>> bret: finally tonight, today's throwback. >> the great society asked not how much but how good. [applause] >> 59 years ago today, 1965, president lyndon b. johnson delivered a state of the union address. johnson declared his vision for the so-called great society. pledged to redouble his war on poverty. almost all the great society legislation was eventually passed into law. critics note in many ways lbj's led to much higher deficits and massive expansion of government. tomorrow on "special report," we have got our common ground segment about veterans affairs and all the news. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts now. ♪ ♪ >> judge jeanine: i'm judge gentleman green pirro in for laura ingraham and this is a

special edition of the i can gramg gram angle from new york city tonight the second batch of documents tied to jeffrey epstein has just dropped and we are going through it page by page. we will bring you all the details as soon as we can but, first, tomorrow is the big day. biden's first campaign speech of the year. he is heading to valley forge, pennsylvania to do what the associated press describes as deviling into some of the country's darkest moments jacqui, what can we expect from joe biden tomorrow? >> good evening, judge. president biden's under water approval ratings and voter anxiety about his age have reportedly pushed the campaign to have the 81-year-old president stop competing with himself, where he is losing, and start competing with trump. or as one aide told cnn, quote:

it's about when to go full hitler when the leading republican candidate's speeches and actions go so far that the biden team goes all the way to a direct comparison to the nazi leader rather than saying their attacks parroted him. hope that the memory of trump bring voters back into the fold show him sliding among constituencies that elected him to office including black, hispanic, and young voters that effort was supposed to start on saturday, the three year anniversary of january 6th. because ever a weekend know storm it will start tomorrow at the site where george washington led the continental army and the fight for american freedom. biden will decry trump as a threat to democracy it. seems like the president will we've that tone into his official events, too. >> january 6th cost putin the lives of police. injured many police officers and inflicted bodily harm on many people. it was sight that was horrific a

confederate flag flying in the halls of the capitol. the president is going to speak about this. he is going to continue to be very vocal about this. >> jacqui: on monday president biden heads to charlottesville speech nine people were killed in 2015. it seems like the campaign plan is less about getting voters excited about a second term agenda than getting them to vote out of fear. judge? >> all right, jacqui, thanks so much there is something dangerous happening in america. extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. all of us are being asked right now what will we do to maintain our democracy? >> judge jeanine: well, biden's campaign message is this, january 6th was bad, charlottesville was bad. trump supporters are bad. how do you want to campaign by demonizing so much of the country? the fact is, he has no choice but to do that because he can't

run on his own record or his agenda. he knows this and his team knows this. some aides even told cnn that the campaign, up until now, has essentially been biden running against himself and losing. joining me now is mollie hemingway, fox news contributor and editor and chief of the federalist and tomi lahren, host of tomi lahren is fearless on outkick.com. all right, mollie. you know, biden ran on lifting the country but isn't that the opposite of what he is doing here? >> he wants to lean into this sort of hate-filled message. but i wonder if that's not a great idea for him in part because of how he has run his presidency. it's not just that their foreign policy problems and economic problems and no border and rampant crime it's also that he himself is doing a throat attack the public. is he trying to imprison his top political opponent. other democrats are working to

steal that family business of donald trump. they are working to on trumped up charges. they have censored tens of millions of americans. so when americans think about what is dark and not healthy and not a good look for america, they probably are thinking more about these democrat policies towards censorship and violation of people's speech rights, attempts to imprison political opponents and then they are not happy with the other policies as well. >> judge jeanine: tomi, the truth is joe biden has lost in the latest polls almost 24 points among black voters. he is behind in terms of hispanic voters. trump beating him there as well. trump beating him with the youth vote. that is with biden having the benefit of abortion and climate change. i mean, joe biden doesn't have a story to tell about himself, does he? >> he certainly doesn't. you know, a few months back, the administration tried the whole bidenomics approach. they tried that catchphrase for

those that have watched mean girls. they tried make fetch happen and fetch did not happen. they decided to bury bidenomics along with the rest of the country and our economic prosperity so now they have to go back to their old trick which is bringing up charlottesville, bringing up january 6th, bringing up donald trump he is bringing back the dark brandon speech with the red lights behind him because that really is all that works is to talk about maga republicans. >> this is a man also who ran on being the unifier in chief in his inauguration, talked about unifying the country but, once again, all is he doing is vilifying half of the country calling us maga republicans in a derogatory way. saying that we are deplorable. we are insurrectionists. we are racist. we're xenophobic. taking a page out of the hillary clinton playbook that didn't work for her either. that's all that he has. i love that line about him running against himself and losing. so that's why they are pivoting now back to the whole dark brandon approach. making the rest of the country feel like they are surrounded by a bunch of racists because that's all that they have.

you mentioned, judge, they have the abortion issue. they have climate change. they have racism. but that's it. when you have got an open border and you have got a plummeting economy, and a commander-in-chief who, quite frankly, doesn't know where he is at most of the time. this is all you have to go with. >> judge jeanine: all right. mollie, i want to go back to what jacqui said a few moments ago. some of the younger aides on biden's re-election campaign have been grimly joking the campaign is getting ready to go full name on hitler, mollie is this surprising? >> no. it is something we have seen from president biden since he first ran for office in 2020. he really does lean into this hate-filled rhetoric where he attacks half the country, where he talks in such dark terms about the people he purports to lead. again, it doesn't work in part because the democrat party is the one right now associated with limits on people's speech, expressure, where they are going after -- they are literally trying to imprison a very

popular political opponent and remove him from the ballot. so, if you want comparisons to dictators or authoritarians. you see it all with the biden administration. and you don't just have it where he is making this claim against someone. you also have the experience of what the trump administration was like. where someone was in charge of the department of justice. and didn't use it to go after his political enemies. and didn't use it to take joe biden off the ballot or other democrats off the ballot when you see that side by side comparison and one is working to restrict speech, expression, and free elections, it doesn't work to have some of this outlandish rhetoric being used by the biden administration. >> judge jeanine: you know, tomi, finally, i want you to listen to nancy pelosi and then i want your response. >> the president has said we have more work to be done and let's have a debate on who is there for the american people. i am very excited about what biden has done. we were a part of that. but, more importantly, what he will do.

>> judge jeanine: do you think the american people are feeling that, tomi? no they are certainly not. i hope that nancy pelosi brought up debate. i hope that joe biden is open to debating donald trump. i think he is certainly going to try to start that as much as he wants to go on hate-filled campaigns to talk about racism. i think he will still spend the majority of his campaign in the basement. i hope to see him out there with donald trump and let's talk about some of these policy positions. let's talk about the economy and the open border and the fact that our cities are being flooded with illegal immigrants. i look forward to that i'm glad that nancy pelosi is teeing that up for the debate. i hope that joe biden will follow through on that promise. >> judge jeanine: yeah. i wouldn't hold my breath on that one. mollie and tomi, thank you so much for joining us tonight. and, this is like gr groundhogs day. now illinois might be getting on the stop trump bandwagon. five voters have just filed a petition to bar trump from the state's primary ballot. if you know anything about donald trump, you know that that's not going to deter him

this week has been filled with him fighting back in the courts. first he appealed maine's decision to kick him off the ballot. then he asked the supreme court to look at colorado's ruling that did the same today is he calling for a federal judge to hold a special counsel jack smith in contempt, alleging he repeatedly violated a stay order in trump's 2020 election investigation. trump's attorney says smith is converting the court's docket into an arm of the biden campaign. joining me now is sol wisenberg, former deputy independent counsel and fox news contributor and mike davis, founder and president of the article iii project and former clerk to justice gorsuch. so, sol, i will go to you first. should jack smith be held in contempt and will judge tanya chutkan actually do it?

>> well let's first talk about whether or not he has violated the court order her order, stay order. he clearly has when he filed his motion in limine. her order basically says we are not going to do anything to impose new discovery obligations on or about e. on any ever the litigants. when do you that the other side has to respond. it's a clear violation of the order. i do not believe she is going to hold jack smith into contempt. she has gone out of her way. she has done everything possible to grant the government's motions in this case. so i don't think that's going to happen. i think at most what she will do is say that that motion must be withdrawn right now. >> judge jeanine: okay. mike davis, i will go with you, and i want you to take a listener of this sound from cnn saying it's not a given that the supreme court is going to take the trump immunity case.

>> i don't know that it's a given, the supreme court takes it. on the one hand, it's a big issue, constitutional issue. we don't have a lot of guidance on it. on the other hand, there hasn't been that much disparity. every court that's looked at this lower court has said he is not immune. if they choose to stay hands off then whatever the court of appeals rules will hold. >> judge jeanine: what say you, mike davis? >> there's no question that if the d.c. circuit does not hold that the president of the united states any president of the united states does not enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for his official actions or outer pressroom tier of official actions current case law for civil immunity, there's no question the supreme court is going to have to take this case and establish that there is criminal immunity. members of congress are immune from both civil and criminal prosecution under a speech or debate clause for the official acts. the judges, federal junction are immune from both civil and criminal prosecution for their

official acts. why the heck wouldn't the president of the united states also be immune both criminally and civilly? you know sol's attorney helena habba has concerns that the supreme court right rule against him in an effort to try to show that they are being objective in not favoring him. what do you think the supreme court will do why have the immunity issue that mike was just talking about. trump has also appealed the colorado supreme court's ruling knocking him off the ballot. i think they will definitely take that case. and i think without question think will overrule the colorado supreme court. >> this is a case of such incredible momentousness that i expect them to do their job and to seek to correctly interpret the constitution. i think you will see a strong opinion by more than just 5-4,

maybe even more than 6-3 overturning colorado supreme court's decision. >> judge jeanine: you know, mike, a lot of people are saying that the reason the supreme court said, you know, you got to get it back to the district court in d.c. is because the immunity question, jack smith's immunity question is because the supreme court will be ruling on this aspect of the case. and, joining the colorado now is the maine secretary of state and it looks like it's going to keep going. i mean, how far can it go? >> here's the problem. if the supreme court does not reverse these four partisan judges on the colorado supreme court and this unelected nonlawyer maine secretary of state sheena bellows. you will see that they established these precedence in blue states and democrats will take their show on the road and try to kick president trump off the ballot in swing states. so if the american people want to put president trump in the white house -- back in the white house on november 5th, 2024, the

democrats just want to disqualify trump under a bogus legal theory. that's not going to fly with the american people and the supreme court needs to fix this. >> judge jeanine: i suspect that it will. sol and mike. thank you so much for being with us this evening. and after harvard's president gay's resignation, racial arsonists are now lashing out and doing anything to shield their precious dei. leader grifter reverend al sharpton is here to react. here to react after this. stay here. ♪ charlotte! charl! every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, delicious fage total yogurt. - i'm sherry - and i'm john. i'm a pharmacist. as we were starting to age, it's like, well how can we help our cognitive abilities?

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dei will not die. >> that was the seen outside of hedge fund giant harvard alum bill ackman's office a protest if you can even call it that for the preservation of dei, courtesy of none other than reverend al sharpton. ackman, of course, has been one of the most vocal credits speaking out against his alma mater's response to hamas' october 7th terrorist attack. but it was his pressure campaign against disgraced plagiarist claudine gay and her dei agenda

that really got under sharpton's skin. >> we would not have to have dei if we didn't have deny. we were denied. dei was to make up for the denial historically of blacks. dei was something we must have equalize the playing field. >> they were able to end affirmative action. this is a war on civil rights. >> yes. >> judge jeanine: joining me with his response to the reverend shelby steele, senior fellow at the hoover institution. shelby, thanks for being here tonight. how does it make you feel given your own personal journey and history and all that you've accomplished to hear al sharpton say dei, diversity, equity and inclusion is something we must have to equallyize the playing field? >> well, it's painful to hear that i can't tell you you how sd

that makes me feel. you know, we -- it's so sad that what is he really preaching is dependency he is saying to black america particularly we can't make it without dependency on a larger society. we don't have what it takes to do that. and so our protests, our trying to move forward and advance in society is based on our faith to white americans. and to institutions. and what is heart breaking specifically, is reverend al's refusal to acknowledge the power within black america that has lifted us, sustained us to this point. and to ignore that and talk

about what some white man with a lot of money did breaks my heart. he should be ashamed of himself. and black americans need to understand that the day is over for this kind of indulgence in a fantasy that dependency is our way ahead. >> judge jeanine: specifically, all of this is centering on claudine gay's resignation yesterday as president of harvard. but, claudine gay, in terms of her having that position, you know, has never written a book. she has written, i guess, only 11 journal articles. and even yesterday, you know, when she resigned it was all about her. and the truth is that, you know, i think it was magill who resigned her presidency at the university of pennsylvania, that had nothing to do with color. and, yet, claudine gay had the additional problem of 50

credible plagiarism allegations. don't they see that? does dei withstand logical scrutiny? >> this is one of the things that fascinates me. dei would not exist were it not for white america, white america feeling so threatened by the charge, the accusation of racism that they are willing to give to hire people like claudine gay even though it's obvious that she is not qualified. but she is black. and she is a woman. and thus, redounds to white america a certain innocence. a weapon with which to combat the charge of racism. so she is there because whites have given in to the stigma that they are all racist. that the country is racist.

>> judge jeanine: i want to shift gears for a second. i apologize. i don't have a lot of time. in political news, "u.s.a. today" kicked off election year with this headline, noting that a fraying coalition of black, hispanic, and young voters is actually a ban donning joe biden and pointing out that biden now claims support of just 63% of black voters, a precipitous decline from the 87% he carried in 2020. shelby, what is your reaction to that? >> >> i'm happy. we are slowly -- we're slowly beginning to see the lights of how we have been played, we have been exploited and we have been used over and over again. affirmative action uses blacks of pawns of white innocence we have had 70 years of affirmative action now, and blacks are

farther behind than they everywhere in 1964 when the civil rights bill was passed. it is a humongous failure of public policy, the greatest -- i think the greatest in american history next to the civil war and so forth. but, it is profound. and. >> judge jeanine: shelby, you are profound in what you say. i wish i had more time. thank you so much for being with us tonight. and, coming up, the second drop from epstein's court filings is out. we're still going through it and we will bring you the details. but, first, i'll react to this las vegas judge attack caught on tape. and i'm not holding back. you don't want to miss it. stay there.

>> crimes now, i feel like i should be given a shot. >> judge jeanine: that defendant, went on to say that, quote: he's a person who never stops trying to do the right thing no matter how hard it is. give me a break. i can't tell you how many times i heard sob stories like that when i was sitting on the bench. this is a man with three felony convictions, nine misdemeanors, two of which were domestic violence. two he got prison terms on and he was in court yesterday for a sentencing after having pled guilty to attacking someone with a baseball bat. but, when clark county district court judge mary kay hole tis said she was putting him behind bars, mr. i'm tucker my life around did this. >> i appreciate that. but i think it's time that he you get a taste of something else because the judge [bleep]

[bleep] [shouting] [bleep] [bleep] [scuffle] [bleep] >> you know, it is outrageous but some courtrooms are like a zoo. there is no respect for the law on the street and certainly none in courtrooms now. the judge was right. his actions proved her right yet again. this has been a problem since i was a judge and a prosecutor but it has gotten so much worse. years ago i was prosecuting a man accused of killing a baby by putting that baby in scolding water. it was horrible. the man didn't like how i was cross-examining him and he literally got up and threatened to hit me with a chair. he actually picked up the chair and got ready to throw it at me. but i had quick-thinking court officers who stopped him. if they were even a second slower who know what is would have happened. he ended up getting convicted by

the way of murder the bottom line here is that we cannot live like this with no regard or respect for human life. no regard or respect for the law. i was lucky and that judge was lucky, too. she was hurt but not hospitalized and her marshall though ended one a dislocated shoulder and a gash on his head. >> parents, you got to teach your kids to be better than. this teach them to respect the law and those who enforce it otherwise you will be visiting them in jail like this guy who is going to be in jail soon. >> this is another city in america. this is what i saw when i was driving around the city january 1st, 2022 i don't see this in new york. >> judge jeanine: that's his lofty goal in new york city to have the streets better than skid row? probably brag about violent crime going down, too whopping

0.3%. levies than 1%, folks. here is what really going on in the big apple. felony assaults up by #%. car thefts up by 15%. people getting beaten on the subway. tourists have gotten stabbed and shot in grand central. women feel like they need to carry pepper spray with them, if not a gun. you walk through marijuana smoke just to get to work or take your kids to school. this is what democrat leadership does to our once great cities. joining me now to discuss this is brian brenberg host of big money show. paul mauro attorney and retired nypd inspect everything. what do you think new york city streets are better than skid row comparison. >> if you are comparing your city to skid row number one you lost the argument. number two, you lost yours bearings. the fact that you would get up

there and try to do it means that you should look in the mirror and reassess everything you're doing. i will tell you what bothers me about this because what is happening here is a lot like what is happening with biden and the economy or biden and the border. they are treating it all like a messaging problem. they are not trying to fix the underlying thing. they're trying to get people to change how they think, which means you're actually not going to fix the patrol car that every new yorker can manifestly see around them. >> paul, that's how governor hochul said right before the election you know, it's a perception issue. it's not reality. yet, when we say crime goes up by maybe 5% or 6% that's on top of all the rising crime in the last two or three years. >> let's get down in the weeds and contextualize this a little bit. since 2019, last pre-covid year. we are up over 30% in the seven majors, okay? new yorkers feel that

furthermore, his point there was that we have broken up the homeless encampments. well, that's drew. we don't want those. okay? but all that has happened is you have scattered them. it's not like they have come up with a plan to house them. somehow get them off the street. these are not the homeless people, frankly that i grew up with these are people who are hearing voices are on drugs manufactured in china. they are being sort of weaponized against law-abiding citizens. especially women. that he was the thing that nobody wants to touch on the subways women are terrified on the new york city subway. >> i'm raising three kids in the city. got a wife in the city. they do not want to go out at certain times of the day and certain places where you should -- you know, five years ago you could have. 8 years ago you could have. now they are saying i can't do that. it's too risky. your point is great. it's not just the crime it's the intame accommodation of things like on the corner yelling at you or bikers coming up doing a wheelingy like they are going to

run you over. this makes the city feel unlivable and people feel vulnerable. >> judge jeanine: one of the researchers he was elected he was a cop they thought he would act like a cop. the first woman mayor of philadelphia says i want more cops on the street and more programs after school. cherelle parker or something like that. i want economic, people who live n low neighborhoods to improve their homes. i don't hear that stuff from mayor adams. >> he came in with that mandate and never fulfilled it. he seems to want to be all things to all people. >> judge jeanine: to the criminals? there is only one side here. >> he is afraid of his progressive left. all he has been thinking about since he took that seat next election. he went up to albany to get reforms done. they punted him back to new york city. one of the things that's gone on here. he hasn't managed to develop allies where he needs them. in the represent respective

legislators. they keep hammering the police. he doesn't seem to have the ability to try to leverage that as a result. he gets no help. but he doesn't realize new york city mayor is the tail that can wag the new york state. >> judge jeanine: without a doubt. let's move to d.c. where shoplift something out of control. look at. this posted on the window of store front irving street. shoplifters unite it says. take everything that's not nailed down. five below next door to where that flier is posted now closes early at 5:00. on january 1st, they are shutting down for good. and across the street at cvs, this security guard is now patrolling totally empty shelves. >> it was nice to have like a convenient store that was actually convenient. they can't keep anything in stock because it gets stolen off the shelves. >> judge jeanine: you know, brian, how can you expect anyone to operate a business under those conditions? >> just stop and think for a second. on the front door the criminals

are posting a sign with instructions for how to loot the place. and we are wondering gee, i wonder if the city is going to recover from that? you don't start a business. you don't operate a business. you leave as soon as you can or if you don't have the means to do that, you suffer. you don't have a place to shop. you don't have a place to work. that's what is happening in these cities. the economies are struggling because the crime is so out of control. >> judge jeanine: do you know what, paul? i don't want to look back on these days and say you know, we didn't try, we did try and they're just not changing it. brian and paul, thanks so much for being with us. and, next, the latest drop of names from epstein's unsealed court filings our own nate foy has the latest, next. ♪ he's let own maintenance take a back seat. well maybe it's time to shift gears on that. because aspen dental has the latest technology and equipment. with a staff that goes out of their way to provide exceptional care.

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>> the second batch of documents related to sex offender jeffrey epstein have just dropped fox news nate foy has been going through all the pages and he is here with the details. nate? >> hey, judge. so there are 19 documents and over 300 pages in this newest batch. we're going through it as quickly as we can. but, again, front and center is the relationship between disgraced financier jeffrey epstein and the clinton family,

lawyers, again, this was from a civil case previously between virginia giuffre and maxwell, lawyers are discussing possible evidence to be used in the case and they discussed pictures of ghislaine maxwell at chelsea clinton's wedding. and, of course, this invites more questions about the relationship between the two families, the clinton spokesperson tells fox that clinton classst last spoke to epstein almost 20 years ago i is described as having a close relationship in these documents. that's something that clinton denies. but another really interesting note that we picked up on second batch of this documents is correspondence between giuffre and journalist sharon churcher. they discussed building a story involving several witnesses. one thing i really want to point out. i believe we have the right one here is an email from at least do you fray's email address accusing bill clinton of walking into a publisher described as vf

and threatening them to not write sex trafficking articles about his good friend described as j.e., presumably jeffrey epstein, it is signed, you can see xoxoxoxo jenna. alan dershowitz, the attorney also discussed again in an email between churcher and giuffre, the quote here is don't forget alan dershowitz. je's buddy and lawyer. good name for your pitch. we all suspect allen is a pedepedothough no proof of thatu probably met him when he was hanging out with j.e. other people described in this newest batch of documents so far, judge, include do you fray's doctors that treated her in 2015. the former against epstein that

he bleed guilty to in 2008. so, in total, we are still going through more documents. 19 more just came out so that means that we have 59 #, but we were told that 240 documents will be coming out. it could take until monday to get all of those as we get more details, judge, we will make sure to pass it along. >> judge jeanine: interesting reading, nate. thank you so much. >> you got it. >> judge jeanine: all right. joining me now is fox business correspondent charlie gasparino. is he part of the special i'm hosting this sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern this sunday on fox news called jeffrey's book of names. make sure you tune in or set your dvr. now, charlie. you conducted one of the last interviews epstein did before of before his death i want to get no a moment. first your reaction to what nate just said clinton just keeps popping up. >> yeah. they were close, obviously there

is no evidence. i keep reading in this stuff and anything is possible. i get that. there was a financial crisis that almost every bank went down, so i know anything is possible. you keep reading that we don't have any evidence let me tell make one thing clear on allen's behalf. she came out and said she had misidentified him. mixed him up with someone else. >> i was just going to say that let's get alan dershowitz out of that clinton liked young girls. and in the batch it said he likes them younger to be honest with you monica lewenski was a college student. >> she was 18. >> she was 2020. in college. most people are that young in college. >> she was a college intern.

>> i think i will check her. my point is you are dealing with witnesses whose stories do change and we are dealing with reputations of people that, you know, deserve, you know, at least a fair shake. and what strikes me as so odd with all of this is that it's just people bsing and there is no evidence i hear he is this. i hear he likes young girls. i don't convict people on that. >> we are passing judgment. got to be careful passing judgment. things like 50 times and saying, you know, the girls saying clinton likes them young, epstein says clinton likes them young. that's not enough for a conviction. tell us about the last interview you did of epstein. >> what's interesting of that how beaten down he was from his image. the image of this swaggering

guy. >> he was sheep punishly calling me back. and literally just a couple months before he got arrested for the second time and then he killed himself my whole story then was whether he was -- i was disproving the notion that he was essentially a rat for the government. >> judge jeanine: yes. there is talk of that. >> that's how he got off on the earlier charges because he was an informant on the government financial crisis crimes. i knew that wasn't the case. he confirmed that one thing he did confirm that sticks out of my mind on fox business.com. i know a lot of friends of yours. i said we have mutual friends. i know people jimmy kaine from bear stearns. yes, charlie, i used to have a lot of friends. i don't have any friends anymore. >> judge jeanine: yeah. i don't feel sorry for him. >> i don't either. my bigger point is people who were friends with him were doing the 180. that says something about them. >> judge jeanine: maybe they knew what he was doing. they didn't want to get in

trouble, charlie. >> i want evidence before i'm convicting them. >> judge jeanine: of course. don't forget, charlie, thank you. don't forget to check out the special jeffrey's book of names, airing sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on fox news. and charlie is on that as well. you will see us fight. new evidence, the biden administration purposefully took it easy on chinese nationals apprehended at the border. trump's former national intelligence director john ratcliffe reacts to that, next. ♪

>> a new report reveals the biden administration drastically watered down the vetting process, specifically for chinese nationals who illegally crossed our border. according to an april 2023 email obtained by "the daily caller," cbp agents were told to drop the number of interview questions from 40 to just 5. joining me now is john ratcliffe, former u.s.

director of national intelligence under president trump. john, that email reportedly came after a record-setting year of terror watch list encounters. talk to me. >> yeah, well, just like everything else joe biden has done at the border, he's failed to confront national security threats, terror watch list suspects went up by 7000%, and as a result of the email you just talked about, the number of chinese nationals crossing illegally at the u.s.-mexico border went up by a thousand percent this past year. they changed the process from what should have been half a day of interrogation to a 5-question, 10-minute interview to then release thousands of chinese nationals who come here illegally into the country. and the problem -- take just last month, judge. 5,000 came through just last month alone. of that number, judge, the concern is that 85% of those

were single men, military aged men. the intelligence communities are now at a point to where we are not even really concerned about whether some significant percentage of that are here under pla or prc orders. it's just a question of how many. are we talking about thousands? and it poses a tremendous national security concern. >> clearly. john, just before this show, secretary alejandro mayorkas talked with our own bret baier about the border. take a listen. >> you do think it's a crisis now? >> bret, it is a challenge that we have been addressing vigorously -- >> how can he still not admit it's a crisis? >> well, he's like every other biden administration official. they've gone from "it's not a problem at all, there's no

crisis," two, "well, the board is secure, but if there is a problem, it's not our fault." that's just kind of how this administration has been operating. it's not just mayorkas, it is blinking, the entire national security apparatus. it is why we face such a grave national security threat when we talk about our border here. the concern, judge, is that hopefully the american people will remove joe biden from office, but you can reverse economic policies. the cost of gas and food can come down. but if you inherit national security problems, if you had bad people that are behind the walls and the gates, you've got -- >> that the different concern. >> thanks so much for being with us tonight. that's it for us tonight. i'm judge jeanine pirro in for laura ingraham. catch me weekdays cohosting "the five" at 5:00 p.m., and check me out on instagram. >> jesse: welcome to "jesse watters primetime."