days in a row, the worst three days since march, down by another 4% portfolio we'll see where we go tomorrow. we thank you for joining us today. that does it for us, and it's time for "lou dobbs tonight" that starts right now. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. we are 56 days from the historic, critical presidential election on november 3rd. and the radical dems are escalating the intensity of their coordinated attacks against president trump each and every day. their latest efforts to undercut the president rolled out through their propagandists throughout the left-wing national media. the left-wing magazine, "the atlantic," and its editor-in-chief, jeffrey goldberg, using four anonymous sources. well, they're trying to propel more radical dem lies about president trump. the article claimed the

president disrespected troops, and the story falls apart under the most elemental fact checks and is easily refuted by documentary evidence and with more than a dozen public sources in the administration. official e-mail records show bad weather is what prevented the president's trip to a u.s. military cemetery in france in november of 2018. perhaps more intriguing than the phone gnu details of the -- phony details of the story is the level of coordination displayed among the. [laughter] -wing national media, big tech, republican rinos, radical dems and the biden campaign. this latest media hit job spread across twitter and facebook timelines without even a hint of a fact check label from those social media platforms. you do remember they want to be arbiters of truth or they don't? depends, i guess, on the ideology of the person using the

platform. a left-wing veterans group called vote vet es then released a highly produced ad on msnbc within just hours of the article's publication. that ad featured direct quotes from the report, an extraordinary coincidence, don't you think? and china joe biden leading a purported impromptu news conference friday with a tirade about the article. the first person to ask hum -- him a question, oh, my goodness, it was a writer for "the atlantic" magazine. see how the circle keeps closing here? the associated press claims to have crop rated the story in its -- corroborated the story in us entirety but then didn't have any evidence to corroborate it, not a single, single named source. and the washington post, cnn, even fox news claimed to have corroborated parts of the report despite every news organization having not a single named

source, nor any evidence whatsoever. what those unnamed sources did claim doesn't stand up against the 21 trump administration officials who are now on the record refuting the atlantic's horrible, horrible lies. fourteen of those administration officials were on that trupp to france. -- trip to france. that includes one of the highest ranking anti-trumpers of all, former ambassador and national security adviser john bolton, who hates the president and who had this to say this weekend. >> according to what that article said, the president made disparaging remarks about our soldiers that people buried at is the semitower in connection -- cemetery in connection for hum not to go to the ceremony that was manned that afternoon. that was simply false. i don't know who told the author that, but that was false.

lou: absolutely categorically denied. and it wasn't that long ago that "the atlantic" magazine was bought by the widow of steve jobs, lorraine powell jobs. she has been one of the democratic party's biggest donors, one of joe biden's mega-donors and reportedly communicates often with the chief editor, jeffrey goldberg. by pushing the lie that president trump said something disapparentlying of our military, the left-wing national media has given the biden campaign a chance to gloss over the fact that biden enthusiastically supported the rack war, something president trump -- the iraq war, something president trump outright opposed and that most americans now see as a terrible mistake. president trump's actions and demonstration of respect for the military speak for themselves. he gives them the funding they needed, he nominates anti-war officials, he is removing many of our troops from foreign postings, eliminating u.s. enemies such as iranian

terrorist qassem soleimani and eye us leaderral -- isis leader al-baghdadi. and it is president trump who cut a rally short in february to observe the transfer of soldiers killed in afghanistan. this is not a man who thinks our armed forces are in any way to be disrespected. longtime liberal broadcaster dan rather summed up what we saw unfold before us over the weekend, this false view of a president manufactured by the left as the left does daily of this president. rather said of president trump and the national left-wing media's charges against him, quote: whether he said it or not, it is believable, end quote. that sums up the radical dems and the. leftist deep state and the left-wing national media who

fault this president without facts, without evidence and without truth. all of which have been with this president throughout husband campaign and -- his campaign and his time of service to the nation in office. shame on the left. shame on the radical dems. and shame on the fake news and fake journalists who manufacture it. and shame on the radical dems for giving their streets over to radicals, thieves and killers. coz. s of fires -- dozens of fires set in portland over the weekend, one protester's feet set afire after a firework was launched into the crowd. in seattle 22 people were arrested for arson, for lighting fires, destroying property. police there recovered several unused molotov cocktails. more peaceful protests, you know. new data from princeton university finds riots associated with the black lives matter movement occurred in 48 occupant of our 50 largest -- out of our 50 largest cities in the country. and governor andrew cuomo says

president trump, president trump caused the outbreak of the china virus in new york. incredible. it was cuomo's lack of leadership that most blame for the deaths of 11,000 people, serving recovering china virus patients into nursing homes. and quo no's -- cuomo's government, excuse me, is now slow-rolling the release of nursing home death data. that data, we're told, has been held until november 5th. that would be exactly two days after the election. cuomo has also dismissed the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine just as many in the national left-wing media and american health care establishment have done. but according to a new study in the european journal of internal medicine, hydroxychloroquine reduces the risk of death from the china virus by 30%. up next, uncovering the secrets behind china joe biden

and his family. we take it up with peter schweizer. he has a new documentary out today. and preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history," available at loudobbsshop.com, a place where all american patriots, remins, democrats -- republicans, democrats and independents alike. i'll be doing a virtual book signing september 23rd. meet me, get your autoa graphed copy of "the trump century." stay with us, we're coming straight back. ♪ ♪ we've always put safety first. ♪ ♪ and we always will. ♪ ♪

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our veterans, with our troops and with their families. constantly. breaking news now, president trump putting public schools on notice. if schools adopt the curriculum of "the new york times" 1619 project, they will lose federal funding. that project is an ideological work, and it alleges american history began in 1619 when african slaves arrived on this continent and that american history should be viewed through that particular racial lens. the president's warning follows mid's elimination of critical race theory by the administration from all federal agencies. that's right, they have been teaching critical race theory and tutoring our federal employees with that indoctrination. finish president trump is surging in the polls despite the lies and the efforts of the

national left-wing media with, the deep state and the radical dems, of course. according to a "dallas morning news" poll of likely texas voters, china joe biden's lead of five points back in july is now a trump lead of two points. the president's momentum is indisputable. it's playing out in battleground statements now. and -- states now. and in florida biden's lead was 6.2 points at the beginning of august. that has fallen to 1.4. in michigan the president has cut a nearly 8-point biden lead to under 3 points. in pennsylvania biden once led the president by 6, that at the beginning of august. today it's under 4. and in north carolina, biden's lead has gone from about 5 points to under a single point in just over a month. yes, that is momentum. president trump calling out the national left-wing media protecting china joe biden and

his family profiting from china. >> he spent 47 years sending american jobs to china, to mexico and to other countries while collecting millions of dollars in campaign and super pac contributions from global corporations that got rich by making american workers poor. his son, where's hunter? where's hunter? i call him where's hunter. walked away with $1.5 billion to manage even though he never did that before. he walked away with a fortune from ukraine, china and other countries. between his son and his brother, you ought to read the statements. and the press doesn't pick that up. if i ever did that, it would be, it would be hell even worse than it's been. lou: hard to imagine how worse it has been for this president despite everything he's done for this country and for our people. our next guest has released a new documentary, released today.

it's called "riding the dragon," and it's about the biden family's ties to china. >> china is not our enemy. it's not a problem. what are we worried about? come on, man. >> he doesn't see them as a threat. >> i believe then what i believe now, that a riding china is a positive, positive development. ♪ >> he welcomes their rise as a global power. why exactly? perhaps it's personal. perhaps it's about his family. perhaps it's about money. lou: and joining us now, peter schweizer. of he's president of the government accountability institute. the documently based on his best selling book, "profiles in corruption: abuse of power by america's progressive elite." peter, great to have you with us. congratulations on the

documentary. this is extraordinary, the degree to which the national left-wing media just simply refuses to deal with these stories of corruption which are ongoing as we speak. finish. >> you're exactly right, lou. i mean, the oldest playbook of a washington journalist is follow the money. you know, how many times have we seen stories about, you know, wall street fundraisers for candidates, big oil raising money for candidates, all these kinds of -- and those are legitimate stories. but this is the ultimate follow the money story because it involves the bidens, it involves deals with a foreign government, china, and it involves deals with our chief rival on the global stage. even more than that, lou, it's not just a story about a politician's kid getting rich because his father has power, this actually has serious national security implications because the firm, the chinese

firm that hunter fuses himself toened up doing a series of deals that benefit directly the chinese military and the chinese strategic challenge to the united states. lou: and that company, bhr, made an investment, for example, in the china general nuclear power corporation. it doesn't get much more integral to china's interests than that, both national security and economic interests. >> right. and cgn's a classic example, lou. hunter biden forms bhr with these chinese entities, and they're using chinese government money. and what hunter biden's firm does is they become an anchor investor in cgn, china general nuclear. about a year after that relationship takes place, cgn -- that same company that hunter biden's firm is now anchor investor in -- is charged by our fbi for stealing nuclear

secrets. in particular, executives and engineers connected to that company are trying to get access to the nuclear reactors that we put on our navy submarines that give us a huge strategic advantage. that's just one of a myriad of investments that are in hunter biden's firm's portfolio that benefit the chinese military to the detriment of the united states. lou: now, the. [laughter] would say but, of course -- the. [laughter] would say but, of course, hunter biden is no longer associated with these investments. he is no longer bringing money to his bank from china. what do you say? >> yeah, that's not true. he joined the board of directors in 2013. once this story was exposed, i came on your show and other shows. hunter biden stepped down from the board of directors. what he has not done, lou, is removed the equity stake that he

has in this firm. and there are estimates that factcheck.org and others have have run that thaw believe his stake could be $30 million or more. so the point here is that they have lieud consistently about this -- lied consistently about this in a number of ways claiming that he was not affiliated, claiming he was just an adviser, finally admitting he was on the board of directors. when that gets called out, he steps down from the board of directors, but he retains his equity state. he is still making money off of what this chinese investment firm is doing. lou: still making money, and he would not be the vice president's son if he were, if husband father were to be elected. he would be the president. and it's stunning that he would not be totally duh vested as he runs for that office, let alone what would happen if he were to win it. president trump says outright biden in the white house would mean china owns this country.

>> yeah. i mean, look, the chinese government has made the biden family lots of money. we're talking about the bhr deal. as we point out in the film, hunter biden has another deal that involves rosemont real estate where he was a cofounder, a chinese military-linked company called gemini came in and bought a stake in that company and committed to put billions of dollars of capital. we don't know what hunter biden's take was as it relates to that deal. so that's the inherent problem. they have not come clean, they have not, you know, told the truth. they continue to obscure what the relationships are. and, again, this is not about ukraine, this is not about great britain, this is not about some government contract. this is about a financial relationship between our chief rival on the global stage, china, and the biden family. joe biden wants to be president of the united states, and his family has become wealthy courtesy of our chief rival. that is a recipe, i think, for

disaster. lou: and courtesy, of course, his father's almost 50 years as a public employee, an elected official over that course of time. peter, as always, thanks for your great work and all that you reveal. where can we go to see the documentary the soonest? >> you can go to biden film.com or you can find it on youtube. just riding the dragon movie, and it will come up. lou: excellent. thank you much, peter schweitzer. of we'd like to hear your thoughts. share your comments and follow me on twitter @loudobbs like me on facebook, follow me on instagram @loudobbs tonight. civil rights activist bob woodson and congressman steve scalise join us here tomorrow. we hope you'll be us for that as well. up next, the nba and nfl are donating hundreds of millions of

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♪ ♪ lou: american airlines says its staff can wear black lives matter pin on the job. american airlines saying it e, quote: believes in equity and inclusion for all. end quote. just last week delta airlines gave a black lives matter pin with its logo on one of its passengers. the nbm -- nba is pledging $100 million to fight racial injustice, the nfl pledging $250 million. neither league is listing the organizations that it is

funding. today the nfl's official video game, by the way, madden says colin kaepernick is returning to the game for the first time in four years. there you have it. michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson says her state won't have the full results on election night, period, full stop. and she says prepare for an election week, not night. michigan starts mailing absentee ballots in two weeks. the postal workers' union, a part of the afl-cio, endorses biden. nancy pelosi says the post office has become what she calls election central. is so how do you feel about all of these unions, the postal service employees unions representing some half million workers being impartial stewards of an election? meanwhile, georgia today announcing that a thousand people voted twice in its primary, and they will be

prosecuted. we don't know how many of them were actually alive. well, joining us tonight is tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. his new book is "a republic under assault," available for preore now. we recommend it to you highly. tom, good to see you. let's, let's -- [laughter] let's take up michigan and the fact that they just won't have results available, thank you very much, and just trust your local post office and the postal system which is, well, running bankrupt concern. your thoughts. >> well, in california they plan out by law to count ballots at least 17 days after the election. so we're facing -- the left is planning it out. they are preparing the public, and you saw the facebook sew owe the other -- ceo the other day talk about that the president may win on election night, but

he may not win after, quote, all the votes are counted. and as you know, votes gained through the mail are more suspect than votes at the ballot box. and if they get there late, if they get there without postmarks and, of course, they're counted in an inappropriate fashion, the results are going to be questioned. and i don't know how else to describe it other than by breaking the system by mailing hundreds of -- almost 100 million ballots and ballot applications to people who haven't asked for them and then waiting weeks to count the ballots, how is it we're supposed to trust those results? people should vote in person to insure their votes are counted accurately. lou: well, who decided, just who decided that these ballots would be in the mail to whomever without any control and the complete, complete control of

the postal union workers who support. [laughter] -wing radical dem candidates? i mean, how could this happen? >> the postal office on a good day can't get the mail where it's supposed to be. there's a at least an 8-10% failure rate in getting first class mail there on time. so what's supposed to happen is the ballots will get there late. no one will know when they will be mailed, they could be mailed after the deadline, and you can bet there will be leftist judges waiting to force officials to overrule republicans who object to changing the rules after the fact. it's going to be like florida in 2000, lou? remember the first count had bush winning, so the democrats wanted a second count, and they kept on until they got to victory. lou: well, it sounds like this is going to be up to the postal service's management of their

unions to decide the -- i mean, we'll turn over to the afl-cio to get their judgment on who won. i mean, this is ridiculous. why isn't there some sort of intervention by the supreme court? if -- why isn't the republican party making a much -- the president talks about this every day, and he was scolded by kevin mccarthy, for crying out loud, because he might scare seniors away from voting in a rigged election are. i mean, you can't make this crap up. >> i'd be more concerned about seniors having their votes stolen or intercepted or otherwise not counted as a result of reare lying on unreliable mail-in ballot transactions. if i were running the justice d., i'd tell the 10,000 lawyers working for me i want you to figure out a way to protect the vote in november. i want to figure out a way to stop states from mailing 51 million ballots to people who haven't asked for them knowing the lists are filthy, knowing the risk of fraud, knowing the

risk of disenplan choosement of potentially millions of americans. that's the election crisis we're facing. and now the left knows that they're likely to lose if they count the votes on election day. they've admitted as much, and so now they're manning the count votes after election day and, of course, they're keeping the violence card in their back pocket as well. lou: tom fitton, thank you very much. always good to have you with us. appreciate it. and up next, shots fired for the first time in decades at the india/china border. a major conflict, is it possible? we take that up with michael pillsbury when we come back. you can preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever," available now at our new merchandise store, lou dobbs shop dom as well as amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com. stay with us, we are right back with much, much more.

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combined, commercial trawlers, and tracking data by global fishing watch shows the fleet of more than 300 vessels to be in precise hi the same location it's been in since june. the u.s. military's been asked to build military bases on the tiny pacific island of palau in order to counter the threat of china. palau's president writing to defense secretary mark esper saying, quote with: there are so many things that the u.s. can show leadership. as you can see, china seems to be the main nation aggressively coming to the pacific and establishing their mark. and the united states, apparently, is has responded in the affirmative to palau. we're going to take that up with mike pillsbury here in just a moment. but first, india and china are tonight accusing each other of firing warning shots along their shared border. that border is thousands of

mules large -- miles large. it is the first time in decades that shots have been toured there. tensions between the two nuclear powers is have definitely intensified despite cup lomatic talks -- diplomatic talks trying to defuse tensions around the standoff. china claims it launched and recovered its first reusable spacecraft over the weekend. the unmanned spacecraft spent two days in orbit. back in july china launched its first unmanned mission to mars. joining us tonight, dr. michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. it's good to have you with us, and before we turn to some of the specifics here of this extraordinarily complex relationship between china and the united states, the president says that if joe biden were to be elected, the effect would be that china owns america. is that hue potentially, in your judgment, or what?

>> no. i think the president's being realistic, lou. the chinese are already pretty deeply embedded in our economy, in our society and our universities, so the president's pointing to what if things go even further. what if we do not decouple, what if we let the chinese continue the trend of the last 20 years in our stock market, buying ownership of a lot of our key companies. how much further can this go if the president joe biden and he's much more favorably disposed toward china. so i think it's a realistic comment. lou: and the trump warning is right now, i don't think it's being examined as it should be. of course, it's the national left-wing media, and they won't. i don't know why -- i don't have an expect aation, but rather, i would hope they would take seriously their responsibilities particularly to national security in this presidential race and assess exactly what joe

biden, how much of a threat joe biden truly is when it comes to the china relationship. do you think that's a reasonable hope? >> yes, i do. our media, if the situation were reversed as the president likes to say, our media would be camped out in front of hunter biden's doorstep, wherever that is, and they would unsuggestion on hunter biden explaining whether peter schweizer's research is correct or not. i mean, there's the 1.5 billion, there's now these transfers to other companies including companies that the pentagon put sanctions on. so ordinarily the media would be, you know, there'd be a group of ten people out in front of hunter biden's house tomorrow morning. i don't think that's going to happen, do you, lou? >> lou: no, i do not think. and i don't know where we are on this path, but india in conflict with china, it is worsening by the week. the relate rhetoric is ruing and

so are the number of incidents over these past few weeks. what does your analysis reveal that we should understand about what is in prospect here? >> i've yet to visit this lawyer, and nobody would really want to be there, you're above 10,000 feet. but it's a question of prestige and honor and territorial sovereignty. so what's been happening recently is the earlier limits, nobody would carry weapons, that's now gone. they're carrying weapons. nobody would fire. that's gone. the hotline would be used. the hotline was used sunday night. the indians called china and said what about these five kidnapped people and no chinese reply. so the situation is just deteriorating. finish perhaps it's the growing ambition of the chinese that now is their chance to kind of humiliate india on the world stage. lou: the president has not made

an announcement himself about our bases in the pacific -- >> yes. lou: -- but palau, there is obviously construction underway for u.s. military airstrip if not a complete our base. your thoughts about what is going on there and why. is it a direct response to china's aggressiveness? >> in my opinion, it's a direct ponce, lou. it's part of a much larger plan the president put in place about two years ago. this report in the "wall street journal" is by one of their best strategic analysts, gordon lubold. he's pointing out that the airstrip has now been completed. pa haw is kind of forward -- palau is kind of forward toward china. it's considered part of the south pacific. but actually, if you want to put the south china sea in range, then south of guam and to the right of the philippines is palau. so this is very strategically important place. and to have the leader ask us

enthusiastically to build bases there, this is really good news that small countries on china's border area and deep into the pacific are still willing to go with the american side. they have confidence in president trump that he will do the right thing. so this is really good news for the president's strategy about allies and partners surrounding china. lou: it is good news, and the administration is obviously working diligently to build up relationships and alliances in the southeast asia and indo-pacific renales as quickly -- regions as quickly as possible. the chinese seem committed to this expansionary foreign policy. it's more than that. certainly, belt and road combined with it. this is the gunning of countermeasures -- the beginning of countermeasures. what is, in your judgment, the

likelihood that we're going to see china withdraw from that expansionary policy, or are they fully and totally committed? >> we're seeing two different channels of information about this question, lou. on the one hand, in the last couple of weeks the chinese foreign minister and his colleagues have been saying remarkably conciliatory things. they want to reestablish dialogue with washington d.c. on the other hand, look at on the ground what they're doing, including the galapagos. i see increased expansionary efforts, increased ambition. so it's a strange the question of who are you going to believe, the chinese foreign ministry or what they're doing on the ground? lou: yeah. i'm going to believe america first, how's that? dr. michael pillsbury, great to have you with us. thanks so much. up next, china joe biden keeps going back and forth, flip-flop on major policy

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lou: on wall street, a stock selloff. the dow fell 632 points. the s&p lost 95. the nasdaq down 465 points. technology again leading the market lower. volume on the big board, 4.7 billion shares. crude oil lost more than 7%, settling at $36.92 a barrel. a reminder, listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. china joe biden continues to flip-flop on major positions. within just the last couple of weeks, biden has changed his mind about a national mask mandate. he now says there's a constitutional issue with such a move and, therefore, he's no longer calling for a national mandate. biden also says he's not going to ban fracking after all, but at a campaign event in new hampshire this year biden said that he would. the former vice president has as also said money should be diverted from police

departments, but yesterday he denied ever wanting to defund police. sounds like al sharpton here. and then amazingly claimed president trump actually wants to defund. these are just a few. well, joining us tonight is "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." and we recommend it to you highly, of course. john solomon, good to have you with us on the broadcast. >> good to be with you. lou: i want to start with a journalistic discussion, if i may, when i get to talk to editor-in-chief, i want to get -- [laughter] a straight shot at what is going on with unnamed sources and then using unnamed sources to corroborate unnamed sources and holding that up to be a legitimate report about the president of the united states.

something has gone awfully wrong in journalism. >> no, and you said it right, lou. listen, too many times today the national media that 20 years ago really did e do their job. but it's eroded tremendously. they act more like a political action committee promoting the biden democratic ticket than they do as arbiters of neutral truth. and that comes in the form of many things whether it's anonymous stories, the bad stories of russia were just as anonymous and wrong as this story in "the atlantic" this past weekend. and most ironically, you have 21 people on the or record denying the story. you'd think that would be enough for the story to go in reversal but, nope, not in this era of media. we double down on oured bad mistakes, and i think it's bad for the american people, bad for democracy. finish. lou: it's extraordinary. i think people have to really pay close attention as they watch these stories. when the president calls out

fake news, it is precisely that. >> yep. lou: this is not, this is not a standard that any legitimate journalist would have ever dreamed would be the standard of conduct within the journalistic community. and for it to go unchallenged by so-called journalistic watchdogs is stunning as well. let's turn to, if we may, to the strzok-mccabe-comey, and mark meadows, the chief of staff, saying there's more to come, and it looks ugly for these three i would call them suspects, to be nice about it. [laughter] >> yeah. their work -- [inaudible] that's for sure. yeah. i think mark meadows is right. i think we're going to see new revelations both in the form of declassification and probably some action by the special prosecutor, john durham. i would look either for an interim report or an interim report combined with one or two

more indictments or criminal charges filed between now and the end of the month. but the pete strzok story, that he was overworked and that's why they messed up the fisa -- [laughter] just are doesn't pass the smell test. not even on a funny holiday weekend, you know? and he wasn't channeled on it. i mean, no one was challenging him. but pete strzok knew exactly what he was doing, he knew his ed was bad, he knew he wasn't meeting the standards for the fisa court. and whether he did it to affecting the election or not, he did affect the election, and we're still paying the price for that three and a half years later. i think all of this attention, all of these spin jobs by comey, mccabe and strzok are nothing more than a prelude to another hammer falling. the picture of the fbi's misconduct9 is only going to get deeper and worse in the next few weeks. lou: and will we, do you believe -- now that we are past labor day, the convention was that charges would not be brought within that 60-day period before the presidential

election. do you think that this will be a moment of necessary breach of that convention. >> >> yeah, i'm not sure. listen, it normally is a prohibition against indicting someone that is involved in the election. finish fbi agents, maybe they weren't in 2016, but they're not supposed to be involved in elections today. i think there's greater latitude for the justice department to bring charges against current fbi officials who are not part of politics, even if it involves the 2016 election. and i would not be surprised if that happens. i think the big thing is account prosecutors convince the grand jury in d.c. to bring these charges. that's the bigger question, and we'll have to wait and see. but i expect more action this month either in the form of a report or additional criminal charges. lou: well, let's hope -- i don't mind the report, but justice requires indictments. >> yeah. lou: john solomon if, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. good to have you here.

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north carolina. president trump will soon hold a campaign rally there at the smith reynolds airport. that is it for us tonight. bob woodson, congressman steve scalise are among our guests tomorrow. good night from sussex. elizabeth: tonight, just two months to go, 2020 race entering the final sprint. even more riots hitting american streets. they hit the streets with riots attacking innocent people and businesses. this new development. we have latest news what far left groups are warning what they are going to do, what is in store what will happen through the election. with us tonight on this, former, acting attorney general matt whitaker on the fallout for the 2020 race. also tonight house oversight and reform rankingli