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>> laura: when obama threatened religious lubricity with his contraception mandate, crickets. when he was asked to comment about obama policies, this was obama's customary response. >> i don't think it's good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president. i think it's bad for the presidency, for that matter. >> laura: but since trump was elected, george w. bush seems willing and eager to spout off. although, he doesn't mention trump by name, he might as well. and not only is he criticizing her 45th president, he is now

doing so on foreign soil. that's nice. today in dubai, well, he criticized trump for ending the daca policy, claiming there are people willing to do jobs that americans want to do. americans don't want to pick cotton in 105 degrees. but there are people who want to put food on their families tables and are willing to do that. we ought to say thank you and welcome them. okay, i'm not will ferrell but give me a break. hillary clinton couldn't have said it better herself. bush tried this routine back in 2007. his amnesty with a side of border security, it didn't work then, and it certainly is not going to work in the area of trump. but bush didn't stop needling trump about immigration. he also offered this transient insight on russia's election interference.

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>> laura: and fbi informant is telling congress that the russian government paid millions of dollars to influence the obama administration and then-secretary of state hillary clinton to approve the uranium one deal. informants douglas campbell is now saying that the money was to go from a u.s. lobbying firm that is, by the way, populated with it a bunch of clinton ista istas, and the plot thickens from there. here is ed henry to put this new revelation and perspective for

us. >> laura, good to see. fox has confirmed that douglas campbell spent four hours behind closed doors answering questions from staffers as well as the house government oversight and intelligence committees, and he said in private that moscow paid millions to that u.s. lobbying firm to try and influence then-secretary of state hillary clinton even though she has insisted she was hands-off in this deal. this was a major deal during the years that allowed a russian nuclear energy to gain a controlling stake in uranium one, canadian-based company with mining interests in the u.s., sweetheart deal that led some russian officials to tell this informant that the fix was in. "behold" newspapers saying that after it was hired by the russians to influence the obama administration, hillary clinton in particular, and they spent millions doing it. a lawyer for the fbi informant told fox that the russians lay the groundwork for this deal after former president bill clinton and a wealthy canadian philanthropist and investor in any uranium one went to because in 2006.

a major donor of the clinton foundation said he later sold his stake before the deal went through and 18 months before hillary clinton became secretary of state. she had the final say on this matter, but it first required approval by nine different government agencies, but the former president received a $5,500,000 speaking fee and donations floated into the clinton foundation from him, which they argued was payback. hillary clinton insisted she had nothing to do with approving this and said this in an interview. >> i had nothing to do with the decision. now, that is fact. i had nothing to do with it. it was delegated to somebody else in the state department, and nine people had to agree, and they all agreed from all of the different agencies in our department, and then two republican governors had to agree. >> quentin's aides have said this was a premanufactured scandal, and democrats say fbo officials have privately told them they have lost confidence in this informant.

a member, the trump justice department has sent signals that uranium one and other clinton foundation problems are getting new scrutiny, laura. >> laura: thanks so much for that report, ed. really helpful. let's get some insight into the seriousness of this informant's allegations and the budget battle. this thing has been mild all day long. rand paul gave an unbelievable speech. we're going to care about that. joining us from your, i'm so happy he is on. wrote a great calm today. dan henninger, deputy editorial page editor of "the wall street journal." , it is so good to see. before we get to the budget b.s. on capitol hill, i have to ask you about this uranium one story, because hillary clinton all along has said she had no personal involvement in okaying this deal. she was 1 of 9 different agencies, but she said it wasn't her deal. >> she is trying to put some

distance, as are the democrats, such as elijah cummings, a democratic, suggesting the republicans are raising the issue to distract from the russian investigation. let's get something clear. most of the russian inclusion story at this point is mainly conjecture. meanwhile, the sale of uranium one was approved by cfius, on which she sat, and that is a fact. destroy that ed henry, the story henry laid out, but the relationship between the clinton foundation and the owners of uranium one is well known. and i might add one more thing, laura. we know that in 2015, the fbi set up an investigation into the relationship between the clinton investigation and various pay to play accusations. the justice department more or less shut that down in 2016, but "the washington post" in my post reported that that investigation, led by four fbi offices into the clinton

foundation, has been revived. possibly the fbi will get to the bottom of the uranium one story. >> laura: another thing that is really interesting here is that the clinton -- i think the clinton spokesperson said that they weren't even aware of the fbi's investigation. most of the cfius committee that approved this sale -- again, 20% of u.s. uranium production, richly canadian, barred by the russians, a russian owned con my company named rosatom, the racketeer in, the influence going on. to me, that seems bizarre that they wind know that the fbi is looking into this. >> how could be state department seriously argue that they didn't know that any of this was going on? even back then, the fbi had offices in new york, washington, los angeles, and little rock

starting this investigation. it is just beyond belief that the clinton foundation at least wasn't advised that the fbi was making this, surely this would have found its way to the secretary of state. >> laura: let's move to draining the swamp. what we thought was going to happen with the republicans in charge of the house, the senate, and still some fiscal responsibility in this budget process, but here we are again right up against the clock. rand paul gave a speech today on the senate floor, it was unbelievable, let's watch a piece of it. >> are you going to cheer for the republicans and democrats holding hands and having a trillion dollar deficit, or are you going to say to yourself, hmm, i'm suspicious that the republicans and democrats are clasping hands and giving us a trillion dollar deficit. >> laura: dan, a trillion

dollars added to the deficit, trillion dollars we are going to have to borrow. your reaction? >> well, kind of a mixed feeling about what senator paul is doing here. i certainly agree with him. we don't want to drive the deficit towards a trillion dollars, but this is really the 11th hour, literally, to be stepping in here and holding up this budget, really about finally extending sufficient funding. when the defense secretary mattis came up and said, look, guys, if we don't get this money, we are going to continue of soldiers, pilots, killed in training exercises. we simply do not have what we need. they need to get that done. i do think there is a problem here. the government shutdown, that was owned by the democrats last time that happened. i think they're going to step back, point to senator paul, say, it is your guy that is threatening to shut down the government now. he is taking political heat of the democrats.

>> laura: dan, do you know what he is doing? i talked to one of his people earlier tonight. they just want to vote on the amendment. they just want to vote on the amendment to stay within their budget limitations. if he gets that boat, then they will be able to go forward. they are just looking for a vote on an amendment. i don't know why they won't give that vote. >> government is supposed to shut down at midnight. if they can do that, i think that we have to get that done. it's not so much they discretionary spending inside the budget. the real problem, as senator paul knows, the entitlement spending, social security, medicare, medicaid. >> laura: always is. >> not going to do anything about that unless you get more than 51 senators in the senate as we have now. >> laura: dan heninger, thank you. we are coming to you from the city we all love, wonderful new orleans, but it has a lot of problems, a lot of violent crime, and a mayor who seems more intent on tearing down statues then keeping the

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send a strong message to all who walked in the shadows about who was still in charge in this city. >> laura: new orleans took down four confederate statues last may after the city council declared them in a public nuisance. there was no vote of the people. landrieu called the effort a move toward healing. let's discuss statues, the mayor's priorities, and what is next with the coordinator with the group called "take 'em down nola" and the leader of the robert elite monument association. malcolm, let's start with you. you must be pretty happy that you took down four statues, got jeff davis down, robert e. lee, got that liberty monuments down, and general beauregard, got four statues down, what's next for you? >> well, our name is take 'em

down nola, and we want to take them all down. there are 20 more statues that are dedicated to white supremacy in the city of new orleans. we have hundreds of streets named and parks named for confederate and white supremacists, and we want to wipe the slate clean, and we have challenged the mayor, from the very beginning, don't do a half job, let's do the whole job. >> laura: malcolm, i want to jump in here, because jackson square, that is new orleans, jackson square, do you say that jackson square -- jackson square is not new orleans? >> no, it's not new orleans. do you want andrew jackson to be >> laura: do you want andrew jackson to be eradicated -- okay, let's move on. would you like thomas jefferson, anything related to thomas jefferson -- thomas jefferson has to go? george washington has to go?

who else is left? is madison okay? james madison okay with you? >> no, he is not okay. he was a slave owner. he is not. >> laura: okay. so we need to rename washington, d.c., correct? >> yes, i would do that. >> laura: okay, rename washington, d.c. >> that's not for me to determine. >> laura: no, we need to know, malcolm, where you are coming from. and we just established it, thank you very much. let's move on to thomas, thomas, time for you to talk on. white supremacy, we got it. thomas, what is your sense on this? >> well, laura, thank you for having me, first of all. i would like to say, i love the fact that malcolm wants to allow washington, d.c., to vote on the name of the capital. why didn't he allow us to have a vote in new orleans on the removal of the monuments? the mayor, the city council has decided for themselves on this issue -- >> laura: let him speak please

come up malcolm. malcolm. malcolm, my friend. you must let the other guest speaker. it is rude. please let thomas speak. thank you. >> okay, so malcolm said that these statues represent white supremacy. i'm not in a position to tell malcolm what he should think about these statues. these are pieces of art. folks are free to make their own interpretation of what they mean or don't mean. there are a variety of different ways of looking at these pieces. for him to say that these are this way and that anyone who disagrees with that is wrong, to me, it's absurd. these are pieces of art, they are created in a manner in which there are a multiplicity of ways of looking at them, and when they look at these pieces of art, they have a variety of different ways of interpreting them. i have been around these pieces of art all of my life, and it never occurred to me for one second that they were pieces of white supremacy. in fact, mitch landrieu wrote

himself said, when he was challenged to take down the statues, mitch said, what are you talking about? i don't know what you mean. statues mean white supremacy? the reason that mitch did not understand that, a lot of folks in this city do not see the statues that way. >> laura: let's go back to malcolm. malcolm, malcolm, hold on. malcolm -- >> when these statues -- >> laura: malcolm, until the last, i don't know, two, three years -- i've come to new orleans on and off for the last two or three years. until the last, about two years, i hadn't heard anyone talk about the statues in charlottesville, in new orleans, in new york, i hadn't heard anyone until mostly outside agitators came in and said, guess what, history has to

be eradicated, we have to rename every federal building, we have to completely reach change history and we have to get rid of it all. had never heard it. >> this is the fundamental problem. because what is happening in the city is that one group of people is deciding for everyone else how we should think about a piece of art. this is, to me, the most frightening occurrence of this whole thing. >> laura: okay, talking over each other. >> they put them up without any input whatsoever from the black community, and now that we are the majority, it is up to us to decide what -- >> laura: malcolm, you are right. malcolm, i agree. malcolm, you're not going to believe this, but i agree with you. it is up to the people to decide. end of the people decide they want to remove the monuments, that is the will of the people. don't ram it through at night and remove the statues and put them in a place -- we don't even know where those statues are. >> and we don't know what is

going to happen to them. one of the things that is so shocking about the whole process is that the city council never had any plan in place for what happens to the monuments. >> laura: we are all against the white supremacy but we offer history as well. malcolm and thomas, will have your back, thank you so much. and president trump, by the way, has made remarkable transformation into, believe it or not, a powerful voice for faith. franklin graham is up next to it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers.

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>> laura: president trump delivered a powerful speech at the national prayer breakfast in washington this morning. he emphasized our countries know my country's dependence on god. >> in the courage of our fellow citizens, we see the power of god's love and the power of god's will to answer all of our prayers. when americans are able to live by their convictions to speak openly of their faith and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all. >> laura: to the surprise of many, the president, a man not known for his faith before the election, has become the most

powerful religious voice in the public arena. to react, we are joined, from north carolina, but evangelical leader franklin graham. it is so great to see you, franklin. i thought the president today -- i thought he was mesmerizing. donald trump was the guy holding torch for god and christianity, judeo-christian culture. it's stunning. >> it is stunning. in my lifetime, i've never had a president like this, and he's not afraid to speak out about his faith. this was the 66th prayer breakfast. it started, my father encouraged going back to president eisenhower and others who worked on this at the very beginning, and every president since eisenhower has come to this breakfast, and it is a bipartisan breakfast put on by republicans and democrats. they work together. these are men and women of faith

who come together in a bipartisan way to put on this breakfast. and it shows you that washington can function. we need more christians in washington. we need more -- can you imagine if the majority of the house and senate were god-fearing men and women? that they could argue their points, but at the end of the day, they would come together and work for the good of all american people. we need men and women in washington who believe in god, who believe in his son, jesus christ, who took our sin and mexicans to the cross and got raised, we need more men and women like this. last year, i went across this country to every state capital asking people to pray for this country and encouraging christians to run. and i didn't tell them what party to run for. they can be republicans. but we need christians at every level of government, and when christians come together, this is what you see at the prayer breakfast. they come together and they work together. i was glad to be there. >> laura: at one point the president talked about how a

year earlier he had asked for prayers for, i believe it was a little girl who was very, very ill, and he said, he was overwhelmed by the response, the prayer, reported she was doing much better. that was a small moment. i personally, i felt the power of prayer at very difficult times. the left doesn't understand that, franklin. they say, he's been married all these times, he can have a foul mouth, how can this flawed man be this evangelical and catholic leader in a way? hook does that happen? how does god use people like that? and your response would be? >> donald trump is not a perfect person. i certainly, i'm not a perfect person, and i would hate for somebody to hold me up as being the greatest example of the christian faith to make faith or christian life.

i've got many failures in my life and sodas donald trump, but that doesn't stop me from believing in god and believing in his son jesus in, , and i appreciate the fact that he doesn't run away from his faith and he's willing to stand up in front of the whole world and let the world know where he stands, and he appreciates people praying for him. we need to pray. we are commanded to pray for all of those, all of them. when donald trump won the presidency, he became your president and my presidency, and god orders us to pray for him. >> laura: franklin graham, so great to see you. thank you so much for joining us. and by the way, nancy pelosi's pandering knows no bounds. up next, we are going to look at how she used her grandson to advance her own divisive racial oh, that's lovely... so graceful. the corkscrew spin,

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and he has beautiful tanned skin, beautiful brown eyes and the rest. and this was such a proud day for me, because when my grandson blew out the candles on his cake, i said, did you make a wish? he said, yes, i made english speeds he said, i wish i had brown hair and brown eyes like antonio. it was so beautiful. so beautiful. >> laura: she is not even making sense. i i wonder who he is listening o around the house. i wonder why nancy pelosi is focusing on the skin color. why is that relevant? content of character. the suggestion that brown skinned guatemalans and are preferable to white americans, come on. this is cynical, the cynical standard operating procedure of the left. but look at what pelosi is really doing. this entire stunt was meant to use race to achieve political power. that's all it is.

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>> laura: before relieving tonight, i wanted to share a little taste of mardi gras here in new orleans with you. look, there is some shots of a music parade rolling through downtown tonight. it was such an incredible, communal family celebration for the streets. i can't wait to experience my first mardi gras. i'm going to be waiting for that crew celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, what a party this places. it is awesome. if you have a bit down to new orleans for mardi gras, you haven't lived. in the meantime, the party is just starting in d.c. we are one hour away from the federal government shutdown. maybe we need to send this as a

rock star people, three to rand to rand paul and held out for shannon bream is up next. i wish he was down herennnnnnnne of the floats with me. good night from