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fight the wildfires. >> in august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. i approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations, so very quickly, because we want to get this thing taken care of including fire management assistance grants to help multiple states stop the fires. more than 28,000 firefighterrers and first responders are combating the fires in california, oregon and washington. over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire, and that's the largest fire in california. that's the biggest. >> yep. >> and we want to thank all of the brave fighters. we want to thank these incredible people, the first responders, service members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, to their lives and extreme danger. lou: and the president is now on his way to phoenix for a campaign round table with latino

voters there. it will be his seventh state that the president has visited in as many days. and where is joe biden? well, we'll find out later in the broadcast. and red storm rising, the pentagon today warned that china has developed the capability to threaten the united states with nuclear missiles. tonight we'll examine the threat closely. the growing chinese nuclear arsenal is becoming a true threat. we're joined tonight by president trump's special envoyy for arms control, ambassador marshall billingsley, to take up those issues and more. as the pentagon warns about china's growing military strength, this country's attention is drawn to the infernos burning out of control in western states, a combination of heat, drought, lightning, arson, overgrown forests all contributing to those fires. and, well, you probably won't

hear this in the left-wing national media this evening, but california's radical dem governor, gavin newsom, who is often, well, in opposition to president trump was profuse in his expression of gratitude today to president trump for all that he has done for the state of california to fight those fires. gavin newsom thanking the president for husband support of first responders -- for his support of first responders and gulfing the state critical aid in their response to the wildfires. >> there's over 16,500 firefighters currently out on the lines, and i'm very pleased and grateful, mr. president, that you're recognizing some of the other heroes, those national guardsmen and women that did ab extraordinary job saving the lives of hundreds and hundreds of people stranded with some of these most intense fires. i want to thank you and acknowledge the work that you've been done to be immediate in terms of your response to our requests.

14, we were just talking, the head of office emergency services, maybe a record that the state's received in support as well as the major disaster declaration which you referenced on august 22nd which was profoundly significant not only to help us support our mutual aid system, but also individuals that are in desperate need of support. lou: well, it was only last month that the trump administration and the state of california signed an agreement to then up to a million acres of forests in california every year using logging and controlled burns. governor newsom further thanked the president for funding that effort and acknowledged california's decades of negligence in managing their forests. california's also the center of the latest violent incidents of black lives matter and antifa violence. a $100,000 reward ising being offered tonight for information on the gunman who just brazenly

shot two los angeles county sheriff's deputies from ambush. the two deputies were in their patrol car saturday in compton, california, when the shooter opened fire at point-blank range. doctors performing surgery on both deputies. they are expected to survive. the sheriff there calls it a double miracle. as the two deputies were fighting for their lives, however, aunt that and black lives -- antifa and black lives matter thugs tried to block the emergency entrance to the hospital. their antics disgusting even the left, and they turned even uglier as they chanted outside the hospital that they hoped the deputies would die. >> the pigs out here, they are telling us that we cannot come in here and see these individuals who have been shot down. >> [bleep]

[inaudible conversations] >> y'all gonna die. [bleep] [inaudible conversations] >> [bleep] lou: and we'll be glad to send this video along to every corporation in the country who is spending money and effort supporting black lives matter. i hope we can have a discussion, any one of you who would like to take this up on this broadcast, any ceo of any corporation doing so is welcome on immediate notice to join us on the broadcast here to take up what you were watching, what you are witnessing, what the whole country is repulsed by and why is corporate america supporting a marxist organization this vile and this violent? we'd like to hear why your company is supporting them. just give us a call.

we'll put you on the air. and another graphic image capturing the deputies after they were shot. they were able to find sufficient cover to radio for help themselves after they were attacked so viciously. and last night at a rally in henderson, nevada, president trump condemned those, those thugs, condemned the vicious effort to assassinate our law enforcement officers. >> the radical left in america is waging open war on law enforcement. hundreds of officers nationwide have been uninjured in left -- injured in left-wing riots and mobs. my administration wants to appease domestic terrorists -- biden wants to appease domestic terrorists, and my plan is to i arrest domestic terrorists. [cheers and applause] if you murder a police officer, you should receive the death penalty. [cheers and applause]

lou: los angeles certainly not the only large democrat-run city where police officers were attacked. police officers responding to a domestic violence call in new york yesterday met by a gang member who fired a half dozen shots at them. none of the officers were wounded. the gunman was captured, arrested. and violence running rampant in other large democrat-run cities. yes, they are democrat-run cities. in lori lightfoot's chicago, 54 people were shot this weekend, and 12 of them were killed. and still she is the mayor. and police in lancaster, pennsylvania, forced to use tear gas last night to move a violent mob out of the streets. black rah lives matter activists -- black lives mart activists again throwing bricks, trying to damage vehicles, calling officers the real kkk.

>> you the real kkk! [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] >> i just don't want to get hitment -- hit. lou: the ignorance, the violence absolutely incredible. and testing being tolerate -- it's being tolerated by those democrat-run cities. all of that, by the withdraw, by the activists, the thugs, the mob in response to a fatal police shooting of a man by the name of ricardo munoz. police shot and culled the 27-year-old -- killed the 27-year-old man as they responded to a domestic disturbance call yesterday afternoon. police officer body camera video

shows munoz actually thesenning those -- threatening those officers with a knife in his right hand before he was shot. and shot dead. police records show munoz had been arrested just last year for stabbing four people and holding a knife to his own throat when police tried to intervene. munoz was awaiting trial on four counts of aggravated assault. no one has explained what he was doing on these increasinglyville streets. increasingly evil streets. it's stunning to see what america's putting up with and what celebrities are celebrating in this country. it's pure ignorance, and i have to tell you it is absolutely intolerable. turning now to wall street where the market started this week off well. the dow jones industrials rallied, up 327 points.

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lou: breaking news now, obama attorney general eric holder is advising china joe biden on how to steal the election. biden beefing up his legal team to prepare for what are anticipated issues with this election as it's been put by one w.a.g., the legal team includes, of course, attorneys from perkins-coy. you remember them, they are counsel to the dnc, to hillary clinton, to the left in this country. and the biden legal team is being led by obama's former personal attorney dana' miss who actually taught a law class last year at duke's law school with rino senator mike lee. mike lee, apparently, playing, i guess, lindsay graham to john mccain in that relationship.

also breaking tonight, the latest fox news poll finds only 48% of americans say that the violence in our cities, including new york, portland, kenosha, are riots. 40% just don't believe their lying eyes, say the demonstrations are simply protests. well, there we are. "the atlantic" magazine publishing an article this week and arguing, if you can imagine this, that republicans should permit joe biden to win in november. now, this is "the atlantic," mind you. because if biden were to lose, there would be more riots. does this sound like a threat to you? because it certainly does to me. brookings institute senior fellow wrote, quote: a loss by joe biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because trump will destroy america, he can't parenthetically, said the

author, but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles. for this reason, strictly law and order republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in biden winning. he's saying, basically, if president trump is reelected, the left will give us more riots, more violence, more ignorance. and the -- he thinks that is somehow going to intimidate voters. so does "the atlantic." what a strange organization. well, the ratings for the nfl's opening sunday night football game between the cowboys and rams down more than 20% compared to last year. during the playing of the national anthem and a black national anthem over the weekend, seven teams stayed in the locker rooms. ten teams had many of their players taking knees and,

obviously, some fans really did not like it. despite the extensive protests, former quarterback colin kaepernick complained calling the league's social justice initiatives propaganda. can you believe this? this was never about a protest for him. it looks more like a marxist drive to overthrow the country. now -- [laughter] all of that pandering and compliance and accommodation by roger goodell and the rest of the nfl going for naught. colin kaepernick just being who he is. well, joining us tonight is larry elder, host of the larry elder show on the salem radio network, executive producer of the documentary "uncle tom." let's start with kaepernick.

i can't believe this guy. he has been treated like a rock star, and now concern and rogerr good -- and roger goodell has done everything but kneel himself before the great activist, marxist, whatever you want to call him, kaepernick. they bow down every time he says anything. so does nike. so do too many, in my opinion, corporations in this country, public corporations who are turning over money, air time and supporting him and the left in this, in this broadside. your thoughts. >> well, it shows you how well the trump economy is doing notwithstanding the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, because colin kaepernick apparently is working. look, i keep waiting for just one of these athletes, lou, just one -- aside from herschel walker -- to stand up and say where's the evidence that the

police are mowing down black people just because they're a black? we're in a nation of 350 million americans. 50 million have police interactions with them every year. off the that 50 million police/civilian interactions, 11 million people are arrested. out of that, 60,000 officers are assaulted, 50 killedded. despite all of that, only a thousand people are killed by the police every year, and that's been the same average for the last four or five years. almost all of them have been resisting with a weapon or resisting violently. when you're looking at unarmed white cops killing unarmed black, you're talking less than 4% of the total. michael brown was unarmed, but his dna was found on the cops' gun. it's very, very, very rare for the police to kill anybody, let alone an unarmed black person who is not reasonably perceived as a threat. out of all the homicides in this country, unfortunately, half of the victims are blacks, and almost all of them are killed by other black people.

it is a fact that a young white man, number one cause of death for a young white man, preventable, is accidents like car accidents. the number one cause of death whether preventable or not for a young black man is homicide. 8-10 times more likely to be a homicide victim than a young white man, that's why the cops are there. rapper tupac shakur once said we need the police more than anybody else because of the criminal element that is there. so knock it off. the facts do not support the whole premise behind the narrative, and it's getting people killed. young black men being undock try nateed with the idea that they're going to be hurt when they're stopped by a police officer, so they are unnecessarily onguard and, therefore, not complying. so you are ruining the relationship by this phony narrative, it's getting people killed, and i keep waiting for kareem abdul-jabbar, charles barkley, somebody to stand up with some kind of stature and

say, wait a second, let's take a look at the facts before we react. i haven't seen that yet. lou: yeah, it's, it is, to me, very interesting that corporate america won't say, you know, we're really concerned about violence in the black community, in our inner cities run by democrat mayors. these ceos who are moving money to support these, you know, showboating spectacles of nonsense that we are forced to watch because it's now part of the nfl -- thank you, roger goodell -- i mean, it's a a atrocious. >> right. lou: i mean, if they really cared,s if they gave one damn about the problem, the issue and fixing it, they would be sending that money directly into those inner cities. and, by the way, all of the athletes standing up and showboating and, you know, putting up end racism in their end zones, this is just absurd. because they are supporting black lives matter and antifa and all the thugs who have been

demonstrating since george floyd was killed in minneapolis. and guesses what? dozens, dozens and dozens of people have been killed as a result of the wanton violence on our streets in those democrat-run cities, and much of it initiated by black lives matter. not to them, they don't. it is a slogan, and that's where it ends. >> can i point out people like doc rivers who, of after jacob blake was shot, had a tearful press conference and said why do these things keep happening? he lives in malibu. the end result is going to be the cops pull back, but safety in his neighborhood won't be compromised. lebron james said we are afraid to leave the house. he lives in brentwood, and he'll be in a very safe neighborhood

full of private security. he will not suffer the consequences of his irresponsible rhetoric. will some prominent athlete stand up and say the truth and knock off the nonsense? as lou pointed out, chicago, 50 people shot last weekend. the last consecutive weekend, an average of 50 people shot, an average of 7 people killed. that's just chicago alone, and st. louis and baltimore have three times the homicide rate. where's back lives matter? black lives matter? lou: yeah. and where is barack obama? where is joe biden? where is eric holder and why aren't they speaking up? the three of the political leaders of the left. biden in particular, he could come out and discuss it, perhaps, honestly and openly and encourage civility e and a peaceful resolution of issues in the black community. instead he is, he's hiding. and it's the entire radical --

the party of hate, the radical dems have become that and, i think, now worse. larry elder, it's always great to see you. thank you for being with us, appreciate it. former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi says he got away with it again. he survived a two week hospital stay. he was being treated for the covid-19 virus, or as it's known here, the china virus. berlusconi has gotten away with it again. he's also responsible for our ldt tonight word of the day. the word is bunga-bunga, name for the 83-year-old's notorious parties at husband lavish absolutely la -- at his lavish villa while he was prime minister of italy. and there it is. up next -- wants more foreign workers in the united states for big tech.

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♪ ♪ lou: the chamber of horrors complaining again about the trump administration's reductions on foreign visas. the chamber of commerce quoted as saying, quote: it's not so much just bringing the talent into the country, it's having the talent come here to help start new operations. really? wow. who knew? the department of homeland security is blocking the um port of chinese products made in china's concentration camps. it's about time. the camps make products like hair products, apparel, cotton, computer parts and lots of other things as well. and is we have decided to do something about it. let's find out what. ken cucinelli, acting deputy secretary for the department of

homeland security, joining us tonight. ken, great to have you with us. this is a peculiar, peculiar situation. you're trying to stop this stuff made by uighurs by -- primarily in concentration camps, and meanwhile we are i buying nearly everything that china can manufacture across the board. it's the same communist chinese party responsible for all of it. how do you, how do you expect us to make discrete judgments -- discreet judgments about what is appropriate, what is not when it's the same lying bunch of murderers who decided that they wouldn't tell the world that the china virus would kill them, and an unsuspecting world found out just how many could be infected and killed in the wanton disregard by xi jinping?

>> so, lou, the authority that we have to exercise requires us to have a reasonable suspicion on a company-by-company basis or entity by inti ity. so a factory, today one of the entities we sanctioned, they refer to it euphemistically as a reeducation, a vocational school. in fact, it's a concentration camp. they provide labor to two other entitieses that cbp, customs border protection, has also sanctioned. so we are hitting the communist party directly with their slow cautional school -- vocational school. we've hit some of these companies with direct sanctions, and it stops them from importing their products into the united states. and this year cbp has seized tons, tons literally in weight, tons of these products and blocked them from entering into the united states.

customs border protection under mark morgan has issued more withhold release orders, the connect call name for these seizure orders, than in any other year in its history corrected at china more than any other country. and today we ad five more to the -- added five more to the list. lou: let's turn to the chamber of commerce. they're very upset about -- [laughter] not being able to do as they would which is compete directly against american workers. they're very upset with this president because they just won't let -- he just won't let the chamber of commerce replace our middle class with cheap foreign labor. >> well, lou, this president has been a vociferous advocate for american workers, the american worker. and right now we're several months into the president's

exclusion of temporary foreign workers from the united states because of the explosion in unemployment we suffered as a result of covid-19. and that is slated to go until the end of the year, and even then the president has, you know, broadcast notice that he may extend it beyond that so that americans can get back to work faster s. and whether some other people like the chamber of commerce would like to get their hands on some cheap labor or not, the president's priority is getting american citizens back to work. and that's what's happening at a record pace. we still have a long way to go, but this president has prioritized american workers first in the recovery. lou: and good for him and extend it, he should. and, by the way, we should point out that the chamber's so upset with president trump and his policies that they're going to actually be supporting a number

offed radical dem -- of a radical democrats on november 3rd. that's beautiful, isn't it? ken cucinelli, always good to see you. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it. up next, senator rubio and warner blocking republicans from accessing obamagate records. we'll take it up with former director of national intelligence ric grenell. preorder my new book, "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever," available now at our new merchandise store the, loudobbsshop.com, amazon.com as well, barnes & noble. stay with us, we'll be right back.

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lou: breaking news, nbc is now reporting the justice department's inspector general is investigating something. he's investigating the department's sentencing recommendation for roger stone. when reached by fox news, the i.g.'s office would neither confirm nor deny the nbc report. well, anti-trumper, former national security council member alexander vinedman talking with "the atlantic" magazine's jeffrey goldberg, the chief editor there, and regurgitating the deep state's lies that president trump is a pawn of vladimir putin. this comes less than two weeks after at least 20 people disputed goldberg's article which claimed president trump

disparaged american soldiers. well, joining us tonight is ric grenell. he's former acting director of national intelligence, former u.s. ambassador to germany and, in my opinion, one of the greatest public servants in this country's history. it is, ambassador, great to have you with us. i want to start with the inspector general taking up a sentencing recommendation. of all that we know could be invested by the justice -- investigated by the justice department, to decide on roger stone's sentencing recommendation, dropping it from 9 to 7 years which is still almost double the typical sentence of anyone found guilty of lying to congress, it's an absurd, absurd internal matter that, to me, speaks to the corruption still within the department of justice. your thoughts.

>> look, lou, we have a real problem in washington, d.c. with the washington, d.c. types who control the arms of government and their weaponizing -- and they're weaponizing the tools of government against their people that they don't like. the opposition. their enemies. their political opponents. and this is really, i think, a crisis in washington. we need to be able to clean it up. i know that president trump feels very strongly as the outsider that coming in there is a whole bunch of insider rules and regulations and views, and it's incredibly difficult to take on the entire system because the system is not only the bureaucrats, but it's, it's, you know, politicians, it's reporters. the inspector generals, i think, are supposed to be above it all.

they're supposed to be the individuals who can look at the bigger picture and try to figure out when there are problems and then deep dive into the specifics. what we have is a whole group of inspector generals who really have been playing politics. and you can go through every single agency in washington, and it's these inspector generals in the entire system that is weaponizing the tools of government. it's a bug problem, and i -- a big problem, and i have to say that when you leave washington, d.c. and you talk to normal people outside of washington, d.c., they're beginning to dismiss the whole thing. they're beginning to dismiss everything in washington. that's a very dangerous spot that we're in. there's a whole group of people in washington who keep pretending like they matter, and they've lost the american people. lou: well, they've lost the american people, but certainly the political parties are

looking awfully badly, both parties, in all of this. and the reality seems to be that the justice department is now an organization unto itself. it's where truth goes to die. documents are not produced. i mean, look what happened. the senate intelligence committee, senators rubio and warner rejecting senators johnson and grassily are's request -- grassley's request for documents to assist chairman johnson's investigation. not -- i mean, we're watching a division within the parties that is aimed at, in this case, there's only one explanation. they want to assist the radical dems who have conspired against president trump to overthrow a sitting president. i can't reach any other conclusion logically, can you? >> yeah, here let me say a couple of things.

one, senator johnson has been, one, very few, who has focused the senate on trying to figure out the truth. he is, he is looking for transparency. he's looking for more information. he is not playing the game -- lou: right. >> -- of hiding the information that doesn't help his narrative or his means. that is exactly what many in washington do. they want to classify and push away reports, they want to create new reports that only look at one side of the situation. we have very few people, lou, in washington who just want to say let's declassify the information, let's put it out. the american people are smart enough to look through the information and come to their own conclusion. we don't need to be spoon fed, we don't need to be told one thing on cable television and then another when you're under oath inside a congressional committee. lou: right. >> we want the whole truth and transparency. senator johnson is looking to do that. he's trying to figure out --

lou: right. >> -- where this all began and uncover it all and declassify it and give this information to the american people. transparency is not political. lou: and transparency is, was this president's commitment when he was elected. if, indeed, we find out that the justice department, the fbi, all of these investigative agencies and committees produced nothing going into this election are, would you recommend -- i'll put it a different way. do you believe the president should declassify every damn document and put it in front of the american, put them in front of the american people? >> look, it was my job as acting director of intelligence to really question the system and question the bureaucrats who wanted to classify documents. we overclassify. we now have a system in -- lou: right. >> -- washington that classifies to product the public relations aspect of these agencies.

what i tried to do is look at every document and to say is there a source in here that needs to be protected, or is there a method that points to how we got this information. the source and the method are the only reason whew you should protect something. -- why you should protect something. and by the way, you can then just redact that source or that line that talks about how we're getting something. lou: right. >> i also went so far on methods to say if the method was finished, if we were done using something, then we should declassify it and share it. if it's something old and useless. because we want to show as much transparency as possible. only redact information that is current and relevant. lou: i'm getting the feeling that you might be willing to entertain declassification. i prefer that in interpretation. ric grenell, who has done so many things to create

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♪ ♪ lou: joining us tonight is presidential envoy for arms control, ambassador marshall billingsley. ambassador, it is great to have you with us, and these are perilous times, and your efforts and those of others in the administration the come to some sort of an agreement, a lumbarration of particularly -- limitation of particularly nuclear weapons and delivery systems among the united states, china and russia are critically important. i want to begin by asking you how confident you are right now of what can be achieved. >> well, it's great to be with you, lou, and thanks for giving me a chance to talk with you about the vision that president trump has laid out for the future of nuclear arms control. you know, one of the key points that i took from your

conversation just now with ric grenell is the importance of transparency, and we need to be clear that the same kind of secretive behavior that the chinese communist party adopted when it came to the coronavirus is the kind of stonewalling they're applying to their nuclear buildup. that's why the president has called them out, he's made clear that they are surging and that the next nuclear arms control treaty must include and must limit china. lou: well, and, ambassador, i want the audience to know that you have declassified video for us to show what was happening in the arms parade in beijing. and if we could, let's go to, first, an image from 2009. this, this shows -- well, i'm going to ask you, what does, what do you take from this and the size of the parade? >> yeah. well, so, lou, the image that you're showing your viewers there is actually from a classified briefing that i gave

to the north atlantic council, to nato, a few weeks ago. and with felt it was important, again, on this theme of transparency, that the american people and, frankly, the international community know what's going on. so on top there you can see in the parade, the chinese have one big parade every ten years or so where they show off their nuclear weapons. in 2009 you can see that the length of that parade stretched about half a kilometer. ten years later that parade stretched ten times as long. so that's what they've done just in the space of ten years. can you imagine what it's going to be like ten years from now when they continue billing all of these different ranges and types of these nuclear-capable missiles? it's very, very concerning, and the american people need to know that the president is looking out for them and he's going protect us through a varian few of mechanisms, both improving our nuclear deterrent, bringing on line new capabilities that no other nation has, but also in driving arms control to try to limit and avoid an unnecessary

and costly three-way nuclear a arms race. lou: well, i'd like, ambassador, for you to come back and spend some more time with us. we are, actually, constrained by time tonight. but i want to get a sense from you, again, as to your hopes, your optimism about doing something with either russia bilaterally or even if that's in the cards or with china bilaterally. >> so that's a great question. the bottom line is the ball is now in russia's court. the president has had the necessary conversations with president putin, and we view that they have, they have sketched out the withdraw ahead. the way ahead. and that we've made e a good offer to the russian federation, and we hope they'll take us up on it. what we want to do here is three things. we want to make sure that the next agreement we negotiate -- and we'll start with the russians first, and we'll include the chinese in due course, but it's got to cover

all nuclear weapons. we can't have the russians building all of these tactical nuclear weapons outside of any treaty focused on nato and, of course, china's not involved in any of these arms control agreements. that's thing number two. the architecture has to include china. and number three, we've got to fix the dangerous deficiencies contained in the new star treaty in terms of verification and transparency measures. we're hopeful that moscow will take us up on it. lou: well, ambassador, we appreciate you being with us in a very instructive discussion. we appreciate it. come back soon. ambassador marshall billings lu. stay with us, we'll be right back. this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity.

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september 15th, countdown till election day, the battle for swing states picks up. president trump headed to pennsylvania today while joe biden courts voters in the sunshine state. take a look at futures, dow futures up 185 and nasdaq up 110 and s&p up 25, vaccine hopes help kick off the week with a rally this morning and that continues. yesterday's close had the dow industrials up 327 points.