimately, he was chairman of the armed services committee. he will get a portrait and they will rename that room after him. that is a significant thing. >> lou: this is not a time of proportion, is it? or perspective. you know what? at least we are moving forward. that is important. >> i agree. >> lou: thank you. >> my pleasure. >> lou: ed rollins, it will be a heck of a night in indiana. mike braun just before we go, i have to ask you, how is that going to go? the president is putting his prestige on the line for him. >> he should. donnelly is 12 points ahead in the polls so the president has to come in an remind why he needs a republican in the

senate. i think he will make a big difference. >> lou: you think he will win? >> yeah. i think that he shouldn't win today. >> lou: i know. but the election is november 2. i'm -- november 6. predict the future. >> this should be where you know of the high points of the president. this and florida. he can make a difference there and remind republicans why they need a republican senator. >> lou: is braun going to win? >> i think he can win. >> lou: the savant. >> the reason i'm savant, ten weeks to go and a lot can happen. if it were today he wouldn't win but in ten weeks he can win. if he does the right things. >> lou: i'm taking full notes on this and bring you back in the course of the next few weeks. thank you. >> good to see you. >> lou: ed rollins. president trump freezing pay raises for federal civilian employees and say the pay increases would cost taxpayers $25 billion. the president making his

decision less than a week after an obama appointed judge overturned three of the executive orders aimed to weaken federal labor unions, incity -- instituting merit-based pay system and the president insisting that pay increases will be merit-based for civilians serving in the federal government. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. if tech and social media companies continue with their anti-trump, anti-conservative bias, should we demand regulation of their platforms? cast your vote on twitter. @loudobbs. follow me on twitter or like me on facebook or follow me at instagram. up next, new york governor andrew cuomo shows how far he has moved to the radical left. >> new york state is a state that says we will not cooperate with i.c.e., they're a bunch of thugs. he politicized i.c.e., they are a bunch of thugs. we said we will sue them.

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>> lou: the "new york post" reports new york governor andrew cuomo received campaign contribution from attorney representing harvey weinstein. just six days before ending an investigation in to his case. cuomo halted the investigation of the manhattan district attorney vance who himself stopped pursuing weinstein after receiving a $10,000 donation from the same attorney. joining us is byron york, fox business contributor. it's good to have you with and good to see you. >> thank you, lou. >> lou: governor cuomo is suddenly in the middle of the

controversy of his own making. it seems to be building by the week. is this purposeful or has he lost all political touch? >> he does seem to be out of touch right now. he seems to be out of touch with some of the currents in the democratic party. i think what we are seeing in this debate between him and cynthia nixon and in this race in general is that the old hillary-bernie fight is continuing with a different cast of characters now. the fight between the progressive wing and the old fashioned liberal establishment wing of the democratic party is going on. cuomo seemed loaded for bear but having trouble aiming last night. the idea that the candidate would say, "i'll stop lying when you do" is mindboggling. that is what came out of his mouth. >> lou: that came out of his mouth, insulting immigration and customs enforcement. by the way, they are a

standard for law enforcement in this country and then to unsult them as thugs? are you kidding me? does it play so well in new york it's just a statement he has no future national ambitions? >> it's hard to believe that could really play in a statewide race. maybe in alexandria ocasio-cortez's district in bronx and parts of brooklyn. it doesn't seem like it would work in a statewide race. but on the other hand, you see that conventional liberal establishment politicians like him trying to catch up with the progressive wing. does he want to abolish i.c.e.? yeah. let's call them a bunch of thugs. what about medicare for all? well, can't go there yet but who knows? there is still time. >> lou: well, mayor gillum did go there. he wants medicare for all. >> he did.

can't be paid for so he needs to create at least a regional syndicate of state where he could pull that off. and destroy the budget of the state of florida, which has enjoyed, well, immense prosperity under president trump's presidency. this is getting to be a wild race in florida as it begins now with gillum basically under investigation, federal investigation. three years of extraordinary crime rates in the city of tallahassee that he has mayored. this is looking like a clash between the left, the far left and the democratic party itself before we even get to the republican trump era. >> well, a lot of us were paying perhaps more attention to the republican race where we really did see the power of

donald trump with the republican voters. his endorsement of ron desantis really turned that race. turned it in a big way. it wasn't close. >> lou: adam putnam had i think a 25-point lead at one point. >> yeah. >> lou: the president stepped in and turned it all upside down for the establishment g.o.p. and the koch brothers and wall street and the business round table and the chamber of commerce. there is no doubt. which is stronger? establishment g.o.p., represented by those entities or donald trump? right now the answer is convincingly donald trump. >> absolutely. putnam had been elected statewide and desantis had not. when they had the debate, i believe it was bret baier and martha maccallum on it. desantis did an excellent job. he got exposure across the state and then he had the president come in and it really flipped the race. while all that was happening

there was a multi-candidate race going on in the democratic party. remember andrew gillum i think won with 34% of the vote. >> lou: right. >> and so -- >> lou: he was up against five other candidates. all basically establishment democrats. >> one of whom named graham. the daughter of a senator and former governor bob graham. you had an establish. thing going again. and everybody was really surprised when gillum came out on top. >> lou: we look at what is happening in the democratic party and arizona, arizona, oklahoma with the gubernatorial runoff. this is starting to be one of the most interesting if not the most interesting already midterm elections that we have seen since certainly 2010. >> absolutely. arizona being a really, really critical race because if democrats were to capture the

house, that is a rain possibility. for the republicans, the senate becomes everything. everything. and they have got good pickup opportunities like north dakota. but arizona is the one where democrats think they mate be able to pick up one and -- might be able to pick up one. >> lou: i don't believe either party anymore when it comes to this. this is going to be, it seems to me right now, very clearly, the democrats have very little to run on. they will be as nasty and brutal as they can. it looks like a scorched earth campaign led by the far left elements. and we have seen what happens when there is no bridge across the center for the democrats or the republicans. and the democrats certainly don't have that bridge. it's certainly not represented by any major candidate in any state that i have been following. >> no, they have been having a hard time coming up with an actual strategy because the entire race is anti-trump.

that is just it. and i do think that this year, this whole all politics is local and each one of these 435 house races going on across the country is really about local issues. i think we have not seen a year in which a president sort of has cast a shadow across every single political event. >> lou: i would frame that somewhat differently. the president casting a bright light across all of that. >> bright light. that is what i meant to say. >> lou: that is what i thought you meant. we look at the republicans, though, the choice seems to be very clear now because republicans are acknowledging that if the democrats win, they are going to work as hard as they can to begin impeachment proceedings against the president of the united states. the democrats tried to play coy for a while. but now that is clearly their unifying message. we will impeach president trump. that is charge him. although, so many democrats acknowledge there is no crime

with which to charge him. they simply want him out of office. this is an entire party lurching left and announcing publicly that they intend to overthrow a presidency. >> this is becoming extremely difficult for democratic leaders. you have seen in the past, they have tried to be cool about impeachment. or at least let's not talk about impeachment. august 21 was a big day. a was the day of the michael cohen plea. it's also the paul manafort guilty verdict. with the michael cohen plea, the democrats got so excited about the presidenting implicated in a felony of campaign finance violations. i think the democratic desire to see, the base desire to see impeachment went up more. there has been a poll by axios recently that showed 79% of the democratic voters favor impeachment. the leaders cannot really put

a lid on that. >> lou: especially leaders who have, by the way, been out leading that very strategum talking about the impeachment of the president. they have said so much falsehood and ignorance and so much vitriol in to their party that i don't know if they can escape what they have brought. >> they have come one a new poll tested phrase, not a new phrase but a new phrase they tested in the polls they want to serve as a check and a balance on president trump. or to counter the culture of corruption. so the one thing they are absolutely coming out and saying is if they take control of the house there will be an avalanche of subpoenas heading toward the white house. adam schiff will be the chairman. naylol will be the chairman of

judiciary committee. the subpoenas will be fast and furious to borrow a phrase. >> lou: pantheon of irrational leftum. byron, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, lou. >> lou:en in -- none of which i pray we will witness. up next, harvard university under fire for the race-based admissions standards. we take it up amongst other campus emerging issues with our attorney who joins us after the break. stay with us. we'll be right back. (vo) when bandits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach,

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>> lou: the trump justice department cited with a group of asian american students suing harvard university over its race-based admission policy. the department of justice alleging harvard uses a personal rating that discriminates against asian-american applicants. the case goes to trial in october. 22% of ad mitted 2021 harvard class is asian-american. joining us tonight is dillon, the attorney, r.n.c. committee woman for the great state of california. it's great to have you with us. >> thank you, lou. >> lou: start with the case with the department of justice. race-based admissions of any kind should be -- i would think in this day and age -- a real red flag for admissions

officers, for university administrations. >> absolutely. it's illegal to put it bluntly. unfortunately in today's america, discrimination against asian-americans is the last frontier. and the justification is that because asian-americans on average, their students overperform, if you allowed people based solely on merit you would have more than 50% of the harvard community being asian-american so we can't have that because of course, the left believes in racial gerrymandering and manipulation of society this way. so what they do is assign low personality scores to asian candidates and use that as a proxy for elimination of those students. even without actually meeting the students. so, that is obviously illegal. the federal government stepped in because the federal government gives substantial funds to harvard. so harvard has to comply with title xi and federal civil rights regulations. they have a great place and i look forward to it playing out in court in october, lou. >> lou: it's fascinating. by the way, it's not just

asian-americans. i love the expression "over-performed." in a merit based, in a meritocracy, a capitalist economy, free enterprise, we should be celebrating, quote/unquote, "overperformance" in every fashion. it makes it sounds redundant or superfluous. i don't know how anyone could get to the level that it's overperformance. >> we can't have people out of their place. >> lou: you want overperformers. >> yeah. >> lou: and to deny them, denies the country. >> absolutely. >> lou: and to your point, you know, when you -- i don't know that everyone has thought this through to its logical extension. it is saying that we are going to put race before merit. we are going to put race before talent. and that there is some sort of magical potion that only elite universities know the formula

that somehow should be superseding merit, talent and demonstrated intellect and the great potential future for themselves and the country. >> yeah. >> lou: it denies us. >> bad news. i mean, it's un-american. it's like a brave new world. it's telling that they have to know their place and stay in their place. it's not right. >> lou: you know the other part of it is a quarter to a third of the students admitted are international students rather than american students. and some of those obviously losing their -- some of the people losing their seats, asian american, jewish students who also out-perform. i love that word. "outperform." i have never been accused of that. i would like to do that some day. anyway. >> you are an overperformer, too, but harvard doesn't have control over you, luckily?

they try. i appreciate it. thanks so much. >> my pleasure. >> lou: be sure to vote in tonight's poll. if tech and social media continues with their anti-trump, anti-conservative bias, should we demand regulation of their platforms? cast your vote on twitter. @loudobs. upup next, president trump gets a big win. trade deal with mexico. of but the national left wing media, they are dispagerring instead -- disparaging instead of applauding. what is their problem? i take that up in my commentary. that's next. stay with us. we'll be right back. you might or joints.hing for your heart... but do you take something for your brain.

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>> lou: well, tonight we once again can read all of the newspapers available, the web sites, watch television, see an hear all sorts of people bash the president of the united states. that is right. bash him. trash him. insult and disparage him viciously an endlessly. and they attack the president

daily. relentlessly. but not because he has failed in any way. to the contrary. president trump is succeeding beyond even the imaginings of his most ardent, passionate supporters. rebuilding our military, establishing american strategic pre-eminence rather than obama's strategic patience. today keeping the promise to tear up dumb trade deals and particularly, nafta. because nafty was a particularly dumb deal, even among vast numbers of dumb u.s. trade agreements. president trump again stunning the detractors by keeping another of his campaign promises. you would think by now they would have learned. mr. trump says what he means and means what he says. already an historic president inspiring trillions of dollars of growth in the markets, driving economic growth to 4% when the predecessor claimed

less than 2% was the new normal and insisting the entrepreneurs hadn't bent that. think of what he has accomplished. deregulating the economy that had been suffocating under the dems and obama. cutting taxes, as he promised, and restoring american confidence throughout. expanding our middle class. wages moving higher. resoaring prosperity for all americans. record low unemployment rates for minorities. he campaigned remember for the minority votes asking, "what have you got to lose?" everyone is winning with the president. lowest unemployment rates for women for two decades. he rolled back the oppressive value and the policy of the obama years. "obama, the oppressor" we might have called him who apologized for america on a global scale and frittered away immense opportunities for all our people. do you recall, by the way, a single article in the "new york times" or post or on "60

minutes" criticizing mr. obama? me either. imagine what the national left wing media could be doing right now to our great president if he weren't historic. and was failing america like his predecessor rather than succeeding. president trump is leading america. and for that i'm truly grateful. if you are as well, hope you will take some sometime and make your view known. in 71 days. your vote will count. just like it did two years ago. think where we could have been and how happy the national left wing media would have been had we not voted for president trump. let's do some more winning. president trump's poll numbers soaring despite the efforts of the radical dems and left wing media. we take it up with the former pollster. a democrat. clintonite once upon a time. after the break. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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>> lou: joining us tonight mark penn, pollster and former hillary clinton adviser, a great american. good to have you with us, mark. >> thank you. good evening. >> lou: i want to, if i may, start with the poll numbers. i'm just interested in how you react to president trump holding at 44, 46% in two

polls. despite the pummeling he takes every day. >> i'm a codirector of the harvard katz harris poll and chairman of the harris poll. i was surprised as anybody else that he held up at 46% job approval after the pummeling he clearly got in the media. but i polled for president clinton in a same situation. the economy was good and he got hit with monica lewinsky and we kept the ratings above 50%. the sate thing. the public saying this is not about the issues that affect me. >> lou: there is not even so much as a blanch. they don't even blush, the dems, go off on all sort of salacious nonsense that is irrelevant as you say to nearly all americans. it's pure speculation. it has nothing to do with the

nonsense spewed by the republican justice department. it's extraordinary. >> well, as you know, i spent a year fighting ken starr because i thought that this was the wrong direction, a wasted year for the country then. and i think this is a wasted year here in terms of so much air time. the mueller and the cohen investigation. i was stunned when it was quite clear that they got cohen to plead guilty to things that were not even crimes in order to try to reach out to implicate president trump related to the campaign contributions, which frankly should have been a civil fine matter, even if they were campaign contributions which i highly doubt they are based on my long experience with campaigns. >> lou: and, your judgment that hillary clinton has every appearance of being far guiltyer than anyone associated with the special

counsel, the targets of the special con sell to this point -- counsel to this point. she was given a free pass. give the president counsel here tonight. >> well, look, the president has got to defeat the mueller investigation. i think he is doing basically the right things. i think his people have to be and his tweets oftentimes go over the top. but i think when you go back is this investigation biased? yes, it is. was the foundation corrupt? it really was. the more you look at what happened with the f.b.i. has this now somehow transmuted back to 1998 all over again? we are looking at the private lives of our president and trying to create crimes there? yes, it has. any fair person now sees that. which is why we have to remove these kind of investigations from the politics and let elections decide things. >> lou: in "the hill" you

had written a piece talking about fusion g.p.s. and writing there is no question that hiring spies to do opposition research in russia would qualify as a campaign expenditure. and yet, no prosecution. it's staring everyone associated in the justice department, the f.b.i., they are looking at it and think have been looking at it. yet, they don't want to take that on for some strange and i'm sure corrupt reason. >> well, what i was trying to contrast was they have stretched everything imaginable to try to implicate trump related to these non-disclosure payments related to things from a decade ago. at the same time, clearly, the expenditures that were made to fusion g.p.s. and christopher steele by current election law had to be reported for what they were and not use a law firm as a cutout for that. that is clear. i'm not suggesting by the way that hillary and her campaign

should have been prosecuted. i'm suggesting that equal treatment should have occurred here and both of these things should have been called out and adjudicated. in the edwards case it's adjudicateed that these are not campaign expenditures. and the other case they were not properly disclosed but people don't go to jail for this. it fetes fined. this is way over the top. >> lou: i bet next you will tell me there is an attorney-client privilege that should be respected by the f.b.i. except when it applies, of course, to president trump. >> you have never seen the kind of deference that was accorded to attorneys working with hillary versus the opposite here. any school child can see that this is a stacked deck here. out to get the president. and that is why this is wrong. >> lou: mark penn, good to have you with us. i hope you will come back soon. i enjoyed the talk. >> thank you. >> lou: thank you. thank you for being with us on

the. good night from new york. have a great weekend. >> announcer: from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromo's "wall street." dierdrestreet. reporter: welcome to "wall street." former reagan advisor david stockman is our spellings guest. deirdre bolton is standing by. dierdre: the u.s. economy looked strong, the commerce department released its revised second quarter gdp nbe