of trading for august, and what a month. the best month for the dow jones industrial average since way back in 1984. all right, we'll see you guys tomorrow. it's "lou dobbs tonight" that starts right now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. president trump today holding a meeting on law and order in democrat-run cities facing runaway violence, meeting with his top law enforcement heads at the white house. in that meeting attorney general william barr and dhs secretary chad wolf, planning to stop further violence. the meeting follows another weekend of anarchy and violence across much of the country. police in chicago reporting 54 people shot, 10 of them were killed. two police officers and a teenage boy among those wounded. new york city has already topped

a thousand shootings this year, 29 more shootings over this weekend. a st. louis police officer shot and killed in the line of duty by a man barricaded inside a house. the gunman taken into custody sunday morning after after a nearly 12-hour standoff. the gunman shot another police officer in the leg, the officer recovering. in baltimore a sickening assault caught on camera. local reports say a white and black man got into an argument before the white man was hit in the back of the head with two bricks. watch this, if you can. >> oh! [laughter] >> no! [laughter] >> oh, my god! lou: two investigations into

other attacks, separate attacks by left-wing mobs in this country. all of those attacks against supporters of president trump. los angeles police investigating reports of shots fired at a pro-trump rally yesterday. portland police still investigating saturday's deadly shooting of a trump supporter. police have not officially identified the portland victim, but social media and local reports say the man killed is aaron danielson, a reported member of the conservative group patriot prayer. the suspected gunman is reportedly a man arrested in july according to police for carrying a loaded gun at a demonstration. he was also posted online saying that he is 100% antifa all the way. oregon's radical dem governor kate brown has now authorized state police to return to portland after 94 straight

nights of violence and of murder. governor brown and portland's antifa enabling left-wing radical mayor ted wheeler, however, are both accusing president trump of inciting tensions there. the president responded today talking with fox news' laura ingraham. >> one of your supporters is murdered in portland by, it looks like, a suspected antifa individual, and then on sunday wheeler comes out and biden and essentially tries to blame-shift to you for the violence there. your reaction. >> well, these are terrible and very inwe end tent people. i've offered to send in the national guard, i've offered to send in anybody they want. i could put that out in 45 minutes, and it would stop. and i think the people of portland and the people of oregon -- i know it's a liberal state, considered liberal -- they're tired of it. they're tired of having, of living with this curse. lou: you would think they would

be, but no signs of it yet. similar left-wing violence in kenosha, wisconsin, has calmed down a bit of late, thanks to president trump's decision to send in the national forward and federal agents -- national guard and federal agents. activists are now threatening retaliation murders for the death of jacob blake. >> it's past for us to stand. it's not past for us to act when somebody else is taking what's ours, is and what's ours is our children, our women and our families. if you kill one of ours, it's time for us to kill one of yours. i know everybody don't want to that, but, damn! why are we the ones got to keep burying ours?

lou: president trump goes to kenosha, wisconsin, tomorrow, despite the radical dems begging him not to come. wisconsin's radical dem governor tony evers, who has absolutely confounded the state with his refusal to take care of the kenosha, wisconsin, radical terrorism, in point of fact, claims the president's trip will cause divisiveness. but president trump today says otherwise. here's the president again with laura ingraham. >> the governor says he doesn't want you to come. why is it important for you to be seen by the people of wisconsin now? >> because i am a tremendous fan of law enforcement, and i want to thank the law enforcement. they've done a good job. and when the governor says that i shouldn't come or he prefer

that i not come, i'm the one that called him and said, tony, you've got to bring out the national guard. well, i don't really want to do it. lou: it's amazing, the politics being played in that state by the radical dems. the president will straighten out much of it, i'm sure, tomorrow. china joe biden today, well, he was doing his best to get out of the basement and blame president trump for something, saying he's to blame for left-wing violence and the rioting in democrat-run states and cities, stepping out from the comfort of that basement biden told a small crowd in pittsburgh people won't be safe in donald trump's america. after months of keeping quiet about riots across the country, biden now says -- are you ready? -- he condemned such violence finally. biden failed to call any of the groups including black lives matter and aunt that. are you surprised -- antifa.

well, breaking developments today in the case of general michael flynn. the d.c. court of appeals ruled today 8-2 that judge emmet sullivan does not have to dismiss the case against flynn the, overturning the previous decision of a three-judge panel in the same circuit that ordered sullivan to dismiss the case as requested by the justice department. today's ruling from the court said sullivan was within his right to appoint a third party to argue a case against dismissing the case even though both the justice department and general flynn agreed to drop the matter. today's decision is a continuation, perhaps an escalation of the radical dem partnership with the deep state to subvert, first, the campaign and presidency of donald trump and, apparently, the constitution while they're at it. beginning in the summer of 2016, the fbi started spying on the trump campaign and general flynn.

and they did so in an effort to frame him. straight up, in your face frame-up. in january 2017 the intelligence community reported russia worked to elect the president. within weeks the justice department and fbi worked to entrap general flynn. the obama white house was aware of the entire situation. robert mueller was appointed in may of 2017 to investigate russian collusion. there was no collusion. that resulted in a report that exonerated and vindicated president trump in april of 2019 when the radical dems failed on collusion in that sham investigation and then special counsel, they tried a sham impeachment which again resulted in no evidence and a failed effort, again, as they tried to remove the president. joining us now is sidney powell,

terrific american, also general flynn's attorney, and we are delighted to have you with us. i can only imagine when you got that ruling by this court, but -- what your face must have look looked like, sidney. i think most americans are furious at what they now see as judicial corruption. this is outrageous. your thoughts. >> well, they certainly are getting an education of what has become of our federal judiciary, lou. call this michael flynn exception to the rule of law. the courts made it up for the majority decision. the defense by judges route and henderson are excellent, i would commend those to everyone's reading as they actually rely on the law. but, yeah, it's quite remarkabling. lou: so what happens now? it sounds as though the

appellate court just said to the district court judge, you know, it's okay, why don't you play prosecutor here and carry out a case the justice department to see whether or not for the first time as far as we know the justice department doesn't have the right to dismiss a case, and general flynn has, by the way, no constitutional standing of any kind and the hell with the man because he just served the country honorably and with great distinction and valor. and so just try to persecute him as long as you possibly can, four years now in the effort. >> that's the essential determination of the court. it's hard to read it any other way. it's nothing short of appalling, and these are important constitutional issues at stake here not just for michael flynn, but for the country as a whole and for the d. of justice and how the department of justices

vis-a-vis the federal court. so i would not say this is the end of it. i think there is going to be more litigation to come, unfortunately, but we'll keep going until the court gets it right. lou: is there -- before i ask some of the procedural questions here, is there any reason why we should expect anything other than emmet sullivan to continue his outrage against general flynn and persistentness? >> no, absolutely not. he's made very clear his hatred of general flynn, and he relied on a washington post op-ed by the man he chose to step in and pile on against general flynn in the process of making these rulings. and the court, the court of appeals just rubber stamps whatever he wants to do.

lou: is there any point at which the the chief justice of the united states is so embarrassed and so is ashamed of what has become of the federal judiciary and its obvious political corruption that without prompting from any quarter he would reach down to the appellate court and to this district court judge and say do what is right and end this now? >> i wish he would, but i don't know that he'll do that without a petition for writ of certiorari. but that a may be the direction we have to go in next. we're considering several alternatives right now. finish. lou: including seeking an emergency determination by the supreme court? >> yes, definitely. lou: sidney powell, you are a warrior and, man, oh, man, have

you been tested by this group of judicial thugs on the d.c. appellate circuit. it's incredible. sidney -- and i speak only for myself, of course, not for siny powell. sidney powell. thank you for being with us, we wish you all the best of luck. we wish general flynn all the best. this is outrage upon outrage as you go forward, we wish you the best. up next, nancy pelosi rejects the white house china virus aid package. do the radical dems care at all about the suffering of millions of americans who have lost jobs? treasury secretary steven mnuchin joins us on that next. and you can preorder my new book, "the trump century," available now for preorder at our new store, loudobbsshop.com. loudobbsshop.com. for a 15% discount, just enter

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a day and what a month. the dow jones industrials and all of the investors and traders we could find celebrating the great august in 36 years, the s&p enjoying its best august in 34 years. the nasdaq up 80 points for, yes, a new record close. ho-hum, another record close. the dow fell more than 200 points, the s&p lost 8. volume on the big board, 4.4 billion. did i mention the nasdaq gained 80? listen to my reports three times a day on the salem radio network. breaking news now, the centers for disease control and prevention says 6%, 6% of u.s. china virus deaths were caused by the virus only. that's about 9600 of the 1 is -- 161,000 deaths studied in a cdc report. 6%. the other 94% of americans who

died according to the cdc had an average of 2.6 additional, quote-unquote, health conditions and contributing causes. 6%. the top underlying medical conditions which the cdc referred are influenza and pneumonia, respiratory failure, hypertensive disease and diabetes. radical dem house speaker nancy pelosi says no, and then she says hell no, blocking assistance for americans, millions of them who need help. the administration is trying to provide. she insists the trump administration's $1 is.3 trillion --1.3 trillion china virus aid package isn't sufficient. here's what chief of staff mark meadows had to say about her obstinance. >> i had a conversation with speaker pelosi, and even on her $22 trillion counteroffer, she

can't tell the american people, nor me, what is in that. she puts fort a number -- forth a number, suggests that she came down, and yet she's willing to turn down $1.3 trillion of help that goes to the american people because she would rather them have nothing than to give way on what her fantasy might be. lou: and joining us now, a man at the epicenter of nearly every major issue facing the administration, the government and the country, treasury secretary steven mnuchin. mr. secretary, it is great to have you with us. let's turn, first, to the insistence, the bobs nancy of -- bobs offense city nance of nancy pelosi. where are we, what do you think's going to unhold? >> lou, it's great to be back with you. and, unfortunately, the speaker and senator schumer just don't

want to negotiate in good faith. they refuse to meet. we reached an agreement on many, many issues, but they said unless we come out with the top line -- they won't even give us details as to what they're interested in. again, i think it's bad faith. and, unfortunately, the president wants us to help with more money for kids and jobs, and we can put over another trillion dollars into the economy quickly. as i've said before, if that's not enough and the speaker thinks we needed to do more, we could at least come back and do more. with we are having a great economic comeback as we've reopened the economy. we're getting a lot of jobs back, but the president is not done with his work until we get everybody back to work. lou: without question. and as he's demonstrated once already in his first term. let's go back to pelosi because this looks like a suicide pact among schumer and pelosi and the radical dems. they're facing all sorts of

blowback if their effective empowerment of antifa, black lives matter and the others who are carrying out such violence across democrat-run cities in this country. how is there any way in which the administration can be moved forward with those folks in control, particularly schumer and pelosi? >> well, lou, we're going to keep trying because it's too important for the american people. mark meadows and i have been hosting daily calls with mitch mcconnell and the republicans in the senate, and we've been keeping ken mccarthy and his team up -- kevin mccarthy and his team up-to-date. hopefully, mitch will introduce legislation next week that kids, jobs, liability protection for small businesses. as you know, there's still too many small businesses that have been hurt by this. has nothing to do with their own issue. parts of the economy have opened

very quickly, parts of the economy still suffer. lou: they are, and at the same time we're seeing a remarkable recovery and rebound. there are great pockets of deep, deep economic pain. but overall we're seeing some astounding resilience in this economy. the federal reserve, maybe you can help me with the federal reserve. jerome powell saying he has discovered the phillips curve is no longer in effect, as best as i could understand his policy decision. give us your reaction to what he has decided which is to have 2% targets that really don't mean much anymore to the fed. >> well, let me just, first, say i think chairman powell and the entire fed has done an extraordinary job in this crisis, the covid issues. in really working with treasure true, with we stood up an i

enormous amount of emergency facilities, part of the reason why we have the economy reopening as we do. lou: right. >> i think the fed's been trying to get inflation up for a long period of time, there hasn't been much. i think what they're saying makes common sense, that if you want to average 2%, there'll be times when you run higher and times when you run lower. lou: yeah. i thought it made a lot of sense to basically do what the president had said. why don't you look at the markets, make a determination and don't be reflexive and anticipatory in judgments that are almost wrong when you put the fed in charge of assess eking the economy. i don't know many times that they've been correct, particularly first time, efforts by first time fed chairmen. i know mr. powell's a friend of yours, and i have have the greatest respect for both of you, but it is an odd fed that we've got right now. sort of this rediscovering economic reality.

let's turn to, if we may, the virus and the administration's response to it. out comes the cdc saying that 6 % of the deaths that have been reported amongst specifically 161,000, only 6 of them were solely attributable to covid-19. i mean,s what is going on with our public health agencies? this is becoming alarming, the degree to which we're getting new information and different takes on what has actually been going on here now for six months. >> well, lou, as you said, that's a very important statistic that they just put out. and as we have been saying all along, for most people this is not a life-threatening situation, it's really just a life-threatening situation for people who are at high risk with

other issues. but we've made enormous progress, and i think you're going to see enormous progress on vaccines quickly, between now and the end of the year. last week the president made a major announcement with 150 million new point of care tests so they can be contribute distributed to every school in the country so schools can get open safely. this is really about making sure our kids can be at school and our small businesses can get back to work. lou: and hopefully, our public health agencies can get the facts straight at least in the reporting. it's got to be frustrating. is the president frustrated? are you us from treated by that kind of -- frustrated by that kind of revelation? >> you know, lou, the president's never frustrated. he's always demanding better information, more information, pushing all of us to make sure we're working round the clock. the president is absolutely focused, as i said, to get this

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♪ lou: president trump is scheduled to hold a briefing with the latest on the china virus pandemic, and we'll be taking you to the white house briefing room as soon as he enters. more great polling for the president. his approval rating among black voters has skyrocketed over the past two weeks. according to the latest hill/harris poll, 24% of registered black voters approve of president trump's job performance, that number up 15% from two weeks ago. the president's approval rating

also rising among hispanic voters from 30-32%. well, joining us tonight is larry elder, host of the larry eller show on the salem radio network, executive producer of the documentary "uncle tom." 9 look at this president, look at him go. he is building support in the african-american community just as he intended, just as the republican party intended. your thoughts. >> well, it's tough of to beat historically low black unemployment, and that's what we had before the virus set in. it's also tough to beat the first step act, most black men about 2,000 of them have been released. it's tough to beat the pardoning of jack johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. president trump is spending more money on historically black colleges, on so-called enterprise zones, doing something about illegal

immigration on the grounds that they pose threats toss jobs, and he supports choice in school which polls show the majority of black and brown urban parents recognize they're not by a school that's not a marley good one -- particularly good one. donald trump is on the side of the majority of black and brown parents in the inner city and not on the side of white parents who wouldn't president their -- put their kid in an inner city school on a bet. he's going to do substantially better with the black voters than he did in 2016. lou: and public education is so critical. it is the great equalizer in our society no matter what institution you choose. it is just so critical to prosperity and to progress. it's just, it's just so critical. it's infuriating to me to watch what these teachers unions are

doing, larry. they're not being helpful right now at all. adamantly to opposing, for political purposes it's pretty clear, opening, reopening schools and getting kids back. is and we've got so many hundreds of thousands of kids who can't afford to lose a year and, in point of fact, all of the advantages that would be gained by reopening these schools. your thoughts. >> well, absolutely. and look at the quality of these public schools. i just saw a study about philadelphia public schoolteachers, something like 44% of them have their own school-aged can kids in private schools as posed to about 10% of the average americans. same thing with chicago, a substantial number of these chicago public schoolteachers with school-aged kids put their own kids in private school. now, what does that tell you? the people that know the best about these public schools are not putting their own kids in it, but they want to put your kids in it. it's outrageous. lou: you know what i love?

many things about you, larry, it's your ability to just, with an encyclo periodic mind, roll out those statistics. a lot of people google, i have to tell you, i call elder at all times of night. [laughter] i eller, i don't google -- elder, i don't want google. i want to take up the president's choice that he's made to go to kenosha and get your reaction and your thoughts on his going to kenosha to meet with the folks there. >> well, if he didn't go, of course, he'd be called racially insensitive for not caring about the alleged issue of police brutality against black people. the man simply can't win. what i find fascinating about all of this stuff we're talking about, lou, is that sports is about, the is about numbers, it's about stats, data. you cannot be an athlete or a coach unless you have a good understanding about how to use

statses and data. but when it comes to this issue about the allegation that the police are killing blacks just because they're black, up armed black men just because they're unarmed, there is no data that supports that contingent. if anything, the study suggests the opposite, they're more reluctant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than a white suspect. why don't they use the same mentality they use to evaluate their own careers on this issue? lou: yeah, great question, and i'm sure we're going to get the answers in the weeks ahead. larry elder, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. we always appreciate your answers. up next, president trump enjoying a bump in the polls after the big convention. china joe, ooh, he's a little worried, apparently. we'll take it up and more many just a few seconds. preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever," available now. preorder at our new merchandise store, loudobbsshop.com as well as amazon.com. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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lou: breaking news, china warning the czech republic senate speaker that he will, quote, pay a heavy price, end quote, because he made an official trip to taiwan with. chinese state counselor wang ye called the czech visit by the minister an open provocation. whoa. china joe biden today leaving his delaware basement for

pittsburgh where he tried to blame president trump for the raging plaguing democrat- violence plaguing democrat-run cities. >> do you really feel safer under donald trump is? covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, it's taken more than 100 years -- look, here's the whys, it's just -- think about it. more lives this year than any other year for the past hundred years. more than 180,000 lives in just six months. lou: that was biden refusing to take questions, and you see why he doesn't like to take questions. can you imagine if he did? well, or joining us now, former reagan white house political director, analyst ed rollins, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the new york post, fox business contributor michael

goodwin. ed, the president has polls moving, it's going his way. and tomorrow he goes to kenosha, wisconsin. your reaction. >> he's on the offense. there's no question he had a great convention, gave him everything he wanted. you know, the truth of the matter, he's going to be out campaigning aggressively. he's going to go to the eight or nine states that matter repeatedly, i think, and he's going to talk about the future. get someone like biden in there, he thinks things are going to be ten time it is worse than they are today. he's going to say everything's bad because of trump. that's a hard sale. lou: michael, you just heard the former vice president lost. he refused to take questions. is this really going to work for china joe biden? >> i don't think so, lou. i think that it's a very hard sell to blame the violence in

this country on the president. when these are all run by democratic mayors and when the president has offered help and been rejected. so it's hard to blame it on the president. but i think what biden tried to do also was to link it to the coronavirus, to link are it to -- link it to the fight for racial justice and say, see? this is america under donald trump. i could do better. i think it's, it wouldn't be such a bad argument if he didn't, i think, go too far in trying to blame this violence on the president. i mean, i think he con chemmed the violence -- condemned the violence today in the strongest terms, but then to blame it on the president, it's not logical. lou: yeah. >> it doesn't add up. lou: well, so much of what he says doesn't, ed. i mean, this is a man in some considerable, it seems, confusion. can he persist with this, and

how long will it be before anyone calls him on not taking questions from the media? >> well, i think that'll come very quick. first of all, i think they were so overconfident that it was going to be easy for them, i think the president came back with his big convention and went after the constituencies that they needed. [audio difficulty] i think they're going full bore. it's going to be a long, hard campaign. lou: and, michael, the polling reflects the common sense understanding of reality, and that is that african-americans are not interested in defunding police by an 80% margin. the latest gallup poll, they want more police; not fewer. more safety; not less.

how can the democrat make any headway toward this, in this election with that kind of campaign against america, against safety, against everything rational? >> well, i think it's impossible, which is why biden, a, had to get out of the basement and, b, why he went to pittsburgh, a swing state, a city in a swing state, to make this claim today. and, you know, another thing he did in pittsburgh was very interesting, lou. he flip-flopped his position on fracking. pennsylvania has benefitedded enormously from the fracking revolution -- lou: right. >> -- and biden in numerous debates said he was opposed to it, we've got to end fossil fuels. today he said just let me be clear, i'm for fracking. well, that wasn't clarification, that was a flip-flop. lou: a flip-flop. he also flip-flopped on law enforcement, he said the president -- [laughter]

wanted to defund police rather than him. the obvious, the inverse is true. gentlemen, thank you. the president is walking into the briefing room. let's join him. >> -- we have the best stock market, dow in 36 years? that's very impressive. so people are very happy with their 401(k)s and with the stocks that they have. that's a tremendous achievement. best in 36 years. let me begin with a brief update on the china virus. over the last month, our new cases in the united states have declined by 38%. last week we announced a breakthrough in testing that will allow us to have over 150 million rapid point of care tests. these tests return the results in less than 15 minutes. and many will be deployed to nursing homes. we've been focusing, we're focusing very strongly on nursing homes, assisted living

facilities and other locations that serve high risk populations. so we're going to have the 15-minute less tests, and we will have 150 million rapid point of care tests. that's something. this evening i am pleased to announce that astrazeneca vaccine has reached phase three clinical trials, so that's joining another group of vaccines that are very close to the end and, hopefully, approval. in the united states, we're doing things that nobody thought would have been even possible. this is a process that would have taken, in some cases, years. we did it in a matter of months. thanks to the efforts of operation warp speed, we remain on track to deliver a vaccine very rapidly, in record time. i also want to provide an update on left-wing political violence that we're seeing in democrat-run cities. under my administration federal law enforcement is working with state and local authorities all over the country to comb through

hours of video, track down rioters, looters and arsonists and bring them to justice. we've just come up with a report that we've arrested a large number of people. it's over 200, and you'll be hearing about that. but they're been arrested in various cities throughout the united states. we're doing it very low key, but we're trying to help cities. they are in all cases democrat run, but we're going -- we're doing the best we can to help them without really much of a consent. as an example, we could solve the portland problem in approximately one hour, but the mayor refuses perhaps for political reasons. i don't know why it's good for him to have a city that's falling apart and under siege now for 94 days. but really it's been under siege for years if you know portland. so to the mayor, i say whenever you're ready, let us know. we'll solve your problem of violence, we'll solve of your problem of crime. we'll arrest those criminals

very rapidly, and you'll be able to have some nice evenings in the portland. the department of homeland security and the department of justice are announcing a joint operations center to television the violent -- investigate the violent left-wing unrest. the federal government has already taken care of and arrested 100 rioters. just in that one city. the wave of violence and destruction that we've seen in recent weeks and months has occurred in citieses exclusively controlled and dominated by the biden, joe biden party. if you take a look at the top ten in the country, they're democrats. it's democrat-run cities, and it's a shame, and it it can be solved so easy. it can be solved very easily. the violence is fueled by dangerous rerhetoric from far-left politicians that demonize our nation and demonize

ours police. we have to allow our police to do what they're very good at doing. we've taken that power away. they're afraid to lose their pension, their job, their -- everything. they're afraid to be destroyed. finish you saw this when left-wing extremists attack law-abiding citizens attending the republican national convention at the white house including senator rand paul and his wonderful wife kelly. what they went through, but're people went through it too. and that was done very systematically. that was done on purpose. they knew we were having the convention, and they wanted to do everything they could to disrupt it. and the good news is the public is very wise to it. they see what's happening, and they're wise to it. and i think they are probably acting accordingly. left-wing riot ors are repeating the same false narrative about network that you hear about -- you hear this from people what

they're saying, how they're saying it, the violence, it's terrible. and, again, it's democrat politicians. i don't know that they're spurring it on or they're afraid to stop it. but in any vent, we're there to help, to get things urn control. what they did on thursday night at the white house just outside of the white house to people that came from all over the world is a disgrace. it's a disgrace. and, frankly, the mayor, democrat mayor, mayor bowser, should have done a better job. he did a very poor job. but at the same time, we had the police, they were very brave. i guess it started out with two, and they took a beating. they really took some heavy hits. one went down but got right up. and two others joined them, and they were able to get rand and kelly through. but there was a terrible, terrible thing to witness. but other people went through sum -- not to the extent in terms of taping, but from what i

herald as bad or worse. they share biden's same talking points and his same agenda for our nation. and even his strange speech today that he made in pittsburgh, he didn't mention the fact, and he didn't mention the far left. he didn't mention the far left or, from what i saw, i don't believe he mentioned the word antifa. antifa's a criminal organization, and he didn't mention antifa thugs. but mostly seemed to blame the police and law enforcement. he went on point after point after point, he even talked about those on the right, but he didn't talk about those on the left, and those on the left are the problem and antifa's the problem. the rioters and joe biden have a side. they're both on the side of the rad cl left, and that is so obvious -- radical left. and that is so obvious. until that neutralizes, you're never going to have safe areas

in those democrat-run areas. for months joe biden has given moral aid and comfort to the vandals repeating the monstrous high es that these were peaceful protests. they're not peaceful protests. that's anarchy. that's -- you with look at the agitators, you look at the looters, you look at the rioters, that's not a peaceful protest. they keep using the term, it's so nice, peaceful protest. and behind the reporter the cities are burning. we could solve it very quickly if they asked asked us to come in like we did in minneapolis and like we just did in wisconsin, where i'll be going tomorrow. and at least the governor asked me, if i could, i said you've got to get the national guard, and he finally agreed to even a small number. but they were able to take care of things, and that was about five days ago, six days ago, and ever since it's been very good. thirteen members of biden's campaign staff donated to bail and rioters, getting them out of

jail, looters, they got them out of jail. and his running mate, kamala harris, urged their supporters to do the same thing. it's outrageous that they're now seeking to shift the blame for the mayhem, and they really want to put it on the backs of the police. i see it. the police, there's just a war on law enforcement in this country. and without law enforcement, we wouldn't have a country. we have talented people. they're not allowed to do their job. if you give the radical left power, what you're seeing in the democrat-run cities will be brought to every city in this country. if they have that power, every city in this country could be potentially another portland or another chicago where they've had such problems. to defeat that, we must jail lawbreakers, we must defeat their hateful ideology about this country, about america. we must teach our children that

america's an exceptional, free and just nation worth defending, preserving and protecting. and that's what we want to do. they want to destroy our country. they're going to destroy our suburbs, but i think i've got a long way from allowing that to happen. the suburbs are protected especially with the rule changes that i made. i took them out of the obama administration. they were going to be made much worse. what we're witnessing today is a result of left-wing indoctrination in our nation's schools and universities. many young americans have been fed lies about america being a wicked nation plagued by racism. indeed, joe biden and his party spent their swire convention interentire convention while refusing to say one word about the violence. they didn't even discuss law enforcement, the police. those words weren't mentioned. two words that were taken out were the words under god.

underred god. two very important words in the pledge of allegiance in their caucus. i guess they did it twice. they took it out of their pledge allegiance. i heard it the one time, and i said, that's strange. that's a big thing. i figured they maybe made a mistake, something happened. no, they didn't make a mistake. then they did it later on. so they took, essentially, took the word god out of the pledge of allegiance. we're not taking the word god out of anything. we're not taking it out of our pledge of allegiance, and we're not taking the great word god out of anything. at our convention we highlighted law enforcement heroes and repeatedly emphasized that violence has no place in american political discourse. the left's war on police, faith and history and american values is tearing our country apart, which is what they want. they think it's good, but they're unable to control this radical left, crazy moment. but we can control it very quickly. very, very quickly, indeed.

the only path to unity is to rebuild a shared national identity focused on common american values and virtues of which we have plenty. this includes restoring patriotic education in our nation's schools where where they're trying to change everything that we've learned. what we've learned, informs in fact, what. change it for whatever reason. cancel culture, whatever you want to call it. at the same time we must strictly and fully enforce our law and have no tolerance for anarchy and no tolerance, zero for violence and anyone who breaks the law should be arrested, prosecuted and punished. this should include targeting law enforcementers to focus on antifa, left-wing domestic terror organization. the mission of antifa is to spread terror in the u.s. population with the goal of getting americans to give up to their agendath is how terrorist organizations always

operated. biden won't say the name antifa. i don't believe he said it today. he made a speech and he didn't mention that. he mentioned others and didn't mention antifa. he mentioned law enforcement and mentioned the police and but he didn't mention antifa. i wonder why. and if he cannot name the problem there is no way that he will solve the problem. you don't name it, you don't solve it. in fact biden would give antifa exactly what it wants, the far left policy agenda it is asking for and if that happened we don't have much of a country left. if you give violent extremist what is they want, the violence doesn't go away. they gain new power to spread the terror nationwide. most of our nation is extremely safe by the way. you know only see the bad, see portland, chicago, what happened in new york, just in a very short period of time, it is horrible what happened to new york. i love new york. i come from new york and when i

see four years ago i left. i could see it was problems under this mayor. he is a terrible mayor. one of the worst. i can't say the worst. i've witnessed portland. hard to top him but he certainly one of the worst and when i look what is happening in new york and i hook what is happening in the city and so quickly. it happened so quickly. it's a shame. biden's strategy is to surrender to the left-wing mob which is exactly what he is doing. i don't think he knows what he is doing, and give them control over every lever of power in the united states government but when you surrender, you don't get freedom, you get fascism. lou: that is the it for us tonight. the president of the united states wrapping up his briefing. secretary of state mike pompeo will be our special guest here tomorrow evening. please join us for that. you can preorder my new book, "the trump century," how our president changed the course of history forever. preorder your copies at our new website, lou dobbs shop.com and

amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com. follow me on twitter @loudobbs, like me on facebook and. thanks for being with us. good night from sussex. president trump: they feel that is helping them when new york, chicago, portland. you look at oakland and you look at baltimore and you look at some different places and what's going on there, the top 10 are all run by democrats. you go a lot further down the list than 10. in america we will never surrender to mob rule, because if the mob rules, democracy is indeed dead. the reason we're continuing to see violence in left-wing cities today is that liberal politicians, mayors, prosecutors around judges are refusing to enforce the law, putting