>> sean: i am a talk show host, i am opinion journalist, am an advocacy journalist. sound off, 877-225-8587. unfortunately, that is all the time we have left this evening. let not yourr heart be troubled, tomorrow, maybe memo day. laura ingraham is standing by in our nation's capital, the sewer. i couldn't get out of there soon enough. ler who accused you of this horrible thing of being a trash man. what's wrong with being a trash man? you find southerners who are elitist in your callers. i don't understand that. nasty. >> sean: i worked at a restaurant once. i used to have to take the trash, fill up the van and dump it in the dump. you want to hear about that story? >> laura: he painted houses. he did this; he worked construction. evidence dug ditches i was a waitress. i got fired but i was a

waitress. >> sean: of course you were a wait a waitress and got fired. it's a service industry. >> laura: better quit while you are ahead. welcome to the ingraham angle from washington. we have so much to cover tonight. breaking news we'll bring it to you, of course. and democrats showing their true colors sitting on their hands during key moments of the state of the union so classless. i will tell you what it really means. all waiting to see what's in that fisa memo. we have breaking news on that. when this might be released. we will get to that shortly. also, talk about a document dump, hillary clinton released an apology for ignoring that sexual harassment of a staff just moments before the president's big speech. and, we'll talk to the parents of a teenager slap by ms-13 gang members the night after the president offered his family -- their family condolences. but, first, the democrats rage against trump's

optimism machine. that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura: last night in his first state of the union address, the president delivered what was perhaps the most robust defense of american exceptionism since reagan. >> the state of our union is strong. this, in fact, is our new american moment. you can dream anything. you can be anything, and together we can achieve absolutely anything. >> laura: wow. now, my question is, when we have this precious gift, liberty, that men and women fought and died for over the centuries, think about our flag, our country. why wouldn't everyone believe that it's all worth protecting and preserving? that our traditions and the american people are worth protecting? >> my duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is

to defend americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the american dream because americans are dreamers, too. >> laura: oh now, that last line sent the never trump media right over the edge. >> you saw a divisive speech. the wedge issue of immigration. the scare tactics of ms-13. it was a speech delivered almost from an alternate reality. >> you tell me that that room is supposed to respond like this to the great dictator? i think the frame that they felt in the room was one that inflamed the cultural divide. >> laura: only over at that other capable network would defending americans and america be controversial. now, call me crazy, but i think most americans love it

when their president stands up for them as a cheerleader for them. trump looked past the desperate detractors and toward true american heroes, the officer who adopted the child of a woman on drugs. families who suffered the death of children at the hands of ms-13 and by the way, we are going to hear from one of those families later on in the show. and that brave north korean defectors who escaped others to do the same. the president celebrated our anthem, the military, families, and faith. and, of course, the creation of 2 million new jobs. employee bobb bonuses, not crumbs. business investment, optimism, all good stuff. trump is making things demonstrably better, and the democrats are seething because of that they can't even bear to acknowledge the good. they can't even fain the appearance of being happy

and good news the americans workers and american business? something is really wrong. it's gone totally off the rails. the democrats, i think, have allowed their personal hatred of trump, the man to blind them to all the good that's happening around them. now, look at the cbs snap poll taken right after the president's big speech last night. 8 in 10 americans who watched the state of the union felt that the president was trying to unite the country. two thirds said the speech made them feel proud. and a third said it made them feel safer. check out the democrat reaction today. >> the president's speech was a disappointment. and a missed opportunity. >> what i consider to be the lowest point in the president's speech last night was when he says americans dream, too. >> it was dangerous what he said last night. what he is doing brings tears to the eyes of the

statue of liberty. >> well, if nancy should talk about tears and the statue of liberty because that's a statue. reality here is that by reflexively attacking trump, while providing no policy alternatives, democrats undercut and undermine the public good. they call themselves progressives. but when there is actual progress, they recoil. now, the left isn't afraid that trump is going to fail, no way. they are afraid that he will succeed and they are afraid that he is succeeding right now. i was thinking about this earlier today. i think their happiest moment maybe since roy moore lost that senate bid in alabama was when the stock market fell by 400 points yesterday. they were probably hoping that it would take another nose dive today and that would be a permanent downtown. if america were a stock, they would be shorting it. the democrats went from hope

and change to nope and strange. the democrats are now officially post american. they have become the grievance industrial complex. maybe a hodgepodge of leftist rage and hate with one goal in mind. to keep their voters angry and resentful. so when trump issued a call like, this they become unhinged. >> we can lift our citizens from welfare to work, from dependence to independence and from poverty to prosperity. >> laura: democrats don't want to hear that and they certainly don't want you to hear it it's really hard to believe this they want us weak and poor because when you are weak, you need them and they think they can sell you on big government and, in turn, they have more power over your life. nonow, let's face it, the

democrats politics of bitterness, i think it's pretty much out of gas. and their post state of the union temper tantrums show us the democrats have become the worse stereotype that they tried really hard to fois on president trump. angry, unserious and hateful. and that's the angle. joining us for reaction in new york is juan williams. you see him week nights here on f ng as co-host of the five and john bolton former ambassador to the u.n. and fox news contributor. juan, have at it. >> well, i was listening because i think this was an opportunity for the president to reach out, to reach across the political aisle and bring us together. and i just don't see it. in fact, to me, this was an opportunity for real debate about real policies. i don't think the president introduced any real policies last night. instead, the people that you accuse of grievance and resentment, i think, are well represented by people

who said oh, we like this trump speech because trump says things like americans dream, too. yeah, guess what? david duke and the kkk loved that. how about a kid, you know, collecting flags for a cemetery. oh, but guess what? that means that people shouldn't be able to protest if they feel there is police brutal, says trump. they are not respecting the flag. come on. you see this as -- you are so smart. >> laura: you know, when i think of the left always lurching to david duke that's so four decades ago. >> yesterday. that's not four years ago. >> laura: i'm talking about him. is he irrelevant. no one cares about david duke. again, you are making my point. >> okay. >> laura: trump talked about family leave. he talked about the opioid addiction. he talked about protecting all americans. he talked about the american dream being accessible with hard work, faith, family, and a belief in oneself.

how does any of that seem divisive because he used the word american and america as many times as he did? i think, juan, not you, i'm not talking but but i think there are a lot of democrats who they reflexively recoil when he says something like americans have dreams, too. that's what most people feel. their dreams have been neglected by politicians in both parties for years while legal immigrants and other identity politics groups are catered to. and what he said last night is we're all-american. >> i don't know how you get an argument about that laura. i think everybody feels that way. we are all proud americans. the thing is if you start to talk about the dreamers in that way. >> laura: what do you mean? what way? because it's our country. that's what he is talking about. it's our country. >> he is separating us out and saying. >> laura: right. >> they have dreams, we have dreams. instead of dealing with real immigration reform and a real policy.

>> laura: yeah. we will get to that. >> okay. because that's what he didn't do. >> laura: juan, actually what he has done is more than doubled his initial offer of 800,000 illegal immigrants. >> cut legal immigration. >> called compromise he is not getting everything he wants and democrats isn't getting everything he wants. >> building the wall 25 billion. >> laura: democrats have offered no serious compromise on this at all. john, the democrats have left the idea of governing and governance and they are in full resistance mode. really telling when clyburn said when he like reacted so negatively to the american dreams line. i can tell you my listeners today on the radio and they are not fans of david duke, thank you very much. they loved that because they think they have been neglected and someone is finally speaking for them. go ahead. >> yeah. i think the poll that you cited showed that americans understand trump was trying to reach out. and i think the democrats' reaction was really the

proof that the henry wallace wing of the democratic party has now finally and conclusively try umpsd over the harry truman wing of the democratic party. they have pushed themselves so far to the left that it's hard to see how they are going to come back. there is no harry truman wing of the democratic party no more. there is no joe lieberman wing. it's really very similar what's happened in britain with jeremy corbyn and the labor party. this is a prescription for them to take themselves into political irrelevant rance. because working class democrats. the people who voted for ronald reagan. many of the same people and their children who voted for donald trump in the industrial midwest are appalled by this kind of behavior. and the democrats are bringing it on themselves. i think it was so revealing. you couldn't have scripted it better. >> laura: yuajuan.

>> i think the ambassador is right about the parties going to the extreme so that i think he is right. the democrats are being driven to the farther left because of the antipathy toward trump but remember republicans had a strong antipathy towards president obama and were driven to the right. when i look at this and going back to what you were discussing at the top here, laura, i look at president trump coming out last night and saying i've got the biggest tax cut for you ever and we both know that's not true. i look at what happened with the black caucus, you reverend jim clyburn sitting on their hands when he talks about. >> laura: black unemployment. >> i think to myself oh, i understand why laura and ambassador bolton have that reaction. i'm going to tell you my reaction which is wait a second, unemployment for blacks and hispanics have been going down since 2010. this guy comes in office for a year and he wants to take all the credit as if somehow it was his policies that turned things around. that's a lie.

>> laura: juan, as if politicians who are in office for any period of time don't take credit for what's happened in the year previous. and i can say this. >> if you want an honest debate, laura. let's have an honest debate and not grab all the credit for ourselves. >> laura: when you see the public's reaction and in a moment i will play some callers to my radio show today. you see the public's reaction, you have to admit that the democrats, they are out of step. and i think they are out of line. i really do. substantive debate is great. i think the republicans after when obama came, in the tea party came to power in a way. because they were debating obamacare and the stimulus and the son of stimulus. substantive debate on those issues. big issues on 2010. there was personal ventriclive. there was substantive. they didn't walk out on obama. joe wilson yelled something. they didn't walk out. had you gutierrez yelling or making faces and joe manchin

kind of turned around at one point and looked at the democrats saying you guys aren't going to stand for this? >> joe wilson, you just said it. >> laura: one person. not a dozen people not standing up. >> the democrats actually seem the ones that are racist. you say black unemployment, latino unemployment went up. they are not happy about that. >> i'm a small business owner in west virginia. i was floundering at best under the obama administration. i am thriving now. >> i'm a latino from texas. and i just wanted to say that i'm proud to have a president that loves america finally. >> it's great to have a president that's proud of this country, that wants to put americans like me first. >> laura: john? >> look, i think americans are very patriotic and with good reason. and it just completely confuses me why the democrats get upset about it

but, you know, this is foreshadowed. this is not anti-trump reaction on his part. barack obama was asked on first overseas trip do you believe in america exceptionism. he said the following. yes, i believe in america exceptionism just like the brits believe in british exceptionism and greeks believe in greek exceptionism. when he says it so these right wingers can't accuse me. second he took it all away. how about ecuadorian exceptionism. the democrats have a fundamental problem with the uniqueness of america. they didn't used to. harry truman didn't i have any problem with it he was a patriot. the democrats take this course. it's not a culture war. this is something really that i think troubles americans when they see that kind of reaction. >> laura: juan, last word? >> no, i just think that when the president says that americans believe in exceptionism, i'm all for it i also think that he was right, john, that other

countries think that they are very special as well. but when i hear president trump say things oh, you know, not only did i give you a great tax cut but we have had such amazing growth and he didn't say oh yeah, chirn has more greet. canada has more growth. india has more growth. he said his policies are going to turn -- i think, john, at some point wonder is this nationalistic in order to not engage in what laura asked for honest discussions to move the country forward. >> laura: china announced today moving a major solar company to the united states because of the major tariffs that president trump put on. put that in your pipe and smoke it. >> blue collar democrats. >> laura: thank you so much. the fbi is not going to let the president release that controversial fisa memo without a fight. up next, professor dershowitz and a former top fbi agent explained what the bureau may have to fear.

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>> laura: we told you last night how a mike caught president trump saying he plans to release the house intel's controversial fisa memo. earlier today the white house chief of staff john kelly implied its release was potentially imminent. >> our national security

lawyers in the white house, they work for me, work for the president. they are slicing it and dicing it, looking at it so we know what it means and what it understands. >> did you see it. >> did i. >> what do you think? >> we'll let -- it will be released here pretty quick, i think. and the whole world can see it. >> laura: fox sources are telling us it could be released tomorrow and adam schiff just tweeted out that it's his understanding that the memo that was sent to the white house for review was changed somehow by devin nunes. we haven't confirmed that and so he is complaining what the whole committee did not approve that that just was tweeted a few moments ago. the fbi is fighting back against the release as we said earlier issuing a statement today claiming the omissions of some facts impact the memo's accuracy. you need the full context they say. let's discuss all this with former harvard law professor alan dershowitz in miami beach. author of the best seller "trumped up" how politicization of critical democracy. and in atlanta chris smucker

a former head of the investigative division in washington and someone who personally knows director christopher wray and special counsel bob mueller. all right, professor, let's start with you here. there seems to be these dueling leaks coming out today. some leaks of information about peter strzok and the timing of his knowledge of the emails that were found, the additional emails in the fall of 2016. but, for the moment, let's focus on the release of this memo. given what we know now, do you believe this memo should be released, should see the light of day? >> absolutely. and also the context should be released. so both sides have their say. let the public decide. let's see the memo. if people in the fbi think it's out of context, let them release thest o the rest oe material in context and let the people decide. as far as the strzok issue is concerned, it shows what happens when the fbi doesn't have a clear rule that says

no discussing ongoing criminal prosecutions except to say indictment, no indictment, especially during an election. if in fact strzok tried to delay it, it probably back fired because if it had been released earlier, then maybe they would have been able to decide there were no more classified material and they would have corrected it earlier. so, whatever impacted on the election, this should never ever happen. and we have to have rules preventing it from ever happening again. >> laura: chris, you know mueller. you know wray. christopher wray under some fire although he was, you know, hugely praised by both sides at his own confirmation as head of the fbi. and your sense of where this is going tonight? >> well, as john q. citizen i would love to see the memo. i would love to know if the fisa court was mislead. i would love to know if the fisa judge was aware that if the dossier information was

included that it was paid for by a political opponent. but the fbi executive in me or former executive in me says let's play by the rules. not like this. this is not how you release information from a partisan body like congress. i just don't have any faith in congressional committees. i'm sorry. they've got their own agenda and there's a process for releasing fisa information. i've used it. it's not that hard to use. there's a right way to do this, and i just like to see it done by the rules. you get in trouble when you start making up your own rules. >> laura: well, what happens when the fbi makes up its own rules. >> i have to tell you. >> laura: who is supposed to do oversight of the fbi. >> i have to tell you. >> laura: chris does oversight at the fbi. if there was a political animus as professor dershowitz has talked about on this show so often undergirding the start of this application and fisa application itself we have a real problem on our hands politicizing law enforcement

in the united states. i'm a huge defender of law enforcement. you have a balancing act. follow the rules. what if the finn wasn't following the rules and they were off half cocked, professor? >> um-huh. it's so refreshing to hear conservatives and republicans questioning and overseeing the fbi. that's something that we liberals did for years and years and years. now the democrats are saying oh the fbi is beyond we reproach. we should never question law enforcement. conservatives are saying well, we need transparency. we need accountability. look, everybody should be in favor of accountability by the fbi. and in my experience, at least, 99% of the time when people claim national security needs censorship, when it ultimately gets released, it was not really so important. it was overstated. look, the movie, the post, obviously the pentagon papers makes that point. the government got up in front of the supreme court and said the country would fall if the pentagon papers were released and they were

released and of course only positive came from it. in general i'm in favor of disclosure and full transparency and, sure, you follow the rules. but the rules ought to error on the side of disclosure rather than suppression. >> laura: just for disclosure adam schiff's tweet sent out discovered late tonight that chairman nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to the white house. changes not approved by the committee. white house, therefore, reviewing a document the committee has not approved for ry release. he attaches a copy of that document. so, chris, you can close it out. but, you know, you shouldn't -- if that happened and i don't know if it did or not, well, you can't materially change a document that the committee hasn't approved. i would assume that's a no-no. we have to learn more about that. chris, you know mueller, you know wray. you also know the facts as they have developed about

the agents and the peter strzok doing both investigations and email and trump. you have outcomyou have confidee outcome of the investigation. >> i do have confidence in the outcome. i know christopher wray. he deserves the benefit of the doubt under these circumstances i'm all for disclosure. the fbi are not snowflakes. they can take criticism. they should be transparent. he was approved with the overwhelming vote of the senate. let's give him the confidence. let's give him the credibility and go with his recommendation at this point and let's do it right. if there is misconduct there let's refer that to the inspector general. >> laura: you keep saying let's do it right. they are doing it right. you act as if i'm putting aside this tweet by schiff, they have done it right. kroncke, professor, they went through the process of the committee, reviewing this document, reviewing its

contents for national security concerns, chief of staff, the president, other fbi officials, you know, read it over. wray and now fbi officials say no, this is an issue of grave concern. that seems like -- to me it seems like a stretch. you keep saying do it by the rules. i think they have followed the rules. again, setting aside this tweet that we can't confirm. professor, final thoughts? >> constitutionally the president has the authority to declassify anything. >> laura: right. >> he is the ultimate authority on what can be declassified. and if he wants to see the memo out, nobody can really overrule that decision. >> laura: this brought tears to my eyes last night when president trump offered prayers for our next guest. in just a moment we will talk to the parents of a girl murdered by members of that savage ms-13 gang on long island. stay there.

>> tonight everyone in this chamber is praying for you. everyone in america is grieving for you. please stand. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> laura: incredibly moving moment last night at the state of the union. president trump consoling the parents of two teenage girls. police say that nisa mickens and kayla cuevas were chased down and brutally murdered by ms-13 gang members in long island in new york in 2016. three of the four people charged in the murders are illegal immigrants. president trump honored nisa and kayla last night by inviting their parents to the speech. we reached out to nisa's parents elizabeth alvarado and robert mickens and both are kind enough to join us and share their thoughts on the evening and their reaction to that moment. to both of you, i thought a lot about you both today in

the aftermath of this speech and the reaction and i want to say for my listening audience on radio and i know all the viewers on fox, you know, no words can express how incredibly devastated i know you must be and we just thank you so much for being brave enough to come on the show and talk to us. thank you so much. >> oh, you're welcome. >> laura: i want to first just ask you what it was like to be invited to the state of the union speech. so many politicians haven't really confronted what ms-13 has done to american communities suffolk county in long island especially hard hit in 2016 and 2017 by ms-13. what was it like to be invited? >> it was definitely an honor. we were still shocked about receiving an invite. and, you know, this is something that we would -- if we was asked to do it

again, we would definitely do it? >> yeah, we would. it was overwhelming. >> laura: go ahead. >> i'm sorry. it was very overwhelming and i appreciated that, you know, that he let us come there to see him. it was an honor to see him. >> laura: and you met with him before the state of the union speech briefly. and what was that like? >> it was good. >> excuse me. >> it was good. you know, when we walked into his office, it was like breath-taking. and i had lisa's pe lisa's pin . i asked him if he could take it for a gift. he took it. and he took pictures with it. and he took pictures with me with it. and i -- you know, he is

very genuine. very nice president. i really am happy that i met him. >> laura: i want to ask you both what it felt like to find out that so many people in the room, they are mostly democrats, did not stand up when you were recognized and when your daughter was recognized last night. >> well, i thought it was very disrespectful for the simple fact the democrats who were there that did not stand up, they were african-americans. so that hurts me a lot to show they did not have the respect or to honor what just happened to our lives and to americans' lives. it's not right, you know. regardless of how they feel about the president, they should show the respect

because i would show the respect if that was their loved one. >> laura: there was a woman on another cable channel earlier today and, again, i tried to put myself in your shoes, hearing some of the comments that were made after this amazing moment where so many of us were literally crying with you and her name is joy reid and she said this. >> speech tonight in which he makes it sound like the biggest issue in the united states, the biggest threat is ms-13, a gang nobody that doesn't watch fox news has ever heard of so they felt like they ar they are the bigget threat. >> laura: elizabeth, like ms-13 is any big deal. >> i have no words. i mean, these are gang members that just,you know, decided to be a judge and a jury to take my daughter out like that.

it's unacceptable. i don't want it to happen to anybody else's family. but, something needs to be done. and i won't stop doing what i'm doing until everything turns out right. i can only hope and pray that whoever -- any gang members, please, stop the violence. it's enough. how much more blood do we have to shed. >> laura: before we start enforcing our borders, they should never be in this country in the first place. if they weren't in this country in the first place, your daughter would still be alive today. that's what makes my blood boil. they should never have have been here. robert and elizabeth, thank you. i know we are going it check back with you. i know would going to wish you all the best. i know it's still searing pain for both of you. thank you for spending time

with us tonight. >> oh, you are welcome. thank you for having us. like i said, it's an honor. >> laura: god bless you. >> thank you. >> laura: and up next, are the clintons up to their old tricks? we're going to explain when a former clinton friend sounds off. two oh, manatees. aka "the sea cow"" oh! there's one. manatees in novelty ts? surprising. what's "come at me bro?" it's something you say to a friend. what's not surprising? how much money matt saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. ♪ take off for mexico with expedia. ♪ one click gives you access to discounts

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>> laura: what a way to bury a story.

everybody was ready for the state of the union address last night. hillary clinton drops on her facebook page at about 8:45 p.m. this long winded apology, kind of, for botching the sexual harassment complaint in her 2008 presidential campaign after a female campaign staff repeatedly accused her faith advisor of harassing her and he wasn't fired. joining us now to discuss that apology drop and other matters is former advisor to hillary clinton dick morris who is the author of the new book rogue spooks intelligence war on donald trump. dick, hillary clinton up to her old tricks. you know, document dump on fridays. document dump right before the state of the union speech. what do we make from this? what do we take away from it. >> well, laura, hillary's entire public persona is based on this issue is based on two original lies. sometimes people have original sins. she has the original lie.

one is she says bill didn't do all the stuff he is accused of doing. even though much of it is proven and secondly she never believed it, that he idid. the point of those lies is that she cannot admit that bill does this stuff or that she knows about it and let's him get away with it. because her entire political power is derivative. first ladies aren't elected. it's all derivative of being married to clinton. and if the marriage is seen to be a sham and a fraud, she is. and, therefore, she will do anything, put up with any hypocrisy, any lie, any contortion to avoid admitting the truth. >> laura: and this other story also kind of bubbled up today in the guardian newspaper. it was old home week in clinton scandal-o-rama, dick. cody share.

all this stuff comes back. cody shearer supposedly wrote a second dossier which kind of confirmed the first dossier and that kind of blew up but our reporting indicates that there is no there there. we are discounting what the guardian reported today. however, give us a little background on this cody shearer and why anything he put together about donald trump could probably be dismissed summarily? >> well, cody is one of the card-carrying original members of the black ops team that hillary chased down blackmail the women who bill was involved to cow them into silence. kathleen willey very explicitly mentioned him as part of that. and i believe that this was probably not the second dossier. i think it may have been the first dossier. i think it's entirely possible that hillary and her campaign people got

shearer to come up with these fantastic stories, which all major ones which have been totally disproven. but they couldn't release them under cody shearer's name because he had no credibility. at one point he was accused of negotiating a diplomatic solution in bosnia and had to be repudiated by the u.s. government. the press knows all about shearer. you know all about him. >> laura: no, no. black ops. >> they needed to find someone with credibility to be the front man for that and they may have chosen christopher steele because of his background in mi-6. it's also possible that the brits played a role in this working through christopher steele. >> laura: okay. >> we wrote this book rogue spooks predicted all of this. and about the saying there is basically a conspiracy against donald trump based in the fbi.

>> laura: deep state. deep state is digging big holes, dick. we're going to have you on radio tomorrow. >> oh, good. >> laura: to talk more about this. this is a fascinating development and we're going to stay on, this of course. by the way, democrats are not only resisting the president, they're now resisting things that actually define all americans. frank luntz joins me next to analyze the words that analyze the words that wound.♪ ♪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: as president trump delivered his state of the union address last night, the visuals became a public relations nightmare per petulant grumpy democrats. here are some of the things democratic lawmakers signaled they didn't like. >> we proudly stand for the national anthem. [cheers and applause] the motto is in god we trust. [applause] we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in american history. [cheers and applause] african-american unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded. [cheers and applause] giving our veterans choice in their healthcare

decisions. [applause] >> laura: let's bring in republican polster public opinion guru frank luntz. he joins us from west virginia. all right, frank. the trigger words. i'm sorry, i was screaming laughing when things like in god we trust and then they pan the crowd at the state of the union, the democrats are all sitting on their hands. what triggered them the most and what drove them right over the edge? >> >> well, they didn't want to hear any success. any time donald trump pointed to a specific statistic a fact about things had changed the last 12 months you saw no reaction from the democrats. second, any time he suggested that he was going to reach across the aisle and find some sort of bipartisan, they wanted no part of it. third it goes back to the promises he made and the fact that he is attempting to keep them and i think it's a tragedy, quite

frankly, that the democrats don't realize that with donald trump's success, america succeeds. laura, a lot of people criticized the republicans under the obama administration that they wanted him to fail and, yet, now, it looks like and i think this is a tragedy for the country, that too many congressional democrats want trump to fail so they can take over the white house but what does that do for the country? that's a real problem. >> laura: what's amazing on the immigration issue donald trump 800,000 to 1.8 million getting amnesty. i'm really to compromise, let's get this done together. it's like crickets, tumble weeds blowing through the section. >> i'm in west virginia right now. the gentlemen standing behind me. they are the reason why donald trump maintains his popularity and why he did so well last night. they feel listened to. they feel heard. a lot of americans felt left

out until election day 2016. on immigration, the public has to understand that it doesn't look like the democrats themselves are ready to compromise. and if you don't get this legislation that provides border security as well as a solution for daca, if it doesn't happen, it won't be because of donald trump. it will be because of congressional democrats. >> laura: frank, i thought you needed body guards for a seconds. i want those guys to travel with me. they look pretty strong. i love it. >> i asked them the question are any of these guys packing? this guy right here, he is packing. >> laura: all right. good. okay. we will leave it at there. frank luntz, thanks so much. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. stay right there. do you like big, juicy steak? do you like freshly steamed lobster? do you like the word and? then you'll love outback's steak and lobster. back by popular demand, only $15.99. so hurry in now. outback steakhouse. aussie rules.

>> laura: trigger warning. that's all the time we have left this evening. on this busy night, shannon bream and the

"fox news @ night" team are all set to take it from here. cannot wait to watch. shannon. >> shannon: thank you so much. here's a preview. new developments on the timing of the release of the classified memo on alleged government surveillance abuses. it has the g.o.p. and fbi at loggerheads. it comes after dire warnings by the fbi. former doj official weighs in on why it may be the fbi has such strong objections. judicial watch president says there's new documents that show the obama state department may have been working to undermine president trump. we will examine those claims. and partisan politics continues after president trump's call for unity. democratic congresswoman maxine waters rebuttal. prominent california republican is here to respond.