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ago. during a campaign rally tonight, president trump is expected to talk about husband continued earths -- his continued efforts to restore american manufacturing. the president will call out joe bind's half century of shipping american jobs overseas and his recent flip-flop, of all things, on fracking. president trump's economic message remains a strong point with pennsylvania voters, for that matter, with voters across the country. pennsylvania voters overwhelmingly say president trump will handle the economy better than china joe. a quinnipiac poll today shows the president up 6 points on the issue in the keystone state. biden's campaign is desperately trying to respond to those surging numbers of president trump. biden's handlers today pulled him out of his basement again in delaware for a trip to kenosha, wisconsin. the trump campaign immediately criticized biden's trip noting that the president brought with him two days ago federal help

for the victims of recent violent riots in kenosha and millions of dollars in assistance for small businesses to rebuild. trump campaign manager bill stepian today said biden is simply following the president's lead. >> it's scary times in democrat-controlled states and cities, you know? vice president biden's own party, ayanna pressley, member of the squad, talking about encouraging, quote, unrest in cities. democrat mayors refusing federal support and help that the president's offered. joe biden visiting kenosha today, you know, the president was there earlier in the week as president of the united states. vice president biden is there today as a candidate, as a political candidate. this is not the time to be injecting politics into a really serious situation that the president helped solve. lou: president trump also

expected to emphasize law and order in this country. president trump threatened to withhold federal funding from democrat-run cities, cities that have pulled funding for police or want to pull funding as well for those police departments, the same, the very same democrat-run cities refused to fight the violence and vandalism of antifa and black lives matter. president trump singled out those democrat-run cities; seattle, portland, new york city and washington d.c. the president today instructed all federal agencies to find federal funds that could be withheld from those cities if they are not taking steps to end lawlessness and rioting. the president's order reads in part: my administration will not allow federal tax dollars to fund cities that allowed themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones. the president's threat to pull federal money renews his feud

with radical dem leftist leaders in new york. socialist new york city mayor bill de blasio says he'll see the president in court. new york state's radical leftist attorney general laticia james today said if the president actually decides to move forward with his threat to defund new york city, we'll be ready the take immediate legal alaska. and new york thug -- legal action. and new york thug governor andrew cuomo threatening violence. here's what he said during a conference call last night. >> he can't come back the new york. he can't. he's going to walk down the street in new york? forget bodyguards, he'd better have an army if he thinks he's going to walk down the street in new york. he is persona non grata in new york city. and i think he knows that, and he'll never come back to new york because new yorkers will never forget how gratuitously mean he has been.

lou: he'd better have an army, says the thug governor. what a pink. the president -- punk. the president responded on twitter saying governor cuomo should get his puppet new york prosecutors who have been illegally after me and my family for years to investigate his incompetent handling of the china virus and all of the deaths caused by his incompetence. it is at minimum a nursing home scandal, 11,000 dead. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany added this about the president's efforts to combat anarchy and violence in democrat-run cities: >> we believe here when you look at new york, a 177% increase in shootings, in seattle where there was a lawless zone where two chid, in portland where you've seen 140 officers injured. if the states will not act and secure their threats, this president will use every lawful mechanism available to him to try to supplement their failure,

and in some cases that's federal officers in minneapolis and kenosha where we've been invited, this is yet another attempt to make sure no more children die on our streets. lou: president trump fighting to restore law and order across the country at a time when the radical dems and the cities thaw control are becoming more chaotic, more violent and lawless by the day. black lives matter activists in d.c. swarming the streets last night. they surrounded a police precinct in the nation's capital as well as mayor muriel bowser's home. the left-wing radical mob, well, rioting over a police shooting of an armed 18-year-old. d.c. police released body camera video of the incident today which clearly shows 18-year-old dion kay with a weapon in his happened as he ran from police. an officer fired one shot and hit kay in the chest. he later died at the hospital.

police in d.c. also up covered more signs of coordinated -- uncovered more signs of coordinated efforts between antifa and black lives matter as both organizations try to stir up chaos, more violence across the country. the d.c. police charged a florida resident today with assaulting a police officer who was protecting senator rand paul and his wife as they left the white house. and in california a george soros-backed district attorney says looting might not be punish e bl after all, saying it depends on how badly the perpetrator needed the stuff they stole. the prosecutor's name is diane beckett. she now requires her subordinate prosecutors to consider looters' quote-unquote, needs when they weigh criminal charges against such perpetrators. a d.a. spokesman said the policy was put in place because of the china virus pandemic.

whatever of sense you can make of that reason, if any at all. attorney general bill barr talking with cnn's wolf blitzer yesterday. here is the attorney general going off on blitzer for defending universal mail-in ballots. >> the bipartisan commission chaired by jimmy carter and james baker said back in 2009 that mail-in voting is fraught with risk of fraud and coercion -- >> but since -- >> and so this -- no. let me talk. >> yeah, please. >> and since this, since that time there have been in the newspapers, in networks, academic studies saying it is open to fraud and coercion. the only time the narrative changed is after this administration came in. lou: just this week 19 people in north carolina were charged with voter fraud because they voted,

and they lied about their citizenship status, and a couple from california pleading guilty to bribing homeless people with money and cigarettes to forge signatures on ballot petitions and voter registration forms. this year more than half a million ballots already sent through the mail have been rejekylled, and more than -- rejected, and more than 40 people have been charged or convicted of voter fraud. and it's early yet. up next, the latest fallout from nancy pelosi's, well, or stunning hypocritical trip to a hair is salon. but she is, after all, the queen of the radical dems. republican house minority leader kevin mccarthy joining us here in just a few moments. and, please, prewe order 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. one of the finest in all the land, i assure you. and for a 15% discount, just

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lou: breaking news now, facebook is blocking any new political ads a week before the election. mark zuckerberg says facebook won't have enough time to contest any new claims before november 3rd, but back in july zuckerberg promised congress that facebook does not want to become the arbiters of truth. the trump campaign responded today saying,: when millions of voters will be making their discussions, the president will be silenced by the silicon valley mafia who will at the same time allow corporate media to run their biased ads to swing voters in key states. well, nancy pelosi canceled her scheduled press briefing today claiming she was framed by the salon that released video of her not wearing a mask in a shop that was supposed to be closed.

the salon owner says she's received death threat, will likely have to move out of heft-wig san francisco. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany began today's press conference by playing the footage of pelosi on a loop in the briefing room. >> nancy pelosi was not in the halls of congress. when i asked where she was, she was not working in good faith to make a deal for the american people. nope, nancy pelosi was found in san francisco at a hair salon where she was indoors even though salons in california are not only open for outdoor service. apparently, the rules do not apply to speaker nancy pelosi. she wants small businesses to stay shut down but only reopen for her convenience. do as i say, not as i do, said nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi is holding up $1.3 trillion in relief for the american people while getting special is access to the very

kind of small businesses that this money would support, businesses like this hair salon. lou: and joining us now, republican house minority leader kevin mccarthy. congressman, great to have you with us. the speaker outdoing herself as the marie antoinette -- [laughter] of 2020. your thoughts about her reck "the live desk" or -- reckless, callous disregard of plaintiff to the rule -- many of the rules she helped form. >> think about this, remember when she held up all the money for small business employees with her or gourmet ice cream in front of her refrigerator? or when she referred to us as enemies of the state? now she cares more about getting her hair blown out instead of

small businesses. and what is she doing? she's going after a single-woman small business and is now putting her out of business. i mean, i welcome her down to the other part of california, one that's more open in curran county or in bakersfield. we'd welcome her to open a shop down there because we appreciate small business and all the hard work that business people do. lou: well, hard work and all the business people do, big business is really having a hell of a time. what do you make of the chamber of commerce deciding to fund democratic, left-wing democrats in point of fact, along with all the rino republicans? big business in this country has basically said to this president, go to hell, told the american working man and the family to go to hell, so what -- how will the republican party respond to a chamber of commerce that thinks somehow they're superior to the president of the united states and the national interests, working men and women

and their families, our middle class? >> well, i'll tell you this, i don't want the u.s. chamber's endorsement because they have sold out. you listen to your local chambers, those small businesses. when i used to own a business, you had oklahoma, the city of oklahoma, their endorsement, they want to endorse stephanie bryce, not kendra horn that's sitting and backing pelosi or the green new deal or the others. i mean, it is just exactly what nancy pelosi did, it is hypocrisy that the u.s. chamber of commerce would endorse these democrats that are part of this socialist agenda that is driving this country out and is fighting this president. remember, these are the people who voted for impeachment. when this president has done so much for this nation, you know it, lou. you show it every single day. built us the strongest economy ever, rebuilt our military the, got criminal justice reform, and he's going to do all of this again. and then you've got joe biden out there that's hiding in delaware not willing to campaign

to be the leader of the free world. and this president goes someplace every single day, be it north carolina, pennsylvania, wisconsin. lou: yeah. >> and he is standing up -- lou: my guess is -- >> [inaudible] lou: oh, without question. and that's why his numbers are surging. he's exactly the same man who took the oath of office almost four years ago and has done exactly what he said he would do. and i've got to believe that somewhere, you know, the chamber of commerce is building a note for china joe biden -- a float for china joe biden so that they can continue to do business on china's terms, you know, like blackrock moving into china to tap into a $13 trillion market and just as we are watching this country nose to nose with china in what is becoming a very dangerous situation and is without question a cold war. why in hell are we putting up with the egregious, reckless, unilateralism of both wall

street, the chamber of commerce and corporate america? and silicon valley, by the way. >> i think you hit the nail on the held, because this president before he was even president, when he was citizen trump, he warned us about china. he's the only one that has stood up to them. think about the supply chain that he's helping bring back to america. i mean, we don't make penicillin, we don't make vitamins anymore. china, what did they do when we needed the masks and the others? they hoarded it. they lied to the world about this virus, and they sent their planes around the world. thank god we had president trump stop those airplanes, because you know who wouldn't have done that? joe biden. joe biden wanted those planes to still come in from china. lou: is mitch mcconnell in the pocket of the chamber and wall street? because he's going an entirely different direction than the president. he's telling senators not to run with the president. despite the fact he's surging in the polls and is the reason that people like mitch mcconnell get to run through the halls of

the senate. >> look, i've watched this party be so united around this president, you've just watched our convention versus the democrat convention. it's no longer republican versus democrat, it's freedom versus socialism. and this president's been able to stand up against all of those. he's put america first. but what we really need, we need him to get reelected, but we also need people behind him. we need to retire nancy pelosi once and for all. that's why people need to go to take the house.com, because he needs a congress that will back hum up. you've watched it time and again, lou. we've watched what nancy pelosi has done, or calling us enemies of the state. the hypocrisy i that she's going in when nobody else, she doesn't understand what small business goes through, because she's never be there. she thinks the law doesn't stand up to her. let's retire her, go to take the house.com, and let's support this president. lou: got a deal. congressman kevin mccarthy,

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lou: china's warning it neighbors in southeast asia to t to support the united states. the communist party's deputy

foreign minister called the united states a troublemaker and the biggest threat to peace in the south china sea. he also says china isn't afraid of trouble. take note. well, the u.s. state department importing tighter restrictions against chinese kip lo mats -- diplomats in this country. they will have to get permission before visiting colleges or universities or holding cultural events, so-called, with more than 50 people outside embassy e grounds. to take this up, state department spokesperson morgan ortugas hear tonight. good to see you and have to you here. >> thank you, lou. lou: the purpose of these restrictions, we now have 75 of the confucius institutes still in place. i talked with secretary of state mike pompeo earlier this week, he said he would be happy if there were none here by the end of this year. is that the direction we're headed? >> thank you so much for having me on, lou. so when you look at a what president trump and mike pompeo are doing, it is to establish

reciprocity in our relationship with china. so right now you were just talking about chai i news diplomats in the u.s. they are treated fairly here. they're given free access. they can talk to state and local leaders, they can go to university campuses. our american diplomats in china cannot coany of that. every -- do any of that. they have to receive per mig, they have -- permission, and they have areas where they can't go. we have engaged them here at the state department. we would like all of our diplomats to be treated the same way in both cups. since they have refused, we have said, fine, your chinese kip lo mats in the united states will have to get approval before they meet with state and local leaders, their social media accounts need to be identified as government accounts. meanwhile, this is the social media that chinese citizens don't have access to. we would love for our american diplomats to have the same free and open access that chinese kip lo mats -- diplomats have here,

but the chinese uncommunist party has not allowed that. lou: you're not saying we haven't figured out that the chinese are not going to behave as does the government of the united states, surely. when mike pompeo, the secretary of state, says he wants zero confucius institutes -- >> right. lou: -- because they're basically hubs for spying, espionage and the theft of intellectual property on our nation's campuses, why the hell aren't we getting rid of them? >> i'm glad you wrought that up, lou. not that long ago, we closed the chinese consulate in houston just for that a matter, because we found it was basically ground zero for the intellectual property theft of american research and american medical research from universities and hospitals in the united states. so the first step that we've taken with these confucius institutes is to designate them as forward missions. what does that mean? we're essentially letting these

75 con i few shus institutes and the 500 satellites that are on campuses around the country, we want these universities, we want people to know when they walk into confucius institutes, they are not walking into peaceful cultural centers. they're walking into propaganda arms of the chinese communist party -- lou: so why are we permitting them to -- >> well, we've taken the first step. >> i mean, why not get rid of them? [inaudible conversations] >> yeah. yeah. everything that we are -- lou: i'm sorry. >> as the secretary said to you, he hopes that we can get them down to zero. everything we're doing whether it's on the south china sea, confucius institutes, closing the embassy i in hong kong, we will continue onward to put pressure on the chinese communist party to understand that their 40 years whether republican or democratic administration people turn their eyes, turned their head, ignored what was happening.

the trump administration, president trump and mike pompeo are not doing that. we're holding them accountable. they've never been held accountable anywhere in the world like this administration is now holding them accountable. lou: and, excuse me, in ecuador, the galapagos islands, 360 fishing chinese-flagged fishing vessels doing just as they please without interdiction or intervention by the united states, the united nations. this is preposterous. this is our hemisphere -- >> that's right. lou: -- and we're not behaving like the monroe doctrine is even remotely in effect. has this administration decided to maintain the obama suspension of the monroe doctrine? >> well, absolutely not. we have started speaking out in support of ecuador and our other allies. i think it's important for your audience to know, and i know you've covered this, lou, that

the chinese communist party underwrites these commercial shipping vessels around the world as they do with many private sector entities, of course, in china. and what happens is these commercial, quote-unquote commercial fishing fleets will overfish, they'll fish without license, they'll do things like killing the sharks and taking their fins which is just abhorrent to anybody who grew up near the ocean hike me. but it's just a part of a broader campaign where we are calling them out, we're telling them you are no longer going to yet away with this. we support our allies in southeast asia, and we're going to support our allies here in this hemisphere. this behavior has gone ignored by both parties for 40 years. president donald trump and mike pompeo are putting a stop to it. lou: okay. morgan ortugas, good to see you. thanks for being with us. up next, a newly-released fbi document underconsistents the deep state's message about george papadopoulos are.

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♪ ♪ lou: on wall street today, big selloff. stocks tumbling, the dow down 808 points, the s&p lost 123. the nasdaq fell 598 points on the day. big tech leading the way lower. volume on the big board picking up to 4.9 billion shares. crude oil finishing at $41.31 a barrel. listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. breaking news now, a federal appellate court has ruled the nsa's bulk collection, bulk collection of americans' phone records illegal and violates the fisa act. that ruling stopped short of calling the program unconstitutional. a three-judge panel handing down that ruling in the case against four san diego residents convicted of aiding terrorists in somalia. their 2013 conviction was upheld though as the court said the

nsa's spy program didn't alter the evidence against them. do you find some of these court rulings to be hysterical? i mean, just hysterical? those, that is, that aren't politically corrupt? joining us now to take all of this up, "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon, author of "fallout: nuclear bribes, russian spies, the washington lies that enriched the clinton and biden dynasties." great to have you with us, john. we recommend john's book to you highly. >> good to be with you.lou. lou: let's start with, it was a wonderful moment in which barr showed passion, his superior intellect when he talked with cnn's wolf blitzer last night. and i don't mean that in faint praise in any way. but barr really educating the cnn-er on exactly what in the world is going on with mail-in ballots, the objections to them and the longstanding conviction

against them. let's listen to barr as he schooled wolf blitzer. >> we haven't had the kind of widespread use of mail-in ballots that's being proposed. had absentee ballots from people who request them from specific addresses. we're talking about mailing them when everyone knows those voting lists are inaccurate. people who should get them don't get them which is one of the major complaints in states that have tried this in municipal elections, and people who get them are not the right people, they're people who have replaced the previous occupant. sometimes multiple ballots come to the same address with a whole generation, several generations of occupants. do you think that's a way to run a vote? this is playing with fire, we're a very closely divided country here, and if people have to have confidence in the legitimate city of the government and people try to change the rules to this methodology which, as a

matter of logic, is very open to fraud and coercion is recklesses and dangerous, and people are playing with fire. lou: they're playing with fire, and the president of the united states, john, is fighting it with every fiber of his being. >> right. lou: yet the left wing of the deep state, the radical dems doing their best to get universal mail-in ballots out there as quickly as they can. ten states have signed on. >> right. lou: can this be stopped? >> that's a great question, right? it's going to end up in the courts, right? almost all these issues are going to end up in the courts just before or just after the election. the trump campaign already won a very important ruling in iowa where they were able to get ballots invalidated or ballot requests invalidated because the iowa commissioner filled them out for the voters and then sent them through the mail. fill them out before you send them, that's a great way to have fraud. there are some early legal

victories. i watched the media mock bill barr's appearance last night on cnn. his words are verbatim what a private, bipartisan commission said in 2005 led by none other than jimmy carter and james baker. they warned the same things, mail-in balloting is wrought with fraud. and it needs to have great protections, or it will not perform well. so it's amazing to see the media flip-flop on this issue in 2020. lou: yeah, let's quote from that bipartisan report. as you say, the former president, jimmy carter, and the secretary of state, james baker, leading the way. and just this one graphic, if we could put that up for our audience, please, to quote from. while vote-by-mail appears to increase turnout for local elections, there is no evidence that it significantly expands participation in federal elections. moreover, it raises concerns

about privacy as citizens voting at home may, may come under or pressure to vote for certain candidates, and it increases the risk of fraud. absolutely i unequivocally. and then it's been the position of both parties until this time around. >> yeah. lou: this is, without question, a highly suspicious moment in our history. and the smell is powerful. it looks like an attempt at defrauding the integrity of this country and its electoral process. >> right, lou. and, listen, there are three dozen cases just in the last several months where significant voter fraud has been prosecuted, convictions secured, lots of examples of mail-in ballots being stolen, bought, traded, defraud -- changed. there is real evidence that it's happening, let alone these warnings that the attorney general and the president,

former president jimmy carter made previously. there are real cases showing how it's being done. that should concern all of us. one of the things interesting in that commission report, they recommended voter id, photo id, voter id. that's something that today democrats call semiphobic. just 15 years ago the former president, jimmy carter, and james baker thought it was a good solution. that's how far this country has swung into silliness. lou: yeah. well, certainly one party. silliness enough to think they can fool the american people who have to have pictureses on their driver's licenses that they shouldn't go to trouble just to simply vote. john solomon, always great to get your insight and perspective. thank you so much. john solomon, editor-in-chief of "just the news." great video of a daring stunt by magician david blaine who successfully took flight, yes, that's right, holding on to 52 balloons filled with helium.

he floated nearly 25,000 feet up into the air. he then -- i'm going to see -- that's a parachute he's putting on, right there, and that is him cutting away from those balloons and parachuting to the ground. he says the stunt was his most ambitious yet, and he seemed to enjoy it immensely. the most important part, he was successful. and it was a great, great stunt. up next, china's xi jinping threatening anyone, everyone who dares defy the chinese communist party. does that a make -- well, i think it makes him sound a lot like a communist tick today to have. we'll find out. china expert michael pillsbury joins me. we'll take up that important question here next. stay with us. ♪ so you're a small business,

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♪ ♪ lou: a u.s. pr and lobbying firm serving up propaganda for the chinese communist party, receiving upwards of $50,000 in -- 350,000 in relief loans from the u.s. government. blj worldwide is registered as a foreign agent for their work with both and for the chinese embassy in washington and the

china/u.s. exchange foundation. the firm manages the embassy's facebook page. it's been used to defend beijing's cover-up, for example, of the china virus pandemic that it unleashed on the world. chinese president xi jinping today taking a shot at the united states in a speech commemorating the end of world war ii. xi condemned anybody who vilifies the chinese communist party. xi also stressed china's cooperation with russia. well, isn't that a happy note to end on? [laughter] well, joining us, dr. michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. mike, good to have you here. why is xi jinping being such a, you know, such a tough-talking fellow? he's threatening folks in the southeast asia region, the indo-pacific region, europe. he's just tough as he can be, isn't he? >> well, i'm afraid he's threatening you too, lou. anybody who criticizes china, you know, that's who he's

demonizing -- lou: oh. wait a minute, wait a minute. there's a misunderstanding. if he's going to threaten me, i want you to know i've been misinterpreted. [laughter] >> well, i'm a critic of china too. i believe they are out to surpass us and dominate us. shi gin punning has got a plan -- xi jinping also revealed something important a couple days ago. they believe that semiconductor chips are one of the 10 or 15 ways they want to dominate us. military activities -- lou: it's a good choice. it's a good choice. >> very smart. we're still split, as you know. there's a lot of benign china people around these lobbying firms activate, give them free trips to china. i think the confucius i institutes, frankly, is going to be a metric we can all watch. there used to be 90 of them, now it's been down about 15. mike pompeo told you, you know, they're all going to be closed. i don't agree with him, there's very little -- lou: no, he didn't say they're

going to be, he said he would be happy if there were none by the end of the year. >> thank you for that correction. lou: a different statement. >> i think very few are going to close. this is cash given to our universities, up as much as $5 million -- often as much as $5 million a year, and they take it because they also want chinese students to pay full tuition. so we're in a kind of struggle to the death with china over the next few decades, and they're inside us in a way soviets could never do this in the -- lou: so it's a straightforward proposition. it's a simpling, straightforward proposition, mike. we need to simplify this just a bit in terms of policy. the confucius institutes, their satellites all over the country need to be shut down. they should be shut down at the overred the president -- order of the president of the united states. it should happen immediately. we should not give a damn what happens to the universities and colleges who have been taking their money. they've been taking federal

government money as well. they owe, in many cases, a higher -- seemingly higher level of gratitude for the chinese money than for the, from the threat of that from the good old american taxpayer chumps. it's time for americans to quit being chumps, as the president has said over and over since 2015. it is time to end this nonsense. there's no game here. this is not something i give a damn one way or another, i know you don't either about how they replace the income from 20% of those international students. it's just idiotic. this is a nation that has a responsibility to its own people, not to the chinese, not to the inconveniencing of a board of trustees at, you know, you know, i better not say it that way, prestigious university. [laughter] >> maybe you could mention harvard. [laughter] lou: yeah. well, i could mention, but i didn't want. you did. shame on you.

>> stanford's got them too, where i went to school. you're right. the president -- lou: the point being -- look, i mean, i'm talking to the secretary of state this week, i'm talking with his spokesperson, we're talking about the galapagos where the chinese are having their way in our hemisphere. i don't with hear the monroe doctrine mentioned, i don't hear anyone talking about ecuador has not always been a friend to the united states, i understand that as well. but, by golly, our interests and their interests coalesce around that pristine wildlife preserve, the galapagos islands. and the chinese are absolutely devastating it. and it's got to stop. and we're the only ones who can do it. >> lou, you might agree with me, we ought to get beyond the finger-wagging stage -- lou: no, no, i don't agree with you. i don't think we need to get beyond finger wagging. i think we need to take care of

the specific problems i've said. confucius institutes, galapagos. deal with it. it's in our hemisphere, it's in our nation and cut the crap, as you're saying, i think eloquently perhaps more eloquently than i am, cut the crap about the language and the rhetoric are. get it done. this is a president of action. and his people and his administration need to follow his lead. would we agree on that? >> i agree with you, and there ought to be a checklist that you and i can monitor and say, okay, this happened, this happened, these six more things need to happen next. the president has the power to do this, lou. i think you're right about that. lou: and what about doubling the number of ships that we are building in this country? instead of watching the chinese build theirs and clucking about the fact that they are now the largest navy in the world, why aren't we committing to a larger navy? and absolutely assuring that we

maintain superiority militarily over the communist chinese who seek, who are following an expansionary foreign policy? >> well, it's a campaign promise the president made about the size of the navy. i'm also worried about the space force, chinese activities in space that threaten our satellites. they've been writing books for five years. the first thing they're going to do is knock out our best satellites and use force when we're blinded. the space force is really a part of it. that's action. hugh lou right. yep. i think, as they say, the journey begins with one step and one priority at a time. michael pillsbury, great to have you with us. thanks so much, always fun to talk with you. before we go to break, you can preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever," available now, i'm pleased to say, at our new merchandise store. go to loudobbsshop.com, a 15%

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