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clear to them and the nation that no matter what he will not be intimidated, no matter the pain to him and to his family. the judge vowed to never quit. >> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmation process. but you have replaced a vice and consent -- advice and consent with search and destroy. since my nomination in july, there has been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything to block my confirmation. shortly after i was nominated, the democratic senate leader said he would oppose me with everything he's got. a democratic senator on this committee publicly referred to me as "evil." evil. think about that word.

and said those who supported me were, "complicit in evil." another senator said, "judge kavanaugh is your worst nightmare." you sowed the wind. for decades to come i fear the whole country will reap the whirlwind. >> lou: judge kavanaugh's staunch defense comes after nearly two weeks of being smeared by the radical dimms and their allies and the left wing national media. where unsubstantiated, uncorroborated and refuted allegations of sexual assault have run rampant. one senator who was fed up with the dimms' attempt to tarnish this good man. senator lindsey graham. >> did you meet with senator dianne feinstein on august 20? >> i did meet with senator feinstein. >> did you know that her staff had already recommended a

lawyer to dr. ford? >> i did not know that. >> did you know that her and her staff had this allegation for over 20 days? >> i did not know that at the time. >> if you wanted an f.b.i. investigation, you could have come to us. what you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020. you've said that. not me. you've got nothing to apologize for. when you see sotomayor and kagan tell them that lindsey said hello because i voted for them. i would never do to them what you have done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. to my republican colleagues, if you vote no, you are legitimizing the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. you want this seat? i hope you never get it.

i hope you are on the supreme court. that is exactly where you should be. and i hope that the american people will see through this charade. and i wish you well. and i intend to vote for you and i hope everybody who is fair-minded will. >> lou: senator lindsey graham. president trump standing by the side of his nominee, not in any way diminishing his support. he tweeted this after that hearing. "judge kavanaugh showed america exactly why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful, honest and rivetting. democrats' search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham, an effort to delay, obstruct and resist. the senate must vote." they are scheduled to do so tomorrow morning. joining us tonight, congressman louie gohmert and

congressman andy biggs both of who are member of the house judiciary committee and the house freedom caucus. good to have you with us. we witnessed the most extraordinary senate judiciary committee hearing since that of clarence thomas in 1991. and i have to say that unlike those moments, senators stood up for the president's nominee. lindsey graham, congressman gohmert, i will start with you if i may. senator graham, i'm almost speechless because i am not a person who is easily impressed by rhetoric. this man impressed. he, i suspect, reminded the republican members of the u.s. senate of their consciences. >> yeah. lindsey and i have had a lot of disagreements but i tell you what. lindsey reached down into his

soul and he was righteous and he was right and he was defensive of a process. lou, i was having dinner today, we had a late dinner with a former president of the czech republic. and he said he had seen some of the hearings and things that were going on here. he said, "we always look to america as that light on the hill. we didn't always agree but we knew you were trying to do what was right and be fair. we're not seeing the light so much." i'm telling you, lindsey got light in him today. he was righteous. >> i'm sorry, congressman. >> go ahead. >> lou: this business they started with. well, first of all, it's not all light in the senate judiciary committee. >> no, it wasn't. >> lou: after watching this, i can't even imagine what senator chuck grassley was thinking about when he had this woman doing five-minute intervals. and for all the world came out

much harsher in her line of questioning, congressman, biggs, than she did when interview dr. christine ford. it was a remarkable thing. finally, they changed that. but this after the delay as kavanaugh said ten days from the moment he asked to accelerate the hearing. it was an awful spectacle of managing that committee. >> well, i was bewildered. i don't know how anyone who has had trial experience can say you are going to get five minutes to ask some questions. try to go down a train of thought and then lose it after another five minutes to somebody else. the whole setup was meant for failure frankly, on the part of the poor republican questioner. how do you get any train of thought? so, i was shocked that that

was the process that they decided to undertake. i didn't make sense to me. but it goes to this whole process which has been disgraceful. i mean what the democrats did, i mean, lindsey graham brought it out perfectly when he said dianne feinstein had this for 20 days. you are sitting there, judge kavanaugh. she is interviewing you. guess what? she is setting you up at the same time. this woman, dr. ford had a lawyer that was recommended by senator feinstein. and you look at the whole thing. i see spartacus asking the type of questions he is asking on the committee, i am outraged that they went after judge kavanaugh without any degree of respect or decorum. this was designed to delay and to destroy this man's character and his name. and actually, lindsey graham was right. they wanted to -- and i have said this before. this is a war. they view this as a war. we view this as a process.

that is where we -- >> lou: if there is any confusion in your conference about what you have done by permitting paul ryan to remaun as speaker, what you have done in the senate by permitting chuck grassley to manage that like a garden -- i don't know -- society. it is, i would hope, be a revelatory day. the terrible thing it seems to me, congressman gohmert, in all of this is the family of judge kavanaugh. along with the judge himself. just dragged through the mud. >> it's horrible. >> lou: with extraordinary accusations. dr. ford, she was entirely credible. as judge kavanaugh himself said. she has gone through immense pain, but it's not an experience that he was in any way associated with. >> we may disagree a little bit on the "immensely credible."

>> lou: let me finish if i may. >> all right. >> lou: the fact that the dimms will not, kept asking for an f.b.i. investigation when the only four people who have been named by dr. ford have refuted her story as to time, place, event, they say they have no knowledge of either judge kavanaugh or being in proximity to her or to that event, which none of them could say ever happened. they know nothing about it. now judge. >> i'm sorry i jumped in. >> lou: your honor i'm going straight back to who you are. >> look, there were so many uncon -- inconsistencies in her story. she presented it credibly. as anyone in her situation would after she has been coached repeatedly and prepared as a witness. they asked for the extra days

to rehearse and get her ready so she was. she rehearsed, as well as she rehearsed she presented. but there were still these incredible discrepancies. how you can say it had haunted you and you will never get the details in one sentence and the other sentence you say you don't remember the details. but the details will remain with you never. she didn't even call the name when she first told the shrink. then she said the shrink said she said four people and then no two. and in her system it's -- in her testimony it's four. the bottom line is i hope the republicans will learn a lesson. you know, it wasn't a trial. it was a charade. but, lou, all the trials that i had as a felony judge, as litigator, not once did i ever hear both sides rest, we finished oral argument and i said okay. now we're going to come back in a couple of weeks and vote

then. when you finish the evidence, it's time to vote. don't allow these kind of charades to go in and this intermittent garbage that has developed here. you shut it down. you have a vote at the time, after the evidence is presented. >> lou: judge kavanaugh, congressman biggs, does he win the support of all of the republicans and perhaps a few democrats? what is your outlook on how that vote will go? >> well, if there is fairness then he will win all the republicans and a few democrats. but i think graham was right. this isn't the town of fairness. i think he wins the nomination. i think that the fact that, you know, some of the discrepancies were big enough with the witnesses that you allow some of the republicans who are women to vote for judge kavanaugh. i hope he gets confirmed. this has been a travesty from

the beginning. he was mistreated, his family. you could see that on his face and the pain in his parents' faces as well. >> lou: think what the democrats did. >> yeah. >> lou: to dr. ford. i mean -- >> oh, yeah. >> lou: there is no question that the confidentiality she herself reaffirmed she absolutely insisted upon was important to her. it was a commitment from the democrats on that committee. and they violated it. they betrayed that confidentiality. and acted not to protect her. or to address injury at some point in her life but rather to exploit her. that is what they tried today. and because of this great nominee, the president chose extremely well. they will tonight without question be extraordinarily frustrated. congressman gohmert, congressman -- >> to be fair to feinstein she said it wasn't her staff that leaked the stuff. but then again she didn't know

she had -- >> lou: fireness -- fairness is the order of the day on the senate judiciary committee and always compelling on the house judiciary committee so i will permit that fair and balanced remark, congressman. thank you so much. congressman gohmert and congressman biggs. thank you, both. up next, the desperation on the radical dimms on full and ugly display this afternoon as they tried to delay judge brett kavanaugh's confirmation to the supreme court. >> why don't you just ask the president? dr. ford can't do this. we clearly haven't been able to do this. but just ask the president to reopen the f.b.i. investigation. >> i think the committee is doing -- you are doing the investigation. i'm here to answer your questions. >> lou: straightforwardly. we'll take that up r

>> lou: the senate dimms showing us today how low they are willing to go in order to try to regain power in washington during today's hearing for dr. ford and judge kavanaugh. senator mazie hirono vote this to the donors. "while i'm focused on stopping kavanaugh's nomination and

finding the truth, i'm asking you to step up now and ensure my team in hawai'i has everything they need to win our campaign in november." her radical friend in the senate kamala harris. senator harris posting around 3,600 different facebook ads, fundraising. and opposing, of course, the confirmation of judge kavanaugh. the disgusting politicalization of the hearings on full display today as the radical dimms try to turn unfounded allegation of sexual assault into an attack on not only the judge, but the president. >> you and your family should know for every scurrilous charge and pathetic tweet there have been thousands of americans. >> the president admits on tape to i a salting women, he separates children from their parents and takes basic healthcare protections from those who needs them most. he nominates and stands behind a man who stands credibly

accused of a horrible act. >> it's not up to you. it's up to the president of the united states. and his failure to ask for an f.b.i. investigation in my view is tantamount to a coverup. >> lou: cover is something that senator blumenthal is likely looking for tonight because judge kavanaugh took him to school today. judging by the senator's reaction he didn't enjoy it. west virginia to allow voting on the cell phone raising security issues. voters serving overseas must upload photo of the government-issued i.d. and a photo of their face to gain access to the electronic ballot. and just how secure is this idea of voting on smartphones to begin with? west virginia secretary of state mack warner and the developer of the app insist the process is absolutely secure. yeah. check. unbelievable. west virginia, voting by

smartphone. joining us tonight top strategist great america p.a.c. former reagan white house political director and fox news political analyst ed rollins. good to have you here. >> thank you. >> lou: don't you love that? voting by smartphone. that sounds like a dumb thing to do with a smartphone to me. what about you? >> i think it's an absolute guaranteed to have voter fraud and it's a ridiculous idea. >> lou: speaking of "ridiculous," let's turn to the hearing today. watching judge kavanaugh walk into that room and then testify straight to the senate judiciary committee. which he called as we reported here at the outset a national disgrace. they were in every way a national disgrace. >> they were. and the bottom line he hit a home run. he had to hit a home run. she had a compassionate telling of her story. whether it's true or not is irrelevant and she presented

herself well. so he came in and he had to hit a home run. he did. he rose, showed passion and made his case of why he should be on this court. basically i think those democrats were so stupid to try to attack him. obviously at the end of the way it didn't go their way. they want their fundraiser. i had one of my biggest donor who only has an interest in the court gave a check for $1 million to help kavanaugh get through this thing. he said if you need more i'll put 20 big businessmen together to raise the money and make this guy -- he deserves to be on the court and make him on the court. >> lou: he was extraordinary. the terrible thing on the way the radical dimms on the committee used, exploited dr. ford. she was credible. she was obviously in immense pain. and has lived, it seems, looking at her biography immense pain for much of her life.

you can't help but have your heart go out to her. >> absolutely not. >> lou: but this man, this distinguished judge, to be whatever she thinks happened, for him to stand before the committee and call them out, all of the evidence, all of the testimony. all of the reputation of all of the charges and everything that dr. ford had said by the very people she named to support her view is the end of the story. until there is some basis to move forward. each one of the democrats talked about the f.b.i. investigation. here is the investigation. the judiciary committee, every one of the people she named to support, to corroborate her charges said they knew nothing about what she was talking about.

>> no corroborated evidence. >> lou: it wasn't just simply not corroborated the woman's charges against this nominee and the people she named refuted her charges. >> but the outrage was this poor man -- i shouldn't say "poor." this man and his family so suffered in the last couple of weeks. >> lou: absolutely. >> charged with this b.s., total b.s., and no one should have to put one that. this is not what supreme court justices are supposed to go through. >> lou: there are two people responsible it seems to me. you tell me. one and i mean first and foremost is senator dianne feinstein. who pledged confidentiality. >> right. >> lou: that obviously was betrayed. secondly is senator chuck grassley who the nominee demanding a quick hearing and instead ten days of delay, the man, his family dragged as heisted through the mud and through hell. >> i would agree with that. i'd throw schumer in the mix, too. schumer set this thing in motion to stop this man from being on the court.

he prove today he deserves to be on the court. there are more fans today for him and more fans for lindsey graham who basically to me became -- did an extraordinary job today. i have not always been a fan of his but today i'm a big fan and i'll continue as long as he performs. >> lou: i may not have been a big fan but i am such a fan of lindsey graham after what he did today. he is stood up today that i can say i have always been a fan of lindsey graham. >> he doesn't want us to always be a fan. he wouldn't do his job. >> i'm always a fan of yours. great to see you. >> great day. >> lou: well, it's a shame this country is dealing with this ignorance on an important committee in an important body as the united states. >> warning to any republican that votes against this man tomorrow, or next week. ly take my p.a.c. and other facts and we are going after you. >> lou: when this fellow makes a promise he keeps it.

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>> lou: supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh standing in the face of the desperate dimms today declaring his innocence and denying all democratic allegation and calling out the dimms for their vile politics of personal destruction.

>> i will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process. you have try hard. you have given it your all. no one can question your effort. but your coordinated and well funded effort to destroy my good name and destroy my family will not drag me out. the vile threats of violence against my family will not drive me out. >> lou: joining us tonight, at that hearing kimberly strassl member of the editorial board for the "wall street journal." it's great to have you with us. >> hi, lou. >> lou: you tweeted throughout. how are you doing? it was a long day. >> long day. >> lou: as always, i love both your comments and your observations throughout the day. i thought that dr. ford, it's obvious that the woman is in considerable pain. she has lived a life of some

pain. it's clear to me frankly after watching from here judge kavanaugh, that is a man who has been wronged. and pitarases the specter of exploitation -- it raises the specter of exploitation by the radicalized dimmed dim of the judiciary committee. >> the important thing here, lou, a lot of people talk about her performance, his performance. at the end of the day despite all the conversation about credibility, the thing that mattered was did she go into that hearing and did she present any more evidence which is what she had, which is really none? she did not. in that regard it was not necessarily a good day for that side. because the problem here obviously is this is one accusation. she still cannot say where or when. the three people she named still continue to deny that it happened. if your don't have evidence, then you don't have a cause. because this is not a

popularity contest. a lot of people both present as credible. that is why in the end we judge things on evidence. you had the judge come in there and emphatically and clearly deny it ever happened. >> lou: yeah. it seems to me that if you cannot sympathize with dr. ford, if a person cannot sympathize with judge kavanaugh, as well as her family, you don't have a heart. these people are in one of the worst -- well, as judge kavanaugh said, his family, he and his family have been through hell and more. as has i'm sure dr. ford. but your point system exact. a point to seemed to me to be illusive on the part of the republicans and the democrats. there is no evidence. it's not a matter of dr. kavanaugh himself had to point out, not a matter of there is no corroboration. there is reputation. the names she has put toward

toward -- forward to support the story refuted the existence of the event, knowledge of judge kavanaugh at that time. and had no memory of being anywhere near a place that looked or sounded like what she described. >> the one person who did make the case was senator lindsey graham. that was prior to his big state in the there. he said again, the same thing. this is not about credibility. this is whether there are any corroborating evidence to show this. he had another point correct as well that is being missed. when he gave the somewhat impassioned statement what he was saying is look, this has become about more than one man and a job on the court. this is now a judgment on the antics we have seen waged on the other side, ambush, allegations, anonymous allegations. hiding them from people.

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>> lou: well, today, dr. christine ford who was a sympathetic figure, you could not help but sense her pain. but there was as kimberley pointed out there was no new evidence, no new assertion or ground-beaking -- ground-breaking departure from what had been refuted already. she was asked whether or not a member of congress helped her seek out legal counsel and she said no but then later she said this. >> you testified earlier that you had, you didn't see the need for lawyers. and now you are trying to fire

them. what made you change your mind? >> it seemed like most of the individuals that i had told, the total number, the total was not very high. but the person's advice at this point get a lawyer for advice and whether to push forward or to stay back. >> does that include senator feinstein? >> no. >> lou: joining me now is byron york, fox business contributor and attorney and the national republican committee woman for great state of california harmeet dylan. great to have you here. your sense of the committee and the reasons we are here? judge caviling calving said point blank the radical dimms have created a national disgrace. he was not that succinct but i am. your thoughts? >> it was a roller coaster of

a day, lou. most republicans watching the hearing felt for dr. ford. >> lou: no question. >> they believed what she is saying. that is different than whether it's true or not. you see how respectfully the republicans treated her compared to the way the democrats treated kavanaugh. that was revealing. at the end of the day i have friends across the political spectrum on the republican side and not one of them thinks at the end of the day that judge kavanaugh shouldn't confirmed. he did a good job. lindsey graham did a tremendous job of calling this what it was. when the democrats are reduced to talk about fart jokes in a yearbook, they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. this ended up a good day for judge kavanaugh. >> lou: i mean, senator whitehouse really will never -- >> of all people to be talking about person's ferocity. he -- a person's veracity.

he is a joke. >> lou: he is a joke. if he were not before he is today forever more. he was ludicrous. >> it was a comedy routine and kavanaugh played it very, very well. going, the white house, basing everything on a newspaper article that he had read about stuff that was in brett kavanaugh's yearbook. so, it was a really, really two-part day. i had to say i thought the morning was very, very bad for republicans. i could not figure out the questioning of rachel mitchell. >> lou: five-minute alternates. >> lou: that didn't work for her. and she dwelled on the little stuff. >> obviously republicans resent how the democrats handle this and they want to see who told you to get this polygraph? did you talk to anybody here? she did that but neglected to

spend time on the incident from 36 years ago that is the basis of this. >> lou: the alleged incident and the incident that was refuted by the four names that dr. ford put forward. >> which rachel mitchell mentioned in the last two or three minutes of the day. >> lou: before we are too harsh talking about the job she was selected to do, that job was invented by chuck grassley. that committee is run by chuck grassley. he nearly ran the republican party in the ditch. an abysmal performance. don't you think? >> from the point of view of the prosecutor role it's unsatisfactory to be interrupted every five minutes by campaign speeches of the democrats. >> lou: interrupted every ten days for a hearing instead of having expeditious process. >> of course. and judge kavanaugh drove the point home he wanted a hearing right away and mitchell exposed that looking harsh the

plane myth. she got out who paid for the polygraph issue and she scored points in a way without leaving marks on the witness. a lot of us lawyers are like that with was not a great followup. >> lou: what do you think of the job grassley did? >> i would haven't chosen the methodology that was chosen and that is not the best choice in hindsight. there are many great lawyers among republican senators on the committee and they were too quick to cave in to criticism it's a bunch of white men. so what? we shouldn't be caving into that reasoning. >> lou: up next, real election meddling. russia, communist china this time. trying to undermine president trump's trade policies. and taking out a four-page propaganda insert in the "des moines register" for crying

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>> lou: president trump today claiming china has been meddling in the upcoming mid-term elections.

>> president trump: regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election. they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade. >> lou: president trump pointed to this, the chinese government backed insert. four pages worth. it ran in sunday "des moines register." i guess they got paid a pretty penny for the propaganda. it's meddling but it's free enterprise i guess but a sorry form of it. this is the evidence of chinese interference, the president referred to. the president tweeting this. "china is actually placing propaganda ads in 'des moines register' and other papers made to look like news." by the way, shame on the news organizations for letting it look so much like news and

doing so without making it clear what it is. the president saying further, "we are beating the chinese on trade. opening markets and the farmers will make a fortune when this battle is over." the four-page insert bought by a chinese government-run media company called "the china daily." it came out a day before president trump ord erred new tariffs -- ordered new tariffs on $200 billion of chinese exports to the united states. up next, president trump once again advocating for putting the interest of america. how about that? america first. >> president trump: we will not be held hostage to all dogmas, discredited ideologies and so-called experts who have been proven wrong time and time again. we will not allow our workers to be victimized. our companies to be cheated. and our wealth to be plundered

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>> lou: joining me now the man who filed articles of impeachment against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein after the congress was stonewalled in request for documents on the mueller witch hunt, the russia probe as some like to still call it. three-term congressman, chairman of the house freedom caucus, congressman mark meadows with us. great to have you here. rod rosenstein now the subject of an immense speculation as well as curiosity. and he has become the focus of all that is going on in a justice department that is obviously just simply off the rails. what do you . -- what do you expect to happen? the president is going to meet with him thursday. what do you expect the president will do or howard rosencrans -- or rosenstein will do? what is the result of the meeting?

>> it's up to the the president to decide what will happen. but the prudent thing for the president to do is accept resignation on thursday. he was not going to be fired. i think everybody needs their day in court. that is what we are advocating for on capitol hill. we believe that rod rosenstein needs cocome before congress under ath and tell the american people what he did or did not do because he hasn't really denied it. anytime that you the second highest official in the department of justice suggesting that they should wear a wire and take the president -- tape the president of the united states, it's not only wrong but it has national security implications as well. so the time is now for rod rosenstein to be held accountable. >> lou: i want to be very

clear in my understanding and the audience of this broadcast in understanding what you are saying. do you believe the president should accept rosenstein's resignation as you said it was tendered? are you saying that if he does again resign that should be accepted? >> no. i think he ought to accept the one he convoyed on saturday. he may be having second thoughts and all of that. my understanding is he will talk to the president and probably has already but this is about restoring trust. what we know is there are documents to indicate there are problems at the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. and to find out that rod rosenstein was communicating these things, joking or not, you just don't do that. it's emblematic of the problems that we know exist. it is time to be part of the

clean-up crew. rod could do that resigning and allowing someone else to take the place. >> lou: allow someone else. as you well know jeff sessions remains attorney general and you have called for his removal as well. what is the president supposed to do? he is confounded with a man who disappointed him immensely to live up to everyone elementary requirements of that very important job. now howard howard -- and now rot should the president look toward as a view of the justice department, whether it's by his own hand or the president's of rosestein and with sessions there. >> my frustration is over the

inability of congress to get documents. the president took a good step on initiating the process for declassification. he needs to continue with that. conversations with those working through the documents indicate that there are a number of documents they could release to the american people that have nothing to do with national security. let me give you an example. >> lou: surely. >> we have bruce ohr's 302s for those that are viewing tonight, the 302s are kund of a synopsis of an interview he might have done. bruce ohr wasn't part of the investigation. we have that. rosenstein testified to that. he was not part of the russia investigation and the interviews are with two people that don't have security clearances. glenn simpson and christopher steele. there is no way that the documents could be classified. in fact, we have seen many of the notes and we feel like they would be illuminating and truthfully will show some of

the inappropriate behavior that has happened at the f.b.i. and d.o.j. >> lou: thank you. good night from new york. see you tomorrow. 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