yourself, your own speech. you know how many speeches, i use the same jokes and a lot of them. i plagiarize myself. you people are so dumb. we will never be fake news, destroy trump, we are fair and balanced. laura ingraham with her baby is standing by. did you bring it? too many serious things. >> sean: i'm so angry over this tragedy, how the system failed the steinle family. i know you're angry, too. >> laura: we'll be all over it. thanks so much. >> sean: have a good show. >> laura: good evening from washington. this is "the ingraham angle." let's get to the top story. a stunning very digit out of san francisco. a five-time deported illegal alien with seven previous felony convictions was found, believe it or not, not guilty of murdering 32-year-old kate steinle on july 1, 2015. now, the jury did find jose

garcia zarate guilty on one count, being a felon in possession of a firearm. the not guilty verdicts on the homicide charges came despite the fact that mr. garcia zarate both admitted to shooting mrs. steinle and to coming to san francisco to take advantage of its sanctuary city policies. remember, garcia zarate had been in custody of san francisco authorities until april of 2015, but then they released him without notifying ice, ignoring a detainer request. despite this fact, his attorney had the gal to say that the case had nothing to do with illegal immigration. >> i believe today is a vindication for the rights of immigrants, that today we have to reflect all of us on how we talk about this case from the beginning and how this swarm of

reflection and reaction on the base of what i believe to be the racial dynamic of this case. nothing about mr. garcia zarate's ethnicity, nothing about his immigration status, nothing about the fact that he is born in mexico had any relevance as to what happened on july 1, 2015. >> laura: oh, my god. i can't believe those words were said by that man. it's breathtaking on almost every level and almost wrong. joining us now for reaction to try this -- sort this out is mike wilds from new york city and this is hermique. let's start with you. when this came across my phone tonight, i got choked up. i got choked up for the steinle family and for every american family when has been brutalized

at the hands of criminals who should have never been in this country in the first place. your take. >> absolutely, laura. i mean, as a citizen of san francisco, i was tremendously disappointed not to say ashamed of my city and the verdict that they gave. you heard the political rhetoric coming out of the attorney, matt gonzalez's mouth and deflating this criminal illegal alien that has been deported several times with law abiding immigrants like myself and other citizens as if we have no rights at all. this is an example of the city of san francisco rolling out the carpet for illegal aliens and this is the net result of that. >> laura: michael, he said the verdict has a lot of relevance and vindicates the rights of the undocumented. so is the message today, if you're an undocumented immigrant, you are deported five times, you can come into the united states, shoot someone and get off on all murder charges?

is that part of the message today? that's what happened. >> no. sadly i join you and everybody else, the sad loss for the steinle family and what looks like justice not being served. i happen to be a former mayor and a former federal prosecutor myself. there's multiple truths that happened here. this sadly, although a terrible event, is an isolated event and a pure result of a poor prosecution by a state court prosecutor that did not succeed in bringing home a guilty verdict. the prosecution didn't succeed just like immigration didn't succeed in stopping this man here. but for ice's poor presence on the border or poor ability to do this, this young lady would have been alive. today we cannot scapegoat i'm grants or immigration or refer to these individuals all by one

big silve that would cause people harm. >> laura: michael, hold on -- >> this is not the platform, laura -- >> laura: i'm very your a very talented lawyer. i was one in my day. for you to kind of spout out e the -- we have a dead girl here -- >> whose fault is that. >> laura: hold on here. and san francisco refused to hold on an immigration detain near sheer defiance of federal law, federal law that is supreme over state law when it comes to immigration. that is an outrage to all americans. they did not hold him. they should have held him when he was removed from the country. you bet he shouldn't have come into this country. >> if i may -- >> laura: people like you that stand up for these criminals when americans are being brutalized and immigrants that are legally here are being

brutalized makes me sick to my stomach tonight. hermeet can respond. i'm in no meade for the cliche's. >> blood is on the hands of the politicians in san francisco who have made the sanctuary city policy the law and kept us unsafe for a long time. also on the hands of the obama administration which did not enforce our borders for eight years. one of the reasons that president trump was elected is to seal the boarder. now our state of california thanks to the governor signing our bill is a sanctuary state. so every citizen in california can look forward to this type of situation occurring if we don't protect our borders. it's passed time to do that. >> laura: michael, you can answer. >> thanks for giving me a moment. laura, i resent the indication

that was a prosecution lawyer. the bottom line here, ice has laws on the books and should have done a better job stopping this. until they stop this properly, we can't engage in the political diatribe in the courts. the courts found that he caused an accident. it was not something that he intended on doing. he should never have been here and this young lady had been alive had ice stopped him. you want to know something? there are so many ways, whether it's the building of a proper wall or the enforcement of the laws on the books that we can stop the federal felons and criminals from reentering. mind you, this man can be prosecuted federally for reentering the united states after he serves the time for the illegal weapons charge. >> laura: more money from the taxpayers. >> let's not may the father think that for all the people that have accents in his country -- >> laura: first of all, who is saying that except you tonight? >> you said cliche'. >> laura: no, your cliche' --

you're trying to -- it's a tactic -- >> i'm talking about the bifurcation of our system -- let me speak. >> laura: no, no, no. you can't speak when i'm speaking. that's the way the show goes. when you keep saying your scapegoating immigrants, no, we're not. what we're saying is he should not have been here. you bet he should not have been here. >> i agree. >> laura: don't take the blame, all of the blame and put it just on the feds. when the feds had a detainer out on him and san francisco did not honor it. >> let me finish my sentence. the feds have a detainer on him and it's up to the feds to use their due process, yes, that is not a dirty word, to go out and find this gentleman and -- >> laura: they released him. they release people. >> and the local police do their own jobs to hand somebody over -- >> laura: this family is victimized all over again. they're being victimized hearing

these arguments. they're ridiculous. >> let's get this guy out because he may kill somebody. >> laura: sound good to most americans right now. hermeed, i'll let you have the last word. >> laura, this is a joke. what happened in san francisco is embarrassing. they let people out every day like in on san francisco. he was hanging out for 2 1/2 months, a ticking time bomb for this crime to occur. he will serve under the california laws maybe two or three years for this crime and then guess what? catch and release again. thank you, california. >> laura: we have to go. we're way over, guys. we'll have you back. we have to go. >> it's a broken system and we need to fix it. >> laura: michael, you made some good points but it's not about legal immigration. it's about illegal immigration

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>> laura: now how in the world did nbc brass not know about matt lauer's behavior all those years? maybe they didn't want to know. jeff zucker is claiming absolute ignorance today. >> i was at nbc for 25 years of my career. you know, no one ever brought to me or my knowledge, there was never -- there was never a complaint about matt. there was never a suggestion of that kind of deviant predatory behavior, not even a whisper of it. >> laura: not even a whisper. please. people across the industry are saying they knew about his reputation for years. don't forget, nbc is the network that held back the juanita

brodrick interview about bill clinton before they were forced to run it and the blockbuster harvey weinstein investigation. matt lauer initially claimed there was one accuser. we told you last night, there's actually many more. now today fox news is reporting as many as eight women may accuse lauer of sexual harassment. joining me to make sense of this as it's rapidly developing tonight is fox news contributor, best selling author tammy bruce and sam braverman who is a political analyst. sam, let's start with you. look, i used to go on "the today show" fairly regularly, including back in the 90s, mid to late 90s when jeff zucker was there. he was close to lauer. lauer was nice to me. but they were really good pals. and the reporting today is that this was widely known in the network, that he had a reputation and people were

afraid to speak out because of his power and the fact that he was the franchise of the network. what do you say? >> i'm sure that always has a role to play in these sort of things. being a powerful guy that brings in $100 million to a television station gives you latitude. i have no doubt there's people there that knew this was going on. whether or not the people at the high end hat properly insulated themselves from this so that they can have deniability is hard to say. hard to say nobody knew about this. the times and variety had been working on it for weeks. the idea that it came out this monday is nonsense. of course they knew. >> laura: tammy, this kind of plausible deniability, zucker -- zucker is a liberal over there at cnn and wagging his finger when fox is going through its stuff and lauer was interviewing o'reilly about a month or so ago. something about this whole story

seems hard to believe. everybody is so shocked. like with the weinstein thing. everybody is so shocked and stunned about the behavior. >> right. look, what is interesting here is that andy lack, remember, was brought back to nbc to save nbc from the brian williams debacle. so this is a man who was brought in to try to fix things. he's a fixer. now, this would be somewhat believable -- it's more believable with zucker than with lack. so if you try to insulate yourself in the workplace, that level when you manage that kind of money and the gem of your network, you want to know everything. you don't want to be surprised. that is the issue for mr. lack and certainly for mr. zucker who said he was a manager, a captain of a ship. you need to know these things. and so this is where it becomes problematic. i think, laura, what we've seen,

these men have been able to do this for decades. suddenly it seems to them overnight that the rule has changed. i think they have underestimated the nature of what was occurring. so they thought that they could protect themselves. you saw that with the spiking of the ronan ferro dynamic and what has led up to variety working months on this. "the new york times" as well. and then the firing, by the way -- a lot of people don't realize this -- it wasn't just a booker that was fired. it was a vice president of nbc that was matt lauer's closest producer that was fired for inappropriate behavior with women. so a lot of people thought this would start the unraveling. now we're seeing them try to still scramble and cover themselves. clearly i don't think they're thinking right at this point about the franchise. >> laura: sam, what do they do here? there was rumors that megyn

kelly would want to step in and her show is what it is. it's less of a news show, less of a serious show, that she would step in and seems like the knives were out for her today. some people were thinking -- like she was throwing gasoline on the fire of matt lauer. what are your thoughts there? >> wouldn't you be happy to see anderson cooper take over the job there? you guys would be happy about that. the answer is that you have to do as much damage control as you can and you just behead as many people that you think will bring attention elsewhere and give you time to scramble internally. so if they cut off a couple people here and move them on, that gives them some latitude. to suggest this is a liberal network problem, i think probably misses the beat. there's a whole lot going on for the lauer-o'reilly interview a couple months ago. it's reminiscent of -- i don't know -- something like in -- >> laura: i go back to the ted kennedy, chris dodd in the 80s

when i first came to washington. a lot of stuff going on in this town that people laughed at for a long time in washington. >> since rome. >> laura: it's been going on a long time. >> let me add, to, none of this -- as we know, none of this would survive without leadership supporting and protecting people. >> laura: protecting their brand. >> protecting the brand. >> absolutely. >> especially with the behavior of matt lauer. people knew. >> laura: we have to go. thank you so much. when we return, utter hysteria from the left in mainstream mean i can't over president trump's mental state. today's angle next. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls...

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>> laura: who is really crazy? president trump or the media? that's the focus of tonight's angle.

there's been a steady drum beat from the bipartisan kabal and the media and a few in politics that are claiming that the commander-in-chief is unfit to serve. not in his right mind. insane. cuckoo for cocoa puffs. a "new york times" best selling book by a group of psychiatrists says that the president is psychologically unstable. this has been gaining momentum for some months now. i'd say for a glimpse of true psychological instability, here's msnbc's joe scarborough from morning joe along with a sampling of other hysterics. >> you have somebody in the white house and the new york daily news says is mentally unfit, that people close to him is mentally unfit, that people close to him during the campaign told me had early stages of dementia. >> think about the prospect that the president of the united states is not totally in his right mind. let's just say it. he's not fully in touch with

reality. and is worsening. >> something is unleashed with him lately. i don't know what is causing it. i don't know how to describe it. >> you see a difference in the past days, weeks? >> i think the last couple days tweets have been -- >> unhinged. >> markedly accelerated in terms of seeming -- >> we're concerned that the president of the united states is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quick that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with u.s. national security interests. >> laura: consider the people questioning the president's mental health. where did scarborough psych

degree from? i've been thinking about this. i think there might be a method to his madness. you can see what is happening is, they're deflecting some attention from all of the real basket cases. the colleagues in the newsrooms with real psychological issues. they're the ones that you've been reading about with careers going down in flames over habitual sexual a base and harassment. yeah, it's easier to talk about a crazy president that tweets than your pals down the hall or the management upstairs that supposedly knew nothing about the predatory behavior of their best friend. you know what the left is mostly afraid here? now that trump is going to fail but that he's going to succeed. so they use the word "mad man" to delegitimize him. i asked somebody that knows about the president. senate majority leader mitch

mcconnell and asked him about trump's mental state. >> the accusations are outrageous. i speak to him daily. i'm involved with him all the time on all of these issues. that accusation is totally baseless and outrageous. i think they're completely off base and irresponsible. let's argue over the issues. >> laura: but the left doesn't want to talk about the issues. the crazy talk allows them to devert from the good that the president has done from the united states. let's talk about a booming economy. gdp revised 3.3%. stock market at 24,000. christmas retail sales up. slash of red tape, unleashing small businesses. he's rolled back regulations that strangled business growth, restoring common sense conservatism. trying to drain the swamp. he's nominating a record number

of federal judges in courts across the land. finally, returning fire in the one-sided trade war with china. almost gets no coverage. that $250 billion worth of deals he brought back after the trip to asia? he's finally launching a real anti-dumping case against chinese aluminum manufacturers. get this. now he's working with our european allies to oppose china at the wto came out hours ago. they're opposing market economy status for china. huge news. where is the media reporting and obsessing in that? top trump aide stephen miller told the washington examiner that if media coverage was fair, there would be a hundred stories about the unstoppable momentum of the oval office. it's the same thing that they did to my old boss, ronald reagan. they branded him a dottering old actor while trying to sabotage his agenda. these are the same people that got the election wrong, said the

stock market would tank once trump got elected and now trying to revive their own reputations by defaming the president and they hope they remove him from office. that's what the crazy talk is about. frankly i think that is crazy. that's the angle. joining us now to discuss what is really going on, molly hemingway and garland nixon, a radio talk show host. garland, that's quite a montage of people in politics and the media declaring donald trump basically either has dementia or mentally unsound. >> you know, i think they may be out of line making a scientific diagnosis. i don't think it's unreasonable when the president tweets out something that could literally start world war iii one day and the next day he's in a twitter war with a college basketball player, to say that that is out of line. the president is acting in ways that we would have to question whether or not the president of the united states should consider a reasonable way to

act, to lead the nation. to be the leader of the free world. >> so you're saying if he didn't tweet, we would have a booking stock market. he's dealing in china that i haven't seen any president in my lifetime deal with china, which is common sense pragmatics. all of this stuff happening on the economic front. he's working with our allies in europe so if he didn't tweet, he wouldn't be -- >> i'm not talking about the tweets. i'm talking about what's in the tweets. the president is suggesting the only way to fix the problem with north korea, which would prevent war is to start world war iii with north korea and china. >> laura: that's not what he said. molly? >> there's certainly problems with his tweets. just this week. there's the rhetoric but there's the reality. when you look at the reality of his foreign policy, he's got the more restrained foreign policy that we've seen since

eisenhower. we've worried about wars. that's what the other administrations have done, get us to warses needlessly. he does want the convey his seriousness with north korea. the tweets are not so much directed to north korea but china and getting china to take it seriously. his rhetoric could use improvement. but people observing it need to separate that rhetoric from the reality of the presidency and from the reality, he's operating as a pretty mainstream president with a lot of accomplishments to back him up. >> i think what we're talking about here is that he doesn't understand the -- apparently he doesn't understand the gravity of the rhetoric. everybody remembers the shot heard around the world. we don't want the tweet heard around the world. you don't seem to grasp when you make these kinds of boisterous tweets about north korea -- one person just slips on the trigger and now all of a sudden -- >> laura: probably not that

simple. >> military historians say there's no evidence in history of an errant word causing a war. we have had a lot of rhetoric from the previous administrations warning north korea about destruction if they continued with their nuclear capabilities. nothing has stopped them. absolutely nothing. everything about our posture for the last several decades has done nothing to keep them from the path they're on. >> laura: what is crazy. this is crazy. it's happening on republican and democrat administrations. i think leaving the border open and very unsecured was crazy. i think letting china become a dominant economic and military power was crazy. i think taking mubarak out was crazy. i think doubling down and doubling down again in these middle east conference that are quagmires that we can't get out, a lot of craziness to go around and maybe people are polished and give speeches that don't wander off like trump can. but the policies have been crazy. they have hallowed out our middle class.

that's craziness that had real world effects. i'm talking bush, obama, clinton. crazy town to let china get where they are today. they all did it. all of them. >> it's like we're in the exact inverse of the obama presidency. the public statements were very presentable. in the background, you have destructive policies with iran, the destabilization. thinking about what we did in libya, convincing moammar to get rid of his weapons and then destabilizing that regime. that's the stuff that makes north korea think that they need to go nuclear. maybe these polished presentations -- >> laura: i think giving 20 purse of our uranium to an adversary is crazy. maybe i'm totally nuts here. i think that is crazy. >> you'll never get me to promote neocon war policies.

>> laura: they want him out of office. they want to remove him out of office. don't you agree with that? >> there are people -- >> jackie spire, kelly -- murphy. discuss me. >> we know the president had topped the billy bush tapes. >> laura: reportedly. reportedly. >> he called it locker room talk, which he won doing that. he won. he got away with it. now he's forgotten and now he's saying -- >> laura: i'll be considered crazy if i blow through another hard break. great having you here. >> thank you. >> laura: and the career of the longest serving member of the house may be coming to an abrupt end. now that even pelosi has decided congressman conyers is too toxic. the lawmaker's lawyer had an in your face respond. wait till you hear what he told wait till you hear what he told her next. ♪

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>> laura: welcome back. as we've been reporting, john conyers fasting multiple accusations of sexual harassment and now nancy pelosi is calling for his resignation. conyers isn't going quietly. his attorney said "pelosi did not elect the congressman and she sure as hell will not pressure him to leave." he claimed a double standard noting that democrats are not calling on senator al franken to resign. maybe a race element there. but a new bill would abolish the office that hides congressional

offenders and uses taxpayer money to hush up their indiscretions. we told you about this office of compliance and last night i asked mitch mcconnell about the unmasking of names, would he be in favor of it, of alleged abusers. he said this. >> laura, i think my attitude about that, i want to wait and see what the women of the senate recommend on that and the other issues we're talking about. >> laura: so it could possible -- >> i'll wait and see what the women of the senate recommend. >> laura: why just the women of the senate? doesn't anybody -- >> they're in a position to take the lead. men are involved in both sides as well. >> laura: and tonight we have new clarity on the identity of the alleged harassers on capitol hill whose settlements were paid from the slush fund. a whopping $100,000 went to two staffers of disgraced democrat congressman eric massa that was forced to resign. joining me now, ron desantis, republican from florida. a co-sponsor of the

congressional accountability hush fund elimination act. i can't believe there's an act with hush fund in the title. take it way. mitch mcconnell would not commit to unmasking the names there as far as i could tell. >> think about it, laura. you have a situation where members of congress can commit misconduct, the taxpayers will pay for it and then it's kept secret. what kind of behavior are you trying to promote? here's the thing about the offenders. this is taxpayer dollars. you as a tax payer have a right to know how your money is being spend. my bill would unveil the perpetrators and the claims. the american public deserves that information. there's no way that should be secret. >> laura: are there any other funds we should know about on capitol hill that you've come across that -- >> my staff, we're researching to get all of them. what happens is, they'll do one permanent appropriations. just a pot of money that existed outside the budget process so people said did you know this is

there? no because it's not in the budget -- >> laura: how is it allowed? >> it shouldn't be. mueller's funding is outside. i think that's a bad interpretation. i don't think he's entitled to that. that's what they're relying on. >> laura: so he can spend as much money as he wants. and without any real oversight. >> justice could tell him to stop, but they've not shown any inclination -- >> laura: so he can -- >> he has 16 prosecutors. >> laura: what have they found so far? >> for the o.j. murder simpson murder case? no. kate steinle's accuser basically got off. nothing. maybe a couple years. possession of a firearm. as a felon. illegal immigrant deported five times. sanctuary state, sanctuary city policies. your take on this. >> the verdict is a disaster. the root cause of this is exactly what you said. the fact that we didn't have control over our borders and you have a sanctuary city where he

could return and be put back on the streets. congress has to look at this. we have a spending bill in december. we have to totally defund sanctuary cities in that spending bill. >> laura: thinking about her family tonight. victimized once again. hearts broken again. there's no justice here. no justice. >> you remember jahmile shaw and his son in california. they're releasing these i'll little immigrants on the street even though they were in custody. his son gets killed. a high school senior going to play football. how many more of these stories do we need to take action? >> laura: i'll tell you in a second what the lawyer for the -- for whatever his name is. i forgot the evil person's name. a disgraceful verdict in the state steinle case. no wonder people of our country are so angry with illegal immigration. he's right about that. i think we had the lawyer for the accused tonight, played the

sound bite where he said this vindicates basically the rights of illegal immigrants to be here in the united states. to stop demeaning immigrants. always complaining. illegal immigrants with immigrants. he went on and on with this impassioned statement about how this demonstrates that we have real justice for the people in the united states and making ate racial issue. the guy shouldn't have been in the country. >> that's why we get the statistics from the obama administration. every one of the crimes you can say had we enforced the laws written, none of the crimes would have happened. that's the bottom line with this. >> laura: last night, i asked mitch mcconnell. he said he was in favor of ending chain migration and in favor of the raise act. that was heartening to a lot of our viewers and surprising to

me. sounding conservative on immigration. >> yeah. mcconnell is a republican. they have never embraced thing like the raise act or ending chain migration. things are changing driven by the president of the united states. >> laura: so his agenda he actually be pursued. >> it's a way to unite the party. our base is not with the open borders folks. >> laura: looks like corker might be throwing a monkey wrench in the tax renorm bill. any thoughts there? >> every republican has a chance to do something -- >> laura: he's retiring. >> he's not going to face the voters. you want to deep six this because you have a personal beef with the president. we're here to represent our constituents. the senate needs to get this done and end the legislative drought that they've been in all year. >> laura: it would raise taxes by $350 billion more if this

goes down, 2018 prediction. >> obviously. our base will be deflated. >> laura: it's over. >> it's not going to be good for the economy either. >> laura: horrific. congressman desantis, thanks so much. black lives matter says it has a nasty christmas gift for white-owned businesses. a boycott. a boycott. we'll explain coming up.♪ ♪ohhhhhh, ou! guess what i just got? uh! ♪i used to be spellbound hello again. ♪i used to be spellbound hi. ♪i used to be spellbound that's a big phone. ♪in your arms. [screams] ah, my phone. ♪you built the flame ♪that warms my heart, ♪but lying and cheating ♪has torn us apart ♪and i'm moving on.

>> laura: we always keep an eye on culture. tonight it has a christmas feel. why is the washington d.c. metro system waging a war on christmas? plus, cnn plans to boycott the white house christmas party. but we begin with black lives matter, which seems to be dreaming of an -- i don't know, communist christmas. joining us is raymond arroyo. raymond, let's start with the black lives matter issue. >> we do. >> laura: with white organizations and businesses, do they not like the phrase "white christmas?" >> no. they want to boycott all white-owned businesses as a way to protest against the trump presidency.

>> laura: because all white people like trump? >> i guess. >> laura: even in california? they voted for hillary. >> one of the black lives matter leaders wrote an op-ed last year in the los angeles sentinel -- >> laura: here's the quote. "rather than lining the pockets of trump any other white supremacist capitalist donate to black-led organizations that are building new libatory structures in our communities" wrote melina abdullah. >> she's a professor is. can you imagine in the clan said hey, white people, only frequent white-owned businesses. they would be decried as racists. this has a racist tinge to it. there's one color that matters to retail this time of year.

it's not black or white. it's green. this is a time of year when everybody comes together. it also is really dumb. because by telling black consumers don't go to white-owned businesses, you're beating up and condemning and hurting the black employees at those businesses. this is bad for everybody. >> laura: retail is still in -- >> it's booming this season. >> laura: it's not just amazon and online. retail is up. and that hurts everybody. but they -- what happens is, they always take it too far. >> this will only hurt black businesses. what happens? then only black people that frequent black businesses and white people frequent white businesses? >> laura: is that what martin luther king and rosa parks is about? >> it's terrible. division at christmas. >> laura: just so much sadness in my heart because i understand that cnn won't be at tomorrow's white house christmas party. there's a lot of media christmas parties i guess or --

>> not this year. the trumps are only doing one. >> laura: good for them. >> no pictures with the president. >> laura: boo hoo, mr. president. change that. raymond wants a picture. he wants to meet melania. sorry, rebecca. i didn't mean that. cnn says they're not going? who cares? >> because they feel the president is attacking the first amendment. >> laura: fake news. >> and cnn. >> laura: they got a fake invitation here. >> you have a president for the first time that is responding regularly -- >> laura: unmasking the press. >> there's always the tension among the media. that's a good thing. i think at christmas time, can't we drop the grudges and have some eggnog at the white house and get our picture with melania? >> laura: it will be more fun without the cnn people. i'm kidding. i like some of them. i'm remembering a christmas past. the clintons. didn't the clintons have an interesting christmas tree that we forgot about?

>> we talked about this. the criticisms of melania. there were condoms -- >> laura: sounds like matt lauer's christmas true. >> you never know. >> laura: and obama's christmas card. now we're picking on all the christmases. we are the grinches tonight. obama's christmas cards. those were a seasons greetings -- >> always happy holidays. no merry christmas. the trumps have been demonstrative inner that decorations. the president invoked the 2,000-year-old story of jesus christ that nobody knows no matter their religion. this is not going to gain him any friends. >> laura: we're bringing j.c. back to christmas. the arch diocese, the catholic

seeing the metro. >> they advertise on the sides of buses. it's an ad. it says find the perfect gift. a couple of sheppards -- >> laura: who is suing -- they don't want it? >> metro says it endorses religion. how is that? it's a couple of sheep. i don't understand it. >> laura: given some of the ads, that's what we need. >> merry christmas. i hope i get my melania photo. >> laura: don't go away. yo, check it out dawg. that was just a'ight for me. i mean, you got the walk. you got the stance.. but i wasn't really feeling it. you know what, i'm not buying this. you gotta come a little harder dawg. you gotta figure it out. eh, i don't know. shaky on the walk, carriage was off. randy jackson judging a dog show. i don't know dawg. surprising. what's not surprising?

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