how our president changed the course of history forever. order it at thetrumpcentury.com, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com. thanks for joining us. good evening from sussex. ♪. president trump: anything else that can happen, years, years. or you never even know who won the election. you're sending out hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots, hundreds of millions. where are they going? who are they being sent to. it is common sense. you don't have no know anything about politics. the democrats know this the democrats know this, steve. so i want to see, i want an election and a result much more than you. i think we're doing very well. we have the same fake polls but we have real polls. we're doing very well. i just left texas.

and biden came out against fracking. that means texas is going to be one of the most unemployed states in our country. that means oklahoma, north dakota, new mexico, going to be a disaster. ohio, pennsylvania a disaster, no fracking. i want to have the result of the election. i don't want to be waiting around for weeks and months, literally, potentially, if you really did it right years because you will never know. these ballots are missing. you saw paterson, new jersey. you saw many other instances. there is tremendous litigation on that right now. and that doesn't include absentee. absentee is different. absentee you have to work, you have to send in for applications. you have to go through a whole procedure. like for instance, i'm an absentee voter because i can't be in florida, because i'm in washington. i'm at the white house. so i will be absent at the voter. we have a lot of absentee

voters. we're in favor of absentee. it is much different than millions of people, in california they're going to send out tens of millions of voting forms. where are they going to go? you read where postmen are in big trouble now. you read where city councils are in big trouble now. voter fraud all over the ballots. so, no i want to get, i want to be standing hopefully handheld high, big victory because we're doing things with our country that i think nobody else could have done. our country is despite this pandemic which is devastating the rest of the world, by the way, devastating. one of the articles that came out was the world's covid resurgence. this is the "wall street journal" editorial. the main editorial on "the wall street journal" i don't always agree with them. but they have the world's covid resurgence. countries hailed as models to

see -- then they go, the virus returns at a level like they haven't even seen. we've been giving praise to certain countries and the virus now come to them like the first time. but it's a very interesting and it talks about many countries where everybody was holding them up saying what a great job they did. well it just one of those things didn't work out so well. so we want to have an election. i would love to see voter i.d. but this is the opposite of voter i.d. the democrats love it. the republicans hate it. we all agree that absentee voting is good. mail-in ballots will lead to the greatest fraud -- we talk about russia, russia, russia, for 2 1/2 years and they found nothing and there was nothing. but they talk russia, russia. they talk china. they talk all of these countries, they say they get involved in our elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots.

this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead, steve. reporter: delaying the election is non-starter, wouldn't you agree with that. president trump: i just feel, i don't want to delay, wait three months and ballots are all missing that the election doesn't mean anything. that is what is going to happen, steve. that is common sense. everyone knows it. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it. some people don't want to talk about it. but they know it. and, no, we want to have an election where people actually go in and, what's your name? my name is so-and-so. boom, sign the book like i've been doing for years. it is very, very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughingstock all over the world, because everyone know it doesn't work. how many ballots is he sending in california? 28 million or some massive

number. other states are sending out millions and millions of ballots? well they have done it. they had experiments. they had news organizations experimenting. look, read the story in the "washington post" about mail-in voting. its adisaster. i'm very surprised to see that story frankly from them. the store is a disaster. so we're asking for a lot of trouble. and, no, do i want to see a date change, no? i don't want to see a crooked election. this election will be the most rigged election in history if that happens. john. reporter: mr. president, you said you do not want to see a delay in the election but then it looks like the process of these mail-in ballots is going to continue to november 3rd. >> we have many court cases, jim we have one filed for a while in western pennsylvania as an example on mail-in ballots. we give tremendous examples. number of examples of all the

fraud and all of the things that have taken place with respect to mail in ballots. reporter: wondering if the net effect what you tweeted this morning what you talk about now to cast doubt on the results of the november 3rd election. >> it had an interesting impact. i didn't know it was going to be the impact it had. what people are now looking at is am i right but not me, are all these stories right about the fact that these elections will be fraudulent. they will be fixed. they will be rigged. everyone is looking at it. a lot of people are saying you know that probably will happen. please, jennifer. reporter: mr. president, to break the logjam in congress and to prevent unemployment insurance lapsing what do you plan to put on the table tonight? president trump: that is a great question. i can't tell you, that wouldn't be very smart from a negotiating standpoint but we'll be putting certain things on the table. we want to get money to people, it wasn't their fault and we want to get money to people and it has to be substantial. it is not their fault what

happened. the fact is people don't like saying it, they know it is true, it's china's fault, okay? it is not their fault. it is not worker who lost his job. it is china's fault. that is the way it is. please? reporter: thank you, mr. president, yesterday dhs came to an agreement with the governor of oregon to remove federal officers and oregon state troopers took over. mayor ted wheeler was noticeably absent from that agreement. are you confident that the state of oregon will be able to quell the protest in portland? if the violence does consider would you consider redeploying federal troops? president trump: homeland security has done a fantastic job. they went to oregon more than a week ago. the place was a mess. the city, portland was just a disaster. you see it and a lot of people weren't reporting it right. they tried to pretend it was protest as opposed to anarchist

and agitators. you understand what i'm saying. it is a mess. they went there a short while ago and they saved federal courthouse that cost hundreds of millions of dollars that put a ring around the courthouse and they saved it. but the group that is there is basically meant to save buildings. they were very strong, very powerful. and they didn't come out too often out of this cocoon they built in order to save these very expensive valueable and psychologically important buildings like courthouses. the governor and the mayor, we've been dealing with them, and we think they don't know what they're doing. because this should not have been going on for 60 days. it is not our job unless in case of emergency, which i consider now to be an emergency. it is not our job to go in and clean out the cities. that is supposed to be done by local law enforcement. yesterday the governor worked a deal with, they will do it,

we'll stand by, they will do it, that is good. that is very good. she didn't report it that way. what she reported was totally different. she said i think trump wants to take over the country. it's crazy. so what happened is, our people are staying there to see whether or not they can do it today and tomorrow. and if they don't do it, we will send in the national guard and we'll take care of it. we'll telling them right now, these protesters, many should be arrested. these are professional agitators. these are professional anarchists. these are people that hate our country. we're telling them right now we're coming in very soon, the national guard, a lot of people, a lot of very tough people. and these are not people just have to guard the courthouse and save it. these are people that are allowed to go forward to do what they have to do. i think that makes the governor's job and the mayor's job a lot easier. so they're working today and probably tomorrow to clean out this beehive of terrorists.

if they do it, i'm going to be very happy. then slowly we can start to leave the city. if they don't do it, we'll be sending in the national guard, please. reporter: mr. trump, given what is happening with major league baseball, now today the rutgers football team is quarantined how can you insure schools safe will be reopen? president trump: can you assure anybody of anything. i do say young people are almost immune to this disease. the younger the better, i guess they're stronger. they're stronger. they have a stronger immune system. it is an incredible thing. nobody has ever seen this before. various types of flu will hurt young people more than older people. but young people are almost immune. if you look at the percentage it is a tiny percent of 1%. it's a tiny percent of 1%. so, we have to have our schools open. we have to protect our teachers. we have to protect our elderly but we do have to have our

schools open. yeah, please, go ahead. reporter: mr. president a week ago you said here strategy involving coronavirus, where is that strategy? president trump: i think you're seeing it. you will see it. one of the things that has not been fully utilized yet we're all set to march when it comes to the vaccine. we have great therapeutics that are testing very well and we have great vaccines from incredible companies. johnson & johnson and pfizer and merck and all of these great companies, and they're doing very well. the delivery system is all set, logistically. we have a general that is all he does is deliver things. whether it is soldiers or other items. i think you will see something that will be spectacular. the fda has approved things at a rate that is a tiny fraction of what it would take during a another administration let's say. we are way ahead on vaccines. way ahead on therapeutics.

and when we have it, we're all set up with our platforms to deliver them very, very quickly. the vaccines are doing well. the therapeutics are doing well and we're all set to deliver them as soon as we have them. that is going to be very soon. thank you very much. [reporters shouting questions] >> president trump just wrapping a news conference covering top picks from the coronavirus. amid the blow back should the president delay the election due to voter fraud. that blow back potentially overshadowing a core issue, yes there have been problems with mail-in ballots in the past. good evening, everyone. i'm jackie deangelis in for elizabeth macdonald tonight. this is "the evening edit."

let's go ahead to get straight to it. we'll bring in former acting attorney general matthew whitaker. you were listening. start with this notion is it possible to the president float this idea, congress would have to make the ultimate decision if we were going to delay the election, he is sort of putting it out there as raw meat. >> it is good to be with you tonight, jackie, what i know about this issue the president continues to be concerned and should be concerned about what is happening in some states where they are sending out voter ballots without people requesting those ballots. we saw this in the primary season in nevada where the state of nevada sent a ballot to every registered voter. many people had moved. and these ballots piled up in mailboxes in apartment buildings especially. these are the concerns that if we just wholesale send out voting ballots it would be ripe with fraud and we could not maybe be able to trust the results.

jackie: that would be a difficult situation to be in of course, because you might not get results for several months as he mentioned here tonight. and there would be a lot of confusion. it is certainly might make the situation worse but you know, joe biden has said in the past, he said it to some donors, the president will do anything he can do here to try to cause problems or at least cast some doubt on this election. so you're going to have one side of the aisle saying that. >> yeah, but you joe biden also es trying to find any way to get his base enthusiastic about his candidacy. i think that is a big challenge painting the president as boggy man instead of addressing legitimate concerns of voter fraud which the president pointed out has been highlighted both in the "washington post" and we can look again at other places. they still haven't counted all absentee votes i think in at least one congressional seat in new york. so i mean there is a lot of examples where this, an idea that somehow we send ballots to

everyone or everyone votes by mail, could cause complete and utter chaos in our voting system in the fall. jackie: it is not just potentially what could happen here. ag bill barr has floated the idea if you have mail-in ballots on a mass scale, you could potentially leaving the election open to intrusion from other countries. this is a problem that we've been focused on for quite some time. >> no, you're right. bill barr has spoke about this at his hearing recently. fbi director chris wray china is an ascendant threat to our elections. certainly they have the capabilities to reproduce absentee ballots to get those mailed in. i think there is a lot of questions that many of these state, secretaries of state and local voting officials need to answer as to how they're going to protect the ballot from not only voter fraud but also foreign interference. jackie: one more question on

this before we move on. you had jerry nadler tweeting today the president doesn't have the authority to do this. you have representative zoe lofgren in california. americans voted in the civil war, great depression, in shadow of world wars. we will vote this november. your thoughts. >> yeah. i fully expect that the election will be in november and a lot of people, including my self will go to their voting location and vote. i mean i think it is, it is, and president said if legitimate absentee voting is, there is no problem with. that it is this idea of sort of a complete mail-in vote where people are sent ballots, often times without requesting them as you saw in nevada in the primary. that is what he is concerned about. i think there should be a lot of concern about that. jackie: with the time i have left with you i want to switch gears here, in seattle residents slamming the push to defund the police during a city budget hearing as activists bring the protests to officials homes like

here in new york. nypd commissioner der mitt shea. democratic officials calling for federal law enforcement to clear out of cities even as riots are escalates. watch this. >> people to come out and start taking people off the streets, shoving them into unmarked vehicles, failing to identify themselves, this is not how things are done in america. this is more like the police state in terms of the tactics. they weren't wanted here. we didn't invite them here. >> we don't need the help that is the president is offering. in fact i think the president's actions have directly escalated and responsible for what happened. >> these are also, as we understand it, not what we've seen on the streets of portland. riot-clad federal officers who are playing police in the streets. if there was anything that happened like that we would be making sure that we did everything possible to stop that

in its tracks. jackie: okay. there saying they don't need the help but in reality they do need the help because they don't have the situation under control. actually homeland security secretary chad wolf said with respect to portland, the federal authorities are not going to leave until we are sure the local authorities can handle this. >> yeah. that is the reason the federal assets are in portland right now is because the local police has been unwilling to, you know, control this crowd and make sure that it does assemble peaceably and doesn't try to take over the courthouse and burn it to the ground as some of them have said. i mean i think this is one of the things. people of portland, people much seattle, people across the country want law and order. they want it to be safe in their own homes and own communities. they don't want violent protesters and mobs of people overrunning public buildings. it is just, i think it is common sense. we see with our own eyes what is happening in some of these cities. these politicians are somehow

playing to a fringe wing of their party for some reason i guess because it is a election year. fundamentally i think people want peace and security and freedom. those are the tenets that our country is founded on and that is what the president and the federal government is trying to restore in these communities here. jackie: really quickly, don trump, jr., wrote open he had, joe biden wouldn't reduce rioting, wouldn't reduce crime. when you see the pictures how democratic players are handling things in their city, you have to think maybe he is right. >> no, you're right. bill barr, during that hearing, no one on the left condemned the violence we're seeing in our major cities, or tried to come up with a solution with the attorney general to solve it. jackie: matthew whitaker, thank you so much. good to see you tonight. we'll talk to you soon. >> jackie, thank you. jackie: coming up house intelligence committee ranking member devin nunes on the new development in the fight over dismissing the criminal case against former trump national

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michael flynn. an appeals court will reconsider the department of justice's order to drop the criminal case against flynn. so what happens next here? let's talk about more with house intelligence ranking member, california republican devin nunes. great to see you, congressman. i want to get a straight to it and a lot of folks are looking at this decision sort of a win for judge sullivan who does not want to al how the department of just is to drop the case here. >> we're really in uncharted tear tore riffs. you said it exactly right. i will put it a different way. this is a never ending story. they know this has never been done. this is court is overwhelmingly democrat, very left-wing appointees. and what they're trying to do is stall and stall and stall. so i think a couple of things could intercede here. one could be that durham, or another u.s. attorney comes up with indictments. the second thing is, there could be more evidence that could show

up. as you may recall it was the house republicans who first learned that the agents didn't believe flynn was lying. and that is evidence that we had in early 2017. not to mention all the problems with the mueller team. the mueller team is being investigated. the flynn case has been investigated. it has been dismissed by the department of justice. no american should be treated like this. especially a war hero. a war hero, one of our nation's greatest generals that we've had in this country, who was set up and framed by his own government, working with the democratic party. jackie: in addition to what you mentioned, we even have the emails from susan rice that talk about conversations that went on with president obama and joe biden present. that they knew exactly what was happening here. they wanted to proceed, even though they knew there was really no case against mr. flynn. >> it is rather frightening. all americans need to understand those dates. those dates are really key.

the general flynn is the incoming national security advisor. they already have him under investigation in 2016 for a totally, an investigation that was with no predicate whatsoever. we know it was a setup by the democratic party, supposedly getting information from russians that they were feeding into the fbi. we knew the fbi cops were corrupt. then speed up past the election. i think that was just kind of a dirty trick they were trying to play during the october time frame, before the 2016 election. then come the date that you were mentioning, that date is a critical date because that's clearly where obama and biden are directly involved. it comes a day after the fbi themselves, even the dirty cops involved in this thing tried to dismiss and get rid of this case and drop the case, counterintelligence case against general flynn. so somehow, i think obama and biden have some explaining to do and we'll see if biden ever comes out of his basement to

actually answer these questions. jackie: right the public would certainly need to hear about that especially ahead of an election. you talk about additional evidence. i want to discuss these texts from the former fbi director andrew mccabe. the doj agreed to release them. what do you think it will show us? it will show that he leaked sensitive information and that he misled the investigators? >> look, we have long been missing a lot of text messages. we had to fight as republicans, we had to fight over and over again to get text messages. don't forget a bunch of text messages had to disappear. inspector general horowitz was able to find some of them. there is still a lot not out there. my question is, who is holding these text messages up? the republicans in the house have had ongoing investigation. we have two senators having an investigation in the senate. why are these texts not being provided to congress so that the public can know before this election? i think time is critical here. jackie: all right.

let's broaden this out a little bit, because you brought upjohn durham, everybody is waiting on pins and needles did to see what his investigation finds. attorney general barr, we should have results possibly by the end of the summer before the summer is over. do you think that will help further the ball, so people actually understand what went on here in the russia probe. forget the fact that the mueller report cost taxpayers $38 million? >> let me bring you back to a couple days ago right here in washington, d.c., in our nation's capitol. you had the attorney general testifying where democrats continued to just attack, attack, and not let him answer any questions. why was that happening? that was happening because they're trying to smear the attorney general because they are scared and worried about what durham is going to uncover. this is not hard to figure out. house republicans have made 14 criminal referrals. we, that means we have enough evidence where we felt that we

could make these referrals, that have several, several people, that are involved in these referrals. so there is ample evidence, not to mention what may come with what durham may be able to dig up, like the text messages that you mentioned that congress never received. jackie: with respect to what you're talking about, attorney general william barr, his testimony before congress, irv want everybody to watch this. >> i gave instructions as to what -- >> reclaiming my time. >> i'm answering your question. >> you have to let him answer. >> reclaiming my time. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> will you restore my time because this business is speaking over my time. >> does it have to be with quibbling. >> reclaiming my time. you answered the question. >> reclaiming my time without political bias. reclaiming my time, mr. attorney general. reclaiming my time, mr. barr. >> substances. >> mr. attorney general reclaiming my time. >> when people resist law enforcement they're not peaceful.

>> reclaiming my time. i'm surprised at your lack of respect. >> it is not self-defining term. >> i have only two minutes. >> mr. barr, this is hearing. i thought i was one supposed to be heard. jackie: just wanted to play that congressman mean news, it shows everybody exactly what happened on the hill the other day. ask you one final question. you were on with my colleague maria bartiromo and you were talking about sources used to furnish the steele dossier. we're finding out one of the sources was not a russian national. he was somebody lived here and worked closely with the brookings institute which happens to be a left-wing think tank. >> like we started this interview talking about the never ending story. this is a whole new chapter. we have long suspected that the brookings institute was heavily involved in that. why did we respect that. we knew the president at the time was disseminating the dossier. we had. that we had evidence. people who told us that on the

record. also they had stood up this propaganda machine that was constantly smearing myself and my colleagues. now they're on to attorney general barr. you know through, this was kind of a propaganda arm stood up. they were always defending the dirty cops. it always struck us as rather odd. take those two pieces of information. now you add on to it the fact that we were always led to believe, the investigators were led to believe three russians we were looking for supposedly. the main source, supposedly was this russian whose life was in danger. we had people who testified in congress that was the case, his life was in danger. it ends up he was living a couple miles a way from where i stand right now. he is just a political hack. he worked at a left-wing think tank. his only tie to russia he was born there i assume he can speak russian. other than that he is just another swamp creature living here in the swamp that was actually working for christopher steele. christopher steele was working for who?

through a couple cutouts. democratic national committee and hillary clinton campaign. jackie: congressman nunes. with that, we'll say thank you so much for your time tonight. thank you for helping us also parse through this great to see you. >> thanks for having me. jackie: all right. coming up, secretary of state mike pompeo hinting about more sanctions against china during a hearing on capitol hill. jim banks from house armed services committee, he joins us on this geico's been helping people save money for over 75 years. they've really stood the test of time. much like these majestic rocky mountains. which must be named after the... that would be rocky the flying squirrel, mr. gecko sir. obviously!

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♪. >> our vigorous diplomacy helped international reaweakenning to the ccp. senators, the tide is turning, we close the consulate in houston because it was a den of spies. we're the toughest administration ever on russia. jackie: that was secretary of state mike pompeo testifying in front of the senate foreign relations committee on the trump

administration's efforts to curtail espionage and interference from china and russia. so what steps are being taken to keep us safe? what are these threats from foreign countries mean for our national security? joining me now indiana congressman jim banks. he is on the armed services committee. and currently serves in the navy reserves. he joins us now. i want to start with china first, hadding to a list of problems, aside from the theft of intellectual property. aside of problems we have with respect to trade relations. now you add the coronavirus pandemic. the fact that china actively did not act to close its border to try to contain it or share information about the pandemic with us that could have helped here in the united states. you have got the events in the consulate in houston the other day as well. i mean china just continues to snowball as a problem here. and the democrats don't necessarily want to acknowledge it. >> you've summed it up quite

well. it is even worse than. that the fact that china refused the cdc and w.h.o. coming in way back in january to study the coronavirus, studies show that could have prevented over 90% of the cases and spread of covid-19. they should be held accountable. secretary pompeo reminded us again today this administration is the first administration of my lifetime to be tough on china, reflecting what the american people are demanding. today "the wall street journal" published a "pew research poll" that showed that 73% of americans hold an unfavorable view of china and expect their leaders from the president to the congress all the way down to do more to hold them accountable. right now i can tell you there is only one party serious about doing it, and it is the republicans. jackie: it is so interesting, congressman banks, i will stay on this point here you're discussing, nobody has done this before. it is unprecedented the stance that president trump has taken with china and it's long overdue but you look back to the obama

administration. you see, not only didn't they do anything. but a lot of the problems were mounting and adding up over time. and vice president joe biden now says, well, i'm going to be tough on china. how could you possibly believe him? >> talk is cheap because the record reflects something very different. the obama administration turned a blind eye to the economic and military threat that china has become. this is nothing new. it has been going on for nearly 40 years of malign activities on the part of the chinese that are very much against the interests of the united states of america but president trump ran as a candidate on being tough on china. he has kept his word. probably the most significant part of his record over four years is that he changed the world conversation about what we do about china. in fact secretary pompeo last week he gave what i believe is the most historic speech over the last four years by any secretary of state in this administration at the

richard nixon library, coincidentally where where secretary pompeo talked about rallying the free world to develop a coalition to fight back against the activities of the chinese. secretary pompeo is serious about it. president trump is serious about it. why republicans on capitol hill are trying to do something about it too. jackie: there is among international powers that haven't necessarily stepped up just yet. i look at two perspectives not the politics back and forth but the economic ties with china, the trade war we're dealing with, to the market. how much we needed them but we started to diversify supply chains and doing things differently, and we're rebounding. at the same time china needs foreign investment from the united states to raise capital for a lot of its companies. it would seem they would be in a position to be worse off than we would be. those worried about the hitting back or retaliation have to

remember they have got a stake in this too. >> that is exactly related. we elected president trump to begin with because he is the best negotiator we have ever had in the white house. when he came to his job he talked about negotiating better trade deals with china. he did that with the phase one deal which at this point is long forgotten. i don't have to tell farmers in northeast indiana or manufacturing businesses about the struggles with china because they have seen it first-hand. they have seen china steal their intellectual property. the farmers have seen china steal their, their genetics, make it harder for them to make a profit as well. they expect politicians from both parties from all levels of government to do something about this. that is why in the house we created the china task force. what was fascinating about the china task force is that democrats initially agreed to join us in this effort. jackie: they did. >> to study the china threat. they backed out on it the last minute, making it a purely

partisan republican effort. it is truly sad to me and all of my constituents as well. jackie: that says a lot. congressman, thank you for your time. hope to see you on the show soon. >> you got it. jackie: later on the show, media research center an president, founder, brent bozell on the growing big tech backlash over perceived anti-conservative bias. >> i will just cut to the case. big tech is out to get conservatives. that is not a suspicion. that is not a hunch. that's a fact need? i should get a quote. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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♪ jackie: just as many of the big tech companies took to the hill yesterday the cover of today's "new york post" calling out a perceived double standard at twitter for allowing iran's ayatollah to call for the destruction of israel while also saying that president trump's tweets inspire harm. so is twitter within its rights

to police its platform the way it sees fit or is this just another example of anti-conservative bias on social media? let's ask the president and founder of the media research council brent bozell. great to have you with us, brent. you know, yesterday we watched that hearing on the hill. you had apple, google, amazon, facebook, twitter wasn't there. let's start with the question first. are these social media questions just getting out right out of hand with respect to how they're censoring content? >> you know, jackie, they have every right as private companies. they have every right to censor anyone they wish, however what they don't have a right to is special protection as an objective platform where they can't be held legally liable for what they do. secondly they don't have the right to go to congress to say things under oath, commit perjury, say right to congress that they have no, they have no biases when on a daily basis they are censoring conservatives

every single day. there is one being censored. i had dinwer four senators last flight. i pointed out to them last night, if they can sensor of the united states and get away with it they can censor anyone they would like to and that is what they're doing. jackie: i want to talk to you about facebook per se, because mark zuckerberg was on the hill yesterday. you know they were all testifying virtually. he was saying, basically that, they don't interfere in any way. that there is no bias here. google said we'll not interfere in the election. we're not doing anything to swing it either way, yet so many people believe they are. what can the government do about this? part of going on the hill yesterday, starting to investigate and look at you know, antitrust, suits, possibly saying they're too powerful or that they have monopolies, but you had all four of companies there, there are all different

types of companies. how do you break this apart to try to start to take some action? >> well, i would suggest to you that silicon valley has as much power or more power than any of the other three branches of the federal government today. why? because there is a system of check and balances on the judiciary, on the legislative, on the executive. there is no checks and balances on silicon valley. these are massive, these are the biggest corporations in the world in history. they have power worldwide. and they're deciding what is and what isn't acceptable speech. they're deciding that if you're the ayatollah khomeni suggesting genocide for israel, they're a can rouse growth and that is okay because it is commentary. if you're the president of the united states calling for law and order in the night you're censored because somehow you're abusive. this is out of control.

they have to be held accountable, section 23 of the communications act that gives them protection that says they won't be held liable for what they say. you have got to take that protection away from them. they have to be held liable just like fox news is, fox news can't get away with the saying the kind of stuff they're saying but they're protected and fox is liable. jackie: as this is going on they're also raking in profits. we've been in the midst of a pandemic. had a first quarter estimate, sorry, first estimate of second quarter gd. p that the economy contracted more than 30 percent. worst since the great depression stoke prices are soaring. they're essentially getting paid to do this. >> they're making a fortune of money and so long as there is competition i think that would be a wonderful thing. there is just a little problem with this. there can't be competition. these are behemoths. these are monster corporations.

apple has a trillion dollars in cash. how will you compete with them? how will you compete with amazon? how will you compete with facebook? you can't compete with them. so you have got to do something where antitrust is concerned. jackie: it is really tough. brent, thank you so much for the insight tonight. great to see you. coming up the feds busting human smugglers and seizing 82-pounds of meth from a capsized boat. we'll ask retired i.c.e. acting director ron vitello and asking immigrants allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? line! the desert never lies. isn't that what i said? no you were talking about allstate and insurance. i just... when i... let's try again. everybody back to one.

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♪. jackie: the u.s. coast guard along with u.s customs & border protection arresting four people near the u.s. mexican maritime boundary in southern california. these individuals were attempting to smuggle 10 migrants and over 80-pounds of chris tell meth into the states. authorities determine three women and seven men. they had been paid, to be smuggled over the u.s. border. joining me now is retired i.c.e. acting director ronald vitello. ronald, great to see you. we've had these border conversations before and the democrats have fought the president every step much the way. it is all sort of been overshadowed by the coronavirus

pandemic right now this story is another example what continues to go on down there and why action is needed, correct? >> it is an example. the border can be a dangerous place. i'm grateful to the men and women of the coast guard, cpb, border patrol made this interdiction. you imagine how hard it is to do the job when they do have the support of the president. they face real dangers. they can't stay at homework their job from skype on a computer screen. so i'm grateful to them and the sacrifice they and their families make to keep us all safe. it is example of how important it is for them to be diligent in what they do. jackie: they're like health care workers in a way. first-responders in this particular situation. i'm wondering since the pandemic started have things possibly even escalated at the border? >> the border is a busy place. it always is. face threats all the time. ton top of the threats they face from criminal organizations and

smugglers. they have to worry about their own personal protection. it took steps to protect themselves. there is only so much you can do up to put hand the on people to arrest them and take them into custody. we'll pray for them and hope they keep themselves safe while protecting all of us. jackie: i wonder how you feel where we are with the construction of the border wall. the president promise this is something he would do. it is certainly a work in progress but we're not quite there yet. any thoughts or reflections and commentary that you hear how it is helping or not helping? >> i can tell you that the plans that we drew up when i was still at cpb, watched later on the construction start before i left there to go to i.c.e. that is much-needed asset on the border. the agents that need it will get more protection. they will be able to do their jobs better. the wall system with the infrastructure and cameras, access to the border, more agents we'll all be better off for it. i actually talked to chief scott yesterday and they're getting close to 300 miles pretty soon.

and so, they're very, they're working very hard to get it up quickly but it is true there is a long way to go. i'm appreciative that the president found a way to do this without a lot of support from congress. jackie: i'm wondering how the agents at the border feel about the potential for a joe biden presidency? what they think that will do to the border and their jobs, their wellness and safety as well as immigration in this country? >> rank-and-file will continue to do their job, right? the first story was an example how they will go out to do whatever they have to do to get the work done. i can tell you biden on the campaign has said, first 100 days will be no deportations, which is a terrible idea. after that only criminals. what does that mean? that will cause the crisis we saw last year, last spring, that is going to bring that right back to our doorstep. if people think they will come into this country and get away, not be returned or be deported we'll have another disaster. we'll have another surge. i feel bad for the employees

that will have to go through that unnecessarily for a third time just because people don't like the laws that are on the books and congress is reluctant to change them. jackie: part of that conversation goes to this debate that is ongoing about immigration, green cards being able to show a certain amount of wealth if you will. it doesn't have to be astronomical. that you will come to this country and not be a drain on the system. yet there are some who say you shouldn't have to show anything like that at all? >> yeah. this is a public, called public charge within the law. it has been on immigration act for a very long time, decades. the idea like you said, people come, it benefits them. it also benefits the country in the sense that they don't become a burden to the taxpayer. so in february they updated the rule making for public charge as has happened with special interests, took this ish to the supreme court. the supreme court remappedded to lower district. yesterday in the district court the judge ruled against the administration. this happened a lot of times

when the trump administration, attorney general barr try to fix things. i think they will get it back on track. jackie: ronald, great to have you. unfortunately we're out of time. but we'll have you back soon. i'm jackie deangelis in for liz macdonald. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. president trump this hour set to hold a news conference in the white house briefing room. we've received no guidance yet from the white house as to what he will be addressing. we will be bringing you the president's remarks as soon as he takes the podium. a reminder, i will be interviewing president trump next week. the president has decided -- hasn't decided exactly which day, but as soon as we know, we'll be telling you precisely which day, so just join us all five days and be safe and enjoy the interview. as we await the president, the radical left's persecution of his former national