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guard and thanked them for their help and said the decision to call in those troops helped calm things down. >> kenosha's been ravaged by anti-police and anti-american riots, violent mobs demolished or damaged at least 25 businesses, burned down public buildings and i threw bricks at police officers which your officers won't stand for and they didn't stand for it. these are not acts of peaceful protest, but really domestic terror. my administration coordinated with the state and local authorities to very, very swiftly deploy the national guard, surge federal law enforcement to kenosha and stop the violence. and i strongly support the use of the national guard in other cities, and the same thing would be happening. if we did that, you'd have the same thing happen in portland, and it would happen very quickly. it would all be over very, very quickly. lou: president trump and local officials estimating last week's

riots will cost kenosha at least $2 million. the left-wing national media, the radical dems have been trying every way they can, it seems, to cast those rioters, looters, anarchists and activists, vandals and thugs as peaceful protesters. despite all of the abundant and obvious evidence to the contrary. president trump today told appropriators the radical dems and left-wing media's driving racial tension in america. >> if we onlied had an honest press in this country, we'd be much more advanced. they shot a man in the street. they executed a man in the street. a religious man. in the street. and you don't mention it. it's not even a story. you talk about other things. the press should be ashamed of themselves. i think the press is actually, the media is what's fueling this more so than even biden, because

biden doesn't know he's alive. the press is really fueling this, and they're fueling it horribly. and you're doing a great disservice to your country. lou: democrat leaders in some of this country's largest cities are also working to keep left-wing activists out of the court system, refusing to prosecute the law breakers. those they do arrest. attorney general william barr with president trump in wisconsin today saying more federal resources will be allocated in the effort to help put anarchists behind bars. the attorney general also made it clear the mob will not be in charge. >> we do not allow judgments to be reached because of mob violence. we do not have mob violence in this country make our discussions over the fate of individuals when their actions are challenged. the violence that erupted shortly after the shooting is simply not a legitimate

response. we saw the hijacking of a protest by a hard core group of radicals who were carrying out, planning a coordinated, viability attack on law enforcement -- violent attack on law enforcement, on public property and private property, and that can't be tolerated. there's going to be accountability. what people don't see is that in all these cities there are task forces of federal and state officers reviewing all the video that we can get our hands on. and when we are able to identify people who committed crimes in these riots going all the way back to the beginning whether they're burning police cars or throwing rocks at people which are deadly, they will be prosecuted. that's a large scale effort, and it's going to continue. lou: antifa activists and black lives matter anarchists joining,

still present in dekenosha. but so was the president, and it made a difference. fox news senior correspondent mike tobin joins us now. mike, tell us all about it. >> reporter: well, it's been pretty tame, lou, since the president left with a flurry of activity in the last few minutes. but i should emphasize, it's kind of a side issue. you can look down at the crowd coming up the street, and what this particular crowd was formed by is that there was a street preacher hanging out in front of the courthouse, some people started disgleing with him -- disagreeing with him, they started having an argument. all this a real side issue to the president's presence here today which changed the dynamic at this flashpoint in front of the courthouse and really turned it into a political event. you had the pro-trump supporters who showed up here, anti-trump supporters with their banners. you really didn't have any to-biden supporters, just anti-trump. then in addition to that you had the black lives matter

demonstrators, antifa, the anarchists. so when you have all these competing interests at one location, ultimately, you get some conflict. [background sounds] >> black lives matter! [inaudible conversations] >> get the police! >> reporter: i don't mean to overestimate the intensity of that particular conflict there, there was just some pushing and shoving, a little bit of angry words and water thrown. i did have a conversation with someone who had a fight with an antifa member, they don't have a formal structure or a mission statement, but i asked him what-all about. at the end of the day, he said it boils down to anger, anger at what he described as an oppressive system. i asked him to rationalize the destruction, he couldn't. he just understands the anger

that results in the vandalism and the destruction you see out here. lou? lou: well, there's -- the principal difference, it seems, with the president in town is that trump supporters showed up. kenosha has been in the grip of antifa and black lives matter activists for the past week and a half, so that, would you say that's to the positive? it's certainly a difference. >> reporter: it's tough to say to the positive. i think really since things got very serious last tuesday night when the two people out here were killed, things calmed down quite a bit. it seemed that more interest came back here to kenosha with the president's visit today, but as soon as the president left, the numbers seemed to die down. people were milling about and weren't really doing much of anything until that little dust-up with the street preacher. now they're marching back to this location. their numbers are kind of concentrated right now, but it's in the hundreds, not in the thousands. if it's even in the hundreds.

i'd ballpark it at 200, a little bit of marching, a little chanting, it doesn't look like trouble. and i should note there's a very small police presence. lou: all right. well, that's great, and that's a decided improvement as well. we'll take that on the day the president went to kenosha and did what a leader does,es put himself on the scene. mike tobin, thanks so much. we appreciate it. mike tobin, a terrific reporter doing his usual terrific job. the trump administration today also addressing what has become chronic violence in portland, oregon. homeland security secretary chad wolf also traveling with the president today, laid down an ultimatum for mayor ted wheeler. he says if wheeler doesn't ask for federal assistance, the federal government will act without his request and carry out the homeland security department's responsibilities and duty to protect american

citizens. left-wing activists last night marching to mayor wheeler's condominium, and what did they do? they didn't cheer him. no, they loudly called for his resignation. police declared a riot after a group of them set off tourworks and started fires -- fire works and started tours in the building where the mayor lives. antifa members also made it clear they're trying to start a e revolution. >> we're going to force the city to change. okay? [cheers and applause] we're done. we're done with all of this. and we're done just being peaceful. this is a revolution. [cheers and applause] if we [bleep] every day, what change is that going to bring? we have to show them that we fight and that we're not going to give up. lou: and president trump today insisted he would i put a quick end to the violence in portland, made it clear to everyone what he thinks of portland's mayor.

>> i saw last night where these radical anarchists were trying to get into the mayor's house and lots of bad things were happening to this poor, foolish, very stupid mayor. i mean, how he could be mayor, i have no idea. all he has to do is call and within ten minutes, their problem will be over: they have tremendous numbers of people really harassing him horribly and, i guess, trying to break into his house, and he still sticks up for them because he's a fool. only a fool would stick up for them like that. these anarchists, they're rioters, they're agitators, these are bad people. they're burning down portland. you take a look at that, you take a look at the scenes last night, and the fake news media will say they're friendly protesters. lou: oregon's radical dem

governor has now authorized the state police to round to portland -- return to portland after they had a bellyful of portland not only not arresting people, but those they did arrest not prosecuting. and the head of the police chiefs and the sheriffs' association saying their organizations won't go back to portland because the local district attorneys are refusing to hold those rioters, the few of them that are arrested, accountable, refusing to prosecute them. and on wall street, another record-setting day. the s&p up 26 points, its 21st record close of the year. the nasdaq also hitting a record high, up 164 points, posting its 42nd record close of the year. the dow up 216 points. volume on the big board above with 4 billion shares. crude oil finishing at $42.91. and a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast

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lou: breaking news now, as the trump administration works to stop violence at home, they're also warning of a new threat from communist china. the pentagon released a report today titled military and security developments involving the people's republic of china. the report says china plans to double its nuclear warhead arsenal over the next decade. they also warn china's trying to match or surpass the united states as a superpower by 2049.

but china may not need 30 years if that report is accurate in other dimensions. the pentagon report says this, quote: over the next decade, china's nuclear warhead stockpile -- currently estimated in the low 200s -- is projected to at least double in size as china expands and modernizes its nuclear forces. the report recognizing china's navy which was characterized in this report a year ago as the largest navy in the region, this report recognizes it as the largest in the world. the state department today revealed more about former marie yovanovitch's efforts to spy on the social media accounts of 13 americans last year. i'm on that list. the memos were released under a freedom of information lawsuit brought by judicial watch showing the american embassy in ukraine monitored the social media accounts of john solomon, tom fit ton, donald trump jr.,

sean hannity, me and other conservatives. the spying ended after the embassy was told by the tate department the actions were -- state department the actions were barred by federal law. that didn't come up during those fantastical hearings, did it? well, china's foreign minister ramping up china's rhetoric, calling the trump administration a, quote, radical group. talking in paris, he told the institute of international relations, quote: what we are seeing now that some are again maneuvering to draw a new iron curtain, erect another berlin wall and start a second cold war. president trump is considering further restrictions to stop chinese students from stealing intellectual property through their presence in our universities. just a few days ago a chinese researcher at ucla a accused of sending software to the pha caught destroying a hard drive, ands it is only one among many and growing numbers of

incidents. joining us tonight to talk about all of this and much more, the united states secretary of state, mike pompeo. mr. secretary, good to have you with us. let's begin with the rhetoric of the chinese government, and it is moving up quite a, to quite heated extremes now. your interpretation of what's going on in beijing. >> lou, thanks for having me on. that was quite a list you read there with respect to the chinese communist party's aggression. i think what's going on, for the first time in this administration a president of the united states who isn't just going to turn the other cheek, who's prepared to take on this challenge. it's 40 years and coming. frankly, america slept while china grew. we talk about their missile systems, their military, the trade issues, all the economic issues you've talked about on your show for months and months and months now, president

trump's taking each of these on in a serious waying or and i think you see the rhetoric from the chinese communist party ratcheting up because they are feeling the pressure that's being put on them by this administration. lou: and the eshoo of a -- the issue of a cold war, as the foreign minister suggestedded, between the two countries. it is, is it not decidedly already that? >> lou, the kohl war analogy has some relevance, but the truth of the matter is the chinese communist party made some choices whether general secretary xi tried to create a tyrannical regime for global hegemony, the challenges are different. there are economic channels here at home, we had to close the consulate, the chinese consulate in houston, texas, because there were spies operating from that place. it had truly become a den of spies. this is different than the cold war in that we are challenged by

a country with 1.4 billion people, an economy that had year on year growth of about 6% gdp, and it cost millions of jobs here in the united states of america. we will push back against them. president trump will push back against them on every one of these fronts. lou: among those fronts are the companies, the front companies from the people's republic of china in this country, hundreds upon hundreds to them that are stealing intellectual property whether, by whatever means. including cyber, of course, cyber attacks. what are we going to see happen? there has been so little acknowledgment on the part of china that it is committing crimes against the united states and certainly no remorse. are we going to carry out a full assault on those who would steal our intellectual property, our technology secrets, our military

secrets? >> i'm confident that under president trump's leadership we will, lou. billions and billions of dollars worth of american wealth for ordinary working class families, millions of jobs lost over the last 20 years. we came in with a lot of work to do. the previous administration had refused to confront this challenge. and you've seen us do it with respect to telecommunications, huawei, the work that we have done there has cost huawei a lot because it was stealing stuff from us. and now you'll see ad broader effort. there'll be announcements, i think, in the coming days and weeks where you'll see the united states confront this in a very serious way all all to the benefit of the american economy whether that is students studying here in the united states that are part of this network, you talked about the incident at ucla, there was one at the university of virginia. the fbi and justice department are working on these issues too. all the places where the chinese communist party has simply refused to behave like a normal

nation and compete on normal commercial terms. america's turned its cheek for decades, president trump's not going to continue to let that happen. it's time to execute and implement the president's central. lou: at last count there were 75 of the so-called confucius institutes in k-12 american colleges and university campuses. how many will there be by the end of this year? >> i hope the answer's zero, lou. we've made clear that these are foreign missions. the state department's designated them as such is. that's important because now they come under a set of restrictions and rules. i think most universities and, frankly, we've had these confucius institutions places other than american colleges. i think everyone's coming to see the risks associated with them and the recruitment of spies and collaborators inside of those institutions. i think these institutions can see that, and i'm hopeful we will get them all closed out before the end of this year. lou: and the prospect that

chinese students will just simply be disallowed in the united states because they have been the agents, if you will, of espionage amongst the many agents of espionage in this country working for the ccp. >> i don't know what decision the president will openly make with respect to broad array of chinese students, but your point is well taken. there aren't all spies -- [laughter] but many of them are being watched. their families back home are being watched. these are efforts from the chinese government, the chinese communist party in particular, to identify those that might ultimately work on their behalf. lou: the complexity, or the depth of the complexity and this challenge and threat from the people's republic of china has to be met on so many levels and in so many theaters including amongst our allies whether they be in europe or southeast asia, we know that india, modi has

sent a warship into the south china sea, an act in response it is at least interpreted as such against the clashes on the border with china. and also, it appears, with some affinity with the u.s. navy that is in the south china sea. the importance of the relationship with india in meeting the threat from china. >> lou, it's central that we have friends and allies in this battle. we worked for two years to build that up. we've made real progress. you've seen a lot of countries turn away from huawei, acknowledge -- they slept on the threat the same way america did, for two decades. i think you're seeing the entire world begin to unite around a central understanding that the chinese communist party simply is going to refuse to compete in a fair and reciprocal, transparent way. so whether it's our friends in india, friends in australia, friends in japan and south

korea, i think they've all come to see the risk to their own people, and you'll see them partner with the united states to push back on every front that we've talked about this evening. lou: the most energetic of lobbyists in corporate america and wall street has been blackrock. and blackrock announcing that it will be setting up the first mutual fund in china without joint venture partners or any constraints, apparent constraints that have been the case for 20 years there. this looks peculiar given the tensions between the two countries and the fact that blackrock has been among those institutions working against president trump's values and insistence on policy to constrain china. what should we make of that? >> lou, i don't want to speak to any particular single private company, but make no mistake,

the president has made clear our expectations for complying with u.s. law, complying with all of the requirements that we have here in place that we want a fair and resip procall trade relationship. you saw this in negotiations over the trade deal. we didn't get the big deal down. most administrations would have caved, president trump refused to do that, and i think you'll see more that follows on the economic front that'll be really important to secure jobs and wealth for people here in the united states. lou: well, we've seen almost four years of it from this administration, so we look forward to a replication. secretary of state mike pompeo, we appreciate it much. up next, congressman devin nuñes. we'll be right back. ♪

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author of the important book "countdown to socialism." it's available for preorder, and we recommend it to you highly. congressman, great to have you with us. >> always a pleasure. lou: your senate intelligence chairman -- [laughter] is back in the news. do you think that adam schiff is a leaker? >> well, we know that someone on the democratic side is a leaker. they've been leaking a really long time not to mention they also like to go through our telephone numbers and release them to the public. so, look, we're very concerned about this. we have relayed those concerns to the intelligence agencies. we think we're fine just to read intelligence products if they continue to send people town to brief us -- down to brief us, that stuff is only going to be leaked and politicized, and that will be the problem. lou: your reference to dni john ratcliffe making a decision that there won't be any more broad,

at least, briefings on intelligence so long as he is director. you obviously agree with that decision. the american people are keenly aware that congress has been leaking like a sieve from the moment this president stepped into the oval office and perhaps before. do you think this is going to be an important part of the solution? >> well, look, i think it's just a band-aid measure before this election and before the durham report comes about and before there's more prosecutions. you have to remember, lou, that we don't even know at this point what did the democrats know and when did they know it about this entire russian hoax. we have our suspicions that many of them knew it actually in 2016 when they were going to the russian friends to get dirt on the trump campaign while at the same time accusing the trump campaign of doing it. we think that goes back to 2016.

and so this is just something right before the election that they need to do because the one thing is clear, every time they get a briefing the press seems to know about it. they run out there and they hold a press conference, and then all night long on all the other stations they're regurgitating nonsense, and they're saying things like, well, i can't really talk about it, but just let me tell you how bad things really are. it's nonsense. it's politicization of the intelligence agencies in this country which really gets us to a thursday world country. to a third world country. lou: well, that third world country is piling into a smaller -- spiraling into a smaller and more sinister locale right now because the federal judiciary made it clear, the d.c. appellate court in siding with emmet sullivan, the district court against the justice department and against a man who has been persecuted for four years. there's no question about it, this is a matter of fact.

and simply decided to prolong it, and the only purpose could be reasonably for political purposes to keep general flynn under constraint through the election. your thoughts. >> well, just a couple easy thoughts. number one, what the hell were they doing investigating general flynn in the first place? there was no real predication for out. secondly, we know on january 4th the fbi agents that were looking at this, january 4th of 2017, that they were going to close the case. it was reopened by someone who we don't know yet e, we were just told seventh floor. we know obama was involved and biden was involved. so what i would say this is this is a court run amok like many of the courts across this country, unfortunately. and you look, i think what's happening here, lou, to be frank is you see what's happening with antifa and blm and these riots and protests -- lou: right. >> this is what -- they've

created this monster. and what's happened is, is that because the media has been so dishonest and has become a propaganda machine, pretty soon people begin to believe these lies. next thing you know, statues of george washington are being torn down, and in washington, d.c. they want to tear down the washington monument. i think these judges across the country are watching this, and they're scared too, and they're scared to make the right decisions because general flynn should be let go. justice delayed is justice denied. lou: and courts doing so are politically corrupt courts. congressman devin nuñes, always great to have you with us. thanks so much. we'll be right back, stay with us.

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lou: breaking news now, senator rick scott blocking senator mike lee's effort to increase the number of foreign worker visas and workers coming boo this country -- into this country. china joe biden's running mate, kamala harris -- one of the original cosponsors of mike lee's bill and several rino cosponsors as well including, if you'd like to i write these names down, susan collins, rob portman, james lankford, mitt romney, john cornyn, joni earnest and lisa murkowski. you might say some of the usual suspects. joining us tonight, dr. michael pistol burr arely, director of the center for chinese strategy

a at the hudson institute. mike, talking with the secretary of state earlier, he is obviously very concerned about the threat in the south china sea and the threat in this country whether it be the theft of intellectual property, the continued espionage of university students in our colleges and universities. first, your reaction to now the news that china has the biggest navy in the world, and last year in the same report it was just the biggest navy in the asia-pacific region? >> lou, i think what we're seeing is increased chinese arrogance. they're quite aware of their naval superiority. they talk about it, there have been threats in the past month in the chinese press that they might just sink an american ship in the south china sea. teach us a lesson. we didn't see this kind of conduct 10, 20 years ago. we were way ahead of them

militarily. i think secretary pompeo is the president's point man on a lot of these steps against china. but we have to look at the other departments including the pentagon to get the full picture. lou: well, the full picture is a little askew if we look at esper at dod in which he starts cooing his communications with beijing rather than standing firm and being tough-minded about u.s. national security interests. >> secretary esper does seem to be a little bit out of alewinment with the rest of the cabinet and the president, but i can guess the reason why, lou. he could be worried about a real shooting war breaking out with china. our forces are getting closer and closer together. these maneuvers used to be separated by hundreds of miles, now they're quite close. there have been a number of

incidents. so the pentagon wants to fight and win a war if it has to, really has to think about deterrence and maybe being a little bit too much on the polite side. i did not agree that secretary esper should try to visit china this year. i think the president is trying to crack down on the chinese, what i would call tighten the noose around xi jinping's neck area by area, so the pentagon needs to be onboard with that, lou, i think. lou: well, what kind of an idiot would not be? we're talking about the secretary of defense. he reports to the commander in chief, the president of the united states. what the hell is going on? and if he is the dod secretary -- which he certainly is -- what kind of fatuous fool would be sitting there trying to make policy that's not in direct alignment with that of the president of the united states? >> well, one of the good things he's doing is accelerating the rate of the new weapons systems

we've just got to have to maintain the balance. the b-21 -- lou: he's not doing it. the fact of the matter, the fact of the matter is the president of the united states is the one who is commanding the rebuilding of the u.s. military. he is the one who has put everybody up on point to get it done. moon while -- meanwhile, it seems to me you've got a department of defense more worried about pr images and nonsense rather than building a vastly superior war-fighting machine. >> i'd like to see our four-star commander in hawaii responsible for the whole region. i'd like to see him in the taiwan. this seems to be the pentagon has, they think it's too provocative to let our commander visit taiwan. he hasn't been there since 1979. this would be a real test for secretary esper, and it also sends a message to the chinese that the most sensitive matter

for them as far as they're concerned is the state of taiwan. if our four-star commander visits, then they know we're quite serious about deterrence. i think secretary esper might come around to that view, lou. lou: well, he might. i really don't -- i don't care what his state of mind is, frankly, mike. he has a president to follow, and he damn well better follow because he's not shown himself to be much of a leader, this secretary of defense. thank you. i think it's a terrific idea, and i know you've got more, and we'll take those up the next time, mike. michael pillsbury. up next, is john durham's obamagate investigation looking into john brennan's selective disclosures about the 2017 intelligence community assessment? we take that that up and more with just the news founder and editor-in-chief john solomon. and please preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever," available now. preorder your copy at our new

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♪ ♪ lou: john durham's obamagate investigation may be focusing on

the obama era intel report that russia wanted president trump to win in 2016. obama's cia director, john brennan, strongly questioned why the doj would investigate that report. sources tell "just the news" john solomon that in 2018 house intelligence sent a secret report to the cia inspector general that some intel analysts believed vladimir putin wanted, actually, hillary clinton to win. joining us now, "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon, author of "fallout: nuclear bribes, russian spies and the washington lies that enriched the clinton and biden dynasties." good to have you here, tell us where we are. it's interesting that no one wanted anyone to know that putin actually wanted hillary clinton to win, not donald trump. how could that be? >> the potential for a real shocker. if you remember, since january

of '17, we have been told the intelligence community was unanimous that russia's interfierce was designed to help donald trump win the presidency and hillary clinton lose. we now learn that the intelligence community was divided, that there was multiple pieces of intelligence, some suggested the russians were trying to help trump, others suggested maybe even more strongly that russia was trying to help hillary clinton, and some to have intelligence analysts believed they weren't trying to help either, they were trying to sow the very discord we've just been through for the last three and a half years. the idea that they kept that from the public, the american congress outrageous. and we now know there's a possibility that the odni, john ratcliffe, may declassify a report that devin nuñes' team proin mid 2018 that lays this all on the table. this could very well have been flawed in that intelligence community assessment, at least according to the sources i'm talking to.

lou: well, here's one of the sources well known to our audience on this broadcast, fred fleitz. this is what he said about excluding russian intel. quote: when i was briefed on the house intelligence committee report january 2017, i uca, i was told john brennan politicized this assessment by excluding credible evidence that the russians wanted hillary clinton to win the 2016 election and ordered weak intelligence. i was also toll brennan took both actions over the objections of cia analysts. that's outrageous. your thoughts. >> it's outrageous -- we don't know it. it was kept a secret all this time. this is a pattern we've seen in russia collusion from day one. the fbi and cia know things, and they give us a different story than the facts that are in their possession, the evidence in their possession. it's time for the intelligence community to declassify that devin nuñes report.

i think it'll be a blockbuster. it may change some minds in the fall if people understand what's in that report. lou: absolutely. and another report, and that is your report on marie yovanovitch and the u.s. embassy monitoring u.s. individuals including a fellow by the name of john solomon and another one by the name of lou dobbs. >> yeah. lou: i'd like to show the audience quickly the names on this if we could put up that full screen, please. and there they are. lou dobbs, sean hannity, laura ingraham, donald trump jr., tom fitton, sara carter, rudy giuliani, dan bongino and john solomon. this is outrageous, and you're -- give us your is sense of the import. >> well, it has the look of an enemies' list, right? it looks like the embassy didn't

like the things we were saying about its conduct, about joe biden, about george soros, and as a result they violated the law by putting us on a social monitoring platform where they would take a look at everything we were saying in realtime and try to counteract our statements. this is prohibited under the privacy act according to the e-mails the state department released today. this is the sort of monitoring that the government has the capability of doing, and while there's rules that say don't do it to americans, the state department didn't follow those rules. as a result, your privacy, my privacy, sean's privacy, all the great people on that list had their privacy act rah rights, perhaps, violated. lou: it is,es it is stunning, and it took a judicial watch initiative here to reveal this, correct? >> what would we do without tom fitton and the great work his team has done time and again in forcing bureaucrats to give up documents they didn't want the tush over. bravo to him. i doubt this is the only

instance that it's happened. it didn't just get invented in march of 2019. lou: and i hope that, that attorney general william barr joins durham in doing a lot of hell raising. and soon. [laughter] john solomon, always raising hell and revealing great truths. we appreciate it. thanks so much. before we go to break, 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. and a 15% discount when you enter the code maga. stay with us, we'll be right back. e wrong getaway driver. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? line! the desert never lies.

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♪. lou: president trump slamming cnn because in his belief they're driving violence in this country. president trump: large numbers of people that were supporters but that was a peaceful protest and paint is, paint is a defensive mechanism. paint is not bullets. your supporterses your supporters, they are your supporters indeed shot a young gentleman, who, and killed him, not with paint but with a bell let. i think it is disgraceful. these people, protested peacefully. they went in very peacefully.

lou: the president and that es it for us tonight. president trump's son donald, jr., joins us tomorrow, former civil rights activist, bob woodson. please join us. thanks for being with us. good night from sussex. elizabeth: president trump on his way back to the white house after touring a week of violent rioting and the damage from that in kenosha, wisconsin. now only small crowd of protesters after days of democrats and media claiming that the president's visit would incite violence and riots. we have senator marsha blackburn on that. homeland security probing who was funding the rioters since the majority of them come from out-of-state? this debate, democrats acknowledged the rye off thing only after polls show that joe biden was dropping. rioting has gone on for 100 days. democrs