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china virus pandemic, heightened security concerns in the nation's capital as well. and over the course of 70 minutes, president trump went through his unprecedented and historic accomplishments of his historic first term in office. president trump reminded voters as well that there is much, much more to be done, more battles for him to fight and to win for the american people. >> together we have ended the rule of the failed political class are, and they are desperate to get their power back by any means necessary. you've seen that. they are angry at me because instead of putting them first, i very simply said america first. [cheers and applause] so tonight i say to all americans, this is the most important election in the history of our country.

there has never been such a difference between two parties or two individuals in ideology, philosophy or vision than there is right now. our opponents believe that america is a depraved nation. we want our sons and daughters to know the truth, america is the greatest and most exceptional nation in the history of the world. [applause] lou: the president also lit into his opponent, china joe biden. the president mentioned biden by name, in fact, some 40 times. law and order featuring, well, featured prominently throughout the final evening of the republican national convention, and president trump himself made it clear americans can choose four more years of his law and order policies and and enforcement or joe biden who will side with rioters and

marxists. >> your vote will decide whether we protect law-abiding americans or whether we give free reign to violent agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens. and this election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life or when we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. if joe biden doesn't have the strength to stand up to wild-eyed marxists like bernie sanders and his fellow radicals, then how is he ever going to stand up for you? he's not. make no mistake, if you give power to joe biden, the radical left will defund police departments all across america, they will pass federal legislation to reduce law enforcement nationwide, they will make every city look like

democrat-run portland, oregon. no up one will be safe -- no one will be safe in bidens' america. my administration will always stand with the mening and women of law enforcement. [cheers and applause] lou: the evening, the final evening of the convention filled with emotion and elegance. the widow of retired st. louis police captain david dorn choked up while she talked about her husband's death at the hand of looters. she made this argument against the radical left's rampant if violence: >> looters are ransacking the shop. they shot and killed david in cold blood. and then live streamed his execution and his last moments on earth. david's grandson was watching the video on facebook in realtime not realizing he was watching his own grandfather

dying on the sidewalk. he was murdered by people who didn't know and just didn't care. he would have done anything to help them. violence and destruction are not legitimate forms of protest. lou: the parents of humanitarian worker kayla mueller argued her daughter might still be alive had president trump been in office at the time. kayla was beaten and killed by isis terrorists in 2015 as the obama/biden administration failed to bring her home. and alice johnson. she threw her support behind president trump last night and his work for criminal justice reform. president trump commuted her life sentence after she served more than 20 years for a first-time drug offense. in the white house today, president trump surprised

johnson with his full presidential pardon. and what was the radical left's reaction to such a night of great drama and poignant, touching speeches? well, in some places more mob violation. left-wing fanatic es targeting supporters of president trump as they left the white house grounds last night, as they left for the evening. georgia state representative vernon jones, a black democrat who supports president trump, was among those surrounded and threatened by the leftist mob. black lives matter activists also attacked senator rand paul and his wife. listen to this. [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] >> move back!

move back! lou: the d.c. police escorted paul and his wife through the crowd. at least one police officer was assaulted as they left. senator paul this morning said there was no reasoning with that mob, and he is suggested some in the crowd were paid to be there. >> i'm actually the author of the breonna taylor law, so the irony is lost on these idiots that they're trying to kill the person who's actually trying to get rid of no-knock raids. my feeling is that there is interstate criminal traffic being paid for across state lines, but you won't know unless you arrest them. i promise you that at least some of the members of the people who attacked us were not from d.c. they flew here on a plane. they've all got fresh new

clothes, and they were paid to be here. it is a crime to do that, and it needs to be traced. the fbi needs to investigate. they were inciting a riot, and they would have killed us had the police not been there. lou: that left-wing national media doing its best again to defend the left-wing mob. politico wrote, quote: protesters confront rand paul outside white house after rnc. confront. senator paul's wife, kelly paul, tweetedded this in response: no, politico, we were not confronted by protesters. we were circled by a hateful mob shouting vile expletives, preventing us from moving. the scene after last night's convention comes as, well, little surprise to many. the radical dems have been inciting such violence ever since president trump was elected. here's just a sampling of some of their rhetoric.

>> there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives. >> you know, when they go low we go high e? no. no. [laughter] when they go low, we kick them. >> go to the hill today -- [cheers and applause] get up and, please, get up in the face of some congress people. >> and if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you get loud! and you tell them they're not welcome. >> this is a movement, i'm telling you. they're not going to stop. lou: not one democrat among them all has condemned the attacks last night against their fellow americans. or an attack against a u.s. senator and his wife. while the radical dems continue to condone and in some cases

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tearing down our country? [applause] in the left's backward view, they do not see america as the most free, just and exceptional nation on earth. instead, they see a wicked nation that must be punished for its sins. lou: president trump last night said the party of hate cannot win in november. breaking news now, a new study finds republicans twice as likely to hide their voting intentions to pollsters than democrats. twice as likely. the study finds 11.7% of republicans, 10.5% of independents would hide their true opinions on their preferred presidential candidate. only 5.4% of democrats would do the same.

also breaking tonight, the radical dems in virginia apparently believe assaulting a police officer is now a misdemeanor. the state senate passed a bill wednesday that allows judges to reduce the charge from a felony if the officer is not injured. the bill also removes the mandatory minimum is six month jail sentence for assault ising a police officer. assaulting a police officer. that bill now goes to the house of delegates. it has a democrat majority and is very likely to pass. oh, yes, and they have a democrat governor as well. joining us now to take all of this up, victor davis hanson, senior fellow and military history at the hoover institution, professor emeritus of classics at california state university, best selling author, national review contributor, great american, and it is great to have you with us, victor. let's, let's turn to your impression of the contrast

between two conventions, that of the democrats and the republicans. >> well, i think let's start off with the mood, lou. i think the republicans came in the there thinking they were closing the lead and that the trajectory had changed and the may and june news cycle was not the september news cycle. and so they were upbeat not just because they are naturally about america, but they felt that they were going to strengthen what is a pretty good trajectory. the democrats came in there very worried, and they kept saying vote, vote, vote, we've got to get out the vote. and then during the republican convention we heard from hillary that biden should not concede under any circumstances. almost assuming he'd lose. and then nancy pelosi said there should be no debates. and then don lemon at cnn said, you know, the polls are not good for us, we've got to come out and condemn the riots. they must have been getting

data. and when you mentioned polls that are somewhat skewed by the republicans' reluctant to tell the pollsters what they really feel, there's two types that are immune to that. one are the betters in vegas, and about 85% of the recent bets went to trump, and the other internal polls. nobody pays money to be lied to in confidence. and i think a lot of the democratic worry was that their internal polls are not showing a good trajectory. and it's kind of important because one of the subtexts of the republican convention was to get joe biden out of the basement. and that run out the clock strategy, i don't think, is viable when the polls are almost equal or getting close to that. is so i think there was a greater worry on the part of the democrats, almost a frantic anger, and it amplify their innate idea that america was founded in sin,s and it was flawed at its origins and the

republicans' contrasting view that, you know, we don't is have to be, we don't demand to be perfect to be good. so it was very different. and i think it's going to be very different. i see these conventions as kind of recalibrating the entire campaign from a virtual candidate of biden to a virtual debate, into something very different. it's going to be, it's going to be the wide open now, and i think biden can no longer hide. lou: yeah. it seems that it's inescapable, he has to find some way to be at least somewhat animated, show some level of energy. it is highly risky for him given his many confused moments when he has been public. it's, you can understand his strategy which is to basically hide. but as you suggest, that may no longer be an option. cam aha harris -- kamala harris now not taking questions from the media and the media not demanding she do so.

the media not demanding that biden emerge from his cocoon and actually engage with the public. this is, this is madness. there's no precedent for anything we are witnessing in this political year. >> no, it isn't. but i think, as i've said in another case, he's sort of a prisoner of his own paradox because he can't debate for the reasons that he detailed, but if he doesn't debate, he's sort of reduced to clint eastwood's empty chair when clint eastwood spoke at the 2012 republican convention. they'll have a chair up there and trump will be talking to him, and it won't look good. and if he has a non-scripted press conference and he has a town hall meeting or he has a tarmac rally, it's not going to go well. but if he doesn't, it's not going to go well either because this strategy of playing out the clock was based on an 8 to 10-point lead, and i don't think anybody believes either the polls are that accurate or that these internal polls reflect that lead. and so i think he's going to be

pushed out. but if he's pushed out, he feels he has no confidence to wage a campaign, so now they're turning to surrogates. and kamala harris, unfortunately, there was a reason why she didn't do well in the democratic primary, because she's offputting, she's shrill, and she's sort of, you know, race, race, race, race, race. she can't finish a sentence without saying something about race. and when she talked about the rioting as, you know, mostly peaceful and lawful, that wasn't true and people knew it wasn't true because they watch local television or fox news or youtube. so i think they're going to have some problems that are going to amplify. and they've been running, lou, against the virus and against trump's tweets and against the lockdown and against the recession and against the george floyd, that trump caused that. that cycle is changing. trump is a much more disciplined, careful candidate than he was six weeks ago, and

the virus is going down in daily case numbers in most of the country. the lockdown is now -- get 50 million kids back to school, which is popular, and people don't see much connection from looting a gucci store in chicago and george floyd or trying to burn up policemen as they're barricaded in a barracks in portland. is so that news cycle is no longer a tailwind for the democrats, and i think they're going to have to change. yet they think we have to change and biden has to there -- out there, it can't be good. lou: we're going to be back with more from victor davis hanson, and on the other side we're going to take up his the left trying to create a race war in this country, just what are they trying to do? we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪ how they gonna pay for this? they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident. cut! is that good?

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>> our opponents say that redemptin for you can only come from giving power to them. this is a tired anthem spoken by every repressive movement throughout history. but in this country we don't look to career politicians for salvation. in america we don't turn to government to restore our souls. we put our faith in almighty god. [cheers and applause] lou: president trump last night on the radical dems' reliance on big government, their almost daily insistence upon dependency on big government. we're back talking with victor davis hanson. victor, i want do can you a young man -- ask you, a young man who impressed me greatly, daniel cameron, the attorney general of kentucky, said to the democrats, you cannot tell me how to vote because of the color

of my skin. i thought that was an eloquent, succinct expression of independence, and you're hearing something like that mood across much of the country. how important is that to the year and to the direction this country really headed? >> well, it's very important, lou, to the year because the democratic party has written off the old union lunch bucket vote, the white middle class, and it relies now on the were wealthy and their money and the very poor and often minorities. but it's so skewedderred, that dialectic, that it needs about 90% of the inner city vote, 95% in philadelphia, pittsburgh to balance out rural pennsylvania or detroit, rural michigan or milwaukee, and barack obama proved that they could do it at

least in two years. hillary couldn't do it. but what mr. cameron is saying is you relied on us so much, and you may think that i'm not the majority yet of the african-american community, but we can beat you without the majority. people like me can get 10, 15, 20% of african-americans to vote and repudiate you, and because you've written off so many other groups, you're going to lose. and that's what terrifies the democrats this year, that they have to have just an extraordinary, a vast majority of african-americans, and they'll say and do anything to get that. usually that means calling everybody a racist who ea peels to the african-americans -- appeals to the african-americans as individuals rather than collective. but more importantly i think, this republican convention, you said it and others have said it, there was not a romney there, there were not a bush there, the mccain family was not there. this is a workers, middle class party, and the emphasis was on

class, class, class and not identity politics and not race, and that's a far more inclusive concept. middle class people often with tragic stories, sometimes inspirational, but they weren't mad at america. they wanted to be lifted up, of all different races. the democrats were basically wealthy hollywood, silicon valley, wall street types, and they were all angry even though america's been very good to them, and they want race, race, race. but, boy, if republicans can reinvent themselves into a dynamic middle class workers and nationalist party, then that's a very inclusive idea that they've never tried before. that's also, i think, explains why a lot of the never trumpers just despise trump, because they just don't want anything to do with a assimilated, integrated middle class party of common people and workers. lou: and a man who actually does what he says he'll do, delivers on his promises and i don't mean that in a rhetorical sense. i mean it in a very hittal

sense. literal sense. this is a man who has, more than any president who preceded him, has done exactly what he said he will do. and one of the things he said he would do is be the president of all the people. i think you're exactly right, victor. this is now a populist party, the party of trump. and ronna mcdaniel said the same thing on this broadcast here last night, that this is the party of trump, and that makes all the difference. my question to you as we wrap up, so much has been made of mail-in voting. so much of it has already taken place. how likely is it that it will have a definite influence on the outcome of this election? from we have to be specific. i'm in a congressional district where my congressman won by over

6,000 votes on election day, and because of third party vote harvesting, he lost by 600 to the democratic candidate. so it's something we've got to worry about. we know why they're pushing it, but it's really a question in these states like wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, ohio, north carolina, who's the governor, who's in the legislature, who controls it. and that context it's a little bit more favorable for the republicans. we all know what california and new york are going to do, but it's not going to matter. what we're worried about is wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, what are they going to do, because they're going to decide the election. that's why we have got to really hope that the republicans put their resources to monitor it, because mail, mail-in balloting, canceling the debates, the joe biden basement strategy, they're all efforts to avoid cop fronts the real -- confronting the real issues of violence and this left-wing agenda, and they'll do anything, any means necessary to not talk about that. because it's a losing -- as we saw in the primary, those are

losing issues of aoc and bernie sanders. lou: yeah. indeed. victor davis hanson, always good to have you with us. thanks. good to see you, victor. we'd like to hear your thought it's about victor davis hanson's point of view. share your comments. follow me on twitter @loudobbs like me on facebook and instagram. programming note, treasure i secretary steven mnuchin will be our special guest this coming monday. up next, more shady, shady nonsense from senator lindsey graham. what in, just what is he up to? we'll talk about it with judicial watch president tom fitton. and preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever," available now. preorder your copies at our new merchandise store, loudobbsshop.com as well as amazon.com. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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always remember they are coming after me because i am fighting for you. that's what's happening. [applause] and it's been going on from before i even got elected. and remember this, they spied on my campaign, and they got caught. let's see now what happens. finish. [applause] lou: president trump last night on the politically-rut department of justice -- corrupt department of justice and, yes, federal judiciary and the origins of obamagate. well, breaking news tonight, senator lindsey graham reportedly held a secret interview yesterday with joe pie cent ca -- peanut ca. joe pi e -- pientko who was

with peter strzok when they set up general michael flynn trying to frame him, and he interviewed graham as well as senators, in fact, senators not on graham's judiciary committee, one senate aide telling the federalist that under previous judiciary chairs, the practice was to invite all committee members to attend. graham didn't even tell some of the republicans on his committee. we contacted graham's office for comment. we, not surprisingly, have yet to hear his response. text messages reveal how former senator john mccain associate david kramer was feeding stories from chriser -- chriser the steele, the author of the fake dossier, to the left-wing media. quote: the flynn call story is picking up blades. i think it's time to get that

other story out there. that's a reference to a chum about flynn -- column about flynn's contact with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. the messages also say ignatius is the one i'll feed it to, referring to washington post columnist david ignatius. and a win to tell you about for the trump campaign. an iowa judge rejected 50,000 absentee ballots because they were prefilled out with voter information. earlier this month the trump campaign and republican groups in the state filed lawsuits to invalidate those ballots saying voters should fill out their own ballots to protect from fraud. joining us tonight, tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. his new book is "a republic under assault: the left's ongoing attack on american freedom," available for preorder now. tom, good to have you with us. it turns out there is voter fraud in this country of all, seemingly, all forms possible.

your reaction to the, to the latest. >> well, yeah. in iowa the problem with mailing out ballots that are prefilled or ballot applications that are prefilled, that makes it easy for someone who isn't supposed to get them to follow up and get the darn absentee ballot in response, especially to someone who's living in a place where the ballot is mistakenly sent. we did an investigation of iowa's numbers. we found there were problems. and, you know, the problem here is you've got these ballot applications and ballots going to registration lists which are dirty. you know, if you're in the business of -- lou: well, they're dirty, and they're also being used to premail ballots out to voters without any assurance that it'll get to them or any assurance that there won't be greater fraud. i mean, i think everybody gets why it looks like it's a rigged deal and really a bad idea. but meanwhile, and i don't

remember any of us getting to vote on it, the democrats go straight ahead with precisely that. mail-in, mail hip voting. >> -- mail-in voting. >> it's so irresponsible that it has to be malicious. and especially the politicians, because the politicians know because they're in the business of contacting voters in their campaigns. they know the voter registration list ares are no to notoriously unreliable. they spend all sorts of money trying to fix them themselves but because they waste time trying to contact voters that aren't there. they all know it's a joke and yet they're still pubbing out -- pushing out almost 100 million ballot applications, lou. what you're -- [inaudible conversations] lou: it's got to be stopped. >> it does. it really does. lou: it's got to be stopped, t just that simple. let's turn to senator graham, again making news by doing something really very, very odd.

not telling members of his own committee that he was talking by cent ca -- pientka who joined peter strzok in trying to frame general flynn. what is this senator thinking in can you divine his inner most thoughts? >> i can't. they're being dragged kicking and screaming into doing any investigation, and you can give yourself some credit, lou, give judicial watch and others who have been critical of not only senator graham, but the republican leadership in the senate for failing to investigate this. this would never have been done, and it's only being done because of grassroots pressure and finish that folks like you are -- pressure that folks like you are bringing on the senate. it shows there's a serious concern by the american people that there's been no sufficient accountability.

how far problematic -- however problematic the way graham is doing, it would never have been done but for this pressure. i'm surprised they're asking any questions at all. it's really kind of a victory that they're bringing this guy in at all at this late date. lou: yes. it's stunning. and a late development, the attorney general responding to a court battle out west. the ninth circuit court enjoining an injunction against the enforcement of law by the government of portland, oregon with. it's come to that. and it is absolutely obscene that a federal court in portland would not want federal law enforcement officers or any law enforcement officer to have at their disposal any, any tool with which to preserve law and order and civil, civil order where there is so much violence.

91 straight the nights of violence. >> well, it shows you the attack on the rule of law isn't is just on the streets, it sometimes is in the courts. in my view, the president should invoke the insurrection act, use his other presidential powers under law to protect the citizens and guarantee them a republican form of government in portland, because they don't have i it anymore. it's anarchy. look, you saw what happened in washington, d.c. last night. guests of the president of the united states -- i was there in my personal capacity, you wouldn't believe what was going on. you left the white house at risk for your personal safe i think because of the leftist -- safety because of the leftist mayor of d.c. not providing necessary security around the white house. unbelievable. [laughter] lou: incredible. >> it was, it was -- a senator was almost killed but for a police officer happening to be there to protect him by the communist mob. lou: you know, i would like, i would like to think the fbi is

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♪ ♪ lou: our next guest prayed with the president today in the oval office after president trump pardoned alice johnson. >> father, we thank you for the remarkable story of alice johnson, a strong believer in the lord jesus christ whose life was filled with heart ache and injustice. and yet instead of becoming bitter, she chose to trust in you. she cried out to you for years asking relief from the hurt that she was feeling. we thank you that you chose to answer her prayers to you through a great president named donald trump, a great leader who, yes, believes in law and order, he believes in justice, but he also believes in mercy.

lou: the man praying, pastor robert jeffress from the first baptist church of dallass, fox business contributor, amazing author, amazing american. great to have you with us. good to see you, pastor. >> thank you. lou: that was a, that was a special moment among many, i know, that you've shared with this president. but for alice johnson who was absolutely poignant, just is so elegant -- just so elegant in her words last night, that was a wonderful, wonderful idea, to give her a full pardon. good to have you with us. what are you thinking about? >> lou, i have never seen or experienced anything like i did today the oval office. this was completely the president's idea really on the spur of the moment. he had already commuted her sentence, but he said wouldn't it be wonderful, we were just talking, wouldn't it be wonderful if i could just give her a fresh beginning? and so he talked to his advisers

as he should x they talked about the pluses and minuses as they should, but he said it's the right thing to do, and we're going to do it. and, you know, this just shows the side of the president that you'll never hear from the fake news media. you and i both know that when he needs to be tough, there's nobody tougher e than donald j. trump. but when the situation calls -- lou: absolutely. >> -- calls for kindness, there's nobody any kinder or more gracious, and that's what makes him such an effective leader. lou: one of the most effective elements of the, what was, i think, a terrific convention for the republicans was the number of times they showed everyday working men and women supporting this president and telling their stories of their relationship with him, what he has done in policy that has made their lives so much better or what he's done personally that has made their lives better. to see alice johnson endorse him

as she did is going to be meaningful. it is also meaningful, all that the president and the convention did in the name of pro-life in this country. >> yes. lou: not anti-abortion, but pro-life. and they made, i think, just a powerful message throughout the week that will carry on through this campaign and beyond. >> i do too, lou. and, look, in two weeks you've seen two political parties paint two very different pictures of the kind of america they want. and if you want a country that is built on socialism, joblessness, lawlessness, then the democrats are your party of choice. but night we heard from our, really all week a vision for a country that continues to be built upon faith and freedom and law and order. i believe that's what most americans want, and i believe that's why president trump will be reelect on november 3rd.

lou: this president made a point in his comments last night in miss his speech -- in his speech, which i thought was a terrific speech, he said that you should not be looking to government, you should be looking to god. those are powerful words coming from any president, but at particularly this moment as this country is facing so many challenges, so many threats, and this president standing and fighting. to hear him say that is very special, indeed. and, again, i think a very powerful message to all americans. >> and you never heard anything like that even from ronald reagan or either of the bushes. this president is unique in his embracing of faith. lou: absolutely. pastor robert jeffress, you're unique and a great american, as i said. thanks for being with us. preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history," available now.

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also among our guests. please join us then. the republicans brought in 76 million during their convention. the democrats, they brought in 70 million. and that's it for us. have a great weekend. good night from sussex. ♪ ♪ >> from the fox studios in new york cityies this is maria bartiromo's "wall street." maria: hello and welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo. thanks for being with us. coming up, venture capital and investing legend alan patricof to talk about a new project, prime time partners. then later, don peebles to talk about the state of commercial real estate today post-covid. but first, let's take a look back at some of the week's big moments on "mornings with