>> i hate journalism. that does it for "bulls and bears." we'll see you next time. liz: the probe into the russia probe. justice department officials grilling christopher steele about the trump dossier. the house is trying to subpoena witnesses already interviewed by the mueller team. what's the democrat strategy here. to the showdown with iran. the trump administration dropping even more sanctions targeting iranian-backed hezbollah. 2020 democrats

all this as alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders try yet again to reintroduce the that democrats only voted present on. how in the world are the democrats going to fix the climate when they can't fix the border and the job policies. i'm elizabeth macdonald.

"the evening edit" starts right now. the emir of ask of qatar visitie white house today. report some of the country's largest companies, the president announced deals with qatar. boeing, gold stream and ge. a total price tag was not revealed. the white house says it will include the purchase of five boeing 777 freighters. president trump: they are investing heavily in our country. they are buying tremendous amounts of military equipment,

including planes. it will be a lot of mobby spent in our country and that means a lot of jobs. reporter: president trump for the moment is standing behind alex acosta. he says he feels very badly for the labor secretary, but he'll be looking at acosta's handling of epstein's non-prosecution agreement. li we'll have more on the epstein case in just a bit. the u.s. slapping more sanctions today against hezbollah members. putting more pressure on rawb and its ally d on iran and its allies. iran threatening to take it even further if they do not get relief from economic sanctions. let's bring in retired lieutenant colonel daniel davis. iran is threatening to even

require iranian to 20% purity. will that test europe here? here is general jack keane last night. watch. >> they are trying to motivate the europeans and the iranians will return to full compliance on enrichment. the iranians are going to continue to do this. the extortion campaign is an accurate description of it, attempting to get the europeans to assist. i would hope the europeans follow the british lead and resist this and force the iranians to comply with the enrichment. liz: do you think they will join in pushing back against iran? >> iran is trying to get europe

to live up to their side of the agreement. they decided all these things they would go. i don't think it would be extortion to say live up to your agreement. but that illuminates the bigger issue for the united states. what is the outcome we are trying to get. if we are trying to ratchet things up and put more pressure with more sanctions, what's the outcome? liz: iran is a rogue nation in support of terrorist activities. >> there is no question they are one of the big sponsors of terror. the question for the united states is ways our actions here. do we press something that could spark a war and would be unequivocally bad for your interests or do we tamp the situation down. liz: it's clear the president doesn't want war with iran. the separate issue from that is the u.s. is the protector of the

world's oil flows. a fifth of the consumption comes from the straits. i know the oil supplies coming out of iran go to china and japan. so it's a nuclear pressure that iran is doing and also the strait of hormuz is an issue. >> without question. all those things are in play. that's why it's a complicated situation. especially you are talking about the use of u.s. armed forces in keeping those straits open. our strategic forces are there to keep our sources safe. not to just be the global cops to keep the lanes open for these rich countries. we'll help our allies where we can. but they can't rely on us to do

it for them. liz: major league players are about to hit the field for the 2019 all-star game. connell mcshane is there. reporter: we are at progressive field ahead of the all-star game in cleveland. always a lot of excitement before a game like this. also you get a sense of what's going on in the field. some of the players are walk in from centerfield. they walked out in full uniform to take their team pictures. with all of that, a little bit of controversy surrounding the business side of this game, about whether in this day and age there is enough action in the baseball game.

are there too many home runs or too many strikeouts? another pitcher justin ever lander made headlines saying the ball is juiced. there is something different about it. well, there might be something to it and maybe some changes should be made. >> i'm going to trust the pitcher 100%. you could blind field me and put 7 different baseballs in my hand and i will know something is different about them. any time you have to adjust rules or the way the game is being manufactured. reporter: whatever the case may be, whether the ball is juiced or something different. either way, there is a lot of excitement about major league

baseball because of some of the young people behind me. so get started on fox, 8:00 p.m., free game show. liz: be sure to tune in to fox 7:00 p.m. eastern time. reports tonight that attorneys with the justice department inspector general office have interviewed former british spy christopher steele. he's the author of the anti-trump dossier. will they get to the bottom of how the investigation of the trump campaign began? the trump white house plans to start deporting a million immigrants amid evidence that the border policies are working. we are talking about a 30% brop dropoff in the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border.

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liz: new reports of christopher steele, steele was grilled by attorneys from the justice department i.g. office for 6 hours last month. catherine herridge is in washington with more. hercatherine: there are reports that he was so concerned he would get thrown under the bus, that it ramped up the pressure for him to cooperate with michael horowitz at the 11th hour. reuters reported that he was

interviewed in the u.k. these' late developments required three witnesses to be reinterviewed. steele was interviewed twice. the 500-page report makes no direct reference to the so-called steel dossier used to secure the surveillance warrant. democrats paid for the opposition research. liz: let's get right to former federal prosecutor, jim trussy. >> i think the substance of what he has to say in a lot of areas won't be surprising. when he talks about the fact that it's an unverified dossier. if he talks about the fact that it was paid for by a law firm

associated with the hillary clinton campaign. what's interesting is the stuff that happens later are that could affect durham probe. who else did he talk to within the doj about the dossier? i think it's procedural stuff that will be the most of exciting leads for john durham. liz: john durham was appointed to oversee the probe. he can bring criminal charges, right? >> this is a well established probe. this is a life-time prosecutor who knows what he's doing. he's going back to investigating the fbi when it handled whitey bolger. he's not political in his outlook. so he's shadowing the oig

investigation. he'll have a lot to say about how the fbi acted and how the doj acted. >> jerry nadler and the house judiciary subpoenaed a dozen witnesses that were already interviewed. they will take a vote on thursday. they want to talk to a dozen witnesses already interviewed by the mueller team. what's the democrat end game here? why try to subpoena these individuals? >> i think it's just sending a message they want to prolong and continue to investigate. there is nobody who will be able to say the mueller probe was incomplete when it comes to trump. they will never be able to say they didn't interview enough people. so the findings are the findings. they will emphasize the facts they like on the democratic side. and the republicans will emphasize the facts they like, such as the origins of the probe

and the selection of the team that served mr. mueller and the lack of findings of criminal involvement by the president. liz: more than a dozen members of congress admitted they have not read the report. democrats want to impeach without fully reading the report? jerry nadler says you can't expect people to reading long documents. >> it's a dereliction of duty. questioning witness, you have an obligation to the primary source of information which is the mueller report. i know it's hard for them to break away from their campaign events to read 450 pages, but that's their obligation no matter who they are. liz: i want your reaction to the

attorney general bill barr said he'll back robert mueller if he decide not to testify. >> i'm disappointed to see him subpoenaed because i don't think that serves an important purpose. it seems to me the only reason for doing that is to create a public spectacle. if bob decide he doesn't want to be subject to that, the department of justice would certainly back him. >> it was heavy handled to be jumping to subpoenas and talking about contempt of congress. the politics of the moment would overplay the hammers that the democrats held on to. i think it's genuine from bar. he's saying this is a private citizen's call. i think every indication is he'll do it on the 17th. but he's probably not going to

tolerate the street theater as much as his democratic friends might want him to. liz: we have other stories we are track. disturbing video from disneyland in southern california. police investigating this wild brawl. it's unclear what sparked it or who all the brawlers are. one man can be seen repeatedly punching a woman in the face after she reportedly spat on him. let's get to the dire warnings out of the tech world. cnet reporting that 1, 300 apps take and harvest your data even after you deny access to those apps. google is saying we'll address this. but in the next android release later this year.

apple's co-founder said i unplugged my facebook and social media, you should, too in is nothing to stop them from spying on you. >> to many like myself, my recommendation to most of people is you should figure out a way to get off facebook. liz: a plot twist from hollywood, reruns of "friends" it will move from netflix to a new streaming service from at&t called hbo max. "friends" will be on hbo max in string of the next year. it was the second most of watched show in the u.s. finally sad news. billionaire h. ross perot has

passed away. he ran for president in 192 and 1996. he -- in 1992 and 1996. he pulled himself out of poferl i during the depression. perot famously phone for saying this that nafta was creating a giant sucking sound as it pulled jobs out of the u.s. into mexico. the acting chief of i.c.e. says it will start deporting a million undocumented illegal immigrants while vice president pence blasting ocasio-cortez for trying to he you a quite detention centers at the border to nazi concentration camps. jeffrey epstein charged with

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liz: jeffrey epstein now in jail. the federal government alleges he preyed on dozens of victims, some as young as 14. jeffrey epstein considered a flight risk. joining me, a former federal prosecutor. an appeals court authorized the unsealing of thousands of pages of court documents. what do you think we'll see in those court documents? >> probably old and ancient stuff. it may be worth more for other names and the actual criminal

conduct. liz: what do you mean by that? >> this indictment before us right now alleges conducts that goes back between 2002 and 2005. the average person is going to be wait a second. how could somebody be prosecuted for something that happened a decade and a half ago. that's was there are no longer statutes much limitations for these crimes. so all of this stuff gets unsealed. it will be talking about things that happened. liz: do you think it will reveal names? >> it begs the question. why is mr. etch stein being prosecuted? he's being prosecuted for crimes he committed a decade and a half ago that he was prosecuted for and the federal government decide pass on to the state government. the state government chose to negotiate a disposition where he

served 13 months. but the case was done. is he being prosecuted because of the crimes or to get him to cooperate and give up names? political people the president? is this retribution? we don't know. is it oj simpson all over again. we didn't get you for killing nicole and von, but we'll get you for the robbery in vegas. we just don't know right now. liz: former president bill clinton has been distancing himself from mr. step stein. and statement from the linton office says investigative journalists saying bill clinton not telling the truth. she says she' sees a pilot log that bill clinton may have taken 27 trips. >> the president will tell you this happened a decade and a half ago.

so forgive me, i have a lapse in my recollection. it doesn't mean i was involved. liz: 4 versus 27. >> he can't say i have never been on the plane. but he can say i have been on a handful of times. liz: we have epstein was a big donor to the democrats from 19pay the 9-2003. and he also funded the clinton global initiative. so he's tight close to the clinton circle. >> there are a lot of people who say there are a lot of reasons why jeffrey epstein got the sweetheart deal he got. it's unheard of to say sex trafficking that doesn't interest us.

that's not something we are interested in prosecuting. that's insane. that doesn't happen. yet for some reason it happened here then it was turned over to florida state prosecutors. 13 months sounds great on a piece of paper. but you are actually going to be in there for nine minutes because you will be out six days a week work. something weird is going on here. liz: what is the weird thing you think is going on? >> it seems like someone was pushing the influence pedal on someone else or someone did a fantastic job of instilling fear in the federal government that if you push this case you are not going to be happy at the results of the trial. you will be embarrassed. your victims will be embarrassed. your prosecutors may be embarrassed. far be it from me to say. in my 28 years on the defense

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liz: we are about to find out if obamacare will be a 2020 election issue. the fifth circuit court of

appeals heard the argument over the repeal of the obamacare mandate tax. that mandate tax thought to be unconstitutional because it forced people to buy insurance. casey stegall has more. reporter: the main challenge of this legal battle has been over the individual mandate component of the affordable care act. many critics argued it's just the government's way of imposing a tax since americans were penalized financially for not carrying health insurance. well, as you know, u.s. supreme court upheld the law in 2012 but did call that mandate portion unconstitutional. so congress dropped the tax penalty to zero in 2017. the judge said the law could not be saved on that one provision,

despite testimony from supporters. >> there are hundreds of thousands of people like me in this state and country, and it's not fair to anybody. you have know, we are too wealthy of a country to be putting veterans like me on the death bed. reporter: the veterans took their case to the court of appeal. it required that insurance companies not deny people with preexisting conditions, and by taking that away, millions would suffer. though the plaintiff's lead counsel suggests the law hurts more than it helps. arguments happening today in new orleans at the coast appeals. a three-judge panel listened to all of the evidence and the cases with a ruling around december that could set the stage for the supreme court to

take it up in the following fall term which would be in the middle of the 2020 election. liz: over the weekend rnd, the trump administration's top immigration official said yes they are ready top start deporting a million illegal immigrants. >> therm ready to chief taken and deport approximately one million people who have final removal orders. they have been through the due process and have final removal orders. liz: do you think we should start deporting these undocumented illegal immigrants? >> well, i don't know the details of what ken cuccinelli is talking about. but i do know we have to enforce

our laws and start fixing the border. the democrats won't give us agents or technology or barriers. we won't fix the asylum laws. then we have people who are supposed to be deported. they are attacking our border agents. they are law enforcement. they are trying to do the job they were hired to do. now they are being attacked by the democrats of not caring about people. none of us want to have a parents without a child. but do we want an incentive for people to kidnap children off the border so they can be released? no, we don't. liz: 2020 democrats including elizabeth warren and cory booker, they have been talking

about decriminalizing border crossing. we have ms-13 in new york in abandoned houses. we have an illegal immigrant accused of murdering 18 senior citizens in texas. they are reviewing hundreds of death investigations to see if he's connected to that. and we have nearly 5 dozen criminal illegals rounded up in the last two weeks for things like, they have criminal records for assault, domestic violence and more. they want to decriminalize the border crossing? your take on that. >> they have people bringing drugs across the border, and we have wonderful people want to come here and live our dream in this country. we want people to come here legally. but we have to have a secure

border and have immigration and asee you stlum laws that work. they said it was a manufactured crisis. yes, it was manufactured by the democrats. they caused this crisis by not doing their job. basically the democrats want an open border. i want them to come here legally. but there are a lot of bad things happening, too. liz: this is the democrat plan to win in 2020. demonize mitch mcconnell. that story coming up. hmm. exactly. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪

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liz: it's still the economy, stupid just like bill clinton's strategist bill caravell said. this as the u.s. hits 100 straight months much job gains. >> yes they will pay more taxes. >> who is this economy really working for? it's still great for center and

center sliced at the top. >> if we had a value added tax. >> this president walks around flowing his -- flouting his great economy. and he talks about the stock market. that's fine if you own stock. liz: he's talking about job gains, too. here is the republican advice. democrats should attack the trump economy. no reporting, no facts. and how exactly the government raises your income. no debate about that. >> talking about stocks with senator harris. most of people have stocks indirectly in their pension plans and 401ks. and in terms of the economy itself, it's doing extremely well and they can't deal with the facts -- they have the

lowest unemployment in half a century. minority unemployment at record levels so they have to say it's the 1%. low income people, their wages are going up faster than their supervisors. liz: the economic underdogs, the minorities -- this what it reminds me of. let's go right to this point. the democrat strategy is what bill clinton did in '92 with george h.w. with the rates. the media basically took the clinton line that the economy was in a horrible place. wrong, mark penn, clinton's strategist admitted it was record growth. but the media sold that story and clinton knew of it was not bad. >> we had a recession in

'90-'91. and the economy started to improve. they want to raise your taxes. we cut your taxes. they want to redistribute what income you have. they say you want less healthcare. you want to wait to get an appointment with a specialist when you have cancer? you can sprt bernie sanders plan. liz: the democrats are manufacturing made for tv gop ad. they want to take away private understand. all that hand raising you will see in republican ads next year. >> the commentators are the ones running those debates. why aren't they hitting them hard the way they are a republican who made ridiculous statement. all they are doing is playing

into the hand of donald trump. the best thing donald trump has going for him is the democrats have to run somebody against him. liz: a cnn poll found a majority of voters do not want to pay for health understand for illegals. what is your take on bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez. they are pushing to relaunch the green new deal even after democrats only voted present for it. >> the dud new deal. i thought cows were safe. but they will go after them again and it opens them up to mockery. one thing republicans will hit them on in 2020. how do the europeans pay for their welfare state? they do it for a 25% sales tax, called a vat.

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elizabeth: big part was dem strategy to win in 2020 demonize mitch mcconnell. let's get reaction from republican strategist ford o'connel, what do you say. >> by demonizing mitch mcconnell, they are giving vanilla mitch a personalty, turning him to a conservative folk hero, at a time when he has

tto -- protect his majority. elizabeth: you could argue that hard left, she is -- the hard left could get trump reeelectricked, the dems are ripping themselves apartment. what do you say? >> there is no question, that the fact that there is a fight withins democratic party particularly in the house, that benefits donald trump. remember why the democrats did not win in 2016, they were not unified. in 2018 they won back house, they put forth moderates, they stayed on message this back and forth between aoc and company and nancy pelosi is a win-win, that is a win for donald trump. elizabeth: we have a tweet from alexandria ocasio-cortez firing back at pelosi on twitter,

mocking pelosi's words, a spokesperson for alexandria ocasio-cortez saying that greatest threat to mankind is cowardice of democrat party, and aoc's chief of staff said pelosi claims we can't focus on impeachment, but i challenge you to find voters that can name a single thing that house democrats have done for their kitchen take them year. -- table this year, what is aoca kitchen table policies, do you see this irony? >> basically she is trying to play progressive, we know what her policies are, they are not going to sell, if they did get out of the house, mitch mcconnell would stop them at the gate, nancy pelosi is trying to say, we can't govern if here not in power that requires, house, senate and presidency. it will take about 8 years for democrats to learn that.

elizabeth: i hear that, aoc's chief of staff saying, mocking nancy pelosi alleg a -- ledge le mastermind. that is point, that is this guy talking about? >> that is what is going on, i'm not going to stand in front of a bus running away on the highway, i do have to say, if democrats don't get their act together, donald trump will get reelected, if the infighting conditions the republicans may win back the house, the very district lap over to the house. elizabeth: mitch mcconnell said no good job creation policy. >> mitch mcconnell knows what is good for america and the republicans, as longa the economy stays strong.

>> ford thank you. >> thank you for watching. we hope we helped you tonight, lou dobbs is next right here on fox business network, have a good evening. i am david asman in for lou dobbs, early sign of trump administration pressure on mexico. is yielding positive results, border patrol ap -- -- radical t rolls on, nardler preparing tosum subpoena a dozen individuals. attorney general william's barr probe to origins of russia