have a good evening. lou: good evening, everybody. a major shake up in the white house today. president trump's national security advisor john bolton has exited his post. president trump said the continuing disagreements with bolton over afghanistan, iran, and north korea led to bolton's departure. president trump saying that a new national security advisor will be named next week. bolton was the president's longest-serving national security advisor, serving almost a year and a half. for the very latest on this story, edward lawrence is at the white house. ed? >> lou, former national security advisor john bolton is direct, blunt and abrasive and those traits in part may have played a role in him departing the white

house here. now, bolton was very vocal about the president's policies specifically related to north korea. he's concerned about that strategy there. he also according to sources had a phone call with the president about afghanistan, that became heated in that phone call last night. regardless, bolton is out. the way it played out is kind of like a soap opera here. now the president tweeting out this, saying i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. i disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration, and therefore, i asked him to resign. now, minutes later, bolton tweeted a response saying that i offered to resign and the president says let's talk about it tomorrow. but no mention of being fired. now, bolton was even scheduled to be at a briefing today. instead, he offered a very frosty and direct resignation letter, just two sentences. thanking the president. now, in that briefing today, secretary of state mike pompeo

was asked if he was blindsided by all of this. here's his answer. >> i'm never surprised. [laughter] >> i don't mean that on just this issue. and i think secretary mnuchin would say the same thing. we work very closely with the president of the united states. i think we have a pretty good understanding of how he's thinking about things. i think you would agree, steven, at nearly all times and so, you know, our mission is not to talk about the inner workings that i know you are so curious about, but rather to talk about the things that matter to american foreign policy. >> most recently bolton was concerned about the taliban coming to camp david for peace talks. the meeting ended up never happening because the president cancelled it when a bomb killed a number of folks including one american. white house doubling down, though, that bolton was actually fired because of his ideology.

okay. white house spokes people said the policies did not line up with what the president's thinking was and the president -- a sitting president has the right to have the people around him who he wants. now, the process starts now to try and fix -- or pick the next national security advisor. some early names being mentioned is a special representative for north korea, also brian hook, a policy advisor to pompeo. he's basically the point person on the iran deal with the maximum pressure on iran. he actually gave a speech last week saying that the u.s. is going to give a reward for anyone to break down the financial network and operations that iran has. some names being floated early on. lou, the seat isn't even cold yet. back to you. lou: no, but the folks who would like to have that post are heating it up to get their names out there. ed lawrence, thank you very much. >> thanks, lou. lou: we will have much more on the story tonight. we will talk with former trump

administration official sebastian gorka, katie mcfarland and international aafirs expert kristin whiten. the white house and cia are slamming cnn for falsely reporting that a cia agent was pulled from russia because intelligence officials were concerned that president trump might somehow compromise the agent's identity. fox chief intelligence correspondent katherine herridge has that story tonight from washington. >> former cia director now secretary of state mike pompeo unloaded on media reports claiming a cia asset was pulled in part because of the president's actions. >> the reporting is materially inaccurate. as you know, as a former cia director, i don't talk about things like this very often it is only the occasion when there's something i think puts people at risk or the reporting is so egregious as to create enormous risk to the united states of the america that i comment the way i did.

>> cnn reported the president's may 2017 disclosure of classified information to the russians about terrorism was a pivotal moment that renewed discussion among intelligence officials about the asset's risk of exposure. the oval office meeting was described to fox news as quote irrelevant to the cia's decisio factors to extract an asset. the cia took the unusual step of issuing a public statement, quote, misguided speculation that the president's handling of our nation's most sensitive intelligence which he has access to each and every day drove an alleged operation is inaccurate. pulling an asset is one of the hardest decisions the cia can make. it's based on multiple factors because once the asset is pulled, it can't go back into play and significantly the asset's remaining network of contacts could be retaliated against. there's deep concern on capitol hill that intelligence about russia's strategy for 2020 may have been lost in the process.

lou? lou: katherine, thank you very much. katherine herridge from washington. also it's very clear that news may be trying to have a hand in influencing the outcome of the 2020 election, with fake news, an example would be for example cnn's report on the exfiltration of an agent that never happened. new census bureau data proving the trump economy is working. the poverty rate in the country at the lowest level in nearly two decades. the median household income has hit the high egs ever recorded. -- highest ever recorded. in 2018 the national poverty rate fell to 11 ndt.8 -- 11.8% lowest level since 2001. the median household income over $63,000, all-time high. joining us tonight to assess the path to 2020 rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. great to have you with us. you know, when we look at these

numbers, let's put these numbers up just for the audience to look at, to judge, you know, are you better off today than you were four years ago? could we have that full screen, please? i'm going to beg for it and see if that works. okay. there it is. all you have to do is beg. looking at this poverty rates by year, 11.3, 15.9, 11.8, i mean, this is really quite extraordinary to see what we, you know, what has happened under this president since really election day, didn't wait till inauguration day, the impact started with his election, didn't it? >> absolutely. and you've seen the mainstream media try to undermine this president at every level with the three rs i call them. first it was the russia hoax. then it was racism, which is just ridiculous with the president passing the first act and the economic opportunity zones and the lowest unemployment in the african-american community and now it is recession.

they are trying to drive the narrative that there will be a recession and the economic numbers just prove absolutely that this economy is humming, that this president has made a difference. wages are up. we have added over 6 million jobs. over 6 million people have come off of food stamps. indicator after indicator we have an economy that's in great shape but the media wants to drive a narrative because they do everything they can to undermine this presidency. lou: and the media -- well, irrespective of the national left wing media, special election in north carolina, the ninth district there, a special election, the president and the vice president had a rally last night for dan bishop, the republican candidate. it's a tight race. give us a forecast here. what's going to happen in north carolina's first district tonight? >> well, voting is still happening. so if you have a family member or you're watching, get out and vote. i hate to say that, lou. i want everybody to watch your show. keep it on the radio, but go vote. it's tight.

listen, our candidate's been outspent tremendously, and it's a special election, so it is going to come down to turnout. i will tell you, the president going in last night is going to be the difference maker, if dan bishop wins this race. the president's incredibly popular in this district -- district. he's helped raise a lot of funds for dan bishop and that rally last night i think will put him over the edge. we will see. voting is still happening. get out and vote. lou: get out and vote. the president slamming the washington post abc news poll, saying that the internal polling looks great, and of course, the washington post -- what is it the president calls it? [inaudible] -- the washington post? it is not unusual for them to be finding weakness wherever they survey when it comes to this president. >> you can manipulate polls to say whatever you want. what's interesting about this poll is every other poll that's been in the field at this same time frame has the president 4 to 10 points higher than this poll.

so i think this poll is absolutely inaccurate. they've been inaccurate throughout. and i think it's an indicator on a couple fronts. one, we can't believe these polls. we just can't. it's too early. i think people need to put that away. what we need to look at is how is the economy doing? what are things we can factually talk about with this president? wages up, jobs coming back, good gdp, good retail information coming out of companies like wal-mart. so many good things happening, and that is what people and in my state of michigan and across the country are taking home with them every day, not polls coming out of washington, d.c. lou: here's a poll for you. the leading leftist billionaire in the country, at least activist billionaire, george soros today praising the president's china policies, tariffs, trade and all. >> well, that's a miracle. [laughter] >> but he's right. i mean, listen chuck schumer has even praised the president when it comes to china. the president is exactly right in taking on china's theft of

intellectual property. he's made a hard stand, and he has said we're not going to be taken advantage of. he's protecting the american worker, the manufacturer, and he's protecting our national security. and we need to stand with imh on this issue. -- with him on this issue. lou: ronna mcdaniel, as always, great to have you with us. what was it you wanted to tell everybody? to go do something. i can't remember? >> get out and vote. north carolina dan bishop and greg murphy, get out and vote for them. lou: you got it. >> thank you. lou: thank you very much. more now on john bolton's exit as national security advisor. our panel of foreign policy experts two of them former trump administration officials sebastian gorka, katie mcfarland and international affairs expert christian whiten, members of two previous administrations. the radical dems in the senate want to nix the president's emergency border wall funding. why would they do? let's find out what the administration will do in

response. acting commissioner of customs and border protection, mark morgan joins

on wall street today stocks mixed the dow up for a fifth consecutive day up 74-int the nasdaq fell three. volume on the big lord even heavier trading 4.4 billion shares. crude oil down 1% gold lost 1% and -- things like losing a dollar so far for their minder to listen to my reports three times a day coast-to-coast on the salem radio network. president trump raising authorities at the u.s.-mexico border for the recent decline in border apprehensions. the president tweeted quote incredible progress being made at the southern border. also posted a graph showing the decline in border apprehensions since this year's peak back in may. yet another illegal immigrant has been arrested for sex crimes in the sanctuary county of montgomery maryland, making him the eighth illegal immigrant to be arrested since july 25 on charges of rape and sexual assault offenses. the 26-year-old from nigeria allegedly raped an intoxicated woman in a car also charged with

sex crimes a year ago but those charges were dropped. senate democrats trying to force a vote to stop prisons emergency border wall. minority leader chuck schumer announced the move. >> the president has clearly attempted to usurp the power of the purse given exclusively to congress by the constitution, by taking funding from projects we have approved and giving it to projects we repeatedly declined to approve. this goes to our democracy. this goes to how the founding fathers set up that delicate balance. lou: it doesn't look like much of a balanced the way he was jiggling his hand. the senate voted to end the decoration in march with the help of 12 rhinos but failed to overcome the presidents veto that seems to be in prospect and their 12 republicans who voted with the democrats in the senate

joining us tonight customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan. it's great to have you with us market let me start with the illegal immigrants in a sanctuary county. the story is replicated across the country. sanctuary cities, sanctuary county's. california you can safely call a sanctuary state. is there any sort of response that's effective on the part of your agency? >> the first thing i would say as commissioner of the customs and border protection as this is another reason why we need the wall. this is in a project for the president. this is a tool, tech make that the men and women of the border patrol been asking for for for a long time and what this should tell american people lou and i'm glad you are bring it to their attention this is not a humanitarian crisis, this is also a national security crisis because people do not want to

have intellectually honest conversations. we do we would knowledge that there a lot of economic migrants who come here that are good people but there's also a lot of bad people getting in this country because our borders are not secure because congress won't do their job and this is another example that proves it. lou: in another report the u.s. euro prisons reporting about a third of incarcerated prisoners are not born in this country and the impact on our society is absolutely disproportionate to the number of illegal immigrants as well as those who are immigrants but born elsewhere in our prisons. it's straightforward stuff but it is almost impossible to cut through the noise of the left-wing national media and the course chuck schumer, nancy pelosi and their conference in

both chambers. >> lou here's another element. here's where the american people should be really concerned. we does. we just had to share this week, sheriff, a public servant get out there and say he talked about enforcing the law but in i.c.e. detainer is not the law comments just a request. since when did one law enforcement agency not honored the request of another law enforcement agency? when you stop doing that i'm telling you this country every city if that's the attitude that city is less faith. this is unconscionable where we have come in this country cooperate with each other in this crisis. lou: speaking of cooperation the president has threatened mexico with tariffs. he brought unprecedented co-operation from the government of mexico that now we hear from the foreign minister of mexico that there is perhaps a limit to

their cooperation. they do not want to cooperate on the third country policy of the united states. your outlook? >> lou i spoke to the president about the numbers. it's clear the government of mexico as you just said has stepped up in an unprecedented way. 25,000 troops under the migrant protection protocol to their 44,000 people that are waiting in mexico as they go through this process in this country. this was in large part the reason why we seen a 57% reduction in the last 90 days but as i said me no mistake mexico, we need them to do more. we will continue to press for them to reach an additional agreement continue to sustain their operation work with us was strategic terror enforcement. they are doing a great job and it's a real regional crisis but we need them to do more and we

will continue to press them to do more. lou: i presume that means the president will reactivate his consideration of the tariffs should they decide to let their responsibilities laps. >> i don't want to speak for the president but i absolutely believe that's part of the negotiations. lou: mark morgan always good to talk to you. former house speaker and rhino paul ryan is slowly milking the establishment into something of a livelihood. he's now a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute. the institute has received major donations from organizations like the u.s. chamber of commerce, the koch brothers. since leaving congress in january ryan has begun a nonprofit organization called the america idea foundation teaching political science at the university of notre dame.

he more job descriptions i'm sure to follow. coming up next the deep state defensive zone, james clapper the former director of national intelligence nothing but praise for former fbi deputy director andrew mckay. you will believe what he had to say. perhaps he will. we have all been at this for a few years now have only? that story and we will be talking

lou: three of the country's top intelligence age lou: . the country's top intelligence agencies were run by what are clearly we at least corrupt heads under the obama administration. documents have surfaced revealing former or national intelligence james clapper's attempt to save andrew mccabe's job at the fbi was, well wasr almost boundless. a letter from clapper to the i tracked are ready in february of last year heaping praise on

mccabe calling the fired fbi deputy director and former acting director of the fbi amana quote self-effacing m humility d impeccable integrity, two words that don't spring immediately to my mind when talking about the leadership of the fbi, the former leadership at the justice department is reportedly seeking mccabe's text messages attempting to learn more about thee other day investigation to president trump's campaign as well as the f. s. handling of hillary clinton's use of the private server. supreme court justice neil rosset with a -- neil gorsuch blaming the president and congress for overstepping their bounds and violating the separation of powers played out in the constitution. gorsuch be reminded perhaps that they are something of a constitutional crisis when one party was trying to sabotage a presidential candidate of the other party and

work to spy on the sitting president of the united states. that seems to be more than an act of incivility. how about you? our next guest is vice president of republican national lawyers association, rnc committeewoman for california. the 2020 trump advisory councilmember. it's great to have you with us. i've got to ask you as a fellow lawyer of justice what do you think has been boiling this down to a divided civility between two partisan groups, the republicans and the democrats when one looks to me like a bunch of desperados and renegades trying to overthrow president. maybe i'm just overreacting here. >> so looking at the justices comments i think he was talking about the institution of the presidency. i think there has been a breakdown of civility bears so

with respect to yource point in the recent history it's definitely been gross overreach on the part of the legislature onecifically the 20 teen congress against the president and beyond that there was the presidency of obama spying on the next president so i don't think this is as clear-cut as one would say but there's more than enough partisap to go around that is destructive. lou: i guess whatt i'm concerned about with respect to justice of the supreme court talking about civility it's almost one of those things where he expected to be some sort of 18th century picking up the snuffbox like some sort of british royalty. i mean this is just nonsense. we have got to have lawyers who talk straight and judges as well y gosh there aren't republican judges and there aren't

democratic judges. the hell there aren't. this is pure -- >> i agree. chief justice roberts cares a lot about the box-office to use a term that the former governor used and less about the law. >> was that ronald reagan? >> no schwarzenegger here in california talked about the box-office. and many earlier actors too, but the box-office is not something the chief justice of the supreme court should be worried about too much. as a lawyer, when i was in high school, i will never forget that. i'm not a member of the aba as a result of that, so i think justice gorsuch would do well to remember when the mudslinging and stone throwing began and it sure wasn't with the republicans. lou: yeah, now, i want to turn another act of incivility and that would be the board of supervisors in san francisco designating the nra to be a terrorist organization, but

meanwhile, embracing antifa. the nra is sued. your thoughts about their chances of success? >> i think they have an excellent lawsuit. it's a civil rights lawsuit under the civil rights act. it involves the free speeches right and association rights of citizens in san francisco specifically. the law is such that if you are a member of the nra, you can do not do business as a vendor with the city of san francisco for starters. i'm a life member of the nra. i'm a lawyer in san francisco. the chances of me doing business with the city as a vendor are zero, but i should have that right. i think that they are likely to prevail in court with this lawsuit. lou: and the cia slamming cnn's fictional report on an exfiltration of an intelligence asset in moscow, give me your reaction as a republican, as a lawyer. i mean, this is just nuts, what

msnbc and cnn and the left wing media are now in some sort of death spiral into utter irrelevance. >> it is worse than irrelevant. it is destructive and could cost people their lives. now, you know it's bad when you don't even have to go into me being a republican that "new york times" and other mainstream publications have contradicted cnn's position there. >> to their credit >> that's very clear they made it up. absolutely. "new york times" which is no friend to the president says there's no evidence to support the cnn story. they should be ashamed, withdraw it and go back to not maybe using obama administration officials as their mouthpieces for that fake news, lou. lou: yeah, i think the first thing they should do is try to repair to a higher standard of objectivity as journalists, irrespective of their partisanship, and they're not going to retract, and they're

not going to correct in any way that report. are they? >> no, i don't think you c expect that. and that's what it's come to, unfortunately, lou. lou: thanks for being with us. great to see you. >> my pleasure. always. lou: we would like to hear your thoughts on all of this. share your comments. follow me on twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook, follow me on instagram at lou dobbs tonight, up next, former trump administration officials sebastian gorka katie mcfarland and christian whiten here next to take up john boll torn's exit from the white house today -- john bolton's exit from the

lou: breaking news tonight, secretary of state pompeo today said president trump could potentially meet with the iranian president at the up coming u.n. general assembly with no preconditions as the president has said he is open to talks with almost any world leader without precondition. the president this week said he would have no problem meeting with rouhani but iran's president continues to demand u.s. lifts all sanctions with iran before a meeting could take place. the u.s. treasury today issuing new sanctions against terrorist groups and their supporters ahead of the 18th anniversary of september 11th. under president trump's modernized counterterrorism executive order, the sanctions will target the finances of 15

leaders associated with hamas, the islamic state and al qaeda. joining us tonight senior fellow at the center for national interests former state department senior advisor and both trump and george w. bush administrations christian whiten. sebastian gorka, author, former strategist to president trump. katie mcfarland former deputy national security advisor to president trump. thank you all for being here. let's start with john bolton. we have heard the president's viewover the reasons for it. -- view of the reasons for it. does any other view matter? >> no, i don't know what the relationship between the two has been. lou: it was good enough to last a year and a half. >> well, precisely, but i do know what the relationship between the national security advisor and the president is supposed to be like. i have known every national security advisor and every president going back to nixon and kissinger. it is the president who is in charge. the president has very few

options to mold an advisor to his way of thinking. the national security advisor is one of those few. so it is up to the national security advisor to figure out what is the boss need. how can i best provide that? is this a boss who wants to have a white house centered foreign policy where he's calling the shots or a boss who wants to make the big decisions and let the agencies carry it out. trump knows what he's doing. he knows what he wants. i think for any national security advisor, that's how you support the guy. lou: sebastian gorka? >> i consider john bolton to be a friend, huelou. he's a patriot, served this country on multiple occasions in different posts. i think he went in with the right idea, the first interview he gave on fox within 40 minutes of the president hiring him, he gave the impression of somebody who wanted to be an honest broker. that's the job of the national security advisor.

i think it was once said at the end of the day, you never forget there's only one guy in the oval office who was elected and only one who is the commander-in-chief. that's the president. you provide him the palate of options and he decides he has final say. it looks as if that didn't work out. john is a powerful character. i think he fell afoul of what hr mcmaster fell afoul, i know because i was in the building when hr, his predecessor, the national security advisor trying to impose his policies on the president. you don't do that, as national security advisor and you definitely don't do it with donald j. trump. lou: christian, your thoughts? >> yeah, i think like what it was said about his trajectory. i think when john came in, it was good to have a gunslinger if you will especially when you had a defense department that was on a different page than the president. when you had mattis and mcmaster at the white house not successfully imposing the president's will. it made sense for bolton.

as time went on, you had bolton against what the president wanted to do which is syria to get out and afghanistan to get out which the american people are behind the president on that. it was the changing role as i think the trajectory of this administration goes on. lou: to christian's point, k.t. this is an administration, a president who has said -- he said on the campaign trail, he wants to bring home our troops. we've got troops so far flung, i've never been able -- frankly, i have never had confidence in the answers i get when i asked how many countries we have troops in because the number is north of 100. >> oh, sure. lou: that in and of itself is crazy. i know the military loves it. the generals love it. and they love having troops, you know, to whatever order. i mean, we're looking at, what, almost 20 years in afghanistan. what in the world have we accomplished, and why aren't generals held to a higher standard? i understand their concerns, militarily, strategically,

geopolitically, i also can't figure out how it is that we have a -- two decades of generals who don't know how to win. >> the thing i loved about donald trump from the very beginning is he understood that for 20 years we have been fighting in wars, propping up dictators who don't even like us in countries that don't matter. he understood right from the beginning that the main game is china. we have been distracted for these 20 years. we have spent trillions, thousands of americans have lost their lives, tens of thousands of them are maimed for life and yet the main strategic problem we have is in asia, and it is china. it is china's goal to replace the united states as the world's dominant country economically, politically, militarily, diplomatically, technologically, within a decade, certainly by the 100th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china, and so anybody who distracts donald trump from that mission is doing a disservice to the president and the nation. lou: sebastian, your thoughts on

the snide and snarky both national left wing media and the radical dems themselves who are opposing this president's policies, particularly on china as k.t. highlights and also not embracing what surely the left in this country should reasonably want to support, and that is bringing our troops home, ending the extraordinary expense. the president understands clearly what we can afford and what we can't and more we can't. >> k.t. put it very well. you know it as well, lou. the president's first instinct is always to bring our boys and girls home. he campaigned on the idea that we've had enough stupid wars. we've wasted trillions of dollars, thousands of americans have been killed. at the end of the day, the thing i loved about donald trump and about working for him in the white house, there were no

sacred cows. again and again and again, we had generals lou who would come into the white house and try and sell a policy and the president would say why are we doing that? why are we paying for this rocket system for this asian ally that is a very rich nation? and the answer would always be well, mr. president, that's what we've been doing for 20 or 30 years. that's not a reason. that's the swamp. and the president cut through all of that, and i think that's why we need somebody who is as pragmatic about national security as the president is and who breaks china. that's why we elected him, lou. that's why donald trump is the 45th commander-in-chief. lou: christian, who should be the next national security advisor to the president, if any one of you after christian answers this have some ideas, please share them with us as we're running out of time. christian? >> yeah, it's a complete guess. i think general kellogg might be a good option. he's the vice president's national security advisor. someone the president is clearly comfortable with and again if

you move from a gunslinger to someone who is, you know, very capable but someone in whom the president can confide in and not necessarily an opponent or adversary, that might be something. you hear a lot of names out there. people like robert o'brien, the president's hostage negotiator, for example. there are a lot of names. but i think going from sort of a flashier model to someone who is more of a smooth operator, going into the reelection makes sense. lou: k.t.? >> i'm not even going to touch that with a ten foot pole. [laughter] lou: i think that means k.t. may have worked with some of these aforementioned names? [laughter] lou: and is demuring? sebastian the field is yours. >> i have to say christian is a friend but i have to push back, no, not general kellogg. we can discuss why not general kellogg. i immediately tweeted out when i heard the news, let's go back to the nixon era. let's do what we did with kissinger. i'm not a fan of kissinger but

the idea you can have a secretary of state also the national security advisor is very very smart because it gets rid of a lot of duplication. i want to see mike pompeo as nsa and secretary of state, lou. lou: i think that's an interesting idea, and, you know, you know, i'm just trying to figure out how much time there is in a day for any person no matter how talented. christian whiton, sebastian gorka, k.t. mcfarland, thanks for being with us. devices are like doorways

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lou: joining us tonight cybersecurity expert morgan wright, former senior advisor for the u.s. state department, currently chief security advisor for sentinel one. morgan, great to have you with us, and because you are as we used to say in texas, a wiley and clever fellow -- [laughter] lou: i was reading about george soros today, praising the president for his position on china. >> yeah. lou: and all sorts of alarm bells are going off in my mind that sometimes it's more than skeptical occasionally even cynical. what happened when you read it? >> look, i mean, first thing that struck my mind was politics and business apparently make strange bedfellows. i mean it is in soros' interest i think to have -- to make sure china doesn't get into certain

markets. i'm sure he's making some economic bets. i don't think it's out of an overwhelming sense of patriotism because we are talking about george soros. if you look at the business of both soros and trump, they both get the markets. they both understand what needs to be done. they have different reasons for doing what they do. i think he's spot on with some of the stuff. i'm glad to see he's supporting president trump on this. because in your last segment when you were talking especially with k.t. mcfarland, china is the threat. we can't take our eye off the ball. every time we do that, we lose time, money, intellectual property and with wars we lose lives. we can't afford to do that anymore. lou: correct on all counts. and let's look at that headline today because this fascinates me. soros, if we can put this up, will trump sell out the u.s. on huawei? and it's an interesting headline since the effect of the article itself in the journal is to

really compliment the president on his strength and his vision and understanding of the global challenges this nation faces and particularly in balanced trade, in free enterprise markets and certainly against espionage that's pillaging this country as we document here it seems almost every night, every week at least, to the tunes of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and the trade deficits. >> look, soros was right about another thing too. he said look if you don't keep china boxed in and check them, they will expand their social credit system. can you imagine what societies would be like when you're under this constant surveillance. they have already exported it via zte another chinese company down to venezuela where they are implementing the social credit system down there. i mean, we cannot allow a nation like this with the kind of values it has to be able to expand. you are right lou, 600 billion dollars a year in intellectual property theft, that robs americans of jobs. it robs americans of opportunities. they are trying to steal a lot

of the technologies as it relates to 5g because they know that will be the network of networks. everybody will want to go to those things. it is going to be, you know, it is going to be the centerpiece of our new technologies. quantum computing, artificial intelligence, i mean the list -- it is not just about 5g. it is about all of these things and president trump gets that. he's trying to put policies in place to address it all. lou: and this president has as you put it he's gotten it for a very long time. morgan wright, good to see you. >> thank you, lou. lou: up next, my thoughts on the gap between president trump's historic accomplishments as president and how he is being portrayed by the fictional leftist media, that is, leftist media that, well, trades in fiction and the party of hate. that's right after these quick messages. stay with us. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. i wish i could shake your hand. granted.

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lou: there is a widening differential between the america described by the national left wing america and the america and the world in which we actually live. and a commensurate gap between president trump's accomplishments and the caricature drawn by the leftist media and the radical dimms who viciously attack mr. trump to not only block his agenda, slow his achievements, somehow no

matter how vicious or craven the means prevent his election in 2020. he has successfully maneuvered the chinese into a new reality. iran understands the economic power of this country, understands because of president trump they don't want to ever test our military power. afghanistan, north korea and a worldwide deployment of our troops are the legacy of a decade of american arrogance and the inertia of bureaucracies that inhabited and controlled our state department for years. the viciousist leaders who did the same. john bolton served this president well, and we thank him for his service. now a new national security advisor will be chosen by the president and he or she will execute the president's strategies and vision we hope with the same commitment and

success as did john bolton, a great american. i'll be in washington, d.c. tomorrow. joining cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories. today is the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. americans nationwide remembering the nearly 3,000 lives lost with events planned in new york, washington, d.c. and pennsylvania. it is a day we never forget. lauren: and president trump launching a search for his next and fourth national security advisor after john bolton is out. what the major shakeup means for the white house's foreign policy in afghanistan, north korea and iran. cheryl: apple revealing the new lineup of iphones and the video streaming service, possibly giving netflix and disney a run for their money. lauren: go ahead, take a nap.