special delivery. >> our friends, people we know, and strangers all across the world has helped us with that and we are very grateful for it. >> mike: with the holiday season in full swing, one florida teen is doing everything can he to get toys to hospitalized kits. monday teddy and his mom donated nearly 300 toys to arnold palmer hospital for children. part of the foundation teddy's giant heart project. how awesome is that, great job, teddy, and your mom. tomorrow on "special report," despite previous warnings. the federal government is getting deeper into the artificial intelligence realm. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6 p.m. eastern #:00 on the west coast. "the ingraham angle" is next. good night. >> laura: hello, everyone, i'm laura ingraham had this is "the ingraham angle" from washington

tonight. thanks so much for being with us. dad and son, well, facing some legal trouble. at least they are in it together. we will explain with jonathan turley and josh hawley later in the show. but, first, the cities are on life support, that's the focus of tonight's angle liberals always claim to urban life. they love mass transportation. cheap restaurants. you know, theaters, music venues, also call the vibrant social scene. but why kill what you love? and that's exactly what liberals are doing. they wonder why life in san francisco, baltimore, chicago, and d.c. has become so unlivable. well, when they wonder that, they should look in the mirror. because they are responsible for the slowed death of urban america high taxes, high crime, low office occupancy, lousy schools. this is the quartet of forces inflicted on our cities by politician activists.

the same people float unscathed above the wreckage that they themselves created. to cover for their own failures, they pepper their public comments with appeals to phrases like racial equity and reimagine policing. that's my favorite. but have a bid social justice jargon doesn't hide the fact policies are driving away good people and great businesses. once bustling cities are now struggling. and then with an eroding tax base, it's lights out. the windy city is now just one big swirl of crime. with thugs so determined that they will use cars as weapons to gain access to what they want. like this jeep suv here. now, even concrete barriers aren't deterrence. of course, s store owners become repeat victims in case and they are fed up. >> this is probably overall our seventh or eighth break in in

the last year or two. and, you know, a lot of people think insurance is easy to get but now, you know, it's hard for us to get any kind of insurance. all this will be [inaudible] >> laura: democrats can't even get it together to control crime when they have popular sports franchises in their major cities. according to a sportsbook report, 39% of those surveyed say that they have seen or been a victim of at least one cririme in areas near their nfl team stadium. the most dangerous stadium areas may surprise you. denver topped the place with the most crimes for 1,000 people. next it was seattle. then it was detroit, minneapolis, and kansas city.

if a city are ofs to ensure safe streets and they tell government workers it's fine to work from home, fewer consumers are going to want to spend money and time there that means businesses have less income and you have to factor in the high cost of doing business these days, eventually the bubble bursts. d.c. restaurant owners are sounding the alarm. >> we have 11 locations in d.c. over the past year, each one of those locations has been effected by some type of crime. we now have to spend about $4,000 a week on private security. >> how much more are you spending on security than you did in years' previous? >> it's probably about 20 to 25% more right now. we will see where it goes in the future. >> what's the total? >> well, involved in four restaurants, family owned restaurant here in the district. and over $225,000 a year we spend on. >> laura: $225,000 a year?

how is that sustainable? but, like many lefty mayors, d.c. mayor muriel bowser's answer to these concerns about crime, just down plays the problem. >> our experience with crime is kind of a blip. it's a phenomenon and we can look back over the last several years and see a lot of contributing factors. but we will drive it down. >> laura: that takes my breath away. now, politicians may lie but numbers don't. check out the crime increases year-to-date. homicides up 34% in d.c. robbery 69%. motor vehicle theft is up a staggering 89%. and total violent crime, this is terrifying. is up 40%. now, to muriel bowser, that qualifies as a blip? well i don't think the washington capital owners shares that opinion. virginia governor glenn youngkin announced today that he struck a

deal with the franchise owner to move both his nhl and his nba teams to northern virginia. othis will get new facilities, favorable tax deal and maybe a far safer community for fans and players. well, today, a prominent d.c. radio host explained what happened to lead up to this and how much damage it's going to cause. he said i keep coming back to antidote i saw in the "the washington post" in november. d.c. had always provided 27 cops around the arena to keep his patrons safe until recently. now they provide three. how many other things have trended that way in the relationship? ing moving the teams will be devastating to penn quarteter. it will be crushing to the city. it's telling that youngkin was finalizing the terms of his big get, bowser was hobnobbing with the elites at the climate summit in due by. she arrives back in d.c. to the

bad news. all she offers was the typical liberal platitudes. >> we know that in our city we have been through very good times, the best of times and some tough times. and some of those times are ripples in our history that we always overcome. weigh know that d.c. fans and d.c. residents are loyal and that they are disappointed today, as am i. >> laura: oh, you think? they're disappointed in oh, that makes it all better. and for all her bluster, d.c. is in the shape it's in because of the policies and the politicians that she supported bloat the bureaucracy, low police recruitmentment and morale, covid lockdowns that were never necessary, of course still led to empty office buildings and d.c.'s deficit will be $1.7 billion over five years a good mayor calls it a perfect storm to explain it all away. why hasn't it hit nashville and

miami? why are they booming? the press tries to act like our populist movement is somehow hostile to cities. but, i'm telling you don't, the opposite is true. we tried and the angle tried in every way possible to warn people what would happen if they continued these insane policies. but they did not listen. and, trump, is he a new yorker. , he doesn't want to see new york go down the drain. last year desantis won miami-dade county by doubling digits. so his policies in that urban area and suburban area are working. we all want to see all of america, including our beautiful cities flourish. it's the left that's doing everything they can to destroy them and that's the angle. joining me now is glenn youngkin, governor of virginia. governor, first, congratulations. you're a business guy. you understand what motivates business. but, second, what was the

driving factor to your understanding behind ted leon miss' move? >> laura, first of all, thank you for having me. it's been exciting day in virginia like none in america. where monumental sports city of alexandria and of course the commonwealth of virginia are going to bring together all of our capabilities to develop a $2 billion sports entertainment district that will be the home to two great teams, the washington wizards move to virginia with 600 jobs develop 6,000 seat concert venue, convention center, hotels, mix used restaurants housing and community space it's very exciting and also generate $12 billion of economic impact over the next several decades

and several thousand jobs. it will be, i think, the most creative financing structure because of the fact that we are not putting up upfront payment. i told virginia taxpayers i would do a good deal for virginia. i think we negotiated a chance for awful three partners to win together where we will generate substantial tax revenues over time and use tax revenues to finance this $2 billion project along with $400 million investment for monumental sports. >> laura: don't start talking. >> something fun to do. >> laura: don't start talking like a finance guy on "the ingraham angle." i know that's your background. no, i'm just teasing you. crime. i know ted leonsis. crime was part of this decision, governor, without a doubt i was in d.c. when the verizon center was built. i saw how that area of d.c. was totally revitalized. you probablier with that in the d.c. in the 80's that area was disaster. it came to life with investment

and so forth. crime has been a major problem in this city really since before covid. and covid made it all worse that had to be part of this decision as well. nobody wants to go downtown. >> of course, as you highlighted across america, we have a huge divide. we have winners and losers we see it in states led by republican governors are winning and states led by democratic governors are losing. the data is just so clear. when i came into this position and virginians hired me, i knew that we had to do a number of things. one, we have to get the cost of living down. second, we have got to increase the education quality. third, would he have to make our community safe and fourth we have to have a government works for people and doesn't tell them what to do all the time. this has translated into an economic revitalization for the commonwealth. we have 230,000 more people working today than when we started just two years ago. we went from the bottom of job growth to number three in the nation in job growth during this

time period. >> laura: governor, sorry to interrupt. but it would have been nice if this came out before the election, right, before the state house election. it probably would have -- it wouldn't have hurt. that's for sure, correct? it wasn't as bad people said it was in virginia for republicans. it wasn't what you or certainly i as a proud virginia resident wanted. we wanted the republicans to take the house and the senate. they did not. but, given that, how do you -- in the next few years, how do you continue to show the people of this -- you know, incredible state why this works. why common sense policies work and why these cities are collapsing? >> well, of course i was disappointed with the outcome of the elections. the redistricting was an uphill battle. we knew it. and really we look back at this and about 11,000 votes if they had gone the other direction, we would have held both houses. and, that's just -- that's the reality. we had split government going

into this. and we will have split government coming out of it. nothing happens without both houses passing a bill and a governor signing it. and so we will find lots of good things to work on together. i do believe, laura, that common sense conservative policies continue to demonstrate that they are effective. you cannot argue with the success numbers in virginia relative to when we got there just two years ago most importantly we will continue to drive forward with the same policies. and this is a chance for us to come together and deliver for virginians. this announcement this morning i think reflects that it reflects the fact that companies want to be in virginia. i mean, we have had boeing and raytheon and lego and hilton double down in virginia. we have had people move to virginia who were moving away. we have had people stay who were moving away. common sense conservative policies work. the winning states are the states that have the formula. the losing states are the ones that don't. and i think that americans are seeing this across the country. and that's why they're all

moving to the states that have republican leadership. >> laura: it's time that the cities wake up. i mean, if they keep voting for the same people and the same policies, they are going to get thsame results. really sad for me to sees a a long time d.c. resident what is happening there. governor, congratulations. you have got it done. i look forward to seeing how it all plays out. thank you so much. all right. the house voting moments ago to launch an impeachment inquiry into joe biden. what does that mean? jonathan turley breaks it all down. plus, who is hunter blaming for his legal troubles now? and, josh hawley will respond to that and a lot more, tonight. ♪

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for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. there is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen. there is no fairness or decency in what these republicans are doing. >> laura: is he reading prepared remarks that his lawyers wrote. joining me now jonathan turley, fox news contributor and law professor at george washington university. he said there is no evidence to support the allegation -- first of all, no evidence? and then he says the phrase "not financially involved." my father was not financially involved. professor, that seems, again, very clintonian to me. >> well, it is. we are seeing the shifting rhetoric, even from the president himself. he stated during the campaign that he had no knowledge, no involvement with these business deals or these associates of his

son. that appears to be demonstrably false. we now know that even hunter's associates said it was nonsense. hunter himself said his father had knowledge. but, you have the president sort of caught in the amber of this scandal. and he can't now deny what he told the public over and over again. >> laura: well, financially involved could mean in his interpretation, right, that oh my father is not running these businesses, right? he is not directing their moves vis-a-vis the united states. again, that phrasing is very amorphos. >> it's not just amorphos, it's irrelevant. the democrats have been stating that that's off and on sense

locally for actual criminal charges. it also implies an impeachment. i represented the last judge impeached by congress. he was charged with gifts that went to his family. so, all of that is just nonsense. the question that we're really looking at going forward is what did the president know and what was his involvement with this influence peddling? there is even democrats in the media now accept that this was a massive influence peddling operation. they are just arguing that the president really didn't know about it. well, how do you know? i mean, that's the point of an inquiry. >> laura: professor, alexandria ocasio-cortez made some comments today about these allegations. watch. >> they do not have a single witness to any of their alleged allegations. we have asked virtually every single person that has come to testify for this committee have

you seen, witnessed, participated in a room? anything, with firsthand testimony of any of what is being alleged? and every single witness that they have called before us have said no. >> laura: okay. what about the irs whistleblower, tony bobulinski? devon archer? is she that owe billious or willfully so? >> right. or the many associates that were on these phone calls when the president was put on or then vice president put on the speaker phone. i mean, it's really utter worldly to see these denials. i have got tell you even though washington is known as a theater of the absurd. i have never seen anything like what we saw with hunter and his lawyers today. i can't come up with a legal rationale for what they did. i mean, he effectively engaged in legal self-emulation. you had two choices today. you could go in and testify. you could appear and testify, or you go in and you don't testify. there is no third flavor on this

ice cream stand. you don't get to go in front of the senate and literally mock congress. and people have said well, this might not be enforceable because the vote came later. there was an impeachment inquiry going on. the democrats started an inquiry without a formal vote. there is no requirement for a formal vote. more importantly, the subpoena came from the oversight committee. which has independent subpoena authority. so, in my view, he is in flagrant contempt of congress. and, you know, i have represented the house of representatives. i have a lot of affection for that body. and i have rarely seen such open contempt for congress. >> laura: well, they usually get away with it. but i think the chickens are coming home to roost. as reverend wright said. all right, jonathan, great to see you don't. thank you. >> thanks. >> laura: i'm also here today to correct how the maga wright has portrayed me for their political purposes. >> laura: just like daddy, take

no responsibility for the mess he has created. instead, just blame maga. now, in addition to his criminal tax charges, he now, as jonathan just said, faces contempt of congress for this flagrant skipping out on his subpoena and then grandstanding about it in front of the capitol. and i must have missed it, did trump world cause him to lie on his paperwork when he bought that gun all those years ago? >> the enormous pressure that was puts on by republicans from former president trump to the chair of house committees to demand that something more be done, that's not the way it's supposed to work, but that's the way it's worked so far. >> laura: joining me now missouri senator josh hawley. senator, hunter's lawyers are claiming selective and vindictive prosecution of hunter. that's kind of weak, given all the facts that as jonathan turley just laid out. what's your sense of what is happening here? >> well, listen, it is selective

justice when it comes to hunter biden, here's the truth, laura, if he didn't have the last name of biden, he would be in prison already. everybody knows that. what is driving this is he is a rich liberal with a rich, powerful father. and that is what has protected him all of these years. if he were a working class guy who was going to church on a sunday, what would he get? he would have the fbi sitting in a pew next to him spying on him. he would have fbi swat team coming to his doors to harass him for political views. he would be getting hounded to death. because he is powerful and his daddy is president of the united states he gets a different standard, that's wrong. >> laura: joe biden is saying that if he didn't run in 2020, none of this would be hang. now, which and of course they laugh at trump when trump said the only reason to believe you are going are a me is because i didn't retire in 2020. and they just discount that when trump says it. now that's what they're relying on. this is all just political. there is no there there. or, if there is something, again, it never would rise to an

impeachable offense or this type of prosecution. >> well, it is political on this sense, laura, it's political for the bidens. hunter biden has made his living off of selling access to his father. clearly. it's a massive influence peddling campaign. there is just no denying it. it's not just one foreign interest. it's multiple foreign interest. everybody have burisma, ukraine, china. the money that has flowed through this family to joe biden to other bidens and we have the receipts. you can see the money from the foreign interest to hunter and then from hunter to joe and other family members. i mean, it's undeniable. it's there in black and white. so it's always been about politics for them. >> laura: the source of the income to me, congress hasn't paid enough attention. as to who and what was sending this money to hunter biden and what they wanted for it. to me, that is something that must be uncovered and discussed clearly and laid out for the

public. let them come to their conclusions about what it all means. >> absolutely. i think that's absolutely vital. you're absolutely correct. listen, if hunter really had nothing to hide, he would have gone into the deposition today and told the truth. he would have answered questions. but he doesn't want to answer questions from anybody. he doesn't want to answer questions from the public, certainly. he doesn't want to answer questions from investigators. he tried to get a sweetheart plea deal from doj and would have gotten by with it had the judge not asked some tough questions. this is a joke. everybody knows that he is getting treated with kid gloves. everybody knows that he has been selling access to his father for years. let's have the truth finally. and, as you say, let's this be done in public. let the american people see the facts and decide for themselves. >> laura: senator, i think he should be convicted just for that bad art. just kidding. good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> laura: my next guest says that the harvard president's plagiarism case is egregiously clear cut. and he should know. one of his jobs was to

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lawyer moments ago the house passed a bipartisan resolution demanding the immediate resignations of the mit president sally corn blut and harvard president claudine gay. now, leaving aside the fact that maybe congressional involvement in the hiring and firing of university heads would set a wild precedent, these institutions, they don't care about accountability. we know that their credibility is now in the toilet. especially harvard's. not only is the board standing behind claudine gay, the university went to extreme lengths to cover up any investigation. the "new york post" reports that back in october, they asked harvard about more than two dozen instances of perceived

plagiarism from claudine gay. two days later, the post says lawyers tried to silence them. so harvard will go to bat for ms. gay but not for the students who pay nearly $55,000 a year to go there. like the 27 who were forced to withdraw from the school due to academic dishonesty in the 2021 school year. does the honor code only apply to them? and not to certain school leaders of a preferred background? joining me now is dr. peter wood. is he a former boston university associate provost who has investigated numerous plagiarism accusations and he is currently president of the national association of scharsz. now, dr. wood; i have read all of the passages in question. and to me this seems clear cut she lifted the exact language or maybe tweaked words here and

there from other authors and scholars without the proper attribution or am i missing something. >> you are not missing anything at all. in most cases it wasn't without the proper attribution it was without any attribution. thee pretended that those words and sentences were her own and those thoughts were her own. this was a case of attempting to take credit for somebody else's work there is a tendency to think if the person who got plagiarized ha no problem with it there is no problem. the problem is plagiarism is an offense against the whole community of scholars which depend on the trust and honesty of scholars to put their own ideas down on paper. it doesn't matter if the other person comes along afterwards and says hey, you are my buddy, that's okay.

>> laura: or they don't want to offend harvard. hard has enormous amount of power. so these scholars, who were plagiarized from. they don't want to get on harvard's grill because they want to have their own deal with harvard at some point. now, one example of her writing that was highlighted by the campus newspaper shows that nearly every word in one paragraph written by her in '97 was apparently lifted from a paper written the year before. again, this is clear cut. this is not a question. so i'm going to say why does she get to skate? this may seem like an obvious question, dr. wood, but i'm going to ask you, why does claudine gay get to skate on obvious plagiarism? >> she gets to skate because her board is too embarrassed to admitted they made a terrible mistake in appointing her. she gets to skate there is behind this a ferocious political movement. she is the wokest college president in the country and is trying to lead a total

transformation of harvard to allow her academic dishonesty to get in the way of trying to turn harvard into the wedge that will undo white supremacy or the systemic racism that she sees around every corner would upset the political commitments ever powerful people at harvard. >> laura: well, it exposes the truth about diversity, equity and inclusion that sadly it lowers standards. and it actually hurts everybody. it doesn't help. it doesn't help people. it actually hurts people. and she was the first black president of harvard. black female president of harvard. and to, you know, a few months into the deal to say whoops, we made a mistake. if she were a white male kind of middle of the road, more milk toast guy, right? would he have lasted, dr. wood? >> well, someone with her record

would never have been appointed in the first place, except for the fact that she is black and she is ultra woke. but, anybody else would be long gone as the president of university of pennsylvania fell because of not plagiarism but because of what she said before the house. but, gay is protected right now. but i think it's only for right now. the cases of plagiarism that harvard is trying to cover up or pretend are not that big of deal, are the tip of the iceberg. now that harvard has taken this stand, the people i work with are examining her other work which i fully expect is going it be revealed as full of even more plagiarism. one thing i know as someone who has dealt with plagiarism cases for many years, is that most plagiarists are serial offenders. they get into the habit. they get away with it, so they keep on doing it.

and i think we're about to see that claudine gay's tissue paper thin excuse for this that it's just an error of punctuation or something like that is about to fall apart. >> laura: nikole hannah-jones from the 1619 project says it's all racist. all this criticism that people like you are raising is based in racism and you say very quickly? >> the accusation of racism is the last refuge of scoundrels as a famous man once wrote. we are in a world here where people commit avijay just wrongs and try to get away with it by saying don't blame me, this is a matter of only the racists are accusing me. >> laura: peter, it's good to see you. thank you for joining us, this is serious business. we want harvard and all these institutions to actually be credible. it's better if we have credible institutions, elite institutions. this is embarrassment for

everyone. now, don't you lover it when the global elite meet in some far away country and make these unanimous proclamations to raucous applause that never impact your life but make them feel good about themselves? we will explain it, next. ♪

>> it is a plan that is led by the science, it is a balanced plan that tabs emissions, reimagined global finance. it is the uae consensus. [applause] >> laura: clap if you like shakedowns of the united states. because this time it happened at the u.n. annual climate summit called cop 28. now, for the first time ever, nearly 200 countries made a global pact that's unenforceable to transition away from fossil fuels by 2050. now, the green yacks could barely contain themselves. >> >> hearing no objection it is so decided. [gavel] [applause]

[applause] [cheers and applause] >> laura: let's give ourselves a standing ovation for putting people into poverty. joining me now is marc morano climate depot just got back from copout 22348 dubai. mark, now the u.n. secretary general also applauded the move saying that the era of fossil fuels must end and it must end, this is my favorite part, with justice and my favorite word equity. okay, mark, what is this really all about? how much is it going to cost us? >> well, today you need to hug your children because the u.n. a190 plus nations have announced the end of fossil fuels. now, keep in mind. 100 years ago the world, 80% of our energy came from fossil fuels and today 80% of our energy comes from fossil fuels. but, hey, it's going away. do you know what the secretary general, former president of socialist international, laura, the media doesn't seem to

mention that very much the secretary general said whether you like it or not, fossil fuels are going away. well, gee, if that's the case, then these cop meetings are going away. you had the british foreign secretary, king charles and richie rich, rishi sunak the prime minister fly three private jets to this. in many ways this is absolute virtue signaling, laura. here's the thing since march of 2020 the whole world has changed. they are lusting after what they saw in covid. and the most significant thing of this cop 28 happened about a week before cop 28 and that's when couple hundred medical journals urged the world health organization to declare climate change a public health threat. and the idea here is to bring this under public health authority to declare a covid emergency or declare public health climate change that. that's what they're looking for. bypass democracy and that's the

whole set up. that is why this is window dressing for the real power happening behind the scenes. >> laura: that's when they want to get rid of cash. they can track all of your purchases, electric cars, they can stop you from moving out of your allowed territory and so forth. but, i know that china got a big free pass as usual. >> yes. >> and also india. because i mean they have already said we are not phasing outs think are not going to phase out of anything. it's vital to their economies. they know it fossil fuels as it is to ours. >> they do that india and environmental minister we are not going to limit our development because 20%, 30% of their population is in poverty. china, on the other hand, they are not going to be exempt. they are pushing hard, laura, ey had the most elabrador redd-it booth set up. perks of xi jib ping over the cop 28 sign. they were pushing for as much transition i say to solar and wind from fossil fuels. china was pushing the west to be

more reliant on, drum roll please, china. which is what they are doing. i would argue it's easier to transition your gender than to transition energy especially the way the united states is going about it. centrally planned, command and control. they are not backing off of this at any level. the danger comes from the corporate government collusion that was there they also had children's events there they had sustainable fashion events. they have it all covered at these conferences. >> laura: this is u.s. just your all around green nightmare. china does get to skate in this though. mark, great to see you. all right, the president's infrastructure is collapsing. and at a state house the dark figure appearing near the christmas displays is, what? details "seen and unseen" raymond arroyo is next. ♪

it's time for "seen and unseen" where we reveal the stories behind the headlines. we turn to raymond arroyo.

all right, raymond, biden seems particularly intent on securing billions for ukraine. >> if you listen closely to the president, he thinks ukraine has authority it just doesn't have. >> congress needs to pass a supplemental fund ukraine before they call a recess, before they give putin the greatest gift they could give him. we need ukraine to make changes to fix the broken immigration system here. we also need congress to make the changes to fix the broken immigration system here at home. >> he is partially right, laura. without being attached to ukraine funding, congress would be perfectly willing to ignore our border crisis entirely. don't you love it? he can't even read the notes anymore. this is getting so bad. >> at one point it was almost like he forgot where he was sitting at one point in the oval office.

is there a way we could strike up a fund, raymond? i was thinking about this today. strike up a fund for zelenskyy to by him a proper suit and tie? if you are going to come and lecture us about what we should be doing with our money, then at least dress. you don't like the sweatshirt? >> the act is getting a little old. he should wear a suit and tie. we got it, we get it. it's a horrible event, a horrible war. but put a suit and tie on. we will strike up a fund. the reality is biden, you are right, he doesn't know what he is saying anymore. i don't know how zelenskyy even kept a straight face during this. >> look, we are going to ask questions. each has two questions. i will ask the first question. i will ask. i will recognize the first question, ask. i will ask the question. >> the real problem is the

president possible's are now in revolt turkey is pivoting from ukraine and is trying to celebrate his trillion dollar infrastructure spending in between. >> it's great to be here with so many members of our national advisory council. excuse me. communities are left behind from when the hurricane hits, together you delivered boosting our resilience and expand our use of electricity. >> it's making no sense. but at the same time biden is pushing infrastructure spending. zelenskyy was out saying don't spend your money on roads and bridges, america. >> do this. not build roads for today. don't do it. spend all your money to the weapon, to the drones, to society, to the pensions, et cetera.

>> to their pensions? we are spending money on their pensions? people are wondering if they are going to have their own pensions in the united states win push comes to shove. >> it is absolutely remarkable, laura. you have here a guy begging coming with hat in hand and telling mayors don't spend on roads and bridges. give me your money. this is crazy. we have given you hundreds of billions of dollars. you've got to draw the line somewhere. i want to go to the story, laura, breaking in the iowa state house. it's a display of satan erected by the such an example. we will put it up in a second. the fact that this is here is causing outrage everywhere. and protest. when you see this thing, it is so outrageous. there is an altar in front of the statue of satan. there it is. this was put here legally. apparently the irs decided that the satanic temple is a religious organization so they are they are with their little

temple in the iowa state house. inflaming everybody. it's only there for two weeks during christmas. that's not by mistake. that is by design. >> maybe they should get used to the hot temperature with the candles. i want to move quickly to boston. mayor michelle wu is under fire for her christmas party. her assistant sent out invites to the entire city council which wouldn't have been a problem, but it was supposed to be a secret party of elected people of color. half the city council, the white half, wasn't supposed to be invited. >> and half of them are democrats. they are even upset and believe this is divisive. i guess it's anything but a white christmas. maybe blue christmas can be played at that party. >> all right, raymond. thank you. catch him in cleveland and nashville. go to raymond arroyo christmas.com. that's it for us tonight. jesse is next. welcome to "jesse watters pre"