lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening. the vile conduct and rhetoric of the radical dimms seems to be unlimited. they cheated hillary clinton, ordered the justice department and fbi to cover up her crimes them' they deyou need the election with false accusation the of collusion and them denied the mueller report. now they are trying to after damage supreme court justice brett kavanaugh with more lies.

president trump says the united states is ready to retailate if needed after iran's latest attack on saudi oil. the rogue regime attacking a saudi facility over the weekend. u.s. officials say despite iran's denials, u.s. intelligence indicates' the strikes originated in iran. reporter: president trump was careful to not lay responsibility on the saudi oil facilities on iraq, by said it looks like they are behind it. president trump: it is looking that way at this moment. we'll let you know. as soon as we find out definitively we'll let you know. reporter: he said he's not seeking war with iran. president trump: i don't want war with anybody. with all that being said we would like to be avoid it.

>> reporter: president trump has not said they would come to their defense, saying the u.s. and saudis would have to sit zune work that aught. he said he has not ruled out a eating in with assad rouhani saying the road to diplomacy is not dread. some democrats suggested iran may have crossed the line in a way that demands military response. >> iran is one of the most of dangerous'en sponsors of state terrorism. reporter: but mitt romney says the u.s. should not participate in any military response. he said the u.s. has continued arms sales so saudi arabia can defend itself. reporter: officials say they

believe the cruise missiles and drones that attacked saudi arabia were launched from iran, but the white house is not ready to make that declaration. general, good to see you. the list of provocations goes on and on by iran. the president as john roberts reported cautious today, and it looks as though in point of fact the saudis have no other chain than to respond. -- know other choice than to respond. see you noticed the iranians so intercept. everything they have tried backfired. seizing and sabotaging tankers to to get the u.s. to lessen --

sanctions, we put on more sanctions. here they take down half of saudi arabia's oil fields, affecting not just the middle east, but the world economy. and they have given the president of the united states a huge card to play. what am i talking about? he can go now, once the evidence is in, and i think it will be quickly. go to the u.s. security council, with what took place. the iranians violated saudi avaib yeah's sovereignty and tried to impact the world economy. what will that get us? huge support from the international community in a way we haven't had to date. that will be very impactful in

terms of further isolating iran politically, diplomatically and economically. saudi arabia has to fix their air defenses which failed miss aably and we may have to help them. likely consider some limited measured military strike, we may help plant or give them some intelligence. they may ask us to participate. i think it should be against delivery means but more production, distribution of storage. that's in the offing. we don't have to rush into that. let's get international community support and strengthen the president's hand which is already pretty strong. lou: it's unclear what was used by the saudis or their proxies -- excuse me -- the

iranians and their proxies against the saudis. it looks as though we learned nothing about asymmetric warfare when we have to rely on multi million dollar air systems against thousands of dollars worth of drones. this is becoming, it seems to me, to be the determined absolute lessen of the past 20 years for this country. >> i think the weapons were more sophisticated than that. given the differences, they will likely advance droants that cost 100's of millions of dollars. the distances and how they were able to penetrate the air defenses, i think they were use sophisticated cruise missiles. there is likely advance technology at play here. but they put 17 of these weapons

systems in the largest oilfield in the middle east. that's sunny. the -- that is stunning. the saudis have to shore that up. lou: the air defense technology that was in place was presumably, predominantly u.s. >> some of it is u.s. i don't have a feel for where they have it. what was the target acquisition. clearly the saudi arabia military is not the united states from a far cry. but they have to dean you a top of i. iranians can do this again if they want to up the an te d up n terms of affecting the world economy. lou: the alliance between iran and russia, the burgeoning alliance between iran and china. china, which takes a third of the oil of iran -- almost a

third of it. this is also a difficult couple of issues for any one, including the united nations to contend with. >> certainly. if the iranians and russians have a political-military alliance, it was syria that brought them together, now they clearly are partners. china obviously is affected by this. they are at 60 plusper percent dependent on iranian oil. china has no interest in what the iranians are doing even though they have been strategic in the past. i have never seen the iranians so inept in what they are dealing with here. as opposed to getting the * to reduce -- getting the -- -- as

opposed to getting president trump to reduce the sanctions, he increased them. lou: it appears they have had more than the expected bite on the iranians. >> they do. we have never done them as comprehensive always we are doing here. given the fact that they are a one-commodity economy with oil, we have been able to punish them quite a bit. civil unrest is growing. food short averages, electricity, power outages. things affecting the entire fabric of life. the iranian regime feels a huge amount of pressure. last week fox announced as an ex cluesive" that 17 out of the 18 major pension funds are not able to make payments. you know that has had a significant impact.

lou: general jack keane. the radical dems and the left wing national media spending their weekend trying to smear judge brett kavanaugh. they allege he sexually assaulted a woman while attending yale university. they wrote about the incident in sunday's paper. drawing from a story in their brand-new book. they say the clinton attorney max steyer witnessed the event. what appears in their book is the alleged victim quote refused to discuss the incident with the other, and quote several of her

friend said she does not recall it. the "new york times" today had to issue a correction to their report. and senator chuck grassley was on the senate floor slamming the times for their shoddy reporting and politics of personal destruction. quote, in this case the "new york times" withheld crucial facts that under cut its own reporting. we have an uncorroborated accusation with unnamed sources that have no direct knowledge of the event and the alleged victim does not even remember. we'll be taking up this story with mollie hemingway, author of "justice for all" later in tonight's show. why a former trump associate worked as an informant for corrupt intelligence agencies.

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lou: stocks closed lower on wall street. volume on the big board, heavy trading. after crude oil shot up 15% to 63 dollars a barrel following the attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities. this is the biggest one they gained in crude oil since 2009. nearly 50,000 united auto union workers on strike. 31 of gm's manufacturing plants

are shut down nationwide. a source familiar with the negotiations telling fox gm is refusing to bring back jobs from mexico. earlier today president trump reacted to the strike. >> hopefully they will be able to work out the gm strike quickly. we don't want general motors building plants outside of this country and we are strong on that. lou: a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day on the salem network. ilhan omar managed to get on a sunday talk show and compared border detention facility with the slave trade. while recalling a trip to the dungeon in ghana, she said i have a horrible image of things

taking place in that dungeon whether it's taking place on the shores of north trick other shores of the united states. she was asked about her comments on face the nation * yesterday. >> the republican national committee released a video of you. i want to read some of it. you are comparing migrant shelters to dungeons used 400 years ago used in ghana. did you mean to compare the border patrol to slave traders? >> it's controversial because that's what people want to see. >> you feel passionately about immigration. you came to this country as a refugee. >> i did. lou: two-word answers and full

sentence declaration by the interviewer. >> democrats have to understand we do have to have borders to mean something. >> what do you think about the proposal many of the candidates embrace to decriminalize border crossing and turn it into a civil offense. >> the law on the books has been there for 100 years now. lou: the president's agenda connecting with voters. the rasmussen poll showing the president's approval rating back up at 50%. obama's at the same time was 46% in his presidency. joining us, ed rollins and michael goodwin. ed, as you listened to that -- that sounded like a contrived

message on the part of eric holder? >> eric holder and the obama administration were tough on the immigration policy. they threw more people out than the democrats want to admit because it was the law. obvious lit congresswoman knows nothing. and every time she opens her mouth she shows how little she knows. lou: the interviewer was answering the questions as she asked the questions. >> she is incapable of answering the questions because she knows nothing. to compare stlaif quarters to our border facilities is an insult. lou: she didn't mean that as an insult to the border patrol. >> the cbs interviewer was coaching her how to answer the question in a way that would get her off the hook.

you could see a classic example of the left-wing media bias. the rnc is the bad person. they accused you of this, and you didn't really mean that, did you? it reminded me of candy crowley in the third presidential debate putting her thumb on the scale to help obama at a crucial moment. this is what the left-wing media does. lou: there is something wrong with the deal. i think it goes way beyond the scales of balance. this is an outright, i believe the national left-wing media in this country has completely devoted itself to supporting the democratic party. i don't think this is a little bit of a thumb on a scale. this is stopping on the idea of balance. >> there is no restraint on the

idiocy of these reporters. this thing on calf now by the "new york times" is so outrageous. the whole hearings we had a year ago, we took a decent human going being is now a justice on the court and pillaged his family and reputation to say no heard somewhere someone did such and such and the woman who allegedly had this done to her doesn't remember. to bring this up again and talk about impeaching him shows how absurd the dialogue is today. kavanaugh has served well. he's an effective judge. let it go, it's gone. he won and we won. lou: i don't think it has a thing to do with whether they are upset. this is a propaganda machine, the national left-wing media, attacking this president wholesale all the time, 24/7,

and will do so -- i don't know -- if they ever find their sense of decency and inappropriateness. but you as a pulitzer prize winning journalist, when you see the "new york times" having to correct what they did, which is -- they are talking about the subject of their story doesn't remember such an event and they are dealing with third-party hearsay. at the very least. >> i grew up at the "new york times" and it was a different newspaper. one of the things about this incident i think is so troubling. authors of this book are two "new york times" reporters. they write this book. the story is in the book it gets into the paper because it's in the book. why did the paper publish this story in the first place.

did it not pass muster? did it have to come through the book. it's like story laundering. we'll put it in a book, and now the "times" will publish it. the president tweeted everybody should be fired. i think somebody should be fired. that's a disgraceful thing to publish. if that is the new standard, then there are no standards. lou: how can anyone rationalize what the washington post, the "new york times" says day add day after day it's unrelenting. 7 or 8 stories and opinion pieces attacking the president of the united states. >> you can't tell the difference between the opinion and the news. >> they are writing editorials expressing their own opinion which is hatred of trump every single day. there is no reining them in.

>> they have given them license to do this. in this case "the washington post" said it passed on this story. it had this information and thought it wasn't worthy of publication. somebody at the "new york times" will say why did we publish this out of a book when we wouldn't publish it ourselves -- at least i hope they wouldn't. somebody there has to pay a price for this. lou: we'll be talking later in the broadcast with mollie hemingway, senior editor of the federalist *, and her book justice on trial. justice in journalism. is there justice remaining in any significant amount in the national left-wing media? >> i saw three men pill

pilloried. clarence thomas is a senior member on the court. they killed him -- lou: luckily they didn't kill him. >> they tried to. lou: his character and his strength. he's quite a man to handle all that. >> it's going to take someone like trump to stand up to this. most of people would in the fetal position long ago. lou: having surrendered. neither clarence thomas nor president trump men of that sort. up next. president trump's trade policies strangling the chinese economy. are we nearing a new trade deal? we take that up with michael pillsbury. stay with us. we'll be right back. ♪

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lou: president trump suggested a new list of investigation for the house judiciary committee. president trump suggesting they might want to look into obama's million dollar book and nets fliks deals and the slush fund used to pay off sexual misconduct claims and trying to win access to secret grand jury material from the special councilled a -- the special counsel investigation. '. justice attorneys wrote quote, most of prominently the speaker of the house has been emphatic the the investigation not a true

impeachment proceeding. it's good to see a little fire returned against the resistance. >> congress certainly the democratic parties out of control in terms of pretending they are impeaching to justify a unprecedented attempts to gain access to information they otherwise would never entitled to and would not be entiretiled to even if they were trying to impeach the president. it's so bad they moved from impeaching or not impeaching, whatever word they are trying to use. to smearing -- use the impeachment abuse to target mr. kavanaugh. it's like the old adage about the prosecutors. they would impeach a ham sandwich as long as they are republican or conservative. lou: i think they are far more

vi lerks and vicious than all of that. i believe this as i said, this is a concerted attack on the presidency of the united states. to this point, the republican party. the republican party and the conferences on the house and the senate sides both ought to be ashamed of their response, their lack of a response in defense of this president and law and order. >> it's even worse than that. you have a coup targeting president trump. they tried to overthrow the senate with investigations to stop kavanaugh. they were attacking the institution of the senate. and now the target is the supreme court, threatening impeachment based on more lies and smears. is there not one institution under our constitutional republic that is not under

assault by the hard-core left which is now taking control of the establishment here in washington. lou: talk a little bit about judicial watch filing the foia lawsuit, seeking the records of the special counsel and phillip satter who turns out to be confirmed as an informant for the fbi, for the characteristics a, a trump organization official. >> he was work the trump organization and was an fbi informant and cia informant. it turns out he was one of the principality architects and movers behind the real estate deal they prepended to have interest in. was this a way to entrap the

president with this moscow connection that was being pushed by an fbi informant? we want the documents. was there another spy targeting the trump organization working on behalf of the fbi and the cia? we had to sue the justice department and the fbi to get access to this information. the mueller report. lou: mentions his name 100 times. you hardly heard his name in the general press. yet he was not once did they acknowledge he had been an fbi and characteristics a informant for 20 years. >> another material omission by the unethical mueller investigation. satter was the one pushing the idea of giving putin an apartment. you have the fbi guy putting this out there as if it's all

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lou: president trump attacking the "new york times" for their dishonest attempted smeefer justice is brett kavanaugh. president trump: i think the "new york times" made another terrible mistake. it's a shame a thing like that could happen. how could they do a thing like that and destroy somebody's life? they are destroying lives. and it's fake news. lou: and it is the radical dimms' politics of personal destruction. joining us is mollie hemingway, senior edforetore of the federalist -- editor of "the federalist." i want to say thank you for your efforts to keep the record straight and enlarge the body

of public knowledge. throughout the weekend it was amazing when we got this "new york times" account. your first reaction, you night was bunk. >> the way i night was bunk is i secured an advance copy of the book and read it. i noted in the back to the authors concede quietly the alleged victim of this bizarre assault allegation herself said she has no memory of it. she didn't talk to them but communicated through several friends she has no recollection of the incident. there is no excuse for not including that. the "new york times" knew they were omitting it. and they oh mid that person alleged to be making this allegation is a clinton attorney. he defended clinton and brett

kavanaugh was on the other side of the investigation. the alleged victim denies it through several friends. it's a horrible thing but not all together surprising from the "new york times." lou: it's surprising we have to say that. it's not surprising for a paper that once prided itself on being a paper of record. chuck grassley said on the senate floor. all the news that's fit to print. how could any -- i don't know, no advice editor ever -- how could any novice editor think it was fit to print unless he or she had a book they wanted to move. >> the two "new york times" reporters got a contract to write a book full of dirt on brett kavanaugh.

they failed to find any. if you don't find information to support the allegations that are out there, they should have the honesty to report it. they should have something in the book that is blockbuster. they have quotes on the record about how she didn't believe her friend. we first reported that in detail on justice on trial. that's block busker stuff. they chose to release this other information that turned out to be wrong instead. lou: let me get your sense of two things. what is -- what can we do to stop this kind of politics of personal destruction on the part of the left? frankly, left or right, it's got to stop. >> it absolutely need to be taken seriously. one of the things that's interesting is nobody has been held accountable for what they did to kavanaugh last year.

there were criminal referrals certain to the department of justice. none of the senators behaving properly on the senate judiciary committee have had action taken against them whether it was releasing documents they shouldn't have and dianne feinstein circumstance cup vent can the process the committee has. then they give award and promotions. if people in positions of authority don't hold them accountable, it will never stop. >> do you think the times should fire the two reporters? >> not just the reporters. any editor who was involved. they should do something significant. hiring people outside their echo chamber. massive changes need to take place. the very least would be holding

these people accountable for putting forth this false story. lou: molly, thank you so much. if you need an exemplar, if you need a model, i would say mollie hemingway would be a great place for you to turn. the bikes "justice on trial." we certainly appreciate you being here. one radical dem doesn't think trump's tough stance on china is work. but evidence suggests otherwise. fresh water wetlands

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lou: 2020 dimm hopeful joe biden says the president mischaracterized and mishandle his relationship with president xi. bind did not say what the correct approach should be based on the obama administration experience. we might gather he wouldn't recommend the way he and obama did it. meanwhile the united states continues to win the trade war

with china thanks to president trump's tariffs. according to new data china's industrial growth plummeted. joining us tonight, dr. michael pillsbury. the director of the hudson institute. you are on your way to hong kong and beijing. in a perilous time in these trade talks. your thoughts about where we are head. we know there is a deputy level discussion that's going to take place at the end of next week, thursday and friday. should we expect anything material? >> there has been some goodwill gestures on both sides the past week or so. there is still a mystery of why the chinese backed out of the enforcement mechanisms in may. so i will be interested in learning. i'm going as a scholar.

and what they think is the reason china backed out. the other issue is the link between hong kong and the trade talks. the president has been quite clear in tweeted and to the press that he doesn't think trade talks can go forward if there is a use of violence in hong kong. lou: i don't think the president has received enough credit from the general news made yeah in this country, left-wing media, if you prefer. for once again, bringing back together human rights and u.s. foreign policy trade policy. >> that's right. during the campaign, the economic security and national security are the same thing. so what i think he deserves credit for getting the trade talks started. secondly he came so close to a deal back in early may, i still

haven't given up hope there can be with the president wants which he calls a monumental deal. he calls it the grandaddy of them all. that's the goal. it's not to have some interim deal in exchange for a piece of paper that cannot be even forced. i think he's making progress. >> hong kong where you are going to spend some time, ways your assessment of how that is going, what the likely resolution? can you see a resolution? >> yes, i can. it's a good thing it demonstrators went over to the british consulate and said god save the queen and appeal to the british to get more involved. boris johnson would like to but he's strapped with the brexit crisis. the other thing that's important is the student and demonstrator leadership has not come forward with one person or committee.

they rotate for their own safety. so it's hard for cary lamb to get negotiated started. the five demand, not being called rioters. releasing the people they have under arrest now. which is all something promised by maggie thatcher in 184. there -- in 1984. lou: we have in this country parts of the media who are so clearly carrying the water of the communist party on the trade talks. you start hearing this nonsense about two tracks. they want to pursue the chinese, that is. and the administration will just come to grips with that.

or as you pointed out, the upset, this idea of an interim agreement, whatever the world that would look like. this stuff all seems to be emanating from beijing. your thoughts? >> i think the interim agreement idea is a bit of a hoax. there is nobody seriously in power who thinks that way. i think we are facing the prospect of escalation in the trade war. if the chinese continue to doubt president trump's resolution and commitment, what i am starting to hear from chinese friends is joe biden looks good to them, he's ahead in so many national polls. so why not just hold out for 16 months and hope it all goes away. but the president has been foxy on this. he said there will be a much tougher deal if you wait until

i'm re-elected to make an agreement. lou: i think they both might want to see bind as the nominee. michael pillsbury. great to have you hear. and safe travels my friend. lou: my thoughts next on the president's resolute leadership.

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lou: the perils we face and some of the absurdities as well, all of them facing president trump. he's holding a reelection rally in new mexico. serving notice that he means to compete with the heavily democratic hispanic state and contest for the state's five electoral votes. he focused as well on north korea. talking about house democrats urging gun control legislation. he said will they move the goal post or is this just a ploy to take your guns away. all this while the radical dimms did their worst to slime justice kavanaugh and false lies directed at the president as they talk impeachment. a heck of a workday. i'm just curious.

can you think of a single dimm who could get up with this president? me either. join us tomorrow night. our guest will be vic and cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. ramped up rhetoric, president trump said is looks like iran is responsible for attacks on saudi arabia's oil supply and new overnight, iran's supreme leader responded with a new threat. is the u.s. on a military collision course? lauren: the general motors workers strike enters day two and neither side any closer to making a deal. we're live on the picket line with what both sides want. cheryl: the president fired up a new mexico crowd last night while defending justice brett kavanaugh over new york time's discredited claim of