traditional things. it was the torrential rains that will continue to come down for the next 24 hours. we have spoke to the coast guard, the politicians and others. everybody is out there trying to do their best. be safe. here is lou. lou: our top stories, florence makes landfall on the carolina coast. four people killed, hundreds stranded because of heavy flooding and half a million people are without power tonight. we'll have live updates on the tropical storm's path throughout the hour. amazon ceo jeff bezos has been attacking president trump for years through "the washington post." now he's lashing out against the president for fighting back against fake news and those who fund it. >> it's a mistake for any elected official in my opinion to attack media and journalists.

i believe it's the essential component of our democracy. lou: we take up the president's battle with fake news and their corporate masters. republican strategist ed rollins with us tonight. we take up the shocking evidence of left wing bias that google knock longer deny. >> i think we would all agree this election was thick hard in is a lot of fear. it's important to reach out and be aware of that fear. lou: republican lawmakers demanding answers about the soviet-style efforts to silence conservatives. we begin with tropical storm florence as it batters the carolinas with heavy winds, rain and deadly storm surge. florence landfall near wrightsville peach and since

then pounded the region. causing major flooding and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. four people died as a result of this storm including a mother and he her infant child. forecasters continue to warn of catastrophic flooding that could last for days. as the storm slowly moves over the area this weekend they could see as high as 40 inches of rain. joining us tonight, dan bongino. author of the book, spy gate, the attempted sabotage of donald trump. dan, good to have you with us. let's start with the preparations for this storm and already if you will a kinetic political atmosphere that surrounds the storm, the left whether in the media or on capitol hill preparing their

attacks for president trump and his government. >> this is a new low. just when you think you have reached a bedrock of lows in politics we crack through the bedrock and move toward the core of the depravity earth. we are politicizing storm events now? this is so disturbing. i have to tell you, i was glad to see you push back. there is no doubt period full stop the tragic he sphrents -- events in puerto rico and it was a massive human tragedy. why was this information being released right before a hurricane made landfall in the carolinas with a study that used a computer study. why was this being done? is it not a fair question for

donald trump to fight back and say, hey, we did what we could do in fema. it wasn't perfect. i'm fired up about this. but what do you want donald trump to do? deliver the water bottles himself and the supplies move? i don't blame him for fighting back one by the. lou: i don't blame him either but i do blame the national media for not doing the job they are supposed to do. the left-wing media has become a herd that simply talks about 3,000 deaths as if it were a fact. it's not only not a fact, it's not even reasonably based on fact or evidence, and there is absolutely this on the scantest mention of the fact these numbers come out a year after that tragic event in puerto rico. people died, people were killed. and the people who in my fin could be held accountable

include the mayor of san juan. they include the governor of puerto rico. and what happened to all of the supplies that were delivered? and why is no one taking note that this president sent in military forces that stayed there longer than they stayed on the scene of any other natural disaster in the country's history? and is not given credit for it. this is a sickness that gripped the minds of the jeff bezos and others who control major fake news outlets. >> lou, it's infuriating. a basic internet search here. i'm not talking about advanced level investigative journalism. a basic internet search of the local failures on the ground. the hoarding of supplies. a basic internet search would

show you that the united states government did what they could do and there were epic logistical failures on the ground where the locals were. but instead of doing that basic internet search, it's more convenient to target donald trump. i get tired of the social media outrage campaigns and weak-kneed spineless republicans who jump on the bandwagon and say that's right. let's go after trump. he should have responded. the american people elected him because they are tired of phoney media narratives. i'm upset people fall into this trap every time. it was a mossive tragedy. there is no doubt. lou: rick scott running for senate in until and ron desantis

took sides against the man pushing their candidacies, without any reasons or sceptical judgment or any analysis or knowledge of the facts and sided with those who wanted to go with the highest number irrespective of whether they were based in reality or fact or anything close to reason. they were not. they were extrapolations of the wildest form by two universities. harvard university and its public policy school, and george washington university and the milken institute. it's a disgrace what they did. they should be ashamed of themselves and they should be apologizing to the american people and the people of puerto rico who have had to go through this again, the number of deaths without evidence, without death certificates, without burials, without any factual basis for an

analysis of ways puerto rico's one of its greatest tragedies in its history. turn together national media. this president had to fight fake news. here comes jeff bezos again. he and the president do not get along or share a world view. but bezos is saying presidents and governors should expect to be told scrutiny. what he does through his paper is subject this montana to personal attack day in and day out. 7, 8 articles every single day attacking this president and his administration. >> this is almost comical. bezos needs to look in the mirror. the "new york times" a complete utter fake news story. they put nikki haley in

curtaingate. not the washington posted. but we have seen this in the post before. insinuations about collusion oontder things. -- collusion and other things. weak-kneed republicans don't fight back. the american people are tired of that. they are happy this guy president trump goes out there and says i'm not taking this wrap. fake news. put a fake news siren on it. point it out and correct themselves. bezos needs to look in the mirror. lou: the president knows what the american people are thinking. he knows they get the joke and that they have had a belly full of this nonsense whether it's coming from a bezos outlet or carlos slim outlet. the nonsense is just about i think at a point where we are going to see a mass rejection of

it. it's not work any longer on the american people. it's great to see you. thanks for being with us. up next, jeff bezos says "the washington post" daily smear of the president is a healthy exercise for a democracy. >> if you are the president of the united states or governor a state or whatever, you don't take that job thinking you are not going to get scrutinize. you are going to get scrutinized. lou: really? those look a lot like attacks to me, not scrutiny. but let's examine closer the billionaire's paper and the smear jobs that are a daily affair. with us next the savant, ed rollins. i get it all the time.

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lou: billion air owner of the "washington post," the richest person in the world. says president trump should accept the constant attacks from the "washington post" and the rest of the national left-wing media. >> what the president should say is this is right, this is good, i'm glad i'm being scrutinize. but it's dangerous to demonize

the media and dangerous to call the media low lifes and dangerous to say they are the enemy of the people of. lou: dangerous he says, but isn't it dangerous to demonize the president and constantly attack it unfairly in many cases? what about barack obama who didn't get any scrutiny from the "washington post" that i recall. and they seem to have at the post no problem taking aim at a media that president obama doesn't agree with. >> we are going through this moment where the forces of retrenchment and backlash and anger are constantly being faked. we have some media outlets who like to do the fanning. lou: do you think it was "the washington post" he was thinking of? the great divider demonizing as he con dements the demonization of american politics.

president obama went a long way towards advancing demonization. he said this last night. >> the biggest threat to our democracy is indifference. the biggest threat to our democracy is where you turn away from politics and stay home on election day. lou: web that. that's the biggest enemy. there are only 53 days remaining until the most of important mid-term elections in history. ones that will insure president trump's agenda is allowed to continue. before president trump left office he said he would consider it a personal insult to him and his legacy. his legacy if people didn't vote for hillary clinton. and we know they didn't vote for hillary clinton not in the numbers that he wanted. so we might make it a point

again perhaps to insult the president's legacy and vote to continue to make america great again. joining me now, ed rollins, chairman of the great america pac, ed rollins served as white house political director under president reagan. can i believe you have got -- can you believe you have a president of the united states strong listen to his predecessor criticize him. this is the first name my memory it has occurred. ed: my history is the same as yours. it shouldn't happen and it breaks the promises he made. he could not produce for hillary clinton. even among the african-american vote where he had record numbers. she was down 7% overall among african-americans. there is no evidence he can produce the vote for anybody but himself.

lou: there is considerable evidence he can cost the democrats a lot of seats. he cost them a thousand in state legislatures, governorships. i think it was 12 governorships he cost them. it's stunning that republicans should be funding his itinerary. ed: i could not agree more. the debate between donald trump's success and economic policies and president obama's economic policies and failures. have at it, it won't work. lou: dan bongino brought up the issue of the "new york times" story talking about $53,000 curtains in nikki haley's office. they made one mistake. it was money decided by president obama's administration and put up and ordered by them,

not her. it took them all day to fix that story. ed: the story got out that it was her fault and it was not her fault. lou: the president pointing out that it took all this time for them to direct that story. his battle with fake news, jeff bezos talking about scrutiny. he's a smart guy. but he's also too smart to be sitting there throwing a bunch of bull on the issue. if he wants to attack the president, that's what he's having this paper do, the washington post. as dishonest and disingenuous at best. ed: he promised it would be great paper and fair paper. i have been reading the "washington post" for 40 years

it's always been against republicans. it's more so now than ever. it's ridiculous. lou: this isn't about republicans. this is about the president of the united states, he has been attacking him and him personally. he doesn't attack paul ryan or mitch mcconnell, the globalist little rinos. he attacks the man who took on the establishment and that's president donald j. trump. ed: you are correct. but i concur donald trump is the republican party of today. lou: i'm talking about just visa advice jefvisa -- just vis-a-v*f bezos and his paper. paul ryan looks like he'll be trouble right to the last day. and he'll probably pitch a tent on capitol hill once he leaves the speaker's office. ed: why anyone listens to him is

beyond me. his premise of altering the budgetary diet. lou: the same way they listen to mccain and lindsey graham. because they were anti-republican. ed: i'm saying republicans should not be listening to him. republicans need to be running on trump. donald trump has 90% plus of republican support. he basically had more than half the independent he ran last time. that's where they need to be. right now the in most of recent poll. ron desantis is down 6 points in the race for governor. and he has separated himself from trump. it looks like he wants to put distance between himself and president trump. desantis took i thought a bizarre posture trying to argue with the president about his concern about the numbers of

fatalities by hurricane maria. he actually brought up intelligent appropriate questions, and he was right to do so. puerto rico went through a tragedy. it would have been far worse if this president had not put the military in there, fema in there for a longer period of time than for any other hurricane that i'm aware of. ed: the story of puerto rico is the rebuilding that occurred. you don't control the president or hurricanes. the president has done scene extraordinary job going in there and rebuilding an island. an electrical structure. lou: the people of puerto rico have got to the acknowledge they have one of the most of corrupt state governments and local governments in san juan of any part of this country. it's stung. but they had to put up with in this tragedy the people of

puerto rico have been taken advantage of. stockpiles of water. other supplies rotting because their local government, their proximate government could not deliver without getting even snared in its corruption and incompetence. edreport resources the president put in there its going rebuild it. it's extraordinary. lou: be sure to vote in our poll tonight. the question is, do you think jeff bezos is honest enough to tell "the washington post" to end their vicious smears and attacks on president trump. cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. paul manafort makes a plea deal to work the special counsel. but the deal has nothing to do with president trump or what is

that word? collusion. we take it up right after the break. gregg jarrett joins me next. stay with us. ♪

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>> we're watching for the latest out of carolinas, tropical storm florence is pummelling the region. heavy winds, rain. the white house releasing this image just moments ago, showing president trump, members of his cabinet receiving emergency preparedness update, in the white house situation room. former trump campaign chief paul manafort pleading guilty to conspiracy and obstruction charges in a plea deal agreeing to cooperate to some extent with special counsel robert mueller. rudy giuliani, counselor to the president issued this statement saying, quote, once again, an investigation has concluded with a plea having nothing to do with president trump or the trump

campaign. the reason? the president did nothing wrong. joining us tonight gregg jarrett, fox legal analyst, author of the new york times best seller "the russia hoax". giuliani points out, this has nothing to do with the president. the president did nothing wrong, and again, the special counsel is involved in something here that has nothing to do with his original charter. it goes on and on and on. >> i spoke to a source with direct knowledge of the plea negotiations and he assured me it has nothing whatsoever to do with implicating donald trump. rather it implicates two separate lobbying firms, one a republican firm, one a democrat firm, with direct ties to hilary clinton. and that makes sense because if you read today's superseding indictment, filed about an hour before, the plea deal took place in court, it refers to company a and company b. and how -- lou: mueller do you think is

aware that this is a democratic operation that he's treading on friendly territory? >> if he was going to go after manafort, he had to go after the business associates who were in on the deal to lobby for the ukraine government, and according to the superseding indictment, both these firms were using a brussels nonprofit as a cover in order to -- lo you don't say -- >> as a conspiracy to defraud the government in not filing as foreign agents, and so those two -- lou: so are you saying that we could see two lobbying firms in a lot of trouble with the democratically led special counsel, or as the president puts it, bob mueller's witch hunt and the now what 17 democratic accolades? >> that's how i read the indictment, my source tells me it has nothing whatsoever do

with donald trump which dovetails rudy giuliani's statement. look, manafort was so briefly involved in the campaign. his one job in his tenure was to secure the proper delegates for the convention. so it's always been dubious proposition that he was involved in some grand conspiracy with vladimir putin in the kremlin to influence the election. lou: i mean we're sitting here now, what is it, 26 months into this nonsense, this investigations first just about a year by the fbi and now almost a year and a half by the special counsel. we've got the senate intelligence committee chairman, senator richard burr acknowledging there's no evidence whatsoever. what in the hell does it take for these fools to say it is time to shut this down? >> well, i would hope that not only would they wind this down and shut it down but that a special counsel and/or grand jury is convened who investigate

people like comey, mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page, the whole gang including rod rosenstein who continues to obstruct congress. these are the people who need to be investigated in my judgment, these are the people who committed crimes. lou: well, your opinion -- everyone's opinion. the fact is, that all of the texts reveal that strzok, that page, we can go through mccabe and comey, and the department of justice, bruce ohr, the entire fbi leadership, the entire department of justice leadership are toxic. they are corrupt, politically corrupt, and we're now after all of this time, we're looking at the investigators as the only corrupt enterprises involved in this entire mess. >> not only was it a hoax to frame trump, but then they were leaking this false information and intelligence to damage trump. the leaks came from the fbi, the department of justice, the cia,

and the dni, all of them, the alphabet soup of intelligence -- lou: obama's intelligence community, obama's cia. >> james comey's fbi, james clapper's dni, john brennan's cia. these are the people who should be in front of a grand jury answering questions and facing -- lou: by the way, one thing you just said i have to say, no more special counsels i know it is popular for a lot of people to talk about another -- >> give me a legitimate prosecutor. >> give me a grand jury -- >> an honest prosecutor and a grand jury, that's what you need. lou: no special counsel. i've had a belly full -- >> tell lindsay graham that who says we need another special counsel. lou: senator graham, no more special counsel. gregg, thank you very much. we appreciate it. up next google's executive made no effort to hide their feelings following the election.

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lou: google, google, google. google's 2016 election post-mortem took a dark turn during a q&a portion of an all hands meeting. >> is there anything positive you see from this election result? [laughter] >> boy, that's a really tough one right now. >> i don't know what's going to happen, but there's a chance it could be bad. it could be really bad. >> history teaches us that there are periods of populism, of nationalism, that's why we have to work so hard to make sure it doesn't turn into a world war or something catastrophic. >> i think it is worth really worrying about. lou: those are supposed to be smart people. they are frightening people, frankly. house majority leader kevin mccarthy announces it is time for that technology giant to come clean and to head to

washington for a public hearing. mccarthy said the prospect of google executives using their personal left wing biases and beliefs to control the content their users see is disturbing, deeply troubling, and that google needs to start demonstrating transparency. in my opinion, that's only an opening salvo as to what they need to do. joining us tonight is andrew mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, national review contributing editor, and fox business contributor. good to see you. this is stunning stuff to me. google and its -- the sensitivity levels of that group of top executives decrying, lamenting, the loss of the presidency, and how heart felt

they were about their obviously favored candidate hilary clinton. your reaction? >> well, i don't begrudge them their left wing politics. what i resent is that they appear to use it in operating the platform. i know they say they don't, and you know, it is a free country. they are not the government. they are a private business. they can run it the way they wish to run it -- lou: do you think they can? >> -- alternative. lou: it seems to me to your point it is a left wing business run by left wing executives who are stifling fair comment from conservatives as if they had no rights whatsoever, at least second class rights and are supplanted by the rights of the left. >> yeah, well, i don't think you have -- i don't think you have rights that are enforceable on a private platform, and i think the problem, lou, with the

situation like this is that, you know, if they are all left wingers, and the ethos of the place is that they really suppress even conservative ideas from intruding into their way of thinking, they in some sense don't even realize how literally out in left field they are. lou: i like the expression left field, without question, they are. but at the same time, we're talking about stifling voices and unfairly. as you say, it is a private platform, but the last i looked, you know, at&t is a private company, but it's regulated, isn't it? >> well, yeah, and i guess if we had to recreate the wheel, we probably wouldn't like the regulatory structure that they are encumbered in, and i think the problem you have when you get into these government

regulation situations is by the time they regulate the technology is generations ahead of the sort of static -- lou: what if i said to you that's a historical gamble i'll take. i think it is far more important to ensure fairness, level playing fields in the public square, whether it is dominated by private companies or whether it is a matter of simply of government rights to its citizens. this is -- whether it is facebook, twitter, google, there's economic, technological power that is suffocating right wing voices, conservative voices. without exception. >> i don't think they should, but i don't think they become

the public square and therefore a public asset because they've been fabulously successful. i think it is on us to come up with a better alternative. lou: you do? why is it that we haven't? >> i do. lou: why is it we haven't? >> that's a question for guys who know a lot more about how capital works in this country, like you, than like me, you know, i'm just a lawyer from the bronx, what do i know. lou: the question of capital comes frankly the concentration of capital, and there's very little appetite for competition. you are looking at google that owns, what is it, probably 93% of search. it is going to be very difficult to mount a capital competition that would be of sufficient scale to have a remote chance of being effective. look at bing for crying out loud supported with a microsoft platform, it's still incapable of moving ahead.

it is a question -- it's a large question, but it can't be simply dismissed because sometimes in economic history, we overcome these kinds of extraordinary economic concentration. the political power, economic power, in fact, our history is replete with examples where regulation was the only solution. >> well, i guess that's one way of looking at it. the way i look at it is if right wing voices were being suppressed, as much as you suggest, i don't see how trump would be president. so i do think that there's a vibrant right wing news and opinion community and that, you know, sometimes technology takes care of these things, and i just am as resistant to this kind of regulation as you are to special counsel's, if i heard you right before the break. lou: you couldn't possibly be as resistant as i am to special

counsels. this is a lesson that i hope every fool in the country, in the legal profession has learned, that this is not the solution, grand juries and appropriate prosecution is. let's go to that issue. we're getting more information. do we have that full screen right now on what has come out, the latest on strzok and page? if we could put that up, i would like the audience to be able to see that. do we have that? here it is. this is -- it will make your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in. this is an incredible text that has just come out. this with lisa page and peter strzok showing how much they were aware, this from lisa page, in december 19th of 2016, she says -- this has been quite a

year forwarding a link to the time's most read stories of 2016. do you think we will hear from peter strzok's attorney trying to explain that they were talking about stopping leaks rather than pushing leaks? >> well, i imagine that's his story, and he's going to stick with it until he moves on to something else. you know, lou, that there is -- because based on my own experience, i know there is occasional cases where you have to have an anti-leak strategy because you have a leak problem. but you're ill put to make that kind of a case when your fingerprints are all over every leak in town, and i think the problem these guys have is that the leaking in this particular investigation was coming from the higher -- the upper hierarchy of the fbi and this certainly isn't a situation where these guys can speak as people who were trying to stand as examples against press leaking, quite the opposite. lou: would you say that they look guilty as hell of leaking

and setting up these surveillances? >> well, you know, look, i think if you're looking at as a comprehensive case, we know there was a ton of leaking, and we know that they are talking about leaking at the same time the ton of leaking is going on, and they are quite happy about it. looks like a pretty strong case to me. lou: me too. andy mccarthy thanks for being with us, as always. great to have you with us. appreciate it. >> thanks, lou. lou: andrew mccarthy. one person killed, 20 injured after a series of gas explosions outside boston. several communities, massachusetts state police confirm fires, explosions, gas odors, 70 locations, at the peak, 18 of those fires were burning at the same time, all of the surrounding townships sending first responders, fire departments, and medics to the scene. up next, bob woodward and the anonymous new york times op-ed writer? apparently don't have a prayer

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dallas, fox business contributor and author of the new book "choosing the extraordinary life, god's seven secrets for success and significance" available for preorder now. we commend it to you mightily. great to have you with us, pastor. we're watching -- it's interesting to watch the coordination here. suddenly there's anonymous op-ed that appears in the new york times. suddenly there's a woodward bookmaking all sorts of allegations, and the attacks on the trump presidency go on and on and on. i don't see anything accidental in the timing or the orchestration, do you? >> not at all, lou. let me say a word about the woodward book because i just finished last night to prepare for our interview tonight. look, i know that president trump's staff has spent more time with him than i have, but i have spent more time with him than bob woodward has, and the bob woodward portrayal of donald

trump is complete fiction. i think your listeners would be interested to know i just happened to be with president trump on three very stress-filled days. i was with him on election day in trump tower. i was seated next to him during his first tv interview after hollywood access. i just happened to be in his office the day after the fbi raid on michael cohen's office. and at no time was he ever unhinged. he was thoughtful. he was focused. he was deliberative. that's the president trump i know. here's the bottom line, lou, you don't become a billionaire and president of the united states by being an idiot. to pull off what president trump has accomplished in the last three years takes great leadership and near genius iq. that's what bob woodward and the media elite are missing. lou: well, they are not just missing it. they're purposely missing it because -- >> that's right. lou: the story of what he's done in the course -- and i'm saying

to this very day, from the moment he stepped into the presidency on january 20th, almost two years ago soon, i mean, it's an extraordinary story what he's accomplished, what he's achieved. he's done so by the way as you and i and a lot of other people know with good humor, great personal strength, that, by the way, i don't think most people if you put a dozen of them together could match his energy, his strength, and his command of all that is around him as president of the united states. it's extraordinary. >> listen, every time i have been with him during one of those high stress times, lou, i have walked away saying this is the kind of leader you want running the country. it is the results he's producing as well. you know, i have spent the last two weeks touring with my book, and everywhere i go, i find that his supporters are more

enthusiastic today than they were two years ago because he's delivering on his promises. lou: i don't doubt it. >> absolutely. lou: i think we need to give bob woodward credit for one thing, he did acknowledge at least that the steele dossier, the fictional trump dossier that the dnc and secretary of state clinton paid for is pure garbage. so you can hold that close, what you think of bob woodward. >> he's a good writer, but he's come up with the wrong conclusion. that's the problem. lou: that's one of them. thanks, pastor. appreciate it. >> thanks. lou: up next, new texts unearthed tonight between strzok and page. we will take it up when we come back. stay with us. walking a dog can add thousands of steps to your day.

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lou: update on breaking news story we reported to you earlier, new texts found between peter strzok and lisa page, one from page to strzok, december 2016. it reads it will make your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in. andrew mccarthy addressing the shocking further evidence of the smear campaign. >> we know there was a ton of leaking, and we know that they are talking about leaking at the same time the ton of leaking is going on, and they are quite happy about it. looks like a pretty strong case to me.

lou: and that is it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. sarah carter, gordan chang among our guests on monday. hope you will join us. have a great night. from new york, good night. happy weekend. welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo. coming up in just a few minutes, northwestern mutual chairman and ceo is with me this weekend. plus, later on in the program, the president and ceo of the federal reserve bank of dallas, robert kaplan, my special guest. joining us coming up. but first we have the big headlines impacting everything from wall street to main street. geri? >> thanks, maria. hurricane florence has arrived and wreaking havoc in the mid-atlantic.