if you go, you probably want to bring tissues. that's all the time we have left tonight. thank you for being with us. have a great weekend. hope you see the movie. see you back here on monday. laura ingraham straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: good evening from washington. i'm laura ingraham. thanks for joining us tonight. in the wake of tuesday's terror attack in new york city, the issue of chain migration is rapidly becoming one of the biggest issues facing america. the process seems so kind and is often framed as family oriented immigration. when one immigrant comes into the country, he or she later brings in his family members. but this process very quickly increases the number of immigrants living in the united states. get this. a report from the center for immigration studies says that 61% of immigrants admitted to the united states in the last 35 years

are here due to chain migration. 61%. that's 20 million people. the issue has become even hotter following our exclusive interview with president trump last night. i asked him whether any deal with congress to allow so-called dreamers to stay in the united states legally, whether it should address the issue of chain migration? >> you talked about everify, building the wall. chain migration, which is a huge problem. >> all those things are happening. >> laura: is that going to be part of any daca deal? if democrats want dreamer they have to do chain migration. >> chain migration is most importantly. >> is that important for you. >> until yesterday most people never heard of chain migration. i gave a form of a press conference and i started talking about chain migration and this horrible animal. he is an animal, as far as i'm concerned, 23 people have touched him, maybe came in because he was in and

only in with a green card supposedly, but chain migration where his whole family comes. in his mother can come in. his father, his grandmother comes in. >> chain migration is a disaster for this country. it's going to end. i have been talking about it for a while. i think the public, until yesterday, probably never heard of chain migration. >> laura: republicans didn't want to talk about it for a long time. you held up a mirror. >> it's become a very strong point right now. >> laura: will it be part of a dreamer deal, daca deal. >> daca is different than dreamer. >> laura: any amnesty talks would require talks on chain migration. >> i don't think there would be a vote with having to leave chain migration. it a disaster for this country. >> laura: joining us now for reaction, from fort worth texas is francisco

fernandez, a dual citizen of mexico and the united states. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> laura: kel us why chain migration is something that should be continued even given the numbers, fernando, we are seeing. 61% of all new immigrants in the united states come from this process of chain migration? >> that's because there is no such thing as chain migration. it's called family based immigration. and that's the only thing we have in the united states there is two hanner students. agree if we just remove the politics from immigration. it's justth law of ply and demand. nobody has ever heard of it before this week. it's family based petition. >> laura: this is what it is. i will explain it to you when immigrant comes into the united states, this is a fact according to u.s.

statistics. when an individual comes into the united states on a green card. >> you don't come in with a green card. >> laura: i will finish. >> you come in with a visa. >> laura: he becomes a permanent legal resident of the united states. >> that's what a green card is. >> get a green card. the green card is the permanent legal residence. >> laura: sweetheart, let me finish and you can make your salient point. >> all right. >> laura: you get that permanent resident status as we saw with the terrorist from you cauzbekistan, you are d to give personal treatment to certain family members. this is a fact. i know you like to call it family based. yes, they are family members. you are absolutely right about that. however, this shear number of people results in very difficult thing for, number one assimilation. number two proper verying,

know three special train on social services in the united states? >> no. >> laura: most of the people coming in lower skilled labor competing with lower skilled american labor which is our responsibility, is it not. >> that is just wrong. ms. ingraham, you know better. you know better. >> laura: make your argument. i'm waiting. i'm all ears. >> because it's only one degree of consequenceite. like 18 years. not like a mass influx of immigration. family based petition. that's what this country was built upon. >> laura: no, no; actually the country was not built upon family immigration to the united states. >> oh, sure was. >> constitutional principles liberty and justice for all that means liberty and freedom under the rule of law. >> before our constitution

they were never american. >> laura: you are a duual citizen. if you had to choose right now which country would you choose. >> america, baby. >> yacht imo growth the dual citizenship thing. office me, i would step it. >> means i could hair theme. european union go to work. absolutely. >> three countries you are citizens. >> dutch, mexican an comingt. >> laura: wow, you missed the lottery there. do you think individuals have a universal right to enter the from anywhere in the world? >> there is no right. there is only opportunity. this is the promise land. this is the land that people died trying to get into it. people hang under a train for 8 hours to try to cross the motor to guess here.

they don't want to have a right. illegal hire united states pay them the wages this that i. >> that's why we need immigration reform. that's obviously compassionate. correct? they are not about come passionate. whose going to do the job. lawyer do you know barbara jordan. >> yes, of course i do. >> laura: slain civil rights leader. african-american woman. she gave one of the most important specious in edge congratulation we discussed all this. her via on this our prime larry bs responsibility. we should welcome immigrants to the united states when we can fully assimilate them. when they are merit-based

not just family based but merit based immigration. what's important especially with low skilled workers that they end up displacing necessarily american workers, especially african-americans and latinos in the united states. >> that is a false issue. that is wrong. i'm sorry, she was wrong. >> laura: so she was wroing? before we had influx of illegal immigrants in the united states. who did these jobs? magicians in elves? >> that was because we created a void, a cook o. vehicle consume with law and poverty. anyone numb standard of living. we created for low skilled. it's not easy. >> laura: why should we in the united states, francisco, take -- if it's the best and the brightest coming to the united states, why should we take the best and the brightest from other countries who clearly need

their work and their help in their home country? >> we sure wanted albert einstein. >> that was. >> it was mayor beared buff it was more mow variable waist than merit based. he knew of our to to. don't be chicken, congress. president trump, congress is chicken. >> laura: what i do poor station do you favor? like what kind of deportation? like only violent criminals or should anyone else be deported from the united states? >> let's come up with a definition. tell me what the ticket costs to live in this country, pay your bills, pay your taxes. if you mitt crimes. >> i have a question for you. if someone imgreats into the yachts do you think a financial sponsor should be financial responsible. >> absolutely. i agree with that. >> laura: on friday we

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♪ >> laura: welcome back. tonight we're debuting a brand new segment. ♪ we're killing a i >> we're calling it pulling back the curtain. real reasons for disturbing developments in american politics and culture today. our first installment focuses on usaid and u.s. aid to persecuted minorities in the middle east. these programs are meant to benefit christians and other minorities in the region. but the benefits have

largely gone to those of the muslim faith. our government says iraqi and syrian christians are undergoing a genocide. so why aren't they getting the help they need? just last week, vice president mike pence seemed to take a big step in the right direction. >> our fellow christians and all who are persecuted in the middle east should not have to radio lie on multinational institutions which america can help them directly. and tonight it is my privilege-to-announce that president trump has ordered the state funding a effective ikegwuonu united nations relief at the united nations. motorcycle will provide support directly to persecuted communities through usaid. [applause] >> laura: now usaid a deeply entrenched government bureaucracy seems to be dragging its feet on the trump-pence agenda. a spokesperson told fox news that the next step is a workshop on proposals and

that it won't take place until january. by the way that's well into the frigid winter months when these populations are most vulnerable. and the agency's announcement said nothing about cushion off funding to the u.n. why are parts of the government defying the president wants or the. joining me is brian back bib republican in texas. here in washington nina shae international human rights lawyer for over 30 years and former obama state department official david tafuri who just returned from refugee camp in iraq. congressman, let's start with you on this. because when i first heard about this, i thought this can't be. but you have vice president pence announcing that we are now going to be sending a secong aid directly to the people that need it most. we are not going to go through this u.n. bureaucracy and then what? >> oh, this is the same thing. this is what we call the deep state.

this is u.s. aid. this is the same organization that has teamed up with george soros in countries like macedonia. and when the haven't speaking for the president as well says that they are going to be a big change in u.s. aid that will go directly to persecuted minorities like christians there. and then when the spokesman comes out for not only u.s.a., but also state department, and basically pushes back against the administration, i got a real, real problem with that. and the populations of christmases have fallingen in fees countries interest. in syria and hack wyoming almost 08%. u.n. camps are filled with infiltrators and basically christian does not go into these u.n. camps from whence come our refugees in to our

country. and so this is why it's so important for the tax dollars of the united states to go directly to these % persecuted groups rather than the corrupt and obviously incompetent u.s. agencies? >> it seems purposefully. this is not the first time usai. there are so many poignant stories and so much suffering that comes out of these places. tell us what we are getting wrong, do you think, in this narrative so far? >> sure. so i was in iraq about a month ago. and i went to kirkuk and other places across northern iraq. two weeks after i got back, the iranian backed shia took back kirkuk. they displaced 158,000 people. many of which are religious minority.

interest is now from christian stank mawpg. the a problem in iraq is not going to be solved by usaid or the u.n. it needs to be solved by the statement department and putting pressure on baghdad to pull back the iraqi army and pull back the shiite militias. this is a cuter problem. not something that either the u.n. or usi. >> d can solve. you have been advocating for many more than anyone i know maybe father ben. why is this issue so incredibly important for people watching us tonight what they might not know what's going on. >> there is hundreds of thousands of christians you sidys. these are survivors of isis genocide. there is inflex point how because their hometown hometowne

wanted to to go. >> any sunni town now, sunni city. nineveh called in to swear the christians and where they both live. there are very expressed. they have been in displaced centers for the fourth winner. they have been streaming out of the region. this place is going to be devoid -- they are going to be erased. so,. >> laura: get me back to pence. >> the vice president gave a very decisive speech for swift help for immediate help. >> laura: how much money are we talking about? >> we are probably talking about tens of billions of dollars go back to their home. >> it goes toyota u.n.ened what happened it. >> let me cite some examples. there is the up to of dulles golf. this sat town where charles keating gave the ultimate

sacrifice to liberate this from isis. there are christians who slow r. have gone back there the u.n. projects for them with u.s. aid are fake. we have. >> laura: what do you mean they are fake? >> we have photographers taken. outside wall of girl's school has been paint would nicely with union cell. knifed hubble. this is ununusual shall. >> laura: there are many fake projects? >> there is the town of -- this is a place where it used to be a christian town. the u.n. claims it's doing projects for the christians there. >> laura: not happening? >> the u.n. has moved isis families into -- >> laura: congressman, what can you do, what will congress do to ensure that u.s. taxpayer dollars are being used in the east effective way to help most dangerous people. we know christians have been

left out of the refugee came hire in the united states. what's will you in congress do. >> if congress needs to step up to the plate and support the ''senned the vice president's aims of getting aid directly to these persecuted minorities like this. >> and quite frankly, and ms. shae, she had a great op. op-ed with fox news. i was reading today. talked about a school where formerly christian -- >> laura: she was just discussing that. congress has got to get on this. if the government is working against the wishes, david, of the administration, the bureaucrats inside the government, i thought diewrs the reagan administration all those years and the state department is working against. that is completely insub boar continue that the.

they are returning their own mini go. you can't spawrnt that. >> there is a strange thing about what vice president mike pence needed to do. he said we needed to movie funding from the u.n. to usaid. at the same time the administration has proposed huge cuts to the usa. >> id. how is it going to do more for riff gee when it has less? that makes no sense. the administration supports one iraqi policy rather than allowing i christian innocent's and thot. >> laura: part of the reason why he won. >> funding problem here. we gave $32 million to the muslims two months ago. as we should have. >> laura: we're helping people who need help. but these christians are among the most persecuted and yo you yo -- straight aheade

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but, of course, it's not just the media and entertainment industry. today we learned that the scandal has moved to the world of high finance. three women, including two playboy playmates filed a 27-million-dollar lawsuits against george soros' former fund manager howie reuben. the women alleged he manhattan sex dungeon. just when you thought things couldn't go lower. it's important to remember that none of this, none of it is happening in a vacuum. hollywood and the media have been ratcheting up sex and violence on screen and in print for decades. every grier, a new envelope is measured so we shouldn't have been surprised by these scandals we should have expected them. it's hard to pinpoint exactly when all this started but good place to start is founding all those years ago 1953 of play bow

magazine. the publication's founder hugh hefner glorified porn. everybody bought the magazine for what the interviews. this is how hef defined his own legacy. >> what do you want your legacy to be? businessman? civil rights ache a activist? mr. frist. >> sob who played a part in changing sexual social values in my time. i think i'm concerned in that. >> you don't think playboy made women objects as well as equals. >> i that i women in the best woman of desire. shower lawyer at least he is honest. social sexual values of our time.

how did hollywood act when he passed away in september? of course, utter adulation. kim kardashian tweeted on september 28th. all right, pete a legendary hugh hefner. i'm so honored to be a part of the playboy team. jenny mccarthy playmate of the year lauded hef, yet, for being revolutionary and changing so many people's lives. i will say. bear in mind, this was just a week e. week before the harvey wine steeld was blown up by the "new york times." hollywood treated this man like a newly meanted saint. imitating art. i use that term art loosely. normalize the objectionification of women. look the kevin spacey. a suburban father who had sexual fantasy about his daughter's underaged friend.

hollywood was so enamored with his performance they gave him oscar. what was the impact of those. and might they have contributed a little bit to the abuse of yungsd aged minors or at least made people none to it? hold spent trillions of collars to uptold the "fifty shades of grey" theory. those books and films re1r068 arnlsd a young woman relationship with a billionaire. she finds true love just what we want for our girls. even nbc's today show held a contest so excited mothers and their daughters could attend an early screening of the film. the porn onification.

killing intimacy and relationships. now reports on the rise of sex robots and virtual reality porn. people just won't do real relationships anymore. this is numbing them to what a real relationship is. and my deep concern in all of this is the children to hill stumble across image and quickly transported to a very dark place that could very well destroy their own emocialg future. that's the angling. frrch joining us now with contrast dr. gail continue. author of porn land. how porn has hijacked our sexuality along with dr. karen ruskin, a marriage and family therapist. it's great to see both of you this friday night. this explosion of sexual harassment allegations leading the way to more

revelations of more depravity, that story about the sex dungeon and funninfun funmanager for george. it's getting more violent and depraved, if possible and more depraved. and it's becoming -- you can't even describe this on television. it's so filthy. tell us about dr.. the effect of children with what we know of now. how early they are seeing sexual images and what they are dooferg with their own thence of eme. emotional development. >> biggest concern for my children what i'm seeing in front of me is they are believing that unhealthy relationships are healthy. >> we're actually transforming what is deemed a loving, healthy relationship between three people and with a family. what used to be cord deviant

is now considering acceptable fj there is no longer black and white. everything is gray. everything is acceptable. if i have want when i want it and i get to have it. that he was what charen is learning. s has derek written on it every level when there is no longer right from wrong. >> heather: dr. dinez? >> what we know from studies is the average age of kid looking for pornography is 12, oh my god. >> thanks to the british model developed by a group called man geek. when that made pornography afor the being, it made it anonymous and success septic. who is going to got any prone. >> those who owe he got credit cards. i would argue that the business model of

pornography was to get in the boys around 12 to 14 whose brains are actually hard wired for novelty and risk taking. it's like me. giving out cigarettes outside of middle school at 12 years old and going back each day and each day. astounding. >> laura: just so we understand. this especially young boys. are for the first time seeing the image of a female body and in some of these cases, the type of images they are seeing are so violent in their depiction or so extreme that this is what they become used to or that they want. and then that put pressure, doctor, on the girls to perform in this same way. >> i think -- i actually. >> laura: one at a time, dr. lufkin? >> this is not just for boys. this is boys and girls and

even younger in my practice i'm seeing as a therapist. much younger than 12. this is being depicted not just with tv shows. this is music. this is in magazines. this is even if you look on line there is pictures of animals that's animated art that look like humans. and there is very inappropriate behavior that those animals that look like human are doing and young children are seeing that as young as 5, 6, 7, 8. and they are moving their bodies to what they are seeing. both boys and girls. >> laura: doctor, what does this do ultimately? just as a woman you think about this? >> to a young person understanding of intimacy of love and respect? does it enhance it? from what we have seen from 1953 all the way to today? >> no. we have to think about pornography today, which is not your father's playboy. as bad as that was, i mean, really, ironic, i look back

nostalgia at that we have mainstream porn so hard core in father's generation had you to go to a porn store, know somebody to get you access to that level of hard porn. that is now mainstream. that's what people don't understand. >> laura: hollywood, media, advertising agencies, the entire media apparatus, books, "fifty shades of grey," this all helped numb people to this. this mainstreamed the whole thing. now we turn around and oh how surprising like teenagers have an explosion of stds or girls are dressing like little prostitutes. i mean. it saul a continuum. dr. ruskin, last word. >> you are so right. the pornification of america creeping crawling into our

home. couples need to be more -- >> laura: ladies, parents have to be the first line of defense for their kids. >> yes. but we can't put it on some parents. >> laura: we're going to have both of you back. because this is a problem that's not going away. we will look for solutions. real solutions for parents who want help for their kids. thank you so much. up next, president trump kicks off his 12-day trip to asia. we are speaking exclusively with u.s. trade rep bob, big stakes involved. potential trade war with chin sarah is a fifth-grade teacher. when it comes to molding young minds, nobody does it better. she also builds her own fighting robots. destroy. but when it comes to mortgages, she's less confident.

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>> laura: just hours ago president trump touched down in honolulu, hawaii, making a stopover as part of his 12 tour to asia. he was largely elected on his promise to renegotiate trade deals that have really hurt american workers. as such, one of the most important jobs in the trump administration, and especially on this presidential tour of asia, is the u.s. trade representative. the man who currently holds that job is ambassador robert lightheiser. he sat down with me for a rare interview yesterday at the white house. ambassador lightheiser,

great to see you. i know you love giving interviews so thank you so much for spending the time. [laughter] you are off to asia, it's a big trip. it's the longest trip the president has ever taken since he was inaugurated. what's the goal? >> this is a very important trip it has two elements. one is security. geo politics. and the other is trade and economic issues. i'm obviously concerned about the second. we're going to japan, to korea, to china, to vietnam and the philippines. that would be 65 billion-dollar deficit. 27 billion-dollar deficit. 350 billion-dollar deficit. 32 billion-dollar deficit and in the philippines we don't have a lot of trade with we have essentially balanced trade on a small volume there are a lot of economic issues. a lot of trade issues. the biggest one, of course, is china. >> laura: purely on the china front, what can we do other than impose tariffs to stop the chinese cheating on

international trade whether it's dumping, whether it's subsidies of major corporations selling products for under market value? >> i mean, we have to have a coordinated effort within the administration. i think we do. first of all, the geo politics is somebody else's problems. i'm going to focus very much on working men and women and farmers. that's what i was hired to do. that's what i'm going to worry about. china has an industrial policy that involves a lot of subsidies, a lot of dumping, a lot of forced technology transfer. all these sorts of things. what have we done? we have you dumping. case on 301 looks at the intellectual property transfer. >> laura: they call cold war era relic. the quote free traders criticize you and the administration for using this outdated federal statute to go after china. >> it's a very effective tool. we'll use the wto when we

can. the president is willing to act unilaterally when he has to. we say it's cold war era. ronald reagan used it and used it very effectively and made a big difference for our trade policy. a lot of people benefited from it we will use every tool we can, as long as it's fair and consistent with law. >> laura: china has something called their 2025 project. it's their focus to dominate every major industry from 3-d printing to rare earth. to heavy manufacturing, tool manufacturing. it's really ambitious. is it just kind of pie in the sky thinking or is there a real opportunity for china to dominate all those industries? >> it's a very, very serious challenge. not just to u.s., but to europe, japan, and the global trading system. and basically it's very focused. the areas you talked about but also aerospace on new energy vehicles. i mean, they want to be on top of all the high tech, all the cutting edge

economic areas. and it's smart for them to do it. they are doing something that's in their interest and that they should do. we should be in a position defend ourselves with the same amount of vigor. i think this president will do that that is a general wingenuinethreat. massive subsidies, closed markets and focus on technology transfer. it's a very, very serious threat in all of those areas and if you go through the parts of our economy that are affected by it, it's hard to find any kind of a tech part that's not potentially adversely affected by. this. >> laura: there is a split in this party. there has been for a long time. but, before trump came along, it was buchanan and ross perot and mike huckabee and rick santorum, the blue collar conservatives. do you have any doubt in your mind about trump winning because of his position in part on immigration and in part on trade? would very won pennsylvania or ohio, do you think, if he

didn't have that focus on the american worker? >> i think he focused on what we used to call reagan democrats. and now they are really trump democrats. they are working member and women and they are farmers. i think he focused on them. i think he is very empathetic. this is a man who goes out there and see what is is happening to these people in their communities. he cares very deeply. person that i think was a major, major effect. one of the two or three probably most important things. and i think he believes that. i think he is going to deliver on his promises we will change this paradigm. >> laura: we need the market certainty. we need the certainty or we can't operate. and you say? >> what they really saying we need the certainty so we can invest in mexico. >> laura: we want certainty to outsource. >> my reaction to that is that's not my job. my job is trying to create manufacturing jobs in america and put upward pressure on people's wages. many of these workers haven't had a raise in 10

years. they deserve a break. the last thing we should be doing would be ensuring, guarantees, subsidizing investments in another market. it makes no sense. by the way, in the case of automobiles, 80% of those cars, 80% are ships back to america. >> laura: so they are manufactured in mexico, shingsd here with no tariff. >> ships here with no tariff. >> laura: are you stunned at this point that after the president wins, after donald trump wins in november of last year, almost a year ago, we are still seeing the same arguments made in the "wall street journal" by the chamber of commerce, by the kato insite, that he is acting in a protectionist manner, that he is trying to put up walls to trade, walls to people and the freerkt, free market. free flow of goods and services is going to be hurt. consumers are going to be hurt the more aggressivelily we pursue this trade enforcement? they are still making those

arguments? >> if you say enterprise, no. those arguments have workedvel for them for years and years and years and years. here is the reality. of the president wants markets. the president wants open fair reciprocal balanced trade but we don't have that everybody knows that so the question is what do you do? do you buy a rabbit's foot, cross your fingers? make the sign of the cross? do that or do you have a strategy where you are going to use every tool america has to ensure that our workers and our farmers get a fair shake? >> laura: so when they say you are going to start a trade war you say. >> we are not starting a trade war at all. we have exactly the same objective as the chamber of commerce. exactly the same objective. the question is how do we get there? we tried it their way for 25 years. since at least 1995. we tried it their way. all i am saying is let's try a different route for a little bit. the result of their way, i would suggest, is a 750 billion-dollar goods

deficit. and overall goods and services deficit of $500 billion. i mean, these are staggering numbers. we ought to try something else. i think we are going to end up with more efficiency. we will end up with more global wealth. it's going to be fine for businesses but most importantly it's going to be fine for american workers and american farmers who need a break. and part of this whole trade idea, this whole public contract is that we give fair trade in return for open markets. and that's what all the workers bought into. and now they really haven't got it. but with this president i think they are going to get it. >> laura: tell me about the president's leadership style on this particular issue. >> on at least my area, he knows the stuff, and if you look at his life, 30 years you go back, he will say exactly the same thing thing he said 20 years ago, 15 years ago. it's remarkable. >> laura: ambassador, thank you so much for spending

some time. >> it is my pleasure. >> laura: by the way, did i that interview while four radio shows were going on around me in the east room of the white house. impossible. but we got through it. and i got to tell you, next, byron york is going to join us. the mainstream media is having quite a week. and we're going to give you the big low life up usaa to me means peace of mind. we had a power outage for five days total. we lost a lot of food. we actually filed a claim with usaa to replace that spoiled food. and we really appreciated that we're the webber family and we are usaa members for life.

>> welcome back to mainstream medium, it has been in real form this week let me know opportunity go to make fuld out of themselves. case in point, as you may have heard, donna brazile, former head of the dnc, making allegations that the democratic primary was rigged by hillary clinton and their campaign. kind of a big story, don't you think you make the they're all over it. after the story broke. i thought, no, they do not cover it at all. that makes sense. them even at t addressed the issue, surprise, surprise. join me now is byron york, correspondent for the "washington examiner." byron, nobody touched the story. it is a big one. we have the memorandum of agreement between the dnc and hillary. she had this wired from the beginning. >> this is a big deal, and donna

brazile was the woman chosen to head the dnc when debbie wasserman schultz imploded. a couple of reasons. they are biased. you can put it up to bias. and two, it is -- i think a lot of people, especially in television know that the story is trump, russia, and the war inside the republican party peered the fact that there is a civil war inside the democratic party, it is something that they do not get. >> they cannot turn election results into a positive manner, the special election, they have not nailed the ground. those stories are not covered. bias, i think another reason, is it laziness. i think there are a lot of sorry reporters were in the social scene in d.c., we are not there tonight. i think they hang out, and talk to big echo chamber. >> what you say makes sense, but maybe not in this case. donna brazile wrote a book, and

give them credit. keith olbermann was on one of my favorite shows, "the view" and this is what he said. let us listen. >> you said recently, via tweets that trump and his family have done more damage to america than bin laden and isis combined. do you believe that? how many people died on 9/11. the comparison is absurd. to say he did less damage than president trump. >> is at all she said? >> personal, you heard the audience applauded, which is odd. meghan mccain, strongly disagreed, but she -- what olbermann is doing, remember when keith olbermann was reporting, this is the out of office republican we take the republicans that are in office,

you say he is the worst ever, and you look at the republic he used to be in office, who at the time you said was the worst ever. you say, i am nostalgic. >> nostalgic for reagan, bush, now the worst of the worse it worse is donald trump. they actually fear trump. i have said this for years. more than isis, natural disasters, more than mass murder. byron york we did bring those martinez. >> and that is all we have for the scene. we thank you for watching. shannon bream kicks off at 11:00 p.m. hour. this is a fun first week. next week we national anthem. [ ♪ [national anthem] ♪

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[national anthem] ♪ ♪ >> president trump is off to asia. >> we'll be talking about trade. we'll be talking about, obviously, north korea. we'll be enlisting the help of a lot of people and countries. >> the president's best moments in the nine months that we have been in office have come when he has been abroad. >> a lot of people are disappointed in the justice department, including me. >> the president is trying to prod sessions into investigating democrats. >> basically bought the dnc and stole the election from bernie. >> you have a civil war drewing right now in the democratic party. >> sergeant bowe bergdahl would receive no jail time. >> it's sad.