today is world chocolate day, prices could be coming down, connell. connell: happy world chocolate day, and and all jeff flock needs is toilet paper and chocolate. >> reporter: thank you, sir. connell: "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. as we begin, the radical dems are in full-on, open conflict with america. our values and traditions and all that america stands for. they mean to end our way of life, to destroy our nation. the primary if focus of the left's agenda is to overthrow our constitutional government, to seize a permanent claim to power and to wealth. and they do so in the name of liberalism while they fill our streets with anarchists and leftist activists of all sorts. for decades dem leaders in primarily big cities and coastal states have pushed for more

centralized government, for bigger government and less liberty, demanding, of course, gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, unrestrain thed voter -- unrestrained voter fraud, a judiciary that must be packed with activist judges and now massive corporate funding of left-wing political organizations such as black lives matter and the defunding of police departments. the left's politics of destruction follow marxist doctrine and socialist or communist philosophies. they manipulate, intimidate and infiltrate every facet of american life. whether our schools, public or private, globalist corporations, wall street, the left-wing national media, hollywood, of course, and driving racial politics, radicalism and nearly all of our society 's institutions. and the left-wing media, unrelenting in its

corporate-funded radicalism. they mean to transform this, the greatest nation on earth, to matter the cost, no matter the pain, no matter the violence, no matter their lies. former nfl quarterback colin kaepernick this weekend made the absurd claim on twitter that july 4th is a celebration of white supremacy. kaepernick has been protesting the national anthem since 2016. this is what he said then. i am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. his protest has always been about disrespecting america, disrespecting, of course, the flag and everything it stands for. his inflammatory rhetoric and superficial thought isn't condemned by corporate america. in fact, it sponsored and is even cheered by madison avenue. americans have watched for weeks as parts of our cities and our

towns have been devastated as innocent civilians have been attacked by mobs for daring to have a different opinion. sometimes just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. as statues are torn down by radical leftist anarchists. democratic leaders, along with their cohorts in national media and in corporate americaing mean to change -- america, mean to change this country to end america as we know it. perhaps unsurprisingly, a new poll finds that half of all americans say a violent takeover of the u.s. government will be attempted in the next decade. president trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, says the president is the only leader who has chosen to keep america safe. >> this president is doing exactly that. in fact, he's the only thing that stands between a mob and the american people. you know, first it's the statues, then it's the businesses, then it's their

homes. you know, sadly are, we have a loss of high and yet this president is willing and not only willing, but has already put forth federal resources to make sure that we can restore law and order. lou: president trump is, of course, the alternative that america requires right now to fight back against the radical left. this president knows their plans for power can't be accomplished in a country that enjoys overwhelming peace and economic prosperity. both he's delivered on before. this message is in direct opposition to the leaders of the left, the radicals who fail to acknowledge that they have, well, failed to deliver anything other than rampant poverty, violent crime and murder in the bigties of this country. big cities of this country. in new york city, a horrifying new video shows a father gunned down sunday crossing the street as he held his 6-year-old

daughter's hand. no arrests have been made, and crime as a whole in new york surging. gun violence up 130% in june compared to a year ago. socialist mayor bill de blasio defunded the new york police department if by a billion dollars last week. but today he had a long list of new excuses for why violence in new york city had risen so dramatically, so grotesquely. >> the biggest factors, from my point of view, are the most universal. the fact that so many people have nothing to do, have lost their jobs, there's no school to go to, there's tremendous frustration and pain and trauma. but it comes back to the coronavirus, first and foremost, and then all the domino effect we felt from it.

lou: domino effect. chicago's democrat mayor, lori lightfoot, also in the de blasio school of thought. she also blamed the china virus for the spike in violence. and according to local reports, 19 more people were shot in chicago last night, 3 of them killed. in atlanta the number of people shot has risen, it's basically doubled over this past month. the state's governor, brian kemp, following the leadership of president trump, he took action against runaway violence in his state, now calling in a thousand national guard troop it is as he declared a state emergency to protect state property, to free up state police to work to calm the streets. until more cities and more states follow the lead of president trump, young black men and women will continue to be killed in democrat-held areas.

finish no one in power, it seems, will do anything about it. they talk about, well, the coronavirus. they talk about excuses. as if their willingness to hold back their police departments and to prevent their keeping law and order weren't the true cause. their leaders will instead coddle criminals, turn cops into villains -- or at least try to -- and try like hell to divide americans while opening a new door for the left to seek power. the radical left is hell bent on undermining our national values and determined to disrupt president trump's agenda no matter what they must do. leftists are now using social media to encourage haters of the president to secure tickets but not show up for his rally this saturday in portsmouth, new new hampshire. the facebook group blue revolution told its 60,000 members to reserve spots for the

rally. a twitter user wrote, quote: if you have two minutes of your day to troll the president, reserve two tickets and laugh knowing that's two seats not filled. end quote. that is the level of the opposition, the so-called resistance. one wrote, quote: i just got my tickets too. so sad i won't be able to go either. did you get your withs yet? the mindlessness of it all. the ignorance of it all. all on the left. president trump today at the white house says he will put pressure if on governors around this country to make sure their students return to school in the fall. >> and we hope that most schools are going to be open. we don't want people to make political statements or do it for political reasons. they think it's going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed. no way. so we're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools, to get 'em open.

it's very important. it's very important for our country, it's very important for the well-being of the student and the parents. so we're going to be putting a lot of pressure on open your schools in the fall. lou: well, the president's comments, as the national left-wing murder was focusing on the surge in confirmed coronavirus cases, but deaths they didn't note which are at lows not seen since march in the pandemic. yesterday nearly 47,000 new cases were confirmed, but there were fewer than a 250 depths from the china -- deaths from the china virus. and while they worked through red tape and talked amongst themselves about how best to do all of that, china is showing they're not content to have unleashed the deadly virus on the world. china is now spending billions to buy american companies like smithfield foods, amc theaters, general electric, all companies

that they have purchased divisions of or parts or whole over the course of the last decade. just last year the chinese spent at least $20 billion on u.s. real estate. financial and transportation and technology companies and assets. today the fbi director, christopher wray, finally talked about what is going on with china and the dimensions of the threat against this country. and the theft of american intellectual property and technology. christopher wray noting that chinese theft from the united states is the largest transfer of wealth in human history. the globals at the chamber of commerce, the business round table, the u.s./china business council, other business groups want the united states to, please, appease china. communists china is, well, they think they should be coddled so

that the phase one trade deal would remain in effect. seriously, that's what they're asking of the president. they seek appeasement. they want him to drop his demands in an effort to balance trade between these two nations and the hell with u.s. interests. in a letter to the treasury secretary, stephen my knew chin -- steven mnuchin, the u.s. trade representative, robert lighthizer, and the chinese vice premiere, 40 u.s. business groups are now calling on the trump administration and xi jinping to, quote, redouble efforts to implement all aspects and agreement, end quote. that's not only arrogant, it's invacuous, it is predictable from the chamber of horrors, chamber of commerce executive vice president myron brilliant desperately pleading, quote: the business community wants to prevent this deal from becoming

a casualty of the rising tensions in the bilateral relationship. end quote. as if the business community somehow stands in some superior promitory overlooking the american concerns and interests of the united states. brilliant concerned that president trump is serious when he threatened to kill the phase one trade agreement and to reimplement tariffs if china doesn't uphold its purchasing commitment. according to the peterson institute of economics, china's purchases under the agreement are far below their year to date targets. new -- through may if, china's purchases are at almost $27 billion. that's not even half of their year-to-date target. on wall street today, stocks lower, a selloff on the dow which fell 397 points. the s&p lost 34, the nasdaq down 90. volume on the big board, 4.6

billion shares. great concern about, about the rising cases of the china virus. crude oil down about a percent to $40.34 a barrel with. the u.s. government awarded maryland-based company novavax $1.6 billion to develop a china virus vaccine as early as this year. the stock surged more than 40% today. and a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. and my new book, we want to tell you about, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever." it is available for pre-order now at thetrumpcentury.com. the book will be released on september 22nd. we urge you to read every wonderful page. up next, another globalist organization wants more cheap

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lou: breaking news now, president trp officially are moved to withdraw the united states from the world health organization today. the w.h.o. that lied about the severity of the china virus and then covered up for china's cover-up. the united states submitted its withdrawal notification to the u.n. secretary-general. full withdrawal takes one year to go into effect. u.s. immigration and customses enforcement reporting foreign college students must now be in class in person this fall or leave the country. 1.1 million international students are enrolled for next year. more than half from china and india. the top five schools with the highest number of foreign students, four private schools and a public school; new york united states, university of southern california, northeastern university, columbia university and the public university of illinois.

another global organization calling on the president to cancel his suspension of foreign worker visas. the national association of manufacturers yesterday wrote to the president with the tired trope that without foreign workers, economic recovery is at risk. nowhere in the letter did the association of manufacturers' president mention that nearly 18 million americans remain unemployed, tens of millions of americans lost their jobs because of the china virus pandemic. no mention of that. instead, the globalists at nan, the chamber, the business round table and wall street, of course, want to fill jobs with cheap foreign labor, later at the expense of the american worker. well, joining us tonight, ken cucinelli, acting deputy director for the department of homeland security, acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services.

ken, good to have you with us on the broadcast. let's start with these business organizations hounding you, hounding the president, hounding the department of homeland security for foreign workers when we've got 18 million people unemployed, when we are a nation in an emergency expect president has made it -- and the president has made it very clear what his policy is. >> yeah. you hit the big number there, lou. it's the 18 million americans who are unemployed that are the president's first concern. and we realize there's no perfect, you know, balancing point on this spectrum, but the president made it very clear when he signed that executive order his first priority in getting this economy going again is getting americans back to work. and with tens of millions of them being thrown out of work as a result of the virus, we have a long way to go to get them back. now, we've had two months in a

row where the unemployment rate has declined somewhat. last month broke a record for job creation. a lot of that is -- lou: right. >> -- to the credit of the president who's pushing hard to reopen the economy, but to fill it with american workers. and they are now first in line. and i can appreciate that all these corporate i groups would like -- corporate groups would like the cheapest labor they can get their hands on, but the reality is, as you said, not only are there tens of millions of americans still out of work, but in all the categories where these visa holders get employed, tens or hundreds of thousands of people have filed for unemployment. so it is not like there aren't americans available. yes, maybe these companies need to pay a higher wage, but that's one of the things we try to avoid with our immigration system is -- [audio difficulty] lou: well, the, the reality that all of the major corporations,

particularly big tech, want to ignore that the training of foreign workers that they're bringing in under these programs, all but a few of the programs, american workers are more sophisticated in their training, have higher educational levels. and, unfortunately for them, they demand higher pay, and that is what every one of these companies is involved in, as you well know. i mean, they're simply looking for the cheapest labor possible, and the hell with the american worker. >> well, and americans overwhelmingly agree with the president that they would rather see modestly higher costs to be sure their fellow americans are being employed before foreign substitutes. and for the duration of 2020, the president has cleared the field of most of those incoming foreign workers using his emergency authority as a result of the economic challenges we're

facing. lou: let me read you one of the most condescending and at the same time, i believe, economically illiterate comments that i have heard. and it originates as you might guess from senator lindsey graham. if we could put up this full screen, talking about immigration and suspending foreign worker visas. if we could have that, please? legal immigration, legal immigration is a positive for the american economy. and visa programs allowing american companies to secure qualified legal labor throughout the world have benefited economic growth in the united states. i mean, the man is absolutely -- your thoughts about him. i'll let you finish my sentence. >> first of all, you know, you read that at 3.5 unemployment and you have one thing. you read it at 11.5%

unemployment, you have quite a different thought. and, again, the president came down on the side of american workers here. so he's declared where he is on it by his actions. and he put his name and his reputation on it, and if he'll be held accountable or he'll be rewarded for that by the american people. i believe the american people are strongly with the president on these sorts of issues where they prioritize, as the president does, getting americans back to work in front of the convenience and lower wages that provide advantages to companies that operate in the united states. lou: i want to turn to the requirement that foreign students who are not in physical class in the united states must return to their home countries. we've got 1.1 million foreign students here. how will you enforce that? >> well, in all of these schools at the collegiate level, there

are what amount to immigration officers at each school. and so they're being required now to provide new and unique certifications of the nature of the course loads that their school is employing. so that is, we're finally, in my view, making them work for their money and getting the benefit of the existence of this broad network of individuals in each school. so that's how we would do such a thing logistically. lou: right. >> and we're finalizing that now within the administration this month. lou: ken cucinelli, it's always good to have you with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you, lou. lou: thank you. we'd like to hear your thoughts. share your comments, follow us on twitter @loudobbs like me on facebook, follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. and national security adviser robert o'brien, republican national committee chair ronna mcdaniel will be with us tomorrow as will be woodson

center's bob woodson as he is every wednesday. we are delighted to say. please join us for that. up next here tonight, senator chuck grassley. he's so farred the deep state -- he's discovered the deep state, and he's concerned that the corrupt obama administration officials responsible for obamagate won't be held accountable. wow. what was he doing when he was chair of the judiciary committee? about the same thing as the current chair, lindsey graham. just the news' john solomon our guest here next. stay with us. we'll be right back. spreading d usaa insurance payments over the next twelve months so they can keep more cash in your pockets for when it matters most find out more at usaa.com

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institute, citizens for responsible energy solutions, the r street institute. all expecting, well, that they do just exactly what they should if they were democrats rather than, well, something, some sort of republican. and it looks like senator chuck grassley just discovered there is, a after all, a deep state. the senator says it will be, as he put it, sad if there are no prosecutions of obamagate actor actors. and the deep state, he says, is so deep that people will get away with political crimes. which makes you wonder why he was so, well, slobful as the chair of the judiciary committee. joining us tonight to take up all of this is john solomon, award-winning investigative reporter, ed editor in chief of "just the news." great to have you with us. do you find it even a little bit

amusing that, of all people, chuck grassley would be talking as if he had just discovered what's at stake here going into the presidential election? >> well, no, not at all. you know, senator grassley early on was one of the people who got us the strzok e-mails when other people were saying there was no collusion, no conspiracy against the president. he did a lot of the early groundwork the try to find the documents and evidence that now have become part of the narrative that shows the president was targeted by false accusations by a bure bureaucray intent on removing him from office. but i think the frustration in senator grassley's voice is being voiced by more and more republicans every day, and this is why. there is overwhelming evidence in the public record now that crimes were committed inside the russia investigation; falsification of documents, false testimony the, false representations before the fisa court. and we are now three years into that revelation, and nobody really has been brought to justice in the courts.

and i think that's why people are frustrated. by sources tell me there's a lot of activity. -- my sources. i've seen activity behind the scenes of the justice department that is trying to bring those first indictments, and i would look around labor day to see the first sort of action around the justice department. but for those who know the real story and see this evidence out in the open, it is overwhelmingly frustrating to see no alaska. lou: yeah. -- no action. >> yeah. and it's, let's be honest, this has been slow-walked by republican rinos as well as radical dems -- >> absolutely. well, that's true. paul ryan's congress -- [inaudible conversations] you're right -- [inaudible conversations] lou: and mitch mcconnell's senate as well. >> report that's right. lou: that's my view. it's sickening, to see what's happening. do you think there will be prosecutions before the election? >> i'm seeing a lot of activity consistent with building

prosecutions and preparing for criminal plea bargains. that doesn't mean it'll happen. until someone signs and until they bring them before the grand jury, you never know if it's going to happen. but i'm seeing a lot of activity consistent with that. i hear from people, defense lawyers, people on the prosecution side, that there are some complications with covid-19 just slowing down the grand jury process. but everything i'm seeing on the ground, real reporting, suggests that there's an ongoing criminal investigation intent on bringing indictments and possibly some plea bargains. the first action, the first evidence of it in the public will probably be around labor day. i do see activity that looks like they're building a criminal case right now. lou: well, we're all hoping you are exactly right. you've got a damn good track record, so we're pulling for you on another one. let's turn to false allegations about the russian-born scholar -- >> yeah. lou: -- in britain.

and the pretext that was created by the fbi, the cia as a predicate for what became a persecution of general michael flynn. >> oh, it's such a tragic story of outright false lies being put into the media, being put into documents, being bandied about by informants and becoming the basis for an investigation for which there was no factual basis. it was all false. everything that was said about general flynn, about the scholar was with provably false at the time it was said, and yet we persisted with an investigation, persisted to ruin general flynn 's career for quite some time. when this is all done, the people that were involved in that need to be brought to account. it's a sickening episode in american law enforcement history. lou: you know, we don't have time to get into it, but steven hall person, we just -- hall hallpern, we just don't hear the

name anymore. i wonder why? [laughter] >> i'm working on a story looking at some of his activities in this investigation, and i think we're going to learn some new things very soon, lou. lou: look forward to it, john. thanks for being with us. john solomon, just the justthen. up next, the rinos who turn their heads as our national heritage is assaulted. republican senate candidate from the great state of kansas kris kobach joins us after these quick messages. stay with us, we're coming right back. motorcycle riders love the open road. and geico loves helping riders get to where they're going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. and because we're committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. the geico giveback. helping riders focus on the road ahead.

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call today for a free guide. lou: well, massachusetts rino governor charlie baker, is ignoring the concerns of president trump. he signed a bill that would allow all massachusetts voters to vote by mail. last month president trump specifically warned mail-in voting will lead to the most corrupt election in our history. and supporting the president is of absolutely no concern for baker. back in february the rino governor of massachusetts was asked whether he would vote for the president in the super tuesday primary. baker said, quote: as i said many times, i didn't vote for the president time, and i'm not going to vote for him this time. why does he call himself a republican? we wonder. breaking news now. a new report warns mail-in voting not only susceptible to fraud, but also could waste a lot of tax taxpayer money.

printing and mailing ballots to all registered voters including dead and ineligible voters on outdated rolls will be costly and waste, well, serious resources. the report says a number of states are already reporting huge numbers of unclaimed, undeliverable ballots. i wonder what will happen with those ballots? well, joining us now is former kansas secretary of state kris kobach. he's running for the u.s. senate from the great state of kansas. kris, good to have you with us. let's start with voter fraud. i know there's no surprise to you here, but governors just don't -- the radical dem governors are having a ball with this. it's clear that they want the democrat party wants these mail-inning -- mail-in votes for one reason, to assure victory. >> yeah, that's right. you and i have discussed before, lou, there are approximately 24

million additional names on the voter rolls across america of people or who are deceased or have moved out of state or double registered under a maiden name and a married name. and they want those 24 million extra ballots to be sent out, and that will be a huge opportunity for fraud. and it just blows my mind that a republican governor going along with this madness. once again we see the rinos attacking the conservative president, attacking the things we have shown to be true. but so often the republican party turns its fire upon itself and, unfortunately, against the president. lou: well, and also against you. looking at the latest, we see that the mitch connell-related pac turning its fire on you, clear -- and you are, we should point out, the front-runner right now going into the election. the polling has you in first

place by 9% in the latest daily civics poll. yet this is not pleasing to the republican establishment. how big a deal it, and how much trouble is it causing for you not to be favored by mitch mcconnell? >> well, once again the establishment is doing this and attacking the conservative front-runner. spending over $2 million, they say, in my race, which is a lot of money in kansas. they should be saving that $2 million to support whoever it is that coombs -- that comes out of the primary. of course, they're always attacking the people most loyal to president trump. as you know, i was with president trump in the 2016 campaign, i've been with him all along, and i've add vised him for the last four and a half years. but instead, the establishment favors an anti-trump rino who favored john kasich in 2016.

you and i, lou, have talked about the border wall since long before people were talking about a potential president trump. we were talking about it 20 years ago. and also in the last year i've led the construction of multiple privately-funded sections of border wall, and if my opponent has mocked president trump and his border wall. here again you see the englishment going -- establishment going against the president and the president's agenda once again. lou: the republicans actually make up two parties now, don't they? the establishment rinos who are basically operating as if they were un affiliated with the republican party itself expect president's aagenda. that agenda, by the way, makes him a historic president who deserves reelection, in my judgment, without even a moment's reservation. what are your thoughts? >> yeah.

this president has been a disrupter, and he has spoken for not just republicans, but for the american people. and that's why he's appropriately labeled a populist. and the establishment hates it. and the establishment of the republican party hates any conservative who comes up and is speaking in the same terms expect same tones as president trump. they always want to go with one who's more mall qabl, they're already -- malleable. their already looking to a post-trump republican party. they don't like the trump republican party. so that's why you have republican leadership in both houses actively undermining the president and undermining those people who dare support the president over the establishment. lou: and that is precisely how the republicans lost the house in 2018. kris kobach, give 'em hell is and have some fun. good to have you with us. up next, red storm rising. fbi director christopher wray says china, china is a serious

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♪ ♪ lou: fbi director christopher wray making some news at the hudson institute. there he said nearly half of the fbi's 5,000 counterintelligence cases are related to china. the director said china is trying to become the world's only superpower by any means necessary. we didn't need to be told that. and our next guest at today's event, dr. michael pillsbury, director for the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. great to have you with us, mike. wray talking about half the cases and saying he doesn't need any more resources to combat the surveillance and espionage of the communist chinese in this country? are you kidding me? [laughter] >> well, director wray, i suppose, trying to be a good team player by not openly asking for money at the hudson institute. but i don't think he'll turn

down more money for fbi operations against china, do you? [laughter] if. lou: well, it sounded as if he was sanguine about it all. if meanwhile, the chinese are stealing, as you know, some $of $of -- $600 billion of intellectual property still no matter the phase one agreement, no matter anything else. they're still stealing with both hands in any way they can, instructing their overseas population to remember who they work for, and that is the communist party expect motherland. what are we to make of that? >> well, it's a comprehensive speech, and the good news is his proposal, without quite saying is so, to realign the fbi to protect american innovation. he said it several times, that china's out to -- lou: god almighty. >> -- by stealing innovation. in other words, the fbi, they used to catch bank robbers, mafia, spies out of embassies to

steal documents. no. he's talking about stealing innovation. he described many different examples of how they do it. he said this is a pioneering approach. the world's never seen this kind of effort before, lou. lou: by him or by the chinese? [laughter] >> he wants the fbi to get help, the country, where the chinese are stealing innovation. even gave the example of pulling up seeds and finding some seeds that are genetically modified, they know about it. they fly these seeds back to china to reverse engineer it. this is something the fbi's never done before so, obviously, they need more money and more agents to do it. lou: and they've got a director that says that they don't. and, by the way, you know, this hasn't been g-men with 1911 handgun for quite some time.

two decades since the war on terror and september 11th. i thought they'd been reoriented, they were very sophisticated. but maybe this is explaining why the chinese can steal $600 billion of intellectual property, carry out wanton cyber attacks against the united states, and there's no damn response. i mean, what in the hell wrong with this country? >> you know, lou, you could read the director's speech and say the fbi's been asleep at the switch for the last 20 or 30 years on chinese theft of our innovation and our technology. he wants the fbi to wake up and be reoriented. that's an optimistic way to read the speech. this is a new mission for the fbi. long overdue. lou: well, i'm an optimistic guy, but this isn't about my mood, this is about the intelligence of smart government, a whole-of-government approach. and i'm really tired of hearing these, you know, i mean, the fbi is a rancid organization still

in part, top of that organization. it is. and the agents who were -- i mean, this is -- we are facing an incredible enemy in communist china, and we're doing so with a political party, the democrats, who would rather spend all of their time and energy and effort on attacking this president rather than dealing with what is in front of their face, the greatest global competitive threat, and perhaps more than that, by china. we've never seen anything like it. and we've got people walking around and parading nonsense in front of, in front of us saying they don't need anything, everything's fine. they're still acting like they're not stealing $60 billion a year! and trying to carry out every kind of surveillance and espionage in this country. jesus, we've got two carrier groups in the south china sea!

it isn't a tea party. what the hell is going on in that administration? >> it's a full scale challenge by the chinese to our primacy. some people in the administration, including the president, have woken up, and they're doing the right thing, very tough, very strong the, but others have not. we might have seen director wray change sides today and join the president's team. i certainly hope so, lou. lou: yeah. i'm with biggs, i think the man might want to think about a different role altogether, a different team. dr. michael pillsbury, appreciate it. we're glad you are -- i guess the expression you that is so popular, is woke. in a different context. of course. we'll be right back, stay with us. 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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lou: that's it for us. thanks for joining us this evening. robert row brian joins us as chair of the republican national committee, ronna mcdaniel. bob woodson please join us. my new books the trump century. check it out. elizabeth: markets down today after yesterday's big rally. we have a big show. former u.s. attorney matthew whitaker on chuck grassley, now saying that the power of the deep state is so massive people can get away with political crimes under the obama administration and its surveillance of the trump campaign, russia probe and michael flynn probe. we're taking a harder look at president obama. we'll show you how, quote, by the book obama, was clearly uncomfortable and gave it away in his final press conference in 2016 where