whether it's fair or not. connell: when we see them struggle, and we've talked to voters, female voters, that's the issue that comes up, the virus. anyway, we'll see you on the show back here tomorrow. see you tonight with neil at eight. "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. enjoy the debate. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. it is the big evening we've all been waiting for. president trump has now arrived in cleveland, ohio, ahead of what will be the first presidential debate against the radical dems' nominee joe biden. the two men will debate face to face on a single stage tonight. more than 80 million americans are expected to be watching the festivities. the debate will run commercial-free for 90 minutes. a dauntingly long amount of time, perhaps, for the 77-year-old biden. the biden campaign reportedly asked for two separate 30-minute

breaks during that 90-minute debates, a request the biden campaign denies they ever made and one the trump campaign maintains they would not agree to. biden and his handlers may be somewhat concerned that he won't be able to keep up with the high-energy president trump. and here's a reminder of how a high-energy trump took down crooked hillary clinton in 2016. >> i will bring back jobs. you can't bring back jobs -- >> well, actually, i have thought about this quite a bit. >> for 30 years. it's politicians like secretary clinton that have caused this problem. our country has tremendous problems. we have a country that needs new roads, new tunnels, new bridges, new airports, new schools, new hospitals, and we don't have the money because it's been squandered on so many of your ideas. >> it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of

the law in our country. >> because you'd be in jail. >> secretary clinton -- [cheers and applause] >> because putin has outsmarted her at every -- >> mr. trump finish. -- >> she has been outsmarted and outplayed worse than anyone i've ever seen. john podesta said you have terrible instincts. bernie sanders said you have bad judgment. i agree with both. lou: high-energy president trump. well, trump campaign officials are also asking for a third party to inspect both candidates' ears for the placement of electronic devices or transmitters. the president consented to such a search. the biden side would not. despite having reportedly agreed to the request only a few days ago. we'll have full debate coverage this evening. we're joined this hour by rnc chair ronna mcdaniel, white house press secretary caylee

mcend e neighborny as well as the political savant himself, ed rollins, columnist michael goodwin. with this political showdown in ohio just hours away, another showdown has just wrapped up in the nation's capital. general michael flynn's attorney, sidney powell, and department of justice attorneys in court again today for more than six hours. both sides working together, trying to get chipton-a-- clinton-appointed judge emmet sullivan to follow the law, to follow attorney general barr's orders to drop the case against president trump's former national security adviser. the petulant judge emmet sullivan seems committed to stalling flynn's case. he claimed today he is not a rubber stamp and that he wants to scrutinize the justice department's request to dismiss the case. he has been doing exactly that,

and at one point during the contentious hearing, sidney powell urged judge sullivan to recuse himself from the flynn case entirely and immediately, saying sullivan has shown abject bias against general flynn. we'll be talking with attorney sidney powell this evening as soon as she is out of the hearing and in position to discuss the events of the day with us. as general flynn's case is being dragged out by the federal judiciary and judge emmet sullivan in particular, new evidence today was released that further ties hillary clinton and the obama/biden administration to the plot, the conspiracy to overthrow president trump. senator lindsey graham released declassified information from the director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. that intelligence shows the

russians knew of a plot by hillary clinton to concoct the phony trump-russia collusion narrative. clinton's plan, according to the contemporaneous note taking that is included in that intelligence, was to tie mr. trump to vladimir putin and the russians' hacking of the dnc. and according to the handwritten notes in one case of john brennan, head of the cia, the obama/biden white house was being briefed about the report as early as july of 2016 by former cia director john brennan. two months later intelligence officials sent an investigative referral to former fbi director james comey and former fbi agent peter strzok saying clinton's plan was devised to distract from her use of her private e-mail server. there is no indication from

today's declassification that the fbi ever investigated any of the allegations that were taken to them against clinton. joining us now is senator ron johnson. he is the chairman of the homeland security committee. and, senator, it is good to have you with us. we have much to talk about here tonight. i would like to get your reaction, if we may, first to these newly reelited de-- released declassified documents showing that there's good reason to investigate hillary clinton further all these many years later. >> let me first start by commenting on judge sullivan. what he ought to be scrutinizing is the scandal and the corruption within the fbi, what robert mueller ought to have been investigating as well, the corruption of that investigatory process. now we're seeing, and these documents are coming out way too late, lou.

chairman grassley and i had a request in april of this year to have all of the intelligence information turned over from the fbi on this, and we haven't got any of this. i'm glad that dni ratcliffe finally released this to senator graham's committee, but we are learning this way too late. what we have now is another piece of the puzzle. and i put these pieces of the puzzle into our investigatory timeline, and here's how it fits. on july 26th, hillary clinton allegedly signed off on this plan. that was the exact same day that the friendly foreign government information on papadopoulos was delivered to the london embassy, u.s. london embassy. two days later that same information was delivered to headquarters, the counterintelligence division in washington, d.c. at the fbi. three days later, crossfire hurricane, the whole investigation into trump's collusion with russia began. is that just a coincidence? i don't know. it's a pretty interesting piece of the puzzle.

lou: it's an extraordinary set of, well -- [laughter] concurrent accidents or just simply straightforwardly orchestration which is what it appears to be. this is, you raised the central issue here, which is why isn't there an investigation of this fbi, a serious investigation. when our oversight committees of our senate and our congress cannot somehow get the documents that they demand from the fbi, from intelligence services, we're in a difficult, difficult position. and when we've got the federal judiciary beginning to act as though they are, as well as the fbi and the department of justice, politically corrupt as well. emmet sullivan is a judge unto himself here. and he is supported by a d.c.

court of appeals that are breaking all law, convention and precedent. your thoughts. >> well, lou, as you may be aware of, i got so frustrated with the fbi's lack of response for our request for information, for example, like that april 2019 -- or 2020 request, lou, i finally issued a subpoena. the fbi now is on its second extension, and their still not giving us this information. you mentioned documents. here's one that was presented to us by the general services administration. this is an e-mail you can see it's all laid out there, the only thing the redacted is the mobile phone number of the sender. here's the fact same e-mail -- exact same e-mail provided to us by the fbi. it's almost 100% redacted, and this is the kind of production we're getting out of the fbi when i subpoenaed all these records. we should have gotten what chairman graham releaseed, we should have gotten that months ago. we should know about this. we're hearing right now that john durham may not provide any

information or a report because it's being said that it's too political. the political action taken would be in not releasing this information so the american people go to the polls ignorant of all this corruption, all the wrongdoing the fbi and the department of justice under the obama administration. lou: you are doing your level best to get to the bottom of what was going on in obamagate. to find out how corrupt, that's the only issue, how politically corruption were the obama justice department and fbi. there's no doubt that the corruption was considerable, but it's not quantified, and no one has been held to account. durham not producing even an interim report -- and i have to say to you, senator, i'm a guy who said i don't want to see a report, i want to see charges. right now i would beg to see an interim report that at least gave us a glimpse of what we

could expect. but i am so sickened and dise appointed by what this attorney general and what this investigating u.s. attorney, john durham, have refused to produce going into this election, i just can't even express it. it is -- the american people, their will is being thwarted, and their right to know is being absolutely denied. what should we do as a -- is this government capable of responding to this kind of a conspiracy against a sitting president to overthrow him, or do we have to have a new approach to this one? >> well, first of all, make sure we reelect donald trump as president so we can get to the bottom of this. when we have wrongdoing in the political realm, we are doing these investigates completely backwards. it should start with congress, and congress should have access to all of the information. if we find, you know, evidence

of criminality, we can turn that over to the justice department, if there's a conflict, they can set up a special counsel. it's been completely reversed. here we are three and a half years later, and the american people still don't know the depth of the corruption. we know the fbi understood that the russians were trying to infiltrate the steele organization, that the steele dossier had russian disinformation, that the primary subsource said it was bar talk. they knew this in january 2016, and yet they continued the investigation. comey corruptly set up, you know, helped generate with rod rosenstein a special counsel that lasted for months and put this country through a political nightmare. never should have happened if we we would have started by giving congress access to all the information. here we are a month before the election, and this committee chairman working with chairman grassley e has asked for all this information, and we've basically gotten squat. lou: well, tomorrow we'll see

senator graham's committee listening to the testimony of fired fbi director james comey. he may be able to shed some light on this. but his being able doesn't mean, of course, that he e will. are you hopeful that anything will be produced meaningfully from his appearance? >> well, this disclosure from dni ratcliffe is very important because that'll put the heat on comey. it's very difficult to conduct a decent hearing or interview if you don't have the documents to back it up, otherwise you're flying blind. and that's been our problem, we've been flying blind. comey does exactly -- knows exactly what he did, strzok knows what he did, people inside these agencies are hiding the ball very effectively and just i trying to run out the chock. i'm doing everything i can to get the american people the truth, it's about getting them the truth because they deserve it. lou: senator johnson, i want to

which can by saying we're all in your -- conclude by saying we're all in your debt for your efforts to do so, and we applaud you and wish you must luck in succeeding in the days awe heed. senator ron johnson, thanks for being with us. up next, more on politically corrupt judge emmet sullivan and his political persecution of general flynn that has now been going on for four years. that's what he and his family have had to suffer through. and judge sullivan, the appellate court of d.c. have no intention of doing the right thing, the legal thing, the constitutional thing. attorney sidney powell joins us next. and we invite you to buy the new week "the -- book "the trump

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♪ mucklou: it looks as though chia and george soros are aligned in their efforts to influence this year's elections. the chinese-owned video app tiktok will now, it says, feature a guide to u.s. elections, offering information about candidates, how to vote, the election process, you know, that sort of thing. the content will be provided by outside organizations, one of which is media wise. media wise is part of the soros-fundedpointer institute. the "lou dobbs tonight" word of the day is showdown, which means a final test or confrontation intended to settle a dispute. and joining us tonight is the attorney who had a nearly six hour showdown with the obviously

politically biased and politically corrupt federal judge emmet sullivan who has departed from all procedure of the federal courts to carry out his own initiatives. sidney powell is general michael flynn's attorney. is she joins us now by phone having just left the courtroom. sidney, good, first of all, to have you with us, and secondly, it was quite a confrontation between you and the judge. where do you believe the proceeding left general flynn and his, and his efforts to be free of this persecution that is, up credibly, four years long -- incredibly? >> well, i wish i could tell you it's over, lou, but it's not. general flynn is now being persecuted clearly by the court with judge sullivan and many mr. gleason having taken up the

mantle of people like peter strzok and andy mccabe and james comey and barack obama and mr. biden for persecuting and investigating and wrongfully prosecuting general flynn when there was absolutely no basis to do so as acknowledged in the words of the agents themselves and the many documents the government has produced in the last several weeks. lou: during that hearing you toll the judge to his face -- told the judge to his face that he had conducted himself with abject bias. what was his responsesome. >> he -- response? >> he pretty well shut me down on those arguments. he certainly did the first time. i got more in the second time i started talking about it, and we will be filing a motion to discuss qualify him because the comments he made today reflect pure political ambitions and continuing the prosecution of general flynn and other actions since the court remanded it to

him also. it was absolutely appalling, lou. it was just nothing short of stunning. i would have thought we were in a third world country where political prosecutions are common place. lou: and it's, it's -- [laughter] it is also a political corruption that has reached to the appellate court, certainly. the d.c. appellate court supporting all of this. is justice -- it's just as contemptible, in my book. you're the attorney, but i can tell you as a citizen to watch an appellate court basically embrace emmet sullivan and his obvious bias, his obvious prejudice against your client, a three-star general, served the country with distinction, and they have gone after him and panel at the behest of powerful political figures. we know some of the names. we don't know all of them.

your thoughts. >> yes, they have gone after him hammer and tongue, no amount of evidence that has been produced would dissuade them. in fact, the way they dealt can with that is simply to pretend it did not exist. it was obvious judge sullivan had not read the exculpatory findings that have been released to him. he clearly didn't know that he had failed to do a complete rule 11 colloquy in the second instance. that's because he apparently hasn't read our briefs on those subjects. he's focused only on what mr. gleason gave him to read which require the case be dismissed. lou: and on we go. and your client remains caught in a hell of persecution. peter strzok, his attorney today saying that notes by you were,

as he put i it, doctored. what is your response to that, that claim? >> well, that's laughable. we've produced what the government gave us. i don't know where the documents came from in their files or who might have made the notations on them if mr. strzok didn't, but the let or his lawyer sent to the court is an extrajudicial -- that is wholly improper e. the same is true with president trump's tweets which were at least themselves transparent and discussed only the facts of the case and the egregious government misconduct whereas we have obama and biden secretly in the oval a office telling the fbi to investigate and pursue the case when they knew from comey's own mouth that the calls with ambassador kislyak were perfectly legitimate. this is the most egregious abuse of power, obstruction of justice that you can think of. and after that john ratcliffe's

letter today to lindsey graham that it's clear that peter strzok knew that she knew he was working on the case. it's all tying together now. lou: it is coming together now. i want to ask you two requests quickly. your thoughts about john durham. you know, we don't know if it's true, but the reports continue that he will not be producing either charges or any kind of interim report. and, most importantly for you and for your client, what is next? >> i'm appalled we have no indictments get from mr. durham. as long as this has gone on and as much evidence has been apparent, there could have been some significant charges brought and producedded even more charges because people apparently don't cooperate until they know their livelihoods are in the lines of fire.

and what's next is judge sullivan will be ruling, he said, with dispatch, whatever that means since it hasn't happened yet, and we will be filing a motion to disqualify him within the next few days that adds from the transcript today and other things that have happened since the rehand. there's no way the d.c. circuit should have allowed him to continue to preside over this case after he became an active litigant personally against the man whose case he was presiding over. lou: it's outrageous, and this kind of appalling conduct in washington, d.c. has been, unfortunately, it's become commonplace, and political corruption is pervasive right now in even our federal judiciary. sidney powell, thanks for being with us, we appreciate it. and, of course, we wish you good luck as you pursue justice for your client. up next, voter fraud rampant all across the country. yet the corrupt political

judiciary refuses to acknowledge that in most instances. we take that up and more right after a quick break. we'll be talking with the republican national committee chair ronna mcdaniel. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ finish. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ lou: the minneapolis police department investigating election rigging exposed by the group project veritas. the group released video of a ballot harvester allegedly connected with congresswoman ilhan omar. the person harvesting those votes paying someone $200 for a general election ballot. in new york absentee voters are discovering major problems. wrong names printed on return envelopes for the absentee ballots. some voters even said they received a military ballot

although they never served in the armed forces. fbi director wrong wray doesn't think there is widespread voter fraud, however. that despite more than 500,000 ballots being rejected in this year's primaries around the country. more than 50 people have been arrested or convicted for voter fraud. and joining us, republican national committee chair ronna mcdaniel to take up all of this and to, well, give us a little preview about what she expects for tonight's all-important debate. r to onn -- ronna, first, good to see you. i don't know about you, but i'm stunned by the number of times that we have heard state and federal judges alike at the district court level say they don't want to take up a case of voter fraud or allegations of voter fraud because they, it just doesn't exist. we heard the fbi director say it doesn't exist, in effect. your thoughts.

>> well, they clearly haven't seen what i've seen when i talk to voters who, as recently as last week, told me she'd received three ballots to her home for a woman that never lived there with a different name than the resident. when you see in detroit in the primaries 72% of the precincts did not match the poll books, the totals in the precincts didn't match what was said in the poll book. when you go to broward county like i did in 018 for the -- 2018 in the recount for rick scott and you saw the administrator put in 2,000 unvalid ballots. once they go in, they're like a needle in a haystack, you can't find them. democrats are creating opportunity after opportunity for fraud, and it is very, very hard to catch with this mass influx of mail-in ballots. lou: republicans are in court all over the country trying to stop this obvious effort to rig

an election and create as many ballots and votes as they possibly can. this is outrageous. give us a sense of how well you're doing legally to stop this, how well you're doing in terms of organization to try to at least mute the impact of what is an obvious effort to distort the outcome of the election. >> so there's two efforts, one we're in lawsuits all across the country, lou, over 40. but what we are seeing with democrats is dark money pays a law firm to go in and file a suit like in nevada, and then the democrat legislature and the governor say, oh, you know what? you don't even have to sue us, we'll just change the law. that's what they did in nevada, and that's what they're doing across the country in democrat-run cities, getting rid of signature verification, expanding ballot harvesting, allowing ballots to be counted after election day. the other part is election day operations where we will have an army of attorneys monitoring not

just election day, or but early voting. it is a massive undertaking. we are winning some cases, but it is just insane what democrat lawmakers are doing across the country to undermine election integrity. and the fact that the media's overlooking it is really egregious because it is undermining our election process. lou: we've got just about30 seconds. what do you expect the president to do tonight? >> i'm so excited. i hope president trump holds joe biden accountable. and i really want him to ask joe biden to reveal how much more americans are going to be paying in their tax returns if he's president, because all of our taxes are going up under a joe biden presidency. lou: probably not more than a few trillion dollars, right? ronna, thanks so much. ronna mcdaniel, enjoy tonight's debate. thanks so much. up next, kamala harris sidestepping a question about

whether the, is it the harris/biden or biden/harris ticket? whatever. whether they'll pack the supreme court with more justices. we'll take that up right after these quick messages. please stay with us.

♪ ♪ lou: well, let's begin with the "lou dobbs tonight" quote of the day from epa administrator andrew wheeler.

he wrote to california's governor gavin newsom about newsom's mandate that only new electric cars be sold in california by 2035. wheeler said this, quote: california's record of rolling blackouts, unprecedented in size and scope, coupled with recent requests to neighboring states for power begs the question of how you expect to run an electric car fleet that will come with significant increases in electricity demand when you can't even keep the lights on today. well done. senator kamala harris is starting to copy, well, china joe's mannerisms. listen to how she stammered through her answer on msnbc about a question about the possibility of packing the supreme court. >> if judge barrett is confirmed and the democrats have control of the senate next year and the

white house and house of representatives, should the supreme court be expanded? >> you know, let's -- i think that -- first of all, joe's been very clear that, um, he is going to, to pay attention to the facts, and i'm with him on this 1,000%, pay attention to the fact that right now, lawrence, people are voting. lou: [laughter] oh, my goodness. it is interchangeable, isn't it? harris/biden ticket, biden/harris ticket. well, joining us now, former reagan white house political director and fox business political analyst ed rollins, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the new york post, fox business contributor michael goodwin. well, ed, i don't think that senator harris coming off -- is coming off too well here of late. she's backing the blm, and she's

starting to sound like joe biden. your, your thoughts. >> well, they haven't given her the script. she was supposed to be the attack dog. he's hiding in his basement, i don't know where she's hiding, but she's not on the campaign trail. i think they've just got to try and cruise through the debates and show up on inauguration day. but the reality is they've got a long ways go before this thing is over. she's going to have a tough debate with mike pence and, obviously, the president's going to have a very good debate tonight, i think, against joe biden who's got to stand up there for 90 minutes. lou: well, it's not a very good sign, mike, is it if she can't even respond to a question from the, oh, so friendly msnbc. >> right. well, they've been hiding so long, as ed says, they don't even take questions from the friendly outlets usually. so she gets one that, you know, any grade b political handler could have said, well, you might be asked about the supreme court packing, you know? because the barrett hearings are going to start, blah, blah,

blah. it just seemed totally unprepared for the question. i mean, to the point that how long can they hide, i guess the answer is as long as they, the polls show them in a decent, respectable position particularly in the swing states. it is mystifying though. we've never seen a candidate not campaign like this. lou: well, we also have, we've also seen polls just like this some four years ago which led hillary clinton, ed, to make horrible mistakes and misjudgments. could this be a reenactment? >> well, if they make the same misjudgments she did and not show up in the states that matter, they're going to lose this thing. the president now has momentum. they've now taken iowa and ohio out of the cook, you know, column. they're now basically back in the center again. the president 's closed on several of these states now. it's a very competitive

environment out there. you know, he may not win the national vote because of california new york, but he's certainly getting very, very competitive in the states that matter. and my sense is he has a good debate tonight, he's back in the game. lou: and a good debate, how essential is the president's performance, how essential joe biden's? michael? >> well, look, i think there's a lot riding for both. this is clearly going to be the most highly watched debate ever and particularly the first 30 minutes or so will be keyment i think if, as ed says, if trump does well, then this could totally flip the election around and then put biden on the defensive. and i think what we would see then is biden having to come out more, having to answer these questions about his tax plans, about his medicare plan, about his energy plan, about the supreme court, about hunter biden. so far he's gotten away with

answering nothing, and i would like to see this a change. as an american citizen, i think we all need to see our candidates fully vetted, but you can't vet somebody who won't answer any questions. lou: yeah. that, the hunter biden question isn't on the list though that fox has reported on, ed. we've got about 15 seconds. you get the last 15 seconds. >> the first question i'd ask, how did your kid get $3.5 million from this chinese woman, and what did he have to do for it? there's a long history of the biden son and brother doing things very questionable. the president needs to be full gear tonight. i think he will be. lou: it does, it does seem to rain on the family, doesn't it? ed rollins, thanks so much. michael goodwin, thank you both. great to see you. up next, how president trump plans to highlight his historic four years in office in tonight's debate.

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as they say. whoever "they" are. the s&p down 16, nasdaq down 32. crude oil losing more than 3% settling at $39.11 a barrel. and listen to my reports three time times a day on the salem radio network. president trump tonight shower to communicate -- sure to communicate to americans in his typical straightforward manner. our "lou dobbs tonight" quote of the day comes from my new book, "the trump century." by the way, it's available at loudobbsshop.com. i wrote -- and i thought brilliantly -- quote: when talking to the american people, he forgoes sugar coating his language or his meaning. he talks in the direct, straightforward language of the plan-spoken american -- plain-spoken american, using short anglo-saxon words that carry meaning and weight and that resist obfuscation and create clawty.

claire ity. joining us now, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany. we want to get something -- >> good to join you. lou: -- it's great to see you, and get a preview of what you expect. how do you expect the president to attack, if you do indeed expect him to attack, the former vice president? >> truth and with facts. there is no comparing the record of obama/biden and president trump. when you look at president trump, record lows in unemployment, a v-shaped recovery. when you looked at a obama/biden, slowest economic recovery since world war ii. health care, same thing. premiums up, drug costs up under obama ma. president trump brought those down, first time in 50 years. so a point-by-point comparison from the handling of swine flu to the handling of covid, there really is no comparing the record because president trump stands tall. lou: well, the release today,

the declassification given over from the director of national intelligence to the judiciary chairman, senator graham, in which it is alleged that hillary clinton, it is claimed, was behind the so-called russian collusion conspiracy against president trump. will he take that up tonight, do you think? >> he very well could come up. look, the president has been sounding the alarm bells about this for quite some time. lou: yep. >> russia collusion was always a hoax concocted by democrats, and the cia was so concerned about this they sent to a referral over to the fbi during the campaign. the president was right all along, obama was cooking up a scheme in the oval office with joe biden who mentioned the logan act, and now we learn the hillary clinton campaign was

complicit in all of this as well. lou: and what is your sense of the president, the president wanted to have a drug test for both candidates, himself and biden. the biden camp didn't like that too well. he wanted to have an examination for earpieces before the debate, and the biden campaign didn't like that. but the biden campaign did like the idea of two breaks at 30 minutes and at one hour in what is only a 90-minute debate. i understand that the trump campaign declined -- [laughter] the former vice president's request. what's going on here? >> yeah, that's a fact pattern, as i understand it. look, this president works nonstop, lou. he's up way early in the morning my phone's ringing and it's the president, he works late into the evening, often times past

midnight. we arrived home near one a.m. this evening. to be president, you have to be up for the job. there are no 30-minute breaks in the oval office when you're dealing with national security issues and covid and the challenges that we've seen the president rise to the occasion on this year. there are no breaks. the work ethic of president trump says it all, and i think the american people deserve answers. lou: yeah. his work ethic has set a standard, and i did mention this in my new book, i might add, kayleigh. i'm having shameless here in hocking my own wares, but he's a man who's set a standard for his energy and his work ethic, his effort to put this country first every day that future presidents are going to have to meet because the american people will expect the same of their president. you get the last word here, kayleigh. >> yeah, that's exactly right.

look at what the president's done. in 29 days two middle east peace agreements, haven't been done in 26 years, he's the only president to have that accomplishment. serbia/kosovo, and look at all he's done with covid and the v-shaped recovery, no one can stand up to the record of president trump. lou: and did you mention three, three nominations -- >> three deals -- lou: -- for a nobel peace prize. my goodness. [laughter] i think that's three. [laughter] >> yes. well deserved. lou: appreciate it. indeed. good luck tonight. kayleigh mcenany. before we go to break, a reminder to buy my new book, "the trump century. " you've heard about it here. get your copies at our new merchandise store, loudobbsshop.com. loudobbsshop.com. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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