gregg: good evening, i'm gregg jarrett sitting in for the vacationing lou dobbs. an agreement with el salvador allowing the u.s. to send illegal immigrants. the latest attempt to stymie the president beginning to crumble

as we learn new information about a phone call that inspired a whistleblower complaint from the intelligence community. chief white house correspondent john roberts leads us off with the latest. >> we don't know specifics about the complaint to the intelligence community's inspector general, only that it involves a possible quid pro quo between the president and the ukrainian president. according to the wall street journal which shares ownership with the fox news channel, president trump in a july phone call urged ukraine's president five times to look into joe biden's' son hunter. president trump did not deny it. >> did you discuss joe biden? >> it doesn't matter what i discussed.

he talked about millions of dollars he's not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. reporter: president trump dismissed a wis whistleblower's complaint about an alleged promise president trump made to a foreign leader during a phone call. moments later the president acknowledged he didn't know who the whistleblower was. but he insisted all of his calls with world leaders had been totally appropriate. and according to the "wall street journal" there will be was no quid pro quo offered. on tv last night giuliani denied and appeared to acknowledge the request. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe sphwhiend.

>> no, i asked the ukraine to investigate the allegation there was interferenced in the election of 2016 by the ukrainians for the benefit of hillary clinton. >> you never asked about joe biden? >> to get to the bottom of how it was -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden off course i did. reporter: it would appear to confirm some of the reporting about the inspector general's come plawnlt. but the apparent lack of a quid pro quo would appear to run counter to the narrative that there was some sort of promise made during the phone call. joining me is harmeet dhillon. the vice president of the rnc

corporation. i wrote a column entitled "the trump whistleblower may not and whistleblower at all." if you look at the statute on whistleblowers, they are allowed to file a complaint against other people in the intelligence community who may have engaged in abuse. president trump is not a member of the intelligence community. >> there is so much other stuff there. to meet the standards for the statute. there are a number of definitions that have to be a matter of some urgency. ways more likely is this is a partisan effort to undermine the president from the swamp. somebody who is probably leaking and using this as a cover to do so. we have seen dozens of examples of this. i am looking at this accusation with a bleary and jaundiced eye.

i think joe biden and others have a lot to gain by change the subject to kavanaugh and this allegation. gregg: negotiating with foreign leaders to make promises. it does not grant power to an unelected inferior employee of the federal government to second guess what the president is doing or approve or disprove of what he's doing. would you agree? >> absolutely. for one thing. huntser biden's deals should be investigated. it's a disgrace that they weren't. these people want it all different ways. they want the president to tell saudi arabia what to do, so it's very much situational ethics. but it's the president's job to community communicate with foreign leaders and share his views with them.

there is no quid pro quo. there are so many issues uncovered here. gregg: setting aside that quid pro quo is as standard policy of negotiations. the "wall street journal" is report there is no quid pro quo. what journalists seem to be ignoring is there is a quid pro quo with bind and ukrainian leaders. he's seen on stipulate bragging about how he threatened them if they didn't fire a prosecutor he would with hold a billion dollars from ukraine. why is it the media ignores that. >> that's a rhetorical question. they hate the president and they are willing to give a pass to anybody who criticizes him. who knows what the whistleblower is doing behind the scenes.

soap here is what joe biden had to say. take a listen. >> not one single credible outlet has given any credibility to his assertion. i have no comment except the president is not time pressive. gregg: what bind said is completely untrue. there was a main story by the "new york times" which detailed quite a bit of this tory involving joe biden, his son, and isn't he just -- isn't bind taking a page out of the hillary clinton playbook and deny it all and say it's been debunked and nobody believes it? >> of course. people are used to saying whatever they want to the media. that's what's going on here. increasingly the mainstream media doesn't seem interested? the truth. you are correct in our column. the president is the head of

this edfills of national security. he isn't part of it. so the whistleblower idea that anybody who works in the swamp can make a complaint against the president is silly. gregg: you had a legal victory in your battle against the state of california. california as most of people know, passed a law that was clearly aimed at donald trump. it says you can't be prient mary ballot as president unless you expose your tax returns. you convinced a judge to place an injunction on that law. >> not just myself. the president's lawyers were there. i argued for the rnc, the republican party. after 2 1/2 hours of argument we were able to convince the judge

there were potentially numerous grounds to strike this down. he issued an injunction from the bench. it's bad news for the governor who signed this, for the legislature that passed it. for the attorney general that defended it, and the secretary of state who wanted to enforce it it's a tko by the president and his supporters. the government should not put hurdling between the citizens and candidates. they are not allowed to do that. only the constitution sets the qualifications for federal office. gregg: the constitution also prohibited a beautiful attainder. states can't target individuals with pieces of legislation when a state is infringe on the federal rules in the

constitution of qualifications for president. >> we you will so talked about the first amendment, 14th amendment. due process. and the parties have a right to select their standard-bearer. and for a state to try to interest fear with that is outrageous and unconstitutional. we are glad this judge saw through all of that and this law is not going to be going into effect which is why the president was going to have to disclose five years of his tax returns. gregg: congratulations on your legal victory. i can sight as the golden gate bridge behind you. i used to live on the other side in sausalito. >> it's a beautiful place. gregg: breaking tonight. president trump is deploying troops to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates after oil

attacks on the saudi kingdom. general dunnford said the back up has not decide on specific units to send but says deployment will be moderate. president trump: these are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country. we have never done to it this level. it's too bad what's happening to iran. it's going to hell, doing poorly. they are practically broke. they are broke. and they could soft problem very easily. all they have to do is stop with the terror. >> we'll have more on iran tonight with former state department advisor christian whiton. president trump coming out on top after a week filled with attacks from the radical dems and the left-wing media. president trump: our media has

become the laughingstock of the world. if you look swat they did to justice calved thank you and so many some other things last week. i think this is one of the worst weeks in the history of the fake news hide yeah. gregg: another of the dems' 2020 candidates calling it quits. fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards. it's just not right. but with sofi, you can get your credit cards right - by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. you can get your interest rate right - by locking in a fixed low rate today. and you can get your money right. with sofi. check your rate in 2 minutes or less. get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k. and i recently had hi, ia heart attack.

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gregg: stocks closed lower. a heavy day of trading. volume on the big board 6 billion shares. the dow this week down a half percent. crude oil closed flat. $58 a barrel. silver flat. apple releasing its newest

iphone model. the iphone 11. it will cost $700. and the iphone 11 plus, will cost you about 1,000. >> i like this flip phone, a jitter bug. listen to lou's report coast to coast. bill deblast yoaps pointless presidential -- bill deblasio's pointless presidential run is over. he feels he contribute all that he can to his pry primary election which is close to nothing. the president trump joking about

deblasio's departure. president trump: i see our part-time mayor will be going back to new york so they will be able to work harder. but he dropped out of the presidential race. too bad. he had tremendous potential. he only had one real asset. height. other than that he had nothing going. gregg: he's a tall man so he stood out. but that's the extent of it. the president weathering another week of harassment from the media and their friend. the dimms hauling his former campaign manager corey lewandowski before the house judiciary committee. jerry's committee, and new calls for impeachment is the daily mantra. rasmussen daily tracking poll

shows the president has -- has 52% support compared to president obama's 42% at this point in his presidency. let's talk about bill deblasio. one of the most of abysmal mayors in new york history. if you think i am making that up. here is the percentage of new york city people who supported him in his presidential bid. zero. zero supported him. he's got a 33% favor built rating. he didn't even crack 1% in the state of new york. >> i think the president was

right. he had nowhere to go but up. he had tremendous potential. now he will be going back to the city of new york. i feel bad for those who live there. you might be seeing the mayor more than the 7 hours he put in the month of july in city hall. there is no place more for him to go but up, i suppose. expectations -- >> the good news is he doesn't do anything. he sleeps in late. he goes to the gym, an doesn't go down to his office much. and i guess he thinks the city runs by itself. i want to switch gears to the economy. why is it that the media and democrats seem to be wishing for a recession that they talk about incessantly as imminent? it's almost as if they want a

recession that would harm 327 million americans. >> that's absolutely what they want and that's what the mainstream media wants. but that's not happening. bloomberg just had a poll come out where we blew past expectations of a number of economic indicators indicating that a recession is not imminent. these 2020 democrats don't have economic policies to run on to better the great economic growth and prosperity the president provided. this week alone we had industrial production numbers that defied expectations and they are they were the best this year. they came from the oil and gas and mining industry. we are becoming energy dominant, not energy dependent. wages are rising and this is all

because of the president's policy proposals. gregg: the president talks a lot good fake news, but it resonates with americans. if you look at the polling data they are at the bottom in terms of credibility and integrity. just in the last couple weeks we have seen msnbc have to apologize for a story they should never have reported. you have seen cnn get the kremlin spy story wrong. that was debunked. now you have got whistleblower -- i forgot about kavanaugh and the "new york times." now you have got whistle blow early that is not a whistle blower. someone of the things the president has done to great effect is expose the media for the liberal activists they are. they have become part of the resistance. they are completely unhinged. they tried to sell us for 2 1/2

years on the russia collusion hoax that never happened, never was, never existed. the "new york times" had to switch their narrative. they said they would have to switch the narrative from russia to racism. when that falls flat. let's go to russia 2.0 in this whistleblower case. they completely blight with kavanaugh this week fact they did not represent in the story that the accuser had no recollection of the incident happening and never spoke with them. these oh miss are glaring and damage together institution of what people of thought the gray lady was. gregg: i don't think the media will like chapter 6 in my new

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gregg: border patrol agents are screening families for credible fear to see if they qualify for asylum. border agents began training last week to find out if family had a credible fever being percent dmiewtd their home country. it there assure the asylum

process begins at the ask absolute moment. the acting homeland security secretary reached a similar deal with squat * last month. joining me, hector garza. so step by step the president is taking hector aggressive actions. what do you make of the latest ones i just identified. particularly the new deal that would send people back to el salvador if they passed through el salvador. >> this is a good asylum cooperation agreement. we are grateful for president trump and his administration work on this deal. it applies for migrants that come from nicaragua, cuba, brazil and to central african

nations. essentially these people cross through all salvador on its way to the united states. the united states will be able to send the them back to el salvador to await their asylum process. the use the is planning on building an asylum system in el salvador so when they pass through el salvador they can seek asylum there and not in the united states. gregg: the administration under president trump is talking about diverting a whole lot more money for building further extension of the wall. is that justified? >> of course it's definitely justified. you saw the number of apprehensions that we saw in may. 144,000 apprehensions on the border. those are just apprehensions. we are not counting those who got away and entered the country illegally. we need to continue building

that physical barrier. we saw president trump in san diego and we need to about build that wall and we hope congress would appropriate the funding. but if congress does doesn't their job, president trump will make sure we get funds from elsewhere. at the end of the day, border security is national security. gregg: elizabeth warren and joe biden and others. open borders within let's increase immigration. i was struck by the fact that that may not well resonate with hispanic americans and african-americans. a harvard-harris poll shows increasingly those groups are against what bind and warn and others are proposing. >> the hispanic communities has supported president trump on this one. we support legal immigration, not illegal. we want to make sure people come to this country but they do it the right way. we don't want people abusing our

immigration system. we have a lot of hispanics in this country that came to the united states the legal way. my parents were born in mexico and they did it the right way and they got permission to stay in the united states. so now they are proud naturalized citizens. gregg: i think warren and bind think this will help them with hispanic americans. another move by the trump administration is to end this absurd preposterous catch and release. here is your court date in four months. there you go. come back. and of course the vast majority of them go, oh, yeah, we'll come back and they never do. it's pretty abused, isn't? it. >> the catch and release policy implemented under the obama administration is the main

reason people are abusing our immigration system. but by ending catch and release. and those are the plans they are work on. we'll be able to stem that flow of illegal immigration. and that is the number one reason people were abusing the system. they were given a notice to appear with a date to be determined. and that's something that's very interesting. people were being given a court date. they were given an opportunity to state their case in immigration court. and they didn't respect the rule of law and they jumped their court hearings. >> they had to be saying these americans are so gullible and dumb. >> we would like to hear your thoughts on all of this. share your comments and follow love you on twitter.

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gregg: new documents show rod rosenstein was leaking to the media when he was decrying leak. a month later he released a statement saying that americans should be sceptical about anonymous allegations. we have always been sceptical of rod rosenstein. judicial watch filing a freedom of information request for doj information on how the witch hunt against president trump began. claiming the original document behind the russia hoax is the key to ex pleasing how deep the

trucks goes. joining me is tom fi tom fitton. >> it's being called the electronic investigation targeting then candidate trump. devin nunes as gotten a look at a redacted version of the document and he concluded there was no intelligence. was this another fraudulent document being raised up there to distract from the fact there was no basis to investigate trump? we want the information. we had to sue the justice department and the fbi to get it. >> they want to cover up and obstruct. now, judicial watch has also been involved in trying to obtain emails and other communications between the

ex-british spy christopher steele who was peddling his phoney dossier to substantiate the warrant for lying and spying. >> we have gotten new documents from the state department previously undisclosed, including classified material that christopher steele was sending to the state department under barack obama between 2014 and 2016. there were 2,000 reports on russia. so he was well positioned to go to the state department during the campaign with his dirty dossier targeting president trump because he had a longstanding relationship. he might as well have had a desk at the state department given the numerous documents he was

committing to the agency. he was also work for russians on the other side, meaning putin-affiliated russians. gregg: and he was on the fbi payroll as well. >> he was paid 11 times during the campaign by the fbi. he met with the fbi 13 times and was paid 11 of those times. gregg: he's triple dipping. these guys are peddling their phoney dossier to the fbi and the department of justice bruce ohr who then gives the information to andrew weissmann in the summer of 2016 who end up on the special counsel case, and weissmann was warned this might be phoney and fabricated.

it's unbelievable that mueller would hire a guy likewiseman. >> anybody who needed to know about the origins of the dossier. they used it as a pretext to spy on president trump. in many ways it makes sense. we already have jonathon wiener admitting in a "washington post" open said that he wrote part of the dossier for steele based on information from two clinton operatives. gregg: the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee are not on paying for the phoney russian disinformation. their allies are contributing witch hunt. >> the dossier is a chronic of the clinton machine and the deep

state. i predict in the end we are going to find there was quote no russia intel behind it, it was all recycled material out of the fbi-cia disinformation targeting trump. spy on a candidate they didn't like. and protect a candidate they did like, hillary clinton. they were protecting joe biden as well it looks like. >> i talked about rod rosenstein who is saying don't believe anonymous sources. now we have documents he was acting as anonymous. he's not just a hypocrite. he's the king of prerar --. this morning on cnn there was a

suggestion that he ought to be replaced or removed. isn't that the desperate act or word of a guy who pretty much knows he's going down for the count? >> yeah. and especially given the fact the doj has been protecting the case for 18-plus months. the i.g. referred mccabe in april of 2015 and they still haven't figured out if they are going to indict him. as you pointed out, you noticed this in the i.g. report. there are recordations in the case lying to investigators. give us the tapes. gregg: he made false statements at least twice. then he's given a chance in an audio recording to correct those statements and he doubles down on them. gregg: everybody knows this. cnn knew there is a criminal

referral against the guy cnn hired, and he's on almost every day. today he's on talking about corruption. this guy is the symbol of corruption. isn't he? >> exactly. and there is this big problem at the fbi, and frankly the justice department. we had documents that included mccabe's misconduct showing there western 14 fbi agents and senior officials who improperly leaked classified or grand jury material. not one of them were prosecuted. and many of them got away with even a lighter punishment than the -- >> cnn hired him probably because a month before the mueller report came out. mccabe went on cnn and said i think the president of theouts may be a russian agent.

that is music to the ears of cnn, guaranteed to get you a job with them. >> cnn is a partisan advocacy organization that sometimes commits journalism. gregg: accidentally. >> judicial watch is a more reliable provider of news than cnn on these core issues. gregg: a suspect is in custody after an suv crashed into a shopping mall outside chicago in a suburb there. people can be heard screaming as the vehicle crashes into displays and makes its way to the first level of the mall. amazingly no injuries were reported. president trump keeping the

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gregg: president trump calling for a complete trade deal with

china. president trump: a complete deal. i am not looking for a partial deal. china has begun to buy our agricultural product. there have been some big purchases. but we are looking for the big deal. gregg: high-level trade talks between the u.s. and china resume next month in washington, d.c. new video showing the aftermath of an attack on one of saudi arabia's processing facilities. it's said to have been hit with a mix of drones and missiles. joining me now, christian whiton, and former state department advisor in the trump and george bush administrations. the president has imposed the toughest sanctions against iran.

their economy is on the precipice. will this have the desired effect? >> i think it will cause tehran a lot of pain. these are sanctions on their central bank, making it difficult for any businesses or government to conduct business and get dollars, particularly across borders. there will be an increase in u.s. forces going to the persian gulf. but i think this is not the end of the story. i think the president doesn't want to do everything to saudi arabia and others. we are seeing a ramp up. gregg: the provocations from iran continue. here is a list. june 20. iran shoots down a u.s. drone. july 19, iran seizes a u.k. oil taker. august 31, iran seizes iraqi oil

tankers. will the u.s. be forced to launch a military strike, strategic strike against maybe some of iran's military facilities or some other targets and should they? >> yeah, i think they should. i think we'll have to. this is not a popular or majority view in washington. i think it leadership will get the saudis and others to take a strong role in this. this goes far past the attack on the oil supply starting with 1979, this regime took american diplomats hostage and kill 131 marines in lebanon. 1990 blew up the khobar tower. there have been attacks not just on the middle east but on the

united states. gregg: you wrote by the on an op-ed on fox news. let's put up on the screen the opening line. president trump's oh pointsment of roberti robert o'brien is gos for people who believe in peace new strength, and bad news for america's goes and for those who hope the trump presidency will fail. >> he doesn't need a gunslinger like john bolton to counterbalance intransigent departments. he has people running those departments who are on his team. brian has been an advocate of space through strengths for many many, many years. i think it's a seen it foreign policy is working and trump is not going to do a hurks turn.

he's going to keep at it. gregg: is the president right when he says we want a comprehensive deal. it has to be fair and balanced trade, but it has to include an end to china's multi-billion dollar theft for intellectual property. >> you can't ask them to half stop stealing our intellectual property. it's either all or nothing. china either reforms or it doesn't. he doesn't need this going into 2020 because the economy is going into great shape. gregg: we will be right back with more. fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards. it's just not right. but with sofi, you can get your credit cards right - by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. you can get your interest rate right - by locking in a fixed low rate today.

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the story of the greatest mass collusion in political history" now available for preorder online. it comes out in bookstores october 8. od >> a great president from humble roots... >> "abe lincoln, the rail-splitter" made him sound like a man of the people. >> is this the kind of thing that lincoln used as a young man? >> he would use mauls and mallets splitting fence rails, working around the farm. >> but did young abe swing this? >> it was just a relic that was around our house. we didn't really give a lot of thought to it. >> it's their strange inheritance, but it's never been put to the test. >> even though, in our minds, it was 100% real, just because we think so doesn't make it true. >> anybody could have carved their initials "a-l." how do you know it's really lincoln's? [ applause ] [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]