making the decisive moves to do what's best for the country. there is an element of showing these senators that's smart for them to do. charles: beverly, i have you down as a maybe. louis next. lou: senator jeff flake has just bought the radical dimms another week to carry out their personal destruction against judge kavanaugh. they will carry on their search and destroy movement. flake calling for a supplemental investigation of kavanaugh, even though the fbi completed its background investigation. >> i think it would be proper to

delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi continue to do an investigation, limited in time and scope to the current allegations that are there. lou: and that is exactly what president trump ordered the fbi to begin immediately. the president also ordered that investigation to be completed within a week. we take up the politics and legality of this latest delay with republican strategist ed rollins and judicial watch president tom if i on. a massive breach at facebook puts 50 million of its users data at risk while the google ceo meets with republican members of congress who are seeking answers about political bias and discrimination against conservatives.

social media stars diamond and silk join to us talk about that. the latest troubling revelations from the technology industry. the barack obama shadow government persists. obama again attacking and insulting president trump while he was giving a speech, a well-paid speech in denmark. will obama ever get off the stage? not likely. not as long as he's make $300,000 a talk. the american taxpayers are footing the bill for his full security detail who travel with him no matter where he goes to pick up a few bucks. even denmark. all of that and more coming up here tonight. that's our top story tonight. the white house announcing at the request of the senate

judiciary committee the president ordered an fbi investigation into brett kavanaugh. sarah sanders tweeted the president's statement. i ordered the fbi to conduct the supplemental investigation to update judge kavanaugh's file. it must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week. the president's statement comes after the judiciary committee voted along party lines to send judge kavanaugh to the full senate for a con fish nation vote. but the dems surround and intimidated senator flake and managed to pull off a further delay. the lame duck rino senator capitulated to the radical dimms and asked for an investigation before a vote could be taken. >> the country is being ripped apart. we have to make sure we do due

diligence. i think the committee has done a good job. you but i think we can have a short pause and make sure the fbi can investigate. lou: the one-term arizona senator, a lame duck and a favorite son of snowflake, arizona. the polls show his anti-trump remarks the last couple years make him highly unpopular at home and he would be beaten in a primary election. so flake's efforts to align with radical dimms to mean to kill the kavanaugh confirmation and will never vote for judge kavanaugh no matter what the fbi report reveals is a political shame. elongating the dirtiest, nastiest, unfair confirmation hearing in our history. >> voting to pass and ultimately

confirm judge kavanaugh will politicize the u.s. supreme court. >> don't argue she is part of some massive political strategy. those aren't the facts. >> her entire sense of decency and honor had nothing to do with politics. politics was not mentioned. this is not a partisan moment for our country. this is where we are in the united states of america. this is not a partisan moment. lou: sure, not at all. not partisan. this is the meanest, most of cynical attack by the dimms on a nominee in our history. no matter what the radical dimms say. joining us, ed rollins, great america pac chairman and fox business analyst. can you imagine denying this is a partisan moment. they really don't have much regard for the intelligence of

the american people. >> the american people got to see the democrats in full force the last couple days and it will only help republicans intensify their vote. flake i'm disappointed in. i those would be a man of courage. after a woman yelled at him in the elevator, he rolled or and played dead. lou: you are talking about the demonstrators? ed: yes, you can imagine what would happen if there were 10 of them. he quickly folded after putting out a press release saying he would be supportive of the nominee. at the end of the day you still had the most of qualified man in history to be put on the court. an fbi report is not going to find anything new that's going to be telling, and i think at the end of the day, the people

who would vote or support this issue to senator mcconnell would come forth. >> do you think a single one of those dimms who demanded the fbi investigation which has been completed in this round and secondly through which he has gone a 6th time and one supplemental coming up. do you think a single one of those dimms means to vote? >> no. it now moved to the committee from the floor it's important this fbi director is not wide open. it narrowed on the focus they wanted. and not a whole bunch of other claimants. and i think to a certain extent, they owe this man a quick quick vote up or down. my sense it will be up. i have great faith that mcconnell can count votes and

push this through. lou: all of the members of the u.s. senate support moving forward with the mcconnell confirmation vote. that's a healthy place to start to win confirmation. there is always the prospect of no matter how narrow it may be, a few dimms, maybe one, will join the republicans in support of this great american and great jurist. let's turn to what this is. i don't know many people know that in your service to our number of presidents you have had a central role in confirmations. you have also had a ringside seat in history of whether it's bourke, or whether it's clarence thomas. i said here this is the meanest -- i want your perspective. those two were all of that.

>> i have been around 50 years. i was on the judicial selection panel for reagan to pick the justices for the courts. we basically give them debate on decisions they may have made, but never personal. i watched bourke, one of the great scholars of our country go down in flames. i watched clarence thomas get battered and bruised and get beat up. a great american. i watched this man go through a hearing like i have never seen before. in the last two weeks what they have done to him and his family is outrageous. it's not criminal, but it should be criminal. this supplemental investigation, what more can we know about kavanaugh. it's almost unthinkable that the fbi would have failed to pick up

some scintilla of anything that was wrong in this man's background. you know, the thing that annoys me greatly is flake is ignoring the reality that the judge expressed to that committee. this was not an uncorroborated and baseless charge. it wasn't for lack of evidence. there is zero evidence, and no, it's not a matter of corroboration. it's a matter of reputation. the names you put forward denied her statements categorically. that they knew anything about what she was talking about. ed: the fbi has done six full-scale investigations. i have had two of them. they go to kindergarten. and they have done one for this investigation. lou: will that include dr. ford?

there were a number of contradictions and lapses in her testimony that did not line up with her statements. we didn't hear about she talked about predispositions to certain behaviors. we didn't hear any more about that. we heard a story about a front door on a house we were told was because of an insecurity. ed: i would assume in the course of a week she may be candidate number one to be interviewed or his partner. kavanaugh, may start with him. they definitely will start with her and ask what her side of the story is and what have you. but you have to understand at the end of the day, they just write down what you say. they don't make judgments and bring it back to the committee. lou: chuck grassley was quoting

joe biden from the thomas hearings. the democrats who demanded this and flake who made the deal with them don't know this. watching dianne feinstein and other with lisa her could you ski in the hallway, they were intimidating her. they were intimidating jeff flake. they have him in a small room outside the hearing room and they were all piled in there. ed: he'll go down in history as one of the great turncoats and cowards of the u.s. senate based on this thing. i think he'll do the right thing at the end of the day that he votes right. i can tell you the fbi will find nothing other than what was said yesterday. there is no new hidden case out there that they will discover. lou: up next, senate majority

leader mitch mcconnell say senate republicans are in agreement on the kavanaugh confirmation. >> 51 republican members of the senate support the motion to proceed to the nomination. 100% of the republican conference proceeding to the kavanaugh nomination. lou: we take up that nomination and this extraordinary confirmation process. we'll be talking with tom if i on of judicial watch. stay with us. -♪ he's got legs of lumber and arms of steel ♪ ♪ he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal ♪ ♪ he holds your house in the palm of his hand ♪ ♪ he's your home and auto man ♪ big jim, he's got you covered ♪ ♪ great big jim, there ain't no other ♪ -so, this is covered, right? -yes, ma'am.

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ashamed. lou: which of those three senators do you think will after the fbi report is filed vote, turn about and vote for judge kavanaugh? any of them? senator lindsey graham warned his colleagues and the nation about the precedent we are watching, this precedent of dangerous conduct that the dimms are carrying out at the kavanaugh confirmation. >> this has never been about the truth. this has been about delay and destruction. and if we reward this, it is the end of good people wanting to be judges. it is the end of any concept of the rule of law.

it's the beginning of a process that will tear this country apart. lou: senator lindsey graham. joining me now, judicial watch president tom fitton who was in the hearing room watching all of this. as i said, the meanest, nastiest, dirtiest dem reaction in a hearing i have ever seen. what they tried to carry out is the politics of personal destruction. i want to turn first to the fbi development. your thoughts about what it will contribute and it will be persuasive to a single democrat. >> no, i won't. i think the democrats want a mueller investigation 2.0 here. fist ford's lawyers -- miss

ford's lawyers are suggesting they won't cooperate with the fbi next week. chuck grassley asked the fbi for a summit emental -- for a supplemental investigation into credible allegations. well, there aren't any credible allegations. it can be done in two or three days and they can vote on it next week if they push hard. lou: the senate majority leader set the clock running as of today. the president has ordered that to begin and to be wrapped up within a week. so there is that time limited aspect of this, and also will only deal with the current accusers no matter how preposterous you may think they are, no matter how valid you might believe their charges might be. this is it.

what do you expect to be the result? >> we are going to get a summary document of the testimony we heard the other day or has been reported through documentary evidence where you had witnesses testimony subject to which puts them on the hook for prosecution if they are lying. they will just tell the same thing to the fbi. so we'll have the same group, the same stack of information that we had frankly before the hearing. we never needed the hearing. we don't need the fbi investigation. when we needed one, it should have been done the week before last. >> or the 60s weeks when dianne feinstein withheld the letter from dr. ford. >> two things about feinstein. either she sat on it because she was lying or she sat on it to have it on the scene after the

confirmation hearings were done. either way it's corruption at its core. lou: the american bar association gave judge kavanaugh the highest recommendation. now the president of the aba says he urges the post moanment of the vote given these charges. >> that's just a political statement. i don't know why the aba is allowed to participate in this process. it's a hack organization that targets conservative judges are negative ratings. the aba is a liberal interest group. just as much as the others that were attacking kavanaugh earlier this week. lou: judge kavanaugh, he's waiting here, the process is going on. chairman goodlatte of the

judiciary committee in the house has set in motion a meeting with rosenstein, rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. what do you expect to come of that, if anything. >> rod rosenstein is going to with hold information from the committee, and it's going to continue to fight as to what trapped in this discussion of overthrowing the president of the united states. we sat at a hearing talking about judge kavanaugh's yearbook when we should have had emergency hearings on this doj effort to overthrow the president it shows the distorted priorities in this decrepit city. lou: it's a rancid place. there is a strong stench. tom, thanks for being with us. good to see you. tom fit on.

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demonstrators. she suggested a regime change, vowing to not stop fighting until we see maduro go. joining us tonight, refired four-star general fox chief strategic analyst, general jack keane. good to have you with us. ways your reaction to this president who has not been a big fan of regime change, his u.n. ambassador is talking clearly and openly about regime change in venezuela. >> i think it' the same same sad row today i we have for iran. we are not going to take any overt action to change that regime. but we are supporting the people in the country. and whatever that support can be, we are behind them. ambassador haley's strong comments in support of the people and their protests to the

regime would be along the lines of what ronald reagan did with the protesters in poland against the communist regime. when the iranians were in the streets in the summer of 2009, they were demonstrating against that regime for the first time. obama stayed silent. that movement was eventually defeated, sadly to say. this is about inspiration and sanctioning the people. we are working in concert with our allies in the region. but we are not talking about any military overt action to change the regime. >> i hear that, and it's the way it begins almost every time. we are not talking about military action, but we end up there. it is -- it's been a spectacle the last two decades, and a very sorry one in which we see -- you

can call it what you want, whether it's mission creep or explosive new missions in which knee so cons drive policy. it is frankly disturbing to hear that start to emanate from the u.n. ambassador rather than from the state department or the white house itself. does it bother you, by the way? >> no. because i don't believe that's what's in the cards here. nor it would lead to military action. what she is talking about is internal regime change to considerable pressure on the maduro regime to the point where they leave or there is some internal action that's taken against him by a military that becomes considerably more disenchanted. whether we are taking covert action inside the country or not, i can't speak to, i don't know, i can't asked questions

like that. >> it wouldn't be very good covert action. >> we would be providing financial support to protesters which i'm sure we are doing inside iran. it's a likely thing we would be doing. this is south america. we have a third rail here, lou, about taking action with u.s. military in south america as you know. lou: that's why i wanted to give it some attention here tonight. ambassador john bolton warning iran there will be hell to pay if iran threatens or goes about harming our allies in the region. your thought. >> the trump administration is doing something i have been waiting for for 38 years through democratic and republican administrations. to see iran as our number one enemy in the world. they have them in the bull's-eye.

it's not just the nuclear issue. they are pushing back on iran for their behavior in the region. lebanon, syria, iraq, yemen. and they don't want them to build ballistic missiles. and they are imposing significant sanctions on them. the export of oils down 35%. lou: are they look for a fight? >> the united states? lou: no i'm talking about iran. >> no. they have lots of rhetoric, they will use proxies. any confrontation with iranian forces, they lose and they lose the regime. they will try to hang on by their fingernails buying into the kerry propaganda, wait out strum'. lou: general, good to talk with

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attackers. extraordinary. google ceo meeting with republican lawmakers to talk about bias. political bias against conservatives. he's talking to we are told a dozen house republicans behind closed doors after the company we fused to participate in a senate hearing earlier this month. he's told to testify before congress sometime later this year. sporting of them, don't you think? joining us, social media superstars, among president's most of loyal supporters, diamond and silk. let's start with this security breach at -- i love the word

security breach as if that conveys a cyber attack which unknown hackers managed to collect data on 50 million facebook customers. your reaction. you know what, lou? instead of facebook putting in an algorithm trying to silence conservative voices, maybe they should have nut an algorithm to protect people's data. facebook makes up into the billions of dollars a year. they make enough to build a fire wall and build another wall around that fire wall to protect people's information. so there is no excuse. lou: i like your idea, a fire wall around a fire wall. these folks are trying to convince us they are taking things seriously in their cyber-security effort after the russians hacked them and interfered in the 2016

elections, and yet here we are, they have zuckerberg saying they are taking it seriously, as if anyone shouldn't take it seriously when 50 million people have their private information hacked by unknown cyber attackers? >> lou, you have facebook that continues to do nasty things to people. that's why nastiness comes back to them. you may not pay what you owe, but you will reap what you sow. lou: that's what you think is going on? >> that's exactly what's going on. it's called karma. good is not going to come to you whenever you do people bad. lou: i happen to agree with you. i love the principle. we know it doesn't always work, but i love the principle, and i think most of americans do. so we are with you on this. google.

their ceo showed up to say hi to the great unwashed. that is the republican leaders in congress. they deigned to actually meet with them behind closed doors and do you get the sense technology in silicon valley is getting a little sense of why it might be in their interest to be just a little humble before the united states government? >> they should be humble and stop acting like they are perplexed about people calling them out on their biased intent. when you silence conservatives and put measures in place. silence what people see and what you want them to see and don't want them to see with algorithms. when videos surface where you are upset that we have our president and hillary didn't get in.

i'm glad they are going up there and talking to congress. congress needs to make them answer for their dirty deeds. lou: i don't know if anyone in congress knows what they are doing. you wonder how they could permit the ceo of the most of powerful digital company in the world to give them the back of his hand. i don't understand why there isn't a strong, loud clear call to either -- well, two -- i call to regulate them and be sure you are protecting all of the voices in this country. >> i agree with you. regulate them in some kind of way or slap them with a big fine whenever they are trying to silence any one voice. we have the right to freedom of speech and we need to use our speech and nobody should silence

us. >> these platforms are supposed to be neutral for all. lou: well said. as always, great to see you. thanks for being with us. be sure to check out diamond and silk's chit-chat tour. next stop, october 7, marietta, georgia. it's next week. up next, shadow president. former president barack obama criticizing president trump again on foreign soil. i'll take up his latest effort to undermine american democracy and overturn our heritage, traditions and values. remember national politics was supposed to end at the water's edge. gordon chang joins me next. we'll take up china, russia, iran. and yes, former president obama.

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listen to what he said to a crowd where he was getting paid a lot of money for his speech. quote, when you start seeing our politics driven completely free of facts and a debate driven solely on racial or nationalistic impulses and rejection of science and logic in politics, we are beyond the politics that will continue our best traditions. one of noles traditions -- one of those traditions is not talking about national politics when you are a former president traveling overseas. joining us, gordon chang. what do you make of obama and what he's trying to do here? >> he was using emotionally charged language to make statements. he got the u.n., the world trade

organization, under national atomic energy, they are not working. people are angry not because they are ignorant. they are angry because more than president obama they are aware of what's going not world today. you shouldn't criticize a sitting president and you shouldn't do it on foreign soil. lou: i can't think of a president who has done that before. i can't recall a president who has ever done it before. and it would be this one, of course, who prefers the first person singular to all elements of the english language. china, the president charging them directly while at the united nations and kudos toed the president for having the guts and strength and leadership to take them on. meddling in our elections. the des moines register sporting -- >> a 4-page ad.

lou: it was dressed up to look like editorial content of the des moines register. and that shouldn't happen. somebody sold the ad and they let it go. >> there are other things china has been doing to influence the mid terms. you had beijing sum man the heads of wall street to china to talk about ways to undercut the trump tariffs. you had the foreign minister sitting down with kissenger. lou: the largest and most of powerful did not go. they sent emissaries. >> then you had the chinese foreign minister talking to kissinger in beijing. then you have the tariffs china put on in retaliation to our and they were directed at president trump's political base. lou: the president made it clear he'll retaliate if you go after

our farmers and workers, you will be in big trouble. the chinese retaliation hasn't been equivalent. it's proportional. by that i mean, what the president has said for years, we export so lit toll china, were permitted to export so little, there is no way they can put much after barrier against it because they have so many already erected and compare that to the vast sums they export to this country in which we have until the president took over, we have been just chumps for decades. literally decades. >> we had a merchandise trade deficit of $375.6 billion. that means the chinese are running out of bullets. we only exported $130 billion to them. we imported $505 billion from

them. lou: we knew that. that's why we applaud the president putting these tariffs on chinese exports to this country. we are watching meddling in the elections. it appeals to our farmers. to try to gin up resistance. the chinese are joining the radical dimms in this country trying to pursue their mercantilist trade policies they enjoyed so long. there may be a little friction been the president and xi. so what? >> so what. the united states loses hundreds of billions in intellectual property every year. we have tariffs that are remedies for the sale of theft.

lou: i hope people understand what all this president is doing to reverse decades of stupidity on the part of american leaders. i'm talking about republicans and democrats. with china, with the world. and this president has done so much to start, just rationalizing our policies. amongst those policies, some would argue more important than trade is the theft $600 billion a year by the chinese in intellectual property from this country. gordon, thanks so much for being here. have a great weekend. up next, president trump ordered a supplemental fbi investigation into allegations made by civil accuser -- several accusers of judge brett kavanaugh. also, i join tucker carlson on

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for an investigation into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and three accusers. president trump agreed to a limited probe. judicial watch's tom fitton said how it just might play out. >> chuck grassley asked the fbi to conduct a supplemental investigation into credible allegations. well, there aren't any credible allegations. so the fbi investigation can be over before it begins. it will be done certainly in two or three days and they can vote on it. lou: . president trump holding a rally in johnson city, tennessee monday, boosting republican senatorial candidate marcia blackburn. and that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. please join us monday.

we'll be talking about among other things, the facebook cyber attack, cyber terrorism expert morgan wright joins ups as we take up the facebook cyber attack. 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." maria: happy weekend, welcome to the program that analyze the week that was and positions you for the week ahead. my exclusive interview with treasury secretary hank paulson. but first susan li is standing by. >> the senate judiciary committee voted to recommend brett kavanaugh for the supreme