set your dvr, never miss an episode of hannity. in washington, there's -- laura ingraham is standing by. i'm giving you five seconds. take it away. in . >> i'm going to give advice on how to deal with the psycho hillary antifa -- >> oh, no, sean. i'm going to tune in. thanks for another great show. >> laura: welcome to washington, this is "the ingraham angle. "t" we start with breaking news tonight. a federal judge in california has permanently blocked president trump's executive order defunding sanctuary cities. the judge, you may remember him,

william oric, iii, is a obama a pintee. he's the same judge that blocked the planned parenthood videos. gave $200,000 to president obama's campaign in the day. there you have it. we'll get to the other stories as the night goes on. first, our top story tonight. a border patrol agent is dead and another suffered traumatic head injuries after a vicious attack that took place near the border in west texas over the weekend. according to the border patrol union's president, 36-year-old ragelio martinez and another agent were likely ambushed by illegal immigrants that beat them with rocks. it's just another national emergency that is the u.s.-mexican border.

and president trump has long explained the need at the border. >> i said we need the wall, to the border patrol people. they said mr. trump, the wall is absolutely vital. a trump administration will also secure and defend the borders of the united states. and yes, we will build a great wall. we are building a wall on the southern border, which is absolutely necessary. >> we talk about the wall. we'll have the wall. it's part of what we're doing. we need it. it's rough territory. that's where the drugs are coming in. >> laura: let's compare that to the obama administration. >> the past six years, illegal border crossings have been cut by half. >> we're cooperating on a variety of matters that has enhanced border security for both of our countries. >> the numbers have been driven to 40-year lows.

if you look at things like apprehensions. so we know we're achieving success there. >> laura: oh, yeah. lots of success at the border. no human trafficking, no drug trafficking, no tunnels. no, no, no problem whatsoever. it's amazing. for reaction from san diego, let's bring in robert hyer, a chairman of the brian terry foundation. you remember mr. terry was the border patrol agent killed in 2010 in the infamous fast and furious scandal. robert and the foundation have been assisting the family during this tough time. we're delighted he's with us. this is another sickening example of the violence at the border, and people think it's just at the border itself.

as we know, these cartels and other thugs and criminals are operating within 18 miles inside the united states with assault weapons and in this case presumably they pelted the victim with rocks and other things. your reaction. >> that's right, laura. you know, it's a violent, violent environment. very kinetic. just as we saw with brian terry. those armed rip crews were professional criminals that came in, went back across the border time and time again to do one thing. that was create violence on the american side of the border. in this case, we believe that border patrol agent ragelio martinez was ambushed and violently beaten.

thank god his partner survived, who is also gravely -- badly injured. but it's a very, very violent environment on the border. i think americans have had enough. they elected a president to secure the border. look, we exist to do one thing. that is to speak out on issues that affect the safety and well-being of border patrol agents. this was the 39th border patrol agent killed in the line of duty since 2003. enough is enough. we have to secure the borders. >> laura: i want to know exactly what these animals did to agent martinez. i don't want it whitewashed. i want to knee what they did to him. i want to know who the people are. they better be apprehended. if they're coming across the mexican border, maybe they're central americans, we don't know.

but all i know is president trump was ridiculed and laughed at when he was said build the wall. they're pouring into this country with criminals and thugs and drugs and guns and all sorts of human trafficking going on. it's dangerous for the migrants that are crossing the border that want a better life. it's dangerous for them and unfortunate for american citizens, it's dangerous for us. it's not just the people of texas and the border patrol. the border patrol is on the front line. these people end up in northern virginia, minneapolis, boston, hartford, l.a., oakland and everywhere in between. this is what a failed government system does to the people of its own country. this is another wake-up call. i know president trump watches this show. this better be the final straw for these members of congress. build this wall! get this done. >> i think you're exactly right.

look, americans are gravely concerned. the wake-up call is when brian terry was killed almost seven years ago next month. >> laura: apparently not. apparently not. if it was a wake-up call, we would have congress not going home for long recesses. we'd have congress in town saying we're going to allocate real money, hire more agents. we won't have drones flying over and reporting back. we'll have people on the ground, turn back into the border. if you protest the border patrol agents, we'll arrest you too. you're interfering with the actions of a law enforcement officer. i'm sorry. his family deserves justice here just like you helped brian terry's family get their own justice. you can close it out. i'm so infuriated with this. this should never be happening in the united states of america. >> and i think the american public spoke out when they

elected president trump as president. now congress, maybe they still need a wake-up. i can tell you when elected officials either on the local, county, state or federal level speak out and fan the flames of protesters looking to protest against border patrol and -- that is completely unacceptable. we're americans together through bad and good times. >> laura: no, they don't want bad or good times. you're being too charitable. the people protesting these agents from carrying out their duty are part of the problem. they're acting criminally in what they're doing. that's all they are. criminals. they're acting in a criminal attitude. some people want the laws

violated, other people want the rule of law. robert, thanks for joining us. thanks for what you're doing for these border patrol families. we need more people like you. officers discovered the two injured border agents near interstate 10 in west texas, an area known for drug trafficking. we have art here with us, the vice president from the national border patrol counsel and from san diego and rico, the founder of border angels. let's go to you, enrique. i'm enraged by this. this is precisely what happens when you do not have a secure border. we have dead americans, we have human trafficking, we have dead my grants that tried to cross. some of them want work or want to see their family. i understand that. it's not compassionate. now we have another border agent dead. your reaction. >> well, i want to give my

condolences to the martinez family. what happened to him and his partner. i have attended the funerals of border patrol agents. it's horrible. 11,000 my grants have died since 1994 when the wall was built that covers a third of the border. in the last five years, a 40% drop of people crossing without power. the people are going south, returning to mexico or other parts. mexico is no longer the largest group of people coming without papers. it's actually people from central america. we should have humane borders. >> laura: hold on, enrique. when you say "we should have humane borders" what does that mean? 11,000 migrants have died. that's horrific and heart breaking. they're breaking the law.

adults that bring young children across or send them by themselves are acting in a highly irresponsible fashion and endangering childrens lives. that's a fact. >> that is a fact. >> laura: people should not be dying. the u.s. should have a border that you can't cross unless you do so legally. >> right. they can't do it legally. there's no line. 250,000 undocumented people in the world. most have no interest to come to the u.s. and go to other countries. last year 6,000 people died crossing from africa to europe. a lot is -- >> laura: we're talking -- we're not talking about -- >> you want facts or -- >> laura: we're talking about a country with a sovereign right to protect her borders. >> all countries have that. >> laura: you don't have a right to cross into someone else's border. >> i agree. >> laura: nobody has a right to come in here and kill a border patrol agent. art, i'm so done with congress

not doing their job here. i don't want to take up your time. you go ahead, sir. >> we're very concerned, very angry, very frustrated. you said it best. a lot of migrants that have entered this country. they died breaking our laws. these agents that have died have died protecting our country. enforcing the laws. it's very, very unfortunate what happened to our fellow agent. we're heart broken over this whole situation. we don't want to make it political. it's hard not to. it just breaks all of our hearts. people in texas are heart broken. we'll hear a lot of stories, i know, coming forward. we're going to wait to see what the investigation brings. however, what we have heard from the agents that were there, you have two agents that are familiar with the area that are

looking in different areas there, in an area that is well-known for drug trafficking. now we have one dead agent, we have another agent that had severe head trauma. there's no other explanation. is there a lot of possibilities what could have happened? i'm not going to say there isn't. what is most likely to have happened? you have two agents in an area that is notorious for drugs -- >> laura: would the -- i don't mean to interrupt. the cartels, wouldn't they take them down with automatic weapons or semiautomatic weapons? i don't see cartel members from one of the most dangerous cartels throwing rocks. we'll learn more about how he actually died. but was there gun fire? we're going to learn this. my larger point here is president obama relaxed -- enrique, you can chime in on this -- relaxed the way that agents could treat illegal

immigrants. in other words, made it more difficult for them to defend themselves. did they not? did he not, art? as far as your -- the way you engage someone? if someone is coming at you in a car, you can't shoot at the car? that changed. >> it made it easier to facilitate the criminal to commit a crime. to this day, there's still many agents that get attacked and assaulted and we're not seeing enough prosecutions. i've been on the phone since the incident happened talking with agents all over the country and we hear the same story. the problem is, there's no consequences for these individuals. when you -- >> that's your decision. >> you should always have true consequences. i'm not talking of a consequence of sending him back or deporting him or saying well, we're going to send you back in lieu of entering the country. no, you have to have true consequences for people that attack the border patrol agents. >> the law goes both ways.

when you shoot a man fleeing back into mexico, you should be put in prison. >> laura: that's just -- >> the thing is, that the law goes both ways. nobody supports this criminal activity. the organized crime is on both sides of the border. the u.s. needs to stop the drug demand. this is a worldwide issue. >> laura: let's legalize drugs and everything will be a nirvana. >> i don't agree with you. >> laura: get -- >> i support the majority of the people and not supporting trump or the wall. >> laura: we appreciate it. >> i'm against the wall as most of the country is. >> laura: no law and order and it will work out well. all right. stop talking. cut your mic. ahead, "the new york times" glenn thrush now in the afternoon. more news coming out. cbs' charlie rose in the evening. power players facing sexual

misconduct allegations. has it gone too far? more when we come back. witness katy perry.

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scandal. pick your poison. broadcaster charlie rose and "new york times" white house correspondent, glenn thrush. mr. rose, he's a legendary interviewer. he interviewed. he's been suspended by cbs news, pbs and bloomberg after "the washington post" reported that eight women were sexually harassed by rose. and for thrush, he was suspected after a website vack published a story in which four women said he made unwanted advances. mr. rose and mr. thrush released statements offering apologies but both disputed the details of the allegation. so is this just the beginning of justice for the harassers or has this gone too far? joining us from chicago is my friend, jim warren, chief media

writer for the pointer institute and in new york, my other friend, conservative commentator, monica crowley. i'll start with you, monica. i have two minds of this. number 1, it's great that people are aware of bad behavior and stopping bad behavior in the workplace or anywhere else. that's a good thing. on the other hand, it seems like it's almost like the pile-on. like one person is trying to one-up the other saying he put his hand near my thigh. i'm not trying to minimize it. does it ever end? if it does, when? doesn't show any signs of letting up. >> that's true, laura. we're in this moment right now as a society and culture because for decades this kind of behavior was accepted and excused and covered up. the moment you got the harvey weinstein story, this story of this incredibly famous and powerful hollywood heavyweight

reported in "the new york times," that story -- he was a particularly egregious example of this behavior. that story then opened up the flood gates. because this kind of behavior has been excused for so long, now we have a tsunami of these stories and women that feel empowered to step up and tell their stories, whether it's recent or say 40, 50 years ago. they feel now emboldened and empowered to come forward. when you ask if it's going to end, i don't think so. i think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and we're going to start to see it spread to other industries and areas. >> laura: jim? >> monica, when was the last time we ever agreed? i might have to destroy the tape. i totally agree with you. there's different levels of inappropriate behavior as folks at your network know very well

over what has happened the last couple years. none of it is inexcusable. there's a difference between what we're reading about glenn thrush and charlie rose and harvey weinstein. but i think it's the tip of the iceberg. i think it has to do with people feeling empowered to come forward and as much as power as it is about gender. it's also interestingly about marketplace ruling for the moment and saying have to throw these bums out. >> laura: here's an interesting factoid that we just dug up from ugov economist poll. over 1/3 of american adults that it's sexual harassment if a man that is not a woman's romantic partner compliments her looks. one in four young women say it's usually sexual harassment if he asks her out for a drink.

do you see my point here? my point is, how do you have a normal office relationship if now complimenting someone on -- oh, you look great today. like young people that that is a form of sexual harassment. it's one in four women. there has to be a middle ground here. you can't have any conversation other than numbers or whatever you're business is. that's also crazy. what i'm saying, not every woman is the same and not every man is a predator. we have to say that. >> i think you're 100%, laura. it needs to be said. here's the problem. we're in this moment where we have this frenzy. we don't know how far it's going to go. i think we have to start the conversation now that to jim's point. there's different classes of predators and victims and we need to have an honest

conversation about that. on college campuses for a long time, they've been talking about what you're laying out. for every move, somebody might want to make on somebody else, they have to ask for permission at every stage because the sense 0 appropriateness has been lost and moreover the sense of common sense, laura. so i think there's a danger of the pendulum swinging in the opposite direction. again, this is not to excuse bad behavior in any form. i think we have to have a conversation now where we talk about degrees and introduce some common sense and rationality into the conversation. >> laura: jim, quickly, is charlie rose going to come back from this, do you think? >> maybe on channel 793 on your dial. no, i don't think to pbs or bloomberg. the behavior outlined here. interestingly enough, you see who his attorney has been all of

these years? david boys. >> laura: from uranium one. >> harvey weinstein. >> laura: yeah. >> and i would say to monica and laura, i have no sense of shock and awe here. we've known about this sense of behavior. at hamhurst college in the says, we wrote an article about the disgusting behavior of men towards women. >> laura: we hope people are learning. i'll never think of a terry cloth robe after the rose and the winestein. i can't look at the robes any longer. thanks both of you. new sexual misconduct allegations against al franken. we'll have a debate when we come back.

>> laura: democrat senator al franken was front page news last week for the wrong reasons after a california radio host charged him with making unwanted sexual advances toward her and shared photographic evidence to back it up. well, it seems mr. franken's problems are just getting started after a second woman has come forward with a claim of her own. 33-year-old lindsey mims tweeted out, in august 2010, congressman franken grabbed me at the minnesota state fair. i felt violated and important. mr. franken was serving in the senate at the time. so should he resign? and we have our panel here with us.

all right. richard, let's start with you. second woman, i guess squeezed her tush. we're gone from corn dogs to horn dogs. an easy joke. what do you think? >> when this horrible allegations about roy moore came out, childhood predatory behavior, if it was true, how are you going to prove whether what this woman is saying is true? even as to leeann tweeden, al franken was apologetic. and i don't think until we come up with a sense of proportion, the notion of al franken resigning over this seems silly. >> laura: robin, your take? >> i do think he needs to resign. last week, i was proud of him for how he handled it when he asked for the investigation and

he apologized. the young lady accepted. what i heard today was gross to me. he said if she felt disrespected, that he felt bad about that. to me that sounds like the language of somebody that may have actually done this so many times that it's normalized. like he can't remember doing it or not. i think that he himself knows. if he did to this in fact, he really does need to resign. we should have a zero tolerance policy for this just like we do in the military for sexual assault. i'll say i'm a veteran. there's no tolerance for this behavior. >> laura: you're being very modest, robin. you're a veteran and a former army ranger. >> thank you. >> laura: thanks for your service. we hold our military in high esteem. every organization has had this

problem. i might agree with you, richard, that i don't think he should resign. here's why. i think the voters should decide this in the next election cycle. they elected him. he came from the entertainment world, came from "saturday night live." i've known and had good friends that worked on "saturday night live." that's a wild deal over there. a wild arena. there's a lot of stuff that happened back stage, off stage. people hooking up. that's the way it is. it's the entertainment world. they knew what they were getting with al franken. not saying he was doing the groping pictures. but they elected him. let them unelect him. he apologized. i don't partially like al franken. we never agree. he's not been nice to me. when i debated him in the past, he's been very nasty. at the same token, i don't think he should resign. the voters should decide alabama. the voters should decide

minnesota. the voters re-elected bill clinton in 1996 and they seem to forgive him. >> and they elected donald trump. if you had to rank all the abuses -- >> laura: he denies them. >> okay. how many people in this audience you think -- >> laura: he denies them. >> he bragged about doing the same thing. he bragged -- >> the billy bush. >> yeah. the access hollywood tape. >> there needs to be reckoning about objectifying women. i guarantee you if everybody you know in your field and the military and businesses and churches and so forth were asked whether they experienced anything like this, would be almost universal, which is not to excuse it. to say what is the right penalty? i don't think we know yet. >> laura: robin, when we talk about objectifying men and women, we talked about it

before, but we as a society and the culture and the way it's developed, we objectify ourselves. everybody is guilty of that. whether you're in times square, look up at the billboards. you see models maybe 15, 14 years old. dressed in a very provocative way. i'm not saying that that brings on sexual harassment, but objectification is everywhere, everywhere. it's in film, it's in music. the lyrics that are the most disgusting, profane that we can't show on screen. so if objectifying or stopping the pornification is our goal, we have a long way to go across every medium, not just regarding sexual harassment but regarding the content that we're producing in the entertainment industry especially. let you have the last word. >> you better believe it. i'm glad we're having the discussion. we flushed this out in the military. but a situation was described

where franken pulled mrs. mims close to her and cupped her butt in front of her husband. no excuse for that if that happened. i'm sorry. >> laura: i don't know if it's a diminutive complex. i don't know what it is. the whole thing is so gross. what a -- did her husband see this? >> i've not read that he saw it. >> laura: why didn't he deck him? >> she went back to him and said he grabbed my butt. >> laura: sorry. i'm old school. it wouldn't have taken much to take franken down there. >> the problem is any single woman could get a senator kicked out of office. if the standard is -- >> laura: i agree. >> you allege it, they're out. >> laura: this will -- i think this isn't going to end any time soon. we have north korea, we have all

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breaking news sexual harassment claim. now against congressman john conyers. he's apparently accused of using government resources to fly women and with whom he was having affairs. these stories are coming out during the show they're coming out so fast and furious. i had to update you. another absolutely crazy story coming out of a university or college. this out of dartmouth. i graduated dartmouth. february 2, the college will have a forum called "what's up with white people?" it will feature matt ray. he plans to have a field guide for different types of white people and how you can spot them in their natural habitats. dartmouth released a statement

saying that views do not represent the college. all right. take it away, tarik. how is this -- we don't know what will happen in this. you have a summary. how is this not going to bring about more racial division since it's based on "whiteness?" >> i think the professor should have worded it differently. i do disagree with "what's up with white people" as a problem. you have white people and white supremacists. it should have been titled what's up with while supremacy and how we can dismantle white supremacy. it's a very interesting topic.

>> so it's your contention that white supremacy dominates all areas of activity? >> yes, between human beings. war, politics and religion -- >> laura: sports? >> yes, absolutely. >> laura: the nfl and the nba is dominated by while supremacists? explain. >> yes. you have white team owners that say that their team players are inmates and slaves. donald sterling referred to his players as slaves. look how they're being treated now. they're protesting nonjustice and getting black listed from teams. they're showing that sports is dominated by systematic white supremacy. >> laura: so what is your solution to that? have owners based on percentage

ethnicity and race and doing it in proportionality? >> how white supremacy works, it's about maldistributing the resources and passing them down through linages. we have to talk about redisbutteding the resources that are deserving to the people that are supposed to get it. systematic white supremacy works on suppression and propaganda and something that we have to talk about. i want to replace white supremacy with justice. not only do we get it in the criminal justice system -- it's about how we replace white supremacy. >> laura: so i want a solution. so should it be a monetary pay out plus land or business ownership? i'm trying to get the solution straight. >> i've been on solutions for a

long time. we've been trying to figure out how do we remedy systematic white supremacy? >> laura: i have an idea. it's called hard work. content -- >> are you saying that black people don't do hard work? >> laura: nice try. nice trick. i'm saying everybody has to work hard. >> you said black people don't do hard work? the reason you have all the resources -- >> laura: yeah. that's exactly what i said. my friend, that's not at all what i said. >> that's what you said. >> laura: you know it is. that's the game you play. straight ahead, the good news you will not hear anyplace else. how the trump administration is saving taxpayers some serious money and no one puts

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what you wouldn't hear much about is the most important story of the year. america is back! yeah, though the media has been loathed to report this fact, 2017 has been a banner year for the u.s. economy. an incredible comeback from president obama's anemic nonrecovery recovery. the economists this week notes that blue collar wages are rising. unemployment tumbles, wage growth now exceeds 4%. theirs is growing faster than wages of professionals and managers. when you dig deeper, there's better news. trade wages are rising. some contractors are seeing wages rise double digits. so why are things working so well? he has a great team in place, guys like wilbur ross, steve

mnuchin at treasury and a rising star, bob lighthighser. what he does and does well, he advances president trump's america first vision and global trade dealing. so you know what i say? with lighthighsner charge, look out beijing, south korea and mexico and that is gaining on the deal that we negotiated in good faith. remember this interview about finally establishing an equal playing field. >> we should be in a position that we have the same amount of vigor. this president will do it. it's a threat of massive subsidies, closed markets and a focus on technology transfers. >> laura: his policies in this

pro-american posture is already benefitting american manufacturing and the american worker. you already know that the stock market is experiencing record growth. did you know that u.s. housing and industrial production are also up? things are rebounding so robustly the federal reserve in new york is projecting a 3.8% rise in the gross domestic product. that's up a week ago, just from a week ago. if that projection holds, this will be the best quarter for the u.s. economy in three years. now, do you remember when people were laughing when trump said this? >> we're going to win with every single facet. we're going to win so much, you may get tired of winning. >> laura: now who is laughing at him now? i don't get tired of winning. winning is fin. just to show that this is a president who knows how to keep his own house in order, on

friday the trump administration released their annual report on white house personnel. there are 110 fewer employees working for president trump than worked for obama. you know what that saves taxpayers? could be a drop in a bucket, but saves the taxpayers $5.1 million annually. i'll take that. melania trump has four staffers. compared to michelle obama's meager 24. and did you know that the president has donated his entire $400,000 salary to the department of the interior? that money will be used to pay for construction and repairs to our military cemeteries. i love that. so while others continue to compare the conspiracy theories and cover issues that mean not that much to the daily lives of most americans, you should know that things are getting better

in big ways and in small. and it is shameful and it is bias that these presidential accomplishments get so little coverage. i'll tell you something, here in "the ingraham angle," we're going to fix that. we all have a little more to be thankful for which should be reported honestly and celebrated. that's the angle. don't go anywhere. we're back in just a moment.

>> laura: before ago, a quick reminder. check out my new book. "billionaire at the barrica des: the populist revolution from reagan to trump." we have a great book signing at the reagan library friday night. a major focus of my book is how the u.s. has gotten absolutely hammered in recent decades on trade. we are going to look at how president trump is brushing off

the chinese charm offensive. president xi's charm offensive didn't get very far. how we are going to take a hard line against beijing. tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern. next, shannon bream. >> shannon: thank you. new allegations of sexual misconduct rattles washington power brokers. charlie rose, "new york times" reporter glenn thrush. a second woman is accusing al franken of inappropriate conduct. how will washington elites respond? chris stirewalt is on the case. is rex tillerson on the same page as the president when it comes to north korea? investor john bolton on whether obama holdovers are interfering with foreign policy. from otto