twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook, follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. see you tomorrow. thanks gore joining us from sussex. elizabeth: "fox business alert." another major development in the hunt for the truth behind the abuses of power in the trump russia and michael flynn probes. senate homeland security and governmental affairs today are proving broad s&p powers for its chairman, senator ron johnson to get answers from 33 former obama administration officials. it is all in their quest to get to the bottom of these bungled probes. also the unmasking of trump team members. among those now facing subpoenas, former fbi director james comey, former cia director john brennan, former director of national intelligence james

clapper. former national security advisor susan rice, former fbi officials peter strzok, lisa page, joe peenat that and priestap. we have fox business exclusive, devin nunes. plus on the other story gripping the nation. here is what is happening. peaceful mem norm services today for george floyd as a dozen now dead including six african-americans in the riots. 16 cops shot. more than 13,000 arrested. we've got with us tonight, dr. alveda king, niece of martin luther king, on antifa, looters and rioters, anarchists now trying to steal the message and the narrative of so many who were peacefully protesting and demanding reforms. this is the story tonight. can they do it?

dr. alveda king says, no they're not going to do that. with us tonight acting deputy secretary of homeland security ken cuccinelli on a big push to cut budgets of police departments across the country. same police forces politicians demanded enforce the covid-19 shutdown orders for governors. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox fox buss network. we begin with senate homeland security and governmental affairs approving broad subpoena powers to compel the testimony of 33 obama administration officials as well as documents in order to probe the abuses of power in the fbi's trump russia investigation. the fbi probe into lieutenant-general michael

flynn, also the unmasking of trump team members and dozens and dozens of leaks to the media during the early days of the trump administration. those leaks were seven times the leaks under the obama and george w. bush administration in their early days. let's get, right to former whitewater independent counsel robert ray. great to have you back on, robert. your reaction when you heard this news? >> so it's i think something that we saw coming. you and i have discussed this before, liz. it's nearly three dozen subpoenas and the purpose of which is to get to the bottom of why the unmasking was occurring in the period principally between the election and the inauguration relative to general michael flynn and so people are going to be called up to answer and this es is ron johnson and homeland security committee in the united states senate.

this is not the end of the investigation. it is just the beginning and together with lindsey great many on the judiciary committee, they aim to get answers to the questions and get them out to the american people before the election because of american people deserve to know what happened. elizabeth: yeah. and senator lindsey graham saying 53 officials prepared subpoenas for next week. senator ron johnson is also getting subpoena power for records related to christopher steele at the fbi, the state department, also the office of direct, office of national intelligence, the information about unmasking. i want to move on to this. again senate judiciary is postponing its own subpoena authorization for obama officials until next week on june 11th. let's listen to senator lindsey graham today. watch this. >> now, once we find out that the mueller investigation was run by people who hated trump's guts, dripping with

partisanship, nobody seems to care. now i want to find out why they kept going after flynn when everybody who had looked at flynn said he shouldn't be part of crossfire hurricane? i think there are some people real good candidates for going to jail for manipulating the fisa application process and the reason i'm doing subpoenas because it is clear to me you're not going to help me. and it gives me the authority to do what i think i would need to do. i would be an idiot to think you're going to help me. elizabeth: so are people really going to go jail? because time and time again on our show we've been covering this for three years. we keep hearing we'll get to the bottom of it, we're going to get to the bottom of it, we're going to get to the bottom of it. is that really going to happen? we know republicans are assembling criminal referrals for people and do you think people will go to jail and who? >> i do. i trust that the attorney

general who know to be a person of his word is clear about the fact that those who strayed over the line of legality will be held to account, including those at the highest level. and that's the whole purpose, liz, of john durham's investigation. so, you know, i don't, and i also believe that doing so in a timely fashion again, in other words with a prosecutions announced before the election cycle, meaning this year, it is important and in the public interest. so i don't know, it is hard to predict exactly who it will be or exactly when it will be but i would look for things during june, july, august of this year, after that, the election cycle takes over and i don't imagine it would be the public interest right on the eve of the election to be announcing prosecutions but i would look for something. i would -- elizabeth: we went through

mid-terms. why. hang on. stay with me. we went through mid-terms, why would it be delayed because of an election? here's the thing. former deputy ag rod rosenstein, he is the section most powerful guy at the justice department. he admitted yesterday there was no there there to begin with to start the probe. he testified he may not have read the entire, he didn't read the entire fbi fisa warrant renewal. he would not have signed it given what knowed now. that the democrats funded steele dossier, opposition research, used it to basically get fisa wiretaps to spy on the trump team. let's listen to what happened at the hearing yesterday. watch this. >> nobody's ever been prosecuted for working with the russians. the point is the whole concept that the campaign was colluding with the russians, there was no there there in august of 2017. do you agree with that general statement or not? >> i agree with that general statement. >> you signed a warrant

application in june of, i think 2017 to get the carter page warrant renewed, is that correct? >> yes. >> okay. have you looked at the horowitz report? >> yes, i have. i have it with me, senator. >> if you knew then what you know now would have signed the warrant application? >> no i would not. >> and the reason you won't have is because mr. horowitz found exculpatory information was withheld from the court, is that correct? >> among other reasons, yes. >> do you think he was truth full to you? >> i believe, senator, mr. mccabe was not certainly candidate with me. certainly wasn't forthcoming. elizabeth: your reaction to that? >> well that is a bombshell announcement. that means andy mccabe who at that time was the acting fbi director was not candid to the person that he reported to, the deputy attorney general of the united states. and it means that between andy mccabe and jim comey, they

were conducting essentially a rogue investigation of a presidential candidate and then the incumbent president of the united states. so you know, again, and also combined with that and the fisa court lies it means that there are people to be held to account, and if the government through this attorney general and john durham can prove that there were those who knowingly lied in order to continue on with an investigation, that they knew should have been called to a conclusion, i do think that there are prosecutable cases out there and the question will be again over the next 90 days or so whether or not we see prosecutions. it is in the public interest, all i'm saying it is in the public interest those prosecutions be commenced before the election cycle begins so the electorate has the benefits of the result of that investigation. they can see for themselves what actually happened here. it was the attempted takedown of

a president. elizabeth: understood. the mueller report found no russia conspiracy with the trump campaign. no collusion. they found, you know, that the trump team welcomed help but there was no conspiracy, no collusion. the fbi is being accused of knowing they did not have the goods in late 2016 and going into 2017 but then the fbi continued to do surveillance on the trump administration into 2017. the intelligence community was warning that christopher steele was being targeted as early as 2015 by russians for disinformation and russian disinformation the dojig mr. ray ended up in the steele dossier, that fbi used for wiretaps. this sounds like major abuses of power. using intelligence community to go after political opposition. we have never seen it before like this in our country? >> i've never seen anything like

this. the critical time to focus on is before and after the meeting in the white house with president obama on january 5th, 2017, and what happened with regard to that investigation immediately before and immediately after that. and that's why all these subpoenas are being issued to find out what those people knew and what they were up to during that time. and again, if it turns out they crossed over the line, including if it is obama administration officials, i hope and expect that those responsible will be brought to justice and that there will in fact be prosecutions. elizabeth: okay. robert ray, thanks for your analysis. come back soon, we love having you on. >> thanks, liz. take care. be well. elizabeth: you too. next up antifa looters and antifa rioters anarchists, assaulting cops. 16 cops shot. more than 300 injured. we've got about a dozen people now dead including six

african-americans but dr. alveda king, niece of martin luther king, says, all of this will not steal the moment of unity. they cannot blot out the message and narrative of so many peacefully protesting people trying to unify and effect change without violence. everything anarchists are not doing. we'll talk to alveda king about all this next. stay right there. >> we have evidence that antifa and other similar extremist groups, as well as actors after variety of different political persuasions have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity. we are also seeing foreign actors playing all sides. ♪. now is the time for a new bath from bath fitter.

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♪. elizabeth: back to the violence of the riots. a dozen now dead including six african-americans. more than 13,000 arrests nationwide and now this, attorney general william barr now says federal authorities have arrested 51 anarchists directly linked to rioting and looting. they're opening up cases against leaders of antifa. welcome the niece of martin luther king, jr., dr. alveda king joins us. thanks for coming back, dr. king. your reaction to antifa, looters, rioters assaulting cops, can they steal this moment

of unity for people who are trying to unify and get change without violence? can they do isn't. >> liz, i'm following social media. i'm hearing from people. i'm on prayer calls. one of my colleagues, brian kemper was in ohio couple days ago. i prayed with youth in ohio. my god daughter was out in minneapolis, angela stanton, we proud with the people, peaceful people are mounting and standing. i watched the memorial service today and george floyd's brother continues to call for peaceful resolution. martin luther king, jr. says that violence is immoral, it is unreasonable. it doesn't work and certainly is disrespectful for people like antifa and others. i've been seeing clips from people in new york, saying how can you come into my city, burn my property? the officer that was shot trying to protect someone's store. it is just terrible.

however, i don't want people to give up. we need to still have hope and still unify. i'm sure we can do it. elizabeth: so, reports are coming in about one out of every seven people arrested in new york city came from out-of-state. i mean we're hearing reports that criminal anarchists are doing coordinated command-and-control of violent looting, setting up supply chains of rocks and bricks, of baseball bats and metal poles dropped off at specific locations where law enforcement is not. they're using things, like walkie-s talk kiss. in st. petersburg, florida, members after bomb team found them in bushes in a downtown area. we're at a new moment here in america, dr. king. what is your reaction. >> liz, i'm 70 years old, not necessarily a new moment.

in the 1960s we had outside agitators with molotov cocktails throwing burning and looting. my dad stood up on the car, a.d. king, when our home was bombed in 1963. wait a minute, you want to hit somebody, hit me. i would rather you go home and pray. our family is okay. the people in the community began to calm down. and you could see the outside agitators as they were. they were actually run out of town. i'm seeing people stand up to the agitators. it has not happened in a very long time. but it did happen in a long time. we overcame with prayer. elizabeth: i hear what you're saying. >> we did. elizabeth: that's the key. so it's now we're seeing the people who are peaceful standing up more and more. what i meant was antifa is more organized than ever before. the sheriff of sacramento county is talking about howorg how

organized they are. let's listen to him. >> okay. >> this is war of intelligence. they're trying to figure out what we're doing. we're trying to figure out what they're doing. they're resupplying rocks and bottles. moving protesters from place to place. they're using cryptic stages. producing them all at once going down the streets. this sort of tactics this sort of organization is really unprecedented in sacramento. why it was very important to call in the national guard who are assisting us here in sacramento, the city and the county. elizabeth: dr. king, you have always shown suching knit and courage and integrity. you have such a powerful message. if you had antifa sitting across from you what would you say to them? >> enough is enough. you're bullies. you must stop we're going to stay in, we're going to pray in. antifa, you and your kind has to

stop and leave our community. elizabeth: dr. alveda king. you're always great. will you come back? we love having on the show? >> i love to come back, elizabeth, thank you. elizabeth: great to see you. coming up later in the show the new push across the country to cut an defund the budgets of police departments led by celebrities in hollywood. here's the thing, many politicians looked to these same police forces to force the covid-19 shutdowns. police officers are telling "the evening edit," everybody hates us until they need us. the acting deputy secretary of homeland security, ken cuccinelli is our special guest. he is with us next. stay with us. stay there. introducing new voltaren arthritis pain gel,

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♪. elizabeth: president trump firing back after former secretary of defense james mattis unloaded on the president saying he is quote, appalled at the president's handling of nationwide unrest. that if the president is quote, making a mockery of our constitution and that the president is trying to divide us. let's welcome back to the show former deputy national security advisor to vice president cheney, he is steven yates. great to have you back on.

your reaction after you heard this? >> i'm disappointed in general mattis. he is example of someone great in his lane, and terrible outside of his lane. he is outstanding marine and a pretty bad politician. that is probably way americans most prefer their marines. i think he has a bad read on constitution. life, liberty, pursuit of happiness of a lot of victims of these riots. their rights need to be protected too. that is part of the equation he didn't want to address being part of "the atlantic." elizabeth: it is issue of using military troops to put down the unrest. we've got, you know, the former, top commander in afghanistan criticizing that. we have, you know, pentagon chief esper backing away from it. and we have republicans like lisa murkowski and susan collins, even lindsey graham criticizing the president. your take on that? >> very, very clear in american history there have been times

when this has been necessary. when the local authorities and all the other forces that could be brought to bear are insufficiently protecting the constitution rights of their citizens. it is extreme measure. it should be absolutely a last resort. secretary esper made reference to that under the current circumstances if you don't know the trajectory of these riots and violence you have to have all options on the table and as far as i can understand that is where the president was internally even though his public rhetoric was ready to go now. elizabeth. eisenhower called in the troops. so did lbj. so did jfk. so did george h.w. bush during the 1992 l.a. riots. i want to switch fierce. gears. the umbrella group for police benevolent association chapters, bill johnson runs it, he says the police groups are breaking away from joe biden, not standing up for the police and

what is going on across the country and dealing with the unrest. the issue is the american people are not informed by the media about what police officers face every day. yes, it is understood about rogue cops. yes, it is understood about police abuse. what happened to george floyd should never have happened. there is moves to stop neck restraints, use of neck restraints by police officers in various precincts across the country. the issue is, is this, is that now, the, that the feeling is by police officers, no one is supporting them. everybody hates them, until you need them. and the move to defund police officers, led by hollywood is now getting a lot of police officers really upset. your final word? >> i think it is disgraceful what they're doing and it is actually being rejected by people of a broad spectrum. i think the real divide is urban elites versus the rest of america. i mean there is a multicultural

rest of america that respects law enforcement, that wants equal protection under the law but they definitely don't side with this reckless abandon of attacking innocent people and property. that scares the rest of america. if joe biden wants to stand by that, my sense he is on a way to a landslide defeat. elizabeth: steven yates, thanks for coming on. great to see you. >> thank you. elizabeth: coming up later in the show we'll stay on this push to cut budgets of police departments across the country. it is led by celebrities in hollywood including jane fonda and soccer star meghan rap -- ino. one los angeles councilman saying quote, 10,000 officers were barely able to keep the peace during the anarchy and rioting. imagine if we didn't have them? we have acting deputy secretary of homeland security ken cuccinelli on this and much

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♪. elizabeth: welcome back. for months politicians demanded covid-19 lockdowns and stay in place orders be enforced by the police. now politicians say, defund the police as looters and anarchists ignore curfews and lockdowns to torch businesses where working families need the paychecks to survive. let's welcome acting deputy secretary of homeland security ken cuccinelli. great to have you back on, sir. your reaction to the move to defund police departments? >> well, of course it's a siding with violent so-called protesters. you're not protesting when you're being violent. you're being a criminal and to see so many people side with the idea of giving the streets up to criminals is which is what that is defunding police is about, is incredible. this is utterly destructive that

the first job of government is public safety, whether local state or federal. president trump has been very strong in declaring he is going to fulfill his first obligation. we need states and local governments to do the same. and these people calling to essentially unilaterally disarm against mobs and domestic terrorists is completely unacceptable and not something that we at the department of homeland security will sit back for. elizabeth: you know we're hearing about this debate going on in los angeles, in nashville, american american, in new york city. hollywood is leading the charge to defund the police departments. the leader of congressional black caucus saying do not do that. do not defund police budgets. listen to democrat care run bass here? >> i will consult them, if you

ask my personal opinion no, i don't believe we should defund police departments. elizabeth: she instead want as national database aabusive police officers to be sure to not be to be hired elsewhere after losing their jobs. we have 16 cops shot. a dozen killed in the rioting. six are black people. more than 300 law enforcement officials assaulted, including a cop in brooklyn stabbed to death last night in unprovoked attack. what is your take the leader of black caucus said? >> department of homeland security, the first law enforcement official killed after the george floyd protest again was department of homeland security, out in oakland. pso underwood was shot, was assassinated protecting a courthouse during a protest by a drive-by shooter. his partner took three bullets. fortunately is surviving. but and the secret service guarding the white house in downtown d.c. has over 100

injuries. we're right in the thick of retaking the streets in america. we've taken the harm as well. anybody who thinks that defunding police departments is a good idea, hasn't been out on the streets, hasn't watched small businesses, frankly big businesses getting looted and trashed. these are not people with idealogical agenda. these are criminals. the people with the idealogical agenda prepositioning bricks and prepositioning water and tools and so forth to encourage violence and rioting and that kind of domestic terrorism is something we investigate, we look to head off the department of homeland security and work with our partners in the department of justice to actually prosecute. elizabeth: you know there has never been any evidence that defunding police departments is effective. it hasn't been tried yet. los angeles plans to cut the police budget by up to $150 million. more than 40 city council candidates in new york city are calling for a billion dollar cut to the nypd budget.

we're seeing a push in dallas, minneapolis, like we said again in nashville. here's the thing. 60, about 60,000 or 63,000 prisoners have been let out of prisons across the country due to fears that they will get infected with covid-19. let's listen to former new york city police commissioner bernie kerik talking about that and also about bail reform where prisoners are being released. you wonder if the riots are being, you know, that is adding to theageing of rioting. >> absolutely. >> he is guy responsible for the state. he is also the guy who signed into law in new york state the bail reform. the bail reform that lets all of these criminals that are arrested for mayhem, for arson, for burglary, for looting, for assaults, they're getting right back out on the street and governor cuomo did that.

elizabeth: yeah. so 700 were arrested here in new york city and then released back on out on the street because of bail reform. your final word? >> that's insane. that is insane. bernie kerik knows what he is talking about. former commissioner. he has run rikers island. he knows what he is talking about, the bail reform movement, the idea of turning people back on the loose on the street especially in the middle of mob violence is utterly insane. another great new york policy. they keep coming up with these. they are utterly destructive of new york. it is very unfortunate. but again you got a president in president trump who says look, if governors and locals like mayor de blasio won't provide enough police, won't provide enough aggressive protection of americans on the street, he will do the job and this is first a local and state responsibility but we have a president who is ready to push back in there and to keep americans safe. department of homeland security, the largest law enforcement

organization in the country, we've been doing that with hundreds of officers being surged in washington. you've seen officers go up and violence go down. there is a direct correlation. people like cuomo and de blasio who don't want to learn that lesson, their citizens paid the price, sadly. they don't pay the price. their citizens do. that is not acceptable to president trump, and not acceptable to us in dhs. elizabeth: come back soon, ken cuccinelli. >> glad to do it. >> thanks very much for joining us tonight. great to see you. nix up, house intelligence ranking republican devin nunes in a fox business exclusive with republicans in the senate on the move, moving to s&p dozens of obama officials in probe of abusive power in the trump russia investigation and investigation into lieutenant-general michael flynn, criminal referrals are underway. we'll talk about it with congressman nunes next. stay there.

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♪. elizabeth: welcome back. let's stay on the senate homeland security and governmental affairs authorizing today subpoenas for 33 former officials in the obama administration in the probe of abuses of power in the trump russia probe. the probe of lieutenant-general michael flynn and the unmasking of trump team members and dozens and dozens of media leaks. subpoenas now approved for people like james comey, john brennan, james clapper, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page and president obama's chief of staff, denis mcdonough. welcome back to the show, house intelligence ranking republican devin nunes. great to have you back on. sir, your reaction to the subpoenas today? >> this is long time combing. i'm very happy senator johnson stayed with this because senator

johnson has been mercilessly attacked by the media for this, but he is right over the target. as long as they're attacking you know you're right over the target. we have the responsibility in congress to bring these people forward. to take their depositions. only advice i would give them, make sure you release the depositions quickly. you don't want to be in stuck in a position like we were, waiting for a deep state bureaucracy somewhere to allow the american public to see it. we need pure transparency. these officials need to be gotten on the record again, there has been a whole lot more new information, liz that has come out in the last few weeks and months. elizabeth: who, who in particular would you want to get under subpoena? we know that william priestap, kevin klein submit, joe pre-k a, who would you talk with under subpoena? >> we have a ongoing investigation in house

intelligence committee, republicans do at least. we have 40 people that are on that list and so hopefully, if republicans are put back in charge we'll be able to subpoena those people but right now we can't. all we're doing is continuing to get information. this is why we would like to see if the senate does do this, it could aid us in our investigation as we continue to make criminal referrals in our probe that we have ongoing and you know, of course you have the executive branch, the department of justice, that has three u.s. attorneys that are also probing this matter. elizabeth: how many criminal referrals are you working own and what for? >> well we have, we've already made eight criminal referrals and we're probably going to make at least another five, possibly as many 10 additional ones. that will be coming here in the next, hopefully, you know, we keep working, we want to get it right, but if will be next week to 10 days or so. elizabeth: what do the criminal

referrals cover? >> well we looked at, we had the original eight look at the fisa abuse. and they look at abuse of our intelligence agencies. we have several people for lying or misleading congress. we are looking at the overall general flynn investigation and how that was conducted and the rest of the mueller team. then of course as new information has come to light from the information declassified by acting director of national intelligence ric grenell, that information is also shown that there are other people who have lied or misled congress or have, i think in some cases maybe, lied by omission, documents that were kept from congress, that sort of thing. elizabeth: you know, with he keep hearing people say we'll get to the bottom of this, get to the bottom of this. what does that mean? are people going to jail? are they going to go to prison? are they going to be penalized,

what? >> what while happen? >> there has been a long journey for those of us when the beginning of this, that recognized right away there was attempted coup going on in this country or at least at the beginning it was abuse of our intelligence capability insist this country ultimately we figured out wow, there is actually a coup going on here. so we're used to this. you have to get up every day, you have to put your work boots on, you have to go out there and you have to do really tough work because you know the people that perpetuated these crimes are very good at hiding it. so we work, you know every day, very, very close. some days we have new information comes in. some days we get new informants. some days we're able to find something we've not seen before in the mueller probe. that is why you asked me at the very beginning, that's why it is so critical that the united states senate is finally doing something because remember, this is about, you have, there was

election interference done in the 2018 election that election interference was done by, was started by the clinton campaign but it was done by ultimately the fbi and the department of justice with support of the house and senate democrats, you know clearly just used this for a fund-raising scheme and a scheme ultimately where they were trying to impeach the president. elizabeth: 2016 election, right? >> no, i'm talking about 2018 election. the 2018 election we would have been, i'm not sure the republican was have lost control of the house, they, if we didn't have spend all the time we had to spend, trump's a russian agent. republicans are controlled by, being controlled by putin. these are crazy things that happened that were done at the highest levels of the department of justice and the fbi. so look, one thing we don't -- i'm not trying to evade any of your questions about not answering people who should be subpoenaed. elizabeth: i hear you. >> but we're running a real investigation and we want people to pay a price for these crimes

that they committed against the american people. elizabeth: we hear you, congressman. thank you so much for coming on. will you come back soon? we love having you on. >> thanks so much. would be glad to come back. elizabeth: okay, good. coming up now for three months politicians demanded that covid-19 lockdowns be enforced by the police. now politicians say, defund the police as looters ignore curfews and lockdowns to torch businesses where working families need paychecks to survive. deneen borelli joins us next. stay right there. introducing new voltaren arthritis pain gel, the first and only full prescription strength non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel available over-the-counter. new voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel.

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elizabeth: okay, we got some breaking news. "the new york times" now putting out a statement saying, quote, a rushed editorial process led to the publication of senator tom cotton's opinion piece where it was entitled, send in the troops. the nation must restore order as rioting and looting takes hold across the country. welcome fox news contributor deneen borelli. deneen your reaction. the tomes says it doesn't meet its standards after heavy criticism of senator cotton's piece. he says eisenhower, lbj, jfk, george h.w. bush had to call in

the troops when there was a lot of unrest. your reaction to the "times" here? >> well, it's "the new york times," right? what they don't want folks to know about is the truth in terms of what cotton was writing about. we need law and order in our nation. we have way too much going on with the looting and rioting. they are attacking our police officers. so the president has offered to provide federal assistance in terms of getting things under control in these cities, and if that is what it takes, that is the route we have to go but i'm not surprised that "the new york times" would say, this was a mistake, we didn't mean to publish it. that is what it sounds like. elizabeth: deneen, let's switch gears. for months politicians demanded that covid-19 lockdowns and stay in place orders enforced by the police. now politicians say defund the police as looters ignore curfews and lockdowns to torch businesses where working

families need paychecks to survive. we've got cnn, basically saying, you know, attacking the covid-19 protesters, saying you're a menace to public health. media critics, we were listening to them saying that. now they're basically saying hey, the police department should be defunded now. we're hearing that push in cities across the country. your reaction to that? >> yeah it's absolute outrageous, liz and what they want is chaos looks like. you think about the fact that you have the anti-trump media and democrat politicians who were critical of the protesters who wanted businesses to open back up so that they could go back to work and provide for their families. now we're seeing these riots across the country, the looting and the mayhem. you don't hear peep from the anti-trump media or from democrat politicians like maxine waters and like nancy pelosi. so i got to tell you, it's

outrageous how they will do, complete opposite that the president is calling for which is law and order in our streets. elizabeth: deneen you stood up as a conservative woman, an african-american. tell us what your experience has been? >> well, overall, years ago, attacks and criticism on a regular basis. i'm still attacked and criticized but there are a lot more black conservatives out there and coming out and being vocal which is a good thing because there is a echo chamber within the black community of the same non-sense that we're hearing today, systemic racism, you can't get ahead without special treatment. so there are more voices out there who are pushing back on the lies and the narratives that have been prevalent within the black community for many, many years which is a good thing because it is important to get the truth out? elizabeth: what names have you

been called? >> well, some names i certainly can't say on air but, token, traitor, sellout, aunt jemima. simply because i have a difference of opinion, liz, i don't agree with the liberal narrative. i'm a threat because people are hearing my voice totally. elizabeth: yeah. well, it's outrageous and disgrace you have been criticized like that, deneen. you're a person of integrity, courage and dignity. we always love having you on. deneen borelli. come back soon, okay? >> thanks so much, liz. elizabeth: sure. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. thank you so much for watching. we hope you have a good evening. t

now. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. we've been watching for days and nights the sorry, sad sight of violent protesters and vandals and arsonists torching, looting and destroying businesses, badly injuring citizens and bystanders as too often has been the case, city officials -- most often democratic officials -- told police departments to stand down, to stand back and to let the anarchists, thieves and looters own their streets. we've been told for days now that these left-wing-led protests and riots are righteous. righteous and just, claim the radical dems and the