as well and to you, connell mcshane. happy father's day to you. connell: thank you very much. thank you very much. we're going to get together with my dad and my mom over the weekend for a nice socially-distanced barbecue. see you all back on monday. here's lou dobbs. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everyone. we begin with breaking news from washington where the department of justice in court for two hours today facing attorneys for the president's former national security adviser, john bolton. the department of justice says bolton's new memoir contains classified information that is in violation of a nondisclosure agreement, and they are asking a d.c. district court to block the book's release. the legal battle framed between the book's publisher, simon & schuster, has already distributed thousands of copies around the world and, of course, the president of the united states and the national security

council. the book contains bolton's treacherous lies, in the view of the plaintiff, half-truths and falsehoods facilitated by good friends in the left-wing national media. reagan-appointed judge royce lambert has yet to make a decision. he did begin today's hearing by noting that the, quote, horse seems to be out of the barn, end quote, suggesting he may already see the government's case as being somewhat late or perhaps not. he has, however, also said bolton has no written authorization with which to publish the book from the national security council. a basic requirement. the department of justice adds in their argument that bolton should not be rewarded for the brazenness of his actions. excerpts of bolton's book are already being considered as fact, of course, by the left-wing national media, radical dems and the rino, some of them in congress, no matter

how absurd or patently false the claims be. they have all decided that the man they so hated and distrusted is now a respected, honest voice as far as the left is now concerned, but that's likely to be transitory because all he's done, of course, is to attack president trump. for years the. [laughter] the left lying about president trump colluding with russia. they tried to impeach him over his relationship with ukraine. and now they're lying about the president colluding with china. here's another former national security adviser, susan rice, embracing that narrative, adding to her history of lies. >> so prior to becoming president of the united states, trump has been willing and eager to solicit the support of foreign governments, including foreign adversaries starting with russia, later with an ally, ukraine, and now another

adversary, china, to interfere in our elections on his behalf. lou: is it's not surprising, of course, to hear from rice in tones and truth like that. she is someone who, after all, told five sunday talk shows that the deadly attack on benghazi was started by an amateur's youtube video. what rice and bolton seem to, well, fail to understand is that president trump isn't colluding with any other foreign nation. they have just about exhausted that narrative irrespective of the nation. robert mueller discovered that with the nonsensical russian collusion special counsel investigation, an investigation that should never have been started in the first place. the president acquitted, of course, by the senate and the left's sham impeachment effort. a hearing that john bolton, by the way, refused to testify in.

and china has released a deadly contagion on the world, one that has decimated parts of our economy, infected 200,000 americans and killed 118,000 more. just this week president trump was requested about china's role in spreading the virus. he told "the wall street journal," quote: there's a chance it was intentional, end quote. it is president trump, after all, who's fought for fair, balanced and reciprocal trade with can china. he's worked to stop beijing's theft of hundreds of billions of dollars in u.s. intellectual property each year. he has forthrightly challenged their currency manipulation and their cozy relationships with u.n. agencies including the world health organization. and it is president trump, after all, who has stood up to major corporations still seeking cheap labor in china instead of supporting the working american man and woman and their families.

john bolton doesn't seem to grasp how all of that came to pass and who the president really is. the establishment neo-con, bolton, failed to grasp entirely the trump doctrine. bolton seems to have never realized president trump could use the booming economy he created to achieve national security objectives and preferred to do so economically rather than dropping bombs as the neo-con preference. the president, through the use of diplomatic relationships, economic sanctions has created american energy independence, he has put a boundary around the economies of russia, iran and china. and all authoritarian regimes that bolton claims president trump is so willing to appease. what a man will do for $2 million. my,, my, my. there was only one thing bolton

seemed to understand, and that was bloodshed. the neo-con way. he lied about the weapons of mass destruction in iraq. he stood by the u.s. invasions of iraq and afghanistan, wars that american troops are still dying in. and while this new book may get bolton's face time on television, he's managed to turn the left and the right against him. here's how white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany described bolton. >> john bolton had discredited himself. he is a misguided hawk on foreign policy and a weak dove of an author. this man is someone who praised president trump as being strong on foreign policy, not making the mistakes of previous administrations, perfectly prepared. these are all quotes from john bolton. he said president trump understands president ronald reagan's peace through strength. he's on the record saying this. is so john bolton's book is debunked by nonother than john bolton. -- none other than john

bolton. if you thought comey was the most disliked man in america, i think john bolton has now taken that title. lou: and as caylee mci neighborny pointed out, it's not only the white house and other republicans condemning bolton's actions. there's also rising outrage from the left. >> it is worth reminding everyone during all of in that john bolton is making his claim in -- these claims in his book, and he's trying to el books. >> the price the country had to pay -- >> after selling out his constitutional duty for $2 million, the book is now scheduled to be published next week -- >> and now bolton is attempting to literally cash in on beif trail of his country. >> i don't want to -- [inaudible] that was a substitute for testifying before congress. lou: bolton a tool now for the left and hardly appreciated. they hate him every bit as much for not taking part in their

impeachment inquiry and all too happy to spread the most disparaging lies of his book about president trump. the left, the national left-wing media and almost every rino in washington, have followed that particular playbook. they are awe shamed until they come out against president trump once this news cycle is over, john bolton will be left whining in the dark. well, president trump has made a number of recent remarks about bolton and his so-called new book. he's sure to take another swing at him when he makes a return to the campaign trail for a rally in tulsa, oklahoma. the president today announcing tulsa's republican mayor has lifted a curfew for anyone attending that rally. the mayor put one in place over reports that outside agitator groups including antifa might show up to create trouble. in a tweet president trump

warned such folks. quote: any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or low-lives who are going to oklahoma, please understand you will not be treated like you've been in new york, seattle or minneapolis. it will be a much different scene. supporters have been lining up for days outside the box center in downtown tulsa. that arena holds about 19,000 people. want to know how many people have been signing up to attend the rally? more than a million supporters signing up for tomorrow's event. the campaign has set up an outdoor stage and jumbotron to accommodate the overflow crowd that is expected. rad call the creme -- radical dems and the left-wing national media are just beside themselves, complaining, moaning about the rally calling it -- are you ready? -- a superspreader for the china virus. not a peep from any of them as millions filled the streets of democratic cities around the

country to protest and to demonstrate. new york governor andrew cuomo said he wouldn't allow a political rally to take place in his state. new york is his state, you know. this is the same man who allowed tens of thousands to protest across his state over the past few weeks, protests that early a data shows provided no significant uptick in the transmission of the china virus. the trump campaign is still keeping safety absolutely in the forefront. anyone entering the arena in tulsa will, well, they'll have their temperatures checked, be given option almassings to wear -- optional masks to wear, and hand sanitizer will be available to all attendees. president trump told announcing he'll try to rescind daca once again because chief justice john roberts and the liberal judges on the supreme court punted on the merits of the program, as he put it. but rinos in washington already want to offer up amnesty

to the so-called dreamers. senator martha mcsal lu couldn't wait to tweet that the ruling, quote: gives the white house and congress the opportunity to solve this issue with thoughtful legislation, end quote. you know, like all the legislation that she has push forward and her remarkable public policy record. listen to, speaking of remarkable public policy records, senator john cornyn on the senate floor yesterday. >> -- must have a permanent legislative solution. they deserve nothing less. lou: oh, i tell you, it's great to see mcsally and cornyn. they're on their way, apparently, to defeat in november. the real clear politics average has mcsally down by nearly 10

points in arizona. cornyn has a 39% disapproval rating in texas, a 36% approval rating. he's underwater, as they say x. that's one of the reasons both sound more like democrats than republicans despite they're both, ostensibly, gop. on wall street today stocks had a volatile session, the dow down 209 points, the s&p down 18, the nasdaq up 3. volume on the the big board picking up. the s&p up nearly 2%, the nasdaq gaining 4% despite market weakness today. crude oil up about 2%, now $39.54 a barrel. and a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. up next, national security advisor for vice president mike

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♪ ♪ lou: joining us tonight, retired lieutenant general keith kellogg. he's special assistant to president trump, national security adviser to vice president mike pence. general, great to have you with us. let's start with the hearing today, two hours and, obviously, the government wanting john bolton's book not to be published, not to be distributed. how do you, how do you think it went? >> well, first, lou, thanks for having me tonight. i do appreciate it. i think it went relatively well. look, let me tell you a little bit about john bolton. i think john bolton going to go down in history as the benedict arnold as the national security advisers to the united states. i've never seen anything like what he has done. i think he's duplicitous at best, self-serving and i think at times comes across as an absolute fraud and a liar. look, when i came in on the

administration, i came in on the day of the inauguration. i've either been the chief of staff of the national security council, or i've been national security adviser to the vice president of the united states. i've served with mike flynn, h.r. mcmaster, john bolton and now robert o'brien, who i happen to think is the best national security adviser we've had since the president's had them. because of that, i've had an opportunity to be involved in every single national security discussion and event that we've had since president trump has been in office. i've been to conferences, i've been in cabinet meetings, i've been on head of state calls, i've seen what he's done. and one thing the president has done with heads of state and leaders, he's been very forceful. he's been direct. he's been candid. and if there's anything he's done, the one single thing that he's done is he has supported the american people. it's always been america first. he's always looked out for american interests first. it's something john bolton hasn't done.

look, lou, i can tell you a year ago when we were up in bedminster, i saw john bolton personally derail the afghan peace talks that we were trying to get accomplished. we thought we had a pretty good handle on it going forward. because of that, we're a year behind what we were trying to do in stopping the longest war in american history. i saw him twice, on two different occasions, nearly get us involved in a shooting war in the middle east because he was giving erroneous -- given i roan now information from john bolton. i saw him try to derail what we were doing with kim jong un in north korea when he talked about the libya model, which was a disaster. that was given to us by president obama, joe biden and hillary clinton which involved libya in a civil war which they are still fighting and gad -- gaddafi dying. yes, the president hired him,

the president fired him too. lou: and how dud bolton -- how did bolton undercut the president's efforts to reach an agreement about, that would include the withdrawal of our troops in afghanistan? >> well, he undercut it because he said he wasn't involved with it, he undercut it by not really giving the truth on what was happening when working with the taliban leadership or president ghaani. he just misrespected himself so it -- misrepresented himself so it seemed like we didn't have things wired together, and that was all john bolton. lou: you believe, without question, that he has been a traitor to the united states government. >> john, i wouldn't -- lou, i e wouldn't say john's a traitor. i would never go that that far,i think he was not a good fit for this administration. i don't think he'd be a good fit for any administration. in fact, i'd be surprised if

anybody wanted to hire him as a dogcatcher. he's just not a good fit. he always has, lou, his own agenda, what he wants to get accomplished regardless of what everybody else is trying to do out there. lou: yeah. it -- that's extraordinary. it is, it is a shame that any, any president has to puppet with the -- put up with the nonsense that the president forced to with bolton. it's not a very nice way to say thanks for bringing him into the administration and giving him an opportunity to serve the nation. and for $2 million and a book deal -- >> well, he came, to me, lou, he came under false pretenses. he came here saying he would do certain things, he would support the president,ing and the entire time he was here he worked to go a different direction from where the president wanted to take this nation. and he would do it subtly. he's a good bureaucratic in-fighter, and he knew how to

do it. and the president finally said, enough, i'm done with this guy. he brought him in, because the president likes to have diversity of opinion. when the president brings you into a room, he asks everybody in that room on what we should do. everybody has a voice in that room, and then he makes the decision. john was always pushing against the president, always trying to develop a course of action that we knew the president didn't want to go through. finally the president said, enough, i don't need this anymore, thank you very much, you're gone. lou: it's not as though the president didn't have men few of opposition to -- president didn't have plenty of opposition to his prefer withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan, fighting the entire military industrial complex, and it's just extraordinary what this president -- almost every initiative he takes is heavy lifting throughout. add to that all of the detractors who are attacking him viciously and including, as you say, john bolton. lieutenant general keith

kellogg, it's always good to have you with us. we appreciate it. good to see you. we'd like to hear your thoughts on all of this. share your comments, follow me on twitter at lou dobbs and like me on facebook and follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. congressman devin nuñes and the "wall street journal"'s kimberly strassel among our guests monday. we hope you'll have a great weekend and join us for that monday. but coming right up, president trump addressing mailing-in voter -- mail-in voter fraud and the risk it poses to the 2020 election's integrity. we'll take it up right after this break with judicial watch's tom fitton. stay with us, please. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients

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♪muck. lou: president trump telling politico that mail-in voting could put his re-election at risk. the president said, quote: my biggest risk is that we don't win lawsuits, we have many lawsuits going all over.

and if we don't win those lawsuits, i think it puts the election at risk. the trump administration and republicans have lawsuits in 16 states trying to stop these changes. the president's concerns over mail-in voting comes as "the new york times" reports that new york city's board of elections has been overwhelmed by absentee ballot requests, and 29,000 city residents still don't have a ballot for tuesday's primary. joining me now, tom fitton. he is the president of judicial watch and, tom, it's great to have you here. the president -- >> thank you. lou: -- says with these lawsuits he's depending on it for an election of integrity and electoral integrity. this is very alarming, to hear the president say that so much is riding on a jewish curbly -- judiciary that, frankly, compromise just every bit as much as other parts of our

government. >> well, this has been a state-by-state battle, lou, to protect the integrity of our elections. the left has, is using the coronavirus as an compute to upend our -- excuse to upend our election systems. they're actually suppressing the vote, in my view, by scaring people away from voting in person which is, obviously, the most secure way to vote, the best way to prevent voter fraud. and, you know, in california they want to swamp the mails with ballots, 20 million ballots. it's not just the presidential race at issue here. you obviously have all these races down ballot for which there will be severe temptation to cheat. and now that's going to be a lot easier to do because our system is going to be overwhelmed with ballots and applications for ballots. here just in the district of columbia they announced they're mailing ballots to everybody, you know? we've proven, we've shown repeatedly because we've been

winning in court to clean up the lists that the lists across america are filthy in terms of having more people on the rolls than are eligible to vote. and those people, you can be sure, are going to be the groups getting some of these ballots. lou: so here we are going in to the re-election bid for this president, the election this november. we're less than five months away,ing and where in the hell have the republicans been to assure electoral integrity? this is, you know, it reminds me of our asking the chinese not to steal our intellectual property. we have a responsibility to protect ourselves, to protect the integrity. and i, frankly, am deeply, deeply alarmed to hear that the republican party isn't to wage electoral battle to preserve the integrity of the election and instead is have gone to these

courts that are just as compromised in political corruption, i think, as any other part of the federal government and in some states even more so. >> well, the states have a lot of -- lou: am i wrong? >> you're right. lou: yeah. >> but they've been cowed at the state and local level. a lot of republicans have bought into this fear mongering. you know, this is why the coronavirus lockdowns needed to be lifted, because it was inevitable that you would have this increased demand for unsecure mail-in ballots. we're now turning over the election, it looks like in many ways, to the united states postal service. i tell you, lou, election day is going to be chaotic, much more so than usual. we may not know who won for weeks. it may go to the house in terms of having electoral votes cast aside potentially because of the gamesmanship going on now. this is a crisis, and you're

highlighting it, and we're whistling past the graveyard in many respects. come november -- frankly, just come three months from now there's no turning back. lou: yeah. well, i don't know that there is now. >> maybe you're right. lou: i don't understand why republicans aren't putting together volunteers, a phalanx for every electoral district in the country, for every polling booth in the country -- >> yeah. lou: -- whatever it takings. because i've got to tell you, i really believe the american people are so tired of numbskull republicans who sutt on their hands and, you know, pander to the corporate establishment and globalist elites who don't give a damn about jobs, don't give a damn about the election just so long as they can preserve their interests. i mean, it's a sad damn story we're watching. >> and the justice department step in as well. we got california, los angeles

county -- lou: then where the hell are they? >> we're doing the work. we're suing in -- excuse me, in pennsylvania, north carolina to clean up two million names in those statements a alone. -- states awe loan. we alone got los angeles county to given the process of removing up to 1.6 million names. lou: right. >> all done without justice department help. once again, they're awol. they're either on the other side often, usually -- certainly under the obama administration, and under this administration the justice department's -- [inaudible] lou: and the daca decision. john roberts strikes again, aligning with the liberal, four liberal justices. comes out with mincemeat instead of logic and adherence to originalist, original text claiming he's an originalist. and in a way, he is. the most original thinker i've

ever seen as a chief justice. i mean, he has the most tortured reasoning process and logic or illogic i've ever seen. >> yeah. lou: your thoughts about what happens next. >> he's an anti-trumper. he obviously doesn't like trump, that's why he changes the rules of the game. he promised to be an umpire. instead, he's banging garbage cans in the dugout like they were doing down there in houston. you have the justice department of the trump administration trying to, trying to enforce a supreme court decision that put daca on, basically, on virtually zero legal footing in terms of being solid. and they were trying to enforce the law. and now the supreme court's telling the president he can't enforce the law the supreme court put forward in terms of knocking back the obama amnesty scheme. this is amnesty. it's illegal, and the president needs to push to top it. to stop it. lou: and not just end it.

tom fitton, good to have you with us, appreciate it. up next, china reportedly commits to accelerate their farm purchases, but they're a little skinny, a little puny compared to what they were supposed to be under the phase one trade deal. and now we're assured that things are picking up. or will pick up. maybe. "the wall street journal" senior editor bob davis, he's the co-author of the new book "superpower showdown," we'll talk to him about what in the hell is going on. we'll be right back. please stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ y-yeah ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ hey, hey -always have been. -and always will be. never letting anything get in my way.

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lou: breaking news tonight, governmet officials in australia say their nation is under a massive cyber attack, and they believe -- or as they put it, they have a high degree of confidence -- that it's being carried out by communist china. these attacks are targeting australian companies, australian schools, hospitals, government officials, and they've been rising in number in recent weeks as australia's call for an investigation into the origins of the china virus. now, you may find it interesting, i know i do, that the president of the united states, the u.s. government has not taken up this issue with one of our most important allies with china and, indeed, on the world stage. also breaking tonight, secretary

of state mike pompeo's meeting in hawaii with his chinese counterpart. we've learned very little about what they talked about, very little, if anything, about what the future holds. communist china is reportedly speeding up purchases of farm goods, but we knew that the previous day because the u.s. trade representative said that they were hoping that they would be, well, meeting their obligations. here's what trade representative robert lighthizer told congress about china's commitment to that trade deal before the pompeo meeting. >> every contact i've had with the chinese, they have, they have reaffirmed their commitment to living up to the agreement. they say they're going to meet their commitments, and the indicators now that we have are that they are going to meet 'em. is so that's what we're hoping. lou: and joining us tonight bob

davis, he's senior editor at "the wall street journal." he is the co-author of the important new book "superpower showdown: how the battle between trump and xi threatens a new cold war." bob, it's good to see you again, and we're delighted to have you here. >> thank you very much. lou: i want to -- thank you. i wanted to turn to you to get your sense of what in the world is going on. a meeting between pompeo expect chinese. we have really no, no details whatsoever about that meeting, and we have -- our trade representative, robert lighthizer, telling the house ways and means committee they hope, basically, what he said was we hope they'll meet their obligations. am i misreading what is being said here? >> no, not at all. i think it is as much a hope as actual evidence at this point. i mean, in the past i would say two, three weeks china has increased its purchases particularly of agriculture

products, soy e beans and -- soybeans, wheat and cotton, knowing that that is near and dear to the president's heart and trying its best to make sure that the deal stays on track. lou: bob, as i look at the numbers, it looks to me like we're still, you know, multiples away from any level approaching what was agreed at this point under the phase one trade deal for agricultural purchases. i don't know how they can catch up because new obligations arise as well. i don't understand the sort of wonderland are approach to geopolitics. it's not real politics. i've never, as a matter of fact, heard any administration -- we hope that a country doesn't invade us, we hope that they won't steal our intellectual property, we hope. i mean, what in hell is going on? >> well, you know, the goals,

the commitments by the chinese under the phase one deal were enormous. they looked at a -- they committed to a level of purchase that was, that is unprecedented in u.s./china relations x. that was before the outbreak of coronavirus. lou: right. >> so, yeah, you're right, they're nowhere near hitting those targets. i think what's going on is they're increasing their purchases now. again, both sides want to keep the deal intact. and i think, you know, by the end of -- by the time of the election, the president will be able to point to increased purchases. and, honestly, you know, you're not going to know whether they really hit the targets until the election's over and either the president's reelect or, you know, he's tweeting from mar a rah lag go. so i think there's sort of a tacit understanding on both sides that, yeah, they're going to try, but, you know, trying is probably good enough. at least to keep the deal

intact. lou: we do know one thing, and in part is your reporting and ling lingway's reporting in your new book, "the superpower showdown," that there is division within the administration. and particularly where it comes to the establishment, the business establishment of this country. we with also know -- we also know that wall street is an immense beneficiary of that phase one trade deal, winning access to trillions of dollars in china and are seeking to exploit that massive opportunity. meanwhile, we've got 115,000 americans, and we know the number will rise considerably who are dead because president xi chose not to warn the world that he and the chinese government had unleashed a deadly contagion on the world. how does this square up?

this looks like an immense contradiction and dilemma for president trump and his administration. >> well, i mean, they are, they're different challenges, basically, right? i mean, you had this, you know, virus sweep across the globe at the same time that they're finishing up negotiations over the phase one deal. the u.s. wanted that phase one deal to be wrapped up. again, it came just around the time where it was clear that the virus was really significant, and china deserves a lot ott criticism, certainly, for their concern a e -- a lot of criticism for their initial response -- lou: expect cover-up. >> yeah, definitely, and the cover-up, without a doubt, which continues to this draw. but the questions for the administration, the powell question for the administration is so what do you want to do? do you want to blow up the relationship over that, or do you want to keep it together to

some degree? i mean, the weird irony here is the confrontation between these two superpowers for the past few years has been over trade and economic issues. now the trade deal is one of the few strands that holds that relationship together. it's just manager that we wouldn't -- something that we wouldn't have imagined, you know, a year ago. lou: absolutely not. bob davis, senior editor at "the wall street journal" and co-author of "superpower showdown," co-author link linkway, and we'll be talking with her next week. up next, the ceo of chick-fil-a has a plan. you may not like it, to deal with racism or its vestigings. we take that up after the break. pastor robert jeffress with us. these quick messages and then the pastor. stay with us, please. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ lou: joining us tonight, pastor robert jeffress, as is our want every friday. member of the white house faith initiative, pastor of the first baptist church of dallas, fox business contributor. great american. pastor, i've just got to ask you -- and i didn't mention your book, so i've got to fix that right now, the author of the new

book, "praying for america." america is in a little trouble, could use a little help in all the trouble we've got right now. it's great to have you here. >> thank you. lou: this dan kathy, the head of chick-fil-a, talking about polishing shoes to get rid of racism. let's show everybody what he's talking about. there's some screwball things happening in this country -- [laughter] are we going to -- this he is. now -- there he is. now, this is a man demonstrating poll youpolishing shoes. i mean, white people should shine black people's shoes to combat racism. is that the solution that you would have thought of right away? [laughter] >> look, i'm sure dan kathy is a sincere person but, lou, to try to solve racism of by shining shoes is like trying to cure cancer with band-aid. i mean, it's dealing with a superficial symptom unstead of the problem. and this last sunday i addressed

my church and, by extension, millions of people who watch us on tv, about the problem of racism and lawlessness. and, look, racism and lawlessness, burning down buildings, both of those things are wrong, but they are not the root problem in america. they are symptoms of the root problem which is rebellion against god, sin. and, lou, if you will deal with the root problem, getting people right with god, wanting to please him, then problems like racism and lawlessness, they evaporate overnight. but you'll never solve the problem unless you deal with the root cause of the problem. lou: i think you're exactly right. but i am also very concerned because we've got people saying, you know, part of the demonstrations of the left-wing activists in the little over two week of demonstrations and riots in some cases, having people kneel before demonstrators to show good faith and heart --

>> yeah. lou: think about this, in 21 1st century -- 21st century america we have people demanding others kneel before them. and we have people, americans, willing to kneel before them. there was -- >> yeah. lou: -- there was a time that a lot of things might have ensued, but it wouldn't be one american on his knees in front of another, or her knees. this is outraw juice. >> it is. and i tell you, lou, i'm not kneeling before anybody except god himself -- lou: amen. >> your producer sent me a poll that said 60% of americans prefer saying all lives matter instead of black lives matter. and it's not because most americans are racist, it's because most americans realize that all lives, whether it's black or brown or white or any other color were created by god and, therefore, they matter to god. and you can believe that and still believe that there were

horrible injustices against black americans in our nation's history. but, lou, this attempt by the left to coerce people and to say what they want them to say or label them as a racists, that is nothing but bullying. and the american people are growing tired of this bullying by the left, and i predict there's going to be a giant backlash against it. that backlash may or may not be in the streets, but i guarantee you that backlash will be at the ballot box on tuesday, november 3rd. lou: well, i think that backlash has to begin with, you know, whatever we style it. but we've got to talk honestly about who we are, what we will do, what we will not do. and we should, as americans, never demand anyone kneel before us. and i would urge everyone who wants to pander on any basis find strong heart and faith.

>> that's right. lou: -- and stand for all that we are as americans. it's a tough time, and i'm delighted the country has you, pastor. and others to guide us through it, because we sure do need some help. pastor -- >> well, thank you. lou: thank you. we'll be right back. stay with us. yeah ♪ ♪ ♪ y-yeah ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ hey, hey and it's bigger than selling cars. we're here to build for the people who build and shape this country. who work hard. who do right by others. who never give in. there's always some new challenge trying to take us out. to shake our resolve.

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♪ lou: early in the show tonight vice president mike pence's national security adviser, army general keith kellogg, denounced former trump national security adviser john bolton for his book of lies and deception. >> i think john bolton is going to go down as the benedict arnold of national security advisers to the president of the united states. i have studied the national security council, national security advisers, and i've never seen anything like a what he has done. i think he's duplicitous at best, self-serving, and i think at times he comes across as an absolute fraud and a lieu car. liar. lou: general kellogg with strong views on john bolton. that's it for us tonight. congressman devin nuñes, "wall street journal"'s kim strassel among our guests monday. we hope you'll be with us for that. follow me on twitter @loudobbs like me on facebook, follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. have a great weekend.

thanks for being with us tonight. good night from sussex. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: stocks ending the week mixed, but this week could be the turning point as the u.s. economy opens. dr. anthony fauci says no more reason for mass lockdowns, local leaders can handle localized outbreaks. the economy data shows that america is on the move. tonight we welcome trump 2020 director of communications tim murtaugh on the president relaunching rallies tomorrow in tulsa, oklahoma. now, a short time ago the oklahoma supreme court denied a bid, a move by -- look at this -- stormy daniels' attorney to try to stop the rally. the top court rejected it. but the city is bracing for potential