thanks so much for watching "strange inheritance." and remember -- you can't take it with you. hit 10,000. "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the democratic party has a police problem, and it is a big political problem for the democrats. the radical dems calls to defund law enforcement are radical and beyond even the far left's embrace. and the far left now poses a very real threat to the democratic party and every american. after more than two weeks of demonstrations and often violent rioting by left-wing demonstrators and protesters, even left-wing national media and democratic leaders seemed in stunned acquiescence to calls to move even farther left, but that

is exact exactly what they want their leaders to do. and self-ing righteous protesters and agitators pushing the left ageneral da, and at the top of that agenda, defunding police departments. president trump making it clear he will not permit lawlessness in this country and now reminding everybody as we approach election day that he is the law and order president. within the past hour, president trump had a round table discussion with african-american leaders. the white house also saying the administration is nearing final edits on a number of police reform proposals. as debate over reforms rage in washington, we are witnessing firsthand what the radical left's police-free utopia looks like. in seattle we're watching in realtime a city descending into anarchy. during the early hours of the morning, thousands of leftist

protesters led by black lives matter and antifa and anarchist groups broke into city hall and took over. the mob just a few days ago seized a six block zone in the downtown area that includes a shuttered police precinct which has been boomedded by law enforcement -- abandoned by law enforcement in the face of antifa, black lives matter and friends. that's right, parts of one of this country's largest, most innovative, most left-leaning cities now under mob control. the left-wing activists are demanding the city's democratic mayor, jenny durkin, resign. but they say she might be able to keep her job if she will just do a what she's told. which is to defund the police. leading the overnight charge into city hall was council woman sawat. she's a member of the socialist

alternative party. and recently she talked to the campaign event in tacoma for failed socialist presidential candidate bernie sanders. what got in the mood of the thing? he talked to her adoring mob and had this to say about her fellow seattle city councilmen. >> this is up a moving occasion -- such a moving occasion. for all the difficult moments i have having to be a corporate politician -- >> boo! >> -- bureaucrat, this, this is what it's all about. lou: quite a rhetorical device,

that, waiting for the boos. finish we're also witnessing, of course, a clear statement of what happens when police are no longer there to protect the rest of us from the missouri during the riots that stemmed from the protests over the death of george in los angeles -- far, far from the actual incident -- the l.a. police department reporting homicides there rose by 250%, the number of shooting victims rose by 56%. in new york shootings surged, murders more than doubled from the same period a year ago. all of this as protesters were flooding the streets along with rioters and looters and shattered windows and destroyed property in their wake. numbers like these should be enough to end even the remote possibility of any city defunding or dismantling police departments. and as we've reported here, some of the radical democratic leaders now seemingly, seemingly

understand that to remove a police department would be disastrous for a city, even more disastrous for the democratic party and their efforts to ever take power again. perhaps they now realize the disastrous policy that led to the demonstrations and the riots, to the protests and, yes, the arson, the vandalism, the looting and that all of that could bring the end of their quest for political rule soon. and as always, there is money, of course. numbers show the police and law enforcement associations who the radical left want to dismiss are among the largest donors to democrats since 1994. i'll bet you're surprised at that. those police groups donating lots of money to the senators and congressmen who want to get rid of them, especially to senators amy klobuchar and

patrick leahy. klobuchar, of course, was the attorney of hennepin county, minnesota, a favorite daughter, if you will, of the state who chose to pass cases of police brutality to grand juries rather than bring charges herself. the top two beneficiaries of police money in the house are democrats, democrats bill pascrell and house majority leader steny hoyer. how about that? who knew that democrats, democrats would be the beneficiaries of law enforcement associations and lobbying groups. some of the democratic party's most radical elements, however, like freshman congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez are far more outspoken in their push to rid this country altogether of police and law enforcement. aoc seem to be even a little too radical for george stephanopoulos.

this, their exchange this morning. >> why is it necessary to take the money from the police? i understand your argument, the argument you're making about expanding social services, investing in social services, but the research does show that more police on the street means less crime. >> well, i think there's one question that is interesting here is that when it comes to funds, it's not always just about the number of officers in the street, it's about the police precincts that have tanks, that have military weaponry and, frankly, have a degree of, have a degree of material resources and war-like, war-like weaponry that people ask why does a local police precinct have this in the first place? lou: aoc having a little trouble getting to her notes apparently there, that's the only thing i could figure out that she would be doing. politicians like aoc proposing

cuts to police departments, they should have to answer, don't you think, for the cost of their proposals? they've incited more violence in american cities that have taken people's lives, ruined businesses and changed communities perhaps forever. their wholesale attack on police is one that the american people simply will not accept. as congressman jim jordan put out today, the scariest part about all of this is those on the left who are willing to stay silent and just let it all happen. >> it is pure insanity to defund the police. and the fact that my democrat colleagues won't speak out against this crazy policy is just as frightening. lou: well, this evening we'll be taking up the very issue of the left's push to the left including their efforts to defund police and much more. our exclusive interview with the vice president of the united states, mike pence, coming up

here shortly. on wall street today stocks it should mixed. the dow jones industrials down 238 points, the s&p lost 17. the nasdaq up 67. the first 10,000-point close ever. there it is. volume on the big board, 6.6 billion shares. the first half of this year never happened, apparently. treasury secretary steven mnuchin said today we definitely, definitely need another bipartisan bill to help put some money back into this economy. he said it will be targeted to help specific industries like travel and leisure and restaurants. and like the previous money as well. and a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. up next here, former acting

dni ric grenell. he's shined more light on the deep state in a matter of weeks than any other director of national intelligence. the great ric grenell joins us here tonight with his plans for his life next and what he has accomplished in office. also our exclusive interview with vice president mike pence. we take up the radical left's takeover of the democratic party, president trump's unprecedented actions to support the african-american community. stay with us, we're back with all of that and more. ♪ ♪ and because we don't know exactly when this crisis is going to be over and we don't know exactly when the stock market will reach its bottom, we've got to be prepared for this to last a long time. if you assume that you're out of work for nine months but you end up only being out of work for... unlike ordinary wmemory supplementsr? neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance.

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♪ lou: in the midst of the unrest and in some cases the violence and destruction that has hit many cities across america over the past two weeks, vice president mike pence and the trump administration have been engaging with black leaders. the vice president himself has been spending considerable time listening to the african-american community and in particular ministers of black churches. this past friday he joined bishop harry jackson for a listening session with faith and community leaders at hope christian church in beltsville,

maryland. joining us now during what is certainly one of the most extraordinary periods in recent american history, the vice president of the united states, mike pence. mr. vice president, we appreciate you being here. >> thank you, lou. lou: give us a sense of what you are hearing from the african-american community. >> well, lou, it was my privilege to travel to maryland to bishop jackson's church to meet with the pastors and community leaders. we've also convened conversations here at the white house with african-american leaders as well as those in law enforcement, and what we consistently hear is, first and foremost, people want law and order on our streets. we really think there's ways that listening to law enforcement, listening to community leaders we can advance improvements and reforms, but the contrast between what the president has done -- putting law and order first, listening to law enforcement, listening to

leaders in communities, looking for ways we can improve people's lives -- with the radical agenda that the democratic party has embraced of defunding the police is truly remarkable. i can't help but believe that tens of millions of americans see all of this as a part of the ongoing march of thed radical left -- the radical left to take greater and greater control of the democratic party. lou: it is interesting to me that a, the most recent study, polling on our community approval of police departments shows 72% of americans approve of their local police departments. 72%. this also looks like a serious miscalculation once again by the radical dems who now seem to be in absolute control of the democratic party and, certainly, a very strong problem for nancy pelosi and chuck schumer who

have to contend with a, well,, with vice president, former vice president joe biden leading their ticket into november. >> well, that's right, lou. and now you even have, you have some democratic leaders that are starting to back away from the call of their most radical supporters on the left calling to defund the police. but even joe biden said that he would be willing to withhold federal funds from cities if they didn't otherwise comply with the new dictates. hook, president trump brought together -- look, president trump brought together law enforcement officials, we've been listening to african-american leaders here at the white house and in my travels, and what this president's prepared to do is what he's done all along, and that is advance policies that will insure the safety of every american family in every community and also the prosperity. and we understand that the

wellspring of our prosperity is safe and secure streets. and, you know, what we saw over the last three years before the tragic death of george floyd sent our nation into the last two weeks of protests was that violent crime was declining all around the country. we'd seen the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for african-americans. this president actually advanced legislation with senator scott to create opportunity zones. now thousands of opportunity zones have been launched in cities around the country generating more than $100 billion in capital investment to create new jobs. and also this is a president who's been a champion of a cause that african-americans have supported in overwhelming numbers for decades. he's been a supporter of giving parents the right to choose where their children go to school whether it's public, private, parochial school.

and we're going to continue to move forwards in a way that -- forward in a withdraw that puts law and order first. we're going to listen to law enforcement and community leaders about constructive changes that we can advance and support in public safety. but we're not going to stop there, lou. i mean, the truth is the democratic party has failed much of the african-american community for generations in this country. many of our african-american families live in our inner cities that have the worst schools, the most unsafe streets, and they've experienced the very worst effects of that. lou: i think that i would like to add to to the list that you t expressed. this country than any other administration in 50 years. it has achieved the lowest

unemployment rate for african-americans in the country's history. unprecedented funding for historic black colleges and universities -- >> right. lou: -- justice reform. i think the listening, if i may say -- and i know that there is certainly a temptation -- is to be one way at this point. and i applaud you and the president for listening and certainly think the country will be stronger for it. but i think that it also has to be mutual and reciprocal. it has to be a communication across the country, and i think every american should be listening to what you and this president have accomplished because it's extraordinary. and to see the democratic leadership that have done nothing but oppose president trump, vice president pence and your administration kneeling, kneeling in the capitol as they are subservient to what?

to whom? americans don't kneel, and americans don't demand that others kneel. it is an extraordinary, gut-wrenching moment in this cup's history to see -- country's history to see this kind of pandering and sickening display of absolutely, absolute cowardice. and, as you say, devoid of ideas and achievement for the very people whose votes they, they take for granted. your thoughts. enter well, i -- >> well, look, the contrast with what you've seen by democrat leaders at the national and local level and this president has been very stark. not just on policy, but because in president donald trump you have a leader who is standing with law enforcement, standing with peaceful protesters, standing with african-american families who want law and order on their streets, they want better schools, they want with

more jobs and more opportunities, and president trump has been delivering that. and we're going to continue to deliver that. we think we have an opportunity here, we've been in discussions with law enforcement and with the leaders in the african-american community, we think we have an opportunity here to improve law enforcement. we heard that at the white house in that round table earlier this week. the willingness that we heard of law enforcement officers from around the country, states' attorney generals to find ways that we can, that we can strengthen law enforcement in this country, build public confidence in law enforcement, it's all there, lou. and we're going to do that. but the most important thing is that we don't stop there. what i've consistently heard from african-american leaders is that while we were all or horrified by what we saw in the killing of george floyd in

minneapolis, that it struck a nerve that we believe is much deeper. it goes into the issues that have beset the african-american community for generations in cities that have been run by democrats in liberal democrat policies for 50 years. they've failed to bring public safety, they've failed to bring jobs and opportunity, they've failed to bring safe and successful schools to our african-american families. we're committed to seize this moment. and not just find ways that working with law enforcement and community leaders to improve law enforcement, we want to improve the lives of african-american families in every city in this country just as president trump has been doing, as you said, every step of the way with record unemployment, opportunity zones, educational choice that criminal justice reform and a whole range of issues that were in the process of achieving real

are results which is what we're about at this white house. lou: and up next in our exclusive interview with the vice president, the relationship between the contagion that china unleashed on the world and xi jinping's apparent desire for a cold war with america. more with vice president pence when we continue. stay with us. ♪ thanks for sharing your diy haircuts. thanks for sharing your savage moves, and especially your awkward ones. thanks for sharing your cute kids. and your adorable pets. now it's our turn to share... with the geico giveback. a 15% credit on car and motorcycle policies for both current and new customers. and because we're committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. so thanks again. one good share deserves another.

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♪ lou: welcome back, and with us later in the broadcast will be former acting dni rick tremendous innocent we'll be talking with himminging about what he's described as the ballot between the permanent bureaucracy in washington and the rest of america. now we return to vice president pence as we talk up up the demonstrations and protests and

riots of the past two weeks and whether, well, the china virus will have another wave as a result. >> our team has been following the potential health implications of these protests very closely. and what i can tell you is is that at this point we don't see an increase in new cases now nearly two weeks on from when the first protests took effect. we're also encouraged by the fact that you saw a great deal of consternation in the media over memorial day weekend, lou, where there were many gatherings on boardwalks and beaches and places around the country. we saw no significant uptick in new coronavirus cases from that. the truth is the american people are a lot of common sense -- have a lot of common sense. they understand the importance as we continue to work every day to put this coronavirus in the past of continuing good hygiene.

many people at protests were wearing masks and engaging in some social distancing, and we also know for a fact, lou, that sunlight, humidity, heat all have a very good effect for us on defeating the coronavirus in its transmission. so we remain hopeful. we're following it, but at this point now nearly two weeks on from the initial protests, we haven't seen an uptick. and the truth is because of the decisive action the president took shutting down all travel to china, because of the sacrifices the american people made when the president called for those 45 days to slow the spread, because of the relief efforts that the president was able to make available businesses and families around the country and because of, once again, of the guidance we gave to states to open up america again, we're seeing this nation coming back. our economy's coming back, all

50 states if all of our territories -- and all of our territories are open to one degree or another. and i think the american people are proving even in the midst of these challenging times that they can do that safely and responsibly. lou: i want to turn with that note on the virus, the wuhan virus, we now know that china, its communist government shut down domestic travel to prevent further contagion. but left wide open -- >> right. lou: -- the invitation from the world for their travelers, international travel by the chinese, some of who were obviously contaminated wasn't even, even discussed. wasn't considered. and we know now that the chinese government lied to us, we know that they let an unsuspecting

world go unwarned by the chinese. that's akin, in some cases, to murder, certainly for 100,000 plus americans. don't you think? >> well, and we grieve the loss of every single of the more than 100,000 americans who have lost their lives to the coronavirus. but, lou, you're absolutely right. china was not straight with the united states, did not give the facts to our country or to the world. in fact, they didn't even allow cdc personnel to go to china to look at the real data and what was happening until the middle of february. that would be several weeks after the president suspended all travel from china which, again, i think you cannot overstate the significance of that. we didn't have a single domestic case in the united states other than people who had returned to this country from china at the

end of january, and yet the president looked at the circumstances, and he made that gut-level decision to suspend all travel from china. and i can tell you it, it bought us invaluable time in standing up this whole of america response that did slow the spread, we flattened the curve, we saved lives. but the president's been very clear, we're going to hold china and the world health organization accountable for their failure to adequately warn the world about the coronavirus. lou: this is the sin and the act of xi jinping. it's indisputable. he did not warn an unsuspecting world of a deadly contagion. and his government instead is bellicose, threatening. the president of china himself telling the people's liberation

army to prepare for war. and we continue to negotiate what was a historic agreement in treaty. is that going the continue? is there any prospect that they will honor their commitments this one time over the past two decades? >> well, china continues to buy our goods and buy particularly agricultural goods, but your viewers would do well to know that the vast majority of the tariffs that the president's imposed on china to reset that imbalanced trading relationship that existed under successive administrations are all still in effect. i mean, no president has done more to stand up to china or to stand up for american workers in our relationship with china than president donald trump. and we will continue to stand strong there. we will continue to assert america's strategic interests in

places like the south china sea e and the asia-pacific. we'll continue to stand strong as china breaks their word to the people of hong kong and the international agreements they've made. we'll stand strong on human rights. but the american people can be confident that it's not just what happened with the coronavirus, but every step of the way this president's strong sanding with china has been vindicated. i think the american people see it, and they can be confident that president donald trump and our entire administration are going to continue to stand firm when it comes to china until dewe reit the economic relationship in a way -- reset the economic relationship in a way that puts american workers first and hold accountable all of those who failed the people of our country and failed the people of the world when it came to the coronavirus. lou: vice president mike pence, thank you for your time. appreciate it. good to see you.

>> thank you, lou. lou: our thanks to the vice president for taking time to talk with us. coming up here next will be dni ric grenell, former dni, the man who revealed a trove of information about obamagate. rick grenell joins me right after this quick number of messages. we'll be right back. is stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ ♪ y-yeah ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ hey, hey

lou: the deep state's persecution of general michael flynn goes on with the help of all the radical dems. judge emmet sullivan's designated partisan shadow prosecutor john gleeson today arguing the justice department's motion to dismiss the case against general flynn is a, quote, gross abuse of prosecutorial power. he actually said that apparently with a somewhat straight face. we should point out that gleeson's brief was submitted with help from david o'neill who was sally yates' attorney when she testified to congress in 2017. both men work in the same washington law firm. and general flynn still in the grip of what has been a three-year torture by the justice department and the judicial, the judicial branch. attorney general william barr saying there's some familiar

names under investigation by u.s. attorney john durham. barr didn't want to give the names, but he did say he's troubled with what durham has found so far. barr saying durham's investigation does not directly involve former president barack obama or former vice president joe biden. well, more than 1200 former department of justice workers want an investigation into the role that the attorney general played when protesters were cleared from lafayette square or in washington. if you can believe this nonsense. the letter was formed by the activist group protect democracy. they want the justice department's inspector general, michael horowitz, to look into the use of force. barr has said some in the crowd were throwing bricks, frozen water bottles at police, and these 1200 bless their darling hearts want to know something more about 15 minutes in lafayette park.

well, our next guest this evening spent three months as acting director of national intelligence and for that the nation is indebted to hum. in that short time, he declassified a number of obama officials unmasking general michael flynn. he forced the release of all 53 interview transcripts from the house intel committee on, remember that, russian collusion? declassified susan rice's e-mail to herself about flynn and declassified notes from the justice department inspector general's report on fisa abuse. i'm pleased to say joining us tonight is ric grenell, and it is great to have you with us, r irk c, and congratulations and our thanks for all that you have done for your, for your country as ambassador and as dni. it's good to see you. let's start -- >> thanks, lou. lou: -- the attorney general talking about, talking about the prospect of names we're familiar

with coming up in durham's investigation. your reaction. >> look, i think attorney general barr is doing a great job. i got to work very closely with him. she's very thorough. -- he's very thorough. he's letting the facts determine the case. we clearly had a problem, lou, and i think people are beginning to realize that the red flags that were raised early -- and this is a very key e point that people need to understand -- the red flags that were raised early on in the russian investigation, red flags from career officials at the fbi and the cia and other intelligence agencies saying that this was something that they shouldn't pursue, that seemed to be trumped up, that had really dubious claims with the steele dossier, all of these red flags were pushed aside, they were done through the

bureaucratic task of classifying these comments, pushing people aside s. and, frankly, when i is saw it, i was very sad for our country because i couldn't believe that the voices that were saying from the beginning slow down, this doesn't seem right, this is wrong, this isn't the whole story, all of those voices were silenced and pushed away. and yet the people who clearly had political motivations to fan the flames and to make the situation much nastier than what it really was, those voices were the only voices out there. and so when i was inside and looking at this information, i was saddened because the american people didn't get to see full story. they got half the story. hay got a little piece -- they got a little piece, and that

little piece was really disingenuous to the truth. so i think it's important, i think the american people deserve to have information, and what i wanted to do was to systematically go through and declassify the information that was from the beginning, that was used to start this russian investigation and let the american people see the facts. and it's shocking to see how many of these transcripts and many of these footnotes and specific pieces of information were pushed aside and not given the light. because, frankly, if they had been given the light, if they had been given voice, the narrative would have fallen apart rather quickly, i think, as we saw some doj officials say let's collapse this case, there is no case here and yet it continued. lou: would you not also agree that this, this effort by the

deep state, if you will, referencing both the intelligence community, the, specifically the department of justice, the fbi could not have reproceeded without a -- proceeded without a symbiotic relationship of evil, in my view, between the radical dems who were so politically motivated and lusting for power and frustrated at the election of this president that thaw worked with -- they worked with those agents within the intelligence community and with the fbi and the department of justice in league with a compliant, complicit national left-wing media without all of those characters in position and playing their roles it just could not have, could not have been carried out with -- successfully. >> look, i think what you're

touching on is the culture of washington, d.c., and i think that you hit it on the head. we have a real problem. right now we do not have a fight between republicans and democrats. that traditional fight has given us great policy issues, many would argue when you're in the center you get this kind of majority movement towards progress. and we don't have that fight anymore, lou. what we have is a permanent bureaucracy in washington, and i include the media in that. washington versus the rest of america. when you go to washington, d.c. and you live there, then you can get a job in one of these bureaucracies. why do we have all of the federal government or at least by far the majority of the federal government bureaucracies based in washington, d.c.? i don't think it's healthy. i think we saw with covid it's not healthy when there's a pandemic. there's a whole bunch of problems that we can unpack here but, clearly, when the media live in washington, d.c., when

the bureaucracy lives in washington, d.c., they fight for their city. they have a sports team now, and they are very proud of this city, and they therefore are not going to be able to be a check and balance on the growth of the capital, so to speak. and the american people are to understand that donald trump, when he was elected, he talked about changing the culture, changing the way that it's done. and this was an awe front to the people -- affront to the people in washington d.c. they did two things. one, almost 70 democrats refused to show up at the peaceful transition of power. now -- lou: right. >> lou, i worked at the state department for ten years. we would call it it out. we would say grow up and go to the inauguration, go to the process and show that you can be peaceful. we had almost 70 democrats, sitting members, completely say

that they're not even showing up. we have a problem in washington, and i think donald trump put his finger on it, and they are lashing out against them because of it. lou: and we have, let's be straightforward, we have an obama problem. members of his administration unmasking, amongst others, general michael flynn. i know you've got some strong views about unmasking and what did occur, and we'll take that up with ric grenell as we continue the conversation in just a few moments. stay with us, we'll be right and because we don't know exactly when this crisis is going to be over and we don't know exactly when the stock market will reach its bottom, we've got to be prepared for this to last a long time. if you assume that you're out of work for nine months but you end up only being out of work for...

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♪ ♪ lou: the unmasking of general michael flynn, the obvious partisan judicial process working against the general for the past three years, we're back with the former acting director of national intelligence, ric grenell. and, ric, i want to ask you author thoughts about unmasking -- your thoughts about unmasking and what needs to be done to protect the rights of american citizens. >> well, first of all, i think, you know, unmasking in and of itself is something that should be allowed. in certain cases, i think, it's

important for policymakers to see that there are americans who may be swept up in something, and maybe they need to know because they don't know what's going on. and so there are a variety of reasons why you could and should be able to unmask. but what i did when i went to the office of the director of national intelligence and i saw the information, lou, to me there's a higher bar from the election day of donald trump until the inauguration day of donald trump, in that transition period. that's when we know that trump and his team, president trump and his team are coming in. that's when we know that the obama team is going out, and we know exactly who is going to be replacing whom. it's very important for a peaceful transition of power to be peaceful and to be cooperative. i think president bush gave that

to president obama. they worked very closely. matter of fact, i could tell you that happened because susan rice and sam that power in their house -- samantha power in their house testimony admitted that during the transition between bush and obama they worked very closely with president bush's team, and they also were talking to foreign leaders during that transition. but for me, when the unmasking -- lou: we've just got a few seconds, ric, a apologize. >> when flynn was unmasked during that short period of time, that was troubling for me. that's why i unmasked those names, to show who did that. lou: ric grenell, enjoyed talking with you. thanks for being here. and whenever you decide what you're doing next, we wish you all of the best and great success. stay with us, we're coming right back. ♪ ♪ right now is a time for action. that's why usaa is giving payment relief options

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