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FBC Lou Dobbs Tonight June 22, 2024

Polls, and hes heading next to New Hampshire, working to turn those poll numbers into votes. Donald trump, our special guest this evening. He joins us in moments. Weve got a lot to talk about. Conservative commentator and bestselling author ann coulter joins us as well. Well be talking about the 2016 president ial race, her thoughts on Hillary Clinton, clintons fate and my interview with donald trump. We take up all the issues, and tonight the top brass at the epa is finally headed to the scene of an environmental disaster that the epa created. It took Gina Mccarthy a week to act. The epa says its unsure what happened exactly or how to fix it. And tom brady facing off against Roger Goodell and federal court. It turns out the judge likes facts. Precise language and reason. Did the judge just tilt the case toward brady . Well find out. Our top story tonight, new calls in congress for a full criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton and her email server. Powerful House Judiciary Committee member darrell issa saying the only way forward is a criminal investigation. The fbi now has her server and three thumb drives containing tens of thousands of emails, some of which it turns out are top secret. The Inspector General for the Intelligence Community has also asked the state department to turn over those 30,000 emails so it can conduct an independent review of their content. The state department is refusing to cooperate with the request. It says it needs more time to go through the emails. A state Department Spokesman today defended their actions and the clintons. Where were at in this right now, this process, were working with the direct offer National Intelligence to resolve whether, in fact this material is actually classified. Its also important to emphasize that these emails were not marked as classified at the time they were sent. Lou that remains very much in dispute. Sources tell fox news that the director of National Intelligence, james clapper, is so concerned about the state departments refusal to turn over those emails, its continued stonewalling that hes ready to personally step in if the stonewalling goes on. My first guest is leading the polls out of iowa and New Hampshire. Joining us on the phone, donald trump, the billionaire real estate mogul, republican president ial candidate and the frontrunner in the 2016 race. Donald, good to have you with us. Lets turn first to the polls. These polls showing you in the lead but weakening somewhat. Your reaction to them . Well, i think theyre really good. I wasnt leading in iowa a month ago, and now im leading, and that was an honor because ive gotten actually up in iowa. I was at 10 and now at 17. And in New Hampshire doing great from day one. Weve been doing great there. Theres some people that are sort of coming up a little bit behind, but i think the relationship i have in iowa, New Hampshire, south carolina, even nationwide, i mean the nationwide polls have been incredible. Were very happy and your friendly competitor, cnn, the place you know very well came out with one today where i was at 22 in iowa and leading by a very wide margin. Im honored by the polls, lou, i must tell you. Lou i think you have actually shown a lot of skeptics exactly who you are and what youre capable of. I also want to turn to a number of policy statements youve made, and as of today, china with its second devaluation in two days, you said that the actions of china and the peoples bank of china here are devastating american workers. Expand on that thought, if you would . Well, the currency devaluation that chinas been playing this game for a long time, and weve never had a president or politician or group understand thats what theyre doing. Theyre brilliant people that know there has never been, and you know this very well from years of covering this kind of stuff, theres never been anybody that devalued better than china. What theyre doing, theyre a major abuser of this country. What theyve done is the biggest devaluation theyve had in two decades, which is hard to believe. Theyre doing it because they feel obama is not watching the ship, incompetent, for whatever reason they did it. And people were shocked at the size of it. What it means theyre going to take more jobs and more money out of United States, its as simple as that. Its impossible for the United States companies, for companies within the United States to compete with this kind of currency devaluation, and its a serious problem, and we do nothing about it. Lou we do nothing about it, as you say, and president obama, his treasury secretary, the federal reserve, actually none of them willing to say this is direct intervention by the Chinese Government and the currency marketplace, and that it is manipulation of the yuan, their currency. That goes back to, as you know, president george w. Bush, who was also. Its true. Lou extremely reluctant to even raise a moments caution with the chinese. The middle class in this country gets scant attention by the Republican Party, the Republican Party in too many homes across this country is considered to be the party of big business and to have sold out basically to the Business Roundtable and the middle class. Youre talking about families, youre talking about our middle class. That is almost an antiestablishment posture to take. Are you going to carry that theme throughout your entire campaign . Well, to me its very important. I dont worry so much about the rich guys. You know many of the rich guys, theyre doing just fine, and frankly they are doing maybe better than they should be doing. They get lucky and pick a stock and make tens of millions of dollars, if they happen to be running a hedge fund. Its middle class absolutely getting in a certain way were losing the middle class, we were built on the middle class as a country, and i will bring that back and bring it back roaring back. We have to give incentives. We have to bring jobs back. Jobs are going to china, to mexico. I was in los angeles two weeks ago, i looked at the massive ships, lou, coming into los angeles, and the number of cars coming in from japan, its staggering to see these boats. Ive never seen anything like it, and pouring off the boats, the ships. We have to make the cars here. Mexicos building right now, building ford, a 2. 5 billion car plant, manufacturing plant in mexico. I want them built here. It doesnt help us. I went to the Wharton School of finance, i can tell you it doesnt help us. They dont pay tax, they make the cars, bring them over the border. We get nothing out of it except closed factories and closed manufacturing plants. So were going to change that around, i will tell you. One of the people you respect is carl icahn, im going to have dinner with him right now. He wants to get involved. You know if i say carl, you take china, you take maybe china and japan, we can sit back and watch, well be just fine. You understand. Lou a formidable, and i have to tell you, i wouldnt mind imagining that conversation what it would sound like. That would be a beauty. We could make a movie out of that one. Lou turning to foreign policy, the Islamic State. This is a president who said he would degrade and destroy the Islamic State. Now there are handful of sorties being carried out, newly established relations with turkey permitting us to go fly from their bases. What would a donald Trump Presidency do about the Islamic State . Where would you come down on russia and its current aggressive posture, particularly in Eastern Europe . As far as isis is concerned, i would hit them so hard at their source of wealth, which is largely the oil. They get money from saudi arabia, from iran, from all over the place, a major source of wealth is the oil. I would hit that oil so hard. And you know the exxon focus and know the guys that can rebuild it quickly. Unbelievable. Ive seen this happen. I would hit them at the wealth. You would see them start to wither. As far as, and i would do it fast and hard. And as you know, i was never in favor of going in, i told you years ago, going into iraq was a huge mistake because youre going to destabilize the whole middle east. Im the only one. They have major articles in 2004 in reuters, in fact, july of 2004, and im only one thats running that is of this. You see bush made the big mistake, he didnt know whether it was a good thing or bad thing, took him five days to work it out. As far as the ukraine and all, its at a point, we have to rebuild our own country. If germany and the people and the folks from europe arent going to take a more active role, why are we leading every charge whether its ukraine or whether everything we do, iraq, whos taking it, we spent all of that money . China is taking much of the oil out of iraq. They didnt spend ten cents, we spent trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, Wounded Warriors whom i love and china takes the oil out of there. Incredible. Same thing with afghanistan, china on the other side of the mountain, you have china taking the minerals out. We spent fortunes and lives and everything else. With the ukraine, were leading the charge. Were always leading the charge. Why isnt germany . Well be with them. You know the old expression, go ahead, well be right behind you. Let them. Theyre affected by this much more so than we are. Why arent they taking the lead instead of us . Were run by people that dont know what theyre doing. Lou and on the issue of illegal immigration, youve been very straightforward, you want to build a wall, and i maybe not quoting you precisely, a big glorious door in the middle of it, which i inferred is a metaphor you would bring people into the country but on terms of the country. Legally. Lou right. There are a host of issues about which there are some curiosity about where you really stand, socalled wedge issues, social issues. Id like to go through four of them very quickly. Lets start with obamacare, repeal it . Amend it . Fix it . No, no, repeal it, replace it with something so much better. There are so many ideas that are so much better. Obamacare is going to be the death of the country. It doesnt kick in, you know this, most people dont. It doesnt kick in until 16 and obama is probably going to be playing at doral at that time, playing golf at doral and whoever is president is going to have one hell of a time. Number one its too expensive. The premiums are going up through the roof. You look at whats going on with the premiums, raising 45, 50 and 60 . So it doesnt work, its too expensive for both sides, and we have to change it, so i want to repeal and replace it and well do it with something great. Have to take down the artificial lines, get competition going, it can be a great form of insurance and much less money. Lou and broadly the issue of abortion, a more specifically planned parenthood, as you know, some controversy and kerfuffle around the way in which you articulated your position. Clearly, on planned parenthood, your view . Totally against as long as they have abortion. If its an Abortion Clinic in any way, shape, or form, im against. Im prolife. Im against it. If that can be separated out and i mean literally, i would not give as long as theyre doing abortions. They do other work which is helpful in terms of Womens Health issues. Thats good stuff. Problem is i will not be able at all to get over the issue of planned parenthood as long as theyre providing abortions and thats what theyre doing, and doing it pretty readily and its not good. I would absolutely defund. They have to get over that issue, thats a big problem. Lou gay marriage . Gay marriage . Well, i wanted to see the states decide and i wanted strongly to see that. And the court so ruled. And if something can happen, most people continuing cant at this point, but i would have loved to see the states make the decision, lou, and let it be that way. The court took it all the way and came down with a decision. If anything can happen, im all for it, right now the decision is made. Lou and the Second Amendment, gun control . Totally in favor of Second Amendment. I am a big Second Amendment person and ive gotten great marks. My sons are members of the nra, my sons have been there for years, great shots, great marksmen and big believers. Im a big believer in the Second Amendment. Lou well, donald trump, always good to talk with you, and appreciate your time. Come back soon as we try to better understand your policies and positions. We enjoy talking with you. I hope the same can be said from your side. I love your show and watch it all the time and appreciate it, lou. I know youve been very nice to me and even if im wrong on something, youve been nice, thats even better, right . Lou im the nicest guy youre going to see on television. Youre a great guy, and i appreciate it, lou. Lou donald trump, good to talk with. You thank you. Lou much more ahead, stay with us, coming right back, dimension ann coulter . Shes going to be here as well. Shes nice, too. Bestselling author and conservative comment air ann coulter talking about donald trump. 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Lou the nitpickers who questioned where i put the position of illegal immigration. Not nitpicking you. [ laughter ] no, thats a very important issue, thats not picking them. Nitpicking Donald Trumps position on planned parenthood pointing out that planned parenthood does other things. But trump has been busy making 11 billion. He hasnt been following all the different ways planned parenthood and the proabortion types figure out to get restriction on abortion and had totally the right answer in under 24 hours. And it was beautiful. If theyre still performing abortions, i wouldnt give them money. That pails in comparison to the most important issue, i trust how americans will vote, i want to make sure its americans voting and not outvoted by foreigners, thats why immigration is an issue and im sure all the other issues will work themselves out as long as we control immigration. Lou his views, he was straightforward as he can be. Hes prolife. And guns. And quite believably. Lou he supports gay marriage, his preference is that it be a states right. The Supreme Court has dont deciding. He has been i didnt say him say he supports gay marriage. Lou if you listened. What he said is he wants the states to decide. Lou its been decided and decided by the Supreme Court. Thats a fact. Lou and thats a fact. Therefore, we turn to obamacare, the only other open subject really among the socalled wedge issues, he wants it repealed. He couldnt be more straightforward. That in and of itself is refreshing, dont you think . I thought his answer was fantastic at the debate the other night. He goes straight to the heart of the matter. He understands because he is a businessman, and the fact they think it was rand paul didnt understand what he was saying suggesting to me that some of the politicians are spending too much time reading policy papers and dont understand how these things work in the real world. Donald trump has it exactly right. The problem is you cant buy insurance across state lines. Lou ann coulter, were going to be talking indepth with you later in the broadcast. Thanks for giving us your instant take on donald trump. Thank you. Thank you. Lou the state department accused of stiffarming an intelligence watchdog over Hillary Clintons emails. Clintons private personal server and thumb drives now in the possession of the fbi, but the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General was rebuffed by the state department, requesting 30,000 Clinton Emails for its own revie

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