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and i can invest and i do know about budgeting. to kristina's point, these are actual life skills. when you talk about the application of history, application of math, that's economics. david: all right. last word. that does it for bulls & bears. thank you for watching. see you back here next time. elizabeth: street protests against corrupt dictator shops around the world. -- dictatorships around the world. to hong kong pro democracy protesters using thousands of fire bombs, bricks, even bows and arrows, slingshots catapults, we will take you there. to iran people taking to the streets in nearly 100 cities fighting against gas price hikes, fighting against the religious dictatorship there. corruption, reports now coming in, more than five dozen killed. also rioting in lebanon. rioting in venezuela. we've got the latest and expert analysis on each major flashpoint and what it means for the freedom movement, the
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democracy movement worldwide. to week two of impeachment hearings, president trump says he will, quote, strongly consider testifying in writing after nancy pelosi invited him. tonight the update. voters react. a new reuters poll shows the majority of americans tuned out to the hearings. the "new york times" reporting, quote, voters are worn-out by the fog of political news. tonight, the latest on adam schiff, the speech by the impeachment leader this weekend, where adam schiff applauded the quote resistance against trump, claiming that he is ready to kick out the quote charlatan trump. the debate. the legitimacy of the hearings at stake. the field in chaos, democrat leaders now warn according to the washington post that the primary fight to pick a democrat front-runner could last into the summer. just months before the election. this as both president obama and pelosi increasingly warn that the far left 2020 democrats, the
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average american will not want what they are selling, that americans will be turned off by their out of control policies. president obama says they are quote not rooted in reality. the story tonight. to the probe of the probe, attorney general barr declaring quote it is the left that's engaging in a systematic shredding of norms and undermining the rule of law. democrats using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the executive branch in a war of resistance against trump, just as adam schiff applauded this weekend. to the battle for border security, a majority of americans now say they do want to see more deportations and more border security too, as deportations in the age of trump. the debate why is president trump getting blasted for what america wants and what president obama carried out in a bigger way? i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪
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elizabeth: welcome to the show. you are watching the fox business network. first off, trade talks with china, will there be a deal before the next rounds of tariffs hit chinese goods on december 15th? edward lawrence has more in washington. edward? >> liz, that's a very good question. the heads of the two trade teams spoke by phone over the weekend to try and close out this phase one trade deal. the u.s. trying to get the language down on paper. the chinese commerce ministry signalling that the two sides had constructive conversations and will remain in contact. the goodwill is continuing, though, china buying soybeans and may start buying poultry from the u.s. today the u.s. extending the temporary general license for companies to sell to huawei for another 90 days. that was set to expire tomorrow. so far there's been -- they've kept the protests in hong kong separate from the trade talks. but has indicated now the administration is watching developments. protesters turned violent again,
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continued pressure on the government on the mainland of china for this to end. secretary of state pompeo putting china on notice over hong kong. >> -- the united states is monitoring the -- [inaudible] -- in hong kong. violence by any size is unacceptable. the hong kong government bears primary responsibility for bringing calm to hong kong. unrest and violence cannot be resolved by law enforcement efforts alone. >> and he went on to say the hong kong government must first engage protesters and work with them to find a peaceful end. pompeo adds that china must honor the commitments the country made to hong kong giving the city the freedom to govern itself. finally, the house of representatives here in washington, d.c. very focused on impeachment with the hearings all week is running up against a government shutdown deadline on november 21st. fox news has learned that a bill from the house appropriations committee will go to the floor
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tomorrow. it's only a stopgap measure to fund the government until december 20th. liz? elizabeth: i guess they will be working december 20th. good to see you. thanks for the update. let's bring in hudson institute director for chinese strategy. an expert, an inside track, widely respected in washington, he is michael pillsbury. great to see you. >> hi, liz. thank you. elizabeth: your reaction, your assessment of the hong kong pro democracy protesters, they are on college campuses occupying there. they are using fire bombs, bricks, bows and arrows slingshots and catapults, in the fight of their lives for democracy. >> yes, that's correct. i was there a few weeks ago and things have escalated quite a bit since then. the demonstrators have demands. they are not outrageous at all. one of them is an investigation of police behavior by an independent commission. i think secretary pompeo is on the right track, that we're monitoring this but not to link it directly to the trade talks. in fact, liz, there's a strange
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agreement between both beijing and washington. president xi and president trump, that the hong kong government carrie lam has to solve this problem. the pressure right now is on the hong kong government, can they agree to the five demands? the investigation, a better system of choosing the leader of hong kong. there's universal voting now, but each person's vote doesn't count in choosing a leader. beijing screens the final two or three have to be acceptable to beijing. that's one of the issues. i'm optimistic that so far the trade talks and hong kong have been kept separate. they have more than 5,000 people under arrest in hong kong. demonstrators turn out sometimes in serious numbers of 10,000 or more, so they've gotten roughly half the demonstrators in jail now. that's really not sustainable. so the pressure right now is on the hong kong government to make an offer, to get the
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demonstrators to name someone to start negotiations. that's where we are right now. the negotiations have not begun yet in hong kong. elizabeth: you know, you made news i think right there, we will not see another tiananmen square in hong kong, is that what you are saying? >> it is extremely unlikely. both the chinese and president trump agree that the main point is to get back to the system that existed before this terrible extradition treaty was proposed by carrie lam, the leader of hong kong. she's taken it back but hasn't really completely, says she will never do it again. that's one of the five demands, frankly. it's one she's got her own prestige tied up with. there's a succession plan in hong kong so that if she has to step down, voluntarily, then she can name somebody else in her cabinet to take over as leader. if she can't manage -- get these negotiations started and manage the police better, she's going to have to step down. i think that's what the real news is. will she step down or start the negotiations over the five
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demands? elizabeth: you know, it is complete chaos in hong kong. we had reuters coming in with a report that several dozen protesters escaped from one college campus. they had been pinned down by police. they basically shimmied down plastic hosing from a bridge and got away on motor books. police fired projectiles at them. the fear is they will start using live ammo there. that's the threat. >> i think that's right, liz. secretary pompeo pointed out we don't want violence from either side. the police have not been using live rounds. but they could start killing students on the one hand. on the other hand, these images of the students with bows and arrows that can kill a policeman, that's very troubling too. so the idea is to get back to calm and what i'm calling for really is negotiations. the demonstrators will not come out to negotiate. they have legitimate fears that they will be arrested. so carrie lam has to solve that somehow and get quiet confidential negotiations started or she's going to have to step down. as i say, it is the american
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chinese joint position on hong kong that her government's got to solve this problem. nobody else should step in from the the outside. elizabeth: love your insights. michael pillsbury, thank you very much for coming on. appreciate it. >> thanks. elizabeth: next up, we will have on general jack keane. he will talk to us about the massive street protests in nearly 100 cities across iran. the biggest pushback against the religious dictatorship there in 40 years. people are furious over the government's 50% increase in gas prices. reports coming in dozens of people killed? we're going to ask the general all about that. plus we will take you to venezuela, to the street protests there, the biggest in months. a damming new report out of reuters, venezuela's communist dictator maduro sending forces into the neighborhoods. we've got the story there from a former venezuelan mayor living
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go to xfinity.com/moving to get started. elizabeth: fears of more violence in iran has the ayatollah that oversees dictatorship that murders and tortures political dissidence now calls protesters thugs. protests spread to potentially
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100 cities. fox news benjamin hall in jerusalem with more. >> on the surface these protests are about a hike in gas prices, but under the surface, they are about the simmering tension between the people of iran and the regime, particularly now that u.s. sanctions are taking hold. in more than 100 towns across the country, over 59 people are reported to have died, some estimates put it at over 100. the government has now arrested over a thousand people in response after roads were blocked, cars burned, banks, fuel stations and government buildings attacked, all after the regime raised gas prices by 50%. but it's not only the gas, which is still just 50 cents per gallon. it's also corruption and the poor state of the economy which has been in free fall. today president rouhani blamed the u.s. for all the problems. >> translator: the u.s.'s purpose about iran is nothing but messing up the security of the country and setting the nation's interests on fire. >> many iranians have also
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criticized the regime for its spending on wars abroad, in syria, yemen, and its support for groups like hezbollah and hamas, at a time when they can barely provide for their own people. this is becoming one of the biggest crises that the regime has faced in years and the next few days will be critical to see whether or not the regime decides to stamp this out. liz? elizabeth: benjamin hall, thank you very much. retired four star general, fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane is joining me now. thank you very much for being here. >> delighted to be here. elizabeth: your assessment on what's going on in iran? >> pretty serious. we know the economy has been tanked for a long time. inflation's at least around 40%, for some high end items it is about 100, if you are trying to get sugar or meat items, something like that. the only people who aren't struggling are the elites. elizabeth: uh-huh. >> this is much bigger than just the gas price. it's the slow squeeze on the
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people in terms of their way of life and their quality of life experience. they have food shortages regularly now. they have power outages on a regular basis. and they are frustrated with this regime. and the reason is, the iranians have taken their money from oil and they have poured it in to the wars in lebanon, encroaching on israel, syria, yemen and pushing back in iraq. that's what they have done with this money. they had a windfall of money after the nuclear deal was cut because the sanctions were cut off and they were given something in the neighborhood of 130 billion dollars, that did not go back into their economy to improve the way of life for the people. they're frustrated about that. they have a right to be. i think the iranians have been making one mistake after the other since president trump imposed these maximum economic sanctions on them. they are back on their heels in a way i have not seen. now, listen, they will not tolerate demonstrations,
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certainly they will cut off the internet. they are cutting off the media to be able to publicize it. but they will go out there. they will clear those streets. they will kill those people as they did back in the summer of 09. elizabeth: what will the president do? your assessment of the president trump's reaction to iran versus obama? >> well, first of all, it's dramatically different. the obama's foreign policy with iran in one word was appeasement. trump's foreign policy with iran in one word is confrontation. and that's the right one because they have been over the middle east and the world's number one sponsor of terrorism. so i think what will happen here is what president trump needs to do is talk to the iranian people, tell them that all your regime -- everything can change if your regime backs off and is willing to come back into the nuclear deal, talk to them, don't worry about talking to the
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leaders and steady as she goes, just keep applying the pressure because the pressure is working. elizabeth: this is the biggest pushback against the religious dictator in how many decades? >> in 2017 they had a pretty sizable protest, but the real one in 09. this appears on the surface of it because that was mostly located in tehran, and it was over a fraudulent election. this has spread out over as you mentioned in the introduction over 100 cities. it's touching everybody. it's not just the political class. it is everybody that's being affected. so the regime is feeling pressure like they have never felt before. elizabeth: general jack keane, thank you. >> good talking to you. elizabeth: thank you for your service to our country too. let's take you to venezuela new details just surfacing. a new deep dive investigation done by reuters reporters at reuters blowing the lid off of at least 20 murders allegedly committed by dictator maduro's
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police squad. this as supporters of opposition leader guaido on saturday staged the biggest protests in month. let's bring in our next guest, the former mayor of venezuela. thank you very much for having us on. your thought first on the reuters reports maduro's police squad assassinating poor people? >> thank you liz for the opportunity. well, maduro's crimes are very well known and very well documented. let me remind you that a few months ago, a representative for united nations human rights, went to venezuela and she wrote a very long form with all the crimes maduro is committing in venezuela. but after that -- [inaudible]. this is happening.
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this is well known. this has been documented, not only by reuters or by the news and the media, but also by the united nations. however, nobody seems to care and maduro is even getting a seat on the human rights council united nations. elizabeth: critics are saying it is an absolute disgrace and an outrage. he's using the national police force, 1500 strong to not only go in as a means of social control in the poor neighborhoods but young men being executed. some of them are being handcuffed to steering wheels and shot in the head, steering wheels of cars. how is this acceptable anywhere in the world? >> let me tell you, he's not only using the police force, he's using the entire force, and he's even using foreigners, not only venezuelans working for maduro are committing these crimes, there is evidence that there are at least foreign agents from cuba participating in this illegal activities, in these crimes.
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so it's really a major thing what is going on regarding human rights violations. elizabeth: critics are also saying what's also a disgrace is the silence of the left here in the united states to what's going on in venezuela. what happens next in venezuela? >> well, listen, the venezuelan people keeps fighting. this weekend we saw a large demonstration, juan guaido called. at the same time, nicolas maduro called his people to go to the streets and he got a very very small turnout. nicolas maduro wasn't even able to show himself in his meeting, and he made a phone call to his small gathering, so he's really in a weakening position from the popular support standpoint. however, let me remind you, nicolas maduro has the arms and the fire power and he has been using it against the venezuelan people.
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elizabeth: and the biggest oil reserve and gold reserve in the world. when you have police forces on motorcycles, you know, some as young as in their 20s with rifles, i don't know how you fight against that. mayor, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: good to see you. next, it is week two of impeachment hearings. president trump says he will strongly consider testifying in writing. nancy pelosi invited him. pelosi is trying to equate president trump with nixon as adam schiff gave a speech this weekend praising quote the resistance and the push to oust president trump. also a wake-up call from both president obama and nancy pelosi. top democrats increasingly worried there won't be a front-runner by the summer, that americans are going to be turned off and are turned off by the radical far left policies from the 2020 democrats. president obama says not rooted in reality. warning it is putting us on a path to failure. that story is next.
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elizabeth: hillary vaughan is live us with on capitol hill with a preview of what's ahead for the impeachment inquiry as the democrats try to make their case to americans in round three. hillary? >> liz, the president is considering making himself the star witness in these impeachment hearings, tweeting this morning that he would consider speaker pelosi's proposal to have him testify in writing, tweeting i like the idea and will in order to get congress focused again, strongly consider it. but some democrats aren't convinced he will go through with it and some house republicans are hoping he doesn't. >> i think the chances that the president would actually come and testify or answer our questions and be deposed are slim and none, and slim just left the room. >> it would be a heck no for me as far as my advice on whether or not he should come testify himself, not just down to schiff's level but below it.
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>> intelligence committee schiff announcing a line up of witnesses this week, eight total starting tomorrow with the first witnesses with first-hand information from the july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelensky. ukraine expert alexander vindman and jennifer williams an aide to the vice president were both on the call and will be here tomorrow morning. wednesday the witness everyone is waiting for eu ambassador gordon sondland who came back after his closed door testimony to make changes democrats think may help their case but republicans say don't change anything. sondland played a key role as a go between in the negotiations with ukraine and the white house. the "wall street journal" reporting that sondland kept white house chief of staff mulvaney and energy secretary perry on n the loop on efforts to get ukraine to look into hunter biden and burisma and the national security council morrison testified in his closed door briefing that national security advisor bolton met privately with the president to try to get him to unfreeze ukraine's military aid, but he was unsuccessful.
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morrison will also be here tomorrow afternoon. liz? elizabeth: thank you, hillary. okay, we've got breaking news. reports are coming in that the justice department inspector general michael horowitz is set to testify before the senate judiciary committee on december 11th about his probe of the russia probe, meaning the fisa abuses. that could indicate that that report is due out imminently as we've been reporting. joining me now is congressman of colorado. he is a member of the house judiciary. okay, i want to first get your reaction on michael horowitz, that news breaking that he may testify. it is now looking like december 11th. >> yeah, my understanding is that the report was done several months ago. it had to go there a process of being declassified and approved by various levels of the department of justice, but it is i think very important to get that information out. we have dealt with a few fisa issues within the last few years, and i think having that information affects both the impeachment inquiry but also the security issues that we are
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facing here in congress. elizabeth: okay, sir, here's news coming in. reuters poll finding three quarters, 75% of voters did not watch or read about the impeachment hearings. they are tuning out. more than half of those that did watch were less supportive of impeachment after they did watch or read about it. here's the other thing that's happening too. one of two democrats who voted against the impeachment inquiry told our maria bartiromo that he thinks quote democrats are worn-out and people are bored. let's take a listen to the sound bite. >> there is some discussion among some of them quietly, privately of concern, of concerns certainly. i mean, what i'm hearing out in the street is with most people, they are kind of tired. they are kind of worn-out. they are kind of bored, most folks, and they really want to move on unless there's something
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new and amazing. we know the endgame here. if there's something new, something we haven't heard, something that really rises to the level of treason or, you know, a high crime, that would be different, but we don't see that. you don't disenfranchise voters, millions upon millions of voters. voters choose their leaders in america. elizabeth: your reaction, sir? >> first, i think it takes a lot of guts to vote against the speaker and the democrats on impeachment. i think you will see a number of democrats voting against the speaker. the speaker herself said that the standard for impeachment would be a very serious offense and there would have to be bipartisan support. they have not even earned the support of their own party, much less bipartisan support at this point. i think that we do know the endgame. what i hear from my constituents, a lot of them are very tired of this. even before president trump was elected they have seen the attacks on president trump, the day after the inauguration. the headlines read let the
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impeachment begin. this is just a strategy to undermine the president before the 2020 election, and i hope that congress moves on, deals with some important issues, like the united states mexico canada trade agreement, other important issues that we're facing right now. elizabeth: yeah. i want to get to this, adam schiff gave a speech at the california democrat convention over the weekend, basically applauding quote the resistance and saying he is moving to oust, quote, the charlatan trump. let's cue up that sound bite for the congressman. >> two years ago i stood before you and i urged you to resist and you did, but we are more than a resistance now. we are a majority. we are a majority in one house, and we will become the majority in the other, and we will send -- we will send that charlatan in the white house back to the golden throne he came from. and you know why? because we vote. how do we build another big
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beautiful wave? we vote. elizabeth: at the back end, he said it is because of voting. what was your reaction to adam schiff here? >> well, i think that language plays really well on the left coast. -- on the west coast. i don't think it plays really well in middle america. i think adam schiff is showing that he's had an agenda all along, that he's not searching for the truth. he is searching for a political answer that will change the power structure in washington, d.c. i think that's unfortunate, and i think it is transparent at this point. elizabeth: so here's the question for you, do you think it is an impeachable offense for the president to ask the leader of ukraine to look into biden and what was going on in ukraine? does it rise to the level of an impeachable offense? >> it doesn't in my view at this point in time with the facts that i know. what i know is that the president was concerned about corruption broadly in the ukraine, that many many other career diplomats were concerned about corruption, that the
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president in his conversation, it was president zelensky that raised rudy giuliani's name first, not president trump. and president trump was focused on congratulating president zelensky for his election victory as well as focused on trying to help the ukraine develop a better business environment and political environment. so i think the president had the right intentions going in, and i think that any time that the conversation veered, it's not reached that level of impeachable conduct at this point. elizabeth: congressman buck, thank you very much for joining us, sir. >> thank you. elizabeth: next up, the wake-up call from both president obama and nancy pelosi, that the 2020 democrats are not picking up on. they're more and more worried that the average american is turned off by the far left democrats. president obama warns that they are not rooted in reality. nancy pelosi warning elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, what you want is not a path to success for democrats. but later, the probe of the probe, attorney general bill
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elizabeth: here's the headline, the 2020 democrat party is in total chaos not ready for prime-time. primaries just three months away and now this democrat leaders telling the washington post democrat primary fight to get its front-runner to last into the summer. none of the democrats poll regularly above 30% and democrats not answering the loud wake-up call from both president obama and nancy pelosi, both are worried. president obama is worried the average american is turned off the far left democrats not
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rooted in reality. pelosi warning warren and sanders this. watch. >> i don't think that you can decide one day that in a matter of days that nobody will have their private health insurance. i don't see that as a path. elizabeth: as a path to success she finished saying. my next guest is fox news political analyst and the author of the book "taken for granted". congratulations on your book. >> thank you. elizabeth: your thoughts on the democrat chaos due to the hard left draconian plans that people don't want? >> who thought i would say this in the same sentence that president obama and pelosi are absolutely correct. many americans fear what the 2020 democrats have been proposing. i think there are folks like warren and sanders which brought in the form of socialism into the political philosophy into our country has been moving in the polls only because you have young folks who follow that movement. that's what we have seen the new level of socialism, but the only
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unfortunate point for those two democrats especially is that young people generally speaking don't really vote. so they are going to have a big problem on their hands because at this particular point in time, president trump is looking more and more likely if we continue to see the chaos on the left, looking more and more likely to be able to win in 2020. elizabeth: well, you know, the deval patrick and michael bloomberg clearly see a weakness in the race. that's why they are talking about jumping into the race right now. say we took a time machine and brought everybody back to 2006. what would americans back then, just 13 years ago say to the headlines we're seeing from the radical left democrats that the country -- you know, the country might have stood up and say what in god's name are you talking about? government takeover of healthcare getting rid of health insurance coverage for soldiers, firemen, teachers, cops, the big sections of the economy they want the government to run,
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energy, the banks, abolish i.c.e., get rid of electoral college, what are they talking about? on another planet. >> absolutely they would say you're crazy. i talk about it in my book how liberalism has failed america. we are seeing more extreme consideration of what liberalism means when you have a person as liberal as obama who was really popular in the democratic party who is slamming candidates that are currently running for president that tells you that the democrats that are running currently are in major trouble. and he's right. you think about the fact that deval patrick who just jumped into the race, that tells you something. we've got only several months before the democratic primaries that really start. if you have got somebody who is so close to president obama jumping in the race, at this particular point in time, that has to tell you that president trump is not happy -- not trump, president obama is not happy with what he's seeing. elizabeth: now he's getting attacked by the hard left democrats like omar and others,
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they are attacking president obama. we have buttigieg popping to a lead in iowa. here's the thing -- then we have elizabeth warren, you know, basically saying that, you know, worker pay isn't moving. it is rising not as fast, about 3 percent, 4 percent year over year because people are staying in their jobs. if they move and got another job, their pay would go up. that's the nuance behind worker wages because listen, people have mortgages. they are worried about moving out of their jobs to get another job. here's the thing, trump is presiding over the longest economic expansion on record in the modern era. that's what he's going to campaign on. >> right, not only that, look at what he's accomplished. he's literally taken away the crutch that democrats have had. their heart blood and soul is african-americans. you've got a president whose passed the first step act, thousands of people released from jail, 90% of them are black. opportunity zones almost 9,000 of them marginalized zip codes, most of them african-american.
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low unemployment rate on record for african-americans. these are things he's loudly campaigning on and democrats are being lost because they don't have any accomplishments to really show. this is where it's come problematic to them. this is why i believe we're seeing an impeachment hearing go this far. elizabeth: great to see you. congrats on your new book. >> thank you. elizabeth: more details and news about the ig horowitz will testify before senate judiciary on december 11th, as attorney general william barr gave a speech saying the democrats are engaged if in the systematic shredding of norms that undermine the rule of law. democrats using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the executive branch. in a scorched earth no holds bar war of resistance against the trump administration. that story next. fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards.
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elizabeth: lou dobbs joins us now with a preview of what's coming up next on his show. lou? lou: liz, thank you very much. congressman matt gates among our guests. former trump campaign manager david bossey joins us and citizens united president and he has gotten ahold of some really
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interesting documents that involve the alleged whistle-blower. we can't identify the whistle-blower, but have we got some interesting context for you. we will have that for you tonight at the top of the hour. fox business political analyst ed rollins, new york post pulitzer prize winning column michael good win, cybersecurity expert morgan wright. guess what? china is still attacking this country every day, but just in cyberspace so we don't have to worry about that, all of that and charlie hurt at the washington times. back to you. elizabeth: great to see you. attorney general william barr taking aim right at the democrats for what he says is abusing their power. watch this. >> unfortunately, just in the past few years, we have seen these conflicts take on an entirely new character. immediately after president trump won election, opponents
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inaugurated what they called the resistance, and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the functioning of the executive branch and his administration. been waging a scorched earth no-holds barred war of resistance against this administration. it is the left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and undermining the rule of law. elizabeth: joining me now is former fbi assistant director bill gavin. thank you very much for joining us, bill. your reaction to the attorney general's assessment here? >> i couldn't agree more with the attorney general, liz. when we look at what's happening right now, it's scorched-earth policy as he said, but what's really happening is we have a group of individuals on the far left who are doing their utmost to destroy the underpinnings and the foundations of our
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democracy. and i don't think that's going to do them well in any electoral process. what they have done is tried to open the borders, unconditionally open the border so anybody can get in. they have attempted to destroy the electoral college. they've got an impeachment so called process going on based on phony information. this is deplorable, and yet, they are getting away with it, but i think americans are going to get their comeuppance when the election finally comes. this is deplorable what they are doing. elizabeth: we also have breaking news that the department of justice inspector general michael horowitz will testify before senate judiciary on december 11th. that means the report maybe could be out in a week or so. a frequent guest says democrats like to make government bigger because they know how to use various levers of it. republicans want smaller government. bill, i want your comment on
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what the attorney general said in april at a senate hearing about the fbi launching the russia probe, but not warning the trump campaign on the fear that russians may have tried to influence his campaign. william barr said this, quote, if i were attorney general, and that situation came up, i would say yes, tell the trump campaign. >> absolutely. it is the right thing to do, liz. that would have definitely happened in any other set of circumstances, other than that the one that we faced. -- other than the one that we faced. it is unbelievable that they didn't brief the candidate and it should have been done. elizabeth: bill gavin, thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. come back soon. >> my pleasure, liz, thank you. elizabeth: coming up, the battle for the border security. a majority of americans now say they do want to see more deportations and more border security. so the president is fighting for that, remember president obama did way more deportations than president trump. why is president trump getting
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slammed for what americans want? the story coming up. ..
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liz: the latest poll finds 70% of americans say they want to see more deportations of illegal i williens and they want border
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security along the southern border. in the age of trump, deportations are below what was going none the obama era. he was called the deporter-in-chief. so why is trump getting blasted? >> the reality is people understand how it works and that's why i am glad you have me on. under the obama administration there were more deportations, but it was the same individual getting deported two or three times. now under the trump administration we are seeing more central americans. so under the obama administration there were more mexican nationals entering illegally. it's easy to deport them because they are right there and the proceedings are different.
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they would get sent back and come across again. the numbers are bumped up because it's the same person getting deported. under president trump we have more central americans, and it's a didn't process. it's not president trump's fault, i can assure you of that. liz: we have 1.2 million deported under obama. 800,000 under president trump. i want to get to the border chaos. a massachusetts judge is fighting charges. she is fighting her dime for allegedly helping sneak an illegal alien out of a courtroom back door last year to avoid an i.c.e. agent. she is supposed to help carry out the law, not help people evade it. >> that's in the same line as some of these politicians asking for open borders and sanctuary
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cities. they are perfectly comfortable creating a magnet for criminals to enter the country. for me it's disgusting. i represent all these individuals putting their lives on the line each and every day. to see someone who is supposed to be upholding the law actually work against us is disgusting. liz: let's talk about what the border patrol is up against. a u.s. coast guard cutter seeds a narco submarine carrying 5,000 pounds of cocaine worth $70 million. border patrol caught three chinese illegal aliens, a human smuggler trying to cross into texas. final word, art. >> it's something that continuously keeps happening. in the tucson sector an agent was involved in a shooting
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because he had to use his weapon because his life was in danger. liz: thank you for your service to our country. thanks for having us in your home, thanks for watching. lou dobbs is next. [♪] lou: good evening. the democratic party's efforts to smear, undermine and ultimately destroy the most successful first years of any presidency in history is no longer surprising to no one. and no less disgusting and apalg for them. but certainly no longer surprising. democrats have been attacking president trump for so long, so viciously, that there is little, no matter how venal or depraved the dems can be that would surprise.

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