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House here. Now, bolton was very vocal about the president s policies specifically related to north korea. Hes concerned about that strategy there. He also according to sources had a phone call with the president about afghanistan, that became heated in that phone call last night. Regardless, bolton is out. The way it played out is kind of like a soap opera here. Now the president tweeting out this, saying i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. I disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration, and therefore, i asked him to resign. Now, minutes later, bolton tweeted a response saying that i offered to resign and the president says lets talk about it tomorrow. But no mention of being fired. Now, bolton was even scheduled to be at a briefing today. Instead, he offered a very frosty and direct resignation letter, just two sentences. Thanking the president. Now, in that briefing today, secretary of state mike pompeo was asked if he was blindsided by all of this. Heres his answer. Im never surprised. [laughter] i dont mean that on just this issue. And i think secretary mnuchin would say the same thing. We work very closely with the president of the United States. I think we have a pretty good understanding of how hes thinking about things. I think you would agree, steven, at nearly all times and so, you know, our mission is not to talk about the inner workings that i know you are so curious about, but rather to talk about the things that matter to American Foreign policy. Most recently bolton was concerned about the taliban coming to camp david for peace talks. The meeting ended up never happening because the president cancelled it when a bomb killed a number of folks including one american. White house doubling down, though, that bolton was actually fired because of his ideology. Okay. White house spokes people said the policies did not line up with what the president s thinking was and the president a sitting president has the right to have the people around him who he wants. Now, the process starts now to try and fix or pick the next National Security advisor. Some early names being mentioned is a special representative for north korea, also brian hook, a policy advisor to pompeo. Hes basically the point person on the iran deal with the maximum pressure on iran. He actually gave a speech last week saying that the u. S. Is going to give a reward for anyone to break down the Financial Network and operations that iran has. Some names being floated early on. Lou, the seat isnt even cold yet. Back to you. Lou no, but the folks who would like to have that post are heating it up to get their names out there. Ed lawrence, thank you very much. Thanks, lou. Lou we will have much more on the story tonight. We will talk with former Trump Administration official Sebastian Gorka, Katie Mcfarland and international aafirs expert kristin whiten. The white house and cia are slamming cnn for falsely reporting that a cia agent was pulled from russia because intelligence officials were concerned that President Trump might somehow compromise the agents identity. Fox chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge has that story tonight from washington. Former cia director now secretary of state mike pompeo unloaded on media reports claiming a cia asset was pulled in part because of the president s actions. The reporting is materially inaccurate. As you know, as a former cia director, i dont talk about things like this very often it is only the occasion when theres something i think puts people at risk or the reporting is so egregious as to create enormous risk to the United States of the america that i comment the way i did. Cnn reported the president s may 2017 disclosure of classified information to the russians about terrorism was a Pivotal Moment that renewed discussion among intelligence officials about the assets risk of exposure. The Oval Office Meeting was described to fox news as quote irrelevant to the cias Decision Making which is a deliberate process that relies on multiple factors to extract an asset. The cia took the unusual step of issuing a public statement, quote, misguided speculation that the president s handling of our nations most sensitive intelligence which he has access to each and every day drove an alleged operation is inaccurate. Pulling an asset is one of the hardest decisions the cia can make. Its based on multiple factors because once the asset is pulled, it cant go back into play and significantly the assets remaining network of contacts could be retaliated against. Theres deep concern on capitol hill that intelligence about russias strategy for 2020 may have been lost in the process. Lou . Lou katherine, thank you very much. Katherine herridge from washington. Also its very clear that fake news may be trying to have a hand in influencing the outcome of the 2020 election, with fake news, an example would be for example cnns report on the exfiltration of an agent that never happened. New Census Bureau data proving the trump economy is working. The poverty rate in the country at the lowest level in nearly two decades. The Median Household Income has hit the high egs ever recorded. Highest ever recorded. In 2018 the National Poverty rate fell to 11 ndt. 8 11. 8 lowest level since 2001. The Median Household Income over 63,000, alltime high. Joining us tonight to assess the path to 2020 rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. Great to have you with us. You know, when we look at these numbers, lets put these numbers up just for the audience to look at, to judge, you know, are you better off today than you were four years ago . Could we have that full screen, please . Im going to beg for it and see if that works. Okay. There it is. All you have to do is beg. Looking at this poverty rates by year, 11. 3, 15. 9, 11. 8, i mean, this is really quite extraordinary to see what we, you know, what has happened under this president since really election day, didnt wait till inauguration day, the impact started with his election, didnt it . Absolutely. And youve seen the Mainstream Media try to undermine this president at every level with the three rs i call them. First it was the russia hoax. Then it was racism, which is just ridiculous with the president passing the first act and the Economic Opportunity zones and the lowest unemployment in the Africanamerican Community and now it is recession. They are trying to drive the narrative that there will be a recession and the economic numbers just prove absolutely that this economy is humming, that this president has made a difference. Wages are up. We have added over 6 million jobs. Over 6 Million People have come off of food stamps. Indicator after indicator we have an economy thats in great shape but the media wants to drive a narrative because they do everything they can to undermine this presidency. Lou and the media well, irrespective of the National Left wing media, special election in north carolina, the ninth district there, a special election, the president and the Vice President had a rally last night for dan bishop, the republican candidate. Its a tight race. Give us a forecast here. Whats going to happen in north carolinas First District tonight . Well, voting is still happening. So if you have a Family Member or youre watching, get out and vote. I hate to say that, lou. I want everybody to watch your show. Keep it on the radio, but go vote. Its tight. Listen, our candidates been outspent tremendously, and its a special election, so it is going to come down to turnout. I will tell you, the president going in last night is going to be the difference maker, if dan bishop wins this race. The president s incredibly popular in this district district. Hes helped raise a lot of funds for dan bishop and that rally last night i think will put him over the edge. We will see. Voting is still happening. Get out and vote. Lou get out and vote. The president slamming the Washington Post abc news poll, saying that the internal polling looks great, and of course, the Washington Post what is it the president calls it . [inaudible] the Washington Post . It is not unusual for them to be finding weakness wherever they survey when it comes to this president. You can manipulate polls to say whatever you want. Whats interesting about this poll is every other poll thats been in the field at this same time frame has the president 4 to 10 points higher than this poll. So i think this poll is absolutely inaccurate. Theyve been inaccurate throughout. And i think its an indicator on a couple fronts. One, we cant believe these polls. We just cant. Its too early. I think people need to put that away. What we need to look at is how is the economy doing . What are things we can factually talk about with this president . Wages up, jobs coming back, good gdp, good retail information coming out of Companies Like walmart. So many good things happening, and that is what people and in my state of michigan and across the country are taking home with them every day, not polls coming out of washington, d. C. Lou heres a poll for you. The leading leftist billionaire in the country, at least activist billionaire, george soros today praising the president s china policies, tariffs, trade and all. Well, thats a miracle. [laughter] but hes right. I mean, listen Chuck Schumer has even praised the president when it comes to china. The president is exactly right in taking on chinas theft of intellectual property. Hes made a hard stand, and he has said were not going to be taken advantage of. Hes protecting the american worker, the manufacturer, and hes protecting our National Security. And we need to stand with imh on this issue. With him on this issue. Lou ronna mcdaniel, as always, great to have you with us. What was it you wanted to tell everybody . To go do something. I cant remember . Get out and vote. North carolina dan bishop and greg murphy, get out and vote for them. Lou you got it. Thank you. Lou thank you very much. More now on john boltons exit as National Security advisor. Our panel of Foreign Policy experts two of them former Trump Administration officials Sebastian Gorka, Katie Mcfarland and International Affairs expert christian whiten, members of two previous administrations. The radical dems in the senate want to nix the president s emergency border wall funding. Why would they do . Lets find out what the administration will do in response. Acting commissioner of customs and Border Protection, mark morgan joins us right after these quick words. Please stay with us. Im sorry . What teach here isnt telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on car insurance. What . Or maybe he didnt know. [ chuckles ] im done with this class. Youre not even enrolled in this class. I know. Im supposed to be in ceramics. Do you know room 303. Oh. Thank you. Yeah. Good luck, everybody. 2,000 fence posts. 900 acres. 48 bales. All before lunch, which we caught last saturday. We earn our scars. We wear our work ethic. We work until the works done. 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A reminder to listen to my reports three times a day, coast to coast on the salem radio network. President trump praising authorities at the u. S. Mexico border for their recent decline in Border Apprehensions. The president tweeting quote incredible progress being made at the southern border. Also posted a graph showing the decline in Border Apprehensions since this years peak back in may. Yet another illegal immigrant has been arrested for sex crimes in the sanctuary county of montgomery maryland, making him the eighth illegal immigrant to be arrested since july 25th on charges of rape and Sexual Assault offenses. The 26yearold from nigeria allegedly raped an intoxicated woman in a car, also charged with sex crimes a year ago but those charges were dropped. Senate dems hoping to force a vote to stop the president s Emergency Declaration to use military funds for the border wall, and minority leader Chuck Schumer today announced the move. The president has clearly attempted to usurp the power of the purse, given exclusively to congress by the constitution, by taking funding from projects weve approved and giving it to projects weve repeatedly declined to approve. This goes to our democracy. This goes to how the Founding Fathers set up that delicate balance. Lou mention about balance the way he was juggling his hands there. The senate voted to end the declaration in march with the help of rinos ultimately failed to overcome the president s veto that seems to be in prospect and there 12 republicans who voted with the democrats in the senate. Joining us tonight acting customs and Border Protection commissioner mark morgan. Great to have you with us, mark. And let me start with eight Illegal Immigrants in a sanctuary county. The story is replicated across the country. Sanctuary cities, sanctuary counties, california you can call safely a sanctuary state. What is is there any sort of response thats effective here on the part of your agency . So the first thing i would say is commissioner of the customs and Border Protection is this is another reason why we need the wall. This isnt a vanity project for the president. This is a tool, a technique that the men and women of the United States Border Patrol have been asking for a long time, and what this should tell the American People, lou, im glad youre bringing this to their attention is this is not just a humanitarian crisis. This is why this is also a National Security crisis because people do not want to have intellectually honest conversations, and if we do, we would acknowledge that look, there are a lot of economic migrants coming here that are good people, but theres also a lot of bad people that are getting in this country because our borders are not secure because Congress Wont do their job and this is just another example that proves this. Lou another report, the u. S. Bureau of prisons reporting that about a third of incarcerated prisoners are from are not born in this country. And the impact on our society is absolutely disproportionate to the number of Illegal Immigrants as well as those who are immigrants, but born elsewhere in our prisons. I mean, this is its straightforward stuff, but it is almost impossible to cut through the noise of the leftwing National Media and of course Chuck Schumer, nancy pelosi, and their conference in both chambers. Lou, heres another element. Heres where the American People should be really concerned. We just had a sheriff this week, a sheriff, a Public Servant get out there and say that he talks about enforcing the law, but an i. C. E. Detainer is not the law. Its just a request. Since when did one Law Enforcement agency not honor the request of another Law Enforcement agency . When you stop doing that, im telling you, this country, every city that thats the attitude, that city is less safe. This is unconscionable of where we have come in this country with cooperating with each other and this crisis. Lou speaking of cooperation, because the president threatened mexico with tariffs, he brought unprecedented cooperation from the government of mexico, but now we hear from the foreign minister of mexico that there is perhaps a limit to their cooperation. They do not want to cooperate on the safe third country policy of the United States. Your outlook . So lou, i think, look, i held a press conference this week about the numbers. Look, it is clear the government of mexico as you just said has stepped up in an unprecedented way, 25,000 troops, under the migrant protection protocol, over 44,000 people that they have agreed that are waiting in mexico as they go through the asylum process in this country. That was in large part the reason why we have seen a 57 reduction in the last 90 days, but as i said, make no mistake, mexico, we need them to do more. Were going to continue to press for them to reach additional agreements, continue to their operation and continue to work with us strategic and targeted enforcement operations, doing a great job, looking as True Partners as a real regional crisis, but we need them to do more and continue to press them to do more. Lou when you say press them to do more, i presume that means the president will reactivate his consideration of tariffs, should they decide to let their responsibilities lapse . So i dont want to speak for the president , but i absolutely believe that is still part of the negotiations. Lou all right. Mark morgan, always good to talk with you. Thank you very much. You bet. Lou former House Speaker and Rino Paul Ryan is slowly sort of milking the establishment into something of a livelihood. Hes now a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise institute. The institute has received major donations from organizations like the u. S. Chamber of commerce, the koch brothers. 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The Justice Department is now reportedly still seeking mccabes text messages, attempting to learn more about the fbi investigation into President Trumps campaign as well as the fbis handling of Hilary Clintons use of a private server. Supreme Court Justice neil gorsuch with a new book out addressing what he calls quote a civility crisis. Gorsuch blames the president and congress for overstepping their bounds and violating the separation of powers laid out in the constitution. Gorsuch might be reminded perhaps of something of a constitutional crisis with one party was trying to sabotage a president ial candidate of the other party and work to spy on a sitting president of the United States. That seems to me to be more than an act of incivility. How about you . Well, our next guest is the Vice President of the Republican National lawyers association, rnc Committee Woman for california, member of the 2020 trump advisory council. Great to have you with us. Ive got to ask you as a fellow lawyer of justice, what do you think of bringing this down to a divided civility between two partisan groups, the republicans and the democrats when one looks to be like a bunch of desperados and lawless renegades trying to overthrow a president . Maybe im just overreacting here. Well, i think so looking at the justices comments, i think he was actually talking about the institution of the presidency and of congress. I think there has been a breakdown of civility there. So with respect to your point, however, in the recent history, definitely been very gross overreach on the part of the legislature and specifically the 2018 congress against the president. And you know, beyond that, there was the presidency of obama spying on the next president , so i dont think this is as clear cut as one would say but theres definitely more than enough partisanship to go around here, thats destructive. Lou i guess im very concerned about that a respected justice of Supreme Court talking about civility. You know, it is almost one of those things where you expect it to be some sort of 18th century, you know, picking up a box, you know, like some sort of british royalty. I mean, this is just nonsense. Right. Lou we have got to have lawyers who Talk Straight and judges as well. John roberts talking about oh my gosh there arent republican judges and there arent democratic judges. The hell there arent. This is pure i agree. Chief Justice Roberts cares a lot about the boxoffice to use a term that the former governor used and less about the law. Was that Ronald Reagan . No schwarzenegger here in california talked about the boxoffice. And many earlier actors too, but the boxoffice is not something the chief justice of the Supreme Court should be worried about too much. As a lawyer, when i was in high school, i will never forget that. Im not a member of the aba as a result of that, so i think Justice Gorsuch would do well to remember when the mudslinging and stone throwing began and it sure wasnt with the republicans. Lou yeah, now, i want to turn another act of incivility and that would be the board of supervisors in San Francisco designating the nra to be a terrorist organization, but meanwhile, embracing antifa. The nra is sued. Your thoughts about their chances of success . I think they have an excellent lawsuit. Its a civil rights lawsuit under the civil rights act. It involves the free speeches right and Association Rights of citizens in San Francisco specifically. The law is such that if you are a member of the nra, you can do not do business as a vendor with the city of San Francisco for starters. Im a life member of the nra. Im a lawyer in San Francisco. The chances of me doing business with the city as a vendor are zero, but i should have that right. I think that they are likely to prevail in court with this lawsuit. Lou and the cia slamming cnns fictional report on an exfiltration of an intelligence asset in moscow, give me your reaction as a republican, as a lawyer. I mean, this is just nuts, what msnbc and cnn and the left wing media are now in some sort of death spiral into utter irrelevance. It is worse than irrelevant. It is destructive and could cost people their lives. Now, you know its bad when you dont even have to go into me being a republican that New York Times and other mainstream publications have contradicted cnns position there. To their credit thats very clear they made it up. Absolutely. New york times which is no friend to the president says theres no evidence to support the cnn story. They should be ashamed, withdraw it and go back to not maybe using obama Administration Officials as their mouthpieces for that fake news, lou. Lou yeah, i think the first thing they should do is try to repair to a higher standard of objectivity as journalists, irrespective of their partisanship, and theyre not going to retract, and theyre not going to correct in any way that report. Are they . No, i dont think you can expect that. And thats what its come to, unfortunately, lou. Lou thanks for being with us. Great to see you. My pleasure. Always. Lou we would like to hear your thoughts on all of this. Share your comments. Follow me on twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook, follow me on instagram at lou dobbs tonight, up next, former Trump Administration officials Sebastian Gorka Katie Mcfarland and christian whiten here next to take up john boll torns exit from the white house today john boltons exit from the white house today. Stay with us. Were coming right back. Cookie cutter portfolios. Fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. Some only call when they have something to sell. 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Lifts all sanctions with iran before a meeting could take place. The u. S. Treasury today issuing new sanctions against terrorist groups and their supporters ahead of the 18th anniversary of september 11th. Under President Trumps modernized counterterrorism executive order, the sanctions will target the finances of 15 leaders associated with hamas, the Islamic State and al qaeda. Joining us tonight senior fellow at the center for National Interests former state Department Senior advisor and both trump and george w. Bush administrations christian whiten. Sebastian gorka, author, former strategist to President Trump. Katie mcfarland former deputy National Security advisor to President Trump. Thank you all for being here. Lets start with john bolton. We have heard the president s viewover the reasons for it. View of the reasons for it. Does any other view matter . No, i dont know what the relationship between the two has been. Lou it was good enough to last a year and a half. Well, precisely, but i do know what the relationship between the National Security advisor and the president is supposed to be like. I have known every National Security advisor and every president going back to nixon and kissinger. It is the president who is in charge. The president has very few options to mold an advisor to his way of thinking. The National Security advisor is one of those few. So it is up to the National Security advisor to figure out what is the boss need. How can i best provide that . Is this a boss who wants to have a white house centered Foreign Policy where hes calling the shots or a boss who wants to make the Big Decisions and let the agencies carry it out. Trump knows what hes doing. He knows what he wants. I think for any National Security advisor, thats how you support the guy. Lou Sebastian Gorka . I consider john bolton to be a friend, huelou. Hes a patriot, served this country on multiple occasions in different posts. I think he went in with the right idea, the first interview he gave on fox within 40 minutes of the president hiring him, he gave the impression of somebody who wanted to be an honest broker. Thats the job of the National Security advisor. I think it was once said at the end of the day, you never forget theres only one guy in the oval office who was elected and only one who is the commanderinchief. Thats the president. You provide him the palate of options and he decides he has final say. It looks as if that didnt work out. John is a powerful character. I think he fell afoul of what hr mcmaster fell afoul, i know because i was in the building when hr, his predecessor, the National Security advisor trying to impose his policies on the president. You dont do that, as National Security advisor and you definitely dont do it with donald j. Trump. Lou christian, your thoughts . Yeah, i think like what it was said about his trajectory. I think when john came in, it was good to have a gunslinger if you will especially when you had a Defense Department that was on a different page than the president. When you had mattis and mcmaster at the white house not successfully imposing the president s will. It made sense for bolton. As time went on, you had bolton against what the president wanted to do which is syria to get out and afghanistan to get out which the American People are behind the president on that. It was the changing role as i think the trajectory of this administration goes on. Lou to christians point, k. T. This is an administration, a president who has said he said on the campaign trail, he wants to bring home our troops. Weve got troops so far flung, ive never been able frankly, i have never had confidence in the answers i get when i asked how many countries we have troops in because the number is north of 100. Oh, sure. Lou that in and of itself is crazy. I know the military loves it. The generals love it. And they love having troops, you know, to whatever order. I mean, were looking at, what, almost 20 years in afghanistan. What in the world have we accomplished, and why arent generals held to a higher standard . I understand their concerns, militarily, strategically, geopolitically, i also cant figure out how it is that we have a two decades of generals who dont know how to win. The thing i loved about donald trump from the very beginning is he understood that for 20 years we have been fighting in wars, propping up dictators who dont even like us in countries that dont matter. He understood right from the beginning that the main game is china. We have been distracted for these 20 years. We have spent trillions, thousands of americans have lost their lives, tens of thousands of them are maimed for life and yet the main strategic problem we have is in asia, and it is china. It is chinas goal to replace the United States as the worlds dominant country economically, politically, militarily, diplomatically, technologically, within a decade, certainly by the 100th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china, and so anybody who distracts donald trump from that mission is doing a disservice to the president and the nation. Lou sebastian, your thoughts on the snide and snarky both National Left wing media and the radical dems themselves who are opposing this president s policies, particularly on china as k. T. Highlights and also not embracing what surely the left in this country should reasonably want to support, and that is bringing our troops home, ending the extraordinary expense. The president understands clearly what we can afford and what we cant and more we cant. K. T. Put it very well. You know it as well, lou. The president s first instinct is always to bring our boys and girls home. He campaigned on the idea that weve had enough stupid wars. Weve wasted trillions of dollars, thousands of americans have been killed. At the end of the day, the thing i loved about donald trump and about working for him in the white house, there were no sacred cows. Again and again and again, we had generals lou who would come into the white house and try and sell a policy and the president would say why are we doing that . Why are we paying for this rocket system for this asian ally that is a very rich nation . And the answer would always be well, mr. President , thats what weve been doing for 20 or 30 years. Thats not a reason. Thats the swamp. And the president cut through all of that, and i think thats why we need somebody who is as pragmatic about National Security as the president is and who breaks china. Thats why we elected him, lou. Thats why donald trump is the 45th commanderinchief. Lou christian, who should be the next National Security advisor to the president , if any one of you after christian answers this have some ideas, please share them with us as were running out of time. Christian . Yeah, its a complete guess. I think general kellogg might be a good option. Hes the Vice President s National Security advisor. Someone the president is clearly comfortable with and again if you move from a gunslinger to someone who is, you know, very capable but someone in whom the president can confide in and not necessarily an opponent or adversary, that might be something. You hear a lot of names out there. People like robert obrien, the president s hostage negotiator, for example. There are a lot of names. But i think going from sort of a flashier model to someone who is more of a smooth operator, going into the reelection makes sense. Lou k. T. . Im not even going to touch that with a ten foot pole. [laughter] lou i think that means k. T. May have worked with some of these aforementioned names . [laughter] lou and is demuring . Sebastian the field is yours. I have to say christian is a friend but i have to push back, no, not general kellogg. We can discuss why not general kellogg. I immediately tweeted out when i heard the news, lets go back to the nixon era. Lets do what we did with kissinger. Im not a fan of kissinger but the idea you can have a secretary of state also the National Security advisor is very very smart because it gets rid of a lot of duplication. I want to see mike pompeo as nsa and secretary of state, lou. Lou i think thats an interesting idea, and, you know, you know, im just trying to figure out how much time there is in a day for any person no matter how talented. Christian whiton, Sebastian Gorka, k. T. Mcfarland, thanks for being with us. We will be right back. Thanks, lou. Nice. But, uh. Whats up with your. Partner . Not again. Limu thats your reflection. Only pay for what you need. 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Morgan, great to have you with us, and because you are as we used to say in texas, a wiley and clever fellow [laughter] lou i was reading about george soros today, praising the president for his position on china. Yeah. Lou and all sorts of alarm bells are going off in my mind that sometimes its more than skeptical occasionally even cynical. What happened when you read it . Look, i mean, first thing that struck my mind was politics and business apparently make strange bedfellows. I mean it is in soros interest i think to have to make sure china doesnt get into certain markets. Im sure hes making some economic bets. I dont think its out of an overwhelming sense of patriotism because we are talking about george soros. If you look at the business of both soros and trump, they both get the markets. They both understand what needs to be done. They have Different Reasons for doing what they do. I think hes spot on with some of the stuff. Im glad to see hes supporting President Trump on this. Because in your last segment when you were talking especially with k. T. Mcfarland, china is the threat. We cant take our eye off the ball. Every time we do that, we lose time, money, intellectual property and with wars we lose lives. We cant afford to do that anymore. Lou correct on all counts. And lets look at that headline today because this fascinates me. Soros, if we can put this up, will trump sell out the u. S. On huawei . And its an interesting headline since the effect of the article itself in the journal is to really compliment the president on his strength and his vision and understanding of the global challenges this nation faces and particularly in balanced trade, in Free Enterprise markets and certainly against espionage thats pillaging this country as we document here it seems almost every night, every week at least, to the tunes of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and the trade deficits. Look, soros was right about another thing too. He said look if you dont keep china boxed in and check them, they will expand their social Credit System. Can you imagine what societies would be like when youre under this constant surveillance. They have already exported it via zte another Chinese Company down to venezuela where they are implementing the social Credit System down there. I mean, we cannot allow a nation like this with the kind of values it has to be able to expand. You are right lou, 600 billion dollars a year in intellectual property theft, that robs americans of jobs. It robs americans of opportunities. They are trying to steal a lot of the technologies as it relates to 5g because they know that will be the network of networks. Everybody will want to go to those things. It is going to be, you know, it is going to be the centerpiece of our new technologies. Quantum computing, artificial intelligence, i mean the list it is not just about 5g. It is about all of these things and President Trump gets that. Hes trying to put policies in place to address it all. Lou and this president has as you put it hes gotten it for a very long time. Morgan wright, good to see you. Thank you, lou. Lou up next, my thoughts on the gap between President Trumps historic accomplishments as president and how he is being portrayed by the fictional leftist media, that is, leftist media that, well, trades in fiction and the party of hate. Thats right after these quick messages. Stay with us. Wo 24 hour nondrowsy allergy relief fun fact 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. And most of that debt is actually from credit cards. Its just not right. But with sofi, you can get your credit cards right by consolidating your Credit Card Debt into one monthly payment. You can get your Interest Rate right by locking in a fixed low rate today. And you can get your money right. With sofi. Check your rate in 2 minutes or less. 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Com saves you time and money. Make it simple. Make it ship sticks. Shipsticks. Com saves you time and money. Award winning interface. Award winning design. Award winning engine. The volvo xc90. Our most awarded luxury suv. Lou there is a widening differential between the america described by the National Left wing america and the america and the world in which we actually live. And a commensurate gap between President Trumps accomplishments and the caricature drawn by the leftist media and the radical dimms who viciously attack mr. Trump to not only block his agenda, slow his achievements, somehow no matter how vicious or craven the means prevent his election in 2020. He has successfully maneuvered the chinese into a new reality. Iran understands the economic power of this country, understands because of President Trump they dont want to ever test our military power. Afghanistan, north korea and a worldwide deployment of our troops are the legacy of a decade of american arrogance and the inertia of bureaucracies that inhabited and controlled our state department for years. The viciousist leaders who did the same. John bolton served this president well, and we thank him for his service. Now a new National Security advisor will be chosen by the president and he or she will execute the president s strategies and vision we hope with the same commitment and success as did john bolton, a great american. Ill be in washington, d. C. Tomorrow. Joining us the brazilian foreign minister and jim jordan and mark meadows. Trish the liberal media putting lives at risk in an attempt to take down the president. They said the cia had to extricate a spy because of President Trump. They put the life of a former sky and asset to the United States and others at risk. A former cia covert officer is joining us with exclusive new intel on this developing story. John bolton, the president s National Security advisor is out of a job. The president s cabinet backing