call that number, get it off your chest, whatever it is. 877-2 to 5-8587. that is all the time we have left this evening. let not your heart be troubled. the news always continues. why? because "the ingraham angle" is next. was that you changing your voic voice? name? >> [laughing] >> was that sweet baby james? yes, it was. >> sean: it sounded like you. i said she called. >> laura: mine has a different accent. you must have scrolled through it. >> sean: i am waiting for your call. >> laura: no, no. no. >> sean: go ahead. >> laura: thank you very much. welcome "the ingraham angle" from washington. the family feud and the daca trap. that's the focus of tonight's

"angle." members of the anti-trump are delithe -- delighting in a war of records between steve bannon and president trump. bannon suggested that president trump was aware of the 2016 meeting between don jr. and a russian attorney at trump tower. bannon said the chance don jr. didn't walk the people up to his father's office is zero. bannon didn't join the campaign until 2 mongst later. this set off a feeding frenzy in the media.

bannon characterizes the trump tower meeting as treasonous and unpatriotic. he predicted that mueller's team will crackdown jr. like an egg. jared kushner was also called out by bannon. this is all about money laundering. they go through paul manafort and jared kushner. it's as plain as the hair on your face. the president responded in a blunt statement. he said steve bannon has nothing to do with me and my presidency. when he was fired issue he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. and: okay. here's my advice. i am playing dr. phil or judge

judy here. some questions: who does this help? does this advance the consecutive populace agenda at all? what is going through both side's minds. donald trump is the head of the republican party. it's not bannon or me. it's donald trump. with these statements, bannon has given credence to the worse conspiracy theories of the impeach trump forces. bannon probably won himself a trip to testify on capitol hill. is that what bannon wants? i know steve bannon. is that what he wants? if there is a policy difference between trump and bannon have an exchange. fellows, it didn't really make

sense for a high-profile advisor and his former boss to attack each other when the steaks are this high. how does that make any sense? aren't you playing right into the hand of the democrats and the media who are hoping for nothing more than your mutually assured destruction. what bannon's comments, if accurate, have done, they have created a tidal wave of establishment support for president trump. they are rallying into his side today. not how we saw this story developing. on to more important matters. there was a big meeting between congressional leaders of both parties at the white house today on a potential deal to give legal status to the 800,000 dreamers brought into the country by their parents or sent to the country on their own. it's a negotiation that is schedule to continue tomorrow. the president will be involved

tomorrow in that meeting. obama through an executive action, daca, he allowed all of these people to stay and work in the country for rolling 2-year periods. in fact, if 2017, even during the trump administration. tens of thousands of illegal dreamers applied for and received daca status. so obama's policy lived on. last september trump said he would end the program. then he gave congress 6 months to find their only slogs. -- solution. kind of smart. trump demanded that lawmakers pass responsible immigration reform. what might that look like? well, the president has given us a few clues already.

>> this kid came in through a lottery system. i instructed congress they must end it. >> chain migration is a huge problem. >> more of those things are happening. chain migration is a disaster for this country. tell end. >> will be it part of the dreamer deal? >> yes, part of the daca deal. >> laura: the president is on the right tack. there must be non-negoatables for a daca deal. we must fund the walland hires thousands more ice age agents to enforce the law and cut the

number of green card recipients by half. the dreamer nightmare is upon us. dreamers actually will cost the american taxpayer 2.6-billion dollars annually is congress passes amnesty. more unaccompanied alien children are coming across now today. why are the numbers going up? because congress is flirting with grants citizenship to dreamers. all of the benefits of health care, education and housing. foreigners see the green light here. according to the last 2 months of available stats, we have seen a surge -- 7,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border. they can't be deported to their home country under current u.s. law. they get to stay here. they are detained and released

into the u.s., becoming our responsibility. the u.s. taxpayer's responsibility. given that we -- just think about this. just one metric, thousands of homeless u.s. veterans on the streets tonight shivering in the cold with no one to care for them with addiction problems and mental issues. they are on the streets, but we are catering to the illegal immigrants. that's the priority of congress. in is unconscionable. we will explain the effects of the illegal immigrants that could swamp the country. the failure of republicans to protect and secure the border caught them dearly at the ballot

box for several cycles. their efforts to cater to the violators of our laws at the expense of working citizens and legal immigrants are one of the reasons donald trump got elected in the first place. if americans make some quickie deal on daca and violate the president's promise to his base, it will be gop last. that's the "angle." an important note. we contacted ten senators who are involved in the daca negotiations today. that's a lot of calls. but the key people, the ten people, not one of them was willing to come on this show to discuss this critical national issue or what they have planned. what is going on behind closed doors? my instinct kicks in.

this could spell trouble with a capital-t. our guests. in washington i have a trifecta. steve is the director of research for immigration studies. then an attorney and jose is a former spokesperson for the dnc. on the statistics here, people just watched the "angle" were shocked to find out that right now we have a surge of unaccompanied minors crossing our southern borderers. >> right. amnesty causes more young people to come. we release them into the united states. >> the minors can never be deported?

>> well, they can be. >> i have not seen an example. >> we don't send them home. but they could be. minor injuri minors, but it's very difficult. >> it's rare? >> these are not people slipping into the border. apprehension is misleading. this is people turning themselves in because they know we will just release them into the united states. we pay their bus or air fare to ship them to their illegal immigrants in the country. over the next 20 years, it looks like legal immigration will add 15 million voters to the united states. that's people who reach the age of 18 and are able to naturalize. >> now do republicans win in that. >> it's very hard. immigrants are voting for the democratic party. >> big government. >> the political system will

reflect the values of the changing electorate. if legal immigration continues, how will the conservative republican party survive? >> jose will sit down tomorrow in these meetings. he said in an interview with me that the wall and chain migration must be part of any deal. chain migration is responsible for exploding immigration. not just your parents or minors. uncles and aunts and adult children and their parents. one person could bring in ten. that's how our immigration exploded not merit based. what do the democrats do? >> we have to remember the president changes his mind every single second. it's hard to keep up with him. go on twitter and you will see

it. i don't believe a word that the president is saying. those non-negoatiable things. the notion that donald trump is a republican i have my doubts. >> laura: i guess you don't like trump. but drill down on this issue if he says we will do daca for a full funding of the wall. would you support that? >> absolutely not. he needs to extend daca. there is a wall in mexico already. we don't need another wall. >> laura: where is it? what are you talking about? there is a wall with mexico? i have been at the border and people just walk across the border or slip across. 12 miles from imperial beach, san diego, operation gatekeeper in 1986.

>> most of the border does not. there is already a border structure there. >> laura: i am trying to get information. you are saying you would not give legal status, a pathway to citizen ship for the poor illegal immigrants kids, so you would deny them legal status because you are desperate to get the uncles, aunts, cousins, 3rd removed into the country. that's amazing. >> no, this is the way we have to frame the answer. i agree with the majority of americans who say let's pass a clean dream act. >> laura: your party is not in control and the republicans are. that's reality. >> i know. guess what. the gop could have been the party that said let's protect the people. >> laura: we had two of those

people. bush and rubio and they could not win their home state. this is a big issue. we want to welcome immigrants. your family are legal immigrants in the united states from india. your family has done well. my family is from polland. they are proud immigrants. >> republicans and democrats refuseed to enforce immigration laws, with terrorism a lot of americans are looking at legal and illegal migration. we have to look at some of the irrationality for legal immigrants. you mentioned cutting the green card in half. i don't agree with that.

>> [overlapping talking]. >> those people are waiting. those workers who are here legally and following our rules, came in legally while the president talks about giving instant legal status to the daca people. if you are a worker in silicone valley, your kid when they turn 18 has to go home. >> laura: how is that america first? catering to silicone valley, how is that america first? mexico doesn't allow anyone to move and become citizens. france doesn't. there is a legal process. it must be respected. steve, if the president sits down with the democrats tomorrow and at the end of all of this, they decide to cut a deal and it's a down payment on a wall. i heard that thrown around.

1.6-million dollars gets you nothing. maybe chain migration stays out. what does the base do? >> the president to his credit has been bold and consistent. >> laura: i think he has been. we will see if he stays that way. >> to get voters to show up in 2018 and 2020 and he wants to do something they don't like like daca, he has to give them things. an end to chain migration. it's not clear that congress won't flip. >> laura: build a wall and mexico will pay for it. he didn't say how mexico will pay for it. >> that's not going to happen. >> laura: maybe it's with taxes. this economy is doing well. >> because of the last president. >> laura: if it's bad it's bush's fault and trumps.

if it's good it's obama's. >> that's the truth. >> laura: voters judge the president on the economy. this is where the left and right won't come together to an issuing. on basic metrics we can't agree. on every metric in hispanic neighborhood and african-american neighborhood the economy is showing signs of real growth. >> i am happy about that. >> laura: come on. the economy is doing well. whatever happens on this, a growing economy will help this country. >> absolutely. >> laura: it will help poor white house, blacks. rich people will do well. middle class. hispanics. it will create jobs. many are great people. >> absolutely. >> laura: when you say donald trump is a liar. he's done quite a bit for all

people. >> under 30% approval rating? that's success. >> laura: you don't want republicans to be popular with hispanics? that's your the nightmare, right? >> pass a clean dream act. if you do that, i promise you -- >> [overlapping talking] >> laura: why are all of these people winning? >> that's not how we are going to win. the president has to keep his promises. >> laura: and win hispanics over with a growing economy and speak to them and listen to their concerns. great panel. coulter and rich will be here on the bannon versus trump feud. later insight from journalists.

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editor rich lowery. it's great to have you on. different perspectives. this bannon and trump feud. wild legal implications for both steve and perhaps the president's team which i find wild that he might have said these things given the appetite for mueller and the democrats and what they want. on the issue of the agenda, the trump agenda, do you see any impact here? >> no, not at all. i don't know whether to believe the quotes. i have not heard anything from bannon. the book review editor of the "washington post" said there are credibility issues with michael wolf. there are a few good points that bannon made. the stuff about russia is insane. it surprises me that he would

say that. >> laura: treasonous and unpatriotic. >> yes. >> laura: i doubt that some 2 bit lawyer from russia was taken up to the 26th floor. >> apparently he wasn't, but he said if you want to have a meeting, you send your lawyers to a marriott in new hampshire. hillary clinton did a lot more than that. it was a stupid meeting. hillary clinton paid $12 million to the russians to get dirt on donald trump. the russia stuff is boring and stupid to begin it. i don't think it will have any effect. it's clear that the media has no idea why trump won. i am starting to wonder if trump and bannon have any idea that trump won. the issues that trump ran on is

immigration, trade and no more wars. the trade deals are easy. no more wars ought to be easy. but it's all about immigration. to be fighting about the alabama election, there was a great member of congress running in that election. trump didn't endorse him. bannon was in the white house at the time. >> laura: i want rick to get in on. i agree with you. they are not debating immigration. >> trump was. >> laura: no, in alabama. the comments in the wolf account. we will learn more whether this is true or not. i am sure we will hear from bannon. rich, on the issue of immigrati immigration, tons of room to debate about the daca deal. should we have 10 years of

reform? that's not what this was about. this is one exerpt from a book. we don't know what else is in this book. i am sure there is a lot more. your take on this aspect of it? >> we have other people who are quoteed in the book who are contesting the quotes. we don't know 100% whether he used this nuclear war word of treason. it's consistent with blind quotes we have seen over the last year where bannon hates jared kushner and thinks he was doing untoward with russia. i have my reservations about donald trump. but i do want him to succeed. the fact in the white house bannon alienated people and leaked and got fired for leaking when he called out of the blue a left wing-journalist. and alabama was a debacle.

bannon is not back off. he continued to support roy moore and got donald trump involved. for donald trump winning is very important. you look at the last month. bannon led him into a debacle in alabama. mitch mcconnell and paul ryan passed a huge part of the trump agenda. >> laura: do you find it ironic or frightening that the tak establishment is rallying to donald trump? >> that mistake was donald trump. that's why i say i wonder why donald trump was elected. why endorse luther strange when mo brooks was running. bannon could not endorse anyone during the original primary.

if you have to choose -- neither were great on immigration. we could have counted on roy moore because he would have voted against mitch mcconnell. >> laura: how does this war of words help the conservative populace agenda? i say it doesn't help it at all. >> it doesn't help it, but i think it doesn't hurt it. i think it's irrelevant. >> [overlapping talking]. >> there are a lot of people who are in favor of this immigration agenda around donald trump. steven miller and cotton. the idea that steve bannon

portrayed that he uniquely understands trump was other thing that rubbed trump the wrong way. that's why this break up was brewing for a long time. >> laura: 300 hollywood women came together to stop sexual abuse. now one of their leaders meryl streep is calling out the women near the do you need the most trusted battery for your son's favorite toy? maybe not. maybe, you could trust he wouldn't leave the upstairs water running. (woman screams) or, you could just trust duracell. ♪

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political movement against republicans including donald trump. a new interview with a leading member of time's up, meryl streep, may prove my point. i am joined by managing editor and fox contributor. raymond. >> she did an interview with the "new york times." this is called self-preservation. he has a lot to answer for. roseanne actess abused by harvey weinstein charged meryl streep the iron lady the giver. he helped shape those films. they were very close. they say meryl streep knew of this abuse and was silent. the "new york times" today pressed meryl streep on this. she got very testy. >> laura: very defensive. >> very much so. classic defleskz.

>> laura: he called him god.cti. >> laura: he called him god. in the last golden globes she talked about donald trump without mentioning his name. she was attacking trump at the last golden globes. >> what she said to the "new york times" today: i don't want to hear about the silence of me. >> laura: i do. >> i want to hear about the silence of melania. she has so much valuable to say and so does ivanka. >> laura: melania and ivanka have spok spoken. >> melania and ivanka were not

in any harvey weinstein films. nor did they work closely with him. a lot of deflection. hollywood trying to absolve themselves. >> laura: they aloued this sexual predator to roam free. and paul one of my favorite actors. he said today. tmz. >> he was talking about his daughter. mira. meryl streep when were you when she had her career tanked. she was an academy award winner and her career tanked. now he is lashing out. watch this. >> if i meet him on the street, he ought to hope he goes to jail. if we come across, i think he will be going to the floor somehow. magically.

>> laura: good fellows all over again. >> that was just the opening. he is upset. they destroyed this woman's career. mira. >> laura: where is the girl power? they come out with times up. we will help women driving tractors in nebraska. get out. you are frauds! we know what they covered up and what they knew. they didn't want their own career's rocked and wanted harvey's help. >> and scapegoat on melania and ivanka. >> laura: and anderson cooper didn't know about the pot being smoked. >> randi kaye went to this pot den in denver. this was cnn's new year's eve coverage. anderson cooper was shocked! >> laura: they were all drunk!

what was he shocked by? >> she ended up at a paint party where this pot bus, i don't know, people who have been riding around getting stoned want to paint in day-glo colors. it surprised me as much as anybody else. >> surprised him? >> laura: i love the giggle. >> how could he be surprised? >> laura: can't we lose the "like." >> how this reflects america i don't know. bill weir is in key west getting groped by guys. watch this. >> here is the drag queen known as sushi. >> [cheering]. >> happy new year. >> [laughing]

>> i believe i was just groped. >> laura: hello middle america. >> and anderson cooper is shocked by the pot den. when kathy griffin stripped down and did a sexual act. >> laura: they may want her back. >> you need to smoke spot of pot to understand what is happening on cnn. >> laura: my call for president trump to m they came out of nowhere, sir! how many of 'em? we don't know. dozens. all right! let's teach these freaks some manners! good luck out there, captain! thanks! but i don't need luck, i have skills... i don't have my keys. (on intercom) all hands. we are looking for the captain's keys again. they are on a silver carabiner. oh, this is bad. as long as people misplace their keys,

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and their company. they demanded congress released triplets of testimony by their firm's members. i could not agree more. maybe we will find out why fusion gps refuseed to have its leaders testify publicly. tonight i call on the trump administration to declassify all documents and all testimony concerning the hillary clinton email investigation, the russia probe, and the roleplayed by fusion gps. the people have a right to know. they have a right to transparency from their government. unless national security matters are involved, with everything on the line and all of the concerns, let's shed daylight on this sorid mess. we will see who is colluding with whom. let's turn to a pair of reporters who have been all over these stories.

john soloman of the hill and "wall street journal" kim. we have break news from david nunes. >> the house intelligent committee had a meeting with paul ryan and they will get access to the documents they have been seeking since august for fusion gps. nunes made the announcement half an hour ago. >> laura: kim, do you think there is -- it's amazing what the threat of a contempt of congress action will do to government officials. is that behind this new found desire to show documents they have been holding back for many, many months? >> paul ryan gets a lot of credit here. we just wish he had done it sooner. this is what it took.

these guys have been giving nunes and the intelligence committee a run around since august which the subpoenas first went out. they had excuses, all bogus. my favorite they could not talk because of an inspector general investigation as if that trumped congress. he said if you don't hand these over, you will be brought up on contempt charges. let's hope they comply and stop with the games. >> laura: john, this fusion gps deal and the "new york times" today. they got their hands on this russian dossier. discredited it. they are moaning and whining. they are being put upon. they want to release transcripts

of behind closed doors interviews on the hill. couldn't they just talk about what they said? >> i wish they would. we would learn about their interactions with the fbi and we would learn things they said about the fbi that might not be flattering and we might learn about christian and whether all of the things he said in public are true. >> laura: and the work they did for russia. they did a lot of work for russia. >> that's right. the people who are meeting with don jr. at the trump tower, they had a connection to those people. we need a lot more transparency. >> laura: kim, the russianular that met at trump tower and we heard steve bannon comments. now we have information that lawyer met with the fusion gps

people as well. that's why i want all of this declassified and released. it's about time this whole thing wrapped up. everybody's cards should be on the table and get this over. >> she did not just meet with them. she met with glenn simpson in the hours before we went to trump tower and in the hours after she left trump tower. he claims is no connection between the dossier and these russians. i love your idea of declassification. it looks as though congress has the ability to do that even though it hasn't. we have to be very careful of exposing sources and methods. when you are at a level this high. when you have accusations on one side that the president was engaged in a conspiracy with a foreign power and accusations on the other that our law

enforcement agencies were in a bad way tapping americans and use opposition research documents to launch investigation, those are serious. you don't trust that to a commission or a special counsel. you let the american people see the documents and work it through themselves. >> laura: anything on collusion? we have all of this time go by. they interviewed all of these witnesses and white house officials from the lower staffers to the upper-tier. >> there is no evidence that the president was involved in collusion. they are looking at one family member and conversations we had based on information that mike flynn provided. the democrats are pulling back from collusion. >> laura: james clapper yesterday, i think we have a clip.

let's watch. >> there are other factors that i think were the stimulus for the investigation. the revelation of papadopoulos which was not a name on my radar scope. >> laura: kim your reaction to clapper there? >> well, we have been told recently by the "new york times" that it was george papadopoulos that inspired this investigation and not the discredited dossier. last year the "new york times" said it was the dossier that did it. now it's been discredited. now it's george papadopoulos. to find out the head of intelligence doesn't know this guy's name. he was not on his radar screen at the time he was leaving office. it's another reason to be skeptical of the notion that it was some 28-year-old junior trump staffer that launched an entire fbi probe. >> laura: it's ridiculous.

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>> laura: you know what frosts me. a cold snap pants with a snowstorm on the way and the media reacts like it's the end times. >> winter bomb cyclone bearing down on 40 million people. >> rare weather phenomenon. as they go tens of millions of americans from florida to england could be hit with snow, ice, really bad wind. >> laura: north korea hasn't launched, okay? this is not a nuclear weapon. it's called winter.

america, where the media, snap out of it. perish the thought of winter weather occurring in winter. we know it's cold. it is supposed to be cold. how cold, you ask. >> this is a hard-boiled egg. we left it out overnight. check it out. this is a nail. do you hear that? almost like a hammer. that's how cold it is outside. >> laura: [laughs] you've got to be kidding me. the egg hammer. order now and get the knives for free. what a bunch of wusses. this is ridiculous. do you want to know what cold is? 240 years ago today george washington and his men marched 18 miles overnight in bitter cold and what became known as the battle of

princeton. they didn't have fancy parkas. they slogged through the cold and ambushed cornwallis' 8,000 soldiers with nothing but leather boots on the love of freedom. most of the morale of the revolutionaries, renew their confidence in washington's men were on their way. somehow they didn't without reports of polar vortexes, bombs, cyclone, whatever. that's all for us tonight. thanks for joining us. it's cold in here but shannon bream, where she is it's always warm. >> shannon: we are going to try to have a hot show. thank you. show down on capitol hill. facing a deadline to give house intel chairman devin nunes the goods on the so-called dirty dossier. top doj and fbi figures meet with house speaker paul ryan. we will have the latest developments. as the war of words grows to a fever pitch behind the head of the research of the dossier and the