elizabeth. elizabeth: all right. joe concha, come back soon. we love your insights and perspective. thank you for joining us. i'm mac donald, you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. fantasticu have a great weekend weekend out there. that does it for us. "lou dobbs" -- ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. president trump today deployed more federal agents into democrat-run cities e ahead of what is expected to be another violent weekend. seattle's police department preparing for more property damage, looting, arson, assaults on their law enforcement officers over the coming days. the department of homeland security beefed up their presence in seattle as a result, serving in more than a dozen tactical border officers to seattle to protect federal buildings and property. seattle's radical dem mayor jenny durkan and washington

state's radical dem governor jay inslee both oppose the idea of federal law enforcement officers. they apparently oppose law and order period. instead, declaring that the feds' arrival in the seattle area is undermining public safety. if you can imagine. in portland, oregon, federal officers there pushed back a violent mob made up of some 2,000 anarchists and left-wing activists trying to burn down the federal courthouse. the now-rushal wissic -- richal listic chaos unfolding for a 57th consecutive night, and according to the leaders of the anarchists and activists, they don't intend to stop. officers in portland say they were hit with large projectiles, flashed with lasers before they then used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the crowd last night. the justice department today announced the arrest of 18 rioters this week. they now face federal charges.

senior adviser to president trump steven miller says president trump will not stand for the radical left's efforts to destroy the rule of law. here's how he describes a what's been happening in portland. >> the democratic party for a long time, historically, has been the party of she e session. what you're seeing today is the democratic party returning to its roots. these are mayors and governors that are saying the federal law, the u.s. constitution doesn't apply within the confines of our city, and our citizens will be held at the mercy of the mob. and the administration of justice, the federal courthouse, will be allowed to fall under siege, and that's what's happening right now in portland. lou: and portland is now a city governed by just sheer ignorance. in chicago mayor lori lightfoot also under attack for the very mob that she has been defending for weeks. hundreds of protesters surrounded her house demanding

she defund the chicago police department. mayor lightfoot tried to placate the rabid crowd. she then went and ordered the removal of two christopher columbus statues in the city. one of them was taken down in grant park, the site of the ambush on police officers last week, an attack in which 49 police officers were injured. the white house today calling out the radical dem leaders of many of america's largest cities for the recent spike in crime, their failures to even try to deal with the problem, to preserve law and order in their communities and their endless efforts to undermine the policies and the efforts of the trump administration to make the country a safer place. >> we saw with, under president obama, violent crime started to pick up, started to come down you should this president. he was for law and order x. this president is looking at this in a saving lives lens.

he's very keen on seeing the violence in our streets end. he wants to protect the people of this country when derelict democrat mayors and governors do not. lou: joining us tonight is customs, border protection commissioner mark morgan. mark, good to have you with us. it is a sad and sorry moment in our history when federal officers and agents have to be sent in to these democrat-run cities to establish law and order. are we at the point where you have to have officers and agents ready to go because so many of these democrat-run cities are actually encouraging the lawlessness, the violence of the activists and the radical left anarchists? >> lou, you're absolutely right. and i can tell you, dhs is, cbp, we stand ready and stand committed. if anybody, any criminal, any

anarchist in any city we have actual critical intelligence they're going to attack a federal courthouse, the seat of american justice and harm federal agents inside, absolutely, we're going to be ready to go. i don't want to get boo operational details, but i could tell you, lou, we already have deployment teams ready to go anywhere they're needed. and as the acting commissioner, i'm going to support that every single time. lou: the secretary of dhs saying to jenny durkan that that they're going to stay, that they're going to stay, federal agents are going to stay in portland and seattle. and the reaction of wheeler in portland and durkan in seattle despite all the violence, all the vandalism, all the looting and just the attack on innocent citizens, they are saying that the problem is the law enforcement officers that you're sending in to establish law and order. i mean, how do you react to that

kind of ignorance? >> it -- lou, i was just thinking the same word, it's ig e significant. it's outrageous. and i've got to believe that most american people, they see right through that. these are criminals that every night are organizing, planning and coordinating to intentionally destroy federal property and seriously arm -- injure federal armed agents that are inside. that is absolutely ridiculous for that mayor to say that. and it even goes further. the city council's actually passed a resolution that they forbid local law enforcement to share information and intelligence with the federal agents to be include acts and threats against life. that just came out. lou: incredible. >> that is outrageous. it's incredible, lou. lou: and who, you know, and we don't even know who the leaders of these organizations are. i'm speaking for the news media, the people of this country.

black lives matter is getting a lot of support. it's a marxist organization. do you have current intelligence on their activities that -- well, that you could share with the public? also with corporate america which in some instances is trying to support them? >> what i can tell you is two things are going on. one the fbi, under the department of justice, they're actively investigating this, these individuals. and in addition to that, what we have is every night they're coming together and they're loosely organized. they're meeting every single night, and that's when they're getting together to plan. what we also know that i can tell you, lou, is just recently we have more information that on social media they're coordinating. they're actually putting out information about how to defeat -- [inaudible] that's going out there, what they should wear, helmets, shields and etc. they are absolutely coordinating. every single night they're

bringing weapons, weapons to the facility to intentionally -- lou, their intent to burn down that federal courthouse, that's their desire. lou: and the 18 people who have been arrested, we now know that the doj inspector general's going to be investigating some of your officers, any federal agent there instead of investigating those who are carrying out this violence and provoking and leading this civil unrest. i mean -- [inaudible conversations] how do you and your officers react to it? >> so it is -- the irony there is palpable, right? but, hey, look, we welcome the investigation. that's part of the transparency e and accountability for law enforcement professionals. and they are professionals, lou. the information and intelligence that i know, these officers acted absolutely in accordance with policy and law. i have no worry about those investigations. but, lou, you're right.

instead the mayor's asking law enforcement agents to go home when he should be asking the criminals to go home. it's outrageous. lou: they should be asking -- they should be telling to get the hell out, and they should be stopping it, local law enforcement and leadership in the cities. and if the justice department's going to investigate officers on the scene trying to establish law and order, you would think they might just want to investigate these organizations that are carrying out all of this violence. and it's obviously an orchestrated effort to destroy federal property. their aims are a lot larger than seattle or portland. >> oh, absolutely, lou. you're absolutely spot on. and here, look, if local law enforcement, if they would unhandcuff local are law enforcement and let them do what they know how to do, this would end overnight. but it's the mayor and the local leadership in portland that is handcuffing them. that's why this violence is

continuing. and, hugh are, it's a matter of time -- lou, it's a matter of time. we've already had several agents injured. we're going to see someone seriously hurt, and i'll tell you what, the mayor and local leadership are going to have to answer for that. lou: are you satisfied with your rules of engagement with these mobs in because we don't want any of those -- we don't want anyone hurt, but we sure don't want those law enforcement officers who are trying to preserve life and property to be injured. are your rules of engagement strong enough to protect your force? >> lou, on the federal side they are. of i'll give you an example. just, i think it just happened today, again, local leadership told the portland police that they could not use less than lethal riot control devices any longer. the ones that we as a federal agency not only do i allow, but i authorize and support them to use every single day, and they are to safeguard that federal property and themselves. but it's outlandish e.

the tools are being taken away from local law enforcement to do their job with. it -- it's unbelievable, lou. lou: yeah. well, there should be a justice department investigate of the city government of seattle, without question, and portland. it's outrageous, the risks that they are raising for those law enforcement officers and for the community. outrageous. i don't understand why the people of portland and seattle pulse up with this nonsense -- put up with this nonsense, because it's not a game. as you point out. mark morgan, thank you very much for what you and all of your people are doing. stocks finished lower, the dow down 182 points, the s&p lost 20, the nasdaq down 98. volume on the big board, 5.4 billion shares. for the week, the dow finished down three-quarters of a percent, s&p 500 off a quarter of a percent, the nasdaq one and a third. it is the first week in four weeks that wall street has moved

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lou: breaking news, covington catholic student nicholas sandman says he's settled his lawsuit with "the washington post." the $250 million defamation lawsuit that he filed last year against "the washington post" for misrepresenting him as willing mocked a native american protester at the lincoln memorial and effectively accusing him of being a racist.

they found out it was sandman can if his fellow students who were being harassed by the activists, one of them you see there pounding on a drum in his face. the amount sandman settled for hasn't yet been published. earlier sandman settled a $275 million lawsuit with cnn. president trump last night says he would consider pardons for all who have been prosecuted by potential counsel robert mueller saying obamagate was nothing less than treason. finish. >> the fact is that president obama and vice president biden and the whole group of 'em with brennan and comey and mcif cape and lisa -- mccabe and lisa page and strzok, her lover, and well beyond them, they spied on the campaign, using the intelligence agencies of our country. they illegally, this is illegal as can be, this is treason, this is many things you can call it.

they spied on the campaign of another party both before and after victory. both before and after. never been done before. it is so bad. if it were the other side, they would have been in jail for two years, and it would have been a 50-year term. but obama and biden knew everything, and they spied on the campaign of the opposing party using intelligence. lou: joining us now is tom fitton. tom is the president of judicial watch. his new book is "a republic under assault: the left's ongoing attack on american freedom," available for preorder right now. good to have you with us, tom. let's talk about the joe pientka. he was, he is the mystery man in all of this. he was the other fbi agent who accompanied peter strzok to the white house to, well, to entrap and to frame general michael flynn.

how has the fbi gotten away with hiding this man and keeping him out of all view, at least i'm aware of, all public view? >> ask director wray. the fbi's been covering up key documents for years, and wray's been part of the cover-up. the justice department's allowed it to go on as well. these documents that came out this week which document -- these are fbi reports showing that pientka, strzok and kleinsmith, the guy who said that vive the resistance in his text messages and then altered, allegedly, the cia information about carter page to make page look like a bad guy when, in fact, he was a hero in order to get a fisa warrant. they went in with a counterintelligence briefing to the trump team. the president was there, then-candidate trump. general flynn was there. and they were spying on him

directly. they were taking notes about what trump and flynn were saying. of course, they were saying innocent things. they went in there under false pretensions, abused their trust. and then we get documents last week, lou, that showed strzok wanted to do the same thing at the trump white house. go in there under the false pretensions of fbi e counterintelligence briefings to spy on trump. nothing like this has ever happened in american history. the president is being charitable to barack obama. obama makes richard nixon look like a piker when it comes to targeting his political enemies. lou: and look at who has said that they're not going to reach to the obama white house, will not be interested in talking with president obama or vice president biden. the attorney general has said that, the chair of the judiciary committee in the senate has said that. i mean, that's outrageous, that they would not reach as far as the facts take them. expect facts right now -- and

the facts right now are pointing in that direction, i think, with bright red are, blinking lights. >> there's that famous january 5th, 2017, meeting, it's an ini famous meeting in the oval office where they talked about the dossier, the logan act, general flynn being innocent, yet they all went to spy on, harass president trump and, obviously, target general flynn. biden, obama, they were all involved there. you put your finger on it. general barr has said he doesn't even want to question these guys, biden or obama, about what they knew. that's why we filed a federal lawsuit this week to find out details about that corruption because it's pretty clear doj is going to give joe biden a pass despite him being involved in the obamagate scandal. in the least, they're witnesses, lou. let's say they're completely innocent of any wrong doing. at least tell us what they knew and when so we can figure out who did e the wrong thing. lou: yeah. well, absolutely.

this president has been under investigation by those very agencies, those very departments for four, almost four years. and we're not going to ask a question of the president who authorized such outright scandalous, treasonous behavior? i mean, it's insane to think that he didn't authorize it. they're having meetings in the oval office, for crying out loud. it's deeply, deeply frustrating. let me turn to judicial watch, your lawsuit against the department of education trying to find out how in the world so much money sloshing around from foreign nations and hostile powers at that. what are you, what are you hoping to find here, and why would, why are we just now learning about all of this? we know the chinese have been carrying out espionage activities and surveillance for the people's republic of china

for at least two decades in this country. why now? >> well, you know, it's come to a head and, frankly, the trump administration deserves credit for highlighting this issue. for all the complaints we've had about doj and fbi and state, at least the they're -- lou: no, i'm talking about -- >> [inaudible] coordinated way now. department of education, they're supposed to get reports from colleges and universities, those universities get a quarter million dollars or more from a foreign government. according to one report, at least 70 colleges didn't report that type of grant activity from the chinese. we want the details. we're suing for the info. we also have a lawsuit that qatar had given texas a&m a boatload of money. we're in court against their high priced lawyers to try and get information about that gift. texas a&m has got a campus in qatar, and they won't give us any details about the gift that seemingly e resulted in that campus being sent to that

terrorist-supporting country. lou: well, obviously, i'm more concerned about china, i am more concerned about russia, and when i'm asking what has taken so long, two decades of surveillance, i mean, this has been going on for 20 years and only now are those agencies that have harassed and pursued and persecuted this president for four years, they're just now awakening to the fact that china is shipping in spies who don't tell the truth? i mean, i can't believe the nonsense that i'm hearing from the fbi that they just can't believe that, effectively, that these chinese nationals who were sent to this country by the pla to spy and to steal u.s. technology and intellectual property, that they would lie on immigration documents? are you kidding me? >> yeah. i'm old enough to remember, lou,

back in the clinton administration where you had the chinese in a coordinated effort trying to influence our elections, and we presumed that just stopped. they were bankrolling bill and hillary clinton, targeting senator feinstein. she got a briefing about it. but then presumably they stopped. of course they didn't stop. they were let off the hook, and now we see the results 20 years late or. lou: absolutely. and thanks to you and to judicial watch, we see a little clearer. thank you so much, tom. appreciate it. up next, president trump's approval skyrocketing. kansas senate candidate kris kobach joined me right after these quick words with. stay with us, we'll be right back. usaa is made for what's next we're helping members catch up by spreading any missed 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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and we've got a senate that won't, basically the campaign committee, mitch mcconnell and the boys, the leadership have told the president -- told automatic senators not to run -- all the senators not to run with this president, attach themselves to his coat tails. are you -- [laughter] what is your thinking on that counsel and that advice? >> another mistake by mitch mcconnell. look, the president's approval rating is going on the way up because people approve of the job he's doing both on the economy and his response to the lawlessness on the streets. i think there's another thing going on, lou, and that is the social desirability bias, that's what the pollsters call it. trump has always performed less well in the polls than he does in the election because some people think that the desirable answer is not to say you're it voting for -- voting for trump. in addition to the fact that more people approve, he's going to have an even bigger boost on election day because of those people who are not telling the

pollsters they are trump voters or will be trump voters. plus there's the enthusiasm gap. i think this looks great for the president. lou: and you, obviously, are a strong trump supporter. you were considered for a number of posts. tell us where you are in the race, the primary race for the senate running against a mitch mcconnell-designated candidate. an establishment candidate if ever there were one. >> well -- yeah. well, we're leading in the polls, but it's only a single-digit lead. and as you mention ld, mitch mcconnell has come in to try to interfere in the race and lift up the rino opponent and try to propel him across the finish hine ahead of me. we've seen this so many times where mcconnell interferes whenever a conservative is leading in the polls. i think he should just let kansas republicans decide for themselves and then put that money behind the winner instead of attacking a republican.

he's hurting the republican cause not just in kansas, but nationally by attacking republicans in primaries. lou: so how aggressively are you campaigning? how much effort are you putting into this race? because those who criticize you, as you know, for not giving it, you know, not spending 24 hours a day on the trail -- [laughter] in a previous election. >> you, as your producers can tell you, we had to squeeze this interview in because i am literally crisscrossing the state and hopping into a vehicle right after we get off the air to get to the southeast corner of the state in record time. we're going from dawn until dusk, it's actually way past dusk on most nights. one great thing is ever since mcconnell calm in on behalf of my opponent, conservatives across the country are going to kris kobach.com to chip in. that's been a really nice response around the country.

lou: a lot of money pouring in for your opponent. how's your fundraising, and how are you doing? >> well, we, we haven't raised as much money as mitch mcconnell's putting in. he's dumped $4 million plus now in the last three or four -- three weeks. and it's hard to pick up that kind of money quickly, but we're putting everything we get on the air. he's outspending us about 2 to 1 these last few weeks, but we still is have enough ammunition to win it. lou: and to win it, this is going to be quite some, some test. your sense of right now the energy and the excitement around your candidacy, what are you counting on to take you over the finish line? >> the grass roots conservatives in kansas. you know, they know my track record over the years, not wavering, always stand thing firm on these conservative issues whetherst it be the second -- whether it be the second amendment, to-life issue,

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chinese -- consulate in china. secretary of state pompeo challenging other nations to change their, the form of their engagement with china. secretary pompeo says that if they don't, the free world as we know it may be lost. >> it demands exertion, energy from democracies, those in europe, those in africa, those in south america and especially those in the indo-pacific region. if we bend a knee now, our children's children may be at the mercy of the chinese communist party whose actions are the primary challenge today in the free world. lou: joining us now, congressman jim banks, member of the house armed services committee. congressman, good to have you with us. the secretary of state sounds like a secretary who is keenly aware that the united states is now in a cold war with the people's republic of china. your thoughts.

>> lou, this speech that secretary pompeo gave at the nixon library, ironically, is the best and most important speech the secretary has given as secretary of state. and it tells you everything you need to know about this administration. you have to go back to 2017 when president trump first became president, his national security team came together, they published a national security strategy that named a great power competition with china and said we need to pivot away from the wars in the middle east and focus on great power competition with china. now fast forward to the pompeo speech yesterday calling for the rest of the free world to join the united states of america in that cause because now, if we don't do something about this now, the time has run out to ever do something about it. this new cold war -- [inaudible] lou: let's look at what this administration is doing. the president has ordered two aircraft carrier groups into the

south china sea. this president is doing exactly what he should. one of the problems is we don't know what's happening in the south china sea. we're getting very little, very little information from the department of defense. mark esper is acting as if he is running a covert operation instead of putting two carriers in, potentially, harm's way. the american people e need to know what the hell is going on and what those carriers and their task forces are up to. >> i agree with you, lou, and i'm grateful again for secretary pom paw owe being -- pompeo being the adult in the room, advising this president, the president bringing along a team that's led by secretary pompeo to do that. shutting down the consulate in houston was a big step. they need to shut it down fully. we know the fbi has said that every 10 hours they open up a new case, a counterintelligence case against the chinese for

their theft and intre lek chul property theft in the united states of america -- lou: you know what, congress mark? >> we need better leadership from secretary e e sper and the fbi director as well. lou: i'd love to hear from christopher wray how many damn cases are being closed every ten hours. this is preposterous, that they've had time to indulge in operation crossfire hurricane or razor, i mean, all of this spying. they detached i don't know how many agents at the justice department while we have existential threats from china and from russia potentially. what in the world has this country been doing? it's just stunning to me what we have put up with from those two, the department of justice and the fbi. i want to turn to mark esper. as you point out, here is the man who has had a number of very

public conflicts with this president. john heighten, the vice chair, the general who called this president -- i'm not even going to repeat what he said, but it was a word that, if i were president, he would be with fired and whatever else i could do. it's outrageous, what is happening in that department of defense. esper needs to go, don't you think? >> well, i, i believe secretary esper has done a huge disservice to the president and not just to the president, lou, but to the men and women who put on the uniform. by not supporting the commander in chief who hired him in the first place. i support the president who he decides to surround himself with, and in this case i'm as disappointed as you are that secretary esper has not respected the man who gave him the opportunity to have a lifetime to serve not just him as president, but to serve this country in one of the most important positions in this administration. lou: and he's had a public

conflict with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the vice chair, calling him -- using a word that i just can't believe. i'm just not going to repeat it and carry that water. buts this is pretty disgusting, what we're seeing from the uppermost ranks of the joint chiefs and from the secretary. i mean, there's something in the water over there. and they need to get their heads on straight, and i think the only way you do that is give them a very long time to contemplate it as civilians. what do you think? >> well, there's no doubt about it that the president has paid attention to these types of activities from secretary esper and others. i respect this president, he's the best leader in my lifetime -- lou: do you think we ought to fire them? do you think we ought to fire them? >> i think that's, lou, that's up to the president. i'm not going to tell the president -- lou: of course it is. i'm not telling him what to do, i want to find out what you would do. >> i, if i had someone who

said -- lou: well, i'll rephrase it this way -- [inaudible conversations] congressman -- >> [inaudible] lou: thanks. mine either. [laughter] and your administration before mine, i assure you. congressman jim banks, thanks so much. we appreciate it. baseball opened yesterday. two games, both games -- [laughter] every coach and player knelt in unity for black lives matter, for black lives matter before the playing of the national anthem. everyone kneeling except one, except san francisco giants pitcher sam coonrod who said he didn't kneel out of faithfulness to his christian beliefs. he said this, quote: i'm a christian, and i just can't get onboard with a couple of things that i've read about black lives matter, how they lean toward marxism and they've said some negative things about the nuclear family. i meant no ill will by it, i just believe i can't kneel before anything besides god, jesus christ.

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lou: rino political groups are spending millions of dollars this year trying to dissuade evangelicals in key battleground states from voting for president trump. one such group is called republican voters against trump. they are spending upwards of $15 million against the president with their campaign. these are so-called republicans. then you find out who is associated with them. that group is affiliated with anti-trumpers like bill kristol, former jeb bush aide tim miller. they started running a new tv ad targeting the religious right titled trump using us. well, well, well. joining us now is robert pastor -- [laughter] pastor robert jeffress, pastor of the first baptist church of dallas, fox business contributor, author of the new book "praying for america," available everywhere now. good to have you with us, professor, and i'm so mad, i can't even get your name straight. i apologize. [laughter]

i mean, are you kidding me, bill kristol? [laughter] these people, jeb bush's aides? what a bunch of -- well, there are some top flight -- i won't even say it. your thoughts about this. [laughter] >> look, i'm excited about this. i e hope they spend millions of dollars more chasing this fool's gold of the evangelical vote. if lou, they're living in fantasy thinking that there's this large group of evangelical voters who are upset with the president's tweets or temperament, and they're going to vote for joe biden. look, joe biden will never get more than 17% of the evangelical vote, the same amount that voted for hillary clinton, and there's a reason for that. the masses of evangelical voters don't care about the president's e tweets or his temperament, they care about his e accomplishments, and he's got a long list of those accomplishments. 200 federal judges, conservatives, appointed to the

court. record pro-life legislation initiatives. record pro-religious liberty initiatives as well. the 206 election was about -- 2016 election was about promises, 2020 is about a accomplishments, and that's why evangelicals are going to vote en masse for donald j. trump. lou: well, i love your challenge to those folks. it turns out a number of these groups are just hissing money for themselves -- raising money for themselves. they're sort of passing it back and forth amongst themselves, these anti-trump groups. that apparently works well for them, and it, it's incredible, what we're putting up with. and to see the way the senate is operating. you've got very good, strong candidates but not to the liking of mitch mcconnell. they're too conservative, they're not reliable for him like, you know, john thune and a few of these other folks.

it's a shame to see it. you would like to see this president, every one of these senators should be standing up for him. i really believe that mitch mcconnell is running this time -- he's doing a paul ryan. he's about to lose the senate because of this ridiculous attitude of his. >> well, just remember, lou, president trump won without them in 2016, he's going to win without them in 2020. lou: he is, but, you know, i'd sure like to see a lot of great pro-trump folks get in there. pastor robert jeffress, we're out of time. thanks for putting up with me tonight. good to see you. before we go to break, a reminder about my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever" available at thetrumpcentury.com. the phone lines are manned, everything's ready -- oh, nope, that was before the internet age. stay with us, we'll be right geico's been helping people save money for over 75 years.

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[background sounds] lou: that's it e for us tonight. monday, sidney powell and larry elder join us. have a great weekend, ♪ >> from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromo's "wall street." maria: and happy weekend, everyone. welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo. thanks so much for joining us this weekend. coming up, allianz chief economic adviser mohamed al-arian to discuss his op-ed on the u.s./china rivalry. later, my one-on-one with florida senator marco rubio on the closing of the chinese consulate in houston this week along with the stimulus package, the next relief. "the wall street journal"'s ted