bon voyage, naomi. thanks so much for watching "strange inheritance." i'm jamie colby. remember -- you can't take it with you. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. our high-energy president today continuing the trump whirlwind tour of the country. president trump today celebrating as well the hundredth anniversary of women's right toni vote in this country and at the same time he pardoned susan b. anthony for her 1873 crime of c voting all heel -- illegally. no president has ever done so, obviously, for the suffragette previous tofr him, and the presidenthe shaking his head at those presidential failures to pardon her, wondering why it took so long.

well, he fixed that and then headed off to iowa and to arizona. in iowa president trump offering the nation's support for those who had been hit hard by the deadly storm that rolled through the state last week. president trump is right now in yuma, arizona, surveying there the construction of the border wall. he will also be accepting the endorsement from the national border patrol council which is the union of border patrol agents. he will also be giving a speech comparing his stance on illegal immigration and border security with the open border and amnesty policies of one joe biden. president trump's speech comes ahead of the beginning of the second night of the radical dems' virtual convention. former first lady michelle obama headlined day one, and she gave a rip-snorting, divisive, prerecorded speech that included lies about president trump throwing kids in cages.

it was a lie that even the left-wing national media couldn't defend. theco associated press pointed t the cages the former first lady referred to were, in fact, border facilities, quote, built during the obama/biden administration to house children at the border, end quote. and president trump, as you might suspect, didn't shy from his criticism of michelle obama either. here'ser what he had to say in e whitewh house today during that centennial celebration of the women's right to vote. >> she should have made the speech live, which she didn't do, she taped it. and it was taped a long time ago because she had the wrong deaths, she didn't even mention the vice presidential candidate in the speech. she gets these fawning reviews. if you gave a real review, it wouldn't be so fawning. i thought it was a very divisive speech and, frankly, i wouldn't even be here if it weren't for

barack w obama. i wouldn't w be in the white hoe except for barack obama because they did a bad job, biden and obama. andhe they did a good job, i wouldn't be here. lou: president trump's, well, rival, joe biden, facing increasing pressure tonight from the radical left. here biden making pro-police comments during a prerecorded discussion with the chief of houston's police department. >> this is a watershed moment x we can'ted lose this moment. we have got to have action at the national level that we actually use the death of george floyd and others to actually a make policing, take it to the next level which is what everyone wants including all the good cops that out there that, thankfully, more of them than bad cops. >> most cops are good. but the fact is the bad ones have to be identified and prosecuted and out, period.

lou: the former have vice president's comments enraging black lives matter marxist activists. one tweeted, quote: protesters been in the streets all summer because, quote, most cops are good. do better, dems. the so-called protesters have been carrying out acts of violence, looting, arson and riots for the past three months. body cam video captured one recent explosive especially counter between -- encounter between the leftist mob and the police in seattle. >> watch out, watch out behind ya! [background sounds] lou: at least 12 officers were injured in that attack. the seemingly endless violence in the northwest at least causing one seattle police officer to quit. >> having a good day today? >> not really, you're around. >> i'm sorry for that. just don't worry, man, because

guess what? i'm leaving, you guys won. lou: they won. meanwhile, police in portland say they are now looking for a 25-year-old marquis love who is suspected of carrying out this brutal, sickening attack. [background sounds] lou: husband attack knocking 40-year-old adam hayner unconscious. the city's activist district attorney --- that's radical dem activist -- mike schmidt and just dem mayor ted wheeler faintly, ever so hesitantly condemned the attack. it is their enabling of antifa and black lives matter that has handcuffed the city's law enforcementt officers. the police department even says, acknowledges they were slow to

respond to sunday's attack because, quote: police are staying away from protesters in order to not be a flash point, end quote, or to be of any help to the mob's victims whatsoever. that passes for law enforcement in portland, oregon. what in the world has ever happened to the people, the good people of oregon? the democratic fools running the local government there and cities all across america are about to pay a high price for their support of black lives matter and antifa. recent polls show e president trump's law and order message is far more popular. cnn even showing an 11-point jump in just the past two months while president trump's approval among people of color in battleground states rises, that of the left is sinking. and the senate intelligence committee today released the fifth and final volume of their more than three-year-long russia investigation. the acting committee chair --

and i do mean acting -- marco rubio, disclosed nothing new from the report. he says there was no russian collusion with the trump campaign, but we've known that for quitete some time, haven't ? rino rubio did call, bless his heart, the fbi's role in spreading the. [laughter] -wing radical -- left-wing radical dem fiction and disinformationis campaign againt donald trump as deeply troubling. thee committee's top democrat wo actually is running the committee, mark warner, said the report revealed a breathtaking level of contact between trump officials and russian government operatives. that is a rich statement coming from warner, a man who had extensive contact in 2017 with a lobbyist for an actual russian oligarch who offered him access to christopher steele. in one text warner said he'd like to meet privately with

atsteele in london and, quote, would rather not have a paper trail. there you go. senate republicans are clearly working against president trumpt there's no other way to explain the conduct of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. who would have allowed this report to be released in the middle of the democratic national convention. mcconnell, along with the a likes of marco rubio, lindsey graham, richard burr, did i mention mitt romney? all showing that they are part of t the problem in this nation and not the solution. postmaster general louis dejoy says he's suspending any reforms of the postal service until after the election. senate homeland security committee chair ron johnson is allowing the radical dems on his committeee to call dejoy to testify on friday as the democratic national conning vex winds down -- convention winds down. johnson says it's the postmaster general's chance to explain himself before he faces a,

quote, show trial in his hearing before the dems in the house. what does he think he is putting on in the senate? and just who happens to be on johnson's committee? none other than joe biden's running mate, kamala harris. on friday harris gets to question the postmaster general the day after biden's convention speech, dems moving ahead on saturday's vote to block any changes to the postal service. then monday dejoy will testify before the dem-run house oversight committee. what a joke, that's the day, by the way, the republican conventionic begins. so much for republican leadership in the senate. and president trump addressed this earlier today. >> whatod are they doing now instead of on monday? they picked a day, actually, they picked another day, on monday, as you know. well, that's when the republican convention starts. why don't they do it during the democrat convention? because everything they do, nancy and chuck, they play

games. how's it working out? i think this is the white house, isn't it? how's it working out for them? not so goodment. lou: and the president carrying out all of his responsibilities, many, including that of commander in chief. one of the carrier strike groups that the president has ordered into the south china sea, the u is ss ronald reagan -- uss ronald reagan, is back now in the south china sea with its strike force amid heightened tensions between the united states and china. that strike group includes the reagan aircraft carrier and two destroyers, one cruiser. commander joshua fagen said the group is, quote, ready to respond to any con tip continges throughout the region. china carried out live-fire exercises nearby the region last week including launching to have

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♪ ♪ lou: joining me now, republican house minority leader kevin mccarthy. good to have you with us, if let's turn to the postmaster general. this is quite a mess, and the left, the radical dems are trying to make as much of it as they can. it's really quite something. your thoughts about all that's unfolding including hearings in the house, the senate and mitch

mcconnell apparently doesn't run the senate number, at least not in the interest of either the republican party or the president of the united states. >> well, there's nothing the democrats won't politicize. first the pandemic, you they're trying the mail offices. i mean, think about it, you listen to the convention last night, they have no message for america. so they rely on misinformation and mailbox myths. you have now the postmaster who's actually run businesses successfully, made them efficient, and the democrats are complaining about things that happened during the obama administration. so the postmaster literally said decisions that he did not make, he's making sure they're stopped between now and the election. there is more than enough money in the post office to run it throughout the election. but you've got nancy pelosi is, who won't focus on the american economy, so you've got president trump having to take it into his own hands to care for the people who are unemployed, to make sure

our businesses stay open. but nancy will not even have a vote. she wants to politicize it right before the republican convention. lou: well, it's politicized. it is clear that she is interested in only one thing, and that is winning the election. and one can understand the motivation, but the other is absolute disregard for millions of people in this country who are dependent upon that stimulus and to simply defer it is a disaster for the radical dems. and they can't play it any differently. there is no way to spin this in any other way. >> you are right, lou. think of every time this president has worked to help the american public after china had lied to the world. remember in the first bill that he worked for the cares act. pelosi held that up for more than a week for funding for the kennedy center. or when that small business program, ppp, was working so

successfully that it needed more money? she stood in front of her refrigerator and said no to all the small business employees. now she's doing the exact same thing to everybody who's unemployed. what about liability protection for the schools or financial for the schools? she's holding it up but calling all congress back to work on something that doesn't need to happen. the post office has more than enough money to carry everything out, and the postmaster said there'll be no changes. lou: well, they're going to posture, the radical dems, that this is about liability for corporations and their employees coming back to work. that's, that's the way they're going to play it. what is going to be the response? because there are millions of people out there right now concerned about their health and the responsibility of corporate employers. >> the people that are most concerned are schools and small

businesses. those are the ones the trial lawyers are suing. those are the ones that the democrats are defending. in our very first bill when we tried to get liability protection for 3m to sell us more masks that were so desperately needed at that moment, nancy pelosi said no. and when you think about it, the democrats have a real china problem. they will not admit that china created this virus. they will not help us defeat it in that manner. and our own fbi, i read in a newspaper, said china wants president trump to lose. why? because he's been strong against china. what we really need to do is is help this president make america great again, renew the american dream, restore our way of life and rebuild the biggest economy ever before. that's why people need to go to take the house.com to make sure we retire nancy pelosi and her politicizing of every policy for the future. lou: even as, well, mitt romney, mitch mcconnell, lindsey

graham are working to avoid supporting this president and, in fact, in in many cases workig dead straight against him. your reaction to their posture. >> look, i've watched mitch mcconnell, i've worked with him a lot of times sitting in the room with mark meadows and others. he's got a very strong front. the difficulty here are the rules in the senate where you've got to have 60 votes to do anything. what we really need is a house majority. go to take the house.com, retire nancy pelosi. and you know what the house would be doing? we wouldn't be voting by proxy. members of congress wouldn't get to stay home and get their paychecks. we wouldn't be coming back for politicizing something, we'd be coming back to rebuilding this economy. we would help those who are unemployed, we'd make sure the schools were safe for the children and also for the teachers. lou: yeah. could we get a twofer deal here, kevin? could we get rid of pelosi and

mcconnell? can that work? okay. just wanted to negotiate that deal. kevin mccarthy, always great to have you with us. thanks so much. appreciate it. we'd like to hear your thoughts about all of this. share your comments. follow me on twitter @loudobbs like me on facebook, follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. bob woodson, congressman montana matt gaetz among our guests tomorrow evening. please be with us for that. and coming up next here, does the deep state really have an interest in silencing julian assangeing? what is going on? the deep state and the deep roll in john durham's obamagate this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity. i am totally blind.

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♪ ♪ lou more great reporting from the site "the conservative treehouse" today, playing out why the deep state needed

wikileaks founder julian assange arrested so they could continue to carry out their plot to overthrow the president of the united states. the so-called russia collusion investigation. three years ago, in august 2017, according to the reporting of "the hill" as well, assange was interviewed by u.s. congressman dana rohrabacher. assange told the congressman that he could prove the leaked democratic party documents did not come from russia. months later, in march 2018, assange's grand jury indictment was sealed until april of 2019. soon after robert mueller released his special counsel report. mueller's report was dependent on russia cyber crimes narrative as was obama's anti-russia narrative following the 2016 election, as was the intelligence community assessment of 2017. the only so-called evidence of

russiaca hacking the dnc servers ever existed originated with crowd strike, a dnc contractor. a claim assange said he can prove did not exist, thus behooving the deep state to coordinate with u.k. authorities to arrest and silence assange. that is the theory. if there is an effort to shut down assange, one could only hope john durham is investigating it and could make his interview with former cia director john brennan all the more interesting. joining us tonight is "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon. author of "fall out: nuclear bribes, russian spies and the washington highs that enriched the clinton and biden dynasties." we highly recommend the book to you, available in bookstores everywhere. and chief amongf them, of cours, amazon.com. john, great to have you with us. >> good to be with you, lou. lou: assange, because his --

it's great to have you. it is really, it tests the bounds of credulity to go with some of the explanations we've heard for why assange has been locked up and the key thrown the away and kept from prying eyes and microphones for all this time. your thoughts about that reporting and assange and his role. >> yes. well, listen, haas year i put into the public scores of pages of documents showing that the justice department,ho a guy namd david loffman, negotiated with one of assange's lawyers, and assange had agreed and was willing to take a deal where he would cooperate with authorities. this would dora two w things, ar questions about the leak of the russia documents, and he would agree not to release certain information or redact certain information on some cia cyber weapons that he ultimately released unredacted. it was an enormous missed

opportunity, and the peoplepo wo killed it, get ready, james comey, the fbi director. the documents show he killed the deal. we missed an opportunity back in 2017 at the beginning of the trump administration to get the truth from assange and possibly to temper the release of some documents that caused grave national security harm to the united states. lou: and so where is -- and the president, you can see him wrestling with this, because assange has been ap painted -- has been painted in the darkest of colors as a, as an evil and bad guy. but as with most absolutes, this one has some frayed edges and considerable gray around it. your thoughts. >> well, listen, the fbi and the intelligence community deal with bad guys all the time. if we need information, if we want the i truth, he's the sortf guy that we could go to, cut a deal and at least get some truth. maybe there's a plea deal to be

had, maybe there's an immunity deal to be had. so far there hasn't been the will of the intelligence community, fbi, the justice department to complete that deal. theyey hate him. they publicly call him an enemy of the state, but the american people mayle benefit from findig ap answer to what really happened to the documents that wikileaks posted in 2016. where did they get them? he knows. we should get that answer. lou: yes. well, he'ss not accused of capitaled crimes, and the fact f the matter is that the british confined him for so long without any possibility of extrication. he has been shut down, he has been, for all practical purposes, a disappeared person the american public. that is not an accident, it is not the way we conduct business country, or at least it once was not the way we conducted business. how do we make it right, and is

president trump the only one who can? >> yeah, listen, the president, the fbi director, chris wray, the attorney general, bill barr, can go back and reinvigorate those conversations from march ofon 2017 where we came very cle to getting a deal with julian as sang. if james comey didn't get in the way ofy that, we would have probably gotten answers back then. the justice department attorney clearly showed interest in trying to get him interviewed and get information for him. it was a major loss for the u.s. when those conversations broke down thanks to james comey. lou: and assange in that three-year period, his health has deteriorated, we understand significantly. and at various points, it's been even described at life threatening. this does not seem to be a concern for the fbi and some intelligence agencies which should make it, i think, based on what we now know about the

way those agencies have been led, a truth to all americans. would you recommend the president pardon him in. >> well, listen, i'm a reporter, i try to stickte to facts and nt opinion or recommendations. there are a lot of people who believe he should be pardoned, that he should be prosecuted. i don't agree with everything he did, sometimes choosing which documents to release instead of releasing them all. but he brought a lot of disclosures of things that we didn't know, and he was an inconvenient truth during the beginning of the russia investigation. imagine if he merged and gave us his story in march 2017 what might have happened to the russia collusion story. lou: and now, you know, edward snowden is seeking a fair trial as his only condition presee dent to surrendering himself. i'm going to ask you again for your opinion but, of course, based on facts. [laughter] >> yeah, listen, edward snowden compromised national security by

a large degree, and there are and republicans alike that agree on that. if you're going to pardon him or give him a deal, give him a fair trial, what does the united states get in return for that, and i don't know if snowden's put anything on the table that would make the u.s. government want to deal with him right now. he was hiding in vladimir putin's clutches. he's not h a man that is right w considered a friend of the united states, and so i think you have to look carefully at that, the political repercussions of a pardon could be significant. but the president may know things i don't know, he probably does. but there's a split opinion on, as the president acknowledged, on edward snowden. no doubt about it. lou: well, i wouldn't ask you just easy questions ever, john -- [laughter] because with your mind and talent, i want to put only tough questions before you. >> thank you. lou: john solomon, thanks for providing those terrific answers. always insightful to have you with y us. appreciate it. johnap solomon, justthenews.com. up next, will establishment republicans finally run with

president trump this year rather than y away from it? we'll take that up with the candidate for the u.s. senate in tennessee. he's bill hagerty. he joins me when we come back. stay with us, please.

♪ ♪ lou: quite a show being put on by the radical dems. a number of rinos using the democratic national convention to show their loving support for

china joe biden last night. and among them former congresswoman susan molinari. she made millions of dollars as a lobbyist for russia, former ohio governor john kasich also making a sad appearance. in that appearance -- there he is -- he claimed china joe's politics won't make a harp turn to the left -- sharp turn to the left. by the way, many of these must be t the same people who bring u the oscars. just less than a half hour later in their production, socialist senator bernie sanders had this to say. here he is. >> our campaign ended several months ago, but our movement continues and is getting stronger everyet day. many of the ideas we fought for that just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream. lou: mainstream, by gold lu are. well, let's talk about that. we're joined tonight by bill

hagerty, republican senate candidate from tennessee. he won his primary last week. he's also former u.s. board -- u.s. ambassador to japan. and it is great to have you with us, bill. i want to ask you, first of all, about thehe sharp turn to the left. tlnow, i'm a little confused by the democrats -- they do confuse me often -- but is it a sharp left or is it just a veer in i couldn't quite make up my mind after listening to the illustrious characters, sanders and kasich. >> great to be back with you, lou. if you heard kasich, there'll be no left turn at all, that joe biden is a moderate, but all you have to doto is tune into exacty what you heard, and that was bernie sanders talking about what was once radical becoming mainstream in the democrat party x that is their point of view. they want to take away our health insurance, they want to take away our guns, they want open borders, free health care to illegal t immigrants. these are not mainstream ideas. certainly not the case in tennessee, ie, can tell you tha. lou: well, in tennessee, i just

want to put your bona fides, if i may, electorally up because it's an impressive pru e mare win that you posted. if we we could just show what bl hagerty did, he won more -- if we could have that? won more in the primary than 50% of the vote in what was a 15-candidate field. he won 83, 83 of 95 counties. he won every single media market in tennessee, won every single grand division can. period. and so congratulations on that. you're running with the president. you are putting yourself up as a proud supporter of president trump, and you're tearing it up. how do you react when you see a few wags on capitol hill saying, you know, get away from the president? you know, he won't help you at all. your thoughts. >> lou, they're missing the

point. i had the opportunity to serve front and center as ambassador to japan, to actually see leadership in place. to see real policies put in place. we divorced ourselves from the policies of the obama era. no more are we leading from behind overseas. no more are we deployed strategic patience while north korea ramps up its nuclear program. now we have programs where we're actually trying to put america's interests first. i worked very closely with president trump on the u.s./japan tradean deal, criticl for our farmers here in america. america's stepped forward again. we need worldwide leadership, and america is the leader of the world that the rest of the world is hungry for right now, lou. i think the world needs us, america needs usld as well to he a strong leader, and president trump is absolutely just that. lou: in his -- talk about a proven leader, he's a historic president with less than one full term under his belt. he has already achieved a position in american history. he is one of the greatest

presidents. whether it's economics, foreign policy, rebuilding the military, the lowest unemployment rates for all minorities in this country, i mean, these are staggering achievements. and the very idea that the democrats go on the air last night and try to run him down with their politics of hate and division, they're not even, there's not evenn a pretense on their part about what they are. >> could you imagine if democrat policies had been in place, if hillary clinton had won? our economy would be in a full-on recession right e now. we'd be in a full depression, i should say. president trump has put us back on track to have the most significant economy in our history. and as you say, lou, he's been able to touch every demographic group and lift us up. also from the stand powbt of china. we've talked aboutnd p this bef. finally we have a leader in president trump that's willing to stand up to china, willing to call them what it is.

and we'vena got to hold china accountable, and he's doing that at everyry turn. look what he's doing with tiktok, with huawei. it's not just the coronavirus, they have done so many things that have damaged america and our allies around the world. president trump is the first leader to stand up to them. lou: bill hagerty, we thank you for being with us, and good luck. we'll talk with youou soon. bill hagerty, running for the u.s. senate in the great state of tennessee. the trump campaign today released a scathing new ad targeting the mental acuity of china joe biden. here's part of it. >> everybody knows -- [cheers and applause] you know, the rapidly rising, uh, and with, with -- i don't knowow. to be successful, i sincerely hope some of you become

millionaires and billionaires. i mean that. but engage. you know, there's a, during world war ii, you know, roosevelt came up with a thing that, you know, was totally different than a, than the, it's called, he called it, you know -- lou: well, as president trump says, the best is yet to come. there should probably be a very large number of sequels to follow. the trump campaign, by the way, we are told reliably had to use clips from joe biden in his basement. it's a problem the campaign is running into more often as biden seldom leaves his home in delaware. in fact, a previous trump ad had to alter images of biden because there were so few of them outside ofis his home. trump 2020 communications director tim murtaugh told us today that, quote: joe biden is making it easier for us to define him. american's know that his

handlers are keeping him locked up in thepi basement because he can't be trusted without a teleprompter. he's beingmp defined as two things; hiding from voters and being a tool of the radical left. up next, red storm rising. a u.s. naval strike group back inac the south china sea. china trying to impress with a flex of its military muscle. the hudson institute's michael pillsbury on that and more. we're coming right back, please stay with us. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

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♪ ♪ lou: record highs on wall street today for the s&p 500, up 8 points, its first record close since february, its 14th of the year. the nasdaq gaining 81 points today, its 34th record close of the year. the dow was down 67 points. volume on the big board picking up to 3.7 billion shares. and crude oil staying well above $42 a$4 barrel, $42.50 a barrel. let's go right now to yuma, arizona, where president trump is, is speaking. i want to see -- let's join him for a moment, see what he is saying. >> he doesn't know where he is.

[laughter] did, he's been brought son far left that our country will not be the country that we know. it will have problems, it will go down, your stocks will be gone. your 401(k)s will disappear. and right now -- who has a 401(k)? [cheers and applause] and then the rest of you, many of you have stocks and you do it a different way. that will go down 50, 60, 70%, 80%. and if you held on like i said to do, we went down a little while when we got hit with the virus, now nasdaq just broke an all-time record. a s&p -- [cheers and applause] just broke an all-time record. socialism is the mainstream of the biden campaign, and it's not the mainstream of america. remember i said. we will never have -- lou: the president morning in on my job here.

it's nice to hear, by the way. the president campaigning in yuma, arizona, and there he'll be giving a speech on the border wall, its construction and the progress that's been made and the impact on illegal immigration. he'll also be accepting the endorsement of the border patrol council there later today. we're, we've got some breaking news. a retired chinese professor has been kicked out of the chinese communist party. she called president xi jinping a mafia boss and the communist party a political zombie. this is extraordinary under any circumstances in china, but at this particular moment. the professor claims there is widespread opposition to xi. she said, quote, under the regime of xi the chinese communist party is an obstacle to china's progress. i believe i am not the only one

who wants to leave this party. more people wouldld like to withdraw or quit this party. well, to help us better understand her thoughts and what is happening there, dr. michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. mike, this is remarkable, her speaking out just as everyone from real estate magnates to other professors are being arrested and to this point vanished within china. has remarkable courage to speak out like this, does she not? >> she does, lou, and she's a very important person. we hope to host her at the hudson institute in washington d.c. she gave a long interview to "the guardian" where she made a number of very important points. one is that 70% of the communist party in china -- that's about 60 million people -- want reforms, do not like the xi jinping dictatorship, do not like this president for life having the chinese

constitution ignored. so she also talked about xi jinping's role in the coronavirus and how it got away from a him. so this is devastating, to have this kind of comment come from a real senior insider at the central committee party school. she sounds, frankly, a little bit like president trump or secretary pompeo in their criticism of the chinese communist party. lou: let's turn to, to the issue of, as we've just been showing the b u, s ronald reagan -- uss ronald reagan in the south china sea with its strike group. this is, this is getting a little more serious. it's also a very impressive display of power and force in the region. what is your expectation? >> well, i think we've seen since june the duel of the carrier exercises. the chinese are not back down,

and inn many ways i think this firing of to torpedoes in recent days is an escalation. the reagan actually is based in japan, as youe know, so it's coming down to the south china sea, but it's doing so according to international law that we don't seek permission from china to operate in the south china sea. at the same time as the carrier -- lou: this is basically telling china to t go to hell. this is not, not seeking permission, it's telling them to go to hell, is it not? >> i think what's more provocative than the carrier operations areop the destroyers that go inside chinese-claimed territories in these features of the sea that we don't recognize that the u.n. has denied china's claim. that's really the provocative aspect of our navy operations. lou: dr. michael pillsbury, as always, we're short on time here, but we appreciate it. thanks so much. finish mike pillsbury.

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president. >> -- back by the thousands, by the thousands. they let lethal, poisonous drugs pour freely into our schools, into our communities, but no more. it's not happening anymore. the cruel and heartless betrayal of the american people ended the day i took the oath of office x. now we have more than half of the wall built, and do you notice?? they don't talk about the wall anymore. why don't you talk? [applause] look at all those people back there. it's all fake news, fake news. the fake news. [background sounds] they don't talk about the wall anymore. see, we won. we got the wall. it's going to be up to 300 next week. [cheers and applause] lou: he's right, they don't talk about the wall anymore. they don't talk about tariffs, they don't talk about trade. this president has schooled them

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