around. and they did. that's what happened. general washington, of course, went on to become president washington. and today or maybe in the days that follow, the country will -- that he helped create will elect its next president. thanks for watching, we'll see you throughout the night. ♪ lou: good evening. it has been 1456 days since donald trump was elected president of the united states, and tonight he is on the verge of winning a second term in the oval office. more than 101 million americans voted early this year. 35% of those were in-person votes. the other 65%, mail-in ballots. president trump says he feels good about his chances against joe biden today. the president making those comments while thanking all of the hard working men and women at his national campaign

headquarters in arlington, virginia. joe biden spent his day trying to save votes in pennsylvania. the crowds that biden has drawn, well, they're de minimis in comparison to those drawn by president trump at his massive rallies all across the country. and thousands of supporters last night in michigan showed president trump just how much they want him to remain president of the united states. >> we love you! >> thank you. don't make me cry. don't make me cry. [cheers and applause] you know, if i started to cry, they'd have a big story. they'd say the president broke down and cried. [laughter] and i don't know if that's good for us. probably could -- maybe it brings me four or five points, huh? i don't care. but that's really nice. you know, it's never been said before. they say we've -- we've liked ronald reagan, but they say that's the love. we love you. think of it when you think about

it, right? [cheers and applause] lou: love in michigan and across the country. the president and the biden campaign will be keeping a close watch on the critical swing states. those states will likely decide the outcome of tonight's election. we are just under two hours away from the closing of the first polls. florida may provide us with the earliest indication of where this night is headed for the former vice president and for president trump. polls in the eastern time zone of the astronaut close at 7 p.m -- of the state close at 7 p.m. from there the numbers will come in, and we expect those numbers thick and fast. ohio starts reporting numbers at 7:30. ballots in the state, however, can be accepted for ten days, ten days after the election. [laughter] at 8 p.m. the florida panhandle as well as pennsylvania, texas and michigan will begin to

report their votes. texas is expected to report most of their votes tonight. and pennsylvania will be accepting ballots for three more days after this election pending a supreme court ruling. and michigan's radical dem leaders have already warned voters not to expect full election results tonight. no, that would be inconvenient to them and their political interests. north carolina's statewide results have been delayed until 8:15. they were supposed to report at 7:30. but the state board of elections today extended voting hours at four polling locations where there were delays. by 9 p.m. eastern, numbers from the hot lu-contested -- hotly-contested states of arizona, minnesota and wisconsin will begin to roll in. election officials expect to count votes fairly quickly in those states, but there is still a pending legal case against minnesota's -- are you ready for

this? -- seven-day ballot extension. what sense does any of this make? well, we'll make sense of it as best we can here tonight and throughout the evening. president trump today had this to say about those ballot extensions in critical democrat-controlled swing states. >> you have to have a date. and the date happens to be november 3rd, and we should be entitled to know who won on november 3rd. and if somebody comes along and puts a ballot in way late, they shouldn't be -- they should put the ballot in earlier. there's no reason why they can't put the ballot two weeks earlier or one week earlier. i think it's a very dangerous decision for our country. in many ways dangerous, in many ways. lou: you know, as a usual in politics things are sometimes worded in upside down manners, and certainly calling this early voting really means late voting and lawsuit counting. finish -- late counting. fox news' white house

correspondent john roberts has more on president trump's day. john, how's the president feeling about tonight? >> reporter: president said that he's feeling pretty good after a blistering three-day swing through all of the swing states, 14 events the president had. you know, lou, you pointed out that more than 101 million people have voted already, but that means millions more were going to vote today, and that's why the president held those 15 rallies in the last three days to hit all of those voters who were going to go out today, to turn up voter enthusiasm. one of the things that we talk about that's so important in getting out the vote is voter intensity. and judging by the thousands of people that came out for president trump even when the weather was freezing cold and the wind was howling in places like scranton, pennsylvania, travers city, michigan, all of those people came out just to see president trump which had himming again, feeling pretty good about his chances tonight. here's what he said earlier today visiting his campaign headquarters in virginia. >> i i think pennsylvania's very important.

florida's very important, obviously. a lot of people talked about texas, and texas is -- we will have a tremendous victory there based on, you know, everything that you see. this is no longer polls, this is now we're looking at what's happening. >> [inaudible] >> it'll be a tremendous victory in texas. i'm hearing we're doing tremendously well in arizona. i think we're doing well all over. >> reporter: the president's campaign told me a short time ago things are looking very good in florida as well. the president will be are watching the results coin tonight, lou, from the residence and the oval office as well. meantime, the trump campaign has a war room set up in the eisenhower executive office building across from the white house. the campaign assures us none of this is being done at taxpayer expense, they are paying for everything. obviously, the president wants to win tonight, but listen to how he put it earlier today. >> winning is easy. losing is never easy. not for me, it's not.

but i think we have -- when you see rallies the likes of which in the history of this country, probably in the history of the world nobody's ever seen before, there's a tremendous love going on in this country. and there's really a tremendous unity. >> reporter: talked to a number of people in the campaign today as well as around the white house, lou, they say two or three different pasts for the president to get to 270. one goes through pennsylvania, another through michigan, there's even some people who believe that because of fear of more coronavirus lockdowns in the casino industry which would devastate it even further, that nevada may go for president trump. there's some people who think he might flip minnesota as well. pennsylvania, they're not so sure about because of this extended voting deadline you were talking about earlier. we should also point out, lou, that there was a ring of security around the white house, the entire complex all the way down to e street and the i lip sis has been surrounded by that nonscalable fence, but we can already hear the protests

starting just outside of that fence, so it's going to be a long night tonight, lou. lou: and presumably, they don't know the results in pennsylvania. is it unfair, inaccurate of me to say what's expected in pennsylvania is outright cheating? is that part of the problem? >> reporter: well, your word, not mine. but what i can tell you -- lou: right. >> -- what i'm hearing from the campaign is that they're concerned about postelection day, quote, shenanigans, as they put it. i've heard some analysts say president trump would need to win pennsylvania by four points tonight in order to make up for anything that happens during the three-day vote counting period after that which, again, lou, why they're looking at pennsylvania with a not so hopeful eye but looking at michigan, potentially minnesota as other i ways to get to 270. lou: yeah. what i hear is with this enthusiasm across some of the swing states is that the

president's path to 270 seems to be widening a bit, perhaps more than a bit from the polls that we've seen for month after month after month. think that's a fair statement? >> reporter: yeah. again, there's some thought that he might win nevada, some thought he might flip minnesota. i think they're pretty sure of arizona, texas, florida, georgia, iowa, north carolina and ohio. the rest is kind of what's up in the air. but taking those states gets him very close. he just needs one more after that. one more big one. lou: extraordinary. it's going to be quite a night to watch and to report. john roberts, as always, we appreciate your reporting. >> reporter: thanks lou. lou: thanks so much. john roberts from the white house. joining us now is larry elder, pastor robert jeffress, fox business contributor, michael goodwin, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the new york post, fox business contributor.

gentlemen, great to have you with us. let's, if we may, begin with your sense of the intensity that is demonstrated by these rallies. some of the political pundits, savant wags are saying you can't judge the difference between a man with a bullhorn in a small crowd and the president of the united states with massive rallies. what say you, larry? >> there's no question that the intensity for president trump is absolutely off the charts. i thought it was big in 2016 when a cameraman told me he'd been to vir hullly -- virtually everybody's rally over the past 20 years, he went to trump's and 30,000. 20,000 knew darn well they weren't going to get into the venue, they just wanted to be near on this man. in 2016 there was an undercount on the part of pollsters, it's

probably especially greater now especially among black voters who don't tell people they're supporting trump. so there are a lot of variables. i think some of the so-called pundits failed to take it into consideration last time and are failing this time too. lou: well, that's interesting. if i may, to turn to you, pastor jeffress, how important are the evangelicals, and how well are they, do you think or are hearing, how well are they turning out for today's vote? >> well, lou, i just got off the phone with ralph reid, the head of the faith and freedom coalition. they have knocked on 5.2 million doors of evangelicals around the country. ask and ralph tells me -- and ralph tells me that the turnout exceeding what they expected in florida, in georgia, in north carolina, in iowa. and the reason this is significant, lou, is evangelicals make up one-half of the republican vote. and as we talked about friday

night, the pew -- pardon me, the public religion research institute estimated nine out of ten evangelicals would vote. that's exactly what's happening right now, and 79% of them are voting for president donald trump. that is a huge tailwind for the president. lou: is this a tailwind -- michael, you've covered a lot of presidential elections in your, in your career. we're looking at these massive rallies, we're looking at poll numbers, the effect of them has been extraordinary because they are so negative for the president -- >> right. lou: and some of them are so widely inaccurate on their face. give us your sense of this race. we heard john roberts' reporting, and it sounded very positive for the president, what he's looking at in these early hours. >> you know, or lou, one of the first things i learned as a political journalist was that

politicians like to have their events in small spaces because it's easier to fill them up, and it looks like it's crowded on television, and that suggests enthusiasm. well, president trump has overflows. so it's impossible to compare, because we have never seen -- as the president himself said, we've never seen this. and these chants of we love you, we love you, this is beyond politics. now, whether it's enough, i tend to think the president will win florida, and if he can hold georgia and north carolina and ohio in the early going tonight, then i think he's certainly well positioned. i think he has several pathways from that. but florida's a big one. if he does not win florida, then i i think it's going to be a very difficult next couple of days for him. lou: and john roberts just reported that it's looking very good for the president in all of those states.

battlegrounds, all. it'll be interesting. the black vote, as you mentioned, larry eller, critical, it would -- larry elder, it would seem, to this president's victory. have you got a sense of the enthusiasm in the black community for this president? is it real or is it rhetorical? >> no, it absolutely is real, lou. there's no question about it. it's also difficult to beat historically low black unemployment, which the president enjoyed, it's also difficult to beat the first step act which he signed that allowed so far over 5,000 black men to have their sentences be considered and reduced an average of 75 months and 2-3,000 released outright. he put funding for historically black colleges on a permanent footing for the next ten years, extended money for so-called enterprise zones. he's going double or triple the support that he got in 2016. lou: that's a powerful statement, larry.

pastor, give us your judgment, if you will, the importance of this president almost single handedly bringing god back to the public arena and taking on as no president before him has the right to life. >> lou, that is so true. i mean, there is no president, democrat or republican, who has ever done more for the faith community than donald j. trump. i mean, think about it, he promised a conservative judiciary. that's what we wanted. he has now confirmed 200 federal judges to the appellate courts and 3 supreme court justices. he promised to be pro-religious liberty. he signed record legislation about that. he supported israel. he has not only met, he has exceeded the expectations of the evangelicals. and it is marvelous to see, and that's why i say with confidence, you know, he won the evangelical vote in 2016 by 81 -- a record at that point -- i think he will exceed it in

this election as well. and the issue of abortion is especially important. joe biden has been bought and paid for by planned parenthood. he promotes the barbaric practice of unrestricted abortion, and no christian with a conscience can support that kind of godless platform of the democrat party. lou: and, michael, as we wrap up here, this president has turned the republican party in an entirely different direction than its recent history. it's no longer the corporatist party. as a matter of fact, wall street, corporate america are beside themselves. they want to destroy him, in point of fact. he has made the republican party the party of the working man and woman. the party of the middle class and all who aspire to it. and whether we're talking about minority groups, whether we're talking about evangelicals, you can go through all the demographics, he's talking about all americans.

he said he'd be the president of all americans. he has changed almost without awareness on the part of the left-wing national media and its left-wing savants, he's changed the republican party profoundly. how big a role will that play in the outcome of this election tonight? >> well, lou, to larry elder's point, if the president were to get, you know, 16, 20% of the black vote, he would not only be remaking the republican party, he would be remaking the democratic party as well. the president has shaken up everything in politics, and if he can double stamp that tonight, then i think the next four years will be a total realignment. you will see changes like we've never seen in a very long time. but if he can do it tonight, then i think the foreign policy

establishment changes. i mean, the way he has built up the military, i mean, the list -- immigration -- lou: mike -- >> efforts he's been making, all of these things up to both parties. even if -- lou: mike, we've got to -- >> how joe biden -- lou: i'm sorry, we've got to go. i'm sorry? >> i said -- lou: mike -- >> biden would have a hard time going back to his old china policy after what president trump has done. the president has revolutionized both parties. lou: michael, we -- great. michael, as always, good to have you with us. thanks so much. pastor robert jeffress, larry elder, gentlemen, thank you very much. up next, there's more than just the presidency at stake in this election. we take that up and more with historian victor davis hanson. stay with us, we'll be right back after these quick messages.

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choice between changing rules when they are deemed inconvenient and respecting constitutional norms and long-held traditions that have served america well for many years. joining us tonight, the author of that quote, victor davis hanson himself. senior fellow at the hoover institution, professor i emeritus of classics at california state university, "national review" contributor and also best sell author of numerous -- best sell author of numerous books. victor, it's great to have you with us. as usual, a brilliant quote that lays it out directly. that being the choice, what choice do you think americans is have made and will, well, will be reflected in the outcome of this vote today? >> well, i don't think that the democrats and the left learned anything, and they didn't forget anything. they forgot everything, and they learned nothing from 2016.

so i think donald trump is going to pile up anywhere from 20-120,000 vote lead in these swing states, and he's going to have a sizable -- lou: wow. >> -- in the electoral college. i'm pretty confident because i don't understand the democratic logic. they deprecate polls that were accurate in 2016, they sort of make fun of the poll thesterses -- pollsters, and yet they don't tell us why they would be flawed. they don't tell us what, how their methodology changed so that they won't repeat the errors of 2016. i think they're straitjacketed, lou, by class prejudices. they've become the party of the rich. they outsourced this campaign to the big banks, the big media, and and they make fun of people that they don't understand. almost reminds me of how the dream team made fun of john dowd and lawyers for donald trump who

beat them or when adam schiff depracated the former devin nuñes. so they have a problem, and it hinders them from looking at things empirically, i think. lou: something hindering them, because they are -- and we'll see9 what the outcome of this election is -- but they have pursued the biden campaign, biden/harris seem to be, to have pursued the same philosophy as the democrats pursued in impeaching the president, calling forth a special counsel, demanding fbi investigations, all of that which president trump has been having, has had to deal with over the course of almost every day since he became a candidate for the office. they think they can create fiction, and that's just as good as reality, and their fiction has become venal lies much like the campaign of the democratic

nominee. your thoughts. >> yeah. absolutely. i mean, when they need moderate voters, why is kamala harris showing a video that a basically is marxist-centric? or why is joe biden calling for calm and voices that are shrill and shouting at a people? i don't understand. i don't understand the tactics and the methodology. after scaring the country into a covid lockdown and suggesting that it was comparable to the bubonic plague, then they expect that their own voters to come out and rally, much less come out on election day, and they bet the farm on this mail-in balloting, but i think a lot of the voters are unacquit quainted -- unacquainted with it, they're not sure how it works. they didn't even calculate into their data that there's about a million and a half students at these huge land grant colleges that vote 90% democratic, they're all in the swing states, florida state, florida. arizona, ohio sate, michigan, you name 'em, and they're not in

session. they're home. they're dispersed. their registrations are often not followed up, and they're going to news 3 or 4% -- lose 3 or 4% of that vote. they don't take seriously the minority vote defection is serious, and they sort of depracate that, they can't believe it's going to happen. it will happen. so there's a lot of thing in play, and i don't think they've calculated it all. you can see that, lou, with the changing diagnosis and progress know cease on these web sites and experts and pundits, the nate silvers of the world. they're starting to hedge, and so are the democratic campaign activists. lou: the pollsters who had, well, who have dominated the headlines for months on end because of their, well, their convenient resting place in the national left-wing media who absolutely hate this president for, as best as i can tell, absolutely no good reason.

butbut they've sacrificed their virtue and values in so doing. victor davis hanson, always great to have you with us, thank you so much. up next, twitter targeting president trump again. that's right, twitter targeting the president. foxx business' -- fox business' liz claman and elizabeth macdonald join me with more on that right after this quick break. stay with us. leeds, worry follows you everywhere. over 100,000 people have left blood thinners behind with watchman. it's a one-time, minimally invasive procedure that reduces stroke risk-- and bleeding worry--for life. watchman. it's one time. for a lifetime.

♪ ♪ >> they have things nobody's ever seen anything like it, so i think we're going to have a very big day. but they say you can't one without big tech. we're going to find out tomorrow. wouldn't that be wonderful? [cheers and applause] but they said the same thing, they said the same thing four years ago. you know, the head of cnn said you can't win without cnn. i said, really? we won. so now we have to do it again. lou: now he has to do it again. president trump last night on his fight against big tech, social media. just last night twitter placed a

warning label on one of the president's tweets. if you can imagine the arrogance of twitter and jack dorsey, its ceo. the president tweeted: the supreme court decision on voting in pennsylvania is a very dangerous one. it will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. it will also induce violence in the streets, something must be done. a straightforward statement and the view of the president which, which twitter i somehow feels empowered to censor. joining us tonight, liz claman, host of "the claman countdown." that's weekdays, 3 p.m. eastern right here on the fox business network, and elizabeth macdonald, host of "the evening edit," week days at 6 p.m. eastern on fox business. great to see you, lizzie. let me start with the president's battle against big tech. is he winning it or losing it?

>> is it liz or lizzie? >> i'm going the take that -- >> liz claman or me in. >> yeah, we have got two liz -- [laughter] all right, i'll be liz, you'll be lizzie. lou, it's -- lou: i've never seen either of you be so constrained. [laughter] >> hey, it's election night, 2020. we are psyched. if he wins, he could argue that he got the help of big tech back during 2016 because the millions of people who began to follow him on twitter got an unfiltered donald trump, correct? so people started following, and millions, and then it was five million. i just checked, 82, 87 million people are following president trump. so he doesn't seem to be having trouble getting his message out. what they're doing is they are, yes, flagging those betweens. specifically, the one you just talked about, lou, has to do with what he said regarding the pennsylvania scotus, the supreme

court decision, saying that pennsylvania would be allowed to count ballots up until three days after today, after election day. and they felt, at least according to twitter, they would flag him -- just saying this was disinformation, it was casting doubt on the u.s. day system. so you start to look at the numbers, and you see that -- lou: well, who the hell is -- who the hell are they -- >> that's right. lou: who are they, lizly, to sit there -- lizzie, to sit there and label the president of the united states? no one empowered them to do it, they have no authority, and -- your thoughts. >> well, the president's pointing out what could shape up to be the court battle of this election. it could be like bush versus gore. and what do i mean by that? you know, florida was only one, 537 votes. but the president is pointing out here that, essentially, the state legislature governs how the vote goes and is counted in

pennsylvania. instead, conservatives are saying that pennsylvania's allowing the courts to decide how long votes can be counted after the fact. it should be pointed out that the president won 2016 by just 80,000 votes including from michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. so what's happening now is the president's pointing out that the state court system is, he feels, hijacking the voting process in pennsylvania when it violates the state constitution, the state legislature upholds in terms of how the votes are counted in pennsylvania. that's the key here. lou: liz, thanks so much. we appreciate it. >> sure. lou: elizabeth macdonald and liz claman. and lizzie, thank you both. appreciate it. up next, will president trump insist on obamagate prosecutions when he is, well, maybe i should say, if reelected? we'll talk about that with "just the news" editor-in-chief john

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whether he was sort of, well, involved, beholden, a fan of the democrats. well, joining us now is "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon. john, it's great to have you with us. let's start with fbi director, did you ever see you would see -- think you would see a former fbi director holding up a partisan cup and wearing a t-shirt? >> no. both our former cia director john brennan and james comey really dishonored their institutions. there's been an obligation that when you accept that job that when you leave it, you still stay above politics. that's the expectation americans haved had. obviously, james james comey has flaunted his politics. i think anyone in the intelligence community's embarrassed by his antics. lou: yeah, and let's turn to your reporting on "just the news." trump promised, of course, full

transparency, ordered transparency on the part of everyone in the executive branch. the state department basically told him to go to hell. how could that be, that they would not follow a direct the order of the president of the united states? >> it's remarkable, and i think in many ways that the permanent bureaucracy's one of the things on this ballot tonight in the election which is do you want a bureaucracy that's going to be chained to the next presidency or to run the country without a president? i foiaed this document a year with ago, i started a lawsuit, i was promised before election day we would get these documents. half of them we weren't given at all, they've made a last minute excuse to the court why they couldn't give me a lot of the documents, and then they gave me one that's a critical document about the u.s. embassy meeting with the prosecutor who's in charge of the hunter biden case, and when i got it, it's four pages, all recontacted. all white. like a giant bottle of whiteout was wasted on it.

that's not transparency, that's not what the american people expect or the president ordered. lou: that's' -- no, he was specific. it was a tweet, i acknowledge. but unwritten, his meaning was clear. it is, while it may not have been in its purest form a direct order from the president, everyone knew what the president wanted. and why did not the secretary of state, mike pompeo, deliver exactly what the president had ordered? >> yeah, listen, if you're senator ron johnson or chuck grassley who ran very thorough investigations, you're asking the same questions. i'm just the reporter. i'll go to court, we'll eventually win, but they had constitutional oversight obligations for the state department and the fbi, and time and again mike pompeo's department and director withdraw's department thumbed -- wray's department thumbed their nose at that constitutional respondent, did not turn over

documents time and time and time again. it's a travesty for the american people. the ultimate losers aren't ron johnson, john solomon, chuck grassley, they're the american people who don't get answers from the government that they fund every day with their tax dollars. lou: yeah, it's, it is frustrating beyond words to watch the perform e innocent bureaucracy, the deep state, if you will, as well as the political appointees of this president who owe their loyalty e to this president and the constitution to do exactly what he has asked for. this election is very important. it is clear that the deep state and the radical dems are counting on the victory of one joe biden. that is an open question that we may not answer tonight but well could as well. we know which way they're betting, don't we? john solomon, great to have you with us. thanks so much. >> thank you, lou.

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♪ ♪ lou: breaking news now, radical dem house speaker nancy pelosi says she would love nothing more than to steal this election. she didn't word it exactly that way. pelosi said the house is prepared to play what she called a prominent role in deciding the outcome of the presidential election. isn't that nice? just don't worry about those hundreds of millions of votes. if the results are disputed. of course, it only takes one side to dispute something, doesn't it? speaker pelosi is also looking to expand her 31-seat majority in the house. as for the senate, 35 seats there are in play tonight, 23 of those seats defended by republicans, 13 held but democrats. joining me now, house minority

whip steve scalise. congressman, it is great to have you with us. let's start with the, i think the most important question certainly is who is going to win the opportunity to govern this country for the next four years. will it be biden or president trump? >> well, lou, good to be with you. happy election day. and it starts at the top. look, i feel very confident about president trump, what he's doing. he's got the momentum right now, and that's what you want in the closing days of an election. i talked to the president this morning, he's very pumped up. he was in six states yesterday alone, all swing states. you saw the crowds, tens of thousands of people. we're seeing in the early voting a lot of enthusiasm, great lines today. so, look, i feel really good about president trump's chances. ands that is really our path to winning the house back. we can't win the house back if president trump doesn't win. but in those 30 districts were president trump won four years ago, if he does well again tonight -- which i think he

will -- >> -- that's our path to win enough seats to actually fire nancy pelosi and win the majority back. lou: and you have to win how many to take back the house? >> a net of 17, really 19 if you count the redistricting that the supreme court did in north carolina. but in the end, that's the path. and it goes through a lot of those districts that president trump won, 30 of them, that are currently held by democrats. who have been, by the way, voting for the radical left agenda of nancy pelosi and aoc. frankly, there's a lot of energy for president trump. i've been to a lot of those districts. you see the momentum for president trump, but that helps our republican candidates. lou: and your seasons as to whether or not -- sense as to whether or not you have the energy, the momentum9 and the electoral power now to take back control of the house. >> yeah. momentum is really strong right now. president trump had a great

debate performance with joe biden. by the way, he said he would end oil drilling, and he talked about the green new deal. he said he doesn't support it, but then it's on his web site. he says he's not for defunding police, but he's on video i saying he's on directing money away from police. he goes to pennsylvania and says he's not going to ban fracking. the problem is it's on video, and people see this double speak. that means he's going to ban fracking, he's going to end drilling, he's going to work to defund the police because he's turned his agenda over to the radical left. president trump built a great economy already. when we have multiple vaccines literally in the next few weeks for to covid, we can reopen even more of our economy, and nobody better to get the economy going again than donald trump who already built the hot e economy in the history of our country, and it worked for everybody. women-owned businesses were up by 20%. we'll get there again, lou. we've got to get through this election and work to get this country back on track.

lou: so as we're sitting here, it sounds a bit like the president, everybody's going to ride on his coat tails in the house which makes it curious that so many congressmen and senators have distanced themselves from this president in their, in their home elections, if you will, whether the senate or the congress. was that a mistake? >> well, i don't know if many have distanced themselves. you can see in the background our sign, we have trump signs and scalise signs combined. a lot of -- lou: i'm not talking about you. >> -- and a lot of your members -- oh, i know, but a lot of our members have been supporting the president and his agenda. you see from kevin mccarthy on down, we've all been working closely with the president and vice president pence. i was with vice president pence a few days ago, and pence is fired up. he's been a great asset to the president as the vice president. he's great on the campaign trail.

he did phenomenal, phenomenal in that debate. i thought he really did show just how far left kamala harris is. i think people saw that. wow, this is a guy who could step in. we surely don't want the far left taking over on the other side, and they're controlling biden and his agenda. donald trump's a proven entity who's delivered for hard working families. pennsylvania, ohio, big battleground states, wisconsin, michigan, they're manufacturing things again. minnesota, president trump could shock the world and be the first president since 1972 on the republican side to win minnesota, and that's clearly in play as well. lou: well, it's going to be quite an evening as we begin covering that starting at 7:00 tonight here on the fox business network. and we'll be, we will also be covering, of course, congressman steve scalise's race as well. our election night coverage continues here in just a few moments. we'll be right back, please stay with us. ♪

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♪. connell: i'm was a great election day on wall street. areand they may have been predictive. lou: the dow jones industrials rallying 55 points.

nasdaq gained 203 points. volume on the big board 4.23 billion shares. a reminder to listen to my reports on the salem radio network each day. and now, the a look where this is important election nightstand as now. we're just a little more than an hour out from getting the first election results of the night, the first vote counts. president trump is at the white house right now. he will be watching tonight's results from a war room that has been set up at the executive office building. he will in fact watching it from wherever he chooses. he has number of quite comfortable places which to view the evening's festivities and results. the president visited his campaign headquarters. lou: has national campaign headquarters today and says he feels very good about tonight's prospects. joe biden for his part will be at his home in wilmington, delaware, which he has

campaigned for the presidency day in and day out. he will be watching the results with his family. biden making a last-ditch effort to spark interest with a quick visit to pennsylvania. and as of now, more than 103 million americans have voted early this year. that is more than 70% of the total turnout back in 2016. 35% of those early votes were in-person votes. 65% mail-in ballots. the road to the white house of course runs through a number of battleground states. one of which is florida. and florida is where president trump won it big four years ago. fox business's ashley webster is in the sunshine state with the very latest for us. ashley. reporter: lew, thank you very much. early voting in florida has been remarkable this time around. as you remember president trump, it was a very close race with

hillary clinton in 2016 but we have had massive, massive early voting. in fact 9.07 million ballots have been cast. when you think back to 2016, there was 9.5 million ballots cast for the entire election. so plenty of interest. i'm in seminole county, lou, lake mary, north of orlando from the eastern side of the i-4 corridor all the way over to tampa, traditionally a republican strong hold but you could argue it has got a little purpose tint here in recent times. it would be very interesting to see how the early votes are tabulated and what they show. we expect those to be done very quickly because florida counts quickly. they already, they keep a tabulation of the early votes as they come in. so once the polls close in less than an hour now here in this part of florida, i think we'll get a sense, at least a sense of the trend which could set the stage for the rest of the country but let's not forget the florida panhandle, they're in central time.

we have to wait until 8:00 p.m. for them. i have a guest. linda is with the seminole county gop, you're the chair of the seminole county gop party here. linda, what can we expect tonight? we know the polls close 7:00 where we are, 8:00 in the panhandle. but will we get a result. will florida be called tonight? >> i think from will be called quickly and called for president trump. here in seminole county we usually get results about 7:30, maybe quarter to 8:00 at latest. reporter: this huge wave of voters is perhaps on donald trump's side? >> absolutely. going into tonight, we had 100,000 we were behind. earlier today republicans were ahead by 125,000. we expect that trend to continue this evening. reporter: linda, thank you very much. it is interesting, it is always close in florida, but let's not pretend, in seminole county, when was the last time a

democrat candidate won in seminole county? you have to go back to 1948, that good man harry truman. it has been a long time since a republican won here. the polls close as we say in just under an hour. unless it is very close, we'll get a call on the florida election tonight. stay tuned. lou: that is a very having number she shared with us, talking about being 100,000 votes behind in the early vote and having that flip as of to that is a powerful statement for florida, isn't it? reporter: yes. it certainly is. i think you saw that today. it was always believed perhaps with the early voting it may lean democrat it, may lean in joe biden's favor, it was a wave of people voting today, which many republicans like to do in person on election day. president trump stays close to joe biden in the early voting, once we wait for the florida panhandle results to come in, lou, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, that is considered to give the

president another boost as well. so, interesting times but i do think we'll have a result tonight. lou: right. good news from florida for president trump. thanks so much. ashley webster, thank you. another state critical to the president's re-election is pennsylvania where president trump spent a great deal of time over recent weeks. fox business's connell mcshane in bristol, pennsylvania, this evening and he has the latest read on the state. connell? reporter: lew, it is interesting coming on after ashley, although the tends are the in person, versus people who might vote early by mail the significance is different here in pennsylvania or florida. so many people vote early in florida. not as many percentagewise do here in pennsylvania. the campaigns know how important day of vote is. joe biden to your earlier point spent a last minute campaign stop on election day.

he was in philadelphia, 25 or 30 miles from where we are in bucks county. he is trying to turn out the inner-city vote to his advantage. president trump is trying to turn out rural voters to his advantage. here in bucks county, one of the counties could go either way. hillary clinton won it barely last time around. we were out at a bunch of locations earlier. we saw long lines. people waiting over an hour to vote. there was certainly a lot of enthusiasm on both sides. that is the in-person side. the mail-in vote we saw 2 1/2 million people vote early in pennsylvania. it will be interested to see how that is counted throughout the night. i was spoking to local bucks county officials earlier. they started process 7:00 this morning. when the polls close at 8:00 tonight, they will start at least in bucks county to tabulate or count the ballots. on "after the bell" i was speaking to white house communications director alyssa farah talking about, that they do have concerns about the counting in pennsylvania. here is what she said? >> we want to count ballots

accurately. we don't want to extend the deadlines. really not just something we've seen in modern american history where the results are potentially called but people are still casting ballots after the fact. so that is it what we're concerned about but the president's got a team deployed there we do in states where we have some of these concerns. we're confident that the right results will be out for the american people. reporter: so this will be a state to watch no doubt. it seems, even after tonight, it is unlikely many people's estimations that there will be a call made in pennsylvania tonight to get at what alyssa farah was talking about, what election officials told us. it is not people were voting after election day. their votes may not come in until after election day. the state has three days, as long as a ballot is postmarked by today, november 3rd to count the ballots. that could take us until friday. as the old saying goes, lou, we could be here for a while in pennsylvania.

we'll be watching. lou: it will be difficult to tell whether people were voting or just simply waiting or just barely hitting the deadline. connell mcshane, thanks so much. appreciate it. another crucial voting bloc for president trump today will be black voters. the president has recently enjoyed more than 40% approval ratings from black voters in the most recent polling. even comcast nbc news ran the headline, the trump vote is rising among blacks and hispanics despite the conventional wisdom. i don't know if it is conventional wisdom or just so-called view of the left. joining us tonight is conservative author, speaker, david harris, jr. he is also a member of the black voices for trump coalition. david, great to have you with us. the african-american vote is presumed to be higher than the president received back in 2016. the question is, i think in most

minds, how much higher? give us your judgment on that if you can. >> absolutely, lou. thank you so much for having me on. you know i shared this two years ago on fox business. i shared that i believe the president was going to get over 20, maybe 25% of the black vote. and i shared that because of his actions, his actual policies that have been impacting the black community since he took office. you know came in, saying what the hell do you have to lose? he came in and delivered historic prison reform. something that obama-biden did not get done. he delivered the low of the unemployment rate in the black community in history. along with hispanic unemployment and 60 plus-year low for women. he also, then also brought us historic funding for historical black colleges and universities, again something the obama-biden administration did not do. he came in saying what the hell did you have to lose? he brought policies and kept promises and that was just, that was just getting started. now he unveiled the platinum plan which is actually going to be one of the biggest,

monumental aspects of growth and development for the black community that this country has ever seen. so now he is not just talking, now he is not just talking and producing promises but now he actually has a plan, something the biden-kamala harris administration has yet to do, unveil any type of plan that will bring any positive impact to the black community. anything they have done from the black community, locking up black individuals for smoking weed to the '94 crime bill, everything they have got has been detrimental for the black community. this president, donald j. trump, i'm so proud and honored i cast my vote again for him this election cycle. i'm proud for him to become the next president of the united states. i think there is a lot of, millions of black americans that share my sentiment also casting their vote for him this year. lou: david, we got about a minute left here. your sense of what you, what do you make of this, it seems to me

a condescension that has gripped the democratic ticket, the democratic party toward blacks in this country? when suddenly you have got people, whether it is jim clyburn, whomever, saying that they are going to pray for, for blacks to vote for donald trump? it is a bizarre moment in our history. your thoughts? >> my thoughts on clyburn, anybody else that wants to try to use the name of the lord jesus christ, my lord and savior any reason whatsoever to pray for those that are voting for donald trump is they're derived and they're using, they're being used by the enemy to deceive the people. as a believer, as a christian, one of my fundamental core beliefs, i'm unequivocally 100% pro-life. we have not seen a pro-life president like donald j. trump in our lifetime period. every believer, every christian should be pro-life. and every believer should want to stand for those standing for the rights of unborn babies.

i said in my book, why i couldn't stay silent, david harris.store. why i'm so pro-life. my wife's mother almost aborted her and at the last minute left the abortion clinic. i'm believing that, millions of americans will be courageous enough to vote for donald trump this year. lou: great. good to talk with you, david. thanks so much. david harris, jr. up next u.s. attorney john durham's investigation of the investigators, you know, it turns out that was a bunch -- what does it joe biden call it, i believe it is malarkey? we'll have the latest from his investigation, take it up right after the quick break. judicial's watch's president tom fitton joins us. stay with us. ♪

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♪. president trump: what a disgrace. let's see what happens. it is too bad it is going so slowly. there is plenty of info there. i try to stay uninvolved. some day i will have to get involved maybe. i try to stay uninvolved. going too slowly. so, sir, we would rather not do anything before the election. they did it to me, during, before and after. these are bad people.

comey the worst director in the history of the fbi. [booing] a crooked person. lou: pretty interesting, isn't it. the democrats without any evidence, pure fiction and pure political purpose can impeach the president of the united states but republicans with all of the evidence imaginable can't, can't seem to come together long enough to investigate, to investigate clear crimes against the republic. breaking news now, unidentified sources close to john durham's obamagate investigation telling "new york" magazine that durham has found no evidence of wrongdoing by either former president obama or former vice president joe biden. well that's nice. we haven't heard anything from durham throughout but we apparently have got a leak from the investigation, if the magazine is reporting accurately

on election day. thatthat is a strange piece of timing, isn't it? the magazine's election eve publishing the story based on unidentified sources, is, well, it seems to be based on highly coincidental factors, doesn't it? joining us tonight, tom fitton, the president of "judicial watch." tom, great to have you with us. and you're in pretty fancy company there tonight. you're at the white house. that's, it is a good look for you. you might ought to maintain that. >> i'm actually in a studio, i'm in a studio right now. [laughter] lou: that's excellent. you got me fooled. i was told you would be at the white house. the idea that, we have john durham, you were being just a little, a little, what would i say, accommodating with the durham investigation and it

looks pretty clear there is nothing there. the american people are wasting money, tax money, well actually it is the justice department wasting tax money but our money is being wasted by the attorney general. this is very disappointing, isn't it? >> it is but it is kind of consistent with the way this justice department has operated. put out a mr. uber. remember mr. hueber, to distract -- lou: john, as i recall. >> keep us all distracted. with hueber. then mr. durham comes along, gives the deep state breathing room to mount another challenge against the president. what i think is most scandalous about the state we're in is, you know, there is going to be political opposition to the president but presumably if they commit crimes they should be investigated and prosecuted appropriately. and that never happened.

and durham, if this leak is true, it certainly confirms the way durham has been operating. they never investigated obama directly. they never questioned biden directly. mr. barr made it clear earlier this year that they were not going to be directing anything at them. now we know the fbi and justice department have been covering up for joe biden. what is the reason for that coverup? to make it easier for him to defeat president trump. i mean that's the simple conclusion. i don't know that for a fact but it sure seems that way to anyone with a brain would seem to me. lou: well, it is interesting. the left is making terrible fun of trump supporters and voters. it's become a commonplace occurrence and they're talking down to their own supporters and

this president is has become the greatest advocate in memory of the working man and women in this country, our middle class, all who aspire to it. he has changed the direction of the republican party and yet we seem to have a bunch of elites sitting at the state department, over at the justice department, who don't get the fact that this president is changing the direction of history here. he truly is having an extraordinary impact on the american destiny. we're fulfilling that destiny. the american dream. no president has embraced it, nor, attempted to preserve it and nuture it like this president. >> you know, however things turn out today it is pretty clear that because of president trump's leadership and advocacy against corruption, calling out these institutions we now know

more ever than before how corrupt the state agencies is and how corrupt media is, and how corrupt big tech is. we've seen the institutions break in the president calling them out for corruption. we'll see if it, if they're able to secede in removing him. i suspect they won't be able to do. i think there will be a last gasp effort to try to subvert the election results through either continuing to count, contrary to federal law, or pushing it politically into other areas like congress where they get congress to decide, but if i were the president, by the way, lou, and i saw that i was winning and had won, i would push for the states to stop counting any ballots that arrive after election day. that way lies fraud. it is contrary to federal law, election day is one day, not a

week or a month. it is today. that will be the big fight. we know they're desperate enough, why they're desperate to stop it from happening because they face prosecution if president trump gets his way. lou: but the supreme court, at least in one case has already spoken, accepting that premise that, there could be an extended period of time in pennsylvania, for example, because, well, the government, the state government and its institutions decided that they wanted that. that is not the law at all. what i don't understand is, what has happened to originalism on this court to which president trump is now appointed three justices because originalism requires that you follow the text and meaning of the founders and it's in plain english, that that is a constitutional requirement that has just been rebuffed by the u.s. supreme court in that one decision.

they have, will likely have, i should say the opportunity to fix that in the coming days but, it is urgently needed. your thoughts on that as we wrap up here, tom? >> i think that ought to be the point, that they need to address the issue that federal statute in three different places says election day is today practically speaking and counting ballots that arrive after election day is contrary to federal law. i mean, should we count ballots through december 5th? , through december 6th? through next year? by that logic there is no deadlines at all. i think members of the court who are ready to rule to restrict this gamesmanship and shell game that they're planning with, by counting ballots that arrive after the election with or without postmarks. lou: the democrats are playing the high court and anyone who buys that specious reasoning in pennsylvania for abject fools.

tom fitton, it is great to have you here and we hope that you have an enjoyable evening. thanks so much. appreciate it, tom. tom fitton. radical leftists have rioted in portland, oregon, for months now but the city's radical dem mayor is in a league all of his own. we take that up next with former congressman jason chaffetz. oh, yes, the election, what will be the outcome? we'll take that up with the illustrious jason chaffetz here next. stay with us. we'll be right back. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn?

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president trump: the far left democrats that ruined our public schools, depleted our inner cities, defunded our police and demeaned your sacred faith and values, they support biden, the anti-american radicals defaming our noble history, heritage and heroes, they support sleepily

joe biden. antifa and rioters, looters, marxists, left-wing extremists, they all support biden. lou: the president telling it like it is. portland's radical dem mayor, ted wheeler says his city is preparing for postelection violence by quote, white supremacist groups, despite months of rioting carried out by antifa and other organizations like black lives matter, from, by the way, our observation most of the antifa rioters are white. so they're the ones disregarding law and community needs and standards. so they must be the white supremacists to which the mayor is referring. is that possible? well joining us now congressman, former chairman of the house oversight committee, jason chaffetz. also a fox business contributor. jason, great to see you. happy election i today. how do you think it's going?

>> i am glad to see so many americans getting up and vogting. i think that is good for the country. i do think donald trump will have prevail. i think he has the enthusiasm and wind behind his sails and i do think he is going to win. i think republicans will hold the senate. i'm not so sure president house. they may slide and lose a few seats there but i think donald trump will continue to be the president of the united states. lou: well, that is an outstanding forecast and direct and thank you for not hedging it or couching it. the, as some have of course but, i want to turn to portland what we're seeing here. an outlook for violence. we know that there is intelligence that some groups and certainly amongst those groups will be antifa prominently, are planning violence. what in the orlando are we dealing with here when we are

watching park avenue in manhattan boarding up some of the nicest shops in all the world? beverly hills, los angeles, portland, seattle, the list goes on, all led of course by either democratic mayors or democratic governors or both? >> yeah. there is a common denominator. that is they have a democrat as a governor, democrat as a mayor, a city council, particularly in portland and others that is so radical it is not recognizable. we've watched this play out not in a few weeks but for months. it is crystal clear who these people are. they're attacking federal assets. they are trying to destroy businesses. you can see the looting, rioting. when you see people putting up boards in washington, d.c., and other places they're not worried about trump supporters. the trump supporters are law-abiding citizens by and large who love this country, the

second amendment. they love freedom and liberty. they want nothing to do with this. so, you know, they're going to have to answer. but i think america sees this. i think they see right through it. i think they recognize there is a radical faction that is socialist in their nature and in their approach. if you don't do it their way they will bully you. they will beat you up. they will loot and take things that aren't theirs. lou: yeah. the left, radical dems as i call them on this broadcast, many of them have become outright marxists. they are marxists and they are revealing that to the country. they are also authoritarian. when they are willing to, give up their concerns for community and the nation, the national interest, to, to attack businesses, to attack individuals. in some cases shooting and murdering, rioting, we reached a

stage no one believed this country would ever reach. that will certainly be, i agree with you, jason, it will be on the ballot tonight. jason chaffetz. it is always great to see you. thanks for dropping by. appreciate it. up next president trump slams the supreme court's decision to allow votes to be counted for days and days. citizens united president, david bossie, joins us here next. stay with us. we'll be right back. e. actually, if you're 50 or older, you're at increased risk that's life, nothing you can do... uh, shingles can be prevented. shingles can be whaaaat? prevented. you can get vaccinated. where? at your pharmacy, your doctor's - hold on! don't want to go through that! 50 years or older? get vaccinated for shingles. now.

♪. lou: joining us tonight, david bossie. he is the president of citizens united, a sure row pat for the 2020 trump campaign. he is coauthor of, "trump, america first." the president succeeds against all odds. well the president's success is of course riding on the outcome tonight, david. how are you feeling? i do see the white house behind you? >> lou, i'm right behind the white house. i am going in. the president will win re-election tonight in resounding fashion. we're seeing turn out across america in numbers like we've never seen before. we're going to win decisively in florida and in georgia, north carolina is going to be in president trump's column. we're going to win in arizona. we're going to win enormously in ohio tonight. and that puts us on a pathway to

270. we're excited about what we're seeing across the country. lou: that is an extraordinarily confident statement you've made there. your optimism, frankly i never heard you speak that optimistically about an election before. not even 2016. that is, you're going to, i think, well, let's put it this way. you will put a high bar for everybody else on the broadcast throughout the evening now. you're that confident, of the results? >> you know what? , you know what, lou? we are. we're seeing record turnouts in the places that we need to have our trump supporters turn out. and that is what the game is, lou. we have to win those states to get to 270 electoral votes. that is what we're seeing. we're seeing it in precinct after precinct, town and city, in rural areas and in suburban

areas. that the president is turning out numbers that we, quite frankly are astonishing. we're excited about it. we are in the hunt and we are going to win the state of pennsylvania tonight. and i got to tell you, we're in the hunt in wisconsin and michigan and minnesota and it is going to come down to every last vote. lou: does that mean it will come down to days and days more of counting in those battleground states? >> well we certainly hope not. we see the corruption, that is the biden machine. and we hope that they don't try to go and steal this thing. look, we want, we'll have our lawyers. we have an incredible array of people, lawyers in every state, ready to do battle in court to make sure one person, one vote. that we make sure that people who ought to be voting are voting. we want every vote to count. we want to make sure it is done the right way.

that is what is going to support the law and order of the voter process. we're not going to just have willy-nilly ballots out there with no names. we're not going to be doing this a week from now. we need a result tonight. we think president trump will be resoundly reelected this evening. we're excited about it. lou: david bossie, the excited david bossie. enjoy your evening at the white house, david, thanks so much. let's go to fox news correspondent mike tobin. as david said, wisconsin critical for the former vice president and president trump. mike is in milwaukee, wisconsin. polls close at 9:00 p.m. eastern. 8:00 central. mike, what can you tell us? reporter: tell you with 2 1/2 hours to go until the polls close, the head of wisconsin election commission megan wolf said things are moving along smoothly.

like most of the nation, with all the attention wisconsin received, wisconsin is looking at record numbers in terms of voter participation and turnout. here at central count in milwaukee, they're counting early and absentee ballots. they have 162,000 of them to go through. you have 400 volunteers who are busy counting them. they're expecting to work until the wee small hours of the night across the state. 2.1 million ballots were requested. 1.9 million were returned. it will take time to in two counties, calumet. there was a problem with the printing. 13,500 ballots will need to be redone by hand. all of that adds up to things moving along quickly. there is no indication the integrity of the process is compromised. it will just take a while. lou? lou: mike, thank you very much. we'll be back to you through the evening. mike tobin. thank you. up next, another nobel prize nomination. another nobel peace prize nomination for president trump.

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president trump: for decades our politicians spent trillions of dollars, rebuilding foreign nations, fighting foreign wars and defending foreign borders. we're protecting our nation. rebuilding our cities. we're bringing our jobs, our factories and our troops. finally, finally, finally we're bringing them back home to the usa where they belong. lou: president trump has been consistent and tireless in trying to end this country's endless wars. and that is among the reasons why he has picked up another nobel peace prize nomination. if you're counting, that's five nominations. a group of 14 conservative european parliamentarians from 11 different nations nominating president trump for the nobel peace prize. joining us now, fred fleitz, former cia analyst, former chief of staff at the national security council. president and ceo of center for

security policy. great to have you with us. let me turn to the election now. on the table seems to me, embedded permanent bureaucracy, the deep state. and whether or not this president would have the power over the next four years, the mandate, to uproot obviously what is evil and destructive force within that bureaucracy, that is resisting this president and likely others before him, but, principally this one. your thoughts? >> lou, i think we're at a turning point in our history. an opportunity to take back government from this permanent bureaucracy. that thinks it works for itself, not for the president or the american people. that's why this permanent bureaucracy and democratic politicians threw everything they could to destroy president trump during the campaign, the transition, and his

administration and they mailed. now, the second term, president trump has an opportunity to bring in a new crop of officials to streamline these agencies, to clean house. and to make it clear to these federal bureaucrats, who are paid by the taxpayer, their job is to do their job and keep politics out of their work. that is why this election is so crucial. i know the president wants to do this. you and i know heads will roll after the election. i just can't wait. lou: it's, this president, when he wins election, if he wins tonight, it is, it is incumbent upon, i would think those who have resisted him throughout, to take some reflection about their role over the past four years, four 1/2 years, really, in trying to obstruct his agenda, in trying to overthrow him but we're not talking about simply

the deep state. we're also talking about the radical dems. this president has had to fight the national, the corporate national left-wing media. those corporations, at&t, comcast, disney, the list goes on and on and on. massive economic power and massive political power that they turned against this president and have attacked him daily. we're talking about big tech. we're talking about wall street. we're talking about social media there is going to be an accounting and this country has to come to terms with the fact that there needs to be a rebalancing of power both in media, and the economy. and wall street. >> the president had two problems coming into office four years ago. first off he was an outsider and he was not used to fighting the swamp in washington. he didn't, he and his team were not aware of all the antics they could pull to you know mine him but no one was ready for the

unbelievable assault on his presidency by weaponizing intelligence, by abusing the fisa process with this russia collusion hoax. with the ridiculous impeachment effort. that is all done now. president trump has gotten past that he now has four years experience working with these characters. he knows what they're up to. and i think he is ready to defeat them. lou: he has been ready to defeat them. he hasn't had, this man has stood alone against these tremendous forces that control much of our society and, great deal of our economy. he, that hasn't even been an issue. this man's strength and his individual commitment to the national interests, america first, and the american people, is with, i mean it is unquestionable. it is unprecedented in point of fact, in the modern era. how and where does he begin to

roll back these people who would, you know, tear asunder this great nation? >> i see a set of new trump appointees given very strict instructions to clean house, to streamline. to get rid of waste and corruption, make it very clear exactly what the president wants. we can't have more people -- lou: does he have a sufficient mandate, does he have a sufficient mandate in your judgment to go before the democrats who control the congress and who may have more control, more influence rather than, not control, at least presumably, in the senate? a mandate they would have to defer to the president in his choice, his nominations, to the heads of departments and agencies? because that has been a huge issue. will the resistance go on and what must he do to end it? >> the resistance will go on.

the democrats in the senate, they will try to block this. president trump has to push ahead anyway. there are ways to get people into positions without confirming them, if necessary. but i mean, this is -- lou: he has done that though. >> an important point in our history, lou. if this isn't done i think the bureaucracy will be unsalvageable. lou: and it's, it is clear, that this president will be still engaged in one of the greatest conflicts in presidential history, if not the greatest. we thank you, fred, for joining us. we appreciate it. and again, i now he, i think like me, you revel in this idea this president has been nominated for five nobel peace prizes. before we go to break, reminder, my book "the trump century," is available on lou dobbs shop, that is loudobbsshop.com. stay with us. we'll be right back with much

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one family, one glorious nation under god. and together with the incredible people of michigan, we have made america powerful again, we made america wealthy again, we have made america strong again. we have made america proud again. we have made america safe again. and we will make america great again. thank you, michigan, goy o out d vote, thank you very much, thank you. lou: vote day did, voting all over the country, it looks to be a record performance in our ewell, rallorelect oral system l semp, president trump's last words, in grand rapids, tweeting we're looking really good all over the country, thank you, and

we thank you for joining us this it for our coverage this hour, are sure to keep our sets tuned to fox business network, i will join neil cavuto and the team in a few moments as neil picks up coverage of this purpose important election. it ought to be a beauty. >> here is neil cavuto. neil: are you ready? we're going to look at what could be a long night, it might be a short night. we know that 6 states are closing in a matter of a minute and a half, georgia, indiana, kentucky, south carolina, vermont and virginia. we're handicapping that with our all-star panel, including lou dobbs, maria bartiromo, and

charles payne and baker, one issue that come up in counting and preparing, you really look at two different dynamics, the early voting, better than 100 such million into today, highest we've seen, first time we have seen voting before the day of the election eclipsing that of election day. look at those, then day of votes, some states can handle it, others have a devil of a time getting behind, that we're going to monitor, this is unique to fox business, how the markets are responding to all of this, as night ensues, markets in asia and our own futures, on same day we saw stocks soar on the notion here that maybe we get closure, they might have taken a bit of a leap on that front. we will know, who can forget 4 years ago, confused market react

that plummeted when it first looked like donald trump was winning then quickly turned things around on the prospect that donald trump was winning. as we get ready to for first of states, we're looking at early trend, that might telegraph how rest of the night will go. here is how we stand with georgia, too close to call. that could be an interesting development in and of itself, its had turned pink over the years, in particular last two, but that is simply too close to call. we'll look into indiana. kentucky, and south carolina. right now again, at this point, a little bit too close for the time being here, indiana we can safely say, at-this-point, that looks like it picked up for donald trump, although at-this-point you don't want to say anything for