jamie@strangeinheritance.com. thanks so much for watching. and remember -- you can't take it with you. ♪ omorrow. it's "lou dobbs tonight" that starts right now. have a great night. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the washington swamp is in a full panic. they are frantically trying to stop americans from learning more about the corrupt, treasonous plot by the radical dems and the deep state to overthrow the presidency of donald trump. recently declassified intelligence reveals intel agencies, hillary clinton launched the phony trump-russia collusion farce in july of 2016. and now the federalist's sean davis is revealing the cia director is personally blocking more damaging obamagate

documents from being declassified and released. he was, indeed, the cia london station chief in the which she was, well, promoted by former obama cia director john brennan. during haspel's time in london, former mi-6 agent christopher steele was filling his anti-trump dossier with russian lies. haspel's british colleagues can likely count on her to keep their involvement from obamagate hidden. british officials told "the washington post" that the thing that she cared most about was protecting the united states, and the second thing she cared most about was protecting the british. well, that's inconvenient. haspel is also protecting her own agency's cheer role in obama -- clear role in

obamabays. many believe joseph ma pseudois a western intelligence asset, and mifsud supposedly told george papadopoulos about dirt on hillary clinton back in 2016. comments that were, well, later picked up, strangely enough, by australian ambassador alexander downer, then used to launch fbi investigation into the trump campaign. miff sudden told the -- mifsud told the fbi he and papadopoulos never talked about clinton e-mails. papadopoulos believes haspel is trying to cover up the u.k. and australian role with the cia. what's more, a political article says haspel is coordinating with u.s. attorney john durham. the article also quotes a former cia officer who works in cooperation with the brookings institute and much of the left in this country, the brookings is a liberal washington think tank where christopher steele's

primary subsource worked for five years. coincidence? perhaps not. the form ecia -- former cia officer is confident there has been no serious wrongdoing and will, therefore, find a means to cooperate. end quote. inversely then, if haspel thought there was serious wrongdoing, she would not cooperate. what is she doing? she now is, apparently, blocking the release of very sensitive, still-classified documents. joining us about tonight to take all of this up and more, congressman devin nuñes, ranking member of the house intelligence community, author of "countdown to socialism," available now. and it is, congressman, great to have you with us. >> thank you. lou: let's start with these allegations about haspel blocking access to declassified documents and how successful can she be if, indeed, she is? >> well, we've worked closely

together with the director for many, many years. i hope that that's not the case. i've read the same stories that you have. the key to all of this has been full and complete transparency and the maximum release of documentation. so no matter what what intelligence agency has it, we need it, and we need it now. the american people have a right the know about this information that is still being classified. and so, look, we're continuing to work as well as we can, i will tell you that director ratcliffe has been a breath of fresh air. he was on our committee for a long time, he was also on the judiciary committee, and he has been in there doing his best job to try to make sure that the american people have a full picture of what was really going on back in 20 service. and that's -- 2016. that's really the key here, lou, you know, this has always been the key. because it never made any sense why the fbi would pick up a document like this steele dossier that was just garbage

and use it. it never made any sense. and so we need all of that documentation from 2016 to get out. lou: well, we also have to look at what in the world the inspector general, who's been lauded by republicans and democrats alike -- oddly enough, to me -- investigating the investigators. the fact that horowitz did not take umbrage with that process of the fbi or as former director james comey yesterday told the senate, everything was being done by the book, in his opinion, throughout. this is mindlessness. you were amongst the very first to introduce what was really happening, this plot against the president. it is cheerily -- clearly that. it is orchestrated among the national left-wing media, the democratic party that has become an outrage in this country.

and the intelligence community working hand in glove with the democratic presidential nominee of 2016, hillary clinton, and her campaign and the democratic national committee. there is no guesswork here. it is obvious. why in the world would the justice department not react? >> well, i believe that they are, and i will say this, it's quite possible that the i.g., horowitz -- who you're referring to -- did not see all of these documents. because, in fact, i am quite sure the documents that i have been able to review recently are documents that we didn't have during our investigation that were clearly relevant. that, quite frankly, every american needs to see the documents that i have seen. and that is it's just wrong because as everyone knows, we had a full-blown investigation that i was leading back in early 2017. lou: right. >> we had subpoenas out for this

information, and there was clearly an orchestrated effort to keep certain documents away from the legislative branch of government, both house and senate. finish and that's unacceptable. and so i don't know where -- i know everybody wants to know where doj is at on this. look, i don't know and i should not know. nobody should know where this doj investigation is at right now. but what we should have is that every document that's in the possession of the united states government should be put out because with we -- you are exactly right, and this is the problem moving forward. the intelligence services in this country have been corrupted by the democratic national party and their propaganda arm in the media. and this is a problem that only third world countries have. and, you know, as the republican leader of the intelligence committee in the house, i have a duty and a responsibility to insure that that never happens. my colleagues and the american people are counting on us to make sure that information gets out.

lou: you're exactly right. and we should point out that everyone who's been elected by the american people to serve in congress and the senate have precisely the same duty. and in too many cases, they are not fulfilling that duty. in fact, they are violating their oaths to defend this constitution and the american way of life. it's outrageous. >> it is. lou: let's turn to john ratcliffe, who you just mentioned. indeed, he has done the nation great service in declassifying and making known these documents and, most recently and most explosively, the documents that show that the intelligence agencies -- at least some of them -- believe that hillary clinton actually originated the idea of the russian collusion allegations against donald trump and his campaign. >> yeah. lou: where will that go, and why is it in your judgment that the fbi never followed through?

despite that referral from the intelligence community? >> so this is something that we actually did work on. we were mocked at the time by the propaganda arm of the left, the media. every establishment group in this town because we said there was a trade craft problem here. and one of the criminal referrals of the 14 that we've made is exactly on this issue. and so director ratcliffe now has put out this information that we knew about some of the information, but it's far worse than i ever imagined. and the american people need to support the director of national intelligence. he has a responsibility on the executive branch side to fully brief congress and to fully get in this information out to the american people. lou: the president is now in a race for re-election. it is a, we are told by many of the same polling organizations

that were entirely wrong in 2016, that he is running behind in a number of battleground states and nationally as well. and apparently, there has been a decision made at the justice department not to release the information that the american people need for there to be true transparency and about what will come, if anything, of the durham investigation. this is not, this is not child's play, and i think, frankly, congressman, that the attorney general is playing the american people, perhaps the president. i'll put it straightforwardly to it. i am very -- >> let me tell you what i think it is. i do have confidence in director ratcliffe, and i do have confidence in the attorney general, and i do have confidence in the attorney out of connecticut. but i think here is the issue, and we've seen it time and time

again. the media knows that durham is sitting on -- when i say the media, that basically means the democratic party -- is sitting on something, it's the biggest scandal in american history by far. lou: right. >> so what they did -- lou: bar none. >> -- they ran a series of fake news bombs that they dropped on the u.s. attorney out of connecticut. i think it always gives pause, because so many people pay attention to what the media is saying. and, you know, i would encourage everyone at the department of justice to ignore what the media is saying. and i can tell you clearly, this doesn't involve this election. when you're talking about the dirty cops at the doj and the fbi, former clinton folks, clinton campaign people, that has nothing to do with these elections that are going on right now. so i would encourage them if there's something that should get out before this election, it better happen because, look, if -- i don't know what's going to happen in the election. the president is facing tremendous headwinds. i still believe the american

people are going to make the right decision, and he will be reelected. but if it comes out later that there was something that really would have changed the direction of this election, i mean, it'll look once again like the intelligence services were doing what and the doj was doing what? backing up the democrat party, and it will lead to really bad things in this country. and the president -- i want to point this out, the president mentioned this other night, the left continues to say and the media says are you going to accept the results of the election. and donald trump did a good job. he probably should have expanded on it more, it's biden and clinton and obama and the media who never accepted the results of the election. they corrupted our justice system, and they just about, just about took out a president of the united states. and that coup attempt continues to this day, it's ongoing as we speak. lou: and because of the national left-wing media operating as the

fourth estate, they are now the fifth column in this country, and they're working in perfect alignment with the radical dems, what has become the party of hate and the deep state. and to not mince words again, this president has been under attack from the democratic party, from the democratic congress and the democratic leadership for over four years. >> that's right. lou: and the result has been exoneration, exoneration, exoneration, and they even pressed with a phony impeachment inquiry. it is outrageous. by the way, they did succeed e in stealing the election, the midterm election of 2018 which changed -- >> well, for sure the -- lou: -- congress as you well know. >> yeah, the hoax was used and the mueller witch hunt was used to raise money to fund their 2018 elections. lou: and to destroy a

presidency. >> that's right. lou: congressman devin nuñes who has been defending this president and this country and our values throughout, we appreciate it. good to have you here. up next, americans are becoming increasingly interested in the corruption of hunter biden. does this spell trouble for the biden campaign, particularly in battleground states? we'll take that up and more. "just the news" founder editor-in-chief john solomon joins us. and i want to thank everyone who has a made my new book a national bestseller. you can buy "the trump century: how our president changes the course of history forever" at our merchandise store, loudobbsshop.com. loudobbsshop.com, amazon.com, everywhere national bestsellers are sold. stay with us, thanks again with, we'll be right back. [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ]

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network. breaking news now from philadelphia. a laptop and a number of memory sticks used to program philadelphia's voting machines have been stolen. a city official says they are, quote, confident the integrity of their election has not been compromised. that may be because they don't have much integrity in philadelphia. according to the "philadelphia inquirer", the city's election commissioners initially refused to con firm the theft -- confirm the theft, only admitting to the theft after the inquiry informed them that the newspaper was running the story. so much for electoral integrity in philadelphia. where, by the way, a number of trump and republican poll watchers were driven away from the polling stations. bad news for the bidens. google searches for hunter biden have spiked since senator ron

johnson's report last week highlighting years of biden corruption. of the top ten states searching, hunter biden on google over the past ten days, four are the battleground states of pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan and minnesota. it seems to be a very live issue for this election. joining us tonight is "just the news" editor-in-chief, john solomon, author of the book "fallout: nuclear bribes, russian spies, washington lies that enriched the clinton and biden dynasties." john, great to have you with us. >> thank you, lou. lou: let's start with the reports that gina haspel, the director of the cia, is personally blocking, blocking the declassification of a number of important documents and refusing to permit their release. your thoughts. >> it's a continuation of the

slow walk that she and director wray and other deep state bureaucrats in the state department have done over the last two years. they have tried to stop this russia case from unraveling, the ukraine case from unraveling, the carefully-crafted false story they gave the american people. but it's a very simple fix. the president of the united states has the ability tomorrow to tell gina haspel, i've heard you, i've overwith rule you -- overruled you. it's in president trump's hands. he's the ultimate declassifying authority, and hearing that she's objecting doesn't mean anything. if the president wants to overrule her, he can get this done in the stroke of a pen, and we can get these documents out. lou: is it your judgment that the dni can overrule here and move himself to declassify these documents? >> it is under the law theoretically gina haspel reports up to the odni. i think when a cia director is

involved personally as these reports indicate and what i've heard personally, or it's probably going to gets calculated to the final decision. but, yes, john ratcliffe could do it too, but if the president wants these documents out, he could sign a document tomorrow ordering their release, and they'll be declassified. lou: do you believe that gina haspel will follow orders? do you believe the cia, which has played a central role in obamagate for over four years, will follow orders? where are we right now as a nation? this is fundamental to the, to this entire election. is this government under the control of the man we elected president, or is it the deep state, is it the obama white house and the shadows it's cast over our government and our politics and this president for the past almost five years? >> listen, there's, there are

people, political plants in all of these agencies, there have been for a long time. we've dealt with this. i suspect that the cia's concern in some part deals with sources and methods. that's a legitimate thing. but there's a way to declassify these documents and protect sources and methods. i think what's really going on here is protecting the cia's reputation just like chris wray's been protecting the fbi's reputation. the american people deserve accountability. this is one of the greatest scandals in american history. lou: i think there's only one thing that we need to protect. that would be the lives of our field agents at the cia -- >> that's right. lou: -- or any one of our other agencies. i think that sources and methods are precisely what webbed be reveal aring -- what we should be revealing to the american people that have been followed by the fbi. james comey saying they followed the book throughout the ruse that was russia collusion -- >> find that book. lou: -- which they were at the birth of that farce and that

plot against the president, and they are there now as they try to cover it up. and they've succeeded in the cover-up for four years. luckily, they failed at every, every level in trying to subvert and to stop this president to overthrow his presidency. >> yeah. you're right, lou. you were right three years ago. you were on top of this before anyone, and everything you've said was true. and it turns out it was even worse than you and i thought. but we're starting to get the truth, we just keep fighting for it. we will get this story out, bureaucrats be damned. lou: bureaucrats be damned, the deep state be damned and every single one of those democrats who have led a investigation, so-called, from their committees of this president and their, you know, i just, i are have to tell you, the american people are being played for damn fools, and i hope that some of the people

in the fourth estate who have formed a fifth column will come the their senses and their conscience will lead them to their real job which is to inform the american people of the truth. john solomon, you are the principal, i think, example of that leadership. we appreciate it and great to have you with us. thanks so much. john solomon. the "lou dobbs tonight" word of the day is coherentment -- coherent. it means having clarity or intelligent jilt. the found ther of black entertainment television, robert johnson, says he hasn't heard anything coherent from joe biden on what he would do as president. he kind of likes, i think, president trump. that's just an inference. up next, the navy seals give in to the p.c. police. i'm talking about u.s. navy seals. there is, there's something rotten in our pentagon. we're going to take it up and

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♪ ♪ lou: a a lot of fallout from this week's presidential debate, and some of it peculiar, indeed. a lot of concern about the president's denonessuation of hate -- denunciation of hate groups. the league of united latin american citizens claim president trump has not condemned white supremacy. these groups, like a number of extraordinarily exorcised journalists, really should know better about the president's record, his white house, the public record. president trump has often denounced hate groups. here's how he addressed it four

years ago. >> what are your views on the ku klux klan and white spectrums? >> -- supremacistsesome. >> i totally disavow the ku klux klan, i totally disavow david duke. i've been doing this now for two weeks. you're probably about the 18 isth person that's asked me the question. it was very clear -- [cheers and applause] that question was also talked about in the form of groups. which groups are you talking about? you have to tell me which groups. ultimately you got to the ku klux klan which, obviously, i'm going to disavow. and by the way, if you look on my twitter account, almost immediately after the program they were disa avowed again. you know, it's amazing. when i do something on twitter, everybody picks it up, goes all over the place, but when i did this one, nobody ever picks it up. take a look at my twitter account. lou: chris wallace asked that question four years ago. tuesday night the president was asked again the question and

again by the same person as the president condemned white supremacists. >> are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups -- >> sure. >> -- and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence at a number of these cities as we saw in kenosha and as we've seen in portland? >> i would say almost everything i see is from the left wing, not from the right wring. . -- right wing. >> what are you saying? >> i'm willing to do anything. >> then do it, sir. >> what do you want to call them? >> white supremacists and -- [inaudible conversations] >> stand back and stand by, but i'll tell you what, i'll tell you what, somebody's got to do manager about antifa and the left because this is not a -- >> his own fbi -- lou: he designated, by the way, just recently the kkk and

defined it, categorized it as a hate group as he did antifa and do so officially. by the way, in between those two answers from 2016 and 2020 the president has repeatedly condemned white supremacy, ray similar of all -- racism of all forms, including in 2017 when he signed a resolution, are you ready? condemning white national i., white supremacy and neo-naziism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the united states. lulac, naacp, can you not read clearly what the president has said? it is the record. what are you talking about and why is this narrative given life just as it was four years ago? it didn't work then, it won't

work now. the u.s. navy seals is have joined the woke mob, changing their ethos statement to include gender-newt aal language. -- gender neutral language. instead of the term common man, the seals will now say common citizens. the phrase i am that man is now i am that warrior. and the term brotherhood has been changed to -- this is beautiful -- group of maritime warriors. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. the woke navy seals joining the likes of woke california governor gavin newsom. the left-wing governor signing a law requiring california-based companies to contain at least one racial or sexual minority by the end of 2021. two by the end of 2022. newsom also signed a bill establishing a task force to study end reparations. for the record, governor newsom

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♪ ♪ lou: my next guest is victor davis hanson, senior fellow in military history at the hoover institution, professor emeritus of chat ins at california -- classics at california state university. delighted to have you with us, victor. let's start with this debate, it -- [laughter] it has turned into quite an event. but your sense of what is going on here, first and foremost, accusing the president of not having condemned hate groups. it is the most mindless thing imaginable. i mean, we're watching reporters, columnists, all sorts of people get exorcised here over something that is a matter of the record external to the debate. it's been there for over four years. >> yeah. the emphasis and the intent of these questioners is on the answer, it's on the question. they want to keep asking and

asking and asking again, and that supposedly sends the message to the american people tata they must have to ask -- that they must have to ask for a reason, almost to say did you beat your wife, did you beat your wife, did you beat your wife. that's the intent. there was a lot of asymmetry in that debate as people noticed because if you want to get on the subject of race and talk about charlottesville, then you would think, okay, we're talking about controversial items of racism and the treatment of race in our language. now we turn to joe biden and what's the most obvious thing joe biden said lately? he said either you ain't black or he said to an african-american journalist how would you like it if i called you a junkie and a cocaine head. so the point i'm making is he didn't do that. instead he just kept asking and asking and asking, and he knew the answer because, as you pointed out, he'd had the answer before on a numerous occasions both to himself and others. it was an orwellian attempt to

say to people there's a reason why i have to ask him again and again so the more desperate, then people said, well, he didn't qualify. well, at some point donald trump can't play that game anymore. i'm not going to answer. what do you want to know one time if, because he knew what they were doing. lou: and he has answered that issue numerous time over the course of the past four years. as we showed the audience. and the question has been asked by at least in one instance the same person over the course of that four years. it is, it is, to me, amazing that in your state, your governor wants to take up the issue of reparations in california. as we just told our audience, brought into the union in 1850, it was never a slave state. what would the reparations be for, pray tell? >> i don't know. he's a historically ignorant governor in a state that's

historically ignorant. the funny thing about the compromise of 1850 was that california had stated under no circumstances were they going to be admitted without being able to prohibit slavery. and that almost precipitated the civil war, ten years earlier than it occurred. and so under the, you know, sevenster, henry clay and calhoun, they cobbled together the missouri compromise, they came up with a new one and said, okay, california not come in unless -- will not come in unless it's slave-free, so we've got to do something, let u.s. or new mexico make their own choices, and we have to have the fugitive slave law in force. california was adamant it would never enter the quites and allow slavery. and, of course, what do you do with the 27% of the current population, lou, that was not born in the united states that resides in the state of california? so are we going to say that you just came here within your lifetime, but you're going to pay for the purported sins 160 years ago?

what do we do about the racial makeup of the state? the whites in this state are 39% of the population. so are we telling the latino population, 41%, or the asian-american at 16, you're culpable for slavery? and what are we telling the white population that hasn't -- there was only about 15-20,000 people who can trace their lineage all the way back to that period. so even if you believed in the sins of the father, you must pay for, there's nobody around really in the state that had anything to do with slavery. so what, again, is the intelligent. it's like -- the intent of this absurdity. the intent is we're going to virtue signal that we feel that 6% of the california population deserve wealth transfers from the other 94%, and when that happens, that will show how culpable and racist this state is. and we who instituted this law will feel so good about

ourselves. does that mean that they're going to have inner city charter schools, does that mean that the wealthy and the elite are going to try to mentor african-american at-risk children? does that mean that we're going to integrate our neighborhoods, people in malibu and pacific coast highway areas or beverly hills will want to go into south-central l.a. and really make -- no. it's a psychological mechanism, people like gavin newsom can feel good about their own privilege. lou: and to seal binding coalition of interests in demographic groups that otherwise might splinter and actually reason it out for themselves. it's, this virtue signaling has become a projection of manifest ignorance. it's not just simply california that is a state that is historically ignorant. it's, unfortunately, the truth in too many of our states. and it's also a result of the

1619 project. thank goodness that there are groups like the woodson organization that, the woodson center, that is pushing the 1776 unites, a patriotic curriculum. the president doing so as well. let me ask you -- >> i think also -- [inaudible conversations] one other angle. you've got to remember that about 8 million people have left the state, and it's considering a 16% income tax rate because to old 13.3, the highest in the country, was not enough. so i think this is aimed at sort of an ethnic cleansing of the state. they're saying to some the population, we're going to make this so ideologically intolerant that we want more of you to leave. and they rely on the $4 trillion in market capitalization of silicon silicon valley to subsidize that exodus. they think they can get rid of

the old reagan voter or what's left of the old pete wilson voter and make up the difference with this huge global fortune that's come into silicon valley and the california coast. lou: well, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer want to enlarge it. in negotiations right now with treasury secretary steve mnuchin working desperately to get a bailout for all of the big blue states that are near, near insolvency as a result of their outrageous taxation policies and their ever growing public sector. they just want the rest of the country to pay for it. victor davis hanson, it's always great to talk with you. i wish we had more time. appreciate it. up next, joe biden says antifa is not a terrorist organization, they're just an idea. we'll talk to a man who helped

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♪ ♪ lou: the "lou dobbs tonight" quotation of the day is from, as of today, new bestseller "the trump century" about the plot to overthrow president trump. in it i wrote, quote: he was elected despite a conspiracy by the deep state and the radical dems doing their worst to block him from winning the election of 2016. then president trump overcame three years of subversion, resistance and obstruction by the rinos and radical members of both parties, a criminally orchestrated investigation led by fools and traitors who were so brazen, arrogant and corrupt that they tried to impeach a president who had just been exonerated by the special

counsel. my next guest is a hero. he helped stop a terrorist attack on a train to paris. he later played himself in the clint eastwood movie, "the 1517 to paris," it reenacted the moment. joining us tonight, al lex scarlotas. let's start with the race. what differentiates you from a man who has been in that job for quite a while and a card-carrying member of the radical dems? >> well, absolutely. i mean, i think the biggest difference is that, i mean, he cosponsored the green new deal, and this is a timber-exporting district. he votes with aoc 96% of the time, and i'm free market, and

i'm very pro-god, pro-gun, and he has a d- rating from the nra, and i just got endorsed and have an a rating. we have tons of momentum, and we're really excited. this is actually the closest congressional district in the country that did not go for donald trump in 2016. he only lost it by about 550 votes, and we have so far $3.7 million raised. we have a really good shot at this even though it is in southwest oregon. thank goodness, port lan's not in the district -- [laughter] were port lan's not in the -- portland's not in the ticket. it's very exciting. and if any of your viewers would like to support us, they can go to alex for oregon.com, and we really appreciate it. thank you. lou: you bet. let's turn to this election because, as alek just said, his district gave clinton the win by

.1%, just over 500 votes. give us a sense of it. we -- i haven't seen any polling on the district. is there polling? what -- how do you judge where you are right now in the race? >> well, we've actually, we have done some polling. unfortunately, i don't want to give away any secrets, but we're definitely tightening up very quick as well as even president trump in the district is climbing back rapidly as well. so i think by election day, especially with all the momentum we have going on, it's going to be a very close race, one of the closest in the country. but it's one of the few that we actually have an opportunity to take a seat away from the democrats. and, of course, in oregon that's always a great talking point as well. lou: well, we've kept up the margin of the wins, clinton, obama and obama, it's been moving in the right direction for you. it'll be interesting to see how

the people of oregon are feeling particularly in your district. portland, the nation is looking at portland and thinking everyone in oregon has to be out of their mind to put up with ted wheeler, the mayor, kate brown, your governor. these are add radical left wing even by thed radical dem standards of today. how does the district stack up, and how do they react to those so-called leaders? >> well, it obviously scares a lot of people away from the democrat party to see their reaction. i mean, not only do you have the forest mismanagement and all the fires going on on the cascade mountain range recently, but the same party that is okay with these riots also wants to defund the police and take away your guns. it's pushing a lot of those moderates and even more conservative democrats towards the republican party. lou: alex skarlatos, we appreciate it.

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