we'll be talk about the deep state and president's bid to have the fisa documents unclassified they say it up aga. lou: good evening, everybody. our top stories, after three days of deliberate disruption and disorder by the radical left, the circus that was brett kavanaugh's supreme court confirmation hary hearing appeao be coming to a merciful end but not without one last gasp of carefully choreographed chaos by the dems and their protesting coconspiratorconspirators. eang sand so it went and went at again. we take up the outrageous

behavior of the supreme court nomination process and those desperate dems in the senate hearing. congressman matt gates anded to rokita join us here tonight president trump on his way to montana to throw his support behind republican matt rosendale who's looking to owt left wing john tesser in the senate. the president rallying the base as the national left wing media and their anonymous allies in the deep state are waging an all-out war against this president. we'll discuss the cowardly efforts to subvert the president. victoria tinvictoriavictoria tos making colin kaepernick the front for all of the shoes they make. we have devastating evidence of what is a heuk backlash against the oh so clever marketeers at

nike. >> the long nightmare of three days of senate hearings for the supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh ending tonight. the senate judiciary hearings have been more about confrontation than confirmation. the dems and their leftist protesters in concert have done their very worst trying to disrupt and delay the hearings. and the republicans, led by committee chairman chuck grassley have been patient throughout, or perhaps too patient in the view of many who have watched the vishts demeanor of protesters demeanoers democrc senators. the republicans are confident they have the votes and tonight president trump is on his way to montana where he will hold a rally in support of matt rosendale who is taking on the incumbent senator who president trump means to defeat. all of this as the national left wing media, fake news has

further escalated their attacks against the president using as usual unnamed sources in their assault. the assault by protesters and radical dems in the kavanaugh hearing today was crazy. but the dems are making the choices very clear to the voters in the midterms, now some 60 days away. the rnc's new ad. >> please get up in the face of some congress people. >> everybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you. >> those republican leaders and president trump don't give a [bleep]. >> i just don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the

country. lou: 60 days now until the midterms, november 6, 2018. it's all up to you. our first guest tonight to take up the anger, the hate, the desperation of the dems in the kavanaugh hearing and the new call for president trump to declassify and release the carter page fisa application documents, joining us tonight, congressman matt gates. he's been at the forefront of the battle to expose corruption at the highest levels of both the justice department and the fbi. the congressman serves on a number of very important committees, including judiciary, the budget and armed scheses committees. armed services committees. good to have you with us. congressman, let's start with these hearings for a justice to sit on the supreme court. the dems' behavior, i have seen some ugly hearings. this -- the democrats look

absolutely berserk. >> well you're absolutely right, lou. and this really highlights the choice that the voters will have in the upcoming election. do we want results or resistance. do we want to move the country guard with growth of the gdp, higher wages and people on the courts in our land who will interpret the law rather than trying to make the law from the bench or do we want just the persistent lunacy that we see from the left. i think trump derangement syndrome is getting so bad we might have to have medicaid cover it as an ailment. what you saw from cor cory bookr was very selfish and very serious. it puts in jeopardy the future of the senate's work in the confirmation process. if potential people looking for an appointment don't believe their information will be treated with some similar blens of respect, they'll be less forthcoming in the future. lou: cory booker exposed who he

is, his qualifications and the fact that he seems utterly lost in the role of a u.s. senator. i mean it was bizarre. >> yeah. you're going to see more of it. he wants to be president. and you got 20 democrats over in the senate that wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and say good morning a madam president or mr. president. what they're going to do is they're going to continue to be crazcrazier just to get attentin and at the end of the day that's going to help president trump. lou: let me turn to that very issue. the president right now. you and 11 other congressmen miking it very clear that you want the president to declassify the carter page fisa application documents. the first question is why hasn't it happened to this point? the second is, in asking for that to be done by the white house in the next week, do you think it will happen? >> i hope it will happen. because we have done all we can

do, lou. i mean you've seen the head winds that we face at times from our own leadership in trying to conduct appropriate oversight. and we need the president to declassify this information so that the american people not only see what was in the application to spy on someone close to president trump, but also what wasn't in that application. they never told a secret court that bruce orr was functioning as essentially the handler for christopher steele who wrote the dossier while at the same time christopher steele was a coworker of bruce orr's wife. you should note b not be able ty your way in with political cash. if president trump is watching, i hope he will be bold and declassify the information. lou: it's hard to keep them out of there when the people are willing to spend $12 million, like hillary clinton did and the democratic national committee did in hiring fusion gps and

christopher steele to create that phony dossier that they used for the fisa applications that's a lot of money for a smear job. >> well absolutely. and whether you're a republican or a democrat, we never want a circumstance where if you hire the right person's spouse that your opposition research, your political dirt converts into intelligence information. that is the true crime here. that is what we should be focused on. lou: that is the crime of the justice department and the judges who just basically rubber stamp the application. >> you're right. and i think that the judges only know what's before them. and there was an obligation to present all of the information, not just the information the fbi wanted to present. and they hi hid if information n that was exculpatory and would have been helpful in the court's decision. lou: let me turn, if i may, to this tweet by the president today. the president indicating that he

may soon declassify, at least that's the way i read this tweet saying, the deep state and the left and their vehicle, the fake news media, are going crazy. and they don't know what to do. the economy is booming like never before. jobs are at historic highs. soon two supreme court justices and maybe declass fie occasion o find additional corruption. i should add one thing if i may parenthetically. today jobless claims fell to ap an almost half century low. the trump economy continue to role. this is an important moment for the president in deciding to declassify that fisa document. will he? >> i sure hope he will. and i think he will. and he should. because the american people deserve transparency. and the dweet yo tweet you justd to, that is what really encapsulates this president. a tremendous amount of progress in the face of head winds not

only from the democrats but even from some republicans and bureaucrats in the media who want to stand in the way of the president's success because they don't like the fact that he's shaking things up and changing things. i love it and the american people love it and that's why we're going to keep the success going. results, not resistance. that's our message in the midterms and i think it will be successful. lou: one quick last question. your letter, 12 congressmen beseeching the president to declassify this document. why wasn't any member of the republican leadership on that letter? >> well, you know, sometimes our leaders like to let the rank and file really germinate the ideas. i will note, lou, that in our call for a second special counsel, the majority leader kevin mccarthy and steve scalise both joined us. sometimes leadership isn't being the first one in congress. leadership can sometimes joining after they see a ground swell of

the rank and file members like me. lou: that's almost like obamaesque. isn't that a little bit like leading from behind in i didn't mean that, congressman. just kidding. >> i know you didn't. lou: thank you for being with us up next, cracking the deep state. federal prosecutors are finally taking on fired deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. there he is. we'll take that up. what does it mean? that and much more after the break. i'll be talking with renowned attorney victoria toensing. we're coming right back. stay with us. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better.

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summoned in the case against the lying leaking fired deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. the "washington post" reporting that federal prosecutors are using the grand jury to investigate whether mccabe purposely misguided officials other his role in the unauthorized disclosure to "the wall street journal" and other issues as well. house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows calling on the inspector general to investigate links between bruce orr and the author of the bogus trump dossier. in a letter meadows demanded a

probe into whether orr and others broke from established protocol to further their investigation and surveillance of the trump campaign. orr continues to work at the justice department despite links to the smear merchants fusion gps who commissioned the discredited dossier authored by one christopher steele. joining me you, victoria ting sa toensing, outstanding attorney and following all of these developments as few can with her eye and talent. first, great to have you here. let's start with this grand jury. this report at first in the "washington examiner," your thoughts about the timing and the propriety. >> lou, the timing -- let me see. it's about time, don't you think? i mean, how long have we gone. lou: i do think. >> and what else is being done.

because when jeff sessions came out with a big tha to do about bringing in huber, the attorney from utah, the one thing he was supposed to look into was uranium one and my client has never been contacted and that was over eight months ago. i think they're kind of slow. lou: kind of slow. it looks like they're trying to -- i think the cliche is run out the clock. the more appropriate and still clicheeclicheed stonewall is wht really comes to find, defying the constitution and the executive branch, specifically the white house and this president also obviously clear. >> i agree. and where's pete peter strzok? leasthere's a whole bunch of pee that should be before the grand jury. bruce orr. lou: is there any reason why they shouldn't bring other people before this grand jury, why it should be limited to

mccabe, given all that we know? >> no. what struck me about the story, i was just learning it as i was sitting here, only mccabe? really? lou: well, let's turn to, if we may, the issue of evidence that peter strzok, lisa page, mccabe, wiseman, all knew about bruce orr and his wife nelly who was working at fusion gps. and they knew about it before, before the fisa applications were even filed. does that strike you as surprising or can anything surprise any of us after what we have witnessed here in corruption in washington? >> well, no, lowd it doesn't surprise me at all. it's consistent with what is coming out bit by bit but very slowly. i want to go to the congressman's call for declassification of fisa. let's be very clear about what happened here. carter page was the target of

the obama administration wanting to get a leg in to the trump campaign. lou: right. >> and that's what it was all about. and they used carter page -- as they said, power was abused and the fisa court was lied to. they used carter page by lying to the fisa court. and just real quickly, in 2013 carter page was an asset, an fbi asset and helped the fbi indict a russian spy. when they're applying for the surveillance, they make it look like carter page was in cahoots. carter page give a speech at a an university in 2013. do you know who else gave a speech at that same russian university? barack obama. but they're using these things to the fisa courts to get their surveillance on him, then they unmasked him and leaked it to the press. lou: it seems to me like we're watching a narrowing of the window here that was very small

to begin with into the events and the people responsible for the toxic atmosphere in both the fbi and department of justice leadership. but this is not an accident. we are watching some distancing, it seems to me, from those events. and the first effort that looks possible to see a declassification of documents is at hand. the president -- is there any rational reason on earth that he would resist declassifying those fisa documents that have already been seen in unredacted form by the intelligence committees, or at least they were given the opportunity to see those documents in both the house and the senate. >> and they feel so strongly that those should be declassified that you have to give great deference to them. here's my message to the president. if you've not on offense, you're on defense. so you better get them out

there. lou: yeah. >> get those documents out there. lou: this is a president who relishes being on the point of the spear and launching it rather than taking more incoming as he has to put up with every day. victoria, always great to see you. thank you so much. >> good to be here. lou: be sure to vote in the poll tonight. the question is do you think the kavanaugh confirmation hearings have once again proved the radical dems stand for little more than chaos, disruption, obstruction? cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. a shout out to "wall street journal" james freeman for his assessment of the administration's achievements. the president tweeting this, quote, the record is quite remarkable. the president has faithfully followed the agenda he campaigned on in 2016.

people should focus on the results and they're extraordinary. james freeman, "wall street journal." which brings us to my point. james freeman is about to join me toe tal to talk about the presidential phone call he received after that tweet. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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persuade us. joining us, james freeman, contributor at "the wall street journal." what's that i you have in frontf you? this is how much we think. >> i like to keep showing it if we can. lou: we both have a copy. still. >> you are the man, lou. lou: no. you're theman. great to have you here. first of all, you're getting a shout out from the president on twitter. >> yes. lou: and a phone call with him. >> yes. lou: tell us how that went. >> good. i went on our sister network this morning and i was talking about, to your point, what's so exciting for the middle class is the manufacturer -- lou: growing. >> -- rebounded that president trump promised in 2016 is happening. last month the best month for manufacturing in 14 years. lou: 14 years. >> productivity in the second quarter, 2.9%. now that's just one quarter. we don't know if we can continue it forever. but that's getting back to old

american style post-war growth and productivity and that's how you get those rising wages for the middle class. lou: 14 years. what's interesting about that, that includes the -- all of the obama administration and radical left winger and a good part of the bush administration, a radical, what would you call him, liberal himself? he wasn't a conservative. but they were. >> government in a big way. lou: they were free traders. and it took a strong president to stand up and say this country is not going to hemorrhage anymore. >> well, in the phone call with the president today made the case that the problem was regulation and taxes. lou: he made that case? >> i made that case. lou: he did something about both. >> he thinks trade relationships are a big problem. lou: he's been deregulating since he got in there. >> i tried to make the case to

him that tax cuts, the deregulation are working. you've solved the american competitiveness problem. you don't need to mess up our trading relationships. lou: i see. you would like us to have deficits in perpetuity. we could have a $20 trillion national debt that could rise to what do you think, 30? 40? and we could have additional deficits that would go on forever. we would then watch the middle class continue in the obamaesque withering that we became anewerreinuredto. that's what you're calling for really? you and obama are conspiring against president trump? you too? >> when did i endorse if obama economic program. lou: i have it right here when you wanted to go back to his federal trade policies. >> free trade is bad. if you're going the say there's a failing in the trump performance in the 2016 agenda,

i would be failing to do anything about spending. that is a problem. i was trying to make the point that -- lou: that makes it sound like it's my fault you didn't make that point. >> what were obama and bush -- what was the big similarity. lou: they were both, in my opinion, disasters. >> both big creators of regulation. president trump has completely stopped that trend. lou: you blinked when i said that bush was a liberal, not a conconservative. >> he's a guy who grew government a lot. lou: and debt a lot and went aattacked the wrong countries. by the time you get through with that administration, you wonder what the hell we've been going through for the past 30 years. we've had three of the worst presidents. and by the way, the best of the three in my judgment was clinton because at least the economy performed. and then you've got bush and then you've got obama. if we don't have trump, we are in -- this country would be in utter disaster.

>> i look at the similarities -- lou: do you agree? >> -- between trump and reagan. lou: you're not going to agree. i've been watching the kavanaugh hearings. yes or no, james? >> trump and reagan both unleashed the american economic engine and they had trade deficits. lou: right, they did. >> and now we're having trade deficits along with -- lou: who released it, reagan and who? >> trump. along with a thriving economy. a trade deficit is not incompatible with an economy. lou: let's go back. let's go back to greater debt. >> this is not an endorsement of federal debt. lou: of course it is. >> no, it's not. lou: you're talking about getting rid of jobs because we're going to buy all of those imports to our country. we're going to -- the germans are going to have the mercantilist policy in trade forever. they'll have these giant surpluses and the emerging

markets. we'll send our blood, our jobs and our fortune off to them because we're americans and we can afford to be generous beyond measure. we're squandering wealth in this country and lives. >> i don't think that's exactly what i said. lou: well, on that note of agreement, james freeman, it's always good to talk with you. >> good to be here, thanks. lou: which is more fun, being on the show or talking with the president? >> being on this show is absolutely the most fun anyone could have. lou: correct answer. buy this book "borrowed time." we appreciate it, james. nike's new ad with whatever he was, he was a quarterback in the nfl, collin kaepernick isn't doing much for their brand so far. that may change tonight. there's a big opening to the nfl season. a new morning consult poll finds that only 39% of consumers now view nike favorably.

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on car insurance. trump, slamming the "the new york times" and its anonymous op-ed. the first lady said this, quote, if a person is bold enough to accuse people of negative actions, they have a responsibility to publicly stand by their words and people have the right took able to defend themselves. to the write ore tf op-ed, you are not protecting this country. you're sabotaging it with our cowardly actions. the first lady said it absolutely perfectly. the radical left embracing leaks coming from the trump white house. but where were they when the obama administration was punishing whistle-blowers and leakers. the obama administration fired joseph from the national security council for tweeting under a false name, blasting the likes of ben rhodes and chelsea clinton. the obama administration arrested eight of the 13 people

who have been prosecuted under the espionage act for leaking secrets. obama setting the record for prosecutions against leakers. perhaps obama senior adviser dan favor said it best. of obama he said this. the president is always frustrated about leaks. i think anyone who leaks has to pay the price. you said it, pfeiffer. you said it. and president trump weighing in just moments ago asking this on twitter. are the investigative quote unquote journalists of the "the new york times" going to investigate themselves? who is the anonymous letter writer? that is the question, isn't it? joining me now, congressman todd rokita of indiana. congressman, good to have you with us. let's start with this -- would you endorse the president doing what his predecessor did, that is investigate like hell every one of the leaks and leakers?

>> absolutely. but let's take one step back, lou, and look at this anonymous op-ed. because it's anonymous, we don't have to accept the premise that it's real. who's to say the "the new york times" editorial board didn't create this themselves as the president was suggesting moments ago. that's the point. and that's the first lady eats point. when things are anonymous like this, they should be discounted entirely. their value should be zero because there's no name attached to it. lou: well i think there is a value in it because it makes the times corroborate the president's charges. it's fake news. this is not anywhere within the canoncanons of journalism. and the "the new york times" advertises itself as the paper of record. this is not the way serious journalists conduct themselves. i think it has immense value

again corroborating the president's view. >> you get my point, though. lou: i get your point. i get everybody's point. that's my job. so let me turn, if i may, to the kavanaugh hearings today. that has been a spectacle, a painful one to watch. that's why we gave it about three seconds today. but this is obviously a terrific jurist judge, immensely qualified. he was confirmed by the senate, served on the second highest court and these fools are actin. i didn't mean the call the democratic senators fools just because they conducted themselves as that. why is the republican leadership putting up with this kind of conduct, the protesters in the room and the senators behaving like children? >> well, it's absolutely ridiculous. the judge deserves better and more important bly the american

people deserve better. we all deserve better than the spectacle going on. i can't answer for leadership here i don't represent them here. but i represent the people of indiana and they want no part of this. absolutely no part of it. you think about, lou, that independent civic cli minded mid voter thinking about what to do this voting season, they're watching lou dobbs right now perhaps. lou: almost certainly. >> you wonder about them. here's a party that grandstands their presidential candidates, makes up things about confidentiality and then they have hysterically screaming people being taken out by law enforcement. what independent voter is going to say yep, that's my party. that's who i'm going to go with, are these people. absolutely not. this thing at the end of the day is going to play in favor of the president and in favor of real leadership.

lou: let me turn to a budget issue. the president making it clear he's willing to do anything to get funding for the border wall. we're hearing it pooh-poohed by leadership, congressman. leadership, the house speaker and others. it's about damn time that you guys passed budgets which is what you promised to do when jim jordan reminds us all, and this president needs $25 billion to fulfill a campaign promise. and this is a president who makes a promise and he fulfills it. what are you guys going to do? >> well, let me tell you first, it's malpractice that we're not using reconciliation. you remember what that is, lou. when the house and the senate pass a budget and you should be able to do -- lou: but i'm asking forward. we here in frubl o trouble on t, congressman. you don't want me to review the record. 20 years since you had a budget. you don't want me to review the record. a year ago it was a

$1.3 trillion omnibus bill, a hodgepodge of reckless spending on the part f 0 you of your par. no difference from your counter parts. >> and so yeah, i'm with the president -- lou: what about the wall? do you support the president getting that wall? >> absolutely. we have to use every leverage point we can. you have to be strategic about it. shutting down the government three weeks before an election may have some consequences. let's think that through. lou: how about the pledge from the budget committee from the leadership that they're going to deliver on the president's promise to the american people and quit acting like damn fools. how about that. >> absolutely. i'm note in the leadership but let's get it done. every leverage point. stop making excuses. let's be strategic but that does not include being cowardly or weak on the issue. the american people want it, people in indiana want it.

lou: congressman, always good to talk with you. thanks for being with us. up next, establishment republicanrepublicans dragging t on one of president trump's biggest campaign promises. we take up the border wall with mary and mendoza and former director of immigration and customs enforcement tomas homas when we come back. stay with us. we'll be right back with the latest. all money managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management.

leader mitch mcconnell disappointing us again. he is not too sure about that wall, it turns out, after all. despite the president's campaign promise to build a wall on the border of mexico, mcconnell said this, quote, we still want to get funding for the wall but we think the best time to have that discussion is after the election. well this is quite a few elections later, isn't it? joining me you, angel mom mary anne mendoza. thomas homan, former i.c.e. director. fox business contributor. good to have you and have you here. mary, let me start with you. the president made a straightforward bold promise to build the wall. millions of americans are

expecting that. we now know it's the right thing given all of the illegal immigration, the human trafficking, the drug trafficking, more than half of all of the major destructive drugs come across that border. your thoughts? >> it's the integral first piece that has to happen with border security. the illegal ail general criminals being deported for crimes they've committed in our country knee tha know the southd ser a resolving dooborderthe a . that's the first thing that needs to be done in order to move toward the problem. lou: how important is this -- one of the things that drives me nuts is to hear the left and rinos like mcconnell, like ryan talk about technology and more, you know, surveillance instead of a wall. your thoughts. >> well, look, i started my

career on the border patrol. i did wear the green uniform standing on that line. lou: good for you. >> back in san diego when we ha- lou: only way that could have been better is if you had been in the sector where i started my journalism. >> every place they built a barrier, a wall, whether it's san diego, it's shown as effective, it's decreasing immigration and the drug flow. it has proven effective every place they've built it. why would we not want it. the president did make the promise i'm sick and tired of people in his own party that want to push back on this. everybody on the hill, republicans and democrats should all agree we have a right to secure the border. we have the right to close the loopholes that cause illegal immigration. this should be easy. this is all about, you know, pushing back on the president. the president is 100% right. and if he doesn't get the border funding, and immigration reform, she should shut it down. i'm 100% behind him if he shuts it down over this. lou: mitch mcconnell thinks

he's bluffing and a number of congressmen say that's not a good idea. but mary anne, the simple fact that the president promised it, you have felt the pain of ill liam immigration and the consequences, the tragic consequences, as have so many people. for this republican leadership -- because they have the issuarethe issue now. they're representing the people who bought and paid for them, that is the business round table, the koch brothers, the chamber of commerce and wall street who want to have harmonized border to transport drugs and ill liam immigrants across the board enand they want to make sure everything runs smoothly in commercial trade. the madness of it all has to infuriate particularly you. >> it does. and i'm really disappointed in our republican leadership in the senate and the congress for not backing our president up on the promises that he made during the

campaign. and why american safety is not first and foremost in their mind. we all know the left, the liberal, the democrats want to have an open border. we know we can't count on their votes. but we've got control of the house and the senate and it's time we start making the changes needed in the country. lou: and thomas, you get the last word. >> well, look, it's everybody's responsibility is to protect this country. i've said this many time and i'm going to say it one more time. more than once. i've worked for six presidents. this president has done more for border security and public safety than any of the six presidents i worked for. the republican leadership and the democrats needs to follow his lead. a 45-year low of ill liam immigration in the first year of his presidency. let this man do his job. he's got the right recipe. let's support him and get this done. lou: tomas homan within thanks so much. i want to remind everybody that you can go to angelfamilies.com,

friends and allies holding a rally tomorrow at the capital just across by the way from the supreme court to highlight the impact of illegal immigration crime on the country and the loss of loved ones because of it. thank you both for being with us up next, president trump heads to montana. here's a live look from billings where president trump is putting the full weight of the presidency, his support behind republican senate candidate matt rosendale. they're holding a big rally. look at that. it's already filling up. that and much more right after the break. stay with us. surance that won't replace the full value of your new car? you'd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with liberty mutual new car replacement we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty ♪

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lou: the calf now supreme court confirmation hearing coming to an end tonight. three days of dems trying to disrupt, delay those proceedings. all they did was show their true colors. president trump arrived in billings, montana about to hold a rally for state auditor matt rosendale's bid for john tester who really did tick off the

president. we'll be talk about the deep state and president's bid to have the fisa documents unclassified they say will reveal all. >> president trump furious over the op-ed reportedly -- written by a scene senior trump administration official. he's demanding the paper revile their source. -- paper reveal their source. the paper -- the author claims the president is unfit force of and they are doing everything they can to protect the country.