Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b visas, 230,000j visas and just under 77,000 l visas. This is the first time that an american president has taken into account the impact of visa programs and Foreign Workers on unemployed americans and the threat posed to American Workers and their jobs. President trump has taken direct action. This new order will help protect 45 million americans who have lost jobs because of the china virus pandemic as well as the nearly four million recent College Graduates who are entering one of the worst job markets since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The effect of the visas suspension will have an immediate impact. Jessica vaughn at the center for Immigration Studies estimates that as many as threequarters of a million jobs will be opened up to u. S. Workers by the suspension of temporary work visas and work permits and by proposed regulatory changes. Our first guest tonight instrumental in the crafting of that new executive order, joining us is Ken Cucinelli, acting deputy secretary Start Department of homeland security, acting director of u. S. Citizenship and immigration services. Ken, great to have you with us and congratulations on moving this forward. Yep. Lou this is, as far as we can determine, the first time that an american president has taken account of the job market, taken account of the impact of visas and Foreign Workers on american jobs and the competition, the unfair competition that that places on those u. S. Workers. Yeah, you know, i can tell you, lou, having sat with the president on the day he was deciding these things this week, you know, hes a bulldozer of a man conversationally, but at that moment he was subdued and moved. And it was because, i mean, he said i just have to do what i can for these americans. And it was more head shaking and quiet than the usual discussion in the oval office which is typically much louder and more boisterous. He was clearly personally very moved. You know how important economic success for every american is for him. Well, this is where the rubber moots the road for a lot of it. Meets the road for a lot of it. When unemployment goes from a trump level of 3. 5 up, quadruples in a matter of months for the fist time in american finish first time in american history, it really shakes up the whole country. Not just the economy, but its president who cares about those workers. And thats why he was focused on pushing this as far as he did. The temporary pieces of this, lou, are over 500,000 job openings for americans in the latter half of this year. That is a very big deal. Unprecedented level of effort by a president to clear the american job market of competition like this. No one in yours and my lifetime has done this before in his position ever. And to the point you mentioned about some of the more permanent changes even when we get past those temporary ones, he listed off a number of them that are going to clear out the job market of another tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs long term. Way beyond 2020. And so hes doing both, lou. Hes clearing that a space for americans to get back to work s and hes reforming the immigration system, pieces of the immigration system to make this many more meritbased, to make them more valuable to america, but also to make sure americans can get more jobs in the face of these pieces of the immigration system. Lou historically and to your point, looking at the h1b visa program, for example, we know that that was supposed to be, the idea was that it would bring in people who would be working at prevailing wages and be doing so, first and foremost, only after no american had applied for that job or was available for that job. We have seen that honored in the breach. That is, not honored at all. And its one of the longterm issues that has to be resolved. And when i look at the list of h1b Visa Companies receiving workers, visas for those workers, were talking abouting google, were talking about amazon, microsoft, apple, ibm. My god, it is a hall of shame with some of the wealthiest companies at the forefront. It is just stunning to think what the American Worker has had to put up with because, as you know very well, about 25 of those workers coming in are not even competitive in terms of skills with the American Worker. Well, and some of them lou its timely and its, and it is is so, to me personally, it is so rea assuring to see this president move for the American Worker. Well, and, lou, i agree with you. In this h1b space, i mean, talk about moving, you remember the class you can horror story is the disney workers training their replacements. I know you remember that, lou. At t did this not too long ago. And theres a loophole that they use to be able to do that, and this president has ordered that loophole closed forever. And we will not see that ever again. And if that means that some companies cant do business that way, thats exactly the point. But americans will be able to do those jobs. They will be able to do business that way. And its a spectacular step forward that none of President Trumps predecessors have been willing to take. Lou right. And kudos to him, commendation to this president its very popular. Very popular. Lou well, i think that American Workers have been desperate for this and never more so than right now in this national emergency. Absolutely. Lou and to think i think we need to say, too, how much pressure this president has been under from external forces. And by external, i mean the wall street firms Myron Brilliant and tom donohue at the u. S. Chamber of commerce, the business round table, the u. S. Multinationals who do labor arbitrage and then try to dress it up as some sort of globalist, noble fantasy right. Lou it is absolutely a horror show for the American Worker and has been for 20 years. Well, and the president lou [inaudible] has been returning this program to what it was meant to be, like you described, lou. It was supposed to be for these High Achievers and the best and the brightest and so forth, people who brought Something Special to the table, not some commodity effort that displaces americans at entrylevel jobs and throughout the career stage. And this president is driving us back in that direction consistent being a rule of law president. Hes getting us back to the original intent of this law and the original effect which was much more beneficial to the economy and much less harmful to American Workers. And thats the direction President Trump is once again taking this country. Lou yeah. America first. Thats exactly right. Lou Ken Cucinelli this is what it looks like. Lou congratulations to you and to the president and to the entire administration for getting this done. Thank you. This weekend federal judge royce lam berth ruled john boltons new book will be allowed to be published tomorrow. He also noted that bolton had gambled with National Security. It was a strange ruling and some strange exposition on the part of judge lamberth. He said bolton exposed the United States to harm by his actions. He also said bolton himself is now exposed for possible civil and criminal liability. President trump responded to the ruling by tweeting this Big Court Win against bolton. Obviously with the book already out and leaked to many people in the media, nothing the highly respected judge could have done about stopping it. But strong and powerful statements and rulings on money and breaking classification were made. Its been called out and rebuked for doing so with a really big price to pay. He likes dropping bombs on people and killing him, now he will have bombs dropped on him. Well have more on boltons book of betrayal and the administrations response. Were joined tonight by treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin with the very latest on this unfolding drama. And we look forward to that. I hope you do as well. On wall street stocks are up. The Dow Jones Industrials gained 154 points, the s p up 20, the nasdaq up 110. A new record close. The 20th record of this year with. Volume on the big board, 4. 7 billion shares. Crude oil up more than 2 , 40, above 40 a barrel. How about that . And a reminder, listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. Up next, why does anyone listen to this senator . Rino Lindsay Graham says he will seek the blessing of radical dems before he supports President Trumps nominations for u. S. Attorneys. What is wrong with this person . We take it up next, House Intel CommitteeRanking Member devin nunes joins me. 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This moving thing never gets any easier. Well, xfinity makes moving super easy. I can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. Wow, that is easy. Almost as easy as having those guys help you move. We are those guys. Thats you . The truck adds 10 pounds. In the arms. Okay. Transfer your Service Online in a few easy steps. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. Lou breaking news, the Trump Administration has fired the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, jeff berman. Berman initially refused to resign after being informed by the attorney general late friday that the president wished to nominate sec chair jay clayton to be bermans replacement. Senate judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham responded to all of this giving leverage to the radical dem senators of new york, graham saying he would seek the blessing of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand before moving on any nomination for bermans replacement honoring the socalled blue slip tradition of the u. S. Senate. Lindsey graham is absolutely out of his mind. Theres just no other explanation for his conduct and for what he has done to the Republican Party and this administration. I cannot even imagine why he is apartmented on the grounds of the white house permitted on the grounds of the white house. Attorney general william barr this weekend says he expects developments in john durhams obamagate investigation and called obamagate an attack against the presidency the likes of which that havent been seen for some time. In terms of the future of durhams investigation, you know, hes pressing ahead as hard as he can, and i expect that, you know, we will have some developments hopefully before the end of this summer. In this sense i think it is the closest we have come to an organized effort to push a president out of office. Lou well, joining us tonight, congressman devin nunes, Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, member of the house ways and Means Committee and a man whos been at the forefront and the epicenter of spygate from its very, well, from its early days. As then the chair of the House Intel Committee. Congressman, great to have you with us. Thank you. Lou attorney general barr said it straight up, the closest weve come to in an effort to overthrow a president since abraham lincoln. I mean, thats stunning stuff. Yeah. I mean, look, it was surprising for us when we, you know, kind of stumbled into it. You have to really look. This was done in really kind of three phases. It was done as a dirty trick by the Clinton Campaign originally with the help of the Obama Administration using the fbi. Thats what happened in 2016. Then it continued after the election when they tried to blame fake news and the Tech Companies were trying to say, oh, it was fake news, obama was blaming the Tech Companies, thats why trump won. Then a few weeks later, lo and behold, they decide, no, lets go back to russia. So they keep the russia investigation going on even when some of the fbi were trying to hide and bury what they did wrong. But they resurrected it. Then knowing through the first parts of the Trump Administration that even after driving general flynn out of office, forcing him to resign, then you had the appointment of a special counsel. So were really at a status what started as lee smith whos been on your show many times, lou, whos wrote a great book, what begins as the plot against the president really moves into a permanent coup, and thats where weve been. The democrats took control largely based on this interference by the department of justice and the fbi in the 2018 election that caused republicans to lose control of the house. It was their main moneyraising scheme. And then the House Intelligence Committee was turned into the house impeachment committee, and weve been dealing with that, you know, for the almost going on four years now. Lou critically important now, as attorney general barr told maria bartiromo, he expects developments by, hopefully, by the end of the summer. This is critically important, because you and i and i think most americans understand the democrats with their lies and their deception and the extraordinary effort, conspiracy to overthrow the president stole the election in 2018. And stole the control of the house of representatives. It cant happen again, not with the presidency, and its critically important that the American People have the truth before this election. Now, i heard a lot of nonsense from the Justice Department under the comey era, the bean brennan, clapper conspiracy in the i. C. That, you know, theres a rule 60 days before the election all of that nonsense and utter crap. This is about stealing a presidency, and it cant happen this time. How confident are you that it wont happen this time . Well, as you know, the House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee who are the only ones that have been running a real investigation up until attorney general barr came to the Justice Department. You have to remember the first two years of the Trump Administration they were busy trying to get rid of the president who had appointed many of those people. So now theres a real investigation going on because the adults are in the room. I believe the u. S. Attorney out of connecticut, who has a tremendous track record, is doing his very best, along with the u. S. Attorney from missouri and also now one out of texas. As i told you a few weeks ago on the show, weve been constantly looking at Unanswered Questions that we have. Weve turned to parts of the department of defense, specifically the office of innocent a