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everything else they have. david: is it smart campaign. >> are you kidding, we're talking about it. david: we're salivating too, see you next time on "bulls and bears." elizabeth: how majority leader nancy pelosi does -- housing vote this week on a resolution formalizing impeachment inquiry, after nancy pelosi said it might take until av christmas, tonight, why the 180? democrat have been facing criticism, for controlling what americans know and don't know with their secret inquiry, voters asking if democrats have a good case for tossing a president's yea a year before ty get to decide? we have also vulnerable republicans, in districts that democrats won, they now back senator lindsey graham
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resolution to condemn the house inquiry. >> and president trump today in chicago, promising police chiefs in the nation he will be their greatest and loyal champion, declaring it was a tremendous weekend for country, deaths of isis leaderral baghda al-baghda. and president slid shredded chicago for by loan violence. -- labelin chicagoing whichs the worse sanctuary city in america. warning since trump was elected, up to now, trump will trigger a recession, their big case for recession just fell apartment to joe biden admitting after months of denying, he did know about his son's business in ukraine. fallout for biden campaign. and probe of russia probe,
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democrat former top fbi official, james comey trying to under cut the probes. also, we debate, is pelosi feeling the heat of the probes? is that why she moved up the vote? thank you, i am elizabeth macdonald, the "evening edit" starts right now. welcome. first victory for president, president trump announcing killing of abu bakr al-baghdadi in a u.s. raid in syria, the president talking about it inned. today. >> you don't hear it enough, you do an incredible job. the people of this country know it. the people of this country love you, you don't hear it from these people here could they love you. you don't hear it from the fake news. they walk to my office, sir we killed this leader at a low
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level, that leader -- i said, i never heard of them, i want al-baghdadi, that is the one they know. i want al-baghdadi, get him. they got him. elizabeth: president trump, said he may release to public a portion of video of that operation. hillary vaughn at white house with more. reporter: bullpen bullpepentagoy are in process of declassifying photos and videos of military operation or the week that killeddal baed -- al-baghdadi, s also confirms that spokesperson for the isis was killed this weekend. that dog suffered minor injuries, but he is called a great hero, he is fine. he has returned to duty. fox news also learning that abu bakr al-baghdadi's body part remains were buried at say,
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president celebrated that success of the mission, and remarks at international association of chief of police annual conference, in chicago. saying capturing al-baghdadi remained his top priority. >> a depraved man, now sh he is, he did not da die bravely, he sd have been killed years ago, another president should have gotten him, i want al-baghdadi, get him. reporter: at police event president blasts jussie smollett accused of paying people to pose as trump supporters to beat him up then making false state to chicago police. >> wise guy jussie smollett who bite ubeat up himself.
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, the maga did it, in is a hate crime and a scam. reporter: trump saying that under eddie john johnson's leadership, chicago has become more dangerous than afghanistan. elizabeth: thank you. more reaction about mission to asiarkansasto-- assassinate al-. >> president changed the rules of engagement. he made a decision when he went to iraq to change the game when it cames to destroying isis. >> i'm proud of our special forces today, i am proud of the president today for making this decision. >> i really give the president's lot of credit for making a bold call, it was not easy to pull off. >> his mission focus, he set a goal, he delivereds if you us
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last night working with the military, i could not be more proud of this president and our military. >> a sad day in america when democrats conditio can't stand d thank the president, and thank u.s. military for taking out the leader of isis last night. elizabeth: joining me now. robin. president changed rules of engagement. is that what lead to baghdadi's killing. >> reference it helped hasten down paul of th fall of calipha. he initiate a refuel, what was recommended rules of engagement were changed. and airstrikes were decentralized and approval process made quicker, that helped haye hasten the bowl dowf the caliphate.
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elizabeth: where do we go -- forward? reports come up that a new face of isis has been appointed. do you think there will be retaliatory strikes. >> you can never rule that out, isis has got a very clear interest in truein in in strikid allies, not as if isis has been holding back, they only now they might strike. if isis can strike against u.s. and uk, france oral lies, itly y allies it will do so. regardless of baghdady is alive or not. elizabeth: james foley family thanked president and troops, foley was killed by isis. -- and murdered. kayla's mother said her daughter might still be alive if president obama had been as decisive at president trump,
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president obama called the isis fight a quote generational struggle. trump supports say he got baghdad's in 3 years i'm. >> >> know mat that is something we deal with, i think as a generational fight. something beyond any one president to fix. but the battle against isis, i think significant progress has been made you were president trump, he has not massively changed strategy from previous administration but tactically made a shift from the obama approach. and the proof is in the pudding with caliphate collapse and head of isis killed, and high-value targets and terrorists killed. we need to keep up the pressure on isis, make sure they don't regenerate. elizabeth: robin, your reaction
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to "washington post" initially reporting al-baghdadi a religious scholar, she sit people on fire, and executed children, and people saying he was more than a religious scholar. >> my reac reaction was like eve else, this is absurd, credible naive way to look at that sadistic mass murderer. it is astonishing that everyone could have -- when you think of abu bakr al-baghdadi, head 46 of isis first thought to be austere religioreligious scholar, reall? >> we did not do that because washington leaks like i've never seen before.
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elizabeth: here is democrats firing back. >> disrespect the speaker of the house who is in the direct line of succession to the president. and to not inform bipartisan leaders in congress to only inform a few republicans, i think was just one more important norm of cooperation shatter baddie thichatted -- shs president. elizabeth: nance innocenc nancyw demanding the president update her. critics of nancy pelosi say she marched out of the white house meeting sendai sense -- 10 days. >> a problem is that president obama when he was green lighting the raid on the compound. that lead to capture of osama bin laden, he did inform top republicans in house and senate before. i just think this is one of those situation, this is
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concerning this is how bad relations have got in dc, and. president does not trust a leading democrat not to leak secrets about an enemy. that call america could unite around. i just thought that episode was a shame to be honest, a sign of how bad relations between parties have got here in washington. elizabeth: robin come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: coming up, let's get to fox news benjamin hall, he is in syria, with an exclusive on the ground with kurdish syrian democratic forces general. he helped carry out the u.s. raid, benjamin with the story. reporter: today fox news had a interview with general head of -- here in northern syria he talked about baghdadi raid, saying it could not have been possible without kurdish intelligence, on 15 of may
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kurdish intelligence gave baghdadi location to u.s. intelligence, they had an informants within isis, he fed information to u.s., how many tunnels were under the compound, how many people were with him, and his movements, general also talked about syrian kurds they had to turn toward syrian government for help, he said after u.s. withdrawal they had no choice, they were not able to keep turks back by themselves. we are with kurds at the moment, with turkish army out there. one of most advanced in nato, these guys rely on homemade weapons. turkish ceasefire violations are a daily occurrence, as are casualties, syrian troops are stepping in heading to front in place of the sds who announced they were pulling back. and leaving 10 mile buffer zone.
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general abdi called for u.s. to come back, saying they need u.s. support and that baghdadi raid was a great step in the right direction but it would not change the situation here, they said to look forward to a few more isis arrests, killed or captured in coming days. elizabeth: benjamin hall thank you. >> coming up red-hot, trump economy, remember when the media and more than a few democrats lost their collective minds warning that trump will trigger a recession, and then russia under ited into recession, we heard the story. today, it looks like their recession case is falling apart, house majority leader democrat nancy pelosi, now said that house will vote to week on a resolution formalizing impeachment inquiry.
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elizabeth: late this afternoon, came word that full house will vote this week on formalizing the impeachment inquiry. as schiff now threatening to hold witnesses in contempt if they do not comply with their subpoena, fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on capitol hill with more. reporter: calling white house's bluff house speaker nancy pelosi announced a thursday vote, the regular to include plans for public hearings beginning mid november, and steps to transfer evidence to the judiciary committee, where articles of impeachment are drafted, a key witness did not testify today, charles copper man went to court after congress issued a subpoena for his testimony, and white house ordered him to north participate, democrat fired back. >> any effort to prevent
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congress and american people from learning more about the president's misconduct will merely build a public case for obstruction of congress by this president. reporter: according to a statement from his lawyer, copper man took no position on whether congress or white house of correct, reads in part: >> republicans accused democrat today of cherry picking witnesses and selectively bolstering their impeachment case. >> the key is this is not an investigation, these are a few depositions, designed to get an outcome that was predetermined. >> there has never been nothing there but adam schiff in the bunker continues to have secret depositions. reporter: thursday vote they be an efforts by democrat to knock down a key criticism of house
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republicans, and how other factor is timeline, there is now limited legislative days between now and the end of the year. elizabeth: catherine herridge thank you. >> democrat now accuse of controlling what public knows and does not know about the impeachment inquiry with closed-door testimony and depositions. a detroit news editorial urging politics should not get in the way of transparency, bringing in former department of justice official tom dupree. should voters see for themselves what is going on. >> absolutely. impeaching the president is one of the most important things that congress could potentially do. this is something that should not be carry now secret on basis of secret proceeding, secret depositions. i understand there is movement now to put some hearings out in public view. that is the way it should be.
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>> you know you wonder if democrats hurt their case, former speaker newt gingrich is echoing what a lot of american are saying if that the democrats had a good case, wouldn't they just put it out in the open? rick perry saying that democrats are chasing a ghost on impeachment. >> there is sense to, that i am heartened by today's announcement they will put rules in place to ensure public access. that sort of thing, i wish they did it some time ago, i say better late than never, this say whole process that need to brought to the open, put a spotlight oifdz the evidence the gathering. elizabeth: tom, the voters are seeing, we have been reports too, that the media has been calling for president trump to be impeached before he won the election in 2016. we dated it to march 2016, they have been motoring ahead. you know they have been wants to get at him, and voters may see,
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they feel that president was railroaded, and that he did run through the red light with that ukraine phone call, we have three republican senators. they have not signed on sense door linesenatorlindsey graham n condemning the inquiry, but 3 republicans are vulnerable next year. where is the disconnect in the republican party? >> well, i think that the republican party right now, there are people with different views. i think that as evidence comes out we have a robust debate, it is possible that republicans will coalesce around one view but also as you have a jury of 13 people, and people have different takes on evidence that republican senators might look at evidence and reach different conclusions, that is the way that the framer drew it up, impeachment is more of a political judgment than a legal judgment. would not shock me if they come
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to different couldn't collusions. different -- conclusions. elizabeth: this is in way of fixing country. what is the real end game, voters wonder is the end game to get rid of trump to enact over take of health care with green new deal and free tuition? >> i think that is a risk. right now, there are very pressing issues in our country that do need to be addressed legislatively, you mentioned a bunch, trade, immigration. when the house is consumed by impeachment inquiry there will not be a lot of business getting done. that is for sure. i think that democrats are well advised to do their best to move it along, to a vote, then. hopefully get back to business. elizabeth: move to a vote. back to business, tom dupree thank you. >> thank you. elizabeth: still ahead, probe of the russia probe with the latest on what james comby and adam
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schiff are saying about the upcoming probe reports. >> news flash. they are under cutting their probes. >> two and a half million customers left in the dark in california, firefighter battling at least 16 wildfires, now torching the state, the utility there pg&e, cutting the power, in a bid to stop new fires from igniting, but it makes it harder for people in danger to get help, that story coming up. r car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wow. thanks, zoltar. how can i ever repay you? maybe you could free zoltar? thanks, lady. taxi! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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>> we have the strongest economy in was heartr history of our co, s&p hit an all-time high. that is not for rich people, that is for everyone that is for you 401(k). elizabeth: s&p 500 jumped to a record high on strong earnings and progress on trade deal with china. deirdre bolton on the floor of the new york stock exchange with
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more. reporter: green on the zine, dow, s&p find0 s&p 500 all closr and nasdaq. officials close to finalizing some part of a trade agreement. and google trading higher during regular session but after hours, moving lower it missed wall street expectations for a third quarter, it posted 10 .12 a share, wall street looking for 12.42 a share, but google did exceed sales estimate, posting 45.5 billion in revenue versus estimate of 43.2 billion, earning parade continues this week, apple and facebook report on wednesday. and that will even out the fang reporting season. elizabeth: great to see you thank you. >> next up, remember media said
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in 2016 if trump gets elected we'll go to recession, even a great depression, and when russia probe found no collusion, media hollered about recession, we bring in mark vitner. not a month ago that medea said this sky of going to fall? >> yes that real did a reversal. yield curve is normalizing. no longer inverted, it barely got inverted at all. comparable to the late 1990s, we did not have a recession following this slight inversion either. i think that fed sees the economy in is a similar place to where it was in late 1990s, they cut rates a couple times,
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probably do it again on wednesday. and if anything, i think gross will pick up. elizabeth: like who do you believe any more in media, they go hog wild, always opinionated, never in doubt media saying things like this, 50 shades of silly, we've seen 10 trillion dollars added to stock market wealth, s&p hit an all-time high, earning show no signs of recession, mark? >> absolutely. and you know, i think that the best advice for folks is to just try to calibrate. don't get all your news from one source. if it is universally bad, you should doubt is bad right away, the same if it is universally good. elizabeth: i want to turn to this joe biden has contradicted himself on where the economy is at, first he criticize the trump economy, saying it is not working are in americans, now he says that trump inherited the strong economy from him and
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obama. so which is it? >> well, that would be a little bit of a stretching of the truth. the economy averaged 1.8% a year from when recession ended through 2 2016. and we saw growth pick up after a lot of rules and regulations were scaled back. some regulatory zeal in place in aftermath of the great recession was reversed. there is no denying that and efs goinwasgoing wonderfully until e war slowed it a bit. but still stronger than prior. elizabeth: how quick do you think joe biden would say it is trump a fault if the economy were crashing. >> i'm not in the political spire, i think they talk up whatever works best for them. elizabeth: mark i have th vitnek
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soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: still ahead, russia probe with latest on what comey and schiff are trying to say to under cut the reports from justice department inspector general and prosecutor durham. >> and president trump blasting sanctuary city of chicago and its top cop. after superintendent of speech there skipped president's speech, president labeling chicago worse sanctuary city in mark. those stories coming up.
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danger to get information or call for help. fox news dan springer in california with more. reporter: good news that winds were lighter today, crews made progress, fire did not spread. great news that there has been no loss of life. 185,000 people who got word to evacuate, most appeared to do so. but i tell you there were 96 structures that were destroyed. including historic soda rock winery, built in 1869, a store, school, post office before a tasting room, and a wedding location. a beautiful spot, fire began wednesday night, it has been fed by strong winds, santa ana winds were forecast, prompting pg&e to cut power to customers as a precaution, confirm that a large transmission tower that was still energized malfunctioned
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and may have started this wildfire. pg&e has been in bankruptcy since january following lawsuit after the deadly campfire in 18. the irony, that power, tower that failed wednesday night, had just been inspected and minor repairs made in february. pg&e gave it a full bill of health, power has been restored to about 300,000 people, and we're getting word some of the evacuation zones have lifted the orders, some allowed back home, we getting stronger winds again tomorrow night to wednesday morning. all bets are off, more people may be evacuated and more power turbed ofturned off. >> dan thank you. >> stay safe. elizabeth: we have our eyes on more stories for you, president trump tweeting his congratulations to tiger woods. his 82nd career pga win,
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tying record by sam snead, after winning championship in japan. 23 years ago that tiger woods won his first big match. >> and air force and the x37 b unmanned space plane, it returned from record breaking sibreaking780 days orbiting thet touched down yet at kennedy space center. most details about the mission are classified. reports coming in plane was testing experiment altronics. -- electronics. and robotic spacecraft samsung launched into space came crashing back to earth on the front yard of a michigan home saturday, samsung's so-called space selfie was to take photographs of a unique view of
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planet earth in outer space. no injuries reported. >> look at this, this is what happened when a big sinkhole devoured back-end of a bus in pittsburgh. opened up while the bus was stopped at a red light, two people were onboard, the driver and a passenger escaped with minor injuries. >> and no north carolina a man won a 200,000 lotto prize, on his last day of cancer treatment. ronnie foster is a retired state transportation worker, he said he will use money to pay off his medical bills, he paid a dollar for that winning ticket. lou dobbs is joining us with a preview of his show. >> congratulation on that last day of cancer treatment when a lucky day. >> liz, we take up another major
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victory for the president. the killing of isis leader al-baghdadi, co colonel mcgreger and walid phares will join us. and joining us, special guest donald trump jr., investigative journalist john salomon and republican strategist ed rollins. back to you. >> great to see you. >> still ahead, probe of russia probe. the latest on that. and later in the show, president shreds sanctuary city of chicago for its out of control violence. as chicago's top cop skipped out on the president's address. media blow back on trump, labeling chicago worse sudden citsanctuarycity in america, thy coming up.
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mueller appointed. >> i would hope that mr. durham would do everything to protect his representation from being damaged by those in leadership and the most important leeway to do that give us transparency i'm not worried about a single thing in connect with any matter under investigation, gather the facts, write a report, share it with the american people, please, all this stuff in media with attorney general saying stuff does not jive. is an attack on the integrity of the institution, he is supposed to be leading. elizabeth: we bring in vicinity -- vince, your reaction. >> that james comey, trying to bring our react to the case -- prejudice our reaction to the case. making seem that william barr
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with some sort of a partisan hack. for many years, to examine how this happened, james comey sounds rattled, this is his attempt to spin this in his favor. elizabeth: comey accused of setting up trump with the steel dassiedossier briefing. he is calling for ra transparen, the irony seems to be rich there if you are a comey critic. to get fisa warrant to spy on carter page who was never charged. what koh comey is aing. >> this guy, he was like advocates for his book, this
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guy, circumvented the actual process in u.s. government, he was leaking his own documents, referred by inspect oa inspectol for criminal prosecution for doing that he went off the books, he not a by the book guy. elizabeth: thing to watch where horowitz has prosecution referrals that durham would pick up on. i want to talk about this barr and durham reports say they interviewed foreign intelligence officials who may have been recruited by obama administration to meddle in campaign to help spy on trump. your take? >> deeply consequential, this is serious, du durham impaneling gd juries, there are serious issues, i think that reaction that we've seen from people who are part of obama administration from democrats watching is to try to work the rest, that is
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american people, and convince us there is nothing to see here, everything was done on up up and. though protests remember president trump protested he was being investigated, they were seen as signs of guilt, now the democrats have the shoe on the other foot. elizabeth: i thought there was no bias at fbi watch comey talk about this. >> i will be from my new home in new zealand -- >> do you think that mueller and people on his team expected that report to trigger the commencement of i mutua impeacht inquiry? >> i do, i think they lay clear they are laying out the obstruction pattern, there has always been a radio active stew of racism in united states. elizabeth: they are supposed to be impartial fact finders. >> yeah he liked his memos to create that special counsel, his
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goal was to impeach the president of the united states comey was elected to no position, here he is. >> vince thank you. >> thank you. >> next um, president really went after the sanctuary city of chicago for out of control violent, and chicago top cop, he decided to skip the president's address. we have the story in controversy coming up. president labeled chicago worse santa barbarsanctuary city in m.
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the border are heading to cities like chicago. the police chief is putting citizens ahead of the city. it will announce new enforcement statistics about the border. there have been 850,000 apprehensions of illegals at the border. that's the population of indianapolis. >> it includes a million cbp enforcement actions by border patrol agents. and yet we'll be seeing a report, a border security report. that will be clear a lot of good information that provide updates on connections up at the borderer. so it will have a lot of good information provided by
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commissioner morgan. liz: 76 mills of wall completed. the president saying 450 miles. is it doable? this month we start seeing a wall coming up. the laredo sector where x should see a wall coming up in 202 and we are so excited because it will keep border patrol activity safe and it will keep the border communities safe from drug smuggling activity. liz: an illegal immigrant smuggler live streamed his choice with the cbp. what does this tell you about how brazen this is? >> the reason you are seeing
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this type of facebook live video of a smuggler smuggling illegal aliens. we have to get the border wall system in. that's something that's needed. the committee suffers because of the activities we see along our ask communities. this person did not care for the safety of the citizens of laredo, texas. it's unbelievable. liz: democrats and media critics of president trump will say all this type of reporting is race baiting. you are doing race baiting. your take on that? >> border security is not about race. it's about keeping the border safe. it's simple that some of these democrats when they visit the border, they come here for a few
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hours and they think they know the border. but they belong to places like new york like aoc. liz: lou dobbs is next. good night. lou: president trump adding to his historic list of achievements. announcing that a team of u.s. forces and army rangers conducted a raid that resulted in the killing of abu bakr al-baghdadi. president trump: the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice. abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead. a brutal killer. one who caused so much hardship and death, has violent
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