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pandemic spread throughout the united states over the past 13 weeks. and while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, president trump has chosen to suspend visas of foreign workers who would be in direct competition with american workers. the new executive order suspends h-1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for agricultural workers and l1 visas that allow multi-national corporations to transfer their employees into the united states. as well as j-1 visas for work and study-based exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. these impact, of course, the president's executive order, it's much larger than anyone could have expected. it will affect hundreds of thousands of foreign workers

seeking those visas, of course, and state department data shows that is a big number. that of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h-1b visas, 230,000j visas and just under 77,000 l visas. this is the first time that an american president has taken into account the impact of visa programs and foreign workers on unemployed americans and the threat posed to american workers and their jobs. president trump has taken direct action. this new order will help protect 45 million americans who have lost jobs because of the china virus pandemic as well as the nearly four million recent college graduates who are entering one of the worst job markets since the great depression of the 1930s. the effect of the visas'

suspension will have an immediate impact. jessica vaughn at the center for immigration studies estimates that as many as three-quarters of a million jobs will be opened up to u.s. workers by the suspension of temporary work visas and work permits and by proposed regulatory changes. our first guest tonight instrumental in the crafting of that new executive order, joining us is ken cucinelli, acting deputy secretary start department of homeland security, acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services. ken, great to have you with us and congratulations on moving this forward. >> yep. lou: this is, as far as we can determine, the first time that an american president has taken account of the job market, taken account of the impact of visas and foreign workers on american jobs and the competition, the unfair competition that that

places on those u.s. workers. >> yeah, you know, i can tell you, lou, having sat with the president on the day he was deciding these things this week, you know, he's a bulldozer of a man conversationally, but at that moment he was subdued and moved. and it was because, i mean, he said i just have to do what i can for these americans. and it was more head shaking and quiet than the usual discussion in the oval office which is typically much louder and more boisterous. he was clearly personally very moved. you know how important economic success for every american is for him. well, this is where the rubber moots the road for a lot of it. -- meets the road for a lot of it. when unemployment goes from a trump level of 3.5% up, quadruples in a matter of months for the fist time in american finish first time in american

history, it really shakes up the whole country. not just the economy, but its president who cares about those workers. and that's why he was focused on pushing this as far as he did. the temporary pieces of this, lou, are over 500,000 job openings for americans in the latter half of this year. that is a very big deal. unprecedented level of effort by a president to clear the american job market of competition like this. no one in yours and my lifetime has done this before in his position ever. and to the point you mentioned about some of the more permanent changes even when we get past those temporary ones, he listed off a number of them that are going to clear out the job market of another tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs long term. way beyond 2020. and so he's doing both, lou.

he's clearing that a space for americans to get back to work s and he's reforming the immigration system, pieces of the immigration system to make this many more merit-based, to make them more valuable to america, but also to make sure americans can get more jobs in the face of these pieces of the immigration system. lou: historically and to your point, looking at the h-1b visa program, for example, we know that that was supposed to be, the idea was that it would bring in people who would be working at prevailing wages and be doing so, first and foremost, only after no american had applied for that job or was available for that job. we have seen that honored in the breach. that is, not honored at all. and it's one of the long-term issues that has to be resolved. and when i look at the list of h-1b visa companies receiving

workers, visas for those workers, we're talking abouting google, we're talking about amazon, microsoft, apple, ibm. my god, it is a hall of shame with some of the wealthiest companies at the forefront. it is just stunning to think what the american worker has had to put up with because, as you know very well, about 25% of those workers coming in are not even competitive in terms of skills with the american worker. >> well, and some of them -- lou: it's timely and it's, and it is is so, to me personally, it is so rea assuring to see this president move for the american worker. >> well, and, lou, i agree with you. in this h-1b space, i mean, talk about moving, you remember the class you can horror story is the disney workers training

their replacements. i know you remember that, lou. at&t did this not too long ago. and there's a loophole that they use to be able to do that, and this president has ordered that loophole closed forever. and we will not see that ever again. and if that means that some companies can't do business that way, that's exactly the point. but americans will be able to do those jobs. they will be able to do business that way. and it's a spectacular step forward that none of president trump's predecessors have been willing to take. lou: right. and kudos to him, commendation to this president -- >> it's very popular. very popular. lou: well, i think that american workers have been desperate for this and never more so than right now in this national emergency. >> absolutely. lou: and to think -- i think we need to say, too, how much pressure this president has been

under from external forces. and by external, i mean the wall street firms myron brilliant and tom donohue at the u.s. chamber of commerce, the business round table, the u.s. multi-nationals who do labor arbitrage and then try to dress it up as some sort of globalist, noble fantasy -- >> right. lou: it is absolutely a horror show for the american worker and has been for 20 years. >> well, and the president -- lou: [inaudible] >> -- has been returning this program to what it was meant to be, like you described, lou. it was supposed to be for these high achievers and the best and the brightest and so forth, people who brought something special to the table, not some commodity effort that displaces americans at entry-level jobs and throughout the career stage. and this president is driving us back in that direction consistent being a rule of law president. he's getting us back to the original intent of this law and

the original effect which was much more beneficial to the economy and much less harmful to american workers. and that's the direction president trump is once again taking this country. lou: yeah. america first. >> that's exactly right. lou: ken cucinelli -- >> this is what it looks like. lou: -- congratulations to you and to the president and to the entire administration for getting this done. thank you. this weekend federal judge royce lam berth ruled john bolton's new book will be allowed to be published tomorrow. he also noted that bolton had gambled with national security. it was a strange ruling and some strange exposition on the part of judge lamberth. he said bolton exposed the united states to harm by his actions. he also said bolton himself is now exposed for possible civil and criminal liability. president trump responded to the ruling by tweeting this: big

court win against bolton. obviously with the book already out and leaked to many people in the media, nothing the highly respected judge could have done about stopping it. but strong and powerful statements and rulings on money and breaking classification were made. it's been called out and rebuked for doing so with a really big price to pay. he likes dropping bombs on people and killing him, now he will have bombs dropped on him. we'll have more on bolton's book of betrayal and the administration's response. we're joined tonight by treasury secretary steven mnuchin with the very latest on this unfolding drama. and we look forward to that. i hope you do as well. on wall street stocks are up. the dow jones industrials gained 154 points, the s&p up 20, the nasdaq up 110. a new record close. the 20th record of this year with. volume on the big board, 4.7 billion shares.

crude oil up more than 2%, $40, above $40 a barrel. how about that? and a reminder, listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. up next, why does anyone listen to this senator? rino lindsay graham says he will seek the blessing of radical dems before he supports president trump's nominations for u.s. attorneys. what is wrong with this person? we take it up next, house intel committee ranking member devin nuñes joins me. stay with us, we'll be right back. do these moves look familiar? then you might have a condition called dry mouth.

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lou: breaking news, the trump administration has fired the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, jeff berman. berman initially refused to resign after being informed by the attorney general late friday that the president wished to nominate sec chair jay clayton to be berman's replacement. senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham responded to all of this giving leverage to the radical dem senators of new york, graham saying he would seek the blessing of chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand

before moving on any nomination for berman's replacement honoring the so-called blue slip tradition of the u.s. senate. lindsey graham is absolutely out of his mind. there's just no other explanation for his conduct and for what he has done to the republican party and this administration. i cannot even imagine why he is apartmented on the grounds of the white house -- permitted on the grounds of the white house. attorney general william barr this weekend says he expects developments in john durham's obamagate investigation and called obamagate an attack against the presidency the likes of which that haven't been seen for some time. >> in terms of the future of durham's investigation, you know, he's pressing ahead as hard as he can, and i expect that, you know, we will have some developments hopefully before the end of this summer. in this sense i think it is the closest we have come to an organized effort to push a

president out of office. lou: well, joining us tonight, congressman devin nuñes, ranking member of the house intelligence committee, member of the house ways and means committee and a man who's been at the forefront and the epicenter of spygate from its very, well, from its early days. as then the chair of the house intel committee. congressman, great to have you with us. >> thank you. lou: attorney general barr said it straight up, the closest we've come to in an effort to overthrow a president since abraham lincoln. i mean, that's stunning stuff. >> yeah. i mean, look, it was surprising for us when we, you know, kind of stumbled into it. you have to really look. this was done in really kind of three phases. it was done as a dirty trick by the clinton campaign originally with the help of the obama administration using the fbi. that's what happened in 2016.

then it continued after the election when they tried to blame fake news and the tech companies were trying to say, oh, it was fake news, obama was blaming the tech companies, that's why trump won. then a few weeks later, lo and behold, they decide, no, let's go back to russia. so they keep the russia investigation going on even when some of the fbi were trying to hide and bury what they did wrong. but they resurrected it. then knowing through the first parts of the trump administration that even after driving general flynn out of office, forcing him to resign, then you had the appointment of a special counsel. so we're really at a status what started as lee smith who's been on your show many times, lou, who's wrote a great book, what begins as the plot against the president really moves into a permanent coup, and that's where we've been. the democrats took control largely based on this interference by the department of justice and the fbi in the

2018 election that caused republicans to lose control of the house. it was their main money-raising scheme. and then the house intelligence committee was turned into the house impeachment committee, and we've been dealing with that, you know, for the almost going on four years now. lou: critically important now, as attorney general barr told maria bartiromo, he expects developments by, hopefully, by the end of the summer. this is critically important, because you and i and i think most americans understand the democrats with their lies and their deception and the extraordinary effort, conspiracy to overthrow the president stole the election in 2018. and stole the control of the house of representatives. it can't happen again, not with the presidency, and it's critically important that the american people have the truth before this election. now, i heard a lot of nonsense

from the justice department under the comey era, the bean -- brennan, clapper conspiracy in the i.c. that, you know, there's a rule 60 days before the election all of that nonsense and utter crap. this is about stealing a presidency, and it can't happen this time. how confident are you that it won't happen this time? >> well, as you know, the house republicans on the intelligence committee -- who are the only ones that have been running a real investigation up until attorney general barr came to the justice department. you have to remember the first two years of the trump administration they were busy trying to get rid of the president who had appointed many of those people. so now there's a real investigation going on because the adults are in the room. i believe the u.s. attorney out of connecticut, who has a tremendous track record, is doing his very best, along with

the u.s. attorney from missouri and also now one out of texas. as i told you a few weeks ago on the show, we've been constantly looking at unanswered questions that we have. we've turned to parts of the department of defense, specifically the office of innocent assessments -- net assessments. i'm talking about just the republican investigation in the house. we also have -- lou: right. >> -- many unanswered questions that we've gotten to the appropriate authorities at the department of justice, and we have recommended many criminal referrals now, i think we're up to somewhere with around 14 criminal referrals that we have now made to the department of justice. so our investigation continues and, thankfully, we now have the department of justice itself conducting an investigation. and you would just say this to ask your question about, well, is there any rule that would apply about bringing it before the election, no, there is not. unless hillary clinton is going to be on the ballot in november, which i don't think she is, this doesn't involve anyone that's currently on the ballot right

now. so, you know, one could say, well, biden was somewhat involved. yeah, but, you know, really he was on the periphery of this, so it's not going to involve him. could involve the obama officials and could involve very high-level obama firms. but with what we really want to see happen is those people that were in the clinton campaign that coordinated with the dirty cops who wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money, those are the people that the department of justice has to really rein in and, hopefully, are able to prosecute. lou: before the election. >> before the election. lou: it has to happen before the election. >> that is right. lou: let me turn to this development, jeff berman, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, fired friday night, summarily so by the attorney general, ultimately fired by the president at the attorney general's request because berman refused to leave the office. now we still don't know, what, 72 hours later why, what was going on.

how deep a mess is that southern district in? because it is a cesspool of unanswered questions. and i say cesspool, i read all of the stuff about the storied, legendary southern district. all i know is that anthony weiner's laptop went in, and we've never herald another damn -- heard another damn word about it. we know -- it just goes one thing after another. is dued in to spygate, it's tied into corruption of all sorts involving the clintons. berman made no sense at all as an appointee of this president since 2018. this is -- and here we are, all of us just happy as we can be not knowing a damn thing the about why or what is happening in the most, arguably, the most important jurisdiction of the u.s. attorney, 93 of them in the country. >> yeah. what i would say to that, lou, is i don't know why either, and

i do find it quite interesting because it appeared like attorney general barr just in that kind of he said/she said, that he was essentially trying to find another spot for that u.s. attorney that perhaps he could go to. but clearly, the attorney general had a problem with the leadership there, and i would like to know that also. i'd like to know what that entailed. finish but as of this date, i just don't know, i'm at a loss just like you are. i'd love to get more information, but i don't want to get in the line of just making something up like some of our friends do in the news business. [laughter] lou: well, our friends in the news business, how about some of our friends in the, the congress business or the senate business -- >> well, the congress -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] lou: i mean -- >> they always do that -- lou: -- you and i are -- >> the politicians always do it -- lou: you and i are pristine in our relative bailiwicks. congressman, it's great to have you with us.

thanks so much. and i hope that we have answers, all of us, soon. congressman devin nuñes, who has provided many of the answers that we have gotten over the course of the past three years. well, coming up next, the failure of the president's rally in oklahoma. who's to blame? should changes be made in the president's re-election campaign? the man who ran president reagan's re-election campaign, as a matter of fact, who's led more campaigns, i believe, than any other republican strategist in history, ed rollins joins us here next. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. please stay with us. when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. we'll be right back. please stay with us. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can detect suspicious activity on your account from here. and you can pay your friends back from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?" you can tell them: here's my bank. or here's my bank. or, here's my bank.

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numbers. the campaign blaming protesters for blocking entrance gates as well as the left-wing national media for scaring people away talking about the spread of the china virus. according to the tulsa fire department, 6200 people were inside the bank of oklahoma city. the campaign says 12,000 people made it inside. but even that number short of the ballyhooed one million number the campaign claimed to have signed up. radical dems, the left-wing national media jumping all over that turnout that was relatively low but probably five times higher than anything joe biden has experienced, claiming the campaign fell for a a prank, saying teenagers of the chinese-owned app tiktok registered for the rally e to artificially inflate numbers. now, if it was tiktok, haven't we got a story there? in a statement, the president's campaign manager, brad parscale,

said this: registering for a rally means you've rsvp'd with a cell phone number, and we constantly weed out bogus numbers in calculating our possible attendee pool. what's unclear is whether those bogus numbers were weeded out before or after parscale announced on twitter that there'd been over a million ticket requests for the rally. we've asked for comment from the trump campaign. we, well, we have yet to hear, hear back. that's all i can say. we're not getting an answer. the campaign does say that over ten million viewers watched the rally online. that's pretty spectacular. and according to white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany, president trump is, well, pretty happy with that. corey lieu lewandowski, howevere of the president's 2016 campaign managers says the 20 campaign made a mistake. >> i think a fundamental mistake was made. overpromising and

underdelivering is, you know, the biggest mistake you can make in politics. and each -- even if he receives a million or -- rsvps, it's always about the turnout. lou: well, to get some perspective on this, we're bringing in the savant himself, vast experience in running winning presidential campaigns, ed rollins, the top strategist for great america pac, former reagan white house political director, great american, and he served as the national campaign director for the 1984 reagan-bush campaign that won only 49 of 50 statements. ed -- states. ed, great to see you. >> thank you. lou: this is, no question about it, it's a mess for the campaign. not necessarily for the president, but it's a mess for him. should heads roll? should there be a is shake-up? >> i would argue at this time, there's 134 days to go, and this

president is behind almost 9, 10 points in every poll, even the fox poll, they've got to shake the campaign up. the they can't fire the candidate, obviously. my concern about brad, who i don't know, is a guy who basically has a bunch of operations that he's running. he's never run a campaign before, he was the digital guy four years ago. he has the great confidence of jared kushner who's also never been in a real campaign before. he's either going to be the guy who knows the numbers, you're throwing a million figure out, someone should have said, first of all, well, the president only got 900,000 margin victory in the whole state, do you think every person who voted for him is going to come to a rally? the answer's no. less than 200,000 voted in the tulsa district. so you lower those expectations automatically. so my sense that brad, who's basically running an empire, has taken $30, 40 million out of the

campaign already which is unheard of, you should have a manager who knows something about politics who's salaried, not a high salary, low salary. bloomberg hired a guy who basically spent all the money he promised to spend, he paid less than $200,000. when i ran reagan's campaign, i took $75,000, and everybody else was below me. i think they need to shake it up. lou: no, you bring up the bloomberg campaign that's almost like john bolton bringing up the libya option with kim jong un. it's, that didn't work out too shiny. the fact of the matter is this campaign, you know, is having a lot of trouble. this president has, just as he did in 2016, he's got every force in the country arrayed against him. what does he have to do to get this thing turned around? >> he has to drive -- the biggest issue was not how many people showed up, but there was no message.

he rattled on for two hours the other night. that's not what the country's looking for. the country is looking for not the past, but the future. who basically is going to deal with this virus. who's going to deal with this economic crisis. who's going to solve these trillion dollar deficits. who's going to fight the democrats off, make sure that schumer, nancy pelosi and joe biden don't end up running this government. lou: ed rollins, as always, great to have you with us, my e friend. up next, john bolton's betrayal. treasury secretary steven mnuchin has a few thoughts about the forbear national security adviser. he joins me next. stay with us, we'll be right back. hey, can i... hold on one second... sure. okay... okay! safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!!

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don't sanction the chinese, don't sanction maduro, don't sanction the north koreans so harshly are all the conditions of a big business democrat which is fine in a big business democratic type of administration. mr. secretary, he not only hates president trump, he hates the treasury secretary. what's the deal? >> well, lou, it's great to be with you, and he didn't like me, and he obviously doesn't like the president because from day one he disagreed with the president's strategy. so, first, let me just say i haven't read the book. i've seen parts of the book, people have sent me. i sat in meetings, completely full of inaccuracies, that's number one. number two, it's outrageous that any national security adviser or any member of the president's national security team should be able to write a book without it getting positively cleared, and after the president is long gone. the fact that john bolton was more interested in making millions of dollars off of a book than serving the country is

outrageous. lou: and the judge himself, royce lamberth, acknowledging that he did not have written authorization from the national security council review, that he was gambling with national security, but the judge also saying -- and i'm not sure that i agree with him -- that the horse was out of the barn. i'm not sure i agree with that at all, in point of fact. we have had instances with judges have retrieved public books that have been published but not been sold. this is a bizarre moment in history. where a judge says he's reckless with national security, could have civil and criminal penalties against him as a result, but he wouldn't stop the book. >> well, lou, my understanding -- and, again, without being an expert on the legal case, what i can tell you is my understanding is that when bolton left the white house, he was asked to return notes, and

he didn't. is so i find it hard to believe that he sits in a principals committee meeting in the situation room, which by definition, deliberations are confidential and classified, yet he must have an incredible memory if he remembers everybody's quotes. but not only are many of the quotes inaccurate -- even if they were accurate, by definition they'd be classified. and it was very clear we've done more sanctions under president trump in this administration than the previous administrations combined. so for john bolton to say that i or the president or the treasury e department was weak on sanctions is ridiculous. when it comes to iran, the president, myself, secretary pompeo, we're 100% aligned. and, yes, it's true, john bolton was not necessarily 100% aligned. but every single decision we made went to the president. and let me tell you, it was the

president's policy, not john bolton's policy. lou: let's talk about, if we may, decoupling. robert lighthizer raising eyebrows of more than a few people, including my own to, when he said decoupling from china after 100-plus thousand americans were murdered by the policies and the decisions of xi jinping is, to me, stunning. the president made it clear that that was a misunderstanding between himself and lighthizer, but i wonder what your understanding is. >> i think ambassador lighthizer's comment was taken out of context -- lighthizer. ambassador lighthizer, as you know, he's done an amazing job. he was the one who led our trade negotiations at the direction of the president. i sat in every single one of those meetings. nobody has ever done as much on trade as ambassador lighthizer. so there may be a time when we

have a decoupling. that's something the president will consider. but this president has been tougher on china than anyone, and it's only because of the president's tariffs that we were able to get a phase one trade deal which has done more than any previous administration whether it's a democrat or republican in the office. lou: how much -- no, and i've been, i think amongst those, at the forefront complementing you the president and the administration for achieving a historic agreement with the chinese. i'm also now feeling somewhat loanly because i'm amongst the few who leave this administration should also be holding president xi and the chinese government accountable for the murder -- what i see plainly as the murder -- of over 100,000 americans. is there any energy being devoted to how that can be achieved? >> lou, i think there is energy, and i would start with secretary to pompeo -- secretary pompeo.

when he had his most meeting, he was very clear we need answers. so, you know, it's not acceptable that china hasn't opened up, hasn't been forthright with what's going on with this disease s and there's no question the disease started there. and how did it spread through the rest of the world, and it didn't spread through china? that's what we want to know. lou: and why didn't, when they did know what was going on, they didn't tell the rest of the world. and that has cost a lot of lives. mr. secretary, we thank you for being here, and it's good of you to stand up and defend the president against a former national security adviser who does seem just a bit too interested in his book advance rather than the advancement of american interest. thank you. steven mnuchin, treasury secretary. well, the radical left's pushing, i guess, just simply to

erase america's history. it's expanded past confederate statues now. new york city leaders announcing a statue of president theodore roosevelt will be one of the latest to come down, awful fellow that teddy roosevelt. a crowd in san francisco also tearing down a i statue of the man who led the union army to victory in the war to free the slave ares. ulysses s.ing grant. members of the mob in san francisco also tearing down a statue of francis scott key. i guess this, in their minds, will make it unnecessary to kneel if that's how they feel about it. the author of the star-spangled banner, for some reason, inciting their ire. a strange, strange group, this left-wing mob. and there is much, much going on here that i don't think people are being exactly candid about.

it seems they have, well, it's more than anti-regime, it's more than a search for equal rights. it seems it's, well, they want to tear down america's history altogether. google that satisfy. up next, president trump teasing another high ranking job for a man who did a splendid job with his previous role, ric grenell. we'll be talking with "the wall street journal" east kimberly strassel next. stay with us, we'll be right you ever wish you weren't a motaur? sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you. yeah, like a regular person. no. still half bike/half man, just the opposite. oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah. yeah, i could see that. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.

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♪ lou: joining us now, kimberly strassel, member of "the wall street journal" editorial board, great american she is. great to have you with us, kim. and i want to start, if i may, with this lindsey graham. i, i am so sick of this tortured human being talking out of both sides of his mouth and working for almost everyone by the president of the united states as one of the top senators, republican senators. what do you make of him, and how much attention should we give him? >> well, look, one thing i'm really happy about, lou, is that he is proceeding with his plans to call in all of the characters

that were part of this russian collusion fantasy. and now that we have more information out there, the time is to call these people up. i'd like to see that happen a little faster. now, i saw you earlier on the show talking about his decision to honor blue slips and not allow, well, basically not allow a president's new nomination to the southern district to come up unless new york democrats agree. i profoundly disagree with that plan because blue slips, by the way -- they are not a rule, they are a tradition, they are a courtesy. they were designed to solicit e home state senators with the idea of bipartisanship and getting better candidates for the job. but democrats don't understand bipartisanship. they have used blue slips instead to simply stymy every one of the president's nominations no matter how small or lance armstrong, and they shouldn't be -- large and they shouldn't be afforded that courtesy anymore.

lou: the last three and a half years didn't happen in lindsey graham 's mind. he's not aware those are two of the people trying the hardest in that conspiracy with the deep state to overthrow the president of the united states. what idiocy is this, and why is it tolerated by mitch mcconnell? john bolton, that judge, royce lamberth, came up with one of the most cockamamie decisions i've ever heard, the horse has left the barn and, therefore, i can't do anything. hope that somebody holds john bolton criminally and civilly liable for his egregious acts against the national interest. what do you make of it? >> well, i mean, we can quibble over the judge's decision. i was happy to see he did absolutely point out that there were realish hsus with the fact -- real issues with the fact that bolton proceeded here. i think that is an important point. sometimes we get angry at judges for this decision or that, but you need to look at the behavior of those involved. and i think it's really unfortunate that john bolton proceeded to put out this book

not just while the prime minister was still in office -- president was still in office, but having been warned the classification process had not been completed. lou: and kimberly has written, i think, a very terrific article on what the president needs to do to win greater support. we'll have her ideas next. kimberly strassel stays with us, we hope you will too. we'll be right back. looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? line! the desert never lies. isn't that what i said? no you were talking about allstate and insurance. i just... when i... let's try again. everybody back to one. accident forgiveness from allstate. click or call for a quote today.

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♪ lou: kimberly strassel has written the president needs to give vote arrest reason toe vote for him. tell us about it. >> i was writing, lou, about this idea of make america great again for all because despite all the terrible things of the virus and these riots, what they have also exposed is that there are a lot of disparities in the country. that is not because of systemic racism. that is because of a lack of opportunity for too many people. the president has agenda about expanding that opportunity. the school choice, for instance. better health care. better housing opportunities. better job opportunities. this is a chance he should expand that. that is it way of addressing what we have and moving forward. lou: got a record to back it up. that is pretty helpful too. kimberly strassel, always good

to talk to thank you so much. michael pillsbury, tom fitton and john solomon with us tomorrow. we hope you will be as well. thanks for joining us tonight. thanks for joining us. good night from sussex. elizabeth: stocks ending in the liz: sending in the green. the economy now rebounding. cash is king. companies have a lot of drive power. from capitol hill to the border it is high-stakes, high drama on a host of hot button issues from the 2020 race to new disturbing details and growing questions. we have the details about abuses of power. the top government officials. it goes beyond the trump russia pro. tonight, americans are saying they are fed up with the mobs in the violet crimes taking over america's cities. you have failed us, you have ntfailed the u.s. taxpayers. dissatisfied with the nation's