Will be no breaks. That to the disappointment of the joe biden campaign, fearing that he may struggle to keep up with President Trumps customary highenergy performance. White House Press SecretaryKayleigh Mcenany this evening said this about her expectations of tonights showdown. There is no comparing the record of obama biden and President Trump. When you look at President Trump, record lows in unemployment, a vshaped recovery, when you look at obama biden, slowest economic recovery since world war ii, health care, same thing. Premiums up, drug costs up under obama. President trump brought those down. So a pointbypoint comparison from the handling of swine flu to the handling of covid, there really is no comparing the records because President Trump stands tall. Lou well, tonights festivities are taking place at the famous cleveland clinic. Officials are expecting tensions to be running high outside that building. As you see there, more than 300 Ohio National guardsmen have been called up and deployed to the site of the debate. And businesses in the neighborhood and sounding areas have been boarded up over fears that violent protests and perhaps rioting may break out. Well be previewing tonights debate throughout this broadcast. Were joined tonight by white house chief of staff mark meadows, congressman matt gaetz, congressman jim jordan, former Trump Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Citizens United president david bossie. Theyll join us later this hour. But first, this breaking news. Director of National IntelligenceJohn Ratcliffe tonight announcing he will be heading to capitol hill over the coming days where he plans to brief congress on newlydeclassified documents that further implicate Hillary Clinton and the Obama Biden Administration in a conspiracy to overthrow president presiden. Ratcliffe released the declassified information to senator lindsey graham, the chair of the Judiciary Committee in the senate. The information alleges that russians knew in july of 2016 that Hillary Clinton was trying to tie trump to the russia collusion story and the hacking at the dnc in order to distract from her private email server scandal. Former cia director john brennan briefed the Obama Biden White house about the report in september 2016 former fbi director james comey, former fbi agent peter strzok were given an investigate i referral investigative referral over clintons alleged scheme. There is no indication from the declassification that the fbi at any time in any way investigated the allegations brought to them against clinton. It is worth noting that crowdstrike president sean henry told the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 that he did not have conclusive evidence of russians taking any information from the dnc servers. Our first guest tonight is among those traveling with the president to cleveland, and joining us the president s chief of staff the, mark meadows. Mark, great to have you with us. Its a big evening for the country and, certainly, for the white house. Give us a sense, first, of the president s mood and his readiness for verbal combat. Well, just like when the president came down on that escalator, he was ready to go to battle for the American People. Hes ready to go to battle tonight to tell the people and hopefully inform the people that not only is he worthy of four more years, but based on his past performance we should overwhelmingly reelect him. Hes got with his game face on, hes readied to do, hes well prepared ready to do. But i can say this, listen, when were looking at the president of the United States, hes accomplished more in 47 months than joe biden has in 47 years. And today, tonight on this debate stage joe bidens going to have to account for that. Its all rhetoric and no action. Lou well, theres, therell be theres certainly the expectation therell be a lot of action on that stage tonight. [laughter] i want to turn to the action in washington, d. C. Today. John ratcliffe, the director of National Intelligence, declassifying documents in which there is the allegation that Hillary Clinton was the author of the conspiracy to construct this claim that there was russian collusion with donald trump and that the intelligence agencies were aware of it and, indeed, had a taken a referral to the fbi for investigation and that there was ostensibly no action taken whatsoever by the very same fbi that spent years investigating this president while both in office and campaigning for that office. Your reaction. Well, i mean, isnt it amazing that we spent over 40 million and many, many months on the mueller investigation, and yet there was no mention of this bombshell declassification document that came forth today. I can tell you this, Hillary Clinton based on this letter that was put forth by director ratcliffe was not only involved, certainly, in a scheme the accuse the president of what she was guilty for, but the real question tonight, hopefully on this debate stage, is what did joe biden know about it. Was he part of it. I would suggest that, indeed, he was. Lou well, and we do know that the former Vice President was in the oval office with the president and other administration officials, Obama Administration officials during that infamous january 5th, 2017, meeting in which there was a meeting about the state of that investigation. Well, yeah. Lou, youre exactly right. And joe biden cant have it both ways, you know . When they are getting informed, when the Obama Biden Administration is getting informed by their own director of the cia, when a number of other officials the fbi and others are informed about this particular measure that was released today, either he was absent without leave as the Vice President , or he was part of it. And either answer is very troubling for the American People if hes asking for their vote for the highest office in the land. Lou your reaction, if you will and perhaps that of the president to the reports that john durham, his investigation will produce before the election no interim report or charges against anyone involved in the conspiracy, the obamagate conspiracy against President Trump. Well, i dont want to speak for the president. Hes stayed out of this particular investigation. But john durham has spent many, many months, and i can speak on behalf of the millions of americans i get to hear from on a regular basis. Its time that we have a verdict. Its time that people go to jail, and its time that people are held accountable for what they dud. And i can tell you just based on documents i saw in my previous career as a member of congress and what i believe is backed up by his investigation, there should be indictments. Hopefully theyll come. I think its justice thats been delayed far too long for most americans. Lou and let us, if you would, get your sense of what issue you think will dominate tonights debate. Well, i think what will dominate tonights debate is the difference between a president who does, indeed, put America First. And weve seen that in year one, year two, year three and now in year four of this administration. That each and every year he says i have not accomplished enough for the American People, he wants to make sure that the next four years are better. And what we look is the only four years that joe biden wants better for him are actually better for him personally. Weve seen that over and over again as he goes for election after election. You know, most americans would have a hard time finding any particular bill that joe biden actually sponsored and got into law are other than perhaps one on criminal justice that he wants to run away from. And so this is all about tonight, about a mandate that the president sevenned some received some four years ago and a continuation of delivering on behalf of the American People. This promise i get to see it each and every day. Every morning i get to see it where this president says what are we doing for the American People today. Im honored to serve him. Hes honored to serve the people of this great country. And ultimately, deserves to be reelected. Lou chief of staff mark meadows, great to have you here. Thank you so much. Up next, a major hearing today in the ongoing persecution of general Michael Flynn. We take that up and much more. Congressman matt gaetz joins us in just a few moments. 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Flynns attorneys and Justice Department lawyers appeared today before judge Emmet Sullivan for about six hours. They were trying to persuade sullivan to follow attorney general barrs orders to drop the case entirely against flynn. Sidney powell, the defense attorney, arguing sullivan should recause himself from the case and recuse himself from the cause and says she is filing a motion to immediately dismiss sullivan from the case. And we will be filing a motion to disqualify him because the comments he made today reflect pure political ambitions and continuing the prosecution of general flynn and other actions since the court are remanded it to him also do the same. It was absolutely appalling, lou. It was just nothing short of stunning. I would have thought we were in a third world country where political prosecutions are commonplace. Lou that brings us to our lou dobbs tonight word of the day, showdown, is the word. It means the final test or confrontation intended to settle a dispute. General Michael Flynn is surely in a show todown with judge Emmet Sullivan. Sullivan has now asked for briefs from the department of justice, flynns attorneys and his amicus by october 7th as he prolongs this unconscionable persecution of general Michael Flynn and his family. Joining us tonight is congressman matt gaetz, a member of the house judiciary and Armed Services committees. Hes the author of the brand new book firebrand dispatches from the front lines of the maga revolution. We encourage you to preorder it now. We highly recommend it. Congressman, great to have you with us. Lets begin with these developments, they are substantial, theyre significant. The dni to move to congress to explain and further testify about the declassified information and the continued persecution of general Michael Flynn and its inexplicable. Your thoughts. Judge Emmet Sullivan shouldnt be presiding in this case, he should be impeached. We dont crowd source prosecutions in the United States of america. They have to be brought by the executive branch or the executive branch doesnt want to bring a prosecution, no judge gets to just do it. That would be a violation to have separation of powers. If the judge, if the referee e in this case werent wearing the jersey of the other team, Sidney Powell would have won this case three times already. She would have had her motion for habeas corpus granted. Now, when you talk about the ratcliffe memod today, it is remarkable. It proves that we were right all along. Russia was never a crime committed by the president , it was a setup concocted by Hillary Clinton as an excuse, an excuse for the failures of the Obama Biden Clinton era and an excuse for her failures with the electorate. And too often the establishment in both parties here in washington want to make us believe that russia is some, like, great threat that challenges america. Russias two biggest exports are models and oil, and weve got plenty of both. Im glad ratcliffe is going to testify before the senate because i think it will further illuminate the decisions the oval office. This was not some, the work j or fbi assistant deputy. You had obama, biden and clinton working on framing donald trump even before the election and using it to try to justify their own failures. Lou the American People now have witnessed 11 months of investigation by the fbi of this president , then almost two years of the special counsel investigation, then an impeachment inquiry socalled, and in every instance he has been exonerated. He is the only one whos been exonerated. The investigators themselves have been proven politically corrupt, orchestrating a conspiracy against a sitting president and, yes, a candidate for president as they tried to block his election. Will there be an accounting, in your judgment . Im very disappointed that we are not getting indictments from john durham before the election. But just the clinesmith indictment shows youve got more people of that have committed crime at the fbi than you ever had in the Trump Campaign or the trump white house. But remember, lou, it was myself and jim jordan and mark meadows who back in 2017 said that we needed a special counsel to investigate the activities of Hillary Clinton. And had we done that, we would have known what John Ratcliffe just told us well before, but we have the spineless speaker, paul ryan, who blocked us at every turn. You know, he acted like we were the tinfoil hatwearing crazy republicans, but the reality is we were telling the American People the truth, people in washington on both sides of the aisle were lying to the American People, and now we know exactly where the russia hoax began