and that's one strange inheritance no one would take with them. ♪ american experience as well. we're going to send it over to lou dobbs. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody or. these are becoming the strangest days in america. and while we can describe them, they are not easily understood by any of us and difficult to keep in perspective for all of us. but we will try here this evening, and with us tonight to help in the effort, tom fitton, congressman matt gaetz, ed rollins and michael goodwin and the niece of reverend martin luther king, alveda king. over these past two weeks, thousands of demonstrations have taken other r over some of our largest cities as hundreds of thousands of people in most of those cities marched to honor a

minneapolis victim of police brutality, george floyd. and demand police practices not only in minneapolis where a police officer is charged with killing floyd, but around the country. the demonstrations seldom drew a distinction between good cops and bad. law enforcement agencies and departments that are well led and overseen and the far fewer that are not x. too often some of those demonstrators and protesters turned to violation, to arson, to vandalism, to looting, to assault and even murder. given leave to take the streets by radical dem leaders, left-wing activists and the always-compliant and sometimes cheering so-called news media and, of course, hollywood. many local and state politicians, mayors and governor cans similar play gave the protesters license and held back in in many cases law enforcement. it is no wonder that most

americans are now grappling to come to terms with the divisive, even alienating violence and maw hem that has filled -- mayhem that has filled our screens. there has also been a coalescence of opinion that platers neither the protesters -- flatters neither the protesters or the local or state party. americans are displayeded by the chaos that they have witnessed. the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll finds that 80%, 80% of americans say the country is out of control. and rather than join with the president, republicans and law enforcement, the radical dems have chosen quite consciously to, quite publicly, plan to use the madness in the streets and the division that they help perpetuate to pass into laws their left-wing policies and to create change. more change and change again.

there's that word, change. it's amorphous, ambiguous. change. just listen to some of this. >> every protest with plans and policies, with organizing and mobilizing and voting. >> we cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change. >> there is no reason that we cannot respond to this moment of national crisis with vigorous and sustained action. lou: the city council in minneapolis hearing those calls for sweeping change. they now have a veto-proof supermajority in minneapolis in their city council, and they are determined to dismantle their police department. a strange move you might think for a city that has just watched what happens when police get out of the way and allow violent

street thugs to, well, devastate entire city blocks, destroy businesses. yes, minority-owned businesses and people's lives. at least nine of the council 's thirteen members are said to be in approval with the plan to move ahead with policy and budget decisions that will end the minneapolis police department. however, the city's weak and feckless radical dem mayor who bears much of the responsibility for the death of george floyd and the madness that ensued, jacob frey, says he refuses to cut funding for police. his message didn't sit well with the very mob of protesters that destroyed parts of his city over the past two weeks that he pandered to and to which he gave great license. take a listen to what happened over the weekend.

[background sounds] [inaudible conversations] lou: the 38-year-old mayor who is alternately tried to blame just about everyone else, the mayor who tried to blame the president and who is now begging president trump for financial assistance for the city that he led to devastation and to chaos, the mayor finally standing up for the law, at least law enforcement. his decision, however, places him now in direct opposition with the city council. but the good mayor says he's not budging on his stance to maintain a police department.

>> am i for entirely abolishing the police department? no, i'm not. and so over the coming days and weeks i'm looking forward to working with council and talking with them about deciphering about what particularly they mean when thaw say ending and abolishing. lou: the mayor. out cannot be said of him that he is entirely foolish. while the minneapolis mayor tries to hold on to, well, his job and, of course, his police department -- that is, tries to hold on to the city and civilization -- leaders in other major american cities like los angeles, new york and san francisco have also announced they will defund their police departments in some fashion, some quarter. eight other large are cities in the state of vermont are expressing strong interest in doing thed mad thing -- doing the mad thing as quickly as they possibly can. so how do policemen, the men and

women who protect us all, feel about this? many police unions and other law enforcement organizations are unanimous in their opposition to what can only be seen as a rush to judgment. we are being very generous and kind on this broadcast tonight. but that doesn't explain video and acts like these. instead of fighting for their jobs, their livelihoods and their families, they kneel. it appears some officers willing to be bystanders to violence, looting and arson. policemen, law enforcement officers and agents of all kinds have kneeled before some of the very people that destroyed the city and towns they were supposed to be protecting. embarrassing themselves in front of the communities they are supposed to serve, bowing,

bowing to ignorance, to violence and not even regarding for even a moment what kind of people would demand anyone kneel before them, bow to them? and then they did. my god. who are these people in these uniforms? and these people who would demand anyone, any american kneel before any other? it is an outrage the likes of which i have never seen before. a recent maris poll finds 56% of registered voters now say police are behaving appropriately or not aggressively enough in response to the rioters. strange scenes hike these though are happening -- like these though are happening all across the country. in north carolina not far from raleigh, a group of white police

officers and other members of the community actually washed the feet of the black men and women who were leading the protest as they asked for forgiveness. acts like these have become is so commonplace that congressional dems today made what may appear to you to be a hostage tape. house speaker nancy pelosi, senate minority leader chuck schumer and other democratic leaders in congress knelt in emancipation hall, all donning african scarves as they did so. the radical dems' gesture of subservience follows the introduction of a bill that calls for sweeping law enforcement reform like tracking, quote-unquote, problematic police officers, making it easier to prosecute police for misconduct and changing use of force and other

police standards. so where does the radical left's presumptive presidential nominee, joe biden, stand when it comes to defunding the police? he seems to be keeping most of his thoughts to himself these days. instead, using a campaign staffer to actually put out his statement saying he supports, quote, the urgent need for reform including funding for public schools, summer programs, mental health and substance abuse treatment separate from funding for police, for policing so that officers can focus on the job of policing. i would like to add to that a point that some of the ideas he came up with are 60 years old and have been implemented throughout various cycles over those five or six decades. the trump campaign blasted biden saying the leader of the radical

dems, biden could single-handedly steer democrats away from his terrible policy which invites chaos in american communities, but he has remained secluded in his basement saying nothing. perhaps biden is too concerned about his past support of the 1994 crime bill. that bill toughened sentencing laws, funded the hiring of 100,000 new police officers and designated almost $10 billion for new prison construction. not popular ideas with the democratic party these days. president trump today held a round table to talk about, with law enforcement officials, the issues that now confront the nation. this weekend he left no question about how he feels about defunding or disbanding police departments. he tweeted this, quote: law and order, not defund and abolish police. the radical left democrats have

gone crazy. attorney general william barr, it appears, is in utter agreement with the president. here's what he had to say to bret baier today. >> today the police chiefs, the rank and file officers understand the need for change, and there has been great change. and i think defunding the police, holding the entire police structure responsible for the actions of certain officers is wrong, and i think it's dangerous to demonize police. there's no question it's an issue and has to be dealt with, but in terms of sheer number, is it these police officers who are oppressing african-american communities? there's a lot more damage, a lot more killing on the streets from criminal elements. in chicago, for example, in one weekend, you know, 60, 70 people shot. if you pull back the police from these communities, there'll be, there'll be more harm done to these communities. lou: of course, senator schumer

and nancy pelosi, speaker pelosi and the other radical dems would not like anyone to discuss the facts. they prefer the emotion of the moment which they can, as they try so often, to take advantage of the crisis. the facts support attorney general barr's remarks. in 2018, the most current year for which there are facts from the department of justice, nearly 3,000 african-americans were murdered. 2,600 of those killings were carried out by african-americans. that means nearly 90% of all african-americans murdered in 2018 were killed by other blacks. 234, or 8%, were kill by whites. for comparison, more than 3,300 white people were murdered in 2018. roughly 2,700 of them or 81%

were killed by other white people. 514, or 15%, were kill by black people. as we've reported here and reported friday, more white people are killed by cops every year than african-americans. 370 white people were killed by police in 2019. that compares to 235 african-americans. 38% of all police killings involve white people. 24% involve black people. that is disproportionately, unfortunately, a problem for the police department. the vast majority of black men killed aren't killed by cops, they're killed by other black men. the question now becomes if we get rid of the cops, will those murders end? and if not, will there be anyone, someone who will even bother to investigate the crime or to seek justice for those victims?

or is justice for them not supposed to be what we're talking about? thinking about? and, well, creating some change? in the dems' new world, somebody in your family could be killed, and no one would be there to help you or their families. why is that okay? because it certainly is not. but we'll have to take that up with the radical dems, won't we? as president trump clearly defines himself as the law and order president for 2020, "the wall street journal," nbc news poll that we referenced to you at the top of the broadcast shows other areas in which the president stands strongest with the american people. 43% of those voters say president trump is the strongest candidate to take on china. 40% say that as well about biden. 48% of voters also say president trump has a better chance of getting americans back to work and cutting the unemployment

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lou: some senate rinos are making it clear they don't care about uncovering the truth about obamagate. as a matter of fact, they're squirming a bit about it. after senate homeland security committee chair ron johnson secured subpoena power for his committee to call obama era officials to testify about obamagate, mitt romney -- there's that name -- said he was concerned that johnson's investigation might be politically motivated. and senator rob portman of ohio says he hopes johnson, well, he just hopes he won't use the subpoenas because of, quote, all of the other things we have on our plate right now. really stunning stuff. finish i mean, i'm so glad we have sensitive people like that in the senate, aren't you?

oh, speaking of sensitive people, senator lindsey graham saws the fbi is stonewalling, but he wouldn't begin to criticize the man who's leading the cover-up, that is none other than director christopher wray. graham yesterday said the fbi has denied his interview request for the agents who interviewed christopher steele's main source. graham praised attorney general barr and former acting dni richard grenell for their transparency, but he wouldn't even say wray's name. he shouldn't even be thinking that name in connection with anything involving grenell or barr. they're in quite a different league. joining us tonight, tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. and, tom, it's good to have you here. >> thank you. lou: my god, let's, let's start with the homeland security committee in the senate. ron johnson has been doing, i think, a tremendous job.

now has subpoena power, and you've -- i meaning we've got, we've got romney saying let's not do this, this is unseemly, you've got rob portman, i mean, he voted for the subpoena power but hopes that johnson won't use it. i mean, this is getting sickening to watch these rino republicans. your thoughts. >> well, romney, he's a lost cause in many respects. he's from the adam schiff wing of the republican party. he's obviously going to be protecting the fbi abuse of president trump, and that's one way to think about this. we're talking about the abusive police powers, the abusive police. you have barack obama abuse the police powers entrusted to him by the american people to target on and spy through the fbi the president, president trump directly and, obviously, his candidacy and his campaign. so, you know, we're talking

about reforming the police, let's focus on what the fbi was doing at the behest of the obama gang in targeting president trump not only through his campaign, but into his presidency. and we've got director wray who's refusing to do any real reform. and by reform meaning holding people accountable, protecting them and covering up the information that would expose the wrongdoing more fully to the american people. lou: yeah. it's stunning to watch his performance. there are a few other performances that are also stunning, i would hasten to add. senator graham not following through with his subpoena vote this week. we'll see what happens after he's delayed it again. the federal judge in denver -- now this, to me, is fascinating. if we could put up the screen on judge brook jackson and what he said, it's astonishing to me. ordering denver police not to use chemical agents or projectile on peaceful

protesters. why, why are the judges, you know, the judge doing this? he's a twice-appointed judge by president, former president barack obama. but he says if a store's windows must be broken to prevent a protester's facial bone from being broken or eye from being permanently damaged, that is more than fair trade. if a building must be, must be lost to prevent the suppression of free speech, that's a fair trade. the threat to physical safety and free speech outweighed the threat to property. you know, all i could think about as i read that idiotic remark, tom, was every fireman in the country must just be aghast, because they risk their lives every day to protect people's livelihoods, their homes, you know, just property to this remarkable judge.

your thoughts. >> but one of the biggest lies out there is that these are peaceful protesters that the police are having to deal with by using these nonlethal approaches to protecting the public safety. if they were peaceful protesters, they wouldn't have to worry about broken windows. look, when you restrict the police unnecessarily in using nonlethal force to protect the public safety, what do you do? you increase the risk of harm to the police officers and suspects. because it gives them either stop or shoot, and there's nothing in between. and we want the police to be able to restrain people under law with nonlethal force. and this is what the reform is. we are going to have police, lou, we're always going to have police. we're always going to have police. the question is is are we going to have police that are going to be able to protect us and protect themselves, or are we going to have a police that's defanged that causes crime to

increase in ways we can't even fathom today? lou: well, i'll, as the saying goes, take turned in minnesota -- the under in minnesota right now. tom fitton, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it so much, as always. the head of judicial watch. we'll be right back, i'll be talking with congressman math gates about -- matt gaetz about what is happening in this country. country. stay with us. there are people who say things aren't made here anymore. those people should make a trip to michigan. or kentucky. or illinois. where you'll find our workers and dealers and engineers and technicians. building for america. we're proud to employ more hourly workers than any other automaker in this country. because we build for this country.

♪ ♪ lou: that nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that we've been spending some time on this evening sending a very clear message as well to those establishment rinos that the republican party is the party of president trump, and they better be hanging onto his coattails with all of the force they can muster. when asked if they were more of a supporter of the president or

the republican party, 52% of republicans and lean are republican voters backed president trump. only 38% support the party. joining us tonight is congressman matt gaetz, member of the house judiciary and armed services committees. congressman, great to have you with us. any surprise in the results of that nbc/"wall street journal" poll as to who is the leader of the republican party? >> president trump has truly branded the republican party in an image that puts our country first. and as we look across the country, we see a vision from the radical left that is downright terrifying. they want to lock us in our homes, talk our guns away, make -- take our guns away, make the jobs that had us prosperous illegal, and then they want to defund the police while a radical mob runs down the street lighting things on fire and crashing our cars. i have no interest in that america. i want an america where we support the police, where we

utilize every resource available to insure that they're responsive to their communities, and the overwhelming number of people who wear that uniform whether it's, you know, law enforcement or in our national guard, they do it because they love america, and they love americans. and we need to stand with them and against these riots that seem to be terrorizing people in the name of a politics that is radical and leftist. lou: well, and a president who has, is, in my opinion, the greatest president in the country's history. he has handled not only this pandemic, this crisis, but with every one that's preceded. i mean, no president in his first term in office has ever seen this kind of challenge and threat to the united states and overcome it. and i have, i just cannot comprehend mitt romney's and the other rinos of the senate in

particular. you may be distressed to learn that colin powell is not going to vote for him, congressman, in november. he didn't the last time either. you may be astonished to find that george w. bush, the way the national left-wing media's reporting it, they were sure, sure trump votes going boo this. your -- into this. your reaction to the rinos in both the house and the senate. >> yeah, i think that the last time i was listening to colin powell he was saying something about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. i don't particularly know why anyone's listening to him now. i think he endorsed warmongers barack obama and hillary clinton as well. president trump seems to be realigning our priorities to our people. that's something that george w. bush had real challenges with. i mean, his strategy was to surrender to left-wing media. donald trump is not a president who will surrender anything. and in the face of these riotses and this discord on our streets, with we see major metropolitan

areas like minneapolis merely saying they're going to dismantle their police department and leave their citizens at risk. this is insane, and it's important that republicans in congress contrast the vision for our country with the left and the right. lou: but, you know, this is a great thing about federalism and the american system of government, as you well know. in money yap lis they have -- minneapolis they have a city council. the populace there has more control and more influence over that government than any other part of their life, certainly more than they have over the federal government. if they want to have the police department disbanded, if they want to put up with idiots, the fools who would do such, you know, then they win at the polls, and they will lose every day thereafter. it's an extraordinary choice that's being made. you get the last word real quick, please. >> well, we see what happens when we demonize the police. we call it the ferguson effect. they stop engaging with the community, and you know who that

hurts most? it hurts the poor, it hurts people in urban environments, it hurts minority communities. so i think if we stand with the police, it'll be better for all americans. lou: great. a lot of the people who worked in those buildings that were looted and burned. congressman matt gaetz, thanks so much. we'll be right back, stay with us. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ lou: now to take up these

strange days that we're living in, extraordinarily so, former reagan white house political director, fox business political analyst, the savant himself, ed rollins. pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the new york post, michael goodwin. great to have you with us, guys. michael, i've got to start by saying what a terrific column you wrote on the civil war at "the new york times" and what is happening to journalism. a brilliant analysis. your thoughts on the effect. where are we going with a national left-wing media that is diseasedly activist -- decidedly activist organized around one principle, haut trump, and elect any damn democrat whatsoever? sphwrel, thank you, lou. i would add one more word to describe that media today too which is, at least among the management, craven and cowardly. that's two words, i guess.

what we saw at "the new york times" expect "philadelphia inquirer" dumping editors, top editors because the mob in the newsroom demanded it. not the mob in the streets, but the mobs in the newsrooms. this is an extraordinary development to see the publishers in both cases give in to this mentality that if you should say anything that we don't want to hear, a headline in the case of the philadelphia incurer or -- inquirer or an op-ed by tom cotton in "the new york times"es, we, the mob, refuse to hear those things, so you must pay with your head. it's a form of human sacrifice, what the publishers did in both those cases. so i think the word will go out to journalists everywhere, you have to now tow the party line which is, to me, indistinguishable from the black lives movement line. which is, frankly, remarkable in a few short years this fringe

group has now come to be the dominant group in the democratic party. lou: right. and we saw today, ed, chuck schumer, speaker pelosi and the radical dem -- [laughter] ragtag followers of such leaders kneeling, kneeling on capitol hill. i mean, this is, this is, what, in your judgment? >> they've lost touch with the american pluck. i mean, clearly they have. the american public has watch for weeks now riots in the streets, have watched at the end of the day rioting here in new york and other places across the country, hundreds and hundreds of law enforcement officers injured. the initial incident that set all this off was terrible, and it was a bad cop there. the cop will be punished. but the rest of it was basically out of hand. a lot of peaceful protesters, but a lot of unrest and, basically, destruction. now you talk about dissolving the police department.

who's going the basically stop kids racing drunk down main street? stop the guy beating up his wife? call a social sociologist? what are they going to do here? [inaudible conversations] lou: -- minneapolis, if the people of minneapolis aren't any smarter than that, ed, they'll get exactly what it is they deserve, and that is complete anarchy in minneapolis. it has approached that over the past two weeks at any rate. let's turn to this business of kneeling, michael. this has become something grotesque, and it seems to be becoming very popular with the left as they demand subservience, demand people bow to them. and, by god, what i can't believe is that americans will bow or kneel to anyone. and what's even more extraordinary is that any american would ask another to bow to him or her.

your thoughts. >> yes. it is a very strange event, and it -- again, it sort of came out of nowhere. kneeling was associated with colin kaepernick and the nfl. and, you know, relative number of players there. but now out seems to have gone mainstream, and it's not clear to me what exactly the protest that the neerls are engaging in, whether it's armed police officers or others. what are they showing here other than some sympathy for the demonstrations? okay, fine. but is kneeling the only way to do that? i mean, i don't get it. i don't see -- lou: they -- yeah, i don't either. ed, do -- you get the final minute here. there's something else going on here when an american will actually kneel. i just, i'm -- it's weird. >> historically you kneel to kings, when there were kings, you'd historically kneel in

church to jesus. now, basically, they're kneeling to mini tyrants who think they basically are going to run the world, and i think the reality is here is you're going to have mob rule. not protests, not good protests, you're going to have mob rule. and the idea that you would kneel on every little issue and be subservient is absurd and not american. lou: well, it is, it is just stunning that americans would ask other americans to do that. and that any would comply. [inaudible conversations] lou: great to see you. look forward to seeing you soon. thanks for being with us. up next, more on the protests with the niece of martin luther king jr., al alvea king with us on all of this and more. more. stay with us. we're here for a reason. and it's bigger than selling cars. we're here to build for the people who build and shape this country. who work hard.

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♪ ♪ lou: washington, d.c. catholic archbishop willson gregory e ordered priests in his diocese to protest today in lafayette square. this comes after gregory condemned president trump for visiting the shrine of st. paul ii, john paul ii last week. gregory 's rebuke of the president was noticed by the

roman archbishop who praised president trump for his leadership. he con themed catholic leaders -- condemned catholic leaders who are working against president trump. pogano wrote this to president trump who he sees as an ally in the fight of good versus evil, saying: it is disconcerting that there are bishops who by their words prove they are lewined on the opposing side. they are sub receiver cent to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the new world order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing christian about it but which evokes the ma sonic ideals of those who want to dominate the world by driving god out of the courts, out of schools, out of families and perhaps even out of churches. well, joining us tonight is the niece of martin luther king jr., dr. alveda king. alveda, i have to say it is great to be talking with you

again. good to see you, and these are strange and sad days, are they not? this is unlike any kind of demonstration -- and i go back to the '60s -- that i've ever, i've ever witnessed. >> absolutely, lou. i'm glad to join you again as well. i've been in very close contact with the national black catholics for trump and the national black catholics for life. two different groups, but some of the members are the same in both. they're very, very concerned about a protest that would object to president of the united states carrying his bible, walking across the park to say we can't keep burning and bombing our churches. so i believe that there are many people in the catholic community and the black catholic community who agree with that. religious freedom is so very

important. of course the national black catholics for life, i work very closely with them as executive director of civil rights for the unborn. so we're concerned about the voices of all americans regardless of skin color. we can see skin color, but we celebrate it, not fight about it. we're concerned about the babies in the boom. in the womb. i work very carefully with the black catholic community, and they are very concerned, lou. lou: well, the entire nation is. and we have watched an explosion here that is, obviously, orchestrated. this is so organized that it is stunning in its scale and scope. because intentions here matter. this, when we talk about george floyd, what happened to him on video, we all witnessed it, we know that that man is in that

uniform at that moment is guilty of unthinkable brutality. but what we have witnessed in our streets and cities across the country is also inexcusable in that it has been violent, that people have been tragically hurt. over 300 police officers injured. we've had 15 people killed and 2, 2 policemen killed. this is not what martin luther king in any way envisioned for the year 2020. your thoughts. >> martin luther king jr. spoke out against violence. he acknowledged that riots are the language of the unheard, and yet he quickly encouraged everyone to be nonviolent, to hear each other, to value the human personality. and he believed in nonviolence throughout his life to that my dad, reverend a.d. king, my

grandfather, martin luther king sr. and so do i. martin luther king jr. said when we value the human personality, we won't kill anybody. and so people will argue about, well, more black people kill black people and nobody cares about that, we care when lives are taken across the board. womb to the tomb, sick, elderly, rich, poor if, various ethnicities, all of that is very, very important. this was a very tragic thing with george floyd. and i was listening when we say people are kneeling, people should be praying when they kneel if, not causing more agitation and violence -- lou: amen. >> -- and asking god to help us and then get up together in unity and stop the violence, lou. lou: yeah. it's well said. and it's still, it stuns me to see one american demanding that another kneel before them.

it is, it's just, it's a sight a that is sickening -- >> it's amazing that it's being done for vendettas. those are vendettas. we need genuine faith, hope and love, caring about each other, not retribution. lou: absolutely. alveda king, it is always a delight and uplifting to see you and to talk with you. thanks so much and look forward to doing so real quick. again. thank you. stay with us, we're coming right back. ♪ ♪

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♪. lou: president trump today at the white house made it very clear to everyone that he will not defund police departments. >> we won't be defunding our police. we won't be dismantling our police we won't be disbanding our police. we won't be ending our police force. i guess you might have some cities that want to try but it will be very, very sad situation if they did because people aren't going to be protected. people do a tremendous job of protecting citizens of our country. lou: and he will, like he does with the rest of his job, do it. that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. tomorrow evening general jack keane will be with us to talk about generals past and present.

trying to, well, undermine president trump rather publicly, some of them. john solomon, michael pillsbury among our guests tomorrow. please join us for all of that. maria: good tuesday morning, welcome, i'm maria bartiromo, it is tuesday june 9th, top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. market comeback. s&p 50 in positive territory for the year now and nasdaq closing at a record high. this as we learn the economy officially fell into a recession back in february ending the longest expansion in history but one guest today says it's over and dow futures down and s&p futures down 32 and nasdaq lower by 56. markets were up yesterday when optimism for a