of 7500 patients. elizabeth: okay. >> compare what happened. elizabeth: quite a track record. got it. va secretary, thank you so much for joining us. thank you for joining us. we hope you join us again tomorrow night. have a good evening. ♪ ♪ 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 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 in coastal states pushed for more

centralized government, for bigger government and less liberty, demand, demanding of course, gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, 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 socialists or communist philosophies. they manipulate, intimidate, 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 group and identity politics, racial politics, radicalism and in 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, no 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 is always been about disrespecting america, disrespecting of course the flag and everything it stands for. his inflammatory rhetoric, and superficial thought is not condemned by corporate america. in fact it its sponsored and 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, who are daring to have a different opinion, sometimes just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. as statues are torn down by radical leftists anarchists. democratic leaders along with their cohorts in national media and in corporate 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 that the president is the only leader who has chosen to keep america safe. >> this president is doing exactly that. in fact he is the only thing that stands between a mob and the american people. you know first it's the statues. then it is businesses.

then it is their hopes. sadly we have a loss of life 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 is deliberate on before. his message is in direct opposition to the leaders of the left, the radicals who failed to acknowledge that they have, well, failed to deliver anything other than rampant poverty, violent crime and murder in the 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 six-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 by a billion dollars last week. but to date, 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 is no school to go to, there is tremendous frustration and pain and trauma but it comes back to the coronavirus first and foremost and in 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. according to local reports 19 more people were shot in chicago last night, three of them killed. in atlanta the number of people shot has risen, 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 1000 national guard troops 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.

no one in power it seems will do anything about it. they talk well, the coronavirus. they talk about excuses, as if their willingness to hold back their police departments and to prevent their keeping how and order were the true cause. their leaders will coddle criminals, turn copes into villains and 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 hampshire. facebook blue revolution, told

members to reserve spots for the rally. a twitter user quote, if you have two minutes a day to troll the president and reserve two tickets, and laugh knowing two seats are 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. debt you get yours yet? mindless of it all. the ignorance ever it all, all on the left. president trump today at the white house says he will put pressure on governors around this country to make sure their students return to school in the fall. >> 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 will be good for them politically. so they keep schools closed. no way. we're very much putting pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools, to get them open and it is very important.

it is very important for our country. it is 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 media was focusing on the surge in confirmed china virus cases but deaths, they didn't note which are in lows not seen since march in the pandemic. yesterday nearly 47,000 new cases were confirmed but there were fewer than 250 deaths from the china virus. and, while they work through red tape and talk 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 dimension of 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 globalists at the chamber of commerce, the business roundtable, the u.s. china business council, other business groups want the united states to please appease china. communist china is, well, they think they should be coddled. so that the phase one trade deal

would remain in effect. seriously. that is what they're asking of the president. they seek appeasement. they want him to drop his demands in a effort to balance trade between these two nations and, the hell with u.s. interests. in a letter to the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin, u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer and the chinese vice premier lihue. 40 business groups are calling on the trump administration and xi xinping, to quote, redouble efforts to implement all aspects and agreement, end quote. that is not only arrogant. it is vacuous and it is predictable from the chamber of horrors, chamber of commerce executive vice president myron 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 promtory over looking american concerns and interests of the united states. brilliant is 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. through may, china's purchases are at, almost $27 billion. that is not even half of their year-to-date target. on wall street today, stocks lower, a sell-off 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. the u.s. government awarded maryland-based company novavax $1.6 billion to develop a china virus vaccine as early as this year. novavax stock surged more than 40% today. a reminder, listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. my knew book we want to tell you about, "the trump century," how our president changed the course of history forever. it is available for preorder now at "the trump century".com. the big will be released on september 22nd. we urge you to read it every wonderful page. up next, another globalist organization wants more cheap

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♪. lou: breaking news now, president trump officially 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 coverup. 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 customs 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 students, four private schools and a public school. new york university, university of southern california, north even university, columbia university, and the public university of illinois.

another globalist organization calling on the president to cancel his suspension of foreign borker visas. the national association of manufacturers wrote to the president, about the tired trope, without foreign workers economic recovery is at risk. nowhere in the letter did the association ever 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 nam, the chamber, the business roundtable, and wall street of course want to fill jobs with cheap foreign labor later at the expense of the american worker. joining us tonight, ken cuccinelli, 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 and the president made it very clear what his policies is. >> yeah. you hit the big number there, lou. it is the 18 million americans who are unemployed that are the president's first concern and we realize there is 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. 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 credit of the president who is 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 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 of 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, they need to be -- [inaudible] maybe the companies need to pay a higher wage, that is one of the things we try to avoid with our immigration system is -- [inaudible] lou: well, the reality that all of the major corporations,

particularly in big tech want to ignore is that the training of foreign workers, that they're bringing under these, bringing in under these programs, all but a few of the programs, american workers are more sophisticated in their training and have higher education levels and, unfortunately for them they demand higher pay and that is what everyone 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 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 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 will let you finish my sentence? >> first of all no, you read that at 3 1/2% unemployment and you have one thought. you read it at 11 1/2% unemployment you have quite a different thought. again the president came down on the side of the american workers

here. so he is declared where he is on it. by his actions. and he put his name and his reputation on it and he will be held accountable or he will 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 provided the advantage 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 have 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. 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 a benefit of the existence of this broad network of individuals in the each school. so that's how we would do such a thing logistically. we're final finalizing that now within the administration late they are month. lou: ken cuccinelli, always great to have you with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you, lou. lou: hear your thoughts. share your comments follow us on twitter @loudobbs, like me on facebook @loudobbstonight. national security advisor robert o'brien, republican national committee chair ronna mcdaniel will be with us as woodson center bob woodson as he is

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♪ ♪ lou: we talk about rinos from time to time on this broadcast, and rino groups in washington are now pressuring house republicans to support the radical dems' climate plan. the rino groups include, of course, the globalist chamber of commerce's global energy

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

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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

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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 doctor michael great to have you with us. we appreciate it. we are glad you are against the expression now that is so popular, is in a different context of course. we will be right back and stay with us. ate temperature check.

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