wednesday night. it's exciting that people are making these decisions as we get to -- close to this. so we look forward to both of those this week. >> bret: this is the beginning of the process. iowa is number one. and i was out and about talking to voters today that are going to caucus. and i said are you worried about the snow? are you worried about the cold? and they said suck it up. it's iowa. [laughter] >> bret: we're going to manage to get there no matter what. we will be there, too. bouncing around the state until next monday. >> martha: we are doing shows here all week. we look forward to you joining us as the voters of america begin to speak because we talk a lot about the polls as governor haley said. but now people will have their voices heard and we will see what they have to say from iowa. thank you for joining us, everybody. >> bret: thank you, des moines. [applause] ♪ >> g hell lone everyone, i'm laa

ingraham good to be back. what about the disappearing acts. whwhat about the disappearing ability whatever shed the credibility the biden administration had remaining. now they dug deeper on two blatant lies. first, the so-called bipartisan negotiations on the very border crisis that the white house itself precipitated. now, after mayorkas and biden have already green lit 12 million migrants into the united states already? what frauds. i will dip into that in a minute. the second line the defense secretary disappearing act. >> the president respects the fact that secretary austin took

ownership for the lack of transparency. he also respects the amazing job he has con as defense secretary. how he has handled multiple crises over the past three years and very much values his advice, candor and relationship? >> laura: is that right? look, we are running the television show, not the pentagon. if anyone on my senior staff was missing for four days, we would all know about it within, what, maybe 12 hours? now, why? because, first of all we care about each other. and, also, because we're in near constant communication. and because each staffer is really important to our daily production. but, lloyd austin is a secretary of defense, the top official in a 2.8 million person department. he disappears for four days? and no one even notices it? now the headlines on this story mainly focus on the fact that the pentagon didn't inform

people i think more significant is no one seemed to notice him gone. not the national security adviser. jake sullivan not the secretary of state anthony blinken not the white house personnel and not the president of the united states. well, of course he was busy getting sun burned in the caribbean imagine disappearing from your office and the people you disappear with on a daily basis don't even notice for days? the only conclusion here is that austin isn't in regular communication with any of these people. let's call him the invisible general. well, i can tell you who did notice that our dod chief was gone. putin and xi. how embarrassing. because we know they track every step, every stumble of biden and his team. this isn't how a real super power behaves and a real president would react to such a dereliction of duty this way, either.

but, biden is standing by his man. a white house official confirming to fox that president biden is not considering firing defense secretary lloyd austin and that the president would not accept the resignation of austin if he were to offer one. but this doesn't mean that they aren't taking the matter really seriously, people. >> we'll take a look at process and procedure here and try to learn from this experience and if there is changes that need to be made, in terms of process and procedure, we'll do that. >> laura: okay. process and procedure. we should get t-shirts made i'm processing your procedure. angle has told you all along these officials are asleep at the wheel but the taxpayers are on the hook for record spending that we can't afford and we can't apparently account for. we can't even account for the head of the dod. and where the pentagon is concerned, the sky is the limit after all we have so many

military wins, right? we can't count them is it 886 million now they are getting? but the ultimate insult here is that senate republicans, they don't seem to care that the pentagon is rudderless and leaderless at a time when according to the administration itself, the world is more dangerous than ever. >> reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023. but the ongoing war in the middle east has raised the threat of an attack against americans in the united states to a whole nother level. >> laura: if that's not bad enough we learned that iran has ramped up nuclear program after biden dropped the sanctions. good job. and with russia and china now rallying to iran's side as all of this is happening, our top military official is considered so insignificant his colleagues are unfazed by his absence. now, when i worked in the white house a long time ago, the sec

def was in a daily call with all the principles. i get everything is going so well to us they can just blow that all off. remember the biden folks thought hiring first was more important than hiring excellence. they have a vice president who can't really be trusted with pretty much anything, not even campaigning. she san embarrassment. they have a press secretary who essentially has to step aside for john kirby when the really hard issues come up. and it's so obvious that even kjp is grousing about it in reports in the media. and now everyone understands that we have a secretary of defense who is just a figure head. i guess kind of like the president himself, right? and meanwhile? the border crisis erupting. the president of mexico is demanding various concessions, we learn, from us on the issue of immigration. translation? he is blackmailing us. now, this is absurd.

the president of the united states has enormous leverage over the president of mexico. president trump, after all, he showed everyone how to exercise leverage by threatening new tariffs on mexico if it didn't start helping on the border. and for 25 years i have been writing and speaking about the fact that the elites want open borders. this is their policy. most of them hate america and they want america to fundamentally change without any input from the voters at all. their political existence is bought and paid for by people who want to drive down wages and keep the haves and the money and the have nots without it. any border deal that has the support of mcconnell and schumer will be rejected by the republican voters, period. where were any of them by the way, any of these top officials three years ago when the migrants were lining up at the border to rush in right before biden was inaugurated? where was mitch mcconnell and

any, frankly in the senate leadership when the biden administration was making a laughingstock out of all of us on the issue of the border? anything drafted by some chamber of commerce flunky on immigration is meaningless. mayorkas will simply take the money and use it to settle migrants in the united states more quickly, more efficiently. isn't that great? so republicans should get out of these ridiculous negotiations. we invited senator lankford onto the show tonight. is he reportedly leading these talks but he could not join us. he did say though that once the full text is out, he is going to come here and answer all of our questions. i look forward to that interview. look, there is nothing personal toward him or frankly anyone. this is an issue of our country and its preservation. but we strongly recommend that lankford refuse to be the face of this. ask marco rubio how that worked out for him? what was that back in 2013? imagine this audience, the

audience' reaction in a town hall in oklahoma city, remember, lankford is the senator from oklahoma. let's say he convenes a town hall in oklahoma city to sell a border deal that would have to be enforced by secretary mayorkas? what do you think the reaction to that crowd would be in oklahoma? we all know what it would be? it would be boos. they would say no way, no how, don't do it. so this is a hot potato that mcconnell has tossed to lankford and that he should toss it right back. let mcconnell negotiate it. think of it this way. why on earth, after the democrats everything in their power to flood america with millions of indigents from across the globe would republicans give biden an opportunity to take a victory lap and pretend he has done anything to solve this problem? and by the way, if house republicans do the smart thing and say no to this raw deal. speaker shouldn't consider it. he should say out of hand is he rejecting it, the biden campaign is going to hit the airwaves

with the message you probably already made the which commercials see the border is their fault. bought line, you can't make a deal with someone who has no intention of fulfilling the terms of the deal i told you at the end of 2023 we are winning. they are conniving to pin the blame on conservatives for their border? these are desperate measures for desperate people and that's the angle. all right. joining me now chris bedford, executive editor of the common sense society. ned ryun founder and ceo of american majority. ned, is there anything that republicans could agree to that would not end up being a set-up on this border issue? >> not with lankford negotiating and not with the senate republicans. the senate republicans hate their voters. let's be honest about that, laura. they are not interested in promoting the interest of the american people, as you

mentioned. they are interested in promoting the chamber of commerce and those people that actually fund the senate g.o.p. no, there is nothing that i think we could agree to except for we will stop all immigration immediately, we will secure the border. we will cease all immigration until we get to a merit based immigration system. i mean, the point -- the fact of the matter, is there is no negotiation until we actually stop this, have a conversation about how we completely fix it. and secure our borders. anything short of that is not going to fix this and we all know it, laura. >> laura: chris, right now in cities, i was just in san francisco, tents everywhere. i mean, a block from here where we are right now in d.c. tents everywhere. we have a massive problem in the streets of america right now with americans who are either on drugs, homeless, economically, you know, challenged, and their policy is to have republicans, you don't agree to this right now, you don't do this right

now, everything that you are seeing out there with this crush at the border in chicago, new york, it's your fault. why would republicans give biden this victory? >> yeah. i just drove through it to get here. the mark that it's made on d.c. in the last year is noticeable. the same thing going on in chicago and new york and places that used to be kind of insulated from this a little bit. in 2013 rubio might be forgiven for not expecting the backlash he got from voters. now senate republicans know full well this is where the voters are. they have seen the 2016 election. the people come behind trump and still pushing these sorts of things. it's impacting these cities and bankrupting thee cities. emergency funding. no excuse at all. >> laura: doesn't this indicate that mitch mcconnell would rather have biden as as president than trump. willing to give biden the shield on the number one issue, doesn't mitch mcconnell prefer a biden administration. >> yeah, i think it does. something he is willing to work with. he made that really clear. he was harder on donald trump on the way out than he was on democrats throughout his entire term.

mitch mic council cares about ukraine funding and getting judges through and blocking any campaign finance reform. >> laura: not going to have any judges to get through. mayorkas admitted to border patrol agents that the current rate of release from illegals apprehended at the southern border is above 85%. now, ned, above 85%. so they vetted all these people. these people are all upstanding people they all just want to work in, what, whatever profession we -- they claim not to have enough workers in. that's what's going on? they vetted them all, i guess? >> well, by the time this biden administration hopefully last biden term is over there will be 1 million illegals arrested at the border. >> laura: 12 million now. i don't believe these numbers. >> if it's 58%. i mean, that's close to what 10 million illegals that they have imported and doing it for reason. mayorkas called it i think a challenge to bret baier the other day. that the southern border is a

challenge. no, it's a challenge that democrats have created with an intentional purpose to systematically destroy our sovereignty and our border to import new democratic voters. they are doing that to import voters that will keep them in power and hopefully -- in their minds, hopefully achieve single party rule. and republicans, this is the part that is deeply troubling to me, laura. republicans senators know this is a massive issue as chris pointed out. and, yet, they are willingly going along and capitulating on this so that they will be in permanent minority status and not have political power and sell out the american people. it's staggering what they're doing to the american people by selling them out on this issue. >> laura: what do we think the people of oklahoma, god bless senator lankford. again, this is not personal. he does represent the people of oklahoma. what do you think a town hall? do they have the courage to have a town hall on immigration? do they have the courage to do that yes or no? >> maybe. i would like to see it. >> laura: maybe? when were you born?

yesterday? they are never going to a v. a town hall on immigration. they would be shouted down by the crowd. >> i agree with that the base is clear. >> laura: they don't want them. i have only been fighting this issue for 20 years. thank you so much. >> do you think he should be barred from any ballots given his actions on january 6th? >> well, i support every state taking very aggressive action to keep him off the ballot. >> there's a view of the constitution in article 14, section 3 that he should not be able to run for president. >> we have to look to this other part of the constitution, section 3 of the 14th amendment which says that if you try to engage in insurrection. you are disqualified forever holding the office again. >> laura: the so-called defenders of democracy on the left are praying that the supreme court agrees with their anti-democratic ideology. right now at least 19 states. 19 are still trying to get trump knocked off the ballot and he is fighting back against the onslaught of legal cases.

in addition to challenging those attempts, is he trying to dismiss the case in georgia against him claiming presidential immunity. joining us for more new orleans chris land do you. former law clerk for justin thomas and scalia former ambassador to mexico. chris, before we get into that on this issue of mexico and president of mexico making a series of demands on the border. you worked in the trump administration, how much leverage do we have over mexico on the issue of immigration. >> laura, we have incredible leverage over mexico we are mexico's largest trading partner by far. when this kind of immigration issue flared up in early 2019, president trump made it clear our relations with mexico would not proceed normally mexican government at that time had encouraged. you saw that change almost overnight. >> laura: if this administration and the republicans in the senate wanted this border crisis to end, it could end how

quickly? >> overnight. this is a man made crisis, laura. there is no hurricane suddenly that people are fleeing from. this is people moving with their feet because they think they will get into the united states and be able to stay here g it's clear they are not going to be able to stay here. >> laura: 85% waived in. >> of course, that's the problem. >> laura: i want to get into some of these challenges. 19 states trying to disqualify the president from the side that says they are all for democracy. >> laura, you know, people think that they are going to beat donald trump through the courts. this is the problem we have nowadays. you got to win this election fair and square at the ballot box. people are entitled to their views of president trump the thought that the courts are going to do the dirty work for them and disqualify him. i think it's a pipe dream. >> laura: what about this presidential immunity question. there's some debate about that. whether you whether you are immune to anything you do after have you sworn into the

presidency until you leave the presidency. what about that argument? >> it's a very serious argument that president trump has raised. actually he has raised it in the jack smith prosecution here in washington. going to be an oral argument held on that tomorrow in the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. >> laura: what's the panel, do you know? >> it's two biden judges and a bush one judge. it's a pretty heavily biden they have the majority. >> laura: think thought on where that will go, do you think? >> i would have to say, given the fact that the judges granted jack smith's extraordinary motion to expedite that that they are going to rule in jack smith's favor that the two judges in the majority there ultimately, that's going to have to be decided by the supreme court, laura. that's the important point i wanted to make on trump's bringing up this immunity issue in georgia. that has very serious procedure as well as substantive ramifications for the georgia case. these immunity issues are whether you are entitled to immunity from going to trial in the first place.

you have to have an appellate court that normally doesn't look at a trial court until it's over. but, when you have an issue like immunity, that has to go up the court of appeals before the trial takes place. so these are preliminary issues that require some appellate guidance. appellate guidance takes time. i think this immunity issue is going to have to go to the supreme court of the united states. >> laura: 81% of democrat, chris, believe that trump sudden had should be essentially taken off the ballot. >> that's what is so sad. immunity for presidential actions. they transcend the particular person at issue are 81% of democrats happy with the thought that president biden could be criminally charged by some grand jury in texas arch his term in office is over? that's the pandora's box that's been opened now. if we start to say that presidents have no immunity for their actions within the outer perimeter of their office, it's open season on the president. >> laura: chris, gr great to see you don't. on both issues.

>> i'm a two-for. >> laura: you got them both covered. obama is back. and he's worried. we'll explain. newt gingrich, next. ♪

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>> laura: all signs are pointing to a major panic at the democrat

disco. now, it's not just pundits on msnbc were starting to worry about joey and kamala's staying power. put the word out via the "the washington post" and nbc news he is concerned about his old number two. in a private lunch that was obviously not private. obama grew animated in discussing the election and trump's potential return to power. he even suggested to those close to biden that the campaign needs to move aggressively as trump appears poised to quickly wrap up the republican nomination. >> we're going to continue to do what we need to do in order to be competitive and in order to make sure we are growing the infrastructure that we need to win. one thing is that we're both aligned on the fact that we have to push back on maga extremism. the threat that they pose to freedom and dome crazy. we are focused on doing just that. >> okay. obama is not the only one worried. congressman jim clyburn who helped deliver south carolina for biden in 2020 is sounding the alarm. >> i'm not worried. i'm very concerned. i have no problem with the biden

administration at what it has done. my problem is that we have not been able to breakthrough that maga wall in order to get to people exactly what this president has done. >> laura: the maga wall. that's a new one. that's fun yrge the democrats have, what, 95% of the press, if not more. all of academia and the entire social media world except all of the hollywood, they have that. so what they are really upset by is the fact that america is on to their game. >> and now it's so bad that the big guys either warning of white supremacy or at this point is he just going to go biblical. >> gospel song saying we have come too far from where we started. nobody told me the road would be easy. i don't believe he wrought me this far to leave me. [applause] my fellow americans, i don't

think the good lord brought us this far to leave us behind. >> laura: oh my gosh. joining us now is newt gingrich, former speaker of the house, fox news contributor. newt, didn't -- didn't hillary try that? she did i ain't no ways tired? remember, she was quoting the gospel in the waning days of her campaign. >> and al gore tried it in a church in pittsburgh in 2000. certain basics run through the democratic party. i will tell what you i think republicans have to worry about. as the democrats panic, they are going to increasingly use the justice department to literally try to destroy trump so he can't compete. whether that means knocking him off the ballot, whether it means locking him up, i mean, i think the judge in washington, d.c. who is a total radical, relishes the idea of an excuse to put trump in chains. literally in chains.

i think we should not under estimate if faced with the break of everything they believe, in and that's what trump represents, he is an alternative world. where criminals stay in jail. immigrants stay out of the united states. we actually take steps to be strong again. and their view of that is that a trump victory is the end of their world and i think their ultimate response is going to come through the justice department and is going to be an effort to frankly with total unconstitutionality destroy trump as a potential contender and just literally lock him up. >> laura: we just talked about that with chris landau who of course was ambassador to mexico for trump and clerked for scalia and thomas. i think ultimately we will see how good these justices are on the supreme court that were appointed by republicans presidents. we will see how constitutional they are when these cases roll up to the court because each and every one of them is going to end up getting up there, into the. >> look, but with all respect, i'm a historian, not a lawyer.

you are an attorney. the people you are attorneys. they actually act as though the law matters. what you are dealing with is a team that believes in the rule of power not the rule of law. and i think you -- i don't think we can imagine how prepared they are to do whatever it takes to make sure that we can't win this fall. i'm genuinely worried for the country really for the first time in my life. i think you are faced with a totally corrupt radical ideology that is prepared to in every way it has to use every element of power that it's got and frankly with the federal government. the new york state government, the attorney in fulton county, they have a lot of tools to bring to bear to try to destroy us because they are terrified of us. the absolute majority they know it. >> laura: newt, at the same time, we have to not demoralize the people out there to think all hope is lost going to be cheating the elections. okay. then everyone can just pick up

their sticks and go home. i mean, i think this is where you got to make sure that republicans run a 50-state campaign and this has got to be a arresting style landslide for trump. i don't think this could be dabble around in the, you know, the usual states of the battleground states. i think this has got to be a campaign for america. all 50. >> look, i agree with that entirely. my only point is we had better have a strategy, all of us who are activists for what we do if you have a radical judge in a district 19-1 against trump with a radical u.s. attorney literally trying to destroy the election. i think that's the great threat. i think that trump will win. i think he will probably win in a landslide. but, notice, also, your description of the senate republicans, they don't get it. the country doesn't want them selling out to the democrats. the country wants us to aggressively stand up to america

and take the heat, if necessary. >> laura: your message to the speaker of the house on this so-called border deal into the tonight very quickly one line. what's your line. >> don't do it. >> laura: don't do it. thank you. >> don't do it. turn it down. >> laura: into the, great to see you as always. thank you very much. the doj announced who else they are going to go after when it comes to january 6th. people who, guess what, maybe were they even around the capitol? victor davis hanson, next. ♪ to eliminate gray, there's a great "before and after". then, there's the 'after the after' that boost you get when you look and feel your best. and that's why more men choose just for men®.

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>> more than 1200 people have been charged for assault on the capitol. nearly 900 of them have been convicted or pled guilty. collectively to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison. [applause]

[applaud] >> that's what they consider victory. wave in all the illegals. many of whom have been convicted of violent felonies be back home. harassing and hounding americans for what they believe in, that's the ticket. they are doing that by the way just because they had issues with the 2020 results. the people that they went after. except for the violent ones. but they want more political heads on the wall. >> an important note, when it comes to our prosecutions about those who remained outside the building, we have used our prosecutorial discretion to primarily focus on those who entered the building, or those who engaged in violent or corrupt conduct on capitol grounds. but, if a person knowingly entered the restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime. make no mistake, thousands of people occupying the area that they were not authorized to be present n the first place. >> laura: you pay his tax with

your tax dollars his salary. joining us now victor davis hanson hoover institution senior fellow. victor, i have always stood by the view that anyone involved in criminal activity, violent activity should be held accountable. doesn't matter what you believe in or who you are. exactly how would you describe what they are doing here at this point? >> on the larger picture i think their philosophy is to save democracy from donald trump we have to first destroy it ourselves. and that's what they are doing. because almost everything they told us -- i mean it was a buffoonish right. it was not an armed insurrection. nobody had a weapon inside the capitol. the only person who died violently ashley babbitt unarnold military veteran. they didn't give us the details of her death for months. they told us officer sicknick died violently he didn't. they said five other officers died as a result. that was not true. they didn't tell us about the informs. matthew rosenberg pulitzer prize

winner from the "new york times" said they were all over there then there was this crime about federal property they are right about that. amongst demonstrators they just entered illegally the rotunda into the middle of congress they didn't do anything to them. in 2020 they burned and torched a federal property in portland, a federal courthouse, here in california, the pro-hamas people just stormed in the legislature and took it over and disrupted it with no consequences. so, it's the a symmetry that really gulls everybody. the question is why are they doing this? i think the answer is that they look at joe biden they look at his agenda and cognitive and physically incapable of running a campaign and they say, you know what? he can't win in his physical and mental state and he can't win on this crime and the border and foreign policy so we have got to beat this dead horse of january 6th again and again. we have got get him off the ballot. and we have got to wage lawfare with soros-funded local and state attorneys and jack smith.

that's all there is to it. >> laura: this speech in south carolina president biden extolled the virtues of the riots in 2020 i think we have the soundbite. >> after the historic movement for justice in the summer of 2020, i signed the most significant police reform executive order in history. >> laura: he talked about the great, you know, the justice movement in the summer of 2020, that this was a movement for justice and, you know, events for justice looking past all the destruction, the death, the billions in damage across the country. >> no. no it wasn't. 35 people died, 1500 police officers were killed. $2 billion in damage looting, arson,attacks on federal property as i said. and then if you talk about

insurrection speech kamala harris said these riots and demonstrations would not stop nor should they stop she said. they are going to go all the way onto the election she said i don't know why anyone would take credit. 14,000 people were arrested. the only difference is in magnitude it far dwarfed the violence, if there was any on january 6th, and, yet, everybody was acquitted or not charged after the police went to the trouble ever arresting them for violent acts so it was almost insurrectionary to let them off scot-free and they did it for ideological ground. >> laura: ultimate insurrection also happening 00 our border. victor, great to see you as always. thank you. all right, bidenomics. you feel it, right? it's really good? making you richer and happier? why does the government keep floating fake numbers? larry kudlow pulls back the curtain, next. ♪ i'm from phoenix, arizona. i'm a flight nurse on a helicopter that specializes in trauma. i've been doing flight nursing for 24 years. as you get older, your brain slows down

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♪ >> the united states economy gained 216,000 jobs. unemployment kept steady at an historic 3.7%. >> there's no way to paint this but anything but goods. most metrics we use to measure the economy. measurably better under biden than it was under trump. >> laura: so the media are continuing to take this victory lap after friday's historic jobs report.

a quick look under the hood reveals the ugly truth here. 10 out of the last 11 jobs reports were revised downward. that means lower numbers than initially reported. now, what's the result? that means 439,000 fewer jobs in 2023 than we were told about. and since june, full-time jobs were down by 1.5 million. but we added 769,000 part-time workers. joining me now larry kudlow, fox news contributor, host of larry kudlow on fox business. larry, the people, darn it, just don't understand how good this economy is for them, translate, please. >> ha ha ha. well, you have had a lot of downward revisions. it's very unusual. 20%, 20% of the jobs growth in 2023 last year has now been

revised out, 443,000 jobs. my guess is more is coming when the so-called benchmark revisions come. a lot of this, by the way, is coming out out of small busines. something called a birth-death measure. i'm not going to go into it. the point is household employment in december fell by 700,000. that's mostly small businesses, and the model that the bureau of labor statistics uses, that is the birth of new businesses versus the death of new business, that model is completely out of whack. just completely out of whack, and we didn't get those jobs in the first place and the economy is not as strong. so, that's the first point. >> laura: paul krugman, your buddy from the times is celebrating a problem solved. >> could there be a recession in 2024?

who knows. economists have a perfect track record on predicting recessions which we have never been right. it is basically a solved problem. >> laura: all solved like the border is all solved, right? >> look it, on this one, there's a bigger disagreement. look, inflation has come down, in recent months. there's no question about that. but the trouble is over the last three years the cpi has gone up by 17%. here's the issue. politically and economically, we have an affordability crisis because wages have only gone up by 14%. so, real wages, worker wages, middle class wages, after inflation have come down by 3%. here's another way of looking at it. average weekly earnings okay was $399 when joe biden took office. and the most recent number is

$380. so, for three years, middle class folks have seen a decline of 19 bucks or roughly 5%, 4.7%. that's the affordability problem prices of groceries, electricity, even gasoline, inflation has come down, the rate of inflation. but prices continue to rise over the period, the legacy of high inflation continues. wages have not kept up. rasmussen poll 40, 45% of the people think they are worse off than they were three years ago. >> laura: they are worse off. >> that's joe biden's problem. >> laura: they are worse off. the people are simply not buying any of the spin and they are actually smarter than the democrats believe, larry, great to see you. thank you. all right, the golden globes. i know you sat with your popcorn watching last night. the biden administration is having a problem, also, with the

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whatever the case may be. that's all good. but the greatest decision you'll ever make is the decision as it relates to almighty god and his son, jesus christ. did you know that god loves you? the bible says that “god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but should have everlasting life.” jesus christ can make a difference in your life right now, starting today, for eternity. if you've never done this, pray this prayer with me right now. just say, “god, i'm a sinner. i'm sorry. forgive me. i believe that jesus christ is your son and i'd like to trust him as my savior starting today, right now. and i pray this in jesus' name. amen.” if you prayed that prayer, call that number right now that's on the screen. do it right now, call that number, and god bless you.

>> good to see you, raymond. the golden globes were given out last night. >> these are less and less consequential. people didn't see these movies. the golden globes found a host capable of reflecting the state of these awards. i give you joe. >> the key moment in barbie is when she goes from perfect to flat feet. what casting directors call character actor. some i wrote, some other people

wrote. you want a perfect monologue? shut up. i wrote some of these and those are the ones you are laughing at. >> this was a painful night. >> i have never heard of this person. i did not know who he was. >> people are trying to forget who he was. it was heavy this year. when divide join randolph -- when divine joy randolph won a golden globe, nothing rolled o off. >> selena gomez was reportedly complaining to taylor swift about not being able to snap a picture with timothy shaw mi

millet. -- timothee chamalet. the idea that this is what the media is focused on shows you how empty the ceremony is. >> he is a good actor though. >> to each his own. >> he wore something i would expect share to wear at her last, last, last, last concert. just when you thought it couldn't get worse. >> the telecast of the 81st golden globe awards is sponsored by pfizer. >> people felt like they were having covid reactions during the ceremony. president biden had a rare campaign event at the church in south carolina today.

his speech focused on the difference between truth and lies. >> without the truth, there is no light and without light there is no path from this darkness. [indiscernible] >> that is all right. >> i have spent more time in the church then i have most people that i know in that church. i am serious. >> i started the civil rights movement. >> you did not. the idea of going into a black church and saying i spent more time than you.

>> isn't he catholic? >> that he fraternize with the grand cyclops of the ku klux klan. >> you have people screaming cease-fire. cease-fire of your comments. >> josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania came out to save that william penn statue. those lefties are going to get william penn taken down. these people hate george washington. now they are citing valley forge and george washington. we have to get rebecca and all of our kids to watch the next award show together. >> the oscars are coming. >> helen mirren loves me. that is it for us. stay connected. jesse is next.

>> jesse