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enthusiasm for his candidacy. at a campaign event in gettysburg today, only a few people bothered to show up. in fact, there were more trump supporters outside the event with pro-trump signs and flags than inside the event. it is clear that biden's handlers u the democrat -- the democrat establishment and wall street -- don't want the american people to see just how incapable their candidate is. the corporate left-wing national media are also plague their part if trying -- playing their part in trying to prop up the dems' candidate. biden took part in a town hall with comcast/nbc last night. among the participants who revealed their political positions, none of them were supporters of president trump. >> the next question comes from ingrid alexander who is undecided but leaning towardses

biden. michelle cruz is from coral gables, used to be registered republican but voted for hillary clinton in 2016. let's go to ismael who voted for hillary clinton but has voted republican in the past. [laughter] lou: not how recent the past. the president tweeted this, responding: did anyone get to see that absolute joke of a town hall interview with joe biden, that joe biden did with comcast nbc news hosted by lester not what a disgrace to our country that free public airwaves can be used that way. all softballs. a big fix. time should be paid by the corrupt dnc. well, there might also be a mea culpa at least on their part that those independents didn't seem very independent, even to the left-wing national media which has been working overtime to run cover for biden's

shortcoming. during that very psalm town -- same town hall last night, biden was back to his blundering. >> 210 -- 210,000 people have died. if you put this mask on between now and january, you'll save 100 -- he said it's more important than a virus, than a vaccine. you know people have had covid, i hope you -- wonderful if you didn't. i learned how to fight. i've got a nickname, they called me shoe leather. i was little, they could beat me up, but i hurt them in the process. lou: bind's wife, dr. jill biden, is often the first person to go to joe's rescue. watch her yesterday as she forcefully reminded him the cameras were on and he needed to social distance from those so helpful reporters. >> listen to the science. the scientists say --

>> [inaudible] >> i'm sorry. >> the scientists say -- [inaudible] lou: well, after something of a reprimand by his handler, biden eventually veered off course again. here's what he said while talking about president trump's recovery from the china virus. >> wouldn't it be an irony, the irony of all ironies, if on election eve it turned out haitians delivered the cue day gras in this election? i want to see these beautiful young ladies. i want to see them dancing when they're four years older too. lou: just why does biden want to see girls dancing in four years? we don't know what he meant. the phrase he used there, coup de grace, means death blow. probably not the best of

language when talking about the president of the united states. it's comments like those that president trump look to expose at next thursday's debate, an event that president trump today said he's looking forward to. president trump will also be raring to talk about new developments in the biden administration's attempts to take down -- [laughter] the obama/biden administration's attempts to take down his presidency. the director of intelligence, john ratcliffe, today released handwritten notes from former cia director john brennan. this is explosive. those notes were written after brennan briefed president obama about hillary clinton's plan to tie mr. trump to russia. ratcliffe also says brennan referred the matter to fired fbi

director james comey and former agent peter strzok for a potential investigation. the notes expose years of john brennan's lies. he called the trump-russia investigation well founded. he claimed the president's denial of russian collusion was hogwash. and even said there was extensive evidence of trump-russia collusion. all the while, it is now documented, brennan, obama, comey, strzok, obama, biden and others knew full well that the trump-russia narrative was a devious plot created and sponsored by none other than hillary clinton. we'll be talking to a man who knows about all things obamagate tonight. "just the news" founder and editor-in-chief john solomon will join us later in the broadcast. president trump today postponed negotiations for a new

china virus stimulus package with the intractable and irresponsible house democrats until after the november election. the president tweeted this in part, quote: nancy pelosi is asking for $2.4 trillion to bail out poorly-run, high-crime democrat states, money that is in no way related to covid-19. we made a very generous offer of $1.6 trillion, and as usual, she is not negotiating in good faith. i am rejecting their request and looking forward to the future of our country. i've instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after i win, we will pass a major stimulus bill that focuses on hard working americans and small business. president trump's decision today sent stocks lower on wall

street. the dow fell 376 points, the s&p down 48, the nasdaq falling 178 points. the indexes, however, are still up for this two-day week. president trump's declaration today was made from the white house residence. president trump is working there, of course, as he recovers from the china virus. white house doctor, dr. sean conley today said president trump is showing no symptoms of the virus after a restful first night at home. president trump released a video message last night in which he urged americans to be cautious but not to be fearful, not to fear the china virus or allow it to consume their lives. the president also thanked all the medical professionals who helped him during his recovery. >> i just left walter reed medical center, and it's really something very special.

the doctors, the nurses, the first responders, and i learned so much about coronavirus. and one thing that's for certain, don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. you're going to beat it. we have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines all developed recently. and you're going to beat it. lou: the president encouraging all who may have the virus who are struggling with it now. as president trump continues to recover from the china virus at the white house, seven of the eight members on his joint chiefs of staff are forced to quarantine. their decision to quarantine comes after the coast guard's vice commandant, admiral charles ray, tested positive for the china virus. ray was part of an in-person meeting held last friday with the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley,

vice chairman hyten haydn and the heads of the army, navy, air force and space force, marine corps commandant general david berger was not at the meeting and the only one not, tonight, in quarantine. none of the joint chiefs have tested positive for the china virus, nor are any experiencing symptoms. they are, however, effectively leaving the command structure of the country in, well, in some limbo, raising serious national security concerns, of course, a vulnerability that our adversaries might be tempted to try to exploit. up next, more on john brennan's years of lies to the american people, the obama deep state's influence during the trump presidency. we'll be joined by the "just the news" editor-in-chief, john solomon, here next. and a thank you to everyone who has made my new book a

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lou: breaking news now, ohio's secrey of state apparently isn't concerned at all about the radical dems' efforts to rig the 2020 election. frank larose says a shift in ohio's voting tallies after election day, after election day shouldn't bother ohio citizens, and they shouldn't be taking it as any indication of anything nefarious, says the ohio secretary of state. he says it's just, just the system at work. imagine that. be prepared for a rigged election and a hijacked election. thank you, mr. secretary of state in ohio. the latest trafalgar poll shows president trump with a 4-point lead over china joe in ohio. election officials in virginia

are concerned about six mailboxes that were tampered with over the weekend. the reported thefts occurred in the richmond area. they stole the mail. they come during the third week of early voting, by the way, in virginia where many are using the mail-in and absentee ballots. and, of course, as you see there, a availing themselves of what nancy pelosi calls election central, the u.s. postal service. of course, it's just comprised of some seven, seven postal employee unions. the perfect, the perfect neutral election central. newly-released and unredacted e-mails reveal more about the state department's spying against conservative voices including myself. the e-mails from march and april of 2019 show state department

officials were ordered to end the spying on these individuals, including myself, and their social media accounts. one state department official wrote in an e-mail that monitoring these individuals violated federal law. this e-mail had previously been released but was nearly fully redacted, as you see here. that's what i call full redaction right there. and transparency? not so much, is it? it's never been a strong suit of the deep state or, in fact, the state department. and another e-mail indicates that the state department official george kent was ready to run defense for joe biden. can't rub this. biden and burisma looking ahead to 2020. note to my mind the mother load and main trend to pay out possibly through november 2020. indeed. well, joining us now "just the

news" editor-in-chief john solomon, author of "fallout: nuclear bribes, washington spies and the lies that enriched the clinton and biden dynasties." we recomme john, it's great to have you here. >> thanks, lou. lou: let's start with your reporting tonight, let's start with, actually, john ratcliffe -- >> yeah. lou: -- and his release of these documents that for the first time put john brennan right at the centered of obamagate and, and our documentary evidence at the very least that brennan briefed the president of the united states on the clinton plot to create the russian collusion attempt to overthrow the president of the united states. >> it's a remarkable revelation, and that it comes 30 days from the next election is a tragedy. we should have known this two years ago. but what does it tell us? it tells us that in july of 2018

the cia intercepted information that the russians overheard hillary clinton talking to a foreign policy adviser about stirring up, the word john brennan uses, stirring up a bogus russian collusion story to vilify -- that's another word the cia uses -- donald trump and to distract from all of her scandals whether they were the e-mails or her own russia scandal. and this was taken so credibly that the cia director himself, john brennan, briefed the president and wrote notes on what he told the president. and then they became concerned enough at the cia that he went over and told fbi they should investigate this in september. here's the dirty secret, this is all scintillating, it's exciting. the fbi knew from the beginning this was a political dirty trick. how do we know that? on day one when christopher steele walked in and said, ta da, here's my dossier, he told his fbi handler july 5th, 2016, i'm working for hillary clinton.

they knew this was a hillary clinton dirty trick. how do we know? james basic, the general counsel of the fbi, testified that multiple times fbi people -- excuse me, fbi people were inundated by clinton people trying to peddle anti-trump stuff, most of it false and inaccurate. the fbi knew this was a dirty trick, the cia knew it was a dirty trick, and yet they persisted to carry out a three-year investigation without any evidentiary basis. lou: and as if there weren't voluminous reasons for the cover-up, this means that a lot of people had to know -- >> yes. lou: -- that this was an absolute run at overthrowing the president of the united states. they had to understand that they were being called upon as intelligence officers, as fbi investigators to try to block the election of a man who would ultimately win the presidency.

>> yeah. lou: this is, it just comepounds the outrage -- compounds the outrage and makes me wonder, frankly, john, why is it taking william barr and john durham so long to bring charges? because just on this evidence alone there is sufficient cause, it would seem to me, to bring charges against them. and secondarily, there's certainly every reason with the brennan notes to ask the president of, the former president of the united states what the hell did he know and when did he he know it. because -- >> yeah. lou: -- this is the first documentary evidence that tie it is him directly -- ties him directly to obamagate. >> yeah, absolutely. lou: am i wrong? >> by january of 2017, barack obama's instructing comey keep going after flynn, put your best people on it. at that point they knew there was no evidence. president obama knew in july of 2016 hillary clinton had put this whole thing together, it

was a dirty trick. because john brennan told him. and this is very important, the democrats are going to counterfact and say this was russian disinformation, that's all this is. the cia has assessed that this information was not russian disinformation. that's very important to understand. this was real. that's why they told the president. that's why they referred it to the fbi. and it is a travesty for the american people that their fbi, their cia carried out this political dirty trick with hillary clinton for nearly three years, hampering the beginning of the trump presidency and trying to stop him from winning the election. lou: and we know, those who want to advance the idea, that it was russian disinformation. these notes are contemporaneous -- >> that's right. lou: -- with the acts that were taken by these agencies, the cia, the dni and the fbi, to overthrow the president of the united states after trying to

block his election. so why would there be a delay on durham's part to bring this element to the public's attention in the form of i would think, first of all, an indictment? and failing an indictment before the election, certainly an interim report? >> yep. if he does not, and i'm increasingly believing he will not do something before the election, it will be a real tragedy for the american people. we deserve to know what happened in 2016. we learned from these notes today the fbi resip cent of the cia referral saying hillary clinton's up to a dirty trick, it's peter strzok himself, the man running the investigation. and let's take on one other issue when you come to russian disinformation. the only proven russian disinformation in the entire russian collusion story came from hillary clinton, hillary clinton's operative, christopher steele. we now know the cia believed that information in his dossier

was russian disinformation. the only perpetrator of russian are disinformation was the hillary clinton campaign and its foreign operative, christopher steele. we can't lose sight of that. lou: right. well, and i would only add the full disinformation campaign of the democrats as they pursued any act to try to block the election of this president and then his agenda and overthrowing once he was in office. and, obviously, complicit in that, adam schiff, jerrold nadler leading committees at the forefront of the impeachment effort. and, of course, the entire justice department is in question now because of the outrageous special counsel that had not a single evidence -- >> yeah. lou: -- any evidence whatsoever to proceed on. it just, it's stunning. john, how does it feel to be --

it's what? i'm sorry? >> the mueller probe looks more and more like a sham with every piece of information that comes out. there was no reason for it. it was as fake as the steele dossier, and that's, again, it's not only a sin against donald trump or an offense against donald trump, it's an offense against the entire american people. we didn't need to go through this three years of charade that we went there from 2016-2019. lou: and we know something will come of it, we just don't know when -- >> that's right. lou: -- or why it's being delayed. and that is another story in and of itself. john solomon, always great work and always great to see you here on the show. thanks so much, john. up next, another, another game, another awe astonishing night for the nba as their ratings plummet.

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all-time lows for viewership. how bad is it? well, game one set the all-time low last week only to be defeated by game two which then became the least viewed, and game three, well, it was a disaster. we're loo falling 50 and 60% from last year. that is a very serious statement to the league and everyone else who wants to support marxist organizations like black lives matter. and it is a very important point for the nba and all of corporate america to start considering, in my judgment. joining us tonight, one of my favorite people, former house speaker newt gingrich. best selling author and terrific american. great to have you with us. newt, this is, this is truly a

remarkable moment, and i do want to point out your book, author of the book "trump and the american future" that is still available and would urge and recommend it highly. the media's response right now to the president emerging after 72 hours at walter reed and getting back to the white house in record time, i would say. i, instead of the joy that you would have expected to see from a white house press corps, we were treated with vile, nasty remarks and i -- and articles as well. your thoughts about the white house press corps, first of all, and the way they're treating this president. >> well, not just the white house press corps, but also their acolytes at "the new york times," "the washington post," nbc, cbs, you name it. i think the word insane may be the most accurate

characteristic. we're dealing here with a psychosis. these are people who have lost their minds. you know, if somebody came out having survived breast cancer and said i feel that everybody should understand you can survive it, you don't have to be terrified, you can look forward to life, we would applaud that person. the same thing for somebody who came out with any other major disease. but if you're donald trump, he had two futures. he could be positive and optimistic in which case they would attack him for not being sufficiently frightened, or he could have frightened in which case they would have attacked him because he hadn't been frightened earlier. either way, they wake up every morning, they know they're going to attack trump. they're just not quite sure what it's going to be about until later in the day. i think it's a truly despicable performance. i think some of the people, people i like personally, jake tapper's comments, for for exam,

were so way off any boundary that you just had to wonder what had happened to him. what was going on in his brain? lou: well, he works for at&t. at&t -- [laughter] must be very proud of him, and cnn. because that's e what we do here, as the audience of this broadcast knows. we're referring to them not just as fake news, but we want everybody to know who owns them and who is really calling the shots, and that's at&t. at&t's cnn's jake tapper. this is an expression by corporate america and some of the most powerful corporations in this country who own the most powerful media outlets in this country. and it's time, i think, for people to start focusing on that reality, because these are, after all, public corporations behaving like this toward the president of the united states. to you agree with -- do you agree with my reference to comcast's nbc, disney's abc

news? >> yeah, and, frankly, google, amazon, you go down the list, facebook. what you have is giant corporations totally dominated by people who came out of harvard, princeton, yale, stanford, berkeley. these people are all left wing cuckoos. they actually believe the nutty things they believe, and so they have this enormous economic power. these are the kind of companies that were financing black lives matter even though the foirnsd of black lives matter openly say they're marxist and want to replace the entire capitalist system. so years ago capitalists would sell you the rope to hang them, but we're living through, watching this literally happening as these corporations take the one person, donald trump, who's had the courage to take on the modern left and actually pay for and subsidize

all of these left-wing groups whose core goal is to destroy the very people who are paying him. historians will look on this as a remarkable peer period. just remember, a large part of the deep state is corporate, not government. lou: newt gingrich, it's always a great to see you. come back soon. thanks so much. congressman steve scalise is ahead. he joins us in just a few minutes right after these quick messages. please stay with us. [ thunder rumbles ]

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♪ ♪ lou: welcome back. a quick reminder, my new best selling book -- first, thank you for making it a national bestseller -- "the trump century," it's available at loudobbsshop.com, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com. and breaking news, the cdc has gone full trump resistance. imagine that, an agent i city of the u.s. government. -- agency of the u.s. government. vice president mike pence reportedly had to force the cdc to follow president trump's orders and to close the u.s. border with mexico during the early days of the china virus. this from the same cdc that tried to avoid president trump's ban on critical race theory training, the same agency that can't decide over a period of six months whether the china virus is or is not airborne.

currently, the cdc claims that it is. joining us tonight, house minority whip steve scalise. he's also ranking member of the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. congressman, great to have you with us and great to see you. >> good to be with you, lou. lou: let's start with the president -- it's great to have you. the president saying, that's it, ordering his representatives and specifically negotiators with the house to end all negotiations with pelosi and the house democrats because he finds them intractable, and there will be only negotiations resuming of after the election. your reaction to his decision. >> well, lou, i applaud the president's patience in trying to get an agreement with speaker pelosi. the problem's been she's always moved the goalpost. and if you just look at the bill she passed just a few days ago on the house floor, it shows how unserious they are. they literally had billions of

dollars in there for people here illegally to get $1200 from the taxpayers of america. they had that money in the bill. they had over $250 billion to bail out failed states. we've been fighting just to get relief to small businesses and families who are struggling. if you look at heroes act one versus the latest heroes act, she actually defunded police from $600 million from one bill to next but fully funded illegals. that makes no sense. president trump said enough is enough, i'm not here to give billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars to people here illegally. lou: and the president, i would think, would be roundly applauded for dropping these negotiations before the election because they were insisting, the house democrats, that the president sign a legislation, a bill that would fund all of the poorly managed blue states in the country.

specifically, new york, california. and we're talking about a huge commitment that would have amounted in time, certainly, to well e over a trillion dollars by itself. >> right. and these are self-inflicted wounds. look at new york, they're shutting their whole city down in the city of new york. you look at the states that are saying, look, we know the virus is out there, there's smart science, there's good protocols for how to safely reopen schools or businesses, let people do those things safely. and instead cities like new york are shutting everything down and crushing, crushing these small businesses, crushing the opportunity for people. and people are dying, by the way. look at the non-covid-related deaths right now. they're through the roof in states like that. so to send them hundreds of billions of dollars of our hard-earned money to continue shutting their economies down, it's their bad decisions that are killing their cities. open things back up again safely using the scientific protocols

that are out there. lou it is clear, the democrats have made it very clear they're going after this country. they're not just going after the president, as if that weren't bad enough, they want to turn this entire country upside down. >> yeah. and they're crushing families along the way. yeah. lou: and -- oh, collateral damage is no concern whatsoever to this group. they're trying to overthrow a president, what's a thing like families and a country? let's, if we can, get your view on how strong the republicans are going to show up at the polls and how strong a performance are they going to put on to support the president and put the republican party in control of the house, the senate and the white house? >> well, lou, the enthusiasm continues to be off the charts for republicans. i get to go to a lot of these swing districts in the swing states. i was in michigan and minnesota just recently. i've been to florida recently.

you see so much tremendous enthusiasm for president trump and for our house republican candidates who are trying to win back a lot of these seats where a democrat ran saying they were going to be pro-life, pro-gun, vote against nancy pelosi, and they've got an f rating with the nra, and they're voting down the line with pelosi and aoc. not selling in a lot of those places. look, they're pulling out all the stops on the other side. you had michelle obama out again today pleading with people to vote. they've got to scare people, they've got to frighten people, they've got to attack our president every single day. he's in the hospital, and they're attacking the president. i mean, this is disgraceful. you talked about it a little while ago with newt, with the speaker. people see this, and it's angering a lot of folks who are saying i'm showing up and voting for donald trump. lou: you bet. and the democrat party, whatever else it is, it has become the party of hate. congressman, great to have you with us. congressman steve scalise. up next, more on the president's road to a full

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♪ lou: the "lou dobbs tonight" quotation comes from my new book, "the trump century," and i

wrote this about the china virus. quote: you will note in this book that i use the terms wuhan virus, china virus and the like many times. my point is that we should refuse to surrender to verbal brainwashing and that no change in terminology can hide the truth it is intended to hide, that the virus came from china. and thank you for making the book a national bestseller. it's available at loudobbsshop.com. and joining us now, fox news' medical correspondent dr. marc siegel. he's the author of a new book, "covid: the politics of fear and the power of science," a propitious title, doctor, and we recommend the book to all of our viewers highly. "the politics of fear." this as the president is showing exactly what a leader should do in moments of great fear hike

this, and that is -- like this, and that is to overcome it and to prevail. i want to get to your thoughts about the way this president has handled himself and your view about the optimistic and positive prognosis that it seems the left wing media just wants to forget and ignore. >> lou, i'm going to answer this as a physician. i wrote the book as a journalist, but let me tell you as a physician, you have a patient who looks into the jaws of illness, severe illness, maybe even the risk of death, and he comes out smiling with courage. he says this is part of life. he is sending a shining example to americans. he's not dismissing the virus, the china virus, he's not, he's not saying it's not a problem. he was short of breath last week. he haddocks general. he went -- had oxygen. he went into the hospital. he got brand new treatments. he was a leader in that regard

too. he thought the treatment regeneron had is promising. he tried it -- lou: since you brought it up -- >> a stirring example. lou: absolutely. and let's listen to that, i thought the essence of his, of his leadership and his tone and the direction last night was captured in these words. here's the president. >> and i learned so much about coronavirus. and one thing that's for certain, don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. you're going to beat it. we have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines all developed recently. and you're going to beat it. get out there, be careful. we have the best medicines in the world, and it all happened very shortly, and they're all getting approved. and the vaccines are coming momentarily. lou: the president last night.

dr. siegel, your thoughts about his situation now, working hard in the white house as he does every day almost as if nothing has happened here to him. your thoughts about how much work he should him himself to, about how wise it is to be taking on the same challenges that he did before. >> i think he thrives on it, lou. i think it's no such thing as convalescence with this president. we joke that when he's tired -- and he said he was fatigued last week when he got sick -- his tired is our energetic. and i think what's really disgraceful here is how come -- and i love as a physician how he's responded as a patient. but how come, i thought for once, and i'm knew e eve. you're going to call me naive. i thought people were going to wish him well and not attack him for once, none of this political diatribe. how about wishing the patient

well? how about being inspired at how quickly he's recovered and back to work? and this physician loves that he's back to work and that he can pile on as much work as possible. he's conducting the job as president. how inspiring is that? what kind of a time is this for people to be criticizing and undermining, how awful is that? lou: well, it's awful. he puts up with it every day with the white house press corps. he put up with it walking out of walter reed hospital. he has to put up with it all day long. he talks about the fake news, doctor, but it's corporate america that is politically corrupt whether the verizons, yahoo! news, whether it's at&t's cnn, comcast's nbc news or walt disney, for crying out loud, and its abc news. they're working overtime to

encumber this president, to block his agenda and in some cases are complicit with the efforts of the deep state and the radical dems to overthrow his presidency. doctor, you get the last word here, very quickly, if you will. >> i want to answer the question you really asked can. he's back to work, he's breathing easily -- lou: it's got to be quick. >> he has no fever, he should go back to work and keep up with it. he's inspiring. keep it up. okay, my view, probably for a full load of schedule. lou: dr. marc siegel, i like your progress know city -- prognosis, i like your attitude, and i couldn't agree with you more. he's an inspiration to all. dr. marc siegel. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ wild thing, ♪ ♪ you make my heart sing ♪ ♪ wild thing i...

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♪. lou: welcome back. the "lou dobbs tonight" quote of the day from senator ron johnson. the senator is recovering in wisconsin after contracting the china virus. says he will do anything to confirm justice amy coney barrett to the supreme court. he said, quote, if we have to go in and vote i have already told leadership i will go in a moon suit. good for you, senator. that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. we'll be live at 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow ahead of the vice-presidential debate.

former acting dni ric grenell, rudy giuliani, civil rights activist ron woodson among our guests. by the way this is a very good book.think about it. good night from sussex. ♪. elizabeth: tonight president trump pushing back against criticism over his return to the white house after his covid-19 diagnosis. he is now saying he is ready for the next debate against joe biden of the battle stations are on as stocks are in whipsaw action as the president canceled late in the day covid relief talks with house speaker nancy pelosi saying that won't go forward until after the election. again, stocks taking hits today. we're on that, much more with us tonight. republican jim jordan, "the hill" media reporter joe concha, trump 2020 senior advisor corey