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Disputing a New York Times report in early february 2017 claiming russian intelligence did have connections to the trump team when behind the scenes the fbi was saying it, quote, had no reliable evidence of that whatsoever, no proof of that whatsoever. So who was leaking that to destroy trump . Why was the Mueller Probe launched . And why did democrats like adam schiff and the media say on tv for more than two years things like trump is a russian asset when they did not have that evidence whatsoever . Now this, u. S. Cities now bracing for President Trumps decision next week to potentially send in federal Law Enforcement to stop the rise in shootings and homicides. Tonight, former nypd lieutenant darren forcher is here to talk with us about leaders pushing back trying to shift the blame on everything but themselves and their own wad policies x. Washington times charles hurt on the chicago mayor calling Kayleigh Mcenany a, quote, karen, for saying chicago needs to do more to stop homicides that are killing children. And National Security adviser kt mcfarland on tim kaine now admitting obama did not do enough to punish russia for election interference and that trump did. The hills joe concha joins us on republican senator kennedy blasting the media for blaming trump for just about everything but not reporting on this. Churches and religious statues getting attacked across the u. S. , burned, vandalized, and you will not believe the latest deprafty. Im elizabeth macdonald, the evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth youre watching the fox business network. Lets get right to fox news Leland Vittert who has all the latest from washington d. C. Leland . Reporter talking about that release from Lindsey Graham of these documents, it came through the attorney general, the jewish Judiciary Committee s right to the heart of the accusation that the fbi massage ed information, Lindsey Graham saying these documents which i have long sought tell a damning story for anyone whos interested in trying to find the truth behind the corrupt nature of the fbis investigation into the Trump Campaign in 2016 and beyond. Of course, were still waiting for the results from the report of the durham investigation, but graham made the point that these documents on their own will allow the public to put another piece of the puzzle together of what the fbi and its officials knew and when they knew it. This comes, of course, as capitol hill is now trying to reach bipartisan agreement on a new coronavirus stimulus bailout program. Potentially spending another 1 trillion dollars. So far there are three vaccine candidates in phase three trials. But even in phase three trials it means it could be months until there is an approved vaccine. The bad news is there are new reports that russia is trying to hack some of the information from this vaccine effort including exactly how this vaccine would work and the Technical Details for the purpose of enriching the russian vaccine effort. Take a listen. We shouldnt be surprised, this is putin, the thug, whos fundamentally underhanded in just about everything that he does. You know, his country fractured by covid because they have such a poor infrastructure and hospital system. And here we are as opposed to trying to Work Together to develop a a vaccine with other countries in the world, hes trying to steal it. Reporter reporting, as you know, that the chinese also have attempted to use intellectual espionage and industrial espionage to try to gain the upper hand on a vaccine for them, for themselves. Elizabeth leland, thank you for your reporting there. Okay, as leland was just reporting, were going to dig into this. Weve been reading the documents all day. Senate judiciary chair lindsay e graham releasing two documents that the Justice Department declassified. They significantly undercut the f,fbis trumprussia probe. Congressman lee zeldin, your reaction to this development. Its great to see the senate chairs taking action. I think that much of the American Public has been demanding this kind of accountability and transparency for a long time. And as weve seen with on the house side where adam schiff and jerry nadler will be using or their gavels to try to remove a sitting president , lets get the other 97 of the story by having these senators with gavels elizabeth yeah. Dig into these cases. Elizabeth all right. Lets go through it. The first document, its about a 40page fbi interview with Christopher Steeles primary source. It took place at the fbi in january 2017. Shows that steeles own source who was on steeles own payroll, he was not russian. He was getting paid by Christopher Steele. Senator graham says this person, quote, destroyed steeles information, undercut his dossier that it was a miscarriage of justice. Let me quickly go through what this source was telling the fbi. This source told the fbi he was surprised that steele gave the fbi thirdhand and secondhand rumor and made like it was fact. And then the fbi used that information to get wiretaps. This person was not russian, again, steele was paying the source. And the source could not recall how steele got the information that he put into his dossier that the fbi used to wiretap the trump team. So this, steeles own source is undercutting to the fbi what steele was saying. Your reaction . The reaction is that when they were going for renewals on these fisa applications, they should have hit the pause button, they should have stopped. We could have a whole discussion as to the to whether or not they should been able to get the fisa warrants in the first place against carter page. But as they continued to see the narrative get destroyed, the decision should be made through proper vet aring, theres something called the woods procedures. Its also important to be providing the fisa judges not just with the best information in favor of your application, but also the best information that you have against your application because the person whos getting spied on isnt otherwise represented inside of that courtroom. So whats being exposed through todays release of information aside from that debate over whether there should have been a warrant in the first place is these third and fourth renewals should have absolutely never gone forward with what the doj and fbi knew. Elizabeth so, again, you remember the fbi was still doing surveillance on the Trump Team Going into 2017 when the president after the president took office. Heres the second declassified document. Its a bombshell. It shows former fbi official peter strzok disagreeing with a New York Times article in february 2017. The times was reporting that russian intelligencing did have tyings to the ties to the trump team, but peter strzok typed, quote we have not seen ed of that, we are unaware of any trump advisers engaging with russian intelligence. But they told the fisa court it believed the trump team was working with russian members. And who was leaking to the media that trump that the russian intelligence was working with the trump team . Who was leaking that . So well, first off on the first question, if there absolutely have been false statements, hopefully this is part of durhams investigation and durham takes action sooner rather than later. This is not something that should just get punted past the november election. We want accountability right now. As far as the leaks go, remember, part of this was work to straited directly from the fbi director james comey. There was this desire to trigger a Second Special counsel. The whole Mueller Probe was a consequence of fbi director mueller leaking through this professor in new york to the media some information and some of which was actually classified. Thats a scandal in and of itself. This is a criminal offense when you leak classified information. Clearly there was a huge abuse of power that was going on. Durham needs to take action. Elizabeth yeah. So all of what we were just talking about, congressman, happened way before the mueller, Robert Mueller was appointed, and the fbi knew by the time that he was ace pointed they didnt have the evidence of trumprussia collusion. Thats what happened. Congressman, great to see youful thanks for joining us. Always good to see you. Elizabeth okay. Heres your feelgood moment for the week. This week marks the 51st anniversary of an epic event, it captured the imagination of people young and old around the world. 51 years ago july 16, 1969, the apollo e 31 astronauts 11 astronauts buzz aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins headed right to the moon. 650 Million People watched around the world as Neil Armstrong took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Again, thats your feelgood moment for the week. Okay, coming up, another chaos you can night, this time with protests and riots in portland, oregon. Threats to burn down a Police Station there. The president may potentially announce next week a new plan to send in federal authorities to stop the riots and shootings, stop the chaos, stop the homicides. Democrat leaders are now trying to shift the blame for the nationwide wave of violence on everything but themselves. Former new York City Police lieutenant joins us next. Given my unique lifestyle, thatd be perfect let me grab a pen and some paper. Know what . Im gonna switch now. Just need my desk. My chair. And my phone. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Elizabeth welcome back. The chaos in portland, oregon, hundreds of protesters surrounded a Police Precinct there yesterday, threatening to set it on fire. This as u. S. Cities now brace for President Trump, he potentially is deciding next week to send in federal Law Enforcement to stop the rising crime wave of violence and homicides. Not clear if its federal Law Enforcement, it could be other federal authorities as well. Okay, the president sickled out singled out cities like chicago, and los angeles. He says these are places where democrats is have, quote, lost control. Businesses are being destroyed by minority communities or seeing their loved ones slaughtered. Lets bring in former nypd Police Lieutenant carole forcher. We have to look at the disease. The disease is gun violence thats plaguing these communities. Therefore, we need the cure, and the cure is Law Enforcement. President trump is at the forefront. Hes at the head of the executive branch of government. Therefore, he can deploy people such as the atf to eradicate this gun violence thats plague these communities that are primarily being control by democratic elected officials. Elizabeth you know, sir, protesters and rioters in portland, oregon, claim federal authorities are using unmarked vans, white vans, to seize them and put them in those vans to talk them off the streets. Your reaction to that . Well, my take on it is we need to do whats necessary to take back control of our country. We are under siege right now in the wake of tremendous violence thats plaguing our nation. So as a result of that, we need targeted enforcement in the communities where we have the greatest propensity for violation. Therefore, we need to violence. Therefore, we need to utilize any resource possible provided it falls within the purview of ones constitutionallyprotected rights to take back our country because were losing out. Its going to hell in a hand bath basket at a record pace basket. Elizabeth in new york a man was accused of punching chief terence monaghan, attacking two other cops at a peace protest led by religious and faith leaders on the Brooklyn Bridge. But this man was released without bail and now id like you to listen to chief monaghan and what hes saying about his police officers. Lets take a listen. Understand that right now morales probably as lower as its been in a long time. It is important that we as an agency tell them how much we appreciate them, how much we know theyre out there, the trouble that theyre dealing with on the street. But more importantly, the silent majority out there, the community that is out there that supports our police officers, that knows the job they do. They know the time they ran into a burning building to save a life. They know the times that they saved the life of a choking baby, of a cardiac victim, how often theyve run in to gunfire to save people. These are the men and women that the youre hearing others put down on a regular basis. These are the heroes of 9 11. Elizabeth your reaction to that, lieutenant. Well, elizabeth, i was actually on that a bridge during that peaceful protest. We had Police Sympathizers coupled with clergy members, and we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge in the name of peace. We were looking for an eradication of gun violence thats plaguing the city of new york, and we were demanding the mayor to take a look at the level of accountability. Subsequently, had an individual that injured the highest Ranking Member of nypd which was chief monaghan. That individual was subsequently released as it relates to bail reform. This is an atrocity. This is an attack on all 8. 5 million citizens that live in the city of new york. If the chief of police can be a assaulted and that same individual is released, what are we doing here . We are in no way, shape or form providing a level of Law Enforcement to systems in new york. So in connection with the morale in the police department, its at an alltime low. And this is primarily coming from mayor de blasios inability to act in accordance with Public Safety for citizens of new york. Elizabeth sir, lets listen to mayor de blasio here. He is being accused of blaming everything except himself. We know that, you know, shootings and killings have have spiraled out of control. 270 people shot, thats 155 increase from a year earlier, thats in june. Skulls on the same track. Lets julys on the same track. Watch this. Its heartbreaking for so many reasons. And it begins with the fact that there are just so many guns out there. We need to have our criminal Justice System function again. We cannot keep this city safe if we dont have a functioning court system. We now have fewer people in our jails than any time since world war ii. [applause] and we are safer for it and better for it. Elizabeth so you see what just happened . Hes saying we dont is have a functioning court system but then is applauding that we have less people in prison. You know, prosecutors are not prosecuting people for illegally possessing guns in new york city. Thats whats going on. Can you take this on, what the mayor just said . Mayor de blasios created an ecosystem of anarchy that is plaguing our city. We need Law Enforcement practitioners and not the policymakers from city hall to take effect and effectively rein in the lines of control for us new yorkers. And its just not happening as a result of the failed policies that are committed to by mayor de blasio. Elizabeth lieutenant porcher, come back soon. Thanks again, elizabeth. Elizabeth sure. And dont miss our interview with ed mullins, hes the head of the new york sergeants benevolence association. He is saying mayor de blasio is a disgray, the mayors going after him saying hes fomenting hatred. Its a big fight. Okay, were going to take on that story monday night with ed mullins. Coming up, former acting attorney general matthew wit when kerr whiterark e. Susan rice has been accused of unmasking trump team officials. We take that on next. An extra 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies . Wow. Ok thats 15 on top of what geico could already save you. So what are you waiting for . Idina menzel to sing your own theme song . Tara, tara, look at her go with a fresh cup of joe. Gettin down to work early following her dreams into taxidermy oh, its. Tax attorney. I read that wrong, oh yeeaaaah geico. Save an extra 15 percent when you switch by october 7th. Give it up for tara and a high risk for fracture, osteoporosis when you switch by october 7th. 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Susan rice said this week President Trump is wrong when he accuses the Obama Administration of doing surveillance on his transition team. Watch this. Absolutely no, it did not happen. That is false. That is another lie designed to deflect from the president s own very bizarre relationship with russia. To distract from the muchvalidated reality that russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit donald trump. And, you know, President Trump is in some sort of fever dream about the Obama Administration when all we tried to do was to execute despite the Trump Administration, incoming administrations rehe can dance to most reluctance the most responsible transition we possibly could. Elizabeth okay. All right. So this echoes what susan rice toll Judy Woodruff in early 2017 that, quote i know nothing about the identities of trump team members being revealed. Susan rice has been accused of unmasking trump team members. Lets welcome former acting attorney general matthew whitaker. Sir, what was your reaction when you heard all that . Well, its a little i mean, it appears that susan rice is auditioning to be joe bidens Vice President candidate, and, you know, she has a problem with ve erasty. She, obviously, is the one that went on National Television and said that benghazi was caused by a youtube video, and i think, you know, this is just this isnt true. You can look the underlying facts, liz, are very clear. Not only was carter page spied on, but these unmasks were unmasking people that were part of recordings or intercepts of u. S. Persons. And so, you know, bill barr said very clearly in front of congress the Trump Campaign was spied on. So i believe bill barr more than im ever going to believe susan rice and what shes saying there. Elizabeth yeah. Sir, lets listen to former director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell talk with us last night about how the Obama Administration also ignored warnings from career veterans, top officials in the Intelligence Community who were warning that the Obama Administration and the fbi was going after trump, the trumprussia collusion theory e based on false information. Listen to them and remember susan rice said all of this, what they were doing, was above board. Watch this. And the whole steele dossier, russian collusion narrative, he knew that there were voices inside the Intelligence Community, career officials that were raising red flags and saying i think russia is pushing propaganda here. This doesnt make sense. This doesnt add up. The steele dossier is not what youre saying that it is. Those early red flags were ignored, and those individuals within the Intelligence Community that raised those red flags were, their comments were classified and pushed away. There are elizabeth okay. He also said that career veteran intelligence officials at, quote, multiple agencies warned the Obama Administration, hey, there are a lot of red flags. This trumprussia theory is information thats false and wrong. What do you say to that . Well, ambassador yes grenell is absolutely correct x. Even more tragic is that the Obama Administration in the 2016 election did nothing to counter these attempts by russia to interfere. And its really a shame that not only did they not do anything to counter it, unlike what we did in 2018 for the election and countering what our adversaries were trying to do to the election, but the Obama Administration also then continued this false trump collusion fable really for years that ended up being the mueller investigation. So i think ambassador grenells absolutely right. I think, you know, his stint as acting odni head, i think, has given him access to a lot of this information, and its just a shame what the Obama Administration did and now theyre trying to tell us that it didnt happen when we all know it did. Elizabeth mr. Whitaker, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Always enjoy being with you, liz. Thank you. Elizabeth same here. Coming up, columnist and editor charles hurt on the democrat mayor of chicago really going after White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany, calling her a, quote, karen for saying chicago needs to do more to stop homicides that are claiming the lyes of even children and lives of even children and teenagers. That story next. Looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. Theyre going to be paying for this for a long time. They will, but with accident forgiveness allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident, even if its your fault. Cut sonny. Was that good . 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She didnt like that. What was your take . Well, honestly, i dont know what you would call it. The streets of chicago have turned into a complete war zone under this mayor and have been under numerous previous mayors who would rather play politics with these things than actually fix the problem right there at their feet. But look, you know, in less than a month, liz, weve had nine children under the age of 18 killed by gunfire in chicago. Weve had 3yearolds, we had a 7yearold, a 20monthold riding in a car seat killed by gunfire in chicago. And if thats not a dereliction of duty by the mayor, i dont know what it is. But i think its very, out reveals a lot about that mayor that her response to Kayleigh Mcenany is to resort to racial epithets. And, of course, if this were the other way around, Kayleigh Mcenany would be, rightly, drummed out of the Public Square for launching a racial broadside. Yet the mayor of chicago liz its more of a gender epithet, right . No, its not just a [inaudible conversations] you know, it is a gender thing, but it is also talking about a white pensioner a white woman white person, a white woman. And that gets in the area of race. If were going to take this seriously, as we all should, that these kinds of raciallydivisive language not good in this country, then it should i apply to the mayor of chicago just as much as it applies to everybody else. Elizabeth okay. Yeah, i hear what youre well, the mayor, mayor lightfoot, i have more on what has been said. The mayor, lightfoot had previously went after donald President Trump. President trump was talking about looting, and mayor lightfoot said i will code what i really want to say to President Trump, its two words. It begins with f and ends with u. Lets listen to this fight that the chicago mayor had with an alternate for the south side of alderman for the south side of chicago. These guys, elected officials, charles, are really fed up with the out of control violence, as you point out. Lets are listen to this fight. Once theyre done looting and rioting and whatevers going to happen tonight, god help us. What happens when they start going after residents . Going into the neighborhoods . Once they start trying to break down peoples doors because they think theyve got something in you know, we know that people are here to antagonize and incite, and i youve got them all pumped tonight, today. Theyre not going to go to bed at 8 00. Theyre going to turn their focus in the neighborhoods. Ive got gangbangers with ak47 Walking Around right now just waiting to settle some scores. What are we going to do youre 100 full of [bleep], is what i think. If you think elizabeth okay. Thats not unity. Okay, thats a mayor going after an alderman whos saying, you know, by the way, charles, the rye e yachts destroyed a walgreens, numerous restaurants, numerous drugstores, businesses, an entire strip mall, a local post office where the residents of his community were without the mail. They couldnt go mail an envelope or mail a check to somebody or a card. Thats how bad its gotten. And i hear the frustration in that voice. And i hear your frustration because youve been reporting on this and talking about this for some time. I mean, how do you stop it . Should the president send in authorities next week . What do you think . Well, and, of course, not a sickle bit of this is single bit of this is doing anything to solve the real problem that we have in places like chicago where its an absolute war zone in the streets. And if these politicians, in particular the democrat politicians, if they care about this issue and they should, as we all do, we all care a lot about this, they would go into these places, they would stop the violence, and they would stop the mayhem that is occurring in these places. Elizabeth all right. Charles hurt, thanks for joining us. Great to see you. Elizabeth coming up, kt mcfarland joins us on how even Hillary Clintons former running mate democrat tim kaine now saying the Obama Administration did not do enough to punish russia for election meddling and that the president did. Stick around. Kts fired up, shes ready to go to set the record straight on this. Thats next. Because our way works great for us but not for your clients. Thats why were a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. So, what do you provide . Cookie cutter portfolios . Nope. We tailor portfolios to our clients needs. But you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right . We dont have those. 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Im worried about how you will personally respond to this crisis. And even if you dont panic, you may. Elizabeth welcome back. Democrat tim kaine k Hillary Clintons choice for Vice President , this week told msnbc when you detect an incoming attack like russian interference, you have to take affirmative tens to make that attacker pay e a price, but then he undercut the media narrative that trump has been weak on russia. He now admits the Obama Administration did not do enough to go after russia for election interference and that the trump team did more than obamas team. Watch this. The Obama Administration didnt do that in 2016 even though they were aware of the attack. They didnt make russia pay a price. We did make russia pay a price in 2018, and that has a way of deterring attacks right. To some degree. Elizabeth so obama and his team just go after trump instead of russia . [laughter] lets ask former deputy National Security adviser, kt mcfarland. When you heard that, what was your reaction . Good for him. I mean, good for senator cain, to admit the obvious and to be truth about it. And i was actually really i was surprised and i was very impressed. That took some real guts for a democrat who has been a Vice President ial candidate to come out and say, you know, the republicans did it better than we did. And hes absolutely right. You know, the thing about President Trump, listen to what he says, he says a lot of stuff, liz. He tweets a lot of stuff. Watch what he does because what he does is, in fact, very significant. He stood up to russia, he stood up to china. But with russia he increased American Military spending and fixed our armed forces, he encouraged American Energy independence and drove the price of oil down which bankrupted russia. He gave lethal weapons to the ukrainians. All these things were stuff that obama didnt do. And then in 2018 as a deterrent, as senator kaine said, we he had a cyber attack on the russian unit that did meddle in the 2016 election, and he said in 2018 done you dare do it again dont you dare do it again or were going come after you. And just to let the russians know we were serious, he did launch a cyber attack on them. A lot all of those things are tougher than anything president obama ever did. Elizabeth you know, people are saying the president s tweets are polarizing, they dont like the personal attacks, they wish theyd stop tweeting. People are saying instead look at what hes getting done. Hes getting stuff done. Hes acting. Hes doing a lot more than people realize. Kt, we found dozens and dozens and dozens of actions the Trump Administration took to go after russia starting in 2017. And, you know, Hillary Clinton repeatedly e cited russian interference as one of the reasons for her defeat, but trump did more, you know, going after what hillary says was wrong than obama did. And the media and adam schiff says donald trump is a russian asset still. Yeah. And what the democrats have done and somebody particularly like chairman schiff and the Mainstream Media went right along i mean, they were the enablers. They knew there was nothing to the russia collusion story. It was a hoax from the very beginning. They didnt care. They just wanted yet another club to beat over the head of donald trump. And i think that what theyve done to the nation for their own petty, partisan political purposes has been, its been a real crime for the nation. Because they set up they had us at each others throat before the pandemic, and now the lockdown and the economic dislocation and the social unare rest, we were unrest, we were a tinderbox ready for a match to be thrown into it. And i put that right at the feet of the democrats who encouraged this all the way along. And the one exception to this seems to be senator kaine. Good man. Elizabeth kt, what was your reaction to the bombshell disclosure today out of the Justice Department and Senate Judiciary showing newlydeclassified documents revealing that the, you know, that the source for Christopher Steele was on his payroll, was a nonrussian source and said why is the fbi effectively relying on this information to wiretap the trump team because hes saying this is second and thirdhand rumor . He was spaced to even see it going surprised to even see it, and peter strzok disputing a New York Times story in 2017 saying russian intelligence has connections with the trump team. Peter strzok was saying thats not so, we dont have evidence of that. You know, thats the other thing. Some of the senior officials in the bole administration, especially in the Intelligence Community, they were going up to capitol hill and under oath in closed hearings they were saying, look, we dont see anything there, no collusion, no russian cooperation with the Trump Campaign. And yet they were scampering out immediately afterwards to the cameras to say, oh, donald trump would never have won without russian interference. And what i think is happening, almost always happens with you on friday night is that theres a new document dump, new documents that are declassified. And it turns out that all those officials on the Obama Administration, they sent emails, they kept notes, they sent text messages. So i think theres a lot more information that you cant dispute. This is not Anonymous Sources coming from the netherworld. This is actual documentation that these guys were up to serious no good, that they were really trying to undo the effect of the election in 2016 because they didnt like President Trump. Elizabeth kt mcfarland, always great it to see you. Come back soon. Shall do. Elizabeth okay, good. Coming up, it is a big battle between faith and hatred. An Alarming Number of hate crimes now being targeted at churches, Christian Churches and religious statues, churches being burped to the ground, other burned to the ground, others december desecrated with desecrated with graffiti. And the latest depravity. Were going to talk to hills joe concha on complaints that the media is not covering the story enough. Stick right there. What do you think . I dont see it. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Can it help keep us asleep . Smart bed is on sale now. Absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable save 25 on the sleep number 360 c4 smart bed with any Smart Adjustable base. Plus 0 interest for 24 months. Ends monday. My money should work as hard as i do. Thats why i use my freedom unlimited card every time i get gas. Give me a little slack with freedom unlimited, youre always earning. I said i need some slack on pump three 49i found you good job. Now im gonna stay here and you go hide. Watch your favorites from anywhere in the house with the Xfinity Stream app. Free with your xfinity service. Now any room can be a tv room. Stream live tv, on demand shows and movies even your dvr recordings. Download the Xfinity Stream app today to stream the entertainment you love. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Elizabeth its probably an understatement to say republican senator kennedy e is fed up, hes done with the media telling everyone else how to think. Like the media a criticism that conservative outlets are now pointing out against President Trump, media saying President Trump is at war with just about everything. Watch this. Welcome to the latest episode of trumps war on intelligence. Trump administrations war on immigrants has been waged so far on two fronts. Trump day after a day waging a war on reality. The man routinely at war with the truth. The Trump Administrations war on immigrants has been waged so far on two fronts donald trump delivered a declaration of war against americans today. Not so clearly donald question owe today over here is in a war with windmills. Elizabeth okay. Watch senator kennedy last night with fox news Shannon Bream on a New York Times columnist suggesting the only hope for the country is to kick President Trump out of the white house. Watch this. The author goes on to say my words, not his that the American People are so moronicking that they cant fix the country. And so the answer is to turn america over to the managerial elites, and by that i mean the cultured, cosmopolitan, baconwrapped shrimp and tuna tartare crowd who think theyre smarter than the American People. In my opinion, if you believe this article, you are probably that kid at grade school who always ate the paste. [laughter] elizabeth okay. Lets welcome the hill media reporter back to the show, joe concha. Joe, take this on. What was your reaction when you heard all this . That baconwrap with the tartare sounds good. Im grabbing one of those. Look, lots to unpack here, right . I love the fact that it e seems like theres a memo e that goes out where you have the trump has a war on x and then not just one outlet repeats it, but you see it across the board in a given day. Remember that walls closing in was a big deal, we always heard that about the president. Wed always hear the beginning of the end or its a watershed moment. No one can find any other sayings or add jekyll tiffs to apply to this president. Look, i think its pretty obvious to everybody that the medias overwhelmingly antitrump, and its not even about bias anymore. Were well past that. Were now on to activism and journalists existing to push a cause for what they believe in their truth is the greater good when thats just an opinion and thats ooh just their perspective, and its not what journalism used to be which is reporting on facts. I remember Chris Wallace did an interview and he said, you know, i get complimented for being fair. He said, you know, that used to be the minimum job requirement in this business elizabeth right, exactly. And now its suddenly an anomaly. Elizabeth right. You know, the other thing too, you know, the criticism now is, joe, that the medias not reporting on the attacks on churches and religious statues. A statue of jesus christ has been decapitated inside a church outside miami, florida. Also a Chattanooga Police department probing the recent decapitation of a statue of the virgin mary. Statues vandalized in queens in new york city and also set on fire outside boston, massachusetts. Weve got, you know, catholics in Boston Holding a prayer vigil at that mary chew that was set on fire statue that was set on fire. Wheres the media reporting this, . Well, the Media Research center did 270 minutes of nbc, abc, cbs nightly News Coverage when all three statues began being attacked. Guess how many minutes or guess how many seconds it got on the evening newscast over that 270minute period . 0, none. I ask what if a mosque was attacked or what about a black lives mural . Oh, thats right. That happened in new york twice including this afternoon, and its been nonstop coverage from what ive seen in terms of you go after those things, that gets the medias attention. If you go after things that are from the Catholic Institution for whatever reason, its the sigh e lens of the lambs, elizabeth. Elizabeth well, its terrible. And, you know, people feel this is a level of depravity they didnt expect in this country. Final word, joe. Well, look, the bottom line is that this started with confederate statues and everybody said its going to top at that. Now you see the slippery e slope. Everything is in play. Nothing is safe, and none of these mayors in these cities or governors are doing anything about it, and thats why elizabeth okay. Joe, we okay. We gotta go. Thanks for joining us. Youve been watching the evening edit. We hope you have a good weekend, come back on monday. Good to see you, thanks for joining us. Lou dobbs tonight starts now. Lou good evening, everybody. Law enforcement in the city of portland is bracing once again for another night of anarchy. Police in the city arrested 20 people overnight after hundreds of violent, leftwing activists took to the streets as they have for the past six weeks. The mob surrounding a Police Precinct. They blocked traffic, they chanted threats to burn down the building. Several dozen people also gathered near the federal courthouse in portland. Mob thugs assaulted federal officers. They took lasers and frozen Water Bottles and threw them. They attempted to tear down, we are told