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ingraham angle." thank you as always for being with us tonight. yes, we're really winning. that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> we're going to win. >> we're going to wen. >> we're going to win. >> you're going to win. you're going to win. you're gonna stink. you're gonna lose. lose. >> ha ha ha ha. got him. >> laura: even the newspaper that spent the past seven years trying to tear apart donald trump is beginning to see the writing on the wall. now, the colorado supreme court decision to strike him from the primary ballot was the bridge too far even for judicial activists. senior writer ruth marcus considered one of "the washington post's" most senior and really well respected writers put it bluntly. the best outcome for the court and the country would be for a anonymous court to clear the way for trump to run.

look. they know trump is going to win the case through the colorado supreme court and any other outcome would set a match to already freeing national fabric. i made that point last night. even the uber liberal website i love this slate says the case should be reversed 9-0. but, that is the only -- the only latest, i think, of what will end up being a series of wins for america's constitution, for our prosperity, security, even for our culture. >> i mean this from the bottom of my heart. i have never been more optimistic about america's prospects and america's future than i am today. >> laura: unlike a president whose party believes that america is intrinsically racist and sexist, we don't need to pretend to be optimistic and pretend to love the country. we are optimistic and we do love this country. no wonder we are winning and they are losing. now, their embrace of economic

socialism, ne-yo marxism, wokeism, and globalism i'm talkg about white, black, brown, asian, younger and older voters are redisconnecting the policies of the ideas of democrats and the far left. >> money has been a little bit tighter. things have gotten a lot more expensive, actually. >> everything is going up so much. so, it's kind of reduce my spending amount this year. >> this is the worst i have ever seen it. and i have been through -- i was here through the drug epidemic. i was here. it wasn't as bad as it is now. >> d.c. is under siege. and we need help which side do you want to be on? the side that believes in strong borders or scenes like this are acceptable.

are you on the side that believes that energy independence means freedom or the side that wants to ban your gas stove. how about the side that preservative history or be on the side that tear it all down. melt statues and furnaces and put up monuments to george floyd? the side that believes in hard work and merit or the side that believes in firsts, that firsts somehow matter more? do you want to be on the side that believes that men are men and women or women or the side that wants to protect children or do you want to be with the people who want to confuse children and panders to those who celebrate mutilating their sexual organs. >> to parents of transgender children, affirming your child's identity is one of the most powerful things can you do to keep them safe and healthy. parents and children alike. please ask for help and know this: you're so brave.

you belong and we have your back. >> laura: we're going to win. our ideas are better and their ideas are proven failures. now, this is why joe biden, despite getting help from the richest sectors of society, is spiraling downward. after a thousand 66 long days in office, this is where joe biden sits in comparison to other u.s. presidents. lower than all of them at 38.9%. now, no matter what they have done to try to convince people, for instance, that bidenomics is really working, listen to us or that the border is secure. there's no crisis here. or that ukraine is right on the verge of winning, just give us another 50 billion or trump is hitler and never going to leave office if elected. none of it is working. none of it. democrats spent all their time arguing that trump's a throat democracy while they themselves

seem very threatened by next year's democratic process. the "new york times" noting that, once again, democrats find themselves looking toward american institutions to stop mr. trump whom they view as a morality threat to democracy. this is a kicker. for many it may are more pleasant to think about a judicial end game that stops mre slog of next year's likely rematch against president biden. well, the slog of next year's rematch? they don't even realize that they're proving our point. the great defenders of democracy believe that campaigning, you know, actually winning over voters is a burden. and in a sense for them i guess with his record, it is. but, beyond trump, our bench is very strong. governs like ron desantis, kim reynolds of iowa, glenn youngkin in virginia, greg abbott texas,

bill lee, tennessee. criminals city nome, south dakota. tate reeves in mississippi, many more, that is a very strong bench with a real track record of success. but who do the democrats have? what, the squad, dine out on them? newsom? he couldn't beat ron desantis in a bee date. kathy hochul? oh, j.b. pritzker, he will try to buy his way into office. i will take those matchups any day of the week against any of our people in the future. now, we haven't even mentioned josh hawley, j.d. vance, elise stefanik. all very strong voices for the future and it's not just on those economic issues that we have talked about so much in the past year that we are seeing growing support. social conservatism is also on the rise while liberalism is waning. that my friends is great news. really when i thought about it i thought about writing this as my last "angle" for the year.

ever since the 2008 financial crisis and the rise of obama, what that meant, that many on the right and sometimes i have felt this way, i have been a little bit on the defensive. at times it's been painful for all of us to see the radical changes pushed by the left. and the weakness, utter weakness of so many who should have fought back harder and pushed back harder. but now, time to push away that pessimism because the momentum is on our side. the left has gone way too far. i like to say they have gone so far left they have left america. its supporters and the establishment, they have nothing left. i think but, what, threats intimidation and shaky old joe biden. now is the time for everyone -- i mean everyone on our side to be unflappable, be courageous, to go full throttle. and take the successful policies that already are working in places like florida and texas to

all 50 states and that's "the angle." joining me now ned ryun and sarah bedford investigative editor for "the washington examiner" and steam boat institute likely fellow. ed, what do you think the biggest triumph of the conservative movement is just this past year? >> that's great question, laura, i think in the immediate, i think one of the biggest triumphs is the fact that the american people are rejecting democrats' lawfare against trump. they are rejecting the targeting a political opponent. can you actually see that in the poll numbers. i think that's a huge triumph. every institution, corporate propagandist, everybody has been trying to say you can't do, this you can't have trump as the republican nominee and american people are rejecting that and you see him surging in the polls in both the primary and general. i look at other triumphs. i look at target arched the bud light boycotts conservative constitutional populist took the lead on boycotts and american

people followed and cost those corporations tens of billions of dollars because they said weaver are not going to have you force transgenderism down our throats and down the throats of our children. another triumph, the other reason for optimism this year has been elon musk with x. formerly known as twitter and his radical commitment to free speech which has broken the stranglehold of corporate propagandist on the narrative. i think the other reason i have optimism as you were alluding, to laura, more of the american people are waking up to the battle in this country over free 2k078 of speech. freedom of religion. freedom of conscience. the right to free and fair elections. they are realizing the people advocating for those freedoms are the constitutional conservative pop phyllis while on the other side the ruling elite authoritarians are pushing bad policies and also saying if you don't like them, submit, or else. >> laura: well, sarah, i think that when you really look at the people's reaction to the sell job of bidenomics and i want to

play something from biden yesterday. there is no wonder they are scratching their heads going are they living in the real world? watch. this transformative economy. >> doing it while building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up. not the top down. not a whole lot trickle down on my dad's kitchen table when the top down economy. that's what we call bidenomics. [laughter] >> laura: sarah, none of it has landed. i don't know what that word salad was. none of it has landed. people see what they see with their own eyes. >> that's right. the biden administration has treated bidenomics, their economic policies as a rhetorical problem. if they just found the right set of talking points to explain it to people, then they can win people over. they never really considered that their policies are driving the problem or really unwilling to touch the policies because the far left is so attached to them. but the biden administration in a lot of ways has been an exercise in what taking these progressive ideals off of paper out of, you know, thought up in

conference rooms and higher education and universities and actually putting them into practice. what that really looks like. and the overreach of the left is, i think, driving some of this resurgence of conservatism where curly, you are right. the conservatives have had at least in my adult lifetime always been on defense. now you see the overreach on dei and corporate america. on the transgender movement. school sports. and, you know, hiding transitioning from parents. the left has overreached so far across all these avenues that the backlash is making conservatives more popular right now. >> laura: i usually -- by the way, refrain from playing too many soundbites bu by this next person. but this so great i had to play it. ned, watch it. >> you look at the issues, joe biden on the issues, you look at the legislation he has passed. it's extremely popular with the american people. there is still a disconnect between the president that

signed all that legislation into law and what voters think, especially younger voters think. [laughter] >> laura: well, somebody who can't bother to put on a coat and tie and pull over three quarter zip maybe can't think through the issues. low blow cute three quarters' zip. tell us what the disconnect between the elite media class and regular working class people, i know all of us came from. all three of us came from working class background. what -- what is up with these people? >> they live in their own bubble. they have detached themselves from reality, from the real world. the acela corridor as i like to say new york city and d.c. they live in their own bubble. they talk to themselves. they are echo chambers reinforcing what they think with listening to sources that reinforce that in the real world, when you get out there, the american people are making it very clear that none of the biden policies, whether it's bidenomics, whether it's immigration, whether it's failed democratic policies in the inner

cities and the rise of crime. none of those are appealing to the american people. and, again, the backlash that's coming gives me optimism for next year. laura, i have to say, this 2024, and the reason i'm optimistic is this is coming at just the right time. 2024 is going to be monumental. conservative capitalism has to triumph. has to win. it's our last best chance for america -- >> laura: i got to get sarah in. >> effectively. >> laura: yeah. and, sarah, you got to get the last word here. do you believe that we are on the precipice of major change and a backlash against this wokest progressive agenda? >> i do. i think the upper echelons of the democratic party are now controlled by what could be referred to as luxury beliefs. they have the luxury of believing that confederate statues are the greatest threat to america and climate change, too. the high prices and the cost of living doesn't affect them as much because they live in these elite bubbles.

>> laura: yeah. my view on this, guys, is that when pooferld is deciding that drug legalization was a bad idea, that's a big sign for the left. ned and sarah, you both are so great. great to have you on all year long. there are now at least 16 states seeking to save democracy by crushing it. and, of course, they want to take trump off the ballot because you can't have people vote, right? in moments, i will explain way to this legal insanity threatens those beyond the former president. stay there.

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>> laura: 16 and it is not sweet. that is the number of states filing to keep trump off the ballot in 2024. suffering from trump derangement syndrome and deep anxiety about biden's mental and physical state, some are willing to jettison the constitution, as in your right to protest. we live under the rule of law in this country and it is imperative all americans accept the decisions of the courts, including the supreme court. it is not an option to protest

in the street decisions of our courts, state or federal. >> laura: look at the people react, what did he just say? since when? they love when certain people take to the streets. blm was lowly. and protesting the dobbs decisions. [chanting] >> laura: burn it down, they were saying. joining us to talk about gutting free speech. jonathan turley, professor of law at george washington university and fox news contributor. these were from a former well-respected conservative judge on the fourth circuit court of appeals. >> jonathan: well, you hear this

type of exaggerated claim with a lot of folks in this super heated environment. you have members of congress that have said hate speech is not protected. it is protected. hate crimes are not protected. speech is not temperature is hateful, even speech we may condemn. there is nothing new to this. you have democrats who are literally running for office on the pledge of censorship. think about that, pledging to citizens they will reduce their constitutional rights. that is what we have reached as a country. in the end, i think there is enough of us in this country to hold the line, that is not what defines us. what defines us are common rights and values and we often

defend others, we don't censor them or arrest them. >> laura: we've seen panic set in because everything they have done from calling trump hitler or stalin, or the latest, saying he's a threat to democracy, yet the boomerang is thrown by them. throwing this claim at trump and it is hitting them because they don't seem to want to trust the voters next year, jonathan. they do not trust outcome of the election. >> jonathan: the best way to be a defender of democracy is to practice democracy and support it. citizens need to go to the polls and argue they should not vote for donald trump or joe biden, that is democracy in action. instead you have four justices on the colorado supreme court

that want to prevent millions from voting for what is currently the leading presidential candidacy. others say testing this is standing with confederates and it is that overheated rhetoric we have to be unified in condemning. three democratic justices refused to sign on to this. this was the first successful earlier ruling. the earlier rulings were rejected by many democrats. there is more unity than people suggest whachl they hear on other networks is false narrative. viewers are hearing this is slam dunk unassailable and clear he could be taken from this ballot. you can understand why voters

get angry when they hear from the courts no. this is a bridge too far for democracy. >> laura: quick reaction, special prosecutor jack smith is frantically appealing to the supreme court urging them for president trump's immunity argument, insisting resolution of the question is pivotal to whether the former president himself will stand trial. prompt resolution favors definitive decision, the charges are of the utmost gravity. it seems they want him in jail before the election. how do you see this? >> jonathan: you are very familiar with this court, of course, the question is whether the supreme court will share this sense of urgency, smith pulled out all the stops to try to convict trump before the

election. these justices may not see this urgency, trump can still run and serve even if you were to convict him. the question is, why pull the stops on this, why not stick with regular order and allow court of appeals to rule. interesting how the supreme court reacts to this, more filings from smith, the more we see this absolute priority he gives to shoehorning this trial just before super tuesday and it flips the policy of the department of justice which has avoided that and don't like trials before elections and try to avoid that. >> laura: yeah, i would be surprised if the court jumped on this. professor turley, have a great christmas. thanks. in moments i speak to our own bill melugin from the border about one of the wildest documents he's ever come across

and why dhs secretary mayorkas is killing or should kill any hope of any border raw deal. stay there.

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>> welcome to fox news live. i'm jackie ibanez. a mass shoot nothing europe happened yesterday at a university in prague. at least 14 killed and another 25 wounded. the lone gunman, identified as philosophy student also died. he may have been influenced by the epidemic here in this country. detroit news uncovered recorded phone calls of donald trump

pressuring to michigan canvasser says not to certify the election. his spokesman does not dispute such conversations took place. i'm jackie ibanez, back to "the ingraham angle." >> to really understand the current border invasion, think about the population of places like salt lake city or little rock. maybe tallahassee. because all of those cities have more than 200,000 people living in them. just in the first 20 days of december, less than three weeks, more than 200,000 people have crossed into the united states illegally. that is enough to fill a major u.s. city. and they are coming from all over, yesterday we saw migrants coming from afghanistan and india. today, from guinea. >> where in the u.s. do you want to go to? >> philadelphia. >> philadelphia? why philadelphia?

>> uh, -- i don't know the place. [inaudible] >> okay. so just an address in philadelphia to go to? >> okay. >> fox's bill melugin joins us now from lukeville, arizona. bill, did you find out where exactly he was going in philadelphia what that contact is and tell us more about what you are seeing today -- tonight. >> bill: hey, laura, yeah. we looked up that address after he gave us that piece of paper. it was a local community center in philadelphia. it wasn't like a house or apartment or something. it's a community building. so we are not exactly sure hot contact is there. but the man himself seemed unsure of where he was going. when i asked him why are you going to philadelphia? like why do you want to go there he is like uh, i don't know, i just got this piece of paper. i'm supposed to go here. who sent him there? we don't know. and that's kind of the case for a lot of the migrants here. we interview them and say where

do they want to go? they name off cities all around the united states. when we ask for specifics like why do you want to go l.a. or why do you wanted to go to new york city like where? they never have answers for us. >> laura: well, bill, anyone seeking asylum in the united states -- and that's pretty much anybody crossing the border. they are given something. and i used to practice a little bit of this law called a notice to appear. and that tells them the date that they have to supposedly show up in court. a lot of people never show up, of course. we know there is a backlog, years and years. but you saw something shocking even given everything you know about the border. what was that? >> yes, so my jaw hit the floor when i saw. this a colombian woman who crossed illegally into el paso was released into the united states and she was given an ice check-in date in new york city in the year 2031. 8 years from now. i talked to her immigration attorney who told me he has been

doing immigration law for almost 30 years. it is one of the most stunning things he has ever seen and he said it made him realize that the biden administration in his words is essentially giving back door amnesty to anybody who shows up at the southern border and claims asylum because of how backlogged the system is we are talking 8 years in advance in this case. >> laura: bill, you have done such amazing reporting this entire year. we appreciate you so much. thank you very much. ♪ >> laura: all right. we keep seeing headlines about how republicans in the senate are committed to working on a border deal with democrats. but, why? what would any deal involving dh secretary alejandro mayorkas really be worth? look at what the man has done to our country. he should have been impeached long ago. would have been replaced with someone just as bad but, still, what senate leadership really wants is not border enforcement. i'm talking about the uniparty here. both parties. because how many times have you

seen mitch mcconnell address the border crisis, given how serious it is? never. has he even traveled to the border? now, the only reason that they are mentioning the border issue now is to get that money for ukraine. but i have an idea. let's let the voters decide the border issue next year. forget the deal. it will be a raw deal. joining me now wisconsin senator rob johnson of the homeland security committee. senator, i have a very, very bad feeling about any deal in the works, am i wrong? >> merry christmas, laura. no, you're not that's why i have been leading the process to slow this process down. letters it republican leadership to hold a conference meeting when we return on january 8th. and that was really designed to make sure they wouldn't jam us

on a bill nobody has seen and only a couple people negotiating this thing. i think we were largely successful. they recessed the senate. did not take a vote on the supplemental or any kind of border security measure. but, no, you are exactly right. the problem we have we are negotiating with a administration and democrats in the senate who want an open border that caused this crisis. you know, biden came into office and the border was largely secured. we stopped the flow of unaccompanied children, family units exploiting our laws. we still had the single adults we always have had. largely, largely secured border. and then president biden because he said those policies were inhumane open up the border. now we have this catastrophe on our hand. just think of it. 14,509 migrants on monday. 14,000. 200 to 1 is the ratio of migrants. >> laura: that's a joke. >> to border patrol agents. that's not just one day. that happens day after day after day after day.

and it's overwhelming the system. i heard new york was 10 year wait. you said 8 years. this is completely out of control. but this is what the democrats want. and we're supposed to be able to negotiate with them in good faith? i'm making the point in conference. this has to be -- we have to insist on border security in any negotiation. >> laura: no. here's my question and a lot of people i know are asking this tonight. what connection is is there between ukraine, a country that we're not even allies with as a member of nato. they are not members of nato. and our own sovereignty? why is our own sovereignty in any way tied to supporting other countries? >> well, because we want to put as a priority securing our own border, protecting our own citizens, our own homeland while the biden administration and some republicans have a higher priority at securing ukraine's border. so we're using.

>> laura: bingo. >> we are using their desire to get that funding as leverage to try and secure our border. now, again, do -- do i think that the democrats are negotiating in good faith? i doubt it. you cannot trust this president to faithfully execute the laws. he completely ignores the supreme court. >> laura: let the supreme court decide. >> that's the real crux. any agreement we do with biden, you can't count on him to actually, you know, honor those agreements. >> laura: yeah. well, senator, they want cover going into next year's election. saying oh no, we struck a deal. it's a bipartisan deal. we have this under control. a complete lie. senator, thank you and merry christmas to you. all right. some fresh new revelations against harvard president claudine gay and even the lame media, lame street media is actually reacting to. this could she really be in danger of losing her job or is she too important to the dei scam to toss to the side. chris rufo who has been leading on all of this and

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protect its president claudine gay, despite her repeated, brazen instances of plagiarism. now, when journalist chris rufo first broke this story, harvard claimed it had conducted an independent review of gay's work. and found only a few instances of what they called inadequate citation. i love that they even commended her for proactively requesting corrections to two of the articles in question. but, now, the free beacon has uncovered 40 other instances of plagiarism, which means i guess more so-called corrections from claudine gay. three in total. again, harvard calls this instances of inadequate citation. now, it's gotten so bad that even the "new york times" is calling it embarrassing. and, remember, if a freshman was accused of similar academic dishonesty he likely would have already been dismissed from the school unless well maybe if he

or she were protected by the dei shield that they are holding up to protect ms. gay. >> this is kind of the beauty of how racism works. if you are black and you don't achieve at the highest echelon because you are lazy and you are not smart enough. if you do succeed and achieve and rise to the top of your profession, it's because you doesn't deserve it. they just see this as an opening to further sow racial division and to further their campaign of trying to attack any efforts around diversity and anti-racism. >> laura: joining me now chris rufo, senior fellow at the manhattan institute. chris, now just yesterday cnn confirmed the reporting from independent conservative media about gay's plagiarism, but now they, what, must believe that terminating her would be seen as, i guess, giving in to the right, which they can never, apparently, let happen. is that what is going on here?

>> yeah, that's right. look, the evidence is damning. harvard president claudine gay has committed 40 instances of plagiarism, spanning three decades from her ph.d. thesis at the beginning of her career all the way to her final academic paper before becoming dean and then president. all of her work, from start to finish contains this kind of material. and so, the facts are clear and now the decision that has to be made is a very simple one. does harvard value veritas or truth or does harvard value dei and having the right race gender and symbolism at the top of its university hierarchy. >> can you only pick one in case. and i think what we are seeing right now is a scrambling behind the scenes and my sources are telling me that there is an increasing amount of pressure to dump claudine gay as president. but it's a very delicate and changing situation. i think -- i'm hoping, in fact, that harvard comes to its senses

and realizes that it will jeopardize nearly 400 years of reputation that its built and if it sacrifices its commitment to academic integrity, it will lose it all it's done enormous damage to its credibility not just here in the united states but internationally as well. just so people understand what we are talking about here. going back to her 1997 dissertation, one of the examples being cited. she wrote i'm also grateful to gary king as a methodologist. he reminded me of the importance of getting the data right and following where they lead without fear of favor. and she thanked her family who quote drove my harder than i sometimes wanted to be driven. this sounds almost exactly what jennifer hochschild wrote a year prior. this was just one example, kind of generic language, not like

for whom the bell tolls or anything. you look through all of these allegations, is this casual? is it brazen? is it sloppiness? what did you see? >> it's brazen, it's repeated and very serious plagiarism that would have any harvard student under current harvard rules that are written out in the book expelled or at the very least forced to withdraw from the college for two semesters. i actually went back and found harvard's rule book from 1995 and 1998 when gay was working on that ph.d. thesis, even at the time she absolutely violated the plagiarism rules. she should have been forced to withdraw for at least two semesters. and so, look, the bottom line is. this. she not only plagiarized substantive material in much of her academic work. she even plagiarized, as you just went through in detail, the acknowledgment section. >> laura: well, what i am stunned by in all of this, chris, is that, for decades,

nobody caught this or nobody thought to say wow this so i keep saying brazen. it is brazen. everybody knows the honor codes at these institutions. everybody understands how serious this is taken by academic boards. and, yet, repeatedly she was allowed to slide. does that not tell you something about how powerful this movement was, even before it was called diversity, equity and inclusion? >> that's exactly right there. have been rumors circulating in academic forums for now more than a year that talking about claudine gay's plagiarism and her thesis and her other works. what i'm hearing from harvard insiders is that claudine gay has demonstrated the capacity to rule, to intimidate and fill you with fear. she has ruined the careers of harvard scholars that opposed her, that opposed her ideology. and a lot of people, even on the

faculty at harvard, they know it's plagiarism. they know it's wrong. they know she needs to go. but they remain silent because thee wields tremendous power and she rules in a machiavellian manner. >> laura: chris, thank you. >> thank you. >> laura: calling the sleep deprived. i have some good news for you. dr. siegel is up next to

>> laura: we've all felt like that one time or the other. if you're like me, you are chronically sleep deprived and we've been told by experts there is no such thing as catching up on sleep. in other words, once you lost the z's, the damage is done. new study shows getting more

sleep during the weekend can help your heart. joining me now dr. marc siegel, fox news medical contributor. the advice laura should take segment. am i okay not sleeping much during the week if i snooze extra saturday? >> dr. siegel: who of us actually gets more than six hours per sleep? none of us. we've been told for years we can't make it up. i tell you why, i figured out why. you know what happens when you sleep? you vacuum cleaner out and debris comes out of your body. metabolism slows down, less risk of heart disease and stroke.

only thing that might give you pause that you have not said yet, this study was done by chinese researchers looking at american data. what are they doing looking at our data? over 3000 patients were examined, what are they doing with their finger in our pie. i believe this study is real and i think it is a great message for america. sleep in on weekends. >> laura: one thing the "new york times" is doing a big series about, heart health, mental health and loneliness. it is sad to think about people who are alone in the holiday? what is the message to people who feel that way and how to get help for feeling that way, that is huge medical implication for the country. >> dr. siegel: the pandemic made it worse with people not talking

to each other, a study shows if you just hug somebody for 20 seconds you decrease your risk of heart disease and blood pressure goes down. my message for holidays, let's hug instead of yelling at each other. listen to people who don't agree with us, come together and show kindness, which lowers blood pressure. >> laura: have a great 2024. that is it for tonights, have a wonderful christmas. take some time, take time offline and spend with people who matter most to you. you will be left in good hands when i'm gone. see you in the exciting year and i'm optimistic about 2024. thank you for watching all year long. jesse is next. >> todd: a fox news alert, top republican in the house wants presen